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MRS. J.P. HOLBROOK AND GLORIA
Forsyth’s first baby
The first baby of the New
Year, Gloria Emilee Grace,
arrived at 4:50 a.m. on Jan*
nary 2 at the Forsyth County
Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. J.P.
Holbrook, Route 6, Cumming.
City won’t bite back,
says more talk needed
Cumming City Council mem
bers mulled over a county pro
posal to split the joint planning
board and decided a special
meeting with the Georgia Moun
tains Planning Commission
(GMPC) should be held before
the county commission gets a
chance to finalize its action.
Cumming Mayor Ford Gra
vitt interrupted the city meeting
Tuesday night long enough to
phone new County Commission
Chairman Herman Hamby and
set up a special session to pre
cede next Monday night’s com
City hikes garbage rate
The Cumming City Council
Tuesday night voted to Increase
garbage rates 50 cents a month
beginning with the January bil
ling.
The increase means home
Work continues on the - - - -
new Lanier Shopping • *
Village at Buford Crossing.
The new center - to include
a Big Apple Super Market and
a Ben Franklin Discount
Store - will open this
spring, according to the
Schaumann Company,
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The mother is the former
Sandra Wilbanks of Carters
ville.
The maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wil
banks, Johnson Street, Carters
ville, Ga.
mission meeting.
Two of the city’s members
on the eight - man planning
board, Edsel Martin and Lamar
Sexton, told the council they
would resign from the planning
group if it would help the
developing split on the joint
panel but they were assured
that a city resolution lauding
their efforts and. the efforts of
the entire joint board still held.
The city passed that resolu
tion at their regular November
meeting. There was some dis
cussion on a city resolution
owners will pay $2 instead of
the present $1.50. The city |as
been paying an additional 50
cents per month to the private
contractor who has provided*
pickup since the city got out of
The paternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Hol
brook, Route 2, Cumming.
The new baby joins two bro
thers, Michael, age 2; and
Terrie, age 8.
to counteract that of the county’s
action earlier Tuesday but the
council members eventually
agreed that discussion was
needed more than action at this
time.
There was considerable op
inion that the county may have
acted in haste beyond their
authority in acting to effectively
dissolve the joint group by
jurisdictionally dividing it.
Representatives of the GMPC
will be asked to attend the
special session which will be
held at the courthouse.
the garbage business six years
ago.
The city council voted to raise
the per customer payment to the
contractor to $2.25 with the city
paying the extra quarter.
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A llCl COUNTY II II W • 1
CUMMING. GEORGIA
COUNTY MANAGER NAMED
AFTER DEADLOCK BREAKS
Herman L. Hamby was elec
ted chairman of the Forsyth
County board of Commissioners
Tuesday at the first official
meeting of the new five mem
ber commission.
Hamby, nominated for the
chairmanship by commissioner
Larry Watson, defeated Lanier
Bannister, who was nominated
by Lawton Sosebee.
Both nominees abstained
from the voting and commis
sioner Crawford Roe cast the
deciding vote for Hamby.
Hamby's first official act as
chairman was to break a tie in
the selection of Forsyth's first
county manager.
The commissioners were
split two and two with Watson
and Roe behind Billy Waters
and Bannister and Sosebee
backing former commission
chairman A.E. “Gus" Hous
ley for the new position.
With Hamby's vote, the job
went to Housley who served on
the commission from 1965 to
1969 and was elected chairman
last spring after Beeler Munda
resigned from the post in anger
at the county's electoral appro
val of expanding the commission
from three to five members.
Gravel hearing delayed
• Forsyth County's old com
missioners left office before a
hearing could be held on a
court action which temporarily
enjoined them from operating
county equipment on private
property.
The hearing was to have been
held Saturday before Judge Ma
rion T. Pope Jr. but former
County attorney John Shlnall,
after twice seeking a postpone
ment, fell sick and the session
was postponed anyway.
The legal action, Initiated by
developer Bobby D. Trammell,
sought to prevent the county
from delivering gravel to
private property and asked that
the county be banned from con
tracting without taking bids.
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The suit alleged several in
stances of such doings and
claimed that the commission
four years earlier agreed to
stop private contracting.
It listed as defendants com
mission Chairman A.R, Gus
Housley, and commissioners
Loyd Smith and William Mc-
Brayer.
Housley, who said “I don’t
think it will ever get to court,”
was named county manager by
the new five member commi
ssion at Tuesday’s meeting.
He is probably right. Pursuit
of a permanent Injunction would
serve little purpose as the
named defendants are no
longer commissioners.
ISSUE 1
Emory Lipscomb 111 was
named county attorney by the
commission. Lipscomb was
present at the meeting and sim
plified matters by accepting the
legal advisor's job on the spot.
Lipscomb will replace John
Shinall of the Boling and Ne
ville law firm, who has held
the post for about a year, Lip
comb was elected unanimously.
The commission established
a regular meeting time of 7 p.m.
on the second and fourth Mon
days of each month. Their next
meeting will be Monday night
in the conference room in the
county administration building.
The commission voted three
to one to reshape the Cumming-
Forsyth planning Commission
to take away the voting rights
of city appointed members on
rezoning cases outside the city
limits. Bannister , who intro
duced the successful resolution,
said each commissioner will
be appointing one member to
the planning board at the next
commission meeting.
Bannister said * ‘about every
body on the board now is in
the developing business. We're
going to have probably a far
mer and maybe a barber on
PAUL BEEMAN
Beeman
named
editor
Paul Beeman has been named
editor of the Forsyth County
News. He comes to the local
newspaper from The Atlanta
Journal, where he served as
general assignment reporter
since 1968.
Beeman attended Stetson Un
iversity in Deland, Florida, and
began his newspaper career in
1966 with the Palm Beach Post-
Times in West Palm Beach,
Florida.
His duties with the Atlanta
Journal Included covering Clay
ton and Dekalb Counties In addi
tion to general assignments.
Anthony Maddox, publisher of
the News,said,"Weare pleased
to have a man of Paul Beeman’s
caliber associated with our
newspaper, and we are looking
forward to providing our read
ers professional and hard
hitting coverage of Forsyth
County and Cumming news.”
Beeman is a resident of
Whispering Pines la Forsyth
County.
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the new board.
Bannister said the county can
not tell the city what require
ments it should establish for
planning board members and
the county will limit planning
membership to a lone devel
oper, real estate agent or
speculator.
Watson unsuccessfully moved
to postpone the resolution and
then voted against it,
Bannister said the three
members of the planning board
from Cumming will still be
allowed to sit in the hearings
and express opinions but their
votes will not alter the decis
ion of the county members of
the board.
The board acts only in an
advisory capacity with ultimate
decisions on zoning matters
made by the regular commis
sion.
Bannister, explaining his
proposal, said commisioners
already have too much to do
and must rely on the opinions
of the planning board members.
“I want to be sure there is
someone on there I can trust," ’
he said.
The commision also approved
a resolution calling for no coun
ty work on private property.
New office park
slated for Forsyth
Cavalier Enterprises has an
nounced the early creation of a
combination Office/Industrial
Park which is to be located
approximately four miles south
of Cumming.
The site borders Highway
G-400 and Pendley Road just
north of the interchange of Ga.
S. 141 and U.S. 19.
Bill Herring, a Forsyth Co
unty native, who is in the pro
cess of finalizing the cor
poration plans, financial and
organizational structure says
that the Board of Directors and
officers of the corporation will
be made firm in early January
1973.
The feasibility study for such
a site has been completed and
it was firmly concluded that the
demand for such a side is great
Herring says. Herring says that
the project has been in the plan
ning stages for at least 18 mon
ths, but that the implementation
of plans was necessarily depen
dendant upon near completion of
G-400 to the interchange of
Highways Ga. S. 141 and U.S.
19.
Injured boy
still “serious”
James Ricky Shadbum, 11, of
Jtar Route, Buford, remained in
serious condition Tuesday in the
intensive care unit at DeKalb
General Hospital. Ricky was in
jured when he walked in front of
a car Christmas day, according
to the Georgia State Patrol.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Le
land E.Shadburn, suffered chest
injuries and broken limbs and
according to the hospital “is
just holding his own”. No char
ges were filed in tne accident
w{dch ( troopers called "un
avoidable.”
JAN. 4, 1973
In describing the site which
is already zoned for industry,
Herring says that there will be
a fraction under 48 acres to be
initially developed with approx
imately 19 building sites, rang
ing in size from 1.4 to 3 acres
each. He further states that as
much as 800,000 sq. ft. of build
ing space could easily be
accommodated initially with fu
ture expansion capability. Em
phasis will always be placed on
ecology, uniformity and beauty.
He says, "We will cater to
light manufacturing and ware
housing.”
The complete park occupancy
is expected by the end of 1975.
Firemen
schedule
meeting
The Forsyth County Volun
teer Fire Department will meet
on January 4 in the Courthouse
to discuss a future training
class.
Chairman Norman Bearden
said plans were to begin a tr
aining class for volunteers in
tne near future. The first class
is scheduled to meet at 4:00
p.m. on Jan. 6. The location.
Bearaen said, would be ann
ounced at the Thursday night
meeting.
Since the volunteer firemen
organized two months ago,
Bearden said, they have aided in
four Forsyth County flren.Vol
unteerg he said, are also needed
from the northern section of the
county.
The volunteer unit is curr
ently In the process of becom
ing a corporation