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CHIP WARREN (C), CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE SPEAKS TO OPTIMISTS
Campaign Staff Members Richard Blevins (L), Bruce Redd
Mayor Gets Deputy Sheriff
At Meet To Secure Safety
Water Issue Likely To Arise At Lyerly Council’s
By D. J. LAAN
Staff Writer
Lyerly Mayor Jeff Coley
called the Chattooga County
Sheriff’s Office and asked that a
deputy be assigned to last Tues
day night’s Lyerly Town Council
meetins “to keep the peace.”
A deputy attended the ses
sion.
Mayor Coley said later that
he wanted to safeguard specta
tors and the Council in case
“trouble” developed between
three town residents and family
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members who are quarreling
about property lines.
“I'wasn't expecting violence
but I didn’t want cussing or un
ruly activity going on at our
monthly meeting,” Ee said, “and
dueto the disagreements that are
happening between these fami
lies during the last few weeks I
was apprehensive about what
could Eappen."
Two of the families are re
lated by marriage and the third
family involve(gi has property
next to the other two families, he
said.
STANDING ROOM
Lyerly’s Town Hall over
flowed to allow standing room,
only.
As the mayor opened the
meeting to public comment,
voices arose throughout the
room from the warring neigh
bors involved in the boundary
dispute.
Mayor Coley said in the past
couple of weeks, Chattooga
County deputies have been called
to quell (fisturbanccs between
the angry neighbors at least 10
times. Coley said restraining or
ders have been issued by the
county magistrate court between
members of the groups and one
person has been arrested. Two
independent land surveys are
under way between the various
groups involved to establish le
gal boundaries, he added. i
“You have to understand
that this is not a legal dispute of
ficially involving Lyerly’s govern
ment,” Mayor Coley said. “As the
mayor, [am acting as a media
tor and trying to he%p resolve this
among citizens.”
T%xe overall atmosphere of
the first half-hour of the Lyerly
meeting sometimes resembled
rhetoric from the McCoys’ and
Hatfields’ feud in the 1800 s.
BOUNDARIES
Members of the three Lyerly
families said they had had nor
mal neighborly relationships
until issues about property lines
arose during the past month.
“Clearly, there is a closed
Town of Lyerly right of way in the
midst of this that could be used
to allow an open road into the
properties at question,” Mayor
Coley said. “No one is going to
loose their right to have access
to their H)ropert_v simply because
this legal right of way is there and
can be accessed if necessary. I
promise all parties involve‘z of
that.”
Mayor Coley said Eddie
Schrock, the town’s engineering
representative who works for
Williams, Sweitzer & Barnum,
Rome, contacted him last week
and said the state Environmen
tal Protection Division had con
tacted him. The afifncy was com
gletinipaperwor which would
e in the town’s hands by March
15 on the Lyerly wastewater
treatment plant-sewer é)roject.
The town received a com
bined grant and loan total of
$2,704,500 to finance the
project originall{, which will in
clude the installation of sewer
lines, as well as the wastewater
spraying plant. The funding has
been provided bf' a $475,000
Community Deve otpment Block
Grant, $1,512,000 from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
(USDA), in a rural development
grant and a $718,000 USDA 4
percent loan due to be repaid
over a 30-year period.
EASEMENTS
Mayor Coley said after the
January Council meeting, that he
had mana%ed to resolve si%ning
problems for more than half the
24 uns(ifned sewer easements.
He said he has appointments
next week with six more of the
residents who have not signed
the easement and believes he will
be able to get their signatures.
“Our attorney, John Seiss is
working on five cases with Lyerl
residents involving the more diz
ficult legal issues and I think he
will have those situations under
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Chip Warren Speaks To Optimist Club
Democrat Chip Warren
g)oke to the Summerville-Trion
ptimist Club Friday. He is a
candidate for the U.S. Congres
sional Seat held b{ Bob Barr.
Warren will face Roger
Kahn and Jim Williams in the
Democratic primary in July.
Warren said he was a resi
dent of Marietta in west Cobb
County for the past 15 years,
moving from downtown Atlanta.
Prior to that he grew up in Ma
con, where his dad was in the Air
Force at Lockheed.
“I've been married for 25
Kears to my high school sweet
eart. [ have a daughter, 23 who
is married and I have a grand
son, 21 months old. My son is 19
years old and a student at South
ern Tech,” Warren said.
He is a former Atlanta Po
lice officer until 13 J'ears ago
when he was elected national
vice president of his police union,
the International Brotherhood of
Police Officers. “I have served in
that capacity ever since. I have
March Meeting
control soon,” Magor Coley said.
“One of the residents that we
need to get an easement signed
by has not been located ang her
telephone has been discon
nected.”
Eugenia Patty, town clerk,
said Theresa Smith of Lookout
Mountain Animal Rescue
(LMAR), Trion, had called her
and said the animal tags which
h'ad(}:)een on back order had ar
rived.
“We are ready to.issue these
tags to town residents. Angone
having questions may come by or
call Town Hall for details about
costs and more,” Ms. Patty said.
Mayor Pro Tem Robert Th
ompson Jr. asked if it would nec
essary for town residents to take
their dogs to the LMAR as part
of the tag process.
“No, not necessarily,”
Mayor Coley replied. But he ex
glained that if residents’ animals
ad not had a rabies shot, then
they would need to call LMAR at
734-0812 and arrange to take
their animals to the clinic.
GENERATOR
M?'or Coley said Harold
Raglan , water supervisor, had
ordered a previously approved
new Fenerator as a backup elec
trical source at the Lick-Skillet
wellsite.
“The control panel just came
in this week and we have been
making calls to get it installed,”
Coley said.
Ragland said he called sev
eral companies about installinfi
the panel but had heard bac
from onlf' one company, Ester
Electrical Co., Rome. A
Mayor Coley said the instal
lation cost was estimated from
$1,200 to $1,500 but would be
handled through Special Pur
pose Local O(i)tion Sales Tax
(SPLOST) funds. - =
He said another problem
has occurred since the well pump
quit running due to the storm
caused electrical outage two
weeks ago.
It apgears that there was a
large(roc et of red clay that
seef)e into the water and as the
well is filling up, it is being
clouded by this sediment,
Mayor Coley said. “I'm told that
this is. callet_{ turbidity.”
The well has been shut down
for public water use until the tur
bidity level meets state regula
tions.
PUMPING
Coley said the well is being
pumped out 24 hours a day at the
cost of about $250 to S3OO at
taxpayers’ expense to clear up
the problem. More than a
100,000 gallons of water a daf'
is being pumtfed from the well
onto surrounding ground, he in
dicated.
Ragland said the well has
been unofficially out-of-service
for 14 days.
“The cost of this incident al
most pays for the generator,” the
mayor noted.
A sl?ectator asked the mayor
about the Alabama water agree
ment.
“There’s no news on that
because both sides’ attorneys
have been tied up in other court
matters,” Mayor Coley re
sponded. “I expect to have infor
mation on that at our next meet
ing.”
The next meeting of the
Council has been scheguled for
7 p.m. on Tuesday, March 14 at
Town Hall.
been elected to five-tear terms
on three occasions,” he said.
VALUES
“I decided to run for Con
gtx;ess because I didn't feel like
the current Congressman was
representing the values and the
things that I feel are imé)ortant
as a person from the Seventh
District. 3 i
“I grew up here and when I
thought about running for Con
gress, I said, what gives you the
right, you're just some kid from
Mgacon. Georgia. What gives you
the ri§ht to want to run for Con
gress? What makes you feel that
you can go up there and fairly
represent the peosle in this dis
trict,” Warren said.
He said he thought about it
lonfi and hard and discussed it
with his wife and then discussed
it with Bruce Redd and he came
to the realization of two things.
“Everybody in:our great
countrz under our great Consti
tution has the right to run for of
fice and I put that question right
out of the way. The second thing
I do believe in is what's right for
the Seventh District and the
people in the Seventh District. I
examined what I had heard, I
examined what people had told
me was important and I realized
that was exactl% what was im
portant to me,” he add_ed.
He continued, “It’'s impor
tant to me because I dolive here.
It's important to me because I
have raised a family here. It's
imgortant to me because I had
to have two and three jobs as a
police officer and I had a wife
that had to work also because we
needed that income and had to
gut our children in day care and
ad to put our children in the
public schools system and
struggle with all those issues.”
He said he has struggled
like most peogle in the district
and with §oo times now and
being comfortable in his lifestyle
“it was the right time for me to
make a decision to either sit back
and keep complaining like a lot
of us do or §et in the fight.”
“My folks raised me to not
bring problems to the dinner
table. You weren’t allowed to sit
at our table and complain. You
were allowed to sit at our dinner
table and say this is what I'm
going to do to change that. That’s
what I bring to you today,” War
ren said.
ISSUES
He said that there were sev
eral issues he thought was very
important that the next Con
gressman had to address.
“First, jobs in this district.
Our current Congressman, in
mg' olpinion, fell asleep at the
wheel. He has not done what a
Congressman is supposed to do
to protect business and protect
workers,” Warren saig, “He
fought a lot of battles whether
they were right or wrong. He
fought impeachment. He fought
voting rigl!n)ts in Washington D.C.
He fought about religion at Fort
Hood, Tex. At the same time
Lockheed was not getting con
tracts. They were not generating
contracts for the largest em
ployer in the Seventh District. As
a result, we had 2,000 layoffs.
Now we are facing even more
layoffs because there are no con-
Summerville Police
Probe Thefts,
Burglaries In City
Members of the Summer
ville Police Department were
called to a Summerville Gardens
Apartment in response to a fight
call Saturday afternoon.
Barbara Sellers, 34007 Ga.
157, Cloudland, said her daugh
ter was in jail and that she was
coming to secure her daughter’s
property, officers said. She
claimed that some items in her
daughter’s apartment had been
stolen, a report stated. She
wanted the people at her
daughter’s apartment to leave,
officers said.
In other incidents, police
reported: )
* Billy J. McKissick, 105
Hankins Drive, Summerville,
said someone entered his bed
room and took one Fold watch
and a pair of Timberland boots.
The watch and boots were val
ued at $1,290.
* Frances L. Tucker, 161
Woodland Ave., Summerville,
said someone on Thursday, Feb.
3, broke into her house and stole
a television set, bed covers,
dishes and cooking pans. The
value of the missing items was
not listed.
* William Rhyan Keith, 610
Tate Road, Trion, said someone
kicked the side quarterpanel of
his Mustang Cobra.
* Amber McGuire, 901
Summerville Gardens, said a 16-
year-old came to her apartment
and began cursing her. The ju
venile was asked to leave but re
fused. Once police were called,
the juvenile left.
* Terry White, 70 Raymond
St., said two geople were tryintg
to run him off the road. The of
fending auto was black.
* Angela Sutton, 1202 Sum
merville Gardens Apartments,
said Saturday her apartment
had been burg{arized. A window
in the apartment had been bro
ken. A list of missing items was
not given.
v Sherolgn Yarbrough, 7
Carol Drive, Summerville, said
someone stole $395 from her
purse while she was working at
Oak View Nursing and Rehabili
tation Center.
* A clerk at the Golden Gal
lon convenience store, Ga. 114,
said someone drove off without
paying for $7 in gasoline.
tracts coming in. I believe our
Congressman has the responsi
bility to be a salesman for busi
nesses in their district.”
Warren said that it was a
Congressman'’s responsibility to
be at the Pentagon to make sure
that the administration of the
Pentagon made the decision on
g::at to buy and who to buy it
m.
“I'll do that. I grew up in a
military family. I feel very com
fortable working with higher ech
elon militalwseople. My dad was
a colonel,” Warren continued, “I
do believe in a strong military
and I do believe we need to stay
above and ahead of the curve in
all of our military e%uipment
whether it’s the F-22 E:ter we
need to produce at Lockheed or
whether it is a missile system to
protect our shores from any at
tacks from outside.”
EDUCATION
Warren said, “I believe in
education. I know the justice sys
tem. What I don’t know is why we
spend $30,000 a year to incar
cerate a child and only $5,000 to
educate him. There’s something
real wrong with that picture.”
The [.)ublic education system
needs help, Warren added.
“I applaud where the gover
nor is headed with his reform
package. I don’t a%lree with every
thinF in it but I think he is cer
tain wn the right track,” he said.
arren said that teachers
should be protected from frivo
lous lawsuits and he was for lower
teacher ratios.
“If we can get student
teacher rations down to 11 to 1,
then our kids can learn better,”
he said.
“Every student must have
the same opportunity. The fed
eral government needs to help
the states to do whatever it can
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SECOND AMENDMENT
Warren said there was one
gsspe that Congor:fisman Bdar;'l is
oing “pr "at and that
is thg §gco?:3.§mendment.
“I've been a National Rifle
Association (NRA{ snapporter all
g\tylife. I'm not ablind supporter
the NRA. There are sometimes
;lisues they have I disagree with
em.
“I'believe in the right for ev
eryone in this room to own a
weapon as long as you own it re
sponsibly. If you use it for a
crime, I'm goinfi to see that we
pass laws that there be a severe
penalty for using that weapon in
the commission of a crime,”
Warren said.
He continued, “I believe in
the Second Amendment and I
want to make that perfectly clear,
but that cannot be the onl)),l issue
your Congressman is advocating.
It is an important issue, but not
the only issue. We have transpor
tation issues, pollution issues
and education issues. I intend to
work on those issues.”
Warren said he thought he
could defeat the incumbent Re
publican Congressman.
“I believe I can beat Bob
Barr — I know I can. I believe I
can represent you without em
barrassing you. I want to be the
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type of Congressman where I
can stand here 10 years from
now and you ‘can say you have
done a good job. I want to be the
guy that brings home the bacon
or this district,” Warren said.
QUESTIONS
Warren res?onded to sev
eral questions from the audi
ence.
'One member asked War
ren, “Are you for or against par
tial birth abortions?
Warren answered, “I be
lieve in the woman’s riil;t to
choose. I wouldn’t want to be put
in that position but it is the law.
Whether it is rape or incest or
she finds out technoloiically
that the baby is terribly de
formed, a woman has the rifiht
to say I'm not going to carry that
baby. I believe in a woman'’s
riéht to choose and I can back
off that.”
Another member asked,
“You said that Confiressman
Barr was not doinfg is job as
salesman for the defense compa
nies in Georgia because he’s not
fietting any contracts. How is it
is fault that during the Clinton
Administration the military has
been cut in half, personnel wise
and hardware wise?”
“We need a strong military.
I don’t support the president’s
cuts in the milita?'. I will be a
strong advocate for the mili
tary,” Warren answered.