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November 4, 2009
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MP class of 1949
holds reunion
The Mary Persons High School class of 1949 held its 60 year
reunion Oct. 10 at the Taylor House in Forsyth. Class mem
bers pictured are: Annice Haygood Myers, Phillip Goodwyne,
Jeanelle Bennett Norris, Mary Waldrep Robinson, Dorothy
Pippin Branton, Johnina Hoffman Coleman, Augustine John
son Hammersley, Betty Rose Parker Jenkins, Juanita Thomp
son Rentschler, Pat Treadwell Hyde, Janet Smith Fields, Dot
Zellner Bazemore, Billy Tucker, Jane Roquemore Newton,
Harry Annis, Harold Benson, Bobby Floyd, June Brown Ham,
and Ernest Ham. (Photo/Laura Thackston)
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Forsyth man
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A Forsyth truck driver
was among eight men
arraigned in federal
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charges they tricked a
paper mill into paying
$4.8 million for timber
that was never delivered,
according to the Atlanta
Journal-Constitution.
Kevin Fields, 31, was
among nine men from
around the state accused
of scamming the Temple-
Inland paper mill outside
of Rome from 2004 to
2006. All but one were
arraigned on Monday.
The federal indictment
alleges that:
Aaron Freeman worked
as a scale house operator
at the mill. He learned
how to manipulate the
computer system to pro
duce two weight readings
when a single truck
passed through the paper
mill's scale — one for the
weight of timber actually
delivered, another for a
phantom load. Freeman
then recruited truck driv
ers to take credit for the
phantom loads and share
the profits.
These men are charged
with conspiracy to com
mit wire fraud: Freeman,
49, of Rome; Kevin
Fields, 31, of Forsyth;
Curtis Hart, 52, and
Jason Joseph, 32, both of
Macon; Roger Carthern,
63, and Andrew
Carthern, 40, both of
Jefferson; J. David
Carthern, 64, of
Commerce; Robert Frank
Ferguson Jr., 56, of
Maysville; and George
Tate, 40, of Hartwell.
The offense is punish
able by up to 20 years in
prison and a fine of
$250,000 per count.
Freeman, Fields and
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arraigned Monday in fed
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