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VOLUME CII- Numuwoß XLI
School Panel Delays Action
On New Facility For Gifted
Lyerly, Pennville Plans Approved; Hayes Stung By RESA Vote
A proposal to provide a cen
tral fi)cation for 67 gifted
students in the county school
system was sidetracked for at
least a month during Monday
night’s meeting of the Chat
tooga Cour:tv Board of
Education.
School Supt. Don Hayes
warned the board that failure
to comply with the program’s
?uidelines could endanger
uture funding for the
program, < - ;
The board also approved
tentative plans for new
classrooms at Lyerly and Penn
ville Elementary Schools. It
asked the board’s architect to
develop comprehensive plans
in preparation for seeking bids
on both projects.
HAYES BYPASSED
The school board also stung
Hayes by naming one of its
members to a regional educa
tion agency instead of the
superintendent, who had serv
ed as the agency’'s chairman
last vear.
The panel also heard com
plaints about the system'’s
“cafeteria” benelits program
from several teachers, sold
surplus buses and accepted a
bid for liability insurance.
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Hayes proposed to the
school board tEaL it approve
construction of a divider in the
old Chattooga High
cosmetology laboratory for a
central classroom to serve
gifted students. None of the
county's elementary schools
has adequate facilities for the
program, Hayes said.
67 STUDENTS
A total of 67 students is
enrolled in the program, he said
Tuesday morning. Carol Har
dy, gifted teacher, spends one
day per week at Lyerly
Elementary, two days at
Menlo Elementary, a half-day
at Summerville Elementary
and one day at North Summer
ville Efementary, the
superintendent said. Her
schedule does not permit time
to teach at Pennville Elemen
tary, he added, although she
personally takes one Pennville
student to Menlo one day each
week.
Because the individual
schools lack adquate facilities
and because Ms. Hardy is
teaching one student more
than the program's maximum
for one teacher, the program’s
federal funding could Ige en
dangered in the future, Hayes
said. The federal monies “fl);w
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through’ the Georgia Depart
ment of Education to Yocal
systems, the superintendent
added. Whether gfnds to the
Chattooga program would ac
tually be ended will likely re
main unknown until it is
reviewed next spring, Hayes
indicated. -
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Schools Asked To Recruit Blacks
The Chattooga County
School System should recruit
more black principals and
teachers, according to a Lyer
ly resident who spoke at Mon
day night’'s meeting of the
board of education. It was his
second appearance before the
board in two months.
Alfred McDaniel, Lyerly
Rte. 1, asked the board again
for information on the percen
tage of blacks employed in
various categories throughout
the system.
COPIED
Don Hayes, school
superintendent, said he had
mailed the data to McDaniel
earlier this month. McDaniel
gresented two (Propusals to the
oard for building the divider.
One was $374.41 from Bryant
and Sons and the other was
$381.68 from Pledger Builder’s
Supply.
How many parents would
allow their elementary
MOBILE CLASSROOMS AT PENNVILLE TO BE REPLACED
School Board Plans To Seek Bids In Near Future
Lyerly Man Says System Has No Black Principals
said it had never been received.
The superintendent then went
to his office and made a copy
of the information f(’)r
McDaniel.
McDaniel then asked Joel
Cook, board chairman, about
his assertion in September that
no black person Kad ever ap
plied for a principal’s position
at any school during tfi)e “past
19 years.”
“I was wrong, I was wrong,
I thought about it going down
the road,” Cook replied. *'l was
wrong.”’ The chairman said he
remembered that a black
woman had applied for a posi
tion but McDaniel said a black
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1987
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students ride a bus to the high
school? asked Joyce Johnson,
a member of the board, and
how many of the students
would be z)rced by parents to
‘“drop out’’ of the program?
Wanda Pettit, special
education teacher at Summer
ville Middle School, said she
was concerned about elemen-
man had also sought a prin
cipal’s post.
Coofi said the board
couldn’t hire anyone unless the
person is recommended by the
superintendent. But, the chair
man added, the board retains
discretion over whether to ac
cept a recommendation.
McDaniel questioned
Hayes about whether any
black teachers had applied for
jobs. The superintendent said
two black teachers had
greviously applied for positions
ut the system had no open
ir()Fs in science and ph}fsiml
education at the time. There
was one new black applicant
last school year, Hayes said.
The statistical inf};rmation
Local Tax Bills All Wet
Despite Delay, Mailing Likely Before Nov. 8
Chattooga County's 1987
tax bills should go in the mail
before Nov. 8 deslpite problems
with apparently wet pre
g{inted tax forms, according to
ugh Don Hall, the county’s
tax commissioner.
Problems with the forms
were noted last week when the
county’s auditors, Finney and
Moore, Rome, began trying to
print individual tax bills using
the company's computer, Hall
said. The firm began havin% a
significant amount of trouble
with the forms tearing as they
went through the computer
printer, he agded. The pr(fi)lem
appeared to be the forms,
which had evidently gotten wet
before arriving at Finney and
Moore's office, Hall continued.
2,500 PRINTED
Around 2,500 of the coun
ty's tax bills were printed
despite the problem, the tax
commissioner said. A total of
12,528 bills was mailed by the
county in 1986. ..
The National Cash Register
(NCR) Co. was printing new
tary students traveling to class
at the h{fh school. '
Ms. Hardy wasn't present
at- Monday night’'s board
meeting. W ;
Hayes said his proposal
that a central classroom be
built at the high school was a
“temporary’’ solution for this
see SCHOOL PANEL, page 9-A
Hayes compiled for McDaniel
showed tfiat the system
employs 41 blacks, or 12.53
percent of the total personnel.
The figure had been rounded
off to 13 percent.
CUSTODIANS
McDaniel said the system
had ‘‘plenty” of black custo
dians and food service workers
but no black principals and few
black teachers. ; ‘
Hayes’ compilation showed
that of the system’s 193
teachers, 15 are black,
representing 7.8 percent of the
total.
According to the 1980 cen
sus, the county’s black popula-
see SCHOOLS, page 9-A
forms for the county, Hall said.
“I hope so," Hall respond
ed when asked if the bills would
be mailed by Nov. 8. “‘l'm ex
pecting to get the bills in some
day next week and if I do, there
won'’t be any problems with us
gefiting them out by the (Nov.)
th!
Since Nov. 8 falls on a Sun
day, Hall said he anticipated
g]utting the bills in the mail on
g ov. 6 or the morning of Nov.
The pre-printed date on the
bills ca.lfs for taxes to be Paid
by Jan. 8, 1988 — 60 days from
the time they are put in the
mail.
THIRD YEAR
This is the third year in a
row that taxes for one calendar
year will be due in the follow
ing calendar year.
The county ran into a delay
in early fall when the State
Revenue Department decided
to factor the digest by seven
percent to bring it up to a
state-mandated assessment of
40 percent of market value.
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WILL HAIR (R), SUPT. DON HAYES EXPLAIN SYSTEM
Teachers To Man Homework Hotline, Starting Monday
Homework Hotline Will
Begin Next Monday
Another step in Chattooga County’s ef
fort to reduce its dropout rate will be taken
next Monday afternoon when the county
system's ‘‘homework hotline” goes in
Opesobs. o o o
The hotline will be funded by grants
from 'Mwmau Regional Commis
sion (ARC} sind state money and staffed kg,
volunteer school system teachers. " ~*
An orientation meeting for the 25
volunteers was held on Oct. 7 and a field
trip for the Chattooga teachers was
scheduled this week to view the Murray
County program at Chatsworth.
OPERATION
School Supt. Don Hayes and Will Hair,
vocational supervisor at Chattooga High,
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P
JUDITH NEELLEY
Appeal Denied
The 1986 digest was not fac
tored but the 1985 digest was
factored by 15 percent.
This year's action by the
state required local govern
ments to reduce their tax levies
to correspond with the 7 per
cent increase in the digest.
State law says that Focal
governments can’t collect more
than one-half of one percent in
additional tax revenue due to
a digest being factored.
The revised digest and
lowered tax rates were approv
ed by the state on Sept. 23.
LOWERED
The Chattooga Board of
Education reduced its 8-mill
rate to 7.52 .mills for
maintenance and operation and
its bond rate from .60 of a mill
to .56 of amill. (A mill is $1 per
tax on each SI,OOO of taxag(i)e
progerty).
ommissioner Harry
Powell reduced the incor
porated tax rate from 15.39 to
14.47 mills and the unincor
porated rate from 12.67 to
see LOCAL, page 11-A
High Failure Rate
demonstrated the telephone operation last
week at the school system’s new offices on
Bolling Road. Clarence Gilley, stay-in
school coordinator, was present for the
orientation.
The hotline will operate from 4:30 un
til 6:30 p.m. Monday through 'l‘hurg;d;fii
beginning next dondey. The number will’
be 857-3447.
A brochure that outlines the Chattooga
program said the hotline should be used by
stugcrents when they need help with a
homework assignment, when tfiey don’t
understand how to complete an assign
ment, when they need spelling words pro
nouaced correctly and when they need to
review homework that has been completed.
see HOMEWORK, page 8-A
Neelley Lawyer
To Appeal After
Denial Of Trial
The attorney for the con
victed murderess of a 13-year
old girl plans to appeal a
DeKalb County, Ala. judge’s
denial of a new trial or new
sentencing hearing.
Robert French, who
represents Judith Ann Neelley,
23, told a Fort Payne, Ala.
newspaper last Friday that
neither he nor his client was
surprised by the ruling handed
down by Circuit Court Judge
Randall Cole. They figured
that the chances of é,ole rever
sing Mrs. Neelley's death
sentence were less than five
percent, French said.
APPEALS
However, the lawyer said
he plans to file an appeal of
Cole's ruling with the Af:bama
Court of Criminal Appeals. If
unsuccessful, Frencl!x) said he
would file an appeal with the
Alabama Supreme Court and
then the U. S. Supreme Court,
if necessary. I'Prench then
reportedly left town on
vacation. S N
Both Mrs. Neelley and her
husband, Alvin, 34, pled guil
ty in 1983 in Chattooga Coun
ty in the shooting death of a
®
Survey Results Coming
Results of the recent annual survey of opinion conducted
by The Summerville News will be puglished in next week's
edition of the newspaper.
“We had a good response to the survey,” said David
and Winston Eg Espy, owners of The News. It is being
coompiled and will be ready for publication next week on
e 2277
The unscientific sampling of opinion asks for the views
and opinions of Chattooga residents in 21 different
categcl)rfies. ranging from local schools to the overall quali
ty of life.
--See Page 8-A
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Rome woman in Haywood
Valley and in an attack against
the woman's common-law hus
band. They were sentenced to
life in prison in the Chattooga
cases. -
A DeKalb jury convicted
Mrs. Neelley on April 19, 1983
of murder in the September,
1982 slaying of Lisa Ann
Millican, 13, LaFayette. The
teen-ager was staying at a
Cedartown church-operated
home when she was ki(fnap ed
from a Rome shoppin, cenger.
Her body was found a%ew days
later in Little River Can%"on
atop Lookout Mountain. The
site where her body was found
is in DeKalb County.
INJECTION
Testimony at = Mrs.
Neelley's trial revealed that
Miss Millican had been injected
six times with caustic drain
cleaner before bein%’ shot by
Mrs. Neelley and her body
pushed into the canyon. The
youngster had also been sex
ually molested, testimony
showed.
After the conviction, the
jury recommended that Mrs.
see NEELLEY, page 16-A