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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (March 21, 1957)
* * * * Dade County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVII Set April 1 2-13— North Dade PTA To Present Play The North Dade PTA will pre¬ sent on April 12 and 13 a play entitled “A-Feudin’ Over Yon¬ der.” Time for the presentation, which will be held in the school auditorium, has been set for 8 p.m. The two-night performance promises to furnish a store of laughs before the feud ends. Director is Mrs. Mary Town¬ send and members of the cast include Mrs. Eura Moore, Mrs. H. S. Chaffin, Mary Alice Hood, George Carroll, Sr., Elmer Oliver, Mrs. Hazel Moore, Mrs. Imogene Ryan, Walt Smith, L. C. Mc- Hughes, Bill Pullen, J. E. Bras- field, Mrs. Pearl Blevins and Mrs. Sue Oliver. Davis Improvement Club Organized A meeting was held in J^he Da¬ vis High School Lunch Room March 9 for the purpose of organizing the Davis High School Improvement Club. A devotional was given by Rev. Robert Hilten. Mr. D. O. Chum- ley gave a welcoming address, and made a brief report on re¬ cent improvements which have been made in this community. Mr. Ralph Simmons acted as chairman and the following of¬ ficers were elected: President, Mr. George Grant; vice presi¬ dent, Mrs. Bimbo Patton; secre¬ tary, Mrs. Henry Gray, and treasurer, Mr. Chester Lane. Miss Frances entertained at the piano, while Mrs. L. M. Al¬ lison served refreshments. Future meetings of the club will be held at the school the first Saturday night of each month at 7:30. Allpatrons of Davis High School are urged to attend these meeting. Dade County Pastor Is Transferred to Church In Chattanooga Rev. J. M. Ball, Jr., pastor for more than three years of the Rising Fawn Circuit, has been transferred to the Woodmore church in Chatttanooga, effec¬ tive March 15. He will be suc¬ ceeded by the Rev. Richard Looney of Atlanta and Bluefield, W. Va. The Rev. Mr. Ball met his appointtments last Sun¬ day, and Mrs. Ball are moving to Chatttanooga this week. He will be pastor of one of the new¬ er churches in the city. The Rev. Mr. Looney is the son of Rev. and Mrs. Carl Looney of Bluefield, Va. He is a graduate of Emory and Henry College and Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta. He will be married in the immedi¬ ate future. Until June 1 he will serve the Rising Fawn, Byrd’s Chapel and Cave Springs churches on week-ends and give full time upon graduation in May. will Rev. Looney’s fiancee graduate ih August with a ma¬ jor in music and education. The couple plan to be married the first of September. The new pastor, who is 6 feet 6 inches tall, has recently re¬ turned from Scotland where he had a year scholarship. Dade County farm agent, L. C. Adams says he is thrilled that there will be another person in the county taller than he. Devoted to the Geor gia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 21 , 1957 Power Building Here; To the Voltage A 44,000-volt substation is un¬ construction in Trenton by Power Co., and when will give better and uniform voltage to con¬ in the county. The ex¬ of business made it to increase the power -brought from Chickak- A new line was built last year Lookout Mountain from which eased the considerably, but the substation, the first in Dade will enable patrons of company to receive better Located at the top of the hill the LaFayette Highway, the will be completed in near future. Sunday School Be Organized At Sunday The Slygo Methodist Sunday classes will go to the Church, in the New Community, next Sunday, March 24, at 2 p.m. to organize Sunday School classes there. Rev. Charles Holmes, Jr., pas¬ of the Wildwood Circuit which includes the Slygo Church and Mr. Joe Doyle, superintend¬ ent of the Slygo Sunday School, will accompany the Slygo group. They will have the necessary with them and are to organize at least classes and perhaps more. To join a Methodist Sunday School class one does not have to be a member of the church, just to be a person who is seek¬ ing a Christian way of life. The Shantytown Church is the old school house which has been covered with brick siding and in the cemetery yard. Mar¬ vin Holland, Bill Breedlove and Alex Hartline are the trustees for this church and have given for the use of it for these Sunday School classes. R. L. Morgan and Buster Ford, also local people, are among those who are interested in this movement and cooperating with the Slygo group tljiat this work go forth. 17 Attend District Council Meeting Seventeen members of the County Home Demonstra¬ tion Council attended the dis¬ trict council meeting in Sum¬ merville last Friday. They re¬ port a most interesting and in¬ formative session. Those who attended were: Jules Case, H. E. Gross from the Trenton club; Bess Cureton, Mrs. Fred Harrison, Mrs. Irving Friedman Mrs. Lillian Stroud from the Fawn club; Mrs. G. H. from the Avans club; George Carroll, Jr., D. Hancock, Worth Lea, Mary Smith, and Clyde Neely, the Wildwood club; Mrs. Oliver, from the Morgan- club; Mrs. Art Moore and John Jones from New' Miss Naomi Hubble, demonstration agent, and her cousin, Mrs. Nora Schneider. Jury Returns 50 Indictments in Two-Day Session of Court; Draws Traverse Jurors For Criminal Court Set For April 8 The March term of Dade Superior Court con¬ Monday morning, with the Grand Jury appearing Judge John W. Davis. only one short civil case on the docket, Judge Davis that he would not the traverse jury until saw the outcome of the grand session. Twenty-three members of the Jury, with Early A. Ellis foreman, met for only tw r o finding 50 true bills and eight no bills. The group re¬ to Judge Davis late Tues¬ afternoon and a list of pre¬ w'ere read. Since it customary for the f i r st grand jury of the year to in¬ public offices and build¬ ings, these findings were in¬ cluded in the presentments. Judge Davis drew' 74 names from the traverse jury box at 3 p.m. Tuesday and scheduled to report for criminal on Monday, April 8 at 9 a.m. Several continued cases will be tried at this time, as well as the true bills. TRAVERSE JURY To Report April 8, 1957, at 8 aan. 1. M. M. Burrell 2. Clyde Castleberry 4. James C. Case 5. O. H. Ryan 6. Walter Page 7. C. C. Avery 8. Joe Clark 9. C. G. Cooper 10. Ernest Stewart 11. L. H. Street 12. J. R. Cooper, Sr. 13. Mrs. E. A. Ellis 14. J. H. Wilkins 15. Earl C. Clayton 16. J. E. Dickerson 17. Robert Ross 18. J. A. Reeves 19. Chester McCarty 20. J. A. Jenkins 21. C. W. Martin 22. Charlie Ford 23. W. M Wheeler 24. Donald McBryar 25. Charles Bible 26. Ralph L. Cureton 27. J. R. Stephens 28. Rebourn Dabbs 29. C. C. Neely 30. Willis West 31. J. D. Crisp 32. E. R. Wells 33. Sam Jackson 34. Grady McKaig 35. Cecil McKaig 36. Thomas Fulghum 37. Bennett Hallum 38. John G. McGuffey 39. B. R. Davidson 40. H. H. Leatherwood 41. Hardee Price 42. D. C. Carroll 43. Boyd Michaels 44. R. D. Smith 45. R. E. Durham 46. W. H. Brock 47 Granville Bodenhammer 48. J. O. Smith 49. L. J. Bennett 50. J. W. Wooten 51. Grover C. Tatum 52. Malcolm Moore 53. W. C. Cureton, Jr. 54. Floyd Blevins 55. Grady Bradford 56. Kelly Adkins 57. W. G. Morrison, Jr. 58. E. C. Durham 59. Roy DeVries 60. Arvil Bradford 61. Lonnie Reeves 62. A. W. Peck 63. W. L. Ford 64. Jiles Wooten Pub li Best shed Interests We ekly—S of ince Dade 1901_ 65. John A. Murphy 66. Harry Clark 67. James H. Forester 68. Charles Bodenhammer 69. A. S. Doyle 70. George Dagnan 71. Fred Wheeler 72. Charles Ballard 73. T. J. Carroll 74. D. A. McMahan PLEAS ON ACCUSATION Possessing Liquor: J. M, Prestwood, fined $50; Earl Dean, fined $45; Dollan Tishaw, fined $25 and given six months probation sen¬ tence. Public Drunkenness: Charlie Harris, fined $40; Troy Jenkins, fined $40; John Flarity, fined $40; Leonard Talkington, fined $40; Lester Daniel, sentenced three mos. public works camp; Walter Walter Shrader, $75 or 4 mos. in public works camp (paid). Manufacturing Liquor: William H. Prince, 6 months or $400 fine. Drunk at Private Residence: Jack Brown, fined 40. NO BILLS Manufacturing Liquor: Floyd Stone, Roy Stone. Drunk at Private Residence: Homer Bearden, Waymon Ab¬ bott, Allen Daniel. Larceny: Thomas Walden. Burglary: Neal Buchanan, Jerry Watson } Abandonment: Ben Stevens. TRUE BILLS Public Drunkenness: Floyd Daniel, Leroy Hicks, Ray Moore, Ralph Blevins, Charles R. Short, Ray Moore, Franklin Taylor, C. L. Lewis, E. V. Stone, Sam Bell, A. L. Winnie. Lloyd Blevins, Louis Taylor, David Moore, Millard Thomas, Floyd Leon 8homas, Homer Powell. Possessing Liquor: Calvin Cuzzort, Paul Shrader, Roy Buckles, Melvin Porter, John Henry Long, Henry Ste¬ phens, Jesse Jeffrey, Frank¬ lin Taylor, Lloyd Blevins and Billy Leon Clark. Drunk at Private Residence: James Elrod, Ray Moore, Floyd Manus. Louis Taylor, Homer Beardon, Millard Lewis, Ray Buckles, Charles Jeffrey. Assault and Battery: Jimmy Morgan, Bob Long and Mrs. Myrtle Williams. Driving With Improper Brakes: Joseph E. Cason. Driving While Intoxicated: Abie Vaden Smith. Non-Attendance: John Teague, J. P. Forester. Lawrence Hawkins. Roy Wea¬ thers and George Davis. Disturbing Divine Worship: Charles Garrett, Dala Fred Avans, E. A. Defriest and Rob¬ ert Plumlee. Burglary: Douglas Wooten. James Lawrence Huff. Roy Jeffrey. Liquor: Ernest Poore, Sr. or Draft Without Funds: John Clarkson. GRAND JURY PRESENTMENTS GEORGIA, DADE COUNTY: Grand Jury Presentments, March term, 1957, Dade County, Georgia. To the Honorable John W. Davis, Judge Superior Court, of Dade County: We, the members of the Grand Jury for the March Term, 1957, of the Superior Court, make the following presentments: We, the members of the Grand Jury have examined criminal matters and have returned 50 true bills and 8 no bills. We, the members of the Grand Jury select George A. Carroll Jr., as a member of the Dade Coun¬ ty Board of Education to suc¬ ceed E. R. Wells. We, the members of the build¬ ing and inspection committee inspected the Dade County Courthouse and found the same to be clean and in good order except the courtroom and ad¬ joining jury rooms, plaster needs repairing and the same also needs painting. We also found that the plumbing in the basement is inadequate and we recommend that this plastering, painting and plumbing be done. We inspected the Dade County Jail and found the same to be clean and in good order as a jail in its present condition could be kept. The plaster in the kitchen and bedrooms of the Jail need repairing and painting and we recommend that this be done. E. G. Robinson J. H. MicBryar H. E. Groce We, the members of the Office ipspection committee inspected the books and papers in the Sheriff’s office, Ordinary’s Of- lce, Clerk’s Office, Treasurer’s Office, County School Superin¬ tendent’s Office and the Tax Commissioner’s Office and found the same to be in good order .*nd properly kept. J. W. Phillips J. D. Brown G. R. Hughes We recommend the payment of $125.00 to Luther Mitchell and H. H. Hutchings for expenses incurred for gasoline and oil and other expenses while tak¬ ing part in the search and in¬ vestigation of the criminals in¬ volved in the be ting and killing Mr. Junius Nesbitt in 1951. We recommend the payment of $600.00 to Sheriff Allison for services rendered for which no compensation has been We re ommend the payment of $400.00 to Ordinary, A. W. ^eck, for services rendered and expenses incurred for which no compensation has been received. We recommend the payment of $40000 to Ordinary, R. M. for services rendered or expenses incurred for which (Continued on Page 6) Rpd’ Tpvlor Hurt n Fall Monday James A. “Red” Tailor of was seriously injured morning when he fell a building at Dyer Lum¬ Co. It was reported that he repairing a tin roof when slipped and fell across the tracks. He was carried by Mbore am¬ to Tri-County Hospital, his condition is listed as Taylor suffered a com¬ fracture of one o the in his back. NUMBER 8
