Other

officers elected include:

Rod drake, area manager for

Georgia Power vice-chairman.

Joe Crain Jr., vice

president of Crain Oil, treasurer.

Sam Jones, publisher Newnan

Times-Herald, and Melvin Samuels, manager of the Georgia

Department of Labor's Newnan office, were elected members

at-large on the executive committee.

Don Phillips, senior vice

president of commercial banking at First Commercial Bank,

will remain on the chamber board for one year after

serving as chairman of the board last year.

In

addition, the chamber announced the addition of five new

directors for the coming year: Walter Arnall of Harwell,

Brown and Harwell P.C.; Doug Cantrell of Belk; Harold

McCoy, Bank of America, and Jeff Strane of Newnan

Utilities.

Continuing

their service on the board will be Sam Edwards, Bank of

Coweta; Malcom Jackson of Utility Services Company; Allen

Queen, Chick-fil-A, and Bill Wetmore, Bonnell.

Directors

serving through 2001 are Bud Freeburg, Lindsey's; Otis

Jones III, Matrix Insurance; Bill Loftin Bleyle; Lisa

McDonald, CLICK, and Coweta County Sheriff Mike Yeager.