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CHRISTMAS WRAPPINGS Forget hanging plastic icicles on an
artificial Christmas tree The Christmas decorations sold by the Fu
ture Farmers of America club at Forsyth County High don’t get
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season. They do get a fresh drink of water and some sunshine to
keep the red and green bright long after the holiday tinsel has been
Assault trial stemming
By Lindsey Kelly
Staff writer
Contradictions in prosecution wit
nesses’ testimony presented frusta
tion for the state Monday as the ag
gravated assault trial of Randall
Norton got under way.
The Toccoa man is being tried for
aggravated assault against Dennis
Alfredo Evans of Atlanta. Norton is
accused of throwing an object at Ed
wards, a black man, during the sec
ond “Brotherhood March” on Jan. 24.
The object struck Edwards in the
head, causing a serious skull fracture.
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Randall’s brother Roger Norton is
also charged with aggravated assault
in connection with the incident but
will be tried separately.
During testimony Monday, William
Timothy Smith of Toccoa contradict
ed a written statement given to a GBI
investigator in July in which he said
he had heard Randall Norton say he
had thrown an object that “killed a
nigger” during the march in
Cumming.
Smith, a first cousin to the Norton
brothers, said on the witness stand
Monday that the statement he had
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from march under way
made out of anger “because me and
(Randall) was having trouble at the
time.”
Biff Lewis of Dacula, who was at the
scene of the incident, also testified
that he had heard Norton brag of hit
ting Edwards, but from the witness
stand had trouble remembering ex
actly what he allegedly heard Norton
say.
Lewis also testified that he had
eight or nine beers during the course
of the afternoon and admitted that “I
could not say I was sober” at the time
the incident occurred.
All of the witnesses called Monday
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who were at the scene of the incident
said they had not seen who actually
threw the object, including Edwards.
Edwards showed the jury the visi
bly depressed area slightly above his
right temple where the object frac
tured his skull. The victim testified he
has undergone surgery to remove
blood and bone fragments and faces
the possibility of additional surgery
for placement of a steel plate to cover
the depressed fracture.
Testimony in the case was to contin
ue Tuesday.
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FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS-WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1987-
There’s more to this
than what your read
Routinely I’m approached by some
one who says, 'Being a columnist
must be the greatest job in the world.'
I must warn you, what you see is not
always what you get. For example,
think back to your high school days.
Recall how you moaned and groaned
over a term paper and put it off until
the last minute. Writing a column is
like doing four term papers a week ...
Except worse. The term paper was
read only by your teacher. A colum
nist could be read by as many as a
dozen people. Some of those will get
angry, write nasty letters to the editor
and threaten to cancel their subscrip
tions ... Columnists do not make as
much money as lawyers, doctors, TV
weathermen or MARTA bus drivers
Columnists are also on 24-hour call.
The research never ends, and you
could wind up with a liver harder than
a door stop. The thrill of column writ
ing can also wear off very quickly.
Someone noted it’s like being married
to a nymphomaniac. It’s fun for two
weeks.
GRAFFITI RESEARCH Most
people think a good columnist finds
most of his stories by interviewing im
portant people. Actually, most resort
to getting their palms read or looking
under rocks and garbage can lids for
ideas. A columnist’ best sources are
normally winos and petty hoodlums.
You might also think a columnist is
easily identified as the funniest guy at
the party. Actually, he’s the fellow in
the restroom copying the graffiti off
the walls ... Surely, you can’t tell a
columnist by his dress, unless you
happen to notice the soup stain on his
tie and the frayed collar. But let’s face
it, no columnist worth his salt ever
wanted to be a sex symbol anyway.
Have you ever noticed the picture
next to our columns? It is a cross be
tween a driver’s license photo and one
of those six-for-a-quarter shots in a
booth at a K mart... Columnists do not
become hard-hearted after many
years but when they hear a sad story
from a friend they are more than sym
pathetic. Chances are they will ask
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the friend to repeat the story into a
tape recorder and thank the poor fel
low for bailing them out one more
day.
DIALING AN EX-WIFE: I mention
the daily plight of the columnist be
cause this is December, the holiday
season, the toughest time of the year
for a columnist. How many columns
can be written about finding a parking
place at Perimeter Mall? how many
ways can you say the Falcons are rot
ten? How many times can you inter
view the cheese balls at a Christmas
party? ... This is the time of a year the
poor columnist becomes desperate
for ideas. Sometimes he’ll call his
mother and cry, on other occasions
he’ll phone in sick. He may even dial
an ex-wife and beg for a story ... For
hours he’ll stare at his best friend, the
typewriter, and wonder if there’s one
more column in this instrument of the
devil that misspells words and threat
ens to take 20 years off his life... Most
columnist’ are social drinkers, but
this time of the year many drink any
thing that runs downhill and with
anyone—to get an idea. Yes, the daily
thrill of writing a column becomes
tantamount to running one’s finger
across a blackboard or getting stuck
in the eye with a sharp stick ... There
is, however, a slight sense of accom
plishment since another year is com
ing to a close. The burned-o '.t colum
nist can look forward to 365 more
columns next year. Actually, a smart
columnist will (a) always stay a few
columns ahead; (b) write 365 columns
in a day and take a year off; (c) the
word 'smart' does not apply when dis
cussing columnists.
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