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‘Night’ Fun
The Forsyth County High School
Spanish Club recently held a “Spanish
Night” featuring a real Spanish dinner
followed by games. Above, Margaret
Rood and David Moseman are shown
tasting the South of the Border dishes
and Tim Rollins (at right) has the re
mains of a pinata over his head. The
special evening was organized by
Beverly Warinner and held at the First
Baptist Church.
Local Residents To Receive
‘BO Census Forms On Friday
Your household, and all others in the
area will receive something in the mail
this Friday - a questionnaire from the
U.S. Bureau of the Census for the 1980
Census of Population and Housing.
Edwin Embry of Gainesville, district
manager of the census for this area,
urges that everyone watch for the large
white envelope with blue lettering. The
census questionnaire will be delivered
to your address, not on the basis of
name. Below the address will be a
telephone number to call if help is need
ed in answering any questions. With the
questionnaire will be a yellow instruc
Jeff Scully Plans Hike
From Mexico To Canada
BY CATHY PUCKETT
Staff Writer
Jeff Scully has done his share of
hiking and back packing, but he and
a friend from Hall County are depar
ting on what they consider, “the trip
of a lifetime.”
Scully and Mike Taylor of
Gainesville, left recently for a 2,650
mile back-packing expedition from
the Mexican Border to the Canadian
Border by way of the Pacific Crest
Trail.
Anticipating the trip will take
them about six months to complete,
they are allowing themselves some
extra time to take in points of in
terest along the way. Prospective
“side trips” will include hiking to
certain areas to climb Mt. Whitney,
Mt. Hood, Mt. Adams and Mt. Lyell.
Scully has always considered
himself an adventurous out
doorsman, since his earlier days as
a Boy Scout and Eagle Scout. His
father, James E. Scully, served as a
Scout Master in Cumming for 13
years and passed along his love for
the outdoors to his son. The adven
turous mountain climber says his
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tion guide that gives exa les on how to
fill it out, and a brown pre-addressed,
postage-paid envelope for mailing it
back.
The 1980 census symbol - a pencil in
cribed “April 1” filling in the zero of
“Census ‘80” - appears on the envelope
with this message: “This envelope con
tains your official census form. Please
fill it out and mail it back on Tuesday,
April 1.”
Embry asks that you pay particular
attention to this message, because
April 1 is Census Day, the day of the of
ficial count of the U.S. population. That
folks aren’t real sure they can take
not seeing him for six months, but
they have always been very sup
portive of his hiking adventures.
Scully and Taylor have been on
rock climbing adventures, and last
year took a trip to California, but
this is the first trip of such great
“magnitude " they have ever at
tempted.
The trip will mean a great ex
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perience of exploring new country,
studying wildlife, hiking, and taking
lots of photos for the family picture
album.
Provisions will include mostly
freeze-dried ready prepared foods,
but arrangements have been made
at “23 drop stations” for their
parents to mail them food supplies
and of course, letters from home.
The adventurous duo left Atlanta by
bus to go to San Diego, where they
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is why it is essential that every ques
tionnaire lists all persons in the
household on that day, and does not list
anyone who moved away or died a day
or so before, but does include anyone
who just moved in, or a baby born on
that day. The mother and baby are to be
listed even if they are in the hospital.
The manager suggests that filling out
the census form be made a family pro
ject, with everyone supplying the cor
rect information about themselves. And
be sure to mark your answers with a
black lead pencil, so if you make a
mistake, you can erase it.
will begin their trek up the moun
tainous trail.
Scully explained back-packers
should carry packs that weigh no
more than one-third their body
weight, but because of the extended
distance of the planned trip, his pack
will weigh about one-half his body
weight. “The first 600 miles of the
trip will be very arid, and we’ll have
to carry at least one gallon of water
each, which will add an extra 10-
pounds weight to our packs.”
Taking baths won’t be any pro
blem, even if there isn’t a nearby
creek, Scully said, “we’ll heat our
water pouches in the sun and just
pour them over our head.”
Relating the only “real danger” of
such a trip is loss of body heat or
hypothermia, Scully said. “People
have the idea you only get hypother
mia in real cold weather, but most
times it happens in weather 30 to 50
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 26,1980 - CUMMING, GA. 30130
Two Commissioners
Walk Out Of Meeting
BY JIM COSEY
Editor
Two Forsyth County commissioners
walked out of a called, executive ses
* sion Monday afternoon, both relating
feelings that they didn’t agree with cer
tain discussions going on behind the
H|tacks of the press.”
{Commissioners Harrison Tallant and
Garland Barron left the meeting when
Chairman Bill Barnett called for the ex
ecutive session.
The session was called near the end of
thd meeting. On the pre-printed agenda
W as an item to be discussed, “Discus
gifjjji of personnel for Probate Judge’s
Office.” When the meeting reached that
point, Chairman Barnett called for an
i esecu£* ve session to discuss the issue.
. a break was called and then the two
coinpUssioners left the meeting room.
Commissioner Barron said outside the
roo: &> “I won’t have any part of any
discussion to discuss the taxpayers’
mo ney behind closed doors! ”
Fallowing the executive session,
Chairman Barnett reported to this
reporter that even though the two com
missioners had left, there remained a
quorum of three. He said the commis
sioners voted to reinstate a position in
thjf Probate Judge’s office. This posi
tion had previously been filled under a
federal CETA program but that ran out
in January and at that time the com
missioqers voted not to take over the
| salary .
Since that time the commissioners
have met, in executive session, to
discuss the matter. Probate Judge
Joyce Hawkins was reported to have
reasoned with the commissioners that
the second fulltime position was badly
needed to carry on the functions of the
office.
Last Monday the board finally called
a halt to the controversy and voted that
the county take over the salary of the
second person’s salary in the Probate
Judge’s office. The vote was recorded
as effective Jan. 25, 1980, when the
CETA program ran out.
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In other business Monday, County At
torney Ken VanderHoff told the board
tbat there was a new law on the books,
effective Jan. 1, 1980 stating that all
mobile homes must be assessed the
same manner as motor vehicles.
Before, if a mobile home owner
qualified for homestead or the mobile
home was on personal property, the
owner went to the tax assessor’s office
to pay taxes. Now, they must go to the
tax commissioner for a decal and a per
mit.
VanderHoff told the board that the
law states that these taxes must be paid
by April 1, but he recommended that
since the mobile home owners had not
been notified, that the county waive the
interest and penalty provided by law
until June 1.
Chairman Barnett added, “I don’t
think it’s right to start a penalty and in
terest since the owners weren’t notified
before.”
Commissioner Tallant replied, “It
won’t cost the mobile home owner any
more money, but it will make sure that
they pay their share of the taxes. He
made a motion to waive the penalty and
interest fees if the taxes aren’t paid un
til June 1. The motion was unanimous.
The commissioners opened bids for
degrees. If you get your clothes wet,
and the wind is blowing hard, it can
easily drain your body of natural
body heat.”
The biggest worry of taking an ex
tended hiking trip is “your feet,”
Scully said! “I read in a book, you
usually wear out a pair of socks
about every 120 miles, so we’ll be
carrying extra socks and stopping
along the way in a town somewhere
to get our boots resoled.”
The trek from the southern border
of the United States to the northern
border was first completed in 1973,
but in 1975, some 200 mountain clim
bing hikers set out for the trip, but
only 27 braved the elements to com
plete the long journey.
Both Scully and Taylor are
students at Gainesville Junior Col
lege. Scully plans to continue his
education at a university studying
wildlife biology.
The adventurous pair can’t be ab
solutely positive they will suc
cessfully complete their journey as
planned, but a “Good Luck” button,
a gift from their school friends is
very reassuring.
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the resurfacing of Turner Road, Mary
Alice Park Road and Mathis Airport
Road. The low bidder was Johnson Pav
ing of Norcross with a bid of $102,610.
This will be done under a state contract.
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QB And Princess
June Jones, quarterback for The Atlanta Falcons, was on hand last Saturday for
the Optimist Club’s “Jump-A-Thon” for the Heart Fund. Jones is shown talking to
Kayce Williams of Cumming, the Georgia state Heart Princess.
City Raises Its
Water Rates
BY JIM COSEY
The Cumming Mayor and City Coun
cil last week raised their water rates
for local consumers in order to be able
to pay for the construction of a new
water and sewer project, plus to meet
the spiraling costs of utilities.
Mayor Ford Gravitt pointed out, “We
need to instigate new water rates to pay
the FmHA loan the city made for water
improvements.” He said the new rates
will bring in some SIIO,OOO additional
revenue to the city but stated that
SBO,OOO is already spoken for by the
FmHA and the city bond increase. The
other revenue will go toward increased
utility costs and maintenance.
The new rates will be: inside city
limits up to 48,000 gallons, $1 per thou
sand gallons; outside city limits up to
48,000 gallons, $1.50 per thousand
gallons; inside city limits, 48,000 to
450,000 gallons, 80 cents per thousand
gallons; outside city limits, 48,000 to
450,000 gallons, $1.20 per thousand
gallons; and 450,000 gallons and up, in
side city limits, 70 cents per thousand
gallons; outside city limits, 450,000
gallons and up, $1.05 per thousand
gallons.
The old rates were: inside city limits
up to 48,000 gallons, 58 cents per thou
sand gallons and outside city limits 87
cents per thousand gallons; inside city
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Jeff Scully has read several books researching the Pacific Crest Trail, and is look
ing forward to his back-packing journey as a “real challenge and adventure.” He
plans to complete the 2,650 mile trip, and return to Forsyth County in September.
Camping, hiking and back-packing isn’t a new adventure for him, as he has en
joyed the great outdoors all his life as a scout, and was an Eagle Scout at the age of
13. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Scully were boy and girl scout leaders for several
years, and he has accompanied them on numerous camping outings all his life.
The board rescheduled their next
regular scheduled meeting from April
14 to April 16, since the commissioners
will be at a county convention at Jekyll
Island.
limits 48,000 to 450,000 gallons, 55 cents
per thousand gallons and outside city
limits, 83 cents per thousand gallons;
and inside city limits, 450,000 gallons
and up, 53 cents per thousand and out
side city limits 80 cents per thousand
gallons.
The average household uses around
6,000 gallons of water per month, ac
cording to records.
The council pointed out that the elder
citizens will still get their break of one
half of the minimum.
The new rates will be effective with
the next billing date. The vote was
unanimous on raising the rates.
In other business the council set up a
committee of Councilmen Ralph Perry
and Quincy Holton to discuss with local
contractors what needs to be done to
repair the roof at the city hall. It was
reported that the roof has been leaking
in the clerk’s office, lobby, police
department and fire hall. The city hall
was constructed in 1973.
The committee will report back at the
next meeting so that bids can be sought
to repair the leaking roof.
The city council voted unanimously to
retire the police badge of recently
deceased Assistant Police Chief Bonnie
Bennett. Bennett had served in local
law enforcement for some 27 years and
his badge, 101, will now be retired.