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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 30, 1948)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME XL VIII. State Can Pay For Schools - Griffin Atlanta—(GPS) Georgia lo finance her own program, without depending on Federal aid, is the of Lieut. - Gov. Marvin Bainbridge publisher. In a cent speech before the Optimist Club, Mr. Griffin dared that Georgians have ough money to finance the lire $83,000,000 Minimum at'ion for Education—and wants Georgians to do this by themselves. Said he: “Every time we run to ington for money, we have surrender seme of cur If Georgia were to put up $70,000,000 aid rsk the Government for $15,000,000, would be dependent upon Federal Government for school program. The Bureaucrats would soon trying to tell us how to run ; hools, and nobody would the courage to buck them fear of losing the We’ve got the brains, cenrage and money to do whole job in Georgia.” Questioned afterwards if imposed proposed Federal aid education, the Lieutenant replied:— “I am not opposed to leceiving Federal funds to she is entitled, since her payers sent part of the to Washington. I am for state receiving all the rid it can get, as long as strings are attached. But I not think Georgia should its school program upon the Federal thereby causing the state to its freedom. We should our children with the school program, and then Federal money as meringue.” Chinese Pay Debts On New Year’s Eve An ancient Chinese tradition de¬ mands that all bills be paid on New Year’s Eve: anyone who is a debt¬ or on New Year’s Day is consid¬ ered, and considers himself, very much disgraced. Counting-houses hum with activity long after mid¬ night and tradespeople, shielding lighted candles, hurry through the dark streets of residential districts stopping at this door and that door to settle accounts with their cus¬ tomers. Traditionally, creditors are enti¬ tled to their money only so long as their candles remain lighted. Hu¬ man nature being what it is, we can imagine debtors and creditors have thought of an ingenious way of accidentally extinguishing those candles or keeping them from be¬ ing extinguished. Sand Mountain News Mrs. Una Belle Stone Bro. John Reeves from England preached at the of Christ Sunday. Everyone cordially invited to come hear the Gospel every Sunday. Mr. Elbert Foster from S. visited his brother, Mr. Fester and family Day. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Stone children visited Mr. and Troy Stone and family Night. Misses Norma Daniel and ginia and Cherry Stone last Monday with Mrs. Una Stone and family. Miss Phillis Gean Gaddis Tiftonia visited Miss Daniel and family Day. Mrs. Mary Foster visited Millie E. Daniel Sunday noon. Mrs. Una Belle Stone .Mrs. Leverette Sunday noon. Mr. and Mrs, Frank Hixon children visited Mrs. Hixon's rents, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Miss Norma Daniel and aunt, Mrs. Una Belle Stone in Chattanooga shopping nesday. Mrs. Jimmie Sue Fossett children visited her parents, and Mrs. Leverette -Day. limes THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1048. Final Date For Report- ing 1948 Practices 1948 Soil-Building will be eligible for payment only if reported to the local AAA office on or before JANUARY 15, 1949. January 15, 1949 has been set by state officials as the final date for receiving reports of practices carried out this year. Every effort has been made by your County AAA Office to supply all producers in the county with information, and this should be considered as final notice that no AAA funds can be obligated for ^1-building practices for , is not Med b?fere * report on ov the above named closmg date. The above ruling was handed down to your county AAA Office by State Officials, therefore, no exception CAN or WILL be made All producers who have not al¬ ready done so, are urged to re- P°* , sod ....... Practices car- j 11 ®? out in 1948 that T glble P^ent will be u lost, f armers are reminded that ! ra138 receipts are not reqmred I for mate nal for whicb a par * ;Lri '° order j was ls3ued by the The final Date is JANUARY 15 1049 • Louise Wright County Administrative Officer Star Route Nev/s Mrs. N. S. Walker Mrs. Ada Shields of Fort Payne Alabama was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Shellie Summer- ford- We are glad to report that Mrs. James Landcaster has returned home after two weeks illness in Park View Hospital. We sure have missed her. Mrs. N. S. Walker's Christmas guests were her children, Mr. and Mrs. Pleas Burton and and Mrs. John Burton; her niece Mrs. H. J. Barton and her little daughter and her friends, and Olean Wood, Sanra Lancast¬ er and Shirley Wooten. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. McCloud have moved to their new farm we hope they will find good neighbors. Carolyn and David Wood have nad their first piece of sheet music this week. Everycne in our community was very congenial in giving Christmas gifts. Little Joyce Hixon is recuper¬ ating from an illness of a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Author Woods have moved in the old home plaice, on the Michaels farm. Mrs. Eliza Michaels has been ill for three weeks. She will occupy her new home soon. Mr. Shellie Summerford visited Mr. N. S. Walker Christmas. ! Mr. George Barton visited his ’ sister, Mrs. Raymond Stephens last week. I am glad to report that the cotton season is about over. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Whitzell spent Christmas with Mr. Whit- zell's mother, Mrs. Ethell Whit¬ zell. David Summerford received a badly burned hand from shooting fire crackers Christmas. We’re missing Bettye and Martha Haggard in our music class. Our Postman, Mr. Gray is sure glad Christmas is over. The mail was so heavy during holi¬ days, but nevertheless he kept smiling. Mrs. L. C. Michaels had several guests Christmas. li “I am done with the yeors the! were, I am quits, I am done with the dead and the old. They are mines worked out. 1 delved in their pits, I have saved their grains of g: Id Now I turn to the future fof wine and b r ead— I have bidden the past adieu— I laugh, and lift hards to the year ahead, Come on! I am ready foi you’.’’ —Edwin Markham Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. DEW VERR [LEVER l§ < £ * ^ Got I gun: it that we may mako (A ,'tis new year a rno 1 o it of faith in Tho' 3 ,u! ip our country. Git it u - clay by day, the strength and will to build a structure of peace and charity that will be N? accepG;i in 1 hy sight. [ ^ Amen rjf New Veer’s Gift of Broken Dishes Most Americans would be per¬ plexed to find a pile of broken crock¬ ery on their d icrstep New Year’s morning. However, it’s a time-hon¬ ored Danish custom to save every dish which comes to grief during the year and hurl it all against the front doors of friends and neigh¬ bors on New Year’s Eve. The tossers are supposed to toss and run, but not too fast. Before they get away, the householder is supposed to open the door and in¬ vite them in for coffee and dough¬ nuts. A pile of broken crockery around any Danish threshold on New Year’s morning attests the popularity of the householder and is a compli- mera ^is w if e - s ability to make delicious coffee and tasty dough- nuts. Creek Road News By Geraldine Smyth Old Santa has come and gone, nice Jnd rm to everyone. sure 1,e ha3 We .IfA didn’t 77 , have a white Christmas as I was noping, but at this writing it . = rouph like tnow now p rv give! although the weather man ™ Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Smyth „ and „ family had as their guests Christmas Day for dinner, their nephew and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. James McPherson of Austin Texas, the former’s mother, Mrs. A. L. Rice of Chattanooga, Mr. and Mrs. John Carroll and son, Wilburn. Everyone enjoyed the day very much. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Lawson and son, Robert, had as their guests Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. Ray¬ mond Lawson and family, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Lawson, Mrs. Mary Johnson and sons, Charles and Clarence, all of Chattanooga, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Hughes of Sly go, and Mr. and Mrs. James Stevens and daughter of New England. Everyone had a very nice time. Mr. and Mrs- J. O. Smyth and family had as their guests for Christmas, Mr. and Mrs. G. L Fulghum and son, Gene, Mr. and Mrs. Tom McCauley and daught¬ er, Virginia, Mrs. Terrell Mc¬ Cauley and son, Terrell, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Stokes McCauley and Dot, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Smyth and Mr. and Mrs. George Ful¬ ghum, Jr. A good time was had by all. Mr. and Mrs- L. E. Ryan had as their guests, Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Ryan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Hicks Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Rueben R 3 ’an and family. Mr ?,nd Mrs- Newton Ryan and family, Mr. and Mrs. Reed Ryan and family, Mr. and Mrs.' Cari Ryan, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Ryan and family, Mr. rnd Mrs. ErrWu Ryan and family. Everyone had a nice time. We are all very sorry to hear of Conrad Holmes illness, and hope he recovers very soon. Guess this is all for this week Happy New Year, everyone. [had River News By JANIE FORESTER Mr. H. R. Johnson and family lad as their guests during Christmas Miss Bill of Hapeville Ga., Miss Grace Johnson of Chattanooga and Rev. W. M. Bayne and Charlotte of Rabun Gap School. Mr. and Mrs. James Schrock and children of West Brow were guest's of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Forester during Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Schurch' had as their guests Mr. and Mrs ! Boyd Walker of Chattanooga and Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Dodd and children of Sand Mountain. I Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Mathews of New Salem spent Christmas | with Mr. and Mrs. Sam Forester and family. I Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ross' c,nd children M.'Ross'and spent a few "family days with Mrs. J. j Mr. and Mrs- Bill Konrad and chU< ‘ ren -, “ L “ry were guests of Mr. and Mrs. L. j Slaughter at Rising Fawn, j M & V f y ha3 gone to ' Miss Dorothy ^Terme^eetemple Holtehoter who'' * attending College is spending thehnimav’ MS’ 1 with her parents Mr and Len Holtzhower here Mr. and Mrs. Mark Scruggs 1 spent Christmas Day with Mr | Mathis and family in Cedar Grove, Georgia ♦ ..... | ■ - :: | 11 ! I m '■ i SFjSfc _ ____ BIG BEN ... In London, Eng¬ land, the most famous clock in the world annually welcomes the New Year with the booming of its great bell. Maternal and Child Health Clinic Dr. J. J. Croley, Health Com- vnissioner announces that the next session of the Maternal and Child Health Clinic will be held in the Sunday School Rooms of Trenton Methodist Church, Friday June 7, 9 to 11 A. M. Dade Gym Being The Dade Gym is at last get- t:ng some much needed repairs The walls have been ceiled up the rafters. Broken panes have been replaced. heating units have been install¬ ed. Thi^ is indeed a fine begin¬ ning. Lumber for these repairs been given by individual tions- Labor wai given by Board of Education. The ing unit has been installed on credit and half the proceeds the basket ball games will be turned over to pay for this. Some time back, when the ieaked, this was repaired but there seemed to be no this was all that wa don“. winter during the basket season, the gym has always a cold and uncomfortak ' for both the players and spectators. Now that work again started on repairs cm Gym, it is to be hoped enough money and labor will forthcoming to complete necessary work. Game Conservati <a C lub Meeting ____ - Gfn Tuesday night Dece 14th, about 300 members of Catoosa County Sportsmens Jon- servation Club including guests met at the court Louse in Ringgold for the re meeting which is held on the second Tuesday of each month- At the previous meotin^ of club which was held just to the opening of the Georgla deer season, members pledged that if killed a deer it would ------- be placed on storage and would be cued £nd served at the next meeting. True to their promise a grou P hunters headed by our good friend and good sports- man Cap Ware bagged a nice buck - This deer was frozen and ke P t for this occasion, and was barbecued by another good sportsman, Marshall Bandy Elli8 Springs ‘ The deer was aupplemented b y a good quanity by Mr. Bandy. After everyone had eaten all the meat they could hold, the meeting was called to order by the President W. M. Kittle. Mr- Kittle introduced Charlie Brock Pre f, ldent of th ? H!,milt<M Coun- Brock made a ver y interesting g “ C ’“ b W ° rk ? fT" :* nd « avl: somc very instructive infonnallon 011 quail manage * ment - Mr. F. R. Bell, Sec.-Treas. of the Mentone, Alabama Club was next speaker. Mr. Bell is a re¬ tired business man formerly of Birmingham, Alabama but now resides in Mentone. For many months Mr. Bell has w r orked tire¬ lessly on a game restoration pro¬ ject on the Alabama side of line on Lookout Mountain. has given his time, and able money toward the Lookout Mountain Game fuge as far South as Me thereby adding about 16000 to the area. Mr. Bell also ganized the Mentone tion Club a few months ago the help of Dr. J. G. Allison veterinarian also of The membership of this club limited to landowners who lands into the game refuge no dues are assessed, the activi¬ ties being financed by Mr. and Dr. Allison. Mr. Bell a very inspiring talk on conser¬ vation of all our natural re¬ sources and he stressed the Wild¬ life of our country in particular. Dr. Allison then made a talk on the work of the Club. Col. Harris of Ringgold made a very interesting talk ex¬ pressing his appreciation for good meeting and w’hat the work of this club can mean to County in promoting better sportsmanship, and good fellow- ship among the residents of the c ounty This writer attends Sportsmens club meetings ea h month, and he can truthfully R ay that this was one of the Published Weekly—Since 191U, No Road Contracts Planned Until Feb. Atlanta,—tGPS) Don’t look for any new contracts to be let for Georgia roads until about, February. That’s the wordMrom James ] State Highway Director L. Gillis, who said he did not p]an to Iet any contracts until after the 1949 Legislature ad- j 0ul -ned- | Reason for this moratorium on contract letting is to let the Highway Department complete ; ts reorganization and permit ever-burdened contractors to catch up on work they already nave, the director explained. He a aid the first contract letting j- or his administration probably would come in February. By that time the amount of , ta te and federal money avail - able for roads might reach fkO.OOO.OOO, according to State Auditor B. E. Thrasher Jr., of ihe State Budget Commission, who said the amount now avail¬ able is around $17,000,000. Also by that t’me the General Assembly would have had an op¬ portunity to pass an appropri¬ ations bill with allocations for ;he Highway Department, Di¬ rector Gillis pointed out. Meanwhile, the director is studying some 30 negotiated fontracts let by the previous ad- lrdrd Nation to determine v ’ be ther bo will release them- J ‘ T< ' said be was slashing the ovei-charges in some of the contracts and permitting the same contractors to do the work, °^ ber contracts he is cancelling. Director Gillis also disclosed That he had fired “me engineers who accepted favors from con- factors, and warned his entire staff was not to be under obli - gatlons to contractors. j Ranger’s Report j | By J. E. Pace The following article was pub¬ lished in the “Keep Georgia Green” bulletin and was written by Mn L. H. Edmondson j ! fields^and With more woods-this hunters in Georgia than season ever before, Louis H. Edmondson, j today Sector issued of Keep special Georgia plea Green, to all a sportsmen to be extra careful on dry days wfth their matches and cigarettes so that the number cf forest fires may be held to a minimum. “If smokers, including hunters start as many fires during the quail season, which closes on February 25, as Georgia has had during December. January, ana February over a 5-year period it has been estimated that tens of thousands of acres of wood¬ lands will go up in smoke be¬ cause of their carelessness,’’ Edmondson explained. The number of Georgia coun¬ ties having organized fire pro¬ tection is larger than at this time last year. But the increas¬ ed protection, he added, will likely be more than offset by the larger number of hunters “unless each man breaks every match before throwing it away and unless every cigarette and every cigar is put out by hand or foot instead of just being thrown aside.” Edmondson also urged hunters who build fires on cold days to use water to be sure their fires are “dead out” when they leave their campfire sites- best meetings he has ever at¬ tended. It also proved a point hat he has argued for several years. Too many times he has , heard otherwise ,, . good speakers , mar their talks by punctuating almost every sentence with pro- ranity, and emphasising each point with a smutty or obscene joke. ., Many speakers , gey , the _ idea that they cannot address a group of sportsmen without re¬ sorting to profanity and smutty lokes. On the contrary this meeting ,. opened , , by prayer was a and closed by a prayer. It was one that any citizen of the coun- ty might have brought along his wife and children and eat thru the whole meeting without any ones lace turning red. Hugh Forester, State Ranger NUMBER ai. Committeemen Elected To Serve In 1949 In Dade County -— Referendums were held in each District in Dade county on Sat¬ urday, -December 4 for the pur¬ pose of electing farmer commit- teemen in each community in the county. These committeemen will serve during the year 1949 as an aid to farmers in problems concerning building the soil to¬ ward higher productivity- Also elected were delegates from each community. These Delegates met on Friday, December 10 and elected the county committee which is responsible for the coun- ty wide administration of the Agricultural Conservation Pro¬ gram, County Committeemen elected Sand Mountain—C. C. McAbee; Rising Fawn—H. G. Hawkins; Wildwood—J. E. Cole; New Salem—Art E. Moore; Tren¬ ton—M. M. Blevins. Delegates elected were: Sand Mountain—G. A. Grant; Rising Fawn—R. C. Thomas; Wildwood J. E. Cole; New Salem—Art E. Moore; Trenton—Gus Forest¬ er. County Committeemen elected were: Chairman, E. J. Bible; Vice-chairman, D. P. Hood; Re¬ gular member, M. M. Blevins; First alternate, J. E. Cole; Se¬ cond alternate, W. T. McCauley. Since Mr. M. M. Blevins was elected to the county committee it was necessary to replace him in the community committee with Mr. James Morrison who is his alternate. Mrs. Louise Wright was reap¬ pointed County Administrative Officer, Secretary-Treasurer of the County Agricultural Program for 1949. „ On behalf of our working force we wish to commend the farmers of Dade County for the excellent cooperation and the wonderful job you did in 1948 and with in¬ creased appropriation for 1949 we are expecting a greater job :n 1949. Every farmer in Dade County is urged to take part in the Production and Marketing Administration program in 1949. Ask your neighbor cooperator about it. All cooperators are requested to call by the local office in the Courthouse and pick up your 1949 County Handbook which lists and describes all practices for which payment will be made in 1949. Help us to help you make 1949 the greatest year in Dade County Agriculture. Louise Wright County Administrative Officer Dade County A. C. A. ‘Open House’ Once Marked Holiday Senior members of the family lament the passing of the good old day’ when New Year's calls were very stylish in America. 'Open House’ on New Year’s Day was introduced into this country by the Dutch who settled in New Amsterdam and were accustomed to receive their friends who dropped in to offer the compliments of the day. Such calls were very informal, made and received in the spirit of friendship and sociabil ty; re'resh- ments appropriately conj:sted of homemade snacks r.nd centered around a large bowl of punch, made according to the he* : ’s favorite recipe. t The custom grew witn the country and, eventually, the nation -or the increasingly populous communities thereof—outgrew the custom. Dur¬ ing the latter part of the nineteenth century, it was curt -mary f r those who intended to receive their friends and acquaintances to send’at home- noti ^ t0 ^ newspapers so that would-be callers might plan accord ingIy The majority of such calls were made in the spirit of friendship and sociability which had given imwgtus to the custom in the first place However, human nature being what j g> rece pti 0 ns were often ‘crashed’ by strangers attracted by the pros¬ pect of free punch: likewise, hosts and hostesses were frequently em¬ barrassed by guests who, making their seventh or eighth call, arrived excessively boisterous or mellow m oods. » These abuses contributed to the abandonment of the publically an- .......„ ....................... exchanged on i y among intimates toasting the New Year around a very private bowl of punch.
