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VOLUME CIII - NUMBER XXXVIII
Lester Maddox
Attacks Dukakis
Visits Summerville On Tour
Former Georgia Gov.
Lester Maddox swelpt through
Chattoofia County last Friday
on a whirlwind tour of the state
and blasted presidential can
didate Michael Dukakis as a
“revolutionary socialist’’ mas
queradir:f as a Democrat.
Maddox was near the
blelginning O{u' a IhlOa:ounty
ilgrimage thro eorgia
gngn a s%x-stateutgour of Sle
South, asking voters not to
support Dukakis, the
Democratic Party's nominee.
ACLU
If Chattooga Countians
vote for Dukafiis, they'll be
“voting against their home,
their safety on the streets,
security in their homes and
against our private, free enter-
Frise system,” charged the
ormer Democratic governor.
They'd be voting “the way
Tax Digest Increases Slightly
Levy May Be Set Next Week;. Officials Expecting Factgr By State
Chattooga County’s net
1988 countywide tax digest
shows an increase of
$1.6-million more than the
1987 digest. The factored total
last year was $182,298,600 and
the 1988 figure is
$183,957,117.
But most local tax officials
are convinced that the State
Revenue Department will fac
tor the 1988 digest, perhaps by
as much as 15 percent. It was
factored by 7 percent in 1987.
TAX LEVY
The Chattooga Board of
Education is expected to set its
Prison Construction ‘On Track’
Winter Interior Work Planned; Cells
Hays Correctional Institu
tion is still scheduled to be
completed by early 1990
although construction delays
were encountered at the begin
ning of the massive
$23.8-million project east of the
Pennville community.
About 70 percent of the ex
terior of the main ad
ministrative and service com
plex has been completed, accor
ding to Mike McConnell,
éeneral superintendent for
arlson Southeast Corp., prime
contractor for the Eroject.
About 60 Ipercent of the main
concrete slab in the 1,100-foot
long structure has been poured,
The first report cards of the
1988-89 school year will be
given to students in the Chat
tooga County school system
next Tuesday.
Parents and school officials
are anxiously awaiting the
grades to see if they are Eetter
than those of a year ago.
During the first six weeks
of the 1987-88 school term, 41
percent of the students failed
one or more subjects. That
figure had dipé)ed to 28.5 per
cent by the end of the final six
week grading period this past
spring.
75 PERCENT
Will Hair, vocational super-
@he Summerville News
Jane Fonda wants them to
vote, the way Ortega
(Nicaraguan dictator) wants
them to vote, the wvt;,y (U, S.
House Sfi)eaker) Jim Wright —
wants them to vote, the way
the American Civil Liberties
Union (ACLU) wants them to
vote,”” Maddox said.
Displaying his traditional
energy by zlgfiving from one
voter or official to another at
the Chattooga Courthouse Fri
day afternoon, Governor Mad
dox handed out copies of his
anti-Dukakis booklet, ‘A Call
To Duty.” He was greeted by
Jon Payne, probate judge;
Lann Cordle, clerk of court;
Sheriff Gary McConnell and
courthouse employees during
his brief visit to Summerville.
He arrived a few minutes
late but said it was the only
time he'd been overdue for an
see LESTER MADDOX, page 10-A
tax levy for this year at its Oc
tober meeting next Monday
night. Commissioner Harry
Powell hasn'’t indicated public
ly when he plans to set the
county’s tax rate for 1988, but
that action will come after the
school board sets its levy.
Although the overall net
digest is higher this year than
in 1987, at least one member of
the county’s Board of Tax
Assessors said he can't unders
tand why this year’s real pro-
Fert{ (buildings, land) digest
ell by more than a ?luarter
million dollars below the 1987
figure.
added Rick Nelson, field
superintendent for the job.
Crews are working to dry in
the huge complex bef%re winter
so interior construction can
continue through cold or incle
ment weather, they said. All
the roof decking for the main
building has been installed and
roofers will begin work on Mon
day, Oct. 17,%:5_130n said.
Approximately 30 percent
of the overhead piping, plum
bing, security systems and ap-
R/}lrtenances are in place,
cConnell said. Installation of
security doors and window
Chattooga’s First Report Card Due Tuesday
DRY IN
visor for Chattooga High
School, said that school has set
a goal this year that 75 percent
Special Report
By The News
What Can Be Done
About Chattooga
County’s Dropout Rate?
of its students will pass all
their subjects. ‘“We cannot
reach this goal without parents
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1988
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FORMER GOV. LESTER MADDOX (L) CAMPAIGNS AGAINST DUKAKIS
Gives Booklet On Demo Nominee’s Record To Lann Cordle
Hugh Don Hall, county tax
commissioner, said Monday
that he had given the digest
figures to Commissioner
Powell and Don Hayes, coun
ty school superintendent, late
last week.
GROSS DIGEST
The gross countywide
digest is $197,186,890, up
$1,645,000 from the 1987
figure of $195,541,890.
Various homestead and
agricultural exemptions pro
duced a bond digest of
$191,887,624, up $1,619,150
from the 19897 total of
frames will be installed in the
main complex in the immediate
future, he and Nelson said.
When the drying in of the
massive administrative
building is completed, ‘‘We'll
have plenty of places to work
on in the winter,” McConnell
said, including interior
masonry walls, partitions,
plumbing and electrical
systems. By next spring,
Carlson Southeast hopes that
all interior work except hang
ing drlywall and painting will be
completed in the structure.
SCHEDULE
A new completion schedule
hel%‘ing,” he said.
he coun? system has had
the worst dropout rate in
Geor?'a for two consecutive
school terms. Georgia's overall
dropout rate is one of the worst
in the nation. .
“A good education is the
most valuable asset a young
person can achieve,’’ Hair con
tinued. ‘‘To help parents assure
that their chi{)dp receives the
best possible education, the
county school system provides
a homework hotline from 4:30
to 6:30 p.m. Monday through
Thursday to answer students’
questions.”’
A total of 479 calls was
placed to the hotline during the
Supportive Employment
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$190,268,474.
Additional exemptions pro
duced the net countywide
digest figures.
Several county tax officials
who didn’t want to be quoted
by name speculated that the
state will again factor the coun
tfi's digest. Most estimated
that the factor could be as
much as 15 percent this year.
If those fears prove true, it
would mean that the digest
would end up being factoreg by
22 percent in two years.
FINAL YEAR
This will be the final year
To Be Built Next Spring
was drawn last week, Nelson
said, and plans still call for
finishing work on the entire
prison facility by late January
or early February, 1990. “We'd
like to finish it earlier,” he said.
Actual construction work was
delayed at the beginning of the
project because of numerous
construction change orders
issued by the state and incle
ment weather that ranged from
torrential rains to a one-foot
snowfall. Construction crews
are rapidly making up that lost
time and the project should be
back on schedule by the time
the 1988-89 winter is over,
Nelson said.
that the state will factor coun
ty diFests. However, under cur
rent law, unless counties assess
property at a true 40 percent of
market value, they could have
their highway and road grant
funds cut off, beginning in
1991. The change in state law
is forcing many counties to
begin massive and costly
evaluation programs.
James D. Millican, a
member of the Board of Tax
Assessors who was named by
Powell in late summer to serve
as office manager of the Tax
Assessors office, was puzzled
see TAX DIGEST, page 16-A
All steel for the main com
plex has been erected but the
steel girders for the guard
towers and prison dormitories
have yet to be put in place,
Nelson and McConnell said.
50 PERCENT
Roughly 50 percent of the
site concrete for driveways and
walkways has been poured,
Nelson noted, and par? of the
security road system has been
installed. Visitor parking areas
and heavy duty asphalt for the
main complex should be install
ed within three weeks, Nelson
continued.
see PRISON, page 16-A
1987-88 school year.
Hair noted that the county
system also offers a tutorial
?rogram for students in grades
ive through 12. “Last year,
8717 hours of tutoring were held
with the result that grades im
proved significantly during the
year,” he said.
Most businesses in the
county have indicated that
they d‘:m't plan to hire students
on a fulltime basis until the
have graduated or in a schooft
sponsored vocational
cooperative program, Hair
noted. The agreement is in
coot)eration with the school
system and the Chattooga
Local Industry,
Garbage Firms
Down In Dumps
Commercial garbage collec
tion companies and the largest
two industries in Chattooga
County this week were feeling
the pinch of a directive that
prohibits them from using the
existing county landfil% on
Penn Bridge Road.
Commissioner Harry
Powell announced in last
Thursday’'s edition of The
Summerville News that onl
the City of Summerville, whici;
holds title to the landfill, would
be allowed to dump garbage in
the facility after last Saturday.
PROHIBITED
All industries and commer
cial haulers were sFecifically
prohibited by Powell from us
ing the landg;ll after this past
weekend. He did say that small
amounts of garbage hauled in
picku% trucks or automobiles
could be dumped in the facili
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Missy Cash, a senior at Chattooga Coun
ty High School, is shown being crowned
1988-89 homecoming queen during
halftime of the CHS-Lakeview-Fort
Oglethorpe football game Friday night.
Chamber of Commerce
Additional telephone lines
have also been adged to each
school and parents whose
children fail are asked to call or
visit their schools for help in
working with those students,
Hair continued. !
STILL PASS
Students who fail the first
six weeks still have a chance to
pass for the quarter or
semester and receive credit, he
noted.
The Chamber of Commerce
Education Committee, headed
by Hair, last June passed a
resolution saying that in seven
years 50 percent of Chattooga
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ty until a new landfill is
selected and opened. :
All the industries and
private haulers contacted by
The News said they first learn
ed about the order by reading
about it in last Thursday's edi
tion of the newspaper. Some
said they also received a letter
from Powell late last week.
APPROVAL
Meanwhile, the Geologic
Survey branch of the state E’l
vironmental Protection Divi
sion, indicated late last week
that it planned to recommend
agproval of a 50-acre tract near
the Perennial Springs com
munity for a new landfill.
David Simonson of the
Survey also said Tuesday that
he expected the recommenda
tion to be forwarded to the Pro
gram branch of the EPD this
week for a decision on whether
CHS Homecoming Queen
High's students would
graduate from high school.
System-wide figures on the
pass-failure rate in the county
system are expected to be
made available to The News by
Homework Hotline
857-3447
the end ot next week
TIPS
Hair also cited suigest.ions
on how parents could help their
students during the current
to approve a permit for the
Perennial site. He said he
wasn't sure whether surface
water from the proposed land
fill site flowed west toward
Alpine Creek or east toward
Raccoon Creek.
Perennial area residents
have protested use of the site
as a landfill, saying that they
fear it could in future years
pollute Raccoon Creek, the
main source of Summerville’s
water. The city also turned
down the site after receiving
complaints from residents.
CONTROVERSY
The landfill controversy has
gone on for more than a year.
Commissioner Powell’s order
last week was the latest occur
rence in a long train of events.
Although Powell said he
took the action last week
see LOCAL INDUSTRY, page 19-A
She is being crowned by Heather Hall,
last year's queen. Missy is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jackie Cash, Summer
ville. (Staff Photo By Earl McConnell).
school year. They were first
published in the New Jersey
Education Association Review
in 1981. They follow:
“Everzone remembers
homework! Some of us
remember it as an opportunity
to practice what we've learned
in the classroom; to review and
expand or to explore new ideas;
to complete projects without
the time restrictions of the
school day.
“On the other hand, others
of us viewed homework as
nothing more than punishment
= imlposipion, wasting
precious play time.
“Parents, too, are of dif
see CHATTOOGA'S, page 19-A
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