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Volume 47.
RED CROSS DRIVE
WILL BEGIN ON
MARCH 5, 1956
The 1956 Red Cross drive will
begin in Forsyth County Monday
March 5, 1956. A meeting will be
held at the Forsyth County High
School' Auditorium on Saturday
March 3, aat three p. m. and Dr.
Marcus Mashbum, Sr., County
chairman, Mrs. M. P. Holbrook and
William Chamblee asks the follow
ing volunteer workers to jjoin them
at this meeting to receive their
materials for use in this drive at
this time. A representative of the
Natioal Red Cross will assist at
this meeting.
CUMMlNG—Mesdames Betty Perry
Myrtie Holbrook, Margaret Webb,
George Pirle, A. J. Fowler, Paul
Yarbrough, Betty Terry Shadburn,
Wylene Samples.
DUCKTOWN Mesdames R. W.
Evans, Jr. Horace Cain, B. B. Rob
ertson D. E. Nalley.
FRIENDSHIP— Mesdames J. R.
Padgett, J. A. Mcßrayer, C. W.
Cox, Charlie' Holbrook, Mr. A. M.
Sosebee.
HEARDSVILLE —Mesdames Grace
Sewell, W. T. Floyd, D. E. Pruitt,
Dean Ledbetter.
WILSON & CO. —Beulah Patterson
Sue McDaniel, Marda Jane Butler,
Mrs. Velvie Gilbert
CHESTATEF — Mesdames G. W.
Castleberry, D. O. Freeman, Win
fred Waldrip, Virginia Williams.
CHATTAHOOCHEE Mesdames
Mattie Watson, Lindell Watson,
Joe Shadbburn, Miss Carrie Driskel
Roscoe Thomas, Paul Hammonds,
SILVER ClTY—Mesdames J. W.
Walls, Kate Kelley, A. C. Smith,
Jr. Miss Pat Walls.
COAL MT—Miss Martha Pirkle,
Mesdames Bertha Harrison, Alme
da Bannister, Martha Pendley, Bet
ty Wofford, Mark Heard, Jr.
BRANDYWINE—Mesdames Doyle
Anderson, Hazel Martin, S. R.
Jones, Pete Herring, Howard Odum
Van Bagwell.
LONGSTREET— Mesdames Paul
Thompson, Nathan Newton, John
Luminus, Elsie Mae Lewis.
BETHELHAM—Mesdames Brough
ton Voyles. Gertrude Holbrook,
Ruby Holbrook, Cleland Hansard,
Henry Harbin. Ralph Moore.
CORINTH —Mrs, Herbert Hansard,
Rev. Mercer Wtlliams.
CROSS ROADS—Mesdames Roy
Bennett. Dillard Thomasn.
DAVES CREE—Mr. W. J. Orr,
Mrs. Roger Blackstock.
SHARON— Miss Fannie Mae Kay,
Mr. D. Roy Buice, Mrs. Glenn Buice
Mrs. Ralph Bagley.
HAW CREEK—Mr. Major Echols,
Mrs H. D. Nuckolls, Mrs. T. O.
Hansard, Mr. Lloyd Major, Mr.
Marvin Pruitt.
BROOKWOOD— Mesdames S. G.
Clement. Jr. Killis McGinnis, Her
shel Hapison, C. W. Boling, Jesse
H. Watson.
notice
Instruction Lodge No. 1 will
me et at LaFayette Lodge Hall,
Cumming, Geo-gia, at 7:30 p. m.,
each Monday during March and
April. The following Lodges will
participate:
LaFayette Lodge No. 44, F. & A. M.
Etowah 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
These cool season vegetables
should be planted in north Georgia
during late February and early
March: Collards, turnips, mustard,
kale, spinach, broccoli, lettuce, Eng
lish peas, beets, carrots, radishes,
and Irish potatoes.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY S> CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKR9 KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500) Cumming Georgia, Thursday, March 1, 1956.
FOUR GEORGIA TELEPHONE OFFICIALS
BEING PROMOTED MARCH FIRST
LEFT TO RIGHT: W. K. Mosley, Commercial manager to
assistant vice president; H. C. Caldwell, Atlanta district plant manager
to Georgia plant manager; C. M. Eberhart, Atlanta district manager to
Georgia commercial manager; and C. B. Smith, Georgia plant man
ager to general plant operations engineer.
Public Health Dept.
LABORATORY SERVICE
There are many divisions in the
laboratory of the State Health De
partment. All of the facilities of
this laboratory are yours to use
free of charge. These services are
available to you through your local
health department.
I am under the impression that
( not many people know they can
get their pre martal blood test at
the health department. You will of
course have to go to your doctor
for a physical examination after
your report is back. This is also
true of health cards which are re
quired by food handlers. However,
there are a number of other lab
tsst which must be completed be
fore we are allowed to issue your
card. These are both instances
where your laboratory is used and
many of you are not aware of the
service or how it is actually se
cured.
Your Canitarian uses the labor
atory extensively in his work. If
your well is enclosed it is your
priviledge to request that he send
a sample into be tested. The only
expence incurred is for mailing.
He checks regularly on the supply
of City water to be sure it is pure.
Through the laboratory we are
able to secure anarabic serum for
treatment if anyone is attacked by
a dog with rabies. This is a com
forting thought to all of us. One
vaccine given you is made in the
health department laboratory, this
is typhoid.
I have said before expectant
Mothers can get much helpful in
formation through the local health
department. Those of you who do
not consult your doctors before the
Fifth month of pregnancy should
come by the health department or
notify your Public Health Nurse
so that she could come to you and
get blood for testing as well as
various other test you should have
before delivery. Let me re-empha
size the importance of these test
which may man the difference be
tween a healthy normal child or
one born with deformities or even
one that is stillborn.
Aagin let me urge you to take
advantage of the services offered
through your county health depart
ment. These I have mentioned are
only a few of the many laboratory
services.
Your Public Health Nurse,
GRACE E. PALMOUR
“U. S. MARINES ANNOUNCE
COMMISSIONING PROGRAM
FOR ENLISTED MEN”
The Marines are first, once again,
in* announcing a definite officer
program for career enlisted men.
Each year about 45 enlisted men
will be selected to attend Officers
Candidate Course at Quantico, Va.
Enlisted men not possessing the
necessary educational requirements
are afforded the opportunity to
take an Officers’ Selection Test,
Which if accomplished satisfactor
ily is equivalent to the required
formal education.
Major Gene M. Hoover, Marine
Recruiting Officer, further announ
ces that one of the local recruiters
has recently qualified for this pro
gram and is now attending Officers
Candidate Course in Quantico.
ASC NEWS
The one dominant overriding fact
of the whole farm situation is the
great cloud of surplus which hangs
over the market place and over
flows government storage facili
ties, Earl M. Hughes. Administrat
or of the Commodity Stabilization
Service, recently told a farm group
“No farm program,” the Admin
istrator declared, “no matter how
sound in principle, can have much
chance to work effectively while
those supplies are still in the pic
ture. And....we have been adding
to CCC inventories in spite of
most vigogrous efforts to channel
surpluses into any available outlet
in the world.
“The new farm program recom
mendations which the President
sent to Congress early in January
were developed against the back
ground of this situation. Their ma
jor emphasis is on emergency mea
sures to start cutting down the
government-held surplus, both by
further adjustments in production
of surplus crops and by speeding
up surplus disposal.”
As of November 30, Administra
tor Hughes pointed out, the Com
modity Credit Corporation had $,-
206 million invested in inventories
and price-support loans. About $6
billion of this represented inven
tory stocks owned by the Corpor
ation. The other $2 billion was ad
vanced in loans.
. Also as of last November 30,
more than an additional $22 bil
lion was tied up in net realized
losses not yet reimbursed, other
accounts receivable, storage facili
ties and similar commitments,
which brought the total of funds
in use to $10.2 billion.
Wheat currently is the largest
inventory item—B6l million bushels
costing $2.3 billion. Cotton ranks
next with nearly 8 million bales
costing $1.4 billion. Corn is a close
third—747 million bushels, costing
$1.2 billion. Dairy products, rice,
wool, other grains vegetable oils,
and a list of other commodity
make up the rest of the inventory, i
Since November 30, heavy vol- J
umes of cotton and other 1955 crop I
have been coming under loan pro-1
gram, so that CCC is at present!
pretty close to the 12 billion total j
of its authorized borrowing auth-1
ority.
The rapid increase in CCC hold
ings, Mr. Hughes explained, has
not been due to any lack of effort
in disposing of surpluses. In the
2 1-2 years since July 1, 1953, sur
plus commodities costing more
than $4 billion have been moved
out of CCC inventory. Every pos
sible outlet—sales for cash, sales
for foreign currencies, barter and
exchange, donation—has been vig
orously developed.
“But in spite of this effort,” he
said, “for every dollar of surplus
commodities disposed of through
the front door, CCC took in a dol
lar and one-half worth of commo
dities through the back door."
IMPORTANT CHURCH NOTICE
Due to road conditions Concord
Baptist Church Services were omit
ted last Saturday and Sunday, but
we will have services Saturday and
Sunday March 3 and 4. Jf road
conditions are still bad, Services
will be held at Silver City Club
House. Everybody invited.
Concord Baptist Church
Rev. Bud Boles, Pastor.
City Of Cumming
Receives Check From
Georgia Power Co.
A check for $1,894.09 was deliv
ered to the City of Cumming Feb
ruary 23, 1956 by C. B. Curtis, Lo
cal Manager, of the Georgia Pow
er Company. This payment repre
sents three per cent of the gross
receipts’ in 1955 from the sale of
electric power to commercial and
residential customers of the com
pany under the Municipal Partner
ship Plan. The three per cent tax
is paid by the company in place of
occupation and farnchise taxes. The
plan permits the city to share in
the growth of the electric business
in the city. The three per cent
gross receipts tax is in addition to
th company’s property taxes paid
to the county and city.
The Georgia Power Company’s
tax bill for 1955 amounted to more
than $20,000,000. Of the total, more
than $1,580,000 is being paid to
the communities of Georgia under
the Municipal Partnership Plan.
This is an increase of more than
SIOO,OOO over last year.
City, county and state property
taxes came to $4,200,000 for 1955
in comparison with $3,900,000 in
1954.
The $20,000,000 total tax figure
does not include the Georgia three
per cent sales tax which the com
pany collects from its customers
as a tax-gatherer for the state nor
the sales tax which the company
pays on materials used in its oper
ations.
A Word To The High
School Seniors
If you are already certain what
you intend to do in life, if you
have already chosen your occupat
ion; then I suppose you have al
ready chosen your college if you
intend to finish college.
If you want to attend college,
but you haven’t the money and
would like to work your way thru
college, then Berry College gives
all boys and girls that opportunity
(rather all boys and gigrls who
live in the country).
If you long to be a better and
more useful person in your church
community and world then I would
suggest that you attend a denomi
national college.
May I speak, a good word for
Truett-McConnell junior College
located at Cleveland, Georgia. They
teach all of the academic courses
that are taught in the other col
leges plus the Christian outlook and
interpretation of life. I have never
experienced a finer Christian at
mosphere on any college campus.
I had the pleasure and privilege of
teaching Bible at this college for
a year. At the beginning of the
school year there were five boys
and one girl who were not pro
fessing Christians. Before the se
cond term ended all of the stud
ents registered in the Day school
were professing Christians. I lived
in the dorimitory with the boys
and learned to love them. It is hard
not to be a Christian at the Truett-
McConnell.
It also cost less at Truett-Mc-
Connell; WJiy not write the Col
lege for a catalogue at Cleveland
W. R. CALLAWAY
A FAVORITE SON PREACHES
AT MIDWAY METHODIST
CHURCH SUNDAY NIGHT
The Pastor Rev. Wm. M. Winn
announces a Guest speaker at Mid
way Church. He will be the Rev.
Johnny Farr the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Edgar Farr. He will fill the
pulpit on the Seven o’clock ser
vices. This will be his first ser
mon in his Home Church since he
was licensed to preach by The
Methodist District Conference in
January.
The pastor will preach as usual
in the 11 o’clock services Sunday.
He also announces this to be Ex
pansion Day in all Methodist
Churches in Georgia and this spec
ial proggram for the day is in
keeping with the objectives of this
Special Day.
Everyone is invited and assured
of a cordial welcome.
County Population 15,000. Number 9.
Miss Wilma Ivie To Be
Honored At Luncheon
By Bernice McCuller
Miss Wilma Ivie of Cumming is
one of the homemaking teachers in
Georgia who have been chosen
Teacher of the Year for their local
counties. Miss Ivie was recently
chosen Teacher of the Year for
Forsyth county, and she will be
one of about 175 teachers to be
honored at a brilliant luncheon at
the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta on
March 30. A. L. Felman, chairman
of the education committee of the
Georgia State Chamber of Com
merce, which is sponsoring the
teacher recruitment program, said
this week that the Chamber is
planning a big day for the teach
ers, and that all the state will join
in doing them honor.
The ten district winners will be
given aluminum replicas of a stat
uette representing a teacher and a
child symbolizing education, and
the teacher who is picked as the
state’s Teacher of the Year will
get the statuette in broze.
Miss Ivie, who is a native of
Alto in Habersham county, is a
graduate of the University of Geor
gia, having both her bachelor and
master’s degrees from there. She
is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Ivie of Alto. She has taught
homemaking in Cumming for the
past ten years. She has had two
state officers in the Future Home
maker Association, Jane Otwell,
who is now president of the FHA
chapter at Forsyth County High
School, and Barbara Wolfe Echols,
of Atlanta. Miss Ivie has 135 home
making students now, and 150 mem
bers in the FHA chapter of which
she is adviser.
Miss Ivie’s FHA chapter has
been an honor roll chapter every
year of its existence except one.
They did not apply that year. They
have taken active part in many
community enterprises. They have
had a special interest in helping
with the polio drive each year.
Miss Inez Wallace, state super
visor of homemaking education,
expressed her gratification this
week at the honor that has come
to Miss Ivie in the Teacher of the
Year choice in Cumming.
“We are very proud of the work
she has done. We feel that she is
one of our finest teachers, and re
presents at its best the homemak
ing program that is helping our
young people to find stability and
strength in being good members
of their homes and families.”
Miss Ivie was receiving congra
tulations Saturday as she and four
of her FHA members were among
more than a thousand who attend
ed the spring FHA district con
vention at the Gainesville High
School. The students who accom
panied here were Jane Otwell, pre
sident of the Gumming FHA, Jan
ice Sexton Thomas, Mary Kathryn
Roper, and Annette Vaughn.
A. R. Housley is county school
superintendent of the system in
which Miss Ivie teaches. Clarence
Lambert is principal of her school.
±
To The People Of
Forsyth County
After considering many weeks
and insistance from my friends, I
do hereby announce as a Write-in
Candidate for the Office of Clerk
of Superior Court to be held on
March 21, 1956. A Write-in Vote is
legal according to law.
To vote for me as a Write-in
Candidate mark out the Incumbent
name and write CAINE.
I am 35 years old, having lived
all my life in Forsyth County with
time out to serve in the U. S.
Army 33 months, 1943—1946. Serv
ed overseas most of this time and
received my Honorable Discharge
January 1946.
Had some recording experience
in service and have the equivalent
of a High School education.
Due to the short time, I will be
unable to see everyone, but your
vote will be appreciated.
I am honest, sober and willing
to serve you people of Forsyth
County to the best of.my ability.
Very respectfully yours,
CHARLES F. CAINE
“Hometown Jubilee’*
At Cumming Gym
March 8 & 9, 1956.
Miss Trene Harris has arrived in
Cumming to assist Cumming PTA
in presenting “Hometown Jubilee.”
Jhe local talent, all star comedy
revue will be staged in Camming
Gym, Thursday and Friday March
8 and 9 at 7:59 p. m. for the bene
fit of Hot lunches and Milk for
needy children. Funds allotted for
this are inadequate to take care
of the great number of children
who must go all day without food.
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MISS IRENE HARRIS
Miss Harris comes to town high
ly recommended, she attended
Northwestern University and has
been very interested in Little
Theatre work. In an interview with
Miss Harris she said “Eve ratine is
so friendy and I am really enthu
siastic about the prospects for an
! outstanding production of “Home
town Jubilee” here in Cumming. I.
know I shall enjoy my stay here
very much.
Miss Harris met with Mrs. M. P.
Holbrook, Mrs. Walter Rucker, Mrs
Robert McElreath, Mrs. Weldon
Bramblett and Mrs. Leon Boling.
( members of the PTA Sunday even
in, and rehearsal and other sche
duled plans will get under way at
once.
! When the curtain rise on “Home
town Jubilee” it brings a* 2-l our
: fun-fest to Cumming. Clever and
unusual stunts, skits and gags set
a fast-moving pace of riproaitng
entertainment. Hometown Jubilee
salutes our country with an in
spiring patriotic number, complete
with pretty girls inn colorful cos
, tumes who appear in a military
drill; our town, our schools and
[ our churches.
I A stage full of cute youngsters
who attend Glamorer school bring
the magic of make-believe and a
I Talent Parade will offer rewards
I and acclaim to clever performers.
! There are 2 proposals scenes, one
as it might have happened 50 years
| ago, and another between two hep
cats.
Toby and Epoh are a couple of
country boys who come to the
Jubilee and provide an hilarious
show all their own. There is the
story of "Little Red Riding Hood r
or "What Every Girl should know
when meeting a Wolf."
Hattie Carbunkle is a famous
fashion designer who has design
on everybody. High spot of the
evening is Hattie and her dimpled
darlings of the fasion world.
Miss Harris is with Redpath-
Horner, the famous old chautaugua
company which is celebrating its
Golden Jubilee this year. "Home
town Jubilee” offers an evening of
never to be forgotten entertain
ment. Tickets may be purchased
at the ticket headquarters, Cum
ming Drug store, also your ticket
may be taken there for a reserved
seat.
A contest to select Cummiog’s
little king and queen of Home
town Jubilee will be held in con
junction with the hilarious all star
variety revue, being presented on
March 8 and 9 at 7:59 p. m. Gum
ming Gym. The all local talent
show is being given for the benefit
of hot lunches and milk for needy
children.
Boys and girls entered in' the
contest are children up to 6 years
of age. It is one cent a vote and
who will be the winner has the
whole town talking.
Voting jars and p ? .tures of randi
(Carried to Society Page)