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Devoted to the Best Interests of Dade County and Georgia.
VOLUME LIX
National Home Demonstration Week
Dade Is celebrating
Home Demonstration Club
this week along with other
throughout the nation. The
ional theme, which is the
each year, is “Today’s
Builds Tomorrow’s
Georgia has added for
local 1959 theme, “Each
a Beacon Light’”.
This program is under
Agricultural Extension
and there are specialists
ifamily life, nutrition,
food preservation, housing
equipment, home
and other women
who help in the Home
stration work. There are
men specialists who bring
grams and demonstrations
landscaping, rural electrifica-
Case Store To
Re-open Monday
The grocery department of
the John L. Case Co. will re¬
open for business on
May 11, Mr. James C. Case
announced. The hardware
appliance department is not
completed but James M.
hopes to open his
in less than a month.
This fine new building is
concrete with brick and
plate glass show windows in the
front. A marquee has been add¬
ed over the windows and
for weather protection and it
also adds elegance to the build¬
ing.
Inside the grocery depart¬
ment one wall and the rear are
lined with the newest and finest
of refrigeration cabinets for
meats, vegetables, dairy prod¬
ucts and frozen foods. These are
in soft pastel colors as are the
walls. Behind the meat refriger¬
ation counter, which is at the
rear of the store, is a large walk
in refrigerator.
Lining the other wall and
down the center are easy to
reach shelves for the canned
and packaged foods and health
aides. A modern check-out
counter is near the door.
Mr. Case, Mrs. Ruth Buch-
anon and Gordon Hammond
will again be on hand to wait on
you and new to the store but
'familiar faces added will be Mrs.
Jean Graves and James H.
(Bud) Tatum. Except for the
personnel this new store, with
its efficient arrangement and
better display of merchandise,
hardly resembles the old John
L. Case store which burned on
Sept 3, 1958.
Smith Svc. Sta. Moves
North of Trenton
The Lester Smith Service Sta¬
tion has moved to about IV 2
miles north of Trenton on the
west side of Highway 11. This
is the new service station erect¬
ed by Sanders Clark and adjoins
the restaurant also built by
him, which Mr. and Mrs. Bill
Keeton will operate as the
Southland Restaurant.
Smith’s new service station
has plenty of drive-in and park¬
ing area and the building is
large and convenient. He not
only sells gas and oil but has a .
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THE DADE COUNTY TIMES, TRENTON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1959
tion, gardening and other
of interest.
Each month the local
Demonstration agents give
demonstration in each of
clubs in certain phazes of
work. So far this year, Mrs.
Lyda, Dade’s H. D. agent, has
given demonstrations on sew¬
ing, money management, kitc¬
hen storage, b a s k e t weaving
and this month the demonstra¬
tion is on egg cookery.
Special emphasis in the local
clubs this year has been on
Food Preservation. There was a
Leader Training Meeting attend
ed by the Food Preservation
Chairman of each club. These
chairmen then gave demonstra¬
tions on this in their local clubs.
A Reed Work Training Meet¬
ing is set for Wednesday, May
20 and a Nutrition Training
Meeting for Friday, May 29.
There will be a Dress Revue
later in the spring.
There is a Dade County Home
Demonstration Council which
meets six times a year. Mrs.
Alvin Reeves, from the Slygo
Club, is this year’s president.
This year the Council was host¬
ess to the District Council which
includes about ten counties.
All ladies in the county are
invited to be members of these
Home Demonstration Clubs. At
present there are nine scattered
throughout the county. Meet¬
ings, held once a month, are
usually in a member's home,
but sometimes in the Commun¬
ity Clubs. There is a business
meeting, one or two demonstra¬
tions and a social hour at which
refreshments are served. There
is a Christmas party for the
December meeting and a picnic
for the summer meeting. At
Conservation Accomplishments Show Increase
In observance of Soil Steward
ship WEEK, May 3-10, the local
ASC Office is re-emphasizing
'the Agricultural Conservation
Program for 1959 and just how
it assists farmers in steward¬
ship of their soils by cutting
down “out-of-the-pocket-costs”
of conservation of soil.
Federal cost-shares are offer¬
ed farmers in Dade County on
17 different practices—one or
more of which we believe is
needed on every farm in the
county. Cost-shares average 50
percent of the cost of comple¬
tion of all practices except, per¬
manent cover, woodland im¬
provement and construction of
livestock dams on which the
cost-shares may be 70 percent
of the cost.
Below is a list of the practices
for which cost-shares are avail¬
able under the 1959 program:
Permanent cover, rotation cover
liming farmland, planting trees,
improving permanent pasture
and hay land, ripping noncrop
wells for livestock, .
pasture, pipe;
lines for livestock water, wood-
land improvement, sod water¬
ways, protective cover, terraces,
channel improvement, drainage
ditches, irrigation dams, sum¬
mer cover and winter cover.
Any farmer who has not al¬
ready filed a request for cost-
shares to complete one or more
of the practices listed above is
requested to do so this week,
observing Soil Steward
present Dade has about 150
members.
The Clubs in the county will
celebrate in different ways this
week.
The New Salem Club, with
Mrs. Jack Neal as president,
will entertain the Avans Club
with a Tea. This Club was first
place winner in Dade’s Club of
the Year contest.
The Avans Club, with Mrs.
H. H. Bodenhamer as president,
will make corsages to give the
mothers who attend church on
Mother's Day. Avans placed se¬
cond in the Club of the Year
Contest.
The Wildwood Club, of which
Mrs. C. C. Higdon is president,
will entertain members of the
Byrd's Chapel and New Home
Clubs at a Tea.
The Slygo Club, Mrs. Alvin
Reeves president; the Morgan-
ville Club, Mrs. Virginia Light
president and the Rising Fawn
Club, Mrs. L. M. Allison (presi¬
dent, will all place flowers in
the churches in their com¬
munities.
The New Home Club, with Mrs
Jack Ivey as acting president,
will hold a Clothing Exhibit at
their Community House and
also conduct a Membership
Drive during the week.
The Byrd’s Chapel Club, Mrs.
Bill Keeton president, will have
a special work meeting for non¬
members as well as members in
basket making.
The Trenton Club, Mrs. Jules
Case president, is planning an
educational tour of the Hunter
Art Gallery, homes on Lookout
Mountain, including the new
Estes Kefauver home, the Re¬
flection Riding Academy and a
luncheon at the Panorama.
ship Week in action.
Further, sheep growers who
have sold wool since April 1,
1959 are urged to file their ap¬
plications for payment under
the 1959 Incentive Wool Pro¬
gram.
DISTRICT’S 1958 CONSERVA¬
TION ACCOMPLISHMENTS
SHOW INCREASE
Accomplishments of Field-
man’s District 1 two largest and
most important farmer-type
Conservation Programs adminis
tered by the District’s thirteen
Agricultural Stabiliza¬
tion and Conservation Commit¬
tees indicate an increase over
1957, Mr. William H. Moreland,
Jr., ASC Field Officer, stated
today.
The Agricultural Conserva¬
tion Program and Conserva¬
tion Reserve Program of the
Soil Bank assists farmers by
sharing in the cost of establish¬
ing approved conservation prac¬
tices, thereby conserving our
water, wildlife and natural
resources Reports of the major
conservation accomplishments
of the two programs combined
were 14,555 acres of permanent
cover established,
3,219 acres planted to tree seed¬
and woodland improve¬
91 farm ponds construct¬
for livestock water or wild¬
purposes, 12,672 acres of
and summer crops seed¬
A total of 3,398 farms parti¬
in these programs in
Published Weekly—Since 1901
Trenton Voles l
At the regular monthly meet
ing of the Trenton City
Monday night, the Council
proved the final plans for a
hour parking limit
Court House Square.
Charles T. Sims said signs
be posted to this effect and
Ordinance will be enforced
the City Council and tickets
offenders will be issued by
Marshall H. H. Hutchins.
Ordinance prohibits parking
the square for over two
on week days between the
8 A M and 6 p M
The Council agreed on
terms of an option to be
mitted to the Dade Water
hority for the purchase of
City Water System. If
this would be a big step
Ranger Headquarters
To Have New Home
A new Forest Rangers Head¬
quarters building is expected
be started any day now.
have been approved by the
and State Forestry Department.
This new building, which
be built by the state, will be lo¬
cated south of Trenton on
way 11, will have a 120 ft.
age about 50 ft. south of
Ogreeta Pace’s home. It will
similar to a ranee type
with car ports for the trucks.
This Headquarters is not
pected to detract from the sur¬
rounding properties as
will be ample room in the rear
to park all equipment.
Completion of the building
and landscaping of the area will
depend on how much time the
crew will have to spend away
from this project fighting fires.
1958 earning $578,713 in cost-
share payments. Mr. Moreland
stated that this means about
farm in every five partici¬
pated in one or both of these
programs during the year.
The Agricultural Conserva¬
tion Program offers cost-shar¬
assistance to farmers to
pay part of the cost of
applying needed conservation
measures to their land. Pay¬
average about 50 percent
the cost the extent *
on ap¬
in advance by the
ASC Committees. Farm¬
ers pay the balance of the cost
in addition, furnish their
and machinery. In this
farmers are assisted in
additional conserva¬
above that which could be
with their own re¬
Some of the 1958 conservation
under the
are: permanent vegetative
established onl4,373 acres,
seedlings planted on 479
improvement of perman¬
pasture and hay land on
acres, woodland improved
620 acres, winter cover seed¬
on 5,751 acres, summer cover
on 6,890 acres, lime ap¬
on 8,128 acres, construct¬
7200 feet of terraces, laid
feet pipeline for livestock
constructing 73 dams for
water and irrigation
drilled 88 wells for livestock j {
NUMBER 19
Paritin e
clearing the way for a county
water system.
Also approved at this meeting
was the purchase of another
dump truck to help to keep the
city streets in better condition
as well as for the collection of
garbage. The old truck will be
(retained and a water tank will
be installed on it for additional
fire protection for the city.
City Street Officially Named
Acting on a petition signed by
some twenty or more residents
of the street just east of the
A. G. S. Railroad beginning at
Church Street and running
South parallel with the railroad
to a spring, and rounding the
curve into State Highway 143 to
LaFayette, the Trenton City
Council at their meeting Mon¬
day evening voted and passed
an ordinance officially naming
this street “East Side Drive”.
There was no record of this
street ever having been official¬
ly named it was sometimes
called “Railroad Street” for the
purpose of an address on insur¬
ance policies, deeds, etc., to give
locations of property. This
action was also taken because
there is another street on the
west side of the railroad which
traverses mostly railroad right-
of-way and is called Railroad
Street and the naming of the
street was to distinguish bet-
ween the west and east side
streets. Also mentined in the
petition was that to the growth
of the town it may soon become
necessary for residents to have
a house and street number for
the prospective delivery of mail
and utilities.
The street is now officially
named as above and residents
hope that action will be taken
before too long to mark this
and other streets of Trenton.
The Conservation Reserve of
the Soil Bank provides for the
withdrawal of cropland from
production, helping to adjust
total crop acreage nearly in
line with demand. At the same
time, it provides and assists
farmers in establishing and
mantaining sound conservation
practices on the land they put
:in the Reserve, Unlike the Agri¬
cultural Conservation Program
in addition to the sharing of
the cost of establishing conser¬
vation practices, this program
also makes annual rental pay¬
ments during the period each
contract is in effect . Annual
payments to farmers in the (Dis¬
trict for contracts in effect in
1958 amounted to $33,803. Both
the Agricultural Conservation
Program and the Conservation
Reserve Program of the Soil
Bank are voluntary programs.
Some of the 1958 conservation
accomplishments under the CRP
Program are: establishing per¬
manent Vegetative cover on 483
acres, planting 2,426 acres of
trees, and establishing 19 acres
for wildlife habitat.
Approval of cost-shares under
the Agricultural Conservation
Program and contracts under
the Conservation Reserve Pro¬
gram are administered by the
County ASC Committeemen.
Under certain conditions a farm
may participate in both pro¬
grams, but cost-shares are not
approved under both programs
on the same acreage.