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The American Legion
Post Making Progress
The Cumming Post of the Ameri
can Legion will have a New Home
at once, located on Pilgrim Mill
Road near the New Athletic Field,
which was decided upon at special
session called by the Post Comman
der Friday night May 30th, 1947.
All members of the Legion are
urged to meet at the next regular
meeting of the Post Friday night of
this week at the Court House for
more items of importance to come
up and all members should be pres
ent. All of the 976 service men in
Forsyth County are invited to at
attend, this is very important that
all servicemen avail themselves of
this very great opportunity to serve
the Legion and their fellow service
men and more than all can be of
service and benefit to others during
the years to come.
There are many ways that those
who served in the armed forces of
either wars can get tbenefits for
themselves and their families by
being a member of the American
Legion. Therefore it is very import
ant that every Service man come
Friday night of this week.
Soil Conservation News
FORSYTH COUNTY
T. O. Galloway of the Soil Conser
vation Service, Gainesville, Charles
Hardy of the Gainesville News, and
John Powell representing the Nur
sery of Americus, Georgia were in
the county last week observing the
Kentucky 31 fescue grass on the
farms of Howard M. Holland and
William J. Orr. Mr. Powell has had
the opportunity to observe several
patches of the grass in Georgia and
indicated that Mr. Orr probably had
the best patch in the state of Geor
gia.
Farmers cooperating with the Up
per Chattahoochee Soil District and
who have recently cut their Sericea
for hay are: Jesse McWhorter, D. M
Nalley, Clyde Pendley, Emory Bol
ing and Howard Holland.
Jack Milford in the Chestatee com
munity reports that he and his negh
bors that have ericea have cut it for
hay recently.
Howard Holland has had so much
Ladino clover for pasture this
spring he has allowed one field to
make hay which he cut last week.
Annual June Singing
Our Annual June Singing will be
held at New Harmony Baptist
Church on Sunday June 15.
You are cordially invited to attend
We will have loud speakers for the
comfort of all, so that you may en
joy the services from the grounds.
There will be dinner on the grounds
so make your arrangements to be
with us on this day.
ALONZO FOWLER, President
WILLIE ELLIS, V-President
CLUB WINNERS
Thirty-six club members modeled
dresses at the County Style Revue
on Saturday, May 31.
First place winners were as fol
lows: Home Demonstration Club
Women: First Mrs. Ford Bannister
Silver City; Second and third places
tied with Mrs. Edith Bennett, Beth
elview and Mrs. Grady Savage, Matt
Senior 4-H Club girls: First, Betty
Rives from Brandywine Club; Se
cond, Rebecca Tallant, Cumming
Club’, and third, Joyce Roper from
Ducktown Club.
Junior 4-H Club; First, Laura
Jean Tatum, Friendship Club, Se
cond, Mary Ann Redd, Cumming
Club, and third, Evelyn Tate, Chat
tahoochee Club.
Winners in the 4-H bread project
were also selected; first place, Kay
Frances Eidson of Cumming, Se
cond Baarbara Ann Wolfe of Cum
ming and third Betty Jean Hayes of
Haw Creek.
Mrs. Ford Bannister .first place
winner in the Womens Dress Revue
will attend the Georgia Home De
monstration Council meeting June
q_ Coordinate College Campus,
Athens, Georgia. Mrs. John Rives,
County Council President, and a
selected delegate will also attend
this meeting.
First place winners in the 4-H club
projects will enter the district con
test in July.
The Forsyth County News
(City Population 1,500)
Safety Is Taught
To Georgia 4-H
Boys And Girls
"Georgia 4-H club boys and girls
will be taught safety practices for
farm, home and community again
during 1947,’ Miss Kathleen Weldon
assistant stat 4-H club leader for
the Extension Service, said this
week in revealing that the 4-H mem
ber in the state who does the best
farm safety job will receive an all
expense trip to the National 4-H
Club Congress in Chicago.
“Formerly, only sectional winners
won trips,’ she pointed out. This
change increases the possible num
ber of Chicago trip winners in the
farm safety project from 16 to 46,
Miss Weldon asserted.
Medals of honor for a maximum
of five members in each participat
ing county and a special plaque for
the county reporting the most out
standing 4-H safety program in the
state this year will be presented by
General Motors.
During 1946, Four-H’ers in appro
ximately 140 counties in Georgia
carried out farm safety work and
county winners were named in 48
of these. Georgia’s 1946 state win
ner, Hazel Gentry, Greensboro, also
received sectional and national hon
ors at Chicago. Emanuel County
won the merit plaque last year, the
4-H leader said.
For the fifth consecutive year,
the 4-H farm safety activity is in
fluencing a steadily increasing num
ber of rural people to become safety
minded, Miss Weldon pointed out.
The program is conducted under the
directio nof the National Committee
on Boys and Girls Club Work thru
the State Extension Service.
BASEBALL NEWS
We were sorry and somewhat dis
turbed about Frank Bramblett’s in
jury and absence at first base, but
since we have seen Carl Kennemore
and Neisler perform at that position
we have no apprehensions. Both of
the mdid a most excellent job at
this posittion, also at the bat. Carl
may have a little edge in age, but
experience helps also.
Our capable third baseman, Dal
las Sosebee, hurt his back (around
the sawmill, I believe) and Junior
Fowler had to be moved from left
field to third—Junior seems perfect
ly at home at third.
That Wheeler combination at
short and second worked wonders
(Rudolph at second and Harold at
Short). We are predicting that these
boys will go places in baseball.
James Benson is working hard in
righ-field and we have noticed op
posing pitchers “turning pale” when
he comes to bat. There is just one
thing to do when you see him com
ing—MOVE.
Neisler took over left-field when
Fowler was moved to third and you
would think th eball was coming
from a machine rather than the arm
of a boy when it is thrown in. We
have seen Fowler “peg” home plate
from left-field and it seems the only
error Neisler might make would be
an overthrow.
Wheeler and Gravitt turned in
two of the best pitching performan
ces last week we have seen. These
boys will be invincible shortly.
We saw the following outstanding
plays:
Bramblett stabed some of the
most difficult balls since returning
to first.
Neisler took over right-field in
the absence of Benson and never let
a ball hit the ground unless it went
over the fence—This boy plays al
most perfect baseball.
Junjor Fowler made one of the
most difficult back-hand stabs of a
ball along the left-feild foul line we
have seen this season.
Except at second and third there
were no errors—A back injury at
third and lack of practice at second
is the cause, we believe.
The last game with Lathemtown
was really big league baseball. We
lost two to one, but we still have
OUR opinion about that decision at
first.
Eggs should be gathered at least
three times a day. Use an open con
tainer, such as a wire basket, and
reduce the temperature to around
50 to 55 degrees as quickly as pos
sible.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CIT\ T OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, June sth, 1947.
Emmett U. Willard
Wins Scholarship From
N. C. State College
The State College of Phi Kappa
Phi National Honorary Society, has
presented the 1947 graduate scholar
ship award of $50.00 to Emmett U.
Dillard a former Assistant Farm
Supervisor of the Farm Security
Administration in ForSyth County.
Mr. Dillard, a graduate student
in the College’s Department of Ani
mal Industry, won the award in
competition with all other graduate
students at the College.
Summer Quarter At
North Georgia College
Opens June 16
The summer quarter of North
Georgia College will open on June
16. Except for the special Workshop
of public school teachers which will
end July 23, the summer quarter
will be divided into two terms. Stud
ents may attend either the first or
the second term or pursue courses
running through the eleven weeks.
North Georgia College is contin
uing its war-time accelerated pro
gram through offering in the sum
mer quarter a full curriculm lead
ing to the A. B. and B. S. degrees,
with many courses of special inter
est to public school teachers.
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Attention Members Of
Veteran Foreign Wars
Remember that a fish fry and a
Special Meeting of the Forsyth Post
of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
will be held at Pilgrim Mill Satur
day Evening June 7th, beginning at
6:30 o’clock.
If it is at all possible all members
should plan to attend this import
ant meeting and enjoy the social
hour prior to the meeting.
Unit Demonstrator
Sold On Phosphate
Lime And Legumes
Agriculture is different now from
What it was 12 years ago on the
280-acre W. E. Loughridge farm
near LaFayette in Walker County.
“We’re completely sold on lime,
phosphate and legumes for soil
building. Our land makes about
three times as great a yield since
we changed our crop plans and we
started a fertilizer program as long
range unit test demonstrators in
the Extension Service TVA program
Ross Loughridge pointed out this
week
We grew corn and cotton with a
little hay on our 175 acres of crop
land when my father started as a
unit demonstrator in 1935, the far
mer asserted. We ran our land to
death with row crops and our yields
decreased despite the commercial
fertilizer used each year."
Young Loughridge proudly points
to the changed farming picture now
Tractor power instead of mule pow
er; beef cattle where none grew be
fore; new or improved fences, barns
and houses where buildings were in
poor repair 12 years ago; home
grown beef, pork, poultry and can
ned goods; hay, seed, corn, milo,
wheat, oats, beef and custom mach
inery work as sources of income
where there were only cotton and
corn a few years ago, and plenty of
equipment to cultivate the farm at
little outside help have all changed
farming for the Loughridges.
“We plant about 50 acres of corn,
120 acres of oats and wheat and the
other cropland in hay and seed crop
Mr. Loughridge revealed. His fath
er who’s too old to do heavy farm
work, runs a filling station in the
outskirts of LaFayette and started
in the unit test demonstration pro
gram 12 years ago when Ross was
in school a lot of the time.
Plans are being made to change
the fences so that tractor cultivat
ion will be easier. Cross fences in
the pastures will permit grazing
rotations. Timber in the farm woods
will be used on the farm, he pointed
out. The beef and the seed —which
are chief sources of income—are
sold in LaFayette and Chattanooga
Current plans, Mr. Loughridge said
include starting a registered beef
cattle herd, building a farm shop
garage and obtaining more electri
cal equipment for the farm home.
Veterans Service
Offices Will Still
File School Claims
Although the new Veterans’ Edu
cation Council, on July 1, takes over
the supervision of educational acti
vities for Georgia’s ex-servicemen,
the State Department of Veterans
Service is still a proper agency thru
which former Gl’s may apply to
determine their eligibility for such
benefits. This was stressed by C.
Arthur Cheatham, state veterans
service director in his latest bulle
tin.
I “Do not be confused,” Cheatham
told ex-servicemen, “all initial con
tacts for assistance may still be
made through one of the 60 Veter
ans Service Offices in Georgia.
These offices are official State agen
cies authorized to prosecute claims
for Georgia veterans before the Vet
erans Administration. They are still
the proper places to go for aid in
filing claims of any kind where bene
fits are desired under the GI Bill
of Rights.
The Veterans' Education Council,
Cheatham explained, was set-up by
the last session of the Legis’lture
to releive the Department of Vet
erans Cervice of the responsibility
for educational institutions.
Georgia Baptist Train
ing Union Meets At
Macon June 9—14
Rev. Aubrey L. Hawkins, State
B. T. U. Director of Research an
nounces that the Georgia Baptist
Training Union State Assembly has
obtained Dr. Chester Swor and Dr.
John L. Hill as inspirational speak
ers far the entire Assembly week,
June 9—14. Dr. Swor is an internat
ionally known Youth Speaker and
Dr. Hill is book editor of the Bap
tist Sunday School Board. Other
notables among the fifty member
faculty for the Assembly meeting
at Mercer University, are: Mr. E. E.
Lee, Dallas, Texas; Mr. Parks War
nock, Atlanta; and Miss Frances
Whitworth, Nashville. Tennessee.
The selection of the state’s best
Bible Sword Driller will be a feature
of the Assembly. This contest of
speed and Bible knowledge will be
conducted by the Rev. Aubrey L.
Hawkins State Training Union De
partment. The Rev. Julian Snyder
will conduct the Tournament to se
lect the state’s best Baptist Young
People’s Speaker.
Mr. Gainer E. Bryan, B. T. U. Se
cretary announces that a full pro
gram of recreation using the facili
ties of Mercer University home of
the Assembly—will be under the
direction of Mrs. Lake Plyant. Mrs.
Plyant is known over the South as
an outstanding athletic director.
Baptists of all ages and from every
part of the state have made reser
vations at this the • biggest State
Assembly in the history of the Bap
tist Training Union movement.
M6re are expected yet to register.
Thomasville Loses
Finney VA Hospital
The $10,000,000 Finney General
Hospital at Thomasville, operated
on a reduced scale for the past year
by the Veterans Administration,
will be closed. Its 248 medical and
surgical patients will be moved to
other VA hospitals in Georgia and
its staff invited to continue their
work there, too. Thousands of the
wounded soldiers were treated at
Finney during the war and local
agitation created when the huge es
tablishment was declared surplus
by the Army resulted in its being
taken over by the VA.
Motor Lines Seek
Freight Rate Hike
It takes 26 cents worth of “paper
work” for a motor freight line to
handle the average small shipment
in the State of Georgia. This state
ment was made by representatives
of the motor carriers in Georgia to
the Public Service Commission in
an effort to get permission to raise
rates on small freight shipments
over regular routes in the State.
The carriers asked that minimum
fees be raised from 65 to 85 cents
on shipments transported on only
one line and from 65 cents to $1.05
on shipments carried by more than
one line.
(County Population 15,000) Number 23.
Georgia Growing
Safety Conscious
As Deaths Mount
The problem of safety on Geor
gia’s highways has become a matter
of profound importance since the
disclosure by the State Highway
Patrol that 814 persons were killed
in highway accidents in this state
in 1946—an increase of 148 deaths
over 1945—and that the present
trend indicates the toll will be con
siderably larger this year.
Frankly concerned over the situ
ation, Gov. Thompson has called a
state safety congress to meetin At
lanta on July 30 to 31. Two days
will be given to the study of neces
sary rules to reduce the tragic toll.
The meeting will be preceded by
President Truman’s highway safety
conference which meets in Wash- |
ington on June 18.
In the meantime, both the State
Highway Patrol and the State High
way Department have announced
they will take active steps to curb
speeding and dangerous driving by
local safety measures. The Patrol
expects to double the number of
men assigned to speed suppression
once the drivers’ license rush is over
on June 30.
Engineers of the Highway Depart
ment are planning to tackle the dan
ger spots on Route 41 from Chatta
nooga to Valdosta and either reduce
or eliminate them entirely.
Meanwhile, a ruling by the Law
Department last week indicated that
the Highway Patrol does have the
right to establish speed laws and
other rules where public safety de
mands them. Presumably, orders of
the Patrol may, henceforth, replace
the old county speed laws recently
declared invalid by the Supreme
Court.
Produce More Milk
By Summer Pasture
Irrigation, Care
When the hot, dry summer weath
er lowers milk production for most
Greene County dairy farmers, the
herd of J. P. Dyar and his 2 broth
ers will be able to produce regular
amounts of milk.
With the interest in pasture Irri
gation increasing, especially among
dairymen and beef cattle farmers,
the Dyar brothers plan to provide
water for about 20 acres of pasture
during the summer season. They’re
building up their dairy herd as a
part of their general farm improve
ment plan, Francis Bowen, county
agent, asserted this week.
The Greene County brothers will
use an irrigation system that is en
tirely portable to artificially water
permanent pasture. The entire out
fit, Mr. Bowen asserted, is well adap
ted to irrigating pasture and hay
crops at an initial cost of approxi
mately S4O to SSO per acre. The cost
of the equipment per acre is low,
he explained, because it can be used
on more than one area.
“This is the first pasture irriga -
ion system in Greene County,’ the
Agent pointed out. “Many other
dairymen will benefit from the
work that the Dyar brothers are
doing and the results they obtain.
The Dyar irrigation outfit includes
a portable motor-pump, 500 feet of
supply line to carry water into the
field and 360 feet of perforated pipe
that irrigates a trip 40 to 50 feet
wide at one time. When two to three
inches of water are distributed, the
perforated pipe can be moved to
another location.
Pasture irrigation experiments
during 1946 indicated that dairy far
mers average 35 more pounds of
milk per acre per day from irrigated
fertilized pasture, Mr. Bowen said.
After all irrigation costs were paid
the farrhers netted about $1 more
per acre per day than on unirrigat
ed arsae.
GRAIN SORGHUM
The planting date of grain sor
ghum should be governed by the
use to be made of the crop, when
feed is needed, available labor for
harvesting, rainfall and possible in
sect injury. Four to six pouns of
seed planted in moderately shallow
wide-bottom furrows about four feet
apart produce a good stand for the
grain. The crop may be planted un
til late June.
Seven Towns Promise
Help In Bufor Dam
Fight Go to Washington
DELEGATION PLANS WASHING
TON TRIP FOR CONGRESSION
AL HEARING ON PROJECT
Atlanta’s all-out campaign to get
something started besides talk on
the proposed Buford dam on the
Chattahoochee was gaining strength
Monday Mayor Hartsfield reported.
Roy P. Otwell, mayor of Cum
ming, conferred with Mr. Harstfield
and told the Atlanta chief executive
that seven towns which would bene
fit from the river development will
join in the fight. They are Cum
ming, Lawrenceville, Norcross, Du
luth, Flowery Branch, Buford and
Gainesville.
Mr. Otwell and other represen
tives of the towns will go to Wash
fore a House Appropriations sub
ington next week for a hearing be
committee on a bill allotting $5,000,-
000 for a start on the project.
Some 50 businessmen and farm
ers of Forsyth, Gwinnett, and Hall
counties a year ago formed an or
ganization to work for such a dam,
Mr. Otwell said.
It is believed the dam would be
of immense benefit to the whole
area, in addition to assuring At
lanta of the future an adequate
water supply, Mr. Otwell said.
He pointed out that land values
in the section would be enhanced,
a big recreation development creat
ed, good roads built for access to
the recreation and dam area, soil
conservation measures undertaken
to protect the dam from a muddy
river and, perhaps some day the
river opened for navigation.
Paul S. Etheridge Jr. Fulton coun
ty representative in the General As
sembly, informed the mayor that he
and a number of other legislators
will be in Washington at the time
for a meeting of the Council of
State Governments and will do what
they can to aid the campaign.
The hearing is scheduled June 10.
The City of Atlanta will give a din
ner the night before the hearing for
congressmen from the area inter
ested in the development of the
Chattahoochee—Atlanta Journal.
Gene’s Portrait
Will Be Honored
In State Capitol
The portrait of the late Eugene
Taimadge will be hung permanently
in the State Capitol if the plans of
the Taimadge Memorial Commis
sion, Inc., are fuliy carried out.
A. L. Henson ,the chairman, re
quested permission from Acting
Governor Thompson to hang the pic
ture "temporarily” in the Capitol
building. Gov. Thompson replied
that he would be happy to permit
the exhibition of the portrait on a
permanent basis.
“I fell " he said, “that the por
traits of all of Georgia’s deceased
governors should have a place in
the Capitol.”
Legion’s Boys’ State
For 1947 To Be Held
At GMA On June 8-15
Boys’ State, annual project for
Georgia youth sponsored by the De
partment of Georgia, American Le
gion, will be held this year at Geor
gia Military Academy near Atlanta
on June B—ls,8 —15, according to an an
nouncement by Major Charles Mar
gan, Director.
Major Morgan said that a fine
program is planned and that an at
tendance even larger than last year
is expected.
Boys’ State brings together teen
age youths from throughout the
state to study governmental proce
dure. Each Legion Post is alloted a
quota and selects those who are to
attend. While at the “State” the
boys are under constant supervision
of Major Morgan and a trained staff
Besides a program of study they
participate in athletic events and
other forms of wholesome recrea
tion.
Boys’ State was so successfull in
1946 that Major Morgan was select
ed as one of three directors from
over the nation to direct the Boys’
Forum of the National Government
held in Washington.
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