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Forsyth County News J Your "Hometown Paper" Since 1908 J 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 See JAIL, Page 2A ~ ~ TiT —1 J mb I / 11 ; ffra Bl ■jM ■ y flr gX JR fl —3 Mb 1 ,>.• Photo/Audra Perry 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. Missed paper policy: For a replacement paper, call 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and 9 a.m. -1 p.m. on Sunday - (770) 887-3126. Copyright 6 2003 Forsyth County Nows riir Your "Hometown Paper" Since 1908 ■ ’ J ■'' ' 7 ■ Ij ® ■ - | t '-"I < ■■ - .p ! BF \ - W Jr ** ’» "■ F I'/ ■ ? f ' If ■' s '‘ Photos/Audra Perry 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 Opt n i0n........................... ,..,.9A Sports • ••• •••••••••• ••■•••••••••••••••• ~BA THURSDAY July 31,2003 THANKS FOR THE MEMOI Government Subdivision density climbing in south Forsyth Page2A . J A JL A IRTT.- * - -.1 w 1 fl Mr, . z . ,T 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 Local Firefighters cheer Cub Scouts Page 3 A urxblH 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. See SEARCH, Page 2A 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 LAKE LANIER LEVELS Date Level / I July 26 1071.45 ft July 27 1071.39 ft yv// July 28 1071.35 ft Uh H H July 29 1071.30 ft Full 1071 .QQrft High in the mid-SOs -*.«*«■*■**- --»* Low in the lower 70s . * BUSINESS, IB Back to school not so taxing fHHhks k Layman