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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 8, 1956)
Site mle (fotmto imes Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVI Peek - Blevins - Moore - Gross Win In a closely-contested elec¬ tion, Arthur W, Peck, incum¬ bents Allison Blevins, Woodrow Gross and Roy W. Moore won their respective bids for the of- ffices of Ordinary, Sheriff, Rep¬ resentative and School Superin¬ tendent. Peck, who served as Ordinary from 1949 until 1952 only to lose to the present Ordinary, R. M. Morrison, by -about 476 votes, polled a total of 1261 votes over Morrison’s 1034. The latter ran a close race until the last two boxes, Trenton and New Eng¬ land, were in, while Harold C. Cox received 274 votes. Sheriff Blevins was re-elected by a huge majority of 1720 votes over G. V. Green, who received 866 votes. Woodrow Gross polled 1398 votes to W. H. Pullen’s 1118. Despite the many rumors cir¬ culating during the last week before election, Roy W. Moore was re-elected as School Super¬ intendent by a narrow margin of 108 votes. He received a to¬ tal of 1335 votes to Forester's 1227. Unopposed Candidates Tax Commissioner John W. Murphy, Treasurer James V Jenkins, Superior Court Clerk Grace Hale Williams and W. P Cole, candidate for Surveyor, who were all unopposed, were re-elected and received only a very few strike-out votes Peck carried the Cole City, New Home, New England, Sul¬ phur Springs and Slygo dis tricts, while Morrison carried the Trenton, Wildwood, Rising Fawn, Byrd's Chapel, West Brow, and Hooker boxes. Cox polled a total of 101 votes at his home box, New Salem, to carry it by a large majority. Blevins, who received the big¬ gest vote of any of the dates, carried all but the City and Sulphur Springs Ojfoss swung the Cole City, Home, Trenton, New New Salem and Byrd's di-:tricts to cap the largest num¬ ber of votes. Moore carried Trenton, Cole City, New Byrd's Chapel and West boxes. The first box to be in after the six o'clock of the polls was the Byrd's pel box; New England was last box in, completing the counting shortly after nine Approxi m a t e 1 y 64# of 3918 voters registered cast ballots with m a n a gers each district reporting voting throughout the day. flurry of voting late in the ternoon in some districts due to the arrival of shift ers employed in Chattanooga. The total vote as compared 1952‘s vote of 67.5# was ly lower in spite of the that a large number of showed considerable interest this election. The square was packed Wednesday night ght with With cars Cars which Whicn naa had Dade County 4-H'ers Joining in National Observance of 4-H Week The following report was giv- . y To ' c . . e wi1cnn , „ r - Iin _ ’ President and Treasurer of e Rising Fawn Sr. Club, at a cent :ent Farm Farm Bureau Bureau meeting: meeting: >n m a a state state basis basis we we carry carry out out any inv projects. nroiects. One> One« of of the the pro¬ pro- mts which I am sure you are miliar with, is the Rock Eagle oject. This project stHUed th many acres of timberland, ost of which in 3 years time is been cleared to make way r the buildings needed to ake the largest 4-H center in e world. “This past summer 3 4 boys id girls from our county at- nded camp at Rock Eagle. Not ily did we have a good time, it we had regular classes each ,y where w e learned many eful things. “In the county we have six H clubs with approximately 0 members. In order to be an tive member every boy and rl should carry out a project. ; should be encouraged at double-parked a 11 around the outer edge by persons anxious to learn the results of the election first-hand. The record vote reported in 1952 for Trenton was 88.4% with approximately two-thirds of the 911 registered voters showing up this time. Hooker voted 80%, the largest percentage in any one district. 146 are registered and 115 came to the polls. TOTAL DISTRICT VOTES A Those holding the election m each district and the number of voters casting their ballots are as follows: 1037#— New England, Brown Lumber Co. shed; Kenneth Brown, manager; Howard G. Doyle, E. T. Brown and J. B. Cole. Of the 278 voters regis¬ tered, 204 voted. 873 — Slygo; Community House; W. P. Cole, manager;, joe Doyle, B. I. Cole and Miss Edna Waddell, clerk. 63 out of the 91 registered voters came to the poll. 1089 —Hooker, porch of J. E. Strawn home; H. H. Strawn, manager; J. E. Strawn, Dan M ass en gale and C. M. Smith, Sr. 146 are registered with 115 voting. 974 — Wild¬ wood, Coummunity House; M. E Ford, manager; W. T. Lea, H. C. Porter, J. M. Cooley and Her¬ man Cross. Of the 451 registered, 186 showed up to vote. The lad¬ ies of the community served a delicious benefit lunch at the polling place. 1214 — New Sa¬ lem, School; Art Moore, mana¬ ger; Carl Baker, Scott Gray and J. C. Mathews. 171 out of 232 voted. 875 — Byrd's Chapel, little house at the rear of Virgil Ste¬ wart's Museum; X. B. Murphy, manager, D. F. Long, R. M. Cas¬ tleberry and Victor Keeton. 137 from the total 2 04 registered voted. 1129 — Sulphur Springs, Amos Mill; Byron Forester, manager, Ed Bible, Cicero Forester and Pyron Lambert. Of the 171 reg¬ istered, 119 voted. 1222 — Cole City, block building across street from Christian's Store; Harmon Gray, manager; Dec Stephens, Robert Freeman and Roy Chrstian. Of the 645 registered, 408 voted. 1885—New Home, J. W. Craw¬ ford, manager; Mrs. E. E. Ferg¬ uson, Mrs. Hundly, C. J. Ivey and Mr. Rochester. Of the 228 registered, 169 voted. 1889—West Brow, Teet's Store; K. D. Teet, manager; H. B. Griffin and Mrs. John Baron. 123 voted from the 214 regist¬ ered. 1038—Rising Fawn, Frick's Store; R. P. Fricks, manager; W. L. Fannin, James McMahan, and Gus McKaig. Of the 347 registered, 254 voted. 960 — Trenton, Clerk or Court's office; H. F. Allison manager; W. W. Williams, Granville Pace and Jules Case. Of the 911 regist¬ ered, exeu, 590 voted *utcu. UNOFFICIAL RETURNS - DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY s $ o e o V la 03 la s| o is a b£ 4) E < O •a# c 2 JS 4 § #«• X o * « E bX ay * .a o ■S 8 ►. JS if S S3 s a v a 4) O Tfi os o H Z « a h in m * Vi O O Z S3 ft i ORDINARY ! 1 . 1 C. COX 9 61 ! 9 6 18 6 1 16 I 101 j 36 1 1 | 11 1 274 , 18 70 286 | 154 71 170 54 | 15 45 66 5 1 80 M. MORRISON W PECK 1 46 57 228 | 81 132 66 50 | 88 ! 24 303 156 | 30 SHERIFF I BLEVINS 45 94 407 | 186 170 195 91 | 29 134 180 102 | 87 V. (GABBY) GREEN 19 44 175 .58 40 62 23 | 89 33 225 63 | 35 REPRESENTATIVE I i I i i 1 W. GROSS 24 72 363 | 76 j 129 | 69 38 | 43 87 366 110 1 21 H. (BILL) PULLEN 40 62 21G 166 18 185 73 | 72 80 37 48 | 91 SUPERINTENDENT | 1 SCHOOLS 1 . I 1 I 1 ! L. FORESTER 46 60 253 | 156 151 144 65 f 74 108 | 82 | 37 | 51 I W. MOORE 18 75 | 317 86 1 58 1 110 j 50 ! 44 63 318 127 1 69 Ersaline Carroll Dade Co. "Teacher of the Mrs. Ersaline Carroll was an- -as Dade County’s of the Year” during a meeting held in the lunchroom Friday Members of the Dade Lions Club, sponsoring teachers from each and School Superinten¬ Roy W. Moore were present the occasion. The announcement was made Lion President Martin Neth- at the close of ceremonies in by Supt. Moore Messrs. M. J. Hale and J. Case. Runners-up were Mrs. Simmons, Davis, Mrs. Roy New Salem, and Mrs. Hall, Rising Fawn. Each of the runners-up were corsages of which Mrs. Carroll was as county winner of contest. In presenting her lovely corsage o f Japanese Nethery said the occasion a special thrill for him be¬ he was one of “Miss Ersa- ” former pupils. In acknowledging the honor, Carroll, who has thirty teaching experience, moment was one of the of her life. She said in looking out over the as- SALEM 4-H’ERS WITH PROJECTS The New Salem 4-H’ers are busy preparing for the new projects that they chosen for the year. Almost everyone has added and health to their The 4-H girls recently put up curtains in their rest room school and made a new ruf¬ for the dressing table. Our club is at the money for a flag pole the school. As spring approaches, our are turning to the many projects that we want work wum on. uii. home by his parents to work hard on his project. If he does n ot have this encouragement from home, he will more than iik e ] y i 0fie out on the advant- ages ages and and experiences experiences he he would would gain galn from fr0m his his projects. projects. “A “a lot >nt. is is hone done hv by the the Countv County Council in helping boys and girls carry out their projects. We buy the seed for the Corn Contest and the Farm Bureau offers a prize to the member with the most corn per acre. We also sponsor the poultry chain. We buy the chickens and distribute them among the 4-H members who want to enter the chain. We sponsor trips to pro¬ ject achievement meetings and State C o u n cil meetings each year. “The Talent Show is an an¬ nual affair, put on by the Coun¬ cil. Most of you have come out to our talent shows the past few years and it means a lot to us to see you there. “I’m sure you’ve all noticed the welcome signs into Dade Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH 8, 1956 sembly, she could see many of ’her former pupils among the business men and others of the county. 1 “i am especially proud to ac-j cept this award for all the teachers. M y teaching career has been a wonderful experi¬ ence, one of which my family has always been proud.” Her in¬ spiring talk also included the benefits received from a teach¬ ing career. Also on the program was M. J. Hale, who listed the qualifica¬ tions set up by the state spon¬ soring organization, the Georg¬ ia State Chamber of Commerce, some of them are as follows: personal qualifications, teach¬ ing abilities, respect and loyalty Volunteer Fire A number of Trenton’s civic- minded young men met Feb. 27 to organize a Volunteer Fire De¬ partment. The following offi¬ cers were elected; Cleron Kyzer, president; Don Gross, first vice- president; J. E. Morrison, second vice-president; and Jack Cash, secretary. Other members of the organ¬ ization are: Tom Sims, ROy McMahan, day and night assistants, respective¬ ly, A. L. Dyer, Virgil Jenkins, Harold Gross, Martin Nethery, John Tatum, Claude Harrison, G. W. Bailey, James Christo¬ pher, Tubby Case, Bill Tatum, Buddy Tatum, Leon Christo¬ pher, Frank Breedlove, Bunny Rose, ,Dewell Breedlove, Dennis Sullivan; Lawrence Christopher, Rev. Robert Hilten, Martin Schrader, Woodrow Tinker, Delmas Free¬ man, O. C. Stanley, J. C. Bil- lue, Martin Bradford, Homer Reed, Robert Woolbright, Tom¬ my Gray, J. L. Harrison and Sam Elder. Participation in the program is strictly voluntary with .....- no County County put put up up by by the the Council, Council. We We also also bought bought the the flags flags which which you you see see in in the the courtroom courtroom today. today. “Through “Through the the rommunitv community 4-H 4-H Club, b ’ the th boys , and d girls irls have have the .. advanta£rp advantage to to Vis take take theTe many manv l projects; \ ’ for for the the girls, there is, clothing, . . cooking, , , frozen , foods, and others; and for the boys there are such projects as live¬ stock, poultry, and swine pro¬ duction, forestry, corn produc¬ tion, rural electrification, and many others. The parents can do a little more encouraging here by get¬ ting their boys and girls to take more than one project. The training they get from their projects and 4-H programs in presiding at meetings and mak¬ ing appearances before the pub¬ lic will prove to be invaluable in later years. If your boy or girl is assigned a part in a pro¬ gram, a word of praise would spur them on to do their best. “I’ve been asking you to help your boy or girl choose his pro- jects and encourage him. But sometimes parents do too much. For instance, in the steer pro- -* ect ’ would be much more ef- fective if the parents would let the 4_Her actuall y do the work instead of the father doin ^ aU the work. The Mother’s help, the girl in the dress revue, needed, but she should never do the sewing for her. “The same is true on the 4-H records. Supervise the work they do on their records and scrap¬ books, but never do it for them. When a 4-H’er receives an hon¬ or on the work his parents do, he is getting something he real¬ ly doesn’t deserve and it isn’t fair to him or to the other members who were trying for that honor too. “The Nety Salem 4-H club has landscaped the school grounds and they are planning to grass the school yard. For this job they will need a tract¬ or, which I’m sure they would not mind at all having a F. B. for the teach ing willingness to take part, ship qualities and church community activities. He paid tribute to teachers everywhere who are a dedicated service by young lives in the proper James Milton Case, who Harold Gross, and Messers. ton and Hunt of formed a committee to make the final selection, told of difficulties the committee perienced in selecting the ner. He said in making choice, they realized their sponsibilities at all times. Following the program, freshments were served to present. pay ffrovided. The city has needed such an which has at last been possible by the great interest the young men of the town. A meeting was held last day night for the purpose discussing the fire engine. other meeting will be held Friday night to repaint it, work the engine and to to other improvements. More hose will be for the engine as the funds available. Fog nozzles, the latest in fire fighting ment, will also be secured. Plans are being made for fire fighting training here for the benefit of workers with the fire ment. Mr. Johnson of the Fire Dept, will conduct course. HERE EACH TUESDAY The Navy Recruiter Chattanooga will be at the Office every Tuesday at A M. to interview young tnd women interested in ing o the Navy. | member help them with task. “The Rising Fawn Sr. club has purchased road e rs to mark the roads to surrounding communities th * Junior club * in the cess of having the stage redecorated, Why not visit your ity 4-H club meetings and what we are doing. Come some of our Council and see the boys and girls part in the proceedings. “And remember, a word o encouragement instead of word o f criticism will gratifying rewards to you, boy, and your girl.” NOTES TO 4-H CLUB MEMBERS, LEADERS The 375 4-H Club leaders and parents are to congratulated for the ing job they are doing in moting farm and home jects and community Published Weekly—Since 1901 NUMBER 7 Red Cross Fund Drive opens Disaster struck close to Dade County last month. Jackson County to our west and Walker County on our east were hit hard and when disaster strikes the Red Cro:s is on the job. AS of last week 17 Walker County families had applied f c r Red Cross Disaster Relief. In August of 1955, only four disaster operations in the his¬ tory of the American Red Crcs: exceeded in destruction costli¬ ness the Easter floods, which swept over six states. The sud¬ denness of the calamity and the violence of the streams swollen by an abnormal hurricane rain¬ fall brought death and injury to hundreds. All told, 180 people perished and more than 7,000 suffered injury or sickness. During the first week following the disast¬ er, Red Cross sheltered and fed 46,000 people who were driven frem their homes. To help the injured and ill, nearly 800 pro¬ fessional nurse volunteers were mobilized by chapters and staff disaster nurses; and 600 trained disaster workers were drawn from every part of the United States to aid thousands of chap¬ ter volunteers in the huge task agronomy course FRIDAY, MARCH 16 County Agent L. C. Adam; v/ill preside at the County-Wide Agronomy Short Course which will be held Friday, March 16 at the Courthouse. All those in¬ terested are urged to arrive by 10 a. m. in order for the course to get underway. The program will be as fol¬ lows: The The 4-H 4-H unteer unteer their t h e l r services services exert exert tremendous tremendous influence in luence on on lives lives of of club club men members J be ^ s and anc familiees. familiees. One One of of the e most mos portant portant contributions contn u ions t o o ers. ers work W ° rk These These is iS that that men men made and and by women women the ' V - courage project activities, the club members in order they will be able to preside meetings, take part on and work together in This training is one of the important a c t i v i ties of work. f Boys and girls who have active club members are in important positions they go to college or when take their places in the ness world. It is encouraging agents and leaders when see former 4-H members hear them say that their Club activities have meant s much to them. Many of former members say that wish they again had the tunity to be an active 4-H of caring for the victims and helping them back to normal living conditions. In the emergency period that follows every disaster, many agencies and organizations co¬ operate to meet the immediate needs of people for such basic things as shelter, food and clothing. Then comes the long and a r d u ous road back for those who suffered great loss and who have inadequate re¬ sources to get back on their feet unaided. Here Red Cross plays a major part, acting as the agent of the American people who provide the organization with funds. Almost 80 per cent of every dollar Red Cross ex¬ pends on disaster goes to help families become self-sustaining citizens again. A11 Red Cross aid to disaster victims is an out-right gfit. Nothing is sold. Nothing is loaned. Once a year, the Red Cross asks for funds to continue its many services of which Disaster Relief is a major one. When your neighbor, serving as a Red Cross volunteer, calls on you asking you to join the Red Cross, give generously that your gift may serve for you as you would do if you were there. 30 minutes — Pasture Produc¬ tion — J. R. Johnson, Exten¬ sion Agronomist, Project lead¬ er' 45 minutes — Corn Production —W. H. Gurley, Extension Ag¬ ronomist 30 minutes — Cotton Produc¬ tion — W. H. Sell, Extension Agronomist, Cotton 15 minutes — Summary by County Agent Adams. a'once a ance ance of of taking taking full lu I advantage a a tage of t all the le opportunities s offered, ' Individual ” projects taken . , by the e club c u member m with uith the the ad¬ vice and assistance of the par¬ ents. A \ club J member , mZt\nc who , sel- wt lects -_ c - s the project P must know that the project belongs . . to him ar.d whatever profit is derived after expenses are paid should belong to the club member for his own use. By giving the club member his own calf, chickens or corn project a family is not creating expense, but is training a boy or girl to do with their hands something that will be of value to them both in money and experience. Complete records should be kept on each project, and this gives valuable.training in rec¬ ord keeping. Parents of 4-H Club members o are urged to learn more about the 4-H Club program in order that they may give more assist¬ ance to their boys and girls. L. C. Adams, County Agent
