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Amon Corn (upper photo, right) and Roy Holtzclaw ( lower photo, left) are shown receiving Farm
Bureau awards. The distinguished Service Awards were presented at a recent state farm bureau
meeting.
Forsyth News Sponsors Christmas Card Contest
GET YOUR
ENTRY
IN EARLY!
NAME, ADDRESS, AND
AGE MUST APPEAR ON
BACK OF EACH ENTRY.
The Forsyth County News
announces a Christmas Card
Contest. The contest begins with
this issue of the paper and ends
at 5 p.m. Friday, December 19.
Entries are limited one to each
person entering the contest and
can be either mailed or brought
in by the Forsyth News Office
which is located on Dahlonega
MISS BULLDOG IS CROWNED
Sheila Thomas was crowned
Miss Forsyth County Bulldog
of 1969-70 at the Second Annual
Miss Bulldog dance. She was a
candidate from the FlashofCr
imson band. Twenty groups en
Street. Prizes will be given in
three age group categories with
three divisions under each cate
gory.
Categories are: 6 through
11 years, 12 through 18 years
and adults 18 years of age and
older.
In each age group winners
will be selected in three divi
tered candidates. The contes
tants were judged on poise, ch
arm, personality, intelligence
and beauty.
The five finalists were Lois
Green representing the Science
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Dedicated to the Progress jg Cumming and Forsyth County
CUMMING, GEORGIA 30130
Cumming Post Office Moves Into New
Building Located On Canton Road
Accident
Victim
An accident which resulted
in one death and five injuries
took place last Sunday around
2:20 p.m. on Highway 306 two
miles west of Cumming. Killed
in the wreck was Ross Leonard
Fields , 28, of Route 1, Cairo,
Georgia, driver of one of the
cars, and among the injured
was Brenda Kay, 18, of Route
5, Cumming, driver of the other
car.
The Kay car, a 1963 Ford,
was traveling east on 306 and
went out of control, crossing
the center line and smashing
into Field’s *64 Chevrolet go
ing west. Miss Kay was charged
with driving on the wrong side
of the road. One other passen
ger i n the Kay car was also
hospitalized. Other injuredpas
sengers were riding in the Fi
elds car.
PTA Meet
The Cumming PTA will hold
its December meeting Thursday
December 4 at Lower Elemen
tary School at 8 p.m.
Attendance so far this year
has been good, and it is hoped
that the year’s largest crowd
will be on hand Thursday to
enjoy a program concerning
music in our schools.
Parents of children at For
syth County High, Upper Ele
mentary , and Lower Elemen
tary are urged to attend and
become active, informed mem
bers of the Parent Teacher As
sociation.
sions: Religious, Contem
porary, and Comical.
Nine prizes will be donated
by local merchants. They are:
A ham from Parsons, Inc.;
a necklace from Westbrook Je
welry Co.; a travel clock from
Fambro 5 and 10 Store; a tran
sistor radio from the Western
Auto Associate Store, a floral
Club, Susan Mashburn repre
senting the United Youth Fell
owship, Melissa Songer repre
senting the Future Teachers of
America Club, Deborah Jen
nings representing the Allied
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A Tuesday afternoon fire at Bagwell and Mathis Tire Company threw dense clouds of smoke
hundreds of feet into the air and destroyed a large quantity of tires.
The blaze was confined to a storage shelter behind the tire firm in Eastern Heights. Bystanders
said that a trash fire apparently spread to the shelter. For a time, it appeared that neighboring
buildings might also burn, but volunteer firemen were able to contain the fire. Fire departments
from several adjoining towns answered the call. No estimate of damage was available.
12 BIG PRIZES
arrangement from Heard’s Fl
ower and Gift Shop, lunch for
two from Jack’s Restaurant, a
handbag from Ramey’s Depart
ment Store; an album from the
Record World, a seven piece
Teflon Cookware set from Ev
erett Bettis Grocery, transistor
radio from Pruitt’s Radio
and TV and 2 cases of coca
Medical Club and Miss Thomas.
The new Miss Bulldog was
crowned by last year’s winner,
Cathy Mashburn. Lowell Corn
representing the Annual staff,
sponsors of the dance and con
TEN CENTS PER COPY
colas from Ralph Moore’s Mid
way Super Market and a two year
subscription to the Forsyth Co
unty Newspaper.
Judges of the contest will be
Mrs. Marcia White, Forsyth
County High art teacher, Mrs.
Helen Brooks, Forsyth County
Home Economics teacher, Mrs.
Shelby Mason who is active
test, presented her with one
dozen red roses. Miss Thomas
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Bonnie Thomas. She is active in
various school activities and is
taking a college preparatory co
You May Be A Winner Prizes
Offered For Creativeness,
In Three Categories
in interior decorating and is
the wife of artist Shelby R.
Mason, and Miss Garner, Mil
ton High School Art Teacher.
Cards will be judged for cr
eativeness, materials used, and
urse in preparation for a fu
ture teaching career.
Judges were Mrs. Betty Per
ry, Barbara Overton, Dr. Eu
gene Bottoms all of Atlanta and
Mr. Gibson of Dawsonville.
December 4, 1969
The new 7600 square foot
post office building located on
Canton Road, was officially op
ened for business last Saturday.
The brick veneer and cement
structure is valued at approx
imately $135,000 and serves
five rural routes covering 430
miles and 40 miles of city
routes.
Postmaster Ray Taylor, says
postal facilities in the new bu
ilding are a great improvement
on the old one which was only
3000 square feet in size. The
new building offers additional
working space, a large cus
tomer parking lot, and also a
big employee parking lot and
spacious loading dock at the
rear of the building. There are
412 post office boxes available
for Forsyth residents to rent
at the post office and space to
add 150 more when needed.
Post office personnel, inclu
ding clerks, carriers, substit
ute carriers and the post
master, total twenty.
Taylor says that many people
prefer box delivery to carrier
because they get their mail on
Sundays and holidays, plus re
ceiving mail from the afternoon
delivery at the post office. Tay
lor, who became postmaster in
1958, says the population of the
county has doubled during that
time. He added that it would
more than double again in the
next five years.
The new post office ordinarily
processes around 10,000 pieces
of mail a day but during Chr
istmas will handle more than
130,000.
The Cumming post office has
one day delivery to Atlanta.
Out going mail leaves Cumming
at 6 p.m.
neatness. Entries will be dis
played in the Forsyth County
News office windows as they
come in, until the end of the
contest.