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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. ,