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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1957)
•' • • — £ountn ♦ Datfe County’s Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVH C. Buchanan Gets First Deer of Season Chester Buchanan bagged Jfirst deer of the season here Dade County Saturday, in a 250 pound, eight-point buck. Accompanying him on the was Scott Crane. The deer was shown on tele¬ vision Monday night after a sportscaster, Hershel learned of the kill while ping in Trenton. Nation was his way back from a game and was told about deer while eating lunch in a cal restaurant. Also bagging deer were rence, Willie and Cecil her, who shot three on Two were eight-point deer unusual size. All the deer bagged found on Lookout Mountain. Buchanan said he fired times, using an automatic guage shotgun. Gray Ladies Begin Work At Hospital The Gray Ladies, with helping hands, have come Tri-County Hospital at Oglethorpe. They began their work day, and they’ll be on duty 9:00 o’clock a. m. to 4:00 p. m. daily to help arrange flow ers, deliver mail, answer phone calls, run errands, letters, provide help in visitor control arid form other chores. There’ll be an average of a day on duty from a total num her of 40 women; 15 from Walk er County, 9 wrom Dade and 14 from Catoosa County the Chairman and who are giving of their time effort. The Gray Ladies are strictly volunteer group under ship of the American Red Their work lat Tri- Hospital, which, celebrated its fourth last Friday, was instigated Mrs. Neil Andrews of Chairman of the Walker Chapter of the Red Cross. Andrews had the cooperation Mrs. Douglas Morrison of ton, Home Service Chairman the Dade County Red Chapter, and C. C. Gulledge Ringgold, Chairman of the oosa County Chapter. Mrs. J. W. Gilreath of ville, who has had some years experience in Gray work is Chairman of the She has assisted in training class and will work closely (Continued to page 6) C.E. Kyzer For City Council Cleron E. Kyzer, who is ing at present on the City cil, has announced that he seek another term as man. One of the most active prominent citizens in the ty, Mr. Kyzer has served on Council for about eight years. Also running for the Council are W. R. Tatum James Morrison, present bers, and Bob Chitwood, who seeking his first public office. Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade Cou nty and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1957 by J. B. Geddie Dade County High Hi erh school School I made their Region 4C record 6-0 and Davis lost another breaker ias the county elevens continued their grid wars last week. With the “B” team playing three quarters, Dade County de¬ cisively defeated Georgia School for the Deaf 47 to7, at Trenton on Friday night. Hard running David Steele continued h i s flashy play by scoring three touchdowns and two extra points. Frankie Woodfin ran one touchdown and passed for an¬ other to continue his fine play. Hershel Dugan recovered a G. S. D. fumble and scampered to chalk up six points. This win gives Dade ta 6 to o region re¬ cord with only Davis between them and another champion- snip. Dade’s line-up: Ends .............Allen, Green Tackles......Gothard, _ ______ _ D. Moore ______ Guards ..... R Blevins 1 ’ J Hughes Center - ................, Geddie - Backs............D. Wheeler, L. Moore, Fulghum, Bradford Dade 32 - Syivania 14 Dade County traveled to Syi¬ vania Saturday night to meet the strong North Alabama team and trounced their previously unbeaten eleven 32 to 14. Playing like true champions, Dade Coun¬ ty overcame a 7 to 6 deficit at the half, to rack up five touch¬ downs against a team that had \ielded only two all season. I Frankie Woodfin, Wendell Me- Cormick and David Steele led Dade’s powerful offense with Hershel Dugan and Winfred Mc¬ Cormick starring on defense. Against all opponents Dade had rolled for 261 points while hold¬ ing the opposition to only 89 and 34 of these were scored by Trion while Dade’s team was flu and injury-weakened. This week Dade County meets Davis at Trenton in the final regularly r k iy k ;.a A \ \ V TWO COUNTY TEAMS CLASH FRIDAY NIGHT The two high school teams, Dade Wildcats and Davis Yellowjackets meet game of the season hnth both teams. teams. line-up McCormick, Wheeler price, Hershel . Gray Abott .........Melvin McKaig .....David Steele, Frank- Woodfin, Rex Blevins, Wendell Davis Loses Davis, again playing with sev- players idle due to injuries a hard fought contest to High of Rome 26 to 13, a Region 4C tilt. Children Out With Flu The xnc flu iiu is « still own with vvii/ii us uo only winy parts of the county week. It also seems to be reoccuring for just as one school the outlook is brighter, it wjll start all over again. mentary'Tnd The Davis School, both Ele dosed until next Monday. they had over 200 absentees three teachers out all on same day, it seemed best to the remained of the week. The Dade County and High School had 62 out week Wednesday and no ers. Their absentee list seems Qe coming down day by day. The New Sale.n School to iu be oe iid-vingups having ups and anu down improving a little this week only about 16% out. The Rising “ Fawn Sc oo seems to , be having . a return the flu. The upper grades the first to get sick and week it is mostly in the 1st 2nd grades with a third of 1st grade children being on Wednesday. The school is (Continued to page 6) Friday at 8 p. m. on the Dave L Brown rown Field. Fieia Special pep sections for schools will be in action. miss this exciting game. Published Weekly—S ince 1901 in Car Accident Representative Lanham Lanham was was killed killed Nov. Nov. 10 10 Ills car collided with a train at Rome, Ga. crossing. Mr. was U. S. Representative the 7th Congressional District j Georgia of which Dade is a Trie crossing is near a ! in the track and apparently Lanham did not see the ap- proaching engine in time. car was carrie<i about 50 down the tracks and was demo¬ lished. He was thrown from car and Pronounced dead at the scene by the Floyd County Coro¬ ner. Fortunately Mr. who was on his way to speak a PTA meeting, wias alone. Congressman since 1946 Represenntative Lanhan, was presently a member of the House Appropriations lee, was elected to Congress 1946. He had previously served a member of trie Georgia cral Assembly and as General of the Rome Circuit. He was born in Rome, Sept. 14, 1888. He received ^lor Ttaw ZeTta from the University of * Improvement Judges See Wildwoc By Mary Townsend Bi-i-ig doings in this neck the woods. "T' Wildwood "7"”" put on * ... haj ’ straightened her stick . and sailed „ IU/1 forth f „ rth to Uhe judges of the improvement Contest. Nov. afc 2 p ^ was the time of olntment A commlttee composcd 0 f o|d Cash w T ^ Rev. Mr and ^ w T and Mre R g Townsend Jud B Mullet and DeYoung, at the Wildwood Met¬ hodist Church. Miss Naomi Hub¬ ble and Mr. L. C. Admas met with us also and enjoyed the tour of the community. Oh! Wildwood served up a delectable home cooked meal of accomplishments. For salad—we headed up the creek road to see three lovely farms owned by R. S. Townsend, Harold Cash and i R. W. Boyd. For the entree—we visited the home of the C. C. Neelys to peek in their freezer land see Ruth’s beautiful canned g o o ds. The Wildwood Sanitarium had made many improvements—we enjoy¬ ed visiting the house made of cross-ties and the new green¬ house. Other places visited were the Elmer Stephens home to in¬ spect Margie’s pretty new kit¬ chen and the F. M. Neelys’ newly compleed home. For the piece de resistance, the dessert—we went to the lovely home of Mr. and Mrs. Dave L. Brown for tea. Our grac¬ ious hostess and genial host soon made everyone feel at home. •The judges were impressed with the number of trophies on dis¬ play in the den—the men jud¬ ges, that is. Miss DeYoung en¬ joyed woman talk in the living room with the ladies. Mesdames G. A. Carroll, Jr., i C. C. Neely, J. C. Wallen and R S. Townsend presided at the tea table. I (Continued to page 6 > NUMBER 41 In 1912 he received a Master of &rts &rts degree degree from from Harva Harvard University. He was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Scholarship Frater¬ nity , Sigma Chi Social Fratern¬ ity and Delta Theta Phi Law Fraternity. He married Anne White Phinizy o f Rockmart, Ga. i n 1915. In August 1956 the American Vocational Association gave him a citation for distinguished ser¬ vice in vocational education. Surviving him is a daughter, Mrs. Thomas Slappey of Albany, Ga.; a brother, Felix Laham of Rome, and a niece Mrs. Frank Peacock of Rome and with whom he made his home. Funeral services were held * rom the First Methodist Church * n Rome and burial was in the family plot in Myrtle Hill Ceme- to ry. VACANCY WILL BE FILLED BY SPECIAL ELECTION. | Under code, provisions special of election the Geor- will gia a be called by the Governor to fill j ofuT Lanham. __ Forestry Meeting Nov. 22 To Discuss Trees-Tree Planting Tree P^ P lant,in & as a conserva- t!0n Ictlce alld which wil ) aL ™ you for assistan through the Agricultural Con¬ servation and Soil Bank Pro¬ grams, will be one of the discus¬ sions to be held at the Forestry meeting on Nov. 22. This meeting, to be held at 8 P. M. in the Dade County High School Cafetorium, will be a reg¬ ular quarterly meeting of the County Forestry Demonstration Club. Everyone interested in the prosperity of Dade County by planning and carrying out good forestry practices will have an opportunity to hear a fine talk and discuss forestry practices with the many forestry repres¬ entatives who will be present. Mr. J. Walter Myers, Jr., re¬ presentative of the Forest Far¬ riers Association of Atlanta, will be the special speaker. Also pre¬ sent will be J. A. Case, president of the Dade County Forestry Demonstration Club, Miss Bess Cureton, secretary of the club, Forest Ranger Dan Hall, repre¬ sentatives from the local A. S. C. and S. C. S. offices and Exten¬ sion Service workers. Those in¬ terested in Forestry from out¬ side the county will include re* presentatives from the T. V. A., Georgia Forestry Commission, Pulpwood companies and con¬ sultant foresters. It is important for the people of Dade County to support pro¬ grams of proper management of trees by attending such meet¬ ings as this one planned for Nov. 22. If you don’t know why it is important, come and find GROSS MERCANTILE BUILDS WAREHOUSE A warehouse for Gross Mer¬ cantile has been built in back of the store. Measuring 40 by 72 feet, the „„ warehouse was con- structed of concrete taocks, stuc- I coed on the outside and painte white.
