Newspaper Page Text
Funds Paid Jobless
e.
Continue To Increase
ATLANTA Latest fig
ures available from the
Cfjeorgia Department of La
bor show the weekly amount
paid to out-of-work
Georgians totaled $4,337,168
~ a single week rise of $93,-
203, Commissioner of Labor
S&m Caldwell said recently.
; The latest amount paid out
Fishes the total for the year
tb $135,832,284. At this same
tine last year, state labor
Ipd paid out $93,616,919 in
jobless benefits. And for all
Financing Is Holdup
For Cable-TV Here
Financing is the biggest
holdup for the availability of
cable television service in
Forsyth County, according
to Robert Tate of Lanier Ca
blevision, Inc.
It was back in March that
the Forsyth County commis
sion awarded franchise
rights to Lanier Cablevision
for the construction and op
eration of a cable television
system in the county.
Since that time, pull rights
Miss Vaughn
Is Miss Teen
Miss Nancy Lynn Vaughn,
17, of Dalton was crowned
the 1980 Miss Georgia Teen
out of a field of 100 contes
tants from throughout the
state, on Saturday, Aug. 30,
1980 at the Gainesville
Mountains Center.
Miss Vaughn is a squad
leader for the Dalton High
School majorettes and is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C.B. Vaughn of Dalton.
Among her prizes were an
SBOO cash scholarship and an
all-expenses paid trip to the
national finals in Albuquer
que, New Mexico in Novem
ber of 1980 to compete for
the national title of Miss
Teen. Among the prizes that
will be awarded to the na
Radio Station WSNE
Adds Two Newscasts
Radio Station WSNE AM
has changed its program
format and has added two
newscasts to its daily pro
gramming.
WSNE plays gospel favor
ites from sign-on until 10
a.m. and from sp.m. until
sign-off. Soft rock is played
in the middle of the day.
Two additional newscasts
have been added to the sta
Revco Discount Drug Center
Lanier Village
If
Photos by margarot Roth
FREE
ONE Bxlo PLAQUE
With Purchase Of Complete
Package
jj FREE
SPECIAL OMR
£-Bxlo Including Special slo*B
1-5x7 ONLY ,T
»****“ w.CTfI., MtflAY
SAT., SEPT. 20 11 A.M.-SP.M.
SUN., SEPT. 21 1 P.M. ■ 5 P.M.
"Specializing with the problem
child and Group photos."
Cross Photo Studio
of 1979, state labor paid out
$139.9-million.
“For 11 out of the last 14
weeks, weekly unemploy
ment insurance pay-outs
have been above the $4-mil
lion marie,” Caldwell said.
Caldwell also pointed out
that, “This is the 18th con
secutive week where 1980
weekly totals have been up
sl-miUion or more when
compared to the same week
during 1979.”
have been secured with Saw
nee EMC and suitable land
for a headend. station has
been found.
Because of difficulty in fi
nancing, though, Tate says
Lanier Cablevision is eight
or nine months behind its
original planned schedule.
He is unable to set a date for
available cable television
service.
When Tate and his part
ner, Jeff Daluskey, surveyed
tional winner are $15,000 in
scholarships and awards, a
new automobile for the
reigning year, $2,000 per
sonal appearance contract
and a $2,000 wardrobe.
All contestants partici
pating in the Georgia state
pageant had “B” or better
school grade averages.
Other winners were: Lucy
Shiver, first runner-up, Sale
City; Kay King, second run
ner-up, Calhoun; Kara Bar
nes, third runner-up,
Woodbury; and Selina
Threatte, fourth runner-up,
Claxton.
The contestants were
judged on beauty, poise, per
sonality, scholastic and civic
achievements.
tion’s programming, Music
Director Ben Black said.
They are at 2 p.m. and 3
p.m. daily. The station has
recently hired a full time
news director, Chuck
Thompson.
Black has a relatively new
show called “Musical Sa
lute,” which is on the air on
Wednesdays at 2 p.m.
One Bxlo
Color Portrait
on
NoAge
Limit m mm
Limit Om Per Sebject, Two Per Feebly
All Other Subjects $3.95 each.
Groups SI.OO Per Subject, PLUS
SI.OO FILM CHARGE.
The total number of bene
fit recipients, Caldwell
added, increased during the
week by 939, meaning
checks were paid 51,539
Georgians who were job
hunting at the end of August.
For the same week in Au
gust, 1979, checks were
mailed to 37,831 unemployed
persons, when the weekly
payout was $3,214,847.
Initial claims, a good eco
nomic indicator, Caldwell
a number of homes by tele
phone several months ago,
they found that 60 per cent
were interested in receiving
cable service.
Tate believes Forsyth
County is a good cable TV
market, even though it’s not
a big one. The fact that the
county is far enough away
from Atlanta and still pretty
much rural are its advan
tages, he says.
Lanier Cablevision is plan
ning to provide numerous
channels with varied pro
gramming, including the
three major networks, PBS,
and independent and reli
gious affiliates. In additaddi
tion, a movie/sports
package will be provided.
School Lunch Menu
Thursday, Sept 18
Chicken fried steak, rice,
carrot sticks, cantaloupe,
roll, milk.
Friday, Sept 19
Fish, hardboiled egg,
whipped potatoes, frozen
peas and carrots, peach
omm
GALLON PRICE
Regal waH Satin
Beautiful, lasting
velvety flat finish
for walls & ceilings. V q^l
Decorator colors.
HIGHER IN PRICE
Save now on
~-r*j aT? Moores quality
\ Moored / latex interior
Paints J pamt
WALLPAPER
WOOD HARDWARE
4700 Highway 19 North
Midway between Cumming and Alpharetta
475-5688
pointed out, rose by about 1,-
400 (1,409) from one week to
the next— from 12,873 to
14,282.
For the past 10 weeks, ini
tial claims statewide have
been averaging about 15,000.
At this same time last
year, initial claims stood at
9,266.
Although claims continue
to rise and payouts continue
to increase, Caldwell does
not anticipate an increase in
employer taxes.
Caldwell repeated the fact
that, “Georgia employers
will not face an increase in
employment taxes due to the
present recession. Many
other states are rapidly de
pleting their trust funds,
while others are still in debt
from the last recession. We
are fortunate here in
Georgia that we do not have
that problem.”
The trust fund is the
money used to pay unem
ployment insurance and is
paid by employers in the
form of taxes.
“Georgia has one of the
most solvent trust funds in
the nation,” Caldwell
pointed out. It stands at
$478.2-million ($478,197,356)
and is ranked the sixth
healthiest in the country.
The maximum jobless
benefit in Georgia is S9O
weekly, ranking Georgia
48th among the states in
weekly unemployment com
pensation. This state’s aver
age weekly unemployment
compensation stands at
about $79 a week.
shortcake, combread, milk.
Monday, Sept 22
Submarine sandwich,
French fries, slaw, milk,
dessert of choice.
Tuesday, Sept 23
Tacos with meat and
cheese, lettuce and tomato,
S& oWBt
MARK WEBER
...nominated
Weber Is
Nominated
For Class
Mark Weber, captain of
the 1979 Forsyth Bulldogs
and valedictorian of his
class, has been nominated to
attend the U.S. Naval Aca
demy.
Weber was nominated by
U.S. Ninth District Rep. Ed
Jenkins.
Weber enlisted in the
Navy in October, 1979. He is
now attending the Naval
Academy Preparatory
School in Newport, Rhode Is
land.
Successful completion of
the year-long school will en
able Weber to enter the aca
demy at Annapolis, Md. next
year with the class of 1985.
niblet com, Rice Krispie
treat, milk.
Wednesday, Sept. 24
Barbecue chicken, sweet
potatoes, roll, milk, green
beans, fruit cup.
Meals are subject to
change in the individual
schools.
20% OFF
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17,1980-
The E Game Detects
Early Vision Problem
Vision screening among
preschoolers is a yearround
program of the Georgia So
ciety to Prevent Blindness.
An estimated 12,000 pre
schoolers in Georgia have
vision problems.
The chief target of the
screenings is amblyopia, or
“lazy eye,” a condition in
which one eye fails to de
velop through disuse. The
society warns that a lazy eye
is usually not obvious
through appearance or
symptoms. Without treat
ment, the child who has lazy
eye can suffer permanent vi
sion loss, or even blindness
in the lazy eye.
Lazy eye must be found
and treated in the early
years— before age 6 in most
cases for therapy to be ef
fective.
The screening test, de
signed for children who
haven’t yet learned the al
pahbet, involves reading a
chart with the letter “E”
turned in different direc
tions. The child points in the
direction he sees the legs of
the E pointing. Each eye is
WOODSTOVi FACTS
AND FANTASIES
Well, folks, you can tell the heating season is approaching because the
woodstove salesmen have started blowing smoke! Don't let their smoke
get in your eyes and blind you to the facts. Here are some of their little "fan
tasies" that you soon will see and hear, side-by-side with the real facts.
***Stoves "tested to U.L. standards". Ask who did the testing! Was it
Underwriters Laboratories? Or was it the manufacturer of the stove or one
of his friends? Perhaps the testing was done by another corporation that
the stove manufacturer set up solely for the purpose of testing his own
stoves? The facts are these: If a stove has been tested by U.L. and has
passed the tests, it will have a U.L. tag firmly affixed to it proving the fact.
Ask the salesman or advertiser to show you the U.L. tag on the stove!
***Stoves with blowers versus stoves without blowers. Many salesmen
and advertisers claim that stoves with blowers will heat your entire home
but that stoves without blowers will not. Fact is that no stove blower can
blow warm air evenly all over your home as well as can the blower on your
forced-air furnace. Ants are strong but an ant can't outpull an elephant.
A stove blower may be "powerful" considering its size but any stove
blower is downright puny when compared with any furnace blower. So in
stall a "high return" and use your furnace blower! You don't have a forced
air furnace? Then install a high return and fan over the stove behind a ceil
ing grille and blow the heat through ductwork all over your home, thereby
having central forced-air wood heating! Radiant stoves heat well when the
electricity is off like during ice-storm power failures. Blower-dependent
stoves do not.
***Plate steel stoves with cast iron doors. Several manufacturers of
woodstoves made of plat steel advertise that you should buy their brand of
stove, instead of the competition's stove, because they have cast iron doors
on their stoves and cast iron is better than plate steel as stove material.
Fact is: High quality cast iron (not scrap iron) is better stove material than
so-called "stove-plate steel." Just for fun, try this question on a stove
salesman: "Since high quality cast iron is better stove material than stove
plate steel, why don't you make your entire stove out of high quality cast
iron like some manufacturers do?" Watch them "gee and haw" on that one!
***Deer Creek Woodstoves sells "cute little stoves." That's true. We do.
And cute big ones too. Also small ugly ones. And large ugly ones. And
furnaces. Boilers, also. And don't forget water heaters. Norwegian-made
ones. German, Scotch, Danish and a few others also -- not forgetting our
Canadian friends to the North, either. But most of our stoves are made in
the good old U.S.A.
Our stove of the week is Comforter, shown below. It's made in the
U.S.A. of high-quality, thick, solid cast-iron. It's a coal-burner as well as a
woodburner. We have heard it said that one fellow who owns one smiles
real big - showing all his teeth - while burning peanut hulls. We can't
swear to the truth of that statement. However, we do have a picture of his
wife standing next to it!
pEBSSS' ’>* >5
I ■ ■ II jW
hi
HI HT' \ 'iJfjsfil
CtEEK WOODSTOVES'
Henderson Place, off Pilgrim Mill Road
It. 9, Box 337, Cumming, Ga. 30130
tested separately, with the
other eye covered. The Es
get smaller toward the bot
tom of the chart.
Conditions such as near
sightedness can also cause a
child to fail the test.
To children, the test is the
Pointing E Game. To par
ents and teachers, though, it
is often the first indication of
a vision problem, and a sig
Auto and
Homeowners
Insurance
Carlton L. Bozeman
Rt. 3, 225 Chief Vann Dr.
Alpharetta, Ga. 30201
887-2177
Come to Metropolitan. Simplify your life
O Metropolitan
Property and Liability Ins. Co., Warwick; R. I.
A Subsidiary of Metropolitan Life
PAGE 9A
nal that a child should have
an eye exam. When children
fail the test, society workers
advise parents to take their
children to an opthamolog
ist, or professional doctor.
To find out more about vi
sion problems in children,
contact the Georgia Society
to Prevent Blindness at 2025
Peachtree Road N.E., At
lanta, Ga. 30309.