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Santas Made Of Steele
A Cloudland businessman
and his wife became real-life
versions of Mr. and Mrs. San
ta Claus this Christmas season
although he doesn’t have a red
suit or white beard.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Steele,
who operate the Cloudland
Aloe and Herb Center, along
with a mini-mall, donated
$12,406 worth of toys to the
Chattooga County Family
Development Outreach Pro
gram and Chattooga Services
(formerly EOA) late last week.
PARTY
Some of the toys will be
presented to more than 80
youngsters involved in the
Outreach program and through
Chattooga Services at a
Christmas party at 1 p.m.
Monday, Dec. 21, at the Chat
tooga Services office in
Summerville.
The remaining toys were
turned over to the Chattooga
Department of Family and
Children Services (D[“gS) for
distribution to other children
this yule season.
Beverly Brown, director of
the Outreach program, and Sue
Elliott, director of Chattooga
Services, learned that Steele
wanted to donate “some’’ toys
to needy youngsters this
Christmas so they drove a car
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TRION RESIDENT NAMED ALL-AMERICAN
Stacy Searels Named To First Team
Dhe Summerville News
BEVERLY BROWN, CLOUDLAND’S 808 STEELE, A REAL SANTA CLAUS
Look Over $12,400 Worth Of Toys Donated By Steele
to the Cloudland business
TOO MUCH
When Steele started pulling
item after item off his sfielves,
they realized that their car
wouldn't be large enough to
haul his donation. So they ob
tained use of vans from Jimmy
Black Chevrolet-Oldsmobile
and Ramsey-Hall Ford in
Summerville.
It was taken to the Chat
tooga Services office Thursday
and separated for distribution
to Ms. Brown's pre-school
clients and their school-age
brothers and sisters, and to
children served by Chattooga
Services. The huge pile remain-
Minter Chamber Speaker
Jim Minter, senior editor of
The Atlanta-Journal Constitu
tion, will address the annual
banquet meeting of the Chat
tooga County Chamber of
Commerce next January.
The meeting will be held at
7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 14, in
the Chattooga High School
Auditorium.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1987
in% was provided to the DFCS
office so other children would
have a happy Christmas.
‘““We've been hear
ing . .. that a lot of people are
pretty hard up an(i) a lot of
them are not going to have
much of a Christmas,” Steele
said in exfplaining his extraor
dinary gift.
“It's Christmas, that's the
main reason.” he continued.
“Also, I've got to slow down
some and this was an oppor
tunity to do that.
““Chattooga County has
been good to me making a liv
ing,” he added. ‘‘Something
I've always believed in is giv
ing something back.”
Minter’s appearance was
arranged by Tommy Toles,
editor of The News and a friend
of the Atlanta newspaper
executive.
COX NEWSPAPERS
Minter also serves as vice
president of the Cox
Newspaper Division of Cox
Searels On AP All-American Team
Trion Resident Will Appear On Bob Hope’s Televised Christmas Special
Stacy Searels, former Trion High
School Bulldog football player, was
honored last week with one of the most
prestigious honors that can be bestow
etl upon a collegiate football player
when he was named to the Associated
Press (AP) All-American first team at
offensive tackle.
He also has been named to the
Football News' First Team All-
American team.
United Press International (UPI)
hasn't released their All-American
selecions, yet.
Searels is the son of Wayne and
Maxine Searels of Trion.
He is a senior at Auburn Universi
ty where he led the Tigers to a Sugar
ff/ow] berth against the Orangemen of
Syracuse University. It hadn't been
determined by mid-week whether the
game would be played Jan. 1 or 2.
Commenting on the honor, Searels
said that he was ‘“‘real pleased’" at be
ing selected and also ‘‘surprised”
because with all the offensive tackles
in America to choose from he really
didn't think he would make it.
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Ms. Brown said one family
with five children had lost their
home to fire and without
Steele's generous gifts, the
youngsters might not have had
a Christmas. -
Steele’'s wife, Clara, Ms.
Brown, Mrs. Elliott and
volunteer Cecil Deering helped
to load and wunload the
merchandise.
ITEMS
Among the hundreds of
items donated were dolls, elec
tronic games, caps, hats,
jewelry, sunglasses, watches,
water guns, doll furniture,
see SANTAS, page 12-A
Enterprises Inc.
A native of Inman, Minter
graduated from the University
of Georgia Henry Grady
School of Journalism in 1951.
He joined The Atlanta Journal
as a high school sports reporter
upon graduation.
After serving in the U. S.
see MINTER, page 12-A
Since being named All-American,
Searels has just finished taping a seg
ment for the Bob Hope Christmas
Special which airs on the 19th of
December which features the first
team All-Americans selected by AP.
He has also accepted a bid to play
in the Japan Bowl on January 9th and
will be joined by his mother, father and
sister at that bowl. In addition, he has
accepted a bid to play in the Senior
Bow{)in Mobile, Alabama on January
24th.
The 6'5"", 278-Ib. senior had been
selected earlier in the year by Playbo
Magazine, and Street and Smith Co{
lege Football Magazine to their Pre-
Season All-American teams.
Searels, in his career, has blocked
for Heisman trophy winner, Bo
Jackson and All-American Brent
Fullwood. He also made last year's AP
and UPI All-SEC s%uads.
At Trion High, Stacy played for
four years as a center and taci;le and
in his senior year was chosen All-State
as a center. The teams he played on at
Trion won three region championships.
Groundbreaking Slated
Today For New Prison
Commissioner Evans Scheduled To Deliver Remarks
Official groundbreaking
ceremonies for the Forest Hays
Correctional Institution east of
Pennville were scheduled for 11
a.m. today.
David Evans, commis
sioner of the Georgia Depart
ment of Corrections (DOC),
was scheduled to present com
ments at the ceremony. A
number of state and local of
ficials and the news media had
been invited to the event.
CONCRETE?
Work has already started
on the massive $23.8-million
project. Depending on the
weather, crews had hoped to
begin pouring concrete at the
site by today or Friday.
About 45 staff and workers
were at the prison site earlfi'
this w:id and MikendC;mneh y
general superintendent for the
project, said that number will
increase to around 150 by next
spring and to at least 200 by
mid-summer, 1988. Ten to 20
more people will be hired dur
ing the #ext month, he added.
Carlson Southeast Cortp..
‘Smayrna, general contractor for
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MIKE McCONNELL, FOREGROUND, AND JIM STAMPS REVIEW PRISON BLUEPRINTS
Maximum Security Wing Shown At Far Left; Groundbreaking Today
the prison, and subcontractors
are seeking to hire as many
local people as possible for the
groject. said McConnell and Ed
ranklin, resident engineer for
the State Financing and In-
Oak View Still On Edge
The Oak View Nursing
Home expansion project was
still hanging in the.%alance this
week.
A letter was to have been
sent to the State Health Plan
ning Agency (SHPA) this week
from Chattooga County
Hospital officials asking for an
extension of a March 19 con
struction deadline for the
63-bed addition.
The request became
necessary when hospital of-
He also was a state wrestling cham
pion his senior year at Trion.
Recently, The News interviewed
Searels ang asked him, What do you
think is the biggest thing it takes to
make an All-American? %—lis answer,
“The guys I have seen that made All-
American give 100 percent all the time
whether you are playing another All-
American or someone that hasn’t %ot
much of a rePutation. You have to play
at the top of your ability all the time.
You can'’t relax.”
Southern Living Magazine in their
selection of their Pre-Season All-South
squad in which they picked Searels on
their first team had this to say about
the Trion native who is an avi! hunter
and fisherman . . . "It is no hap
penstance that Auburn has produced
two All-American running backs, one
a Heisman Trophy winner, in the past
two years. Tip a helmet to Searels who
has trig—hammered defensive linemen
for both seasons. And rarely is a hand
laid on his roommate, quarterback Jeff
Burger, of Cedartown.”
Hair Hits Paper
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vestment Commission (SFIC). |
Franklin is a longtime resident |
of Sublifna.
Hea enfi'neer for the pro
ject is Ken Reynolds of Lyer
ly, they pointed out.
Second Extension Sought On Project
ficials learned that their plan to
get construction under way
officially”’ by awarding an ear
ly grading contract would not
meet state requirements, said
Betty Wollstein, executive
director of the hospital and
nursing home.
Hospital Authorit
members thought last weefl
that they could meet the cur
rent construction deadline by
getting approval from the
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“There's a tremendous
amount of quality control on
this project,’ said Franklin.
In addition to his daily in
spections, Franklin said \z L.
see GROUNDBREAKING, page 11-A
(Fmdli‘A) to award a hzeparate
ading contract on t 0j
E.‘(;forega contract on l:hgr a()i?icit
tion itself was awarded.
Joiner Smith, an FmHA of
ficial who met with hospital
nursing home officials on Dec.
2, obtained permission for the
Authority to award the
grading contract and said the
FmHA would even reimburse
the facility for those costs
when its $1.4-million loan was
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