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VOLUME LIV
... Here V There...
By FRED HARTLEY
Georgia’s political contest for
governor seems to be a little
slow gathering steam this year.
But, then, there are still two
months before the primary.
Seems btrange to have an
election in Gorgia without a
Talmadge in the running. So
far, the governor is keeping
mum on the race. He hasn’t
thrown his support to any can¬
didate—yet.
Herman’s not the only one
who’s being cagey. Only a. few
influential figures have come
out in favor of one candidate or
the other. For those who dare
make a prediction, about the
most they’ll say is 'that a run¬
off will be necessary, most like¬
ly between two of these three:
Griffin. Linder or Thompson.
They seem to have the big¬
gest backing so far, but House
Speaker Fred Hand is also
likely to run a good race.
As far as printed campaign
material goes, Grifin has been
by far the most active. Unless,
of course, you consider the
Market Bulletin. Tom Linder
has been campaigning with it
fcr years—and still is.
r ord comes to me that Dade
nty’s ball club, is having
ie difficulty over finances,
eems some folks (I don t
w hew many) drive right on
t Pete Bradford at the
te” and thus pass up the
ortunity to contribute their
toward the team’s support,
rowds have been off lately,
True, Mother Earth doesn’t
se the most comfortable seat
the world. But you do see a
d brand of ball played,
mateur baseball rules do
permit charging admission
:es. It’s up to the individual
ctator whether he gives
■thing or not. The players
i’t receives a dime for knock-
themselves out on the sun-
,ed diamond. But umpires
[ scorekeepers have to be
i. And you can’t play with-
bats and balls. They have
■ay of wearing out or getting
unday after next,, on July
Dade plays undefeated Wau-
chie at Rising Fawn. It
mises to be a top-notch con-
A good crowd that day
i\d certainly help things out.
understand the boys are
ining something a little
cial in the way of refresh¬
es that day.
lore about that next week.
hot, dry weather is se-
threatening farmers
.e loss of a large part of
:icps, especially corn and
ven cotton is beginning
:er from the oven-like
Hope we get some rain
Cherokee Republic's Capital Being Restored Near Calhoun
’o dig around in Indian
unds and come up with
at relics used by the earliest
aericans—valuable as it is—
old stuff. Archeologists, as
lateur diggers, have for years
en producing arrowheads,
ads and primitive pottery as
.dence of a departed Indian
ulization. But when the ite
an Indian village yields such
ms as expensive English chi-
and a nearly complete set of
inting type in their own al-
abet, well, that’s news.
Excavation is now in progress
ar Calhoun on the site of
e old Cherokee capital of New
hota. Work begun there
rly this year with an eye. to
storing the settlement has
oduced some encouraging re-
Latest and perhaps most
nificant find was the disco-
:ee y of type over 800 used pieces in P of nnt C ^ [ ng e
ur oenix, newspaper, over 125 years the cher0 ago. ^ The e
erokee alphabet, which has
characters in it, was
their great chief Sequoyah,
all the Indian tribes, the
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1954
FARM BUREAU’S DISTRICT QUEEN AND TALENT WINNERS
Pictured above are winners in the recent Farm Bureau Queen and Talent District elimi¬
nation contest. The Dickerson Quartet from Trenton took first place in the talen,t competi¬
tion and Miss Leah Mae Jairett, Rt. 2, Rome, was crowned queen. Left to right, front row, VVil
lard Dickerson, Miss Jarrett, Randle Dickerson; back row, Shelia Dickerson, Kathryn) Fricks,
last year’s utate FB queen, Terry Dickerson and Mrs. Ewell Dickerson, who accompanied the
quartet. —(Courtesy of The Atlanta Constitution.)
In the Fourth of July base¬
ball contests, Dade County, Da¬
vis and Lookout Mountain all
chalked up victories, but New
Salem fell before Cove on the
latter’s home diamond, 14-7.
Dade won by forfeit when East
Brainerd failed to field a team.
Dade was victorious in an ex¬
hibition game played against
them.
In the game on Sand Moun¬
tain, Davis right-hander Bim
Patton held Tennessee Paper
Mills to five hits as Davis
stomped them 8-1. Porter El¬
lison, Dub Patton, Pluto Elli¬
son and Don Keith each had
two hits to their credit.
Doubles were scored by Porter
Ellison and Keith, and Lamar
Avans tripled as he batted for
his brother in the eighth.
In Lookout Mountain’s 6-4
victory over Jasper, Herman
Moore had two hits and batted
in two runs. Charles Massey
and Lloyd Moore also had two
hits to their credit. Arvine
Bradford, pitching for Lookout
Mountain, was relieved at the
end of six innings by Cortez
Moore after giving up 10 hits.
Moore pitched no-hit ball for
the remaining two innings.
WORKING AT NEW ENGLAND
METHODIST CHURCH SAT.
There will be an all-day work¬
ing at the New England Meth¬
odist Church, Saturday, July
10. Dinner will be served by the
ladies.
Come and bring your tools
and stay as long as you can.
report which cited an account
I of a surveyor in 1832. This re-
1 pin-pointed the location of the
village near the junction of the
Connasauga and Oostanaula
; Rivers and quoted references
which minutely described some
' that
of the buildings once stood
at the seat of the Cherokee
| government.
That was enough to convince
the commission that the pro¬
ject of restoration should be un¬
dertaken. It hired Prof. Clemens
de Baillou of Atlanta to super¬
vise the work. His excavations
revealed that Dr. Malone had
done his work well. Some start¬
ling discoveries were made in
the precise spot he had indicat¬
ed.
Cherokees Highly Civilized
Prof. deBaillou’s preliminary
report of last March related that
“a careful examination of the
surface of the ground was made,
in the course of which thirteen
building sites were established.”
| He adds that these were obvi-
! ously house sites which yielded
much garly nineteenth century
i china and glass.
Cherokees were the first to use
Interest printed language^ m the New Echota
project grew out of a report to
the state Historical Commis-
sion by 'Dr. Henry T. Malone,
a professor of history and as¬
sistant dean at the University
of Georgia’s Atlanta Division.
Dr. Malone is a student of Che¬
rokee affairs for many years,
having written his Ph. D. thesis
on a phase of their civilization.
On the strength of his findings
about the old settlement at
New Echota, several citizens
and civic groups in Calhoun be¬
came highly interested in the
restoration of the village and
approached the Georgia Histo¬
rical Commission for aid in the
undertaking. Report
Dr. Malone's
Through the efforts of the
*" n"“ of
0 C o u n t y Chamber
merce the Historical Com-
| . became sold on the idea
but withheld financial support
Jocation of the
| . c0U i(i b e determind-
if! e further research. Dr.
. commission
(Malone gave the com a
Next Sunday Dade will play
at Victoria and Davis at East
Brainerd. New Salem meets
Jasper at the latter’s home dia¬
mond, white Cove will journey
to Lookout Mountain.
BOX SCORES
DAVIS
AB H 0 A
L. Avans, 2b 1 1 0 0
A. Avans 4 1 3 2
P. Ellison, 3b 4 2 0 4
Stephens, cf 3 1 3 0
1 D. Patton, rf 4 2 0 0
Barnes, If 4 1 2 0
C. Ellison, ss 4 9 4 2
Freeman, lb 4 b 8
Keith, c 4 2 7 0
B. Patton, p 4 1 0 10
Totals 36 13 27 18
T. P. Mills. 100 000 000- -1 5 3
Davis .... 500 100 02x -8 13
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN
AB H O A
H. V. Moore, rf 5 2 2 0
C. Massey, ss 3 2 3 4
L. W. Moore, c 4 0 3 0
Chambers, If 4 0 6 0
G. L. Moore, lb 3 0 10 0
L. R. Moore, 3b 3 2 0 2
A. Moore, 2b 4 0 1 1
L. Massey, cf 4 0 0 0
A. Bradford, p 2 0 1 1
cC. Moore, p 1 0 1 0
Totals 33 6 27 8
• c-C. Moore for A. Bradford in 8th
(Jasper ........ 001 200 100—4
1 L. Mtn......... 031 100 lOx- 6
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j X-RAY UNIT
VISITS COUNTY
The mobile X-ray unit visit-
ed Dade County this week on
July 6, according to County
Health Nurse Miss Fannielu Me
Whorter. Fifty-eight persons
received chest X-rays.
John W. Davis,
Summerville, in
*
Contest for Judge
John W. Davis, Summerville
attorney, announced his candi¬
dacy for the post of Judge of
the Superior Court of the Look¬
out Mountain Circuit, and, as
the deadline for qualifying
passed the race was resolved
into one between Davis and
Freeman C. McClure, who is
the incumbent.
The Lookout Mountain Judi¬
cial Circuit is comprised of the
counties of Dade, Catoosa,
Walker and Chattooga.
Davis, a veteran of World
War II where he served in mi¬
litary intelligence for more
than three years, is a member
of the Summerville law firm of
Brinson & Davis.
He served as Assistant Solicit¬
or of the old Rome Judicial Cir¬
cuit from 1948-50 and as Soli¬
citor General from 1950-52. He
has been engaged in the active
practice of law for the <past
fifteen years, except for his
military service. He is married
to the former Miss Vivian Haw¬
kins of LaFayette, and the cou-
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR
STATE SENATOR
To the Voters of Dade County:
As it is Dade County’s time
to furnish a Senator for the
44th Senatorial District of
Georgia, it is my desire to serve
you in this capacity, and I
One site showed outlines of a
foundation, but since no crock¬
ery was found there, it might
have been the council house or
court house site.
The discovery of the type in
the Cherokee alphabet has now
set Prof. deBailou up on the task
of determining the exact loca¬
tion of the old printshop. The
type is so scattered that this
job may prove difficult. How¬
ever, once its position has been
definitely established, restora¬
tion will be easy. An issue of
tbe Cherokee Phone’v in 1826
describes te iprintshop in detali,
jeven giving the dimensions In
a later issue is found a detailed
description of the govern¬
ment’s supreme court building.
It may come as a surprise to
hear of Indians running a
printshop, a courthouse or a su¬
preme court. Thanks to Holly¬
wood, we think the Indian’s
only authentic pose is squat¬
ting before his tepee or, all
painted up and dancing around
a campfire, hatchet in hand,
and clad only in a loin cloth
and tooth beads.
Building Sites Found
The high degree of civiliza¬
tion which the Cherokees had
developed before their removal
to the West is the most signifi¬
cant fact about the N. Echota
excavations. Their progress to¬
ward self-government, their
high respect 'for law and order
and their easy adaptability to
the wgys of the white man has
continued to amaze students of
the Cherokees.
Early in the nineteen centu¬
ry, Congress allowed and even
encouraged the Cherokees to
organize and develop a govern¬
ment of their own. Comprising
a nation within a nation, they
were given nearly complete in¬
dependence in regulating their
own internal affairs.
Led by their able chieftians
and aided by the federal gov¬
ernment and some New Eng¬
land missionaries, the Chero¬
kees set ,about forming their
own republic in the Southeast
in the early 1820's. Their pro¬
gress was rapid. On November
12, 1825, the National Commit¬
tee and Council of the Chero¬
Published Weekly—Since 1901
Two More For Local Races
The prospect for hotter poli¬
tics this summer grew Saturday
with the entry into local races
of two more candidates, one
each for representative and
state senator.
John H. Wilkins of Sulphur
Springs, who is connected with
the State Highway Depart¬
ment, squeezed under the dead¬
line Saturday to qualify for
the senatorial race, in which he
will oppose Rufus W. Massey
and Mrs. Catherine C. Mor¬
rison .
Woodrow W. Gross, Sand
Mountain, who is employed,by
Volunteer Ordnance Co. in
Chattanooga, also qualified Sat-
Moves To Collect Water Bills
In their regular meeting
Monday night, Trenton’s city
council vote to crack down on
water users who are delinquent
In back payments.
In a unanimous resolution,
the council voted give the de¬
linquent users until July 20 to
settle their accounts. Any such
customers who have not paid
the amounts owed by that date
would be given ten days notice
to pay up. After the ten-day
period, any remaining users
with bills outstanding would
have their water service auto¬
matically suspended.
The council also resolved to
use the same policy with regard
to businesses operating within
Trenton in the payment of the
city privilege tax. All those
who have not paid by the 20th
will be notified that they have
ten days to pay the amount
owed. At the end of the 10-day
period, the tax bills would be
turned over to police officers
for collection.
Mayor A L. Dyer reminded
Head-on Collision
A head-on collision in Tren¬
ton Saturday morning severely
injured the driver of a 1954
Ford, his wife and son. William
Alexander Porteous, 55, of Na-
poleonville, La., the driver, was
struck by a southbound car on
Highway 11 just south of the
hereby make this my announce¬
ment as a candidate for that
position, subject to the rules
and regulations of the Demo¬
cratic Executive Committee in
the Primary Election to be held
on September 8th next.
I solicit your vote and in¬
fluence in my behalf and should
you trust me with this honor,
I will serve you to the best in¬
terest of this district and our
great State in a traditionally
Southern manner.
Sincerely,,
R. W. MASSEY.
kee Nation of Indians drew up
a resolution which set forth
their plan to carve a city out
of the wilderness in north Geor¬
gia and to establish it as the
capital of the Cherokee nation.
Thus was New Echota born.
But the Indian town which had
begun to serve as both the po¬
litical and cultural center for
the Cherokees was to have a
tragically short lifetime. The
restless and impatient white
settlers coveted the land re¬
served for the Cherokees and
constantly applid the pressure
on Congress and the state gov¬
ernments for the removal of the
Indians further to the West.
The year 1830 saw fche end of
New Echota and the short-lived
but encouraging advance of the
Georgia Indians toward self-
government.
The motive for the restora¬
tion of New Echota is partially
jifor the attraction of tourists.
But it is altogether fitting that
it should be restored as a mo¬
nument to this admirable but
tragic experiment in Indian
| democracy.
NUMBER 27
Jurday as a candidate for the
office of representative to the
General Assembly. He will run
against incumbent M. J. Hale.
John W. Davis, an attorney
from Summerville, recently an-
nounced his candidacy for
judge of the Lookout Mountain
Judicial Circuit, where he will
oppose the incumbent, Judge
Freeman C. McClure.
These names comprise the
complete slate of local candi¬
dates for state offices 'from this
area. The 12 Democratic Exe¬
cutive Committeemen for the
county are all unopposed for
re-election.
council members that the con¬
tract with the bonding compa¬
ny plainly states that prompt
payment of water bills be en¬
forced toy discontinuing the
service to users who fall toehlnd
in their payments.-
The council also voted to hire
Mrs. W. F. Morrison to handle
the city water accounts and
to receive the payments. She
is at the city hall each day
Monday through Friday for col¬
lection. This move came as a
result of the resignation of
Recorded C. C. Shankles from
duties connected with the wa¬
ter system. It was pointed out
that this task was not neces¬
sarily part of the recorder’s
job. Mrs. Morrison will receive
the same compensation that
Mr. Shankles had been get¬
ting.
Mrs. Morrison was also hired
to handle all the paper work in
connection with the collection
of the city tax voted on earlier
this year.
Three Here
intersection with the Lookout
Mountain Road.
Sheriff F. C. Graham quoted
witnesses as saying that the
other vehicle, a 1953 Mercury
driven by Howard Knight, a 29-
year-old Negro from Cleveland,
Ohio, pulled out from behind a
truck, crossing a yellow line on
the crest of a hill. In doing so,
he hit the other car head-on.
Graham said Porteous’ car
had skidded approximately 50
feet, whereas there was no evi¬
dence to show that Knight had
even applied his brakes. Knight
and the other occupants of his
car, another man, a woman and
a small childr, suffered minor
cuts and bruises.
Knight was charged with
reckless driving and released
on a $40 cash bond.
