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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.