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Volume 50.
FORSYTH COUNTY
By CHARLOTTE BENNETT
Forsyth Copnty was created from
Cherokee County on December 3,
1832, ranking 83rd in order of
creation. It was named for John
Forsyth, a Georgian who served in
both Houses of Congress, as Minis
ter to Spain, and Secretary of State
under two presidents. The county
seat, Cumming was named for
Col. William Cumming, an Augusta
editor and lawyer.
About 12 miles northwest of
Cumming is an unhewn mass of
granite 8 1-2 feet long and 2 1-2
feet high, carved with Indian char
acters by an unknown tribe. About
12 miles south of Cumming are
several small mounds believed to
be graves of Cherokee Chiefs.
About five miles southwest of Cum
ming is a plott of ground that
pioneers settlers found covered
with Buffalo bones.
Gold was once mined in the East
ern part of the County. During a
severe drought in 1845 many farm
ers were saved from starvation by
working the gold pockets.
The Buford Dam, backing up
the Chattahoochee River to form
the 38,000 —acre Lake Lanier, is in
Forsyth and Gwinnett Counties.
Part of the Eastern section of For
syth is covered by the lake. Lake
Lanier has caused lots of people
to leave their homes and find new
ones. But people have co,me and
built cabins and houses close to
the lake. Forsyth County is very
fortunate in having such a beauti
ful lake.
Forsyth County covers 243
square miles tying with White
County as the 126th largest county.
The estimated population in 1957
was 10.900 ranking 90th in popu
lation. The county population now
is estimated to be 15,000. The lake
has attracted lots of people to
move to Forsyth County. Cumming
had a population of 1,264 in the
1950 census. Forsyth County has
good roads. The main highways
are U. S. 19 and Ga. 9,9 E, 141, 20,
306, and 53.
There were 1,735 farmers, aver
aging 67 acres, in the county in
1954. This number has increased
now.
The chief pro-ducts are cotton,
corn and poultry. Corn is grown
in every county in Georgia. For
syth County ranked second in live
stock and third in broiler sales in
the state in 1954.
Forsyth County has no railroads.
The elevation above sea level in
dimming is 1.316 feet.
Forsyth County is located in the
northern section of Georgia. This
geographical location affords For
syyth county an advantage of year
round pleasant climate. Winter
temperatures average about forty
degrees and summer around sev
enty-three degrees. The terrian is
rolling and has a excellent drain
age.
Forsyth County ranked tenth
among all the counties in the Nat
ion in the number of chickens sold.
On December 21, 1833 a little
over a year after the county was
constituted, a county academy was
created bv an Act of legislation.
Forsyth County in 1860 was the
first county to establish and suc
cessfully operate free schools.
There are ten schools in the coun
ty. The two accredited high schools
are the Forsvth County High estab
lished in 1955 and Chestatee High
established in 1932.
In 1837—38 the Cherokees were
herded together and set on the
infamous “Trail of Tears’ to their
new homes in Oklahoma. Two In
dian Chiefs who resided in Forsyth
County refused to move to “Indian
Territory.” They were Chief Saw
nee, who lived at the foot of the
mountain which bears his name,
and Chief Settendown. Many of the
communities and streams still are
known by names given them by
the Indians.
The prosperity of the county is
reflected in the new edifices that
have been built and others have
been renovated. The greatest num
ber of the citizens of Forsyth
County adhere to the Protestant
sects. The Baptist Church has a
much larger membership than the
Methodist and Church of God.
Citizens drawn to the locale by new
industries, Lockheed Aircraft at
Barrettsville, Buford Dam Project
and mercantile ventures have
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY A CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHKRO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT t Ol NTIES.
(City Population 2 500)
brought the Jewish and Catholic
faiths into the County.
A bond issued to build anew
hospital was voted on December 3,
1955. The new Hill Burton Hospi
tal was opened in August 1957. It
is called the Forsyth County Hos
pital; and is a thirty bed eight
bassinett hospital. The county has
seven doctors, one dentist, a public
health nurse, and a sanitati n en
gineer.
Forsyth County is the Ninth
Congressional District, the thirty
third State Senatorial District and
the Blue Ridge Judicial Circuit.
The Governing body is composed
of three Commissioners. It is under
the County Unit system of voting
in Georgia. Forsyth County has
two Unit votes.
Withe the completion of the Bu
ford Dam Forsyyth County took on
aspects of being one of the truly
great recreation centers of Georgia.
The lake has furnished deep water
for boating and islands and covers
that make fishing a plasure. In
1954 Sawnee Recreational Area
opened anew swimming pool and
picnic area in Cumming.
In 1912 the negroes killed a
white girl. One of the negroes were
lynched and two were hanged. The
whte people ran the negroes out of
the county. That’s the reason why
the negroes don’t live in Forsyth
County. There is no law saying
they can’t live in Forsyth County.
In 1950 the total population was
11.005 with all but 46 being white.
There are two or three negroe
families living at the lower edge
of the County. Forsyth County has
friendly hostiable people. Active
civic groups, and good shopping
areas.
SKIN DIVING
CLASSES TO
START TRAINING
The Forsyth County—Cumming
Civil Defense Rescue Sendee met
with a large group of interested
applicants Wednesday night April
1, at the Cumming High School to
organize a skin diving course to be
taught by Mr. George Krasel. Dir
ector of the Georgia State Skin
Divers Association.
Local officials, who are spon
soring this course, realize that it
is becoming a necessity more every
day especially with the Lake Lan
ier near by and the increasing num
ber of drownings in this vicinity.
The next meeting will be held
Wednesday night April 8 at the
Cumming High School and anyone
interested in this course can make
applications at that time or con
tact Mr. L. J. Hitt at Hitts Barber
Shop, who is the local director.
Cecil Merritt
Depputy Director
Attendance Record
Big Creek School had the best
attendance for the seventh month.
They made an outstanding record
of 94 percent. The Second and
Third grades of Mrs. Gladys
Vaughn won the $5.00 Kiwanis
Award with 96 percent.
At the end of April, the school
having the best attendance for the
vear will be awarded $15.00 by
the Kiwanis Club.
Selective Service
System News
REGISTER WITH LOCAL
BOARD NO. 59
Young man, if you are 18 years
old and have not registered you
cannot join any branch of the
Armed Forces until after register
ing with your Draft Board.
Your draft board for citizens of
FORSYTH COUNTY is located in
the Jackson Buildin, Cumming,
Georgia. Office days Wednesday
morning, Thursday & Friday. Your
record is your most valuable pos
session Keep it clean! Register with
the Selective Service System on
your 18th birthday or within 5
days thereafter, as required by law.
Don’t be caught short! Register!
That is the first step in establish
ing a clean military record.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 9, 1959.
Elks Complete
22nd Year of Service
To Handicapped
Exalted Ruler Otto Thornhill, of
Gainesville Elks Lodge reports that
he Georgia Elks have completed
their 22nd year of service to crip
nlc-d children in this state. The
Elks program centers around Elks
Aidmore Childrens Hospital in At
anta. This 64 bod hospital admits
both white and co'ored crippled
children who need medical treat
ment and whose families cannot
poy for it.
During the fiscal year just ended
512 children were admitted to the
hospital from almost every county
in the state. The to tal number
of patient days service rendered
was 15,626. The Elks also assumed
the financial responsibility for the
treatment of 20 children not treat
ed at Aidmore.
Aidmore also concluded another
year of successful cooperation with
the Crippled Children’s Division of
the Georgia Department of Public
Health. Several thousand children
were seen in the clinic operated by
the Crippled Children’s Division at
Aidmore. Transnortation exnenses
were paid by the Elks for 684
children who would otherwise not
have been able to attend the clinics.
The Elks program cost a total
of $203,152 last year. This money
was donated by members of the
41 Elk Lodges and their wives w'ho
are organized into 38 Aidmore
Auxiliaries. Gainesville Lodge con
i tributed $8,247.72 during the past
! year, and the Gainesville Auxiliary
! donated $1,409.72 to the program.
Otto Thornhill is Exalted Ruler
|of Gainesville Lodge and Roy J.
j Millwood is the Lodge’s represen
| tative on the Aidmore Board of
i Trustees. Mrs. Henrv Ansaldo is
{president of the Auxiliary and Mrs
jC. L. Payne is the Aidmore Chair
man.
Exalted Rultr Thornhill says the
| Elks expect to improve and expand
! their cripped children program
1 next year by the construction of
! increased treatment facilities at the
hospital in Atlanta. He pointed out
that the need is still great for
expanded services to the many
j children born each year with crip
! p'ing conditions. Exalted Ruler
I Thornhill states that Gainesville
| Lodge and Auxiliary are making
j plans t-o continue in full measure
J their generous support of this
! worthwhile program.
{Medical Research
Jn State Assisted
By Lec’erle Grant
ATLANTA—Continuance of import
ant medical research projects at
Emorv University’s School of Medi
cine has been assured with the an
j nouncement of a $21,000 grant to
! Dr. Vincent W. Steward by Lederle
Laboratories Division, American
Cyanamid Company.
The grant is at the rate of $7,000
per year for three vears. Dr. Stew
ard, a native of Clifton, England,
is on the faculty o fthe Department
;of Anatomy at Emory. The grant
will enable him to continue teach
ing anatomy and to further pursue
research work in the aging of
animals, new operations on the
joints and other fields.
Dr. Steward is author of a con
tribution in a book on aging writ
ten by Dr. G. H. Bourne, head of
Emory’s Department of Anattomy
and to be published soon. He also
jis a member of the Royal College
of Surgeons in England.
Dr. Bourne termed the Lederle
grant as one which will enable his
: department to keep “a fine and
I valuable teacher” and said tht
j such grnts by private industry are
highly importnat. “particularly in
leases in which budgeted funds are
: unavailable”.
! Dr. Steward is one of 13 out
standing young medical school fa
culty members who will share
$279,000 in grants under the Led
erle program this year. Purpose of
the awards, according to Dr. Ban
jamin W. Carey, Lederle’s Medical
Director, is to strengthen medical
education by “providding recogni
tion and incentive for outstanding
young teachers and scholars.”
Space conquest seen as great
spiritual force.
Jayces Contestants
F'aees In "Miss Lake
Lan’er” Contest
On Saturday evening April 4th
turn of Forsyth Counties lovely and
talented girls represented the For
syth County Jaycees in the “Miss
Lake Lanier” Beauty Pageant held |
at the beautiful High School Audi- '
torium in Buford, Georgia.
Representing the Forsyth County
Jaycees wete Miss Jane Carroll,!
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. B. |
Carroll of Cumming and Miss Don
na Phillips, daughter of Mrs. Doro- j
thy O. Wills. These two very tal- !
ented young ladies w'ere among 13 j
other contestants in the Beauty !
; Pageant. During the afternoon they '
' rode in a parade in a 1959 Ford j
Convertible contributed for the oc-'
casion by Otwell Motor Company
■of Cumming and in the nice judg
ing Miss Donna Phillips was third
I runner-up. Miss Anita Allen of Bu
| ford was crowned “Miss Lake Lan
i ier” 1959.
I The Forsyth County Jaycees feel
that Miss Carroll and Miss Phillips
, very successfully represented the
1 beauty and the talent possessed by
so many of Forsyth Counties young
j ladies and Cumming and Forsyth
• County can certainly be proud of
| the dignity and the poise displayed
by the two girls.
The entering of these two young
ladies is just one of the many pro
jects the Forsyth County Jaycees
are sponsoring during the 1959
year. During the month of April a
teen-age rodeo will be held at the
Forsyth County High School Play
ground to select a local entrant to
compete with the finalist from all
over the State of Georgia at Gain
esville on May 3rd at the Municipal
Airport.
Mr. Robert Otwell is Chairman
|of the ’aycee Committee on Teen
j age Rodeo and any contestant may
receive their entry blank by con
tacting him.
Jaycee Meeting On
| Thursday night, April 9
j The Forsyth County Jaycees will
hold their regular by-monthly meet
! ing at the S & M Cafe at 7:30 on
| Thursday April 9th.
i At this meeting the entire mem
j bership is urged to be present.
' Many committee reports are to be
i heard from and particular interest
is focused on the committee work
ing toward the development of the
Forsyth County Park.
The Forsyth County Jaycees have
reserved from the Forsyth County
Commissioners a lease on the 129
acres Forsyth County Park and
are planning to develop the park
into a recreational area second to
none in the State of Georgia. Al
ready plans hve been frmulted nd
re n the preess f beng erred ut
fr develpment of a man made
beach using ocean sand and a
| trailer park to accomodate 20
trailers, complete with lighting,
sewerage and w'ater facilities. In
addition to this a mooring area for
boats, a boat dock and if arrange
ments can be completed a floating
boat dock will be constructed dur
ing the summer by Mr. Edward
Wright of Tulsa, Oklahoma who
has pioneered in the floating boat
docks in the United States. If and
when this is completed it will be
constructed to seat 200 persons
with a built in cafeteria and sup
ply room to accomodate any type
of fisherman and will be so con
structed that complete relaxation
can be had along with the fishing.
Particular stress will be made for
the ladies to relax and enjoy them
selves while fishing or riding
whichever they prefer,
j At this meeting on April 9th
all 41 of the Jaycees should make
their plans to attend, keeping up
the progress they have made dur
ing the 1959 year.
| Forsyth County Jaycees have
won the distinction of having the
largest oercentage increase of any
Jaycee Club in the State of Georgia
during this calendar year, increas
ing from 19 members to the pres
ent 41.
Approximately three-fourths of
the Georgia families own sewing
machines, says Miss Avola White
sell, clothing specialist, Agricultur
al Extension Service.
County Population 15,000
Robert E. Gross, Ga.
State C. of C. Sneaker
Friday, April 24
i
Robert E. Cross, chairman of the
board dand chief executive of the
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation and j
Georgia’s largest employer, will he ]
the Banquet Speaker for the Geor |
gia State Chamber of Commerce j
Annual Meeting and Congress of
Georgia Business in Atlanta, April
24.
“Mr. Gross is an outstanding |
leader in American civil and mili- |
tary aviation,” Edgar J. Forio, j
president of the State Chamber )
said, “for three decades his planes
consistenly have made avaiation
history.” His subject will be
“Georgia’s Place in the Atomic
Age.”
Under his leadership, Lockheed
has grown from a tiny establish
ment in a rental brick building
with less than 60,000 feet of fact
ory space in 1932 —to a nearly
13,000,000 square-foot industrial
facility in California and Georgia
where jjets, propjects, propeller
planes and missiles cram product
ion linos and research projects
fill its laboratories.
“As the jet age dawned,” Forio
said, “Gross plunged Lockheed in
to it with the new Propjet Electra,
the first United States turbine
powered airliner to be ordered off
the drawing boards and into ser
vice.”
The Banquet is scheduled for
7 p. m. in the Biltmore Exhibit
Hall.
Georgia’s STAR teachers and
STAR students will be honored
earlier at the Congress luncheon.
The names of the State’s top stud
ent and that of his or her STAR
teacher will be announced during
the luncheon program,
j Speakers for the morning ses
sions include Dr. Ernest Swanson,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Industrial Research Department
who will speak on "Using Research
to Get More Industry,” Abit Mas
sey, Secretary, Georgia Department
! of Commerce, speaking on “A New
Look at Your Department of Com
merce,” and Carling Dinkier, Jr.,
Director, American Hotel Associa
tion, whose subject is "Capitalizing
on the Civil War Centennial.”
All sessions of the Congress of
Georgia Business are to be held in
the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel. Re
servation may be arranged through
the Georgia State Chamber of
Commerce office, 90 Forsyth Build
ing, Atlanta, Ga.
Shipment of forest tree seedlings
to Forsyth County landowners bv
the Georgia Forestry Commission
has been completed for the 1948-59
planting season. “276,000 seedlings
| have been received by 35 land
| owners in Forsyth County during
ithe 1958-59 sripping season.
Forestry Commission Director
Guyton DeLoach said in Macon
this week that approximately 309
million forest tree seedlings of all
species were shipped to approxi
mately 9,000 Georgians in 1958-59
This was the greatest number pro
duced and delivered to state land
ow’ners in the Commission’s history
“The Forestry' Commission plans
to grow 250 million seedlings in
1959-60. Chief of Reforestrattion
Sanford P. Darby said. The reduct
ion in seedling production is due
to the one-year growing and one
year cover crop rotation practiced
by the Reforestation Department of
the Forestry Commission.
Singing Notice
The Forsyth County Sineing
Class meets at Pleasant Grove
Methodist Church each Thursday
night at 8 o’clock. We cordially
invite everyone to come and be
with us.
Harold Grogan, President
Ernest Phillips, V. President
singing notice
There will be a singing at Haw
Creek Baptist Church Sunday night
April 12 for the young and Old.
Come out and join us.
Number 15.
Petit Jury Drawn For
March Adjournment
Term, 1959
1. O. E. Pruitt
2. Roy Holtzclaw
3. Cleland Hansard
4. Hulet Milford
5. L. P. Green
6. Charles Castleberry
7. Lewis McGinnis
8. J. W. Howard
9. L. A. Wheeler
10. George T. Benson
11. Pierce English
12. R. L. Brogdon. Jr.
13. Rov Gibson
14. William Fagan
15. E. G. Watson
16. Hubert Nuckolls
17. Roy Thomas
18. T. Toy Francis
19. Maynard Mashburn
20. Roy Heard
21. Clyde Mathis
22. Troy F. Bagley
23. Rupert Williams
24. Cliff Johnson
25. Luther Karr
26. M. C. Heard
27. J. L. Robbs, Jr.
28. E. L. Terry
29. J. L. McPherson
30. J. A. Otwell
31. Lawrence Gordon
32. Arnold J. McClure
33. W. D. Buice, Sr.
34. Robert A. Barron
35. Clarence Holbrook
.36. Ralph Phillips *841)
137. Mark Porter
38. Morris L. Wood
39. J. R. Chumbler
40. John E. McGinnis
41. Clyde Mize
42. Eugene Lummus
43. Major Tinsley
44. H. W. Thompson
45. James J. Poss
46. Leon Evans
47. E. C. Wallace
148. John D. McGinnis
49. R. A. Patterson
50. T. A. Pilgrim
51. W. J. Hardin
52. J. C. Cates, Jr.
53. Milton Patterson
54. J. C. Burdett
55. Clyde Garner
56. Morris Raines
57. George W. Phillips
58. Cristie Cantrell
59. Claude Fouts
60. Clyde Bannister
Mrs. Mana Taylor
loins Staff Of
Extension Service
Mrs. Mana Taylor has joined the
staff of the Agricultural Extension
Service, University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture, as a nutrition
ist. Extension Director W. A. Sut
ton said Mrs. Taylor fills a vacant
position.
The major part of Mrs. Taylor’s
time will be devoted to assisting
home demonstration agents and
Home Demonstration and 4-H Club
members conduct educational pro
grams and projects aimed at im
proving the family diet.
Miss Eddye Ross, state home
demonstration leader, said, "Mrs.
Taylor also will be called on fre
quently to present demonstrations
and radio and television programs.
She will stay in close touch with
research being conducted by the
U. S. Department of Agriculture
as well as that at the various ex
periment stations and will dissemi
nate this information to homemak
ers, through home demonstration
agents.”
Mrs. Taylor is a native of Monti
cello, Arkansas. She attended high
school there and received a Bache
lor of Science in Education degree
from Arkansas State Teachers Col
lege and a Master’s degree in home
economics from Columbia Univer
sity in 1952. She has done work
toward her Ph D degree in nutri
tion at Texas Woman’s University
and at Missouri Univesity.
Before coming to the Georgia
•Extension Service Mrs. Taylor has
held these positions: teacher of
home economics at Blytheville High
School, Blytheville, Arkansas; nu
tritionist, Arkansas State Board of
Health, Little Rock; teacher of
home 'igonomics, Arkansas State
Teachers College; nutrition con
sultant. Missouri State Department
of Education, and p.ofessor of nu
trition at New Mexico A & M Col
lege. ,