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Work crews began erecting roof trusses
for the sanctuary of the new Summerville
Presbyterian Church (PCA) Tuesday.
Each truss was raised by a crane and plac
ed by workers who were clinging to
previously erected roof sections. The new
Labor Day Festivals Set
Mountain Jamboree, Dry Valley Days Monday
Chattooga Countians will
have their choice of three big
entertainment events within
easy driving distance during
this Labor Day weekend, the
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CHIEF ARLEN THOMAS ASKS SEAT BELT USE
Keitha Shamblin Buckles Up For Safety
Firearm Rights
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Th Summeruille News
Church Roof Aims Skyward
final official holiday period of
the summer vacation season.
The Cloudland Mountain
lJamboree. Dry Valley Days
and the Armuchee Bluegrass
church building is located at the site of
the old Summerville High Schoal football
field between Rome Boulevard and Col
lege Street. Members of the church are
currently meeting in Trion. (Staff Photo
By Tommy Toles).
Festival are all planned for this
weekend or on Labor Day next
Monday.
Meanwhile, law enforce
ment authorities in Chattooga
and throughout Georgia noted
that motorists are required to
use seat belts, starting today.
Officers hope that the new law
will result in fewer deaths than
the 25 motorists predicted to
lose their lives during the
78-hour holiday period, which
will begin at 6 E.m. Friday and
end at midnight Monday.
CLOSED
All local, state and federal
governmental offices will be
closed Monday, alon%]with the
Trion citfi' and Chattooga
County school systems. Local
financial institutions will give
their employees an extra day
off Mongay and a number of
Chattooga stores will also be
closed.
Normal Monday sanitation
routes will be run next Tuesday
in both Summerville and Trion.
In case of emergency, Summer
ville residents may call the
police department at 857-2461
while Trion residents may call
Trion officers.
The Chattooga Chamber of
Commerce office will also be
closed Monday. The Summer
ville-Trion Rotary Club won't
meet Monday due to the
holiday.
Local U. S. Post Offices will
also be closed Monday.
The new seat belt law re
quires lawmen to issue tickets
to non-bucklers only after
citing them for committinF any
one of eight different traffic of
fenses, the least serious of
which is speeding, said Col.
Curtis D. Eparp. commissioner
© Copyright 1988 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc. — All Rights Reserved
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1988
Guard Camp Okayed
--See Page 3-A
CCH Needs $200,000
$130,000 Owed With SIO,OOO In Account
A persistently bleak picture
of ho?ital finances was
painted for new board
members at Monda¥l night's
meeting of the Chattooga
County Hos'pital Authority
and two officials were ap
gointed to seek funds for the
acility from Commissioner
Harry Powell. ;
Most of this week's meeting
involved the status of the
hospital’s finances and how the
Authority could keep the facili
ty open until next summer in
hopes that new physicians will
locate in the community.
AUDIT
Accountants for the:
hoipital presented their annual
audit to the Authority, noting
that the facility lost $101,833
during fiscal year 1987-1988.
Dan Sweitzer, executive direc
tor of the hospital and Oak
View Nursing lgome, said the
hospital alone owed some
$130,000 in accounts payable
Monday and had less than
SIO,OOO in the bank. '
A long-range solution ap
pears to be obtaining new:
Ehysicians for the community,
e indicated, but the current
problem is keeping the facility
in . ‘operation until nexf
summeér” Wi gy "
Katherine Camp, 'Ahthogg
chairman, appointed Sweitzél
and Eugene N?cGinnis, another
Authority member, to ap
proach Commissioner Powell
with a request for funds.
Sweitzer said the hospital
needs an infusion of more than
$200,000 in cash to remain
open until next summer.
NEW MEMBERS
Four new Authority
members who will apparently
assume office at the gept. 26
meeting of the panel sat quiet
ly through most of the discus
sion by current Authority
members. The new members
of the Georgia Department of
Public Safety.
ALERT
Georfiia State Patrol of
ficers will be J)articularly alert
this weekend because of the
historical surge in traffic
fatalities during the Labor Day
period, Earp said.
Chattoog: Sheriff Gary
McConnell, Summerville Police
Chief Arlen Thomas and Trion
Police Chief David Starkey
said their lawmen would assist
the Patrol in enforcing the seat
belt law and in stopping
speeding, drunk or reckless
Win $35 Cash In Big
Football Competition
If you want to have a chance at winning $35 weekly,
be sure to read The Summerville News eaci week.
The Bob Harmon football forecast will be published in
The News for the next 13 weeks, starting tocfay. But the
main feature will be an opportunity to pick the most win
ners every week to win $35. A second place prize of $lO
will also ge offered this season.
Various team matchups will be featured in ads by area
merchants and if you pick the most winners in a week, you
will win $35 from The News.
WINNER
The name of the winner will be published in the follow
ing week’s edition of The News.
The deadline for entering the weekly contest is 5 p.m.
each Friday. Entries must be turned in to the newspaper
office on Rome Boulevard or postmarked no later than tflat
time,
The Harmon forecast and a listing of the key games is
featured on page 16-A today.
see WIN 835, page 11-A
include Ben Mosley, Roy
Brown, Dr. Hugh Goodywin and
Richard Pewitt. They will suc
ceed Mrs. Cams). Bobb
Haygood and g Jaci
Meacham, and fill one unex
pired term on the Authority.
Jim Parker, the Democratic
nominee for county commis
sioner, also attended the
meeting.
Doug Faircloth of the
Albany accounting firm of
Draffin and Tucker presented
an overview of the hospital
audit for 1987-88. He was
assisted by Donna Whitman.
The combined hospital and
Drug Dealer Convicted
Danny Boy Gets 135 Years; Little Bill Freed
A seven-man five-woman
j%ry deliberated little more
~than an hour Tuesday after
ioon before finding a Summer
-5@9 ) guilty on several
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ac _"fia‘rhis rother on a
bfll)ery c fie. :
The Bpane found William
“Little Bill” Adams, 24, 410-B
Third Ave., innocent of bribery
charges.
It also found his brother,
Ronald “Danny Boy"’ Adams,
27, 18 Fourth Ave., innocent of
five bribery charges. But it
convicted Danny Boy on four
bribery counts and on charges
of trafficking in cocaine,
possessing marijuana and
delivering and distributing
cocaine.
135 YEARS
Chattooga County Superior
motorists.
“Bee A Buckler”’ weekend
will be observed by proclama
tion of Gov. Joe Frank Harris.
Some 200 billboards have been
erected statewide proclaiming
“It's Your Life; It’s Our Law’’
to encourage use of seat belts.
The failure to wear seat
belts may have been in
strumenta]y in at least 18 of the
24 Labor Day fatalities record
ed in 1987, said Colonel Earp.
The death toll on two-lane state
and county roads was 17 out of
the 24 dpeople who were killed,
he said.
see LABUR DAY, page 10-A
nursing home recorded a loss of
$147,212 last year, compared
with $113,520 the previous
fiscal year, the audit shows.
However, the medical facility
also received $45,379 in non
operating revenue last year,
reducing the net operating
deficit to $101,833. Of the non
operating revenue, $36,429 was
in the form of donations.
A total of $5,049 in non
oger_atugg revenue was record
ed in fiscal year 1986-1987,
reducing that year’s net
operating loss to $118,569.
The fund balance at the
Court Judge Joseph “Bo” Log
gins sentenced Danny Boy to
a total of 135 years in prison
andal?;dorw, dide-pay fines
totaling $120,000. .. ... .o .
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¥ears in prison and a $5,000
ine on one bribery count. He
also received the same sentence
on each of the other three
bribery convictions, all to be
servel(}y concurrently with the
first sentence. Loggins
sentenced Danny Boy to 20
years in Frlson on the convic
tion of delivering and
distributing cocaine, to be serv
ed concurrently with the
bribery sentences. Danny Boy
also received 10 years for
gossessing marijuana, also to
e served concurrently.
But Loggins sentenced
Danny Boy to 15 years in
prison to be served con
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TEACHER MRS. DALE HOUSCH COMFORTS KATIE CORDLE ON FIRST DAY
At Summerville Elementary School; See More School Photos Page 1-B
Murder Charged
--See Page 9-A
beginning of the 1988 fiscal
year on July 1, 1987 was
$431,942 and the net loss of
$101,833 during the past year
reduced that fund balance to
$330,109 on June 30 of this
year, the audit showed.
The hospital and nursing
home had $g07,158 in current
assets as of June 30, 1988, it
showed, and $504,400 in cur
rent liabilities.
Bad debts and indigent care
costs were up 35 percent last
{/(laar over the previous year,
Ms. Whitman explained, while
operating expenses were up 10
percent. Medicare and
secutively to the other
sentences and ordered him to
pay a SIOO,OOO fine for traffick
ing incocaine.
AR SDR A e
Both brothers had been ar
rested last April 4 on bribery
and drug charges after Ron
Turner, chief investigator for
the Chattooga §heriff's
Department, said he was brib
ed to give them information
about forthcoming drug raids.
Turner reported the first
contact by the brothers to
Sheriff Gary McConnell and
the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation. Subseciuent con
tacts involved only Danny
Boy, the investigator testified
this week.
The trial began late Mon
day morning after jury selec
tion in the case. Susan garratt.
PRICE 25°¢
| Medicaid write offs were up 27
percent from the previous year
and profits were down be' 30
percent althou%h sales of ser
vices were up 13 percent, she
| added.
The hospital recorded 528
fewer patient days last year
than it did during the 1986-87
I fiscal year, she noted.
REVIEW
Faircloth suggested that
the hospital review its bad debt
collection practices and see
whether it can reduce the
length of stay of non-insurance
see CCH NEEDS, page 11-A
assistant district attorney, pro
secuted the brothers.
Meanwhile, the DA’s office
Wednesday was considering
‘m’erv%fif
spring with several drug law
violations. A firm decision had
not been made on the case as
of mid-afternoon Wednesday.
TODAY?
The case under considera
tion involves Johnny Cory
Crowe, 33, and Sandra Kaye
Hunter Crowe, 28, Summer
ville Rte. 2. Johnny was charg
ed with possessing cocaine and
marijuana with intent to
distribute while Sandra was
charged with possessing co
caine and two misdemeanor
counts of possessing
marijuana.
see DRUG DEALER, page 10-A