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Trion Child Dies
At Bottom Of Hole
A 4-year-old Trion
youngster drowned Monday
afternoon when he accidental
ly fell into a hole dug for a sep
tic tank in Summerville.
He was Jonathan Eugene
Society To Buy
Old Train Depot
The Chattooga County
Historical Society Sunday ap
Bank Hit By
Armed Robber
A search was on Wednes
day night for a man who
robbed a drive-in window at
Farmers and Merchants
Bank in Summerville at 5:33
p.m., according to Chattooga
County Sheriff Gary McCon
nell. No one was injured.
The robber, who brandish
ed a pistol, escaped with an
undetermined amount of
money. He was described as
a white man about 45 years
old, s’B"’ and weighing about
175 Ibs. A description of the
get-away car was not im
mediately available.
The sheriff’s office, Sum
merville police and the
Federal Bureau of Investiga
tion were working on the
case.
Sales Tax Revenue Down From Same Period In 88
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Sales tax revenue for Chat
tooga County’'s government
ans for local schools came in at
a significantly slower pace dur
ing the first three months of
this year than it did during the
first quarter of 1989, according
to Georgia Department of
Revenue figures.
If that trend continues
through year's end, the county
may endy up with less money
for road and bridge work than
it had in 1988. And both the
Loving Writing
--See Page 1-B
The & __nmerville News
Staff Photo By Rich Jefferson
LUMBER SCATTERED ACROSS SOUTHBOUND LANES OF COMMERCE STREET
Truck Driver Critically Injured In Freak Mishap Friday Morning
Reynolds, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Johnny Wayne Reynolds, 30
11th St., Trion. Funeral ser
vices were held at 4 p.m.
Wednesday at the West
Washington Avenue Church of
proved the purchase of the old
Summerville train depot, to be
used as the society’s meeting
place and museum. _
Penn Place at Trion, the
site of Sunday's meetini, was
also officially named to the Na
tional Register of Historic
Places. Penn Place is owned by
William and Pat Selman.
PURCHASE DEPOT
Jerry Sprayberry, new
society presiSent, presented an
executive committee resolution
suggesting purchase of the
depot to house a meeting room
for the society, as well as its ar
chives and museum. The
building was formerly operated
by Caswell and Susan Huff as
a crafts shop.
“We had hoped to use the
old superintendent’s office for
our museum, but we would
have to pay for installing an
elevator, and other expenses if
we used it,"”" Sprayberry said.
“The deflot is almost original,
and it's big enough for our ar
chives, museum, and meeting
place.”
see SOCIETY, page 15-A
Chattooga and Trion city
school systems could end u
with an unanticipated shortfa.fi
of funds from tfiat source.
As a general rule, sales tax
revenue is an indicator of
economic activity in a
community.
COUNTY TOTALS
The county government
received $333,807.61 in
January, February and March,
the state said, $60,694.43 less
than the $383,184.06 it receiv
ed during the comparable
period in 1988.
Combined sales tax revenue
for the schools during the first
quarter of this year was
$331,093.17, some g 52.090.89
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 198¢
God of Prophecy in Summer
ville with the Revs. D. C. Wim
pie and Wrathburn Cash of
ficiating. Interment was in
Summerville Cemetery.
ONE HOUR
The child was pronounced
dead in the emergency room of
Chattooga County Hospital at
2:20 p.m. Monday after
medicaY ersonnel had worked
franticalgf for an hour trying to
revive him, said Chief Inv. Ron
Turner of the Chattooga Coun
ty Sheriff's Office.
Jonathan and his parents
were visiting relatives on Old
River Road when the child
evidently wandered away and
fell into a hole which had ap
parently been dug for a septic
tank, the investigator saicf.’ It
contained about three feet of
water from recent rains.
FOUND
The youngster had ap
parently been gone for only a
few minutes before his family
began looking for him, Turner
said. His father found
Jonathan under the muddy
water in the hole, the in
vestigator continued.
His family called the Chat
tooga Emergency Medical Ser
vice and then placed Jonathan
in a car and headed toward the
hospital, Turner said. They met
an ambulance enroute and
transferred the youngster to
the emeriency vehicle, he con
tinued, where lifesaving efforts
began.
But despite intensive ef
forts to save Jonathan, he
couldn’t be revived, Turner
said, calling the accident ‘‘a
terrible tragedy.”
less than during the first three
months of 1988.
SCHOOLS
Of the first quarter’s
receipts for schools, the Town
of Trion received $90,487.76,
some $9,216.73 less than the
1988 figure of $99,704.49.
Meanwhile, the county school
system has received
$240,605.41 so far this year,
$42,874.16 less than the 1988
figure of $283,479.57.
The .county government
received $1,464,797.84 durin
all of 1988 while both schoo%
systems received
$1,428,5641.22.
If the trend of the first
three months of 1989 con
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J.B. WHITE (R) RECEIVES PLAQUES
Presented By Ranger Fred Hall
J. B. White Gets
Surprise Of Life
J. B. White got the surprise
of his life and several g)hat
tooga Countians got a view
they're not apt to forget during
the 40th anniversary obser
vance of the High Point fire
tower Saturday afternoon.
Ranger Fred Hall of the
Chattooga Unit of the Georgia
Forestry Commission
presented White with two pla
ques. One honored the veteran
forester and fireman for his
contributions to forestry and
protection of forest lands in the
county during his more than 35
vears of service with the state.
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The other designated the
scenic area viewed from High
Point as the J. B. White Scenic
Area.
White, who helped build the
tower in 1949, had expected on
ly a program that would
observe the fire tower's 40th
anniversary. But Hall said a se
cond goal of the program all
along was to surprise White
with the honors.
Several visitors to the site
also had an opportunity to as
cend into the tiny room at the
top of the tower and hear an ex
see J. B. WHITE, page 14-A
tinues, the county government
would receive approximately
$1,335,228 by Dec. 31, a short
fall from last year of $129,569.
That would roughly approx
imate lost revenue for one
month in 1988.
PROJECTIONS
A projection of the school
figures — based on the first
three months — seems to in
dicate that total revenue by
year's end could be around
$1,324,372, a shortfall of
$104,169 from last year,
More specifically, the coun
ty schools could suffer a sales
tax shortfall of $82,157, down
to about $962,420 from the
1988 total of $1,044,577. Trion
Staff Photo By Earl McConnell
RESCUE WORKERS USE JAWS OF LIFE TO REMOVE INJURED TRUCK DRIVER
Load Of Lumber Shifted In Summerville, Causing Truck To Overturn
Driver Critical
After Accident
A Ringgold man was in
‘“‘critical” condition Wednes
day afternoon in the intensive
care unit (ICU) of a Rome
hospital after being injured in
a freak lumber truck accident
in downtown Summerville Fri
day morning.
He was identified as Terry
L. Green, 32, 2 North St., Ring
gold, a driver for Babb Lumber
Co., Ringgold. He was taken to
Floyd Medical Center, Rome,
after preliminary treatment for
head injuries at Chattooga
County Hospital.
Two other vehicles were
also involved in the accident, a
1989 station wagon driven by
Joel C. Keel, 31, Decatur, and
a 1978 model car driven by
John A. Cundiff Jr., 67, Sum
merville. Both were south
bound on Commerce Street
while the Green tractor-trailer
truck was headed north on the
same street at the time of the
accident.
Summerville police Sgt.
Larry Bennett sai(‘f the mishap
occurred at 11:20 a.m. Friday
as Green's lumber truck round
ed the curve on South Com
merce Street. The officer said
lumber on Green's truck ap
parently shifted as it headed
north on Commerce, broke the
restraining bands and caused
the trailer to overturn. It
traveled about 36 feet on the
sides of its left tires before
completely flipping on its side
and tossing lumber all the way
across the four-lane
thoroughfare, Bennett said.
As the trailer overturned, it
could receive $361,952 this
year, down some $22,012 less
than last year's total of
$383,964, if the current trend
continues.
Since distribution of sales
tax revenues to local govern
ments and schools usually oc
curs one to two months after it
is collected locally, the January
and February distributions
this year appear to reflect a
decrease in f(’)cal retail activity
during the Christmas shopping
season in 1988.
OVERSTATED?
Local merchants had told
The News shortlY after
Christmas that sales last year
were about the same as they
Lumber Fills Downtown Street
SHIFTED
had been during the 1987 yule
season. That assessment ap
pears to have been (zf)timistic
or overstated, based on the
latest sales tax figures from
the state.
ACTIVITY
Economic activity in the
county for this current calen
dar year may be more accurate
-3{ reflected in the sales tax
istributions for the second
quarter, which began April 1
and will end on June 30.
The possible shortfall could
create a problem for the coun
ty schoof)system, according to
Don Hai\;es. school superinten
dent. The system recorded a
small surplus in its sales tax
Oak View Delay
--See Page 3-A
caused the tractor to flip over
onto its left side, apparently
smashing Green against the
metal interior of the vehicle,
Sergeant Bennett speculated.
Some of the lumber crash-
Mrs. Bryant Has
Goal For County
Esther Bryant has a dream
that Chattooga County will one
day be one of the cleanest coun
ties in Georgia.
After broaching the idea of
a Clean Community Commis
sion (CCC) with the Summer
ville Mayor and Council a cou-
Ele of weeks ago, she found
erself as chairman of the
group. And after appointing
Mrs. Bryant chairman of the
CCC, it left it up to her to name
the group’'s other members.
She's stilrcompiling a list for
the panel, which will meet on
May 8.
COUNTYWIDE
She also plans to talk to
Chattooga Commissioner Jim
Parker about expanding the
CCC’s operations throughout
the county, as has been done in
neighboring Floyd County.
Mrs. Bryant, wife of the
Rev. Jimmy Bryant, pastor of
South Summerville Baptist
Church, has already talked
with the head of the Rome
ed over the southbound Keel
station wagon and the
smokestack on the truck broke
out the left rear window of the
car as it overturned, the officer
see DRIVER, page 8-A
Floyd CCC about her plans for
Summerville and Chattooga.
She was given some vitfeo
see BRYANT, page 6-A
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MRS. BRYANT
account during the 1987-88
fiscal year, he said. But if
there's a shortfall amounting
to $82,000 during the current
calendar year, the system may
not balance out during the cur
rent 1988-89 fiscal year, Hayes
indicated.
If the system gets in a tight
financial situation because of a
shortfall in the sales tax ac
count this year, it might have
to postpone some school equip
ment and furniture purchases,
the superintendent said.
UNAWARE
Hayes, like other officials
contacted by The News, was
unaware of this first quarter's
see SALES TAX, page 6-A
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