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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1954)
^ county i. Only Newspapei. lii.me liv ; Fourteen-year old Bobby Herschel Powell, an Aidmore patient lrom Wildwood, Georgia, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew •Powell „, w „ is snown shown breaking oreaxmg ground grouuu tor iux the new Elks' Ardmore Hos- pital, on December 13, 1953. He is being assisted _ by _ Judge John S. „ McClelland, Atlanta, Georgia, Past Grand Exalted Ruler oi tne Order of Elks, and Robert G. Pruitt who is President of theElks’ Aici.nore Corporation. This new hospital is being built immediately .. nt to Emory University Hospital and is the culmination of s dream that ,, , the .. Elks have ^ had since they thpv first firs f started started ooe’-ating operating A,ignore in 1937. The group In the background is composed of Elks and their wives as well as officials of Emory University. When Herschel returned Rome for the holidays, he brought his mother a table lamp and belts and billfolds for other members of the family which he had made himself while at the hospital. Soil Conservation (1. D. E. Morrison, Supervisor A1 Webb, SCS Technician The following figures are ,:en from our records at the se of the year 1953, and show what is yet to be done in the ounty. We sincerely hope, with the cooperation of our farmers, tii t these figures will be sharply creased during the year 1954. Cropland Contour Farming—5,716 acres Cover Cropping — 5,846 acres. ;; bubble Mulching - 6 843 acres. Strip Cropping — 5,937 acres. Crop Rotation — 6,572 acres. Kudzu — 38 acres. Seiicea — 1,756 acres. 403 acres. Grassland Rotation Grazing—8,695 acres. Pasture Seeding — 6,391 acres. Woodland Stand Improvement — 30,785 acres. Tree Planting — 3,099 acres. Woodland Protection — 15,267 acres. Drainfise Operations Farm Drainage — 587 acres. Cpen Drains — 19,1 miles. Closed Drains — 2088 lin. feet. Irrigation Sgstenra _ 45. Land Uses Terracing — 576.5 miles. Diversion Construction — 29.7 miles. Pond Construction — 219. Waterway Development — 476 Land Clearing — 4394 acres. ummer in 100 Foot Tug By FRED HARTLEY How would you like to take summer cruise to Labrador— 1 expenses paid? Before wer, let me point out e ship you take is a 100 foot gboat — untested, and fresh it of the shipyard in Char- ston, S. C. Doesn’t ute so appealing now, does ? That is, if it ever did. But .at’s the way I spent last mmer. I admit I wasn’t yed with the idea myself. at if promised a new expe- ence for me, and perhaps* a t of adventure. And then, I dn't have too much choice ie matter. You see, I orking for Uncle Sam at the me, and it was he who d I was to be the ship’s ate and help take her to La- idor. Jefore I go any further, let explain that I wasn’t in the vy at all, but the Army. s of folks, including . are surprised when they r that the Army mans and rates sea-going v e ss e 1 rly all of them are assign- to the Transportation Corps are used principally to 5he ihulc limes Bible School Begins Second Semester The Mercer Exten ion B; ble school begins the second seme - ter at the Trenton Baptist Church Monday night, January 11, at 7:30 P. M. Rev. W. L. MacMillan of Chattanooga wall be teaching two courses, The Ufe of Christ” and “Bible ners and Customs. ’ The classes will meet every Monday ondav night nieht at at 7:30 7:30 for for fifteen fifteen nights. e The past semester has , . “Xnr More are expeetecl this semester. Mercer Univrsity cf Macon is- sues special certificates .... . for f these , _ open open to to veryone veryone at at a a very very small sinai fee. Full information will be uc given out Sunday, January 10 j n the various Baptist churches and also Monday night at the school Tavlo”' The Hpnn is the Rev Castleberry, pastor of Rising Fawn Baptist church and Hen.y Elliott is registrar. TWO D4DE BOYS INDUCTED Two young men from Dade Cou^^uctea into tiro Kvlp Frederick Broom 20 RFD 1 Trenton and Bernard Winifred Smith 20 cf RUin* Fawn Rt 1 left Monday Jan- uarv y 4 for the induction center f of Ft. Jackson, S. C. sist in bringing cargo ashore in, a theater of operations. The tugboat i was assigned to, known as the LT (fcr large tug) ig52 ^ wa ^ sent to G OCse Bay, Labrador to assist in the cargo j operations designed to supply | arge a j r base there which operated jointly by the Arae- jrlcan and Canadian air force s. 1 Any Navy man will tell ya¬ the Army has no business ;putting a ship out to sea. They may be right, but we did get the job done. The LT 1952 »ao j a small one, 109 feet from stem stern. She carried a crew of 16, including four officers. She was powered by twin diesel en- with a total of 1200 horse .which is pretty power- ful for a tug of this ■ izf ■ She was really a seaworthy craft, too, but not as well equipped as we woul d have liked. For instance, we would like to have had aboard a gyrocompass, in addition o the magnetic compass^ The is preferred since it will always point to the true north, and does not have ar^ to compen ate for. G Devoted to the Best Interests o< Dade County and Georgia. HIE DADE COUNT* TUtlE.S. 1 KENTON, GEORGIA, llli KSDAV. JANUARY 7, 1954 Council Meets in Final Session The Trenton city council met in ° spssion thp clt 11 U 1 ' Ionday - Januarv4 Januaiy4 ' This' Tbls s the last regular meeting of present council. There was little business to erne before the board. Mr. M. Tatum called the board’s at- ! tor to the fact that the wa- j pressure in the line that leads off the main supply line the Page place is often in- adequate for normal use. It was decided that this matter should rlSCl Delegates Name Committees venti:n met at the local ASCj office on December 18, 1953 to! elect the Dade County Agrlcul-i Conser-' tural stabiliza tion and ' r „ 0o . ram year | Ml / c -J Ivey was re . e iected | chairman of the committee. ' Mr. V/. L. Fannin was elect- ! cd vice-chairman to succeed Mr. ' 1 Mr Joe Blevlm wls re . e i ec ted regular member. M - R c. Thomas was elected Fir t Alterna te._____ _____ Fawn Senior _ . 4-H _ Club Meets . The Rising Fawn Senior 4-H Club met Monday night, Jon- uary 4, at the home of Mrs. Virginia Konrad, 4-H Club ad- v ^ er -pAree Rising Fawn Junior qj u jj members were guests. -j^ey were Jenny McMahan, Bil- and Larr y Konrad. The meeting was presided over Sug McMabarij pres ident and hu iness session Jack- 'presented’a p “J very interesting ° and wel1 P iannea program• ouu c th g pipg?am ^ere Miss Fan- me . u McWhorter, county , health , ... r » r “ « »• 6 ? f a Physical eheek-up regular vs She also presented a movie on very thorough in her demonstra- lowing the use of the rnold, ,> unfinished products, ___ some of the finished products which were very beautiful. The club member5 adv ^ers, and visitors - present were very much ’’ inter¬ ested in this project. After the meeting was ad journed, Judy _ Kenimer, . recrea- tion chairman, led the group in playing games. Refreshments L. Bigham, Rev. Joe E. Jr., Mrs. R. P. Fricks, and Mrs. L. M. Allison, 4-H club advisers, The December meeting 4°-H of the Rising Fawn Senior Club dt the home of ___ Mrs. _ R. 'was held other hand, the magnetic while not subject to failure, sometimes a great deal of error because iron in the ship itself acts a magnet, or several magnets because of the fact that the points to tht north mag- pole, which is hundreds of away from the north geo¬ pole. , Navy Amazed Som? of my Navy friends in were aghast when I them we were taking a new tugboat to Labrador with¬ the aid of a convoy, with¬ a gyrocompass or an elec¬ depth recorder. These two items are standard for all Navy sea-go¬ ships. They just shook their and wished us luck. And we did have pretty good all the way up the coast- least as far as the weather concerned. We departed Charleston on May ]3 on first of our 2700-mile voy¬ Our first stop was to be home base, Fort Eustis, on James River in southern We rounded Cape Hat- known to sailors for cen¬ investigated further before action. lt was a § reed to transfer monies X om the a j f u nd to the operating and fund to take ca:e of all outstanding debts except one of $458.99 incurred in the recent paving of the city streets. The next regular meeting will be held Monday, January 11, at which time the recently elected officers will be led to form the new council, was cond Alternate-, The county committee is ponslble for a11 phases 01 the Agricl,Itural Stabilization and Conservation Program in Dade County - The committee held its meeting of the year on Monday, January 4, 1954 at which time E. 'G. Wright. Jr., was ap- pointed County office Man- Secretary-Treasurer, and Mrs. Bill Brandon, Clerk, for the ASC P. Fricks, adviser. Mrs. oue Neely oi the New Home Com- munity was a guest on the pro- gram and gave a demonstration on making jewelry and toys. This demonstration was enjoyed very much by the members present. The club made plans at I this meeting for setting out dog- wood trees at the churches in the community. County agent L. assistant county agent C. L. Bigham, Mrs. Vir- ginia Cagle, Mrs. Myrna Me Mahan, Virginia Konrad and were present at this meeting. Smith Reports Quiet Holidays , ’ Dade County enjored a ve-y sensible and quiet holiday sea ____ son as _ tar ___________________ f as s acciaen:s arc i den t s and 4U j aw and orc j er were concerned, reported Deputy Sheriff Rushel Smith “it was just about the . quiete t christm as and New year’s I can remember,” said Smit h There were no serious auto- mobile accidents • and only one pe rson is said to'have suffered j n j Ury as a re5U lt of a traffic ^‘^LS'ohio^o a slight injury to her knee i n an accident near Craw- fish Creek. There were only two cases of public drunkenness reported for the entire holiday period. , turies as the ‘‘graveyard of the Atlantic” in very calm weather. We continued on up the coast without mishap until we hit a fog bank about twelve miles off the entrance to Chesapeake Bay. There were about two other ships in the vicinity at the time. As luck would have it, the ship’s 1 steering mechanism pick¬ ed this time to break down. The helmsman noticed that the compass was not responding to the wheel. The skipper, who was on the bridge in command at the time, ordered the engines stop¬ ped and for the breakdown lights to be hoisted. The breakdown lights are two large red lanterns which must be hoisted from the yard arm six feet apart whenever there is any mechanical failure that puts the ship out of control. We got the lights up all right, but apparently they had either been rigged or hoisted improperly and came crashing down \q the deck in a couple of minutes, shorting out all the lights on the bridge. It was a bad time for it to hap- uen, with the fog and the other vessels around us. But the dan¬ Officers Uncover Still A„ UI1 I LOOKOlll mnlrnsif Mmitihin iTiOUlUalll Dade and Walker County law enforcement officers Sunday raided a still on Lookout Moun- tain which they had had under observation for a week. ; Dade County Sheriff F. C. Walker"*' Graham, Deputy Rushel Smith, Buss' County Sheriff Harmon, and his deputy Mor- rison, together with state al- cholic revenue officers W. Ii. Southtrs and J. D. Scoggins, made the raid about 10:30 A. M. Sunday. It yielded a 500 gallon thumper barrel and a SO gallon fljrke stand-but no Deputy Sheriff Smith ex- plained that the sheriff and his had been keeping their eye ^ the whole works for sever*?, days and knew that the mixture would be ready to tap around jnoon Sunday. But the renegade di tillers apparently became a httle shaky and decided to run °D the batch belore it was rea- jdy. probably before daylight Sunday morning. The party of officers had been in the area as lat e as midnight Saturday. All ^ spot by the law officers Deputy Smith said that the still was located on Lookout Moun- taiu just east of the scenic Highway, about five miles north QI Q eor gi a Highway 143. _ ^ DADE GET S. SECURITY AID At the end of 1953 — the 17th year 0 f Federal social security _ 0 ld-age and survivors insur- ance pay ments of about $585,- 935 in monthly benefits were going to 17,073 persons in the Chattanooga area, according to Louis . . ^ R smith, Jr T . , manager of tl ,e Chottanocga coca, office. Lump-sum death pay¬ ments now average about $18,000 monthly. In Dade County, $6,855 montly benefits went to 233 persons. For the entire nation, in- eluding Alaska, Hawaii Puerto Rl co, and the Virgin Islands e tinates show an increase of SM1 ‘PP-oximately one million . . hP- be neficiaries with the year^ end- in S December 31. The 5-mil- R onth person was awarded Payments just over a year ago, early in- December 1952. In September of 1950 the Congress enacted an amend- ment to the law which greatly expanded the scope of the pro- n2flts - The number has just ab:ut doubieci m the l a st 3- y ear Period, he pointed out, having reached 5,970,000 by year’s end, according to preliminary esti- mates rnD.d6 in Dpccnibsr. ger was short-lived, for the steering as well as the lights were repaired in a matter of minutes. This incident came to be known as ‘‘the night the breakdown lights broke down.” Alter about a week of final preparations at Fort Eustis and at Norfolk, we put out to sea again. We left Norfolk under Tull steam on May 25 and ar¬ rived in New York the following day. We had been ordered to stop there to pick up some spare parts for the ship’s radio. While we were in port there, our fresh water tank developed trouble and had to be replaced in a Staten Island Shipyard. This ex¬ tended our stay in New York to about a week. Needless to say, nobody was particularly disap¬ pointed at this development. Inland Route Scenic We departed from New York on June 2. The captain had de¬ cided to sail up via the inland waterway as far as Cape Cod since the weather report pro¬ mised pretty rough weather on the outside. This would take us up through the East River, Long Island Sound, Buzzards’ Bay, Cape Cod Canal and Bay, and Published Weekly — Since 1901 Board School Plans The regular monthly meet ' mg of the Dade County School ® oard was held Tqesday night, January 5, in the court house, Al1 of the board baembers were jP resen Tbe t- board agreed to investi- I ga ^ e the c0s ^ 01 paving areas in playgrounds of the countys ischools t0 be used as both bas ~ ketball and tennis courts. The members also decided to take measures to repair the roof of Polio Foundation The National Foundation for InfatntiL' Paralysis opened Its 1954 March of Dimes Camp- aign on January 2nd. Here in Dade County work has also be- «un to make 1954 a big year In the fight against polio. The following persons are di¬ recting the campaign in their communities: M:s. Clyde Meeks, Avans; Mrs. B. W. Holtzower, Head River; Mrs. W. G. Morrison,, Jr., Morganville; Mrs. Allison Blevins, New England; Mr. Spencer H. Middleton, Rising Fawn; Mrs. E. J. Bible, Springs; Mrs. Montford Tatum, Trenton; Mrs. J C. Wallen, Wildwood; Mrs. Hazel tree, New Salem; Mrs. Haston Vets Mast Register Under 1948 Act Board of D^de County announ¬ ces that many young men who were serving ;n tli 2 arnu :! ! ■ aw at the time M: •;/ w re do. to register have since been clis- charged from the service, but have failed to register. Although these young men are not sub- ject to draft under present ic- gulations, they ore still otligat- « d to be registered w.thm 30 days after discharge discharge from from the ^ ^ ^ o( mistaken idea that, if they are a member of the National Guard or other reserve organization, it eliminates the necessity of registering. These men are j required to register within five days after becoming eighteen years of age. Under the Selective Service lg4g aP young men k o:n on or after August 30, 1922, are Hobby Club Watches The Trenton Hobby Club en- joyed an interesting demon- stration on the making of trees with cr i no line at their meeting Tuesday night. Mrs. Martin tree trunk, cut uneven circles 0 f white crinolint for the branches making them smaller as they reached the top. The crinoline was decorated with stars ofnnn L><f but *•**■*»» any nni^nui«niin« color crinoline o: finally into the open waters of the Atlantic. This was perhaps the most scenic part of the trip. It toox us within a stone’s throw of Manhattan’s towering spires and even close enough to see the di¬ plomats entering and leaving the tall, slab-like UN building. It took us by the suburban and resort towns on Long Island and the smoky industrial cities Connecticut’s southern shore. It also took us close by the pic¬ turesque iishing villages and neat little farms that New Eng¬ land is famous for. But it was good to get out on the open sea again. We set sail in a northeasterly direction, out of sight of the Maine and New Brunswick coast. We didn’t see land again until the rocky coast of Nova Scotia began to appear on the horizon. After passing abeam Cape Breton Is¬ land, the northernmost part of the province, we cut out east¬ ward across the Cabot Strait to¬ ward Newfoundland. On June 6 we reached our in¬ termediate destination Argentina Newfoundland after four days at NUMBER 1 the commercial building of Dade High after an investiga- tion to determine what kmd of repairs will have to be under- taken. Mr - R °y w - Moore, the coun- ty school superintendent, an- nounced that ihe architects and drawing; additions oi the to ^renovations Dade schools had been completed and had been approved by the state board. Opens 1954 Drive Hibbs, Cave Springs; Mrs. Wm Cureton, Byrd's Chape) 1 and Mrs. Thelma Bell, Hooker. Mr. John Pike is in charge of placing coin collectors in all places of business in the coun¬ ty. March of Dimes cards have been placed in all of the schools in the county by Mrs. M. A. Nethery. Dade County Campaign Director, and Mrs. W. M. Presley. The $75,000,000 goal of the drive this year includes $26,- 500,000 for gamma globulin, the now being used- for polio ,and tests of the trial vaccine. The d:ive will continue through the month of January. local board. Some persons by reason of particular status were not required to register at the time the initial registeration. However, all such persons must present themselves for register- ation when the reason for the original -exception no longer ex- ists. While certain persons are not required to register be- cause of their particular status, shall continue after the cause therefore ceasss to exist.” Ffe- gulations prescribe the periods of time within which various categories of registrants must register following a change in Late registration is preferable violation of the Selective act under which prose- could result. Artistic Trees Made could be used, Miss Fannielu McWhorter, chairman, assisted by C. L. Bigham who was the of the machine, show check-ups regularly. Tht Club met at the home of M. J. Hale, served refresh- to 17 members. The Feb- ruary meeting will be at the awa of nf Mrs. ^^ n G. C. T*nf Tatum. sea. Argentia is located on the southeast coast of the island in Placentia Bay where Roosevelt and Churchill met in 1941 to draft the Atlantic Charter. The United States maintains a na¬ val and air force base here. Al¬ though the calendar said it was June, the weather was cold and disagreable. It is the only place I have seen rain, fog, and strong winds all at the same time. It cleared up enough one day to go fishing, however. Four of us from the ship caught a ride to Placentia, a quaint little vil¬ lage situated on the opposite sides of a long inlet from the sea, called ‘‘the gut.” We fished for a couple of hours for trout without any success, and then decided to try our luck across the gut. We still didn’t get any t-out, but within an hour, the four of us had pulled out about 50 perch. Of course w*e socn lost interest, especially since these perch wern’t any good to eat anyway. Next week I’ll tell you aboui the trip on to Goose Bay anc the weekend we spent at the lit¬ tle French island of St. Pierrt on the way north.
