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Volume 38
R. E. A. Cooperative
In Cumming Gets
Allocation for Building
Frank Chancey, Manager of th#
R. E. A. Cooperative in Cumming
reports that he has received word
that the Cooperative has been given
an allocation of $65,000 to build
headquarters for the Cooperative.
The Cooperative, several months
ago purchased about 15 acres of
land to use for the purpose of a
headquarters site. This tract is lo
cated just outside the city limits of
Cumming on the West side of the
Atlanta highway.
The modern new building will be
constructed facing westerly on an
imposing location, one of the high
est points near Cumming. Mr.
Chancey states that the building
will be constructed with a view to
ward attractiveness as well as con
venience and utility.
Incorporated within the structure
will be general offices of the Co
operative and awarehouse. The en
tire area will be landscaped to pro
vide a view pleasant to visitors to
the Cooperative and to passers-by.
The Cooperative has been in need
of such a building combining an
office and warehouse for storage of
the materials needed for operating
and maintaining distribution lines.
We congratulate them on now being
in the position to obtain that head
quarters.
Within the last few weeks, an
application was submitted to the
Rural Electrification Acdministra
tion for funds to construct lines to
every unserved rural home in the
area served by the Forsyth County
Electric Membership Corporation.
After the approval of this applica
tion and after it is possible to pur
chase materials the beneficial ser
vice of electricity will be afforded
every farm and home in those parts
of Forsyth, Cherokee, Dawson,
Lumpkin, Hall Gwinnett and Fulton
counties reached by the lines of this
R. E. A. Cooperative.
The construction of this “home”
to be owned the members of the
Cooperative, is another great stride
forward in the electrification pf
Rural America—so important to the
economical and social well-being of
our county.
Confederate Vets
Honored In Atlanta
On Memorial Day
“I salute the Confederate flag
with affection, reverence and undy
ing remembrance.” With this hal
lowed pledge, Georgia’s six last sur
viving Confederate veterans were
honored Saturday at two memorial
services in Atlanta.
In a morning service, 40 new mar
kers were dedicated at West View
Cemetery by the Dorothy Blount
Lamar Chapter of the UDC. In the
afternoon, John Ashley Jones was
the guest speaker at a ceremony in
the Oakland Cemetery sponsored by
the Ladies’ Memorial Association.
The six remaining vets of the
War Between the States are Gen.
Henry T. Dowling, of Atlanta, com
mander of all the Confederate Vet
erans; Gen. W. J. Brown Jr., of
Graymont; Gen. William J. Bush,
of Fitzgerald; Gen. J. S. Gregory,
of Indian Springs; Gen. J. A. Out
law, of Lyons and Gen. H. G. Van
Zandt, of Macon. Their ages range
between 98 and 102.
Farm Efficiency
“Farmers use less than two-thirds
as much labor per unit of product
today as they dfd in 1920," says Sher
man E. Johnson of the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture in commenting
on the remarkable progress of the
last quarter century on the produc
tion side of farming. In 1945, one
hour of work resulted on the aver
age in about one-third more milk,
one-half more com and two and one
half times as much wheat as in 1920.
Each farm worker today handles
more acres in cropland, and produc
es more crops and livestock per
acre than in 1920. re
ductions in labor and other costs
seem feasible, Johnson believes, par
ticularly in the way of improving
milk and meat production to more
nearly a par with the increases in
efficiency in crop production.
FOR SALE—Easy Washing Mach
ine—See H. W. Moore at Cumming
Georgia.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May Ist, 1947.
Dr. W. E. Burdine,
Legion Candidate,
Outlines Program
Dr. W. E. Burdine, of Blue Ridge,
World War II veteran and candidate
for Commander of the Georgia De
partment of the American Legion
announced this week at a 6 point
program he advocates for the legion
in Georgia.
1 — Full time publicity man for
the Department of Georgia so we
will regain thousands of members
lost this year and add the thousands
of eligibles who should be in.
2 A full time paid Department
adjutant to devote his full time to
our Legion and to no other interest.
3 There should not be more than
three Post Department Command
ers on executive committees and
they should be elected by delegates
to Department Convention.
4 Georgia is entitled to proper
representation on National Commit
tees and this I will strive to my ut
most to attain.
5 The State Department should
and must render more service to
individual Posts.
6 The Americanism program of
Departments must be expanded un
der leadership of Legionnaires of
high character and abilcity, who are
worthy of confidence of the young
people of the state.
Davis Orders School
Bus Inspections
Rigid inspections of the more
than 2,800 school buses engaged in
transporting Georgia children; (to
and from schools has been ordered
by Major J. Q. Davis, director of
the Department of Public Safety.
He has instructed Sgt. R. M. Cans
ler, as head of safety education for
the State Patrol, to check particul
arly for unsafe bodies and worn-out
chassis.
Pointing out the fact that pew
equipment and parts are now more
readily obtainable, Major Davis de
clared that there is little excuse for
continued operation of unsanitary
or unsafe school buses and implied
that vehicles not passing inspection
might be ordered off the roads.
Major Davis praised the work of
the schoolboy patrol and school offl
cials for their attention to safety
work. He said school safety patrol
men, during 1946, reported the li
ense numbers of some 1 400 vehic
les whose drivers failed to comply
with the Georgia school bus stop
law. About 150 of this number were
oue-of-state drivers, he added.
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
Veterans who are on the Farm
Training Program under the guid
ance of Mr. W. H. Whitmire had
the opportunity to make a pasture
tour last Friday afternoon. The Soil
Conservation Service personnel as
sisted in this tour and farmers vis
ited were cooperators with the local
Soils District.
Avery good one and one-half acre
pasture on the farm of Myr on Bag
well was observed. This pasture was
an old one that had been retreated
with lime, fertilizers and chicken
compost. At present this pasture is
carrying five head of calves weigh
ing around 500 pounds.
On the William J. Orr farm the
new Kentucky 31 fescue pasture
grass was observed. This grass was
knee high and shows promise of
producing a good seed crop by the
first of June. Inquires for seed in
dicate that there will bq a big de
mand for seed for fall pasture seed
ings.
Howard M. Holland showed the
group some very fine fields of pas
ture. Ladino white clover, common
white clover, common lespedeza,
Korean lespedeza, Bermuda grass,
bluegrass, Kentucky 31 fescue grass
crimson clover and oats were ob
served in his various pasture fields
Incidently with thtese established
fields of pasture Mr. Holland is now
selling Grade A milk to the Mariet
ta Milk Cooperative. Selling milk
offers another cash return for For
syth County farmers.
A quality frozen product depends
upon the maturity, condition and
variety chosen, the way the food is
prepared before it is packed, the
type of container or method of wrap
ping and upon the speed in hand
ling the product.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
Thompson Hopes
Health Services
May Be Expanded
If any department of the state
government is to receive an extra
allotment for slightly expanded ser
vices, it will be the State Health
Board, Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson
has indicated.
In making a surprise appearance
before the board, Go. Thompson
reiterated his intention to give the
school teachers’ salaries a priority
on state funds, followed by money
for highway construction. However,
he observed, if state revenue should
exceed minimum expectations, he
and State Auditor B. E. Thrasher,
Jr. would attempt to “find money”
for an expanded health program.
“This is not to be construed as a
promise,” he warned, “but I have
some reason to be hopeful.”
Thompson Tells
Educators About
State Finances
Assuring Georgia’s teachers and
the 800 000 schoolchildren of the
State that his Administration would
provide for the needs of education,
Gov. M. E. Thompson told the Geor
gia Education Association at its an
nual convention: “Georgia will car
ry out its commitment to its schools
Te went into detail about the need
ed services, some of which have
been curtailed to provide the money
for the 50 percent salary increases
for teachers. He frankly told the edu
cators that the needs for roads,
health and welfar benefits, and
State institutions were acute.
After telling the school g,roup that
he regretted the necessity of mak
ing them the beneficiaries of a cur
tailment of other services, because
it might ultimately jeopardize edu
cation by creating hostility toward
the schools, the Governor declared
that he would not “take refuge- in
saying that the commitment to the
teachers was approved unanimous
ly by every Georgian who voted in
the 1946 State Primary, although
that is true. The decision ultimate
ly had to be the decision of the
Chief Executive, as Budget Director
I predicted that decision upon one
simple rule, that first things must
come first. The schools will be kept
open. The teachers will be paid.”
Available this year for the com
mon schools, not including the in
creased grant of $1,500,000 for teach
ers’ retirement, is $35,500,000, the
largest amount ever provided for
the State Department of Education.
At least that amount will be avail
able for the coming fiscal year,
which begins July 1, 1947 To pro
vide the money, the Thompson Ad
ministration has embarked |on a
program of drastic economy, al
though it has been able to provide
sufficient funds to match in full
Federal grants for roads and to pro
vide $5,000 000 annually for high
way maintenance.
In a report on State fiscal condi
tions, based on his quarterly sum
mary, State Auditor B. E. Thrasher
Jr. revealed that the cash surplus
of the State had dropped onlyssß,-
944 during the past quarter.
“The State is still maintaining its
cash reserve to match Federal funds
for road prposes, which means $2
expended for every dollar furnished
by the State.” Mr. Thrasher declar
ed. “There is in the reserve account
$14,357,328.63 to match all Federal
funds accrued to the State on a quar
terly basis through March 31. The
State also is maintaining the posi
tion of carrying cash reserves to
liquidate all outstanding highway
contracts and this reserve amounted
to $10,729,555.70 on March 31.”
Treasury reserves also exist to
retire all outstanding bonds that
have not been presented for redmp
tion. The surplus in the State Trea
sury on April 1 amounted to $943,-
315.33.
Dairy Fanning
Dairy farming provides a steady
monthly cash income which makes
for better farm living. It also gives
steady employment for labor thru
out the year. It lends Itself well to
grassland farming—a type of farm
ing which is in keeping with good
soil conservation practices.
Paint provides color and fresh
ness for the farm home and the
artistic use of tints and colors make
the home attractive and interesting.
Furniture Company
Changes Ownership
And Name Here
Gladstone Sudderth and Andy
Thompson, two of Forsyth County’s
young businessmen have purchased
the Wilson Furniture Company in
Cumming.
The name of the firm has been
changed to Forsyth County Furni
ture Company.
They will carry a complete line of
modern up-to-date furniture.
They want everyone to visit their
new store as they are anxious to
serve the people of Forsyth County
when they want furniture at budget
prices.
Thompson Cites
Forestry Week;
Festival Is Set
Next week, May 4—lo, is Georgia
Forestry week. It will be climaxed
by the Second Annual Pine Tree
Festival at Swainshoro in Emanuel
County, on Friday.
In directing publcic attention to
Forestry week, Acting Gove. M. E.
Thompson said: “It is fitting that
the State of Georgia memorialize
her forests. Our people derive an an
nual income of some $275,000,000
from timber and timber products.
Our forests bring Georgia landown
ers fully as valuable a yearly crop
as the cultivation of tobacco, pea
nuts or corn, or cotton. Until re
cent years, this great natural re
source has been largely unappreciat
ed and very greatly abused. Two
out of every three acres of Georgia
land are in trees. We are blessed
with 25,000,000 acres of forests
which thrive and grow six times fas
ter than in almost any other State.
I recommend to the people of Geor
gia that they pause during he week
of May 4th to 10th and contemplate
the wonder of this God-given bless
ing which, besides providing a cash
crop, protects our watersheds and
contributes to making the State one
of the most beautiful in America.”,
Final plans were announced this
week for the Swainsboro Festival
which will include Congressman
Prince H. Preston, Jr., and Hamilton
Holt of Macon as honor guests. Fes
tivities will include a parade, a beau
ty contests, tree planting ceremon
ies using a mechanical planter and
dancing and centertainment in the
streets until a late hour, Friday. In
tensive coverage will be given the
affair by newspapers and radio sta
tions and a motion picture will re
cord the fiesta in color.
Director A. R. Shirley of the Geor
gia Department of Forestry will
take part in the affair and is ex
pected, at that time, to make his
first public statement as to the poli
cies of his department during his
tenure of office.
State Guard Is
Disbanded; Men
Are Praised
The 33,000 Georgians who, activat
ed by a spirit of patriotism perform
ed gratis military service during the
War years in the Georgia State
Guard were publicly congratulated
by Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson as
the organization was officially dis
banded.
“Your services,” he declared,
“were freely given in the Interests
of saate defense. We would be un
grateful, indeed, if we failed to cite
your worthy contribution to the war
effort—a contribution made in most
cases at the expense of considerable
self-sacrifice.”
The Georgia State Guard was or
ganized In 1940 by Col. Rybum G.
Clay, Originating as the State De
fense Corps, it was changed to the
State Guard a year later under the
command of the late Col. Lindley
W. Camp. The organization assisted
in guarding war installations, main
tained a coast guard of its own and
operated an air squadrom patrol.
Col. R. W. Collins, commander of
the Guard since 1943, and a small
staff will remain on duty, accord
ing to Adjutant-General Alpha A.
Fowler, Jr., to complete the work of
collecting equipment and complet
ing official records. This task will
require several more weeks.
After that, Gen. Fowler said, the
equipment and duties of the State
Guard will revert to the new Nat
ional Guard which is now in pro
sess of reorganization.
(County Population 15,000)
American Legion
Appeal and Notice of
Regular Meeting
If your normal life has been dis
turbed by answering the call of
your Country and if you were in
the service of your Country during
any war, if it were at San Juan,
Milina Bay, The Argonne Forest,
Scrape Flow the hot sands of Afri
ca, Italy, the battle of the Bulge,
Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Iwogi
ma, The Phillipines and many other
destructive places to numerous to
mention, or if you served on a lone
ly outpost or on ships that played
dangerous waters or as a member
of the supporting staff of all opera
tions or any assigned duty during
all wars. If you performed this duty
honorable then you rightfully be
long to be a member of the Ameri
can Legion. We owe ourselves the
privilege of being a part of an Or
ganization which has done and is
doing and will continue to perform
for future generations and set the
pattern for our American way of
life for which we all fought and
many died.
We Veterans of Forsyth are lag
ging away behind compared to State
and National average. We do have
a definite program outlined for the
Earnest D. Bannister Post No. 33
which will bring us up to par of
the National average. We most ear
nestly and sincerely with dignity
but humbley urge that you meet
with us up stairs of Forsyth County
Court House, Friday night at 8 P.
M. May 2, 1947. (Our regular meet
ing).
May we remind you. Please re
member the place and date. Make
your plans to be here and become
a part of your rightful heritage, the
eligibility of belonging to the Ameri
can Legion.
Robert L. Eidson, Commander
Atlanta Girl Wins
Scholarship Prize
At Fashion School
Miss Mabel Marshall, of 754 Juni
per Street, N. E., is the winner of
Rich’s scholarship at the Tobe-Co
burn School of Fashion Careers, lo
cated at one West 57th Street, New
York City.
Announcement that Miss Marshall
was the unanimous choice of the
judges was received by Rich’s Inc.,
yesterday in a telegram from Miss
Julia Coburn, head of the school
which bears her name bracketed
with that of the famous New York
fashion consultant, Miss Tobe.
The scholarship contest opened
January 31 and was open to young
women in Georgia under thirty and
with credits of two full years of col
lege and to girls of the senior class
es at several Southern schools.
Honorable mention in the contest
went to Miss Margaret Henegar,
University of Alabama; Miss Anne
Jentzen, of Atlanta and now attend
ing Stephens College, and Miss Mir
iam Chapman Georgia State Col
lege for Women.
Under the scholarship plan Rich’s
will pay the full year’s tuition at
Tobe-Coburn for the winner. The
term opens August 27 and Miss
Marshall will be on hand to start
the intensive training for which she
has yearned since first she envision
ed the potentialities of a fashion
merchandising career.
Youth Coordinator
Appointed By State
Game And Fish Dept.
The State Game and Fish Com
mission has appointed Milo Truby,
28, of Atlanta, as coordinator of
youth education with the Agricul
tural Extension Service, according
to Charles N. Elliott, director of the
Commission.
Truby, a Navy veteran who has
spent most of his life working with
young people, will cooperate with
the Extension Service men and
County agents in extending the
Game and Fish Junior Wildlife Ran
ger Program through participation
in 4-H Club wildlife projects in the
state.
Let’s all come out to the Cum
ming gym on Wednesday night May
7th at 8:30 and hear one of the best
programs ever put on here. The
LeFevre Trio and Jim Waits and
the Homeland Harmony Quartett
in a battle of songs. Don’t forget
the date.
Number 18.
Beasley In Plea
For Road Program
Free Of Politics
Some $360,000,000 is needed for
road construction in Georgia in the
next three years but only about $70,-
000,000 will be available for the pur
pose. State Highway Director John
Beasley made this disclosure as he
addressed the convention of the
County Commissioners Association
which met in Savannah and pleaded
with the officials to “Get together
among your selves and decide which
roads in your own county should
be paved for the benefit of all the
people.”
Beasley said that local politics
was a serious obstruction to county
road construction and stressed the
need for a 10-year highway program
under a constitutional board which
could not be disturbed by each new
administration.
“The state’s oldest roads,” he de
clared, “are carrying the heaviest
loads. Approximately 74 percent of
them are too narrow or are worn
out. It will cost $100,000,000 to wid
en and put state highways into
shape. It will cost $75,000,000 to
build needed farm-to-market roads.
It will cost $60,000,000 to pave roads
through the cities and aliminate
certain grade crossings. We ought
to inaugurate a 10-year program
and not let any changes in politics
or state administration interfere
with it.”
On-Job Training & i
Inspection Job
Completed By YSO
Georgia was the first State in the
union to complete the job of re-in
specting and re-qualifying business
and industrial firms with on-the
job training programs for veterans.
C. Arthur Cheatham, state veterans
service director, has announced that
some 37 000 inspections were per
formed by Department of Veterans
Service personnel in record time.
This feat elicited high praise, he
said, from Veterans Administration
officials in Washington. 7
“We couldn’t have done it,” Cheat
ham stated, in announcing the news
“without the wholehearted cooper
ation of the businessmen and Indus
trialists of Georgia. Almost without
exception, heads of organizations
providing on-the-job ttraining facili
ties readily devoted many hours of
stduy with our representatives in
thrashing out thte numerous prob
lems in the complicated picture.”
Cheatham said that, as a result of
the inspections, some 10,700 job
objectives were either .eliminated
from the program or radically
changed. "We are certain, now,
“that on-the-job veteran trainees are
receiving bona fide training and are
thus, actually earning the subsist
ence allowances paid them by the
federal government.”
The re-inspection project is pro
bably the last official activity in
the field of veterans education by
the Department of Veterans Ser
vice. The new Veterans Educational
Council, authorized by the last ses
sion of the legislature, will assume
charge of this phase o fthe affairs
of ex-servicemen in June.
Acting Gov. M. E. Thompson com
pleted the new Council this week,
by making the following appoint
ments: Quintard Wright, Dougherty
County; J. L. (Jake) Story, Floyd
Couty; Emory Bass, Lowndes; Lt.
Col. E. B. Liles, Glynn; representing
the Veterans Service Board; F. H.
Rayfield, Fulton; representing the
governor; Dr. Phil B. Narmore, of
Georgia Tech; Dr. O. C. Aderhold
University of Georgia; Dr. Georgia
B. Connell, Mercer University and
C. E. Landrum, Hapeville school
teacher. ,
Labor Distribution 1
With the year’s highest peak tan
farm labor requirements rapidly
approaching and fanh labor costs
at their highest point in history,
the urgency for making labor count
most gannot be over-emphasized,
economists of the Agricultural Ex
tension Service say. .
Nitrogen deficiency in cotton is
usually indicated by small plants
which produce pale or yellowish
green foliage instead of the rich
dark-green color of plants growing
in a soil well supplied with nitro
gen. -
RED CROSS