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Volume 47.
To The Voters And
Friends in Forsyth
County
Due to some mistatements in
regard to our hospital, my taxes,
locations of roads, the new hospi
tal. These are the facts:
Our Hospital has been paid by
the County an average of $29.78
per month since 1950—For hospital
and all medical services. In regard
to the new hospital, I secured a
grant from the State and Federal
government for $300,000.00 thinking
it would be to the best interest of
the future development of our
Copnty to have a Public Hospital.
The Commissioners appointed the
Hospital Authority and I think
they have done a fine job. The
State and Federal Engineers select
ed the location and I am sure
every one will be pleased.
Mrs. Redd, the Tax Commission
er certifies that I paid the County
on personal property and Mary
Alice Hospital Twenty-nine Hund
red & Sixty-eight Dollars & Eighty
six Cents for the year 1955.
As to the many other accusations
they are to ridiculous to degnify
with an answer.
MY RECORD IN LEGISLATURE
In 1949, the county owed $145,-
000.00 and had no credit, was pay
ing up to 8 percent interest, so I
passed a Constitutional amendment
which permitted the County Com
missioners to refinance by selling
Bonds, which they did at 3 1-4 per
cent interest, and amortized this
enormous amount over a twenty
year period. I included in this Con
stitutional amendment that the
Commissioners or other authorities
could not put the county in debt
more than the anticipated revenue
for that year.
ROADS
The State nor the County has
never paved a road by any farm
that I owned since I have been in
office, except the Dewey Pruitt
place at Heardsville and this con
tract was let six months before I
ever thought of buying.
As to the Roads: I have never
blocked any road anywhere, any
time in any way. On the other
hand I spent much time and energy
towards getting roads in our coun
ty. I invite you to look around in
most every community in the
county and see for yourself the
number we have gotten since 1949.
Certainly, the county nor the state
has not been and will not be in
position to build them all at the
same time.
As to the location, we have all
done the best we could towards
distributing them on a basis that
would be fair to all. However, since
the Highway Department has been
furnishing the money, they have
the final say as to where they go.
I have secured for the County ap
proximately $100,000.00 in county
contracts that has put them in a
position to build many roads and
buy all of the fine machinery they
have without any expense to the
tax payers, and, here, let me say,
without the complete cooperation
of the Commissioners, which I have
had, certainly this could not have
been accomplished. I consider they
have done a fine job.
My voting record is open, while
I am sure some will disagree with
this. However, in every instance, I
have voted for what I thought was
the best interest of the county be
lieving what was good for this
county was good for the State.
One of the things that I voted for
was Segregation which I feel is
most important. I voted for every
bill that I thought would help the
old age, the crippled and the blind
and dependent children. I voted
for every bill, (including Minimum
Foundation), that I thought would
give us better and more teachers
and increase their pay with a de
cent salary. I voted for the bills
that increased the bus driver’s pay.
I voted for every bill that I felt
would help the farmers, our poul
try interest, our dairy and cattle
interests. I have always votpd for
every Prohibition bill and have al
ways been against whiskey, wine
and beer being sold in our county.
My life has been with you and
among you and I have done my
best to make it such as would
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY C CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHERO RICE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Forsyth County High
School News
The football players met with
Coach Hadaway last Thursday
night to discuss plans for fall prac
tice which begins August 20th.
There were thirty-one members
present. Several of the players
were not able to attend the first
meeting.
Coach Carroll and Coach Hada
way are attending the Coach’s clin
ic at the Biltmore Hotel in Atlanta
this week. Two of the highlights of
the meeting are the All Star Bask
etball game Wednesday night and
the All Star football game Thurs
day night. Nineteen football play
ers and Coach Hadaway are plan
ning to attend the All Star Foot
ball game Thursday night.
The cheerleaders and Mrs. Hada
way are going to Shorter College
at Rome, Georgia August 23 thru
25 for the Cheerleaders Clinic. The
Clinic is sponsored by the YMCA.
Berry McWhorter and Pat Gober
is attending the State FFA Con
vention this week as delegates from
Forsyth County Chapter. Berry is
president of the local chapter and
Pat is the reporter. Mr. Jimmy
Harris, the Voc-Ag Teacher will be
one of the leaders in the Conven
tion at Jackson Lake.
The new FHA officers and the
retiring officers of the FHA met
at Mr. Ed Otwell’s lake Monday
for a day of work and play. Miss
Ivie and Mrs. White, their advisors
reported a very worthwhile day at
the lake.
AS^NEWS
In Forsyth County we have 68
farms that have signed agreements
toparticipate in the acreage reserve
part of the Soil Bank Program.
The acreage involved in these
agreements is 245.2 acres, with a
total payment value of $11,330.57.
With the late start farmers had,
and with not much time for decid
ing whether or not to participate,
we feel that this is an accomplish
ment on the part of the farmers.
The Conservation Reserve, of the
Soil Bank, will probably be in work
ing condition in September, 1956.
As soon as we get information on
this a letter will be sent to all
farmers in Forsyth County. Also it
will be announced in the weekly
news article.
Now is the time to sign an in
tention sheet if you are planning
to do some soil building practices
this fall, and would like to have
cost shares on the ACP Program.
On fall practices it is always ad
visable to do them as early as pos
sible, so as to get a good cover
before winter begins.
BETHELVIEW HDC PICNIC
Bethelview HDC picnic was held
July 24 at 7:00 p. m at the Road
Side park close to Sawnee EMC.
A delicious supper and social
gathering was enjoyed by all.
Mrs. Lois Wheeler, Secretary
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival service will begin at the
Corinth Baptist Church Sunday
August 12. Services will begin at
10:30 in the morning and 8 o’clock
at night.
Rev. Early Day, Pastor
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival Services will begin Sun
day August 12 at Antioc Baptist
Church by Pastor W. C. Phillips,
assisted by Rev. P. W. Tribble
FROM THE LIGHTER SIDE OF
THE READER’S IGEST
The increasing number of North
American tourists with little or no
knowledge of Spanish visiting Puer
to Rico has promoted the Depart
ment of Tourism to request a San
Juan furniture store to change its
window display. The window con
tained several comfortable-looking
beds with a sign: ‘‘SIN PRONTO.”
Many of the visitors didn’t know
that this is a Spanish colloquialism
for “no down payment.”
merit your confidence, support and
influence.
Sincerely,
Marcus Mashbum, Sr.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday August 9, 1956.
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
T. B. McDowell, Assistant State
SCS Administrative Officer, R. B.
Heenan, Chief-Records Management
and Communications Branch, SCS,
Washington Office, John C. Lewis,
Washington Office visited the local
SCS office last week. While here
they toured the Settingdown Creek
Watershed.
Fredric Heller Geologist, SCS,
Spartanburg Office, spent last week
making site studies for dams on
Thalley and Carnes Creeks. John
Huff, Geologist, SCS, Area Office,
assisted Mr. Heller in making his
studies..
C. L. Veatch, Management Agron
omist, spent last week in the Set
tingdown Creek Watershed making
critical area studies to determine
what plants could best be used in
stabilizing these areas.
Barrington King, SCS, Informat
ion Specialist, Spartanburg Office
spent last Wednesday in the Set
tingdown Creek Watershed gather
ing data for a small watershed
news story.
Georgian Elected
President Of U. S.
School Film Chiefs
Garland Bagley, who has built
one of the nation’s largest educat
ional film libraries for Georgia
schools, has been elected president
of the Association of Chief State
School Audio-Visual Officers at the
group’s recent convention in Chi
cago.
Bagley has been with the State
Department of Education since 1941
with time out for 40 months of
military service during World War
11. He started Georgia’s audio-visu
al library after his return from
service.
The first films were distributed
in November, 1947. The library now
has 33,000 prints of 3,450 titles.
Some 45 local audio-visual centers
have been started in Georgia coun
ties.
Bagley, a native of Cumming, is
a graduate of the Berry Schools,
the University of Georgia and the
Atlanta Law School. He formerly
taught in Forsyth and Cobb Coun
ty schools.
Under a recent change in rules,
Bagley will be the first president
to serve a two-year term as presi
dent of the national association.
17th Annual Meeting of
Jackson E. M. C.
The 17th annual meeting of the
Jackson Electric Membership Cor
poration will be held Saturday,
August 18.
R. J. Kelly, Jackson EMC man
ager, says that a giant circus tent
will be erected on the cooperative
grounds in Jefferson, and several
thousand member-users are expect
ed to attend to take part in the
festivities, business sessions, and to
view displays that will be set up
in the cooperative warehouse.
Tables, drinks and ice will be
furnished. Attending members and
other visitors will bring lunch
baskets for a picnic lunch.
Among the events on tap are a
beauty contest, cake-baking contest,
and election of directors.
Prizes will be offered to the win
ners of the first three places in the
baking contest, and the winner of
the beauty contest will represent
Jackson Electric Membership Cor
poration in the state contest.
The corporation has a member
ship of between nine and ten thous
and in eight northeast Georgia
counties, with about 13,000 users.
Griffin Says Georgia
To Go All-Out In
Big Road Program
ATLANTA,—(GPS) All indicat
ions point to the likelihood that (1)
Georgia will participate 100 per
cent in the gigantic new federal
highway construction program and
(2) the State Highway Department
soon will be moving in high gear
in an effort to get the big job
done.
Evidence of this was seen after
Gov. Marvin Griffin recently met
with Highway Board members and
their engineering chiefs in a spec
ially called conference.
“This road program has got to
go through.” the Governor asserted
“Whatever it takes to put it over
we’re going to do it.”
Georgia is to get some sll3-mil
lion in the federal funds, which it
must match in a one-toiteh\ taf jo,
during the next four years. Of this
amount, approximately $23-million
will be available in the current
fiscal year.
To participate in the program,
Griffin said he wanted the High
way Department to farm out en
gineering work, if that is neces
sary. He said the Highway Board
also is attempting to hire addit
ional engineers. He further told
the department officials to give any
help they can to local officials in
the aquisition of rights-of-way.
Since the federal program devel
oped after the Georgia General As
sembly passed a new appropriat
ions bill, Georgia’s matching funds
will have to come out of the de
partment’s general operating fund,
the chief executive pointed out.
Gov. Griffin praised the Highway
Department and said it had failed
to receive due credit for its good
work “because I’m governor.”
On the day following the special
conference, described in some quart
ers as in the nature of a “pep
talk” by the Governor, Highway
Board Chairman Roger H. Lawson
announced several organizational
changes in the engineering depart
ment “for the purpose of promot
ing effeciency and productivity.”
They are:
V. W. Smith, Sr., rural roads
engineer, was designated federal
contact engineer and first execut
ive assistant to M. L. Mashburn,
chief highway engineer.
John Wade, assistant division en
gineer in charge of rural roads at
Macon, was moved up to the po
sition of rural roads engineer suc
ceeding Smith.
C. W. Leftwich, maintenance en
gineer was transferred to the po
sition of construction engineer.
C. S. Fain, construction engineer
was transferred to the position of
highway engineer-general, assisting
the chief highway engineer.
J. O. Bacon, division engineer at
Savannah, was moved up to main
tenance engineer, succeeding Left
wich.
R. G. Ray, Jr., division engineer
at Augusta, was transferred to Sa
vannah, succeeding Bacon.
Marion Patrick, was assistant di
vision engineer in charge of con
struction at Gainesville, was trans
ferred to Augusta, succeeding Ray.
Col. F. L. Ackerson, highway
engineer-general, was transferred
to the construction department as
assistant to Leftwich.
Annual Singing
Everyone is invited to attend the
Annual Singing at the Cumming
Second Baptist Church on the Se
cond Sunday in August. We are
expecting the Stancil Trio; Gene
Lummus family, Little Janice
Pruitt, The Willingiore Trio, The
Broughton Wallace family and
many others.
Everyone come. Dinner on the
ground.
Mrs. Lamar Pruitt, Secretary.
ZION HILL CEMETERY
CLEANING
All members of Zion Hill Church
and those who have loved ones
buried there are invited to meet
Saturday morning August 11, to
clean the cemetery. The following
Saturday August 18, you are invit
ed to help clean the Arbor to get
ready for Revival Services to be
gin on Sunday August 19.
County Population 15,000. Number 32.
Holbrook Camp
Meeting Opens On
Friday August 17
Services will start at Holbrook
Camp Ground August 11, at 8 p. m.
and will continue through August
26. For 119 years thte people of
this section of Georgia have assem
bled each summer for old time,
soul stirring revivals that are typi
cal of Holbrook.
Holbrook is located in the north
eastern section of Cherokee County
about 12 miles from Canton and
one mile from State Highway No.
20. Signs pointing the way make it
easy for newcomers to find it.
In 1839, Jesse C. Holbrook donat
ed 40 acres of land to the North
Georgia Conference to be used as
a Campground. Even though it is
deeded to the Methodist Conference
people of various religious back
grounds attend. It is self governed
by the tent holders, assisted by a
Board of Managers that are elected
by the tent holders and act for
them when Camp Meeting is not in
session.
Rev. F. C. Hicks is host preacher
and Rev. Nat. G. Long is District
Superintendent. The visiting preach
ers are Rev. A. E. Barton and Rev.
John Wilder. Mr. Harry Sellers will
lead the singing.
Much progress has been made
since the first encampment was
held. The people that attend enjoy
many conveniences the early camp
ers did not have. The large arbor,
the beautiful well kept campus, the
44 cottages with water and elec
tricity are a great improvement
over the brush arbor, covered wag
ons, open fire for cooking and the
spring at the foot of the hill that
was the only water supply.
Holbrook of today stands as a
memorial to the devoted Christian
people who sang, shouted and pray
ed here many years ago. They were
willing to withstand hardships in
order to enjoy the religious at
mosphere that existed at Holbrook.
The people of today that attend
Camp Meeting, many of them are
the children of the ones that have
now passed to their reward, are
striving to carry on the work. The
preachers will bring soul stirring
messages, the song and prayer ser
vices will be uplifting. There will
be prayer meetings held each day
by the men and the women and
special services will be conducted
daily for the children.
A large attendance and a great
Camp Meeting is expected this year
Every one is cordially invited.
Mr. E. H. Roland
Passes Last Thursday
Mr. Ernest Henry Roland, died in
the local hospital early Thursday
after a short illness. He was 53
years of age and was born and
reared in Dawson County and had
made his home in the Silver City
Community in Forsyth County for
the past ten months. Mr. Roland
was a member of the Mt Vernon
Baptist Church in Dawson County
and at the time of his death was
engaged in farming and a chicken
grower and was associated with
the Cumming Hatchery.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Myrtle Sea/, 2 daugh
ters, Miss Marcel Roland and Miss
Annie Roland, four sons, Wjnston
Jerry and Donald Roland, all of
Forsyth County and Leon Roland,
U. S. Navy, Corpus Christ!, Texas,
two brothers Mr. Earl and Mr. An
drew Roland, Dawson County, 3
sisters, Mrs. Norman Gilreath, of
Winder, Mrs. Beecher Gayton, of
Cumming, Rt. 3 and Mrs. Clyde
Gilreath of Marble Hill Ga., and a
number of other relatives.
Funeral Services were held at
the Mt Vernon Baptist Church, on
Saturday August 4th at 3 p. m.
with the Rev. Lawton Burt, Rev.
J T. Sewell and Rev. Joel Honey
officiating and interment was in
the Church cemetery.
REVIVAL SERVICES
Revival Services will begin at
Ebeneezer Methodist Church Sun
day August 12. You are cordially
invited to attend these services.
Merchants Chest
Drawing Large Crowds
The Treasure Chest Drawing on
each Saturday afternoon at 2 p m.
is continuing to have bigger crowds
each week. The winner last Satur
day really was made happy. So
why not show your appreciation
and save your coupons and show
the Merchants that you appreciate
this event also. These firms that
make this possible 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.
Farmer Now Need*
Two Jobs To Make
Ends Meet—Herman
COVINGTON, Ga.,—(GPS) Con
tinuing to criticize the federal gov
ernment’s operations in general
and its farm program in particular,
former Gov. Herman Talmadge,
now campaigning for the U. S.
Senate seat to be vacated by Walt
er F. George, told the Snapping
Shoals Electric Membership Corp.’s
recent annual meeting at Salem,
Camp Grounds near Covington,
that two outride incomes are re
quired these days to support a
farm. Said he:
“During the last three years, it
has taken all of the money I could
collect in salary as Governor, since
leaving office, all of my income
from practicing law—as well as all
my wife could earn selling hams,
to keep our farms operating.
I know that if htis has been true
for me it also has been true for
other Georgia farmers. I have
found from personal experience
that it now takes two people work
ing in town or on other jobs to
keep a farm in operation.
Talmadge charged that the ad
ministration in Washington has
“done nothing realistic” to remedy
the situation and that the only pro
gram it has proposed is "one of
trying to plow under two million
spiall farmers and hoping the rest
can make a living.”
He called for an immediate re
turn to rigid price supports of "not
less than 90 per cent for basic
farm commodities” and the inaugu
ration of a program of price sup
ports for livestock to guarantee
that "farmers will not go bank
rupt trying to sell their livestock
when hogs get down to ten cents
a pound like they did last fall.”
Mrs, Edmond (Ted)
Hicks Passes Monday
Mrs. Edmond Hicks, 39 years of
age and well-known matron of the
Cross Roads Community died in a
local hospital, early Monday after
an illness of four weeks. Before
her marriage she was the former
Miss Mary Madge Bennett and was
a member of the Cross Roads Bap
tist Church.
Survivors include her husband,
two daughters, Mrs. Billy Grindle,
Shirley Jean Hicks, two sons, Cloys
Hicks and Lanny Hicks, Father and
Mother, Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Ben
rjett, all of Forsyth County, four
brothers, Hulett Bennett, Balitmore
Maryland, Clyde, George M. and
Bobby Ray Bennett all of Forsytfi
County, Sisters, Mrs. Benjamin
Libera, Huntingdon, West, Va.,
Mrs. Clyde Lingerfelt, Mrs. Farris
Thomas Mrs. Eldon Hubbard and
Miss Myrtie Kate Bennett all of
Forsyth County and a number of
other relatives.
Funeral services were held at
the Cross Roads Baptist Church on
Tuesday August 7th at 2 p. m.
with the Rev. Tommie Henderson
and the Rev. C. B. Gazaway offi
ciating and interment was in the
Church cemetery.