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Serving the HogansviUe-Grantville Area Since 1944
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60, NO. 36
HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA - THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 2003
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Claude Giddens and the
Cavaliers gave the home
something to look
to this season despite los-
g their opening game to Villa Rica,
at a soggy Callaway Stadium
y night. They'll try for
win Friday night against
High.
Down by 16 points in the third
Callaway and its never say
'.poDded with the spir-
winner and a second half effort
came up just short of a win
Justin Bray's fourfh down
t was intercepted in the
zone with just seconds left in
Hoping for First Win Tomorrow Night
"Our guys showed a lot of heart
out there," said Giddens. "We could
have easily laid down and quit in
the third quarter but we kept play-
ing hard."
Both teams mirrored the slop-
py field by combining for 12 fum-
bles, five of those by the Cavaliers.
Two Callavay fumbles were
returned for Villa Rica touchdowns
that appeared to seal the fate for
the men in black.
But the Cavs held their compo-
sure and gave a preview of an
offense expected to put up big num-
bers this year.
"I'm proud of the way our play-
ers responded," said Giddens. "We
practice hard and we play hard and
we will see some dividends of that
as the year progresses."
Villa Rica scored the lone points
of the first half with a 40-yard field
goal late in the first quarter to give
the Wildcats a 3-0 lead.
Callaway mounted a second
quarter drive but their red zone
woes continued. The Cavaliers had
the ball inside the Wildcat 20 yard
line on several occasions but came
away empty handed each time.
"That's where we have got to
step it up a notch or two," said
Giddens. "We moved the ball fair-
ly well but just couldn't punch it in
when we got close to their goal line."
The Wildcats found themselves
the beneficiary of two early second
half muscues that stunned the
Cavaliers. Two fumbles on consec-
utive possessions led to Villa Rica
touchdowns and a 16-0 lead.
"Those two turnovers returned
for touchdowns really hurt us," said
Giddens. "If we don't put the ball
on the ground there, who knows
what might have happened."
Callaway got its first touchdown
of the year with 1:31 left in the third
quarter, driving 62 yards and cul-
minating with Bray's three yard
keeper from three yards out to pull
to within 16-6. Carl Epps' two point
conversion run made it 16-8.
In the final stanza, Villa Rica
drove to the Callaway seven but
came away with only a field goal to
push the lead to 19-8.
The Cavaliers scored again on
their next possession when Epps,
who ran for 81 yards on the night,
scampered 24 yards to the Wildcat
end zone and Bray's two point run
made the score 19-16 and set the
stage for Callaway's dramatic fin-
ish.
Callaway got the ball one more
time and drove deep into Villa Rica
territory but turned the ball over
with seconds left in the game. The
Wildcats took a knee to run out the
clock and come away with the vic-
tory.
Epps' 81 yards led the Callaway
offense while Clantwan Martin
added 78 yard s and Chris Tigner
'ran for 36. B
"This game is history," said
Giddens. "We start to focus on
LaGrange now."
Callaway hosts the Grangers
Friday at Callaway Stadium at 7:30
p.m. Both teams are looking for their
first victory.
Police Seeking
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PROUD MOMENT- LuAnn Cranston pins the 50-year service pin on her father John
Cranston as James Underwood (L) looks on.
Decades of Thanks
John Cranston Honored for Masonic Lodge Service
On the 25 of September the Hogansville
Masonic Lodge held an open meeting to
honor past master John Cranston.
During the celebration John received
his S0 years of service awards - an apron,
a 50 year pin, and certificate.
Past grand worshipful master James
Underwood presented the awards.
John's daughter LuAnn Cranston was
present to honor her dad by pinning the
award on his lapel.
Preceding the celebration a delicious
meal was catered by Johnny Brown.
Friends, relatives and fellow Masons were
on hand to congratulate John.
Thwarts Phone ,ac nn
Cash/Check Trade
CLINT CLAYBROOK
Police didn't say so, but
incident in Hogansville
Week seemed to point to
scheme in
phone caller
money for a check
was written to a
nail salon.
Linda Clark told police
she had written a check
$58 to the salon on Friday
having her naris done.
The next day, Clark told
she received a phone
at home asking if she'd
at the salon the day
After she Said "yes," Clark •
Police, "the caller asked
in exchange for
She didn't specify, accord-
to the report, how much
r the caller wanted.
Clark "told the female She
not going to pay her for
check and that it was
out to (the nail salon)
to the police
and no one but people
owned the salon could
cash it.
What the woman offering
to sell the Check may not
know is that Clark, using the
Start 69 feature on her home
telephone, found out that the
person tryng to "sell" the
check was in Atlanta.
Which raises the obvious
question: Is that anonymous
caller going to get a call short-
ly from the Hogansville
Police Department?
The best advice, in that
case?
"Don't answer."
They (police) really do
"have your number."
In other police activity
last week:
.David Askew, who lives
at 404 Green Street, told
police that someone had
entered his residence and had
taken, possibly among other
things, four auto wheel rims,
tennis shoes, clothing, a TV
set and a stereo.
Askew said he'd turn in
an inventory of all missing
items this week.
*James Brumbelow, a
supervisor at the Waffle
House that several mean and
women who came into the
place between 3 a.m. and 5
a.m. on Monday, ran up a tab
totaling $45.33, then left with-
out paying, apparently after
a couple of people in :that
crowd "became unruly and
were asked to leave,"
If the deadbeats are locat-
ed, they could be charged
with "theft of services."
*Hogansville Police
arrested a Lawrenceville.
man for DUI, reckless driv-
ing and endangering a child
under age 14 whileDUI,
according to a city police
report
Douglas Allen I-}ooper, 41,
of 1200 Country Court,
Lawrenceville, was stopped
by police on 1-85 North about
9:15 p.m. on Monday after
police were notified by a State
Patrol dispatcher that
Hooper's car had been seen
weaving in and out of traffic
"and over the fog line" on the
Interstate.
The State: Patrol was
apparently tipped off by
another driver using a cellu-
lar phone.
On 1-85
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
The Georgia State Patrol
was still looking Tuesday for
a tractor-trailer rig that
struck and killed a woman on
Interstate 85 near
Hogansville last week.
Carrie Denise
Churchwell, 25, was pro-
nounced dead when
Hogansville police and state
troopers arrived at the scene
of a hit-and-run incident on
the Interstate two miles
north of the Hogansville exit
Wednesday, Aug. 27, officers
said.
Troopers said that
Churchwell, 25, of Twiggs
County was driving north
with two passengers when
she pulled her vehicle into
the north-bound emergency
lane and got out.
The tractor-trailer rig
struck Churchwell and her
car about 12:30 a.m. and kept
going north, officers said.
'aNe're still looking for it,"
a State Patrol officer said on
Tuesday of this week. We
haven't received any new
reports" about the vehicle or
its driver.
"All we know was that it
was a dark-colored tractor-
trailer with damage on the
right side," another trooper
spokesman said last week.
• William J. "Bill"
Holloway, 26, died
Saturday, August 23, at
Shands Hospital in
Jacksonville, Florida. Mr.
Holloway was born May
20, 1977, in Newnan. He
had lived in Camden
County in recent years
and had sewed as a youth
baseball :' coach and
enjoyed fishing and draw-
ing.
• Details, Other Deaths,
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SE'rrLING IN-Ashley Alexander is a new Exceptional
Ed Teacher at Hogansville Elementary School. She
has a B.S. In Education from West Georgia College.
She enjoys horseback riding and says her one big
wish is that all children in the world receive quality
education.
0000'rea Man Charged
With Hit-and-Run
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
A Hogansville man was
arrested Friday, Aug. 29,
apparently within minutes of
town Hogansville.
The driver of the red 1994
Chevrolet pickup truck did
not stop after striking Gates,
according to Police
Investigator Lt. Johnny
having
pedestrian with his pickup
truck on Highway 100 near
here.
Tony Shirey, who lives on
Hammett Road in
Hogansville, according to
police, was arrested at the
Gas Stop on Highway 29 in
HogansviUe shortly after 3
o'clock in the afternoon after
police officers spotted his red
pickup truck only minutes
after receiving a report that
Jimmy Gates, who lives on
Power Plant Road, had been
struck while walking along
Highway 100 toward down-
allegedly struck a Lockard.
Lockard and Officers
Tommy Hatcher and
Kenneth Knox were out look-
ing for the pickup truck short-
ly after the report of the hit-
and-run incident and one of
the three spotted the pickup
at the Gas Stop, which is near
the intersection of Highway
200 and Georgia 29, close to
the downtown Hogansville
area.
"Officer Knox made the
arrest" of Shirey, who was
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