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Despite appearances, no one was injured
in this one-vehicle accident on the Trion-
Teloga Road last Thursday morning, Feb.
2. fiuwever, Charles F. Shipman, 19,
(loudland, was charged with violating the
(zeorgia Controlled Substances Act after
authorities found suspected marijuana
and seed at the scene. He also was charg
ed with being a convicted felon in posses
sion of a firearm and with driving too fast
for conditions. He was still in jail near
noon Wednesday. Trooper Dennis Tucker
REVIEWED BY POWELL
Oak View Plans
Chattooga County Hospital
received SIO,OOO from Harry
Powell, county commissioner,
last Friday.
Powell also met with the
Hospital Authority Monday
night in a previously unan
nounced "get-to%ether" to
review expansion plans for Oak
View Nursing Home.
The funfs provided the
Pantry Needs More Food
The Chattooga County lntera(f{ency Council food pantry
needs replenishing, it was revealed during Monday's meeting
of the panel. ;
Sue Elliott, head of Chattooga Services (formerly EOA)
and a Council member, said most of the food has been (f)épl('ted.
She explained again that the food is used only for emergency
cases and is limited to three distributions per case. :
“We seem to have a tendency to start something and it
kind of dies out,” she said, *‘and I'd like to see this continue.”
Keeping the pantry full has Kllroven to be *‘quite a chore™” and
more assistance is needed, Mrs. Elliott said.
Wayne Bardwell and Ann Wilkerson were named to a pan
{ry procurement panel to assist with the operation. Among
the options discussed was contacting the Chattooga
Ministerial Assn. for assistance.
In the meantime, food may be donated at Chattooga Ser
. = Q (Commerce St Summerville
The Summerville News
Not Hurt, But Arrested
hospital by Powell last week
were in payment toward in
digent health care expenses, ac
cording to Betty W()Ylstein, ex
ecutive director of the facility
INDIGENT CARE
The total indigent care ex
penses for the last nine months
of 1985 and all of 1986
amounted to $85,745, the
and Cadet Patti Watson of the Georgia
State Patrol said the Shipman truck was
traveling westbound when it ran off the
roadway for 225 feet. When it came back
on the highway, it overturned and rolled
for another 153 feet, they said. Trion
Fireman Steve Duncan is shown hosing
down gasoline and Chattooga County
Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Young directs traffic
in the other photo. (Staff%’hntos by Tom:-
my Toles).
| Authority was told at its
| January meeting.
; Powell was approached
about the costs anclf said he
- would have an unnamed *'com
| mittee” review the indigent
' care bills, sources told The
' News. The check last Friday
\ aEparently was one result of
' the initial review.
i Katherine Camp. Authority
| chairman, confirmed Tuesday
| morning that the Authority
| had held a previously unan
' nounced informal ‘‘get
' together”” with Powell at the
" hospital Monday night.
i gurpose of the session, she
| said, was to give Powell an op
portunity toreview the expan
' sion plans for Oak View Nurs
| ing Home. The commissioner
took the plans with him after
| the meeting, she said. The ses
| sion lasted around an hour, she
| indicated.
| Present were Powell, Mrs.
| Camp, Mrs. Wollstein and
i Authority members Billy
| Gilbert. Bobby Haygood and
| Sherryv Bishop, Mrs. Camp
| said.
|
I EXPANSION
The hospital hopes to seek
funds from the Farmers Home
l see OAK VIEW, page 10
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SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1987
Cold Winters, Mean Mules
--See Page 7
© Copyright 1987 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc.
Chattooga Prison Funds
Receive Final Approval
Budget Proposal
Gets Okay Monday
The Georgia House of Representatives and Senate
Monday gave final approval to the supplemental fiscal
year 1987 state budget, including $23-million for a state
prison in Chattooga County.
' Rep. Johnny Crawford said
| the ez:l)propriations bill had
| passed the House and Senate
| earlier in the session but had to
| go to a conference committee
to clear up differences in the
two bills.
{ SIGNATURE
| Both Houses approved the
' conference committee report
l Monday and the bill was ex
%ected to go to Gov. Joe Frank
arris this week.
The governor's signature
on the bill apparently is the
final step. However, tfi,ere was
no question that he would sign
the measure, according to state
officials.
The governor had original
ly proposed funds for the
firison, which is expected to
ave 750 beds. The design calls
’ for 500 cells with 250 housing
one prisoner and 250 housing
two prisoners.
Grading on the prison site
east of Pennville near the Chat
tooga River has been delayed
| due to wet weather in recent
| weeks. Work on a long mound
| at the western boundry of the
property had already started,
along with grading on the ac
| tual 30-acre prison site. The en
tire tract amounts to either 186
' or 196 acres.
ROADWAY
Entry to the property is on
| a .7-mis; roadway that in
' tersects with U. S. Highway 27
' just north of Pennville Elemen
tary School.
‘ }i‘he City of Summerville is
‘ running utility lines to the
| prison site across property in
| ll)’ennville owned by Ernest
| Klatt. The first phase of the
| project was running far behind
| schedule, partly because of the
weather, city officials said in
| late January. However, no pro
| blems with the project had
arisen with the Georgia
| Department of Corrections,
| they added.
Bids are scheduled to be
opened next Thursday at Sum
' merville City Hall on the se
' cond phase of the utility
project.
REFORM BILL
Meanwhile, in other
legislative action, a rough revi
sion of Georgia's income tax
law that is designed to conform
to the federal tax reform act
was passed by the state House
of Representatives last Friday,
said Rep. Crawford.
The measure went to the
Georgia Senate, which pro
bably would soon pass its ver
sion, he added. The whole pro
posal will then go to a House-
Senate conference committee
for unresolved portions of the
measure to be ironed out, Rep.
Crawford said.
The proposal probably
won't come back to the House
and Senate floors for a final
Dr. Little Dies;
Dr. G. H. Little, a longtime
Chattooga County physician,
died Saturday morning in
Chattooga Hospital. He was a
resident of 15 Park Ave., Trion.
Graveside services were
held at 2 p.m. Monday at
Hamilton Memorial Gardens,
Chattanooga, Tenn., with the
Rev. Ronald Ragon officiating.
Dr. Little was born in Cor
nelia, son of the late Theo and
Frances Holbrook Little. He
| was a veteran of World War 11,
i serving in the U. S. Army. He
| graduated from Tulane Univer
. sity Medical College in 1937
‘ and served his surgical
vote until near the end of the
current session, he said.
ROUGH VERSION
The roufih version was ap
proved by the House, including
Crawfor({ to get started on the
reform measure, he said. Not
all the information needed to
“match” the state proposal
with the federal tax law has
been obtained as yet, Crawford
S el
Intent of the state
legislature is to make the new
Georgia income tax revenue
“neutral’’ rather than the state
ending up with too much, or
too little, revenue, Crawford
said, :
T4y House alse passed
another insurance *‘reform bill
last week, giving the state in
surance commissioner increas
ed powers and duties,
see CHATTOOGA, page 10
Indi
By BUDDY ROBERTS
The Chattooga High Lady
Indians will take on arch-rival
Rin%)gold tonight at Cedartown
for the Regior 7-AAA title and
a spot in the state playoffs.
The Lady Indians splat
tered Cass High School, 78-42,
last Friday night to win the
7-AAA South Subregion cham
;f)ionship and earn the right to
ace Ringgold for the region
title.
Chattooga's girls had
blasted Carrollton High, 88-45,
earlier last week to move into
the subregion contest against
Cass.
The Lady Indians boast a
19-3 record going into the game
at 7 p.m. today.
SIX YEARS
It's been six years since the
Lady Indians have advanced to
the state playoffs, having been
beaten out in the region tour
nament every year since.
“I guess you'd have to call
it rotten luck,” said Lamar
Turner, the Lady Indians’
coach. “We always lose in the
region to a school like Ringgold
or one of the other strong
teams up there. We hope this
year wilrbe different.”
see INDIANS, page 19
Rites Held
residence at Erlanger Hospital,
Chattanooga. He began his
private practice of medicine at
Trion in 1946. d
‘ Survivors include his
. widow, Mrs. Betty Horton Lit
| tle; two daughters, Mrs. Susan
| Campbell and Mrs. Nancy
| Clark, Chattanooga; one son,
Dr. Gwynne H. Little, Lub
bock, Texas; two sisters, Mrs.
Betty Goodwin and Mrs.
Dorothy Henderson, Summer
ville; eight %_:'andchildren;
nieces and nephews.
Hill Chaperof Lane Funeral
Home had charge of
arrangements.
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Base. Curb And Gutter Installed
The curbing and guttering and part of the
base has been installed for new turn lanes
at Summerville Middle School on Bolling
Road. Crews took advantage of warm
summer-like temperatures last week to
catch up on some of the work. which had
been delayed because of wet and cold
CAUGHT BY TRION SCHOOLS
S7O-Million Typo
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
A typographical error in the
tax digest could have cost
Trion Cglty Schools $123,000 in
state Quality Basic Education
(QBE) funds, School Supt. Bill
Kinzy informed Trion Board of
Education members Tuesday.
Kinzy and Trion Mayor
J. C. Woods first noticed the
error last fall as Kinzy
prepared forms for the school's
state funding allotments. It
was revealed publicly for the
first time Tuesday.
S7O-MILLION ERROR .
“The local fair share
amount (local effort for school
funding each year) is based on
wealth per child within the
school J)istrict,," Kinzy said.
“We saw that the personal pro
perty values we have in Trion
jumped up S7O-million at one
time. It was a calculation
mistake. They had us down for
S7O-million more wealth in
Trion than we had.”
Kinzy and Mayor Woods
contacted the Chattooga Coun
ty Tax Assessors Office and
later the State Revenue
Department, and State Depart
ment of Education before a cor
rected report was issued.
“The Erst report listed total
100 percent agjusted school
groperty digest for Trion at
190,959,708 but in actuality,
the correct figure was
$119,578,113,” Kinzy said.
TYPO
Tax Assessor Leonard Bar-
Tips For Success
--See Page 9
weather. A. W. Headrick Construction
Co. Inc., Summerville, holds the contract
for the project, which is being financed by
the Georgia Department of Transporta
tion. Work will continue as soon as the
weather permits, company officials said
this week. (Staff Photo).
rett described the situation as,
“a little typo’' error that
created a lot of apgrehension.
but no serious problems.
“Each jurisdiction has a
separate tax consolidation
sheet. When we filled out the
consolidation sheet for Trion,
we put the total for the per
sonal property category not in
the total block, but in the block
just above it. It was a clerical
One Week Left
To Subscrib
Don't forget, you have little more than a week to take
advantage OF a last-chance offer to subscribe to The Sum
merville News at the old rates before an increase goes in
effect on March 1.
Due to increased costs, The News will increase its news
stand price from 20 cents to 25 cents plus tax effective with
the Thursday, March 5 edition. The mail price will increase
on March 1.
The current Chauoo’lga County mail subscription rate
is $6.83 including tax. The rate effective March 1 will be
$8.93 including tax. The last day that 'subscrisltions or
renewals can be accepted at The News office will be Fri
day, Feb. 27, although all subscriptions or renewals
postmarked Feb. 28 will be accepted at the current rate.
The rates for other mailing zones will rise by correspon
ding amounts. :
%lowever. the rate for military servicemen will rise on
ly slightly to one grice. regardless of the zone. The current
military rate is $9 and the new rate will be sll plus tax..
Chattooga mail subscribers may save $2.10 each year
for up to five years under the new rate if they subscribe
by the deadline. And mail subscribers in the county will
save $6.17 under the new newsstand price if they renew
or subscribe by Feb. 28.
"PRICE 20c
error, but when they got the
sheet at the State Revenue
Department, they didn't check
back closely enough. They
thought they were supposed to
compute the total for us. They
added all of those values up
with out total and put in a new
total which was the sum of all
the previous categories plus
the total. It didn't affect the
see S7O -million, page 8