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THE FORSYTK COUNTY NEWS - JAN. 4, 1973
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Selling The Good Earth
"Lake Lanier Our Specialty"
5 CHOICE LOTS in Eagle Creek Shores near Cumming, water, paved
streets from SISOO each, with small down payment.
Can move you in this new home promptly. Three large bedrooms,
two tile baths, 50 ft. living room and kitchen area. Stone fireplace,
built-in kitchen, carpeted, full basement with fireplace (this area can
expand to three additional bedrooms and playroom, bath stubbed
in). Central air and heat. Located on Chattahoochee and Controls
Point on deep water with excellent view. Paved streets and all utili
ties. Be sure to call me this week.
Beautiful view of Lake Lanier from this two bedroom, two bath
home. Large living room with exposed beams and fireplace. Kitchen
features all built-in appliances, carpeted, carport . . . Pay owner
equity and assume loan. This is your chance to buy a nice home and
the price is right.
RED SHAG CARPETS decorates this cottage. Add the large wood
burning fireplace and you have a nice retreat. Large screened porch,
carport, nice area on 4 Mile Creek. $13,900.00.
16 ACRES with 200' on Lake Lanier. Approx. 14 acres in fescue
grass. Large barn, just off Pilgrim Mill Road and 5 minutes to access
on new 400 Highway. Owner will finance.
S.E. FORSYTH COUNTY FARM - 3 BR, 2 Bath Brick Home plus 2
BR rental house. Approx. 20 Acres fences and in pasture. Good water
supply. Excellent for horses or cattle. Excellent for Atlanta Comm
uting.
ON PRIVATE LAKE - Just South of Cumming, 1.59 acres on High
way 19. Nice double wide mobile home with 3 BR's, 2 full Baths,
paved drive, storage building, 3 car carport, excellent location.
Nearest to Atlanta - Just off Buford Dam Road, 3 BR., Furn. Cot
tage with LG. Fplc., Large Liv.-Oin. Area, Lg. Screened Porch. 100
Ft. On Lake Lanier with good Boat Dock. This could be the one
you are looking for.
GILMER COUNTY - 30 Acres, Mountain Land, Excellent Hideaway,
Electric Service, 2 Springs and Streams, Peaceful and Relaxing.
Priced Right.
FURNISHED COTTAGE close to Six Mile Creek, 2 BR's.. 1 Bath
Large Screened Porch, Covered Boat Dock, $21,500.
LAMAR LANE - 887-6821, Atl. 577-7879
CHESTATEE BEND
Now open in Cliestatee area. New Subdivision, with choice waterfront lots
lots with a view of Mountains. You can select a lot for Cottage, Vacation
Home or Permanent Home in highly restricted area. Paved streets, Water
System, Sawnee Electric lines now in. Build near water line. Lots start at
$2,500.00 and can finance to suit your budget
If you prefer, you can select a waterfront lot and then additional acreage
in same area.
Plats, restrictions, price list and directions are available at our office in
Cumming or Call Booker Smith and I will be glad to help you select vour
lot or acreage.
Let BOOKER SMITH Realtors
Sell Your Property Or Help
You Locate A Choice Home
In The Forsyth County Area
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BOOKER SMITH, BROKER
ANN MARTIN - 887-6821, Atl. 577-7879
TOM LASSITER - 887-6821, Atl. 577-7879
CHARLIE MANN - 887-6821, Atl. 577-7879
Near Two Mile Creek - Roundette with two bedrooms, two glass
sliding doors, three full length glass windows on Lake Side. All elec
tric kitchen, completely furnished. Located on almost two level lots,
covered boat dock, in area of nice homes. $35,000.
Five minutes from downtown Gainesville. 159 feet on Lake Lanier
with miles of view, deep water, and boat dock. Beautiful lot with
Azaleas and other shrubbery. Colonial Brick with three large bed
rooms, two baths, screened porch, built-in kitchen, patio, thermo
pane windows and doors, fireplace and fully carpeted. Plenty of
closets, full basement with fireplace, built-in bar, shuffle board. Cen
tral heat and air. Built-in stereo and recorder. Shown by appoint
ment.
Two new homes on extra large lots - Paved streets and all utilities.
Three bedroom, VA bath homes with carpeting, double carport, cen
tral heat and air. From $26,500. Can finance to suit your budget.
EXCELLENT RESIDENTIAL AREA - Permanent Brick Home, 4 or
5 BR., 3 Baths, LG. Kit. - Living-Din. Comb, with Fplc., Lg. Rec.
Room with Fplc., Screened Porch, Fenced Back Yard, Paved Roads-
School Bus.
4.17 ACRES with Lovely Dutch Colonial home, only 2 years old, 3
Large Bedrooms, 2'A Baths, Shag Carpet, Formal L.R. - D.R., Den
with Fireplace, Full Basement with Fireplace, Blt.-in Vacuum system.
Call on this now!
New Lake Home on Chestatee -- Cedar home on large lake lot. 3 bed
room, VA Bath, Living-Dining Comb., Kit., Spiral stairway to full
basement. Cent, heat and air.
New Permanent Lake Home on Gentle Sloping Lot - 3 BR., 2 BA.,
Comb. Living-Dining Kit. with built in applncs. Full Basement, Lg.
Deck - Carpeted,- Cent. Heat and Air - Paved Roads - School Bus at
door.
NORTHDALE SUBDIVISION - new ranch brick home, paved streets
and all utilities, carpets, built-in stove, dishwasher, 3 BR's and 114
baths. Double carport. Can finance with low down payment.
NEW 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Home, Central Air & Heat, Electric Kitchen
Carpets, Double Carport. Almost Level Lot.
OFF HIGHWAY 369 - 7 lots with all utilities. Most are '4 acre, res
tricted area and excellent for permanent home.
Young Children In Forsyth County
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Dy Ruth Hopewell
Kelvin Stewart, left, is three. Eddie Croy is two. Right now
they’re playing together, yet minutes ago they were playing
separately, side by side. And that's the way play develops.
DIFFERENT KINDS OF PLAY
It’s interesting to study children’s play. As infants they play
first with adults, then they learn to play along (solitary play).
In the next stage they play side by side but still alone (parallel
play). Later they learn to play together (associative or coopera
tive play). Most children go through these “stages” as they
grow and develop.
By the time they come to kindergarten, they usually are quite
socialized, and play cooperatively much of the time (for better
or worse!).
PAY ATTENTION!
Kelvin and Eddie certainly are attending to what they are
doing.
It’s important to learn how to pay attention - in play and at
other times, too. Teachers and parents know many ways to help
a young child do this. One of the best ways is for us to actually
pay attention to him, especially when he’s telling us something.
This way he sees a good example.
Also, when we want to tell him something important or to ask
him to do something, we can call his name first, and then when
he is looking and listening, give him the message. This way
he doesn’t develop the habit of half-listening and we don’t used
to repeating what we tell him.
Another way to help is to find tasks which require the amount
of attention he is capable of giving. Don’t expect him to sit still
too long.
PROBLEMS IN SCHOOLS
In schools there are at least two special problems concerning
attention. One is large groups, the other is distractions. It
does seem hard for some children to pay attention when they
are one of 20 or more. They sometimes learn the bad habit of
looking elsewhere and “wandering”. To prevent this, the time
spent in large groups can be reduced, and whatever is being
done can be made more interesting. Also, children who have
this problem can be seated near the action.
As for distractions in the classroom, that’s a hard one. A
room that has lots going on, with children doing all kinds of
fascinating and worthwhile things, can be bad news for some
children - unless they are given help in concentrating and
paying attention.
Study cubicles can help, as can a schedule which alternates
noise and activity with quiet and stillness. This does not, however,
mean that children should sit quietly all day long and “get on
with their work.” That can be deadly and to me is worse that
being distracted.
I suppose we will always be looking for better ways, but
fortunately we don’t have to muddle along by ourselves. There
are people doing research on this and many other educational,
topics. Some work done lately on “selective attention” shows
that children select certain sights and sounds to pay attention to.
Perhaps we can help them learn which would be most helpful to
select.
Counties getting
power co. taxes
Many Georgia counties and
communities have begun- recei
ving their share of approx
imately. S2O million in property
taxes that Georgia Power Com
pany will pay for 1972.
The amount is up $2 million
over last year and is the lar
gest in company history.
President Edwin I. Hatch said
the taxes constitute an esti
mates 29 percent of the com
pany’s total 1972 tax bill, which
is expected to exceed S6B mil
lion.
He said this year’s property
tax payments of approximately
S2O million on property valued
at $1.5 billion are almost double
what they were only five years
ago, at $lO 1/4 million on pro
perty valued at $725 million.
“Georgia Power’s property
taxes in recent years have sh
own a proportionate growth, as
might be expected, with its en
ormous investment in new gen
erating and distribution equip
ment to meet growing demand,
statewide, for electric energy,”
Mr. Hatch said.
“The exact figure for this
year is only approximate be
cause information is not yet in
from a few of the state’s many
taxing jurisdictions,” he added.
Mr. Hatch explained that, like
other utilities, Georgia Power’s
fair market value the basis
of property tax payments -- is
determined by the state depart
ment of revenue, which uses a
formula based largely on annual
revenue.
“The dollar value arrived at
by the department is distributed
among the various counties
where Georgia Power has pro
perty. There, the local tax rate
is applied to the figure provided
by the department. Georgia Po
wer is not involved at any time
in either the assessing of its
property value or the computa
tion of the amount of tax owed,”
Mr. Hatch said.
“Historically,” he added,
“the company’s assessments
have been a relatively high per
centage of market value, while
until recent state-wide re-eval
uation efforts, other properties
were, in some localities, asses
sed at a much lower percentage
of their value.”
Citing the city of Griffin and
Spalding county, where re-eval
uation has occurred and com
plaints have been made that ut
ilities benefittedby the changes,
Mr. Hatch said company re
cords show that Georgia Po
wer’s tax bill has risen sub
stantially.
In 1972 the payment to Sp
alding county was up 33 per
cent over 1971, from $31,692.76
to $42,192.40. In Griffin, which
has its own distribution system
and where the companyhas little
property, the payment more
than doubled last year’s, going
from $380.46 to $973.42.
Mr. Hatch said that in addi
tion to property taxes, Georgia
Power pays an annual gross re
ceipts tax to municipalities for
the privilege of using public ri
ghts of way for the poles and
wires needed to deliver power
to customers.
“The property and gross re
ceipts taxes for 1972 will ex
ceed S2B million,” Mr. Hatch
said. “We believe these figures
give ample substance to the
company's slogan that we are
‘A Citizen Wherever We
Serve’.”
GAIL BENSON AT DUCKTOWN
Miss Gall Genson is joining the Early Childhood Kindergarten
team as a student teacher during the winter quarter. She is a
senior at Brenau College and a long time resident of the county,
graduating from Forsyth County High School In 1969.
This week's story on WSNE, Thursday at 4:15 is about Amahl
and the Night Visitors.
(Editor's note: Mrs. Hopewell works with the Forsyth County
Early Childhood Program.)
Tax break announced
for the little guy
Governor Jimmy Carter has
released the 160 page final re
port of the Stateand Local
Government Coordination Study
and announced that SSO mUlion
in property tax relief proposed
by the State will be limited to
homeowners and renters.
Governor Carter said he had
decided to limit the reduction to
homeowners and renters be
cause they needed help the most,
and because he ‘ ‘had no desire
to use the money available for
reductions to benefit the big
landholding interests and the
giant corporations.”
The Governor said individual
homeowners will be allowed an
income tax credit totaling 20
percent of the property taxes
paid, not to exceed $7 5.00. Ren
ters will be allowed a credit
of two percent of their gross
rent, with the same $75 limit.
Governor Carter stated that
the $75 limit was imposed to
keep a major portion of the re
duction from going to wealthy
individuals “who live in
$175,000 homes” thus allow
ing greater reductions for low
and middle income families.
Governor Carter also said he
has included in his proposed
1973-74 budget a total of $l3B
million to finance recommen
dations of the State and Local
Government Study.
“This is almost 90 percent
of the total State funds re
commended by the study for im
plementing recommendations,”
he said. “This is possible with
out a state tax increase be
cause of savings from new bud
geting methods, government re
organization, more rapid and
efficient tax collections, and a
surgein Georgia’s economy that
is producing a substantial in-
Georgia among leaders
in infant death fight
For Georgia the grim sta
tistics on infant mortality have
spurred her into being a nat
ional leader in efforts to pro
duce a better quality of life
for her citizens. A state con
ference-workshop planned for
Feb. 16-18 in Atlanta, to dis
cuss prevention of physical and
emotional impairment of child
ren, is the first state-wide
meeting ever to be held. In
quiries have already been re
ceived from other states seek
ing information on the Georgia
model.
The conference, entitled
‘'Continuum”, is an outgrowth
of the American Medical As
sociation Congress in Chicago
last May focusing on the be
ginning of life and what could
be done to improve the birth
right to be born healthy. That
meeting concentrated on ma
ternal and child health from
conception through adolescence
within a social, environmental
and educational frame of re
ference.
Georgians attending the con
gress returned home to initiate
plans for a meeting along the
same lines bringing together
professionals, government lea
ders and lay people on a state
level. It is being sponsored by
The National Foundation-March
of Dimes and the Council on
Maternal Health of the State of
Georgia and co-sponsored by
11 other state health groups.
With a rate 47 percent higher
than the national rate on infant
mortality, Georgia's maternal
and infant health care services,
nutrition and family life health
education will receive close at
tention at the conference.
By raising the level of aware
ness of the problems of prenat
al, natal and post natal care
crease in anticipated new
finds.”
The Governor stated that the
major recommendations of the
study committee could be
grouped into three categories:
1. Tax relief for harcfcressed
property tax payers to the tune
of SSO million or approximately
20 percent of the total property
tax bill for most homeowners
and renters.
2. Financial relief to cities
and counties totaling some $63.8
million through state assumption
of costs for a wide range of
services now borne by local go
vernments. This is equivalent
to a direct state grant to cities
and counties. Although the fin
ancial burden would be assumed
by the state, the control of
these programs would remain
at the local level.
3. Some local option revenue
measures and a variety of eff
iciency recommendations to
prevent future incfeases inpro
perty taxes. The local option
measures offer potential finan
cial benefit to local govern
ments,but major items in this
category could not be imposed
until calendar year 1974 —after
local governments had been able
to measure the effect of those
recommendations that require
no tax increases.
Governor Carter said a pack
age of approximately 25 separ
ate bills will be introduced
during the 1973 session of the
General Assembly to implement
that portion of the study’s 70
recommendations that require
legislation. Others will be im
plemented through voluntary
action by city and county off
icials and by acion of various
state agencies, he said.
in both professional and lay
areas, the conference hopes to
improve existing conditions and
provide a stimulus to initiate
services where lacking. Speci
fic recommendations to the
Governor and the legislature
will be followed by state-wide
support of participating groups
and citizens. The slogan is
“by 1976 every child will have
the opportunity to be born hea
lthy.”
Co-sponsors of the con
ference are the following: Geo
rgia Chapter of the American
Academy of Pediatrics; Ga.
Council of Social Workers; Ga.
Committee on Children and
Youth; Ga. Dept, of Human Re
sources; GaJDletetic Assn.;Ga.
Hospital Assn.; Ga. Medical
Assn.; Ga. State Nurces Assn.;
Ga. State Obstetrical and
Gynecological Society; Medical
Assn, of Ga., and 818, Better
Infant Births, an alliance of
14 volunteer womens’ commun
ity groups and March of Dimes,
Fulton-Dekalb-Clayton Chap
ter and Whitfield Co. Chapter.
Although service organizat
ions throughout the state will
be sending representatives, the
conference Js open to the gen
eral public. Reservations may
be made by writing the Regi
onal National Foundation-Mar
ch of Dimes Headquarters, 443
E. Paces Ferry Rd., N.E., At
lanta, Ga. 30305.
Conference co-chairmen are
Ruth Kent, well-known Atlanta
television hostess and vice
president of 818, and W. New
ton Long, M.D., professor of
gynecology and obstetrics at
Emory University. Conference
coordinator is Mrs. Israel Wi
len, chairman of the Council
on maternal health for the State.