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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.