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Volume 50.
ST. VALENTINE’S DAY
Despite popular conceptions in various sec
tions of the country, there is no general agree
ment as to the origin of St. Valentine’s Day
as we observe it today. Perhaps the most logi
cal explanation of how the name Valentine
came to be connected with a day on which
lovers send tokens to one another lies in its
connection with a prevalent belief in Europe
in the Middle Ages.
Literature of this period, beginning about
Chaucer’s time, shows that the popular con
ception was that the birds began to mate on
February 14th. Thereafter, English literature
frequently mentions the day as a sacred one
for lovers. The name itself could have come
fro meither of three great Valentines.
One was a priest in Rome, another a bishop
in Terni, and a third, of which very little is
known. Perhaps various people connected var
ious saints with the day, but the day was al
ways February 14th, and the connection with
the lovers probably began during the Middle
Ages, when the popular belief about birds was
connected with human lovers.
From this beginning, the custom of observing
St. Valentine’s Day has grown into one of the
most beautiful customs, especially for younger
people, in the United States and elsewhere. In
this country, young lovers exchange Valentines
greetings and presents, and there is an air of
romance about the day which does the hearts
of young and old much good.
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CUMMING METHODIST NEWS
The Third and final session of
the study course, “Issiah Speaks"
will be conducted Thursday night
at 7:30 —9:30. Mrs. Clyde Mize and
the Rev. Horace Couch will lead
the two discussion periods.
A number of Methodists from
Cumming will go to Atlanta Feb
ruary 17—19 for the Fourth Quad
rennial Jurisdictional Convocation
of The Methodist Church in the
Southeast. Bishop Arthur J. Moore,
presidednt of the Southeastern
Jurisdictional Council, will preside,
and introduce speakers of national
and international prominence.
District superintendents, pastors,
presidents and secretaries of con
ference boards and agencies, con
ference and district lay leaders,
laymen, and women from local
churches in nine southeastern stat
es and Cuba are expected to com
prise the approximately 1,000 meet
ing.
Morning session wil lbe in Wes
leyy Memorial Church. Afternoon
session will move to First Church
for the Mid-quadrennial Promotion
al Conference. The convocation
was originated for missionary pro
motion but through the years has
come to include all of the interests
of the church such as education,
evangelism, and related endeavors.
There will be no prayer meeting
and choir practice on Wednesday
evening, February 18th due to the
historical drama being presented
at the Wesley Memorial Church at
8:00 entitled "The Unfolding
Glory”. This drama will be featur
ing a cast of 100 men, 60 young
people, 40 children and 22 women.
This drama was written especially
for presentation at this our Fourth
Quadrennial Convocation for it is
in recognition of these events: 175
years ago on December 24th a few
young men met in Baltimore and
by their acts organized the Meth
odist Episcopal Church. 20 years
ago on May 10th delegates to the
United Conference declared “Meth
odists are one people” and the
Methodist Church was bom.
Dulles will not attend Baghdad
Pact talks.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL OKU AN OF FORSYTH COUNTY * CITY OF CUM MIX.
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON. CHIORO lUCE, DAWSON. LUMPKIN. HAIJ. AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Find The Strength
For Your Life
A clergyman was once discussing
with a parishioner the need to
attend church.
The pastor wasn’t making much
headway. The parishioner kept in
sisting the church was fine for
some people but that he didn’t
need to go.
Finally the pastor fired a series
of questions at him.
"WJhen you get sick, what do
you do?”
“Go to a doctor or a hospital,”
replied the skeptic.
“When you need local advice,
what do you do? the pastor asked.
“Go to a jjudge or lawyer.”
“When your car won’t run what
do you do?”
“Take it to the garage.”
Whereupon the pastor said:
"Every answer you have given
shows that you go to a specialist
to take care of your needs. When
y’ou’re sick, you go to the hospital:
when you ned legal advice, you
go to a lawyer: when your ear
won’t run, you take it to a repair
man.”
“Why is it then,” the pastor
continued, “that you don’t place
the care of your soul in the hands
of a specialist —a clergyman,
whose profession has trained him
to care for your spiritual needs?”
The parishioner didn’t answer,
but he was in church the following
Sunday.
Your pastor, priest or rabbi
can’t help you unless you let him.
Every week he conducts a service
to take care of the most import
ant need of your life. As the Re
ligion In American Life Program
urges, “Find the Strength for
Your Life Worship Together
This Week.”
Unpaid Tax Notice
All tax receipts including interest
and cost will remain in the Tax
Commissioners Office until after
the tag season Is closed, as the law
requires all taxes must be paid in
order to get your tag. After April
Ist, by direction of County Com
missioners, all unpaid tax receipts
will be turned over to the Sheriff
for collection, which will mean
add!tonal costs.
VINNIE B. REDD, T. C.
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Miss Ludle Higginbotham, health
education specialist, Agricultural
Extension Service, says a good
breakfast is necessary for maxi
mum physical and mental effi
ciency during the late morning
hours.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Feb., 12, 1959.
School Attendance
Better Than Last Year
Attendance in Forsyth County
Schools is still running better than
last year. Percent of daily attend
ance was 93.1S in the High Schools
and 90.35 in the Elementary
Schools.
i Forsyth County High was best
in attendance, with 94.13 percent.
I Matt School was second.
The $5.00 KIWANIS award goes
to Mis. Dorothy Lord’s 10th grade.
These pupils attended 97.25 percent
of the time.
Question: who will win the sls.
KIWANIS award at the end of
the Eighth month for the best at
tendance for the year?
Come to school every day, boys
and girls, this may be the last
year of free education. Next year
it may cost you $600.00 plus trans
portation.
T. W. Nalls. Visiting Teacher.
One-sixth Of Members
Of The 86th Congress
Are Kiwanians
One-sixth of the members of
the 86th U. S. Congress are Kiwan
ians, according to Leon Boling,
President of the Kivvanis Club of
Cumming. These governmental
leaders, and Kiwanians occupying
important posts in the Executive
Branch of the government will be
honored by Kiwanis International
at the Sixth Biennial Kiwanis Con
gressional Dinner at the Statler
Hotel in Washington, D. C. Wed
nesday evening, February 18th.
About 800 people are expected
to attend the colorful affair which
will be “the world’s largest Ki
wanis meeting.” PrinciDal speaker
will be Kenneth B. Lohped, Toron
to, Canada, President of Kiwanis
International. Honored guests, in
cluding most of the Kiwanians in
the U. S. House and Senate, will
sit at a two-tiered head table be
fore a banquet room filled with
Kiwanians from throughout the
United States and Canada.
In addition to the Kiwanians in
the U. S. House and Senate who
will be on hand invitations have
gone out to Kiwanians Wilber M.
Brucker, Secretary of the Army:
Arthur E. Summerfielf, Postmaster
General; Hugh Milton TI. Under
Secretary of the Arm' 7 ; John Allen,
Under Secretarv of Commerce: and
others in the Executive Branch of
the U. S. Government.
The Kiwanis Club of Washington
D. C. will play host to the huge
Kiwanis meeting, as they have for
the five previous affairs.
Kiwanis President Kenneth B.
Loheed characterized the record
of Kiwanis—service in the 86th
U. S. Congress as indicative of the
desire for community service which
is the motivating force of Kiwan
ians everywhere.
RESOLUTIONS
IN MEMORY OF:
BROTHER WILLIAM .1. ORR:
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on
Friday, January 16, 1959, Brother
William J. Orr departed this life
and answered the summons of the
Grand Master of the Universe.
Brother Orr fulfilled the duties
of life extremely well, by serving
his country, his church, his neigh
bor, his Brother and his Lodge,
unselfishly and untiringly. He was
a veteran of World War I. He was
a faithful member of LaFayette
Lodge for more than 26 years.
The cherished memory of our
departed Brother will be enshrined
in our hearts and memory forever.
BE IT RESOLVED, that:
1. We extend his family our
deepest sympathy.
2. This Lodge stand a few mom
ents in silence in memory of our
departed Brother.
3. This resolution be recorded
in the permanent records of the
Lodge.
I 4. A copy of this resolution be
delivered to the family.
5. A copy be furnished the For
syth County News for publication.
Respectfully submitted, in Open
Lodge, this 3rd day of February,
1959.
COMMITTEE:
L. Wl Holbrook
Jess H. Watson
J. E. Blackstock
Commissioner of Labor
Ben T. Huiet Reports
Wage Record In 1958
Commissioner of Labor Ben T
Huiet reports that wages of all
non-farm workers in this area
helped Georgia maintain a wage
record of $3,750,000,000 (billions)
during 1958, equal to the record
breaking year of 1957. Workers in
insured employment numbered over j
698,500 in June 1958. Statewide in- |
sured wages were in excess of j
$2.4 (billion) in fiscal year 1358. I
a gain of over $25,000,000 (mil
lions) more than in FY 1957. The
information is revealed in the Com
missioner’s 22nd annual report to
the Governor and General Assemb
ly-
These facts point up the strides
Georgia made industrially last year
resulting in greater purchasing
power of the State’s residents, in
spite of the national economic re
cession last year. While some stat
es had as high as 15 per cent un
employment in 1958, Georgia’s peak
was only seven per cent.
“Last year, 1958, started out
with unemployment in an unsea
sonably climb, while this year,
1959, has begun with only the ex
pected seasonal slump,” Commis
sioner Huiet told Governor Ernest
Vandiver. “We are confident that
this year will see several new highs
in Georgia business, industrial and
agricultural worker income. Janu
ary 1959 has seen a 15 per cen’
lower unemployment rate than la -*
January.”
The Department of Labor’s cm
ployment service office servin'"
this county is located at 113 Nortl'
Green Setreet. Gainesville, Ga. It
also serves, Hall. White, Dawson
Lumpkin and Gwinnett counties.
This office, managed by G ret
Fran'"um, assisted employe” o'
this area in filling 2,063 non-bum
jobs in 1958. During this same
time, employers hired through the
local office workers to fill 272
farm jobs. The state total of non
farm job placements for 1958 i:-
101,884. while state-wide farm
placements totaled 141,738, a gain
of 12.501 over last year.
During the v"ar job Insunne
payments totaling over $42.0000ne
were made to unemployed Geor
gians. making 1958 Georgia’s pe’l
- in job insurance. Over 14/
per cent of all job insurance weeks
filed were for workers for whom
employers placed claims beero"
full-time work was not availab 1 "
and for which the workers reeeiv
ed wages less than their vveekh
job insurance amount. Pavments
ranged from one dollar to S3O per
week. Some 48.200 workers were
laid off by employers in large
groups because of plant shut
downs for various reasons: over
inventory, fires, completion of con
tracts and such.
During 1958 $122,027 in job in
surance were paid to unemployed
workers in Forsyth County. At
present there are 119 unemployed
[workers drawing job insurance on
claims filed in Forsyth County.
“In spite of the fact that 1958
saw the highest year in unemploy
ment in the history of job insur
ance (since 1938) in the state, the
purchasing power of our non-farm
workers was as high as at any
time in the past. The fact that
insured wages during the last fis
cal year were up over $25,000,000
(millions) means that our economy
is becoming more and more indus
trialized; that, generally speaking,
Georgia’s standard of living is
being raised and that our times
are characterized by an increasing
economic stability,” the Commis
sioner stated.
Huiet said last year he believed
1958 would be a good year lor
Georgia wage although un
employment' would likely be com
paratively high during the first
six months. .History proved his fore
cast to be accurate.
"Judging by information avail
able to me as your Commissioner
of Labor, I am confident 1959 will
see Georgia wage earners, Georgia
business and industry and agricul
ture reach new and higher hori
zons,” Huiet concluded.
When feeders are filled one-half
full, five percent of the feed is
wasted, point out poultrymen at
the Agricultural Extension Service
County Population 15,00 C.
FEBRUARY DAYS
February is a month with many interesting
days. Perhaps the day which overshadows all
the others is Lincoln’s birthday. That falls on
(February 12th. However, the young people may
think St. Valentine’s Day is more romantic.
The and iy between Lincoln’s birthday and Val
entine’s Day, February 13th, is remembered as
the birthday anniversary of Talleyrand, who
was born in 1754.
The battleship “Maine” was sunk on Febru
ary 15th, in 1898, and Susan B. Anthony was
born on that day in 1820.
The next day, February 16th, is remembered
for several things, Fort Donaldson surrendered
on February 16th, 1862. On that day in 1497,
if you follow your history, Philip Melanchthon
was born. The 16th is also the birthday anniver
sary of Cushing Eel Is, a missionary to the In
dians in the Northwest and the founder of Whitt
man College at Walla Walla, Washington. He
was once characterized by Dr. Theodore Mune
ger, a distinguished Congregational]st clergy
man, as “the greatest saint of modern times.”
Eells was born in Massachusetts on Febmary
16th, 1810.
The 17th of February is also a day of memory
as far as the War Between the States is concern
ed, for Charleston was evacuated on February
i7th, 1865. That was the twilight of the Con
federacy, and only about two months before the
surrender of Lee at Appomattox court house.
Hon. Phil M. Landrum
cimed Assistant
Democratic Whip
WASHINGTON, D. C.—Congress
man Phil M. Landrum of Jasper
is been named assistant Demo
cratic whip for the U. S. House
f Representatives.
The Ninth District Congressman
will be whip for the states of
Georgia and South Carolina. He
was elected to the post by the
°nrestntatives of those two states.
The assistant whip is in charge
of seeing that congressmen from
’he states he represents are on
the House floor to vote on bills in
’• hich the Democratic party is in
terested.
He also helps Speaker Sam Ray
burn make “nose counts” to deter
mine how the voting will go on
bills with which the party is con
'"-1 Mr Raeburn recently said
that his whips can come up with
a rought estimate of how a vote
will go on a particular measure
u bin two day. Within a week,
Rayburn says, they can give him
an almost hundred percent ac
curate count.
The Speaker relies heavily on
his whips to keep abreast of rank
and file opinion in party ranks.
During the coming year, he will
meet monthly with Mr. Landrum,
Majority Whip Carl Albert of Okla
homa, and 17 other assistant whips
in charge of other areas of the
nation.
Mr. Landrum has been assured
that although the whip post makes
him an official part of the Demo
cratic machinery of the House,
the party’s official line will not
be forced upon him or the other
assistant whips if it should go
contrary to their own beliefs.
The last person to hold the honor
from Georgia was Representative
Prince H. Preston of Statesboro,
who held the post sometime ago.
LOSING BATTLE
Two drunks got a room in a
hotel. After much trouble they
succeeded in getting into bed.
The first drunk said: “There’s
someone in my bed.”
"There’s someone in my bed,
too,” said the second.
“Let’s kick them out,” suggested
the first
“0.K.,” said the second.
Both drunks began to kick and
scuffle, and the first drunk kicked
the second one out.
"Hooray!” said the first. “I kick
ed him out.”
The second replied in a mourn
ful tone: “I wasn’t so lucky. The
guy in my bed kicked me out.”
‘That’s all right” said the first
drunk, “you can come sleep with
me."
Number 7-
Georgia’s Mayors
Behind
Constructive Program
For the first time in the State'S:
history, mayors of Georgia's cities;
and towns - large and small -
are united behind a progran of
constructive legislation.
Working together in the Georgia
Municipal Association, the dies
and towns are supporting two
measures they hope to see passed
by the current General Assembfty-
One is a constitutional amend
ment, which would permit the stale
to return funds to municipal got
ernments. This amendment wouJtf
be voted on by the people in 1960.
The other is a bill to protect
the franchise lights of cities and
towns which have their own munl
cipay power systems.
“There has Ireen some misinfor
mation, and seme misunderstanding
about our program,” said Elmer
George, executive director of the
Georgia Municipal Association.
"We are not fighting against
anyybody,” he said.
“Instead, we are fighting FOR *
constructive program, designtd to
help everyone in Georgia, rural
and urban, whether living in a
city or not.
“We are not trying to block or
obstruct any group, organization,
government, or anybody.
“The simple fact, is that the
majority yof Georgians now live
in municipalities. Most of them
live in small cities and towns.
“The shift of population has
brought problems which cities and
towns are trying desperately to
solve. The cilies and towns have
to do their share in providing
schools, hospitals, police depart
ments, fire departments, utilities,
libraries, recreation facilities, and
other services.
“The governing bodies of, cur
cities and towns know that hhey
must bear their full and fair
of the load, if we are to continue
progress for all Georgia. , i
"The towns and cities are not
seek unitlve legislation, or seek
ing to deprive anyone of anything.
They arc merely asking lor con
sideration of their many problems
and an opportunity to do their
part.”
LARGER GKAnB A HERDS
Dairymen at the Agricultural
Extension Service say the trend in
Georgia toward huger Grade A
herds is likely to continue. Dairy
men with small herds will find it
increasingly ydifficult to meet the
costs of equipment and machinery.
These costs wilt make necessary •
large investment per cow.