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_The Summerville News, Thursday, September 15, 1988
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ROPER MGR. PHIL SEBES ADDRESSES ROTARY CLUB MONDAY
Harold Peek, Sebes, Jerry Wilhelm, Will Hair
Roper Official Pledges
More Local Involvement
Roper Corp. intends to
become more involved witi: Lhe
community, the general
manager of the corrh:f)an /'S
LaFayette plant said ondya_v
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Phil Sebes also told the
Summerville-Trion Rotary
Club that he was ‘“‘very en
thusiastic’ about changes at
Roper since it was acquired by
General Electric Co. earlier this
year.
About one-third of the
LaFayette plant’'s 2,100
employees is a resident of Chat
tooga County, Sebes indicated.
Roi)er also has plants at
Dalton and Chattanooga,
Tenn., that supply parts to the
LaFayette facifity.
MARKET SHARE
Being acquired by GE will
open up a worldwide market
for Roper products, Sebes said.
Abuse Cases
Skyrocket
Referrals for child abuse
cases jumped an alarming 240
gercent from July to August in
hattooga County, it was
reported Monday.
According to statistics
released by the Chattooga
Department of F amily and
Children Services (DFCS),
abuse referrals totaled 15 in Ju
ly but shot up to 36 in August.
FOSTER CARE
The number of foster
children in the county dropped
in the same period from 28 to
20, but, according to Chris
Money, director of the county’s
DFCg office, the decrease in
foster children now is the "lull
before the storm.” With an in
crease in abuse cases it is ex
?ected that the number of
oster children will also grow,
she said.
Of the 36 cases, 17 were for
neglect, seven for physical
abuse, eight for sexual abuse,
and four others were not
determined.
There were only eight con
Blood Drive
Next Tuesday
Chattooga County Hospital and Summerville
Presbyterian Church, U. S. will sponsor a blood drive from
3 to 6 p.m. next Tuesday at the church on West
Washington Avenue.
A goal of 40 pints has been set for the drive, which will
be conducted by the American Red Cross.
Volunteer donors must be at least 17 years of age, weigh
at least 110 pounds and be in generally good health, accor
ding to Jean Lambert, Rome, consu¥tant for Red Cross
Donor Resources Development. - : e
About 40 percent of the general population of the United
States meets the medical criteria to (Fonate blood but only
about five percent actually donate to blood drives. Man
have never donated because they have never been askec{
she said. “We hope to turn that around. We are recruiting
donors actively g)y asking individuals to donate one pint
of their blood.
The last drive in Summerville was this past June
*‘Modern science still has not found a way to manufac
ture human blood,”” Mrs. Lambert said. “'lt's up to every
healthy adult to see that blood is available to hospital pa
tients in need. If we don't give blood, who will?”®
The procedure takes a brief period of time and is
relatively painless, she said.
Traditionally, the nation’s blood supplies run short dur
ing the summer months because there are fewer donors and
more accidents requiring blood.
Tt
Attt
GE has about a 25 percent
market share of kitchen ap
pliances or “white goods'” and
a worldwide share of nine
percent.
Roper Corp. had increased
its market sgare from eight
gercem in 1980 to 16 percent
y early 1988. ““That’s quite an
achievement.”’
The company plans to place
a %'reater emphasis on its in
volvement in the community,
the general manager said. l-ile
noted that Roper already
awards four scholarships per
year, meanini that any fi'iven
time, Roper has 16 students
receivin% financial aid.
It also will work with
Walker Tech and Berry College
at Rome on training courses, he
noted.
WORLD CLASS
Roper wants to provide
firmed reports of abuse, and 25
unconfirmed reports in July,
Mrs. Money said.
PROMOTION
In other business, Mrs.
Money announced that Jan
Pullen, former director of the
Chattooga County DFCS, has
been named the new regional
director for the Georgia %IFCS
over Chattooga anfil several
other counties. Mrs. Pullen’s
office will now be in Floyd
County. She had been working
in Atlanta.
The Direct Mail Issuance
(DMI) of food stamps has been
“very successful” in its first
two months here, Mrs. Money
said.
“It's working beautifully.
Post office officials have been
very helpful. All clients who
are receiving food stamps who
did not have mailboxes have
them now, and those who need
to receive them through
registered mail are getting
‘them that way,”’ she said.
GOOD HEALTH
WHO WILL?
good jobs and a safe, clean en
vironment and produce *‘world
class products” at a com
getitive rate, Sebes said. GE
as already loaned Ro?er some
of its experts on safety, en
vironment and efficiency, he
added.
The firm wants to reduce its
already low employee turnover
rate and to work with area
schools to cut down on
absenteeism of future
emploi'lees. He noted that
Roger ad eo?anded by adding
800 to 1,000 new employees
during the past three years. He
also praised the ‘‘excellent
work ethic” at Roper's plants
in this area.
The ratio of men to women
at the LaFayette and Dalton
plants is about 50-50, Sebes
said, while it is about 75 per
cent male at the Chattanooga
facility.
5,000 EMPLOYEES
Roper has around 5,000
employees at all six of its
plants. While the firm has been
in a wide variety of manufac
turing in — ranging from lug
gage to chain saws — in the
past, the firm will now concen
trate on appliances and out
door power equipment.
It produces one out of every
six ranges built in the United
States. While 20 companies
manufactured ranges in the na
tion in the late 19705, Roper is
one of only five domestic com
panies stifi producing gas and
electric ranges.
For the past 55 years, it has
built gas ranges for Sears
under the Kenmore label, while
it has built electric ranges for
Sears under the same brand
name for the past 45 years.
With that connection, GE now
has better access to the Sears
market, Sebes said.
GE BRAND
Roper is now also produc
ing ranges under the Glg brand
name at LaFayette, he said.
The plant has nine assembly
lines, he said, noting that some
ranges require 300 parts for
assembly. “It's a very im
pressive place.”
Roper started in 1874 as the
Florence Machine Co. in
Florence, Ma., Sebes said. It
produced kerosene stoves. In
the 19305, it began producing
ovens for Sears and at one time
was owned by Sears.
Sebes described all the
changes at Ro§er since its ac
%\lxisition by GE as “‘all.. . . for
thegood, o 0 e
Sebes was introduced by
Rotarian Jerry Wilhelm and
welcomed by Harold Peek,
Rotary president; and Will
Hair, Rotary vice president.
‘Literacy Volunteers’ Plan Possible Locally
Using trained volunteers to
teach adults in Chattooga
County how to read and write
was one of the main concepts
explored during an informal
meeting of educators,
businessmen and industrialists
late last week. i
Susan Hackney, adult
education coordinator for the
Chattooga, Floyd and Polk
Courégy school ~systems, in
itiated the discussion at a
meeting of the education com
mittee of the Chattooga Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce and
local Jobs Training Partner
ship Act (JTPA) personnel.
The session was held at the
Chamber office.
GOOD RESPONSE
Marty Brown, personnel
director at Best Manufacturing
Co., Menlo, said his firm had an
‘“‘unbelievable response” from
its employees when it asked if
they were interested in an in
plant education program. Vir
tually all employees requesting
the courses asked that classes
be held at Best, he noted.
“You would not believe the
Four Killed In Wrecks
Local Kin, Couple, Teen Die In Crashes
from front page
“i"fis car, he added.
wo youngsters complain
ed of injuries after a freak ac
cident about 7:15 p.m. last
Saturday on the Back Penn
Road, said Trooper Bill
DeHart.
He identified them as Ra
Dalton, 18, and David W,
Stansell, 12, both of
LaFayette. They were taken to
Chattooga County Hospital.
DeHart quoteg driver Den
nis Fay Stansell, 37,
LaFayette, as saying that he
was traveling south on Back
Penn Road when he saw a
brown station wagon traveling
north. As the two vehicles clos
ed, Stansell said he saw the sta
tion wagon cross the center
line, Delgiart reported.
HIT POLE
Stansell said he drove his
car off the roadway to avoid a
head-on crash with the station
wagon but struck a utility pole,
the trwfier continued. The im
gact broke the pole and the top
alf with transformer came to
rest atop Stansell's car,
DeHart said.
A Cloudland man was hurt
at 8:05 a.m. Sunday, reported
Cpl. C. E. Meeks. Tfie accident
occurred .3 mile north of
Cloudland on Highway 157.
He was identified as Jack
Bohning, 66, Cloudland, who
was taken to a Fort Payne,
Ala., hospital by a private vehi
cle, MeeEs said.
Bohning said he was driv
ing his van south on Highway
Sesquicentennial Plans
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Staff Writer
Final plans for the county’s
150th anniversary celebration
were made at Tuesday’s
meeting of the Chattooga
County Sesquicentennial Com
mission.
Activities to take place bet
ween Sept. 29 and Oct. 2 were
outlined at the meeting, and
final plans for each were
discussed.
The sesquicentennial
celebration will begin on Thurs
day, Sept. 29, with a coun
Multiple Arrests Made By Chattooga Sheriff
Lawmen in Chattooga
County were kept busy making
arrests during the past week on
charges ranging from stealing
steaks to theft and forgery.
Among the incidents were the
following:
* Two suspects were charg
ed with stealing 80 steaks.
* Four people were arrested
in the theft of checks at Menlo
and for forgery.
* Two iuveniles were
brought back from Huntsville,
Ala., after a crime spree that
involved burglary and auto
theft.
* One man was charged in
connection with an incident at
a convenience store where he
pulled a pistol out of his pocket
and laid it on the counter.
* Another suspect was
charged with stealing a
microwave oven.
FORGERY
Chattooga Sheriff Gary
McConnell arrested four
suspects last Friday on
charges of theft and first
degree forgery.
Shelia Dianne Nelson, 29,
Trion Rte. 1, was charged with
two counts of first degree
forgery and theft by taking.
She was being held near noon
Wednesday in the Bartow
County Jail.
Hue¥l Nelson, 55, Trion Rte.
1, was charged with two counts
of first degree forgery and with
being a party to theft by tak
ing. He was being held
difference in those people as
well as the people around
them ... " Brown said. “‘lt was
a morale boost for us and if it
was for us, you can imagine
what it does for them
(emj)loiees).“
ackie Simafison. director of
nursing at Oak View Nursing
Home, said the facility had in
itiated an in-house training pro
gram for nursin§ aides. She
said a number of high school
graduates had (froblems
reading, writing and spelling.
INDUSTRY
Mrs. Hackney said she was
interested in hearing what the
needs of industry are in Chat
tooga County and how the pro
gram she directs could be of
assistance. She emphasized
that the program neegs access
to employees at work to con
duct literaci' audits to deter
mine what level of education
they need to remain useful to
their employers. “We're in
terested in how we can serve
the needs of industry.”
~ Brown and Martha
Thomas, adult education
157 when a north-bound vehi
cle made a left turn in front of
him, Meeks said. Bohning said
he swerved his van to miss the
turning vehicle and lost control
of the van, which slammed in
to a ditch and overturned in the
process, the State Patrol cor
poral added.
HORSES
One person complained of
injuries after a one-vehicle
wreck on the Subligna-
Villanow Road at 3:30 g.m. last
Friday, said Trooper Sgt. Ed
die Ivey.
He was identified as
Timothy Wayne Hunter, 22,
Summerville Rte. 4.
Reports said Hunter was
driving a pickup truck that was
pulling a ?\orse trailer contain
ing two horses. The trailer
hitch apparently broke, Ivey
said, ams the trailer began to
fickknife. The trailer caused
unter to lose control of the
truck, Ivey continued, and it
then pulled the truck off the
road and down an embank
ment. As the trailer overturn
ed, the truck also overturned,
Sergeant Ivey continued.
There was no information on
the condition of the horses.
TWO INJURED
Two motorists complained
of injuries after a two-vehicle
accicfent on U.S. Highwa]y 27
just north of Summerville at
11:15 a.m. last Friday, said
3 rooEer Mike King.
They were identified as
Rhonda Jean Burrage, 19,
Lyerly, and James Stephen
tywide gospel singing at the
county courthouse at 7:30 p.m.
Several craft displays and a
Civil War reenactors camp will
be set up at the J. R. “'Dick”
Dowdy Park in Summerville on
Friday, leading up to Saturda
morning's parade throqgg
downtown é:.lmmerville.
The annual Sum-Nelly ac
tivity will be held Saturday
afternoon, and that evening
will be the county school reu
nion night.
Church homecomings are
planned for Sunday afternoon,
involving most churches in the
county.
Wednesday in the Chattooga
Jail.
William L. Dodson, 36,
Trion Rte. 1, was charged with
first degree forgery and theft
by taking. He was released on
SIO,OOO in bonds.
Richard H. Hogue, 37,
Trion Rte. 1, was charged with
first degree forgery and theft
by taking. He was released on
SIO,OOO in bonds.
Sheriff McConnell said the
four were charged in connec
tion with the theft of checks
from Morgan's Used Cars,
Menlo Rte. 1, last Friday. They
are also charged in connection
with the forging of a SIOO
check at Cox's Country Store,
Menlo, and a $125 check at the
Country Crossroads store, Dry
Valley Road. The lawman said
he arrested the four just north
of the Country (,Jrossroads
business.
80 STEAKS
Two Summerville residents
were charged with the theft of
80 steaks from Old Hickory
restaurant, 401 N. Commerce
St last Stnday, ' .
They were identified as
Johnny L. Adams, 30, 211 E.
Sixth Ave., and Shirley Smith,
33, 108 E. Sixth Ave. Adams
was charged with burglary
Sunday and Ms. Smith was
charged Monday with being a
party to the crime of burglary.
She was being held Wednesday
in the Bartow Jail while
Adams was being held in the
Special Report
By The News
What Can Be Done
About Chattooga
ounty’s Dropout Rate?
teacher in Chattooga, said Best
Manufacturing handled all ex
penses for the program at that
plant.
The Riegel Division of
Mount Vernon Mills has
discussed that approach, said
Lewis Finle ofp Riegel. But
with a worfi force of some
1,400, probably 800 employees
would be interested, he
estimated. With ‘‘such massive
numbers” it would be impossi
ble for Riegel to offer a simple
rogram as was done at Best,
ge indicated.
If volunteers could be train
ed, interested employees could
be divided into manageable
numbers, he said.
Cha'{)pelear. 42, Trion,
eports said the BurraHe
truck was involved in a colli
sion with a car driven by
Chappelear.
BICYCLE
A 7-year-old was hurt in a
car-bicycle accident 1.5 miles
north of Trion at 4 p.m. last
Thursdafi, Sept. 8, said
Trooper King.
Reports said a car driven by
Dalmous R. Holbrook, 16,
Trion, was involved in a colli
sion with a bicycle ridden by
7-year-old Amanda Phibbs,
Trion Rte. 1.
The accident occurred at
the intersection of County
Road 175 and Count Road 177
just east of Old U. S. Highway
27, King said.
One person was hurt in a
two-vehicle accident on Lyerly
Highway at Montgomery
Street last Thursday morning,
Sept. 8. v i S
“Amy P. Ballard, 17, Menlo
was injured in the wreck, said
officer J. R. Johnson.
Police reports said a vehicle
driven by I\f: Ballard was in
volved in a collision with a
vehicle driven by Terry
gougllas Ragan, 28, Lyerly
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Chattooga Jail.
A small amount of meat
was recovered, Sheriff McCon
nell said.
Capt. Fred Lawson of the
Summerville Police Depart
ment quoted owner Jimmie
Kirby as saying that when she
ogened the restaurant Sunday,
she saw a man leaving through
a window on the south side of
the building. She then
discovered that 80 steaks had
been stolen.
CRIME SPREE
Two juvenile boys, one 11
and the other 14, were in the
Rome Youth Development
Center Wednesday after being
brought back to Georgia Mon
day from Huntsville, Ala.,
folfowing a two-state crime
spree. o t
Summerville officer Lydia
Robertson said the incident
began Sunday when the pair
allegedly took a dirt bike
without permission in West
Summerville and failed to
return home. They were later
seen at the Countrly Crossroads
store in Dry Valley and at a
private home on Hair Lake
Road near nightfall Sunday
where they obtained fuel.
The home of Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Hamby, Summerville
Rte. 3, was burglarized and
several guns stolen, Sheriff
McConnell said, and a 1971
model car stolen. The dirt bike
was left at the Hamby home.
The juveniles then alleged-
Mrs. Hackney said
volunteers could be trained to
teach people the basic skills of
reading, writing and simple
math at grade levels one
through four. Some grant
money may also be availa%le to
help with the cost of that pro
gram, she noted.
Finley estimated that 50 to
100 volunteers could be obtain
ed from industry, churches and
other groups for sessions
designed to train them how to
teac_fixil)asig: skills in the county.
Several industrialists at the
meeting said that while they
were well-educated, they
wouldn't know how to start
teaching someone how to read.
Mrs. Hackney said a county
workshop coul)(,i train volunteer
tutors or teachers.
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Teachiniadults from grade
four through the 12th grade so
that they could take the high
school equivalency (GED) test,
however, would require more
highly trained teachers and
would cost money for staff,
materials and coordination.
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CHICKAMAUGA MAN INJURED IN ACCIDENT
Car Burns In Background As Medics Give Aid
ly drove to Ider, Ala., in the
stolen car, abandoned it and
took a 1981 model car, which
was driven to a bowling alley
at Huntsville on Monday. They
then turned themselves in to
juvenile authorities in that ci
ty and were brought back to
Georgia by Chattooga Dep.
Ladon Lively.
GUN PULLED
James Edward Prince, 35,
409 E. Seventh Ave., Summer
ville, was charged with being a
felon in possession of a firearm
last Thursday night following
an incident at Ronnie's Conve
nience Store, Back Penn Road.
Prince was released on $5,500
bond.
Sheriff McConrnell quoted
Deps. Larry Kellett, Lively and
Sgt. Ken Anderson as saying
they received a call that there
was a man at the store with a
firearm.
When they arrived, they
found clerk Elaine Hunter,
Summerville Rte. 2, holding a
.25 caliber pistol. She said
Prince pulled the firearm from
his pocEet and placed it on the
counter, reports said. She then
grabbed the gun and kept it un
til lawmen arrived at the scene,
they said.
ARREST
Calvin D. Clay, 29, 209
Hawkins Dr., Summerville,
was charged last Friday with
burglary in connection with the
Aug. 20 theft of a $145
Mrs. Hackney noted
T T AT T el Tt TS VORI STI | L (LA N S,
But volunteer instruction in
basic skills could be coor
dinated in-house by an in
dustry, she suggested.
Brown also cautioned that
it was important get to
employees involved in such a
program “from the very begin
ning. SR .
Finley said that while
technology hasn’t yet created
a wide gap between what
employees can do and what the
textile industry needs, the
otential exists for that pro
glem in future years.
SURVEY
Mrs. Hackney noted that a
survey showed that of Chat
tooga residents 25 years and
older, only 34 percent had
graduated from high school.
~ Will Hair, chairman of the
Chamber's education commit
tee, said about 60 percent of
the students who enter the first
grade in Chattooga Count
never graduate from the IZtK
grade.
Chattooga has had the
highest dropout rate in
microwave from the home of
Gary Wiggins, 123 Hawkins
Dr. Clay was still being held in
jail Wednesday.
Officer Monroe Mathis of
the Summerville Police Depart
ment said the microwave had
been sold to a third party after
the theft.
SHOPLIFTING
A Summerville man was
also arrested on shoplifting
charges Tuesday. He was iden
tifieg as Eddie Murdock, 32,
133 McGinnis Cir., Summer
ville. He was released on SSOO
bond.
Sheriff McConnell said
Murdock and a female compa
nion entered Discount Food
Mart, Central Avenue, Trion,
shortly after midnight Mondai
night and while there Murdoc
allegedly took a pack of
cigarettes.
Murdock was arrested a
short time later at Dixie Oil,
Central Avenue, Trion, by Dep.
Don Bethune, the sherif}f’ said.
The cigarettes were recovered.
GUN THEFT
A Summerville Rte. 3 man
was also arrested Sunday on
theft by taking charges in con
nection with the theft of a high
powered rifle.
Robert L. Browning, 41, re
mained in jail near noon
Wednesday.
Reports said the .30-.06 ri
fle was stolen from the home of
Donald Hall, Jamestown Road,
Menlo.
Georgia during the past two
school terms.
Finley said before Riegel
could agree to an in-plant
school program, cost figures
and a detailed plan would have
to be presented to company
executives.
VIDEOS
Prior to the discussion,
Mrs. Hackney presented a
video program produced by the
National Alliance of Business
and the Education Commission
of the States.
The tape said there are
23-million functionally il
literate Americans and another
45-million who are at a
marginal level in reading and
writing.
But three of four future
jobs will require an educational
IEYSI beyond high school, it
said.,
An estimated 75 percent of
unemployed people are func
tional?y illiterate, the taped
program reported, costmg
$6-billion a year in welfare an
unemployment compensation
benefits.