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PERMIT NO. 35
60, NO. 40
HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA - THURSDAY, OCT. 2, 2003
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Refuses Request to Drop Moo] Murder Charge
3, 1970. She was his wife at the time.
The charge came several
months after District Attorney Pete
Skandalakis got the case reopened
at the request of one of the dead
woman's relatives.
MOORE, 62, is a retired truck
driver. He has been free on $25,000
bond since shortly after the charge
was filed.
Troup County Superior Court
Judge Quillian Baldwin on Friday,
Sept. 26, declined Marshall's attor-
ney's request to throw out the mur-
der charge.
, Attorney Bill Stemberger had
argued during a hearing last week
that Moore had been denied a
speedy trial and that because sev-
eral of the people involved in the
original investigation in 1970 are
now dead and some of the files of
the old case are missing, Marshall
Moore couldn't get a fair trial.
His client would thus be at an
has refused tothrow out
charge against a
man who wasn't
7 of killing his first
;until some 33 years after she
1 in a well on the cou-
7 in 1970.
Moore was charged
: in connection with the
Moore on Aug
"extreme disadvantage" is attempt-
ing to defend himself, Stemberger,
of Newnan, argued.
DURING THE HEARING last
week, Judge Baldwin said he'd have
to decide whether Moore's right to
a speedy trial began in 1970 when
his wife was killed, or whether it
began when Marshall Moore was
arrested on June 3.
"I am very pleased" with the
judge's decision, chief deputy assis-
By Clint Claybrook
HER COURT - Callaway High School's 2003 Homecoming Queen Destinie Thomas, center, is shown
her court during half-time at last week's Callaway/Lamar County football game. Pictured with her are, left, to
; Melissa Chaplin, Julie Bruce, Kimberly Dixon and Shawaun Turner.
By Clint Claybrook
GO CAVALIERS! - This 8y Clint Claybrook
youngster was one among AKINGLYPECK-Callaway
the many, many fans enjoy- High's first-ever
ing Callaway High School's Homecoming King, Chris
first victory of the football Tigner, gives his mother,
season last week over Rosemary Tigner, a little
Lamar County. peck after his 'coronation.'
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By Cllnt Claybrook
'OLD'-The 2002 Homecoming Queen Valarie
left, crowns this year's Queen Destinie Thomas.
tant District Attorney Lynda
Caldwell, said last Friday.
"I think it was the correct rul-
ing."
Stemberger said earlier that he
would appeal Baldwin's ruling to the
state Supreme Court if the decision
went against his client, as it did.
Moore's trial had been tenta-
tively set for late October and it was
unclear earlier this week whether
Baldwin's decision would affect the
trial date.
90-Home
Subdivision
Underway
Site Preparation Begins
On Shallow Creek Project
By CLINT CLAYBROOK
Site preparation is under-
way at a new subdivision in
Hogansville that is expected
to bring 9nev4 hmWewn -
ers-many of them first-time
buyers - to the city.
Shallow Creek
Subdivision will be located on
Highway 29 South, about a
half mile from downtown and
about a quarter-mile from the
city's southern city limits.
Early this week, Tommy
Pitts, who is partnered with
John Higgns in Palace
Properties, the developer,
was over-seeing site prepa-
ration and installation of
sewer lines on the site.
The gently-rolling land
will provide a handsome view
since its is considerably high-
er than the highway it over-
looks.
"We're planning for 90
homes, most of them prices
$96,000 to $115,000," Pitts
said.
Pitts in from Moreland
and Higgins is from Newnan,
and they were looking for a
site that they thought would
be a good "draw" in
Hogansville when they
selected the land for "Shallow
Creek."
"We found Hogansvflle to
be a very warm community
and we found all the city offi-
cials to be very professional
and glad for us to be here,"
Pitts told The Hogansville
Home News.
The target for getting
building started is
November, providing the
weather cooperates. At least
one model home will be avail-
able by January, if things go
By Clint Claybrook
GETTING READY -
Tommy Pitts, a partner in
Palace Partners, of
Newnan, watches on-going
site preparation work at new
subdivision on Highway 29
South in Hogansville.
as planned.
Flag Bank and
Washington Mutual are pro-
riding the financing.
The developers have to
go before the city's Planning
and Zoning Board for final
first plat approval, and will
be appearing before the City
Council on Oct. 20.
The location should be
great, Pitts said.
"We're one-half mile
from town, seven minutes
from Interstate 85, 13 miles
from Newnan and 13 miles
from LaGrange."
"We think our (clients)
will be 70 percent first-time
home buyers" plus some
older folks who are looking
to down-size.
"We really think we'll
draw bigger from LaGrange,
because the rental market is
so big down there."
Wayne Norton,
:, died Sept. 26. He
in Troup County
of his life, was a
and was
as a carpet
funeral serv-
was conducted
in the Chapel of
Claude A. McKibben
Sons Funeral Home
Hogansville.
Other Deaths,
Hogansville's Only Local Doctor
Checks Out, Apparently for (;ood
Sept. 29, said the office is "Closed the office had been finally closed.
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
The doctor is out in
Hogansville - apparently for
good.
Dr. Lloydstone Jacobs, who
has practiced general medicine
in an office in the shopping cen-
ter that is anchored by Piggly
Wiggly on Highway 29 in
Hogansville has .closed his doors
after serving the community for
the last year.
He was the only doctor in the
city in private practice here.
A sign on the front door of
Jacobs Healthcare on Monday,
for Today," and advised patients:
"In case of emergency, call 706-
637-5446 and the operator will
deliver your message."
But that wasn't the whole
story: A few days ago, the doctor
told the LaGrange Daily News
that he was closing the
Hogansville office.
He blamed spiraling costs of
malpractice insurance and slow
payments from Medicaid, the
state-federal program that serves
primarily the nation's poor.
What one found by calling that
number'Ihesday was, indeed, that
It was estimated that more
than half of his patients depend-
ed at least in part on Medicaid to
pay for their office visits and
treatment.
"I wish we could have kept
him here, he was doing a fantas-
tic job for Hogansville," Mayor
Wilson St. Clair was quoted as say-
ing.
Jacobs reportedly had some
1,200 patients, many of whom will
now have to turn to the Troup
County Health Health
Department clinic in
Hogansville, which is located at
407 Church St.
By C,nt Oaylxook
SIGNED OUT - Sign on the door of the offices
;Yy% U P i doY Dsv L'°YdeSt;?,(toCebc o n
The Day.' Actually the offices are closed for
good, his patients have been told.
