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Phil Landrum-Ninth 9 s Friendly Washington Sharpshooter
(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is an
article specially written at the
request of the Forsyth County
News. It deals with the career
of Georgia's Dean in the UjS,
House of Representatives, Phil
M. Landrum. Congressman L
andrum has just won another t
erm unopposed.)
Describing the Ninth Dis
trict's Congressman in a recent
broadcast, CBS commentator J
oseph McCaffrey said: "Thi
leader of Georgia's House dele
gation in wasnington is a big,
friendly man who calls his shots
with accuracy." t
On a previous occasion, Mc-
Caffrey said that Landrum is
known as "a moderating influ
ence.*' Both characterizations
Former Policeman Here
Held For Extradition
A policeman In Cumming for
about a week Is lodged in the
Forsyth County Jail awaiting
extradition to New Orleans
where he faces burglary
charges.
Robert Sheehan, 26, was arr
ested Aug. 30 by the Forsyth
County Sheriff's Department af
ter a warrant was Issued from
tbe Criminal District Court in
the parish of Orleans charging
NEWS Briefs
Thieves Strike Second Time At H And K
Thieves last week entered
the newborn H and K Super
market tor the second time and
made off with approximately
SI,OOO in cash and foods.
The break-In was the second
at the supermarket since it
opened for business little more
than a month ago.
Dr. Bottoms Opens Clinic At Coal Mountain
After spending two years in
Blalrsvllle, Dr. William Ralph
Bottoms re-established his
general practice of medicine
Sept. 5 at the Coal Mountain
CHESTATEE PTA
SETS MEETING
The first meeting of the Ches
tatee PTA for the school year
will be held next Monday night
at 7:30 la the school auditorium.
Harold Williams, PTA presi
dent, urges all parents to attend.
fit. In the 20 years that he has
represented the people of North
Georgia in the U.S. Congress,
Phil Landrum has been a **m
over" in uie House who nas g
otten things done.
He had been in Congress only
two years when he fought suc
cessfully for the Small Water
shed Act of 1954. This was the
act which established the Soil
Conservation Service’s water
shed program which has been
tremendously important to the
Ninth District.
"Because a majority of the
Southeast’s major streams rise
in our District and there are
sharp drops in elevation, we
have had greater watershedpr
oblems than most areas," says
Landrum.
Sheehan with Burglary, local
aumoriues say.
Authorities say Sheehan's
wife had left him and he had
followed her to Georgia.
He has been in Cumming app
roximately two months and for
about a week worked as a city
policeman. Sheehan was dis
missed from the police force
almost two weeks ago after he
had wrecked one of the patrol
Thieves used a ladder to as
cend the building and then cut
a large hole in the roof. They
then entered the building by
extending a rope from a oeam,
authorities say.
The thieves opened the sup
ermarket’s safe and took app
Clinic on Highway ' north of
Cummlng.
In BlalrsvUle, Dr. .adorns
conducted medical service! at
the UnlonMedical Clinic.
The clinic was owned oy the
Forsyth County native.
During his two years of prac
tice In the North Georgia co
unty, Dr. Bottoms served as
Chief of Staff for the Union
General Hospital.
The Coal Mountain Clinic has
two full-time Ucensedpractlcal
nurses, (LPN), Mrs. Edgar
Harris and Mrs. Mildred Bot
"It is for this reason that I
have always been a strong su
pporter of the Soil Conserva
tion Service." This support has
been reflected in the fact that
more than $61,380,000 in Fed
eral funds have been spent or
allotted for soil and water pro
jects in the Ninth District in
the 18 years since the program
was established.
In 1956 Landrum authored the
Library Services Act, which set
up bookmobile services, be
cause he felt that libraries are
vital to the educational and cul
tural development of North Ge
orgia.
In the mid- 1960’5, while wo
rking on the Appalachian Act,
Landrum was Instrumental in s
eelng that the Appalachian Reg-
cars, authorities say.
Before Joining the police
force, Sheehan worked for an
unknown construction company,
according to authorities
Sheehan’s extradition to New
Orleans will have to come
through Gov. Jimmy Carter’s
office, a spokesman said.
Sheehan is being held without
bond, authorities say.
roximately SI,OOO in cash, au
thorities say. Cigarettes, meat
and produce were also taken.
Division of Investigation ag
ents, Ernest Cathy and Ray
Plny&n are investigating along
with Forsyth County Sheriff’s
Department.
toms. Carol Richter Is the med
ical staff secretary.
The office hours are 8:30 to
12:30 and 1:30 through 5:30.
The office will be closed on
Thursday and Sunday.
CORRECTION
There were some errors pub
lished In the unofficial returns
of the Primary Run-off In last
week’* edition of The News.
The official preclnct-by-pre
clnct returns are being pub
lished in today's edition,
i ney are on I'age is.
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Dedicated To The Cum m ing And Forsyth County
CUMMtMG. GEORGIA LXV ISSUE 36
.onal Commission is able to
make grants through the states
for library construction.
Consequently, in the last sev
en years, three regional librar
ies have been established in the
Ninth District: the Sequoya in
Canton, the Northeast in Clar
ksville and Toccoa, and theCh
estatee in Gainesville.
The legislation most strongly
identified with Landrum beca
use it bears his name, the Lan
drum-Griffin Labor Bill or the
Labor-Management Disclosure
Act, was passed in 1959. This
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Here’s Looking At You
Some things are just more attractive to youngsters than an odd
looking camera as is evidenced here. Eddie Lower is trying to
get his young friend, Johnny Brewer, to watch the camera,
but young Johnny has found something else to watch. Eddie
and Johnny are this week’s featured “Young Children In Forsyth
County,” a regular weekly column by Mrs. Ruth Hopewell. The
column is on Page 12 of today’s NEWS.
Commission Nominees
Set Friday Meeting
There will be a planning me
eting on Sept. 8 at 7 p.m. for
the newly-nominated Five-man
board of commissioners.
The meeting will be held In the
county administrative building
m the room formerly occupied
by the Tax Assessors.
The following agenda for the
meeting will be followed:
•Election of temporary chair
man, vice-chairman and secre
tary for board.
-Planning of three other mon
thly meetings prior- to taking o
fflce. One of these meetings w
ill deal with local legislation to
be considered and the State leg
islators will attend this meet
ing. Another will Involve the G
eorgia Mountain Planning Com
mission and will deal with Co
mprehensive Zoning for the co
Act was designed to give union
members a strong voice in the
management of their unions and
has been b rough into the nat
ional spotlight in the last sev
eral years by the Yablonsky-
Hnited Mine Workers case.
"When then Representative
Robert Griffin, now Senator, and
I were drafting this legislation
there was sharp opposition from
Labor," Landrum recalls. "But
now I think most labor union me
mbers consider it their Magna
Darta because it insists on the
.'Unctioning of democratic pro
cesses within unions."
unty. The third will involve all
elected Forsyth County officials
and will take up record keeping
and budgets for 1973 office by
office.
•Discussion and consideration
of suggested 12 advisory boards
and committees whose purposes
would be to advise elected five
man commission.
-Setting of qualifications for c
ounty administrator and time
and type application for Job.
Since this will be an Informal
meeting of the new board, all
Interested citizens are urged to
attend as well as any official m
eetlng that will be held.
A'»er taking office, the new b
oai probably will change mee
tings to the County Courthouse
in order that more people can
attend them, a spokesman said.
IB CENTS PER COPY
One of the proudest achieve
ments of the 12 years Landrum
spent on the Education and La
bor Committee, was the 1963 V
ocational Education Act. This
Act, which Congressman Land
rum helped write, established
for the first time permanent a
uthorizations for funds. It also
provided for grant funds for
construction of vocational educ
ation facilities.
Congressman Landrum was
not, however, able to write the
legislation for grants for more
than 50-percent matching funds.
And, as with a number of Fed
eral programs, many small n
orth Georgia communities had
difficulty raising the other 50
per cent.
50...tw0 vears later, when the
Steven Morgan Hearing
Gets Underway Here
Steven Morgan, 15-year-old
Forsyth Countian charged in
connection with the deaths of
his parents, went before the
juvenile court in Cumming Tu
esday morning.
Morgan is one of five char
ged in the April 30 deaths of
Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Morgan of
Cumming.
Tight security was ordered
on all doors leading to the court
room where young Morgan’s
hearing was held and was order
ed by Judge Samuel P. Burtz
of the Blue Ridge judicial cir
cuit.
A spokesman told The News
Director of Atlanta’s Hartsfl
eld International Airport, Grady
Ridgeway, approved a 60-day
extension for the continued sal
vage of the Lockheed facilities
In Dawson County which was or
iginally to be cleared out by A ug.
30 deadline.
Purchasing the salvage rights
for $90,000 from Lockheed Geo
rgia Company, Harry Irvin, U.S.
Millwright, Inc. and Jim Mcln
tosh, Mclntosh Iron and Metals
have sold the machinery, office
equipment, lumber, steel, etc.
to Individual buyers and several
large companies.
Personnel on the site said wi
thin the next two weeks, the ad
ministration building and the R
adlation Effect Laboratory
(REL) would be salvaged. Lt-
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
Appalachian Act was belngwri
tten, Landrum was successful
in Including authorization for v
ocational education facilities to
match grants from other fede
ral agencies.
With aid from the Appalach
ian Regional Commission, Fed
eral support may now add up
to 80 per cent of total project
costs. It is not surprising that
the total federal funding for vo
cational education facilities in
the Ninth District over the past
nine years now totals approxi
mately $2,886,245.
Landrum feels these facili
ties go a long way toward pro
ducing the balanced educational
system he feels is necessary
for North Georgia. On a num
ber of occasions, Landrum has
that only seven persons were
allowed in the courtroom, Mor
gan, his two attorneys, his gr
andfather, Foster Wofford, the
judge, the district attorney and
Division of Investigation Lt.
Bert Frye.
Members of the Forsyth Co
unty Squad served as court
bailiffs and one member of the
squad said his orders were
“not to allow anyone, includ
ing the press, in the court
room.’’
No details of the outcome
of the hearing were available at
presstime.
Steven, along with four
Extension Granted .
On Lockheed Land
By Jan Hughes
Staff Writer
ghfs, steel, four-foot motori
zed doors, walls and other m
ate rials have been disseminated
over the southeast. The large
maintenance building was mo
ved to Acworth last Tuesday. T
illman-Nowlen Company plans
to lease the building for a mai
ntenance shop in west Georgia.
Because this property wasp
urchased with aviation funds f
rom the City of Atlanta's acco
unt, director of the Atlanta air
port, Grady Ridgeway, Is la ch
arge of the development of the
10,163 acre site, Lockheed offi
cials said.
With the June 23 SSJ million
real estate transaction between
the City of Atlanta and Lockheed
Georgia Company, Atlanta be
came the second largest prop-
SEPTEMBER 7, 1972
stated that he believes the aca
demic-: robe «****•» 1* one of
our Itieiie wasteful, taUnt-stif
ling prejudices. S’
"Talents manifest them
selves iti rhaßy bays," he says,
and. “ theit ntadtbe •feeatlon to
stimulate each."
It bas also primarily in the
interest in developing human ta
lent--in his belief mat education
can help solve many of our so
cial and economic problems—
that led Congressman Landrum
to Introduce the Administra
tion’s Economic Opportunity le
gislation in 1965.
This legislation, which inclu
ded Head Start and new man
power training programs, was
Con't on page 13
others, was charged in the Ap
ril 30 deaths. Robert Howardof
Decatur, Michael Morgan (St
even’s older brother) and Ho
llis Wingo Morgan (Michael’s
wife) have all been convicted
and sentenced to die in the el
ectric chair Sept. 15.
Robert Shaw of Decatur en
tered a guilty plea and was sen
tenced to two consecutive life
sentences.
A spokesman at the Forsyth
County Jail told the News that
the three sentenced to die in
the electric chair were taken
late Tuesday afternoon in Death
Row in RetditUle Stall Prison.
erty owner In Dawson County.
(Georgia Kraft is number one w
lth 19,444 acres.)
Two buildings were Included
in the June transaction. The wa
ter plant and -a utility building
wIU remain on the property.
LockheW's PttUte Will lease
the utility building from the City
of Atlanta to store aviation ft
• iPu .
bars. ‘ .
The pr«SbntW«tefslant facu
lty produces M0,0Q9 gallons per
day. With an tddltldual sat of se
diment tanks, the plant wIU In
crease to one million gallons
per day, officials said.
By Joint effort, the City of A
tlanta Is Interested In working
with the City of Cummlng and
Con’t on page 13