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Volume 46. GRAND AND PETIT JURORS DRAWN FOR NOVEMBER TERM, 1955. Grand Jurors 1. Will H. McLarin 2. Carroll Floyd 3. Sam Gordon 4. R. L. Conner 5. H C. Youngblood 6. Clyde Waldr.o 7. S R. James 8. Joe Nix 9. R. L. McClure 10. S. C. .Brannon 11. Frank Vaughan 12. Elbert Herring 13. Emory Lamb 14. Ford Phillips ft. M. M. Green 16. Russell Holbrook 17. John M. Rogers 18. Clyde Pendley 19. H. W. Thompson 20. W. P. McFarland 21. Marcus Mashbum, Sr. 22. D. M. Nalley 23. Odith W. Gilbert 24. B. W. Harrison 25. Julian Gravitt 26. James A. Otwell 27. Tom Heard 8. R. W. Evans, Jr. 29. H. G. Bramblett 30. W. N. Green Petit Jurors 1. M. C. Echols 2. Henry Willard 3. Newman Hughes 4. Eugene McGinnis 5. E. Wl Bramblett 6. Dallas Hall 7. W. L. Chamblee 8. Hoyt Heard 9. H. B. Haygood * 10. M. L. Martin 11. J. T. Floyd 12. Anderson Higgins 13. Edgar Lee Nalley 14. Gladstone Sudderth 15. W. F. Harrison 16. Homer Tatum 17. Ivan Elzey 18. W. J. Darnell 19. Clyde Mize 20. A. L. Hardin 21. Ben Hulsey 22. Silvey Bearden 23. R. B. Tallant, Jr. 24. Arthur Cowart 25. H. O. Swartwood 26. N. E. Bagley 27. L. L. Walls 28. Clav Hubbard 29. E. H .Sherrill 30. Homer Heard 31. J. O. Chadwick 32. Preston Green 133. Forrest Wade 34. G. B. Whitmire 35. Jay Grotran 36. A. H. Gilbert 37. John A. Stewart 38. Fleet Pirkle 39. Frank Roper 40. A. C. Smith, Jr. 41. Ralnh Phillips (841) 42. Minor Carnes 43. C. B. Gazaway 44. PoweH Bannister 45. Walter A. Herring 46. A. J. Gilbert 47. Guy Shoemake 48. Myron Bagwell 49. Billv Stone 50. Tyson Carnes 51. R. F. Tvev 52. J. D. Wills 53. Grady Hvde 54. A. S T^vtfond 55. L. A. Wheeler 56. Emmett Williams 57. E. D. Martin 58. Tom Bell 59. M. A. Cook 60. L. H. Tribble 61. N. F. Newton 62. Wawon w. Shoemake 63. Carl Curtis 64. A. C. Benson 65. Leonard Westray Important Notice All Master Masons are cordially invited to Cross Roads Lodge No. 119, F. & A. M. on Saturday, Nov ember 12, at 7:30 p. m. The M. M. Degree will be conferred. Newman Mathis, W. M. Wayne Cox, Secretary If family labor is used and a real effort is made to follow re commended cultural practices, a garden can represent an annual saving of S2OO or more on the fam ily food bill. The Forsyth County News OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKRO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIJL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Cumming Nov., 10, 1955. Today & Tomorrow Louie D. Newton . A GOOD MAN Dr. W. Lee Cutts, for the past 38 years pastor of the Capitol View Baptist Church, Atlanta, died sud denly last week, at the end of a busy day, crumbling in death as he started into his home from pray er meeting. The funeral was a revealing oc casion. The large church auditor ium was crowded to the last pos sible spot of standing room. The people were there an hour before the funeral, and they stood about the church yard, I was told, for an hour after we had gone on to the cemetery. The people loved Dr. Cutts people in every walk of life. I ob served the delegations from the Fire Department, the Folic Depart ment, the Masons, the school teach ers, the Boy Scouts, merchants, salesmen in every field of business, lawyers, doctors. The most impres sive group, I thought, were the children in the Capitol View neigh borhood—not just the children of his congregation, but of all the churches, including Jewish children They loved him. Dr. Cutts was a very quiet sort of man. He was never in the head lines. He went quietly about his work, day after day, serving the people, loving the people. I met him many, many times in the hos pitals. He would go to the jails and to the work camps, trying to do something for people in trouble — trying to cooperate with the pub lic officials who had the respon sibility of doing something for such people. In trying to say some worthy and appropriate word about Dr. Cutts, I cited the opening lines of the first Psalm: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sin ners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in His law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall.be like a tree, plant ed by the rivers of water, that bnneeth forth his fruit in his sea son, his leaf also shall not wither, and in whatsoever he doeth, he shall prosper.” God’s portrait of a good man, and the nearest I can get to a de scription of Dr. Cutts is to say that he was a good man. ASC NEWS The newly elected County ASC Committees met on Thursday, Nov ember 3, in the Forsyth County ASC Committee Office. The Com mittees met for the purpose of re viewing the County Office organi zation and functions. Cotton, Wheat and ACP' programs were explained to the committee. We feel meetings of this type are bene ficial to the farmers as well as to the office. Since the County has been au thorized to overobligate the 1955 ACP County Allocation by another 10 percent funds will be available for some practices you might want to carry out during 1955. The farm ers who have already received an approval for their practices should renort the completion of the prac tice as soon as it is completed. When you make your report the County Office will submit the prac tice for pavment. The 1956 ACP Handbook has been approved by the State Office for this County. The 1956 ACP pro gram is very similiar to the 1955 program. The Handbook is now being completed in the County of fice and every farmer in the Coun ty should receive a copy of it with in the next few weeks. When you receive your handbook read it care fully and plan what practices will be more beneficial to you on your farm for 1956. The total value of new building and remodeling to farms and hom es in the 1954 North Georgia rural community improvement program i was $7,897,599. Future Homemakers Beautify High School Campus Future Homemakers of the For syth County Hi Chapter have chos en beautification of the school grounds as one of their projects. Ninety hybrid tea rose bushes have been set out on the campus. They Were set near the home eco nomics department and extended the full length of the right wing of the school building. A red rose symbolic of vi brant, glowing health which con tributes to happiness and efficiency in home and group life is the Chapter flower for the Future Homemakers of America. For this reason, the red rose was chosen in five different varities. The varities are: McGredy Scarlet, Etoile de Holland, Poensetta, Red Radiance and Crimson Glory. The Future Farmers prepared the soil and set out most of the bushes. The Future Homemakers are most grateful for their help. Not only do the Future Home makers have the satisfaction of having carried out a National Pro ject, but they will «ee in the years to come the results of efforts through work in the F. H. A. Charlene Tallant, Reporter Fred Henry Williams Gainesville Rt. 1, Dies Fred Henry Williams, 31, Gaines ville Route 1, died at Georgia Bap tist Hospital in Atlanta, October 27 after a brief illness. Funeral services was held Octob er 28, at 3 p. m. at Salem Baptist church with Rev. Henry Warren officiating, assisted by the Rev. Duffy Martin. Interment was in the church cemetery. A native of Forsyth County, Mr. Williams has been employed in the Engineering section of the State Highway Department for the past ten years. A graduate of Cum ming High School, he has been a member of the Baptist denominat ion for the past 16 years and was a Deacon at Salem Baptist church at the time of his death. Mr. Wil liams was a Veteran of World War Two, a member of the Masons and the Order of the Eastern Star. Survivors include his wife, Vir ginia Russell Williams, one daugh ter, Janice Elaine Williams, his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Wil liams, Cumming Route 2, one broth er Charles Williams of Route 2, three sisters, Mrs. John R. Dicker son of Cumming, Rt. 2, Mrs. James Cantrell of Buford, Mrs. Brent A. Fulcher, Washington, D. C., his Maternal Grandmother Mrs. F. H. Tallant, Cumming, Route 2. Forsyth County 'Loan Company Open Offices A group of local business men have noted the necessity for pro viding small loans for the Citizens of Forsyth County and have de cided to open a small loan com pany. The new loan company will be located in the Mashburn Hospital building next door to Col. Leon Boling, and is called the Forsyth County Loan Company. The group h§s stated that the loans will be made in accordance with the Georgia Industrial Loan Act, and have assured the paper that loans will be made in strictest confidence. No co-signers will be necessary and that loans will be extended to all steadily employed people. Cumming Parent Teachers Meeting The Cumming Parent Teacher’s Association will meet at the For syth County High School Lunch Room on November 10th, at 7:30 p. m. The Theme of our program will be Forward with Thanksgiv ing. The speaker for ■the evening will be Rev. John Ozley. There will be a covered dish sup per. All members please come and bring your favorite dish. (Please note change of date). ATTENTION ALL CITIZENS OF FORSYTH COUNTY There appears elsewhere in this issue of The Forsyth County News a Special notice of the call for an ! election to be held on December 3, 11955, to decide whether or not For syth County people will have a Public Hospital financed under the Hili Burton Act of the Federal Government. This article is publish ed to give more informaation re garding this movement. The proposed hospital is to con sist of approximately 30 beds and is estimated to cost $450,000.00. Of this amount, one-third of the cost will be supplied by the Federal Government, one-third by the State! of Georgia, and the remaining one third by the County. In other words, the taxpayers of Forsyth County will only be spending $150,- 000.00 to get a facility costing $450, 000.00. If this opportunity is notj ta'ken advantage of by the people in voting favorably on this issue, it is most unlikely that the County by itself could in a long time to come, IF EVER AT ALL, finance the construction of a hospital ade quate to serve its people. The tax digest of Forsyth County is approximately $5,500,000.00. The annual payments of principal and interest on the bonds to be voted on will be approximately $10,000.00. This will only require a tax of ap proximately 20c on each SIOO.OO of taxable property in the County, based on the present tax digest. If more County improvements are made and the tax digest is increas ed during the 20 year period of payment of the bonds, then the rate will decrease in proportion. Surely, a small payment such as this will not be sorely missed by any taxpayer and it is felt that the benefits and advantages to be received will greatly outweigh and overbalance the cost of each tax payer. Upon completion, the Hospital will be administered by an appoint iv group of five Forsyth County Citizens and taxpayers, who will constitute the hospital authority. ..HELP US TO HELP YOU BY VOTING FOR HOSPITAL BONDS. FORSYTH COUNTY HOSPITAL AUTHORITY. By: A. C. Smith, Jr, W. J. Fagan William Chamblee R. J. Kupper Mrs. J. C. Roe Members. Christian Teaching National character comes thru Christian teaching of individuals in the homes, schools and churches. If these three institutions fall down on the job our country will be run by gangsters such as the Brewers, Gamblers and cheap movies and Magazines. Man, as an individual created in the image of God, with an immor tal soul, and by the grace of God given the privilege to be used by the Holy Spirit, has in the last few decades yielded more and more to the forces that would collectivize him and rob him of his dignity under God. The building of national charact er by the strengthening of our moral and spiritual fiber must start with the Christian training of individuals. This may seem to be over-simplifying the matter, but it is a fact we must face. Dr. Ed ward Elson, pastor of National Presbyterial Church in Washington D. C., wrote "Our desperate need is for something or someone to awaken us to the greatness already within us, and the still nobler great ness we may obtain”. The course of the kingdom of [God has moved forward through the ages because of individual re sponse by persons who turned not away from the call of God. Quoting from The Sunday School Builder "Faith in God begets faith in man. Each step forward in thp development of one individual into a tsronger Christian, and therefore a better citizen, adds that much strength to our national character”. Every Christian giving himself in service to his God and his fellow man can change this world and bring an awakening on the earth. Just pray toward that end. County Population 15,000. Number 45. J uL \jHB fjp JMHRP' ’ ‘HBnMP* * ’ - i ■ VEIhRA.MS DAY—Governor Marvin Griffin slfni PtmlumUmi naming: November 11th as Veterans Day”, replacing Armistice Day. 1 by act of President Eisenhower’s proclamation in 1954. WUamfltaf iM .«, n f are: to r >fht) Pete Wheeler, Director, State Department of Veterans Service; Jack Langford, Chairman, Veterans Day CMK mittee; V. F. W. Department Commander Randolph Medloek; Albert toitler, of the Spanish War Vets; Commander Carl Norton, of the Dbu abied American Vets; Legion State Department Commander Leea Hobby; Commander Leon Hutchins, of the AMVETS; A 1 Sinter, Jew ar e CtC d ar » lUld JUd ** A ' L Henson ’ Ch * irn »M»> State VeteraM With y our County Agent Walter 11. Rucker A preliminary report of the 1954 census taken by the United States Department of Agriculture gives some very interesting and most en lightening facts about our country. For example, did you know that the average size farm in Forsyth County is 66.8 acres? Or did you know that the average value per acre 'of farmland is our county is $96.5? This value has more than doubled since the 1950 census when the average acre of land in For syth County was worth $44.20. From a total area of approxi mately 155,520 acres, 74.5 percent or 115,928 acres is in farms. We have a total of 58,424 acres In wood land which should give an idea of the potential value of timber and forest products from our county. There were 1722 farm operators in Forsyth County in 1954, a de-* crease of some 292 farm operators since 1950. Of the 1722 farm operators, 1193 own their own farm and an addi tional 126 operators are part own ers of their farms. There are only 312 tenants on Forsyth County farms. The percentage of farm owners in this county is pprobably higher than any other county in the state, a very enviable fact. Most of the trends show in the 1954 census compared to the 1950 census look good. Progress is not ed in almost every case, a health outlook in spite of generally poor farm prices during these years. The response to the farm crop questionaire being sent out Is very good. Our sincere appreciation to all of those who have already re turned theirs and those returning them in the future. Soil Conservation News Forsyth County Earnest White near Coal Moun tain has completed the construct ion of a livestock pond. Clark Bros, of Lawrenceville were the contract ors. Jerry Byers on the Matt-Heard ville road fias completed the con struction of a livestock pond. Vick Lang of Cumming did, the con struction.. F. W. Guyton in the Settingdown creek watershed has completed clearing ten acres of his bottom land. Dee Anderson did the clear ing. Winfred Wald rip and Clarence Bagwell were by the office in re gard to pasture and woodland man agement. William H. Park and family have moved to Cumming from Waycross Georgia. Mr. Park is an engineer with the Soil Conservation Service and will work under the suprevis ion of James T. Coots local Work Unit Conservationist. Mr. Park re places L. M. Boggan who transfer red to Mississippi. CHURCH NOTICE Saturday night and Sunday are regular meeting days at Corinth. Church. Also Sunday School Sun day at 10. Everyone invited. HOME SAFETY A few weeks ago toe Northwest- Regional Conference of Public Health Nunses held their regular meeting in Rome, Georgia. Our speaker was Miss Helen Ronayne, Consultant Nurse, Home Safety Unit. Her program was one that oun community as a whole, as well a* we as individual parents should be vitally concerned with, Home Saf ety. Christmas is coming soon. Lets stop for a moment and con sider how safety is connected witlt this date. The leading cause of ae-' cideptal deaths in Georgia is and Bums. All right, lets look at your Christmas tree. Do we use flame resistant icicles. Is the base of your tree in water or wet sand? Do you use a waste basket handy for disposal of gift wrapping? Is your snow non inflamabbJe? Are your electric lines too heav ily loaded? Are your fuses the right size? Keep your tree away from head to avoid drying or exposure to spark. No lighted candles on or near the tree. These are a few things cited by the National Safety Council. Con sider them seriously, it could be your child or mine being hospital ized for burns this Yule Season. Burns received because of our care lessness. Another leadinng cause of Accidental death is suffocation. The age grotip we find here Is a key in solving this problem. They are infants and those just begin ning to creep or crawl, also the preschool group. If you will fol low your newspaper you will find recorded almost daily, "Infant Smothers in Pillows", or some child who has died from some object he found lying around within his reach And how about all those deaths from suffocation in old refriger ators, trunks, etc. *We could go on for hours and fill much spaace. But lets suffice Just to name and briefly consider some others. Falls, look at your yards and es pecially your barnyard surround ings. How about your floors and the wax you use, is it nonskid? Poisoning, look under your kitch en sink and around your laundry unit. How many bottles of bleach, insectfcide, etc. do you have? Can the children reach them? Are they labeled? Fire Arms, Are they out of reach of your children? Are ydu sure they aren’t loaded? Tak-> a look around you and see what you can find In your own home, Then discuss this with your neighbors. Lets don’t have our children reach ing adulthood because we were careless while they couldn't help themselves, WANTED WANTED Carrier in Cumming to deliver Tfie Gainesville Morning News. COJSfr TACT: R. H. Cooper, ClretdatlOrf Manager of the Gainesville 'turn ing News, Gainesville, Georgia.