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GRAND JURY SUPERIOR COURT
MAKES GENERAL PRESENTMENTS
Georgia, Brantley County.
We, the Grand Jury for Brantley
County, Georgia, for the Septem
ber Term, 1953, of the Superior
Court of said County, beg leave of
the Court to submit the following
presentments:
We wish to commend and thank
the Hon. Walter Thomas, Judge of
said Court, for his able charge to
our body, and express to him our
appreciation for the efficient man
ner in which he conducts the courts
of our county.
We wish to commend our able
Solicitor General J. R. Walker, for
the valuable services he has ren
dered to our body, and for the able
manner in which he serves the peo
ple in our county.
We wish to commend our county
officers for the faithful and effic
ient manner in which they conduct
their various offices.
The book committee appointed by
the Foreman of the Grand Jury re
port as follows:
We the Book Committee have ex
amined the books of the various
county officers and found them be
ing kept in as neat and orderly fas
hion and are posted up to date,
Clerk of Court is in need of more
vault room in which to keep his
records.
We further recommend that the
county commissioners employ some
one to check records and trying to
find the 12000 to 14000 acres of land
which have formerly been returned
in this County for taxes and at the
present time are not being returned.
E. A. Hunter,
Johnnie Eldridge,
W. B. Willis,
Book Committee.
We the committee on bridges and
public buildings, wish to submit the
following report:
We personally inspected school
buildings at Nahunta, Hoboken, Hor
tense, and Hickox buildings and fa
cilities in fair condition. However,
we rocommend that as soon as pos
sible, something be done to improve
our colored school facilities, basket
ball shell roof leaks and needs re
pairs.
We inspected court house and rest
rooms and find them in good and
sanitary condition.
We inspected Sheriff’s living
quarters find same in fair condi
tion.
We recommend that the Sheriff’s
living quarters have a new coat of
. paint and that the plumbing and e-
lectrical fixtures in the jail be ex
amined and necessary repairs made,
also some paint would help appear
ance, also plaster in jail needs re
pairing.
We have inspected and have re-
ports on roads and bridges through-
out the County and find some to
be in fair condition with following
exceptions.
Buffalo creek bridge on Lulaton-
Burnt Fort road known as Lower
bridge needs piling cap and'other
minor repairs, also bridge across
Buffalo creek near Major Riggins
and Luther Griffin needs minor re
pairs.
We also recommend that the pro
per authorities of State Highway
Department be notified of the con
dition of Barber Branch Bridge be
tween Hortense and Atkinson, so
that it may be maintained in a us
uable condition rm til abandoned as
this is a school bus and U. S. mail
route.
We further recommend that as
soon as financial conditions will per
mit, that our small wooden bridges
be replaced with concrete culverts,
and that this program be followed
until we have eventually replaced
all our county bridges with con
crete, as we believe this will be a
saving in the long run to the Coun
ty.
We also recommend that the
bridge known as Old Middleton
Bridge be inspected and repaired if
necessary.
We also recommend that rural
route south of Waynesville be put
in travelling condition as all times
as it has been brought to our at
tention that one bridge has fallen
down and road could not be traveled
for four weeks.
D. S. Page,
Spencer Drury,
W. D. Roberson,
Committee on Bridges and
Buildings.
We the Grand Jury recommend
that the proper authorities place
automatic traffic lights on Route
301 where it crosses old B. & W.
WantkH Btterprtar
Railroad in the City of Nahunta,
also that there be placed proper
signs on 301 notifying the travelling
public of traffic light and intersec
tion of highways 301 and 84 in the
City of Nahunta.
We recommend that S. £. Blount,
Janitor, be paid $75.00 per month.
We recommend that J. F. Lar
kins he appointed to succeed him
self as member of the Board of Ed
ucation from Hoboken District.
We recommend that Dr. E. A.
Moody be appointed as member of
the Board of Health of this County.
We recommend that the Sheriff
try if possible to stop the sale of.
beer and wine on Sunday, as it has
been brought to our attention that
the places around Lulaton and
Waynesville have been selling some
on Sundays.
We have examined the pauper list
of the County and recommend that
the ones that are on at present, re
main, and we have no other names
to be put on.
This being the last Grand Jury
of the year it becomes our duty to
fix the pay of the jurors for the
coming year, we recommend that
the Foreman and Clerk of the Grand
Jury be paid $6.00 per day, that the
Bailiff for Grand Jury be paid $6.00
per day and all other jurymen be
paid $5.00 per day.
We recommend that these pre-'
sentmente be published in the Brant-,
ley Enterprise and that they be ,
paid the sum of SIO.OO for publish
ing same.
We recommend that Llawanah
Cox be paid $5.00 for typing these
presentments.
Respectively submitted, this Sep
tember 22, 1953.
D. T. Middleton, Foreman.
Elroy Strickland, Clerk.
Approved and ordered filed this
82nd day of September, 1953.
J. Walter Thomas,
Judge Superior Court,
Brantley County, Ga.
J. R. Walker, Solicitor General.
STOCK YARD
SALES $82,800
IN FOUR MONTHS
Sales at the Nahunta Livestock
Auction for the four months of May,
June, July and August totaled
$82,808.82, according to the manager,
O .J. Ammons.
Total number of cattle sold dur
ing the four months was 860 and
total number of hogs 2,453.
The market holds auction sales
every Thursday and it is patronized
by farmers from a number of south
east Georgia counties.
Manager Ammons expressed his
appreciation of the patronage of
southeast Georgia livestock growers.
He invites them to continue to bring
their livestock to the Nahunta mar
ket where he assures them of high
est market prices and prompt and
courteous service.
Mr. Ammons stated that a num
ber of calves have already been
listed for the Fat Calf Show next
spring but that more listing of en
tries is wanted. See Mr. Ammons
for listing your calf as a competitor
for big prizes in the Fat Calf Show.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Middleton
and two sons, Michael and Gregory,
of Allandale, S. C., spent the week
end with relatives at Atkinson and
Waynesville. - < I
A MILESTONE OF PROGRESS IN PUBLIC HEALTH . . . PIERCE COUNTY’S NEW HOSPITAL AT BLACKSHEAR.
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, Thursday, September 24, 1953
$350,000 Hospital at
Blackshear to Open
PATIENTS TO BE
BEGINNING NEXT
Pierce county’s modern new $350,000 hospital, the
dream of citizens for many years, is scheduled to open its
doors to receive patients beginning next Thursday, Octo
ber 1.
The tenative opening date will be adhered to unless
last minute technicalities prevent it, in which case the
opening may be delayed a few days longer. State and
federal inspectors must still give the hospital final appro
val before it begins receiving patients.
Hailed as a milestone of pro-
gress in the county’s public
health program, the hospital at
Blackshear is recognized as in
corporating the most advanced
design and equipment of any its
size in the state and federal hos
pital program.
Its dedication and opening next
Thursday fulfills the hopes of
hundreds of Pierce county citi
zens and officials who have
worked for several years to ob
tain the 25-bed institution.
Modern in Design
Furniture, fixtures, medical e
quipment and other facilities are
the most modern available and
include some new conveniences
and equipment not previously
used in construction of any hos
pital in the South.
One such item is the telephone
switchboard of a compact, cord
less type which makes phone ser
vice available to any part of the
building by pushing a button.
This new type switchboard has
just been placed on the market.
The new hospital will include
19 beds for white patients and six
for colored patients. There will
be eight basinettes, six in the
white nursery and two in the
colored nursery.
The hospital birilding, designed
by Architects Gregson and Ellis
of Atlanta, is most modern in
layout and arrangement. The
building contains 20,000' square
feet of floor space.
Operating Room
Operating room and delivery
room equipment are the very la
test type available. The operat
ing table alone cost $1539 and
surgical instruments for the hos
pital cost approximately $3,000.
Operating room equipment in
cludes a $646 gas anesthesia ma
chine.
Bedroom furniture, which cost
SB,OOO, is the best available and
the hospital bedrooms are beau
tifully decorated in colors. Of
fice equipment is ultra-modern.
A complete laboratory. and X
ray service will be available at
the new Pierce County Hospital.
Laboratory equipment includes a
modern microscope which magni
fies 999 times. X-ray room equip
ment cost $6,000.
27 Employees
Twenty-seven employees will
constitute the hospital staff of
personnel when the hospital o
pens, including four registered
nurses and six aides.
Delta Construction Company
and Paul Kesling of Waycross
were contractors on the project.
The building contract amounted
to $262,956, furniture and similar
equipment amounted to $37,000
and other major items of equip-
RECEIVED
THURSDAY
ment brought the total cost of the
hospital to around $350,000.
Pierce countians voted a $90,000
bond issue as the local part of
the financing, the rest of the cost
coming from state and federal
funds.
CITY POLITICS
WARM UP AS
ELECTION NEARS
3 Candidates for
Mayor and Six in
Aiderman’s Race
Entries for the mayor and alder
manic races for the city of Nahunta
closed at five o’clock Tuesday after
noon, with three candidates qualif
ied in the mayor’s race and six can
didates for the four places on the
city council.
The race for mayor is a three
cornered affair, with the present
mayor Carl Broome being opposed
for reelection by Fred Strickland
and Oliver Pearson. Mr. Pearson is
an electrician with the Coast Line
Railroad. He served on the present
council but resigned in the middle
of the term last year.
The six candidates for aiderman
are two of the present council, Bill
Harris and Ira Brown, and four
others, namely J. Walter Crews, J.
D. Orser, Ira Brown, Roy Dowling
and J. A. Gunter.
The city election will be held
Wednesday, Oct. 7. The rules for
the election are the same as hold
for election of representatives in the
General Assembly. All registered
voters must have lived in Nahunta
at least six months and in the state
at least 12 months prior to the e
lection.
The only exception is that the
city charter provides that the polls
shall open at 10 A. M. and close at
three P. M., giving only five hours
for the voters to cast their ballots.
GEORGIA BROILER RECORD
For several years Georgia has
ranked in top place nationally in
broiler growing. In 1950 Georgia
replaced Maryland in second
place and in 1951 took over first
place from Delaware. There are
11 major broiler-producing sec
tions in the nation.
Studies show that for each
pound of weight properly put
back on a high producing cow,
she will produce 10 to 12 pounds
more milk the following lactation,
according to Frank Fitch, dairy
man for the Extension Service.
MASS MEETING CALLED TO PLAN
CAMPAIGN FOR NEW GYMNASIUM
Frank Knox
Funeral Services
Held Tuesday
Funeral services for Frank A.
Knox, 42, of 745 Blake Ave., S. E.,
were held Monday at 4 P. M. at
Spring Hill. Dr. W. Bertram King
and Dr. Fred L. Glisson officiated,
with burial in Jacksonville, Fla.
Mr. Knox, court reporter and per
sonnel director of the Georgia Pub
lic Service Commission for six years,
died Sunday at his home after a
brief illness.
Surviving are his wife; aaughters,
Miss Phyllis Anne Knox, Miss Lyn
da Jeanne Knox of Atlanta; sisters,
Mrs. Jasper Johnson, Mrs. Virgil
Allen of Hickox; Mrs. Autry Landry
of Miami; brothers, Hubert Knox
and LaVerne Knox, both of the U.
S. Army.
HORTENSE NEWS
By Mrs. A. R. Adams
The First Quarterly Conference
of the Nahunta Charge was held at
the Hortense Methodist Church on
Sunday, September 20. Rev. James
R. Webb, district superintendent,
preached in the morning. Dinner
was served on the grounds at noon
and the business session convened
at two o’clock. All the churches ex
cept one were represented and the
work is reported getting well under
way.
« * •
James Willis of Folkston has ac
cepted a position as a member of
the Hortense school faculty.
* £ •
Paul Jenkins was called to North
Carolina on Sunday on account of
the death of his mother.
• • • •
Mr. and Mrs. Treutlen Waller of
Soperton were visitors of her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Strickland
iast Sunday.
• • * •
There was quite a lot of excite
ment here on Friday afternoon when
a Navy blimp on maneuvers had a
forced landing and the men on
board threw the ropes to a group
of school boys to pull them on down
as they were tangling with the tree
tops. A truck soon arrived and took
the blimp back to base.
• ♦ •
Ronald Ad: ms and children, Anno,
and Ronnie of Jesup, visited rela
tives here Sunday afternoon.
TWO WOMEN
ARE INJURED
IN OAR WRECK
Two women, Mrs. Green and Mrs.
Kicklighter of Brunswick, were in
jured when their car turned over
just outside the city limits of Na
hunta on the Brunswick road Wed
nesday morning about 11 o’clock.
Mr. Oliver Pearson and a trucker,
name unknown, helped to pull the
two women from the overturned
car. The car had turned over in a
pool of water beside the highway
and the women were in danger oi
drowning in the shallow water.
The two women were brought to
Nahunta and given first aid by Dr.
E. A. Moody.
OFFICIAL ORGAN
A mass meeting of Brantley
County citizens has been called for
Tuesday night, Sept. 29, for tie
purpose of making plans for a cam
paign to build a new gymnasium at
the Nahunta High School. The meet
ing will be held in the school aud
itorium at 8:00 P. M.
The general plan is for a citizens
committee to be appointed at the
meeting to decide as to the best
way to raise sufficient funds to con
struct a modern school gymnasium
on the grounds adjacent to the new
high school building.
As the high school for Nahunta
is for all the eastern part of the
county, all the citizens are request
ed to attend the mass meeting and
help decide proceedure in getting a
much needed new' gymnasium.
The Hoboken people succeeded in
erecting a splendid new gymnasium
and the people of the eastern part
of the county wish to adopt some
plan to secure such a building for
this section of the county.
The Brantley County Board of
Education will cooperate in the plans
and will furnish a part of the funds
for the proposed new gymnasium,
but the board does not have suf
ficient funds to pay all the costs.
Everyone is invited to attend the
mass meeting Tuesday night, Sept.
29, and be ready to make sugges
tions for raising the necessary
funds.
New Hope Cemetery
Will Be Cleaned
The New' Hope Cemetery at Hic
kox will be cleaned off next Wed
nesday, Sept. 30. All who are in
terested in the New Hope Ceme
tery are requested to come and bring
tools for working.
ROYAL
Theatre
Nahunta, Georgia
Monday to Friday 8:00 P. M.
Saturday 7:00 and 8:30 P. M.
PROGRAM
THURS., FRI., SEPT. 24 - 25
“I Love Melvin”
With DONALD O’CONNOR
and DEBBIE REYNOLDS
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
“On Top of Old
Smoky”
With GENE AUTRY
MON., TUES., SEPT. 28 - 29
“Never Let Me Go”
With CLARK GABLE
and GENE TIERNEY
WEDNESDAY, SI
“Voodoo Tiger”
With J. WEISMUELLER
