Newspaper Page Text
Volume 48.
Griffin Names Tom
Gregory of Eatonton
His Private Secretary
Hon. Tom Gregory of Eatonton,
Georgia has been appointed Pri
vate Secretary to Governor Mar
vin Griffin and was sworn in Mon
day at 10:00 A. M. April 22.
Mr. Gregory is a well-known
business man and former News
paper publisher and will serve with
honor and dignity in this new
position.
He succeeds the Hon. Ben T. Wig
gins who was appointed a mem
ber of the State Public Service
Commission to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Hon. James
Perry who was a member of this
Commission for many years.
Ninth District Track
Meet Results
JEFFERSON—First Place
FOR SYTH COUNTY Second place
TALLUAH FALLS—Third Place
COMMERCE—Fourth Place
FORSYTH COUNTY HIGH WIN
NERS ARE AS f'OLLOWS:
MULE RELAY—First place—Berry
McWhorter, Roger Shadburn, Jer
ry Brannon, Jerry McWhorter
SHOT PUT—First—Jimmy Brack
ett. Fourth, Bill Barnett
HIGH JUMP—First, Roger Shad
burn. Third, Harold Wh>tt
DISCUS—Second, Donald 11. Pruitt
Fourth, Jimmy Brackett
POLE VAULT—Second, Robert In
gram
880 YARD RUN- Second, Robert
Ingram
BROAD JUMP—Fourth, Charles
Welch
100 YARD DASH—Fourt—Berry
McWhorter
220 YARD DASH—Third, Berry
McWhorter. Fourth, Jerry Mc-
Whorter
120 YARD HIGH HURDLES, Third
Roger Shadburn. Fourth, Led
ford Pruitt
440 YARD RELAY—Fourth, Berry
McWhorter, Charles Welch, Jerry
Brannon, Jery McWhorter
Our Mile Relay team set a Ninth
District Record.
The following boys will Repre
sent Forsyth County High School
and the Ninth District at the State
meetin Macon on April 25th and
26th.
Roger Shadburn—High Jump and
Mile Relay
Berry McWhorter- Mile Relay
Jerry Brannon—Mile Relay
Jerry McWhorter —Mile Relay
Robert Ingram—Bßoyd. Run, and
Pole Vault
Jimmy Brackett—Shot Put
Donald H. Pruitt—Discus
ASC NEWS
Farmers should fully understand
that a civil penalty may be impos
ed upon any producer who know
ingly and willfully violates certain
provisions of the Soil Bank’s Acre
age Reserve program, C. A. Bag
well, Chairman of the Forsyth
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee, said
today.
“Authority for imposing a civil
penalty for certain violations of an
Acreage Reserve agreement is con
ferred undtr Section 123 of the Soil
Bank Act." the Chairman evplain
ed. ‘The violation drawing the pen
alty is for knowingly and willfully
grazing or harvesting any ycrop
from any acreage in violation of a
Soil Bank agreement or contract.
“The amount of the civil penalty
is 50 percent of the compensation
which would have been payable for
compliance with the agreement,
and the penalty is in addition to
any amounts required to be for
feited or refunded under the pro
visions of the agreement.”
Mr. Bagwell explained that a
civil penalty violation could take
place from willfully grazing or
harvesting any crop from any acre
age designated as the Acreage Re
serve, and also from harvesting
acreage in excess of the “acreage
permitted for harvest.” The acre
age permitted for harvest ’ would
be the allotment for the crop cov
ered by the agreement lss the acre
age dsignatd fo rthe Soil Bank
Acreage Reserve.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHICRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAI.I, AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
EDUCATING FOR
LIVING
There are many prominent edu- !
cators who think our schools
should be training more boys and ,
girls for the better-paid, semi-skill
ed and highly-skilled occupations.
This seems like a sensible suggest
ion to us.
In the case of too many young *
people today, education instills de- j
sires without doing anything to as- j
sist the student in obtaining ob-1
jectives set up as a result of school ,
training.
The popularity of education is j
not due, as some educators seem
to think, to an abstract worship of
intelligence. The public has sup
ported education in the past be
cause, for many years, an educated
individual was reasonably certain
to secure a greater economic re
turn than an educated person,
i Today, in Forsytn County and
! elsewhere, thousands of well edu
cated young people are about
ready to enter the employment
market. They have gone through
various phases of education to pre
pare themselves to take their place
in the economic life of the nation.
Business is waiting, with eager
arms, to accept the intelligent, well
trained young man or woman. This
is particularly true in the fields of
science, engineering and the teach
ing professions.
The purpose of education, then,
should be to fit the individual stu
dent for successful life in society.
This should include many lessons
which are not usually found in
textbooks. In time, it must consider
the possible adaptation of the pupil
of the necessary requirements con
nected with, not only the making
of a good living, but also the suc
cessful accomplishment of a good
life.
Achievement Days For
Farm Families Are
Scheduled For May
Approximately 200 Georgia farm
families will be honored next
month for outstanding work they
have done in carrying out farm
and home plans in cooperation
w'ith the Farmers ’ Home Adminis
tration.
Certificates of recognition will
be presented to them at Farm Fam
ily Achievement Days in Tifton,
May 9, and in Athens, May 16 .
The first, scheduled for Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College, is
for the Southern half of the state.
North Georgia families will be re
presented at the Athens meeting
set for Conner hall on the Univer
sity of Georgia College of Agricul
ture campus.
In addition to receiving the certi
ficates, the farmers and their fami
lies will hear state and national
agricultural leaders hail their ach
ievements in making progress suf
ficient for the recognition. Vansant
pointed out that the FHA in Geor
gia is working with some 5,000
families, and that only approximate
ly 200 are being invited to parti
cipate in the achievement days.
“We wanted the families to see
Abraham Baldwin College and the
College of Agriculture,” Vansant
said, “because it is here they get
the technical information that helps
them do such a good job of farm
ing and homemaking.’’
And he added that many sons
and daughters from the families
are and will be students at the two
institutions.
The program, to include speech
es by FHA, Extension, Experiment
Station, and College personnel, will
include time for a tour of the col
leges and stations where the meet
ings will be held.
SINGING NOTICE
Everyone has a special invitation
to attend the singing at Friendship
Baptist Church on the Fourth Sun
day night in April. The Annual
All day Singing on the Fourth Sun
day has been put off till Sunday
night. The Seven County Singing
Clas will be with us, also Quar
tetes, Trio’s, Duetts and Solo’s.
The singing will start at 7 o’clock
promptly. Make your plans to be
there.
O. E. Barrett President
James Gaddis, V-president
Gumming Georgia, Thursday, April 25, 1957.
SHOULD WOMEN
GO TO WORK?
i
A recent report by the National |
Manpower Council show's that wo- I
men in the United States have |
gone to work. The most surprising
revelation of a two-year study is
that today nine out of every ten
w'omen are likely to work outside j
the home in the course of their |
lives.
This is quite a change from the J
situation which prevailed in 1900,
when only half the women of the ]
country did any work other than j
taking care of their homes and 1
families.
The study revealed that one-fifth
of the nation’s annual income in j
wages and salaries is earned by I
women, or about $42,000,000,000. J
It also found that six out of every
| ten working women today are mar
jried, although only three out of
every ten married women are
working outside the home.
That means that seventy per cent
of the married women in the Unit
ed States still do not work, but
care for their homes and families,
or are supposed to do. So, while
the married woman still generally
plays her traditional role, more
and more females in America, both
married and single, are taking to
extra work.
It is estimated that, by 1975,
there will be more than 33,000,000
feminine jobholders in the United
States, and this would be the cli
max of what the National Man
power Council calls a “revolution
in women's employment.”
The single woman in the United
States should, of course, work. In
some cases, married women should
work, especially if their husbands
seem to be non-producers. However
1 the greatest work which can be
permored by a woman and the
greatest of all possible accomplish
ments is the successful carrying
out of the role of wife and mother.
Purebred Ram
Sale Scheduled
For April 30th.
Approximately purbred rams will
be sold Tuesday, April 30, at the
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture. The sale will begin at
1 p. m. in Hardman Hall.
Sponsored by the Georgia Pure
bred Sheep Breeders’ Association,
the sale will feature largely Hamp
shire and Suffolk yearling rams
raised in Georgia by members of
the Association.
Newly elected officers of the
group are James White, Jr., At
lanta, president; George Nelms,
Crawfordville, vice president, and
E. P. Warren, University of Geor
gia animal husbandry department,
secretary-treasurer. New directors
in addition to White and Nelms,
are Fred Darnell, Rabun Gap, C. D.
Murphy, Atlanta, and Leon Lawis,
Cartersville.
Warren said all rams offered in
the sale will be graded by a four
man screening committee. The com
mittee will place a classification of
A, B, or C on each ram depending
upon its conformation, size, and
general quality. Rams qualifying
for the A group will be priced at
SIOO each. Those in the B and C
groups will be offered at S9O and
SBO respectively.
Only rams fulfilling at least mini
mum qualifications established as
consistent with requirements for
use in commercial flocks will be
included in the sale.
Warren said the sale will pro
vide an excellent opportunity for
commercial lamb producers in need
of rams for the coming breeding
season to acquire quality rams at
reasonable prices.
NEW 1957 FORD
The New 1957 Ford attracted
much attention at the local Circus
a few days ago.
There were 48 people that rode
in and on the 1957 Ford Sedan at
Ring Circus in Cumming.
The car was driven by Frank
Roper and actually brought 48
people into the Circus Ring.
See this new Ford Sedan at the
Otwell Motor Company show room
now.
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
THE CHURCHES’ RELATION TO 1
CONSERVATION
The future of America depends
upon our natural and renewable
resources. The pressure of an in
creasing population makes more
important the necessity for a con
tinued study of man’s relationship
to the land on which he lives.
There must be a continued under
standing of the emphasis on the
theme, “Man, Land, and God.” God
gave man life and made the land
on which he was to live. Remove
any point of this triangle and the
w’hole framework fails. Too long
;we have looked upon conservation
of our soil and water resources as
purely an economic responsibility.
We must understand that this is
a spiritual matter. We cannot de
velop Christian Character of worth
I and value without the resources
that come from the use of
soil and water. If man is to be any
thing more than an economic being
it must be realized that he has a
spiritual value. Whatever happens
to the land eventually brings its
fruits to or takes its toll from the
life of man.
By James W. Sell, M. C.
Sunday May 26 through Sunday
June 2 has been designated as
Soil Stewardship Week.
With Your County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Corn planting time is here, a
critical time when our actions now
will mean a lot toward our final
outcome when gathering time
comes in the fall.
The way we prepare our soil, the
seed we plant, and the fertilizer
we use will to a large extent de
termine the number of bushels of
corn that we will gather next fall.
Of course we will need lots of rain
during the growing season, but
water by itself cannot make up
for mistakes already made.
This ytar we will have anew
pest to look for in our corn. It is
a plant by the name of Striga or
more commonly called witchgrass.
It was found last year in both
North and South Carolina and is
probably already present in Geor
gia. The effects of witchgrass can
cause a total loss of a corn crop.
The plant was first reported in
North Africa about 1900 and since
then has spread to India and the
United States.
Seed of the witchgrass germinate
and attach themselves to young
corn plants. They emerge from the
ground almost together. The corn
plant appears wilted in the early
stages and later becomes stunted.
Three to eight weeks are usually
requird for witchgrass to flower,
set seed and mature. The flower
is a reddish rose color with its
leaves being narrow. Each seed pod
contains about a thousand seed
which are I—2o the size of tobac
co seed.
One characteristic of witchgrass
is that it is not suited to soils
with a high moisture content or
heavy soils.
There is a good probability that
the weed is in Georgia and possibly
in Forsyth County. If anyone finds
a strange plant that fits the above
descripption, I would appreciate
hearing about it in order that it
can be positively identified.
WHAT THE LABEL MEANS
A dress fabric that has been giv
en a special finish and labeled
“crease resistant,” “wash and wear,
"drip dry,” or “minimum care”
will not shrink out of fit either,
says Miss Avola Whitesell, cloth
ing speecialist, Agricultural Exten
sion Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture.
County Population 15,000.
50,000 Georgia HD
Club Women
Planning Week
With the theme, “Today’s Home
Built Tomorrow’s World.” 50,000
Georgia women are making plans
for National Home Demonstration
Week, April 28-May 4.
Governor Marvin Griffin has set
the stage for the observance by
issuing a proclamation.
Of HD Club members, he said:
"They are dedicated to nuking
farm and home life better through
the work of their organization
which is the largest for rural wo
men.”
The proclamtion also commended
the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice’s home demonstration agents
who work with them. These agents,
Griffin said, "strive to bring the
latest information and methods in
home making tasks to families by
w'ay of demonstrations and other
methods based on research from
specialists in those fields.”
W. A. Sutton, Extension director
at the University of Georgia, and
Miss Eddye Ross, state home de
monstration leader, boosted the
National Week in a letter to all
HD agents. “National Home De
monstration Week,” they stated,
“provides us the opportunity to
interpret to the public the object
ives and purposes of home demon
stration work and to> explain its
contribution to family and com-
munity life.’’
Miss Ross said the Georgia wo
men have adopted a state theme
for the Week, in addition to the
national slogan. Locally their
theme is “Continuing Education
for Better Family and Human Re
lations.”
I They have set six National HD
Week objectives for 1957. Among
I them: to acquaint the general pub-
I lie with the total Extension Ser
vice and its educational program
for homemakers, to familiarize
homemakers with research which
relates to the home and family and
to encourage them to put research
findings into use, and to interpret
to people the scope of home eco
nomics and its contribution to fam
ily and community life.
[Drive To Interest
[Former Marines
The Marine Corps is putting on
a concerted drive to interest form
er Marines in reenlisting, according
to TSG. Robeh E. Skinner, local
Marine Corps recruiter.
In line with this the sergeant
said here yesterday that that form
er Marines reenlisting may now
choose the coast, east or west, on
which they wish to serve. They
may also seleect an overseas as
signment said the sergeant.
Formerly Marines reenlisting in
this area were assigned to east
coast points only and no overseas
assignments were permitted with
out specific instructions. Now they
may be guaranteed the coast of
their choce or an assignment with
the Fleet Marine Forces overseas.
That is, provided they reer.list for
a minimum of four years.
These incentives, coupled with
the new reenlistment bonus regu
lations and a revised leave policy
announced last week, should cause j
many former Marines in this area
to reconsider their decision to re
enlist, said the sergeant. Under
these new policis a man discharg
ed below the rank of sergeant
could walk into a Marine Corps re
cruiting office, select his assign
ment, collect his reenlistment bon
us within five days and take thirty
days leave before reporting for
duty. “These are by far the most
lenient regulations the Marinee
Corps has ever issued to attract re
enliestments.” said Sergeant Skin
ner.
Former Marines desiring further
particulars may contact the ser
geant at the Post Office every Mon
'day from 2:00 P. .M. until 3:30
jp. M. in Cumming.
| It took about five cents of each
j dollar spent by the consumer for
> milk in 1955 to pay rising costs of
buying, maintaining, and fueling
milk trucks.
I The trouble with too much news,
in this day and generation, is that
it only tells what other people
* think is the facts.
Number 17.
Freddie Miller Show
Plans Complete
It was announced today by
W. M. Roper, President of the For
syth County Chamber Commerce?
that all plans were complete for
the Freddie Miller Show Friday
night at the Gym. A well rounded
array of local talent together with
invited star performers from other
cities in Georgia assures tt.at the
show will be bigger and better
than a year ago.
This together with the contest to
select Miss Forsyth County should
assure all those that attend a very
interesting evening of entertain
ment and everyone in this area
are urged to be present.
MISS FORSYTH
COUNTY CONTEST
Much interest is being shown in
the contest for Miss Forsyth Coun
ty and it is hoped that by Friday
night there will be enough entrants
to really create interest throughout
the county.
To date entries have been lag
ging. And it is urged that all pos
sible entrants contact the commit
tte composed of Mrs. Dean Barrett,
Mrs. Ralph Otwell or Mrs. A. Y.
Howell as early as possible, so that:
final plans can be completed and
that we will be assured of a re
presentative from every section of
the county.
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
CAN WK TAKE IT?
Avery thoughtful business man,
having listened to Judge W. W.
Woolfolk of the Fulton County
Juvenile Court, interpreting his ije*
port for 1956, said:
"Can we make it? Can any nat
ion survive when it sanctions con
ditions that tend to destroy its
youth?”
Judge Woolfolk's report states
that in 1950 a total of 1,857 de
linquent and neglected children ap
peared in his court while in 1956
a total of 4,850 such children were
in his court. He goes on to report
that in 1950 children were locked
behind prison bars in his couht.
6,651 nights, while in 1956 there
were 17,228 nights of imprisonment
He comments: “This increase in
the length of time being detained
reflects the seriousnss of the of
fenss committed.”
Think of boys and girls spending’
17,228 nights in jail in one Georgia
County!
The offenses ranged from steal
ing automobiles to murder. White
boys numbered 1,488; white girls,
344; colored boys, 988; colored
girls, 184. These figures include
the cases actually disposed of. Ago
of the children ranged from 4 to 16
The budget for the Juvenile
Court in Fulton County in 1956
was $234,570.86. One is tempted to
say that this is a big price we art
paying, but you have to go beyond
that figure to get the true balance
sheet. You have to go on and com
pute, if you can, what the cost is
in human values.
You see, the Juvenile Court is
not a preventive agency. It is,
rather a punitive agency. It re
flects the end result of something
that has been going on up stream.
In a sense, the Juvenile Court is a
dead end the Dead Sea, if you
please.
Where does the responsibility
fall for this alarming situation
this tragic increase in juvenile de
linquency?
I would say in the home, in the
church, in the school. Then, you
may well ask, what can we do
about it? What did the business
man mean by saying that we are
sanctioning this sort of thing? The
, business man will have to answer
his question. I would say that wo
I have to determine what are the
causes, and then honestly face
them. Whatever is contributing to
broken homes, etc., must be re
garded as an enemy to civilization.
I still firmly believe that we can
save our nation from these decad
ent forces. I believe in God.
We may have better legislation
when we have better legislators
but we won’t get them until we
have better people.