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Forsyth County Hi —V and Tri —Hi —Y Clubs are among the 800
Georgia “Y” Clubs promoting the annual State YMCA Teen
Talk Series beginning this month. The “Y” Clubs expect to
exceed last year's enrollment when 176,000 Georgia youth were
enrolled in the youth problem discussion sries. Cumming “Y”
membbers attended the recent District Teen Talk Rally at Cal
houn, whre bothe the Hi —Y and the Sr. Tri —Hi —Y won the
attendance trophies. Left to right: Robert Eubanks, Tate; Mar
ion Jones, Canton; Joyce Ingram, Cumming; and Carl Bolden,
Ringgold.
Liberty National
Has Biggest Year
With an increase in insurance in
force of almost SIOO million, with
an increase in total assets of ap
proximately $22 million, and with
an increase in surplus for the pro
tection of policyholders of just over
$2 1-4 million, Liberty National
Life Insurance Company reports
the biggest var in its 55-year his
tory.
Frank P. Samford, President of
the Company, in reporting to the
stockholders at their annual meet
ing on Tuesday, February 21, 1956
pointed out that during the year
the company passed the billion-dol
lar mark in insurance in force and
closed the year with total insur
ance in force of $1,044,493,167. He
also pointed out that the assets at
the end of the year amounted to
$186,105,070.11 and that the policy
holders’ surplus was increased
from $16,465,362.49 to $18,740,052.47
Mr. Samford’s report reviewed
the progress of the company dur
ing the past four years and each
year showed accelerated growth.
During 1955 four new district of
fices, two in Georgia, one in Flori
da, and one in Alabama were es
tablished, increasing the field per
sonnel of the company to 1,400.
Total employees in the home of
fice, in the district offices, and in
the field now exceeds 2,000, all of
whom, according to, Mr. Samford,
are well-trained insurance men and
women.
The report emphasized the fact
that a large percentage of the in
crease in assets in 1955 was invest
ed in mortgage loans primarily on
homes under the FHA and VA
programs. The Company has al
ways felt an obligation to invest
money in territories from which it
receives its income and mortgage
loans have been made in all areas
where the Company maintains
agents.
Liberty National is one of the
South’s largest and fastest grow
ing life insurance companies and
has more than 3 1-2 million indi
vidual policies outstanding.
NOTICE
At the regular Convocation of
Silver Shoals Chapter No. 14,
Thursday. March 1, at 7:30 p. m,
the officers for 1956 will be in
stalled. Refreshments. All Royal
Arch Masons are cordially invited
to attend.
Dr. Rupert H. Bramblett, H. P.
J. O. Barnes, Secretary
SINGINGNOTICE
There will be a Singing at New
Harmony Baptist Church Sunday
night February 26. Come out and
enjoy this singing.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOIED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CIIKRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
NOTICE
Instruction Lodge No. 1 will
meet at LaFayette Lodge Hall,
Cumming, Georgia, at 7:30 p. m.,
each Monday during March and
April. The following Lodges will
participate:
LaFayette Lodge No. 44, F. & A. M-
Liowah Lodge No. 222, F. & A. M.
Chestatee Lodge No. 102, F. & A.
M; Cross Roads Lodge No. 119, F.
& A. M; Mt. Zion Lodge No. 316,
F. & A. M; Ducktown Lodge No.
572, F. & A. M; Matt Lodge No.
694, F. & A. M.
All Master Masons are cordially
invited-to attend the meetings.
Dr. Rupert H. Bramblett
Assistant Custodian,
Ninth Masonic District
Public Health Dept.
(Vital Statistics)
W)e have briefly touched on com
municable disease control and pre
ventions, and Maternal and Child
Health.
Our next topic is Vital Statistics.
Your county health department is
concerned with this because it giv
es us a picture of many phases of
the community as a whole.
Here we get an accurate picture
of births. This includes live and
still births, also of Maternal Mor
tality rates. The Doctors of your
community are very concerned
with these facts also.
All other deaths are recorded
here also. These facts help your
physician in meeting situations
which may arise at some later
date. Here accurate records are
kept of all such diseases that oc
cur and the people who are con
tacts. Much epidemiology is done
through information secured from
vital statistics. Some of them we
have information about are dip
theria, typhoids, tuberculosis and
many others. Perhaps you are
thinking that most of these dis
eases are vituaily a thing of the
past. Neglect on the part of par
ents in keeping their children’s
immunizations in effect could pre
cipitate an epidemic. By strict
checking personnel can be readied
to combat an epidemic should one
occur.
You may help by reporting con
tageous diseases in your family,
also accidents. You may also help
by looking for traps which will
cause home accidents and calling
attention to these things in your
community organizations. This will
reduce accidental death rate as
well as accidents in the communi
ty, on the road as well as indivi
dual. All these things are connect
ed with vital staatistics.
Your Public Health Nurse,
GRACE E. PALMOUR
Cumming Georgia, Thur«day*February 23, 1956
To The People Of
Forsyth County
I hereby announce myself as a
candidate for the Office of Sheriff
of Forsyth County, to succeed my
self in the March 21st Primary,
1956, subject to the rules and re
gulations of the Forsyth County
Executive Committee.
I would like to take Ihis oppor
tunity to thank you good people
for Honoring me with this office
four years ago, and I know I shall
never be able to repay you even
if I should live to be one hundred
years old and blessed with as good
health as I have been in the past.
Iwish to thank each of you for
your cooperation'since I went into
office, because it has been a big
help to me in order to do a good
job. I also wish to thank the Jur
ors and the Courts for their co
operation, leadership, and kindness
shown me and my deputies since
we have had the pleasure of serv
ing you.
I wish to thank each of my de
puties for their long hours of ser
vice and cooperation in helping me
to get things under control. Also I
am proud of the fact that each of
m y depputies have conducted them
selves in such a manner that the
Grand Jurors of this county have
not had the unpleasant task of
indicting a single one of them, and
I’m sure that every good citizen of
this county feels the same way.
It has always been my policy to
say what I think openly, and at
the same time give the people the
facts, in order that those of you
who oppose me may answer and
call my attention to any or all,
which is untrue,- and to express
your own opinions and views. This
will eliminate the mud-slinging and
too, it gives the people a chance to
know just w'hat we stand for and
what we have and have not done.
To begin with I noticed that Mr.
Namon Wallace was deeply con
cerned about the number of deaths
lon our highways. Mr. Wallace I
would like to know just one per
son that is not concerned. Let’s see
what you have to say in regard to
the things you did while you were
j serving as my deputy to keep down
! the death toll. Did you not have
| enough authority as a deputy? I
! had no strings on you, did I? Do
i you not remember that I told all
my deputies to inforce the laws to
the best of their ability, and that I
would back each one of them? I
had to back you more than any
man I had on the force. Now, let’s
see if that is not true. Mr. Wallace
do you remember that I broke a
promise to a man that you had
caught behind another man’s home
for having drank some whiskey. I
advised you that I had promised
him that I would not turn in the
case since he wanted to inter a
plea and not be indicted, because
he said he did not want a record
to follow him to his grave. I call
ed the solicitor and he told you
that I, as your sheriff, did not have
to turn the case in. Nevertheless I
told you that in order to satisfy
your own dislike for the man I
would break my promise to him so ;
that you could show your personal
dislike for him and too, take up
the time of the Grand Jurors. Well,
you were given the chance to
show your color and I’m not sorry
that I broke my promise to him,
but I would like to tell you this.
That is the only promise I broke.
The man paid his fine about three
weeks later just as he had promis
ed. Is that the way yqu would do
your own children? Now Mr. Wal
lace, these same tactics was what
caused you to write that piece to
the paper along about April, 1953.
Remember? You said, (and I
quote) I WAS FIRED BY YOUR
SHERIFF, HILL TALLANT. (un
quote) Yes Mr. Wallace, you were
fired by your sheriff, Hill Tallant,
and I would fire every man on the
force had he conducted himself as
you did.
| Mr. Farr stated in the February
I issue of this paper that the state
i patrol records show that tweny
j three (23) persons lost their lives
I since he went out of office. Well,
! I feel sure that this is true, and if
my memory serves me right four
(4) of those lost their lives the
first four months that I was in
office. The time, Mr. Farr, that
the good people elected you to
serve.
Political Rally to be
Held Saturday March 3
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There will be a Political Rally
at the Home of Mr. E. J. McGin
nis in the Brandywine community
on Saturday March 3rd.
Mr. McGinnis will furnish the
Beef and Mr. H. D. Tolbert the
‘‘Porker’’ for the Barbecue. The
barbecue will be FREE to all and
the public is cordially invited with
a promise of plenty of food fro
everyone. The meats will be pre
pared by Mr. Carl McCormick of
Coal Mountain and you know it
will be cooked to your taste.
They will start serving around
noon and will last until everyone
has their fill.
When I went into office Septem
ber 1, 1952, I had all unexperienced
officers, but as you know they
were willing, sober, honest and
eager to learn. (That is with one
exception.) Well, we went to work
doing the best we could and after
a while we got things pretty well
under control. If you will check
those same records, Mr. Farr re
ferred to you will see that when
we finally got going the death toll
began to decrease, and last year
we only lost five. Now my friends
let’s compare those figures with
the first four months we were in
office, and please don’t fail to take
into consideration that we have
more and faster cars now than we
did back in 1952. Just look at the
View drivers that receive new li
cense each month and each year.
Let’s even go a little further and
see how the good county of Hall
compares with our own. Hall
County, (same records) shows that
18 persons lost their lives on the
highways there last year. Let us
take into consideration that Hall is
much larger than our county, and
they have a 24 man police force,
(and I might add a good one too.)
Also they have sheriff and deput
ies who are on a salary, a State
Patrol Post in Gainesville, Georgia,
two revenue posts—one State and
one Federal. Now how does that
compare with our own men?
I am sure that you good people
remember that when Mr. Farr went
into office we had revenue post
here in Cumming, Georgia. It was
here for the purpose of helping
keep down the whiskey, and at the
same time help to curb the drink
ing while driving. Just before I
went into office the post was mov
ed. Could you tell us why Mr.
Farr? It seems that four men had
worked here after I moved out.
What were the terms of their se
paration with the Department of
Revenue? Who were the men?
Please tell us who they are sup
porting in this race for sheriff. Is
it the same man they were for
four years ago?
Mr. Farr also states that if
elected he is going to move those
“licker-makers” out in the swamps
where it’s cold. He says they won’t
be allowed to make liquor in good
warm chicken houses. Mr. Farr
didn’t you promise me at the same
time you conceded the Democratic
Nomination to me four years ago
that you would cooperate with me
in every way you could? Now if
you knew that whiskey was being
made in good warm chicken houses
since you went out of office why
haven’t you told me? Besides you
would have to have gone inside the
chicken houses to have determined
if they were hot or cold wouldn’t
you? Well, I’ll tell you folks, that
sounds like—or almost like—a brok
en promise to me.
My friends, since I went into of
fice fifty-one vehicles have been
seized, nine thousand one hundred
and thirty-one gallons of non-tax
paid whiskey seized and destroyed,
thirty-two stills seized and twenty
nine men for making and possess
ing non tax paid whiskey—all this
without asking praise from anyone.
It was our sworn duty.
I promise if elected that I will
have men who are experienced,
men who are sober, men who are
out doing everything they can to
help me keep things under control
even better than we have in the
past.
Your vote and influence not only
will be deeply appreciated, but it
will be a vote for better govern
ment.
Yours truly,
HILL R. TALLANT
County Population 15,000. Number &
Double Funeral Service
For Father and Son
Held Friday Feb., 17. i
Funeral service for Mr. Billy
Fowler, 28 years old and his three
month old son was held Friday
February 17, at 2:30 from Haw
Creek Baptist Church, of which
he was a member. He was a Vet-,
eran and Mason.
i Revs. C. B. Gazaway, W. H. War
ren, Hoyt Thompson and George
McFarland officiating. Burial was
in the churchyard.
The death of Billy and his son
were the result of a collision of
the vehicle driven by Billy and a
large lumber truck on Wednesday.
David the son was killed almost
instantly, Billy died' a few hours
later in an Atlanta Hospital. Mrs.
Fowler, the wife, the former Miss
Dorothy Bagley was injured in the
wreck, with several fractured
bones and other injuries, but is re
ported to be improving in the
local hospital.
Mr. Fowler was Bookkeeper for
Mr. J. C. Vaughan, Feed Dealer
and the son of Col. and Mrs. J. P.
Fowler, almost life-time residents
of Cumming, having moved recent
ly to Warner Robins, due to Col.
Fowler’s ill health. Billy had a
•broad smile, sunny disposition, a
character above reproach and all
who worked with him and knew
him loved him. A host of friends
grieve his passing.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
Dorothy Bagley Fowler, two daugh
ters, Audrey and Dianne of Cum
ming,. Col. and Mrs. J. P. Fowler,
Parents, two sisters, Mrs. James
B. Hayes, Miss Mildred Fowler of
Warner Robins, three brothers, Ed
ward Fowler, Warner Robins
Gene Fowler, Cumming, J. P. Fow
ler Jr. of U. £. Navy. Davids mat
ernal grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Ardeth Bagley, Cumming.
Mr. Ben H. Wofford
Prominent Citizens
Passes February 21.
Mr. Ben H. Wofford, prominent
citizens and Feed Dealer of For
syth Couoty passed away early
Tuesday morning after a long ill
ness. He was a lifetime resident of
the county and the son of the late
Mr. Lee Wofford..
He was well know throughout
North Georgia and had a friendly
disposition with all who he came
in contact with.
Funeral services were held at
the Coal Mountain Baptist Church
Wednesday February 22 at 2:30
p. m. with the Rev. Hoyt Thomp
son and Rev. W. H. Warren offi
ciating. Interment in churchyard.
He is survived by his wife, one
son Bobby Joe Wofford of Cum
ming, two daughters, Mrs. Garland
Roberts of Buford, Miss Delores
Wofford of Cumming, several broth
ers and sisters and other relatives
whp mourn his passing.
MRS. W. CANDLER TUMLIN
PASSES JANUARY II
On January 11, Mrs. Candler
Tumlin (Izzie McClure) passed
away at the home of her son and
daughter, Dr. and Mrs. Arnold
Owensby of Commerce, Georgia.
A victim of diabetes for thirty
years, she had the misfortune of
breaking her hip, which lasted over
a period of several mons causing
her condition to grow worse until
death claimed her.
She is survived by three daugh
ters/Mrs. Clarence Orr, Chestatee;
Mrs. Arnold Owensby, Commerce;
Mrs. Ben Martin, Atlanta and six
grandchildren. One brother, Mr.
Earl McClure, Oakwood; and one
sister, Mrs. Thad Blirruss, Cum
ming.
ADVERTISEMENT FOR PROPOS
ALB TO LEASE POST OFFICE
QUARTERS IN CUMMING
Proposals are hereby solicited,
to be received in the office of Post
Office Inspector R. L. Crawford at
Atlanta, Georgia, up to and includ
ing March 20, 1956, to furnish quar
ters suitable for post-office pur
poses at Cumming, Georgia.
For further information, see pos
ter at Post-Office in Cumming.
To The People Off
Forsyth County
I hereby announce as a L tndi
date for Reelection for ClerK ot
the Superior Court of Forsyth.
County, Georgia, subject to the
Rules and Regulations governing
the Democratic Primary to be hehl
on March 21st, 1956.
I would like to say personally to
every one that in giving me the
opportunity you gave me to jn'rve
without opposition is very gratify
ing to me.
This, your office, is a public of
fice and at any time I can assist
you, day or night, call on me. I
feel that I could not do less for
you people who have been as
friendly to me as you have.
Sincerely yours,
J. V. “Sport" MFRRTTt.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
THE MID—WEST
On a trip to Kansas and Missouri
last week, I realized that 1 was
once again in the vast mid-west--*
the Heart of America, as they de
light to describe their pari oi the
country.
I drove through one of the fin
est sections of Missouri, and it is
something to see their cattle. Farm
after farm reveals the latesi de
signs in barns, silos, feeding de
vices, etc. But best of all is to see
the cattle. Haw they ever expect
the country to eat all that beef is
beyond me.
And, having three sheep in our
little patch, along with two wnite
face Herefords, I was very • much,
impressed with the sheep in Kan
sas and Missouri, although they
quickly tell you that sheep and
hogs are marginal items with them
They go in for cattle, period. And
wheat, of course.
Their sheep appdor larger man
our Georgia sheep, and one man
told me that out of 200 ewes, he
had only 14 with one lamb. Eleven
ewes had triplets, and the resl tw®
each. They are proud of their sheep
even if they are a side crop.
You are not very farm ixrni
lowa whe you get into
and there are many farms ;lth
fine herds of hogs. I tried to de
cide which breed of hogs predomi
nated. It appeared to me that the
Hampshires were running strong,
though you see plenty of PC’r and
Berkshires. Not many Duroos, nor
Chesters.
Kansas City Is building the fin
est network of expressways 1 have
seen in any American city. Give
them two to three years, and they
will be ready for traffic. Even now
they have several major arteries in
operation—four and six-lane jobs.
Missouri has no speed limits, but
you’d better drive within reason.
Try passing on a hill, or excessive
speed, and they’ve already got /ou.
And they don’t mince words. That
is the only place I ever saw an
officer stop a truck for speeding,
and I mean they drove the truck
off on the side of the highmiy,
and took the driver with them!
“W!hat part of the South are you
from?” a farmer asked me. "< eor
gia? How’s peaches looking for
1956? Don’t no peach taste like
them from Georgia. We tried it
out here, but no soap. We’ll iirep
furnishing you good steak if you’ll
send along some good old Georgia
peaches. And what about them
watermelons? Yes, we raise Rem
out here, but they grow too big—
no taste in 'em.”
MRS. LILLIE HEARD CASTLE
BERRY PASSER FEBRUARY 18.
Mrs. Lillip Heard Castleberry
passed away Thursday February 16
She is survived by her husband,
Mr. L. E. Castleberry; children,
Mr. and Mrs. Billy S. Tow and
Deilla Tow, Mr. Heard jC. Cnstle
berry all of Cumming; Mr. Larry
Castleberry, Atlanta; brother - , Mr.
Lawton Heard, Cumming; sisters,
Miss Susie Heard, Cumming; Mrs.
Sallie Kate Haney, Alpharetta;
Mrs. Grace Willard, Brook ha vta.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday at 1:30 at the Coal Moun
tain Baptist church. Rev. Hoyt
Thompson, Rev. W. H. Warren,
Rev. Harold Zwald and Rev. John
Ozley officiating. Interment in Alta
Vista Cemetery at Gainesville.