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Court May Discuss
Status Of Overtime
Chattooga County Commis
sioner Harry Powell apparent
ly plans to let the courts deter
mine whether he must pay 26
Chatmoga deputies and nine
Bartow County deputies over
time for work guring the
reenactment of the Battle of
Chickamauga in September,
" ... I'had rather the court
decide as to whether or not this
is a legal debt of Chattooga
County.,” Powell said in an ad
published in this week’s edition
of The Summerville News.
Powell asked that the cost of
the ad be billed to the county
government.
10 DAYS
The ad also contains a let
ter written to Powell on Oct. 25
from Sheriff Gary McConnell
demanding that the county
pay the (fieputies “within 10
days of this date.”
The sheriff said Monday
afternoon that Powell had not
vet paid the deputies for their
work during the 125th anniver
sary reenactment. ‘‘The
deputies worked and they're
entitled to be paid,” the sheriff
said. 1 will do whatever is
necessary to bring it to a con
clusion and see tfiat they are
paid.”
Although he didn’t say so
directly Monday, there were in
dications that the sheriff does
plan to take the matter into
Chattooga Superior Court.
Powell afso is apparently con
vinced that the issue is headed
to court, based on his com
ments in the ad this week.
NOT OBLIGATED
“I do not feel that the tax
payers of Chattooga County
are obligated in any way to fur
nish parking, patrol assistance
I's Time For A Change!
ELECT
FONDREN WRIGHT
COMMISSIONER
SEE MY AD ON PAGE 7-A
OF OCT. 27 ISSUE
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for this organization who was
not sponsored by any Chat
tooga County group and who
left the scene with numerous
unpaid bills and damage to pro
perty . .."" Powell sm'a(fg‘l have
presented this to county at
torney, Ed Surles, and he
stated that he sees no obliga
tion of the commissioner’s of
fice to take care of these bills
and that it will be up to the
reenactment organization
which is the Georgia Division
Civil War Reenactment
Association Inc., managed by
Napoleonic Tactics 1nc..."
Powell sent a letter dated
Sept. 22 to NTI on Sept. 19 in
Trion demanding that it pay
$7,526.89. The total included
$5,473.69 in overtime to Chat
tooga defiuties, $1,450 in over
time to Bartow deputies and
$603.20 to Sheriff R’lcConnell
for rental of a command tent
near the reenactment site.
NO AGREEMENT
The commissioner in that
letter acknowledged to NTI
that there had been no advance
agreement between the county
and NTT over who was to pay
for the law enforcement costs.
“We find that there has been
no conversation nor
agreements concerning this ac
tion in the commissioner’s of
fice nor do we find anything on
the records in the commis
sioner’s office,” he said.
NTI said it couldn’t pay the
bill because of its financialy con
dition and that it wasn't
obligated to pay the bill.
McConnell said Monday
that Powell never told him that
NTI would have to foot the bill
for the work by his deputies
along U. S. 27 near the reenact
men% site until after the event
was over,
LOGIC?
“Saying NTI should pay
the countg' for traffic control
alonq‘U. .27 those two days
is like saym%‘ Riegel and
Georgia Rug should pay the
county for overtime if their
trucks had a wreck on U. S. 27
and we had to provide traffic
control at the site,”” Sheriff
McConnell said.
“It would also be like trying
to bill Lyerly or Jordan Gas Co.
for the extra hel? that was re
quired of my office last week
when the propane truck over
turned in the middle of town,"”
the sheriff said. ‘lt even gets
down to the county trying to
bill two peo‘i)le who ilnave a
wreck for a deputy providing
traffic control at tfie wreck, if
he (Powell) wants to try to
carry his reasoning to its
ultimate end.”
Federal Fair Labor Stan
dards Act officials are alread
inyglved in the case, the sheri&
said.
YULE, 1987
The county also still owes
Dep. Sgt. Jerry Davenport for
overtime he earned on a special
detail at Wal-Mart prior to
Christmas, 1987, the sheriff
said. That case is among those
being investigated by federal
officials, he added.
Powell refused to pay
Davenport at the time, saying
that the deputy was worKing
as a security guard on private
propertg'. McConnell said he
dispatched Davenport to work
inside and Outsicfia the store
because of the large number of
thefts during the Christmas
season at that location.
Fowler Given
Specialist Rank
Jimmy D. Fowler, son of
Carolyn and Alex Fowler, 136
Winton St., Summerville, has
been promoted to the rank of
specialist in the U. S. Army.
Fowler is a brid)ée
crewmember with the 12th
Engineer Battalion, West
Germany.
He is a 1986 graduate of
Chattooga High School.
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DOUGHBOY IN TRION TO BE MOVED
Rededication Set For 11 A. M. Nov. 11
Doughboy Statue
Dedication Set
A SPECIAL Veterans Day program will be held at 11
a.m. next Friday, Nov. 11, at the Chattooga County
Memorial Home to honor local veterans who have fought,
died or been wounded for the sake of freedom.
Highlight of the event will be the rededication of the
World War I doughboy memorial which is being moved
from Trion to a site in front of the memorial home.
The statue has been donated by Mount Vernon Riegel
Division to American Legion Post 129 and Veterans of
Foreign Wars Post 6688. It has been a mainstay at the
Trion park since its de:iicat,i.on e&rlier this century.
IT FEATURES the names of 475 Chattooga Countians
who served in World War I, including the names of 14 who
died in action during the “war to end all wars.”
Sewell Cash will serve as master of ceremonies at the
rrogram this year. Families of the World War I veterans
isted on the statue have a special invitation to attend the
Nov. 11 ceremony, along with surviving World War I
veterans. All veterans are also invited to attend the pro
gram, Cash emphasizeg. E T
LOCAL RESIDENTS listed as having been killed in the
war are J. E. Echols, Ben Perry, Charles Williams, J. H.
Helton, John Johnson, C. R. McCary, W. V. McCaulex,
A. E. McGrady, J. T. Montgomery, J. A. Kellett, A. A.
Rogers, C. F. gtrickland, J. R. Wooten and J. F. Young.
Trion Council Wants
More For Police Car
By RICH JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
The Trion Town Council
opened bids on three city
vehicles Thursday ni%ht. but
sold only two. Council
members said bids on a van
and a tractor were high
enough, but that the bids on
the town's old police car were
too low.
The van was sold to Larry
Maddox for $427 and the trac
tor was sold to D. L. Gilreath
for $1,226.
Other bids on the van in
cluded: Tommy Bartlett,
$422.52; Darty Westbrook,
$330; Monica grabtree, $210;
and Gill's Auto Sales, S3BO.
Other bids on the tractor in
cluded: Larry Maddox, $713;
Charles Logan, $678; Dartg'
Westbrook, $585; Don Brad
ford, $751; Danny Trammel,
$685; David Chesle{_s $400; Joe
Akren, $811; and Gill's Auto
Sales, $360.
There were three bids for
the police car. Darty
Westbrook bid $585, Gill's
Auto Sales bid $5lO, and Tom-
Fifth Annual Subligna Yolunteer Fire Dept.
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SATURDAY, NOV. s—ll A.M.-11 P.M.
AT THE SUBLIGNA FIRE HALL
CATFISH OR BAR-B-Q PORK PLATES
COUNTRY MUSIC PROVIDED BY
THE COUNTRY SATISFACTION BAND WILL BEGIN AT 7:30 P.M.
The Summerville News, Thursday, November 3, 1988 .
my Henderson bid $556.55.
Council members said the city
should coha';'ge $1,200 for the
ggé and v not to accept the
ids.
OTHER
In other business the Coun
cil heard several reports.
A total of 22 building per
mits for a total of $102,004 was
issued in the previous month.
Gasoline lines at Oak Hill
are almost completed and the
town has started hooking up
homes to the lines.
The new mixers for the
town’'s wastewater treatment
plant have not been delivered
yet, but the electronic hookups
are ready for their installation.
The town is still trying to
order a traffic light for the in
tersection of A?lgood Street
and Park Avenue.
Several of the town's
transformers contain a higher
level of carcinogens than the
recommended level, but at the
moment they seem to pose no
threat, said Councilman Larry
Stansell. He sat in for Mayor
Hol{lt Williams because
Williams was out of town.
TRANSFORMERS
“There is no legal problem
now. All it means now is that
if we had an accident or a spill
there would be an expensive
cleanup. It's not urgent,” he
said.
“When we replace those
things we have to pay someone
to store them from now on.”
The Councidfisproved mov
in%qits next scheduled meeting
to Nov. 22, a Tuesday, because
the Council's normalidy schedul
ed meeting would fall on
Thanksgiving Day. The Coun
cil also approved a motion to
give town employees two days
off for Thanksgiving,
The Council approved
$2,100 for improvements to
baseball fields, and said there
would soon be a called meeting
to consider ?ening a Trion
branch of the Chattooga Coun
ty Library.
Grant Okayed
A state grant to the
Lookout Mountain Judicial
Circuit has been renewed, ac
cording to Assistant District
Attorney David Dunn.
The grant of $10,300 will be
used for the District At
torney’'s Witness Assistance
Program, Dunn said.
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