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VOLUME CIV — NUMBER VIII
Pleas Give County Cash, Cars
Superior Court Action Result Of Drug Raid In October
Chattooga County has end
ed up more than SIB,OOO richer
and the owner of four vehicles,
including a 1985 Mercedes,
following the guilty plea of two
suspects in a cocaine case.
Meanwhile, the February-
March term of Chattooga
County Superior Court is ex
pected to end Friday after
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TWO INMATES SLEEP ON MATTRESSES ON FLOOR IN JAIL
Four Prisoners Housed In One Cell Now Common
Prison Overcrowding
Problem Hits County
McConnell: ‘Moral Revolution’ One Solution
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
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There are only two permanent solutions
to the problem o¥overcrowding in the state
prisons and county jails of Georgia, accor
ding to Chattooga County Sheriff Gary
McConnell.
One is ‘‘a moral revolution so that peo
ple would quit committing so many
crimes.” The other is building more jail bed
spaces. But there may not be enough time
or money for the second solution to work,
Sheriff McConnell said.
HIT HARD
The Chattooga jail has been among
those hardest hit by the overcrowding pro
blem in the state prison. On a recent (?ay,
the 47-bed facility housed 71 prisoners and
two more were incarcerated in the jails of
Bartow and Walker Counties, the sheriff
said. Of the total, 43 were awaiting transfer
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what prosecutors called a pro
ductive two weeks.
James Hammond, 41,
Rome, and Iva Nell Haynes,
39, Summerville Rte. 4, each
pled guilty to drug charges this
past Thursday. Judge Joseph
“Bo" Loggins sentenced Ha
mond to ég years with five to
be served in prison. Ms.
to the state prison system.
None of tfie Chattooga jail inmates is
being housed for other counties or outside
municipalities, McConnell said.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris said in mid-
February that the state would open three
new correctional facilities immediately
although they haven't been completed and
begin transferring state prisoners from
county jails to the new prisons. But
McConnell said Friday that he hadn’t
received any indication from the state that
it would pick up any of its prisoners now
being held in the county jail.
FEDERAL LIMIT
The county may be close to violating a
federal court order that limits over
crowding in the jail to a maximum of 20
prisoners (or 67) not to exceed 20 days per
month.
There were 3,836 state prisoners
languishing in city and county jails in a re
cent count, said p[cConnell, a member of
the Georgia Board of Public Safety. Coun
ty and city jails in the state have 11,079
see PRISON, page 15-A
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1989
Haynes was sentenced to 15
years on probation.
FORFEITURE
As part of the plea negotia
tion, %{ammong and Ms.
Hafynes agreed consent to the
forfeiture of $18,014.51 in cash,
a 1985 Mercedes, a 1984 com
pact pickup truck, a 1982
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model sports car and an older
pickup truck.
The vehicles and cash were
seized at the Hammond-
Haynes home in the Silver Hill
community on Sept. 29, 1988
by the Chattooga Sheriff’s Of
fice. The district attorney’s of
fice then filed civil condemna
tion froceedings against the
vehicles and cash, contending
that they were obtained
through the sale of drugs.
Originally, $17,707 in cash
was seized but the money has
been in an interest-bearing ac
count since that time. gl‘he
money was hidden in the
vehicles and on the suspects,
Sheriff Gary McConnell said at
the time.
COCAINE
A glass vial containing
susEected cocaine and a knife
with suspected cocaine residue
was found during an initial
search, he said. A second
search warrant was executed
at the residence, McConnell
said, and lawmen were aided
during their search by a drug
sniffing dog from Murray
County.
The sheriff said one of the
dogs led officers to a toilet in
the residence where Dep. Bill
Blackwell removed a plastic
bag containing about a half-’
ounce of suspected cocaine. |
The shen’fl said at the time |
that he sus(?ected the coupl’e"
was using Chattooga Countfi
as a base from which to se
drugs in Floyd County.
ACQUITTALS
Meanwhile, a jury Tuesday
acquitted Eddie Lamar ‘‘Mar
ty” Reed on charges of
violating the GCSA. However,
the pané convicted his compa
nion, Travis Joe Little on drug
and other charges. Chief Inv.
Ron Turner of the Chattooga
Sheriff's Office said Little
received eight years.
Meanwhile, the trial of
Gregory London, charged with
violating the GCSA ended with
an acquittal Wednesday
afternoon.
The cases of at least 64 in
dividuals had been discFosed of
in court by noon Wednesday,
including trials and pleas.
BURGLARY PLEAS
Two suspects that the
Chattooga County Sheriff’s
Department said it caught
“red-handed” in the burglary
of a Silver Hill community
home in early February pled
guilty to two counts of
burglary after their trial had
started late last week.
Terry Stallings, 31, Cedar
Bluff, Ala.. and George Ed-
Deadli
The general contractor for
the adgition to Pennville
School has been given until Fri
day, March 17, to correct all
de%ciencies in the building or
the Chattooga County Board
of Education will declare the
firm in default and call on its
bonding company to complete
the job.
The notification to Tim
Moses of Diamond Back Con
struction Co., Atlanta, came
from Glenn Rauschenberg of
Kirkman and Associates, the
Dalton architectural firm
responsible for designing and
overseeing the project.
LATEST
The deadline is the latest in
a series of developments con
cerning the four-cElssroom ad
dition, which was supposed to
have been completed gy Dec. 1,
1988, according to Don Hayes,
Chattooga school superinten
dent. “a’e're three months
behind already,” he said.
The Chattooga Board of
Education tour(_efi the site on
see MARCH 17, page 9-A
ward Davis Daniel, 26, Rome,
entered the plea about 9:30
a.m, Thursday to two counts of
burglary each.
Judge Loggins sentenced
them each to 10 years in prison
on each count, to be served con
currently. They are also
wanted on burglary charges in
rXiighboring Cherokee County,
a.
They were arrested on Feb.
3 by Invs. Greg Latta and
Larry Kellett immediately
after a burglary at the home of
Randy Bryan, Poplar Springs
Road. Bryan caught the two
men and called lawmen, who
spotted the pair in a car on
Silver Hill Road. The stop was
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Resurfacing
Pact Okayed
A contract was awarded
this past Friday on resurfacing
U.S. Highway 27 from the
Floyd County line north to
Summerville.
The Georgia Department of
Transportation awarded the
geontract to C. W. Matthews
Construction Co., Marietta.
The firm had submitted a low
bid of $498,831.80 for the pro
ject: Work is supposed to be
completed by Oct. 31 of this
year.
Matthews is the same firm
that widened U. S. 27 between
Summerville and Trion.
The latest contract calls for
resurfacing 8.020 miles of U. S.
27 from the county line to
University Circle in
Summerville.
DOT officials said earlier
that the project would exclude
three mif:zs between the north
foot of Taylors Ridge to the
Chattooga River bridge. The
state eventually plans to widen
the stretch to three lanes.
Cherokee Eyeing Landfill
Commission Chief Awaits Results Of Tests
Officials in Cherokee Coun
ty, Ala., are taking a ‘‘wait and
see'’ attitude toward the pro
gosed site of a new Chattooia
ounty landfill located near the
Georgia-Alabama state line.
Phillip Jordan, probate
judge and chairman of the
Cherokee County Board of
Commissioners, said he is
awaiting results of soil tests at
the 15%-acre site at Chat
toogaville before deciding what
action to take.
Chattooga Commissioner
Jim Parker in late January
took an option on the Busbin
estate J)roperty for a new coun
ty landfill. The tract is located
south of the Chattoogaville-
Holland Road and east of
Highway 114. Parker said at
Saturday Sing To Aid Hospital
A benefit gospel singing for Chattooga County Hospital
will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday in the cateteria of Chattooga
High School.
The Talleys, cited as one of Christian music's most
popular groups, will be the featured group.
Advance tickets are $6 and tickets at the door will be
$7. They are available at the main office and all branches
of Farmers and Merchants Bank, Lane and Erwin-Petitt
Funeral Homes, Purcell’s Union 76, Bankson Tire and Oil
Co., Sentell’s Alignment and Stansell's Furniture Co.
SPONSOR
The program will be sponsored by Fellowship Bafptist
Church, South Trion, to aid the Chattooga Cares fund
raising campaign for the hospital.
A goal 0¥5200,000 has been set to allow the hospital
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the time that the property was
more than a mile from the state
line.
CONCERNED
Jordan said residents of
Cherokee County are concern
ed that the landfill might
pollute the Chattooga River
and thereby Weiss Lake. The
lake is one of the county’s top
money-makers and tourist
attractions.
The Cherokee commissioner
has contacted the Alabama
Department of Environmental
M anagement about the propos
ed landfill. He also asked
Parker to send him a map of
the proposed landfill location.
After receiving the map, Jor
dan said the tract was where he
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thought it was located.
The Alabama DEM told
him that it had already been in
contact with the Environmen
tal Protection Division (EPD)
of the Georgia Department of
Natural Resources about the
landfill site, Jordan added. He
also personally called Jim Dun
bar, program manager for the
EPD.
TEST RESULTS
Jordan learned that the pro
ject is in the preliminary stages
and that no final decision on
the site has been made by the
county or state. Tests on the
site conducted by Hill-Fister
Engineering Inc., Clarkston,
were completed about two
weeks ago. Jordan said he
to pay off its current short-term indebtedness, ensure its
long-term financial survival and attact new physicians to
the community.
Almost $70,000 of the goal has been reached. Net Ero
ceeds from the concert Saturday night will go in the Chat
tooga Cares treasury.
More information about the program may be obtained
from the Rev. Tim Hall, pastor of Fellowship, at 895-4520
or 857-4761.
TALLEYS
The Talleys trio is composed of brothers Kirk and Roger
Talley and Rol%(ler‘s wife, Debra.
Roger and Kirk grew up singinrlg with their Ig)earents and
sister in a family group in East Tennessee. Debra, while
see SATURDAY, page 9-A
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wanted to know results of the
tests and has sent a formal let
ter to the EPD asking for the
data as soon as it is available.
The EPD said it would comp
ly with his request, Jordan
said.
Any action by the Cherokee
board will depend on results of
those tests, Jordan said. If
there is any possibility that the
Chattooga River and Weiss
Lake might be polluted or en
dangered by the landfill, ‘‘then
we're going to fight,” Jordan
said.
The EPD told him that if
enough interest was created
over the landfill proposal, it
would hold a hearing,
presumably in the Chat
see CHEROKEE, page 8-A