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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987
PHONES Continued from page 1
the headlights or wipers on or off at
the wrong time or a car from which
bottles or cans come flying may con
tain suspicious characters.
The project is being called Mobility
Watch and allows the driver to call the
911 emergency number for no charge
anywhere within the Bell South Mobil
ity Atlanta area cellular system.
“It allows you to call in while you’re
driving down the road and reach
someone immediately, instead of hav
ing to go to a phone booth,” said Steve
Green, a customer service manager
for Bell South Mobility.
According to Joseph Puleri, the
general manager for Bell South Mobil
ity in the Orlando, Fla., area, the Mo
bility Watch program was first used
on a trial basis in the Orlando and Mi
ami areas. Its success there led the
company to expand the idea to other
cities.
“It’s been very well received here,”
said Puleri. “We estimate that we re
ceive calls from 10 percent of our cus
tomer base just in Orlando, that’s 300
to 400 calls a month.”
According to Green, the system had
to be centralized by tying in t Atlan
ta’s 911 answering service so that
calls from anywhere in the area came
to one location.
“Everything first goes through At
lanta. The caller tells them what the
emergency is and where they are lo
cated and the emergency call is trans
ferred immediately to the proper au
LIQUOR Continued from page 1
Another point of frustration for the
group is the number of people who are
signing the petition at convenience
stores who are not registered voters.
“We’re seeing a lot of enthusiasm
but they’re not registered voters,” he
said. “We’re having a little campaign
on that, telling them to get registered
so they can vote.”
Smith also said that he was having
trouble getting community leaders
involved.
“We need to get one of them talk
ing,” he said. “But they think it’s a big
political deal.”
Correction
A story published in the Sunday,
Nov. 22, edition of the Forsyth County
News incorrectly identified the man
indicted for stabbing 18-year-old Ja
son Lowry as Henry Grady. The cor
rect name is Henry Grady Page. We
regret the error.
thorities,” he said.
Besides Forsyth County, drivers
can call in emergencies from Chero
kee, Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb, Douglas,
Fayette, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry,
Newton and Rockdale counties.
Walraven said he foresees the new
Meanwhile, the opening of Mul
doons, the first establishment in the
city of Cumming to serve alcoholic
beverages by the drink, has been de
layed for approximately two weeks.
“We’re looking at an opening day
two weeks from today; we’ve set the
13th as a tentative date, ’ ’ Bill Prodney
said Monday. Prodney is the owner of
Jordan is sentenced
In court activity Monday, John
Lindsey Jordan was sentenced to 12
years in prison after pleading guilty to
rape and drug charges.
Jordan pled guilty to raping a sev
enteen-year-old girl on June 25 and to
being in possession of cocaine and am
phetamine powder.
At the time of his arrest for the June
25 incident, Jordan was on probation
from Gwinnett County for drug relat-
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system helping his understaffed
force.
“What it does is put a lot of extra
eyes and ears on the road,” he said.
“Hopefully, it will help us respond
more quickly to an emergency
situation.”
Muldoons, which is located in the Best
Western Lanier Lodge Motel.
Prodney said that he has not yet re
ceived his liquor license from the
state. He received his license from the
city on Nov. 17 following city council
approval.
“We hope to have the state license
by the end of the week,” he said.
ed charges.
Other guilty pleas heard Monday
were:
• Alton Dewayne Gayton, pled
guilty to aggravated assault and re
ceived a 10- year sentence for beating
a man with a baseball bat.
• Jerry Ingram, pled guilty to crim
inal damage to property in the second
degree and received a probated
sentence.
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LANDFILLcMued from page 1
“They have explored it, but not
enough to come up with an alternative
any better than putting it in the
ground,” he said.
Frederick Artis, the Director of the
Department of Public Works for Ful
ton County, said the county has been
trying for the “last several years” to
locate a suitable site for a landfill.
“Two sites were targeted as forseea
ble locations, Site 13 (the site chosen)
and Site 8, over close to McGinnis Fer
ry Road near the Fulton-Forsyth
County line,” he said.
Artis said the Highway 9-Francis
Road site was chosen because of its
life expectancy and its low cost.
“We basically determined that it
would have a 24-year life expectancy
at a cost of $5 million as opposed to
Site 8 which had only a seven or eight
year projected life at a cost of sl3 mil
lion,” he said.
Artis said both sites had been re
viewed by state authorities and re
ceived site acceptability letters let
ters which said both had been found
feasible for landfill sites.
The proposed landfill has been op
posed by state officials and environ
mentalists as well as Sanity Inc. But,
Phillips said, Forsyth Countians
haven’t been allowed to express their
feelings.
“If Forsyth County residents
showed up at their meetings, I’m sure
the Fulton County Commission would
have said ‘you’re not one of our citi
zens,”’ Phillips said. “It almost
should be unconstitutional to let one
county treat another one the way Ful
ton is treating Forsyth County.”
Due to the controversy surrounding
the landfill, state Department of Nat
ural Resources Director Leonard
Ledbetter has called for a hearing on
the matter. Forsyth County residents
will be afforded a chance to have their
feelings heard by Ledbetter Dec. 10
and Dec. 17 at Milton High School on
Milton Avenue in downtown Alphar
etta at 7:30 p.m.
The first meeting will be an infor
mal briefing, and the second will be a
formal presentation at which resi
dents can make official comments for
the record. Ledbetter has the author
ity from the state to reject the dump
site on environmental grounds, ac
cording to Phillips.
“This will be the first time Forsyth
County has had anyone they can talk
to,” Phillips said.
Barnett said he would attend the
meeting and lend his support to those
who oppose the landfill.
“I’m opposed to it,” he said. “I
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Jessie Phillips and Sanity Inc. have been fighting landfill for 2 years
“I would think one of the
things he might ought to
look at is the very likeli
hood that the water quality
coming out of this area
would be very much
affected.”
don’t like seeing an adjoining county
force something like this on us.”
Artis disputed the claim that For
syth residents had not been allowed to
speak against the landfill, but he did
say the project was a Fulton County
decision.
“When Fulton had its initial public
hearings there were a number of peo
ple present from Forsyth County,” he
said. “They probably got their say in,
because the meeting went on until the
wee hours of the morning.”
Dr. Eugene P. Odum, the director
emeritus of the Institute of Ecology at
the University of Georgia, joined with
Georgia Conservancy Director Bob
Kerr in recommending that Ledbetter
reject the site.
“As Mr. Ledbetter points out many
times, his authority is somewhat lim
ited. But he can require he has very
strong authority to see that the wa
ter quality is maintained,” Odum said
in an interview with Sanity Inc.
officers.
“So, I would think one of the things
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he might ought to look at is the very
likelihood that the water quality com
ing out of this area would be very
much affected. And he can act on wa
ter quality.
“He can act in a way in which he
would say that the water quality,
which is the most valuable thing we
have, would be affected adversely by
this. And I suggest he use that basis,
you see, to deny the permit, or what
ever is required.”
Artis said both sites 8 and 13 had
created some concern to Fulton Coun
ty officials because there were
streams on the land.
“But they were solvable concerns,”
he said.
According to Phillips, the North
Fulton landfill would be located in the
headwaters of a major stream sys
tem, and would cause pollution.
“Chicken Creek runs out of this
area through a residential area to the
Little River, one of the major rivers
that feeds into Alatoona Lake,” he
said.
Both Barnett and Artis said Ledbet
ter’s decision to reject or approve the
landfill would probably only deter
mine the plaintiff in an inevitable
court case.
“If the residents win, Fulton County
will probably sue,” Barnett said.
“And if Fulton County wins, the resi
dents will probably sue.”
“We expect to be sued,” Artis said.
“And it will take some time to have
that resolved. We believe the will of
the public will eventually succeed.
The health and welfare of the entire
county will take precedence over the
desires of a few.”