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Volume 47.
Sen. Russell Issues
Stern Warning To
‘Radical Demos.
Another successful Georgia Jef
ferson-Jackson Day fund-raising
dinner has gone into the records.
And, appropriately enough, it was
exclusively a Democratic shnndig
with a distinct Southern flavor.
More than 1,200 of the approxi-1
mately 1,000 Georgia Democrats
who bought tickets to the SSO-a j
plate dinner, held in Atlanta the;
other night, heard U. S. Senator B. 1
Russell, Gov. Marvin Griffin and
others discuss the Democratic
Party in general and the South’s
status in it in particular. They also
heard some unkind remarks about
the Republican Party.
Senator Russell, the principal
speaker, said much that should be
of vital concern to Democrats
everywhere. For one thing, he warn
ed "radical” Democrats not to try
to drive the South out of the party
Said he:
"Unless Something unforeseen
should happen in 1956, Georgia will
again give the Democratic nominee
the greatest majority of any state
in the nation.”
Georgia’s junior senator (he’ll be
come the senior senator upon Sen.
Walter F. George’s retirement
from the Senate next January) said
there has been less talk this year
from responsible Southern Demo
crats about a third party or bolt
threat "than there has been from
many in other sections who are re
garded as powerful in the party.”
Then he said emphatically: “We
have no intention of letting any
one drive us from the house of
our fathers without a last-ditch
fight.”
Senator Russell also (1) hit at
the Republican Party as one that
has directed the government “as
they have always done, for -the
benefit of the few” and (2) char
acterized the present U. S. Supreme
Court as “power drunk” and in
need of “some lawyers and
judges.”
Gov. Griffin introduced Sen. Rus
sel as a man who should have
been elected President of the U. S.
(Russell was a strong contender
for the nomination at both the
1948 and 1952 national convent
ions.) In his remarks about party
affairs, the Governor had this to
say:
"Georgia has stood steadfast in
support of the Democratic Party.
Her loyalty has never been deflect
ed. She is the only state in the
Union which has never cast her
electoral vote for any but a Demo
cratic candidate for the presidency.
“There are some in the party
who have sought to crucify the
South. But they hail largely from
states which have deserted the
party in time of trial.
“If all the elements in the Demo
cratic Party will surrender petty
differences and get together in
genuine harmony, then I say to
you, the Republican enemy had
best prepare a mighty fight—be
cause if we are united the Demo
crats can win this next election—
and the people of this country
know it.”
As further proof of Georgia’s
loyalty to the Democratic Party
State Chairman John Sammons
Bell presented a check for $24,362
to National Demo Party Treasurer
Matthew McCloskey, of Philadel
phia, who has a special guest at
the dinner. The money, part of that
raised through the sale of dinner
tickets, covered Georgia’s quota set
by the national party.
CEMETERY WORKING
There will be a Cemetery work
ng at Concord Baptist Church near
Silver City on Wednesday July 11.
Please meet promptly as we have
-a lot of work to do.
CEMETERY WORKING
You are hereby notified that we
will have a Cemetery working at
the Coal Mountain Baptist Church
Cemetery on Wednesday July 11.
Please meet early so that we can
get the work done.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CHIiRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Mr. Hugh A. Fleming
Gainesville’s New So.
Bell Manager
aS-fiL m
Mr. Harry Snipes, group manag
er at Gainesville for the Southern
Bell Telephone Company has been
promoted to personnel staff super
visor in the company’s general of
fices in Atlanta, effective July 1.
He will be succeeded here by
Hugh A. Fleming, who has been
serving as district commercial sup
ervisor in Atlanta.
The new Gainesville manager,
like Mr. Snipes is a widely exper
ienced telephone man.
He started with the company in
1941 in the commercial department.
After three years service with the
Navy in World War Two he re
sumed his telephone work and was
transferred to Augusta as office
I manager. Later he returned to At
lanta and held positions of increas
ing responsibility.
Mr. Fleming is married to the
former Miss Nell Legwen, of Au
gusta, and they have three sons:
Hugh Jr., Bill and Lee.
Farmers Home
Administration Boosts
Average Net Worth
How more than 12,000 families
now farming successfully through
out the United States improved
their farming efficiency and raised
their average net worth by more
than 50 percent by the time they
repaid their farm operating loans
to the Farmers Home Administra
tion is brought out in a report re
cently published by the agency.
The progress report covers 12,-
431 families who during fiscal 1955
completed repaying loans to op
erate farms or to make charges to
more effecient systems of farming.
State Farmers Home Administt
ration Director R. L. Vansant re
ported today on the progress made
by the farm families in Georgia
who repaid farm operating loans
last year and who now have gone
to their banks or cooperative
credit sources for whatever further
credit they needed to continue good
farming.
The families raised their annual
net cash farm income from appro
ximately $2,805 to $3,747. Their av
erage net worth rose from $5,599
to $7,423.00 during the time they
were indebted to the Farmers
Home Administration.
The average family had livestock
and equipment valued at $2,418
when they first obtained their op
erating loan. When they settled up
with the agency, their livestock
and equipment inventory had gone
up to approximately $3,524.
About 70 percent of the families
; were owners or part owners of
farms when they first borrowed,
but 80 percent were in the owner
ship category by the time they re
paid their farm operating loans.
Another 5 percent, mostly young
couples just starting, were not
farming as farm operators before
receiving their loans.
The farm families who paid up
during fiscal 1955 and continued
with other financing had been in-
I debted to the Farmers Home Ad
ministration for an average of 3.5
year.
Bros. Gaston Goss and Harold
Thompson will preach at Pleasant
View Baptist Church Sunday night
July 7th. You are cordially invited
j to come out and hear them.
HI GH A. FLEMING
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, July sth, 1956.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
LOST
Turning on the radio the other
night to get the Atlanta Crackers
in their game with the Memphis
Chicks, I passed over a station
broadcasting Skid Row in New
York City. Although eager to get
to the Crackers, I stayed with the
NBC station for several minutes,
listening to one of the most amaz
ing indictments of the liquor busi
ness I have ever heard.
It was amazing in the first place
that a radio network that carries
numerous advertisements of beer,
wine and liquor would have per
mitted this program on its stations.
It is fairly certain that the beer
and liquor barons took the NBC
boys over their laps, or more like
ly over the barrel for any such ef
frontery.
It was amazing in the second
place that these pitiful victims
would talk as they did. They must
have realized that they were talk
ing into a microphone. In most in
stances their names were given,
and the places they had come
from. If you heard the broadcast,
you will agree, I think, that It was
most unusual to hear men say that
they had made complete wreck of
their lives, each of them attributing
their desperate plight to liquor,
wine and beer.
It will be recalled that one man
said he was drinking hair tonic,
and the man in charge of the broad
cast asked him why he was drink
ing bay rum. “It’s cheaper,” re
plied the drunk, adding: “When
you can’t afford something strong
er, you have to take what you can
get.”
Without exception, the men ques
tioned said that they had lost their
jobs, lost their homes, lost every
thing. One man was asked how it
felt to be reduced to Skid Row. He
said he was lonely.
The next man was asked if he
was lonely. “Lonely? Man, I’m lost,
lost, lost.”
There was a note of hope in
some of the testimonies. One man
said that he had to get out of the
clutches of liquor and recapture
his home and the respect of his
loved ones. Another man said he
was going back to Atlantic City
and start all over.
The program closed with a cou
ple of minutes from the chapel in
the Bowery where some preacher
was urging the down and outs to
put their trust in Jesus, and sev
eral voices were heard to declare
that they did believe in Him. The
program was sponsored, as I under
stoood it, by Alcoholics Anonymous
It was an amazing illustration of
what beer, wine and liquor are
doing to the American people.
UNION MEETING
Program of the Union Mieeting of
the First District, Cross Roads
Baptist Church, Thursday and Fri
day, July 12 and 13th 1956.
THURSDAY, JULY 12
10:00 A. M.—Devotional, Led by
Rev. Gilbert Evans
10:30 A. M.—Receiving of Letters
of Union Meeting
11:00 A. M.—lntroductory Sermon
Rev. D. M. Nalley, Alternate Rev.
Hoyt Thompson.
12:00 —Adjourn for Dinner.
1:00 P. M.—Will there be any dif
ference between those which die
the law and those who die under
grace, Rev. W. H. Flanagan, Rev.
P. W. Tribble.
2:00 P. M.—The best way to make
a revival a success, Rev. Rufus
Evans, Rev. John Lummus.
3:00 P. M.—Adjourn.
FRIDAY, JULY 13
9:30 A. M. Devotional—Rev. Cecil
Buice.
110:00 A. M.—Where will the New
Heaven and the New Earth be?
Rev. C. B. Gazaway, Rev. Jay
| Bottoms.
11:00 A. M. Preaching—Rev. C. E.
Warren, Alt. Rev. Ford Skinner
j 12:00—Adjourn for Dinner.
1:00 P. M.—Why am I a Baptist?
Rev. Callaway, Rev. Broughton
Bottoms.
2:00 P. M.—-Was the Ark of the
Covenant essential to the child
ren of Israel: If so why? Rev.
Herbert Youngblood, Rev. T. H.
Boling.
j 3:00 P. M.'-General Business.
Union Meeting, Third
District Hightower
Baptist Association
The Union Meeting for the Third
District of the Hightower Baptist
Association will be held with the
Yellow Creek Baptist Church on
Thursday and Friday, July 19 and
20, beginning at 10:00 A. M. each
day.
Directions to Yellow Creek
Church is as follows* Turn off Ga.
Highway No. 53, 3 1-4 miles east
of Marble Hill on to newly-paved
Yellow Creek Road. Follow newly
paved road 1 1-4 mile south to
church.
The program for this Union
Meeting is as follows:
THURSDAY, JULY 19
10:00 A. M.—Devotional by Brother
L. H. Bannister
10:30 A. M.—Organization
11:00 A. M.—lntroductory Sermon
by Rev. Ebb Majors
Alternate: Rev. John Lummus
12:00 A. M.—Lunch
1:20 P. M.—Song Service
1:30 P. M.—Discussion 13th Chap
ter of St. John by Rev. Harold
Sutton
Alternate: Rev. Rufus Evans
2:15 P. M.—Discussion “What Did
the Cart, Cows and Calves Rep
resent in the 6th Chapter of I
Samuel” by Rev. T. M. Sewell
Alternate: Rev. P. W. Tribble
3:00 P. M.—Preaching by Rev. Jay
Bottoms
Alternate: Rev. Lawton Sewell
FRIDAY, JULY 30
10:00 A. M.—Song Service
10:30 A. M. —Devotional by Rev.
Henry Hall
11:00 A. M.—Preaching by Rev.
Everett Sewell
Alternate: Rev. H. B. Haygood
12:00 A. M. —Lunch
1:20 P. M.—Song Service
1:30 P. M.—Discussion “Who Were
the Men Journeying with Paul
on the Road to Damascus When
He Saw the Light; Were They
Christians or Sinners; What Hap
pened to Them after They Car
ried Paul to Damascus?” by Rev.
Henry Boling
Alternate: Rev. Charlie Turner
2:15 P. M.—Discussion, “Explanat
ion of the Basket of Summer
fruit the Lord Showed Amos” by
Rev. Fulton Roper
Alternate: Rev. Carter Green
3:00 P. M.—General Business
TREASURE CHEST
The Merchants Appreciation Day,
Treasure Chest is continuing to
create much interest each Saturday
afternoon at the Court House
where the drawing is held at 2
P. M. So why not trade with these
merchants and get your free cou
pons and be there next Saturday,
as you might be the lucky winner
and remember the drawing will
continue until there is a winner
present.
The following merchants' invite
your patronage and are making
this event possible.
Otwell Motor Company, Cumming
Drug Stor?, R. B. Porter Service
Station, Stone Furniture Co., Cum
ming Five and Ten Store, Parson
& Co, Yarbrough & Son Grocery,
Sam Gordon Dept., Store, Patterson
Radio and TV Service, Echols Dress
Shop, Pruitt’s Grocery, Thompson
Variety Store, Cumming Jewelers,
Forsyth County Furniture Store,
Ware’s Dept. Store, Poole’s Store
and Cafe, Gem Jewelry Co, Cum
ming Hardware Co, Drake Furni
ture Co, Farmers Mutual Exchange
Corn’s TV and Appliance Co, and
the supporting firms The Bank of
Cumming and Otwell & Barnes
Funeral Home.
SINGING NOTICE
We espeeiallyinvite everyone to
attend the singing at Friendship
Church each Thursday night at 8
o'clock. We urge all singers and
parties interested in singing and
listeners. We feel that this- singing
belongs to all. Will you all please
help us make it a success.
Clyde Bannister, President
Jimmy Fagan V. President
Carter Galloway, Treas.
FOR SALE
Good Six Room House Cheap if
can move or take down at once.
Need Lot to build New Business
Building. See ROY P. OTWELL
County Population 15,000. Number 27.
WILL HAYS PICKETT, QUALIFIES FOR
SOL.-GEN. OF THE BLUE RIDGE CIRCUIT
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Mr. Pickett, presenting the Qualifing Check and Papers to George
D. Stewart, Secretary of State Democratic Executive Committee: Left to
Right Mayor Protem of Jasper Glen Burgess; Commissioner of Roads
& Revenue J. S. Darnell; Councilman Paul Robinete; R. M. Edge, May
or of Jasper and Publisher of the Pickens County Progress; Represen
tative A. C. Moore; Sheriff F. K. Standi; County School Supt, T. W.
Holley; Tony Tatum, Clerk Superior Court; Erman Blackwell, Tax Com
missioner and Ordinary Sol A. Tatuni. .
Will Hays Pickett, former mem
ber of the Legislature from Pick
ens County, qualified Wadnesday
June 20 as a candidate for Solici
tor General of the Blue Ridge Cir
cuit. Mr. Pickett was accompanied
by a large delegation of leading
citizens from north Georgia, includ
ing al county officers of Pickens
County and of the City of Jasper.
Also included were several present
and past members of the State
Legislature, as well as the present
mayor and several past mayors of
Jasper, Georgia.
Mr. Pickett served in the Georgia
Legislature in 1951-52 and has prac
ticed law in Jasper for the past
several years. His father, the late
Roscoe Pickett, was a practicing
attorney in Jasper for 50 years
prior to his death in 1954. He is
he grandson of the laee Rev. Thad
Pickett, noted Baptist minister of
north Georgia.
Mr. Pickett is 35 years of age
and is married to the former Miss
Patsy Carney. The couple have one
child, Will Hays Pickett, Jr.
Mr. Pickett is a member of the
Board of Trustees of John Mar
shall Law School, a member of the
Jasper Lions Club, a Shriner, and
a member of the Jasper Baptist
Church. He is a World War II Vet
eran, having served in the U. S.
Navy from 1942 through 1946. He
is a member of the Blue Ridge
Circuit Bar Association, Georgia
Bar Association and American Bar
Association and is an associate
editor of the Law Journal of the
National Association of Claimants
Compensation Attorneys.
H. C. Fabian, North
Georsria State Mgr.
Of W. O. W.
Mr. H. C. Fabian of Atlanta has
been named Woodmen of the World
state manager of North Georgia, it
was announced today by Howard
M. Lundgren, president of the
Society.
The state has been divided into
three territories in keeping with
the Society’s efforts to provide
more personalized service to mem
bers arfd potential members.
M. P. Laster of Macon, former
assistant state manager of Georgia,
is now state manager of Middle
Georgia. R. E. Cullom of Albany,
district manager, is now state man
ager of South Georgia.
Mr. Fabian, 902 Oakdale Roal
N. E., Atlanta, started with the
Society as a field man in 1925. He
was named assistant state manager
of Georgia in 1931. Appointed state
manager in 1934, he has rendered
outstanding service in that capa
city.
CEMETERY WORKING
All who have relatives are
j friends buried at Cross Roads
'cemetery, are requester! to come
I and help clean off the graves and
church grounds.
Soil Conservation
District News
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JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Jay L. Holbrook and William J.
Orr supervisors for Forsyth Coun
ty of the Upper Chattahoochee Riv
er Soil Conservation District report
the following accomplishments dur
ing the past six months in the For
syth County Work Unit: 100 acres
of crop rotation, 28 acres of con
tour farming, 200 acres of cover
cropping, 209 acres of critical area
planting, 3 acres of woodland thrin
ning, 7 acres of improvement cut
ting, 129 acres of tree planting,
93 fishponds fertilized, 15 acres of
wildlife areas planted, 13 acres of
land clearing, 28 acres of water
way development, one mile of
streambank treatment and six miles
of roadbank treatment.
July is a good month to plant
sericea provided there is sufficient
moisture. Many successful seedlings
of sericea in Forsyth County have
been made during the month of
July.
Land preparation for seeding al
falfa should begin now. Lime
should be applied now and other
fertilizers should be on hand as
well as seed in preparation for
seeding during the month of Sept
ember.
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LAKE LANIER REACHING
FISHING PEAK FAST
In Georgia’s newest Reseivoir,
Lake Lanier, the reports from fish
ermen to the Game and Fish Com
mission on the beautiful string of
bream that are being taken from
this lake shows that will be
one of the finest waters in the
state for fishermen. Many people
had wondered why the State Game
and Fish Commission didn’t stock
this lake with bream and bass and
no amount of talk would rftake
them realize that these fish were
already in the lake and it needed
no stocking, but now they see that
the biologist were right and they
are reaping the benefits of some
wonderful fishing. In a short while
white bass and other types of fish
such as threadfin shad will be re
leased. Lake Lanier is not the only
fishermen’s paradise at this time.
Bass, bream and other types of fish
are being caught at Jim Woodruff
in large quantities.
Mr. Lee Hammonds of Rt. 1.
Gumming, brought us the first cot
ton bloom reported in this section.