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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - JAN. 11, 1973
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Established 1908
TONY MADDOX - PUBLISHER
PAUL BEEMAN - EDITOR
PAUL PLAGINOS - ADVERTISING MANAGER
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 Salas Tax.,
elsewhere, 55.15 per year.
107 OAHLONEGA ST. CUMMING, GEORGIA...
887-3127 30130
Editorial page
about that split
We got excited a short while back about a proposal for an
office and light industrial park for the Cumming area. It is a
well-conceived notion with considerable regard for the com
munity and seems to be the sort of thing the county needs.
Plans have been announced for another such facility and our
excitement hasn’t waned a bit. If the latest developers have done
their homework they will probably be as warmly received by
the Cumming-Forsyth Planning Commission as the first group.
That is, if they have done their homework and if they are as
willing to stipulate terms that will likewise assure the actual
development of lofty-on-paper proposals. Yet as desirable as
such developments may be (the tax revenue alone) they are not
the type of thing that can be brought off without a great deal of
cooperation. Assuredly, at least for a while, these park pro
posals will have to be supplied with water from the city.
There will probably be security guards but law enforcement
will remain in the hands of the county. Likewise fire protection
although the city will be expected to provide backup fire help.
What develops will come with cooperation and without regard
for arbitrary municipal boundaries. What develops will demand
the scrutiny of an organization such as the Cumming-Forsyth
Planning Commission. But there are those in power who would
chisel that organization--make it a Cumming Planning Commis
sion and a Forsyth Planning Commission. Why would they want
to do a thing like that? We would hope that it isn’t just because
of personality differences. We would likewise hope that a divisive
move along those lines wouldn’t cost the county any money
through cancelled federal or state aid.
♦
Casting stones
We don’t like to dip into the rumor mill for these pages,
but from time to time we expect we will anyway. This is one
of them. We heard that one of our county officials got his
windshield sprayed with gravel and has become right peevish
about it. He’s mad enough that he’s looking for a law he recalls
the General Assembly passed requiring gravel trucks to cover
their loads. It’s hard to figure out why such a law should be
needed. It would seem that a trucker would know he had no
right to bounce down the highway spilllrtg rocks all over any
body who dared get near. He has no more right to do that
than a kid throwing rocks at passing cars. Like we told you,
it’s just a rumor, but when he finds that law he’ll see that
it’s enforced. You just watch.
Lake levels
Wednesday, Jan. 3, 1973 1065.68
Thursday, Jan. 4, 1973 1065.80
Friday, Jan. 5, 1973 1065.89
Saturday, Jan. 6, 1973 1065.99
Sunday, Jan. 7, 1973 1066.18
Monday, Jan. 8, 1973 1066.44
Tuesday, Jan. 9, 1973 1066.48
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/weathering it
f BY PAUL BEEMAN
The touch of weather we’ve been having and tie way it makes
people act brought to mind some people I got to watch in Mia
mi over the holidays. They were bundled and shivering as if
they had been hosed down and left overnight in a meat cooler
and it was only 46 degrees (60 by noon). Any Georgian would have
shed his shoes and joined me on the near deserted beach,
but to the citizens of Miami, anything less than 50 hurts a
lot. It hurts every bit as much as two inches of ice and 25
degrees when you live here. I’ve a brother in Boston who
woi'iH have found us funny as we hid in our homes or tiptoed
the highways during the storm and its aftermatn. Where he
lives, the slosh we had wouldn’t have cancelled an outdoor
swim meet. In the lone star state of Massachusetts, the ice
starts in about the time we’re skipping into Indian summer
and doesn't stop until we’re almost tired of the heat. But there
is some good to this kind of weather other than that it was
very pretty to watch for at least 30 minutes. It’s kind of like
when you feel so good that you pinch yourself just to see if
you really feel that good or if you just forgot how to feel bad.
This weather sort of puts things in a proper perspective -
somewhat.
Letters to the editor
Bannister’ writes
Much has been said in re
gards to a Resolution presented
by Me as a member of the
Forsyth County Board of Com
missioners and which the Board
adopted. This Resolution was
prepared by me and was pre
pared according to a mandate
I received in my election to
Post 1 Forsyth County Board
of Commissioners. My main
campaign promise was to eli
minate the Forsyth County
Planning Board Members who
were in Land Speculation and
other type businesses that
they could benefit directly from.
This Resolution will do this but
was changed and adopted to
permit one Land Developer or
Speculator to be on the Board.
I would hope that this One
Lone Land Developer would be
Licenced, Professional Real
Estate Agent rather than some
fly by night operator.
You have heard that this act
ion was rushed through and the
City of Cumming not given a
chance to think on it. This is
not the case. The Mayor and
his entire Council was informed
by me at one of their meetings
in September that I intended
to introduce such Regulations
and that I thought that there
was enough support from the
Majority of the Forsyth Cou
nty Board of Commissioners
to approve such Resolution. At
that time the Mayor and Coun
cil and the Outgoing Commis
sioners, along with the Incom
ing Commissioners, had re
ceived a letter from the Zon
ing Administrator stating that
the terms of about all, if not
all the members on the Zoning
Board, had expired. They had.
The City Council, after I had
stated my position on Land
Speculators, Reappointed one
for a 4 year term. The next
day a certain Council men was
all over Cumming bragging that
they had shown the Forsyth
County Board of Commis
sioners who was running what.
Now, some of these same pe
ople, along with the Speculators
they support and are related to,
are hollering Foul and want to
talk it over. I am and have been
willing to talk it over, and did
spend my Campaign time talk
ing it over. All this talking
and voting in a Democratic
Primary, A runoff and a Gen
eral election told me that the
people of the county wanted
a FAIR, IMPARITAL ZONING
BOARD AS FREE of Land Spe
culators as possible. I intend
that you have this type Board.
This Resolution is a first
step in placing our Zoning and
Planning Board in a position
of being Fair to everyone. We
will need to advertise this act
ion twice in our
and have a Public?
the Courthouse. Theiß . ....
I'Lu-e this much m <
in effect, not befoi
urge all you people that have
had to fight to protect your
homes from all types of poor
development appear at this
hearing. You people, who 1
have joined in attending Public
hearings in opposition to Mo
bile Home Parks, Modular
Homes developments, Private
Profit making Cemeteries,
Commercial developments
depreciating your properties
and other such activities, should
attend and give your viewpoints.
I am requesting that the local
Newspaper carry a copy of this
Report to You as they have
saw fit to personally attack my
ability and knowledge to handle
your affairs, after you having
given me the largest vote of
any member offering for the
Board. I believe that they sho
uld be Fair and permit me to
debate or discuss any matter
that they attempt to tell me
how to vote, or, in which they
attempt to use their Editorial
Viewpoint to force me to
adopt their views. The paper
and it's management just
don’t have that Power over me
nor over the people of this
County.
If the County News want car
ry this in reply to their attack
on me, I am offering to pay
for it as paid political adver
tising which, by Law, they must
accept. My opinion is that the
vast majority of the people of
this county would approve of
my action as many of our Doc
tors, Lawyers, Political Candi
dates and other have rolled over
and played dead when the News
Snapped at their Heels.
LANIER BANNISTER does not
choose to do so.
SINCERELY,
J. Lanier Bannister
Post 1 Comm. Member
(EDITOR’S NOTE)- Lan -
ier Bannister - or any citi
zen - will find the NEWS rea
dy and willing to publish let
ters to the editor. As we have
stated many times, letters to
the editor must be signed and
must not exceed 200 words,
but owing to Bannister’s pos
ition as an elected member of
the county commission, we are
.stretching; our rule concern
ing length of letters. His offer
to pay for having his letter
published was not necessary.
We are publishing this one as
we have published all of his
letters in the past - without
cutting or editing • and wi
thout charge.
The NEWS welcomes
letters to the editor.
Letters should be signed,
200 words or less and
withhefc^
JACK ANDERSON’S 1
WEEKLY A
SPECIAL
MEAT COSTS KEEP CLIMBING
by Jack Anderson
1972 Pulitzer Prize Winner for National Reporting
*'u|>vru»hi 1973 l>\ I'niifd FVatiirt* Symlicatt*. Inc >
WASHINGTON - The
Price Commission somehow
seems incapable of holding
flown the price of meat.
The Agriculture Depart
ment recently claimed that
beef prices, over a four
month period, had gone down
half-a-cent a pound. This
must have startled house
wives who paid more, not
less, for beef during the same
four-month period.
In the Pacific Northwest,
for example, beef prices
jumped 10 to 40 cents per
pound in a two-month period.
A Seattle housewife, shopping
for an average steak, now
must shell out two dollars a
pound. Hamburger meat
costs about one dollar a
pound.
The Price Commission has
quietly investigated spiraling
meat costs. Yet its investiga
tors claim they found no
evidence of unfair or unwar
ranted price increases.
One excuse for higher meat
prices is that the sale of
wheat to the Soviet Union has
driven up feed grain costs.
Another excuse is that there
are simply fewer cattle to
satisfy the national appetite
for beef.
But the excuses don’t
square with the USDA figures
which show cattlemen getting
lower, not higher, prices for
their beef.
Sources at the Agriculture
Department suggest that
some of the big meat packers
and retailers have been skin-
Judge Offers
best wisues
Mr. Paul Beeman, Editor
Forsyth County News
107 Dahlonega Street
Cumming, Georgia 30130
Dear Mr. Beeman:
When my Forsyth County
News arrived today, I was
pleased to notice that you are
now the editor. I consider For
syth County and the paper very
fortunate to have a man of your
ability as editor. I am a native
of Forsyth County and many
of my relatives still live there.
• With kindest personal re
gards and best wishes in your
new endeavor, I am
Sincerely,
Hugh D. Sosebee
SUPERIOR COURT JUDGE
FLINT JUDICIAL CIRCUIT
Sam says
thanks
In the hectic pace of the
recent campaign, it was not
always possible for me to ex
press my appreciation for the
fine job your newspaper did
in reporting the news concern
ing the U. S. Senate Race.
Having criss-crossed this
state hundreds of times, visit
ing almost all of Georgia’s
newspapers, I am convinced
that the vast majority of Ge
orgia Journalists are dedicat
ed to a fair and accurate por
trayal of the news. Your ef
forts to inform the public of
the candidates’ views and the
Issues of the campaign resul
ted In a better Informed elec
torate at the polls on Novem
ber 7. The timely columns and
pertinent articles contributed
Immeasurably to a full expos
ure of all the issues.
I want to take this oppor
tunity to be among the first
to wish you continued success
and prosperity In the New Year.
Sincerely,
SAM NUNN
Shower planned
for fire victims
A Household goods shower
is planned for Mrs. Patricia
Garrett and daughter, Jodi, at
the Pleasant Grove Communi
ty house from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
on Tuesday, January 23.
The Garrett’s lost their home
In a fire last month. Jodi Is
five years old.
ning the customers as well as
the beef. There is so little
competition, my sources say.
that the big meat dealers can
get away with jacking up
prices. And they can always
find excuses to justify it.
But the feed-grain rise and
the cattle shortage undoub
tedly will affect the meat
market in the future. House
wives can expect another na
tionwide meat price increase
later in January.
Whistle Blowing
Whistle blowing is a hazar
dous occupation, when it's
done by reformers seeking to
protect the public. When Er
nest Fitzgerald and Gordon
Rule blew the whistle on mili
tary waste, for example, the
Pentagon retaliated against
them. These cases made the
front pages, but there have
been some unsung whistle
blowers who also deserve
public recognition.
In Texas, biologist Richard
Baldauf the environmen
talist in residence at Texas
A&M published a scathing
report on the environmental
dangers of building a dam at
the mouth of the Trinity
River.
When Baldauf continued to
speak out against the project,
university officials began to
harrass him. They couldn’t
fire him outright because he
had tenure. So they assigned
him to teach a course at
Uvalde. Texas, and another
course at College Station,
Phone lady
no operator
Patricia Clowders calls her
self an outdoorsman, a sports
man and a worker as well as a
mom.
In a month, the ?4 year-old
Cumming mother of seven may
walk to your door and ask to
repair or install a phone. ,
Last week Mrs. Clowdkrs
began a four week training ses
sion at the Southern Bell gen
eral office in DeKalb County.
The training sessions will teach
her how to install and repair
Hoschs* works
on display
Gainesville Art Association
announces the opening of an
exhibit by Mr. and Mrs. Hugh
W. Hosch, Jr. This show will
be open to the public during
the month of January at the
Quinlan Art Center, 514 North
Green Street in Gainesville,
Georgia.
Estelle Hopkins Hosch began
her studies in art at the High
Museum (now the Atlanta Sch
ool of Art). She graduated from
the University of Georgia with
a Bachelor of Science degree
in Art Education, majoring in
drawing and painting. She sub
sequently taught secondary art
classes in the Atlanta Public
School System.
She paints primarily in oils
and acrylics. Much of her more
recent work has Involved oil
portraiture and still life.
Born in
Gainesville, Hugh W. Hosch,
Jr. graduated from the Uni
versity of Georgia with Bache
lor of Arts and Bachelor of
Fine Arts degrees, majoring in
art and commercial art, re
spectively. Following military
service he went Into commer
cial art work In Atlanta, then
into the travel business, a
field where he has remained
since 1964. He is now Manager
of Group Operations for travel
service in Atlanta. In the
course of business and plea
sure Mr. Hosch has traveled
to more than 80 countries a
round the world, and he has
used his travels to artistic
advantage. Most of his latest
efforts Involve water-colors
and ink draw ings. He has illus
trated his own satirical novel,
THE FANTASTIC JOURNEY OF
WALTHER VON WINDSACK, to
be published this month by Ex
position Press, New York.
Texas. The two sites are more
than 200 miles apart. He got
so tired of driving back and
forth that he finally gave up
and moved to Kansas City.
In Mississippi, another
biologist. Jim Williams, stir
red up citizens in the sleepy
town of Columbus against the
Tennessee-Tombigbee
Waterway. He took to the
stump and told his neighbors
that the waterway would turn
the picturesque, lush area in
the northeast corner of
Mississippi into a muddy
ditch. Because of his crusad
ing. Williams was told not to
come back to his teaching job
at the Mississippi State Col
lege for Women.
In Georgia, Jim Morrison,
the public relations chief for
the Georgia Game and Fish
Commission, mobilized the
commission to oppose stream
channelization, which can
ruin streams and kill fish. As
his reward, angry politicians
demanded that he be fired.
Within six months, the politi
cal pressure was so great he
was told to resign.
This is what happens, all
too often, to citizens who dare
to stand up and speak out.
Behind the Scenes
POTENTIAL WASHOUT -
The contingency plans for
bombing the dikes along
North Vietnam’s Red River
have been updated. If Presi
dent Nixon renews the bomb
ing of North Vietnam and the
dikes are hit, flood waters
could wash out much of the
country’s ricelands. So far,
the dikes have been spared
for humanitarian reasons.
Meanwhile, Air Force in
telligence claims that North
Vietnam now has 240 Soviet
build MIG fighter planes. The
North Vietnamese have been
using them sparingly,
however, against American
planes. In combat, the MIGs
apparently are outclassed.
The Air Force claims 177
a telephone.
A spokesman for the phone
compay in Cumming said, the
local company Is excited to em
ploy the first woman In the In
stallation service. “Other
places hav women who install
phones and they are liked,”
Mrs, Clowders said. She does
not expect any problems.
Actually, Mrs. Clowders has
spent many hours in similiar
work. She was employed at the
Lockheed Georgia Company for
seven years. Working as an
electrfclal Installer, she said
she did not expect any problems
in training she thought it
would beintereSting.
After the training, she will be
glad to be In the Cumming area
on the new job. She said she
liked to work to home.
\
Seven years ago, she, and her
husband, Lee, moved tp Cum
ming from Oak Ridge,
essee. Both attended high school
in Tennessee. Not only has she
been in Cumming for stfven
years, seven appears to be her
lucky number. Her seven young
sters range In ages six to 16
and, “they like the idea” of
mother going to work for the\
phone company. '
Along with her dltues as a
housewife and mother, she en
joys hunting especially deer
hunting. In the last two open sea
sons, she racked up 17 deer
points. Last year, she downed
a seven point deer In Cherokee
County. Just recently, she used
a 12 gauge shotgun to down a 10
pointer.
“Thlsls the only Job I’ve
been interested In since leaving
Lockheed- and the pay is better
than other work,” she said.
Smokey Says:
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING^!
THE CAMPGROUND MEAN!
LESS CHANCE OF ACCIDENTS
A good way to help prevent
forest P.res!
MIGs have been shot down
since they began arriving in
North Vietnam.
LOTTERIES BACKFIRE -
Several states have now
adopted lotteries to help raise
funds and reduce taxes. The
advocates have argued that
legalized gambling will stop
illegal gambling and strike a
blow at the Mafia. However,
an unpublicized study of legal
gambling in six states shows
that it doesn't curb illegal
gambling at all. Instead, the
study discloses that state lot
teries actually stimulate il
legal gambling in some areas
and that the Mafia has started
to use the official winning
numbers as the payoff for
their own illegal numbers
games.
WHITE COLLAR CRIME -
We have been critical of At
torney General Richard
Kleindienst for shutting his
eyes to white-collar crimes.
We contended that the law
and order which Kleindienst
preached should apply to
business executives as well as
street criminals. It is only fair
to report, therefore, that
Kleindienst has now ordered
his subordinates to crack
down on white-collar crimes.
He has stressed that the
Justice Department should
enforce the laws against the
rich and respectable as well
as the poor and unpopular.
BLACK POLITICS - Black
leaders have just completed a
postelection survey of their
gains in the South. Of 79,000
elected officials in the 11,
Southern states, only 1,158
black. There are 102 predomi-j
nantlv black counties in the!
South, yet blacks control the!
county commissions of only',
five. Despite this poor show-!
ing. the number of elected!
black officials in the South in-1
creased by 33 per cent in 1972,!
and blacks generally are en-1
couraged that they eventually!
will find the solution to their!
problems in the ballot box. "
Bureau plan :
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Macon, Ga. Jan. 5-Georgiaj
Farm Bureau President H.Em-;
mett Reynolds today outlined
a four-point plan developed by;
the state’s latest farm organi
zation which „ designed to end
the mushrooming ad valorem
tax problem for both rural and
urban property owners.
Farm Bureau’s four- point
proposed program was spelled
out in detail to County Farm
Bureau Chapters and leaders
in a letter submitted to all
County Farm Bureau Chapters
in the state. The farm feder
ation has chapters in 158 of
Georgia's counties.
Reynolds said the four points,
comprising the Farm Bureau
Tax proposal was being presen
ted to all members of the Geo
rgia General Assembly and to
Governor Jimmy Carter, and
Lieutenant Governor Lester
Maddox.
The four points include 0)
a constitutional amendment
resolution drafted by Farm Bu
reau that would change eval
uation of property for tax pur
poses for fair market value
to a land use base, (2) legis
lation drafted by Farm Bureau
that would reduce ad valorem
tax to the State from .25 mills
to 0 mills, (3) eliminate the
State Revenue Department su
pervision of county tax digest,
| and (4) transfer the cost of
public education from property
faxes to State supported tax
ation.
* 'The tax problem is without
a doubt the most Important
lssuet facing all citizens of
Georgia during the next session
of the'Georgia General Assem
bly”, (Reynolds said, and added
“we solicit the support of all
Georgians to join forces with
Farm 'Bureau and bring all
end toi the problem that had
been pressing to both urbatf
and rural people alike.”
M<any Farm Bureau member#
anting, as individuals have bee#
participating in group action
to bring court suits against 01%
oppressive taxation methods li£
various areas of the state. ;!
Reynolds said that, "manjf
counties phone lines were Jam-*!
med with irate citizens calling!
the local tax office as cltlzenaj!
began receiving their unfali!
and burdensome assessment.’^
Georgia Farm Bureau’s plait
of action notification Thursday
went to all County Farm Bur-':
eau Presidents, Office Secre«2
taries, Special Tax
and County Farm Bureau
lslatlve Committee Chairmen*?
“We solicit help of all pro-;
perty owners throughout Geor-£
gla in helping to obtain legls-f)
latlve action to overcome ex-ij
cesslve Ad Valorem
he added.