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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. I I! ; w n sf; m?j Sfi i 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. - - ■■ 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.