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VOLUME LXXII NUMBER 3
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The Clemson Tigers have nothing on the Forsyth County
Bulldog fans as is evidenced by varsity cheerleader Alice
Ayres. Alice, along with the rest of the cheerleaders, many
ballplayers and fans, sported the “Dog Paw" on their cheeks
Tri-County Plaza Signs
More Stores For Center
The Tri-County Shopping Center is
alive and kicking, despite rumors to the
contrary, according to local developer
and representative of Aries White Cum
ming Ltd. Eileen White.
Mrs. White this week announced ad
ditional leitses that will be in the shopp
ing center.
She Favya Shoes, a family
shoe store) has signed a lease for a
32,000 sq. ft store. Favya Shoes features
all kinds of shoes for family and
athletes and is one of the largest shoe
chains in the U.S. It is a division of
Morse Shoes Inc. out of Canton, Mass.
Another tenant will be Tustian
“Fabric Care Center” which is a dry
cleaning shop which also specializes in
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the handling of fragile fabrics such as
furs, suedes and difficult cleaning pro
blems. In conjunction with this center
will be a laundromat section, altera
tions department and a waiting room
with carpet and color television. The
sotre will also feature a drive-up win
dow.
An attendant will be on duty at this
laundromat at all times. There are
seven such businesses in the Atlanta
area.
These will be constructed in the first
phase of the shopping center along with
already announced K-Mart and Big
Star Food Store.
Several other leases are in the pro
cess and should be signed soon, ac
when the Dogs battled South Gwinnett last Friday night. For
results of all varsity basketball games see this week’s sports
section.
cording to Mrs. White. Some of these in
clude a major drug store, book store
and card and gift shop, radio and elec-
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Residents of Forsyth County who are
eligible for the following homestead
and or school tax exemptions must
make application no later than April 1,
1980. Application forms are available at
the Tax Assessors Office or the Tax
Commissioner’s Office.
To apply for regular $2,000, exemp
tion - you must have owned and actual
ly occupied the property as your home
of residence Jan. 1, 1980. On $4,000,
homestead exemption - you must have
owned and actually occupied the pro
perty as your home of residence Jan. 1,
1980. Also, you must be 65 years of age
or older, and your Net Income together
with the income of your spouse can not
exceed $4,000, excluding Federal Old-
Age Retirement or Pension Income.
For SIO,OOO, School Exemption - you
must have owned and actually occupied
the property as your home of residence
Jan. 1,1980. Also, you must be 62 years
of Age or older with a Gross Income of
$6,000, or less from all sources. You
must reapply no later than April 1, each
year at the Tax Assessors Office.
To qualify for $25,000 Disabled
Veterans Homestead Exemption - each
disabled veteran who is a citizen and
resident of Georgia is entitled to a
$25,000 exemption on his homestead,
which he owns and which he actually
occupies as a residence and homestead.
The term “disabled veteran” as defin-
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1980 GUMMING, GA. 30130
Tax Exemption Deadlines Announced
Family Held
Hostage Here
BY JIM COSE Y
A Roswell man held a local woman
and her three teenage children hostage,
at gun point, throughout an entire night
last week in the woman’s home in the
Pine Forest Subdivision, according to
reports at the Cumming Police Depart
ment.
Records show that on Thursday
at the police department and said that
hjs wife and children were being held
against their will in their home at 202
~,fcnperial Court. Shadix told the police
jguat the man holding his family was
gillie B. Chatham of Roswell.
officers and Sheriff’s deputies
to the scene where Lt. Ricky
Buigett of the police department,
Bered the house, disarmed Chatham,
Be his pistol and arrested him. He has
. Bi charged with carrying a conceal-
Beapon and terriostic threats.
■he woman, Leila Shadix, and her
Be children were reported unharm
tfhvestigations show that on Wednes
\y Chatham, 44, and Harry Lee Kim
•ll, 56. also of Roswell, went to the
r~wdix hguse and at that time Chatham
tWeatea""d the woman and her children
-ajfi held Them at gun point throughout
the nigh^
The Ijpsband works at night in
Lithonia. The report shows that around
7:30 a.m. Thursday Chatham dozed and
Mrs. Shadix telephoned her husband at
work and told him of the situation. He
work and went to the Cumming
Police Department.
While at the residence, officers found
three vehicles that had been taken to
the Cumming address by Chatham on
Wednesday. One car was reported
stolen in Roswell, another was returned
to Billy Howell Ford in Cumming and
another was repossessed by Roswell
authorities.
It was revealed after the investiga
tion that the man holding the family
hostage knew them prior to the inci
dent.
The probation department has war
rants out on Chatham as well as the
Roswell authorities on auto theft.
He is still being held in the Forsyth
County Jail.
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BODY FOUND
On Jan. 15, records at the Forsyth
County Sheriff’s Department show that
Marc Hastings was walking along a
creek off Hwy. 369 when he came upon a
body half submerged in the water.
GBI officers and local Sheriff’s
Department authorities were called to
the scene and the woman was identified
as Carribell J. Martin, 56, Forsyth
County. The woman had been missing
from her residence since April 22 of last
year.
When she was first reported missing
local officials and state officials spent
several days combing the area and the
lake for the woman, but her body was
never discovered.
ed here in, means a disabled American
veteran of any war or armed conflict in
which any branch of the armed forces
of the United States engaged, whether
under United States command or other
wise and who is disabled due to loss, or
loss of use of both lower extremities,
such as to preclude locomotion without
the aid of braces, crutches, canes, or a
wheelchair, or blindness in both eyes,
having only light perception, plus loss
of one lower extremity together with
residuals of organic disease or injury
which so affect the functions of balance
or propulsion as to preclude locomotion
without resort to a wheelchair.
The unremarried widow and or minor
children of any such disabled veteran,
as defined herein, shall also be entitled
to an exemption of $25,000, on the
homestead so long as the unremarried
widow or minor children continue to ac
tually occupy the home as a residence
and homestead.
The unremarried widow and or minor
children will have to show evidence that
under the new definition of eligibility
the veteran husband-father was either
receiving or eligible for the exemption
at the time of his death.
The .eteran, his widow or minor
children will have to provide the Tax
Assessors Office a letter from the
Veterans Administration stating his
Crime lab reports received back by
the Sheriff’s Department reveal that
the woman died of natural causes.
The Cumming Police Department ar
rested last week Bobby Ray Coheley,
21, 510 Kelly Mill Road, and charged
him with the theft of a .32 calibre pistol
from his own home.
Three days earlier Mrs. Katie
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MARTY SPENCE IS KEEPING A DAILY CHECK ON HER ENERGY
CONSERVATION PROJECT.
Project May Lead
To Scholarship
A Forsyth County High School Junior
has embarked on a unique energy con
servation project which could be the
key to the highest award given by the
Future Homemakers of America, and a
college scholarship toward a degree in
home economics.
Marty Spence, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. James Spence of Cumming, is
now conducting a six-month, five-phase
experiment to determine the energy
consumption of electric water heaters
during different seasons, varying usage
patterns, and changing conditions, in
her attempt to win a State Degree from
FHA, the highest honor awarded by the
organization.
Marty, who serves as vice-president
of FHA’s District 111, also plans to use
this project as part of her application
for a special home economics scholar
ship offered by Georgia Power Com
pany.
“The scholarship is offered to
students who plan to major in home
economics in a Georgia college,” Marty
said, “and I hope to apply for the
scholarship next year. I can use this ac
tivity on my scholarship application,
and it will also be one of the six projects
I have to complete to compete for the
FHA State Degree.”
This particular project was sug
gested to Marty by Larry Kohn, the
disability. This will not require a trip to
Atlanta, only call and give Claim
Number to Veterans Administration
Regional Office, Atlanta, Ga., 881-1776,
between 7:45 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mondays
through Fridays, except holidays, and
request a letter be issued indicating
your qualification for this exemption.
Bring the letter to the Tax Assessors Of
fice.
Note: you do not need to reapply each
year if you continue to live in the same
Early Morning Fire
Causes Home Damage
An early morning house fire last Mon
day morning caused extensive damage
to the Benner residence on Holbrook
Road, according to Forsyth County
Volunteer Fire Department Radio
Dispatcher, Mrs. Carotene Glover.
Mrs. Glover said the fire call came
about 6:50 a.m., and firemen determin
ed the cause of the blaze due to an ex
plosion of a butane gas tank connected
to the kitchen stove inside the home.
When the gas tank exploded it caused a
rapid fire but family members at home
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Coheley had reported to the police that
her pistol was missing. The pistol was
recovered when Coheley pawned the
gun at the Cumming Pawn Shop.
Police Chief Dukas said that each
week the pawn shop gives a list of items
pawned and they are checked through
the state network to see if any of the
items have been stolen.
Member Services Representative for
Sawnee Electric Membership Corpora
tion, which serves the Cumming area.
Also consulting on the project are Mar
tha Chastain, home economics instruc
tor and FHA sponsor at Forsyth County
High School, and Dusty Rhodes,
Member Service Representative with
Oglethorpe Power Corporation, the
power supplier to Sawnee EMC.
The project involves the daily recor
ding of the amount of electricity used
by an electric water heater in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Athon Studdard,
neighbors of the Spence family. Using a
special meter installed by Sawnee
EMC, which is also supplying electrici
ty for the project at no charge, Marty
can monitor the electricity usage of the
Studdard’s water heater under the five
different conditions set up for the test,
which Marty explained.
“I think this is going to be an in
teresting project,” Marty said, “and I
know that it’s an important test for this
time, when energy conservation and ef
ficiency have become so necessary. I
appreciate all the help I’ve gotten from
Mrs. Chastain, and Sawnee EMC, and
the Studdards especially. I feel pretty
confident that I’ve got a good project
going for the State Degree and scholar
ship competitions.”
home upon which you have been receiv
ing an exemption. If you purchase and
move into another home, you must
reapply for exemption for your new
home of residence.
For further information concerning
these exemptions, contact the Forsyth
County Tax Assessors Office at 887-3159,
Monday through Friday, or stop by the
tax assessor office at the courthouse
between the hours of 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.
during the weekdays.
at the time were able to escape without
injury, firemen reported. Firemen
from Stations Three and Four were
assisted by firemen and equipment •
from Stations One, Seven and Two.
On Jan. 14, at 6:40 p.m., Station Four
volunteer firemen received a call to the
W.J. Meadows home on Howard Road.
Soot in the chimney caused smoke
damage to the home, but no major fire
damage, firemen reported.
On Jan. 20, at 6:30 p.m., Station One
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