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Volume 48.
City Of Cumming
Receives Check From
Georgia Power Cos.
A check for $2206.84 was deliv
ered to the city of Cumming, Feb
ruary 21, 1957 by C. B. Curtis, lo
cal manager, of the Georgia Power
Company. This payment represents
three per cent of the gross re
ceipts in 1956 from the sale of
electric power to commercial and
residential customers of the com
pany under the Municipal Partner
ship Plan. The three per cent tax
is paid by the company in place of
occupation and franchise taxes and
is in addition to the company’s
property taxes paid to the county
and city in December.
The Georgia Power Company’s
tax bill for 1956 amounted to more
than $22,600,000. Of the total, more
than $1,715,000 is being paid to the
communities of Georgia under the j
Municipal Partnership Plan. This
is an increase of more than $135,-
000 over 1955.
City, county and state property 1
taxes totaled $4,300,000 in 1956.
The $22,600,000 total tax figure
does not include the Georgia three
per cent sales tax which the com
pany collects from its customers
for the State of Georgia nor the
sales tax which the company pays
on materials used in its operations.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Forsyth County has few commer
cial hog producers but many farm
ers who sell one or two hogs dur
ing the year. All* of these people
would do well to market their
hogs during our usual peak hog
prices.
On the average, prices for hogs
are higher during June, July, and
August than any other time of the
year. Fewer hogs are marketed
during this period than at any
other time of year. When the sup
ply is scarce, the price is usually
higher.
For the past five years the num
ber of hogs received at eight South
eastern packing plants has averag
ed 35,525 per month during June,
July, and August, and the average
price for the three months was
$18.50 per hundred weight.
Compare this with the average
receipts for the next three months
September, October, and Novem
ber—when 66,125 hogs per month
were received, and the average
price was $15.85 per hundred wt.
The difference here shows a
price advantage of $2.65 per hund
red wt. for early marketed hogs.
Forsyth County farmers, bu us
ing known management practices,
can sell their hogs on the early
market.
Breeding sows to farrow in Janu
ary and February is one of the
main steps. Good, early spring
grazing, ample water and shade
during hot weather, and a balan
ced ration will insure getting a
number one hog on the early
market.
However, hogs only increase the
production cost per pound and
the supply of lard on the market.
NOTICE!
i
The Forsyth County Singing
Class meets each Thursday night
at Zion Hill Baptist Church at 7:30
Make your plans to attend.
Carter Galloway, President
Wyman Cox, V. President (
1
Forsyth County
Ministerial Association
All ministers of the Gospel in I
Forsyth County are invited to at
tend the monthly meeting of the ,
Forsyth County Ministerial Asso- j
ciation at Haw Creek Baptist j
Church. Friday night, March 1, at 1
7:30. The speaker will be Rev. |
Bruce Wilson, Executive Secretary
of the Georgia Temperance League.
He will present an inspiring mes- I
sage.
Over theyear ending July, 1956,
land values in Georgia increased j
eight percent, reports Stephen ]
Brannen, economist, Agricultural
Extension Service.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON. CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAI.I, AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Green’s Fuel Company
Big Celebration
Friday & Saturday
Lawrenceville Georgia will be
the scene for a festive celebration
| Friday and Saturday, March Ist
and 2nd, as Green's Fuel Company
i goes into it’s big Dearborn Festi
val. This reporter has been viewing ,
| the preparations that have been!
made for this affair and expects j
I to see two enjoyable days for both ,
i the visitors and the Cbmpany per- I
Isonnel at their festival.
| !
| Highlights of the occasion will j
be a factory representative from i
I Dearborn Stove Company present!
jto answer any heating company
jwho will provide a cooking demon
jstration that will be of interest, |
along with the homemade refresh-]
ments he will serve, both days. |
Also featured will he complete '
gas heating installations for which
Green’s Fuel Company is well
known. Hourly prizes will be given
away from noon until six o'clock
on both days, featuring a Grand ]
Prize at six o’clock on Saturday.
Residents of the fourteen county j
territory of Green’s Fuel Company
are invited to attend.
Soil Bank’s Closing
Date Is Extended
The deadline for signing Soil
Bank Conservation Reserve con
tracts to begin in 1957 is being
extended to April 15 from the ori
ginal closing date of March 15,
John F. Bradley, state adminis
trative officer for the Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Com
mittee, announced this week.
The action is being taken, Brad
ley stated, because of the increased
interest demonstrated by farmers
in this phase of the Soil Bank pro
gram, and due to the heavy work
load in the county ASC offices.
In addition to Conservation Re
serve contracts, agreements are
now being signed in these offices
on the spring planted allotment
crops of cotton, tobacco and corn
for the 1957 Soil Band Acreage
Reserve program.
Under the 1957 Acreage Reserve,
farmers have until March 1 to
sign agreements putting cotton
and tobacco allotment land in the
program, and until March 8 for
agreements covering corn.
Heart Fund Shows
| Increase As Drive
I Enters Final Week
With one week left in the 1957
| Heart Fund Drive, collection re
ports show an increase of 20 per
|cent over last year’s Drive, Char
i les S. Motz, State Campaign Chair
j man, announced today.
“If contributions continue at the
present rate, there is no doubt
) that we will reach our goal for
the State,” Mr. Motz said. He ad
-1 ded, however, that the Heart Goal
( of $300,000.00 represents a mini
, mum fund for the continuance of
the Georgia Heart Program as it
j now exists. "Had we not exceeded
j our goal last year”, Motz pointed
out, “many research projects, edu
i cational and community heart pro-
J grams all over the State could not
j have been carried out.”
! This year our progress is very
'encouraging, not only financially
but educationally as well, Mr. Motz
j said. “Asa result of the education
lal aspects of the Fund Drive, we
I believe that many more people in
| Georgia are now familiar with the
problems that must be solved thru
research, with the facts that must
reach all the people through edu
cation, and with the needs of our
1 thousands of indigent heart pat
! ients.”
Contributions to the Heart Fund
help to solve all these problems.
! There is no doubt that continued
t research, education and community
| programs will assist in overcoming
• the heart diseases, now America’s
I number one helath problem, affect
| ing 10,000,000 people in this coun
try alone and causing 53 per cer.t
of all deaths in the nation. There
is still time to make your contri
bution.
| P
Leafy, fine-stemmed hay should
!be kept where calves can learn
early to eat roughage
Cumming Georgia, Thursday February 28, 1957
F. C. H. S. Wins
Ninth District
'Tournament
I
1 The Ninth District Boys Tourna
, ment began on February 20th and
ended February 23rd at Commerce
I Georgia. Twelve “B” class teams
took part and Forsyth County and
Pickens County played the final
game, with Forsyth winning 60—51
All of the games showed lots of
team work and a great amount of
determination.
In the first game Jefferson was
beaten 65—40 with all players tak
ing part. Hugh Smith led the scor
ing with 19 points.
Lyman Hall was beaten 69 50
with the cast playing and Hugh
Smith dunking 22 points. Cleveland
i was beaten 65—34 Jimmy
Thompson playing his best game
of the season stealing the ball
from opponents several times and
scoring 20 points.
The final game was a fine team
effort with Harold Whitt playing
| a fine game and scoring 20 points
to beat Pickens County Hi 60 —51
and earn a birth in the State Tour
ney in Macon Georgia on March
7th at 7:15 against Collins, winner
of the first district.
If the bys show desire and de
! termination in the State Tourney
las they did Saturday night, they
1 will be hard to eliminate.
Caution Urged
By Cravey In
Burning Trash
|
j ATLANTA—With Spring Clean
lUp Time scheduled to be observed
in Georgia during the week of
March 24-30. Safety Fire Commis
sioner Jack D. Cravey today ad
monished home owners to exercise
all care in burning trash,
j “Trash fires can easily get out
of hand with devasting and far
reaching effect.” he said. “Some
communities forbid them entirely.
If yours does not. I advise you to
check with your local fire depart
ment regulations before starting
such a fire since many localities
require a fire department permit.”
When and if trash is burned,
Commissioner Cravey offers the
following tips:
1. Never light an outdoor fire
on a windy day.
2. Set out, and attach, your gard
-led hose. Keep it handy until the
! fire is completely out.
3. Use a wire mesh basket or a
metal container with a cover to
burn in. Set it well away from
building, fence, tall grass.
4. Keep children away.
5. Stay with your fire until it
is out and the ashes are cool
enough to touch.
I Stop! Look! Listen
Play at Chattahoochee School on
Saturday, March 16, at 8 p. m.—A
Three Act Comedy—Aunt Samathy
Rules the Roost—CAST:
Aunt Samathy—Sandra Smith
Serena Simpkins—Emma Lou
Thomas
Sophie Simpkins—Elizabeth Martin
Polly Paine —Deloris Hammond
Annie Ambrose—Nudine Anderson
Blanch Bowers—Shirley Mullinax
Lucien Littlefield—Edwin Young
i blood
Blair Boswell—Ruel Martin
Frank Fairfield —Allen Hammond
Lawrence Lovewell—Hugh Hen
derson
Buddy Baskins- Jesse Smith
Old people can fall in love' Love
powders prove it, or do they?
Admission—■ Adults 50c. School
children 25c.
Big Creek P. T. A.
The newly organized Parent-
Teacher Association of Big Creek
School will hold it’s first official
meeting on Wednesday, March 6,
at 2:30 p. m. in the school audi
torium. This organization cordially
invites all persons, whether a par
ent or not, who are interested in
the welfare of the children of Big
Creek Community, to come and
join with us in making this PTA
a successful and worthwhile pro
ject. There will be a short program
and refreshments, so please plan
to be with us.
Mrs. Wm. Mathis, Reporter
and Publicity Chairman.
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
.
i William J. Orr, local District
Supervisor and James T. Coots
Work Unit Conservationist attend
ed the monthly meeting of the
Board of Supervisors of the Upper
j Chattahoochee River Soil Conser
vation District at the Civic Build
ing in Gainesville last Thursday.
J. W. Phillips, Lake Lanier Re
servoir Manager and C. L. Veatch,
SCS, Management Agronomist
were the guest speakers at the
board meeting.
Local SCS technicians attended
an Area Staff meeting at the Civic
'Building in Gainesville last Wed
nesday.
! L. Mercer Brown, SCS, Agricul
tural Engineer, attended an ASC
Meeting at the Court House in
Cumming last Wednesday.
T. K. Orr, SCS, technician is
establishing honeysuckle on criti
cal areas of roadbanks in the Set
tingdown Creek Watershed.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
♦ SEED CORN
Down in South Georgia the other
day, we stopped at Tifton for fuel
and a coke, and in conversation
with the folks in the filling stat
ion, a farmer remarked:
“I’ve got to be getting on, J’m
trying to select my seed corn, and
that means lots of shucking.”
After he drove away in his pick
up, a man told us that that farmer
consistently grew one of the best
corn crops in Tift County. And one
of the secrets was the care he
always gave to the selection of the
seed. Othrs followed the plan of
buying their seed, but this parti
cular farmer aimed at making the
best better.
Which reminded me of my fath
er—how he would always keep a
special basket or barrel in the
barn for seed corn. When shuck
ing corn for mill —the corn we ate
in meal and hominy, he would
watch for a specially good ear,
and pitch it over in the seed bar
rel. When planting came around,
he would go carefully through the
barrel, selecting ears of the al
ready selected lot. He always got
a good stand, and he always got a
good yield.
Shift the thought over to the
wider range of life, and it sug
gests how we may wisely choose
our foundation plans—what we
read, what we give our thonghts to
Like seed com, it pays off. Plant
an unworthy thought in the mind
of a child, and there will be grief
down the road of life.
That, I suppose, accounts for
certain homes we know —homes
from which have come strong,
clean lives. Parents were careful
in the selection of the sed thoughts
that wre suggestd by picturss on
the wall, books on the table, ex
amples in everyday life.
I remember something that Mr.
John D. Rockefeler, Sr., said to
me one day in 1914 as I sat in his
library, getting a story for the
New York World:
"God has entrusted me with
money, and I am trying my best
to so teach my boy that he will
be the master of money and not
allow money to master him.”
And the son seems to have fol
lowed the same ideal with his
boys, so that they have turned out
to be honorable men and not the
playboys of a rich father.
Seed corn. Something to think
about.
PROGRESS IN POULTRY
In 1947, the average production
per hen in Georgia was one of
the lowest in the nation —114 eggs
per bird, say Agricultural Exten
sion Service poultrymen. In 1955,
the average production was 192
eggs.
County Population 15,000.
Future Homemakers
Will Assemble In
Gainesville March 2
Future Homemakers from all
parts of northeast Georgia will as
semble in Gainesville March 2 for
their district conventfon. They will
come in yellow school buses that
will roll down from the mountains
and ride up from the valleys. Near
ly a thousands girls and their
teachers, and some of their par
ents and principals will be there.
Most exciting feature of their
day-long program will be nominat
ing two girls to run for state FHA
president at the state convention j
in Atlanta in late April. The office
rotates among the four districts
of Georgia, and it has been three |
years since this district had a I
state president. The last one was
Virginia Pinson of Ellijay. Four
outstanding FHA’ers who will be i
"candidates for candidate” and
speak at the Gainesville meeting
are these: Joyce Cryder, Elberton;
Faye Chastain, Athens; Marilyn
Grace Poston, West Fannin; and
Patricia Harper, Morgan County
High. Two will be chosen to run
in Atlanta. The runner-up will be
come state chairman of the in
creasingly important degree pro
gram. The state president is the
only officer who is chosen in At
lanta. The others are elected at the
spring conventions. The other of
fices which are to be filled by the
Gainesville conventioners on March
2 and the candidates who will
make speeches seeking them are
these: for the office of vie prsi
dnt—Gail Corker, Duluth; Ann
Queen, Monroe; Gwendolyn Payne,
Carnesville; and Martha (Susie)
Waters, Gilmer County High: for
music and recreation chairman
- Head, Toccoa, and Jane
Ann Morris, Maysville.
A popular feature of the spring
convention will be a "Through the
Fashion Book” style show, direct
ed by Mrs. Dorothy Byrd of Snell
ville. Girls from every one of the
eleven Gwinnett County FHA chap
ters will step through the pages of
a giant fashion book to madel
trim, pretty clothes they have
made in their homemaking classes
under the direction of skilled home
making teachers. Gwinnett County
has the largest number of FHA
chapters of any county in the state
The guest speaker at the Gaines
ville meeting will be Dr. Carlfred
Broderick, Associate Professor of
Home Economics at the University
of Georgia. He will speak on
"Learning to Love”.
Miss Eleanor Floyd, homemak
ing teacher at Gainesville, is in
charge of local arrangements. J. R.
Callison is principal there and L.
H. Battle is superintendent. They
will be assisted in planning for
the convention by Mrs. J. M. Bar
ber of Athens, state FHA adviser,
Miss Dora Mollenhoff of Athens,
assistant state supervisor of home
making education, who is in charge
of the forty counties in this area,
and Miss Martha Lou Britt of El
berton, FHA district adviser.
Joyce Cryder of Elberton, state
vice-president, will call the meet
ing to order at ten o’clock. Mar
sha Mallard of Watkinsville is pro
gram chairman, and Betty lee Gre
sham of Lilburn is secretary. Two
state officers in this district who
will be featured on the program
are Peggy Thornley of Winder,
treasuurer, and Marilyn Mann of
Hartwell, parliamentarian.
The Gainesville meeting will
launch a series of four spring dis
trict conventions throughout the
state during the Saturdays in
March.. Each will assemble about
a thousand Future Homemakers.
The series will precede Future
Homemaker Week on April 7 13.
This is the first time that the
week has been held in the spring.
Th state FHA convention will be
held in Atlanta April 25—27.
Priscilla Jones of Blakely is state
president. Miss Inez Wallace of
Atlanta, state supervisor of home
making education, is chairman of
the FHA advisory board.
TAKE NOTICE
Oscar B. Tally, Sr. Broker of the
Forsyth County Real Estate Brok
erage, gives notice that Roy H.
Bailey, and Harvey I'irkle, are no
longer in partnrship of the above
firm. February 20th, 1957.
Number 9.
MARCH
“With rushing winds and gloomy
skies
The dark and stubborn Winter
dies;
Far off— unseen — Spring faintly
cries,
Bidding her earliest child arise;
MARCH!
—Bayard Taylor
The approach of March, with the
arriyal of Spring, means that Win
ter is bowing out. The name, of
course, comes from Mars, an an
cient Italian diety, known as the
God of War.
In early colonial days, the year
began in March until recently Fed
eral income taxes were payable ir
March, but now March has been
relieved of this latter distinction
March contains many memorable
days and anniversaries. On March
30th, 1842, Dr. Crawford W. Long,
a smalltown doctor, practicing in
Jefferson, Georgia, used ether for
the first time on a patient to n
move a tumor. The patient, James
M. Venable, was surprised when
he awoke to finn that the tumor
on his neck had been removed and
he had felt no pain. This is one of
the little known anniversaries of
March, since for many years most
of the population believed that the
first use of ether had occurred in
Massachusetts, administered by I>r
William Morton, a dentist.
Dr. Morton first administered
ether to a patient on October 15.
1856, in the removal of a tumor
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes sug
gested the name anaesthesia, Dr.
Long first used ether in 1842. A
thorough examination of the his
tory of its first use was made by
Dr. J. Marion Sims, of New York
in later years and from the avail
able evidence, he concluded that
credit for the first use of an anaes
thetic belonged to Dr. Long.
March, of course, used to be the
[ montn of Inauguration Dhy and on
March 4th, for many years, Presi
dents were inaugurated. However,
with the adoption of the 20th
Amendment in 1933, inaugurations
have been held in January.
The cotton gin was patented by-
Eli Whitney, of Massachusetts, on
i March 14, 1894, Soouth Carolina,
incidentally, voted him an award
of $50,000 in recognition of Un
importance of his invention.
The U. S. Military Academy, at
West Point, N. ,Y., was founded
by Act of Congress on March 16,
1802, and St Patricks’ Day is celc
brated on March 17th, dating from
the death of the patron saint of
Ireland on March 17th, 1493.
The month is the birthday anni
| versary of several Presidents of
the United States, among them
being Grover Cleveland, the only
man to serve two separated term--
of office as President of the Unit
ed States. Cleveland was bom in
Caldwell, New Jersey -on March 18.
1837.
March contains many other in
teresting historical days, including
t Maryland Day, which falls on the
25th, Alamo Day in Texas which
comes on the 6th, and many otherv
FOOD PRICES
In ca.se you are wondtring wheth
er the pree of food will be going
up or down in 1957, the latest ex
pert opinion is that it will go up
slightly. Although there is a dit
ference of opinion among execu
tives in the food industry, few, be
lieve prices will go down..
A number believe prices will re
main steady in 1957, increasing on
ly little and that as a result of
wages and taxes. Another group
believes that food prices are sure
to go up, since prices of other
commodities have continued to spir
al and since wage increases are to
be expected in 1957.
In 1956, food prices rose T of
one per cent over the level of 1955.
This is a very moderate increase in
comparison with the price increas
es registered in other fields.
Therefore, food prices actually
did not keep pace with the general
rise in prices in 1956 and face do
immediate adjustment. However,
some think they may rise slightly
in coming months.
Soil testing is the only practical
method of making an immediate
determination of the need for lime-