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Cumming, Georgia.
Health Dept. News
By T. E. Nelms, P. H. S.
The purpose of this article is to
point out some improvements re
garding the installation of indivi
dual sewage disposal systems and
also to call to your attention the
importance of getting at least two
or three bids from reliable con
ractors before having sanitary faci
lities installed.
You may find after comparing
prices that the low bidder may be
the person who is following the
State Standard Code which would
assure you that the system would
not likely give any trouble for a
Jong time. For example there are
still lots of 500 gallon size septic
tanks being installed. The State
Standard is now 750 gallon mini
mum. When it is known that you
may be paying some man as much
or more for installing a 500 gallon
septic tank and when you stop to
think that you have 250 more gal
lons of capacity at a normal cost
that is around $20.00 more. A clen
lng bill for a 500 gallon tank will
cost you around $35.00, so you can
sec that this cleaning bill may be
stalled off for many more years
by using the larger tank that also
provides fo rail household liquid
waste to include washing machine
waste water. This makes a con
venience of hooking all plumbing
together for sanitary facilities. Well
casing used for septic tanks does
not give satisfactory service and
is not approved. Grease tarps are
not necessary at homes with the
larger sized tanks. All kitchen sink I
waste water should go into septic
tank before going into a drainfield.
If the grease is not caught in a
tank it will clog up a drainfield in
a short while.
Soil test should always he made
to determine how fast a particular
soil will absorb water. We have
instructions prepared and furnished
to us by the Sanitary Engineering
Division of the State Health De
partment to pass on to you with
our assistance in planning for the
installation of your sewage dis
posal system according to the Code
There has been an increase in
the amount of gravel now being
used in drainficlds to a common
figure of around 20 tons for a 250
foot average length drain field. It
is good economy figured over a
period of years to follow proven
practices of making these installa
tions. Besides assistance as mention
ed above regarding soil test, our
service is available to anyone for
locating a site for the septic tank
and drainfield so that you will
have the assurance of having
enough area left in the right place
for future needs in case that you
would need more drainfield later
on.
The county does not charge for
copies of septic tank specifications
as some counties do, but unless
you or your contractor calls us
when the job is finished there will
be no approval on that particular
job by the Health Department to
ward meeting any loan require
ments. We are making progress
along these lines, lets keep it up.
A. S. C. NEWS
All operators of cotton farms
who did not release the entire cot- |
ton allotment for the farm, will
receive a double post card in the :
next few days. This card is to be
used to report the acreage of cot
ton planted or the acreage that
will be planted on the farm in 1950
On the card is a line (1. Acre
age of COTTON acres)
Enter on this line the acreage of
cotton you have planted or the
acreage which you will plant. If
you have no cotton planted and are
not going to plant any enter
"none” on this line.
After you have completed the
card, sign, date and return it to
the Forsyth ASC County Office as
soon as possible, ino postage re
quired.
Farmers who received reapport
ioned cotton acreage should plant
as near this acreage as possible.
The County will lose acreage his
tory on all reapportioned cotton
acreage not planted.
Also, the farmer who received
new growers cotton allotments
should plant thei racreage. If this
is not planted, the County will
lose acreage history.
Card Of Thanks
The family of Mrs. Leon Raines
wish to thank their many friends
and neighbors for their kindness
and sympathtie service shown dur
ing her recent illness and death.
Especially do we thank the Min
isters, doctors and nurses and In
gram Funeral Home for their effi
cient sendee.
The Leon Raines Family
GERMAN TALMADGE
Reports From ' • fl
WASHINGTON
ALMOST FIVE YEARS to the
day after the Supreme Court
usurped the constitutional right
of the people of the South to run
their public schools as they see
fit, the South this week was ac
corded its first opportunity to
make an affirmative presentation
of its viewpoint before a commit
tee of Congress.
ings on the proposed constitu
tional amendment which eight of
my colleagues and I are sponsor
ing to restore state and local con
trol over public education. The
chance to be heard for a change
ns proponents instead of oppon
ents of a measure pointed up the
many possibilities offered by tak
ing a positive and realistic ap
proach to seeking a solution to
the grave crisis with which we of
the South have been confronted
as the result of the Supreme
Court’s illegal school desegrega
tion decision.
• • •
SOME 20 PERSONS, including
the Governors of Georgia and
Alabama and the Attorney Gen
eral of Louisiana testified in favor
of the proposal. Among the wit
nesses were some of the nation’s
foremost lawyers and the organi
zations represented included the
National Society of the Sons of
the A met .can Revolution, the
Committee for Constitutional
Government, the U. S. Daughters
of 1812, the American Taxpayers
Association, the Defenders of the
American Constitution and the
Sons of Confederate Veterans.
(not preftared or printed nt government expense)
ANOTHER
PACKAGE Gl ; POWER
YOU ORDERED
YES, YOU ORDERED IT by indicating you would
use more and more electricity in the years
ahead.
It's quite a package, this turbo-generator
just installed at Plant McManus, near Bruns
wick. It weighs almost a million pounds, yet is
built to the precise tolerances of a fine watch.
Under that sleek design is a generating capac
ity of 75,000 kilowatts, which exceeds the power
of all the work animals horses and mules
in Georgia.
The sls-million expansion of Plant McManus
is only a single step in our construction pro
gram. Since World War II we have spent nearly
half a billion dollars expanding and improving
the electrical facilities that serve you. We have
almost tripled our generating capacity, more
than doubled our miles of power lines.
That kind of growth makes sure that you
have plenty of low-cost and dependable elec
tricity whenever and wherever you need it.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A CIrI Zf N WHfftfVf* w t StR V l
The Forvth County News
In addition to those who ap
peared in person, a number of
other individuals and groups sub
mitted statements for inclusion
in the record of proceedings. The
fact that many of the partic
ipants and statements came from
states outside the South indicates
the strong latent feeling through
out the country that schools
should be controlled by the states
and the parents of the children
who attend them.
• * •
THE SUPREME COURT has
held that states may no longer
classify students by color in the
public schools and, even though
this is contrary to the Constitu
tion of the United States and a
long line of decisions interpreting
the Constitution prior to May 17,
1954, the decision has been
handed down and there arc only
three ways by which it can be
overturned amendment of the
Constitution, removal of the juris
diction of federal courts over
school questions or reversal by
the Court itself.
Georgians have amended their
State Constitution to authorize
tuition grants for children to at
tend private schools and Georgia
can, of course, get around the
ruling by abolishing its public
school system and subsidizing all
children to attend private schools
of their choice.
In order that every other ave
nue short of that course of last
resort might be fully explored, I
have introduced my proposed con
stitutional amendment and juris
diction bill. If those measures
serve no other purpose, they al
ready have afforded us a valuable
national forum for an effective
presentation of our viewpoint be
fore the rest of the country.
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Thursday, May 14, 1959.