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Honest Cop Wins Optimist Award
Ron Turner, third from left, standing,
chief investigator for the Chattooga Coun
ty Sheriff's Department, received the
“Law Enforcement Officer of the Year”
award last Friday from the Summerville-
Trion Optimist Club. Following the arrest
of two suspected drug dealers in early
April who purportedly wanted Turner to
protect their operation and allegedly tried
to bribe him with drugs and severa}, thou
sand dollars, Sheriff Gary McConnell, left,
Hazardous Dumps May Be Cleaned Up
A site in Walker County
where hazardous waste was
dumped in the 1970 s could
soon be added to the govern
ment’s national priority list of
dum'lps that neecP to be cleaned
up. There are also three hazar
dous waste dumps in Polk
County being considered for
the list.
Belsicol Chemical Co., Chat
tanooga, Tenn., dumped the
residue from manufacturin
herbicides in the Mathis Lantf
fill at Kensington in Walker
from about 19%4 until 1980, a
spokesman for Georgia's En
vironmental Protection Divi
sion (EPD) said.
The three dumps in Polk
County contain slag residues
from smelting the %ead from
recovered batteries, as well as
fungicides, alcohols, metallic
wastes, and other chemicals,
said John Taylor, chief of
EPD’'s Land Protection
Branch.
SAFE
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‘Trade Day’ Brings Vendors From Alabama, Chattanooga And China
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DUANE CLEMONES SELLS MORE DIXIE FLAGS
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INDISTINGT PRINT
told The News that ‘“Ron Turner is an
honest cop.”” Glen Ezell, president of the
Optimist Club, said the cfub tries to give
the award to a local officer who has serv
ed his community to the best of his abili
ty during the last year. The award was
presented by Optimist Eddy Ellenburg,
right. Tony Jones, president-elect of the
club, is seated. (Staff Photo By Rich
Jefferson).
No Sites Reported In Chattooga County
fiose any immediate danger to
ealth and safety of individuals
or to the environment,” Taylor
said. Four other sites have also
been proi)osed for the national
priority list, Taylor said.
“If these areas are added to
the Environmental Protection
Agency's (EPA) ‘Superfund’
list, highly detailed investiga
tions will [‘;e made on each one,
and these investigations will
determine whether corrective
a‘(::ltion and cleanup are need
ed.
EVALUATIONS
The EPD, in conjunction
with the EPA, a federal agen
cy, conducted evaluations and
assessments of the identified
sites.
EPD has concluded they
are probably eligible to be plac
ed on the national priority list,
which consists of a list of
Superfund sites considered to
be the nation's areas in most
need of cleanup. The final deci
sion on whether or not each site
will be placed on the NPL rests
Thursday, June 9, 1988
with the EPA, which manages
the Superfund.
Mathis Landfill is the site
closest to Chattooga Countif,
and the three locations in Polk
County are the next closest. No
sites were named in Chattooga
according to the news release
from the EPD.
By identifying these eight
sites for possible addition to
the Superfund, EPD has in
itiated a irocess required by
law to make sure that federal
monies may be available to
clean up fotentiallx dangerous
areas before any negative ef
fect on human health or the en
vironment occurs.
Even though there is no im
mediate threat to the popula
tion surrounding the dumps
they do need to be cleaned up,
Taylor said. “If there was a
threat, we'd go in and clean it
up right away,” he said.
The dumping at the Mathis
Landfill has not led to ground
water contamination, Taylor
said, but there has been a small
You Can Get Anything You Want At Chattooga’s Flea Market
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Fiery orange sunlight filters
through the pine trees on
Taylors Rid?e, pushing u? the
hazy gray-blue canopy of sky
drooping over Chattooga Coun
ty. The light shoots across
Highway 27 where early mor
nin%( motorists are driving to
work.
The dry, crunching sound of
automobif; tires moving slow
ly in gravel parkini lot will
soon be replaced by the sounds
of vendors talking, customers
bickering and the strains of
countr:ly music ;l)layed on a
radio. Thin dust clouds hang in
the still air, catching the first
rays of the sun.
When Howard Eaton gets
to the Trade Day parking lot at
6:30 on Tuesc{ay mornings,
most of the vendors have arriv
ed and found their spots. Many
of those who have somethinfi
to sell come from Alabama an
Chattanooga, Tenn. Most of
the bu&'ers come from Chat
tooga County.
PARKING
“lt's a lot of headaches,”
said Eaton, who has overseen
the parking lot for about a
month. ‘“They want to park up
under that shade tree, but
that’s a driveway.” Trade Day
customers always seem to
want to Fark in an area that
must be left o‘ren for through
traffic, he said.
Once you find a place to
park, you can find just about
anythin% g'ou want at this flea
market. If you want to buy it,
somebody wants to sell it.
TRUCK
One man wanted to buy a
pickup truck with a for sale
1-B
State School Board May Approve QCC
A policy for standardizing
curriculum in every public
school system across the state
of Georgia could be a;a)roved
this week when the Georgia
Board of Education meets in
Atlanta.
%uality Care Curriculum,
iQC ), is a statewide, uniform
y sequenced curriculum which
requires all gublic school
systems to teach the same sub
jlgcts at the same grade level.
he Georgia Department of
Education says it is a way to
assure that students have
egual opportunity to a quality
education regardless of the
schools they attend.
GOOD IDEA
Don Hayes, superintendent
of Chattooga County schools,
said he felt such a ‘‘unified cur
riculum idea’’ was a good one.
Now, if a student is taking a
course in American history in
one system and transfers to
another where American
history is usually taught at an
earlier grade level, the student
will never finish the course, in
Hayes said.
Bill Kinzy, superintendent
amount of surface water con
tamination, as well as some
contamination to local springs.
The contamination however,
has not reached a dangerous
level, Taylor said. Cleanups
have been going well for tKe
last several years, he said.
Although the EPA has
primary responsibility for
managing the cleanup and en
forcement activities under
Superfund, the state EPD has
played an active role in perfor
ming site assessment studies
at more than 450 sites in
Georgia, Taylor said.
Prompt corrective action to
guarantee timely cleanups of
many sites has been successful
because of EPD’s use of its
legal authority under the
Georgia Hazardous Waste
Management Act.
RECORDS
“EPD, in conjunction with
the EPA, has systemically
searched archive records and
previous hazardous waste
disposal reports of industry to
sign in the window. “‘lf it ain’t
got air, I'm not too interested,”
he said. ‘“They could try and
sell me a pickup at Christmas
time with snow on the fround
but if it ain't got air I don’t
want it. I'm too old for that.”
Most shoppers don't go to
Trade Day looking for big
ticket items such as trucks.
That does not limit the varie
ty. Rolls of carpet, hoes,
shovels, candles, antique
whiskey bottles, garden plants,
cassette music tapes, tee
shirts, rebel and Rmerican
flags, bicycles, golf clubs, thh
chairs, towels, couches, kiln
fired clay fiiurines, eggrolls,
antique watches, beat up wat
ches that look like antiques,
and mounds of children's
clothes can all be found
somewhere in the parking lot
at Trade Day.
SHOPPING
Ralph Humphrey, a retired
man from Chattanooga, said he
thinks it’s a great pface to let
the wife fio shopping. ‘‘She
can't make you go broke
around here,” he saicf The best
bargain may be the clothes.
Some haven't even been worn.
The{ were purchased and left
in the drawer, but now they
won't fit anyone in the family.
Gaethlee Cline, Trion,
brought boxes of her children’s
clothes to the parking lot on
Saturday, the other day the
flea market operates. She said
that every once in a while she
cleans her house and gets ‘‘rid
of a bunch of stuff.”” Saturda
is a better day for some woul(i
be vendors because none of the
K/larking spots is reserved then.
any spots are reserved on
Tuesdays.
Although most of what she
sells was used by her children,
and often ‘‘they hate to see it
go,” she said. ““But when you
give them the money from it,
everything's fine. You sort of
make a deal. I'd rather let peo-
Features/News
Local Educators Say Standardization Good Idea
of Trion schools, echoed Hayes’
comments. ‘“The QCC is trying
to standardize curriculum so
students won't miss certain
subjects,” Kinzy said. He
pointed to Georgia history,
which is now taught at dif
ferent grade levels, accordinfi
to the wishes at each schoo
system.
Kinzy also said standar
dization would help students
who transfer from one system
to another.
REGIONAL DIRECTOR
An official from the state
Department of Education
1D8E) who spoke to the
Summerville-Trion Ortimist
Club two weeks ago also had
high praise for the idea of stan
dardized QCC. The state school
board’s aggroval of such a
policy would make it easier for
students to move from school
system to school system
without missing any necessary
class work, said Gene Norton,
regional director for Northwest
GeorEia.
The policy was scheduled to
have been fhyscussed Wednes
day afternoon when the entire
identify sites in Geolrgia which
may contain some quantitites
of hazardous substances,”
Taylor said.
“Most of the 450 sites
evaluated were found to have
little or no impact on the en
vironment or risk to the public.
The majority of these sites
which were of concern to EPD
have been cleaned up because
companies came forward to ask
EPlg's help to approve volun
tary corrective action plans. To
date more than 125 such sites
‘have been cleaned up, resulting
in the removal of over 60,000
tons of hazardous wastes.”
Currently, Georgia has four
sites on the Slgerfund national
?riority list. Owners of these
our sites as well as the eight
proposed sites have spent, in
some cases, millions otp dollars
to conduct corrective actions.
EPA superfund monies are not
likely to be committed to clean
up such sites unless owners
refuse to cooperate with the
EPA, Taylor said.
ple have a deal than throw any
of it away.”
EGGROLLS
Another man- came from
Hunan Province, Mainland
China, by way of Dalton, to sell
eggrolls. His name is Steve
Huang, and he runs the Hunan
Wok restaurant in Dalton. He
said he comes to Summerville
every Tuesday. Huang charges
$1 for 10 fortune cookies. He'll
sell you one for a dime.
Huang has been in America
for eight years. He fought
against Mao and the Com
munists in the late 1940 s and
fled to Taiwan with Chiang
Kai-shek when the Com
munists gained control of the
mainland.
“The Communists try to
change China but they just
can't doit,” Huan% said. “The
Japanese tried to, but now it's
jll‘]St like they were never there.
he Chinese people are stub
born. Mao was crazy. They
said he was great land reformer
but he was a radical. He left
China in a mess.”
NICE PLACE
Huang worked in a
restaurant in Washington,
D. C., when he came to this
country, then in Northern
Virginia and Cleveland, Tenn.
“I'm just trying to find a nice
place,”’ he said. ‘“This is a nice
place. With four seasons, not
too hot, not too cold. Taiwan is
too hot and wet, like south
Florida.”
According to Ron Bales,
another retiree from Chat
tanoog}z: who frequents Trade
Day, the best part about the
whole day is not sellinilbut
watching. ““The biggest things
is watching the le. You see
all kinds and mgnds of at
titudes,’’ he said.
see ‘'TRADE DAY', page 2-B
state school board met. Com
mittee meetings were schedul
ed for Wednesday morning,
said a spokesman f):)r the state
school goard.
VOTE
The board was not schedul
ed to vote on QCC until this
morning. The spokesman said
the QCE does standardize cur
riculum across the state, but
that the policy would not dic
tate to school systems what
textbooks they could choose.
“The point is not to bring
down those systems that are
doing well,” she said. ‘*“The pur
pose is to bring up the quagity
of systems that are not doing
such a good job.”
Nothing in the state’s cur
riculum policy re%:ires all
school systems to on the
same page of a given textbook
on any specific day of teaching,
she said.
ROGERS
According to Werner
Rogers, state school
superintendent, the QCC is
based on The Basic Curriculum
Content for Georgia's Public
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Margaret Moody has been a public
school teacher for 38 years, ams 31 of
those years were spent in Trion City
schools. She said sge particularly en
joyed teaching first graders ‘‘because
you can just see the learning taking
place.” After 38 years of welcoming a
new class to school this coming
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STEVE HUANG SELLS ANOTHER EGGROLL TO HUNGRY CUSTOMER
Huang Comes From Dalton Every Tuesday ;
Schools, which has been in
school systems for several
years. QC?('J includes the recom
mendations of a statewide ad
visorg' committee composed of
teachers, school ad
ministrators, parents, leaders
of business, industry and
government. r
More than a year ago draft
copies of the document were
distributed to school systems
education organizations and
other %’oups. Accordinf to
Curtis Dixon, director of the
General Instruction Division of
the Georgia DOE, more than
17,000 responses were received
and evaluated as the basis for
revisions.
PREVIOUS MEET
At last month’s meeting,
the board authorized the state
school superintendent to con
tract with Georgia State
University and Georgia Center
for Continuing Education to
conduct the “Georgia Institute
for the Preparation of
Teachers: An Alternative
Education Teacher Program
for Mathematics, Science and
Foreign Language College
38 Years Of Service
August will certainly be different.
When asked what she plans to do,
Mrs. Moody responded, “‘Anything I
want to!”’ Mrs. Moody's students and
some of their ;l)arents gave her a going
away party last Friday afternoon.
(Photo By Rich Jefferson).
Graduates.”
The funds for this Wm
will come from S3OO, ap-
E;oprinted b{ the 1988 Georgia
gislature for alternative cer
tification programs.
INSTITUTE
The e(iight-week institute
will be held during the summer
and will be followed by a year
iong internship under the
supervision of a mentor teacher
in accordance with the state
board-adopted program outline
for alternative certification.
Generally, the plan will allow
persons with liberal arts
degrees to teach math, science
and foreign languages without
having to have traditional
teacher education courses.
Instead, they will complete
an intensive summer training
program to learn skills they
will need in order to teach in
the classroom. Theiealso will
be re?uired to 'Fass the Teacher
Certification Test and the on
the-job assessment.
CONTRACTS
Persons going through the
see ‘STATE SCHOOL', page 2-B