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VOLUME CIII - NUMBER XXXVII
CHATTOOGA Countians
and thousands of bargain
hunters from throughout the
region will be able to enjoy
everything from ginto beans
and cornbread to baked cakes
and pies as they roam through
more than 100 exhibits Satur
day during the annual
Sum-Nelly.
The autumn crafts festival
will be held from 9 a.m. to 5
p.m. on grounds of the Sum
merville Recreation Center,
Bolling Road. It will be spon
sored this year by the Recrea
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EUGENE McGINNIS (R) NEW HOSPITAL AUTHORITY CHAIRMAN
Vice Chm. Ira Pollard (L), Executive Dir. Dan Sweitzer
Bypass Hearing Today
U. S. Highway 27 Around Trion, Summerville
A public hearing will be held from 4 to
7 p.m. today in Summerville on a propos
e(F U. S. Highway 27 bypass around Trion
and Summerville.
The Georgia Defi;art;ment of Transpor
tation will host the hearing at the Summer
ville Recreation Department, Bolling Road.
Preliminary eniieneering glans will be
;ivile];rlayed at the hearing and DOT officials
ill be Eresent to answer 3uestions and ex
plain the bypass a;])ropos .
Numerous local governmental officials
are expected to be at the hearing, including
Chattooga Rep. John Crawford and Sen.
Waymond “‘Sonny’’ Huggins.
The 8{0*)03&1 %ypass would start at
Gore at the foot of Taylors Ridge. It would
travel along the current three-lane roadway
to the top of the ridge and make a sharp
right turn down the northern face of the
mountain, The b¥pass would then ({)arallel
the east side of Penn Bridge Road at the
foot of the ridge to near Selmans Lake and
then west roughly a]on% Spring Creek
Road to U. S. 27 north of Trion.
The bypass is part of the DOT"s plans
to widen U.S. 27 from Tennessee to
Florida. Work is progressing on a bypass
Sesquicentennial Events
Scheduled This Weekend
Chattooga County will of
ficially celebrate its 150 years
1 of existence this weekendy with
a gospel singing},l parade, con
tests, church homecomings
and school reunions.
The festivities will be kick
ed off at 7:30 p.m. today with
a big gospel singing at the
Chattooga Courthouse in Sum
merville. All area churches are
invited to participate.
The sesquicentennial
arade will begin at 10 a.m.
gaturday in downtown Sum
merville. Robert Baker, author
of “Chattooga . . . The Story of
The: ' wmmeruille News
Thousands Expected At Annual Sum-Nelly
GORE
a Countg' and Its Peogle," will
be grand marshal of the event.
HERITAGE
Floats, local bands, antique
cars and other units will be
featured. Theme for the parade
will be “A Proud Heritage, A
Progressive Future.” Igrizes
will be awarded to the best
entries.
David Jones, chairman of
the county’s Sesquicentennial
Commission, said organiza
tions or individuals interested
in entering floats or units in the
parade should contact him at
tion Department. Vickie Jo
Maddux is coordinator of the
event. Admission will be free.
THE CHATTOOGA High
Band Booster Club will have
one of 103 booths at Sum-
Nelly. Club members will serve
cookies, cakes, cotton candy,
candied apples, soft drinks and
helium balroons. Proceeds will
aid the band Frogram.
Several clogging groups
will perform at the Scout Hut,
along with Diana Smithson's
Summerville ballet class. She
east of LaFayette and the highway has
been widened to five lanes from Rome to
near Russell Airport in Floyd County.
The DOT has said work will start in Ju
ly of next year on the section from that
point to Highway 156 at Armuchee. The
segment from Armuchee to Gore is suppos
ed to be widened starting in October, 1990
— if funds are available.
THREE LANES
The bypass would be comfilet,ed at an
unspecifieg time after 1990. The DOT has
promised, however, that U. S. 27 between
Summerville and the northern foot of
Taylors Ridge will be widened to three
lanes before the bypass is comgleted. The
three-lane roadway is g‘art of the bypass
des%gn, the DOT said Tuesday.
o cost estimates for the bypass have
been announced publicly.
Hal Rives, DOT commissioner, has
vetoed a planned four-or five-lane roadway
all the way into Summerville because of
%roblems with drainage and landslides on
aylors Ridge.
Most Summerville officials favored a
four-lane roadway into the city although
several residents of Rome Boulevard op
posed widening the stretch.
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1988
directs the Rome City Ballet
School.
LOCAL BALLET students
who will perform include Laura
Worsham, Leigh Lindsey,
Stacy Scogéins, Jessica
Wyatt, Kelly Groce, Ste%mnie
Byant. Katie Jones, Emily
Ellenburg, Liz Mitchell, Amy
McNeal, Julie Stoner, Paula
Burton, Sherry Reece, Katie
Thomason, Amy Bailey, Car
don Adams, grook Iylester,
Emily Hester, Kelly Nations,
Julie Ash, Tara Hawkins, April
Summerville Middle School
prior to Saturday.
A beard and costume judg
ing contest will be held in J. fi
‘“Dick’”” Dowdy Park im
mediately after the parade.
Prizes will be awarded for the
longest beard, grayest beard,
best groomed beard, younfiest
and oldest persons with a
beard. ;
The most original male,
female and children's costumes
will be honored with prizes at
the same time.
Persons interested in the
see SESQUICENTENNIAL, page 10-A
NTI Can’t Pay
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© Copyright 1988 By Espy Publishing Co., Inc. — All Rights Reserved
Hospital’s Finances Continuing
To Worsen; Bills Now $170,000
Oak View Records Surplus;
Addition Still On Schedule
The financial condition of Chattooga County Hospital
continued to worsen in ZE¥ist with accounts payable
mounting to $170,000 and cash in the bank totaling slight
ly more than $27,000. - A
Both figures are up from the July ‘totals of $130,000
in accounts payable and around SIO,OOO in the bank.
Dan Sweitzer, executive
director of the faciiity, told the
Hospital Authority Monday
night that payment is being
made selectively to vendors
and “not all are being paid in
a timely manner.”
He and Eugene McGinnis,
who was elected chairman of
the panel Monday, were ap
-sointed in late August to ask
hattooga Commissioner
Harry Powell for financial
assistance. But Sweitzer said
informally after Monday’s
meeting t!;:at they had been
unable to set up an appoint
ment with Powell.
“POSITIVE”
However, McGinnis said
Wednesday that he had been
welcomed warmly on Tuesday
by the commissioner. ‘‘He was
vex:iy nice, he congratulated me
and said he looked forward to
working with me,” McGinnis
said. ‘‘He said he’d help us any
way that he can. It was a very
positive, upbeat thing.”
The hospital needs an infu
sion of at least $200,000 to re
main open until next summer,
Sweitzer told the Authority in
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Highway 337 Closed For One Year
Highway 337 from Chelsea to the Walker
County line was closed last week to
through traffic for approximately one
year while the roadway 1s being wici,ened,
straightened and rebuilt. The work is be
ing financed by the Georgia Department
of Transportation. Spriggs Paving Co.,
Rome, is the contractor for the $2,410,095
Bandy, Anna Wibirt, Melissia
%axfiy Olivia Myers and Julie
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~Also performing will be the
ballet's ‘Qf;ntel; City‘Dancers."
AMONG THE xvlvcz]rll-ggo{lit
oups participati i the
gl\rxmmerville D‘lfifigle School
%oed Y Bleub, Ivienlol Bl?pht:é
ini nter, Lyerly Uni
Methodist Chureh, West Sum
merville Bagtisj Church, the
Church of God of Prophecy,
Chattooga Higs Linebackers
Club, Berryton Church of God,
August.
The hospital deficit con
tinued to mount after two
months into the 1988-89 fiscal
year, accordinf to its financial
statements. Although a loss of
$24,493 had been expected in
August, the actual figure was
$22,800. But the two-month
deficit has already reached
$60,633, compared to an ex
see HOSPITAL, page 10-A
A representative of the
Georgia Bepartment of Educa
tion oglenly discussed a topic
here this week that in the opi
nion of some, has caused more
Eastern Star, Rainbow girls,
Women of Georgia Power,
Gore Fire De}?artment, Chat
tooga Band Boosters, Teloga
Fire Department, Boy Scout
Troop 7, Berryton Bigle Mis
sion, Chattooia Historical
Society and the Chattooga
Foster Children's Assn.
Everything imaginable,
ranging from Christmas figs
to crafgt,s, food and tee-shirts
will be offered at the biggest
ever Sum-Nelly this year.
Among the items to be ex
hibited for sale include crochet,
DEFICIT
Consolidation Cheaper
State Waves Financial Carrot Before BOE
project, which stretches for 5.9 miles. The
overall project is supposed to be com
pleted by Dec. 1, 1989. Although the road
way has been closed to through traffic,
Spriggs said, it will remain open to local
traffic and residents of the area. (Staff
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To Outgoing Members Dr. Jack Meacham, Katherine Camp, Bobby Haygood
strife in Chattooga County
%‘l}an anything since the Civil
ar. :
Without rpentionin% the
word ‘‘consolidation,”” Frank
Cutback At Landfill
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sketches, hair ribbons,
Christmas crafts, general
crafts, baked goods, paintings,
needlework, wreaths and
Christmas ornaments, wood
crafts, baskets, flower ar
rangements, dolls, pillows,
bears, stuffed country crafts,
dried arrangements, home
made qui‘ltts ax:ld cer‘amics‘
PAINTED SHIRTS, paper
earrings, appliqued sweat
shirts, knits, country and fall
decor items, chili, l'g'reakfast.
coffee, soft drinks, hot dogs,
Cloer, administrator for the
State De&artment of Educa
tion’s facilities section, reveal
ed a plan for consolidating
schools in Chattooga. The plan
would eliminate %’lenlo and
Lyerly schools as well as North
Summerville Elementary.
The plan also calls for two
centrally located elementary
schools for the entire county.
One would be an upgraded
Pennville School, and one
would be a new elementary
school on the south side of
Summerville, Cloer said.
Kindergarten-aged students
through fifth iraders would at
tend these schools, he said.
Cloer made his afiresentation
on Monda{ at a called meeting
of the Chattooga Board of
Education. Although the board
does not have to make an of
ficial decision about the plan
until its April meeting, several
board members made it clear
they had no intention of ap
proving the proposal.
PREVIOUS MISTAKE
“We shouldn’t have done it
the last time,” one board
member said. “‘That consolida
tion of the high school caused
more division in the county
than anything since the Civil
War. If you wanted to run for
a county-wide seat and you
were from Summerville, you
wouldn’'t get any votes in
Menlo or fyerly. ¥f you were
from Menlo or Lyerly, you
wouldn’t get any votes in Sum
merville.’ i
Through 1961, Menlo and
Lyerly scfiools included all 12
grades. That year, both schools
saw their last graduating class.
Feelings were so intense about
eliminating four grades that
many high-school age students
from those schools chose to
hamburgers, pinto beans and
cornbread, candied apgles, pgp
corn, peanuts, pork rinds,
willow furniture, crocheted
angels and snowflakes, dried
apple wreaths and plastic
canvas.
Brunswick stew, barbecue,
wall pla%\:es, cornshuck
flowers, afghans, #’rons, sour
doufi:;bfiead, stuffed animals,
a , flower arrangements in
bggkets. canned goods, hand
crafts, cookbooks, geneaology
charts and fried pies.
transfer to high schools just
across the state line, in
Alabama, rather than travel to
Summerville and attend Chat
tooEa High.
yerly and Menlo schools
have housed students in the
first eight grades since that
consolidation.
TAR AND FEATHERS
Before Cloer began explain
ing the plan, J oeblegook, chair
man of the board, warned him
that the plan would not be
popular here. “There’s a mob
outside with a drum of tar and
feathers, but you can go
ahead,” Cook said. !
Cloer removed his coat say
ing he did not want to get his
suit ‘jacket covered with tar
and feathers, and went on to
explain that the state was en
thusiastic about its offer to
gelp school systems consoli
ate.
“We're 49th in some things,
and 29th in others, bm
school building program is the
envy of the nation,” Cloer said.
Apparently he was referring to
reports last week that Georgia
is 49th in overall per-pupil
spending for education.
Georgia ranks 26th in teachers’
salaries, not 29th.
FIVE YEAR PLAN’
School systems are required
every five years to draw up a
new ‘‘Organizational Study,”
which includes the projected
growth or decrease in the
number of plaxf)ils in the system.
The study also lines up with
State Df;pm'tment recommen
dations for dividing students
into three groupings.
All elementary schools
would have students from
kindergarten age through the
see CONSOLIDATION, page 16-A
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