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City Approves
Chamber Post
The Cumming City Council agreed to
fund 10 percent of the salary of an
executive director for the Cumming-
Forsyth County of Commerce last
week.
The city’s participation is contingent
on Forsyth County’s agreeing to pay the
rest.
Councilman Charles Welch, who is
also president of the chamber, said a
committee of city, county and chamber
representatives would be formed to find
an executive director and determine a
salary.
City Passes
Resolution
For Solon
The Cumming City Council followed
suit with Forsyth County, the Cum
ming-Forsyth County Chamber of Com
merce and the local Republican Party
Tuesday night when it passed a resolu
tion asking for a separate General
Assembly representative for the
county.
The language of the resolution is
similar to ones passed by the county
commissioners and the chamber of
commerce. It praises representatives
Joe T. Wood, Bobby Lawson and Jerry
Jackson, but says Forsyth still needs its
own representative to adequately speak
for its people.
The resolutions the city’s among
them will be presented at a hearing
to be held in Gainesville on Tuesday,
May 26, about reapportionment of the
legislature. By law, Georgia must reap
protion the districts of state Senate and
House members every 10 years on the
basis of the federal census.
According to the 1980 census, Forsyth
will not have quite enough people to
form an independent House district, so
the resolutions all ask that Forsyth be
combined with some smaller area that
Forsyth County voters would out
number to make a separate district.
The General Assembly will hold a
special session this summer to decide
on new district lines.
Mayor Ford Gravitt commended
Wood, Lawson and Jackson and said
the resolution had their endorsement.
Councilmen Quincy Holton and Ralph
Perry recommended the city council
meet with representatives of Tyson
Foods to find a solution to damage on
Tolbert Street and Kelly Mill Road
caused by loaded flatbed poultry
trucks.
Holton and Perry were appointed to
study the situation after the council
learned of the damage at the April
meeting.
Perry and Holton also recommended
widening both streets and consulting
with the state Department of Transpor
tation. Holton suggested the city and
Tysons’ might cut a new road for poul
try trucks which would enter Castle
berry Road near the city sewerage
oxidation ponds. The rear entrance to
the Forsyth County Hospital, presently
a narrow alley that opens on Kelly Mill
Road, should also be widened, the coun
cilmen said.
Mayor Gravitt said he would set up a
meeting with Tysons’ to discuss the
problem.
Forsyth Man
Faces Charge
On Pill Sale
Forsyth County Sheriff’s investiga
tors arrested a Forsyth County man
late last Tuesday and charged him with
the sale and possession of suspected
amphetamine pills.
According to Sheriff Wesley Walra
ven, an undercover officer purchased
approximately 50 suspected ampheta
mine pills at the North Georgia Ren
dering Plant from a suspect identified
as James Robert Simonds, 40, an em
ployee at the plant.
SimnnHs was arrested at the scene
and a search of his personal locker
revealed approximately 2,500 pills sus
pected to be amphetamines, the sheriff
said. Also confiscated was more than
$2,200 in cash, the sheriff added.
Sheriff Walraven said Simonds has
been charged with one count of selling
and numerous counts of possession of
suspected controlled drugs.
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Mayor Ford Gravitt said the exec
utive director’s job had been done in the
past by a volunteer who was paid ex
penses, but “it has become very diffi
cult to keep someone in this kind of
arrangement,” he said. Because of this,
he recommended Cumming and For
syth County jointly pay a professional
executive director. “This is a great
move on the chamber’s part,” he said.
“We feel Cumming and Forsyth
County have got to support our cham
ber, or our chamber will cease to ex
ist.”
New industries would depend on the
chamber, the mayor said. “We need
someone who is capable of showing
them an area they would be interested
in.... I feel Cumming should support an
executive director.”
Welch said the Forsyth County Board
of Commissioners would probably act
on the matter at their May 26 meeting.
Welch also said Forsyth County is
growing so rapidly that the chamber
needed a full-time executive director to
run it. He said he simply did not have
the time to devote to it.
The mayor added Forsyth County
would probably be one of the fastest
growing areas in the state in the future,
and the growth that has occurred in the
past is just a sample of what will come
in the future.
High School Principal Post Offered
By LANE GARDNER CAMP
Staff Editor
About 50 persons were in attendance
at the May meeting of the Forsyth
County Board of Education last week
when a principal for Forsyth County
High School for the 1981-1982 year was
named.
Forsyth School Supt. B.M. “Bud”
Amsler announced that Dr. G.L. Echols
of Eastman has been offered the princi
palship at the county’s only high school,
but has not officially accepted.
Supt. Amsler explained after the
meeting that details of the employment
contract must still be worked out.
Dr. Echols, according to Amsler, is
currently principal of Dodge County
High School, a position he has held
Water Bids Here
Are Under Estimate
By JAY JORDAN
News Editor
The Cumming-Forsyth County Water
and Sewerage Authority may be able
to lay water lines in south Forsyth
County for well under the engineer’s
estimated cost.
The apparent low bid of $363,460.40 by
Romines Contracting Co. of McDonald,
Tenn. was less than the estimated cost
of over $425,000.
No decision was made on which of 14
bids to accept at the opening on Thurs
day, May 21. Joseph E. Bork, a vice
president of Hensley-Schmidt, the au
thority’s consulting engineers, said
only that he would study the bids and
make a recommendation to the author
ity.
The contractors bid on schedules I, II
and 111 and on an additive alternate.
Schedule I involves laying an eight
inch water line from the comer of Old
Atlanta and Pendley roads down Old
Atlanta Road and along Brannon Road
to Georgia Highway 141. This route
would enable the authority to by-pass
the expensive crossing of Georgia High
way 400.
Schedule II involves laying water
lines down Highway 141 and Old Alpha
retta Road to the industrial park.
Schedule 111 is the direct crossing of
Highway 400.
The additive alternate consists of
building a large pit and installing a
water meter in it.
Almost 300 Seniors Graduate Friday
Forsyth County High School will grad
uate approximately 300 students at
graduation ceremonies Friday, May 29,
at 8 p.m. at the school stadium.
A total of 305 seniors are eligible for
graduation, but only 294 will be going
through commencement, said Wanda
Bruce, senior class sponsor, last week.
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since 1977. Amsler said Echols has been
with the Dodge County School System
since 1971.
The school’s current principal,
Johnny Otts, was named director of
secondary education for the 1981-1982
year at the April board meeting.
In other business, the board heard
reports on the three schools now under
construction in the county.
Matt Matthews of Jacobs, Matthews
and Parker of Gainesville told the
board that a June 30 completion date
has been set for the Coal Mountain
Elementary School. He said that the
completion date is expected to be met
with work “progressing satisfactor
ily.”
An update on the North and South
The authority may or may or may not
build the meter pit. It may build one or
both of schedules I and 111. It must build
schedule 11.
The estimated cost for schedules I
and H is $425,000.
The estimated cost for schedules II
and 111 is about $357,000.
At the authority’s May meeting, Bork
estimated the authority would have
about $397,000 left after it finished work
on water and sewer lines and a water
tank under construction now.
Authority chairman Gene Patten has
supported schedules I and II because of
public pressure for water service in the
area.
The contractors bid separately on the
meter pit, and on schedules I, II and 111
together.
The lowest total bid was Romines’ at
$363,460.40.
The lowest bid for schedules I, II and
111 was for $351,834.30 by Sheriff Con
struction Co.
The lowest bid for the water meter pit
was $7,750 by Eslinger Contracting Co.
of Ringgold.
Contractors and their bids, in ascend
ing order, were:
Romines Contracting, schedules I,
II and 111 $353,660.40, additive alternate
$9,800, total $363,460.40.
John H. Pruett, $355,328.40, $9,000,
$364,328.40.
Sheriff Construction, $351,834.30,
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A large number of friends and rela
tives are expected to attend the cere
mony which usually lasts about one
hour, said Ms. Bruce.
In case of rain, the ceremony will be
held in the school gymnasium.
Forsyth School Superintendent B.M.
“Bud” Amsler will be presenting diplo
Forsyth Junior High Schools was heard
from Bob Plunkett of Lamberson, Plun
kett, Shirley and Woodall, Architects of
Atlanta. He reported that construction
of the south building was still ahead of
the north building, which has been
experiencing “rock problems.”
He said he expects to finish both
schools in time for the start of school in
August.
In still other business, the board
approved a change in the county’s Title
I reading program for the coming year,
as proposed by Curriculum Director
Betty Benson and co-coordinators of the
Title I program.
The new plan, according to Mrs.
Benson, will cost the county almost sl,-
000 ($978.16) less than it did this year.
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...peer over almost 180,000 aluminum cans
mas to each of the graduates.*
Also in attendance on the stand will
be high school principal Johnny Otts,
vocational supervisor James G. Harris
and members of the Forsyth County
Board of Education: Edsel Orr, Harold
Glover, Arthur D. Wright, Loy Crafton
Day and Ron Wood.
There are 53 honor graduates in the
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A ‘Rose’ By
The Same Name
By LANE GARDNER CAMP
Staff Writer
He grows roses. Lots of them. All
varieties and colors. The fact that his
name is Dr. Rose is merely a coin
cidence.
Dr. Irving Rose, a retired chiro
practor who has been living in Green
wood Acres in Cumming for a little
over six years, is a rose enthusiast.
To see his yard is to realize why. Dr.
Rose, as his friends call him, has
about 85 rose plants on his property:
trees, bushes and ramblers. He fig
ures he has about 15 varieties, many
of them award winners, with colors of
pink, red, yellow and white.
Just to hear the names of his varie
ties of roses conjures up visions of
their beautiful color, perfect form and
sweet scents:
Red Fountain. Oregold. White
Lightning. Eclipse. Perfume’s De
light. Medallion. Chicago Peace.
America. Double Delight. Tropi
cana... and Snow Fire.
Asked how he first got started grow
ing roses, the 86-years-young Dr. Rose
explained that, as a boy, he was small
for his age and sick a lot.
He said he was nine years old when
his family bought a house and some
land in Lake City, Mich., a town north
of Grand Rapids. His two older broth
ers went to work in his father’s potato
With this new plan, there will no
longer be any Title I reading classes
which have been available since 1974
when the county first applied for Title I
funds from the federal government.
Starting next year, instead of having
Title I reading classes, remedial read
ing needs will be met in the regular
classroom. There will be an aide in
each of the seven schools plus three
additional teachers.
Where this year there are 10 teachers
and 10 aides, next year ther will only be
10 aides, said Mrs. Benson.
Mrs. Benson told the board that the
students in the current Title I program
will not be hurt by the new arrange
ment. She said she felt the remedial
reading needs of Forsyth County’s stu-
class of 1981, said Ms. Bruce, with Dina
Echols having been named valedicto
rian and Rhonda Satterfield having
been named salutatorian.
Miss Echols will give the welcome
address at the ceremony while student
council president Dee Copelan will de
liver the main speech.
warehouse and store, but because
“Irving” was a bit frail, he was told to
spend his days at home working in the
yard and tending to the garden.
As it happened, there were some
roses on the property. But neither
“Irving” or his mother knew anything
about how to care for them.
The young Dr. Rose was destined to
learn about how to care for roses,
though. His mother’s father had been
a gardener in England before immi
grating to America and, as chance
would have it, knew much about the
flower.
Dr. Rose remembers that his
mother would tell him, “Irving, do
what Grandpa tells you.”
Apparently Dr. Rose did as he was
told because he now says, “When I left
home, I was sure I’d never have
anything to do with roses again.
“But I guess I just got scratched so
much,” he continued, “that I got it
(rose fever) in me.”
Today, after years of rose study and
growing kinds of roses all over the
country, Dr. Rose firmly states, “For
your dollars and time invested, the
rose will give you more fragrance and
beauty than any other plant in exis
tance."
Dr. Rose admits that it takes work
to grow roses, but he asks, “Is there
Continued on Page 2A
dents will be better met with the coun
ty’s own program.
She noted that with the new plan,
there will be no federal guidelines to
adhere to. She said there is also some
uncertainty about whether or not the
Title I program will continue to be
funded in future years.
No Title I teachers will be out of jobs
because of this change, assured Mrs.
Benson. She said the teachers will be
absorbed in other areas of the school
system.
The board also heard a proposal from
Mrs. Benson to next year provide serv
ices for the county’s emotionally dis
turbed students within the county
rather than transporting the students to
Continued on Page 2A
Aluminum
Cans Make
A Rainbow
By LANE GARDNER CAMP
Staff Writer
The place empty aluminum cans are
usually seen is along highways and
byways. Cans are tossed out of car
windows by people too lazy to dispose of
them in a neater way.
But here, a bunch of cans that might
normally be considered litter or trash,
create a uniform, almost pleasing ef
fect for the eye.
Art, maybe? There is a rainbow of
colors: red, blue, orange, green, pink
and yellow.
These cans, visible on the side of
Highway 19, south of Cumming, last
week were being readied for an alumi
num recycling plant.
Lawrence Heard of Cumming pur
chases the cans from anyone who
brings them by for 30 cents a pound and
then sells them to the recycling plant.
But he has to have 6,000 pounds of
aluminum to make a hual worthwhile,
according to Troy and Sadie Sams of
Cumming, who run the operation for
Heard.
It is the job of the Sams to weigh the
cans and sort through them to make
sure they’re all aluminum. Tin cans
will not do.
Inspecting the pile, which last Thurs
day was about four feet high, eight feet
wide and 45 feet long, Mrs. Sams said,
“We’ve got close to 6,000 pounds, but
not quite.
“If some of the cans weren’t flat, the
pile would be bigger.
Mr. Sams explained that there aver
ages about 30 cans to every pound,
which means that with 6,000 pounds,
there would be 180,000 cans. A lot of
liquid refreshment.
Asked what kinds of cans they’ve got
in their pile, Mrs. Sams said, “There’s
every kind you can think of. Most of
them are beer cans.’’
Both of the Sams think recycling is a
good idea because it puts money in
people’s pockets and cleans up the sides
of the roads.