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The Summerville News, October 8, 1987
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Textile Week
Program Set
By KAY ABBOTT
Staff Writer
Summerville merchants will
offer a 10 percent discount to
textile employees and hold
dnwinw during American
Textile Week, it was announc
ed Tuesdafy during the October
meet.infi of the Retail Council of
the Chattooga Chamber of
Commerce.
‘‘American Textile
Workers, We Put the Pride in
Crafted With Pride’” is the
theme of the observance.
Representatives of textile
mills met with the merchants
to finalize plans for the week,
to be observed on Oct. 19-24.
“Denim Day" will be observed
on Oct. 23, with all merchants
and residents encouraged to
dress in denim to honor textile
workers.
PRIZE MONEY
The Council also voted to
raise &r:lze money for the an
nual Christmas parade to $l5O,
SIOO, $75 and SSO for first
through fourth place winners
in float competition. Theme for
this year's Dec. 4 parade is
“An ¥)ld Timey Christmas.”
Chief Arlen Thomas of the
Summerville Police Depart
ment made plans with mer
chants for the annual Hallo
ween March, scheduled for 1
g.m. Saturday, Oct. 31 in
owntown Summerville. The
march will begin and end at the
Farmers and Merchants Bank
parking lot. Law enforcement
personnel will escort the
children in a circle of the
downtown shopping district as
merchants distribute candy
and treats.
Three Hurt In Wreck
Three people were hurt in a
one-truck accident on Highway
100 about six miles south of
Summerville last Sunday.
Trooper Mike King of the
Georgia State Patrol said the
mishap occurred about 6:20
p.m. ‘
The injured were identified
as Calvin Dwight Blalock, 28,
Summerville Rte. 2; Kenneth
Joe Ledford, 21, and Sidney
Scott Norton, 21, both of Sum
merville. The Chattooga Coun
ty Emergency Medical Service
took the trio to Floyd Medical
Center for treatment.
Reports said the Blalock
truck was northbound on
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Dance To Your Favorite
Rock And Country Music
Friday and Saturday
Fridays 9 p.m.- 1 a.m.— Saturdays 9 p.m.- Midnight
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Saturday is Men’s Night
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1,000 YOUTHS
Approximately 1,000
children are expected to par
ticipate in the march, accor
ding to Sue Spivey, Chamber
executive vice dpresident.
“We already have other
cities, such as Cyartersville. in
terested in adopting our idea
for a safe Halloween activity,"”
Mrs. Spivey said. “*lt's an ideal
solution for parents, because
young children are satisfied
after receiving a bag full of can
dy and don't want to trick or
treat at night. Parents also
have the adged relief of know
ing that candy distributed by
local merchants is safe for the
children.”
Prizes will be awarded for
most original costume for con
testants up to 10 years of age,
although older children may
participate in the march.
FESTIVAL
Evelyn Young and Edythe
McGinnis announced that pro
gress has been made in plann
ing the Festival of Trees. First
Federal of Summerville will
have the second story of the
Commerce Street guilding
rewired and painted especially
for the event. Dates and times
for the festival will be announc
ed later, All proceeds will
benefit the Chattooga County
Ministerial Association's Tran
sient Relief Fund.
Robert Floyd said a welder
scheduled to make a gate in the
courtyard of the proposed
sidewalk picnic area had not
yet been agle to start the work.
Plans call for the project to be
completed next spring. Con
crete picnic tables and benches
with canvas umbrellas will be
installed at the site in the
spring, according to the revis
ed plan.
Highway 100 when it ran off
the roadway. The driver at
tempted to bring it back under
control but it skidded about
162 feet on the pavement
before going off the highway
on the left side, King said. It
skidded 47 feet before overtur
ning several times and travel
ing another 69 feet, he said.
T}ée vehicle came to rest on its
side.
Berryton Sets
Sale Of Stew
Brunswick stew will be sold
at noon Saturday at the Ber
ryton Community Center.
There will be a community
meeting at the communit
center at 7 p.m. Monday. Afi
residents are invited to attend
to plan the fall festival.
The Herbert Roundtree
Family and the Ruthledge
Family will sing at the com
munity center ‘‘dime-a-dip"
dinner at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
17,
The annual fall festival will
start at 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct.
24.
The public is invited to all
the events.
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REP. LAUREN “BUBBA” McDONALD (L) WELCOMED
By Rotary President Butch Eleam
Chairman Cites
State Finances
McDonald May Seek Governor’s Post
Georgia is in good shape
financially, especially in com
parison with most states in the
Southeast, the chairman of the
state's House Appropriations
Committee said Monday in
Chattooga County.
Rep. Lauren ‘‘Bubba’’
McDonald, a resident of Com
merce, addressed the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club at The Tavern, Trion.
Most of his address involv
ed a discussion of Georgia's
finances but he was also asked
about his interest in the 1990
governor's race. McDonald
acknowledged that he is con
sidering a run for the state's
top post but said Georgians are
fortunate that a number of
quality candidates may run for
governor.
PREDICTION
Jim Minter, senior editor of
The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, predicted to the
Rotary Club last week that
while McDonald and Georgia
Atty. Gen. Michael Bowers
would probably run for gover
nor, the likely winner would be
Sen. Roy Barnes of Cobb
County.
McDonald grinned and
paraphrased Mark Twain
about predictions being “'in the
future” and said he doesn’t
comment on ‘‘predictions
about the future.”
Recalling when the late
Chattooga Rep. James H.
“Sloppy” Floyd was chairman
of the Appropriations Commit
tee, McDonald said Floyd was
often quoted as saying that
state agencies had to ** ‘hold
the line’"” on spending.
McDonald said he sings himself
using Floyd's remark as his
own since he became chairman
of the appropriations panel.
This current fiscaf) year's
budget is some $5.8-billion and
the 1989 fiscal year's budget
(which will begin on July 1,
1988) is likely to be more than
$6-billion, McDonald said.
State agencies have already
asked for sl-billion more in new
spending, he said, but the Ap
propriations Committee will
examine each request and
reduce them so that they come
within revenue estimates for
the state.
INFRASTRUCTURE
The infrastructure — water
and sewer systems, for exam
ple — of local governments
around the state “‘desperately
needs our attention,”’ he said.
The Georgia Department of
Natural Resources has
estimated that $1,650,000,000
is needed for water and sewer
systems in the state, he
pointed out. “‘lnfrastructure
will be the magnet” that at
tracts firowth and develop
ment,”’ Rep. McDonald added.
The question is not whether
the state wants growth and
development but what it wants
to keep and what it wants to
give up in the process, said the
17-year legislative veteran.
T'he Appropriations Com
mittee chairman said he wants
the state to “‘give up’' its high
infant mortality rate, its status
of having the fewest four-lane
highways in the Southeast, its
highest nursing home popula
tion, its status of having the
highest per capita prison
population, its low voting tur
nouts and its status of having
the fewest students enrolled in
post-secondary education.
However, McDonald said he
wants to retain the good Lhings
of Georgia, including its tradi
tional values.
“CRITICAL POINT”
“We are at a critical point
in Georgia's history,” even
more so than when d:en. Sher
man rampaged through the
state during the Civil War and
when the boll weavil demolish
ed its cotton-based economy,
he added.
The state official, who
operates a family hardware
store, quoted founding father
Thomas Jefferson as saying
that public debt is the greatest
evil to be feared and added,
“What was true 200 years ago
is no less true today.”
Prudency is one of the most
important attributes of a
leader, he said. Dreams
without the dollars to finance
those dreams is ‘‘just empty
rhetoric,”” he contended.
At a recent governor's con
ference, McDonald said he
learned that 33 of the 50 states
had raised taxes last fiscal year
and 24 had cut their budgets,
some by more than five per
cent. Alabama, for example,
dramatically reduced its afi)-
prp(;)riations for education, he
said.
JOBLESS FUND
A Kentucky official said
with some price that that
state’'s unemployment trust
fund deficit had geen reduced
to S4OO-million, McDonald
said. Meanwhile, Georgia has
one of the strongest jobless
trust funds in the nation with
between S7OO- and SBOO-million
on deposit.
State revenue in Georgia
was up 7.1 percent last year,
Rep. McDonald said. Revenue
was up 7.8 percent in July and
9.4 percent in August of the
current fiscal year, he
continued.
Georgia ended the last
fiscal year with a $135-million
surplus and its ‘‘rainy day
fund’’ now contains some
$162-million, said the Ap
propriations Committee
chairman.
INCOME
During 1985-86, Georgia's
personal income increased
faster than the national
average, he said, and while 128
out of every 10,000 businesses
failed throughout the nation
last year, Georgia reduced its
business failure rate by 36
percent.
“In Georgia, we must be do
ing something right,” he said.
The state has a stable tax
rate structure and Georgia's
bonds are among the higiest
rated in the nation, Rep.
McDonald said.
Despite some ‘‘highly
publicized” differences on in
dividual issues between the
Georgia House and Senate last
year, there was a ‘‘broad con
census'' between the two
houses on most issues, he said.
The state's 40-day legislative
session is one of the shortest in
the nation and is one of the
strongest fiscal restraints a
state can have, he contended.
McDonald said he introduc
ed legislation last session to
raise the state gasoline tax rate
by five cents for three years to
finance developmental
highways because he felt it
would be an “‘investment’ in
the state. However, there is no
possibility of it beinf brought
up next year, he added. ‘“This
( 1%88) is an election year and
when you get right down to the
pure political considerations of
it, I don’t think that people
(legislators) are interested in
raising taxes on an election
year.”
While the legislature has
made the widening of U.S.
Highway 27 its top priority,
McDonald said he is unaware
of the precise route it will take
throughout the state. His
response resulted from a ques
tion about whether Summer
ville would be bypassed by the
roadway. Rep. McDonald sug
gested that the local legislative
delegation and interested
citizens meet with Otis Brum
by, the Seventh District
representative on the Depart
ment of Transportation board,
to discuss the matter.
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Menlo Election Set Dec. 5
The Menlo City Council
Tuesday ni%lt set qualifyins
dates for its Dec. 5 election an
reviewed results of geophysical
testing at its waste treatment
plant site.
Qualifying for offices up for
election will ge held Nov. 1-16.
Candidates may qualify in
front of the city clerk at city
hall or in front of Mayor
Theresa Canada or City
Recorder Hester Hurtt.
Offices up for election in
clude the post of mayor, held
by Theresa Canaga. city
recorder, held by Hester Hurtt,
Council seat one, held by
Ernest ‘‘Spunky'’ Mitchell, and
Council seat two, held by Dan
ny Powell.
The Council approved
Katherine Hurtt as poll
manager for the election.
TESTING
Mayor Canada and coun
cilman Tommy Ballard iave an
oral summary of a geophysical
testiné report presented by
Law Environmental of Ken
nesaw in a called meeting on
Sept. 25. The report recom
mended that ad(%tional soil
tests and boring samples be
completed at the site to refine
the interpretation of the initial
testing completed by Law in
Sefitember. The testing, which
will be done by Sailors Inc., will
provide information for a
redesign of the pond to avoid
a section of the property most
likely to develop sinkholes.
Approximately one-third of
the original aeration pond site
was determined unsuitable as
aresult of the testing. Work at
the plant site was halted in
mid-August when a sink hole
developed as the pond was be
ing graded.
Mayor Canada reported
that the State Department of
Audits had approved the city
audit for the year ending June
30, 1987 as being in compliance
with state requirements.
APPROVED
The Council approved a re
quest by Barbara gavin. Hap
py Place Day Care Center, to
allow children at the center to
place a sign in the Menlo City
Park in honor of the park’s late
benefactor Andrew Jackson
Lawrence, who gave the park
site to Menlo in his will in 1%10.
Lawrence, who founded
Menlo, bequeathed the park to
be used ‘‘especially as a
playground for the children of
Menlo," according to the will,
and also made provision for a
Civil War monument to be
erected in the park ‘‘by 1943,
the 100th anniversary of his
birth.” The monument was
“not to cost less than $5,000”
and was in memory of ‘‘wives
and sweethearts left behind"”
during the war years. The
monument stands near the
center of the park.
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Center is operated in what was
once the A.J. Lawrence
homeplace in Menlo.
WORKSHOP
The Council also approved
a request by Charles M. Scog-
District Governor
Sets Monday Talk
Joe M. Whittemore, gover
nor of Rotary District 691, will
address the Summerville-T'rion
Rotary Club at noon next Mon
day at the Tavern, Trion.
Whittemore is a resident of
Hartwell and a member of the
Rotary Club in that Northeast
Georgia town. He is a Certified
Public Accountant.
Whittemore serves as chair
man of the Hart County
Hospital Authority and chair
man of the board of directors
of Covecrest Renewal Center.
He is Yast president of the
Hartwell Rotary Club. The
district governor serves on the
board of the Hart County
Association for Retarded
Citizens Inc.
He is a member of the ad
ministrative board of the Hart
well First Methodist Church
and the featured singer on a
stereo album entitled, ‘‘The
Heritage of Vashti — Jesus
Availa%le."
He and his wife, Pat, have
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gins to hold a Belltone hearin
workshop at city hall from 3
a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 24,
Present for the meeting
were Mayor Canada, City
Recorder Hurtt, and Coun
cilmen Powell, Ballard, T. J,
Luther and Bud Tucker.
two daughters.
Butch Eleam is president of
the Summerville-Trion Club.
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