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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?