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iVolume 45.
Gov. Talmadge Will
Speak Here August 19
On Thursday August 19, at 2:00
P. M. Governor Herman Talmadge
will dedicate the new swimming
poo lwhich was built and sponsored
by the Sawnee Valley Recreation
Center, Inc. This pool was built at a
approximating cost of $15000.00, the
entire amount being donated and
pledge.
Following the speaking an elabor
ate swimming and diving demon
stration including life saving shall
he held free to the public.
Everybody invited.
Marvin Griffin’s
Speech Gains More
[Votes In Forsyth
Before a large crowd of Forsyth
County folks, Lt. Gov. Marvin Grif
fin gained numerous votes and the
support of many who have been on
the fence, as to who is best qualified
to fill the seat of Gov. Talmadge.
After an invocation by Rev. G. W.
Forrest, Mr. Griffin was introduced !
by Hon. Roy P. Otwell, Mayor of
Cumming.
After thanking Mr. Forrest and
Mr. Otwell, Mr. Griffin went right
into his speech with fact that have
long been in doubt with the people
of this section of Georgia.
Mr. Griffin recalled the figures of
the 1948 and 1950 elections, in which
he took 147 of the counties in 1948
and 155 counties in 1950, of the 159
counties in-Georgia.
He vigorously brought forth the
fact that he was not an Altanta Hot
el Candidate, was not supported by
foreign owned newspapers or the
Atlanta World (an Atlanta owned
Negro, NAACP paper).
He stated that Georgia has shown
more progress in the past six years
than the 77 years prior to the pres
ent administration. He stated that
the School appropriation now Tor
1952 and 1953 was 95,000,000 com
pared to 37,500,000 in 1948, and that
Teachers pay had been increased
120 percent while he has been in
office.
Through Industrial development,
the wealth of Georgia has increased
400,000,000, which has raised "the
standard of living for every medium
wage earner in the state.
A few of the many major project
accomplished were mention, includ
ing the improvement at the State
Hospital in MiTledgeVnie, which has
been lifted to a high level daring his
regime at Lt. Governor.
A most important issue that he
favors, and of which no other candi
date has mentioned, is the creation
of a Rural Rbads Authority, for the
purpose of paving every road in the
state that is on a rural mail' route
as well as school bus Routes.
He reminded the people that live
on unpaved roads, that they have
been paying Six Cents Gasoline Tax
es for thirty years, and still live on
roads on which school busses and
letter carriers still mire up 1n bad
weather.
He was quite clear on his stand on
segregation. He did not avoid the
issue, as other candidates have been
- forced to do, due to their supporters.
He favors the People of Georgia liv
ing as they desire, and not to the
will of others. He reminded the peo
ple that he has fought for segregat
ion for eight years, and will continue
to have segregated schools as long
as he is a public servant.
One of the most Important sub
jects discussed was in his advocation
of an increase in Odß pge .pension.
He favors a $50.00 minimum to re
place the present $36.00 that yill
cost the state only one dollar for
every five obtained from Washing
tton.
* It was indeed a surprise to hear
the old timers, whom have not made
up their minds as to their choice,
say, "I am now convinced that He
(Marvin Griffin) is the best man in
the Race, and will get my vote).
One old timer said, He has kept the
Faith and if he makes a promise
you can count on it.
Mr. Griffin left Cumming elated
■over the welcome he received and
spent some time visiting *with the
many people around the Court
house square, leaving Cumming to
make a speech in Clarkesville in the
afternoon and then on to Ellijay for
» rally Tuesday night
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMICNT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Bankers Building
To Be Presented
At Four-H Center
The Georgia Bankers Association I
building will be presented to thei
State 4-H Club Center in ceremon
ies at Rock Eagle, August 18.
The occasion will be the County
Key Bankers Convention, sponsored j
by the agricultural committee of the I
Bankers Association. In addition to
the presentatio ,nthe program will
include an address by Governor Her
man E. Talmadge and talks by sev
eral agricultural leaders.
W. N. Downs, chairman of the GBA
agricultural dbmmittee and vjce
president of the First National Bank
and Trust Co., Macon, will open the
meeting at 10:1)5 a. m. by presenting .
the 1954-55 GBA agricultural pro
gram. Following this will be a talk |
on ‘Hand Hand 'With Farm
Youth” by George P. Donaldson,
president of Abraham Baldwin Ag
ricultural College at Tilton.
H. L. Wingate, president of the
Georgia Farm Bureau Federation
j Macon, win discuss farm legislation
1 at 11 a. m. “Irrigation” will be the
topic of a panel discussion, to be
moderated by George H. King, asso
ciate director of the Bn df
Georgia College of Agriculture ex
periment Stations.
Panel members include Henry
S. Cohen, executive vice president ol
theMoultrie National Bank; Graham
F. Dariiefl, manager of Russell Dan
iel Irrigation Co., Athens; R. D. Ti
singer, president of fhe Georgia As
sociation of Soil Conservation Dis
trict Supervisors, Carrollton; M. T.
Thomson, district engineer for the
U. S. Geological Survey, Atlanta,
and M. M. Kimbrel, executive
president of the First National Bank
Thomson.
The building, a SIO,OOO cottage,
will be presented after lunch by W.
G. Williamson, -ppresident of the
Bankers Association and vice presi
dent and cashier of the Citizfcnsi
Bank in "Vienna. Acceptance talks
will be made by Dr. O. C.- Aderjiold,
president of the University of Geor
gia, and W. A. Sutton, associate dir
ector of the Agricultural Extension
“Service.
The program will end with Gov-,
ernor Talmadge’s speech, and then
the Visitors will make a tour of the
Rock Eagle Center area.
ASC NEWS
Farmers have voted to make mar
keting quotas effective on 1955 crop
Wheat, the U. S. Department of Ag
riciflture reported today. Prelimi-,
nary returns from the national re-|
fere/>dum of Wheat growers held
yesterday, July 23, show 73.3 per-l
cent of the farmers voting in favor!
of marketing quotas on next year’s
crop and 26:7 percent opposed.
These preliminary, official return
show a total of ‘267,104 votes coun
ted. Of these, 195301 votes -were re
corded as favoring marketing quo
tas and 71,303 votes were recorded
|as against quotas. Although these re
turns are preliminary and do not
, include the vote in a few scattered
counties, the final official tahulat
ion is not expected to show any sig
nificant change from the percent
ages for and against reported today
Since the marketing quotas for
wheat proclaimed by Secretary of
Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson June
21 are effective on approval by two
thirds or more of the farmers vot
ing in yesterday's referendum, mar
keting quotas will be In effect on
wheat during the marketing year
beginning July 1, 1955.
1 Farmers have voted on wheat mar
[keting quotas three times before.
They approved quotas for the 1941
wheat crop by an 81 percent favor
j able vote, approved them for the
1952 crop by an 82.4 percent favor
i able vote, and approved them for
j the 1954 crop by an 87.2 percent fav
I orable vote.
The unofficial, preliminary tabu
Ration by States, as telephoned or
wired to the Department last night
jis as follows:
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SEND SOIL SAMPLES
Georgia farmers have been urged
'to send soil samples to one of the
| testing laboratories in the state as
i early as possible to insure getting
results of tests and fertilizer and
lime recommendations in time for
planting. The four state laboratories
are located at Experiment, Tifton,
Athens, and BlairsviUe.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday August 12, 1954/
With y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
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County Agent, Walter H. Rucker
reminded Forsyth County fanners
this week that they still may apply
for government aid in soil-building
practices under the 1954 Agricultur
al Conservation Program. He said
I that there is almost two million dol
lars available in Georgia now under
this program.
The agent explained that, to ob
tain ACP cost sharing this year, a
farmer must file with the county Ag
I ricultural Stabilization and Conser
vation. Program committee a re
quest before he starts carrying out
the soir building practice. A cam
i paign was conducted at the begin
nrng of the year to get a substan
I tial number of requests, but request
may be filed at any time.
“For each soil building practice
for which ACP cost sharing is ap
proved, the farmer receives a notice
showing the definite amount he may
earn by performing the practice,”
the couhty agent pointed out. “If
the farmer does not report perfor
mance of the practice by the expira
tion daate shown on his notice of
'approval, the approval is cancelled”
Rucxer urged all Forsyth county
farmers who wish to request ACP
aid in carrying out these praactices
to do so at the county ASC office im
mediately. He explained that each
county has an. allotment, and that
approvals must be kept within the
amount of funds available in this
county.
“Georgia’s allocation of payment
funds for 1954 ACP is $5,334.00,” the
agent reported. “A little more than
three and one hal f million dollars
has been approved by county com
mittees on practices requested by
farmers. A substantial part of these
practices were of such nature that
they will not be completed until fall
However, the total earnings reflect
ed in all completed practics reported
through June 30 is a ittle less than
one million dollars”.
Thus, the agent concluded, there
is still a considerable amount of
ACP money available to Georgia
farmers who will apply for 1954
cost sharing.
Swimming Pool Was
Officially Opened on
Sunday August Ist
By Joe Brooks
The Sawnee Valley Recreation
Center swimming pool was officially
put into use on Sunday, August Ist.
when George Allen and Robert Me-
Elreath Jr. were baptized and receiv
ed into the Cumming Melhbtlist
Church by Rev. John Ozfty. It is
vecry fitting that our pool can be
started out urlth such a ceremony.
On Wednesday August 4th the
pool was formerly opened to the
public and it has seen a lot of use
since then. Opening hours are from
to 6:00 and 7:30 to 9:30 P. M.
and beginning Saturday August 14
it will be open from 9:OQ to 11:30
A. "M. also and plans are to provide
free swimming instruction to begin
ners for the first hour each -day.
At leaast taro competent life
guards will be on duty whenever
the pool is open and all precautions
have been made to provide for the
safety of all swimmers at all times.
Red Hepderson is doing an excellent
job of managing the pool and every
one is enjoying it to the limit.
Admission of 20 and 35 cents is
charged to take care of the mainte
nance and upkeep and season pass
es are still on sale for $5.00.' \T}fese
passes permit the holder to use the
pool at any time it is open for the
remainder of the season. Everyone
is cordially invited to enjoy the bene
fits of your swimming pool.
FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOL
TERM STARTS SEPT. 6TH.
By order of the Forsyth County
Board of Education the Forsyth
County Schools will open for the
1954—55 term of school on Monday,
September the 6th.
Pre-planning for Teachers will
begin August the 30th and continue
for a period of one week.
AH teachers must report to their
respective schools on thip date.
A. R. HOUSLEY, dSupfl.
Bank of Ila Closes
Doors on Saturday
ILA, Aug. s—The Bank of Ila, Ga.,
will be closed permanently this Sat
urday “because of financial difficul
ties,” and its deposits of $76,000 will
be taken over by the Citizens and
Southern National Bank, Athens |
branch, effective Honday, August 9.
This action was announced jointly
Thursday by H. Earl Cook, chair
man of the Federal Deposit Insur
ance Corp., and A. P. Persons, State
Banking Superintendent.
The plan also calls for the FDIC
to advance about $70,000 'to the;
C&S Athens branch to cover the
total deposits of the Ila institution.
The statement said that any good
check drawn on the Bank of Ila af
ter it has closed will be honored by
the Citizens and Southern branch in
Athens assuming all of the closed
bank's deposits.—Atlanta Constitut
ion.
Sharon Church Service*
By Kate Kay Harris
Choose you this daay whom ye will
serve—Joshua 24: 15
In Sunday School, the Juniors
started a new unit of lessons, last
Sunday on the topic, “Following
Jesus.”
In their first lesson in this unit,
“A Choice to Make,” they learned
about making their best choice in I
the beginning of their young lives I
which is to be saved and follow Je
sus. We tried to help them under ]
stand that all through their lives
there will be choices to make as so
many problems will confront them
and by making this first important,
choice, which most of our Juniors
Tlaave already done, and by living a I
prayerful, humble and devoted life,
they Will always have Jesus to help
them make the right choices in all
their problems.
Jesus taught in His Sermon on
the Mount that God would take care
of His children. He proved by the
birds in the air and the Lilies of the
fields how that, even though they
don’t work, they are fed and clothed
and surely God’s children who are
willing to work and seek God’s king
dom and His righteousness above
everything else will have all our
needs taaken care of.
I don’t believe He means for us to
expect to be fed and clothed without
working for it because He tells us
that we wHI eat by the sweat of the
brow, but we must put Him first In
our hearts and minds as we go about
our work then He will provide the
fruits of our labor. Before we grum
ble about the dry weather and hard
times we should stop and think
about how much we are doing for
God, then count our many blessings
that we really do not deserve. He is
a gracious and merciful God and we
really need something to wake us up
and bring us to our knees, repent
ing of not being thankful enough
for What He does for us and com
plaining about Him not doing
enough for us. If everyone would
put Him first in our lives we would
have peace instead of all the con
fusion, we would have rain when
we need it and we wmild all be thank
ful and have more love for each
other and Know that we have a mer
clful Father.
Rev. Nalley chose Psalm 42: I—2
and brought a good message on, “My
soul thirseth for God.”
The more we thirst after the word
of God and His righteousness the
more we will be fed and the strong
er we will be in the faith. A ChFfat
ian should never be' satisfied but
should always be hungry fro more
spiritual food an d should have a
daily diet of prayer, study and the
exercising of faith and the kingdom
work.
We are sorry to see the attend
ance in B. T. U. getting lower. |We
would like to urge everyone to come
and do your best in all the church
services. If you don’t put any effort
into the services you certainly won’t
get any blessings from them. We
find thaat the harder we work for
Jesus, the more we enjoy it and the
more blessings we receive.
The W. M. U. meeting will be
held at the church next Saturday
jat ?:30 P. M. all the ladies are invit
ed to attend.
County Population 15,000. Number 32.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
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WAKE UP, AMERICA.
• In 1787 Gibbon completed his De
cline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Summarizing the massive facts of
his notable study, Gibbon offered
the following observations as ac
counting for the fall of that civiliz
zation:
First: “The rapid increase of div
oree; the undermining of the dlgni
ty and sanctity of the home, which
is the basis of human society."
Second: "Higher and higher tax
es, and the spending of public mon
ies for free bread, and circuses for
the populace."
Third: “The mad craze for pleas
ure; sports becoming every year
more exciting and more brutal.”
Fourth: “The building of gigantic
armaments when the real enemy
was within, in the decadence of the
people.”
Fifth: “The decay of religion
faith fading into more form, losing
touch with life and becoming im
potent to warn and guide the people.
Take this outline by Gibbon and
put it down by the trends in our
iiountry, and you will have some
thing to think about the rest of the
week.
For example: The FBI reports
58,000 boys and girls under 15 years
of age arrested for various offenses
last year. To go on with the FBI Re
, port, 55,000 boys and girls, 15 to 16
were arrested: 191,000 between 17
| and 21 were arrested: 141,000 be
i tween 21 and 24 were arrested.
All one has to do to see some ana
logy between Gibbon’s observations
and our plight is to read one edition
| of a newspaper or listen to one news
cast. We all have some idea of what
! is happening to the American home
| we are well aware of mounting tax
t es, of the craze for pleasure and
thrill, etc. etc. Make a study of the
average TV program, or the many,
many comic books which feature
crime, and you get an idea of how
the youth of our generation is being
steeped in the suggestion of “shoot
in’ your way through.”
America may well awake to the
enemies wwithin as wel la s the ene
mies wwithout. It was Gibbon’s con
elusion that the Roman Empire de
dined and fell because of the ene
mies within.
Soil Conservation New*
Forsyth County
The Watershed program in the
Settingdown creek area is making
rapid strides from a soil and water
conservation standpoint. Landown
ers are cooperating nicely with ag
ricultural leaders and other indivi
duals in land treatment, stream
channel work and flood retarding
structures. Since the inception of
this program more than 90 cent
of the landowners have seeded one
or more of the perennials such as
sericea, fescue, clover and kudzu as
well as pines to thei rlands and es
pecially on the steeper lands. These
same landowners are taking pride
in cleaning the small streams of all
kinds of debris and further those
landowners Involved with the flood
retarding structures (dams) aare co
operating to make those dams pos
sible.
Farmers in the Big Creek water
shed are gradually knitting togeth
er an organization that will enable
them to do a complete watershed
program which will even be larger
than the Settingdown program.
Another contribution to this water
shed program that is being made by
farmers Is the building of farm
ponds.
Well, it looks like Forsyth county
will become the “Land of the Lakes”
of the South before many mo;e
years with the completion of the
Buford dam, forming Lake Lanier,
the lakes behind the flood prevent
ion dams and the many farm lakes.
With all these lake* in site every
one should take a chance on that
very beautiful boat being displayed
In Cumming.
IN MMEMORY
In memory of George Firmmer
Wallis ho passed away one year ago
August 15, 1953.
Gone but not forgotten. <
THE FAMILY
Camp Meeting At
Holbrook Will Open
August 13 Thru 22
The 116th Annual Campmeeting
will get underway at Holbrook
Camp Ground in Cherokee County
on August 13 and continue through
August 22.
The Pastor Rev. John R. Sills will
preside with visiting Ministers help
ing him. The Rev. Charlie Cochran
and Rev. Jack Holcomb will be the
visiting preachers. The song leader
will be Mr. Nolan Reed from Morn
ing Side Baptist Church in Atlanta.
Come, join us at Holbrook and
let’s worship the Lord together.
Georgia Banks
Principal Farm
Lenders In State
Georgia farmers continued to go
mostly to the state’s banks to meet
their credit needs during 1953,i ac
cording to Paul H. Worley, Cashier,
Bank of Cumming, who represents
Georgia Bankers Association as
Forsyth County Key Banker.
Quoting from the thirteenth an
nual farm lending survey of the Ag
ricultural Commission of the Ameri
can Bankers Association, Mr. Paul
H. Worley noted that bantys were by
far the largest lenders to the state’s
farmers during the year. On Decem
ber 31, 1953, Georgia banks had
loans totaling $58,031,000 outstand
ing to farmers; \vhile the Federal
Land Banks, the financial agency
with the second largest amount of
farm loans outstanding, held only
; $21,790,000 at the same time. In ad
dition to regular lending oper
J ations, Georgia banks also held $43,-
1 904,000 in C. C. C. loans under the
government’s price support pro
gram, which is not included in the
. above bank total. . j
‘The banks have been encourag
ing farmers to make better use of
their present acreage through .mod
ern methods rather than buy addf
| tional land during this period of high
jland prices,” Mr. Worley said. "The
(bulk of the farm loans held by the
(banks are production loaans rather
| than real estate loans. P**ducfmi
loans include credit to finance grow
I jng and marketing of crops; breed
ing, raising, and fattening of live
stock; purchasing of modern equip
ment; and the like. Banks held $31,-
863,000 of these production loans at
the end of 1953, compared with $14,-
186,000 held by Production Credit
Associations and $10,744,000 held by
the Farmers Home Administration.’”
The remaining $26,168,00 in farm
loans outstanding in banks at the be
ginning of this year were made up
of farm mortgages. All of the $21,-
790,000 held by the Federal Land
Banns were mortgages, with $20,-
016,000 jn mortgages being held by
the insurance companies and $17,-
670,000 held by the Farmers Home
Administration.
Mr. Worley reported that 335 of
the 345 insured commercial banks in
Georgia served agriculture by mak
ing credit available to farmers dur
ing 1953. "In this day of mechanized,
highly competitive farming, meet
Ing the credit needs of farmers is
one of the most important services
of the state’s banks,” he said.
ALMON HILL WINS COACH
OF YEAR AWARD AGAIN
Each year the Georgia Athletic
Coaches’ Association elects Coach
es of the year for various Rlegions
and Classifications. This is a very
high complement and a great honor
as it Is by vote of their fellow Coach
es. Coach Almon Hill was thus hon
ored as Coach of Year -r- Region 4
Class “B” Basketball, August 6, 1954
for second consecutive year.
The basis for selection of Coach of
'year are fairplay, good Sportsman
ship and Achievement. Cumming
High School was represented at the
1 State tournaments by both girls and
boys. The boys won Ninth District
j Championship and the girls were
I runner up to the Champions.
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| REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival Services at Shady Grove
I Baptist will begin Sunday August
115th. Everybody come and help out
in these services.