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The Forsyth County News
VOI 26—NO. 10.
The New 1934
Chevrolet
is now on display at our Show
Rooms.
Call and let us give you a dem
onstration.
Otwell Motor Cos., Inc.
"THE HOUSE SERVICE BUILT”
Methodist Church I’LL GO TO CHURCH
(Sunday, February 11,)
10:15 a. m. Sunday School, Col. Carl
Tallant—Superintendent.
11:15 a. m. Sermon "Together”
7:30 p. m. Sermon; “The Race”
BETHELVIEW
3 p. m. Sermon By the pastor.
WORKERS COUNCIL
Meets at the Pairsonage Monday
evening at 7:30 o’clock.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
Thursday 7:30 p. m.
"Worship with us”
COTTON FUNDS
LIABLE TO TAX
SAYS RULING
Atlanta, Ga„ (GPS) Georgia farm
ers who have collected monies from
the government for reducing cotton
acreage and other benefits under the
Agricultural Adjustment Act must in
clude them in income tax returns, W.
Eugene Page. Georgia collector, has
announced.
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Helvering, at Washington, has ruled
that these cash benej'ts constitul*
taxable income, and returns must be
made by March 15.
Commodity benefits affected under
this ruling include cotton, wheat, corn
hogs, rice, tobacco and milk, or any
milk products, such as cheese, Mr.
Page said.
FEBRUARY LOANS
BY LAND BANK.
Figures for business done by the
Federal Land Bank of Columbia dur
ing February were given out today by
President Frank H. Daniel of that
institution.
Said Mr. Daniel—“ Although there
were only twenty-three working days
in February, the Land Bank closed
5421 loans for a total of $8,909f535.
This included 1433 loans totaling $3,-
781,900 in the form of first mortgages
made by the Land Bank and 3988
loans totaling $5,127 1 ,635 made from
the Commissioner’s Fund.
Loans closed in February were
greater in number and amount than
in either January or December and
brought the total loans made by the
Bank during the last three months to
approximately $25,000,000 distributed
among 15,387 borrowers.
The distribution of loans for Feb
ruary in the Third District was as
follows:
STATE NUMBER AMT.
North C. 1405 $2,237,822
South C. 1357 2,270,902
Georgia 2114 3,161,662
Florida 545 1,239,089
CWA WORKERS
DROPPED
Atlanta, (73—Approximately 11,000
CWA workers throughout the state
have been dropped from the pay rolls
of the relief organization during the
past week. Georgia’s quota after the
reduction was 39,000 persons, it was
stated. This quota must be reduced
to 20,000 persons by March 30, which
will mean a reduction in the person
nel week by week until this number
is reached.
(By George Gary)
I’ll go to Church THIS Sunday,
Through heat or cold or rain,
Uniting in the worship
Of him who rose again.
I’ll go to Church NEXT Sunday
To welcome others there;
Listen to God's Holy Word,
And lift my heart in prayer.
I’ll go to Church ALL Sundays,
Join in His songs of praise,
And count God’s Holy Sabbaths
As my most blessed days.
STATE WILL CALL
ON THOUSANDS
OF INCOME TAX
DELINQUENTS
Atlanta, Ca.—Between 10,000 and
15,000 Georgians who have not made
income tax returns during the last
four years are to be called on the
carpet by the Georgia Revenue Com
mission it was announced here hv
Paul H. Doyal, chairman of the com
mission. The department has just
completed investigations that have re
vealed many deliquents, the chairman
said. The delinquents include many
firms and corporations, as well as in
dividuals, it was stated. Letters noti
fying the of the assess
ments against them are now being
sent out, Chairman Doyal stated.
Notice is given in each case that
thirty days is allowed for filing a
•petition for redetermination of the
income tax liability.
Lonnie Nichols Rescues
Ed Neighbors From
Hightower River
Mr. Lonnie Nichols 31, of near Frog
town, after three attempts finally res
cued Mr. Ed Neighbors who had been
hanging to a small limb in the swift
current for several hours.
Mr. Nichols and Mr. Neighbors were
on their way home during the heavy
hailstorm about five or six o’clock on
Sunday afternoon February 28 when
crossing the bridge at the High’ower
River missed the bridge and it washed
them several hundred yards down the
river before they could get their bal
ance. Mr. Neighbors finally found a
tree and he clung to it and Mr. Nich
ols made a safe landing on the bank
and after discovering that Mr. Neigh
bors was not along finally located him
up the stream hanging to a limb.
Mr. Nichols hurried to the near
est neighbors house securing a rope
and some help dashed back to get
Mr. Neighbors. After making three
trips with the rope tied around his
waist to reach Mr. Neighbors. The
first and second tiips he had to re
turn due to the rope being too short
the third ‘.rip was successful and when
he reached Mr. Neighbors he was ex
hausted, but held a death grip on him
while being pulled through the swift
current to shore, he was unconscious
for three hours but at' this writing
he is still confined to his bed with
Pneumonia. The many friends of Mr.
Nichols are congratulating him on ,
this wonderful heroism and all hope
that he will soon be able to be out.
The many friends of Mr. George 1
Ingram are glad to know that he is
improving each and that he is able'
to get out and stir around some each
day.
COUNTY WORKERS
WILL HELP WITH
FARM, HOME
PLAN.
To aid farm families in Forsyte
county in arriving at a cropping pro
gram that will supply the farm and
family requirements for living at'
home, Otto Mills, county farm agent,
is introducing a “Farm and Home
Cropping Plan” sheet.
It is probable that the plan will be
demonstrated soon at a group meeting
to be attended by farm men, women
and young people. It is an attempt to
focus the interest of the farm family
in doing definite planning for a live
at Home program since “experience
in the AAA programs has shown the
importance of farm and home records,
the agents say.
The sheet, prepared by the Agri
cultural Extension service of the Uni
versity of Georgia, was written to
aid in forming cropping programs
under individual conditions. It is also
hoped that it will supply requirements
for living-at-home and assist in meet
ing provisions of the AAA programs.
Budworm Control
Is Dependent On
Time Of Planting
When the budworn or southern
corn rootworm, a most destructive
insect, is present, control depends on
timing plantings so as to have the
plants come up when the ground is
most free of worms, according to Otto
Mills, Forsy h county agricultural
agent.
C'>ver crops and other host plants
should be turned under and killed at
leas : two weeks before coni is plant
ed. he says and several plantings of
corn at ten-day intervals will prove
valuable against both insect damage
and unfavorable weather. Thick plant
ings and late thinnings will also help.
The budwonn or southern root
worm is the most destructive insect
ti young corn in Georgia since it kills
seedling corn and is responsible fof
most poor stands, Mr. Mills states.
The insect passes the winter in the
adult or beetle stage and in the spring
eggs are laid in the soil.
Corn is the favorite host plant but
grass, legumes, and other crops are
attacked. Small worms, hatching
from eggs, crawl through the soil to
the plant roots or stems. They enter
the stems of the corn plan between
the first ring of the roots and the
surface of the ground and feed on the
interior of the stems and on the buds.
Occasionaly they attack the roots, but
injury at this point is small.
The full grown worm is one-half to
three-quarters of an inch long with
yellow body and dark brown head.
The adult is a light green beetle with
twelve black spots in four regular
rows on the back, he explains.
The greatest damage to corn oc
curs on wet, cool land or when it is
planted immediately following plow
ing under of grass or winter legumes.
This is due, he says, to eggs being
laid while the cover crop is growing.
Corn planted early is usually dam
aged more than that planted late be
cause the former comes up just in
time to be attacked by the young of
the over-wintered beetles.
Mr. L. D. Stephens is Local Inspect
or for Forsyth county for the Produc
tive Credit Association of Columbia
S. C.
Anyone desiring to borrow money
from the Federal Government to buy
Farm Animals, Fertilizer and Seeds
See Otto Mills, County Agent, L. D.
Stephens or E. A. Bennett. Either one
of them will assist you in getting
a loan.
The Chattahoochee river went on a
“tear” Saturday night,, in consequen
ce of which no mail was received here
Sunday. However, the carrier went
around by Flowery Branch and de
livered one mail Monday. He has
now resumed his regular daily sehed
ult.
Snowball and Sunshine Black Face
Comedians, with the Calico Kids, a
trio that have voices as one and Cow
boy Roy the guitar picker and singer
are appeafing at Cumming Schcc 1 '
auditorium Saturday night March 17
at 8 o’clock. The Fideles Sunday
School Class of the Baptis* Church
are sponsoring them. The proceeds
will be used to repair the church.
Bring your family and see them. 15
and 25c admission.
CUMMING, GA„ MARCH 8, 1£34.
PITTMAN GIVES
LAW ON VOTING
GEORGIA JURIST TELLS HOW
SIMPLE AND IMPORTANT IT
IS FOR OUR CITIZENS TO
REGISTER AND VOTE
i A timely statement has just been
issued by Judge Claude Pittman of
the Cherokee Circuit, who writes from
his home at Cartersville, as follows:
This is General Election year. A
number of contests are certain—legis
lative, congressional, judicial and
governor. It is the duty of every good
citizen to qualify for the election of
public officials. Registration is a nec
essary qualification. All women and
men registering for the first time,
do not have to pay a poll tax until
after the elections are held. Those
who have become qualified voters
heretofore must pay past poll taxes,
assessed against them, and see that
their names are still on the voters'
book. Heretofore a failure to ,pay pr'j,
perty taxes required a removal of the
name from registration book, but past
due property tax is no longer a bar
to voting.
The law now says: “To enable a
person to register and vote at any
election by the people he shall have
resided in the state one year and in
the county, in l which he offers to vote,
six months next preceding the election
and shall have paid all POLL TAXES |
that he may have had an opportunity
of paying agreeably to law.” The voter!
must be at least twenty-one years of
age on Tuesday, following the first
Monday in November, in order to re
gister, and may vote in primaries to
nomina .4 candidates for the General
Election although not yet 21 years
old, provided he will he 21 at the.
General Election.
All poll taxes go to the public school j
children of the state.
The paramount question of a good
citizen is: “Am I and members of my
family ready to vote?” If not quali
fied to vote we should go to our Tax
Collector and qualify, remembering
aftqr May 6th is too late.
The ballot is our only means for
selecting public servants. It is more
powerful than money, more conquer
ing than armies and yet easily avail
able to all.
Cumming Man Uses
Nectie To Make Own
I Tourniquet
With Spartan courage, I’. O. Pirkle,
22 of Cumming, took off his nec'ie
and made a tourniquet for his own
arm, which had been torn almost off
in an automobile crash on the Ros
well Road Monday night.
He and his friend, Clifton Ander
son, 20 also of Cumming, held the
nectie tightly below his shoulder
while they drove the battered car to
Buckhead, where county police trans
ferred them to a county car and sped
to Grady Hospital.
Pirkle’s arm was amputated at the
shoulder. He was in a serious condi
tion Tuesday.
The accident occurred as Pirkle,
Anderson and Willie Nunnally, 16
were driving to Cumming.
They reported that another car
swerved suddenly on a curve side
wiping them and forcing them into
an embankment. Plrkle.’s arm tvas
caught in the steering wheel and
twisted almost off. The others es
caped injury.
The youths said the other car did
not stop.
BASKET BALL TOURNAMENT
The Annual Tournament is to be
held in Cumming March 8, 9 and 10. |
The teams entering in “C” Bracket,
are Bethelview, Cuba, Centerville, i
Corinth, Mat, Hopewell, Haw Creek
North Side. Those in “B” Bracket
are Cumming, Dawsonville, Long
street, Flowery Branch, Alpharetta. 1
Chestatee Liberty and Brandywine.
The games are scheduled to play'
from 2:30 p. m. to 6.30 p. m. on Thurs-!
day and from 7:00 to 10:00 Thursday
night. 3:30 to 5.30 p. m. Friday and
7:30 to 9:30 Friday night. 3:30 to 5:30*
p. m. Saturd ty and 7:30 Saturday,
night.
Admission 10 and 20 cents.
Mr. L. J. Redd of Dawsonville. was 1
visiting his son. Mr. Byran Reed here;
Wednesday. |
Col. A. B. Tollison is confined to
his bed with a ligth touch of flu. His
many friends will be sorry to hear. *
THROUGH
THE YEARS
Since 1904 the Bank of Gumming has been ren
dering a vast service to its friends and customers.
Through these long years this bank has contin
tinued its basic policy—to meet the financial prob
lems that changing conditions have brought. Our
aim is to render the same prompt and efficient
service in the years to come.
The deposits in this bank are insured under the
terms of the Banking Act of 1933.
Upon the past record we solicit at least part of
your business.
BANK of CUMMING
B. P. Roper, Pres’t.
Roosevelt Committee
Conservation Report
Doublt-Barrel Plan
New York, March B—Millions of
acres of America’s wild waterfowl
breeding grounds have been ruthless
ly destroyed in attempts to bring
more under cul ivation when
existing farms were already produc
ing crops far greater than could be
profitably marketed, the President’s
Committee on Wildlife Restoration
has reported to President Roosevelt.
The committee’s recommendation
for federal acquistlon of over 5,000,-
000 acres of these now unprofitable
areas and their restoration to the pur
pose for which Nature intended them
would therefore be a double barreled
relief measure benefiting both the
hard-pressed farmers and the coun
try’s declining wildlife.
The report, just published by the
Department of Agriculture, states:
“The rapid depletion of our migratory
waterfowl resources, now universally
admitted, is in large part a result of
the unwise exploitation of submargi
nal lands. Drainage operations, in
tended to bring more lands under
cultivation, have directly destroyed
millions of acres of former breeding
grounds, and. by lowering water tab
les, have indirectly destroyed imi’l
lions of acres more.”
Drainage alone, however, is not the
only unfavorable circums ance affect
ing the wild ducks. The report points
out: "Grazing of tthe remaining marsh
lands and ranges has prevented suc
cessful nesting and reproduction of
breeding stocks. Mowing of hay and
fires have destroyed many nests and
nesting sites. This destruction of
nes’s has reduced the annual increase
from normal expectancy of 300 per
cent, to as low as 15 per cent, in
areas under observation.
“These destructive agricultural
factors,” the report continues, “are
all associated to a large degree with
the over extension of the farm areas.
Coupled with them has come an un
precedented series of drought years,
further shrinking the available breed
ing area. The net effect is that ’he
natural increase from progagation no
longer equals the annual losses from
all causes.
“Natural propagation has been cur
tailed to such an extend that no
amount of further restriction of the
take or methods of taking will suf
fice to restore wild waterfowl.”
PROF. R O. POWELL VISITS CITY
Prof. K. O. Powell, superintendent
of he Gumming school, spent a short
time in this city recently. During his
brief visit here he received a most
hearty welcome from a large number
of patrons and school children. Prof,
and Mrs. Powell made countless
friends during their two years resi
dence in Winder who will always give
them a warm welcome Winder News
CASH PRIZES will be awarded'First
and Second Teams—Four dollars for
the First Team and Tw dollars for
the Second Team.
SI.OO PER YEAR
Negro Keeps Farm
After Phone Talk
With President
Columbus. Miss. March 1 Sylvester
Harris’ long-distance telephone con
versation with President Roosevelt
had brought results today.
Here is Sylvester's version of the
conversation:
"De White House gentleman what
answered de phone up there got mad
and said, ‘Quit calling de president,’
but I keeps on and finally gets him.
“He say. ‘Sylvester who?”
“I says ‘Sylvester Harris, a nigger
down here in Mississippi. A man
genin' ready to take my laud and I
want to know what to do. De papers
say call you and 1 does and here I is.'
"De president say quiet-like, "Syl
vester, I'll investigate and you’ll hear
from me.”
That was February 19. Yesterday,
George Hamilton, local representative
of the New’ Orleans Federal Land
bank, received a telegram, followed
by a letter, asking that the mortgage
on Sylvester's farm be investigated
thoroughly and adjusted through ex
tension.
Hamilton says Sylvester has one
of :he best cotton fields in Lowndes
county, have produced 24 bales on
30 acres.
Some observers consider the crash
of army mail carrying planes, with
the death of their pilots, as the first
break in the exceptional fortune which
has accompanied he Roosevelt Ad
ministration since last March. The
fact that some of the fatalities did
not occur on mail flights was not
enough to prevent a chorus of protests
from peoplle in various sections of
the country, who insisted that the
Army men were being “sent to death”
as a result of the cancellation of the
domestic air mail contracts.
Georgians Need Not
Fear Tag Troubles,
McWhorter Asserts
Georgians need not be alarmed be
cause of any threatened refusal to re
cognize their automobile tags In any
other state, Marcus McWhorter, dir
ector of the State Motor Vehicle De
partment declared Tuesday.
Mr. McWhorter said that in every
instance where Georgia tags had been
removed by 1 Florida authorities, itj
was after investigation had disclosed
that the owners of the cars were
bona fide citizens of Florida and were
not entitled to have Georgia tags.
There has been no Instance repor'od
of a Georgia citizen being molested
in Florida or any other state, Mr. Mc-
Whorter said.
The Motor Vehicle Department is
still selling tags fairly rapidly, and
the total sales had reached 319,702
Tuesday. This compares with total
sales 342,000 last year up to Decem
ber 31. The sales this year are far
ahead of those up to the same date
last year.