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VOLUME LXXXIII —NUMBER 8
$19.6 million bond referendum goes to voters March 3
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Staff photo - Kristin Jefflres
Superintendent Rick Case, left, looks on as Chairman
Johnny Stone calls for a vote on the school bond
Rep. Jenkins retires
U.S. Rep. Ed Jen-1
kins Wednesday
became the third
Georgia House
member in six
months to an
nounce he will not
seek reelection in
1992.
Word that Con-
gressman Ed Jenkins had decided to
retire his political career disappoint
ed local supporters this week.
Commissioner James Harrington,
who also serves as chairman of the
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Anniversary.. ..12A
Births 8A
Church Briefs 12A
Classified 4B
Deaths 108
Editorials 10A
Events 9A
Horoscope 8A
On Campus 4A
Sports 1B
Lake Lanier Levels
Date level
Jan. 20 1065.38 ft
Jan. 21 1065.41 ft
Jan. 22 1065.42 ft
Jan. 23 1065.44 ft
Jan. 24 1065.83 ft
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Forsyth County Democratic Party,
called the decision a great loss.
“Ed Jenkins is the best friend For
syth County has ever had,” said Har
rington. “He was effective, accessible,
and totally ethical.”
The commissioner added that Jen
kins paid a lot of attention to the area.
With Jenkins’ retirement he said “We
have lost one of the most effective con
gressmen we have ever had.”
Jenkins pushed through legislation
to preserve wilderness areas in the
Chattahoochee National Forrest, in
cluding the 22,600 acre Springer
Mountain National Recreation Area
which lies within Fannin, Lumpkin
and Dawson Counties.
He joins two other Georgia Demo
crats in leaving the House next term.
Rep. Doug Barnard, D-Augusta, an
nounced Oct 5 that he was retiring,
and Rep. Lindsay Thomas, D-States
boro, announced Jan. 9 that he was
leaving the House after his term ex
pires to take a position with the Atlan
ta Olympic Committee.
The Jasper Democrat, a 16-year
House veteran, said in a statement
that at the end of his term he plans to
reopen his private law practice in
Jasper.
“Serving in the House of Represen
tatives has been the most enjoyable
and most challenging experience of
my professional life,” he said. “While
Please see JENKINS, Page 4A
2 policemen
reprimanded
By Kara Sproles
Staff Writer
The first two lawmen on the scene
of Monday night’s double homicide
have been reprimanded by Cumming
Police Chief Wayne Lindsey.
Policemen Frank Farr and Jim Sto
ry did not follow proper procedure
when they left their posts inside the
city limits to assist the woman who
resided at the mobile home at which
the two bodies were found, Chief
Lindsey said.
According to the mobile home own
er Kyle Hardy, she and Farr were
friends. The two policemen drove her
to the scene at her request after she
first received word of the fatal
incident
“Proper procedure would have
been for them to call the sheriff’s de
partment” said Chief Lindsey. “If
they had requested a back-up then
one would go.”
As a result of their action, Story has
been demoted and had his shift
switched and Farr has been suspend
ed, said the police chief.
Both policemen refused to com
ment on the incident
The two officers traveled from a
Cumming convenience store where
Kyle Hardy asked for an escort to the
Trammel Road scene outside the city
limits, the police chief said.
IJJease see POLICE, Page 4A
SUNDAY, JANUARY 26, 1992-CUMMING, GA 30130-30 PAGES 3 SECTIONS
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
A March 3 election will allow For
syth County residents the opportunity
to vote $19.6 million into the school
budget for capital improvements.
The Board of Education voted
unanimously at a called meeting
Thursday afternoon authorizing a
general obligation bond referendum
Sierra Club
session shows
opposition to
new highway
By Matt Kempner
NYT Regional Newspapers
The Georgia chapter of the Sierra
Club called a meeting in Roswell
Wednesday to hear from people con
cerned about metro Atlanta’s pro
posed Outer Perimeter. But those
who attended - 75 people from far
flung corners of the metro region
quickly turned it into a united front to
oppose the roadway.
It marks the first allegiance of wide
ly scattered communities against the
Outer Perimeter, a four-lane road
proposed to circle 20 miles outside
Interstate 285. The meeting’s partici
pants were quick to compare their
fight to the fiery decades-long battles
that failed to stop Georgia 400’s exten
sion inside 1-285, but succeeded in
sharply reducing the magnitude of
the Presidential Parkway in Atlanta.
Speakers at the meeting each paint
ed ugly pictures of the proposed
highway.
“This road is about money: Who’s
going to make money and whose going
to lose money in building this road,”
said Bryan Hager, the conservation
chairman for the state Sierra Club.
Hager said south Georgia legisla
tors, frustrated with heavy state
spending in metro Atlanta, could be
convinced to oppose the road along
with intown legislators.
“It is in direct competition with 13
other developmental highway pro
jects,” said Hager. “Which means we
can create an alliance with the south
legislators.”
According to maps handed out at
the meeting, the stretch of the pro
posed road which extends from Ga.
Hwy 9 through Cumming to Ga Hwy.
29 in Lawrenceville has been
approved.
Howver, one who attended the
Wednesday night meeting recom
mended that the DOT build the south
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to fund three new schools and renova
tions and repairs at all other schools.
The bonds would be paid offby add
ing .95 mills to the properly taxes the
school board levies between 1994 and
2016. That means someone with a
$50,000 home would pay $18.96 each
year; a $75,000 home would cost
$28.56; the owner of a SIOO,OOO home
would pay $38.04 each year.
General obligation bonds allow the
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High winds and rain cut a swath through Forsyth County Thursday afternoon uprooting trees and damaging some
power lines. Above Mrs. Andrew Bennett inspects damage some 15 feet away from her home which narrowly escaped
devastation. If the trees had fallen the opposite direction they would have landed on the Bennett house located off
Antioch Rd. There were several similar reports of storm damage in other parts of the county. •
6 candidates are confirmed
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
Six people have confirmed their
bids for the District 5 county commis
sion seat vacated by Barry Hillgartner
although qualifying will not begin un
til Feb. 3.
Both Dwight Taylor and Allen Tug
gle have rescinded their interest in
the seat Taylor withdrew because he
discovered he lives barely outside of
the district lines and Tuggle withdrew
to support candidate Jimmy
Henderson.
It has been confirmed the election
will be held March 3 along with a
school bond referendum and the
presidential preference vote. That
means the last day to register to vote
on all three of these issues is Monday,
Natural gas leak
Photos by Porftrlo Solorzano
County water crews are back to work after gas main acci
dent. At left Is Lawrence Williams, director of the nearby
day care center which was evacuated in record time.
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taxpayers to pay on school improve
ments like they would pay a home
mortgage, said school board Chair
man Johnny Stone.
The last bond issue in the county
passed in 1979 and will run out near
the end of the century. It now costs
taxpayers .5 of a mill each year, about
$500,000.
If the voters approve the sale of the
bonds, the funds would immediately
Feb. 3. Registration can be done at the
county Government Building in the
Registrar’s Office, at the library, or at
The Polo Fields sales office between
10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Saturdays.
The winner of the March 3 special
election or of the run-off likely to fol
low will complete the last months of
Hillgartner’s term and be eligible to
run for re-election in November if the
shifting of districts does not move the
commissioner outside the District 5
boundaries.
Joining candidates Jim Avery, How
ard Mathes, and Madonna Parrish,
are Brownell Allman, Jimmy Hender
son and Ron Seder.
Brownell Allman is the director of
the Cumming Manor and Nursing
Home. She and her husband, Kenneth
E. “Gene” Allman, have lived in For
syth County since 1987.
fund the new elementary school on
Holtzclaw Road and the new South
Forsyth Middle School. The elemen
tary school is already under construc
tion. The bonds would also fund a new
high school in the North Forsyth cam
pus in Coal Mountain within the next
three years.
The board has already made the
Please see REFERENDUM, Page 2A
Allman is a regis
tered nurse and li
censed Nursing
Home Administra
tor. She was bom
in the little moun
tain town of Cran
berry, N.C., and is a
direct descendant
of Daniel Boone.
Allman said her
Henderson
Please see CANDIDATES, Page 2A
Quick action
clears school
By Kristin Jeffries
Staff Writer
When a county water crew hit a 12-inch natural
gas main last week it caused quite a stir of excite
ment at the Gingerbread Station daycare center on
Hwy. 9.
A three-man county crew was installing a two
inch water service line and was boring under the
road Tuesday when it hit the gas line.
It took crews and emergency personnel almost
13 hours to get the leak stopped, said Fire Chief
Norris Bennett
Donald Glover, who owns property across the
street from the center, was watching the work
progress.
When the line was hit gas shot way up into the air
and it sounded like a jet engine, he told his son-in
law, Lawrence Williams, who is director of the
daycare center.
Glover immediately went to the center and
called authorities who responded quickly to block
the road off, begin working to get the gas stopped,
and evacuate the children from the Gingerbread
Station.
Two buses were loaned from the Forsyth County
school system and the children, aged 6 weeks to 5
years, were transported to the Midway Elementary
gym.
The children were evacuated as a precaution
because a wind change was moving the gas toward
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