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Volume 46.
S>en. Walter George
Seeking Long Range
Help For Dry Spells
WASHINGTON—Senator Walter
George appealed this week for
start of a program giving promise
of long needed relief for drouth
parehed areas of Georgia. Irrigat
ion systems would be placed with
in reach of areas which wwithout
long range help could become de
sert, the Georgia Senator asserted
in appeals for the Chaattahoochee
and Savannah river dam develop
ments at Hartwell and Fort Gaines.
George tol dthe Senate Appro
priations Committee that the “area
of the greatest drouth damage of
the past two year’’ is in reach of
the water reservoir which would
be created by the Fort Gaines dam
on the Chattahoochee.
“I can think of nothing more
heartening and helpful than to
have construction start at this
point”, he said. In his statement to
the committee, Senator George
pointed out "the need for raising
the waater level of the Georgia
plains throughout the great pro
ductive agriculture regions across
the state.” He added:
"We look forward in Georgia to
the time when we will have great
reservoirs—storehouses of water —
upon which we can draw for irri
gaation in times of drougth. We
have genuine fears that without
such reservoirs this area which
historically has been one of the
great farm producing centers of
our nation may.become desert. We
who have endured the past two
terrible years on the farm know
that nature poses no empty threat.
We have seen our lands nearly de
sert—with cotton, corn, tobacco,
peanuts withering and dying be
cause the rains would not come.
So, we are asking these projects
jn the name of Humanity.” .
Senator George, pointing to his
long record of standing for sound
spending policies, asserted "the
soundest investments Congress can
make are in protection of our re
sources and natural endownments
of the land.”
VFW Elect* Officer*
Thursday May 26
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
Post 9143 held their Annual elect
ion May 26, 1955. The written bal
lot was used whereby any member
could vote by sending m their bal
lot prior to this meeting. This sys
tem resulted in our having a much
larger vote cast than usual.
The following officers were elec
ted:
COMMANDER—Henry Evans
SR. V-COMMANDER —Dorsey Tins
ley
JR. V. COMMANDER—J. L. Ban
nister
QUARTERMASTER—R. A. West
brook
SURGEON—Dr. Marcus Mashburn,
Jr.
JUDGE ADVOCATE—H .G. Ban
nister
THREE YEAR TRUSTEE—Edwand
L. Woods
It is interesting to note the mem
bership in Post 9143 has increased
again this year, reaching an all
time high of 175 members for the
year. This is unusual as most l|et
erans groups have had a decline
in membership this past year.
Navy Recruiter To
Visit Cumming On
Each Thursday
The traveling Nav y Recruitor
will be at the Post Office in Cum
ming every Thursday between the
hours of 2:45 P. M. and 3:00 P. M.
Make it a point to meet him and
have him tell you about the op
portunity of a career that has
world travel, medical and dental
treatment, food and clothing: and
allows you to continue academic
and technical training—all at the
Navy’s expense. Also have him ex
plain to you about a career that
allows you to retire at the age of
38 to 40 years with a guaranteed
life income of over SIOO a month.
See Chief Johnston, your Navy
Recruiter, on his next trip here.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF GUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, IIALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
With Y our County >
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
The first lamb sale in Georgia
in 1955 was held in Atlanta on
Friday, May 27, with a total of
573 lambs and sheep offered for
sale. Of this number, 496 head were
sold as lambs graded for prime to
utility quality. Only 32 lambs were
rated as Prime with 131 lambs
going Choice, 269 lambs graded
Good and 64 Rated Utility grade.
The remainder of the sheep offered
for sale were culls and odds and
ends.
The lambs were graded accord
ing to quality and weight and sold
according to grade. The 32 lambs
grading Prime were purchased by
Armour & Company for $22.80 per
hundred w’eight. Armour & Com
pany also bought the 131 lambs
grading Choice. The price paid for
this grade was $22.70 per hundred
weight. The 269 lambs grading
Good was purchased by Swift &
Company for $16.00 per hundred
weight. The remaining sheep and
lambs were purchased by both
local buyers and Armour & Swift.
A total of 22 lambs and 8 older
sheep from Forsyth County were
sold at this sale. The lambs were
from the demonstration farm of
Royce Samples and were graded
as follows: 1 Prime, 10 Choice and
11 Good. All of these were grown
out entirely on pasture without
any grain being fed. The remain
ing 10 head were aged wethers and
ewes sold by Edgar “Harris and
Wesley Hawkins.
In comparing prices paid for the
various grades of sheep, the most
outstanding fact is the cut that
sellers took on lambs more than a
year old. While wethers less than
a year old grading from Good to
Prime sold for $16.00 to $22.80 per
hundredweight, two wethers that
were just over a year old only
brought $4.60 per hundredweight.
Other prices paid varied from $5.00
to $17.60 per .hundredweight. The
flock owner definitely took a loss
on holding lambs over until the
second year.
Wool that was also purchased
by the J. P- Stevens & Co., Inc.,
of Milledgeville, Georgia, for most
ly 55 cents per pound. Dne lot of
fine wool brought 60 cents. The
fine wool came from the western
breed ewes from the demonstration
farm of Royce Samples..
Census County.
Division Established
In Forsyth County
The State of Georgia has been
selected by the Bureau, of the Cen
sus as the first southern State in
which areas, known as “Census
County Divisions,” are being estab
lished, in cooperation with State
and local county officials, for the
purpose of reporting statis
tics. Similar areas were established
in the State of Washingto prior to
the 1950 Census, and since 1950
have been put into effect in two
other States, Oregon and Idaho.
Miss Luclle Kochne, a member
of the Census Staff, is here from
Washington to consult with county
officials and solict their advice in
regard to the proposed areas for
Forsyth County.
Miss Kochne assures us that the
county divisions set up by the Bu
reau of the Census will not inter
fere in any way with the us of
Militia Districts by the State or
counties.
For Census purposes Forsyth
County has been divided into four
Census County Divisions compris
ing population and farms approxi
mately as follows:
Big Creek population 1,900; num
ber of farms 380.
Chestatee population 1,700; Num
ber of farms 390.
Cumming population 5,100; Num
ber of farms 770.
Silver City population 2,300. Num
ber of farms 500
GOOD CASH CROP
Soybeans are a good cash on
farms with available machinery,
and they also can be substituted
for other cash crops now under
acreage restrictions. This crop has
about the same climate and soil
requirements as corn. Now is a
good time to plant soybeans, and
they can be planted through June
with a fair chance of success.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, June 2, 1955.
A PORTION
OF SCRIPTURE
Therefore you haave no excuse,
O man, whoever you are, when
you judge another; for* in passing
judgment upon him you condemn
yourself, because you, the judge,
are doing the very same things.
We know that the judgment of
God rightly falls upon those who
do such things. D o you suppore, O
man, that when you judge those
who do such things and yet do
them yourself, you will escape the
judgment of God? Or do you pre
sume upon the riches of his kind
ness and forbearance and patience?
Do you not know that God’s kind
ness is meant to lead you to re
pentance? But by your hard and
impentent heart you are storing
up wrath for yourself on the day
of wrath when God’s righteous
judgment will be revealed. For he
will render to every man according
to his works to those who by pat
ience in well-doing' seek for glory
and honor and unmortality, he will
give eternal life; but for those who
are factious and do not obey the
truth, but obey wickedness, there
will be wrath and fury. There will
be tribulation and istress for every
human being who does evil, the
Jew first and also the Greek, but
glory and honor and peace for
everyone who does good, the Jew
first and also the Greek. For God
showws no partiality
Vs. 15 & 16. They that show that
what the law requires is written
on their hearts, while their con
science also bears witness and their
conflicting thoughts accuse or per
haps eveuse them on that day
when, according to my gospel, God
judges the secrets of men, by
Christ Jesus. Rm. 2: 11; 15—16.
Read Rom. 1: 28—32 before you
read this scripture for this scrip
ture refers to it.
W. R. CALLAWAY
Enlist In The Navy
All-State Company
During June
The second All-State Company
to be enlisted in the Navy from
Georgia’s finest young men will
set sail for San Diego, California
on June 16th it was announced by
Chief Tom Roberts, Recruiter in
Charge of Navy Recruiting in the
Atlanta area.
The first “Cracker Company’’
was such a huge success that the
Navy Department is allowing the
second company to be enlisted in
June in order that many young
men who are graduating from high
school will have opportunity to be
a part of the finest group of young
men ever to don the Navy Uni
form.
The company wwill be given a
send-off to be remembered by Miss
Jeanine Parris, recent winner of
the title of “Miss Georgia”.
Go in today and talk to the Navy
Recruiter and see if you can’t qno
lify as a member of this All-State
company. Don’t wait because a
limited number of men will be
chosen.
Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
Final details have been worked
out by the local SCS" technicians
for the constructions of a flood
prevention dam on Mrs. Amelia
Wallis farm on Shop branch. Other
land owners envolved in the con
struction of this dam are Mr. and
Mrs. C. S. Mathieson, Miss Mar
garet Wallis, Mr. Dewey Carnes,
Rudolph Carnes and Mrs. Elizabeth
Callaway.
Roy Wood and Bill Lawson of
the Federal Wildlife Game and [
Fish Commission were visitors in '
the county last week working with 1
the local SCS technicians, local 1
lake owners and the flood preven
tion lake owners.
Verne Davidson of the USDA
Fish Culture Division recently gave
some tips at a meeting in Madison
Georgia on how to manage your
small lakes foi* maximum fish pro
duction. The local SCS technicians
participated in this meeting.
The construction of local live
stock pond dams is in full swing.
Two of our technicians are kept
busy daily making the surveys and
inspections. 1
Yes, The Co-operative
Program Is Scriptural
MISSIONS
The second rail in the Cooper
ative Program is missions, Soul
winning is the bottom rail of mis
sions. We may stay at home and
win souls, and that is evangelism; |
but when we go and win souls,,
that is missions. For convenience j
our Cooperative Program has state,'
home, and foreign missions. Is this
program scriptural? Let us see:
1. State missions is illustrated in
Luke 10: 1-2: “Now aftter these
things the Lord appointed seventyy
others, and sent them two and two
before his face into every city and |
place, whither he himself was'
about to come. And he said unto
them, The harvest indeed is plen
teous, but the laborers are few:
pray ye therefore the Lord of the
harvest, that he send forth labor-'
ers into his harvest, Jesus was in j
the State of Perea across the Jor
dan and these seventy missionaries
were sent out as state missionaries (
See also Acts 1: 8, “Ye shall be
|my witnesses in all Judea”.
! (another state).
2. Home missions is illustrated
in Acts 8, where Philip goes to
another state, Samaria, and preach
es the gospel; and also meets a
I foreigner, the Ethiopian chamber
' lain, and preaches the gospel to
(him, baptizes him, sending him on
I down to his own country as a
(foreign missionary.
3. For foreign missions we have
abundaant scriptural proof: “Go..’
make disciples of all the nations” I
(Matt.. 28: 19), etc.; ‘“Go ye into
all the world, and preach the gos
pel to the whole creation’ ’ (Mark
16: 15); ‘Repetance and remission
of sins should be preached in his
name unto all the nations” (Luke
24: 47); “Ye shall be my witnesses
.. unto the uttermost part of the
earth” (Acts 1: 8); “There were
some of them, men of Cyprus and
Cyrene, who, when they were come
to Antioch, spake unto the Greeks
also, preaching the Lord Jesus”
(Acts 11: 20). Thus the great
church at Antioch was organized
and became another center of for
eign missions.
P. S. —This is a second part of
the Cooperative program—Third
installment next week)
New Laws To Benefit
Those Who Served In
WAAC, Wheeler Says
Pete Wheeler, Director of the
State Department of Veterans Ser
vice, stated today that the Veter
ans Administration has announced
the VA benefits to which certain
women who served in the Woman’s
Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC)
may be entitled under Public Law
650 of the 83rd Congress.
Wheeler pointed out that these
benefits include compensation, pen
sion vocational rehabilitation and
G. I. Loans.
Public Law 650 extends these
benefits to former WAAC mem
bers who meet the following con
ditions: f 1) Served in the WAAC
for at least 90 days; and (2) prior
to the establishment of the Wo
man’s Army Corps (WAC) were
honorably discharged for disability
incurred in line of duty which ren
dered them unfit to perform furth
er service in the WAAC, or WAC.
Wheeler said that members of
the WAAC, under previous laws,
have been eligible for United Stat
es employees compensation bene
fits, hospitalization and domiciliary
care, burial benefits, certain Sol
diers and Sailors Relief Act bene
fits and re-employment rights.
Wheeler invited all former mem
bers of the WAAC desiring furth
er information concerning their
benefits under the new law to con
tact the nearest Field Office of
the State Department of Veterans
Service.
THREE GOOD REASONS
There are three good reasons
for controlling cockroaches in the
home: (1) they destroy food and
damage fabrics, book bindings, and
other materials; (2) when they
run over food, they leave filth and
spread disease germs, and (3) they
are mechanical carriers of many
diseases, one of which is Salmonel
la food poisoning.
County Population 15,000. Number 22.
Gov. Marvin Griffin
To Address Georgia
Press On June 4th.
Georgia’s Governor Marvin Grif
fin will deliver the traditional
“state of the state” report to mem
bers of the Georgia Press Asso-
I ciation in Savannah, June 4. As
publisher of the Bainbridge Post
] Searchlight, he will be speaking to
| fellow newspapermen.
The association’s 69th annual
convention will open with a lunch
eon on Thursday June 2, and will
continue through the luncheon Sat
urday, June 4, at which the gov
ernor will speak.
) In announcing the convention
progrgam, GPA President Stanley
Parkman, publisher of the Carroll
County Georgian, Carrollton, said
entertainment would be the central
. idea of the meeting. Most work
i sessions are held at the annuaal
j Georgia Press Institute in Athens,
or at the annual Advertising Clinic
in Atlanta.
t Business sessions featuring re
ports of officers and committees
| will be held Friday and Saturday
| mornings. Committee chaimen in
! elude:
Homer M. .Rankin, The Tifton
Gazette, press institute; C. J.
Broome, Jr., The Alma Times, ad
vertising; J. Roy McGinty, The
Calhoun Times, freedom of infor
mation; Jere N. Moore, The Mil
, ledgeville Union Recorder, printers’
(trade school; Mrs. Marion Allison
| Webb, The Lawrenceville News-
Herald, contests; W. Hugh Mc-
Whorter, The DeKalb New Era,
legislative; Leodel Coleman, The
Bulloch Herald, memorials.
A memorials ceremony on Satur
day morning will honor members
who have died since the 1954 con
vention. Officers will be elected at
the final business session.
, Entertainment features include
the annual costume party on Thurs
day evening, a three-hour cruise
Friday afternoon and the Friday
night wards banquet. The costume
j party this year will be in the Gay
i Nineties tradition,
j The Georgia Children’s Press As
sociation will meet concurrently
I and elect officers and plqn pro-
I jects for the year ahead. Jay Beck
erman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milton
j Beckerman of Claxton, is now serv
ing as president of the children’s
association. He is a student at
Georgia Military Academy, Col
lege Park, Ga.
ASC NEWS
Marketing Quotas proclaimed for
1956 Wheat Crop; Referendum
June 25: The Secretary of Agricul
ture Ezra Taft Benson today an
nounced the following actions in
connection with the 1956 wheat
program:
1. Proclaimed a national, wheat
marketing quota for the 1956
wheat crop, as required by law.
2. Announced a national wheat
acreage allotment of 55 million
acres for 1956- -the level specified
by law under present conditions of
excessive supply, and the same al
lotment which was in effect for
1955.
3. Set June 25 as the date for
the national referendum among
wheat growers on whether or not
quotas will be in effect for the
1956 crop.
4. Announced that, based on lat
est available supply information, a j
national average support price for]
1956 production would be deter-1
mined and announced before the ■
wheat referendum.
Important Notice
A Singing School will be held at
Silver City Community Club be
ginning Monday night June 6, at
77:30 o’clock and will continue for
ten nights. Edward Martin will be
in charge. The public is cordially
The public is cordially invited. All
who are interested in singing come
and join us.
FORD McCLURE, President
AFTER-FREEZE PRECAUTIONS
Flowering shrubs such as spirea
and forsythia that were damaged
in the recent freeze should be
1 pruned heavily below the injured
portions of the plants in order to
1 grow a new top on them.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D.‘ Newton
PLEASURELAND
In Miami for the meeting of the
Southern Baptist Convention last
week, I was more than ever im
pressed with the fact that Miami
is just about the ultimate in plea
sureminded folk.
This, of course, was the off sea
son for tourists. Still, you could
stand there in front of your hotel
on Biscayne Boulevard and check
the states by the tags on the un
ending procession of 1955 models.
But you must go across to Miami
Beach to see the thing I am talk
ing about. There is where the tides
ebb and flow, twice each 24 hours,
and where money seems to grow
like leaves on trees.
Never have I seen such fabulous
display of maaterialism.
A thoughtful man observed:
“How can any civilization hope to
survive with such a scene of Baby
lon?”
There was no answer. The other
men in the car just looked and
thougght—wondered, I guess.
The pleasure seeks appear very
happy. Maybe they are, maybe
they aren’t.
But getting away from the "gold
coast’ ’ crowd, I want to talk a
little about Miami as a place of
surpassing beauty—God’s part in
creating a real pleasureland.
You begin with flowers and grass
and shrubs and trees. The poincei
ana trees are in full bloom right
now, and what a spectacle. The
bougainville, coral vine, oleanda,
lillies, croton, geranium, calladium
—all of them are in their prime.
And with the daily showers, the
grass is like carpet.
Then you pass on to the grace
ful palm and cocoanut trees. And
don’t forget the camphor trees.
And they manage to work all the
dainty ferns and mosses into these
pictures of tropical grandeur. It is
simply amazing.
Now come on to the water—end
less vistas of water, with every
tone of color reflected by day and
night.
Best of all is the fellowship of
many fine people who live in Mia
mi—not there to gamble and drink,
but there to prove themselves
worthy stewards of God’s mainfold
grace..
RESOLUTIONS
Again the death Angles have
knocked at our door and taken
one of our beloved members from
our midst to join the Celestial
Lodge above. Bro. W. V. Robbs
was borned December 23, 1875 and
received his education from the
rural schools of Forsyth County.
Bro. Robbs main achievement in
life was to accept Jesus Chris! of
which he did at an early age and
at the age of 15 years he joined
Salem Baptisl Church and for his
faithful service and loyal attend
ance he was ordained Deacon of
that church in which he served
and served well.
Bro. Robbs’ desire to do more
for his fellowman led him to join
the Lodge of F. & A. M. He was
initiated July 21, 1915, passed to
the degree of Feilowcraft Septem
ber 28, 1915, raised to the Sublime
degree of Master Mason October
20, 915 after duly preparing and
proving himself worthy, he was
elected Worshipful Master in 1933.
Bro. Robbs will be greatly missed
from our Borders, however our
loss is his eternal gain. He was
called from labor to refreshments
on April 6, 1955 to be eternally
with the great Architect of the
Universe in the Selestial Lodge
above from whose born no travel
er returns, therefore, be it resolved
that:
First—The church has lost a de
voted member.
Second—Mt. Zion Lodge No. 316
F. & A. M. has lost a faithful
member.
Third —The family has lost a de
voted Father and loving companion
Fourt—The community has lost a
true and faithful citizen. And we
hereby bow our heads in humble
submission. His divine will await
ing the judgment morning of the
Resurrection.
COMMITTEE: D. O. Freeman; W.
L. Wood; J. H. Cantrell.