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Volume 46.
THE NEW FORSYTH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, CUMMING, GEORGIA
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CHESTATEE EIGHTH GRADERS PRESENT DRAFT
TWO OF CLASS PROJECT
CLASS PROJECT: “The Continued Need for the Preservation and Co
ordination of the three basic institutions of our American Democracy:
the Home, the School and the Church.’’
CLASS AIM: “To Collect and Help Preserve Historical Records and
Landmarks of Forsyth County The Home of Georgia’s First Pub
lic School for future posterity.
Mr. AL R. Housley, C. S. S. of Forsyth County, states that the
above building will be ready for full occupancy by the fall terms of
1956-57. The cost of this modern public school building will be $400,000.
The Georgia Education Minimum Foundation Building Program,
sponsored by the State Department of Education, has helped to make
possible this beautiful and well equipped Forsyth County structure, just
as it is at present helping counties throughout the state.
BPPIjX ;
A. R. Housley
Left to right: Mr. R~ Housely, C. S. S. now in his fourth term of
office. He took office January 1, 1941. Mr. E. E. Rogers, Class spon
sor, Eighth Grade, Chestatee Public School.
SoiJ Conservation New*
Forsyth County
DESCRIPTION OF CLASS VJII
LAND CAPABILITY CLASS
Class VIII land is suited only
for wildlife, recreational, or water
she purposes. Usually it is extreme
ly rough, steep, stony, sandy, wet
or severely eroded. Rocky foothills,
rough mountain land, bare rock
outcrops* coasttal sand dunes, much
marsh and swamp land not suited
for any grazing are examples of
Class VIII land.
It is estimated that, by the year
1975, the industrial water needs of
the U/ S. may rise from 80 billion
gallons a day to 215 billion gallons
a day—an increase of 170 percent.
To feed the land before it gets
hungry to give it rest before it
grows weary; to weed it well be
fore it gets dirty—these are the
marks of a good husbandman —
Gaelic Proverb.
There is no short cut or easy
way to do a soil conservation job.
Only a complete farm soil and wat
er conservation program will do
the job the SCS points out.
The soil is the foundation of the
farm family’s living. How well it
yields will depend on how well you
treat it.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
A meeting will be held for the
purpose of adopting by-laws and
electing officers for the Wild-Life
Club. This meeting will be Friday
night March 25 at 7:30, at the
Community Club House. All who
are interested are urged to attend.
The Forsyth County News
. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO HEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, March 17, 1955.
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ASC NEWS
As the time draws to a close for
releasing cotton acreage it is im
perative that we again urge every
farmer in Forsyth County to stop
and consider his farming plans for
1955. In this consideration, if he
has a cotton allotment and does
not plan to plant the allotment in
its entirety he has a definite re
sponsibility to his neighbors and
friends to release that acreage he
does not intend to plant.
As this article is being prepared,
two hundred nine and one-tenth
acres have been released. Over five
hundred acres have been requested.
We know, from past history that
this 209.1 acrs is only a small por
tion of that which will not be plant
ed. Then why not release the acres
we are not going to use and give
each person in the County who
needs additional acres the oppor
tunity of planting your allotment
and keep the allotment history in
our county.
Did you know that Forsyth Coun
ty’s Cotton allotment for 1950 was
10,500.0 acres and that for 1955 the
allotment is 3,096.0 acre. This trend
is responsible this year for the
small allotment the county receiv
ed. It is up to you as farmers to
halt this trend or by your negli
gence to make 1956 allotments still
smaller. Which do you prefer an
allotment equal to the one we have
in 1955 or another 500.0 or 1,000.0
acre cut. The answer is up to you,
which will you choose?
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
There will be a Cake Walk at
the Piedmont Community Club
House Saturday night March 19,
at 7:30. Everybody come on out
and win that home baked cake.
E. E. Rogers
Evangelistic Study
Beginning Sunday night, March
20, and going through the follow
ing Thursday night, there will be
an Evangelistic Week of Study con
ducted at Cumming First Baptist
Church, in cooperation with other
churches in the Hightower Asso
ciation.
Several outstanding Baptist teach
ers will be here for those nights,
including Mr. Gainer Bryan, Mr.
Hugh King, and Rev. Julian Sny
der, who are well-known all over
the state of Georgia.
The brief books to be studied
have been recently prepared for
this special study in Evangelism
and Soul-Winning, and are listed
with the groups which will study
them:
A CHURCH RE VIV AL—Adults
WINNING OTHERS TO CHRIST
Intermediates and Young People.
JESUS SAVES—Juniors.
Everyone in Cumming and For
syth County is very cordially in
vited frTcome and share this won
derful week wit hs. There will be
no obligation whatsoever, and a
hearty welcome of Christian fellow
ship awaits every person who win
come to these an dany of our other
services.
Harold Zwald, Pastor
F. H. A. IS FUN
The FHA is a wonderful organi
zation . Its high ideals and stand
ards make it so. It trains tthe
youth of today to be leaders and
homemakers of tomorrow. Is it
prising that boys as well as girls
are in training? Boys realize the
important role that they will play
in the home, and they enjoy the
opportunity of belonging to the
Future Homemakers of America.
Cumming Chapter is one of the
largest in the State of Georgia.
There are one hundred thirty five
members and the chapter partici
pates in a national, state, and local
program of work. This year nick
els and dimes were given toward
a Scholarship in Home Economics
for a FHA member, and $135 was
raised and contributed to the build
ing fund for girls cottages at the
FFA—FHA summer camp. And
speaking of camp! I’ve been to
camp two summers. It is at camp
that we carry out the seventh pur
pose of our organization, “To pro
vide wholesome individual and
group recreation.” Last fall, Christ
mas gifts were sent to underpri
ledged children in foreign countries
This was done to promote inter
national good-will through friend
ship among children of different
nations.
There have been other projects
to numerous to mention. These are
in addition to the work we do in
class which includes important
phases of homemaking education,
such as making, renovation and
care of clothes, wise budgeting,
home beautifying, food conservat
ion, good family and community
recreation, child care and guidance
personality development, buying,
preparing and serving food, and
good citienship in community, state
and nation.
Being a Future Homemaker has
helped to make me into a citizen
who works as well as plays, pro
duces as well as consumes, creates
as well as appreciates.
To be a Future Homemaker is
to learn and to have fun, too!
DONNA PHILLIPS
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
Mr. Walter Blasingame, chairman
of the Highway Board, was mak
ing a talk to a Sunday School class
the other evening, and he urged
the young people to take God into
partnership in their life’s plans. He
told this story:
*1 know a man in South Geor
gia who is today one of our most
substantial citizens and it ali
from a day when he was plowing
cotton, as a share cropper, worried
to death about his debts. Suddenly,
he stopped the mule, and said to
himself: “ ’ I have tried every
thing, it seems and failed. I have
tried making moonshine liquor,
only to get in more trouble. I have
tried gambling, only to get in more
trouble. I have tried every short
cut in the book, only to get in
more trouble. What is there left? ’
“And, as if an audible voice
spoke, he seemed to hear someone
saying, Why not try God? "He
went home for dinner and told his
wife. She was afraid to believe him
having heard him tell so many lies,
but, womanlike, she encouraged
him, t pledging her prayers and her
cooperation, if only he would give
up all the crazy schemes he had
been persuring.
“This man got down on his
knees, according to his wife’s story
and promised God that he would
serve Him all his days. He |<sld
the Lord that he would give a
tithe of all he made, and that he
would start a movement to repair
the old country church. He rpade
more cotton and corn that year
than had ever been made on the
same ground. He rented a farm
the next year, which he soon paid
Hor. He did lead a movement to
repair the old meetinghouse. They
now have a full-time Pastor in
one of the finest rurgl communi
ties in Georgia, and this man is
chairman of the board of deacons.
He has never failed to give a
tenth of every dollar he makes to
the Lord. He is regarded as one
of the first citizens of his county.
Ask him, and he will tell you that
God’s wages is the answer.”
After Mr. Blasingame’s talk, a
young husband told me that he
could testify that it really works—
that he, too, had tried everything,
and failed, until he asked God to
come into his life as the unseen
but very real partner, and from
that day he had prospered.
All one has to do is open the
Bible and read what God promises
to those who faithfully obey Him.
jyVe may not prefer to speak of
God’s blessings as His wages, but
the farmer about whom Mr. Blas
ingame told likes the term, and
we will not quarrel with him. It
is the truth, and when we follow
the truth, we always come out on
God’s side.
SINGING YORK FAMIL COMING
TO NEW HARMONY CHURCH
Coming to New Harmony Church
located 1-4 mile off highway No.
20 in Ducktown community The
Singing York Family, all in Wheel
Chairs from Summerville, Georgia
to our Annual Fourth Sunday nite
singing. Everybody invited. Come
one come all. We have the promise
of a lot of singers. The singing
starts at 7:15.
Steve Grogan In charge.
County Population 15,000. Number 11.
GRAND AND PETIT JURORS DRAWN FOR
1955 MARCH TERM SUPERIOR COURT
Grand Jurors
1. R. A. Ingram
2. Edsel Martin
3. L. E. Moore
4. John E. Hansard
5. W. J. Hardin
6. Ray Taylor
7. Arnold McClure
8. John D. Bennett
9. E. C. Otwell
10. P. M. Roper
11. Almon Hill
12. T. R. Thomas
13. B. F. Gantt
14. Clarence L. Martin
15. J. R. Burgess
16. James A. Mcßrayer
17. M. P. Holbrook
18. E. C. Wallis
19. Weldon Corn
20. Hymon A. Corn
21. Weldon Bramblett
22. Mather Jennings
23. Carl Martin
24. Carl Holbrook
25. Herbert Cantrell
26. George W. Bramblett
27. C. B. Benson
28. John D. Glover
29. Leonard Barnett
30. D. F. Pulliam
Petit Jurors
1. Joe Nix
2. Rudolph Tribble
3. Elmer Fagan
4. McGinnis
5. Luke Wood
6. J. L. Hughes
7. R. W. Evans, Jr.
8. W. E. Lipscomb, Sr.
9. S. C. Williams
10. W. E. Herring
11. H. C. Majors
12. Otis Freeman
13. Charlie Echols
14. M. C. Heard
15. Joe Shadburn
16. Ethan Estes
17. E. B. Watson
18. Marvin Wallace
19. Henry C. Vernon
20. Clint Thompson
21. James McConnell
22. C. T. Galloway
23. J. A. Otwell
24. Paris Holbrook
25. Jason Smith
26. Walter Porter
27. Calrence A. Heard
28. Robert A. Herring
29. J. A. McClure
30. W. P. McFarland
31. J. M. Cantrell
32. C. E. Ivey
33. Jeff Heard
34. Carl Kennemore
35. H. C. Youngblood
36. Billy Fowler
37. T. K. Martin
38. Clyde Mathis
39. Harmon Charles
40. Thurman Green
41. Raymond Bennett
42. Winford D. Burruss
43. Harry Sherrill
44. S. E. Buice
45. W. O. Harris
46. M. H. Westbrook
47. Earl Bennett
48. W. B. Harrison
49. B. D. Blackstock
50. John G. Barrett
51. Hoyt Gilleland
52. Thad Willard
53. James T. Coots
54. Theron Brannon
55. Jack Milford
56. A. C. Kennemore
57. Harold Grogan
58. Edmond H. Reid
59. C. A. Whitlow
60. John Jones, Jr.
61. O. G. Green
62. Bronson Pirkle
63. Homer Jones
64. Waymon Tate
65. Ed Bramblett
66. Jerry M. Byers
SCHOOL ENTERTAINMENT
On Saturday night, March 26,
there will be fun for all at Sharon
School auditorium. The fun con
sists of a box supper, cake walk,
sale of candy, hot dogs etc.
All girls are urged to bring a
nice box filled with a good supper
to eat with the good looking boy
who is going to buy it.
Everyone has a special invitation
to come and enjoy an evening of
fun as well as to give the school
we love a boost.
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Several days ago most Forsyth
County farmers received through
the mail a copy of a booklet ex
plaining the new Social Security
program for farmers.
This booklet will probably ans
wer the most commonly asked
questions but for other answers
it will be wise to meet and ttalk
with the Social Security represen
tative. His next visit to Cumming
will be on Tuesday, March 29, and
his visits after that will be every
three weeks.
Your County Agent attended a
one day meeting in Athens last
week with representatives of the
Social Security office, Farm Bu
reau, Extension Service and the
College of Agriculture. The after
noon session of this meeting con
sisted of a panel discussion with
questions being asked from the
floor. i
One of the points that was stress
ed during the meeting was that
Social Security for farmers is com
pulsory—not optional—for any far
mer that nets as much as S4OO in
1955. He must pay this along with
his income tax return between
January 1 and April 15, 1956.
A farmer who has already reach
ed the age of 65 may become eli
gible for social security benefits
by paying social security payments
for two years 1955 and 1956. He
may continue farming and still re
ceive social security benefits if his
net income does not exceed SI2OO
per year.
Regardless of whether or not you
think that you will net as much as
S4OO in 1955, the most important
item now is to apply for a Social
Security number. You may obtain
a blank application form at the
post office. Ths card is free and is
necessary before either contribut
ing or receiving social security
benefits.
Red Cross Wrestling l
Match Saturday Night
Another All star wrestling card
will be presented Saturday night
at the Cumming High School Gym
composing of a four man team tag
match and two single bouts. The
net profits will go to the Forsyth
County Red Cross Fund. Matches
start promptly at 8:15 P. M.
The main event a 90 minute
time limit or best two out of three
falls four man ustralian tag team
match between the rough and rug
ged team of Sterling “Dizzy” Davis
224 lbs. of Houston, Texas and
Red Dugan, 222 lbs. of Marietta,
against the popular team of John
ny Harmon, 224 lbs. of Ontario,
Canada and his partner, Ben Matta
215 lbs. of Mexico City. So far
Davis has run rough shod over all
opposition here and says he and
Dugan will continue his winning'
streak Saturday night when they
square off against two of the most
popular wrestlers ever to appear
in the South.
Opening the Stellar card in a 15
minute, or one fall bout Red Dugan
will take on Ben Matta. In the
Semi final bout slated for one fall
or a time limit of 15 minutes.
Dizzy Davis meets Johnny Harmon
Regular popular prices will pre
vail.
MARTHA JEAN DYER FINS
COUNTY SPELLING CONTEST
Martha Jean Dyer, a student
from Friendship Junior Hi School,
was the winner of the Spelling Bee
held in the County School Super
intendents’ office Friday, March 11.
She made a perfect score of 100.
Martha will receive a $25 Savings
Bond from the Atlanta Journal and
will represent Forsyth County at
the District Spelling Bee.
Martha Jean is the daughter of
Mr. Eugene Dyer of Cumming,
Route 2.
Mr. Housley stated that Friend
ship School had been the winner
of the Spelling Contest for the
past two years.