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New Constitution Gets
Support By Chamber
The Cumming-Forsyth
County Chamber of Com
merce Board of Directors
has voted to endorse the pro
posed new state constitution,
which voters will cast votes
for or against during the
November general election.
The decision by the cham
ber board came following the
encouragement by Gov.
George Busbee, who wrote a
letter to the chamber asking
for its support.
Cathy Amos, Public Af
fairs and Legislative Com
mittee chairman, read the
request to board members
during a special called meet
ing held at the chamber of
fice last Thursday evening.
Directors unanimously
voted to support the new
constitution, and it was
noted that the proposal
would be run in the legal
section of The Forsyth
County News beginning next
week and for the next three
weeks.
Mrs. Amos also read a
letter from the Barrow
County Chamber of Com
merce urging support of a
commemorative stamp in
honor of the late Sen. Rich
ard B. Russell.
Directors also voted to
support this issue and will
write a letter to Congress,
3igned by directors, urging
that a stamp be made in
Russell’s honor. Mem
bership also was encouraged
to write a letter to support
the stamp. The address may
be acquired from the cham
ber office.
In other action during the
meeting, Ivan Sibling was
elected to fill a vacancy on
the board following the res
ignation of Tommy Bagwell.
Bagwell was at the meeting
and tendered his resignation
sighting a heavy business
schedule. He praised the
chamber board for the work
it is doing and in turn was
commended for his interest
in the chamber.
Chamber directors heard
a report from Rosalie Du-
Pree of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, who has made
visits to businesses around
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with the work the U.S.
Chamber does.
Ms. DuPree gave a presen
tation to the directors, show
ing that her office works in
Washington, D.C. in the in
terests of businesses. She
said her office “does battle
with agencies’’ in the inter
est of business.
In the 96th Congress, Ms.
DuPree said her agency had
a 60 percent win record on
issues lobbied. “We got bet
ter than 2 out of 3,” she said.
Ms. DuPree said she took
this opportunity to invite the
local chamber to become a
member of the U.S. Cham
ber of Commerce at a mem
bership fee of $l5O.
Chamber President Val
Shinall told Ms. DuPree she
had had conversation with
the U.S. Chamber about
membership. She said she
would discuss the mem
bership with directors by the
next meeting.
In other business at the
meeting, directors heard
committee reports from the
Economic Development
Committee and the Commu
nity Development Commit
tee. Both committee reports
had to do with the devel
opment of downtown and fol
lowing a lengthy discussion,
it was decided that the com
munity development com
Sherwood Says Race Close
U.S. Republican Congres
sional Candidate Charles
Sherwood predicted the race
of a House seat between he
and incumbent Ed Jenkins
would be “very, very, very
close.” I won’t beat him but
by 2,000 to 3,000 votes, Sher
wood said.
The candidate made the
remark during a speech to
the Rotary Club of Forsyth
County last Thursday at
noon.
Sherwood talked in gen
eral terms about the upcom
ing November General
Election and occasionally
took a poke at the Demo
mittee would approach the
Gumming City Council with
a request for a long-term
study for the downtown area.
Areas discussed during the
segment of the meeting in
cluded parking problems,
what direction downtown
would move toward, the va
cant lot where Parson’s
burned, and one way streets.
Directors also approved
recommendations from the
newly-appointed Public Re
lations Committee on im
proving membership
involvement and areas of
improving the chamber’s
image.
As a result, a meeting
planning committee was ap
pointed to help plan the next
quarterly meeting, which
will be held in October.
At the end of the meeting,
executive director Mac
Berston gave a brief report
on the GIDA meeting and
said he had recently viewed
as many as nine industrial
prospects.
Committee’s were sched
uled to meet next week, to
make reports back to the
directors prior to next
month’s meeting.
I Additional information
about next month’s quar
terly meeting will be re
leased soon, officials of the
chamber said.
cratic Party. “They spent
almost S4O million during the
primary and runoff and
couldn’t get more than 40
percent of the voters to the
polls,” he said.
As a result, Sherwood said,
we will probably have 20
percent of the votes of the
Ninth Congressional District
choosing your next Con
gressman.
“Tell everyone you see to
vote. It’s a priviledge and
responsibility that we all
have and not everybody ev
erywhere has this choice.
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Receives Top Honor
Betty Benson, assistant superintendent of instruction in the
Forsyth County School System, was the recipient of one of the
highest honors that can be bestowed upon an educational
supervisor in the state of Georgia last Wednesday night in
Athens. At the annual meeting of the Georgia Association of
Curriculum and Instructional Supervisors, Mrs. Benson
received the Johnnye V Cox Award, presented each year to
the outstanding supervisor in the state. Dr. Scott Bradshaw,
from the State Department of Education, made the presenta
tion to Mrs. Benson, who was selected by a panel of her peers
from across Georgia.
tion asked him more than
any other ouestion is, “Are
you a Christian?” Bob Bell
says the same thing, he
added. This, he said, is a
good indication that the peo
ple of this country are turn
ing back to the Christian
values they once had.
Sherwood mentioned that
the country was in its second
and third generation of wel
fare folks.
A pharmacist in Cornelia,
Sherwood said he experi
enced an incident which
must be stopped. The story
he told was about a woman
who is unmarried, with a
child, driving a two year old
car, that comes to his busi
ness to have a perscription
filled for birth control bills
paying for them with welfare
checks. “You and I are pay
ing for those birth control
pills,” he said. “This type of
thing has to stop. It’s going
to take guts and I have those
guts,” he said.
Sherwood said this was the
type of thing that was sap
ping the American Spirit.
We’re going to have to do
something about this type
thing, he re-emphasized.
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THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1982
Five Hurt
In 2-Car
Accident
Five people were injured
in a two-car accident on
Wednesday, Sept. 29, at the
intersection of Georgia 400
and Crossroads Road.
According to the Georgia
State Patrol’s Lawrenceville
post, the accident occurred
when Jackie Hunt, of Cum
ming, disregarded a stop
sign, and collided with a ve
hicle driven by Robert Lee
Kemea, Jr., of Alpharetta.
Injured in the accident
were Hunt and Kemea; Al
bert H. Gravitt, of Alpha
retta, a passenger in
Kemea’s vehicle; and Dillon
and Mylinda Hunt, of Cum
ming, both passengers in the
vehicle driven by Jackie
Hunt. All five victims were
transported to Forsyth
County Hospital.
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