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From Mrs. Bagley’s Column in 1950
The following items are taken from
November 16, 1950 edition of The Forsyth
County News:
From the Society Column by Mrs. Wansley
Bagley, Editor.
“Miss Jean Rice Fowler, the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Glenn R. Fowler of Cumming, has
been elected Class Editor for the Student,
North Georgia College Annual, “Cyclops.”
Miss Fowler is a graduate of Cumming High
School, and is a Freshman at North Georgia
College. She is very active in the Students
activities at the college and is the Secretary of
the Physical Education Club, and a member of
the “Trahlytan” College Team.
“Three trophies were awarded to horses
owned by Mr. Thad Burruss, Mr. Earl Burruss
and George Ingram at the Horse Show in
Dahlonega Saturday.”
“Mayor Roy P. Otwell and Rev. Walter M.
Blackwell attended the Georgia Baptist State
Convention at Savannah this week.”
The following items are taken from
November 19, 1953 edition of The Forsyth
County News:
“A Thanksgiving Festival including a Negro
Minstrel and Cake Walk will be at Friendship
5ch001...”
“Whoa’s The Groom” is a very comical
blackface wedding with typical string music
and spirituals. The characters are the
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Happy Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving ain’t the holiday it
used to be.
Was a time when families were
closer together and the family style
feast of thanks was a delightful time
for the gathering of clans. But the
nomad-like lifestyles of modern
Americans have spread families
across this continent and a gathering
on a Thursday is far less probable.
The 89 cents a pound turkeys will
mean less spectacular birds on the
table and the high prices of other
Wait ’Til Next Year
The pros are just beyond the
midway point and college football has
a couple weeks yet to go but high
school football is over for the year.
The Forsyth County Bulldogs didn’t
do so well on paper. Their record was
a rather unspectacular no wins and
ten losses, but that doesn’t tell the
whole story.
On more than several occasions the
They Hoodooed Us
Our campaign against persons who have
hoodooed us out of the Blue Ridge Parkway
and now are trying to snatch the Applachian
400 four-lane highway away from the moun
tains, has struck fire in high places.
Having grown up in a north Georgia
wilderness, we don’t have much use for people
who would make the mountains a private
hunting, hiking, fishing and canoeing preserve
for the use of unfortunate ones cooped up in
urban areas like sardines.
None of these wilderness people know what it
is to push an old car up hills in knee-deep red
mud in order to ride downhill while traveling to
and from school. We grew up in a county that
did not have one foot of pavea roaa at that
time.
When we came to Dahlonega in 1949, only
two highways were paved, U.S. 19 and State 52
east to Wahoo. We have seen school buses
unable to navigate red mud for as long as two
weeks at a time during these days of not too
Did Carving Become a Rape of a Resource?
By Billy Williams
Thousands of years ago, an eagle soared
above the Georgia landscape. Through the
dawn, it saw the grey outline of the power of
the earth—a big, bald granite rock, born
millions of years ago in fire, reaching up 825
feet.
Later the red man saw what the spirit of the
earth had told, and finally the white man saw
the force of the ages outlined as the eagle saw
it. The size of the big rock was above his
imagination. He simply called it Stone
Mountain.
For several years, I had considered the
carving on the side of this Great Spirit the rape
of a natural resource. I still think that perhaps
the carving on the side of the rock was a
mistake. It was beautiful enough without
anything on it, in my opinion.
Checking back, however, I discovered that a
carving existed on the mountain before I was
born. The present carving has an interesting
history, so, I thought I would pass it along.
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From The Dahlonega Nuggett
following patrons of the community.”
“Vacyum-Marcus Waters, Static-Hoyt
Grogan-Pages at the wedding, Exodus Endive-
Brides Mother, Mrs. Duffie Martin; Economy
Endive-Bride, Mrs. C.F. Cain; Pectin Ripcard-
Rejected suitor, J.T. Floyd; Shoofly Tallow-
Folium’s friends, C.W. Cox, Jr.; Folium
Endive-Brides Father, C.F. Caine; Officer
Chipmunk, Waldo Padgett; Rev. Skidfoot,
Mrs. Howell Martin; Puttyhell Nosegay-Best
Man, Homer Couch; Halitus Hairpin-Maid of
Honor, Mrs. Mae Williams; Bridesmaids,
Mrs. Ezra Tallant and Mrs. Joe Pirkle; Flower
Girls, Jane Smith, Dot Pirkle and Betty
Padgett.”
“DAHLONEGA, GA: James Powell Ban
nister, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. Powell Ban
nister, and George Ingram, son of Mr. and
Mrs. R.A. Ingram, under proper recom
mendations and with the approval of the
President of North Georgia College, have been
promoted to Sergeants.”
“Mr. Bannister is a Senior and Mr. Ingram is
a Sophomore. Both are members of the Band.”
“The Chestatee Junior 4-H Club held its
regular meeting..”
“The following officers were elected for the
coming year.”
“President, Ethel Locke; V-president,
Lanier Castleberry; Secretary, Antonia
Duran; Reporter, Charles Cantrell.”
NOVEMBER 21, 1973
foods make us wonder what we’re
supposed to be thankful for.
But there is a lot for which we can
be thankful. We won’t bore you with
our list. We’d rather see you draw up
your own. Take a minute. Make a list.
If your paper turns out blank, blame
the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
where it all got started.
It’s only fair. After all
Massachusetts is blaming the rest of
the country for Richard Nixon.
Have a happy holiday.
Bulldogs looked pretty good despite
their lack of experience and size.
Coach Bud Amsler, in his first year
on the job, managed to draw more
than 50 boys out for football. All of
them saw action and the seasoning
will certainly help much next year.
Next year’s going to be different,
just you watch.
long ago. Many rural people could get to town
only on horseback.
We enjoy the hostility of the “wilderness”
buffs who know little about whereof they speak.
They quote many figures, but can’t say where
they got their figures. This reminds us of an old
saying, “figures don’t lie, but liars can figure.”
figure.”
We do not wish to see our mountains
despoiled of their scenic beauty and rural
flavor. We believe in orderly development that
strikes a workable balance with scenic
preservation.
We’re just against the small percentage who
would claim it all for their own selfish fair
weather enjoyment, without regard for the
economic well-being of people who depend on
this land for their existence.
We’re proud of the critics we’ve made during
this dispute, not one of whom, incidentally, has
written from Lumpkin County.
Mrs. C. Helen Plane, leader of the Atlanta
chapter of the United Daughters of the Con
federacy came forth with the idea of a
memorial to Gen. Robert E. Lee and the
Confederacy in 1909.
It may be said at this point that rocks
crumble with time, and perhaps any carving
on a mountain will disappear with time.
Certainly billions of years should take care of
any of the efforts of man.
Samuel H. Venable deeded the face of Stone
Mountain to the Confederate Monumental
Association in 1916, and during that year
G utzon Borglum was appointed by the
Association as sculpture for the carving.
Borglum, who later carved out Mt. Rush
more, had the idea of a Confederate army
moving across the side of the mountain.
“The great South of today will reconstruct
the noble men of the war and carve them in
colossal full relief in action; mounted, on foot,
pulling the guns and moving across the granite
face of the mountain. The figures will be
CUMMING, GEORGIA
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“The Cumming Junior 4-H Club met... The
officers were elected.”
President, Gene Kirby; V-president, Joe
Wheeler; Secretary, John Hamby; Treasurer,
Glen Mullinax; Reporter, Harold Bolton;
County Advisors, Bass Farr and O.W.
Bellamy.”
“Mr. and Mrs. Roy Otwell, Mr. and Mrs.
H.P. Matthews, and Rev. and Mrs. Harold
Zwald left Monday to attend the State Baptist
Convention at Macon, Georgia.”
The following items are taken from
November 16, 1961 editon of The Forsyth
County News:
“9th District Ga. Press Assoc. Host to
District State Senators & Rep.” by Roger
Bush’s Plea for Funds
George Bush, chairman of the
Republican National Committee,
has sent out a most interesting
letter appealing for funds for the
Republican party.
Bush uses the backlash from the
Watergate scandal as a basis for
the money request.
“Watergate has drastically cut
our flow of funds during the past
few weeks. The Republican Na
tional Committee has had to sig
nificantly reduce its personnel
and the effectiveness of some of
its programs. More will have to be
reduced or eliminated unless ad
ditional funds are received,”
Bush says.
He doesn’t mention, of course,
that the Republican Party still
has far more paid staff and is in a
much better financial condition
than the Democratic Party. In
stead, he implies that Democrats
are trying to destroy the two-par
ty system. He says they “are try
ing to bury the entire Republican
Party.”
We see no evidence that the
Democrats are trying to “bury
the entire Republican Party” any
more than they ever have, nor any
more than the Republicans seek
to bury the Democratic Party.
The essence of the political party
system is that each party tries to
win as many offices as it can and
thereby keep those offices away
from the opposition.
However, it appears to us that
the Democrats have not concen
trated at all on trying to bury the
Republican party with the Water
gate avalanche. While the GOP
obviously must bear some blame
for Watergate because it occurred
in the administration of a Repub
lican President and was carried
out by Republicans, few Demo
crats would contend every GOP
candidate should be defeated be
cause of Watergate. In fact, most
knowledgeable Democrats and
Republicans alike agree that the
economic dislocations and prod
uct shortages the nation has suf
fered during the Nixon Adminis
visible at a distance of several miles and their
likeness recognizable... Obviously, as a group
they will stand alone in the monumental work
of the world.”
Borglum began his carving in 1923, and the
following January unveiled the head of Gen.
He made a mistake. Due to the convex
side of the rock, the carving was somewhat
distorted. He had to blast out the head with
dynamite, and it was a monumental task for
his crew. He got into a row with the association
over the progress of the work and was fired.
Augustus Lukeman, a native of Richmond,
took over the carving in 1925 and blasted out a
vertical plane for the great carving, the
biggest in the world. In fact the carving is
bigger today than that on Rushmore, and
larger than the figures of Rameses II at Abu
Simble or the Sphinx at Gizeh.
Lukeman conceived of the figures of Jef-.
ferson Davis, Lee and Stonewall Jackson,
other generals and a marching army. Shortly
before he took over, Stone Mountain half
Back
When?
Norma Weber
Thrasher.
“Yours truly, associate editor, and Golden
H. Ledford, publisher of the Forsyth County
News, had the honor attending the Ga. Pressi
9th District meeting in Gainesville, Thursday
night in nonoring the 9th District State
Senators and Representatives.”
“The Upper Chattachoochee River Soil
Conservation District held their annual Ladies
night Banquet and Affiliate Member Metting in
Gainesville...” _
“Honorable Phil Campbell, State Com
missioner of Agriculture introduced Senator
Herman Talmadge, who was the guest speaker
for the evening.”
“The High School Essay Contest awards and
representation were given by Ben Overstreet,
Board of SCD Supervisors, Dawson County.
Miss Anderson, of Dawson County, was the
first place winner and Miss Wilson of
Habersham, second place winner. They were
both presented checks in the amount of SSO and
$30.”
“The third place winner was Miss Dale
Thornton, of Forsyth County who was ac
companied by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Thornton, and Principal, C.N. Lambert.
Miss Thornton was presented a check of $20."
“Mr. Eldred Watson of Forsyth County was
recognized as one of the Outstanding Con
servation Fanners of this district.”
“Mr. Jay L. Holbrook and Mr. Roy G.
tration will be a far bigger factor
than Watergate in swinging votes
away from Republican candi
dates.
In another strange statement,
Bush says, “We have only a lim
ited number of people who we can
ask for money at this time.” He
offers no explanation why the
donor prospects are so “limited”
at this time. We realize that new
disclosure laws, the Watergate in
vestigation and court actions by
the citizen lobby Common Cause
have combined to cut off some of
the traditional sources of Republi
can money, such as illegal gifts by
corporations. (The pledge card
included with Bush’s letter notes,
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dollars were being produced by the U.S. Mint.
In 1928, the new head of Lee, the partially
completed Travler he rode, and the roughed
out heads of Davis and Jackson were unveiled.
That same year, funds ran out and work on the
carving ceased. In 1935, Lukeman died.
In 1957, the State of Georgia purchased the
mountain and decided to complete a carving.
In 1963, Walter Hancock was appointed. His
work today shows he was highly qualified. The
teacher of sculpture at the Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Arts has many achievements
elsewhere to show his competency, if such
citations are necessary.
Hancock did not attempt to recreate the
dream of the Old South in the carving, although
he did want it to show the ideals of the Southern
heritagle.
“The symbolism of the carving is intended to
go far deeper than the immediate issues of the
war. It is intended not as a monument to a lost
cause, but as an eternal tribute to that period
of American history, which, though tragic.
Holtzclaw from Forsyth County are members
of the Board of Distrait Supervisors who were
in charge of this district.
“Miss Dale Thornton, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Henry Thornton was first place winner in
the Soil Conservation Essay Contest, con
ducted by the Conservation Office under Mr.
James Coots. This is a state-wide contest
sponsored by the Bankers Association and the
local Bank of Cumming.”
“Second and third place winners of Forsyth
County are Carol Bennett and Karen Harris.”
“NEW CONCESSION STAND”—“This
concession stand was a project initiated and
recently completed by the Touchdown Club of
Forsyth County.”
“The sweet potato, long and important crop
in Georgia, is going to get a lot of attention at
Ocilla on Tuesday, November 21, the date of
the first annual Georgia Sweet Potato
Festival.”
From the Social Activities Column—Mrs.
Roy Otwell, Jr., Society Editor
“ Rev. and Mrs. Troy Acree attended the
140th session of the Georgia Baptist Convention
held in Columbus...”
“Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Walls attended the hair
style class in Gainesville...”
“Corporation checks not accept
able.”) However, President
Nixon received over 46 million
votes last year; while he picked
up many traditionally Democrat
ic and independent votes, surely
many of those 46 million voters
were Republicans to whom an ap
peal for funds could be directed.
We agree with Bush that a
“strong, competitive two-party
system is vital to a functioning
America” but we doubt that the
Republican party is in any real
danger as a result of the drying up
of campaign contributions. Most
GOP candidates have always
seemed to get the money when
they needed it.
gave birth to the united country we are today/’
said Hancock.
Sen. Herman Talmadge spoke during the
dedication of the mountain carving several
years back, saying it does symbolize that out of
the conflict came unity.
S°, we have the carving. Hancock did it with
tremendous jet torches. Automobiles can be
driven along the back of Lee’s horse. It is the
biggest carving in the world today.
As far as the “rape of a natural resource," I
doubt if the spirit of the earth took offense tn
rave men making carvings on the sides of their
homes, or men digging into the earth to make
roads and homes and towering skyscrapers.
In fact, even an army of men fighting across
the mountain for unity is small to the force that
created the granite mountain.
Silicon covers the carving to protect it fro*
the wind and the rain. The spirit of the earth
moves on, however, and as a great poet put it.
only the “lone and level sands stretch far
away” when the earth is finished with tha
monuments to men.