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Little Charlie Bullard, 4/2 months, seems
to be telling his father, Steve, ‘“Hey pops,
if you don’t like your Father’s Day git}t) a
little early, just give it back and I'll give
it to you on Sunday.” Charlie and his
Oak View Project
Begins This Week
Contract Signed Tuesday Evening
What was only a dream
four years ago was to begin
taking shape this week in front
of Oxfi( View Nursing Home.
And it went down to the wire
before it became reality.
Actual construction on a
63-bed addition to the facility
was scheduled to start
Wednesday or today.
John R. Fones, president of
Tri-City Construction Co. Inc.,
LaFayette, and Katherine
Camp, chairman of the Chat
tooia County Hospital
Authority, signed the contract
for the project late Tuesday
afternoon.
Fones told the Authority
Summerville Bypass Meet
Set Tuesday In Atlanta
A proposed U. S. Highway
27 bypass around Summerville
will be reviewed at a meetin
called by the Environmentafi
Location office of the Georgia
Department of Transportation
next Tuesday in Atlanta.
Chattooga County Commis
sioner Harry Powell revealed
Tuesday that he had been in
vited to a meeting of the
DOT'’s concept team to review
the proposal and discuss the
project’s schedule.
Other local officials have
also been invited to the hear
ing, which will be held at 1:30
%om in the DOT’s Aerial Lab
nference Room at the Fulton
County Airport, 3993 Aviation
@h ' Summeruille News
‘Here’s Your Gift, Dad’
that he would begin work
Wednesday or togay. The
ganel had until next Sunday to
ave construction materials
Official groundbreaking
ceremonies for the Oak
View addition have been
scheduled for 10 a.m. Fri
day, June 24. The public is
invited.
and equipment on the site or it
would lose the certificate of
need for the project issued by
the State Health Planning
Cir., Atlanta. The notifications
were mailed out by Frank L.
Danchetz, state DOT
environmental-location engi
neer.
DISAPPOINTED
Summerville Mayor Sewell
Cash said Wednesday that he
was disaFminted in the ap
garent plan by the DOT to
uild the bypass before the
U.S. 27 widening project is
completed from Russell Air
port to Summerville.
He also indicated his
unhappiness with Chattooga
Rep. John Crawford and 53rd
Dist. Sen. Waymond *‘Sonny”’
Huggins for what he said was
mom, Mary “K. K.” will join thousands
of Chattooga Countians this weekend in
honoring dad on his special day of the
year. The Bullards resi& on Summerville
Rte. 2. (Staff Photo).
Agency (SHPA).
Sherry Bisho% a member of
the Authority who, along with
Mrs. Camp, sEearheaded ef
forts during the last several
months to make sure the pro
ject came to fruition, gave
Fones a notice to proceed with
the project immediately after
the contract signing at the
hospital.
Tri-City had submitted a
low bid 0fy51,241,000 for the
project, which will boost the
number of beds at Oak View
from 90 to 153. The completion
date is 240 calendar dgys or
probably sometime next
see OAK VIEW, page 16-A
their failure to be more ag
gressive in seeking the widen
ing of U. S. 27 all the way into
Summerville.
MAP
A mai)l dated May, 1988
shows that the proposed
bypass would begin atop
Taylors Ridge, travel nor
thward down the west side of
the mountain and parallel the
east side of Penn le)'idge Road
to near Selmans Lake and then
travel west roughly along
Spring Creek Roag toU. S. 27
northeast of Trion.
Tom Moreland, former
DOT commissioner, had said
see SUMMERVILLE, page 16-A
© Copyright 1988 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc. — All Rights Reserved
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1988
Marijuana Raids
--See Page 11-A
Group Demands More Black
Teachers Be Hired In Chattooga
Look For Qualifications, Not Color, Says Board Chairman
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Black teachers ought to be
hired by the Chattooga Coun
ty Board of Education to pro
vide role models for bEnck
students, a local minsiter told
the Board Monday night. The
panel has been guilty of
nepotism and unfair hiring
practices, he said.
“You hire your friends and
Joint Recreation Board, Council
Meet To Discuss Black Problems
Activities For Children, Restrooms May Top Agenda |
A joint meeting of the Sum
merville City Council and
Recreation Board has been set
for 7 Y.m. next Monday to hear
complaints by black residents
that their children don’t have
adequate facilities or programs
at Fairway Recreation Center
in North gummerville.
The session will be held at
the Bolling Road Recreation
Center.
Members of the Council
voted Monday night to set the
meeting after some 40 black
residents crowded into city hall
to express their complaints
about recreation and ot?her ci
ty services. They attended the
June meeting of the Chattooga
Board of Education later Mon
day evening (see related story).
MINISTER
They were led by Joel
Brown, minister of West Fifth
Street church of Christ, and
Jesse Mann, a North Summer
ville resident and member of
the Summerville Recreation
Board.
The group wasn't deman
ding or attempting to coerce
the Council, Nf‘r. Brown said,
but was seeking cooperation
with the city for “‘a new begin
mnii”
rs. Mann said she asked
at last week's Recreation
Board meeting why there
weren't any activities at the
Fairway park. She was told,
Mrs. Mann said, that it wasn’t
possible to get teams to play on
the Fairway field because of
the neighborhood.
Funds were in the recrea
tion budget for restrooms for
Fairway, she said, but were
deleted as ‘‘unfeasible’” at a
Recreation Board meeting she
couldn’t attend due to a broken
ankle. The monies were being
used for things other than the
Fairway project, she asserted.
ACTIVITIES
If the restrooms aren't
feasible, Mrs. Mann said, some
recreational activities should
be worked out for children of
the North Summerville area.
Councilman Ira Pollard, the
only black member of the
Council, said he had worked for
installation of new restrooms
at Fairway and didn't intend to
give up his fight for the
acilities.
Mayor Sewell Cash said the
Council doesn't control recrea
tion programs directly, noting
that onlg' the Recreation Boar
could determine what pro
grams are initiated. The Coun
cil apfproves funds for recrea
tion for the entire city, Cash
said, and the monies are ad
ministered bf‘,' the recreation
ganel, whether for Bolling
oad, Fairway or both.
Bids for the restrooms were
your children. We pay taxes,
too, and we want black
teachers hired,”” said Joel
Brown, minster of the Fifth
Street church of Christ. “We
want insurance from this board
that there'll be black teachers
hired. The board must consider
opening positions.”
Brown was speaking for
several counti; residents who
Monday night packed the
school board offices on Bolling
Road.
CITY MEET
One hour before the school
$25,000, Cash said, and the
Council thought they were too
high. Some $16,000 was left in
the budget for the project and
the Council may acl)d the addi
tional SIO,OOO in July after it
reviews any ‘‘left over” funds
from the current fiscal year, he
added.
Water Conservation Asked
Raccoon Creek, Spring Levels Already Low
City of Summerville water
customers Monday night were
asked to voluntarily begin con
serving water because of
drouiht conditions throughout
Northwest Georgia.
Although the state of
Georgia hasn't yet ordered the
city to begin a mandatory
water use reduction (Frogram,
the cit mana%elzr said, the cur
rent flought as already af
fected Summerville's two
water sources as badly as if it
were late summer, 1986 and
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City Crews Installed Another Eight Inches On Dam, Plugged Leaks In Facility
board convened, Brown's
groug filed into a meeting of
the Summerville City Council
to demand that new restrooms
be installed at Fairway I\fi)a.x'k.
Mrs. Jesse Mann, a North
Summerville resident, asked
Brown to be the spokesman for
the group, Brown told the
News in an interview Tuesday
evening. (See related story).
Brown said he did not know
the county school board was
meeting Monday night until
after he spoke to the Council,
when he was asked to go with
the group to the board
Cash said he was opposed
to building a new ballgeld at
the Bolling Road complex, say
ing that glayers could use the
Fairway field. If they refuse to
use that facility, the mayor
said, ‘‘they can go find them a
place somewhere else.”
Mrs. Mann read minutes of
1987.
PERMIT
The city has a water
withdrawal permit of
3.75-million gallons per day
from Raccoon Creek,
McCalmon told the Council,
and a withdrawal permit of
700,000 gallons per day from
Lowe Spring.
The city on Monday
withdrew 3.25-million from
Raccoon Creek, he said, and ap
proximately 360,000 gallons
Powell Retirement
.-See Page 4-A
meeting.
“I wouldn’t send my kids to
these public schools because
they're so disorganized,”’
Brown told the board. He said
Tuesday evening that he and
his wife were expecting their
first child.
SKIN COLOR
Joel Cook, chairman of the
board, said the board, which
does the official hiring of
teachers, does not know the
skin color of an individual
when he or she is recommend
ed by the superintendent.
the Recreation Board meeting
that she couldn’t attend where
the vote was unanimous to re
ject the restroom project as
‘‘unfeasible.”
Cash said the Council could
bypass the Recreation Board
on capital improvements and
build restrooms at Fairway if
from Lowe Spring.
However, McCalmon said
A state day of prayer for
rain has been called for Fri
day by Gov. Joe Frank Har
ris, it was announced at
Monday night's meeting of
the Summerville City Coun
cil.
after the meeting, both the
creek and the spring are
PRICE 25°
“Wait a minute,” said
Brown, “gou‘re getting into a
racial problem here . . . our kids
need role models. The board
needs to enooura%f principals
to hire black teachers.”
COLOR BLIND
Cook stood to shake
Brown'sfhand and to thank tll:e
rou or coming to the
rgneetglg. “We nee% to say
‘teachers,” not black or white
teachers,”” Cook said.
Don Hayes, superintendent
of Chattooga County Schools,
see GROUP DEMANDS, page 9-A
it so chooses. He also noted
that the 1988-89 fiscal year
budget contains some $2,000
to pay for a police officer to be
stationed at either park when
an organized recreation activi
ty is under way.
She hasn’t noted any pro
see JOINT RECREATION, page 9-A
already about as low as they
were during late summer of
last year and in 1986. The city
can't withdraw any more water
from the spring because its
level has droppefi dramatically
due to the dry weather, the ci
ty manager said.
The city on Saturday and
Sunda pumped about
1.8-milfi'on gallons of water
from the creek, McCalmon
said, but the amount increased
dramatically Monday when in
see WATER, page 9-A