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Official Legal Organ, City of Hogansville Formerly The Hogansville Herald
Received Each Week in 4,000 Homes in the HogansviUe-Grantville Area
J. Dan Stata
THE CATCHER for the Cavaliers gets ready
first pitch of the baseball season for Callaway High.
rs opened the season Monday in the Pacelli High
1Tournament held in Columbus. Ben showed
the plate as well with a homerun against Manchester
• The Cavaliers brought home a 6-5 win.
Geter
Editor
Hogans Heroes Owner
Nabbed in Drug Sting
Early Tuesday morning, the
GBI supervised West Georgia
Multi jurisdictional Task Force,
along with the Hogansville
Police Department, shut down
a methamphetamine lab operat-
ing out of a well-known
Hogansville restaurant, and
arrested two individuals, includ-
hag the restaurant's owner.
Jeff Spader, 43, of
Hogansville, proprietor of the
Hogan's Heroes restaurant, and
Jennifer Bisett, 20, a waitress
at the restaurant, also of
Hogansville, were arrested
shortly after midnight, and
charged with manufacturing
methamphetamine and posses-
sion of methamphetamine with
intent to distribute.
"They were cooking the
drugs where they were cooking
the food," Hogansville Assistant
Police Chief Michael Craig said.
THE ARRESTS WERE the
results of a four-month investi-
gation into meth labs operating
in the area. Task Force agents
began conducting surveillance
Struck By Train
Out to Be 00gitive
address provided and Gamble
was there.
Gamble was transported by
Healthstar to the West Georgia
Medical Center in LaGrange
where she was treatedand dis-
missed.
Reports reflect the woman
suffered visible injuries (all
minor) to her left hand.
Wisniewski said Gamble
fled the scene because of the
active warrants pending against
her. He stated the woman was
also intoxicated at the time of
the incident.
THE TROUP County
Sheriff's Department was con-
tacted and were waiting to
arrest Gamble on an outstand-
ing warrant after she was dis-
missed from the hospital.
Assisting the HogansviUe
Police Department were CSX,
Troup County Fire Department,
Troup County Sheriff
Department and Healthstar.
Man OK After
Tractor Accident
A Hogansville man who was
pinned under his tractor last
Friday was listed in stable con-
dition on Tuesday morning at
the West Georgia Medical
Center.
James Bonner, 51, of Cornith
Road was attempting to push a
tree down in his yard with his
tractor when it overturned pin-
ning him underneath the steer-
hag wheel.
The Troup County Fire
Department had to saw the
steering column off the tractor
to free Bonner.
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woman was
Sunday night
struck by a train
l Streets ha
and found herself
the incident.
Gamble,
Street was
walking across the
tracks when a CSX
her.
the HogansvillePolice
arrived at the
victim had already
the searched
her, wit-
police of the
identity and her
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an officer to the
Continue Upward Climb
By John Kuykendall
Editor
Area residents have been
paying more at the gas pumps
lately, and that trend is expect-
ed to continue, according to Wes
Morgan, vice president of
Morgan Oil Company in
Talbotton.
"We're getting increases in
our prices pretty much on a daily
basis," Morgan said. "That, of
course, will reflect in the pump
prices.
"We've had pretty substan-
tial increases over the past 30 to
60 days and I don't see anything
stopping that right now."
Morgan said prices have
increased approximately .17€
per gallon since December 21•
Residents were paying
between .89.9 (cents) and .92.9
per gallon around Christmas, but
have seen the pump prices
increase to over $1.20 per gal-
lon ha recent weeks.
Morgan says with the prices
continuing to increase to suppli-
ers, local gas prices could goas
high as $1.50 per gallon by
March or April.
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By Imh SmmqSl
INCREASE - Area residents will be pay-
pump. Experts say the price of oil is expect-
ue its increase. In the photo above, Keesha Prather
Precious COmmodity into her Ford Explorer.
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"They were cooking
the drugs where they
were cooking the
food."
Michael Craig
Hogansville Police
on the restaurant late Monday
afternoon and followed Spader
as he left the establishment. A
traffic stop revealed that Spader
possessed enough chemicals ha
his vehicle to make 50 ounces of
methamphetamine, valued at
about $60,000.
SHORTLY AFTER, a search
warrant executed at the restau-
rant, uncovered the lab operat-
ing out of the same kitchen
where food is prepared.
Agents with the Drug
Enforcement Administration
(DEA) were called in to clean up
the lab. Approximately 20 gal-
lons of ether and other products
used to make methamphetamine
were seized. Additional arrests
are likely.
THE WEST GEORGIA
Multi-jurisdictional Task Force
is comprised of representatives
from the GBI, Carroll County
Sheriff's Office, Heard County
Sheriff's Office, Meriwether
County Sheriff's Office,
Carrollton Police Department,
Villa Rica Police Department
and Bowdon Police Department.
According to reports,
Hogan's Heroes will be closed
pending a Health Department
investigation and further inves-
tigation by law enforcement.
Improvements to Electrical
System Will Be Very Costly
By Bryan Geter
Associate Editor
Bob Hatch of the Municipal
Electric Authority of Georgia
(MEAG) told the Hogansville
City council Monday night it was
going to take a lot of money to
avoid electrical problems this
summer.
Hatch informed the city it
would needed to spend approx-
imately $80,000 per year over
the next few years to convert
two electrical circuits from four
to twelve kilovolts to help avoid
voltage problems during the
summer.
Hatch said Hogansville has
about one-third voltage that
most systems have and it was
creating a serious problem.
"Most systems this size have
twelve volts," he said.
The city experienced a prob-
lem last summer because the
voltage was too low, Hatch said.
"If nothing is done," he said,
"refrigerators could burn up,
television screens could shrink
and air conditioners could tear
up."
He told the council
Hogansville has the same volt-
age it had 50 years ago.
"Today there are more air
conditioners and the system is
at the breaking point," he said.
CITY MANAGER David
Aldrich said the city shouldn't
wait until budget time to begin
the conversion since that would
take the city into the heat of
summer.
"I like to know if they city
is interested, so I can work out
some prices and get bids out,"
Aldrich said.
"Speed is of the essence. If
we start now the project should
be ready by the end of May or
early June."
Councilperson Peggy
Harris said the city apparently
did not have a choice in the mat-
ter and would have to move for-
ward with the project.
The council agreed the
improvements were needed. It
was not determined when the
project would begin or when it
would be completed.
"ONE AREA OF town, near
Piggly Wiggly, is expecting to
see the construction of 400 new
homes," Hatch told the council.
"That could cost a half million
dollars or you can spread .it over
a number of years, just doing a
little each year until the project
is completed."
He said the city could start
at the fire station on Lincoln
Street and do a little upgrading
at a time, which would cost about
$80,000 annually.
"The entire circuit would
cost a half million dollars to con-
vert," he said.
He noted one of the three
areas has already been convert-
ed.
"The area of Ingles and
Carters has been converted and
is in good shape," Hatch said.
"There's a risk each summer
as more voltage are used, the
system goes up and up and the
problems start," he said. "There
is no quick way to solve the prob-
lem."
Hatch said now was the time
to get the job done before hot
weather strikes.
"I think this is the most eco-
nomical way," he added•
Councilperson Jean Crocker
asked Hatch how long, it would
take to complete the project•
Hatch assured her it would
only take about two months.
"You have got to make a deci-
sion now before it gets hot,"
Hatch said.
Frances Robinson/Staff
PILOT CLUB DONATION - Eddie Robinson (right), president of
the Hogansville Elementary PTO, accepts a check for $1,000 to
be used for curtains in the renovated auditorium at the school,
Presenting the check were (left to right) Sheila Rowe, Heather
Newsom and Kylie Bartlett,
Pilot Club Donation Helps
Purchase Curtains at
Hogansville Elementary
The Pilot Club of
Hogansville's largest fund-rais-
er is the Miss Hogansville
Pageant. Each year contestants
are asked to sell ads for the pro-
gram book. Proceeds from the
pageant are used for various pro-
jects throughout the year includ-
ing, but not limited to, the Senior
Citizens' Christmas Party, the
Susan St. Clair Scholarship, and
the Empty Stocking Fund.
Last Wednesday, Heather
Newsom, daughter of Be and
Michelle Newsom, Kylie
Bartlett, daughter of Be and
Anissa Bartlett, and Sheila Rowe,
of the Hogansville Pilot Club, pre-
sented a check in the amount of
$1,000 to Eddie Robinson, presi-
dent of the Hogansville
Elementary PTO, to be used for
curtains in the renovated audito-
rium at Hogansville Elementary
School. Heather was crowned
Miss Hospitality, and Kylie was
crowned First Runner Up in ad
sales for 1999.
The next pageant is tenta-
tively scheduled for late spring
of this year and is open to all girls
ages two and up.
