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100 Snowplows Ready For Old Man Winter
“Tow o’clock in the mor
ning is a bad time to discover
a bolt missing when there’s
snow to be cleaned from the
roads,” Tom Cole said.
He’s the Gainesville high
way district maintenance
engineer and one of his
responsibilities during the
winter months is mobilizing a
task force of some 100 snow
plows, 45 salt spreaders and
25 road graders when the
snows come to northeast
Georgia.
Jr. Beta
Club News
By MARCY SMITH
Jr. Beta Club Reporter
The Jr. Beta Club of For
syth County High met in
October after school.
Officers were elected as
follows: President, Nancy
Wilburn; Vice-president, Lisa
Ingram; Secretary, Robin
Blackburn; Treasurer, Candy
Thomas; Projects Chairman,
Sandy Thomas; Historian,
Donna McGinnis; Reporter,
Marcy Smith.
The club met with their
sponsors, Mrs. Elizabeth
Chase and Mrs. Ann Martin
and decided to raise money by
selling cards.
The money will be used for
patients at the Convalescent
Home in Cumming; to sup
port a needy family at
Christmas and support a
teenage patient at Georgia
Regional Hospital at
Milledgeville.
The club sponsored a float
for the Homecoming parade
and even if it didn’t win a
prize, thanks go out to all
members who worked. We
also want to thank you for
your support in our card sale.
Military
Men
ORLANDO, FLA. (FHTN-
C) Oct. 29—Navy Seaman
Recruit Ronnie Long, son of
Mrs. JoAnn Marshall of Route
3, Cumming, Ga., graduated
from recruit training at the
Naval Training Center here.
A 1973 graduate of Forsyth
County High School, Cum
ming, he is scheduled to
report to Operations
Specialists School at Great
Lakes, 111.
FAMOUS 4-H’ERS
First Lady Pat Nixon, actor
Roy Rogers, singer Glen
Campbell, Astronaut Alan
Shepard, former quarterback
Don Meredith and Secretary of
Agriculture Earl Butz are just
some of the 30 million 4-H
alumni who are observing
National 4-H Week, Oct. 7-13.
Phone-a-thon
Planned For
Brenau Alums
Brenau College Alumnae
across the nation will be
hearing first hand reports on
the progress of their alma
mater during November.
Gainesville area alumnae
have undertaken a “phone-a
thon” campaign with a goal of
contacting the close to 6,000
alumnae of the 95 year-old
woman’s college.
According to Mrs. James
Bates, former president of the
Brenau Alumnae Association
and chairwoman of the
“phone-a-thon”, Gainesville
alumnae will be getting
together at the college each
weeknight during November
to call their former college
classmates.
“Our ‘phone-a-thon’ hak
really three objectives,” says
Mrs. Bates, “to build
alumnae support and good
will, to update our alumnae
records, and to solicit the
financial support for Brenau’s
$1,000,000 Toward Attainment
Program.” She added, “We
expect this ‘phone-a-thon’ to
be a lot of fun and excitement
for our alumnae, and of
course profitable for our alma
mater.”
4-H FOR ALL
This year’s National 4-H
Week theme “4-H Gets It All
Together” could just as well be
“4-H Gets All People To
gether.” Of the 161,492
Four-H members in Georgia,
21 per cent live on farms, while
79 per cent live in rural
non-farm, urban and suburban
areas. This far-reaching
membership includes boys and
girls, ages 9 to 19, of all races,
creeds and colors—even ex
ceptional children with mental
and physcial handicaps.
“These are pretty good
men. Most of the time I don’t
have to call them. They listen
to the weather forecasts and
report in when its snowing,”
Cole said proudly.
The engineer made these
comments while inspecting
his district’s snow removing
equipment during a recent
preparedness exercise for the
Georgia Department of
Transportation maintenance
forces in the northeast.
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terchangeable,” Cole con
tinued. “The spreader bodies
can be mounted with eight
bolts and when we don’t need
them to spread salt, we put on
the dump truck bodies and
use them all year long.”
Other material for the snow
removing operation includes
approximately 23 hundred
tons of bulk salt, 10 railroad
cars of bag salt, five railroad
cars of bagged calcium
chloride and a year’s supply
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“We now have one radio
equipped vehicle per crew
which helps us go where the
most critical areas are,” Cole
said.
Ten years ago the district
(Hall and 16 neighboring
counties) had one makeshift
snowplow for an area that
averages 10 to 15 snows a
year, Cole continued. “When
Mr. Canup came here as the
maintenance engineer, he
began improving our winter
equipment.”
Although last year was a
relatively light snow year for
this district, these crews went
south to other districts when
the heavy snows hit that part
of the state.
“When I first saw all that
snow, I thought we would be
in trouble,” Cole recalled.
“However, it was a dry snow
and the plows just rolled it out
of the way. We were used to
wet snow which is heavier.”
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word for this operation. One
of the last things done before
leaving the shop on the
weekend or the evening, if
snow is forecast, is to install
the blades and mount the
spreaders on the truck.
“Last year we cleared 70
miles of 1-20 in twelve hours,”
Canup said. “McGee
(Assistant State Highway
Engineer James D. McGee)
called us about 5 p.m. and by
6:30 we were on our way.”