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Cooleemee Journal
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64th Year
No. 38
Stout Named
Task Force
Consultant
Michael Stout, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vernon Stout of Edgewood,
Cooleemee has recently been
appointed District Consultant to
the Task Force for Student In
volvement.
TYie specific role of consultant
will be:
1. To serve as consultants on
the state and district level.
2. To attend workshops in
their areas.
3. To carry out special proj
ects (if funds are made avail
able).
4. To assist district represen
tatives in their duties.
Consultants are high school
students chosen from finalists
from the membership selection
process, former Task Force
members, and students who
show outstanding ability in cer
tain areas of educational inter
ests.
The district consultant can be
most valuable as public rela
tions agents in the particular
area and in so doing put the
Task Force in closer connection
with individual schools.
Each consultant shall receive
all information sent to the Task
Force members. By personal
contact with a greater number
of students, more ideas and
attitudes can be expressed and
carried to the Task Force. With
the consultants, direct partici
pation with the Task Force will
be increased.
Water And Sewer
Town Must Choose Between Systems
By BONNIE CHURCH
Cooleemee has to make a choice.
Fifty local residents met last Thursday
night for the purpose of discussing two.
methods of solving Cooleemee's sewer and
water needs. Either a sanitation district or
a private utility company will then be the
solution to the problem.
Burlington Industries who had four
representatives at the meeting, did not
make any commitments as to which
proposal that it favored. But Burlington
made it clear that it definitely wanted to
sell the present distribution system in
Cooleemee.
Four representatives from Bur
lington; Dick Byrd, John Mortimer, Bill
Jones and William Ammons; attended
the meeting and stated that Burlington
would sell the distribution system to a
sanitation district just as it had pre
viously offered to sell it to an in
corporated Cooleemee.
County manager John Barber, coun
ty attorney John Brock, and county
commissioner Buddy Alexander attend
ed the important meeting and helped
answer questions about the drafting of a
petition.
Mr. Barber read a letter which was
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sent to property holders in Cooleemee
several weeks ago and signed by Com
missioner, Alexander. The letter contain
ed two proposals which would give the
people of Cooleemee a choice in the
future distribution of water and sewage.
One was by means of a private utility
company, and the second was to form a
sanitation district, comprised of a board
selected from freeholders (property own
ers) in the proposed district and appoint
ed by the county commissioners.
To organize a sanitation district,
property owners living within the pro
posed boundaries would have to sign a
petition and submit it to the county
commissioners. This would have to con
tain approximately 190 signatures or a 51
per cent margin.
He then asked "is there anyone
present that feels the water system sold
to a private utility could be the best
avenue to take?" There was no dis
cussion on a private company at this
point.
Burlington's representative, Byrd,
questioned Barber as how the petition
should read. Whether it should contain
resident property holders have the right
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to petition or just property holders. It
appeared this question, even after con
sulting with attorney Brock who ap
peared to be somewhat confused on the
issue, was confused.
Mr. Dick Byrd reminded the group
that Burlington had once before gener
ously offered the distribution system to
the town provided it chose to incorporate.
He said Burlington would also be willing
to extend the same offer to a sanitation
district.
"Are you saying that a sanitation
district would operate the same as if we
had incorporated?" was asked from the
floor.
Mr. Barber answered hesitantly,
"similar."
"Then we'd been better off to in
corporate in the first place came a reply.
Supporting "amen's" and "yeahs"
sounded from various parts of the audito
rium.
Mr. Frank Seders asked Burlington
"what would the water and sewage cost
the sanitation district?"
"The same had the town in
corporated. We would sell wholesale."
Mr. Barber explained that after a
board was appointed by the county
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Cooleemee
Woman
Shot
A Cooleemee woman was re
ported in critical condition at
the Davie County Hospital after
undergoing emergency surgery
Tuesday for a gunshot wound in
the abdomen.
Mrs. Dianne Jones Chattin,
22, was reportedly shot in the
abdomen by a man around 2:15
p.m. Tuesday at the home of
her mother. Mrs. Vernice Jonee.
who lives off U. S. 601 South,
Jerusalem Township.
The shooting was allegedly
done by a Cooleemee man. The
details surrounding the shoot
ing were not available at press
time early Wednesday morning.
Deputy Sheriff Jimmy Robert
son was investigating.
Following the shooting, the
girl first carried to a doc
tor's office in Cooleemee and
was then rushed to the Davie
County Hospital where she un
derwent emergency surgery and
received several blood trans
fusions.
Democratic Rally
Davie County
Democrats are planning
a big rally for Tuesday
night, October 13th.
Ken Sales, Chairman of
the Davie County
Democratic Executive
Committee, said that full
details would be an
nounced next week.
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