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VOLUME CII- N ‘f 3 RLI
Voters Go
To Polls
In Trion
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
*
Nine candidates, including
three incumbents, are running
for the four open seats on the
Trion Town Council in today's
election. There are also two
candidates for city recorder,
and one candidate for mayor.
Polls at Trion Town Hall
.o?ened at 7 a.m. and will close
at 7 p.m.
MAYOR
J. C. Woods, current mayor
of Trion, announced in
November that he would not
run again. Hoyt Williams, a
retired Trion businessman and
member of the council for more
than 11 years, resigned his
post as councilman to run for
mayor. Williams lost a mayoral
Lyerly Will Win
Vote Next Week,
Asserts Mayor
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
No matter which can
didates win council seats in
Lyerly's bi-annual election next
Mom{ay. the town will have
good leadershii}. the mayor of
the town said Tuesday night.
“All the people on the coun
cil have been positive. All the
Feople runningvtlvould work out
ine,” Danny Wyatt said in a
telephone interview.
MAYOR
Wyatt is unopposed in his
bid to repeat as Lyerly’s
mayor. He agreed with most of
the candidates for the council
who said completing the
Resort Proposal, Government Budgets, Murders
(Editor's Note: Following is a sum
mary of news events that occurred in Ju
ly through December, 1987 in Chattooga
gounty. A review of the first six months
was published in last week’s edition of
The News).
* * *
JULY
* Twelve more golden eagles were
flown into LaFayette Aitfiort and were
to be raised atop Piieon ountain near
the Chattooga-Walker County line by
the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources. :
* Off-duty deputies were paid by the
estate of a Cloudland man to guard a
house on the mountain, according to
cancelled checks. County funds were not
used although a county patrol car was
used to trans(s)ort the deputies to and
from the residence.
* Chattooga Countians celebrated
Independence Day quietly. The only
observance in the county was at Menlo.
* Tim Rowe, a Trion teacher, re
counted his experience with Earthwatch
in the Virgin Islands. The groul';l) par
ticipated in an effort to save the sea
turtle.
* Goals were outlined at a second
Ax Slaying Case
--See Page 3-A
Che Summerville News
election to Woods in 1984.
Ricky Bowers, former Trion
recorder, also resigned in
mid-term.
In today's election can
didates will {;e chosen to finish
both Bowers' and Williams’
unexpired terms.
RECORDER
Vying for the recorder’s job
are Jess Emory and Randy
Mitchell. Emory is the chief
security officer at Riegel Tex
tile Corp., and served as justice
of the peace for nine years. Mit
chell is an instrument techni
cian at Rie}:fiel and has coached
various athletic teams in Trion.
INCUMBENTS
Running for the council are
incumbents Dwight Arden,
Henry Miller Jr. and Roy
Bowers. Newcomers include
Dale McCollum, Frank **Skip
per’’ Stewart, Larry Bowers,
see VOTERS. page 14-A
town’s new town hall, which in
cludes a fire hall, was a fine
accomplishment.
Wyatt and most of the can
didates also agreed that the
most critical job facing the
town in the next two years is
“‘the water project.”
Five of the six candidates
interviewed said that if they
are elected, the water project
will be high on their list of
things to start and finish dur
ing the next two-year term.
WATER
According to Wyatt, the
water project cannot move
ahead now because the town is
trfiing to obtain property on
which to dig test wells. One
giece of land has been donated,
ut others are needed, Wyatt
said.
see LYERLY, page 14-A
Leadership Forum sponsored by the
Chattooga Chamber of Commerce.
* Work began on Menlo's sewer and
wastewater treatment plant projects.
* Police issued an appeal to the
public to help in catching vandals in
volved in breaking windows in vehicles
and businesses.
* Chattooga County's jobless rate
hit a new record low in May at 5.4 per
cent, the Georgia Labor Department
revealed.
* The Rev. Howard Finster, Chat
tooga’s top tourist attraction, made two
national magazines, ‘‘People’” and *‘Roll
ing Stone.”
* The Rev. John Reeves, a former
Menlo United Methodist Church
minister and his wife, Jean, participated
in a gospel meeting in England.
* Commissioner Powell awarded a
contract for jail inmate meals to R&M
Cafeteria, Highland Street. R&M had
been supplying the food since April 1
and submitted the low bid once again.
* An Atlanta developer announced
he planned to build a 1,200-acre resort
around Lake Tightsqueeze in Chattooga
Coun’fil to be known as Silver Leaf.
* Thousands of people showed up for
the annual Old Timers' baseball game
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1988
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DRY CREEK FAMILY KILLS HOGS THE “OLD-FASHIONED WAY’
Sun Silhouettes Hog Dipped In Scalding Water. See Page 1-B
Chamber Banquet Next Week
Advance tickets are still
available for the annual Chat
tooga County Chamber of
Commerce [\;anquet next
Thursday, Jan. 14.
Jim Minter, senior editor of
The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution, will be the
featured speaker. The banquet
has been scheduled for 7 p.m.
on Jan. 14 in the Chattooga
High School auditorium.
Minter had members of the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club in stitches during a
speech last fall.
ADVANCE
Advance tickets for the
1987 ROUNDUP FOR CHATTOOGA COUNTY
Teloga Water Needs
--See Page 8-A
© Copyright 1987 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc
banquet are sls each. Tickets
at the door will cost S2O.
Eddy Ellenburg, a Summer
ville banker, will be installed as
new president of the Chamber
for 1988, along with other of
ficers and directors. Bill Kinzy,
Trion school superintendent, is
outgoing Chamber president.
Minter is a native of Inman
and a 1951 graduate of the
Henry Grady School of Jour
nalism at the University of
Georgia. He joined The Journal
as a high school sports reporter
after his graduation.
After serving in the U. S.
Army, Minter rejoined The
and related festivities, some of which
were sponsored by the Summerville-
Trion gptimist Club.
* Chattooga's 1986 audit revealed
that the county had a $l.B-million
balance at the end of 1986.
* The bell in the clock tower of the
Chattooga courthouse rang for the first
time in at least a decade after repairs
were made.
* The Rev. Finster offered to turn
his world-famous garden over to the
county for enjoyment by the public after
his death.
* Chattooga's 1986 audit revealed
deficiencies in county bookkeeping pro
cedures. It also indicated that costs at
the county ambulance service had
skyrocketed under the management of
Commissioner Powell.
* The Chattooga Board of Education
awarded a cost plus contract to Ramsey
Construction Co. to air-condition North
Summerville Elementary School.
* The Chattooga Historical Society
progosed a museum for the county.
The Chattooga Hospital Authori
ty voted to spend SIOO,OOO for new
diagnostic equipment, including a mam
mography unit.
Summerville’s City Council ap-
Journal sports staff. He
became executive sports editor
in 1962.
" He was named managing
editor of The Atlanta Constitu
tion in 1971 and he returned to
The Journal in 1978 as manag
ing editor.
Minter was named ex
ecutive editor and a vice presi
dent of the combined daily
newspapers in 1980. He was
named editor in 1982 and
assumed his current position
as senior editor in 1956.
The newspaperman serves
as vice president of the Cox
Newspaper Division of Cox
Enterprises Inc.
proved a revised 1987-88 budget of
$4.8-million in revenue and $4.6-million
in expenses.
* Lyerly approved a $49,000 budget
for 1987-88.
* Summerville Councilman Phil
Cavin was named second vice president
of the Seventh District Georgia
Municipal Assn.
* More money, or cutbacks in new
programs and facilities, will be required,
recreation director Ralph Stanley told
the Summerville City gouncil.
* Chattooga hosted the state farm
tour.
* Former Chattooga resident Reese
Cleghorn assumed duties as president
of Washington Journalism Review.
Cleghorn is dean of journalism at the
University of Maryland.
* Chattooga's February term Grand
Jury considered indicting Commissioner
Powell on three counts of violating
Georgia law in connection with the
county's budgets but concluded its ses
sion by handing down three ‘‘no’’ bills.
* Rockmart Sen. Nathan Dean said
an increase in the state's gasoline tax
would insure the completion of U.S.
Highway 27.
* A H5-year-old Cloudland man was
Winter Snowfall
May Blanket Area
Chattooga Countians
Wednesday afternoon were
preparing for a major winter
storm that was expected to
dump at least four inches of
snow on the area today.
Grocery stores were
swamped with shoppers anx
ious to buy bread, milk,
breakfast meats and easy-to
prepare stgfiles in case power
outages make electrical stoves
inoperable.
Residents were also buying
kerosene heaters Wednesday
so they would be prepared if ice
downed power lines in the
county.
SLEET?
Earlier forecasts origi
nating in Chattanooga, Tenn.,
indicated that the Chattooga
area might be hit with freezing
rain and sleet early this morn
ing. The National Weather Ser
vice (NWS) in Atlanta said
Wednesday afternoon the
latest information indicated
that Chattooga would receive
snow and not be hit by an ice
storm. But the forecast for
Northeast Alabama called for
Change Of Venue
Hearing Friday
Jarrells
The issue of moving the
Jonathen Jarrells murder trial
out of Chattooga County or
bringing jurors from another
county to Summerville may be
decided Friday at the end of
another in a series of pre-trial
hearings in the case.
The hearing on a change of
venue motion and several other
motions is scheduled to begin
at 10 a.m. in the courtroom.
PROCESS
The change of venue motion
was filed with Chattooga
Superior Court Judge Joseph
80. Lo‘f ins Monday during
the thir iearin on various
motions filed %y lawyers
representing the 31-year-old
murder suspect. The hearings
are part of the state's unified
appeals process for capital
cases.
Jarrells has been charged
charged with murder in the axe slaying
of his 60-year-old brother.
* Georgia's National Guard in
dicated that it planned to renovate the
old Chattooga public works camp as
temporary quarters for Company H.
* A fire in Summerville injured two
people and the brether of one victim was
charged in connection with the incident.
* The state announced that it would
open bids on Sept. 15 for a new
$23-million state prison at Pennville.
* Federal, state and local authorities,
using helicopters and ground crews, con
fiscated ans burned $l.B-million in mari
juana in Chattooga during a one-day
sweep.
* A Chattooga contractor charged
the county boarg of education with be
ing “‘wasteful”” by awarding cost plus
contracts insl:ead'v of seeking bids.
* Most fire calls made by the Sum
merville Fire Department were made
outside the city limits in fiscal year
1987, according to an annual report.
* The Chattooga Library %oard
adoPted a 1987-88 budget of SIOI,OOO.
Rodney Hannah was named to
head the Chattooga GTE office.
Powell Rips Sheriff
--See Page 14-A
three to four inches of sleet —
not snow — today.
“We are looking at a major
winter storm,”’ said John Zim
merman, a meterologist with
the NWS in Atlanta. “We have
the Xotential for heavy snow.”
tlanta radar indicated
that snow was falling east of
Birmingham, Ala., and in the
north Atlanta suburbs at 3:30
p.n(lj. Wednesday, Zimmerman
said. -
FLURRIES
In Chattooga, the storm
should start out during the ear
ly morning of today as snow
flurries ang develop into a day
long snowstorm, Zimmerman
tol(f The News Wednesday. At
least four inches of snow 1s ex
pected in Chattooga, he added.
The low this morning in
Chattooga should be in the low
20s and the high today should
be in the upper 20s or lower
30s, Zimmerman said.
Snow is expected to taper
off near nightfall, he said, with
a 50 ?ercent chance that addi
tional accumulations will be
recorded after the sun sets to-
Case Could Be Moved
with murdering 75-year-old
Gertrude Estelle Elrod at her
home in the Chattoogaville
community on Aug. 27, 1987.
He has been charged with ag
§ravated assault against
1-year-old Lorraine Elrod, the
murder victim's sister who
resided at the same address.
Jarrells has been charged with
armed robbery in connection
with the incident.
RULINGS
Loggins also handed down
several rulings Monday,
including:
* Denial of a defense mo
tion to toss out three indict
ments against Jarrells because
they resulted from the same
“transaction’ on Aug. 27.
* Denial of a defense mo
tion that the unified appeals
process be declared
unconstitutional.
day. Tonight's low should be in
the up’fier 20s and Friday's
high will be around 30 degrees,
he continued.
Weekend temperatures
should be in the 20s at night
and in the mid-30s to near 40
degrees, he said.
Another surge of cold air is
behind the snowstorm, the
NWS official pointed out.
PLOWS
Meanwhile, local govern
ments were gearing up for the
predicted storm.
Summerville’'s snow plow
was ready to go to work, of
ficials said Wednesday.
Miles Scott, Rome area
engineer with the Georgia
Deßartment of Tran‘ssortatlon
(DOT), said schedules have
already been set for today in
case the storm hits.
Seventy-five tons of salt
has already been stockpiled in
Summerville and two
snowplows are ready to serve
the county, he added.
The D¥)T’s forecast center
is calling for two to four inches
see WINTER, page 10-A
* Denial of a motion by Jar
rells’ attorneys that a section
of Georgia law describing “ag:
gravating circumstances’’
under which the death Juenalty
may be sought be declared
unconstitutional.
* Denial of a defense mo
tion that certain evidence
against Jarrells be surpressed
in the trial, tentatively set for
Feb. 22.
Roland Enloe, the court
appointed lead defense at
torney, sought to have Fri
da{‘s change of venue hearing
held in Loggins’ office and clos
ed to the public and press.
PROBLEM?
Judge Loggins asked Enloe
whether there was any %roblem
with holding Monday's hearing
on the defense motion to sup
pres evidence in the open cour
see CHANGE, page 15-A
AUGUST
* Flames destroyed a housing unit at
Menlo. An arson investigation was
started by local and state authorities.
* Hot weather in Chattooga caused
record high use of electricity.
* Local leaders considered a (froject
to assess the county’s peeds, desires,
goals and methods of attaining those
goals.
* James Smith, chairman of the
State Board of Education, addressed
the Summerville-Trion Rotary Club.
* The lawyer for convicted killer
Judith Ann Neelley claimed that Chat
tooga authorities withheld evidence in
her original 1983 trial that could have
changed the outcome of the case.
* A second contractor criticized the
Chattooga school board for awarding
gqgt plus contracts instead of seeking
ids.
* The August term Chattooga
Grand Jury dismissed an aggravated
assault charge against former Summer
ville police Sgt. Mark Underwood and
reduced the other assault charge to a
misdemeanor pointing a gun at another
charge.
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