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DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS
OF CUMMING AND FORSYTH COUNTY
CUMMING, GEORGIA
FOC’s 7th Time Around
Coming Friday Evening
This Friday evening, May 10, will
mark the seventh annual spring show for
Forsyth County’s Flash of Crimson
Band, under the direction of Lon Turner.
The show, set for 8 p.m. in the high
school gym, will feature music in a wide
range of styles and tempos, designed to
entertain young and old alike. During the
past six years audiences have enjoyed
the variety and excitement of the Flash
of Crimson’s annual presentation, which
always includes arrangements
especially written for the band by Lon
Turner, and featuring him on trumpet
The Tomato Man’s
Mail Order Bride
By VIRGINIA WOODWARD
Eighty-eight years ago, come July 20,
Miss Pearl (Fowler) was born in a cabin
in the woods of Forsyth County. Today
Miss Pearl (now Martin) still lives in the
home her father built from logs from
his 80-ace farm, a few hundred yards
from the Buford Highway.
The logs have been covered with hand
hewn siding, but are still exposed under
the long sloping roof, over the porch.
When you visit Miss Pearl you go back
to the days when her parents, newly
married, came from Shady Grove to
clear the land, and built the one room
cabin that was their first home.
The Fowlers were an old southern
family. Miss Pearl retells the story of
her parents wedding. “It was in 1865,
just after the war was ended. My father
wore his Confederate uniform, and my
mother spun the cotton, wove the cloth,
and made her wedding dress.”
The fields where her father grew his
com and cotton crops are still fallow
from his toil. Today they are tilled by
neighbors, who share the crops with
Miss Pearl, to supplement her meager
income.
The old stone fireplaces are cased in
cement, but supply the same cheerful
warmth from the logs cut from her own
land.
It was not until Miss Pearl’s imminent
arrival that the Fowlers built the second
room to their cabin in the wilderness.
After her youngest brother was born,
they added the third and bought their
first cookstove. Until then all the family
meals were cooked over the fireplace.
During her parents’ lifetime Miss
Pearl did not marry. But after her
father’s death the farm chores became
too much for her. She inserted an ad
vertisement in the Market Bulletin for
someone to share her home and her
work.
In answer she had a letter from a W.M.
Martin, who noted that he was a widower
and saw that she signed herself Miss. “I
am 60 years old,” the letter read, “and
interested in your offer.” She wrote him
back, revealing that she was 50.
“In later years my husband said it was
the only time we lied to each other,” she
remembers. “Because he was 65, and I
was 55.”
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Mrs. Wansley Bramblett is Band
Booster Club Concert Chairman, and,
along with her committee, has taken
care of the many details connected with
such a production. Floral decoration will
be by Lanierland Florist, and many
people are combining efforts to assure
that this year’s program will be one of
the most, outstanding yet.
The Flash of Crimson recently
returned from Walt Disney World in
Orlando where they presented a concert
There followed 18 years of happy
married life. “I never saw him until the
night before we married,” she will tell
you. “He came to Forsyth County and he
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and participated in the famous parade
down Main Street on Saturday April 27.
Most of the Flash of Crimson Alumni
and many out-of-town guests, as well as
parents, friends and music fans from
throughout the county are expected to
attend Friday night’s musical offering
when the Flash of Crimson presents
“The Seventh Time Around” at 8 p.m. in
Forsyth County High School’s gym.
Tickets are available in advance from
band members, or at the door on the
evening of the performance.
with another. The next day we went to
the preacher, and then came on home.”
“Mr. Martin” was a good yeoman for
Miss Pearl’s inheritance. “He grew the
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 1974
Smith Advocates
School Tax Change
Building Permits issued by the
Cumming-Forsyth Building and Zoning
Office showed a slight drop for the month
of April in comparison with the same
month a year ago.
The total value of new construction
amounted to $1,450,280 in April 1974
compared to $1,458,800 in April 1973.
The drop was largely due to a decrease
in building starts for single family
dwelling units although the average
valuation of new homes increased
substantially, according to statistics
released by G.W. Blair, administrator
for the building and zoning office.
April 1974 saw 29 permits for new one
family homes and a total valuation of the
homes of $1,071,200. The same month in
Ronald D. Reeves Sr., 43, of Lilbum,
Gwinnett County, announced Wed
nesday, his candidacy for United States
Representative for the Ninth District,
the office currently held by Phil Lan
drum of Jasper.
Reeves was employed in a civilian
position by the Air Force at Dobbins
AFB in Marietta until April 27th when he
Qualifying
Dates For
Demos Set
Qualifying opens May 29 for Forsyth
County Democrats vying for local offices
in the Aug. 13 General Primary Election.
Candidates must qualify before June
12 at noon.
Four local offices will be up for grabs
in the primary. They are: County
Commission Post 1 (Cumming District);
County Commission Post 3 (Settendown
District); Board of Education Post 1
(Cumming); and Board of Education
Post 2 (Big Creek).
Telephone Booth Manufacturer
Plans On June 1 Opening Date
By VIRGINIA WOODWARD
Jack Margeson, owner of Forsyth
County’s new industrial park and of
Phillips and Brooks, Inc., manufac
turing plant on the site, said today that
his plant will be open for business on
June 1.
Margeson was in town to sign a con
tract for city water service to the plant
with city water superintendent Carroll
Buice.
The 80 acre park is located on the
Atlanta Highway, and will offer rentals
or sales for additional industries.
Phillips and Brooks occupies eight acres
adjacent to the highway.
The firm, which manufactures
telephone booths and does some contract
plastic work, has been in existence in
Chamblee since 1958 when George
Phillips and Jess Brooks formed the
corporation.
Margeson purchased 100 per cent of
the stock in 1967. He is moving the entire
operation to Forsyth County.
A native of Atlanta, Margeson was
educated in the Atlanta Schools and
received his BS degree in Industrial
Engineering from Georgia Tech in 1957.
He worked for the company for a
number of years before he purchased it.
“We will be employing some local
people,” Margeson said, but do not know
the exact number until we know how
many of our people want to make the
move with us. We have had excellent
cooperation with officials here and know
we are going to be happy in our
relationship with the people of Forsyth
County.”
Margeson said he had left some ap
Building Permits
Steady In April
Reeves Announces
For Congress Race
1973 had 51 permits issued for single
family homes with a total estimated
valuation of $1,284,000.
Other categories for April of this year
included two permits for moved houses
with a valuation of $28,100; 1 permit for
an office, valuation $4,800 ; 3 permits for
stores, valuation $107,200 ; 5 permits for
other non-residential buildings,
valuation $71,780; and 15 permits for
additions and alterations, valuation
$167,200.
Forty mobile home permits were
issued in April, according to Blair’s
office. The number includes nine in
parks and 31 in other locations. In April
1973, 46 trailer permits were issued in-
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resigned in accordance with the
provisions of the Hatch Act. “I will now
begin active campaigning for the
Congressional seat in all 23 counties of
the district. I will go to the people in their
hometowns and in their homes to ask for
their vote and support. I will cover as
much of the 6500 square miles of the
district as I possibly can to meet per
sonally as many of the people as I can”,
said Reeves.
Reeves was formerly with The Boeing
Company at Kennedy Space Center in
Florida as a design draftsman. In ad
dition to being a team member for six
Apollo launches he also designed special
equipment for the Boeing-Air Force
Minuteman Missile Program. Reeves
was laid-off by Boeing due to the cut
back in the Space Program and returned
to Gwinnett County in 1970.
Except for the six years in Florida
working on the Apollo Program, he has
been a resident of Gwinnett County since
1945. He was born in Atlanta and lived in
East Point before moving to Gwinnett.
Reeves stated that his campaign
theme, “The Dawn of a New Day,” will
be used throughout the campaign. “It
means a new day of responsible, ef-
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JACK MARGESON (RIGHT) CONTRACTS FOR CITY WATER
With Cumming Water Superintendent Carroll Buice
plication forms with Don Thompson at
the Bank of Cumming and when the
employment situation has been
evaluated, he and some of his key people
NUMBER 19
George T. Smith, candidate for
governor of Georgia, Monday told
members of the Cumming Kiwanis Club
that he advocates removal of all school
taxes from real property.
Speaking at the club meeting at the
Pioneer Restaurant, Smith said
“reduction of property taxes has number
one priority in state government.
Increased assessments in many areas of
the state are unbelievable. I would allow
the counties to put a one cent sales tax on
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Cycle Crash
Injures Two
Local Youths
A Forsyth County boy is in intensive
care with head injuries at Northside
Hospital following an accident last
Wednesday on Greenwood Dr. involving
a 1968 Pontiac station wagon and a 1974
Honda motorcycle.
The highway patrol said Joe Clinton
Ellis, 13, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
Ellis, was taken to Northside after the
Honda, operated by James C. Hensley,
son of Mr. and Mrs. James Hensley, also
13, went out of control and struck the
Pontiac, driven by Unice Estelle Brooks,
also of Forsyth County.
The Hensley boy has been dismissed
from Forsyth County Hospital where he
was treated for a broken leg. Young Ellis
was not wearing a safety helmet at the
time of the accident.
High School
Principal
Recovering
Forsyth County High School Principal
Johnny Otts suffered a minor heart
attack Thursday at the school.
Assistant Principal Harold Ham
montree said Otts is recovering at the
Forsyth County Hospital and according
to his doctors is “doing fine.”
Hammontree said Principal Otts is
expected to remain at the hospital about
two more weeks before he is allowed to
go home. He said Otts will not return to
duty for the rest of the school year which
ends late this month.
Hammontree will serve as acting
principal during the principal’s period of
recovery.
will be in Cumming for interviews.
The initial employment figure will be
25. David James of Chamblee is the plant
manager.
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