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BILL MUNDAY’S CAR WILL ROLL BACKWARD OVER CREST TOWARD CAMERA
... seemingly uphill if he takes his foot off brake
Do Cars Really Roll Uphill
On Bettes' Gap Road Here?
Truly, it was the eighth wonder of the world.
Or was it?
It seems there is a place on Bettes’ Gap Road, right
next to a utility pole, where a car will roll not downhill,
but up.
A very slight incline, true, but nevertheless an ap
parent uphill grade.
It is one of those that lots of people know about. Roll
ing a car uphill is one of those things people do on Fri
day night when it isn’t quite late enough to go home.
The preferred procedure is to drive north on Bettes’
Gap Road to the intersection with Dunn Road. About
200 feet beyond Dunn Road on the right is a utility pole.
A car stopped there and placed in neutral will roll
backwards, up an apparent incline.
Curious, a reporter went to investigate. His car, too,
rolled backwards up what seemed to be a slight hill.
Was it indeed the eighth wonder of the world? Was it
a gravatational anomaly, as someone suggested? Did
this discredit 300 years of physics as we know it, prov
ing that atom bombs don’t explode and airplanes don’t
fly?
Mobile Home Fire
Claims Local Man
One of two mobile home fires an
swered by the Forsyth County Volun
teer Fire Department the week of Sept.
9-15 has left one man dead.
Homer Dean Byers, 58, died in his
trailer off Antioch Road in a fire at 1:07
a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 11. Firemen
suspect the probable cause of the fire
was faulty electrical wiring.
A mobile home on Bramblett Road,
the Bobby Mullinax residence, went up
in flames on Sept. 11 at about 10:50
p.m. Stations one, three and four an
swered the call, but found the trailer al
ready heavily engulfed in flames.
Station six responded to a house fire
on Sept. 11 at the residence of Walter T.
Brooks near the Midway community.
The Holbrook Campground Volunteer
Fire Department assisted and helped
to bring the fire under control. Smoke
damage was heavy.
The fire department also responded
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UP ON THE ROOF TOP
...Hoyt Truelove explains solar collectors
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to numerous pasture fires, woodfires
and grassfires during the week:
Saturday, Sept. 13 Station two
and the Forestry Service answered a
pasture and woods fire at 3:13 p.m. at
the Broadus Orr property on Pendley
Road. Station two put out a pasture fire
at about 4:38 near Jim Richard’s ga
rage on highway 19. Station vie handled
a brush fire off Pilgrim Mill Road at
about 8:30 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 14 Station four an
swered a grassfire on Wallace Tatum
Road at about 8:30 p.m. And stations
five and eleven responded to a woods
fire on Mill Cove Road around 2:41
p.m. The Forestry Service went in on
Monday, Sept. 15, and cut a fire break
on the site of the latter fire.
The fire department and the forestry
service are asking that all outside bur
ning be avoided. Grass and timber are
extremely dry now from the summer’s
heat.
Surveyor Bill Munday volunteered to help explain
the mystery of Bettes Gap Road.
He and a reporter went out and drove over the road
one Saturday and stopped at the utility pole. His car,
too, rolled up what seemed to be an apparent slight
slope.
Munday turned around and drove over the road from
the other direction.
Suddenly, it was all clear. He picked up the report
er’s notebook and began to draw, talking as he did so.
The sketch he produced explained the mystery.
The utility pole is between two crests on the road.
The pocket between them is shallow, but it is there.
From the northern crest to Dunn Road is a downhill
slope all the way.
At the utility pole, the pocket is so shallow as to be
non-existant.
What is there is an optical illusion. Cars don’t really
roll uphill.
It just seems like they do.
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By JAYJORDAN
News Editor
It is an ordinary new house, seem
ingly no diffemet from many others.
Hoyt Truelove’s home at the corner
of Tribble Gap Road and Georgia High
way 306 is different, though.
Perched on the roof are two solar col
lectors, looking for all the world like
frosted glass sliding doors doubling as
skylights.
Down in his basement is an ordinary
central air conditioner and heater.
Next to it is a refrigerator-sized tank
with a control panel on it. Radiating
from the tank is a web of neat and or
derly copper pipe.
The tank, Truelove explained, holds
300 gallons of hot water. A small pump
circulates a mixture of distilled water
and antifreeze through copper pipe in
the collectors, where the sun shines on
it. The mixture circulates through a
copper coil in the basement tank and
heats the water inside. The tank is well
insulated, so even on a cloudy day the
digital thermometer shows about 13S
degrees.
On a cloudy mid-September day, the
collector temperature was about 135
degrees, too. It had been as high as 190
degrees on a very hot day, Truelove ex-
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1MQ- CUMMING, GA. 30130
His Water Is Sun Heated
Metro Phone Service
Has Chamber Support
The Cumming-Forsyth County
Chamber of Commerce board of direc
tors voted to support metro Atlanta
telephone service for Cumming at its
Sept. 11 meeting.
The board also offered support to the
Forsyth County Board of Commission
ers in drawing up a land use plan for
the county. The board declined to op
pose a proposed dam on the Chattahoo
chee River and chose a committee to
find candidates to fill a vacant direc
tor’s position.
The board voted to send a letter the
same day to the Georgia Public Service
Commission saying the lack of metro
phone service had stiffled industrial de
velopment and general growth in For
syth County.
The Metro Atlanta Telephone Group,
a local citizen’s group favoring metro
service, formally applied for metro
service several years ago. Sept. 9, the
PSC promised to decide on metro serv
ice in a month.
The PSC will meet Sept. 17 to discuss
an outside consultant’s report on the
costs of providing metro service. No
one present at the chamber meeting
spoke against metro service.
Forsyth County commission chair
man Bill Barnett said the metro phone
group could not challenge the costs of
metro service because Southern Bell
and Telegraph Co. con
tr,.i»«d the basic information. What the
do is try to persuade three
o£> the^ ve public service commission
ers tonkin their favor, he said.
revealed that about 300
Foirsyth Countians are said to have
called the PSC about metro service in
response to a recent newspaper adver
tisement.
“We are being discriminated
against,” Barnett said. “This is the big
gest bunch of garbage I ever saw!”
HOMER DEAN BYERS, M, DIED IN THIS TRAILER FIRE
... in Forsyth County early Sept 11
plained.
This tank of solar-heated hot water
has been able to supply all the hot wa
ter he has needed for his family for the
three weeks he has lived in his house,
Truelove said
Carter Brings His Campaign
To Roswell Friend’s Home
By JAY JORDAN
News Editor
As part of his first official campaign
appearance in Georgia, President
Jimmy Carter spoke at a fund-raising
l dinner Monday evening at the home of
his friend Charles Kirbo near Roswell.
The President spoke briefly and then
stepped out into the crowd to shake
hands with almost all of the estimated
500 people there.
The president, Carter said, is the
most important elected official in the
world. The stronger and more prosper
ous America is, then the more the
world will benefit, Carter said. What
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Forsyth County was like a peninsula,
with much of Gwinnett County on one
Side having metro phone service and
much of Cherokee County on the other
having the same thing. Only the south
ern part of Forsyth County has metro
service.
Bell’s high cost estimates were seen
by some present as an attempt to de
feat metro phone service. Company of
ficials have actively opposed the new
service for Cumming.
The board also voted to send a letter
to the county commission offering
chamber support and volunteers in
drawing up a master land use plan for
the county.
Chamber industrial development di
rector Harry Dell said a master land
use plan would help ensure “the area
would grow gracefully and with dig
nity.”
Forsyth County is growing much
more rapidly than expected, Dell said.
This makes the need for a master land
use plan all the more important, he ex
plained. Dell said he had found 10 re-
Education Board
Applies For Funds
BY JAY JORDAN
News Editor
The Forsyth County Board of Educa
tion formally applied for up to $512,000
in state school construction funds dur
ing its Sept. 10 meeting.
School superintendent Robert Otwell
said the school system will receive
Once cold weather comes, the sun
will continue to supply Truelove with
hot water all year long.
Additionally, whenever the central
heater automatically turns on, and if
the water stored in the tank is warm
happens in the oval office will affect
the world.
As president, Carter said he makes
only the most difficult decisions. All the
other, easier ones are made below him.
Because of his Georgia background, he
can make those decisions, Carter said.
The president said he had made some
hard, but good choices. America now
has an energy policy, he said. In the
three years before he took office, oil
imports went up 44 percent. Now, they
have dropped 24 percent, he said.
Since he went into office, trade with
China has gone up. America can pro-
tired people with the time to devote to
drawing up a plan.
A land use plan would help eliminate
spot zoning, Dell said. He cited the ex
ample of a tall warehouse hindering the
future growth of nearby homes.
Chamber president Bob McGuinn
said some industry has been lost be
cause of the lack of a master plan.
Barnett said he also felt a master
plan was needed. Any plan would be
controversial and would need much
public input, he said. Dell said public
meetings could be held at each end of
the county.
The chamber decided to table a re
quest from treasurer Don Creamer
that the chamber oppose a projected
dam on the Chattahoochee River.
The dam, about six miles below Bu
ford Dam, was among several plans
discussed at a United States Corps of
Engineers public hearing in Gaines
ville recently. Corps officials said the
dam would help ensure a more con
stant level in Lake Lanier and a better
water supply for Atlanta.
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$512,000 if the 1981 General Assembly
appropriates an expected SIOO million.
Whatever amount the board receives,
it can only be used for construction, Ot
well said. Since a bond issue was ap
proved to fund school construction
recently, the board will not have to put
up any local money to receive the state
funds, Otwell explained.
To ask for the construction money,
the system had to formally apply for
the funds and establish a list of con
struction priorities, Otwell explained.
The construction priorities approved
and underway now are:
Adding six classrooms to Forsyth
County High School.
Renovating Forsyth County High
School.
Building a new elementary school.
Building a junior high school at the
north end of the county.
Building a new junior high school
at the south end of the county.
The board learned work on the reno
vation of Forsyth County High School is
nearly done. “We’re finishing up the
odds and ends,” Otwell said.
The elementary school at Coal Moun
tain is on schedule, the board learned.
Work is beginning on the sewage sys
tem.
The junior high school at the south
end of the county is a little ahead of the
one in the north, Otwell said. The north
ern school is not behind, Otwell ex
plained. The contracotr just was
putting more effort into the southern
school, he said..
The new schools being built were for
mally named by the board. The el
ementary school is now called Coal
Mountain Elementary School and the
two junior highs are called North and
South Forsyth Junior High Schools.
enough, a second small pump will cir
culate hot water through a coil in the
heating ducts while a fan blows air
over it. This will provide a substantial
supplement to the heater, Truelove ex-
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duce steel and ship it to China cheaper
than the Japanese, he said.
The future, the president concluded,
“is bright with hope.” We may “look to
the future with confidence...with more
trust, openness...so you end I together
can make this the greatest nation on
earth.”
Besides Kirbo, notables present in
cluded Gov. George Busbee, who intro
duced the president, Sens. Sam Nunn
and Herman Talmadge, and several
congressmen, including U.S. Rep. Ed
Jenkins. Former United Nations Am
bassador Andrew Young attended, as
did entertainer Carol Charming.