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DIGGING IN. Ray Gayton operated digging machine in an effort
to get to broken water lines.
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COLD, WET WORK. Michael Sexton and Harold Manders of the
dimming Water Department dig down into hole to reach broken
water main. The main broke last Friday when due to excessive
cold weather, the pipe contracted under the ground.
Others Disappointed, Angry
Roswell JumpsTo Protest 1
N. Fulton Airport Site
Several hundred Roswell
residents jammed into the Ros
well High School Gym last week
end in protest of the second At
lanta Airport being placed in
North Fulton County . Led by
Alford Wall, a Roswell law
yer, the group plans to legally
question the decision of the
major airlines in naming the no
rth Fulton site as the number
one position.
Also, Senator Oliver Bate
man of Macon plans to intro
duce resolution urging Atlanta
to locate the second airport in
Henry County. Other resolu
tions are in the making and
many protests to the site selec
tion are being aired. Two in
particular by both Dekalb and
Clayton counties.
Clark Harrison, Chairman of
the Dekalb County Commission
and Sharon Abercrombie,
Chairman of the Clayton County
Commission both have announ
ced that they feel the decision
is extremely unfair.
Harrison said that he will sue
the city and fiv e major air
lines for damages if the new
metropolita n air facility loc
ated north of Atlanta will inter
fere with the Dekalb County Pe
achtree Airport near Chamblee
and Abercrombie who is also
Acting Chairman of Metropoli
tan Airport Development Coor
ldanting Committee, charged
that the committee was “mis
led” by the city in that Atlanta
promised t o consult it about
location of new airports but it
did not.
Abercrombie, Harrison, ana
the protest group in Roswell
have all said that the reports
by professional planners and
consultants favoring a new air
port in Henry County south of
Atlanta, led them to believe
until the last minute that the
terminal would go there.
Wall said that they did not
want the north Fulton site be
cause of the effects the air
port noise and pollution would
have on a rapidly developing
area.
However, several months age
Roswell Mayor “Pug” Mabry
made the statement to in a
newspaper interview that he was
not too concerned about the air
port and that it was too far away
from Roswell to affect it ad
versely.
Meanwhile, Mayor George
Wills of Alpharetta, which would
be actually the closest town to
Site A, and would be the gr
eatest affected, has not comm
ented. But Forsyth, Dekalb, Cl
ayton, and Fulton County com
missioners have voiced recent
opposition to the airport being
located in North Fulton.
But, despite all pros and
cons the final decision of the
airport site will be made by
the Federal Aviation Commis
sion.
Water Department
About 90 percent oi tne peo
ple who were without water
during the Icy weekend had it
back by Tuesday afternoon acc
ording to Miles Wolf, City Wa
ter Superintendent. Working on
two broken water mains and ar
ound 50 to 60 broken water
meters, the Cumming Water
Department had to call on city
street employees to aid with re
pair work.
The two broken mains were
located on Canton Hoad east of
the new post office and on Pil
grim Mill behind the Upper El
ementary School. The one on
Pilgrim Mill formed a complete
sheet of ice across the street
and caused hazardous driving
conditions in that area.
Superintendent Wolf stated
that he had never seen so many
frozen pipes and broken wa
ter meters at one time. He said
the reason for the meter trouble
was probably because they are
not in the ground and were
exposed to the weather.
Last year there was only one
broken main during the worst of
the cold weather and it was at
the traffic light by Lad’N Dad’s
building.
Police Department
A Mark Heard fuel truck
which overturned Monday mo
rning on Pirkle Ferry Rd.
around 9:30 a.m. sent its dri
ver L. P. Bannister of Cumm
ing, to the Forsyth County Hos
pital with chest injuries. Ban
nister was delivering fuel in the
truck when he started down a
sharp incline and slid off the
road, overturning the truck.
cumming Police reported'
that a large number of auto
mobiles were stranded during
the ice and sleet over the week
end and a great many of these
were on the Buford Dam Road.
Forsyth
Bank
Delivers
Donald Thompson, Executive
Vice President of the Forsyth
County Bank has informed us
that the 50 % stock dividend
declared in September has been
distributed. This distribution,
the first dividend action taken
by Forsyth County Bank since
its formation in 1964, repre
sents a market value of $250,
000.00 based on a $50.00 per
share value. Mr. Thompson said
that this will add to the capi
tal structure of the bank and give
it additional lending powers not
previously at hand.
Mr. Thompson stated that any
stockholders that have not re
ceived their stock certificate,
could come in and pick it up.
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RADIATION AREA. Floyd Anend raises the control rod in underground control station be neath reactor site. For complete story on the Lockheed operation at
Dawson County see center section of paper.
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CUMMING. GEORGIA 30130
Marietta Man Disappears In Lake Lanier ;
Forsyth Police Continue To Search Area
Forsyth’s Junior Miss
Will Compete On State Level
Miss Linda Grogan, junior
Miss of Forsyth County, is one
of the contestants entered in
the Georgia Junior Miss Contest
which will be held in
Miss Grogan, age 17, a senior®
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PRETTY COMPETITION IN ATLANTA. Miss
a contestant in the Georgia Junior Miss Contest.
Dedicated to the ProgreSß At Cumming and Forsyth County
at the Forsyth County High Sc
hooUjis th e daughter of Mr. and
Linda Grogan, Forsyth County Junior Miss is
Good Luck, Linda!
FOHSTTH
COUNTY
. Mrs. Clay Grogan of Route 3,
I Cumming.
WiTTT STnbitions to ue a teac
her after college, the brunette
Miss Grogan, is very active in
school affairs. One of her big
gest extra-cirricular activities
is editor of the Bulldog, the
school newspaper. She is also
a member of the Tri-Hi-Y and
the Science Club and is His
torian in the Future Teachers
Club. She was a runner up in
the Miss Bulldog contest and
appeared in the Miss Bulldog
court at the school dance in
Lhonor of the event.
TEN CENTS PER COPY
NEWS
Kenneth Gene Lesesne is
missing.
He was last seen on Friday
when he left his home in Mar
ietta and drove his car, boat and
trailer to the vicinity of the
Bethel Church shoreline off Br
own Bridge Rd. on Lake Lan
ier. The truck was found there
around 2 a.m.Saturday morning
and tracks nearby indicated the
boat had been placed in the
water.
Lesesner, 34, a brickmason,
was described by his wife as an
expert boatman and swimmer.
Sheriff Donald Pirkle of the
Forsyth County Sheriff’s office
has released the following in
formation concerning the ac
tivity of Lesesner preceding
his disappearance in hopes it
will bring new information on
the where abouts of this man:
“On Friday, January 9, 1970,
Kenneth Gene Lesesne of 312 B.
Pine Crest Circle, Marietta,
left his home there and drove
his Ford pickup truck to Two
Mile Creek, on Lake Lanier in
Forsyth County, He was to re
turn home around 3 p.m. the
same day.
He carried with him a 12
ft. fishing boat. He told his wife
that he was going to Lake Lanier
to look around. When he failed
to return home, she contacted
the Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Department at approximately
11:30 p.m. the same day.
The Sheriff’s department st
arted looking for his truck imm
ediately and located it about
2 a.m., January 10 at the Two
Mile Creek Park in Forsyth
County. The truck was located
and there were signs of a smaU
type boat being put in the water
near the truck.
The temperature at the time
the truck was found was appro
ximately five degrees. On the
morning of January 10, a search
party was called in and a search
was started for Lesesne on Lake
Lanier. In the search, there
were many volunteers who
brought their own boats, one
airplane, and three heliocop
ters. After searching all day
in freezing temperature, they
found no signs of Lesesne or his
boat.
January 15, 1970
When the search began the ne
xt day, Sunday, January 11, there
was a freezing rain falling but
the searchers remained throu
ghout the day . Still there was
no sign of Lesesne.
He is 5’ll” tall, weighs 210
lbs., dark wavy hair and blue
eyes. According to hi s wife,
Lesesne is easily depressed,
falling into these moods from
time to time and is considered
to be a very despondentperson
by his family.
At this time, authorities are
not sure that his body is in
the water. The boat he was using
was said to be unsinkable by
his brothers. Not any of the
equipment that was in the boat
has been found. It included sev
eral life jackets and a gas tank.
Anyone knowing the where
abouts of this man, notify the
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Dep
artment at once at 887-4330
or 887-2375.”
(This information was given
to the Forsyth County News by
Sheriff Donald Pirkle.)
Also assisting in the search
were the Cobb county police
under the direction of Chief
Harris Burrus and many other
volunteers in the air, water and
on foot.
Wild Dogs
Attack Pet
A Boxer Bull dog was att
acked by a pack of wild dogs
Sunday while he was in his
own yard and, as a result, died
Tuesday of multiple bites. The
dog’s owner lives in the vicinity
of Highway 20 and the county
line. He said that the dogs,
along with some neighbor dogs,
have been roaming the area at
various times and appear to
be vicious and dangerous.
The Forsyth County Sheriffs
office said that they had not
received any reports lately
about wild dog packs and ad
vised that the only thing they
knew could be done to avoid
attack, would be to shoot them.
There is no humane society
in Cumming or Forsyth Coun
ty
me sheriff’s office also said
that these dogs are the result
of animals being abandoned on
the roads and later breeding
among themselves, creating an
animal of a different disposit
ion from the average domestic
tvpe of dog.
Bth Annual
Boat Show
Coming
The Eighth Annual South
eastern Boat and Vacation Show
I will run February 6 through 15
with over 200 separate booths
and displays set up in the At
lanta Civic Auditorium. One of
the booths will come from For
syth’s Bald Ridge Marina acc
ording to owner, Oby Brewer.
Bald Ridge will feature , along
I with other run-abouts, an un-
I usually high performance boat
I built by the Cobalt Company.
I To be shown for the first time
I in the Southeast, this speedboat
I has a moulded fiber glass hull
I plus a Holman-Moody motor. It
I will go as fast as 50 to 60
I miles an hour.
Bald Ridge is also giving away
I a weekend vacation on Lake La-
I nier as one of the many door
I prizes which will be offered as
I an added enticement to boat
I enthusiasts. There will be all
I types of boats, fishing swim-
I ming and water skiing equip-
I ment on display with addeddis-
I plays of related items.
The show expects over
120,000 in attendance. Doors
open at 12 p.m. and close at
10:30 p.m. There is a small
admlssioQ fee.