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PERMIT NO. 35
NO. 33
HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA- THURSDAY, AUG. 15, 2002
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By Bryan GeW
THIS IS NICE - Frazier Crenshaw of LaGrange admires the 1931 Ford that was on display at the annual
ia-Alabama Antique Auto Club last Saturday at the LaGrange Mall.
Year-Old Jailed for Taking VCR
home. determined the car was
;ETER Mofield took a VCR stolen from Hogansville on
belonging to McCJain in August3. t
Meriwether County exchange for the money he This incident remains
Deputies arrested claimed to have lost. under investigation.
Murphy Mofield, 17, Deputies were able to Meriwether County
charging him recover the VCR and return Sheriff's Investigators
theft by taking accord- it to McClain. arrested Nicholas Darnell
Whitlock. Jones, 20 and Anthony
said Mofield -In a separate case Bernard McGhee both of
Angle McClain, deputies recovered a 1987 Greenville charging them
! of Hogansville, threat- Cadillac Brougham aban- with theft by taking.
ecause of money doned off Jerrell Road. Whitlock said during an
lost at her Whitlock said deputies investigation into tire theft of
automobiles, from
HOgansville and LaGrange,
investigators determined
Jones and McGhee took a
1990 GMC pickup truck from
a home in the Odessadale
Community.
Jones and McGhee
remain in custody on war-
rants issued by LaGrange and
Hogansville Police
Departments. These inci-
dents remain under investi-
gation.
Smart Money
000 Grant to Help Area Students Continue Education
GETER
Clark Atlanta
T's Educational
Search has received
live $190,000 feder-
to aid 600 students
roup and Coweta coun-
The new program's aim
Ito increase the number of
to continue their
past high school,
Clark Atlanta's ETS
The program has been
ICOweta County since 1991
it recruits middle
graders
who are
in attending col-
Wyatt said the students
grouped together and
in a number of aca-
social activities
they graduate from
school.
%'de just expose them-
can't expose students
Wyatt said, "the
get that feeling
ot being afraid of new
and new people,
better."
There are four schools
County School
will be offered
Program - Troup High,
Cane Middle, CaUaway.
and Cailaway Middle.
The program will
employ three full time staff
members and approximate-
ly 15 part time employees,
Wyatt stated.
The teachers will be cer-
tified but not employed by
the Troup County School
System, but the part-time
employees will be part-time
teachers with supplement
pay, she added.
The classes will aim to
improve study skills, test-
taking and any other areas
of need.
High schoolers involved
in ETS will be allowed to
take the SAT and PSAT tests
and apply to up to six col-
leges for free.
The students will remain
in the program until they
finish high school. Wyatt
said the ETS counselors con-
duct group sessions with
students each week in the
middle schools and in the
high school, they meet only
once a month for group ses-
sions.
Each student is eligible
to attend a field trip to a col-
lege or a cultural event, also.
The students have been
to New York City, followed
the Oregon Trail, made
murals and have met U.S.
Senator Zell Miller.
They also attend special
See MONEY, Page 2-A
By Bryan Getet
A GOOD PROGRAM - Phyllis Wyatt is the Director of
the Educational Talent Search that is a program of the
Clark Atlanta University. Callaway Middle and High
Schools have been chosen to participant along with
Lone Cane Mke and Troup High School.
Anderson
Fdcked Out
Of Election
Disqualification Leaves Lee
With No Opposition at All
By BRYAN GETER
Secretary of State Cathy
Cox ruled last week that
Evelyn Thompson Anderson
of Charlie Fuller Road,
Grantville, is ineligible to run
in next Tuesday's Democratic
primary.
Thompson qualified to
run against State Senator Dan
Lee (D-LaG.) in the Georgia
Senate District 29.
There is no Republican
candidate in the race.
Cox issued a one-page
order last week in which she
concurred with the findings
and conclusions of law of
state Administrative Law
Judge Chris A. Foster.
Foster id that Anderson
had not met residency
requirement to run for office
in District 29.
COX SAID Anderson had
not lived in Meriwether
County for a year when she
filed to run for the office, as
required by law, and was not
registered to vote in the coun-
ty at the time.
Foster said Anderson was
not a registered voter in
Meriwether County until
July 11, when her application
for voter registration in
Meriwether county was
received and stamped by the
Georgia Secretary of State's
office.
She said she registered to
vote in Meriwether County
in Atlanta on May 3.
The judge said she voted
in a Fulton County election
on Nov. 6 and could not have
become a legal resident of
Meriwether County before
the following day.
Anderson said she has
lived two years just outside
of Grantville, in Luthersville,
since she had
become dis-
abled.
Anderson
said she looks
forward to
suing Migon
Carter and
Pete Johnson
for libel and
Lee slander.
Carter,
who is from Greenville and
is a counselor at Unity
Elementary School in
Luthersville, filed the com-
plaint against Anderson.
Johnson is the
Meriwether County tax com-
missioner who Anderson said
supplied Carter with infor-
mation indicating she was not
registered to vote in the coun-
ty.
Anderson "said Carter
knows she lives here since
she see her drop her children
at school every day and
Johnson lives a half-mile
from her.
ANDERSON was born in
Meriwether County but lived
in Fulton County for 38 years
and worked as an emergency
room nurse at Grady
Memorial Hospital until she
developed multiple sclerosis.
Anderson has 10 days to
appeal the decision in
Superior Court.
LEE SAID he was proud
of Cox's decision in the case.
"It was about as blatant a
case of residential ineligibil-
ity that I've known about," Lee
stated.
"From what I have seen
an intentional fraud was per-
petrated," he continued.
"It's unconscionable to me
that she would take those two
oaths knowing she was not
telling the truth."
I
Work Begins Monday
On Final Leg of Loop
Troup County Road
Crews will begin construc-
tion Monday on the final leg
of the North Loop Project.
The first phase of the
project was completed in
July 1999 and connected U.S.
29 to Hammett Road.
This second phase will
extend from Hammett Road
to New Franklin Road at the
Waugh Road intersection.
The Georgia Department
of Transportation notified
county fficials last month
that funds had been approved
and the project could pro-
ceed.
Approximately 40% of
the $1.1 million project will
be paid for by the DOT with
the county funding the
remainder of the cost.
.According to Road
Superintendent Jud Gilraer,
crews will begin demolition
of a few houses on Waugh
Road and will then start on
widening, grading, and
paving of the road.
Traffic will be maintained
at all times but there will be
some delays and inconven-
ience to motorists. Gilmer
asked that"drivers take extra
precaution in the work zone
due to the use of heavy equiP"
ment and construction pr
sonnel." The wor on
Waugh Road should I c°rn-
pleted by year's end €en the
focus will shift to jnnm--. _ me.tt
area co . g
Mill Road a on to the ne
waue, i¢'
Tld ttnal leg of the North
Loop actually combined two
pluU to allow for use of
excess material from one
phase t ° be used in the ext.
According to
Commissioner Buck Davis,
the construction will benefit
the community in two main
areas, one being to reduce the
amount of mileage for school
buses needing to get from
See WORK, Page 2-A
