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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1956)
mk (f UNIVERSITY OF Duntt) Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVI Many Changes at Newspaper Office For years daily papers have been putting out tabloid size newspapers. Recently have tried it successfully so thought we would try it. Hope you will like it. Other changes are in the sonnel. We still have not able to get anyone to replace L Morgan who left last week the U. S. Air Force. We tele¬ phoned Tampa, Florida, Mr. Jorge Mascunana is working with his family in print shop and he has come back to help us out for two weeks. Mr. George McClure still with us. There are also changes in the front office. Mrs. Patsy McKaig is only working a day and half a week but Mary Lee Bruner, who will be a Junior at Cade High School next will be here every day. She been studying journalism and typing and we welcome her the staff. Two Minor Taxi driver Horace Baty’s car was slightly damaged struck by a car occupied by two negroes from Birmingham, Ala. The negroes car was north when another car out in front of them near the Shell Service Station south the Trenton square, when driver slammed on his brakes his car slid into Baty’s car. No one was njured. The Negroes were charged with speeding. Another minor accident oc- cured on a curve at White Oak Gap when a car turned over, badly damaging the car but in¬ juring no one. Sheriff Allison Blevins states he does not know who was driving the auto as no one has claimed the old model car, and no one admits having been in the car at the time of the accident. The car is at the Shell Service Station, and has an Alabama license. It is be¬ lieved the driver, who ever he is was drunk at the time of the wreck. Fire-fighting School For Local Volunteers There will be a two day school on fire fighting at Rome, Georgia, June 11 and 12. Classes will begin at 9:00 a. m. and end at 4:30 p. m. Anyone interested in attending this school is ask¬ ed to contact Cleron Kyzer. Transportation will be arrang¬ ed and those who go will stay in the firehall in Rome and in case of a fire while they are there, may get a chance to ride the engine as firemen. Lodging will be free, only the meals will cost. Chief Barfied of Marietta, Georgia, will teach all phases of ladder work, Captain Wil- lianson of the Rome Fire De¬ partment will teach hose, Cap¬ tain Johnston will teach small tools, Captain Millican, pump oipe r ait i on, and Raymond Smith, hydraulics. This school is conducted for volunteers and paid firemen Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JUNE 7, 7956 Cedar Grove continued to pace the Ga. Volunteer league this week by winning their eighth straight. Wildwood was the victim this time, dropping a close contest 9 to 5. Wildwood - Cedar Grove Seven costly errors by the Wildwood infielders led to the Cedar Grove victory. Bobby Fu- gatt led the bat attack for Wildwood with a long home run and three runs batted in. R H E Wildwood ............ 6 8 7 Cedar GHrove ..........9 6 6 Batteries: McClendon, Whittles and Sims. Payne and Bass. Davis - New Salem Davis climbed to third place in the league as they belted out Avans and Herman McMahan 19 hits to emerge victorius over New Salem 19 to 10. Sherman with three hits each were the bat stars for Davis as Lavon Daniel pitched well. Ralph Sim¬ mons produced the fielding gem of the year by making a spectacular catch of Arlie Bradford’s long drive to right center field. R H E Davis .............. 19 19 4 New Salem ......... 10 6 9 New Phones Added Since Directory New telephones have been going in almost daily. Most of the new ones which have been added since the Directory came out the middle of May are in Morganville and New England. Cut the following list out and paste in in your directory on page 17 which says “New Subscribers” added. Buffington, B. L, Trenton, Geeorgia...............Oliver 7-4862 Burrell, Murphy M., Avans, Georgia................Oliver 7-3275 Cross, Carl E., Trenton, Georgia....................Oliver 7-4645 Davidson, Floyd, Trenton, Georgia, Rt. 1............Oliver 7-3513 GOM, o. J-, Trenton, Georgia.......................Oliver 7-4083 Keeton, J. W. (Bill), Rising Fawn, Ga., Rt. 1.......Oliver 7-4747 Massey, George, Wildwood, Georgia................Oliver 7-4312 McBryar, Donald, Trenton, Georgia, Rt. 1...........Oliver 7-3518 McBryar, Doyle, Trenton, Rt. 1.....................Oliver 7-3515 McKaig, Leonard, Trenton, Georgia................Oliver 7-3363 Reeves, Earl, Wildwood, Georgia....................Oliver Reeves, Kenneth, Rising Fawn, Georgia, Rt. 1......Howard 2-3316 Robertson, Virgil, Wildwood, Georgia...............Oliver 7-4237 Shelton, John T., Trenton, Georgia, Rt. 2 ...........Oliver 7-3147 Tinker, Estel, Trenton, Georgia, Rt. 2...............Oliver 7-3145 NUMBERS CHANGED A few numbers have been changed or were listed incorrectly in the Directory. Please check them with your directory and change them. Listed under “Q” is Canova Guinn which should have been listed under “G”. CORRECT NUMBER Fischer, M. A.......................................Oliver 7-4711 Hutchison, N. H., M. D„ Residence...................Oliver 7-3163 Lacy, Hubert ...........-..........................Oliver 7-3683 Walker, M. A........................................Oliver 7-4712 MEMORIAL SERVICE JUNE 17 TRENTON BAPTIST CEMETERY There will be a memorial ice at the Trenton Baptist Ce- metery, Sunday, June 17 at 4:00 PM. Every one interested in Sports By J. B. Geddie Batteries: L. Daniel, s. Avans and Parrish, Page, Ellison. E. Bradford,, D. Gray and Neal Durham - Dade County Garnet Blevins with three hits led the Durham attack as Dade County lost their sixth straight game. Loyd Raines collected three hits for the los¬ ers. R H E Durham .......... 12 9 3 Dade .......... 5 8 5 Batteries: Hudson and Blevins. Cook and Finney. This weeks schedule: New Salem at Wildwood. Dadie County at Cove. Layfayette at Durham. Play gets under way week in the American Legion Junior League with Trenton traveling 1 0 Red Bank on Thursday. These games will be played on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s starting at 5 o’clock P. M. The league is composed of Trenton, Red Bank, Athens, Central and City. Trenton’s en¬ try is managed by Dade County High School’s coach Mr. Delmas Freeman, and sponsored by Trenton Legion Post No. 106. the Cemetery is invited to at- tend. This will be “Father’s Day” and seems an the appropriate Fathers, j to honor Grandfathers and Great Grand fathers of most of us. Grace Nethery,, Secretary. Published Weekly — Since 1901 Trenton Streets Get Black Work started Monday morn¬ ing on the repaving and laying of new paving on some of the streets in Trenton. For weeks we have seen the county trucks hauling and dumping dirt on these streets to prepare them for the crushed rock and as¬ phalt. Comng in from Cartersville, which is the State Highway’s headquarters for ths area, are about 12 trucks to carry the rock, two machines to distri¬ bute the asphalt, one heavy road roller, one road broom type sweeper, a crew of about 24 men with a house trailer for them and Bill Neal, who is in the mand Bill Neal, who is in charge of the job. Added to ths is the patrol from the Dade County State maintenance equipmen and the county’s pa¬ trol. Work on the surfacing of the t streets never before surfaced was about completed Tuesday night. These new streets are: Killian Street. Town Street from Highway 11 to Montague Street, Dade. Ave. from Church to First street. ! First Street from Dade to Highway. I Cole Street from Dade Ave. to Court House Square. Farm Gas Tax Refund Available By L. C. Adams, County Agent Dade County Farmers are now eligible for a refund of 2c ' per gallon gasoline used for on farming purposes. This refund is for the amount of Federal tax paid on gasoline when it is purchased. Application blanks for claiming the refund are available at the County Agent’s Officeand at the Bank of Dade in Trenton. The form for making . cation, +• No. XT 2240 00 is very simple , with only 2 or 3 questions to , 1 be an<swe red. Farmers using gas for farming purposes are i also entitled to 5c a gallon re- funcl from State of Georgia, plication should cover the same number of gallons. T ^ e Tri-County Hospital per- ^quef af lookout “ tain Hote i i^ t Friday night. In of the cold weather about 200 were able to attend. The banquet was held in the main dining room of the hotel.' After the meal, Bob Corley from Atlanta, entertained the group with a very amusing monologue. Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Frank M. Gleason, in the members of the Board and County officials and had each hospital worker stand he read the names of 62 to * eceive a ,pin for ' y 5?! S ° continuous service with the h hos ptal> He then read the names more, to receve one year Hospital Administrator asked for a show of hands of these who had been with the since it opened Novem- ber 8, 1953. It seemed like every other person present raised their hand. NUMBER 20 Cole Street from Case Ave. to the school property. The paving of Case Ave. con¬ tinued to Third Street. Third Street from Case Ave. to Highway 11. Second Street from Highway to John Street. Lula Street from School St. to Second Street. Georgia Ave. from Highway to R. R. tracks. The streets already paved and which were resurfaced were Railroad Street from Town St. to the dead end at Church St. Roberson St., Montague St., Crabtree Street, Church Street, part of Case Ave., part of Cole St.. School Street and John St. School Street in Rising Fawn is also included in this projeect and has had an asphalt surface laid. State Senator and in charge of State road maintenance in Dade, John H. Wilkins says that he hopes to get the New England road from the High¬ way to the Community House surfaced while the eequipment is in Dade. Mr. Wilkins also re¬ ports that, except for the pa¬ trol, the rest of the state road equipment assigned to the county is out all over the coun¬ ty carrying out their routine work. Under the Georgia provisions applications for refund must be made for not more than six months periods. Under the fed¬ eral tax refund provisions the first payment will be made on gasoline purchased December 31, 1955 through June 30, 1956. This application must be filed on or before September 30, 1956. Gasoline used “ after July 1st . this ... year J will cover the .. fis- , year period—July . , _ , to , June T 30. Farmers are urged to take advantage of this savings that has been made possible by both " in ing the tax paid on gasoline used in farm production. Attending from Dade were Ordinary and Mrs. R. M. Mor¬ rison, Board Member J. L. Fricks and Mrs. Fricks and Board Member Mrs. Catherine Morrison. Principals Appointed The Dade County School Board has appointed the school principals for the coming year. Mr. J. C. Billue will return to Dade, Mr. D. O. Chumley to Da¬ vis, Mr. L. C. McHughes to North Dade, Mr. J. T. Childress to New Salem and Mrs. Lula Pa¬ ris to Hooker. There will be a new principal at Rising Fawn. Mr. Henry El¬ iott, who has been teaching at Davis since his return from service during World War H, has accepted the principalship ! at Rising Fawn. Mr. Premon Hall, ifho was prncipal for the 1955-56 term, is leaving to re¬ turn to Alabama.
