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Cummim*’, Georgia.
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1908
Orintation over Forsyth, Kulton, Cherokee, Dawson, LumplGn,
Hail and Qwinnett Counties
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Published Every Thursday at Cumming, Georgia
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JAYI Eli L. REEVES Associate Editor
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Entered an Second Class Matter August 10, 1910.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF I OItSYTH COUNTY
AND CITY OF CUMMING
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Il is pretty hard to get dirty in church, in
any way.
TWO DIE IN CLIMB ATTEMPT
The world’s highest unclimbed mountain has
claimed two more lives. An eight-man Austrian
team recently failed to reach the top of 26,795
foot Mount Dhaulagiri.
An announcement from the Nepal govern
ment recently reported that an Austrian, Hein
rich Roiss, was killed when he fell into a cre
vice, and that a Nepalese sherpa guide suffered
from frostbite to such an extent that he died in
a hospital from its effects.
4s far as is known, the other six men on the
tea>i survived without serious injury.
This reminds us of the many attempts made
io surmount Everest, and the many lives which
were lost in this magnetic and mysterious lure.
The “bug” which infects mountain climbers is a
.strange phenomena, but all agree that those who
are bitten by the bug are addicts, so to speak,
to a degree.
Perhaps it is the spirit of adventure, or the
desire to attain something no other man has
done before, but in any event, mountain clim
bers die in considerable numbers each year. A
meek comment, or opinion, is that death is too
high a price to pay for climbing some big con
figuration of rock and snow.
5,000,000 ALCOHOLICS
Mike Goman, executive director of the Nat
ional Committee against Mental Illness, recent
ly estimated that there are 5,000,000 alcoholics
in the United States.
This is shocking information, and should
cause reflection by every American who is in
formed of this situation. The interesting thing
about the problem is the fact that there are so
many alcoholics in areas where the widespread
use of more moderate beverages is taboo.
* For example, most Americans are aware of
the fact that the use of wine in France, as an
earn pie, is widespread, and that most people
drink wine with their meals. Likewise, most
people drink beer with their meals in Germany.
Yet anyone who has traveled through these
ooaantries will notice that drunks are almost non
existent. Whereas in the United States hard
liquor is consumed by those who drink, and a
custom has developed among many to pitch an
all-out party every so often, this is not true in
most of the older countries, where civilization
has wrestled with this problem a longer period
of time.
In these countries, where people use wine and
beer as a beverage with their food, moderation
is exercised, and one rarely sees rowdy or
boisterous persons acting in a drunken or dis
orderly manner. All of which indicates that al
coholics lack maturity, which in turn reflects
the immaturity of the United States as a nation,
and the lack of self-discipline, which must even
tually be used to resist all kinds of temptations,
not just that concerned with alcohol.
The Forsyth County News
Captain Tormey, Jr.
Assigned Lockheed
Dawsonville Plant
Captain William F. Tormey, Jr.
has been assigned Officer-In-Charge
of the Air Force Plant Represen
tatives Office of Air Force Plant
167, the Georgia Nuclear Labora
! tory at Dawsonville, Col. George
:C. Hozier, AFPR of Air Force
I Plant 6, announced today.
The Georgia Nuclear Laboratory
built and operated for the Air
Force by Lockheed’s Georgia Divi
sion. recently went into operation.
Prior to his new
Capt. Tormey served as AFPR at
the Weser Airplane Company, Bre
men, Germany. Before then he was
attached to Air Material Command
Headquarters at Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio.
A native of Charleston, West
Virginia, he is a graduate of the
University of Notre Dame, class
of 1950, and also graduated from
Georgetown University. School of
Foreign Service, at Washington,
D. C-, in 1952.
During World War 11, he was a
member of the U. S. Army and
was captured at Anzio beachhead,
Italy. He was a prisoner of war
for eighteen months.
Captain Tormey and his wife,
Norma Jean, have established their
residence at 1063 Park Hill Drive,
Gainesville. They have two daugh
ters, Kathlten, 5, and Mary Beth,
age. 3.
WITH YOUR
COUNTY AGENT
Walter 11. Rucker
POULTRY SANITATION
“Back to sanitation fundamentals"
is a slogan that many Georgia poul
trymon might be wise in consider
ing. In this era of wonder drugs
and antibiotics, it is easy to neg
lect the fundermental principles of
sanitation and disease control. If
litter happens to be a little scarce,
or labor and time a little short,
were are ofen emped o skip he
house cleaning and disinfecing, and
then, when diseases hits the flock,
we pull them through by putting a
drug or antibiotic in the feed or
water.
Poultrymen should be careful not
to fall into lax sanitaton practices.
The veterinarians mint out that
our drugs and antibiotics are not
nearly so effective in controlling
some common poultrv diseases as
they once were. Evidently, some
diseases producing organisms are
becoming more resistant, or toler
ant. to drugs and antibiotics.
With egg prices at about a 17-
vear low' and broiler nriees hover
ing around 15 to 17 cents per
pound, it’s doubtful that poultry
men can afford to spend much
money on drugsand antibiotics.
Strict attention should be given
to management of flocks so that
conditions which cause stress upon
birds are avoided. Houses and
equipment should bp thoroughly
cleande and disinfected. Clean dry
litter should be placed in houses
With correct management oractwes
it is far cheaper to prevent dis
eases than to cure them.
AMERICA’S DAIRYMAN
June" Dairy Month is a good
time to meet America’s typical
dairyman. According to the Ameri
can Dairy Association, the average
dairyman looks something like
this:
He is, first of all, a self-emploved
businessman about 47 years old.
Each day he ships seme 350
pounds of milk from his farm to a
nearby dairv print. This amounts
to about 160 quarts of milk per
day.
This milk rprvresents the
production of a herd of about 14
cows, all milked with modern milk
ing machines.
I This tyyical dairy farmer has
been in the dairying business for
a little more than 14 years. Chan
ces are better than three to one
that he owns his own farm, and
it’s a good bet, too, that he sells
other agricultural products besides
milk.
The dairy farmer, by the wav.
may well qualify as his own best
customer. Eight out of ten dairy
men report they drink some milk
every day.
SAFER SI '".' CITING
When acquiring a sun tan. pro
tective 'reams 'or lotions should
be used and exposure periods
should be for a short t>me at first,
gradually adding a few minutes
each dav to avoid over-exposure.
This hint for safe sunbathing is
from Miss Lucile Higginbotham,
health specialist, Agricultural Ex
tension Service.
Bonn opposes deal limited to
Berlin issue.
Ranger, Edward L. Wright
Georgia Forestry Commission Re
forestation Assistant Lanny Farr
and personnel from the Forsyth
County Unit completed a tree seed
ling survival count this past week,
Mr. Farr who is located at the
Hightower nursery was advised to
conduct the survey in Forsyth and
other north Georgia counties.
The prime purpose of the survey
is to determine seedling survival in
pine plantations and to determine
the cause for poor survival in some
plantations.
Factors to consider in the seed
ling survival count are whether the
seedlings were planted by hand or
machine, whether the seedlings
were healed in before planting or
not, whether the seedlings were
planted soon after arrival or left
in bundles until planting, whether
the cause of death was due to in
sects, poor planting, or nature
(frost heaving in the winter or
■drought in the summer).
Also taken into consideration is
the type of tree planter used in
. setting out the trees. Some of the
newer models of tree planters are
adapted to planting on hillsides;
that is, the packing wheels are so
arranged that both ride along the
ground even on some of our heav
ier slopes.
Seedlings not properly set in the
| ground will result in poor planta
! tion survival. Two important fac
tors in setting out pine seedlings
are to make sure the roots are al
ways kkept moist and that the
roots are pointed straight down in
, the ground when planted. Another
! point to consider in planting the
seedlings is to set them out at
: the same level in the ground that
they were lifted from at the nur
sery.
The goal of the Georgia Forestry
I Commission Nursery department is
to furnish good, healthy, vigorous
tree seedlings to Georgia landown
ers with the proper information on
how to set the seedlings out, re
sulting in a good seedling survival
in our tree plantation.
Peru threatens to boycott Amer
ica’s parleys.
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LAKE LANIER TO BEGIN
RELEASING FLOOD WATERS |
| Colonel R. W. Love, District En
gineer, U. S. Army Corps of En
gineers at Mobile, Alabama, again
issues a note of caution regarding
the discharges from the Buford
Dam for the next three weeks
iDuring recent rains about 77.200
acre-feet of flood waters have been
stored in the Lake Sidney Lamer
Reservoir. This storage protected
against flooding areas from th.
dam to a point well below Atlanta
and reduced stages downstream
as far south as West Point, Geor
gia. Storage of this water has
raised the pool level to about 1072
feet above sea level. It is now
necessary to withdraw this water
to make room for possible future
flood storage. The normal level for
the pool at this time of the year
is about elevation 1070.
The releases will be restricted so
that the flows experienced below
the dam will not be as high as
some of the previous releases, but
they will be greater than average.
People planning to use the river
should exercise caution.
Don’t waste your time telling
other people your troubles; they
are not interested.
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Thursday, June 18, J 959.
j WILDLIFE CLUB SPONSORS ,
FISHING CONTEST
Members of the Sawnee Valley
Wildlife Club will participate in a
one-day fishing contest next Wed
nesday, June 24th. All fishing must
be done in Lake Lanier and prizes
will be awarded to the member
catching the largest game fish and
also to the member catching the
largest number of pounds of game
fish.
All catches must be turned in
by 7:00 P. M. on that day and
members will enjoy an outdoor fish
fry on the lakke directly across
from the county park.
Any sportsman interested in ap-
Dlving for membership in the club
should contact Secretary J. C. Redd
or any member of the club.
Dairymen with the Agricultural
Extension Service have found thru
surveys that pipeline milk systems
are economical on farms milking
25 cows or more per day.
i If you use a garment bag for
storing clothes be sure all open
ings are completely sealed, advises
Mrs. Avola W. Callaway, clothing
specialist. Agricultural Extension
Service.
Red Cross ’’regearing” its fund
laisbig.