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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1973
Most Still Favor Square
County Commission News
J. Lanier Bannister
We are still receiving
opinions as to the best
location for our courthouse.
To date the vast majority of
people who have given me
opinions favor rebuilding on
the present location. At our
next Commissioners meeting
I intend to offer a motion to
either start plans to rebuild on
this location or have a Straw
Vote to determine if the
people of this county want it
located elsewhere. This is the
democratic thing to do.
To the many people who
have expressed opinions that
this matter was solely one for
us five Commissioners and no
others, please allow me to
state that my personal beliefs
about a democracy will not
allow me to do this. This
action would place us in the
position of treating the people
of Forsyth County as stupid,
uninformed people not
capable of making decisions.
I will never come to this
conclusion and will always be
ready to do what you want to
be in my elected position. This
is the reason that I would
prefer a county wide
referendrum on this cour
thouse subject as it will effect
us all for many many years. If
FFA NEWS
Sixteen Earn
Farmer Degree
Sixteen boys were initiated
to Chapter Fanner Degree
last month. This is the second
of four degrees of mem
bership in the Future Far
mers of America. These boys
are enrolled in Vocational
Agriculture under Charles
Edwards. They have suc
cessfully filled out the
required qualifications to
become Chapter Fanners.
Tommy Samples, president
of the local FFA Chapter,
congratulated the members
and reminded them that
Agriculture is an expanding
career, the work is hard, the
hours long, but the results are
worth all the effort.
The boys that received this
degree were: Don Bell, Billy
Brookshire, Dwayne Jones,
Randy Jones, David Frix,
Harold Jennings, Sammy
Kendrick, Rodney Franks,
Dennis Roland, Wayne Roper,
Troy Samples, George Sams,
Hugh Sweatman, Lamar
Tallant, Randy Holbrook and
Ricky Castleberry.
Tommy Samples president
of the local FFA Chapter, and
Gary Akins, Treasurer, at
tended the District FFA
Update held at Athens last
week. They were ac
companied by Charles
Edwards, local Agriculture
teacher and chapter advisor.
R. E. Powell told everyone
that the function of the update
was to help improve the of
ficers and the local chapter.
The officers present watched
several film strips on
leadership. After a slight
recess the update continued.
The advisors left to have a
conference with Powell while
the officers received in
dividual study. The
presidents received special
attention as they were the
chapters’ emblem of
leadership.
The other officers had a
conference on fund raising.
The Forsyth County
Chapter of Future Farmers of
America entered the FFA
Cooperative Activites Contest
which is being sponsored by
Gold Kist Inc.
Advisor Edwards and a
group of FFA members went
to the Farmers Mutual
Exchange, officially entering
the contest.
Marshall Millwood,
manager of FMX, gave the
group a tour of the store
telling them how the
cooperative is run and why it
was formed in 1952. The co-op
was established by a group of
Echols
Monument
Sales
Whole sale price and sym
pathetic service to every
one. Call Bill Echols any
time. We have a wide
selection of marble and
granite monuments for
you to choose from.
Marble monuments
cleaned. Death dates
cut. Phone 887-5031.
No obligation
an error is made regarding
this, I want the majority of
our people to share in this
error.
Last week was a very busy
week for me. I met with the
newly appointed State Court
Administrator for an hour and
one half. He appears to be a
very capable person for this
job and is vitally interested in
improving the operation of
our courts in this state. He
also informed me that our
county would be first in line
for one of the three grants for
a court facilities study to be
awarded this coming year.
This study is important to
assure that the proper jail and
court houses are utilized to
the best advantages. A study
for our county will save us
some $14,000 if the Judicial
Council awards us the grant
mentioned above. It should
also tend to reduce the fees
for the architects.
We also were interviewed
by an Atlanta magazine
reporter regarding the fast
growth of the county and what
our county was planning to do
in order to provide the
necessary services. Needless
to state that we are not
making the necessary long
time plans regarding this ahd
don’t appear to have the
farmers to help themselves
and all other farmers to buy
feed and farm supplies at
cheaper prices and give the
profit back to the members at
the end of the year.
The contest is designed for
the entire chapter so the
members can work under and
around others with less
problems.
The contest, which any
chapter in District 111 can
enter, will end April 15 and
the winning chapter is given a
trip for one boy and the ad
visor to the AIC Convention.
Local boys participating
are Rex Trammel, Allen
Jones, Mark Gentry, Randy
Thomas, Mickey Elzey, Tony
Frady, Tim Holtzclaw,
Michael Nichols, Richard
Martin, and Billy Pilcher.
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Northdale Subidivion—Four bedroom, 2 ceramic tile baths, split
level home, den, nice living room and step saving kitchen. Double
car carport, natural gas and city water. Located in nice subdivision.
Close to schools and all modern conveniences. $40,000. Good loan
assumption.
Highway 19 South, nice three bedroom brick house, three
bedroombrick house, living room, den and modern kitchen and
ceramic tile bath with three acres of land. Excellent commercial
potential for office.
Fairway Subdivision—New Dutch split level, three bedrooms, two
baths, great room with fireplace, formal dining room and modern
kitchen. Central heat and air conditioning. Carpet throughout.
$37,500. Financing already arranged.
Fairway Subdivision—New 4 bo* m house, two ceramic tile baths,
huge living room and den fireplace, modern kichen and
deck. Central heat and Tonditioning.
Fairway Subdivision—New Split level, 3 bedrooms, 2 ceramic tile
baths, huge great room, and huge den in basement with fireplace,
with double car garage, over 1800 square feet. $43,500. Financing
already arranged.
Dawson County—Retire on this income producing mini farm. Nice 3
bedroom brick house and 12 acres of land with 4 acres in grass, also
good chicken house with all auto equipment.
Forsyth County—27 acres, with over 700 foot paved road frontage,
excellent topo. All wooded with nice stream. Good owner financing.
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ability or know how to do so.
Another writer from the
County Commissioners
Association magazine visited
and we discussed how a
county had to operate after a
fire, such as ours. We visited
the several county depart
ments to find out first hand
how they were able to over
come these problems. This
writer was much impressed
with the total cooperation of
the departments of the county
in working out these
problems.
Another Commissioner and
myself met in an informal
meeting with a statewide
property owners President
and a major candidate for
Governor in next years’ race.
This was a meeting to seek
out in advance the position we
could expect from this can
didate regarding property tax
relief. We did not, and will
not, endorse any person for
any race but we believe that
the people of our county
should be entitled to know
how the Governor they elect
stands on such a major issue.
We will meet with other
candidates if they so desire.
Their position on this most
important issue will be passed
on to you.
This week will also be a
busy week for us. There is a
Taiwan visitors come
mainly on business
Eight out of ten foreign visi
tors to Taiwan come for busi
ness purposes. In the first
nine months of 1973, 12,340
foreign visitors came purely
for business purposes, anoth
er 391,404 came for both busi
ness and pleasure.
Altogether they constituted
80.7 per cent of foreign visi
tors which numbered 500,037
in that period, compared with
1972 when they comprised
66.05 per cent.
BARNETT REALTY
BILL H. BARNETT, BROKER
534 ATLANTA ROAD - CUMMING, GEORGIA
PHONE 887-6582
Lanier
Bannister
County Commission
meeting of the full Com
mission of the Georgia Crime
Commission to attend in
Atlanta. This will be a most
important meeting that can
have an effect on our county.
We plan to endorse several
measures to be introduced in
the Legislature next year.
Hopefully they will help
improve our courts. One of
these measures we are
studying involve eliminating
the Juvenile Courts and
forming a new court to be
called a Family Court. This
court would handle all
matters affecting the entire
family from divorces to
juvenile matters.
Another important meeting
we are planning to attend is
the Legislative Committee of
the state Commissioners’
Association. This will be held
also in Atlanta. We have
several items of importance
to take up and make
recommendations to our
Commissioners prior to the
Legislature meeting in
January. Harold Sheats, our
Legislative Advisor, and
myself are working on
several court reform
measures. We believe that the
Commissioners of this state
will be more than willing to
endorse these as there will be
a savings to the counties.
Some of these involve
speeding up the operation of
the courts, use of fewer
Jurors more effectively,
setting up a unified court
system and others. We will
meet with the Chairman of
the House and Senate Judicial
Committees and the Judicial
Council of Georgia in a two
day session later on this
month. This should be helpful
in ironing out the details on
these proposed measures.
Again let me ask you to
continue to give us your ad
vise and opinions as they are
quite helpful to us in making
our decisions in Commission
meetings.
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