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Library Air Conditioner Replaced
North Georgia Equipment Co., Rome,
replaced the air conditioner atop the roof
at the Chattooga County Library Monday
morning. However, a relay switch had to
be replaced because the unit quit working
after a brief cool period Tuesday morning.
However, the switch was to have been
replaced Wednesday and the library was
expected to be cool permanently by today.
Summerville Bypass
Work Set For 1991
Cash Miffed At Crawford, Huggins
Work should start by Sept.
1, 1991 on a Summervixi’le
bygas_s if the U. S. Highway 27
widening project remains on
schedule, city officials were
told at a hearing in Atlanta
Tuesday.
Summerville Mayor Sewell
Cash said he and Grady
McCalmon, city manager, were
the only two fz])ca] o?ficials to
attend the meeting sponsored
by the Georgia Department of
Transportation (DOT).
Purpose of the session was
to discuss the proposed
bypass, which Cash said would
begin at Gore, travel up
Taylors Ridge to its peak and
then northward down the side
of the ridge. It would parallel
the east side of Penn Bridge
Road to near Selmans Lake
and then west roughly alon
Spring Creek Road to {J S. 2%
north of Trion.
1989
Work is supposed to start
in July, 1989, on widening
U. S. 27 from Russell Airport
in Floyd County to Highway
156 at Armuchee, Cash said he
and McCalmon were told.
The second phase of the
Floyd-Chattooga project from
Highway 156 to Gore is
scheduled to begin by October,
1990, the mayor tol(;, members
of the City Council Tuesday
evening.
Some 15 DOT officials were
at the meeting, he noted, and
none was faxmfi' iar with any pro
posal to widen the bridge over
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low bid of %'17.428, including a five-year
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John Crawford and Sen. Waymond *‘Son
ny'’ Huggins obtained a $4,000 grant for
the project from the State Department of
Education and the remainder was paid b
Chattooga Commissioner Harry Powefi
with county funds. (Staff Photo).
the Chattooga River or to
widen U. S. 27 to three lanes
from the western foot of
Taylors Ridge into
Summerville.
PROMISE
Hal Rives, current DOT
commissioner, said in Summer
ville that the roadway would be
improved from Tayl‘:)rs Ridge
to Summerville although tfie
stretch wouldn't be widened to
four or five lanes. Rives denied
at the time that the DOT had
ever proposed widening the
highway to four or five lanes in
to the city.
However, Tom Moreland,
who retired as DOT commis
sioner before Rives assumed
the post, did say that U. S. 27
wou?d be widened all the way
into Summerville. Mayor Cash
produced a DOT worksheet
Tuesday night dated March,
1986, which said the project
would be divided into two
phases, the roadwork and
wideninf,' the bridge. The DOT
even held a public hearing in
which maps outlined the road
way as a multi-lane facility
from the ridge into dewntown
Summerville.
UNFAMILIAR
Although Rives said the
stretch would be improved and
the bridge widened, Cash noted
Tuesday night, none of the
DOT officials had anil
knowledge of Rives’ proposal.
Huggins contac{)ed The
News Wednesday morning and
confirmed that he had discuss
ed improving U.S. 27 into
Summerville from Taylors
Ridge with Rives.
Told that Cash had
reported Tuesday night that
engineers at the session in
Atlanta earlier that day were
unaware of any plans to widen
the stretch to three lanes, Hug
gins responded, ‘“The top brass
(at DOT) doesn’t tell those
engineers everything.”
CONFLICT
He had planned to attend
the Tuesday session, Senator
Huggins said, until he learned
it wasn't a formal public hear
ing. He also had an educational
meeting scheduled for that
time, he indicated.
“We're going to get that
road wideneg coming into Sum
merville before the bypass is
built,”” Huggins asserted. ‘‘He
(Rives) promised me faithfully
that he would build it before
the bypass.”
Mc(E,almon said the DOT
told him that it would cost
$1,500 per foot to stabilize
Taylors Ridge along the pro
posed new northward route.
Rives had complained in Sum
merville and Rome about the
cost and difficulties of handling
earth slides along the current
U. S. 27 route down the north
face of Taylors Ridge in the
19605.
A public hearing will be
held in Sefitember in Summer
ville on the bypass proposal,
Cash said.
IRRITATION
The mayor expressed irrita
tion with Chattooga Rep. John
Crawford and 53rd Dist. Sen.
Waymond “Sonny”’ Huggins
for failing to attend Tuesday’s
meeting in Atlanta.
Huggins told him last Fri
day that work on improving
U. S. 27 from Taylors Ridge in
to Summerville would begin
before work starts on the
multi-lane project from Ar
muchee to Gore, the mayor
said. However, Huggins’
assurances don't jive with
what the DOT said Tuesday,
Cash said. :
The mayor last week ripped
into Huggins and Crawford for
what he said was their failure
to be more aggressive in trying
to get the roadway made into
a multi-lane highway all the
way into Summeryili‘:a. :
Cash has said that a four-or
five-lane highway into Sum
merville is necessary for it to
attract new industry to the
area.
Rotary Meeting
A business session has been
scheduled for next Monday's
meeting of the Summervifle-
Trion Rotary Club. No speaker
has been scheduled.
The club will meet at noon
at The Tavern, Trion.
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Trion Board Of
Education Okays
1988-89 Budget
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
The Trion Board of Educa
tion Monday night. apfproved a
$3.3-million budget for fiscal
year 1989. Personnel changes
were also approved, along with
a resolution on tax rebate
funds and minor additions to
state standards as they apply
to Trion Schools.
Personnel changes included
the resignations of Charles
Stevenson and Carolyn Hern
don. The board also filled four
positions, hiring Marcia Hood
as a fourth grade teacher, Dean
Hollis as a high school math
teacher, Cindy Payne to teach
English and social studies at
the high school, and Tom
Moore as a band instructor.
REBATE
The resolution on the tax
rebate said that $20,000 is ex
pected from the state this com
ing dyear. This amount was in
cluded in the budget under an
tici};‘ated revenues for 1989.
rion School Superinten
dent Bill Kinzy said that cer
tain elementary level social
studies textbooks were in
advertently omitted from the
list agproved in Februari. The
board approved the books
Monday for grades 2-7.
The boargr also adopted a
legal requirement for corporal
punishment the state says
must be in the local school
system’s standards. The new
ly adopted sentence, added to
the standard on corporal
punishment, s?fi's ““corporal
punishment shall not be ex
cessive or unduly severe.”
BUDGET
The overall budget for 1989
is $3,359,767, Kinzy said. This
includes $2,322,606 from the
state, $74,374 from the federal
Chickamauga Bypass
May Get $6-Million
A $6-million zlifpropriation
for the U.S. Highway 27
bypass around Chickamauga
National Military Park has
been approved by the U.S.
House Appropriations Com
mittee, according to Seventh
District Rep. George ‘‘Buddy”
Darden.
The congressman was in
Summerville Monday as part
of a quick swing through part
of the district. He had %een in
Cartersville earlier that morn
ing and later spoke to the
LaFayette Cham%er of Com
merce before being given a tour
of the Lock and Dam on the
Coosa River near Rome. He
returned to Washington, D. C.,
Tuesday morning.
NO PROBLEMS
Darden said he didn't
foresee anlyl' problems with ap
proval of the appropriations re
quest from the fufi Hcuse of
Representatives. The Interior
Department's funding was ap
proved by anearly unanimous
vote last year, Darden noted.
The money will be contain
ed in the budget for fiscal year
1989, which will begin Oct, 1.
A House vote on the measure
is expected this summer, the
congressman said. It will be us
ed with some $2-million in state
monies to gt;rchase rights-of
way and to begin designing the
bypass, which will travel west
of the park, he added.
Total cost of the road is
estimated by state officials at
some $29-million.
Darden sponsored legisla
tion last Kear that would
authorize the federal govern
ment to pay 75 percent of the
costs of the bypass.
Escapee Sought
In Lyerly Area
Chattooga County lawmen
Wednesday afternoon were
still on the lookout for a Lyer
ly man who escaped from the
Floyd County Correctional In
stitution Monday morning.
The Chattooga Sheriff's Of
fice identified iim as Bruce
Lea, 29, Lyerly, who was serv
ing a five-year court sentence
for violating the Georgia Con
trolled Substances Act. He was
convicted in Chattooga.
CAR
Lea was working in the
carpentr{\; shop behind the in
dustrial building at the Floyd
CI when a light%)lue four-door
vehicle drove up, said lawmen.
Fovernment. $539,747 from
ocal revenue and $423,040 as
the anticipated ending fund
ba}gnce on July 1, 1989, Kinzy
said,
The anticipated end(i)r(x)g
fund balance incliudes $l4B,
in the general fund and
$250,000 in the building fund.
A new physical education
facility g)r the element‘avl;fi
school and a new classroom wi
be built this year, Kinzy said.
Anticipated expenses for
1989 include $2,152,833 for all
teacher salaries, textbooks,
teachers' aides, retirement sup
plements, health benefits, and
all other costs of instruction.
The budget also includes
$38,160 for high school
guidance services, $19,476 for
staff development, $105,497
for librarians and library sup
plies, $127,239 for supplies and
personnel costs of runnin(g the
superintendent’s office
3157,101 for principals and
overall school administration,
$42,735 for business support
services, $181,948 for
maintenance and operation of
electric, gas, water systems,
SIO,OOO for the system's three
buses, $4,398 for the school
board’s contribution to adult
education and membership in
the Regional Educational Ser
vice Agency, $167,502 for the
lunchroom and $250,000 for
construction, Kinzy said.
Wire Tech Inc.
Applications
A new Chattooga County
industry, Wire Tech, is now ac
cepting applications for
employment.
The wire harness manufac
turing firm is located in the old
Wire Assemblies building on
Highway 48, west of
Summerville.
Applications will be ac
cepted at the plant from 8 a.m.
,to 4 p.m. Monday through Fri
day, spokesmen said.
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REP. DARDEN
The congressman said in
Summerville and again in
LaFayette that the U..S.
Senate must still approve the
appr?riation after an ex
pected favorable House vote.
The money would be the
first of three annual appropria
tions needed to finance the
bypass, Darden said. If the
House and Senate approve the
appro£riation this erar, he con
tinued, they would be likely to
fund the remaining two
allocations.
William Penn Mott,
secretary of the Interior, ruled
in 1985 that the present two
lane through the park couldn’t
be wideneg although it would
cost an estimated $6-million,
compared with the $29-million
b)g)ass. Darden said that if the
federal government’s position
on the project couldn’t be
Lea ran out and jumped in the
car, which drove away, they
added.
Authorities said the vehicle
ma{ have been driven by Lea’s
girlfriend, also a Lyerly
resident.
DESCRIPTION
When last seen, Lea was
wearing prison clothing, white
with blue stripes.
He was described as 510"
and weighing about 150 Ibs. He
has brown hair, blue eyes and
a burn scar on the left side of
his forehead.
Floyd and Chattooga
authorities suspected Wednes
day that Lea was being hidden
in the Lyerly area.
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NEW CHATTOOGA EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE LEADERS i
Alma Lewis, Elaine Bennett, Ann Gilley
Mrs. Gilley New
Director Of EMS
The Chattooga County
Emergency Medical Service
(EMS) has a new director.
She is Ann Gilley of Telog
who has been emplo6e%
previously with Wal-Mart Dis
count City.
Mrs. Gilley assumed duties
Monday afternoon as the new
director, along with current
staff members%laine Bennett,
who was named assistant
director, and Alma Lewis, who
was appointed medical
director.
COURSES
Mrs. Gilley said she plans
to take appropriate courses to
changed, it should foot most of
the cost of a bypass.
CAMPAIGN
Darden grinned when asked
if he was already campaignin,
for reelection this year ang
replied, “I haven't stopped
campaigning for two years.”
Heis unogposed in the Aug. 9
Democratic primary. Four
Republican candidates are vy
ing for the right to challenge
Darden in November.
Referring to the apparent
scandal involving the Pen
tagon, Darden said, ‘‘Some
people in the Pentagon are go
ing to jail.” The congressman
said he afireed with Georgia
Sen. Sam Nunn that Congress
should stay out of the current
investigation, which is being
conducted by the executive
branch.
The economy continues to
be the main concern of
residents in the Seventh
District, Representative
Darden said. One of the pro
blems concerns affordable
housing, he continued. Some
residents of Northwest
Georgia feel they’re makin,
good money and have a goog
job but still can’t buy their first
home, Darden said.
WATER
In Cobb and Bartow Coun
ties, in particular, he con
tinued, there is a concern over
how to obtain adequate water
to handle the rapeig growth in
those two areas. The drought
of the past three years has ex
acerbated the problem, he
indicated. %
There has been a significant
droE in employment at
Lockheed in Marietta, he said,
with some 8,000 people being
laid off due to the end of the
C-5B program. Some 12,000 re
main at work at the huge air
craft manufacturing firm, he
said, and orders for 18 C-130
aircraft will keeg the plant
operating through 1991.
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Medical Technician (EMT).
Mrs. Bennett and Miss Lewis
are already EMTs. Miss Lewis
has nine years experience in the
field, while Mrs. Bennett will
have 10 years service next
month.
Mrs. Gilley g»parently suc
ceeds Todd Broyles. The
reason for the changes wasn’t
announced by Chattooga Com
missioner Harry Powell.
Mrs. Gilley has been
employed by Wal-Mart for the
past four years, and has serv
ed as district cashier for nine
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MENLO GRAD
She is a graduate of Menlo
High School. Her husband,
Buddy, was in the military for
20 years, she said, but they
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