The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965, December 24, 1953, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextHade lints •ade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LIU Dade County winners in the 1953 Four-H Club Hybrid Corn Contest sponsored by the Georgia Power Company and the State Agricultural Extension Service were honored with other winners from over the state at a luncheon held in Macon last week.. Shown at the luncheon are deft to right) Rex Blevins, Larry Moore, Billy Konrad and Russell Blevins. (Second row, left to right) J. T. Mor¬ gan, Georgia Power Company, Summerville, Tom S. Renfroe,Geor¬ gia Power Company, Trenton, L. C. Adams, County Agent, Tren¬ ton and Leighton Moore. The luncheon at which cash awards were made was preceded by a tour of the company’s large generating station, Plant Arkwright, located cn the Ocmulgce River near Ma¬ con. Leighton Moore was the second place winner in the entire state. and Franks in J. A. Franks of Trenton was picked up Sunday on a charge of assault and battery and the attempted murder o f Gibb Stephens. Stephens named Franks as his attacker in a knifing Saturday night in which Stephens received severe cuts on the face and head. Franks is being held in Dade County jail under a $1000 bond to await trial during the March session of the Superior Court. According to Sheriff F. C. Gra¬ ham, Franks denies the charge placed against him. Stephens was said to be badly cut from the left ear to the corner of the mouth and re¬ Santa Stopped To Chat Last Night—A Story By Fred Hartley “Look, dear, it’s begun to snow just as you predicted,’’ called Ann from the window. “Ha, I never miss,” I crowed back triumphantly, as I put the last gift under the Christmas tree. “Your husband is wasting his talents. He should have been a highly paid weather I walked over to the window and my arm around her. “It doesn’t appear to be stick¬ ing, though, I said, but I feel I can assure you it will before morning. We ought to have the whitest Christmas ever.’’ “ I hope so, for the sake. I don’t think either of thiem can remember the last white Christmas. When was it? Five, six years ago since—” She didn’t have time to finish. We turned suddenly to see was making all the at the side entrance. We had heard the heavy tread of some¬ body in boots trudging up the steps and now he was forcing the door open. Before I could decide what was happening, the door was open and in step¬ ped a fat, bearded old gentle¬ man in a red suit. He was strug¬ gling to get the immense bag on his back through the door¬ way. “Nasty weather out, but then, I’ve learned to expect that,” he observed airily, with a broad grin. Yep, it was Santa Claus, all right. Well! I certainly hadn’t expected to see him tonight. But why not? It was Christmas Eve, wasn’t it? Recovering from my surprise, I stumbled over to greet our un¬ expected guest. These were the first words I’d heard the old gentleman speak since I last sat on his knee as a kid and told him what a good boy I’d been. I’m afraid I’d actually come to doubt his existence during all these years, but here he was, Devoted to the Best Interests o{ Dade County and Georgia lMK UAOfc ( OUM V TIMES, TRENTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24, 1953 ceived some less severe cuts on the back, but his condition was reported to be improving. LEGION RESUMES SQUARE DANCES The local chapter of the Ame rican Legion has resumed the sponsoring of square dances on Saturday nights. They are scheduled to begin at 8:30 P. M. each Saturday, and are held in the Legion Hall. The music is furnished by Doug Cole, Norman Blake, and the Everette twins with Un¬ cle Felt Moore doing the call¬ ing. Everyone is invited to come out for an evening of dancing and fun. standing before me big as life. He eased down his oversized burden with a grunt. You eit> folks ana your central heat- ing!” he grmubUJ gooa-natu:- edly. "You know I’m supposed to come down the chimney. But how in blazes do you expect me to when you haven’t even got one?’ I laughed heartily at his pun and led him toward a chair, Ann came over and shoved him into it. “Do sit down Santa. I’ve got some nice hot punch made, Just the thing to warm you up.’ She hurried out toward the kit- chen. Well, St. Nick, old boy, you look as hale and hearty as ever. Don’t you think you’ve aged a bit,” I began. But even as I !spoke, I knew I was wrong. He ! |didn’t look older exactly, just the a little sadder maybe around [eyes than I remembered him. [Now that I thought about it. i his laughter and merriment had [seemed a little forced. He must have gussed what I was thinking, for he said slowly after a pause, “Thank you, my boy, but as you may have notic¬ ed, I’m really not in my usual good spirts. Oh, I’ve really no cause to complain, I suppose; my job’s actually a good bit lighter than it has been for many a year,” he said with a gesture toward his bag. “Not nearly so many homes to visit this year.” matter? I “What^s the chuckled, “Yoang’uns gettin’ meaner these days?” Ann was back now, passing out the cup-^ of steaming hot punch. J “No,” he sighed. “It’s not the kids at all. It’s a bunch of mean old men- in Eastern Europe. You see,” he said, leaning for¬ ward slightly, “I’m completely barred from behind the Iron Curtain.” | had “ What! no idea ” "had th S gone that far. But h°w--w out. y, j I want to keep you Farm Beard Advises Growers for 1954 The Dade County Farm and Home Planning Board met in court house last Friday t° make recommendations to guide farmers and homemakers ing 1954. The meeting was opened bv the chairman, Col. D. E. Mor- rison. He gave a brief message of introduction in which he en- couped farmers in the to make more use of the cultural technicians here and re se.vices they offer. Committees were appointed which were to discuss farm problems in their particular fn 1 .s and make recommenda- tion, to the group a report at the clbse of the meeting. Committee chairmen appointed wire as follows. Land use, Joe Doy e, truck crops, Art E. Moore hestock and poultry, Simpson, forestry, J. C. crafts and home and ity improvements, Mrs. W. C. Cureton. Crafts in mown* making the report of the crafts and home and commun- M’S M.s. C^reP^nno Cureton announced that Mrs. A. L McMahan Intended to open a gift shop at her place in Rising Fawn in which she would sell on a commsson basis an, products which the ladies would offer for sale. She hoped to be able to begin the business by February 1, The committee also recom- mended that a county fair be held this year and that greater participation in the community improvement campaign be en¬ couraged. The report pointed out the need for a full or part time sanitarian in the county and recommended that an or¬ ganized plan for summer recre¬ ational facilities tor the youth of Dade County be worked out. Forestry The forestry committee made the following recommendations in its report: (1) Plant seed- lings, preferably loblolly pine, “They think he’s a spy for our side,” I explained dryly, “It’s really no laughing matter Jeff,” chided Santa gently, sip- ping his punch. “It’s really very sad. I’ve been in this business a long time, but nothing has ever depressed me quite as much as this, I guess.'' After a pause he continued, “i confess a part of it is the blow to my ego, although i that’s the least important point For. instance, my pictures are orbidden to appear on Christ- mas cards in Hungary. Instead they have a picture of a new I five-year-plan tractor loaded with presents. Oh, they have somebody to take my place, all right. They call him’Grandfath- er Frost.’” Santa began to sneer at this point. “He lives in Siberia, or somewhere, and every year about this time he down from Moscow on a I roars I special express train. A little more modern and a little less capitalistic than Bonder and Blitzen and Cupid and Pranc- er!” he sniffed. “That sounds so silly—” began Ann. “But that’s not the worst of it. It breaks my old heart to )ee what thfy are doing to those poor, unsuspecting young¬ sters. In the first place, the exchanging of gifts is discour¬ aged. They call it a ’nonsensi¬ I cal, Capitalistic, decadent sur¬ vival.’ And there’s no porblem to choose toys for junior— there aren't enough to go around. And what few there are, the Communists themselves admit will probably fall apart soon.” We shook our heads as Santa stopped to take another draught from his cup. “Excel¬ lent punch, my dear,” he com¬ mented. Then he settled back in his chair and went on. “In czechoslpvakia, the children have stopped writing me alto- aether. Instead they enter con- tests f0 r holiday prizes in which on eroded land; (2) use poison, P' e erably amate, on hardwoods j to ~ weed them out of pine fere 1 ts ^ ,rest ranger will furnish i ad', ice on this); (3) maintain fo ’ est fire bulletin boards , throughout the county in order to pest new fires that the rang- e rs may be notified; (4) estab- lish and maln tai n a community creos ote vat for treating logs t 0 be used as fence posts; (5) [timber growers should cut roads , or firebreaks through their forests to aid in fire prevention and firefighting, Tbp 'the prvrnmittpp rvnintpd out , hat greatest offenders in starting forest fires were hunt- ers and tourists. They agreed that a good campaign should be undertaken to educate the hunters, but that the tourists wou j d definitely be harder to J reac h Use J commended The land the use following committee re¬ pra- tice for best utilization of land: (1) land with a 20 per cent slope and over should be Planted in ’ ,or ts; . (2) ... , land J w,th 12 “ a p " “ nt to „ 20 per c ent s,op ' should be used as pasture, . or to grow permaneI ' 1 crops such aa hay and al ( a1 '*' or kh0 “ ? be s ” lp - cropped: 12 per cent <3 ’ sWpt lapd shollld " lth ,!“f be tban ter ‘ raced ° r strip-cropped. 1 The report als0 stressed that soil fertility should be built up and maintained for economy sake. This can be accomplished principally by (1) planting more legume and green manure crops and (2) insuring that bottom land is properly drained. The land use committee fur¬ ther advised that economy be practiced in,, all farm opera¬ tions; that farmers all over the county strive to increase their crop yields; and that more com¬ munity-wide meetings be held j to get the necessary farm in- I formation to the people. they answer questions like this; ‘What is the over-al] length ol the moving steps in the Mos¬ cow subway?’ There may be some community parties for the kiddies, but they’ll likely be on New Year’s instead of Christ¬ mas. There they'll play question and answer games, like one that’s popular in Poland called ‘How well do you know the six- plan?”’ “Also at these children’s par¬ ties in Poland, according to the Warsaw newspapers, the little dears ‘will meet prominent shockworkers who will tell them of their lives and achievements. they get tired of theis they can go watch the puppet shows, in which Anglo-American sol diers and bankers are pictured as the big bad wolves who gob ble up little Communlist pio- ners.” “ Sounds pretty grim to > I commented. “Do you think they’re trying to cut out Christ¬ mas altogether?” “Probably, after a while,’’re¬ plied Santa, “But they don’t dare do it all at once. They want to make New Year’s Day the holiday instead of Christ¬ mas.” “What about Christmas tree ?” asked Ann with a glance at our own gaily lighted tree. “Well, it seems family Christ¬ mas trees are discouraged. In Hungary they say the custom is too ‘bourgeouis’ and in East Germany they call it ‘unecon¬ omic.’ But in some cases they are actually building the w’hole holiday celebration around the trees. In Rumania the govern¬ ment had renamed the holiday as the ‘Day of the Winter Tree’ and in Hungary 'The Fir Tree Festival.’ They are also known as ‘trees of the republic’ and ‘new year’s trees.’ “Of course they’re not decor¬ ated like yours there,” continued Santa Claus. “They are trimmed with poctures of Russia’s ruler- this year Georgl Malenkov. And Published Weekly—Since 1901 Truok Farming The committee o n truck ^ arming recommended the use of approved practices in grow j nR harvesting, and grading of approved crops. It also advised the growing of sweet corn, CW( ’ et potatoes and tomatoes re- eive speclnl emphasis in the ' rurk line ’ ^ committed re¬ ^ als0 strongly urged the a * cooperative marketing system in which all truck farmers might partici- pate ' Anyone entering would be obliged to follow the recommen¬ dations of the cooperative, since they would have to plant, har- as !“*' a group. “I™" 1161 ^ pr0tlUCtS Livestock and Poultry The livestock and poultry committee recommended to cattle raisers that they: (1) most cases cut the size of their herd; quality, not puantity, is to be stressed; (2) keep several pure bred cows and one pure ered bull; (3) discourage interbreeding of beef and cattle; (4) use suitable land for pasture; (5) avoid the pasture with cattle; (6) use fertilizer on pasture land when necessary. As for hog raising, the com- mittee recommended that A. Car Burns on Mountain Arvil Guffey was treated for second degree burns in a Chat- tanooga hospital Sunday receiv¬ ed as he was attempting to put out a fire which had started in his automobile. According to Arvil’s brother Elton, the fire had started ap¬ parently in the carburetor of Arvil’s 1947 Plymouth as he was driving down Sand Mountain on the gravel highway last Sunday about three o’clock in the after¬ noon. He was burned when he lifted the hood to extinguish the fire Arvil’s companion, Rip Gif- they have a red star on the top instead of an angel like you have.” I couldn’t help smiling as I tried to imagine Malenkov’s pudgy little face hanging all over our tree where all the glass, balls were now. "Is Christmas still recognized as a holiday in Eastern Europe?” I asked. “In some places, no,” answer¬ ed the old man, wiping some punch off his beard. “It’s a 'regular working day in Bulgaria^ * for instance-special passes re- quired to go to church. Family reunions and friendly gather- ings are hardly permitted. Wh> , > in Rumania it takes special po¬ lice permission to take home a holiday guest.” Santa paused and shook his head woefully. “The thing that makes it so sad,” he continued, “is that Christmas used to be just about the biggest thing in I the lives of these people. They i were very religious, you know. I Used to love to build manger scenes with Mary and Joseph the shepherds and Wise Men all standiEg or kneeling as they adored the little Holy Child. part-- the religious part- only part of Christmas that really matters is the one that the Redsare trying to eliminate en-j tlrely. Listen to what Zapo- tocky, the president of Czech-, oslovakia has to say about Christmas; | ‘The story of the 1 birth of the Christ child is only an exploiters’ myth. . . Times have changed. The little Jesus has grown up and now is Grandfather Frost. He no long- er is in tatters and naked but' well dressed In a fur hat and coat.” “How horrible," said Ann in a whisper. I gazed thoughtfully at the floor, thinking how this would compare with the Christ -1 mas messages of President Eisenhower and Queen Eliza- beth, which we would be read- lng tomorrow. NUMBER 51. mers grow only good breeds— pure strains or a good cross. | Th>e report pointed ou* that good pasture land and sanitation is just as necessary in hog rais¬ ing a : in cattle production and urged that growers pay more attention to these points. The report stated that every farm family should have at least one good milch cow or enough to furnish the family with all the dairy products they need. The committee advised that there was a good opport¬ unity and many advantages in sheep raising. They recommen¬ ded that farmers with available b “ sl ness. In making the committee’s report, Mr. Simpson expressed a fear of overproduction in and did not advise any- one to start out in the business without reasonably good assur- ance of a market. The board voted to send lett¬ expressing appreciation for $1,000,000 grant to the 4-H camp at Rock Eagle to Governor and the Kellog Foun- | dation who donated the money, col. Morrison was re-elected j IE. chairman Bible for another year, and J. was re-elected secre- fold, remained in the car and applied the brakes to keep it in the road. When Arvil raised the hood, he was thrown back¬ ward about 20 feet as the flames leaped out and burned his face and catching his hair on fire. At this point Gifford abandoned the automobile and threw his jacket over Guffey’s head to smother the flames. The car went over the em¬ bankment and burned complete- as the fire reached the gaso¬ line tank. Guffey was released from the hospital following treatment for his burns. "I could forgive them for substituting this—this Grand¬ father Frost for me,” Santa went on, his voice choked with emotion, “but never for trying to have him replace the little Jesus.” We all sat silently for a few moments. Santa Claus was the first to speak. “It’s enough to make a feller want to turn in his red suit,” he said rising from the chair, “but I was using this ccdor before they were, Pve to be about my business or I won’t get finished tonight.” He walked over to his bag and fished out a couple of pre¬ sents for the children—a tea set for Vicki and a fire truck for Mike—and laid them gent¬ ly under the tree. “Sorry to have burdened you folks with my troubles tonight but it was good to have some- body sympathetic to listen to them,” said the old gentleman, lifting his bag onto his shoulder, “I’m glad you did tell us,” said Ann thoughtfully looking at me. “I think you’ve given both us a different slant on Christmas.” Santa wasted no time in get¬ ting underway after we shook Before we knew it, the of us were standing by the window watching him slowly disappear from sight. “Dearest,” I said, “Whenever i start complaining about all the money and trouble connect- ed with Christmas please rs- mind me of what he told us to-night.” “i don’t think I’ll have to. Jeff darling. And I promise never to complain about all the housework and cooking and dishwashing that Christmas brings.” The snow had begun to stick now and was falling faster. The ground was almost completely covered already. It was going to be a white Christmas after all.