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JOE THOMPSON (C) INSTALLS CHAINS ON HIS CAR AT TRION
Helped By Randy Cothran (R); Jimmy Cochran Looks On
State Approves Extension
For Oak View Expansion
FmHA Loan For Project Still Being Processed
Officials of Chattooga
County Hospital and Oak View
Nursing Home were elated ear
l{l this week after learning that
the state would grant an exten
sion to the deadfi:le for getting
construction under way on a
nursing home addition.
The News informed the of
ficials of the decision Tuesday
after learning about it from the
state Monday afternoon. A let
ter from the State Health Plan
Matteson Winner
In Lyerly Vote
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
David Matteson will be the
only new face on Lyerly’s Town
Council this term, as four of the
five incumbents retained their
seats in last Monday's election.
Matteson won a Council
seat for the first time by receiv
ing 43 of 55 ballots cast. He
replaces incumbent Joe Pullen,
Venue Ruling Expected
Walker County Jurors May Try Jarrells
Judge Joseph ‘“Bo” Log
gins was expected to rule late
Wednesday or today on
whether a change of venue
would be grantecf for the trial
of a West Virginia man charg
ed in the slaying of a Chat
tooga County woman and an
assault against her sister.
The SuFerior Court judge
was to rule on whether tfie
Jonathen Jarrells murder trial
should be moved to another
county or whether jurors from
another county would be
Lrought to Summerville to
hear the case in late February.
WALKER JURY
It appeared from a brief
hearing Wednesday morning
before Lofigins that considera
tion was being given to selec
Che Summeruille News
ning Agency (SHPA) giving
formal approval to a three
month extension was exi)ected
to arrive in Summerville this
week.
“TREMENDOUS”
“That’s tremendous,’ said
Mrs. Betty %ollstein, ex
ecutive director of the hospital
and nursing home. ““We won't
be so panicky about the March
19 deadline and the FmHA
who received 27 votes.
In Lyerly's plurality voting
system, the top five vote get
ters of all cangidates win the
five Council positions. There
were seven candidates in this
election, as well as one unop
posed candidate for mayor.
Danny Wyatt received 52
votes for mayor, since one of
the 55 ballots was nullified and
two others showed no vote for
mayor. Wai/att has been mayor
for several terms.
Billy Stallings, William
see MATTESON, page 2-A
ting a trial jury in Walker
County and bringing it to
Chattoo%a for the J arrglls case.
Jarrells, 31, is charged with
murder in the Aug. 27, 1987
bludgeoning death of 75-year
old Gertrude Estelle Elrod,
Chattoogaville. He has also
been charged with aggravated
assault in connection with an
attack against her sister, Lor
raine Elrod; 71, of the same ad
dress, and with armed robbery.
The state is seeking the death
penalty.
Jarrells was arrested in
Kentucky on the afternoon of
Aug. 28, some eight hours after
the Elrod sisters were found in
their bedroom by another
sister. He waived extradition
and was brought back to Chat
tooga on Aug. 29.
' SUMMERVILLE. CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1988
(Farmers Home Administra
tion) loan. That certainly will
help things move along.”
The hospital Authority
sought a 90-day extension to
its certificate of need late last
year when it appeared obvious
that construction couldn’t
start on the $1.4-million nurs
ing home addition by the
March 19 deadline.
The Authority is still com
pleting work on its loan ap
;)lication to the FmHA and
ederal officials held out little
hope that the nursing home
could meet the March geadline
because of the work remaining
at that time on the loan
proposal.
“Well, Lord! That's just
great,”’ said Katherine Camp,
chairman of the Authority.
“We can go ahead then, can't
we! Surely, surely, we can have
something by then (the new
deadline of June 19).”
“REALLY GLAD”
“I'm really glad that they
did (extend the deadline),” said
Sherry Bishop, an Authority
member who has devoted much
of her time to guiding the
FmHA application through the
regixired steps. *'l thought they
(SHPA) would but the way
things have gone the last year,
I was afraid to say I thought
they would.” -
The hospital was originally
given a one-year certificate of
HEARINGS
Several hearings have been
held in the case, in compliance
with Georgia’s unified appeals
Frocess. One hearing was held
ast Friday afternoon to hear
evidence about pre-trial
publicity.
Roland Enloe, Jarrells’ lead
attorney, Wednesday submit
ted three affidavits f}x,"om local
residents describing their
views on community attitudes
about the case. Five local at
torneys also signed affidavits
saying they believed Jarrells
couldn’t get a fair jury trial in
Chattooga, Enloe said.
A four-inch stack of com
puter printouts was also
entered into evidence Wednes
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need in the fall, 1986. However,
when it appeared apparent that
the deadline couldn't be met for
getting construction under
way, the Authority successful
ly sought a six-month exten
sion to March 19. SHPA told
hospital officials at the time
that it would be the only exten
sion that it would grant for the
project.
But when the Authority
learned that efforts to speed a
Trion Elects 2
New Councilmen,
Williams Mayor
One-third of Trion's
registered voters went to the
polls despite a massive winter
storm last week and elected a
new mayor, recorder and two
councilmen while defeating an
incumbent member of the
council.
As expected, veteran Trion
Councilman Hoyt Williams
was elected mayor. He will suc
ceed Mayor J. C. Woods, who
announced last year that he
wouldn't seek reelection.
Williams was also the top vote
getter with 197 ballots.
A total of 233 of 732
registered voters cast ballots in
the election, although snow
and sleet, whipped by a steady
wind, fell during most of last
Thursday, Jan. % “I was real
ly proud of that turnout,” said
Mayor Woods.
RESULTS
Incumbent Councilman
Roy Bowers was defeated and
newcomers Dale McCollum
and Frank ‘‘Skipper’’ Stewart
were elected to t%e Council. In
cumbents Dwight Arden and
Henry Miller Jr. were
reelected. McCollum was
elected to complete the remain
ing two years of Williams'
Council term. Williams had
resigned his post to run for
mayor when Woods said he
wouldn't seek reelection.
Meanwhile, Randy Mitchell
was elected city recorder, fill
ing the unexpired term of
Ricky Bowers, who moved out
of Trion and resigned his post
late last year.
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LITTLE ARMUCHEE CREEK AT TIDINGS TU#NED INTQ WINTER WONDERLAND
Most Chattooga Residents Were Home-Bound By Heavy Snow, Sleet
decision on the FmHA lcan
would not be successful, it
directed Mrs. Wollstein to seek
a 90-day extension from SHPA
early last December.
The hospital Tuesday was
awaiting arrival of a financial
feasibility study on the project
from ifts auditor, Doug
Faircloth of the Albany ac
counting firm of Draffin and
Tucker. The study is part of
see STATE GRANTS, page 14-A
cedures, the top: vote-getting
candidates for political posts
are elected. No runoff is held if
a candidate fails to gain a ma
jority of the votes cast.
RECORDER .
Mitchell received 130 votes
to defeat Jess Emory with 101
votes for the recorger's post.
see TRION ELECTS, page 9-A
Effects Of Snowstorm
Linger In Chattooga
Weather forecasters made
believers of Chattooga County
residents last Thursday, Jan. 7,
as a massive winter storm bar
reled into Northwest Georgia,
dumping up to 10 inches of
snow and sleet and plunging
temperatures to six degrees.
Effects of the snow lingered in
the county at midweek.
Forecasters said consistent
lé' before the storm hit that the
hattooga area, along with
many other parts of Georgia,
would be hit with at least four
inches of snow. Forecasters in
Alabama also forecast sleet for
the northeastern part of that
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SNOW-COVERED FENCE CURVES GRACEFULLY ALONG KIRBY STREET
Sleet, Snow Immobilized Much Of Chattooga County
state. Both were correct.
PRE-DAWN
Snow began falling during
the Ere-dawn hours of Jan. 7
and by daybreak, three to four
inches of the white stuff had
blanketed the ground, streets
and highways. It kept snowing
throughout most otp the morn
ing, changing to sleet shortly
before noon. Sleet continued to
pelt the area that afternoon as
temperatures remained in the
teens and lower 20s.
Eight and one-half inches of
snow fell at The News on Rome
Boulevard. Ralph Willingham,
Powell Warns Paper
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Back Berryton Road, recorded
the same amount. About a foot
of snow and sleet fell atop
Lookout Mountain while about
10 inches covered the top of
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Taylors Ridge. Miss Blanche
’l‘o{es, Menlo, recorded 10%2 in
ches of snow at her hilltop
home.
Streets and roads had
become almost impassable by
early afternoon on Jan. 7 and
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even vehicles with tire chains
had difficulty on some steep
stretches. Because of the %:
ing effect, some four-wheel
drive trucks couldn't make it
up some steep hills in the area.
SOLID ICE
Crews had f.diffi;cul:fi
because snow and sleet fi
faster than streets conlsflobe
cleared in most areas. Some
streets and roads became pack
ed with several inches of solid
ice, turning back all attempts
to remove the coating.
Because the sleet and snow
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