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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-JULY 20,1972-
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Established 1908
,Tony Maddox. Editor & Publisher
Mmbr Martin, Advertising Mgr.
John D. Solaibaa, News Editor
Publishad avery Thursday by Tha Forsyth County
Naars Company. Sacond Clasa Postege paid at: Poat
Office in Cumming, Georgia undar Act of March Bth
in 1897. Subscription ratas in Forsyth and adjoining
counties. $4.12 par year, including State Salas Tax.,
elsewhere, $5.15 par year.
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887-3127 30130
SditoziaCScf Speaking
Summer Of 9 72
Summer of ’72 politicking has gotten into full
swing as everyone is fully aware of by now
what with handshaking and our pockets stuffed
full of cards.
It’s interesting to note what the candidates are
>stumping on during this election summer.
No doubt, it’s going to be a long, hot summer,
weatherwise and otherwise.
It’s always real easy to see the faults in a system
while one is out campaigning to win a seat in
government. It’s also real easy to offer clear-cut
solutions to existing problems and to offer sugg
estions for what needs to be done. But, when time
comes to solve and do, it’s a horse of a different
color.
We’re not saying candidates don’t try to solve
problems once they’re in office but it would be a
wise campaign not to promise us the world then
only be able to give us half of it. This makes
for loss of respect and starts the town gad-flies
to talking.
-;We would hope that all candidates from the
board of commissioners on down will offer us
something tangible and within grasp range instead
of something so far-fetched it’s barely imaginable.
fTTut, then, the ones with these big ideas are the
5 very ones we always seem to vote for. So, the
voting public is as much to blame as the candi
dates who"woo us.
We hope the voters will carefully examine this
summer’s candidates and their platforms. Don’t
let halfway qualifications and platforms slide in
;just because a candidate is a smooth talker or is a
Igood friend of Joe Jones.
We ask that you assess the candidates for what
they stand for and not for the promises they can’t
;keep.
Only $1,000?
It has come reliably to the attention of this newspaper
that a certain local ex-politician whose shenanigans we exposed
has offered SI,OOO to anyone who will beat up the editor.
1 to start with, we figured the editor might be worth a little
more than a thousand bucks in a situation like that, we're
disappointed.
And to make it easy, the aforementioned editor is in his office
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and can usually be found at home after
wards. ,
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Special Report from Washington
YIPPIE SUMMIT
By Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
(Copyright, 1972, by United Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
WASHINGTON - Vaca
tion time is rapidly coming to
ja close for the radical move
|ment in Miami' Beach.
The same loosely-organized
group of Zippies and Yippies
who cavorted and sunbathed
during the Democratic Con
ventinn are now holding seri
ous strategy sessions aimed at
embarrassing President Nixon
during the Republican Con-
Ivention next month.
| My source for this informa
tion is my own long-haired
teen-age son, Kevin, who infil-.
Irated the radical movement
while I was in Miami Beach
or the Democratic Conven
.ion.
Kevin tells me that zany
Vbbie Hoffman, a yippie for
ill seasons, has held a number
if summit meetings with his
inpredictable lieutenants.
Kevin was present when
foffman was seeking to out
naneuver federal snoopers,
■’or the benefit of electronic
nooping devices, Abbie and
riends would meet in their
;audy headquarters and lay
ut one set of plans. Then, the
ilotters would slip outside and
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privately draw up a different
strategy.
The basic aim of the radi
cals, reports Kevin, is to turn
the sober-sided Republican
Convention into a carnival of
confusion.
—GOP Snoops—
Meanwhile, the Republicans
have done some infiltrating in
Miami Beach on their own.
Wandering through the Con
vention Hall among all the
Democrats earlier this month,
I spotted two top Republicans.
They were GOP Vice Chair
man Dick Herman and his
assistant, Jim Gale. Posing as
service personnel, the two ex
plained they were actually siz
ing up facilities in preparation
for their own convention in
August.
Both Herman and Gale are
worried about security at the
convention. They havp in
structed Republican security
agents to work closely with
Miami Beach Police Chief
Rocky Pomerance, the hefty,
jovial cop who is now intensely
evaluating contingency plans
to handle what looks like a
Johnny Solesbee
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Summer Camp Notes
Summer camp at Fort Stewart, near Savannah, has ended
for several thousand Georgia National Guardsmen and Army
Reservists.
The past two weeks were my first summer camp’s experience
and fortunately, or unfortunately I think sometimes, I have four
more to go. It was an experience those two weeks and better
than I had expected, but rougher than any camp in years past,
according to those who remember.
I think when the division held its formation last Friday,
some extra awards should have gone to some of the fellows
at camp who went unrecognized.
Here are the awards I would have given and the reasons:
ENDURANCE AWARD—To every troop who had to drive deuces
and a half from Toccoa to Fort Stewart. Mine must have vib
rated five pounds off me in that 246 mile trip. My head roared
for two days after getting there.
BEST MESS AWARD—WouId most definitely have to go to
my unit’s mess sargeant, Albert Brown, who made sure that
the troops had the finest of meals. There was always a plate,
full of vittles and those who lost weight by the vibrating vehicles
going down probably gained it back and more while there.
Word got around about our chow and troops who had been
stuck on C-rations were found infiltrating our chow lines at
almost every meal. We had hot meals three times a day
for the entire two weeks.
THE PLANNING-AHEAD AWARD—Again to Sgt. Brown, Who
“just happened to have 60 dozen eggs” in the back of his car
when he found out powdered eggs were on the first day’s menu.
BEST SPIRIT AWARD—To James London and Donald Tench
who somehow managed to keep everybody laughing under the
circumstances. A couple of Airborne Rangers ha d some good
tales about their jumping experiences, but Tench topped them
all about his story of falling out of a barn loft one time.
SPRINTER’S AWARD—I’m going to have to give this one
to myself. The second day in the field brought on a forest of
surprises, including a diamond-back rattlesnake who buzzed
12 rattles. I'm scared of two kinds of snakes—dead ones and
live ones--so I took afoot up a tank trail when I spotted the old
fellow.
BRAVERY A WARD--To the fellows who hung around long
enough to kill the rattler.
BEST BATTLER’S AWARD—To all the troops who could wipe
out a battalion of mosquitoes and ticks before they could set
up camp on your arms, head and legs.
BEST BUDDY AWARD—To the scorpion who rolled Out of
bed with me one morning. This award to him for not biting me.
EFFICIENCY AWARD—To the troops who managed to lose
two, two-and-a-half ton trucks and a jeep. That takes some
kind of special talent.
IN—THE—KNOW AWARD—To Mike Ray and Ricky Martin
who found out there's a difference between diesel fuel and
regular gasoline for the trucks after pumping only 25 gallons.
COOLNESS AWARD—Not given this year because its reci
pient must not sweat over two gallons between the hours of
7 a.m. and 11 p.m. It’s my understanding that this award has
yet to hate a recipient.
FRIENDLINESS AWARD—To about 1,000 kids and some
adults standing by the roadside from Toccoa to Savannah
and from Savannah to Toccoa waving at every truck in the
convoy.
BEST MEMORY AWARD—To Anthony Brown who can re
member every name there is to know--except the one you’re
known by.
MOST HEARTWARMING AWARD—To Sgt. Wendell Worley
and Sgt. Wayne Meeks for carefully seeing that a bird’s nest
built on one of the trailers during the two weeks was properly
placed i« a tree near where the trailer had been. They were
hoping Mother Bird would find it and hatch the three eggs she
had laid.
raucous week with the radi
cals.
While maintaining cordial
relations with Yippie leaders,
Pomerance has kept in con
stant touch with the FBI.
Pomerance receives FBI re
ports from every major city in
the nation informing him of
known radicals leaving for
Miami. In addition, Florida
police have staked out all the
major roads coming into
Miami. They are keeping a
running tally of the cars, buses
and campers carrying poten
tial trouble-makers into the
state.
Finger-Lickin'Good—
Fried chicken magnate,
Colonel Harlan Sanders, pass
ed out free fried chicken and
paid $35.00 for wastepaper
baskets at the Democratic
Convention. But we have
learned that the old Southern
gentleman is a Republican at
heart.
Underneath the Colonel’s
long coat, he wears a big, gold
“Richard Nixon in ’72” tie
clasp. The Colonel told us he is
glad the Democrats like his
chicken. But he believes the
Republicans will do the most
finger-licking good for the
country.
—Battling Queen Bees—
Although the Women’s Cau
cus struggled valiantly to pre
sent a united front at the
Democratic Convention, we
have learned that a major
power struggle is brewing in
side the women’s lib move
ment between the Caucus’s
two middle-aged queen bees
Bella Abzug and Betty Fried
an.
Militant feminists, who feel
they were shortchanged dur
ing the Democratic credentials
and platform fights, are telling
insiders that battling Bella
Abzug and glorious Gloria
Steinem used old machine-like
politics to deliver the women’s
vote to McGovern:
Betty Friedan, who founded
the Women’s Caucus two
years ago, is reportedly very
upset over Bella’s partisan
attitude toward McGovern.
Betty has told friends private
ly that Bella has failed the
women’s cause because she
won few, if any, concessions
from McGovern for her sup
port.
—End of A Dream—
Hubert Humphrey, the hap
py warrior of national politics,
has seen his life-long quest for
the presidency come to a frus
trating end.
Humphrey has spent the
last 12 years coming in second
in national politics. For four
years, he served as the na
tion's number two man under
Lyndon Johnson only to come
in second by less than one
percent to Richard Nixon in
1968. This year, Hubert has
come in second again this
time to his one-time next-door
neighbor, George McGovern.
Have these defeats embit
tered Humphrey? Will he work
hard for McGovern? I predict
that Humphrey will devote
himself fully to electing
McGovern president. In a poli
tician like Humphrey, the
basic instincts never die. He
will campaign as' hard for
McGovern as he would for
himself.
Miami . . . Miami . . . Miami... it has been in the lights
of our minds all summer and perhaps the best is to be revealed.
1 Disappointed with the democratic happenings which took place
there last week, let’s look at the Miami scene.
First, the national delegates worked hard and endured a great
deal of pressure from the Credentials Committee. Then
McGovern’s platform does present a category of modern ideas,
but very little discipline is revealed in his approach to lead the
American people.
My intelligence was insulted when McGovern placed a call to
Ted Kennedy in Massachusetts.
Kennedy informed us by radio media he declined the nomin
ation for vice-president because his first duties were to his
family. Away from his family, he certainly spent a lot of hours,
days and weeks in court clearing up some tragedies. Too, it
disturbs me that he should try to play his brother’s role as
President John Kennedy has been deceased eight years.
Again, I think about South Dakota’s McGovern and Missouri’s
Eagleton. Has it occurred to you, they are using more psychology
on the general public than politics? Could it be they are weak on
political grounds and abreast psychological out-patient evalua
tions?
No Permits Issued On Trailer Parks, Office Says
Dear Sir:
In your July 13th issue there
appeared a letter to the editor,
the writer identified only as
“A Concerned Taxpayer”, in
which the statement was made
that “some of the county zoning
board members are absolutely
filling the county full of trailer
parks”.
Dear Sir:
In order to dispel all doubts
and to make it abundantly clear
the position me and my family
are taking in the Sheriff’s race
I submit the following state
ment:
In 1964 and 1965, I had the
pleasure of working with Mr.
Carroll Tallant for a period
of eleven months as Deputy Sh
eriff of Forsyth County. I con
sidered him to be fearless, hon
est and capable and that is my
opinion to this day. My wife be
came ill and it was impossible
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Thoughts On Miami
By Jan Hughes
Because this statement
appears totally inaccurate when
the record is consulted, 11
seems advisable to point out
that the Cumming-Forsyth Pl
anning and Zoning Commission
has issued not a single permit
for a trailer park during the
past one and one-half to two
years. In thatinterimnumerous :
Letter To Dispel Doubt
for me to be away from home
all day, and all night at times,
so it was necessary that I give
up this position as Deputy Sh
eriff.
In my opinion Carroll made a
good sheriff, and with limited
help and equipment he was able
to keep down the crime rate and
especially the dangerous "drug
crimes” which are so prevalent
in our county at the present
time. You can count on me and
my family to stand up for “law
McGovern’s platform Is modem, but it isn't substantial to
meet the trends of the nation’s people.
We are a very participatory democracy. Inflation has frightm**
us ii tto p2t few years, but President Nixon’s New Economic
Republicans are to gather on the Beach August 21st. The
weeks ahead will be crucial for President Nixon and McGovern.
As President Nixon has used discipline and hard judgement
during the past three and one half years, we will see a platform
presented for the people of America. The Republicans are using
Gestalt psychology—the whole of America is greater than a
part of America. McGovern’s platform dwells on negative
skewness His platform includes abortion, homosexual rights
and the 'follies of ’72 , but he didn’t say anything about the
•beautiful children of America, and did you. hear the report
about D.0.D.? They simply can’t cut the budget of the Depart
ment of Defense much more.
America is not a paralyzed reality. We have been in a
process of adjusting to an international world, and McGovern’s
platform looks pale. .
With all of its exciting moments, Pm anxious to see me Repub
licans buzz down to Miami Beach.
applications have in fact been
denied by the Planning Comm
ission who have, in deciding not
to entertain these applications,
expressed the opinion that the
best interests of the county wo
uld not be served by permitting
additional trailer parks to be
established.
The parks presently op-
ana order” because we have
been the victims of this sad
ness in our family when our
son-in-law was so cruelly mur
dered, and that is one good rea
son why Carroll Tallant has
my open, and whole-hearted
ENDORSEMENT, in the race for
Sheriff of Forsyth County at this
time. I do not think that you
could do yourself and your fam
ily a greater favor than to
support Carroll for Sheriff.
With malice toward no one
and best wishes to all, I am,
Your friend,
Joe Hansard
[SpUY PRICED]
erating in die county were gr
anted permits at earlier dates.
Some of these parks have not as
yet completed preparation of all
the spaces that were originally
authorized, but no existing tr
ailer park will be permitted to
expand its number of spaces
beyond what was covered la
their original permits.
During die past few months
the County Board of Commiss
ioners, through the county’s le
gal representatives, and by vir
tue of a ruling of the Georgia
State Supreme Court, has suc
cessfully blocked the' creation
of a very large mobile home
park.
Your correspondent is cor
rect in stating that no trailer
park can be approved without
the required legal notices in,
the press, proper posting of
the proposed site, and an open
Public Hearing. These regula
tions apply also to any proposed
re-zoning for any purpose or
use.
CUMMING-FORSYTH BUILD
ING AND ZONINGOFFICE