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Vol. 94. No. 122
Checkpoint
findings land
two in jail
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
Deputies working a safety check
point Saturday night near the inter
section of Hutchinson and Cas
tleberry roads stopped a truck and
discovered a shotgun, camouflage
gear, electronic scales, a crow bar
and two handguns one of which
was stolen.
In addition, the two passengers in
Pace
Farmer
the car face char
ges for giving false
names and birth
days to deputies.
Zachary Allen
Pace. 19, of Ridge
Hill Drive in Al
pharetta. was
charged with theft
by receiving a
stolen gun. carry
ing a concealed
weapon and two
counts of forgery .
Robert Jere
miah Farmer, 21.
of Sexton Road in
Cumming, also
was charged with
two counts of for
gery in addition to
one count of giv
ing a false name
and date of birth to
a law enforcement officer.
The forgery charges were a result
of the suspects signing false names
on jail documents.
The driver of the vehicle. 21 -year
old Melanie Farmer, was issued a
citation for a traffic violation.
Deputies stopped the burgundy
2000 Chevrolet Blazer in which the
three were traveling at about 1:25
a m. on Saturday.
According to a report at the sher
iff’s office, deputies became suspi
cious because of discrepancies in
Melanie and Robert Fanner's state
ments. One of them said they were
coming back from Lake Lanier while
the other said they were returning
from DeKalb County.
Meanwhile. Pace was asleep in
the back seat and did not wake up
when deputies attempted to rouse
him. Deputies called an ambulance
and he awoke. Paramedics checked
Pace but did not report him as being
injured or sick.
During questioning, both Pace
and Farmer gave different names and
birthdays to the deputies.
Because of the discrepancies in
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Follow the leader
Lindsay Mattocks, an instructor at this year’s Forsyth County Parks and
Recreation Department baton camp, leads a group of girls in a routine.
Mattocks is also a majorette at Clemson University. More photos, see Page
10A.
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Ezio "Red" Rossetti, above, was a stand-in for Bob Hope during lighting and
camera tests prior to the taping of numerous Hope specials over the years.
Badges, below, were his all-access pass backstage, and they were signed by
the performers on the programs
Bob Hope’s
passing hits
home hard
for Rossettis
By Antonia Hertwig-Benson
Staff Intern
Florida residents Ezio "Red”
and Marie Rossetti have fond
memories of the times they spent
working with the late comedy leg
end Bob Hope during their com
bined 50 years working as TV and
movie studio crew members.
The Rossettis recalled they
enjoyed working with Hope
who died Monday at age HX)
in 1 987 and 1988 in Hope's annu
al Christmas shows for NBC-TV.
See HOPE, Page 2A
"I Hope I made you feel comfortable. He was very appreciative.”
Marie Rossetti
INDEX
Abby 5B
Classifieds .... ................2B
Deaths 2A
Government. 6A
Horoscope 5B
Kids Page 4A
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THURSDAY July 31,2003
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Off the air: Local radio station closes
By Todd Truelove
Staff Writer
After a run spanning more than 40 years,
local radio station WMLE-AM 1 170 broadcast
its final signal last week.
John Lauer, station manager of I 170 and
WMLB-AM I 160 in East Point, said there are
no plans to reopen the station that has been a
mainstay of the Forsyth County AM airwaves
since the early 1960 s when it began broadcast
ing gospel content as WSNE-AM 1410.
The cause of 1170’s demise was an upgrade
of 1160’s wattage and regulations set by the
Federal Communications Commission to pre
vent interference and overlap between radio sig
nals.
“Because of 1160, 11 170| can never go hack
on the air again," Lauer said in a telephone inter
view Tuesday. “Because the two signals overlap,
you have to turn the other one off.”
Since the 19605, the radio station changed
owners, call letters and formats several times
the most recent being when Billy Corey, an
Atlanta entrepreneur, purchased the license and
equipment from Amy Rives McCollum in 2001
and changed the format from Americana —a
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w.—ch
goes on
for clues
in murder
By Steven H. Pollak
Staff Writer
Dawson County deputies, along with agents
from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, searched
in Lake Lanier as part of their investigation of a
murder a 22-year-old Forsyth resident is accused of
committing.
The accused, Joshua Glen Layman of Pea
Ridge Road in northeast Forsyth,
was arrested on July 24 in con
nection with the discovery of a
decomposed body five days ear
lier in a Dawson County forest.
On Saturday, divers from the
Dawson County Sheriff’s Office
worked in Lake Lanier near the
mouth of the Chestatee River
and recovered additional evi
dence in the case.
Sgt. Johnny Holtzclaw, the
public information officer at the
Dawson sheriff s office, said Tuesday that authori
ties would not release any information about the
evidence collected at the lake.
In addition, the Dawson County Sheriff’s Office
said in a prepared statement issued Tuesday that
the “cause of death and other facts related to the
case w ill not be released until the conclusion of the
investigation.”
The statement also indicated that Dawson
County deputies and GBI agents are “continuing to
speak with persons who may be able to provide
some information" related to the investigation.
A hiker walking through the woods in the
Daw son Forest Wildlife Management Area discov
ered the remains of the murder victim on the after
noon of July 19.
The body, described by investigators as being in
the “last stages of decomposition." was not imme
diately identified but was later determined to be
20-year-old Cameron Stuart Green of Gainesville.
Green had been reported missing to Hall
County authorities on July 4.
Investigators found the murder victim's car on
July 23 abandoned at a gas station on Old Milton
Parkway in north Fulton County. The following
day. Layman was taken into custody by investiga
tors.
He was held on charges of theft by taking a
motor vehicle, false statements and concealing a
death. On Friday, authorities added a charge of
murder as well as aggravated assault and armed
robbery.
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rock-country music hybrid to oldies and an
orientation featuring adult standards such as
Frank Sinatra and big band music.
Listeners still can hear those adult standards
on the upgraded 1 160 channel that is beamed
from south of Atlanta.
"We were broadcasting |l 170] from a loca
tion |in south Forsyth] that was owned by Amy
McCollum." Lauer said. “The lower will still be
there, but no one can do anything with it.
“What [equipment] we can use, we’ll bring
down here and use with this station.”
In addition, last year 1160 switched call let
ters with 1170, changing from WKGE to
WMLB and making I 170 WMLE.
“| MLB | stood for Mountain Lake
Broadcasting." Lauer said. “Mountain Lake
Broadcasting went away. [The call'letters) don’t
stand for anything now.”
While it was known from the sale date they
would stop transmitting from 1170, Lauer said it
happened sooner than expected.
“I’m kind of sorry we had to do it so quickly
because I was writing a letter to all the churches
to let them know that it was going to happen and
See RADIO, Page 2A
Possible Storms
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