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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1974
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Sheriffs Trial
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gone to Lumpkin County where the
sheriff had transferred Hester and
brought him back “because it was
proper technique in investigative
procedures at that point.”
Turner said that on the night of March
3, Hester asked for his help and he
suggested the newspaper or radio. He
said Hester wanted to get his story on
tape, so took him to Maddox, whom he
had know in Cumming.
Turner said he was not in the room
when the tape, played on the station the
next day, was made. Turner added that
he had an additional reason for being
interested since his brother, Leroy, was
also an indictee in the burning.
That case was tried and resulted in a
mistrial.
Maddox said Turner called him and
told him he had new information in the
case and he told Turner to go to
Gainesville.
The next day Holcomb’s office, Judge
Pope’s office and The Forsyth County
Sheriff’s office called the radio station
which voluntarily stopped playing the
tapes on the air.
Tuesday morning Dorsey Rogers,
deputy and jailer, said that on the night
of March 3 Carl Turner of Cumming
came to the jail and informed him that
sheriff Pirkle said he could take Hester
out of the jail. “I told him I was going to
let Hester go home and clean up,”
Rogers said. “The conditions upstairs in
the jail are so bad that we did let people
go home and clean up, and Hester had
been painting.” Hester’s mother was
sick and he sometimes stayed at home at
night. I tried to get the sheriff to tell him
Jim Cosey
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Young Civic Leader of the Year for
Warner Robins. He is former president
of the Morning Optimist club there,
member of the city library board, board
of directors for the Houston County Red
Cross and has worked in Little Theatre.
Cosey is married to the former
Wynelle Posey and they have one
daughter, Valori, 7. They reside on
Canton Highway in Cumming.
Spray Wood
For Old Look
By ALICE MORRELL
Copley News Service
Vacation time is a good
time to gather many craft
items.
Two good things to pick up
while enjoying outings at the
seashore or tramping moun
tain trails are driftwood and
bits of weathered mountain
tree limbs. Driftwood will
have a rounded, sanded,
weathered patina and some
old forest wood will also have
an aged grey look. If, howev
er, you find a branch that is
well shaped but not yet aged
or greyed, here are a few sug
gestions to give a different
and interesting look to your
wood piece.
To give a glamorous look to
a bit of tree branch, lightly
spray it with gold spray paint.
The branch need not be com
pletely covered, a bit of raw
wood showing through adds to
the finished piece. To age this,
wet thoroughly by holding un
der a strong stream of water
to wash a small bit of the gold
away, then place it in the sun,
repeat this process until the
sun and water turn the wood
grey color and the gold turns
green in spots.
To grey a brown branch,
mix white acrylic paint with
water until you have the con
sistency of milk, paint the en
tire branch, then wipe as
much white away as you like;
the wiping may leave a milky
white wood, or you may wipe
until the white remains only in
the cracks and crevices of the
wood, thus giving your branch
an old, weathered look.
For smooth pieces try sand
ing lightly and then rubbing
with paste wax or shoe polish,
depending on the color de
sired; rubbing the wax with
your hands gives a lovely
satin finish.
A Manzanita branch stuck
in a potted fern adds a differ
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what Turner said, but I never could find
him.”
Rogers said he went to bed, and did not
see when Hester came back. Questioned
concerning a period when Hester was
taken to Lumpkin County for greater
security by sheriff Pirkle, Rogers said
he did not know who brought him back to
Forsyth County. “A few days after he
returned,” Rogers said, “Mr. Keenan of
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation told
me to take it easy on Jimmy Dean.”
Edward Couch, another deputy, said
he saw Hester cleaning around the jail
from 8 p.m. until Couch left at 10:30. He
said that when he came back in at about
2:30 a.m. March 4 another deputy put
Hester in the jail upstairs.
Gerald Bums testified Monday that he
worked a part of one night after being
placed on the payroll Dec. 1, 1972. He
said his brother had been operating the
radio while being held as a witness in the
trial of Bobby Jones, for car theft, then
pending, and that he continued to do so.
Gerald Bums said he never received a
check from the sheriff’s office but told
his brother that “since you are doing it
anyway, endorse the checks and sign
them.” He instructed his brother to tell
the sheriff that he (Gerald) did not want
the job.
In conflicting testimony, Earl Bums
alternately said that he did tell the
sheriff before he cashed the first sheck,
and that he never told the sheriff. He said
he or his wife endorsed the checks until
April, 1973.
Earl Bums was brought back to
Forsyth County the diagnostic center,
Dept, of Corrections, at Jackson, where
he was serving time for car theft, to
await the Jones trial. In April he was
paroled by Jackson authorities and on
his release from jail was put on the
payroll as a radio dispatcher. He has
since quit and now drives a track.
Judge Pope ruled against a move by
Pirkle’s attorney, Bill Garrett, to insert
photographs of the jail into the record as
evidence for the respondent, saying they
were not pertinent to the case.
At presstime late Tuesday afternoon,
the trial was still being held in Cum
ming.
ent shape and texture that en
hances the beauty of the
plant.
Driftwood and bits of tree
branch make lovely wall
plaques, mounted alone on a
board or try glueing on
straw flowers.
You might like to make a
plaque using a treated branch
and making baker’s dough
owls; make several and glue
to the branch after it’s
mounted on your plaque.
Wood and clay are a lovely
combination use the wood
as a hanger to hold a collec
tion of clay wind chimes. Bore
holes in driftwood, then tie
plastic fishing line to the wind
chimes and tie the other end
through the holes in the drift
wood. It you are at the beach
this summer collect sea shells
and use them as wind chimes
in your driftwood piece.
I have nailed dead branches
to my garden fence as a trellis
for the morning glories; they
really love to twine around the
branches and my old dead
limb seems to bloom again.
If in your wanderings you
find an old, hollowed-out log,
bring it home and plant it with
petunias and moss.
One nice thing about
gathering dead sticks in the
forest, they are a fire hazard,
so in cleaning up the forest
floor you are helping the natu
ral environment and destroy
ing nothing that lives.
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Births
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Burton
of 204 Oakwood Dr. announce
the birth of a son, Jason Keith,
June 11 at Hall City Hospital in
Gainesville. The mother is the
former Linda Childers,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Benson Childers of 225 Kelly
Rd.
Paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Burton of
206 Oakwood Dr., Cumming.
The baby has an eight-year
old brother, Jeffrey Scott.
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How do Georgia’s wholesome vege
tables get from the farm to your family?
With help from a lot of workers—
planting, cultivating, harvesting. Then
processing, canning, freezing. De-
livering to warehouses and your
local grocery store.
And using a lot of electricity along
the way.
Electricity makes many jobs pos- /
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Keeping food coming and
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County
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present at the meeting started offering
comments from the floor, along with city
and county officials.
Finally Commissioner Sosebee made
the motion to put somebody at the dump
to watch it and protect it from would be
vandals and also to keep out-of-county
people from using the facility.
# The motion received a second and
passed unanimously to hire the new man
and to also see if there is some kind of
state or federal grant available for
assistance in setting up and keeping up a
sanitary landfill.
Following the meeting, Chairman
Hamby asked who is directly in charge
of the landfill. He said that it has always
been a joint effort between the city and
the county and nothing is written down
as to who is in charge.
In other action at the commission
table, board member Bannister
presented a list of supplies being
requested by the Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Department.
The list contained 15 items but Ban
nister pointed out that he felt only four
items on the list were necessary at the
present time. Bannister made a motion
that the county purchase eight, five
pound fire extinguishers, four heavy
duty pry bars, eight heavy wool blankets
and eight first aid kits. The motion was
unanimously approved.
After the meeting, a delegation from
the Sheriff’s Department told a Forsyth
County News reporter that Bannister
had personally promised them he would
obtain all of the items on the list if it were
signed by Sheriff B. Donald Pirkle. The
delegation of sheriff’s deputies were
upset that only four of the 15 items on the
list were presented for approval.
Other action included the approval for
County Engineer Roy Hobbs to advertise
for bids on eight inch pipe needed at the
sanitary landfill. Hobbs said if all goes
well, it will take two to three weeks to get
the pipe installed and in operation at the
site.
A new water fountain was approved
for the county courthouse after being
requested by county employees.
Chairman Hamby instructed that prices
would be checked locally concerning the
installation.
ELECT
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Glover
BOARD OF EDUCATION
CUMMING DISTRICT
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Area Tech
Graduates
Two area students are
among the 841 graduates at
Georgia Tech. The institute’s
103rd commencement was
June 5 with Rep. Andrew
Young of Georgia’s Fifth
District as speaker.
Roger Howell Millwood of
Rt. 2, Gainesville, was
awarded a B.S. degree in
applied biology.
Tony W. Stewart of Cum
ming, Rt. 4, received his
Bachelor Degree in Civil
Engineering.
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costly construction. In 1974, a total of
nearly SSOO million of such outside
investments will be required. In fact,
for every dollar earned last
year, about $8 must be invested
this year.
That’s why earnings must be
maintained at a sufficient level
to attract the necessary money.
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Modern Ranch Brick & Cedar 4BR. 4BAhome on Lake Lanier. Has entry, liv-din
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Gentle sloping wooded one acre lot with 3BR permanent home. 125' on lake, private
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Quality home of Brick & Cedar-4 BR, 2Vj BA, liv & din comb, den-klt-breakfast
area with f'place, double carport, cent heat & air, fully carpeted. On large wooded
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LOTS
Good lake lot, wooded on good water. Very very gentle slope, 117 ft. wide at
building line and suitable for most any type of house, Nice beach area for the
children.
2 adjoining lots, heavily wooded, deep water, on Lanier. Unrestricted area.
$25,000.00 Owner will finance.
Almost level lake lot with 164 ft on Lanier. Heavily wooded. $16,000.00
Lake Lot with nice view. Lots of Hardwoods. Mobile homes allowed.
105 ft. on Lanier. $9,500.00
220 ft. Road frontage-A very good buy at only $8,800.00
ACREAGE
HALL COUNTY-Lake acreage, over 2000 ft. of waterfrontage. Paved road fron
tage-mostly Hardwoods. Approx. 19 acres. Owner will finance.
3.5 Acres off Pilgrim Mill Road-$17,500.00
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54V4 Acres-Forsyth County excellent location, close to city water, gentle wooded
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19 Acres with nice farm land, chicken houses and concrete block house.
4'/2 Acres with double wide mobile home, 3BR, 2 BA, boat dock, well and septic
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On Dean’s List
Two Cumming students are
included on the Dean’s List
for the 1974 spring quarter at
Gainesville Junior College.
They are Phyllis D. Case of
Rt. 6 and Melinda E.
Holbrook, also of Rt. 6.
Miss Helen Joy Crockett,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leigh Allison Crockett of Rt. 2,
Cumming, a junior in the
school of education at Bobby
Jones University in Green
ville, S.C., is one of 35 Georgia
students included on the
Dean’s List.
Bob Jones University is a
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