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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.
