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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (May 17, 1956)
Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVI The Dade County Times Is receipt of the following May 14, 1956 Mrs. Catherine C. Morrison, The Dade Coun by Timtes Trenton, Georgia Dear Mrs. Morrison: The Georgia Rural Roads thority is moving ahead on program of i m p r o v ing county roads, in cooper with the State Highway H a v ing already awarder contracts for the struction or reconstruction o roads costing $12,000,000. Rural Roads A u t h o rity agreed to finance of an additional 760 miles rural county roads by issue awarded contracts for the for $15,500,000. The projects to be ed with funds from the issue include 176 road loocated in 112 counties in state, and among these will the roads described in the tached descriptions and lying your county or in the served by your newspaper. We believe that the efforts of the State Board and the Georgia Roads Authority toward road improvement the state will be successful giving very helpful traffic vice to areas that would wise have to wait for much longer. Feeling that these are of interest to your we are sending you this mation and hope that it prove useful to you in news colums. Yours very truly, Georgia Rural Roads Roger H. Lawson Chairman The description of the roads involved was sent by Georgia Rural Roads and encllosed with the letter. DADE COUNTY — PR 2165 1.882 miles of grading paving of Piney Road, ning at State Route 143 imately one mile east of ton and extending north Piney Grove Church. The proposed project, ing at a point on State Rute between Trenton and Canyon State Park, and Before Deadline The Tax Commissioner re- ports that about 50 more people registered before the May 6 deadline. (In order to vote in the f^ 11 elections It was neces¬ sary to register before May 6.) Even this increase leaves too many in the county who are el¬ igible to vote but have not reg¬ istered. For the county primary elect¬ ions last spring, there were "The Professor Threw BY FRANCES GREENE Johnny Mize, the great kee hitting star once sa i “Walt throws a spitball the others just spit on it throw.” He was talking about Dad, Dr. H. B. Forester, for past 17 years head of the ology department a t Georgia College in Dad was Johnny's coach at Piedmont College Demorest, Georgia and doubt he would be going as a pitcher if the had not been ruled illegal. doesn’t take speed to throw spitter, just control. In case you’re wondering, “spitter” was a ball that goed up to home plate,, lly said “hi” to the batter then, with a slight bow, ed into the catcher’s mitt UNHIT. I f the pitcher chewing a little slippery the ball paused long enough grin. Fact is, -an executive the major leagues said a year ago that the should be legalized again order t o help the c^tch u p with the Whether or not he was right a tit (Kottitiii tints ing .north is reputed to had its origin as an Indian more than 150 years ago. It now known locally as Mill Road or Morrison Road. Piney Grove Church, about midpoint of the was e s t a blished in 1870, been of continuous service ce n t e r of community activity since its founding. Farming is the p r i n source of livelihood of the com¬ munity however, and because its proximity to the area of Chattanooga, a of local resdents their farm income by commut¬ ing to and from employment that area. Present traffic along the pro¬ posed project is about 200 ve¬ hicles per day. DADE COUNTY — PR 1815 (1) 1.252 miles of grading and paving on the State Route 143- State Route 301 road, beginning at State Route 143 approxima¬ tely 3.5 miles west of Trenton and extending north to State Route 301 at White Oak Gap. The proposed improvement lies along a sec tion of the “Brow” road of Sand Mountain to the west of Trenton, con¬ necting the Magby Gap Road with the White Oak Gap Road. Prior to its construction, ap. proximately 25 years ago, con- tiouous traffic along the Sand Mountain Brow road was re¬ quired to leave the brow of the mountain, descend to a junc¬ tion of the two roads on the east face of the mountain and again ascend to the brow of the mountain over difficult grades. The present road connecting the two gap roads which are now both a part of the State High¬ way System offers a continuous route along Sand Mountain ex¬ tending from Alabama north¬ erly to the Tennessee State line The scenic beauty of the area is unparalleled, the panoramic view of the valley, including Trenton and the Lookout Moun¬ tain on the opposite side, has possibilites of becoming a noted tourist attraction if given ade¬ quate publicity. Present traffc along the pro¬ posed project is about 75 ve¬ hicles per day. 3918 registered i n the county. The Board of Registars will not meet until the middle of June to compile the voter’s list and to know the exact number now registered who will be able to vote in the state primary and general elections this fall. There have' been a few regis¬ trations since May 6, mostly by young people just coming of age. anybody’s guess, but, at least, it helps to describe a “spitter,” ( for a good spitball pitcher was i not afraid to use it on a 3-2 count; he had that much con¬ fidence in his control. I practically grew up with the “spitter,” for I followed Dad like his shadow to the baseball field levery summer. Incidentally, I was still with him in the fall at the football field, and in winter at the basket ball court. I’ve heard him called “Walt” by some, “Coach” by others, and in later years, “Doc Harry.” But it was only this week that I prevail¬ ed upon him to divulge the full secret of the almost lost art of I throwing the spitball. I would like to say that base- ball was as much a part of his growing up on Lookout Moun- tain as the hundreds of heads of cattle that he and his broth¬ ers herded to Chattanooga, 30 miles away, twice a year to put on sale. And like any kid, he worked like a Trojan on week¬ days, but “come” Saturdays he was off on his horse down the mountain to play baseball with his favorite team. Later, at prep school, he did all right,> Devoted to the Best Interests ot Dade County and THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MAY 11 1956 . Sports J. B. Geddie ************************ Cedar Grove and continued without a loss in week’s G a. Volunteer Cedar Grove outlasted Cove to 9 and Wildwood bested Fayette 13 to 6. Covte-Cedar Game Jim Holsomsack and Verban Payne were the big guns Cedar Grove in their over Cove. Line Scores R H Cove .............. 9 14 Cedar Grove ........ 14 14 Batteries: Brock and Parish, Strickland. Huff, Payne Bates. La Fayette - Wilidwood Jack and Bobby Fugatt hit long home runs while ston Whittle pitched two ball as Wildwood without at loss by LaFayette 13 to 6. Line Scores R H LaFayette .......... 6 2 Wildwood .......... 13 15 Batteries: Gilbreath and ney. Whittle and Sims Durham - New Salem Durham scored six runs in first inning and were headed to hand New Salem Trenton Water Service Water service in Trenton was interrupted Tuesday while work was going on on the water lines. The pressure had been getting weaker since Monday morning and it was found necessary to cut off the entire system for about three hours to work on it. On Monday, when the pres¬ sure was reported to be low, work was immediately started to locate the trouble. The tanks on Sand Mountain were found to be full and the strainers not unduly clogged. The line was tested until dark on Monday .without success Working again Tuesday it was believed that the water have to be cut off the test each section of pipe. The school was notified and was closed early, the water was cut off where it enters the city and the flush¬ ing out of each section was be¬ gun. Though nothing was found in the pipes, in some cases the water did come out a muddy color. It was believed that the pressure from the flash flood we had May 6 had caused dirt too seep into the lines and It could have been that enough accumulated in some places to slow up the pressure of water too, and then at Piedmont College he became a biology teacher and coach while still working on his degree. Base¬ ball was more or less a side¬ line then and he played to bring In that extra mon*ty which amounted to a sack full of silver dollars every S&tur-! day night. The“sp4tter” was his pride and joy. His hours of patient practice on Lookout were paying off. In one season alone, he pitched Bona Allen’s Buford team to win 14 games out of 16. The ball was entirely legal and the best a rival man¬ ager could do was find a spit¬ ball pitcher of his own or sit there and swear silently. To bring in that extra mon¬ Doctor Harry played in the Florida East Coast League, too, and last summer he returned to his old stamping ground for couple of weeks. Thirty or years may seem a long time i to some folks, but down around: Cocoa, especially around the fire house, they still remember certain games with a certain pitcher when that “splitter” 3 breaking. After the Florida Dad spent his off-sum- mer from teaching in Ken- third loss without a victory 20 to 8. Charles and Lamar Mas¬ sey led Durham at bat while Bobby Lee batted in three runs for the losers. Line Scores R H E Durham ............ 20 21 5 New Salem .......... 8 13 5 Batteries: Hudson and Blevins. B. Bradford, Gray, H. Moore and Moore, A. Bradford. Dade Co. - Davis Davis scored almost at will to swamp Dade County 28 to 10 in a runfast. Sherman Avans and Sonny Daniel clouted homers and Roy McMahan batted in 5 runs to take their fourth victo¬ ry with one loss. Line Scores R H E Dade County ....... 10 15 10 Davis .............. 28 21 8 Batteries: Callahan, Kilgore, B. Owenby, Hartline, Alexander and Haley. Ellison, S. Avans and Page. Wildwood invades Cove this week in the top contest of the loop. This Week’s Schedule Cedar Grove at Dade County Wildwood at Cove Davis at Durham New Salem at LaFayette into the north end of the city. The lines have now been cleared. Mayor A. L. Dyer, City Councilman C. E. Kyzer and Dudley Cureton were there with others during the work Mon¬ day and Tuesday. An engineer from the company in Atlanta, which was in charge of enlarg¬ ing the system some years ago, has been sent for to recheck the lines. CANCER CRUSADE The Cancer Crusade for funds will close May 31, Chairman J y. Jenkins has announced The crusade to educate all about cancer goes on alJ year but is [funds, intenslfied during the drive for This year’s slogan, “Fight Cancer with a check up and a check” stresses both the im¬ portance of guarding your own health and giving to help with the research to find a cure for this dread disease. Dade County’s goal, this year, is $356.00 There are chairman in each comm unity through whom you may give your con¬ tribution or leave it with the chairman in his office at Court House. tucky, playing in the coal near Lynch and Benham. once, when the Lynch heard that he was going pitch against them for hiam, the boys persuaded the druggist not to sell him slippery elm. The Harvester Company, -for he was playing, let him from work and he scoured surrounding mountains he found the bark. Next day beat Lynch, 4-.1. Another time,, he was ing for Buford against All Stars of Atlanta. The was played in Covington before it ended, he had searched by the police, the manager and a bystander. fact, he was almost on the diamond as they for emery, sandpaper or ffin. Actuallly, it was only the “Spitter” was that day and Pack’s stars had eight hitters and only one e r in the line-up. The 8-0. And the WAS LEGAL, Why was it outlawed? haps there are many but It was placed in the category with the emery Commencement time is nearly iere and the schedule of events at the 2 high schools is being completed. DADE COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL Dade County High School will hold their Class Night on Thurs¬ day, May 31 at the school audi¬ torium. Awards will be present¬ ed by P r i n c i pal J. C. Billue. Among the many other events the Class History and Prophecy will be given. The evening will be closed by the singing of the Alma Mater. P a r t i c i p 'ating will be Sam Kenimer, Don Vaughn, Linda Blevins, Coundinia Clark, Sheroy Everette, Aileen Harrison, Bob¬ bie Jean Harrison, Helen Fores¬ ter, Bobby Lee, Clara Nell Wil¬ liams, Louada Lynn, Linda Wool- bright and Dickie Sutton. Baccalaureate The Baccalaureate Service will be Sunday June 3 at 3 o’clock. Rev. H. B. Abshire, from the Brainerd Methodist Church in Chattanooga, will give the ser¬ mon. Mr. Joe Mayhew, from the Trenton Church of Christ, will give the Invocation and Rev. R. L. Hilten, Trenton Methodist Church, will give the Benedic¬ tion. The High School Glee Club will sing two numbers and Mus¬ ic Instructor, Mr. Keith Delk RISING FAWN MAN HURT AS TRUCK OVERTURNS Raymond Weeks, 32, of Ris¬ ing Fawn, Ga. was injured ser¬ iously early Monday afternoon when a logging truck he was driving overturned at the first curve going up Lookout Moun¬ tain. Weeks s u f f f e red a frontal fracture of the skull, fracture of the left leg, severe cuts of the scalp and right side and multiple contusions and abra¬ sions. He was admitted to a Chattanooga hospital in a semi¬ conscious condition. Weeks told hospital authori¬ ties he was on the verge of leaping from the truck cab when the vehicle got out of control, but decided at the last moment to “stay with it”. It is believed that Weeks was crowded off the road by another truck or a car. The lumber truck is owned by H. C. Moore and was not loaded at the time of the accident. POLIO VACCINE There have been 590 persons in Dade County to receive two doses of the polio vaccine. The age limit has been changed and is now given to children from six months old to their 20th birthday. It is given at the Dade Coun¬ ty Health Center on Friday and Saturday mornings. and other unfair pitches. Some threw what is called a “shine” ball using paraffin; still others roughed up the cover with sandpaper. Many of these il¬ legal pitches were used by un¬ scrupulous pitchers even when the “spitter” was legal. Now, what IS a “spitter’’? According to Doctor Harry, the saliva on the ball makes it slip- peery and causes it to leave the fingers first.Usually the pitcher used dust or resin on his thumb to give better control and to cause the ball to leave the thumb last. The bit of moisture that was on the ball gave it just a half spin as it left the fingers first. The ball floated without turning or spinning toward the plate with the air pilling against the saliva. At 60 feet and a few inches, this woulld cause the ball to take a sudden drop — if thrown over¬ hand. If the side arm were used, the ball would curve a- way from a right-hand hitter. By dusting the first two fin¬ gers and then using saliva on the thumb and throwing over¬ hand, the speed would cause the ball to HOP. It would not HOP as much as It would DROP Published — will play the processional and recessional. Graduation Graduation exercises will b e Monday, June 4, and the theme this year is “Our School in Transition”. Supt. of Schools, Roy W. Moore and Principal Billue will present the diplomas. The Dade County High School Capella Choir, under the direc¬ tion of Mr. Keith Delk, will sing two numbers. P a t r i eia Ann Neely is the Valedictorian and Carolyn June Fulghum is Salu- tatorian of this year’s class. The other four to win top scholastic honors are Kay Elizabeth T«»- um, Mary Clyde Smith, Thelma Sue McMahan and H a r old Lee Shankles. It is expected there will be 38 who will receive their diplomas. DAVIS HIGH SCHOOL The Davis High School will hold its Baccalaureate Service on May 27. Commencement Ex¬ ercises will be June 1. There will be no Class Night Program. There are 14 listed to receive their diplomas, three of whom are veterans. The Junior-Senior play, “Up the Hill to Paradise” will be giv¬ en May 25 and 26. RISING FAWN *SCHOOL The Rising Fawn School will have no closing of school exer¬ The Dade County ment of Public Welfare is in process o f moving from old quarters on the second of the County Courthouse the new M o r r i son Their modern new office is cated in the basement on north-ease corner of the ing and can be entered at level on the Cole Street side. In addition to the new for County Director Mrs. ryn Davis, there is a room and a room for the ceptionist Miss Imogem Blevins, Another great improvement ov- New Baptistry at Trenton Church of Christ The new Baptistery at the Trenton Church of Christ was used Sunday for the first time. This baptism service was the culmination of a Revival which had been conducted all week by Mr. Sam Conley of Chattanoo¬ ga. Miss Geraldine Smyth, of Slygo, was the first person to be baptised in the new pool. This Baptistery has been built behind the pulpit with door-like curtains to close it off when not In use. The whole is so con¬ structed that it is in full.view of those in the auditorium. Light blue has been used for the color theme and the pool is deep enough to stand over when the dust and saliva were reversed, but the ball was | harder to hit as well as harder on the catcher. However, as Doc laughingly recalls, there was one catcher, the All-Ameri¬ can foqtball player from Van¬ derbilt, Josh Cody, who would always call for the fast UP- SPITTER. He loved it — and he could take it. The “spitter” was hard on the infielders, too as sometimes in a hurried throw of a batted ball, it would get away from them because of the slick place. However, a glove full of dust could counteract that. Even when it was outlawed in the Southern Association, some leagues could still carry one spitball pitcher on each club. The majors let each “Spitter” continue, throw ing the pitch until he was through but no new pitchers could come into the leagues. Burley Grimes and Clarence Mitchell were the last of the great spitball pitch¬ ers in the majors. It has been said that oppos¬ ing managers went so far as to put mustard oil on the ball so that a “Spitter” would come up with a blistered mouth. “I NUMBER 17 cises this year because in De¬ cember of last year another grade was added—the first year of high school. NORTH*DADE *SCHOOL The North Dade Elementary School will hold Certification Exercises ' June 1, 1956. There are 23 on the list to receive their certificates as having fin¬ ished grammar school. Principal L. C. McHughes will present the diplomas and will al o give the graduating address. Others on the pro gram are Tommy Lawson, class president, Ronnie Fuller, Caro lyn Ford, Alojean Word, Joyce Patterson and Linda Cole. The program will also include several songs, a prayer, Invoca¬ tion and Benediction. * HOOKER SCHOOL Mrs. Lula D. Paris, Principal of Hooker School wishes to an¬ nounce the graduating exercise of the Hooker School will be May 20 at 3:00 p. m. in the Mt. Calvery Baptist Church. Rev. Edd Angles from Chat¬ tanooga will bring the message. Graduates are Buerena Vesta Paris ’and Melvin Lenard Paris. They are the children of Mr. Paris. Reserved seats for white friends. * the one room office in the 1 Courthouse is the large amount of storage space and a wash room connected to the offices, The walls and ceiling are whUe and the concrete floor has been painted a grey-blue, The state board of Public Wel- fare recommended the change of offices and along w’th the county has pur cna c ea new equipment w h i ch was well needed. The Welfare Depart-ment has been located in the Court House since it opened about 19 years ago. deep in. it is planned to pictures hung on the walls a later date. Special long robes have been made for in the baptizing services. EASTER SEAL DRIVE The Dade County Easter Seal for funds for crippled netted $111.00 this year. has been forwarded to the association. Chairman L. C. Adams thanks those who gave for their fine in answering the call and their money to Treas. J. Hale to help crippled chil¬ had that happen to me although the late Kid Clay at Tech told the story on me, Doc recalls. “Would you have gone on in science, even if the ‘spitter’ had not been outlawed?” I asked him “Yes”, he says slowly. “Though I still like baseball” he adds quickly. “However, teaching — teaching of biology — is really my first interest .... ” And, deep down, I really know that it is, too. But I can’t help but wonder sometimes — especially when spring, in all its glory and baseball, rolls a- round—if he wouldn’t just like to pitch one more time a no¬ hit game, using the “spitter”? Legally, that is. Maybe it won’t come into its own again; maybe it will. But in any event, I am keeping in a safe place the diagrams he drew' for me. Surely, one of his three grandsons can master the HOP or the DROP. (This article is published with the permission of Mrs. Frances Greene and The At¬ lanta Journal and Constitution who first published it in their Sunday Magazine section)
