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DEDICATED TO THE PROGRESS
OF CUMMING AND FORSYTH COUNTY
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Forsyth Participates
In Training Program
Forsyth County will participate in a
manpower training program of more
than $1 million beginning with the fiscal
year July 1.
The Georgia Mountains 13-county
Manpower Training Committee met
Monday at Dahlonega and voted to
contract with the Georgia Department of
Labor and the Pioneer CEAS, composed
of school superintendants, to administer
the program.
Each of the counties will receive its
pro-rated share of the funds based on
State Crews
Begin Work
State Highway Dept, crews Monday
began marking the old Buford Road for
grading, preliminary to construction of a
new state-aid road from the city limits of
Cumming to Lanier Village Shopping
Center.
Ministers
Reassigned
Five Cumming Area United Methodist
ministers were reassigned at the recent
Georgia Conference in Atlanta, and one
new appointment was made.
The new pastor is the Rev. T. L. Kirby,
who will serve Midway Church. The
Rev. James Luke, who was the previous
pastor, was assigned as associate pastor
at Sandy Springs Church in Atlanta.
Reassignments are the Rev. Bob
Bowling, Cumming Church, the Rev.
Paul Raines, Shiloh Church; the Rev.
Stewart Jackson, Bethelview, the Rev.
Lane Stokes, New Hope and the Rev.
Gaylon Beard, Cumming Circuit.
ADDITIONAL RIGHT-OF-WAY SOUGHT
...for marina access road’s approval.
Ford Gravitt, Cumming mayor, said
the two-phase program will cost $150,000,
all in state funds, with no cost to the city.
“The city has been involved for about
two years in acquiring the rights-of
way,” Gravitt said. “We accepted the
responsibility of acquiring the rights
both in the city and county. The two
bodies will share responsibility for
relocating fences where necessary. All
preliminary engineering work has been
completed.
“We feel the construction will be
invaluable to the people of Cumming, not
only as a route to the shopping center,
but as an access road to Hwy. 19 and the
Buford Hwy."
The county is negotiating with the
state for construction of a traffic light at
the Buford Hwy. and 19.
At most points, the right-of-way will be
80 feet. Gravitt said that in some cases
where the road came too close to existing
buildings, the state has approved a 60-
foot right-of-way. Work is expected to
begin within a few weeks.
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BALD RIDGE MARINA AWAITS
...approval of multi-million expansion.
population and need.
Employment on public works will be
furnished to out-of-school and in-school
youths. Adult training programs will be
available for the unemployed and the
under-employed.
An important part of the program will
be job skill training through vocational
schools, to provide trained labor in any
specific industrial needs, such as new
industries moving into an area.
Dr. John Owens of North Georgia
College is chairman of the committee.
County commissioners will continue
an attempt to secure rights-of-way for an
access road from the 400 interchange to
Bald Ridge Marina, a construction job
estimated at $345,000, with no cost to
taxpayers of Forsyth County.
Thursday the commissioners met in a
special session and worked out
acquisition of a 60-foot right-of-way on
the eight-tenths of a mile stretch.
However, Monday they were informed
by Don Nicholson of the Georgia
Mountain Planning and Development
District, that the State Highway
Department will not approve the road
Four Additional
Candidates Offer
Four additional candidates for public
office qualified before the noon dateline
last Wednesday.
Two men, J. Lanier Bannister, the
incumbent, and Joel Webb, businessman
and farmer, tossed their hats into the
ring for Post 1, county board of com
missioners.
Johnny Stone, an insurance agent, and
Edsel Orr, a farmer, qualified for Posts 1
and 2, respectively, on the Forsyth
County board of education.
Webb is also president of the Cumming
Special Court Session Opens Monday
Two cases are on the docket for a
special session of Superior Court start
ing Monday. They are the State versus
Carl Turner, two counts, and the State
versus Forsyth County Sheriff Donald
Pirkle, eleven counts.
A third case, the State versus R. L.
Garrett, who was charged with
burglary, was on the docket, but Garrett
escaped from the Cherokee County jail,
where he was being held.
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Development Co. Bannister is in the
insurance business.
Also seeking office are Dayton Allen,
Post 1, board of commissioners; Kermit
Karr and J. Garston Green, Post 3,
board of commissioners; E. Harold
Glover, Post 1, school board; and Dow
Vaughn Sr., Post 2, school board.
In addition, ten men are seeking the
office of member of the Forsyth County
Democratic Executive Committee.
Bannister is secretary of the committee.
A decision by Superior Court Judge
Marion T. Pope on motions to dismiss
the 11 criminal indictments against
Pirkle by the defense attorney is pen
ding.
Pirkle is facing ten theft charges,
stemming from paychecks issued to a
man whose brother was serving time in
jail, and allowing a prisoner to escape,
based on the release of Jimmy Dean
Hester from county jail while he was
SURVEYORS, ENGINEERS PLAN GRADING
...for new road from city limits to Hwy. 19.
Bald Ridge Marina
Plans Expansion
Approval of a multi-million dollar
expansion program for the Bald Ridge
Marina is pending with the U. S. Corps of
Engineers. If approved, work on the first
phase, improvement of dock facilities, is
slated to begin immediately.
Carol Avery, the Marina secretary,
said that all changes on government
owned land, even cutting a tree, must be
approved by the Corps.
The expansion program, scheduled for
completion in three to five years,
provides for a Marina Museum, a con
vention center, a skating and ice skating
without rights-of-way of 100 feet.
A 70 per cent grant from the
Appalachian Access Roads program
would go into the construction, matched
by 30 per cent in state funds. The road,
which is the most heavily traveled in the
county, would be straightened where
there are hazardous curves, and
widened. The existing road is on a 40-foot
right of way.
Leading directly to the Bald Ridge
Marina, it is traveled yearly by
thousands of cars, many of them pulling
boats and trailers.
rink and fun center, a restaurant, a
cottage area, a ship’s store built over the
water, and a youth camp where water
front safety would be stressed.
The Marina, second largest on Lake
Lanier, is on 45 land acres of government
property, all of which lies within Forsyth
County. A percentage of funds derived
from concessions is paid to the Corps,
which returns a part to the county. In
addition, the Marina pays personal
property tax on its inventory, a bill
which amounted to more than $3,000 last
year.
“In 1973,” Mrs. Avery said, “over
200,000 visitors came to Bald Ridge. With
the expansion program, we can expect
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THE NEWS
Voter R egistration Closes Friday
The final day for voter’s registration in
Forsyth County is Friday, 8.8. Wallace,
ordinary, reminds residents today.
Persons who are 18 or over should go to
the board of registrars’ office in the
courthouse. There is no residency
July 4th Parade Plans Complete
The Forsyth County Steam Engine
Association met Monday at the Pioneer
Restaurant. Donald Long, president,
said plans were completed for the
Fourth of July Parade, which will start
Chamber Joins Industrial Group
The Cumming Chamber of Commerce
has been accepted into membership in
the Georgia Industrial Developers
Association, and the executive director,
Ken Cree, and other members will at
tend the meeting to be held July 8 at the
held in connection with the courthouse
fire.
Hester was later convicted of arson
and sentenced to two 10-year terms in
prison.
Turner has two charges against him,
hindering the punishment of a criminal
and transporting Hester to Gainesville,
where he was interviewed by a radio
commentator. Both charges were
brought in March.
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up to 500,000 within three years.”
At the present time, the Marina has 600
docking slips, most of them covered.
Boats up to 58 feet can be docked. Parts
and services are offered, and there is
also a public launching pad, which is
free, Also included are a houseboat
dealership and a ship’s store that sells
casual clothing and variety items.
“We have a payroll of 38,” Mrs. Avery
said, “and 37 are residents of Forsyth
County. We expect that number to be
increased to 150 when the expansion
program is completed. We expect a
dramatic increase in public usage when
400 is completed.”
requirement.
Forsyth County must hold this re
registration because fire destroyed the
original records. Friday will be the last
day to register to be eligible to vote in the
general primary Aug. 13.
at 10 a.m.
A picture story about the origin and
history of the steam engine parade may
be found on the inside of The News.
Georgia Power Building in Atlanta.
The association allows complete in
tegration of the industrial development
community for the state, and an op
portunity for an exchange of ideas on
industrial development problems.
Southern Bell
Asks PSC
For Rate Hike
Southern Bell Telephone Company
Friday filed a petition with the Georgia
Public Service Commission designed to
produce $81.5 million additional in
trastate gross revenues in Georgia, vice
president Jasper Dorsey announced.
Dorsey said, “Increased rates are
necessary because of increased costs of
providing service and financing required
facilities.”
Included in this is a proposal intended
to reduce the large and rapidly in
creasing volume of calls to Directory
Assistance operators for telephone
numbers and to place the bulk of the high
and increasing costs of providing this
service on customers who use it.
If the PSC approves the Directory
Assistance charge plan, this proposal
would reduce the overall gross revenue
needs to about 170 million from $81.5
million.
With a Directory Assistance charge all
regular business and residence
customer lines would cost 60 cents less
per month than if DA charges are not
approved.
This reduction in basic monthly rates
equals the estimated net savings that
Southern Bell expects from its proposed
plan of letting heavy users bear the bulk
of the cost.
“This is a stop designed to keep basic
monthly charges for telephone service
as low as possible,” Dorsey said. Also,
under the plan, each customer would be
given an allowance of three “free” calls
monthly per regular telephone line and
would be charged 20 cents each for calls
over and above this allowance.
Southern Bell estimates the large
majority of customers, under present
usage, would not have to pay any
Directory Assistance charge under its
proposal.
Directory Assistance calls from
handicapped persons, coin telephones,
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