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OF CUMMING AND FORSYTH COUNTY
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CUMMING SHRINE DAY
Georgia Shriners and their families, about 2,200 in number, hit Cumming Saturday for
the annual Cumming Shrine Day. About 1,400 Shriners from the Cumming Shrine Club,
its parent Yaarab Temple in Atlanta and other Shrine Clubs in Georgia participated in a
parade around the Cumming Square replete with bands, marching units, motorcycles
and clowns. After being served lunch in Cumming, the Shriners moved on to Canton for
an afternoon parade and additional festivities, according to Dr. Edward J. Rohmer,
president of the local unit.
Hamby Is Charged
In Law Office Heist
A 25-year-old man, who lists addresses
in Decatur and Forsyth County, was held
at the Forsyth County Jail Tuesday in
connection with the weekend burglary of a
Cumming law office.
Franklin J. Hamby, 25, was charged
with burglary in connection with a break
in at the law offices of Leon Boling, John
Boosters
Honor Six
Bulldogs
The Forsyth County Football Boosters
Club announced its selections for Forsyth
County Bulldogs’ Lineman of the Week and
Back of the Week for the first three bulldog
games.
Gary Barron was cited for his line ef
forts in the Armuchee game and Ricky
Castleberry took the honors for Back of the
Week in that contest.
David Cheek was named Back of the
Week for the East Hall game and line
honors went to Mark Blocker.
Jon Trammel was honored as Back of
the Week for the Winder-Barrow vs.
Forsyth game and the line award went to
Dean Samples.
Each of the winners gets a dinner for
himself and a date at the Pioneer
Restaurant, according to Jack Frazier,
president of the Booster’s Club.
Trailer Warrants Are Due
For Action In Superior Court
Warrants citing mobile home owners for
non-payment of a $25 trailer levy will be
answerable in Superior Court, County
Attorney Emory Lipscomb 111 reported.
Lipscomb, at the request of the Forsyth
County Commission, contacted District
Attorney C.B. “Butch” Holcombe who said
the offense is a matter for the superior
courts.
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Shinall and County School Board Chair
man Richard Neville.
Hamby was arrested after a Ford he was
said to be driving wrecked near the in
tersection of Ga. 20 and Dr. Bramblett
Road.
Sheriff’s Deputy Gene Jeffers said he
received a call about a “suspicious Ford
Torino” on Hendricks Road about 11 p.m.
Sunday.
Jeffers said he drove to the location of
the reported vehicle, spotted the Ford and
turned on his blue light creating a road
block.
He said the vehicle ran his road block
and drove on a dirt road onto Dr. Bram
blett Road heading South. At Ga. 20
(Canton Highway) the Ford ran the stop
sign onto the highway and then went out of
control wrecking in the front yard of
former Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputy
Jim Ingram, according to Jeffers report.
Jeffers said he spotted law books and a
typewriter in the car and found the name
“Leon Boling” in one of the books. Jeffers
said Boling was called and the attorney
went to his office where he found it had
been burglarized.
Jeffers said some coins and the
typewriter were recovered in addition to
the law books which filled much of the car
and the trunk.
Hamby told deputies he was employed
by an Atlanta attorney.
Deputy Jeffers said Hamby has been
charged with burglary, driving while
under the influence of alcohol, driving
without a license, speeding 80 in a 50 mile
an hour zone, violation of the stop sign law,
driving without headlamps and failing to
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Non-payment of the assessment against
all mobile home owners ineligible for
homestead exemption calls,for a penalty of
up to 12 months in jail and-o’r a fine of up to
SI,OOO.
G.W. “Joe” Blair, administrator for the
Cumming-Forsyth Building and Zoning
office, estimated there may be as many as
800 to 1,000 persons who have not paid the
Nightriders Strike
2 Houses, One Store
Speed Controls
R ecommended
The Highway Division of the State
Department of Transportation has
recommended speed limit reduction on 21
of 23 roads in Forsyth County studied at
the request of the Forsyth County Com
mission.
The Commissioners asked the DOT to
study the road several months ago to find
out if they are safe enough for the 60 miles
an hour speeds now permitted on them.
The recommendations, signed by
District Engineer F.L. Canup, and
presented to the commission by Traffic
Engineer Robert W. Fortune Jr., called for
reduction to 40 miles an hour on eight of
the roads.
Speed limits of 45 miles an hour were
suggested for three of the roads and 50
miles an hour limitations were recom
mended for the remaining 12.
Only (SR-2348, which parallels Post
Road from Ga. 20 to US 19) and Spot Road
(from U.S. 19 to Sawnee Mountain) were
found to be worthy of a speed limit of 60
miles an hour.
In other business at the meeting the
commissioners gave final approval to the
revised zoning ordinance, subdivision
ordinance and sediment and soil erosion
ordinance; took tentative steps toward the
purchase of automatic voting machines,
and agreed to help the school system
revise the driveway at Big Creek School.
The report, based on the study con
ducted by traffic engineer Fortune noted
that most of the county roads “are narrow
and in poor repair.” It added that Spot
Road and State Road 2348 “have fairly
good alignment and area in fairly good
repair.’
Roads for which the State DOT
recommended 40 miles an hour top speeds
include:
—Bently Road from Ga. 371 (Post Road)
to Camp Ground Road.
—County Park Road from the Cumming
city limit to its dead end at Lake Lanier.
—Elmo Road from Ga. 369 Connector to
Westry Road.
-Friendship-Hurt Bridge Road from
Ga. 20 to Holbrook Road.
—Heardville Road from Ga. 20 to Hurt
Bridge Road.
—Kelly Mill Road from the Cumming
city limit to Ga. 371.
—Pilgrim Mill Road from the Cumming
city limit to the dead end at Lake Lanier.
—Sharon Road from Ga. 141 to Old
Atlanta Road.
Roads for which the DOT recommended
a 45 miles an hour speed limit include:
—Bethel Road from Ga. 369 to dead end
at Lake Lanier.
—James Road from Ga. 20 to Sharon
Road.
—U.S. 19 (Ga. 9) from the Fulton-
Year’s Top Teacher
To Be Picked Soon
In the next week one teacher from the
Forsyth County school system will be
named Teacher of the Year and will
represent the system in regional com
petition and possibly state competition
according to system superintendent
Robert Otwell.
Otwell reported that a special selection
committee headed by Mrs. Betty Benson,
levy.
As of Monday 800 persons had paid the
assessment, according to Blair.
Lipscomb said he expects the first of the
violators to be brought to court in the
November term and they can expect to at
least be assessed $45 court costs in ad
dition to the $25 fee.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1973
Forsyth County line to mile post 0.50.
Roads recommended for a 50 miles per
hour top speed include:
—Brandywine Road from Ga. 141 to
McGinnis Ferry Road.
—Buford Dam Road from the Cumming
city limit to the Buford Dam U.S. Corps of
Engineers project limit.
—Castleberry Road from the Cumming
city limit to U.S. 19.
—Crossroads Road from Ga. 9E to the
Forsyth-Dawson County line.
—The unnamed road from U.S. 19 east to
Crossroads Road.
—The unnamed road from Crossroads
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‘Dogs Lose
The Forsyth County’s Bulldogs lost to
Winder Barrow Bulldogs 32-6 in a Region 8-
AA West football game Friday night.
Forsyth, absorbing its third straight
defeat of the season without a win so far,
could never keep a scoring offense
generated as Winder-Barrow won its
second straight.
This was the third straight defeat this
season for the Bulldog’s but they hope to
get into the win this coming Friday night
when they play Gilmer County at Ellijay.
Barnes Dies
In Collision
At Coal Mtn.
Clifford Q. “Shorty” Barnes, 53, of Route
1, Cumming was fatally injured last week
in a two vehicle collision at the intersection
of U.S. 19 and Ga. 369 in the Coal Mountain
Community.
The Georgia State Patrol said the 1964
pickup truck driven by Barnes was struck
by a car driven by James Carlton Adams
of Route 1, Stockbridge.
The state patrol said Adams was
charged with failure to grant right-of-way.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Arvie
Chester Barnes; two sons, Carlton Barnes,
Dahlonega and Glendon Barnes, Cum
ming; one daughter, Mrs. Lorene Hen
derson, Cumming, two sisters, five
brothers, five grandchildren and a number
of neices and nephews.
Funeral services were held Sunday at
Coal Mountain Baptist Church with the
Rev. Hoyt Thompson and Rev. Frank
Gable officiating.
Interment was in Sawnee View Gardens.
Ingram Funeral Homes was in charge of
arrangements.
Curriculum Director, as committee
chairman, is now studying entry forms
submitted by citizens interested in seeing
certain teachers recognized as the top
teacher in the system. This selection will
be announced later this week.
“The Teacher of the Year Program
gives us an excellent opportunity to
spotlight the teaching profession and
recognize at the local and state levels
teachers who are doing an outstanding
job,” says Georgia School Superintendent
Jack P. Nix.
The Georgia Teacher of the Year and
runner-up will be recognized at the
December meeting of the Georgia Board
of Education and will receive framed
certificates. In addition, they will be
honored at a dinner by Southern Educators
Life Insurance Company, co-sponsors of
the event with the Georgia Department of
Education. Ike Williams, Sr., president of
the company, will also present the state
winner with a $l5O cash award. Travel
expenses and overnight accommodations
will also be paid.
In addition to chairman Benson, other
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Nightriders struck Forsyth County in the
wee hours of Tuesday morning, shooting
up two houses and setting fire to a store
and maybe an unusued restuarant.
Shots were fired into the homes of J.
Carroll Tallant, a former Forsyth County
Sheriff, and Jim Ingram, a former deputy
sheriff.
J. Olin Chadwick’s store at Dr. Bram
blett Road and Spot Road was set ablaze
by apparent arsonists and the Old Plan
tation House Restaurant on South Ridge
Road in Cumming was gutted by a fire of
unknown origin.
Tallant, who is presently serving as
foreman of the July Term Grand Jury,
said he was asleep at his home on Wallis
Ford Road when he heard about three
shots.
“I heard some firing and jumped up,”
Tallant said. “I looked out the window and
turned on the front porch light but didn’t
see anything.”
Tallant said it was not until daylight that
he found the bullet holes. He said three or
four bullets struck the back of his pickup
truck and another entered his house.
“It sounded like a pistol. Bang, Bang,
Bang. I only heard three shots, but a fellow
being asleep, there might have been a
couple shots fired before I woke up.”
Tallant reserved comment on who he
thinks might have done the shooting. “It
wouldn’t hardly be right at this time,” he
said.
“It’s bad when a fellow works all day
and goes home to bed and gets shot at,”
Tallant added.
Jim Ingram, who resigned from the
Sheriff’s Department January 1, was
asleep at his home on Canton Highway
when he heard shooting.
“About all I know is I heard a bunch of
shots,” Ingram said. “A couple came
through the house—one through the front
bedroom and one through the living
room.”
He said the front room was normally his
daughter’s bedroom but she was sleeping
Tuesday morning in a back bedroom.
The front bedroom was empty when the
shot entered the bedroom, passed over the
bed and crashed through a window,
Ingram said.
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A second shot entered Ingram’s living
room about two feet from the floor and
lodged in a bookcase.
“They were large bullets, as big as .38’s.
They may have been bigger but they were
at least .38-caliber,” he said.
Ingram said the bullets did not appear to
have been fired from a moving car. He
said the three shots, including one which
struck the side of his car, seemed to have
been fired from a point in front of a
tractor-trailer rig parked along the road in
front of his house.
“It sounded like an automatic weapon
but it could have been a revolver fired very
fast,” Ingram reported. He said he didn’t
see or hear a car.
“The shots woke all three of us up, my
wife, my 12-year-old daughter and
myself,” Ingram added. “I don’t have a bit
of an idea who might have done it. It’s
terrible when a man can’t sleep. It seemed
like they were firing at that front bedroom.
They intended to shoot my house.”
“If it was somebody wanting me out of
the county, I’d appreciate it if they’d just
write me a friendly letter,” Ingram said.
Olin Chadwick was asleep in his house
behind his store when fire started about
3:30 a.m. The way it looked, somebody
poured some fuel on the front porch and set
it afire. It flared up and burned the doors,
scorched the overhead and got upstairs
through the wall.
Chadwick said it was too early to
determine the extent of the damage but he
would be open for business on Wednesday.
“I didn’t hear a thing. If it hadn’t been
for two guys passing by who saw the fire it
would have burned to the ground,”
Chadwick related.
He said he would probably not have
awakened until it was too late to bring the
blaze under control.
The volunteer fire department did a
good job. They got there in about eight
minutes.
“I didn’t know I had any enemies like
that,” Chadwick said. “The only enemies I
have are people who don’t pay and I never
pushed them too hard.”
The report of the restaurant fire came in
as volunteer firemen were putting out the
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