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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1952)
Only Newspaper. VOLl ME LI ______ ' r m ' •' ■* w . mb-**'* r cs ......,,, , -i - Tubby Case Foils New Two Deputy Accidents Luke Mitchell Reported reported In M:rganville Dade Over and Weekend New "his week that two auto acci¬ and the other at Piney. Tears' Robbery Attempt last dent weekend. occured One in Dade was between County either were no acciden't. personal injuries James ‘Tubby” Case is glad he decided to work on New Year’s Eve. broke into Would be thieves .he TCtum fc Case store in Trenton New Year’s Eve, backed a truck up to the rear entrance and prepared to carry off some valuable merchandise. They had FLASH! Constable Horace Baty report¬ ed Wednesday morning that two men, both of Chattanooga, have been arrested and are being held ly Chattanooga police in con¬ nection with the attempted rob¬ bery of the Tatum & Case store New Year’s Eve. One of the men is colored, Harry Moore. The other is Edwin Hamill. Moore is wanted for a number of charges by Chattanooga police and will not be brought to Tren¬ ton. Hamill will be jailed in Trenton pending trial. The two men were discovered when Constable Baty and Tubby Case reported the truck to the Chattanooga police. The truck was stolen in Chat¬ tanooga. broken a window pane and en¬ tered through a window in rear of ;he store. They carried a large floor model radio the floor and were preparing to ! carry it down the steps for load¬ ing into the truck when ‘opened the front door, at 7 P. M. Tubby reported that he them scampering out the when he came in. They Into the Dodge panel truck drove off around the corner the Morrison Hardware the square. This ended their truck ride as the 'truck In o the ditch and hte thieves made their exit on The Williams wrecker was led to pull the tTuck out of ditch by Constable Horace As the truck had t??s, Baty assumed that it a stolen one. There were no witnesses he escape and Tubby Case unable to get a look at No merchandise is Tubby said after a brief The robbery attempt is first in Trenton for some 11 ^ unusual in that it Place so early in the *hen there was quite a bit activity around the square In Wheelers Drug Store door. hr. Middleton ed By Native County Spencer Webster [ 1 vT C !Pa ° UrKy f CT Miss he P a I>er’ ran a , cle ‘ on Dr. Middleton k! h a Picture of the Dade > iorLS Club presenting pr °nze plaque for 55 years ■ *? rvlce - The paper also v!w :,^ a han [ ticIe about' b y Mm. Myrna Dr. ‘ ch appeared in the Dade l Times last year. d T Middleton was : ' e Paper for sending v- Thood if COmm church, union service to the J are 1 ® * a Ptist Church of " ' a community, ° u hty, Miss. LETS mMUP AND HO IN 52! J HIGHLIGHTS OF 1951 IN DADE COUNTY A Brief Summary of Happenings Last Year JANUARY « Dade County Gym burns. Farm Planning Committee sets 1951 goals. New closets added on stair¬ ways in Court House. Farm Bureau and Co-op hold joint all day annual meeting' 4 H’ers receive achievement medals. Hospital Authority and Coun¬ ty officials of Dade, Walker and Cattoosa sign agreement, last link to starting Tri County Hospital. Curtis L. Blgham assumes duties as Assistant County Agent. FEBRUARY I. o. Wheeler takes over the Wheeler’s Restaurant from Ter¬ rill Wheeler. Seventh Dis.rict Press Associ¬ ation entertains 7th District S.ate Legislators. County raising money to re¬ build gym. Cold weather, below zero re¬ ported on mountains. New England community gets old school as community house. Freeze and snow stops busses for a day. Many forest fires reported. i Jurors drawn for March term of Cloudland „ Superior c ° State ur ^ Park erects * signs as all Georgia state parks | receive markers. Home Demonstration ladies ! attend annual district confer¬ ence. Food Preservation Clinic. Court House receives fire ex- ‘ ta f“ 1,ers and Ilre ,l8htln8 0 ° H “ me Dem °" stralton Agent Highway crew working on Lookout Mountain Road. MARCH Ganaway & Riley Five and Dime Store opens in Trenton. Jonquils blooming when freak snow and freeze leaves county icy wonderland. Poultry Clinic. March term of Superior Court and first term in newly created Lookout Judicial Circuit with newly elected Judge Freeman C. McClure, Grand Jury recommends Dr. D. S. Middleton be reappointed county physician; Cleron Kyzer be be armointed appointed on on School Board and J. E. Strawn, District 1089, Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 1952. S. Townsend, 974, Joe Doyle, W. T. McCauley, 1214, Wal¬ Wilson, 1038 and Hobart Wil¬ 1037, be named J. P., N. P. 4-H’ers receive baby chicks. Sunrise Easter services in churches throughout Lookout Mountain road closed washout. First meeting of Truck farm¬ to make plans for Co-op farming. All U. S. farm agencies co¬ and U. S. Department Agriculture recommends all agencies to be in one if possible. APRIL 3% State sales tax goes into ef¬ Dade’s baseball season opens. Special crew works on Look- :ut Mountain road. Home Demonstration clubs Dress Review. Red Cross Home Nursing class Dade High School. Teachers elected for 1951-52 term. Dade High School and New Elementary schools tied 91.9% average daily atten¬ for first 7 months cf Lookout Valley Baptist Sun¬ School Convention held in Fawn. Rising Fawn organizes senior Club. Tax Equalization Board meets. Dade County Farmers earn $32,171.00 in Agriculture Con¬ Program payments. H. F. Allison named Dade County’s only Registrar. MAY Slygo Improvement Club or¬ ganized. Scalf district ge s electricity. Graduation at Dade County T. R. Tucker receives Farm Home Administration special award. Trenton Furniture and Appli¬ ance Store opens. Belfrey with electrical chimes added to Trenton Methodist Church. 87 children have perfect at¬ tendance in Dade schools. JUNE Insect Control Clinic. Flower Show held by Garden Club. Abandoned Truck Found By Officers County officers have located a 1950 Ford truck on Mountain which was about 30 yards off a road in woods. Deputy Luke Mitchell ports that the motor, sion and wheels were and the truck had no It appears, Mitchell to have been abandoned about four or five weeks. County officers are con acting state trolmen and police cf and Tennessee in an effort determine ownership of truck. Davis High Publishes First School Paper The first issue of the Davis High School newspaper came out December 21. The name of the paper is The Tattler , with a motto of Covers Sandy Like Mountain Dew. There are 12 pages in the first issue, printed on yellow and gray paper. Co-editors of Tattler are Lillie Mae Manning and Derval Nixon. The art edi- tor is freddy Shaw and the sport editors are Rebecca Gray and Robert Forester Henry Elliott is the faculty adviser. Otis Foster Retired R Otis ; R Merritt J ail Foster, £ l ! rk 73, , 3 D died December 27 in a Veterans Hos- ! pi al in Nashville. He was a retired Railroad mail clerk and veteran of the Spanish-Ameri- can War. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ccrdia Lee Sitton Foster; sis er, Miss Delma Fost- jor of Prattville, Ala.; two j Cliff Foster, Houston, Texas, and Malcolm A. Smith, and a niece, Mrs. I Robert Morgan, Birmingham. services were held from j the Trenton Revs. Allen Me.hodist T. Newby w jfh r. q Dye-s officiating. pallbearers were Dennis v an, Bill Brown, Newell j ac k Davis, Louis Sims Charlie Hixs:n. Honorary bearers were A. L. Dyer, Dr. S. Middleton, Jerry Pace, Ta um, W H. Brock, Louis Bryar, John Graves, Wiley Cleron Kyzer, E. A. Ellis, E. Parker, Col. D. E. Morrison, G. Morrison, Jr., Fred Harold Cox, L W. Giles, E. Raulston, James C. Case, Snyder, Doc Hixson, Williams, Buck Gifford, Tatum, Edwin Wells, Gray, Tommy Sims, | Parker, Jules A. Case, John Clift, Woodrow Tinker, Gray, and members of the road Mail Clerks. was in the Sitton Cemetery. DADE COUNTY NURSING CONFERENCE ; The Pabhc Health Nurse hold a Nursing Conference the basement of Rising Methodist w a. Church rav. u Tuesday rr. Tor, 18 at _ 2 P. M. The service is for mo hers, infants, and | These conferences are to P lace home visitmg ' OPEN HOUSE AT dYESS HOME The Rev. and Mrs. R. Q. will hold open house at the parsonage of the Trenton odist Church this Sunday er no:n from 2 to 5 P. M. members and friends are ed. Contract let to repair Lookout Mountain Road. June term of Superior Court no juries drawn. Dade plants 67,525 young pine trees during 1950-51 season. Trenton Telephone Company bought by W. R. Tatum from Mrs J. G. Gray. JULY New Salem 4-H Club receives gift of Registered bull. Barbecues at New Salem and Rising Fawn on 4th. Dade enters Forest Fire vention Contest. Health Center approved Dade. Slygo Valley starts 1 y Park. Contract let for and grading Sand Mountain Road. Ray Fischer, first Dade ty boy to be killed in Korean action. AUGUST Election for Solicitor in Rome, Macon and ern Circuits. 74 votes cast Dade. Lookout Valley Baptist Asso- ciation annual meeting at le. Workings held at grounds Dade’s gym. Farm Bureau holds picnic picks its Queens. Jury boxes revised. First football practice. Wind and rain storm, lines down. Work star ts on Mountain road. 4-H’ers attend Annual council meeting. School s arts August 31. SEPTEMBER contest . Living room won Mrs. E. G. Wright, Jr. John L. Case Co. opens „ and improved store. September term of Court lasts all week. Joe Paris first Negro in County to sit on Traverse Authority granted for of Tri-Coun.y hospital ground breaking held. Work on Sand Mountain starts. Ray Bobo winner in Citizenship con test, state meeeting. (Coatinued on back page) Published Weekly — Since 1901 NUMBER 52. Census Figures Reveal Dade Farm Progress Moore Gets 129 Bu. On Mountain Acre Terrence H. Moore is the win¬ ner of the contest sponsored by the Farm Bureau for the most bushels of corn per acre last year, county agent L. C. Adams levealed this week. Moore, whose farm is on Lookout Mountain, got 129 bushels. He will be ad¬ mitted to the “100 Bushel" Club of Georgia later this month. This accomplishment was out¬ standing particularly in view of the drought which cut yields over this part of the country summer. Dade Coun'.y has three other members of the 100 Bushel Club ! basb3 j 4949 yields. on 0 cr0 p ^ ^ “Sonny” McMahan is the ^leader, getting a yield of 141.3 busbe i s an acre on b i S Rising p awn f arm that year. Ar*t Moore cf Lookout Mountain, got 122.9 bushels and Bryon Forester, bushels' cloverdale> got 115.4 Lyman Taylor, of Sand Moun- tain, got 101.5 bushels an acre 4949 bu t was no t entered in ^ con t e st and therefore is not 1 member of the club. a John Whitt Member of Pioneer Family Dies John M. Whitt, 83, died Dec. 31, 1951, at his home in east Trenton. The Whitts are one of the old Dade Couny pioneer families, having settled on land between the gulch and Lookout creek. He is survived by his S i X children, Mrs. J. C. Case, 1 E. Selvey, Trenton; Mrs. jvirs. R r B. Smith, Long Island, Ala.; 1 Mrs. W. C. Smith, Ringgold, Ga. Joe whitt, Decatur, Ala., and j 0 h n whitt, Jr., Austell, Ga; a S j S ter, Mrs. Elbe Gifford, New England; 24 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held from his res- i dence W fth Revs. H. C. Smith and p ea rl Tinker officiating, Active pallbearers were J. B. j Sullivan, J. A. Case, Jim Broom, Robert Forester, Robert Allison and j 0 hn Reeves. Honorary pallbearers were Col. D. E. Mor- Lewis McBryar, Claude Sims, Fred Morgan, J. H. Selvey Dean Jeffrey, Jim Tinker and |a. whitt c. Killian. Cemetery. Burial was in the , „ . . . ----------- - George Wheeler Dies ( After Short Illness I George W. Wheeler, 82, of Piney Community passed away January 1, 1952. He was born in |Alabama but had lived in Dade County for the past 60 years. f » . black- J„ ^ . , , , . Ruby Daniel, . , Mrs. Gertrude J . . _ Fos- iter, \ Mrs. Henry Barton all ,, of . I Trenton and 6 sons, Bill, Fred, Earl, G. W., Jr., Spencer and R, B. Wheeler all of Trenton. Funeral services are Thursday afternoon, January 3 at 2:30 P. M. at his residence. Revs. Pearl Tinker and Grover Long will conduct the service. Pallbearers will be Leon Barton, Woodrow Tinker, Clarence Crabtree, Col. Douglas Morrison, Raymond Morrison and Theodore Quinton - Burial will be in the Trenton Baptist Cemetery with McBryar Funeral Home in charge. More farms is -the current trend in Dade county, accord¬ ing to the 1950 Census of Ag¬ riculture figures released by the U. S. Department of Commerce on Farm, Farm Characteristics, and Farm Products last fall. There were 698 farms in Dade in 1950, compared with 557 in 1945. The number of acres In farms has increased from 52,- 217 to 65,498. Though the numb¬ er of farms has increased, the average acreage has remained about the same, being 93.7 acres per farm in 1945 and 93.8 acres in 1950. The greatest increase In farms by size has been in those the 10 to 29 and 30 to 49 acre The number of farms from 10 to 29 acres has from 96 to 165 and the number which consist of 30 to 49 acres has increas¬ from 108 to 165. Over 47% the farms in Dade fall into cf these groups. The number of large farms also increased considerably. 1945 there were only nine having from 220 to 259 In 1950 the number had to 14. Farms with 260 499 acres increased during five year period from 21 28. Farms of the 500 to 999 variety grew from nine to . One farm over 1,000 acres added since 1945, making of that size in 1950. Dade has a land area of 105,- acres. The area belonging farms is 62% of that total, making it an agricultural The remainder is moun¬ heavily wooded with and steep areas. However, large part of the area be¬ to farms is in timber. Home ownership of.the farms rapidly increased, which is healthy sign. In 1950 there 504 full owners of farms with 374 in 1945. Also 1950 there were 102 part own¬ ers of fagms, compared with 25 five years earlier. There were only 90i tenant farmers last year, compared with 158 in 1945. According to these census fig¬ ures, 576 farms, representing 82.5%, had electricity in 1950, compared with 111 , represent¬ ing only 20%, in 1945. The number of farms having telephones, however, has not shown enough increase to make too much difference. Only 32 farms had telephones in 1950, being only 4.5% of the total farms. This is, nevertheless, an improvement over the 14 farms representing 2.5%- of the total, which had telephones in 1945. Other interesting figures are in the equipment found on Dade farms in 1950. Ninety-nine had electric water heaters. Home freezers were found on 31 farms and electric washing machines on 415. In number of cattle during (Continued on back page) RANGER TOWER PUT ON SAND MOUNTAIN A large forest tower, which wil* rise 100 feet cff the ground, ar¬ rived Wednesday afternoon in Dade. This tower is being put up on Sand Mountain between Magby Gap and Whiteoak Gap, Ranger J. C. Pace revealed. This tower, he said, will give the for¬ service a good view into all of Dade. The Lookout Tower, on the bluff of Lookout Mountain at Johnson Crook, is used for watching the southern end of the county.
