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Volume 46.
CHESTATEE EIGHTH GRADERS PRESENT
DRAFT THREE OF CLASS PROJECT
Mr. E. E. Rogers, the Class Sponsor, introduces class findings on
the Church and its need for preservation and coordination with the
homes and schools, especially of Forsyth County, and likewise with the
homes of the state, nation and the world::
TOMORROW’S CHURCH
"The church holds in her hand a book, the Bible, which contains
her early history, presents her ordinances and their significances, out
lines her progress and determines her objectives. This Book tells us
that the Church is “The Bride of Christ.”
Tomorrow’s Church must be able to withstand the pressure of
‘‘the gates of helL" Listen as the Lord says: “And the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it.”
David tells us about “the gates of death,” Isiah tells us about “the
gates of the grave,” and Christ toils us about Tthe gaes of heir and
their relation to life.
We have, in our day, -seen the "gates of hell march forth to cap
ture and to destroy the “Blood-bought churches of Christ,” and we have
seen Mussolini slain, and Hitler and his crowd defeated. Again and
again Satan has marched forth to capture “Christ” and his children;
and each time, thank God, he has been defeated. One day he will be
chained and thrown into a bottomless pit, and the pit will be sealed, —
then the liberated Cbrarch will he free to work, worship and rejoice.
MT. TABOR BAPTIST CHURCH, ORGANIZ
ED AUGUST 22,1833. NOW 122 YEARS OLD
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A Picture Of The Pulpit
The first pastor of Mt. Tabor Church was the Rev. Mr. A. IV.
Webb. The present pastor is the Rev. Mr. Ford Phillips. The present
Clerk of the Church is Mr. Charlie Yarbrough.
The picture above shows the pulpit that has come down through
the years and is today placed in their modern brick building which
stands on the same site of its first construction.
SHARON BAPTIST CHURCH, ORGANIZED
ON JULY 16, 1846
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A Picture of Present Church Building
Sharon Baptist Church was constituted July 16, 1846 with seven
teen members. The Rev. Mr. A. K. Tribble was the first pastor.
There have been three Church buildings since it was first constitut
ed. This present modern building was built in 1949. It was completed
and ready for dedication on July 13, 1952. It consists of a large audi
torium, a preacher’s study, eight Sunday School rooms, two rest rooms
Igular preaching consists of a Sunday School, Training Unions, and a
and a beautiful Baptistry. The Church organizations other than re-
Woman’s Missionary Union. The Church now has around three hund
red members enrolled. The Rev. Mr. Charlie E. Warrne is the present
pastor. Mr. T. E. Settle is Church Clerk and has served for 33 years.
A brief pictoral compilation of the full pro
ject will follow in a later issue of the ‘‘Forsyth
County News."
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The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMLMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO RRE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May 12, 1955.
Arthur J. Sima
Former Forsyth County
Citizen Dies
Mr. Arthur J. Sims, known to
hishis many friends throughout
this area as Uncle Jink, died in an
Atlanta Hospital Friday night after
a long illness. He was 80 years of
age last November 26th and was
born and reared in Jackson County
Georgia, but had lived in Forsyth
County for about thirty three years
and was engaged in farming, he
had also served as Deputy Sheriff
and was a member of the Oak
wood Methodist Church.
Uncle Jink had endeared himself
to all whom he came in contact
with. For the past thirteen years
he had lived in Hall county on
Flowery Branch Route 2, and had
been in declining health fore some
titfne. His wife the former Miss
Winnie Westbrook preceded him in
death three years ago.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Earnest H. Sherrill of Forsyth
County, one sister Mrs. J. C. Hum
phries, Flowery Branch and a num
ber of Nieces, Nephews and other
relatives.
Funeral services were held Sun
day afternoon at 2:30 P. M. at the
New Hope Methodist Church in
Forsyth County, with the Rev.
Marvin Brewer and the Rev. G. W.
Lathem officiating. Interment was
in the church cemetery.
Nephews of the deceased served
as pall bearers and the ministry
of music was composed of the
Marfin Trio and the Luther O’Dell
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children.
Southern Bell Service
Better In April Than
Any Previous April
Southern Bell officials announced
today that “The Company complet
ed more telephone calls for the
| people of the South in April, de
spite the strike and despite at
tempts to disrupt the service, than
in any previous April.”
At the same time, spokesmen
said that the total number of em
ployees at work passed 31,00 on
Friday.
Figures released today disclosed
that 15,682,000 long distance calls
were completed in nine states in
April this year against 15,317,000
in April 1954, previous high April,
or 365,000 more. Local calls hand
led in April this year averaged
30,000,000 per day for the nine
states. This compares with a total
! of 29.500.D00 for the same period
| last year, officials said.
More employees were on the job
during the eight week of the strike
and more calls were completed
than in any week since the walk
mat started- More employees re
turned ths week than any week.
Normal service was provided this
i week to all but a relatively small
part of the 4.00,000 telephones,
! 4,000,000 of which are dial-operat
ed.
The Company invited employees
who have not yet returned to
“join fnose who feel and take ser
iously their responsibility to pro
vide this essential public service
and are now on the job doing so.
Those returning are being welcom
ed and, of course, are being treat
ed fairly and impartially. There is
no truth to statements or impli
cations that the union will some
how cause those who return to
work to lose their jobs. The union
has never fired an employee and
it never will.”
Important Notice
Coal Mountain Baptist Church
invites all feister Churches to Com
mu I’ with them on the Fourth
Sunday in May. There will be Sun
day School. Preaching and Com
munion services in the morning.
Basket lunch at noon and singing
in the afternoon. All singers and
lovers of music have a special in
vitation.
Pearl Holcomb, C. C.
Jaycees of Gainesville sponsored
a Roadeo that was held Tuesday
and Wednesday of last week. Mr.
Billy Thomas won Fifth place in
this state Roadeo held at Moultrie.
Accompanying BUly to Moultrie
were Messrs Edwin Otwell, Almon
Hill and Eddie Smith
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
Permit me to share with you the
decision of The Ten Club, oldest
literary club In Atlanta, organized
in 1898, at its meeting last week
to devote a year of study to Twen
tieth Century Leadership. We will
conclude a year's study of the
USSR at the May meeting, when
President Goodrich White of Emory
University reports on education in
the USSR. The paper at the April
meeting was on Religion In the
USSR, President Wallace Alston of
Agnes Scott College giving the
paper.
* The subjects for discussion on
the Twentieth Century follow:
Statecraft Religion Education
Human Relations Law and Jus
tice Literature Agriculture
and Rural Life Health and the
Social Sciences The Fine Arts
Journalism, Radio and TV Busi
ness, Transportation and Communi
cation.
Judge Samuel H. Sibley will open
the series at the June meeting. I
am waiting for that, as I always
wait for his papers in The Ten.
Bishop Moore will give the paper
on Religion, and that will be some
thing to look forward to. Dr. J. R.
McCain will give the paper on
Human Relations, and so on thru
the list of subjects. Mr. Robert
Troutman will give the paper on
Law and Justice, and Judge Harold
Hawkins will give the paper on
Health and the Social Sciences.
The Ten Club has been a great
blessing gin my life. I have been
a member since 1924. We meet
monthly, at 4:30 o’clock in the af
ternoon. We have a season of book
reviews, then the paper with dis
cussion following, and then the
dinner. We usually break up by
7 (Tclock.
As the late Mr. Mell Wilkinson
once remarked to Judge Marcus
Beck and Dr. M. L. Brittain in a
meeting of The Ten, “As we grow
older, our friends grow dearer.”
How true. What about joining us
in a study of the Twentieth Cen
tury?
ASC NEWS
All farmers in Forsyth (County
having a wheat allotment were
furnished a notice of their 195J>
acreage of wheat. All farmers who
| were overplanted were allowed 15
days from the date of the notice
I to adjust the wheat to the acreage
allotment.
The date established aftter which
•wheat shah be considered as hav
! ing reached maturity in Forsyth
County is May 16, therefore if the
excess acreage of wheat is not
used as cover crop, hay, pasture
or silage by that date the wheat
acreage cna be adjusted only by
plowing or discing under the ex
cess acreage.
Any farmer who exceeded his
allotment and planted over 15.0
acres, will be penalized at the rate
of $1.13 per bushel on the excess
acreage. If you have any questions J
concerning your 1955 wheat acre- 1
age, please contact this office.
Chattahoochee P. T. A.
The Chattahoochee P. T. A. met
Monday niht with a large number
present. The meeting was called
to order by Eldred Watson, presi
dent. Opening prayeyr by Bill
Robbs. The secretary, Mrs. Mattie
Robbs read the minutes and gave
a financial report up to date.
Discussion were made to build
playground equipment during the
summer months, and buy blinds
for the other class rooms. The fol
lowing officers were elected by se
cret ballot for the coming year.
President—Roy Holtzclaw; Vice
president Herbert Youngblood; Sec-
Treasurer, Mrs. Mattie Watson;
Reporter, Mrs. Mattie Robbs.
The P. T. A. meetings will con
tinue through the summer months.
The newly elected officers are in
charge at the next meeting which
will be held the 2nd Monday night
In June.
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Refreshments were enjoyed by (
all after the meetings.
FOB BETTER RESULTS USE
FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
WANT ADS
County Population 15,000. Number 19.
Contract Awarded
For Buford Dam
Power House
The last major contract for the
construction of the big multi-pur
pose Buford Dam on the Chatta
hoochee River above Atlanta, Ga.,
was let today to an Atlanta firm.
Army Engineers at Mobile, Ala.,
awarded the contract to the Ivey
Brothers Construction Company,
Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia for the
amount of $3,076,128.23.
Colonel Harold E. Bisbort, Army
District Engineer at Mobile, said
that the contract covers the con
struction of the powerhouse, switch
yard, and transformer yard. Work
is expected to get under way be
fore the end of May.
The following features of the pro
ject have already been completed:
three earth saddle dikes; the spill
way, which is excavated in the re
servoir rim about a mile from the
dam; and the tunnels, which will
carry the Chattahoochee River
around the dam and through the
powerhouse. The great earth dam,
which will back up the river into
a 37,100 —acre lake, is now about
70 percent complete.
The Army Engineers expect to
complete the Buford project during
the summer of 1957, at a total cost
|of about $40,700,000. When put in
[operation, it will afford flood pro
tection to over 32,000 acres of land
between the dam and West Point,
Georgia, assure navigable depths
lin the Apalachicola River the year
I around, and provide ample water
I supplies for industrial and muni
' cipal uses in the Atlantaa area dur
ing dry seasons. It will also pro
duce approximately 162,000,000 kilo
! waatt hours of electric energy a
year, which will be enough to
serve about 67,000 homes.
j Soil Conservation New*
Forsyth County
j C. S. Mathieson on the Wooley
! Mill road northeast of Coal Mt.
reports a complete application of
: fertilizer this spring to his per-
I manent pastures and hay crops. In
fact Mr. Mathieson has a complete
permanent cover on all of his open
I land. Gradually he is converting
jhis bottom brush land to perman
' ent pastures. Much of this brush
land is below one of the flood pre
vention structures in the Setting
down creek watershed,
j The completion of the flood pre-
I vention structure on the Coleman
Wallace farm is nearing complet
ion.
When the rain falls on grasses
and legumes, the energy impact is
diverted and the moisture sinks
into the soil.
Where the ground is bare, water
strikes hard, seals the surface and
runs away, carrying soil with it.
City folks and farmers study
source and control of water. The J
soil survey is basic to the best of j
farming. One of the byproducts of i
farm ponds is a recreation center. |
Bahia grass seed are still avail
able for free at the SCS Head
quarters for trial purposes.
Singing Notice
i Everyone has a special invitation
to attend the Annual Homecoming
Singing at Shady Grove Church
Sunday May 15th. We are expect
ing a large number of singers in-!
I eluding the Gospelairs quartett. j
i The Martin Trio, Wallace Trio, J
Holbrook quartet and many sing
j ers from Atlanta, Gainesville, Can
ton and Buford. Please come and
spend the day. There will be din
ner for everyone.
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Fay Martin, President
Broughton Wallace, V-pres. ;
Mrs. J. L. Robbs, Jr. Secy.
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FORSYTH COUNTY DRESS
REVUE
The County Dress Revue will be
held in the Cumming High School
Gym, Saturday May 14th.
The ladies who plan to enter the
Revue please register between 12
o’clock and 1:00 o’clock. The judg
ing will begin promptly at 1:00
o’clock. The program and award
ing of the prizes will start im
mediately after the judging.
TRUTH
. .Jesus said, “I am the way, the
truth, and the life: no man com
eth unto the Father, but by me” —
(a portion of John 14: 6). One
could write volumes on this state
ment: —Christ the way; Christ the
truth; Christ the life. This verse
utters the greatest trruth ever ut
tered to human beings, it Ls either
the eternal truth of God or it is
the most pernicious fajsehood ever
uttered. Those who believe, those
who .have .surrended .to .Jesus
Christ as their personal saviour
and are living for him, know that
every word is true. At another
place, Jesus said, “I and the Fath
er are one”. Jesus is the Son of
God; Jesus Christ is God in the
flesh.
In the physical universe, there
are many truths that man is dis
covering. The Universe is constitut
ed in truth and man’s mind is con
stituted for truth. Man’s mind fits
into the Universe, as a hand fits
into a glove. All truth is God’s
truth. There is no conflict between
true science and genuine Christian
ity. There are truths In this phy
sical universe, this visible world of
ours, and there are truths in the
invisable and eternal realm. God
places in the mind of man a desire
to know the truths that operate
in this visibje world. There are
truths just as real and more im
portant, in the invisible and eter
nal real. These truths are revealed
to us through the Lord Jesus
Christ as we exercise faith in Him.
Many of our greatest scientist
have also been great believers in
God. The more they know about
God’s great world the more they
see and understand the greatness
of God. *
The Bible has a part to play in
the life of the modern world. In a
recent broadcast to the nation thg
famous American scientist Dr. Rob
ert A. Milltkav *jpnwd these
significant words: “I suspect that
the future progress of the human
i race will be determined by the cir
-1 culation of the Bible”. V
i “We search the world for truth;
we cull
The good, the pure, the beautiful
From graven stone, and written
I scroll,
From all old flower fields of the
soul;
I And, weary seekers of the best,
| t <We come back laden from our
guest,
,To find that all the sages said
Is in the Book our Mothers
read”.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Truth is something that each in
dividual can have, for himsejf.
Jesus said, "I am the way, the
truth, the life, no man cometh unto
the Father but by me”. Do you
trust Him? Do you believe Him?
Then you have the foundation
truth for your life. You have a
sure foundation upon which you
can build as long as scholars build
upon this foundation you may safe
ly follow them, but if they ignore
this fundamental truth, their house
will be built on sand and will fa]l.
W. R. Callaway
Important Notice
DOG INOCULATIONS
Dog owners living in Ducktown,
Friendship and Matt Schoo Dis
tricts are notified to bring their
dogs that were not inoculated last
year, including pups that are 3
months old now to the following
places this Saturday May 14 for
the inoculation.
Ducktown (Evans Store) 9—lo
Friendship (Green’s Store 10:15 to
11:15.
Matt (Hurt & Moore’s Store) 11:30
to 1:00.
The Board of Health urges every
one to meet the dog inoculation
requirements. It is a 3 year shot*
and the cost is $1.50. Citizens in*
every community are urged to de
stroy unclaimed stray dogs.
BAGBY REUNION
All relatives and friends are in
vited to attend the Bagby family
reunion at Bethel Baptist church
In Forsyth County Sunday May 29.
Registration will begin at 10. COnoe
and bring a basket lunch and re
new old acquaintances.
Rex Bagby
Bernice B. Nuckolls j