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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.