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Volume 47.
ASC NEWS
SOIL BANK
The normal yields for cotton has
been established for Communities
and also for each farm that has a
cotton allotment in Forsyth County
This was done for the purpose of
determining maximum payment
rates per acre a farmer may re
ceive under the 1956 Soil Bank pro
gram. There are three ways a farm
er will be able to participate in the
acreage reserve for 1956:
(1) By underplanting your allot
ment.
(2) By destruction of acreage by
natural causes —(Destruction must
occur not later than July 20, 1956.
(3) By the producer disposing of
an acreage, after signing an agree
ment (This destruction must occur
after May 27, 1956 and not later
than July 31, 1956.)
The payment rate per acre for
cotton will be determined by; The
farm normal yield or the apprais
ed yield, whichever is smaller, mul
tiplied by $.15 per pound.
Normal Yield—ls determined by the
county and community committee
men with their knowledge of your
production and with the normal
yield for the county as a guide.
Approised yield—ls determined by
the county committeemen (or re
precentative) by making a visit to
the farm after the agreement is
signed by the farmer. If you are
interested in this part of the soil
bank for 1956, come by the Forsyth
County ASC Committee Office, for
further information, or for signing
agreements. We have the agree
ments on hand now. Don’t forget
the closing date for signing agree
ments is July 20, 1956.
Then the closing date for destroy
ing this acreage is July 31, 1956.
As a last minute reminder, Chair
man C. A. Bagwell of the Fbrsyth
County ASC Committee today call
ed the attention of wheat growers
to the referendum on wheat mark
eting quotas, to be held on Friday,
July 20, 1956 at 8:00 A. M. to 4:00
P. M. at the Forsyth County ASC
Committee Office.
All growers who in 1957 will
harvest more than 15 acres of
wheat for grain on a farm are eli
gible to cast ballots in the quota
referendum. Quotas do not affect
farmers with small wheat acreage.
By this time, the Chairman de
clared, all growers should have re
ceived notice of their farm allot
ments for 1957 wheat crop. Should
there be any questions about the
wheat program or local voting
places, however information may
be obtained from the local ASC
office. Wheat farmers are urged to
inform themselves fully about the
wheat situation before casting their
ballots in the referendum.
The issues to be decided by the
vote are as follows: If the least
two-thirds of the farmers voting
approve the quotas, then quotas
will continue in effect for the 1957
wheat crop, and a grower who ex
ceeds the larger of his allotment
or 15 acres of wheat will be sub
ject to a marketing quota penalty
on his “excess” production. Under
quotas, the available wheat price
support to farmers who have com
plied with their farm wheat allot
ments will be at a level between 75
and 90 percent of parity.
If more than one-third of the
farmers voting disapprove the quo
tas, then no quotas and no penal
ties for excess production will be
in effect, but the available support
on the 1957 wheat crop will drop
to 50 percent of parity, as provided
by law.
The vote will not affect acreage
allotments which will continue in
effect no matter how the vote goes
Legislation provides that wheat al
lotments shall be in effect each
year except in time of emergency.
Marketing quotas, on the other
hand, are directed to be proclaimed
only in years when the supply ex
ceeds normal by 20 percent or
more. The supply of wheat avail
able for 1956157 is actually 71.4
percent above the normal supply.
CEMETERY WORKING
There will be a Cemetery work
ing at Corinth Baptist Church Sat
urday July 14. Please meett prompt
ly Saturday morning as there is a
lot of work to be done.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CHKRO UEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Billy Graham’s
Spiritual Mission To
The Far East
I want to call attention to a few
facts reported to us by Stanley
High in his article in The Reader’s
Digest.
Seldom, if ever, has any mission
ary from the west received in Asia,
from people of all classes and be
liefs, a spontaneous reception so
enthusiastic as that accorded the
American Evangelist Billy Graham
in his eight weeks preaching mis
sion last winter. No message from
the west has been heard with
greater eagerness and understand
ing than his simple spiritual ap
peal.
Krushehew and Bulgarians visit
was sponsored by the Indian gov
ernment, 22,000 came to see and
hear the Russian at Neadras
Stadium. .For the first night six
weeks later 32,000 made up Gra
hams first audience, the second
night 37,000. the third night 40,000,
"what a sea of people” he wrote,
“thousands squatting on grass
mats in front of me, other thous
ands standing behind me, and then
on the houses all around, people
crowding the roofs.”
Later Billy Graham wrote in his
diary. This most amazing part of
the first press conference in India
was that more of the questions
had to do with communism,
American Policy or economic aid
to India. Every question was of a
theological or spiritual nature.
Many other very interesting
things are found in this article in
the July issue but I will quote his
final entry in his diary. “Eight
weeks! One miracle after another;
How different on the surface
people are; yet in their hearts, how
much alike, and what a challenge
it is to us, so abundantly blessed,
to help these Asian peoples help
themselves. Perhaps the commun
ists can watch us in material aid,
but for this deeper need they have
no answer, the hunger after God
that I have found everywhere.
There lies our greatest opportunity
to speed with moral and spiritual
leadership this turn to God.—
“Not by might, nor by power, but
by my spirit saith the Lord.”
At the White House press con
ference the president was asked
“You have given a good deal of
time to Mr. Graham, would you
tell us why you feel an interest
in him?”
The president replied, “This is
what I see in Billy Graham, a man
who clearily understands that any
advance in the world has got to be
accompanied by a clear realization
that man is, after all, a spiritual
being. Graham carries his religion
to the far corners of the earth,
trying to promote peace, trying to
promote meditation instead of con
flict, tolerance instead of prejudice,
and because of the great crowds
he attracts I am very much in
terested in him.
“Underneath it all, this is a bat
tle between those people who be
lieve that man is just an educated
animal, and those who believe he
is something worse. That is exactly
what it is. Ie is some kind of re
ligion, against Atheism —”
W. R. Callaway
U. S. MARINES OFFERS TWO
YEAR TOUR FOR GRADUATES
High school graduates may now
fulfill their active duty military
obligation with a two-year tour
with the U. S. Marine Corps.
Under this new plan young men
may enlist in the Marine Corps Re
serve for three years and will be
placed on active duty with the Re
gular Marine Corps for only two
years. After the two-year tour, they
will return home to complete their
military obligation in a reserve
status.
This is another plan which the
Marine Corps hopes will give the
young men the opportunity to com
plete their military obligation with
the least interruption of their
school and plans for the future.
Young men desiring further infor
mation may contact Marine Corps
recruiters at 131 Luckie Street. At
lanta or write to the NCO in
■ Charge Marine Corps Recruiting
Sub-Station at the above address.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, July 12, 1956.
Petit Jurors Drawn
For July Term, 1956
1. W. B. Bottoms
2. Miles Wolfe
3. Luther Karr
4. Holbert Hall «
5. J. A Bailey
6. Paul Hammond
7. J. A. Gravltt, 870th District
8. J. R. Hemphill
9. George Gober
10. Roy Heard
11. Mather Jennings
12. Herbert H. Bagley
13. Frank Stripland
14. Cecil Castleberry
15. R. B. Bagley
16. Ralph Tallant
17. C. L. English
18. George Bramblett
19. J. B. Evans
20. L. O. Sexton
21. Leroy Mayfield
22. Rupert Walls '
23. Ralph Conner
24. L. C. Denson
25. J. R. Burruss
26. Glenn R. Fowler
27. Thomas Pilgrim
28. Carl Holbrook
29. Gordon Cagle
30. Wallace Grindle
31. A. B. Roper
32. Ray Bennett
33. Dewey Holbrook
34. Egbert Bolton
35. James S. Mashburn
36. Clarence C. Nix
37. B. J. Chadwick
38. George Stanford
39. Ralph Otwell
40. Linton Lamb
41. Kazey Bennett
42. A. P. Pritchard
43. A. R. Housley
44. Eugene Lummus
45. Cliff Carnes
46. Junior Nichols
47. Ira Sexton
48. Emory Lamb
49. S. G. Clement, Jr.
50. Paul Conner
51. Herbert E. Castleberry
52. George Welch
53. J. M. Boling
54. Winfred Waldrip
55. W. A. Pruitt
56. Herschel Harrison
57. E. H. Hansard
58. G. K. Wolfe
59. Clarence Waldrip
60. J. C. Roe
61. Pierce English
62. Ralph Bennett
63. George Parker
64. Hugh D. Crawford
65. Buell Martin
66. Gilbert Evans
67. John W. Holbrook
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 f. M.— Adjourn.
FRIDAY, JULY 13
9:30 A. M. Devotional—Rev. Cecil
Buice.
10:00 A. M.—Where will the New
Heaven and the New Earth be?
Rev. C. B. Gaza way, Rev. Jay
Bottoms.
11:00 A. M. Preaching—Rev. C. E.
Warren, Alt. Rev. Ford Skinner
12:00—Adjourn for Dinner.
1:00 P. M.—Why am I a Baptist?
Rev. Callaway, Rev. Broughton
Bottoms.
2:00 P. M.—Wlas the Ark of the
Covenant essential to the child
ren of Israel: If so why? Rev.
Herbert Youngblood, Rev. T. H.
Boling.
3:00 P. M.—General Business.
Sheep are on the way back in
. Georgia. Agricultural Extension
Service reports show that in Oc
| tober, 1954, there were only 7,000
sheep in the state. As for June,
1956, there are over 30,000.
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. Hay good
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
Annual Meetings
On Fertilizer Set
For Month of July
Annual meetings of Agriculture
Extension Service workers and
representatives of the fertilizer in
dustry will be held at College of
Agriculture experiment stations
this year, according to J. R. John
son, Extension agronomist and pro
ject leader.
Sponsored each year by Extens
ion and the Georgia Plant Food
Educational Society, the meetings
are designed to familiarize agricul
tural leaders and fertilizer people
with the latest information ori fer
tilizers and fertilization.
The schedule is as follows: Geor
gia Experiment Station, Experi
ment, July 10; College of Agricul
ture Experiment Station, Athens,
July 11, and Coastal Plain Experi
ment Station, Tifton, July 13.
The program at each place will
include a tour in the morning. The
afternoon session will feature “Pro
gress in Fertilizer Recommendat
ions,” presented by Extension
Agronomists Ralph Wehunt, Jim
Bergeaux, and Johnson.
"Fertilizer Potential Created by
Research” will be the subject of
George King, director of the Col
lege of Agriculture experiment
stations. Paul Jolley, chief of the
fertilizer division of the State De
partment of Agriculture, will at
tend each meeting to discuss “A
New System of Grade Reporting
in Georgia.”
Each meeting will be climaxed
with an open forum featuring ques
tions and answers from the floor.
L. W. Eberhardt, Jr., assistant di
rector o/ the Extension Service,
will conduct this part of the pro
gram.
NOTICE—AII children come to the
Bible School at Union Hill Baptist
Church next Monday morning July
16.
County Population 15,000. Number 28.
TREASURE CHEST
DRAWING
The merchants drawing held each
Saturday afternoon at the Court
House at 2 P. M. is really drawing
larger crowds each Saturday. This
event is being sponsored by the
Forsyth County Chamber of Com
merce and it is their hope that you
will in turn show your interest for
this appreciation day, by getting
your tickets on each purchase and
dropping them in the nearest box
or bring them to the drawing with
you, as they will be accepted right
up to the minute of drawing. If
its so you cannot be there in per
son, mark your coupon and let
some member of the family or a
friend put it in their name, as you
might be the lucky winner and
there will be a winner each Sat
urday. The merchants who are
sponsoring this event are:
Otwell Motor Company, Cumming
Drug Store, 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.
The Whole Family
Invited To First
Poultry Institute
Because Georgia’s poultry busi
ness often is a family affair, the
state’s first poultry institute will
be a family affair, too.
That’s the word from Dr. C. K.
Laurent, chairman of the poultry
division at the University of Geor
gia, and Arthur Gannon, Agricul
tural Extension Service poultryman
at the College of Agriculture.
The institute is scheduled for
August 21-24 at the Rock Eagle
4-H Club Center.
“Husband and wife team up in
the work of managing broilers or
layers,” said Gannon, program
chairman for the event. “Sons and
daughters who are 4-H Club memb
ers often start the whole thing off
by participating in the Georgia
poultry chain, one of the largest
in the nation. Frequently the en
tire family has a part In the fairly
new industry which meant $172,-
258,000 to Georgians last year.”
Gannon said that is the reason
the whole family is being invited
to the poultry institute.
The schedule each day from
morning until mid-afternoon will
provide information on the latest
developments in poultry research
and management. After 4:30,
though, pleasure will be the order
of the day. There will be fishing
in 110-acre Rock Eagle Lake,
swimming, movies, and other re
creation.
Gannon said eight out-of-state
speakers-each outstanding in some
phase of the poultry industry, are
scheduled to be on hand for the
three-day event.
Registration will begin at 10
o'clock Tuesday morning, August
21. Wednesday has been designated
as “Broiler Day,” and Thursday
will be “Egg Producers Day.”
Of the speakers being lined up
for the event, Gannon said, "It
would be hard to find a more star
studded group than has been se
cured for Georgia’s first, poultry
institute.”
He added, “We are expecting a
large number of people, and reser
vations should be made as soon as
possible with Curtis Collier, poul
| try marketing specialist, Agricul
tural Extension Service, Athens.
REVIVAL NOTICE
Revival Services will begin at
| Roanoak Baptist Church Sunday
' July 15, and will continue through
out the week with services begin
ning at 11 AM and 8 PM.
Early Day, Pastor
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Would you believe that every
cutting of alfalfa requires about
326,000 gallons of water per acre
to grow it? Or that an acre of cot
ton needs 800,000 gallons of water
to mature one annual crop?
“Corn grown on a claypan soil!
requires much less water per bush
el when the soil is heavily fertiliz
ed than when it is unfertilized. In
the experiment that brought out
this fact, not only was yield great
ly increased but the amounts of
water used per ushel were 5,600
gallons where fertilizer was ade
quate and 21,000 gallons where no
fertilizer was applied.”
A North Carolina study shows
that cost of filtering the mud out
of city water supplies originating
on eroding watersheds was $27 per
million gallons compared to $8.50
per million gallons for filtering the
water supplied from well protected
forest land.
When we think of water storage,
we commonly think of reservoirs,
ponds and dams; but there is more
storage capacity in the ground than
in all manmade reservoirs multi
plied many times. Therefore the
job is to get more of the precipi
tation into the ground before it
runs off or evaporates.
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ANNUAL HORE SHOW TO BE
HERE SATURDAY, AUG., 16
The Kiwanis Club of Cumming
will hold its seventh annual horse
show on Saturday night, August 16,
beginning at 7:30 o'clock at the
Forsyth County Athletic Field.
This show has been getting big
ger and better each year and the
trend is expected to continue this
year. The program has been cut
down to 15 big classes which will
pay some $1200.00 in prize money.
The Shetland Pony class has been
eliminated and a Fine Harness
class has been substituted for the
Local Horses and Riders class. The
Fine Harness class is one of the
most spectacular events of the en
tire show from a spectator’s stand
point and is in itself worth the
price of the show.
Much work has already been
done to improve the show ring and
the entire athletic field. More seats
will be added and plenty of park
ing space and seating should be
available. There will also be new
lighting circuits around the ring
and the lighting should be much
improved.
Anyone wanting to enter a horse
in this show may do so by con
tacting James Chambers or John
Pittard in Cumming and obtain an
entry blank. August Ist will be
the deadline for getting entries
printed in the program.
IMPORTANT HEALTH NOTICE
by T. E. Nelms, PHS.
During the past several months
there has been a steady increase in
the building and buying of homes
in Forsyth County. Many of these
homes have been built or bought
through G. I. or FHA or a loan
from some other loan agency.
Most loan agencies do not ad
vance money to build or to buy a
home unless water and sewerage
disposal systems are approved by
the Local Health Department.
The specifications on water sup
plies and sewerage disposals sys
tems are nothing more than just
i good common sense for adequate
safe guards to avoid Health Haz
zards and expensive repair bills.
Even if you do not plan to sell
your home that you are building
now, at some later date you might
decide to do so. It will pay in the
long run to visit your canitarian at
the new county building and get in
formation and plans on water sup
l plies and sewerage disposal.