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Volume 47.
NATIONAL 4-H ACHIEVEMENT DAY. NOVEMBER 10
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Roy Moore in the Matt Com
munity reports a good cover of
Austrian winter peas on approxi
mately fifteen acrces of land. In
order to get a good cover before
bad weather a cover of chicken
manure was applied soon after
the peas came up.
James C. Chumbler has a good
cover of Austrian winter peas too.
Several additional critical areas
ir. the Settingdown Creek water
shed have been seeded to grass and
mulched with straw.
A flood retarding structure site
has been investigated for preli
minary planning by the SCS in
the Mt. Pisgah community.
r Basketball Season
The 1956-57 Basket ball season
opens in Cumming on November
9th with Grayson. They have most
of their girls back which won the
Ninth District “C’ group tourney
last year. Most of their boys are
new.
Madge Nuckols is the only start
ing player from the FCHS District
Champs of last year, Shirley Roper
who saw lots of service as a fresh
man will handle one of the for
ward positions, Jane Carroll who
played for Pickens County High
last year will play the Pivot for
ward with Gloria Swartwood and
Lanell Wilkie working for the third
posittion, Sara Buice and Wanda
Savage will start at guards with
Madge Nuckols, Diane Vaughn,
Carolyn Pulliam, Velma Henderson
and Patsy Holcomb make the guard
corp. Helen Gilbert, Joy Housley,
Brenda Frost and Betty Swartwood
should see lots of service and de
velop into fine players.
Hugh Smith, Harold Whitt, Vet
erans of last year District Champs
will lead the new boys team into
the new season. Jimmy Thompson,
James Hughes and Dan Martin will
start with them. Ledford Pruitt,
James Fouts, Bobby Gilbert, Larry
Rollins, Lyn Bottoms, Clarence
Manning, Cloys Milford compose
the squad and will furnish much
competittion for opponents this
year.
The efficient, well dressed com
edy cheer leaders are: Frances Hoi
brook, Diana Curtis, Jo Ann Hugh
es, Nancy Yarbrough, Pearl Prit
chett, Nancy Phillips, Nita Barnett
and Sue Payne.
Come out, pull for our teams,
be a good sport and help us win.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FOBBYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON. CHKRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIJ. AND GWINNETT COUNTIEB.
(City Population 2,500)
Tests Show Syrup
Best For Canning
Sweet Potatoes
About 40 percent of the total
sweet potato crop in Georgia is
lost each year due to disease, im
proper handling and storage, and
the Georgia homemaker can help
cut the loss.
That’s the opinion of Mrs. Zelma
R. Bannister, Forsyth county home
demonstration agent, and Miss Nel
le Thrash, food preservationist for
the College of Agriculture Exten
sion Service, University of Georgia
They point out that potatoes are
especially suited for canning and
that recent research at the Georgia
Experiment Station indicates that
more potatoes should be canned.
According to the specialists the
sweet potatoes may be canned
freshly dug, but potatoes stored in
homemade hills are preferred for
canning. Those cured in a curing
house are second in preference.
“Most homemakers can sweet
potatoes in water”. Miss Thrash
says. “The recent tests showed that
the addition of enough 40—45 suc
rose syrup to cover the product in
the containers was most satisfact
ory.”
Dr. J. G. Woodroof, food techno
logist at the Georgia Experiment
Station, says water tends to draw
out the natural sugar in the poa
toes. Syrup not only retains the
sugar in the potatoes, but potatoes
canned in syrup furnish a firmer
product.
After washing and sorting the
potatoes for size, they should be
steamed in a pressure cooker at
240 degrees long enough so that
the skins slip easily. (Can small
potatoes whole, quarter or slice
larger ones.) Pack to within one
inch of the top of the sterilized
jars. Cover with boiling syrup, seal
and process immediately.
Mrs. Thrash recommends a med
ium syrup—one and one-half cups
of water to one cup of sugar.
For tin cans, exhaust for ten
minutes, then seal. Processing
time using a pressurec ooker at
240 degrees or ten pounds pres
sure, using cured sweet potatoes
is: 45 minutes for No. 2 cans, 55
minutes for No. 2 1-2 cans, 35 min
utes for pint jars, and 55 minutes
for quart jars.
For freshly dug potatoes the
time is increased: 75 minutes for
No. 2 cans, 90 minutes for No. 2 1-2
cans, 55 minutes for pint jars, and
9C minutes for quart jars.
The specialists advise storing
canned sweet potatoes in a cool
place.
NOTICE!
The master Degree will be con
ferred on Seven of Ducktown
Lodge ■ November 10 in the High
School Gym at Free Home. Meet
ing starts at 7 P. M. Shannon’
Lodge will confer the work in full
dramization.
EDWIN TERRY. W. M.
JACK WHITE, Secretary
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Nov., 8, 1956.
Petit Jurors Drawn For
November Term, Third
Monday 1956
1. W. G. Castleberry
2. W. H. Wlarren
3. Ralph Bagley
4. Charlie Holbrook
5. Roy Heard
6. E. H. Sherrill
7. Lint Lamb
8. Hershell Gaddis *
9. R. B. Tallant, Jr.
10. C. C. Anderson
11. Charles Roper
12. Pierce Com
13. E. C. Otwell
14. John Duran
15. C. L. English
16. Herbert Youngblood
17. Everett Bettis
18. Paul Thompson
19. Arnold J. McClure
20. Glenn Buice
21. E. W. Bramblett
22. Watson Rogers
23. James Land
24. Billy Cross
25. Randall Hutchcins
26. H. A. Odum
27. Gladston Sudderth
28. James Hamby
29 Harvey Jones
30. E. W. Tidwell
31. L. D Stephens
32. Leon Morgan
33. Clarence A. Heard
34. H. R. Bramblett
35. Glenn W. Westbrook
36. C. L. McGehee
37. Paul B. Brackett
28. A. E. Grindle ' '
39. Clyde Mathis
40. Cecil McClure
41. D. M. Nalley
42. A. W. Woods *
43. Thos. L. Stone
44. Guy Chambers
45. Guy Lummus
4G. Avon Hughes
47. Roy Westray
48. John G. Barrett
49 Hoyt Gilleland
50. T. A. Pilgrim
51. Edgar Lee Nalley
52. W. W. Purcell
53. Harmon Charles
54. Jack Milford
55. Leon Stancil
56. Mercer Williams
57. Otis Pilcher
58. J. B. Hurt
59. W. H. Mills
60. Larry Watson
61. John T. Evans
62. Paul Hammond
63. Howard Burton
64. Ralph Bennett
65. C. M. Martin
66. Wayne Munday
61. R. C. Mathis
68. Hulet Milford
69. Leonard Evans
70. Brice Bennett
71. William Fagan
72. Miles Wolfe
GRAND JURORS
1. J. L. McPherson
2. L. L. Bennett
3. Rupert H. Bramblett
4. A. J. Gilbert
5. Roscoe W Moon
6. B. L Redd
7. Joe Brooks
8. J. C. Collins
9. W. K. McCoy
10. B. B. Robinson
11 G. V. Gilleland
12. H. M. Holland
13. Minor Carnes
14. G. C McGinnis
15. J. C. Cates
16. H. G. Gilstrap
17. M. C. Heard
18. L. C. Creamer
19. W. L. Martin
20. Harold Harris
21. A. C. Fagan
22. Rutherford Waldrip
23. Otis Mason
24. W. E. Herring
25. S. G Clement, Jr.
26. J. W. Holbrook (1413th)
27. Myron Bagwell
28. J. L. Banister
29. E. E. Buice
30. H. L. Wills
NOTICE
The Registration books of the
City of Cumming are now open
at the City Clerks Office for the
regristration of voters who wish
to vote in the City election.
CITY OF CUMMING
PAUL H. WORLEY, Clerk.
Mr. J. C. Cates, Sr.,
Prominent Citizen
Passes Sunday
Mr. John Clifford Cates, Sr., a
prominent and well-known citizen
of Cumming and Forsyth County,
died suddenly in Atlanta Sunday.
Mr. Cates was born and reared
in Gwinnett County at Lawrence
ville and had made his home in
Cunflming for the past 14 years,
and was associated with the United
States Department of Agriculture
in the Soil Conservation Service.
He was 59 years of age and was
married to the former Miss Vassie
Reese of Lawrenceville. Survivors
include his wife, one daughter
Miss Barbara Cates and one son,
John G. Cates, Jr. of Cumming,
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Cates, Mr. and
Mrs. Nat Jackson, Mrs. Harlen
Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Spence Cates,
Mr. Grover Cates, Mr. and Mrs.
Harlen Taylor all of Lawrenceville,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Cates, Detroit,
Michigan, Mr. and Mrs. Gaines
Cates of Chamblee and other re
latives.
Funeral services was held Tues
day afternoon November 6th at 2
P. M. at the First Baptist Church
of Cumming, with Dr. S. F. Dowis
and Dr. J. Omer Jones Officiating.
Mr. Cates will be placed in State
at the church at 1:00 P. M. until
the Funeral Hour.
Interment will follow in Shadow
Lawn Cemetery in Lawrenceville
with Masonic Rites at the grave
side.
Active Pallbearers were: Frank
B. Eaves, Jr., Roy Otwell, Sam
Rollins, Bob Maxey, H. M. Holland,
J B. Oakes, Carson Smith,’ Henry
Wages, Dick Purdon. Honorary:
W. J. Orr, Thad Burruss, Jr., Jay
L. Holbrook, J. T. Coots, Jack
Ravan, Bill Allison, Gus York, T O.
Galloway, John Spruce, Sam Heys,
A. G. Robinson, A. R. Housley, J.
W. Phillips, Foster Wofford, Ar
nold Griffin, E. H. Sherrill, Steve
James and Robert Owens.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Saturday, November 10th, has
been officially declared "National
4-H Achievement Day”.
This day has been set aside to
pay tribute to the more than 2,-
.156,000 boys and girls who are
members of about 90,000 4-H clubs
in all 48 States, Alaska, Hawaii,
and Puerto Rica.
Here in Forsyth County there
are 696 boys and girls who are
members of 21 4-H clubs.
4-H clubs are groups of young
people, chiefly in rural and subur
ban areas, who carry on a wide
variety of farming, homemaking,
community service, and other pro
jects. They raise livestock and poui
try, grow gardens and field crops,
conserve the soil, sew, cook, pre
serve food, make things for their
homes, and work for community
betterment.
Any boy or girl between 10 and
21 years of age may join a 4-H
club by agreeing to follow 4-H
ideals and standards. The main re
quirement is a willingness to "learn
by doing”, which is the club slogan
and “to make the best better”,
which is the club motto. Character
development and good citizenship
are long-range goals.
The term "D-H” refers to "head”
“heart;”, "hands”, and “health”,
which are emphasized in the club
program, and which imply these
educational objectives of members:
HEAD—Tq learn the value of
science through applying the latest
scientific kknowledge to farming
and homemaking projects.
HEART—To develop wholesome
character and personality and the
qualities of good citizenship, often
through working together.
HANDS—To acquire useful skills
in farming, homemaking, mechan
ics, and vocational trades.
HEALTH—To cultivate good health
habits whichc lead to satisfying,
happy living.
Leaves, hay, straw or sawdust
used as a mulch has proved suc
cessful in holding moisture and
keeping dAwn weeds.
County Population 15,000. Number 45.
Georgia Banks State’s
Principal Farm Lend
ers In 1955
GREATER EMPHASIS PLACED
ON INTERMEDIATE-TERM
LOANS DURING YEAR
Georgia farmers met their credit
needs during 1955 chiefly through
loans from their local banks, ac
cording to Paul H. Worley, Cashier
of Bank of Cumming who repre
sents the Georgia Bankers Asso
ciation as Forsyth County Key
Banker. During the year, the state’s
banks provided far more financial
aid to farmers than any other lend
ing agency, he pointed out.
Using figures from the fifteenth
annual farm lending survey of the
Agricultural Commission of the
American Bankers Association, Mr.
Worley noted that on January 1,
1956, Georgia banks had loans out
standing to farmers totaling $72,-
810,000 including both production
and mortgage credit. This compar
es with $29,320,000 held by the
FHA, second largest lender to Geor
gia farmers; $27,399,000 held by
Federal Land Banks; 13,405,000 by
Production Credit Associations; nd
$25,784,000 by insurance companies
The total of farm credit outstand
ing in banks was made up of $33,-
334,000 in production loans and
$39,476,000 in farm mortgages. In
addition, banks in Georgia held
$34,006,000 In C. C. C. paper not
included in the above total.
“The efforts of the state’s banks
to meet the increased needs for
intermediate-trm (one to five or
more years) loans are reflected in
the figures for both real estate
and production loans outsanding,”
Mr. Worleyy said. “It is estimated
that about three-fourths of the
farm real estate loans are for pur
poses normally associated with in
termediate length loans. This would
include such projects as the pur
chase of new machinery, Improve
ment of livestock herds, etc. Be
yond that, a substantial portion of
the production loans in banks at
the beginning of 1956 carried a re
payment period of longer than one
year.”
ASC NEWS
Tuesday, December 11, 1956 is
the day cotton growers will vote
on whether they want to use mark
eting quotas for their 1957 cotton
crops. Separate referendums will be
held for upland and for long staple
cotton in areas where the crop is
grown, *
At least two-thirds of the farm
ers voting in a referendum must
approve the quotas before they
may be continued in effect.
If growers approve quotas in the
referendum, price support on the
1957 crop of that particular kind
of cotton will be available to eligi
ble growers at the full level of the
effective supports, between 90 and
75 percent of parity. “Eligible”
growers are those who comply
with their acreage allotments.
If quotas are turned down, sup
port to eligible growers will drop
to 50 percent of parity.
Under a marketing quota pro
gram, growers who exceed their
farm acrceage allotments will be
subject to penalties on the farm’s
excess production of cotton. The
penalty rate for upland cotton is
50 percent of parity, and for extra
long staple the penalty is either 50
percent of parity or 50 percent of
the support price, whichever is
higher. In general, the farm mark
eting quota (whichc a farmer may
market free of penalty) is the pro
duction from the farm’s acreage
allotments.
SHEEP MEETINGS SCHEDULED
Sheep field days in four South
east Georgia counties have been
announced by L. R. Lanier, dis
trict agent, and Denis DeLoaeh,
Extension Service sheep specialist.
The events will be held November
12 at Blackshear, November 13 at
Savannah, November 14 at Lyons,
and November 15 at Swainsboro.
Each meeting will begin at 2 p. m.
in the county agent’s office.
Hog slaughter this fall will be
considerably below that of last fall,
reports Stephen J. Brannen, Agri
cultural Extension Service econo
mist
Rev. B. F. Barbee, Well
Known Minister Passes
At Warwick, Georgia ,
’/
Rev. B. F. Barbee, well known
end beloved retii'ed minister of
Warwick, Georgia died in a Tifton
Hospital Saturday morning, after
a long illness. He was born in
Hamilton County Florida, but had
made his home in Georgia since
early manhood. Mr. Barbee had
served churches in the Mallory
Baptist Association for 47 years
and was pastor of one church for
37 years.
Mr. Barbee was the father of
Mrs. Jimmie Barnes of Cumming.
Funeral services were held at
the Ebenezer Baptist Church in
Crisp County, Sunday afternoon,
with Dr. Leonard Stephens, pastor
of the First Baptist Church of Al
bany and the Rev. Richard Davis,
pastor of the Warwick Methodist
Church officiating. Interment was
in the Church cemetery and Ma
sonic Rites were held at the grave
side.
Survivors include his wife, two
daughters, Mrs. Jimmie Barnes,
Cumming, Ga., and Mrs. M. B.
Moree of Ft. Walton, Florida, five
sons, B. F. Barbee, Jr., Miami, Fla.
L. E. Barbee, .Vienna, Ga., O. L.
Barbee, Moultrie, Ga., H T. Barbee,
Atlanta, Georgia., G. S. Barbee,
Waycross Georgia and a number of
Grand-children great grand children
and other relatives.
Todav & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
FAVORED AFTER ALL
On a trip dow nto Louisiana the
other day, I noticed that the cotton
was very good, but all grain crops
definitely short They told me it
was a question of rain—that they
were on the edge of the frightful
drought area, stretching across Tex
as, New Mexico, Kansas, and Okla
homa. I went by plane to Shreve
port, and Dr. Jim Middleton drove
me on to Alexandria, the highway
that follows the Red River. I was
amazed to see the river so low,
and most of thte bayous were dry.
We stopped to see three mechani
cal cotton pickers. I asked the
owner of the plantation what he
would get per acre, and he said
an average of two bales. I asked
him how much fertilizer he used,
and he answered none. Then he
must be making money, I said.
He said he would make some pro
fit on his cotton, but, pointing to
the magnificient herd of cattle—
six to seven hundred Angus—he
told me how much he would lose
on 400 steers which he expected
to sell thte next week. He explain
ed that be had had to buy grain
and hay, where in ordinary sea
sons he would be selling both grain
and hay.
On the plane from Shreveport
to Jackson, I sat by a farmer from
Texas. He had boarded the plane
in Dallas. We were passing thru
a thunder storm. He sighed, and
said:
"Man, if it could rain like this in
Texas. They had a little shower in
Dallas this afternoon, but it is too
late, of course, to do much good
new. I am on my way to Jackson
to make a deal with a man to take
what is left of my beef cattle,
about 2,,,000 head, and I just hope
and pray he has some grass and
other feed for them. They are too
thin to sell to the packing houses,
and I am just about giving them
away. We have bought every drop
of drinking water this year. Saltt
coming up in all the pipes. We are
just about ruined.’
As I listened to that story, I had
to remind myself that we are quite
favored after all here in Georgia.
We have had some drought, but
think of going four years with one
third railfall! This farmer from
Texas told me that the little town
near his farm had two more weeks
of water, and then what they would
do, he didn’t know. He mentioned
several big lakes that I was -up
posed to know, saying thtatt they
were practically dry. I remembered
the Red River, and the dry bayous.
The Lord has been good to us,
and we will, surely, remember His
goodness and mercy.