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.. .The Summerville News, Thursday, January 2, 1992
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Taxes, Landfill Top News In Last Half Of Year
from front page
Georgia Supreme Court of a Chattooga Superior Court order
that they keep off the properti\;rof a Chattooga farmer. The
canoeists had sought to float through the man’s property on
Armuchee Creek. e
* A representative of the countfy‘s engmeerm%‘firm was to
meet witfi state environmental officials about the status of
Chattooga’s existing landfill and its progosed new landfill.
* The Summervi%le City Council cut 'ghtin% for Mitchell
Field out of the recreation deiartment's budget. It also cut out
funds for a tennis court backboard. :
* Plans were being made for a trade show in Summerville.
* A private firm that has been conducting Chattooga’'s
revaluation program announced for the second time that tax
assessment notices would be mailed for 1990. They were sup
posed to have been mailed two weeks previously. The entire pro
ject was months behind schedule.
* A former Chattooga Jail inmate was being sought for
allegedly posing as former Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and
as tie Rev. Hosea Williams.
* The Chattooga County Historical Society heard about the
history of Cloudland at its annual J)icnic.
* It. Col. Jimmy Lenderman addressed the Summerville-
Trion Optimist Clug on Operation Desert Storm. Lenderman,
a U. S. Marine, participated in the event. He also served as a
pilot for former Presitfimt Ronald Reagan.
AUGUST
* Tax notices for 1990 were fllaced in the mail after
numerous delays. Meanwhile, the Chattooga County tax com
missioner asked for an extension from the state on filing the
county's 1991 tax digest.
. X report by an Atlanta political-business newsletter edited
by Bill Sgi(;)p irritated Chattooga Commissioner Jim Parker.
It claimed that Parker and four other commissioners may have
made a ‘‘deal’’ to sell local publicly owned landfills to a private
waste company, which would then haul in garbage from three
states. Parker said the report was false.
* Walker Commissioner Roy Parrish Jr. told a private solid
waste management company that had been the center of con
troversy that the county would not talk to it any more about
its services.
* Trion Councilman Larry Stansell pushed for action on solv
ing the Trion sewer plant’s pollution problems. The city is sup
sed to have the problem solved bly; Nov. 1 or face heavy fines
g'(:)m the state for polluting the Chattooga River.
* Questions surroundef the move of Century Glove Inc.
from Alabama to a new site in Summerville's Industrial Park.
The questions surrounded the company's dispute with the State
of Alabama over unemployment taxes, franchise taxes, and a
bankruptcy filing.
* The Town of Trion reduced its natural gas rates.
* One person was seriously injured and 10 more treated for
minor injuries suffered in a chemical accident at Mount Ver
non Mills, Trion. Plant officials indicated that two chemicals
mixed and caused a gas to form in the dye mixinidepartment.
* Hays Correctional Institution received high marks from
the American Correctional Association. The Pennville prison
was expected to be accredited by the ACA in 1991.
* Trion ap;;]roved a budget for 1991-92 that was more than
$1 million higher than for 1990-91.
* The City of Summerville's final budget for 1991-92 pro
jected a year-end surplus of $404,000.
* A New Vision program was proposed for Chattooga Coun
ty aimed at trying to reduce the county system’s high dropout
rate.
* Inez Harris was installed as president of American Legion
Post 129 auxiliary. Wilburn Jarrett was installed as post
commander.
* The First National Bank of Chattooga County was sued
by a FloKd County man for $1,050,000 for allegedly returning
}E checks improperly.
i * The City of Summerville Council was told that it may have
te raise water rates by up to 93 percent per month to meet the
demands of the water system’s bondholders.
* Commissioner Parker sought an extension from the state
on opgrating the county's Penngßridge Road landfill until Aug.
1, 1992.
* A teen-ager was indicted by the August term, 1991 grand
jury on aggravated assault charges in the slashing of another
teen-ager at Chattooga High Sciool in March, 1991.
* Vandals loosed 14 empty freiiht cars at Trion, causing one
of them to derail and bend a track, causing several thousand
dollars in damage.
* Century Glove Inc. had charged the State of Alabama with
falsehoods in documents filed after its appeal of an unemploy
ment tax assessment by the state.
* Rep. Tim Perry’s reapportionment plan to keep Chattooga
County in one state house district was approved with minor
chanfi‘es bgr the House Reapportionment (fi)mmitttee.
* The Summerville Recreation Board rejected ano pass, no
play proposal for the second year in a row.
* Kenneth Ivey, convicted of involuntary manslaughter of
a black teen-ager’s drowning in the summer, 1990, was releas
ed from prison on parole. Ivey had been sentenced to three years
in prison.
t,ot:l Sales tax figures dipped slightly in July under the June
s.
* A Summerville contractor was charged with aggravated
assault after he allegedly Fointed a 9mm caliber pistol between
the eyes of a Summerville businessman over a boat sale.
* Mount Vernon Mills began a $63 million expansion at its
Trion fllant.
* The Menlo City Council adopted a pollution control
ordinance.
* Arrests for the first six months of 1991 were running
behind the comparable totals for 1990 in Chattooga County.
* Organizational ste&)s were taken to create a county com
mission on children and youth.
* Gross property assessment values increased by $l5O
million due to a revaluation program in the county. That’s a
34 gercent increase.
Trion Councilman Larry Stansell pushed through a plan
for the town's engineer to begin independent testing to deter
mine the cause of the city’s wastewater treatment p?ant woes.
* Chattooga students, teachers and parents prepared for the
beginning of the 1991-92 school term.
* A local trade show was being planned by the Chamber of
Commerce for late September.
* Rep. Tim Perry and Sen. Waymond ‘““‘Sonny” Huggins got
ready to head to Atlanta for a session on reapportionment and
cutt.in%l the state’s budget.
* The executive director of Chattooga County Hospital and
Oak View Nursing Home said proposed state cuts miggt reduce
the nursing home's revenue Ey some $138,000. The 1991-92
surglus for both facilities was estimated at $103,000.
The Chattooga Board of Education reversed itself and
decided to increase the pay to teachers’ aides.
* The Summerville City Council reduced the amount of in
crease for new water and sewer rates for the county. Under a
pro%osal by the city’s engineers, the rates would have almost
doubled. Under the rates proposed by Mayor Sewell Cash, the
rates were to increase by around 22 to 25 percent in the
September, 1991 billing.
* A reception was set to introduce a mentoring program for
the community.
* Work started on a new Chattooga County Memorial Home.
* More than 200 property owners appealed new 1990
assessments. .
_ * The Chattooga Department of Family and Children Ser
vices board of directors was told about a “crisis” shortage of
loc%l I{Joste}:' hon;es.
¥ Ninth grade orientation for the Chattooga schools was
scheduled. g
* A child injured in a traffic accident north of Trion on Sun
;ia ‘was rgleased from a Chattanooga, Tenn. Hospital on the
ofl,owm,g ay.
_* Two teen-agers were indicted in a spree of vandalism and
burglai‘y in Trion during April.
~ * The Chattooga Grand Jury for August urged that back
taxes be collected, that a new flag be flown at the courthouse,
that courthouse restrooms be renovated, and that a group be
named to recommend a committee to the county commissioner
to come up with a county development (zonini)) plan.
@ 'ghne people, including a girl, were charged in the burglary
a Gore re.
e ) building a new natural gas odoriza
tiopgfi;}tn&:m;‘%itsgahneinfl d C g 5
- * State and local lawmen fwndanesfimate? worth
of marijuana in the southwest part of Chattooga ty.
* A vendor at Trade DaK, Pennville, was arrested for hav
ing items stolen from another vendor in his possession.
* Summerville police arrested two fi)eogle in the process of
stealing items from the Summerville Community Center
(formefi Downtown Cinema). §
*A 'i:rion man and his stepdaughter were charged in the
theft of jewelry from a Summerville woman.
* Lyerly learned that it may be able to start using two new
wells it had drilled. PRI J .
* Chattooga was named the district winner for its 1991 Agri-
Plan application. It was to compete for the state title in
September. ; :
* A Lyerly youth saw his dream come true when the
Children’'s Wish Foundation International presented him with
a new computer. It was given to him by the Georgia Lodge of
the American Association of State Troopers.
* Fiddlers had a grand time at the second Menlo Fiddlers’
Convention. : .
* Chattoogans learn that production at the state fish hat
chery west of Summerville will be halted under Gov. Miller’s
budget cuts.
*geTrion Council members indicated informally that they
might oppose a plan to give significant raises to several in the
Trion school system.
* School started in the Trion and Chattooga school systems.
* Commissioner Jim Parker learned that additional state
landfill rules might adversely affect the Penn Bridge Road land
fill and the proposed new county landfill at Chattoogaville.
* The Summerville-Trion Rotary Club honored teachers new
to the Trion and Chattooga school systems.
* Local residents expressed concern about a temporary coup
attempt in the Soviet Union.
* ’l*;le annual Summerville Recreation Department checker
tournament was scheduled.
* A bomb threat — which turned out to be harmless — was
teleghoned to a Menlo store via a collect call.
An escaped inmate from Hays Correctional Institution was
cap;:ired quickly in downtown Summerville. He was on a work
detail.
* Mount Vernon Mills said it wouldn't advance funds to the
Town of Trion to make changes to the city’s wastewater treat
ment plant.
* Lyerly’s Ruth Cook returned from Romania on a mission
trip.
* A large turnout boosted the proposed community mentor
ing program.
* Numerous children completed the Summerville and Menlo
libraries’ summer reading program. Amanda Robertson, Sum
merville, read the most number of hours during the event.
*dA bid date was set on a paving contract for State Line
Road.
* A group of Chattooga Countians unha;g;y with their tax
appraisals met at Gore with an eye toward filing a lawsuit
against the county’s reevaluation program.
* The attempt at murder trial of Fred Lawson, a former
Summerville porice captain, was recessed for one day because
the presiding judge had to be out of town.
* Commissioner Parker had a meeting scheduled with state
environmental officials in a last-ditch effort to obtain an exten
sion on o;’)lgrating the county landfill for another 11 months.
* The Trion school boardy backed off on its plans to grant
significant raises to school personnel, after members of the town
council indicated opposition to the move.
* Plans for a mentoring program were pushed.
* An organizational meeting for a county commission on
children and youth continued with plans on schedule.
* Commissioner Parker awarded a jail inmate meal contract
to Care Cottage.
* Gary McConnell, executive director of the Geor%'la
Emergency Management Agency, firesented a check to the Ci
ty of Summerville for $23,282 for flood damage repairs made
after a February, 1990 flood.
“* Ronald “Danny Boy" Adams, Summerville, convicted of _
bribery and drug charges in August, 1988 and sentenced to 135
years, was released on parole. Deret
* Inmate money was missing from the county jail, according
to Sheriff Ralf)h Kellett. An investigation was under way.
* Six people were hurt in traffic accidents.
* Chattooga County was switched from the Seventh to the
Ninth Congressional District in reapportionment.
* Vandals caused thousands of dofiars worth of damage to
the historic Tavern at Trion.
* The Summerville City Council agreed to proceed with
negotiations to sell water to an Alabama water system.
* A second burglary during the summer, 1991, at a Sum
merville convenience store was being probed.
* Chattooga Hospital reported a profitable month in July,
1991, but a former administrator said the figures may be
misleading.
* Don Hayes, county school superintendent, said several
plans for reducin% costs were being considered, including lay
ing off personnel. But he said no immediate layoffs were
planned.
* It appeared that the Town of Trion and Mount Vernon
Mills shared the responsibility for the town’s wastewater treat
ment problems, according to an engineering ref)ort.
* The Town of Trion also approved a new clarifier for the
wastewater treatment plant.
* A number of local activities were planned for Labor Day.
* Trion High and Chattooga High got ready to open their
1991 football seasons.
SEPTEMBER
* Four witnesses testified in Chattooga County Superior
Court that Tim Brown told them that he planned to kill Gary
Sentell, the boyfriend of his estranged wife.El'he testimony open
ed the double murder and arson trial.
* Commissioner Parker said the Georgia Environmental Pro
tection Division had given the county an extension on operating
its existing landfill and agreed to quickly review the county’s
request for a new landfill permit at Chattoogaville.
* The News reported that District Attorney Ralph Van Pelt
was expected to make a decision on what action to take regar
ding an assistant district attorney who was stopped following
an incident in northeast Summerville. Summervil?e police were
also reviewing the actions of an officer who told the assistant
DA to go on after being stopped by another officer.
* A rare Chattooga County Bottling Co. bottle was
discovered by a backhoe operator near the Chattooga-Walker
coungF line.
* The Trion Council decided to try six surface aerators to
see if they would help resolve the town's wastewater treatment
plant’s problems.
: l‘LTwo trustees at the county jail walked away from the
acility.
* A 16-year-old boy was charged in the theft of a tractor.
* The county’s unemployment rate dropped from 9.3 per
cent in June to 7.9 percent in July. )
- * A Kansas man got seven years in prison after a high speed
chase in Chattooga County.
* An alert citizen foiled the burglary of a west Summerville
convenience store when he noticecf the suspect walking along
a street early in the morning.
* A vote on Conqressional reapportionment was expected
in the Georgia legislature. :
* Confusion seemed to reign as a teacher’s aide was dismiss
ed at Lyerly.
* Lightning apparently caused a power outage in Summer
ville on Labor Day.
* Two mobile Komes were destroyed by fire in separate
incidents.
* A $6,700 residential burglary was being probed by Sum
merville lawmen.
* One juvenile was arrested and more arrests were expected
in connection with vandalism of The Tavern, Trion.
* Commissioner Parker approved a resurfacing bid for State
Line Road.
* All exhibitors for the 1991 Sum-Nelly arts and crafts
festival were from Chattooga County.
* A Summerville couple ?iled a damage lawsuit against the
City of Summerville in connection with an accident involving
a speed breaker.
_« * The Mountain Jamboree and Dry Valley Day treated hun
dreds to fun on Labor Day.
* Names were being sought for the 1992 Leadership Chat
tooga prog‘;ilgl. .
Both Trion and Chattooga lost their football mners Trion
lost to LaFayette, 0-13, while Chattooga lost to Calhoun, 12-20.
' * Two deputies were slightly hurt in separate scuffles with
persons they arrested. !
* Tim Brown was convicted of two counts of voluntary
manslt;t;shtqr and acquitted of arson in the slaying of his
estranged wife and her boyfriend in front of MMt Hall
(I),n July 17, 1990. He was to be sentenced later by Judge }'meph
oggins.
.q‘g;\ndeh;y in the 1990 and 1991 tax digests resulted in Com
missioner Parker having to borrow money for county opera
tions, and the county schools having to borrow operating
money.
. ’f:he Chattooga Board of Tax Assessors agreed to conduct
a complete review of all rural land valuations as the result of
a massive number of complaints about the reappraisal.
* The City of Ilfi'erly approved in principle a pfan to let the
City of Summerville tie onto its lines to alf:)w Summerville to
extend water service along Oak Hill Road and into Alabama.
* Asst. District Attorney Ron Adams resigned after an in
cident in Summerville.
* Chattooga Countl\; Hospital set a fund drive to finance an
intermediate care facility for needy children.
* Erick and Ben Housch ma&a Eagle Scout. They are
brothers.
* State budget cuts were not expected to affect the Chat
tooga welfare office.
Mari{;mna plants were found inside an insulated cubbyhole
in an old barn off Mahan Road.
* Three juvenniles had been arrested in vandalism of The
Tavern in August and at least two more arrests were expected
by the Chattoo%a Sheriff’'s Office.
* The Trion Council authorized its school system to buy a
school bus. .
* Charles Frazier, father of slaim Teri Brown, sought $2
million in Chattooga Superior Court against Tim Brown.
* Summerville set its election fees for the November election.
* Chattooga Countly; ended up back in the Seventh Congres
sional District after the final reagportionment session.
* A federal judge was awaiting briefs in a discrimination suit
against Mount Vernon Mills. It was filed by the Equal Employ
ment Opi)ortunity Commission on behalf of a fireg Mount Ver
non employee.
* Former Summerville Police Cait. Fred Lawson failed in
his effort to fi;a‘in a hearing before the city council after City
Manager John Simmons turned down his request to be
reinstated.
* Tim Brown was sentenced to 20 years in prison on each
of two counts of voluntary manslaughter, with the sentences
to be served at the same time. He was convicted of slayinafl his
estranged wife, Teri, and Gary Sentell at Menlo City Hall on
July 17, 1990.
* The Summerville City Council issued verbal reprimands
against firefi%hters Eddie Henderson, Othell Stone and Alan
Bryant, and City Manager John Simmons following a closed
two and one-half hour hearing which apparently violated the
state’s sunshine law. The action came after a controversial deci
sion not to send a second fire truck to the home of Chief Inv.
P. R. Hill of the Chattooga County Sheriff’s Office on Sept. 11.
Mayor Sewell Cash indicated that the reprimands were issued
due to an emotional confrontation between the firefighters and
Simmons after the fire call. Cash also issued an order that a
second fire truck would respond when requested.
* Expo '9l, the first trade show sponsored by the Chattooga
Chamber of Commerce, was scheduled.
* An analysis of local sales tax revenue by The Summerville
News for the first eight months of the year indicated that the
local economy could be flat rather than growing.
* State and local law enforcement agencies seized $393,000
of marijuana plants.
* Chattooga High School won its first football game of the
s;.asi:m. beating South Forsyth, 25-0, in the Indians’ third game
of the year.
* Two trustees who escaped from the county jail on Sept.
1 were recaptured in Cherokee County, Ala.
* Two more juveniles, both 11-year-old bo'i:;, were charged
with burglary in vandalism of The Tavern, Trion.
* Trion’s school board decided not to buy a bus after a
40-minute discussion.
* The Georgia Environmental Protection Division had not
taken any formal action as of Sefit. 17 on giving Commissioner
Jim Parker written approval to keep on using the county’s ex
istin%landfill.
* Eight people were hurt in traffic accidents.
* Tax assessors hoped to get final rural land value revisions
by Selgt. 20.
* An Atlanta-Trion man who was sued for libel by a Chat
tooga businessman said in court documents that he understood
that the businessman did not owe any taxes as of early July,
1991. Hugh Henderson had charged that Lewis Strange libel
ed him on WGTA'’s “Feedback” program by allegedly claim
ing that Henderson owed taxes on a building that Henderson
said he didn’t owe any taxes on.
* Subligna planned a historical event for October.
* Gore got ready for its annual Rainbow Tea.
* Elementary school students in the Chattooga system ac
quired a ‘‘dinosaur” readinfi‘:xabit during the summer vacation.
* Delta Farms was to be auctioned. :
* Disgruntled Chattoga County property owners met again,
this time at the courthouse, to exgress dissatisfaction over the
property re-evaluation program. They indicated they were will
ing to wait until the county’s plan to revise rural land values
was completed before deciding whether to take court action.
* Chattooga County Hospital and Oak View Nursing Home
combined posted a profit of $72,000 in Auglust. But the profits
of July ang August were exgected to be balanced out by lower
numbers in the late fall and winter.
* Seventh District Rep. George Darden, a Democrat, said
he doubted that he would have to face colleague Rep. Newt
Gingrich, a Republican, in the 1992 congressional race as the
resufiz of reapportionment.
* Summerville Councilman Ron Pilcher was the big spender
in the city with almost $5,000 going for travel and expenses
during the 1990-91 fiscal year.
* go'me $3,600 was spent by elected county officials through
the first eight months of the year. The most had been spent
by Commissioner Jim Parker with slightly more than $2,000.
* A correctional officer was chargeg with theft by extortion
by a Summerville woman.
* Advocate 21/Chattooga County Commissioner for Children
and Youth was the name select,edy for a group that hoped to
make the county a better place for young pel?flle.
* An adult and a teen were charged with child molestation
in separate counts. Children ages 4, 6 and 8 were turned over
to child welfare officials after engaging in sexual activities.
* Expo '9l, Chattooga county’s first trade show, was dubbed
a success by Chamber of Commerce officials. Up to 800 visited
exhibits during the two-day event.
* Georgia environmental officials turned down a plan for
monitoring wells at the Penn Bridge Road landfill. Tl‘:e exact
reason for the turndown wasn’t immediately determined.
* The executive deput{' commissioner of the Georgia Depart
ment of Corrections outlined the changes in the tfé] artment
since the early 1970 s in a talk to the gummerville—'fzrion Op
timist club.
* Chattooga Countians started weighing insurance options
as the state’s new auto insurance law went into effect with the
intent of reducing premiums.
* A broken water main in Summerville was found and cut
off before it drained the city system drx
* Trion high won its first game of the season by beating
Ridgeland, 14-8.
OCTOBER
_ * Chattooga County officials agreed to submit the 1990 tax
digest — delayed E{ more than a year — to the State Revenue
Department. Rural land values which were still disputed by
many landowners were not going to be included in tax gxlls since
revisions of the values were still under way.
* The companguthat built monitoring wells at the Penn
Bridge Road landfill site were ordered to guild new wells since
tlfl:i f'l;lSt ones were rejected as useless by state environmental
officials.
* The 18th annual Sum-Nelly was planned.
* Dale Herndon was named Optimist of the Year 13' the
Summerville-Trion e?(fitimist Club. Gary Floyd assumed duties
as president, succeeding Steve Weaver.
* A SIBO,OOO grant to he(l? Wire Tech Inc. rebuild its burn
ed glant was ap?roved by Gov. Zell Miller. ;
Chattooga firefighters planned their fourth annual inter
departmental competition at Chattooga High.
* The Summerville Fish Hatchery closelg amid comments
by the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Natural
Resources that prospects app_e‘arggl “pretty good” for reopen-
: Facili ith private funds.
ing e e axd Tommy Fisher and WSAF Radio sued Selec
tive Insurance Co. in Chattooga Superior Court for not Sg)aying
off on a $350,000 fire loss at the station on Jan. 2, 1991,
* A dance request by a n:gorted representative of a black
group in Rome was tablng_ e Summerville Recreation Board
untilpit could be determined if proceeds would aid a Chattooga
gro:x%o‘mt Vernon Mills Inc. bought Harmony Grove Mills
Inc. of Commerce and Clc:lvelsnd- Mount Vernon owns the Trion
i i xtile Division.
plal}tp%ét;e%;fige&gg hurt in a truck accident at Gore.
* Two people were arrested on illicit drug counts. §
* Burgf:g tore out cabinets and stripped a Cloudland cabin,
causing some $4,250 in losses and damage.
* [nterest was sagging in a chamber of commerce sponsored
seminar. .
* t qualifying times for its 1991 elections.
* k{;?ll;wl/%:flee v?ras ch};rgged in connection with a fight at Chat-
High School. :
°°°§‘},oc§l cotton crops were “‘good,” according to county
i re officials.
agn.cxltélummerw_“e man reported that he was the victim of mail
fraud. 3
* “Pilgrims for Peace,” a European-based pacifist groug,
said it would march through Chattooga County in early 1992,
* Terry Adams and Safe Broadcastm%_l(}o. appealed a federal
ruling giving a new FM radio license to Tri-State Broadcasting
Co., operator of WGTA radio. ;
» 'l‘fe Riegel Rifles placed second in the Southeastern Region
of the USSSA Industrial Class B softball tournament.
* A novice category was added to the second tennis tour
nament s onsored% Chattooga County Hospital.
* The Resolution 'l“,rust Corporation foreclosed on Silver Leaf
resort in eastern Chattooga County, perhaps killing the dream
of a 1,200 acre golf club and resort in the county.
* Chattooga High School students increased their scores on
the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) bK 80 goints over the
previous year.d}n I::onl;rasl:, Triondl-li%h students saw their
average score di 32 points under the previous year.
*efiion hosteg lg bang(s’ for its first Mo‘:mt Vemzn-Riegel
Band Festival.
* The owners of Mount Vernon Mills Inc. cited their faith
in God, simplicity of management, and concern for their
employees, community and shareholders as the reasons for their
success in the business world.
* Subligna prepared to celebrate its founding with a festival.
. Chattoogar?ounty schools spent $4,797 apiece on its
students in 1990-91. -
* A state education official told Chattoogans that more
budget cuts were likely in January, 1992 when the Georgia
General Assembly convenes.
* A motion was filed seeking a new trial for convicted dou
l&le sla%e; Tim Brown. A hearing on the motion was set for
ovember.
* BobbKdLee Cook, Summerville, an attorney for convicted
Atlanta child murderer Wayne Williams, contended that
lawmen taped Klan members discussing several murders.
Williams was seeking a new trial.
. Ral(rh Stanley, Guinn Hankins, Dewey Hoskins, Mike
King and Phil Cavin all were seeking seats on the Summerville
City Council.
* Mount Vernon Mills Inc. at Trion was recommended for
the Governor’s Industry Association Award by the Chattooga
Chamber of Commerce.
* The mother of Tortius Shropshire, 15, who drowned at a
Silver Hill swimming hole on June 27, 1990, while on a City
of Summerville work detail, sued the city in Chattooga Superior
Court. The suit charged the city’s supervisor with negligence.
* Dr. Ken Breeden, commissioner of the Gem"fia Depart
ment of Technical and Adult Education, pushed adult literacy
in an address to the October chamber of commerce Booster
Breakfast. pit
* A shot fired into a residence in the Trion area lodged in
a pill%whont which a 5-year-old child was sleeping. The child
wasn't hurt.
* Teloga Volunteer Fire Department won the fourth annual
Chattooga Firefighters’ Competition.
* Thousands turned out for the 18th annual Sum-Nelly arts
and crafts fair in Summerville.
* A search for theft suspects at Trion turned up suspected
drugs in a residence.
Trion High and Chattooga High both won during the
weekend.
* Chattooga Counti; Commissioner Jim Parker set a tax levy
for 1990 that was slightly lower than the 1989 figure. But the
1990 tax rate was expected to bring in more money because
of an increased tax gl;fest. That meant some people would be
payin’fi\more tax, while others mightizpay slightly less.
* The Chattooga County Board of Education algo set its tax
rate for 1990 the same as in 1989. That levy, too, was expected
to bring in more money due to the higher tax digest. The board
said it could bri::fi in 18 to 20 percent more.
* Three juveniles were arrested in the destruction of Old
Way Baptist Church. Two of the three had already been arrested
in vandalism at The Tavern, Trion.
* The News reported that statewide mandatory building
codes were in effect in Chattooga County. Commissioner Parker
said he was awaiting recommendations from a citizen commit
tee before takin%any action on setting up an enforcement
mechanism, which was made optional.
* Commissioner Parker was studying a proposed consent
agreement to close the Penn Bridie Koad landfgl when a new
county landfill is opened or until the Penn Bridge Road facili
ty reaches its cagacity.
o Chattoogra ounty’s engineers also told the Georgia En
vironmental Protection Division that it may have been wrong:
when it rejected monitoring wells at the Penn Bridge Road site.
* Parker was also appealing a rejection of a monitori‘l'lglweu
glllan E?lt’ lt;)he site of a proposed new landfill at Chattoogaville by
e :
*A Cleveland, Tenn. company proposed submitting a cost
estimate and glan to Commissioner Parker on operating the pro
posed new Chattoogaville landfill.
* Menlo agreed to return to the federal government some
unsPent grant funds.
; Evergthmg from panties to tires were found alon%U. S.
Highway 27 south of Summerville by a church men’s club that
cleaned up a two-mile stretch of highway.
* Summerville’s City Council agreed to repair the city’s third
fire truck. It also placei on first reading a controversial wrecker
service ordinance, and took bids on extending water service
along Wildlife Lake Road. ;
* The Summerville News was refused access to a letter writ
ten to Mayor Sewell Cash by a Best Manufacturing Co. official,
cogn%l:mfi about the town’s natural %as charges. Cash later
said he would tProbably have to give the letter to the newspaper
if he were told to do so by the city attorney. It was the second
month in a row that a city official apparently violated the state’s
open meetmfis or open records law.
tion tothe U. 3, Supreme Gourtof e Borene Hhomas.
mation eU. S. Supreme Court of Judge Clarence Thomas.
He was confirmed, 521-)48. o
..¥ An Oak Street house was gutted by flames in Summer
ville. Another house on Dowdy%rive was destroyed by fire.
* The Georgia State Patrol ordered a sf)eeding crackdown
on U. S. Highway 27 near Pennville School after a state study
showed that 78 percent of the passing motorists had been
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