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Volume 45.
200 4-H Club and H. D.
Members Attend Dress
Revue On May Bth.
Two hundred 4-H club and home
demonstration club members attend
ed the annual dress revue held in
the Cumming High School Gym on
Saturday, May 8. Fifteen women
participated in the Home Demonstra
tion Club Dress Revue. The follow
ing persons wwere winners in their
group: Dressy, Dresses—first place,
Mrs. Lois Heard: second place—Mrs
Brice Bennett; third place— Mrs.
Grady Bramblett.
Stylish stout—first place—Mrs. E.
Ck Daldrip who modeled a dressy
dress.
Casual dresses —first place—Mrs.
Matttie Watson; second place—Mrs.
Carpi Castleberry; third place—Mrs.
Jay Holbrook.
House Dresses—first place—Miss
Rutth Driskell; second place—Mrs.
Wilma Wood; third place—Mrs.
Victoria Hemphill.
Sack dresses—first place—Mrs.
Clyde James; second place —Mrs.
Mary Cantrell; third place—Miss
Leola Cornn.
Mrs. Lois Heard was county win
ner. She will represent the Forsyth
County Home Demonstration Clubs
in Athens at the State Dress Revue,
Friday, June 11. Miss Ruth Driskell
was named first aternate, and Mrs.
Mattie Watson second alternate.
There were seven entries in the
Senior 4-H Dress revue. Those win
ning were: first place —Miss Martha
Summerour; second place—Miss
Helen Collins; third place—Miss
Martha Jean Bottoms
In the Junior 4-H Dress revue,
there were thirteen entries, the fol
lowing were winners: first place—
Gail Day; second place— Lunelle
Wallis; third place—Petty Nuckolls
Sixteen junior 4-H club members
participated in the apro revue. The
winners were: first place— Sallie
Garrett; second place—Marsha Ham
mond; third place—Sue Com.
In the senior bread contest there
were two entries. Miss Patricia Boyd
won first place and Miss Mary Sum
merour second place.
Nineteen Junior 4-H girls entered
the muffin contest. The winners
were: first place—Martha Summer
our; second place—Satidra Nuckolls
third place—Gail Day.
Demonstrations were given by
two 4-H girls jon milk. Miss Barbara
Milford won first place on her Ice
Cream demonstration. Rebecca Mil
ford placed second on her Instant
Pudding demonstration.
First place winners in each of the
4-H projects, except the apron, will
represent the Forsyth County 4-H
clubs at North Georgia District Pro
ject Achievement meetings, Athens,
July 13-15.
Mrs. Edith Bennett, Council Pre
sident, presided and gavf the wel
come. Devotional was by Mrs. Lois
Heard. Mrs. Zelma R. Bannister,
H. D. A., awarded the prizes.
The Pleasant Grove Home Demon
stration Club was in charge of the
registration, and the Ducktown club
furnished the flowers. Refreshment
were served by the Chestatee and
Mayfield Home Demonstration Club.
Judges were Mrs. Joe Brooks and
Mrs. John Pittard of Cumming.
Miss Virginia Lott, HDA, Pickens
County, and Miss Glenda Cox, Asst.
HDA, Habersham County.
SPRING CARNIVAL TO PLAY
HERE NEXT WEEK
The annual spring carnival will
play in Cumming at the Forsyth
County Fair Grounds during the
week of May 24th through the 29th.
The Georgia Amusement Company
from Toccoa, Georgia, which has
played here during the spring for
the past several years, will again
furnish the entertainment. t
Mr. Scott, manager of the carni
val, has informed the Cumming Ki
wanis Club, sponsors of the show,
that he has purchased another ride
to go with the several that is al
ready with the carnival and that he
'(Expecting to have a very good
show for the people of Forsyth.
The Dahlonega Feed and Hatch
ery Company of Dahlonega won the
1954 Georgia Chicken-of-Tomorrow
contest held recently at the Univer
sity of Georgia.
The Forsyth Comity News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KHE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Air Defense Command
Announces Practice Air
Attack Exercise
More than 48 thousand square
miles of Georgia and South Carolina
will be under a “mook” air attack
by an aggressor Air Force on Sun-
Uay, May 23rd, from Ipm to spm,
when the air defense test exercise
“Operation May Flowers” ecomes a
'reality.
Majjor Jerome H. White, of the
Air Defense Filter Center 2939
Peachtree Road N. E. said, “approxi
mately 250 Ground Observer Posts
have been alerted, including the lo
cal post in Cumming, Georgia, and
if all participate more than 5 thous
and volunteer members of the Corps
will be in action.” He stated further,
“this number includes the fifty Fil
ter, Center volunteers that will be on
duty at the Center to receive calls
at the Posts’.
During this exercise, both the
Georgia and South Carolina Wings
of the Civil Air Patrol will partici
pate. They have been asked to fly in
the more remote areas that do not
noramlly have any air traffic at all.
Either commercial or military air
craft.
Capt. Donald Zeine, Filter Center
operations officer said, "I believe
there will be enough commercial or
military aircraft in the air on Sun
day to take care of the area not hit
by CAP planes.”
These exercises are perfomied on
regularly scheduled basis to test the
proficiency of the Ground Observer
Corps personnel and to iron out any
difficulties that might have occur
red in the past.
The yare sponsored by the Air
Defense Command whose primary
mission is to defend the U. S. from
an air attack by an aggressor force.
Cotton Classing
Short Course
The Department of Agronomy,
College of Agriculture, University of
Georgia, Athens, will offer a Cotton
Classing Short Course, beginning on
June 7 and closing June 25, 1954.
This is primarily a service course
for men in the cotton trade, ginners
farmers, and anyone else interested
in buying and selling cotton. There
are no entrance requirements for
those who wish to take the course.
Good eyesight and true color per
ception are essential.
' To save bothe time and money,
the course is given on an intensive
basis; that is, the entire day is de
voted to the work. By following this
schedule it is possible to cut in half
the time required in the normal Sum
mer Quarter schedule. A certificate
will be presented to each person
who completes the course satisfact
orily.
Mr. Emmett C. Hanson is to be
the instructor for the course. Mr.
Hanson is a native Georgia and has
worked with the Cotton Division of
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
for approximately 19 years. He has
had 10 years of varied and valuable
experience in technical work in
Washington and approximately nine
years of experience working in Geor
gia and North Carolina. At present
Mr. Hanson is Chairman of the Au
gusta Classing Office. He is except
ionally well qualified to teach the
course.
Large lots of cotton will be grad
ed and stapled. In addition, lectures
will cover pertinent topics related to
the handling and processing of cot
ton. A complete set of Official Stand
ards for grade and stape will be
available for study and comparison.
The expenses for registration will
be as follows; registration fee, S2O;
Laboratory fee sls; for a total of
$35 for the course.
Registration will be held in Con
ner Hall, campus of the College of
Agriculture, on June 7, 1954, be
tween the hours of 9:00 and 11:00
A. M. Room and board may be ob
tained in Athens at the dormitories
at hotels or in rooming houses.
Only a limited number will be ac
cepted in the Cotton Classing Short
Course. Applications for enrolling
in the course should be made at
once. Additional information may be
obtained at your county agent’s of
fice or by letter to T. H. Rogers, De
partment of Agronomy, Conner Hall
, Athens, Georgia.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May 20, 1954.
Forsyth County Lags
In Purchasing Savings
Bonds, Ist 4 months
This newspaper has always been
proud of Forsyth County’s record
in all worthwhile causes that affect
the well being of our country.
It is, therefore, with some regret
that we are Informed by Mr. Roy
P. Otwell, County Bond Chairman,
our County’s purchase of U. S. Sav
ings Bonds amount to only $18,069
for the first four months of this
year, whereas our sales should be
$28,400 for this period.
We further note that our situat
ion is not generally the case in the
country as a whole, as the sales of
Savings Bonds throughout the nat
ion for the first four months of this
year were the highest in any four
months period since World War 11.
Closer home, as an illustration
Pickens County, Georgia, with a com
parable population and income, has
purchased $29,150 in the same per
iod.
We know that the people of For
syth County are as anxious to main
tain our reputation in these matters
as we are, so let’s all get behind the
Savings Bonds Program.
Sharon Church Services
By Kate Kay Harris
Let your conversation be without
Covetousness; and be content with
such things as ye have. — Hebrews
13:5
The main lesson we got in Sunday
School last Sunday was to be thank
ful for and content with what the
Lord provides for us instead of look
ing about at what other people have
and wishing we had their property
instead of ours. After all we are all
blessed wiJh more than we deserve
and we should think about how
•lucky we are and be thankful for
everything.
I would like to tell everyone who
are not attending church each Sun
day that you are missing some won
derful sermons being preached by
our pastor. It seems that every ser
mon proves his close fellowship with
God as he so lovingly and earnestly
pours out the truths trying to lead
us in living closer to Christ.
Last Sunday morning, Rev. Nalley
preached on “What Think Ye of
Christ?” in which he gave a beauti
ful picture of what Christ means to
him and what He should mean to
all of us. What should we think of
one so wonderful that He came to
(earth to suffer and die for us and
then save us from our sins and pre
pare a home for us to go to be with
Him after this life?
Then on Sunday night Rev. Nalley
brought another wonderful message
from Matt. 28:19,,, Go Ye therefore,
and teach all nations, baptizing them
in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” He
especially stressed the importance
of the baptism of Christians. We
know that baptism does not save
people but it is one of the essentials
of living a Christian life which is to
follow in Jesus’ footsteps.
We are having some real good les
sons in B. T. U. on, “Keeping the
Faith in our Homes.” Last Sunday
night, our lesson was on, “Promot
ing Bible Reading and Study in the
Homes.” The best habit that can be
formed is that of reading and study
ing the Bible in our homes. If we
have the Sunday School and Train
ing Union Quarterlies and the won
derful Christian magazine, "Home
Life”, in our homes we have very
good guides for Bible readings for
each day, along with comments to
help us to understand the readings.
All the members of Sharon church
are especially requested to be at
Conference next Saturday when the
rules of decorum will be read. We
should all know the rules of our
church and try to live by them as
the rules of our church are also the
rules of our Lord.
We would like to invite all sister
churches to our annual homecoming
and Communion Services next Sun
day. Also all singers and lovers of
singing are invited to come on Sun
day afternoon and help us to have a
good sipging.
We ask everyone to join with
Sharon Church in prayer for our
true and faithful, Mr. W. T. Bagley
who is suffering a serious illness in
Mary Alice Hospital.
M. E. Thompson, Can
didate for Governer
In Gainesville May 25
Citizens of this county will have
an opportunity to meet with, hear
and see M. E. Thompson, candidate
for governor, who will be in Gaines
ville on Tuesday and Wednesday,
May 25—26, for a testimonial din
ner and a Radio Party.
The testimonial dinner will be
held Tuesday night May 25 at Dixie
Hunt Hotel at 8 p. m. Glenn McCon
nell, Jr is in charge of arrangements
and it is being staged by the Hall
County Thompson- For- Governor-
Club.
It is an open affair, not an invi
tational one. Everybody is invited to
attend. Tickets may be secured at
White’s Music Company and at the
door to the hotel banquet room.
Mr. Thompson will broadcast on
Wednesday morning over Stations
WGGA and WDUN from 6:05 for
fifteen minutes. That afternoon,
over the same hook-up he will stage
his Radio Party. This program, from
4 to 6 P. M. invites listeners to tele
phone him questions pertaining to
his platform state politics and gov
ernment affairs. The number to call
will be LE 4—5291. distance
calls will be accepted and you do
not have to give your name.
Between the dinner and broad
casts, Mr. Thompson will be at Dixie
Hunt Hotel and will be delighted to
see everybody. You do not have to
have an appointment to see him.
To date, Mr. Thompson’s platform
consists of: Favors (1) Segregation
in- the public schools. (2) Present
County Unit System (3) Purchase
of auto tags in each county court
house (4) State funds for cities and
towns to improve streets, etc. He is
agayist (1) Toll roads (2) Any new
taxes.
Apply For Homestead
Exemption Only Once
Eugene Cook Rules
Georgia home owners need apply
for homestead exemption only once,
provided the owner stays in con
tinuous residence, Attorney-Gener
al Eugene Cook stated last week in
an unofficial opinion given to the
Board of Tax Equalizers of Ogle
thorpe County.'
The 1952 General Assembly amend
ed the law, Cook said, so that a per
son does not have to file every year
for homestead exemption.
The Attorney-General stated, also,
that the 10 percent penalty, which
the law imposes for failure to file a
taxe return, will have no effect
where the homestead exemption of
the taxpayer is equal to or greater
than the value of the taxpayer’s
property.
If the taxpayer owed no tax, then
he would have nco 10 percent pen
alty to pay. %
Mr. Cook stated, also, that the law
with reference to exemption of per
sonal property was not amended by
the Act of 1952.
Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
D. E. Pruitt and Sam Harbin have
completed the farm pond on their
farms near Heardville. The local
SCS technicians surveyed the 6ite
and set up the specifications for its
construction. The local ACP is as
sisting in financing the construct
ion.
The SCS technicians have selected
a site and surveyed for a lake on the
Garth Green farm in the South east
section of the county.
A dam site on Samuel Johnson’s
farm below Cumming was selected
and the specifications were drawn
for the dam by the SCS technicians
last week. Mr. Johnson will get as
sistance in building the dam thru
the ACP.
A farm pond site has been inspect
ed on the Henry McGinnis farm
southwest of Cumming.
An additional dam site has been
inspected on the W. E. Harris farm
west of Cumming.
Any farmer in the Settingdown
creek watershed who would like to
seed Sericea next month and the
month of July see the local SCS
technicians.
County Population 15,000. Number 20.
P. Y. Luther Speaker at
Masonic Association on
Saturday, May 29
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P. Y. LUTHER
Mr. P. Y. Luther promient Mason
and Lay Leader of the Methodist
Church, will be the guest speaker of
the Forsyth County Masonic Asso
ciation, which will be held at the
Ducktown Masonic Lodge on the
evening of May 29th at 8 P. M.
Brother Luther has an outstand
ing record in Masonry and at the
present time, is Grand Lecturer of
the Grand Lodge of Georgia. And is
also Past Master of Macon Lodge
No. 5, Macon; Past High Priest of
Constantie Chapter, Royal Arch
Masons N 0.4, Past Master Wash
ington Council No. 6, Past Eminent
Commander, St Omer Conmandery
No. 2, and Past Master of Sixth
Masonic District Convention, also
served as Secretary of the Sixth
District for 21 years. This record
also includes years of service as
Custodian of the Sixth District.
' He is also active in the work of
the Methodist Church. And has serv
ed as Lay Leader or Associate Lay
Leader of the OrllTln District of the
North Georgia Conference for the
past 25 years and at present is Vice
Chairman of the Griffin District
Board Laymen of the Methodist
Church.
His speaking engagements take
him to Lodges and Churches thru
out Georgia bringing messages of i
good will, of hope and of profound |
spiritual significance.
The meeting will be held in the
Ducktown Junior High School build-1
ing. All Master Masons and their
families are cordially invited to at
tend.
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
The unusually late frosts this
spring have Caused a great deal of
concern about the stands of farm
crops, especially cotton and corn.
A considerable amount of cotton
that was already up to a stand is
feared lost. This is especially true a
little further south where planting
dates are earlier and some had been
chopped out.
Some of our com Mas been dam
aged. Com that was already up to a
stand in the bottom lands where
wind did not prevent the formation
of frost on the plants was hurt es
pecially bad.
Probably, the fact that could hurt
us worse will be the shortage of seed
for replanting purposes. Supplies
were already exhausted of some var
ieties of hybrid seed corn. We were
already being forced tp accept sub
stitute varieties for first plantings.
It was first thought that the sup
ply of cotton seed for planting
would be plentiful. Most farmers
had gotten good stands of cotton
and were only worrying about get
ting it worked. Some seed dealers
had already released the remaining
stocks of cotton seed to oil mills for
processing into oil and meal.
The local situation does not ap
pear as bad off as in other sections
of Georgia. Very little cotton was
up to a stand and much of it had not
been planted. Our seed dealers at the
present time still have an ample sup
ply of our expected needs.
Our chief concern may be the
danger of farmers in other sections
of the state buying all of the remain
ing stocks of seed for planting the
second time. It would be a good ide*
for all of us to be sure that we have
enough seed bought to plant our
crop.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
HUMAN RELATIONS
Scanning last week’s issue of Time,
I got over to page 116, where this
three-word head caught my attent
ion “Happily Ever After?”
I through several senten
ces of the article only discover
that it was an effort to describe
what a group of “experts” in sever
al universities are doing to solve the
question of human relations. When
I got to this sentence? “So far, the
scsolars admit their efforts to have
been fumbling, and a good many of
the experts are still hard put say
just exactly what human relations
is,” I. started on turning the pages,
and then on page 120, I found this
thing about the “experts” was still
hanging on, and I read this sentence
"We have worked with dogs, rats,
pigeons, myna birds, parakeets, fish,
and even human beings.”
Wonderful, isn’t it? Parents send
ing their boys and girls off to school
to get an "education,” and the learn
ed anthropologists, sociologists, psy
chologists and psychiatrists intro
ducing them to dogs, rats, pigeons,
myna birds, parakeets, fish* and
even human beings! And this for
the purpose of solving human rela
tions!
True, we can learn much from a
.good old hound dog, and it is con
ceivable that we might get a few
dots and dashes from rats and what
ever else they mentioned/ but would
n’t the average youngster do about
as well on this assignment back at
home?
The best document I know on the
subjject of human relations is the
Sermon on the Mount, so-called. It
slays: “And it came to pass, when
Jesus had ended these sayings, the
people were astonished at His doc
trine (teachings); for He taught
them as one having authority, and
not as the scribes.’
I couldn’t help wondering if the
doctors at Yale, Harvard, and all the
other universities mentioned by
Time, had ever thought to turn to
the great Teacher for suggestions
on how human beings might get a
long with one another. He has the
answer.
©ut it would sound rather old
[ fashioned, no doubt, to suggest that
the Bible is more up to date than to
morrow’s headlines. One would be
dubbed very simple, should he men
tion the Bible in the presence of the
intelligentsia.
Still, there is no page of history
that records any sustained progress
in human relations apart from the
will and way of God, There was an
old-fashioned prophet once who said
“He hat showed thee, O man, what
is good; and what doth the Lord re
quire of thee, but to do justly, and
to love mercy, and to walk humbly
with thy God?” (Micah 6:8)
Shady Grove Annual
Home Coming Held
The Annual Home Coming at the
Shady Grove Baptist Church took
place on Sunday, May 16th, this al
so being Communion day.
Our pastor, Rev. Franklin Black
burn delivered a most inspiring ser
mon and a sermon which was very
appropriate to the occasion.
The attendance this year appeared
much larger than ever before and
it is so heartwarming to see so many
of the former members coming
(back year after year to these an-*
nual singings, mingling with the old
friends, while they, too were enjoy
ing fond and sacred memories of
gone by years and we we do hope
that everyone will continue coming
back each year. All are most wel
come.
We truly enjoyed seeing several
of our former pastors.
The meeting adjourned at noon,
and every one marched outside
where a wonderful display of food
of all kinds rested on an 84 foot
table, and a most delicious lunch
was enjoyed by every body.
After dinner the people gathered
back in the church and listened to
•some mighty good singing. We had
with us the Martin Trio, the Suttton
Duett, the Rhinehardt Trio, the Wal
lace Trio, and many other good sing
ers. We hope to welcome them all
back next year.
We especially want to thank Ezra
Orr, Jimmie Fagan, Edward Martin
and Edd Taylor for their generous
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