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About The Dade County times. (Trenton, Ga.) 1908-1965 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1958)
adt (fmmljj Dade County's Only Newspaper. VOLUME LVin Three Killed in Accident Three died as a result of a highway accident Monday noon on the Hooker road near the Two little sisters, Patricia Ann, almost 5 years old, and ____„ _________________________ walking beside the highway on their way home from a store where they had bought candy. A pick up truck, loaded with hay and driven by Herman Long, 26, of Sequatchie, Tenn., for reasons not yet reported hit the two little girls. It is reported the truck then turned over three times crushing Long to death. All were taken to a Chattan¬ ooga hospital. Patricia died in the emergency room and Judy during the afternoon. Long was pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. The girls were daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Paul G. Pritchett of Hooker. Mrs. Pritchett, coll¬ apsed from shock and was also taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Besides their parents, the Wm. T. Bodenhamer Speaks in Trenton Wm, T. Bodenhamer, candid¬ ate for governor, spoke in Tren¬ ton Saturday night to nearly 100 people. He introduced himself and opened with a prayer. Speaking from the east side of the Court House, he said he was in favor of continuing the rural road program as it has been set up under the present administration. He spoke of all the school bus roads which were not yet paved. Bodenhamer said he was in favor of raising the teacher’s pay, that as a member of the State Board of Education for the past three years he felt the pay scale needed revising. He stressed that he was “no middle of the roader on segregation’’ We are proud in Georgia of the leadership we have maintained in the south in the fight to maintain segregation, Boden¬ hamer said, and we will let the entire Nation know that Georgia has not yet weakened on this issue. On taxes he said he thought the present system of taxes was adequate if spent right. He said he was not a rich man and that on television he had used a bucket which he had asked his friends to fill for his campaign expenses. He said he had the bucket with him and put it down for a collection. The candidate, who was ac¬ companied by his wife and child ren, spoke for some 35 to 40 min utes after which he held an informal conference in the Ordinary’s office for about two hours. ALL DAY SINGING AUG 17 The Annual All Day Singing of the Trenton Baptist Church will be held Sunday, August 17. Dinner on the grounds. Every¬ one welcome. REUNION AUG. 17 AT BYRD’S CHAPEL There will be a Reunion of all old and present r _______ residents _ of Byrd’s Chapel on Sunday Aug. 17. This will be at the Chapel. Please bring your lunch and en- joy a day of friendship and fellowship. Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia. THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1958 little girls are survived by a brother, Paul, Jr, and grand- parents Mr. and Mrs. Chance Meeker, and Lee Pritchett and the late Mrs. Pritchett all of Stevenson, Ala. Funeral services were held at Hooker Methodist Church with the Revs. J. L. Stewart and H. C. Emmert officiating. Inter- ment was in Talley Cemetery, Members of State Agriculture Department Tour Dade Tomato Growers Assn. Crop Members of the State Depart- ment of Agriculture and the Experimental Station at the University of Georgia were in Dade last week looking at the tomatoes planted by the Dade County Tomato Growers Associ- ation. Boyce Dyer, Director of Mar¬ kets, with Buell Samples the Dept, of Agriculture and Roy Green from the Station visited the 30 acres (tomatoes which the Association members have planted. They were impressed with the quality and offered assistance in get¬ ting them ready for market and the selling. Dyer said the full support of the Marketing De¬ partment would be given making a survey of the and developing a market for the tomatoes. Some of Art E. Moore’s toma¬ toes, which had been earlier, were ready and took some of these to Atlanta with him to show the buyers. He said he would talk with them to determine the type of packaging they preferred and the degree of ripeness (that is vine ripened •or green packed) that they wanted. When the time comes to pick the Associations tomatoes, which probably will be around the first of September, the State Department of Agriculture will send an inspector and grader for as long a time as nec¬ essary to train a local grading crew. The Marketing Division Richard Fricks Wins First on Jr. Health Richard Fricks won first place his Junior Health demon¬ stration at the 4-H Club Pro¬ Achievement meeting at Rock Eagle last week. Richard was competing against eleven boys for the North Georgia Dis¬ trict honor. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Fricks and a member of the Rising Fawn 4-H Club. Winning a second place at this meeting was Rosemary Kirk, from the Rising Fawn Club, for her demonstration in Junior Canning. Dale Ballard, from the Davis Club, won a Blue ________________ Award of Excellence in Junior public Speaking. Alfred Barnes from the Head River 4-H Club won a second place for his demonstration on Senior Health. Larry Konrad fourth in the Senior For- estry demonstration, The State 4-H Council meet- ing is at Rock Eagle next week W ith Gladys Mahan, Alojean Word, Alfred Barnes and Ralph Geddie attending as delegates {from Dade County. of Schools Set For Aug. 29 The Dade County Schools will open for registration, assign¬ ment to classes and for the issuing of text books on Friday, August 29 for the fall term. School buses will run and though it is not expected this will take a full day, it will be the first day of school for this term. Classes will begin on Tuesday, will be available for assistance in getting the tomatoes to the best market. Dade’s tomatoes, being the last of the Georgia grown tomatoes, should bring a good price from the first of September until frost. Roy Green said the tomatoes looked good but he found a slight blight on some and ad¬ vised that the recommended spraying schedule be followed in order to keep it down. All mem¬ bers have a copy of this spray schedule but if it has been mis¬ placed thay can get another at the County Agent’s office. Dade Football Squad To Have Encampment The Dade County High School ifootball squad will enjoy a week's outing at the Coosa Mis¬ sionary Baptist Camp grounds i(the old CCC camp) on Lookout Mountain. They will leave Sun¬ day afternoon, August 17 and return Friday. These 30 to 35 boys will be •accompanied by Dade High Athletic Director Donald Payne, Assistant coach Philip Smith, Commercial Teacher, who was coach at Davis last year, Willard Crabtree and Harold Shankles. Harold is a former Dade player and is now Quarterback on the Jackson State College team. The program at the Football Training Camp will be lots of football practice, church ser¬ vices and recreation. All facili¬ ties will be furnished and the cooking will be done by several energetic ladies of the com¬ munity. Tri State Fox Hunt On Aug. 21-22-23 The Northwest Georgia Fox Hunters Association has sched¬ ule a Dog Show and Fox Hunt on August 21-22-23. They are expected 200 dogs from Tenn¬ essee, Alabama and Georgia to enter. The Club, where this will be held, is located three and a half miles north of LaFayette on the Trenton road. The Dog Show will start Thursday night at 8 P. M. August 21 and the hounds will be cast at 5 o’clock on Aug¬ ust 21 and 23. There will be prizes for all winners. The Association says there will be plenty to eat on the ground and places to sleep. There will be a playground for the kids. This is an annual event which interests many dog lovers. When it was held in Trenton in 1948, the Show was so crowded it was difficult to see the dogs. Published Weekly—Since 1901 Sept. 2, as Monday is Labor Day, a national holiday. The teachers, however, will begin their fall term on Monday morning, August 25, at 9:30 for (four days of pre planning and preparation of the starting of classes. The teacher allotment for the school system is nearly complete with several more tea¬ chers having been added. Willard Crabtree, a clftis room teacher at Davis last year, will be In charge of the Commerical Department at Dade High this year and Philip Smith will be assistant coach. Lamar Moore, who has just been discharged from the service, will be the Visiting Teacher. Hughie B. Slater will be a class room teacher as will Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Jones Wooten. The Board of Education re¬ minds parents of children en¬ Lookout Ass n. Meets August 19-20 The 56th annual session of the Lookout Valley Missionary Baptist Association will meet this year Tuesday and Wednes¬ day, August 19 and 20 at the Trenton Baptist Church. Rev. Taylor Castleberry, who is the present moderator and was the pastor at Rising Fawn until being called to the Morris Hill Baptist Church in Chatt- CONCERT AUG 15 AT PINEY GROVE CHURCH To climax the Singing School, which has been in progress for two weeks there will be a Con¬ cert Friday, night, Aug. 15, at the Piney Grove Baptist Church, at 7:30 and everyone is invited to come. The singing school has been under the direction of Mrs. Nell Reeves. Rev. Thomas W. Schields is pastor of the church. SLYGO DINNER There will be a dinner at the Slygo Community House, Sun¬ day, August 17, for the new church building fund. Adults, $1,00— children, 50c. Serving time from 12 until 2. Everyone welcome. A. S. C. ACP Friday, August 15, is the last day of the sign-up for farmers to file requests for federal cost- Bhares under the 1958 Agricul¬ tural Conservation Program. Any farmer who thinks he may need cost-sharing to complete practices on his farm this fall should file his request at once. Authority has been received for the County Committee to 20 percent of 1958 funds and also 20 percent of 1959 ACP funds for approving this fall. Practices may still be completed this year include dams, terraces, and rotation cover, cover crops, applications grounds limestone and fores¬ practices. requested to Each farmer is his individual farming and file his request the assistance most needed his farm. RESERVE In a few days we hope to farmers some very good concerning the 1959 Con¬ Reserve Program as to land, priority of con-j NUMBER 33 tering school this fall that for the first time all these children must have had Diptheria, Whooping Cough, Small Pox and Polio shots. Also for the first time this year all children en¬ tering school for the first time iare required to have their birth certificates and those entering the first grade must be 6 years old prior to December 1. W. C. Cureton Resigns At a Board of Education meeting on August 5, Supt, of Schools Roy W. Moore presented W. C. Cureton Jr’s resignation from the Board. Mr. Cureton is now working in Alabama and the Board accepted this with regret. They unanimously (agreed to appoint John W. Mur¬ phy, Jr. to fill the unexpired term of Mr. Cureton until the Grand Jury meets in September. anooga last month, will preside. Rev. J. C. Mitchell, former minister at the Piney Grove Church and now at Fyffe, Ala¬ bama will be the Tuesday night speaker. Rev. Frank Spurling, former pastor a t Whitweil, Tenn. and now in Chattanooga, will speak Wednesday morning land vice-moderator, Rev. Pearl Tinker, pastor of the Trenton Baptist Church will speak Wed¬ nesday afternoon. Reports will be given during the meeting and officers and meeting place for the coming year will be chosen. Sheriff’s Report Three were picked up for driv¬ ing under the influence of intox icants and two for public drunkenness over the week end. Friday night the Williams Enterprise Co. tool house in Ris¬ ing Fawn was broken into and robbed. Everything has been gotten back and Henry Lowery is in jail, one other is under bond and there is one other suspect. tracts and payment rates, etc. Farmers ’should be aware that there will not be an Acreage Re¬ serve Program in 1959. The Con¬ servation Reserve Program may be the answer to the question,” What can I do with land which I’ve had in Acreage Reserve Pro¬ gram”? Watch the newspaper and letters from the A SC office for this information. COTTON MARKETING CARDS In the near future cotton Marketing cards will be issued to farm operators on under- planted farms. Boll counts will be made and penalties deter¬ mined for overplanted farms. Cards will be issued only after the penalty is paid. RECONSTITUTION OF FARMS Farmers should notify the local ASC office when one or of the conditions below exist so that farms may be pro¬ perly constituted: )1) All or part a farm has been sold (2) Ail or part of a farm has been pur¬ (3) more than one farm owned and operated by the person (4) as an heir, has part or all of an
