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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (June 13, 1957)
* Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVII ► Dallyin’ in Dade ► ► ► By Myrna R. McMahan Progress , Potentiality, Principle and Politics Since the last time we “dallied” on subjects of interest Dade County, much has Where once progress was of in hushed and hopeful tones, is now' spelled with a capital and is the main topic of tion whenever local get together. Another good word which begins with this letter is only ginning to be exploited. It is tentiality, which has been from the time the county into being. A concrete example of the ty’s growth is the recent bid Western Auto for a local other indications that Dade ty is finally on its way up is rapid progress of the Bank Dade, which currently lists its sets around $800,000; the lishment of Williams a slag-crushing outfit which operating in expectation of new super-highway which is to come down the valley, ing to some local officials. The Evelene Slxoppe, which done a surprising amount of ness in its short life; the trade at Kyzer Auto Parts spite of the opening of new but smaller repair shops; improvements being made on city water system, including installation of fire plugs by the way will make lower surance rates possible for and businesses); the Telephone Company which is adding new telephones at the of four a week; the Clinic, which is one of the modern and best-equipped in tri-county area, and recently had more new' examining opened up, complete with the est style in furnishings; and new Shop-Rite Supermarket, first of its kind in the county. GROCERY TRADE GOOD The supermarket may be sponsible for keeping much of grocery trade inside the . . . one long-established said recently that his 1956 w r ere greater than ever, and agree that the new r market not hurt their trade. One only to become involved in usual week-end traffic jams to this, also the fact that will have to be done about ing—especially on the fore long. There have been whisperings a merchants’ association which, organized, would keep more lars at home through joint sales and other methods. Gross Mercantile is one of eral stores that have expansion; in fact, there are places right in Trenton that not had to take on extra help the past year. All these growing have created more and local job opportunities. Once a time, one could hope for employment only when a occurred. We .have skipped lightly the growth indications for County, and this list is by means complete, but it is ed only to give our readers Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. Jhe DADE COUNT* TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1957 Rural Roads Auth. Approves More Dade Road Projects The Georgia Rural Roads Au¬ thority on Tuesday, June 4th ap¬ proved a list of 177 projects in 121 counties for construction under the fourth increment of authority bonds. New RRA work in Dade County is included in tiie new paving list. This work is comprised of: Pro¬ ject number 2164 (1) termini Sul- pher Springs to Rising Fawn; length 1.190; total estimated cost $57,288. Project number 1815 (2), termini Brow Road; length 4.767; total estimated cost $115,200. Some 639 miles of new road work is slated under the fourth increment of Rural Roads Au¬ thority bonds. Estimated cost of these projects is $17,298,288. This figure includes 10 percent for en¬ gineering and 10 percent for con¬ tingencies. Jaycees Vote $200 For Dade Football The Dade County Junior Cham¬ ber of Commerce voted $200 Tues¬ day night, June 4, for the Dade High School football team to help clear up an indebtedness. A check for this amount was to have been written within a few days follow¬ ing the meeting. Two new members were added during the meeting which was presided over by Aubrey L. Dyer, president. They are E. Q. Wright and Bill Pike. The group voted to gather at DeSoto Park this past Sunday for a picnic. Among those who at¬ tended were Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Dyer, the Bill Tatums, Jack Cashes, Bob Chitwoods, T. J. Bells, Howard McKaigs, E. G. Wrights, Harold Grosses, Sonny McMahans, R. L. Haddens, Alvin Taylors, and Lewis Whiteds. Linotype Operator Wanted Again Again the Dade County Times must put forth a call for a lino¬ type operator. This week we were without one, but when our printer takes a two-week vaca¬ tion beginning June 17, there will be no one in the shop but Mrs. Catherine Morrson and Mrs. W McMahan. - idea of the sort of place in which we are now living. We don’t mean to imply that there is no room for improvement, however, for there is still a long way to go. But Dade County IS slowly accomplishing what so many of us have hoped for, and if some organization or person manages to snag a factory, the climb will go a little faster. “Principle” might be considered by many to be an old-fashioned word in this day and time, but there are those who have reached back and are dusting off this all- important yet intangible part of the English language and apply¬ ing it to a situation here in the county which involves public serv¬ ice and that curious business call¬ ed politics. SLYGO DINNER \ Postponed The Slygo W.S.C.S. has an¬ nounced the postponement of their third Sunday dinners for the sum¬ mer months. Dade County Health Center Re-Opened Board; Wilma Pace Nurse New England Man Dies In Accident Two accidents occuring within 15 minutes of the other resulted in fatal injuries to a New Eng¬ land man and injuries to three others, one of whom was listed in “fair” condition Sunday night by a Chattanooga hospital. Robert Middleton Derry berry died about 4:30 a.m. Saturday from injuries sustained in an auto¬ mobile accident about a mile and a half south of Trenton. His death came about three hours after the wreck, which was de¬ scribed as apparently being caused when he lost control of the car he was driving. James McCowan, also of New England, the owner of the car, was hospitalized for several days with extensive injuries. Fifteen minutes before this acci¬ dent was reported, Douglas Woot¬ en, also a New England resident, was seriously injured when his car left the highway near the Plaza Courts at New England. He was accompanied by Anthony Doyle and had apparently just left the Kayo station heading north, when the high rate of speed Wooten was reportedly traviling under caused the auto to leave the pavement, crash over a culvert and land in a ditch. His companion was examined and released from a Chattanooga hospital, but Wooten was held for observation and treatment. Two boys, 16 and 17 year old, were injured following an acci¬ dent near the Alabama state line June 1. The automobile in which they were riding skidded off the edge of the road and off the end of a culvert, leaving two wheels on the ground. It was reported they were hospitalized, and that they were not residents of the county. Mrs. Jules Case State First Place Winner I For Church Dress; Trenton Scrapbook 2nd Miss Naomi Hubble, home demonstration agent, brought back a happy group last Friday from the State Home Demonstra¬ tion Council meeting. The rea¬ son for all the hurried phone calls to members of the Trenton Home Demonstration Club was that Mrs. Jules Case, Dade County’s grand winner in the local dress revue, had placed first in the state for the church dress division, and the Trenton club scrapbook had won a second place from among all the scrapbooks in the state. Mrs. Case's winning costume was a navy and white polka-dotted dress with shawl collar of the same material. Styles with el¬ bow-length sleeves, the dress was well-made and fitted beautifully. The straight skirt was lined with taffeta, a new trick in the dress¬ making trade. Her accessories, which were navy and white, com¬ plemented the dress perfectly. Trenton’s scrapbook, whjch had placed first in the county in a Published Weekly—Since 1901 The Dade County Board of Public Health re-opened the Health Center this week following a called meeting held last Thursday and appointed Miss Wilma Pace to serve as public health nurse for the county. When Miss Fannilu McWhorter, former Dade County Public Health Nurse, transferred to Bartow County approxi- Trains Running On New Railroad Bed Work on the new railroad beds between New England and Mor- ganville was completed last Tues¬ day by Southern Railway, and re¬ ports are that trains are already running on the raised beds. Part of the tracks on the new bed were in use for about a week, but the first run on the complete length was not made until early last Tuesday morning. In order to assist with the event, A. P. Stephens, depot agent, and E. A. Ellis got up in the wee hours of the morning. After the new beds had been leveled and the gravel spread, cranes were used to move sections of the old track to the new loca¬ tion. Heavy equipment was re¬ quired for the entire operation, which began several months ago. Rising Fawn Team Plays At Home Sun. Rising Fawn played a six-inning game with Rock Springs on the latter’s field Sunday to win by a score of 15-3. The game was called due to rain. The local team is now tied for second place in the Georgia Volunteer League. Durham is currently on top. Roy McMahan, Sonny Daniels and David Steele were credited with three hits each. The Rising Fawn team, which I is managed by Jeril Cooper, Jr., and Jakie Smith, will play on the home field Sunday, meeting Wel¬ come Hill at 2 p.m. previous elimination, was the re- suit of efforts of Mesdames .1. M. Rogers, Dolmas Freeman, M. J. Hale, J. A. Case and R. L. Hil- ten. The book featured pictures of all hostesses, co-hostesses and meetings, both the newspaper ac¬ counts and typed minutes of each meeting and pictures and reports of all activities in the community pertaining to work done by mem¬ bers or the club as a whole, and all mounted on black construction paper. Lettering was done by Mrs. Freeman with the exception of the gold foil lettering against the black background of the cover. Set in the center of the front cover was a gold foil home demon¬ stration club seal which had been made by Mrs. Hilten, and over all had been sprayed a plastic to keep the letters in place. A new addition to the book is the handsome second place ribbon. Mrs. Case was given, in addition to her first place ribbon, $20 worth of closet accessories. NUMBER 19 mately three months ago, it was necessary to close the Center until another nurse could be found to take her place. Since that time, all inoculations which were start¬ as series, including polio shots, have been given by Dr. N. 11. Hutchison, county public health Miss Pace has spent the past months in Detroit, Michigan she took a field course in health nursing and comes us with excellent qualifications. Formerly with the Chattanooga County Health Department, she also had experience in private nursing. She opened up the Health Cen¬ Monday morning and has kept busy all week getting organized her new quarters, ordering new and checking over sup¬ records and equipment. Assisting Miss Pace as clerk is Violet Crowe of Wildwood, who was previously approved by local health board according to minutes taken at the lune 6 Pending examination under the state merit system the latter part of this month, she was approved by the local also according to the min¬ and reported for work Mon¬ morning. Until the state system exam has been taken passed, the state does not the salary of clerks in health centers. Assigned M. E. Pulpits The following changes and as¬ for Dade County were Sunday by Bishop Roy Short at the annual meeting of Holston Conference in Knox- Trenton Methodist—Rev. R. L. Rising Fawn Circuit—Rev. Looney; Wildwood-— Rev. Kirk; Sand Mountain—Rev. Pickett; New England Samuel DePaul; Mopganvilk* Charles J. Holmes, Payne’s Chapel—Rev. Wil¬ Phelps. The Rev. C. E. Lundy was re¬ as superintendent of the District. Whited Finger Sheri'T Allison Blevins reported that he received a call Frank Whited, former resi¬ of New England, early Mon¬ morning asking that an am¬ he sent for his brother, It was reported that accidently shot himself he was about to shoot a hawk had been bothering his It was believed the was still slick from, the rains and that the acci¬ victim slipped, causing the to go off.
