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Bonsley’s In, finds County In Deep Debt
AJR. (Gus) Housley is now made last-minute studies of
l»e County Commission Chair- county accounts.
°* Forsyth County. He Housley said Tuesday morn
°^ce Monday afternoon ing that the county owes “about
•* “° ut 5 being sworn *450,000,*' and “is overdrawn
J« rsyth County ° rdlnary $52,000.’’ Housley stated tnat
WaUace - he does not intend to let
J^ 6 oeremony had initially tne overdraft situation continue,
slated for 8:30 a.m. Mon- and was scheduled to meet with
»y was delayed as auditors bankers Tuesday afternoon ir
Scout
Membership
Drive Is On
Forsyth County has only 192 1
boys actively Involved in Scout
ing and the Forsyth County
Jaycees are undertaking a sus
taining membership drive to
both recruit new Scouters and
to help raise needed funds to
finance the prograpi.
The county has 121 Cub S
couts: 62 Boy Scouts; and nine
Explorers in its tnree troops.
The average annual expense
per scout is about S3O which
would mean it would take al
most $6,000 to finance Forsyth
County's Scouts. Last year,
the county contributed less than
S9OO to the scouting program.
The remainder of the funds to
finance the scouts came from
the Chattahoochee District
Funds. The Chattahoochee Dis
trict is composed of Forsyth,
Hall and Banks Counties.
A similar drive to the one
to be conducted here is being
undertaken in Banks County so
that the two counties may share
fairly with die expenses of S
coutlng,
A kick-off breakfast will be
held Saturday, June 17, at 7
Via. at Lanier Restaurant.
Deadline Candidates
Wednesday la closing date to
qualify for office In the up
coming August 8 Democratic
• Primary and as of Tuesday a
fternoon several candidates had
sweetened die coffers with their
qualifying fees.
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Robert Coker
Chairman of the drive in For
syth County is Mike Hacke. C
aptain of Team No. 1 is Larry
Milford. Members are Bill
Barnett, Gerald Blackburn, Ken
Potterman, Allan Hammond, R
obert Ingram and Lewis Led
better.
captain oi Team No. 2 is
Don Hanllne. Members are
Russell Bulce, Charles Ingram,
Ledford Pruitt, Johnny Stone
and Charles Welch.
Captain of Team No. 3 is
Garland Shoemake. Members
of his team are Jackie Hol
brook, Jack Tribble, Doug
Vaughan, Joel Webb, David C
arllsle and Furman Stansell.
Captain of Team No. 4 is
Stanley Bagwell. Team mem
bers are Gerald Barnett, Phil
Bramblett, Phil Bramblett, L
arry Smallwood, David Strip
land, Gene Holbrook and Larry
Cash.
Wade Tallant is Captain of
Team No. 5 and members are
Bobby Garrett Jr., Jerry How
ard, Rupert Sexton, John Sh
lnall, Bobby Wofford and Larry
Roper.
Captain of Team No. 6 is Tom
Hogan and members are to be
arranged. Captain of Team no,
7 is Bobby Gilbert with mem
bers to be arranged.
Teams 6 and 7 are the tr
oubleshooting teams.
Four more candidates nave
qualified for county commission
posts since last week making a
total of 14 men seeking the
five seats.
The official list of qualifiers
as of Tuesday is as follows:
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Bobby Gilbert
an attempt to resolve the sit
uation. It was pointed out that
the county has a savings cert
ificate for about $50,000, but
that amount will not ever cover
the overdraft.
A sharp cutback in county
employment is expected shortly
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They Didn’t Change The Fourth ,
Cumming’s Parade To Go
BY: Joe C. Nunn
On Flag Day in 1917, Pres
ident Woodrow Wilson said,
“This Flag, which we honor
and under which we serve, is
the emblem of our unity, our
power, our thought and purpose
as a nation."
For one hundred and ninety
five years, the Star.-Spangled
Banner has waved “o'er the
land of the free and the home
of the‘-brave," the proud and
sacred symbol of the freedom,
equality, justice, and humanity
for which our country stands.
The design, with thirteen
stripes representing the thirt
een original states, and a star
for each state of the Union,
dates from June 14, 1777, mak
ing it among the oldest nat
ional flags in existence.
The history of the Stars anc
Stripes is the history of oui
Board of commissioners,
Post I: J. Lanier Bannister,
Lamar Sexton and Marcus J.
Shoe make; Post 2: Thad C. w
ood, J. Crawford Roe and J.C.
Vaughn Jr.; Post 3: Lawton M.
Sosebee; Post 4: Garland C.
Barron, Herman L. Hamby, G
eorge M. Willard, D. Gene Mc-
Cormick and John A. Milford;
Post S: Weldon Mathis and Har
old Jones.
Sosebee is the only candidate
unchallenged for his Post 3 on
the board of commissioners.
The county school superint
endent’s slot has two qualifiers
as of Tuesday, Clarence N. L
ambert, Incumbent, and Robert
B. Otwell.
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Incumbent Ordinary B. B.
Wallace Is still unchallenged In
his race for re-election.
The Tax commissioner's seat
now has four candidates qualif
ied to run, Donald M. Major,
Edward Couch, Bobby Gene G-
Übert and Robert Coker.
B. Donald Pirkle, Incumbent
sheriff, and Carroll Tallant,
former sheriff, are the only
two seeking election.
Cecil McClure Is not yet
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CUMMING, GEORGIA LXV ISSUE 24*16CENTS PER COPY
as money runs out for the cou
nty.
One crisis that came to light
Tuesday morning concerns the
grading for the new Cumming
Middle Grade Elementary
School.
School Superintendent C. N.
Lambert told the NEWS that the
former Commission Chairman
ORDINARY WALLACE SWEARS IN NEW COMMISSION CHAIRMAN HOUSLEY
nation: it symbolizes not only
the Ideals, traditions, and free
institutions of our Republic, but
also the expansion and territ
orial development of our United
States. The thirteen original
stars have grown in number to
fifty—the union of our fifty st
ates held together by the bond
of our national government
while the thirteen stripes pres
erve the traditions and Ideals
of the thirteen colonies or or
iginal states which so nobly laid
the foundations of this great
Independent nation.
Fortunately, those of our em
inent political figures who toyed
with changing our holidays so
that there could be more leisure
and more expense for our people
did not dare attempt to change
"Independence Day" from July
4th to some other date. And
so, this year, as always, thr-
challenged In his race for
another term of clerk of sup
erior court.
William Munday is the sole
qualifier for the surveyor's p
ost.
The coroner's race now has
three candidates, Tex Smith,
Waymon Tate and F. C. Tatum
Jr.
Board of Education members
qualified to date are Loy C.
Day, District 3; Roger Heard,
District 4; and Carroll Castle
berry, District 8.
Arnold Marjenhoff has qual
ified for Justice of the Peace
In foe Curamlng District; R.S.
Turner In foe Chattahoochee D
lstrlct; and Silas Stargal In foe
Chestatee District.
Following is some biograph
ical and platform Information
on newcomers to the qualify
ing coffers:
Gilbert
Bobby Gilbert has announced
tor foe office of Tax Comm
issioner.
Gilbert, 33, is a lifelong res
L. B. Munda had promised to
complete the grading for the site
several weeks ago.
“We offered on numerous oc
casions to pay the salaries of
the equipment operators and to
pay for the oil and gasoline.
The county actually would have
incurred little or no expense
since we have state money" to
oughout the nation there will be
gatherings of people in a real
or in a token gesture of alleg
iance to the Flag which has fl
own for so long over the ram
parts of our country.
Preparations are going ahead
to bring together all of those
who will work to recall the m
eaning of Independence Day to
us again. At the meeting on
Monday night, under the Chair
manship of Parade Marshal R
upert Sexton, it was determined
that the Parade route would be
essentially the same as in pre
vious years; the steam engines,
antique cars, boy scouts and
girl scouts, ball teams, mini
bikes and go carts, public off
icials, civic club floats, busin
ess and industry floats, Midway
Saddle Club and other entries of
this nature, and the Forsyth C
ounty Fire Department will as-
Sweeten The Coffers
idenf of Forsyth County and
attended Forsyth County S
cbools. He graduated from High
School In 1958 and attended
Piedmont College.
The son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry (Steve) Gilbert of Cum-
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Lamar Sexton
Cumming And Forsyth County
fund the project,’’ Lambert s
aid.
The superintendent said.«‘All
that we got from the County Co
mmission office were promises
and promises. They came over
and worked about two days, p
ushing over a few stumps, ana
On
semble on Route 20 West near
the Tastee Freez. The V.F.W.
Post #9143, The Flash of Cr
imson Band, cheerleaders and
majorettes will assemble at the
Post Office and will head the
Parade when it approaches that
point.
All units of toe Parade must
be ready to move at 10:30 A.M.
and the Parade will begin pr
omptly at 11:00 A.M. It is re
quested that each entry have a
banner or a sign to identify it.
Notices have been placed a
round town about toe new feature
of the festival and parade—
Many people are interested in
toe Antique Sale and Flea Mar
ket with Col. Horace Beasley as
Auctioneer which will be held
on toe High School Football
Field on Monday and Tuesday.
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ralng, he married the former
Nancy Pendley, daughter of
Mrs. Martha Pendley and foe
late Mr. Lee Pendley of the
Coal Mountain Community. The
Gilbert’s have two sons,
Derrick, 4 1/2 and Gene, 2.
Gilbert Is a member of foe
Jaycees and of foe First Bapt
ist Church.
The Gilbert family currently
lives at 518 North Ridge Road,
Cummlng. Gilbert Is employed
at General Motors Parts Div
ision, Doravllle, and Mrs. Gil
bert Is a caseworker at foe
Forsyth County Department of
Family and Children’s ser
vices. ~
( Gilbert served two years In
foe U. S. Army where he was on
a clerical staff.
’’Since I am a property ow
ner of Forsyth County, I realise
foe problems which many of you
face. If lam elected your next
tax commissioner, I promise to
do my best to allevlate as many
of these as possible"' Gilbert
said.
"The office which I am s
eeklng Is a public office and If I
elected I promise to help foe
public as much as possible
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
that’s it.”
Lampert pointed out that bids
were opened Tuesday on the
new building and estimated that
the delay in grading will put the
project behind schedule six to
eight weeks. He also stated that
children will probably have to
return to the old Upper Elem
entary School building next year
Forsyth County
In Early Child
Development Act
Forsyth County is one of toe
45 school systems in Georgia
to participate in the State
"Early Childhood Development
Act."
The purpose of toe act is to
provide for a sound program of
Early Childhood development.
The act recognizes the impor
tance of parental responslblty
and seeks to supplement their
resources to meet the mental,
physical and emotional needs
of their children.
Local school system boards
and other agencies will cooper
ate to provide a comprehensive
program.
The program provides (1)
testing, diagnosis, and treat
ment of physical or mental han
dicpas for children from one
to three years of age (2) educ
ation programs for children t
hree to five years of age who
have physical or mental handi
caps (3) education programs
for children five years of age.
Parts (1) and (2) of toe pro
gram together will serve 250
children. Part (3) will serve
40 children, and they will be
housed at toe Educational C
enter at Ducktown.
Applications may be made
now through toe Forsyth Co
unty Educational Center. Phone
887-6126.
Mrs. Ruth C. Hopewell will ;
be toe director of toe Early
Childhood Program and Mrs. I
in explaining foe purpose of foe
office of tax commissioner.
Your needs during peak seasons
will be considered and If poss
ible remedied. I promise to
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Robert B. Otwell
.JjJUNE 18. 1972
and double sessions will cont
inue at. Midway because of the
delay.
Lambert met with Housley T
uesday and it now appears the
School Board will pay the sal
aries and the operating expen
ses of county machinery to get
the needed grading underway
this week.
Jane Robinson will be the as
sociate director. Mrs. Hope
well and Mrs. Robinson will
also do toe teaching. Mrs. L
ottie Sewell wfll be one of toe
two para-professionals work
ing with toe program.
Dr. and Mrs. James Hope
well -and their three children
will be moving to Forsyth Co-’
unty the last of Jtme from West
Hartford, Connecticut. Dr. and
Mrs. Hopewell are buildlm; a
home in Forsyth County.
Mrs. Hopewell has a
Degree in Curriculum and Tea
ching, a Master Degree la Early
Childhood Education, and a
Post-Master Degree in El
ementary Sigierviston and Phil
osophy of Education. .
She has taught in «il levels
of education from a onewoom
classroom in Liberia to a Col
lege Professor at New Brltiaa,
Connecticut. She has directed
a pre-school study center for
several years.
Mrs. Jane Robinson grad
uated cum lands from Queens
College in Charlotte, N.C. in
1956 with a degree in Elem
entary Education. She has had
eight years experience in toe
early childhood area. For the
past year she has taught first
grade at Midway School.
A student at Georgia State,
she is oompletihg work on a
masters degree la Early Child
hood Education.
make It as easy as possible tor
you when paying your taxes and
buying your tags by »wa<Min
regular office hours and by ex
podtttnt service.” he said.
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