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Volume 48.
Ben T. Huiet’s
Office Set Several
New Records
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet reports that this area helped
the State of Georgia to establish
several new records in the field of
employment and job insurance dur
ing 1956. The information is reveal
ed in the Commissioner’s 20th An
nual Report to Governor Marvin
Griffin and the General Assembly.
The Department of Labor’s em
ployment service office serving
this county is located at 113 N.
Green Street, Gainesville, Ga. It
also serves Dawson, Lumpkin,
White, Gwinnett and Hall counties.
This office, managed by Gerald
Frankum, assisted employers in
filling 2608 non-farm jobs in 1956.
During this same time employers
hired through the local office work
ers to fill 441 farm jobs. The state
total of no-farm job placements
for 1956 is over 119,000. Statewide
farm placements hit an al-time
peak of 198,700.
During the year jobl insurance
payments totaling $19,171,751 were
made to unemployed Georgians.
This is $7,000,000 less than was
paid out in 1954, which was the
peak year. Over 14 percent of all
payments made in the State were
to workers for whom employers
filed claims because full-time work
was not available and for which
the workers received wages less
than their weekly job insurance
amount. Payments ranged from
one dollar to S3O per week. Some
30,000 workers were laid off by
employers in large groups because
of plant shut-downs for various
reasons: over-inventory, fires, com
pletion of contracts, and such.
During 1956 $51,983.00 were paid
to unemployed workers in Forsyth
County. At present there are 68
unemployed workers drawing job
insurance on claims filed in For
syth County. " t
Business and industrial expan
sion and the extension of job in
surance coverage to employers of
four or more workers brought the
number of workers in insured em
ployment to the three-quarter mil
lion mark. State-wide insured wag
es totaled $2,182,111,355.00 in the
fiscal year 1956.
“Georgia’s economy is on the
march. The 1956 report of the De
partment of Labor indicates that
Georgia employers and workers
are keeping pace with that march.”
Huiet concluded.
ASC NEWS
If you are not planning on plant
ing your cotton acreage allotment
in 1957. you will be permitted to
release it. We have the forms avail
able now, by doing this you will
receive credit for pplanting the
acreage and at the same time you
will be helping the farmers with
small allotments who need addi
tional acreage. Also, this wil help
to hold the County’s allocation as
high as possible.
April 1, 1957 is the deadline for
releasing cotton acreage.
For your farmers who have an
allotment and would like to apply
for additional cotton acreage, the
forms are now available at the
County ASC Office.
This request must be made by
the closing date, which is April 1,
1957.
Also, If you have cotton acreage
that is not going to be planted,
and if for some season you are
not going to release it, you may
sign 31. This is a form to
preserve the acreage history for
the year 1957. You will have until
June 1, 1957 for the signing of this
request.
If you have signed an acreage
reserve agreement for cotton for
1957 neither of the above will ap
ply to you.
Keep these closing dates in mind,
and if you are interested in either
of thes ethree proedures contact
the ASC Office before the appli
cable closing dates.
Stephen Brannen, economist, Ag
ricultural Extension Service, points
out that prices paid for non-farm
items are now 29 percent above
prices in 1947-49. but farm pro
duced items are 14 percent lower.
Doctor finds “nothing wrong
with rock ‘n’ roll.'’
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY * CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHKBO RISE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Red Cross Awards
So. Bell Tel. & Tel. Cos.
Telephone folks have had an
important part in helping their
company earn an American Red
Cross award.
The company and its employees
were recognized for "devoted sup
port and humanitarian work.”
Hugh A. Fleming, Group Man
ager for Southern Bell here, said
that the Company’s first aid train
ing program was singled out for
special mention. "Red Cross first
aid instruction is important to tele
phone folks”, he said, “It teaches
us safety and how to act in emer
gency situations.”
More than 3,178 Georgia men in
Southern Bell’s Plant Department
have won first aid certificates as
a result of Company-held courses.
In addition, many men and women
in other departments hold such
certificates.
Though first aid training is pri
marily an accident prevention mea
sure, Mr. Fleming points out that
the community benefits as well.
“Telephone people use their first
aid know-how in accidents or dis
asters and often serve as first aid
instructors for Boy Scout or other
groups. Several Southern Bell peo
ple have received national recogni
tion for life saving and other ac
tions in which first aid training
was used, Mr. Fleming added.
“Red Cross first aid training is
important to us all. We never
know when we will*be called on to
give first aid, or when we will
need first aid treatment ourselvs.e”
Johnson Cites
Corn Practices
For Top Yields
Stating that the need for grain
I far exceeds the supply in Georgia,
Agronomist J. R. Johnson of the
Agricultural Extension Service has
urged farmers to make every ef
fort to produce high corn yields
in 1957
The University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture worker said
more than 20 million bushels of
corn are shipped into the state
each year for the feed mills.
He said corn is a good cash crop
on many Georgia farms, and added
that members of the 1,000 and 100
Bushel Clubs are pointing the way
to profitable yields.
‘Take J. M. Hulsey of White
county,” the agronomist continued.
“He has led the Georgia 1,000
Bushel Corn Club for two years.
In 1956 he produced 7,830 bushels
on 58 acres. That’s an average of
135 bushels per acre.
“Mr. Hulsey used certified D-29
and D-33. He applied 500 pounds
of 4—12—12 at planting and side
dressed with 66 pounds of nitrogen.
The com was spaced to have 12,-
446 plants per acre.”
Records show that more than
160 farmers in 41 Georgia counties
made the 1,000 Bushel Club last
year. This organization, along with
the Georgia 100 Bushel Club, is
conducted by the Agricultural Ex
tension Service and sponsored by
the Cotton Producers Association.
Both clubs will be in operation
again this year.
Johnson listed the following corn
production practices which he says
will help farmers make top yields:
1 Select land that will produce
at least 50 bushels per acre, and
prepare the soil thoroughtly. 2.
Meet the lime needs, and apply
500 pounds of 4—12—12 per acre
and side dress with 80 pounds of
nitrogen per acre in North Geor
gia. In South Georgia 60 pounds
of nitrogen is usually used. Use a
soil test when possible. 3. Plant
certified hybrids that are recom
mended by the Extension Service.
4. Space for 10,000 to 12,000 plants
in North Georgia and 8,000 to 10,-
000 in South Georgia. 5. Cultivate
early, frequently, and shallow.
$95,000.00 REAL ESTATE
DEAL CLOSED
Mr. Roy P. Otwell sold a tract
of land on the Buford Dam Site,
Lake Lanier to an Atlanta Concern,
Sportsman, Inc., for $95,000.00
cash transaction.
Mr. H. H. Scoggins, Real Estate
Dealer handled the transaction
which is the largest single Real
Estate Deal ever made in Forsyth
County.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday March 14, 1957.
Grand & Petit Jurors
Drawn For March
Term, 1957.
GRAND JURORS
1. H. L. Wills
2. Weldon Corn
3. Ottis Bottoms
4. Perry Holbrook
5. Cecil Herring
6. Hoyt Grogan
7. William Fagan
8. Thomas Pilgrim
9. Roy P Otwell
10. Dewey Mathis
11. T. J. Davis
12. J. B. Bennett
13. J C. Burdette
14. Clyde Pendley
15. Frank Vaughan
16. Isaac Bennett
17. Jay L. Holbrook
18. L. A. Wheeler
19. Z. D. Brannon
20. George R. Bagley
21. Arnold McClure
22. William E. Lipscomb, Jr..
23. I. T. Tallant
24. W. F. Watson
25. W. O. Wills
26. W. T. Sorrells, Sr.
27. G. E. Bennett
28. John D. Glover
29. Ivan Orr
30. Leland Tallant
PETIT JURORS
1. Lendon O. Whitmire
2. George Darnell
3. Levi T. Barron
4. Luther Henderson
5. R. A. Ingram
6. Leroy Mayfield
7. L. C. Stanford
8. Ralph Cowart (879th)
9. J. M. Cantrell
10. C. L. Jackson
11. A. C. Smith, Jr.
12. Joel Yarbrough
13. Powell Banister
14. H. P. Matthews
15. Tommie J. Garrett
16. J. C. Martin
17. Pat Hughes
18. Winfred D. Burruss
19. James A. Mcßrayer
20. Glen Sexton
21. Convvell Bagley
22. Herman Hamby
23. Eugene J. Stone
24. W. S. McDaniel
25. Amos R. Gilbert
26. Joe Nix
27. Linwood Burruss
28. Hoyt Freeland
29. Hoke Parks
30. Roy Garrett
31. Roy Moore
32. Ray Burtz
33. A. G. Thomas
34. Morris Tallant
35. W. E. Martin
36. W. B. Bottoms
37. Charles Barnett
38. E. G. Watson
39. A. L. Harrison
40. M. K. Christopher
41. Jess Wallis
42. L. H. Tribble
43. Lane Clark
44. Frank Barron
45. Amos C. Millwood
46. John Cleveland Redd
47. Jeff Heard
48. Weldon Roper
49. H. W. Chadwick
50. James M. Hughes
51. A. C. Kennemore
52. S. R. James
53. J. B. Evans
54. Glenn Worley
55. Ralph Phillips (841st)
56. John H. Ozley
57. Hoyt Thompson
58. E. L. Terry
59. L. C. Bagby
60. Herbert Castleberry
61. Billy Abbott
62. Lee DeLong
63. Lendon H. Cantrell
64. Clyde McDaniel
65. Egbert Bolton
66. Guy W. Castleberry
67. E. R. Roper
68. Claude Harris
69. W. C. Puckett
70. Carl Kennemore
F. F. A. NEWS
The regular day meeting of the
i Forsyth County Chapter of the Fu
ture Farmers of America was call
ed to order at 8:45 A. M. Wednes
day, March 6th, with President
Berry McWhorter presiding.
I The program of work chairmans
gave their monthly reports and the
main item of business was select
ing a chapter Sweetheart. Mar
jorie Taylor was elected Chapter
j Sweetheart for 1956-57.
Soil Conservation
District News
” ' '^l
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Few thinking people will dispute
the desirability of soil conservation.
The long range need is so obvious
as to make imperative some kind
of land use policy. However, for
the individual farmer who must
put conservation practices into op
eration, a very basic question ex
ists—how much current income can
be sacrificed in order to increase
future income
Farming is, after all, a business.
And like any business, when ex
penditures are made consideration
must be given to the returns not
only for the next generation but
for next year and the year after.
Extensive USDA studies carried on
in Illinois for the past 20 years
reveal this encouraging pattern;
a conservation program usually in
creases fiet income in one to four
years after it is started. This is
as reported in the magazine “Farm
ing Today”.
Get your land ready for sericea
lespedeza planting as soon as the
weather will permit.
Make' arrangements to get your
Coastal Bermuda rhizomes now.
Enoch Walked
With God
Perhaps the shortest biography
in all history, but what a wonder
ful life Enoch lived as he walked
with God. Here is the outstanding
part of his biography as it is quot
ed from Genesis 5: 24: “And Enoch
Walked with God: And he was
not; for God took him.”
There are many ways a man can
walk. He may walk with the pleas
ure of sin but the scriptures tell
us that whoever walks thus is
dead while she liveth.
A person may walk with the so
called scholars and critics of the
day many of whom make light
of the scripture and deny the plain
teachings of the Bible, that Jesus
Christ is the complete and final
revelaton of God to man. They
prefer their own opinions and the
opinions of other writers (who are
unbelievers) to the claims of Christ
There are multitudes who walk in
the paths of human reason only
and refuse to exercise faith and
trust in Jesus Christ as their sav
ious and Lord.
But Enoch walked with God.
Isn’t that the most reasonable way
to walk? Walk in the way that
God has mapped out for you. The
God who made you and who loves
you, surely, it is the part of wis
dom on our part to walk with Him
throughout all of our life. Enoch
walked with God during his earth
ly life then God took him home
and he is still with God and will
be forever.
W. R. CALLAWAY
Forsyth County High
Boys Lose
The Forsyth County High boys
lost a slow, low scoring game to
Stone Mountain 27-38 in the semi
finals of the State Tournament at
Macon on March Bth. In the quar
ter finals, Collins High School was
beaten 37-68, with Harold Whitt
and Hugh Smith scoring 30 and 26
points.
This team has won 31 and lost
four games during this season. It
ends the career of Hugh Smith,
Jimmy Thompson and James Hugh
es whose shoes will be hard to fill
next year. James Fouts, Lynn Bot
toms, Cloys Milford and James Gil
bert are other members graduating
from the squad.
Madge Nuckols, Sara Buice,
Diane Vaughn, Wanda Savage and
Gloria Swartwood graduate from
the girls squad.
Farm prices dropped 2 per cent
in month from mid January to
mid February.
County Population 15,000.
Chestatee & Oscarville
Communities Gets
Telephor e Service
Southern Bell took another step
recently to bring Chestatee and
Oscarville Communities telephone
service when workmen started con
structing anew line into these
loclities.
Preliminary planning and engi- |
neering were completed during the '
latter part of last year. The new I
line will combine two of the latest
types of construction developed by
Southern Bell especially for the
most effective rural telephone ser
vice. This line consisting of both j
"long spans” stell telephone wire i
and “plowed in" cable is expected
to provide telephone service to ap
proximately 180 subscribers. Sub
scribers will be connected with the
Cumming, Georgia exchange, Sou
thern Bell Manager, Hugh Fleming
said.
N. M. Sims and Sidney H. Burns,
two Southern Bell men especially
trained and experienced in develop
ing this type of telephone plant
are supervising the construction
and installation. They have been
busy in recent weeks working out
details of Southern Bell’s efforts
to bring the convenience of the
telephone to families in rural
areas.
The construction under way pro
vides the setting of poles and in
some cases the placing of wire for
cable to be attached. As soon ts
this phase is completed workmen
will begin placing cross arms for
the “long span” steel wire and
special crews will start plowing
in the cable on certain portions
of the line.
Mr. Fleming said construction of
new lines in rural areas not only
furnishes service to new farm fami
lies but makes everybody’s tele
phone service mor valuable be
cause they can call more people
and in term be called by more. .
People in the Chestatee and Os
carville areas have requested to
contact the tllephone office in Bu
ford in order that orders for ser
vice may be issued and delay ele
minated in the provision of ser
vice as much as possible
Milk Production
In Georgia Is
At Record Level
More milke from fewer cows.
That’s the dairy picture in Geor
gia right now, according to Sid
Diamon, Extension dairyman, at
the University of Georgia College
of Agriculture.
Diamond cited reports on Geor
gia’s 1956 dairy business showing
that milk production increased by
300 pounds per cow. “This repre
sents an increase in average milk
production per cow of a little bet
ter than eight percent over 1955
and 16 percent over the 1945-54
average," he explained.
Total milk production for the
state last year was 1,226,000 pound
a 4.2 percent increase over the
previous year and a 6.2 percent in
crease over the 1945-54 period.
“The encouraging thing about
the record output is that it was
produced from only 305,000 milk
cows,” the Extension dairyman
stated. “That’s 11,000 fewer cows
than were counted in the 1955 re
port and 29,000 less than the 1945-
54 average.”
Diamond attributed the product
ion gains to better feeding, breed
ing, and management practices.
“The record is one Georgia dairy
men can be justly proud of, but
there still is a long way to go,”
he said. "The 300-pound gain in
one year compares favorably with
the national average gain of 78
pounds of milk per cow during the
past ten years. But even so, Geor
gia still ranks 42 in the nation in
average milk producetion per cow.”
While Georgia’s average milk
production per cow reached an all
time high of 4,020 ppounds last
year, the amount is about 2,000
pounds short of the national aver
age, Diamond stated.
Pointing out that high average
milk production per cow is the
greatest single factor influencing
dairy profits, the dairy specialist
urged farmers to continue their
efforts to increase average per
cow production and so decrease
high production costs.
Number 11.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
''MAKING BEST BETTER”
You know what this piece is
going to bo about the moment you
glance at the cherished ideal of
the 4-H Club movement "Making
the Best Better.” Wo had the State
4-H Officers .together with Mr.
Tommy Walton, Mrs. Martha Har
rison and the other members of
the Department Staff at Druid
Hills Baptist Church last Sunday
morning, launching 4-H Club Week
in Georgia, and the annual dedi
cation of the plow.
For 17 years now we have en
joyed tthe privilege and pleasure
of welcoming these leaders of Geor
gia's grand program of 4-11 Club
work to our church, and I can tell
you that our people at Druid Hills
look forward to it as one of the
really high hours of the year.
Think of 141,825 boys and girls
in Georgia, dedicated to th£ Ideal
of “Making the Best Better”! And
they are doing it. It seemed to me
last Sunday that the six young
people representing this vast host
of distinguished young Georgians
were about the finest examples of
Christian youth I ever saw. That
is not to forget the officers of the
past years. They were the best,
and these 1957 leaders are simply
striving to move one step nearer
the ideal.
What these 141,825 young people
are achieving reflects the dedlcat
ed leadership of another vast group
of Georgians the State Depart
ment’s fine staff the County
Agents and their staffs the par
ents the advisors and committee
men the business people who are
contributing money and time. No
wonder the best is becoming better.
We tremble with every report of
juvenil delinquency its increase
and its stepped up violence. But
let us not forget that over against
1 the combined forces of destruction
are these evidences of juvenile de
cncy. Th beer, wine, and liquor
people will not get very far with
4-H boys and girls. They have
something to do. They are not idly
killing time. Organized crime will
not be able to draw them into the
vortex of gambling, drunkenness
and vice.
The exhibit of farm products m
our church last Sunday, furnished
by the more than 3,000 4-H Club
boys and girls in DeKalb County,
was an eloquent testimony to the
practical result of the long and
intelligent and enthusiastic leader
ship of County Agent “Fibber”
McGee and his excellent staff, plus
the cooperation of parents and
many fine citizens of our county
Fire Safety Job
Everyone’s, Says
Governor Griffin
ATLANTA Governor Marvin Grif
fin is highly pleased with the fine
impression Commissioner Zack D
Cravey’s administration of the
Georgia Safety Fire 1-aw is making
upon members of the General As
sembly.
Writing in the March issue of
The Georgia Fire Cracker, official
monthly publication of the Safety
Fire Commission, the Chief Exo
eutive said that during the recent
session many legislators had ex
pressed their elation to him con
cerning the progress of fire safety
in Georgia.
"Legislators may have their dif
ferences here and there,” Governor
Griffin continues, “but when it
comes to the saving of human
lives and property they are just
as much members of the team as
you or I or any other Georgian.
“The crusade against fire, and
the efforts to eliminate fire haz
ards in every community and in
every home is the charge of all of
us on a year round basis, 24 hours,
a day. There can be no relaxing
of vigilance. It’s just like any
other ‘hot war* except none of us
can be considered exempt from
serving actively in this unceasing
campaign.
“While it is a matter of pride
that our Junier Fire Marshall pro
gram has been copied by several
of our sister states along with our
Georgia Safety Fire Law, we must
not rest on our laurels. Our safety
program on its merit has been
found good. Let’s make it even bet
ter.”