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Volume 46.
FORGIVENESS
The fact of God’s forgiveness ex
tended to a repentant sinner is the
grandest and most glorious truth
found in the Bible. I Iremember
when I was convicted of my sin
and how heavy that burden of guilt
rested upon me until I surrendered
to the way of Christ and trusted
Him as my personal saviour. When
I realized the fact that God had
forgiven me there came a peace
into my soul and mind that pas
seth all understanding. A love for
God and for all His creatures filled
my heart. I could pray and mean
every word—for I had forgiveness
in my heart, for God had forgiven
me.
For the first time I could under
stand the meaning of that portion
of the prayer Jesus taught his dis
ciples: “Forgive us our sins, debts
or trespasses as we forgie those
who sin against us” or “Forgive
us our debts as we have forgiven
our debtors”. Unless we have for
given our debtors; unless we for
give those who sin against us, God
will not forgive us. We must have
a forgiving spirit if we expect God
to forgive us. Day by day we are
to forgive -and ask God’s forgive
ness. From the day that God, for
Christ’s sake, forgave me, I have
sought earnestly in prayer for a
forgiving spirit toward others for
all people are people for whom
Christ died.
My faith is in a person, not a
creed. He is the only person that
has lived this life without sin. He
is the only Trope for lost humanity
The question that Christ asked His
hearers is the question we must
all answer for ourselves: “What
think ye of Chrirst? Whose son is
He?” For it was God, through
Christ, who brought us salvation,
even to everyone who believeth. A
person died for me and arose from
the grave and is living today. Be
cause he was subject to all the
temptations that is common to man
and overcame them all He is able
to keep us, through His Holy
spirit, to gain the victory over
temptations and forgive all our
transgressions.
If God in His love did not for
give us then we would be of all
men most miserable. Christianity is
belief and trust in Christ; it is
following Christ (not men), He
reveals God to us for He is the
son of God.
What we write and . say should
be motivated by the same purrpose
that the Apostle John had when
he said: “But these are written,
that ye might believe that Jesus is
the Christ, the son of God; and
that believing ye might have life
through his name”.
If our love and devotion is cen
tered in Christ, the perfect Son of
God, as well as perfect man, we
will be drawn together as His fol
lowers. We may think differently
on secondary matters but we will
agree on our love for Him and our
complete trust in Him. If our re
lationship with God is right and
we are right with our fellowman—
What else matters?
W. R. CALLAWAY
SoiJ Conservation New#
Forsyth County
Description of Class V Land
Capability Class
Class V land is nearly level and
not subject to erosion. Because of
wetness, climate, or some perman
ent obstruction like rock outcrops,
it is not suited for cultivation. The
soi |s deep, however, and the land
has few limitations of any kind for
grazing or for forestry use. Good
management is of course needed
for satisfactory production with
either grass or trees.
L. M. Boggan, SCS engineer, has
transferred from the SCS in Sav
annah to the SCS in Forsyth Coun
ty. Mr. Boggan replaces Mr. Tom
my J. Phillips who has transferred
to the SCS in Athens, Georgia.
Alvin P. Cannon with the local
SCS for the past six months has
resigned from the SCS and moved
to Darien Georgia.
WHICH ONES? YOURS?
Georgia’s visiting teachers handle
the problems of 7000 children each
month, who may be having school
attendance difficulties.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Feb., 24, 1955. ,
Contract Awarded For
Substructure For New
Lanier Bridge
The Army Engineers at Mobile,
Alabama, notified the Oman Con
struction Company of Nashville,
Tennessee, today that Its bid has
been accepted for constructing a
substructure for the new Lanier
Bridge in the Buford Reservoir
area in Georgia. The Nashville
firm submitted the low bid of
$161,189.
Colonel Harold E. Bisbort, Dis
trict Engineer, in making this an
nouncement, said that the new
Lanier Bridge will carry Georgia
State Highway N®. 53 across the
Chattahoochee River at a new lo
cation when the reservoir is filled.
The sidte of the work is approxi
mately 5 miles northwest of Gaines
ville, Georgia, and approximately
8 miles upstream from Brown’s
Bridge, which is also under con
struction in preparation for the
filling of the reservoir.
The principal features of the
work include excavating for pier
and abutment footings, construct
ing 6 piers and 2 abutments, and
furnishing and driving approximate
ly 1,050 linear feet of 42-pound
10 inch steel piling. Colonel Bisbort
explained that the piers for the
1210-foot long bridge will range in
height from 81 feet to 126 feet and
that approximately 2,500 cubic yard
of concrete will be used in the
construction work.
The Engineers estimate that
work under the contract will start
early in March.
MARINE CORPS
SEEKS RECRUITS
Travel, adventure, good pay and
training for the future. These are
but a few of the benefits to young
men enlisting in the United States
Marine Corps.
The Leather necks are seeking
young men between the age of 17
and 28 for first enlistment and 32
if a veteran. Enlistment periods
are now open for three or four
years. Applicants must be of good
character, physically qualified and
be able to pass a mental exami
nation. Upon enlistment they will
be sent to Marine Corps Recruit
Depot, Parris Island, South Caro
lina, for ten weeks of “boot” train
ing.
Young women between the ages
of 18 and 31 are also offered an
excellent future in the corps. Ex
citing and exxential jobs are now
opepn in aviation, communications,
disbursing, personnel and supply.
Any young man or woman who
is interested in serving with the
Leathernecks is invited to contact
the local Marine recruiter in Cum
ming, Georgia at the Post Office
on dates that he will be here for
further information.
ASC NEWS
Approvals will be given during
the week of February 21, 1955 for
ACP cost-sharing practices request
ed during the initial signup period.
The County ASC Office will con
tinue to accept requests from any
farmer who would like to file an
intention to participate in the ACP
program during 1955. However,
those who file a request should
not and will not receive the same
consideration as those who filed a
request during the initial sign-up
period.
Performance work will begin on
wheat during the first week in
March and every farm having a
wheat allotment will be visited by
a reporter to determine the acre
age of wheat planted. In addition
to the farms having a wheat allot
ment all farms will be visited
where it is known wheat has been
planted and any farmer who has
wheat planted and has intentions
of selling wheat, regardless of
whether he has an allotment or
not, should notify the County Of
fice in order for the wheat to be
measured and a marketing card
executed,
POCKETBOOK PARAGRAPH
Your child’s school books cost
the state 1 13 cents per day or
28 cents per month per child.
Red Cross Drive Begins
Here On March Ist.
The 1955 Red Cross Drive will
begin March 1, 1955 in Forsyth
County at the same time the Nat
ional Drive begins. William Chamb
lee is acting as Fund Chairman
with the assistance of Rev. Harold
Zwald and Rev. John Ozley.
The workers who will participate
in this volunteer drive have been
chosen and are asked to attend an
organizational meeting at the High
School Gym on Saturday afternoon
at 1:00 o’clock February 26, 1955.
In 1954 Forsyth County citizens
responded to the Red Cross Drive
and met our quota and again this
year volunteer workers will contact
each home and individual in the
County, and it is evident we can
reach our goal this year.
May we urge each volunteer
worker who has been notified to
attend this meeting and any other
interested person who will assist in
this drive to be present at this
meeting.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
WILL AND TESTAMENT
The late J. Pierpont Morgan, one
of the richest men ever to live in
the United States, began his last
will and testament with these
words:
‘1 commit my soul into the hands
of my Saviour, full of confidence
that having redeemed it and wash
ed it with His blood, He will pre
sent it faultless before the throne
of my heavenly Father. I entreat
my children to maintain and de
fend, at all hazard, and at any
cost of personal sacrrifice, the
I blessed doctrine of complete atone
j ment for sin through the blood of
| Jesus Christ, once offered, and
; through that atonement alone.”
I You wouldn’t have quite guessed
that a rich man like Mr. Morgan
would have put it quite so clearly
and powerfully as that, would you?
Sounds very much like a preacher
you will agree.
And yet, wflien you come to think
of it, what else could he say—rich
man or poor man? In his 10,000
worrd last will and testament. Mr.
Morgan gave direction to millions
of dollars, first to his family, and
then to many worthy causes—.hos
pitals, colleges, etc. But before h?
got to the matter rof dollars, he
stated the basis of his hope in
time and eternity.
Which raises a very timely ques
tion. Have you made your last will
and testament? There’s plenty of
time, many will argue.
But that is taking a gambler’s
chance. You have no guarantee of
tomorrow. The only thing you
know for certain is that you are
going to die. When—no man know
eth, only God.
A relatively young man came by
sometime ago to talk about some
thing he intended doing for a
cause very dear to his heart.
“Have you made up your mind?”
I asked him.
“Definitely, and I just wanted
to double check with you to see if
I had the right idea of how to go
about leaving this sum of money
to this cause,” he answered. "Go
then, to-day, and have your lawyer
draw your will, providing for this
money to go to this cause, and set
up a plan by which It will be held
in trust by your bank,”l suggested.
He agreed that this was the
right procedure. Later, when we
were talking about another matter,
I asked him if he had made his
will. No, but he was going to do it
right away.
The telephone rang, and they
told me he had died suddenly. Af
ter the funeral, talking with his
wife, I asked about the will. No,
he had intended every day to have
his lawyer rdraw it, but never got
around to it.
Mr. Morgan had a lot of things
to do every day, but he took time
to write his last wil land testa
ment, years before he died. Selah.
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
If your youngster eats in the
school lunch room, you might like
to know that Georgia’s lunch room
operation is a twenty million dol
lar Big Business.
City of Cumming Gets
Check For $2,000.63
From Georgia Power
A chock for $2,000.63 was deliv
ered to the city of Cumming, on
February 21, 1955 by C. B. Curtis,
local manager, of the Georgia Pow
er Company. This payment repre
sents three per cent of the gross
receipts from the sale of electric
power to commercial and residen
tial customers of the company in
the city.
This payment is made under the
Municipal Partnership Plan by
which the three per cent is paid
by the company in place of occu
pation and franchise taxes. The
plan permits the city to share in
the growth of the electric business
in the city. The payment is made
in addition to the company’s prop
erty taxes paid to the county and
! city. The payment for 1953 was
! $1,761.15.
The company’s total tax bill for
1954 amounted to more than $lB,-
000,000.
Of the total taxes, more than
$1,475,000 was paid to the communi I
I ties of Georgia under the Munici- 1
1 pal Partnership Plan. This was an I
I increase of $125,000 over last year.
The largest single item was fed
eral income tax which amounted to
j over $11,700,000. City, county and
, state property taxes came to $3,-
I 900,000 for 1954 in comparison with
$3,630,000 in 1953.
I The $18,000,000 total does not in-
I elude the Georgia three per cent
| sales tax which the company col
j lects from Its customers as a tax
I gatherer for the State nor the sales
1 tax which the company pays on
■ materials used in its operations.
FHA’ers To Attend
j Spring convention At
Gainesville Saturday
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I Future Homemakers from thru
out northeast Georgia will go to
Gainesville February 26 to their
spring convention. It will be held
at the Gainesville High School.
About a thousand girls attend each
of the four district conventions.
Big convention news this year is
that the three District Three state
officers will be elected at the Gain
esville convention. Formerly, the
district delegates only nominated
two candidates who ran for the
office at the state conveetion. This
year the district voting will be fin
al. Three state officers will be chos
en from twelve candidates who will
speak in Gainesville next Saturday.
These are Joyce Adam, Benton;
Jane Otwell, Cumming; Barbara
West, Madison, and Gloria Porter
field, Colbert; candidates for dis
trict vice-president; Norma Adams,
Ila; Betty Crawford, Athens, Jerry
Glass, Monroe, and Jessie Lee Lat
tie, Ellijay candidates for state his
torian; and Annelle Benton, Winter
ville, Jane McDougal, Bogar, Pa
tricia McElhannon Greensboro, and
Sue Tullis Braselton candidates for
state secretary.
Spring styles and modern man
ners will be the theme for a beauti
ful fashion show which will be pre
sented in the afternoon by the Win
der chapter. Betty Tanner is presi
dent. Mrs. Ann Provo and Miss
Betty Cole are advisers.
Gainesville High Future Home
makers be convention hostess
ess. Camille Brown is president,
and Miss Sarah Floumey is adviser
Registration will be in charge of
the Lula chapter. Marie Miller Is
president. Miss Jeweldine Childs
is adviser. Programs are being
made by the Cleveland chapter.
Mrs. J. R. Lindsey is adviser a.id
Connie Palmer is president.
Miss Annie Stembridge of Elliiay
past president of the Georgia Vo
cational Association, is district ad
viser for northeast Georgia. Miss
Dora Mollenhoff of Athens is assist
ant state homemaking superviser.
Mrs. J. M. Barber of Athens is
state adviser. The Georgia Future
Homemakers are this year observ
ing their tenth anniversary. Their
big project just now is the build
ing of seven FHA cottages at the
State Future Farmer— Farmer
Homemaker camp at Lake Jackson
Rev. Ray Sewell will preach at
Cross Roads Baptist Church on the
first Sunday in March at 11 A. M.
Everyone invited to come and hear
him.
County Population 15,000. Number 8.
GOVERNOR PROCLAIMS
HOME ECONOMICS WEEK
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GOVERNOR MARVIN GRIFFIN signs a proclamation—Designating
the first week in March as Home Economics week in Georgia as Mrs.
J. M. Barber of Commerce, President of Georgia Home Economics As
' sociation, looks on. The G. H. E. A. will climax the week with ita
slate convention in Augusta, March 4 and 5.
State Farm Mutual
Auto Insurance Lowers
Auto Insurance Here
Lower auto insurance rates for
j most of its more than 85,000 Geor-
I gia policyholders were announced
j today by B. L. Redd, local agent
here for State Farm Mutual Auto
j mobile Insurance Co., Bloomington,
I Illinois. The new rates take effect
Monday, February 14th.
i The new rate schedule will save
present State Farm members a
total of more than $200,000 yearly,
, the company announced. Biggest
; reductions are on collision insur
j ance. These rates are cut 20 per
i cent on SIOO deductible coverage,
and 10 percent on all other types,
i except for cuts of 14 percent and
; 3 percent, respectively, in that part
of Fulton County outside of metro
politan Atlanta. Policyholders in
the latter area receive a reduction
of 22 1-2 percent in the cost of
comprehensive and a 5 percent in
crease on liability insurance.
■ In the metrpolitan Atlanta area,
or near Chattanooga, Tennessee, or
in Catoosa, Dade or Walker Coun
ties the only changes are the 10
percent and 20 percent reductions
in collision rates. Elsewhere in the
state comprehensive rates are cut
6 1-2 percent. Liability rates are
raised 3 1-2 perment in Augusta,
Columbus or Macon, or in the
Counties of Chatham, Clayton or
Cobb, and are dropped 7 percent
elsewhere in Richmond, Muscogee
or Bibb Counties and in the Coun
ties of Chattahoochee, Dougherty,
Floyd or Jones.
In several metropolitan areas,
population growth and suburban
i development have caused the shift
ing of boundaries of Georgia rat
, ing territories. Insurance rates are
I set on the basis of accident rercord
| in each area. The shifting of boun
daries means that a few people in
1 these fringe areas will pay slightly
• more, or in some cases less, than
j before.
j Georgia state agency director for
State Farm Mutual and its life and
I fire insurance affiliates is James
!W. Morton, Jr., whose office is at
’ 502 Glenn Building, Atlanta. The
I State Farm Companies are repre
, sented in Georgia by more than
i 150 agents located throughout the
state. Here in Cumming B. L. Redd
is the local agent for the company.
State Farm Mutual is known as
! the “careful driver insurance com
pany.” Since it began business in
1922 it has specialized in insuring
the average careful driver and has
( avoided those known to be reckless
, and irresponsible.
BOOK ABOUT TEACHING
j The Art of Teaching by the
suave and erudite Gilbert Highest,
whose wife writes tense mystery
stories.
General Assembly
Gave Griffin All
Laws He Asked For
Georgia’s General Assemblymen
are back home now after complet
ing their 40-day annual session in
Atlanta; a session described by
most observers as one of the most
harmonious on record. There
were, of course, a few flare-ups of
tempers and clashes of personali
ties, but in the main general good
feeling prevailed throughout.
What sort of Legislature was it
—good, bad or indefferent? Gov.
Marvin Griffin, who visited both
houses on the day of adjournment
to personally thank the lawmakers
for their work, called it the best
Legislature he’s seen in 20 years’
experience as a state official.
And he had good reason to say
that, too, because the solons ap
proved all the major bills the new
administration sponsored and killed
all acts the administration asked
to be killed. Among these accom
plishments were:
1. Creation of a Rural Roads Au
thority to direct a SIOO-million road
construction program in the rural
areas.
2. Increases in workmen’s com
pensation benefits all along the
line.
3. Create a State Programs Study
Committee designed to determine
what state services are essential
and to recommend ways and means
of financing them over the next
four years.
4. Sale of automobile license
tags at county courthouses. (This
will not become effective until
January 1, 1956.)
5. Increase in the state’s stand
ing bonus offered for the first
commercial-producing oil well in
Georgia. (The bounty was raised
from SIOO,OOO to $250,000 which
will be divided between the pro
ducer and the landowner.)
6. Creation of a State Farmers'
Market Authority empowered to
issue SB-million in self-liquidating
revenue certificates to construct
more public markets in the state.
7. Repeal of the* State Toll Road
Act. '
8. Adoption of an act strengthen
ing the state’s school segregation
law by making it virtually impos
sible for state or local funds to be
spent for mixed schools in the
state.
In thanking the legislators for
enacting all of his campaign pled
ges into law, Gov. Griffin asked for
their counsel, aid and prayers in
performing the best job possible
for the people of Georgia.
“Through hard work, faith and
unselfish devotion to Georgia,” the
Governor said, “we can carry for
ward to new heights our state’s
steady march of progress.”