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Volume 50.
Living Nerve Cell
Imitated By Simple
Electronic Circuit
Scientists at Bell Telephone Lab
oratories have put together on a
three —by—four—inch, printed—cir
cuit card a simple electronic de
vice that outwardly imitates the
living nerve cell, natur’s tiny build
ing-block of the nervous system.
Using a number of the inexpen
sive cells, research men have re
cently begun attempts to follow
nature further. Cell by cel, they
are building electronic systems
that imitate some of the simple
workings of nerve networks in the
eye and ear —the human end of
the communications chain.
So little is known about the
operations of the nerves that much
of this work is experimental and
intuitive. Yet the electronic cells
can provide anew avenue of ap
proach for scientists investigating
the functions of nerve networks.
“The similarities to biological
nerves are at best vague and ap
proximate,” explains Leon D. Har
mon, who initiated this project.
"But by working the problem back
and forth between the two dis
ciplines-electronics and physiology
we may learn more about how
the nervous system operates.”
The electronic cell delivers a
series of electrical pulses when
stimulated, just as a living nerve
cell does. It also fails to respond
under conditions where biological
cell would not respond, and can
show "fatigue” like a living nerve
cell: that is, slow down under pro
longed stimulus.
Because the four-transistor nerve
cell, designed by Robert M. Wolfe,
is inexpensive, many can be used
to build networks. Afterwards, the
Laboratory men can do what na
ture does not: disassemble the net
works and use the nerve cell build
ing blocks again in new combi
nations.
The nerve cells have been as
sembled with photo-cells to imi
tate the simple functions of nerves
in the retina of the eye: “on” re
ceptors that pulse on decreasing
light; and during receptors that
pulse on steady light. The cells
have been made to “see” a rapidly
flickering light as a steady one.
just as the eye sees a series of
flashes without flicker, as in mot
ion pictures and television.
Experiments similar to these
have been staarted with ear-models
by Willem A. Van Bergeijk.
1 So little is known about the
nervous system that even the key
to the code that nerves send to
the brain remains secret from neu
rological cryptographers. So does
most of the brain’s deciphering
equipment itself. Yet scientists can
describe the intricate routtes fol
lowed bv nerves through the hu
man bodv—an electric network that
outwardly resembles the telephone
system.
Bell Labs’ basic research in visu
al and acoustic communications in
clues the study of human inter
pretation of sound and picture,
another part of the “human-equip
ment” link between an actual event
and the personal appreciation of
it. Other projects range from the
study of methods of coding speech
and pictures to the construction of
“'intelligent” machines, such as
those that can recognize patterns.
Knowledge derived from such
basic research mav lead, as it has
in the past, to better and more
economical communications.
Health Department
In New Center
The Forsyth County Health De
partment moved to the new For
syth County Health Center on
February 26, 1959.
The Center is completely modem
and up to date and is now ready
to serve the public in this new
location.
The offices of the County Health
Nurse, Mrs. Grace G. Palmour ard
the County Sanitarian, Mr. T. E.
a i-p located in the Center.
The official dedication will be
sometime in the spring. The public
will be invited.
Georgia was the first state to
have a women’s foreign missionary
society, at Athens in 1819.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF GUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHICRO RLE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
A. S. C. NEWS
A number of inquires have been
received relative to payments made
to farmers under the acreage re
serve program an dthe taxable year
under which such payments are to
be reported. This notice is to in
form farmers that received acre
age reserve payments in 1958 of
the contents of a letter from the
Director, Tax Ruling Division, U.
S. Treasury Department on this
subject.
An acreage reserve negotiable
certificate received by a producer
represents a sum set apart for
him which is includible in his gross
income in the taxable year he re
ceives it, regardless of whether he
negotiates his certificate or, in lieu
of cash, either redeems his certi
ficate in grain or repays a prev
iously obtained Commodity Credit
Corporation loan in a subsequent
taxable year.
The above paragraph means if
you received an acrege reserve pay
ment in 1958, it was income and is
taxable for the 1958 tax year.
If you do not know the exact
amount of your reserve payment,
come by or call the ASC County
Office and wewill be glad to give
you the amount you received in
1958.
Dixie Youth Told
To Stay Home And
Help Build South
ATLANTA (GPS) Dixie youhh are
getting some good advice from
Georgia’s Erie Cocke Jr., a former
national commander of the Ameri
can Legion who is now vice presi
dent of the Delta Air Lines. It is:
“Stay home and seize the oppor
tunity to shape the future of our
region.”
Addressing a recent gathering of
Missisiippi State College students,
Cocke saidd:
"There is strength in conserva
tism that keeps alive the good of
the past and opposes change just
for the sake of change. We can,
if we take up the fight, success
fully adapt the new order to the
best of the old.
Hailing the South’s march of
progress through industrialization,
Cocke said the area is at last ap
proaching economic parity with
the rest of the nation.
"The tide of industrial and eco
nomic activity will open the door
to opportunities and achievements
which have been denied the people
of the South for more than a
century,” he said.
In the dawning jet age air trans
porta tion will help advance the
-South to national economic leader
ship, the airline executive predicted
Veterans Urged To
Keep Family Papers
Hang on to family documents
such as birth and marriage certi
ficates and keep them where they
can be readily found, J. M. Slaton,
Jr., Manager, VA Regional Office,
Atlanta, Georgia, advised veterans
and their dependents today.
Mr. Slaton said documents of
this sort may be needed to support
claims for veterans benefits, and
for other purposes.
These include military discharge
or separation papers, death certi
ficates, divorce decrees, and guard
ianship or child custody evidence,
he said.
"Preserve these valuable papers
carefully and make sure your fam
ily knowns where they are at all
times,” Mr. Slaton said.
He said types of veterans claims
in which the documents may be
needed include disability or death
compensation or pension and bur
ial benefits.
Important Notice
The Forsyth County Civil De
fense Unit will resume Regular
meetings at the Forsyth County
High School on Tuesday, March
10, at 7:30 P. M.
All members urged tt attend.
Also anyone wishingto join this
unit is welcome to come.
Cecil Merritt, Deputy Director
Roy E. Moore, Rescue Chief
Bonn, Paris sign accord to de
velop plane.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, March sth, 1959.
NEW GYMNASIUM
REQUESTED
Forsyth County Gymnasium
TOO SMALL —TOO OLD to serve
County-wide needs of today. Con
gratulations to our Athletic Coach
es and our fine boys and girls for
winning Top Honors at Macon
where approximately 1000 Forsyth ■
County people witnessed the best
Basket Ball Games ever played in
Macon, Georgia.
Forsyth County Board of Edu
cation held its regular monthly
meeting Tuesday at which time
several delegations came before
the Board asking for physical im
provements, at almost every school
in the county and in some cases
additional equipment and even ad
ditional class rooms. In every case
it was recognized that we need a
new and much larger gymnasium,
equal to that of adjoining counties
so that we too can keep up with
the growing demand for Basket
Ball and other athletics and can
even have facilities suitable to hold
Basket Ball Tournaments in For
syth County instead of having to
go to other counties for every
tournament. If we can get anew
County Gymnasium we can then
make eight to ten nice daylight
class rooms, so badly needed by
present overcrowded grammar
school out of the present gym
nasium building.
I Each P. T. A. and Board of
Trustees have submitted detailed
list of much needed repairs, paint,
better heating, more water, better
rpst rooms, part or all in most
every school.
The members of the County
Board of Education welcomes your
comment and or suggestions and
help.
The Board is certainly willing
and anxious to do all possible to
give Forsyth County Girls and
Boys equal or even better oppor
tunities to that of any County
in Georgia.
Donald Childers
Joins Extension
As Staff Editor
Donald K. Childers has joined
the editorial staff of the Agricul
tural Extension Service, University
of Georgia College of Agriculture
to fill a vacant position. His ap
pointment was announced this
week by W. A. Suttton, Extension
director.
Asa member of the State Exten
sion staff with headquarters at
Athens, Childers is primarily con
cerned with editing subject matter
publications issued by the Exten
sion Service and experiment stat
ions, said J. P. Carmichael, Exten
sion edditor— project leader. Chil
ders also is handling some field
assignments reporting news of Ex
tension work over the state, he
added.
Childers is a native of Oklahoma
City, Okla., but attended elemen
tary and high school in Arlington,
Va. He comes to the University of
Georgia from Stillwater, Okla.,
where he recently received the
Master’s degree in journalism from
Oklahoma State University. He
worked as a graduate assistant in
the information office t Oklahoma
State while completing require
ments for his grduate degree.
Earlier. Childers attended the
University of Missouri where he
received bachelor of arts and jour
nalism degrees in 1955. After com
pleting his undergraduate work.
Childers served two years in the
U. S. Army.
I Georgia was the first state to
send troops to the Confederate ser
vice. the Oglethorpe Light Infan
try, of Savannah.
j Georgia was the first state to
have a railroad commission estab
lished in 1877.
■ Georgia was the first Southern
state to sign the United States
Constitution.
I
I The first sewing machine was
1 conceived and perfected by Dr.
Francis Goulding, a Georgian.
! The nation’s first county-owned
hydroelectric plant was built in
Crisp County, Georgia.'
LAST CALL ON
COTTON
Monday March 16, Is the last
day operators of upland cotton
farms may elect a choice (IN
WRITING) between the 1959 (A)
and (B) allotments and price sup
ports for their farms. If a choice
is not made, the (A) allotment
automatically applies. Notices
should be filed by mail or in per
son at the County ASC Office
before the deadline. Office hours
are from 8:00 A. M. to 5:00 P. M.
Autos A Serious
Business, Casual
Drivers Are Warned
A Georgia trucking industry
leader deplores the casual attitude
that the average individual takes
towrd his driving.
Speaking in connection with the
trucking industry’s upcoming Cour
tesy and Safety Program, "Driver
Fitness”, Clinton L. Sanders, presi
dent of the Georgia Motor Truck
ing Association advised that “Driv
ing is a full time job, yet too
many people regard it as so in
cidental to their other activities
in life that they fail to give it the
attention it requires. Yet in today's
j heavy traffic, with its constantly
j changing conditions, a moment’s
inattention may lead to disaster.”
“Inattention,” Mr. Sanders point
ed out, “does not often show up
as a cause of accidents in official
statistics, yet it is known to be a
common basic cause. Numberless
instances of inattentive drivers and
driving can be observed on almost
any highway trip. An outstanding
example is the driver who holds
one hand loosely on the wheel and
wildly gesticulates with the other
as he carries on an animated con
versation with his passengers. This
is a common sight in car pools to
! and from work. These fellows may
j not always have accidents, but they
; are constantly having to make
i sudden stops to avoid them. Even
; worse is the driver who cannot
| talk without turning his head to-
I ward the person to whom he is
| speaking.”
Mr. Sanders urged every driver
to take an active interest in his
driving and to keep his full at
tention on it at all times.
How Much Do You
Know About God?
Do you remember reading the
account during the last World War
about four Chaplains, two Protest
ants, one Catholic and on Jewish
giving their life-belts to women
and children that their lives may
be saved. These Chaplains standing
together prayed as the ship went
down. One of those Chaplains was
the son of Dr. Daniel A. Poling.
Dr. Poling tells in “The Christ
ian Herald” of an incident in the
life of his son just a few years
before his death. He wrote his
father from college and told him
that he was coming home and
wanted to see him and talk to him
—the others didn’t know that he
was coming. His father met him at
the station. His son was not his
usual friendly self—instead of
hugging his Daddy’s neck he only
shook his hand. All the way to
the Church office his son said
nothing. When they came into the
office his son sat down in front
of his father’s desk and pointed
his finger at his father and asked
him the pointed question: “How
much do you know about God?”
After a moment Dr. Poling said,
“I don’t know very much about
God but what I do know has com
pletely changed my life”. How
much do you and I know aabout
God? How real is He to you?
Jesus Christ reveals God to us as
a loving God, as a God who cares,
as a personal God. Jesus said, “He
that hath seen me hath seen the
Father”. “I and the Father are
one". Do you trust Him as your
personal Savior and Lord? Jesus
also said, “I will be with you al
ways even unto the consumation
of the age”. The Holy Spirit lives
in the lives of His followers.
W. R. CALLAWAY
County Population 15,000.
THE FAR OFF PLACES LOOK
LESS EXCITING
By Pierce Harris
A FINE FRIEND at Cumming,
Georgia, has generously offered to
give me a lot on beautiful Lake
Lanier. I’m just about of the mind
to take it and put me a little !
cabin there.
When the pressure of living gets
too strong, I think of an open fire, I
the winter wind whispering around I
the corners and the cold waters
of Lake Lanier lapping at my
landing.
He tells me it’s a pretty fine lot.
Elevated, with a lot of trees and a
spring of cool clear water at the
back. I’ve never seen it but it
sounds mighty satisfying.
Sometimes when I've got a firt
going in my big fireplace and the
night shadows fall full upon the
front lawn, I sort of surrender to
the thoughat that it would be a
means of happiness to take that
lot, put a little cabin there and
“let the rest of the world go by.”
“Going places” is a pretty happy
way of life, I’ve been to and seen
the five places they say a man
should go to and see— ew York,
New Orleans, San Francisco, Lon
don and Paris.
I wouldn’t give a thin dime to
ggo back to Paris. I remember
well that when that plane lifted
its rubber feet from the runway
of that wealthy and wicked city,
I said, “I hope I never come back”
—and that’s the way I still feel.
I’d like to go back to London
and get my same cab driver who
took us to places Londoners never
saw. But as for the other places
in the countries overseas—l’d rath
er just sit by my fire and dream.
That old saying, “If you have
jtime to spare—go by air,” is a
little rough on the airlines. Most
'of the time they get you there
Korea Vets
Reminded Of
Mustering Out Pay
ATLANTA—Georgia Korea veter
ans were reminded this week by
Pete Wheeler, director of the State
Department of Veterans Service,
that the deadline for their muster
ing out pay is July 16, 1959.
“It may surprise you,” Wheeler
said, “but there are man Korea
veterans in Georgia who still have
not got-j-en their mustering out
pay.”
Some missed it because they had
been discharged before the law
authorizing payment to them had
been enacted in 1952, Wheeler said.
The Korea GI Bill authorized
mustering out pay for those with
active military service after June
26, 1950. In 1955, the application
date was extended to July 16, 1956.
Then, last August, the application
date again was reopened and ex
tended to July 16, 1959.
The mustering out py rate is
SIOO for veterans with less than
60 days of service; S2OO for those
with 60 or more days service with
in the continental United States,
and S3OO for those with 60 or more
days service plus overseas time.
Application should be made to
the branch of the armed forces in
which the veteran served.
Wheeler said offices of the State
Department of Veterans Service
will be glad to advise and assist
veterans in filing their application
if they are eligible.
P. T. A. MEETING
The P. T. A. of the Forsyth
County High School and the Cum
ming Elementary School will meet
Thursday March sth at 8:00 P. M.
A good program has been planned.
Election of Officers will be held
at this meeting.
There will be a Baby Sitter for
the care of younger children.
Everyone please attend.
Leon Boling, President.
When feeders in broiler houses
are filled only one-third full, a
mere two percent of feed is wast
ed, according to Arthur Gannon,
poultryman, Agricultural Extension
Service.
Number 10-
and back in a remarkably short
time. I’d much rather fly from
here to New Orleans for example
than risk the hazards of the road
by driving my car.
I can eat breakfast in Atlanta,
speak at a noon meeting at Mem
phis, a supper meeting in Binning
ham, and sleep in my own bed
back here in Atlanta.
But finally, enough is enough,
I think I’d make a pretty good
citizen of the Cumming area. My
taxes wouldn’t help much but I'd
try to be a good citizen and when
the fish are biting I’d invite my
city friends to come up and bring
enough supper for us all and we'd
have a good time broiling steaks
over charcoal and later sitting in
the moonlight talking about how
great a thing it is to be alive.
Pretty soon, I’m going way out.
to Los Angeles to preach at the
famous Old Trinity Methodist
Church for a few days. I’ve pro
mised to go and I gutss Til go
but sometime I wonder if they
couldn't get a preacher from closer
by and if I couldn’t do just as
much good by going back to Chfck
amauga or some other small town
where my coming would make a
greater splash than it will in Los.
Angeles.
Some folks call it “shrivelling
up” and other "settling down” but
there undoubtedly comes a time
when you want to pull in your
lines and spend more time among
the friends and places that have
I dug so deep in your heart.
I've got an invitation to go to
j London and preach but I’ve got a
lot of other things to do before
! I’ll go that far away from home.
I like that Lake Lanier iddea.
Forsyth Countv Girls
Trip Cartersville For '
State Championship
D. B. Carroll’s Forsyth County
girls, winning No. 32 against a
single loss, boomed to a 52 32 vic
tory over Cartersville, giving Can
roll his fifth state championshipL
Shirley Roper, to no one’s astonish
ment, scored 27 points to head the
decision, and Janet Henderson
turned in a sparking guard chore.
Carroll’s girls broke away from
the starting buzzer with vim.
points and Roper, Roper Fired in
six points, Helen Gilbert four and
Patsy Holcomb two in a 12 — 4 ad
vantage, which was lfr 8 at the
quarter.
Roper, of course, rippled the
nets for 27 poins, but she had
help from Gilbert, who scored 19,
and Holcomb, who hit seven.
Carroll, in accepting the team
trophy, spoke eloquently, “We've
been down here before as brides
maids,” he said. "Now we’ll enjoy
being the bride.”
Reinhardt College
Receives $5,000 Gift
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Franklin
of Atlanta recently made their
third annual gift of $5,000 to Rein
hardt College. The money is being
used to finance work scholarships
for students.
At Reinhardt a number of stud
ents, if hey so desire, are able to
earn a part of their college ex
penses, through the aid of donors
like Mr. and Mrs. Franklin. Stud
ents can earn from $8 to S3O per
month, working, according to the
job, on a contract of hourly ybasis
partime during the school year. In
addition, by working at the college
| fulltime during the summer, a
limitted number of students can
earn full financial support for the
school year.
Miss Audrey Morgan, family fife
specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service, ponts out that not only is
a person’s environment important,
but even more improtnat is the
way he feels about his environ
ment.