Newspaper Page Text
The Forsyth County News
Volume 50.
HI-Y &. TRI-HI-Y
CLUBS ANNUAL
PICNIC, APRIL 18
The annual District YMCA picnic
for Hi-Y and Tri-Hi-Y clubs in
North Georgia will be held on Fort
Mountain, near Chatsworth, on
Saturday, April 18, from 10 a. m.
to 3 p. m., according to Kemp
Mabry, district YMCA secretary.
Murray County “Y” clubs are the
hosts to the event which annually
attracts hundreds of Hi-Y and Tri-
Hi-Y youth.
Christian Life Conference
East and West Reginn Christian
Life Conference will be held at
the Cherokee High School, Canton,
on Saturday, April 25, under joint
auspices of Cherokee Y Council
and the State YMCA.
Election of vice-president and
YMCA World Service secretary in
the east region and vice-president
and corresponding secretary in the
west region will climax the pro
gram.
Morning theme is “The Power
is Ours To Dream, To Dare, To
Do.” A forum led by candidates
for District Most Influential Hi-Y
Boy and Girl Award will be held
in the afternoon under general
topic of “Teenager, Christ is for
You.”
Closing dedication service will
use the 1959-60 theme: “I’ll Walk
with Christ —from This Day On.”
Approximately 300 delegates are
expected.
The conference opens with re
gistration at 8:30 a. m. and will
adjourn at 5:30 p. m.
East region clubs invited are:
Blue Ridge, Buford, Canton, North
Canton, Copper Basin. Hiawassee.
Cumming, Dahlonega, Ellijay, Gain
esville, East Hall, South Hall, Jas
per.
West Region clubs invited are:
Bowdon, Breman, Carrollton, Cedar
town, Purks, Benedict. Dallas, Rock
mart, Tallapoosa, Villa Rica.
JIB OPENINGS
The Board of U. S. Civil Service
Examiners for the U. S. Post Office
Atlanta, Georgia, announces an
open competitive examination for
Career or temporary appointment
to the positions of substitute clerk,
and substitute carrier in all first,
Second and Third class post offices
in the following counties:
Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb,
Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette,
Forsyth, Fulton and Gwinnett.
Contact your Local Postmaster
for additional information. Appli
cations should be filed with the
Board of U. S. Civil Service Exami
neers, U. S. Post Office, Old Post
Office building, 57 Forsyth Street,
N. W. Atlanta 4, Georgia.
Auditorium Under Way at State's FFA-FHA Camp
Georgia leaders break ground for the new $50,000 auditorium to be built at the state FFA-FHA
ramp near Covington under sponsorship of the Georgia Power Company. The group participating
in the ground-breaking ceremonies includes, left to right, Miss Inez Wallace, state supervisor
of the Future Homemakers organization; W T . R. Bowdoin, former chairman of the camp develop
ment committee and first president of the Georgia Future Farmers group; T. G. Walters, state
supervisor of vocational education, and John J. McDonough, president, Georgia Power Company.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OP FORSYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUMMING
DEVOYED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHiCRO KEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HAI.L AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Bank Of Cumming
Announces Improve
'ment In Services
OPEN 9 TO 3
i—
! In a step designed to prov.de
additional services to the majority
of its many customers the Bank
of Cumming announces that ef
fective May 1, 1959 the hours for
transacting business will be to
open promptly at 9:00 o’clock A.
|M. and close promptly at 3:00
o’clock P. M., with the exception
of Wednesday. The bank will con
tinue its present policy to close at
noon on Wedndesdays.
The bank has a night depository
located on Dahlonega Street side of
the building and invites their cus
tomers to avail themselves of this
facility when desiring to make
deposits at any hours other than
those mentioned above.
This is another move by the
Bank of Cumming to provide the
best type of banking service to the
best type of banking service to its
customers at all times.
1 . ~ ;
rVsfr-ict Judging
Of Pasture Lands
Is April Project
Livestock farms in 60 counties
over the state will be visited by
district committees during the last
two weeks in April in district jud
ging for the 1959 Georgia Grazing
System and Feed Production pro
gram, J. R. Johnson, agronomist—
project leader Agricultural Exten-
I sion Service, University of Georgia
College of Agriculture, announced
this week.
Johnson said that the nurnose
of the program is to encourage
production of pastures with high
carrying capacity and to recognize
those farmers who have been
workking with the Extension Ser
vice over the years in developing
good grazing and feed programs.
District committees will visit
farms selected as county winners
and rate them Excellent, Very
Good or Good, acording to Dr.
Irvin Wofford, Savannah, who is
chairman of the Grazing System
committee of the Georgia Plant
Food Educational Societv which
sponsors the program. Extensior
county agents have named commit
tees to select county winners and
Extension district agents are in
charge of district judging, Wofford
said.
Winners in the six Extension dis
tricts will be honored at District
Fertilizer meetings to be conduct
ed by Extension in early jujly.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, April 16, 1959.
Vandiver Decrees
Spring Clean—Up
Time April 19 25
ATLANTA—Spring Clean-Up Time
in Georgia this year will be ob
served during between April 19-25,
Governor Ernest Vandiver has de
!creed.
In his proclamation issued at
the request of Safety Fire Com
missioner Zack D. Cravev, Gover
nor Vandiver urges “every citizen
ito cooperate in all clean-up and
fire prevention endeavors during
i this period as well as in months
to follow.”
In making this exhortation, the
Chief Executive pointed out that
the “continued loss of life and the
destruction of property by fire
caused from carelessness and un- j
tidiness becomes more and more a
direct challenge to every citizen.”
IHe stressed that statistics have
'shown a clean and tidy business
seldom burns, and that an active
, and widespread observance of
Spring Ciean-Up Time gives a help
ful impttus to the continuing ef
forts on state government and
civic organizations for greater se
curity from fire.
Commissioner Cravey joined Gov
ernor Vandiver in insisting on
cooperation.
"Formerly, Spring Clean-Up Time
was more or less a name only
celebration in Georgia,” he said.
“But now I am happy to report
that its observance is widespread
even in our smallest communities,
thanks to a general alertness on
the part of our people in regards
to fire saftty.”
S’ngGnu Notice
The Forsvth County Singing
: Clas mee*s at Pleasant Grove
j 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
7 ORSYTH COUNTY
•OREST FIRE
•BOX SCORE
The Forsyth County Forestry
! Unit released the following report
on the number of forest fires de
tected and suppressed during the
week ending April 12.
Forest fires —4
\cres burned—6 1-2
Prescribed bburns—l2
Fires since Jan., 1, 1959 —28
Fires same period 1958 —17
Acres lost since Jan., 1, 1959—101
Acres lost same period 1958 —50
Housing Plans Ruined
If Mixed, Hearing Told
ATLANTA (UPI) Three nuhlic
housing olficials cautioned the U.
S. Civil Rights Commiss'on today
that the public housing program
in Atlanta would be destroyed if
it is forced to become racially in
teerated.
The officials testified after May
or William B. Hartsfield also en
dorsed continuation of segregated
facilities here.
Three members of the Civil
Rights Commission conducted the
hearing, one of a series being held
in the nation on the housing issue.
M. B. Satterfield, executive dir
ector of the Atlanta Housing Au
thority, said that integrated public
housing would create "chaotic”
conditions.
John O. Chiles, chairman of the
authority, said that if the govern
ment enforces an integration clause
in public housing laws it would
“damage if not destroy good race
relations" here.
1 "It would result in chaos and
tragedy,” Chiles said. “Good race
relations are more important than
anything that could be gained by
integrated housing. We are simply
not ready for integration.”
Cecil Alexander, chairman of the
citizen advisory committee for ur
ban renewal housing, said that
program “must work in the nevir
onment in which it finds itself.”
Hartsfield stressed public opinion
as a major factor in handling re
sidential problems. Gainesville
Daily Times, Saturday April 10.
Crisp Countain
Aims For Three
ißales Per Acre
! Three bales per acre is the goal
W. H. Williams, Crisp county cot
ton grower, has set for himself in
1959. according to W. G. Nix, coun
ty agent in Crisp county.
Growing large yields is no novel
ty to Mr. Willis,, the county agent
pointed out. In 1957 he produced
1,200 pounds per acre and last vear
he came close to the three-bale
average with 1,449 pounds of lint
per acre on 24 acres.
Mr. Williams’ 1958 yield was one
of the highest on record in the
state, according to D. 1.. Branyon.
agronomist of the Universitv of
Georgia Agricultural Extension
Service.
This Crisp county farmer, he
said, follows good cotton production
practices, uses a lot of fertilizer,
side dresses heavilv and does a
good job of controlling cotton in
sects.
In producing the high yield in
1958 Mr. Williams used 1,000
pounds of s—l fertilizer at
planting and sidedressed five weeks
i later with 142 pounds of actual
I nitrogen per acre. He made eight
I shallow cultivations and poisoned
his cotton fields 20 times.
The cotton was harvested by
hand during “perfect” weather and
Mr. Williams said his grades were
the highest he has ever had.
Mr. Branyon pointed out that
■ Mr. Williams is demonstrating
j good cotton production practices to
( other farmers in his area and pre
dicted that many o ft hem will be
. following his methods this year to
. produce the same kind of yields.
! ANNUAL SPRING TOUR AT MT.
j BERRY, WED., APRIL 22.
MOUNT BERRY, Ga., The An
nual Spring Tour and Open House
at The Berry Schoolls will be held
Wednesday April 22, from 2 to 5
p. m., president John R. Bertrand
announced today. He extended an
invitation to the public to attend.
In conjunction with the ttour,
the annual meeting of the Rome-
Floyd County Camber of Com
merce will be held Tuesday evening
April 21, in Ford Dining Hall on
the Berry campus. Approximately
500 persons are expected to attend
the dinner, hear the speaker for
the occasion and observe the in
stallation of officers and directors
for the next year.
The April 22 spring tour will
take in the Memorial Librarv’s
new addition. Mount Berry School
for oßvs Campus, the Old Mill.
Frost Memorial Chapel, the Ford
Campus, Roosevelt Cabin, the ori
ginal Log Cabin Campus, Oak Hill
and other scenic points of interest.
County Population 15,000
’ m\ rr* - *-■
n
A
... j
lia
CUMMING METHODIST NEWS
The Gainesville District Youth
Rally was held at the First Meth
odist Church in Buford on Monday
night, April 13th, at 8:00 p. m. The
program for the evening was a
drama, “All of Life a Sacred Trust”
centering in a courtroom with the
Ideals versus the Practices of the
Methodist Youth Fellowship on
trial. The Conference Drama Team
presented the drama.
The Vacation Church School In
stitute for teachers and workers
held at Lawrenceville on April 18th
in the Methodist Church will be
Saturday, from 10:30 AM until
2:30 PM. Those attending this meet
ing may contact Rev. Couch for
pooling transportation.
The Annual Woman’s Society of
Christian Service meeting will meet
in Athens, Georgia on April 21
through the 23.
The Union MYF Sub-District will
meet at Suwanec Methodist Church
on Thursday, April 16th, at 7:30
P. M.
WELCOME to Mr. and Mrs. Son
ger and their two sons: “Jim ty”
and Mark; they joined our church
on April sth.
Young Growers
Of Vegetables
(May Win Awards
Georgia boys and girls who have
done good work in producing and
marketing fruits and vegetables,
either commercially or for home
use, have a chance to win recogni
tion and valuable awards in the
Production and Marketing contest
snonsored by the Ntional Junior
Vegetable Growers Association.
W. C. Carter, fruits and vege
tables marketing specialist for the
Agricultural Extension Service.
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture, said this week that
interested boys and girls should
contact their countv or home de
monstration agent for details. Car
ter is State Chairman of NJVGA.
Carter pointed out that the con
test is a natural for 4-II Club boys
and girls who have projects in
fruit, vegetable and pecan market
ing. “The NJVGA contest is based
entirely upon records very similar
to the 4-H project records and the
information required can easily be
transferred from 4-H record books,”
he explained.
The NJVGA contest has two sect
jions: (1) fresh market, either for
sale or home use, and (2) for sale
to canning or processing plants.
Each of these two has a sub-esction
involving variety trials. Carter said
.that a contestant may enter either
the fresh market or canning sect
ion and also the variety sub-section
Awards for the fresh market and
canning crop sections will be iden
tical on national, regional and statp
levels, Carter said. These include
ribbons, silver and bronze pins,
jackets and wrist watches.
The state chairman said that
membership in the NJVGA offers
boys and girls interested in horti
culture many advantages other
than this contest opportunity. He
pointed out that two Georgians
have already won state and nat
ional recognition in the organiza
tion. William Monfort of Terrell
county is currently serving as nat
ional president and Elna McClelland
of Ware was state contst winner
last year.
TEN—POINT PROGRAM—
A ten-point program which poul
trymen of the Agricultural Exten
sion Service propose to emphasize
during the next several years in
cludes: financing, adequate hous
ing, labor saving equipment, qua
lity chicks, high energy feeds, good
management, disease control, anti
biotics, sanitation, and efficient
marketing.
Big custom smelters raise cop
per 2 cents.
Number 16.
Bank of Canton
Awarded Strickland
Memorial Award
The Robert Strickland Agricul
tural Memorial Award for distin
guished service to agriculture in
Georgia in 1958 has been presented
to the Bank of Canton, Canton.
Georgia. The award was presented
by Wallis G. Cobb, President of
the Bulloch County Bank, States
boro, and Chairman of the Agri
cultural Committee of the Georgia
Bankers Association at a luncheon
meeting of the G. B. A. held Tues
day and Wednesday, April 14 15
in Augusta. E. O. McFather. Presi
dent of the Bank of Canton, re
ceived the award.
The award includes a cheek for
$2,000 from the Trust Company
of Georgia which has sponsored
the award annually for the past
eleven years. The $2,000 is used by
the winning bank for a boy or girl
(who must be a member of FFA,
FHA or 4-H Club from their coun
ty) to study agriculture or home
economics in the university system
of Georgia. The award is also re
presented by a three-foot bronze
plaque mounted on an easel and
intended for display in the lobby
of the winning bank.
Nominations for the award were
made by bankers and others thru
out Georgia. The final choice was
made by a State Committee headed
by Dr. C. C. Murray, Dean of the
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture. Other Committee mem
bers were W. A. Sutton, Direclor
of Agricultural Extension Service.
I Gec ge H. King. Director of Agri
cultural Experiment Stations, Dr.
Robert S. Wheeler, Director rf In
'•t’- ction "t !ho College cf Agri
culture John y Rradtev. Sta 4 '' 1
Administrative Office of Agricul
ture Stabilization and Conservation.
C. W. Chapman, State Conservation
Ist, Soil Conservation Service and
T. G. Walters. State Supervisors
of Agricultural Education for the
State Department of Education.
The award was presented in
memory of the late Robert Strick
land, former President of the Trust
Company of Georgia and of the
Georgia Bankers Association.
The Bank of Canton operates a
well-balanced agricultural program
and hs a full-time representative,
Mr. W. F. Garrett. U. G. Moore,
County Agent for Cherokee Coun
ty, described Mr. Garrett as a
“second county agent” and other
sources spoke equally well of his
activities. The bank has been active
in the County Sponsoring Commit
tee and contributes substantially
both in manpower and with finan
cial help. The Bank of Canton be
longs to the Cherokee County Feed
Dealers Association and Mr. Gar
rett is President of the Cherokee
County Fair Association. The bank
has always been interested in
youth work. It operates the Pig
Chain in eleyen communities and
the bank co-sponsors the visit of
the local FFA President to the nat-
ional convention. Recently, the
Bank of Canton was honored by
the Cherokee FFA Chapter for its
outstanding cooperation.
Cherokte County is the world’s
largest leader in broiler production
and has the fourth highest cash
farm income in the State. Agri
cultural authorities who were con
sulted all agreed that the efforts
of the Bank of Canton had con
tributed in large measure to these
results.
Indian Characters
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 the Cherokees. From
time of the Exo*us of the Chero
kees in 1838 much speculation has
been made by the white man in
trying to decipher this mass of
carved characters just for the pur
pose of trying to set this part of
the record straight the Tribe as
well as the characters aie known.
Of which I have a record of same,
A decipher was made in 1955 at
the request of W. W. Keeler, prin
cipal Chief of the Cherokee Nation
FORREST WADE
Rt. 4, Cumming, Ga.
New drive for “fair trade’’ law
started in Congress.