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Mr. Gilbert W. Winters
Deer Creek Garden
Club feature gemologist
Gilbert W. Withers, curator
and lecturer of the Gems and
Minerals of the World Museum
in Atlanta, will be guest speaker
at the Deer C reek Garden Club
meeting on Monday, January 8,
1973 at 7:00 p.m. The meeting
will be held at Bank of Cum
in ing, Lanier Room.
I Mr. Withers, a gemologist,
is one of the nation’s leading
authorities on gemstones and
fninerals. In 1965, he designed
and installed the Atlanta mus
eum for Fulton Federal Savings
jind Loan Association at 21
Edgewood Avenue. He makes
over 200 lectures a year under
the Association’s sponsorship.
A native of Atlanta, Mr. Wi
thers has devoted almost forty
years to-traveling and writing
as well as collecting, cutting,
and polishing gems. He opened
Atlanta’s first commercial lap
idary or gem-cutting shop in
1939 after nine years of collect
ing and cutting stones just a a
hoby.
He was founder and presi
dent of Pan - Electronics Cor
poration which manufactured
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They hold the mustard
but not the heart.
One hot dog doesn’t bring in a lot of profit, but the
sale of thousands does. In Rome, Women of the
Georgia Power Company serve hot dogs to hungry
football spectators. They operate a concession stand
to raise money for the Rome Boys’ Club, and have
donated nearly $20,000 just to this project.
The Gainesville Women of Georgia Power send
monthly gifts to patients at Central State Hospital.
Other chapters give their time and energy to projects
that include day care centers and nursing homes.
These women get no pay for their work. They are
employes, or the wives of employes, who enjoy
helping people.
Our job goes beyond supplying electricity. The
people who work here, and their families, share that
belief. Whether dressing a hot dog or organizing an
educational loan fund, the Women of Georgia Power
help to prove that “A citizen wherever we serve” is
more than a slogan. It’s a reality.
Georgia Power Company
A citizen wherever we serve ®
quartz crystal oscillators for
the armed forces’ communica
tions equipment during World
War II and the Korean War.
Between wars, he spent mostof
his live traveling to many
famous gem mines of the world.
Later he organized an im
port-export company in Atlanta
dealing in precious and semi
precious gem materals from
38 countries. World Gem Cor
poration, a it was known, was
one of the largest firms of its
kind in the world supplying more
than 4000 gem and mineral
shops throughout the United St
ates and Canada. Mr. Withers
reigned as president of the
corporation in 1963 and the com
pany moved toMiami.
Few men know gems, their
romance, history, geology, and
geography as thoroughly as Gil
Withers and few can talk about
them as entertainingly.
Husbands of Garden Club me
mbers will be guests.
Hostesses are Mrs. Lee Mc-
Clure. Mrs. Thomas UDSon.
Mrs. B.M. Crain and Mrs. Hol
lis Morris.
Dental treatment for
Georgia Veterans
ATLANTA—Ac
cording to Georgia Veterans
Service Director Pete Wheeler,
there are many veterans in Ge
orgia who may be eligible to
receive outpatient dental treat
ment from the Veterans Admin
istration. He said that in many
cases there are certain time
restrictions which must be ob
served in order to secure such
dental treatment but that there
are some exceptions.
Wheeler explained," A vet
eran with a service-connected,
compensable dental disability
or condition will be provided
dental treatment without regard
to time limitations. He may
apply for treatment at any time.
Also, he will not be restricted
as to the number of treatments
which may be required to cor
rect the condition.
"These same dental services
with no time limitations or re
strictions will also be provided
to a veteran having a service
connected, noncompensable de
ntal condition or disability re
sulting from combat wounds,
service trauma or if he was
a prisoner-of-war.”
Time limitations on applying
for and completing VA dental
treatment apply to those vet
erans having service-con
nected, noncompensable dental
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to have been in existence at
the time of discharge from
active service. Application
must be made within one year
of the date of discharge and an
examination must be accompli
shed within 14 months of the
discharge date. Wheeler em
phasized that it is "imperat
ive that the application for tre
atment be filed before any
examination is made. Otherwise
examination is made. Oth
erwise,” he said,"the VA will
not provide dental service or
treatment.”
Under these restrictions tre
atment will be authorized on
a one-time completion basis
and the dreatment must be com
pleted within three years of the
date of discharge unless delayed
through no fault of the veteran.
Wheeler said that the pro
blem of long delays in secur
ing dental service and treat
ment from VA medical facili
ties has been" substantially
alleviated.” And he added, "In
asmuch as the conditions and
circumstances whereby a vet
eran might qualify for VA den
tal work are many and complex,
I advise any interested veteran
to contact the nearest office
of the Georgia Department of
Veterans Service to find out
about. It posit o:-..
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jjNoit/i Georgia financial
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to save where
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Household
shower for
J. G. Greenes
There will be a household
shower held at Friendship Bap
tist Church, Jan. sth from 7 to
9 p.m. for Mr. and Mrs. J.G.
Green.
The Green's lost their home
Christmas morning by fire.
Mrs. Smith
joins Go.
Power
Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Smith
named to the Georgia Power
Company as an executive as
sistant, Edwin I. Hatch, presi
dent, announced this week.
Mrs. Smith’s duties will in
clude coordinating activities for
the 42 chapters of Women of
Georgia Power Company and
serving as liaison with women’s
organizations throughout Geo
rgia.
Mrs. Smith joined Georgia
Power in 1959 as a home equip
ment specialist. Earlier this
year she was named a field
supervisor in the agricultural
development and youth activi
ties deoartment.
A native of Birmingham, Mrs.
Smith attended Judson College
and received a bachelor of
science degree in home eco-
Mayor Ford Gravitt receives
Kiwanis award
The Cummlng Kiwanis Club
announces that the winner of
their Public Ser uce of the Mon
th Award for December is Mr.
Ford Gravitt, the young Mayor
of the City of Cumming. Ford
was given this award because
of his interest in all the boys
and girls of this County. His
leadership in getting the new
Cumrnine Citv Park is known
by all the people of the Co
unty. He is working now with**
members of the City Council
nomics from Sanford Univer
sity.
Mrs. Smith is a member of
the American and Georgia Home
Economics Associations and the
Electrical Women's Round
fAVjn Elliott - Vaugkters
■WaliWa Equipment Co.
BACKHOES DOZERS
FRONT END LOADERS UNI-LOADERS
CASE & DAVID BROWN
AGRICULTURE TRACTORS
Gainesville, Ga,
(6 Mi. out on the Dawsonville Hwy.)
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS - JAN. 4, 1973
on several new city projects
Ford is a graduate of For
syth County High School. He
played football and was a lea
der in many other activities
in high school.
Mr. Gravitt will be guest
of the Cumming Kiwanis Club
where he will receive his ci
tation and have his name ad
ded : > tie ilaque in the Cum
ming Kiwanis Club Communi
ty House. Other winners have
been: Lamar Orr, Gerald Bla
table. She also is a member
of the Business and Profess
ional Women’s Club, the Geo
rgia Nutrition Council, the Wo
men’s Chamber of Commerce
and the Episcopal Church.
ckburn, and Rev. Bob Bow
ling.
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