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HOGANSVlLLETGA
PERMIT NO. 35
VOL. 59, NO. 40
HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA-THURSDAY, OCT. 3, 2002
12 PAGES • 1 SECTION ° 3 INSERTS • 50€
By Bryan Geter
WE ARE CLOSED - Several cars and big rigs
entered into Nobles Truck Stop on Monday, only to find
the doors closed for business.
Nobles Truck Plaza Closes its Doors
By BRYAN GETER
chased the truck stop in
December, 1992 from a local
dairyman, Hilton Parker. The
business had been in opera-
tion for more than 30 years.
The company was man-
aged by Nobles' son, Brad.
Nobles' featured a 24-
hour restaurant, Janet's
County Kitchen, with a buf-
fet filled with delicious veg-
etables and meats as well as
a menu along with a good
Critical
BRYAN GETER
A LaGrange woman
; remains in critical condition
in the CCU at the Columbus
Medical Center in Columbus
after being injured in a sin-
gle car accident Monday
morning.
Jackie Lee Clay, approx-
imately 35 years old, was
traveling south on the
Hammett Road near the Tin
Bridge Road;vtmn accord-
ing to witnesses, the car went
pole.
state the electric
and swung loose,
but there was no loss of power
according to officials.
Clay was flown to the
Columbus Medical Center by
helicopter after being freed
from the vehicle by county
firefighters using the "Jaws
of Life."
According to reports,
Clay has head and arm
injuries.
The accident was han-
dled by the Georgia State
Patrol, Post #2 in LaGrange.
plenty of-color robe Seen this
fall in Hogansville, and thafs not
even including the leaves. TOP
PHOTO: Susan Sills (at right) of
Atlanta, recently presented Ron
Clemmer, Vicar of St. Matthews
Charismatic Episcopal Church
in Hogansville, a gift of stained
glass depicting the ap
Matthew. BOTTOM PHi)7(3."
Quilt tickets are being sold on
these h, vo beautiful quilts. A tick-
et for a chance to win can be
purchased at the Hogansville
Senior Center. The tickets are
$1 and will be given away on
Dec. 1. You don't have to pres-
ent to win. ,
When the employees at
Nobles Truck Plaza in
Hogansville came to work
last Thursday, according to
an employee,they were to told
to go hack home because the
truck stop was closing its
doors.
Lamar Nobles of
Tallapoosa, Georgia pur-
Police Respond to 4:16 azn. Piggly Wiggly Alarm
said nothing else
was mmsmg.
Police took the wallet into
evidence and the case
remains under inveigation.
• In a separate incident,
warrant procedures were
advised for Andre Ransom
after Jessica Teasley told
police as she was attempting
to leave a party at Mike's Elite
on Boozer SWeet on
September 29 and some peo-
ple were "messing" with her.
Tea°Icy said she told
she was going to call the
police and that is when
Ransom took her cell phone
and threw it across into the
yard of 103 Boozer Street,
causing it to break.
She told police that, then,
he took a plastic chair and hit
the left rear fender of her car,
a 1993 green Toyota Camry,
causing a dent and some
scratches.
=Phil Waldrop, owner of
the Hogansville Pharmacy,
told police that on September
28 around 5:15, he heard a
vehicle go by and then a pop.
He reported to police that
the large pane of glass to the
right of-the back door has a
3-4 inch hole in it with dam-
age spreading out from the
area of impact.
He said the damage
exceeded $500.
Waldrop said he saw no
vehicle or person.
By BRYAN GETER
The Hogansvflle Police
responded to a alarm at
Piggly Wiggly Food Store on
Thursday at approximately
4:16 a.m.
After arriving on the
scene, officers noticed the
front door glass was busted
out.
The officer went inside,
cleared the building and then
found grocery bags and a tele-
phone on the floor behind the
counter near the cigarettes.
The LaGrange Police
were called in with its K-9
unit and Investigator Tony
Lattimor was on the scene and
found a large rock inside the
store in several pieces.
The case is uhder inves-
tigation.
-Juanita T. Seaborn of 1B
Jennings Homes reported to
police that someone on
Thursday, September 19,
entered her home and took
$60 (three 20 dollar bills) out
of her v, allet and then put the
wallet back into her lunchbag
and left.
Seaborn told police she
and her son locked both the
front and back doors of her
house before leaving at
approximately 5:30 p.m.
She noticed both doors
were open when they
returned at 7 p.m.
Troup Jobless Rate 00]ontinues to Improve
In August of 2001, Troup
had a 5.4 rate.
*The lowest rate of the
four local counties during
August was the 2.4 per cent
recorded in Harris, down
slightly from the 2.6 in
Harris' revised July figures.
Ayearago, Harris had a
2.9 jobless rate.
°Metier continued to
improve, with a 6.3 for
August, compared to 7.0 per-
cent in July.
In August of last year, the
jobless rate for Meriwether
. was 6.9 per cent.
° Talbot showed a 5.4 per
cent rate in August, up from
the revised July rate of 5.0
percent.
But it's still better than a
year ago: in August of 2001,
"lhlbot had a 7.3 percent
unemployment rate.
• The Chattahhee-
Flint region, which includes
Meriwether, IYoup, Carroll,
Coweta and Heard, had a 4.8
rate for August.
By ROB RICHARDSON
The unemployment rate
for the four-county area con-
tinued to improve in August,
except in Talbot County.
According to figures just
released by the Georgia
Department of Labor, the
Harris-Troup-Meriwether-
Talbot area showed an aver-
age jobless rate of 4.8 per-
cent for August, d6-a from
5.1 percent in July.
The region is substantial-
ly stronger than it was a year
ago, when it averaged a 5.6
percent unemployment rate
in August of 2001.
The area is beginning to
catch up with the statewide
unemployment average,
which was 4.7 percent in
August, down from the 4.9
recorded for July. The state
rate was 4.0 in August of 2001.
Jobless rates improved
in Meriwether, Troup and
Harris, but worsened slight-
ly in Talbot County.
State Labor
Commissioner Michael
Thurmond is glad to see that
most areas are improving.
"Georgia's employment
picture is slowly improving.
I am especially encouraged
by the job growth we are see-
ing in the southern part of our
state," said Thurmond.
• Troup declined to a 5.1
percent rate in August from
a 5.8 rate in July.
breakfast
Nobles also sold gasoline
as well as fuel and had a large
convenient store with all
sorts of truck driver's notions
and snacks.
The only thing that
remains open on the premis-
esis the "truck wash" and "tire
repair" shop on the back side.
As of Monday, truckers
continue to roll into the
empty ed look upon their
faces, not knowing it is
closed.
Hogansville's Mayor was
shocked to hear that Nobles
was closed.
One long time customer
said he didn't know where he
would now go to buy gasoline
and diesel for his vehicles and
farm tractors.
Lamar Nobles was out of
town on Tuesday and could
not be reached for comment. .
DUI, Theftl
Cases Fill
CiW Court
Judge Whatley Stays Busy
With Usual Packed Docket
By VAUNDA IVERY
Brown was found guilty of
four counts of seat belt vio-
lation and fined a total of
disposed of a large
of court cases in Hogansville
Recorder's Court Sept. 12th.
Charges ranged from
D.U.I. to theft by shoplifting.
*Jammie Lynn Acred,
who was charged with speed-
ing, failed to appear.
.Lesley A. Arrington was
charged with seatbelt viola-
tion and no proof of insur-
ance. Arrington also failed to
appear.
.David Anthony Askew
was charged with four counts
of city code vaccination
requirement. Askew was
fined $59.25 on three counts;
the fourth count was dis-
missed.
.Kevin Robert Barber,
expired tag, was fined $76.50.
.Larry Wayne Barnes
was found guilty of driving
with an expired driver's
license and fined $76.50.
-Edward Otis Barrett was
charged with failure to stop
at a stop sign and no proof of
insurance. A bench warrant
was issued.
.Thomas Christopher
Barron was fined $76.50 for
speeding.
-Peter N. BeBow was
found guilty of speeding and
timed $155.00.
-Patricia Ann Bell was
fined $415.00 for no proof of
insurance.
*Robert W. Bell was fined
$123.75 for noise violation.
Bell was also charged with
D.U.I. alcohol minor and
timed $880.00. His license was
also revoked and D.U.I.
school must be attended with-
in 30 days.
*Timothy Brandon Blair
was fined $15.00 for seatbelt
violation. He was also fined
$76.50 for Iimit on sound vol-
ume; also found guilty of hav-
ing an altered tag and fined
$76.50.
,Alicla Beasley, violation
of child restraint was fined
$38.00.,
-Anthony Scott Bowen
was found guilty of speeding
and fined $115.00.
.Carlos Jermaine Brown
was fined $160.00 for seat-
belt violation and failure to
appear.
*Chevosky Antwaan
Brown was found guilty of
seatbelt violation and fined
$30.00.
,Christopher Ryan
for
license.
• Jason Bernard Brown
was charged with impeding
the flow of traffic and failed
to appear.
• Joe Frank BroW,
charged with noise violatitin,
was ffmed $76.50. :!
• Amy Nicole Buice was
Freed $76.50 for disregardihg
a stop sign.
• Donna Lowry Butclier
was charged with speedig
and driving while
The cases were continued to
Oct. 10.
• Tammy L. Camertm,
driving without license On
person and no proof of insur-
ance, was fined $52.00.
• Terry I Cape, who was
charged with seatbelt viola-
tion, failed to appear.
• Ellis Stewart Clark was
charged with driving while
license suspended and no
proof of imsurancaL The calms
were bound over to State
Court.
• Timmy Lee Clark was
charged with driving wlile
license was suspended::br
revoked. A bench warrant
was ismmd.
• Angela Paige Copeld
was charged with speeding
and failed to appear.
• Eddie Franklin Come
was fined $76.50 for disre-
garding a stop sign. ,:
• Larry D. Cotton was
charged with seatbelt viola-
tion and driving on a sus-
pended license, The cases
were continued to Oct. 10.,
• Chakeskia B. Cotton waa
timed $115.00 for speeding.
• Roger Cotton, operating
a vehicle witllout a valid tag,
was Fmed $76,50.
• Tammy D. Crain,
charged with disregardiffg a
stop sign, had the case con-
tinued to Oct. 10.
• John Robert Creel wae
fined $115.00 for speeding.
• Lori Lee Crowder wa
found guilty of shoplifting
and was Irmed $1,275.00, sen-
tenced to 12 months proba
tion and banned from Piggl.
Wiggly for one year.
• Jennifer B. Cummin:
was fined $115.00 for speed
ing.
• Alfred English, 4}r
speeding, failed to appeal'.
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