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T'axes, Landfill Top News In Last Half
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violating the speed Jimit.
* Former Councimln Earl “Red” Parris qualified to seek
the Summerville Council seat held by incumbent Phil Cavin,
who had also qualified to retain the seat,
* A Menlo man was arrested on marijuana charges.
* Inmate work details were outlined to the Summerville-
Trion Rotary Club by Dep. Warden John Crawford and Warden
Nelson Brinson.
* Aymelia Whited, a Trion Hifilh student, won first place in
Georgia in an essay contest on the U. S. flag.
* Farm-City Week plans were progressin%. .
* A Trion man was critically injured in a fall at his home.
* Teachers Igraised a program to keep students in classes
at Chattooga High School from dropping out of school. ¢
6 ";;I‘he anpual Rainbow Tea was set for Gore Community
enter. !
* Terry Adams and Safe Broadcasting Co. sued Selective
Insurance Co. for proceeds of a policy. WgAF radio burned on
Jan. 2, 1991. Another suit had geen filed against Selective by
Denise and Tommy Fisher, who had the &SAF license.
* A day-long search on Taylors Ridge turned up a safe
helicopter. It's emergency alert beacon had sounded acciden
tallz', drawing rescuers from throughout the area.
An insurance company asked federal court to keep it from
having to defend the operators of a dancinfi club located just
north of Trion against the mother of a youth who was alleged
ly beaten at the club.
* Thousands turn out for the first Mount Vernon-Riegel
Band Festival at Trion.
* Hundreds show up for a historical Subligna community
program.
Sales tax collections for September plunged below the
August totals in Chattooga County.
Chattooga’s unemployment rate fell in August from the
July figures. B 0
* A settlement was reached by a Texas candy company with
a Summerville woman who claimed that she had been injured
by candy containing flass.
* John'S. Jones, a former Chattooga County commissioner,
celebrated his 97th birthday.
* Chattooga County’s 1990 tax digest was submitted to the
state.
* Farm-City Week programs were planned.
* A Trion area woman was killed and a LaFayette woman
critically injured in a three-car crash on U. S. 27 just inside the
Walker County line. She was Nancy Ann Watson, 37, Trion Rte.
1. .
* The administrative manager of Best Manufacturing Co.
squested that the City of Summerville sell its gas system to
Atlanta Gas Light Co. to lower its rates.
* The News reported that the top educators in Chattooga
County and in Trion spent some $8,500 on travel and seminars
in fiscal year 1990-91.
* A member of the Chattooga Library Board donated a copy
of “‘Scarlett” to the library.
i * Trion's school board agreed to sell three surplus school
uses. ‘
* The county still had not received any response from state
environmental officials rtifarding the Penn Bridge Road land
fill and the ?xxfi:)sed landfill at Chattoogaville.
* Michae! ison, a Chattooga resident, saved a man’s life
during a Braves game by administering cardiopulmonary
resuscitation.
* Chafitooga deputies assisted in the arrest of a 19-year-old
Walker County man who alleged shot a mail carrier and then
stole her: vehicle.
- * The annual health fair was scheduled at Chattooga Coun
tg' Hospital, co-sponsored by the hospital and the Chattooga
&PW Club. i iy _
* Mount Vernon Mills Inc. officials said the future was
bright for the Trion denim and finishing mills. A $63.5 million
expansion program was under way. It was expected to be com
pleted in 1993. s kst
* A ‘study- on the possibility of creating a national park
around Little River Canyon in neighboring Northeast Alabama
became available. ! /i
* Wire Tech Ltd. rejected a state economic incentive grant.
* Jimmy Wilkerson, a Summerville contractor, qualigi;d to
run for the Summerville City Council.
* Seven candidates in all qualified to seek three Summer
ville Council seats on Nov. 2. : L3RS
~ *The 100th Chattooga Baptist Association meeting was
scheduled. : i sik A
* The News featured reports about a Lg'erly man who wrote
a proposed sequel to “Gone With The Wind.” John Carroll failed
to convince publishers but the newspaper ran the first chapter
and the summary of his book.
* The Chattooga Indians were trying to decide whether to
protest an official call that may have cost the team a victory
over Model High, which won, 29-24. !
* The executive director of Chattooga County Hospital and
Oak View Nursing Home said stringent measures had been
taken to collect $776,000 in past due payments from Oak View
patients. » '
* A $94,000 net loss was recorded by Chattooga County
Hosgital and Oak View Nursing Home in fiscal year, 1990-91,
the hospital authority was told. i
*The hoesslital authority decided to absorb a 13 lpercent in
crease in medical insurance %x::miums for its employees.
# A Collinsville, Ala. man became Chattooga County’s fifth
traffic fatality of the year. It occurred at Cloudland. He was
Nathan C. Langston, 22.
* The Summerville city election was scheduled for Nov. 2.
* Trion and Summerville ci:g officials were puzzled about
a fire hydrant that was borrowed from Trion by a political can
didate to fill a egrival;e order.
-* [t appeared that Trion might not meet a Nov. 1 deadline
for getting its wastewater treatment plant in compliance with
state environmental regulations. ,
*The sale of Silver Leaf resort was scheduled in early
November.
* Chattooga officials were still awaiting state action on its
prelimin %1990 tax di%est.
* The Trion town election was set for Jan. 2. Qualifying was
to be in November.
* Former Trion Magor J. C. Woods was featured in “‘Georgia
Cities,”’ official publication of the Georgia Municipal
Association.
* A car and jewelry theft was probed at Trion.
# Bill DeHart, a Georgia State Patrol trooper, broke his leg
during a chase of a su:?ect at Cloudland.
* '%he second Farm-City Week, and the annual health fair
sponsored by the Chattooga Business and Professional Women
and Chattooga Hospital, were deemed to have been successful
by sponsors. ; :
* Chattooga children got ready for the annual Halloween
walk through Summervxli’ e.
* Bertie Abernathy was named Miss Oak View Nursing
Home.
* Mike Kin%leasily defeated incumbent, Summerville Coun
cilman Guinn Hankins in the Nov. 2 election. Former Coun
cilman'Earl “Red” Parris came within four-tenths of one per
cent of defeating Councilman Phil Cavin without a run-off,
which was set for Nov. 16. Recreation Diréctor Ralph Stanley
beat' Dewey Hoskins for another council seat.
* Summerville city officials found out that there was no
quick or easy solution to the city’s high industrial natural gas
rates. ‘
* Chattooga County Commissioner Jim Parker said he had
been told that Georgia environmental officials were near the
end of their review of the county’s application for a permit to
operaté a new landfill at Chattoogaville.
"~ * Chattooga veterans set poppy sales, an auction, radio-thon
and a wreath-laying ceremonf' in honor of Veterans Day.
~ * Chattooga County’s jobless rate may be too low, accor
ding to a vetera:ijd)bs coordinator:
Bfllé}flba't head the Chattooga Chamber of Commerce
in 1992, followed by Holly Sprayberry in 1993.
* Tribn's e‘n‘fineer_smd the town’s sewerage plant should be
in good shape following the installation of some $1.4 million
worth of equipment. An Alabama firm submitted the apparent
low bid on the equipment. ' :
# Sales tax distributions to the county, and the Trion and
county schools increased in October over September.
* &xahfymg was set to begin for elections in Menlo and
* The Resolution Trust Corp. (RTC) bought Silver Leaf
mtip’lforeclosuresaleinwhich the RTC “took back” the
NOVEMBER
1,200 acre tract in eastem Chattooga County.
* A Summerville businessman said he had not yet received
a hydrant or his money back from Earl ‘“‘Red” Parris, a can
didate for the Summerville Citz Council. J. T. “Scatter” Har
ris said he had also not gotten back SIOO he had loaned Parris
to bu'ly:rcards for his car paiin. »
* Trion rezoned an afea off Allgood Street for apartments
for the elderly. (
* Chattooga residen&s gave big to the new Trion Library.
* A local needs assessment was beingoplanned for mid-
November for Advocate 21, the Chattooga County Commission
on Children and Yo;téh.
* Some 800 children émrticipate in the annual Halloween
Walk, sponsored by Summerville and the Chamber of
Commerce. '
. ¥ Autumn Rains/'was crowned Trion High homecoming
queen. |
*A Chattoo%;arCDunt‘y; man was arrested after he allegedly
drove his truck throagh the fellowshl;r hall of Perennial Springs
Baptist Church, tumed around inside the building, and drove
through the outside wall in another location.
* State and local lawmen were l=probirg burglaries at the First
United Methodist Church, First Baptist Church, and
Preslzlyterian Church USA in Summerville on the same night.
* The Summerville Mayor and Council postponed until
December a decision on a %reoposed towing service ordinance
until several details could be worked out.
* Summervill Mayor Sewell Cash planned to get two of the
city’s natural gis consultants together in an effort to come up
with cheager rajes for the town'’s industrial customers. The con
sultants isagee on the cause of the rate problem.
* The buildng committee of the Chattooga County Library
board set several priorities, including construction of a new
library builfllg in Summerville.
* Fuller Marshall, Ringgold, was named administrator of
Oak View Nursing Home by the Chattoo%:Hospital Authority.
* A Chattooga depu’tiy sheriff and a Trion policeman found
a skelton dangling on a Trion Eorch that had been stolen a year
before. The resident said he had found it in the woods.
__ * State/officials said plans call for the new fire station at
'I:;Iz;ys Corrrectional Institution to open in February, 1992, if not
efore.
* Jeff Lanham, a former mayor of Menlo, qualified to run
for mayger of the town again.
* State and local authorities were investigating several
susi)icious fires in the count{.
AChattoo%a man was charged with aggravated sodomy
with a 15-year-o (ifirl.
* Trion awarded a contract to Jones Environmental Con
struction Inc. for $1.4 million worth of work on the town’s
sewerage plant. The town is under a state order to reduce
pollutants ioing into the Chattooga River.
*The C attc;zfia County Board of Education approved
several bids, agreed to borrow $307,000, and hired new person
nel at its monthly meeting.
* Earl “‘Red” Parris paid J. R. ‘“Scatter’’ Harris the S4OO
that Harris said the city council candidate owed him.
* Parris and Councilman Phil Cavin were scheduled to face
each other in a run-off for a council post.
* The Summerville-Trion Optimist Club sponsored Youth
in Business Day in Chattooga County.
* Hays Correctional Institution was accredited by the
American Correctional Association. i Lo
- Chfét’;tébgarl’-lrig'h lost to 7Peppérell, 8-46. Trion lost to Pied
mont, Ala., 0-23. : : S ¢
* James L. “Jimmy’’ Day was named recreation director in
Summerville, starting Jan. 1, 1992, but not before a controver
sy eru;t)ted between board members, and the chairman and a
spectator.
* Earl “‘Red” Parris easily defeated incumbent Councilman
Phil Cavin for the Summerville City Council. Parris received
61.5 g‘ercent of the vote.
* Two teen-%fiers, one a juvenile, were arrested by Summer
ville Officer Lydia Robertson and Inv. Jerry Davenfport in the
burglary of three Summerville churches. Several stolen items
were also recovered. :
* State environmental officials completed their review of
Chattooga County’s application for a new landfill permit — and
then be%an a second review of the document.
* Bob Barr, former U. S. attorney for the northern district
of Georgia, ri;if)ed into Sen. Wyche Fowler durinf an appearance
in Summerville. Barr planned to run for Fowler’s seat.
* One person was injured in a Summerville house fire. He
was Jesse Smith, Robert Street.
* Menlo decided to send out its 1991 tax notices.
* The Trion Board of Education decided to seek accredita
tion from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools for
the sßstem‘s elementary school.
* D. Allen Plunkett announced he would run for Trion mayor
:fainst incumbent Mayor Hoyt Williams, who said he would
so seek re-election. Roy Bowers said he would seek a council
seat in Trion. Gl
* In Menlo, Mayor Theresa Canada announced for re
election, as did Recorder Jo Thornberry. Eddie Majors said he
would seek a Menlo council seat.
* Two Trion area residents were charged with possessing
afgglony amount of marijuana during a raid by the sheriff’s
office.
*l Two farmers reported that someone had shot some of their
cattle.
* A hearing on a motion for a new trial for convicted slayer
Tim Brown was postponed to Dec. 16.
* Bob Weslefy was fired as area program director for the
Vista Nfrogram ollowing a state investigation.
* Mrs. Edythe McGinnis was named grand marshal for the
Christmas parade in Summerville.
* The Summerville Fish Hatchery will be kept open, thanks
to the generosity of Geor%ia Power Co. The hatchery was
scheduled to close due to state budget cutbacks.
* Lyerly planned to vote on its 1992 budget on Dec. 10.
* A Tennessee motorcyclist pled no contest to charges
resulting from a high-speed chase and roadblock on Lookout
Mountain in September, 1990.
* Trion lost to Bowdon in the region playoffs, 14-45.
* The Summerville-Trion Optimist Club sponsored its an
nual Youth in Government program.
* The Chattooga County Board of Education raised taxes
for the first time in at least six years. It increased its opera
tion and maintenance tax rate from 6.80 mills to 7.50 mllg (7
also lowered its bond tax rate from .48 of a mill to .40 of a mill.
* Commissioner Parker prepared to set the 1991 tax rate
for the county as a whole.
* Commissioner Parker said the attorney for Chattooga
County was getting ready to work out a dispute with Walker
Co:v;mty over a ‘‘dip”’ in the county line, apparently dating back
153 years.
* Oak View Nursing Home and Chattooga County Hospital
posted a $42,000 surplus during the first four months of opera
tion, the authority was told at its November meeting. No
December meeting was Cplanned.
* The Trion Town Council voted a pay increase for the
mayor, council members and the recorder, to go in effect after
the Jan. 2, 1992 election. S ol ke
* Chattooga Countians gave thanks despite a recession that
was covering the countrl‘?'.
* The Summerville News revealed that a brochure being
handed out in support of a five-member board of commissioners
in three Northwest Georgia counties violated state law. It did
not list the source of the brochure. '
* Maxwell's Restaurant, Menlo, received the jail meal con
tract for three months. B . : .
* Commissioner Parker awarded contracts for a variety of
countix s?ipplies. :
* Funds from Georgia Power Co. were assured for the Sum
merville Fish Hatchegly through fiscal year 1992-93.
* Several more candidates eltzlualified for the Trion council and
for the Menlo council. The Menlo vote was set Dec. 7. The Trion
vote was set Jan. 2. . by o
% Two Cloudland men were charged in woods fires.
* A Cloudland man was charged in al“l:ged threats that may
have dated back to the Tim Brown murder trial. b
~ * A “summit” between two firms involved in natural gas
matters for the City of Summerville went well, according to the
city manager. The meeting was held at a Rome restaurant,
rather than in Summerville.
* Commissioner Parker awarded a contract for a solid waste
{)qgagement plan to an Atlanta company after receiving three
ids.
me:vfi(;mmissione:o Parker also tlalwarded a contract to a Sum
ille surveyor to come up with an accurate plat of the Penn
Bridge Road (yandfill. ; o :
The Summerville News, Thursday, January 2, 1992 . . ..
. * A review board for the Federal Communications Commis
sion again awarded a construction permit for a new FM sta
tion to Tri-State Broadcastin€ Co. over Safe Broadcasting Co.
Safe said it would ai)lgeal to the full FCC. :
* The Randall Selman famil¥ was named District 1 Farm
Famil 8' by the Geo:gia Younfi armers.
* Commissioner Parker said herbicides will be used on some
Chattooga County roads to reduce vegetation grown on rights
of-way in 1992.
* An earthquake education glr:gram was planned for several
North Geor%'; counties, including Chattooga, by the Georgia
Emergency Management Agency.
* Image Carpets Inc. officials said the plant’s annual payroll
was some $2 million.
* The James Burrage familK was named “Out.stand.in§
Adoptive Fan;lillr" of 1991 by the Chattooga Department o
Family and Children Services.
DECEMBER
* Carlton Vines, judge of Chattooga County State Court,
was embarrassed when he learned that a boyhood friend who
borrowed his truck had allegedly used it to hunt xllegbally near
Tfefliog:l. Vines’ truck was seized and impounded by state
officials.
* Chattooga County Commissioner Jim Parker set the coun
ty’s 1991 tax rates. It appeared likel[v; that the tax bills for many
residents would increase, while others might stay about the
same or drop slightlf\;. b
* Summerville scheduled its annual Christmas parade on a
Sundfi' afternoon.
* Menlo voters were scheduled to §o to the polls.
* The News featured area resident Jim Ed Cavin, the only
%())cal survivor of the Japanese attack against Pearl Harbor on
ec. 7, 1941.
* The Chattooia Sheriff's Office made several drug-related
arrests and also ¢ afiged a Summerville couple with commer
cial gambling as well as drug violations.
* A $45,000 bud%et for 1992 was approved for the Chattooga
County Chamber of Commerce.
* A shopping survefil on the habits of Chattooga residents
was presented to the chamber’s retail-small business commit
tee. It showed that manly; went out of the county to shop in 1991.
* The chairman of the board of the Georgia Delpartment of
Corrections warned in Trion that prisons can’t solve society’s
problems. That can come only by reaching young people with
the message that crime doesn’t paé'_l, he indicated.
* A Whitfield County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant was charged
the terroristic threats and acts in Chattooga County following
a November hunting incident near Subligna.
* Menlo ap%roved a Broposal that it join with Chattooga
Clounty in a cohesive solid waste management and reduction
plan.
* Chattooga World War II veterans recalled where t.hfi' were
when they heard about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
in 1941.
* David Hartline’s book, ‘What a Soldier Gives,”” was re-
Published with new photos and additional pages. He is a Lyer
y resident. e e e
" *GTE proposed a significant rate hike for its telephone
service.
* Chattooga High began a program for walkers.
* Commissioner Parker proposed a $5.7 million budget for
1992, $380,000 less than the $6.1 million for 1991. A hearing
on the budget was planned in late December.
* Chattooga retail sales were qood as Christmas approach
ed, despite national economic doldrums.
* Summerville’s Cit{ Council approved a new rate structure
designed to give relief to the town’s industrial natural gas
customers.
* A new gradigf system for kinderfiarten through grade
three was approved by the Chatt&?a oard of Education.
* Ron Turner, Gore, was promoted to manager of field opera
tions for the Georgia Emergency Management Agency.
* Commissioner Parker got an indication that state en
;ruironmental officials might approve a landfill permit in the near
ture.
* District Attorney Ralph Van Pelt said he would file con
demnation proceedin%s aiainst a pickup truck allt‘efiedly used
for spotlighting. The truck was owned by Carlton Vines, state
court judge, although there was no indication that Vines was
involved in the incident. v S
* Trion didn’t have to pay a fine under the first month of
alconsent order in the operation of its wastewater treatment
plant.
* Menlo voters re-elected Mayor Theresa Canada with 68.6
percent of the vote. They also elected newcomer Charles
“Chuck” Powell but booting out of office Councilman Ernest
Mitchell. Eddie Majors and Recorder Jo Thornberry were
elected without opposition.
* Sen. Waymond “Sonny” Huggins and Rep. Tim Perry
{mshed a fraud and abuse investigation of the Vista program,
eading to several firings and a resifi'nation.
* A Northwest Georgia Services Inc. program put low in
come families in renovated houses, startmfg in Summerville.
* Naomi Lowery was named ‘‘Woman of Achievement”’ by
the Chattooga Business and Professional Women for 1991.
* Long distance service was out for three and one-half hours
after a road construction crew cut a trunk line on U. S. Highway
27, south of Rome.
* Some $19,000 worth of trees were reported stolen from a
Chattooga property owner. '
*A triag for convicted murderer Jonathen Jarrells on
whether he is mentally retarded was not likely to be held until
the summer, 1992.
* Chattooga’s unemployment rate dipped in October under
the September figures.
* Qualifying was set for a Jan. 13, 1992 city election in
Lyerly.
* ghattoofans remembered the 50th anniversary of the at
tack on Pearl Harbor in a ceremony at the courthouse.
* The annual Christmas parade drew thousands to
Summerville. ke o %
_v—.‘-"-fx;flix;fiz'a was not a severe problem in Chattooga County
in mid-December. ) J > =
* Chattooga Countians were getting ready to celebrate
Christmas with church programs and last-minute shgpping.
* Judge Joseph Loggins of the Lookout Mountain Judicial
Circuit said the circuit could receive a fourth judge from the
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