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The Forsyth County News
Volume 33.
U. S. Naval Reserve
Enlistments 17 To 36
The Navy Department has author
ized the enlistment of men from 17
to 36 years of age in the Naval Re
serve for immediate assignment to
active duty. This assignment to act
ive duty will last only as long as the
National Emergency.
These enlistments in the Navy are
available to men who have been cal
led by the Selective Service Board
for duty in the Armed Forces of the
United States.
The Naval Reserve classes are
given the same opportunities to at
tend regular Navy trade schools, and
receive advancements in rating paral
led to U. S. Naval Service in general,
as they become qualified.
A high school education is not re
quired for Navy enlistments. How
ever, high school graduates will find
an excellent opportunity to serve
their Country and at the same time
receive technical instruction in a use
ful trade.
Since over 50 per cent of the Navy’s
men are specialists with pay ranging
from S6O to $157.50 per month, men
enlisting “today” will be petty offic
ers and leaders of “tomorrow”;" re
ceiving a substantial income.
VACATION TIME
PEACE AND REST
Sow glorious it is to think of va
cation and the joy experienced visit
ing the home folks, temporarily free
from business cares and worry.
Countless Georgians went out from
their homes last summer to enjoy
hard earned vacations in their auto
mobiles. 170 of these (52 in June, 50
in July and 68 in August) failed to
find Rest and Peace—instead their lot
was Rest in Peace. 1
Why?
14 percent drove on or across the
center line.
42 percent exceeded safe ‘sfp'eeff
5 percent did not have the right of
way.
5 percent passed other cars on hills
and curves.
7 percent failed to stop at stop sign
and observe slow and caution signs.
1 percent failed to give or improper
ly gave hand signals.
25 percent failed to observe safety
rules and regulations.
14 percent of the drivers involved
in these fatal accidents had had some
thing to drink. (7 percent were drunk
If Georgia experiences this summer
the increase ia deaths that it has the
first quarter of this year 197 GEOR
GIANS WILL REST IN PEACE. Mot
orist—Wake up ! ! Examine your
driving and take stock of your man
ner of driving. Heed the Safety Rules
! ! ! And enjoy your vacation.
Your community, State, and Coun
try need you as never before after
you have Rested Peacefully.
Elaborate Plans Being
Made in Daytona Beach
Elaborate s>laiL.s ;for entertaining
Georgia’s “most attractive” honey
moon couple in Daytona Beach the
week of July 20 are being made by
the Chamber of Commerce of that
beach resort. Everything for Geor
gia’s winning couple will be “on the
house” that week in the beach resort
Local aspirants for this title should
send photographs of the two of them
together to the Daytona Beach Cliam
her of Commerce promptly. A free
souvenir from the world's most fam
ous beach will be sent to the first
couple entering from the Gumming
area, the Chamber announced today.
The winners in this contest will be
chosen solely on the basis of the
photographs they submit, and all pic
tures will be returned after judgging
as completed.
CARRY A PROJECT
There is still time to enter several
of the 1941 4-H club contests. In case
a boy or girl hag not enrolled in a
4-H project, or if additional projects'
are desired, it would be well to see
the county or home demonstration
agent at once and begin some of
these projects. In 4-H work there are
a number of projects of interest to
both boys and girls. These projects
afford good financial profits in many
instances, and in addition the carry
ing out of such activities is a jim
dandy way to get lost of experience.
Official Organ of Forsyth County and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population 1,000)
Cooking School Will
Be Held At School
Auditorium June 10
MISS BETTY PARKER
Miss Elizabeth Parker, one of the
Georgia Power Company’s most wide
ly experienced home economists, will
conducte the Homemakers' Conferen
ce to be held on June 10 and 11th at
the School Auditorium, in Cumming.
Sessions will be held at 2 P. M. on
June 10th and at 2 P. M. and 8 P. M.
on June 11th. They will be sponsored
by the P. T. A. of which Mrs. Win. J.
Poole is President
A native of Fairburn, Georgia, Miss
Parker was graduated from the Geor
gia Sate College for Women with the
degree of Bachelor of Science in
Home Economics. Later she did post
graduate work at the University of
Georgia.
Her parctical experience began in
1929, when she became connected
with the Georgia Power Company as
home economist. In this capacity she
acquired a wealth of knowledge in all
phases of home management. During
the past 11 years she has also taken
time out to hold other positions in
the radio, advertising and lecture
fields. In Philadelphia she conducted
“The Parker Parade”, a homemaking
feature of the NBC Red network.
Now she is back with the Georgia
Power Company and is giving Georgia
homemakers the benefits of a varied
experience that has made her one of
the ablest lecturing economists in the
South.
Cotton Farmers Lose
$15,000,00 Yearly
From Weevil Damage
Georgia cotton farmers are losing
some $15,000,000 annually thru neg
lect to control the boll weevil, E. C.
Westbrook, Extension agronomist, es
timated this week, in pointing out the
necessity for growers to inaugurate
weevil control measures on their crop
as a means of obtaining maximum
yields this season.
Westbrook voiced the urgent need
for increased efforts to stop weevil
damage this year, since prospects
point to better cotton prices this fall,
especially in view of the fact that
farmers will this season receive 85
percent of parity for their crop.
Under normal conditions, the Agri
cultural Extension Specialist said sys
tematic control of boll weevils by
poisoning will increase the . per-acre
lint yield from 50 to 100 pounds, and
even as much as 200 pounds during
a bad weevil year.
Westbrook called attention to the
fact that there is an abundance of
weevils this year in south Georgia
and that farmers must undertake In
tensive measures to curb losses from
the insect if good yields are to he ex
pected. A few weevils have been re
ported in middle Georgia and it is a
little too early for their appearance
in the northern section, be said.
Mopping of small cotton with a
mixture of one pound calcium arse
nate, one gallon of molasses, and one
gallon of water is recommended by
the Extension Service, and dusting
with a calcium arsenate dust is neces
sary for further control, if needed,
after the plants begin to square, the
cotton specialist asserted.
MICA DEPOSITS DISCOVERED
IN FORSYTH COUNTY
Mr. Joe Summerour discovers Mica
deposits on one of Roy P. Otwell's
farms, Mr. Summerour says he has
Mica miners ready to make con
tract to start Mica mining at once as
he feels sure there Is plenty of Mica
on this farm to be mined.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, June sth, 1941.
Farmer Believes In
Proper Management
For Timber Growing
"It takes proper management to he
a good timber grower.”
David H. Bennett of the Dixie Union
Community of Ware County ought to
know what he’s talking about, for he’s
been very successful with thy 2,825
acres of turpentine tiiUbei on his
farm, and also on the 175 acres he
has in cultivation.
“A man on the farm that
it right can have some money to
spend and some credit, too,” he says.
Now this business of farming is
really a business, according to Ben
nett’s way of thinking.
“Why a man who knows how to
farm ought to be most everything,”
he declares—“a good chemist, a good
salesman, a psychologist—oh, just a
lot of things. But above all he’s got
to be a good business man.”
Moreover, the farmer insists that
a producer should keep a record of
everything he does on his farm. "You
don’t know whether you’re coming or
going unless you do,” he says.
Bennett turpentines all of h>s woods
He has one tract of 2,000 acres, and
there are trees on his place that are
as much as 50 years old.
He has one tractor which he says
■takes the place of ten men. He mixes
his own fertilizer, and he declares
this is worth as much as SIOO per
acre to him.
Turpentine to him is a cash crop.
Others in the order of their import
ance are tobacco, corn and velvet
beans. He also has 25 beef cattle on
open range.
“Truly, David H. Bennett is a diver
sified, business-like farmer,” says
Gordon Nessimth, Ware county agent
“And since he is following his entire
farming operations in an organized
way he is making a success.”
IT IS UNLAWFUL '
To hunt or kill Grouse or native
Pheasants
To hunt or kill Woodcock.
To hunt or kill Wood Duck
To trap, molest of kill Beaver.
To hunt at night with light
To hunt on any game refuge ex
cept on supervised hunts.
To waste game wantonly or to
ship game
To sell plumage of game or song
birds without permit
To shoot from public higghway or
railroad right of way
To hunt on lands without permis
sion or owner or tenant
To sell or offer for sale, barter
or exchange any of the game animals
or game birds or parts thereof, of the
State of Georgia.
To take any game bird or animal
for holding in captivity except by pet*
mit.
To rob any bird’s nest except such
birds as ar not protected by law or
to kill any non-game bird except
Buzzard, Crow, Hawk, Owl and En
glish Sparrow.
To trap, net or ensnare animals
and game birds, except fur bearing
animals.
To poison game or non-game ani
mals.
To resist Wildlife Rangers or other
officers charged with enforccement of
the game and fish laws.
To fail to report to the Division of
Wildlife all Turkey or Deer killed in
Georgia.
There is a federal regulation declar
ing a closed season on migratory
insectivorious birds throughout the
year as follows:
Bobolinks, catbirds, chicadees,
cuckoos, flickers, flycatchers, gros
beaks, humming birds, kinglets, mar
tins, meadlowlarks, nighthawks or
bullbats, nut-hatcliers, orioles, robins,
shrikes, swallows, swifts, tanagers,
titmice , thrushes , vireos warblers,
wax-wings, whippoorwills, woodpeck
ers, and wrens, and all other perch
ing birds which feed entirely or
chiefly on insects.
CANNING CARROTS
Wash carrots throughouly. Scrape,
skin or boil in water until skins slip
beastly. Pack into containers after
they have been skinned and trimmed.
Add one teaspoon salt, and cover
with clear hot water. Seal jars and
process. That’s the way to can carrots
says the Agricultural Extension Serv
ice.
Parity Payments On
Cotton Expected To
Exceed $7,000,000
The first thin trickle of a fresh
stream of needed cash began pouring
Into depleted farm coffers this week
when theinitial 1941 cotton parity
payments were made to a group of
Hancock county farmers.
Cotton parity payments this year
are expected to total between $7,000,-
000 and $7,500,000 compared with
slightly more than $8,000,000 on the
1940 crop, according to T. R. Breed
love, administrative officer in charge
oi the Agricultural Adjustment Ad
ministration in Georgia
“On the surface,” Breedlove said,
“it might seem the cotton grower is
receiving less for his ccrop this year.
It is true that parity and conserv
vatiou payments have been reduced,
cotton loan rates from 58 percent to
but legislation just enacted has rais
-85 percent of parity. Thus, cotton
under loan, plus payments, will bring
I tile cooperating grower about 16 1-4
cents (for middling) this year, com
pared with about 12 3-4 cents last
year.
“This means about $Bl a bale this
year, compared with $63.60 a bale
last year, or $17.50 a hale more. If
this year’s crop approximates last
year’s Georgia cotton growers will be
$17,675,000 better off.”
Last year’s loan rate on middling
was about 8.80 cents, the parity pay
ment. 1.55 cents, and the conservation
payment 1.44 cents. The figures this
yearare about 13.50 cents loan, 1.38
cents parity, and 1.37 cents conser
vation payment.
Parity payments will be made in
other Georgia counties as rapidly as
applications are received from the
county offices, Breedlove pointed out.
Th”y represent but one phase of the
broad-scale program of the Depart
ment of Agriculture to aid farm in
ert ‘ e.
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Farm Bureau Return
High Dividends To
Forsyth Farmers
Enactment of legislation sponsored
by the American Farm Bureau Feder
ation will mean a sizable payroll in
Forsyth County this Fall, according
to R. M. Stiles of the Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation.
The legislation to which Mr. Stiles
refers, according to President W. J.
Orr of the County Farm Bureau is
the 85 percent of parity mandatory
loan bill recently approved by the
Congress and signed by the President
“This legislation will mean appro
ximately $20.00 more per bale for
cotton this year," Mr. Stiles said.
“Forsyth County produces approxi
mately 9000 bales, which means an
increased income of $180,000.00 to
producers in the county.
“The effects of the Farm 1 Bureau’s
program on income to Farmers cannot
be emphasized too strongly, M)r.
Stiles said. “If the added amount of
income that the Farm Bureau will
bring to this county this year came in
the form of anew industrial payroll
our citizens would be jubilant
“This legislation was written by
organized farmers, sponsored by them
and passed in the Congress through
their efforts and cooperation with
their friends in position of legislative
authority. One of the most important
features of the measure is the tact
that it will cost even less money than
the present farm program.
“It did not have the official bless
ing of the Department of Agriculture
or the Administration and is one of
the most brilliant victories in the
long history of the Farm Bureau. It
is an example of what organization
can do for farmers and is a challenge
to all farmers to join the Farm Bu
reau and thereby increase its facili
ties to serve them even better in the
future.
“The only progress farmers have
ever made in their fight for parity of
prices and parity of income is thru
organized effort and if they are to
retain tlie nrogre-SR that they have
miade and continue to move forward
they must form a united front,” Mr.
Stiles said.
Dr. W. F. Moore will not he in
Cunftning next Tuesday and Wednes
day at Dr. Mashburn's office
Throughout the daytime, cottons
are cool, practical, and washable
(County Population 12,000)
Linder Asking Farm
Products Part of Nat
ional Defense Program
Agriculture Commissioner Linder
is asking the United States Congress
to declare farm products “a part of
the national defense program.”
In that way Congrgess can remove
load limits and liccense fees effective
in some states agagiust trucks enter
ing and passing through their limits.
In many states, declared the Commis
sioner, load limitations are so low
that it is impossible for the farmer to
transport his products through those
states.
“If the farmer is unable to load his
truck with sufficient tonnage to war
rant him a pay load, his products
must remain in the field,” the Com
missioner wrote the Congressmen.
“It is possible for the Congrgess to
declare farm products for human con
sumption, when moving gin interstate
commerce by trucks, a part of the nat
ional defense program.”
He reminded the Congressmen also
that "our soldiers in 'the field” as well
as civilians who “toil in fields, fact
ories and shops “must be fed and
clothed and that the American farm
er stands ready and willing to “back
this nation in its hour of need.”
Move To Shorten
Grocery Hours
A movement to shorten working
hours in the retail food distribution
industry is under way according to a
statement made by Scott W. Allen,
executive vice president of Colonial
Stores Incorporated, operators of Rog
ers and Big Star food stores. Effect
ive June 2 stores operated by his firm
go on a five and one-half day week
with shorter daily hours.
This statement was made following
a meeting of 300 employees of these
stores at which time service pins
were awarded to 25 veteran employ
ees in the South Georgia district.
In making the statement public Mr.
Allen said that he hoped for complete
cooperation of all retail merchants in
making this effort a reality for the
whole industry.
“The movement to shorten working
hours in the grocery business is, in
my opinion, the most important step
taken in this industry in more than
forty years I have been connected
with it,” Mr. Allen said. “I sincerely
hope that it will mark the beginning
of a general movement to shorten
hours in all grocery stores.
“These shorter hours will improve
service to the consumer and will give
employees more time for recreation.
“Looking toward the solution of
this important problem I believe we
shall have the cooperation of all re
tail merchants.
“I also feel that this movement will
have the cooperation and approval of
the consumer, whose interest, after
all, is most important.”
Local Graduates From
North Georgia College
At Dahlonega, Georgia
The sixxty-ninth annual commence
ment exercises of North Georgia Col
lege will be held June 6-7, Friday
June 6, will be Home-Coming day to
which all former students are invited
Class reunions will be held for all
classes whose numerals end in “one
and “six". Events on Home-Coming
Day will be the final military parade
reviewed by Governor Talmadge and l
the Governor’s Staff, dedication of
the Joseph Spencer Stewart Library,
annual Alumni Meeting, and the Rex
Sigma Theta Home-Coming Dance.
The commencement Address will be
delievered Saturday night, June 7, by
Dr. Steadman V. Sanford. Chancellor
of the University System of Georgia.
A class of 150 candidates will re
ceive their diplomas Saturday night.
The candidates from Cumming are
George Baggley and Roy E. Moore.
Also MiRS Martha Brown of Martin
Georgia, who is a sister of County
Agent 11. T. Brown.
Georgia families need good diets to
safeguard their own health and to
strengthen the defense of the country
Paint provides color and freshness,
and the artistic use of tints and col
ors makes the home attractive and
I interesting.
Number
“Flying Ants”
May Be Termites
Warns Entomologists
A swarm of "flying ants” found
around the house at this time of the
year is usually the first Indication of
termites and homeowners should be
gin control measures, warns J. H.
Girardeau, State Entomologist.
Most Georgia termites live in the
ground where they have a nest con
taining thousands of workers. The
workers teed on wood, carrying it
back to the nest to feed the queen
and young. Once a year the colony
swarms, sending out thousands of
sexually mature kings and queens
whose sole purpose is to start another
colony. Such swarms should be kil
led with kerosent, fly spray, or boil
ing water, suggests Entomologist
Girardeau.
Termites can be easily distinguish
ed from ants by the close examination
of their body parts. Ants have defi
nite restrictions between the head,
thorax and abdomen, causing the
body parts to look as if joined by a.
thread. Termites have little or no
restrictions where the body parts are
joined together. Georgians who are
not sure of their identification of
“flying ants” found near the house,
should send a specimen in a pill
box to Mr, Girardeau at the State
Capitol in Atlanta for postive identi
fication. When a termite infestation
is caught soon enough and proper
treatment is carried out, the home
owner may save a large repair bill.
Termite control consists of more
than smearing a wood preservative
on sills and flooring. Under most con
ditions, the treatment is simple
enough for homeowners to do a
successful job. advises Georgia’s
State Entomologist. Since most Geor
gia termites live in the ground, treat -
ment should begin with a soil poison
applied to those areas from which
termites emergge. Along with the
soil treatment, no wood should bo
left In eontaet with the ground., at.
least 18 inches clearance should be
had between soil and sills, ample
ventilation should be had under the
house, especially during the summer
months and all Infested timbers
damaged sufficient to weaken the
structure of the house should be re
placed.
Anyone who desires information ou
the proper control of termites nray
obtain a bulletin on this subject
written for Georgia conditions by
writing to the State Entomologist,
State Capitol, Atlanta and request
bulletin No. 81. ,
Malaria Death Rate •
On Decrease In
Georgia Reports Show
During a five-year period, 1936 to
1940 inclusive, there hasbeen a con
tinous reduction in the malaria death
rate in Georgia, according to an an
nouncement by the Georgia Depart
ment of Public Health.
During the five-year period, there
was an average of 235.4 deaths as
compared with 358.4 for the previous
five-year period. The average annual
death rate for the past five years was
7.6 compared with 12.0 for the pre
vious period.
Public funds have been spent for
malaria control during a period of
only about six years. Various public
agencies have cooperated generously
with the state and local health de
partments in applying control meaw
ures.
During 1940 approximately $700,000
was expanded directly for engineer
ing malaria control construction, 'ex
clusive of related services on engi
neering mapping, scientfic investiga
tions and research and exclusive of
minor expenditures by Individual pro
perty owners
Approximately 130 miiles of drain
age was accomplished during the past
year, eliminating nearly 1,000 sources
of malaria. Impounded waters have
been placed under regulations. Re
cord is now in the possession of the
health department of the detail loca
tion of nearly 000 artflcial impound
ments, aggregating approximately!
00,000 acres located in 05 counties.
For the past quarter centure, the
annual consumption of lint cotton for
each citizen of the United States ha
been approximately 26 pounds.