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-FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—SUNDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1985
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Perdue praises Harris administration,
says state government is ‘sound, solid’
By Chuck Thompson
News Editor
Improvements in state government under Gov.
Joe Frank Harris were discussed Thursday before
the local Rotary Club by the governor’s chief
administrative officer, Tom Perdue.
Looking back to 1982, when the last gubernato
rial election was held, Perdue said there was
plenty of bad news about the state’s education
system, drug smuggling and the state prison
system, which was so overcrowded that 2,900 state
inmates were backed up in local jails.
Other candidates, he said, were telling
Georgians how they would hire more, buy more
and raise taxes to solve problems, while Harris
proposed a “simple, sound, common sense ap
proach” that called for no tax increase.
Perdue said Harris’ plan was to “shake the
education establishment from head to foot,” build
prisons on a systematic basis, and pool the re
sources of several state agencies to fight drugs, as
opposed to adding more manpower, helicopters,
flat bed trucks, etc.
Turning his attention to Harris’ accomplish
ments as governor, Perdue said Georgia now has
a Drug Suppression Task Force with the combined
resources of agencies such as the Department of
Transportation, State Patrol, Forestry Commis
sion and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.
He said Harris’ education reform package,
20 Years
Age
From the files of The Forsyth
County News 20 years ago,
Thursday, Oct. 7, 1965:
• * *
Official word that the 23-mile
North Fulton Freeway has been
given federal okay came last
week.
Since that time, officials of the
Highway Department have said
the first increment will extend
from the North Expressway near
Lindbergh Drive to the Forsyth
County line.
The Federal Bureau of Public
Roads provided a $300,000
engineering grant for the project
last week. Local officials have
stated that this new route will
mean much to Forsyth County’s
economy.
The 23-mile project is expected
to be under contract by next July
and complete by July, 1968. On its
southern extreme, the new
freeway will connect with the
proposed 1-485 at the Northeast
Expressway and will be a part of
the Appalachian Developmental
Highway to the north.
Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer told a
Cumming audience Saturday that
a college education is now within
the grasp of every young
Georgian, and that lack of
personal funds is no longer a bar to
higher education.
Geer said more than 1,000
Georgia college students are
receiving financial aid from the
state under two new scholarship
programs established by the
General Assembly in its 1965
session. The lieutenant governor
was in Cumming for the first
anniversary of the local Moose
Lodge.
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Sawnee Electric Membership
Corporation held its annual
meeting Saturday in the Upper
Elementary School gym. The
Chuck Wagon Gang, a popular
gospel group from Texas,
provided the entertainment.
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Judges order public notice
of government hearings
By Chuck Thompson
News Editor
An order last month by judges of
the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit re
quires that legal organs be notified
when special hearing days are set for
appeals of zoning decisions and other
matters involving agencies of govern
ment.
The order, signed by Chief Judge
Frank C. Mills, 111 and Judge Rich
ard S. (Stan) Gault, applies to the
Superior Courts of Cherokee and For
syth counties.
In the past, zoning appeals and
other matters involving agencies of
government as a party have been set
for trial on special hearing days:
(1) Upon request of the parties;
(2) For convenience sake; and
(3) Because of the usual length of
such hearings.
According to the order, however,
this “has the undesired effect of re
moving such hearings, even though
unintentionally, from the eye of the
Three charged with drug possession
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Investiga
tors arrested three persons and
seized approximately three pounds of
suspected marijuana after a search
of a residence Thursday.
Forsyth County Sheriff Wesley
Walraven said that the three were
arrested after investigators acted on
information that the suspects were
growing marijuana near the resi
dence.
Census Bureau to gather information
In conjunction with this month’s
Census Bureau survey, information
conerning school enrollment also will
be gathered.
The Census Bureau will visit area
residents Oct. 14-19 to collect employ
ment data, as well as school enroll
ment, said James Holmes, director of
the Census Bureau’s Atlanta regional
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approved by the General Assembly this year,
contained some “controversial” proposals, but
went on to say that Georgia’s education system is
now being used as a model by other states, and
public at regularly scheduled hearing
dates.”
“The Court finds that this ... is
contrary to the trend in favor of open
government, and could lead to
abuse,” the order says.
To ensure an opportunity for re
view by the public, legal organs will
be notified of special hearing days for
appeals and other matters involving
agencies of government.
Mills says notification will either
come from the Superior Court
Judge’s Office, or the Clerk of Court’s
Office, depending on the manner in
which the hearings are set.
Notification will come from the
Clerk of Court’s Office if the hearing
is set by Order or by Rule Nisi. When
hearings are set informally, notifica
tion will come from judge’s secretar
ies.
In cases of emergency, or when the
legal organ has already been notified
by publication of a notice, the order
will not apply.
Two zoning cases in Cherokee
County were the primary reasons for
Arrested were Roy Gene Flynn, 30,
his wife, Penny Denise Flynn, 23, and
Thomas Lee Calvin, 27, all of the
Sharon Community in South Forsyth
County.
Seized along with the suspected
marijuana were several weapons.
All three were charged with felony
possession of marijuana and felony
cultivation of marijuana. Roy Flynn
was additionally charged with pos
office.
School enrollment data is needed to
provide current information on the
number of high school graduates and
dropouts, national trends in enroll
ment and student progress in schools,
and to help assess the educational
composition of the labor force in the
future.
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that other states have contracted with Georgia to
use its educational testing system.
Where prisons are concerned, Perdue said the
system has been organized so that the governor or
anyone on his staff can pull out a chart and tell
where state prison construction will be in the
future.
Other improvements discussed by Perdue were
economic development and the state’s reserve
account.
In 1982, he said, Georgia reportedly had a good
economic development system, but other states
were said to be doing better.
Today, the state has an Economic Development
Council chaired by George Berry, commissioner
of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade.
Perdue said economic development grants are
being coordinated under the Harris Administra
tion to stop the practice of giving communities
only enough money to buy property and pave the
roads for new industrial parks.
This results in no money for development of
water and sewer facilities, which are an important
component of industrial parks.
Commenting on the state’s reserve account,
Perdue said the balance has increased from $362,-
000 in 1983 to $l3B million today.
Noting he has served in Georgia government
almost 11 years, Perdue said it has never been
more “sound, solid and respected by other
states.”
issuance of the notification order.
Judge Mills contended that Chero
kee County officials were trying to
avoid controversial zoning decisions
by letting the court make those deci
sions.
Mills said officials in Cherokee
County should make the right deci
sion to begin with, or be able to justify
their decisions before him.
“I want somebody to watch them,”
Mills said, explaining why he issued
the order.
One of the cases resulting in the
order was Knotts Landing vs. Chero
kee County, in which the governing
authority denied rezoning for a shop
ping/office complex and multi-family
housing.
Reasons for the denial included
tremendous opposition from the im
mediate community and concern
about population density.
In a decision overturning the de
nial, Mills pointed out that opposition
from the immediate community is
not sufficient cause for denial of
rezoning.
session of a weapon by a convicted
felon.
Roy Flynn has been released from
the Forsyth County Jail under a $15,-
000 bond and Penny Flynn has been
released under a SIO,OOO. Calvin re
mained in the Forsyth County Jail
pending a SIO,OOO bond Friday.
Walraven said that two additional
arrests are expected.
The local data will contribute to
October’s national employment pic
ture to be released Nov. 1 by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Data col
lected in August showed that the
overall jobless rate (including mili
tary) dropped to 6.9 percent and the
rate for civilian workers also dropped
to 7.0 percent.
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