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The Forsyth County News
Volume 33.
Bicycle Riders Must
ObservejSame Rules
Of Automobile Drivers
Commissioner John E. Goodwin at
a Press Conference this morning stat
ed that the Attorney General’s office
has advised him that it is clearly ap
parent that in the case of a bicycle no
rule could apply other than the rule
■which applies to other vehicles and
that they shall observe the same traf
fic regulations as other vehicles and
must be ridden on the right-hand side
of the road.
He, also, stated that there is a wide
spread misapprehension that a bicycle
must be ridden just as a person would
walk—that is facing traffic. Major
Goodwin says this is a mistake and
he felt this point should be cleared
up for the benefit of the people.
The Commissioner further stressed
the importance of young people ex
ercising extreme caution during these
summer days during vacation, so that
we may all help to reduce our acci
dent rate.
Farmers Warned Of
Damage To Rye And
Wheat By Nematodes
Nematodes are attacking wheat
again in Georgia and North and South
Carolina, and according to E. D. Alex
ander, agronomist for the Agricultur
al Extension Service, these microsco
pic, eel-like worms can unexpectedly
ruin wheat and rye crops.
The nematode has been found in all
States from Maryland to Georgia, but
grower vigilance in the last few years
has greatly reduced its losses on
grain crops, Mr. Alexander said.
Nematodes develop by thousands in
galls that replace kernels in the heads
of infected plants. Inside the galls the
mature nematodes breed, and anew
generation is hatched from eggs.
These galls are dark brown or black
in wheat, straw-colored in rye, and
are slightly smaller than the grain.
During harvest many galls fall to the
ground, infesting the soil for further
crops. Others become mixed in the
seed and may be sown with it the fol
lowing season.
The galls are softened by soil mois
ture, break open, and release the ne
matodes to attack the wheat seedlings
Leaves of infected plants are curled
and twisted, and mature plants are
usually stunted.
Mr. Alexaxnder recommends that
land on which nematode-infected crop
were grown be used for other crops
the following year to starve the pests.
He says also that farmers should be
sure that galls are not mixed with
their wheat or rye seed, and they
should not spread nematode-infected
straw or manure on land to be sown
to wheat o rrye that year.
Wheat and rye, alone with emmer
and spelt, are the only crops on which
the young nematodes can live. No
varieties of these grains adapted to
the Southeast and at the same time
resistant to this nematode are known
Phone Rates Within
State Cut $117,000
Effective July 10, reduction in in
trastate long-distance tlephone rates
totaling approximately $117,000 annu
ally willbe put into effect by the
Southern Bell Telephone & Telegraph
Company under an order issued by
the Georgia Public Service Commis
sion.
The new schedule of rates elimi
nates the report charge on uncomplet
ed calls entirely, Chairman Walter R.
McDonald said. This fee, ranging from
10 to 30 cents, is levied when the call
er is unable to get his party and the
call is cancelled. This rate charge
alone would bring about savings of
$32,000 a year to telephone users,
while the basic reductions will
amount to $85,000 a year, the chair
man said.
Typical of the reductions are from
sl.lO to 95 cents on station to station
calls and $1.50 to $1.25 on person to
person calls between Atlanta and Sav
annah; $1.05 to 90 cents on station to
station and from $1.40 to $1.20 on
person to person calls between Atlan
ta and Waycross. Conferences looking
toward an adjustment of the intra
state toll rates have been going on
since last October between the com
mission and officials of the telephone
company.
Official Organ of Forayth County and City of Cumming
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES
(City Population 1,000)
City Improvements
Continue, Buildings
Rapidly Going Up
Continued progress seems to be the
goal of citizens in Cumming and we
are proud that this is true. We love
to see our city grow.
Construction on the New School
Gymnasium which began some weeks
ago is progressing nicely and patrons
believe that it will be ready for the
opening of school in September.
Roy Otwell is building an up-to
date Brick Veneer dwelling house on
Dahlonega Road which is to be com
pleted in the next few weeks and will
add much to this section of city which
we understand is to be occupied by
Mr. E. E. Buice and family
A Modern Frame House which is
being built on Cumming-Atlanta high
way will soon be ready for its owners.
We congratulate Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Gravitt and hope that they will he
very happy in their new home.
Improvements are developing fast
at the Baptist Church here and every
thing is being done to make it possi
ble to have it all completed by July
6th at which time revival services
will begin.
Bookmobile Schedule
ROUTE NO. 7 TUESDAY JULY 1.
From Cumming to Purcell Comrnun
ity, Ducktown School Community,
Ducktown. In a southerly direction to
Mr. Harris’s home, To Drew, across to
Purcell’s, working other communities
along route.
ROUTE NO. 8— Wednesiday, July 2.
From Cumming on Heardville road
will work homes and communities
along road to Heardville, from Heard
ville toward Ducktown, working com
munities between Cumming-Duck
town Road and Cumming-Heardville
road back toward Cumming.
ROUTE NO. 9 Thursday July 3rd.
Coal Mountain, Spot Road almost to
Cumming, Drew Road turning back
Northward on road by Geo. Bramb
lett’s working communities to Frog
town and back toward Cumming.
ROUTE NO. 10 Saturday, July sth.
Coal Mountain School to Matt, Oak
Grove Community, Concord, Silver
City, Wallis Store, Hopewell Com
munity toward Coal Mountain.
These routes will be worked as
convenient to the people as much aS
possible but owing to the limited
time we cannot stop at every houstt,
but will make community stops at
convenient places.
GARLAND SORRELLS.
Assistant Librian.
Value Of Better
Pastures Cited
By County Agent
Pasture improvemtn practices car
ried out under the agricultural con
servation program in Forsyth county
have laid the foundation for increased
production of meat and dairy products
called for under the U. S. Department
of Agriculture’s food-for-defense ef
fort, B. T. Brown county agent declar
ed this week.
Farmers have earned soil-building
payments for practices carried out
under the Farm program, he said,
with the result that 200 acres of pas
ture land in Forsyth county have been
ti ought to higher levels of efficiency
Pasture land thus improved will sup
port a greater number of cattle and
provides a richer food source—two
lactors which will be of great import
ance in realizing the 6 to 8 percent
total milk production increases set
for the United States as a whole.
At the same time, better pastures
in Forsyth county are meaning better
nourished people on the farm, Mr.
Brown said. Improved pastures have
made it possible for farmers to in
crease both the number and the qua
lity of their dairy cattle, with the re
sult that farm people are now con
suming more milk and butter in their
daily diet.
Approved AAA pasture-improve
ment practices include the application
I of ground limestone, superphosphate;
t seeding of grasses and legumes, pas
ture mixtures; and terracting.
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Cumming Georgia, Thursday, June 26, 1941.
NEW DRAFT IS
TO BE MADE
ON JULY FIRST
ALL REACHING 21 SINCE
OCTOBER ARE TO SIGN UP
That Uncle Sam means business in
the national defense program is fur
ther evidenced by the fact that he has
issued another call for ablebodied
men to prepare to shoulder arms in
his ever expanding Army.
Next Tuesday morning July 1, from
7:30 o’clock until nine that night all
male persons who have reached the
age of 21 since the last draft on Oct
ober 16, 1940, are expected to report
to the Local Draft Board rooms over
the Ingram-Moore Funeral Parlor in
Cumming.
A total of ten per cent of those re
gistering in 1940 are expected to fall
under the new limitation. The total
for the nation will probably be around
2,000,000.
U. S. Troop Movement
Exceeds A Million
In First 4 Months
More than a million members of
Uncle Sam's armied forces were trans
ported by rail during the first four
months of this year, according to a
report just completed by the Military-
Transportation Section of the Asso
ciation of American Railroads, and
made public by Atlanta railways offi
cials. The total number of men actu
ally moved by the railroads during
that period was 1.002,382, and aver
age of 250,596 men per mohth for the
four-month period.
Many of the men were transferred
to and from Army posts in Georgia.
More than half of the million odd men
moved on special trains over long
distances, while others were handled
in regular train service by the addi
tion of extra cars. The entire move
ment was made without interference
with regular freight and passenger
service, it was pointed out.
Talmadge Mad Over
Cocking Incident;
Hints More Action
Govenor Talmadge is a fighting rnan
when he gets mad—and he’s mad over
the Cocking incident. The Chief Exe
cutive didn’t like it a bit when the
State Board of Regents, by a vote of
8 to 7, voted to retain Dr. Walter D.
Cocking as dean of education at, the
University of Georgia. The Governor
had charged that Dr. Cocking advo
cated racial doctrines contrary to
Southern tradition and recommended
to the regents, most of whom are
Talmadge appointees, that the dean’s
contract not be renewed.
Since that little incident, Governor
Talmadge has let it be known that he
might attack the budget of the Uni
versity System of Georgia because
of the action the regents took. The
Governor did not say directly that he
planned to drop Dr. Cocking from the
budget, but htinted strongly at such a
step in a lengthly statement in which
he reviewed the Cocking trail. Dean
Cocking receives a salary of $5,250
annually.
In another move since the board
reversed him, the Governor has in
structed the state auditor to furnish
him with a list of "all these foreign
professors’’ in the State University
System and said “we are going to
have a little fun.” Asked if this meant
that he planned to purge the state
colleges of all non Georgia professors,
the Governor replied: “I ain’t saying
what I’m going to do. I’m going to do.
I’m going to look them over and those
who have been bragging about the
big salaries they could get elsewhere,
I’m going to help them get those big
getr salaries.”
He further said that he was “es
pecially” going to help such profes
sors get biggersalaries if they were
not native Georgians, adding: “I nev
er did think that these foreign pro
fessors were smarter than our own
Georgians.” Dr. Cockking was born
in lowa.
J. B. CARRUTH PASSES
- Mr. J. B. Carruth died at his home
near Hopewell Church Tuesday morn
ing. Funeral services will be held at
Hopewell Methodist Church Thurs
day morning June 26 at 10 o'clock
with Rev. R, P. Segars officiating.
Congressman Whelchel
At Home July Fourth
The war situation is, and has been,
so serious of recent months that the
Congress has remained in continuous
session, and wisely so, I think. How
ever, it has deprived me of the privil
,ege of opening an office in each of the
eighteeen counties of the district to
visit with you, as has been my custom
It will adjourn for the Fourth of July.
I will be at my home on that day.
Will be delighted to have you pay me
a visit if there is anything I can do
for y<Ju.
B. FRANK WHELCHEL
Important Notice To
Men Becoming Age 21
Bince October 16, 1940
Young men 21 years
old since last October
16, 1940, You MUST
register with your local
Selective Board Tues
day, July 1, 1941, be
tween 7 A. M. and 9 P.
M. Failure to comply
with this order may re
sult in fine or imprison
ment.
. Sion B. Hawkins
*4 Brigadier General
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Local Merchants To
Beifefit From Supple
mentary Cotton
Program $30,000,
■' *
A. preliminary estimate based on
the hHjihbp' j)f cotton farmers in For
t-M & unty who hove so far filed
notice of intention of participating in
the Supplementary Cotton Program in
dicates that local merchants taking
part may expect to enjoy at least $30,-
000 of new cotton business during
1941.
This information was released to
day in a statement made by Mr. B. T.
Brown, County Agricultural Agent fol
lowing the most recent check on the
indicated farmer participants to date.
“Naturally,” added Mr. Brown, “al
ert, merchandising-minded retailers
who aggressively push cotton pro
ducts not only to their stamp custom
ers, but to the general public as well,
will stand to benefit most from the
program.”
Suggestions along this line offered
by Mr. Roy Otwell, Chairman of the
Cotton Stamp Committee, included
extensive advertising of the many cot
ton “buys” now on the market; attrac
tive store displays of cotton house
hold articles and clothing appropriate
for a wide variety of uses and occa
sions; and the segregation of 100 per
cent American cotton products in the
stores.
Mr. Otwell pointed out that mer
chants who used ingenuity in the
sales promotion of their cotton mer
chandise would not only perform l an
important service to their customers,
and the nation in helping to solve an
important problem, but would gain
profitable business as well.
“This program”, he said “offers
merchants an unusual opportunity to
cooperate with the Government’s ef
forts to increase the domestic con
sumption of American cotton by mak
ing everybody conscious of the value
and importance of cotton merchandise
as the chosen fabric of both the so
ciety matron and the budget- balanc
ing housewife.”
Wednesday Afternoon
Closing Works
Hardship On Some
It seeming to some that an imposi
tion is being imposed on both the
buying public and those who sell and
deliver to the merchants in Gumming
by closing on Wednesday afternoon,
beginning first Wednesday in July it
will be up to each merchant or busi
ness house to close if desired or to
remain open for business if desired.
It is estimated that on January 1,
1940, there were 429,000,000 chickens
with a value of $259,000,000 off farms
in the United States.
(County Population 12.000)
Georgia Banks Make
257,000 Loans
TOTALING $295,000,000 IN
LAST HALF OF 1940
Seventeen per cent of the banks in
Georgia made more than 267,000 loans
totaling $295,000,000 to business firms
andindividuals throughout the state
during the second half of 1940, accord
ing to the semi-annual survey of bank
lending activity made by the Re
search Council of the American Bank
ers Association.
'Hie A. B. A. loan survey was parti
cipated in by 47 Georgia banks, or 17
per cent of the 283 banks in the state.
These 17 banks reported that they
made between July 1 and December
31, 1940.
The survey showed that business
firms in the state used about one-third
of the “confirmed open lines of credit
maintained for their use on the books
of banks. A total of 8 banks in the
larger centers of the state reported
that they carried on their books s7l,
404,940 in “open lines of credit” offer
ed to and kept available for regular
borrowers for use as needed by them.
Of this amount $28,040,927 or 39.3 per
cent was used.
The average number of new loans
made per bank during the six months
period under review was 3,118 and the
average size of loan was $1,027.
The average number of loans re
newed per hank was 2,306 and the
average renewal was for $1,313.
The average number of new mort
gage loans made per bank was 53 and
the average ne wmortgage made was
for $1,112.
Program For Union
Meeting At Sharon
The Union Meeting of the First Dis
trict of the Hightower Association
will lie held with Sharon Baptist
Church on Thursday and Friday July
17 and 18 before the third Sunday.
Below is given a program for each
day.
Thursday beginning at 10 o’clock
E. S. T. Devotional Services led by
Rev. Ebb Major
10:30—Organization of Body
11:00—Introductory Sermon__ Rev. R.
Lep Buice, Alternate Rev. Troy Ruice
12:00—Dinner.
1:00—Who is Responsible Four Our
General Disrespect For Our laws,
State, National and Devineßy Rev.
Walter M. Blackwell.
2:00 The Meaning of Depravity Of
Man and The Remedy—Rev. P. W.
Tribble.
3:oo—Personal Work—Who Should
Be A Personal Worker—How To have
Personal Workers Miss Grace Buice.
FRIDAY BEGINNING AT 9:30 E. S. T
Devotional—By Rev. Herbert Bagley
10:00—Who Is Responsible For The
Worldliness Of Our Church Members
And What Is The Remedy For Same—
By Rev. G. W. Forrist
11:00 Preaching By Rev. J. H. Bol
ing.
12:00—Dinner.
I:oo—What Are Some Of The Things
That Accompany Salvation—By Rev.
W. H. Flanigan.
2:oo—What Is The Relationship Be
tween Christ And The Church—By
Rev. Mercer Williams
3:00 General Business.
Adjourn.
C. E. THOMAS
GEO. W. PHILLIPS
L. D. MARTIN
LODGE NOTICE
There will be a regular communica
tion of Mt. Zion Lodge No. 316 next
Wednesday July 2, at 8 P. M. All
qualified brether are cordially invited
to attend.
W. V PENDLEY, W. M.
W. J. HOWARD, Sec.
Notice Of Election
Saturday June 28.
Under the legal ad column of this
issue notice is given of the election
to be held on June 28 for the election
of supervisors of the Upper Chatta
hoochee River Soil Conservation Dis
trict. All qualified voters are eligible
to vote in this election.
Voting place will be at the Court
house in Cumming from 9 A. M. until
4 P. M.
B. T. BROWN, County Agent.
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Lakewood Park
Features Speed
Carnival July 4th.
Auto, Motorboat, Motorcycle
Races, Fireworks On !
Big Program ,
ATLANTA Sports fans over the
Southeast are in fora treat on the
Fourth of July at Lakewood Park, an
nounces Mike Benton, President of
the Lakewood Speedway Racing Asso
elation. “Our Race Program includes
Race Cars. Stock Cars. Motorcycles
and Motorboats. It sounds like a big
order, but you can be assured of many
thrilling moments and record break
ing performances.”
This is the second program of its
kind to be presented to Southern
Sports Fans. The first attempt re
ceived such splendid public accept
ance that Race Officials used no hes
itancy in arranging another stellar
program.
Race Cars will compete in a five
mile event and another of fifteen
miles. Stock Cars will vie for high
honors in two thrilling races, a five
miler and a whirlwind race program
finale of twenty five miles. Motorcy
cles and Motorboats will furnish
thrills for their followers in two
j events each, of five and ten miles.
Eighty miles of combined racing for
a purse of $1,000.00.
Entries in all events include top
ranking driver's front the Southeast 1
and more distant points such fam
iliar names as Harley Taylor, Tip
Lanthier, Bob Flock, lied Singleton,
Jap Brogdon, Carson Dyer, recent
winner of the one-hundred Semi-stock
Car race, Fontellio Flock. Ted Ed
wards, Louis Trotzier, Claude Smith
and Harry Gardner, and other drivers
of equal skill and daring.
Time Trials will start at 10 A. M.
on the morning of the Fourth and the
races get under way at 3 I’. M. sharp
The Fourth at Lakewood will be
made complete by the annual selec
tion of “Miss Atlanta” for 1941, at 8
P. M. in front of the Grandstand, fol
lowed by a colorful Fireworks Spect
acle at 9 P. M. Evening programs are
free to the public.
Agronomist Urges i
Good Preparation
Of Land For Crops
Due to the shortage of planting seed
and the prospect of a short hay crop
every effort should be put forth to
get the most from the seed used and
the land growing the crop, says E. D.
Alexander, agronomist for the Agri
cultural Extxension Service.
"In many sections of the state rains
have moistened the soils enough to
permit fair to good preparation. With
good preparation better stands can be
gotten with the seed available and
higher yields will be the result. Well
prepared soil will also permit better
growth and fewer weeds.
"Most cowpeas and velvet beans
will be sown broadcast while soybean
will be planted In rows and cultivated
In either case, if the land has not.
been growing recent crops well fer
tilized with complete fertilizer, phos
phate in some form should be used.
Cowpeas. and on certain soils, soy
beans, respond to lime and good re
suls can be gotten from its use. If
smaller amounts of seed per acre are
used, which may be necessary in
many cases, all of the good cultural
practices such as soil selection, better
soil preparation, fertilization and in
cases of some crops cultivation will
be necessary to get desirable yields.”
An abundance of forage on every
farm is one of the best ways to keep
money from cash crops at home and
help give the feed necessary iu the
national defense program, Mr. Alex
ander declares.
Annual June Singing
At Courthouse Sunday
The Singing will be at the Court
house June 29th the last Sunday in
June.
Beginning at 10 o’clock E S. T.
A lot of good singerß and quartets
have promised to come. Everyone in
vited to come and bring your hooks
and lets make it the best singing ever
held at Cummlng. The loud speakers
will be on hand to accomodate the
folks on the outside.
H. H. ROPTB. President
ELLIOTT, Secretary