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Gamming, Georgia. THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS ESTABIJNHKD 190* Oivulauon over Forsyth, Kulton, Cherokee, Dawson, Lumpk.n Hall and Qwinnett Counties ~~ I’M* I'AI'KK THAT APPRECIATES YOUR PATRONAGE Published Every Thursday at Cummlng, Georgia WOV P. OTWEL.L Editor and Owner JAMES L. PEEVES . Associate Editor SUBSCRIPTION PRICK PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 52.00 Entered at the Post Office at Cummlng, Georgia August 10, 1910. as mall matter of Second Class, Advertising Kates Made Known Upon Application OFFICIAL ORGAN OP FORSYTH COUNTY ANII (TTY OF OUMMINO NATIONAL E DITOiI At I r #^h£. c s'4 N , I bMIHMUAHIir NOTES AND COMMENTS Life is a question of checks and balanees to be exact, bank balances. THE MARCH OF DIMES The March of Dimes is conducting its 1959 camvaign with anew program. Polio now ap parently dealt a fatal blow, the National Found ation seeks other dragons to slay. An attack will be launched against arthritis and birth defects-congenital malformations but as long as polio patients need care and re habilitation the March of Dimes will provide it. In 1958, for example about 50,000 polio victims received aid from the National Foundation which totaled approximately $18,900,000. Other funds raised during the 1959 drive will be used for a greatly enlarged research program This activity is devoted to studies not only of arthritis birth defects and polio, but of virius diseases and disorders of the central nervous system in general. The need to train more medical specialists also is being met by expansion of the profession al education program. Polio, arthritis and birth defects have crippling factors in common, de mand the attention only highly skilled and well trained professionals in health can give. Patient aid will be extended in 1959 to cover victims of arthritis and certain birth defects through the age of 18. The degree to which this program can be brought to life depends in large part on public support of the March of Dimes. CUBA AND CASTRO The dictatorship which has plagued Cuba for so many years has now been broken. It remains to lx 4 seen just exactly what kind of government will be brought into being under the guiding hand of Fidel Castro, the rebel leader who has been fighting the deposed dictator, Fulgencio Batista, since 1953. However, one must assume that it will be an improvement, even though there are charges that Castro has a number of fellow-travelers in his entourage. This is denied by others, and only time wiff tell the story on Castro’s government. It is encouraging to note that Castro has nam ca a provisional president, but it remains to be seen whether he will be able to resist the tempta tion to take the power of government into his own hands. He probably has the power, and the military machine, to enable him to do so at the present time. We should think that he will pro ceed with his plans to arrange elections, and it goes without saying that Castro will be a popu lar candidate should he decide to run for the job in Cuba. Asa rebel leader, Castro persevered and has done Cuba, and the democratic world, a service, as far as things stand at the moment. Whether he is fitted for the top job in administering the government of Cuba or not remains to be seen. He has probably earned his right to a chance at the task, however, and we suspect that he will, in the end, wind up in the top chair in Cuba’s government. The Forsyth County News ABOUT YOUR EYES i Remarkable progress has been made in re ducing the number of new cases of blindness among children. Not only has blindness due to infectious dis eases decreased sharply among school-age chil dren, but loss of sight due to the administering of oxygen in high concentration to premature infants has become rare. But eyesight among adults should still be bet ter protected and there are many of us who do not think enough about the gift of sight. Persons in the United States who are either totally blind or with impairment of vision suf ficiently great to prevent normal activities num ber 345,000, 2 per 1,000 of the population. New cases are estimated at 30,000 yearly. The most frequent causes of blindness very generally have their onset in middle and later life, and include specific eye conditions of un known etiology, particularly glaucoma and cata ract, and such general disorders as arterioscler osis, high blood pressure, nephritis and diabetes. Males have a higher blindness rate than fe males, which results in part from the higher in cidence among males of blindness due to acci dents and to the earlier development of arter iosclerotic and other degenerative changes. Much can b done to prevent blindness, ac cording to the statisticians. A study in Baltimore showed that half the cases of blindness could have been prevented. Early diagnosis and treatment of pathological eye conditions are the best available means to conserve sight. Periodic health checks, particul arly among people past midlife, should include examination of the eyes for glaucoma and cata ract, as well as for changes due to degenerative vascular diseases. A word to the wise, kind reader, should be sufficient. TWO BRANDS OF JUSTICE Old lawyers and veteran court reporters know from experience that pretty girls seldom have to pay for their crimes, as do men. Women can shed that calculated tear, look defenseless and fragile, and beautiful, and sway a jury be yond reasonable bounds - especially a jury com posed mostly of men or solely of men -as many are. In the fine state of North Carolina recently a pretty thing hired a man to kill the wife of a man she had fallen in love with. This could happen in any state, and we are not among those who think that one section of the country is better than another, or more virtuous, etc. - as the leftwingers constantly chant. But in this case it happened in North Carolina. Interestingly, the man hired by the cute thing - who just a couple of years ago was a co-ed in college -was a private detective. And killing wasn’t exactly in his line. So he turned his cus tomer in -as he should have done. So the case comes to trial and what happens? The pretty thing pleads guilty, admits the above circumstances. And what is her sentence? Ten years? Five Years? One Year? Her sentence is nothing, actually, thought the judge put a one-year suspended sentence on the books. But she serves no time, is freed, and the effect of the one-year suspended sentence is negligible. What do you think would have hap pened to some poor fellow, especially if he had come from the wrong side of the tracks, who stood the same trial And women think they live in a man’s world! They should hope they keep on living in it. They get preference and equali ty, both, in U. S. society, and they can usually take their choice. WANTED! LAKE LANIER PROPERTY From Two to Fifty Acres, rough land. Pre fer West side. Write full particulars. Marie S. Payne Sandy Springs, Georgia The trouble with highly-pressured emotions is that they drop suddenly to anew low. Go-getters are mainly responsible foi the business idea that the profits justify i •TAX FACTS #1 Selecting The Proper Tax Form (This is one of a series of articles 'the filing. The articles arc based on information p (he American Institute of Certified Public Accountant. ' andt Georgia Society of Certified Public Accountants, ation with tha Internal Revenue Service.) TP you are one of the millions of American wlUi 1 spends the lion’s share of his income feeding, clothing, housing and entertaining his family, chances are the little you can do to reduce your 1958 federal income —but you owe it to yourself to try. First of all, decide which of the two individual tax forms you are going to use to report your in come. If you choose the wrong one, you may automatically cut yourself off from a possible tax savings. The easiest way to file Is to use the simple 1040-A Form. It’s a card the size of a check, on which you answer a few simple ques tions and have the choice of either computing your own tax or letting the Government do It for you. You are permitted to use the card form if your gross Income consisted only of wages, divi dends or interest totaling less than SIO,OOO, and if you did not have more than S2OO of gross Income apart from that listed on your W-2 withholding slips. Facti to Consider Before deciding to use the card Form 1040-A, you should consider these facts: 1. Your tax will be figured from a table which allows you a deduction of about 10 per cent of your income instead of Item ized deductions for contributions, taxes, interest paid, medical and dental expenses, etc. 2. There is no provision in this form for filing as the "head of household", as a “surviving spouse” or for claiming special credits for dividends and retire ment income. If you are sure that these two points would not cost you any tax savings, and your Income Is within the limits for filing a Form 1040-A. you might as well use this simple card form. Whether to I ter. ire When you elect to use the reg ular Form 1040, you still must fc THE CUMMING METHODIST CHURCH Pilgrim Mill Road Rev. G. Horace Couch, Minister Telephones: Church Office TULip 7 —2900 Parsonage Tl'Lip 7 —2379 “WORSHIP SERVICES’’ Sunday Morning Worship Service 11:00 A. M. Sunday Evening Worship Service 7:30 P. M. Wednesday Night Prayer Service 7:30 P. M “CHURCH SCHOOL ACTIVITIES” Sunday School 10:00 A. M. Mr. Clyde Mize, Church School Superintendent Methodist Youth Fellowship (Sunday Evening) 6:30 P. M. MYF Activity Hour (Sunday Evening) 8:30 P. M. Mrs. Clyde Mize, Co-counselor Junior Fellowship (Saturday Evening) 7:30—9:00 P. M. Mrs. M. P. Holbrook, Co-counselor “CHURCH ORGANIZATIONS” OFFICIAL BOARD MEETING 730 P M. Mr. Milton Patterson, Chairman (Tuesday night after third Sunday every third month) CHOIR PRACTICE (Every Wednesday Night) 8:15 P. M. WOMEN’S SOCIETY OF CHRISTIAN SERVICE (First Monday of every month) 3 ; qo p. jyj. Mrs. Dan Devine, President WESLEYAN SERVICE GUILD (First Tuesday of every month 8:00 P. M. Mrs. Doris Graham, President METHODIST MEN’S CLUB •’'‘Supper Meetings** (Tuesday after fourth Sunday every month) 7:00 P. M. Mrs. James E. “Tommy” Gravitt, President Thursday, January 15, 1959^ decide whether to Itemize deduc tions or take the standard deduc tion which usually amounts to about 10 per cent of your income or SI,OOO, whichever is less. Gen erally, you will save by itc niz ing deductions if you: (1) Own real estate (2) Had unusual medical ex penses (3) Had deductible child-care expense (4) Suffered losses from fire, storm, accident or theft (5) Made fairly large charit able contributions If you are supporting a de pendent, although you are un married, you may be able to qualify as a “head of household and figure your tax on a special table that gives you part of the advantage enjoyed by married couples filing Joint returns. You mav qualify for a "head of household” status if you pro vide more than half the support of a parent, and more than half the cost of maintaining the par ent’s household even If the par ent does not live with you. You cannot claim a "head of house hold" status If you file a Form 1040-A. The 1040 Form Is arranged again this year so that a tax payer whose income was entirely from wages needs to use only the first one or two pages. Pages three and four are for other types of income and for comput ing the special credits for divi dends and retirement income. __ The instructions which coma with your tax forms give further Information on how to select the correct tax form. Help Is also available from the Internal Rev enue Service.