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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 6, 1948)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME XLVIII. Forestry Week News From the Ga. Forestry Bulletin Tower and Two-Way Radio Planned For Gordon County Plans for construction of a 50 foot steel lookout tower in the east side of Gordon county are under way. This tower will give good coverage for the east side of the county. The balance of the county will be covered from ihe present tower at Caihoun. Two-way radio is to be used at the tower for communication instead of construction of a tel¬ ephone line. Two-way radios are to be installed in the truck and jeep. This will speed up the fire fighting service in Gor¬ don county. J. C. McDearis is ranger and Jack Hollaran is as¬ sistant Ranger. Gordon county now has the only concrete block tower in the state. It is used for a ranger’s office and garage as well as a lookout tower. Forestry Scholarship Will Be Awarded Again The Union Bag and Paper Cor¬ poration again will award a scholarship to the Forestry School at the University of Geor¬ gia. One Georgia FFA member and one 4-H boy will be chosen this year from those competing. Final selection will be made by a committee composed of the Dean of the School of Forestry, the State Forester, a represent¬ ative of the Department of Vo¬ cational Agriculture and a rep¬ resentative of the State 4-H Club office. This is a four-year scholar¬ ship—$400 is available each year. The 1947 winner was Frank Miles of Appling county. New Ranger’s Headquarters For Floyd County A house on West Seventh Street in Rome belonging to Floyd county is being remodeled for the Floyd County Protection Unit. This will be one of the most modern ranger’s headquarters in the state upon completion. The headquarters will have six rooms , for living quarters and a large lobby and office for the person¬ nel to carry on the forestry work. The building will be plas¬ tered throughout and will con¬ tain two bathrooms. WSB Is Broadcasting Forestry Interviews Forestry radio programs may be heard on Radio Station WSB, Atlanta, every Wednesday morn¬ ing on Jim Romine’s Dixie Farm and Home Hour, which begns at 5:30 and continues for one hour. From 10 to 15 minutes are de¬ voted to forestry interviews. The State Department of For¬ estry, the U. S. Forest Service and the Georgia Extension Serv- oce alternate in providing per¬ sonnel for the broadcasts. May programs follow: May 5—Sales Opportunities For Timber. May 12—Invitation to Visit Chattahoochee National Forest. May 19—Forestry Projects. New Ranger’s Headquarters For Dade County Unit A new building for the Ran¬ ger’s headquarters is undar con¬ struction in Trenton. The buil¬ ding is of modern design and consists of a large room with a large open fireplace for the of¬ fice and lobby. There also will be a large supply room. The south side of the structure has t portico. The building was designed that it may easily be converted into living quarters and maintain the Ranger’s office. The Ranger’s office at present located in the Courthouse. J. C. Pace is the Ranger of County. > (Ranger reports these ters will be ready for within the next few days). PIANO RECITAL There will be a piano by the pupils of Miss Eileen Sunday afternoon, May 9, at p. m. at the Dade High Auditorium. ait Cowl Stmts THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1948. An Interview With Our Forest Ranger As National Forestry Week rolls around once more, we tried to pry roose some information from our Forest Ranger, J. C. Pace. As our Ranger is very vol- uable on many subjects, guess your publisher was just too ig¬ norant on the subject of forestry to push the right button. Ranger Pace did give us the statistics on the number of acres burned in Dade county since July, 1947, and there were 629 of them. I am listing them by months as the figures jump in¬ terestingly about. In July of 1947 one-half an acre was burn¬ ed, 4 acres in August, 8 in Sep¬ tember, 4 in October, 5V 2 in No¬ vember but now watch Decem¬ ber—276 acres burned! In Jan¬ uary of 1948 there were 32 acres burned, 28 in February, the March winds must have helped for 226 acres burned in March and back to 25 acres burned in April. We asked how most of these fires start. “Mostly careless¬ ness,” Ranger Pace said, “throw¬ ing down a lighted match before it is out, campers or picnickers who leave before they are dead certain their fire is out or care¬ less hunters. Maybe in burning off a clearing or burning brush the fire gets away from you. However,” Ranger Pace contin¬ ued, “it’s very seldom an owner sets his own fire.” Ranger Pace said he wanted to express his appreciation of the cooperation of the owners in the protection of their land and to all who work with him in gener¬ al fire protection. He also ex¬ pressed his appreciation of the volunteer help which he has re¬ ceived all over the county during this fire season. “Please every¬ body keep on working to reduce fires,” he added. He tells us that this is the be¬ ginning of the Forestry Depart¬ ment’s educational program. During the summer months an intensive program is conducted in the prevention and control of fires and the general up-keep of our forest lands. As told elsewhere, Ranger Pace expects to move into the new Ranger’s quarters within a few days. When asked about future plans he was very reticent. He did say that greatly expanded plans are being made for Dade County as one of the state’s Protection Units. Rising Fawn School ROLL 0FJ0N0R Rising Fawn School, 5th Period FIRST GRADE—Ruby Fay Bievins, Wynell Jackson, Joyce Castleberry, Rex Wallin, Jimmy McCarty, Tonie Ray, Lambert Konrad and Garvis Chadwick. SECOND GRADE—E velyn Whitlock, Ethel Marie Crane, Es¬ telle Henderson, Tossie Louise Nix, Dewey Wayne Bradford and Betty Young. THIRD GRADE—Helen Chad¬ wick, Jimmy Cureton, Shelby Dawkins, Gary Lee Steeie and Jacqueline Wilson. FOURTH GRADE—N orman Blake, Ercylene Crane, Helen Forester, Sue McMahan and Hel¬ en Nix. FOURTH GRADE—Carl Steele, Kay Tatum, Ernest Watson and Billy Young. FIFTH GRADE—Walter “Son¬ ny” Thomas. SIXTH GRADE—Sarah Cham¬ bers, Elizabeth Bradford and Barbara Jo Hatfield. SEVENTH GRADE — Loretta Davis, Ted Camp, Mary Kath¬ erine Fricks, Joan Steele, Don Kenimer and Ray Bobo. EIGHTH GRADE—Jack Mur¬ phy and Estelle Nuniey. Only 26 per cent of the private¬ ly owned forest land of Georgia is protected from fire. Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. Forestry Legislation Given Congress Senator Russell of Georgia has Introduced a bill which proposes to increase from $100,000 to $2,000,000 annually federal funds for reforestation assistance to states. The bill was referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry. Two other bills have been in¬ troduced in Congress that are of direct importance to private timberland owners. They deal with the cooperative fire protec¬ tion program. These bills are to amend the Clark-McNary Law and are known as HR 5727 and HR 5733. They are duplicate bills. Both propose to match the states on a 50-50 basis. This proposed legislation has been strongly supported by the Forest Farmers Association, which has general headquarters in Valdosta. The association urges all citizens to support these bills.—From Georgia Forestry. Commerce Dept. Re¬ ports On Dade’s Lumber Production Thirty-two mills of Dade coun¬ ty in 1946 produced 11,516,000 board feet of lumber, including 7.632.000 feet of softwood lum¬ ber, and 3,884,000 feet of hard¬ wood, according to information received here from C. Parker Persons, regional director of the United States Department of Commerce in Atlanta. Making public results of a Bu¬ reau of the Census survey of Georgia’s 1946 lumber production just released, Mr. Persons said production for the State as a whole aggregated 1,982 million board feet, or 31 per cent above the approximately 1,510 million feet produced in 1945. The Census Bureau report, copies of which are available at the U. S. Department of Com¬ merce, 418 Atlanta National Building, in Atlanta, also shows that Dade county produced 11,- 250.000 feet of sawlogs, including 7.364.000 feet of softwood and 3.886.000 feet of hardwood, from which lumber produced in the “S “down tU as1o duction of lumber and origin of sawlogs by counties, also stated that practically all of the sawlogs consumed by Georgia’s sawmills were produced in forests of the State itself, an insignificant amount coming from bordering states. Yellow pine constituted the major specie of wood from which Georgia’s lumber was produced in 1946. Brown Brothers Buy Store and Tourist Cabins in New England The last of April Mr. D. T. Brown purchased the land and buildings of Johnny Crumley in New England. These include a filling station, a store building and several tourist cabins. Mr. Brown has closed the store by his home and moved the Brown Bros. General Merchan¬ dise Store to the new location. Back of the store part of the building where Mr. and Mrs. Crumley lived, Mr. Brown has moved the office force and equip¬ ment of the Brown Lumber Co. and will make this part into a suitable office as soon as pos¬ sible. The cabins, for the present, will remain closed. There are several which have been passed by the Sanitary Engineer amd it is possible that Mr. Brown may be abie to arrange for some plan whereby these may be put into operation. “Keep Georgia Green” Atlanta, May 6—March rains were a great handicap to Geor¬ gia farmers as far as all crops were concerned, with the excep¬ tion of the state’s No. 1 crop- trees. This statement was made today by Louis H. Edmondson, director of KEEP GEORGIA GREEN, in the analysis of the State Department of Forestry’s reports on uncontrolled forest fires for the first three months of this year. “Although there are approxi¬ mately 1 y 2 million more acres of woodlands under organized fire protection this year than last (all of 36 counties and parts of 6 counties, as compared with 34 counties in 1947),” he ex¬ plained, “ the number of acres burned during March of this year was less than half the acre¬ age ravaged by uncontrolled for¬ est fires during March, 1947.” There was also a decided change for the first quarter of 1948 as compared with January- March of last year. Main points of comparison: 1948. 1947. Number of fires 1,182 1,561 Acres burned 32,573 74,090 Size of average fire 27.6 acres in 1948; 47.4 acres in 1947. Percent of protected forests burned, 0.45 in 1948; 1.22 in 1947. During March, 1948, there were 514 uncontrolled fires in the area under organized protection, ac¬ cording to the State Forestry De¬ partment report; but the size of the average fire was only 30.8 as compared with the 56.3 average size of the fires in March, 1947. Edmondson declared that the rains alone did not account for the reduction in the size of the average fire. “The landowners in Georgia are becoming more of -d protecting more awareo.the^ty their woodlands from fire and are cooperating more closely with the personnel of the organized fire protection units in their respective com¬ munities. This awareness of the need of protecting the state’s most valuable natural resource from fire is the reason why the Keep Georgia Green launched recently as a project of the Georgia Forestry Associ- tion, is being received enthusi¬ astically in ail parts of the state,” he added. Morganville HD Club Met With Mrs. Pullen The Morganville Home Demon¬ stration Club held its regular meeting at the home of Mrs. Wm. H. Pullen on April 21. The meeting was a very inter¬ esting and heipful one. Miss Boswell demonstrated the use of crayons for a colorful decoration on cloth. Also the remodeling of an old-fashioned oil lamp in¬ to a beautiful electric lamp. A contest of much interest was cleaning up and landscaping our yards. Every Club member was interested. Now our chief prob- jem is to extend that enthusi¬ asm to our husbands. After the business meeting, Mrs. Ewell gave us a contest of jumbled words, which stumped almost every one. We are happy to add two more new members to our club. Delicious refreshments were served by the hostess. Mrs. A. O. Ward, Reporter. Home Demonstration Week Why I Belong To a Home Demonstration Club There are many good ror belonging to a Home stration Club. The first, I would say, is ing in step with all the methpds of preserving foods the family and the more ive ways of preparing and serv¬ ing them. I consider the bal¬ anced meal the homemaker’s biggest problem. Next is arranging the home more attractively with what we have to do with; examples are right use of decorations, making small pieces of furniture such as dressing tables from apple crates, pretty print sacks used as slip covers and curtains. Another important phase of homemaking is sewing for the family. All these are taught us by trained Home Demonstration Agents. Another great lesson today is Family Relations. This is need¬ ed in every home. We have had some very good training by our Home Demonstration Agents and others. The social phase of the Club is a great advantage to any com¬ munity. A community without organization never goes forward —nor can it amount to much without all working The Home Demonstration is one of our best methods developing community spirit. Every homemaker should long to a Home Club. I will always be a for the good I have received the past and expect to in the future. Verna M. Hood. $135.95 Raised In County For Crippled Children’s League Before Easter the Crippled Children League of Georgia with headquarters in Atlanta mailed out Easter Seals. The local or¬ ganization, of which Dudley Cu¬ reton is chairman and Mrs. 8. J Hale treasurer, was not sent this list, nor did they know how many in the county returned the mon¬ ey for the seals direct to the state organization. Those who sent their money to Mrs. Hale, the local treasur¬ er, were: J. F. Clo'ud, $1; Lee Cloud, $1 ; Floyd W. Clark, $1; W. W. Harttine, $4; Byron Pope, $1; Mynne Pope, $1; Jules A. Case, $1; M. J. Hale, $1; Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Brock, $2; Mrs. Cath¬ erine Morrison, $1 ; Mrs. W. H. Pullen, $1; Clarence Guffey, $1; W. I. Price, $5; Thomas Ballard, $1; J. L. Holder, Sr., $1; Mr. and Mrs. Herman V. Moore, $2; Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Hatfield, $2 ; Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Hatfield, $2; E. P. Johnson, $2; F. G. Ellis, $1; Wal¬ ter Cureton, $1; Miss Bess Cure- ton, $1; R. P. Fricks, $2; W. H Kenimer, $5 ; Brock Dean, $1; John G. McGuffey, $1; J. O. For¬ ester, $1; K. C. Adkins, $1; D. A McMahan, $2; Mrs. J. E. Fellows, $1; Homer R. Hah, $1; James L. Henderson, $1; Joe T. Fulghum, $1; Marvin L. Dodd, $1; E. J. Bible, $1; J. L. Fricks, $2; Walter D. Gray, $1; A. L. Dyer Lumber Company, $10. From the coin boxes placed in the business houses throughout the county, $11.96 was received. From the schools: Dade Coun¬ ty High, $21.23; Davis High, $9.- 05 ; North Dade, $9; Rising Fawn, $10.90; New Salem, PIE SUPPER AT NEW SALEM SATURDAY NIGHT There will be a pie supper the ball park store night for the ball team. is to make money to buy equip¬ ment for the New Salem players. Everyone come out bring pies or buy pies. Published Weekly—Since 1901, Georgia Farm Women Celebrate Home Dem¬ onstration Week Georgia farm women will join this week in the observance of National Home Demonstration Week. This year’s theme is “Today’s Hpme Builds Tomor¬ row’s World.” Through the years the home agent’s work has developed from contacting individual homemak¬ ers to include holding large com¬ munity meetings. This has been accomplished by community de¬ monstrations such as the proper methods of using steam pressure canners, meal planning, home sewing and good health prac¬ tices to mention but a few. Today’s homemaker also takes an active Interest in the local and national government, better school systems, health programs and world affairs. Home De¬ monstration agents conduct dis¬ cussions on these and many other topics. In carrying out this year’s theme, "Today’s Home Builds Tomorrow’s World,” emphasis will be placed on various activ¬ ities of the organization—style revues, gardening, cooking and Improvement of the home. At present, in Georgia, inter¬ est is centered on the Kitchen Improvement Contest. More than 1,500 women in 87 counties are enrolled in this project Money to pay for these improve¬ ments has been made on eggs, surplus poultry, canned goods and vegetables. Dade has 16 women entered in this Kitchen Improvement contest from her six clubs. We have a Home Demonstration Council and six clubs at Slygo, Wildwood, Morganville, Avans, New Salem and Cloverdale, with around 200 members. MISS BOSWELL TO ATTEND A REFRESHER COURSE Friday and Saturday of this week Miss Pattie Boswell will at¬ tend a Refresher Course in Sum¬ merville. This course in food preparation and bread making is being held by Extension Nu¬ tritionists Miss Susan Mathews and Miss Nellie C. Boyd. Teachers Elected For Next School Term (The Superintendent is out of town so we are not abie to get an official list of the teachers elected nor the rest of the pro¬ ceedings of the meeting). At a regular meeting of the Dade County Board of Educa¬ tion this Tuesday morning some of the teachers elected for the next year’s term were: For the Dade High and Gram¬ mar Schools—Mrs. J. M. Carroll, Miss Mary Jo Carroll, Mrs. Jimmy B. Carroll, Mrs. Ernest Stewart, Mrs, Delilah Wheeler, Mrs. Jeweh Michael, Mrs. Florence Wilson, Mrs. H. F. Francis, Mrs. Thelma Bell, and Mrs. Geneva Allison Home Ec teacher and Mr. Clarence Dolliver, teacher and coach. For Rising Fawn—Mrs. J. L. Fricks and Mrs B. B. Kenimer. For New Salem—Mrs. Eleanor B. Davis and Mr. Foister B Davis. For Morganville—Mrs. Clista Barnes and Mrs. Nae Cole Craig. For Davis—Miss Inez Simmons, Mrs. Kate F. Elliott, Mrs. Rena Ballard, Miss Lorene Horton, Mrs. Grace Elliott, Mrs. Wilodean Patton, Mrs. Willie J. Worley, Mrs. Beatrice Freeman,. Mrs Thelma D. Gray and Mrs. Dor- athy C. Carter. Mrs. H. S. Phillips was elected to be Visiting Teacher again next year. Except for Mr. H. S. Phillips, who was elected on April 19 to be priniepai of Dade High School, no other principals have yet been named. NUMBER 17. Home Demonstration Work In Dade County The week of May 2 to 8 has been declared “National Home Demonstration Week.” Dade county was very fortun¬ ate in getting a home agent last fall. We appreciate the work that is being done, and planned, by Miss Boswell. Last fall, just after Miss Bos¬ well came, she worked very hard and faithful to make our county fair a success. Since then she has held meetings in Home De¬ monstration work in all the communities over the county each month. Besides learning the principles of cooking and canning, we have learned many other things, such as Christmas decorations, new ways to make candy, how to get rid of “tell-tale” marks in a hem, and many other things. She also got a group of county ladies interested in the “Family Relations” meeting in LaFayette. We came back, formed a Coun¬ cil, made plans, and held a “Family Relations” meeting of our own at the Methodist church in Trenton a month later. Through the club work Miss Boswell has gotten 16 ladies in¬ terested in entering the State¬ wide “Kitchen Improvement” contest. This contest closes on September 1, and I hope Dade county may have a winner. None of us know everything about keeping house, and the many things that are taught in the club meetings—just being with our neighbors, exchanging thoughts and ideas, broadens our outlook on life and the people around us. As president of the Council. I urge each homemaker who can, to attend the demonstration meeting nearest you. Your pres¬ ence there will show our agent how much we appreciate her and need her, and as National Home Demonstration Week, may each one of us put forth a greater effort to attend the meetings— especially this month. Mrs. E. J. Bible, President. Cloverdale Horae De¬ monstration Club Met April 23 The Cloverdale Home Demon¬ stration Club held its regular monthly meeting April 23 at the home of Mrs. Byron Forester. Eleven members were present. Miss Boswll gave two demon¬ strations. Our next meeting will be at the home of Mrs. Jewell Philips. Miss Boswell plans to show us how to regulate our pressure cookers, as it is near¬ ing the canning season, this is a very good idea. All members are urged to attend and help get more interest in our Club. Mrs. Harold Forester, Rep. MISS KATHRYN BERRYMAN, FORMER HD AGENT, WEDS The many friends of Miss Kathryn Berryman, our former Home Demonstration Agent, will be pleased to lear nof her mar¬ riage to Mr. Ibrahim Toufic Hachem at Harvard University, where Mrs. Hachem was man¬ ager for the Medical School Dining Hall. Mr. and Mrs. Hachem left by plane on April 8 for his home near Damascus, Syria, with a stopover at Shan¬ non, London and Istanbul. NEW SALEM 4-H CLUB TO MEET FRIDAY NIGHT, MAY 8 The 4-H Club of New Salem will meet Friday night, May 8, at the Recreation Center, at the regular hour. Let’s all be present, as we have some business to attend to at this meeting. Maurice McGuffey, Sec. Between two and three million acres are in need of planting in Georgia.
