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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. : m* -. ~~ 4 'll 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. .