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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1958)
Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVin The main event of the Feb- 14th meeting of the Dade Co- Forestry Club was the address made by Ted Walker, Forester, of the Ga. Extension Dept. Mr. Walker stressed the fact that the trend today is to spread in- Lynn Freeman Shot, Gun Accidently Fires Lynn Freeman, 16 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. L. D-Freeman of the New Salem community was accidently shot while playing Sunday afternoon- Lynn and Kenneth Penning ton were playing in the trees near the Freeman home when they decided to go home- Lynn picked up the 410 shotgun and either dropped it or laid it and the gun slipped. In any it went off- Part of the burned up one side of his land some ended in the side of head. He was taken to Tri- County Hospital where he operated on but some of the shot had lodged in his brain and remains in a serious condtion His father and an older bro¬ ther, who were working in nois, returned as soon as were notified of Lynn’s Trenton Sewing Shop Opened by Mrs. Mrs. T. A- Green, from England, has opened a shop in the back of the Fellow’s building on Court Square. Mrs. Green tells us she dresses, does all kinds of tions, puts in zippers and kets, covers buttons, makes peries and many other kinds sewing needs. For the past years she has been in in Chattanooga and now opened this shop of her own- FOREST FIRE DEFENSE ON THE HOMEFRONT The Second of a Two Part by J. H. Hinton, Staff Tennessee Valley 2. Preparation — The rule of fire control is to be pre pared to fight the fires you prevent. Your “good neighbor’’ will pay off here. You should also have tools which are kept in a place and used only fire A few fire rakes and pumps may be all you will A farm tractor and disk might be used to build a A shovel can be used to dirt on a smoldering stump. may need an axe or saw to a burning snag. Since speed is important, roads and trails on your open and passable- It may pay you to open up some access ways. Know are places to stop a fire. Go to see your local forest control man. He might be county ranger, a fire warden, the leader of a fire crew. him to help with your plans. his telephone number, and it in a prominent place your home phone. 3. Fighting fire— If you a fire, get to it quickly, size it start fighting it promptly, stay with it until it’s safe. (Continued to page 4) Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. ThTdADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA^ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1958 formation on the needs of fores¬ try, pointing out that saw tim¬ ber is decreasing and will con¬ tinue to do so until people are made aware of the needs- These were shown by the use of a iflannelgraph board on which the six steps toward better forestry were given as follows: 1. By control and prevention o[ fires Georgia has a lai ge ^ percentage n n*A of s\f fires f i n n o caused nQ11 CaH hv by sheer carelessness. 2. Timber stands should be im- proved by thinning, removal of | culls, dead trees etc. 3. Reforestation of idle lands which should be cleaned of sas- j pafras bushes, berry briars, and accumulated trash. 4. Diversified utilization-trees not usable for saw-timber be used for pulpwood, poles etc- 5- Good harvesting practices— do not ruin the young <(Your future crop) by cutting of larger trees. 6. Wise selling practices. Have a written agreement when sell- ing any amount of timber, de- scribe property lines, attest to ownership, state when and payments are to be made, fences (repaired if & when needed, moval of stumps etc- These blanks may be obtained from the forestry service- All trees to be cut should have been meas¬ ured and an estimate made—Ga. Forestry Service will assist in this as will some pulpwood com¬ panies- How an experienced trained consultant will save money was shown by the story of a man who had been offered $600.00 for a tract of timber, but after the owner had a survey made the same buyer paid $2400.00 for the tract. Mr. Walker closed his talk with the introduction of Dr- Dr. Storey, of the U- of Ga. Fred Mahan, from the Piney Community, was asked to give his experience in seedling plant¬ ing. He described how he set out 8,000 seedlings at an estimated cost of $4.50, doing most of the work himself, using a divvel, a plow, an axe and his foot as well as a strong back. He stated he would would set set out out 5-800 o-wju seedlings per day, depending on the con- dition of the land—clear or rough- He paid $10.00 per acre for bushing and hogging and was to have paid $800 per for killing scrub trees but man became sick so Mr. Mahan became a do-it-yourself-man Col. D. E- Morrison reported on the demonstration of a chemical tree destroyer as shown in the county recently for disposing of undersirable trees. He was so im¬ pressed with the process he is planning to purchase one for Ihimself and will rent it out when not using it- The Dade Co-op handles the chemical used at a cost of $8.00 per gallon. Col- Morrison hopes some organiza¬ tion will purchase an additional one- He also spoke on water con¬ servation and the Coosa Water¬ shed project. Permanent cover surrounding the dams is one of the requirements of the project and planting of tree seedlings makes for a fine permanent cover- The meeting adjourned giving Agent Adams a vote of confidence on the Forestry plans formulated at the Farm and Home Planning meeting in Jan¬ uary. Over 100 Children Have Pictures Taken Almost 70 families from all over Dade County took advant¬ age of having a free picture taken of their children last Tuesday. From shortly after nine in the morning until after s i x that night, 4Uauu mothers, and some autllc f^ers, brought their children to . the . . Dade _ . County _ . _ Library ,, to get ^ their ^ picture _________ taken. Surpris- ingiy there was little confusion , anc i the children were all on their best behavior. Some were dressed in their party clothes while others, especially those w ho came in after school, were wearing their school clothes but all looked “scrubbed and polish- and were as good looking a group of children as could be founc * anywhere, Those who came by appoint ment and on time were able to go right in to see the photographer and were gone again in five to ten minutes. Mr- Shields, the photo- igrapher, had a gift for catching the children’s attenton and there were very few he was not able to persuade ately 1 "’ ^ there 1 into were ' a smile, * two or ~ ynfortun three who " rh were too frightened to be able to get them to stop crying and seve¬ ral who were too young to be able to get a “portrait picture’’ of them, but maybe next year. From after three o’clock on there was a lot of waiting those who did not have appoint¬ ments waited their turn, every child who showed there were over a their picture taken. The step is a wait of about a month before the parents will be noti¬ ---------------------- fied to come in to see the - proofs . j a n d decide which picture of 1 f.hpir their phild child thev they want want in in the the paper, of course they may order as many pictures of their child¬ ren themselves as they wish, but only if they want to. Taxes from Ga. Power A check for $1-440.18 was de¬ livered to the city of Trenton, Feb- 20, 1958 by T. S. Renfroe 8 of the Georgia Power r * This payment represents three per cent of the gross receipts m 1951 fr ° m the sale 01 electnc ° commercial and re¬ sidential customers of toe com pany under the Municipal Part¬ nership Plan The three per cent tax is paid by the company in place of occupation and fran¬ chise taxes and is in addition to the company’s property taxes. 'These taxes were paid to the county and city in December. The Georgia Power Company’s total tax bill for 1957 amounted to more than $24,900,000- Of this amount, more than $2,018,000 is being paid to the communities of Georgia under the Municipal Partnership Plan. This is an in¬ crease of more than $303,000 over 1956 and included for the first time payments to towns in the company’s Valdosta division. City, county, and state pro¬ perty taxes totaled $4,840,000 in 1957- The $24,900,000 total tax (figure does not include the Georgia three per cent sales tax ■ w hich the company collects from its cus tomers for the State of Georgia nor the sales tax which the company pays on materials used in its ooerations. Published 1901 Special Election Meeting at a called session, the Trenton City Council passed a Resolution calling for a special election to be held Tuesday, March 11, to fill the vacancy in the office of Mayor of the City of Trenton. Under the City Charter a spe¬ cial election must be held to fill a vacancy in the office of Mayor. Mr. Early A- Ellis having died while holding the office of Mayor, this left the City without a Mayor and hence the special election. Mr- C- E. Kyzer was ap- Clyde Gass Buys Edgewood Grocery Clyde Gass is the new owner of the Edgewood Grocery south of Trenton, starting in business Jan. 18. Carrying meat, groceries and gasoline, the store is open seven days a week, with mid¬ night the closing time for Satur¬ day nights. “I want to try to handle a little bit of everything,” Gass said,” later on.” Recently, he added oil paintings by Jewell Gass. On Saturday, Feb. 15, the day of the snow, Gass almost didn’t open the grocery, but said he did a good business all day long. Many of the calls were for van¬ illa, indicating that quite a lot of snow cream was being made. Before the new grocery open¬ ed, the building was used by Morris Powell for an upholstery shop- ASC Tree Planting Encouraged Under Conservation Reserve Farmers thinking of placing land in the 1958 Conservation Reserve should give careful con¬ sideration to changes in this year’s program making it more attractive, particularly when land taken out of production is planted to trees, Chairman Mc- Kaig, Dade ASC Committee, ad¬ vised today. out The Chairman pointed that Conservation Reserve con¬ tracts may be made for 5 or 10 years for planting trees and shrubs for wildlife protection. Last year 10-year contracts were required for this (practice. Cost¬ sharing up to 80 percent of the cost of the practice will be paid for the establishment of the practiee- producers Beginning in 1958, may also earn a higher annual payment for some Conservation Reserve acreage than was possi¬ ble last year. For example, here¬ tofore a non-diversion payment of 30 percent of the full payment (rate has been made when addi¬ tional eligible land on a farm such as hayland was put in the Conservation Reserve. Now, the County Committee may raise the non-diversion rate to 50 percent of the regular rate when all eli¬ gible land on a farm is placed in the Conservation Reserve or when land put in the program is planted to forest trees. Still another benefit accrues when all the eligible cropland on the farm is placed in the Conser¬ vation Reserve and all such land is planted to forest trees. In that case, the County Committee may iraise the non-diversion rate of the annual payment to 100 per¬ cent of the regular rate. When these higher non-diversion rates NUMBER 9 Mayor Called by the Council as Mayor Tem. The Resolution proclaiming election is published else¬ in the paper. Sims announces Charles T. (Tommy) Sims has to the Times that he is the race as a candidate Mayor in the special election- ran in the regular Decem¬ 1957 election and was de¬ in a very close race toy Mr. Sims, owner of the Trenton Shop, is a World War II and has served the as Coroner for a period of eight years and was acting Sher¬ iff between the time that Sheriff Graham was killed in a highway accident and Sheriff Allison Ble-" vins was elected. OBITUARY Early A. Ellis Funeral services for Early A. Ellis, 63, Mayor of Trenton, were Saturday from the Trenton Methodist Church with Rev- R- L- Hilten officiating. Interment was in the Trenton Baptist Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Bob Forester, Ray Fuller, Aubrey L- Dyer, Byron Biddle, Ted Holeman and Granville Pace. Mr. Ellis died Feb. 19 from a heart attack. He was born in Gallatin, Tenn., moving to Dade County in 1919. He had been as¬ sociated with the Southern Rail¬ way as electrician, serving in Signal Maintenance out of Tren¬ ton, since that date- A promin¬ ent resident of Trenton, he was a member of the Trenton Met¬ hodist Church and the Board of Stewards of that church; a member of Trenton Lodge 179 F- and A. M- and a Shriner, the American Legion having served in World War 1, and for a num¬ ber of years he served as a bond¬ ed trustee for the Trenton School. He was past president of the Dade County Lions Club- For several years, he was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee in the county. He was a member of the City Council for 12 years serving as Mayor Pro Tem for several prior to his election as Mayor of Trenton last year. Surviving him are his wife Lucille Pace Ellis; a Early A. Ellis, Jr. with the S- Corps of Engineers in one sister, Mrs- E. A. Birmingham, Ala., and brothers Charles and Robert both of Memphis, Tenn. Newsdrama “Satellites, Schools and Sur¬ is a television newsdrama education in the space age will be shown on WRGP- on Sunday, March 2 at 12:30 M. It is produced by the Nat¬ Education Association in with the State Edu¬ Associations and narrated Charles Van Doren. granted, however, the Committeee must deter¬ that the land or rental or the productivity of the justifies such action. Mr. advises farmers to call the County ASC office if they to talk over plans for taking in the 1958 Conservation program- Contracts may filed until April 15, 1958.
