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Volume 47.
Chemical Progress
In Georgia
By Governor Griffin
Governor Marvin Griffin today
paid tribute to importance eco
nomic advances made possible in
Georgia by the State’s expanding
chemical industry and proclaimed
the week of April 23-28 as Chemi
cal Progress Week.
He pointed out that this industry
utilizes Georgia’s wealth of resourc
es to turn out more useful pro
ducts and that it is helping “our
citizens to attain a higher standard
of living and greater security than
ever before in our history.’’ The
text of the proclamation follows:
“WHEREAS, a major goal of
the State of Georgia is the main
tenance of a sound economy so as
to provide full employment, oppor
tunities for initiative and invest
ment, and an adequate supply of
goods for all our citizens: and
“WHEREAS, an equally import
ant goal is the strengthening of
our defenses so that our people
can live in confident assurance of
protection from enemies abroad;
and
“WHEREAS, the chemical in
dustry of our State has made, and
increasingly continues to make,
substantial contributions to both
these goals by transforming our
wealth of resources into ever more
useful products; and
“WHEREAS, because these con
tinuing contributions by the chemi
cal industry are helping our citi
zens attain a higher standard of
living and greater security than
ever before in our history;
“NOW, THEREFORE, I, S. Mar
vin Griffin, Governor of the State
of Georgia, do hereby proclaim the
week of April 23-28, 1956, as
Chemical Progress Week
in Georgia, and urge all civic and
fraternal groups, all educational
and scientific bodies, news dissemi
nating media, chambers of com
merce and all other groups to en
courage and promote the celebra
tion of Chemical Progress Week,
using as the theme of their ac
tivities A BETTER AMERICA
THROUGH CHEMICAL PRO
GRESS, and to do everything with
in their power to bHng home to
each citizen the importance of the
chemical industry in his daily liv
ing.”
Lakewood Park Opens
For Summer Season
Georgia’s Family Playground,
Lakewood Amusement Park in At
lanta opens for the summer season
with many improvements. On May
sth, the Fourth Annual Lockheed
Aircraft Familv Day will be held
with some 15,000 visitors expected.
The Park officially opens to the
public on May 6th.
Among the many improvements
is a new four lane entrance to
facilitate movement of traffic. The
recreation area has- been widened
and the roller coaster is being re
conditioned and modernized, and
it is hoped it will be ready for op
eration bv opening day.
In addition to the many rides al
ready available, the new Figure 8
Ice Skating Rink, the only ice skat
ing rink in the state, wall be in full
operation. The roller skating rink
will again operate throughout the
summer season. Both the Ice and
Roller Rinks operate during the
winter months, as well as summer.
Large picnic areas with ample
parking facilities are available to
the public without charge, as well
as use of the giant barbecue pit.
Visitors to Lakewood will see a
new look with all buildings newly
painted, as well as improved park
ing facilities.
SENIOR PLAY AT CHESTATEE
FRIDAY, APRIL 27
The Seniors of jChestatee High
School are presenting a play,
“There’s A Man In The House,”
on Friday night April 27. 1956 at
8:00 o’clock.
A Three Act Comedy.
Admission 35 cents for School
Children—Adults 50 cents.
Come and laugh with us—Not at
us.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO TIIE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKRO HUE. DAWSON, LUMPKIN. IIAI.L AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Course To Relieve
Hospital Dietitian Need
Many small Georgia hospitals
urgently need trained food service
supervisors, but a research and
demonstration grant from the U. S.
Public Health Service is enabling
the Georgia Department of Public
Health to do something about the
shortage.
The first class of a training
courrse for people supervising diets
in the small hospitals will be spon
sored at the Georgia State College
of Business Administration in At
lanta, by the State Health Depart
ment and the College, beginning
in September.
The courrse will have three col
lege quarters, meeting on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays from 1:15
p. m. until 9:25 p. m. Before class
es, the students probably will work
in food service departments of hos
pitals and other establishments in
the Atlanta area, receiving on-the
job training.
“Most of the food service work
in the smaller hospitals is directed
by persons who are without basic
training in nutrition and food ser
vice management,” said Dr. R. C.
Williams, director of Hospital Ser
vices of the State Health Depart
ment. Dr. Williams is administer
ing funds for the course. “Phy
sicians often find this to be a ser
ious handicap in obtaining thera
peutic dietic services for their pa
tients,” he said.
The first class will be limited
to about 15 students, preferably
mature women with high school
or college education. However,
women with experience in food ser
vice work who are not high school
graduates may be accepted- A
qualified dietitian. Miss Gwendolyn
Biggerstaff, will guide the training
program, with the assistance of an
advisory committee of experienced
dietitians, who will outline the
course of instruction and act as
the admission committee.
Student tuition will be paid by
the State Health Department
through the Public Health Service
grant, and the additional food ser
vice employment should meet other
expense of students not assisted by
hospitals of civic clubs, according
to Dr. Williams.
“The grant will expire in three
years,” Dr. Williams said, “but we
hope that the courrse will be well
established and self-supporting by
then.”
So. Bell Appoints
Walter O. McDowell
Sales Manager
Walter O. McDowell has been
anoointed General Sales Manag
er for Southern Bell with head
nuarters in Atlanta effective May
1. >v was announced today.
He succeeds C. J. Tucker, Jr.
who recently was named General
Commercial Supervisor for the
Telephone Company. E. H. “Hoot”
Gibson, Athens District Manager,
succeeds Mr. McDowell in Augusta.
' Since January of 1953, Mr.
McDowell has been Augusta, Ga.
District Manager. He joined South
ern Bell Dec. 1, 1928 in Paducah,
Kv., as an exchange service sales
man. Subsequently, he served in
Louisville, Ky., Jacksonville, Fla.,
Atlanta and Athens, Ga.
Mr. McDowell was Atlanta Dis
trict Sales Manager from April 1,
1946 until June 1, 1949 and District
Commercial Supervisor from that
date until .Oct. 1, 1949 when he
was appointed Athens District Man
ager. He held that post until
Mav, 1952, when he became
N rth Georgia District Manager
with headquarters in Atlanta.
He is a native of Elizabethtown,
111., and attended the University of
Illinois, Southern Branch. His wife
is the former Elizabeth Henry of
Elizabethtown.
Mr. McDowell has served as
President of the Augusta-Richmond
Tuberculosis Association and of the
Augusta Camp Gordon Chapter of
the Armed Forces Communica
tions Association. He is a Rotarian,
a member of the State Chamber
of Commerce, a Trustee of the
Georgia Students’ Educational Fund
and an Honorary member of the
Grid Iron Association of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 26, 1956.
WHAT IS YOUR
CONTRIBUTION?
What is your contribution for
the good of humanity? When our
life comes to an end, will our total
contribution to the welfare of so
ciety equal zero? Will people say
“he will not be missed; he was
interested in himself and his own
family but nobody else. Will his
attitude be like the prayer of a
selfish man who prayed somewhat
like this; “God bless me and my
wife, my son John and his wife,
us four and no more,” Amen.
If that is our attitude, we lack
a great deal of possessing the
spirit of Christ. Self gratification
is not the spirit of a true follower
of Christ, but self-sacrifice is the
true spirit of a Christian. If the
center of your world is yourself
you live in a small world. If the
center of your world is Christ and
you strive every day to apprehend
the mind of Christ and to glorify
God in your body—you will begin
to love the world like God loved
it, love the people whom God cre
ated.
God placed you here in the
worrld to be a blessing—give of
your best to the master! Don’t
waste your time in glorifying your
self but improve your time in
glorifying God in your bodies, by
serving others in His name.
Giving yourselves, your time,
money, influence, ability, every
thing that God has given you, give
back to Him in service to others.
This is the greatest contribution
you can make to humanity.
W. R. Callaway
With Y our County
Agent
V/alter H. Rucker
Grainn sorghum is a good crop
to take the place of corn and is
also good as a follow up crop after
small grain. It has about 90 per
cent of the nutritive value of corn.
Grain sorghum does well on the
same typo of land that is suitable
for corn. A good seed bed should
be prepared and fertilization should
be at the rate of approximately
500 pounds of 4-12-12 per acre with
a side dressing of 50 pounds of
nitrogen applied 25 to 40 days aft
er planting.
The best varieties for this area
are Combine Milo, Redbine 60 or
Redbine 66. Be sure to get good
I seed and treat with Arasan. Get
certified seed if possible.
Grain sorghum should be planted
in rows 3 to 3 1-2 feet wjde with
the seed spaced about 4 to 6 inches
in the row. Cover the seed 1 to 2
inches deep and plant in April,
May and June when there is suf
ficient soil moisture for germina
tion. All cultivations should be
shallow ones.
The grain should be harvested
with a combine when the grain
contains 13 percent or less mois
ture unless you have provisions
available for drying.
For disease control, treat your
seed, practice rotations and use re
sistant varieties. For control of
caterpillars in the bud, use 20 lbs.
of granular form of Toxaphene.
I For caterpillars in the head, use
15 to 20 pounds of 20 percent
Toxaphene. If you should be
troubled with corn earworm alone,
use 10 to 15 pounds of 10 percent
DDT.
Be sure that you don’t harvest
the grain or use foliage for animal
| feed within 21 days after you ap
ply any or all of the insecticides
that are listed above.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS
HELD APRIL 19
The Chestatee Chapter OES No.
! 433 held their Installation of offi
cers meeting Thursday night April
19.
Installing Officer—Thelma Mitchell
Installing Marshall, Izzie Crowe
Obligation Officer Rupert High
tower
Installing Secretary- Maude High
tower
Installing Chaplain —Ollie Gazaway
Installing Organist—Clara Terry
This was an open meeting and a
large crowd attended.
21 Girls Will Be
Awarded Homemaker
Degree April 27
Twenty-one girls from this sec
tion of the state will be among
those to be awarded State Home
maker degrees, the highest honor
the organization gives, at the Fu
ture Homemaker State convention
in Atlanta on April 27. Their re
cords of leadership and of service
in Home, school, and community
have merited for them this out
standing honor. Each girl was
recommended by school and com
munity leaders, and had her
achievements judged by a com
mittee named by the state FHA.
The awarding of this high honor
will be a highlight of the three
day convention that will assemble
1200 Future Homemakers at the
Dinkier Hotel in Atlanta April 26,
28. This is the largest state con
vention in the 11 year history of
the Georgia Future Homemakers.
Mrs. J. M. Barber of Athens, state
adviser, is in charge. Miss Inez
Wallace of the State Department
of Education is director of the
Georgia homemaking education
program. Miss Dork Mollenhoff of
Athens, assistant state supervisor,
and Miss Annie Stembridge of Elli
jay, district FHA adviser, are as
sisting with plans for the program.
The girls will hear Governor Mar
vin Griffin speak at their opening
session. The Governor and eight
other Georgians will be made hon
orary FHA members.
The girls from this area who
will receive FHA’s highest award
are joan Lewis, Athens; Naomi
Brown and Patsy Seymour, Bow
man; Betty Lane Montgomery,
Commerce; Joyce Lavern Guthrie,
Cornelia Haynes, Faye Holcombe,
and Peggy Pruett, Duluth; Ann
Hammond and Joyce Ingram, For
syth County, Cumming; Barbara
Boleman, Claudette Osborne, Mar
garet Macijewski, and Merle Sand
ers, Hartwell; Dallas Ann Bond,
Nancy Potts, and Lynda Truluck,
Winder; Susan Gilbert and Patsy
Whitworth, Lavonia; Gloria Porter
field, Colbert; and Geneva Mull,
Blue Ridge.
Teachers who serve as advisers
for these students are as follows:
Miss Odessa Williamson, Athens;
Mrs. Prince Hodgson, Bowman;
Mrs. Lyle Coker, Duluth; Miss
Wilma Ivie, Cumming; Mrs. Sara
Chafin, Hartwell; Mrs. Anne Provo
Winder; Miss Saralu Carter, La
vonia; Mrs. Russell Hart, Colbert,
Mrs. Joe Poston, Blue Ridge.
Nursing Scholarships
Available For Last
Mi:iu:e Applicants
A few scholarships are still avail
able for the June and September
classes of the Piedmont Hospital
school of Nursing in Atlanta, ac
cording to Miss Genevieve Garren,
school director.
Applicants by high school gradu
ates must be made at-once for the
June class to allow time for check
ing of qualifications and records,
said Miss Garren. She added that
hose interested in entering in Sept
ember should also apply without
delay, since scholarships are award
ed on a first-come-first served bas
is provided high school scholastic
records meet certain standards.
Piedmont is a non-profit, non
sectarian community hospital now
construating a new building on
Peachtree Road which is slated to
be one of the most modern in the
nation. George R. Burt, hospital
superintendant, has announced that
the hospital is going ahead on sche
dule and will be ready for occu
pancy in the early fall. This year’s
June and September entrants to
the nursing school will be among
the first to graduate from the new
I building.
Application blanks and brochures
giving full information on school
| and the scholarships may be obtain
ed from The Director of Nurses,
Piedmont Hotel, Atlanta.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Forsyth County Health De
partment is now located iri the new
County building.
County Population 15,000. Number 17
A. C. Smith, Jr., Area
Chairman of Georgia
Poultry Festival
A. C. Smith, Jr., has been select
ed to serve as an Area Chairman
in this section for the Georgia
Poultry Festival to be held May.
18 and 19 in Gainesville. Announce
ment of Smith’s appointment came
earlier this week from Fcstiva.
Chairman Max Ward of Gainesville
who stated that Smith’s duties
were primarily to promote inter
est in the Fourth Annual Poultry
Festival in this area.
The highlight of the Festival,
which is designed to promote and
further the interest of the entire
Georgia Poultry industry, will be
a speech at 1:30 Saturday after
noon by “the Veep” Senator Alben
Barkley of Kentucky.
Festivities for the two-day affair
in Gainesville include an open
house day on Friday for the var
ious poultry plants, followed in the
evening by a banquet honoring
“Wise Buyers Who Choose Georgia
Fryers”. At the banquet, the final
judging of the Miss Georgia Chick
Beauty Pageant will be held, em
ceed by Dr. Josiah Crudup of Bre
nau College. The finner of this/
contest will represent Georgia in
the Miss Universe Beauty Pageant
to be held in California this July.
Festivities start in earnest on
Saturday with a colorful parade in
cluding forty professionally design
ed floats, and a good many bands
and marching units.
The Parade will lead the crowd
to the Gainesville City Park where
six thousand servings of delicious
ly prepared barbecue chicken done
in the old Southern "on-the-grounds
style will be offere along with band
music, clowns, the floats on dis
play and other type of outdoor en
tertainment.
To climax the affair, Georgia’s
Senator George will introduce
Senator Alben Barkley, who will
give the address of the day.
Georgia Demos
To Adopt Rules
At May 29 Meet
ATLANTA, (GPS) The State
Democratic Executive Committee
will meet in the House chamber at
the State Capitol in Atlanta Tues
day, May 29, at 10 a. m., accord
ing to State Democratic Party
Chairman John Samson Bell.
In calling the meeting, Chairman
Bell said top business on the
agenda is expected to be (1) th"
adoption of rules apd regulations
governing the operation of the
state partv and of th n state Demo
cratic primary Sept. 12 and (2)
the selection of delegates to the
National Democratic Convention
beginning August 13 in Chicago.
Among other things, the rules
will set. entrance fees for candi
dates running for state offices and
set the closing date for qualifying.
The committee is expected to ap
prove the chairman’s recommenda
tion that entrees close at noon
Saturday, June 23. This will allow
approximately four weeks for any
candidate to qualify to the state
wide primary, Bell explained.
Offices affected by the pending
rules and the upcoming state-wide
primary include: U. S. senator,
public service commissioners,
judges of the Supreme Court and
Court of Appeals of Georgia, U. S.
congressman from various congres
sional district, judges of superior
courts and solicitors general. Candi
dates for the state senate and
house are permitted to run either
in county primaries or in the state
wide primary.
Georgia delegates and alternates
will have 108 convention seats.
SPECIAL NOTICE
The Forsyth Countty Singing
Class meet at Friendship Baptist
Church each Thursday night, every
one has special invitation to come
out and help us out in this sing
ing.
Clay Jones, Pres.
Clyde Banister, Vice Pres.
No Difficulty In
Finding Jobs In The
Engineering Field
"Those finishing our institutions
of higher learning who have maj
ored in engineering studies should
encounter little or no difficulty in
finding suitable jobs,” Commission
er of Labor Ben T. Huict said to
day.
“Graduates,” he said, "and those
seeking permanent employment for
the first time shouldn’t necessarily
accept the most lucrative job, but
rather the job with the best future.
The old adage of ‘working from
the ground up’ is still mighty good
advice.
“Job recruiters from firms large
and small,” Huiet said, “are on the
lookout for college graduates who
have specialized in certain techni
cal fields, especially engineering
(electronics, aeronautics, communi
cations, etc.) as well as liberal arts
"The first choice of employers,”
he says, “is not always the ‘A’
student. Many of them show a pre
ference for ‘all around’ men and
women with a ‘B’ average, sound
personality and practical knowledge
he pointed out.
“The -employment service dvision
of the Georgia Department of La
bor provides a placement, counsel
ing and testing services. Employers
of the State are urged to list their
job opportunities for our college
graduates with the State Employ
ment Service offices. These thirty
four offices have much up-to-date
information in the various fields
of employment... and are anxious
to render every service possible.
"Graduates who have not already
made commitments are urged to
register their qualifications with
the local offices of the Georgia
State Employment Service,” Huiet
concluded.
Soil Conse: vation
Service Ncjws
James T. Coots
SOIL STEWARDSHIP WEEK
May 6—13, 1956
The steadily growing sense of re
sponsibility for good stewardship
of the soil in the United States is
having a dramatic effect on com
munities throughout the nation.
Where farmers have changed
from poor stewards to good stew
ards of the land, they are provid
ing more of the things their fami
lies need to make strong bodies,
strong minds and strong hearts.
Manufactures of farm eqtiipnn at
recently found through economic
studies that farmers who arc fol
lowing sound soil and water con
servation methods have' increased
their production by an average* of
35 percent.
In many parts of America the
change from soil abuse to soil st< v
ardship has brought great soci; I
and economic change for the better
SPECIAL NOTICE
The office* e>f the Se> l l Const -
vation Service has been mov'd
freim the Flanagan Building on the*
we-st side of the courthouse squate
to the new Forsyth County build
ing on the corner of Maple street
and old Buford road or the south
east corner of the courthouse
square.
We earned the
LETTER AWARD
as an OUTSTANDING
FORD DEALERSHIP
in 1955
We arc glad to have received the
above 4 letter Award, which As
sures our Customers that we are
properly equipped to service your
Car or Truck equal to any Auto
Dealer in Ceorgia.
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