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DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS
OF CUMMING AND FORSYTH COUNTY
CUMMINfc, GEORGIA
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UNIDENTIFIED DRIVER ESCAPED INJURY IN WRECK ON GA. 306
Driver was Unhurt as Camper and Trailer Separated
Automobile Death
Due To ‘Coronary’
The Georgia State Patrol Tuesday said
the automobile death of a local man near
Cumming Friday was not a traffic fatality
so far as state patrol tabulations are
concerned.
Belvie Ilmon Mobley, 66, of Cumming,
was found dead after his car left U.S 19
and struck a roof support at the H&K
Supermarket north of Cumming.
Troopers said the accident, about 4 p.m.
Friday, was caused by a coronary attack
suffered by Mobley. The Patrol said
Mobley was already dead when his car
struck the support.
An unidentified man escaped serious
C. D. Corn Elected Chairman
Of Ga. Mtns. Planning Group
At the monthly meeting of the Georgia
Mountains Planning and Development
Commission, C. D. Corn, of Towns County,
was elected Chairman of the GMPDC
Board of Directors for the upcoming year.
Randolph Waters, Gainesville, was
elected Vice Chairman at that meeting.
The Executive Committee of the GMP
DC was expanded from six to nine
members and those elected to that body
are: Newt Rice, Stephens County; Frank
Roberts, Dawson County; John Foster,
Habersham County; Mattie Moon, Hall
County; Lee Carter, Hart County; Henry
Waters, Hall County; and Charles Welch,
Forsyth County.
In other business, the GMPDC Board
voted to ask the Department of Tran
sportation for both a traffic engineer and
sign equipment simultaneously under an
areawide warning and regulatory sign
grant program.
Jim Fisher, Planning Director, gave a
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STATE FHA PRESIDENT ELAINE CAINE OF CUMMING WITH PAUL ANDERSON
To The Left Of The Former Olympic Strongman is Julie Thomas
FHA Pres. Caine
Tours Georgia
Elaine Caine, Forsyth County High
School sutdent and state president of
Future Homemakers of America was
invited by the Georgia Conference for
Children and Youth to appear at their
annual meeting on October 4 and 5.
Elaine and delegates from four other
youth organizations told the group how
values had shaped their lives. The entire
conference focused on value systems and
how they influence our society.
Elaine’s ten minute speech was singled
out by the conference to be published in
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injury Friday only minutes after Mobley’s
car struck the market.
The man was eastbound on Ga. 306 in a
pickup truck equipped with a camper and
pulling a trailer. The trailer hitch broke
loose as a small bridge was crossed and
the trailer flipped on its side.
The truck, with the camper attachment
detached and in front of it, crashed down
an embankment on the north side of the
highway.
The driver, a man in his 50s, was
reported uninjured.
The spectacular wreck snarled traffic on
Ga. 306 for more than an hour.
status report on the various developments
under review by the commission, liie 1972
I .and Sales Act gives APDC’s the power to
review all subdivisions with in excess of
150 lots in counties without their own
locally adopted land development stan
dards. The planning official encouraged
Young Georgia Man
Is U. S. Star Farmer
William A. Sparrow, Rt. 1, Unadilla, has
been named Star Farmer of America, the
nation’s highest honor awarded by the
Future Farmers of America at the annual
national convention held this week in
Kansas City, Mo.
Sparrow will be presented a SI,OOO check
during ceremonies today held in con
junction with the American Royal
Livestock show. Tomorrow he will lead
their newsletter.
Another guest at the conference was
Paul Anderson, Olympic weight lifter who
is now active as a speaker for youth
groups and who also runs a home for boys
in Vidalia, Georgia.
Elaine has also spoken recently in
Fayetteville to the District IV FHA group
and at Central Habersham High School to
the District 111 FHAers. For the next two
week-ends she will be speaking in
Swainsboro and Albany to District II and
I respectively.
Trailer Levy Violations
Bring 20 to JP Courts
Police Side
Of Cox Story
Officials in Dawson County Tuesday
released their version of the Oct. 14
shooting of a suspected fugitive.
Dawsonville Police Chief Floyd Roper
. said former Forsyth Countian Charles C.
Cox was shot when he ran as they tried to
bring him into custody.
Last week Dawson authorities claimed
they were hushed by a Georgia Division of
Investigation agent who was conducting
an investigation.
Capt. R. C. McCracken, senior agent in
charge of the DOl’s Gainesville office was
asked by the News Tuesday if Dawson
officials had been previously ordered to
issue no comment on the incident.
“0 course not,” was McCracken’s
answer.
McCracken said the DOI is continuing
an investigation of the incident in which
Cox was shot. McCracken said his own
information to date has it that police had
two misdemeanor warrants for Cox, they
picked him up, he ran and was shot.
“I don’t think they (Dawson Police) are
trying to hide anything. They called for an
investigation (by the DOI) as soon as it
counties to adopt their own standards.
The key note speaker at the meeting was
Mr. Guy Hoyt Robinson, State Purchasing
Agent. Robinson, a Dahlonega native,
discussed the advantages and savings that
local governments can realize when they
work through the State Purchasing Office.
the show parade through downtown
Kansas City.
National FFA judges composed of
business, agriculture and education of
ficials selected him over 602 other entries
in the competition.
In August Sparrow was selected as
southeastern regional Star American
Farmers winner, one of four in the nation.
Sparrow, 22, owns 289 acres and leases
over 700 more acres, with an option to buy
after the current crop year. He raises
peanuts, soybeans, oats, cotton and cattle.
As a freshman vocational agriculture
student at Unadilla High School, he
developed an interest in crop production.
Besides his studies, he maintained a small
farm on which he raised two acres of
peanuts, two of cotton, four of corn, two of
watermelons, one of cantaloupes and
operated a small cattle and swine en
terprise.
“The reason I was able to have so
many different operations was that I
worked each afternoon after school, on
Saturdays and all summer. My father
never paid me in cash, but allowed me to
have an acre of this and that in exchange
for my labor,” he explains.
In addition to serving as Unadilla FFA
Chapter president, he also was church
Sunday school president, junior class vice
president, football team captain and local
Boy Scout troop scoutmaster. Recently, he
completed six years of service with the
Georgia Army National Guard.
“As state coordinator of the FFA
program, the Georgia Department of
Education is indeed proud of Bill’s
national achievement. More and more we
all are realizing the vital contribution
farmers make to our daily life. His award
demonstrates to the rest of the United
States how seriously our young people
consider agriculture as a profession,” said
Jack P. Nix, Georgia superintendent of
schools.
This is the second time Georgia has had
a Star Farmer. In 1956 Wesley Patrick of
Quitman was presented the award.
With Sparrow in Kansas City to
celebrate his honor are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. J.W. Sparrow, his wife, Faye,
his two-year-old daughter, Stacey and
Elton Dunn, FFA executive secretary on
the Georgia Department of Education
staff.
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happened,” McCracken said.
Cox remains in Hall County Hospital in
Satisfactory condition. He has lost a
kidney and part of his spleen as a result of
the gunshot wound, according to reports.
Cox’s wife Hattie, said law officers were
not talking because they “did something
wrong.”
She said her husband is a man “scared
of police” who for some reason ran when
they stopped the Cox car.
Chief Roper said he has nothing to hide.
He said DOI Agent Charles Stone told him
not to issue a statement.
“The only reason we made no statement
was because we were told not to make any
statements until the investigation was
complete. That’s normal procedure,”
Chief Roper said.
Roper said he was on lookout for Cox’s
car and stopped the car driven by Mrs.
Cox on Ga. 53 east of Dawsonville.
The chief, who was accompanied by
Dawsonville patrolman Buford Seay, said
he asked the passenger in the car “Are
you Charles Cox?” and the passenger
replied “No. I’m his brother.”
Roper said he asked the man for iden
tification and he was given a fishing
license bearing the name Charles C. Cox.
Roper said warrants were issued for
Cox by Forsyth County charging him with
two counts of driving while intoxicated
and driving while his license was revoked.
He said Dawson County Sheriff Roy
Helton also wanted Cox for traffic
charges. Roper claimed he had the
original Forsyth County warrant taken for
Cox in his possession at the time he was
apprehended and that Cox ran from
Sheriff Helton several days earlier.
“The sheriff told us to bring him back
because he had run from him before. The
sheriff said the only reason he didn’t shoot
at him that time,” Roper said, “was that
he ran across a woman’s yard and the
woman had a heart condition and the
sheriff didn’t want to scare her.”
Patrolman Seay positively identified
Cox, according to Roper. “Patrolman
Seay lives in Forsyth County and knows
him. ‘That’s Mr. Cox. That’s the one we
want’ “Roper said Seay told him.
“I asked Mrs Cox if that was her
husband and she said ‘No’ ” Roper said.
Roper said when his patrolman made
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Thieves
Strike
H&K
A team of rooftop burglars, one of them
apparently small of stature, broke into the
H&K Supermarket north of Cumming last
week getting away with some coins and a
lot of meat.
The meat hungry burglars also snatched
an unknown quantity of cigarettes.
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Department
Special Investigator P.C. Peacock said the
burglars entered the store sometime
between 11:30 p.m. Thursday and 5 a.m.
Friday.
Capt. Peacock said entry was gained by
cutting through the roof next to the air
conditioning unit. He said the hole used for
entry was only nine inches wide indicating
someone small probably participated in
the heist.
Goods taken included S6OO in change, 60
boneless hams, some canned hams, “a
considerable amount of bacon,” several
packs of sliced ham and “a considerable
amount of cigarets.”
In a non-related case Capt. Peacock
noted that two men have been arrested
and charged with possession of stolen
goods and other charges. He identified the
suspects as Hugh Evans and Guy Watkins
both of Northeast Forsyth County.
He said the two face charges including
possession of drugs (pills), burglary and
possession of a stolen auto.
He said a number of goods suspected to
be stolen have been recovered but have
yet to be identified by owners. He said the
suspect goods include stereos, tools and
chrome wheels.
Capt. Peacock said they will be returned
to their owners if they are positively
identified.
About 20 mobile home owners have been
brought before Justices of The Peace and
ordered to pay their $25 mobile home levy
plus $18.50 in court costs, Forsyth County
Commissioners were told at the regular
meeting Monday.
Joe Blair, administrator of the Cum
ming-Forsyth Building and Zoning Office,
reported that delinquent payers of the levy
were in the hands of the Justice of The
Peace Court.
The controversial $25 tax on mobile
homes has been tagged unfair and ex
cessive by many mobile home owners. It
has yet to be challenged in the courts.
The fee was authorized by last year’s
session of the Georgia General Assembly
which set a maximum amount of $25. The
local ordinance calling for the trailer levy
on mobile homes was set at the maximum
and later determined to only include
trailers where the trailer owner does not
own the land.
The county claims the existence of about
2,000 such trailers and has collected fees
from less than half that number.
Blair reported that most of the cases
have been handled by Justice of The
Peace Cecil Merritt. Balir said J.P. Arnold
Mar jenoff has taken a few of the cases and
added that several J.P.s did not respond to
inquiries from the county regarding en
forcement fo the county law.
“Merritt has been so far pretty suc
cessful in bringing them in,” Blair told the
commission. “He’s brought about 20 in the
last few days.”
He said several persons told Merritt that
they did not know anything about the levy
but that Merritt is taking the stance that
being unaware of the levy does not make a
difference.
The county notified mobile home park
operators of the ordinance and notified
many homeowners through a mailing. In
addition the levy has been publicized in
The News and on local radio station
WSNE.
Blair said forms are being printed for
mobile home park operators to have
signed by new residents. The forms will
Bulldogs Lose,
But Not Badly
The Forsyth County Bulldogs made a
strong showing against the Monroe Area
High School team Friday night but the
FCHS team was unable to secure a win.
Monroe scored the first touchdown but
the Bulldogs made a quick comeback and
tied the game at seven points each.
Monroe then snapped back with two
more scores and made both after touch
down conversions for a 21-7 lead.
The Bulldogs responded with a second
touchdown but they missed point after
trying to put the game out of reach.
The final score was 21-13.
The final quarter of the game saw the
ball passed back and forth between the
thirties with neither team able to sustain a
drive to paydirt.
Bulldog back Gary Barron and lineman
Jimmy Turner were named outstanding
back and linemen for their efforts in the
contest. They were honored for their play
by the Forsyth County Athletic Booster’s
Club.
The Bulldogs travel to Gwinnett County
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Homecoming Court
Miss Robin Mills (second from right) of the Senior Class was named Homecoming Queen
during halftime at last week’s Forsyth County High School Football game. Her court (1-
r) consisted of Tooter Sexton, freshman class; Sharon Jordan, Junior Class; and Gwen
Brown, Sophomore class. The four were high vote getters in the schoolwide election for
the honor.
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indicate that the new resident agrees to
comply with the trailer levy within 48
hours.
Blair said that not all park owners are
complying with the ordinance by notifying
the county of new mobile homes.
Bannister asked County Attorney
Emory Lipscomb 111 if the county had the
right to revoke the licenses of those park
owners who are violating the ordinance by
not reporting.
Lipscomb replied that permit revocation
be within the county’s power.
A motion calling for the county to “use
any necessary legal means to bring them
(the park owners) into compliance, in
cluding revoking of permits,” was passed
by the commission.
The county appointed five men to the
County Recreation Board. The ap
pointments are: Jim Scully, District 1;
Jerry Orr, District 2; Charles McPherson,
District 3; M.L. “Shorty” Hamby, District
4; and Morris Wood, District 5.
The county commission also went on
record as endorsing methods of raising
revenue other than property taxes. The
endorsement was made to be presented at
a district county commissioners meeting
next month.
The commission said that the new
county engineer will begin work Monday.
The engineer will temporarily work under
the supervision of the county ad
ministrator.
The commission also acted on requests
from the sheriff’s department. The first
request was for a part-time high school
student to assist Special Investigator P. C.
Peacock with clerical help. That request
was granted.
The conlmission rejected a sheriff’s
department request to authorize the
purchase of two Smith-Wesson sub
machines guns.
“And that includes tanks too,” chimed in
Commissioner Larry Watson in an ap
parent reference to Macon Mayor
“Machine Gun” Ronnie Thompson’s
recent purchase of armored personnel
carriers for his city’s police.
this week for a game Friday night with
Berkmar.
Auto Show
At Bank
Saturday
An automobile show has been scheduled
for the Forsyth County Bank Saturday
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Bank spokesman said new models will
be on display from Otwell Motor Co..
Andean Motor Co., Lamar Nash Buick-
Pontias Inc., Bobby Whitens Motors, Bell
Auto Sales, Cars International and Allen
Oldsmobile.
The public is welcome to inspect the new
autos.
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