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t ~ 61, NO. 46 HOGANSVILLE, GEORGIA-THURSDAY, NOV. 11, 2004 12 PAGES • 1 SECTION • 1 INSERT.50¢
[Pall Festival Will Honor 'Mr. V.R.'s Chicken- Que'
~~ Chicken-Que with Brad Stephens, "Brad has already agreed to do
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[ [qlool on Sunday, Nov 13.
Bungee Run, a Trackless Train and
other activities on the school grounds.
A feature of the festival will be a
"Chicken-Que" in honor of V. R.
Stephens, a former shop teacher at
Hogansville High School who staged
his own first Chicken-Que in 1962
used the proceeds from his events
for materials for the school's shop
where students learned vocational
skills.
Stephens also owned a feed and
seed store on College Street. He
retired in 1977 after 20 years as the
school's agriculture teacher.
"We're reviving Mr. Stephens'
The younger Stephens still lives in
Hogansville and works for
Diversified Power.
"We hope to make the Chicken-
Que more of a community event," said
Striblin, who heads the city's Cultural
Arts Committee. "We're even using
the grates that Mr. V.R. used."
"Mr. V. R. stated his Chicken-Que
with 500 chickens. We're starting with
200 and will be serving in the cafete-
ria, or people can picked up their
plates there 'to go.'"
"We'll start cooking at 6 o'clock
Saturday morning."
it become an annual event."
Brad will be using his grandfa-
ther's recipe, festival sponsors noted.
V. R. Stephens was widely known
throughout Georgia and is a member
of the Georgia Agricultural
Education Hall of Fame.
An Air Force veteran who served
during World War II, he died in 2000
and was inducted into the Hall of
Fame a year later.
His widow, Helen, survives and
is still active in her church and as a
community volunteer.
BELOVED- V.R. Stephens'
memory and chicken-que
will live on this weekend.
I . ezoning:
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1 eady to
[lid earlier this week that
believes all of the
[~B~ed documentation of
plans for two large
~l'acts of land in
laogansville that he wants
~ned have been submit- [
[kdto city officials and that
~ring on that proposal
~xt Proceed as scheduled
week.
L Arnold told the Home
~ews on Tuesday that he
~ad been extra careful to
l~ace sure that several sets
pf plans for the tracts,
_[tOtaling some 271 acres
tgnH~ere submitted in time for
last night's Planing and
ing Commission meet-
is proposal almost
t left off the agenda for
[that meeting, but every-
thing was back on track by
late Tuesday, the some-
times controversial devel-
trper said.
If the planning panel
~cted on the proposal as
~aticipated last night, that
~ets the stage for what will
IProbably be a lively public
hearing for Monday, Nov.
15 at 6;30 p.m. at the City
Council chambers in City
8aU.
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rnold wants 227 acres
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CHECKING 'EM OUT - Sgt. Ricky Morris with the state Department of Motor Vehicle
Safety checks out a line of big trucks headed for downtown Hogansville earlier this week.
He wasacting in part in response to complaints that big rig trucks are using Hogansville's
streets as a way to get around a weigh station at LaGrange.
State Inspectors Helping Ease
Noise Problem in Hogansville
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
through the very heart of
downtown.
He, like some
the city council may have ~_e-
ceeded in making their anger
over the roar of big tractor-
Wailer rigs heard well beyond
the city limits.
There have been opera-
tions by agents of the
Department of Motor Vehicle
Safety here in recent days -
some packing portable scales
aimed at "encouraging" some
big rig drivers to look for
ways around downtown
HogansviUe.
On Monday, for instance,
Sgt. Ricky Morris, who works
for the DMV Regional Office
in LaGrange had three trac-
tor-trailer rigs pulled over at
the same time on Highway 54
- aka Main Street - ~ear the
Ingles Super Market about
mid-morning.
The drivers were climb-
ing.out of their tractdi-s, some
with log books and all with
driver's licermes in hand.
Morris was checking
weights and log books as well
as eye-bailing the big trucks
and asking the drive~s where
they were headed west
members apparently had a
sneaking suspicion that some
of the trucks were over-
weight and using HogansviJle
as an "escape route" around
the new southbound weigh
station on Interstate 85 near
LaGrange.
About two weeks ago,
Mayor Wilson St. Clair and
several City Council mem-
bers, prompted by a letter
from a Hogansville resident,
served notice that they were
going to contact State Sen.
Mitch Seabaugh and other
state officials in another of
their on-going efforts to shut
down some of the truck traf-
fic through the downtown
shopping area here.
Apparently their voices
were heard this time.
"My captain wants me to
spend some time just about
every day up here" for a
while, Morris said.
"I think I just convinced
three (truck drivers) not to
be going through town any-
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[Hogansville Veterans Day Celebration Set for 11 This Morning
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
Hogansville's Veterans Day cel-
ebration was scheduled for 11 a.m.
this morning at the pavilion at Calvin
ttipp'Veterans Memorial Park.
I- Tommy Thrower, widely known
I-Iagansville resident who has been
active in all the veterans' organiza-
tions in the area - including efforts
help raise funds for the Troup
County +Veterans Memorial that is
planned for I.,aGrange - will be the
keynote speaker.
The timing of ceremony is not
incidental: the "Eleventh hour of the
llth day of the 11th month" was the
time of the signing of the armistice
that marked the end of World War
I, which was known as "The war to
end all wars," but obviously didn't.
Armistice Day was created as a
national holiday in the U.S. in 1938
and the name was
changed to Veterans Day
in 1954, to honor all of
those who had served in
the nation's wars.
Ceremonies are held
each year at the Tombs
of the Unknowns ha
Arlington, Va., London and in Paris.
Activities today in Hogansville
were to include a salute to all major
branches of the Armed Forces of
the U.S., a medley
of patriotic songs,
posting of the col-
ors by the
HogansviUe Police
Department's
Honor Guard, the
Laying of a wreath
at the veteran's monument in the
park, the playing of "Taps," along
with the singing of the National
Anthem and "God Bless America."
Following the ceremony,
refreshments will be served by the
Hogansville American Legion
Ladies Auxiliary at Community
Bank and Trust.
The community room at the
bank was to be decorated with mem-
orabilia from past decades that a
spokesman said ought to provide an
interesting look back, especially for
the young.
BUSY - ToniStriblin is look-
ing for floats and partici-
pants for the Christmas
parade.
Plans Well Underway for City's Christmas Parade
By CUNT CLAYBROOK
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Orgardzers are getting ready for
the annual Hogansville Christmas
Parade, and are encouraging those
who want to participate to sign up
early..
"We're looking for as many peo-
ple and floats as we can get," said
Toni Striblin, one of the organizers.
The organizers hope to top last
year's parade, which had only about
seven floats.
., "People can dress in period cos-
tumes, and we're looking for bands,
antique cars and other entries,"
Striblin said.
The Callaway High School
Marching Band is already commit-
ted, she said.
"We know we're going to have
entries from Highland Baptist
People, churches and other organ-
izations wishing to enter a float,
prancing horses, dancers or other
characters in the parade need to pick
up a Christmas Parade Application
and return it by Tuesday, Nov. 30,
Striblin said. Organizers are asking
for a $5 entry fee, which will be used
to help out with office expenses.
Applications are available at
Church, First United Methodist, Van's. Roger's Bar-B-Que Restaurant,
Hardware, Roger's Bar-B-Que and Clemons and Co. Used Books and at
others." the Video Store, she said.
The parade will take place on Dec.
4, beginning at Hogansville
Elementary School at 4 p.m.
This year's theme is "Christmas
in Hometown Hogansvflle." '
The parade is sponsored by the
Hogansville Cultural Arts Society.
For more information: Call
Striblin at 607-637-4959 and leave
your names, address and phone num-
ber so she can send you an applica-
tion.
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