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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1956)
Uade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVI D ALLY IN’ IN DADE By Myrna McMahan There is almost no activity on the square this week which must mean that the candidates are all out campaigning in the final days before election. By next Wednesday night, there will be so many people about “you won‘t be able to stir 'em with a stick,’’ as the saying goes. Even so, the percentage of registered voters who go to the polls is still under par, which indicates there are only too many people w h o apparently don’t care one way or another. We trust that the lack of in¬ terest displayed by some of the women voters of the county is not the general trend along all womenfolk of the county, espe¬ cially since the entire feminine vote could so easily help swing the pendulum in either direc¬ tion: James V. Jenkins One of the most popular can¬ didates and also one who is un¬ opposed in his bid for re-elec¬ tion, is James Virgil Jenkins, County Treasurer. Called “Little Jenks" for most of his life, he is a native Dade Countian and a resident of Trenton. He a 11 e n d ed Dade High School and Edmondson School o f Business, where ne Two Die By Accident In ALABAMA YOUTH SHOT NEAR WHITESIDE Rueben Dawson, 16, Rainsville Alabama was accidentally shot and killed by a companion near Whiteside in Dade County last Friday afternoon. The youth had played hookey from school 1o go to Chattanooga in a pick¬ up truck with two friends, George Weldon Cooper and Otis A. Bittner, both of Alabama. The boys had stopped on a side road to do a little target shooting with a pistol when the accident ocurred. Dawson shot three times at a sign, according to Sheriff Blevins’ findings, then handed the gun to Butner, who shot twice. Butner then gave the gun to Cooper who shot one time and started to shoot a second time when the Dawson boy suddenly steped in the line of fire. He died within a few minutes. Sheriff Blevins, Cooper and Butner reasoned that Dawson must have thought the gun was empty. The boys put the injured youth in the truck and drove off hur¬ riedly in search of a telephone. They stopped at Hartman’s Service Station, but had to drive on to Fontaines before reach¬ ing a telephone. An ambulance was called, but the boy was dead States Rights Council Org. in Walker We notice by the Walker County Messenger that a States’ Rights Council of the States’ Rights Council of Georgia, Inc. has been formed in that county. The organizational meeting took place Friday night, Febru¬ ary 17, at which time Wade U. Leonard, Rossville attorney, was elected president. Other offi¬ cers are G. W. Langford, La¬ Fayette attorney, first vice- president; Jim Andrews, Ken¬ S. C. Moores Dade's First and Only Mortuary Dade County’s first and only mortuary has just been com¬ pleted but has been offering services for some time. Located in Trenton,, the funeral home is just one of the many new im¬ provements that are taking place at a rapid pace. A for¬ mal opening is planned some¬ time this spring. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Moore, proprietors of Moore Funeral Home, moved to Trenton from Fort Payne the first of Nov- ember,, 1955 to begin the con- struction of the modern, con- Crete block addition to their home across the highway from the Baptist Church. The funeral home is situated ink Co tin hi rates Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH 1, 1956 took a general book course. In 1942, he married the er Miss Kathryn Phillips Peebles, Ohio. The couple have three children, all girls. Jenkins is a great fan, having played since hood. In 1950, he was on the Dade team which the championship of the N. -Ala.-League. Jim Geddie was manager at that time. A veteran of World spent four years in the two of them in the Theatre. In 1947,he worked the Soil Conservation for about a year. The election o f 1949 him in the office of Treasurer, an office he has since that time. For the six years, he has worked off on with Crane Enamel in tanooga. He and Mrs. Jenkins, their daughters, attend Trenton Baptist Church, they are active members. Candidates whose biographi¬ cal sketches have not in this column have not turned the questionnaires were sent to all candidates. upon arrival at a hospital. The Sheriff notified his ents at Rainsville and after arrival here i n Trenton, Dawson declined to press charges against Cooper since the shoot¬ ing was accidental. BILLY GINN DIES FROM FALLING LIMB Billy Gerald Ginn, 29, of wood, Ga., died Tuesday noon after he was struck on head by a falling tree limb. Ginn and his father, Ordell Ginn, and a brother were cut¬ ting timber in a remote spot near ,Wildwood when the tree limb fell. He received a crushing injury to his head. He was car¬ ried out of the woods on a litter to the highway to where an arm bulance had been directed. He was dead upon arrival at a Chattanooga hospital. Ginn is survived by his wife, Mrs. Catherine Ginn; his par¬ ents, Mr. and Mrs. Ordell Ginn; grandmother, Mrs. Lizzie Ginn, Chattanooga; five brothers. John, Jack, Bobby Joe and Pat Ginn o f Wildwood, and Linus Ginn of Diamondale, Mich.; six sisters, Misses Peggy, Mary Lou, Oma Joy and Pauline Ginn of Wildwood; Mrs. W. E. Lowery of Lansing, Mich., and Mrs. H. L. Sims of Trenton. Funeral services will be an¬ nounced. sington cattle farmer, second vice-president; T. L. Mitchell, lumber manufacturer, third vice-president; Williams Camp¬ bell, Rossville attorney, secre¬ tary, and the Rev. J. M. Cordle, Baptist minister, treasurer. The state organization, which was founded last September in Atlanta, lists the fight for the cause of segregation as its main purpose. Carter Pittman, Dalton attorney, is state president. on a two-acre lot which extends to the LaFayette highway and is appropriately in a quiet tion of town. The attractive building mea¬ sures 36X70 feet and is connect¬ ed to the Moore’s 26X42 resi¬ dence. Lighted by large, case¬ ment windows and aluminum and glass indirect electric fix¬ tures, the interior features pla¬ ster walls, which will be paint¬ ed as soon as it has a chance to “set,” and varnished hard¬ wood floors. Natural Woodwork Upon entering the office, which is next t o the double garage, one has access either to the large chapel or to the display Williams Motor Co. Sold Last The Williams Motor Company in Trenton changed owners 23 and is now the Griffith Company. H. L. Griffith and Mike Wilson„all from Chatta- nooga,, are the new owners. Mr. Griffith will be the new mana- ger and with his family will move to Trenton when school lets out in the spring. The new owners are planning to redecorate and rearrange the interior of the building be¬ fore their official opening. Many new cars and trucks are on or¬ der and are beginning to be de¬ livered. ^ The popular retiring owne-, Wayne W. Williams, familiarly known as “Pop” constructed the Ordinaries Enforce Marriage Law Ordinaries of Dade, and Catoosa moved quickly week to put the state’s new mar¬ riage license law into effect the three counties. R. M. Morrison, of Dade, J. C. Keown of Walker and Earl McDaniel of Catoosa have issued a joint statement as follows, listing the rules under which marriage licenses will be issued: 1. There will be no marriage licenses issued in the three coun¬ ties except between the hours of 9 a.m. to 10 p.m. This limits the hours even more than the new law, which allows issuances of licenses be¬ tween 8 a.m. and midnight. 2. Licenses will be issued only by the ordinary or his clerk in the county seat of the three counties — LaFayette in Walker, Ringgold in Catoosa and Tren¬ ton in Dade. 3. No license will be issued to anyone under the influence of an intoxicant. The ordinaries made it plain in their statement that this was not an admission that li* censes had been issued in the past to anyone under the influ¬ ence of an intoxicant. 4. A state law that any fe- male who lives in Georgia must get her marriage license from the county in which she resides will be enforced. 5. Licenses will be issued to Minor Accidents A woman driver who found it necessary to put on her brakes as she was heading up Sand Mountain last Friday morning found herself i n quite a spot. Her wheels locked, throwing her car over a bank. Although the automobile overturned, she was uninjured except for a bruised elbow. Friday morning, several Dade Countians were involved in an accident just across the Tenn¬ essee state line but none seri¬ ously injured. Several cars com¬ ing upon a wreck had to oe stopped quickly to avoid hitting it, causing the automobiles to run into each other. Among those involved were Robert Davidson, Russell Young, Rob- ert Woolbright and a Smith youth. A trailer truck loaded with ap¬ proximately 15,000 feet of lum¬ ber overturned near Wildwood Saturday afternoon about 4p.m. when the truck came upon a | car sto PP ed in the road. To i av °id hitting the car, the driv- and operating rooms. All wood- work is finished in a natural color and the folding wood door between the office and the chapel is particularly lovely. The family room and the chapel will seat around 100 peo¬ ple. Mrs. Moore plans t o hang drapes at the windows and in the ch;.pel and display rooms in such a way that three state rooms will be provided if need¬ ed. A choice of several types of caskets and wearing apparel is offered in the latter room. Opening off this room is the operating, or embalming room which is equipped with plumb¬ ing and porcelain tray bed. Next building in January, 1947 has been a Chevrolet since July, 1949. Bob White, who has j working in the office and > Breedlove and Homer j who tinue work in in the shop, will their former jobs. Mr. Griffith is now living Lakeview, Georgia. His wife is teacher in the Lakeview High School and his three younger children, Larry David and attend this school. Their son, Ronald, is attending Georgia College where he is pres¬ ident of the Sophomore and was recently crowned King of Hearts at the annual Sweet¬ heart’s Ball. ; non-residents who are 18 years old or over. 6. No license will be issued to persons under 18 years old with¬ out written consent of their par¬ ents. The ordinaries said also that they had contacted the premar¬ ital blood test laboratories op¬ erating in the three counties, and that no blood tfests will be given except between the hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Civic leaders who led the fight for passage of the new law last Wednesday night saw the ordi¬ naries’ prompt action as indi¬ cative that the problem of al¬ leged juvenile and drunken mar¬ riages along the Tennessee-Ger- rgia border will be resolved. Reps. Albert Campbell and Robert Coker of Walker County who sponsored the marriage bill which was signed by Gov. Grif¬ fin Tuesday, Feb. 14, said the legislation was aimed primarily at what they called the “mar¬ riage mills” in Rossville. Ray Crow and Herman O. Bowman, deputy clerks of ordi¬ nary at Rossville, who previously had authority to issue licenses at any time of day or night, are forbidden to issue them at j all under the new law. The law also restricted all de- puty clerks from issuing licen- ■ ses in Dade County and at least ! in Catoosa County. one er of the truck was forced to head for a ditch. He was not seriously injured, but Sheriff Blevins, who was called to the scene, said the accident was a “close call.” A minor accident in Trenton at the Birmingham - LaFayette highway intersection resulted in the damage of a bumper one car and the loss of a from another. As an fied youth pulled out from the Gulf Station, the front bumper of his car caught on the rear fender of an automomile travel¬ ing north, ripping the fender completely off. ANOTHER STILL RAIDED Constable Jim Broome raided a still recently on Sand Moun¬ tain in back of the Walker place about due west of Trenton. The still had a 500-gallon pot, three 500 gallon boxes and one 300 gallon box. 300 gallons of mash had been dumped i n preparation t o move. Broome had watched the activity around the still for some time, but when he came close to it, the two boys who had been running it ran. is the supply room. A hallway connects with a bathroom adja¬ cent to the office. The building is heated with butane gas from a floor furn¬ ace. Mr. and Mrs. Moore plan to landscape the g r o u n ds soon along with finishing other de¬ tails. Had Business at Fort Payne The Moores, both native Dade Countians, formerly o p erated the Moore - McBryar Funeral Home in Fort Payne before moving to Trenton. Mr. Moore has been in the embalming bus- i n e s s since March 1945. Mrs. Moore, the former Miss Gladys McBryar, assists in the work. Mr. Moore is realizing a child¬ Published Weekly—Since 1901 918 Rett, for Pr Mill** im ary J •# There are 3918 voters in Dade County registered for the March 7 county primary election ac¬ cording to the figures submitted to the Clerk of Court by the Registration Board. By districts there are 91 reg¬ istered in Slygo; 204 in Byrd’s Chapel; 911 in Trenton; 451 in Wildwood; 278 in New England; 347 in Rising Fawn; 146 Hooker; 171 in Sulphur Springs; 232 in New Salem; 645 in Cole City; 228 in New Home and 214 in West Brow. The County Democratic Exe¬ cutive Committee holds the pri¬ mary elections and makes the arrangements for it. Voters may only vote in the district in which they are registered. According to Paragraph 5 of the rules and regulations of the State Democratic Committee of Georgia, no write in votes are counted in a primary election. Only a ballot which conforms to the official ballot will be 68 Attend H D Club of Year Banquet Members of the Trenton Home Demonstration Club were hon- ored Friday evening with a ban- quet at the YWCA in Chatta¬ nooga as a result of the club’s selection as Dade County “Club of the Year.” Sixty eight members attended the dinner, which was the first event of its kind to be sponsored by the Dade County Home Dem¬ onstration Council. Mrs. Jiles Gass, council president, acted as toastmistress for the occasion. Mrs. D. J. Hancock of Wild¬ wood gave the invocation, later reading a poem, and a very en¬ tertaining program was pre¬ sented by Mrs. L. M. Allison, the Scenicland Trio, and Miss Linda Ballard. Mrs. Allisan, who Ls a member of the Rising Fawn Club sang “The Frog Song” in her own inimitable style, after whien Mesdames Joan Hawes, Jean Bradford and Lorena Jones from the New Salem Club sang two very pleasing religious sel¬ ections. Miss Ballard, 4-H’er re¬ presented the New Home Club and played two accordian solas. Ribbons were presented to the Trenton, Wildwood, Avans and Morganville clubs, who won first second, third and honorable mention, respectively, in the “Club of the Year” contest. Ac¬ cepting these were Mrs. J. M. Rogers, Trenton, Mrs. George Carroll, Jr., Wildwood, and Mrs. Eli i ah Elliott, Avans. Due to a conflicting supper being held at Morganville, members of that club were unable to attend. Mrs. Martin Nethery, chairman of Trenton’s scrapbook cammittee, also was unable to attend due to illness. BANK RESOURCES EXCEED QUARTER MILLION DOLLARS The Bank of Dade, which has only been in business about , two months, now lists its total re- sources as exceeding a quarter million dollars. President George H. Harrison said that at the end of Monday Feb. 27, 1956, the total resources amounted to $253,158.64, a sur¬ prisingly large figure for such a new bank. The report also shows that more and more Dade Countians 1 hood ambition in completing his own funeral home. child,” stat- j “When I was a he ed, “I used to watch funerals where the only mode of trans- portation was a mule and wag-, on. That was before funeral : homes from Chattanooga began coming out to conduct a better type of service. I made up my mind to help people in sorrow and am happy to be doing it now”. j He served a two-year appren-1 ticeship before attending em- the' balmers school in Nashville, only one of its kind in the South at that time. After twelve months’ schooling, which is sim- ilar to a pre-med course, he graduated in 1944, immediately NUMBER 6 counted. The following is the way the names of the candidates will ap¬ pear on the official ballot: FOR ORDINARY Harold C. Cox R. M. Morrison Arthur W. Peck FOR SHERIFF Allison Blevins G. V. (Gabby) Green FOR REPRESENTATIVE Woodrow W. Gross W. H. (Bill) Pullen FOR TAX COMMISSIONER John W. Murph; FOR TREASURER James V. Jenkins FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT Mrs. Grace Hale Williams FOR SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS Curtis L. Forester Roy W. Moore FOR CORONER FOR SURVEYOR W. P. Cole Mrs. A. L. Dyer, ’55 council president, was presented a lovely vase as the gift of the Council. Tables Attractively Decorated The banquet tables were bea¬ utifully decorated by the Wild¬ wood Club with ivy and jonquils placed along the center of the tables, while a silver bowl of jonquils and white candles had been arranged for the head table. Places for each of the twenty- five guests of honor had been marked with lovely corsages of jonquils, fern and yellow ribbon which had been made by mem¬ bers of the Avans, Byrd’s Csap- el and Slygo clubs with the as¬ sistance of Mrs. Helen Ringer of Helen’s Florists. Other cor¬ sages, including those worn by Miss Naomi Hubble and Mrs. A. L. McMahan who in charge of arrangements, were made by Mrs. Ringer. Gay little pipeclean- er figures holding the placecards were made by Miss Bess Cureton Mrs. Lilliaji Stroud and Miss May Cureton of the Rising Fawn Club. The figures wore bright yellow satin ribbon skirts and were mounted on a green gum- drop base. Those attending from the win¬ ning club were Mesdames James M. Case, ‘56 president, James M. Rogers, ‘55 president, and the following members:Mesdames A. L. Dyer, John Tatum, Bob Alex¬ ander, Virgil Jenkins, Roy Mc- Bryar, Walter Page, W. W. Wil¬ liams, John Armstrong, Granville Pace, Aubrey Dyer, W. G. Mor¬ rison, Jr., Bill Presley, Jack Cash A. P. Stephens, E. S. Pace, J. C. Billue, M. J. Hale, R. M. Mor¬ rison, Dudley Cureton, Delmas Freeman and Hilda Slaton. are finding it more convenient to trade at home. Banking hours are from 9 a.m. until 2 p. m. every day except Wednesday and Sunday . _ JUDGE TO DRAW JURORS MARCH 9 Judge John W. Datfis will be in Trenton Friday, March 9 to draw jurors for the March term of court. Court is scheduled to convene Monday, March 19. into Mr. Lewis McBryar’s funeral home at Fort Payne. He is one of the few people who have licenses as embalmers and funeral directors in three states, He owns both an ambulance and a combination hearse-am- bulance. The ambulance is on 24-hour call, The new structure is built in such a way that it could be en- larged if the business demands, There is ample space for addi- tional rooms in the basement, also if needed, An additional service, that of providing monuments with let- tering, will be added soon. At present, the Moores carry mon- uments through a Fort Payne concern.
