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[Volume 38
Highway Patrol
Is Reorganized
By Major Davis
The State Highway Patrol felt
Gov. M. E. Thompson’s economy
axe this week as 40 civilian and uni
formed workers were lopped off the
payroll.
Simultaneously, Director J. Q.
Davis announced the temporary sus
pension of operations in three
closely grouped Highway Patrol sub
stations—at Atlanta, Blue Ridge
and Canton.
“This brings the strength of the
Patrol down to 260, ’’ Major Davis
said, “and that is sufficient provid
ing we restore it to its former state
of military discipline.”
Major Davis, 37 years old, is a
charter member of the group which
attended the first Patrol school at
Georgia Tech in 1937. He was grad
uated with the rank of corporal,
and since, has held every rank and
grade in the organization. He serv
ed as deputy director under Major
William E. Spencec, his predecessor
in office.
Major Davis has also announced
the appointment of his two princi
pal assistants—Capt. F. L. Brock,
of LaFayette, to command the uni
formed division and Capt. George
T. Bagby, Paulding County Legis
lator, to head the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation. Both of these offi
cers have had many years exper
ience in law enforcement work.
State Homemakers
Observe National
HD Week May 4-11
The 46,000 members of Georgia’s
1,338 home demonstration/dubs will
observe the second annual National
Home Demonstration Week from
May 4 to 11. Theme of the obser
vancec will be Today’s Home Builds
Tomorrow’s World, Miss Lurline
Collier,™ tfetttonstmion
agent for the Extension Service,
said this week.
Activities of the week will be plan
ned locally to feature 30 years of
progress made in family and com
munity living since the home de
monstration program was initiated.
Special programs, teas, exhibits and
tours are among the events sched
uled for the week-long, nation-wide
observance. More than 3 50®,000
rural women will participate. Pro
grams by home demonstration clubs
and agents over local radio stations
are planned in Georgia during the
week, Miss Collier revealed.
“Home demonstration work is
perhaps the world’s most far-reach
ing voluntary on-the-job education
program for women,” Miss Collier
pointed out. “During 1946, Georgia
home demonstration agents made
nearly 64,000 visits to 34,000 differ
ent farms and homes in conducting
their work.”
Georgia home demonstration club
members are transplanting club
work and study into comfortable
homes, nutritious meals, healthful
living and pleasant communities,
the State leader reported.
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
Many farmers who are cooperat
ing with the Upper Chattahoochee
River Soil District received Kudzu
crowns this week. Some of these
farmers are: Luther Wheeler, Wal
lace Tatum, U. Pirkle, L. O. Chad
wick, Franklin Groover, and Quint
Williams. Those farmers who have
not already planted their Kudzu
should make plans to get it planted
this month.
During tours last week good early
spring pastures were observed on
the farms of Howard Holland, Cecil
Herring, Elon Newton, R. C. Vau
ghn, Charlie Boling, Emory Boling
Marion Bagwell, Grady Savage and
Roy Otwell. The new Ladino clover
in the pastures was chiefly respon
sible for the amount of early past
urage. Emory Boling and Marion
Bagwell had good growth of white
Dutch clover.
Many cooperators who are using
Austrian winter pease as a winter
crop and as a part of their crcop
rotation are planting hybrid com
this spring following the turning
under of the peas. There are a num
ber of good com hybrids that have
been observed in this county that
have increased yields, resisted the
drought, disease and wind.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,500)
Thompson Ends
Milk Control
Controversy
Acting Governor M. E. Thompson
has settled the controversy concern
ing the fate of the State Milk Con
trol Board by appointing anew one
and naming anew director. The
board is charged with the respon
sibility of establishing minium pric
es for milk in about 50 percent of
the State’s milk distribution areas
and generally fosters the dairy in
dustry throughout Georgia.
The new director is William B.
Hyde of Chamblee, a veteran dairy
man and former operator with his
father, of the Irvindale Dairy. He
is now secretary-treasurer of the
Rosemary Creamery of Atlanta.
Directorship of the Milk Control
body is the first public office.
The board, for the first time, now
has two women members —Mrs. R.
H. Jones and Mrs. Frank McCallis
ter, both of Atlanta. They were ap
pointed because, Gov. Thompson
said, he felt they could represent
consumers interests better than
men.
Also included in the board’s mem
bership are O. D. Price of Jasper
County, W. J. Beall of Putnam, C.
O. Powell of Coweta and George A.
Sancken of Richmond County.
4-H Poultry Project
Mr. H. W. Bennett Extension
Poultryman, and Mr. David Wil
liams, Egg Marketing Specialist
spent Friday April 11, instructing
Poultry Contestants how to care for
their chicks. The movie on “Feath
ering the Nest” was shown.
Rachel Johnson and Barbara Nor
rell will compete in the Forsyth
County Egg Marketing Demonstra
tion and the winner will go to the
District Contest in Athens which
will be in July.
Most oi the girls who are com
peting in the Sears Poultry Chain
have had good luck with their chick
so far, and are working hard to
reach the top goal.
Use Of REA Power
Trebbles In Five
Years In Georgia
Electricity distributed to Georgia’s
REA-served consumers trebled dur
ing the past five years—from 32,-
937,000 kilowatt-hours in 1941 to 96,-
679,000 in 1946—while the number
of REA consumers incrceased only
65 percent, a U. S. Department of
Agricculture report to the State Ex
tension Service reveals.
Unserved Georgia farmers con
tinued to ask for more electric ser
vice despite allocations to State
REA projects totaling nearly $13,-
000,000 during the past 12 months.
Georgia’s $18,715,000 backlog of ap
plications for REA loan funds in
process of preparation in the field
and on file at REA headquarters in
Washington early in February rank
ed third from the top among the 48
states. Only backlogs in lowa and
Missouri were greater than Geor
gia’s.
Higher consumption of electricity
in rural areas served by REA fin
anced power systems was one of
the REA developments during 1946,
when more than 96,000 rural Geor
gians received an average of more
than 1,000 kilowatt-hours of current
Reasons given by power utilization
experts for increased consumption
on REA lines in the State included
new uses for electricity in food pro
duction and processing on the farm
and in the rural home, better use
of electricity to improve rural liv
ing standards and extension of elec
trie service to unserved rural peo
ple.
On January 1, 1947, REA had ap
proved a total of $41,424,000 in loan
to borrowers in Georgia. Georgia
ranked sixth in the United States.
Part of this amount was used to
pay for electric facilities already
underway or completed* The Re
mainder will be used to construct
additional facilities to serve an esti
mated 29 648 new consumers in the
State.
REA’s latest estimates show that
58.3 percent of Georgia farms still
are without electricity. Sixteen
states are behind Georgia in the per
centage of farms electrified, the re
port said.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 17, 1947.
Certified Cotton
Seed To Increase,
Westbrook Asserts
i Certification of cotton seed will
be easier for farmers in one-variety
communities, E. C. Westbrook, agro
nomist for the Extension Service,
said this week in pointing out that
seed from a much larger acreage
of Coker’s lOOWilt and other im
proved varieties will be certified
during 1947 by the Georgia Crop
Improvement Association than ever
before.
“A farmer outside a one-variety
community must get the approval
of the crop improvement associat
ion board of directors before his
seed can be certified,” Mr. West
brook revealed. “Interest in certi
fied seed is increasing and we ex
pect it to be difficult in a few years
to sell uncertified seed.”
Seed produced on approximately
3,000 acres of Coker’s 100-Wilt were
fiertified last year, Mr. Westbrook
pointed out. Cotton seed, in order
to be certified, must be only one
year from the breeder; hence, farm
ers must plant their entire crop
from breeder seed this year, the
agronomist warned, if they wish to
certify their seed. Cotton must be
planted at least 500 yeards from any
other cotton variety unless a strip
of woods or other natural barrier
separates the two varities, he as
serted.
The Georgia Crop Improvement
Association, with Hugh A. Inglis
in charge was reorganized early in
1946 after being dormant for about
15 years, Mr. Westbrook reported.
The University of Georgia College
of Agriculture, Georgia’s two ex
periment stations, the State Depart
ment of Agriculture and the Exten
sion Service are cooperating in this
movement to help farmers produce
certified seed. “Better utilization of
breeder seed purchased each year
bjj Georgia farmers will result," the
Agronomist asserted.
Wildlife Groups
Move To Organize
Ney Association
The Georgia Association of Wild
life Clubs, now tenatively formed,
is seeking the services of a quali
fied state director and a staff of
organizers to cover eachc of the 159
counties in the state.
Chairman John Penn, at the Ma
con meeting of the executive com
mittee of the organization, was al
so directed to contact Acting Gov.
Thompson in an effort to get the
assurance of the chief executive
that state hunting and fishing li
cense funds would be returned to
the State Game and Fish Commis
sion for the benefit of Georgia’s
sportsmen.
The executive committee has set
the dues of the organization at $2
per member, per club, per year.
Payment of dues assures a subscrip
tion to the magazine “Southern Out
doors”, Mr. Penn said.
The executive committee of the
state organization is composed of
W. A. Dupree of Rome, C. H. Keefer
of Americus. Henderson Wvatt of
Dalton. C. O. Maddox of Winder,
John Martin of Atlanta, E. H. Ar
mor of Greensboro and James H.
George, Jr., of the State Game and
Fish Commission, Atlanta.
At Pleasant
Grove Fourth Sunday
Night in April
At Pleasant Grove church oh 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
AMERICAN LEGION MEETING
AT COURT HOUSE FRIDAY
NIGHT APRIL 18 AT 8:00 P. M.
The regular meeting of the Ame
rican Legion Post will meet Friday
night April 18 at 8 o’clock. All ser
vice of both wars are urged to at
tend. Business of importance
R. L. Eidson, Commander
State Parks
Set For New
Dive Boards
Parks Director Charlie Morgan
has announced that ten official
Olympic Diving Boards have been
ordered installed in the State Parks
having swimming pools. He said
this move is a fore-runner to organi
zed swimming meets later this year
Farmers Use More
Portable Sprinkler
Irrigation Systems
South Georgia tobacco and truck
farmers are using sprinkler irriga
tion system.' more than ever before
according to E. H. Davis, irrigation
engineer for the Extension Service
Several use flowing artesian wells
that water through portable
sprinkler systems at pressures suf
ficient to operate the revolving
sprinklers without pumping equip
ment,Mr. Davis said this week. J. L.
Clegg, Wheeler County farmer, lo
cated his 200 yard tobacco plantbed
near his artesian system and found
that irrigation paid in the product
ion of high-quality plants. He’s also
demonstrating irrigation values on
truck crop varieties such as Irish
potatoes, beans, radishes, leafy ve
getables and sweet corn.
“Many spstems operating in the
tobacco belt prove that irrigation
is a labor saver and a worthwhile
enterprise. Equipment soon pays
for itself and tobacco plantbeds may
be locacted on higher, better-drained
ground where blue mold is less pre
valent,” Mr. Davis asserted.
Tattnall County Farmer C. P-
Collins uses a portable sprinkler
irrigation system by pumping water
from a pond to his plantbed and will
irrigate his tobacco in the field.
Dewey Adamson and M. H. Nobles
are sprinkler- irrigating tobacco
befls, >too. 1,
Jack Staten, Lowndes County far
mer, relocated his 3,300-yard plant
bed near a good source of water
and Harley Langdale, Jr., irrigated
one acre of plants by gravity flow
with sprinklers attached to portable
pipe from an elevated tank.
“Blue mold is easier to control
when plants are grown on higher
ground and irrigated, ’> declared
John Deen, Coffee County farmer
who produced an additional 500
pounds of tobacco per acre last year
under irrigation. Another Coffee
County farmer, O. O. Walker, pro
duced as good or better plants than
anyone in the county by irrigating
them twicec each week, County
Agent J. D. Humphries said.
Dogwood Ushers In
‘ReaP Spring In
Atlanta, Georgia
The calendar says that Spring was
ushered in last month, but here in
Georgia—and especially in Atlanta
folks don’t admit the season has
arrived until the Dogwood blooms.
And this is to announce that the
pink and white season is here in all
its glory.
Special Dogwood tours will be
conducted during the next couple of
weeks through the Druid Hills sec
tion of Atlanta, where the many
trees in full bloom create a pictcure
of natural beauty. While there will
be no Dogwood Festival ,the Druid
Hills Golf Club is holding its now
famous annual Dogwood Invitation
Golf Tournament April 18 —20.
Topnotch golfers from all sections
of Georgia and neighboring states
have been invited to participate, ac
cording to Walter Furbish, chair
man of the tournament committee,
who is being assisted by President
Bill Hester, D/tan IvlaMath, Tom
Hull and others. The championship
division will compete at 72 holes of
medal play, while the rest of the
field will be separated into flights
for matchc play competition.
Yes, sir, the “real” Spring has ar
rived—and there’s plenty of Dog
wood and golf to be seen in Atlanta.
BOX SUPPER & CAKE WALK
There will be a Box Supper and
Cake Walk at Big Creek School on
Friday night April 18. The public
is cordially invited to attend—Boy’s
get your money together and buy
your girl’s box.
(County Population 15,000)
Gold Star
Memorial Meeting
Is Planned
The Georgia Gold Star Memorial
Commission will hold an organiza
tional meeting in the State Capitol
next Monday (April 21), Mrs. R. H.
Grantham of Hapeville, chairman
of the Georgia Gold Star Mothers
committee, and C. Arthur Cheatham
of Macon, chairman of the State
i Advisory committee, will announce
plans at that time for the erection
in the Capitol building or lawn of
an appropriate memorial to moth
ers who have lost sons in all armed
conflicts of the United States.
Stewart’s Farmers
Improve Pastures,
Soil Conservation
At least eight Stewart County
farmers began a definite pasture
improvement program this year as
a result of a three-year demonstra
tion showing the value of white
Dutch clover, Dallis grass and les
pedeza as a permanent pasture mix
ture in the county, C. W. Harpe,
cocunty agent, said this week.
“Many farmers are using more
soil conserving measures during
1947," the county agent asserted.
“Approximately 1,200 pounds of
white Dutch clover, 1,500 pounds of
Dallis grass seed, 25 acres of Bahia
grass, 20 acres of vetch and 100
acres of lespedeza have been seed
ed as a result of this demonstration
More than 3,150 acres of blue lu
pine were planted last fall and turn
ed under or will be cocmbined for
seed this spring, according to the
Stewart County Production and
Marketing Administration. In addi
tion, 8,000 pounds of Austrian win
ter peas, 2,500 pounds of vetch and
other soil conserving and building
crops were seeded.
Over 5,300 tons of lime 250 tons
of phosphate and 150 tons of basic
slag were used in Stewart during
the past year, Mr. Harpe said. “Ag
ricultural leaders e pect 350,000
feet of terraces to be constructed
in the county this year. Four farm
ponds are being constructed and
five are already completed for stock
watering places. Increased acreage
of winter grazing, construction of
drainage ditches and pasture mow
ing are other improvement pract
tices followed," he asserted.
Mr. Harpe declared that further
mechanization in Stewart County is
hampered by the scarcity of farm
tractors and equipment. Forest pro
ductcs, peanuts, cotton, livestock
and feed crops constitute the major
sources of farm income.
“More than 125,000 slash pine
seedlings are on order by Stewart
farmers now,” the county agent
pointed out. “Because of the seed
ling shortage during the 1946-47
season, only 40,000 shortleaf seed
lings were planted. Fire prevention
measures are limited due to lack
of adequate machinery, but the for
estry phase of the county’s agricul
ture will improve in 1947.”
Georm’a Vets,
Out-Of-State,
Visited By VSO
Regular bed-side visits to Georgia
veterans hospitalized in Veterans
Administration institutions in four
neighboring states have been order
ed by C. Arthur Cheatham, director
of the State Department of Veterans
Service.
“The veterans hospital facilities
in Georgia,” Cheatham explained,
“are so heavily taxed that more
than 500 of this state’s ex-service
men are now hospitalized in North
Carolina, South Carolina, Florida
and Alabama where there is more
room. We have arranged for regu
larly scheduled bed-side visits to
these patients by employees of this
Department to look after any spec
ial needs they rrrfiy have while they
are outsid the borders of Georgia."
Cheatham said the Veterans Ser
vice Office personnel at Hartwell is
now looking after Georgia patients
in the VA facility at Oteen N. C.
Augusta and Savannah offices will
share the responsibility of covering
the hospital at Columbia, S. C. The
Valdosta officec covers Lake City,
Fla,, and the Columbus VSO office
takes care of Georgia veterans in
three Alabama hospitals, including
the Negro institution at Tuskeegee.
Number 16.
Eight Million
Cut By Thompson
From State Budget
The budgets of the various de
partments of State government
have been slashed almost eight mil
lion dollars below the last quarter
in an economy move by Governor
M. E. Thompson and State Auditor
B. E. Thrasher, Jr., who compose
the State Budget Commission. On
the basis of State spending for the
previous three quarters of the cur
rent year, the reduction would mean
a curtailment of almost $27,000,000.
The economy move, which reduc
ed allotments for road work, for
administrative and operational
costs in all agencies and for all
services not absolutely essential,
was designed to meet the cost of
the 50 percent increase in teachers
salaries.
Partt of the reduction was a re
sult of the decreased cost of teach
ers’ salaries for this quarter, which
marks the close of the school year.
But six million dollars represented
actual slashes off departmental re
quests for funds for needed ser
vices. The cuts in the revenue, high
way, agriculture and veterans ser
vice agencies totalled $1,398,412.
The General Assembly refused to
provide added revenues to support
the increased services pledged by
the Democratic Convention, and
Governor Thompson announced
that he would meet the pledged in
crease to teachers by drastic eco
nomy in other agencies. State Audi
tor Thrasher issued the following
statement upon the State’s fiscal
situation:
“The total budget allotments ap
proved for the quarter are $16,997,-
152.30. The average amount of the
budget allotments approved for
quarter in the previous three quar
ters of this fiscal year was $23,-
477,250.22, and the amount approved
for the immediately preceding quar
ter, January 1, 1947 through March
31, 1947, totals $24,210,787.44.
“As can be seen by comparison
of the above figures, there has been
considerable reduction in the budget
approval for the current quarter.
Not only was it necessary to reduce
the budgets for this quarter to ab
sorb $4,826,521.22 deficit in income
for the past nine months tthe bud
gets having been increased by this
amount over the actual income for
the period' in anticipation of the
passage by the General Assembly
of the expanded program.
“The State budget officials de
clare that they are far from being
satisfied with the budgets that have
been approved, and will continue
during the quarter and later quar
ters to curtail and eliminate ser
vices which care not carried on to
the best interest of the people and
will continue to eliminate person
nel who do not perform the work
for which cthey are paid, or who do
not perform services which are to
the best interest of the people of
Georgia.
“The Budget Bureau recognizes
that the functions of the State Gov
eminent are so widely scattered
over the entire State of Georgia
that it is impossible to determine
or put a finger on some of the
items that should be curtailed, and
they this day are asking the coop
eration and support of the tax pay
ers of Georgia in helping eliminate
all items of unnecessary expense.”
Parks Department
Appoints Chief
For Recreation 1
Charlie Morgan, Sr., State Direct
or of Parks, has announced the ap
pointment of the first full-time re
creational Director in Georgia’s his
tory. He is Robert S. Johnston of
Atlanta, a graduate of Georgia Tech
where he made the Varsity Swim
team.
Johnston, who is 26, grew up in
Boy Scout work in the Druid Hills
Baptist Church, received 35 merit
badges and became an Eagle Scout
at the age of 14. He is now a Field
Scout Representative in six North
Georgia Counties with headquar
ters in Toecoa.
An expert photographer, Johns
ton will direct the new motion pic
tures which are to be made of Vogel
and Pine Mountain State Parks. In
technicolor, these films when com
pleted, will be available to civic
clubs for gratis showings.
HMD
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