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Volume 46.
TRIBUTE TO ONE OF OUR OLDEST
MINISTERS IN FORSYTH COUNTY
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REV. AND MRS. G. W. FORREST
Rev. G. W. Forrest was born in Cherokee County on October 12, 1871, and at the age of Twenty he
united with Mt. Zion Baptist Church, Cherokee County. He was called to preach in May 1906, and was
ordained as a Minister in July of 1907.
He was married on February 7, 1895 to Miss Av oriilah Lacey. She was born on January 7, 1870. At
the age of Sixteen, she joined Salem Baptist (Church. They are the parents of Eight children, six of these
children are still living.
In the year 1913, he moved to Forsyth County near Coal Mountain, at this time he became Pastor of
Coal Mountain Baptist Church. Later in 1920 he mo ved Jo the City of Gumming, where he has resided
for the past Thirty-five years. He has pastured churches in Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Hall and Daw
son counties and also served churches in South Ceor gia.
Having retired from active service, he and his w ife are still residents of the City of Cumming, where
they have many friends. W. H. FLANGAN, Chairman of Committee.
Wildlife Club Urges
Supervised Fishing on
Chattahoochee River
The newly organized Sawnee Val
ley Wildlife Club at Cumming
made plans at its recent monthly
meeting to organize a supervised
program of rough fish elimination
in the Chattahoochee River this
summer above the Buford Dam.
The fish committee was directed
by the club to contact the Game
and Fish Commission in order to
get a permit to have supervised
seinings for gars, suckers, carp
and large catfish.
The purpose of this move is to
assure better fishing in Lake Lan
ier when it is completed. Biologist
have to]d the club that the Chatta
hoochee now contains approximate
ly 92 percent rough fish and 8
percent game fish' and that the
proportion of rough fish should be
reduced to at least 65 percent in
order to have good bass, crappie,
and bream fishing on the new
lake.
President Joe Brooks appointed
the following committees to serve
for the first year:
Programs: L. W. Holbrook, Walter
Rucker.
Recreation: George Bagiev, Comer
L. Bamnett.
Membership: Weldon Ivey, Herman
Wood, Royce Sampples.
Fishing: John Holbrook, Hervert
Hansard, L. O. Sexton, Richard
Williams.
Game: .James I Hughes, Ralph
Tate/ John Collins.
Bi]l Corneliuson gave a short
talk at .the meeting on the revised
game and fish laws and the inten
tions of the Game and Fish Com
mission toward conservation of
game and fish.
The club meets every fourth Fri
day night at 8:00 p. m. at the
Community House in Cumming
and any resident of North Georgia
is eligible for membership. Child
ren under 16 may join free of
charge if either parent is a mem
ber.
Dr. P. W. Tribble will preach at
Zion Hill Sunday night, May 1.1
Please meet at 7:30 to begin sing
ing. Preaching service at 8. Every
one invited.
The Forsyth County News
. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY Si CITY OF CUMMING
OEVOIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO RUE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Spring Revival At First
Baptist Starts May Bth.
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Dr. E. B. Shivers
Beginning Sunday night, May Bth
and running through the following
Friday night, May 13th, the Cum
ming First Baptist Church will ob
serve a special week of revival
meetings. There will be two ser
vices a day, one at eleven o’clock
in the morning, and the other at 8
o’clock at night.
Dr. E. B. Shivers of the Inman
Park Baptist Church in Atlanta
will be the visiting evangelist. This
man has had a very successful
pastorate at the Inman Park
Church and is known far and wide
as an outstanding revival preacher.
Everyone is most cordially in
vited and urged to be with us dur
ing this significant week and share
the wonderful blessings with us.
Please mark these dates on your
special calendar and plan to attend
every meeting.
HAROLD ZWALD, Pastor
Singing Notice
The Favorite Melody quartett
will be at Bethelham Baptist Sun
day night May Ist. Everybody i$
invited to come out and enjoy this
fine singing group. This quartett
is better known as the Cripple Law
son Children from Knoxville. The
program will start aat 8 o’clock.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 28, 1955.
Statesboro Oks Natural
Gas by Big Margin
STATESBORO, Ga„ April 21
Citizens here voted overwhelming
ly for natural gas in a city election
held Tuesday. The vote was 1,030
for and only 23 against.
With 1,519 qualified registered
voters, 1,062 turned out to cast
their ballot in the city-wide election
Mayoi* W. A. Bowen and mem
bers of the City Council of States
bor have been preparing for some
two -years in arranging for the
voters to express their choice on
natural gas. The distribution sys
tem Will be owned by the city and
gas furnished to consumers here
by the City government.
Mayor Bowen expressed thanks
to the people of the city for their
confidence and for the large turn
out of wters.
Soil Conservation Newt
Forsyth County
Working in cooperation with
i Coleman Wallace a cooperator with
i the Upper Chattahoochee River
Soil Conservation District three
gullies averaging ten feet deep and
approximately one-half mile long
have been filled leaving a saucer,
shaped area that will be seeded to
fescue grass this fall. This covers
an abea of about five acres.
F. P. Hubbard in the Hopwell
section has made plans to clear ap
proximately five acres of swamp
land this summer. This is in the
Settingdown creek watershed.
Many farmers are preparing
seedbeds for their crops. Some are
working their seedbeds on a con
tour, some are going around their
fields and over the terraces creat
ing an erosion problem. Small
fields and the increased use of
machinery has brought this about.
The wise farmer will continue to,
cultivate on the contour.
Bahia grass seed are still avail
able for trials at the SCS head
quarters.
Any ministers in the county who
would like to get information for {
Soil Stewardship Sunday May 15,'
see J. C. Cates or J. T. Coots, SCS
technicians.
FUTURE HOMEMAKERS TO RECEIVE
STATE HOMEMAKERS DEGREE
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JANE OTWELL
Misses Jane Otwell, Barbara For
rest, and Donna Phillips of the
Cumming Chapter, Future Home
makers of America will have the
State Homemaker Degree confer
red on them at the State’s Tenth
' Annual Convention of the Future
Homemakers of America which is
1 being held at the General Ogle-
I thorpe Hotel in Savannah April 29
and 30.
The State Homemaker Degree is j
the highest individual honor that
can be conferred by the Georgia
association .on a member. Jane,
Barbara, and Donna will be award
ed this honor for distinguishing
themselves in home, school, and
community activities. .
Jane is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Otwell, Cumming, and
she is a member of the Junior
Class at the Forsyth County High
School. She is president of the lo
cal FHA Chapter and during the
past year she has served as dis
trict secretary of the Georggia As-
Wm. Virgil Chamblee
Named Asst. Casbier of
Bank of Cumming
| Wm. Virgil Chamblee was born
and reared In Forsyth County,
Georgia and has lived in For
syth County all of his life. He is
an honor graduate of Cumming
High School. After graduation he
served in the U. S. Army. After
receiving an honorable discharge
from the Army he has been en
gaged in farming enterprizes and
for the past Five year has been
Office manager of the Forsyth
County Agriculture Soil Conserva
tion Committee here in Cumming.
On this job Mr. Chamblee served
with honor and dignity and made
for himself many thousands of
friends in Forsyth and adjoining
counties. His friends will be glad
to know he has recently been
made Assistant Cashier of the
Bank of Cumming and invites
his many friends to visit him at
the Bank and assures everyone
that he will continue to serve them
in every way possible.
William is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Virgil T. Chamblee, one of
Forsyth Counties best known and
most loved families.
. SPECIAL NOTICE
The Forsyth County Masonic As
sociataion will be entertained by
LaFayette Lodge No. 44 F. & A. M.
at the Cumming, Georgia School
Gymnasium Saturday April 30th.
Supper will be served at 8 P. "M.
The speaker will be Hon. Joseph
A. Moore, of Milledgeville, Georgia,
Past Grand Master of The Grand
Lodge of Georgia, and Past Pre
siding Officer of all the Georgia
Bodies of York Rite Masonry.
All Master Masonss and their
families are cordially invited to
attend this meeting, and are es
pecially urged to be present at the
gymnasium by 8 P. M.
Dr. Rupert H. Bramblett, Pres.
L. W. Holbrook, Vice-president
A. C. Smith, Jr., Secretary
Because television screens are
from 10 to 30 times as bright as
movie screens, some additional
light in the room is needed to eli
minate eye-straining contrast.
County Population 15,000. Number 17.
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BARBARA FORREST
sociation. She has attended all dis
trict FHA meetings and last spring
she was a delegate to the State
FHA Convention. She has attended
and plans to attend this summer.
At State Convention Jane will
serve as Recorder for the first
general session and she will also,
give the devotional. Recently, at a
banquet given by the Chain Store
Council of Georgia Jane spoke on
“What Future Homemakers are
( Doing in Georgia.” During the
. summer she will attend Leader
j ship Training Conference for Fu
, ture Homemakers.
Barbara is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Forrest, Cumming,
and she is a senior at the Forsyth
County High School. She is song
leader for the local FHA Chapter,
and has participated in many Chap
ter projects. She has attended FHA
summer camp for the past two
years *and Vast year she was a
delegate to the State FHA Con
vention. Barbara plans to enter
WELL-ROUNDED
PERSONALITIES
Physical, mental and Spiritual de
velopment proportionaately com
pleted makes a Well-Rounded Per
sonality. Of course, social develop
ment (which includes the physical,
mental and spiritual) is the labor
atory work, the developing process.
A person that places all the em
phasis on the physical development
is just about one-third of a man.
A person that has a desire for
knowledge—desires a good thing
But a person that desires know
ledge just for the sake of gaining
power and prestige, to be used for
his selfish advantage can be a
selfish and dangerous thing and
the person desiring such, will or
may be a dangerous in our society.
A person who has a strong faith
in God and is right in his attitude
toward God and man makes a
complete and noticeable change in
all of his life. Have you ever heard
anyone say, of another, “He has
such a fine Christ-like spirit”,
When a person like that comes into
the presence of a group whose
conservation is on a low level, im
mediately the atmosphere is puri
fied and the conversation takes a
higher level. Only the Spirit of
God, in the life, can make a per
son like that.
It is utter fally for the creatures
of earth to ignore the Creator.
One can not ha\/e a well-rounded
development and usefyl life ife he
leaves God out of consideration.
W. R. 'CALLAWAY
FUTURE FARMERS HOLD
FATHER AND SON BANQUET
The Cumming Chapter of the
Future Farmers of America held
their Annual Father and Son ban
quet Friday April 23. The purpose
of this banquet was to let the
boy’s Fathers, Agriculture workers
and School officials know what the
Chapter has done for the past year.
The Chapter was very proud to
have as guest speaker Bobby Wil
liams, State Vice President. Bobby
gave an excellent talk on the im
portance of F. F. A. in High school
Other speakers on the program in
cluded Ferrell Jennings, Carroll
Pruitt, and Marlin Tallant.
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DONNA PHILLIPS
Truitt-McConnell College in the
fall.
Donna is the daughter of Mrs.
Dorothy O. Phillips, Cumming, and
she is a member of the senior
class at the Forsyth County High
School. She has helped with many
Chapter projects, and she has at
tended FHA summer camp for the
past two summers. Donna will en
ter North Georgia College in the
fall where she will study textiles
and clothing.
At the banquet given recently by
the Chain Store Council of Georgia
Barbara, Donna and Janice Bramb
lett sang several numbers. They
will, also, sing at the convention.
Janice Bramblett and Annette
Vaughn, vice-president of the local
chapter, will, also, attend the con
vention. The group will be accom
panied by Mis§ Wilma Ivie, Chap
ter Adviser, and Homemaking
! Teacher.
VFW To Participate
In National Loyalty
Day Sunday May Ist. |
The loca] VFW Post 9143 is hap
py to participate in the National
Loyalty Day program May Ist.
This program was started by the
VFW in the City of New York,
several years ago at the request of
the city and state officials of that
state. Its’ purpose was to counter
act the propaganda being spread
by the Communists of New York
andn their fellow travelers. Each
year the VFW members of the
New York City area organize a
huge parade that marches down
Broadway. Prior to the first Loy
alty Day parade, held by the VFW
there, the Communists held their
May Day parade to celebrate the
Communists inspiring that over
threw the Government in Moscow.
They now have to hold their par
ade elsewhere.
Loyalty Day has now spread to
every state in the Union. It is a
day set aside for every good citizen
to reaffirm their loyalty to the
Democratic way of life. It is very
fitting that this day was started
by an organization such as the
Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Our Post Is requesting that every
one consult the Radio and Televi
sion pages to find the times devot
ed by every major net work to
these programs and to listen to all
these programs. NBC will have a
one and one-half hour color and
* black and white program devoted
to this Loyalty Day. It will either
be Friday or Saturday night. Be
sure to see it. There will be
other programs during Friday,
Saturday and Sunday of this week.
Try to see and hear all of them.
IN MEMORY
In memory of Father W. A. J.
Cain who passed away one year
ago, April 28, 1954.
We cherish sweet memories of you
It s true, we miss you.
Sweet thoughts of you
Wfllcause me to be more ttue.
When life here is through
I hope to meet you.
In heaven beyond the blue
With other Friends we knew.
Mrs.. Flois Mcßrayer