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The Summerville News, Thursday, March 16, 1989
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EIGHT PARENTS ATTENDED DRUG AWARENESS SEMINAR
Support Wanted For Needed Program, Teacher Says
Attendance Bit Better
At Drug Abuse Meeting
A few more parents attend
ed a program Monday and
Tuesday at Summerville Mid
dle School to help educate them
about preventing drug abuse
than was the case in January.
The program, based on the
videotape, ‘‘Parent to Parent,”
generated little interest when
it was offered in late January.
“We had one parent to at
tend (in January), ' said Harry
Harvey, assistant principal at
the middle school. “It's good to
see more parents responding,
because we need all the support
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we can get.”" Eight parents at
tended the program Monday.
The ‘“Parent to Parent”
program is sponsored here by
the Northwest Georgia
Regional Education Service
Agency (RESA). It was in
stigated due to the high fre
quency of drug use in Nor
tlhwesl Gieorgia and to reduce
the rate among teen-agers.
The workshop consists of
three main topics that are
discussed by a ‘‘facilitator.”
Skills are taught that allow
parents to become more effec
tive and provide space for their
child to gecome a responsible
adult. Irene Covington is the
“facilitator” in Chattooga
County.
“If you care about kids, this
workshop is definitely for
vou,” Harvey said. "'lt's a good
program, and it's one we need
here. We'd like to see even
more support for it in the
future.”
The program will be held
again at the middle school next
N%onday and Tuesday, from 7
to 8:30 p.m.
Unemployment
Rate Rises
The level of unemployment
in Chattooga County jumped
by 2.4 points from December to
January, according to the
Georgia Department of Labor.
'l‘fio joblgss rate had fallen
from 8.9 percent in November
toa preliminarK 6.6 nercent in
December, which was the
lowest rate enjoyed by the
county in a year. However, the
Labor Department said this
week that the revised rate for
December was actually better
than first reported. The final
figure was 6.1 percent, making
the November to December
decrease 2.8 percent.
WIPED OUT
However, the increase from
the final December figure to
the preliminary January rate
meant that most of the
Christmas employment gains
were wiped out.
There was an indication
earlier this month that the
county would get some bad
news about January. The
Labor Department said the
number of jobless claims for
the county increased in
January over the December
figures.
Although the county didn’t
get good news about the
January figures, this year's
rate was still an improvement
over the January, 1988 rate of
12.3 percent.
A total of 9,094 Chattooga
Countians was employed in
January, the Labor Depart
ment said, compared with
9,140 in December and 8,379 in
January, 1988.
Some 850 people were
jobless in the county in
January, compared with 593 in
December and 1,176 in
January, 1988.
LABOR FORCE
The county's labor force
was 9,944 in January, com
pared with 9,733 in December
Brooks Faces
Cocaine Count
A Summerville man was
described as “‘a major drug
trafficker’” Wednesday after
being arrested in Chattanooga,
Tenn., and charged with
possessing a pound of
suspected cocaine.
Calvin Leroy Brooks, 36,
North Commerce Street, was
arrested at 7:10 am. Wednes
day by agents of the federal
Drug Enforcement Ad
and 9,555 in January, 1988.
Chattooga's rate in
January of this year was one of
the highest but not the highest
in the 10-county Coosa \gilley
Area Planning and Develop
ment Commission (CVAPDS)
region. Polk County, with a
jobless rate of 9.3 percent, had
the highest while Catoosa
again had the lowest rate at 4.4
percent.
The region's rate was 7 per
cent, up %rom 5.7 percent in
December and down from 8.3
percent in January, 1988.
Statewide, the jobless rate
increased from a revised 4.8
percent in December to 5.6 per
cent in January. The January,
1988 rate was 6.5 percent.
“Cutbacks in manufactur
ing, along with seasonal layoffs
in construction and trade,
coupled with an increased work
force, pushed the jobless rate
up in January, according to Joe
Tanner, commissioner of the
state labor department.
School
Grades Set
Next Week
Grade averages and
totals for the fourth six
week grading period in the
Chattooga County school
system were not available
this week as had been
anticipated.
Will Hair, vocational
director at Chattooga
High School, who compiles
the information, said the
information will be ready
in time for use in next
week's edition of The
News.
ministration (DEA) and Chat
tanooga Police Department
investigators.
Brooks was arraigned in
U. S. District Court at Chat
tanooga Wednesday afternoon.
No bond hearing had been set.
Chattanooga police said
Brooks was sitting in a parked
1985 model car at 1010 East
Third St. when he was
arrested.
In addition to the suspected
cocaine, police said they seized
$825 cash from BrooKs. The
suspected drug was valued at
$45,000.
Chattooga County Sheriff
Gary McConnell said his office
had been working on the case
with the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation, the DEA and
Chattanooga police.
The GBI and McConnell's
investigators Wednesday sear
ched Brooks apartment on
North Commerce Street and a
house he owns on Maple Drive
in Summerville. The sheriff
said no drugs were found.
Brooks is a retired Army
veteran, Chattanooga police
said.
Motorist
Killed
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ficer was also injured in a rear
end collision at 8:15 a.m. Fri
day, reported Patrol Sgt. Eddie
Ivie. He was identified as J. R.
Johnson, 46, Summerville Rte.
1. He was taken to Chattooga
County Hospital by the Chat
tooga EMS, treated and
dismissed.
PATROL CAR
Ivie said Johnson had stop
ped his southbound patrol car
at a traffic light on North Com
merce Street at First Avenue
at the time of the mishap. A
1975 model car driven by Nan
cy Gail Newton, 40, Lyerly
Ryte. 1, was also southbound on
Commerce Street but when she
applied her vehicle's brakes,
they failed to work, Ivie
reported. The impact knocked
Johnson's patrol car 34 feet.
An elderly Menlo couple
was hurt in a one-car accident
on Highway 337 just south of
Menlo at 8:45 am. Friday,
reported Sergeant Ivie. They
were identified as B. L.
Bankson, 85, and Francis
Bankson, 83, both of Menlo.
They were taken to Chattooga
County Hospital by the Chat
tooga EMS.
LEFT ROAD
Ivie said the B. L. Bankson
car was traveling south on the
roadway at the time of the ac
cident. It left the road in a
curve and traveled 96 feet
before hitting a concrete
culvert, he said. It vaulted 45
feet into the air and then
traveled another 45 feet after
landing, the report continued.
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