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Volume 46.
Important Notice
DUE TO RUMORS THAT HAS
SPREAD ALL OVER THE COUN
TY AS TO WHAT WILL HAP
PEN TO THE MASHBURN HOS
PITAL WHEN THE NEW FOR
SYTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HAS
BEEN COMPLETED.
WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY
IN A LETTER FROM THE DOC
TORS MASHBURN THAT THEY
WILL CLOSE DOWN MASHBURN
HOSPITAL WHEN THE NEW
FORSYTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
IS COMPLETED AND IN OPER
ATION. They state that they are
100 percent In favor of the new
Hospital and are doing all they
can for the erection of it.
A. C. SMITH, JR, Chairman of
Forsyth County Hospital Au
thority.
Wheeler Asks Vets
To Participate In
S-D Day Campaign
Pete Wheeler, Director of the
State Department of Veterans Ser
vice, today called on all Georgia,
veterans to participate in the Presi
dent’s Safe Driving Day Campaign
next month.
Wheeler stated that Thursday,
December 1, will be the second an
nual S—D Day, or Safe Driving
Day, and its purpose is to demon
strate again that deadly traffic ac
cidents can be greatly reduced
when motorists and pedestrians ful
fill their moral and civic respon
sibility for safety.
Wheeler called on all Gqargi a_
veterans to “actively support and
participate in the campaign and to
wdrk with the Day commit
tee in your community”. Wheeler
pointed out that according to stat
istics, more Americans have died
in accidents on the highways than
have died in the two World Wars
and Korea.
Wheeler stated that “As Georgia
intensifies its activities in prepara
tion for S—D Day on December 1,
the Veterans organizations over
the State can be counted on to
support this year’s campaign, in
the same effective manner that
have exhibited in the past”.
Cotton Winners
To Be Honored
On December 8.
R. H. Garrison, president of the
International Cromp Improvement
Association, has been named prin
cipal speaker for the awards lunch
eon honoring district and state win
ners in the 1955 five-acre cotton
contest. The dinner will be held at
the Henry Grady hotel in Atlanta
on Decemeber 8.
Mr. Garrison, in charge of seed
eeertificatlon at Clemson Agricul
tural College, Clemson, S. C., was
announced speaker for the occas
ion by E. C. Westbrook, former
agronomist for the University of
Georgia College of Agriculture.
Honor guests at the event will be
9 Georgia farmers, their wives, and
other members of their families.
County agents in counties repre
sented by the farmers also will at
tend.
A total of $3,500 will be awarded
to the farmers. A prize of SSOO
will be awarded to the state cotton
production king, to be announced
at the banquet. District awards of
$250 for first, $l5O for second, and
SIOO for third will be presented.
J. P. George, president of the
Georgia Cotttonseed Crushers As
sociation, which sponsors the five
acre program, will make the pre
sentations.
North Georgia winners will be
named December 1, and this will
complete the announcements of
winners in al Isix Agricultural Ex
tension Service districts.
W. A. Sutton .associate director
of the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice, which conducts the cotton
program, will preside at the Dec
ember 8 luncheon.
Brightwell pointed out that a
large majority of the 8,444 Four-H
Club forestry projects carried in
1954 egan with the planting of an
®cre or two of pine seedlings.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHICRO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIX AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday Nov., 24, 1955.
4-H’ERS TO PLANT
THREE MILLION
PINE SEEDLINGS
Georgia 4-H Club members will
plant at least 2,825,000 pine seed
lings during the 1955-56 planting
season, according to Nelson Bright
well, forester for the Agricultural
Extension Service, College of Agri
culture.
Brightwell said that is the num
ber of seedlings allotted to county
and home demonstration agents for
distribution to 4-H’ers.
“On the local level,” he contin
ued, “there are additional thou
sands of seedlings given to the 4-H
program by banks, lumber com
paniers, and other organizations.”
Eight pulp and paper companies
are donors of the 2,825,000 seedling
that will be allotted to counties in
all six Extension Service districts.
They are: Bowaters Southern Pap
er Corp., Calhoun, Tenn., Bruns
wick Pulp and Paper Corp., Bruns
wick: Georgia Kraft Co., Macon;
International Paper Co., field of
fices at Camilla and Waycross;
Langdale Co. and National Contain
er Corp., Valdosta; Rome Kraft
Co., Rome, and Union Bag and
Paper Corp., Savannah.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
News that will be of interest to
many people in Forsyth County
and the surrounding area is the
announcement of the retirement of
Mr. E. C. Westbrook, a native of
this area and for many years Cot
ton Specialist with the Extension
Service of the University of Geor
gia College of Agriculture.
Mr. W, A. Sutton, associate Ex
tension director, said in making
the announcement that Mr. West
brook’s name is closelv associated
with the progress Georgia has
made in cotton and tobacco pro
duction.
Mr. Westbrook was employed by
the College of Agriculture in 1914,
shortly after he received his B. S.
degree in Agriculture from the in
stitution, to direct fertilizer experi
mental work. He has continued to
serve Georgia agriculture except
for a year and a half in the field
during the first world war
Returning in 1919, he found that
the boll weevil already hand enter
ed the western part of the state.
“Farmers were searching for new
money crops to take the place of
at least some of the income that
would be lost from cotton as a
result of the weevil”, he said.
A small acreage of bright leaf
or flue cured tobacco had beeen
tried and the results were encour
aging. But farmers were unfami
liar with tobacco production. Mr.
Westbrook was given the assign
ment of heading up a tobacco pro
duction and research prograpn.
Since that time cigarette tobacco
production has expanded from a
$1,000,000 crop to a $78,000,00 crop,
production from 2,500,000 pounds
to 166,000,000 pounds. •
From 1931 to 1950 Mr. West
brook was a joint employee of the
Agricultural Extension Service and
the cotton division of the U. S.
Bureau of Plant Industry. He de
voted most of his time after 1930
to helping farmers to improve cot
ton production.
Twenty-five years ago only three
percent of the cotton in Georgia
had a staple length of one inch or
longer, and there were approxi
mately 300 “so-called” varieties of
cotton planted in the state. As a
result of the One-Variety Program,
in which Mr. Westbrook played a
large part, 95 to 98 percent of the
cotton in recent years had had a
staple of one inch or more. In
stead of 3300 varieties, approxi
mately 95 percent of the cotton
acreage in Georgia recently has
been planted to only five varieties.
Mr. Westbrook will continue his
agricultural work. Chairman of the
advisory committee of the Georgia
Crop Improvement Association for
several years, he is now employed
by the GCIA. He will devote his
efforts to acquainting farmers and
seed handlers with the value of
certified seed.
Senator Walter George
To Speak In Gaines
ville November 28
Elevent service clubs in the Gain
esville area are sponsering the ap
pearance of Senator Walfter F.
George at an inter-club luncheon
meeting to be held in Gainesville
November 28th.
Senator George is coming to
Gainesville at the invitation of S.
Kinningham of the Rotary Club,
who will have charge of the pro
gram. The President of the various
service clubs constitute the com
mittee on arrangements, and plans
are being made to take care of
about 600 members and guest.
Senator George—President Pro
tem and Dean of the U(. S. Senate
and Chairman of the powerful Se
nate Foreign Relations Committee
will probable talk on the farm prob
lem and foreign relations, the two
things closer to his heart. His ad
dress will be broadcast by all the
regional radio stations and the pro
gram will begin at 1:15 P. M.
They Live Hungry
And Die Hungry
Nine tenths of the population of
the world receive less than S6OO
per year, per capita. Two-thirds of
the world’s people live in underde
veloped areas. Their per capita
daily consumption of calories is
2,150. The 20 percent of the world’s
people who live inthe developed
areas consume 3,040 calories daily
per capita. (These statistics are
based on 1939 figures).
The life expectancy within the
United States has now reached 68.4
and is rising, while in India for in
stance, it is only 32.05.
The United Nations staticians
have estimated that one-half the
world’s population have incomes of
less than SIOO.OO per capita per
year. The per capita income of all
Asia is only $50.00 per year. Only
one-tenth of the world’s poulation
receive more than $600.00 per capi
ta per year.
These revealing facts open our
eyes to the stark reality that the
people of the earth are hungry.
Have you ever been hungry? Do
you know what itt is to rise in the
morning and face the day with just
one thought in mind, namely,
Where can I get just a crust of
bread? You and I do not know
experience, but we must remem
ber that two out of every three in
our world face it every day.
The second picture I see reveals
the spiritual need of mankind. We
have sent too few missionaries. We
have given to missions our pennies
and nickles when we should have
been sending dollars and more and
more missionaries.
Communist forces within Africa
are boasting of the fact that they
have placed four pieces of liter
ature in the hands of every person
on the Continent. They make the
claim that they are spending three j
and four tenths billion dollars per
year on propaganda to keep their
subjects in line and make new con
verts.
Southern Baptist gave only $6.48
per capita for mission causes which
include all phased of our mission
work. Are you asking the question
than Cain asked God, “Am I my
brothers’ keeper?” Sure you are or
at least you should be.
According to a survey which in
cluded all denominations there is
only ONE MISSIONARY to every:
21,000 people in Africa
43,000 people'in Latin America
70,000 people in Japan
96,000 people in the Near East
130,000 people in India and Paki
stan
150,000 people in Southeast Asia.
The Christian people of the U.
S. can do something about this
situation if they love the cause of
Christ enough.. They have the
money but it remains to be seen
whether they have the consecrat
ion or not. Some of these facts
were copied from The Commission
S. B. C. Magazine.
W. R. CALLAWAY
FELLOWSHIP MEETING
There will be a Fellowship meet
ing -at Pleasant View Baptist
church Saturday night November
26. You are cordially invited.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
AN ENCOURAGING MEETING
We had a meeting in Macon last
week that I wan to tell you about.
It was called by the Macon Minis
terial Union, representing all the
denominations, on Wednesday even
ing, November 9, in the Tabernacle
Baptist Church—called in that
church because it has the largest
auditorium in Macon with the ex
ception of the Municipal Auditor
ium. It seats 1200, and the people
stood aggainst the walls in the bal
cony and the main floor.
The meeting was called for the
purpopse of discussing the liquor
situation in Georgia. Bishop Arthur
J. Moore and I were asked to
speak. The meeting was well re
ported to fhe people of Middle Geor
gia over the three Macon radio
stations, all of them carrying the
program from 8 to 9 o’clock, paid
for, of course.
It was an encouraging meeting
in the fact that the people were
there—people from every walk of
life. College presidents sat by mech
anics. School children sat by doc
tors and lawyers. The men were
there, and the women were there.
Best of all, many young people
were there. A choir of 75 voices
sang.
What we were there for? That
question was asked at the outset,
and there were no punches pulled
in giving the answer. We were
there to take this issue to the
■grass roots. Someone asked why
we talked about grass roots on
paved streets. The Macon people
will tell you that they are honored
to be classified as belonging to the
great public opinion in Georgia
that resents, without apology, the
pass we have reached in Georgia;
on this issue. They listened, and
they gave their full assent to the
proposals of the occasion—a state
ment which frankly proposes that
we ask every county in Georgia, to
grid for this fight to drive back
the flood of legal and illegal liquor
wine and beer, now beating against
every threshold in our state.
I began my talk by relating the
tragic death of Mr. and Mrs. Baker
in Atlanta a few days ago, killed
on the expresswayy by a school
teacher, drunk and driving 100
miles per hour. He has been indict
ed for murder, but that does not
bring back the father and mother
of five little children.
And from that incident, we went
on to describe the situation we
face in Georgia today—beer, wine
and liquor paraded before our chil
dren, morning, noon and night
public officials, particularly in the
General Assembly, who refuse to
give demedial legislation a chance
to be discussed. It was an encour
aging meeting, and there will be
more such meetings.
ASC NEWS
By this date every farmer in
Forsyth County should have re
ceived their 1956 ACP Handbook.
Study the Handbook carefully and
decide which practices is needed
most on your farm.
The period for filing request for
cost-sharing for 1956 practices is
from December 1, 1955 to January
16, 1956. If you decide you will
need 1956 ACP cost-sharing, we
urge you to come by the County
ASC Committee Office and file
your request during the sign-up
period. Only in that way can you
be assured that your request will
be considered by the County Com
mittee before the funds are ex
hausted.
Important Notice
The Board of Registrars will
meet at the Court House on Nov
ember 21, 1955 to prepare the Vot
ers lift for the Special Election to
be held on December 3, 1955.
REGISTRARS:
T. P. THOMAS
W. -E. HERRING
H. G. BRAMBLETT
County Population 15,000. Number 47.
DEDICATION EXERCISES WILL BE HELD
DECEMBER 3rd FOR THE NEW FORSYTH
COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
The Citizens of Forsyth County
are cordially invited to attend
Open House and the formal dedi
cation of the new Forsyth County
High School on Saturday, Decem
ber 3rd in the Auditorium of the
new building. The ceremonies will
begin promptly at eleven o’clock.
Former Governor Herman Tal
madge will make the dedicatory
address. The welcome address will
be given by a former board mem
ber, Dr. Rupert H. Bramblett. Pre
sentation of the flag will be made
by Henry Lewis Evans, Command
er of V. F. W. Post 9143 Forsyth
County. C. N. Lambert, Principal
of the Forsyth County High School
will accept the flag. Presentation
of the keys to the new building
will be made by Colonel Irwin
Kimsey, member of State Board of
Education. B. B. Wallace, Chair
man of the Forsyth County Board
of Education will accept the keys.
Talmadge will be introduced by
A. C. Smith, Jr. of Forsyth Coun
ty. Other special guest will include
Mr. J. M. Jarrard,
Supervisor, Mr. P. D. Bush, head
of the Rehabilitation Program of
the Ninth District and Mr. Walter
McDonald, Architect and Engineer
of Atlanta, Georgia.
The days program was arranged
by A. R. Housley, Supt. Forsyth
County Schools.
Important Notice
The Forsyth County Hospital Au
thority will be at the fflllowinfc
places to show sketches of the new
proposed Forsyth County Hospital
and discuss the Bond issue.
MONDAY NOV. 28 Duckton
School
WEDNESDAY NO\A 30— Forsyth
County High School.
A. C. SMITH, Chairman
WILLIAM CHAMBLEE
WILLIAM FAGAN
MRS. RUTH ROE
R. J. KUPPER
Food Specialist Gives
Tips on Lard
After hogs are slaughtered, it
most often is the task of the home
maker to see that lard from the
porkers is packed properly in order
to avoid rancidity, according to
Mrs. Zelma R. Bannister, home de
monstration agent for Forsyth.
“Dr. J. G. Woodroof, food techno
logist for the Georgia Experiment
Station, gives several suggestions
for preventing rancidity,” the homo
demonstration agent said. “Adding
one-half ounce of tallow for each
pound of lard, he says, will stiffen
the lard and keep it from being
runny at room temperature and al
so help prevent rancidity.”
Mrs. Bannister said lard should
be packed hot in jars or cans and
that cans with friction-type tops
are best. “Whichever contained you
use, however, should be packed to
the very top. As lard chills it will
cause a vacuum and air spaces
hasten rancidity. Seal lard while it
is hot and store it in a cool place.
Lard never should be frozen."
Since air is one villian that caus
es rancidity, the HD agent said
packing it in one and two pound
cans is better than using larger
containers. “When smaller contain
ers are opened and exposed to air,
the lard is more likely to be used
up before it becomes rancid.”
‘(Lard absorbs odors. If you think
lard is rancid, cut up a few pieces
of Irish or sweet potato in it and
cook it again. If the rancid odor
disappears, the lard is all right.
If this process does not do away
with the odor, then the lard is ran
cid and there is nothing that can
be done about it,” Mrs. Bannister
said.
SINGING AT NEW HARMONY
There will be a Singing at New
Harmony Baptist Church, Seven
miles west of Cumming on Canton
—Cumming Highway Sunday night
November 27. You are cordially in
vited to come and enjoy the sing
ing.
Musical In Gaivesville
Monday Dec., 5. at
Civic Buld., 7:30 P. M.
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A program of outstanding musi
cal entertainment will be featured
at the Civic Building in Gainesville
Monday, December 5, at 9:15 P. ML
in a show sponsored by Merck &
Company, Inc., makers of Nlcar
bazin, one of the country’s leading
coccidiostats.
The nationally known and belov
ed Hovie Lister and the Statesmen
Quartet will be among the featur
ed attractions, as will Elmer Snod
grass and the Musical Pioneers.
Elmer, as everyone knows, is dean
of Georgia hillbilly performers.
Free tickets may be obtained from
your local feed leader.
In the first showing of a nevr
sound slide film, Merck will alsot
show how Nicarbazin increases
poultry growers' profits by protect
ing broiler and replacement flocks
from “coxy.”
Elmer Snodgrass, “the ole coun
try boy," is famous with loveis of
hillbilly music. Elmer makes pub
lic appearances with all of the top
hillbilly bands and quartets which
appear in this area, and counts
among his personal friends and as
sociates Red Foley, Roy A cuff,
Carl Smith, Wally Fowler, Hank
Snow, Eddy Arnold, Blackwood
Brothers, and many others.
Elmer is a byword w*ith radio
listeners all over this section of
the South and regularly conducts
disc jocky programs featuring re
corded hillbilly, western, and nov
elty music and songs. From time
to time he is a guest of the Gjr'a.ndl
Ole Opry in Nashville, Tennessee,
having been accorded the honoi of
being named "Mr. D. J. USA.”
“Mr. Coccidiostat USA” is Nicar
bazin, according to Merck scient
ists, who say that when chicks re
ceive this new eoxy-killer in their
feed, it is almost impossible for
outbreaks of cecal and Intestinal
coccidlosis to occur. It costs less
than one cent per bird, they add.
The new Merck film to be shown
December 5 dramatizes the results
of field trials which compare the
efficiency of Nica-bazin with that
of other commonly used coccidio
stats. In every ‘est, according to
Merck scientists, Nicarbazin fed
birds weighed more, used less feed
per pound of weight gain, and thus
brought more profits, compared
with birds fed other coccidiostats.
The film also emphasizes that
feeding of Nicarbazin permit", de
velopment of a natural immunity
to coccidiosis and that Nicarbazin
may be fed to flock replacements
before laying begins without Inter
fering with egg production.
8500-Million Is Georgia
Tourist Goal
Tourists, "the industries with no
smokestakes,” spent some $275-
million in Georgia in 1954, accord
ing to the best estimates. But by
1956 the state hopes to increase
that over all figure to SSOO million.
And chances are good that il will
do just that. Reason: The Georgia
Department of Commerce, the
state’s No. 1 agency for promoting
more tourist trade and-lndu triall-.
zation, has stepped up its nnlJona)
advertising program designed t<*
attract visitors to Georgia, .accord
ing to Scott Candler, secretary of
the department. .