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Apple
picking
time
Terry Ulmer
stripped the trees
at the Mashburn
Orchard in
Cumming last
week. The
Mashburn’s have
an abundant supply
of Winesaps,
Rome Beauties,
Granny Smith,
Golden and Red
Delicious and
Arkansas Blacks
growing in a grove
between Old
Buford Dam Road
and Atlanta
Highway. Those
wanting a bag, or
maybe an entire
bushel, may
purchase the fruit
at a stand on
Atlanta Highway
next to People’s
Bank. More
photos, page 3A.
Staff Photo Kathryn L. Babb
Heard of the locust plague.. Try yellow jackets
By Kathey Pruitt
Staff Writer
To bee or ot to bee?
If that is the question, then this year, the answer
is definitely “to bee.” Or more aptly put, “too
many bees “
You don’t have to be a bug expert to recognize
that the pesty yellow jackets that have always
made uninvited appearances at barbecues, pic
nics and other outdoor gatherings have started
crashing those parties in larger numbers. That’s
because the yellow jacket population this year and
for the past four years has been larger than
normal for northern Georgia.
“You’ve heard of the plague of the locusts,” said
Forsyth County Extension Service Agent Hugh
McMillian. “Well, you could call this the plague of
Convenience store owners band together against armed robbers
Seminar gives tips on prevention, violence
By Tom McLaughlin
Staff Writer
Robbers beware, convenience store oper
ators in Forsyth County have armed them
selves.
Armed themselves with knowledge, that
is.
Four armed robberies in three months in
Forsyth County prompted convenience
store operators and area law enforcement
agencies to seek help in finding ways to
prevent the crime. They received it in the
form of two, two-hour seminars conducted
by Jim Tudor, a government relations man
ager for the Georgia Association of Conve
nience Stores. The Georgia Sheriff’s
Association and the Cumming Police De
partment co-sponsored the event.
“Our purpose here today is to show you
how to make your store more attractive to
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customers and less attractive to armed
robbers,” Tudor told the participants.
More than 80 convenience store owners
and their employees attended the meetings.
The numbers didn’t suprise police officials
“I figured there would be a pretty good
turnout,” Police Chief A.W. Lindsey said. “I
know that if I owned a convenience store I
would listen to what they had to say.”
These seminars dealt primarily with rob
bery prevention, but Tudor also dealt with
violence prevention and what the employee
should do or not do in the event of a robbery.
The seminar began with Tudor pointing
out 10 factors that 200 inmates had deter
mined could affect whether or not they
would deem a store a good target. Surpris
ingly, alarms or cameras were considered
fairly insignificant deterrents.
Please see BURGLARIES, page 2A
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the yellow jackets.”
A reasonable water supply and an abundance of
insects, the delight of gourmet yellow jackets,
have contributed to the boon year for the small but
potent creatures, according to McMillian and Dr.
Maxey Nolan, an extension service entomologist
in Athens.
More queen bees than usual survived the winter,
Nolan said, and therefore the number of bees
hatched increased exponentially.
Pinpointing why the yellow and black bees are
so common is easy. Determining how to keep them
off your sandwich and out of your soda can is an
entirely different matter. They eat both plant
sugars and meat, but given a choice between the
two, they’ll go for meats, especially fish, every
time, McMillian said. So when a swarm of yellow
jackets descends on the tuna salad you packed for
a picnic lunch, it’s a lost cause.
“You can forget trying to repel them from a
picnic table,” he said. “Don’t even waste your
time or your money. The only way to make them
comletely leave you alone is build a screened-in
porch.”
There is a reprieve from the yellow jacket
season, but unfortunately for outdoor lovers, it
comes when temperatures drop below 40 degrees.
Most yellow jackets succumb to the cooler tem
peratures by mid-October or the first frost, Mc-
Millian aid.
Pesticides like Sevin dust and Malathion can
offer a temporary respite, according to extension
entomologist Nolan, but the bee has to actually
ingest the pesticide before it is effective.
Please see BEES, page 2A
Tudor: Alarms don’t worry robbers
Banks attempts
to move Potts
Hearing scheduled for Monday
By Tom McLaughlin
Staff Writer
After receiving a motion Friday
afternoon from the office of District
Attomy Rafe Banks, Superior Court
Judge Richard Gault has scheduled a
hearing for 8:30 a.m. Monday to
decide if conviced killer Jack Potts
can be moved out of the Forsyth
County Jail.
The motion followed a Friday clar
ification of an opinion handed down
Thursday by the Georgia Supreme
Court. Thursday’s ruling had appar
ently indicated that the request for a
hearing to move Potts had been den
ied.
The clarification stated that “due
to some confusion regarding the ef
fect of the court’s order,” a new order
had been issued to clarify the pre
vious one by stating that the stay is
considered of no further effect on this
issue.
“What it’s saying is that we’re out
of it,” said Charles Webb, a media
representative for the state’s Su
preme Court.
The sheriff’s department has been
forced to keep Pott’s in the Forsyth
County tops state
on SAT averages
By Laura McCullough
Managing Editor
Forsyth County’s college-bound
students last year continued to im
prove on the Scholastic Aptitude Test,
holding steady with statewide scores,
but still falling below the national
averages.
The 167 seniors of last year who
took the test scored an average of 399
on the verbal section and 454 on the
math, for a combined score of 853.
The class of ’B6 scored an average of
839.
Forsyth County scores topped by 13
points statewide averages, where the
verbal score was 400, the math 440,
for a combined 840 average. Nation
wide average for a combined verbal
and math is 906.
The maximum score a student can
make is 1,600 and the minimum com
bined score is 400.
Forsyth County counselor Janis
Drumm said she always hoped the
students will do their best, and still
encourages them to do even better.
Of the 350 seniors last year, 48
percent took the college entrance
exam. Male class members had
higher average scores than females,
but more females took the test. Of the
67 males, the average verbal score
was 404 and the average math score
was 471. Of the 100 females, the
average verbal score was 394 and the
math score was 437.
SAT scores have dramatically im
proved in Forsyth County since 1980,
when seniors scored an average of 376
in verbal and 402 in math, for a
combined 778. Part of the im
provement can be attributed to a
greater emphasis on college prep
studies in the high school, and the
revamping of curriculum in grades 7-
12, say educators.
The classes of 1988 and ’B9 should
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County Jail by a court ruling ordering
access to his attorney. Pott’s has
been housed at the jail for 129 days.
The motion comes on the hels of a
Sept. 19 escape attempt by Potts.
Using a gun allegedly smuggled to
him by a jail employee, Potts forced
detention officer Billy Crawford to let
him out of the jail. Once outside,
Potts exchanged gunfire with police,
was struck once, released Crawford
and began running. He was shot a
second time and surrendered. After
being treated for his wounds Pott was
placed back in the jail.
Bank’s motion states: “The For
syth County Jail, due to its size and
the limited personnel resources of the
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is an
inappropriate facility in which to
house (the) Appellant, (Potts), on a
long term basis.”
Following his scheduling of a Mon
day hearing, Gault placed a gag
order on officials involved in the case,
beginning at 4:45 p.m. Friday and
lasting until final disposition of the
charges or further order from the
court. The officials included in the
Please see POTTS, page 2A
have an even better chance of in
creasing their scores to the national
average. Counselors have purchased
computer software on SAT prepara
tion and hope to have it available to
students before May. Several area
colleges, including Gainesville Col
lege, offer SAT preparation classes in
the afternoons and evenings.
The next testing date is Oct. 10 at
the high school. The test will also be
administered elsewhere in the state
on Nov. 7, Dec. 5, Jan. 23, March 19,
May 7 (at the high school), and June
4.
Students are urged to take the SAT
only in their senior year and after
taking college prep classes in English
and math. Juniors can take the
PSAT, or pre-Scholastic Achieve
ment Test.
Increase in burglaries
attributed to growth
By Tom McLaughlin
Staff Writer
Violent crimes such as armed robbery are not the only
crimes on the rise in Forsyth County. Sheriff Wesley
Walraven attributes the slight increase in the number of
burglaries in the county to growth.
“The main thing is growth,” he said. “The growth
influx is changingthe trends of the community. We’re
going from a rural to suburban community.”
Walraven said that Forsyth County is no longer a place
where residents can leave the house without locking their
doors.
“If you lived in a community where everybody knew
each other than maybe you could have a situation like
that,” he said. “But I know of very few places like that
any more.”
Walraven said that despite the increases in burglaries
Please see STORES, page 2A
How Forsyth compares
Forsyth
MATH VERBAL
471 (male)
404
437 (female)
394
Georgia
MATH VERBAL
462 (male)
406
421 (female)
National
MATH VERBAL
500 (male)
435
453 (female)
425
Source: College Board records of 1986-87
seniors who registered for SAT at any
time during their high school years.
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