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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - JUNE 15, 1972 -
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Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor & Publisher
Minor Martin, Advertising Mgr.
John O. Solesbee, News Editor
Published every Thursday by The Forsyth County
News Company. Second Class Postage paid at: Post
Office in Cumming, Georgia under Act of March Bth
in 1897. Subscription rates in Forsyth and adjoining
counties, $4.12 per ywr, including State Sales Tax.,
elsewhere, $5.15 per year.
107 DAHLONEGA ST. CUMMING, GEORGIA...
887-3127 30130
c SditoziaCCg Speaking
A Situation
Needs Correcting
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.* A situation which came to light Tuesday morning should
.;be of grave concern to all Forsyth County parents and tax
payers.
> It was revealed that delays In grading the stle for the Middle
> Grade School In Cumming will slow down the project six to eight
peeks.
The delay was caused by the county's falling to complete the
grading on the site as promised.
Money - a commodity scarce in the county treasury right now
ean't be used as an excuse in this situation because the school
board offered to pay all the salaries and fuel bills for the county
equipment. The actual cash drain on the county would have been
eliminated.
But the offer was for naught as the grading went undone and
school officials became increasingly angry and concerned (with
ample cause.)
Now, it appears that Forsyth kids will begin another year in
the crumbling old Upper Elementary School, and at least one
county school, Midway, will continue double sessions longer than
expected.
We urge our new Commission Chairman, A.R.Housley, to get
on with the site preparation for the new school and correct a bad
situation.
Johnny Solesbee
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A Strange Animal
Politics is a strange animal today.
f 1 I* turns enemies into friends, friends into enemies and
; unknowns into knowns. Politics is a game to some of its
participants and to others a deadly serious business.
The business of politics gets more critical with each election
because new problems are always arising and as always people
expect the politicians to solve them.
When politicians can't solve problems, more of this strange
animal surfaces to the tune that politicians are "working for
small Interest groups.”
•; Sometimes it's hard to tell when a politician Is doing a good
job. Some things that are good we don't hear about the same as
some things that are bad we don’t hear about.
Like in other things, politics seems to get us all riled when
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Special Report from Washington
FBI STILL DOGS HISS;
O’BRIEN S SACRIFICE;
HOW TO SELL VIET WAR
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By Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
(Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
. WASHINGTON—The FBI is
’ Jstill stalking a phost from the
;-past. He is 67-year-old Alper
* .Hiss.
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*. Hiss is the former State De
partment official who, in 1948,
' >vas named by Whittaker Cham-
I hers as a rard-carryinp comrade.
;lliss denied the charpe and, for
;ihat matter, is still denyinp it.
-put a jury didn’t believe him and
‘pent him to jail for lyinp about it.
!• Whether he is a Communist or
not, he would be the last man the
Russians would now call on to
•|py for them. Neverthelfss, the
fBI still files repular reports on
t im now that he’s out of prison.
’* One report noted, for example,
that Hiss was livinp with a wom
>fn in Manhattan under another
;.jame. Apents have also run
;.'ehecks on his bank accounts nt
•;{he Manufacturers Hanover
I;Trust Company in New York.
M On one occasion, Hiss lectured
»t the New School for Social Re
search in New York, and the FBI
the school’s publications
'suspiciously.
About four years apo. Hiss
pent abroad for the first time
jpnce the 19405. When he re
sumed, an FBI apent, usitrp a
"suitable pretext,” phoned him.
The inquiring G-man learned
that Hiss “intended to give addi
tional lectures . . . , enjoyed his
trip . . . and did not appear to
have any definite plans at this
time to visit Europe in the near
future.”
Apparently, the FBI is so
short of new spies that it must
occupy its time watching the old
has-beens.
Some Sacrifice
Democratic National Chair
man Larry O’Brien has made
much of the fact that he serves
without salary. His apparent
sacrifice has piven him leverape
within the bankrupt party that
a paid chairman mipht not have.
But O’Brien’s sacrifice may be
more illusion than reality.
O’Brien is a friendly, outpoinp
man who has always had a taste
for pood livinp. Althouph he pets
no pny, virtually all his personal
expenses are paid by the party.
He is provided a chauffeur-driven
car, his rent nt the plush Shera
ton Park Apartments is paid and
he eats in the best restaurants in
town—all courtesy of the party.
What’s more, his air travel
bills are also charped to the
party, often includinp tickets for
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‘While Ghost’,
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People,
Blue Angels
Marine biologists are again studying Lake Lanier's “White
Ghost." The white ghost is a’form of one-celled animal better
known to the scientists as an amoeba. Around the upper fringes
of the lake, the amoebae has a short life span, but remains
on the lake after death in the form of white scum. None has been
observed this year on the Forsyth County side of the lake.
A 1 Banke is the new service manager at Otwell Motor Co
mpany. Sam Fowler, Sandy Springs jeweler, complimenting the
Sunday services at Bald Ridge Chapel. The Fowler's have a
lakeside home in Lanier Woods. Charles Ingram of the Forsyth
County Bank attending banking classes in Atlanta this week.
George Marchbanks, Atlanta photographer, a regular visitor to
Forsyth County. George hopes to soon establish a studio
here, and has been a regular contributor to the NEWS in
recent weeks.
Next month will mark the rare appearance in the area of the
U. S. Navy's flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels.
They will appear at the Naval Air Station in Marietta, Ga., on
die 4di of July. It is advised to arrive early for die show (Be
fore 10:00 a.m.) in order to obtain a good seat. Groups are
urged to attend in buses when and if possible. Buses will be
shown preferential treatment by both Naval authorities and the
Cobb County Police.
Many other features wUI be present besides the Blue Angels.
For example, there will be many World War H Aircraft on dis
play at the field along with current naval aircraft.
If you have questions you can contact Charles Hacke at 887-
5613 (After 4:30 p.m.) For further information and detaUs on
the Air Show. And Open House. See you at Dobbins on the 4th.
something doesn't go our iay. We're quick to the offense and
slow to the defense when this happens.
What we don’t realize or take time to think about sometimes
Is the fact that a politician is a representative of a variety of
personalities and convictions and wants. In these days It's
hard I® 1)6 an individual, let alone a representative of so many
Individuals. J
With election year coming up, things are brought back to
peoples’ minds about what a certain candidate has or hasn't
done In his time In office.
Then another side of this animal appears and we tend to
lean toward what someone hasn’t done.
* thl ® k * test of h o w well a politician has done comes
when election time rolls around again. You can tell by how
many folks are willing to offer themselves to try to do a better
If you remember a few months ago there was a bit of criticism
from a few folks toward this district’s representatives.
Now comes time to qualify for election this fall but Incumbent
representatives Doug Whitmire, Joe T. Wood and BUI WUliams
go unchallenged.
There is one of two posslbUitles; either the representatives
have done the job well or the ones who formerly belly-ached
don’t have the guts to try to do better.
his wife. Not long ago, O’Brien
and his wife and two aides, one
of them a secretary, flew first
class from New York to San
Juan, Puerto Rico. After several
days in the sun, they caught a
plane to Chicago. Mrs. O’Brien
continued on to Aspen, Colo., for
some time on the ski slopes.
Party officials insist that Mrs.
O’Brien’s fare to Colorado will
be paid by her husband personal
ly. And they say she only travels
with her husband when her pres
ence is needed for official func
tions.
But Democrats who are being
asked to bail the party out of its
$9 million debt might wonder.
How To Sell A War
President Nixon would like the
Vietnam War to go away until
after the election. If he can’t ac
complish this, lie hopes to keep
the controversy below the boiling
point.
The President has had some
success. In Moscow, he got the
Russians to agree secretly to
phase down their material sup
port to North Vietnam. In turn,
he agreed to decrease our sup
port for Saigon.
But at home, he is preparinp a
propapanda effort to counter the
political criticism. The State De
partment, for example, recently
called a meetinp of what is
known 9s the Inter-Department
nl Group on Foreipn Policy In
formation.
Attendinp, however, were a lot
of people who have nothinp to do
with foreipn policy. Robert Beat
ty, for example, showed up. Beat
ty happens to be the Assistant
Secretary for Public Affairs at
the Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare.
Beatty accepted a packape of
material on how to sell the Presi
dent’s Vietnam policy. He then
attached his own coverinp mem
orandum and distributed it to
HEW bigwigs. Included in the
sales package were “positive
talking points prepared by the
State Department . . . and sug
gested paragraphs for insertion
in speeches as desired.”
One of the talking points
states: “We should ensure that
every employee of all our agen
cies fully understands the facts,
and that your principal and sen
ior officers... should take the op
portunity to stress these essen
tial facts.”
Then there followed a short
course on how to sell the war.
Election Notes
• President Nixon has rejected
a recommendation from the Sec
ret Service that he confine his
canipaipninp this year to televi
sion appearances. The Secret
Service, unnerved over the shoot
inp of Georpe Wallace, has j
warned that the President can
not be fully protected in a crowd.
He had already decided to limit
his campaipn appearance?, not
because of the risk hut because I
he thoupht it would be‘ better
politics to attend to his personal I
duties. He informed the Secret I
Service, however, that he expects
to make a number of appear- 1
ances and that he fully intends to I
minple with the crowds.
• President Nixon ordered his I
political lieutenants to help de- 1
feat his own conpressman, John I
Schmitz, in the California Re-1
publican primary. The ultra-con-1
servative Schmitz, in comment-1
inp on the President’s Pekinp pil-1
primmape, said he wasn’t op- I
posed to Nixon’s visit to China, I
but was only opposed to his com- 1
inp back. The President was fur-1
ious and directed aides to help I
arranpe Schmitz’s replacement. I
Schmitz was nosed out in the pri-1
mary by Andrew Hinshaw, who I
had the President’s quiet sup-1
port.
LETTERS TO EDITOR
Why Show Mercy?
1 Dear Editor:
I want to make a few com
ments about an article which
appeared in your paper two or
three weeks ago.
It said, "We'll advise Arthur
Bremer, who allegedly shot
Gov. Wallace, of his rights and
if Wallace lives (and I hope he
does) the assailant will probably
go scot-free in a few years. I'
must say I admire the brave
ones who will risk their lives
to be president nowadays."
Whether Wallace lives or not
the assailant will probably go
scot-free in a few years. How
many murderers or would-be
murderers get a llfe-wlth-no
parole sentence? And, in a few
years there will probably be no
more capital punishments.
Some states are already ab
olishing those as being uncon
stitutional. The ones that hav
en’t abolished it never carry it
through. How long has it been
since a man has died in the
gas chamber or electric chair?
And as far as admiring ones
who will risk their lives to
be president, can’t the same be
said for law enforcement of
ficers?
We had two such men in our
county who not only risked but
gave their lives trying to ful
fill their duty.
This article said "If the laws
would stop being so lenient with
the criminals then maybe the
criminals would stop waving
their guns so freely." I whole
heartedly agree.
Practically every time you
pick up a magazine or a news
paper you will read articles
urging prison reforms. I say
they’ve been reformed far too
much already.
If a prison were really aprl
son, then criminals would be
taught lessons and they would
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think about doing things which
would subject them to future
sentences. One of die men con
victed of shooting our two de
puties had a record of being in
and out of jails for ages but
he didn’t hesitate to continue
his crimes.
Maybe a person who has been
convicted of burglary or some
thing of that nature should be
imprisoned in a place separate
from the ones housing murders
or attempted murderers. But I
believe a person that kills or
trys to take the life of another
human being gives up any rights
they may have had. I believe they
should be put away for the rest
of their lives and never again
be turned loose on society^ 1
If a person can’t live with
decent people then he shouldn't
be allowed to live like them.
Why, why, why should we show
these unworthy creatures any
mercy when they showed no
mercy whatsoever to the ones
they pulled their knives and guns
on????
What is the world is wrong
with our judicial system today?
ONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO
SEE A LITTLE JUSTICE
Taxes,
Taxes,
Taxes
Tax his cow, Tax his Goat,
Tax his pants, Tax his coat;
Tax his Ties, Tax his shirt]
Tax his work, Tax his dirt;
Tax his chew, Tax his smoke-
Teach him Taxes are no joke*
Tax his car Tax his jazz,
Tax the roads he must pass-
Tax his land, Tax his wage’
Tax the bed in which he lays-
Tax his Tractor, Tax his mule’
Teach him taxes are die rule-
Tax his tobacco, Tax his drink]
Tax him if he tries to «»<■*?
Tax his booze, Tax his beers]
If he cries, Tax his tears-
Tax his notes, Tax his e»«h]
Tax him good and let him know
After taxes. He'll have no dough.
If he hollers, Tax him more,
Tax hffti till he's good and poor;
Tax his coffin, Tax his grave,
Tax the sod in which he lays;
Put these words upon his
“Taxes drove me to my doom";
And when he's gone we don't
relax
We'll still have inheritance tax.
From the Blairstown Press)
Vote
Is Valuable
Dear Sir:
May I urge every eligible
person in the county to reg
ister and vote in the upcoming
elections.
This year I fully realize how
valuable my vote is to me. I
can now go back to the poll sand
help correct a bad mistake that
I helped to make fours years
ago.
Lillian Gentry