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Volume 52.
PRAYKR FOR TODAY
Our Father in Heaven with humble hearts we thank thee
for all things.
Especially help those that are underpriviledge, out of
work and in need of many things.
In thy Name we ask.
—Amen,
Cumming Elementary
Honor Roll Students
Fifth 6 Weeks Period
Second Grade —Jimmy Benson,
Jimmy Carnes, Jerry Farr, Scotty
Gravitt, Stephen Hansard, Jim
Otwell, Judy Pruitt, Dyanne Pruitt,
Dianne Whitmire, Kathy Thomas,
Richard Pruitt, Jimmy Shelton,
Carole Castleberry, Vickie Phillips,
Charles Anderson, Angela Bagley,
Sandra Bennett, Carolyn Bolton,
Judy Frazier, Tony Gravitt, Curtis
Hughes, Patsy Jones, Linda Martin,
Caroline Otwell, Debbie Samples,
Terry Samples, Randall BLackstock,
Kathy Daniel, Martha Sosebee,
Ricky Streetman, Beth Tallant,
Jackie Tallant, Paul Williams and
Laura Fowler.
Third Grade: Dowell Corn, Janice
Wheeler, Elizabeth Hansard, Mar
tha Fagan, Dwight Milum, Susan
Mashburn, and Carolyn Merritt.
Fourth Grade: Brenda Hitt, Gay
le Martin, Jean Watson, Judy Mun
day, Cathy Burruss, Stephen Ben
nett, and Dairy Boling.
Fifth Grade: Rochelle Bannister,
Dinda Benefield, Shirley Benefield,
Devon Bennett, Steven Benson,
Judy Cash, Elaine Coots, Ann
Hughes, Pete Martin, Shannon
Mize, and Butch Wills.
Sixth Grade: Beverly Bennett,
Gail Bramblett and Susan Gravitt.
Seventh Grade: Dera Boling, Di
ane Deaton, Penny Grogan, Brenda
Damb and Phyllis Potts.
Landrums Proposals On
Federal Aid To Education
Accepted By Committee
The Education and Dabor Com
mittee of the House of Representa
tives has agreed to accept the re
commendations of Ninth District
Congressman Phil Dandrum in de
leting one of the major federal
control features of the proposed
Federal Aid to Education Bill.
For several years, Congressman
Dandrum has advocated that all
control of our public schools must
remain with the States and local
governments and any federal aid
to education legislation should
make this fact clear. All of the
bills in the past have contained
objectionable federal features.
Representative Dandrum asked
the Committee to delete one sec
tion of the bill which would have
required the States to spend ten
per cent of the federal funds for
special programs. Dandrum em
phasized that this section was in
direct conflict with the provision
disclaiming federal control. Secre
tary Ribicoff said that Dandrum
would have the Administration’s
support in seeking removal of
this section and the Education
Committee subsequently agreed to
delete it from the bill.
Landrum stated that there is
without question, great need lor
additional financial assistance for
our public schools and that he
feels that the bill now has a much
better chance of passage with the
acceptance of his proposal. If pass
ed in its present form, the bill
would, provide approximately $26
million to Georgia this year to be
used for school construction and
teacher’s salaries.
NOTICE
START SPRING WITH A SWING.
Come to a Square Dance in the
Gymnasium, on Saturday, May 6th,
at 8:00 P. M. Sponsored by the
Forsyth County Jaycettes. Well-
Known Band and top callers.
Come one-Come all!
The Forsyth County News
FASTEST GROWING NEWSPAPER IN NORTH GEORGIA BY A DAM SITE
DEVOTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF FORSYTH, FULTON, CHEROKEE, DAWSON, LUMPKIN, HALL AND GWINNETT COUNTIES.
(City Population 2,500)
Proclamation
Soil Stewardship Week
By The Governor
WHEREAS:
Soil is one of our most important
natural resources, producing foods,
fibers and innumberable products
necessary to life and happiness;
and
WHEREAS:
Good soil is the first requisite for
successful farming and it is es
sential that soil conservation be
emphasized and practiced if we are
to continue to maintain and im
prove good land; and
WHEREAS:
We realize the need of coopera
tion in movements to improve and
protect our farm land and to sup
port the program of the State Soil
Conservation Committee and other
groups engaged in this activity;
THEREFORE
I, S. Ernest Vandiver, Governor
of Georgia, do hereby proclaim the
week of May 7-14, 1961, as “SOID
STERWARDSHIP WEEK” in Geor
gia, and urge our citizens. to co
operate in every possible way to
hid this worthy movement which
means so much to all our people.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I
have hereunto set my hanfi and
caused the Seal of the Executive
Department to be affixed. This 10th
day of March, 1961.
S. Ernest Vandiver, Governor.
By The Governor,
Peter Zack Greer,
Secretary, Executive Department.
Letter Of Appreciation
Mr. Roy P. Otwell, Sr., Chairman
Forsyth County Board of Education
Cumming, Georgia
Dear Sir:
On behalf of the Chestatee
School Communities we would like
to take this means of expressing
our thanks to you and the other
Board Members for the manner
in which you have administered the
Building program.
Chestatee School has received
its share of the bond money and
a little more. We occupied our
building on April 17, and held
open house last week. In closing
may I say that your adminstration
of this and other matters will
insure that the youth of Forsyth
County receive a good public
school education.
Sincerely yours,
John D. Garner, Prin.
Applications Open
A. C. Ross, District Director,
Internal Revenue Service, Atlanta,
announced today that he now has
available application forms for per
sons, other than attorneys and
certified Public Accountants, who
wish to take qualifing examina
tions for practice before the Treas
ury Department.
The 196jL Special Enrollment
tests will be given in this IRS
district on September 27 and 28.
Applications must be mailed to
the Director of Practice, Internal
Revenue Service, Washington 25,
D. C., before August 1, 1961. A
fee of $25 must be paid with the
application.
Enrollment is required of per
sons wishing to represent clients
in tax matters before the Depart
ment, and in certain other actions.
Director Ross said twenty-seven
took the 1960 examination in this
District.
Cumming, Georgia, Thursday, May 4, 1961.
proclamation
As Mayor of the City of Cumming Ga.
I submit the following:
WHEREAS:
Our hospitals are engaged in providing
high standard health care for our com
munity; and
WHEREAS:
Our hospitals are community service
institutions, and are ever responsive to
changing community health needs and
WHEREAS:
Our hospitals look to their partner
ship with the community to provide the
best possible program of health care for
the public,
BE IT RESOLVED:
That this community, in recognition
of National Hospital Week, May 7-13,
salutes its hospitals for their provision
of a vital communinty service and fur
ther accepts its responsibility as a part
ner in providing the health care services
which answer the community need.
Dr. Marcus Mashburn, Sr.
by Ralph W. Holbrook
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YOUR HOSPITAL A COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP
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Your Hospital - A Community
Partnership
A working partnership between
hospital and community is necess
if a community’s health is to be
maintained at its highest level,
Mr. Henry Thornton, administer
of the Forsyth County Hospital,
said today.
Without the hospital, many in
dividuals would not realize their
“heritage of health,” while with
out the community’s support and
understanding, the hospital would
be unable to meet the community’s
health needs, he noted.
“Your Hospital—A Community
Partnership” is the theme of Na
tional Hospital Week, May 7-13.
This observance, first celebrated
as National Hospital Day from
1921 to 1953, has since been ob
served as National Hospital Week.
It is sponsored by the American
Hospital Association and is held
each year during the week of
Florence Nightmggales’s birthday
(May 12).
The hospital’s major responsibili
ty in its community partnershp is
patient care, Thornton said. “The
magnitude of this service is illus
trated by the fact that one of
every eight persons will be ad
mited to a hospital this year.”
Patient care is constantly im
NOTICE
By order of the Mayor and Council
it is declared unlawful and punishable by
$5.00 fine to throw Beer Cans, Garbage or
any Rubbish on the City Streets or side
walks.
J. G. Davenport,
Chief of Police.
proving, he noted, through medi
cal advances, the development of
new equipment and services, and
better training of personnel.
Two responsibilities of the hos
pital, which in turn are compon
ents of patent care, are education
and training of personnel, and
medical research. An additional
responsibility of hospitals is pre
ventive medcine. Hospitals assist in
detecting and reporting communi
cable disease, and offer educational
programs in such areas as pre-nat
al care, nutrition and mental hy
giene.
The community’s role in this
partnership for health is equally
vital, Mr. Thornton said, outlining
five areas of community respon
sibility.
Its most direct tie is through
the hospital’s governing board,
composed of community leaders.
They set the board policies for
the hospital and have complete
responsibility for everything that
goes on in the hospital.
The other four areas he noted
were:
—Community encouragement of
young people to enter health car-
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County Population 15,000, Number 18
Poster And Composition
Contest Winners
The winners of the Composition
Contest and Poster Contest were
awarded ribbons and silver dollars
last Tuesday morning by the Presi
dent of the Cumming Garden Club
Mrs. Vernon Martin. These contests
were sponsored by the Garden
Club as one phase in a Community
Improvement Campaign.
The Composition contest was con
ducted in grades five through sev
en in the elementary school and
were to be not over 250 words.
The compositions were identified
by code without any contestant’s
name appearing on their paper.
The subject was “I can help Im
prove My Community” and there
were around fifty participants.
Composition winners were: First,
Nancy Heard; .Second, Debbie Ta
tum; Third, Gail Bramblett; and
Honorable mention winners were
Peggy Sudderth, Sheila Reeves,
and Phyllis Potts. Winners were
in 6A with the exception of Phyllis
Potts who is in 7A. The top three
were given 3,2, and 1 silver dol
lars.
The Poster contest was divided
into two groups, the first and
second grades being in group I
and the second and third grades
in Group 11. The poster winners
were given blue, red and yellow
ribbons and the posters will be on
display in the windows of local
merchants for the next several
weeks. There were twenty-two
I participants in this contst.
Winners: Group I
First-2D (Mrs. Datrelle Brooks,
teacher)
Second-IA (Mrs. A. R. Housley,
teacher)
Third-lC (Mrs. Marcellas Samples,
teacher)
Winners: Group II
First-4 A (Mrs. M. B. Sutton,
teacher)
Seeond-3D (Mrs. Robert McClure,
teacher)
Third-4A (Mrs. M. B. Sutton,
teacher)
Honorable Mention-3D (Mrs. Rob
bert McClure, teacher)
The Essay Committee of the
Cumming Garden Club wishes to
thank all of the elementary and
high school students, teachers, and
principals, fair their entustastic
participation in the community
improvement contest.
Below is printed the First place
Composition by Nancy Heard:
April 14, 1961.
I Can Help Improve My
Community
I think one of the best ways to
to improve my community is to
help keep it clean and beautiful.
We must not throw out trash. We
can keep a bag in the car for this
I can keep the ground clean a
round my school and church. At
home I can keep the weeds out
of our garden- I can keep the
grass clipped around the mail box
occasionally. I can keep the
drive and walks swept clean.
When I pass someone walking
to church I can pick them up and
carry them. This will help to
make friendlier neighbors. If I
know of someone who is sick in
the community I can carry them
a warm dish of food; I could also
pick some flowers and take to
them. I could help keep the trash
off the grounds of my father’s
place of business.
I can tell my friends about my
ideas of improving my community.
Maybe they will want to help me!
BLOODMOBILE
The Bkwdmobile will be at
The Gumming Gymnasium on
June 1, 1961, Thursday A. M.
at 10:06 and will remain there
until 3:00 P. M. If you or
your family have received
blood since the last visit of the
blood mobile, please make ar
rangments to BE At THE GYM
or SEND SOMEONE TO RE
PLACE IT.
Loy Barnett Named
County Chairman Of
Cerebral Palsy Drive
Sheriff Loy Barnett has been
named 1961 County Chairman for
Cerebral Palsy to be held by Uni
ted Cerebral Palsy of Georgia in
May.
Announcement of Sheriff Bar
nett’s appointment was made this
week by Denmark Groover, pres
ident of United Cerebral Palsy of
Georgia.
“It is a privilege and an honor
for me to serve as Chairman of
United Cerebral Palsy’s “52 Minute
March,” Sheriff Barnett said. The
campaign theme, he noted, has
extreme significance for it points
up the fact that every 53 minutes,
every day of the year, cerebral
palsy ; continues to strike, and
there is no cure. But those afflict
ed with cerebral palsy can be
helped with our support.”
The Peace Officers Association
of Georgia has adopted United
Cerebral Palsy of Georgia as its
project, Sheriff Barnett revealed.
He said members of the peace
officers organization are coopera
ting and will conduct similar cam
paigns throughout the state.
“We, the peace officers, are most
interested in crime prevention”
Sheriff Barnett declared. ‘We con
sider cerebral palsy a horrible of
fender and we can help prevent
: its criminal, crippling action by
raisin the necessary funds to fight
i it through research” he added.
Cumming Scouts To Go
To Rock Eagle May 6-9
Eight Explorers of the North
east Georgia Council, Boy Scouts
of America, will participate in the
Explorer Delegate Conference to
be held at Rock Eagle 4-H Club
Center near Eatonton, Ga., May
6-9.
Explorers are young men age 14
through 18 who are active in the
older boy program of the Boy
Scouts. Attending the Conference
will be about 1,000 Explorers of
Region Six which covers Florida,
Georgia, North and South Caro
lina.
Those attending will hear talks
by outstanding scientists, business
executives, professional men, tele
vision stars, and Boy Scout offici
als. Also planned are discussion
groups, competitive events, exhi
bits, and election of officers.
According to Scout Executive,
Josh Molder, those attending from
the Northeast Georgia Council will
be: Edwin Otwell, leader, Hurman
Knight, Paul E. Yarbrough, Jr.,
Johnny Redd, and Garry Corn, all
of Cumming; Bobby D. Goss, Mike
McDonald, and Dawrence H.Mc-
Crary, all of Elberton.
“The Phoenix” To Be
Presented In Atlanta
“The Phoenix,” a two-hour pa
geant commerating the role the
people of Atlanta played in the
Civil War, will be staged by the
City of Atlanta at Chastain Me
morial Amphitheatre July 3 and 4.
The production, commissioned by
Mayor William B. Hartsfield and
the Board of Aldermen, will be
the City’s contribution to the
centennial year of the War Be
tween the States.
Mayor Hartsfield has named Albert
Coleman, originator and conductor
of the Atlanta Pop Concerts, to
produce and direct the pageant,
which will feature a cast of 200
actors, singers and dancers, sup
ported by music of the Atlanta
Pops Orchestra.
Elmo Ellis, manager of program
ming and production at WSB
Radio, wrote the script for “Hie
Phoenix ”
"Atlanta is famous as the city
that grew miraculously from the
ashes of Civil War destruction,
just as the fabled bird, the Phoenix
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