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The Summerville News, Thursday, March 19, 1987
Legion To Celebrate
Birthday On Saturday
American Legion Post 129
and its Auxiliary will celebrate
their 62nd birthday and the na
tional Legion's 68th anniver
sary with a special l;:rogram
Saturday night at the Chat
t.oo%a County Memorial Home.
rig. Gen. William K.
McDaniel, assistant adjutant
general, Georgia Army Na
tional Guard, will be guest
speaker, alon(f with W. D. Har
rell, Bainbridge, a member of
the national Legion's executive
committee.
The dinner and I.{)rogram
will begin at 7 p.m., followed by
a free dance for Legion and
Auxiliary members and their
guest.
In recognition of the special
observance, Chattooga Com
missioner Harry Powell has
also proclaimed this week as
“American Legion Birthday
Week'' in the county.
Stan Brown is commander
of Post 129.
PROCLAMATION
“The American Legion was
founded in 1919, shortly after
the cessation of hostilities of
World War I, as an organiza
tion of wartime veterans
dedicated to continuing service
to God and country,” Powell's
proclamation said.
“Its leadership and
guidance in all movements
seeking the strengthening of
our freedom and perpetuation
of our free institutions have
Pete Wheeler Honors Legion
‘“When The American
Legion was established 68
years ago, the four cor
nerstones in its foundation
were Americanism, Child
Welfare, National Security,
and Rehabilitation. Because of
the Legion's unfaltering
dedication to such principles,
America is a better place to
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COMMISSIONER POWELL SIGNS PROCLAMATION
Viewed By Legion's Stanley Brown
day,” said Pete Wheeler,
Georgia commissioner of
Veterans Affairs, in an address
Monday evening at the Lord-
Hatfield Post 253 of The
American Legion, Irwinton.
The birthday dinner
meeting was in celebration of
the founding of The American
Legion by a group of World
War [ veterans in France in
March, 1919.
“In the ensuing years,” said
Wheeler, ‘‘the Legion has wag
ed numerous battles in the
halls of congress to secure
various benefits for veterans
and to save many existing
benefits whenever they have
been threatened. And this is
ironic when you recall that the
Legion was founded by the
doughboys of World War I —
veterans who received very few
benefits — no comparison to
the benefits enjoyed by
veterans of later years, later
wars.”
Wheeler noted that benefits
and services received by
Georgia veterans last year
amounted to more than
sl-billion. In Wilkinson and
four other counties served by
the Georgia Veterans Service
Office in Milledgeville, benefits
amounted to well over
$7-million; approximately
SBOO,OOO in benefits went to
veterans in Irwinton and the
rest of Wilkinson county.
Veterans' benefits encom
pass a variety of areas: com
pensation, pensions, insurance,
educational assistance,
automobile grants, guaranteed
GII loans, and medical services
in state and federal facilities.
Wheeler is quick to point out
that “‘these are earned benefits
and services that are provided
our veterans, their dependents
and survivors in recognition of
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identified the American Legion
as one of the great bulwarks of
the American way of life,” the
commissioner's proclamation
added.
“The American Legion has
achieved its position of high
esteem through its continuous
pursuit of programs of service
designed for the benefit of com
munity, state and nation
and . .. such programs of ser
vice of the American Legion
have become an inbegral part of
this community and the local
Post a civic asset,” Powell
added.
He called on all citizens,
businesses and or%)anizations
to join in paying tribute to the
Legion, which is composed of
veterans of the four wars
fought during this century.
SPEAKER
General McDaniel, one of
Saturday night's speakers, is a
1953 gratfuate of North
Georgia College, Dahlonega,
and a University of Georgia
graduate. He enlisted in the
Georgia National Guard in
1949 and was commissioned a
second lieutenant in 1953. He
has served a variety of assign
ment in the Guard, and assum
ed command of the 48th
Mechanized Infantry Brigade
in 1983.
Gen. McDaniel was ap
pointed assistant adjutant
general by Gov. Joe Frank
Harris last Monday.
honorable service to their
country.
“History has a way of
repeating itself,” said Wheeler.
“Today, we find The American
Legion along with other
veterans’ organizations facing
the unending task of trying to
prevent the erosion or abolition
of certain veterans’ benefits —
particularly in the area of
medical care.”
Resi
esidence
Damaged
By Blaze
The Summerville Fire
Department has been busy
during the past week, respon
ding to five calls, including one
to a residence on Maple Drive.
Reports said a fire at 147
Maple Dr. caused extensive
damage to two rooms and the
rest of the house suffered
smoke and water damage.
Firemen responded to the blaze
at 12:52 a.m. Sunday and were
on duty until 2:35 a.m. Reports
said the fire began as the result
of a pan of grease left on a
stove.
Tom Bennett was listed as
tenant of the house. Owner of
the building was listed as Doris
see RESIDENCE, page 15-A
REJECTED BY BOARD
Recreation Fees Out
from front page
However, a Board recom
mendation that the city in
stitute a recreation fee system
as of April 1 was presented to
the Mayor and Council the
night of Jan. 12, Mayor Sewell
Cash said at the time that
recreation officials had been
able to speak with Powell, who
had saicf he hoped to provide
some funds for the program
but didn't know how much
would be available in 1987 from
the county's treasury.
The I{ecreation Board
seemed to reach a concensus to
charge a flat fee to non-city
taxpayers for use of city recrea
tion facilities at a Feb. 5
meeting. But action on a
specific fee system was
Eostponed pending a public
earing on the proposal on
March 3.
When asked, City Manager
Grady McCalmon and city at
torney Ben Ballenger express
ed some concern over whether
city residents, property owners
or not, could Ee charged fees
for use of city recreation
services.
PUBLIC HEARING
No one showed up for the
March 3 hearing and t%e Board
decided once again to delay a
decision on the matter, sayin
the commissioner's wife hag
told them the commissioner
wouldn’t know until March 6
whether he would be able to
rovide funds for the program
Eecause the county budget pro
cess was incomplete.
Commissioner Powell said
during a meeting of county of
ficials on Wednesday, March
11, he still didn’t know whether
he would be able to provide
money for the city's recreation
program.
The Recreation Board call
ed a meeting for last Thursday
afternoon, March 12, at which
time it decided not to imple
ment a fee system for non-city
residents.
650 COUNTY
Recreation Department of
ficials last Thursday J)resented
a report to the Board showing
that participants in the agen
cy's organized sports programs
included 650 county residents
and 390 city resi(fiznts, or a
63-37 percent breakdown. That
figure did not include par
ticipants in non-organized
sports programs or other than
sports activities.
The $lO per person fee
discussed at tfie Board’s Feb.
3 meeting would bring in
$6,500 a year, Chairman
Hankins said. He asked
members of the panel if the
money would be “‘worth’ the
criticism heaped on them. To
raise the amount of money the
county had been providing
(some $25,000 annually),
Hankins said, an annual fee of
S4O per person for non-city
residents would have to be
adopted.
“If we put in a fee system,
Harry will get some ca.lls and
we're going to be more on his
‘list’ than we are,” Hankins
said. “‘I believe he's going to
give us some money. How
much and when this year, I
don't know.”
Ralph Stanley, recreation
director, pointec( out to the
Board that the department
already charges some rental
fees for use og its facilities and
registration fees for various
organized sports activities.
AS MUCH?
Charles Elsberry, a member
of the Board and former chair
man, asked if the panel was go
ing to try to raise as much with
the proposed fees as the coun
ty had been providing.
“Can’t do it,”” Hankins
replied. ‘“You're talking about
S4O a head.”
Stanley had provided the
panel with a proposed fee
system breakdown at its Feb.
5 meeting but no action had
been taken on the data, pen
ding a decision by Powell as to
whether he would provide any
county money to tfie program.
Several fees were deleted
from the proposal at the
Board’'s meeting last week, in
cluding the $lO per head
charge. Also deleted were pro
posed fees for picnic table ren
tal, per person fees for adult
softball teams (although they
will have to pay existing team
association and registration
fees), $5 {Jer person for adult
volleyball team members
(although the Board decided to
retain a SSO team registration
fee), an annual non-city resi
dent participation fee of S2O
per person for unorganized ac
tivities (such as shooting
basketball at the gym, etc.);
charges to non-city residents
for organized indoor activities
such as ballet, aerobics and
jazzercise, etc.; and fees to non
city residents in organized
clubs such as square dancing,
Scouts, clogging, Bible study,
etc.
NO FEES
‘“Really, what you're voting
on, we've already got,”” Stanley
told the Board. ‘“This is not a
fee system. You're not adop
ting a fee system whatsoever.
You're just adopting a rental
system.”
Referring to the overall fee
system without the deletions,
I—l,ankins said, “'Like I say, if we
adopt this, then we’'ll never see
another Eenny from the coun
ty." If the Board has to come
up with $6,600, it should devise
a different method ‘‘than
charging these kids for it.”
Of the 650 non-city
residents listed as par
ticipating in city programs,
205 were under the ‘‘church
softball’” category and 38
under the “‘men’'s volleyball”
category, as well as 46 under
the “‘coed volleyball entry, for
a total of 289 adults, or 44 per
cent of the county total.
NOT FEASIBLE
If the Department could
raise $20,000 with fees,
Elsberry said, *'l'd be 100 per
cent for it.”" However, he mov
ed that the board not imple
ment a fee system because it
was ‘‘not feasible” and because
the panel felt Commissioner
Powell would provide the
department with funds.
Board member Dennis
Campbell seconded the motion,
which was approved
unanimously.
Powell's letter with his
SSOO check said, *‘ln balancing
our federal Revenue books, we
find that we have a small
amount of money left. We are
dividing it among the different
participants of 1986. We
understand that this is a small
amount but hope that this will
play some littl)e role in your
department.”
Elsberry said Powell should
be written a letter of apprecia
tion for the funds with a re
quest that he consider addi
tional assistance this year.
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