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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-JUNE 29, 1972-
Lockheed
Recently, Emdry University
conducted a study of the eff
ects on die wildlife and plant
vegetation which the radioactive
energy had created. From ex
cellent reports, Environment
alist Edmondson pointed out the
"reactor has not done any dam
age to the Dawsonville prop
erty." Plant life is green and
f wildlife abundantly flourishes.
Facilities Administrator, D
on Westbrook, Jasper, has been
with .Lockheed for 22 years.
Fifteen have been spent at the
Dawsonville Lab. "It is a sad
feeling to experience the famous
Lockheed closing," he says. W
estbrook will remain at the N
udear Laboratory through
September 15. Others will re
turn to Plant 6, Marietta, and
write a final report for Lock
heed Corporation. Lockheed's
Advance Security will remain
on duty through September.
The world’s most famous sc
ientists have visited the Nuc
lear Laboratory.
The scientific advancements
accomplished here are intern
ationally recognized. The Nu
clear reactors were successf
ully used; the invention of the
product, Lockwood, was created
at the laboratory. The plant is
known for the design and prod
uction of the fuel and oil gau
ges on the CSA craft. As these
; accomplishments have been ex
. traordlnary, visitors from
every section of the nation have
toured the plant.
Since the September 30, 1970
shut down, Lockheed has dllig
ently tried to reach these goals:
they have taken every available
step to save money in the re-
I • moval of the equipment and con
taminated areas. They have
I tried to place the many employ
ees back into Plant 6 or direct
their capabilities into other pr
!;*ofessions.
Lou Ann Bushum of the Loc
i' kheed News Bureau with Plant
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TO THE VOTERS OF NORTH FORSYTH COUNTY:
I DEEPLY APPRECIATE THE RESPONSES YOU HAVE GIVEN ME FOL
LOWING MY QUALIFICATION TO RUN FOR STATE SENATE FROM THE 51ST
DISTRICT.
OUR PART OF NORTH GEORGIA IS THE BEST AREA IN THE STATE,
AND WE HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED TOO LONG IN ATLANTA WHEN THE LEG
ISLATURE MEETS. I DO NOT PROMISE AN INSTANT CURE FOR THIS AILMENT,
BUT I DO PROMISE TO REMIND EVERYONE WITHIN HEARING THAT WE NEED
AND DESERVE MORE CONSIDERATION IN AREAS OF STATE SERVICES.
I HAVE HAD GOOD EXPERIENCE IN THE FIELDS OF LAW, EDUCATION,
JUDICIAL REFORM, PRISONER REHABILITATION, MENTAL HEALTH, AGRI
CULTURE, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CONSERVATION. MY THINKING IN THESE
AREAS IS BASED UPON LONG AND HARD WORK, AND I PROMISE A SOUND
AND COMMON SENSE APPROACH TO THE SOLUTION OF THE PROBLEMS.
STATE SENATE DISTRICT NO. 51 HAS A TOTAL POPULATION OF
83,117 AND CONSISTS OF ALL OF GORDON COUNTY, PICKENS COUNTY,
CHEROKEE COUNTY, THE SOUTHERN PART OF WHITFIELD COUNTY, AND THE
NORTHERN PART OF FORSYTH COUNTY. I WILL MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO
SEE AS MANY OF YOU AS POSSIBLE BEFORE AUGUST BTH - ELECTION DAY.
LET ME SPEAK UP FOR YOU. LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD.
IF YOU HAVE ANY SUGGESTIONS CONCERNING MY CAMPAIGN,
PLEASE LET ME HEAR FROM YOU.
SINCERELY,
JAMES B. LANGFORD
P.O. BOX 207
CALHOUN, GEORGIA 30701
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6 stated she is "optimistic for
the Lockheed people who have
lost their jobs because they have
superior talents. Lockheed ex
perience has taught them to or
ganize and to Invent better
ways" with whatever future they
should choose.
The history of Lockheed's pr
operty has been a subject of ch
ange. Known as part of the old
Maggie Hayes home place, a
prominent leader of the Georgia
Republican Party, Roscoe Tuc
ker purchased the farm years
ago. He sold to Lockheed
some 16 years ago.
Forsyth County’s T. V. Star,
Junior Samples; father lived on
the Lockheed site for two years.
Samples visited here recently.
Regardless of the property’s
future, Lockheed Corporation
brought the small rural county
of Dawson from rags to pot
ential riches.
A 15 per cent increase in
population occurred. Engineers
came from Boston, Virginia and
Georgia Tech. The county
school enrollment increased.
Trailer parks were set up.
Roads were resurfaced and
highways were built. The first
two and a half miles of rail
way was built within the co
unty. From Georgia Power,
Lockheed purchased $3,500 of
electricity each month. Assets
increased at the only county b
ank. Sales of gasoline increased
the economy. Doors to new re
staurants opened. The Lock
heed Corporation left the prop
erty self sufficient with power
and water facilities. There are
five paved miles of highway for
the City of Atlanta.
Lockheed Corporation left -
awson County with a dynamic
future. According to the cit
izens of Dawson County, "Lock
heed; it was a good thing."
Bloodmobile To Be Here
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Thursday For Donations
What’s the reason for the
Red Cross Bloodmobile, and
what can the blood program
mean to you and your life?
These questions should be
considered by every citizen who
is eligible to contribute a unit
of blood, and by everyone whose
life might someday be saved th
rough the efforts of the pro
gram. And that’s just about e
verybody.
The Atlanta Red Cross Reg
ional Blood Center, part of a
nationwide network, serves 40
member counties in Georgia.
One of these is Forsyth County
whose hospitals are part of the
total 70 hospitals supplied by
the Blood Center..
The regional blood program
collected 70,000 units of blood
a year. But for this to have
happened, each of the 40 cou
nties was responsible for rea
ching its own quota of blood c
ollected. Based on how much
blood is regularly used by the
citizens of a particular county,
the Red Cross each year det
ermines a fair share to be sh
ouldered by that county to help
the entire Blood Center arrive
at its projected goals.
Forsyth County was assigned
a quota of 100 units. A unit
is a little less than a pint of
whole blood, and a unit is the
amount contributed by each in
dividual donor.
In the county there are 7,000
people who are covered by the
Blood Center’s capabilities, w
hlch means that participation by
less than 3 percent of the total
population is required to make
the program work.
Unfortunately, many people
are hesitant or negligent in re
gards to blood donation. Fear
and apathy deter many potent
ial donors from making their
contribution when the Blood
mobile visits their community.
These attitudes are both un
founded and unreasonable.
It is perhaps natural to wish
to avoid any encounter with a
needle and a doctor that is not
absolutely necessary. However,
giving blood does become abs
olutely necessary when a pat
ient's life depends upon a tran
sfusion. Furthermore, the pro
cess of donating blood is not
nearly the unpleasant ecperie
nce it might seem.
Giving blood takes no more
than an hour, and only in the
most unusual circumstances
does It leave any after effects.
The process Itself is no more
painful than getting a shot, and
when it’s completed the rem
ainder of the day’s activities
may be conducted just as nor
mal. And finally, the loss ofb
lood in no way leaves the donor
blood deficient—the volume of
donated blood is replaced by the
body within 48 hours.
As for the lack of Interest
with which many people regard
the blood program, this apathy
is indicative of a failure by those
individuals to consider how they
stand to gain from their small
contribution of time and blood.
For anyone who donates a unit
of blood, his blood needs are
covered for six months, and th
rough any hospital in the United
States, Canada, Pureto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands. In add
ition, the donor’s spouse and
all their children under the age
of 21 are protected, as well as
the parents and grandparents
on both sides of the family. All
for the contribution of one unit
of blood.
Moreover, if the quota is m
aintained in a given county, then
the blood needs of all the cit
izens of that county and their
families are taken care of by the
Red Cross.
The importance of the blood
program* is increasingly being
reinforced and enhanced by de
velopments and advancements in
the medical world. With inc
reasingly sophisticated medical
techniques, growing amounts of
blood are needed. The maint
enace of a ready and constant
source to satisfy the skyrock
eting demand is vital.
When there are accidents and
operations and illnesses, blood
transfusions are often required,
and frequently in great volume
for a single recipient. A victim
of an automobile accident rece
ntly required 120 units of blood.
Open heart surgery requires
some ten to 20 units. A gun
shot would might require 20
units.
But while the effort is being
exerted to expand hlood collec
tion to meet the multiplying
need, at the same time efforts
are being channelled into st
retching the usefulness of each
unit of blood.
Due to advancements in the
processing methods of collected
Lambert On
Standards
Committee
The Georgia Department of
Education has announced the
appointment of Clarence N. L
ambert, Superintendent of For
syth County schools, to the
Standards Advisory Committee
for Public Schools.
Lambert had ’ served on the
first Committee on Standards
in 1966-67.
The Standards Advisory
Committee Is composed of pro
fessional school people from
public schools. The Commi
ttee meets with members of the
State Department of Education
to bring “feed back” from the
local schools and special int
erest groups.
Wilson
Employees
Veto Union
The National Labor Relations
Board has certified an election
held at the Wilson Laurel F
arms processing plant In C
umming.
In the election held June 16,
1972, the employees at Wilson
Laurel Farms voted 130 to 62
against representation by the
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and
Butcher Workmen of North A
merlca, AFIr-CIO, a spokesman
said.
blood, the use of that blood has
been extended dramatically. B
lood is made up of four com
ponents - red cells, white cells,
platelets, andplasma. Each part
of the blood has specialized f
unctions and distinctive effects
when that part alone is trans
fused into the patient. It is th
erefore wasteful and frequently
harmful to burden apatlentwlth
components he does not need.
Through what is known as com
ponent therapy, it is possible
to separate these different parts
of the blood, and to give a pat
ient only that part which his
condition requires.
Whereas in the past the coll
ection and use of blood was on
a one-to-one basis, now one
donor can help as many as four
different people once his contri
buted unit of blood has been pr
ocessed.
The need for blood collection
through the Red Cross blood
program should be obvious. And
since collected blood may be
stored for only 21 days, the
collection and processing must
proceed on a constant and steady
basis.
When you donate a unit of your
blood and an hour of your time,
you are helping in the vital blood
cause. And at the same time
you are Insuring that, for six
months, you and your family are
covered for any blood needs.
Six and a half million units
were collected in the United
States last year. The Red
Cross collected over hal f of
that total. Your chance to do
your part arrives three times
a year when the Blood mobile
comes to Forsyth County.
The next Red Cross Blood
mobile will be held at Forsyth
County Bank from 2 to 6:30
p.m., June 29.
Dotaffe let the Bloodmobile
leave i without your donation.
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Jack Ray Georgia Chairman
For Nixon’s Re-election
WASHINGTON—John N. Mit
chell, Director of President N
ixon’s re-election Campaign,
has announced that long-ti me S
tate Legislator and former State
Treasurer Jack B. Ray will be
Chairman of the Georgia Com
mittee for the Re-election of the
President.
Announcement was made at a
press conference at the camp
aign’s national headquarters in
Washington, D. C.
Li H
HAS THE EXPERIENCE TO DO THE JOB
WORKED WITH THE TRANSPORTATION DIVISION OF THE STATE
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO PROVIDE PUBLIC TRANSPORT
ATION FOR THE PUPILS FROM THE CHATTAHOOCHEE COMMU
NITY TO CUMMING - THEREFORE ELIMINATING THE PRIVATE
BUS.
MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN WORKING WITH THE GEORGIA
STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE GEORGIA SCHOOL
BUILDING AUTHORITY.
IF RE-ELECTED ON AUGUST 8, 1972, I PROMISE YOU FOUR
MORE YEARS OF HARD WORK FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS
OF FORSYTH COUNTY.
Commenting on his appoint
ment, Ray said that it is "an
opportunity to be of service to
the people of my home state
and the people of the Nation--
an opportunity to personally
help assure the re-election
of one of our truly outstanding
presidents."
Mitchell expressed gratific
ation both for himself and for
President Nixon that Ray was
undertaking "the huge demands
in time and energy that a pres
RE-ELECT
CLARENCE N. LAMBERT
SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT
FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOLS
SOLICITS YOUR VOTE AND HELP
AUGUST 8.1972
ldentlal campaign makes on a
state chairman" and predicted
that "with Mr. Ray’s leader
ship we fully expect Georgia to
be counted in the Nixon column
in November."
Also appearing at the press
conference was J. Phill Camp
bell, a former Georgia Legisl
ator and Commissioner of
Agriculture and now the Under
secretary in the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.