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61 Monday, Nov. 10, 1997 LOCAL NEWS The Atlanta Journal The Atlanta Constitution 1 Where You Live toward a master's degree in educational technology at George Washington University. The deadline is Nov, 14. Knowledge TV and Charter Communications are sponsors. CHEROKEE 7 mow JT COBB 1 PAULDING jf DEKAlB DOUGLAS Mff CARROLL I RfDALE FAYETTE KJt COWETA 4fmT fire department officer.

The hearing will be held at 1:30 p.m. School holiday Cobb County students will be excused from class for a teachers' work day and distribution of nine-week elementary report cards. On Wednesday, the school board will conduct its only meeting of the month that gets under way at 9 a.m. with opportunity for public comment at 8:30 a.m. The board will suspend the meeting at 9:30 a.m.

and attend a salute to Cobb and Marietta Teachers of the Year at 10 am at Roswell Street Baptist Church. They will reconvene after lunch. ml 1 Teaching and technology It's usually the teacher who writes a recommendation letter for students, but students are being asked to write a 50-word essay explaining how their teacher uses technology in the class- room. The writer of the best essay gets a new multimedia computer. The teacher judged to use technology the best will get a $20,000 scholarship WILLIAM BERRY Staff A lot to soak in Art student Annie Wu takes a moment to herself outside the Woodruff Arts Center, where she recently visited while on a Georgia State University field trip.

on driver's Fayette parents to get update on new Forest Park council regroups after dancers disrupt meeting Duluth adopts a flower 1 Alzheimer's workshop The Atlanta chapter of the Alzheimer's Association is hosting an overview class on Wednesday. The class will provide information about the disease, how to differentiate it from other dementia or normal signs of aging, and how families can utilize services and referral networks. The class will be held at 7 p.m. at William Bremen Jewish Home, 3150 Howell Mill Road, Atlanta. Registration: 404-728-1181.

1 Carter signs new book Former President Jimmy Carter will hold the first Atlanta signing of his new book "Sources of Strength: Meditations on Scripture for a living Faith" on Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. at the Georgia Tech Bookstore, 350 Ferst Drive. For information or to reserve a copy of the book, call 404-894-3818. 1 Landfill expansion plans The owner of Dixie Speedway in Woodstock wants to expand the construction waste landfill he operates along with the popular dirt race track, Owner Mickey Swims has sent county commissioners a letter saying he intends to buy part of a nearby industrial park east of his site off Ga.

92. County officials have said there is a need for such an operation in fast-growing south Cherokee. Swims still needs formal county and state approval before he can proceed. 1 Drug testing plan delayed The Clayton County Commission has postponed action on a proposed random drug testing policy for county employees, in order to allow police and sheriffs departments to review the proposal. Commission Chairman Cran-dle Bray said he expects a vote on the policy after law enforcement officials complete their study.

The proposed policy would cover all employees who have access to a county vehicle. Council meeting tonight The Forest Park City Council rescheduled a meeting for today to make up for last week's cancellation due to a protest organized by workers at nude dancing clubs. The meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. An open work session will convene an hour earlier. Council members canceled last Monday's meeting because they were concerned the dancers and their supporters might disrupt the session.

1 Civic post reviewed Cobb County commissioners will decide Tuesday whether to remove Mollie Kendall from the county's Civil Service Board. The county has received petitions asking that she be removed. In January, Kendall's husband, a Cobb firefighter, sued the county after he was demoted. Three years ago, Dart Kendall helped a female colleague file sex discrimination charges against another seek input THE LANE RANGER JOEY LEDFORD formidable, how to fund it. "The bottom line is that if you want to have fewer accidents and fewer fatalities, you have to have a better class of drivers," said Rep.

Alan Powell (D-Hartwell), the committee co-chair along with Sen. Diana Harvey Johnson (D-Savannah). You can now read the Lane Ranger online, thanks to the good folks at Access Atlanta. At any time, the four most recent Lane Rangers are available at r- I 4 RHETA GR1MSLEY JOHNSON Women recall roles in rights movement They are three women. Three white women.

All from the South. -Two of the three break down in tears before they can finish what, they have to say to the staid Southern Historical Association, meeting in Atlanta. The three make history "We all believed deeply in what we did in the 1960s," Casey Hay-den says. Casey lives in Arizona now. She is a serious, slightly built Texas native whb was a new- lywed, married to activist Tom Hayden, when the Albany Move- -ment began.

In a way, Casey says, white women involved in the civil rights movement were "the first to grasp multiculturalism" and the first to understand that "we as whites were a minority on the planet" Casey tried as early as 1974 to interest someone in the idea of a -book about the white women in the movement. It would be 20 years before the project actually began. The upcoming book will be a collection of "disparate memoirs," Casey says, written by nine white women, including the trio on stage here. It will be called "Deep In Our Hearts." And that's where their comments seem to come from while addressing this meeting of proudly objective academics. From deep within their hearts.

Connie Curry of Atlanta is a -funny woman with a deadpan drawl who has received a lot of recent acclaim for her book, "Silver Rights." In the early 1960s -she was a recent graduate of Agnes Scott, a young woman on the constant lookout for cute young men. She claims that's how she first became involved in history, sizing up prospects. But it wasn't long before the morality of the cause struck her. "It was a matter of being in the right place at the right time," she shrugs. But it was a matter of being right, too.

Connie's job was to observe and report at demonstrations. That meant she had to stay out of jail when her cohorts went. "This suited me fine," she jokes. Her memories are a collage, not all of them noble moments. "I can remember sitting in the living room of a minister's house, waiting for Ruby Doris' hair curlers to set." Nobody dared leave for the demonstration until Ruby's curls were just right.

Joan Browning is a writer who lives on a mountain in West Virginia these days. But Just before Christmas in 1961, when Freedom Riders boarded the Georgia Central bound for Albany, she was a befuddled teenager recently kicked out of Georgia State Uni-. versity for Women for worshipping in a black church. Eight of the riders went to jail. She was the only white female to On an overhead projector, Joan shows the actual notes, written on both sides of napkins and toilet paper, that were passed between the new "inmates." At one point, Joan says, she tried to take out a brick from the cell wall so she could talk to her black friends.

Jail, too, was segregated. While incarcerated, Joan wrote to her former roommate, beseeching her to keep all the letters. I might need to use them, she joked, "writing my memoirs." Someone in the audience questions the correctness of writing such a book. How about the black women who were foot soldiers in the Movement? How about the men? Why just white women? "That's what we were," Connie answers. There is a place for a dispassionate account of events.

You don't have to teach history to know that And then there's raw and riveting first-person memory. Trash pickup delayed DeKalb garbage collection will be suspended Tuesday for Veterans Day. Garbage normally picked up on Tuesdays instead will be carried away on Wednesday. TJjTii 1 School progress report Mike Satterfield, building program manager for the Fayette County school system, will give a progress report on construction of Rising Starr Middle School and Starr's Mill High at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the cafeteria of the old Fayette County High School The two-school complex south of Peachtree City is expected to be ready in January.

Students have been housed in the old Fayette High buildings since September. 1 UPS trumpets new center Today there will be a dedication of the new $20 million, United Parcel Service Distribution Center in Roswell. The center, at 1300 Old Ellis Road off the Mansell Road exit of Ga. 400, opened several weeks ago and includes a customer counter, open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Mondays through Fridays. 1 Official flower prospers Duluth now has an official flower, thanks to the support of a high school senior. Ashley Davenport suggested the black-eyed Susan because it is "bright, yellow and cheery," and grows with little attention or care. Davenport presented the idea this year to the Duluth City Council, which approved it Duluth High School then donated $200 for seeds, and the Key Club, of which Davenport is a member, raised money for others. The seeds have been scattered in front of City Hall and along the median on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard between Pleasant Hill Road and Ga.

120. 3 Superintendent selection The Rockdale Board of Education has called a special work session at 7 p.m. today at the district's administrative offices, 9S4 N. Main Conyers. The meeting is open to the public.

The board is trying to choose a new superintendent of schools. Dexter Mills, principal of Harrison High School in north Cobb County, and Donald Peccia, associate superintendent of budget and finance for Virginia Beach City Public Schools, are the two finalists. Sewage backs up Nearly 12,000 gallons of raw sewage backed up into Tanyard Branch Creek in Rockdale County last week, while farther south another 1.1 million gallons of improperly treated wastewater spilled into the county's Almand Branch Creek, according to water and sewer director Laurie Ashmore. The raw sewage spilled through a manhole and into the creek after rags and debris backed up a pipe. The spills do not affect the county's drinking water supply.

The county has notified the state Environmental Protection Divi sion of the problems. State officials plan to determine if any fines should be levied. ed classes that there were many out-of-towners driv ing in the area. It progressed (particularly eastbound on West Paces Ferry) to slowing down (thus holding up the line behind), eyes darting here and there, and finally making whichever left was desired. Now, drivers are using their turn signals, which, according to local legend, gives the party the right to make whatever move is desired.

Elizabeth Etoll, Atlanta I'm a high school sophomore, and I agree that a defensive drivingdriver's ed course should be taught in the public schools. At my high school (Central Gwin nett in Lawrenceville), we average one or two people getting into accidents each week. Don Moore Lawrenceville Comments are welcome. Fax 404-526- 5746, e-mail: trafllcalc.com or write Joey Ledford. AJC, P.O.

Box 4689, Atlanta, Ga. 30302. TheVenl Talk radio without the radio I Atachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth. How can you tell when you've run out of Invisible ink? Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. My 1 1 -year-old son called me at work and told me that I needed to stop on the waV home and buy a G-string for his vio-linj 1 didn't know violins wore G-strings.

Please return stewardess to original upright position. If a good thing we have those stop the violence commercials every evening at 6:58. Otherwise, we'd be in serious trouble My wife and I were happy for 25 years. Then we met and got married. A good pun is its own reword.

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done already. I hfate it when customers come into our deli and say, "I want it all the way, but hdkl the onions." That is not all the way! Hy Cobb commissioners: Light rail works in Vancouver because it links the suburbs with Downtown. You need some kind of filter that keeps old Bennett Cerf joke book material from dV40s out of the Vent To' the anti-smokers out there: If you don't like the way I smoke or smell, stay 10, feet back. Seen in Boston on a road construction sign: "Rome wasn't built in a day.

If it were, we would have hired their contractor." Any mother can tell you that the very bst way to get your children's attention to either get on the phone or get in the bathtub. jf you didn't vote on Tuesday, keep jour mouth shut rave you ever noticed how deep politi cians' pockets are? frying to pick a new mayor is like trying op pick your favorite Menendez brother. Why no Varsity in Cobb? The Big Chicken wouldn't let the chili dog come tnjto his yard. there are parents who supervise their Children outside after dark and at parties, lavish they were my neighbors. Is there anybody out there who can give pie one good reason why banks are Closed on Election Day? My friend and I call our ex-husbands Goober and Gomer.

CI 3 ors A joint House-Senate state legislative committee studying whether' to recom mend that drivers ed be reinstated in tJeorgia has scheduled a series of public JjAfter hearing from you, the motoring pnasses, they will decide whether to introduce legislation in the upcoming session. 1 Here is the committee's hearing sched- We, with some locations yet to be Wiounced (TBA): Wednesday, 10 am, Savannah Tech, Savannah. Info: 912-351-6362. Thursday, Nov. 20, 6 p.m., City-County Government Building, Albany.

I Wednesday, Dec. 3, 10 am, Athens, location TBA. II Wednesday, Dec. 10, 10 a.m., state legislative Office Building, Atlanta, room 'jCBA. Ji At an organizational meeting last week, jtpe lawmakers appeared united in the belief that driver's ed, currently offered in itpt a smattering of school systems, is heeded.

The stumbling blocks are whether 5t put it back in public schools, whether to ftrmke it mandatory for licensing, and, most Legislat Also available on Access Atlanta are other valuable traffic information links, including a list of live incidents provided by "Captain" Herb Emory and his colleagues at WSB-AM (750). Now to the mailbag: Is there a Web site that will provide you the most direct route from one location to another within the 48 states? Joann Webster (via e-mail) Yes. My favorite such site is Mapquest: http:llwww.mapquest.com It is free, and it works. I used Mapquest last year to help me plan a route to a pretty remote destination Hot Springs, Va.jfit can get me there, can get you almost anywhere. Have you noticed the continuing trend in illegal left turns at "no left turn" intersections? I am especially referring to the five-way intersection at Paces Ferry, Peachtree and Roswell roads, which I travel through multiple times each day.

It started during the Olympics, with locals taking advantage of the perception I I E-mail: rhetaajc.com.