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wfo Cmmfo 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 . (Continued to Page 2) 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.