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An early morning fog settled in the narrow valley form
ed by Taylors Ridge and a smaller ridge to its west dur
ing a recent autumn day. Leaves were just beginning to
change color from green to bright shades of red, yellow,
orange and amber when the unfiulating mist wafted over
Sprayberry Farms. Lookout Mountain, just awakening
Tax Probe Continues
School Figures Correct; County Overpaid
The State Revenue Depart
ment today is expected to com
plete its analysis of the sales
tax revenues for the Chattooga
County and Trion City Schools
and for the county government
to determine why the county
was overpaid twice this year.
Chantfler Howell, director
of the Revenue Department’s
Sales Tax Division, told The
News Wednesday that his
study of the Chattooga ac
counts was still under way.
However, he said a report on
the situation should be ready
for presentation to Don Hayes,
Chattooga school superinten
dent, by sometime today.
DISPARITY
Hayes contacted Hewell
last TKursday, Oct. 15, when
he was told that the Chattooga
and Trion school systems com
bined had received $176,000
less than the county govern
ment during the f)i'rst nine
months of 1987. The one per
cent sales tax for the schools
and for the county Fovemment
have been in effect long enouih
that the amounts should be
similar if not identical.
The difference was brought
to Hayes’ attention by David
Danie{ of WGTA after he
received a routine news release
from the State Revenue
Department listing sales tax
distributions to cities, counties
and schools throughout the
state since January, 1987. The
News received the same release
on Oct. 15.
Chattooga Countians will gain an extra hour of sleep
and lose an hour of afternoon sunshine when Eastern
Daylight Time (EDT) ends Sunday morning.
The time will official(l{ change to Eastern Standard
Time (EST) at 2 a.m. Sunday, but most residents may find
it easier to adgust their watches and clocks before retiring
Saturday niF t. If the time is not changed, residents may
find themselves arriving at Sunday school or worship ser
vices an hour early this weekend.
Chattooga residents should adjust their timepieces
backwards Saturday night. For example, if a person plans
to retire at 11 p.m. Saturday, he should change his clock
and watch to 10 p.m.
In case all else fails, the U. S. Weather Service in Atlan
ta said residents should remember the adage, ‘‘spring for
ward, fall back.” !
Local residents will r?ain that *‘lost” hour of afternoon
sunshine next §lpring and lose an hour of sleep at the same
time when EST is again replaced by EDT.
Che Summeruville News
Drifting Fog Of Autumn
According to the state
release, the county government
headed by Commissioner
Harry Powell had received
$1,145,767 during the first nine
months, compared to a total of
$969,260 received by the Trion
and Chattooga school systems
Trion Failure Rate Low
Trion High School’s seniors
did well on the Scholastic Ap
titude Test (SAT) during the
1986-87 school year, and few
Trion students failed more
than one subject during the
first six-week %rading period of
this year, the Trion City Board
of Education was told Monday
afternoon.
Bill Kinzy, Trion school
superintendent, said all Trion
seniors scored a composite
total of 959.13 while college
bound Trion seniors scored
1,015.27 on the SAT. Those
figures compare to a state
average of 840 and a national
averafe of 906, Kinzy told the
school board at its October
meeting.
COLLEGE-BOUND
College-bound seniors at
Trion scored 493.16 on the ver
bal part of the SAT while the
totafi) for all Trion seniors was
471.74. All seniors also scored
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1987
to a new day, may be seen in the distant background.
Brilliant colors now weave a multi-hued pattern over
Chattooga County’s ridges and mountains, comparable
to the views in Northeast Georgia. (Staff Photo By Tom
my Toles).
during that same period of
time. Those figures indicated
that the schooi:l had received
$176,507 less than the county
government.
SCHOOLS
Trion received $258,969 for
487.39 on the math part of the
SAT while college-bound
seniors at, Trion scored 522.11,
he said. @
Trion encourages all
students to take the SgAT, Kin
zy said, but noted that the
reason the state's overall score
is so low is because so many
non-college-bound students
take the test.
Trion teaches its students
how to take the SAT, Kinzy
said, adding that many
students are not familiar with
how to take the test or with the
Company H Holds First Training
Exercise In County, Atop Ridge
Next Assembly For National Guard Unit Set Nov. 14-15
The first field exercise by
Chattooafa County's new Army
National Guard company went
off without a hitch last
weekend. Soldiers assembled
Saturdai,]' morning at their tem
porary headquarters in Sum
merville and then spent that
night and Sunday morning
roaming Taylors Ridge.
Cpl. James Cady, who will
be stationed fulltime at tem
porary headquarters for Com
pany H at the Chattooga
;s)ublic works camp on
tockade Road, said the first
training exercise was a success.
“GREAT”
It all worked out well,”’ he
said. ‘lt went great.”” There
were no froblems encountered
in the field exercises or with the
temporary headquarters, the
corporal added.
Trion Homecoming
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its schools during the first nine
months while the county
system received $710,291, the
Revenue Department said.
Hayes initially thought
that the schools had been
shorted on the amount of
see TAX PROBE, page 15-A
time limitations on responding
to questions.
FAILURES LOW
A total of 17.8 percent of
Trion High School's students
failed one class during the first
six-week frading period, K.iIIZ{
said, while seven percent fail
ed two classes. OnTy 2 percent
failed three classes ang 1 per
cent failed four classes, he said.
Four-tenths of one percent fail
ed five classes, he said.
The elementary school
see TRION, page 8-A
The next assembly and field
maneuvers will be he{d on Nov.
14 and 15.
It was the first time that
the county's new National
Guard unit had met in Sum
merville or used the Chat
tahoochee National Forest
lands for field exercises. The
company was officially ac
tivated on Oct. 1 although a
number of soldiers began
weekend training in temporary
quarters at the Calhoun Na
tional Guard Armory in mid
summer. Corporal Cady
himself was still at Calhoun as
late as Wednesday but ex
f)ected to be in Summerville
ater this week or early next
week.
The unit is based in both
Cartersville and Summerville
although the company’s ar
mory will be built in Chattooqa
county. Guard officials
County Residents
Happy Over Rally
1930 s Depression
Seen As Unlikely
More than a few Chattooga Countians joined their
countrymen in breathing a cautious sigh of refief Wednes
day afternoon when the stock market rebounded for the
second straight day in a move to regain value lost in a
record plunge last }llVlonday.
The Dow Jones average
closed at a preliminary 2027.85
Wednesday, up 186.84 points
over Tuesday’s close of
1841.01. The market crashed
508.32 points Monday to
1,738.74. The market regained
102.27 points of that loss on
Tuesday.
1929?
Monday'’s drop was greater
than the gctober, 1929 stock
market collapse that led to the
Great Depression. However,
several Chatt.otgga bankers and
others interested in the market
said prior to Wednesday's ral
.l}' that they didn’t expect Mon
tay's_collapse to lead to a
The huge volume of trading
Wednesday and the increase
meant that the market in two
days had regained more than
289 points of Monday’s
508-point loss. The market had
peaked at 2,722.42 last Aug. 25
and had since been steadily
declining. The Dow Jones is a
wei%?te average of selected
stocks and is considered a
reliable indicator of the
market's strength.
Foreign markets crashed
Tuesday morning (U. S. time)
after the Dow Jones averages
plummeted Monday while gold
and silver made gains.
However, the precious metals
dipped in value Tuesday but
started making new gains
Wednesday momir:ig.
Chattooga residents who
don’t ‘‘play the market” were
more interested this week in
whether the crash would affect
the local economy than in the
status of a particular stock.
Some older residents who have
bought mutual fund stocks
also were interested in whether
their investments had taken a
beating.
NO CHANGE
“It's not causing us to
make any kind of change,” said
Harold Peek, general manager
of Riegel Textile Division’'s
Trion operations. ‘‘We're now
spending $1.5-million in the
estimated this spring that it
would take about two years for
the building to be approved at
the federal level.
See more I%hotos on
Page 14-A.
At full strength, the unit
will have 189 members. Sixty
two gmrticigated in the
assembly and field exercise last
weeken({ Cady said. Fifty-six
were enlisted men and six were
officers.
All members of the com
pany must be airborne
qualified and 62 of the total
must be Army Ranger
qualified. 7
The elite Guard unit is the
only one of its kind in Georgia.
Its primary duty will be con
ducting Long Range Recon-
finishing plant, three-quarters
of a milfion dollars in the mill
and another sl-million is plann
ed in an ener¥y-§a\{ing pro
am in the finishing mill.
%e’re selling denim into June,
1988 and I tfon’t visualize that
changing unless there's
something I don't know or
can't see.”
“I have total confidence in
our economy and if I had any
surplus money bodali', I'd be in
vesting in the stock market,”
said Grady McCalmon, Sum
merville city manager, on
Wednesday morning. His
remarks were made prior to
Wednesdt‘l{y's rally.
- Cliffor _“'fip" McCollum.of
First Federal S‘hvm and .
Loan Assn., Summerville, said
he doubted that Monday’s
crash would mean a 1930s
style depression. ‘I don’t think
sO, not now. Maybe I'm too op
timistic but I don’t think so.”
DON'T PANIC
“It’s always bad to panic.
whether goosl or bad,” said
James ‘“‘Bud” Jackson, a Sum
merville Bharmacist. *‘Panic is
always bad to a small in
vestor ... You need to use
your head when you spend
your money. A knee-jerk reac
tion is almost always wrong.”
A local banker, iarr Hen
son of the First N ationai, Bank
of Chattooga County, felt that
Monday's crash was simply a
matter of the stock marKet
seeking its own level. As for
the possibility of a defiression,
“We are muc too
sophisticated to let that hap
pen,” Henson said. “‘Our
policy-makers are on top of
things.”
SAFEGUARDS
“There appear to be more
safeguards t?lan there were in
1929," said Henry Watson,
K&'esident of the Farmers and
erchants Bank. Just as the
rally started Wednesday mor
ning, Watson said, ‘I feel bet
ter . .. Some of my customers
see COUNTY, page 15-A
naissance Patrols, hence the
acronym, ‘‘LRRPS,” (pro
nounced “lurps"). i
Taylors Ridge was viewed
as an ideal area to conduct
training missions, Guard of
ficials said earlier.
NEW VEHICLES
The unit expects to be sug;
plied with new Humm
vehicles, which are replacing
the Jeep in Army service.
However, mostly borrowed
equipment was used for last
weekend's drills.
The compan{ began addin,
to Summerville's fast-foog
economy by buying a number
of meals at local restaurants
last weekend. Several Guard
members also inquired about
moving to Chattooga or obtain
ing work in the community.
see COMPANY H, page 14-A
Prison Jobs Available
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Survey Results This Week
Results of The Summerville News’ annual opinion
survey are featured in this week’s edition of the
newspuper: Those responding to the unscientific
sampling oi opinton raved tire Chattooga County
Library at the top of the list and county govern
ment at the bottom. For complete results of all 21
categories, turn to Page 1-B.
Local Drug Test
Results Due Soon
Results of a statewide drug
use test conducted last week
may be available for the Trion
City and Chattooga County
School Sf'stems late this year
or in early 1988.
The computerized test was
éiven to students throughout
eorgia last week who are in
grades six through 12. It was
sponsored by the office of Gov.
Joe Frank Harris.
DRUG USE
Between 500,000 and
600,000 students, including
those in Trion and Chattooga
schools, were given the test. It
is designed to help determine
the extent of drug problems
among youngsters in Georgia.
Dr. Gleaton Thomas, na-
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tional president of PRIDE
(Parents’ Resource Institute
for Drug Education), said com
%uters at Georgia State
niversity in Atlanta will be
used to “read” and compile
results of the test. Thomas is
also professor of education at
Georfiia State.
All systems hadn’t turned
in results of the testing as of
Wednesday morning, Dr.
Thomas said. After all results
have arrived at Georgia State,
it will take about two weeks to
feed the hundreds of thousands
of individual tests into a com
puter scanner for compilation.
MEETINGS
The Department of Human
see LOCAL, page 8-A