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Volume 48.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Masonic School of Instruction
will be held at LaFayette Lodge
No. 44, Cumming, Georgia, each
Monday night during April and
May. Meetings will begin promptly
at 7:30 p. m. All Master Masons
are cordially invited to attend.
Rupert H. Bramblett, M. D.
Assistant Custodian, Ninth
Masonic District.
Kashington Mourns
Magsaysay
Top officials in Washington are
genuinely grieved at the loss of
one of this country's great Far
Eastern allies and fear that the
death of President Ramon Magsay
say is one of the most serious
blows suffered by the democracies
in the Far East in years.
Magsaysay was a champion of
the democratic way of life, though
only 49 years old and though he
was a peasant himself.
Washington is not certain sabo
tage was not involved in the crash,
since no greater accomplishment
could have been made by the Com
munists than to have erased the
power of the popular Phillippine
leader. He was the man who, as
Defense Secretary, wrecked the
Communist Huk rebel movement.
It is at least ironical that the
Western world should lose so many
of its top anti-Communist cham
pions. The list even includes such
aggressive personalities as the late
Jack Puerifoy, who was the highly
successful American diplomat serv
ing as Ambassador to Thailand
when he was killed in an automo
bile wreck.
The Philippines are probably the
strongest Western outpost in the
Far East, and it has been a happy
development that they have been
highly friendly to the United Stat
es, even though we were the so
called colonial power ruling them
until shortly after World War 11.
The U. S. example in freeing this
huge country, even though we
could have easily maintained our
dominion over it, was an illustrat
ion of the working democracy to
the World an dthe Filipinos evid
ently apppreciated it and admired
democracy as a result.
However, the Communists had
made considerable progress in the
Philippine Islands until Magsaysay
won over most of their leaders. It
appears that the new President,
Carlos P. Garcia, will follow Mag
saysay's policies to the letter. On
his shoulders rests a great respon
sibility and, to a not inconsiderable
extent, the security of the Far
East.
ASC NEWS
Producers must complete the
marketing of either wool or lambs
not later than March 31 for pay
ment eligibility under the 1956 pro
gram, Chairman C. A. Bagwell of
the Forsyth County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation Com
mittee reminds farmers.
He explained that, under wool
program regulations, “completion
of marketing” means that the title
of wool or lambs must have passed
from the seller to the buyer. If
there is any detail of the sale, such
as weithing or results of core test
ing for shrinkage, which is not
settled until after March 31, the
sale will not be considered a trans
action during the 1956 marketing
year, which runs from April 1,
1956 through March 31, 1957. This
means that wool must either be
actually delivered or transferred
through documents. This can be
accomplished only after all the
factors needed to determine the
net sales proceeds, such as price
per pound, weight, and yield, are
known.
Payrr nts under the 1956 pro
gram will be made this summer
when th • payment rates are deter
mined on the basis of average
prices recivd for wool sold during
th 1956 marketing year. Anv mark
eting after Marche 31 will be ali
gible fo 1957 program payments
to be made in the summer of 1958.
Conseivation Reserve contracts
which farmers sign to begin in
1957, must be signed not later than
April 15, 1957.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHF.RO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAI.I. AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Biographical Sketch of
L. G. Hardman, Jr.
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L. (i. HARDMAN, JR.
Lamartine Griffin Hardman, Jr.,
of Commerce, Ga., is destined to
assume the presidency of the
American Cotton Manufacturers
Institute, at a time when the tex
tile industry in the United States
seems headed into an era of pro
gress and renewed confidence.
Mr. Hardman, president of Har
mony Grove Mills, who as vice
president of ACMI helped steer
the organization through the criti
cal period of uncertainty brought
on by iow-wage foreign imports,
now is slated to help Institute dir
ectors and officials formulate poli
cies for a future that now seems
filled with hope. If customs is fol
lowed Mr. Hardman will become
President of ACMI at the Insti
tute’s annual convention in April
at West Palm Beach, Fla.
The incoming president of ACMI
has served textile industry in many
capacities including that of presi
dent of the Cotton Manufacturers
Association of Georgia, director of
the Cotton Textile Institute and at
present second vice president, mem
her of the executiv committee and
a director of ACMI.
Mr. Hardman’s coming elevation
to the ACMI presidency has met
with approval in the industry
where he is widely known for his
ability as an administrator and
leader.
Popularly known as "Lam”
throughout the industry, Mr. Hard
man’s family background is one of
manufacturing, finance, medicine,
agriculture, polities and religion.
His father, a prominent physician
served as governor of Georgia
from 1927 to 1931.
Born at Commerce, Georgia on
July 5, 1908, Mr. Hardman attended
Georgia Military Academy and lat
er the University of Georgia, where
he received his B. S. degree in
1930.
His professional career led fin
ally to the position of president
and treasurer of Harmony Grove
Mills at Commerce, positions which
he holds today. He also is president
of the First Natioal Bank of Com
merce and president of Frozen
Food Lockers, Inc., of Commerce.
In addition to his distinguished
work in various textile trade asso
ciation positions, Mr. Hardman also
is a former trustee of Mercer Uni
versity at Macon, Ga., and of
Truett-McConnel College, Cleve
land, Ga., chairman of the board of
deacons of the First Baptist church
Commerce, Ga., member of Phi
Delta Theta social fraternity; mem
ber of the Piedmont Driving Club,
Atlanta, and the Capital City Club,
Atlanta.
Married to the former Dorothy
Shell of Bainbridge, Ga., Mr. Hard
man is the father of two sons, L.
G. Hardman, 111, 17, and John B.
Hardman, 15, and a daughter, Shell
Hardman, 12.
FREDDIE MILLER
TALENT TRY OUT
On April 12th, 7:30 p. m at the
Gym th°re will be a try out for all
types of talent in Forsyth County,
who will appear later on the regu
-1 ■ -Ve Mille Show on April
26th. If you are talented in any
v? now o r an one pDase see
that they appear on the above pro
gram. This event is sponsored each
yea !v the Forsyth County Cham
ber of Commerce and it is hoped
thot this year the Show will be
bigger than ever.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, March 28, 1957.
Southern Bell Plans
New Facilities
t Plans for a major addition to
communications facilities in Geor
gia were announced today by Hugh
A. Fleming, Group Manager, for
Southern Bell here.
The new facility, to be built in
Rockdale County near Conyers,
will serve as a regional center for
eight southern states. Such insial
lations are nerve centers of long
distance switching. When the Rock
dale unit is complete, there will
be nine such centers in the coun
try.
Mr. Fleming pointed out that in
addition to the Nationwide import
ance of the Rockdale center, it
will also be important to Georgia.
The present regional center is in
Atlanta. When the new center is
completed equipment in Atlanta
will be freed for future growth.
The new center paves the way
to ever better telephone service for
all Georgians, Mr. Fleming said.
This is one more step toward the
day when people throughout Geor
gia and the nation can dial long
distance calls as easily as they now
dial local calls.
One of the largest telephone re
peater buildings in the Country is
being constructed near Conyers. A
137-foot steel radio relay tower
will be built on the same site in
June.
Planned by the long lines de
partment of the American Tele
phne and Telegraph Company the
structures ’ will be the junction
point of the Augusta-Atlanta coax
ial cable and a radio relay route
that will circle Atlanta.
The new coaxial cable will carry
telephone calls between AugUsta
and Atlanta. It may be equipped
later to carry a television signals
as well. This cable is the final link
in an all-coaxial route between
New York and Los Angeles,
j Six major routes now serve At
i lanta, the biggest long distance
1 center in the South. The radio
relay route to circle Atlanta,
j known as the Atlanta Ring will
connect with all these routes,
Chattanooga, Charlotte, Jackson
ville, Macon, Montgomery and Bir
mingham. It will also connect with
the Augusta route.
The ring will give greaTr flexi
bility to the routing of long dis
tance calls around Atlanta to other
cities.
Plans call for completion of the
repeater building in May. Tower
construction will begin in June.
First service is aexpected to start
on the cable and radio relay route
in late 1957. Construction of the
long distance switching center is
also scheduled for the latter part
of the year.
Sawnee Valley
WJdLfe News
The Sawnee Valley Wildlife Club
held its’ regular monthly meeting
Friday night at the Community
House with a very large group
present. The group was treated to
a delicious chicken supper through
the courtesy of the retiring presi
dent of the club, George Bagley.
The out-of-town guest for the
supper and meeting included Mr.
James W. Phillips, Lake Lanier
Reservoir Manager and Mr. A. F.
Merritt and Clayton Swank from
the Vicksburg office of the Corpse
of Engineers. Mr. Phillips was the
guest speaker. He made a very in
teresting talk concerning the re
creational opportunities that the
new Lake would furnish. It was
Mr. Phillips opinion that the ex
penditures for recreational facili
ties would exceed the entire cost
of the Dam. He requested that
Clubs, such as this one, assist his
office in promoting safety on the
lake.
After Mr. Phillips talk, an elec
tion of officers was held. Mr.
James Ivy Hughes was elected
President for the coming year.
Under Mr. Hughes leadership we
are looking forward to another
successful year.
SINGING NOTICE
There will be a Singing at Cum
ming Se ond Baptist Church on
the Second Sundav night in April.
Evo-vo■? is cord’ally invted to at
tend. We are expecting to have a
lot of visiting groups.
Steve Grogan, V-president
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Soil conservation is a whole sys
tem of soil-and water management
practices, fitted together in a prac
tical workable way into “good
farming.” It is a specific pattern,
or system of practices fit'ed to
the soil and water resources of
individual farms and watersheds.
Soil conservation means a sys
tem of efficient use of the soil,
based on a scientific soil survey
and adopted by the decision of the
individual farmer as adapted to his
own special combination of skills
and resources. It means using land
within its capabilities to produce a
good living for the farm family
now on the land, and applying
I radices that will improve effi
ciency and profitableness lor farm
fam lies now as well as for the
future.
Gladwin E. Young
Deputy Administrator, SCS
AT MY MOTHER’S
KNEE
“I have worshiped in Churches and
Chapels,
I’ve prayed in the busy street,
I have sought my God and have
found Him
Where the waves of the ocean
beat,
I have knelt in the silent forest,
In the shade ol some ancient
tree,
But the dearest of all my altars,
Was raised at my mother’s knee.
I have listened to God in His
temple,
I’ve caught his voice in the
crowd,
I have heard him speak when the
breakers were booming long
and loud,
Where the winds play soft in the
tree tops
My father has talked to me,
But I never have heard Him clear
er than I did at my mother’s
knee.
God make me the man of her vis
ion and purge me of selfishness!
God keep me true to her standards
and help me to live to bless!
God follow the holy impress
fohetM 1
of the days that used to be, and
keep mk a Pilgrim forever
To the shrine at my mother’s
knee.”
My mother lived nearly ninety
two years in the flesh. Now she
lives eternally in the presence of
God. Words cannot express what
she meant to me and each of her
children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren. She was modest
and quiet but she had a strong
faith in God and she was loyai to
the cause of Christ.
Some of the memories of child
hood are: my mother teaching me
to pray while kneeling at her
knees, the family circle with moth
er at one side of the fireplace and
my father at the other side with
the children between, the Bible was
read, then we all knelt to pray.
Then before my mother got Into
the bed she knelt and silently
prayed again. Her prayers have
folowed me and shall continue to
follow me throughout all of my
life and the life to come.
She was so interested in all that
her children were doing. Just a
few days before her death as I
held her hand she asked, "Son,
where did you preach today?” I
loved those hand of hers, they did
so much for me but most of all I
love the saviour that she loved.
God bless her memory.
W. R. CALLAWAY
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PREACHING NOTICE
Rev. Lonnie J. Farmer will preach
at Roasoke Baptist church Sunday
at 11 o’clock. Rev. Harvey Langley
will preach at 7:30 Sunday night.
Everyone invited.
County Population 15,000.
Treasury Medal
Awarded County
Bond Chairman
In recognition of Forsyth Coun
ty's exceeding its 1956 quota of
U. S. Savings Bonds sales, Roy P.
Otwell, county chairman for the
bond program today received a
second award of the Treasury sil
ver medal for patriotic service.
Forsyth County citizens purchas
ed $101,043 of Savings Bonds
against a quota of $80„000.
The 1956 award was presented
to Mr. Otwell by Spence Lawton,
of the U. S. Savings Bonds Divi
sion, who praised the effective
work of the chairman and his vol
unteer bond forces.
"The praise should go to the
thrifty people of this county who
bought the bonds,” Mr. Otwell re
sponded. “They are helping them
selves, the community and ' our
country by this regular saving,
which help protect us all against
inflation and builds up the back
log of individual reserves to keep
business and industry moving
ahead, kepsp our people working
and earning and enjoying unprece
dented prosperity. The Savings
Bonds program is essential to keep
ing our money sound.”
The modal, designed and coined
by the U. S. .Mint at Philadelphia,
bears the figure of the Minute
Man of Concord, symbol of the
Treasury seal with the wording:
“U. S. Treasury Award.” On the
reverse is “For patriotic service,
U. S. Savings Bonds program.”
Engraved on Mr. Otwell’s meda!
is his name and the year.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
I Much discussion has place
in recent months concerning the
sources of nitrogen for side dress
ing and top dressing our farm
cuops.
For many years, our nitrogen
fertilizers were 16 percent nitrogen
which gave us 16 pounds of actual
nitrogen for each 100 pounds of
| fertilizer bought.
In recent years we have seen
about as many different sources of
nitrogen fertilizers introduced to
farmers as farmers could want.
They vary in percentage from pos
sibly below 16 percent to above 80
percent.
Research data shows us that if
adequate amounts of lime and po
tash are supplied to the soil before
hand, one source of nitrogen is as
good as another.
This leads us to prices. One
nitrogen fertilizer containing 16
pounds of nitrogen per 100 pound
bag is priced at $60.00 per ton. If
we break this down further we will
find that our cost is a little more
than 19c for each pound of actual
nitrogen.
Another nitrogen fertilizer con
taining 33.5 percent nitrogen or
33.5 pounds of actual nitrogen in
each 100 pound bag is priced at
SBO.OO per ton. Broken down, we
find that our cost here is only 12c
per pound of actual nitrogen re
ceived.
If one pound of nitrogen gives
as good results as another found
of nitrogen, and our research
that it does, then it is certainly
cheaper to buy the 12c nitrogen
It would seem that we would be
than to buy the 19c nitrogen,
wise to buy our nitrogen on a cost
per pound basis rather than cost
per ton.
IMPORTANT NOTICE
The Forsyth County Masonic
' Association will be held at Cross
i Roads Lodge No. 119 on Saturday
evening March 30th at 7:30. This
will be a closed meeting. All Mas
ter Masons are invited to attend.
| Rev. W. H. Warren will be the
principal speaker of the evening,
j A. C. Smith, Jr., President
C. W. Cox, Jr., V-president
Clyde Bannister, Secretary
PREACHING NOTICE
I Harold Whitmire will preach at
I Zion Hill Sunday night March 31st.
i Everyone is cordially Invited to
[come out and hear him.
Number 13.
Forsyth County
Ministerial Group
Meets April sth.
y jEKyilf
Rev. T. Newton Wise
The Forsyth County Ministerial
Association has secured Rev. T.
New’ton Wise, District Secretary of
The American Bible Society, to
speak at its meeting on April 5,
at Friendship Baptist Church. The
work of The American Bible So
ciety, which was founded in 1816,
is to distribute the Scriptures as
widely as possible and encourage
people to read them. Secretary
Wise is head of this work in the
Southern District which is com
poseo of six Southern states.
Because of the importance and
value of such work, the Ministerial
Association invites the public to
this meeting. It will begin at 7:30
p. m. Ail wiii be welcome.
THE MIDDLE
EAST KEY
Although Isarel is strongly pro
testing Egyptian occupation of the
Gaza Strip, the real key to the
situation in the Middle East con
cerns shipping in the Gulf of Aqa
ba. It is in this area that the next
crisis in the Middle East will occur
and the United States is on record
as supporting Israel's contention
that she has the right to use the
Gulf.
The Israelis has a port, Elath,
at the southern tip of their coun
try, but the waters in the Gulf of
Aqaba are not wide enough to
constitute international waters in
the opinion of the Arabs. Not to
many years ago, the United States
was arguing that international wat
ers only began twelve miles from
the coast, and if this is true, then
the Arabs would be able to pre
vent the use of the Gulf of Aqaba
by Israeli ships since the gulf is
only approximately twenty miles
wide at its widest point.
In this connection, it is interest
ing to note that Saudi Arabia, on
one side of the Gulf of Aqaba, has
already announced that she will
prevent Israeli shipping from using
the gulf. The Sinai Penipjula is
on the other side and Egypt form
erly prevented Israeli ships from
using the gulf, so there is little
reason to believe the Arabs wilt
allow Israeli’s ships to use the
port of Elath.
Since Israel has not been allow
ed to use the Suez Canal, the south
ern port of Elath was rendered al
most worthless, and it is over this
question that the Israelis may bo
tempted to fight. The United Stat
es has said it would send a ship
into these waters to test the rights
of passage.
This is at best a complex and
knotty problem, and one which
may create a crisis more serious
that that concerning the Gaza Strip
It would appear that the Arabs
are well able to prevent Israeli
ships from using the gulf, if they
persst in their intentions, and there*
is no reason to believe they will
not.
Unless Saudi Arabia is persuad
ed to change her policy or unless
Egypt does not resume her old
policy, Isiael will be faced with
the problem of having her shipping
restricted or doing something force
fully about it. The crisis is expect
ed to reach its peak intensity in
the immediate future. It Is one
which could involve the United
States in a very serious situation.