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We Are Proud Of
Our Local Grads
Last Friday night about 300
young Forsyth Countians past
from one part of their lives to
another they graduated from
high school.
Twelve long years of study
and work to obtain an education
was the end for some and the
beginning for others.
Local counselors say the ma
jority of our graduates will pur
sue higher education by
attending college or vocational
technical schools. There will be
a small percentage that will go
into the armed services and
another percentage that will
marry or get a job locally.
Whatever course they
choose, another segment of our
society will be filled with ambi
tious young adults beginning a
new life.
Indexing Our Tax
Brackets Needed
President Ronald Reagan’s
proposed percentage tax cuts
would have some merit if he
could balance the budget with
out letting the cuts push the
federal treasury into an even
greater deficit. Only time could
give a real clue to that.
What the country really
needs is a major revamp of tax
brackets.
Inflation allows tax revenue
increases without congress
men, governors, presidents and
state legislators having to
catch the criticism that goes
with percentage tax raises.
We won’t try to tie this to an
exact inflation figure. But sup
pose, for example, that a man
who made SIOO a week in 1967
needs $260 a week to have the
same purchasing power today
all other things, such as tax
rates being equal.
If identical tax and Social
Security rates were taken out,
this $260 might buy just as
much as SIOO did in 1967, but
that is not the case. A larger
and larger percentage of his
income has been hit for Social
Security over the years and his
tax rate has increased because
of moving into higher brackets.
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It’s easy for many of us to
take graduation for granted,
not stopping to give appropri
ate credit to those who have
worked hard to finish school
and obtain a diploma.
Forsyth County High School
is turning out a large number of
sharp, inquisative and intelli
gent young people who may
someday make their mark on
the future of this community.
Some of these graduates may
become our business leaders of
tomorrow, our local or state
officials or civic leaders. Hope
fully, there will be ample job
opportunities in this area to
keep some of them home.
We are proud of our 1981
Forsyth County High School
graduates and wish them well
in whatever area they venture.
We look to you for our future.
For income tax purposes, this
guy has gone from a bracket
covering incomes of $5,200 a
year to a bracket for $13,520,
which means the government is
taking a bigger percentage and
he has less in real spending
power left over after taxes.
Both the state and federal gov
ernments are doing this to him.
And it gets worse if the guy’s
wife has jumped from about
$4,000 to SIO,OOO. This throws
them in a $23,520 a year tax
bracket. Real big deal. Twenty
years ago, if they had made
that much, they would have
been in the country club set.
Today they might have a rough
time paying the power bill.
Gov. George Busbee had a
plan last year that would have
raised Georgia’s tax brackets.
It didn’t raise them enough, but
the idea was right. His plan got
nowhere with the legislature.
In order to save us from hav
ing to pay a rich man’s tax bill
with a poor man’s pocketbook,
both the state and federal gov
ernments need to start indexing
tax brackets so they will widen
as the cost of living goes up
without tax increases to com
plicate things further. Gwinnett
Daily News.
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Jay Jordan
Agricultural Researchers
Doing More Than You Think
One of those little odd bits of miscella
neous information I picked up and
stored away in the hope that it might be
useful was that the American com yield
per acre has doubled since the mid
19505.
About 25 years ago, a farmer who
grew 100 bushels of com per acre was
doing pretty good. Now twice that is
common in a good year, and some have
grown 300 bushels per acre.
Another thing I filed away and didn’t
think too much about was all those guys
in the white coats who measure the
effect of vitamin B 6 on zinc absorbtion
in the intestines of rats. Sure, there are
scientists out there who make experi
ments about farms, develop medicines
for hoof-and-mouth disease. Land grant
colleges, the Extension Service and all
that.
I didn’t connect the scientists and the
guys with the tractors who are growing
more.
Recently, I was given a stack of
“Agricultural Research” magazines.
They were eye-openers. Fascinating
reading. The guys in the white coats at
the experiment station at Tifton, and at
others all over the nation, do a lot more
than you might think.
They fight plant and animal diseases.
They breed cows that produce more
beef. They help farmers save energy.
Here are some things, just a few,
agricultural researchers have been
playing with that might pay off in
bigger and better farm yields, or
maybe just a better place to live.
Grass isn’t necessarily grass, at
least as far as cows are concerned. In
Julianne Boling
Robin Bowling Has Made
A Difference In Many Lives
Each time I have tried to compliment
a certain very good friend in the last
couple of weeks, she couldn’t take it and
I couldn’t make it. I am referring to
Robin Bowling, and she and her hus
band, Bob, and their three special chil
dren will be moving to Thomson, Ga.,
the 25th of June. So, instead of trying to
voice my appreciation to her in other
ways, I would like to share it with the
readers of this column.
Seven years ago I accepted the posi
tion of chairperson of the Cumming
United Methodist Church kindergarten
committee. From that time until this, I
have experienced some of the happiest
moments of my life.
Working with Robin Bowling with this
program has been a marvelous bles
sing. Watching her accomplish mira
The News Adds New Staffer, Remodels
Those who call The News office on a
regular basis may hear an unfamiliar
voice answer the phone, but it shouldn’t
be long before they recognize it as being
a regular.
Candy Adams has joined The News
staff as an office worker, handling
many duties such as circulation, taking
some classified ads, sending out
statements and sharing some typing
chores.
Candy is a southerner, having been
bom and reared in Florida, but spent a
couple of years out west in Oklahoma.
She returns south with her husband
Douglas and her 16-month old daughter,
Shawna.
Candy isn’t new to the newspaper
business, because her husband was
employed with newspapers in Florida,
working in circulation and marketing.
While we welcome Candy, we bid a
Montana, some scientists planted 75
different types of grass of similar nutri
tional value in a pasture and turned
some cows loose to eat their fill. The
cows sampled everything, but kept
coming back to certain types that were
apparently more tasty. Work is continu
ing to use the results of the experiment
to improve pastures.
Hydrilla. It’s that weedy, stringy
plant in your aquarium. It comes from
Africa, and when you pour the aquar
ium down the drain, the hydrilla is
fruitful and multiplies. It covers 25
percent of Florida’s waterways now
and in five or 10 years, if nothing is
done, it will cover 90 percent. Southern
California is in a similar fix. Everybody
who uses hydrilla-infested water stands
to loose millions of dollars in some way
or another.
The scientists are developing chemi
cals to fight it. It is hard, because the
roots are down in the bottom mud. Also,
the current will sweep any chemical
away. One promising avenue of attack
is a special fish that just loves hydrilla
for breakfast, lunch and dinner. To
make sure the fish doesn’t take over
from local species and create more
problems than it solves, it is sterile. It
cannot reproduce. The scientists grow
exactly the number they need and no
more.
Wheat rust. In 1878, this fungus
wiped out 40 percent of the nation’s
wheat crop. In 1904, a third of the wheat
in some Midwestern states died in the
fields. In 1916, 38 percent of the U.S.
crop was taken.
This finally spurred some research,
cles with young children, watching her
make plans and arrangements for a
multitude of activities, and observing
her dedication, devotion, determin
ation, dependability, and her creativity
with young boys and grils has been a
rewarding experience.
The kindergarten program enjoys a
fine reputation among school teachers,
school officials and parents. Children
who have attended the classes over the
last eight years have proven to be very
good students because of this early
training. Robin’s guidance as the
founder and director of this ministry of
the Cumming United Methodist Church
has been above and beyond the call of
duty. The fine staff she has directed has
helped make this fine reputation.
The kindergarten is not her only love.
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farewell to long-time employee Sandra
Ingram, who will be spending her sum
mer at home this year.
Sandra, who has worked part-time
for The News for the past three years, is
the wife of Robert Ingram of Ingram’s
Funeral Home.
Sandra will be missed around the
office and by customers she has
warmly greeted and helped over the
—THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS —WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 198)
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and today the wheat farmers grow is
more resistant to rust than ever before.
In 1972, conditions were favorable for
another major epidemic, but because of
continuing research, damage was lim
ited to no more than half a percent of
the U.S. crop.
Wheat rust is like the flu; each year it
is a little different, and new defenses
must be devised. If research stopped,
serious rust epidemics would begin
killing the wheat crop in five years.
Potato disease. When you can
smell rotting potatoes, it is too late.
When you have a bag in your kitchen,
you buy some more at the store. When
you have SIOO,OOO worth in a commer
cial warehouse, you are in real trouble.
But a more sensitive nose than people
have could smell the decay of potatoes
in time to do something, reasoned one
biochemist.
Hence, some study into exactly what
chemicals a decaying potato emits.
Work is underway to develop equip
ment to monitor commercial potato
storage bins.
In these days of bare-bones budgets,
low-profile, esoteric programs like re
search into how plant leaves move in
relation to the sun are likely to become
candidates to be eliminated as waste
and fraud.
But look again. Agricultural research
contributes to the general body of
knowledge about the world around us.
We should study plants just because
they are there.
But more obviously, often you can
reach out and touch— and eat the
results.
She has started Girl Scout troops, brow
nies, helped establish a group called
Compassionate Friends for parents
who have lost a child, and that isn’t all.
Robin is a multi-talented person. She
is artist, craftsman, seamstress, gor
met cook, mother, wife, and above all,
the helpmate of a very fine minister.
I appreciate her willingness to share
her talents with others, her unselfish
giving of her time to improve our
church and our community, and her
patience with the many phone calls,
disrupted meals and drop in company.
For the past 10 and a half years,
Robin Bowling has made a difference in
the lives of many children and adults.
She has made a difference in our
church and in our community. She has
made a difference in my life.
years, but it isn’t forever a goodby.
Sandra will be available as an advisor
and part-time helper when needed.
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You may have noticed some ham
mering and sawing as well as weird
odors in The News office if you have
been inside the building during the past
few weeks it’s because we’ve been
remodeling.
We’ve been undergoing some
changes here for the past month, ex
panding and utilizing our space more
effectively.
A part of the remodeling project was
to extend our hallway, adding two new
offices, one for news and the other for
advertising. After having the walls
erected and paneling put in place, the
staff joined efforts in painting the walls
and trim around the paneling.
Last week, new carpet was laid
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Is The Use
Of Sniffing
Dogs Right
There was some news out of Washing
ton recently that definitely has some
local impact. Is anyone interested?
The Supreme Court let stand last
week a lower court ruling that upheld a
search that included the frisking of
students by sniffing police dogs.
Sound familiar?
The case, out of Highland, Ind., not
Cumming, Ga., was appealed to the
Supreme Court by a 13-year-old student
and her parents who contended that an
unannounced raid on the Highland Ju
nior and Senior High Schools on March
23, 1979 “constituted an illegal drag
net.”
The Seventh U.S. Court of Appeals
affirmed the ruling of the district court
that the raid was constitutional. By
appealing to the Supreme Court, the
girl’s lawyers were again asking that
the dog searches be found illegal.
According to a story in the Atlanta
Journal on Wednesday, May 27, nearly
3,000 students at the two schools were
“subjected to mass detention for more
than two hours and general exploratory
search.”
The report said dogs were used to
“sniff” out students for possession of
any contraband. Any student singled
out by a dog was then searched.
The student who brought the suit was
apparently one of several identified by
the dogs as a possible drug suspect. But
because no drugs were immediately
found on her, she was subjected to a
strip search in the school nurse’s office.
The Journal’s story states that the
girl testified at the lower court trial that
she was “shocked and embarrassed at
being selected for repeated sniffing by
the dogs, for being required to remove
her clothing in front of strangers and
for being examined while nude.”
While the district court refused to
allow the girl to seek monetary dam
ages against school authorities, the
Court of Appeals reversed that ruling.
Even though the Supreme Court
found that the dog searches were not
illegal, there was one dissenting justice
whose comments are worth noting.
In his opinion that critized the raid,
Justice William Brennan wrote,
“Schools cannot expect their students
to learn the lessons of good citizenship
when the school authorities themselves
disregard the fundamental principles of
underpinning our constitutional free
doms.”
Justice Brennan makes a valid point.
Is a juvenile any less protected by the
law than an adult? Could authorities
have gotten away with sniffing out
adults and subjecting them to strip
searches?
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S.
Constitution prohibits “unreasonable”
searches and seizures of all citizens. II
should be admitted, though, that there
has long been question as to what
constitutes an “unreasonable” search
and seizure. There are no precise defi
nitions. The courts have always treated
the issue on a case-to-case basis.
In the case of the raid on Forsyth
County High School last October, which
included the use of “professionally
trained dogs,” one school board mem
ber told this writer of the great desire
on the part of parents and school offi
cials to halt the use of drugs by students
and get at the ones who are doing the
selling.
He expressed a conviction by the
board to stay on top of the matter and
figure every way possible to stop the
drugs. “Whether it (the raid) was the
best way I don’t know.”
Letters Welcome
Send your letters to: The Editor, The
Forsyth County News, P.O. Box 210,
Cumming, Ga. 30130.
throughout the building and some office
furniture was added.
In our front lobby, we rearranged the
counter so we can greet customers
adequately.
The News also has added a third
telephone line, some new phones and
desks all a part of an effort to serve
you better.
If you visit the office, you are wel
comed to see what changes we’ve made
and familarize yourself with where
everyone is stationed.
We haven’t quite finished our remod
eling project around the building yet,
but should be in the next few weeks.
There are still a few more projects to be
completed
We hope our work has not been an
inconvenience to you and ask that you
bear with us for a few more days until
we have completed the work.
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