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VOLUME CIX NUMBER II
Chattooga Frozen!
Ice Storm Scares Local Residents
Chattooga Countians
“dodged a bullet”” and avoided
a repeat of the 1960 ice storm
early this week when freezing
rain stopfied and temperatures
briefly slipped to just above
freezing in much of the county.
Freezing rain began falling
between 5:30 and 6 a.m. Mon
Warming Trend Due
Rest Of Week, No Rain
Temperatures should start
warmin, g today through the
weeken inChattooga ounty,
accordin%to the U. S. Weather
Service. opreci%itationisex
;lr‘zcted until this coming
esday.
The mercury dipped to a
season low zero in Summerville
Wednesday morning. The
previous low had been nine
degrees Sunday morning.
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Sewer Line Loan Sought
Business License Ordinance Gets Final Okay
The Summerville City
Council is seeking a state loan
to pay for installation of a
trunk sewer line to the new
Chattoolga County Library on
Farrar Drive.
Treatment Plant
Full Of Solids
By JULIE GRIFFIS
Staff Writer
The Trion wastewater treat
ment plant is no longer in com
gljanee with Environmental
otection Division (EPD)
standards, according to Paul
Tickerhoof, plant
superintendent.
Tickerhoof explained that
suspended solids were high at
the plant Jan. 11, 12, 13 and
17, and though there technical
lg was no Kill," under the
PD permit, the situation is to
be treated as “a magor spill.”
The effluent on those days
was 4.956, 4.482, 4.926 and
3.186, which is 50 percent
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day, icing over roads, streets
and bridges. The weather also
caused local utility companies
to call out crews to make
rsfifirs if ice-laden trees began
f Alg onto power lines.
though some %ower pro
blems were caused by the ice
storm, no major difficulties
Mountain and Little Sand
Mountain fell to as low as eight
degrees below zero
Wednesday.
Wind Eusts of five to 15
miles per hour during the day
Wednesday pushed the wind
chill factor to from six to 33
deFrees below zero. That’s how
cold it felt to the skin.
After a brief ice storm Mon
day, skies cleared and will re
see WARMING, page 8-A
ICE-COATED TREES ON TAYLOR RIDGE GLOW FROM MORNING SUNLIGHT
Shadowed Ridge In Background Not Reached With Tuesday Beams
The action was taken at the
- panel’s January meeting this
past week.
| In addition, the council:
‘ * Heard two reports on the
audit of city financial records
higher than the weekly limit.
Tickerhoof said he’s not
sure what caused the change at
the treatment %l::t' which had
been in comg iance with the
EPD the past few months.
“Something different hap
pened, but we're not sure
what,"gxe said. “It’s not settl
ing right.”
He said chemicals were be
inf added to allow the solids to
settle, but “that’s not sclving
our problem; it will just get it
down for now.”
He said coagulents and
floculants have been added to
the Ylant to allow the solids to
settle.
see TREATMENT, page 8-A
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JANUARY 20, 1994
were reported. Most main
highways and thoroughfares
were passable by mid-morning
although driving was hazar
dous most of the day.
Some back roads were still
iced over Wednesday morning
as the mercury dipped to near
or below zero.
State and local crews
spread cinders, salt and gravel
on slippery roads early Mon
day, reducing the danger on
main arteries.
WATER MAIN
A 12-inch water main broke
on Back Berryton Road about
12:30 a.m. Tuesday, forcing Ci
ty of Summerville crews to
work all night in a two-degree
wind chill. .
Inmates at Hays Correc
tional Institution also helFed
county crews apply gravel to
area roads.
Schools and most govern
mental offices were closed
Monday due to the Martin
Luther Kins Day holiday,
reducing traffic dangers.
and the status of a criminal in
vestigation into the loss of
fila(ilre than $500,000 from city
* Ado(g;ed a business
license ordinance with enforce
ment Eprocedures.
* Postponed consideration
of a possible ordinance against
nude dancing within the city
limits. . -
-"-‘"Bought a quantity of
natural gas meters and leak
detectors.
GIFA LOAN
The council unanimously
adopted a resolution authoriz
ing the city to apply for a
$112,000 loan from the Georgia
Environmental Facilities Ad
ministration (GIFA). If ap
proved, it would be used to in
stall a trunk line to the new
library in northeast
Summerville. |
The city on Dec. 20 award
ed a contract to Six D Co,,
Rockmart, for the trunk line.
Its bid was $112,754, the
lowest of those submitted.
The town had bid the pro
ject twice because it thought
the first bids were too high. A
cost of SSO-60,000 had been
anticipated.
The city was also going to
negotiate with Six D to deter
mine if the bid price could be
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Schools remained closed
Tuesday and Wednesday. Ad
ministrators hoped to resume
class schedules this morning.
Most area industries closed
Mondz(i{v or worked shorter
hours due to the icing of roads
and utility lines.
SCHOOLS
The local school systems
didn’t experience maintenance
problems due to the frigid
weather, though icy conditions
on some county roads pro
mpted officials to cancel
classes on Wednesday.
Students were expected to at
tend classes today.
Teachers in Chattooga and
Trion schools were to report
Wednesday for a planning day.
Mond:jy and Tuesday had been
scheduled as planning days but
road conditions kept most
teachers from coming to
school.
Less than a third of Trion’s
teachers were present Monday,
Superintendent Bill Kinzy
see CHATTOOGA , page 8-A
lowered.
Charles Kinney, city
manager, said in December
that the cost had escalated
because the scope of the pro
ject had changed three times
since it was authorized
originally.
The Six D bid called for the
work to be completed within 60
days after it had started.
A letter to proceed with the
construction work has been
sent to Six D, Kinney said.
Library officials now hope
to gpen the facility by the end
of February.
AUDIT
During the meettiel? on Jan.
12, Kinney repor to the
council that Booth & Powers,
Atlanta, had completed- the
firm's audit of city gnances for
1992-93.
The firm did more than
origin all{ called for, he said,
due to the discovery of theft
from the city’s coffers. It deter
mined that the theft of more
tl;;xé $500.000 started in June,
1 5
Myrtis Evans, a 13-g'::r
employee of the city, has been
charged with theft by taking.
She was bookkeeper for the
town when she was arrested, ci
ty officials indicated.
see SEWER LINE, page 7-A
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PARKWAY DESERTED LATE MONDAY MORNING AS RESULT OF WINTER STORM
Highway 48 Treacherous Despite Salt, Cinders Applied To Road
Evans Trial Could
Be Held In Summer
February Grand Jury May Hear Evidence
Evidence against a City of
Summerville bookkeeper ac
cused of stealing more than
$500,000 durin%ethe past
several years may be presented
to the February term of the
Chattooga County Grand Jury.
1f Myrtis Evans is indicted
on theft by taking charges next
month, she Erobably won't be
tried until the August term of
Chattooga Countg Superior
Court, Ralph Van Pelt, district
attorney, said Tuesday.
Mrs. Evans, 44, Summer
ville, was charged on Dec. 19
with taking the money from ci
ty hall during her years as
bookkeeper. Charles Kinney, ci
ty manager, said this past
week that the alleged thefts
went back to June, 1986 and in
volved approximately
Seßgo .
Van Pelt met Tuesday with
Chief Tony Gilleland of the
Summervifie Police Degart
ment and Agent Bari Sabo of
the Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation (GBI) to go over
the evidence against Mrs.
Evans.
CRIME LAB
“I gave Tony a list of a cou
ple of items he needed to check
into and I mai' ask the (state)
crime lab to look at another
piece of evidence,” Van Pelt
said. %
While he hopes to seek an
indictment against Mrs. Evans
during the February term of
the grand jury, the odds are
that the case won't be tried
during this upcoming term of
court, Van Pelt said.
“We have a lot of paper
work to sift through before the
case is tried,”’ he indicated.
The city's police depart
ment has been conducting the
investigation, assisted by the
GBI and the city’s auditors,
Booth & Powers, Atlanta.
Report Cards
To Be Issued
Next Tuesday
The Chattooga Count;
schoolesyst:m wfif not l;:nfi
out report cards today as
had been scheduled, because
of bad weather.
Instead, parents can ex
pect remrts cards to be
issued this coming Tuesday,
school officials said.
Church Suit Settled
--See Page 3-A
The city discovered pro
blems with its financial records
on Dec. 14, according to Kin
ney. A city check with only one
GBI To Probe Insurance
Deductions At City Hall
Missing Documents Part Of Action
The Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation (GBI) this week
was to start a probe into
documents missinaifrom Sum
merville City Hall and into
changes in insurance payroll
deductions two years ago by
one of the town’s employees.
Ralph Van Pelt, district at
torney for the Lookout Moun
tain Judicial Circuit, said he
had mailed a letter this gast
Friday asking for the GBI
investigation.
It had been formally re
guested by Branch Connelly,
ummerwfi e city attorney, and
Ma%or Sewell Cash on Jan. 12.
an Pelt said Charles
Johnson, agent in charge of the
Calhoun area GBI office, had
not received the letter by Tues
day. The DA anticipated that
the GBI would begin an im
mediate investigation as soon
as the letter is received.
DEDUCTIONS
The probe will center
around about 14 insurance
deductions not taken b
Keitha Shamblin, at{
ministrative assistant and
secretary to the city manager,
in 1991. She is also the
daufhter of Mayor Cash.
ohn Simmons, a former ci
ty manager, told The Summer
ville News about the deduc
tions this gast week. Coun
cilman Ralph Stanley had also
earlier gfwgn the newspaper
copies of documents
tifitolistthe deduction sm
had not been taken by Mrs.
Shamblin in 1991, along with
other related information.
Although the deductions
had been removed from Mrs.
Shamblin’s paycheck for those
weeks, Simmons said, the city
had slaid the premiums before
he discovered the missing
deductions.
COMPUTER
Simmons said he thought
signature was noticed by | Further investigation turned
Farmers & Merchants Bank, |up a bogus company to which
he said. All city checks are sup- | city checks had been written,
posed to have two signatures. see EVANS TRIAL, page 7-A
Mrs. Shamblin had ‘‘manipu
lated the computer”’ to remove
the deductions. She told The
News that the instances were
nothing more than clerical and
com‘,)uter errors.
an Pelt had said prior to
Ben Mosley Dies:
Rites Held Monday
Benjamin Jefferson “B. J.”
Mosley, a lo;lglt‘fx‘ne educator
and civic and religious leader in
Chattooga County, has died.
He was 67.
Mr. Moslel‘x died Friday
morning in Floyd Medical
Center, Rome, after a long
illness.
He resided with his family
on Red Agnew Road in the
Gore community.
Funeral services were held
at 1 p.m. Monda(z at Oak Hill
Baptist Church, Gore, with the
Revs. Jessie Poarch, Terrance
Hambrick and other ministers
officiating. Interment was this
week in Oak Hill Church
gemget:ry with Masonic x-i‘t::i
ephews were flallbearera
nieces were flowerbearers.
Members of the Esther Chapel
47, Order of the Eastern Star,
and master masons of Holland
Lodge 47 F&AM, served as
honorary escorts.
Contributions maé be made
to Oak Hill Baptist Church in
his memory.
TEACHER
Mr. Mosley attended Clark
College in Atlanta in 1949 and
1950 and received his
bachelor’s mfiom Savan
nah State in 1952.
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fiublication of a story by The
ews on the matter this past
week that he thought the in
cidents m{fht involve “theft by
taking.” He was “inclined” at
that time to ask for a GBI pro
see GBI TO PROBE, page 7-A
He becgan teaching in Chat
tooga County during the
1954-55 school year, a%)arent
lg at the Chattooga Training
chool, Holland. He then
began teaching at A. C. Carter
Consolidated High School,
Summerville, a%pa:ently in
1961. He joined the Chattooga
see BEN MOSLEY, page 8-A
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