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ft ‘-■A! -ft >j I r-. Jr > 4BHP ”'* w ‘Spanish ‘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 IflUp FORSYTH MflWg ,'* v ™*i county RIsVT9 >f |jy ~wr-~"mMif I 111 II ,igir V tHV , ■• *&<?** vi > ” '"*» M IF yr s^H My j§ * *sy Wr m 1 F " mi ■k i k 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 Biggest Problem: Feet 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 <I—NUMBER 12 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. H —I —h 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. 26 PAGES, 2 SECTIONS—2S CENTS 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. V J Rj - *jM j. ‘ -r • jHfflt, ■fflsSilmmM * ’k 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 i | 4 I* S'H jISBP W I Jt- r - JjM • r : iV' . w Readies For Trip 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.