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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-THURSDAY AUGUST 24, 1972-
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Established 1908
Tony Maddox, Editor & Publisher
Minor Martin, Advertising Mgr.
John D. 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 year, including State Sales Tax.,
elsewhere, $5.15 per year.
107 DAHLONEGA ST. CUMMING, GEORGIA...
887-3127 30130
Editorially Speaking
August 29
An Important Day
To say that next Tuesday isn’t important as an
election day would be a gross misconception to both
the voting public and the candidates in the Primary
run-off.
Matter-of-factly, next Tuesday is just as important
a day in polities as the Aug. 8 Democratic and Repub
lican Primary was.
The candidates have been narrowed to two, supp
osedly the two best qualified for the offices, and now
that all-important decision must be made on who will
hold the various seats in government.
We have five local races in the run-off and a very
important race for the U.S. Junior Senator’s seat.
A few more than half of Forsyth County’s voters
cast their ballots in the Primary. Considering the total
ballots cast statewide in this election, Forsyth County
did not make a had showing.
However, a run-off election is considered, it seems,
as a nothing day and voters often take tin* attitude,
“let the rest elect them.”
For the sake of preserving a Democratic govern
ment, we urge every voting citizen to go to the polls
next Tuesday and treat the day as the important om
it is.
In the Post I Commission race, we endorse bamar
Sexton. His campaign has been conducted in a gentle
manly fashion and his promises are reasonable. His re
cord on the Forsyth County Planning Commission
has been outstanding and is a matter of public record.
We would recommend for sound, progressive gov
ernment that you vole for Weldon Stewart for the
Post 2 Commission seal.
On the Post 4 seat, we believe a vote for Herman
llarnhy will he a vole for good government.
harry Watson, in our estimation, is the man to sit
on the board from Post
Realizing that both candidates are newcomers to
the job of Tax Commissioner, we feel that Donald
Major could best serve the county in that capacity.
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Johnny Solesbee
Write On!
Remembering
Back To School
On a day in late August for several years, several years ago,
the sun seemed to never go down quickly enough and the day
lingered on, even before the government had begun thinking
in terms of Daylight Saving Time.
That long day, usually hot and dusty, was the day before
school would begin for another term.
The fact that I wouldn’t admit it was no indication of my eager
ness to go back to school, a summer, perhaps not too well
spent but memorable, behind me and the dailyroutine of nothing
ness slowly turning to boredom.
Usually a week before school would begin I would already
have my brand new blue jeans and everyday would try them
on to make sure they fit just right. By the time school would
start, my legs would be rubbed raw from trying them on so
much.
The summers almost always were good ones with a bounty
of little boy experiences to back this up.
There were always the homemade wagons to build at the
beginning of summer and trails to clear for a few weeks of
chigger-gathering riding through the woods.
Once the wagons were worn out, bicycles were usually
next on the agenda for a few weeks and one summer I managed
to chalk up 500 miles on my bike. I know because I had a speed
ometer that I had bought the summer before by growing corn
and selling it to produce stands.
And when the bicycles got old there were always other things
to turn to. You can’t think I went through the entire summer
without some mischievous marks on my record.
We had a peachtree in the yard that was always loaded down
with small peaches. But the things never ripened. They would
get a certain size always staying green, at no time softer than
quartz and then fall off.
I don’t think I would have had the nerve to do it by myself,
but with the prodding of some buddies, who also had a summer
to waste away, the peaches served a useful purpose (at least to
us) when we would throw them at passing cars. That proved to
be exciting enough!
And, of course, tomatoes were always rottening in the garden
and why let them lie around stinking when they could be plastered
on some unsuspecting passerby?
We once even contemplated setting up a flat tire repair
shop and to add to our business figured we should strategically
place nails in the highway a distance away so that the tire could
be flat by the time it got to us. But, the yellow streak up my
back, plus a concern for human safety (yes, little boys are
concerned, too), quickly thwarted that idea, although I had to
practically beg my friends not to go through with it.
And, yes, some neighbors had watermelon patches. They were
always in a different place every year, but we somehow managed
to find them. Hot watermelon was always good after you hunted
for the patch a while. t M t
The list went on ad infinitum. Finally, it got to the point where
nothing was quite as much fun as it had been and being out of
school for a while made me think that school wasn’t really so
bad after all.
I was always ready to turn back to the books —new pencils
and notebooks and clay excited me in the first few grades,
then there were sports and, uh, girls.
But that long day before the start of school seemed to never
end. The night was just as long with my stiff blue jeans lying
across the foot of my bed, just waiting to be hopped into.
I would be ready an hour before the bus would ever come on
that first day and would have time to reminisce the summer.
Had the summer been a good one? Did I have fun? Was there
something about it that I would remember in later times?
Yes, I think so.
for making
Luck and David Gambrell
winners on August 8.
Our victory is yours—and the hundreds of thousands of working Georgians’
who, like you, want to have a share in running the system.
We did it together last Tuesday. Let’s do it once more Tuesday, August 29.
VOTE IN THE RUNOFF TUESDAY, AUGUST 29
KEEP
David Gambrell US. SENATOR
He gets things done. Our wav
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