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VOLUME LIII
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VISITORS WELCOME
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JUDGE VISITS RISING FAWN COMMUNITY — Judging of Rising Fawn 4-H improve¬
ments recently took place in the community. Pictured above inspecting the sign at the com¬
munity park are, left to right: County Agent L. C. Adamr>, Ray Bobo and one of the judiges.
New Home Wins
The New Home
on Sand Mountain has been
judged winner of the Dade
County Improvement
which is held in
with the Chattanooga Area
Improvement Contest. _
Among goals set by the com¬
munity club for 1953 were the
following: (1) organization of
an active community club; (2)
Mailboxes uniformly
and lettered; (3) Road signs
for all roads in this commun¬
ity; (4) a community dump;
(5) a community center; (6)
creation of more interest in
modern methods of farming
and home planning; (7) im¬
proving and general appear-
ace of the community, and (8)
completion of the church ad¬
dition.
Accomplisments for 1953 are
li ted as follows:
1. Five dollars donated by
H. D. C. to the 4-H Club
Foundation.
Richard Bennett Dies After Auto
A veteran of the Korean war,
Richard Bennett, Route 3, Ris-
sing Fawn, Ga., was injured
fatally early the night of Oc¬
tober 21 in a traffic accident on
the Scenic Highway on Look¬
out Mountain, about three
miles north of the junction
with the Trenton higway.
He was passenger in a car
driven by Vondell Plunkett, 16.
also of Route 3. Rising Fawn,
when it sideswiped and went
out of control while trying to
pass one driven by Donald Aus¬
tin, 16, also of Route 3, Rising
Fawn.
The Plunkett car left the
highway and overturned, but
Austin’s automobile was not
damaged and he was not hurt
Farm Bureau Vote On Policies
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Dade County delegates re-
urning from the Farm Bureau
onvention in Macon last week
nought back the Seventh Dis-
rict Countjy Activities Award
ponsored jointly by the Farm
ureau and the Georgia Power
'o., making Dade a two-time
’inner. The local organization
as 1952 winner of the $75
ward which is given each
ear at Convention time to
aapters recording the most
nprovement and development
f county activities.
W. L. Simpson and Art
'oore were official voting dele-
ites, while W. H. Pullen,
rapter president, was resoluTions a mem I
of the general
D evoted to th e Best Interests ot Dade and
IHK DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1953
2. Forty-five dollars
ated by H. D. C. to New
Baptist Church for doors
partition.
3. Twenty-five dollars paid
Tri-County Hospital
twenty-five dollars
yearly for 2 more years
4. Home
Club week observed in
by furnishing flowers for
church and by pinning
sages on the oldest mother,
youngest mother and the
ther with the most children.
4-H Club girls pinned on the
flowers.
5. Youth week observed
church. Church grounds were
cleaned by the young people.
The building was almost com¬
pleted on the inside. All church
offices were filled by young
people during this week.
6. Betty Morgan won the
Speakers’ Tournament, spon¬
sored by the Training Union of
the Lookout Valley Baptist As-
seriously. He suffered head
cerations rnd bruises.
the cnly sen of Mr. and Mrs.
j. B Bennett, was a
of the Korean war, having re¬
turned home only several
months ago.
He died shortly before 11
o’clock in a Chattanooga hos¬
pital. He had been taken to
he foot of Lookout Mountain
here by an unidentified mo¬
torist and transferred to an
ambulance.
Plunkett said he had started
to pass Austin’s car when his
struck a rough place on the
left side of the road. His car
went out of control and bump¬
ed ogainst Austin's thus caus¬
ing his to leave the highway.
committee. T , “ J al men
voiced recommendations rang-
ing from emphasis on ad-
hitional farm research to
of continuing W/r parity on
basic farm commodities. The
votine delegate body passed a
resolution calling for continued
emphasis and active support of
REA in obtaining and ’ maint-
aining of adequate rural electric
and telephone services for ru¬
ral areas. and
Senator Richard Russell
Governor Talmadge each ad¬
dressed the convention pin¬
pointing falling farm prices
and the national need of an ade
Equate farm program. Russell
emphasized that it would be
sociatio. She won a free trip
to Mercer, June 8-13.
7. Two chicken suppers, an
ice cream supper and a fish fry
contributed money as well as
i a chance for the community to
jielax and enjoy a social event,
f 8 . A community dump was
secured.
9. Mailboxes painted with
aluminum paint and lettered
with black paint.
10. Road signs painted and
put up. Roads named
11. Site secured for com¬
munity center. Land leveled
| and plans for the building
drawn up. Trustees elected.
12. Two Sunday School
rooms added to the church.
Auditorium enlarged. Sunday
School looms furnished with
chairs. Porch and steps made
Tables for spreading lunch
made.
This is a remarkable record,
and Dade County will be proud
of this community.
TWO STILLS RAIDED
IN DADE TUESDAY
Tuesday Sheriff F. C. Gra¬
ham and Deputy Ruchel Smi.h
with State Agents J. D. Scog¬
gins and W. H. Souther raided
an eight hundred gallon bo>
still on Sand Mountain.
The officers reported tha:
there wasn’t any mash at thfc
still. There were three 400 gal¬
lons fermenters. *.
The officers said there wasn't
any one around the .‘till. They
demolished this still at the
site.
A 20 gallon copper s'ill w’as
also raided by the above of¬
ficers at Hooker near the Geor-
gia-Tennessee line. This still
had 55 gallons of mash. It was
brought to Trenton for proper
disposal.
disastrous to throw out sup-
port Dort prices prices for for farm farm commodl- commodi-
ties and allow the farmer to
enter “naked into a world
where all others are protect¬
ed.
The Dade group, which in-
eluded County Agent L. a
Adams, attended all general
meetings of the convention,
with the commodity meeting
on fruits and vegetables as
their major interest among the
eleven commodity meetings,
This 'was the second year that
Moore sat in on this discussion
which was of great benefit to
the group since all are inter¬
ested in truck farming in the
county.
29 Pleas - 9 Tried
The September term of the
Superior Court broke Wednes¬
day afternoon with nine cases
being continued to the March
1954 term. Eighteen other
cases were called and when the
defendants failed to appear,
the Court ordered nisi-rearrest
and bond doubled.
The jury was still out, as we
went to press last week, on Joe
Johnson. They were unable to
reach a decision and the Court
ruled a mistrial. A mistrial
was also ruled on Denzille West
charged with assault and bat¬
tery. Ott Buckles plead guilty
on a charge of public drunken¬
ness and was fined $53.
On motion of the attorney
for the defendant, John Whitt,
that ’‘the within indictment be
quashed because more than one
offense is charged in the one
count of the indictment” the
Court ruled that the "said mo¬
tion is hereby quashed after
Election For Officials December 1
Election for Mayor, Recorder
and Councilmen for the City of
Trenton is set for the first
Tuesday in December, which
this year falls on December 1.
Every two years the City of
Trenton elections come around.
Holding the offices now
Mayor A. L. Dyer, City Recor-
Ider J. Granville Pace
i |Tatum, Councilmen Cleron Kyzer,
I. H. (Pat)
Jr. ,and Jules A. Case.
j The city charter reads
anyone desiring to run for
of these offices must notify
City Recorder in writing
least ten (10) days prior to
election that he is a
and what office he is seeking.
Candidates must have lived in
Trenton one year or mire con-
tinuosly.
The City of Trenton Regis¬
RALPH McGILL PRESENTS CONSTITUTION AWARDS TO 4-H I RS. — Ray Bobo, Dade
County 4-H Club member, was one of twelve distritc winners to receive Junior Leadership
Awards from Atlanta Constitution Editor Ralph McGill at the recent Annual 4-H Club Con¬
gress in Atlanta. Seated are: Jean Chrely, Editor McGill and Steve Mercer. Standing left to
right: Gordon Durham, Jerry Whiteside, Cephas Williamson, Gayle Windham, Eva Jo Duna-
hoo, Jean Gainous, Ray Brown, Sat a Nell Morris, Joan Eas't, and Ray Bobo of Dade County.
—Courtesy of The Atlanta Constitution
Before the close of the con-
vention, vention, new new officers officers were were el
ected for the coming year, with
H. L. Wingate receiving the
nod to continue in his current
office as president. Sidney
Lowery, of Floyd County, was
al-o re-elected as director from
the Seventh District,
his nomination by the Dade
group.
According to local President
-------, Pullen-, Dade ---- County — - has set
the stage for a bigger and more
effective voice in next year’s
convention.
Pullen stated, “Local farm¬
ers who attend a Farm Bureau
convention realize that the or¬
is a functional one;
Published Weekly—Since 1901
first hearing of arguments of
i council for defendant and So¬
licitor General.”
Continued to March term
| Charles E. Clark, charged
with driving without a license;
Dpnald Gray, larceny; Benny
Joe Bradford, larceny; Johnnie
Daniel, possessing liquor; Al-
fries O. Brown, reckless driv¬
ing; Ruell Brock, assault and
battery; Granville Daniel, i
mur
der; J. H. Baty, obscene lan¬
guage .
Nisi-rearrest — double bond
Earl C. Haney, charged with
carrying a black jack; James
, Cecil Hilbirn, driving under
intoxicants; John Martin El¬
rod, larceny; Earl C. Haney,
public drunkenness; Franklin
Duan Gas:-, possessing liquor;
Lester Massengale, manufac¬
turing liquor (page 175-No. 44>;
Henry Franklin Dickerson,
obscene languague; Alvin El-
tration Book of voters opened
on October 27 in the City Hall
for any who are not yet regis-
tered and wish to do so. It will
be in the Clerk of Courts office
from November 21 to 26 when
| it will be closed for the 5 day
period before election.
All residents of the city of
Trenton who are 18 years or
over, who have lived in Georgia
one year or more and lived
continuously for six months or
more in Trenton are eligible to
iregister and to vote. If your
name is already . , on the books ,
there is no need to register.
Remember that if you- live in
iTrenton you can be registered
4n two places, with the Tax
Commissioner for county elec-
tions and with the City
der for city elections, but
that the more active a county
is, the the more more opportun-.
ity each farmer has to
pate.”
i “It is this participation in
the local organizations that
makes the Farm Bureau the
most effective voice a Georgia
farmer has today. The state
I conventions aren’t closed just
to delegates; any Farm Bureau
_ . .
member who wishes to
j pate as a visitor is always wel-
come, although voting on reso-
lutions is limited to official
voting delegates from each
ccunty. ”
Other activities which the
delegation participted in in¬
a county agents’ ban-
NUMBER 43
rod, driving U. I.; Ruben Ar¬
nold Carroll, selling beer;
Carroll, selling beer;
Floyd Danield, reckless driving;
M. Morgan, speeding;
Roy Gass, driving U. I.; C. S.
Lowery, Jr., driving U. I.; Tob
bie Powell, larceny; W. Fran¬
klin Robinson, driving U. I.;
Lester Massengale, manufac¬
liquor (Page 166-No. 57);
Harry Treadway, possessing li¬
quor.
Juvenile Cases Were Heard
Saturday Morning
Judge McClure held Juvenile
Court Saturday morning in the
office of the Supt. of Schools.
Juvenile Court is held in
private hearings and not be¬
fore the public.
Judge McClure heard several
cases. He lectured the ones
who were involved and put
them under a probation sen¬
tence.
vote in the city election you
must be registered on the city’s
Registration Book,
NOAH LACY WINS $50
AT DAVIS CONVENTION
At Davis High School’s Fid¬
dlers, Convention held Satur-
day night, October 17 on the
athletic field, Noah Lacy’s band
won $50 which was awarded tc
the best band. Lacy also was
presented a $20 prize as best
fiddler.
Second prize of $5.00 wa^
given “ to D. Prestwood, ’ another
fiddler, while ... Jannette _ Fossett „ ,.
ca ptured the $15 prize for so-
loist and Flora Jones was run-
ner-up with $5.00.
Delicious barbecue sand-
wlches were sold durin f the
convention , and the crowd pre-
sent agreed that the even ing
most succssful.
attended by L. C. Adams
and C. C. L. L. Bigham Bigham and and the the
ball, which was reigned
over by Dade’s Kathryn Fricks,
Governor Talmadge was un¬
able to attend at the last mo-
ment, so Kathryn led the grand
march on the arm of President
Wingate. The entire 7th dis-
trit was proud of the juldges,
selection and opinioned that
was truly the “belle of the
ball.
Plans for the next board of
directors meeting for Dade
County are shaping up, and
Pullen has reported that Kath¬
ryn Fricks and Sidney Lowery,
director of the 7th district
will be invited to attend.
