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Crowd Expected
For Sum-Nelly
100 Craftsmen Ready For f’all Festival
One hundred craftsmen will
display their wares Saturday
during the annual Sum-Nelly in
Summerville. A record crowd is
expected for the autumn
festival.
All sorts of food will be of
fered and Pam Echols, coor
dinator for the event, said area
residents will be able to pur
chase food items to take home
and freeze for the holidays. A
wide variety of food will a]yso be
offered for consumption Satur
day, she added.
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Che Summeruille News
and in the 40s at night. Skies
should be mostly sunny, accor
ding to the Atlanta weather
bureau.
Entertainment will be
featured on the porch of the
scout hut between Lyerly
Highway and Bolling ¥{oad
from 10:30 am. to 2 p.m.
Saturday. The events will in
clude singing by Kay Abbott,
a puppet show, cloggers and a
karate demonstration.
Sum-Nelly this year is at
capacity witfi’ exhibitors, Mrs.
Echols said, “and we have a
waiting list."” Things will get
under way at 10 a.m.
Area residents will have an
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1987
opportunity to buy Christmas
fifts a couple of months earlier
rom the craftsmen and ex
hibitors scheduled to be involv
ed in the autumn festival, she
pointed out.
Exhibitors will include the
following:
COMPACT DISC
Senior 4-H Club, tickets for
a compact disc; Dean Abston,
lamps and pillows; Lonnie
Barker, wood crafts; Cindy T.
Barnett, stuffed bears; Wi.l]?i’am
and Lilly Barnett, general
crafts; James Bean, homemade
ice cream; Cindy Bearden,
see CROWD, page 10-A
Reasons For Appeal
--See Page 7-A
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Hospital Closing Possible
Without Community Help?
County Needs More Doctors, Say Officials
If local residents don't start
supporting the Chattooga
County Hospital by using its
in-patient facilities, it may
have to be closed, the Hospital
Authority said Monday night.
The somber prediction
came after the Authority’s
auditor presented an overview
of the 31-bed hospital's worsen
ing financial condition at the
panel's September meeting.
Oak View Nursing Home is
continuing to keep the hospital
afloat but the hospital’s losses
have become so great that the
nursing home's profits can no
longergkeep‘ pace, the figures
indicated.
CUT EXPENSES
Doug Faircloth of Draffin &
Tucker, Albany, said the
Authority needs to reduce
hospital expenses and improve
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AUDITOR DOUG FAIRCLOTH EXPLAINS HOSPITAL FINANCES
Donna Whitman, Auditor, Assists With Presentation
Barnes Next Governor?
Minter Says Nunn May Still Get Nomination
Georgia's next governor is
likely to be Sen. Roy Barnes of
Cobb County, according to the
senior editor of The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Jim Minter made the
prediction Monday during an
address to the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club.
The News Used
In Classrooms
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By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
*
Issues of The Summerville
News are being used to get
students interested in reading
at Summerville Middle School.
Teacher Debbie Osborne is
getting her reading students
more involved by taking them
on weekly ‘‘shopping sprees’
through pe:i%es of The Igews.
The students are improving
both their math and reading
skills as they spend a budget of
S2O in the grocery ads or
$20,000 in the classifieds dur
ing fantasy shopping sprees
its occupancy rate if it is to
become a financially sound
operation, Faircloth and Don
na Whitman, who did the
1986-87 audit for the hos(fital
and nursing home, used an
overhead projector to illustrate
the hespital’'s financial
problems.
“People in this county want
to 101 l along here and not use it
(hospital) but they want it to be
here if they need it,” said
Katherine C‘a’lmp. chairman of
the Hospital Authority after
Faircloth's presentation.
MAY CLOSE
. ... I want people to go
around to speak to the
elubs . . . and tell them that if
they don't support us, we're
zoing to have to close our
hospital,” she said.
Br. Jack Meacham, a
But in a speech laced with
Lokes and accounts of
umorous incidents, Minter
cautioned the Rotarians to
remember the prediction only
if it turned out to be accurate.
Both Atty. Gen. Michael
Bowers and Rep. Lauren *‘Bub
ba’ McDonald, next week's
desifined by their innovative
teacher.
Miss Osborne, a recent
graduate of Berry College, is a
irst-year teacher of reading
and science.
“I find that most people
read the newspapers once the
get out of sc}l?xool,“ she sai(i
“Reading The Summerville
News is a means of improving
skills as well as becoming more
aware of their home communi
iy
1 According to Miss Osborne,
the student shopping sprees on
paper have inclu(iad down
payments on Florida con
dominiums, purchases of
various types of motorcycles,
down payments on houses and
see THE NEWS, page 9-A
member of the Authority and
a Summerville physician, said
the Authority needs a public
relations effort designed to en
courage Chattooga residents to
use the local hospital instead of
going to Rome. Ninety-five per
cent of the people who go to
Rome for medical treatment
can be treated at the Chat
tooga facility, he said.
About five more doctors are
also needed in the county to
support the hospital with pa
tient admissions, Dr. Meacham
said. But the community has to
make the county attractive to
prospective physicians ‘‘to
draw them here,”” he added.
PEOPLE SCARED?
““A lot of people are scared
of this hospital,” he asserted.
“They thin}l)( they are foing to
come in here and die.”
Rotary speaker, also have their
eyes on the governor's man
sion, Minter said in expressing
doubt that either would be
elected.
APPOINT
If Sen. Sam Nunn does end
up being the Democratic
presidential nominee and is
elected in 1988, Gov. Joe Frank
Harris would be able to appoint
a senator, Minter noted.
If Harris appointed himself
to the post, mnter joked, it
would please at least two peo
ple, Lt. Gov. Zell Miller and
Elizabeth Harris, the gover
nor's uq}fle.
Or Harris could appoint
Ninth District Rep. Ed Jenkins
or former Rep. Ronald “Bo"”
Ginn. Minter said both would
be qualified for the senate seat.
%andidate Jesse Jackson
likely will come to the
Democratic National Conven
tion in Atlanta with the most
delegate votes, Minter said.
The result could be a brokered
convention and Senator Nunn
could end up being the
nominee, although he has of
ficially removed himself from
the presidential race.
LIBERALS
After former President Jim
my Carter had been in office
only a year and one-half,
Minter said, Senator Nunn was
guest of an Atlanta
newspagers’ editorial board.
After the meeting was over,
see BARNES, page 11-A
City Sewer Bids
--See Page 10-A
However, Dr. Meacham said he
would have more fear of a
larger, busier hospital than of
a smaller facility where each
patient receives more in
dividual attention.
If Chattooga residents
don't support the hospital,
“they're going to lese it,”" he
warned.
The Authority agreed to
contact the Chattooga
Chamber of Commerce to seek
assistance in preparing a
package to attract more physi
cians to the county. 'i‘:he
package is due to be l\rresented
at a medical fair in November.
OCCUPANCY
The hospital’s 1986-87
fiscal year occu%ancy rate was
27.58 percent, Faircloth said.
The rate in August was 20.4
percent, up slightly from June
Powell Improves
Chances Of Loan
For Expansion
Commissioner Harry
Powell improved the Chat
too%a County Hospital
Authority’s chances of obtain
ing a federal loan to finance an
expansion of Oak View Nurs
ing Home when he said the
county wouldn't back the is
suance of bonds for the project.
That seemed to be the con
census view of Authority
members at the panel's
September meeting Monday
night.
NOT RECEIVED
Powell last Thursday hand
ed the news media copies of a
letter addressed to Katherine
Camp, chairman of the
Authority, in which he said he
wouldn’t sign any bonds for
the proposed $1.4-million nur
sing home expansion. Mrs.
Camp said Monday night that
she had not received the letter
and initially became aware of
its contents through the news
media.
Sherry Bishop, a member of
the Authority, later picked up
a copy of the i;att,er at the office
of lawyer Carltqn Vines, who
represents the panel.
She said Joiner Smith of the
Farmers Home Administration
(FmHA), from which the
Authority is seeking the
$1.4-million loan, tolfi her
earlier this month that the
?anel's pre-application for
unds needed two more items
to be complete. One was a let
ter from the Authority chair
man that funds for the expan
sion were not available
elsewhere, Mrs. Bishop said.
The other was a letter from a
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C il Vot
Qualifying will open Saturday for three seats on the
Summerville City Council. The fee is SSO.
The seats of incumbents Guinn Hankins, Phil Cavin and
Ronnie Pilcher are up fo‘x;qfi'rabs.
The gixa]ifying period will end at noon on Saturday, Oct.
17. l?a?ln idates may qualify at the city clerk’s office in ci
ty hall.
The election will be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Satur
day, Nov. 7, at city hall.
PRICE 25¢
and July, according to Morris
Brunson of F]oy% Medical
Center, the hospital’s financial
consultant.
“I'd say you couldn’t go
much below this point (27.58
percent) before you'd be in
serious financial trouble,”
Faircloth warned the
Authority.
Asked if more out-patient
services would help improve
the facility’s financial condi
tion, Faircloth noted that
hospitals traditionally have
more difficulty collecting out
patient bills than for in-patient
care. “You do more work but
not all of it ends up in the
bank,” he said.
CONVERSION?
Mrs. Camp mentioned the
possibility of eonverting
see HOSPITAL, page 9-A
bond investment firm saying
that it would not recommend a
§eneral obligation bond issue
or the expansion, she
continued.
LETTER NEEDED
However, that firm said a
letter would be needed from
Powell saying he wouldn't
authorize bom%s for the expan
sion. Before Powell's letter was
revealed last week, she said the
Authority had obtained a let
ter from another bond invest
ment company saying that it
wouldn't recommend %onds to
finance the expansion. That let
ter was forwarded to the
FmHA, she said.
It is unclear from Powell’s
letter to Mrs. Camp whether he
was aware that such a letter
would be helpful to the
Authority in obtaining FmHA
funds.
“...I haven't been con
tacted by the Hospital
Authority as to the expansion
up there, but evidently, the
Authority contacted their at
torney, which is Mr. Carlton
Vines, and he contacted our at
torney, which is Mr. Ed
Surles,” Powell said before
handing out the letter. ‘‘And
this is the answer that Mr.
Surles wrote up for me yester
day afternoon.” The letter
foli'ows:
VOTE
*ln connection with the ap
lication of your Authority for
?unds with which to finance an
expansion of Oak View Nurs
ing Home, I have been asked to
see POWELL, page 9-A