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Volume 46.
Masonic District Met
Here Wednesday
September 28.
The 50th Annual Ninth District,
Masonic Convention was held in
Cumming at Lafayette Lodge Wed
nesday afternoon and evening.
The district is composed of 64
Lodges in some 16 counties and a
large delegation was on hand for
this convention. The address of
welcome from the city at large was
given by the Mayor, the Honorable
Hoy P. Otwell. The welcome ad
dress from the Cumming Lodge
was made by W. H. McLaren and
the response was given by Mr.
Arthur Patat of Toccoa, Georgia.
After the order of business was
carried out and address was made
by the Grand Master of Georgia,
George P. Whitman of Atlanta
which was enjoyed by every mem
ber present, other State Officers
of the Grand Lodge of Georgia
was then introduced.
At 7 P. M. a delicious barbecue
supper was served in the Cum
ming Elementary School lunch
room, with the Cumming Lodge as
host.
Forsyth County
Teachers Meet
The Forsyth County Unit of the
GEA met in the cafetorium of the
Forsyth County High School Fri
day September 30 at 2 o’clock with
Mr. Ralph Westbrook presiding.
Mrs. James Otwell called the roll,
and read the minutes of the prev
ious meeting.
Mrs. Robert McClure, program
chairman, presented a skit for the
the promotion of interest, partici
pation, and membership in local,
state and national Education Asso
ciations. The skit entitled “The
Great Quovadis” was written by
Robbins Burstow, Lillian Leham
and Helen Ryan. The cast of char
acters were:
BETTY —Mrs. James Henderson
GEORGE—Mr. James G. Harris, Jr
HATE —Mrs. Mary Daniels
QUAVADIS —Mr. Clarence Lambert
Superintendent A. R. Housley
made announcements concerning
the Ninth District GEA Meeting
which is to be held October 14 in
Gainesville.
Future Homemakers Frances
Buice, Mary K. Roper, and Nancy
Phillips served Coca Colas and
cookies.
Aureomycin Brings
Extra Returns To
Hen Breeders
GAINESVILLE, GA.,—Extra re
turns of $1,829 per thousand hens
were realized as the result of add
ing Aureomycin (chemical name,
chlortetracycline) to the diet of
breeders at Red Hen Farm, Gaines
ville.
The test, conducted recently by
Ed Travis, operator of the farm,
spanned 11 months of damp, cold
spring weather and a hot, dry fall.
Data indicates that Aureomycin
helped control disease in birds un
der the stress of extreme weather.
Vantress breedr hns, in two se
parate groups, were housed under
identical conditions. One group was
fed a mash arid grain diet. The
other received the same diet with
the addition of Aureomycin, 100
grams per ton of ration.
Production of the control group
was 44 per cent and a total of 322
cases of eggs were produced per
thousand hens housed. Production
of the birds fed Aureomycin was
48 per cent and they produced 349
cases of eggs per thousand hens.
Hatchability for the first group
was 79 per cent with a total of
91,570 chicks produced per thou
sand hens. For the breeders re
ceiving Aureomycin, hatchability
was 83 per cent with 104,650 chicks
produced.
On the basis of total feed costs
including that of the antibiotic, the
group fed Aureomycin showed an
extra return of $1,829 pec thousand
birds.
Tests conducted in other sections
of the country show similar re- (
suits. . „
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
OEVOIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEBO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday October 6, 1955.
Rayburn Classed As
‘Presidential Timber’
By Governor Griffin
ELBERTON (GPS) Coming to
Georgia to pay tribute to his long
time friend and colleague in Con
gress Elberton’s U. S. Congress
man Paul Brown House Speaker
Sam v Rayburn, of Texas, came in
for much high praise in his own
right.
For example, Gov. Marvin Grif
fin, in introducing the distinguish
ed visitor at the "Paul Brown Day"
ceremonies in Elberton, praised
Rayburn for “his illustrious re
cord” as a member of Congress
from the Fourth District of Texas
and characterized the speaker as
“excellent presidential timber.”
Said the Governor:
“We deeply appreciate the com
ing of Speaker Rayburn to Georgia
and his participation in these exer
cises honoring his long-time friend,
Congressman Paul Brown, of Geor
gia’s Tenth District.
‘The Rayburn leadership has
been sincere and active and he has
taken an important part in bring
ing the influence of the South to
greater heights in our national
Congress. The wise counsel, the
sure and deft hand of guidance,
and the long vision of Speaker
Rayburn have won the admiration
of leaders in all parties. Today he
stands high as excellent presiden
tial timber and he is certainly men
tioned favorably whenever nomina
tions for that office are under dis
cussion.”
Turning to Congressman Brown,
Gov. Griffin paid tribute to the
services rendered by the Georgian
during his 22-year tenure of office.
“It is a pleasure,” he said, “for
me to appear here on Paul Brown
Day to add my to
this great worker who has done
so much for his district, for his
state and his nation. We hail Paul
Brown as one of the best congress
men Georgia ever had. We want
our representatives in - the national
Congress to work with us and we
are sure, as we meet here, that we
have two stalwart friends in Speak
er Rayburn and Congressman
Brown.’ ’
In addition to the many lauda
tory speeches highlighting the big
“Paul Brown Day” program, a two
mile long parade, a taarbecue and
other festival presentations featur
ed the celebration, which was at
tended by people from the 17
Georgia counties comprising the
Tenth District and from South
Carolina counties bordering on
Georgia which have benefitted
from Congressman Brown’s servic
es through the years.
Ninth District Rural
Letter Carriers’ Meet
In Gainesville, Oct. 8.
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The Ninth District Rural Letter
Carriers’ will hold their annual
“Fall Banquet” meeting at the
Vvion Restaurant, Gainesville, on
Saturday, October 8, at 7:30 P. M.
according to an announcement re
cently by District President Wil
liam T. Dalton of Dacula.
Former Governor, Herman E.
Talmadge will give the main ad
dress of the evening. Talmadge will
share the speakers rostrum with
The Honorable Jdhn Quillian, state
highway board member and C. B.
McCook, Lizella, secretary and
treasurer of the state association
of rural letter carriers.
“District Officers have planned a
wonderful evening of entertain
ment” Dalton said, “and all car
rier’s of the district are urged to
attend and bring their wives”.
Officers of the district, in addi
tion to Dalton, are: J. S. Harbin, j
Dawsonville, Vice president; Grady
Bell Maartin, secretary-treasurer.
Auxiliary officers: Mrs. R. V. Pass
Lawrenceville, president; Mrs. J. E.
Garrett, Jr., Gainesville, vice-presi
dent; Mrs. Grady Bell Martin, se
cretary-treasurer.
NOTICE
There will be a supper consisting
of CHICKEN or HAM at the Duck
town Lunch Room Saturday even
ing, 6:00 to 8:00 P. M. Proceeds to
Heating unit for lunch room, Play
ground equipment supervised for
the children. You are invited. The
Adult plates SI.OO.
Georgia Catches
Tourists Coming,
Going Griffin
ROME (GPS) Georgia’s geogra
phical location is her greatest as
set in obtaining practical benefits
from the tourist traffic, Gov. Mar
vin Griffin told the recent annual
meeting of the Highway 27 Assn.,
held at Berry Schools in Rome.
“The most logical route for tour
ists going to Florida and Cuba
from the East, or the Middle West
is to go through Georgia,” he said.
“The benefits coming to all the
state from the increased travel of
tourists and others through our
borders is growing greater each
year. Within the last few years
many millions of dollars have been
invested in modern motels, new re
sorts, enlarged service stations and
various amusement enterprises."
The Governor described Highway
27 as one of the through routes
running the length of the state
from "North to South. It enters in
the northweest corner, extends
down the western part of Georgia
to the Florida line and then pro
ceeds southward to the numerous
resort cities of Florida.
“We get the visitors going and
coming and their trade has become
one of the major sources of income
derived each year in our'state,’’
the chief executive said. “Highway
27 offers an attractive alternate
route to Highway 41 through Geor
gia North and South and vice ver
sa. The tourist from the Middle
West can go to Florida along one
route and return on the other.”
Listing many of the historical
spots and other attractions to be
found along its route, Gov. Griffin
praised the Highway 27 Assn., for
doing “an excellent job in promot
ing national interest” in these at
tractions.
Directly affected by the trade
possibilities of Highway 27, he
pointed out, are the counties of
Carroll, Chattahoochee, Chattooga
Clay, Coweta, Decatur, Early, Floyd
Haralson, Harris, Heard, Meriweth
er, Muscogee, Polk, Randolph,
Stewart, Troup and Walker.
“From these counties some of
the outstanding business leaders of
the state are serving as officers
and directors of the association and
are cooperating in a fine spirit to
develop their sections and to pro
vide everything possible for the
entertainment, comfort and amuse
ment of visitors,” the Governor
concluded.
HD Agent Gives Tips
On Storing Of
Summer Clothes
It’s about the time of year when
homemakers stop worrying about
moths and start worrying about
silverfish, Mrs. Zelma R. Bannister,
HD agent for Forsyth County, says
“Silverfish are attracted to cellu
lose materials like rayon and cot
ton. They feast, too, on starch left
in cotton materials. Storing sum
mer cottons with starch wil help
prevent the silverfish from damag
ing them. Another way to prevent
silverfish from setting up winter
quarters in your closet is to be
sure that all garments are put
away clean. Remember that the
longer stains stay in cloth the har
der they are to remove. Stained or
soiled areas of garments are the
first attacked,” the home demon
stration agent said.
Mrs. Bannister recommends the
spraying of closets, chests, or gar
ment bags with a five percent DDT
surface or residual spray before
clothes are stored for the winter.
“As you pack away summer
clothes it is an excellent time for
a clothing inventory,” she says.
“Mend any rips or tears and re- 1
move all pins or metal ornaments
which might leave rust or other
marks on fabrics in storage.’’
Storing ironed or unironed cloth-]
es is a matter of choice and de-1
pends, to a degree, on the amount
of storage space you have, Mrs. I
Bannister points out. “If your stor-1
age space is at a premium, ironed
and carefully folded clothing will
require less space. Best suits and
dresses should be stored hanging
in a garment bag, because that way
they will keep their shape much
better,” the home demonstration
agent concludes. -.
Georgian In Line
For Top ABA Post
ATLANTA (GPS) With Erie
Cocke, Sr., vice chairman of the
board of the Fulton National Bank
of Atlanta, as vice president of the
American Bankers Assn, for the
ensuing year, it’s a pretty sure bet
Georgia will have the honor of pro
ducing the next president of the
national organization.
Reason: The vice presidency *of
the organization, to which Cocke
was elected at the association’s an
nual convention just concluded in
Chicago, is tantamount to election
as president a year hence and
bankers are noted for sticking to
custom.
Father of Erie Cocke, Jr., form
er national commander of the Ame
rican Legion who is now vice presi
dent of Delta Air Lines, the Geor
gia banker is a member of ABA’s
executive council; has long been
active in both state and national
banking circles. He is a World War
I veteran and served as vice com
mander of the American in
1922 23.
Campaign Urges
Wise Marketing
Of Georgia Timber
Georgia bankers and county
agents are going around this week
telling farmers when 12 is twice as
much as 10.
It’s all part of a campaign to get
Georgia landowners to sell their
timber wisely.
The bankers and agents go on to
explain that “a sawtimber tree 12
inches in diameter contains twice
as many board feet of lumber as a
10-inch/ tree.”
This also is part of the message
in advertisements being sponsored
by bunks this week in most of the
state's weekly newspapers. One on
pulpwood marketing will follow
next week.
Then, during the week of Octob
er 16, colorful posters illustrating
the advantages of wise timber sell
ing will be on display throughout
the county.
Also aiding in the campaign is a
new leaflet written by C. Dorsey
Dyer, forester for the Agricultural
Extension Service of the College ol
Agriculture. Called “Selling Timber
Wisely,” the publication is being
distributed now by county agents.
The campaign to improve Geor
gia timber marketing practices was
worked out by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service and the Georgia
Bankers Association, with Dyer
and C. W. Lowe, Bank of Edison,
and chairman of the Association’s
forestry committee, taking the lead.
The message this week points
out that a 20-year-old tree eight
inches in diameter contains 24
board feet of lumber and will be
worth 48 cents. But in just five
more years the tree will be 10
inches in diameter, contain 44 board
feet of lumber, and be worth 88
cents.
In another five years the value
of th tree doubles. There are 95
board feet in a 12-inch, 30-year-old
tree. It will be worth $1.90.
If left alone until it becomes a
14-inch tree, it will be valued at
$3.12. Such a free will be about
35 years old and contain 156 board
feet of lumber.
Chamber of Commerce
To Meet November 4th
It was announced By the Secre
tary, Jimmie Barnes, that the re
gular meeting of the Forsyth Coun
ty Chamber of Commerce will be
held at the Community Building,
Friday night, November 4, Board
of Directors will meet at 7 P. M.
and the regular membership meet
ing will be held at 8 P. M. A nomi
nating committee for officers for
the incoming year will report and
election will be held and other
matters of importance will be dis
cussed and all members and inter
ested parties are urged to be pres
ent. . v_,
County Population 15,000. Number 40.
Griffin Says State
Redoubling Efforts
To Benefit Farmers
While the state is cooperating in
an aggressive movement to bring
new industries to Georgia it has
also redoubled efforts to promote
larger and better programs for the
farmers, according to Governor
Marvin Griffin in a speech deliver
ed in Jefferson last week.
Governor Griffin was chief speak
er at the Tuesday night program
of the Jackson County Fair and
expressed optimism ove rthe im
proved prospects for Georgia farm
ers.
“Last year our farmers suffered
seveerely from the drouth and ear
ly this spring fruit growers lost
their entire crops because of freez
es, but the general picture this fall
is not so bad,” he said.
“Latest governmental figures
show that the total cash farm in
come of this state for the first six
months of 1955 was nearly $2,000,-
000 greater than for the corres
ponding period in the preceding
year.
“The reason for the advance is
attributed to the heavy livestock
sales. An Agricultural Market Ser
vice report showed that Georgia’s
six-month rise over the first half
of 1954 was one,of only 16 in the
entire country.
“It is assuredly encouraging to
those who pioneered in the live
stock field. There is no limit to
what we can do in the future and
we will place all the resources of
our government behind all moves
to increase agricultural production
and cash income in al farm activi
ties.
In Memorian
In loving memory of my dear
daddy, Joe Bramblett.
Daddy, two years have passed
arid as they slowly go by,
I realize you had to go; yet, in
my heaart I cry,
The memory of a precious daddy
I keep.
Some day we will all be together
again, never no more to part.
BEN ED BRAMBLETT
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
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Georgia landowners who are
planning to set out pine seedlings
this winter are urged to send in
their orders immediately for seed
lings to the Georgia Forestry Com
mission.
In a letter last week to county
agricultural and forestry personnel
Mr. S. P. Darby, Acting Chief of
Reforestration, Georgia Forestry
Commission, stated that orders for
86,300,000 pine seedlings had been
received from Georgia landowners.
A goal of 100,000,000 seedlings of
the various species had been set
for Georgia.
At the present timee, a consider
able amount of slash, loblolly, and
longleaf seedlings are still avail
able for those people who desire
them. The loblolly species is the
only one of the three that is adapt
ed to Forsyth County. Slash and
longleaf are generally planted in
the Coastal Plain section of the
state.
Forsyth County has an appreci
able amount of land that is ideally
suited for the growth of pines.
Land that is too steep or too rough
for cultivation will generally give
good returns when planted in pines
An acre of land will require ap
proximately 1000 seedlings when
planted at a spacing of 6 feet by
8 feet. At this spacing they will
generally be ready for thinning in
12 to 15 years. At this time the
seedlings will be of sufficient size
for sale as pulpwood and will give
the landowner an appreciable cash
return per acre. In another 12 to
15 years the remaining trees will
produce sawtimber.
Seedlings from the Georgia For
estry Commission will cost the
landowner three dollars per thou
sand or three dollars per acre of
land planted. Considering the pros
pective return on the money and
land invested it would be difficult
to find a more profitable venture.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
WE CAN FRAV
“What on earth can we do?” The
telephone was ringing last Satur
day afternoon, and people were
asking, one after another, this
question. They had heard the an
nouncement over the radio that the
President had suffered a heart at
tack.
A junior boy came into my study
He had not heard the alarming
word about the President. He want
ed to call his father to come for
him. He heard me talking about
the President, and when there was
a lull, he asked me what it was.
I told him.
He finally got the call through
to his father, and then he turned
to me and said:
“I’ll tell you what we can do,
we can pray.’’
I asked him to lead the two of
us in prayer. It was a solemn, but
sublime moment.
It carried me back to the days
when President Wilson was near
the end how the people stood in
the cold rain outside the White
House, praying.
And none of us can forget the
words that went out across the
airlanes of the world the Presi
dent’s last words:
“I am ready."
I felt then, as I do now, that
those three words, whispered by
Woodrow Wilson, gave assurance
tto every Christian who heard
them.
| We cannot know what a day
holds-for us. Before this appears
in type, the President may be gone.
I buried four men last week who
died of heart attacks.
But this I know; We can pray.
The junior boy is exactly right.
If it is the Lord’s will for the
President to vc. he will go. If it
is His will for him to stay He will
stay.
Let us go hack to Romans 8: 28:
"For we know that all things work
together for good to those who
love God, to those who are the
called according to His purpose.
He is a great man. He is needed,
we feel. And I join you in t£r pray
er that it may be our Fathers good
will to spare him.
Soil Conservation News
Forsyth County
William J. Orr a supervisor of
the Upper Chattahoochee River
Soil Conservation District reports
the harvesting of 549 hales of kud
zu hay from a five acre plot. Mr.
Orr had the services of the pickup
baler of T. L. Francis. Mr. Orr says
this is the best method of harvest
ing kudzu hay when you are going
to put it in the barn.
Jay L. Holbrook another super
visor of the District reports good
grazing from his coastal Bermuda
grass during the recent dry period.
The months of August, Septem
ber and October are usually criti
cal ones for grazing due to dry
weather conditions, however those
who either have kudzu, sericea,
bermuda grass, fescue grass or
combinations of them will have
good grazing provided a good'fcr
tilizer program and grazing nfci
agement have been carried out.
Important Notice
Anyone wishing to work as a
day laborer in the Settingdown
creek watershed on a part time
'basis, pleaase apply at the SCS
Headquarters in Cumming on Tues
day October 11, 1955 at 9 A. M.
This includes those who have prev
iously applied.
SPECIAL NOTICE
TO THE TAX PAVERS OF
FORSYTH COUl'H®
There will be no Bond Tax levy
in the Bonded School Districts of
Forsyth County for the year 1955.
We have sufficient funds in the
treasury to make the bond and in
terest payments this year. This will
give the taxpayers that #ve in a
bonded school district a reduction
in taxes.
A. R. HOUSLEY, Supt.
Forsyth County Schools. }