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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1957)
. Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVII GREYHOUND STRIKE ENDS TUESDAY The Greyhound Bus strike, vj h i c h inconveniened many Dade Countians during the past ten days, ended at midnight Tuesday, it was reported. ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★* Forestry Meeting At Legion Hall Friday The Dade County Forestry Demonstration Club which was schtduled for Friday, Nov. 22, at Dad e High School, was changed this week to the American Legion Hall. Two More Qualify For City Elections, Deadline Fri. With the deadline of Nov. 22 approaching for candidates to enter their names in the City of Trenton elections, two more qualified for the offices of City councilmen. Rising Fawn Mrs. Walter Wilson has re¬ turned from a two weeks visit in Manatee, Fla. with her sister, Mrs. M. O. Terrill, and Mr. Ter- W. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Searcy of Marianna, Fla. were the week end guests of Mrs. Searcy’s un¬ cle, Campbell Thomas, and Mrs. Thomas as well as her aunts, Mrs. Ada Mathis and Mrs. Myr¬ tle Guidi. Miss Anne Mitchell, who is with the Mobile, Ala city Library this year, was their guest for the Veteran’s Day hol¬ iday. Mrs. Noel Woodall and daugh¬ ter, Peggy, of Oak Ridge, Tenn were the recent guests of the Misses Willis. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Harrison and children, Patsy and Becky, and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wilson motored ti Atlanta last Friday. After their return Friday night they were viewing some colored >: lides at the Wilson home, when lightning struck a large Oak tree near the north-west comer of the home, doing considerable damage inside the house. Mrs. Harrison, who was operating the projector from the top of the TV was knocked to the opposie side of the room. The window panes were cracked, the draper¬ ies shredded, the Venetian blinds smoked (scorched) and the TV burned out. In the kitchen the scove was badly damaged the but] ho beyond repair. In mean- time Mr. Harrison who was at the Bradford barber shop, was working himself up into a hus¬ bandly rage because Jean would not answer the phone and come get him to join the party. Frank Woodyard has gone to Paducah, Ky., where he has ac¬ cepted work with T. V. A. Mr.s Taylor Castleberry and son, Larry, have returned from a visit in Birmingham, bringing with them Mrs. Troupe Castle¬ berry, mother of Mrs. Dewey Bradford. Mr and Mrs. Orman Smith and sons, Jimmie and Tommie, of Pensacola,. Fla. have been the (Continued to page 6) Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia . THE DADE COUNTY TIMES: TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1957 Second Meeting Of Helping Hand Dec. 2 The second meeting of the newly-organized Helping Hand organization will be h§ld Mon¬ day, Dec. 2 at 7:30 p. m. The purpose of this organization is to give emergency aid to the peedy on a county-wide level. It is hoped that churches and clubs in the county will help support this effort. Everyone interested i n this project is urged to attend this meeting, as by-laws, rules and the constitution will be drawn up and officers and a board of directors appointed. They are Robert Russell and Lawrence Christopher. Also in the race for city coun¬ cil are: Bob Chitwood, Cleron Kyzer, Bill Tatum and James Morrison. Charles W. Gray is the only candidate for City Re- corder, while no new candidates have announced for Mayor. At present, Early A. Ellis, Sr. and Charles T. Sims are the only candidates for Mayor. Dade-Davis Game Saturday At 8 The football game between Dade and Davis which was can¬ celled last Friday night will be played this Saturday, Nov. 23 at 3 p. m., it has been announced. Due to a shortage of players on the Davis team, the originally scheduled game was called and Dade held a scrimmage session. West Brow Mr. and Mrs. William Fowler became the proud parents of an eight pound two ounce boy on Nov. 13. They have named him William Allen. Recilla Bailey and Mary Alice Anderson were on the Dru Smith program Nov. 12 in ac¬ cordance with National Educa¬ tion Week. They were chosen from the Fifth Grade along with four others. G. W. Blevins bagged his deer last Sunday and is very proud of it, we hear. Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Williams attended the Boy Scout Ban¬ quet at a Chattanooga rest¬ aurant Tuesday night. Norbert Prust and family ex- oect to visit the folks on the mountain Saturday morning on their way to Miami. Norbert was teacher ' a t ‘ Gillen School ~ * two years ago. , Thelma Stone has had an oper ation and is now in the hospital. Mrs. Affie Johnson is in the Iri-County hospital as a result of a fall. The annual voting for tea¬ chers and officers will take place on Sunday. There was a good attendance of 54 last Sun¬ day. Superintendent of Schools Roy W. Moore will attend a Super¬ intendents’ Conference in At¬ lanta this Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Democratic Primary Set December 4 To Fill Term Of Lanham Wednesday, December 4, is the date set ofr the Democratic Pri¬ mary to elect a nominee to fill the seventh District Congress¬ ional seat left vacant by the death of Representative Hen¬ derson Lanham. Governor Marvin Griffin has issued a writ of election fixing the date of the Special General Flection for the Congressman from the Seventh District for Jan. 8, 1958. As the law requires 30 days between a primary and general election, December 4 is the latest possible date to hold New Bus Line For Sand Mountain The Sand Mountain-Chattan¬ ooga Bus Line, Inc. made its first run October 21 and is oper¬ ating for the benefit of residents of Sand Mountain in the vicinity of Henegar, Rosalee, Flat Rock, Higdon and Bryant who com¬ mute daily to the industrial plants of Chattanooga. Managed and operated by Dan Cordell, Route One, Long island, Ala., the buses run on a strict Schedule three times daily in or¬ der for plant workers to punch in on time. Two buses are being used. One starts at Henegar along Ala 1 bama Highway & to Highway 71 at Rosalee, then north on 71 to G. C. Dobbins’ Store. The other starts at the John Lacy home and goes around Bryant Loop to Walden’s Store then along Ala¬ bama Highway 73 to Dobbins’ Store. The two buses meet at Dob¬ bins’ Store with passengers tnan inferring t o the buses serving Chattanooga and Rossville plants. No passengers are picked up after the intersection of Hwys. 75 and 143 at the Sand Moun¬ tain Methodist Church. The busline was started by persons realizing all the troubles encountered daily in traveling between Sand Mountain and Chattanooga. The buses are painted white with blue trim. ASC Allotments Planned Acreage allotments for the 1958 upland cotton crop are now being established for all the eli¬ gible farms in Dade County, says Grady McKaig, Chairman of the county Agricultural Stab¬ ilization and Conservation Com¬ mittee. Each cotton farmer will be notified by mail of the acre¬ age allotment for his farm be¬ fore the December 10 marketing quota referendum. County A cr e ag e Allotments for Dade County farms have been determined by the ASC Committee in accordance with the law and the regulations is¬ sued by the Secretary of Agricul¬ ture. They are based upon the national total of 17,554,528 acres availabble for establishing up¬ land cotton farm allotments for 1958. This national allotment is first apportioned among states and the state allotments among farms according to provisions of Published Weekly—Since 1901 the primary. The District Democratic Exe¬ cutive Committee, besides the date for tre primary, has also stattd that the primary will be held under party rules and open only to Democratic candid- ates. The primary will be held under the county unit system which means the candidate ceiving the majority vote in a county wil rleceive that county’s unit vote. Tre candidae winning the most unit votes in the dis¬ trict will be the {Democratic nominee in the Special General Election. The Seventh Congressional District is composed of 14 ties and includes Dade, Murray, Gordon, Pauling, son and Douglas, each with 2 unit votes; Walker, Whitfield, Flu Seems To Be Dropping In Schools According t o county school principals, absences due to the flu are gradually becoming less and less, although as many as 52 pupils were out at one school on Tuesday of this wetk. H. S. Chafin, Dade High prin- week, with 28 out in the high school and 24 out in the gram- * mar school Fifty pupils were reported out Tuesday by Davis Principal D. O. Chumiey, who also stated that the flu picture looked much better , Mrs. Ersaline Carroll, North Dade principal, said t h at 21 were absent Tuesday, but that she believed some were out due to the weather and the high water over a creek road. The first grade teacher, one of several in the county who also suffered attacks of flu, has been out two weeks, she said. I Rising Fawn absences are running about 15%, according to Henry Elliott, principal. “We are almost back to normal,” he stated The this week. | | same applied to New Salem, a patron reported Tues¬ day. the law and regulations issued by the Secretary of agriculture. | Most of the county allotment] must under the law, be divided among farms on which cotton was grown in 1955, 1956 or 1957. To the extent that the county allotment is adequate, each of these so-called “O1 d” cotton farms will receivt an allotment for 1958 which is equal to the smaller of 4 acres or the highest number of acres planted to cot¬ ton on the farm in any of the last 3 years. In addition a small reserve is aside for “new” cotton farms, for adjusting allotments for “old” cotton farms, and for hard ship cases. In the distribution of the acreage reserve, the county committee must consider the type and productivity of the soil, the labor and equipment (Continued to Page 5) NUMBER 42 Chattooga, Bartow and Polk, each with 4 unit votes and Cobb and Floyd with 6 unit votes each. Candidates Bobby Lee Cooke, Summer¬ ville attorny and former mem¬ ber of the General Assembly from Chattooga County, Judge Jim M a nnin g 0 f the Cobb Super- Court; Cherokee Circuit | Superior Court Judge Erwin Mit- che il of Dalton; Jenry A. Mauld- in, Calhoun business man and f o rm e r state representative from Gordon County and State Representative George B a g b y from Pauling County have been mentioned as candidates with others expected to enter the race. The only Republican mention- ed as a candidate is Harbin King, Calhoun attorney. Wet Highway Causes R. F. Accident Mrs. Jakie Smith, Jimmy Smith, 7, and Jerry Cooper, 6- year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Jeril Cooper, Jr., all of Rising ——r ! r ‘ Jury Sunday when ped the ~ 55 harato P convertible Mrs. Smith w a s driving crashed into a “ r ldse n0lth ot KMng Fawn - * hfl „ , of f the car were but not injured.Ap- P««lmately $400 damage was done to the front end of the car. The accident occurred as Mrs. Smith was on her way south to the Deer Park Station, which s he and her husband and the Coopers operate. Traffic was heavy at the time and the high- way was slick due to rain when -he Smith car, traveling 30 miles an hour, approached an un¬ usually slow-moving car, also headed south. Seeing that she could not avoid hitting the car in front after putting on her brakes, Mrs. Smith headed her car off the highway and chose the bridge rather than risking possible injury to occupants of the other car or more serious injury to herself and the child¬ ren by heading down a steep, fill. The other motorist, still un¬ identified, apologized for con¬ tributing to the accident and continued on his w a y. Slick front tires in the Smith car were also a determining factor in the mishap. State patrolmen investigating the call made by Mrs. Smith credited her with ‘‘doing the best thing under the circum¬ stances.” No changes were made. CAR SIDESWIPES ANOTHER NEAR MORGANVILLE T. H. Brock of Fort Payne, Ala. was charged with driving under the influence Friday, Nov. 8 his car sideswiped another on the hill south of Morganville. Driver of the other vehicle was Julius Hawkins of Bryant, Ala. No injuries were reported and although both cars were damag¬ ed, each was driveable. Sheriff Allison Blevins invest¬ igated the accident.
