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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1952)
Dade County’ s Only New s paper. 7oli ; me ^ In ^ The ServK. William T. Hartline From Lt. Charles H. Fisher have received a brief his¬ of Cpl. William T. Hart- of Wildwood, since he en- the service in IMS. He received basic training Jackson, C. S„ then New York past the Gibraltar. After a brief to Naples they arrived final destination, Trieste, the Adriatic Sea and Italy. Hartline patrolled the border until personal driver for his commander for a 1950 he was sent to AMG driver for Major a l Clyde Eddleman and „ Brig Gen. J- Whitlaw. asignment Hartline resorts and such as Milan, Venice, in Italy; Pass, Heidelberg, and Frankfurt in and parts of Next Hartline was personal driver to Blanchard in Here he visited and Bordeaux. He re-enlisted. Thomas Mitchell Sgt. Thomas Mitchell, son and Mrs. R. M. 3, Rising Fawn, served recent U. S. -French recently held the Austrian Alps, section chief in Battery Field Artillery the army in 1949. Hershell J. Crane A release from. Ft. reveals that Pfc. Crane, Rising Fawn, has a pint of blood in Forces Blood He is a member the 200th Armored Field Bin. George Tucker—Ed Undergoing recruit at the U. S. Naval Center, San Diego, (Continued on last Home Industries Plans One Day The County Wide Home dustries Committee, ‘at regular monthly meeting week planned to hold a bay Show and Sale this mer A committee was ed by Mrs. W. C. Cure chairman, for the planning this event. Mrs. Charles was appointed chairman M's E. F. Moore, Mrs. Harrison and Rev. Tony to serve on this committee. The group is working to cate, stimulate interest in to gather for sale ®ade in Dade by Dade article which is tor sale Is being Brides needlework, Netal and glass work and % and beautiful objects mature such as driftwood wanted. The planning hfaded by Mrs. Gray, is to stigate r* e sa]e to find be held, a place can the °r the sale and the method that is, though the *° n turn ing in the article f-ceive the money from ** e ’ a precentage of the '° uld bave to go to the • 0 is there all the time charge of the articles ny other expenses, if there -y. involved in the sale. Tne Home Industries ocsshops " f* agreed to various have on ■«- e are several in the and in Chattanooga ‘ J? *‘ Who ad wil1 training in 4 cla , be asked to * on these. grou P is to meet May 19 tc > report their *nd make more 118 f °r a sale and f uade County made (MW tk fiiws st a te Democratic ^ ^ ^ NEW VOTING DISTRICT ON LOOKOUT MT. Dade County voters will go to the polls for the second time in less than five weeks on Wednesday, May 14. The state Democratic primary will be held in addition to two-run-off races from the April 12 county primary. Most interest in Dade is in the run-off races. For Sher¬ iff, Grover C. Tatum and F. C. Graham are engaged in a run¬ off, being the two to receive the most votes in the county primary, although neither re¬ ceived a majority. For Clerk of Superior Court, Mrs. Grace Hale Williams and Waldo T. Simmons are in a run-off, as neither received a majority in .he April 12 primary. State Primary In the state primary, the race for Solicitor General of uie Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit is attracting the most attention. Boh candidates are young veterans, graduates of the University of Georgia law school, and are both practicing attorneys in Summerville. The candidates are Earl B. (Bill) Self and Arch Farrar. Only other contested race in the state primary is for Public Service Commissioner, Ray G. Birdsall is running against in¬ cumbent Allen Chappell. New Voting District A new voting district, creat¬ ed last month, will be in ope¬ ration for the fisst time for the convenience of those who live on Lookout Mountain north of New Salem. Residents of area have previously had drive through Chattanooga and into the valley to vote drive to New Salem past a ing box there and into the val¬ ley again. This odd situation is a over from the old times which the district were set up. At that time, anyone on mountain wishing to vote just get on a mule and a trail down the mountain With the coming of roads automobiles, these people more or less left stranded respect to voting. The ne^v district is the Brow District (1889), the Walker County line as east boundary, the line as its north boundary, New Salem (1214) District Its south boundary, the west brow of the as its west boundary. Presbyterian Church in West Brow community will used for the voting place. Managers to hold the are K. D. Teet. A. B. 4-H Council Plans For Talent Show The 4-H Club Council, ing at the courthouse on 26, made plans to support Farm Bureau Queen and Talent Show at Dade on May 17. The 4-H winner in the lent Show will go to this summer in the ment contest. A public speaking contest being planned early in June. It was voted by the to pay $50 raised by the Talent Show to the 4-H dation at Rock Eagle and for ribbons that were ed at the Dress Revue May Principals Relected; v Teachers Assigned Supt. of ox Schools, * Roy ' r£ W Moore revealed thin week all of the school principals Dade County schools have reelected for next year. Most the teachers have also been elected, he said, and a list them will be available for --- licatlon next week. Devottd to the Best Interests ot Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1952 ^ F *• “ En «— ' er ' Five Dade County girls entered the Farm Queen Contest to be held urday, May 17, at Dade School. They are Shirley lings, Davis; Elsie McKaig Bevnadine Moore, New ' Kathryn Fricks, Rising Fawn end Cynthia Moore. Slygo. The girls are each members of their communities and have outstanding leadership ties while in school. The test wifi be open until day and more entrants are ex- pected. Several outstanding outstanding acts are being planned to entered in the Talent Show. One outstanding feature will a Buck Dance jointly by Bradford and Tommy Sims, ponents in the recent race for County Coroner. winner of this contest will eligible for district honors Model on June 14. All who are interested in this contest are urged to in touch with Mrs. Asa L Mahan, chairman of the competitions. Entries will accepted anytime up to ing time on the night of 17, provided they hold bership in the Farm and the act does not take ten minutes to present. is no age limit on the contest but the Queen is open only to girls 15-20 old. and Carl Collins. More Registered Mrs. Frank Morrison reports that although final tallies as to the number registered to vote in this May 14 primary are not complete, the number will exceed the 3,704 registered for the April 12 primary. The list used for this primary will be the one used in the Novem¬ ber general election. Registra¬ tion books closed on May 3, will net be reopened this year. NORTH DADE SCHOOL TO GIVE PROGRAM MAY 13 The students of the North Dade School will give a pro¬ gram Tuesday night, May 13, at a called P.T.A. meeting at the school, at 7:30 P. M. Supt. of school Roy W. Moore is ex¬ pected to attend and give an address to the group. All pa¬ trons of the school are invited to attend. The school will have only a small graduation ceremony and this school and P.T.A. party will be the big end of the school year program. Sanitarian Hired For Dade County A State Department Health Sanitarian has been employed by the county to work two days a week in Dade. He is Thomas W. Fox, who lives in Summerville, and will work in Dade every Monday and Tuesday and work in Chattooga County Thursday and Friday. Fox’s duties include inspect ing restaurants, septic tanks, and water systems, among other things. Originally from Ft. Payne, Ala., Thomas entered Auburn after being discharged from the army. He received a B. S. degree from that college and taught a veteran’s farm pro¬ gram for two and a half years. He attended an environmental school in Columbus, Ga„ to qualify him for his present job. He is married and has one child. 1 ; mm 1 §i om tha County PMA j There is listed on what farmers received the average in 1951 fro a t> er food and fiber items , relation to retail which should be of mterest ' Dade County Farmers For example: If the gave away his wheat, a loaf bread costing around 16 would still cost the 13Vz cents. If the farmer gave away cotton, a white shirt $3.75 would still cost the sumer $3.50. If the farmer gave away corn, a package of corn costing 13 l /2 cents would cost the consumer 11 cents. These are all under price support and ing a considerable amount ! processing. In the case of livestock ducts, the farmer’s share the retail price is J larger. If the farmer gave away cattle, a pound of choice costing around 86 cents in would cost the consumer 22 cents — but there would no beef. If the farmer gave away milk, a quart of milk for about 22 cents would the consumer 9 cents. And on. Louise E. Wright County Adm. Officer. May 6, 1952. j Dave L. Brown To I Grade Football Field Dave L. Brown, ga contractor who lives Morganville, has offered | ! of grade Dade a High football School field on as a J tribution to the county. will give the high school a near the school to play games next fall. The generous offer when W. C. Cureton, board education member, asked Brown to look at the site offer advice. Mr. Brown made his offer to do the as a contribution. Brown said that he to begin work on the field in about two weeks a strike of construction ers in the Chattanooga may delay the start. Beverly Rumley Child of the Year Beverly Rumley, age seven months, was the winner of the Dade County “Child of the Year” contest staged March 1-3 at the Dade Theater, theater manager J. Granville Pace announced this week. Beverly, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rumley, Ris¬ ing Fawn, received first prize of $10.00. Second prize, a 5 by 7 color portrait, was awarded to Patsy Daniel, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Daniel, Trenton. The third prize, a 4 by 6 color portrait, was awarded to Lar¬ ry Doyle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard G. Doyle, Trenton. The contest was ospnsored by Color Laboratories, Inc., Portland, Oregon. Boys Break In Sta.; Picked Up In The C. W Williams service station at Rising Fawn was broken into at about 1 a. m. Monday morning and about six quarts of oil were stolen. The window glass was broken in obtaining the oil. Ft. Payne authorities noti- | fied Dade County authorities ^ ^ ^ ^ had been picked up who confessed to the robbery. They are being returned to Tennessee where they are wanted for stealing an automobile and transporting across state lines. Bade Bops LaFayette 19-3 Davis - • - Eks WhitweU 23-21 DADE GOES TO TUNNEL HILL SUNDAY; DAVIS PLAYS HOST TO DALTON AT AVANS awarded second and Mrs. J. C. outfield and slammed the only Wallin third in the afternoon home run of the day. Presley, session. Herman McMahan, Miller and In conjunction with the Collins all hit doubles for Home Demonstration Revue, a Dade. Dade County is sponsor¬ 4-H Dress Revue and Cooking ed by American Legion Post Contest was held Friday morn¬ No. 106. ing. Winners in the classes Davis Wins Close One were: Davis fame out on top of a Junior Dress: Robbie Dean j hitting 23-21. Leading spree at 10-1 Whitwell, at Bradford, New Salem, first; one Joyce Payne, Rising Fawn, se¬ time, Davis found its lead cond; and Beulah Sue Ballard, overcome in the seventh as Davis, third. Whitwell pulled in front. 14-12. Senior Dress: Bessie Steele, Then 8 runs in the eighth and Rising Fawn Senior, first: 3 in the ninth proved the mar¬ Shirley Stallings, Davis, second gin. Davis got 17 hits, Whit¬ and May Faye Gilbreath, Da¬ well got 23. vis, third. Smith was the winning Muffins: Kathryn Logan, pitcher for Davis. Freeman New Salem, first; Mary Jo and Stephens led batting with Cain, New Salem, second; and 4 for 5 each, Stephens getting Bessie a triple. Moore, North Dade, Dalton at Davis third. Davis will play at home this Apron: Betty Ross, New Sa¬ Sunday, taking on Dalton at lem, Blue Award. 3:00 p. m. at the Avans field. Judges at both revues were Dade at East Lake, Dalton Mrs. Sara Allen Van Horn, H. Dade County will travel to D. Agent, Walker County; Mrs. Dalton to play Tunnel Hill at H. E. Stewart, 1952 Walker 3:00 p. m. Sunday. Dade Coun¬ County Home Demonstration ty also has an exhibition game Dress Revue winner; and Mrs. Friday evening at 7:30 p. m. at Doris H. Andrus, sewing de¬ Darwin Field in East Lake, tak¬ partment of Sears, Roebuck ing on Silverdale, second team and Co. in the City League. Home Demonstration Winners A crowd of 450 was estimated at Rising Fawn for the Dade- Mrs. Fred Harrison was LaFayette game. awarded first place on a blue DADE COUNTY a r h cotton sport dress. It had pearl buttons on the sleeves and Cooper, ss...... . . . .4 4 3 dress front, and featured se¬ Bradford, lb .. .. .. ..5 1 0 veral rows of stitching around Presley, If...... ... .6 2 2 sleeve and pockets. She made R. McMahan, 3b . . . . .6 2 5 the buckle and belt and also If. McMahan, 2b .. .5 2 2 modeled and stitched yellow Miller, cf....... .. ..5 2 1 embossed cotton two-piece Collins, c...... . . . .5 2 3 dress. Her daughter Patsy mo¬ Steele, rf....... ... .4 2 1 deled an enchanting yellow Wilson, p....... ... .1 0 0 'and white organdie dress with Williams, p..... .. . .1 2 0 lace trim and a taffete petti¬ coat and panties. Mrs. Harri¬ 42 19 17 son was again seamstress. LaFayette .000 012 000— 3 Mrs. D. J. Hancock won se¬ Dade .515 023 21*—19 cond blue cotton taffeta on a DAVIS h with covered buttons and a a r gold metal belt. Mrs. J. C. Davis, c......... . .6 4 2 Wallin’s third place was award¬ Gaines, ss...... ... .7 3 2 ed on a cotton plaid dress with P. Winters, lb-p . .....6 3 1 unusual yellow button trim. Phillips, If....... . ..7 3 3 Mrs. W. L. Simpson showed Stephens, cf..... . ..5 0 4 a nylon paint with horizontal Patten, rf....... . ..5 2 0 tucks in the bodice. Freeman, 2b..... . ..5 2 4 will enter the Avans, 3b-p...... .3 2 0 Mrs. Harrison Smith, .2 1 1 annual state dress revue of the p........ . Ge6rgia Home Demonstration R. Grant, p..... . . .0 0 0 held during the B. Winters, 3b, rf ..1 0 0 Council to be . . meeting the state council on 43 23 17 University of Georgia campus Davis 019 110 083—23 June 9-13. ... Whitwell 014 121 534—21 President Speaks Mrs. Myrna McMahan, pre¬ DADE SOFTBALL sident of the Dade Home Dem¬ TEAM ORGANIZED onstration Council, spoke A softball team is being briefly to the Dress Revue ses¬ or¬ congratulated ganized in Dade for entering sion. She mem¬ a keeping clubs in commercial fast-pitch league bers on seven Chattanooga. Practice is be¬ the county active despite the in absence of a Home Demonstra¬ ing held in the evenings after Agent for time. supper at Trenton or New Eng¬ tion some land. Mrs. Van Horn also com¬ The team is being organized mented on the cooperation with those who are not play¬ shown by the club members ing baseball so as to not inter¬ which helped make the Dress fere with the baseball games in Revue a success. any way. A demonstration by two re¬ Anyone interested in playing presentatives of the Singer Sew should contact Jim Geddie, Cy ing Machine Co. was given on Blanton, Harold Gross or fashion stitching, embroidery, Browny Stephens. and how to make dress forms. Dade County continued its blistering pace in the Lookout Valley League by plastering La Fayette at Rising Fawn Sun- i day, 19-3. Jeral Cooper and Roy McMahan starred at the pate Cooper Setting 3 for 4, : inclLKFin ,. § a triple and a dou- i ble and McMahan clouting 5 j for ' nc ^ lK hng a double, Princkney Williams was the winning' pitcher for Dade, re- ! - FevFn S Leslie Wilson in the third inning. Wilson left the game due to a sore shoulder. LaFayette got only 4 hits, Dade 17. Cubic Steele starred in the Nursing Conference There will be a Nursing Con¬ ference in Rising Fawn, May 13 from 2 to 4 Services for ex¬ pectant mothers, infants and pre-school childten will be given. Miss McWhorter will al¬ so give immunization (shots) to any who wish them. York Pitches Whiz Kids Over Brainerd 4-3 Behind the four-hit pitching of Snuffy York and sharp field ing of shortstop Oscar Barton, the Trenton Whiz Kids beat the Brainerd Junior High team 4-3 at the Chattanooga High field Saturday afternoon. Barton made seven put-outs in the game without a miss. Barton pitched air-tight ball until the seventh when an er¬ ror and two hits scored two runs. The Whiz Kids went into the top of the seventh leading 2-1 and batted out three more hits, scoring two runs for a 4-1 lead. York singled to right. Hope walked and a single by Barton brought York in and seat Hope to third. Charles Sul¬ livan then dropped a single to left, scoring Hope for the mar¬ gin run. Charles Hill led the Whiz Kids at bat with a triple and a single in two trips. McDowell struck out 9 batters for Brai¬ nerd. York struck out 6 for Trenton. The Whiz Kids got seven hits to four for Brainerd and committed two errors to none for their opponents. WHIZ KIDS a r h Mays, 2b........ 2 0 0 Hope, 2b........ 0 1 0 Barton, ss....... 3 0 1 2 0 1 Gifford, If...... 3 0 1 Cole, lb........ 3 1 0 Shankles, cf...... 4 0 0 Ryan, 3b............2 2 0 0 0 Smith, 3b......• . 1 0 0 2 1 2 Forester, rf 1 0 0 York, p .. . 3 1 2 Polio Chapter To Be Formed In Dade The Dade County Chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis will be formed in Trenton at a meet¬ ing in the Courthouse Monday night, May 12 at 8 oclock. The Rev. R. Q. Dyess, Tren¬ ton Methodist pastor, called the meeting and will act as temporary chairman for the or¬ ganization meeting at which time permanent chapter offi¬ cers will be elected. He said that it is desired that all sections of the county be represented. People already planning to attend are Mrs. R. S. Townsend, Wildwood; Mrs. Willie Hughes, Slygo; Miss Bess Cureton, Rising Fawn; Mes- dames John Hinton, Roy Me B~yar, Douglas Morrison and T. S. Renfroe, Maddox J. Hale and I. H. Wheeler, Jr., all of Trenton. Jerry Roden* Jr.* National Foundation representative will explain the need for a County Chapter and how it works. A 20 minute file, “In Daily Bat¬ tle” will be shown. New Salem Regains Attendance Lead The New Salem Elementary regained its attendance lead over the Dade County schools during the 8th month, according to figures released this week by Firm Cagle, visiting teacner. New Salem, leader during the first four months this school year, fell in attendance during the fifth, sixth and seventh months, the lead being taken over by Davis High twice and Davis Elemen¬ tary once. With 91.847c New Salem is once again in the lead. A bad epidemic of measles has hurt attendance throughout the county considerably, Cagle reports. 95% attendance dur¬ Wildwood Rural, a private school, had the public ing the eighth month but does not compete with schools in the attendance listings. 91.40% while elementary The county high school average was average was only 87.40%. EIGHTH MONTH Numl>er on Roll ADA. % NEW SALEM................. .......130 117.60 91.84 DAVIS HIGH................. ..... 45 40.40 91.40 DADE HIGH................. .......147 133.20 91.39 DAVIS ELEMENTARY............ ......475 420.70 90.78 NORTH DADE ............... .......248 205.95 87.80 DADE ELEMENTARY.......... ......375 309.95 84 24 RISING FAWN............... .......201 154.25 77.47 HOOKER (COLQRED).......... ......47 41.50 88.20 WILDWOOD RURAL (PRIVATE i .. ......22 20.90 95.00 Published Weekly—Since 1901 NUMBER 18 5* Mrs. Fred Harrison was the winner of the Home Demon¬ stration Dress Revue held at the courthouse Friday, May 2. Mrs. D. J. Hancock was
