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Joel Byars, an 8-month-old LaFayette baby, seems to
be enjoying the festivities during the annual Mountain
Jamboree at Cloudland on Labor Day. He was content
Harris Cites Burrage
Summerville Man State Textile Citizen Of Year
Gov. Joe Frank Harris an
nounced Wednesday the selec
tion of James Franklin Bur
rage of Summerville as the
1988 “Georgia Textile Citizen
of the Year.”
Martha K. Tucker, an
employee of Georgia Rug Mill
Summerville, was also named
one of nine finalists nominated
for the honor. T
Burrage, along with the
nine other finalists, was
presented with a plaque by
Governor Harris at a special
ceremony at the capitol at 11
a.m. Wednesday. In addition,
Burrage received an engraved
clock and a SSOO cash award
for being selected as the
“Georgia Textile Citizen of the
Year.” bl
~ Burrage is a card technician
with Harriet and Henderson
Yarns Inc., Berryton, and has
Trion Student Awaits Nerve Transplant; Baby Recovering From Burns; Infant Suffers Heart Attack
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
At first glance, they don’t
have anything in common.
...A week-old baby
stricken with an apparent
heart attack . . . a 1-year-old in
fant suffering second and third
degree grease burns on his
face . .. and an 8-year-old boy
awaiting a first-of-its-kind
nerve transplant in Canada.
None of the three is related,
but hope is the common
denominator.
dhi Summeruille News
Babe Enjoys Labor Day Fun
been employed there for 16
years.
He and his wife, Wilma,
have devoted themselves to
providing a home for foster
children. With their own
children grown and married,
they have been foster parents
to 16 foster children. These
children have included the
severally handicapped, mental
ly retar(i]ed, runaways and even
a straight A student who was
once a dropout. The Burrages
currently have four foster
children ranging from age 3 to
14 living with them.
James was recentl
recognized by The Summervill)é
News and the Georgia Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services for the outstanding
work he has done and con
tinues to do for foster children.
The other finalists,
Tragedy Stalks Three Chattooga Youngsters
THREE CASES
This is how things stood
Wednesday in all three cases:
* Little Kenneth Griffin
Thompson of Lyerly, who was
born on Aug. 27, undérwent
heart surgery Wednesday mor
ning at (filildren’s Hospital in
Phifadelphia, Pa., to replace a
defective valve. He suffered an
a%parent heart attack last
Thursday, Sept. 1. The infant
underwent surgery Wednesday
morninf and was reported do
ing well early that afternoon.
* Terry James ‘‘T.J."
Johnson of the Dry Valley
Community, who became 1
year old on Aug. 26, was
recovering at Humana
Hos%ital in Augusta. His face
was badly burned Wednesday
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1988
to be held by his grandmother, Ann Byars, listen to the
music, watch the cloggers and take an occasional snooze
in the warm autumn sun. (Photo By Tommy "Eoles).
representing nine textile com
panies, are Harmon L.
Howard, Swift Textiles Inc.,
Boland Plant, Columbus;
Charlie L. Parham, Thomaston
Mills Inc., Peerless Division,
Thomaston; Michael E. Sellers,
West Point Pepperell Inc., Col
umbus Mill, Columbus; Vinnie
Maria Shank, Milliken & Com
pany, Live Oak Plant,
LaGrange; Tommy Sheppard,
Forstmann & Company Inc.,
Louisville Plant, Louisville;
Robert Brannon Smith,
Milliken & Company, Elm Ci
ty Plant, LaGrange; Mrs.
Tucker, Fieldcrest Cannon
Inc., Georgia Rug Mills, Sum
merville; Rachel E. Watson,
Fieldcrest Cannon Inc., Swift
Spinning Mills, Columbus; and
Celia C. West, Forstmann &
Company, Tifton Plant, Tifton.
see HARRIS CITES, page 16-A
afternoon, Aug. 31, when he
tig)ped a skillet of bacon grease
off a stove and onto his head.
* Matthew ‘‘Matt’’ Beech,
a Trion Elementary School stu
dent who will turn 9 years old
on Seé)t. 24, was in Toronto,
Canada, awaiting a nerve
donor. Matt suffered severe leg
injuries in a boating accident
on Lake Weiss last May 29 and
surgeons hope the first-ever
transplant will restore almost
full use to his left leg.
Mrs. Ronald Croy, Peren
nial Springs, is T. J.'s great
aunt. ghe tells what happened
to the cheerful youngster on
Aug. 31:
Lisa Johnson, T.J.'s
mother, was frying bacon on a
small apartment-sized range in
Trion, CHS Games
--See Pages 8, 9-B
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their Dry Valley mobile home
when she turned to the
refrigerator to get some eggs.
Out of the corner of her eyes,
she saw T. J. pull up and tip
the skillet. She turned toward
the stove and tried to knock
the skillet away from T. J. as
it was falling. But the hot
grease rained gown on his face,
eyes and neck.
AGONY
His mother grabbed T. J.,
put him in the bathtub and put
cold water on his face, congeal
ing the grease immediately. He
was screaming in agony. Since
her mobile home doesn’t have
a telephone, Lisa raced outside
and down the hill to a
neighbor’s house to call for an
Commissioner Sends
Conflicting Signals
Powell Signed Hospital Contract
Despite Opposition From Attorney
“Chattooga County Commis
sioner Harry Powellysent con
flicting si%nals this week on
whether the county govern
ment is obligated under terms
of a 1970 contract to support
Chattooga County Hospital
with tax funds.
He seemed to indicate that
he feels the county isn’t legal
ly oblxifated to provide the
hospital with money.
OBLIGATED?
But a letter to Powell from
the county attorney on Nov.
16, 1970 seemed to indicate
that if Powell signed the-then
proposed contract between the
county and the Chattoo%a
Hospital Authority, it would
obligate the county to finance
the facility’s operations.
Powell signed the contract
on Dec. 1, 1970, according to a
cop’yl" of the document obtained
by The News.
"7 #I- mogt - strongly recom
mend that Chattooga County
not enter into this proposed
contract,” Powell was told in
the Nov. 16 letter from Ed
Surles, who was then, as now,
county attorney.
“I think it (Surles’ Nov. 16
letter) is very explanatory as to
who is responsigle for what at
Chattooga County Hospital
and also when anal where the
contract was signed or turned
down,”’ Powell said Tuesday in
a statement sent to The News.
He also gave the newspaper a
copy of Surles’ 1970 letter.
NO CONTROL
Part of that letter appears
to say that if Powell si%'ned the
1970 contract, it “would mean
that the (Hospital) Authority
could operate in whatsoever
manner it saw fit and spend
whatever sums of money it
desired, within the very broad
limits of the law, and the coun
ty would have to le\;fi' proper
ty taxes to ]pay the bill without
any control whatsoever of the
Authority."
The outgoing commissioner
seems to have been confused
by a story in last week’s edition
of The News about the
hospital’s financial dilemma.
&ting three separate
figures used in the story last
week, the commissioner said,
‘... the question still remains,
how much does Chattooga
County Ho:laf)ital really owe?
Do they still owe the portion
found on the books of tfie loan
that was made in 1970, 18
years ago, plus other debts
that have not been paid?”’
Dan Sweitzer, newly named
ambulance.
Emergency Medical Techni
cians with the Chattooafa Coun
ty Emergency Medical Service
A bake sale to benefit
Kenneth Thompson will be
held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Saturday in front of
the Chattooga County Cour
thouse, sponsored by Lisa
Davenport and Joyce
Colquitt.
arrived and rushed T.J. to
Floyd Medical Center at Rome.
He was in ‘‘terrible, terrible
pain.YV
executive director of the
hospital, told the Authority at
its monthly meeting last week
that the hospital needs an in
fusion of more than $200,000 in
cash to keep it open until next
summer, -when the facility
hopes to have a new physician
move to the community to set
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CONSTRUCTION CONTINUED ON SNODGRASS HOUSE
Cabin To Be Scene Of Thomas' Famous Stand
The News To Publish
Chickamauga Edition
THE SUMMERVILLE NEWS will
publish a special Chickamauga Battle 125th
Anniversary Edition next Thursday, Sept.
15; : i
The special section will contain a com
plete report on the original Battle of
Chickamauga on Sept. 19-20, 1863 and
feature numerous photographs and articles
on how the War Between The States affected
Chattooga Countians at that time.
A SPECIAL FEATURE will be a com
plete chez:i)ter on the Civil War in Chattooga
excerpted from “Chattooga .. . The Story Of
g al({Jounty And Its People’’ by Robert S.
er.
A helicopter rushed T. J. to
Humana Hospital at Augusta.
Summerville's Lamar Gregg of
the Rome Shrine Club smf in
itial plans were to stabilize
T.J. at Augusta and then
transfer him to the Shrine burn
hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio.
RECOVERING
But Mrs. Croy said Tues
day that T. J. is recovering so
well that an immediate transfer
may not be necessary.
Doctors in Augusta were
very concerned about burns to
his eyes when he first arrived,
she said, but his vision now
seems to be unaffected. Mrs.
Johnson's o?uick action in
splashing cold water on T. J.
seems to have helped prevent
Dropout Efforts
--See Page 8-A
up a practice and admit more
patients to the hospital. He
also said that the hospital had
$130,000 in accounts now
payable with only SIO,OOO in
cash in the bank.
DEFICITS
Doug Faircloth, the
Written and develoied by staff members
Buddy Roberts and Cheri Teague, the edi
tion will be published in observance of the
125th anniversary reenactment of the Bat
tle of Chickamauga. .
EACH SUBSCRIBER to The News will
receive the special section as part of the
regular Thursday newspaper delivery. The
special edition will also ge contained in each
newsstand copy of The News on Sept. 15.
Extra copies of the edition alone may be
purchased during the Pennville reenactment
on Sept. 17 and 18 and at The News office
for $1 each, including tax.
serious damage to his eyes and
re(_i(tixced burns to his neck, she
said.
FMC personnel gave T. J. a
pain kilf:; for his trip to
Augusta and he was on mor
phine for the first two days at
Humana Hospital, Mrs. Croy
added. But the gain killer has
been slowly reduced and by
Saturday, he was throwin
toys all around him, she saif
NO SCARS?
Doctors have said that T. J.
probably will srow out of any
scarmg caused by the burns,
Mrs. Croy said. He suffered
mostly deep second degree
burns with Lust a few small
third degree burns, including a
spot on his upper lip andg a
PRICE 25°
hospital’s auditor, said the
hospital recorded a deficit of
$113,520 in fiscal year 1986-87
and a deficit of $147,212 in
fiscal year 1987-88.
The commissioner also
referred to the hos%ital's pro
posed budget for the current
see COMMISSIONER, page 16-A
see THE NEWS, page 16-A
R}}ace on either side of his nose,
rs. Croy continued.
“We appreciate all the
prayers from all the churches,”
she added. ‘I think that's why
he's doing so well so ?uick.
Prayer changes things. I real
ly believe that that's why he’s
c{oing so well.”
Mrs. Johnson was still in
Augusta with T.J. Wednes
day. The family doesn’t have
any medical insurance, said
Mrs. Croy.
CREDIT
Meanwhile, Thomas Beech,
Matt's father, wasn't %r
ticular’lfllamdous to talk to The
News Tuesday evening unless
Gregg, Tim Hogg and the
see TRAGEDY, page 14-A