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The Forsyth County News Volume 50. City Of Cumming Gets Check From Georgia Power Company A check for $2,753.21 was deliv ered to the City of Cumming Feb ruary 23, 1959 by Mr. C. B. Curtis, Local Manager, of the Georgia Power Company. This payment represents three per cent of the gross receipts in 1958 from the sale of electric pow er to commercial and residential customers of the company under the Municipal Partnership Plan. The three per cent tax is paid by the company in place of occupation and franchise taxes and is in addi tion to the company’s property taxes which totaled $5,270,00 last year. More than $2,135,000 is being paid to the communities of Georgia for 1958 under the Municipal Part nership Plan. This is an increase of more than $117,000 over 1957. The company’s total tax bill for 1958 was $26,699,000. This does not include the sales tax which the company collects from its custom ers for the State of Georgia nor the sales tax which the company pays on materials used in its op erations. NOTICE FHA and VA requirements in re gard to installation of. individual seweage disposal systems and wat er supply systems on subdivision lots or on individual lots not in subdivision are cited by the Local Health Department and listed be low. 1. Soil test to determine the rate of absorption of all liquid wastes that would normally be discharged from any home through a septic tank into an underground drain field, tests must be made by a licensed engineer or a licensed surveyor. 2. A topography may of each in dividual lot in a subdivision show ing water courses if any, filled areas, rock outcrops, low or mar shy areas, ponds or lakes and the well if individual water supplies are used. This is essential information to the State Health Department and to the reviewing officials of the FHA and VA lending agencies. For example when soil test that are required are made and if it is determined that the soil does not absorb water like it should and located on a small lot with some gulleys or filled dirt or outcrop ping of rock, the amount of drain field required according to the test sometimes is more than the size of the lot will accomodate. Therefore anyone who is plan ning to lay out a subdivision into lots or planning to sell individual lots, should have the necessary details taken care of in the survey to meet the requirements as relat ed to the sanitary engineering as pects of getting individual sewage disposal systems and water sup plies too, where an individual water supply is involved, approved by the State Health Department. Mr. T. E. Nelms, County Sani tarian says that these requirements are protective measures for buyers and sellers of lots alike. A buyer would be at loss after paying for a lot that would not meet require ments. The person offering lots for sale would benefit by getting all of his lots approved at once so that anyone planning to buy a lot would have assurance that soil conditions and other related factors would allow for all present and future drainage needs, as well as for trees and shrubbery, to be located a safe distance from an individual sewage disposal system. Mr. Nelms says that only details that are administered through the State and Local Health Depart ments have been mentioned here. FHA and VA lending agencies should be contacted by those plan ning lots for sale for all of the surveying details. The Ladies’ Garden Club of Athens, organized in 1891, was the first such organization to name permanent officers, adopt a con stitution and by-laws and be con ducted according fo parlimentary law. OFFICIAL OKU AN OP POBSYTH COUNTY * CITV OF CUM MI.VO DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FOBSITH, FULTON, CHKRO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAUL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES. (City Population 2,500) - I4JII I CUMMING METHODIST NEWS The need for spiritual renewal is our daily reminder that the Church is increasingly yimportant in our lives. God is present with us here. TRY HIS WAY. Attend the Cumming Methodist Church re gularly. On Sunday, March Ist, the con gregation of the Cumming Meth oddist Church will be joining other church members throughout the state in observance of Methodist Expansion Day. This Day in The Methodist Church is like the Com munity Service observance in cities Cities give citizens a chance to give to various projects in one donation. Georgia Methodist Church es gives their members a chance !to "expand the kingdom” through one united offering for ten (10) worthy causes. The ten causes to which the funds go include: new church enterprises: new theology building; school and colleges; Wes ley Foundations; Assembly ground Paine College; Scholarships and loans; Methodist Information Week of Dedication; and hospitals. Goals for the two Georgia Conferences this year are: North Georgia, $199,- j 948; South Georgia. $141,792. | On Sunday, March Ist, the Chris : tian Workers School for the Bu jford Area will begin at 2:30 in the Buford Methodist Church. The following courses will be offered to Church School teachers, parents and youth: "Working With Kinder garten and Nursery Children”. Mrs. E. H. LeVert, Jr; “Working With Primaries in the Church j School”, Mrs. J. A. Gray; "Work ling WJith Junior Boys and Girls”, ! Mrs. Harry Mitcham; “Christian I Beliefs” for youth and adults, Dr. Claude M. Thompson; and "Un- Sam West. Monday through Thurs day, these courses will be offered in the evening from 7:30 until [9:30. The Woman’s Society of Christ ian Service will meet on Monday afternoon, March 2nd, at 3:30 in the home of Mrs. Dan Devine. The Wesleyan Service Guild will meet on Tuesday, March 3rd, at 8:00 P. M. with Mrs. John nPittard as hostess. Forsyth County Wins Over Swainsboro Shirley Roper, the tournament’s premiere dribbler and shooter, scored 42 points as Forsyth Coun ty picked off win No. 30 at Swains boro’s expense, 52—49. Jack Cres well got a well-balanced scoring attack from Rosie Rich, Pat Hod ges and Margaret Ramsey, who scored 22, 20 and 7 points. Forsyth scored only 11 fielders, but con verted 30 free throws, including 22 of 28 by Roper. FORSYTH COUNTY (52) Gilbert (5) F Holcomb (4) F Roper (42) F Welch ° Wilkie '•••• c ' Henderson SWAINSBORO (49) Hodges (20) F Rich (22) F Ramsey (7) F Kemp ° Hooks, S a Grimes ° .Score at Half: Forsyth County 28. Swainsboro 27. Subs: Forsyth County—Samples, Housley, Wallis (1): Swainsboro — Sconyers, Lewis, G. Hooks, Martin. ROPER ROPES CASS Shirley Roper, aided by Helen Gilbert, led Forsyth County girls by Cass, 47 —35 in Tuesday night game. Roper scored 27 points, giv ing her 60 points for her two tournament games, Gilbert scored 15 points. The first Christian baptism in America occurred in 1540 in the Ocmulgee River. Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Feb., 26, 1959. Young Scientists To Enter State Event At University of Georgia ATHENS, Ga. Four hundred of Georgia’s top young science stud ents are expected to enter exhibits Fair, to be held April 16—18 at in the 11th annual State Science the University of Georgia in. Athens. A special feature this yeyar will j be tours of the new Physics Build ing just completed in the Univer , sity’s $12,500,000 Science Center, i Five other buildings are rapidly nearing completion, j The State Science Fair of the Georgia Junior Academy of Science lis open to boys and girls from the | eighth through the 12th grades in | public, private and parochial schools in Georgia, and to clubs and organizations whose interest ,is basically scientific. Exhibits may ibe entered by groups or by indi j viduals—that is, two or more stud i ents may cooperate in preparing <a display. Sponsors of the fair are the Georgia Academy of Science, the University of Georgia, and indus tries of the state, in association with the Science Clube of America In announcing dates for the fair Dr. Gayther L. Plummer, general chairman, said entry blanks, rules and other information are being mailed to high school principals, county superintendents, and science teachers. Students unable to find this information locally may write to Dr. Plummer at the Department l of Botany, University of Georgia, Athens. Entries must be mailed before April 6. The fair consists of exhibits of work prepared and displayed by students. The displays may be collections or exhibits designed to show a bbi-ological. chemical, engi neering, mathematical or physical principle, procedure or industrial development. Thousands of teach ers, parents and other interested persons visit the exhibit each year. Purpose of the show is to dis cover and develop scientific ability i-n students, to encourage them to continue their studies, and to [ arouse public interest and appre -1 ciation of science teaching and the ability of youth. Two state winners will receive an all-expense paid trip to the National Ecience Fair. Another gets a set of encyclopedias. One boy will win a cruise aboard a U. S. Navy ship. Other prizes, ribbons and medals also are offer ed. Three of last year’s partici pants won scholarships in the Weestinghouse Talent Search. Students are encourage, but not required, to enter exhibits in local or district science fairs before the statewide event, to gain experience and recognition. Six major fields are scheduled for this year’s exhibits—life science earth science, celestial science, physical science, applied biology, and engineering. Displays could cover anything from agriculture, wildlife, or soil and water conser vation to nuclear physics, astro nomy, mathematics, or experi mental psychology. | Big Creek Community Club The Big Creek Community Club met February' 7 at 7:30. Meeting was called to order by Mr. Ben i Hulsey with 27 members present. | The Lord’s Prayer was repeated , together. Committee elected chairmans for this year. Planning & Improvement—Mr. Jess Watson Ways & Means—Mr. R. J. Kupper j Program—Mr. Jimmy Fagan } Church —-Mr. J. M. Boling Membership—Mrs. Everett Nalley Publicity—Mrs. Helen Watson Road—Mr. C. W. Boling Telephone—Mrs. Clo Herring j Welfare—Mrs. J. M. Boling ; Visiting—Mrs. Gene McGinnis Fair Booth—Mrs. Jimmy Fagan Moundry—Mr. Elbert Roper | Plans were made for our covered ddish supper in April. Refresh ments was served by Mrs. C. W. Boling and Mrs. Helen Watson. Cookies and Coffee and soft drinks were enjoyed by everyone , Bertie Fagan, Reporter Seven Science Students Will Be Selected First Conference on Atom Seven Georgia high school science students will be selected to attend the first national Youth Conference on the Atom as guests of the Georgia Power Company. The conference will be held in Atlantic City, N. J., April 30 and ■ May 1 under sponsorship of the nation's electric light and power companies. The purpose of the con ference is to present to a group of the nation’s most able high school boys and girls the peaceful applications of the atom and to help advance the study of science. The students will be chosen from among first place winners in the Congressional District Science Fairs or Science Congresses to be held in each of Georgia’s ten Con gressional districts during Febru ary and March. H. V. Bullock, science consultant of the Georgia Department of Edu cation, is assisting the company in distributing literature and appli cation forms. In addition to being a first place winner in one of the Congressional i District Sciece Fairs, the student I must be a junior or senior in high ! school and must have completed or be taking courses in chemistry or physics, or both. The selection of the seven students will be made by officials of the company. The Youth Conference will as sembble more than 500 persons at the Claridge hotel in Atlantic City, including outstanding representa tives of atomic science and indus try. John A. McCone, chairman of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commis sion, will be one of the principal speakers. 4 Ts ers9nal Matter With a Personal God The line in a Negro spiritual tells the truth when it says, “It’s not my brother nor my sister, but it’s me Oh! Lord, standing in the need of prayer”. Your father, Moth : er, brother, sister or anyone else can’t make your decision for Christ for you. Someone says, “It doesn’t make much difference, just so you jtr y to do your best to live right.” How wrong you are! How big a difference does it make? The difference is the dis tance between “eternal life” and "eternal death.” Dou you remember John 3:l6?—these words are the veryy ywords of Jesus. Do you believe that they are true? Did Jesus ever speak an untruth? All of His words are absolute truth— God cannto lie. Jesus said, “I and the Father are one”, He also said, “He that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out.” Wlhat we believe determines what we are. "Asa man thinketh in his heart so is he”, saith the scripture. How do you think to ward God?—Do you allow jealousy, hatrtd, envy, unforgiveness and pride to enter into your thinking as you think of God and man? We are to love God and man if we are true followers of Jesus. Any person, it matters not how high he stands in the yes of many people as a scholar, writer, theolo gian, scientist etc., if he thinks of God only as an abstract idear or influence he has departed from the plain teaching of the Bible. The God of the Bible is a personal God —not an abstract idea. God even took on the form of human flesh when Jesus was begotten of God and bom of the Virgin Mary. Jesus said, “He that denieth me before men him will I deny before my father which is in heaven, and he that ccnfesseth me before men him will I also confess before my mather which is in Heaven”. In Rom. 10: 10. “For with the heart (not just the head) man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation”. What a sobering thought to find the plain and obvious truth in the scriptures that every man is to give an account of the deeds done in his body. Your dealings with God through Jesus Christ is a per sonal matter —if you love God you will also love your fellowman. W. R. CALLAWAY County Population 15,000. Governor Issues Proclamation For National 4-H Week In an official proclamation on the observance, February 28 March 7, of National 4-H Club Week, Governor Ernest Vandiver urges all Georgians, "to support and encourage the work of this organization that has as its motto ‘To Make The Best Better’. “The leadership and citizenship j training which 4-H Club members i receive in this program is a valu asset to our Democratic way of life,” he declares. Governor Vandiver’s proclama tion points out that with 144,657 members, the 4-H Clubs compose Georgia’s largest youth organiza tion. Its purpose is to give equal training to the head, heart, hands and health, being conducted by the University of Georgia College of Agriculture Extension Service through the County Agricultural Agents and Home Demonstration Agents, along with the help of 16,982 local volunteer 4-H leaders who are leading mtn and women in the local community. The Governor’s proclamation al jso points out that Georgia’s 4-H Club members work with more than 450,000 projects to apply the latest farming and homemaking information in these fields. The 4-H’trs keep records, arrange dis plays and give educational demon stration in order to pass this in formation on to others. A. S. C. NEWS A wheat card was mailed to all farm operators with a wheat allot ment, to be returned to the ASC County Office. If you have not returned this card (no postage required) please entetr the requir ed information, date and sign and drop it in the mail. The planned starting time for measuring wheat is March 1, so if possible mail the card soon. If you have misplaced the card you may come by the Office and give us the information. March 2, 1959 is the deadline for applying for a New Growers Cot ton Allotment for 1959 crop year. If you would like to plant cotton and do not have an allotment, come to the ASC County Office and see if you can qualify by March 2. All operators of cotton farms in Forsyth County was mailed a ' notice MQ —24CN (A), showing j the cotton allotment, Choice (A) j and Choice (B) with applicable j price support rates for each. You j have until March 16, 1959 to make ( this choice. To make the choice j you may use the form mailed to j you or the County Office has a copy of this form, that you may make your choice on. The County Committee again this year is offering the service of premeasurement for cotton acre- I age or soil bank base crops. The I cost of this service is $5.00 per farm plus .50 cents per acre, if three (3) plots or less is being premeasured. An additional (barge of SI.OO per plot for all over three (3) will be made. If interested ! n this service make your request at the County Office on or before the closing datew hich is March 20, 1959. If you have a cotton allotment and do not wish to plant it, you have until April Ist. to re lease it to the County Committee. Then the Committee will be able to reapportion cotton acreage to farms that wants more acreage to plant. The deadline for release and reapportion of cotton acreage is April 1, 1959. CORINTH BAPTIST CHURCH PROPERTY Two Acres on Top of Knole at the end of road overlooking a big body of water on beautiful Lake Lanier. FOR INFORMATION SEE: RICHARD WILLIAMS THURSTON DAY WAYMON TATE Engineers at the Agricultural Ex tension Service report the number of electrified farms in Georgia in creased from three percent in 1935 to over 95 percent in 1955. Number 9. SSOO Arthritis Writing Award Offered The Russell L. Cecil Award tor science writing in the rheumatic diseases will in 1959, and for the first time, carry an honorarium of five hundred dollars, it was .uv nounced by the Georgia Chapter of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation. The award, named in honor of Dr. Russell L. Cecil, pioneer rheu matologist and consulting medieal director of tht Foundtion, will he presented to the author of the outstanding writing effort on ar thritis during the coming year, for newspapers, magazines or the broadcasting media. Purpose of the award, establish ed in 1956, on the anniversary of Dr. Cecil’s 50th year in medicine, the Foundation explained, is "to encourage the writing of stork* and scripts on the subject ol arth ritis. Entries will be judged on their effectiveness in stimulatine greater public knowleddge of the widespread problem of arthritis and the other rheumatic diseases-* Entries, which may be submitted by the author, editor, publisher or station representative, will be jml ged by a special committee to lie announced at a later date. Entries must have been broadcast or pub lished between January 1 and December 31, 1959. Rules govern ing the competition and application blanks are available from the Ar thritis and Rheumatism Found*- I lion, 768 Juniper Street, N. E. 'Atlanta 8, Georgia. ! If the winner of the awaTd lives j outside New York City, expenses will be borne by the Foundation to attend a special award presentation ceremony in New York during the j Spring of 1960. j Liberty National i Increases Capftr 1 i Names Joseph L. Lanier, Dirfcior Stockholders of Liberty National Life Insurance Company voted at their annual meeting to increase the company’s capital from $6 'million to $7 1-2 million. President Frank P. Sanford said that this ! move would further strengthen the company’s capital structure. The additional $1 1-2 million win be transferred to capital from the company’s surplus and win be represented by 750.000 shares of new stock. The new stock will be distributed to stockholders on April 17, 1959 on the basis of one addi tional share for each four shares held. The Directors declared a dividend of 34 cents a share on the company's stock payable March 10th to stockholders of record February 27th. In other action the stockholders elected Joseph L. Lanier of West Point, Georgia to the company's Board of Diro"tors. Mr. Lanier is President of West point Manruart uring Company, and a director of numerous other corporations inclod ine First National Bank of At lanta, First National B ank of West Point, and Continental Gin Com pany. The other Directors were an re-elected. They are Loo E. Basb inskv. Ehney A. Camp. Jr.. Charles T. Clayton, Jack D. McSpadden. Arthur M. Mead, Frank P. Sam ford. Frank P. S-mford. Jr., Yctta G. Samford, F. Page Seibert, and Frank E. Spain. Mr. Samford’s report to stock holders pointed out the the com pany's continued growth during 1958. Insurance in force increased over $l5O million to anew high of approximately $ 1 1-2 billion. As sets increased a record $26 1-2 million to over $262 million. More than half of this total was invested in residential mortgage loans in sured or guaranteed by agencies of the Federal government. The company continued to ex pand its operations, Mr. Samford said, increasing its field organiza tion throughout the company’s ter ritory and establishing new district offices at Fairhope, Alabama, and at Crestview and Fort Pierce, W*- Georgia was j-he first state to have a chartered college for women Wesleyan College at Macon being founded in 1839. Georgia was also the first state in which a college degree was granted to a woman.