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We greet the New Year with high hopes for
a prosperous year. From the business stand
point, economic experts are optimistic and the
great majority of forecasts paint the new ye a i
as one which will be far more successful than
1954 c
For resolutions, we would suggest that read
ers consider moderation in all things, especially
on the highway. With the new high-powered
automobiles now being offered, even more em
phasis on safe driving will be required m 1955
than in past years. . .
We would suggest also that Americans make
1955 a year of non-partisan progress in Wash
ington and in the field of foreign affaiis. As a
nation and as a people, we should unify behind
a foreign policy and present a solid front to the
world, and should do .everything we can to im
prove our country, our government and the lot
of the unfortunate, meanwhile safeguarding the
freedoms and independence of every American.
Finally, every one of us should give thanks
that we are citizens of the most fortunate and
the most blessed country in the world. That is
something many of us take for granted, a s we
do the many luxuries and high standards ot lite
which we have become accustomed to enjoying.
Properly thankgul for this blessing from above,
we can go forward with confidence that we will
safeguard our country, and make it a unified
force for the good things in this world.
WHY WORRY?
Nothing ever took more misery
out of my life than the determina
tion that I wouldn’t worry over
things that I couldn’t help.
It is of prime significance that
Jesus devoted a large part of the
sermon on the Mount to this
thought. He approached it from
two directions. He said, “What
man can add a cubit to his height
by worrying”. Jesus knew that all
nien wanted to be taller—not ne
cessarily physically taller, but tal
ler in prestige, taller in influence,
taller in power, and taller in the
minds of other men. He saw around
him people scrambling for the high
places in life. Invited to a banquet
they strained their necks to see if
there was a vacant chair at the
head of the table and with a re
strained slowness they hurry for
the choice seats. They spent much
thought in maneuvering for posi
tion. I am sure the Master knew
that men of ail ages had been ahd
would be spending their mental
efforts worrying, striving for
“these things”.
So many of us form the habit
of worrying that we get lonesome
without something to worry about,
so as fast as we get one worry
taken care of we cast about to
find a new one.
The other approach that Jesus
used was about the fowls of the
air and the lilies of the field. He
reminded us of a great and vitally
necessary truth. He impressed this
truth deeply in the minds of those
who heard him. John, later, made
these two statements, “Let not your
heart be troubled: believe in God”
—and in the midst of Revelation—
“the Lord God omnipotent reig
neth”. The omniscience and omni
potence of God are not just doc
trines of our faith. They are ever
lasting necessities to happiness, to
serenity, and to tranquillity. They
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Dec., 30, 1954.
are great truths in whose presence
we can find quietness and peace.
Again Jesus said, “If you ask
anything in my name, you shall
have it. Enter into your closet and
pray”. Is prayer an integral part
of our lives, our daily lives, or is
it for use just as an emergency
measure? Jesus saw the Pharisees
out on the street and recognizing
their hollow sham, he tried to
make us see that prayer, real pray
er, is a necessity of life.
A surgeon excused himself
walking over to the other side of
the room, he bowed his head in
prayer; for a long minute he stood
silent.
When he came back, the aston
ished reporter asked, “Do you al
ways pray before an operation?”.
With a smile the surgeon made
this isgnificant reply: “Always.
Because I never know what trouble
I am going to run into and when
I will have to turn the scapel over
to the Great Physician and bid
him carry on. Many times in my
surgery, when I was at the end of
my human ability, God has taken
over wherel have left off”.
Pray without ceasing and wor
ries will flee.
Most of these thoughts came
from “Iron Shoes”, a book written
by C. Roy Angell.
W. R. CALLAWAY.
Singing Notice
Everyone has a Special invitation
to attend the Singing at Pleasant
View Baptist Church, Saturday
night January Ist, beginning at
7:00. Plan now to attend.
Jack Whitmire, President
Keith Taylor
James Gaddis
Rev. J. H. Lawson will preach at
the Second Baptist Church on the
Second Sunday, Morning and night.
Everybody Invited.
With y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Few, if any, farm families in
Forsyth county need to be told that
agricultural production in Georgia
this year was way below that of
1953. It’s common knowledge that,
largely because of the drought, all
major crops fell short of 1953 yield
But in this post-harvest season be
tween Christmas and New Year,
even after a bad crop year, most
farm families can find plenty to
be grateful for and plenty of rea
sons to look forward to a new year
filled with happiness and perhaps
prosperity. While prosperity isn’t
essential to happiness, we all admit
it has its points, and I think that
you will be interested in the farm
er’s chances for prosperity in 1955.
I have received from the Univer
sity of Georgia Agricultural Ex
tension Service office in Athens a
new bulletin giving the Agricultur
al outlook for 1955. You may have
seen stories about this bulletin in
the papers last week. If so, you
know that it was written by Char
les O’Kelley, associate economist,
and Miss Willie Vie Dowdy, home
improvement specialist, of the Ex
tension state staff.
If you read one of these stories
you also know that Georgia farm
ers, with normal weather, can ex
pect a net income in 1955 Ywell
above this year’s. You knowj, too,
that fixed costs will remain high
and operating costs can be reduced
very little and that the farm price
cost squeeze is expected to hurt
even worse next year as farmers
try to continue operations to make
a living and at the same time re
pay heavy loans incurred because
of the drought. It will be hard, no
doubt about it, and as O’Keqey
says efficiency in production and
marketing will be the key to suc
cess next year.
Now, with these general facts in
mind, let’s take a look at such eco
nomic factors as farm labor, land
values and farm .debt, and the out
look for the principal farm com
modities produced in Georgia.
Farm labor is expected to be
about the same as this year with
heavy competition for farm labor
ers from industry and public works
Farm wage rates next year prob
ably remain close to their present
level.
Georgia farmers are carrying a
heavy debt load. The farm mort
gage debt in Georgia on January
1, 1954 was 146 million, 82 thous
and dollars. Production credit on
this date totaled 57 million, 156
thousand dollars. And that figures
doesn’t include real estate loans.
Because of this heavy indebtedness
every dollar that is borrowed in
1955 should be made to work hard
toward increasing the net income
of the farmer who borrowed it.
Carryover of cotton in the U. S.
on August 1, 1955, is expected to
be about one million bales less
than that on August 1 of this year.
This decrease, from 9.6 million to
8.5 million bales, is expected be
cause increases in both domestic
consumption and export are anti
cipated.
The Agricultural Act of 1954 au
thorizes a "Set-aside” from CCC
stocks of three to four million bal
es of upland cotton. This “set-aside
will be included in the supply when
computing marketing quotas, but
excluded when computing the price
support level. This should help
greatly in maintaining the 1955
price of cotton near its 1954 Idyql.
Overall demand for fresh vege
tables in 1955 is expected to be
about like it was in 1954 !Thdieatf
ions are that cabbage acreage this
winter will be a little less than
that harvested latt winter. Also,
storage holdings of cabbage and
onions on January 1 are expected
to be somewhat smaller than a
year earlier.
Supples of sweet potatoes be
tween now and mid-1955 will be
much smaller than those of a year
earlier. With consumer demand
during the coming months likely to
be close to that of a year earlier,
prices farmers receive for 1954,
crop sweet potatoes probably will
average somewhat higher than
those received in 1954. Farmers
should keep in mind that even if
the acreage planted to sweet pota
toes is not larger next year than
this year, given normal weather,
Sharon Church Service*
By Kate Kay Harris
Thou hast put gladness in my
heart.- Psalm 4:7
I’m sure most everyone can
truthfully repeat this verse after
enjoying a wonderful Christmas
season and receiving a lot of nice
gifts as well as giving to make
others happy.
All who attended the beautiful
Christmas program at Sharon on
Thursday night December 23, cer
tainly must have had a glad feel
ing in their hearts when the child
ren, under the skilled direction of
Miss Fannie Mae Kay, brought out
the true meaning of Christmas in
the pagaent of “The First Christ
mas.” It is amazing how small
children can be trained to carry
out their parts and act so well, as
Joseph, Mary, The Wise Men, Shep
herds and Angels.
Then to complete the program,
we had a wonderful, Jolly old San
ta to bring joy by passing out the
gifts from the Christmas tree and
then make us a good talk before
he waved a pleasant good bye.
Our pastor also made a good
Christmas talk.
In Sunday School on Sunday
morning we studied about “The
Gifts of God.” I feel that this is
the best time of the year to count
our blessings and offer our spec
ial “thank you” prayers for all
the good gifts our gracious Fath
er has blessed us with during the
j year. We have so much to be
thankful for and we’ll be very sel
fish if we don’t do it.
j Rev. Warren delivered the most
appropriate and interesting Ser
-1 mon on Sunday morning from Re
velation 21. He used for his text
a portion of verse 5, —"Behold 1
make all things new”—At this the
close of thte year 1954, we can
look back and see many mistakes
we have made which we deeply
regret but there is nothing we can
do about these mistakes except
ask God to forgive us and with
His help strive harder next year
not to make them again. He is the
only one who can make things
right by blotting out with His for
giveness and He is always ready
to do this for the repentant.
I think the most important New
Years Resolution we can make and
it is the one Rev. Warren urges
everyone to make is that we will
make an effort to go to Church
every Sunday that we possibly can
and try to live better, cleaner lives
than we’ve ever lived before. In
his sermon on Sunday night after
good B. T. U. lessons, he gave us
Jesus' challenge to “Come ye after
me, and I will make you to be
come fishers of men”. It is every
Christians duty as well as a won
derful privilege to follow Jesus by
going to Church and letting Him
lead us to do whatever task He
has for us, whether it might be a
leader, teacher, prayer leader,
preacher singer or a good listener.
All of these have their place in
being fishers of men.
We never know when someone
is watching our every move and
being influenced for or against
Christianity.
So to end an old year and begin
the new one let us do as the fol
lowing poem which Rev. Warren
read to us says.
A Child.came to my desk with a
quivering lip
His task not done.
Teacher, I want a new copy, He
said,
I have spoiled this one.
I took that old copy spoiled and
blotted and gave him a new
one all unspotted and into his
sad eyes smiled,
“Do better now, my child”.
I came to the throne with troubled
heart
The old year was gone.
Master, I want a new year, I said,
I have spoiled this one.
He took that old year, stained and
blotted and gave me a new
year all unspotted and into my j
sad heart smiled
“Do better, now, my child”.
✓
sweet potato production nin 1955
will be larger than the indicated,
1954 crop.
Next week the prospects for fats]
and oils, wheat, forest products,
feed, livestock and meat, dairying, i
and poultry and eggs will be dis
cussed.
County Population 15,000. Number 52.
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY
OBSERVES 75th ANNIVERSARY
Telephone Service in Cumming Began in 1906:
1111 Telephones Here Now
The Southern Bell Telephone
Company, which serves Cumming
and 1,040 other exchanges in Geor
gia and eight other southern states
this week observes its 75tlj anni
versary of service to the South.
The Company was founded on
December 20, 1879, just three years
after Alexander Graham Bell had
obtained a patent for the telephone
he invented.
Southern Bell President Fred J.
Turner of Atlanta noted the oc
casion as an opportunity to express
gratitude to both telephone people
and the public for their part in
making telephone service what it
is today.
In a message to local telephone
people, Mr. Turner said:
“Southern Bell marks this mile
stone as a tribute to the dyamic
spirit of the South and the region’s
magnificent growth. Through the
years the South has turned to the
telephone more and more as an
indispensable instrument of pro
gress and we are proud to have a
part in the region’s growth and
development.
“We salute the people who pio
neered telephone communications
here, those who have provided and
improved them over three quarters
of a century, and those whose con
fidence in our Company and re
liance upon its service have made
possible the ever-widening scope
of its usefulness."
Started with 1,246 Telephones
Southern Bell began operations
with 1,246 telephones in 11 cities,
including Wilmington and Raleigh,
N. C., Charleston, S. C., Augusta
and Savannah, Ga., and Mobile,
Ala. The other five were in ' Vir
ginia, not served now by Southern
Bell.
In 1926, Southern Bell acquired
the properties of the Cumberland
Telephone Company which served
exchanges in Louisiana, Mississippi
Kentuck and Tennessee. Southern
Bell now serves those four states
in addition to North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida
and Alabama.
By 1929—its 50th birthday—Sou
thern Bell had 1,000,000 telephones
in operation. This was in sharp con
ASC NEWS
Many farmers in Forsyth County
received seeds and fertilizer on
Purchase Order and have failed to
report their use. They should stop
to think that they are charged with
the cost of the seeds or fertilizer
until they are used to carry out
an approved practice. The final
date for reporting these practices
is January 15, 1955. Since the gov-
ernment is paying half the cost of
these materials it seems only fair
that they know how they are used.
May we urge each of you to re
port your practice, or the disposi
tion of the materials before the
closing date.
Forms have been received for
the release of your cotton allot
ment if you do not plan to plant
it during the 1955 crop year. This
will help the farmer in many ways.
If you have an allotment on your
farm and release it and some
other farmer plants it you will re
ceive credit for it and the farmer
can use it on the farms where
their allotment is cut to where he
cannot hardly exist if you do not
release it.
This is like having the cake and
eating it too. Many of you know
already that you are not going to
plant any cotton and the history
of your fanning operations gave
you an allotment. Won’t you please
play the good neighbor policy and
come into the County Office and
release this cotton acreage to
where it can be used to help us
to overcome the thirty percent cut
we have taken in this county? We
need to plant all the cotton allot
ed for this county in order to keep
our history basis as high as pos
sible and this has resulted in the
cut we have experienced this year.
We have been having many more
trast to the situation in pioneer
telephone days when some small
exchanges were closed for a period
of tim ebecause “the novelty of
the telephone had wron off."
At the end of World War To,
Southern Bell had 1,800,000 tele
phones in service. To meet the tre
mendous demand for service after
the war, Southern Bell launched
a far-reaching expansion program
that has involved every exchange
it serves. It took 67 years to reach
the first tVo million Southern Bell
telephones. But in the past eight
years, 2 1-2 million more have been
added.
Now 4,500,000 Telephones
Today Southern Bell has 4,500,-
000 telephones in 1,041 exchanges
in the cities, towns and rural areas
surrounding them. Also there are
565 independent or non-Bell com
panies, which operate more than
a million telephones in 1,239 other
Southern communities, joined with
Southern Bell in serving the South.
“In no other section of the nat
ion has telephone demand been
heavier since the war than in the
South,” said L. H. Collins, Group
manager of Southern Bell, “and
telephone people have responded
by bringing telephone growth to
the South that has out stripped
any other section of the nation.
The growth in Cumming has been
an important part of the economic
development of this area and we
are grateful for the confidence ex
pressed in our Company by tele
phone users here,” he said. i
Service Provided In Cumming-
Telephone service first came to
Cumming in 1906. At that time
there were 31 telephones in the
local system. Since then the num
ber has grown to a total of 111 at
present.
Major part of this overall devel
opment has taken place during the
past nine years, a period of un
precedented growth and prosperity
in Georgia and the South. Since
1945 the number of telephones serv
ing Cumming has grown from 123
to 1111, an increase of 803 per
cent.
acres alloted than we have plant
ed, it has not been released in or
der for the farmers who need the
extra acreage to plant it and each
year we have dropped in the plant
ed acreage until it has finally
caught up with us.
The cotton allotment pprogram
could be a perfect program if we
as farmers would cooperate and
follow the instructions as they are
formulated by congress. We will
have price support on cotton this
year and any farmer can realize a
reasonable profit if we use the
best seeds and planting methods.
Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
Cliff Carnes near Duck town has
completed his farm pond.
Ralph Wallace across the moun
tain has completed his farm pond.
During the past year the local
SCS technicians have assisted sixty
two farmers in some phase in re
gard to the building of a farm
pond. Of this number forty dams
have actually been constructed. Jj»
addition to the assistance given Hi
farmers in construction of farm
pond dams, the local SCS techni
cians have supervised the construct
ion of two flood prevention dams
in the Settingdown creek water
shed and also made surveys for
two other flood prevention dams.
E. J. Brooks has a fan# pond
under construction on his farm
seven miles northwest of Cumming
There are several applications on
file from farmers for farm pond
construction that will be surveyed
by the local SCS technicians after 1
the first of the year.