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The Summeruille News
Turner
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Resigns
Says Family Needs
Take Priority To
Coaching B-Ball
Lamar Turner resigned
Monday night from his post as
head coach of Chattoo%? High
School’s Lady Indians basket
ball team.
Turner had been head coach
of the team for two years. Dur
ing his second year, Turner
coached the team to a 30-0
record and the state AAA
championship.
In a statement to the Chat
tooga County Board of Educa
tion, Turner said he made the
decision to resign for the sake
of his family. In an interview
Tuesday morning he said he
plannec{ to remain at Summer
ville Middle School as a
teacher.
FOR FAMILY
“It’s a hard decision to get
out. Coaching has been my life;
the Lord’s blessed me in it, but
now it's time to do some things
for my family,” Turner said.
“A guy doesn't have but one
mom and dad, and they need
M e
Turner said his father is in
“fragile” health, and needs
help working his cattle farms.
The elder Turner owns farms in
Chattooga and Cherokee
counties. g
FRIEND
Melvin Mosley, the
physical education teacher at
the Middle School and Turner’s
assistant with the Lady In
dians, said it was a hard deci
sion for Turner to make.
Mosley also said it was hard for
him to see Turner leave
coachinf.
“It leaves » lump in my
Educators May Get Reprieve From QBE Paperwork
Task Force Recommends Changes In Several Areas; Local Requirements May Not Be Effected
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Chattooga County
educators strugfiling to find
their way over the mountains
of paperwork caused by QBE
requirements may have just
received some relief. :
A task force researching the
problem has released a report
of 32 recommendations on 25
paperwork issues that, accor
ding to the Georgia Depart-
2¢ Postal Scam
Costs Customer
Five Years, SI,OOO, For Mail Fraud
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Another nationwide postal
scam is showing up in Chat
tooga County, it was reported
last week.
The Postal Inspection Ser
vice is warning customers not
to fall preX to the 2-cent letter
fraud, and to continue to pay
the reqltsxired 25 cent rate, said
Frank Bromley, postmaster of
the Summerville post office.
INFORMATION?
Promoters of the mail order
scam are selling an information
gackage at a cost ranging from
sto SIOO that describes how
to mail first-class letter for 2
cents rather than the current
rate of 25 cents, Bromley said.
The scheme is designed to
bilk the postal customer out of
their money for inaccurate and
out-of-date information.
Costs for this cheating add
up three ways for honest
customers, Bromley said. The
person sorting the mail finds
the letter with only 2 cents
worth of postage on it, the let
ter must be given to a clerk
who then takes it to the carrier
wl;g has to sign for it, Bromley
said.
Handling any piece of mail
that many times eventually
comes out in increased con
sumer costs, he said.
~ The information {)ackafes
promulgating the false infor-
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LAMAR TURNER
throat. He's a good friend and
a good coach. Ig{e will be dear
ly missed. Having him leave
basketball makes me feel like
I'm mournin%v[for somebody
that's dead,” Mosley said.
Turner said he expects the
Lady Indians to have a good
team this year. ‘“lt’s hard to
repeat, but they'll be right
there in the thicK of things.”
THE TEAM
The junior varsity Lady In
dians were undefeated last
year, Turner said, and
members of that team will help
replace the eight seniors who
worked for the state champion
ship last year, he said.
Many of this year's hopes
depend on Nikki Price, a junior
this year. Miss Price said Tues
day that Turner's resignation
didn’t come as a shock, but
that it would make a difference
to the team.
*“lt will have a big effect on
the team, because we'll be get
ting used to a new coach, and
that'll be hard to do. I talked
to some people today, and they
said we wouldn't be as good
this year, but I think we can
prove them wrong,” she said.
Turner agrees with her, and
said the Chattooga Board of
Education has several good
coaches in the system to
choose from to replace him.
ment of Education, will
significantly reduce ‘'the
paperwork burdens of
educators throughout the
state.”
The recommendations
might help chip the mountain
down to a manageabie size, but
many of the objections against
paperwork spawned by the
Quality Basic Education Act
(QBE) lodged by local
educators may not have been
answered specifically enough.
COMPLAINTS
Teachers here said last
winter they felt they were
mation cite Title 39 of the
United States Code, Section
4253, as a legal basis for the 2
cent first-class rate. The pro
blem is, this section was
eliminated in 1970 under the
Postal Reorganization Act.
The current first-class rate
is 25 cents for the first ounce
or fraction of an ounce,
Bromley said.
Unfortunately, some letters
bearing only a 2c stamp have
been delivered without collec
tion of the deficient postage
and that has given cregence to
the claims made by promoters
of this fraudulent scheme.
Postal inspectors investigatinf
this scheme have filed ad
ministrative and criminal com
plaints against the promoters.
The goal is to protect the
postal service from loss of
revenue and to stop this
frql(idulent promotion, Bromley
said.
RETURN TO SENDER
Postal employees have been
alerted to the scam and are be
ing instructed to check first
class mail for a;ipropriate
Fostage. Any mai carrf'ing
ess than 25 cents will be
returned to the sender or
delivered with a charge for the
amount due. e S
The penalty for mail fraud
is a fine of not more than
$1,000.00 or imprisonment for
not more than five years, or
both. Postal customers who
receive this package are asked
to forward all the material to
their postmaster or postal in
spg(ictor in charge, Bromley
said.
Thursday, September 15, 1988
Ga. Division Gets
A Real Battle Flag
Hand-Sewn For Confederates
By KAREN COOK
Contributing Writer
Two Chattooga County
women honored tie Georgia
Division Civil War Reenact
ment Association with the
presentation of a hand-sewn
Confederate Battle Flag last
weekend. . y
Mary Meadows and
Georgia Martin spent hours
sewing the flag. Each describ-
Dove Hunting Shows Who Can Shoot
Country Boys Whup City Fellers Every Time
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
All the blasting and
shooting heard around here
two weekends ago made it
sound as though the reenact
ment of the Battle of
becoming full-time clerical
workers and part-time
teachers. Their complaints
about QBE-required paper
work included that there were
too many detailed lesson plans,
that local administrators may
have misinterpreted QBE
requirements and therefore im
fiosed unnecessary record
eeping, doing full-time
equivalency counts three times
a year, and keeping written
records on what every child is
doing every minute of the day
SO tfiat the school can have
satisfactory record of ‘‘uninter
rupted instructional time” on
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Even though the rainy weather kept
many would-be participants away from
the Summerville-Trion Optimist Club's
Bike Safety competition last Saturday
afternoon, there were winners. Cora
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ed the procedure as relaxing.
Mrs. Meadows sewed the ac
tual flafi while Mrs. Martin
sewed the stars.
STARS AND HOURS
‘““Each star took well over
.one hour to complete,” Mrs.
Martin explained. *'l was very
hap’FK to work on this flag.’
i e ladies were iuests of
honor at the Gordon-Lee Man
sion encampment. They were
presented with tickets to the
reenactment of the Battle of
Chickamauga and six red roses
each. Troops gave the ladies
three cheers.
Chickamauga had come to
Chattooga County a little
ahead of schedule.
If you stepped outside, or
opened your windows, you
could hear enough gunfire to
make you want to head for
cover.
For Chattooga County
hunters it was the first day of
dove season, and it was the
small, darting, lightning-fast
file.
FTE
One thing teachers could
get some help on from the
recommendations is the full
time eguivalency count (FTE).
According to the news release
from the ]%OE. “‘specific recom
mendations include streamlin
ing attendance reporting by
eliminating the requirement to
maintain state atendance
registers and reducing from
three to two the number of
times full-time eguivalency
counts are taken during the
school year.”
Basham, left, won SI,OOO in a give-away
sponsored by the LaFayette Coca-Cola
Bottling Co. Prizes of SIOO and $lO were
given away as well. Stanley Kirby, center,
and Mary Bowen, each won a bike. The
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The presentation of the flag
was made in the name of the
Chattooga County Historical
Society. Representing the
Society were Steven
Strickland, Bill Barker and Pat
and John Whisnant.
Mrs. Whisnant is the new
editor of the Chattooga Coun
ty Historical Society newslet
ter. A special Civil War edition
is now available at area mer
chants for $2. The newsletter
will be sold at the reenactment
of the Battle of Chickamauga
this weekend.
specks of tiny gray birds that
were headed for cover.
One fellow from Atlanta
was quoted saying, ““If you like
a lot of shooting, then you're
bound to love dove hunting.”
But that’s not necessarily s’\e
opinion of the good-shooting
country boys from Chattooga
County.
COUNTRY BOYS
“We've got some who come
Other teacher complaints,
such as the imposition of un
necessary paperwork caused
by local board of education and
administrative policies, were
not dealt with as specifically.
LOCAL CHOICES
“It is evident that local
school systems need to conduct
a thorough review and evalua
tion of their paperwork re
quirements to find ways to
lessen the paperwork burden
on administrators and
teachers,” the task force said.
Expectations for clear
direction in Standards
Optimist Winners A Bit Damp But Still Happy
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From left, Capt. Fred Langford, Rome,
Cpl. Tony Dooley, Marietta, and Pvt.
Cary Meadows, Summerville, accept the
in here that can get 20 birds for
a box of 25 shells,” said Hairel
Bagley, owner of The Old Gun
Shop. ‘“Those fellows are pick
ing their shots. They know how
to shoot. The boys out of
Atlanta might not get one per
box.” he said.
“It’s like chartering a boat.
When it comes to money spent
on the catch or the kifi, well,
that’s not why you go,”” Bagley
documentation was also less
than specific. According to the
news release, ‘‘the report calls
for more meetings between
department personnel and local
educators to help local systems
interpret required Standards
documentation. The (task
force) also recommends an ad
visory committee to react to
proposed Standards before im
plementation.”
MIXED REVIEWS
Reaction to the recommen
dations by local superin
tendents was mixed. Bifi Kin
zy, superintendent of Trion
bikes were donated by the Coca-Cola
Company of LaFayette to the Optimist
Club for the club’s bike safety event. Cash
prize winners were determined by par
ticipants’ removing marked bottle tops
A Real Flag
flfi Each star took more than an hour to
make on this hand-sewn flag. (Photo By
Karen Cook).
said.
When told of a rather
chagrined Chattooga Countian
who admitted that his “‘usual
?uota is about one dove per
our boxes,” Bagley said,
‘*“He’s way out of line even for
a city boy.”
COMPANIONSHIP
Then again, not everyone is
as serious about hunting as the
men who frequent Bagley's
school, said the recommenda
tion to change testing in
Georgia would lighten the
paperwork load.
Don Hayes, superintendent
of the county schools, said
there was some help with at
tendance reporting, but pro
bably not as much as the
recommendations said there
was.
It was recommended that
nationally normed tests, given
in Georgia in the second,
fourth, seventh and ninth
grades, be eliminated and that
the criterion-referenced test
currently given in the sixth
from Dr. Pepper and Mello Yellow soft
drinks. (Photos By Buddy Roberts and
Karen Cook). ‘
gunshop. The Rev. Daniel Tan
ner, pastor of the Pennville
Allie:ince Chllxlxi'lch, said d?fg sthot
two doves while expen WO
boxes of shells. This score does
not make Tanner a “city boy,”
however.
Tanner grew up hunting
and rambling through the
forests of South Georgia close
to the Okeefenokee S%vlamp.
see DOVE HUNTING, page 6-B
grade be moved to the fifth
grade.
The norm tests, a require
ment of QBE, typically contain
content from curriculum across
the nation, which, according to
the task force, may or may not
be reflected in the state
curriculum.
TOO MANY TESTS
I have said before we test
too much,” Kinzy said. ‘“The
criterion-referenced test tells
us what educators in Georgia
say a child in Georgia should
know, and the nationally norm
see EDUCATORS, page 6-B