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Cuirming, Georgia.
Basket Ball News
FORSYTH DIVIDES AGAIN
The Forsyth County High teams
visited Pickens County on Nov.,
20th and came away with a split
in (tames. The local girls jumped
to an early lead and kept It thru
out. One stage of the game only
five points separated the scores,
then Helen Gilbert found the range
on three set shots and a good lead
was gained again. Shirley Whitt
played as we think she can and
hit 18 points. Helen Gilbert shot
15. Joy Housley had four points
and handled the ball well. Janet
Henderson, Elbie Welch and Caro
lyn Pulliam gave a good perform
ance at guard. Carolyn Pulliam
looked especially good bringing the
ball up Court in the 3» 27 win.
The boys game was close all the
way and could have been won by
either team, but Pickens won by
4» 42. David Thompson played
his best game todate, shooting 15 j
points and working both back i
boards well. Russell Bulce did a |
fine job in holding their big scorer
to nine points and shooting six
himself. Charles Goff had seven
points and Sam Carroll ten. J. W.
Trammel started his first game
and gave a good account of himself
as he plaved in the injured James
Hammond’s place. James had a
sprained foot. 1
FREE HOME CARNIVAL A
810 SUCCESS
On Saturday evning, November
21, a large crowd enjoyed one of
the biggest and most successful
events sponsored by the Free Homo
School PTA. This was the big fall
festival sponsored by the organiza
tion to raise money for the project
of the year the installation of a
gas heating system in the gym.
The crowd enjoyed such activities
as Bingo, Cake Walk. Surprise
Packages, Fish pond, Wildlife ex
hibit, Toyland and Santa Claus,
Clows, and refreshments including
hot dogs, soft drinks, peanuts, and
popcorn balls. Many people won
valuable prize for Bingo and many
won delicious home baked cakes in
the Cake walk.
Two door prizes were awarded
to holders. Miss Florence Turner
won the Philco Radio and Forest
White won the Philco Dryer.
The Free Home School PTA has
117 members and has been instru
mental in much progress in the
Free Home School and community
In the few years It has been or
ganized. Mrs. Smith Wallace is the
president for this year.
Mr. Elbert Cochran, who is Chair
man of the Finance Committee and
who headed the planning for the
carnival, wishes to thank every
person and every organization who
helped in any way. Many of the
business establishments in both
Cherokee and Forsyth Counties con
tributed valuable prizes to be used.
From the Free Home School PTA
and from the entire community go
our heartfelt thanks for the won
derful cooperation to each and
every one who helped to make the
carnival the biggest success yet in
the history of our PTA.
Mrs. Darrell J. Brock
Publicity Chairman
IN MEMORY
OF FRED KARR WHO I>IEI>
AUGUST 27, 1958.
HE IS JUST AWAY
We cannot say and we will not
•ay
That he is dead he is just away—
With a cherry smile and a wave
of the hand
He has wandered into an unknown
land
And left us dreaming how very
fair
It needs must be, since he lingers
there
And you O you, who the wildest
yearn
For the old-time step and the glad
return
Tmink of him faring on, as dear
In the love of' There, as the love
of Here:
Think of him still as the same,
we say,
He is not dead he is just away.
Autor Unknown.
Mrs. Fred Karr and Children
CHATTAHOOCHEE HOC NEWS
The Chattahoochee HDC met on
Tuesday afternoon November 17th
at the schoolhouse with 10 mem
bers present and 1 visitor, Mrs.
Charles Robbs.
The meeting began with devot
ional by Miss Ruth Driskell. prayer
by all. Mrs. Wansley Watson read |
a poem “Harvest.” The minutes of ;
the last meeting were read by the
Secretary, Mrs. J. L. Robbs. Jr. and I
unproved. The Treasurer Mrs. E. G. |
Floyd gave a report.
The Club elected officers for the
coming year.
President Mrs. Wansley Watson
V-president -Mrs. J. L. Robbs, Jr.
Secretary Miss Caribel Driskell
As-Sec. Mrs. Joe Shadbum
Treasurer—Mrs. Ebb Floyd
Reporter Mrs. Howard Holland
The Christmas Party will be at
Mrs. Howard Holland’s on the
Third Tuesday in December at
11:30. Each one is to carry a cov
ered dish and a gift of SI.OO. The
members will exchange names at
the meeting.
The January meeting will be at
the schoolhouse at the regular time
Mrs. Eldred Watson led the re
creation by directing a game. The
members enjoyed writing a menu
for Thanksgiving by using the let
ters to spell Thanksgiving,
i Delicious refreshments and cof
fee were served by the hostess’
Mrs. Howard Holland and Mrs.
Paul Cagle
Miss Caribel Driskell, Reporter
A. S. C. NEWS
The 1960 cotton acreage allot
ment for Forsyth County has been
received from our State Office. We
are now preparing individual farm
allotments to be mailed to all cot
ton farm operators within the next
few days.
The Secretary of Agriculture has
proclaimed a national marketing
quota for the crop of cotton pro
duced in 1960.
A referendum of the farmers
who were engaged in the product
ion of cotton in 1959 will be held
on December 15, 1959 to determine
whether such farmers are in favor
of or opposed to the 1960 quota.
If two-thirds or more of the cot
ton farmers voting in the referen
dum favor the quota, such quota
will be in effect for the 1960 cotton
crop. If more than one third of
the cotton farmers voting in such
referendum oppose the quota, the
quota will not be in effect.
Farmers engaged in the product
ion of the 1959 crop of cotton as
owner-operator, cash tenant, stand
ing rent or fixed rent tenant, land
lord, of a share tenant, share ten
ant, or sharecropper shall be eligi
ble to vote.
If cotton marketing quotas are
voted in again for the 1960 crop
of cotton, farmers will have a
choice of planting Choice (A)
(which is the regular farm allot
ment) or Choice (B) (which is 40
percent more than the regular
farm allotment)—of course as the
farm allotment is increased the
nrice support is lowered. You will
be notified of the pece supoort ap
plicable for Choice (A) and Choice
(B) as soon as they are made av
ailable to us.
COAL MOUNTAIN HOC
Coal Mountain HOC met Novem
ber 11th at the Coal Mountain
Courthouse with ten present. Call
to orde*' by the president Mrs.
Roseoe Thomas. Devotional Psalms
100 was read by Mrs. Jimmy Mil
urn.
Roll call and rending of the
minutes by the acting secretary
Mrs. Bud Thomas. The dug wel
comed four new members. Mrs.
Weldon Corn, Mrs. Robert Charles
Mrs. Broughton Gravitt, Mrs. Char
les Martin. Business was electing
officers for 1960.
President- Mrs. Roseoe Thomas
V president- Mrs. Waldon Mundy
Secretary Mrs. Bud Thomas
Treasurer Mrs. Jimmy Milum
Reporter- Mrs. Broughton Gravitt
4-H Advisor Mrs. Weldon Corn
Mrs. Bannister gave a demon
stration on Holiday arrangements
and decorations. The social hours
was enjoyed by everyone Playing
Bingo. Refreshments were served
by Mrs. Jimmy Milum, Mrs. Bud
Thomas. Next month will be the
Christmas party. Everybody bring
a gift
Estie Holbrook. Reporter
Gilts and sows should be washed
with soap and water before they
are put into the farrowing house,
savs Ralph Williams, animal hus
bandman, AES.
Miss Lucile Higginbotham, health
education specialis, AES, advises
using a sturdy step-stool or ladder
when hanging curtains and thus
decrease chances of a fall.
On cotton. Georgia farmers are
currently using as much phosphor
ous as recommended, but less ni
trogen and potassium, decalrre ag
ronomists, AES.
Skim milk supplies the same im
portant nutrients that whole milk
proVdes. with the excepption of
vitamin A, savs Mrs. Mana Pratt,
nutritionist, AES.
Destroyers and acoustic mines
for Bonn urged.
The Forsyth County New*
C avey Thanks State
Editors For School Aid
ATLANTA- Safety Fire Commis
sioner Zack D. Cravey today thank
ed editors and publishers of Geor
gia’s weekly newspapers for the
play they have been giving the
Junior Fire Marshal program of
school fire safety education in
their communities.
“Space to a cause more worthy
than the teaching of our youth to
protect themselves, their communi
ty and their school mates from the
hazards of fire could not be giv
en," Commissioner Cravey declared
He said many of the papers were
running the names of the Junior
Marshals appointed in their local
and county schools as wel las ac
counts of their activities.
“I have always found Georgia
weekly editors most cooperative in
paojjects of public service,” Com
missioner Cravey continued. ’•This
clearly has been evident in their
unstinted support of the Junior
Fire Marshal program at all
times.”
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Ranger, Edward L. Wright
SENTINELS OF TH EFOREST
The least publicize but yet the
cakbone of our forest fire detection
system are our forest fire towers.
The fire towers, which are usu
ally located at the highest point of
elevation in the county, form a
network of detection post and com
munication system of greatest val
ue in the detection of wild fires
and the suppression thereof.
The towers' by themselves are of
no value unless a well trained tow
er operator is in charge.
The duties of the tower operator
don’t stop at spotting and report
ing smokes, but may go on to
help fighting them, to check weath
er station, and to keeping the tow
er grounds clean.
In itself it may not sound too
difficult, until one considers the
working hours required of them.
During the fire season or dry
weather, the towers are operated
seven days a week kuntil it rains
or the fire danger goes down. The
drier it gets; the longer the tower
operator must stay on duty. At
sundawn the tower is sill manned
if there is a fire still burning in
the county.
A few minor details a tower oper
ator copes with are the receiving
of the daily weather forecast, the
reporting of all wild fires and con
trol burns each day to the district
office, and the recording of all the
time spent in the county by our
patrol planes.
Of course the continual reports
of smokes on the radio is just
another problem for the tower
operators. Smokes are usually re
ported by signals and crews dis
patched to check smokes by sig
nals; but it just isn’t that easy.
A tower operator must use judg
ment on which smokes to check
and which ones appear to be just
control burns.
High Gasoline Taxes
On October Ist, millions of mot
orists began paying an extra penny
tax on each gallon of gasoline. A
one-cent tax on a gallon of gaso
line many not sound like much, but
it increased the level of taxes on
gasoline to about forty-seven per
cent on the national level.
The extra pennv tax on gasoline
was caused by inflation, which has
caused the price of building our
new federal highway system to in
crease appreciable since it was
first authorized. This is just one
of the many unpleasant results of
continued inflation in this country,
and is another example of the seri
ousness of the fight against in'
flation.
Obviously, when taxes reach ap
proximately fifty percent of the re
tail price of a product, it is time
to think of halting the trend. It is
estimated that two and one-quarter
billion dollars will be paid to the
federal government in gasoline tax
es. in 1960. This is about one-thirt
ieth of the entire federal budget.
In addition, another three and one
fifth billions will be paid to state
and local governments in gasoline
taxes.
Thus gasoline taxes alonge are
accounting for a thirtieth of the
entire national budget and for state
and local revenues in an even
greater amount. This seems to be
enough of- a load for gasoline tax
es to be earning.
FIREWORKS AND
ACC7DENTS
In some sections of the country,
especially the South, the fireworks
season is just beginning. As some
readers may not know, the South
generally celebrates Christmas with
fireworks while most of the rest
of the country uses fireworks al
most exclusively on the Fourt of
July.
The custom in the South origi
nated in the New Orleans area,
wehre the French influence spread
into other areas of the South. But
the topic of this is not tied to any
section but is concerned with the
general practice of using fireworks
—at whatever time of the year.
Just recently a small boy lost the
sight of one eye when he exper
ienced an accident with fireworks
This is nothing new, and has been
happening for years and years.
We do not know, or propose, any
solution which would prevent this
from ever occurring again.
For, we suspect that people will
continue to use fireworks, and that
children will continue to use fire
works which actually should be
used only bby older persons.
Adults, however, can see to it
that the practice is somewhat bet
ter regulated, and parents can of
ten avoid accidents by properly in
doctrinating their children in the
use of fireworks. Certain types of
fireworks, of course, should not be
available to children, and enforce
ment of sensible, reasonable limi
tations in this regard should be
conscientiously administered in our
communities.
FARM CENSUS TAKERS HAVE
TRAINING COURSE
Census takers for Forsyth Coun
ty in the 1959 Census of Agricul
ture have been appointed and have
had an intensive training course in
preparation for the start of the
field canvass it was announced to
day bv Crew Leader Jonathan Mc-
Connell.
The training session was held at
Dawsonville and was conducted by
the crew leader who recently at
tended a five day census training
course at Gainesville,
The training course covered the
use of the Census questionnaire.
Census definitions, interviewing,
and may reading. Emphasis will
be placed on the importance of lo
cating every farm and obtaining
complete and accurate information.
The census takers conducted some
actual interviews as part of the
training.
Census takers who completed the
training and will be working in
Forsyth County are: Mrs. R. W.
Evans, Mr. Jack Milford, Mrs. Thel
ma Kupper, Mrs. Inez Bolton, Mrs.
Mozelle Flovd, r. orris Wood, Mrs.
Reatha McConnell, Mrs. Ruby Hol
brook.
Antifreeze!
MOW is the time to get your car
serviced and install antifreeze
for winter— We tighten all bolts,
nuts, gasketts, and install anti
freeze that will take care of your
car all winter.
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