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FREEMAN JONES CHECKS STATUS OF WELL
Five To Show Groundwater Condition At Landfill
Hospital Joins Network
GHP Supposed To Generate Business
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
The Chattooga Count
Hospital Authority has decicf:
ed to join a health care network
to boost its:competitive situa
tion and to al)repare for possible
federal health care regulation.
The unanimous decision
was made during the panel’s
January meeting following a
%resentation on the network by
eorgia Health Plus (GHP)
officials.
In other matters Monday
evening, the authority:
— Approved the lease of a
new piece of more advanced
chemical ane:ldysis equipment.
— Agr informally to
submit the names of three pro
spective authority members to
3 Fired In Hays Escape
Two Demoted; Ault Hits ‘Negligence’
Three employees have been
fired at Haf's Correctional In
stitution (CI) as the result of an
escape from the prison in late
1993.
Commissioner Allen Ault of
the Georgia ll))%;artment of
Corrections (GDC) announced
the action Monday afternoon.
Fired were Regie Hines,
deputy warden for administra
tion; Billy Rogers, mainte
nance engineer; and Jerry
Jackson, trades supervisor,
Ault indicated.
Two demoted in connection
with other matters were Tim
Williams and Steve Gilreath,
both general trades craftsmen
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the Chattooga County Grand
Jury this coming week.
— Reviewed somber finan
cial reg;)rts.
— Heard a report on the
%‘:ality assurance program at
the hospital. :
— Approved new staff doc
tors for the emergency room.
NEED HELP
“We need your help and
you Probably need our help
also,” said Eric Waters of
GHP. He explained that it is a
joint project between Floyd
Medical Center (FMC) and
Harbin Clinic, Rome.
Insurance companies more
and more are taking a greater
role in which doctors and
hospitals patients may use,
at the prison.
SAFETY
“Our Frunary mission is the
safety of the citizens of this
state,”” Ault said. “When this
mission is compromised by
T B e
i a price to pay. The
breach of security and danger
to the community and institu
tion caused by these employees
is intolerable.
“This is one of the safest
systems in the country,” he
continued. “Let me assure you
we intend to keep it that way.”
Twelve inmates out of
28,000 in Georgia escaped from
SUMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1994
Waters said. The GHP would
seek contracts between large
employers and their insurance
companies to use the services
of GHP members, he
continued.
The cost to Chattooga
Ho:fiital would be four percent
of all new business created by
the GHP, Waters said.
What the Summerville
hospital can’t provide to pa
tients, GHP wants that
business to go to FMC, Waters
said, “I’ll be honest with %'ou,”
and not to Chattanooga, Tenn.,,
or other hospitals.”
“We wouldn’'t be paying
them anything unless we make
something (from the relation
ship),” said David Hortman,
executive director of Chat
tooga County Hospital. “We
prifions this past year, Ault
said.
Hines, the highest rankin
Hays CI officiaf to be fl.re(f,
allegedly failed to comply with
a direct order and impeded the
GDC'’s investigation of the
Nov. 28 escape, Ault’s office
indicated.
' ORDER
When Hines was ordered b
Warden Chuck Burden to worz
over a weekend to pmm a
report regarding a tool
audit after the escape, Ault’s
office alleged, ‘‘he committed a
firing offense by refusing the
direct order and being insubor-
County Gets Reprieve On
Closing Of Old Landfill
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Deadline April 8;
S jon E d
olution Expecte
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
Chattooga County has received a virtual “last-minute”
reprieve on closing the Penn Bridge Road landfill.
The county may continue to use the facih'tl:fi until its
new solid waste transfer station in Summerville is com
pleted or until April 8, whichever comes first.
Mickey Spinks of the
Georgia Environmental Pro
tection Division (EPD) con
firmed Tuesday afternoon that
a small amount of additional
space had been found at the
landfill.
Commissioner Jim Parker
had said Monday afternoon
that he was confitf;nt that the
EPD would allow continued
tem(f)orary use of the Penn
Bridge Road site for a landfill.
The reprieve will allow the
county to comglete the transfer
station off Stockade Road,
Parker said, barring significant
problems with the weather.
' IN BIND -
Parker and the county were
caufht in a bind when he learn
ed late on Monday, Jan. 24,
that the facility had to be clos
ed by this past Monday even
ing. The transfer station was
far from being completed and
he was having a tough time
getting a surrounding county
to accept Chattooga’s garbage
even temporarily.
The commissioner said both
Floyd and Walker counties
were awaiting approval of their
really don’t have anything to
lose and everything to gain.”
NOT EXCLUSIVE
The contract with GHP will
be non-exclusive, meaning that
the Summervilie hospital can
also contract with other net
works, Hortman said. The
hospital could cancel the con
tract on 120 d:lys notice
althogfih GHP could give the
hospital 60 days notice of its in
tent to terminate the service.
Some local employers, in
(l:ludin’lglMount bVernon Mill}s
nc., Trion, are ing the
local hospital for services,
Hortman said.
“That’s what we want to
stop,” Waters responded.
Dr. Dee Russell and Dr.
see HOSPITAL, page 14-A
dinate.”
Ro;ers and Jackson were
fired ‘‘for violating departmen
tal and institutional Ipolicies on
?roper togl contro ,sand for
i ocuments for bogus
pm of plumbi::f and
electrical supplies,” Ault’s of
fice stated.
“The exhaustive investiga
tion turned I}P evidence that
Rogers and Jackson were in
volved in a scheme to falsify
records on some materials and
equipment ordered but never
received by the institution,”
the commissioner’s office in
dicated. ““The investigation in
see 3 FIRED, page 14-A
own stacking permits from the
EPD and were unable to make
an immediate decision on ac
cepting Chattooga’s solid
waste.
Floyd County received its
stacking permit late this past
week, he said, althou%h Walker
was still awaiting EPD action
on its stacking permit
application.
Walker would have also had
a problem with its 100-ton per
day limit, Parker said. Walker
duxgglsl about 85 tons in the
landfill daily while Chattooga
“produces about 60 tons a day.
»Spinks, Joe Reed, county
- superintendent, and Delbert
Patty, t’:(zindfill operator,
rei the Penn Bridge
| Roafl landfill again Tuesday
morning. Pattfir had found
what he thought might. be a
small amount of additional
- space on the north side of the
landfill for solid waste disposal.
PHONE CALLS
Commissioner Parker said
Spinks was unsure early this
past week whether the county
could dump and cover waste on
the a%proximately one-acre
tract. But two phone calls to
higher EPD officials resulted in
a ruling that the county could
use the tract temporarily, he
added.
Spinks confirmed Tuesday
that the small amount of land
was usable for landfill pur
poses.
Parker and Eddie Schrock,
the county’s engineer who is
with Williams, g:]veitzer and
Barnum Inc., Rome, along with
Pattfi', and a surveyor had met
at the site this past Friday
afternoon to look over the land.
The transfer station should
be finished in March, the com
missioner said. The county will
then contract with a private
firm to haul its waste to a land
fill outside the county, he add
ed. The waste will first be col
lected from points throughout
the county and dumpetf into
huge trnfiw’ at the transfer
station, he indicated.
see COUNTY GETS, page 8-A
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A member of U. S. Sen. Sam Nunn’s staff
and Chattooga County Chamber of Com
merce officials were making plans this
week for the senator’s speech to the
chamber on Monday, Feb. 14. Ticket
prices are $25 each. The annual banquet
will be held at 7 p.m. at the Chattooga
High School cafeteria. From left seated
Status Of Evans Probe
Expected From Van Pelt
An announcement on the
status of the investigation in
to some $566,000 allegedly
stolen from the city hall of
Summerville will be made next
week, according to Ralé)h Van
Pelt, Chattooga County
district attorney.
Myrtis Evans, 44, East
Seventh Avenue, Summerville,
has been charged with theft by
taking in connection with the
missing money. She had been
a city employee for 13 years
Spelling Bee Winners
Plans Made For Nunn Speech
and had served as bookkeeper
six;ge mid-1986, city officials
said.
Van Pelt said he and Chief
Tony Gilleland of the Surnmer
ville Police Department will
issue ztlg)ress release next week
while the February term of the
Chattooga County Grand Jury
is in session.
The Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation (GBI) assisted
Summerville police in the in
vestigation, as did the city's
ade; Matt Kinnamont, first place, second
fauren Bowling, first place, first grade; and 8&!&-
Moseley, association president. See stories and more
photos on Page 12-A. (Staff Photo).
are Sue Spivey, executive vice president
of the chamber; Holly Sprayberry, 1993
chamber president; and Linda Ballegfiir,
chamber vice president; in back, Mike
Giles, an aide to Sen. Nunn, and E(é;lf»;
ll*E}llenb)urg, 1994 chamber president. (S
oto).
1993-94 auditing firm.
No one else has been im
plicated in the alleged scheme.
NOT READY
In another matter, Van Pelt
said the GBI isn't eet:seclzed to
have its file compl by next
week on an investigation into
insurance premium ad
justments at city hall in 1991
by another city employee, or in
to documents missing from ci
see STATUS, page 8-A
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