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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.