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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 t ir'. '-r . X ' ' nHlr lu'' 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.