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Volume 50.
Veterans Service
Officers School
Is Scheduled
ATLANTA—A school and confer
ence for service officers and all
others interested in veterans, af
fairs will be held in Macon Sept
ember 16—19, Pete Wheeler, dir
ector of the State Department of
Veterans Service, has announced.
Wheeler said the school will be
complete and comprehensive,' and
will be the first of its type and
size ever held in the state.
The school is being sponsored
by the State Department of Veter
ans in cooperation with the Veter
ans Administration and state and
national veterans orgniztions.
Speakers and panelists from the
sponsoring groups will discuss the
widest range of matters of interest
to veterans, their families, and
their survivors, Wheeler said.
The subjects will include veter
ans benefits, hospitalizations, pen
sions, education, insurance, rehab
ilitation, and the like, Wheeler
said.
The conference is open to every
one who is concerned or interested
in veterans programs, particularly
the service officers of the various
local posts and units.
Wheeler said additional infor
mation may be obtained from the
State Department of Veterans Ser
vice, 125 State Capitol, Atlanta, or
from the field offices located thru
out the state.
Cravey Advises
Against Mail
Order Insurance
ATLANTA—Disturbed by the flood
of our-of state mail order insur
ance literature being poured into
Georgia homes, Insurance Commis
sioner Zack D. Cravey today warn
ed prospective policy purchasers
against doing business with "these
cats.”
“The policies they sell in Georgia
are not worth the paper they are
written on when it comes to mak
ing them pay up,” Commissioner
Cravey said.
“They are not licensed in Geor
gia, have no agents licensed in the
state and when they ‘gyp’ their
clients my office has no way of
bringing them to legal account.
“Coronet {Magazine some years
ago, in exposing the mail order
insurnace racket, charged the com
panies were bleeding gullible Amen
cans of $100,000,000 per year.”
Commissioner Cravey cited the
case of a middle Georgia woman
who had paid every premium with
an Eastern mail order house for
12 years and when she made her
first claim was informed that the
company had no record she had
ever had a policy with it. He de
dared that in the next mail she
received a bill for her next year’s
premium.
“We had to tell her we were
powerless” Commissioner Cravey
declared, “But we would write the
Insurance Commissioner in the
company’s home state and notify
him of what was going on.”
Commissioner Cravey yalso stat
ed that purchasers of insurance
should be just as careful as a
man buying a house.
“Know that your agent is licen
sed in Georgia and reliable and
that his company is likewise,” he
advised. “If there are provisions
in your policy you don’t Understand
take it to someone you trust for
explanations before you sign up.”
REVIVAL SERVICES AT UNION
HILL BAPTIST CHURCH BE
GINS SUNDAY, AUGUST 9TH.
Revival services begins at Union
Hill Baptist Church Sunday Aug
ust 9 and continues through Aug
uest 15. The Rev. Herbert Bagley,
Pastor will be assisted by the Rev.
Ebb Major.
Morning services begin at 10:45
A. M. Evening services at 7:45
P. M.
KQuick cooling is a vital step in
freezing cooked foods, according
to Miss Nelle Thrash, food preser
vationist, Agricultural Extension
Service. It stops the cooking pro
cess and also helps retain natural
flavor, texture, and color.
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF FORSYTH COUNTY * CITY OF CUMMI VG
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CHKBO REE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Georgia Mountain
Fair Opens August 10
At Hiawi see, Georgia
HIAWOSSEE, GA. The Ninth
Georgia Mountain Fair will open
here on August 10th and run thru
Saturday, August 15. with a score
of mountain counties taking part.
It is incorporated by members of
the Town County Lions Club as a
strictly non-profit effort.
Classed by the Extension Ser
vice as “traditional and rapidly
building a reputation for genuine
educational values” and by the
U. S. Forest Service as “one of
the outstanding fairs of its type
In the South”, it charges no day
time admission and has never of
fered cash prizes. No sales solici
tation is allowed.
Officials, all upaid, say the 1959
fair will show further improve
ment. 1958 guest books showed 247
Georgia postoffices, 32 States and
six Foreign Countries. Estimated
attendance was above 50,000.
Features will include a formal
flower show on Tuesday, with area
garden clubs filling an auditorium
with exquisite arrangements, and
an Everybody’s Flower Show with
a riot of color found only in the
highlands. Wednesday is Lions’
Day, and on Thursday a Rock
Hound conventicyi and show will
bring enthusiasts from afar, in
cluding the priceless Stoinoff col
lection which will be on display
all week. On Friday a combinat
ion livestock and horseshow will
bring many choicest animals of
the area. A Saturday double bill
includes an old fashioned hog rifle
shoot with beef quarters as prizes,
plus a Fiddler’s Convention, each
with entrants from several states.
Special features include a Forest
Service exhibit in its own build
ing; a Georgia State Patrol safety
education effort, with a free driver
efficiency test; a state health pro
gram including free chest X-Rays,
and a Game and Fish display. The
Georgia Mountain Experiment Stat
ion will‘have a highly interesting
show depicting gricultural progress
and a large space.will be used for
dahlias from 250 varieties at Todd
Farms, Suches, Ga., kept fresh.
Your Hospital N iws
The Hospitals Authority and The
Staff of The Forsyth County Hos
pital would like to take this oppor
tunity to express their gratitude
and thanks to The Forsyth County
Hospital Auxiliary for the many
deeds they have performed at the
hospital since their organization be
gun. The Ladies have been faithful
and have given freely and intiring
ly their time to help in meny ways,
checking water trays, making pat
ients comfortable and otn >r jobs
that have saved our nursing staff
time that they might spend else
where.
We also wish to thank tire one's
who have attended the Nurses
Aide Class ,to learn more about
nursing care so that they may be
of more help to us. Each of ’hem
have devoted hours to their study
and will be a big help to the hos
pital in the near future.
We would like to thank'our new
est organization which hasn’t befcn
named yet. This is a group of high
school girls who are giving a few
hours a day to help with tele
phones and on the floor. This
organization is small at the pres
ent time but we are looking for
ward to a large group.
OUR THANKS TO ALL.
FORSYTH COUNTY SCHOOL
SUPERINTENDANT SELECTED
Supt. Almon Hill received a call
from Dr. Doyne Smith of the Uni
versity of Georgia about helping 11
other County School Supt., from all
sections of state to study and re
vise the financial and budget form
sent out by the State Department
of Education. This work is to begin
immediately and is under the sup
ervision of the University of Geor
gia with meeting to be held in
Athens, Ga., and State Department
of Education in Atlanta.
Extension economists report that
the most prevalent farm size in the
Coastal Plain of Georgia is 100 to
140 acres.
Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Aug., 6, 1959.
Holbrook Camp
Meeting, August 14
On Friday August 14, 1959 The
One Hundred Twenty Second
(122) encampment of the Holbrook
Camp Meeting will begin.
Services will be held daily at
10:30 A. M.—3:00 P. M. and 8:00
in the evenings, through Sunday
August 23.
With Special services daily for
the children and young people.
Guest Ministers will be the Rev.
John Ozley from Hiawassee, Rev.
Charlie Cochran from Decatur,
Mr. Brownlee of Atlanta will serve
as Minister of Music. The host
Pastor is the Rev. Howard Payne.
A special invitation is extended
to everyone to enjoy this time of
spiritual refreshing.
Ernest Nash 1959-60
New American
Legion Head •
ATLANTA, July 28—Ernest Nash
of Clarksville is the new Comman
der of the American Legion De
partment of Georgia, and Mrs. V.
P. Mitcham of McDonough is the
President of the Auxiliary for the
state.
They were elected along with
other top officers of their group
during the closing session of the
annual conventions of the Georgia
Department of the American Leg
ion and American Legion Auxiliary
in Savannah.
Both have assumed their duties
with * their saltes of officers and
are predicting another banner year
for Ihe Legion and Auxiliary in
Georgia.
Nash and Mrs. Mitcham plan to
spend some time in Headquarters
of their groups in Atlanta this
week going over plans for the
1959160 year.
A retired Naval officer. Nash is
Manager and Area Coordinator for
the Georgia Department of Veter
ans Service. He succeeds Henry F.
Harrison of Macon,
j Marcus Long of Alma was in
j stalled as Senior Vice-Commander
I for the Legion and he will direct
j membership activities for the year,
j The Senior Vice-Commander is
| owner of Marcus C. Long Consult
jing Engineers! the Mar-Lou Here
jford Farm; a director and secre
tary of the Alma Exchange Bank;
I and is a director and executive
vice-president of Andy Craft Corp.
|of Alma, manufacturers of Fiber
Glass Boats. He served as assist
ant membership director under
Nash and Immediate Past Com
mander Harrison.
Harrison, outgoing commander,
was elected Alternate National Exo
cutive Committeeman without op
position.
Nash and Loong were placed in
office with no opposition.
| In the six man election for the
four Department Junior Vice-Com
mander posts, the winners are
Holder Watson of Waynesboro;
Denis Hanlon of Columbus: Frank
J. Thomas of Austell; and Render
T. Hammond of Hogansville.
The Department Officers were
installed with the following Dis
trict Officers; Herbert Bubnsed of
Savannah, First; Elwyn Ireland of
Tifton, Second; W. R. Henr v of
Warner Robins, Third; Ty Cason
of Covington, Fourth; Claude Rich
erson of Decatur, Fifth; Ben Chat
field of Macon, Sixth; C. D. Cope
land of Marietta, Seventh; Jim
Barron of Wavcross. Eighth; Grady
Wilson of Gainesville, Ninth; Cal
vin Sticher of Athens, Tenth; T. C.
Adams of Waycross, District A;
James Tolbert of Dublin, District
B; and Willard L. Dawson of At
lanta, District C.
Mrs. V. P. (Sarah) Mitcham suc
ceeds Mrs. Chris Vatsios of Sav
annah who was elected National
Executive Committeewoman for
the Georgia Auxiliary, succeeding
Mrs. C. T. Hovds of Atlanta.
•Other Department Auxiliary Offi
cers include Mrs. John Crawford
of Toccoa, first Vice-President; Mrs
W. T. Martin, Jr., of Macon, second
Vice-President: Mrs. O. B. Cawthon
of Atlanta, Historian; Mrs. John
G. Lewis of East Point, Chaplain;
and Mrs. E. M. Lowery of Atlanta,
Secretary and Treasurer.
General crop farms are the pre
dominant type in the Coastal Plain
of Georgia, according to economists
125 Drivers Get
Test Here From
July 27 Thru 31st.
Exhaustive mental and physical
driving tests were given 125 drivers
for the Home Demonstration Coun
cil of Forsyth County July 27 thru
31st by the Mobile Driver Testing
{Laboratory sponsored by the Geor
I gia Mootor Trucking Association,
j Inc.
i
The test were given by W. H.
Welden, lab supervisor, and Sgt.
R. T. Crouch of the Safety Edu
cation Division of the
i Patrol.
j In operation since 1949, the Driv
•er Testing Lab has tested approxi
mately 100,000 persons over the
state —mostly truck drivers, but a
great number of high school stud
ents and others not connected with
the trucking industry—for such
factors as vision, color perception,
visual speed and accuracy, reaction
time, side and night vision, distance
judgement, glare resistance, steadi
ness, hearing and driving know
ledge.
Some of the same equipment
used by the Air Force in testing
prospective pilots is used in the
laboratory tests.
Mr. Welden said the lab, housed
in a van trailer, was established
with the aim of reducing highway
accidents in Georgia by enabling
incompetent drivers to discover
their deficincies and by acquainting
caable drivers with their handicaps
so they may make allowances for
them.
The unit is operated, under spon
sorship of GMT A. by the Trades
and Industrial Division of the State
Department of Education Division
of the Georgia State Patrol in
cooperation with the Vocational
Schools of Georgia.
if oou have a physical driving
handicap, a specia ltesting labor
atory will find it!
Operated by W. H. Welden and
jSgt. R._T. Couch, this trailer-housed
;lab on wheels is sponsored by the
Georgia Trucking Association in
cooperation with the State Depart
ment of Education and the Georgia
Highway Patrol.
First test to face you is a dash
board mock-up complete with steer
ing wheel, clutch and brake and a
set of flashing lights, two turn
signal lights and two other bulbs
indicating “go” or “stop”. These
lights are timed to correspond with
typical driving conditions.
An electrical timer computes how
quickly the driver reacts to hi«
signals. Sgt. Crouch, pad and pen
cil in hand, keeps score.
Next comes the "steadiness” test
—not recommended after a rough
night! It consists of moving a rod
down a slot which becomes pro
gressively more narrow. When the
rod makes contact on either side
of the slot, a light flashes to let
the scorekeeper know where the
“foul” took place.
I Then you are directed to an
j instrument which tests your field
[of vision. Your nose planted firmly |
•in a slot cut into a partial circle,
you are asked to tell the testing
official at what point you are able
to detect a white marker he brings !
around from either side. An un
satisfactory score here indicates !
| you have “tunnel vision.”
i Some persons claim the night ,
vision test is the toughest. When 1
ou peer into a darkened box, the I
instructor flips a switch turning |
on a small bulb inside the box. }
You are asked to identify letters
and it isn’t easy.
Next comes an overall eye test
which determines your degree of
color perception, vertical and later
al balance of vis'on, fusion of your
eyes, and strength of vision in
each eye. That’s followed by a gad
get which finds out whether you
have good depth perception or dis
tanee judgment. Hare you’re asked
to line up—with strings—three lit
tie toy cars which appear at a |
great distance. 1
Now throughlv convinced that
not just anybr-dv can be a safe
driver, you find out you’ve one
more test to take one determining
your hearing ability. While your
instructor runs through a scale of
sound frequencies on a special Bel
tone Audiometer, you listen thru
a set of headphones and let him
know whether you can hear the
signals.
County Population 15,000. Number 32.
Cangressman Landrum
Believes House Will
Adopt His Labor Bill
WASHlNGTON—Congressman Phil
M. Landrum says he believes his
substitute labor reform bbill stands
a good chance of being adopted by
the full House of Representatives.
Dissatisfied with the watered
down labor bill reported out on
July 23 by the House Education
and Labor Committee, Mr. Land
rum and Rep. Robert Griffin of
Michigan jointly sponsored a sub
stitute to correct the abuses of
labor bossism uncovered by the
McClellan Senate Committee.
He said it has been conclusively
demonstrated from evidence pre
sented before the Labor Committee
on which he serves, and the Mc-
Clellan Investigations that “prompt
and effective action must be taken
by Congress if the American peo
ple—and particularly the working
men and women of our Nation
are to be safeguarded from ex
ploitation and abuse.”
Saying the Committee bill “falls
far short of the mark and fails to
come to grips realistically with the
problems”, the Georgia Demo, said
he and Mr. Griffin were joining in
sponsoring a bi-partisan, or non
partisan substitute which “repre
sents the kind of a bill the Com
mittee should have reorted”.
“The substitute bill is moderate
but effective,” the Jasper Solon
said. “It !s not punitive or ex
treme.” Mr. Landrum said his
substitute substantiall “meets the
recommendations of Senator Mc-
Clellan whose dramatic investigat
ions put him in a choice position
to know the real needs of labor
reforms.”
"My substitute restores the
‘teeth’ in the Senate-passed bill
which were extracted by the House
Committee, and it adds important
and necessary provisions to deal
directly with extortion picketing
and secondary boycotts which have
been used to'destroy many small
businesses throughout the country.
In conclusion, Dep. Landrum
said “I earnestly hope that the
American people will rally to the
support of those who seek effective
legislation and that the House will
approve this substitute; I think
it has *a good chance of being
adopted.”
Why Men Join
The Veterans of
Foreign Wars
The veterans of the Spanish-
American War and the Veterans of
World War I anticipated the needs
of the Veterans who would return
from World War Two consequently
the G. I. Bill of Rights was pro
vided to assist them in their re
adjustment to 'civilian life World
War Two veterans received such
benefits as terminal leave pay, un
employment compensation, disaf>ili
ty compensation, On the job train
ing, college and educational bene
fits, G. I. Loans for homes and
business purposeses etc. None of
these benefits was handed to these
veterans by a grateful people as a
reward for their military service.
They were ail fought for and se
cured by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars, and other Veterans organi
zations. So join your local VFW
Post and help give it the strength
that it so needs.
Dorsey Tinsley, Ninth District
Senior Vice Commander.
OPEN HOUSE AT
HOSPITAL, AUG., 19
The Forsyth County Hospital
will celebrate the Second Anni
versary of it’sopening with OPEN
House on Wedndesday August 19.
The public is cordially invited
to visit the hospital between the
hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M.
The Auxiliary Volunteers will
be on duty to conduct visitors on
a Tour of Inspection.
All "Future Citizens” have been
born in the hospital since it opened
will have their picture displayed in
the lobby.
Miss Audrey Morgan, family life
specialist, Agricultural Extension
Service, reports 27 percent of all
male students in college in 1957
were married and living with their
.families while attending school.
Lane Hubbard Named
Assistant To President
of Southern Bell
l|p •
MR. LANE IIUBBARD
Lane Hubbard, of Atlanta, Prami
[nent Georgia Telephone Official.
; has been appointed Assistant to the
| President of the Southern Bell
Telephone Company, it was an
nounced by President Ben S. Gil
mer.
Mr. Hubbard, who has spent his
outstanding career of 38 years in
Georgia, has been Assistant Vice
President since 1954. Prior to that,
he headed Commercial Operations
over the State. Earlier he served
as District Manager for Atlanta
and filled varying assignments of
incresing responsibility.
While Atlanta has been his head
quarters for his entire career, he
has traveled extensively over the
state into nearly every ycity, town
and rural area. His leadership has
contributed immeasurably to the
growth and progress of telephone
service and to progress in general
in his native Georgia. He is recog
nized as one of Georgia’s outstand
ing civic and business leaders.
Native of Hogansville, Georgia,
Mr. Hubbard was educated in high
school there and at the Atlanta
Law School. Despite a heavy schc
dule in Business and Civic Affairs,
he managed to find- time to attend
law school while working with
Southern Bell and was graduated
in 1934 with the degree of Bachelor
of Law. He was admitted to the
Georgia Bar and is a member of
the Atlanta, the Georgia and the-
American Bar Associtions.
Always active in Vivlc and Public
Spirited affairs, he has taken pro
jminent roles of leadership in the
Georgia State Chamber of Com
merce, Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, Better Business Bureau,
Southern Citizens Industrial Coun
ci*. Red Cross and other organiza
t'ors.
Foe his work with the numerous
4-H Clubs over Georgia, he was
awarded a life membership in the
Georgia 4-H Club in 1952. In many
ways, he has been interested in and
| participated in activities in the
rural areas and the v small towns
of the state, including youth work.
He is a member of Piedmont
Lodge No. 447 F & A. M., and of
| the Atlanta Rotary Club. He is a
j member and deacon at Second
[Ponce deLeon Baptist Church. He
|ls married to the former Eva Lee,
jef Stone Mountain.
Hue Leisure
Time Wisely
| Vacation time is now being en
j joyed by the hundreds of thous
! ands of school children, college
students and teachers. After a
strenuous sesson of hard work, a
little period of rest and recuper
ation is deserved and appreciated
by all of them.
Wouldn’t it be fine if in all vo
cations in life there could be ar
ranged a vacation like that of the
[School children and teachers, with
[pay the twelve months? Too many
jmen and women grind from start
to finish of their earthly career
and stop ouly at the final heart
beat.
Sooner or later, in the progress
of the wor'd, more leisure time will
be available for the average man
and woman. What will be done
with this spare time- Are we pre
parng ourselves to enjoy leisure
in a healthful and helpful manner?