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Voters Choose Commission
Chairman Next Week
A special election to fill the
unexpired term of L. B.Munda,
County Commission Chairman,
will be held Wednesday, June 7.
Qualified and seeking the
office are Commissioner Loyd
Smith, Horace Trammell andf
ormer Commission Chairman
A. R. (Gus) Housley.
Fun, Games, Prizes
At Day Care Festival
There'll be fun galore this -
aturday, June 3, at the Forsyth
County Day Care Center, off
Canton Highway.
The "Spring Festival" is co
ming at 3:30 o.m.
There will «e plenty of games,
prizes, good food and music by
the North Georgia Ramblers. T
MAYOR FORD GRAVITT SNIPS RIBBON WHILE OTHERS LOOK ON
Camming Dedicates Grand Park In Grand Style With Fun, Games
By Johnny SoletbM
News Editor
The threat of rain failed to
dampen the spirits and act
ivities of folks who gathered
Monday to dedicate dimming
City Park.
A large number of folks gat
hered at the Park to share In
the day’s festivities, which in
cluded a lunch of barbecued ch
icken, talks from pollticans and
games in the afternoon, on into
the night.
Featured speaker for the
event was Georgia’s Senior Sen
ator Herman Talmadge who had
folks slapping their knees with
laughter one minute and stand
ing In applause the next.
The Senator covered several
By Johnny Solesbee
News Editor
If things go as planned, For
syth County will soon have its
first and only facility to care
for and train the county's men
tally retarded.
Tentative plans call for the
Forsyth County Day Care and
Training Center for the Men
tally Retarded to be ready for
operation about the middle of
July.
The center has been talked of
and dreamed about for a long
time, but earnest planning got
under way about a year ago, ac
cording to Grace Palmour, who
is on the committee for the
center.
Chamber Hosts Conservancy Folks
BY: Joe Nunn
Special to The News
Members of the Georgia Con
servancy, with James D.
"Spec" Landrum, President,
came to Forsyth County last
Saturday to visit historic Pool’s
Mill Bridge and to relax under
the spell of the singing waters
of Settendown Creek.
The first of them arrived at
about 10:30 and were greeted
by Mrs. Furman Stansell and
Mrs. Henry Pair Jr., of the
Cumming Garden Club, and
Mrs. Bill Sanders, of the Ch
All candidates have promised
reforms in county government
and economy in the office of
Countv Chairman.
Munda resigned after voters
passed a five man commission
and county manager type gov
ernment to replace the old three
here will be a hay ride, pony
rides and door prizes.
Tickets are being sold for a
portable television which will be
raffled off during the festival.
There will be an abundance
of barbecue chicken, cooked by
the "fabulous chefs" from the
subjects in his speech, but con
centrated it mainly on the role of
young people today.
Sen. Talmadge had good
words for youth and many were
present to hear them.
He said that hetfinds today’s
youth more educated than the
youth of years gone by and “just
as patriotic as their elders.”
“The dissenters are a woe
fully small part of our youth,”
Sen. Talmadge said.
“We leave you more prob
lems than we’ve known in a long
time,” he said. “Theproblems
are going to be backbreaking
and mind-bending to solve, but
I’ve got confidence” In today’s
County May Soon Have Facility To Care For Mentally Retarded
All the center needs to get
the ball rolling on construc
tion of a building is the appro
val of the Georgia State Build
ing Authority for the center to
be constructed on the property
of Sawnee Elementary School.
The Sawnee site has been cho
sen because of its accessibility
to city water and because the
center can hook onto the sc
hool’s sewerage system, Mrs.
Palmour said.
The land for the center site
has been leased for 20 years
with an option to renew the
lease.
Several goals for the center
have been set forth if, and when,
the center gets into operation.
amber of Commerce, and many
others of our own people.
Before they began to explore
the trails that run beside the
shoals and over the cliffs, they
had the unique pleasure of meet
ing several of Dr. M. L. Pool’s
descendants, among them the
great - grandson, Veil and
Jarrett Fowler, and Mrs. Meda
Maddox, great-granddaughter,
with members of her family.
Veil Fowler was especially del
ightful as he recounted interest
ing things which occurred when
he was a boy working in the
mill which was there during his
boyhood.
man board.
The new board will be elected
this fall and will then elect a
chairman from their own ranks.
Ordinary B. B. Wallace said
the polls will be open from 7
a.m. to 7 p.m.
Munda was elected in 1968
and his term expires Dec. 31.
Brotherhood of the First Bapt
ist Church.
Folks at the Day Care Center
want you to "come early and
-stay late."
The festival will be at the
Old Friendship School, off C
anton Highway.
youth.
The Senator drew a round of
appaluse when he told the aud
ience that he was “not for
getting into any more wars, any
where unless the security of
the United States Is directly
involved.”
Another round of applause
was the Senator’s when he lam
basted the Supreme Court
judges and those who "don’t
object to creating new laws to
protect the criminals. We need
judges who will uphold the laws
and the constitution and when
a criminal commits a crime,
put him in prison and keep him
there.”
(See separate story for outline
of center goals.)
The primary emphasis of the
center, however, will be on day
care and training, parent coun
seling and diagnosis and eval
uation. The center will be under
the direction of the Forsyth Co
unty Department of Public Heal
th.
The center would be cons
tructed to serve 30 persons:
Pre-school (0-5 years old), five
children; school age (6 to 12
years old), nine children; sc
hool age (13 to 17 years old),
six persons, and adult (18 ye
ars and over, 10 persons, acc
ording to Mrs. Palmour.
Mrs. Palmour says there are
Envelopes containing a sketch
of the bridge and stories about
its history had been prepared
by the Chamber of Commerce
and were given to each visitor
and Mrs. Verne Hill, chairman
of the Conservancy’s Field Trip
Committee, and Mrs. Adah To
ombs, took the remaining env
elopes to send to their Board
of Trustees and other Interested
Conservancy members who
were unable to take part in the
field trip.
When the time came for lunch,'
most of the members had found
appealing places on the rocks
beside the shoals. For those who
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Dedicated To The Cum m ing And Forsyth County
CUMMING, GEORGIA
Three Bound To Grand
Jury In Morgan Case
By Tony Maddox
Editor
Three suspects in the mur
ders of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace
Morgan have been bound over
to the Forsyth County Grand
Jury, and a commitment hear
ing for a fourth suspect was
postponed because he was not
represented by legal counsel.
Evidence was presented be
fore Justice of the Peace Ar
nold Marjenhoff at Forsyth Co
unty Courthouse Tuesday.
It's expected that the last
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SEN. HERMAN TALMADGE TALKS TO FOLKS GATHERED FOR CITY PARK DEDICATION
The senator called busing of
school children in the United S
tates “tyranny.” “I don’t care
what they caU it,” he said re
ferring to the Supreme Court’s
decision on busing.
“When you take children 15
or 20 miles away from home,
away from their families, away
from their playmates,” and
when they have to stand in the
dark, in the cold, in the snow
and sleet and rain, waiting for
a bus, then that’s “tyranny,”
he said.
Sen. Talmadge told of a bill
proposing to buy each of the S
upreme Court judges a “tyg,
old black limousine.”
about 50 persons in Forsyth
County now who would need
this service at the center. Th
ere is no place in the county
at present where these ser
vices can be obtained.
However, Mrs. Palmour feels
that although the center can
only accommodate 30 persons
maximum, there will not be an
ovrcrowded problem for a
while.
"There won't be 30 to start.
Parents have to learn about it,"
she surmises. "I do think it will
fill up rapidly and we’ll need
to expand in a short period of
time—and a year or two is a
short period of time,’’ she said.
Mrs. Palmour said that of the
had not brought picnic lunches
with them, a feast was supplied
by the Kiwanis Club through the
courtesy of Lamar Sexton, of La
Fran Mobile Homes, and Mr.
and Mrs. Edsel Martin. Not to
be outdone in this display of F
orsyth County hospitality, Her
schel Elrod brought along a box
of country ham and homemade
biscuits which were in great
demand for seconds. Cold
drinks were provided by Com
missioner and Mrs. L.B.Mun
da, who were there with their
family.
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Grand Jury will be recalled
during June to consider indict
ments against the quartet.
Bound over were Robert Wil
liam Shaw, age 24, 3979 Pan
thersville Rd., Atlanta; Robert
George Howard, 25, 2927 Th
ompson Circle, Decatur; Mrs.
Hollis Morgan, 22, daughter
in-law of the slain couple. Mic
hael Morgan, 23, the eldest son,
is also charged.
The elder Morgan and his
wife were found dead at their
home on April 30. They had
When that bill comes up, “I’m
going to try to strike the bill
and buy the judges a second
hand school bus,” he said.
He cited Cumming’s progress
on the completion of the City
Park and commended all who
had a hand in making the Park
possible.
On the platform with Sen.
Talmadge were Cumming M
ayor Ford Gravitt, who served
as mater of ceremonies; Cum
ming City Councilmen; Con
gressman Fletcher Thompson;
Georgia Comptroller General
Jimmy Bentley State Sen. How
ard Overby; Representatives
Bill Williams, Doug Whitmire
some 50 persons in the county
who could benefit from such a
center there is no one now
seeking this service in adjoining
counties which have similar
facilities.
"They just sit around and wait
until they can get into a hos
pital," Mrs. Palmour said.
Getting into a mental school
or hospital is not an easy thing
in Georgia right now, she said.
The Forsyth County Health De
partment has applied for
children to get into a school
for the mentally retarded "and
they never got in," Mrs. Pal
mour said. It maybe was that
their parents died and the child
had to be put into Central State
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Donald Major
been shot and stabbed. Mrs.
Morgan died later at Northside
Hospital in Atlanta.
A commitment hearing is ex
pected for Michael Morgan sh
ortly. He was not represented
by counsel and the hearing for
him was subsequently postponed
Tuesday.
If indictments are handed
down by a grand jury, trials
are expected in the July term
of Forsyth County Superior Co
urt.
The commitment hearings
and Joe T. Woo 1; Co nty Com
mission Chairman L. B. Munda;
the Rev. Roger Williams; the
Rev. Bob Bowling; Clyde Mize,
chairman of the Parks Comm
ittee; and Chief Nockahoma, of
the Atlanta Barves, along with
others.
City Councilman Bass Farr
introduced his lifetime friend,
Sen. Talmadge.
Helping out with the program
was Cub Scout Pack 62 who pre
sented the colors while Forsyth
County High School’s Flash of
Crimson Band played the “Star
Spangled Banner.” The band
also entertained the guests bef
ore the dedication program got
Hospital because there was
no one to take care of them.
“Most of the ones you can
get into hospitals are the pro
foundly mentally retarded ch
ildren,’’ she said.
The center would place a
majority of emphasis on social
skills for children who cannot
be entered into an educable
mentally retarded school. "We
hope to teach them to be able
to feed themselves, dress them
selves and to use the bathroom
themselves," she said.
"And some of the children are
just problems. Hopefully, after
they’ve been in the center they
can go back and enter school
for some training of some
Major Seeks Tax Commissioner Seat
Donald M. Major, 29, has
announced he will seek the seat
of Tax Commissioner of For
syth County in the fall elections.
A lifelong resident of Forsyth
County, Major graduated from
Forsyth County High School in
1961.
He is a member of Pleasant
View Baptist Church and Sunday
School, a member of the
Masons, Royal Arch, Comman
dery and Shrine.
He is married to the former
Millie Jane Smith, daughter of
Mrs. Roy Smith and the late
Mr. Smith of the Silver City
Community.
The Majors have a daughter.
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
held Tuesday were proceedings
held to determine whether to
send the cases to the grand
jury or dismissal.
Criminal Investigation Divi
sion agent Burt Fry read the
statement he said was given
by Howard, when he was arr
ested May 20.
Howard's statement said he
met Michael Morgan and his
wife at a club in Decatur and
"Mike asked me if I knew some
one who would kill his parents.”
Howard, accor Jng to the state-
underway.
Folks came to the festivites
from all around. Some were
dressed for sunshine, some d
ressed for the rain, that didn’t
quite get there, and some
dressed for the chilly weather
which was all around.
The wind whisked smoke from
the barbecue pits throughout the
park area and it was no trouble
getting a chow line formed when
that time came.
People meandered allabrut
the park: some stood on
arched bridges crossing the
mountain stream in the picnic
area; some made use of the
picnic facilities; others ate
sort," Mrs. Palmour said.
Mrs. Palmour pointed out
that there would be no corporal
punishment in the center. The
unruly children will be Isolated
for individual instruction, she
said.
The center already' has its
approval of funds for const
ruction and operation costs. The
Forsyth County Commission
and the Georgia Department
of Public Health will bear a
total of 25 per cent of the cost
and the other 75 per cent of the
funds will come under Title IV-
A of social and rehabilitative
services under the Social Se
curity Act, Department of Hea
lth, Education and Welfare.
Melanie, 6.
"In announcing his candidacy,
Major said: "I pledge to the tax
payers that if I am elected as
you r Tax Commissioner, I will
make every effort possible to
collect all the taxes, excluding
none, that are due. This will
be done in a courteous, bus
iness-like manner whlcn I feel
all of us as taxpayers deserve,
always keeping in mind the gol
den rule, "Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.’
"1 also feel that a system can
be established to prevent
our citizens from waiting in long
lines to purchase auto tags or
paying property taxes, and this
JUNE 1, 1972
ment, said he would see what he
could do, and later said he would
do it himself.
Howar d said, "Hollis said
she couldn’t stand to live with
them anymore,” the statement
read by the CID agent said.
In a supplemental statement
Fry said was dictated to him,
Howard said he and Bob Shaw
went to the Six-Mile Creek area
in Forsyth County one night and
spent the night in the car after
fishing. He said, according to
the statement, the two drove to
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BULLETIN
Another suspect was arrested
Tuesday night in the slayings
of Mr. and Mrs. C.W.Morgan.
The suspect - a Juvenile from
Forsyth County - was being
questioned Tuesday night at the
Forsyth County Jail.
their chicken plates on the hl
eacners of the ball field; and at
least a couple of younger ones
on hand found the wishing well
and delighted in slinging water
at another youngster.
The festivities didn’t con
clude with the speeches and the
lunch. Games were played at
the park until 10 p.m. Mon
day.
Comments about the park
were abundant: “The nicest
and most beautiful park in Ge
orgia.” “What is a reality
here is still in the talking and
planning stages in many comm
unities and cities throughout
Georgia.”
The funds under Title IV-A
will be administered by the
Division of Family and Child
ren’s Services of the Depart
ment of Human Resources.
The commissioners have al
ready approved the county share
of the budget and Mrs. Palmour
said, "we know we have the
money." The center’s first year
budget is figured at approxim
ately $67,000, to include sal
aries, equipment, etc.
The center will employ a
director, who will also serve
as the .head teacher; two ins
tructors, five aides; a part
time case worker; a part-time
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objective I pledge to keep in
mind and work toward res
olving. I feel our elderly cit
izens should be advised and
assisted in obtaining maximum
benefits due them as set forth
by our existing state laws."
Major is an employee of
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation,
where he has worked for the past
10 years. He is in the account
ability department performing
bookkeeping and accounting
"which I feel would be very ben
eficial to me if I were fort-.
unate enough to be elected as
your Tax Commissioner,"
Major said.