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Volume 50.
AUGUSTAN MERGES
RELIGION, MEDICINE
At 45, The Rev. Ralph Bottoms Becomes
Dr. Ralph Bottoms
By BARBARA WHITE
Herald Staff Writer
A Bible-toting grandfather was
among this summer graduates of
the Medical College of Georgia for
the first time in the college’s his
tory.
For Ralph Bottoms, 45 the
achievehent of his degree was the
achievement of his degree was the
a lifetime desire. He will combine
medicine with religion and become
a missionary.
Even as a young boy, he yearned
to serve mankind by healing bodies
and souls. But. when he completed
high school in 1933 as valedictorian
of his class, he was unable to go
away to college because of finan
cial reasons. The depression had
deeply hit the family of five chil
dren, and Bottoms had to share in
their support.
Although he worked, he managed
to attend classes for only two years
at North College College. The fin
ancial struggle increased, and Bot
toms was forced to give up his
missionary dreams and college in
the pursuit of money.
In the years that followed, he
married, became the father of two
children, and worked his way up
to director of time and motion
studies in the industrial engineer
ing division of Chevrolet— Gener
al Motors in Atlanta.
Still Unhappy
He had all the requisities for a
happy life—a loving family, a good
job, enough money, and church
membership. But something was
lacking. Mildred Bottoms, his wife,
recalled “I knew something was
bothering him, and finally he con
fessed that he had felt the call of
God. He became very active in
church work because he thought
that this would satisfy that urge,
but it only made it worse.
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DR. WJL RALPH BOTTOMS RECEIVING DOCTOR OF
MEDICINE DEGREE FROM THE MEDICAL COLLEGE
OF GEORGIA, JUNE 6, 1959, AT AGE 45.
Now Intern
Ralph and Mildred Bottoms are
now in Nashville, Tenn., where he
is interning at the Baptist Hospital
there. They will return to Augusta
for a short visit in July, when Bot
toms will perform the marriage
ceremony for his 19-year-old daugh
ter, Carol. He married his eldest
daughter, Nancy, while he was a
student at the medical college.
What will happen to the Bot
toms after his period of internship
The Forsyth County News
OFFICIAL. ORGAN OF IORBYTH COUNTY & CITY OF CUM MING
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH. FULTON, CBKRO HUE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN. HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
“He was hesitant about respond
ing to the call because he had
known hardship due to lack of
money, and he hated to deprive
us of the income we were used to.
The children and I only wanted
him to be happy, and he finally
surrendered and gave up his job
in 1953.”
He attended Mercer University
for two years, majoring in medi
cine and minoring in religion. At
the age of 41, he graduated from
Mercer cum laude.
Studies Medicine
In 1955, he entered the Medical
College. To help support his family,
he substituted for pastors at Glen
dale Baptist church, Central Baptist
Church, and Camak Baptist Church
while they were out of town on
business or vacation.
His wife, who had never worked
before, became food service suoer
visor at Talmadge Memorial Hos
pital.
The four years at medical school
were difficult ones for Bottoms,
but his faith and determination
kept him at his goal.
“The last two years were es
pecially' hard because I’d have
night duty and then have to attend
classes all day. When you get to
be my age, the interruption of
sleep tells on you. I would have
to get up at night to handle sur
gery, gynecology, and obstetrics—-
I guess I’ve delivered 50 babies!”
Bottoms stressed that “Even
though the going was tough, it was
not a deprivation to me. It was my
wife and family who did all the
sacrificing. When J (iecided to go
back to school she was a contented
housewife, and she had no incli
nation to do outside work. She has
gone to work just so I could ac
complish my desire to be a mis
sionary.”
is over?
“We’ll be missionaries in any
place we’re needed,” said Bottoms.
“We had hoped to do missionary
work in Africa or India, but the
Foreign Mission Board of the Bap
tist Convention was not at ail en
couraging because of our ages.
The Home Mission Board has been
much more encouraging. We have
had an offer to go to New Mexico
and work with the Indians there,
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Cumming Georgia, Thursday, Aug., 13, 1959.
Your Hospital N.iws
The Forsyth County Hospital
Authority and Staff is extending
an invitation to the people of For
syth Countf to come and visit with
us on August 19th, 1959. The Se
cond Anniversarf of it's operation.
We feel that you should have a
chance to see what a nice hospital
you have here. There will be a
presentation of gifts to the babies
born on the day nearest the open
ing day both county and other.
The one born nearest First Anni
versary and one nearest 12 noon
August 19, 1959. Also, for the first
patient admitted and the last one
admitted before noon August 10,
1959. These will be presented at
2:15 P. M. August 19, 1959 by the
Administrator. Open House will be
gin at 10 A. M. and the doors will
be open to the people until 7 P. M.
We hope you will all visit with us
Your hospital appreciates the
support you have given and will
continue to strive to help the peo
ple who are sick in every way pos
sible to make them comfortable
and put them on the road to re
covery.
WE THANK YOU.
PRAY ! !
James 4: 2-3”-—Yet, Ye have
not, because ye ask not. Ye ask,
and receve not, because ye ask
amiss, that ye may consume it
upon your lusts.” You wonder why
you are unhappy? Why you do
not have peace of mind? Have you
been talking to the God of peace?
Have you asked him for peace and
l victory. Do you talk to him regu
larly? Do you pray? There' is
power in prayer! Jesus prayed re
gularly, many times spending all
night in prayer. Jesus said, "Men
ought always to pray and not
faint.”
i In mav places in the B'ble it
tells us that blessings are denied
us, just because we do not ask
for them. From James we read
“If any of you lack wisdom”, sure
ly that is what we all do sorely
lack—“ Let him ask God, that giv
eth to all men liberally and up
braidth not, and it shall be given
him. But let him ask in faith noth
ine. Wavering. For he that wav
erth is like the waves of the sea
driven by the wind and tossed”.
Listen to Jesus, “Ask and ye shall
receive, seek and ye shall find,
knock and it shall be opened unto
you.”
You narents, who reallv love
your children, are thrilled when
they come to you asking you for
something that you know will be
good for them phvsicallv, mentally
socially or spiritually. You will do
everythin' l ' in your power to give
your child that good thing. Of
course, God knows what we need
but he wants us to ask him for it.
When we desire the good that He
offers we receive it. Jesus said,
“If ye ask anything in my name
I will, I will do it”.
We can and should pray anytime
any place, anywhere, God will
bless you just in the proportion
to your asking in his name and
will make you a blessing. Have
your children heard your voice in
prayer? Do you want your home
to be Christian? Talk to God about
it—He will certainly answer your
prayer.
Prayer to the spiritual man is
just as necessary as fresh air to
the physical man.
W. R. CALLAWAY
ITALY DISTRICT
R. E. A. MEETING
Just a reminder, keep the date
of September 3rd open and plan
; to attend the Italy District R. E. A.
Meeting to be held at Big Creek
School Auditorium.
| Full details and plans will be
published in the forthcoming is
sues of this paper.
|
.NOTICE
WE WILL MOVE INTO OUR
NEW BUILDING ON THE SOUTH
SIDE OF COURTHOUSE IN THE
NEAR FUTURE AROUND THE
LAST OF SEPTEMBER.
STONE FURNITURE CO.
Ship production in world set rec
ord in 1958.
Junior Fire Marshal
FFA Camp At Lake
Jackson Aug., 16—21
Forsyth County will be represent |
ed by Remelba Bramblett, Glenna
McGinnis and Sam Carroll at the!
TJiird Annual Statewide Junior j
Fire Marshal Conference to be held ,
at the FFA Camp at Lake Jackson
August 16—21, Safety Fire Com-1
missioner Zack D. Cravey announ •
ced today.
Pointing out that the encamp- j
ment is the only one held in the
world where junior fire officers
gather for a week’s training in
fire safety and prevention. Com
missioner Cravey said he expected
over 400 delegates from practically
every high school in the state.
At the request of Commisionner
Cravey selections were made by
individual high school principals,
working with their superintendents |
Activites for thle second straight ,
year will be featured on Monitor, I
week-end radio service of the Nat-1
ional Broadcasting Company. j
Commissioner Cravey reported i
that an outstanding group of fire !
safety experts had been lined up.
to conduct demonstrations, both in- i
door and outdoor.
The delegates- also, he declared, i
will hear talks from Governor |
Ernest Vandiver, State School Sup
erintendent, Dr. Claude Purcell,
Lieutenant-Governor Garland Byrd,
Attorney-General Eugene Cook and
Commissioner of Labor Ben T.
Huiet as well as other dignitaries.
Georgia Mountain
Fair Opens August 10
At Hiawassee, 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,
jit is incorporated by members of
] the Town County Lions Club as a
j strictly non-profit effort.
Classed by the Extension Ser
vice as "traditional and rapidly
building a reputation for genuine
J educational values” and by the
U. S. Forest Service as “one of
I 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 Evervbody’s Flower Show with
a riot of color found ‘ only fn Ih<>
highlands. Wednesday is Lions’
Day, and on Thursday a Rock
Hound convention 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 horscshow 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.
Notice Forsyth
County Farmers
This is your invitation to meet
with the Forsyth County Farm
Bureau Tuesday, August 18th at
8 p. m. at the Agriculture Build
ing, Cumming High School.
Both members and non members
are urged to attend as several
subjects of interest to farmers will
be discussed. Refreshments will be
served.
Remember the date August 18th
and please plan to attend.
James G. Harris, Jr., Secretary
County Population 15,000. Number 33.
Recreational Facilities
At Lake Lanier To
Be Constructed
Colonel R. W. Love, U. S. Army
District Engineer at Mobile, Ala.,
has called for bids for the con
struction of additional facilities for
the convenience of the steadily in
creasing number of sight-seers and
picnickers who visit Buford Dam
and Lake Sindney Lanier, near Bu
ford, Georgia. Last month over a
million people visited the area, the
majority to enjoy water sports on
the lake.
The work to be done at this
time includes the construction of
an access road, a parking area, a
pump house, drinking fountains,
nd street lights t a site selected
for public use on the west bank
of the lake about three quarters
of a mile northwest of the dam:
a parking area, drinking fountains,
sidewalks and additional street
lighting at the lower overlook and
adjoining picnic area near the east
end of the dam; sidewalks and
drinking fountains at the upper
overlook and picnic area above the
east end of the dam; a sidewalk l
| from the Reservoir Operations
| Building to the uppe’r overlook 'and
,to an existing walk connecting the
I lower overlook with the Corps of
Engineers garage and utility area;
and an access road to the Corps
lof Engineers bot base near the
I dam.
Bids for the contract will be
opened at 11 a. m., C. S. T„ on
September 2, 1959, at the Corps
of Engineers District Office, 2301
Grant Street, Mobile, Alabama.
The work will be performed under
the supervision of Mr. J. W. Phil
lips, Reservoir Manager in charge
of reservoir operations and recrea
itional development at Lake Lanier.
I Health Chech Up
[ls Urped Before
School Starts
(by Grace Palmour, PHN)
Soon school will be starting.
Children will be turning from
play and return:ng to their books
Now is a good time for all parents
to take a health inventory of their
children.
It is particularly important for
a child entering school for the
first time to have a physical ex
amination by the family physician
and a visit to dentist is nother
wise idea.
Mr. Almon Hill, Superintendant
,of Forsyth County Schools, tells
|me that entrance to school this
| year wjllrequire up to date Immuni
. zations including a dlptheria
whooping cough-tetanus booster
with in two years, polio protection
and small pox vaccination before a
child can enter school.
While phyysical fitness is very
important, a child should be emot
ionally prepared also. This is as
true of the adolescent entering
high school as of the beginner.
Parents who remember some of
thbir own fears in similar exper
iences are in a position to reassure
their child in this situation. Family
.doctors, school teachers public
[health workers can help in plan
ning for their needs and guiding
them into happy school experiences
Holbrook Camp
Meeting, August 14
On Friday August 14, 1959 The j
One Hundred Twenty Second j
022) 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 dally for
the children and you rig people.
Guest Ministers will be the Rev. i
John Ozley from Hiawassee, Rev. !
Charlie Cochran from Decatur, j
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.
McClellan prefers new House
labor bill.
Fourth Annual
3 oultry Institute To
Open August 24th
Georgia’s Fourth Annual Poultry
Instltute | — a family affair offering
poultrymen four days of learnb«
combined with fun and relaxation
at the Rock Eagle'4-H Club Center
is set for August 24—27.
This poultry meeting “with m
difference” will offer educational
and recreational programs "better
than ever” this year, according to
Arthur Gnnona, Extension poultry
man, University of Georgia College
of Agriculture and general chair
man of the institute. In addition tn
daily talks by experts on poultry
production and marketing prob
lems, the institute will provide
poultrymen plenty of opportunity
to consult with saff members of
he College Poultry Department andl
to exchange ideas among themselv
es, Gannon said.
Two special programs emphasta
ing the use of new kkitchen appli
ances and equipment in the prepar
ation of opultry dishes will bp
conducted for women attending.
Miss Doris Oglesby, Extern**
housing and equipment specialist,
will be in charge of these demon
st rat ions.
Gannon said that mothers and
fathers who bring the childdren
can attend program meetings v»ilb
out a worry by taking advantage
of nursery facilities and recreation
al programs which will be provided
morning, afternoon and night.
Gannon also pointed out that
ample housing by family groups
will be available throughout the
institute. Interested persons should
contact Mr. Gannon, Agricultural
Extension Annex, University of
Georgia, Athens, Georgia, for more
details and to make reservation*.
Meetings of the Georgia Egg
Association, the Georgia Poultry
Improvement Association, and Dir
ectors of The Georgia Poultry Fed
eration are planned in conjunction
with the institute.
The institute is sponsored by the
Poultry Division of the University
of Georgia College of Agriculture
fn cooperation with the State 4-H
Club office and the Georgia Feder
ation.
THE DAYS
OF AUGUST
AUGUST —the last full month of
[summer is a month with great
military significance, both for the
United States and for the worM.
It was in August 1914 that England
jand Germany wpnt to, war, and Vt
[was in August of 1939 that the
crisis over Poland came to a head,
ar.d caused World War 11. tThis
was actually declared three 'days
after ugust hd ended, on Septem
ber 3rd, 1939) ’
The first peace draft between
the United States and Spain 00.
curred on August 12th in 188 R
and the peace treaty with Turkey,
I which came after several ill-faled
[attempts by the allies to bring
I Turkey “into line” was signed on
, August 10th, 1920.
i Fulton's steamboat made its find
| trail Irip on August 11th, ISO 7,
and it is interesting to kknow that
iColumbus began his first voyage
| to the United States a week earlier
back in 1492,
! Merritt and Dewey took Manila,
[in 1898. for the Americans against
[the Spanish, in another military
[action remembered in August. And
on the 14th, in 1900, U. S. Troops
[entered Pekin. Also, in 1945 Japan
surrendered to the Allies, ending
World War 11.
OPEN HOUSE AT
HOSPITAL, AUG., 19
The Forsyth County Hospital
will celebrate the Second Anni
versary of it’sopening with OPEN
House on Wedridesday August ISI
The public is cordially invited
to visit the hospital between the
hours of 9 A. M. and 5 P. M.
The Auxiliary Volunteers w9i
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.
Hosce tentatively approves 3.1
billion aid funds.
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