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Dade County's
VOLUME LV
DALLY IN' IN DADE
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Smith
Featured T. V.
Many residents o f the area
were pleasantly surprised
Wednesday after turning on
their television sets to see a lo¬
cal couple telling the story of
their hardships in raising and
sending ten children through
school.
They were Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Smith of Pisgah, Ala., who were
guests on the nationally tele
vised “Love Story” program,
formerly known as “Welcome
Travelers.’*
The Smiths left the Chatta¬
nooga airport for New York Ci¬
ty the day before their appear¬
ance on the program Wednes¬
day and were back heme in
time to watch the next program
on Thursday. “It was a won
derful experience,” Mrs. Smith
happily stated when we inter¬
viewed the lucky couple the
following day.
Given Useful Prizes
We consider them “lucky”
since they were awarded a
freezer, sewing machine, nice
set of china, and a silver tea
service. The sponsors of the
“Love Story” program also pro¬
vided them with $487 in cash,
which included their traveling
and hotel expenses.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith are cer¬
tainly due some tribute for
sending nine of their ten chil¬
dren through college. Through
the efforts cf their youngest
daughter, millions of television
viewers were ahle to hear the
story of their tremendous devo¬
tion to their children.
It was this youngest daughter,
Mrs. Nell Johnson of Camden,
Tenn., who was the only one
who didn’t have a college de¬
gree to frame and hang on the
wall. The reason for this is
that two months following her
high school grad uation, sne
married and settled down to a
career as housewife.
Determination Plus Hard Work
The Smiths have always been
farmers, tending eighty
during the time their
were growing up, and now
ing a little cct*on, corn and
and other produce on
twenty. Like many other
families, their pecketbook
always been slim, and it
purely determination plus
lot cf hard work that sent
children to college.
“We wanted the children
have the things we
Mrs. Smith said.
When the first one left
college, she hitched a ride
the mailman, who was
with butter and eggs. Later,
helped send the other to
lege.
A Fort Payne minister,
became interested in their
sent it in to Progressive
magazine, which published
with a picture of the Smiths
the July issue. This
was included when Mrs.
son wrote to “Love Story.’’
One one of of the me couple’s coupies
in Dade "Home Work
A worth-while and interest¬
ing project which is going cn
at Dade High School is in its
seventh year. While it is not un¬
usual in other parts of the na¬
tion, this project is the only
one of its kind in Dade County.
Called “Home Project Work’’
by i s director, Mrs. Edna B.
Sutton, it is an effort to carry
school heme economics instruc¬
tion into the home, and it nas
pretty much succeeded from
the list of home projects the
girls have done the past few
years.
Home projects are a required
j>ar‘ of the vocational h-ome ec
Program in the state. Courses
in vocational home ec must be
taught by qualified teachers;
those who have had vocational
training in addition to degrees
in Bachelor of Science and Ba¬
chelor of Arts.
Dade High has had home eco¬
nomics courses fer a number of
years, but it was not until about
al* mSZJZSSX years ago, when Mrs. J. C
school added added home home projects projects to
Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade and
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 3, 1955
By Myrna McMahan
traveled 400 miles to watch the
piogram. Unfortunately, recep¬
tion in that area was bad, and
she wasn’t able to see a clear
picture.
Planning a television program
is planned well ahead of time
is nc-t as casual as it seems,
the Smiths found. Upon their
arrival in the studio, they were
taken to chairs where they
could watch all the technical
work going on. Then, they were
rehearsed from nine a. m. until
1 p. m. in the st:ry they were
to tell before the cameras. Dur-
the actual televising, they
very much at ease.
Wonderful Trip
It was really a wonderful trip,
something they will remember
the rest of their lives. At the
ages of 62 and 67, they have at
las; reaped the rewards of all
the years o' backbreaking work.
The Smith children are; Mrs.
Jewel Wheeler, Pisgah; Mrs.
Louise Bearden, Miami, Fla.;
Mrs. Hattie Gant, Blue Moun¬
tain, Ala.; Virgil A. Smith,
Chattanooga; Lt. Richard C.
Smith, Norfolk Naval Base; Mrs.
Milton Swearengin, North Da¬
kota; John P. Smith, athletic
coach, Anniston; Dessie Smith,
.service club director at Fort
Benning; Lt. Bill Smith, Air
Base Hospital, Mobile, Ala., and
Mrs. Nell Johnson, Camden,
Tenn. .
Williams Showing
New Chevrolets
W. W. (Pop) Williams will un¬
veil the new 1956 Chevrolet,
said to be the “hot'est thing on
the road,’’ this Friday, Ncvem
ber 4 at Williams Motcr Co. An
advance preview showed that
the new models carry increased
horsepower, a fleeter, more rug¬
ged appearance and are offered
in the broadest array of bodies
ever produced by the company.
Among outstanding safety
features in the ‘56 Chevrolet
line are the availability of seat
belts and shoulder harness; im¬
proved headlights and crash-
tested door leeks.
In the ‘56 Chevrolet, com¬
pletely new sheet metal com¬
plements a more massive grille
in all models. The grille is a
wider, lattice-work design and
the effect of s‘aunchness and
beauty is aided by a heavier
chromium bar. Fender lines at
the front and rear are higher
and straighten A neveity is the
location cf the gasoline filler,
concealed by the hinged reai
left tail lamp.
The V-8 engine cerries 170
h.p., while the “6" has 160 h.
: The “pcwerpack" engine has 205
h.p.
’ Beautiful new-type seat cov-
ers make the interior almost
“second living - ° room.”
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its home «“ on-micsiurogram. s P nrrwrram °!
Dade’s other high scncoi ,u is
began giving instimcuon
home ec approximately t
years ago, but only me regui
courses are “improvement, taught^
Personal and
Some nnri Home Nursing
tecoration. which are
given in units during a three-
year course, and are the same
at both schools. enrolled
The fifty-eight girls
in Dade High’s home ec classes
find that the course is muen
more interesting with home
projects added. This gives them
an opportunity to interpret
classroom instruction into ac¬
tual homemaking, and needless
to the approval of the
say, The re
mothers is unanimous. enter
cord of the home ec girls
ing the 7th District Literary
Contests excellent. the past Dade six> ea High ^ ^ s
been aced >n ««
contestants contestants have have piaceai p «
I Craig, winning
Polio Vaccine Here
For Distribution
Dade County’s private physi¬
cians -and the local Health De¬
partment now have available
polio vaccine for all children jn
the county from 1 to 10 years of
age, and for pregnant women
before the eighth month 0
pregnancy. The latter
have the written permission of
the attending physician upon
coming to the Health Center
for shots.
, Those who do net go to their
doctor for the vaccine may ob-
tain the service at the Heal h
Center on Fridays from 8:30 a.
m. to 4:30 p. m. and Saturdays
frem 8:30 a. m. until noon.
j No transportation will be fur-
nished by the schools; the par-
ents are responsible for getting
the children in for injection of
the vaccine.
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New Salem, R. Fawn
School Drawings
Working drawings of the New
Salem and Rising Fawn school
additions have been completed
by the architects and are now
awaiting review by the State
School Building Authority, ac¬
cording to an announcement
made this week by County
School Supt. Roy W. Moore.
The new addi‘ions to the two
elementary schools, which were
part cf a bond issue voted on
June 2 to provide necessary
funds for the completion of
Dade County’s school building
project, will include modern ca¬
feterias several
Was This A Joke?
(Editor’s Note: We too’fc the following, writ¬
ten !>v Mrs. Mary Townsend, from her YY ildwood
Letter because we thought it should be carried
on the front page.)
Don't some folks have the hoo-dooingist
idea of a joke? We have had some dillys pul¬
led this Hallowe'en weekend.
Now who would call it "funny” to tear
down two sections of a man’s stock fence and
open the gate? I’m sure it was a real joke for
a fine blooded brood-mare to be killed, not to
mention a car wrecked. I hope that whoever
tore down Mr. Brown’s fence will read this
and know that were all laughing—real hard-
Somewhere in this county we have some
v
real cards at pulling jokes. Like the ones
who moved the warning flares to the good
side of the road and left the torn-up side un¬
marked. That happened in Dade County and
Lewis Simms drove his car into the hole. I
understand his car was damaged pretty bad.
Wasn’t that ahoney of a joke? I’m sure
someone is laughing, but it’s sure not me.
People should ask themselves —“Would 1
| mind for this to happen to me?”—if not —
don’t.
j Tricks like these two are very unfunny.
1 > 1951 1951 and and 1954, 1954, respectively. respectively.
1 Kathryn’s project
was
| * while Joan > s waS on
P s her xhQQl home . she
■ the
painting the walls
\ mi Voodwdrk, cleaning
books and planning the valances
at the .window, and also
a scale model to show the work
done.
At the beginning of the
scnocl term, the girls and
mothers meet in informal ses¬
sion with the home
teacher to discuss the year’s
program. The girls themselves
select units of work along with
individual home projects. Each
student is to do cne home pro¬
ject every six weeks which ties
in with the unit.
Home work ranges from mak¬
ing salads to refinishing furni¬
ture. Mrs. Sutton makes it a
point to vsit each girl in her
home at least twice a year, but
when a project is started, 1, 5I1U she
m , kes a special trip to ° set get a a
«pYC^mp P
Paul and Crane Flee Rome
Paul Crane, 39, who was being
held in the Rome jail for
keeping on murder charges in
connection with the torture-
slaying cf Junius Nisbet in 1951,
^ j Clyde scaped Cmne, along 30, with and his two brother, other
prisoners Thursday night. A
-search covering three states is
being made by law enforcement
officers.
1 Sheriff F. C. Graham, Chief
(Deputy Bill Norton and Deputy
1 J G Gilley answered a call in
the Rising Fawn vicinity late
Saturday afternoon, but it turn-
ed out to be a false alarm. Ru-
mors have been circulating to
I the effect that the Cranes
planned to go to Alabama
mediately following the break,
then come back up the valley to
the Byrd’s Chapel Community,
-where their mother’s home
located. At this writing no one
has reported seeing the es-
capees in Dade County.
The two prisoners accemp-
anying the brothers in the es-
cape were; Lindsey Brantcn, 23,
being held on seven counts of
Wildcats For
The championship of Region
4C is at stake this Friday night
when Dade High’s Wildcats, ju¬
bilant ever a season of six wins,
one tie and one loss, will tra¬
vel to Bremen for the mos‘ an¬
ticipated game of the 1955 sea¬
son.
Bremen, one of the strongest
teams in the region this fall,
was last season’s Region 4C
champ. If Dade, classed as the
underdog, can play the game to
a tie or a win, the 1955 ti le will
time has been set at 8:15 in
order to allow sufficient time
for Dade fans to arrive.
WILDCATS CLAW
CAVE SPRINGS 38 - 6
Behind ‘he passing arm of
quarterback Harold Shankles
and the running of Carl Steele,
Dale Sims, and David Steele,
the Dade H. Wildcats trounced
the Cave Springs Yellow Jackets
28 tc 6 last Thursday night at
Brcwn Field. Halfback Carl
Steele scored from five yards
out early in the first quarter
‘o put Dade out in front 6 to 0
at the end cf the first quarter.
Dale Sims broke lose from
the Yellcw Jackets’ 44 yard line
at the tart of the second quart¬
er to make the score read Dade
12 - Cave Springs 0. The Wild¬
cats kicked off to Cave Springs
and halfback Thomas took the
ball on his own 25, cut down the
right side, and went all the way
down to the Dade 15 yd. line
before being pulled down.
Quarterback H. Pledger scored
from four yds. out three plays
later.
Cave Springs then kicked off
to Dade and Carl Steele ran his
second touchdown for the night.
Being cn the end of a criss¬
cross, Carl took the ball on his
own 20, ran up the center, cut
to the left sideline, and sped 80
yards to score.
| . when when heme heme improvement improvement is is se-
lected.
some of the more outstand-
ing pro jects undertaken the
pa3t six wee ks are as follows:
Patricia r;tiubid Wheeler wiicciti removed the
finish " — from -------- a kitchen -----— table and 1
chairs and painted them with
white enamel; Carolyn Reeves
r: finished a desk which is now
a lovely light oak; Louise
gave the family porch swing a
“new look’’ by painting it red;
Joan Gray set the table for
family meals and did seme bak-
ing which was very fine both
in texture and appearance;
Theola Fulghum made an at-
tractive school dress o f gray
and pink gingham in the
long-torso style; Frances York
sewed a lovely teal blue skirt
from suede cloth; Mary Lee
Bruner’s painting of
screens was a big help to her
father and Linda
prepared very appe:izing salads,
A number uumuci of ui the viit girls planned
and and prepared prepared meals for their
P Trr ,he h „b or a.,
Published Weekly—Since 1901
NUMBER 41
! burglary in Floyd County,
Charles L. Turner, 42, charged
I with burglary in Floyd. Clyde
Crane is also under indictment
for murder in the Nisbet slay
ing
Time of Break Uncertain
According to Floyd County
Sheriff Joe Adams, the pri-
-‘oners escaped by knocking out
|a section of a new brick wall
being erec ed in an expansion
project for the jail. It is be-
lieved that they reached the
wall from a catwalk surround-
j ing the jail cells, and that they
escaped by way of a building
scaffold. It was not definitely
established just when the break
occurred, since it was not dis-
covered un il “check time” Fri-
day morning.
j FBI records list Paul Crane as
escaped from the Dade
County jail in 1946 while
charged with the slaying of Jim
Stonner in May 1946. He was
captured by Chattanooga police
not long afterwards. In 1947,
Crane was sentenced to five to
15 years for manslaughter but
be awarded to the Wildcats. It
is the opinion of both Coach
Delinks Freeman and Principal
J. C. Blllue that the Wildcats
can come out on top, but they
will have to play ‘he best game
they’ve played this season to
do it.
The winner of this game will
meet Stone Mountain in the
State Play-Off December 2.
A large crowd of followers
will be on hand to give the local
beys the boost they need. Game
| is activity activity well-qualified was was Mrs. Mrs. for Sutton, Sutton, vocational who who
home ec teaching; she holds
both Bachelor of Science and
Bachelor of Arts degrees. She
admits that the ^ cnly reason
she -- did ........ not finish work on “ her *•"
master’s is that the MRS de¬
I gree had more appeal at the
time.
21st Year of Teaching
Bern in Alabama, Mrs. Sut-
ton’s family moved to West Va.
during her childhood. She did
her college work at Salem
lege in Salem, West Virginia,
where she also began her teach-
ing career. After three years,
she went to Illinois where she
spent f c u r years in teaching
home economics, then
to Alabama for eight years as
grade school teacher.
In 1950, the Dade County
School Board obtained her ser
vices as visiting teacher for one
school term after which she
again taught i n Athens, Ala. —-
where she and her husband, F.
O. Sutton, ___ owned ______ a a _ ms farm. ______
in 1950, from a Mllled-
geville hospl al where he had
been sent for mental treat-
ment. He was returned to ori-
son on the manslaughter count
late in 1953 and finished his
sentence only last July 29, 1965.
The brothers, along with Milt
Lee and his son, Jimmy, were
indicted cn charges of tor ur-
ing and beating to death the
aged recluse, June Nisbet, at his
home in the Cloverdale com¬
munity south of Rising Fawn,
in trying to get him to tell
where his money w'as hidden.
The elder Lee was convicted in
1954 and given life. Jimmy Lee
was acquitted.
Clyde Crane had been heid
in the Rome jail since Decern-
i ber of 1954, while Paul Crane
was brought to Rome imme-
diately following the completion
of his manslaughter sentence
which he had served at Reid -
ville.
A truck was stolen in Re ne
the night cf the escape which
I authorities believe may have
been the escape vehicle.
Halfback Dale Sims scored
his second touchdown on an
end run from the Yellcw Jacket
! 30 yard line la e in the third
quarter to make the score Dade
25 and C. S. 6.
Quarterbcak Harold Shankles
pitched two touchdown passes
in the last quarter; one a 40
yard heave to end Eugene
Kieth, and another a 27 yard
pass to end Eddie Watkins in
The Wildcats had wo toueh-
oowns called back because of
penalties in the game. One was
a 75 yard run and the other was
a 60 yard run. Harold Shankles
went from his cwn 25 yard line
down the sidelines to the Yel¬
low Jackets 10 yard line, and
seeing he was going to be hit.
he latcraled off to Carl Steele,
who went the remaining 10 yds.
The o her was a neat 60 yard
run by Halfback “Hornet”
Steele, who raced down the left
sidelines to score.
New that we have talked
about backs let’s look at the
men who man the forward wail.
The Wildcat line held the vis¬
iters to 68 yards rushing for ‘he
night, while they were ground¬
ing out 217 yards. When a back
makes a long run or scores, he
gets the credit, which he rightly
deserves, but think of the play¬
ers who paved the way fer that
run, ah, yes, the linemen! The
Wildcat linemen deserve a big
pat on the back for not only
providing for their own backs,
but for holding the opposing
backs of eight teams to only 57
points, an aver age of seven
points a game, while the Wild¬
cats have scored a ‘otal of 202
points, an average of 25 poin+s
; a game. Keep up the good work
iboys!
Spencer Jenkins.
moved moved to to Sand Sand Mountain Mountain where where
they are now railing seven
children “away from the busy
towns”. Mrs. Sutton immediate-
ly accepted the position of
home ec — teacher -------- and ~ is - at — pres- *
“* ent beginning her 21st year of
teaching.
“I was a fish out o f water
during those eight years of
teaching in grade school,’’ she
laughs, “I just love heme ec so
I really felt out of place when
I wasn’t teaching it.’’
Through the assistance of a
neighbor who comes over to
stay with the children, Mrs.
Sutton is able to devote consid-
j erable time to extra-curricular
j activities such as the adult sew-
ing class which is new going on
two nights a week,
! In the words of Mrs. Sutton,
a nation is only as steng as its
homes and that is the purpose
of the home economics pro¬
gram, to build good homes. She
believes that the vocational
home ec program is -cne of the
most important nAiircoc courses O a school ruil
