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board announces
rev SCHEDULE
Representative To
Be Here Feb. 5,
March 5, 3:30 P.M.
In keeping with the policy of
ie Social Security Board to
»nder service to employers and
nployees, Louis R. Stein, Jr.,
lanager of the Chattanooga
eld office announces a new
ffiedule of itinerant service for
ade County.
A representative of the Chat-
inooga office will be in Trenton
t the post office at 3:30 P. M.
n the following dates: Febru-
ry 5 and March 5, 1942.
The representative will be
lad to assist employers in filing
pplications for
umbers and acquaint them
1th their rights and obliga-
ons; will assist workers in se¬
aring Social Security
uplicates, and changing
■here there has been a
nee the original card was
red; will assist survivors of de¬
based workers, who worked
mployment covered by the
ial Security law, to file
)r survivors benefits or
ssist workers who have
mployed in covered
lent and who have retired,
le claims.
It is suggested that both
loyers and employees clip
otice for future reference.
NAVY ANNOUNCES
REDUCTION OF V-5
AGE
Men Enlisting In
This Class Enter
Seamen, 2nd
CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan
To all young men in the
linas and Georgia who want
fly with the Navy, Sixth
District headquarters today
nounced the reduction of
minimum Class V-5 age
ment from 20 to 19 years.
Men enlisting in the class
ter as Seamen 2nd class,
trained as aviation cadets,
emerge as commissioned
—•"Ensign with Wings.”
U. S. Navy recruiting
throughout the three
have full information on the
quirements for Class V-5.
Men from 19 to 27 wishing
enlist in Class V-5 must have
minimum education of two
years of college credits, or
equivalent, and the
moral and psychological
ties required as an aviation
det.
College juniors and
after enlistment in V-5 may
deferred from call to active
until completion of their
rent college year, if they so
quest. Sophomores may enlist
they will have completed
two-year requirement by
end of the current school
They will not be ordered to
tive duty until that
is fulfilled.
Quarterly
The first Quarterly
for the Pdsing drawn and
Tren fon Circuit w!$|vbe held at
ton Mehodist church Sun
da y. January 25.
The Rev. W. F. Blackard
P re aeh at li o’clock. The
ness meeting will follow.
All officials of the circuit
expected to be present, and
Public is cordially invited.
—F. B. Wyatt,
RELIABLE PERSON
to call on farmers in
0Unty - Steady work—no
s in °ur Line. Some
* M00.00
in a week. Write
°-> Dept, s, Freeport, HI.
dc dimnlii IT ini es
Register for Civilian Defense
Work 23-31
Citizens. May
Register At Any
School in County
The “Register Here for Civil¬
ian Defense Work” sign is to be
hung out prominently in every
Dade County school on Friday
of this week, inaugurating a
county-wide drive to register
all Dade County men and wo¬
men, boys and,girls, white and
colored, for volunteer service in
14 branches of civilian protec¬
tion. The local campaign is
under the general direction of
John W. Murphy. Mr. Murphy
has announced that citizens
may register Friday and for one
week thereafter at any school
in the county.
Volunteers are needed—im¬
mediately and urgently—for
training as messengers (boys
and girls 15 to 21 years of age),
drivers, auxiliary firemen and
policement, fire watchers, air
raid wardens, volunteer nurses’
aides, for rescue squads, bomb
squads, emergency food and
housing corps, demolition and
clearance crews, road repair
crews and decontamination
corps. Women are urged to reg¬
ister for First aid, home nurs¬
ing, knitting, cooking and can¬
ning, surgical dressings, typing,
canteen work, assistant in hos¬
pital, librarian, teacher, case
work service home hygiene, sew¬
ing, nutrition, assistant in clin¬
ic, office assistant, assistant to
nurses, motor corps, agriculture
defense gardens, aviation-air
raid observance, caring for ref¬
ugees, camp entertainers, mu¬
sic, ,dancing, dramatics, inter¬
preter map making and reading,
communications, radio, tele¬
phone, switchboard, telegraphy,
buying and selling defense
stamps and bonds.
Immediately following the reg¬
istration and upon completion
of an analysis of registration
cards, special courses of in¬
struction will be arranged. Each
course will consist of the mini¬
mum requirements which must
be met for the volunteer work¬
er to qualify for Federal recog¬
nition implied in award of the
arm-band insignia for the course.
Trained instructors will be
made available for all citizens
who wish to volunteer in the
various branches of civilian pro¬
tection.
The number of instruction
hours necessary to qualify as an
active civilian defense voluntary
worker varys from as few as
seven hours for membership in
the Emergency Food and Hous¬
ing Corps and 12 hours for Fire
Watchers and Road Repair
Crews to as many as 80 hours
for Volunteer Nurses’ aide and
42 hours for membership in a
Rescue Squad. The 22-hour
course for Messengers consist of
First Aid, 10 hours; Fire De¬
3 hours; Gas Defense, 2
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NY A Dedicates New Work Experience Center for N. Georgia
li A ueaicaxes new —«- work work experience experience cent-
Youth .. Administration . ripriipafpri dedicated aspanking asDanking new new resident resident ct
The National
schools, industries, and at the the same project toe has to six tu ^ D y ’ &n {abrica ted, erected, modernly and furnished designed by dining youth hall, lab-
war foreground are barracks. the far left is the
or. Buildings in the
TRENTON, DADE COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1942.
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WEAR
//,. +1 THE SHIELD
ft OF
CIVILIAN
DEFENSE
Soon you’ll see your friends and neighbors wearing the
shields of Civilian Defense—striking red, white and blue
insignia. For as volunteers qualify for one of the 14
j services of Defense these special arm bands merit and buttons
i are issued. The insignia is a mark of honor, a badge
1 of achievement. It’s a salute of respect to America’s
fighting forces from Georgia’s own home defenders. Axe
you preparing yourself to wear this patriotic insignia?
Don’t depend on someone else. Do your part—so it won’t
happen here. Enroll now—for any one of these services:
Air Raid Wardens Messengers (Ages 15-21)
\uxiliary Police Drivers’ Corps
\uxiliary F ir emen Emergency Food and Housing Corps
ire Watchers Decontamination Corps Crews
ledical Corps Demolition and Clearance
Jescue Squad Road Repair Crews
lurses’Aid Corps Staff Corps
VOLUNTEER FOR VICTORY-REGISTER JAN. 23-31
AT ALL COUNTY SCHOOLS
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LOCAL POST
IS SPONSORING
CHICKEN STEW
Realizing the great
and national importance
Dade County to raise her
Cross quota of $500.00, the
post of the American Legion
Auxiliary have called an
out” for a chicken stew for
urday night, January 31, at
Legion Home north of
Cake, coffee, etc., will be
ed along with the stew, and
large crowd is expected to
out.
The organization hopes to
$50.00 for the fund and more
possible. This event will
be the last before the
closes and it is hoped that
eryone will plan to attend.
lets be at the Legion
Saturday night, January
Get a good supper and at
sametime help put our
over the top. This will be a
help.
hours; General Course, 5
Drill, 2 hours.
Go to your nearest school
register during the period
January 23-31. Select any
you prefer It won’t
with your work.
As many citizens as can
urged to register on the
day of the campaign, in
that the local Citizens
Committee may proceed
plans for immediate
tion and instruction of
teers.
Published Weekly — Since 1901.
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FUNERAL SERVICES
CHAS. S. REEVES
HELD MONDAY
Funeral services for Charles S.
Reeves, 81, who died Sunday
morning, were held at his home
at 2 o’clock Monday afternoon,
the Revs. W. L. Smith, of Chat¬
tanooga, and W. M. Steele, of
LaFayette, officiating.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs.
; Minerva Ann Reeves; five sons,
Clinton, John, Asa and James
Reeves, Rising Fawn, and Lon¬
a nie Reeves, Kensington, Ga.;
four daughters, Mrs. J. W. Ab¬
ercrombie, Mrs. Jim Buffington,
Mrs. George Castleberry, Rising
| Fawn, and Mrs. Arch Durham,
Sulphur Springs, Ala.; forty-six
grandchildren and twenty-four
great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were the following
grandsons: Eugene Reeves, Kelly
Abercrombie, Willie Reeves, Mid¬
dleton Buffington, Charles Dur¬
ham and Asa Reeves, Jr.; honor¬
ary pallbearers, R. D. Castle¬
berry, D. S. Middleton, Bob
Cagle, W. J. West, Charlie Chad¬
wick, Charlie Hartline, Bud
Slaughter, J. Z. Bobo and Will
Smith.
THE LESPEDEZAS
The annual varieties of les-
pedeza, says the Georgia Agri¬
cultural Extension Service, are
common, Kobe, Tennessee 76,
and Korean. All these produce
seed in late summer and fall,
but die down in winter. Seed
germinate in the spring and
the plants make their best
growth in the summer months.
20 TO 44
REGISTER
16
Men in This Group
Will be Subject To
Military Service
President Roosevelt set Febru¬
16 for registration of all
citizens and most aliens of
nation between the ages of
and 44 who had not register¬
previously.
Men in this age group will be
to military service.
The date was fixed in a proc¬
It made no mention
registration of men from 45
64, who are to be regis¬
later on but who will be
from service with the
forces under present
In this proclamation, the Chief
noted that this and
registrations under the
Service Act “will be re¬
to insure victory, final
complete, over the enemies
the United States.”
TERRITORIES ALSO
The registration will apply to
male citizens and some non¬
born on or after Febru¬
17, 1897, and on or before
31, 1921. It is to take
not only in the United
but also in Alaska,
and Puerto Rico, be¬
the hours of 7 a.m. and
p.m.
Provisions were made for
before February 16
after that date in excep¬
cases through arrange¬
with selective service of¬
The President, for the sake of
co-operation with the selec¬
service program, urged all
and all government
to give workers suffi¬
time off to register.
Selective service officials esti¬
approximately 9,000,000
would be enrolled at the
the first of two or
such enrollments in pros¬
TO REGISTER
Officials explained that those
be registered February 16
men 20 years old, those
have turned 21 since the
last July, and men
36 and 44.
Aliens must register under the
The President may exempt
residing in the United
who are not citizens and
have not declared their in¬
to become citizens, but
non-citizens must regist¬
A native of Switzerland resid¬
in the United States, for ex¬
would have to register if
has taken out first citizen¬
papers but has not become
citizen. If he had not declared
to become a citizen he
be exempted by presiden¬
order.
Recent legislation has made
betweeh 20 and 44 years old
for military service, and
between 18 and 64 eligible
some tyne of war duty.
About 17.500.000 men already
been enrolled under the
Service Act, and local
boards have speeded up
classification. The local
assisted by additional
workers, will be used
enroll the additional 25,000,-
men.
FOOD PLANNING
In common with all loyal A-
Georgia housewives
seeking ways in which to
with the defense effort.
would like to leave home,
and take part in the
spectacular activities, but
is the place wher most
can serve best. The home
be kept economically
the health of the family
be protected, morale must
maintained.
Good health rests on a foun¬
of good nutrition. The
task of planning good
for the family is a vital
in the defense program.
Only Newspaper.
Dade Chaingang
Camp is Moved to
in Walker
The state chain gang camp
has been located in Dade
while the convicts built
highway across Lookout
to Trenton, was mov¬
last week to the former camp
LaFayette. About 80 white
are now at the LaFayette
which has been overhaul¬
and put in good condition.
Banks is in charge of
camp, having succeeded
Hubert Smith, who re¬
The men will be used to
on the state roads in Wal¬
county. Negro convicts from
Dade Camp were sent to
DADE TEACHER
HIT BY TRUCK AND
FATALLY INJURED
Marcia McDaniel
Struck Down Near
Morganville Friday
Miss Marcia McDaniel, 55-year-
school teacher, of Morgan-
was struck and fatally in¬
by a Chattanooga roofing
truck on the Birming¬
highway, near Morganville,
Friday afternoon.
Authorities at Physicians and
hospital said it was
reported to them that the truck
driven by Elmer Wyrick,
2243 East Twenty-fifth street
Run down as she was crossing
the highway, Miss McDaniel re¬
ceived fractures of both legs, a
broken right arm, internal in¬
and a possible skull frac¬
ture. She was in an un-
condition in the hos¬
She died Sunday morning.
A Turner Brothers ambulance
the woman to the hos¬
The scene of the accident
approximately thirteen miles
from Chattanooga.
Miss McDaniel came to Mor¬
ganville this fall to accept a
post as teacher in the North
Dade school. She is a native of
Va.
Sheriff Grover Tatum, of Dade
County, attempted to make an
investigation of the accident,
reporting that the truck driver
had left the scene by the time
arrived.
Otto S. Varnado, principal of
school, said little was known
the school teacher, other
frequent visits with
in Chattanooga. She
the third grade in the
VICTORY NEARER
FOR RED CROSS
IN DADE COUNTY
Drive Enters 2nd
Week With $301.65
Toward $500 Goal
The Red Cross campaign went
its second week today, well
its way to victory, with con¬
to date totaling $301.-
toward a goal of $500.00.
Mrs. Carl Scruggs, general
of the campaign, ex¬
her pleasure at the pro¬
of the drive, but warned
er against relaxing their
’ ?”> the goal is in sight.
Md it is the hope
tl ; i xders that Dade
many other cities
the nation, will go
past the goal before the
is officially over.
The following contributions
received this week:
S. D. Cole, $1; Norman Moore,
M. E. Patterson, $3; W. H.
$4; Aaron Hubble $1;
F. N. Belk, $5; Wayne W.
$10; J. Melvin Clark¬
$1; Walter W. Cureton, $5;’
G. Hughes, $1; Mrs. Elizabeth
$1; Mrs. Janie Han-
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Buy A Defense Stamp
And "Lick" The
Other Side.
$1.50 PER YEAR.
IS SET
CONVENTION
NIGHT
Being Staged To
Raise Money For
Red Cross Drive
Everything is getting in order
the Fiddlers’ Convention to
held at the auditorium here
(Friday) night.
The local boys are “whooping”
up and there should be plenty
music of most all kinds.
are some mighty fine
singers, guitar pickers,
throughout the county and
all these fellows come to¬
in one “chord” you better
out, for you’ll “might near”
to “shake a leg.”
Tom Fulghum (“Brudder
has promised to be on
to help things along with
entertaining. He will kind of
charge of things. Too Nor¬
Bradford is to be on the
with one of his powedful
Leslie Blevins, the blue
fiddler from Alabama,
Bob Douglas have been in¬
of the event.
Others include Earl Wa v
band from Sulphur *
band from San
Dantzler of Tiftonia
bunch of “local” boj^s.
The convention is being stag¬
to raise money for the R^
drive. Your presence wii
out. Be on hand and len
hand in raising Dade’s quota.
COUNTY
31 TIRES
JANUARY
Dade County gets 24 truck
and seven passenger car
during the month of Janu¬
according to A. L. Dyer,
of the local Tire Ra¬
Board.
All would be used, Mr. Dyer
and in the event they
not purchased this month,
“go back” and none are add¬
to the February allotment.
At a meeting of the board, all
dealers of the county were
tire inspectors.
Dade Tire
Issued
Certificates for the purchase
the first tires under the ra¬
plan were issued at a
of the Dade County
Monday night.
Applications were read and ap¬
as follows:
L. J. Gray, Rising Fawn—2
tires and two passen¬
tubes,
Mose Carr, Sulphur Springs—
passenger tires and two
tubes.
Lack McBryar, Avans, Ga.—
truck tire and one truck
A. L. Dyer, Trenton—Four
tires and four truck tubes.
Application for the purchase
tires may be secured from all
dealers in the county. After
properly executed by per¬
desiring to purchase tires
tubes, and certification by
inspector, the apul : ~
may be turned ov r
member of the Board
composed of A. L. Dyer
Trenton; R. S. To
R. P. Fricl:s, I
or Mrs. Carl Scruggs,
to the Board, Trenton.
Immediate attention will be
by the Board to all appli¬
Dade County’s quota of n w
and tubes established for
month of February is four
tires, three passenger
12 truck tires and 21
tubes.
$1; S. W. Woodin, $2; R.
Fricks, $1; Mrs. R. L. Cagle,
J. M. Ingle, $1; Mrs. Ada
$1; Mrs. J. D. Gossett,
Mrs. R. L. Little, .50; Walter
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