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Volume 50.
SPEAKING OF DAYS
On every day of the year there are historical
events which should be remembered. In this
connection, the last days of January and the
first days of February are no exception.
For example on January 29th we recall that
William McKinley was born, in Niles, Ohio.
January 25th 1843. This day is also Kansas Day,
Kansas having been admitted to the Uniaon as
a state by an act approved January 29th, 1861.
In addition, the day is remembered as the birth
day anniversary of Emanuel Swedenborg, who
was born in Stockholm January 29th, 1688.
It is also remembered as the anniversary of
the birth of Thomas Paine, who was born at
Thetford, England, January 29th, 1737. The
30th is Franklin Roosevelt’s birthday, Roose
velt having been born January 30th, 1882 at
Hyde Park, New York. In Virginia the 30th is
remembered as the anniversary of the behead
ing of Charles I, and that date formerly was a
day of fasting in his remembrance.
The 31st is remembered as the birthday an
niversary of James G. Blaine, who was born at
Brownsville, Pennsylvania, on January 31st,
1830. February Ist is the first day of the second
month, at the end of which one-sixth of the year
will have passed. The next day, February 2nd,
is Groundhog, or Candlemas. If the groundhog
sees his shadow, six more weeks of cold weath
er is supposed to be due.
Ga. Heart Program
Focuses on Control
Of Heart Diseses
A program on “Heart Diseases”,
sponsored by the Georgia Heart
Association, will be presented by
the Heart Fund Volunteers at the
High School Gym, Cumming, on
February 2nd at 7:30 P. M. Dr.
Henry S. Jennings, who will serve
as principal speaker, will present a
short film on Strokes.
Dr. Jennings is a doctor of in
ternal medicine in Gainesville. He
has taken active interest in the
Heart Association for a number of
years; is currently co-chairman of
Public Education Committee and
is active in Gainesville Heart Clinic
This is one of a series of pro
grams being made available to the
public through the Georgia Heart
Association. They are built around
the educational theme, “The Major
Adult Heart Diseases”, and are
concerned with heart attacks, high
bleed pressure, and strokes. The
GHA office, located at 1101 West
Peachtree street, N. E., Atlanta 9,
Georgia will provide films and
speakers for these programs on
request.
In announcing the program for
the meeting, Mr. William Chamblee
Forsyth County Heart Fund Chair
man, pointed out that sound pub
lic understanding of the scope of
the heart diseases, and of the Geor
gia Heart Association’s activities in
attempting to combat this leading
health problem, is of primary im
portance now.
“While medical scientists have
made remarkable progress in their
attack on the cardiovascular prob
lem, the heart diseases continue to
account for nearly 54 percent of
all deaths in the United States,’ he
said.
“We must, therefore, intensify
our research activities, for each
new scientific discoveryy, each new
drug, each new diagnostic tool or
surgical technique adds to our
prospects fo- eventual control of
these diseases,” the Chairman con
tinued.
“Dr. Jennings, in his address,
will describe recent research pro
gress in the cardiovascular field,
and discuss the scientific activities
of the Heart Association which are
supported by the 1959 Heart Fund,”
he added.
ATLANTA—Pete Wheeler, Director
of the State Department of Vet
erans Service, has entered Georgia
Baptist Hospital in Atlanta for
rest and observation. Wheeler ex
pects to be away from his office
about two weeks. His doctor said
he should have no visitors.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHERO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Forsyth County High
Versus
Cherokee
The strong Cherokee teams will
be in Cummng for return games
on Saturday night January 31st.
The local girls won in Canton just
after the holidays by 11 points
and our boys lost by 3. They were
scouted last Saturday ynight and
■ looked much better. Their boys
| especially were sharper, hitting
' from all angles. Come early, if
you want a seat.
Last week we won three out of
four from Pickens County and
Buford. The girls played a fine
game in Jasper and won 51—28.
Patsy Holcomb, Elbie Welch and
Lanell Wilkie played their best
game of the season at guard. Shir
ley Roper, Shirley Whitt and Helen
Gilbert did a good job.
The boys were beaten 50—41
with Larry Rollins being a Flue
victim and did dnot make the trip.
Bufords games were returned on
Friday night. Their teams had im
proved, but not enogh and lost
both games. The two Shirleys,
Roper and Whitt led the scoring
with 18 and 14 points in three
quarters, all of the players pplayed
some during the last quarter in
the 45 —21 win.
The boys game was a low scorer
most of the way, but Larry Rollins
and Company found the range and
won 49—31.
The Region tournament starts
at Commerce on Februay 9th. The
local girls play Monroe. The boys
play the winner of the Monroe —•
Commerce game on Tuesday night
February 10th. Three nights will
be played at Commerce February
, 9—lo—ll. Then play will be resum
ed at Madison County at Dainels
| ville Georgia on February 13th
I and 14th.
j
j Forsyth County
Masonic Association
Meets January 31st.
The Forsyth County Masonic As
sociation will meet with LaFayette
Lodge No. 44, F. & A. M. on Sat
urday January 31st at 7:30 p. m.
This meeting will be held at the
new Forsyth County High School
in Cumming.
Brother John C. Kaufman. Past
Grand Master of the Grand Lodge
of Georgia will be the principal
speaker for the evening.
All lodges in the Association
have a special invitation to attend
this meeting and also bring basket
lunches.
Clyde Bannister, President
W. F. Harrison, V. Pres.
Harold Hendrix, Secretary
Cumming Georgia, Thursday January 29, 1959.
Georgia Power To
Spend SSB Million In
1959 For Expansion
Georgia Power Company, now in
the midst of one of the largest
expansion programs in its history,
will invest more than 058 million
lin 1959 in new facilities to serve
! the growing power needs of its
| customers.
The $14,400,000 Oliver Dam on
the Chattahoochee River at Colum
bus and the new sls million gen
erating unit at Plant McManus
near Brunswick both will be com
pleted this year. Work will con
tinue on the Southern Electric
Generating Company’s 1,000,000
kilowatt steam-electric generating
plant near Wilsonville, Alabama.
SEGCO is owned jointly by Geor
gia Power and Albama Power
Company.
John J. McDonough, president,
in reporting the 1959 construction
plans, said the company will con
tinue to build ahead of Georgia’s
power needs. He pointed out that
Georgia Power’s electric energy
sales have more than doubled in
the past decade. The company,
anticipating this growth, more than
doubled its generating capacity dur
ing the same period.
Among other large items in the
company’s construction budget are:
Beginning of work on a 230,000
volt transmission line from Goat
Rock, near Columbus, to Tifton,
The project includes a 230,000 volt
substation at Tifton.
A 230,00 volt line extending from
Morrow, south of Atlanta, to the
Alabama state line to connect with
SEGCO’s 230,000-volt line is sched
uled to begin in 1959. Work begins
this year on 47 miles of 230000
volt line from Morrow to Winder.
A 125.000 kilowatt substation will
be built at Winder.
A 41 mile, 110.000-volt line will
be built from Tifton to Douglas.
j Substations and connecting trans
i mission and distribution lines will
| be built at Doraville, Roxboro road,
l Cascade, the Airport and South
! Cobb Drive in the Atlanta area,
: and at West Mariett, Thomaston,
Trion, Leslie, and at Columbus’
'Tenth Avenue. Substations to be
enlarged include St. Simons, Wes
leyan, and Remerton; and, in At
lanta, Idlewild, Cheshire Bridge,
Lakewood and Davis Street.
Transmission substation addit
ions and improvements will be
made at North Tifton,, Terrora,
Warren ton, Moultrie, Morgan, Por
terdale, Milledgeville, Dublin, Ket
tle Creek north of Waycross, Tif
ton, Scottdale, Griffin, Baxley, Bre
men, Morgan Falls, East Point,
Plant Atkinson, LaFayette. Gor
don, Dalton and Moreland Way,
North Druid Hills, Grady and
Northwest in Atlanta.
EDWARD L. WRIGHT, Ranger
Slash and loblolly seedlings can
still be purchased from the Georgia
Forestry Commission for planting
this year.
“Although seedling purchases
have soared past the 200 million
mark for the 1958-59 planting sea
son, slash and loblolly pine seed
lings are still available,” the rang
er said.
Order blanks are available at the
Forsyth County Forestry Unit, at
the 9th District Office in Gaines
ville, and from Soil Conservation
and county agent’s offices.
Both species sell for four dol
lars per thousand. Orders up to
49,500 will be delivered to county
forestry units anywhere in the
state for a small charge per thous
and, or the purchaser may pick
them up at the nursery where
they were grown. Orders over
49,500 must be picked up at the
nursery.
Spillage and stickage losses of
milk are reduced by s x to eight
cents per 100 pounds by builk
handling, say economists at the
Agricultural Extension Service.
Retailers encourage visits by
foreign manufacturers.
LIVING IS
LEARNING
Dr. W. H. Kilpatrick says, ‘‘What
we live, we learn’,, he says “Where
we live, with whom we live, to
ward what ends we live these
determines what we learn”.
Most ol the living you and I
do takes place in communities. All
jof us are to a large degree the
! products of one or more communi
ties. We have learned what we
have lived in those communities.
Some people hold that you and I
are shaped exclusively by our in
heritances and by outside circum
jstances and that have played upon
us. We don’t believe that. We be
lieve that people are shaped by
their reactions to influences and
circumstances and that people can
control and determine their own
reactions. We believe that people
can through acts of their wills so
ally themselves with certain values
and spiritual ideals that they do
not have to be creatures of their
environment.
If we are going to understand
the education of people, we are
going to have to understand the
living they do and have done in
communities. A teacher, in Forsyth
County, can not understand the
learners without understanding
their conditions in the homes and
cmmunities in Forsyth County. For
one reason, although people can
control their reactions to their en
vironment, most of them do not.
For another reason, many com
munity influences are almost in
exorable in their results, poor
health conditions result in poor
health; a starvation economy re
sults in starvation. For a third
reason, community influences do
not stop at the schoolhouse door.
They come right into the class
room and affect everything that
j occurs there. The total community
I educates.
be Christian you must be Christian
If you want your community to
yourself. You must cooperate with
every worthy group in your com
munity too, in order to raise the
cultural standard of your communi
ty. Your influence is important.
You are a part of everyone you
meet. Are you on the side of pro
gress and righteousness in your
community?
” W. R. CALLAWAY
F. H. A. NEWS
On January 7, 1959 the Forsyth
County FHA met in the Cafetor
ium.
The devotional for the morning
was given by Susie Smallwood.
Gail Heard, Sue Corn, and Mrs.
White sang a song entitled “Do
You Know My Jesus”.
The Club received a letter from
Mrs. Poole, who is head of the
Welfare Department of Forsyth
County. She expressed her thanks
to everyone for all toys brought
Ito her to be given to children all
j over the county for Christmas.
, Over 700 pounds of fruit cake
were sold this year by the club
members. Each member had to sell
at least 2 pounds. Glenna McGinnis
was high seller with 91 pounds.
The Club’s Social chairman has
resigned; so therefore,' anew one
had to be elected. Patsy Holcomb
was elected to the office.
The program which was on
“Safety in the Home” was given
by Laferne Pruitt, Elizabeth Samp
les, Louise Wallace and Doris
Roper. The girls gave many help
ful hints about safety in the home.
The song leaders gave some very
interesting entertainment. Various
girls were called to the stage one
by one. They knew nothing of this
ahead of time. They were told to
do various acts and pantomine re
cords. This was enjoyed by every
one.
Pat Holcomb, Reporter
FORSYTH COUNTY HOSPITAL
AUXILLARY TO MEET
The Forsyth County Hospital
Auxiliary will hold its regular
meeting on Thursday, January 29th
at 7:30 P. M. in the hospital dining
room. All members are urged to
attend as the election of officers
for the coming year will be held
at this meeting.
Mrs. Ruth Long, Secretary
County Population 15,000.
jTHE DEMOCRATS IN LOS ANGELES
Top Democratic officials in the national capi
tal, and members of Congress, are pleased - in
most cases -with the selection of Los Angeles
as the site of the 1960 Democratic convention-
Strangely enough, and rightly or wrongly, the
site chosen always figures in speculation about
prospective candidates.
For example, it was assumed that Adlai
Stevenson would fare better in Chicago than he
will elsewhere. Likewise, it was thought that
Majority Leader Johnson, of Texas, and pos
sible Vice-Presidential candidate George Smath
ers, Democratic Senator from Florida, would
have been happy had the convention been held
in Miami.
Out in California, where the state has shifted
strongly into the Democratic column as a result
of last fall’s elections, the Democratic party
will reinforce its chances of capturing a huge
bloc of electoral votes by staging the conven
tion in Los Angeles in 1960. There is also the
possibility that a California Democrat will wind
up on the ticket in 1960.
It is argued, however, that Stevenson, John
son, Edmund Brown of California and Senator
Symington of Missouri, would prefer a western
site to an eastern one. On the other hand, it is
said that Senator Kennedy, Governor Meyner
of New Jersey and othei Easterners would be,
perhaps, in a more advantageous position at an
eastern site.
GEORGIA
Y. M. C. A.
WEEK
O'er the years, the initials
“Y. M. C. A.”, and their abbreviu;
ed form, “Y”, have meant many
things to many different people.
To people in the larger towns and
cities, “Y” might mean anything
from a good athletic program to a
place where a man can rent a
clean, inexpensive room.
The progrm and activities of the
National Y. M. C. A Movement
are varied, but thev a" ‘ al laimed
a i building a better life, especially
fer young people.
In the smaller towns of Georgia,
where physical facilities and full
time “Y” directors ar 1 not available
the work is carried on primarily
Through two fine organizations for
high school studenis They arc the
Hi-Y, for boys, and the Tri-Hi Y,
which is for girls.
The Hi-Y Movement is the result
of a natural need and it grew
spontaneously. “Y” Clubs for high
school students were in existence
as early as 1858, and more of them
came into being over the years
'The term “Hi-if”, obviously an
abbreviation of “high school “Y. M.
C. A.,” was first used in 1911.
Tri-Hi Y, the Hi—Y s counterpart
has a similar history of spontan
eous growth. It was organized of i
daily, however, in 1929 by J. L.
Fortney, in Dougles High School
here in Georgia.
Georgia today has some 823 Hi-Y
and Tri-lli-Y Clubs with a mem
bership strength of 32,000 and still
growing!
Knowing that the teens are cot:
fusing and difficult years for young
sters seeking to “pin down thci
religious beliefs, it is easy to un
derstand what a great service these
clubs can do for their members.
For their excellent work, these
young men and women, who aftei
all, are our only real hope for a
better future, deserve a work of
commendation. Award of commen
dation also goes to the State Y. M.
C. A. of Georgia which is respon
sible for the leadership of the “Y
Clubs in our State.
Gladysteen Garner, Reporter
Alpha—Tri-Hi—Y Forsyth
County High School
WAR ON CRIMJE SLATED
The Justice Department has
created four regional offices to as
semble data in connection with a
long-range nationwide program to
combat syndicated crime and or
ganized racketeering.
Reporting on this, department of
ficials say field offices are now
functioning in New York. Chicago,
Los Angeles and Miami.
Number 5-
Residents & Hi-School
Students Invited to
Join In Research
Residents and high school stud
enis of the Davvsonville area, will
be invited to join in scientific re
search to show the safety of
(lie area around the rigidly-guard
ed Georgia Nuclear Laboratories.
There is a certain amount of nat
ural radiation existing virtually
everywhere, Joe Mohrbacher, man
ager of tfie Radiological Safety
work of Lockheed’s Georgia Nu
clear Laboratories, said. The safe-
ty unit wants to know how much
! natural radiation exists in the
Dawsonvillo section before nucJear
experiments begin. Then, it wants
to keep an eye on it after tfce
laboratory goes into full operation.
“Our purpose in measuring the
present natural level of radiation
in tliis mountain country, and *r>
watching future levels, is to i>ove
that persons outside the enclosed
Georgia Nuclear Laboratories
grounds won’t he endangered by
radiation,” Mohrbacher said. “The
reactor is so shielded that danger
ous radiation cannot reach the
tenee surrounding the critical area.
However, to provide scientific
proof of its safeguards, the unit
plans to place monitoring devices
in a few farm homes within a
radius of ”0 miles of the labor
atory. Samples of milk and vege
tables from farms, and fish fiom
streams o fthis aiea will be testefl
for present and future radiation.
Asa joint enterprise designed
to give interested high school stud
ents some actual experience im
scientific work, the Laboratory wilii
invite high schools of this area to
operate air samplers to test for
radiation currently ex’sting in air
and later to observe the future lev
els.
All these safeguards i t the sect
ion outside the laboratory grounds
v/ill bo in addition to tiie monitor
ing done by scientists within the
laboratory site, Mohrbacher pointed!
out.
DEFENSE PKOBK
Vice President Nixon has indv
rectly invited a sweeping inquiry
by Congress into President Elsen
hower’s defense program. The De
mocrats are ready to give it a
thorough going-over.
Nixon, who has sat in on pre
paration of the budget, has told
fellow Republicans he is satisfied
Eisenhower’s military proposals
will stand up under the most min
ute examination by the Democratic
controlled Congress.