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MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY WEEK By proclamation of Governor
Marvin Griffin, Thanksgiving week has been designated as “Muscular
Dystrophy Week.” Little Vickie Lynn Clark, 8 1-2 year old muscular
dystrophy victim, and her mother, Mrs. J. W. Clark, witnessed the gov
ernor’s action in the state capitol office.
Thanksgiving week has been de
signated “Muscular Dystrophy
Week” in Georgia by a proclamat
ion issued by Governor Marvin
Griffin.
Governor Griffin signed the pro
clamation in his office last week
end presented it to pretty, 3 1-2
year old Vickie Lynn Clark of At
lanta. Little Vickie Lynn is a vic
tim of muscular dystrophy and has
not been able to walk since last
July.
Vickie’s parents say the child is
not old enough to realize children
with muscular dystrophy do not
generally “grow to be old," but they
have faith that research sponsored
by Muscular Dystrophy Association
of America will find the cure that
will make their little girl normal
again.
Muscular dystrophy can strike
anyone at any age, time or place,
and there is presently no cure for
the fatal disease which afflicts
more than 200,000, most of them
children. Seventy-five per cent of
the money contributed to Muscular
Dystrophy Associations of America
is used for research in an effort to
find the cause and cure, the re
mainder is spent in local communi
ties for the aid of patients.
" F. H. A. NEWS
On November 7, the FHA held
their monthly meeting in the cafe
orium. Chapter No. 1 was in charge
of the meeting. Mary K. Roper
called the meeting to order and
Elsie Chadwick read the minutes of
the last meeting. Sula Echols gave
the Treasurers report. Afterwards,
several business items were discus
sed by the members. Nancy Yar
brough appointed the program
committee for the December meet
ing, which consisted of Nancy
Wolfe, chairman, Sue Worley, Mar
■tha Charles.
The president turned the meeting
over to Marjorie Taylor for the
program. A skit was presented by
Patsy Tatum, Jo Ann Castlberry,
Cain, Barbara Barnes and
Marjorie Taylor on Degrees.
After the program, there was a
initiation service for the new mem
bers, in which, eight members gave
the eight purposes of the F. H. A.
Chapter. Carolyn Pulliam read the
Creed of THE FUTURE HOME
MAKERS. Tne new members met
the requirements for membership
and was accepted as members. The
members bowed their heads in
prayer as Mary K. Roper read the
F. H. A. Song.
The meeting was turned over to
the song leaders, Joyce Wallace
and Patricia Cash and everyone
enjoyed group singing.
Diane Vaughan, Reporter
CHRISTMAS LIIGHTING PLANS
. Christmas decorations to be judg
ed December 14 by out-of-town jud
ges. All merchants are urged to
have decorations in store windows
or on outside of buildings by the
38th of November
A special program is being plan
ned by the schools with Christmas
music and Santa Claus will visit
Gumming for the event of turning
on the lights of the Christmas Tree
November 30th.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMINO
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CUERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
SPECIAL NOTICE
A meeting in honor of Masonic
Ministers will be held at Cross
Roads Lodge No. 119, F. & A. M.,
Saturday, November 24th, at 7:00
P. M. All Master Masons are cor
dially invited.
A. C. Smith, Jr., W. M.
Newman Mathis, Secretary
Masonic Association
The Forsyth County Masonic As
sociation will meet with Chestatee
Lodge No. 102, F. & A. M., Friday,
November 30th, at 7:30 P. M. This
will be a closed meeting. All Mas
ter Masons are invited. The pro
gram will include the regular en
tertainment session and the election
of Officers for 1957.
L. W. Holbrook, President
A. C. Smith. Jr., V. President
Henry Taylor, Secretary
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.
#
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Adoness Frick, northwest of Cum
ming is having the Patten Bros,
of Roswell to construct him a farm
pond. The SCS technicians made
the survey and are supervising the
construction.
SCS technicians have made a
survey on Cliff Carnes farm near
Ducktown for a farm pond.
C. J. Lankford and T. Kennth,
SCS technicians continue to make
soil and water conservation farm
plans with farmers along Setting
down Creek
We wish to thank C. N. Lambert,
principal of the Forsyth County
High School and John D. Garner,
principal of the Chestatee High
School for their efforts in working
with their pupils on an essay con
test entitled “Why Soil and Water
Conservation Should Be Taught in
our Public Schools”. Even though
there were not enough who finish
ed to compete for awards it is
hoped that next year more will en
ter the contest and an earlier start
can be made.
It won’t be long now before Good
Old Santa Claus will arrive by
plane in 4,598 towns and cities at
the same time
Soil Conservation
District News
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Nov., 22, 1956.
SPECIAL NOTICE
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 22, THE
CITY WATER WILL BE CUT-OFF
FOR SEVERAL HOURS, BEGIN
NING AT 2:00 P. M. O’CLOCK
BECAUSE OF THE NECESSARY
WORK ON W ATER LINE TO THE
OLD SCHOOL BUILDING.
MILES WOLFE, Supt.
Bulk Handling
Reduces Milk
Hauling Costs
Cheaper hauling costs to Georgia
dairymen may be the main econo
mical advantage of bulk handling
of milk, research by a University
of Georgia College of Agriculture
economist shows.
Jerry H. Padgett reported in his
study, “Marketing Milk by the Bulk
Tank Method,” that savings on
hauling after installing bulk tanks
ranged up to 12 cents per hundred
weight. Savings to producers per
week at various levels of output
varied from $7.84 per week at a
100 gallon per day level to $39.13
per week at 500 gallons per day.
Padgett believes these savings
alone could easily justify the in
vestment in the farm bulk tank
without the additional consideration
of labor savings in the milking
operation.
The Ag College economist said
the can system of handling milk
on the farm requires less average
initial investment than the tank
system at all levels of production
up to 500 gallons per day, with the
widest margin at the lowest levels.
He continued that the average
investment required for a can sys
tem at 500 gallons per day output
would be $4,985. The tank invest
ment for the same amount would
b(: $5,240. The difference between
the two systems decreased from
$540 at the 30 gallon level to $255
at the 500 gallon per day output.
The can investment at the 500 gal
lon level was 95 percent as large
as that required for tank invest
ment.
Padgett found that the cost of
handling milk in cans is higher
at all levels of output above 30
gallons per day than the cost of
handling milk in bulk. “As the
daily output increases,” he said,
“margin between can and bulk
handling increases.”
500 WAR ORPHANS
ASK SCHOLARSHIP
HELP UNDER LAW
War Orphan applications for bene
fits accorded them by The War
Orphans Scholarship Assistance
Act are nearing the five thousand
mark. The October figure not yet
available, may push the total past
the above figure.
Pete Wheeler, Director of the
State Department of Veterans Ser
vice, stated that the Scholarship
Assistance Plan for sons and daugh
ters of veterans who died of ser
vice-connected causes is just be
ginning to gain momentum. By
Spring of 1957, Wheeler anticipates
that fifteen thousand applications
will have been received by the VA.
Wheeler revealed that seventy
applications for benefits have been
received here in Georgia and stated
that the present figure will stead
ily mount as more Georgians are
acquainted with the benefits of the
Bill.
The SDVS Director said that all
Field Offices of the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service have com
plete information on the Bill and
also have on hand a Publication
that explains complete benefits and
eligibility requirements for interest
ed Georgians.
In conclusion, Wheeler urged all
Georgia veterans and their depend
ents to become familiar with the
contents of the War Orphans Bill.
Singing Notice
The seven county Singing Class
will meet with Pleasant Grove
Church on the Fourth Sunday night
Comq out and enjoy a good singing
ROY HOLBROOK, President
Can anybody imagine grandmoth
er parading on the football field,
like the majorettes?
SPECIAL NOTICE
I wish to thank my many friends
who supported me during my cam
paign for Sheriff of Forsyth Coun
ty; it would not have been possible
for me to win this election without
the untiring efforts of those who
worked so faithful]. I shall always
be grateful to my friends and to
you people of the county for grant
ing what seemed the impossible,
winning as an Independent candi
date.
At this time I give you my pro
mise that I will strive even harder
to conduct the business of the
Sheriff’s Office in such a manner
that will be pleasing to you good
citizens of this county, and 1 I want
you to feel free to call upon me
at any time I can be of service in
anyway.
To those who did not see fit to
support me or perhaps wished to
do so, but felt obligated to support
the nominee, I want you to know
that there is absolutely no ill will
toward you; I hope you will be
pleased with the service we shall
attempt to render during the next
four years and you should feel free
to call upon me at any time. Re
member, I shall be your Sheriff,
and I shall always realize that it
is my duty to senJe you as well as
the other citizens of our county.
I also wish to thank the Election
Managers throughout the county,
who conducted their duties in a
fair and impartial manner. I re
gret that my opponent has attempt
ed to disgrace the honesty and in
tegrity of these gentlemen by try
ing every way possible to have the
November 6th, election voided and
himself named as sheriff of this
county.
With reference to who will assist
me in keeping law and order in
our county .please remember my
announcement a few weeks ago.
The citizens of any Militia District
may have a man from tha' district
as Deputy Sheriff by bringing me
a petition signed by a majority of
the registered voters of the district.
Your friend,
LOY BARNETT
ASC NEWS
The referendum on upland cotton
marketing quotas, to be held’ thru
out cotton producing areas on Dec
ember 11, will be the eleventh vote
of its kind C. A. Bagwell, Chairman
of the County Agricultural Stabili
zation and Conservation Commit
tee, said today.
The first vote on cotton market
ing quotas was held in March 1938,
and the last previous cotton refer
endum was in December 1955. In
the last votte 93 percent of the
farmers voting expressed approval
of using the quotas for the 1956
cotton crop. At least two-thirds of
the farmers voting must favor quo
tes before they may continue in
effect.
Under legislative provisions, the
Secretary of Agriculture must pro
claim a national marketing quota
and a national acreage allotment
for upland cotton whenever he find
that the tottal supply exceeds the
normal supply.
At the time the Secretary issued
he proclamation for the 1957 crop,
the tottal supply of upland cotton
for the 1956-57 marketing year was
estimated at 27.5 million running
bales, which included an August
1, 1956 carryover of 14.1 million
bales, 1956 production of 13.4 mil
lion bales (the August Crop Report
and estimated imports of 50,000
bales. The "normal supply” figure
of 17.7 million bales included esti
mated domestic consumption of 9.1
million bales and exports of 4.5
million bales, plus a 30 percent
“carryover” reserve of 4.1 million
bales. Thus the prospective total
supply for 1956-57 at the time, the
quotas was proclaimed exceeded
the normal supply by about 9.8
million bales.
Marketing quotas operate through
acreage allotments. A grower who
exceeds the cotton acreage allot
ment for his farm, under a cotton
marketing quota program will be
subject to a marketing quota pen
alty of 50 percent of parity on the
farm’s excess production. Growers
who do not exceed their cotton al
lotments may market free of penal
ties all the 1957 cotton production
from their farms.
County Population 15,000. Number 47.
“BE ZEALOUS AND
REPENT,’’-Rev. 3:19
“So then because thou art luke
warm and neither cold nor hot, I
will spne thee out of my mouth”.
Rev. 16. The last part of verse 15
we read,. “I would thou wert cold
or hot.” Then in verse 20. "Behold,
I stand at the door, and knock: if
any man hear my voice, and open
.the door, I will come in to him,
and will sup with him, and he with
mt.” •
These words were written to a
church; these words were written
tc professing Christins. Do you see
Jhe picture?—A church locking
Christ out. Individuals, who are
professing Christians, can lock
Christ out of their lives. It is won
derful to know that Christ will
come in and take charge if you
will only open the door. When we
eercise repentenee and, faith in
Christ we open the door.
In the 19th verse we read “Be
zealous therefore, and repent.” That
word Zealous means: "bubbling or
(boiling) over with heat”. I re
member gathering up chips and
wood to make a fire around the
pot when my mother would boil
the clothes. Little bubbles would
form and then the water began to
boil until it boiled over with heat.
A Christian must boil over with
heat for the cause of Christ. We
must be on fire for God before we
can be ef much help in winning
others to Christ. Luke warm Christ
inns are hinderances and stumbling
block; they are draw-back to the
cause of Christ. BE ZEALOUS !!
and REPENT!!
W. R. CALLAWAY
State Patrol On
24—Hour Duty For
Holiday Travel
Atlanta, (GPS) If you plan to dq
any highway traveling during the
Thanksgiving season and liter
ally thousands of motorists usually
do you’d better make up your
mind right now to drive carefully
and sensibly. Reason: Georgia’s
State Patrol will be out in full
force to catch traffic violators.
All personnel and equipment at
the 34 patrol posts scattered over
the state, as well as at Atlanta
headquarters, will be pressed into
service in an all-out enforcement
effort to hold highway 'accidents
and fatalities to a minimum, ac
cording to Col. W. C. Dominy, dir
ector of the Georgia Department
of Public Safety.
“All vacations and week-end pass
e.« for troopers during that period
have been cancelled," Col. Dominy
said. “Our top strength of 350 men,
including regular troopers and ad
ministrative staff members, and
every available patrol car will work
around the clock in a concentrated
movement to maintain safety for
highway users.
“In manyy states, the highway
traffic enforcement drive for the
Thanksgiving period begins at mid
night November 21 and ends at
midnight November 25. But here in
Georgia, we’ll go on special duty
six hours earlier and work six
hours longer. In other words, our
specially planned traffjc safety
maneuver goes into action all over
the state at 6 p. m. Wednesday,
November 21, and continues till 6
a. m. Monday, November 26.”
Last year during the 60-hour
period making up Thanksgiving’s
long weekend traffic accidents took
i toll of fifteen lives in Georgia.
In appealing to the motoring pub
lie for cooperation, Georgia’s safe
ty director emphasized that while
his trained units will be doing all
that is humanly possible to main
tain safety on the roads, it is, in
the final analysis, primarily up to
the individual drivers themselves
to prevent accidents.
He urges mottorists to exercise
every yprecaution at all times.
Among the things to remember:
Observe the rules of the road;
obey all traffic laws. Don’t speed;
don’t pass cars while going up hill
or around a curve; don’t take un
necessary chances any time, and
above all else don’t drive while
drinking.
In short, Mr. and Mrs. Georgia
Motorist, use common sense every
second you’re behind the wheel.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
UP THE ROAD
Last week Mrs. Newton and I
took a little trip up the roadi as
we used to say. I had to speak at
the Illinois Baptist Convention,
meeting in Metropolis, a few miles
across the Ohio River from Padu
cash, Kentucky, and we decided to
drive and get a look at the autumn
scene along the way.
The farmers in Tennessee, Ken
tucky and Illinois were busy, most
ly gathering corn. And they have
made a bumper crop in each of
these states. I saw a few farms
where they are sticking to the old
pattern of breaking the ears from
the stalks and hauling it in wag
gons or trucks, but in most in
stances they were using mechanical
pickers. I like the old plan better,
but I am hopelessly out of date,
of course.
After you pass Hopkinsville, all
the com appears to be yellow. I
saw very little white corn in Ken
tucky and Illinois, except on the
hybrid seed farms, and they have
a good many such farms, with ad
vertisements, inviting you to stop
and see what they are doing. We
did stop at several farms, not only
to see the hybrid seed folks, but
to look at the barns and silos and
cattle and hogs and horses and
sheep and goats.
They have more goats than I ex
pected, and there is a story about
goats that I must pass on some
time. They have some very fine
goats in some sections.
I was most impressed by their
pastures. When you get beyond
Nashville, you begin to see their
famed bluegrass farms, and by the
time you reach Kentucky, you be
gin to wonder how we can ever
compete with such pastures. They
have the lime, of course. They are
mixing fescue and rescue with the
bluegrass. We get our fescue from
Kentucky.
And the fine cattle, horses, sheep
and goats are the answer. I saw
thousands of pigs, just weaned,
eating grass like the cattle. Talk
ing to a young farmer, I asked
him what the grass did for his
pigs. Pointing to his grandfather,
he said: “He taught me to get
tfyem on grass as soon as they are
weaned, and finish them on corn.
He says the grass is just as im
portant as the corn. I have exactly
100 pigs, and I expect to make good
money on them.”
It is good to observe the farm
ers up the road. They haven’t any
notion of quitting. They are work
ing hard, but when was the day
that a farmer didn’t work hard? I
mean a real farmer.
Open Letter From
Bass Farr
To my friends and loyal support
ers I promised you last week to do
all in my power to get a Recount
of the votes in my race for Sheriff.
(ATTENTION Dr. Marcus Mash
burn, Sr. and A. C. Smith, Jr.) ac
cording to all legal advice there
has been no law passed pertaining
to a General Election since 1880
and this calls for a contest of the
Election which would be a long
drawn out legal battle, which might
last a year and as this would Just
keep us in strive, neighbors against
neighbors and friends against
friends until this is settled.
I have decided that for the inter
est of Forsyth Counay and all in
volved that the matter be closed.
So for this reason I have this
date conceded the Election to Mr.
Barnett and hope each of you will
do what tyou can to hel phim make
Forsyth County a good Sheriff.
Again I want to thank you for
all you have done for me and if I
can ever be of service to any of you
do not fail to call on me and In de
feat I still have my slogan
(It Matters Not Whether You Win
or lose, But how you play the
game.)
Best wishes for each of you.
I am always your friend.
BASS FARR
Going to church is not a sure
cure for your sins but it will help.
Good advice: Losers should never
bet.