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Cummins. Georgia.
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS
ESTABLISHED 1908
Circulation over Forsyth, Fulton, Cherokee, Dawson, Lumpkin,
Hall and Qwinnett Counties
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AND CITY OF CUMMING
Thing’s can always be worse. Thirty years
from now speeders will crash in the sky and
fall on pedestrains.
COTTON ACREAGE UP
The Department of Agriculture estimated
recently that growers planted 15,890,000 acres
of cotton this year. This is an increase of 28 per
cent over last year’s plantings.
This is interesting because cotton planters are
operating under a different regulation this year.
The new program permits producers to increase
planting allotments 40 percent if they are will
ing to take lower price supports. Evidently many
growers are taking advantage of this new sys
tem. .
The acreage planted this year is less than
the national average, and while the Department
of Agriculture will not predict the size of the
crop, it would amount to about 12,700,000
bales if yields equal the average of the last
three years. This would still be considerably
below the ten-year average yyield, in cotton,
which is over 14,000,000 bales.
Nt is estimated that domestic and foreign
consumption will consune all of the cotton
grown this year and perhaps some of the 8,00,-
000 bales in storage. Even though the cotton in
storage might decrease in the next year, how
ever, the storage of surplus crops is still a major
problem for the government.
BUTLER SHOULD RESIGN
The chairman of the Democratic National
Committee has caus/ and so much division and
strife within the National part that only his
resignation can give the party its maximum
chance in 1960. Of course, the leftwingers in the
party will not agree with this analysis, but it is
an accurate one.
Butler, and some of those who are working
with him, believe that if the leftwingers drive
the conservatives out o fthe party ,they can still
win a presidential election. Already the state
ments Butleh has made, about his own party’s
leadership in Congress, and about the South and
, Southwest, insure asplit in the part yand a pos
sible walkout at the Democratic convention in
Dos Angeles. For the good of the party, the only
thing he can do is resign.
i There is a strong suspicion in Washington,
among some, that Butler is the greatest ally the
Republicans have. If he is left in charge of
the Democratic National Committee, and his
tactics win out, he will split the party and bring
about the election of a Republican in 1960. This
may be the purpose of some o f those who are
supporting him, although this would never be
admitted.
The National Committee has been carefully
stacked over recent years to support Butler.
Therefore, at a showdown scheduled for Sept
ember, the National Committee may stick with
the Indiana chairman. If it does, it will be the
greatest boost for Republicans which has oc
curred since 1956. If Butler is ousted, and the
Democratic party remains unified, it has a bet
ter than 50-50 chance to elect its candidate as
President in 1960.
NATIONAL IOITO iI A L
The Forsyth County News
A. S. C. NEWS
The County Election Board of
Forsyth County met on July 10,
1959 and named the following per
sons to serve on Community Elec
tion Boards:
Chestatee & New Bridge
i Bubert Bennett, Carroll Floyd.
Henry Mathis.
Bells & Vickory—
! E. W. Tidwell, Clifford Reid, R.
A. Herring.
Barkers & Hightower—
| Claud Harris, Ralph Pirkle, Math
er Jennings.
Big Creek—
| Glenn Sexton, Floyd Brown, Ezra
i Buice.
Cumming & Chattahoochee —
| Homer Perry, W. W. Bennett,
I Bradford Samples.
Coal Mountain & Rolands —
W. E. Holcomb, C. S. Mathieson,
Henry Holtzclaw.
SETTENDOWN & DUCKTOWN
Lawton Sosebee, Preston Tallant.
Almon Prilitt..
This announcement was made by
Edsel Martin, County Office Man
ager. Community Election Board
Members met on July 16, 1959 to
select the election meeting places
and make all arrangements neces
sary for conducting the election.
The election meetings will be
held in all communities on August
5. The Community Election Boards
will supervise the elections and
make immediate announcement of
persons elected following the 'tabu
lation of votes at the meeting.
FARM SAFETY MAKES
SENSE, FB DECLARES
Farmers may save their own
life by reflecting on some of the
dangers of farm and home, Mrs.
Willett Robinson, State Chairman
of Georgia Farm Bureau Women
declared today in urging all farm
ers to help cut down on undue
deaths.
The Georgia Farm Bureau Wo
men’s Committee is cooperating in
th the national movement to re
duce farmer deaths and injury.
Mrs. Robinson is a farm wife of
Screven County. ‘‘We urge all mem
bers of the farm family to observe
safety cautons”, she declared.
I The Federation —an independent
organization of farm families, has
had many of it’s family members
' “crippled or killed” through acei
, dents on the farm. Surveys indi
cate the farm is one of the most
dangerous of occupations,
j Mrs. Robinson said statistics are
dry—but they also show that near
ly half (44 per cent) of the acci
dent fatalities associated with mach
: inery occur during May, June, July
and August. More than two thirds
of drownings occurs in the same
period—with half of the deaths by
firearms occuring in the fall.
Children getting into poison,
kerosene and the like can cause
j deaths, if we adult sare careless,
j Mrs. Robinson said. “Getting into
moving farm machinery parts can
I be deadly, and every summer num
i erous farm deaths are caused be
cause caution was not exercised”,
she added.
National Farm Safety Week is
being observed this year Julyl9—
25. “We can reduce the 12,000
fatal accidents on the farm bv
making every week farm safety
week”, Mrs. Robinson emphasized.
VETERANS URGED TO APPLV
EARLY FOR FALL SCHOOLING
Korea veterans planning to start
school in the fall under the GI
bill should apply early, reminds
i Pete Wheeler, director of the State
. Deoartment of Veterans Service.
For one thing, said Wheeler,
with nearly a half million veterans
expected to be in training this
fall, Veterans Administration offi
ces will be swamped with paper
work.
That there is no lessening in
! the pprogram is shown by the fact
jthat one in every seven men on
college campuses this past
'was attending under the Korea GI
bill. Wheeler said.
Wheeler said veterans pplanning
jto go to school this fall should
remember these points:
They must make their own ar
rangements for admission to school
before applyying to the VA.
They can only obtan benefits if
they attend a school which has
been approved by the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service, which is
the approval agency for the fed
eral government.
Since only one change in course
of study is permitted, they yshould
choose carefulyy, and obtain guid
ance counseling.
Those with dependants must fur
nish proof of marriage and of
dependants.
Field offices of the State Depart
ment of Veterans Service will h"
glad to assist in preparing appli
cations, or furnishing information.
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Thursday, July 23, 1959.