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Volume 45.
Saturday Horse Show
Plans Completed
On Saturday afternoon October
30th, at 2 P.M. the first Tri-County
Horse Show will be held at the
Cumming Ball Park. This show is
being put on by the Horse owners
and lovers of these three counties
for the purpose of stimulating in
terest in thi§. fine sport which is
rapidly growing throughout the
country and the Tennessee Walk
ing Horse is growing in popularity
as well as the Three and Five
gaited horses.
Saturdays show will be divided
in ten classes which are listed be
low and suitable Ribbons will be
presented the winners in the first
five places in each class.
FIVE RIBBONS EACH CLASS
1. Pleasure Ponies
2. Walking Mares
3. Pleasure Horses (Riders 15
years and under)
4. Walking Stallions and Geldings
5. Walking Horses (Riders 45
years and over)
6. Pleasure Horses (Riders 16
years and over)
7. s—Gaited open
8. Ladies Pleasure Class
9. Pony Roadsters
10. Walking Horse Stake
ASCNEWS
Forsyth County delegates met in
the Forsyth County ASC Commit
tee Office on Wednesday, October
20, 1954 and named the following
men to serve as the 1955 ASC Com
mittee: C. A. Bagwell, Chairman,
S. R. James, Vice Chairman and E.
H. Sherrill, Member. Mr. H. D.
Nuckols, First Alternate and Mr.
Jesse Bales, Second Alternate.
Mr. James, Mr. Bagwell and Mr.
.Sherrill have all served for the
past few years as County Commit
teemen and have given their time
unselfishly to represent the differ
ent programs that are administer
ed by ASC. These men are all
farmers and are carrying out a
balanced farming program on their
farm.
The Chairman of the State
Drought Committee, Mr. John F.
Bradley, reports that the Secretary
of Agriculture has approved 54 ad
ditional Georgia counties for as
sistance under the Government’s
Emergency Feed Program.
Mr. Bradley who also serves as
Chairman of the State ASC Com
mittee, stated that the Emergency
Feed Program is now available To
farmers in all counties in the State
with thee exception of 35 ( . The 54,
designated include: Baker, Banks,
Barrow, Bartow, Calhoun, Carroll,
Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Cherokee,
Clarke, Clay, Cobb, Coweta, De-
Kalb, Dougherty, Douglas, Forsyth,
Early, Franklin, Fulton, Gordon,
Gwinnett, Habersham, Hall, Harol
son, Harris, Hart, Jackson, Heard,
Lee, Macon, Madison Marion, Meri
wether, Miller, Murray, Muscogee,
Oconee, Pickens, Paulding, Polk’
Quitman, Randolph, Schley, Steph
ens, Stewart, Sumter, Troup, Ter
rell,, Webster, Walton, White, Whit
field, Worth.
Seventy counties,, have previously
been approved. Under this program
the Government paays SI.OO per
hundred pounds toward the cost of
livestock feed grains which eligible
farmers must buy to maintain
their herds and one-half the freight
not to exceed $lO per ton, which
ever is the smaller, towards the
cost of shipping hay to farmers in
designated drouth areas.
Applications for assistance may
be filed at any of the county ASC,
FHA and County Agent offices.
After eligibility has been determin
ed, the county ASC office will is
sue the farmer a purchase order
which will entitle him to buy the
approved amount of feed from
some regular local dealer.
Mr. Bradley further stated that
the -Chairman of the National
Drought Committee has assured
him that an additional survey will
be made in the remaining 35 coun
ties and those found to be eligible
under the law will be approved.
ORDINATION SERVICE
There will be an Ordination of
Deacons at Salem Baptist Church
Sunday afternoon October 31st at
2:00. All Sister churches are cor
dially invited to attend.
The Forsyth County News
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KKE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
With y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Since Forsyth County has been
placed on the hay and grain feed
emergency program, we have re
ceived many questions regarding
the purchase of both products.
One of the first questions regards
eligibility—Who is and who is not
eligible. The same rules do not ap
ply for both grain and hay. A far
mer may be eligible for one and
Aot both or he may be eligible for
both.
To be eligible for hay under this
program, a farmer must receive at
least half of his income from the
farm or spend as much as half of
his time on the farm.
The law is designed basically to
help the commercial beef cattle or
dairy farmer. The hay may be pur
chased either locally or otherwise.
In either case the government will
pay half of the transportation costs
up to a total of SIO.OO pet ton. In
no case will the cost of the hay
itself be shared.
The first step for any farmer
who desires assistance under the
hay program, is to secure an appli
cation blank from your county
agent’s office or any of the other
agricultural agencies. Any agricul
tural worker will be happy to as
sist any farmer in filling out these
forms.
After they are completed, the
forms are delivered to the county
FHA committee for approval. The
hay is then purchased from any
available source. An additional
form must be completed for reim
bursement for a portion of the
transportation costs.
Local hay, when available, can
be purchased cheaper than hay
shipped in from distant points
when the farmers share of the
freight bill is added to the cost of
the hay.
Soil Conservation New*
Forsyth County
J. W. Tatum near Matt has com
pleted clearing ten acres of swamp
land along the banks of the Setting
down creek. This area will be seed
ed to permanent pasture.
Ed Norrell of Coal Mt. has clear
ed a number of acres of swamp
land along the banks of Setting
down creek and has seeded most
of it to a cover crop.
Gordan Sosebee is in the process
of constructing a farm pond.
M. P. Holbrook has cleared sev
eral acres of bottom land.
The local SCS technicians have;
checked drainage ditches of Paris
Bennett, C. E. Orr, Mark Heard.
Jr. and Quillan Scales for ACP
payments.
Letter From Savings
Bond State Director
October 20, 1954
Mr. Roy P. Otwell, Chairman
Forsyth County Savigs Bond
Committee
Cumming, Georgia
Dear Mr. Otwell:
Lockheed Aircraaft Corporation,
Georgia Division, is helping For
syth County to obtain the 1954
goal.
Mr. Henri Chappellet, Public Re- j
lations Manager of Lockheed Geor
gia Division, wrote to Mr. Paul
Schuessler of the Federal Reserve
Bank and asked that $1,500 per
month be allocated to Forsyth
County out of Bonds purchased aat
Lockheed for monthes of Septem
ber, October, November and De
cember.
We quote a part of Mr. Chappel
let’s letter that will be of interest
to you and the citizens of Forsyth
County “I am sure that you are
aware of the splendid results that
we were able to attain at Lockheed 1
and since our employees live in
many of the counties that have not
reached their ‘54 goals, we feel it
would be only proper to allocate
the bond purchases to these coun
ties.”
Sincerely yours,
Joseph G. Woodruff
State Director for Georgia
U. S. Savings Bonds Division
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Oct., 28, 1954
Forsyth County
Mason Honored
At the Ninth District Convocat
ion of Royal Arch Masons conven
ing in Toccoa on Wednesday, Octo
ber 20, L. W. Holbrook, High Priest
of Silver Shoals Chapter, No. 15,
of Cumming was elected Master of
the First Veil for the Ninth Dis
trict R. A. M. for 1955.
Attending were the following:
Will H. McLaran, Past High Priest,
Clyde Bannister, Ira Bottoms, Wil
bur Harrison, John Allen Roper
and L. W. Holbrook, H. P.
The address of Welcome to Toc
coa was delieverd by the Hon. A.
J. Morse, Mayor of Toccoa, and a
member of the Chapter and the
Response to the address was made
by Will H. McLaran, Past High
Priest of Silver Shoals Chapter.
The four Degrees of Capitulary
Masonary were conferred by select
Degree teams and the work was
most impressive.
A scplendid Dinner was served
in the spacious and beautiful Hall
of Toccoa Falls Institute and was
greatly enjoyed by more than 250
Royal Arch Masons gathered from
all sections of the Ninth District".
N. T. Pirkle, of Taylor Chapter
No. 48 of Buford was chosen as
High Priest for the District for
the ensuing year. Theo is remem
bered as another Forsyth County
boy and a very active Mason.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
DID YOU EVER?
What is the question most often
asked in Georgia for the past six
months? I would say without hesi
tation it is, Did you ever see any
thing like it?
Referring, of course, to the
drought.
And the answer, for sometime,
was, Yes, in 1925.
But now, the 1925 record is rub
bed out, and the answer is, No.
One old getnleman told me the
other day that he remembered a
i drought back in the 80’s when all
the wells went dry and only a few
rivers in Georgia had any water in
them. He said that his father haul
ed water in a two horse wagon 20
miles for the famiily and stock.
We have advantages now that
they didn’t have then —the vast re
servoir of lakes throughout the
state, specially in North Georgia,
where winter rains are conserved.
On the other hand, we have so
many more people and so many
more animals to be watered. Also,
we have many times more demands
for water in our big industries.
I have a good many funerals, ]
and out at the cemetery last week,
and old gravedigger said:
“I’ve made my living digging
graves for 40 years, and this is the
first time in my life that I haven’t
seen any sign of moisture in a,
iflrave.”
A good friend whose hobby is
shooting quail was lamenting that
there probably would be very few
birds this season on account of the |
drought. Another friend replied: j
“Don’t worry too much about that.
Thy get most of their water, any
way, from the dew.”
And then a third man chimed in:
“But when have you seen any
sign of dew?”
c Talking over the telephone to a
friend in New York, he asked if
we had hadenough rain down this
way I was speechless for a mom
ent, and he thought the connection
had been broken and started click J
ing the telephone for a better con
nection. He then went on to tell I
me that it had rained in his neigh
borhood for the past 15 days—that
every stream was out of its banks,
etc., etc.
Let us not murmur about the
drought. God knows what He is
doing, and why. We can only wait,
repentantly and trustingly, on Him.
To Customers Of The
Georgia Power Co.
Beginning the week of October
25, the office hours of our Office |
in Cumming will be from 8 A. M..
to 5 P. M. Monday thru Friday.
The office will not be open on !
Saturday as has been the custom.
Thanking you,
* C. B. CURTIS, Mgr.
Tax Commissioner’s
Rounds Begins on Mon
day, November 8, 1954
I will be at the following places
named below for the purpose of
collecting your State, County and
School Taxes.
MONDAY, NOV., 8, 1954
Chattahoochee District
E. M. Wheelers—9:3o A. M.
Mrs. Frances Lights—lo
Henry W. Orr—10:30
New Bridge District
F. F. Bagby—11:00
Oscarville—ll:3o
M. A. Cook—l 2 NOON
Chestatee District
Jeff Crowe—l2:3o
Whitlow’s Store—l:oo
Jotem Down—l:3o
TUESDAY, NOV., 9
Rolands District
E. G. Chambers—9:3o A. M.
Fay Wallis Store—10:00
Barkers District
Silver City—lo:3o
Mat Store—11:00
T. W. Westray—ll:3o
Hightower District
Ben Dooley—12:00 NOON
S. P. Pruitt’s Store—l2:3o p. m.
Heardsville—l:oo
WEDNESDAY, NOV., 10
Coal Mountain District
Hammond Store—9:oo A. M.
Holcombe Store—9:3o
Sexton’s Store—10:00
Settendown District
Chadwick’s Store—lo:3o
H. A. Striplands—ll:oo
M. M. Green—ll:3o
Ducktown District
L. H. Tribble Store—l2:oo NOON
Lester Frix Store—l2:3o p. m.
Etta Sams Place—l:oo
* THURSDAY, NOV., 11
Vickory District
John Collins Store—9:oo A. M.
O. P. Bennett Store—9:3o
W. C. Pucketts Store—10:00
Bells District
Boling & Bettis—lo:3o
Dixie Grill—11:00
Strickland Store—ll:3o
H. A. Odums—l2:oo NOON
FRIDAY, NOV., 12
Big Creek District
H. C. Major Store—9:3o A. M.
F. H. Vaughan Store—10:00
Sheltonville Store—11:00
W. O. Harris—ll:3o
W. D. Buice Store—l2:oo NOON
Cecil Buice Store—l2:3o
Cumming District
W. F. Striplands—l:oo
E. L. Gravitts—l:3o
Joe Barnes—2:oo
Mrs. John Pruitt’s—2:3o
The Office will be open every
day. Please pay your taxes before
December 20th, which is the dead j
line. |
Mrs. Vinnie B. Redd, T. C.
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To Customers Of The
Georgia Power Co.
In order to construct a new 44,-
000 volt line to the new Wilson
Plant in Cumming. We would like {
to have the electricity off from 1
| P. . until 4 P. M. Sunday October
1 31, 1954. This new line will be
I built directly over the existing j
12,000 Volt line, which makes it
impossible to construct the new
line without the electricity being
turned off.
Thanking you,
C. B. CURTIS, Mgr.
Nice String Of
Catfish
Mr. Zed Brannon came into the
News office Friday October 22, J
with three Catfish from Goswick’s i
Lake five miles south of Cumming •
The Cats weighing 22 lbs. Mr.
Goswick has two large nice lakes
and keeps them well stock so that
the fishermen can always get a,
few to carry home.
County Population 15,000. Number 43.
Cumming Basketball
Teams Open With
Tate November 2.
Cumming opens the Basketball
season Tuesday night November 2,
at 7:30 with their old rival Tate
High School. These games will be
hard fought and the best of the
season. The girls team has four
girls from last year’s team as fol
lows: Rebecca Martin, Mary Ann
Smallwood, Martha Lee Pendley
and Hazel Phillips, the other two
players to complete our Sextette
are Joyce Ingram and*Wilma An
drews. These girls should give any
team plenty of competition.
The boys team has two back
from last year’s team, Jerry Bagby
three position will be selected from
and Gary Clarke and the other
these boys, Lamar Sexton, Gene
Holtzclaw, J. C. Gilleland, Hugh
Smith, D. D. Castleberry, Harold
Whitt. The boys will be inexperien
ced but they will make up for that
in scrap.
Come and lets enjoy two good
basketball games.
Cumming High
Basketball Schedule
November 2—Tate—Here
November 9—Tate—There
November 12— Lilburn—There
November 24—Buford —There
November 30—Sugar Hill—Here
December 3 —West Fulton —Here
December 7— Dawsonville—Here
December 9—Sylvan Hills There
December 10—Milton —There
December 14—Roswell—Here
December 17—Jasper —There
January 3— Jefferson—'Here
January 7— Roswell—There
January B—Buford—Here
January 11— Winder—Here
January 14—Canton—Here
January 18— Gainesvilcle—There
January 21— Jasper—Here
January 24—Sugar Hill—There
January 25—Milton—Here
January 29 Dawsonville—jJhGp?
February I—'Lilburn— Uere
February 4—Gainesville —Here
February s—Jefferson —There
February B—Winder—There
February 11-—Canton —There
Forsyth County Safety
Campaign Initiated
A Safety campaign sponsored by
the Forsyth County Post of Vet
erans of Foreign Wars has been
’started in the county in an effort
to greatly reduce the number of
automobile accidents occurring al
most daily resulting in needless
loss of life, injuries, and property
damage.
A meeting was held at the Com
munity House in Cumming on Fri
day night October 22, attended by
representatives of the VFW, Kiwan
is Club, Community clubs, City of
ficials, City policemen, County offi
cers and State Patrolmen.
It was pointed out in the meet
ing by Lt. Peacock of the Georgia
State Patrol that speeding was a
direct cause of 65 percent of all
accidents and that Forsyth County
led this division both in total acci
dents and fatal accidents. He also
stated that reckless driving and
driving under the influence of in
toxicant? took a big toll.
All ot those present at The meet
ing unanimously agreed that there
must be something done about the
existing traffic situation, and the
officers agreed that a program of
stricter enforcement, plus heavier
penalties would be started
A committee consisting of Dr.
Jim Mashburn, Grady Bannister,
George Welch, H. P. Matthews and
John Pittard was appointed to start,
an educational campaign on Safe,
driving through the newspapers |
and by meetings with various clubs
throughout the county.
All public spirited citizens and
organizations are urged to join
this campaign.
Hallowe’en Carnival
There will be a Hallowe'en Car
nival at the Haw Creek School
house Thursday night, October 28
at 7:30 o’clock. Lots of door prizes!
Prize for the best dress child cos
tume. Prize for the best dress
Adult costume. >
Admission 5 and 10 cents.
Notice To Members of
Sawnee Electric
Membership Corp.
There will be an interruption of
Electric Service on Sunday Octob
er 31, 1954 during ' the- hours of
1:00 to 4:00 P. M.
This interruption is due to work
being accomplished by the Georgia
Power Company and is to be com
pleted within the hours specified.
In order that this Outage will
not work to great of a hardship,
we urge all members to make the
necessary arrangements for this
interruption.
Sharon Church Services
By Kate Kay Harris
A wise man will hear, and will
increase learning—Proverbs 1: 5.
In our Sunday School lesson last
Sunday, we studied more about
Solomon and his teachings in the
book of Proverbs. We found that
Solomon received the best and most
of his early teaching and training
in his home from his father, David
Then after he became
cause of his very unselfish request
for Wisdom from God, he was giv
en this wisdom along with the most
riches a King ever had. All child
ren need their first and best Christ
ian training in the home— then
when they are older this training
will naturally be the foundation
for their lifes work and their seek
ing for Christian wisdom.
We had three more good sermons
during the weekend by our Pastor,
Rev. C. E. Warren. On Saturday,
which was regular Conference day,
he rought a wonderful message
from the first Psalm. Verse by
verse he gave a very clear picture
about the Happiness of the Godly
(Chrirstians) and the Unhappiness
of the Ungodly (nonehristian) Any
one hearing this sermon would
surely want to be the Christian
who —“Walketh not in the Coun
sel of the ungodly, nor standeth in
the way of sinners, nor sitteth in
the seat of the scornful”, but de
lighteth in the law of the Lord andt
above everything else think of the
law and righteousneos and be like
a tree planted by the rivers of
water that, come what may, never
withers but always stays fresji and
green and bearing fruits for Christ
This is such a more beautiful
picture than that of the ungodly
whose way shall perish never to
bear good fruits of righteousness,
or happiness.
On Sunday morning, Rev! War
ren read St. John 13: 2 1? and
preached another good setfmon
from verse 17. “If Ye know these
things, happy are ye if ye do them
He gave several illustrations on
how it pays to do the things’ that 1
we know we should do. It certain
ly does no good to know hi>vg to
do right if we don’t put it into
practice. Incidetally this is the
same subject Rev. D. M. Nalley
used on November 1, 1953.
Our Communion Service was can
ried out very quietly and beauti
fully in memory of our Lord’s- last
supper. :
I would like to tell everyone that
we are having some real interest
ing and helpful B. T. U. lessons in
all Departments and then some of
the BEST Sermons. We would like
to urge everyone to attend the
Sunday night services as well as
the morning services. B. T. U,
starts at 7 o’clock and preaching
at 8. So you will notbe up too late
at all. .
| Rev. Warren’s message was a
| very inspiring one on Sunday night
j from Acts 8: 25- 39, about Philip
and the Eunuch. He showed us how
[willing Philip was to go where. God
sent him without any questjqns or
| hesitation even though he knew he
was leaving some good meetings
around Jerusalem to go to a desert
Country. Then God had his, au
dience (of one man) prepared, and
his heart ready to receive the word
therefore making Philips Mission a
very successful one. I believe if
God inspires us to do some work
for Him, Hewill prepare the way
for us and we don’t have, to be
afraid to go where we feel He im
presses us to go.
Rev. Herbert Bagley will preach
at Sharon next Sunday mprning.
We hope a good number will come
out and welcome him back ,tjo, his
home church.