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The Official Legal Organ of Chattooga County Georgia
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Our Opinion
Bypass Hearing Today
A public hearing on the proposed U. S.
Highway 27 bypass will be held from 4 un
til 7 p.m. today at the Summerville Recrea
tion Center.
Any citizen or public official interested
in the future growth of Chattooga Coun
ty should show up at the hearing to review
the Georgia Department of Transporta
tion's plans for the bypass around Sum
merville and Trion.
Some residents and businessmen favor
the bypass while others want the multi
lane highway project to feed directly into
Trion and Summerville. It is likely that the
bypass will be built...eventual
ly . . . because the DOT is bypassing every
Vandals Are Scum
Vandals have had a ball at a couple of
sites in Chattooga County recently. They
have apparently had great fun breaking
and turning over historic tombstones at
South Carolina Cemetery and in smashing
recreational facilities in Berryton.
Whether the guilty parties are adults,
irresponsible teen-agers or juvenile delin
quents really doesn’t matter. Anyone who
would desecrate a cemetery is a despicable
piece of filth. And anyone who would con
tinue to destroy community recreation
facilities is lower than dirt.
Vandals are hard to catch and pro
secute because they're hit and run experts.
It doesn’t take but a few seconds to push
over a tombstone, or even several tomb
stones. It just takes a few minutes to
shoot out a light with a BB gun, or to
pound on playground equipment with a
concrete block or an iron pipe.
The South Carolina Cemetery is in an
isolated area of the county, as are most of
Sum-Nelly Saturday
For the second time in two weeks, hun
dreds and perhaps thousands of people will
pour into Chattooga County this weekend.
Local residents extended the hand of
hospitality to reenactors and spectators at
the 125th reenactment of the Battle of
Chickamauga on Sept. 17-18. Many
visitors to the county commented on the
friendliness of our citizens.
The annual Sum-Nelly program will be
held Saturday at the Summerville Recrea
tion Department. Craftsmen from
throughout the county and the area will
exhibit their handiwork during the one-day
From QurEarly Fil
3 arlyFiles
*
44 YEARS AGO
The following are excerpts from the Sept. 28, 1944, edition of The Summer
ville News.
* * *
THE REV. Leroy Perry, Rome; the Georgia Power quartet, Rome; the Ed
wards quartet and trio, of Lindale, will be here at the auditorium Sunday, Oct.
1, at 3 p.m. Come and hear these good singers and this great spiritual man
preach.
* * *
CENSUS REPORT shows that 111 bales of cotton were ginned in Chat
tooga County from the crop of 1944 prior to Sept. 16, as compared with 492
bales for the crop of 1943.
* * *
THE STATE Department of Forestry is operating a timber cruising ser
vice for farmers and other timber growers, which is free, provided at least five
acres of timber are allowed to be marked for cutting, according to State Forester
J. M. Tinker. The work will help produce an even better crop of timber and
insure a profitable income for the landowners.
town on U. S. 27 in Georgia.
It will be especially expensive in Chat
tooga because it must travel down the nor
thern face of Taylors Ridge. The DOT has
decided not to add another one or two
lanes along the present path of the
highway because of problems with earth
slides. However, the DOT has yet to ex
plain how it plans to avoid those same pro
blems along the new proposed route on
Taylors Ridge.
Regardless of whether one favors the
bypass, a particular route, or is opposed
to the concept of a bypass, he should show
up at the hearing today and make his
views known to the DOT.
our cemeteries. So it’s hard to catch the
scum who take great delight in defacing
monuments, or who smash playground
equipment. It doesn’t help, either, when
potential witnesses stick their heads in the
sand and pretend they haven't seen or
heard anything. They re as bad as the van
dals, just in a different way.
Lawmen can’t be everywhere all the
time. Perhaps Berryton residents who are
concerned about the vandalism at the Rac
coon Recreation Center will set up a
schedule for themselves to stand watch
over the center during the prime times for
vandalism. And maybe Chattooga Coun
ty residents who have loved ones at South
Carolina Cemetery should do the same
thing.
The reprobates who vandalize those
facilities need an attitude adjustment, and
they need it badly.
There’s nothing like spending some
time in jail to change one's outlook on life.
extravaganza. Visitors from Atlanta,
Chattanooga, Birmingham and the
Southeast are also expected to come to
Sum-Nelly because of its growing reputa
tion as one of the finest autumn events of
its kind.
It will be another opportunity for our
county to shine. Local businesses will also
benefit from the increased traffic and pur
chasing power brought to town for that
one day.
We welcome the Sum-Nelly's craft
smen and visitors to our fair community.
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Georgia For Dukakis?
REMEMBER in 1984 when most
Georgia Democratic leaders refused to
have anything to do with Walter Mondale
and Geraldine Ferraro and just sat out the
presidential campaign? Both were too
liberal for Georgia, the state's Democratic
leaders indicated at the time.
Needless to say, I was delighted with
their indifference and near hostility to
Mondale and his radical, welfare state
proposals.
* * *
BUT NOW, JUST a few years later, we
find that Gov. Joe Frank Harris, House
Speaker Tom Murphy, Lt. Gov. Zell Miller
and even Sen. Sam Nunn Hdve jumped in
bed with Democratic presidential nominee
Michael Dukakis. That Sen. Wyche Fowler
would back Dukakis is not surprising,
however. The Massachusetts governor
makes Mondale look like a member of
American Conservative Union.
In fact, Dukakis is the nearest thing to
an avowed socialist since Norman Thomas
ran for president in 1932. Thomas Jeffer
son and Andrew Jackson, credited with
creating and energizing the Democratic
Party, are probably spinning in their
respective graves at Dukakis’ audacity in
claiming to be a ‘“Democrat.”
* * *
I SHARE with my colleague, Rich Jef
ferson, the astonishment that Dukakis
won the Democratic nomination for presi
dent. Admittedly, the pickings were slim.
There wasn't a constitutionalist in the
bunch running for the chief executive's
post. But Dukakis? It's frightening that
a politician with Dukakis’ record and
beliefs could be on the threshold of becom
ing president.
Potpourri
By Rich Jefferson
Consolidation For Product
THE QUALITY BASIC Education
Act (QBE) is a Trojan horse in Georgia
public education.
Ever since I moved back to Georgia
nine months ago I've had a queasy feeling
about QBE, but until Monday I was not
able to identify the source of the feeling.
* * *
ALONG WITH the Chattooga Coun
ty Board of Education and Superintendent
Don Hayes, I sat through a presentation
made by the administrator for the facilities
section of the State Department of Educa
tion. The administrator, Frank Cloer, was
a nice enough fellow, and one of the most
persuasive salesmen I've ever heard.
But he was selling something almost
no one in Chattooga County wants, and he
said something that explained my
uneasiness about QBE. Cloer never used
the word ‘‘consolidation,” but that’s what
he was selling. But his main reason for con
solidation was his assembly-line concept of
education.
* * *
CLOER SAID for a public school
system to be effective, the system must
“define the product, and the product is
Viewpoint
By Tommy Toles, Editor
It’s even more amazing that he would
pick up the support of Georgia's top
Democrats, who have the reputation of be
ing more conservative than ‘‘national”
Democrats. They seem to want to have the
dubious honor of being in the Welfare
State Cadillac as it sails off a cliff into
economic, military and social disaster.
DUKAKIS AS a person may be very
amiable, courteous and a fellow you'd like
to sit around with and argue about the
merits of various college football teams.
But he would be a disaster as president.
His record in Massachusetts is a clear
harbinger.
For a parallel, recall the exploits of Jim
my Carter. He couldn’t have been elected
to a second term as governor of Georgia
because of his general ineptness and
liberalism. Yet, Georgians supported him
for president because they wanted a
Georgian in the White House, regardless
of his ideology. And what did he do?
Carter promptly made a mess and was
clobbered by Ronald Reagan in 1980.
PERHAPS THE state's top
Democrats should ask themselves if they
want as president a man who favors
furloughs for convicted murderers, wants
to destroy what's left of the nation’s
health care system, wants to take away
our Second Amendment Rights, hopes to
emasculate our national defenses, sup
ported repeal of laws against bestiality,
wants to give the IRS even more power
and plans to raise taxes to support more
federal boondoogles. And those are just for
starters . .. ‘
children.”
Now, I understand it was Cloer’s duty
to present a consolidation plan to the
board, because school systems are re
quired to approve organizational studies
every five years, that consider projections
for the number of pupils who will attend
different county schools, review the quali
ty of the buildings and such.
* * *
THE PROPOSAL he brought had two
options. The board was told it could leave
the county school system the way it is, and
make the required improvements, or it
could reorganize its schools according to
QBE ‘‘recommendations.” Option two
would include a plan to phase out Lyerly
and Menlo schools, as well as North Sum
merville Elementary.
The governor's people lure school
boards into such consolidation by making
offers most people can't refuse. Here, the
offer goes like this: for option one, where
we keep our schools, and improvements
will cost a total of $4.4-million, with the
board shelling out $1.13-million in local
funds.
see POTPOURRI, page 5-A
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Jack Rips Up The Town
THE CLOCK at St. Mary's Church in Whitechapel
struck 1 a.m. A steward at the International Workmen'’s
Educational Club named Louis Diemschutz turned his cart
into Berner Street. It was Saturday morning, Sept. 30,
1888.
* The steward could hear people leaving the nearby pubs
as he steered his horse-driven cart through the club gates.
Suddenly his pony jumped up, almost sending Diemschutz
out of the cart. Thinking an obstacle was in the way, he
got down from the wagon and prodded around on the
street.
...
HIS LONG-HANDLED whip met with a soft object.
He struck a match and made out the form of a woman
huddled close to an adjacent wall. Jack the Ripper had kill
ed again, and several hours of terror were under way.
The woman found by the steward Diemschutz was
Elizabeth Stride, known as “‘Long Liz" to her customers
and friends. She was the fourth victim of Jack the Rip
per, having been killed one h’lkmdrids years ago tomorrow.
*
BUT SOMETHING is special about Sept. 30, for it was
the night of the double murder, the night when the
Whitechapel killer slit the throats of two innocent victims.
Elizabeth Stride was the first, to be followed by
Catherine Eddowes, who was mutilated in Mitre Square
less than 45 minutes after the first murder.
* * *
“LONG LIZ” Stride was lying on her left side across
the yard, with her head almost in line with the car
riageway. Her clothing was wet, but the ground beneath
her was dry. When Diemschutz found it, the body was still
warm. The woman could not have been dead for very long
before the steward arrived on the scene.
Less than an hour had passed before Constable Edward
Watkins discovered another body, this time in Mitre
Square, in the financial district of London. Her body had
been terribly mutilated.
* * *
IT IS INTERESTING to note that, while the first
body was discovered at 1 a.m., it was between 1:30 and
1:45 a.m. the same morning that the second murder oc
curred. This can be postively determined by the fact that
Mitre Square was patrolled by a constable every 15
minutes.
Tom Cullen, the author of a book about Jack the Rip
per, and the main source of my information, performed an
experiment by walking from Berner Street to Mitre
Square, a trip that took 10 minutes in daytime traffic. It
is possible, though, that the Ripper shortened the time by
the use of shortcuts known only to him.
* * *
CONSTABLE Watkins had passed through the Square
at 1:30 a.m. but saw nothing unusual. Yet, 15 minutes
later, his lantern revealed the form of a woman lying in
the southwest corner of Mitre Square.
This second murder shows the Ripper's bold audacity
and the fine precision of his timing. He had less than 45
minutes to meet his victim, lure her into a dark section
of the Square, slit her throat, and perform extensive,
painstaking mutilations.
* * *
BESIDES THAT, Nitre Square was accessible by three
entrances, Nitre Street, Duke Street, and St. James’ Place,
to be exact. The Square was often used as a shortcut us
ed by people returning from an evening at the pub. And
yet neither the police nor any pedestrians saw the killer.
Major Henry Smith, the acting police commissioner for
the London area, was on the scene at Mitre Square within
a quarter of an hour. Although he didn't know it at the
time, his police force had been indirectly responsible for
the woman's death.
* * *
CATHERINE Eddowes had been in police custody less
than an hour before she was murdered, having been ar
rested for disorderly conduct. She was released a little
after 1 a.m., staggering out into the night and into the clut
ches of Jack the Ripper.
Major Smith was not destined to have a profitable in
vestigation, for throughout he would find himself one step
behind the Whitechapel killer. Smith was able to trace the
route that the Ripper had escaped by, following hint from
the Square to Houndsditch and Middlesex Streets to
Goulston Street, then on to Dorset Street.
* * *
IT WAS THERE that the Ripper had paused to wash
see COMMENTARY, page 5-A
Commentary
By Buddy Roberts