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Fr«?U \ jl JH| Mm Bank Promotes Fagan And Pair Jimmy S. Fagan andHenryT. Pair Jr. were named to the Board of Directors of the Bank of Cumming, it was announced this week by Roy P. Otwell Sr., president of the Bank. Pair, who joined the local bank in 1968 after 22 years with the Citizens and Southern Bank, is vice president. Fagan, with the Bank of Cum ming since 1965, is the Cashier. Otwell said Fagan is a “Lo cal boy, brn and raised in Cumming and we think he’s one Mother Of Three First Traffic Death A 30 - year - old mother of three became Forsyth County’s first traffic fatality of 1973 when her car overturned on Ga. 369 Monday about a mile west of U.S. 19. Mrs. Peggy Ann Holbrook Rich of Route 2, Cumming, was killed when she was thrown from her car. The car rolled over on top of ha- according to Forsyth County Sheriff’s de puties. Deputy C.W. Yarbrough said the accident was unexplainable. The road was dry and according Georgia PSC Okays Southern Bell Hike The Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) has granted Southern Bell Telephone Com pany a rate adjustment of $lO,- 437,000 in gross annual reven ues; $5,218,500 after taxes. However; the company does not propose to Increase its cus tomers monthly bills unless they dial weekday long distance calls within the state or move their service. The approval of the adjust ment comes three months after the superior court of Fulton County ordered the PSC to con sider Southern Bell's current earnings situation. “We had originally asked for 12.3 million dollars in addi tional revenues and are dis appointed the commission did not grant that amount," said Jasper Dorsey, Southern Bell vice president. “Studies show that some 20 Got A Dead Cow? County Says Keep It Dead animals are no longer county business. The Forsyth County Comm ission has agreed to stop Its practice of burying dead cows and horses with one exception. Commissioner Lanier Ban nister said that the exception of the finest young officers in Georgia banking circles. We’re glad to move him up.” Pair, Otwell said, is an “ex perienced banker who has ser ved us well as vice president and we’re pleased to make him a director.” Both are experienced ban kers, fine men, church men and family men, Otwell said. The Bank of Cumming showed $7.3-mlllion growth in the past year. to tests made by the state con trol the car was not exceed ing the speed limit. Yarbrough said Mrs. Hol brook’s seat belts werenotfas tened and she probably would not have been seriously Injured had she been strapped In. The victim was the wife of Hubert Tich and the sister of grocer J.P. Holbrook. She had three young daughters. Funeral services were held Wednesday at the Liberty Bap tist Church. per cent of our customers move once a year or more and since it costs us considerably to in stall a residence or business telephone, this adds substan tially to the cost of furnishing telephone service.” Dorsey added that those who move in the future will be able to put the new installation ch arges on an installment billing plan which will spread the cost over several payments. “We believe that those cau sing the expense should bear tin cost, rather than the genera rate payer." Charges for long distance calls dialed within the state will also be lncreasd, but acc ording to the company, the ch ange will be slight, keeping the weekday rate for dialed calls the lowest available. The adjustment will become effective February 15. is when a carcass is in the road blocking traffic. Bannister said the Forsyth County Health Department has assembled a list of persons who will bury large animals, who will bury large animals for a fee. Virus Closes College North Georgia College in Dahlonega closed Its doors at noon Tuesday and suspended all classes because of a highly In fectious virus. Officials at the school said approximately 2 5 per cent of the 1,400 member student body were sick and the virus was spreading. No Truck For “Gus” Newly appointed county ad ministrator A.R. “Gus” Hous ley received and then lost a pickup truck during Tuesday’s four hour county commission meeting. But the loss was Housley’s Idea. The Forsyth County Commis sion earlier In the extended ses sion agreed to furnish the ad ministrator with a pickup truck for “official county business.’* Housley, In apparent agree ment at that time, spoke up as the meeting neared a close and asked to use his own car with ten cents a mile reimburse ment from the county till. The Board met his wish, con curring that the administrator’s suggestion would probably be cheaper In the long run. Chamblee Woman Found Dead A Chamblee, Ga. woman waj found dead last week in a north east Forsyth County motel. Sheriff’s deputies said the death of Mrs. Marilyn Millen Arm strong, about 45, was “an ap parent suicide from a probable overdose of pills. Mrs. Armstrong, who resided at 2936 Surrey Lane Chamblee, checked into the motel on Satur day paying two days rent in ad vance. Motel employees be came suspicious Wednesday and contacted the sheriff’s office. Deputies said she left a note, Supt. Says Vacation Wasn’t Forsyth County School child ren who had a surprise week long vacation due to last week's ice will have to make it up. That's the word from acnool Supt. Robert Otwell. The state in making its grants to local schools demandlSOdays of classes and even rain or snow or dark of night can not change that. Otwell said the school system Is still working on a solution to the lost days and would not have It finalized until at least late this week. He said that among the pos sibilities are Saturday classes and cancelled holiday vacations. He said he hoped it wouldn’t have to be tacked on at the end of the school year-—at least not more than one or two days. The News will print the re vised school schedule when it is available. So don't bother the schools by calling to ask. rfIVVVI FORSYTH MUllg 1 111 l COUNTY ll Cl W 9 CUMMING, GEORGIA Commission Rescinds Action- No Split For Planning Board The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners rescinds Its action of two weeks ago which would have served to sever the county Planning and Zoning Board. The three to two decision by the five member panel was a personal defeat for Commiss ioner Lanier Bannister who In troduced the change. His pro posal, approved three to one at the earlier session, would have split the Cumming- For syth planning group Into a city planning board and a county planning board. Bannister had said the Cum ming members would have been permitted to sit In on county zoning under his restructuring, but their votes would not count. The commission meeting was preceded by a special joint ses sion with Cumming city officials sitting in with the commission. The special meeting, requested by the city which thought the Bannister proposal was acted on too hastily, consisted main ly of strongly worded argu ments against the change. Included were resolutions from the County Bar Associ ation, The JayCees, The Cham ber of Commerce, and others asking that the planning group remain as it is. The motion to rescind the earlier action was Introduced by Larry Watson, who at the Jan. 2 meeting was the lone opponent to the Bannister pro posal. Chairman Herman Ham by did not vote after the pro posal was supported by Bannis ter, Lawton Sosebee and Craw ford Roe. Roe, with two weeks to think about his earlier vote, sided Tuesday with Watson and Ham by broke a two to two tie by voting to retract the dividing action. Bannister, at the special ses sion, repeated his arguments for the change. He said the board was currently “top hea vy on land speculators” and claimed he was following up on an election campaign pro mise by attempting to alter the planning body. Cumming Mayor Ford Gra vitt disagreed clainlng the act 4^ f jat a 'lslk LJanl t, J!Ef hi I m I j "LLiJBr j| WL nfl iBBPWrLyiyT ftjJTLEP. OPFiCE CCHT-ER HKL - - jOUf H a W WMITS gpaa. ■ Mwirmcr Jackson M. Butler, president of Forsyth Insurance Agency, Inc., announced this week that construction will begin within 90 days on a major addition to his Butler Office Center. De signed by architect C.W.White, the expansion will Increase DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS OF CUMMING AND FORSYTH COUNTY LXVI ion would deprive Cumming re sidents of a needed voice in county affairs. He said the peo ple of Cumming pay county taxes and it was unfair to take away their votes on the advisory planning panel. “You have your differences in churches, civic clubs and all other groups,” Gravitt said, “But you don’t split up. You stay united and try to work things out." Community Planner James Fisher said there were two issues to the controversy— whether to have a joint board and what its makeup should be. In defending the joint concept he went one step farther and urged the county and city to adopt a singular zoning ordin ance which he claimed could prevent one area from getting all the less desirable develop ment. Fisher said he agreed with Bannister in part because such boards at times become “wei ghted with people with vested interests.” The solution for that is to appoint person's of the highest Integrity, Fisher said. At one point Bannister pro posed “a Compromise”. He said he would be willing to accept a percentage basis for the makeup of the board. Bannister’s “compromise,” based on the 1970 census, would in essence give Cumming one vote on a nine member panel instead of three votes on the present eight-member planning board. Jaycees’ President Bill Bar nett read two resolutions rela ted to the matter. The first com mended the planning board for its efforts to date and the sec ond urged the commlsslonio re consider and make no changes “until further study can be made to determine what changes should be made, If any.” Chamber of Commerce Pres ident George P. Ingram said the county can “best be served by a joint commission.” A combined statement from Donald Thompson of the Forsyth County Bank, Furman Stansell ISSUE 3 of the Bank of Cumming, and Roger Slaton of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association urged the commission to “Iron out any differences” and not split the panel. Former County Attorney John Shinall read the Bar Association resolution which asked the com mission to reconsider. Chairman Hamby in asking his fellow commissioners to re consider said “I’m sure each one of them did what they felt was in the best Interest of the county at the time.” Hamby asked for a six month delay to “figure It out.” Commissioner Watson, a for mer planning board member, said “When you hear Lanier (Bannister) putting in the paper that you’ve got a speculator on the board-I’m It.” He said he initially took a seat on the plan ning board to weaken it. “I didn’t think anybody had the right to tell me what to do with my land.” “But Pm a believer In what they’re doing now,” Watson ad ded. Bannister said he would pro pose a code of ethics for mem bers of the planning commis sion. Lawyer Shinall re-entered the debate to say that such a code was unnecessary. “These men go overboard to separate their decisions from their per sonal interests,” he said. Bannister suffered a second political loss when he tried to get the commission to go along with new appointments for all the county’s members of the planning board. He did not ex clude any of the three remain ing county members of the board lng county members of the board from reappointment but asser ted that none of three re appointed by the old board of commissioners. Bannister said that the min utes of the December meeting did not reflect the renaming of Amon Corn, Dow Vaughan and Marvin Boling. Carroll Castle berry resigned previously and Watson resigned when elected to the county commission. Watson said he had affidavits 15 CENTS PER COPY that Indicated the reappoint ments were made and at that point Bannister said someone had apparently tampered with the minutes and urged a Grand Jury investigation. Shinall, who served as county attorney during the December meeting, said the appointments were made after Bannister left the meeting. He had no explan action for their absence from the minutes. County Administrator A.R. Gus Housley did have one. Hou sley, who was commission chairman in December said the County Meeting Pulls A Crowd The Forsyth County Board of Commissioners drew a crowd for their second official meet ing of the year. More than 75 persons, most to hear the outcome of the plan ning board rift, were on hand. The bulk of them stayed for the entire meeting even though it ran more than four hours. Among the actions taken were an appointment to replace Her man Hamby on the hospital board and the setting of a sal ary for county administrator A.R. “Gus” Housley. Hamby resigned from his hospital board post when elected to the county commission. The commissioners unanimously elected Ivan Orr to fill the spot. The board set a salary of $11,500 per year for Housley who will also receive ten cents per mile for using his own car on county business. The commissioners agreed to use Leroy Martin's property on UJS. 19 behind the Cumming Superette as a new landfill. The county will have to bring in dirt to cover dumpings at the new site. The Board opened bids from local banks for county banking business but delayed a deci the center's size by 16,000 square feet. The addition to the cen ter, located on Dahlonega Street In Cummlng, Is pictured to the left In the above architect's rendering. Hie building on the right Is complete and occupied . Butler said sufficient off street parking will be provided. JAM <B. 197? appointments were not in the minutes because hp and com missioner Loyd Smith later agreed not to include them. Bannister moved that all the appointments be made anew and Sosebee seconded his motion. The two voted for the motion with Watson voting against it and Roe abstaining. Chairman Hamby exercised his option vote to deadlock the motion at two and two. The action means the com mission will have to fill only the planning board seats vacated by Watson and Castleberry. sion for new bids when they realized they had not been clear in their request for bids. New bids including needed variations are to be asked. Meanwhile the county money will be split be tween the Bank of Cumming and the Forsyth County Bank, so county funds will continue to draw interest. The commission also agreed that the duties of the adminis trator should be outlined. In other action by the county commission: —A request by Phil Castle berry for a cable television fr anchise was delayed pending further requests. Commis sioner Lanier Bannister said the county should wait before granting an exclusive 20 year franchise. —County attorney Emory Lipscomb 111 was asked to co duct a title search to deter mine if a road in the Twin Lakes subdivision was public or private. —Steps were taken towari the creation of a zoning boar: of appeals. —School bus turnaround* were designated as an excep tion to the county’s policy o not doing work on private land.