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VOLUME CIX — NUMBER V
Evans Indictment To
Be Sought In August
Current Jury May Comment This Week
Charges that a City of Sum
merville employee stole more
than $500,000 from the town
over several years will be
presented to the August term
of the Chattooga County
Grand Jury.
An explanation on why pro
secutors will wait until August
to seek an indictment was
given to the February term of
the Grand Jury Tuesday, ac
cording to Ralph Van Pelt,
district attorney.
Image To Expand
Production To More Than Double
Another multi-million
dollar expansion has been an
nounced for the Image In
dustries Inc. fiber plant in
Summerville.
Stan Pad%att. president of
Image, said the 35,000 square
foot addition would increase
the flant's production cag%ci
ty of recycled plastic fiber from
46 million pounds annually to
about 100 million pounds per
year.
Paul Meredith, another Im
afe executive, said when com
pleted in March, 1995, the ex
pansion would create at least
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The current jury is expected
to comment on the matter in
its official presentments today
or Friday.
Evidence compiled so far
against Myrtis Evans, 44, 306
E. S:e\:ienth i Ave;,cl was
resen to the grand j
’l)‘uesday morning, Van l"gl{
said that afternoon.
Chief Tony Gilleland of the
Summerville Police Depart
ment presented the evidence to
the jury, the district attorney
20 new jobs. The firm’s
employment in Chattooga
?ggntydcgglod reaclh getwle;en
an people by that
time, he indicatedl.)
The expansiog will - take
place on the north side of the
existing building, parallel to
John Bankson Drive in Sum
merville’s industrial gaxk.
Meredith said the addition
would stretch some 400 feet
from the front of the existing
building to the back of the
recently completed 90,000
square foot addition.
Image recycles PET
‘Country’ Brown’s
Honor On Saturday
Ral&h' “Country”’ - Brown
will officially take his place
Saturday in the history of
sports in Geor%'a.
Chattooga County’s chief
magistrate will then be in
ducted into the Georgia Sports
Hall of Fame, a recognition of
his days as a minor league
baseball player in the Southern
Association and other leagues.
He is the only Chattooga
County native to be inducted
into the hall of fame.
The formal induction
JMMERVILLE, CHATTOOGA COUNTY, GEORGIA — THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1994
said.
NO ONE ELSE
“Based on the evidence we
have so far, I’'m comfortable in
saying that she is the only one
who needs to be charged in the
theft,” Van Pelt said. “I'm also
satisfied with the evidence I've
seen to this point. Since the in
vestigatibn isn’t over, I
haven’t seen everything yet,
but I have absolutely no pro
blem with the course the in
plastics, such as two-liter soft
drink bottles, into polyester
fiber for its own carpet opera
tions, Pa%ett said. Image also
sells the fiber for pillows and
cushions, and produces PET
?la,stic resin in llelet; and flake
orms. The dpe ets and flakes
are then sold to the bottle blow
molding, thermoform sheeting,
plastic stripging, and chemical
recycling industries, he added.
The dollar cost of the ex
pansion hasn’t been revealed
publicly {et but it is expected
to involve several million
see IMAGE, page 10-A
ceremony will be held at 7 p.m.
Saturday at the J. W. Marriott
Hotel, Atlanta. A pre-induction
reception will begin at 5:45
p.m.
Brown, who glayed in the
minor leagues from 1946 to
1957, was nominated for induc
tion last summer. He is one of
10 inductees chosen from 25
finalists who were selected
from more than 300
nominations.
Inductees were chosen by
see ‘COUNTRY’, page 10-A
vestigation has taken so far.”
The Georgia Bureau of In
vestigation (GBI) helped the
police department with the
investigation.
“At this point, we're not
comfortable with seeking an in
dictment against Mrs. Evans
because we're not ready for
trial efret," Van Pelt and Chief
Gilleland said after aqejearing
‘before the grand jury Tuesday
morning.
“There was some indication
that she might file a demand
for trial if we indicted this
week,” they added. “If that
happened, we'd have to try the
case in August or be forced in
to calling a special session of
court, which would be very ex
pensive to the taxpayers.”
- REASONS
Van Pelt and Gilleland said
they couldn’'t comment on
specifics of the case but said it
was not ready for trial for
several reasons. They listed
them as follows:
— A copy of a second in
dependent audit of the city has
not been received by police or
the DA and the delivery date*
is uncertain. :
— The State Crime
Laboratory must conduct
testing on several pieces of
evidence, including hand
writing analyses and examina
tion of documents. Those
documents were to be delivered
to the lab this week. If some of
the testing is not complete or
if an expert lab witness isn’t
available for trial, prosecutors
could have problems, Van Pelt
said.
— Some legitimate com
panies uninvolved in the alleg
ed scheme f?,ut whose gfames
were used “for purposes of con
cealment” are still checkin%
their records for the DA, GB
and police.
— Farmers and Merchants
Bank is still combing through
its records to make sure all tfie
needed evidence has been
discovered.
Van Pelt and Gilleland had
initially hoped to obtain an in
dictment against Mrs. Evans
during the February term of
court. -
CONTINUING
lmSince the invehslt;igt:gfin vl:as
still proceeding this week, they
said, they felt it would be bet
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C. W. Matthews Construction Co., Marietta, used a
warm, sunng day Monday to pave one lane of the three
lanes on U. S. Highway 27 between Summerville and the
north foot of Taylor Ridge. Rain Tuesday prevented ad
ditional work on the remaining two lanes. Matthews was
Sales Tax Proceeds Rise
. County, Schools Get Small Increase In 1993
Chattooga County’s
government and the county
and Town of Trion school
systems received more sales
tax proceeds in 1993 than they
did in 1992.
The comflilation by The
Summerville News is displayed
in charts accompanying this
report.
The county’s government
recei\;led $1,653,3i)7 af]rom the
special purpose local option
sales tax this past year. That
was $21,699 more than the
total of $1,631,698 it got in
1992. That represented an in
crease of 1.3 percent.
The increase also came after
collection of the sales tax end
ed tenfiporarily on Sept. 30,
1993. None was collected dur
ing the final three months of
the calendar year.
Voters this past September
also authorized a four-year ex
tension of the special purpose
tax, starting on Jan. 1, 1994.
BEHIND
Although local businesses
Harriet & Henderson Yarns Pioneers Program
By TOMMY TOLES
Editor
An industrfi in Chattooga
County may have come up
with an almost lperfect en
vironmental solution for
disposing of its manufacturing
waste.
Several local farmers are us
ing it as cattle feed.
Ted Clark, director of the
Chattooga County Extension
Service office, said Harriet &
Henderson Yarns (H&H) Inc.,
Berryton, is giving away bales
of its cotton waste.
Farmers have found that
the waste compares well with
medium to good quality hay,
which is now in short supply.
MORE NEEDED
“It’s definitely better than
most of the hay that’s around
here this year,” according to
Greg Tatum, who has 12 head
of cattle. ““I wish d” cou:d get
more companies £ g
H&H officials ::ngerryton
aren’t making any recommen
dations one way or the other on
how the waste h:lw.mki_:be used,
according to Maxine Searels.
Some people may want to use
Mayor Cash ‘Satisfactory’
--See Page 3-A
One Lane Completed
didn’t collect the extra penny
of sales tax in October,
November and December, the
county continued to get
distributions from the Georgia
Sen. Nunn’s Speech
Scheduled Monday
Georgia’s senior U.S.
senator will be the speaker at
the annual banquet of the
Chattooga County Chamber of
Commerce Monday.
The event will begin at 7
g.cm. in the Chattooga Hifih
School cafeteria. None of the
$25 tickets will-be sold at the
door, chamber officials 3aid.
Eddy Ellenburg, theé 1994
chamber president, and other
officers will be recognized.
They were installed at the
January board of directors
it for mulch around their plants
while others may want to feed
‘it to their cattle, the company
official indicated.
“We don't tell them what to
do with it,” she emphasized.
H&H pioneered the use of
cotton waste for a varietinof
a%plications in North Carolina,
where the company’s head
?uarters are located. Farmers
eettii':g cotton waste tgo their
cattle in Cha:tog: unty
hl:lwe marked itsG t useror
that in Georgia, Mrs.
Searels said.
The was featured in
an Apni‘ , 1992 article in “Pro
gressive Farmer’’ magazine. It
came afte::e H&H developed a
joint waste disposal venture
with the North Carolina
e e
s in January, 3
Clark said.
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on a small-scale basis.
Tatum was one of the first
farmers to start feeding the
waste to his cattle.
picked to complete the work after A. W. Headrick Con
struction Co., Summerville, defaulted on the $1.6 million
project. Matthews had hoped to have the work done by
Christmas but bad weather delayed further work until
Monday. (Staff Photo).
Department of Revenue during
those months. That’s because
distributions have traditional
-3' run behind collections, so the
istributions in the final
meeting.
They were sworn in early
because the chamber banquet
is usuallly; held in mid-January
rather than in mid-February.
The chamber set up the ban
quet to meet Senator Nunn's
schedule, according to Sue
Spivey, executive vice presi
dent of the chamber.
COURSE
Ellenburg is expected to set
a different course this year
see SEN. NUNN'S, page 10-A
“It takes a little bit for
them (cattle) to fiet a taste for
it but once the* o, they prefer
it over hay,” Tatum said.
He has fed about 35 bales to
his cattle since November.
“They eat one bale in about
two and one-half days,” he
said. “They really like it.”
PROTEIN
Clark had the waste analyz
ed by the University of
Georgia (UGA) g:;legeJ of
Agriculture labora onJan.
12 of this year. The test show
ed that the waste sampled had
a crude protein level of more
than 10 percent.
“That’s more than cern,”
said W. A. Hutchins, a Chelsea
farmer. “It’s just about eight
percmt.”
It’s also better than the cot
ton waste sampled in North
Carolina dmthe H&H
:!‘.hx:emion B ce study in
that state. The crude protein
level in that sample was a bit
more than six percent.
Good quality hay has about
14 pare;:gotm, Clark said.
shet S pavesrl bBB
six
STILL
ONLY
25¢
quarter actually took place
prior to Sept. 30.
A reduction in the amount
of money distributed by the
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given to local farmers is
equivalent to ‘‘medium
quality” hay, Clark estimated.
No evidence of pesticides
was found in the hahm in
Nerth C:;olgna.f at m
determin y i
:;g;mmfi“:
the H&H-Extension Service
study.
H&H in Berryton produces
about 16 to 20 bales of waste
week. Each bale weighs
fi:ween 500 and 600 pounds,
Mrs. Searels estimated. The
bales measure about five feet
by four feet by three feet and
contain about 60 cubic feet
w
LANDFILL SPACE
them in the Chattooga County
landfill. Based on 16 to 20 bal
of walt?“ being dun @;g:
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cotton waste. An averag
10x12 room contains 960 cab: