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City unaware that taxes would
be voted on at County meeting
By Todd Truelove
Staff Writer
The Forsyth County Board of
Commissioners on Tuesday voted to
keep the city’s share of local sales tax
revenues at 15 percent.
But it did so without first reaching an
agreement with city officials.
And Cumming Mayor H. Ford
Gravitt said Wednesday that he and the
City Council were not told the issue
would be up for a vote at the commis
sioners’ meeting.
“We were unaware that the county
was going to do anything until they met,”
Gravitt said, adding that he learned of
the board’s vote while watching the
delayed broadcast of the meeting on tele-
Internet scam traps local woman
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
Yet another Forsyth County resident
has fallen victim to an international
Internet scam.
Two months ago, a 60-year-old
Cumming man was duped by a Nigerian
Advanced Fee Fraud scam that cost him
$63,000.
This time, a similar trap snared a
Cumming woman.
According to a Forsyth County
Sheriff’s Office, the incident began to
unfold several weeks ago.
First, the woman responded to a job
listing on the Internet. The job would be
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vision.
“We were expecting to get an
increase,” the mayor said. “The council
had discussed it should be an increase on
LOST and SPLOST from the 15 per
cent.”
However, the commissioners voted to
keep the sales tax distribution split the
same as it has been for the past 10 years:
85 percent to the county and the rest to
the city.
With the state’s December deadline
looming, the county and city have to
come to a formal agreement or both gov
ernments could lose the right to collect
the taxes that together totaled more than
See TAX, Page 2A
to telemarket for the University of
Latvia, an entity supposedly located
somewhere in Russia.
That university actually is located in
Riga, Latvia, and Latvia has been inde
pendent of Russia since 1991.
The woman was told that the univer
sity’s bank accounts were not open yet,
and she was asked to assist the school by
cashing large checks that would include
her earnings. She should cash the check
at her personal bank, take out the portion
representing her earnings, and then send
the remainder to the university.
See SCAM, Page 2A
INDEX
Abby 118
Church events 9A
Classifieds 5B
Deaths 2A
Food 10A
Horoscope 1 IB
Opinion 11A
Sports IB
FRIDAY November 15, 2002
Turner remains in jail
until psych evaluation
She’s prime suspect in Cumming
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
A Cobb County magistrate judge
said Wednesday morning that Julia
Lynn Turner must undergo a mental
evaluation before he decides whether
or not to release her on bond.
The Cumming woman has been in
custody at the Cobb County Adult
Detention Facility since being indict
ed for murder two weeks ago by a
grand jury. She stands accused of
killing her husband, Maurice Glenn
Turner, a Cobb County police officer,
by poisoning him with antifreeze. The
law enforcement officer died in 1995.
A Georgia Bureau of Investigation
agent said during the bond hearing
that Turner also is the prime suspect
in the murder investigation into the
2001 death of Forsyth County fire
fighter Randy Thompson. GBI tests
have indicated that Thompson, the
father of Turner’s two children, also
Religion
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happening in
local churches.
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Dr. Mike Murden dries Caymin Crosslin’s molars after he
seals them with an acrylic plastic.
Food
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turkey doesn’t have
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GBI agent David King testifies,
died of antifreeze poisoning.
Turner, 34, has not been charged in
that case.
Both men’s deaths originally were
thought to be the result of natural
causes. But, a subsequent toxicology
test on Thompson’s body by the GBI
revealed a lethal amount of ethylene
glycol, a sweet, colorless, odorless
chemical found in antifreeze.
The law enforcement agency
exhumed Maurice Glenn Turner’s
body the same week, and a toxicology
test on his body tissue revealed the
same results.
According to the Georgia Poison
Center, ethylene glycol poisoning pro
gresses rapidly from inebriation and
vomiting within the first 12 hours of
ingestion to multiple organ failure,
rapid heartbeat, increased blood pres
sure and, eventually, death within the
next 12 hours.
Lynn Turner is to enter a plea in
the Cobb County case during her
arraignment on Nov. 19. If Cobb
County Magistrate Judge Frank R.
Cox releases her on bail, she would
remain free until her actual trial.
On Wednesday morning, Turner
walked into the crowded courtroom in
a gray pant suit and handcuff shackles
See TURNER, Page 2A
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Prevention is
the best form
of dentistry,
students learn
By Susan Norman
Editor
Children at two local ele
mentary schools are participat
ing in an oral health program
by the state that will test the
long-term effectiveness of pre
ventive dentistry.
Dr. Mike Murden, a
Georgia Public Health dentist
in the Gainesville District 2
office of the Department of
Human Resources, is at
Cumming Elementary School
this week examining the teeth
and gums of some second and
third graders.
He’s also applying dental
“sealants” —a thin layer of
plastic that is used on the stu
dents’ permanent molars to seal
out food and bacteria that cause
tooth decay.
“He’s doing second and
third graders, because they
should have their 6-year-old
molars by then,” said Connie
Trent, the school nurse.
Twenty-five percent of the
school’s students in both grade
levels are participating in the
study, she said.
See TOOTH, Page 5A