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Work has started on a solid waste transfer station off
Stockade Road east of the Chattooga County Public
Works Department. When the Penn Bridge Road land
fill is closed, the county’s garbage will be transferred
from collection trucks to huge bins and then taken to
an out-of-county landfill. The county learned late Mon
Insurance Plan Reviewed
Hospital Upset At Mt. Vernon Change
The insurance company
that serves Mount Vernon
Mills Inc. at Trion is making it
too expensive for the firm’s
employees to use Chattooga
County Hospital.
That’s what members of the
hospital authority’s finance
committee discussed at its
Police Use Truck
To Arrest Suspect
Summerville police used
deception to nab a long-sought
Chattcoga Countian on
charges of Eossessing
suspected crack cocaine
‘‘cookies’”’” and marijuana
recently.
Chief Tony Gilleland said
Alex Dewayne Knox, 21, 11
Frances St., Summerville Rte.
2, was charged with cocaine
and marijuana possession
shortly after noon this past
Thursday.
Police obtained a search
warrant for a Sixth Avenue
residence located next to the
Summerville Housing Authori
ty (Bolice precinct, the chief
sai
Instead of roaring up in
patrol cars, police instead bor
rowed a City of Summerville
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SUSPECT PLACED IN CAR AFTER ARREST, DRUG SEIZURE
Chief Gilleland, Capt. Bullard, Officer Maddux
Library Delayed . . . Again
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Garbage Disposal Solution?
monthly meeting Friday mor
ning at the hospital.
Meanwhile, an executive
with Mount Vernon said Tues
day afternoon that he is trying
to determine if ang'thing can be
done to rectify the problem.
David Hortman, executive
director of the facility, said the
utility truck and drove quietly
to the apartment, the chief
said.
“HIT GROUND”
When they stopped in front
of the residence, Knox was
cominfilout of the apartment,
the chief continued. Police
%oured out of the truck and
illeland said he told Knox to
“hi!;“tlhe ground.”
e suspect was carrying a
box from a local fast-food
restaurant, the chief said.
Knox pushed it aside when he
was egrone on the ground, he
added.
Chief Gilleland said when
he opened the box, two
suspected crack cocaine
‘‘cookies’’ were found beneath
see POLICE USE, page 13-A
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1994
dagv that its landfill must be closed by Tuesday, long
before the station will be ready to accept waste. See ac
comfianfiing story. Commissioner Jim Parker, right,
checks the work in progress by Harold Bishop Inc., Sum
merville. The commissioner is still reviewing proposals
for hauling the garbage out of the county. (Staff Photo).
hospital offered the lowest
prices to the insurance com
pany. But there wasn’t enough
difference in its bid for a
change to be made, Hortman
indicated.
MedCost/Carolina Prefer
red Care, the Mount Vernon in
surance provider “has exclud
ed Chattooga County Hospital
completely,” Hortman said.
RESOLVE
Don Henderson, vice presi
dent of manufacturing for
Mount Vernon, Trion, and
Alan Lonas, human resources
director, indicated Tuesday
that they would try to resolve
the Klroblem.
though they did not per
sonally negotiate the insurance
and medical care contracts,
Hendel:rson said Ma(iunt Ver
non’s long-range goal is to pro
vide the gest, possible me£cal
coverage for its employees at
the lowest cost available.
“But, if we have unknow
ingly created a problem, we will
do our best to resolve it,”
Henderson said.
In the past, Mount Vernon
employees had to pay a higher
detfilctible if they used the
Summerville hospital’s in
%atient services, Hortman said.
nder the Med Cost arrange
ment that went in effect on
Jan. 1, he added, all local
hospital services became more
expensive for employees.
see INSURANCE PLAN, page 8-A
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JULIA BRISON, ROLAND JONES OF IMAGE
Hold Superbowl Cups To Be Recycled
Image Goes To Super Bowl
Image Industries Inc. of
Summerville will be part of the
most comprehensive recycling
grogram ever instituted at a
uper Bowl game this coming
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Phil Cavin, Summerville,
materials manager for Imtlafile,
said Roland Jones and Julia
Brison, both Image employees,
will man a recycling center and
carpet display at the Georgia
Dome.
Image {s e:lme gs 10 gl(::lé
panies involved in the recycli
program. The firm will use the
plastic drink cups discarded by
spectators during the game to
produce polyester carpet fiber
at its Summerville plant.
Reynolds Aluminum Co.
GBI Probes City Actions
A state investigation into
documents missing from Sum
merville City Hall and a ques
tion over insurance deductions
continued this week.
Three agents with the
Georgia Bureau of Investiga
tion started questioning poten
tial witnesses in those matters
late this past week. The inter
views were continuing early
this week.
Ralph Van Pelt, district at
torney, asked for the GBI pro
be after being requested to in
mte the matter bfi' Sum
e Mayor Sewell Cash
and Branch Connelly, city
attorney.
U.S. 27 Work Could
Begin This Autumn
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Rights-of-way may be
bought for the widening of
U. S. Highway 27 between Ar
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Landfill
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Closing On
Monday
The Chattooga County
landfill on Butler Dairy Road
is scheduled to be closed this
coming Monday afternoon.
The edict was handed down
late Monday by a Georgia En
vironmental Protection Divi
sion (EPD) inspector, who said
the facility will be full by Tues
day morning.
A solid waste transfer sta
tion designed to take care of
the county’s garbage is not yet
complete. Commissioner Jim
see LANDFILL, page 13-A
will %rovide 200 outdoor collec
tion bins and recycle aluminum
cans.
NFL
The massive program is be
ing sgonsored by the National
Football League for Suger
Bowl XXVIII, and all other
NFL-sponsored Super Bowl
events.
The program will include
four Atlanta facilities hOStiSf
seven major events. In all,
more than a quarter of a million
people. will be served by this
pro'fiuam.
is is the first Super Bowl
recycling program to include
mui'tiple };cihs:ies and to in
clude vendors and concession
_ Theinvestigation concerns
how approximately 14 in
surance seductions were handl
ed by Keitha Shamblin, ad
ministrative assistant to the ci
ty manager. She is Mayor
Cash'’s daughter. The alleged
incidents occurred in 1991.
IN-HOUSE
The matter was handled
“in-house’”’ by Mayor Pro Tem
Ira Pollard at the time and
Mrs. Shamblin paid the city
some $245 in insurance
premiums, copies of city
records indicated.
John Simmons. a former
New Year’s Babies
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muchee and Gore and a con
tract awarded on the project
this year.
Rep. Tim Perry made those
predictions during his annual
public forum held Friday even
ing at the Chattooga gounty
Courthouse in Summerville.
Fewer than 20 people attended
the session, prompting Rep.
Perry to remark, “The same
group comes here every year.”
He said the forums are being
held to fulfill one of his cam
paign promises.
The U. S. 27 widening work
between Armuchee ?rlltf Gore
would have alread?' been let for
a contract except for a problem
involving ‘‘wetlands” in the
path of the roadway, Perry
said.
Even with those difficulties,
the Democratic legislator said,
the odds are good that con
struction will start on the four
lane highway sometime this
year.
SFecifications call for a
four-lane road from the current
end of a five-lane road at Ar
muchee Creek in Floyd Coun
ty to the Gore community on
the south side of Taylor Ridge.
The sout:hboundy two lanes
of the road would be separated
by a hg;zf:y median from the
nort d lanes, similar to
U.S. :11 between Rome and
Cartersville.
TUNNEL?
Perry said the Georgia
Department of Transportation
(DB’l') still hasn’t decided what
type of bypass it will build to
cross Taylor Ridge. Tunneling
through the ridge is “one op
tion,” Perry said.
Whether the bypass of
Summerville and Trion will still
end near the U. S. 27 intersec
tion with Spring Creek Road
north of Trion is uncertain, he
indicated.
Perry would prefer per
sonally that the bypass re
enter {J S. 27 in the Red Food
area north of Summerville,
“but that’s not on the table.”
For one reason, he said, the
DOT would have to build
another bridge across the Chat
tooga River, which is frowned
on by the U. S. Améy Corps of
Engineers. The Corps. has
jurisdiction over all streams in
the nation. .
see U.S. 27 WORK, page 12-A
operations behind-the-scenes
as well as visible, public areas.
Material being collected in
cludes glass, plastic,
aluminum, corrugated card
board, newspaper, mixed paper
and wood.
300
More than 300 people will
work directly on this program
— most of them local
volunteers who will help collect
and sort recyclables. These
volunteer? :lnlre crucial to the
success of the p am.
NFL officials lmve recycl
ing at the Super Bowl can have
nationwide impact. Jim Steeg,
executive director of special
see IMAGE GOES, page 8-A
Summerville city manager who
now serves in that post in
Adairsville, told The News
about the insurance deduc
tions. He said also that he had
g‘ven the so-called “Keitha
e” to mgomw
St% never saw it
documents, Simmons said.
The GBlheis alsoal i§
vestigating the remow:
tho;eancity documents from ci
y ;
Whether the GBI probe will
be ready in time to present to
the February term Chattooga
County Grand Jury remained
unclear early this week.
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REP. TIM PERRY ANSWERS QUESTIONS
Appears On Summerville’'s WGTA
Chattooga To Host Meet
Of District Republicans
A Seventh District
Republican meeting will be
held in Chattooga gounty on
Saturday, Feb. 26.
Location for the meeting
has not yet been decided, accor
ding to S{lvia Graham, district
party chairman. She is a
teacl{er at Paulding County
High School.
It is one of a series of
First Of Artists’
Visits Set Friday
By BUDDY ROBERTS
Associate News Editor
The first in a series of
presentations l;:y Georgia ar
tists will begin rida[gin Chat
tooga County schools.
toryteller Carmen Deedy
will perform for students in
grades kindergarten through
three at Summerville, Penn
ville and Lyerly Element:rlfi
School. The first program wi
mn at 10 am. at Summer
ille Elementary.
Mrs. Deedy’s %resentation
will be followed by monthly
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CARMEN DEEDY TO VISIT SUMMERVILLE SCHOOLS
Storyteller Part Of Grassroots Arts Program
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district meetings being held in
counties of the geventh
District, she said. Sessions
have already been held in Bar
tow, Pauld‘;ng. Carroll and
Haralson counties, she said.
The January meeting was
held in LaGrange (Troup Coun
ty). Meetinfis have been
scheduled in Douglas County
see CHATTOOGA, page 13-A
visits by other Georgia artists
through the Grassroots Arts
Program sponsored by the
Georgia Council for the Arts.
County schools have receiv
ed a S6OO grant from the coun
cil for use to improve art educa
tion programs, said Emily
lgglton, curriculum dlrtzst.or
The program is targe! at
third Tgade students.
“This is another way to
help our art programs, by
bringing artists in to them,”
Mrs. Bolton said. “It's good
that we can compete for this
see FIRST OF, page 8-A