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The following items are taken from October
26,1950 edition of The Forsyth County News:
“The Seniors have had a meeting and
selected Who’s Who for the annual of 1951 —
They are: Best All Around, Charles Farr,
Suzanne Callaway—Most Talented, Homer
Summerour, Betty Jo Burruss, Charles Farr-
Most Intellectual, Homer Summerour,
Maurine Boling—Shortest Girl or Boy,
Jacqueline Pruitt, Larry Smallwood—Tallest
Girl or Boy, Harold Poole; Martha Poole—
Best Looking, Joe Hulsey, Dot Heard—Most
Dependable, Homer Summerour, Martha
Poole, Suzanne Callaway—Wittiest, Homer
Summerour, Betty Ann Nichols—Biggest Flirt,
Harold Wallace, Suzanne Callaway—Best
Dress, Homer Summerour, Betty Ann
Savage— Most Popular, Charles Farr, Dorothy
Jean Sexton—Most Likely to Succeed, Charles
Farr, Rosa Phillips—Best Athletes, Harold
Wallace, Louise Gravitt.”
“The Ducktown 4-H club met Friday mor
ning with Mrs. Zelma Warren, Home
Demonstration Agent...”
“The following officers were elected for 1950-
51: President, Sarah Frances Ledbetter; Vice
President, Shirley Wilkie,; Secretary &
Treasurer, lola Sosebee; Reporter, Imogene
Wallis; Advisers, Misses Eula Jean Tribble,
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KENNETH HUDGINS PUBLISHER
PAUL BEEMAN EDITOR
HARRIET WOODALL ADVERTISING MANAGER
Published every Wednesday by The Forsyth County News Company. Second Class Postage
paid at: Post Office in Cumming, Georgia under Act of March Bth in 1897. Subscription rates
in Forsyth and other Georgia counties, $5.15 per year, including State Sales Tax; out-of-
state, $4.00 per year.
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Change in Habits
“Waste not, want not” was an
adage that served earlier gener
ations of Americans well. Food
and firewood were the direct
product of toil. Security was
gained only by being prudent to
day with an eye on tomorrow.
When the frontier faded and in
dustry and mechanization began
to transform American life, basic
foodstuffs became plentiful and
cheap enough to allow a certain
profligacy in deciding what goes
into the pot and what is thrown
away. As for fuel and power, we
began turning up thermostats,
driving cars and switching on ap
pliances with little mind for the
cost, especially in terms of natu
ral resources.
We ascribe all this to what we
call “progress” and, while we can
still look forward to more of it in
creating a good life for ourselves
and our neighbors, we have clear
ly reached a turning point in the
way we consume food and energy.
Our farmers now are going to be
feeding people in many countries
besides our own. We are going to
pay dearly for the oil we must im
port. Concern for the environment
is limiting the electric power at
our disposal. Circumstances are
demanding that we come to grips
with the fact that our living stan
dard is not only the highest in the
world but undeniably the most
wasteful.
An agronomist at the University
of Washington estimates the
American people will throw
enough food out with their gar
bage next year to prevent a signif
icant proportion of the deaths by
famine that are likely to occur be
cause of drought and crop failure
in Africa and Asia.
‘School Fund Shift Could Cause More Taxes’
(Gainer Bryan is editor of the Gwinnett Daily News.)
Jack Nix, state superintendent of schools,
wants taxpayers of Gwinnett County to get two
points clear in the discussion of school
financing and school taxes.
His points, made at Kiwanis
Club meeting Thursday night, are:
* 1. The proposed state assumption of the
required local effort in the Minimum Foun
dation of Education could mean higher state
sales taxes.
2. The proposed change would not
necessarily mean lower local property taxes.
As background for these points, Superin
tendent Nix said the General Assembly ap
propriated a record $586 million for public
school education this year, an increase of $lO5
million.
“We’ll receive $lO4 million in Federal
dollars," he continued “Local school systems
Who Was Who? You Were, That’s Who!
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Bonnie Sosebee and Mrs. R.W. Evans, Jr.”
“Those attending the Bankers Convention in
Gainesville October 18, were Mr. Roy Otwell,
Mr. Paul Worley, Mr. B.L. Redd, Miss Bette
Ann Moore, Miss Helen Bolton, Mrs. Lamar
Tribble.”
The following items are taken from October
29, 1953 edition of The Forsyth County News:
“Last Friday your county agent had the
opportunity of touring Oscarville and Haw
Creek Communities during the county judging
of the North Georgia Community
Improvement Contest...”
‘ ...We began by looking at the remodeled
home of Mr. and Mrs. Winfred Waldrip. From
here we went to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Waldrip where we saw Mr. Waldrips potato
curing house. We visited many more homes in
Oscarville, including the modem poultry
laying house of Mr. Clarence Waldrip and the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boyd. Here we
saw what is undoubtedly the largest chimney
in this part of the country. Mr. Boyd says that
he can bum cord wood in the fireplace and the
fireplace looks like a rather small part of the
total chimney.”
“The tour of the community followed with
visits to the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Major
Echols, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Echols. Mr. and
Mrs. W.J. Buice and Mr. and Mrs. H.D
OCTOBER 31, 1973
The irony is that the worldwide
capacity for food production is
great enough that no one on this
planet needs to starve. However,
the mechanism for producing,
marketing and distributing food
stuffs is not based on hunger but
on buying power. People in indus
trialized countries are affluent
enough to pay whatever it takes to
sustain their eating habits in
cluding their habits of waste. We
have now bid up grain prices so
high that poorer countries which
must import food, and relief agen
cies which can help them, are be
ing squeezed out of the market.
Meanwhile our country is facing
both diplomatic and economic
problems because of the amount
of petroleum we must import. We
are now burning up 12 million bar
rels of oil a day in one form or an
other and the figure rises steadily.
Developing new sources of fuel
and energy is only part of the so
lution. The fact is that our petrole
um “needs” are higher than they
should be because of our lacka
daisical attitude toward energy
conservation in our daily lives.
Overflowing trash cans and
freeways jammed with one-occu
pant cars are only two symbols of
the waste that seems to be a built
in feature of our way of life. Bad
habits are hard to change. Now,
however, with food and fuel prices
pinching our budgets, we have an
economic reason to change our
habits even if the voice of con
science is not enough. It would
seem that the only question re
maining is whether we wait until
unpleasant economic and political
circumstances force frugality
upon us.
will levy property taxes up to 20 mills, raising
$314 million in local dollars. The grand total for
public school education will be about $1 billion.
“An effort is being made for the state to take
over the required local effort for public
education (in the Minimum Foundation of
Education), totalling S7B million—not the
entire $314 million raised from local property
tax.”
Nix said the state could do this, but to do so
would require increasing the state sales tax.
He said that for the state to take over the
entire $314 million in local contributions, which
some lawmakers advocate, would require
about 24 cents more sales tax. This would
push the total to more than five cents.
In addition, he emphasized, the local school
board would still have the right to levy local
property taxes up to 20 mills. There could be no
requirement attached to the legislation for a
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Nuckolls. A stop was also made at the Hat
chery of Mr. J.C. Vaughan.”
“The judges were Mrs. Frances McKay,
Home Demonstration Agent from Fulton
County, Mrs. Clara M.Wendt, Home
Demonstration Agent from Banks County, Mr.
C.H. Brand, Soil Conservationist from
Gwinnett County and Mr. Emmett Lyon,
County Agent from Banks County.”
“Oscarville was declared the winner with a
score of 875 points out of a possible 1000. Haw
Creek won second place with a score of 848...”
“Mrs. Paul Yarbrough and Mrs. Jim Mash
burn attended a PTA Conference in Smyrna...”
“The young people of Bethelview church
organized an MYF... The following officers
The ‘Unpressed Press’
Long after deadline, the overhead light bulbs
burned orange in the frangrant, disarrayed
city room, and the old timers gathered around
a carved-up desk for a bull session.
The telephone rang and Jim, a bald-headed
codger with a shabby mustache, picked up the
receiver. “City morgue, third slab... Sorry, n£
body but us cold bodies,” he barked, slamming
the receiver.
Newspapers were not polite in those days.
Few people today know what a “slugger” is.
That was the guy who beat the opposition news
carrier to a pulp so he couldn’t get the other
rag on the streets.
I don’t condone those days. They did exist.
Writers, editors were products of bad-trip
imaginations, in some cases.
But the old guys used to work 16 hours a day,
seven days a week, to hear them tell it. They
were a rugged breed, and as one writer put it,
they had hair growing out of their ears. Today,
they are often referred to as the “unpressed
gentlemen of the press.”
Sometimes you could catch those guys in an
ungarded moment, pounding hunt-and-peck on
the typewriter keys with tears streaming down
their grizzly faces. Maybe they were the only
ones moved by their “tear jerkers.”
A strange, weird, self-sufficient breed, most
have long since made the “big deadline.” With
only their memories left, most of us find it hard
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Speeds
Sen. Charles Percy, R-111., has brought up a
subject we’ve often wondered about: Why are
speedometers on most automobiles designed to
show speeds up to 120 or 130 miles per hour
when it would be absolutely unreasonable for
anyone to drive the car that fast on a public
highway?
The senator has done more than raise the
question; he has written the Federal Trade
Commission and the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration urging adoption of
regulations to forbid automakers to use
speedometers that show higher speeds than 90
miles per hour. He would require a red-lettered
warning, “EXTREME HAZARD,” on the
speedometer beyond the 90 mph mark.
Percy points out that most automobiles are
not designed to be driven at speeds of 100 mph
or more, nor are highways designed to ac
commodate autos traveling at such speeds.
Therefore it is extremely risky for anyone to
drive that fast. In addition, almost all states
have highway speed limits of 70 mph.
He also believes the listing of excessively
high speeds on the speedometer encourages
some drivers, particularly some who are
young and daring, to try to see how fast the car
will go. The result sometimes is tragic ac
cidents.
He says the speedometer change could be
required by the FTC and carmakers could
make the change with little retooling of their
factories involved.
Sen. Percy’s suggestion should get serious
consideration. It makes a lot of sense.
Gainer
Bryan
coinensurate reduction of mills, unless the
constitution were changed.
The required local effort in the minimum
foundation he said, is based on the local
system's ability to pay, adjusted to the local
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were elected: President, Miss Sara Samples;
V-president, Miss Sara Castleberry;
Secretary, Lamar Holbrook; Treasurer,
Morris McGinnis; Prog. Chrm., Joan
Castleberry; Bonnie Holbrook, Gene Bennett,
and Mae Holbrook; Song Leader, Allen
McGinnis; Sponsors, Mr. and Mrs. Royce
Samples, Mr. and Mrs. Henry McGinnis.
Lamar Holbrook, Reporter.”
The following items are taken from October
27,1960 edition of The Forsyth County News:
“The Hi-Y Club of Forsyth County High
School will sponsor a “Study” Campaign
during the month of October. The theme of the
campaign is “Let’s study now,” and it is
designed to encourage more interest in
studying.”
“Larry Stancil Project Chairman of the
Club, announces that the club will make
several posters on that students should study
all along instead of just before the tests.”
“Officers of the Club are: Arthur Wright,
president, Donald Major, Vice Preisdent;
Douglas Sorrells, Secretary; Walter Brooks,
Treasurer; Lanier Bagwell, Chaplain and
James Hughes, Reporter.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Gladston Sudderth are
vacationing aboard the S.S. Hanseatii which is
touring the Carribean Islands of Jamacia and
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Williams
to figure out what kept them going for so long.
Recently in this carpeted newsroom, an
editor bellowed that a caller had kept him tied
up during deadline. He was too polite to hang
up. The old timers would have used words that
would “burn holes in this paper.” No nonsense
at deadline, said the “no-tie, no-lie” men of
yore.
They did lie after the deadlines in those bull
sessions, I guess. Some of those stories could
not be true, I imagine.
Old Jim once picked up a call where an irate
man asked, “Hey, I thought today was Oct.
25?”
“What about it?” snapped Jim.
“Your front page this morning said Oct. 24.”
was the nasty reply.
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tax digest and the number of pupils in the local
school system.
“If the state takes over the required local
effort, the poor school system will get poorer
and the rich school system will get richer—
tnless equalization is voted.
Gwinnett’s Sen. Steve Reynolds, com
menting afterward on Nix’s reported speech
(Reynolds was not present), reminded that he
had advocated last year that the state take
over the required local effort in the Minimum
Foundation.
“They are finally coming around to it,” he
said. “It now has lots of support.”
He said the required local effort in Gwinnett,
called a “charge-back,” amounts to nearly $1
million. The state could take over that amount
and the county board of education could reduce
its millage by an equivalent amount.
He acknowledged he had said “could,” not
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IGNITED AGAIN
Haiti Mr. and Mrs. Sudderth won this trip
from the Hotpoint Applicance Company.”
“Mrs. R.A. Ingram and Mrs. Marcus Reed
attended the Organ Seminar held at the
Atlanta Art Gallery last Tuesday. Following
the Seminar a group of Cumming people at
tended the organ recital. Those attending
were: Mrs. R.A. Ingram and Linda; Mrs. Jim
Mashbum, Mary Helen and Sue Mashbum,
Patricia and Sara Dean Otwell, Patricia
Howell, Rev. and Mrs. Marcus Reed and
Carolyn, Joyce and Charles Reed. Miss Joyce
Reed was the recipient of one of the door prizes
and received a home organ for a months trial
with lessons.”
“The final round of judging in the Service <
Station of the Year contest has begun, it is
announced by the Petroleum Council of
Georgia, sponsor of the contest. Finalists in
this area include: Don A. Cotton, Cotton &
Wallace Service Cumming; Vasco Hulsey,
Hulsey’s Service, Gainesville; and Harrison
Martin and David Reed, Lakewood Service,
Gainesville.”
“Mrs. Frank Chancey, Mrs. Virginia Wood
and Mr. Julian Gravitt attended the Georgia
Officer Manager and Bookkeeper’s conference
on REA in Atlanta...”
Jim cussed him out, concluding with this:
“You dirty dastard, if this newspaper says its
Oct. 24, it is Oct. 24. Now peddle your papers
somewhere else.”
Jim was later informed by the managing
editor he had cussed out the publisher, who had
called to correct the Oct. 24 date. The
publisher marched into the city room and
what he had to say would have “burned holes
in this paper.” Jim wasn’t fired.
I once got a call after deadline. Any sports
fan today would know how many home runs
Babe Ruth hit in the majors, since Hank Aaron
is so close. The honky-tonk music was in the
background as the caller said, “Look, us guys
got a bet. I say the Babe hit 718 homers in his
lifetime, and my buddy says it was 715. Who’s
right?”
“You are,” I drawled. “It was exactly 718.” I
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“Would you tell my friend that?”
The friend got on the phone, and I said, “It
was exactly 715.”
I kept changing the number on those guys,
then finally heard cursing and the sound of a
bar room brawl.
I believe the statute of limitations has run
out on that incident, but I’m not saying which
state the brawl was in, just in case.
Those wild days are gone now, and it’s nice
to be polite, at times.
“would,” but added, “I believe a bill could be
drawn up so as to afford a reduction in local
millage.”
What Reynolds said he would like to see
happen would be for the state to do away with
the Minimum Foundation program and “come
in with an adequate program for every school
district.” Then, he said, “You could have large
schools in rural areas.”
The state superintendent made a point on
which we all can agree, “It is tremendously
important,” he said, “that we give the students
the opportunity to learn. In the past, we per
mitted school systems to develop in which
children could drift through without ever
looking at what life is all about.”
He hailed the growing vocational-technical
schools as geared to a new emphasis to develop
marketable skills for earning a living, not just
to master book knowledge.