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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 r UP ON THE ROOF TOP ...Hoyt Truelove explains solar collectors ** Ol3i«l , *™ri. FOHSYTH MillHfl ■ MCI COUNTY HIIVV9 VOLUME LXXi—NUMBER 37 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. **■ ■ ■ rr Jt yfr ’ *< P 1 ;*wpOrjffli s t * f * B; ” tX fM *- 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 U PAGES, 2 SECTIONS—2S CENTS 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. Continued on Page 2A $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- Continucd on Page 2A 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.