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Some Big Turnips and Bushels of Pure Com
The following item is taken from October 21,
1943 edition of The Forsyth County News:
“Mr. Elmer Fagan came in...with some of
the largest turnips that we have seen this year.
Three of these weighed over six pounds. The
salad tops were 18 inches high...”
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The following items are taken from October
19 1950 edition of The Forsyth County News:
100 BUSHEL CORN CONTEST:
“Professor Sam T. Todd’s class of Veteran
Trainees have done it again. A self-sponsored
com contest has brought results. With the
majority of the class planting the new hybrid
Georgia 101 the entire class average was 101.94
bushels of corn per acre.”
“listed below are the winners and the amont
won—plus the amount of com produced per
acre.”
“Bill Bennett. SSO-180 bushels per acre;
Major Mullinax, S2O-157.7 bushels per acre;
Royce Samples sls-127.0 bushels per acre;
E.C. Brackett, $lO-122.9 bushels per acre; Mr.
Fowler, $7.50-120.5 bushels per acre; Weldon
Stuart, $5-119.8 bushels per acre; Broughton
Voyles, $5-117.0 bushels per acre; Glenn.
Tallant, $5-111.6 bushels per acre; Silvey
Bearden, $5-111.2 bushels per acre; Mr. Meeks,
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A Garbage Campaign
We watched the Atlanta mayor’s
race very closely as, like it or not, it
probably means a great deal to
Forsyth County.
We’d have to say that, all things
considered, we are fairly satisfied
with the results.
Our favorites fell in the first go
around and when the smoke cleared
the voters were left with incumbent
Mayor Sam Massell pitted against
incumbent Vice-Mayor Maynard
Jackson in the mayor’s race.
The City Council President’s race
went into the finals with Wyche
Fowler pitted against Civil Rights
Activist Hosea Williams.
Massell first showed his colors as a
dirty politicker in his successful first
race for mayor. During the final
weeks of the election he started
screaming about anti-semitism when
in fact few persons realized he is
Jewish.
This time Massell the mouth tried
to link up with white moderate Fowler
and at the same time create a slate
out of Jackson and Williams.
Williams, no close ally of Jackson’s
to start with, got into the race as a
protest candidate and was as sur
prised as anyone to find himself in the
runoff. He received the votes of
disgruntled black persons who found
themselves without a serious black
candidate for the Council president
post. They obviously believed his tale
of a high level deal.
Massell tried to polarize Atlanta
with scare tactics claiming the city
TO THE EDITOR
A Poem
IS
Guest Editorial
Enough is Enough
Now that Billie Jean King has
demonstrated that a woman in her
thirties an beat a man in his fifties on
a given day, we hope that that will be
the end of it.
It was good circus. It was fun for
awhile, but enough is enough. We
have an unfortunate tendency to
overdo things, to run them into the
ground.
The whole foolishness made a lot of
$5-105.3 bushels per acre; John Lummus, $5-
102.5 bushels per acre. John Lummus, Class;
Reporter”
“The Kiwanis Club held their regular weekly
meeting Monday night October 16. The election
of new officers for the following year was held
and they are as follows:
“Clyde Mize, President, Joe Brooks, Vice
"President.”
“The new Board of Directors are: Roy P.
Otwell, J.C. Cates, W.J. Poole, John Pittard.”
“We had 100 percent attendance for the first
time this year.”
“MILLEDGEVILLE—Cumming has the
second largest of the first fifty Future
Homemaker chapters to get organized in the
state during the 1950-51 school year. Dorothy
Jean Sexton, Route 5, is president. The chapter
has 83 members, and is second only to the Pavo
Chapter, which has 84.”
“Miss Wilma Ivie is homemaking teacher at
Cumming...”
“The officers of the Cumming chapter,
besides its president, are Mary Ann Thomas,
vice-president; Theresa Fowler, secretary;
Evelyn Martin, treasurer; Louwellen Worley,
OCTOBER 24, 1973
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would die without him. Many white
voters saw through his garbage
campaign and went with Jackson, a
proven moderate who has worked
well with blacks and whites.
A good number of black voters
found Hosea’s radical style a bit too
much and cast their ballots for
Fowler, another man who can work
with both sides.
The split ballots are certainly a sign
of the city’s maturity and will serve to
heal some of the wounds inflicted by
Mayor Sam during his hate cam
paign.
The importance of the election to
Forsyth County is fairly obvious.
Massell predicted massive white
flight and Forsyth County remains a
pretty secure place for the white
family trying to escape the blackness
of the central city.
We hope he is wrong.
Forsyth County has room to grow
and will grow but we’d rather see the
growth come with persons who
simply find our county a nice place to
live. We’re not ready for any grand
scale invasion by fugitives of fear
directed by a half-pint hate monger
like Massell.
The leadership of Fowler and
Jackson is appropriate for Atlanta
during the next four years. W expect
those years to be interesting ones and
predict much good will come from
them.
We’re hoping we’ll see the day when
Massell eats those words of fear he
planted. For now we’re just happy to
know that his wad is shot.
A Recipe for Halloween
Take a dozen witches,
Broomsticks five or six,
Several hundred goblins,
Each one up to tricks.
Take some owls a-hooting,
And some screaming cats,
Jack-o-lanterns spooky,
Several hundred bats.
Stir them all together,
The last day of October,
And you will surely have,
A black pot boiling over
On Halloween Night
On Halloween an old witch flies,
Upon her broomstick thru the skies,
And gleaming goblins dressed in white,
Go gliding, sliding thru the night.
And big black bats with big black wings,
Go flop against the wall and things.
money for various people. Mrs. King
received $200,000 for winning, Riggs
SIOO,OOO for losing. The ABC-TV
network received some $1.2 million
for 15 minutes of commercials during
the televised match.
Let’s have no more re-matches or
other June-December pairings.
Perhaps the whole affair will increase
interest in real tennis.—Anniston
(Ala.) Star
CUMMING, GEORGIA
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parliamentarian; Maurine Boling, historian;
Guynell Day, publicity chairman; Shirley Ann,
Wofford, recreation chairman; Suzanne
Calloway, projects chairman; and Mrs. Glen
Flowler and Mrs. Jake Wolfe, chapter
mothers.”
MATT 4-H CLUB
“...we elected the new officers as follows:
“President, Carolyn Byers, Vice President,
Shirlev Pace. Secretary. Martha Sue Pirkle,
parliamentarian; Maurine Boling, historian;
Guynell Day, publicity chairman; Shirley Ann,
Wofford, recreation chairman; Suzanne
Calloway, projects chairman; and Mrs. Glen
Flowler and Mrs. Jake Wolfe, chapter
mothers.”
MATT 4-H CLUB
“...we elected the new officers as follows:
“President, Carolyn Byers, Vice President,
Shirley Page, Secretary, Martha Sue Pirkle,
Law
With
Order
Juel Sealey
Newsweek carried the story this week about
the conviction of “Mr. Law and Order.”
All of us know of whom the article is written.
It brings to mind a very deep need that our
nation, and we as individuals have. It is a need
to be honest.
Honesty is a priceless treasure that has a
way of disappearing unless we constantly
guard it. We are constantly tempted to be
dishonest. Self-interest makes “shady things”
and “shortcuts” that are just within the law
seem reasonable and justified. It makes a very
strong appeal to those who envy others for their
wealth or are impatient with the small salary
they are making or are facing a financial crisis.
It even tells men, at such times, that there is no
truth in the old proverb that honesty is the best
policy, but that dishonesty has been the best
policy for many people who knew how to get
away with it.
It is not only those who are weak in con
science who are tempted by self-interest to be
just a little dishonest. Others also condone
dishonesty by thinking of it as “smart” or
merely as something that other people do
without anyone finding out.
Honesty must be more to us than merely a
good policy before it can be real honesty and
become part and parcel of our lives. We must
love honesty for its own sake because it is right
and because God requires it.
In the highest sense, honesty always pays.
When some people compare the little they gain
from honest employment with the wealth en
joyed by men who got it by dishonest means,
they say that they cannot see why God allows
the unjust to prosper while the just have to
struggle along as best they can. The fault is not
with God but with their own vision. They have
eyes to see financial values. They do not see the
value in self-respect strong character, a good
reputation, a clear conscience before God.
Where does honesty begin? It begins within
oneself. Perhaps the hardest thing any of us
ever do is to learn to see ourselves as we are.
Someone has said that if you wish to know the
truth about yourself you should ask a candid
and kind friend. Perhaps no one is fully capable
of judging himself. Sometimes we are too kind
in judging ourselves. Less often we judge
ourselves too harshly.
To judge ourselves we must have a standard
to measure against. Human beings vary in
virtues and vices. It is customary for us to
stress our virtues and minimize our vices and
to fool ourselves into believing we are better
than we are.
Is it possible for a human being to stand off
and really appraise himself? Can he be that
objective? Very few have either the honesty or
the insight to judge themselves. But God has
given us one who can be a measuring stick for
us. We believe Jesus had a true appraisal of
himself when he asked, “Who of you accuses
me of sin?”
So, if we wish to find out what progress we
are making in character development, we can
go to Jesus Christ and compare what we are to
what He is. We can ask Him to reveal us to
ourselves as we are. Ibis takes courage, for we
are not likely to like what we discover.
Beside His crystal purity our lives seem to be
full of all kinds of impurity. When we discover
that we are not as noble as we thought we were,
we are at the point where he can really help us.
Once we know what is wrong, we can begin to
correct it.
Fortunately, God forgets the past and allows
us to make a new start each day. The future is
like a clean slate and we can begin now to make
it better than the past.
Remember, an honest person is honest
always and everywhere. An honest person is
honest all the way through. The person who
proposes to be honest in the main is not honest
at all. Honesty is not something you can put on
and take off. It is in the fiber.
Sealey is a former paster of Gumming
United Methodist Church and Lake Lanier
Interdenominational Chapel at Baldridge
Marina.
Getting Smart
If vanity prompted people to take as
much trouble improving their minds
as they do with their looks the ranks
of stupidity would be thinned.—
Charleston (S.C.) News and Courier
Back
When?
Norma Weber
RB _
Reporter, Vivian Harrison.”
The following items are taken from October
22,1953 edition of The Frosyth County News:
“The Sawnee Valley Garden Club met with
Mrs. Ediwn 0twe11...”
“The meeting was called to order by the
president, Mrs. J.L. Bannister with a formal
roll call. The following members were present:
Mrs. Weldon Bramblett, Mrs. Paul Yarbrough,
Mrs. Marcellas Samples, Mrs. Charlie
Gazaway, Mrs. Hugh Crawford, Mrs.
Crawford Rowe, Mrs. Doris Graham, Mrs.
Carl Curits, Mrs. Jim Mashbum, and Mrs.
F.L. Potts. Mrs. Potts was welcomed as a new
member at the meeting.”
Feature attractions at the meeting were the
arrangements from four of the members. Mrs.
Jim Mashburn’s arrangement of Persimmon
and Sassafras was a special highlight and was
admired for its fall array of colors and artistic
lines. Two arrangements of Chrysanthemums
were beautifully featured as mass
arrangements by Mrs. Edwin Otwell and Mrs.
Weldon Bramblett. Mrs. Paul Yarbrough’s
minature arrangement of a mixed collection of
fall flowers was admired as interesting and
decorative.”
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’On your toes now, Major-!’
Satan Cultists Want
A God with Clout
Billy Williams
“We are going to end up with a human
sacrifice,” predicted Sheriff Ed Duff of
Volusia County some time ago.
He was right. Last April, Ross Michael
Cochran, 17, was put on an altar of Satan and
was beaten with chains and slashed to death in
the basement of a rundown rooming house in
Deland, Fla.
Deborah A. Shook, 22, gave the Volusia
circuit court jury a description of the murder
involving youths who came from many areas
of the country to worship a god with clout.
I use the term god, lower case, for according
to teachings, Satan was an immortal who built
Pandemonium from Chaos. Deland’s Satan
worshipers are not unique.
Witches, warlocks, strange demon cults are
operating in many areas of the United States
today. I once got a book giving do-it-yourself
instructions for calling up Beezebub. I did not
try to make the necessary circles and
triangles, for that demon is the last thing I
want to see.
We go through history, and from time to time
This and That
Bossy Request Red China has served notice
on us that U.S.-China relations will not improve
unless we decide to cut off all U.S. relations
with Taiwan and recognize the People’s
Republic as the sole legitimate government of
China. Are they now calling the tune to which
we have to dance?
Law of the Sea A conference on the law of the
sea was slated for November by the United
Nations General Assembly’s Political Com
mittee. Japan and the Soviet loc want to see
the conference stalled a while, for their own
reasons. With all the difficulties between
nations about fishing and other rights, this sea
law is badly needed now.
Chileans Work Longer Chile’s new govern
ment has mandated a four-hour Saturday
extension of the work week. The new 48-hour
toil will life Chile by its own bootstraps,
believes the junta, in its effort to meet a deep
economic crisis. Long hours prospered our
country at one time, too.
“Mrs. Carl Curits, our secretary, informed \
the group that the Sawnee Valley Garden Club j
had been federated with the Garden Clubs of ’
Georgia...”
MATT 4-H CLUB ELECT OFFICERS
“Officers were elected at our regular
meeting October 13. President, Martha
Charles; Boys V. President, Leonard Sexton;
Girls V. President, Sue Worley; Secretary,,
Patsy Tatum; Treasurer, Donald Pirkle; 1
Reporter, Preston Worley.”
“Mrs. Maude Walker brought a nine pound;
sweet potato in the office this week, the largest;
one that has ever been brought in...”
“The Coal Mountain 4-H Club girls and boys '
met Friday October 16 with Mrs. Zelma'f
Bannister and Mr. Walter Rucker to organize
for the 1953-54 Club year.”
“The following officers were elected.!
President, Carolyn Hughes; Boys
V-President, Ronald Martin; Grils V
president, Barbara Milford; Secretary, Edwin
Sexton; Treasurer, Gail Heard; Reporter,.
Ronnie Williams; Advisors, Mr. Rupert:
Williams and Mrs. Wylene Samples.”
see many well-meaning idealists who want a;
god with clout—a great force which will zap*
people without the same ideals. Many people;
today are searching for that type of god. *
A study of the great traitors of history gives;
a hint to this type of thinking. Some time back/
I attended a series of classes on the trial or*
Christ, and many ministers in the course;
suggested that Judas was an idealist who*
turned Christ over to the fuzz because he;
wanted Christ to zap the “evil” in this world.;
According to the ministers I was talking;
with, Judas knew Christ could destroy the;
"establishment,” and had hoped he would if
pushed far enough. Christ, however, died on;
the cross.
Perhaps what bugs people like Judas is they
feel they have more wisdom than the god they
Relieve they worship. The psychic make-up
such people seems to be consumed by self-will.
I am surprised that some of our politicians;;
positive of the validity of their individual idea}
of right and wrong, don’t launch a full-scale
investigation of God, for obviously God is not
always doing what they feel is right.
People who wanted McGovern to become
president could conceivably want to check ufi
on the God “that elected” Nixon; those whd
wanted Nixon in 1960 might have had an ini
vestigation; people who want war could check
up on God, as well as those who don’t want wad
could investigate their deity.
In fact, whenever things are not done just thq
way a person wants them done, he could try to,
push God into doing something—like clouting
somebody’s noggin or worse.
It is not surprising that Satan worshipers
are in Florida. There have been reports of
witches, warlocks, “conjah” women, black
masses and the like in the South, including
Atlanta.
Those people want a diety with clout—Satart
will “zap,” they believe.
Certainly Ross Michael Cochran, 17, is in n*
position to argue about Satan now. Young
Deborah Shook said the death was supposed
“to appease the master, Satan.”
The sickness in Deland is only a turn away
from what is classified bv some as normal.;
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