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Volume 47. North Georgia T. B. Association Serves Seven Counties Forsyth County recently joined the North Georgia Tuberculosis Association. The North Georgia As sociation now includes Lumpkin, Forsyth, White, Banks, Hall, Hab ersham, and Dawson Counties. The Association is governed by a Board of Directors made up from each county. The number of members each county has depends upon the population of each county. Forsyth County has three members. These are Mr. Joe Brooks, Mr. Clyde Mize and Mr. A. R. Housley. Mr. Housley for a number of years ably filled the office of the chairman of the Volunteer Committee. He is to be commended in his interest in the fight against tuberculosis. All the work of the association is made possible by your purchase of Christmas seals. LOVE OR PERISH • The purest love on earth is the love of a godly mother for her child. A child must have love or he will suffer greatly; love must exist and be much in evidence be tween husband and wife if the home is what God meant it to be. The home and the church are of divine origin, they were established by the love of God. Without love for God and love for our fellow man we perish. “For God so loved the world that he gave ” Love cacuses us to give of uur best to our fellowman and to our God. I loved my children when they were small and I still love them— I baptized each of them and I am praying that each of them will give their best to the Master. Each in their own way returned their love to me. I can see their smiles now as they brought we a valen tine expressing their love for me or in some other way. If we love someone we want to please them. If we love God we long to please Him. The Bible tells us how we can please Him. May I quote the following poem: MY BEST God has His highest things in life For the few who dare to stand the test; God has His second choice For those who will not have His best; And some there be who ever make the highest choice And when by trials pressed They shrink, they yield, they shun the cross. And so they love the best I want in this short life of mine Just as much as may be pressed, Of service true to God and man, So help me, Lord, to do my best. W. R. CALLAWAY Memorial Singing The Egbert Whitmire. Memorial Singing will be held at Coal Moun tain Baptist Church on the Second Sunday September 9th. We invite all singers and lovers of good singing to come spend the day. We are expecting to have some good Quartets, Trio’s and Duets from all parts of North Georgia with us. Make your plans to come spend the day and make this singing one of the best. We will have dinner on the grounds. D. J. Whitmire, President Fay Martin, Vice President Pauline McCormick, Sec’y. CANNING PLANT NOTICE The Forsyth County Vocational Canning Plant will be closed after Tuesday September 4th, except by appointments. If any of you have late com or peas to can, get in contact with James G. Harris or J. L. Bannister. We will arrange to help process these products in the afternoon. The Canning Plant will be oper ated later in the Fall to can the meats and other products. These will be canned by appointment. J. L. BANNISTER t v JAMES HARRIS, JR. The Forsyth County News OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMTNG DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CHKRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAI.I. AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) Today & Tomorrow Louie D. Newton VOICE OF AMERICA I wonder if we didn’t hear again the Voice of Americain the stock yard arena at Chicago laast Friday afternoon. The city bosses shot their bow, and it looked like they had won again. Then the voices from the wide open country came through. It was not so much the candi dates, perhaps as the far greater question of whether Tammany Hall and its varied allies would name the nominee. Mr. Stevenson had done something Thursday night that scared the bosses when he asked the Convention to name the candidate for the Vice Presidency. It scared everybody. It put every delegate on the spot. Few of them had gone to Chicago with any thought of exercising personal re sponsibility in nominating a Vice President. Realzing that many people back at home would be looking at them and listening how they voted, the delegates, many of them, came through with amazing courage. It sounded like democracy in actibn. There is a Voice of America, though muffled in many an in stance. It was interesting to ob serve the frustration of the com mentators when the delegates be gan to think for themselves. The “we have it on good authority” statements sounded very thing, and the commentators themselves ad mitted it. It was an open meeting to an extent seldom seen in recent years. Mr. Truman appeared com pletely disillusioned. It was some thing new to him. Tammany’s De- Sapio was like a fish out of water. He couldn’t make sence out of the situation. He and his like were not accustomed to the Voice of Ameri ca. What the incident in the stock yards last week means will have to await further developments. It will be interesting to watch the meeting in San Francisco and see if there is any evidence of indivi dual responsiblity there. What the voters do when they walk nto the booths in November will be most interesting. Anyway, it does appear that there is still a Voice of America— that there are some people who are thinking for themselves. Mr. Stevenson thinks that we need to face the truth. Someone may pipe up with the ancient queery, What is truth? Maybe the people are ready to discuss that question, and take their stand. Could be. Pleasant Grove HDC The Pleasant Grove H. D. C. met Wednesday, August 22 at the Club House. The meeting was called to order by the president, Mrs. James Me- Brayer. The devotional scripture was read by Mrs. Carl Holbrook, a poem "The Man in the Mirror” by Mrs. Hazel Holbrook. The min utes were read and roll was called by Secretary, Mrs. J. T. Floyd. Under old and new business a re port was given from the council meeting held at the Cumming Com munity House on August 8. At this meeting our club won top honors for turning in the largest amount of money to the Cancer Fund. Thanks to Mrs. Odell Martin. Plans were made to enter a club booth at the county fair. Mrs. Bannister showed slides on Fair Booth’s and their arrange ments which was enjoyed by all. During the social hour open face sandwiches, potato chips, cokes and cookies were served by the hostess and enjoyed very much. Our next meeting will be Sept ember 26 at 2 o’clock at the club house. Mrs. L. W. Holbrook, Reporter On Sunday August 26, all the children, grandchcildren and rela tives of the late Rawleigh Echols gathered at the Hawcreek Com munity Club House for a Reunion, on account of bad health, Mr. Her man Echols, was the only one of Mr. Rawleigh’s children unable to attend. Present also were a num ber of close friends of the family. All enjoyed the occasion and they plan to make it an annual affair. Echols Reunion Georgia, Thursday, August 30, 1956. Soil Conservation District News JAMES T. COOTS SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE T. Kenneth Orr, SCS technician, has completed the fertilizing and grass seeding on the flood preven tion dam the borrow pits and spill way area located on Shop Branch in the Settingdown Creek Water shed. An irrigation system will be used to keep the area moist until the grass is established. Jackson Bennett, Head of the Soil and Water Training School, Athens Georgia accompanied his twenty five member class on a tour of Settingdown Creek Watershed last week. L. Mercer Brown, SCS engineer, and his survey party have com pleted a field survey on Squatting down Creek for a distance of two miles. W. J. Orr, Upper Chattaroochee River Soil Conservation District Supervisor and James T. Coots, Work Unit Conservationist, attend ed the monthly meeting of the District Supervisors in The Civic Building, Gainesville last week. Standby Reserves The Reserve Forces Act of 1955, provides (for the first time) that Selective Service shall have the responsibility of determining the availability for recall to actve duty of Standby Reservists by their re spective reserve branch. A Standby Reservist may be called to active duty only in the event of a Nat ional emergency declared by the Congress, and only after Selective Service has determined that he is available for recall to active duty. (Section 233 (a) Reserve Forces Act of 1952 as amended by Section 2 (e) Reserve Forces Act of 1955). Heretofore Standby Reservists have been called or recalled to ac tive duty by his branch of service without regard as to whether or not he was engaged in an essential occupation or his dependents would suffer extreme hardship and priva tion during his absence in service. The local board is responsible for the determination of availability of a Standby Reservist for call or recall to active duty in a National emergency by his respective branch of service. Selective Service will not process Standby Reservists for induction, but will only determine availability to the Armed Force concerned. If the local board deter mines that the Standby Reservist is available for call or recall to actice duty, he will be placed in Category 1-R. If the local board determines that the Standby Re servist is not available for call or recall to active duty by reason of his being engaged in an essential occupation, he will be placed in Category 11-R. If the local board determines that the Standby Reser vist is not available for call or re call to active duty be reason of extreme hardship to his dependent he will be placed in Category 111-R. The law requires the reservist to furnish the local board with evi dence upon which to base his claim for eligibility to Category 11-R or 111-R. Furthermore, it is the re sponsibility of the reservist to fur nish evidence of any change of status affecting his eligibilty for Category I-R, II H, or 111-R since his initial Category may be chang ed from time to time contingent upon changes in his status. Failure to keep the local board advised of such changes could result in his being declared available for call and placed in Category I-R. Singing Notice Bethelham Baptist Church will hold their Annual All day Singing on the First Sunday in September. Make your plans to be with us. Hoyt Grogan President Jimmy Fagan, V-president Revival Services At Midway Begins Sunday September 9th. homecoming day and DINNER ON THE GROUND Sunday September 9th will be a festive day at Midway church. It is apart as a day of Christian fellow ship of old and new friends tradi tionally known as Homecoming Day, with Basket Dinner served on the church grounds at the noon hour. Invitations are extended to every one. The church pastor, Rev. William M. Winn announces the day will also be highlighted by the preach ing at 11:00 A. M. and 8:00 P. M. of this day by the Reverend G. Ross Freeman, the assistant to the Dean of Candler School of Theo logy, of Emory University. The meeting will continue each evening at 8 P. M. of the follow ing week, with Dr. Nat G. Long, the District Superintendent of the Atlanta East District preaching. On Tuesday evening September 11th, and each evening thru Friday following the pulpit will be filled by the Reverend Harold L. Coch ran, pastor of the First Methodist Church of Forrest Park, Ga. On Saturday at 8 P. M. and thru both services of the closing Sunday September 15th, The Rev erend Elisha S. Winn, retired min ister of Fitzgerald and father of the church pastor, will preach. The Choir and congregational singing will be led by pastor Winn. Reports on every hand indicate an out pouring of the Spirit of Chris tianity to be in full evidence in all of these services. To The People Of Forsyth County There is so much talk in our County on this and that issue that confronts the voters that I am going to state a few things which I feel will be of benefit to the people. First of all I will oppose any additional Taxes, State or County, or any other form of Taxation, be leiving that we all can get along fine on what we now pay. I am in favor of, and will work for the pasage of a Bill to have our Local Tax Assessors elected by the people as our other county of ficers are now elected and not be appointed by the County Commis sioners. I feel that it will save all of us money. Ifurther feel that this is the proper way that most of our ccitizens would like for it to be. I am in favor of passage of a Bill to require all Oil Tank Trucks that delivere to Service Stations having a M,eter, so as to give the Operator a full check on the gal lons he receives instead of dump ing into the local tank as it is now being done. I have operated Gas Stations and I know what the Station Operators are up against. By having Meters, the operator will get what he pays for and the Oil Companies will consume the ex pansion losses. I will work for a Bill to place our Three percent Sales Tax on the wholesaler instead of the local merchant as it is now. This enab ling everyone a much satisfactory service in los of time and expensive records to keep. The State can al so save many thousands of dollars in salaries as they will not need as many men to take care of the Sale taxes. Sincerely, EMMETT HANSARD Important Notice The Board of Registrars will meet on August 20. 1956 at the Court House to prepare the voters list for the primary of September 12, 1956. T. P. THOMAS W. E. HERRING H. G. BRAMBLETT Registrars Preaching Notice Rev. Clarence Williams will preach at Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church First Sunday night in September County Population 15,000. Number 35. ASC NEWS C. A. Bagwell, Chairman of the Forsyth County ASC Committee, urged again today that all eligible farmers vote in the 1957 ASC Com mittee Elections. Ballots will bo mailed out by the County ASC Of fice and should be received by all eligible voters on or before Sept ember 7, 1956. Any farmer who does not receive his ballot before September 18 and who considers himself an eligible voter should contact the County ASC Office im mediately In the matter of obtain ing his ballot. Full instructions will be furnished by the County ASC Office along with the ballot which will be mailed informing the voters to vote for five from a list of ten nominees which have been selected by the Nominating Com mitttee, according to Mr. Bagwell, or they can write in the name of any others they may choose on the ballots. In addition to the se lected ten nominees the names of additional eligible persons may be Included provided a petition is sign ed and presented to the Election Board by ten or more eligible vot ers 15 days before the date set for the return of the ballots by farm ers. Farmers eligible to vote In the elections by mail this year are those who are of legal voting age and who have an interest in a farm as owner, tenant or share cropper: and any person not of legal age who is in charge of the supervision and conduct of the farming operations of an entire farm provided the following re quirements are met: (1) He is one eligible for and will receive a payment or grant of con servation materials or services, or there is being carried out on the farm one or more of the current program practices approved for the State by the State Committee. (2) He Is eligible for a loan or other price support. It was further pointed out by Mr. Bagwell that with regard to eligibility, a voter may he an individual partnership, association, corporation, estate, trust, other business enterprise or legal entity, or wherever applicable a State a political subdivision of a State, or any agency thereof. In case of joint ownership by two or more individuals, each Is an eligi ble voter, he stated. Mr.. Bagwell urged all farmers to vote in this year’s committee elec tions, pointing out that committee men have increasingly Important roles In he admlnisration of the new Soil Bank Program, ACP, Al lotment and Marketing Quota Pro gram, Price Support programs and other programs administered thru ASC. With the additional new Soil Bank Program In operation begin ning this year, as well as other new programs, it will be of vital importance to every farmer in the county and the matter cannot be over-emphasized for having good committeemen to administer these programs. Chattahoochee HDC The Chattahoochee Club met on Tuesday afternoon August 21st, at the sc-hcool house. Ten members present. Opened by our president, Mrs. Howard Holland. Scripture reading by Mrs. Eldred Watson- Song America- Poem read by Mrs. W. S. Turner.— Lord’s prayer recited by all. Minutes of last month was read by Mrs. Wansley Watson. Business was discussed. We planned to have a Booth at the fair. Mrs. Bannister showed slides giving ideas on how to fix a booth at the fair. Our next meeting will be held September 10, at Mrs. Carl Mulli nax. • Mrs. Eldred Watscon, Mrs. How ard Holland served delicious re freshment. Mrs. Joe Shadburn, Reporter. Bottoms Reunion The Annual Bottoms Reunion will be held Sunday September 9, at Zion Hill Church. A 1 relatives and friends are cordially invited to attend. Come and spend the day and enjoy the fellowship with each other. Rev. W. B. Bottoms, President Kate Kelley, Secretary TREASURE CHEST The Merchants Treasure Chest drawing had a large crowd Satur day at 2 P. M. and enthusiasm is still mounting in this unique meth od of merchant appreciation. If you have not attended, plan to be? at the Court House at 2 P. M. Sat urday and find out what it is all about. The list following, your favorite trades people make this occasion possible. Otwell Motor Company, Cumming 1 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 We will soon be seeding our small grain crops. We've been grow ing some grains for a long time and it seems we would not need t» ask what to do in order to get the best crop. However, we don't al ways get the best crop, so maybe we need to stop and think again each year of the things that might help us produce more per acre. Be* for we go any further with the* small grain though, let me suggest that you think of a dual purpose crop. That’s two crops from the same crop and if done properly you can get the grazing with very little or no reduction to the grain pro duction. Briefly, here are some re commendations for small grains coming to us from our Extension agronomist in Athens. First, select good well drained soil, prepare it early and well; use adapted varieties and good seed. Of course, another way is simply to say use certified seed, then you are sure of getting adapted good seed. For wheat you might select from Cokers 47-27, Atlas 66, Atlas 50, Anderson and Taylor. Chancellor is also good for North Georgia. For Oats you might select from Victorgrain 48-93, Fulgrain, Arling ton, and Nortex. Forkedeer is a good one for the mountain sections And of course Abruzzie rye. Treat the seed before planting and plant early. Here in Nortf* Georgia we should plant from Sept ember 20 to October 15. Plant 4 bushels of oats per acre or 2 bush els of wheat or rye per acre. Fer tilize with from 300 to 500 pounds of 4—12- 12 at planting time and then use 80 pounds of nitrogen per acre in split applications. To get that early growth for grazing the early nitrogen applica tion is a must. Use a grain drill and plant about 2 inches deep. Al low* the small grain to get 4—6 inches of growth before grazing. Graze until the cattle get their filf and then remove to avoid tramp ling. If the cattle are removed en irely, around the middle of Febru ary, top dress with 40 pounds of nitrogen and you should still get a good grain crop. This makes the small grain very attractive. A new circular on small grains has just been released by the Agro nomist of the Extension Service and you may pick up a copy at this office or a copy will be mailed to you upon request. Cummin? Parent Teachers Association To Meet Sept., 13 The Cumming Parent Teacher Association will meet Thursday night, September 13, at 8 o'clock in the Forsyth County High School Auditorium. All parents who will have children in Cumming Ele mentary School or Forsyyth County High School are urged to be pres ent to meet and welcome the teach ers of these schools. There will be baby sitters for the children.