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Volume 46.
Ex-Rep. John S. Wood
Named* by Eisenhower
To Committee
Former Ninth District Represen
tative John S. Wood of Canton,
former chairman of the House Un-
American Activities Committee,
was nominated by President Eisen
hower Friday for a place on the
Government Subversive Activities
Board.
Wood, who retired from Congress
in 1953 after serving 12 years in
the House, had no comment on the
nomination. It is subject to con
firmation by the Senate.
The Georgia Democrat was chair
man of the Un-American Activities
Committee from 1945 until 1953
except during the Republican 80th
Congress. He guided the group in
its headlinemaking investigations
of Communist activity, including
the probe that led to the conviction
of Alger Hiss.
His appointment to the govern
ment subversives board would be
for a three-year term. Salary would
be $15,000 a year.
33-Word Clause Made
Public Over Telephone
Union Strike Revealed
Henry Collins, Cumming Man
ager for Southern Bell Telephone
Company, today made public the
33-word clause over which the tele
phone union has threatened a
Southwide strike and revealed how
its provisions would affect tele
phone users.
The clause proposed by the Com
pany reads as follows. “As the
parties have agreed on procedures
for handling employee complaints
and grievances, they further agree
that there will be no lockouts,
slowdowns, or other wwork stop
pages during the life of this agree
ment ] contract].”
The purpose of the clause is to
assure uninterrupted service to the
public, Mr. Collins said, and to end
walkouts without warning which
are called to bring pressure to
bear on the Company. There have
been 105 such walkouts since mid
1951, he said. At the time present
bargaining started they were oc
curring in Southern Bel lat the
rate of one eveiy 10 days.
“In working with the union to
eliminate these quickie strikes,”
Mr. Collins said, “The Company
has been patient and has exhaust
ed every other approach. For sev
eral years we have tried to solve
this problem short of adding a
contract clause.” “This clause does
not in any way affect the right of
the union to strike at the expirat
ion of the contract,” Mr. Collins
said. “What it does is to recognize
that the public which is paying
for uninterrupted telephone service
has a right to insist that the com
pany and its employees furnish it.”
The public relies on uninterrupt
ed telephone service now as never
before, Mr. Collins said, pointing
out that “in Cumming, 5,663 local
telephone calls are made a day,
plus 385 daily long distance calls.
Many involve the public health and
safety. In this day of such reliance
on the telephone the service is too
vital to be at the mercy of union
leaders who can ignore orderly
methods of settling differences and
call workers off the job.”
Mr. Collins said the company
has taken many steps in current
bargaining trying to reach an ag
reement, such as.
1. Offered increases in employ
ees’ pay ranging up to $4 a week.
A wage increase was one of the
union objectives in the bargaining. 1
2. Streamlined the grievance pro
cedures so settlements can be
reached more quickly.
3. Reclassified certain cities and
towns to higher wage schedules.
4. Shortened evening and night
work schedules.
“In a labor contract, the com
pany guarantees the good working
conditions and to pay the increased
wages. It is certainly not too much
to ask that the union, in return,
guarantee to respect the contract
and not engage in strikes while
the contract is in force," Mr. Col
lins stated.
More than 43,000 Four-H Club
girls in Georgia participated in.
meal planning and preparation pro
jects last year.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERQ REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, March 10, 1955.
More People Bought
Ford Cars In 1954
Than Any Other Make
Ford car retail sales to custom
ers in 1954 exceeded those of any
other make by 25,257 units, accord
ing tonet automobile registration
figures made available today by
R. L. Polk & Co.
R. S. McNamara, Vice President
of Ford Motor Company, and Ford
Division General Manager, said the
net 1954 figures establish that the
Ford car has clinched its position
of sales leadership in the auto
mobile industry.
Polk’s net registrations for all 48
states and the District of Columbia
show Ford sales to consumers dur
ing the year totaled 1,387,3441 pas- (
senger cars as compared to 1,362,-
087 units for the second-place make
Polk, the only firm in the U. S.
which collects the registration data
on a national scale, sells the infor
mation to automobile manufactur
ers and other subscribers.
Since the net registration figures
represent sales to the public, they
are a means of comparing public
preference for one make of car
with that of another. However, the
raw registration totals do not re
flect this preference until the fig
ures have been refined to exclude
registrations not representative of
actual sales to customers during
the calendar year.
Here is a breakdown of the re
gistration figures as supplied by
Polk:
RAW REGISTRATION FIGURES
Ford (D) 1,400,440. Nearest Com
petitor (D-l) 1,417,453.
LESS (XX)
Registrations in dealers’ and manu
facturers’ names in December 1954
as reported by R. L. Polk & Co.
Ford (E) 14,838 (X) 'Nearest Com
petitor (E-1‘ 56,802 (X).
Unadjusted figure for 1954 Regis
trations. (D minus E) Ford (H)
1,385,602 Nearest Competitor (H-l)
1,360,651.
PLUS: Registrations in dealers’
and manufacturers’ names in Dec.
1953. (Although these cars were
counted in 1953, they were sold to
the public in 1954. Therefore, they
have to be added to the unadjusted
1954 figure above) Ford (J) 1,742.
Nearest Competitor ( —-1) 1,436.
Net Car registrations to retail cus
tomers in 1954 as reported by R. L.
Polk & Co. (H plus J) Ford (K)
1,387,344. Nearest Competitor (K-l)
1,362,087.
(X) Includes the normal number
of demonstrators registered by deal
ers and factories. Also see Line
“J.” This adjustment is made to
be consistent with Line “E."
In years past, Polk has followed
the policy of withholding excessive
registrations in dealers’ and manu
facturers’ names from the Decem
ber totals to reflect deliveries to
customers in each market area.
These then were counted in a sub
sequent month of the next year.
However, Polk discontinued this
practice this year, meaning that
any excessive registrations in deal
ers’ and manufaacturers’ names in
December, 1954, were included in
the December totals. Therefore, the
removal of cars registered in deal
ers’ and manufacturers’ names in
December 1954, permits the result
ing figure to more closely resem
ble the 1953 figure and more ac
curately reflect the dealer sales to
customers.
(XX) Public preference for a make
of car is measured by the number
of people who purchase it. In order
for the registration figures to re
flect this preference, it is necessary
to remove from the raw total any
registrations that do not represent
an actual sale to a customer with
in the year in uestion. Cars regist
ered in a dealer’s or manufactur
er's name do not represent a retail
sale until the unit has been re
registered in a customer’s name.
REMOVING STAINS
In working to remove a fresh
stain, it is best to try the simplest
method of removal first—that of
sponging with cool water. Avoid
using hot water on any unknown
stain as it may set the stain. Sug
ary stains are removed easily with
clear water.
THE CHRONIC
FAULTFINDER
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There are some people that seem
to think that if they can point out
the defects of professing Christians
they are doing a wonderful thing.
By lowering their fellowman they
seem to think that they are exalt
ing themselves. Some of these
critics are members of the church
and seldom attend but they are
always ready to criticize those who j
do gather on the Lord’s day to!
worship. They seem nto to think.
of their own bad influence, that),
they are exerting, by staying out
and failing to gather with others
for worship on The Lord’s Day.
Let’s not take the task of judg
ing others into our own hands.
When we attempt to do this we I
are trying to do what God only |
is to do. Let each of us serve and !
obey God with all our mind, soul
and strength. When we remember j
our own imperfections we will be!
slow in condemning others for
their imperfections. .
There are thousands of people
who can tell the president exactly
what is wrong with his adminis-1
tration; there are more thousands'
who can tell you exactly what is!
wrong with the church—but they j
are blind when it comes to discov
ering their own imperfections, j
They can run the business of the
Nation and correct all the imper
fections of the Church, but they
are making a failure in their own
lives. Jesus said “Judge not, that
ye be not judged. For witji l what'
judgment ye judge, ye shall bef
judged; and with what measure
ye mete, it shall be measured to;
you again”. Let us cease looking
for the mote (speck) in our broth
ers eye and take the beam out of
our own eye.
If you have the right attitude
toward God, that of faith and trust
you will certainly have the right
I attitude toward your fellowman.
All of us should pray this prayer
“Oh, God search ME and see if
their be any wicked way in ME —
and CLEANSE ME from all un
righteousness.”
v W. R. Callaway
Cumming FFA Chapter
Our Chapter has decided that the
general public might be interested
in the individual members of the
Chapter and their projects. For
this reason I plan to write a brief
sketch of the members of the Chap
ter listing their home farm project
and thteir FFA work in general.
The first member to discuss is
Ferrell Jennings, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Mather Jennings, who lives
in the Elmo section of our County.
Ferrell is a third yyear student in
Vocational Agriculture. He is also
one of the schools’ better students,
having never failed a subject. His
FFA projects have been so out
standing that the Chapter is ex
pecting Ferrell to receive The
Georgia Planter degree in Macon
next fall. This is the highest award
that any FFA member can receive
in this state.
Ferrell’s farm home projects
have always been outstanding with
an increase each year in both pro
jects and size of projects. Last
year he had as farm projects 1
sow and 15 pigs, 12 acres of corn,
18 acres of wheat, 1 beef cow and
calf and several home improve
ment projects. His labor income for
the year, after all expenses amount
ed to $684.40. He has already made
plans to increase his projects for
this year emphasizing building up
thb land he farms.
In addition to farm projects,
Ferrell has been outstanding in
Chapter leadership activities. He
was a Committee chairman his
first year, Chapter vice president
last year and is the chairman of
two chapter committees this year,
the Fencing committee and the
Chapter Loan Fund committee. He
is one of the Chapters’ few mem
bers to have received a higher de
gree each year.
Ferrell is already planning to
farm on farming full time after he
graduates this year. We are cer
tain that he will be a successful
fanner if the progress he has made
the past three years are an indi
cation of his ability.
JIMMIE SMITH, Reporter
Curaming F. F. A. Chapter
Principal Issue Holding
Up New Contract
An official of Southern Bell Tele
phone Company said Friday, Febru
ary 25th, that one principal issue
is holding up agreement on a new
contract for the Company’s 50,000
non-supervisory employees.
That issue is union refusal to
accept a clause which seeks to pro
tect the public against service dis
ruptions caused by strikes during
the life of the contract, according
to F. M. Malone, Personnel Vice
President of the Company.
"The public is paying for unin
terrupted telephone service,” Mr.
Malone said, "and has a right to
insist that the Company and its
employees furnish it.”
Mr. Malone said the addition of
a no-strike clause to the contract
is vital to the public interest.
"Quickie" strikes —called without
advance notice to the Company—
have occurred on 105 occasions
since mid-1951, he asserted, ser
lously disrupting service in the lo
calitles involved.
“In every Instance, these quickie
strikes have ignored procedures es
tablished in the contract for the
express purpose of settling differ
ences between the union and the
Company before they affect the
service. The public interest demand
that the new contract between
Southern Bell and the union re
cognize and correct this situation.”
Negotiations have been in pro
gress since last July, and Mr. Ma
lone said agreement has been
reached on many provisions of the
new contract.
A wage proposal by the Com
pany provides for increases in em
ployees’ pay ranging up to $4.00
per week, depending upon location
and job classification. The increase
would keep telephone wages well
in line with prevailing community
pay levels. Other contracat chang
es have shortened evening work
schedules, reclassified certain of the
towns to higher wage schedules
and effected other improvements.
ASC NEWS
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture today announced the mini
mum level of price support for
1955 crop upland and extra long
staple cotton. The minimum level
of support for upland cotton, basis
Middling 7-8 inch, will be 31.70
cents per pound, gross weight. The
minimum level of support for 1955
crop extra long staple cotton will
be 55.20 cents per pound, net wt.
These levels reflect 90 and 75 per
cent, respectively, of the current
parity prices of 35.22 and 73.6 cents
per pound for upland and extra
long staple cotton. In the event
that 90 percent of the parity price
for upland cotton or 75 percent of
the parity price for extra long
staple cotton on August 1, 1955
I (the beginning of the 1955 market
year) is higher than the level an
, nounced today, the level of price
support for that kind of cotton will
be increased accordingly. The mini
mum levels are announced now in
accordance with Section 406 of the
Agricultural Act of 1949, as amend
ed, which provides that insofar as
practicable, the Secretary of Agri- 1
culture shall announce the level of
price support for field crops in ad
vance of the planting season.
Under the provisions of the Agri
cultural Act of 1954 relating to the
commodity set-aside, three million
bales of upland cotton have been 1
excluded from 'the computation of
carryover in determining the level
of price support for upland cotton.
This results in a minimum support
level of 90 percent of parity for;
the 1955 crop of upland cotton, j
With respect to extra long staple i
cotton, the Agricultural Act of 1949
as amended, provides that the mini
mum level of support for cooper
ators shall be the minimum level
specified in the Act for the supply
percentage of such cotton at the
beginning of the marketing year.
The supply percentage is currently
estimated at 245.
Important Notice
CAKE WALK It BINGO PASTY j
at Matt School House Friday night
March 11 at 7:30. Proceeds go, to
the Heart Fond Drive.
County Population 15,000. Number 10.
Gift Boxes Make Friends
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' German Red Crow nurses show a German youngster the
contents of an American Junior Red Cross gift box Just received.
Last year more than MO,OOO of these gifts—containing toys, health
and educational supplies—went to ehlldern around the world from
American school children through the Junior Bed Cross. ” 1
Dizzy Davis Wrestles
Harry Smith Saturday
Night at Cumming
The second All Star wrestlihg'
card will be presented Saturday
night at the Cumming Gym. The
net profits to go to the Heart fund.
Matches start promptly at 8:15 P.
M. with ample Police to insure
proper order.
The main event slated for the
best two out of three falls or a
time limit of one hour will Pit the
Rough and rugged sterling “Dizzy”
Davis, 224 pounds of Houston, Tex
as against Hearry “Hercules"
Smith, 215 pounds of Atlanta.
Davis is one of the most hated
wrestlers ever to invade the South
and so far has run rough shod
over most opposition. This is the
first time he has wrestled Smith
and a lively bout is expected when
these two square off.
Opening the Stellar card in a
one hour time limit or best two
out of three falls bout, the Worlds
Ugliest Man, The Swedish “Angel"
232 pounds of Sweeden will meet
Chris Averoff, 228 pounds of
Athens, Greece. Averoff was
Greeces wrestling entrant to the
last Olympics and made quite a
reputation for himself. He then
turned Pro and has been making
quite a name for himself here in
the U. S. The Angel relys on his
giant strength to subdue his oppo
nents and in Averorr he will find
an opponent equally strong plus
a good grappler.
General admission is SI.OO. Ring
side $1.25. Children 50c tax includ
ed.
Soil Conservation New*
Forsyth County
Description of Class VII Land
Capability Class
Class VII land is not only un
suited to cultivation but has severe
limitations for use for grazing or
for forestry. It requires extreme
care to prevent erosion. In rough
timbered areas its use for either
grazing or lumbering requires spec
ial care.
Every cutting of alfalfa requires
some 325,800 gallons of water per
acre to grow it. An acre of cotton
needs 800,000 gallons of water to
mature the one annual crop.
Each U. S. citizen uses an esti
mated 1,300 gallons of water each
day; that is, personal and house
hold cleanliness plus industrial uti
lization of water for manufacture
of personal belongings.
A ton of cotton goods requires
60,000 gallons of water for bleach
ing, and 80,000 gallons in the dye
ing process.
One inch of rain is equal to:
about 100 tons of water per acre;
one-half gallon of water per square
foot; about 14,000,000 gallons per
square mile.
NOTICE—A cake walk at the Pied
mont community club house Satur
day March 19 at 7:30. Everybody
come on out and win that home
baked cake.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
We have been celebrating anoth
er annual Brotherhood Week. The
speeches have been made, editorials
have been written, forums have
been conducted.
After these annual weeks of em
phasis on brotherhood, II find my
self asking: How can we have
brotherhood apart from Father
hood?
There is a basis of brotherhood,
often employed in civic clubs and
other splendid organizations—the
brotherhood of secular purposes—
social, exonomic, cultural, etc. We
hear about brotherhoods of engi
neers, brotherhoods of craftsmen
in many forms of ancient guilds.
And there are many brotherhoods
for social cultural fellowships.
But when you approach spiritual
brotherhood which is the intention
of Brotherhood Week, you come to
something far deeper than conven
ient forms, of social, economic and
cultural fellowship. Albeit, we
would agree, I fancy, that spiritual
brotherhood might and should per
meate all lesser relationships.
God is the Father to whom all
men may and should look-in Whom
all men may and should believe..
If men everywhere, or every race,,
creed and tongue, believe in Him,
through His Son, Jesus Christ, we
are them indeed, sons and brothers
Until we reach that basis of
brotherhood, we are strangers—or
phans.
Not in man’s manifestos ,but in
the Holy Bible, we find the basis
of brotherhood.
So long as some of God’s pro
fessing children regard themselves
as the arbiters of the family of
God, declaring themselves the only
true participants in His grace, we
are beating the air when we as
semble spokesmen for the various
religious groups for the recital of
displomatic platitudes.
They debated the issue back in
Jerusalem in the first generation
of Christians, when the Hebrew
Christians looked askance at the
presumption of Gentiles claiming
the privileges of discipleship. Hap
pily, that debate wa sresolved in
the acknowledgment that all men
of all backgrounds rhay come to
God through Jesus Christ—.that all
sentient souls are competent to
deal directly with God the Father,
through Jesus Christ, our Great
High Priest, guided and instructed
and illumined by the Holy Spirit.
The priesthood of the believer, the
equality of believers, and all the
other cherished doctrines of the
Christian faith, so clearly taught
in the Bible, form the only basis
I know for enduring brotherhood.
Let us pray and work for the corn
in'* of choV, fpUr>'"shfo, not just
one week, but every week, every
day .every hour. "Seek ye first the
■Kingdom of God, and all these
things shall be added unto you.”
Georgia farmers who produce less
than 20 bushels of com per acre
are wasting their time and money
growing corn, according to Exten
son Service agronomists.