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PANDEMONIUM SUBSIDES AS HEAP OF BOYS PULLED OFF PIG
Lee Laney Has Firm Grip. More Dry Valley Days Photos Page 4-B
Rate Of Jobless
Hits Record Low
Chattooga County's jobless
rate dipped to its lowest point
in years in July, according to
the Georgia Labor Depart
ment. The decrease was main
ly due to a reduction in the
county's labor force.
The June rate had been up
to 5.5 Fercent from a previous
low of 5.4 percent in May.
However, the preliminary Juf;
rate fell to 5.3 percent, the
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Flu Shots Available
Influenza innoculations will be available at the Chat
tooga County Health Department on each Thursday. begin
ning Sept. 17.
Health officials recommended that persons 60 years of
age and older get the shot. In addition, anyone with a
chronic health problem, including cardiovascular,
Bulmonary, kidney disease and metabolic disorders, should
e innoculated, tKey said.
The shots will be available on Thursdays between 8 a.m.
and 4:30 p.m. A fee of $5 will be charged}., For more infor
mation, call the Health Center in Summerville at 857-3471.
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NGEMC'S ELVIN FARRAR (L), MILTON “COTTON" GREESON (R)
Greet Chattooga Breakfast Speaker Lee Lacy Of TVA
The Summeruille News
Labor Department said.
A totai)of 8,058 Chattooga
residents was working in July,
compared with 8,151 in June
and 7,948 in July, 1986.
However, the number of people
unemployed in July was 4§4.
down from 470 in June. The
county's labor force also declin
ed from 8,621 in June to 8,512
in July.
Both figures are substan
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1987
tially different from July, 1986,
when the total without jobs
was 1,058 and the work force
was 9,006. The rate at that
time was 11.7 percent.
For the first time in many
months, Chattooga's
unemployment rate was below
that of the 10-county Coosa
Valley Area Planning and
Development Commission
region. l';'he lowest rate in the
region was Catoosa with a 3.5
unemployment rate, while the
highest was 7.1 percent in Bar
tow County. Was)ker's rate was
5.3 percent, Dade’s was 5.5 per
cent and Floyd's was 5.8
percent.
Joe Tanner, labor commis
sioner, said the reduction in the
labor force was because
seasonal workers in several in
dustries left the job market.
The unemployment rate is
based on t,?xe number of
residents, 16 and older, who are
in the job market but not yet
working.
The state's jobless rate was
5.1 percent in July, the same as
in June.
GOP Targets Area
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Bid Opening Next Week
On Prison At Pennville
Work May Start
Later This Fall
Bids will be opened at 3 p.m. next Tuesday on a new
state prison to be built east of the Pennville community.
The Georgia Department of Corrections (DOC) has
been seeking bids on the prison for several weeks. Grading
of the site was completed about a month ago.
The bids will be opened of
ficially by the Georgia State
Financing and Investment
Commission.
DELAY
The DOC had thought that
advertising for bids might
start as early as last June or
July but they were delayed un
til August.
David Evans, who spoke
last month to the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club, said he ex
pected the bids to come in
under estimates. The DOC like
ly will take 30 to 45 days to go
over the bids before letting a
contract, he indicated. ;
Groundbreaking and initial
work could start in late Oc
tober or early November if the
bids do come in under
estimates, Evans said at the
time. While the late fall is not
a good time to beiin outside
construction work, he said, the
DOC hopes the project will be
“out of the ground” before in
clement winter weather begins.
WORKERS
A large number of construc
tion workers will be required
for the massive project, %vans
said. Most wilr probably be
hired from the immediate area,
he indicated.
When the prison is com
pleted, 90 percent of its staff
will be hired from the Chat
tooga area, he said last month.
Around 250 people will be
emplolyed and the annual
ayroll will be around
gG-million, the commissioner
continued.
The Georgia General
Assembly has authorized
$23-million for the project, in
cluding startup costs, Evans
said.
Installation of gas, sewer
and water service has already
been completed at the 186-acre
site. The prison buildings will
be built on a 30 to 40-acre site
within the larger tract. An ac
cess road to the prison will in
tersect U. S. Higl‘l)way 27 north
of Pennville Elementary
School.
750 PRISONERS
The facility will include
some 327,000 square feet. It
will be built with steel
OFFICIAL TELLS CHATTOOGA CHAMBER
TVA Plans Nuclear Startup This
One unit at TVA's Se
quoyah nuclear plant should go
back in operation in November
or December and the second
unit should come back on line
in early 1988, an official with
the Tennessee Valley Authori
.ty told Chattooga County
business leaders Tuesday.
Lee Lacy, Southeast
district manager for TVA, was
guest speaker at the quarterly
ooster breakfast sponsored by
the Chattooga Chamber of
Commerce. Lach was introduc
ed by Elvin Farrar, general
manager of North Georgia
Electric Membership Corp.,
host of the breakfast session.
“SMALL PROBLEM”
TVA has had “a small pro
blem" in its nuclear program,
Lacy said, and it has Eeen said
that TVA’s success in putting
its plants back in operation
coullc)l mean life or death for
reinforced concrete and con
crete block. Some 750 prisoners
will be housed in the facility
once it is completed in late
1989 or early 1990, They will be
incarcerated in ei%eparate
two-story units on prison
grounds, 250 in one-man cells
and 500 in two-man cells.
The facility will include an
administrative area, support
buildinafs, service area ang(;n
dustrial unit. A fire station
located outside the prison
grounds will serve the prison
znd the Pennville community.
Evans said the exact nature
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FROM SPEAKER MURPHY
U.S. 27 Gets Boost
House Speaker Thomas
Murphy renewed his pledge to
have U. S. Highway 27 %our
laned from Tennessee to
Florida during a speech to the
Summerville-Trion Optimist
Club last Friday at The Tavern
in Trion.
‘... If I can stay there (in
the House) long enough, if it
harelips hades, we're going to
four-lane it from the Tennessee
line to the Florida line,” said
Murphy, who was ailiniwith a
serious allergy attack. The
comment was met with
widespread applause from the
packed room.
OFF 1-75
The Georgia Il?%)artment of
Transportation (DOT) said two
years ago that completion of
the U. S. 27 widening project
would take about 30 percent of
the traffic off I-75, Murphy
said. However, the DOT %as
continued to spend millions of
dollars on interchanges in the
Atlanta metro area to take care
of through traffic on I-75 and
other expressways, he said.
nuclear power in the United
States. Lacy said he isn’t sure
the latter assertion is true.
However, he said, TVA has
taken a number of steps to cor
rect problems in its nuclear
generation program. They in
clude developing a stable
operation, strong management
team, disciplineg way of doing
business, ensuring the
realiability of its fplants and
Eaining the trust of the public,
acy indicated.
22,300 ITEMS
The giant generating opera
tion has completed about 87
percent of a 22,300-item
checklist for its plants, he said.
After both units of the Se
quoygrh‘})lant, are back in opera
tion, TV A hopes to ‘‘move fair
ly. quickly” in putting the
Browns Ferry ang Watts Bar
plants back in operation in
1988, Lacy indicated.
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HOUSE SPEAKER THOMAS MURPHY (L) WELCOMED
"o O st Chul By Chiattoogs Rep. Joki Crawdord
“I'm going to do everythin
I can to sgeel?Eat it's donl;ey(U. Sg
27 completion),”” he added.
The state may have to raise
taxes in the future to help fund
the developmental highway
system, Murphy said, but ‘‘not
to give to the Department of
Transportation to spend any
way it wants to.” He called the
DOT “‘the fourth branch of
government’’ and pointed out
that it has a constitutional
board that doesn’t fall under
the control of elected represen
tatives. The DOT also has a
practice of putting road money
into the districts of legislators
who su}gport its programs, he
said. The speaker said he was
one of three representatives
who opposed creation of the
DOT board.
‘‘Sooner or later,” the
Geor%ia General Assembly will
be able to run the DOT, he said.
DIFFERENCE
A difference exists between
the House and the DOT as to
what constitutes a
‘‘developmental highway,”
Thirty top managers have
been recruited and hired since
October, 1985, he continued,
and they have almost 700
years combined management
experience. Only seven of that
number are contract managers
who will leave once TVA's pro
blems in the nuclear program
have been brought under
control.
sl3-BILLION
TVA has invested
sl3-billion in its nuclear
Feneration program since 1966,
_acy pointed out, and at to
day’s cost levels, it would
"easilir“ cost twice that much
to build the same capacity, he
indicated.
It cost $273 per kilowatt
hour to build the grst lant at
Watts Bar, he said, ngile the
Sequoyah plant's cost was
$723 per kilowatt hour. Today,
a new plant would cost bet
Water Plan Okayed
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Murphy said. Former DOT
Commissioner Tom Moreland
once told him that his defini
tion of a developmental
highway was moving people
from one highly populated area
to another higfily p(:fulat.ed
area, the s?‘eaker added. By
definition, that’s an interstate
highway, Rep. Murphy said.
There are ‘‘four or five
economies’’ in ‘‘one Georgia,”
the speaker said, adding that
he was against the proposed se
cond perimeter highway. Not
only would north and south
Georgia ‘‘have had it"”
economically, a second
erimeter would also mean pro
glems for now rural areas, such
as his home county of
Haralson. If the é)erimeter were
to be approved, he said, it
would mean “we're going to
get all the trash out there.”
SUMMERVILLE?
Murphy was told after the
meeting that much of Summer
ville's leadership was upset
about plans by the DOT to
bypass Summerville with U. S.
ween $4,000 and $5,000 per
kilowatt hour, Lacy pointed
out.
On an unrelated topic, Lacy
discussed TVA's recent 7.8
percent wholesale rate increase
scheduled to go in effect this
fall. NGEMC last week an
nounced its rates to customers
in Northwest Georgia — in
cluding Chattooga — will in
crease by 8.3 percent effective
on Oct. 2.
OPERATING COSTS
Only 1.8 percent of the 7.8
rcent wholesale increase may
gg attributed to increased
operating costs at TVA, Lacy
said. The remainingr(‘ilpercent
increase was due to TVA's big-
Eest customer ‘‘not paying its
ill,” Lacy asserted.
The Department of Energy
had contracted with TVA for a
certain amount of electricity
but recently decided that it
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27. He pointed out that his
hometown of Bremen wanted a
bypass. Murphy added,
“anything is Bossible" about
chanfiing the DOT’s plans but
said he’d have to see a layout
or proposed DOT plan for the
project in Chattooga.
On other subjects, Murphy
told the Optimists that Re
were residing in the most flsca.{
ly sound state in the union, at
tributing a Eood portion of that
to Georgia being mostly a one
party state.
The state had an
SBO-million su;lplus last fiscal
year and it also puts aside
three percent of the total
budget for any unanticipated
revenue short{all, he said.
The speaker said he was
“extremely proud’’ of the
state's fiscal soundness, ad
ding, “we have to pay for what
we do when we do 1t.”" Other
states have cut services and
raised taxes and are still in
goor financial condition
ecause they are constantly
trying to appease special in
see U.S. 27, page 15-A
Winter
didn’t need that much power
and would pay only half its bill,
Lacy said. ‘‘There was not
anything we could do to offset
that 6 percent,” the TVA of
ficial said. TV A has filed suit
against the DOE, Lacy said,
but in the meantime TVA'’s
other customers have to make
up the difference. The law re
quires that TV A cover its ex
penses on an annual basis, he
said. “None of us is very }:P
py about that,” Lacy added.
Tog TVA officials are aware
that the increase will hurt low
income customers as well as
businesses and industries
operatin% on tight margins,
Lacy said.
SSEB
The TVA official also
covered four recommendations
by the Southern States Energy
Board (SSEB) following a
see TVA PLANS, page 15-A