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Volume 48.
MOTHERS DAY 1957
Mother’s Day dates from just a few years
back - 1907, or fifty years ago. Yet it has al
ready become nationally accepted and gener
ally observed in this and other countries.
Miss Anna M. Jarvis of Philadelphia persu
aded one of the churches in that city to honor
mothers and asked that sons and daughters
wear white carnations in honor of their moth
ers. This was done and soon the custom spread
to all parts of the United States.
Today we wear either white or red flowers on
this special day depending on whether our moth
er is still alive. And there is little doubt that the
observance of Mother’s Day led, later, to es
tablishment of Father’s Day, which is held in
June.
It is proper and well to observe Mother’s Day
and a tradition of giving presents to mothers on
the second Sunday in May has become estab
lished in recent years. But observance of the day
has done much good through the years. Organi
zations dedicated to the goal of reducing the
loss of life in childbirth long used the day to
stimulate thought and generate support for that
cause.
In 1914 Congress officially recognized Moth
er’s Day and President Woodrow Wilson fii-st
called upon U. S. officials to display the flag in
honor of the day.
A mother is a common possession of all. Ob
servances of the day knows no distinctions, no
limits and no special classes. And the fact that
observance of the day has grown so rapidly in
this county and abroad is proof that sons and
daughters, or all of us, think it only right to pay
respect and do honor to the love and care and
that once was -and usually still is - spent on us
by those we remember this second Sunday in
1957.
Forsyth County
Receives $8,131.20
Federal Money
At the orientation of newly elect
ed County School Superintenents,
it was learned that if Forsyth
County had three percent of their
total enrollment whose parents
worked in Federal Projects, such
as Buford Dam, Lockheed and any
branch of the Armed Forces we
would be elegible for Federal
Funds by a law passed in 1950.
After making a survey an appli
cation was made and approved by
Mr. C. H. Burdette, field represen
tative of this area, who sent it to
Washington, D. C.
On May Ist, Almon Hill received
a telegram from Senator Herman
Talmadge congratulating him and
informing him of the approval of
the application and that Forsyth
County would receive $8,131.20.
This money is to be used for
maintenance and operation of the
schools in Forsyth County.
Newspaper
Advertising Up
Although the advent of teltvision
brought about a large outlay of
money from manufacturers and
producers, it is interesting tto note
that national advertisers invested
a record $737,000,000 in th? news
papers of the United Statts last
year.
According to semi-official tabula
tions, the 1956 total was over six
per cent above the total spent for
newspaper advertising in 1955. Gen
eral advertising—all national ad
vertising except automobiles—(in
creased 12.5 per cent last year. Au
tomobile advertising was down in
1956 from the record year 1955 by
about 8.6 per cent.
Practically every other field
showed an increase in newspaper
advertising, with grocerits leading
the jump in the general category
by 9.7 per cent over 1955.
All of which seems to prove that
the newspaper is still the backbone
of the advertising world, constitut
ing a permanent record which
housewives may keep and study—
as with grocery prices—and which
can continue to work for the ad
vertiser long after his message is
first seen by the reader.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL OKU AN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHKRO HUE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAIL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Soil Conservation
District News
*
JAMES T. COOTS
SOIL CONSERVATION SERVICE
Contractors have moved in and
now have the flood retarding struct
ure Number six on the Dudley
Branch under construction. This
structure is expected to be com
pleted by October 1, 1957. Clay M.
Bennett, SCS, is the inspector for
the Job. L Mercer Brown. SCS,
is the engineer in charge and also
the Government Representative.,
Patten Bros. Roswell Georgia are
contractors. Anyone wishing to see
this construction work will find
the job one-quarter mile south of
9-E highway where Settingdown
Creek goes under the highway.
Gullies and other critical areas
are being filled, smoothed by a
bulldozier and seeded* to lovegrass
and sericea on a number of farms
in the Settingdown Greek atershed.
T. Kenneth Orr, SCS, is looking
after this work.
Many farmers in the Setting
down Creek Watershed are pre
paring seedbeds on critical slopes
and seeding to sericea with the aid
of the Chattahoochee River Soil
Conservation District. John L.
Spruce, SCS, is working with the
cooperators on this work.
C. J. Lankford, SCS Farm Plan
ner, has comppleted working out
agreements with landowners along
Settingdown Creek above 9-E high
way.
SINGING AT SHARON
There will be a Singing at Shar
on Baptist Church Sunday night
May 12—Supper at 6 P. M.—Sing
ing immediately after supper.
O. E. Barrett, President
# Ezra Orr, Vice president
Renew Your Subscriiption Today.
It Takes money to operate.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, May 9, 1957.
MANY FAIL
IN COLLEGE
Dwight L. Arnold, director ot
Kent State University testing pro
grams, has recently completed a
nationwide survey of average grad
es on the college campuses. Arnold
says the result of his survey prov
es that most high school students
do not attain a very high level of
ability in certain lines, specifically
the mechanics of the English lang
uage.
Partially as the result of this
glaring deficiency, six out of every
ten students who enter college fail
to graduate according to the find
ings of the survey. Arnold says
that high schools are handicapped
in preparing many students for
college because of the fact that so
many students do not decide to go
to college until they have finished
their high school courses, and do
I not know what college they will
j attend.
i Therefore, Arnold says, an enor
-1 mous waste of time and money is
the net result of a number of col
lege failures, mostly in freshman
and sophomore years, which stem
directly from lack of preparation
in the eight and ninth grades of
,high school.
An interesting finding in the re
i cent survey is the indication that
students who receive marks below
“B” in high school English will
usually lack academic skill neces
sary for the completion of college
work. In other words the survey
seems to indicate that greater em
phasis should lx? put upon a better
mastery of English, since those
who do not attain a “B” or better
in this course usually fail to re
ceive their college degree.
Arnold suggests that the final
year in the country’s high schools
which do not now include, a mini
mum, a semester of English, should
add English to their final year’s
required subjects. There is much
merit in this sugge.dion, since a
knowledge of English enables a
student to master all other subjects
which he must learn from reading
and understanding English.
Kitchen Accidents
The University of Illinois Safety
Department has some suggestions
for housewives who must do much
of their family’s cooking. Here are
a few of the suggestions offered,
which are intended to keep you
from dumping a pot of hot squash
on junior’s head, cutting yourself
or others, and experiencing other
accidents in the most used room
in your house:
First, prepare most of a meal
before mealtime, so that you won’t
have to hurry.
Second turn the handles of your
cooking utensils to the back of the (
stove to prevent them from being
turned over.
Third, check electric cords, be
sure to use a safe stepladder and
have a special place for knives and
other dangerous instruments which
is not in the reach of small chil
dren.
Finally, if you are too tired to
cook and do not have time to pre
pare a meal, take the family out
to Joe’s Joint for a hamburger.
Caution should be exercised here
also, so that no accidents will oc
cur over the question of who pays
the bill. There is no general safely
rule to solve this question.
Annual Singing
Sunday May 12th is the All Day
Singing at Brookwood Baptist
Church.
There will be singers from all
over North Georgia, Cobb County
Class, DeKalb County Class, For
syth County Class and singers
from Canton, Gainesville, Buford
and many special groups, Trios,
Solo’s and Quartetts
Wie are planning for a large
crowd of people. If you like good
singing, Come and spend the day.
Singing starts at 10:30. We will
have plenty of lunch for everyone.
Don Stewart, President
D. J. Whitmire, Vice President
Curtis Knight, Vice President
Vaccinating chickens w’hen they
are several days old generally will
give better immunity than vacci
nating at day old.
Mrs. Lenwood Burruss
County Dress Winner
Mrs. Lenwood Burruss of the
Coal Mountain HDC was named
County Dress Revue w’inner at the
annual Fashion Show on Friday
night, May 3rd. The show was held
at the Cumming Gymnasium. She
will represent Forsyth County at
the State H.D. Dress Revue to be
held at Rock Eagle 4-H Club Cen
ter during the week of June 4-7th.
Mrs. Burruss modeled an aqua da
cron shantung sheath with a black
linen duster. She wore black pat
ent shoes and carried a black pat
ent purse. Her hat and gloves
were white.
Mrs. Redggor Worley of the
Matt Club was named the Alter
nate Winner. She modeled a brown
and white plaid Dan River cotton.
Other club members modeling
and the awards are as follows:
Church Group--Second, Mrs. Lois
Heard; Third, Mrs. Wnlton Mundy;
Mi's. Hoyt Pilcher, Mrs. Grady
Bramblett, Miss Ruth Driskell, and
Mrs. Luther Bennett.
Street Group—Second, Mrs. Carrol
Floyd; Third, Mrs. Wallace Mor
gan; Mrs. Hubert Bennett, Mrs.
Walter Porter.
Suits Group—First, Mrs. Haldene
Bagwell
House Dress—First, Mrs. Wallace
Wood; Second, Mrs. H. E. Castle
berry
Stylish Group—First, Mrs. Carl
Holbrook; Second, Mrs. Ray Hemp
hill.
Mrs. Carrol Floyd, Council Presi
dent, presided at the meeting. Mrs.
Quentin Gilbert played for the Re
vue. Mrs. Floyd appointed the Nom
inating Committee as follows: Mrs.
Carl Holbrook, Chairman, Mrs.
Wallace Morgan, Mrs. Howard Hol
|land, Mrs. Winfred Waldrip and
Mrs. C. E. Frost.
Following the Fashion Show, de
licious punch and cookies were
served by the members of the
Piedmont, Pleasant Grave and Matt
Home Demonstration Clubs.
Health Department
News
Over 90 percent of Georgia’s
children most likely to get polio—
those aged 5 through 9 years have
received their first Salk Vaccine
shots.
Of the same age group, 69 per
cent have received their second
shot and 33 percent have received
the third shot.
The vaccination program in
Georgia has concentrated on per
sons under 20 years, according to
Dr. John Venable, assistant to
director, Georgia Department of
Public Health, and chairman of
the State Polio Advisory Commit
tee. Generally, Dr. Venable said,
the lower the age group the high
er the risk.
Percentages for all those under
20 run 55 percent for the first shot
45 percent for the second, and 20
percent for third. Total eligible in
this group are 1,558,000. The first
two shots are one month apart,
with the third following 7 months
later. Because of this concentrat
ion of younger groups, and because
of adequacy of supply of public
vaccine, Dr. Venable pointed out,
Georgia has used only 52.449 com
mercial doses. This commercial vac
cine has gone largely to persons
over 20. North Carolina is the only
other Southern state using more
vaccine through its public Health
program than Georgia, which has
given 1,939,263 doses since the
National Polio Foundation and Fed
era! programs began in 1955.
Pitchers Battle
Clarence anning of Forsyth Bull
Dogs and Martin of Roswell tang
led in a duel on tht local field and
Clarence got the best of the duel.
He allowed three hits and one of
them was questionable. Clarence
led off the fourth inning with a
wrong field home run, hitting it
out the gate in left field. He is a
left handed hitter. Jimmy Thomp
son followed with one of his three
singles. Then Don Martin hit a
high inside the park home run to
’enter field. Our team made seven
hits to their three. It was a well
played game and enjoyed by quite
a number of fans on April 30th..
County Population 15,000.
State’s Newest
Mountain Park
Now Has Cabins
ATLANTA (GPS) Here’s good
news for vacationsts seeking the
cool mountain breezes this sum
mer: Georgia Parks Director J. W.
Brinson Jr. has announced that
Unicoi, the newest state park in
the North Georgia Mountains, now
has housekeepinng cagins available
to the public.
The new vacation cabins, fully
equipped for housekeeping, will
accomodate from two to six pper
sons. Unicoi also has a 50-acre
lake; a combination public bath
house and pavillion with conces
sion stand; picnic areas and beach
es, and an organized group camp
area which now handles a maxi
mum of about 100 persons.
For those who enjoy the moun
tains, this new park offers boat
ing, swimming, fishing and picnic
ing, as well as many mountain
trails to explore. It is located in
the Northeast Georgia mountains
near the towns of Helen and Rob
erstown and is reached by Georgia
Highway 17 or 75.
Further information may be ob
tained by writing the Georgia De
partment of State Parks, 418 State
Capitol, Atlanta 3, Georgia.
FORESTRY NEWS
Prices of forest tree seedlings
grown by the Georgia Forestry
Commission were announced this
week by Ranger Wright of the
Forsyth County Forestry Unit.
Slight increases in all species
were listed. Slash, loblolly and long
leaf pine will se'for $4 per thous
and seedings. Eastern White Pine
will cost $9 per thousand and Ari
zona Cypress, Eastern Red Cedar
| and Yellow, Poplar will cost $lO
per thousand, according to Fores
try Commission Director Guyton
DeLoach.
The minimum order this year
will be 500 seedlings for any spec
ies. There will be a transportation
charge of 25 cents per thousand if
the seedlings are deliver'd by a
state truck from the Commission
Nursery to the county where the
purchaser wants them delivered.
| Seedlings will be delivered by
j state true only to the forestry unit
headquarters in each county. In
counties where there is not a for
estry unit, the seedlings will be
taken either to th Soil Conserva
tion or County Agent Office.
Railway Express shipments will
be delivered C. O. D. to the pur
chaser. Purchasers may also pick
up the seedlings at the Forestry
Commission nursery if they wish,
Ranger Wright said. "Plant More
Trees”.
ASC NEWS
The deadline for disposing of
“excess” wheat acreage in May 24,
1957 C. A. Bagwell, Chairman of
the County Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation Committee
reminds farmers today. This clos
ing date is for wheat on acreage
reserve land also. If you ait over
planted you may cut the wheat
from your excess acreage and use
it for hay, but if you have wheat
on your ,cotton acreage reserve
land you must destroy it by plow
ing, mowing or discing. You may
not use this wheat in any way.
There’s not too much time be
fore the deadline, and farmers
should understand that they will
not be eligible for price support, or
tto receive soil bank acreage re
serve payments on their wheat
crap if any excess acreage is not
disposed of within the permitted
time.
Notices were sent to all growers
with excess wheat acreage in order
that they might have an opportuni
ty to bring their acreage ino com
pliance with provisions of the pro
grams.
We now have a Form MQ-31,
which is a form to preserve cotton
acreage history. By signing this
form you will receive credit for
planting your entire cotton acreage
allotment even if you failed to
plant the entire allotment. Come
into the county office on or before
June 1, 1957 and sign this form if
you have a cotton allotment. It
will help hold your history in the
establishment of future allotments.
Number 19.
50 New Troopers
Begin Training
For Patrol Duty
ATLANTA, (GPS) Aimed at mak
ing Georgia’s roads safer from to
day’s heavy traffic, a six-week re
cruit training school for 50 new
state troopers has just opened at
the University of Georgia.
In making the announcement,
Governor Marvin Griffin said the
50 men were carefully selected out
of more than 400 applicants for
the new positions on the State
Highway Patrol. A larger patrol
was authorized by an admir.istrat
ion-sponsored act of the 1957 Gen
eral Assembly.
The training of the new troop
ers covers all phases of policework
including advanced driver training
courses, highway safety, first aid
and traffic control courses. It will
be the most intensive training pro
gram ever conducted by the Geor
gia Deprtment of Public Safety,
according to Col. W. C. Domony,
director.
Upon completion of the rugged
six-week training schedule, the 50
new trooppers will be assigned to
highway details throughout the
state shortly before July 1. The
20-year-old State Patrol is com
posed of 34 outpost stations fan
ning out from the Atlanta head
quarters.
Governor Griffin said the addi
tion of the new troopers "will
greatly augment the present force,
and will go a long way toward
the overall reduction of highway
accidents in Georgia."
The 50 new men. bringing the
Patrol’s strength to 400 officers
and men, make a total of 10(1
troopers added to the Safety De
partment’s Uniform Division since
Governor Griffin assumed office
in January 1955.
Asa result of the first 50-man
addition, which the Governor au
thorized last July 1. Georgia traf
fic deaths in the ten-month period
from July 1, 1956 to Mayl, 1957
dropped from 972 to 887, a savings
of 85 lives, Safety Department re
cords show.
With Y our County
Agent
Walter H. Rucker
All farmers who own sheep or
are thinking of adding sheep to
their farm operation will find it
beneficial to attend the Gainesville
lamb sale on May 14. The sale be
gins at 2:00 P. M.
The variations in price by weight
of the lambs will be ample proof
that it is necessary that we have
our lambs dropped early. Lambs
dropped in December and January
will be in the top grades and bring
top prices. Lambs dropped! in
March and Appril of this year will
bring less than half the pi ice of
earlier lambs.
To get these early lambs it will
be necessary for us to seperate our
rams and ewes prior to June Ist.
Thy should have been separated
last November.
The ewes should be placed in a
dry lot and fed only water, sail
and a very little hay. They should
be allowed to ose weight durinlg
June.
On July Ist the ewes should be
placed on the best grazing avail
able. Turn the rams in with the
ewes one week later.
Since the normal breeding time
of sheep is in the fall after cool
weather arrives, the above process
is necessary to cause them to breed
hot weather.A A ewe bred around
the first of July will lamb around
the first of December.
It will then be up to the owner
to see that the lamb receives pro
per care and fed. With this proper
management a lamb born in De
cember will have little trouble
bringing top prices in May.
If any sheep owners were missed
by the professional shearing crew
they should contact this office to
make arrangements to have the
shearing done.
PIANO RECITAL
There will be a Piano Recital
given by al lthe students of Mrs.
Rebecca Fagan, May 14, at 8:00
p. m. at the Forsyth County High
Auditorium. Everyone has a special
invitation to attend.