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Jenkins bill clears first hurdle in Congress
By Chuck Thompson
News editor
“My Textile Bill cleared the first
hurdle today,” said Congressman Ed
Jenkins, as he emerged from the
Trade Subcommittee Thursday
morning.
The Subcommittee favorably re
ported the bill to the full Ways and
Consumer hotline offered
Southern Bell customers can now
call Tele-Consumer Hotline, a toll
free information service, to get help
with questions about changes in their
telephone service.
By calling the hotline at 1-800-332-
1124, customers get helpful informa
tion regarding their questions on long
distance service, telephone purchase
decisions and determining whether a
repair problem is with the telephone
set or telephone line.
The service is a joint venture by
Consumer F ederation of America
and the Telecommunications Re
search and Action Center, and is
supported by several local operating
companies as well as long distance
carriers.
“We are very concerned about the
confusion that still exists among con
sumers about telephone service, par
ticularly now that Equal Access
requires the customer to select a long
distance carrier,” explained Walt
Calendar
MONDAY
Discipline: Kids and Worth it will
be presented by Barbara Coloroso, an
internationally recognized
consultant, lecturer and author, on
Oct. 7 at 7 p.m. at First Baptist
Church in Cumming. The seminar is
sponsored by the Forsyth County
Board of Education and is free and
open to everyone.
Alcohol Anonymous has a woman’s
meeting each Monday at 7:30 p.m. in
the Homemakers Building next to
Forsyth County Library in Cumming.
Boy Scout Troop 39 will meet each
Monday at 7 p.m. at the old VFW
building on Georgia 9. For more
information, call Larry Hill,
Scoutmaster, at 889-9595.
TUESDAY
Midway Elementary School PTA
will meet on Oct. 1 at 7:30 p.m. The
1985-86 budget will be discussed. Fifth
grade is in charge of the program.
Alcoholics Anonymous, will meet
at 8 p.m. at the First Baptist Church,
Cumming. This is a closed discussion
meeting. An Al-anon meeting will
also be held
Lafayette Lodge No. 44, F and A M
will meet at 7:30 p.m. on the first and
third Tuesday of each month.
Cumming Shrine Club meets at 7
p.m. every second Tuesday at
Overlook Restaurant.
WEDNESDAY
Forsyth County Parks and
Recreation will have its monthly
board meeting on Oct. 2 at 7 p.m. in
the community room of the
courthouse.
The Forsyth County News welcomes
items of community iterest for
inclusion in the Community
Calendar. If you have an item for the
calendar, call 887-3126,887-3127 or the
Atlanta Line number, 523-7303
Monday through Friday from 8:30
a.m. until 5 p.m. Or, you may mail
your item to the News office, P.O.
Box 210, Cumming, Ga., 30130.
20 Years
Age
From the files of The Forsyth
County News 20 years ago, Thursday,
i Sept. 23,1965:
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Forsyth County will undergo
; further evaluation as a possible site
for a huge new atom smasher
laboratory planned by the Atomic
Energy Commission.
Four other sites in Georgia are in
the running. They are Fulton County,
the Atlanta area, and the cities of
Bainbridge and Savannah. The five
sites survived the first round of
elimination, and all have met the
basic criteria established by the
; AEC.
The commission announced earlier
this year that it would accept
applications from all over the
country, and after preliminary
evaluation, would ask the National
Academy of Sciences to step in for the
final round of evaluations. One
hundred applications were received
for the S3OO million facility, which
would employ 2,000 people, including
some of the world’s leading
physicists.
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The Hall Area Vo-Tech School, soon
to be built near Oakwood, Georgia, is
the newest member of a family of 27
such schools planned for the state.
When completed early next summer,
the Hall Area School will contain
39,000 square feet of floor space, and
will represent a total investment of $1
million. The new vo-tech school will
be built on 187 acres shared by the
new Gainesville Junior College. Both
schools are schedule! to open in the
fall of 1966.
Means Committee.
Jenkins predicted the Textile and
Apparel Trade Enforcement Act,
which he introduced in March, would
come up for a vote in the U.S. House
around the first of October.
“We’re on the way to laying the
groundwork to stop the loss of Ameri
can textile and apparel workers’
jobs,” Jenkins said. “Some people
Sessoms, vice president of Southern
Bell’s Georgia operations.
“Supporting the hotline service is
part of our continuing efforts to help
ease the confusion and help custom
ers understand our new environ
ment,” Sessoms said.
“This new Tele-Consumer Hotline,
supported in part by Bell South and
Southern Bell, is a significant new
service for the citizens of Georgia,”
said Barry W. Reid, administrator of
the Governor’s Office of Consumer
Affairs. “The ability to obtain objec
tive information and make an in
formed decision is the goal of
consumer education. We fully believe
that this service will accomplish that
goal.”
Callers to the toll-free number will
talk with trained counselors of the
hotline service to get helpful informa
tion on making decisions about their
phone service.
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thousands of people in other countries
out of jobs.
“That’s not my intention, but, if I
have to choose between jobs for resi
dents of foreign countries and Ameri
can jobs, I’ll take American jobs.”
Jenkins rejects the protectionist
label being attached to the bill, point
ing out the intent of the legislation is
Chemical leak
at S. Forsyth
Students and administrators at
South Forsyth Junior High School
had a slight scare Thursday when
an apparent chemical leak sent
irritating fumes through the air
conditioning ducts in one wing of
the building.
Principal Don Trammel said a
fire drill was called to evacuate
the building and volunteer fire
fighters arrived at the school to
determine where the fumes were
originating.
Trammel said the smell went
away after 10 to 15 minutes and
they never did find out what was
causing it. Seven or eight class
rooms in that wing, near the lunch
room, were affected by the smell.
“After the fire department left
we let everybody back in and its
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to enforce the Multi-Fiber Arrange
ment authorized by the General
Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
“GATT recognized the volatile ef
fect of textiles and apparel on inter
national trade and authorized the
negotiation of the MFA in 1974 to
ensure the orderly growth of world
trade and to avoid disruptive effects
on individual markets,” Jenkins said.
Swindle hearings begin
WASHINGTON President Rea
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Development Administration says
he’ll have no problem running the
agency while Reagan is trying to
abolish it.
Orson Swindle, state director of the
Farmers Home Adminstration in
Georgia for the past four years, went
before the Senate Environment and
Public Works Committee on Friday
to answer questions about his nomi
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development.
The hearing was cut short because
only one member of the panel, Chair
man Robert T. Stafford, R-Vt., was
present when Swindle’s nomination
came up for consideration.
Stafford asked Swindle how he
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“The MFA provides for a six per
cent annual growth rate of textile
imports for most exporting countries,
and a lower rate for major exporting
countries,” he said. “If the MFA had
been enforced, those countries ex
ceeding their growth rates, some of
them as much as 150 percent, would
not have been dumping their excesses
into the U.S.”
agree with one side or the other on a
given issue, once a decision is
reached as to that course, rest as
sured I will perform my duties to my
country first and foremost,” Swindle
said.
Congress has not approved legis
lation authorizing the continuance of
the EDA since 1981, but the agency
has been funded each year through
appropriation bills. For fiscal 1986,
the House has approved a SIBO million
budget for the agency, while the
Senate has approved a $l6O million
budget. The differences will be re
solved in a conference committee
between the two houses.
Swindle, 48, a retired Marine offi
cer who was a prisoner of war in
Vietnam for 6% years, was intro
duced at his confirmation hearing by
another former POW, Sen. Jeremiah
Denton, R-Ala.
There was no vote on Swindle’s
nomination Friday, and it could be
some time before the full Senate acts
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Rep. Ed Jenkins
on his appointment. Senate Minority
Leader Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., is
holding up all but the most essential
of Reagan’s appointments because of
a dispute over the president’s use of
recess appointments to avoid the
Senate confirmation process.
Swindle has been a controversial
head of the FmHA in Georgia, com
ing under fire repeatedly from home
builders and farmers upset by his
stringent enforcement of FmHA loan
provisions.
Sen. Mack Mattingly, R-Ga., led
the effort earlier this year to get
Swindle removed from his FmHA
post by helping hold up Senate action
on Reagan’s appointment of John
Norton to be assistant secretary of
agriculture.
Norton’s nomination was allowed to
proceed through the Senate after
Reagan in July nominated Swindle to
be the new assistant secretary of
commerce for economic devel
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