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Da de County’s Only Newspaper.
VOLUME LV
% 53 s
SuW an article the ether day
ich had been reprinted from
! ‘ nch. a British humor London. maga- The
ne published in
0 was entitled “Telephones
d Hiccups” and was concern¬
ed with a relationship England which be-
ums to exist in
ween using the telephone and
•
h vT.g the hiccups.
None of the folks over there
in England seemed to knew
jus t what the tie in between
the two was, but they thought
t at it had been established
that at the same time during
the year when use of the tele¬
phone was the heaviest, more
people had the hiccups. The
article went on to say that the
Ministry of Health had warned
young iadies of the risks which
W u!d occur to them if they
continued to use the phone at
? am' rate a' they had been
-roomed. One of the things
■h made the study of the
•on'hip more interesting
the discovery that hiccups
- ’ tp to much more pre-
ar.t among women than
- men There is definitely
otoing here.
’» the Ministery of Health
-> -o,f t j: prove that there was
- ily anything to the theory,
H py had without a doubt est-
■that there is a rela-
♦tonslrp between indulging in
atooholto beverages and hic-
curr There was none who
would go so far as tc say that
this is not true. One of the
mere interesting theories which
-eople use the telephone more
the article put forth was that
v en they a ,v e drunk. Sounds
as if this might be the explan¬
ation.
I’m inclined to discount the
whole thing, but I do think
there is something about the
telephone which we have not
been able to see in the short
time they have been in general
use.
Of course the whole article is
a farce, and the author is just
pulling the legs of al the read¬
ers Telephoning does not
cause hiccups. The research I’ve
been doing points without a
doubt that it causes indiges¬
tion..
Frost Kills Fruit
According to L. C. Adams,
the hard freeze >of last weekend
was widely destructive to trees
and plants throughout the coun
ty, especially to those fruit trees
which had already put out
blossoms.
Reports from farmers in the
county indicate that the peach
crop is all but virtually destroy¬
ed Seme have reported that
net only did the cold kill the
blcssoms, but many young
peach trees will be ruined as
well.
Pasture grasses seemed to be
not as hard hit as the fruit
trees, although Mr. Adams ex¬
pressed the opinion that- al-
phalfa would probably suffer.
In addition to trees, those
who have planted gardens re¬
port that any plants which
were out of the gr:und were se¬
verely damaged.
Growth Reflects Great Throughout South
In a report recently m. prepared .
and printed in the Progressive
Farmer Magazine were revealed
some of the more important
facts In the recent growth of
fhe South. Since the end of the
second World War, amazing
fhings have been going on in
the South, and one of the most
significant is the growth in the
Population and the different
patterns which t h e people of
The report published in the
been reflected in the
Court And Grand Have Week
Last week’s session of
rior Court was highlighted by a
number of criminal cases and
a week’s hard work by the
grand jury. Although the
vities of court were fast-moving
and cases were disposed of in
relatively short time, there
a great deal of work still-to be
done when the court adjourned
on Friday. Judge John W. Da-
vis stated that he thought
woud be necessary to hold an-
ether session to get the court
calendar up to date. The Judge
will be in Trenton again thus
Friday for the purpose o.f draw¬
ing new juries.
The grand jury, with Robert
Forester as foreman and J. M.
Carroll as clerk, found a num-
ber of true bills and a smaller
number of no bills. In addition,
the grand jury examined
books of the offices of the
county and the public build-
ings. Recommendatios were
made in their
which appear in anctfter
of this paper.
The following true bills were
found:
TRUE BILLS
Charles Whited — passing a
school bus.
Lester Holmes — public
drunkenness.
Joe M. Raulstcn — public
drunkenness.
Lewis McKinney — public
drunkenness.
James Edward Fulmer —pub¬
lic drunkenness.
C. W. Whitlock — public
drunkenness.
Homer Lee McClendon— pub¬
lic drunkenness.
Asa Long — abandonment.
Hugh James Jones — public
drunkenness.
Will Cole — public drunken¬
ness.
Teddy Hugh Powell — public
drunkenness.
Willard Barnett — drunk at
private residence.
Charles J. Costner — driving
on left of roadway.
Van Red Fortner — assault
and battery.
Clyde Puckett — carrying a
pistol. Critchfield—
Raymond Wilson
driving under influence of al¬
cohol.
Aubrey Proffitt driving
without a license.
Lonnie Ray Young seduc-
tion.
Joe A'hley possessing beer
jf or re sale.
Russell Thompson — larceny
(two indictments).
Russell Morgan — driving
while under influence of alco-
hoi.
Noah Palmer — driving while
under influence of alcohol.
Earl Ragon — possessing li-
quor.
Earl Ragon public drunk-
enness.
1 Clyde Stevens — burglary.
Clyde Puckett —public drunk-
j enness. shooting at
Clyde Puckett —
another.
Mamie Clay — disorderly
h ouse
Ernest Minor — public drunk-
rness
Clyde Puckett — burglary.
Earnest Goolsby — driving
without a license.
and . manner —_ in w v.- ic ^ «... e I
-
.
pie have live seen ^ the work. South R^en emerge years
fr:m the strictly agt.cu
w r ay of life which h d
them to the soil for many dec-
ades, and come into a new pros-
perity through diversified in-
dustry and new and improved
of farming.
Although the last fifteen
years have not seen the South
growing at a rate which match-
states has grown tremendously,
in Georgia.
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH 31, 1955
Charles J. Costner — speed-
ing.
Burrell Castleberry — speed-
ing.
Mick Palmer-^pufolic drunk-
tonness.
h. H. Strawn — driving while
influence of alcohol,
Teddy Powell — dumping
garbage.
j George Wilson — dumping
j Ma ^ ie clay _ Clbscene lan _
! guage
| R ussell Tho n manu-
facturing liquor
Robert Burns — murder.
J. C. Hicks — driving under
the influence of alcohol.
A. J. Clark — driving under
Influence of alcohol,
Floyd David on — driving un-
the influence of alcohol,
Winfred Mullins — larceny,
Earnest Goolsby — driving
while under the influence of
alcohol.
j oe Ashley —disorderly heus?
Alfred Paine — possessing H-
.q UOr
Easter Seal Drive
Crippled- children will be
the spotight when Georgia joins
the nation in setting aside
day to learn about and
m D et cippled children’s
Saturday, April 2.
The day before Palm
it will mark observance of
second National Crippled
ren’s D°y, sp'nsored in ccn-
junction with the annual East-
er Seal Appeal.
Georgia’s observance, spon-
sored by the Georgia Society
Crippled Children, the
Seal Agency, will be
by Lily Parades i n
cities, where lapel-sized
symbol of the Seal drive,
be sold by volunteers on
corners. Hundreds of
sters, too, will benefit
bunny hops and Easter
hunts to be held by
CONTRACT LET FOR SCHOOL BUILDING
According to a copy ;of a tele¬
jg j ram received County this School week Sup- by
Roy Moore,
.erintendent, the contract for
school building and repairs in
( Dade County has been cffieial-
My awarded to the lowest bidder.
, Bids were received on Febru-
'ary 23, 1955 by the State School
Building Authority for additions
and buildings at Davis High
School, Dade High School, North
Dade Elementary Schicol and
Hooker Colored School. There
will be a total of seven projects
to be completed in all.
The copy of the telegram
which Mr. Mccre received was
addressed to the Cherokee Con¬
struction Co. of Cleveland, Ten¬
nessee, and was signed by John
E. Sims, secretary of the State
School Building Authority. The
substance of the telegram was
that the contract had been of-
ficialiy awarded to the Cleve¬
hand company, and that the
estate had accepted its bid. The
telegram was dated March 23,
,1955. It is expected that con¬
Thp Tho hi. hia phnnw Phnntrp in in the the nonula-
tion nirtire in the South was
1 - p
£3
in-rease in the South, as a
matter c f fact, Georgia along
with six other Southern states
had a-tual decreases in its Neg-
ro population. This is in sharp
contrast with some of the other
states in the nation which in-
creased their Negro populations
of people In the South has been
It Is significant to see that 61
Lewis Sands — driving while
under influence of alcohol.
J:e F. Street — speeding.
Billy Daniel — public drunk-
enness.
The grand jury also found
the following to be no bills:
NO BILLS
C. L. Dickerson — wife beat¬
ing.
Garnett Waldrop — wife beat¬
ing.
Jane Rucks Rhudy — driving
on left side of road.
Dee Dawkins — public drunk¬
enness .
Robert Minor — larceny of an
automobile.
James Thomas Trexell — driv¬
ing while under influence of al¬
cohol .
Donald Ray Haggard — driv¬
ing without a license.
Johnnie E. Stevens — illegal
parking.
Ray Chambers — dumping
garbage.
Ralph Franklin Merrell — in¬
voluntary manslaughter.
Russell Morgan — driving
without a license.
and high school studento on
and befrre Crippled Children’s
7> ay.
Little more than a week re-
mains before the close of the
Seal drive o n Easter Sunday,
April 10. Seme 400,000 Geor-
f^ans received Seals in the
mails laH week,
Con.tr.buHons in D"de County
should be mailed or given to
Mr Maddox Hale, Treasurer,
acccrd.ng to L. C. Adams coun-
fy chairman of the drive.
“We do not seek only funds”,
Miss Mary Webb, executive di-
rector o f the society, said in
a n n o u n c ing the observance
date, “If Crippled Children’s
Day will help Georgians to
look at crippled children as
children, rather than handicao-
ped children, we will be a ma-
jor step ahead.’’
struction of the projects will
begin in about 30 day* from
the date o-f the teleg:am.
The bid of the Cherokee Con¬
struction Co. was $479,450 for
the entire job. This was the
lowest of the bids received.
Events Schedule
toop. w’ng is a schedule of
■"•ents to be followed by the
M nrt> Dade Etomentarv School:
April 7 — PTA meeting.
April 15—Negro Minstrel.
April 29—Field Day.
May 5—PTA Meeting.
May 20—Certification.
May 26, 27, 28 — Educational
Tour.
REHABILITATION DIRECTOR
Miss Bess Cureton, Dade Coun¬
ty Welfare Agent has an¬
nounced that Mr. J. Lamar
Jackson, Vocational Rehabili-
tation Counciler will be in
Trenton April 5, 1955 at 4 o’clock
P M.
of of those those moving moving out out of of
the South during the fpn-year
Negroes.
h that t - ok Dlace
South are some cf the most im-
portant. The number cf farms
in the South has been steadly
decreasing, larger.' and farms are grow-
ing It is interesting to
note that while the number of
farms was decreasing, the num-
ber of owners was increasing,
This, cf course, means that land
In the past. The number of
tenants cn farms decreased by
37 percent i n the period, and
the loss of labor was made up
with new and improved ma¬
chinery. Ownership of tractors
Franklin Walker public
drunkenness.
Henry Stevens wife beat-
Ing.
Edward Devries public
drunkenness.
J. O. Brcome false imipri-
sonment.
Russell Young fals"e im.pri-
senment.
H. E. Carver — abandonment,
George W Shipp failure to
grant right-of-way.
Julius Raines — shooting at
another.
F. W. Talley possessing li-
quor.
Roy Stephens -posse'-sing 11-
quer.
H. J. Cane — driving while
under influence of alcohol.
Disposition was made in the
following cases:
Carried over from last term
of court were the cases of Alvin
Ayers and David Koonce. Ayers
entered a plea of guilty on a
charge of possessing liquer and
was sentenced by tfie court to
pay a fine of $400. Koonce’s
case was nolle grossed.
Pleading guilty to charges of
public drunkenness were Lester
Holmes, fined $35, Joe M. Rauls-
ton, fined $35, Lewis McKinney,
fined $35, James Edward Ful¬
mer, fined $60, C. W. Whitlcck,
P lr.ed $35, Homer McClendon,
fine! $35, Will Cole, sentenced
tc pay $35 or spend 30 days in
jail. Willard Barnett entered a
plea of guilty to a charge of
being drunk at a private resi¬
dence and was sentenced to 35
days.
Asa L^nq pleaded guilty to a
charge of abandonment, but
his sentence was deferred.
Van Fortner pleaded guilty to
a charge of assault ancl battery
and was fined $50 and plafed
(,n probation fer rive months^
charge against Joe Ash
toy for operating a disorderly
bcu'-e was nolle prossed.
Earl R-’g'n pleaded guilty to
i-harees of being ‘publicly drunk
and possessing whiskey. He was
"■••nod $*0 an' 1 $35 cn the two
^Ctode r puckett ey was found
guilty by jury for carrying a pis¬
tol and for burglary, and was
sentenced to spend 12 month in
! the public works camp on each
charge, the sentences to run
„ n'" , rrpntly. The Judge
tor^d a mistrial on the
public drunkenness
sheeting at another.
; Toe Ashley was found guilty
! v>y jury on a charge of poshes-
! rr h°er for resale and was
fin^d $750 and placed on pro-
button tor a year.
Rtnssll Thompson was found
cmjtv bv jury cn one charge of
lar-eny and not guilty on an¬
other charge. The trial for ma¬
rntocturing liquor was declared
a mi-trial bv the Judge. Thomp¬
son was sentenced to 12 months
in the public works camp on the
charge of larceny.
H H. Strawn was found not
guilty cf driving under influence
of qloo'aol.
Earnest Goolsby was
orpty by jury of driving under
influence cf alcohol and was
sentenced to 15 days,
Afred Paine was found guilty
of possessing liquer and
I sentenced to 3 months.
and and other other farm farm machinery macninery has nas
been increasing at an amazing
I rate in the South.
i The growth in the South has
Part centfeh in
an-’ around the cities. Urban
p pulation increased faster in
the S:uth than in any other
region.
A factor in the Southern pic-
ture which is strongly reflected
in Dade County is the increase
in “part-time farming.” These
-re torms on which the owners
farming and part of the time
! n another j b, u-ually in a city
industry. More than half cf the
nations “part-time farms” are
! jn t>)0 south.
Finally, it can be seen that
the South n o longer depends
Published Weekly—Since 1901
S i T ® s
T
oratory from the Experiment
Station in Blairsville will be in
Trenton Wednesday, April 6, it
| was announced by L. C. Adams,
Coutoy Agent this week.
I Mr. A ’ams urges all Dade
age .County farm rs to take advant¬
of the soil-testing labora-
jto’y ice is if at all p ssible. The serv¬
fr. e, and Mr. Adams says
that if the advice of the soil
technicians is followed, a farm-
'er could save a great deal of
j money profitable and possibly and abundant produce
imore
'crors.
Samples should be brought
to the laboratory on the day
when the t v uck will be fn Tren-
ton, and the technicians will
make recommendattons as to
cr °P t; ^c 136 tolanted in a cor-
it" in soil, fertilizer to be use'*,
etc., rn the basis cf the tests,
Mr. Adams states that m
addition to bettor production,
the recomendations of the soil
Available i
T .ree college scholarships in
es j /I .y j e ach carrying a grant
up to $1,000 yearly, are being
offered this year to young
Georgians by Union Bag & Pa¬
per Corporation, it is announced
by J. J. Armstrong, manager
of the company’s Woodlands
Division.
The scholarships will be re¬
newable each year for four
years if satisfactory scholastic
work is maintained, Union Bag
officials say, and winners of the
awards may choose any accre¬
dit d forestry school in the
eastern half of the United
States, subject to the approval
of the company’s Awards Com¬
mittee
To be eligible a candidate for
the scholarships must be a
graduate of an accredited high
school.
He must be a legal resident
of Georgia, and “be vitally in-
torcsted In pursuing the pro¬
fession of forestry as a career
He must be outstanding in
scholastic work and have
| Plan For Family
The Georgia Council
with headquarters in
Atlanta, through its Divtoion of
Christian Education, under
J chairmanship Gilmore, of Executive the Rev. Sec- Ar-
thur L.
! retary of the Board of Christian
Education of the North Georgia
Conference of the Methodist
tChurch, has set forth the fol-
towing six suggestions for the
observance of the Easter sea-
son:
“l. Read a good book
chare it with your family (a
commended list is available
without cost by sending a re¬
quest to Rev. Edw. A.
Executive Secretary, 63
Ave., N. E. Atlanta.)
2. Have some
i with growing things by
children a package of
cr a plant and help them
[for and appreciate these.
3. Attend church and
j day School as a family on Eas
and make this a
I practice.
entirely enureiy upon ui?vu agriculture agncmiwc for its
living. While Its fields and for-
e t are still its most valuable
asset, the South has learned
to utiiice the p,.« nets tor
ts own prosperity. Every work-
! ng day in the South, there is a
”ew industrial plant ratoed
j snm wher° in the region. In the
“ear of 1951, there was over
biHinn dollars spent on new
'nduetrial plants and equip-
-rent. Ttos industrial expansion
M *h“ heartbeat cf the South
It is not hard for us to see
the char^p that has been made
In the South during the pa t
few years, and it is not muto !
toatopr f o* us to look into the
future and see what it holds
for the area. I
NUMBER 11
helpful in receiving ASC as-
sistance
Samples of soil should be
taken from earh field of the
farm so that different areas of
the soils can be tested. It is
helpful to estimate the different
kinds of soil and the places in
which they lie for taking the
sample. For example, .separate
samples should be “'taken from
Sloping land, bottom land, up-
land, etc.
I The .proper method of taking
!through 'samples is to dig a V-shaped
to about plow depth,
and slice off the sample along
the siles of the trough from
'surface to bottom of hole. Soil
should be placed in a clean
bucket asd the sample num-
bered. Samples from the same
field should be mixed and made
ja soil part from of different the same fields sample, should but
be kent separate and numbered
.differently.
jticJicated in extracurricular act-
. ivities.
Two of the three grants wlil
be awarded to FFA members
and/or 4 H Club members, It is
stated, provided these ap¬
plicants meet the Awards Com¬
mittee’s requirements. The
awa:ds will be made irres¬
pective of the youth group to
which the applicant belongs.
The third scholarship will go
to a Georgia resident with 4-H
of FFA membership not a re¬
quisite for application.
Each grant will provide $600,
plus the cost of tuition, regis¬
tration, and matriculation fees,
but the total cannot exceed
$1,000 annually.
Applications should be sub¬
mitted on or before May 15 to
W. J. Bridges, Jr., chairman,
Forestry Scholarship Awards
Committee, Woodlands Divi¬
sion, Union Bag & Paper Corp.,
Savannah, Georgia. Application
bla nks and further information
be furnished on request.
Easter Observance
4, Put the major emphasis
of Easter day upon the renewal
| cf mind and spirit rather than
the wardrobe,
j making 5. Share family with visit others to el- bv
a an
derly or shut-in per-on cn
Easter afternoon, and take a
little token of your love
6. Read the Bible and have
family prayers In your home on
Easter and make family worship
a regular part of everyday life.
SOFTBALL MEETING CALLED
Anyone interested in playing
softball this season should at¬
tend a meeting to be held to
organize the teams, according
to Zeke Morrison.
The meeting will be held in
the lunch reem of the Dade
High School on April 4, 1955 at
7:30 p. m. Mr. Morrison urges
any who will to come and at¬
tend the meeting. He says that
there is a spot on the teams for
men of all ages, young, middle-
aged, and cider.
f**«*^<* t that the
along with the rest of
nation, will continue to
grow and new markets will be
tor the prohucU 0 , its
and factories. Per capita
is expected to rise in
Southern states to a level
is above the national aver-
age. In addition to the already
textile indus-try in the
South, the chemical industry is
expected to center here. Indus-
trially speaking, it is important
avoid the overcrowding that
occurred in the industrial
Any way that you look at the
the prospect is good
bright for the South and
