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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1947)
Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME XLVIL W. T. McCauley Attends Soil Con¬ servation Meeting - The fourth annual meeting of the Georgia Association of Soil Conservation District Supervis- ors was held December 11-12 in Atlanta and was attended by W. T. McCauley, Dade County Soil Conservation district supervisor, who brought back with him seme interesting information about the work of the Soil Conservation districts in Georgia. These dis- tricts are groups of farmers who wish to participate in and en¬ courage Soil Conservation. There are now 151 Counties in Georgia in conservation districts. Dade County came into the Coosa River district this summer and 3 other Counties in the State were added during the year. It T , is ... the policy .. of . the .. the ,. die- ,, trict supervisor to call upon organizations and agencies assistance in promoting conser- vation. The Soil Conservation Service is devoting full time ser¬ vices of its organization, but with that the supervisors are calling on and getting assistance from all other agricultural agencies as well as banks, small and large business organizations and others. The Georgia State Fish and Wildlife Division has furnished through Soil Conservation dis¬ tricts, bicolor plants and sericea <?eed for Wildlife Areas to more than 3500 district farmers with mit cost. Federal hatcheries have fum ished fish for stocking approxi¬ mately 2500 ponds built by dis- ■ 'i t farmers in Georiga. The Georgia State Forestry Division has a memorandum of understanding with Soil Conser -■>tfcn districts to assist them in promoting the forestry pro gram by giving forestry manage¬ ment demonstrations, holding meetings and giving priority to district farmers for seedlings. The Meade Corporation, Arm- + -ong Cork Company, Union Bag end other Commericial Pulp r ‘em.panies have furnished with¬ out cost, to district cooperators several hundred thousand tree sterling's. In one Central Geor¬ gia district Pulp Companies ai© furnishing three-fourth million '■eedllnus and the district is buy¬ ing in addition over 4 million. T '-^ v s in Georgia have been Vr cooperative with dis- • <-<? m oromotlng Soil Conser¬ ve Georgia Bankers cation annually gives awards district farmers who have routed at l p ast 90 percent of ** nlanned Soil Conservation c" -nm More than 1000 farm- 1 o ^ate have received this -d award. r -Honal Bank of Fitzger- rsr'nared and distributed - -,nt. territory leaf- "ons rving Your Soil." Trust Company of Georgia ■ n+>prs throughout the State ntrihuted much in loan- • n r*ev at a low rate of inter- -+, to farm contractors for Soil conservation work. This vear the Georgia Bankers " ssoriation called on Agricultural a o-pneies and district Soil Con -ervation supervisors to partlci- -cfp jn meetinsg in Douglas, Am- 'ricus. Forsyth, Thompson and Marietta to discuss Soil Conser¬ vation. A Central Georgia Conserva- «c n district invited all bankers *n district to attend a one day short course on Soil Conser¬ vation and more than 50 bankers attended. The daily and weekly News- nap r r~ of the state have done much for the district Soil Con¬ servation Program. More than 100 daily and weekly newspapers have given space in their papers to more than 3500 articles or stories on Soil Conservation dur¬ ing the year. Many of the local weekly papers such as the Baxley News and Banner, Carroll Conuey Georgian, Walton Tribune, Douglas Interprise, Coffee Coun¬ ty Progress, Blackshear Times, Jessup Sentinel and Dalton Citi¬ zen have had special edition on Vd Conservation. Another group that has con- tributed to the Soil E. G. Wright Retires After 38 Yrs. Service Edgar G. Wright has retired his work at the Trenton De P ot > after 38 y ears service with Railroad. For some y pars now Mr. Wright has been having periodic heart attacks, > an< ^ on December 22 his retire- ment became effectve on ac- j f 1 count ^ or of the ill past health, 30 years Mr. i Wright has been the telegraph operator and agent for the AGS railroad in Trenton. Besides railroad business, Mr. Wright has also been the agent for the Western Union Company and the Railwa y Ex P ress ‘ Business dur- I the ™ was exceedingly heav *; and Ml ; Wr f ht was glv en no hel P- His T heart began u . to give , out under the strain and stress of a11 his duties ' his atta< * s were coming too freauent, so he th tlmc had come t0 give Ms ]lfe , pro(ess , on . ? “ interview , , . with Mr Wnght he said, I certainly do ’ thank everyone for my years of pleasant service for them.” Mr. Wright is now taking the vacation he did not get this fall and was not even thinking of future plans. No replacement has as yet been made for the agency at Trenton. TRENTON SERENADED CHRISTMAS EVE. Christmas Eve. the young people of the Trenton Methodist Church serenaded the residents of Trenton with Christmas carols. The group completed thier tour at the home of Loraine and Doris Lynn Pace where a party was enjoyed by all. Program is the Ministers of the State. The Presbyterian Seminary held its meeting in Atlanta dur¬ ing April with 50 Ministers at¬ tending. They asked 2 of the Soil Conservation districts to furnish the group with as much Soil Conservation information as possible so that they would be in a better position to discuss it in their work. At Tifton, approximately 50 Ministers from South Georgia at¬ tended a training and conference session on Conservation. Various other State and local groups and organizations during the year have created interest in Conservation by sponsoring contests and attending meetings, for example, the Middle South Georgia Conservation district held an essay contest on Soil Conservation with approximately 2400 school children participat¬ ing. The Macon Chamber of Commerce has for the second ,ear sponsored a Soil Conserv ition program with emphasis on Permanent Pastures. The Geor¬ gia Federation of Women’s Clubs included Soil Conservation in their Program of work and acti¬ vities for the year. Radio Sta¬ tion WBLJ at Dalton has alloted a 15 minute period each week for the past 5 years to the Lime¬ stone Valley Conservation dis trict. Some of the accompishment. in Conservation practice estab¬ lished in districts in Georgia up to June 30 of this year are:— Crop rotations on farms—1,- 589,993 acres. Terracing in miles—88,011 mi Kudzu planted—101,490 acres Sericea Lespedeza—86,562 acres Pasture improvement—470,28 acres. Tree planting—78,510 acres. Farm drainage—34,830 acres. Wildlife Areas—6,304 acres. Farm Ponds constructed—1,- 736 acres. Last winter district supervis¬ ors of North Georgia met and decided to launch a campaigi for the purpose of increasing the acreage planted to annual lespe¬ deza. With the aid of groups such as banks, local business men and other agricutura groups and agencies by advertis ing, meetings and talking lespe¬ deza, resulted in the largest acreage planted to lespedeza in the history of Georgia. Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1947. FROM TH£ PUBUSHi Two Cases Diphtheria In the County Though every effort has been made to protect all infants and children in our county, there are now two serious cases of diph¬ theria. Protection against this dread disease is available to all infants over 6 months of age and all preschool age children through the Health Office, at clinics in the school and in communities (when requested) as part of the nursing visits to the homes. Since August, 1946, when the nursing program started, 231 in¬ fants and preschool children have had this protection (shots). However we still have unprotect¬ ed children as evidenced by these two serious cases which recently occurred. Both required an op¬ eration (tube inserted from the outside of the throat) to save their lives. In spite of this there are many parents who have refused to have their chil¬ dren protected (given two shots 4 weeks apart). Parents who have unprotected infants and chldren are urged to see their physician, or take their children to the Health Of¬ fice on Saturday morning (ex¬ cept Dec. 27) or watch for a notice of clinics at the school in your communitty, or request the nurse to stop by your home when she is in your community. Keep the children away from sick people. The Public Health Nurse Schedule is— Monday — Hooker, Whiteside and Wilwood. Tuesday — Rising Fawn, Cave Springs, Cloverdale and Sulphur Springs. Wednesday—Piney and Look¬ out Mountain. Thursday—Sand M’tn, Avans and Cole City. Friday—Trenton, New Eng¬ land, Morganville and Slygo. Saturday Morning- -Health Of¬ fice in the Court House in Tren¬ ton. (Will not be in office on December 27). DAVIS P.-T. A. HAS A WONDERFUL MEETING The Davis P.-T. A. met last Friday night, Dec. 19, and had a very interesting program. A play was given by the Third Grade pupils under the direction of their teacher, Mrs. Innes Sim¬ mons. It is indeed heartening to see these small children act their parts so well. Also on the program was a group of songs given by Miss Violet Stoner with Miss Doris Hardeman at the piano. String music and songs were given by Jim West, and Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Blancett and Willard Hardeman. This musical part o the program was also enjoyed by all. Fruit and candy was served to 125 parents and teachers and children of the third grade. We were indeed glad to have as visitors, Mrs. J. E. Bible and a group from Cloverdale com¬ munity. We hope you will come again. County Committeemen Chosen For 1948 At a meeting of the communi¬ ty delegates last week the fol¬ lowing County Committee for 1948 was chosen: Edward J. Bi¬ ble, chairman; Gus Forester, vice Chairman; D. P. Hood, Regular Member; J. E. Cole, First Alter¬ nate and Clarence Guffey, Sec- end Alternate. Miss Louise Ev¬ ans was appointed Secretary- Treasurer and County Adminis¬ trative Officer of Dade County A. C. A. during the year 1948. Referendums had been held in five Communites of the county on December 9, 1947 for the pur¬ pose of electing County Commit¬ teemen in each community to serve during the "1348 program year. Also elected were five delegates to the County Conven¬ tion to name a three man County Committee which will be respon¬ se for adminstration of the Agricultural Conservation Pro¬ gram in Dade County next year. The Trenton and Rising Fawn committeemen were published in the Dec. 11 issue of The Times. The New Salem Committeeman is W. T. McCauley with Art E Moore, First Alternate and D. G. McKaig, Second Alternate. D. P. Hood was elected Com¬ munity Committeeman from Sand Mountain with Luther Ivey Frst Alternate and Lyman E. Taylor Second Alternate. Clar¬ ence Guffey was elected delegate with D. P. Hood as Alternate. From the Wildwood Commu¬ nity, J. E. Cole was elected Com¬ munity Committeeman and also delegate with Joe Doyle as Alter¬ nate delegate and also First Al¬ ternate County Committeeman and W. G. Hughes as Second Al¬ ternate Community Committee¬ man. The Dade County Agricultural Conservation Association wishes to express its appreciation for the splendid cooperation of the farmers of Dade County during the 1947 Program Year and asks further cooperation in making 1948 the greatest year in AAA history. HAROLD DUGANS ENJOY FAMILY CHRISTMAS PARTY Mr. "and Mrs. Harold Dugan, if Slygo, entertained last Sunday with a Christmas dinner and an exchange of gifts. Those present were father and nother, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dugan and the brothers and sisters and their families: Franklin and Edith Shambaugh and childrei of Rossville, Georgia; James and Grace Doyle and children of St Elmo, Tenn.; Lawrence and Catherine Dugan and Guy and Noradelle Hughes and son from Slygo. Everyone had a very enjoyable time and it will be a family party long to be remembered. 'AST VIEW CHURCH (SHANTY TOWN) NEW YEARS EVE PROGRAM The East View Baptist Church will have an all night service on December 31. There will be several perachers and the Four Note Singers. Plans To Transfer Dublin Hospital Wins High Praise The transformation of the great Navy Hospital at Dublin into a general hospital for veter¬ ans in this area was hailed by Henry Persons, chairman of the State Veterans Service Board, as “a great step forward in relieve- ing the acute shortage of hospital facilities for Georgia’s ex-service¬ men." The Navy will turn the insti¬ tution over to the Veterans Ad¬ ministration in February, he said, and will move the Mclntire Re¬ search Unit on rheumatic fever to the Great Lakes Naval Train¬ ing Station. The hospital was commissioned in January, 1945 and is considered one of the finest medical institutions in the Southeast. ARMY RESERVISTS ELIGIBLE IOR ACTIVE DUTY Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; and Charlotte, North Carolina are duty stations which may be selected by members of the Enlisted Reserve who volun¬ teer for six or twelve months ac¬ tive duty, Headquarters Third Army announced today. Enlist¬ ed Reservists selected for duty at these stations must be high school graduates of good appear¬ ance and have served in World War II. Reservists are needed for spec¬ ial escort duty in connection with he return of World War II Dead and may apply for this duty hrough local Organized Reserve )orps Commanders and Military District Commanders. They will receive pay and allowances of the grade in which called to active duty plus per diem pay¬ ments for escort travel. Limiting these assignments to necessary in view of the special veterans of World War II is nature of the duties to be pre¬ formed, the Army announcement said. NEW SALEM PTA ORGANIZED We have organized a P. T. A. and the next meeting will be the 16th of January at the school house. All parents who haven’t yet joined are cordially invited to join and be with us at this meeting. AVANS HOME DEMON¬ STRATION MEETING The Avans Home Demonstra¬ tion Club met Friday afternoon at the home of Mrs. James Kin sey, meeting opened by prayer. Miss Boswell gave an interest¬ ing demonstration on Christmas decorations, and also Christmas gifts. Twelve ladies were present and gifts were exchanged, by drawing numbers. Miss Joy Kinsey pass¬ ed the gifts. Delicious refreshments were served by Mrs. Kinsey and Miss Violet Stoner. The next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. C. C. McAbee on January 16. Mrs. D. P. Hood, Reporter. Published Weekly—Since 1901, Georgia Heritage Freedom Train In Atlanta and Chatt. Georgia Heritage and Train In Atlanta Chattanooga, January 3 Atlanta, December 17.—(GPS) Georgia’s own freedom car, the “Georgia Heritage first of its kind in the nation to be operated in conjunction with the National Freedom Tfain—is beginning to roll. The Georgia exhibit, sponsored by the State Agricultural and Industrial Development Board', will be displayed in Augusta. December 13 and 14; Savanah, Dec. 16 and 17; Burnswlck, Dec., 18 and 19; Waycross, Dec. 20 and 21; Tifton, Dec. 22 and 23 ; Al¬ bany, Dec. 24 and 26 (closed on Christmas day); Americus, Dec. 27 and 28; Columbus, Dec 29 and 30; Macon, Dec. 31 and Atlanta, Jan. 1 and 2. In addition to showing simul¬ taneously with the national train in six Georgia cities, Georgia's special railroad car will visit four other communities, making a total of ten cities in which the documentary history will on public display for nineteen The car will be open daily from 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. “We are delghted that so much is being shown in the Heritage Exhibit,” said Cocke Jr., executive director the State Development Board. Several communities not being by our car have expressed keen desire to have it come We sincerely wish we send it to every city, town hamlet in Georgia. That, of course, is impossible. We would, however, like to call at¬ tention to the fact that, except for a small portion of the state Georgia car will stop within or 60 miles of virtually every in Georgia." The Georgia car, while main¬ and operated separately the national train, neces- had to follow the same worked out some 18 months ago by the American Foundation, long before Development Board even sponsoring an exhibit, the director explained. Selec¬ of the four additional cities for the Georgia exhibit was primarily because of their connections and facili¬ he said. The “Georgia Heritage Exhibit” made up of more than 100 historic flags and 'In the case of a few fra¬ old documents, reproductions be displayed instead of the Mr. Cocke said. Thru and micro-filming pro¬ these facsimiles are, how- er, even larger and more legible the originals, he added. Some Items in the Georgia Exhibit: 1. Original Charter of the of Georgia, 1785. 2. Picture Nancy Hart Captur¬ British. 3. Picture of Steamship “Sava first steam vessel to cross 4. Abbott’s Original Drawings Birds in Georgia, 1797. 5. Georgia’s Ratification of U. Constitution. 6. Original Journal of Georgia calling electing of to a convention to rati¬ or reject U. S. Constitution. 7. Original Constitution of the of Georgia of 1789, 1798, and 1877. 8. Oglethorpe’s first Account of Colony of Georgia. 9. Journal of Earl of Egmont Colony of Georgia. 10. Whitefeld’s Journal of Voy¬ from England to Georgia in printed volumes. 11. Francis Moore’s Voyage to in 1735. 12. Printed volume of first written by Orphans at to Whitefield in Lon¬ 1741. 13. Example of each of the Seals of Georgia. Principal documentary exhibits the Georgia car have been by the Georgia De- of Archives and History State Library of Georgia, the Society at Savanah, Unversity Library, Wes- NUMBER 50, CHURCH CHURCH SERVICES TRENTON BAPTIST CHURCH Rev. Wash Phillips, Pastor Sunday School, 10 A. M. Preaching, 11 A. M. Evening Service, 6 P. M. Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 P. M. Choir Practice Friday 7 P. M. NEW SALEM METHODIST Sunday School 10 A. M. Preaching 11 A. M. Epworth League, 6:00 P. M. NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST John North, Pastor Sunday School 10:00 C. S. T. Services each Sunday at 11:00 Sunday night B. T. U. at 6:00, services at 7:00. EAST VIEW BAPTIST CHURCH J. V. Richards, Pastor Sunday School, 10:30 A. M.— E. W. Conkle, Superintendent. Preaching, 11 A. M. Preaching, 7 P. M. FAIR VIEW CHURCH OF GOD J. D. Massengale, Pastor Sunday School 10 A. M. Preaching 11 A. M. Preaching 7 P. M. PINEY GROVE BAPTIST Rev. Pearl Tinker, pastor Sunday School 10 A. M. Superintendant, J. H. Tinker Preachng 11 A. M. and 7 P. M. Prayer Service Thursdays 7 P. M. Everybody welcome CHURCH OF UtJD—TRENTON Rev. Roy Massengale, Pastor Sunday School, 10 A. M. Preaching 11 A. M. Virgil Daniel, Superintendent. Bible Class Teacher, Rev. E. S. Buchanan. Services Friday, 7 P. M. DEER HEAD COVE BAPTIST Rev. Dewey Dodd, Pastor Sunday School, 10 A. M. N. R Blevins, Superintendent. Preaching, 11 A. M. RISING FAWN BAPTIST The Baptist WMS observed an evening of prayer for foreign missions at the church Friday riight, December 5. The WMS will meet Saturday afternoon, December 13, at 2 o’clock, at the home of Mrs. F. A. Hall. WOODLAWN BAPTIST CHURC Conrad Morgan, Pastor Services at 11 A. M. and ° " Sunday School 10 A Winfred Hartiine, Supl Trainng Union 6:45 P. Henry Elliot, Director. TRENTON CHURCH OF CHRIST Sunday School, 10 A. M. Preaching, 11 A. M. Evening Service, 6:30. Prayer Meeting, Wednesday evening at 6:30. CLOVERDAL BAPTIST Rev. Paul Howell, Pastor. Sunday School, 10 A. M. Preaching, 11 A. M. Evening Service, 6:30 P. M. Prayer Meeting, Thursday at 6:30 P. M. TRENTON METHODIST Rev. T. N. Orr, Pastor Sunday School, 10 A. M. Preaching, 11 A. M. Junior League, 6 P. M. Senior League, 7 P. M. Also preaching at Byrd's Chap¬ el at 9:45 A. M. leyan College Library at Macon, and the University of Georgia Archives at Athens. The special car, being moved by the Central of Georgia, the Atlantic Coast Line and the Geo¬ rgia Railroads, will be guarded by state troopers and the Georgia Natonal Guard. Gov. M. E. Thompson has proclaimed Dec. 13—Jan. 2 a period of rededica¬ tion of freedom in Georgia.
