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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 12, 1953)
-- iUecte County s Only hiewspaper -- “ volume liii IP ^ i « f • , 5 | | ;«d -S'*-' V>K ■N . .. . yyX^&W-X P5*P#?S NEW TRI-COUNTY HOSPITAL. — This is an aerial view cf the new 110 bed, $1,600,000 ' . .. . TSrt-County Hcrpital at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., which was dedicated Sunday afteHno-m. , . (Photo by J. B. Collins, Courtesy of Chattanooga News-Free Pre s.) ^ . . •f'Dciiic-tfen Services, held S.nday, for the opening of the new Tri-County Hospital were j attended by about 3,500 people, A speakers stand had been erfected in the center of the ! parking space in front of hospital and both hospital and j stand we:e festively decorted with bunting which blew in the! breeze. Bands from Rossville Lakevicw High Schools played until the ceremonies began. The playing of the Star Spangled Banner opened the exercises, Rev. James M. Moors , Jr.. Pas- tor of the Elizabeth Lee Meth- odist Church in Chickamauga gave - the Invocation. Frank M. Gleason, Chairman of the Board cf Trustees gave the Welcoming Address, and Houston Jewell, vice chairman introduced those on the plat- form. The nine members of the Board, the t*e .Hospital Commissioners Administra-j of tor and Walker, Dade and Catoosa Coun- ties were on the front row. Be- hind them sat the doctors who j had worked with the Board, from te beginning of the bui d- ■ ing of the hospital, representa -1 tives to the State Legislature from the three counties, repre¬ sentative from the State offices who had played some part in the work of planning and building of the new' hospital, and others who had had a part. Lanham Gives Dedication Address Cengressman Henderson ham, introduced by Mr. son, gave a splendid Address. He spoke briefly about having to pinch hit at the last moment for Governor Talmadge who was unable to come. He told how sometimes it is necessary to have publicly 1 owned institutions and told of the-experience -with our I -irr r=.=, PS S2SSZT“ Ue v °ted to th e Best Interests o> Dade County and Georgia. ___ ! UK DADE COUNTY TIMES TRENTON, GEORGIA THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 12. 1953 schools. These had started he as private schools but this was net successful and had to be taken over by the state. This is Socialism, he continued, but it is good social¬ and not to be feared and certainly far, far different Communism Mr. Lanham tied in this need of the states running our and the need of the Federal and State gove:n- ments, to assi-t the counties and the people in the counties to finance the buildine of ade- quate hospital facilities. He spoke cf the contributions of the 5 'counties and of the people in %>e three counties who had faith that we now could dedi - c ate this hospital. He closed w itli these words, "I hereby de- dicate this fine new - hospital to the health and welfare of the people of this area.’’ ^ ^ Mr GJeason saW that now the ^ would be d and hg h ever yone would stay fo through and , ee for themsdve3 this new T ri-Coun- aJ serying the peoples Wa]ker Dadc and Cat , osa Counties. After the Benediction by Rev. Gordon Sterchi, Pastor of the Simpson Memorial Meth¬ odist Church in Rossville, most of the people did stay to inspect the hospital and what they saw amazed them. There is so much color everywhere, low- pastelson the rooms for w i 10 are sick, green oper- and delivery rooms to aV e glare to the eyes of the and bright dark colors for the doctors and nurses lounging and dining rooms. wall of the patients in patterened wall caper in- cf draperies came in for delighted comment. The people saw wonderful vw intricate X-ray machines operating room equipment and nany things most of us didn understand or know the use of. They saw a compact well ar ranged kitchen with modern machinery to make the serving of meals faster and the making of them easier. They may have even the autopsy room and the emergency auxiliary electric unit which automatically goes on if the electric power gees off. There were no guided tours but members of the ho pital staff were everywhere to an¬ swer questions and you ccuM 1 move on or loiter to see some¬ thing which interested you. Hospital Staff The hospital is staffed by all the doctors in the tri-county area plus some 100 physicians and surgeons from the Chatta¬ nooga Hamilton County Medi¬ cal Society. Dr. Charles Ste¬ phenson, who is a Board mem¬ ber, has the honor of being the first Chief of Staff. Oscar Hil¬ liard is the Administrator for the hospital and Cardin Askin is his assistant. Mrs. Margaret Messick is Di¬ rector of Nurses; Mrs. Louise Ledyard, Chief Dietician; Mrs. Frances Short_ operating room supervisor. Dr. John Adams is pathologist and Dr. Paul Die¬ trich, radiologist. Mrs. Willene Wyse per- onel manager; John Fletcher, accountant an d Mrs. Vida H. Guy Chief of Medical Record Librarian. Haney Elrod is Chief Engineer. This hospital, for the use of ( the three counties, wa in in business on ay rcm rn ^ with three major operations o ^rt it off. _ In Dade Looks like a rampage of bur- glaries have hit Dade County. La t Friday night the Davis School on Sand Mountain was entered and a typewrite:, ad- ding machine and some beef vva. taken. Two doors were left °P en - 1 Monday night or Tuesday morning the Morganvi H e School was broken into an^ typewriter, adding machine, I and At some the cokes Rising were Fawn taken. j | School the door was broken and some-j one took an electr ic typewriter.! We don’t knew how a person would have to be to do jobs like these, but as hard as the people of have to work to equip these schools_ it would seem if the rascals should be caught and hanged by the heels to the top of the Flag Pole cn the Court House Square, as an example to others ----puuwu- like them, the punish-, nrn* w,.H serve them, right. DELIVERY ROOM. — One of the air-conditioned delivery roomu with all mode n facil¬ ities, including the “Air-L«k” resusciiater f or new-born s at the new Tri-County Hospital. (Photo by J. B. Collins, Courtesy of Chattanooga News-Free Pre s.) — _____________________ __ ___ ___ • __ • -————_ _ __ ___ _________ __________ Shown New Home Improvements The New Home Community, with apparent calm and effi- ciency, met the Chattanooga Area Improvement C ontest judges when they visited this community Wednesday after¬ noon . The judges one lady and two > men, met in the County Agent’s office before going to the mountain Mis Douglas Morrison Chairman of the Farm Bureau sponsoring com- mittee gave a brief outline of the Farm Bureaus part in the contest and told a little of the history of New Home judges, County Agents L. C. Adams and C. L. Bigham, Su- penntendent .... of , Schools Roy 0 W. Moore ,, State „ Extension . . „ Farm Agent . Sid Chandler, ’ Mu- zen Peters „ r from the ,, Chatta- ., nooga & Times and Mrs. Morn- son then drove to the „ New __ Home Baptist Church . where . "he , New „ „ Home Improvement T . Committee „ ... met . them. A program at. the Church, v/iiich was decorated with f wo large baskets of flowers, open- ed with a hymn and a prayer. Mr. J. N. Cnv.foid, welcomed :,he judges to their community. Mrs. Virginia Ferguson spoke of their community ^rganiz,.- ion (which was excellent), Mrs. Su'an Morgan spoke on Church and Youth Activities, C. L. Ivey on Farm Improve- ments and Mrs. Joe Nelly Home Demonstration work, the Family Food Supply and Im- provements in the Homes, Farms and Community. Improvements made at the church were shown Th * au- ditorium had been enlarged, four new Sunday School rooms . dded, new light fixtures and wiring, 22 new chairs, 2 tables and a bench for the smaller tables outside built to lunches, a new flue, new front steps, a well drilled, a Published Weekly—Since 1901 CRANE BROS. ARRESTED TUESDAY AFTERNOON J Tuesday afterneon, Sheriff Ilex Richey and Detective H. J. Laub arrested Clyde Crane, H. J Crane and Paul Crane, alias Leonard Beck. '1 he Crane brothers were j Working on a 1951 Ford car ! side the road near Chickamau- Lake when the officers stop- ped and asked them a few questions. The Crane brothers seemed very nervous and the sheriff said that he and the detective made a search of the our and a Chevorlet that was parked by the Ford. The Ford had been wired around switch. The officers found $1,000 worth of mechanic I tools in the cars, along with some butter and cheese that bad been distributed to a school by the government with a government stamp not for rafale. L' uio. 4 A a. typewriter wi nci tuva cover was W in the loot, but no type- bell secured and an acre of ground donated for a cemetery, New Home and New Camp Circles With organized dispatch all settled in waiting cars and the tour began. First around jjew H 0me circle, then New Camp circle to a stop at the c L Iveys Here the judges were ^own into a basement w here they saw the home f reezer filled with a variety of f ru jts, vegetables and meats, par ^ 3 QQ j ars D j- canned f codS| f er ns, flowers and vege- tables being grown and some 0 f Mrs. Ivey’s handiwork. The next . stop . was at , the spot * , where , the Community J House T is to be built. The land donated , , , . by the ., W. „ B. was Haynes TT and , is . not , , far from their new store. It will be built on the ... top of „ a knoll , ,, and . . have a beautiful , ... , view. . The third .. . . stop was at . the .. Haynes „ oc , new store , where , Coca-Colas , were served These were doubly wel- CO me as the dust on the road wag SQ ff 1 i c j c there were times W hen the road right in front following cars was lost to v j ew _ 0ne 0 f judges said he Mrs E A stallings, W ho was driving him, must be driving by radar. Lediman Circle Back to the autos for the stop at the Kirk Ellisons, A Chicken house with running water with an automatic switch and improvements to the home were shown. A stop at the Harvey Rochesters showed a new' home with a pretty mo- dern kitchen and living room at the front and three good sized' bed rooms and a tiled bath at the back. The judges, returning from the Smoke House, said it was the first place, in all the communities they had visited, where they NUMBER 45 o - aiding machines, On further investigations th she - .iff found that the Ford car had been stolen Tuesday from Benton Godsey, an elect:icion at the Volunteer Ordimnce Works. The tools were identified by L. Minnis of Wauhatchie. Minnis’ garage was broken in Sunday night. Sheriff Graham, deputy Smith, J. P. Alvin Whited along with the principals cf three Dade County schools went to see if they could iden¬ tify or find out anything about the typwriters or adding ma¬ chines that were taken from the schools recently, Sheriff Graham left a mur- der warrant for Paul Crane in connection with the beating and torture of June Nesbitt The Crane brothers are un- der $ 5,000 bond each, with an UI order Ut?I to 10 held IlulQ IOr for investigation by Sheriff Richey. saw hams from this year’s hog killing. Last Stop Trough the dust the group continued to the Wheeler Smiths which was the last stop and where welcome refresh¬ ments were served. The quilts hanging on the line outside brought color and cheerfulness to the dusty outside. The Smiths concrete block chicken house with automatic water¬ ing system was inspected. Inside the house, the ladies had made a display of articles and canned foods which they had made, some in connection with their wo:k in their Home Demonstration Club, which is still active, A cluster of mag¬ nificent cocks comb an d a table arrangement of flowers added to the beauty of the ex¬ hibit. Before the judge" If t ne f them told how in cr s*/ were in w - lrrt thi had done becaue they had started by having to cl ar t 1 land and to work hard bef.r they could start to impro - e their community. He said what a fine job they had done and congratulated them. LIONS TO GIVE MINSTREL SHOW The Dade County Licqs Club will pre ent “Southern Cap°rs". a minstrel show, at the Deds High School Auditorium, No¬ vember 19 an d 20 at 8 P M. Approximately fifty local peo¬ ple will appear in the cast. An Interlocutor, End men and a “Male Girl Chorus’’ will jbe featured. Nineteen talented i young mat ons will appear in a chorus and dances. This premises to be an even- ling full of surprises and fun. ; Proceeds for the Lions “Sight 'Conservation Program.”
