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Volume 46.
FORSYTH COUNTY RURAL SCHOOL
IMPROVEMENT.. .DUCKTOWN JUNIOR HI.
SUMMERY OF ACTIVITIES FOR 1954-55 TERM
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Modern times seem to make more and greater demands upon our schools. A modern educational pro
gram of today not only includes teaching ithe prescribed subject matter, but also includes the every day
living problems we meet in this fast age, such as geting .along and finding our place in society. Proper
development of our body for the future as well as the present demands and learing to be honest with our
selves as well as to others. *
We have tried several .programs this year in orde er to broaden our experiences, some seem to have
been very worthwhile. One activity this .year has bee n the school store. It has served a three-fold purpose,
first, teaching the students in every day problems in honesty; second, first hand experience to the stud
ents who care fort it; and thir, a source of revenue to be used toward expanding school services. We
have also co-operated with ehe State Audio-Visual service in securing films, records, and tape tto aid in
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our teaching program. In order to supplement our text .book material, a liquid duplicator has been ex
tensively used. An active .first aid program has been carried out.
Considering our physical needs in education a program of soft baall, sponge ball, volley and hasketball
was used. We are very proud that our girl’s basket ball team won first place in the county contest. Our
newest and mast .outstanding program is the addition of the new playground equipment. The school and
community have worked together in collecting material and installing this equipment. We now have six
teen swings, sixteen seesaws, AwentyJour faot of chin ning bars, a twenty-one foot acrobatic ladder, one
eleven foot May Pole with eight swings, and anothe r May Pole with twelve swings from fifteen feet high.
This equipment is supervised and will accommodate approximately two hundred students during a divided
activity period. The funds were raised by the school store, carnival, Hillbilly programs, class play and do
nations from the school and community.
We realize that ;a well planned wholesome lunch is of great importance to growing children. In order
to meet this need we have made every effort ito make our lunchroom an outstanding part of our all over
program. This year we have added around $1500.00 v alue to our building and equipment including a new
stove, hot water heater, storage tank, milk despencer, plastered and painted the building, both inside and
out, and new overhead (ceiling. Because of these improvements we now have a grade “A” lunchroom.
Two suppers held helped anake these improvements possible.
Ask any of the students what they think about the added improvements and they give such expressions
as “wonderful”. Let us now express for the entire student body our thanks tQ the community, teachers
and to Mr. Nalley our principal, for the school program this year.
PEGGY WALLIS & BRENDA GALLOWAY, Eighth. .& Ninth Grade.
HD Agent Urges
Use Of More
Dairy Products
If you are tired of begging your
children to drink more milk these
suggestions from Mrs. Zelma R.
Bannister, home demonstration
agent for Forsyth County, may in
terest you.
“Serve butter, cheese and ice
cream more often. Both are de
lightful ways to 'eat' milk and
gain the calcium, riboflavin, and
other necessary nutrients. Two or
three dips of ice cream equal a cup
of milk in calcium content, and
children don’t have to be urged to
eat ice cream,” the HD agent said.
She added that the average con
sumption per person of ice cream
in the United States is about one
half pint a week.
Mrs. Bannister pointed out that
other dairy products such as frozen
custard and milk sherbet offer a
solution to the problem of getting
enough milk products into child
ren’s diets. Production of this froz
en dairy food has tripled since 1946
she said.
Homemakers, she stated, depend
on cheese as a stand-by food to
build a meal around. She listed egg
and cheese combinations, macaroni
and cheese, and soups, salads, or
desserts pepped up with cheese.
"We eat almost twice as much
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CIIERQ KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Singing Notice
Big All Day Singing
Everyone has a Special Invitat
ion to attend the Annual All Day
Singing at Brookwood Baptist
Church, Sunday May Bth. We are
expecting the largest number of
singers ever to attend our All Day
Singing. Classes from Cobb, Chero
kee, Hall, Gwinnett, Jackson and
Forsyth Counties are planning to
be with us.
Gospelaires quartett, Hhythmair
es quartett, Hudspn Trio, Mrs.
Cochran Soloist will be among the
special numbers.
Plan now to come and spend the
day. There will be plenty of lunch
for every one. Singing starts at
10:30 A. M.
O. E. BARRETT, Pres.
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cheese now as we did 20 years ago
—about 10 pounds each," the HD
agent stated.
"Adults too, need more milk. If
per capita consumption last year
had equaled 1945 consumption, sev
en and a half billion more pounds
of milk would hhave been used.
This would have been nearly equal
to all government purchases of
dairy products last year", she said.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May sth, 1955.
HD CLUB WEEK
CELEBRATED BY
CHATTAHOOCHEE
To ce]ebrate Home Demonstrat
ion Club Week May Ist to 7th,
the Chattahoochee HD Club has
some things made during the past
year on display in a south window
at Wing's Department Store.
There are wooden trays and
plates decorated in color. The cop
per planters give a cheerful note
for the home life. Some of the
members made popular hats and
bags of strawtex.
Practice, effort and experience
resulted from the work these mem
bers did besides having handiwork
done by themselves. Those who at
tempted to make these artices
mentioned have them for use them
selves.
Home demonstration club work
helps the members by learning
new techniques and endeavors as
wel| as to exchange ideas and ex
periences already learned. The com
munity is more united working
toward the same goal.
CASE OF EVERGREENS
Broad-leaved evergreens injured
so severely in the recent freeze
that they are losing part or all of
their old foliage must be heavily
watered once each week in order
to maintain turgor in the plant.
Revival Services Starts
Sunday At The First
Baptist Church Here
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Beginning next Sunday morning, 1
May Bth and continuing through
the following Friday night, May
13th, the Cumming First Baptist
Church will hold its Spring Re
vival. There will be two services
each day, one at 11 o’clock in the
morning, and the other at 8 o’clock
at/ night.
Due to the unexpected ijlness of
Dr. E. B. Shivers, the visiting
evangelist for this meeting will be
the Rev. J. Arnold Smith, associate
pastor of the Inman Park Baptist
Church of Atlanta. Rev. Smith is
well-known as a warm-hearted,
Bible-centered preacher of the gos
pel, and is in great demand all
over our state for revival meetings.
We fell that we are indeed fortu
nate to have him come to be with
us here in Cumming.
; Everyone, regardless of denoml
! nation or other differences, is most
cordially invited and urged to come
out and share the anticipated b]ess
ings of this meeting with us.
Please mark these dates on your
special calendar and plan definite
ly to attend every meeting.
HAROLD ZWALD, pastor.
i New Telephone
Directory Has
Been Delivered
I A new telephone directory which
contains many new and changed
listings and other helpful telephone
information, has just been distribut
' ed in Cumming and Buford, Geor
gia.
Approximately 2,954 new director
I ies have been delivered to homes
| and officers according to L. H.
Collins, manager for the Southern
Telephone Company.
The new directory has a green
cover, which makes it easily dis
tinguishable from the old gray cov
er telephone boolc.
Mr. Collins asks that telephone
users refer to the new directory, |
for the desired number. Looking j
jup the number helps avoid the
I possibility of getting a wrong num
ber, and frequently saves time for
the calling party as well as the
party who might be called in er-1
' ror, he said Information” should
be called only when the desired
number is not listed in the direct-'
ory. 1
i The new directory provides a
j convient source of business infor
• maton. It lists business telephone
I subscribers alphabetically under;
| headings describing their business,
professions or the products and
i the service they sell.
Chestatee Senior 4-H
The Chestatee Senior 4-H Club
met on Thursday April 28th with
26 members present.
The Tenth grade was in charge
of the program.
The Bible was read by Christine
Day and we all repeated the Lord’s
Prayer. Poems by Helen Stanford
and Nora Dockery and we all sang
America led by Nora Dockery.
The meeting was then turned
over to Mr. Rucker who talked to
us about going to camp.
Christine Day entered the 4-H
dress contest and there were no
senior members who entered the
bread contest. Mrs. Bannister gave
us some hints on sewing. We all
had a very nice time.
SARE ORR, Reporter
County Population 15,000. Number 18.
RING BROS. CIRCUS
HERE SATURDAY
MAY 7th BALL PARK
| The last word in tent show en
tertainment, incredible horses, wire
walkers, jugglers, acrobats, trapeze
artists, pretty ballet girls, wild
Jungle animals, elephants, Midget
Cattle from the Lost Canyon, a
Huge Python from India, and
scores of everything else that goes
to make up a Circus will be in
Cumming early Saturday morning
when the great RING BROS. CIR
CUS, one of the four largest in I
America, arrives here.
The huge show, traveling on a
mile-long caravan of double length
steel trucks and semi trailers, and
a score of sleepers and living trail
ers for the performers and per
sonnel of the Circus, will come to
town loaded with new and start
ling features.
Immediately upon arrival at the!
Circus grounds, located at the Ball
Park, the despangled folk, the
scores of wild animals, horses and
ponies, plus the herd of elephants,
will be unloaded and the building
of acres of tents will soon get un
der wajj. A total of eight tents will
be raised, including the Gigantic
Big Top, which seats over 2000 per
sons. With one ring, European
style, and all seats arranged
around same, affording an unob
structed view of all the 25 acts
presented in this season’s perfor
mance, all patrons are assured of
seeing the entire performance, as
each act is presented singly.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
—HERE WE GO
An article in The Constitution
last week puts Georgia’s taxpayers
on notice that in addition to other
millions of new taxes needed, Ihe
j Alcoholic Commission must have
at least $500,000 for the purpose
ot trying to do something for the
100,000 alcoholics in our state.
Drunkenness, in the article, is
compared to tuberculosis as a kill
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Much praise for the work of the
Alcoholic Commission is adminis
tered by the article, but the fact
remains, Georgia is in the business
of licensing a product that leads
to broken lives, broken homes,
broken everything.
1 One can only wonder how long
i the people of Georgia and of our
country will stand idly by while
the beer, wine and liquor barons
carry on their profitable business
of destroying life and property.
It is no longer a casual matter
of temperance meetings. Every
citizen in Georgia is directly af
fected by this menace. You know
when you drive your car into the
street or on the highway thaat you
are in constant danger of having
some drunk jam his car or truck
in your rightful paath. You know
that your taxes must be increased
to take care of the havoc which
I liquor is thrusting upon every com
I munity. Check the list of people
in your local jail, in the asylum,
,in the hospitals, and you will be
amazed to discover how many of
them are there in direct relation
to drunkenness. Every business
man knows what drunkenness is
doing to the efficiency of his store,
bank, factory. But the chief dam
age is in the area of youth. Miss
Ira Jarrell told a group of us one
morning last week that she has per
sonally visited a number of the
school grounds in Atlanta after
midnight to find teen-age boys and
girls in drinking bouts. She is
doing everything she can to stem
this tide, just as every school sup
erintendent in Georgia is doing,
but what can we expect, when the
newspapers, radio and TV are daily
appealing to our children to be
come drunkards through deceptive
advertisements?
Here we go on the course of nat
ional decadence through the un
bridled campaign of beer and li
quor barons. They are making un
believeable profits.
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When garden plants are well es
tablished, thin out extra ones so
the plants will not be crowded. Do
the thinning early before the plants
get too tall and spindling.
Rayburn To Speak At
Electric Co-op’s 20th
Birthday Rally, May 11
Speaker Sam Rayburn
Speaker Sam Rayburn, U. S.
House of Representatives, will ad
dress the mammoth 20th Anniver
sary Celebration of the Rural Elec
trification Program, in Atlanta, on
May 77th, according to Clarence A.
Bagwell, president, Sawnee Electric
Membership Corporation. An au
dience of at least 1,200 is expected
from all parts of Georgia.
In addition to Rayburn’s speech,
the civic and farm leaders present
will hear "Voices 'from The Past”,
including that of the late President
Franklin D. Roosevelt— whose sig
nature of an Executive Order on
May 11, 135 made possible the start
of the electrification of rural Geor
gia and the nation. The event will
be held at the Atlanta Division,
University of Georgia.
Governor Marvin Griffin has offi
cially proclaimed May 8 to 14th as
“Rural Electrification Week”, and
will be on hand with many other
state and federal officials to greet
Georgia’s distinguished visitor, said
Mr. Bagwell. He noted that Speak
er Rayburn is the «nly living S pon--
sor of the Rural Electrification
Act.
First District Congressman,
Prince H. Preston, who will intro
duce the speaker says, "it is fitting
that this distinguished American
should join with the people of
Georgia in celebrating this anni
versary. Rural electrification is a
monument to the American way of
life. In just twenty short years,
cooperation among farmers has
brought the blessings of low-cost
electric power to more than 92
percent of the possible rural con
sumers of Georgia”.
A full program of entertainment,
music and a fine dinner has been
planned by the rural electric co-ops
of Georgia for all who come to At
lantaa to hear Speaker Rayburn.
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ASC NEWS i
Farmers filing a request for
seeds or fertilizer under the 1955
ACP program may receive pur
chase orders for these seeds and
fertilizer at the County ASC Com
mittee Office at their convenience.
Those who did not file a request.
These requests will be considered
as “Lates” and will be approved
as funds become available.
All farmers requesting a spring
practice must report the complet
ion of this practice by June 15,
1955 or come into the County Of
fice, telephone, or ask in writing
for an extension of time in order
to complete the practice.
Important Notice
DOG INOCULATIONS
Dr. Irvin and Mr. Nelms will be
at the following places Saturday
May 7th to inoculate dogs.
Ben Wolfords Place—9—lo A. M.
John Holbrook Store 10:20 to*
11:20 A. M.
Hansards Store (Haw Creek)
11:30 to 12:30.
The Vaccine is the Three year
treatment and is purchased thru
the State Health Department. The
cost is $1.50 per dog. Pups three
months old are old enough for the
inoculation. The Board of Health
urges everyone tp get their clogs*
inoculated as needed to prevent
Rabies and meet Health Law re
quirements.