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Volume 48.
Forsyth County
Relay Team Wins
State Meet
The F. C. H. S. mile relay team
composed of Berry McWhorter,
Roger Shadburn, Jerry Brannon
and Jerry McWihorter raced to a
state championship in Macon Sat
urday, April 27th at the state track
meet.
The race was won with a time
of 3 minutes, 43.4 seconds... This
will enter the books as a state re
cord.
These boys are the first athletes
in the history of Forsyth County
High Schcool to ever bring home
first place honors from a state
tournament.
Coach Hadaway states: "These
boys have paid the price; they have
observed training rules; they have
worked hard to get in condition,
and even harder to stay in condi
tion. That plus the desire to be
"the best” has won them the state
championship. I’m proud of them.”
JIMMY BRACKETT WINS
SECOND PLACE
IN STATE MEET
Jimmy Brackett, Forsyth County
High School athlete threw the 12
pound shot 45 feet and 6 inches
Friday April 26th to win Second
place in the state track meet in
Macon. Jimmy is a senior and he
ended his high school athletic car
eer with his best performance. We
will miss him next year. Champ
ions are hard to replace.
PRAYER
Formal prayers are more or less
in form of a petition and are used
in the Courts of our country to ob
tain a desire in a case at law. They
are introduced by a council to car
ry out his case at law. I introduce
this to show that they are not al
ways ardent.
Religious prayers are never
sought in vain that sought the
Lord aright. To be aright one must
feel the real need for what he is
seeking. He must believe that he
will receive it. Have Faith in God.
Prayer is really God’s wireless
telephone between us and God
with Jesus as the switchman to
plug in the line between you and
God the Father, which is the Holy
Spirit.
There is no possible way of get
ting connection through by those
who continually regard sin in the
heart. Emmity against your fellow
man must be laid down some way.
Somebody hath said “Satan tremb
les when he sees the weakest saint
upon his knees.” The effectualness
of that depends upon the inward
yearning, the penitence the spirit
ual Wisdom from God he has
sought the Guidance of the Holy
Spirit in his prayers. The J-f oly
Spirit grants us Wisdom to teach
us how to pray aright each time
we pray effectually, otherwise we
would not know how to pray as we
should. Prayer is not simply beg
ging God to Do something for us.
We need the preparation in our
hearts of penitence, humbleness,
sorrowfulness for sin and real hun
gering desire that we may have
the receptive attitude for the ans
wer.
The answer does not come al
ways just like we expect it. If it
did it might exalt us in our feel
ings. You, reader, would not give
your small child a razor blade to
play with, in his daily routine, no
more would God give all things we
ask like we ask because he does
know what is best for us. Finally
prayer is a wrestling with God for
the blessings which are best for
us like it was with Jacob of Old
who wrestled all night at Bethel
with God. It must be for the best
interest of HIIS purpose and ac
cording to his WILL Then prayer
must be ardent, God—congenial,
heart-melting, resigned and willing
receptiveness in God’s way. Reader
it is not enough that you have a
place to pray but youh tracks
should be found there and back
daily for you to talk to God about
real life. The way to Calvary is
THROUGH GETHSEMANE.— Thy
will be done.
J. B. DRISKELL
The numberof farm tractors iin
Georgia increased from 22,954 in
1945 to 86,500 in 1956.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHERO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Annual Homecoming
At Pleasant Grove
The Annual Homecoming Day
will be at Pleasant Grove Method
ist Church on the First Sunday,
May 5, 1957.
Rev. James Mcßrayer will de
liver the morning message.
Everyone is cordially invited to
be there and renew old acquaint
ances.
Cotton Classing
Service Available
To Georgia Farmers
Nearly 429,400 bales of Georgia
cotton were classified under the
Smith-Doxey Act in the 1956-57
season. This represents nearly 75
percent of the 579,189 bales ginned
during the year, according to Ar
thur W. Suscott, chief of the South
east Area Marketing Information
Division, Agricultural Marketing
Service of USDA.
Suscott pointed out that the free
classing service provided under the
Act enables farmers to know the
exact grade and staple of their
cotton. First made available to the
growers in 1938, the service also
provides free market news so grow
ers can readily determine the mark
et value of their classed cotton.
Cotton improvement associations
have been asked by the Agricultur
al Marketing Service to file appli
cations early for the free classing
and market news service. "This
enables growers to get their cotton
officially classed soon after their
crops have been ginned,” Suscott
stated. "The Smith-Doxey program
requires wholly new sign-ups each
year.’’
Instructions and applications for
grower groups will be available
around May 1 at county agent’s
offices and at cotton classing of
fices of the Agricultural Marketing
Service. Deadline date for filing
j applications in Georgia is August 1
Soil Conservation
District News
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
The Churches’ Relation To Con
servation (Part II)
The Church is concerned with
the ultimate values of life. The
Church is of God and for man;
and, therefore must live off of the
land. Poor soil always makes poor
people. But, good land only makes
possible good people. The Church
is consequently concerned about
the quality of life, and the quality
of soil on which people live and
from which our food comes.
Increasingly, churches, both rur
al and urban are promoting pro
grams that have to do with the
spiritual interpretation and right
use of our soil and water resour
ces.
The authority for all of this is
to be found in the Bible, because
God created man and placed him
in a Garden and told him to dress
it and keep it. God gave man the
land and told him to have domi
nion over all things.”
The ultimate value of our stew
ardship of life rests upon our stew
ardship of our material and renew
able resources.
By James W. Sells, M. C.
Sunday May 26 through Sunday
June 2 has been designated as Soil
Stewardship Week.
FORSYTH COUNTY’ MINISTER
IAL ASSOCIATION MEETS
The Forsyth County Ministerial
Association will meet on Friday
night, May 3, at 7:30, at The First
Baptist Church in Cumming. Rev.
Frnk Garrison, Assistant Executive
Secretary of the Home Mission
Board of The Southern Baptist
Convention will be the speaker.
The public is invited to attend.
Gumming Georgia, Thursday, May 2, 1957.
LOST ! !
After all, a church is not a
museum for the exhibition of fin
ished Saints. It is a training school
in Christian character, and our best
educators tell us that we learn by
solving problems. One of the prob
lems in the church is to impress
upon professing Christians that peo
pie are lost and we the followers
of Christ are the ones to win them
to Christ.
Not many years ago near a vil
lage in North Carolina a little child
wondered away from home and
couldn’t find its way back. The
parents were heart-broken, the
neighbbors came to help, finally all
the community and people from a
distance came and joined hands
and marched through the fields
and stayed near oneanother as they
went through the woods until they
found the lost child. In a physical
cal sense the child was lost, and
people were aroused to do their
best to find the child and they did.
There are many people who are
lost in their relationship to God
and their fellowman, Eternally lost
without God and without hope in
this world—yet many professing
Christians, seem unconcerned for
them. Their lost condition is far
more serious and disastrous than
the lost child in North Carolina
that was found because all the
people united in a effort to find
the child. %
The main purpose of the church
—the followers of Christ--is to
seek and to save that which is lost.
Jesus said that that was his mis
sion to earth—We his followers
are seeking to carry out that mis
sion. Oh, God give us a burden for
lost men and women, boys and
girls!! May we become concerned
about their souls welfare.
W. R. Callaway
Today & Tomorrow
Louie D. Newton
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OVERCROWDED
America is rapidly becoming a
community of overcrowded passage
ways—streets, highways, airways,
elevators, subways, lobbies.
The current issue of U. S. News
deals with the overcrowded skies.
The press and radio keep remind
ing us of the traffic jams on our
Model-T highways and our street
car and horse-and-buggy streets.
Planes, that is commercial air
craft, flew 22 billion passenger
miles in the United States in 1956.
That was a jump from six billion
passenger-miles in 1946. It is esti
mated that by 1970, we will be
flying 60 billion passenger-miles
annually. We now have approxi
mately 1,500 commercial planes.
It is reported that in 1956 we
had 452 “near collisions” in the
piled up areas like New York, Chi
cago, Washington and Los Angeles.
Atlanta appears to be approaching
the danger point, specially when
there is bad weather. Every time I
come into Atlanta on a plane in
bad weather, I pray that tho-e
needles on the dials in the control
tdwers are working accurately.
Knowing some of the fine men
who operate the controls, I have
a feeling of deep satisfaction, plus
the assurance that the pilots are
experienced men.
As for the highways, we all
know from firsthand experience
that it is terribly dangerous to en
ter the crowded areas. Bumper to
bumper traffic calls for every driv
er’s best skill and judgment.
What can be done about it? With
a steady increase of population,
and a steady increase of automo
biles, the highway and urban street
situation is bound to get more dan
gerous. The proposed new high
ways will help tremendously, and
yet the percentage of accidents on
Atlanta’s expressways is not too
reassurring. When we get super
highways everywhere like the one
from New York to Chicago, and
like the one coming out of Miami,
it should reduce the highway haz
ards, if we can keep the drunks
from behind the wheels.
About the overcrowded skies, the
report in U. S. News offers one
possible relief—better controls, lar
ger landing fields, prepare for the
jets with larger passenger capacity
and speed.
And don't forget to pray.
Indictment On
Ingram Reworded
A bribery charge against garage
operator Horace Ingram has been
reworded in a revised indictment
made by the Fulton County Grand
Jury.
The new indictment removes the
word "attempt” from a count ac
cusing Ingram of threatening to
have two Atlanta police officers
moveed from their oeat, which-in
cluded the area of his piace of
business. Ingram was one of seven
persons arrested in a lottery raid
March 27.
A spokesman for the solicitor
general’s office said the charge as
originally drafted could possibly
have been construed as a misde
meanor instead o fa felony. He de
scribed the change as a "technical”
one.
THE GRAND JURY plans to
meet again Monday to begin its
final week of work before present
ments are made on Friday. Indi
cations are that a four-week old
investigation of alleged police pro
tection of lottery activities will
continue until the last day of the
term. —Atlanta Journal.
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
Springtime means bloat time to
a lot of livestock owners. Bloat is
nothing now, but we have develop
ed clover pastures we have had
more cases recently.
Bloat is caused by the accumu
lation of gas in the digestive tract
after grazing lush clover or other
legumes, and even good grass has
been known to cause bloat. The
gas builds up pressure on the vital
organs and often causes death.
Many cases of bloat can be pre
vented by propper feeding and man
agement. Here are some good sug
gestions as outlined by H. K.
Welch, Jr., Extension Service dairy
man at the University of Georgia.
1. Watch cows carefully when
they start to graze anew area of
clover. Let them grazze only a
short time at first.
2. Pastures with a good balance
of grasses and legumes give little
trouble usually. Solid stands of
clovers with nq coarse roughage
are dangerous.
3. Feed good dry roughage be
fore turning cows into clover. Have
a rack of dry roughage in the pas
ture if possible.
4. Dry roughage must be good
enough so the cows will eat plenty
[of it. .Tests show that at least 8
to 10 pounds of dry hay per cow
are needed to prevent bloat. When
poor quality hay was used, only
about five pounds were eaten.
5. Just a few minutes of eating
hay will not prevent bloat. But
when hay was before cows all
night, no bloat occurred. Each cow'
ate around 17 pounds of hay.
6. Reports show that good oat
hay and Sudan grass hay were ef
fective in preventing bloat. Prob- j
ably other good grass hays would j
do the job as well. Cows will not
eat enough weedy, stemmy, coarse
hay.
7. Severe bloat will cause death
in a very few minutes. .Unless fam I
iliar with methods of treatment,
get information from your veteri
narian before trouble occurs. He
may suggest a remedy to have on j
hand. If you wait to call him after ■
the cow is down, you likely will j
havt a dead cow on your hands.
Freddie Miller Show
A Huge Success
The Freddie Miller Talent Show
for Forsyth County Talent was
held at the Gym last Friday and
was declared a success by every
one who attended. Avery large
crowd was present and much favor
able comment was made. The win
ners will appear on the Freddie
Miller Television Show next Sun
day afternoon with several guest
stars which will include our own,
Miss Forsyth County, Miss Donna
Phillips, who won this honor at the
close of the show Friday night
when she was selected from among
the other contestants for this
honor.
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County Population 15,000.
Annual Horse Show
At Lawrenceville
Wednesday, May 15
The second annual Horse Show,
sponsored by the Touchdown Club
of Lawrence will be presented on
Wednesday, May 15, at Memorial
Park.
The big show, already hailed as
“one of the best in the state,” will
be staged in two parts—at Ip. m.
and at 7 p. m. It will include 26
classes, with the "Western Pleas
ure" class featuring riders in "cow
boy and cowgirl” regalia. There
will be six championship classes.
Col. James Seashole, nationally
renowned expert on horses and
horse shows, is the manager for
the show. |-Je promises an event
“second only to the big Shrine
Horse Show in Atlanta.” Merle
Garrett, well-known TV performer,
will be an organist for the show.
Show officials are: Uhland Free
man, horse show chairman; judge,
Hon. H. O. Davis, Montgomery,
Alabama, ring mater, Jack Stevens
master of ceremonies, Jack Chamb
ers, Atlanta; farrier, Robert New,
Atlanta; steward, Sen. Quill Sam
mon; secretary, Mrs. Roy Gandy;
organists, Merle Garrett, Columbus
and Uhland Freeman, Jr., Law
renceville.
Entries should be mailed before
May 4 to: Col. James Seashole,
Biltmore Hotel, Atlanta, Ga. Class
es published in the official prize
list.
Georgia Poultry
Festival 1957
The Fifth Annual Georgia Poul
try Festival, designed to promote
and further the interests of the
entire industiy, will be turned into
a tribute to the Armed Forces of
our country. One industry spokes
man put it this way, “our industry
has grown from a very modest be
ginning in 1935, into the number
one dollar producing segment of
Georgia Agriculture. It has done
this under the American free en
terprise system of government and
we feel that we owe a debt of
gratitude to our armed forces for
j their part in keeping our country
I as a leader among the free nations
of the world”.
The guest of honor for the Fes
tival w'ill be General Thomas D.
White, the present Vice Chief of
Staff of the U. S. Air Force who
has recently been named to suc
ceed General Nathan Twining as
Chief of Staff of that branch.
Activities for the tw'o day affair
in Gainesville, Georgia, include
“open house’’ for the poultry es
tablishments on Friday, May 17,
followed by the Annual Banquet
honoring "Wise Buyers Who Use
Georgia Fryers”. After enjoying
the fine food, prepared and served
in the lavish style of true Southern
hospitality, will come the final jud
ging of the Miss Georgia Chick
Beauty Pageant. .Georgia is as well
known for its beautifu lyoung lad
ies as it is for its poultiy. Those
assembled will enjoy watching
many of Georgia’s fairest compete
for the honor of representing the
state in the Miss Universe Beauty
Pageant which will be held in
Long Beach, California this July.
Festivities begin in earnest on
Saturday morning with the color
ful Parade featuring floats, repre
sentative of many segments of the
poultry industry; marching units
swinging to the tune of colorful
bands; clowns and special entries,
such as our colorful, 12 foot tall
Colonel Clue, which will add to
the festive air of this gala occasion.
NOTICE!
Mrs. Grace Palmer, The Public
Health Nurse will not be in the
Health Department for immuniza
tion on May 27, as previously
planned.
HAW CREEK SPRING REVIVAL
Haw Creek Spring Revival be
gins Sunday night May 5, at 7:30.
Rev. C. B. Gazaway the pastor
will be assisted by Rev. Frank
Vaughan and the home preachers
in the services. There will be night
services only and everyone is cor
dially invited to attend.
Number 18.
Goose Egg Big As
Coaconut
Jack White and son, who
live in the Brandywine Community
six miles north of Alpharetta in
Forsyth County, Wednesday car
ried a goose egg to the Tribune
office in Canton almost as big as
a coconut. It measures better than
four inches long and weighs three
quarters o fa pound. This one egg,
Mr. White stated, was the equiv
alent of six regular hen eggs, and
except for a strong taste are al
right to eat. They are excellent for
making cakes.
The Whites have three geese
which lay eggs every morning
about daylight and one gander
which does a lot of hissing. They
roam ahout in a large pen and
cover up their eggs with leaves
after laying them. A person must
be watchful or he might stub his
toe on one, and some serious dam
age might result (to the toe) if it
struck an egg large as the one we
have in our possession. The senior
and junior White both work at
Cherokee Bag Cos., in Canton.—
North Georgia Tribune.
- ASC NEWS
Farmers who have included crop
land under the Soil Bank’s Acreage
Reserve program for cotton should
remember that they must comply
with all requirements of the pro
gram in order to qualify for the
cotton payments, C. A. Bagwell,
Chairman of the Forsyth County
Agricultural Stabilization and Con
servation Committee, said today.
"A program provision which
farmers are likely to overlook iw
the one which requires that a farm
er comply with all acreage allot
ments established for his farm if
he wants to earn any kind of a
Soil Bank payment,’’ the Chairman
explained.
"This means, for instance, that j*
farmer who expects to earn pay
ments under the wheat acreage re
serve program must also comply
wit hthe cotton allotment for his
farm if there is one. Farmers
should not overlook the fact that
they must also comply with acre
age allotments for other 1957 crops
to be planted this spring in order
to receive a wheat acreage reserve
payment.”
Where a farmer willfully and
knowingly harvests or grazes de
signated acreage reserve land, the
payment is forfeited and in addi
tion he is subject to a civil penalty
of 50 percent of the payment which
would have been made for com
pliance. If the payment has been
made when the violation occurs,
the amount of the payment must
be refunded.
Farmers who take part in the
Conservation Reserve of the Soil
Bank must also comply with all
acreage allotments for their farms
in order to qualify for the Conser
vation Reserve payments.
Conner Named
State Chairman Of
Dairy Month
John S. Conner of the Agricul
tural Extension Service has been
named Georgia chairman of the
June Dairy Month campaign.
This marks the second consecu
tive year that the state’s dairy in
dustry has chosen the Extension
dairy marketing specialist at the
University of Georgia College ol’
Agriculture to head the special ob
servance.
"This year marks the 350th birth
day of the dairy industry in this
country,” Conner stated, “and
many of the June Dairy Month
activities will be centered around
this important date.”
He continued that June is the
month set aside to boost the dairy
industry and inform the consuming
public of the many fine virtues of
dairy products.
Pointing out that the dairy in
dustry in Georgia is showing tre
mendous pprogress, the June Dairy
Month chairman said such pro
grams are "an absolute necessity”
in order for dairy marketing to
keep pace with dairy production.
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