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Volume 46.
STATE OF GEORGIA
Executive Department
SPRING CLEAN-UP TIME
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# A PROCLAMATION
By
GOVERNOR MARVIN GRIFFIN
JSY THE GOVERNOR.
WHEREAS: A continued movement by your various tamehes of
government and civic organiazations to encourage the
government and civic organizations to encourage the
t i uatizensi to-Strive Cor a< cleaner, tidier, and mow beautiful
home, business and community, and
'WHEREAS: Statistics have shown that a clean and tidy ’home or
ibusiness seSdom. bums, : and •
'WHEREAS: An active and widespread > observance of spring Clean
up time givec helpful impetus to the contimnng endeav
or of your State Government for greater security from
, :the ravages of fire, now
THEREFORE: I Marvin Griffin, Governor of the State «if 'Georgia,
do hereby proclaim and designate the period beginning
. April 18th {through April 30th, 1955 as SPRING CLEAN
UP TIME in Georgia and urge all citizens to cooperate
with your Safety Fire Commissioner, your ILocdl Fire
» Department and Civic Organizations in their (endeavors
during this period and the months to follow. i
IrrWitness Wherefore, I have hereunto set my!hand and
' i caused the Seal of tbe Executive Department! tto be aaf
fixed, this the 3rd day of March, 1955.
MARVIN -GRIFFIN.. •'Governor
:BY THE GOVERNOR: . •
BEN T. WIGGINS
SECRETARY, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
ASC NEWS
In Forsyth County there was
352.2 acres of -cotton released. This
352.2 acrers was reapportioned to
the .farmers requesting additional
acreage. This released-acreage was
sufficient to meet the needs of al
most overy farmer in *the County
who filed a request for additional
-cotton acreage.
All farms in the Coumy having
wheat have been checked and not
ices of the planted acreage mailed
to the farmers. Preliminary work
has began on thelSs6 Wheaat List
ing Sheet.
The Count®' Office is continuing
to accept requests for ACP Prac
tices. These practices will be ap
proved as funis become available.
All dealers iin Forsyth County
who "have purchase orders for
Emergency Hay are urged to bring
these orders to tthe County Office
and exchange -them for Dealers
(Certificates.
;Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
'We have available at our head
quarters several hundred pounds
of Bahia grass seed for farmers
in the Setting down creek water
shed. These seed will he free to
those farmers who would like to
give this grass a trial in this sect
ion of Georgia.
This grass can be used for pas
ture, seed, hay, silage, erosion con
trol and as a sod crop in grass—
based rotations.
Bahia grass is a deep rooted
perennial that spreads by seed and
stolons. Plants reach a height of
8—36 inches depending upon the
variety.
Seedbed preparation is similar to
that used for small grain. Allow
soil to become settled before seed
ing.
Plant 15—20 pounds of high qua
lity seed per acre In early spring,
but may be planted anytime.
Apply 400 to 600 pounds of
4-12-12 fertilizer per acre at plant
ing time.
For further information see J. C.
Cates or J. T. Coots.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY * CITY OF CUMMING
DBVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FYILTON, CHERQ REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
| Army Reserve IMt
i Being Formed
In Gainesville
Tbe 507th Field Artillery Batta
lion is now being organized in
Gainesville, according to Major D.
F. Pankey, battalion commander.
The unit, a part of the Georgia
“Wild Cat” Division, will hcQd paid
meetings twice monthly in the
Gainesville Armory.
Major Pankey outlined the IBat
talion table of organization .and
iequipment as foUnws: 46 officers,
15 master sergeants, 43 sergeants
lirst class 79 sergeants and 145
corporaals, for a total of 46 (©Ul
cers and 282 enlisted men.
Major Paakey said ithat members
of .the unit will attend 15 days
summer field training at one of
the Regular Army Installations
each year. He said that each man
with or without prior service will
qualify for the folio whang reserve
benefits: paid meetings, uniforms
annd equipment, retirement points,
promotions, training and service
points. He further pointed out that
ex-service men, by becoming active
»jth a unii.t, may shorten tlheir re
serve obligation by several years.
I
Men without prior service and,
over 17 years of age, will find
that reserve training has consider
able advantages for those expect
ing to be drafted into service.
At present vacancies exist in
headquarters wilh other vacancies
in operations and fire direction, in
struments and survey, wire radio,
personnel, mess and supply sect
ion, Very few assignments have
been made and ratings are open ‘
from corporaal to master sergeant j
All of these ratings are open to
persons Jiving in Forsyth County j
as well as the surrounding area. |
Major Pankey said that he would
be at the Gainesville Armoryy each
Wednesday night at 7:30 through
the month of April. He said he
would be glad to discuss enlist
ments at that time.
He pointed out that if Wednes
day night was not convenient for
persons interested in enlisting,
that they might contact Capt.
Hearn at LE—4-3511 or 2-1071.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 14, 1955.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
SUSAN STAYS
j Tbe youngish-appearing man,
dressed in patched overalls, stood
overalls, stood half-way yin my
study door, arguing with himself,
apparently.
“Come in,” I. said, "and tell me
what it is.”
Clutching his hat in one hand,
and burying the fingers of the
other hand into his palm, he mov
ed toward a chair, but unable to
•quite make ft, he began'.
“You’re busy, and I‘m in a sort
of hurry, I reckon....’"
Introducing myself, I asked his
name.
“Yes, I "knew you, that is T
knew who you were. I mean I
j know who you are. Still, I wonder
*why I am here... .'Looks like a
fellow shoving his troubles on
I someone else ”
j Fortunately, for once, the tele-
I phone rang, and I was engaged in
long distance talk for a few min
utes. Now, he was easier—had ac
tually edged into the chair—but
with one foot ready to go.
Then the "story.
He had got back from World
War II with dreams of a little
farm—a cottage home— enough
grain to feed a small herd—a few
hogs to scotch the wheels—child
ren And it went */ery well for
a beginner—liberal credit— firm
prices for the few hogs and cattle
—.the first baby
Then the sag in prices-sick pigs.
—the second baby in the hospital
—the wife’s strength failing
And 1954’s drought!
Cutting here and there he had
somehow managed to save two
cows and a sow, but now the
freeze had played havoc with just
aboout everything, and he had load
ed the two cows and their calves
Tor the market. But the-older little
girl had begged for Susan—Susan
was the white face calf the father
had given her.
“I left heT crying her heart out,
but what can a man d<J?”
A friend -walked in, and 1 ran
over the story quickly wit hhim.
We went -out to the truck and
looked at the cows and calves.
"How much you expect to get
for.them-” asked my friend.
The young farmer named a rea
sonable sum.
My friend wrote a Check for
twice that amount.
“Pick you up some feed, and
take Susan back to the little -girl,"
he remarked. %
I CONCERT
J YOU ARE INVITED TO A CON
| CERT BY VEP ELLIS AND THE
j WARD HURT FAMILY AT THE
CUMMING HIGH SCHOOL GYM,
! CUMMIING, GEORGIA, SATUR
DAY NIGHT, APRIL 16, at 8:00
P. M. Tickets may be purchased
i from WEYMAN COX or HORACE
| RICKERSON.
Haw Creek Community
l
I The Haw Creek Community Club
met Friday April 1. After Singing
and prayer by Rev. C. B. Gazaway
the meeting was called to order
by the president.
The club took the money they
won for raising the most money
for the Polio drive to buy a record
player for the young people. They
also appointed committees as fol
lows:
Planning Committee: Rev. C. B.
Gazaway, L. D. Echols, Mrs. J. C.
Green, H. W. Cook, Mrs. Billy Fow
ler.
Recreation Cbmmittee: Mrs. John
Green, Juanita Echols, Mrs. H. D.
Nuckolls.
Boundar Committee: Herbert Ang
lin, Marvin Pruitt, J. C. Green.
Survey Committee: Mrs. C. B. Gaz
away, Mrrs. L. D. Echols, Mrs.
Minnie Tatum.
Health Committee: Joan Cook, Mrs
W. J. Buice, John Green.
Church Committee: T. T. Tatum,
Mrs. W. O. Cook, Sara Buice.
Other committee will be appoint
ed as needed.
The women of the Club made
75 garments for the Cripple Child
ren’s Clinic during the month of
.March. Our next meeting will be
Friday afternoon April 29th.
Madge Nuckolls, Reporter
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
The third annual short course on
sheep production will be conducted
at Hardman Hall at the University
of Georgia on April 21, according
to A. E. Cullison, chairman of the
animal husbandry division at the
University.
Fourteen speakers—all authori
ties on sheep production will par
ticipate in the program, Cullison
said.
Land, buildings, and equipment
needed for sheep, pastures, com
mon diseases and parasites of
sheep, and the national sheep situ
ation as related to the expanding
program in Georgia, are topics to
be discussed at the morning ses
sion which beggins at 9:45.
Speakers are C. E. Bell, Jr., Ag
ricultural Extension Service live
stock specialist: J. C. Miller, head
animal husbandry department, Tex
as A. & M. College: O. E. Sell,
pasture specialist and head, animal
industry department, Georgia Ex
periment Station, and Dennis Sikes
head, department of pathology,
School of Veterinary Medicine, U.
of Georgia.
A question and answer period
will be led by Cullison at both
sessions of the meeting.
D. M. Baird, associate animal
husbandman, Georgia Experiment
Station: E. R. Jarman, assistant
animal husbandman, Georgia Moun
tain Experiment Station, Blairsville
and E. P. Warren, Associate pro
fessor of animal husbandry, Uni
versity of Georgia, will gigve re
search reports.
Two other talks Financing
Sheep Enterprises, by W. A. Hobbs,
tV. president of the Citizens and
■ Southern National Bank, Atlanta,
and Some Basic Requisites for a
successful Sheep Enterprise, by
IVliller will be made Thursday af
ternoon.
Demonstrations on lamb grading,
shearing, drenching and hoof train
ing, docking and castrating, tag
ging and facing, ear tagging and
j paint branding, and showing also
( are scheduled.
j A visit to the University sheep
j unit will conclude the program.
( Cullison said the course Is offer
jed as a service to the state’s rap
j idly expanding sheep industry.
I Sheep producers and farmers inter
-1 ested in sheep production as a sup
i plementary farm enterprise, as
! well as the state’s agricultural
leaders, are invited to attend the
meeting, he said.
There will be at least one and
' posslbily two cars going from For
syth County. Anyone interested in
[ attending this short course is asked
to contact the county agent’s office
Men May Now Enlist
In Navy Directly In
Aviation Brand)
| Chief Tom Roberts, Recruiter in
j charge of the Navy Recruiting Of
(fice in Atlanta announced today
. that on April Ist desirable appli
cats for the U. S. Navy may be
enlisted as an Airman Recruit.
This is an excellent opportunity
for young men who are interested
in getting into the Aviation Field
to full fill their active duty obligat
ion and receive valuable training
and experience that will pay off
should they decide to return to
civilian life after their Navy en
listment.
“No specific educational qualifi
caions are necessary,” scald Chief
Roberts, “but the enlistments in
this particular program are limited
to 14 percent of the regular month
ly quotas.” No Aviation pprogram
has ever before been offered that
could assure the number of young
men that this program allows that
they would definitely be assigned
to an aviation activity at the com
pletion of Recruit Training.
Important Notice
Everyone is forbidden to be cn
the streets in Cumming, after 11
P. M. during the week. Saturday
night you are allowed to be on the
streets until 12 P. M.
By Order of Mayor h Council
of City of Cunruning.
ERWIN SMITH
T. O. HANSARD
I*} Police Department
County Population 15,000. Number 15.
City of Cumming
Water Case Ended
Judge Howell Brooke decided the
Waterworks Case in favor of the
City of Cumming Tuesday, April
12, around 3:30 p. m. !
The plantiffs assured the Court
and City Officials that they would
not carry this case to the Supreme
Court and that they would not fur
ther Contest the Validation of the
City Water Revenue Certificates
now being issued by the City Offi-1
cials. Therefore, the City will again
start up the much needed Water
work Expansion program and will
possibly double its efforts to com
plete the job.
Everyone knows that the City
Water Plant is being operated day l
and night around the clock and is |
forcing at least twice as much
water through the Filtering and
Pumping Plant as can be correctly
filtered and pumped in order to
give us a little water and very,
little fire protection, if any. It is
hoped that withirt a few weeks
our capacity will be doubled and
all desiring water can have it
and that the Wilson & Co., plant,
the Sawnee Provision plant and j
other Industries that has heretofore
suffered for the lack of water will]
again be priviledged to use as j
much water as needed and that we
will have enough water to help
our sanitary conditions.
USD A Announces
Incentive Payment
For Shorn Wool
To encourage production of wool,
the U. S. Department of Agricul
ture has announced a shorn nwool
incentive price of 62 cents a pound
according to John F. Bradley, chair
man of the Georgia Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Com-
mittee.
He explained that woold product
ion in the United States has declin
ed about 40 percent in recent years
annd that the supply is not suffi
cient to meet domestic needs. Not
ing the increased interest Geor
gians have shown in sheep in re
cent months, Bradley said he feels
farmsr in this state will do their
part to reach a national annual
production of 300,000,000 pounds of |
shorn wool.
Explaining the incentive pay
ments, authorized by the National
Wool Act of 1954. the ASC chair
man said they will be based on the
percentage needed to bring the
national average price received by
producers up to the incentve price
of 62 cents per pound.
“For example,” he said, “if the
incentive price is 20 percent above
the average price, each producer’s
' incentive payment would amount
to 20 percent of the net sale value
of his wool. A producer who net
ted $250 for 500 pounds of wool
would receive an incentive pay
ment of $50.”
Payment for wool on lambs and
yearlings will be a flat rate per
hundred weigth of live animals. ,
He urgegd all producers to save
sales receipts, or bills of sale, when
marketing their wool and lambs,
and sheep after April 1, 1955.
“These sales slips will provide the.
information needed to determine
each producer’s incentive pay
rijents,” Bradley pointed out.
County ASC officers, through
whom the pprogram will be operat
ed at the county level, can explain
the incentive payment plan in de
tail.
Called Meeting of
LaFayette Lodge
A called Communication will be J
held at the LaFayette Lodge Sat
urday night, Aprill 16, for the pur- (
pose of conferring the Masters De-1
gree. The Greenfield Lodge F. &
A. M. of Atlanta will dramatize
this degree. All Master Masons
are cordially Invited to attend.
CLYDE BANNISTER, W. M.
JIMMIE BARNES, Secretary.
VERSATILE FOOD
Cheese is one of the most ver
satile foods. It can be used to
pep up the most ordinary dishes.
Cheese sauces on asparagus, bro
colli and cauliflower add a special
zip. i
Peace Officers Fund
Names Wm. T. Ramsey
Secretary-T reasurer
William T. Ramsey, navy veter
an and Griffin educator, has been
named by the Peace Officers’ An
nuity and Benefit Fund Board as
Secretary- Treasurer, succeeding
John Ham, of Cartersville, resign'-
ed.
Ramsey was born in Statesboro,
having received his B. S. degree in
education at the Georgia Teachers
College there in 1943. He served
three and one-half years in the
United States Navy as a Lieute
nant in the Amphibious forces dur
ing World War 11.
Upon discharge, he made his
home in Griffin where he has lived
for the past nine years. Mr. Ram
sey taught and coached athletics
in the Griffin High School for 3
year. He later resigned and went
into business for himself. During
the last three years, he has taught
at Aiken School, where he served
as both principal and teacher.
Members of the Peace Officers’
Annuity and Benefit Fund Board
are: Marvin Griffin, chairman: At
torney-General Eugene Cook; Comp
troller General Zack Cravey; Polk
County Sheriff John Redding of
Cedartown, and L. B. McCallum,
Chief of the Detectives Division of
the Macon Police Force.
Governor Griffin stated that he
is pleased that this important board
was able to obtain the services of
a man with such a good back
ground and impressive qualificat
ions.
Ramsey will assume his new
duties April 1.
CLINICS PLANNED
IN SEVEN TOWNS
FOR HD LEADERS
Seven home improvement clinics
will be conducted during April by
Miss Willie Vie Dowdy, home im
provement specialist for the Agri
cultural Extension Service.
! Local leaders who assist home
1 demonstration agents in this phase
| of Extension work will receive the
training in giving demonstrations,
Miss Dowdy said.
- Three Extension specialists—T
jG. Williams, Jr., landscape; Paul
Crawford, rural electrification, and
Miss Dowdy, will give talks and
demonstrations. These will teach
use of color in home decoration
and landscaping, trends in paint
for rural home interiors, and light
ing for T. V. reception.
! Others on the program include
four state home demonstration club
project chairmen: Mrs. W. R. Cul
lens, Dublin, home Improvement;
Mrs. C. E. Stiven, Kathleen, .rural
housing: Mrs. Tom Silvey, Carroll
ton, rural electrification, and Mrs.
J. I. Proe, Chula, landscape.
Mrs. Millard Lawson, Savannah,
state Home Demonstration Council
president, will present home im
provement goals at the Savannah
meeting. Mrs. Mays Venable, state
4-H Club advisor, will attend some
of the clinics to discuss 4 H Club
home improvement activities.
Miss Dowdy said county chair
men of home improvement, rural
housing, electrification, and land-
j scape; county 4-H Club leaders, and
county Home Demonstration Coun
cil presidents are urged to attend
the clinics. It is an open meeting,
! open to anyone in the counties
.wishing to attend.
The schedue for the clinics isr
| April 14, Lumpkin; April 15, Barn
'esville; April 19, Calhoun; April
[2O, Athens, and April 26, Sanders
i ville.
I
Mrs. C. O. Wheeler
Passes Sunday Night 1
■
Mrs. C. O. (Carrie) Wheeler
passed away Sunday night April
1 10, at her home after a short Ill
ness.
Funeral Services were held on
1 Tuesday morning at Ingram Chapel
| with Rev. Harold Zwald, officiating
| Survivors include, three daugh
j ters, Mrs. Grace Shadburn, Mrs.
Daisy Lee Hardin, Mrs. Bass Farr
and two sons, Mr. Alton Wheeler
and Mr. Joe Wheeler all of Cum
ming. One sister Mrs. Daisy Pil
grim of Ft. Knox, Ky. Also several
grandchildren.
Interment in Cumming cemetery