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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 31, 1957)
THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY JANUARY 31, 1957 ■ ! > Now Open for Business! BUCK GIFFORD’S STANDARD OIL STATION in the New, Modern Station On the Square Trenton, Ga. Phone 7-4251 First-Hand Account of Tornado Told By West Granddaughter, Nashville Resident The following letter was writ¬ ten by Mrs. Charles Riddle (Mar¬ tha, McCurdy Riddle), who is the daughter of Mrs. and Mrs. L. L. McCurdy, and granddaughter of Mr. and M5rs. W. J. West of Pud- dilji Ridge. In it she tells of her experiences during the tornado which hit Nashville, Tenn., Jah. 21, 1957: Wednesday, Jan. 23, 1957. Dear Folks: 5 To give you a clear picture of ithe' whole gruesome mess I’ll start with events earlier in the day. The entire day was dark and rainy with a little wind. It was so dark in the house that I burned a. few lights in some of (the rooms. About 4 o’clock I sat down in the den to study my iflower arranging book and I was completely absorbed in that ,and wasn’t (paying much atten¬ tion to the weather. I hadn’t had the radio on all day long so I didn’t know tornado warn¬ ings were out—I guess that was a blessing for I would have been petrified and as it was I didn’t have time to get scared. Heard Roar • At about 4:30'the light's be¬ gan to dim and the wind picked up considerably and the rain was coming down in sheets hori¬ zontally. I cut the light out in the den and walked into the back bedroom to cut the lamp out on my dresser. At about that time I heard a roar that sounded ttike a train and I don't know why, but I knew instantly that the safest place to get was on the floor in the southwest cor¬ ner. Well, I was in the south¬ west bedroom so I hit the floor and stuck my head under the bed. I had no sooner hit the floor than a big chunk of wood came sailing in through the bed¬ room window and glass flew everywhere. The chunk of wood took glass and supporting wood¬ en strips out. It didn’t last but what seemed a bare few minutes and all the sound was gone and it was just raining. I got up (shaking all over, but relatively calm) and if lew out into the garage and pulled the master switch to cut off the current and found a large shag rug to cover up the hole in the window so the rain wouldn’t blow in. Then I put a jacket on and went out into the garage to look for my boots but I couldn’t find them so I waded across the street in my low-cut ishoes (to heck with wet feet) and went over to Dot Hull’s. I needed companionship right bad at that time. It was not until I got to Dot’s that it came over M what had actually happened and then I got scared. We had j no telephone service so I couldn’t call Charles and I had to wait until her husband got home from work to take me to a telephone. Glass Slivers My bed and dresser are scratched by glass, not real bad (and I think we can rub of it out. The opposite wall the window is pitted and ered with tiny slivers of (the room will have to be painted I suppose). There is large hole torn in the rim of iroom and shingles are off ever the back and the front the roof, the guttering the back has been split by ing debris, storm windows (along the back have cracked. The (glass in my on the patio is gone pletely and we think it have hit the house next and shattered. That’s about Ithe damage we sustained as ,as we know. The tornado had a path about four houses wide and have started out on the (highway, cut through Meade, through our jumped and then hit Donelson. There is a house directly be¬ hind us that the garage has been .blown in on their new car .and the force of it ripped the side of the house out and all .'the walls on the inside have been torn loose. They will have to move out for repairs and Ithey will run about $6,000, the girl told us. Their dog was in the garage and he was blown about two blocks but came home ap¬ parently unhurt. The Rawls’ house behind us (the one with the cyclone fence around the back yard) was damaged con¬ siderably along the front and |the French doors on the back (of the house were buckled in¬ ward by the suction. The rest of the neighborhood sustained mostly roof damage. Red Chap¬ man’s roof is almost completely gone on the back. We have insurance that will completely cover it and we have called a contractor to come and start repairs, but so far he hasn’t shown up. All of them are swamped with calls and it may be tomorrow before he gets here. It’s down in the 20’s now and was spitting snow early but has now cleared. We will be all right as long as it stays clear and doesn’t rain for we have the window covered w r ith a rug, but \ye don’t have anything on the roof. The Rawls’ extra car was sit¬ ting in the back of their house in the driveway and it is heavily damaged by flying debris. There were pieces of lumber sticking straight up all in our front yard and general debris scattered everywhere. Trees down all in *£ S( * tion ' but didn t ld -' d d Charles is home today and I didn’t go to work (as you see I can hardly type as it is and I know I couldn’t get much work done.) Charles will go to De¬ catur and back home tomorrow. He will be here at night the rest of the week. It all seems like a bad dream now, but I dread the Rev. Jesse Mitchell Leaving Piney Post The Piney Grove Baptist Church is to lose its first full¬ time pastor. The Rev. Jesse C. Mitchell has received a call and has accepted to go to the River¬ side Baptist Church in Tiftonia. In September of 1953, the Rev. Mr. Mitchell was called to the Piney Church for duty on Sun¬ days only. In March of 1954, he was called for full-time work in the field and, with his wife and daughtej, Carolyn, moved to Trenton. This is the first time jin the history of this church that there has been a full-time pastor. During Mr. Mitchell’s adminis¬ tration an $11,000.00 debt has been paid off and there is $1,- 100.00 in the building fund. Sun¬ day school enrollment has gone from 90 to 154 with a year’s av¬ erage attendance of 101. There, have been 53 baptized and four ideacons ordained. Two preach¬ ers, Charles Pryor and Bill Hampton, members of this church, were ordained while Mr. Mitchell was pastor. Mr. Mitchell says he appre¬ ciates all the friends he has made whilee here and the kind¬ ness shown him and his family by all the (people of Dade. New Pastor The Rev. Thomas Schild \tiil be the new full-time pastor and will start his duties Feb. 1. While here, Mr. Schild, with his wife and child, will make his home in Piney. HOME DEMONSTRATION AGENT’S COLUMN One-fourth of the average family food budget goes for meat, a survey made by the U.S. Dept, of Agriculture shows. The study also found that it costs $7.68 a week to feed the average American. Because meat is one one of the more expensive foods ;to produce, extra care should be taken in the selection, stor¬ age, and preparation of meat. Meat is one of the foods that should be bought with thrift and cooked with care. In Athens, Miss Mary Gibbs, nutritionist for the College of Agricutlture Ex¬ tension Service, said a series of 23 meat courses being held in Georgia is planned to give home¬ makers help in getting the most for their meat dollar and in learning better, more economi¬ cal w r ays of preparing the dif¬ ferent kinds and cuts of meat. Miss Gibbs pointed out that the cheaper cuts and grades of meat, if prepared right, are just as full of food value and every bit as tasty as the higher-priced steaks and roasts. They take more time in cooking and more skill in the seasoning. The Ex¬ tension Specialist pointed out that the tender cut of beef gen¬ erally come from the rib and loin and make up only about a fourth of the carcass. They recommend learning the other three-fourths of the meat se¬ lections. Classified according to their cooking uses, these less expensive cuts of beef are: steaks, chuck, shoulder, flank, round and rump; pot roasts— chuck ribs, cross arm, clod,* round and rump; stews—neck, plate, brisket, flank, shank and! hell of round. All the cuts in plump young lamb and pork are tender, and with veal, rib and loin usually are more tender than the rest. The specialist urged homemak¬ ers to study cuts of meat, dishes that are especially suited for, and methods of cooking them. next black cloud I see. Guess that’s the whole story. I am feeling all right now and am certainly not hurt in any way so I consider myself very lucky. We are so much better off than most of the neighbors so we are not complaining. OBITUARY SAM D. CHANDLER Sam D. Chandler, 08, of Ris¬ ing Fawn died Jan. 24. He is sur¬ vived by his wife, Mrs. Lillian Chandler; a son, Gerald Chan¬ dler, both of Rising Fawn; three brothers, Luther and Abe Chan¬ dler, both of LaFayette, and Charlie Chandler of Summer¬ ville, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held from the Trinity Method¬ ist Church, near LaFayette, with Rev. Jimmie Ball and Taylor Castleberry, both from Rising Fawn, officiating. Pallbearers were nephews. Interment was in the Trinity Cemetery. SAVINGS TODAY .... PROSPERITY TOMORROW! The amount of money that you save, no doubt, looks like a small amount, but by regular saving that amount grows and grows into a sizeable sum that will enable you to make ' your future secure. IS YOUR BEST ASSURANCE OF FUTURE PROSPERITY! A REGULAR AND ADEQUATE SAVING PLAN Deposit with the Bank of Dade where you will receive 2Vc Percent interest and each account is insured up to $1M00.00. BANK OF DADE TRENTON, GEORGIA \ • Member of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 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