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Volume 38
Thompson Starts
Sharp Cutbacks
In State Spending
Acting Governor M. E. Thompson
as Director of the Budget, announ
ced last week that the stringent eco
nomy program he has instituted in
all state agencies has resulted in
shrinking the cocst of operating the
officical business of the State to
$89,342,000. This amount must be
reduced still further the Governor
said, in order that the Georgia
school teachers may receicve the 50
percent salary increase as a per
manent raise-—not merely as a bon
us. The appropriations for all De
partments, he added, will be substan
tially trimmed.
Dismissal of non-essential employ
ees on the State payroll has already
begun. The Revenue Department
has dropped 60 people to save some
$150,000 a year. The Department of
Public Safety has dropped 42—most
ly civilian workers—saving an esti
mated $60,000 annually.
Among the Stateag encies suffer
ing a sharp revision in budgets are
the Education Department, the Geor
gia Citizens Council and the Agri
cultural and Industrial Development
Board.
Some $4,000 000 has been sheared
from the Educational Department
with the entire new schools appro
priation eliminated and increases in
pay for school bus drivers reduced
from $2,000,000 to $850,000.
The Citizens Council, on the books
for $60,000 will be held to expendi
tures of only $45,000 and the A. and
I. Development Board’s allotment
has been cuct to less than half —
dropping from $125,00 to $60,000.
“I dislike having to cut these agen
cies,” Gov. Thompson said, “but I
simply have no choice. The failure
of the General Assembly to enact
the new General Appropriations
Bill, means that the fine work of
many decidely worthwhile Depart
ments will have to be curtailed. I
don’t like retrenchment. I believe
in better and greater services to the
people. But, I promised the school
teachers their badly needed increase
and they’ll get it.”
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
Farmers who are cocoperating
with the Upper Chattahoochee Riv
er Soil Conservation District and
are receiving the assistance of the
Soil Conservation Service personnel
include a number of farmers who
have received Kudzu crowns the
past week for spring planting.
These farmers are: R. C. Vaughn,
Charlie Anglin, Leland Anglin, Par
is Holbrook, H. C. Holbrook, H. C.
Williams, J. M. Anderson, Dr. Mar
cus Mashbum, Jr. Dan Born and
Mr. Turner. A number of farmer
cooperators have dug their own kud
zu crowns.
District cooperators who wish to
use Sericea as a pasture will profit
by the following information. Seri
cea used for pasture should be graz
ed from the time plants begin their
growth in the spring i*ntil frost.
Well fertilized Sericea will support
about one animal unit to the acre
during most of the spring summer,
and fall grazing season. During very
dry periods in summer when the
Sericea plants are grazed too close
ly, it is desirable to remove the ani
mals to another pasture so as to
avoid injury to the stand. It may be
desirable to pasture sericeca after
it has been mowed for hay.
New Sportsmen’s
Club Formed In
North Georgia
After viewing game pictures
shown by the State Game and Fish
Commission and questioning the
commission’s representative at len
gth, a group of Ellijay sportsmen
have decided to add another sports
men’s club to the now fast-growing
list of such organizations in Georgia
according to announcement made
by Dan Rainey, secretary of the
State wide Sportsmen’s League.
Rainey pointed out that, if club
organizations proceed at the present
rate, North Georgia will soon have
a Sportsmen’s Club in every county.
He added that the League would
soon begin organization work in the
coastal district and southeastern
Georgia, where fewer clubs have
been formed.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,500)
Guide For Vets
To Be Issued
By State Soon
Anew, streamlined, up-to-the-min
ute guide for veterans of World
War 11, entilled “It Is Later Than
You Think” has been prepared for
distribution to all Georgia ex-Gl’ by
the State Department of Veterans
Service.
Director C. Arthur Cheatham, an
nouncing the project, said the new
publicaction would be pocket-size
and would consist of only four pag
es in order to conform to Acting
Governor Thompson’s rigid eco
nomy requirements.
“This little booklet,” Cheatham
said, “has been prepared by staff
experts and contains positively the
last word on both federal and state
regulations concerning veterans’
benefits under the G. I. Bill of Right
and other laws. It is compiled in the
simplest form possible and will be
readily understandable to everyone.
It tells a veteran or his dependents
eractly what steps are necessary in
order to take advantage of all bene
fits rights and privileges due and
the time limit in whichc application
must be made.”
Cheatham said the booklets would
be distributed by mail and through
the more than 60 Veterans Service
offices throughout the State.
V. F. W. Sponsors
Big Dance
The Big Dance sponsored by the
Forsyth County Post of the V. F. W.
will be held Saturday night, April
12 at the gymnasium in Cumming.
Lost John and the Allied Kentuck
ians will begin with a Big Show at
8 P. M. This is designed to furnish
the best in entertainment for those
who do not care to dance.
From 9 to 12 o’clock the band
will play for Square or Round dan
cing, and will play request pieces of
either type music. A good loud
speaker and turn table will be used
for music while the musicians take
time out. This dance promieses to
be the best given in Forsyth County
in a long time.
All members of the V. F. W. have
tickets, and everyone is urged to ob
tain theirs early from one of these
Veterans for the fee of SI.OO per
person, which, is admittance to the
dance and show.
Cotton Film Stars
One-Variety Group,
Walton Producer
Georgia farmers and business
men will see John Hester, Walton
Countymaster farmer who balanc
ed cotton with other crops and live
stock, play a leading role in the U.
S. Department of Agriculture's lat
est motion picture, Men Who Grow
Cotton.
The picture, released this week,
| is a cooperative production of Ex
tension Services of the cotton states
the USDA and the National Cotton
Council of America. Men Who Grow
Cotton is designed to help carry out
the Department of Agriculture’s
seven-point coctton program and
was filmed on cotton farms for
farm, business, civic and church
groups, planning committees and
others interested in the social and
economic changes taking place in
the South.
The Walton Ccfinty farmer in
creased his cotton yield per acre and
was able to reduce his cotton acre
age and establish permanent past
ures. He then started a dairy herd.
“Cotton is no longer our only cash
crop; it is one of many,” he says.
Cooperative buying of insecticides
and other materials and growing
and selling better cotton by a one
variety community are illustrated
in the color film. The 16-mm. sound
picture contrasts labor required to
grow each bale of cotton using the
flame cultivators and mechanical
pickers instead of hand methods.
Men Who Grow Cotton points out
that the South is working for a bal
anced relationship between agricul
ture and industry and shows how a
community got together, grew one
variety cotton and made it pay. The
film is being distributed in Georgia
by the State Agricultural Extension
Service.
FOR SALE—Fine young cow, third
claf, fresh in, heavy milker—W. C.
Tumlin, Route 1, Gainesville, Ga.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTII COUNTY & CITY OF CLAIMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FELTON, CHEUO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. '
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 10, 1947.
■ Pitt 1 -yM’-'.
J. B. Allen ,& Sons New Lime Spreader
Thompson Laments
State’s Inability
To Expand Parks
Interest and concern in Georgia’s
system of State Parks was reaffirm
ed by Acting Governor M. E. Thomp
son last week when he conferred
with his Parks Director Charlie
Morgan, Sr., of Macocn, on propos
ed improvements.
“It is most regrettable,” the Gov
ernor observed, “that the economy
program we must pursue during
this administration, won’t permit
expansion of our park facilities. I
feel it is a conservative estimate
that some 2,000,000 people in this
State have never seen our coastline
or our magnificent mountains.’’
The Governor said of particular
regret to him was the fact that of
Georgia’s 140 miles of seacoast, only
some three miles were actually open
and accessible to the people.
“This is something we surely
would have changed, had we gotten
the Revenue and General Appropria
tions Bills” he added, "As it is, how
ever, improvements in the State
Parks will have to be limited to the
institution of recreational facilities
and a few other inexpensive chang
es in policy.”
Agronomist Lists
1947 Seed Cotton
Pointers In State
Pointers Georgia farmers should
observe in securing and planting
seed for their 1947 cotton crop were
given this week by C. A. McLendon
senior agronomist of the U. S. Bu
reau of Plant Industry. Mr. McLen
don listed the following factors:
An ample supply of pure, sound
seed of a superior variety Is all Im
portant. One variety is sufficient
for a farm community or larger
area and the State experiment sta
tions determine by comparative
tests varities best suited to the dif
ferent conditions.
Seed, to be pure, must be not
more than three years removed
from the breeder and its purity safe
guarded yearly in the field, hand
ling, ginning and storage. For seed
to be sound enough for planting
purposes, it should show by com
petent tests at least 80 percent ger
mination.
All planting seed should be re
cleaned and graded, reginned and
treated for seedling diseases. Out
fits for processing planting seed in
this way are now available to most
cotton farmers and the charge for
this seed service is negligible con
sidering its value in obtaining a
good, even stand of healthy plants.
g Plant seed at a rate sufficient to
insure a good stand. Skimping on
planting seed is poor economy re
gardless of the cost of the seed.
Usually the yield of cotton
es as the stand approaches 30,000
plants per acre. The highest yields
on record were made with thick
stands in closely-spaced rows.
Consult your county agent for fur
ther information on any or all ot
these points and for suggestions on
other important cotton production
practices.
LOCKER SPACE
Because freezer-locker space is
limited, it is necessary to plan for
the most economical and satisfying
use of the equipment. The kinds of
fruit, vegetables and meat to be froz
en and quantity of each to supply
family’s needs should be estimated
early in the season to prevent early
products crowding out later import
ant crops.
V .F. W. Meeting
Friday Night April 11
At 8 P. M.
The Forsyth County Post of the
Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold
its Fourth regular meeting at Lake
Alice, near Cumming Friday night,
April 11, at 8 o’clock P. M.
All members have been sent 5
tickets to the Big Dance which the
V. F. W. is sponsoring Saturday
night April 12th at the gymnasium
in Cumming.
There will be refreshments at this
meeting, and it is important that all
members who can possibly do so
attend. The Post is making plans to
build a headquarters, and every
member should help in this project
so that the Post will soon have a
home.
Any Veteran of Foreign Wars
who has not become, a member is in
vited to be there Friday night and
join the local post. This membership
has now grown to a total of 77.
, * All members remember the day
Friday,—the place is Lake Alice and
the hour 8 P. M.
Solons Blamed For
TB Sufferers’ Doom
Some members of the 1947 Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia may not
be sleeping very good these nights.
That’s how your conscience some
times works, you know.
Dr. T. F. Abercrombie, director of
the State Health Department, as
serted the other day that when the
1947 State Legislature failed to pass
a requested $3,000,000 appropriation
for the State Tuberculosis Hospital
at Battey (Rome), it signed “death
warrants for hundreds and hund
reds of Georgians.”
The kindly doctor said the result
would be that the institution would
have to operate this year on the $l,-
500,000 budget of last year as a hold
over and that long-anticicpated plan
for expanding the institution to care
for nearly 3,000 patients automatic
ally were killed.
The institution now has about 1,-
100 patients and has been admitting
new ones at the rate of 120 a month.
From now on admissions must be
reduced to 60 patients a month, a
figure equal to the monthly dis
charges. Because of the lack of the
increased appropriation 1,300 beds
117 the hospital will be idle, Dr. Ab
ercrombie pointed out. Said he:
"I believe that if we had been able
to carry out our plans we would
have been able in ten years to cut
tuberculosis in Georgia to an irre
ducible minimum.”
The director cicted figures from
a recent survey conducted by the
Department of Education’s vocation
al rehabilitation division to show
the effectiveness of treatment ad
ministered at the sanitarium. The
report showed that of 1,479 treated
there during 1940-45, 929 still are
alive. Of the total, 336 died of tuber
culosis, 19 others died from other
causes, and 195 were found not to
have tuberculosis, he said.
Dr. Abercrombie said he was not
putting his department in the posi
tion of complaining about the ap
propriation, but said he thought the
facts, which would speak for them
selves, ought to be known.
CLOGGED BURNERS
The amount of fuel needed for
heating increases when clogged gas
burners are used. If there is much
yellow color to the flame, save add
ed fuel costs by cleaning the burner
with a steel brush after the gas has
been turned off. *
(County Population 15,000)
American Legion To
Meet Saturday Night
at Court House 7 P. M.
The Cumming Post of the Ameri
can Legion met last Saturday night
April sth at the Court House in
Cumming and elected the following
officers to serve for the year.
Commander—R. L. Edison
S. Vice Com.—Walter P. Hughes
Chaplain- Ralph Williams
Finance Officer -W. J. Ohr
Service Officer—Wiley E. Pirkle
Asst. Adjutant—James D. Benson
All Service men are requested to
meet at the Court House this Sat
urday night at 7 P. M. in order to
transact some important business
before the Big Dance begins at 8 P.
M. at the Cumming Gym.
Please be prompt so that we all
may attend to business matters and
the dance.
R. L. EDISON, Commander
First Road Job
Letting Of Year
Slated April 25
Asserting that Georgia “wbuld
match every dollar of federal road
funds available to the state’’, Acting
Gov. M. E. Thompson has put the
stamp of approval on the first high
way contract-letting since Ellis Ar
nall’s administration.
The program, including bridge
and road construction projects in 11
counties, calls for an expenditure of
$450,000 by the State to be matched
by an equal amount of Federal
funds. It was set up for letting on
April 25, according to John Beasley,
State Highway Director.
Gov. Thompson, speaking as
Director of the Budget, said that
construction of highways would
rank second only to the 50 percent
raise to teachers during his admin
istration, adding that sll 000,000
has 6f*£n by the State to
match federal road funds.
10 Prizes, $l3O
Offered Winners
In Dress Revue
Georgia home demonstration club
members will compete for ten cash
prizes totaling $l3O in the State
dress revue to be held as a part of
the Georgia Home Demonstration
Council meeting June 9-13 at the
University of Georgia, Miss Quin
elle Mcßae, clothing specialist for
the Extension Service, said this
week.
A large department store (Davi
son-Paxon Company) public relat
ions office offers a grand prize of
S4O to the State winner. Home de
monstration club members will en
ter clothes in three classes—dresses
made of sacks, dresses, coats or suit
made of wool or dresses for all
other occasions of other fabrics.
Prizes of sls for first $lO for se
cond and $5 for third will be given
in eachc class, Miss Mcßae said.
“This is the first time prizes have
been offered in the women's dress
revue,’’ the clothing specialist point
ed out. Other plans for the annual
revue and State Home Demonstra
tion Councicl meeting in June were
outlined at a March meeting of the
executive board of the Georgia
Home Demonstration Council in
Athens. f
Singing At Pleasant
Grove Fourth Sunday
Night in April
At Pleasant Grove church on the
fourth Sunday night, April 27th.
This singing has been changed
from the Second Sunday night to
the Fourth on account of the sing
ing at Coal Mountain. So be sure
and remember tthe time and come
out. We will have a good singing.
JAY L. HOLBROOK
Singing At Coal Mt.
Sunday Night April 13
Don’t forget the singing at Coal
Mountain Baptist Church Sunday
night April 13 at 7:30 P. M.
We have the promise of singers
from Gainesville, Buford, Duluth
and from all over the country. We
will have Loud Speakers. Every
body invited. Be sure to there at
7:30.
THOMAS THORNHILL
WALTER HARDIN
Number 15.
Jackson Named
State Banking
Superintendent
A novel way of saving the State
some operating expense was demon
strated last week by Acting Gov.
M. E. Thompson when he elevated
Olin G. Jackson to the position of
State Superintendent of Banks
and then abolished the job of Assist
ant Director which Jackson had pre
viously held.
The appointment climaxed the
career of the Pike County native
who has spent more than 23 years
in the service of the State. Jackson
entered the banking business in Col
umbus after three years as a Mer
cer University student. He soon be
came an examiner for the State
Banking Department and, in 1941,
rose to the position of Assistant Sup
erintendent. The next year he was
granted a leave of absence to act as
Execcutivce Vice President of an
Albany bank where he served until
last December when the execcutive
h replaced returned from service in
the Navy,
Jackson succeeded John Beasley
as Banking Superintendent. The lat
ter was promoted to Directorship of
the State Highway Department by
Gov. Thompson shortly after the
Supreme Court Decicsion which un
seated Herman Tolmadge from the
Governor’s chair.
Draft Boards
Are Abolished
Records Remain
With the passage by Congress
last week of an act to abolish the
Selective Service System, Georgia’s
188 Draft Boards were legislated
out of existence. At the same time,
however, it was announced in At
lanta, the records of the more than
312,000 men inducted from this
State will eventually be transferred
to the custody of the National
Guard.
Brig. Gen. Alpha Fowler, Jr.,
State Adjutant-General, said anew
unit in the Georgia National Guard
would be established to handle the
procedure. To be known as a Depot
Brigade it will not take over until
June, when Georgia’s last draftee
will be eligible for discharge.
At one time, the Georgia Selective
Service System had 390 paid employ
ees, plus a list of volunteer mem
bers many times that number. In all
800,672 white men and 529,777 Ne
groes were registered during Ame
rica’s war mobilization. 1
“Retention of the vital records of
the Locac] Boards will vastly simpli
fy another mobilization if it ever
comes,” Gen. Fowler commented in
announcing the plans, "This action
is being taken in accordance with
the Federal Law requiring it.”
State And Federal
Wildlife Official*
Attend Conference
A meeting of the Southeastern
Game and Fish Commissioners Asso
ciation was held in Atlanta on April
7 and 8, according to disclosure by
Charles N. Elliott, president of the
Association and director of the
State Game and Fish Commission.
An outstanding feature of the
event was the conference on the set
ting of migratory game laws for
the coming year, with both State
leaders and Federal officials attend
ing.
Game And Fish
Essay Contest
Nearing Finish
The State Game and Fish Com
mission’s essay contest will close
April 15. The winner will be award
ed a starring role in the full sound
and color film on “How To Handle
A Small Boat Safely” and "Safety
Afield With Guns”, according to
Charles N. Elliott, State Game and
Fish Director.
Contestants still have a few days
to send in essays on the above sub
jects in 500 words or less. Entries
should be addressed to the Infor
mation and Education Division,
State Game and Fish Commission,
412 State Capitol, Atlanta.
Lespedeza is one of the best sum
mer temporary grazing crops for
Georgia. Korean, Kobe and Tennes
see 76 are best for this use.
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