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Volume 50.
GEORGIA’S NEW GOVERNOR
Ernest Vandiver
Georgia’s 73rd Governor
ASC NEWS
Farmers in Forsyth County may
now file a request for cost-sharing
under the 1959 ACP Program. The
initial sign-up period will end Janu
ary 30th. If you need a conserva
tion practice on your farm we
would like to urge you to come in
to the ASC County Office and file
a request during the sign-up period
Only in that way can you be sure
of consideration before the funds
are exhausted.
The practices listed below are
the ones on which you may receive
cost-sharing as high as 70 percent:
A—2 Permanent cover—Estab
lishing vegetative cover for soil
protection or as a needed land-use
adjustment. The acreage establish
ed may be used for pasture, hay
or silage. Grass and legume seed
may be harvested.
A—7 Planting trees.
B—7 Constructing dams — For
livestock water.
B—lo Improvement of a stand
of forest trees.
The practices listed below are
the ones you may receive cost
sharing at 50 percent:
A —4 Liming farmland
B —l Improving permanent pas
ture or hay land—This practice is
for improving permanent pasture
and hay land which needs more
than normal maintenance measures
to provide adequate soil and water
shed protection. To receive cost
sharing on this practice it must
have been seeded before 1956 and
no assistance received since.
B—s Wells for Livestock.
B 8 Pipelines for livestock water
B 9 Permanent fences —Cost-
sharing may be received for cross
fences only.
C 1 Sod waterways
q 2 Protective cover —Establish
ing permanent vegetative cover to
stabilize and protect dams, diver
sion channels, drainage ditches,
farm road ditches and field borders
C—4 Terraces
C —B Channel improvement
C—9 Open drainage ditches
C—lo Tile drainage
D—l Winter cover crops
D—2 Summer cover crops
Remember, if any of the above
practices is needed on your farm,
now is the time to file your re
quest to receive cost-sharing in
carrying out the practice.
To receive costsharing for carry
ing out a practice under this pro
gram, you must file a written re
quest for costsharing with the
ASC County Office before starting
the practice.
THREE SAFETY RULES
Three safety rules for kitchens
are listed by Miss Lucile Higgin
botham. heaith education specialist
Keep disinfectants out of reach of
small children: use a smooth-cut
ting can opener rather than a
piercing one; and keep sharp kniv
es stored in racks.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL OKU AN OP FORSYTH COUNTY * CITY OF CUMMIN*.
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOHSYTH. FULTON. CHKRO HEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2 500)
American Cancer
Society To Map
Plans January 20
Leading volunteer cancer fight
ers from 11 counties will meet in
Atlanta January 20 to map plans
for the 1959 Education-Funds Cru
sade of the American Cancer So
ciety.
Counties to be represented at the
fourhour training clinic at the Bilt
more Hotel include Fulton, DeKalb,
Cobb, Clayton, Gwinnett, Douglas,
Henry, Rockdale, Newton, Forsyth
and Walton.
McKee Nunnally of Atlanta, presi
dent of the American Cancer So
ciety’s Georgia Division, said the
purpose of the clinic is to review
the materials and techniques to
be used by the County Units in
conducting the Education Funds
Crusade in April.
"The Crusade has the duel pur
j pose of raising the funds vitally
needed to intensify the Society’s
programs of research, education
and service to patients, and to
reach as many people as possible
with life-saving facts about cancer,”
Mr. Nunnally said.
He explained that major em
phasis will be placed on reaching
as many homes as possible through
the Neighborhood Crusade, creat
ing a better understanding of the
cancer problem through the Mass
Media Crusade, and giving the peo
ple of special means a chance to
do more about this tragic health
problem through the Special Gifts
Crusade.
Henry Maddox, Atlanta insurance
executive and president of the Ful
ton County Unit, A. C. S. will
preside at the clinic.
Other program participants will
include Lon Sullivan, executive vice
president of the Georgia Division;
Robert B. St. Lawrence, satte dir
ector of the Education-Funds Cru
sade, and Bill Babrey, state mass
media director. All are from At
lanta.
"We must raise our fund-raising
and educational sights,” Mr. Nun
nally said, "if we are to wage ef
fective war against this dread dis
ease which claims the lives of 11
Georgians each day.”
Important Notice
All Masons, their families and
friends have a Special invitation
to attend the Open meeting at
Redwine Lodge next Saturday night
January 17th at 7:30 p. m.
We urge everyone to attend this
meeting as it is an Honor of Dr.
Rupert H. Bramblett who is Third
Grand Steward of the Grand Lodge
of Georgia. Redwine Lodge being
his home Lodge is giving this
meeting with the help of the other
Lodges,
Refreshments will be served.
The Committee:
Paul Yarbrough
Ira Bottoms
Clyde Bannister
Gumming Georgia, Thursday January 15, 1959.
GOP Veterans Po’icy
By Wheeler
COMMERCE, GA, January 9
The present Republican Adminis
tration has a “confusing policy to
ward veterans both liberal and
conservative”, Pete Wheeler, direct
or of the State Department of
Veterans Service, said in a speech
in Commerce Friday night.
The Republications, Wheeler said
“are very liberal in turning over
money to Chinese Nationalist vet
erans, but are ultra conservative
when it comes to taking care of
our own veterans.”
Speaking to the Commerce post
of Veterans of Foreign Wars, he
said President Eisenhower again
is demanding cuts in funds for
various veterans programs.
But, he said, our government re
cently gave Chiang Kai-Shek S4B
million to be used to rehabilitate
Chinese Nationalist veterans on
Formosa.
Wheeler said the State Depart
ment has previously denied any
U .S. grants ahd been made for
Chinese Nationalist veterans.
However, he said, on December
28, Chiang’s son, Lieut. Gen. Chiang
Ching-kuo, announced the S4B mil
lion received from the United Stat
es was being used to set up var
ious programs for the 70,000 Nat
ionalist veterans on Formosa.
“It is incomprehensible,” the
Georgia veterans director said,
“that the Administration is demand
ing reductions in benefits and pro
grams for American veterans,
when it is giving away millions
to Chinese veterans.”
Wheeler said there are more
than 25,000 ill or disabled veterans
on waiting lists for admission to
VA hospitals throughout the coun
try.
There are more than 1.000 await
ing admission to VA hospitals in
Georgia, he said. He said efforts
are continuing to get anew Veter
ans Administration hospital for the
Atlanta area, and to get an addi
tional 500 beds opened at the VA
hospital in Dublin.
But this expansion is not likely,
he said, as long as the present ad
ministeration is demanding reduct
ions in existing programs
Soil Conservation
Service Expresses
Thanks to CD Unit
Mr. Cecil Merritt, Deputy Director
Forsyth County—Cumming
CIVIL DEFENSE UNIT
Cumming, Georgia
Dear Mr. Merritt:
On behalf of the SCS employees
who were working with SCD Sup
ervisors and Watershed Association
Directors, I express to you sincere
appreciation for the fine work and
valuable contribution you and your
group performed in helping to
unstop a drain pipe on one of the
dams in Sautee Creek Watershed
on January 4, 1959.
The difficult job was accomplish
ed in rather short time with the
able assistance of you and your
unit, including 8 men and the am
phibious vehicle. The job required
completion within an urgent time
limit and under hazardous condi
tions
I am sure that Messrs. Robert
M. Moore and Fred Stovall will
bring this matter to the attention
of the Board of Supervisors, Upper
Chattahoochee River Soil Conser
vation District, at their January
meeting.
Please express our appreciation
to Joel Webb, David Sutton, Roy
Moore, Avon Hughes, Joe Wheeler,
Gene Pruitt and Burel Sexton,
members of your unit on this job.
Thanks again for all your help.
Your very truly,
J. W. Harwell
Area Conservationist
Chapter Meeting
Silver Shoals Chapter, R. A. M.
No. 14 will meet this Thursday
evening in the Lodge Hall, Cum
ming, Georgia. All qualified Com
panions are invited to meet with
us.
Oscar B. Tally, Sr. Secretary.
Icart Fund Drive
legins In February
The Heart Fund Drive, conducted
in February each year, is the Heart
Association’s single appeal for
funds to support the heart pro
gram of research, education, and
community service The GHA also
contributes to the national research
program of the American Heart
Association.
I
Mr. Bagdon and Mr. Redd said I
the Heart Association was proud
to have such able leadership for
this year’s county Heart Fund
Drive. “We feel certain that our
drive in this area against heart
disease will be an outstanding suc
cess,” they said.
Since the organization of the
Heart Association as a voluntary
health agency eleven years ago,
great strides have been made in
the development of new and more
effective methods of diagnosis,
treatment, care and prevention of
heart and circulatory disease.
Georgia now has one of the lead
ing heart research programs in the
nation. Chairs of Cardiovascular
Research and Established Investi
gatorships are supported by yHeart
Funds at each of Georgia’s two
medical schools.
The Georgia Heart Clinic System,
sponsored by the Heart Association
is the only such program organized
on a state-wide basis. Clinics are
located in 16 cities throughout the
State for the diagnosis and treat
ment of indigent patients who are
unable to obtain care through re
gular channels. *
In the field of heart disease, the
Georgia Heart Association conducts
a continuous campaign of education
both within the medical profession
and for the general public. This
provides authoritative information
for ■’octors and laymen alike.
In Georgia, more than 17,000
deaths resulted from heart ail
ments in 1957, the latest year for
which statistics are available. An
estimated 300,000 Georgians suffer
from cardiovascular disease and its
consequent limitations at a cost
of millions to the prosperity of
the State.
Business Firms Grow
In Forsyth County
Statistics released today by Wm.
M Gordon, district manager of the
Atlanta office of Dun & Bradstreet,
reflect the growth of business
firms in Forsyth County during
the past year. Figures obtained
from a physical count of the Dun
& Bradstreet Reference Book for
1959 totaled 168 manufacturers,
wholesalers and retailers in this
area as compared to 115 in 1955
an increase of 46 percent for the
period.
The Reference Book lists only
manufacturers, wholesalers and re
tailers. It does not include the ser
vice and professional businesses
such as beauty and barker shops
and stock and real estte brokers.
As one phase in revising credit
reports and keeping them up-to
date. every year the credit report
ing agency writes to all businesses
listed in the Reference Book to
request their balance sheets. Gor
don says this letter speeds up the
flow and processing of some of the
facts on which credit ratings are
bbased. “More than 95 percent of
all commercial transactions in the
U. S. are made on credit terms,”
he added. "The purpose of the Re
ference Book is to help business
men in any part of the country
make prompt and accurate credit
decisions to ship or sell business
men in any other part of the
country.”
Each Reference Book listing,
which includes a rating, is a con
densed summary of the informat
ion contained in the Dun & Brad
street credit report. The report in
cludes a history of the business
(who owns it, who runs it and
how long it has been operating);
a description of what the business
does and how it does it; a finan
cial section which usually includes
the latest financial statement; and
a record of how the concern pays
its bills.
U. N. groun urges world “peace
ful relations.”
County Population 15,000.
MORE PORK
EXPECTED IN 1959
If you like pork, 1959 may be
your year. At least farmers will
be growing more hogs than usual
to satisfy the desires of pork eat
ers, say agricultural economists
who expect increased hog ppro
duction to raise pork consumption
from 60 to 66 pounds per persons
in 1959
Georgia farmers will join the |
national trend toward increased
hog production, estimate Econo
mists Paul C. Bunce and J J. Lan
caster of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service. University of Geor
gia College of Agriculture.
All producers in the nation plan
a 12 percent increase in the num
ber of sows to farrow in the first
half (December to May) of the
1959 farrowing season. Georgia’s
increase is expected to be nine
percent. This increased production
is expected to lower hog prices
which averaged over S2O per hun
dred in 1958.
The Extension economists ex
pect people to eat more chicken
and canned fish, too, but to eat
about the same amounts of beef
and other meats. The number of
beef cattle on U. S. farms is ex
pected to increase to near the
1956 high of almost 97 million head
Beacuse of the number kept for
| breeding, however, the number for
I slaughter in 1959 is expected to
'be about the same or only slight
ly higher than in 1958.
Beef cattle prices in 1959 are
expected to be about the same as
in 1958. Prices for cows and feeder
cattle are expected to remain high
compared to fed cattle prices. Pro
fits from feeding operations will
be smaller for farmers, however,
because much of the advantage of
the lower feed price was bid into
the price paid for feeders.
Prices for sheep and lambs are
expected to hold up well in 1959.
Any drop will be slight
Several trends in dairying over
the past few years are expected to
continue. The number of milk cows
on farms will continue to drop,
but not as much as in 1958. The
number of cows culled and sold
I for beef is expected to be less than
during last year.
Milk production per cow is ex
pected to continue to increase.
Consumption of all dairy products
which has declined slightly each
year for several years is expected
to be about what it was in 1958.
Total use of milk products will
increase about as much as the
population which is almost two
percent per year.
Every Chriatian Should
Be A Missionary
Every Author of every book in
the New Testament were foreign
Missionaries. The Christians were
scattered abroad and wherever they
went they carried out the mission
that Christ gave them. The mean
ing of the word Missionary means
“sent ones,’ Jesus said,” As the
father hath sent me even so send
I you into the world.” Every true
follower of Christ is a Missionary.
You do not have to go across the
waters to be Missionaries. You
may be a Missionary by going
across the hall and making an
effort to win someone to Christ.
There maybe a barefoot boy or
a precious little girl in your neigh
borhood that you could win to
Christ; have you made the effort?
Some of the men who were ex
ploiting the natives in India in
the early part of the 19th Century
said that the sendin of Missionar
ies to India was the most foolish
and expensive undertaking they
had ever been heard of. In the
early y’ears of the 20th Century.
The ruler of India said that of
all the people who had come to
India the Christian Missionaries
had done more good than all the
other groups combined. When
John G. Paton went to the canibal
islands he faced death many times
but he continued to preach the
love of Jesus. Now the people of
those islands are clothed and in
their right minds. There are church
es and Christian homes in every
community where he preached
W. R. CALLAWAY
Number 3.
Lockheed Awarded
Multi-Million Dollar
Contract Last Week
A multi million dollar contract
has been awarded the I.ockheed
Aircraft Corporation plant at Mari
etta for designing and manufact
uring the aft fuselage of the IV7O
intercontinental bomber.
North American Aviation, prime
contractor for this new U. S. Air
Force aircraft, selected Lockheed’s
Georgia Division from among 12
competitors to build this major
portion of the new plane.
The USAF B-70 Valkyrie will be
capable of flying at three times
the speed of sound (or more than
2,000 miles per hour). It will have
an intercontinental range without
refueling and can fly at altitudes
of more than 70,000 feet.
The new contract will have an
important stabilizing effect on em
ployment at the Marietta plant,
Carl Kotchian, vice-president and
general manager of Lockheed's
Georgia Division, said. The factory
now employs 14,000 persons. The
manufacturing program on the
B-70 fuselage section will extend
over several years.
Georgia Certified
Cottonseed Is Top
Quality This Year
Georgia certified cottonseed is
germinating above 85 percent,
while some states have reduced
the minimum germination require
ment to 60 percent—2o percent less
than the minimum requirement of
the International Crop Improve-
J ment Association
arvey C. Lowery, seed marketing
specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, said Georgia
is fortunate this year in being one
of the few states to have high ger
minating cottonseed.
"Georgia had ideal weather con
ditions for harvesting cotton,” Low
ery stated. "Indications, however,
are that there will not be enough
quality cottonseed to plant the
allotted acreage, so farmers are
urged to read the seed tag care
fully and to buy their seed early.”
Varieties listed by Lowery as
being eligible for certification in-
Georgia at present are: Coker’s
100A WR, Deltapine 15, Dixie King,
and Plans. All of these varieties,
Lowery declared, have been teste*®
by Georgia experiment stations a
minimum of three years and found
to be superior to existing varieties.
“Georgia certified cottonseed is
either registered seed or first year
increase from registered seed,” the
Extension specialist explained.
“These seed are produced on one
variety farms, ginned on onevar
ty gins, and treated with a recom
mended fungicide. They meet or
exceed the minimum standards of
the Georgia Crop Improvement
Association.”
Veterans Warned
To Report Their
Annual Income
Approximately 16,000 disabled
veterans and widows of veterans
in Georgia who receive monthly
pension payments are being remind
ed by ythe Veterans Administration
to report their annual income
promptly and thusavoid the risk
of having their payments stopped.
Mr. J. M. Slaton, Jr., Manager of
the Veterans Administration Reg
ional Office, Atlanta, Georgia, said
that the VA is now mailing to all
pension recipents a tabulating card
upon which the icome report may
be made Pensions cease if the in
come of a single individual exceeds
SI4OO, or $2700 if the recipient fcas
dependents. Regulations require
payment to be stopped if the re
port is not received within 30 days.
He warned that the tabulating
card will be processed mechani
cally when it is returned and that
cutting, folding or otherwise muti
lating it will delay the recording
of the information and risk a
cut-off in payments.
No income questionnaire is sent
to veterans or dependents receiving
service-connected compensation.