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school system had an average attendance of
1,398 in the 48 schools for the whites, and 115 in
the 7 schools for the blacks. The county was 252
square miles in area, or 161,280 acres.
Population in 1900 was 11,550, a gain of 395 over
the year 1890. The school fund for the year was
$8,273.08.
FORSYTH IN 1973
The above statistical data has been gathered
from various authentic sources, and one will
quickly discern the changes which have come
about. At one time, cotton was about the only
cash crop in the county, and the many farmers
had money for a few months in the fall.
The broiler industry had its beginnings here
in the mid 1930’5, and this alone brought many
changes for the farmer. Cotton has disap
Billy Jean Ups Girls ’ Ideal
By AUDREY GELLIS
Copley News Service
When I was growing up, my
friends and I all wanted to be
exactly like Marilyn Monroe.
Most little girls today would
rather be like Billie Jean
King.
The differences between
Norma Jean and Billie Jean
are not simply the differences
between an actress and an
athlete. Norma Jean was im
portant because of what she
looked like; Billie Jean is a
celebrity because of what she
did.
Norma Jean devoted con
stant time and energy' to em
bellishing and preserving her
beauty. There are rumors
Billie Jean plays tennis 24
hours a day.
Norma Jean represented
the quality that was most
valued in my generation of
adolescent girls: sex appeal.
R ipped-off Son
Reads The Labels
By ANN RUDY
Copley News Service
“Rip-off,” as you probably
already know, is a term used
by the young to indicate lack
of value received.
To be ripped off is about the
worst thing that can happen to
a kid who is spending his own
money. Never mind if it’s his
father’s dough, but if it’s his!
To my amazement, my
teen-age son has begun to
read the small print on pack
aging to protect himself from
rip-offs. I discovered this one
day when he accompanied me
into the supermarkets against
his will.
I was driving him to football
practice and I had to stop off
for a side of beef so he could
keep going, and I said to him,
“I don’t care if you are in a
hurry, I have to get something
for dinner.”
He ambled in behind me, a
reluctant companion. But
once he caught sight of the
bakery section, he bright
ened. “Can I get a cake to eat
in the car on my way to prac
tice?” he asked.
“Are you kidding?” I re
plied, “That’s not only gauche
Hess’ son pleads
for father’s release
Wolf Hess, son of Rudolf
Hess, 76, flew to London re
cently to plead for new British
efforts to free his father, who
has been in solitary confine
ment in Spandau prison, Ber
lin, since 1945.
So far the Soviet govern
ment has refused to lift its
veto on the release of Hess,
despite appeals by Britain,
America and France, the
other countries represented
on the war crimes tribunal
that passed a life sentence on
Hitler’s former deputy.
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CHRISTMAS SEALS
Billie Jean is selling skill. De
spite the commercialism and
the Barnum and Bailey atmo
sphere of the King-Riggs
match, once Billie Jean
started playing, the siliconed
starlets hanging around the
court couldn’t rate a second
look.
Norma Jean made money
for others; Billie Jean is mak
ing a mint for herself. Though
Marilyn Monroe was the
country’s box-office queen for
a decade, her estate was re
ported to be less than one mil
lion dollars. But her produc
ers, promoters, parasites,
photographers and biogra
phers were and are still mak
ing major fortunes. Billie
Jean was reported to be a mil
lionairess before the Bobby
Riggs match; if she wasn’t
before, she certainly is now.
Norma Jean was a loser.
Even when she became Mari
lyn Monroe, she was com
pletely psyched out by the
and bad for your skin, it’s
extravagant. If you’re hun
gry, I’ll be happy to buy you a
hand of bananas and six ap
ples.” This snack had always
satisfied him before, but he
had made up his mind and
could not be dissuaded.
“OK! OK!” he said, “I’ll
buy the cake myself.”
I fell back against the
shredded wheat. This kid who
banks his allowance 20
minutes after he gets it, this
kid who asks for a loan to buy
a stamp when he has so many
nickles in his pockets he can’t
get out of his chair, was going
to buy something.
That’s when I discovered he
was a label reader. “Geez!”
Autopsy Results Due
Authorities are awaiting the results of
an autopsy following the death last week
of Alton Ray Anderson, 30, of Route 5,
Cumming.
Sheriff Donald Pirkle said Anderson
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LAWRENCEVILLE
•CUMMING
•DULUTH
peared from the county as a cash crop, and the
poultry and cattle industry has replaced it.
Most of the farms have some kind of poultry
houses, either for laying hens or broilers, and
the compost has been used to enrich the land.
Much of the land which was at one time used to
row crops has been turned into some mighty
fine pastures. As a result of all this, the county
has greatly expanded its beef cattle produc
tion.
According to the latest census, in 1970,
Forsyth County had a total population of 16,929
and it ranked 63rd in the state. The county had
1,134 farms, and the total product value was
$17,186,000. It, the county, is in the Ninth
Congressional District, and the most recent
figures on total area of the county has it listed
as 223 square miles.
Cumming, Georgia, is located in the central
part of the county, on U.S. Highway 19, some 42.
miles north of Atlanta. The new 400 Highway is
men who ran both her person
al and professional lives.
Studio czars dealt with her as
a high-class piece of flesh,
hsubands wanted her to be an
old-fashioned wife, lovers
toyed with her to build up
their egos.
Billie Jean is a winner.
Even before she beat Bobby
Riggs, she had been playing
her game her way. Accusa
tions of “unfeminine” didn’t
deter her from organizing
women tennis pros for equal
money and prestige. Nor was
she worried about playing
tennis “like a man” when she
made Bobby play her game.
Norman Mailer, we can be
sure, isn’t ever going to write
Billie Jean King’s biography.
But it is probably the ability
to withstand pressure that
marks the most crucial differ
ence between the two types of
stars. The press reported reli
giously how Marilyn Monroe
would show up late at the set if
he exclaimed, “This cake is
two bucks and it’s six ounces
lighter than this one for a dol
lar eight-nine.”
He had a cake in either hand
and the store manager was
eying him nervously.
“This one’s a rip-off,” he
announced loudly.
I pretended like I didn’t
know him while he read a few
more labels and made a few
more outrageous discoveries.
I beat him to the car and
when he finally joined me,
munching his cake, he said
through the crumbs, “Boy,
ma, you must get ripped off
all the time.”
You know it, kid, you know
it.
she showed up at all. She was
labeled temperamental, lazy,
unreliable, hungover, unpro
fessional all of which was
nonsense. She was terrified of
the moment of truth that
moment when the cameras
would roll and she would have
to prove yet again that she
was a great movie star.
Studio vaults may have
been swelling with the profits
of yesterday's hits, but Nor
ma Jean knew full well that if
she once failed to be Amer
ica’s sexiest woman on cue,
she was finished. Ultimately,
her fear of failure was so
overpowering that she lost by
default she was fired from
her last picture for failing to
report to work.
The pressure at the Houston
Astrodome was not only in
tense but one-sided; it was all
on Billie Jean King. The
match was not a contest be
tween two tennis players but a
test of women’s equality.
Bobby Riggs wasn't exagger
ating when he said a Billie de
feat would set the women's
movement back 20 years. The
Margaret Court rout had al
ready been picked up by “bi
ologists” like those claiming
that too much aggressiveness
gives women bald spots.
The guaranteed $50,000 in
endorsements would have
been bitter comfort to Billie
Jean had the hopes and aspi
rations of millions of women
gone down to defeat with her.
However, even before the
winning point, the Bobby
Riggs defeat was being ex
plained away as the failure of
a middle-aged man to stand
up to youth.
What Billie Jean actually
proved was that a woman can
take pressure as well as, if not
better than, a man.
This comparison between
two women is not to suggest
the moral superiority of one
over the other. The media
creates its stars in terms of
public tastes and trends and
was found dead in a car a week ago
Sunday at the American Station on U.S.
19 in Cumming.
The Sheriff said that though foul play
is not suspected at this time, the cause of
Anderson’s death is a mystery.
being built through the county, and this alone
will reduce the driving time between the two
cities. On the east and southeast, much of the
36,000 acre Lake Lanier is located within the
county. This Lake, with its beautiful water, has
become a great attraction for recreation
purposes. This county is experiencing a lot of
growth, which is being accelerated each year.
SUMMARY
The author grew up on a farm located just
north of Sawnee Mountain in Forsyth County.
The wild land in the county was selling for $2
per acre; during the depression days of the
1930’5, it went for as much as $3.00 or $4.00 per
acre. In this ear, much of the same land is
being sold for $2,000 per acre (or more) and the
price of land continues to rise. The appreciation
of land values in the county from the
depression days to the present time has been
astronomical in nature.
both have been reflections of
what a woman should be in a
particular point of time.
(Would Billie Jean have been
famous in 1950 or Norma Jean
in 1970?)
The beautiful girl-woman,
super-sexy, long-suffering
and pseudo-dumb, is now as
dated as Theda Bara eyes.
Today it’s in for women to be
champions.
Very few of the little girls
who saw Billie Jean King play
at Houston will grow up to be
professional tennis players.
But very few will grow up be
lieving that a woman’s life is
finished at 36.
Holiday
Program
At Library
The Forsyth County Public
Library will present a film
lecture program entitled,
“Gardens in Colonial
Williamsburg” and
“Christmas in Williams
burg”, Monday at 7:30 P.M.
Presenting the lecture will be
Karl Surber of the Lanier
Lake Regional Library.
The program is part of a
continuing program with
Colonial Williamsburg. The
program is free of charge and
open to the public.
*17.99
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