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Most Resolve *‘No
More Resolutions’
Residents Fear Breaking Vows
By RICH JEFFERSON
EVERY YEAR around the time on Dec.
31 when ““Auld Lang Syne" is traditional
ly sur?. manE Americans carry on another
New Year's Eve practice, that of making
resolution for the New Year.
But according to a telephone survey of
coun&y residents taken on Monday and
Tuesday this week, it seems that most
Chattooga Countians will not participate
in that tradition this year.
“] always make a resolution not to
make any,”’ said sth District State Rep.
Johnny CYrawford. “That why I don’t have
to break any.”
* * *
SUMMERVILLE’S Chief of Police
Arlen Thomas said he probably won't
make any resolutions eitg’er.
“I'm not going to sit here and tell you
I'm going to make resolutions. I just break
them anyway,” he said. Thomas said he
usually makes a resolution to lose weiiht.
but he believes he is more successful when
he makes no resolution.
For those who are thinking of making
Chickamauga
Funds Okayed
S3O-Million Authorized
The U.S. Senate has ap
proved legislation authorizinfi
up to S3O-million in feder
funds to reroute U. S. Highway
27 around the Chickamauga
and Chattanooga National
Military Park in Northwest
Georgia. The announcement
came from U. S. Senators Sam
Nunn and Wyche Fowler who
ushered the bill through the
Senate in coordination with
Rep. George ‘‘Buddy’’ Darden,
who sponsored the legislation
in the House.
“We have been working on
this project closely with state
Department of Transportation
representatives and park of
ficials for many years,” Nunn
said. “However, the passage of
this bill is a real triumph for
those state and local elected of
ficials whose persistence and
hard work hel‘;’)ed us to clear
the many hurdles in the
leiislative process. I am
delighted that we are now,
CHS Teacher Has 10,000 Comics
Buys 40 To 60 New Books Every Month For His Collection
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
+
“COMIC BOOKS are
becoming more and more
popular with adults,” accor
din%l to a Chattooia County
High School teacher. Alan
Perry ought to know. He has a
collection of about 10,000 com
ic books.
Battle Reenactment Here?
Society To Discuss Chickamauga Proposal
By KAREN COOK
Contributing Writer
*
The next quarterly meeting
of the Chattooga County
Historical Society will be held
at 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 10, at
Trion United Methodist
Church. Guest speakers will be
Col. Bruce Williamson of the
Georgia Division of Civil War
Reenactors and a represen
tative of the Georgia State
Archives.
Col. Williamson will make a
presentation to the Historical
resolutions, exercise and weight loss are
high on the lis,t.l of p:)ssible resolutions.
SUZANNE HURLEY, Summerville,
said she plans to start jogging again, and
Sheila King, also of Summerville, said she
plans ‘‘this lyear to be a better health per
son and to lose weiiht."
Ms. Kinq said she not only plans to
make a resolution, she plans to keep it.
‘“A resolution is something that
depends on the person making it. It takes
a person with a strong will to stick to it,”
she said. Her resolution last year was to
“‘do better financially,” and she said she's
done exactly that.
* * *
JAMES BOLDS also said his main
resolution for the coming year is to have
“plenty of money."”
Sewell Cash, mayor of Summerville,
said his resolutions include continuing
“‘progressive city government” in Summer
ville. Cash also said he plans to keep work
inF toward ‘‘zero tax millage”” for Summer
ville residents.
Sharon Huskey, Commissioner Harry
Powell’s secretary, said resolutions ‘‘are
usually made to break. So far I haven’t
made any.”
see MOST RESOLVE, page 5-B
tinally, able to send this impor
tant legislation to the Presi
dent for his signature.”
Fowler said, ‘“This is great
news for the people of Nor
thwest Goo:gia..fmyplened
that we were able to accom
modate the transportation
needs of a burgeoning business
and residential area without
moving historic battlefield
monuments and permanently
alterin'F the character of the
park. This bill helps our com
munities to grow while main
taining, virtually unchanged,
an important record of our
past.”
The bill authorizes funds for
a 3.7-mile bypass which will
skirt the western boundary of
the park. One-fourth of the
total funding for the highway
will be provided by the state of
Georgia. The federal mone?' is
expected to be appropriated in
crementally during the next
several years.
The Summerville resident
first began collecting as a child.
“I had a huge collection,”” he
said. “I justiought the funny
comics at first, but later I
began to buy the dramatic and
super-hero titles.”” Perry’s col
lection consisted of those he
bought, as well as many that
were given to him by friends.
The television show, “Bat
man,” which aired during the
19605, was one of the factors
that got him interested in com
ic books. His preference for the
Batman character resulted in
Society on the 125th anniver
sary of the battle of
Chickamauga. The battle will
be commemorated by a battle
reenactment in eitfi,er Chat
tooga or Walker County on
Sept. 16-18, 1988.
The Historical Society will
be asked to help locate approx
imately 200 or 300 acres of land
for the event. The land should
be as close to the park as Ylossi
ble and be c]eare(f and/or light
ly forested.
The Georgia Division of
Civil War reenactors_will be
responsible for the preliminary
discussions with the lan
downers, who will be paid a fee
that is yet undetermined. Local
volunteers will be needed to
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Valuable Collection Stored In Tennessee
Perry currently having more
Batman titles than any other
type.
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AFTER SEVERAL years
of collecting, however, gerry
got rid of his collection, a move
that he would later call
“foolish.”
“l was involved with a
Christmas toy drive,” he said.
“And I gave all my comics
away to it. I didn't think I'd
have any more use for them.”
Perry has since bought back
many of the comics he gave
helfi with logistics such as
ticket sales and on-site
registration before and during
the event.
The American Civil War
Commemorative Committee
Inc. (ACWCC), which is a pro
fessionally run organization
that sponsored otfier large
scale reenactments at
Manassas and Antietam, will
cosponsor the event with the
Georgia Division of Civil War
Reenactors. The projected
number of participants in the
reenactment is expected to be
between 3,000 ans 5,000. The
projected number of spectators
over the three-to four-day
period could be 40,000 to
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This aerial photo shows the tremendous size of the Hays Correctional
Institution site east of the Pennville residential area. The rectangular
area in the center of the oval is the main prison building site. It will
be almost 1,100 feet long when completed. A maximum security wing
will be located at the left end of the guilding. Other prison dormitories
will be located on the inside of the half-moon shaped area at the bot
away.
Several more years would
pass before Perry returned to
collectinfii However, while
visiting his dparents in Ten
nessee around seven years ago,
his interest was rekindled. “1
was sitting around the house
one day, and I was bored,” he
said. ‘“‘There was a used
bookstore in town, and I went
down to it to buy some books
to read. It haf()fened that the
store also sold comic books,
and they had some on display.
I looked through some o? the
boxes and found several old
issues of Batman, many of
which I had given away as a
child. I bought a handful, and
I returned every day while I
was there to buy more. When
I left, I had bought every issue
of Batman the’a' had.”
* *
WHEN HE resumed collec
ting, Perry mostly bought old
and new issues of Batman,
though later on he began to
add other titles to his collec
tion. “I have every issue of
Batman from issue 100 up, ex
cept for about 10 issues,” he
said. He also has around 15
issues before number 100. “‘But
as I went on,” he continued,
“I'd buy new comic titles each
month, and soon I had a really
large collection.” The one com
ic he would like to have is the
first issue of Batman, which
would set him back about
$7,000.
Pen'{ also said he buys 40
to 60 titles each g);(;\th, anl:ifhe
averages paying a week for
thema.g‘eltgaa slow week if I pay
under S2O for comics,”” he com
mented. He belongs to a
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Aerial View Of Hays Correctional Institution Site
subscription service that
operates out of Cleveland,
Tenn. ‘“The comic store there
saves copies of certain issues
for me each week and sends
them to me. Most of my com
ics are ha:xdlecl that; way.”
HE ALSO buys comics at
an outlet in Etowah, Tenn.,
where his parents reside and
where he stores his collection.
His comics fill 30 large card
board boxes, which occupy two
long tables in his {;arents' base
ment. ‘‘Both tables are stack
ed with rows of boxes,"" he said.
Most of the comics Perry
buys are published bf’ National
Periodical Publications,
popularly referred to by the in
itials, D. C., after one of their
oldest comic titles. “Theg"re
the ones I enjoyed reading
most as a child,” he said. Perry
added that he has a few foreign
comics, several of which he pur
chased on trips to England. He
also has an issue of %‘he Lone
Ranger u; Spa:lish. .
PERRY KEEPS his collec
tion boxed and bagged for pro
tection. “‘I have every comic I
own inventoried,”” he said. “‘I
have two huge notebooks fill
ed with inventory.” He men
tioned that he is currently try
ing to keep track of his collec
tion on computer.
He also attends several
comic book conventions each
year. ‘I attend as many as I
can,” he said. “I consider it a
bad day if I don’t spend at
least SIOO at a convention. And
most of that is spent on
quarter-priced books."”
Perry also buys duplicate
see CHS TEACHER, page 5-B
tom of the oval. The shallow V-shapes of the dormitory sites may also
be seen. The entr[\l' road to the prison site curves right from the building
location. Pennville is in the background. The $23.8-million structure
is expected to be completed in late 1989 or early 1990. It will have a
capacity of 750 inmates. (Photo By T. Emmett Nunn).
No Reason To Welcome
Convention To Georgia
Columnist Tells Rotary Club Members
By RICH JEFFERSON
*
Georgians have no reason
to weflome the 1988
Democratic National Conven
tion to Atlanta this summer,
syndicated columnist based in
that city told the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club on Monday.
“The Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce went all out to get
it, but I don’t know why,"” said
Jasper Dorsey, a retired
Southern Bell executive.
Dorsey’s column gppears in 46
newspapers, including The
Summerville News.
In last week's column,
Dorsey said that the
Democrats had managed to
pick only one winning can
didate for the White House
since 1968, ‘‘and that one has
groven to be an aberration,
ecause Georgia's Jimmy
Carter could not be elected to
a second term.” ;
DESPISE
Dorsey also said in the col
umn that he thought the peo
ple who have dominated the
convention in recent years
‘‘despise Southern Conser
vative Democrats.”
In other comments, Dorsey
complained about the
diminishing value of the dollar,
told some newspaper stories,
and recounted some strange
events from Louisiana politics
that occurred while he resided
in that state.
“QOur friend Jim Baker has
been sucking up (filgs." allow
ing the dollar to fall too far on
international financial
markets, Dorsey said, referring
to U.S. Treasury Secretary
James Baker 111.
COSTS
One ' side effect of the
dollar’s fall is the-cost of travel
ing overseas, Dorsey said. ‘‘lt
used to be a bargain to go to
Europe, but now it costs an
arm and a leg.”
Dorsey also took a shot at
reporters who focus on the per
sonal life of public figures
rather than on Issues. He told
of a time years ago when
several newsmen visited
former Georgia Sen. Richard B.
Russell in \%ashington, ‘“‘and
th:f' grazed, fed and watered
real well.”
After taking the senator
back to his residence, one
reporter remarked to another
that he had not known Senator
Russell was such a
hypochondriac.
NO TALK
‘‘How could you tell that?"
his friend said. ‘I didn't hear
him talk about himself like that
all night.“
“You mean you didn't look
in his medicine chest?”’ the
reporter asked. ‘‘What kind of
reporter are you? It was full.”
Concerning state politics,
Dorsey said he used to think
politics was sophisticated in
Georgia. That is, until he mov
ed to Florida.
“Then I moved to Loui
siana, and I learned that
golit.ics was in its infancy in
lorida,”’ he said. 3
When he moved to Miami,
Dorsey said he thought it was
“sin city — I had to presume
people were dishonest until
they Froved otherwise. But
when I moved to Louisiana, I
(Editor’s Note: In preparation for the sesquicentennial
of Chattooga County in 1988. The News is featuring a nine
week synoptic series on the book, ‘‘Chattooga . . . The Story
Of A C};)unty And Its People.’’ Publication of this history
o/the county is scheduleffor January. A limited number
of copies will be published and those wishing a copy will
find order forms at the Chattooga County Library and at
various businesses thrgughc;ut tlz‘e county).
By ROBERT S. BAKER
CHAPTER 21
“Reading, Riting and Rithmetic”’ — This chapter follows
the development of the educational system in Chattooga
County from the academies which existed before the county
was created, to the creation of the public school system in
the 1870’s and its growth over the years.
The author has identified the names of 130 schools
which have existed in Chattooga County at some point in
its history. This chapter identifies these 130 names and pro
vides a brief history of some, and a rather detailed descrip
tion of others. Included are the names of known principafs
and teachers and the names of graduates in some cases.
CHAPTER 22
“Business Development’’ — At one time, practically
every resident of Chattooga County farmed to some extent,
however, not all these people made their living from the
farm exclusively. There were those who also operated the
stores that provided the food, hardware, drugs, clothing
and other necessities of life. The center of the rural com
munities, for many years, was the general store that usually
sat in the forks of the road, or at the intersections.
This chapter looks at our county’s early businesses and
business men. It includes a nostalgic look at a typical coun
try store and some of the products that were carried many
years ago.
Also included is a look at the banks and the several
hotels and boarding houses that have existed in our coun
ty over the years.
CHAPTER 23
“Houses and Lands”’ — This chapter examines the
homes, business houses and lands of the county. Who has
owned the land...who built the houses and business
houses . . . and which are the oldest houses in the county
are all questions that this chapter attempts to answer.
This chapter also looks at some of the early land tran
sactions in the county.
CHAPTER 24
“Industrial Development’’ — This chapter covers the
three distinct phases of industrial growth in the county,
including .. . tge early attempts to develop industg' and
why some failed . . . the develo?ment of the textile industry
in the county, and subsequent failure of some . . . and the
latter-day development of the knitting, glove and carpet
industry in the county. ‘
Included in this chagter is a look at the attempts by
organized labor to establish a foothold in the textile in
dustry in the county.
S e
learned that sin was in its in
fancy in Florida.”
INSANE?
According to Dorsey, when
Huey Long's younger Lother
was governor of the state, he
was committed by his wife to
¢ n asylum. To get released, the
youn%er Long appointed one of
his friends to a position
see NO REASON, page 5-B