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VOLUME LXXVI—NUMBER 10
Jobless rate envy of state
Forsyth County can now boast of
having the lowest unemployment rate
of any county in the state.
The preliminary report on unem
ployment for December, the month
which the latest figures are available,
shows Forsyth with a rate of 3.3
percent, down just slightly from the
3.5 percent in November.
Forsyth’s 3.3 percent tied with
three other metro Atlanta counties
Fayette, Henry and Rockdale for
having the lowest rate in the state of
Georgia.
The 3.3 percent for Forsyth was
much lower than some of the other
counties under the Georgia Moun
tains Area Planning and Devel
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Good morning, Forsyth
Good morning! Today is Sunday, Feb. 3. The
forecast calls for some sunshine but clouds
returning with scattered showers tonight.
Temperatures should reach into the low 40s.
Monday temperatures should being to rise a
little with highs in the 50s. For complete
weather see Page 2-A for details.
Dental help for needy
For the first time in Forsyth County, a
dental program to aid adults below poverty
level has been established in Cumming.
Patients must meet federal guidelines on
poverty certification.
Sunday In Forsyth
Doctor of art
Sitting in the waiting room at Dr. David
Hleap’s office in Cumming might be more
like visiting an art gallery than doctor’s
office.
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Hearing or not?
From a mandamus filed in October of last
year to a hearing that is scheduled tomor
row at Forsyth County courthouse, Carl
Turner’s pursuit and a letter to the editor is
viewed.
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‘Consenting Adult’
The exploration of homosexuality as a popu
lar mass-medium topic gets new life this
week with ‘Consenting Adult,’ which airs
Monday on ABC.
TV Focus, Inside
Forsyth County News
opment Commission, which covers a
13-county area.
White and Union comities showed
an 8.6 percent rate, Rabun showed 7.2
percent, Franklin showed 6.5 percent
and four other counties in the area,
Habersham, Hall, Hart and Lumpkin,
showed rates of 5.2 and 5.3 percent.
Banks County ranked second in the
APDC area with a 4.0 percent and
Dawson County was third with a rate
of 4.8 percent.
The 3.3 percent for Forsyth reflects
an employment of 15,687 workers out
of a labor work force of 16,218. That
means that a total of 531 persons are
listed as unemployed.
The unemployment rate of Forsyth
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County during the same period last
year, December, 1983, was 5.0 per
cent.
The average rate for the 13-county
area was 5.4 percent. Meanwhile,
Georgia’s rate compared favorably
with the nationwide unemployment
figure of 7.2 percent. Georgia’s rate
remains the lowest in the southeast.
The jobless rates for other south
eastern states include Alabama, 11
percent; Florida, 6.2 percent; Ken
tucky, 8.9 percent; Mississippi, 11
percent; North Carolina, 7 percent;
South Carolina, 7.1 percent and Ten
nessee with 8.2 percent.
In Georgia, the highest rate was
recorded in Taliaferro County at 15. 2
Industry
to expand
operations
By Chuck Thompson
News Editor
If all goes as planned, Eriksen
Industries will be in a strategic loca
tion for serving the fast-growing in
dustrial communities of Forsyth and
surrounding counties.
The firm, which manufactures fur
niture for the electronic office, was
approved Thursday by the Devel
opment Authority of Forsyth County
for $650,000 in industrial revenue
bonds. The proposed bond resolution
now goes to the board of commission
ers for final approval.
Located in Doraville, Eriksen In
dustries has the best reason for seek
ing a new location outgrowing its
present facility.
The firm hopes to break ground
Monday in Pendley Industrial Park
for construction of a new facility with
20,000 square feet of manufacturing
space and 2,500 square feet of office
space.
Initial employment is expected to
be 12 people, increasing to 25 two
years later.
Eriksen manufactures a wide vari
ety of units and options designed to
serve the furniture needs of almost
every electronic office and accommo
date all of today’s most popular mi
crocomputers.
Its products include work stations,
printer stands, desk frames, storage
sections, pedestals and vertical stor
age sections.
Using the Eriksen system, indus
tries can build an entire office work
area for their particular needs.
In other business at Thursday’s
development authority meeting, a
letter of inducement for $450,000 in
industrial revenue bonds was issued
to Garden World Products of Nor
cross.
Co-owned by Roland Boot, the firm
imports and packages flower bulbs,
which are shipped to garden centers
and chain stores like Home Depot and
K mart.
Officials study options on sewer extension
By Chuck Thompson
News Editor
An engineering report detailing proposals for extend
ing a sewer line from Cumming to south Forsyth County
was examined by city and county officials in a third joint
meeting Tuesday night.
The report was prepared by Hensley-Schmidt, Inc.,
consulting engineers for the Forsyth County Water and
Sewerage Authority.
It includes reasons for building the sewer line, three
construction alternatives and background information.
With the report in hand, city and county officials can
now approach state and federal agencies about grants
and loans to make the line a reality.
Joe Bork, vice president of Hensley-Schmidt, said at
least 50 percent of the project cost should be financed by
grants and loans to ensure reasonable sewer service
charges once the line is constructed.
After reaching south Forsyth County, the proposed
new sewer line would connect with an existing 24-inch
line built in 1981.
The existing line extends 11,130 feet from the Fulton
County boundary to the former site of U.S. Industries.
Sewage dumped into the line flows into the Fulton
County Sewerage System and is eventually treated at
the Big Creek Wastewater Plant, located at Willeo Creek
percent, due largely to cutbacks in
the apparel industry and a small
labor force total of 703, with 107 of the
county’s residents unemployed and
596 employed.
A total of 4,781 Georgians found
jobs in December, advancing the
state’s total employment from 2,638,-
387 in November to 2,643,168. During
the same one-month period, jobles
ness declined by 1,386.
The trade industries, both whole
sale and retail, continued to be the
state’s leading employer in Decem
ber with 645,000 workers. Jobs in
retail trade alone increased from
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Yes, you can believe it. Bill Mash
burn (right) says that people don’t
believe that he does any work at his
boat storage business located on
Highway 369. But with help from his
New health building progress lags
By Dawn Holcomb
The Sunday News
In September 1984 the application of a
Community Development Block Grant
(CDBG) was approved and awarded to
Forsyth County Commissioners to the tune
of $400,000.
The money was to be used to build a new
Forsyth County Health Department build
ing since the health department was de
signed to accommodat a population of
8,000- to 10,000 persons and as of Dec. 31,
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Joe Bork shows path of a proposed sewer line, one of several options discussed
near Cobb County. Big Creek Planning Area by Hensley-Schmidt.
This arrangement with Fulton County was recom- -
mended by a 201 Facilities Plan prepared in 1977 for the See OPTIONS, Page 10A
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son, Mark, he does unload wood
just every now and then, he said.
Mashburn also does landscaping,
sowing, sodding, cross-ties, yard
work and light tractor work. ‘So yes,’
1984, Sales and Marketing Management
Magazine estimated Forsyth County’s
population at 32,300.
The question today? “Where is the new
building?” Or better yet, “Where is the
site for the new building?”
These and other questions have been
asked by health department staff. A re
port, dated Oct. 3,1984, states that the new
building will be a “7,805-square, foot build
ing” to provide “health services to low
and moderate-income residents of Forsyth
County.” The new building was to allow for
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he said, ‘you can say I stay pretty
busy when I’m not sitting in there
by the fire.’ (News staff photo by
Dawn Holcomb)
a projected population of 34 percent per
decade in Forsyth County over the next 20
years.
“Rapid population growth and severe
shortages of physicians who serve the low
income population result in more than 46,-
000 patient visits per year,” states another
report dated June 8,1984.
The health department is more than 30
years old now. Equipment is outdated,
said one physician, and there are many
See HEALTH, Page 10A
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