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Welcome To Forsyth
Southern Monorail
The decision by the Southern
Monorail Company to locate in
the growing McFarland Road
area of Forsyth County will be
a shot in the arm for the coun
ty’s image.
The company, which man
ufactures bridge cranes, will
locate its new facility on the
west side of Georgia 400, across
from the new Kenco Alloy and
Chemical Company, and U.S.
Industries.
According to the Georgia In
dustrial Developers Associa
tion, each new industry makes
a community more attractive
to other prospective industries.
New industries also help boost
community pride.
Southern Monorail is the kind
of industry Forsyth County is
looking for. The company poses
no threat to the environment,
Should Reagan Run
For President Again?
If a Louis Harris poll is any
indication this early about next
year’s presidential election,
Ronald Reagan may need to
evaluate the situation before he
commits himself on a bid for
another term.
The Harris poll taken last
month asked adults nationwide
about their feelings on Reagan
seeking another term. The ma
jority felt he shouldn’t.
The poll was broken down
into various sections, including
suburban residents, age
groups, religion, political phi
losophy and regions of the U.S.
None of these groups appeared
to support the president in a bid
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and brings with it a partnership
with one of the world’s leading
manufacturers of elevators, es
calators and dock and bridge
cranes.
KONE, as the manufacturer
is called, is based in Finland,
and has annual sales of S7OO
million, manufacturing plants
in 10 countries and 13,000 em
ployees.
Southern Monorail deserves
a welcome from the people of
Forsyth County. The company
plans to locate in an 87,000
square foot building, which
may eventually be expanded to
300,000 square feet.
Continued growth in the Mc-
Farland Road area is a sign to
everyone travelling Georgia
400 that Forsyth County is will
ing to accept and prepared to
accommodate new industries.
for another term.
Also, the poll showed, many
of the key groups that voted for
him in 1980, have some serious
reservations about his running
again.
The poll was taken in a sur
vey that included 1,254 adults
nationwide in early January.
The president did, however,
fare very well in two groups
that were polled. The majority
of Republicans questioned in
the survey indicated they would
like to see him run again and
the majority of those who voted
for him in 1980 would like to see
him seek office again.
Small Businesses Look For Better Year
If projections hold up, this year
should be much better for the small
businessman. It should be, it couldn’t
get much worse than last year.
The year 1982 was one of the worst
ever for small businesses across the
country. We saw several small busi
nesses in Forsyth County and the area
fold or go bankrupt.
But Forsyth County may not be a
good example to use, because while we
did have some businesses to fail, there
were many more going up. That didn’t
necessarily hold true across the United
States.
According to statistics from Dun and
Bradstreet, there were 25,346 business
failures during the past year. That’s a
rate of 89 failures of every 10,000 busi
nesses.
If you want to see how that compares
Adequate Water and Sewer
Necessary For Growing State
Last Thursday, the Forsyth County
Development Authority approved sl,-
800,000 in industrial development reve
nue bonds for the Southern Monorail
Company. The company will locate in
the growing McFarland Road area,
where a link has been established with
the sewerage treatment system of
neighboring Fulton County. At present,
Forsyth County has no sewage treat
ment facility.
Had we not established this link with
Fulton County, our ability to attract
industries here might not be so great.
A lot of Georgia communities, unlike
Forsyth, cannot offer sewer, or even
water services to prospective indus
tries. This, of course, forces industries
to look in other communities or states.
We could only expect the situation to
get worse, because the federal govern
ment is cutting money for much-needed
water and sewer construction grants.
Gov. Joe Frank Harris, however,
proposed a program last week under
which the state would assist local gov
ernments with the improvement of wa
ter and sewer systems.
The proposal would allow the Georgia
Development Authority to create pro
grams providing bond and loan assis
tance for water supply, solid waste
systems and waste water treatment.
Gov. Harris made the proposal after
results from a 1982 study revealed
Georgia communities will spend an
estimated $2.5 billion on water and
sewer systems in the next 10 years.
The governor should be commended
It’s The Time In Between
That’s Meaningful For Us
In 1956 a handsome young man began
his coaching career at Cartersville
High School. The “oh’s” and “ah’s” of
female students could not be sup
pressed as he walked down the halls.
All the girls had a mad crush on the new
coach and his classes were filled with
wide-eyed adoring girls.
Tragedy struck Coach Whittle before
he had completed his first year of
teaching and coaching. He was stricken
with polio and the disease progressed
rapidly. Just a few years later Dr.
Jonas Salk would develop the polio
vaccine and polio would be conquered.
Many years later, I learned that Coach
Whittle, confined to a wheelchair,
would finish out his years involved with
rehabilitation programs for young peo
ple. He continued to use his life to
benefit others and made a difference.
It is always difficult for us to accept
the diseases that attack our young
people. It is even more difficult to have
young people killed in accidents and in
wars. I am sure that parents who lose
children and young adults have ques
tioned the fairness of life. When a young
person I know is taken by the grim
reaper of death I too ask the question
“Why?”
I do believe that as we grow older we
become more and more aware of the
day by day possibilities of diseases and
death. When we are young we have a
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to previous years, there were only 9,566
business failures in 1972 and only 7,611
across America in 1952.
The 25,346 business failures last year
was the highest number recorded in the
U.S. since the depression in 1932 when
the number rose to 31,622. That was at a
rate of 154 for every 10,000.
Dun and Bradstreet defines small
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for his interest in funding such projects,
because water and sewer systems are
vital to local governments attempting
to lure industries into Georgia.
Funding for recent water projects in
Forsyth County has come largely from
federal grants and loans. The recent
expansion of the Cumming city water
system cost $950,000. Funding consisted
of a $200,000 grant from the state, and
one of the last 5-percent loans from the
Farmers Home Administration
(FmHA), a federal agency.
In 1980, the Forsyth County Water
and Sewerage Authority put together a
$l.B million funding package, which
financed the construction of new water
lines, a sewer line and a 1,000,000-gallon
water tank. The authority and the Ap
palachian Regional Commission (ARC)
each chipped in $360,000, while the
Economic Development Administra
tion (EDA) contributed $1,080,000.
President Reagan has proposed the
elimination of the ARC and EDA, which
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feeling that nothing bad can happen to
us, but we are often wrong at this age.
When some tragedy strikes one of our
young friends we begin to realize that
death is a fact of life that we cannot
escape, and life begins to take on new
meaning.
We lose people in our lives in the
On Your Payroll
The names and addresses of your
elected representatives in Washington
are:
Congressman Ed Jenkins, 217 Cannon
Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.
businesses as those that have less than
500 employees.
And how did Georgia fare as opposed
to other Southeastern states?
Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee
did not do as well as the state of
Georgia. Officials believe that the
image Atlanta gives as a trade center,
plus the agressiveness of the state as a
leader in the Southeast adds to its
favorable percentage of holding and
keeping businesses. Add to that the
increasing number of people who are
moving to the South.
Businesses that suffered the most are
not tied as much to the South as they
are to other parts of the United States.
The businesses that were hurt the worst
were in areas of steel, automobiles and
coal.
And, a reflection on Forsyth County
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are both federal agencies.
The 1983 allotment to the Environ
mental Protection Agency’s construc
tion grants program, another source of
funds for water and sewer projects, has
been reduced to $2.4 billion this year.
The 1979 allotment was $4.2 billion.
Funding for the FmHA also is being
cut. The 1983 allotment for FmHA wa
ter/sewer grants and loans s42o
million will be 65 percent less than
the 1979 allotment of $1.2 billion.
As mentioned before, the City of
Cumming managed to get one of the
last 5-percent loans from the FmHA for
a recent water system expansion. That
interest rate will be increased, so that it
more closely reflects current market
rates.
In addition, the amount a city or
county must put up itself before receiv
ing wastewater treatment construction
grants will be increased from 25 to 45
percent Oct. 1,1984.
With all these facts in mind, it’s
obvious some effort by the state is
needed in the area of water and sewer
construction grants.
Because industries are moving south,
states in the Southeast are beefing up
their efforts to lure those industries
within their borders. Georgia must be
just as aggressive as its sister states,
and pump an adequate amount of fund
ing into a water and sewer program.
Our state leaders must realize that if
Forsyth, or any other Georgia county
can’t attract new industries, the state
will suffer as well.
twinkling of an eye. We lose the oppor
tunity to apologize for wrongs done and
lose the chance to say, “I love you.”
We never like to think of the possibil
ity of disease and death, and the losses
we will have to suffer, until the very
last minute. We want to believe we will
have forever to make things right, and
say and do all we want to do for others.
Sometimes that time is not available
for us.
I often think of this young coach and
what he meant to us. I often think of
special people that I have lost in my life
since that time so long ago when life
meant death and lost opportunities. It is
a sense of the ending that makes the
beginning, and all that time in between
so much more meaningful and impor
tant.
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Senator Sam Nunn, Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C., 20510.
Senator Mack Mattingly, Senate Of
fice Building, Washington, D.C., 20510.
must be included when we view the
number of new businesses that were
reported during a nine-month period
last year. According to Dun and
Brandstreet, there were 417,809 incor
porations formed from January until
September across the U.S. last year.
New business starts were only 4 percent
below the rate they were in 1981. But in
the Sun Belt, new businesses were 10
percent higher than they were in 1981.
And while the recession has hit the
smaller business harder, small busi
nesses often rebound faster and higher
than a larger business does, officials
say.
Cumming and Forsyth County’s prox
imity to the metro area certainly has a
part to play in the increasing number of
business ventures. During the past
three years, residents can see enor-
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Patience
Pays Off
For ‘Slick’
It’s been tough all these years. Life
comes and goes and changes day to
day. Recessions come and go. Seasons
come and go. But, I’m here to tell you,
bald is forever.
Somebody once asked me how long
I’ve been bald headed.
“Let me put it like this,” I told
somebody, “I was the only kid in the
first grade who could say ‘hereditary’
and knew what it meant.”
“Why don’t you have any hair?” a
smart-aleck kid asked me on our first
day of school.
“It’s hereditary,” I responded, real
izing the question I had dreaded upon
entering first grade had only just be
gun.
“What kind of hair is ‘hair-reddy
terry’”?
“How would you like to have that one
tooth in your mouth to leave under the
pillow tonight?”
“Wahhhhhh, teacher, slick’s picking
on me...b00-hoo-hoo.”
And, so it went. Days turned into
weeks. Weeks into months. Months into
years.
My Mother, bless her heart, has al
ways tried to pretend that her baby boy
isn’t bald.
“Now, put this comb in your pocket
and don’t forget to comb your hair
before they take your picture,” she told
me in the fourth grade.
“Hey, slick, wanta polish your head
before I snap this picture?” the photog
rapher laughed as we stood in line for
snapshots. He got a big kick out of that
remark and continued to laugh. Nobody
else laughed.
It occurred to him, I guess, that
everytime he told my fellow classmates
to smile, all he got was gums.
“Why don’t these kids have any
teeth?” he asked my teacher.
“The one with very little hair on top
of his head does,” Mrs. McTavish said,
pointing toward me with a cast on her
arm signed by all her pupils except one.
“You figure it out.”
I had always found it difficult to bust
a lady— especially an elderly lady in
the mouth.
“Oh, my gosh,” the smart-aleck pho
tographer said, “You mean...?” and
turned just in tirtie to see a quite expen
sive camera bounce and splatter across
the room.
“You’ll pay for that, slick,” he
boomed, teeth grating against each
other and a finger shaking in front of
me.
Sometimes, when you’re a 10-year
old, you need a persuader. I pulled my
“persuader” from the hip pocket of my
jeans, slid it onto my scarred right hand
and looked forward to having for the
first time a whole mouth full of teeth to
work on. We called such a persuader
brass-knucks back in those days.
“You still believe in the tooth fairy?”
I questioned the photographer.
“But, on the other hand,” he began to
cool off somewhat, “maybe my insur
ance will take care of the camera.”
So it went. Days became weeks.
Weeks became months. Months be
came years.
Now, I hear, there’s a new drug that
is supposed to make hair grow. I’m
applying to be one of the 100 bald
headed men the manufacturer wants as
guinea pigs for one year during the
testing.
I’ll be making reports throughout the
year on our progress. The reports will
be titled, “Progress On Our Hair” or
POOH.
I’ve got a feeling that this new drug is
going to work for me especially since
it’s manufactured by a company called
Upjohn.
mous changes carved across the area,
as population continues to climb.
And while there appears to be a trend
to move South, the opportunities to
provide industrial sites and small busi
ness ventures to northerners, are just
as great in Forsyth County as they are
in any other surrounding county.
All this doesn’t mean there won’t be
additional businesses going under this
year, but the percentage here might be
somewhat less than it is in areas that
aren’t as fortunate in what they have to
offer.
The past year’s problems haven’t
appeared to discourage the small busi
nessman’s ideas, especially in our area.
And if projections hold true, 1983 should
show a rapid decline if not because of
the brighter economic picture, because
of the optimism.