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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1953)
Uade County's Only N ewspapet. VOLUME LIU Shows Tour Interest In The Dalle 'Coimfy Times has i.etived - the report on th? reader ■interest papers which you sub 'c :ibers marked the last of January and mailed di¬ rect to Readex in Minnesota. The report is mo t gratifying to your . publisher and contains .seme information which we would like to tell you about. There were 37' more men and T, more women answered the study than on an average study. The most read story was the Preliminary Hearing held in Court Room on page one The locals were second in reader in¬ terest with Dallyin’ in Dado third. The bet reader adver¬ tisement was the Treasurer’s Report which also took fifth place for reader interest in the entire paper. The-: local advertisements rated better than average in reader , interest by being two and a half times above average for men readers and one and a half times above average " for women FOX RESIGNS AS DADE SANITARIAN Thomas W. Fox, part-time sanitarian for Dade' and Chat¬ tooga Counties, has resigned from his duties effective Maych 1st. Mr. Fox has accepted full time employment with the Chattooga County Health De¬ partment in Summerville and will begin his work there next month. In a letter to the Ordinary, Mr. Fox stated that it "has been a pleasure to serve and know the fine people of Dade County.” Citizens here have greatly appreciated his work with the county’s sanitation problems. -jS* Pictured above at the <iospua Drive dinner to epen the campaign to raise $200,009 to fur¬ nish and equip the Walk,r. Dade and Catena County Hospital at Fc.t Oglethorpe are: seated fcft to right Re* Mosely t nmissioner of Walker County, Mr: Catherine Morrison, Secretary of the Board of Tru n- end Raymond M. Morrison, Ordina • of Dade County. Standing, Frank M. Gleason. Chairman of the Beard of Trustees, Houston R Jewell, Vice-Chairman of the Board and general chairman of the campaign, a nd Jams Evitt, Jr., Ireasurer of the Board. Saw milling Is A "Pretty Big Business" In Dade County Over 600,000 board feet of tnber gees out of Dade Coun- ^ every thirty days from only le planing mill. The combined itput of the three planing ills here would run into stag- »ring figures,, which should |ze the impression that the anber industry is p.etty big isiness in these-parts. From Trenton. Dyer Lumber [ill ships around 600.000. feet ti lumber each month, send- ig two and three-ton trucks ith maximum loads ef 11.500 oard feet to points ^ Tennessee, hattanooga. in ientucky, Virginia. Ohio and idiana. About 250 of the il shipments reach their des- nation by rail 90'J of lumber shipped from Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES. TRENTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, BRl 1953 readers. The report tells u> is an unusually high leader in¬ terest in local advertising and is a very creditable showing- The company, Readex, 'makes these surveys returned us „everal papers which had only been marked but notes critici'm were written on them. As we do not know who them in (you were not asked put youi name on your paper) we would like to them publicly. One criticism was that the paper would be better without so many spelled words. Readers you find one won’t you send a card or stop by to call it our attention? This would us not to do it again for we do try to spell words correctly. Another criticism was the typographical errors in. the ticles. This happens even in magazines and often in big city papers. We do try to catch Jiem and correct it but the toff here at the newspaper Test Farm Program Begun In 1903 ! The first test Harm in the country, mar Terrell, Texas, will be jdicated February 27. Walter C. i Porter, a county agent, began this practice in 1903 under the leader hip of the late Dr. Sea- Iman A. Knapp, founder | the program and the State Extenson Director. Since the first of this cen- | tury, the number of test dem¬ on tration farms has increased by the thousands. There are at 'present several in the county, ■ jern acred by the TVA, tin-: mill is dressed pine, balance being cut from cods 40'. is cut v h ulsd into the two t ;i s .mills vrliile the rest rought from awmills radius of 75 miles, - . ady market for anyone has logs to sell. Lumber is sold lumber bickers” who salesmen cn the road at all iimn. When these sale :t an order, they out through a call to Mr. who sets men working to the shipment delivered ouickly as passible. Dre and i'ilv. U.KU dried iumu.i lumber in JD f antities are kept stored - — J rvAnVf.v office had the flu, like all the rest of you during January, which made us - short handed and because the paper has to come out on time in spite of net having time to correct er- ! sometimes some issues will h ve moss than -eems neces- ry. Won’t you come visit us •,o ee what goes on to get your paper to you each week? Another reader asked for mere informative articles on the growing of fruits, veget¬ ables and flowers. We wll take this up with the County Agents and try to bring you some ar¬ ticle.: on this. The Dade County Times wishes to thank all of you who took a few minutes to mark your paper and mail it. The statistics from the survey have been of interest and will be of great benefit to your publisher. We appreciate your interest and your willingness to help. TWO BOYS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY Friday afternoon Sheriff Graham and deputies Bradford and Smith arrested Donald Gray and Charles Logan for breaking into a house on Lockout Mountain. The boys were tried before H. F. Alli¬ en and bound over to the Grand Jury. Gray was questioned about ;s:me scrap iron that had been tclsn and he named Benny Bradford and Waymon Abbott as being with him. Bradford and Abbott were arrested and tried bSfore H. F. Allison in J. P. Court and were bound to fifes, fir,:.no • Alter receiving an order Mr Dy.r reports that loaded trucks leaving his mill in the late af- t -nocn are able to reach des- iinations as far as 400 miles away, making delivery during the next morning. An example of quick handl- ing occurred several years ago, when a rush order came through and the reserve was taken up with previous orders, A business friend o! Mr. Dyer’s who owned some cattle wanted 10 move them Into another I field by noon the next day, hut be had to have lumber to build [i fence before that time. The order was received uuiniB during the nerning of the first day after tV\n 1 rxrrc. QVI^ ira into the mill, sawed, ---- J Redwine Counsels Promt)' Filing Of State Tax Return File your State Tax early and avoid pos-ible State Revenue Commis ion Charles D. Redwne is advisin Georgians. ‘‘The earlier you file the less likely you are to caught in the last rush,” he declared. "And if you’re late, the compels us to charge a and interest.” In a series of running in this paper, Redwine is urging Georgians file their state tax returns soon a's possible lie said early returns will prevent possible penalty' and which must be charged on late returns. “We hope, however,” the Commissioner said, “that tax payers will make it cesssary for us to fil esuch a penalty. ” Mr. Redwine said that State Revenue Federal returns, having other sources of mation on incomes, so it is likely that any citizen should file a state return be able to avoid doing so. ’ ______ Complete Noising Class At Dade iligh Miss Fannielu • public health nurse, conducted a class on and Baby Care at the Center in Trenton for girls who are students at High School. Six classes were held Ftbruaiy -3 To FJ&ruury fo: Those attending the class Janie Bradford, Loretta Agnes Forshee, Kathryn Geneva Massey, Jean Jeanette Moore, Bernardine Moore, Deloris Imogcne Pennington and ty Price. Seme typical comments by the girls following tion of studies were: ‘‘I the cla s very much and I 4hat all the things I learned will be very useful in the fu¬ ture.” “I learned a lot nursing and baby care.” NINE TO BE EXAMINED Nine Dade County boys Wednesday, February 25 examination prior to being ducted into the service. are: Lindbergh Christopher, George Middleton C. L. Raines, John Weathers, Leonard Grady Joe Wallin, Robert Kinley Minor, Ernest Ray¬ mond Butler, Lloyd Ti-haw. CHANGE OF MEETING PLACE OF GARDEN CLUB The Garden Club will meet next week, March 5, at home of Mrs. Douglas Morri¬ son. Thi; is *a change in place of the meeting. |“The Keystone Idea,” will shown. stacked on a truck and were on their way to Bristol, Va., 270 mile i away, by late afternoon, At 12 o’clock the next day, the lumber had been nailed in- M a fence and the cattle were about to be moved into the* new field. Needless to say, the was sati.siied, Mr Dyer wa- pleased, and the lumber wen' profitably on its User Lumber Mill is equip- to give similar quick serv- lee through the use of two sawmills, one planing mill, two Fry kilns and two lift trucks which handle all lumber in the yard. Mr. Dyer has recently ---- ^ installed tbe latest m mcrern CrOSS“CirCUl^tlOn C<1 Y K. I i II O the old nm one, nnp which Published Weekly — Since 1901 Davis PTA Gets | A supper was held February 21 at the .'rfavn lunchroom to celebrate the addition of over a hundred new members of the PTA At the February 10th meeting, the group had voted to sponsor a membership con- : est with the losing side to give a chicken supper for the .winners. M s Winoa Hixon was the winner with over 10o members. Seventy-six PTA members were served a delicious plate lunch of fried chicken, green | peas, mashed potatoes, salad land cherry pie. The supper Car Wreck At Top Of Lookout Mountain Saturday afternoon a blue Buick car owned by Terrell Neal and driven by his bro¬ ther Burl Neal got ou\ of con¬ trol in the curve at the top of Lookout Mountain. The Neal brothers were go¬ ing up, the mountain. Terrell wa ■ in the back seat asleep when the car didn’t make the curve and sides wiped the rocks along the fill and turned ever in the ditch along the Dade Women Praised for HD Activity Mcstiames Asa L. McMahan, W. C. Cureton, Jr., and W. C. iCureton ill attended the North t or via Home Demonstration Council meeting in Dalton last Wednesday. One of the highlights -of the day’: p.ogram was a demon- istralicn on using plastics in th home by Miss Willie Vie I Dowdy. Mi -s Lucille Higein- Ibotham, state health special- j 1st, had also set up an exhibit .-hewing the amount of groce- ' rfe: which'could be bought in 1939 for $5.00 in comparison to ” 1 r»rine.s. .v i made n-’Mien that all Home Demonstration clubs in h s'ote work with the civil de n'-gram n nd where pos- ' exhibits of essen- : ! irst aid equipment and food rations similar to those arranged fo: - the 'nlfeting. :og the county reports M’h • re made by council p r si den ts. Mrs. MrM a h a oi told of work which had been c ! ene in the past two years in Dnd^ County without an agent emphasizing the fact that mest organizations here wore n u ■ a:*.-- '*<<; fo com : - county activities. -'r 11 f ere th ' Cave Springs ■ end Cioeerdalo clubs, which rc c ".verted into commun- •' v y>on* end installed ‘elr-rhonc see-ice. At ore ent, ”p Farm;' i v. eking cn a community house The Avans end New Urnnc clubs haven’t mv-'ed a meeting, having reg- ;Ti demons (ratio ns by club P -s Th' Trenton club is irw nr' n, iiv n s a hobby club and the Byrd’ Ch*pM club :m to ou’lt and sew Up until November of last year. Rising Fawn club members are de¬ voting their time to the com¬ munity and parent-teacher or¬ ganizations. In spite of the lessening in¬ was put in about years ■ These kilns are in conti- mums operation, drying 75,000 feet of• lumber every 72 hours at temperatures up to 185 de- I grees. At present, company em- ployees, which number about 55, an- experimenting with a n w type sawmill, a part of hich has never been in Use ' ’ n> LS 1>M n it . ten. help to revolu- ...o.r mtus l>. timber supply m D de County is steadily de- , smg, lumber dealers must , farth r away to get lumber, sawmilling f it i'. I ii Ullg fctJlU and lailllliig farming are rtic Dade>s ^ enterprises There “ W ” will always be — land ----- to NUMBER 8 New Members was typical of the school lunch served each day in the lunch¬ room. Mr. Chumley described the balanced diet plan pract¬ iced by the school. The committee agreed to charge 30 cents a plate to help defray the cost of the supper, which was approximately $40. The losers were to assume the balance of the cost. Davis citizens are proud of their PTA and the efforts of the teachers to increase the previous membership from 40 to 156. clift. Terrell was taken to a hos¬ in Chattanooga and was tieated for cuts and bruises and released about three days later. The doctor advised him not to return to work for about six weeks. Burl didn’t stay for treatment, receiving only mi¬ ner cuts and bruises. The car was badly damaged the right side. terest due to the absence of an agent, the Head River club was organized with the help of the county extension office and the community took first place I in the county fair community I exhibits. The Council sponsored a dress revue last spring and the highly-successful flower show at the fair in September, along with a handcrafts exhi¬ bit. There have been two very interesting demonstrations on straw hat and bag making and copper tooling. Mr5. McMahan xr- ss d gratit“dc at the in¬ i' j„ an.. hJp received on h; ? projects from the county r nt and Ms ot ff and several * | r Ma *• V»n 0<V‘“n*'V ^ C| W ~ ^ 1 as th support of leva! citi- 7 rs T’w rue indication* that Dade County women re¬ alize the value of home dem- rrirMon work ahd would ~n- * r whTe-^ea'ted’y in f o a d~ - Unite program. M' Mc’ba Snark.-. district i tv, g aa-ent, along with others, congratulated bade County (Tubs for thei- continued in¬ terest and activities Even ip pas been two years *thf nt an agent and the r- un”il is now inactive. Dade County bad an outsanding re- p rt, ccmpa’-able ' to several ether counties on the very active list. g -veral article* made by lo¬ cal members were shown, in¬ cluding a copra’- picture and ipDnt'r made by Mrs. W. C. 'OurMcn. Among exhibits from - .-her crunties were handmade uiccMrn m"g'’zin-° racks, dainty hrnsy suckle baskets, hooked rues, wastebaskets and plant- |ers mode from frozen egg con¬ tainers and footstools. About 300 ladies attended the meeting, which was held | at the First Methodist Church in Dalton. jw, saw- millers get logs when the sup- ply is eventually exhausted? Tree farmers who are planting .pine seedlings distributed by the TVA are helping solve this problem as well contributing jto More their and own more welfare. farmers and lumbermen are using selective 'cutting in their forests to in- ’ !,u a continuous supply of good grade lumber - cm ‘ j pine hardwood . m the , to res, , o fina final , delivery and construction of the finished lumber into a needed building or fence, this business of lumber is a mighty interesting and necessary part ,cf our nation.
