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Volume 47.
Better Than
Money To Me!
Threce years ago I accepted the !
position as Teach of Bible at one
of our Baptist Colleges. I accepted
it at a loss of over a $1,000.00 per
year for I believed it the leader
ship of God. I tried very hard to
meet my obligations but found out j
I couldn’t. It was one of the hard-,
est (decisions) I ever had to make |
whea I resigned as Teacher of j
Bible. I felt rather blue and dis j
couraged. Although I was to get'
much more money in my work in ■
Forsyth County, I felt that teach
ing Bible in a Baptist College was
what God wanted me to do. I had
spent many years in preparation
for that work.
I was to get more money, but I
was disappointed to some extent.
Just at this time a great man of
God, a Pioneer Missionary and a
man who had given nearly fifty
years to the work of Christian
Education (Dr. A. Scott Patterson)
wrote me a letter. He had spoken
to the student-body and lived in
our dormitory for about a week. I
quote part of his letter: “I was
very happy when I found you at
the college and was so in hopes
that you would remain with the
school until time for you to retire.
I was and am aware that it takes
money to live, but I was so in
hopes that you would find it pos
sible to go on with this work. You
seem to fit so well into the plans
there”. This was so encouraging,
coming from so great and good' a
man.
During the last two years former
students have asked me to go back
to the College and teach Bible
again. They remembered that 1953-
54 was the year when every stud
ent in The Day School became
Christians before the end of the
Second Quarter and over 150 peo
ple were won to Christ by our
ministerial students and other full
time Christian students. Having a
little part in this revival at our
Baptist College is better than mon
ey to me! If the Lord opens the
way, I would certainly like to gq
back there and teach Bible the re
mainder of my days.
W. R. Callaway
I ASC NEWS
The election of Community Com
mitteemen this year will be by
mail. The ballots have been sent
to all known eligible voters in the
county. They should be executed
and delivered in person or mailed
to the Forsyth County ASC Office
on or before September 21, 1956.
This way of voting is being used
for the convenience of the voter,
and also hoping by this method to
get a larger participation in the
election. In voting be sure to vote
for ONLY five candidates.
There is still some money avail
able for signing up for cost-shares
in the ACP Program for 1956. If
there is a practice that would be
beneficial to your farming oper
ations, come by the County ASC
Office and sign an intention sheet
for the practice.
The acreage reserve program on
winter wheat is now in effect for
1957. In Forsyth County we have
alloted to us for this program $2,-
226.00. The final date for signing
agreements is September 21, 1956.
If you have a wheat allotment and
need further information on this
program please come to the ASC
Office at your convenience before
the final date for signing the agree
ment.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Due to the 48 day strike at the
Georgia Marble Company, the erec
tion of the Forsyth County War
Memorial has been postponed. Mr.
Junior Gravitt, spokesman for the
Cumming Adult Academic class
and VFW Post No. 9143 said that
the quality and quanity of marble
desired was not available and a
postponement of several days will
be necessary. Therefore, the prev
ious date that was September 15,
has been cancelled, and as soon as
<he mataerial is made available the
Rock marker will be erected and
the new date will be announced in
the Forsyth County News.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHICKO KKE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
WORTH THINKING ABOUT
In the current issue of Brother
hood Journal of the Southern Bap
tist I find a page of sentence state
ments under the title, Worth Think
ing About, that impress me as good
enough to pass along:
Love thrives in the face of all
hazards, save one—neglect.
One way to curb juvenile delin
quency is to get parents off the
streets at night.
In the sight of God there is no
such thing as a forgotten man.
One of the easiest things for a
man to forget is a promise he
made to God during a period of
difficulty.
We need men today who will
realize that what is socially cor
rect may not be morally right.
Such words as possibly, maybe,
perhaps, are never found in the
vocabulary of the Master.
What the world needs today is
more apprecicators and fewer fault
finders.
The mark of a real man is the
size of the thing it takes to get
his goat.
God never does anything for a
person that he can do for himself.
Temporary suceecss has caused
many longrange failures.
Your will is a far better reflect
ion of your life than your obitu
ary.
Wha{ Christianity needs is fewer
experts on what Christianity needs.
Tlie only gift one can make to
God is a gift of thanks.
There Js no such thing as a
sel-maed man.
A genuine Christian is one who
can be faithful in suffering.
It is not your ability but rather
your availability that really counts
The only power the devil has is
the power to deceive.
Church attendance is optional as
far as choice is concerned, but it is
obligatory for moral and spiritual
welfare.
Christians should not be as con
cerned about what a man has been
as what he, with God, can become.
Forsyth County High
School News
M!rs. Gloria Ingram and husband
flew to Cincinnati Monday night to
take final examination at the
School of Embalming. Mrs. Ingram
is teaching biology in the high
school.
The American School of Eitquet
te made pictures last week of stud
ents eating in the lunch room. The
pictures were to illustrate good
school lunchroom etiquette and the
pictures will be in the "Good News’
which is published by the Ameri
can School of Etiquette. The stud
ents illustrating good eating habits
were Mary Katherine Roper, Fran
ces Holbrook, Berry yMcWhorter
and Roger Bennett.
Mrs. Echols, the lunchroom sup
ervisor, states she fed over twenty
one hundred meals the first week
of school which is an average of
five hundred and twenty-five meals
per day for four days.-
Mr. Claude Terry has joined the
high school faculty. He will teach
Math.
The F. F. A. initiated new mem
bers Tuesday night into their Club.
The club this year should be the
largest it has ever been. Right now
the FFA Club is working with all
the members in the organization of
the club and in preparation for the
County Fair which beggins on the
17th of September.
High School enrollment has
reached an all time high. There
are five hundred and seventy en
rolled. With eight hundred in the
Cumming Elementary School and
five hundred and seventy in the
high school you can readily see
that thirteen hundred and seventy
students will require a lot of at
tention.
STONE REUNION
All the friends and relatives are
invited to attend the Stone Reun
ion at Chastain Memorial Park at
the Master Grill Sunday September
16. This will be a joint reunion and
birthday celebration of Mrs. Ellen
Stone Fowler on her 80th birthday
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Sept., 13, 1956.
Soil Conservation
District News
Ha
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
John Holbrook in the Bethelview
community and Lyman James in
the Brandywine community have
begun construction of farm ponds.
Dan Searcy of the State SCS of
fice was in the county last week
making observations in the Settin
down Creek Watershed.
C. J. Smith, Research Scientist,
of the Washington Office was a
recent visitor in the Settingdown
Creek Watershed.
Pond surveys for dam construct
ion have been made on farms of
Wesley Hughes and Adonis Frix
The Conservation pool behind
structures number four on Shop
Branch. Settingdown Creek Water
shed, has filled to its normal level.
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Undersecretary of Agriculture,
True D. Morse, stated recently that
new legislation will permit the U.
S. Department of Agriculture's
Farmers Home Administration to
serve the credit needs of a larger
number of farm families.
The new law provides loans for
refinancing existing debts, increas
es the maximum amount that can
be advanced for operating loans
and, as a part of the Rural De
velopment Program, makes avail
able loans for operating and deve
loping farms where the farmer has
part-time employment. And, too, all
of the present loan services of the
Farmers Home Administration will
be available. These include loans
for the operation, development and
purchase of family-type farms,
farm housing, soil and water con
servation, and loans to meet emer
gency credit needs.
Morse said that credit is primar
ily for family type farms, but will
help other farmers meet drought
and other difficulties over which
farm families have no control.
Applications for the loans will be
made at the county offices of the
Farmers Home Administration.
The loans to refinance existing
debts will be available until June
30, 1959, to owners of farms no
larger than family size. When debts
are refinanced by the FHA the
payments will be scheduled accord
ing to the ability of the borrower
to repay.
The operating loans are used for
the purchase of equipment, live
stock, fertilizer, seed and other
farm and home operating expenses
needed to carry out efficient farm
ing operations on family-type farm
Operating loans are repayable
over periods up to 7 years with
the interest rate remaining at 5
percent as it has been in the past.
The new law also increases the re
payment period from 7 to 10 years
in hardship cases when the inabi
lity of the borrowerer to repay his
indebtedness within 7 years is due
to causes beyond his control.
Loans will also be available for
operating and developing farms
that are less than family-type, if
the applicants are established bona
fide farmers who have lived on
farms and depended on farm in
come for their livelihood, and who
are conducting substantial farming
operations and spending a major
portion of their time in farm en
terprizes.
Card Of Thanks
We deeply appreciate so many
friends and neighbors showing in
so many ways of sympathy to us
during the many weeks of illness
in the hospital at the time of oper
ation and recuperation, the many
beautiful flowers, cards and love
offering, which we humbly express
our thanks to each of you. ,
May God bless you.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Drummond
Hospital Care
Of Those Unable
To Pay Studied
Better programs of hospital care
for Georgians who can’t pay will
be the goal of the second meeting
of the Georgia Hospital Care Study
Commission, 10 a. m. September 13
at the Capital City Club in Atlanta
The first draft of a survey of
Georgia hospital care problems will
be studied by the Commission,
which was established bb the last
General Assembly and appointed
by Governor Marvin Griffin. A
special committee will be appointed
to work on recommendations and
proposed legislation based on the
survey, according to Dr. T. F. Sell
ers. director of the Georgia Pepart
mefit of Public Health, who is
chairman ex-officio of the Com
mission.
School Children
Best Promoters
Of Safety Week
Fire Chiefs and other tity offi
cials planning for observance of
Fire Prevention Week in Georgia
October 7—13 might follow the
successful procedure of Americus’
Fire Chief H. K. “Hop” Hendeson
and give the ball to the children
to carry. Thus suggest Safety Fire
Commissioner Zack D. Cravey.
He points out that Henderson’s
methods last year won for Ameri
cus first place in Georgia in the
National Fire Protection Associa
tion’s Fire Prevention Week com
petition and that Americus also has
finished in the runner-up spot and
in third place many times.
By his own explanation, Mr.
Cravey says, Henderson in years
of trying had never placed in the
NFPA judging until 1946 when he
concentrated all Fire Prevention
Week promotion on the school
children. Then he began to hit the
-jackpot.
Henderson starts his pep work
in schools a week before the cele
bration begins. Every class, from
kindergarten through high school,
both white and colored, is lectured
to by firemen. Posters are handed
out for distribution in downtown
areas. Essay and original poster
drawing contests with saving bonds
and -rides on fire trucks offered
winners are sponsored. The child
ren also are given home inspection
blanks and pertinent fire safety
messages to carry their parents.
"Aroused by these children,” Mr.
Cravey declares, “the grown folks
too are ready to go into action
when the celebration formally
opens.”
COOK EXPLAINS
ASSEMBLY POWER
The General Assembly has au
thority to change the powers, dut
ies and salaries of elective county
commissioners without the consent
of the commissioners, the Attorney
General has ruled.
The Attorney General, in answer
ing several questions on possible
revisions of county governments,
said that if a referendum provision
is attached to a legislative act a
six-member count y board of com
missioners could be reduced to a
oneman commission.
Mr. Cook said many legal minds
have divergent views on the ques
tion of whether the legislature
could abolish a multiple-member
commission and create a one mem
ber commission, designating the
name of the person who shall be
come the single commissioner.
But he said “it is my view that
the entire commission could be
abolished by a referendum provis
ion, and that a new commission
could be created, designating the
members of the commission in the
act.”
He also said that “a municipality
may be created by an act (of the
legislature) without the vote of
the people.”
"In the event a referendum pro
vision is desired,” he held, "nor
mally only the vote of the people
within the area to be incorporated
is used.”
Never use an old oil mop on
waxed floors, Miss Hilda Dailey,
Agricultural Extension Service
home improvement specialist says.
The oil will soften the wax.
County Population 15,000. Number 37.
FORSYTH COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL
CHEER LEADERS
Jjr.. •- Pr
Forsyth County High School cheer leaders build
up a pyramid at the State YMCA Cheer Lead-*
ers Clinic in training for their part in Hi-Y and
Tri-Hi-Y Good Sportsmanship Campaigns dur
ing football season. Bottom row, left to right;
Nancy Yarbrough, Jo An Hughes, Nida Barnett
(front), Dee Curtis. Second row: Midge Hol
brook and Nancy Phillips. On top is Sue Paine.
Appreciation Day
Continues
The popular event sponsored by
the Forsyth County Chamber of
Commerce, the Merchants Appre
ciation Day is approaching its sev
enteenth week and the crowds are
still growing and it is the hope of
the following list of merchants that
if you are not a regular attendant
that you will be there next Satur
day at the Court House at 2 P. M.
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, D. E. Pruitt
Grocery Store, Thompson Variety
Store, Cumming Jewelery, For
syth 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.
FCHS “BULLDOGS” DEFEATED
IN SEASON’S OPENER
The Lawrenceville High School
“Panthers” clawed their way to
victory* over the FCHS “’Bulldogs”
in a hard fought game last Friday
night. The Lawrenceville team capi
talized on breaks to score twice on
blocked punts and once on an inter
cepted pass, and then scored once
from scrimmage on a completed
pass in the first half of the ball
game. The teams left the field at
halftime with the bulldogs on the
short end of a 27—0 score.
In the second half the “Bulldogs"
came back strong scoring twice
while holding the Lawrenceville
team to one touchdown. The final
whistle ended the game with the
score Lawrenceville 34 and Forsyth
County 14.
The home team was well support
ed by a goodly number of Forsyth
County people. It was really good
to see so many people out rooting
for the home team. We are going
to hear from these "bulldogs” be
fore the season is over, so lets keep
on giving them our support by at
tending the next ball gome against
Buford in Buford Friday night,
September 14.
Forsyth County’s “inexperienced
orphans” as the Atlanta Journal
called them are going to win some
ball games this season.
MARKETING HOGS
AT 200 POUNDS
URGED BY HAYS
One of the surest ways a hog
producer can receive the highest
value for his market hogs is to sell
them when they weigh around 200
pounds, Bill Hays, swine specialist
for the College of Agriculture Ex
tension Service, says.
"While the temptation is ever
present to feed hogs to heavier
weights, it won’t be profitable over
a long period to do so,” Hays point
out.
He explains that feeding hogs to
heavy weights is an expensive prac
tice. Hays cites experimental work
showing that it takes from 320 to
400 pounds of feed per hundred
pounds of gain to make a pig gain
from 100 to 200 pounds. “But the
next 100 pound jump in weight is
where the feed bill goes up. From
200 pond mark to the 300 pound
weight, it will require approximate
ly 500 to 550 pounds of feed,” Hays
states.
The specialist adds that not only
does it take more feed per hund
red pounds of gain, but the heav
ier hogs sell for less per hundred
weight. This Is caused by the con
sumer demand, which is small for
these over sized cuts, which usually
are too fat and end up on a bar
gain meat counter.
Market prices serve as an ex
pression of supply and demand.
Hays says, but the kind of supply
and the kind of demand plays an
important part in prices received
for hogs. “There is a world of dif
ference between three 200-pound
meat hogs and two 300-pound fat
hogs,” Hays explains. "Although;
the tonnage is the same the quality
of the supply is in sharp contrast.”
The swine specialist points out
that the discount on a 30dpound
hog generally is large, and adds
that this discount applies on the
original 200 pounds as well as the
extra 100 pounds.
Hays says the number of farm
ers who feed hogs to 300 pounds
is small, the 250-pound feeders are
far too numerous.
PREACHING NOTICE
Rev. Virgil Jones will Preach at
Settingdown Baptist Church next
Sunday night September 16 at 7:30.
Everybody is invited to come out
hear him.