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VQLUME 33, NUMBER 41
AMERICAN DISREGARD FOR HUMAN
LIFE ON NATION’S HIGHWAYS
CALLED REVERSION TO SAVAGERY
Th£ following article recently ap
peared in the Augusta Courier with
a large headline calling American
disregard for human life “a rever
sion to savagery” and with-a smaller
headline as follows:
6,962,600 KILLED AND
WOUNDED IN 3 YEARS
IS ALMOST TWICE
GEORGIA’S POPULATION
The greatest tragedy of this age
is the terrible killing and maiming
of people on the public highways
and streets.
Every year we kill and injure
people at a greater rate than they
have been killed during any of our
wars.
Even now we are killing and
wounding more people on the public
streets and highways than the en
tire casualty list of the Korean War
amounted to.
For three years of war in Korea
here is the record;
Killed 21,827
Wounded 101,881
Missing 13,154
TOTAL 136,862
But traffic kills more people and
wounds more people than a war.
For a three-year period, 1950, 1951,
end 1952, the casualty list on the
streets and highways of America
was:
Killed 110,200
Wounded 5,852,400
TOTAL 5,962,600
So, for three years we killed and
wounded on the highways 5,962,000
people and this nearly equals the
people of ten western states.
These ten western states are:
Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyom
ing, Utah, Arizona, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska and New
Mexico.
This is a terrible indictment a
gainst the American people. In three
years time we killed and wounded
practically the population of ten
states.
And this 5,962,600 people is nearly
twice the population of the State of
Georgia
So, here we are every three years
killing, maiming and wounding near
ly twice the number of people who
. live in the State of Georgia.
It is a terrible story. It is a terrible
thing.
It not-only costs in human, life
and human suffering, but it destroys
millions of dollars’ worth of proper
ty every year..
And look what it costs in the way
of hospital bills and doctors’ bills
to try to save and preserve the bro
ken bodies which are pulled out
from under the wrecks. This matter
runs into other millions.
PARI OF HOSPITAL STAFF - Some of ti e nurses, aides, and staff members of the
Pierce County Hospital are shown in th picture taken at the dedication of the
hospital. (Photo by J. B. Hendry.)
Wantleg Enterprise
And then the terrible costs that
society must pay for a crippled man,
a crippled child or a crippled woman
and the handicaps that follow
through the loss of limbs, by dis
figuration and other handicaps for
the rest of one’s life.
It is needless waste of human life
and a needless destruction of prop
erty. It is all due to the fault of
people. Most of it is due to careless
ness. Most of it is due to the fact
that those who drive the highways
do so with a reckless disregard of
their own lives and the lives of
those who ride with them and the
lives and property of others.
The great majority of accidents
is due to the fact that we have too
many foolish people operating cars
over the highways at a high speed.
The writer has had a few acci
dents in his day and time and ev
ery one of them was partly due to
his own fault. Others, has been
partly to blame, and some instances
has been completely to blame.
But every one of them could have
been avoided had the writer been
alert and had not been carelessly or
negligently driving himself.
The attitude that we don’t care
is the basis of many of our troubles
and many of the accidents on the
highways.
We are not properly concerned
with human life and the rights of
other human beings.
No longer do we consider the
driving of an automobile as a busi
ness which requires our attention
and concentration. We push the
starter button, we put the car in
gear, we slap our foot on the ac
celerator and we go down the road
without thinking about what we are
doing or what we are about.
We take it for granted that the
car will run just as one walks with
out thinking about putting one foot
in front of the other.
And as a result we form careless
habits and we no longer are careful
in the operation of a car.
This attitude certainly should be
changed when we realize that when
an automobile travels over the high
way at sixty or seventy miles an
hour that it has been catapulted
through the air by a great force and
that force is sufficient not only to
destroy that automobile, but to de
stroy many others and many lives.
The accumulated force and the
momentum of a few tons of mater
ial flying through the air is one of
the most dangerous objects of mo
dern day existance.
While all of this force and mo
mentum flies through the air it is
a hazard to human life and to pro
perty.
This hazard must be controlled
and it can only be controlled by the
person who sits behind the wheel.
Should this person be a fool or a
reckless individual then murder it
self rides the highways.
These hazards which ride the
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA,
HORTENSE NEWS
By Mrs. A. R. Adams
Satilla Baptist Church organized a
W. M. U. Monday evening with of
ficers elected as follows: President,
Mrs. Macy May; vice president, Mrs.
Sarah Bryan; second vice president,
Mrs. Eva Rowell; third vice presi
dent, Mrs. Becky Rowell; Recording
Secretary and Treasurer, Mrs. Abbie
Rowell; Corresponding Secretary,
Mrs. Jessie Eldridge; social, Mrs.
Blanche Dubberly.
All ladies of the church are urged
to attend the next meeting to be
held October 19th.
* *
Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lewis announce
the birth of a grandson; born to
Mr. and Mrs. Garland Lewis of
Daytona Beach, Fla.
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Messrs. Angus and Irving Strick
land of Waycross, visited their pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Strickland
here last Sunday.
• • •
Mr. W. P. Rowell entered a hos
pital Tuesday for an eye operation.
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Rev. C. M. Hart of Waycross filled
his regular appointment here last
Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Townsend of Jesup
visited the latters parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Potter Sloan over the weekend.
•• • •
Mrs. Lawson Middleton, Mrs.
Steve Ryals and Mrs. A. R. Adams
attended services at Epworth by the
Sea, Brunswick, Tuesday evening.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith have
moved into their new home after
spending some time in South Caro
lina.
* * *
Rev. F. H. Harris Sr. will preach
at the Wesleyan Methodist Church
here Sunday morning, Oct. 11th.
* • •
Mrs. Joe Moody is ill in a Jesup
hospital.
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Mr. and Mrs. Randall Walker and
Angela and Randy were visitors in
Hortense on Wednesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Gus Steed of Bruns
wick visited relatives here over the
weekend.
Rev. and Mrs. Snellgrove spent
last week in North Carolina.
Mrs. Steve Ryals and daughter,
Margaret, spent Monday in Jesup.
Mrs. D. T. Middleton was a visitor
to Waycross on Tuesday of last
week.
Col. Dow Adams of Ft. Bragg,
N. C., visited relatives here last
week.
highways of every state in the na-.
tion are the most deadly scourge
which has ever attacked the Ameri
can people.
Even the plague could not be
worse. The ravishes of small pox
have neevr yet equalled it.
It is doubtful ever that if the
hydrogen bomb were being dropped
on American cities if it would kill
many more people than we are now
killing on the highways of America.
Thursday, October 8, 1953
NEW GYMNASIUM
COMMITTEE
PLANS CAMPAIGN
Three Groups Are
Appointed to
Seek Donations
The committee formed to promote
the campaign for a new gymnasium
for Nahunta High School met Tues
day night, Oct. 6. The chairman, El
roy Strickland, appointed three
groups to canvass in Nahunta-*
The three committees appointed
were as follows-
South of Route 84, Mrs, W. B.
Harris, Jos. B, Strickland and Ray
DePratter.
Route 84 to W. & B. Railroad,
Herschel W. Herrin, Earl W. May
and Harold A. Strickland.
From W & B. Railroad north,
Hoke Wilson, Harry Raulerson and
Ira F. Brown.
Anyone missed in the canvass can
make pledge for help on the cam
paign by contacting the- school su
perintendent’s office at the court
house or at Harry Raulerson’s ser
vice station.
It is planned to make the canvass
the week of Oct. 12.
SEED TREES
ARE IMPORTANT
By Henry G. Backus,
U. S. Forest Service
Far too many tracts of timber
are being cut for pulpwood and
sawmill timber without leaving
a seed tree to reseed the area.
Farmers know only too well
that you have to have seed to
plant a crop and it’s the same
story with a crop of timber. The
seed must come from seed trees
left well distributed over the
area.
. The question might arise as to
what kind of seed trees to leave?
In this part of Georgia the slash
pine is the best source of seed.
The slash puts out an abundance
of seed that are easy for the
wind to blow around a wide
area. This tree is a dual-purpose
tree. Naval stores and other wood
products may be obtained from
it. Another question that might
arise is how many seed trees to
leave to reseed an area? At least
six to eight trees at least ten
inches in diameter should be left
to the acre.
One stipulation in any cutting
contract should be on leaving a
suitable number of seed trees.
This alone will save much time
and money in getting a tract of
land back to growing trees again.
This newspaper is rem "like a
.etter from home” by most of the
neople in Brantley County every
reek. If you want tc sell ’em, why
lot tell ’em?
SEMI-PRIVATE ROOM - All rooms in the Pierce County Hospital are either private
or semi-private. Mechanism on wall between beds is used by patients to talk directly
to nurses’ central desk. (Photo by J. B. Hendry.)
PT A Executive
Committee Met
With Mrs. Herrin
The Executive Committee of the
Nahunta Parent - Teacher Associa
tion met at the home of Mrs. Her
schel Herrin on Monday night, Oct.
S.
The various committees made re
ports on what they have done ano
their plans for the year.
The group made plans for the
annual Halloween Carnival to be
held at the school on Friday night,
October 30.
The regular meeting of the PTA
will be held at the school on Tues
day afternoon, October 13, at 3:00
H’clbck p- m. Mrs. Bertha Jacobs
will have charge of the program on
“Are We Spoiling Our Children”.
The hostesses for the afternoon will
be: Mrs. J. T. Royster, Mrs. Everett
Highsmith, Mrs. Winnie Moore, Mrs.
Albert Purdom, Mrs. J. J. Lee, Mrs.
Maggie Lewis, and Mrs. Clara High
smith.
Cookies and soft drinks were
served at the committee meeting.
ROYAL
Theatre
Nahunta, Georgia
Monday to Friday 8:00 P. M.
Saturday 7:00 and 8:30 P. M.
PROGRAM
Thurs., Fri., Oct. 8 9
‘‘Stars and Singing”
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10
“El Paso Stampede”
With ROCKY LANE
MON., TUES., OCT. 12-13
‘The Rose Bowl Story”
MARSHALL THOMPSON -
VERA MILES -
NATALIE WOOD
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14
'“Cry of the Hunted”
With V. GASSMAN
THURS., FRI, OCT. 15-16
“Road to Bali”
BING CROSBY - 808 HOPE -
DOROTHY LAMOUR
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17
“Riders of Black
River”
With C. STARRETT
OFFICIAL ORGA&
STRICKLAND WINS
IN CLOSE
MAYOR’S RACE
Vote Was 115 to
105 for Second
Place Candidate
In the hottest race for maydr ever
seen in 'Nahunta Fred Strickland, a
former mayor, won over his nearest
competitor, Carl Broome, the pre
sent mayor, by a vote of 115 to 105,
in the city election Wednesday, Oct
ober 7.
Oliver Pearson, the third candi
date for mayor, trailed the field
with 46 votes. A total of 267 votes
were cast, which was 86 more votes
than ever cast before in a Nahunta
city election.
In a five-man race for four places
on the city council the four winners
were Ira F. Brown, J. W. Crews,
T. L. Dowling and J. D. Orser, The
fifth and losing candidate for ai
derman was J. 4- Gunter.
The new mayor and council will
take office on the first Wednesday
in December. The term is for two
years.
Methodist Young
People’s Class
Is Organized
The Young Peoples Class of the
Nahunta Methodist Sunday School
organized Sunday with the follow
ing officers elected: Janice Royster,
president; Leroy Ham, vice presi
dent; Jo Ann Wilson, secretary arid
treasurer
Other members are Lonzo Grif
fin, Melvin Griffin, Lancewell O’-
Neal, Joan Williams, Johnnie Cle
land, Charles Allen and Dwigfit
Moody. Robert Alexander is teach
er.
Other young people who are not
affiliated with another Sunday
School are cordially invited to at
tend this class each Sunday morn
ing at ten o’colck.
James Harrington
Returns Home
Pfc. James B. Herrington, who
has been in Japan 19 months, ar
rived home to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. E. N. Hickox on Route 2, Way
cross, Saturday, Oct. 3. Other than
his parents for his homecoming were
his wife, Mrs. Julia Fae Herrington;
his sister, Mrs. Georgia Lanier of
Columbus, S. C.; Miss Joyce Her
rington of Waycross; Mr. and Mrs.
Reavis Hickox and daughter, Glen
da; M r - an d Mrs. A. J. Hickox, Mrs.
Gibson Lanier, Miss Eunice Lee, and
Miss Sofronia Hickox, all of Way
cross. He left Sunday to go to Fort
Jackson, S .C., where he will re
ceive his discharge on Monday. He
was accompanied to South Carolina
by his wife and Mrs. Georgia Lanier.
