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Volume 50.
New Year Resolutions
To “Safeguard
Your Heart”
Good resolutions for 1959 should
begin with a determination to let
facts—rather than worrisome fears
—govern your attitude towards
heart disease, it was pointed out
today by the Georgia Heart Asso
ciation.
“If you have any doubt about the
condition of your heart, consult
your doctor,” said the Association.
“If he finds that there is nothing
wrong with your heart and circu
lation, needless anxiety can be eli
minated. It a disorder is revealed,
suitable treatment can be under
taken immediately for the pat
ient’s benefit.”
Asa prelude to the 1959 Heart
Fund Drive, which is to be con
ducted throughout the state dur
ing February, the Association pro
posed that all citizens place these
resolutions on their New Year’s
List:
1. To learn the facts about the
heart and its diseases, and to
avoid needless fears and worry.
2. To shun self-diagnosis in fav
or of regular heart and health
checks by your own physician.
,3. To guard against excess
weight, remembering that over
weight overworks your heart.
4. To get the sleep and rest you
neid, because rest lightens the
wrk your heart has to do.
< K. To keep fit by exercising mod
erJtely and regularly.
To be alert to the dangers of
respirli fory infections, often the
forerunners of strep infections and
rheumatic^ - fever, common during
the wintern months.
The Asrfbciaton noted that hope
and optinfiism are increasingly war
ranted iJy the dramatic advances
in diagnosis, treatment, prevention
aijd cure \achieved in recent years
a 1 the rwsult of heart research.
Where disease was once re
garded as M death sentence or life
long invalidism, it is now recog
nized th.mt some forms of heart
disease c. an be prevented, a few
can be enured, and that almost all
cases calh be nelped by proper
treatment*.
A fj£ * resolution proposed by
the Association is as follows:
“tjttesolved, that I will do all
wvWlin my power to advance the
-in Ahmvide fight against heart dis
ylrsV*- in its life-saving role of re-
Hi e h by supporting the 1959
Heart Fund.”
Gasoline Taxes In 3
Days Now Equal
First Year Total
Somewhere in Georgia this Sat
urday (January 3), a gasoline
pump meter will spin to the figure
that will bring to $754,000 the
amount collected in gasoline taxes
so far in 1959. That is as much
in three days as Georgia motorists
used to pay in gasoline tax in
a whole year.
This was noted today by John
S. Morrison, Chairman of the Pe
troleum Association of Georgia, in
commenting on present estimates
that car owners of this state will
pay a total of $124.5 million in
taxes on gasoline in 1959, includ
ing $36 million under the 3-cent
federal tax.
Morrison pointed out, however,
that if Congress this year enacts
the S9OO million a year increase
in the federal gasoline tax, as pro
posed recently in Washington,
Georgia car owners will be paying
an additional $lB million a year.
Already, with Georgia s state tax
of six and a half cents a gallon
plus the state sales tax as applied
to gasoline nd the 3-centa federal
tax, motorists here are paying
10.2 cents in tax on each gallon,
the equivalent of a 47 per cent
sales tax on gasoline.
In terms of revenue, Morrison
noted, Georgia car owners are now
paying this tax to the tune of
$1,000,000 every 3 days, or as much
as Georgia’s original one-cent gas
tax yielded in a whole year fol
lowing its enactment in 1921.
Foresters at the Exttension Ser
vice cite getting good forest man
agement on 60 percent of the for
est land in small ownerships as
one of the pressing problems.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY S CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHERO REE. DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Cecil Merritt, Forsyth
County Director For
1959 March Of Dimes
Atlanta, Dec. 29 —Mr. Cecil Merritt,
manager of the Cumming Credit
Bureau, has been appointed For
syth County Director for he 1959
March of Dimes, it was announced
recently by Leo Aikman, Georgia
State campaign chairman. The
drive will be held in January.
Mr. Merritt is also active in other
civic affairs being a director of
the Kiwanis Club, deputy director
of Civil Defense, a Mason, and a
Shriner. He is a member of the
Baptist Church.
The polio-fighting organization is
expanding into a broad new force
that will tackle health problems on
a wider front and no longer will
confine its activities to a single
disease. Initial new goals include
arthritis and birth defects (con
genital malformations).
“I am confident that the people
of Forsyth County, who helped
make possible victory over polio
through their contributions to the
March of Dimes over the past 20
years, will give even greater sup
port to the National Foundation’s
expanded program in the future,”
the county director said.
“We would like to make it .dear,
as we begin preparations for the
1959 March of Dimes, that the Nat
ional Foundation will not abandon
polio patients,” the director de
clared. “We have a moral obligat
ion to the patients of this county
to continue to provide needed care
and rehabilitation, and we will
fulfill .this obligation.”
The director stressed that while
solution of the problems of arthri
tis and birth defects are the im
mediate new goals of the March
of Dimes, the organization also
will follow leads as they develop
in the fields of virus research and
studies of the central nervous sys
tem.
Little Things
Women often are heard to say
"it’s the little things that count”.
And, in our opinion, the little
things are often underrated by
many of us. Have you ever thought
how worthwhile a smile every
morning is?
Or some little thing you might
do for someone each day this
can change your whole life. And
even if you do not know that life
usually returns your kindnesses at
a later stage, nonetheless these
little considerations make life a
better thing —and lifts one’s
spirits.
The Boy Scouts and their good
deed each day have a wonderful
motto. Do you, each day, do some
one a good turn, to lighten the
daily grind and cheer them up
just a bit? Try iit. You’ll find you
feel better at the end of the day.
And in dealing with members
of your family, who live in the
same house, there is a rule which
can be of great value to you all
through life. It is not original
with the Editor it came from
a far more accomplished person.
It is this: treat your husband or
wife, or other members of your
intimate family as nicely as you
would treat a total stranger you
might meet.
This sounds strange but think
it over. If we always treated our
husband, or wife, as cordially and
considerately as we would treat
a total stranger, we would some
times get along better and life
would be a little sweeter, the home
just a little more rewarding.
AGRICULTURE Big Business
Economists at the Agricultural
Extension Service report agricul
ture in the United States buys
more petroleum than any other
industry, purchases 6,500,000 tons
of finished steel a year, buys
enough rubber to put tires on 6,-
000,000 cars a year, uses 50.000,-
000 tons of chemicals annually,
and uses more electric power than
Chicago, Detroit, Houston, Balti
more, and Boston combined.
Every home may be made safer
by recognizing and removing haz
ards, points out Miss Lucile Hig
ginbotham, health education spec
ialist.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday January 1, 1959.
YOU AND 1959
In appraising 1959 and the outlook for our
community, our state and nation, we have much
to be thankful for. The country seems to have
emerged from a stiff recession. We are still at
peace, even though the cold war constantly
! threatens to grow heated.
In Scotland, on New Year’s Day, boys used
to go from house to house to collect the gifts
as the nobility in England customarily sent the
king a purse with gold in it at the beginning
of the year. The Scottish boys often greeted
their voluntary or involuntary donors with a
poem:
“I wish you a Merry Christmas
and a happy New Year,
A pocketful of money and a cellar
full of beer,
And a good fat pig to serve you
all the year,
Ladies and gentlemen sitting by
the fire,
Pity us poor boys out in the mire.”
This was so productive in Scotland it was
brought to the United States, where usually
just the.firstfc'four wishes were repeated. (And
it wa& used New Year’s Day, even though
there was a “Merry involved.) It
is good that we haven’t retyfrved' custom.
Hallowe’en, however, is
like it. H V
In addition to ajt 1 amJfnV
round of upoh >us* -we **to have
many ’thing’s fo be thankful for. .Let us hqpe
that fjtake the time to consider ffiem,
gain arull iftfeasure of £stiMaction, ‘enjoyment,
j contentment f 'and spiritual appreciation from
| them. i,
c/OM THfAMKH&ZHMgS.
ASC NEWS
Farmers who grow' upland cotton
approved marketing quotas for the
1959 crop in the December 15, re
ferendum on the question, Jhon F.
Bradley, Administrative Officer of
the State Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee has
announced.
Preliminary returns on the bal
loting show' that above 90 percent
of all the votes cast in the cotton
referendum nationally were in fav
or of the quotas. At least two
thirds of the votes must be favor
able in order to make the quotas
effective.
The 1959 ACP sign-up period is
December 26, 1958 through Janu
ary 30, 1959. If a conservation prac
tice is needed on your farm please
comt into the county office and
request cost-sharing to carry out
this practice. If the practice needed
on ycur larm is permanent cover,
tree planting, constructing a dam,
or Improving a stand of forest
trees you may earn cost-sharing
as high as 70 percent of the cost.
May we urge you to come in and
file your request for cost-sharing
during the initial sign-up period.
In that way you can be sure your
request is considered before funds
are exhausted.
County Population 15,000. Number 1.
All Eyes Are On
Vandiver As H!s
Reign Draws Near
ATLANTA, (GPS) As the old year
Rave way to the new, there was
excitement, anticipation and even
wonderment in the air over Geor
gia’s political arena. Reason: A
‘ new Governor is about to be
j crowned.
' When Samuel Ernest Vandiver
I Jr. takes the oath of office on the
j Capitol grounds at high noon Janu
! ary 13 anew four-year state ad-
will officilly begain.
(
I What sort of Governor will the
j 40-year-old Lavonia lawyer-farmer
I businessman turn out to be? Only
I time will tell. But one thing is
! certain at this point he’ll as
j sume his new and greater respon
| sibilities with the confidence and
!best wishes of a vast majority of
Georgians.
Perhaps no other Georgia gov
ernor faced more immediate prob
lems at the beginning of a term.
The immediate future conceivably
could develop into the most criti
cal four-year period in Georgia’s
modern history. Certainly, the next
administration has many a hatd
row to hoe.
Vandiver himself, who has serv
ed as lieutenant governor for the
past four years, realizes he has a
tough job- ahead of him. Neverthe-
I less, he is pledged to solve all the
I pressing problems confronting the
! state, particularly such major ones
ias preservation of school segrega
! tion and the County Unit System,
! handltrfe of state fiscal, affairs,
essential public services
manty others.
j arfjk helD I9w tariSh the
Idiwr hrff jaTCttjr well lined up ms
t#Jm of I kAt tenants. Here are some
;of Tlie men #ho will t*id frej>
j posts under, hiSf administration:
I Executive Secretary: Peter Zack
! Geer, 31-year-old attorney of Col
quitt in Miller County.
Supervisor of Purchases: Wil
liam R. Bowdoin, 45 year-old At
lanta banker. (Bowdoin will be on
leave of absence from the Trust
Company of Georgia where he is
senior vice president.)
Revenue Commissioner: Dixon
Oxford, 44-year-old businessman
farmer of Dawson in Terrell
County.
Highway Board Chairman: James
L. Gillis, of Soperton, a 66-year-old
I veteran of the Highway Depart-
ment. (When his appointment is
confirmed by formal election by
the General Assembly, as is ex
pected. Gillis will be returning to
a post he held under the Talmadge
administration.)
Director of Public Safety: Wil
liam T. Trotter, 39-year-old La-
Grange attorney. (Trotter, a form
er state senator, will serve in the
upcomirfg Legislature as a repre
sentative from Troup County be
fore assuming his $lO,OOO-a-year
job.)
Adjutant General: George J.
(Bo) Hearn, a Monroe hardware
store owner. (Hearn returns to a
post he held for many years until
mid-1957.)
Others whom Gov.-elect Vandiver
has announced he will appoint in
clude: Dr. E. L. Wright, president
of Darlington School at Rome
(Vandiver’s alma mater), to the
Board of Regents.
Griffin B Bell, 40-year-old At
lanta attorney, as chief of staff of
his administration. This is an hon
orary position.
The incoming Governor also has
announced he plans to reappoint
Peter Wheeler as director of the
State Department of Veterans Ser
vice; Alan Kemper as director of
the State Department of Public
Welfare, and Morris M. Bryan Jr.,
of Jefferson, as a member of the
Board of Regents from the Ninth
District.
And as he prepares to take over
the operation of the state govern
ment with the team he is assemb
ling, Gov.-elect Vandiver delivered
this message to the people of
Georgia:
For control of poultry disease
laboratory diagnosis should be se
cured before treatment is started,
say poultrymen at the Agricultural
; Extension Service.
F. C. H. School Vs.
Lumpkin County High
The Lumpkin County High teams
1 from Dahlonega will be in Cum
ming for games on Tuesday Janu
ary 6th. We do not know their
i strength this year, hut in the past,
| they have given us good games
| and we may expect the same this
| year. They are building anew
j Gymnasium and the games here
!are the only ones to be played
I between the schools this year.
North Side girls, led by Mary
Rosebush were no match for the
local girls on December 19th and
lost 57 29. Our hoys played their
boys a good first half and trailed
by five points, hut dropped behind
the big sharp shooting boys ftom
the City and lost 45- 79. I.arry
Rollins shot 34 points from long
range to keep us within range for
most of the game. This was a high
score for Larry or any other boy.
The Buford teams came on Mon
day night December 22nd, and
lost two one sided games.
Helen Gilbert wah high for us
with 19 points in the 50 29 win.
Adrain Fowler had 22 poins for
his nights work in the 60 39 win
for the locals. This is Adrian’s
best effort and we hope he has
more big nights like this.
Our teams piav Cherokee High
on their new floor on Saturday
night, January 3.
The House of David, with their
long beards will he here to play
the local Athletic Club on Friday
night January 2nd. They have a
giant center, 6 7, who will oppose
Harold Whitt, Hugh Smith, Dan
Martin and Company at 8 p. m.
: These fellows are magicians on the
court and will furnish a fine even
ings entertainment. One of the
| Denny boys from Can*on is a
member' of the team. This team
summers in Jacksonville, Florida
and *piays from Central America
through Canada during the basket
ball seasons. In addition to being
clows and Knights of the court,
they will win most of their games
against all comers. A good pre
liminary game will start at 7:00.
The Seniors are the sponors and
will be in charge of tickets and
concessions. The Hous of David
has suggosled we charge 25 100
I
NEW YEAR
LOOKS RRIGHTER,
HUIET STATES
“The New Year, 1959, promises
to be brighter than 1958,” Georgia
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet stated this week. "Business
and industry employment has con
tinued to climb steadily in the
State since May this year, in spite
of labor disputes involving large
numbers of workers, model change
over shutdowns and seasonal re
ductions in a number of industries.
"Total non-farm wages for 1958
will exceed those of 1957 when
Georgia wage-earners carried home
their largest paycheck, over $3
billion,” Huiet continued.
"We saw our lowest employment
in May, with seven percent of the
State's insured wage earners seek
ing job insurance. The nation’s
average shot to 8.1 percent, and
some states’ unemployment was
double Georgia’s rate. The most re
cent figures show Georgia’s unem
ployment rate 20 percent below
I the national average.
"Of Georgia’s 963,000 non-farm
| workers, 373.000 are engager! in
the production of goods, and 590,-
1 000 in service and trade. Almost
96 percent of its workers are now
carrying home pay checks.
“Georgia's 1958 growth has been
! sound and stable. Baunk deposits
! and loans are up. Spending is up.
New businesses are on the in
crease. Air travel is on the rise.
Farm income is higher. Building
permits advanced 24 percent over
last year. Trade, topped its 1957
record. The New Year will be even
better than the old,” Commissioner
Huiet concluded.
BETTER DAIRYING
The necessity for continued pro
gress in dairying should be the
concern of all Georgia dairymen,
declares Sid Diamond, dairyman.
Diamond cites low production p
cow as being generally associr
with high production costs.