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PAGE 2A 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- STERLING SILVER CHAINS, BRACELETS *2 00 AND UP LADIES NUGGET WATCH Reg. *499 SALE *399 ow 1/4 CT. DIAMOND SOLITAIRE ENGAGEMENT RINGS Reg. *299 SALE *249°° HEART SHAPE DIAMOND 1.04 CT. Reg. *2200.. SALE *IBOO (unmounted} 1.67 CT. ROUND DIAMOND Reg. *3200 SALE *2500 1 CT PEAR SHAPED DIAMOND MOUNTED ON WIDE 14K BAND Reg. *2495 SALE*I9O0 00 887-2120 Fountain Square Cu mining Lay-away for Christmas 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. LADIES 1 CT DIAMOND CLUSTER Reg. $ 799 SALE s^|^AOO Great Gift Ideas TMON.-FRI. 9:30-6:30 C f T | SAT. 9:30-5:00 & J Jewelers Prices Good Thru w Dec. 4,1987 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 iwtKi 1 ' -fi. •. % ■ ■ *jr¥, .ft *, : f V ’ • * jh■ > * ,^ t .v * • NjjSKdgy • '■*'& nmm * ‘ • -■’ ; "' x 1 li*" taSaily r • 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 FRIDAY, DEC. 4 Buy direct from manufacturer rubies, sapphires, emeralds, diamonds, etc. Manufacturers representative will be in store, ONE DAY ONLY, offering the largest selection of jewelry at the best buys of the season. S3®' 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.”