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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (July 22, 1954)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LIV Here V There ... By FRED HARTLEY ‘•A man’s home is his castle.” This classic little maxim has for centuries served as the tra¬ ditional means to express the fact that in a civilized society, where law and order prevail, a man is safe and secure in his own home. He can rest assured that the law will protect him from invaders and those who would infringe upon his privacy and his rights as a free man. All that is true up to a cer- tain point. There seems to be j nothing however, to protect a hapless bachelor from the in vasion of his premises by bene volent female relatives. Last weekend my mother, sister and seven-year-cld niece descended upon my hermitage for a visit. They didn’t come right out and say it, but from the start, I had the uneasy feeling thait my slipshod way of life, as reflected by my sur¬ roundings, had met with no one’s approval. I spent hours cleaning up the place the day before. A casual remark here and there about the dirty floors told me it hadn’t been enough. Immediately upon gaining entrance to my “castle, ’ niece Joyce noted with distaste the deplorable condition of the ba¬ sin. She set about the house on a search for the Ajax to give it a long overdue cleaning. Despite my feeble protests that things suited me the way they were, I knew that some sweeping changes were about to take place. farewell When they bade me on Sunday afternoon, I hardly knew the place. A sparkling new coat of lettuce green paint covered the kitchen cabinets. Crisp green shelf paper lined their shelves. A new chartreuse table cloth covered the kitchen table. Dishes, pets, pans and fur ! niiure had been rearranged or moved to entirely new loca¬ tions . I was torn between genuine admiration for the new look and a rueful reflection that things wou never same again. 1 have *> that it doe^ oo ’ although I still have troi finding things. Notice a few recent changes in the Odd Fellows’ building. A bright new tapestry on the drug store’s west window features a big Confederate flag flanked by ice cream sundaes. The bamboo curtains on the south keep out some fo the heat and give the place a lush, tropical look. Quite in keeping with the weather we’ve been having. I On the rear of the building there’s a new sign on Dr. Cooke’s office announcing he will run blood tests for mar- rying couples. Makes two we have in Trenton now. The doctor has recently been granted permission from the State Board of Health to per- form [l this lias service. seiviuc. OU Has A Role In Nation's Development The h part nart played nlaved bv by oil oil in in the the development of our country and contribution ------------ to — our - - high - tandard of living is one of those tories that unfold slowly and luietlv without much fanfare, lespite its dynamic impact on til of us. Geologists tell u s that the S ^wheffarge^S ^ covered by layer upon layer _____ >f silt. Subjected to heat, pres- ure, chemictl and bacterial ac- ■ion, this organic matter in the curse of time explanation became oil S s onlv one ° ne CXP There ir Bu°t th aT for Sat the discovery of ubstance baa revolution- zed ot the Lean world’s fyearn industry 1 the c-itiiville go in Pa There a m a n ramed med Edwin Edw L Drake drilled . hole in the belief tha he >uld find enough oil to light Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 22, 1954 Dade Twin Win Wauhatchie Dade County manager Red trip to Fort Jackson week to fetch Cubie Steele big dividends Sunday. The righthander not only pitched an eight-hit ball game with 14 strikeouts, but batted in five runs with his homer, triple and single for five times at bat. All this happened in Dade’s memorable 12-2 conquest 0 f which snapped the splendid winning streak at 11 games, The home team duplicated the feat in the second game of the double header bill and sent the losers home with an ad- ditional 4-1 defeat on their hands. Steele _ , , s , homer to , right . . . field ,. ,. in the first game was m the mon of many one of the long- est ever hit in ihe Rising Fawn pa^ Dade rightfielder Jim equalled the feat in the irs inning of that game with ciicuit clout that brought in two runs. Steele was ably succeeded in the pitcher’s box by Bill Evens for the second game who turn- ed in his best mound perform- ance of the year, fanning ten batters and giving up only six hits. Batting star ot this con- test was Dade leftfielder Roy who swatted out a a triple and a single for RBI. The double victory gives Dade possession of the top spot for the second hour wins and no losses. once-proud Wauhatchi? new shares fourth position East Brainerd. On Sand Mountain Davis like Boy Scout Court of Honor Set for July 27 Another district Boy Scout of Honor will be held . Tuesday night, July 27, at This will be at the Fair- view Baptist Church which is between Rossville and Oglethorpe. The Court of Honor is held times dur mg the year and : troop with the largest that' per- of people from in attendance wins a The troop to win this the most times during the yeart receives it for a per- manent trophy after it has l inscribed with the home troop’s nomber. Trenton Ttoop i 143 won it at the last meet¬ ing and so far no other troop has won this honor more than once. Besides trying to have a large group in attendance from each troop at these Courts of Honor, there is a program and awards of merit are presented to the Scouts who have worked and won them. Several boys th^ooP^are expected to receive awards Tuesday. Next Tuesday night at 6:15 the Scouts, Scout officials and it is hoped many parents and ***vw**v~^ will meet ~ on - the Square * I all the lamps of America. His dream was more than fulfilled, The odds against Drake’s find- j ng c ii wer e tremendous. Even toda y w ith the experience and knowledge of decades behind us, the chances against finding oil are nine to ;o one. one. Despite Despite these tnese 'odds, oil companies have vied j with one another to put down wellfwRhmThe'United States. |more rvi n r*r» tn to imnrnvp improve his hi is ,DOSlt/10H position in in the physical world than in all previous history. Machines Limited In the 1850’s only a little more than six per cent of all wor k in the United States was performed b y machines. The real was done b, men, women, children, and draft animals, Lacking proper lubricant* the few crude steam engines, loco- motives, and factory machines oroke w f th monotonous wise swept both games of a * double header with winless Vic- toria. Porter Ellison led his team to victory in the first game with a triple, two singles and three RBI. Winning pitch¬ er Bim Patton went all the way, giving up nine hits and fan¬ ning five. Leftfielder Barnes took bat- ting honors in the second game slugging out a homer and a single and bringing in four runs. Pluto Ellison hurled a five-hitter with as many strike ou ^' These two wins put Da- * n a South PitU- ^ ur S * 0r second place. Georgia - Volunteer League And up on Loodkout Moun- tain, New Salem ran all over Durham thfi effectiveness of a bulidozer star of the ^ drubbi was catcher ) charles Shook ffltting a home run and three singles, he drove in five runs and stole four bases Lefty Carl Steele gave up , on jy two • hits and accounted for eight strikeouts before he | was relieved at the end of seven innings a Rossville run in the bottom of the ninth accounted for a g.g w i n over L 00 kout Mountain, Herman Moore and McGuffy shared batting honors for the Lookout Mountain nine with |t wo safeties each Next Sunday’s Games Next Sunday Dade County plays at Whitwell and South Pittsburg meets Davis on Sand Mountain. New Salem is host to Ft. Oglethorpe while Look¬ out Mountain meets Durham on the latter’s home diamond. Box scores will be found on 4. at Williams Motor Company to make a large group from the. Trenton Troop t o attend this Court of Honor. More Than 150 Soil Samples Tested Here A good response to the Ex¬ tension Service’s soil test was noted here Wednesday as over samples were received and tested. Soil technician M. B. Parker and his assistant, Mark Ste- phens, from the Ga. Mountain Experiment Station in Blairs- ville put the soil through the various tests to determine the deficiencies that existed in the land from which the samples were taken. Assisting them were County Agent L. C. Adams, S.C.S. Technician A1 Webb and Mrs. Louise Wright, head of the A.S.C. Office. Soil testing is a service pro¬ vided free by the State Exten¬ sion Service to aid farmers in determining liming and fertil¬ izer requirements to obtain in¬ creased crop yields. Petroleum helped make pos- sible the development of high speed, long-lasting and efficient steam engines, internal com- bustion engines and other mul- tiplied 250-fold in nine decades, Machines, which depend upon petroleum perroieum for ior all an of oi their ineir mon- cation and almost two-thirds of their fuel, now do 96 per cent Drake's discovery did more pi3.n <nan to LO produce wmww goods worth Tf v * *-** five times as much as in his day, for the national income to increase 30 times over what it was then . and to produce for a popula- Hon five times greater. Gil Search Continues ! The search for oil goes on un- abated. Faced wtth an ever- increasing demand and the ex- hauatlon ot present wells, the petroleum companies are al- ways on the lookout for new fields. Geological surveys and. information they j- have pro- r Three Dade Winners At 4-H District Meet Dade County was well repres¬ ented at North Georgia District Project Achievement meeting last week. The seven delgates were -winners in three projects. Jack Stallings from Davis 4-H Club took second place with his livestock conservation dem¬ onstration. Larry Konrad of the Rising Fawn 4-H Club came .back as third place winner in forestry. Bessie Moore from the ^Trenton club also took third place in the fruit pie Contest. ( These three won blue awards of excellence. j The other club members at¬ tending were: Legatha Gray, dress revue; Norma Jean Gray, junior food preparation, both 'of the New Salem club; Terry and Shelia Dickerson, talent contestants from the Trenton club. All of these boys and girls scored high on their record books and their demonstra¬ tions. If anyone has any doubts about Bessie Moore’s pie, he can ask the County Agent. Bessie [presented the pie that she : baked in Athens to him and he states that it was so good that he would like for everybody to have her recipe, which is re¬ produced on an inside page for ycur information. Officials Act To Meet Water Shortage Immediate steps are being taken to meet the present wa- ter shortage in Trenton, „ Mayor A. L. Dyer said here Tuesday He explained that although the spring was somewhat lower than normal, there was still ample water to supply all city water users. Many local residents, espe¬ cially in the higher ground.lo. cations and outlying sections, have been feeling the pinch of !the water shortage spasmodi- l cully for the last couple cf ,weeks. But the deficiency Road Aid Motorists | Two completed road improvements Dade Coun¬ re¬ cently in ty will provide safer and more comfortable riding for motor¬ ists. j Most notable of the two is the paving of the Hooker Road, connecting U. S. Highway 41-72 with U. S. 11 at a point just north of Wildwood. Motorists desiring to transfer from one of these highways to the other new have a paved shortcut that makes it unnecessary to travel to the junction at Tiftonia. Big-time fishermen in the county are also benefitted. The road now provides paved access to Hale’s Bar on the Tennessee River. M. J Hale, Dade’s represent¬ ative to the Georgia House, said that the road is now a [state highway and that the state will be taking over its maintenance soon. duced have helped to take some of the guesswork out of drilling but it’s still a risk. Oil deposits are usually found in voids or pore spaces in the earth. When oil in such a por- ous formation is surrounded by tuck or or other ouici nonporous nuapuiuiw sub¬ .->uu- [stances, it is trapped and can move no farther. These traps are usually found far below the earth’s surface. The most common types of oil traps are the anticline, the fauit and the stratigraphic trap, An anticline is an upward fold j *** in the V4 * v ' earth’s --------------- strata, forming an [arch. A fault is a fracture in the earth's crust, resulting in a porous layer being cut off by a nonporous layer. A stratigra phic trap i s a formation in which porous layers are pinched out between nonporous layers. The valley that runs through Dade County is said to be an anticline formation. According to one theory, the valley was once high ground, higher than either of the two mountains. It was gradually -worn away by the Published Weekly—Since 1901 Behind Thieves broke into the Gross ped off, and the inside door had Mercantile Company here Fri¬ been torn off its hinges. With day night and robbed the safe the aid of a brace and bit and a of more than 50 watches valued “drive-dog” pick, both appar¬ at $2000 and nearly $500 in ently new ? , the robbers cracked ctsh. the safe open and then made The burglary had all the ear¬ off with thir loot. marks of a well-planned criiAe. j Both the pick and the auger The thieves made their way were found on the premises the into the rear of the store by following morning. Fingerprints ; breaking through two wooden were taken from them as part of i doors approximately two inches the investigation conducted by thick and cracked open the the GBI and local law enforce¬ safe in the store’s office. ment officers. The hasp on the inside of the i No suspects have been arrest¬ rear sliding door had been rip- 1 ed yet. Fair Group Meets; Names Committees The Dade County Fair Com¬ mittee met last Friday at the home of Cleron E. Kyzer to make plans for the annual fair. Tentative dates for the event were set for either Octo¬ ber 1 and 2 or Oct. 15 and 16. Committee members who at¬ tended the meeting enjoyed a delicious barbecued chicken supper prepared and served by j. c. Herman, renowned bar¬ becue chef. Trimmings for the hearty meal were prepared by I Mrs. Jim Morrison. Those present included J. M. (Tubby) Case, Jim Morrison, D. O. Chumley, E. M. Parker, Raymond Morrison, J. C. Billue, . reached a climax last Saturday | when some residents were with- out water for as long as 12 ihnnrs hours Mr. Dyer blamed the current drbught and the increased use of water for the dry faucets. He said that these two factors have made necessary a re-ad- justment of the amount of wa¬ ter pumped from the spring. Close observation will be' main- tained o n the pump when a shortage threatens to insure ‘ maximum utilization of the water at the source without de- it. __ Another much-needed im¬ provement recently accomp¬ lished is the resurfacing of part of the Lookout Mountain Road. Two and two-tenths miles of new black-top surfacing, from the top of the mountain down¬ ward, has taken care of rough spots caused by.washing and landslides. Surveying is now underway on [U. S. 11 with a view to repaving the road from Trenton north- [ ward to the Tennessee line. At | present it is uncertain when this project can be begun. Mr. Hale explained that the proposal will have to be reconsidered in the light of t h e engineers’ report before authority can be granted to proceed. He also expressed the hope that the resurfacing of the higthway southward to the Alabama line might be ac¬ complished later. particular way in which the the surface water drained off. Oil in Dade County? For thus reason, geologists have long suspected that valley contains oil or gas de- posits. The discovery of while drilling for water on the J.C. Wallen place at Wildwood has touched off new speculation as to the possibility of producing gas o r oil here commercially, Little is known of any subse- quent developments, but it is safe to say that the prospects are not being neglected Once a geologist locates a n which appears to be favor¬ able, permission must be ob¬ tained from landowners to carry out a more intensive search. Now geophysics enter the pic¬ ture. This science makes it pos¬ sible to detect subsurface forma- tions. With the gravimeter, the geophysicist can measure the difference in the earth’s grav- ity from place to place, caused by the differences in the dens¬ ity of subsurface formations. Another aid is the flying mag- NUMBER 29 Dudley Cureton, H. E. Gross, W. G. (Zeke) Morrison, W. L. Fannin, Cleron Kyzer, J. C. Herman, T. S. Renfroe and L. C. Adams. The following sub-committees were appointed: Advertising: J. C. Herman, E. M. Parker, W. L. Fannin and Walt Smith. Catalog: L. C. Adams, T. 6. Renfroe, and Cleron Kyzer. Entertainment: Col. D. E. Morrison, W G. Morrison and J. C. Herman. Parade and School Exhibits: J. C. Billue, D. O. Chumley, L. C. McHughes, Premon A. Hall and J. T. Childress. Commercial Exhibits: J. M. Case, H. E. Gross and Ray¬ mond Morrison. Community Exhibits: Miss Naomi Hubble and L. C. Adams. Farm Exhibits: W. L. Fan¬ nin and others to be appointed. Arrangements: Jim Morrison, Dudley Cureton and W. C. Morrison. Awards: L. C. Adams, J. T. Childress and D. E. Morrison. Dade 4-H Council Names State Delegates Delegates to the State 4-H Council meeting were elected here Tuesday at the regular meeting of the County Council. The state meet will be held in Athens in August. Girls elected were Jean Craig and Joy Carroll; first alternate, Ethel Marie Crane; second al¬ ternate, Sherry Morrison. Boys named as delegates were Terry Dickrson and Donald Atoms. Fred Slack and Donald Ellis were chosen first and second alternates, respectively. Jackie Wilson and Sam Kenimer were elected as return delegates. The alternates will attend the meeting in case the delegates cannot go. The council voted to purchase six 4-H Club welcome signs to be placed at each of the high¬ way entrances into the county. The group also made plans for the county-wide tour tp inspect the projects of various mem¬ bers. The tour, .scheduled for August 20, will be followed by !a picnic. — mometer. Trailed by a cable c: Trom a surveying plane, it re- cords the varying magrietice intensities of the earth over a area, providing the geo¬ psysicist with further clues, The seismograph, originally developed to record earth- quakes, is also -widely used in oil .prospecting. A charge of dynamite is set off in a small hole. The shock waves that re- suit will bounce off the rock formations below and are re- corded on instruments. The intensity of the impulses and the interval required for them to travel down and back give some evidence of the earth’s structure underneath the sur¬ face. Even with all these highly technical aids, the business of drilling for oil is still a gamble, Bult under the American sys- tem of free enterprise and [competition, the reward for '“striking it rich” are great en ough to make the gamble worthwhile, or at least, at¬ tractive .
