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Volume 47.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
THE RURAL COMMUNITY
You may have heard Dr’ Garland
Hendrix on the Druid Hills Hour
last Sunday mornin, in Atlanta for
Ihe Rural Church Community Con
ference at Emory University. After
the broadcast, a man celled me
and said:
“That man talked 'more sense
about the country church and the
whole rural situation than I have
heard in a long time.”
I think the man was right. Dr.
Hendrix knows what he is talking
about. Before going to the South
eastern Baptist Seminary at Wake
Forest, N. C., as Professor of Rur
id Church and Community Life, Dr.
Hendrix was pastor of Olive Chap
el Baptist Church at Apex, N. C.,
where he developed one of the
really great rural churches of Am
erica and set the pace for our own
and other denominations.
1 asked him on the broadcast
what sort of man was needed, in
rural churches today. He replied
that the rural church, like the ur
ban church, needs a pastor who
understands people and loves peo
ple, and who lives on the field
with the people, able to enter into
their joys and disappointments, and
able to preach to them without re
minding them that he knows more
than they know, due to college and
seminary training.
He was practical in all he said,
indicating that he is fully aware
of the transition which has been
going on for years in the social
and cultural and economic life of
our country.
It is well to remember, despite
the heavy shift of people from the
country to the city, that we still
have 80-odd percent of our Baptist
church members in rural churches,
and the same would hold, perhaps,
for the Methodists, though their
percentage might not be quite as
high as Baptists. And it is from
the rural churches that our city
churches are constantly receiving
new life. That has always been
true, and will likely continue to
tte true.
We can be grateful for men like
Garland Hendrix who are working
at the job of trying to relate con
structively the rural people to the
urban centers. We are one neigh
borhood, even though we act dif
ferently. If the cities are saved,
it will be through the friendyy re
lationship of the great rural back
log of folks who believe in the
Bible and in the Author of the
Book.
ASC NEWS
The Community Committeemen
from each District have met and
set up a normal yield on each cot
ton farm in the County, for use in
the 1956 Soil Bank Program.
If you are a cotton producer and
you meet the qualifications listed
below you are eligible to partici
pate in the Soil Bank.
(1) If you are within your allot
ment.
(2) By destroying your cotton acre
age.
(3) By destruction of acreage by
natural causes. (Destruction
must occur not later than July
20, 1956)
If you meet the qualifications to
participate you may come into the
County Office on or before July
20, 1956 and sign an agreement.
The county committeemen will then
visit your farm, to determine your
payment rate per acre.
After you sign the agreement
and your payment rate per acre is
established if you think the pay
ment rate is too small you may
cancell the agreement.
NO AGREEMENT WILL BE
ACCEPTED AFTER JULY 20.
1956.
Card Of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to neighbors, friends
and relatives for kindness by word
or deed during the sickness and
death of our Father and Grand
father.
God bless each and every one of
you is our prayer.
The family of Robert Reid.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
F. F. A. AND F. H. A.
ATTEND CAMP
Eleven future homemakers and
twenty-five future farmers left on
Monday July 9th to spend a week
at the FFA —FHA camp at Lake
Jackson, south of Covington. They
were accompanied by two of the
Vocational advisors, Mrs. Harry
White and Mr. James Harris.
Available for the use of the cam
j pus were facilities for swimming,
softball, badminton, shuffleboard,
! checkers, ping pong, horseshoes,
volley ball, folk games and crafts.
Tournaments during the weak were
entered by the Forsyth County
boys and girls.
One of the highlights of the week
was the inspirational vespers pro
gram presented by the Chapter.
Several of the girls and boys had
important parts on this program
in which the entire Forsyth County
Chapter participated.
Of great interest to the group
were the new cottages that have
been built by contributions from
FFA and FHA Chapters over the
state. One of these cottages is now
open to the campers.
The week concluded Saturday
morning after breakfast.
The regular monthly meeting
schedule for Wednesday July 18
has been postpone until July 25,
at 8 o’clock.
ETERNAL VALUE
Only one life ‘Twill soon be past.
Only what’s done for Christ will
last. Many elderly and ill people
live triumphantly. They lead happy
and useful lives often under dif
ficulties. The sunset of life is
bright for them.
Each person is the product of
his life experiences. What one is
to be, he is now becoming. His
traits, habits, and attitudes remain
much the same in old age. He who
has been brought up in a Christian
home and has attended church ser
vices regularly usually holds to
spiritual values throughout his life.
If he has followed Jesus through
the years, he tends to draw a little
closer to his side when the way
becomes rough and his step is un
certain.
The author of “The Sunset is
Bright” in Sunday School Builder,
tells of Mrs. Barton. She is a frail
little old lady who suffers with
painful arthritis, though she will
never admit it. Her life seems to
have been a series of tragedies,
but she has pulled herself bravely
through every trial.
“I just claim God’s promises”,
she declares, “as he says in Jere
miah 33.3. Call unto me and I will
answer thee, and show thee great
and mighty things, which thou
knowest not! I call and he answers.
Since the day she entered the
Home (fore the aged) she has
stood like a rock to those around
her who have less stamina than
she. Many come to her for help
and usually find it on their knees.
Several have asked to join in her
devotionals each morning. One hard
ened old synic past eighty years of
afe found Christ as hef Savior in
that tiny room not long ago. Little
wonder Mrs. Barton is loved by
everyone.
“I just feel better when I am
with her”, one lady said to me.
"Some of her happiness always
rubs off on me”, is the way an
other put it. "seems as if she is
on such good terms with the Lord”,
said a third.
“What is your secret, Mrs. Bar
ton?” I asked one day. “How do
you live so triumphantly?”
| “When I was a small child,”
she answered, “I got the idea from
my Sunday School teacher that I
was not my own but had been
bought with a price, that I belong
ed to God. From that day, I have
tried to live for him. There has
always been so much to do.”
So Sarah Barton, aged eighty-two
in constant pain and with little
strength, ignores her own troubles
to help those around her.
If you are a member of Pleasant
View Baptist Church or have loved
ones buried there, you are invited
to come Saturday July 21, at 8:00
o’clock A. M. to help clean off the
cemetery.
W. R. CALLAWAY
CEMETERY WORKING
Cumming Georgia, Thursday. July 19. 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. Gravitt, 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
Soil Conservation
District News
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JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Dr. Roy Grissell, biologist with
the State Staff of the Soil Conser
vation Service visited farm ponds
last week of Ruper Groover, Clint
Odum, Gordon Sosebee, Grandy
Bramblett, R. F. Hardeman and
one of the flood prevention gtruct
pres making observations as to the
conditions of the ponds for good
fishing.
Previously Dr. Grizzell had con
ducted a Fish Pond Management
meeting at the Ed Otwell lake on
fish pond management. Twenty co
operators with the Upper Chatta
hoochee River Soil Conservation
District attended this meeting.
JULY is a good month to plant
gericea lespedeza.
JULY is a good month to pre
pare land for alfalfa planting.
JULY is a good month to make
plans for fall seeding of pastures.
SINGING NOTICE
The regular Fourth Sunday night.
Singing will meet with Pleasant
Grove M. E. Church July 22nd at
8 o’clock. We will have a good
singing. This is the Seven County
class.
D. J. WHITMIRE
KEITH TAYLOR
Forsyth County High
School News
Mrs. E. E. Rogers resigned from
the faculty to teach at Lyman Hall
School near Gainesville. She lives in
Gainesville and will not have to
drive so many miles another year.
Mrrs. Rogers worked hard last year
in her classes and the many other
activities that she had a part in.
There are still some vacancies
on the high school faculty. Three
new mejnbers have been added and
maybe the other vacanciesc will be
filled in the next few days.
The two vocational agriculture
teachers, Mr. Lanier Bannister and
Mr. Jimmy Harris are at Jackson
Lake this week for summer con
ference of all the vocational teach
ers. Miss Ivie and Mrs. White are
running the canning plant while
the Agriculture teachers are away.
Mr. C. N. Lambert will attend a
workshop for Principals July 23-27
at the University of Georgia. Mr.
Lambert has been working with
the planning committee for this
workshop for several weeks.
Impounding Of Lake
Sidney Lanier To
Be Resumed
Colonel Harold E. Bisbort, Mobile
District Engineer, Qorps of Engi
neers, U. S. Army, announced to
day that impounding of Lake Sid
ney Lanier will be resumed im
mediately.
This action has been made pos
sible with the opening of the new
Thompson Bridge and satisfactory
arrangements for the removal of
other restrictions. Colonel Bisbort
further stated that, barring unfor
seen circumstances, filling of the
lake will continue without interrup
tion and as rapidly as rainfall and
stream flow conditions will permit.
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 Hal)
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
County Population 15,000. Number 29.
Appreciation Day
Regardless of the cluody skies
and thunder showers the crowds
are still growing for the Treasure
Chest Drawing. This event held
each Saturday is creating much in
terest and there is a Winner each
drawing. The Forsyth County
Chamber of Commerce who spon
sors this event urges each family
in this area to take this opportuni
ty of free chances, that these mer
chants might have in this manner,
a way of thanking you for all past
and future patronage.
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.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
You have heard a great deal of
talk in recent months about the
big farmer crowding out the small
farmer. Herb Bennett, Extension
poultryman, says there is no rea
son for such talk. According to
Bennett, there are too many large
farmers that will go broke due to
mismanagement in one way or an
other. These fellows also have
headaches. Hired help is not what
it used to be, especially on a poul
try farm. Bennett says it is time
we forget about the size of the
farm and start studying how we
can work together to produce a
dozen eggs for the least amount
of money.
Bennett suggests three ways for
a poultryman to work to increase
his profits.
To begin, sell eggs as close to
the consumer as is possible. Some
poultrymen can’t sell eggs except
on the wholesale market. Some
poultrymen can sell to the grocery
stores, cutting out the wholesaler
and others can even form egg
routes, or in one way or another
sell direct to the housewife. In
general, good wages can be made
in retailing eggs when the custom
ers are close to the poultry farm.
The next suggestion is to reduce
cost of production. The main cost
on any poultry farm is feed and
all poultryymen cannot produce
their own grain. It costs money to
invest in land, labor, tools, fertili
zer and seeds. Many poultrymen,
however, can buy grains from their
neighbors during the harvest sea
son which should save quite a bit.
This, of course, will necessitate
grain storage. Money borrowed for
the purpose of providing storage
of grain will most likely pay good
interest to the farmer.
The number 3 point is the most
Important of all. This is, namely,
increase the number of eggs per
sack of feed. This seems that the
farmer must buy the very best
pullat that is available, I have some
good information on the strains of
birds that have been proven in the
National Egg Laying Contest and
these birds can be bought in Geor
gia without being shipped over a
long haul.
All in all, the very best job pos
sible in brooding and growing the
pullets is necessary.
Notice To All
Forsyth County Women
The Forsyth County High School
home economics department will be
open each Wednesday and Friday
afternoons from 2 to 5 p. m. until
school begins in September.
Any ladies who wish to do so
are invited to come in for any in
dividual instruction that they desire
in the field of home economics.
There is no Fee for this service
and the ladies are urged to take
advantage of the opportunity.
Miss Wilma Ivie and Mrs. Harry
White will be available for rhis in
struction.
Memorial Services
Sunday July 22 At
Sharon Baptist Church
On next Sunday, July 22, there
will be Allday Services at Sharon
Baptist Church in memory of Mr.
Walter T. Bagley who passed away
two years ago on that date.
The following program is out
lined for the day with our pastor.
Rev. C. E. Warren in charge.
10:C0 O'clock Sunday School
11:00 O’clock Preaching by Rev.
P. W. Tribble
{ 12:00 O’clock Lunch spread on the
Church ground
1:30 Talks by Rev. Henry Warren
Rev. D. M. Nalley and everyone
who wish to express their
thoughts in memory of Mr.
Bagley.
The program will be concluded
by prayer and old time singing
which Mr. Bagley loved. Hiss good
prayers and singing still remain in
our hearts and minds whose lives
he influenced so much at Sharon.
Everybody has a special invitat
ion to bring lunch and attend this
service in loving memory of this
great and much loved man.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival services will begin at
Sharon next Sunday night, July 22,
Rev. Cruse, pastor of Cleveland
First Baptist church will assist our
pastor Rev. C. E. Warren.'
Mr. Carl Buice of Cleveland, a
former Sharon boy, will be with
us to lead the singing.
We invite everyone to attend
these services and help us to pray
for a glorious revival at Sharon
as well as the county over.
Bible School Closes
At Sharon Church
The Vacation Bible School closed
at Sharon on Sunday July 15, with
the Commencement Program.
This Bible School was well at
tended and enjoyed by all the fa
culty as well as the pupils. We feel
that much was accomplished even
though a lot more needs to be
done. We also realize that the work
of Christians is never done as long
as we are allowed to stay on earth.
We had a total of 120 enrolled
in Bible School and a large major
ity of these attended every day and
at least three days which they had
to do to receive a Certificate.
There were 14 faculty members
who were kept very busy in the
Bible study and handwork with
this large number of pupils but we
feel that it was well worth the
time and sacrifice to leave our
work at home and help all these
children to learn to love Christ and
His Kingdom work more.
Each department presented a
good program on Sunday morning
to let the parents and friends share
in what they had learned and done
during the week.
Our pastor gave a wonderful
message, following the program on
the Scripture verse in 2 Timothy
2: 15 “Study to shew thyself ap
proved unto God, a workman that
needeth not to be ashamed, rightly
dividing the word of truth.”
Card Of Thanks
We take this method of thanking
our friends and neighbors for their
kind deeds shown us during the
recent passing of our wife and
mother.
Especialy do we thank those who
brought food, gave flowers and
sent cards. To Fay and Rebecca
Martin for the beautiful songs. The
Ministers, Revs. Hoyt Thompson,
D. M. Nalley, W. H. Warren and
Leon .Morgan for their comforting
words and the kindness of the In
gram Funeral Home.
May Gods richest blessings rest
and abide with each and everyone
is the prayer of the family of
Mrs. Raymond C. Orr.
Value of Georgia crops in 1955
zoomed above 404 million dollars
despite a loss of more than 10
million dollars because of the late
| freeze in March which wiped out
the peach crop, according to the
Crop Reporting Service.
Georgia farmers lose millions of
dollars a year because of improper
harvesting and handling of grain.