Dade County's Only Newspaper.
VOLUME LV
STATEP ™ CAL
DIGEST
The Georgia Genera, Axsem-:
bly ends its forty-day 1955 ses-
S icn amid a general attitude of
harmony and lack of political
feu'ing. This of course may be
due to the influence which any
r -v governor exercises over the
first session cf his administia-
t; 0 n, but even considering this,
there was an unaccustomed:
sweetness.
These are the highlights |
the final week:
1 The State Turnpike Au-
thrrity, which was set up a
year ago to build toll roads in
Georgia has been abolished by
te General Assembly. This was
one of the Governors campaign ^
plcdges. j
2. The bill of Senator Park-;
er of Milledgeville, to require
that State employees be paid
overtime for more that a forty
heur week is not likely to get;
ut of committee. Opposition to
it come from all sides, and As¬
sistant Welfare Director Phil
Cawthon says that it would cost
the State over a milion dollars
a year at Milledgeville State
Hospital alone.
3 The Home passed a bill
.
that would allow counties to tax
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state- , |
branch banks of large
wide banks on the basis of the
pveportien of business done in
that county. At present, these
branches pay only real-estate
4. The Senate passed a
luticn endorsing the Bricker,
amendment to the Federal
Constitution. Ttio cimondTnont •
would limit the powers of the 1
Pre ident to make tieaties and
agreements with foreign gov-
ernments.
5. The highly controversial
bill to regulate small loan czm-
panics w;is approved by
Senate Finance Committee. The
bill went to the floor of the
Senate this week.
Dade Cagers Lose
Both the hoys’ and girls’
teams of Dade High suffered
defeats Wednesday night at the
hands of strong rivals.
The girls’ team was playing
their first game in the district
basketball tournament, where
they were defeated by the
Chickamauea team. 45-23. Al-
though the defeat means that
the team will not be playing
anv inn’p o-o.mpc in tho tnnrm-
ment. , they , w.ll ... play . the . rh Chat- .
tanoega Valley team tonight in
a non-tournament game
The boys team was defeated t J
by Dunlap School, 80-56. Ever.
though the score was somewhat
one-sided, Mr. Delmas Freeman,
basketball coach, said the game
was not, for in three guarters
’ . tne game, the score was very
close and it looked as of Dade
would win.
f’AiTirn"' c LLfcD MPFTTOr MEfeiiiNG
Called Meeting for Trenton
Lodge No. 179 Friday, February
18 at 7:30 P. M. Work in Mas-
ter’s Degree. All qualified Ma-
sens invited to attend.
Claude O. Ellison, W. M.
James M. Rogers, SecyT
4-H Awards Deserved to Dade Farm Youths
Dade Countains sholud be
very proud of the nearly fifty
4-H club members who received
medals and awards presented
to them at the Farm Bureau
meeting last Friday. A lot of
hard work and recerd keeping
was behind this final public re¬
cognition.
There are over 400 4-H Club
members in the county divided
into six clubs, (one in each
school) and a senior club at
Rising Fawn. Each member has
one or more projects which they
work on during the year and a
few carry as many as ten.
There are 29 different projects
available to them.
The members work on these
prcjects through the year and
keep their records. They are as¬
sisted in this by their parents,
their local leaders, the Exten¬
sion Office and their 4-H Ad¬
Farm Bureau and Co-op
^Si'S To RCCeiVC SOCHI SfCuHtj
Seif-employed farmers are in-
eluded under Social Security
old Age and Survivors Insur-
ance for the first time in his-
tory, Louis R. Stein, Jr., t:ld
his audience at the annual
meeting of the Farm Bureau
here Friday,
Mr. Stein, the district mana-
of the Chattanooga Social ____ j t
ecur ffy fj e ] d office, said that
under the new law, farmers who j
earn as much as $400 a year
income from self-employment
make payments which will pro-
vide coverage upon their death
or a ^ reaching age 65.
p a rm workers who are paid as
much as $100 in a year in wages
are a f so be included, Mr.
gj. ein t 0 i d t be g r 0 U p. Coverage
^ based u pcn quarters (three
mon ths) of the calendar year,
be said The s e 1 f - employed,
farm operator who earns the
required $400 in a year gets
four quarters cf coverage. The
farm worker gets quarter 1
one
of coverage for each $100 he
earns in a year. As soon as I
either has six quarters of cover-
age to his credit for which pay-
ment has been made, he is
gibi e to receive benefits.
The amoun (- 0 f benefits pay-
ab i e> be explained, is not based
upon length of COV erage, but
upon average monthly income.
Mr. Stein stressed that persons
who have already reached 65
can st benefits i d become if they eligible fulfill to the! re- j
^g^uircniGnts.
Self Employed Farmers
d j S £ r j c j. mana g e r explain-
se if. emp ] : y ed fanners
can make payments on all or
an y par f 0 f fheir income, in-
’ ud income. The
c f f n g gross
amount of their income they
pay on wd [ d e t e r mine how j
wd j rece ive later
benefits, he pointed out.
Mr. Stein in cne of two
meeting, held in
the courthouse Trentbh
Steve Hughes, representative of
the Cotton States Mutual In-
Co., explained to the
audience of farmers, homeni.,k- ^
ers andl 4 ~ H 'ers the insurance
protection available to Farm
Bureau members at rate savings.
Patrons of the Farm Bureau
-ho Presen them 1955 member
*lp ^ c ° tton
States Mutual agent may re-
ceive ^ a lO'/f savings S on their
premlnm s , = r Iire .
windstorm and automobile in-
surance, he said. The Dade-
Walker agen t ) Harold Stephens
Kensington, ....... . ..... was ____ introduced
, . speaker . Mr. Stephens is
^ president of the Walker
oimty cbap t e i of the Farm
‘ i
Bureau
crop H hail insurance may be
written a t a 5% discount f:r
Farm Bureau members, added
Mr. Hughes. A discount is avail-
able after the first yeari too.
upon presenting his current
Farm Bureau membership to
the agent, the member may
ceive a 5% savings on his re-
newal premiums.
R. C. Thomas presides
The Farm Bureau meeting
visors. Because too many have
been lax in taking cn the job
as advisor, this work has fallen
in too many cases on the .’chcol
teachers. Much credit must be
given to the principals of each
school and to the teacehrs who
have worked with the 4-H’ers
I explaining how to keep the re¬
cords and giving much cf their
time in assisting the club mem¬
ber with his or her record book.
Record Books
Record bcoks are extremely
important and count 40G when
a mamber is being judged on
his project. Though a 4-H'er
1 has selected cne main project
; for the year and is competing
' in that one, the record of the
work accomplished on other
projects adds to his or her final
grade. There are 4-H club scho¬
larships available to the Uni¬
versity of Georgia to the mem-
bes and their eligibility is based
on their record books.
These record bcoks not only
contain when the project was
started, materials used and their
price, progress on the work
and final outcome but such
other things as offices held in
local clubs, trips taken to a
district or state meeting, con¬
tests entered and the result, and
publicity he or she receives,
I newspaper clippings and ether
events.
4-H’ers in Dade County en¬
tered 17 of the different pro¬
jects open to them and several
won an award in more than one
project. Medals are donated by
national business concerns and
awards are from the State Ex¬
tension service.
Winners
Rex Blevins, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Allison Blevins won four
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
mt uA«t uutNn uivu,^, ikknton, ueokola imliksoav, February 17, 1955
was presided over by R. C.l
Thomas, its president. Rev. J.
M. Ball, pastor of the Rising
Fawn Methodist church, opened
the meeting with a devotional
dence talk, stressing God our fer dual spiritual depen- j
on our
welfare and on the soil to satis-
fy our physical needs.
A considerable number at- 1
tended the morning meeting,
despite 20 - degree weather and
flurries which made some
reads icy and dangerous. They
heard a detailed report of 4-H
activities from the county coun-
president Sam Kenimer and
from officers of the six Dade
Clubs.
4-H Club reports !
Sam introduced the presi-
dents cf these clubs, the first
being Larry Konrad, head of
the Rising Fawn Junior 4-H ■
Cub. He led the group in the
club pledge and other members
explained the meaning of 4-H
symbolism and ideals which in-
eluded the 4-H creed and the
country boy and country girl
creed. Gene Henderson sang a
solo accompanied by Terry
Sue McMahan, the president
introduced next, listed the ac-
complishments of the Rising
.
Fawn senior club and Alfred
Barnes, president of the New
Salem club told hew their club
won a cash prize for community
improvement.
T he Trenton 4-H Club, whose
was Shirley Keel,
featured a tribute to Thomas
a. Edison in observance of his
birthday. For entertainment,
the Trenton club presented
Terry Dickerson who played
the guitar as he sang three
The Davis Club’s president,
Ellis, introduced Linda
Ballard who spoke on the
meaning oM-H^Two girls pre.-
‘^Bir 1 1
treating a coun.
try lass. North Dade s vice-
president Duke Doubleday in-
trodueec twe ve cu m
all boy-.—w sang 02 e
gioi.p.
Election of Officers
After the 4-H program, arm
Bureau business was taken up
with election of officers first
order of busmess. Farm Bureau
Ptes.dents go up a step
each year so cnly a second vice
president and secretary-trea-
s „ re r were to be voted en. Otis
York was elected second vice
president and Mrs. Virginia
Konrad secretary-treasurer. R.
q _ Thomas ................ is the r president ________ this
year and W. L. Simpson is first
vice president.
w L F annin retiring ^ p-esi-
dent urged cotton grow s w ho
are no t planning to plant their
entire cotton allotment to re-
lease it by April 15 so that the
county would not lose its cot-
ton acreage permanently
col. D. E. Morrison gave a
of the state Farm Bu-
Convention in Augusta.
He paid high tribute _______ to — the ____
state president Hugh Wingate
and the work he has done for
Georgia Farmers.
prizes this year; Russell Ble¬
vins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Blevins and Larry Moore, son
cf Mr. and Mrs. Leon Mcore,
won three apiece; Jerry Price,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hardee
Price, Alfred Barnes, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Barnes, Ar¬
chie Stephens, son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. H. Stephens, Billy and
Larry Konrad, sons of Mr. and
Mrs. W. G. Konrad, and Le-
gatha Gray, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Scott Gray won two
apiece.
Awards went to:
4-H STEER PROJECT
Rex and Russell Blevins, John
Gray, son of the W. H. Grays,
Tommy Lawson, sen of the Ab
Lawsons, Johnnie Massey, sen
of the Wesley Masseys, Garry
and Larry Moore, sons of the
Leon Moores, Jerry Price, Jackie
Tinker, son of the Brady
Members Assemble Here
Conservation Stressed At Co-op Meet
The annual Farmers’ Co-op
meeting was held on the after-
neon of February 11..Mr. Frank
t. Denham, Soil Conservation
Representative from Atlanta,
was the (principal speaker. He
stressed the need for soil and
wa ter conservation citing how
tremendous growth in pop-
ulation has made the need to
conserve our resources for food
and clothing for all these peo-
pie all the more necessary.
>r be u s Soil Conservation
service ^ he said, was organized
1Y ye s ag0 and ^ av -iiable to
all farmers. He told of various
wa ys the program worked one
which for the farmer to con-
tact his Soil Conservation tech-
nician who would draw' plan
0 f d is farm and suggest how
areas and soil could be used to
increase productivity. productivity.
Mr. Denham spoke of the new
Federal Watershed Protection
and Flocd Prevention A'ri
which makes available funds to
finance protection against
fi c . cds a . nc i help check soil ere-
sion projects of this sort have
been in existence for years for
large waterways but the small
watershed problem, such as
we have in Dade County has
been neglected. He said he was
p i eased that Dade County citi-
had , a i re ady taken advant-
age td is new Act, organized,
followed the rules and regula-
tions necessary for applying for
funds and that Dade’s applica-
tion was now in the act of be-
ing processed.
Business meeting
W. H. Pullen, chairman cf
the Boaid of Directors, con
ducted the business meeting,
The Financial Report was given
Telephone Survey
Surveying for the Trenton
Gomsany is nearing
compltt icn All the cMt ‘line I
agnrejm have been completed
but engineers are still
working on the open lines be-
0nd t he cable. The Telephone
Company reports that people
havg bgen most cooper ative in
grantin right-of-ways Cor the
^ ““ * Fawn
™ th?
t0 me James 1 McMahans
Open lines will run t t
bama line, around and about m
the Cave Springs and o nsons
Crook area and north to meet
the Trenton lines,
Cable lines in Trenton will
run from about the Castleberry
Garage in New England to the
Harvey Bradfords in the Union
community to the south; from
Trenton u:p Sand Mountain to
the Fire Tower where it will
branch with one cable going to
the Davis High School and the
ether south on the Brow Road
to about Simmon’s Store and
from Trenton up Burkhalter
Gap on Lookout Mountain to
about the Ike Moore's heme,
From these main cables open
lines will be run into many
communities. When all these
Tinkers, Archie Stephens, and
Paul Wallin, son cf the Sher¬
man Wallins.
4-H POULTRY CHAIN
Edna and Lamar Abbott, son
and daughter of Mrs. Tempia
Abott, Buddy Drew, son of Mrs.
Lily Mae Drew, Ronnie Fuller,
son of the R. E. Fullers, Sam-
mie Henegar, son of the Guy
Hengars and Ila Tishaw, daugh¬
ter cf Mrs. Mary Etta Tishaw
4-H CORN CONTESTANTS
Russell Blevins, who also won
a check for $25.00 from the
Farm Bureau for having the
highest yield in the county;
Rex Blevins, who also won a
heck for $10.00 from the Farm
Bureau for third place winner
in the county; Alfred Barnes,
Elmer Harris, sen of the J. V.
Harris, Farris and Tommy
Hawkins, sens of the Carl
Hawkins, Jerry Hughs, son of
and discussed at great length.
The Cc-op showed a gain of ,
$14.00 in business volume over!
the p- evious year but no 1947
Revolving Fund Qertificates!
were paid off because of the
large amount of accounts more J
^han 60 days due.
Three directors were chosen
c or a twe year term and were
Hardie Pice, Otis York and
c 1. D. E. Mo-rison. Directors
v’ c» e terms d: not expire un- j
r next J F y« are and W. Allison H. Pullen, Ble- j
T ' nn ’
vims.
The Dade County High School
hhe Club and Quartet sang six
r her fer the almost 100
'arme s and their families who ,
were present. The Club is .un-
(hr toe dreetkm of Mr. Delk
a^d t v ° member- sang with a
top * 1 recording accompaniment. ,
D' or prizes were 14 bags cf j
fee J , eight of which were
atod bv the Cotton Producers
c lotion in Atlanta from
"' v, om f h- Co-on purchases feed
and the rest by the Co-op.
Co-op L-mcheon hosts
Luncheon was served to the
group at the Cannery. On the
menu were baked ham, candied
potatoes, slaw, pies and plenty
of hot oefee. Hams were cook-
ed and donated by Mesdames
m. J. Hale, J A. Case, W. E.
Page, W. G. Morrison Sr„ M.
R. Wilson, the Misses
Cureton, Belle Reeves ana Mrs.
Kate Hubble. j
The ladies who helped with
the serving were Mesdames L.
C. Adams, W. L. Simpson, W. |
P Mo-rtor>. J.
is n ., •
and the Mi ses Naomi Huhble Hubble,
Belle Reeves and Bess Cureton.
Near Compelelion
surveys have been
the j* of erecting the lines
” B^we're’op 1 ened“February 14
^ ^ tm d , a , 5 Witchboar d s ,:
cne of which wiU be in Tren-
ton and t he other in Rising
Fawn. The Telephone Company
has accepted the bid of the
stromberg Carlson Company
and this has been forwarded to
r.E.A. for approval. It takes
about ten months fcr delivery:
0 , the
Virgil A. Hartley .
Joins Times Staff j
Virgil A. Hartley joined The
Times staff this week and will
be replacing his brother Fred
Hartley who has left us to work
on The Atlanta Journal.
Mr. Hartley received his de-
gr6e in Journalism and English
a t Emory University in Atlanta
in 1954 He has worked with
advertising and printing cen-
cerns and comes to up from
Atlanta. !
His wife will not join him here
at present as she holds a degree
in Nursing and is a registered
nurse woiking in an Atlanta
I
the Alfred Hughs, Billy and
Larry Konrad, Larry Moore, So
Ion and Erby Parsley, son of
the Walter Parsleys, and Archie
Stephens.
Medals went to:
DRESS REVUE — Legatha
Gray, and Doris Forester,
daughter of the Hugh Foresters
ENTOMOLOGY — Jack Stal-
lings, s:n of the E .A. Stallings.)
FIELD CROPS — Rex and
Rus c ell Blevins. J
FOOD PREPARATION — Bes-
sie Moore, daughter of the Ed-
gar Moores.
FORESTRY — Larry Konrad,
GIRLS’ RECORD — Jackie
Wilson, daughter of the M. L.
Wilsons. 1
HOME IMPROVEMENT—Jean
Craig, daughter of the W. P.
Craigs and Sue McMahans,
daughter of the D. A. McMa-
hans. f
Published Weekly—Since 1901
Pe * i n Filed For Bank ,n Trenton
petition has been filed with
the Secretary of State cf Oeor-
gia seeking the incorporation
of a bank ln Trenton, to be
called the Bank of Dade.
The petition was signed by
Trenton businessmen,
including D. T. Brown, A. W.
Peck, W. W. Williams, M. J.
Hale, H. E. Gross, A. L. Dyer,
James C. Case R. M. Morrison,
and ^ Townsend of Wild-
wocd - In addition to these, the
petition, was signed by H. G.
Vandivere of Canton, Ga., and
George H. Harrison of Rock-
maid » Ga.
The bank, if formed, would
located in Trenton and would
on all the usual business
a bank > including the func-
t * ons deposits, loans and
mortgage. The plan is to in-
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A special service will be held
Saturday, February 28, at
the Morganville Methodist
Church to dedicate the new
prsonage and burn the mort-
gage thereon. Following the
service, there will be a basket
luncheon served in the base-
ment of the church.
Special guests at the service
will include Bishop Short, Dis-
trict Superintendent E. D. Wor-
ley, and Rev. Evans of
c hie, former pastor cf the church
Also invited to be present is
ev . Maurice Phillips,
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flvine
Friday night
^ een of the Knoxvibe b
^ on Friday?
Mr. Grady Prince, o f
Community, said that at
Friday night, he heard the
0 f a low-flying pioh
, phm ran e out on ln
said'the'pl‘an“ Hew 'orer
, lonse lt Prince'felt „ altltude s0
tha t M r. the
wasb f rom the engine.
n i g ht was so dark and
see the plane at any
that he was not able to
Thinking the plane would
in the wocdlot behind his house
Bookmobile Present Tour of Dade County
The Bookmobile was traveling
in Dade County last week. It
all the schools and has
many other book depositories,
where it stops throughout
the conuty. They try to carry
books of interest to all but if
there is a certain book you
would like to read, drop a line
to the Cherokee Regional Lib-
rary in LaEayette, Georgia, and
the Bookmobile ladies will bring
it on their next trip.
The schedule for the next
three months wil be:
Tuesday—March 15, April 19,
May 24.
New Salem School.
Homes in that School. c-mmunity. j
Rising Fawn j
Homes in the south end cf 1
NUMBER 5
corporate
s tock selling at $45.00 each,
Qne of the cut . 0 f. town sign .
ef3 cf thg petitioni G eor g e h.
Harrison * ' is a personal friend
01 laimadge Tucker, Dade
County Farm Home Adminis-
tration Agent. Mr. Tucker said
in an interview with a Times
reporter that he had known
Harrison for approximately
fifteen years, and that for as
long as he had known him, he
had been a man of high cha-
r cter and integrity,
Mr. H rri on is presently a
bank inspector for the Federal
Insurance Corpora¬
tion. Previously, he was em-
by the Farm C.edit Ad-
ministration in the North Geor-
area.
former paster of the church
who now lives in Florida,
The parsonage was built
abcut three years ago, and dur-
ing the last year $3800 was
raised in a special drive to pay
off the mortgage. The church
wishes to thank all those who
in any way had any part in
helping to make the burning cf
mortgage pos ible at this
/.. 1
( The public is invited to atten
botb the service and the basket
Mr. Prince waited for the crash,
but the plane apparently rose
and the sound of its engine died
out in the vicinity of Back Val¬
ley. Later, Mr. Prince said he
heard a s i n gle-ongined plane
flying along the rim of Look¬
out Mountain. He could net tell
whether or not it was the same
plane.
The 18-year-old Knoxville bey
j ^ whose tween Knoxville plane disappeared and Chatta- be-
nooga Friday was on the first
leg of a flight to Atlanta. Mr.
Prince notified the Civil Air
Patrol and they are checking
the possibility that the plane
he heard was that of the Kncx-
1 ville youth.
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the county.
Rising Faiwn P. O. Bldg.
Wed. — March 16, April 20,
May 25.
Davis High School.
Several homes on the moun¬
tain .
Avans P. O. Bldg.
ThyTs. — March 17, April 21,
Maiy 26.
Da: ! e High School.
Several hemes.
Morrison’s Store.
Friday — March 18, April 22,
May 27.
North Dade School,
Hooker School.
Homes in the north end of
county.
Brcwns Store.
Townsend s Store.
LEADERSHIP—Alfred Barnes.
MEAT ANIMAL — Jerry Price
and Rex Blevins.
POULTRY — Virginia McMa¬
han, daughter of the D. A. Me
Mahans, Johnny Champion, son
of the John Hales, Gary Brock,
son of Mrs. Lucy Brock and
Edward Reece, son of the Alton
Reeces,
SOIL AND WATER — Larry
Moore and Billy Konrad.
ACHIEVEMENT — Marie
Crane, daughter of the Howard
Cranes, Dcnald Avans, son of
Charles Avans, Terry Dick-
erson, son of the Ewell Dicker-
sons and Joy Carroll, daughter
of the A. J. Carrolls.
BREAD — Norma Jean Gray,
daughter of the Woodrow Grays.
CLOTHING — Legatha Gray.
Congradulations to all these
4-H members. They deserve a
let of praise.
