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Rain
Causes
Flooding
Almost three inches of rain
fell within about five hours
Monday, turning many streets
and roads in Chattooga Coun
ty into miniature ragin%
streams for a brief period o
time,
Flash flooding was reported
in several parts of Summer
ville, 'l‘rion,‘iierly, Menlo and
throughout the county Mon
day morning.
By near noon, Highland
Avenue in front of Chattooga
County Hospital was flooded
once again but the waters had
recedeg by shortly after lunch
when the rain diminished.
2.7 INCHES
Harold Pickle, Mahan
Road, Dry Valley, said his rain
gauge registereg 2.7 inches of
rain Monday. Most of it fell
between 7:45 a.m. and 1:30
.m,
¢ “Scattered showers” had
been forecast for that day.
One wooden bridge l‘;uilt
across the Chattooga fiiver for
the 125th anniversary reenact
ment of the Battle of
Chickamauga was washed 100
Kards downstream Monday
ut crews were trying to
relocate the mostly intact
bridge on Wednesd‘;y. One
bridge across the river remain
ed fast but some repairs were
needed to ready it for the
reenactors this weekend (see
story on reenactment on Page
1-A).
INADEQUATE
Some drains were inade
quate to handle the sudden
surge of water and most dit
ches in the county were filled
within a few minutes Monday.
Some residents whose wel{s
had been dry all summer
reported that t{\ey had at least
some water after the rain Mon
day, indicating that the
underground acquifier had
been replenished in some areas
of the county.
Although forecasters were
still uncertain about the direc
tion of Hurricane Gilbert, it a;
peared possible that remnang
of the massive storm might
rage through inland parts of
the nation sometime early next
week, causing heavy rainfall.
Lawmen Probe Area Thefts
Several thefts were still
under investigation at
midweek by the Chattooga
County Sheriff’s Office.
A ring valued at $72 was
reported stolen from a box in
a medicine cabinet at the home
of Anthony Christopher, Sum
merville Rte. 2, last Saturday,
said a report filed by Dep. Don
Bethune.
BATTERY
When Hugh Chandler, Har
risburg Road, went out to one
of his vehicles last Sunday
morning, he found that the bat
tery had been removed, but
was sittixle onkr_ 30 feet away,
morted ep. Richard Gifford.
en he checked another vehi
cle, he found a man — ap
parently the thief — in it sound
asleep. When he went to call
lawmen, the thief apparently
awakened and fled tfle_ scene.
A 10-speed bicycle was
found on Highway 48 at
Highway 157 Sunday by
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Most Areas Of Summerville Experienced Some Flooding
lawmen and brought to the
sheriff’s office. :
A thief egtered Burgess
Riverside Barbecue, Trion Rte.
2, last Friday night or Satur
day, said a report filed by Inv.
Greg Latta and Dep. Bill
Blackwell. Some SSO in change
was taken and a radio damag
ed, they added.
The sun roof was removed
from Christy Harris’
automobile last Saturday while
it was in the parking lot of Red
Food, U. S. Highway 27, north
of Summerville, said a report
filed by Dep. Lisa Howell.
PIGS HURT
Buddy Chisolm, Summer
ville Rte. 5, said a dog injured
two of his pigs so badly last
Saturday that they had to be
destroyed, said a report filed
by Dep. Blackwell.
A .22 caliber revolver was
reported stolen from Calhoun's
Restaurant, Trion Rte. 1, last
Friday, said a report filed by
Chief Inv. Ron Turner.
A 1976 model car was
r%ported stolen from the home
of Linda Russell, Summerville
Rte. 2, last Thursday, said a
report filed by Dep. Sgt. Ken
Anderson.
Lawmen are also in
vestigating a case of mailbox
vandalism on Pinecrest Drive
last Friday.
INTRUDER
The sheriff's office is also
still puzzled about an unusual
incid%nt in the Subligna area
near the Walker County line on
Sept. 6.
Shirley Autry, Summerville
Rte. 4, said her daughter,
Lynette, saw someone in their
front yard. Mrs. Autry return
ed home after being called by
her daughter, according to a
report éled by Deps. gLa\rry
Kellett and Ladon Lively.
When they went out the
back door, tKey saw a man
standing on a ladder looking in
a window, the Autrys reported.
The intruder ran off the porch
and into the yard where he just
stood and looked at the two
women, the lawmen said they
were told. He threw a stick and
hit Lynette, Lively and Kellett
reported, before racing into the
woods. R
A search of the area failed
to turn up the man. He was
described as being about 6 feet,
of medium build, having a red
brown beard down to his chest
and wearing a long-sleeved
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flannel shirt and dirty, torn
jeans.
ARRESTS
Among arrests made dur
ing the past week by the
sheriff's office were the
following:
— Kimberly A. Cameron,
20, 215 Allredy St., Summer
ville, was arrested Tuesday and
released on SSOO bond.
— Jerry Lee Spears, 37, 231
2nd St., Trion, was charged
with burFlary last Friday. He
was still in jail near noon
Wednesday.
— Kenneth Ray Wiggins,
25, 113 Sixth Ave., Summer
ville, was charged with
criminal damage to property
last Thursday, Sept. 8, and
released on sgoo bond.
— Terry Farmer, 26, 610-A
Highland St., Summerville,
was charged with criminal
damage to property last Thurs
day. He was still in jail
Wednesday morning.
— JoAnn Davis, 36,
LaFayette, was charged on
Sept. 7 with writing a bad
check. She was released on
SSOO bond.
— Curtis Lee Holbrooks,
25, Cloudland, was charged
with public indecency Satur
day and released on SSOO bond.
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Chattooga Students Get Higher
CRT Scores Than Many In State
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
Chattoofa County students
who took the Georgia
Criterion-Referenced writing
test last spring gave the coun
ty school sYstem composite
scores slightly higher than the
average recordes across the
state.
County scores were higher
than both the state mean for all
school systems in Georgia, and
higher than the numbers
recorded by other mid-sized
school systems where 33 to 43
percent of all the children are
eligible for a free lunch.
““This shows we’re improv
ing slowly, little by little,” said
Don Hayes, superintendent of
the countg; schools. Hayes an
nounced the results at Monday
night’s meeting of Chattooga
County's Boarg of Education.
SCORES
The test was given to sixth
and eighth graders throughout
Georgia this spring. Chattooga
County sixth graders scored
213.33 on the writing test, a
total of .08 points more than
the state mean of 213.25.
Eighth Eraders in the system
compiled a composite score of
218.26, or 4.03 points above
the state mean of 214.23 for
eighth graders.
On fixre other scale, the one
for mid-sized school systems
where 33 to 43 percent of the
students eligibfie for a free
lunch, Chattooga did even bet
ter. Chattooga sixth graders
scored 213.33, or 3.04 more
than the group mean of 210.29
for such schools, and eighth
graders, who scored 218.26 on
the writing test, were 8.39
points above the group mean.
VISIT TO SCHOOLS
Board members announced
they will visit county schools
on Sept. 26 and 27. Joel Cook,
chairman of the board, said
that the board visits schools
twice a year.
The visit was scheduled
then because representatives
from the Georgia Department
of Education will be meeting
with the board to discuss the
facilities plan for Pennville and
Lyerly schools, Cook said.
" The groulp ‘may also pro
pose consolidating certain
schools.
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Summerville Middle School,
told the board that a new
golicy for t.ardg' students has
een started at his school.
Students will now have to
stay after school one hour each
time they are tardy more than
three times during one month,
Jones said. Jones also thanked
the board for hiring full-time
assistant principals.
PERSONNEL
In personnel matters,
Hayes said that Larry
Stephens, who taught one day
at ChattooFa High School
(CHS), mag ose his certificate
to teach. Stephens was hired
by the board, and was in his
Evaluation Changes
For Some Teachers
Two ‘‘instruments’ of
evaluation were approved by
the Chattooga County Board
of Education Monday night,
the Georgia Teacher Observa
tional Instrument (GTOI) and
the Georgia Leadership
Evaluation Instrument
(GLEI). 3
Earlier this year principals
in the county’s pubrl)ic scgool
system were trained to use
both the GTOI and the GLEI.
Some teachers will be
evaluated this year by the
Quality Basic Education Act
standards of the GTOI, and
eventualg' all teachers will be
evaluated by the instrument.
Assistant principals will be
reviewed by the standards in
the GLEL.
According to Jack Herring,
Director of Instructional ser
vice for Chattooga County, the
board did not have to approve
either instrument for o?ficial
use this year. The evaluations
are being field tested this year,
and will likely be used official
ly, without change, next year.
Herring said that
Superintendent Don Hayes
recommended approving the
instruments to the board
because without such approval
principals would have to
evaluate some, teachers twice
— some according to an older
evaluation form, some accor
ding to the GTOI.
“Service personnel and
The Summerville News, Thursday, September 15, 19§§H
ciassroom Friday, Aug. 26,
when school started.
Jack Catrett, principal of
CHS, said earlier that
Stephens had returned to
school briefly the following
Monday, but waved goodbye
to members of the staff that
morning and just left the
building. He did not return.
The board accefited the
resignation of Carole H. Pickle,
and hired four new teachers.
David Mcßay was hired to
fill the social studies position
vacated bd\; Stephens at CHS,
Sheila Aldridge was apgroved
as a third grade teacher for
Pennville, Pam Burge was
hired as a third grade teacher
at Summerville Elementary,
those under the Teacher
Preparation Assessment In
strument (TPAI) will not be
evaluated by the GTOI,”” Her
ring said. Service personnel in
cludes librarians and all those
Wit;l service certificates, he
said.
DUI Report
Eidght motorists were ar
rested on charges of driving
under the influence of intox
icants in Chattooga County
during the past week, accor
ding to jail records. They were:
James Clifton Lewis, 22,
Summerville, Billy Ray Ware,
53, Trion Rte. 2, who was also
charged with driving without a
license; William Andy Aber
nathy, 20, Leesburg, Ala., who
was also charged with driving
on a suspended license; Sherry
Bishop, 42, Summerville; Scott
Ladon Buice, 23, Summerville;
Travis Joe Little, 27, 251
Memorial Dr., Summerville,
also charged with driving on an
expired license and not gaving
proof of insurance; Kenneth A.
McClellan, 35, Callahan, Fla.,
also charged with attempting
to elude officers; and Jimmy
Lee Higgins, 33, Tacoma,
Wash.
and Sonya Buice was
edas a k{nda'garten tom
Summerville lementa?'. G
Nancy Blackwell and Tam
my Bennett were afiproved as
aides at Summerville Elemen
tary School. g
TRIPS, FUND-RAISER
'l‘heChattooia High School
band and the band boosters
each made a request to the
board and both were approved.
The band will go to the
“Festival of Champions,” May
11-14, in Panama City, Fla.,
and the band boosters were
granted permission to have a
coffeebreak’’ as a fund-raiser
for the band. The tentative
date for the coffee break is
Nov. 19.
The board also approved an
overnight trig to CamQP%vlar
Springs for the coed “Y"’ Club
on Sfi&t. 23.
“The outing will consist of
a highly structured itinerary of
events throughout the evening
and morning. We will provide
breakfast and snacks for the
group. Bible studies, films and
recreational activities are also
planned,”’ advisors Susan
Reece and Kathy Floyd told
the board.
Also afiproved was a wrestl
ing match at Menlo School,
sponsored by the Best Silver
C?ub. The club o?fionsors such
exhibitions periodically to raise
funds for scholarships to help
send students t:hrou%l:3 collefi
The event will in t
school’s gym late in September
or in October.
CONSTRUCTION
The board approved two
payments to Diamond Back
Construction for work at Penn
ville and Lyerly schools;
$42,653.70 for Pennville and
$15,913.30 for Lyerly. These
were the second payments for
work at each site.
SALES TAX
Hayes reported that
$90,073.11 was collected from
sales tax during July. A total
of $761,845.25 was in the
system’'s money market ac
coudnt as of Aug. 31, Hayes
said.
FOOTBALL
At the end of the meetinhg,
Cook said he was proud of the
way CHS's high school’s foot
ball team is playing. ‘““The team
is playing real well,” he said.
1t should be supported by the
community. I hope everyone
will come out and see them
play’’ this Friday, he said.
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