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Chattooga Man Held In
Incident, Chase Sunday
A bond hearing will be held
Mondag in Rome for a Chat
tooga County man who faces
kndnapgmg. assault and multi
ple traffic charges in connec
tion with an incident involvin
his estranged wife anfi
dau}%hter Sunda{l evening.
omel{)olice ave charged
Robert Holland Strawn, 32,
Holland community, with kid
papfimg. possessing a firearm
in the commission of a crime,
assault, criminal damage to
?roperty, obstruction of of
ficers and six traffic charies.
including speeding more than
105 mph.
PICKED UP
The incident occurred late
Sunday and Strawn sur
rendered to Chattooga Sheriff
GarY McConnell at the home of
a relative in Holland Monday
afternoon. Strawn was picked
up by Rome police an hour
later and taken to the Floyd
County Jail to await the bond
hearing.
Asst. Chief Hubert Smith
of the Rome Police Depart
ment, said officers received a
call about an alleged kidnapfi)-
ing at 3:sesdp.m. Sunday at the
FlOfid Medical Center (FMC)
par i:g deck. Rome officers
spotted a pickup truck that
was reportedly involved in the
incident heading north on Mar
tha Berry Boufi:vard at Fifth
Avenue, the assistant chief
said. They turned around and
attempted to stop the vehicle
with b?ue lights and a siren but
it sped away, Chief Smith
continued.
CHASE
Two Rome patrol cars,
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Floyd police, the Georgia State
Patrol and the Georgia Game
and Fish Commission Ear
ticipated in the chase north on
3} § Hifihway 27 before it end
ed in the wcini%y of Scenic
Road and Little Texas Valley
Road at Armuchee, said Rome
Det. Marshall Smith.
Chief Smith said a handgun
was brandished during the
chase but added that it was
unclear whether Strawn had
allegedly pointed the gun at
himself.
After a tire on his truck ap
garently blew out, Strawn and
is daughter, Holly, 8, left the
truck and ran into a nearbg'
wooded area, Chief Smith said.
Strawn told him that he
?icked up his daughter and ran
or at least five miles through
the woods before stopping, said
Sheriff McConnelr Strawn
never explained how he and his
daughter l§ot from Armuchee
back to Holland, the sheriff
said. The little girl was never
harmed, McConnell added.
SWAT
Members of the Floyd
S§>ecial Weapons And Tactics
(SWAT) scl:md assisted in the
search of the woods where the
truck was abandoned, drawing
television news crews from
Atlanta late Sunday. The
search ended at dark.
Sheriff McConnell said
F{x’yd lawmen offered their
SWAT team to him Monday,
but he told them it wasn't
needed in the case.
The sheriff said he called
Strawn’s father Monday and
asked him to meet at the jail at
2:15 p.m. McConnell said he
gave the suspect’s father until
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3:30 %m. to have his son at the
jail. The father came back at
that time and said Holland
Strawn would surrender only
to the sheriff at the home of a
relative in the Holland com
munity. McConnell said he
drove to Holland and Strawn
surrendered feacefully without
incident at 4 p.m.
BACK TO ROME
Detective Smith picked
Strawn up at the jail in Sum
merville at 5 g.m. Monday and
carried him back to Rome to
face the charges.
Approval Of Letter
On Landfill Awaited
A letter agproving a 50-acre
tract in the Perennial Springs
community for a new Chat
tooga County landfill had not
been siéned' at midweek but
state officials said the delay
was due to normal processing.
The letter had been ex
pected to be signed late last
week or early this week by
Harold F. Reheis, assistant
director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Natural %esources,
Environmental Protection
Division. EPD officials said
early last week that the letter
was being drafted for Reheis’
aEproval and signature later in
the week or early this week.
FEW DAYS
An EPD official said
Wednesday that the letter had
been sent to Reheis but had not
been returned to the Land Pro
tection Branch. ‘lt usually
takes a few days before it gets
back to us,” he said.
Recreation Meet
The monthly meeting of the
Summerville Recreation Board
has been changed from next
Tuesday to next Wednesday.
The panel will meet at tKe
Bolling fioad recreation center
at 6 p.m.
McConnell said the incident
apparently evolved out of a
domestic dispute Sunday.
Strawn had custody of his
children this past week and had
returned them to his estrang
ed wife, Martha, the sherfif
said. Both showed up at FMC
Sunday afternoon to visit the
same relative and an argument
broke out near the hospital, the
sheriff said. Strawn then
reportedly took his daughter
with him and left in a truck,
Kzomptin§ the kidnapping call,
cConnell continued.
The letter will mean that
the county's engineering com
pany may Iproceed with draw
ing a development and opera
tions plan for the site. Before
an actual operating permit is
issued by tgg EPIf Ehat plan
must first be submitted to the
state for its okay.
At least one leader of the
fight against the landfill in the
Perennial area hinted late last
week that a lawsuit may be fil
ed after approval for the site is
granted by the EPD.
Dropout
Program
Planned
Tommy Toles, editor of The
Summerville News, will par
ticipate in one of several
statewide interagency forums
next Wednesday on students
at risk of dropping out of
school.
The Save Our Students
forum will be sponsored by the
State Department of Educa
tion, the Chatsworth-Murray
County Chamber of Commerce
and the Dalwhichcom Founda
tion. It will be held at Dalton
College.
Save Our Students is a
Georgia Interagency Network
for Youth at Risk program
developed by the Division of
Program Development and
Student Support of the State
Department of Education.
PROBLEMS
Toles is expected to discuss
the problems that communities
face with uneducated youth
and to propose action that
might helg alleviate the
dropout problem. He will be on
an ‘‘action” panel with Bill
Yarbrough of D&W Carpet and
Rug Inc., and Lilian Miller,
representing the juvenile
justice system.
The program will _be
moderateg bf' Kate Pannell,
stay-in-school coordinator of
the Murray County school
sKstem, and Marilyn Beck of
the Georgia Department of
Education.
The forums are being held
around the state through the
end of this year.
The Summerville News
revealed in January, 1987, that
the Chattooga schools had the
highest dropout rate in the
state. The newspaper has been
active in promoting solutions
to the dropout problem in the
county schools since that time.
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J. P. Thornberry, second from right, was
presented with a special plaque for his 25
years of service with the Menlo Fire
Department last week at The Lookout
restaurant. Making the presentation were
The Summerville News, Thursday, October 27, 1988 ...
department members from left, Ronnie
Watkins, Charles Davis, John Van Horn,
Fred Frazier, Malcolm Burrage, Sammy
Frazier, David Luther and Sid Swords.
(Staff Photo By Buddy Roberts).
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