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VOLUME CIII - NUMBER XXIII
Fairway Restrooms Get
Nod From City Counecil
Candidates Put On Spot About County Aid
Summerville City officials
indicated Tuesday nifht that
they plan to build new
restrooms at Fairway Recrea
tion Center and would serious
ly consider demands for other
improvements in the area by
some 50 black residents.
At least two members of
the Summerville City Council
expressed reservations about
the need for the restrooms but
they were outpolled by other
Councilmen in an informal
show of hands. The meeting
had been scheduled for Mon
day ni%ht originally but was
changed to Tuesday.
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Staff Photo By Buddy Roberts
SCHOOL SUPT. DON HAYES (L) EXPLAINS HIRING PRACTICES
Joel Brown (C), Board Chairman Joel Cook Listen
County BOE Adopts
sl2-Million Budget
Sales Tax Revenue To Increase
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
A tentative 1988-89 budget
of $12,221,956 was adopted
Monday night by the (filat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion. This proposed budget is
about $1.3-mifiion more than
the budget proposed last year
at this time, which was for
$10.9-million. i
~ School Superintendent Don
Hayes warned the board that
every item on the budget need-
Oak View Groundbreaking
Ceremonies Friday Morning At Nursing Home
Work has officially started
on the $1.47-million addition to
Oak View Nursing Home and
residents of Chattooga Count,
have been invited to groum?Z
breaking ceremonies for the
project at 10 a.m. Friday.
Members of the Chattooga
Hospital Authority, which also
owns and operates the nursing
home, are expected to be pre
sent at the ceremony, along
with local officials.
Refreshments will be served in
the hospital lobby following
the program. !
GRADING
Grading work started at the
end of last week, just a few
Textile Slowdown?
--See Page 1-B
@ Summeruille News
REQUEST
Before the meeting ended,
city officials had encouraged
the black residents to ask all
candidates for Chattooga
County commissioner to put
county funds into the city
recreation program. Mayor
Sewell Cash noted that 76 per
cent of the recreation pro
gram'’s participants are non
city residents.
Minister Joel Brown, who
served as spokesmen for what
he called the Concerned
Citizens Organization (CCO),
said the group planned to ask
ed to be examined carefully
because of the difficulty in
changing the budget under the
Quality Basic Education Act.
LOCAL MONEY
The budget calls for
$2,283,558 in %ocal revenue, a
decrease of about $66,000 com
pared to last year’s anticipated
revenue, which totaled
$2,350,477. ) o
Local revenue is mostly
made ug of property and sales
tax. This year's anticipated
property taxes are estimated at
$1,029,344 while last year's
total was $1,171,500. That is a
decrease of more than
days ahead of last Sunday’s
deadline for gettin%l construc
tion under way on the massive
project.
Tri-City Construction Co.
Inc., LaFayette, submitted the
low bid 0fy51,241,000 on the
?roject. The $229,000 dif
erence between the bid and the
total amount of funds available
for the Eroject will be used to
eqt;ilp the nursing home, pay
legal and architectural fees and
interest on the commercial in
terim construction loan.
CONTRACT
The Authority and John
Fones Eresident of Tri-City
signed he construction con-
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1988
each candidate for his views on
recreation and other issues.
Jim Parker, a Democrat, and
Fondren Wright, a Republican,
were the only two commission
candidates at Tuesday night’s
meeting.
RESULTS
Following are results of the
joint meeting of the Council
and the Summerville Recrea
tion Board with the black
delegation:
* The Council agreed infor
mally on a 3-2 show of hands to
builg new restrooms at Fair
way. Councilmen Guinn
$140,000; la:ggrear’s sales tax
was anticipated to be $850,000,
this year's is expected to be
$950,000.
Also on the revenue side of
the ledger, a total of $7,192,759
in state funds is expected, an
increase of more than $300,000
beyond last year’s $6,885,574.
Federal funding will contribute
$1,029,831 this year, an in
crease of almost $73,000 more
than last year's $957,004.
TRANSFER
A total of $600,000 will be
transferred from the property
tax fund if the board approves
see COUNTY, page 8-A
tract on June 14 and Fones was
given a notice to proceed with
the project. Grading started
later in the week.
The Froject is being financ
ed by a longterm loan %rom the
federal Farmers Home Ad
ministration (FmHA). Con
struction financing is beinfi
provided bK the First Nation
Bank of C attooia County.
Construction had to start
on the project by last Sunday,
under terms of conditions set
down by the Authority's cer
tificate of need, issued by the
State Health Planning Agency
(SHPA). It was first issued in
the late summer, 1986 and has
see OAK VIEW, page 8-A
Drought Bakes County
--See Page 7-A
© Copyright 1988 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc. — All Rights Reserved
Hankins and Phil Cavin
dissented. Cavin exglained
later that he wanted to hear the
remainder of the CCO’s
demands before voting on any
issue. He said he'd probably
vote for the restrooms at the
Council’s July 11 meeting.
Cost estimates on the project
are likely at that time.
* Mayor Cash said the
Council would consider any
Recreation Board recommen
dation for:
— Longer opening hours at
Fairway.
— Improving the surface of
see FAIRWAY, page 8-A
Nepotism Charged To Schools
By RICH JEFFERSON'
Staff Writer
In a near repeat of a con
frontation on June 13, several
black members of the Chat
tooga County community
charged Monday night that the
county board ofy education does
not want to hire black school
teachers, even when qualified
black candidates apply for
open positions.
NEPOTISM
Joel Brown, a church of
Christ minister, reiterated his
charge of nepotism, saying
that those who make recom
mendations for hiring teachers
in Chattooga propose family
members and giends.
“If the board will not help
us we'll use other means to
bring about positive results,”
said Brown. Brown is the
minister at Summerville's
Fifth Street church of Christ
and the chief spokesman for a
group that calls itself the *“Con
cerned Citizens’ Organization.”
Monday night's board
meeting was cafied to review
budget proposals for the 1989
fiscal year. At June's regular
ly scheduled meeting the week
before, Brown asked the board
and Superintendent Don
Hayes why more black
teachers were not hired in the
system.
RACE ISSUE
“We don't want a race pro
blem here and we don’t want it
to turn into a race problem,”
Brown told Hayes and the
board. ‘‘But last week it was
‘where are the qualified ap
plicants?’ and now it’s ‘we hire
in the system.’ But we're not in
the system.”
The week before, Hayes
told Brown that recent teacier
applications are kept on file at
his office. When a principal has
an opening, the principal goes
through the file and recom
mends the person he thinks
would best fill the open
position.
PRINCIPALS
“I leave those decisions to
the grincipals. They are
qualified to make those deci
sions. Often the principal will
look first to his staff because
his staff knows what's going
on in the school. New teacher
evaluations take a long time
and he’s going to want to take
some short cuts,” Hayes told
Brown.
One white woman spoke up
and told Brown that what he
was asking was like a group
demanding that more whites
be added to the varsity basket
ball team because they are
under-represented. She said
companies often promote from
within, iiving preference to
those who know the inner
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Minister Demands That County Hire Black Educators
workings of the business to
those that otherwise seem
mere qualified.
“You're in the company and
we're not,” Brown retorted. “‘lf
you need to reorganize your
policy, then you need to con
sider doing that,” he told
Hayes.
Brown had with him the ap
glication of a black woman who
e said wants to work in the
Chattooga school system.
Brown said the teacher will be
receiving her master’s degree
from acksonville State
University in Alabama within
a month, and she has Georgia
certification as a megza
specialist, or librarian.
The woman, Brown
reported, had applied for an
open position as a librarian at
Summerville Elementary, but
was told by the rinciPal that
the position had%een illed by
another teacher.
“If you are recommending
another teacher in the system,
that leaves us out,” Brown
GPA C(Cites The News At Convention
The Summerville News has
been recognized as one of the
top weekly newspapers in
Georgia in the areas of com
munity service and local news
coverage.
The awards were presented
last Friday evening at the an
nual Georgia Press Assn.
(GPA) convention on Jekyll
Island. AcceEting the awards
were Gene Espy, publisher,
and David Espy, general
manager. They are co-owners
of The News.
“Thorough in-depth survey
funded by newspaper exposed
the problem of school
dropouts,’ said the judges in
awarding the third place award
to The News. ‘“‘Led to
measurable results. The series
thoroughly defined the pro
blem through illustrations.
Good interviews.”’
The judges were especially
impressed with the
newspaper’s dedication to local
news coverage, which also
received thirfi place in the
statewide contest. o
“Wow! One issue of this
newspaper contained almost 30
pieces of governmental news —
and over 75 pictures. That’s
‘covering a community' —
thrown in with it is a light, fac
tual style of reporting which
throws the meat at the reader,
first, and follows through with
enough ‘potatoes’ to make an
SUMMERVILLE BEAUTIES MISS APRIL CHADWICK (L), MRS. LINDA McGUIRE ENJOY POOL "™
Adults, Youngsters Tan, Cool Off At Summerville Pool; See More Photos Page 10-A
*IN COMPANY”
LEFT OUT
Local Coverage,
IN-DEPTH
said. ‘‘You are moving a lady
out of her field, where she has
to take 10 hours this summer
to be certified as a media
sgecialist. Now you've got one
that's gilalified. Now that does
not make sense.” g
Mike Poole, principal at
Summerville Elementary, told
The Summerville News late
Wednesday afternoon that he
had been contacted by Brown’s
:Eplicant, only after he had
eady made a commitment to
third grade teacher Linda
Dillard to move her into the
librarian’s position.
VETERAN
Mrs. Dillard has been at
Summerville Elementary for at
least 10 years, Poole said. The
current librarian, Suzann
Lanier, has taken a maternity
leave of absence. Poole said he
knew in April he needed to fill
the position. After reviewing a
few applications, he chose
Dillar(P gecause she wanted to
move on and wanted to work
on her master's degree.
Poole said the commitment
to Mrs. Dillard for the job was
see NEPOTISM, page 8-A
Community Service Praised By Judges
excellent weekly newspaper
menu for every reader’s diet.
Best of luck in the future.”
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Owners Cited For Community Service, News Coverage
Bypass In 1991
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Community Blood Drive
Slated Next Wednesday
The quarterly community blood drive for Chat
t;ooegzlil County will be held from 3 to 6 p.m. next
W esda{mat Summerville Presbyterian Church,
West Washington Avenue.
A goal of 7Zegints has been set for the drive, which
will be t:{)011sor by the church and Chattooga County
I-%nosgliood American Red Cross personnel will collect
the :
The drive in Summerville has been designated as
“crucial” since blood donations usually drop in the
summer while the need increases.
The Red Cross said only four percent of all
Americans donate blood. And about 70
percent of those donors give onlg'
once a year, the Red Cross said.
However, donors may give blood
every eight weeks up to a maximum of five
times per year.
Most healthy people between 17 and 71 who weigh
at least 100 lbs. can give blood, the Red Cross said. It's
safe and relatively painless, the agency added.
paf)ers in Georgia with a cir- | daily newspapers, medium
culation of more than 4,500 | sized daily pu%lications, and
readers were included in the | smaller weekly newspapers.
category in which The News The first and seconr;)lace
competed. There were also | winners, respectively, ip the
separate categories for large see GPA CITES, page 11-A
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