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VOLUME 33, NUMBER 46
SWEEPING THE COUNTRY
IF YOUR PAPER IS LATE
YPUR EDITOR HAS GONE DEER HUNTING
4 * If you dont get your Brantley Enterprise on Friday,
then you will know that the editor of this exclusive Brant
ley County newspaper went deer hunting on Thursday.
The hunting club to which 1 belong goes deer hunt
ing only on Thursdays and that is the only time I can sit
deep in the woods and let all the big and little problems
of the county, state and world go by.
; Sometimes I do see a deer. Once in a long while I do
get a shot at a deer. And once, believe it or not, I did
kill a deer. But 1 go deer hunting mainly to sit on a stump
and hear the breezes sigh in the pines and hear an oc
casional bobcat scream or maybe just sit and think about
nothing.
Occasionally I find a place at the foot of a big pine
C and- lie down in the sun on the pine straw and take a nap,
I waking now and thereto listen for the dogs, if they have
jumped a deer.
And so, dear friends and fellow worriers, if your
paper is late next week or any week during the deer sea
.son, please make with a little tolerance for a fellow who
has “been to the wars’’ of earthly struggle for many years
and needs a few hours deep in the woods, close to nature,
' whether or not a deer ever shows up to provide that
special thrill.
DEER HUNTER KILLED BOBCAT AND DOE
That story about a deer hunter in the Altamaha
swamps killing a bobcat and a doe with one shot seems
to have got the hunter into trouble with the law.
i The story was that the hunter saw a huge bobcat
attacking a small doe. The hunter fired, killing both the
doe and the bobcat.
The sequel, as reported later in the papers, was that
the game warden made a case against the hunter for kill
ing the doe.
And so, boys, if you see a bobcat killing a doe, just
wait until the doe is well-bled by the cat. Then maybe the
game warden will prosecute the bobcat instead of blam
ing you for the doe’s demise.
I WAS FIRST IN ONE THING AT LEAST
It seems that I was the very first deer slayer ever
to report to a game warden in the county after I killed a
deer.
The law requires that a hunter must report every
deer killed. But the hunters are very forgetful and hardly
ever make any report.
Last year I had that fiasco about bending my new
gun barrel over a buck’s head when he lunged at me aftei
I had shot him down. I put a piece in the paper about
my experience and then I was requested to make out a
report to our county game warden, Mr. Avery Rowell.
I was- informed that I was the first to make out such
a report in this section. Later I think one other deer killer
made out a similar report.
Mr. Rowell was very nice about my not knowing that
the law required such a report. Os course, ignorance of the
law excuses no one. Although I was a bit late making t e
report, it was accepted.
And I did have the distinction of being the first
man in the county to report killing a deer.
HUNTERS SHOULD SPARE THE DOES
Deer hunters would do well to spare the females so
that the number of deer will gradually increase. Old deer
hunters seldom kill does but the beginners often crack
down on whatever gender sprints into sight.
The new hunter just can’t seem to keep his head
when that fleet, bounding form flits from the fastness of
the woods. The neophyte gets “deer fever” and fires
quickly or else “freezes” and forgets to fire at all.
There are already a great many deer in our south
Georgia forests but there is still plenty or room for many
more. And the more deer, the better hunting.
Spare the does and have good hunting for the years
ahead.
WAYNESVILLE
By Mrs. Julia Gibson
Miss Agnes Jacobs, who is teach
ing in Moultrie, Ga., spent the week
end at home with her mother, Mrs.
W. H. Jacobs.
Mrs. Marvin Robinson was a din
ner guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton
Robinson of Nahunta on Sunday.
Mrs. Sara Gibson celebrated her
79th birthday at her home on Sun
day, Nov. 8. Besides her sons and
daughter and their families present
were: a sister, Mrs. H. C. High
smith of Tampa, Fla., Mrs. Marie
Anderson, her step-daughter; Mrs.
A. R. Adams and Mrs. C. B. Ander
son of Hortense; Rev. and Mrs. O.
G Nichols of Blackshear, Rev. and
Mrs. C. H. Hart of Waycross and
several neices and nephews.
By Carl Broome
Mrs. Docia Cooper is much better
after treatment at a Brunswick hos
pital and is at home with her sister
in Brunswick.
Mrs. C. S. Jacobs, the Misses Ari
zona Rooks, Hazel Knight, Ruth and
Shelba Jean Jacobs and Mrs. W. H.
Jacobs attended the Salvation Army
Corps Cadet Rally at Keystone
Heights, Florida, on Wednesday.
Mrs. John Durrance of Jackson
ville, Mrs. Bernard Overstreet of
Savannah and Mr. and Mrs. Neil
Cameron are spending this week
with the Jesse Griffins.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Wilcox and
their two granddaughters of Bruns
wick were in an auto wreck on
Route 17 last Friday. None were
seriously injured.
Mr. Jesse Griffin continues ill at
his home. <
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Walker and
children spent Sunday in Brunswick
at the home of Mrs. Rayford Pierre.
Wantlen Etttrrmw
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, Thursday, November 12, 1953
METHODIST MISSIONARY, Dr. William G. Thonger
(left), superintendent of Methodist work in Belgium, ac
companied by Mrs. Thonger (center) is speaking at a
series of District Missionary - Evangelism Institutes in
South Georgia during November. The Rev. G. N. Rainey
(right), Fort Valley, Conference secretary-of missions, is
charge of plans for these Institutes.
The Institute for the Waycross district will be held
at the Methodist Church in Alma, Georgia, on Tuesday of
next week, November 17, from 10 :00 A. M. to 3 :30 P. M.
Mrs. Mary Tallevast
Funreal Saturday
November 7
Funeral services for Mrs. Adolph
A. Tallevast, of Hoboken, were held
Saturday afternoon at three o’clock
at the Hoboken Methodist Church,
with the Rev. Carlton Shepard and
the Rev. C. F. Starnes officiating.
Burial was in the Hortense ceme
tery.
Mrs. Tallevast died Thursday
night in a Waycross hospital. A na
tive of Wayne county, she had been
a resident of Hoboken for 35 years.
She was a member of the Hoboken
Methodist Church, the Eastern Star,
the Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union and the PTA.
Survivors include five daughters,
Mrs. Banner Thomas and Mrs. Fred
Dowling, both of Hoboken; Mrs.
Reavis Pittman, Folkston, Mrs. Rans
ford Orser, Blackshear, and, Mrs.
Paul McLaurin, Ocala, Fla.; one
son, M. B. Tallevast, Hortense; one
brother, A. C. Newsome, Madison
ville, Ky.; four sisters, Mrs. T. M.
Edinfield, Gainesville, Fla.; Mrs. D.
E. McEachern, Dublin, Mrs. Gary
Kendirck, Center Hill, Fla., and
Mrs. Ida McEvans, Springfield, N.
J.; 13 grandchildren and three great
grandchildren.
Active pallbearers were J. C.
Dryden, R. R. Jones, S. D. Kelly,
P. C Dowling, J F. Larkins and H.
H Colvin.
Honorary pallbearers were C. R.
Abercrombie, F. C. Jones, T. W.
Lastinger, L. E. Colvin, R. R. Kelly,
Albert Thomas, R. D. Thomas, Wal
ter Thomas, N. C. Davis Sr., C. W.
Easterlin, Russell Thomas, C. S.
Doster, W. A. Wood, E. H. Kelly,
Walton Dryden, A. L. Dukes, W. L.
Dowling, G. J. Dryden and M. J.
Roberson.
Mincy Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Vinson Brooks and little
daughter, Rose Marie, of Columbus,
Ga., spent last week with her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Rowell.
Sgt. Brooks came for the weekend
and his wife and baby made the
return trip with him.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Brown and
Mrs. Paul Chastain of Boston, Ga.,
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Boren for the weekend. Mrs. Chas
tain will leave on Nov. 18 from
Brooklyn, N. Y., to go to London
to join her husband who is in ser
vice there.
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Mr. and Mrs. Connie Harrison and
Mrs. Alice Highsmith and family
visited relatives in Kingsland on
Sunday.
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Guests at the home of Mrs. Alice
Highsmith during the last weekend
included Mr. and Mrs. William Nel
son of Fernandina, Fla.; Mr. and
Mrs. Jarnaon Spell and daughter.
Donna Gail and Mr. Lee of Macon,
Harrell Highsmith and daughter,
Merle of Thalman.
Rcwell - Wainright
and
McDuffie - Sasser
.The Hickox Baptist Church was
the scene of double wedding cere
monies of two of Brantiey County’s
prominent young ladies on Saturday
afternoon, OctobeW3l.
Miss Thelma Rowell was married
to Phillip Wainright and Miss Inez
McDuffie became the bride of Hu
bert Sasser in the donble ceremony
with Rev. Marvin Smith of Homer
ville, performing the double ring
ceremonies.
Miss Rowell is the daughter of
Mrs. C. F. Rowell of Hickox. She
was given in marriage by her bro
.her, Lyman Rowell. Mr. Wainright
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tim
Wainright of Folkston.
Miss Inez McDuffie is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. R. I. McDuffie
and was given in marriage by her
father. Mr. Sasser is the son of Mr
and Mrs. Tim Sasser of Opp, Ala.
Both brides were dressed in white
wedding gowns with the finger tip
veils. Both carried corsages of white
carnations.
The church’ was decorated with
pine boughs, magnolia and southern
iilax as background with white
gladioli and with three tiers of
white tapers. The ushers, Jimmy
Futch and Kenneth Wainright lit
the candles.
Shirley Harper and Billy Rowell
were ringbearers for Miss Rowell
and Sandra Jacobs and Jimmy Al
len were ringbearers for Miss Mc-
Duffie.
Miss Helen McDuffie played the
nuptial music with Miss Sonja Bat
ten, soloist, singing “Because”.
Mrs. Lyman Rowell entertained
with a reception at the church fol
lowing the wedding. Sylvia Boren
kept the bride’s book. Mrs. Neil
Hend'-ix, Mrs. Woodrow Hendrix
and Mrs. Owen Jones assisted Mrs
Rowell in serving cake and punch.
Mr. and Mrs. Wainright will make
their home at Tampa, Fla., where
he is employed.
Mr. and Mrs. Sasser will be in
Augusta where the groom is in thf
service, stationed at Camp Gordon.
Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Howard
and Debia Ann of Augusta are
spending this week with Mr. and
Mrs. B. W. Rowell.
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Miss Freida Raulerson and Miss
Betty Zeigler of Jacksonville spent
the weekend at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. T. E. Raulerson.
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Mrs. John Cunard of Monticello
and Atlanta arrived Tuesday to
spend some time with her daughter,
Mrs. Carl Broome and Mr. Broome.
Mr. and Mrs. Bl H. Newkirk of
Elmer, New Jersey, spent a night
last week with Rev. and Mrs. C., F.
Starnes. They were enroute to Flori
da to spend some time.
JESUP-WAYNE CHAMBER COMMERCE
OPPOSES HIGH POWER RATES
From Atlanta Journal
JESUP, Ga., Nov. 8 — Girding
itself for a strong fight for equal
power rates with the rest of Geor
gia, the Jesup and Wayne County
Chamber of Commerce’s Power
Rates Committee has taken initial
steps to rectify what one member
termed “one of the most unfair
situations existing in Georgia to
day.”
Ronald F. Adams, local attorney
and Utilities Division representative
on the Chamber of Commerce Board
of Directors, asserted that “Wayne
County is in the best shape to fight
of all South Georgia counties now
under the higher rate charged by
she Georgia Power and Light Com
pany.” Georgia Power and Light is
a subsidiary of the Florida Power
Corporation.
Adams based his contention on
the facts that Wayne County is the
northernmost county in the Georgia
Power and Light Company territory,
other sources of power are nearby
“and closer than the plants now
furnishing us,” the Altamaha River
system offers “unbounded oppor
tunities for hydroelectric genera
tion”, the existing franchise between
the City of Jesup and the Georgia
Power and Light Company has lost
a large basic industry because of the
existing power situation”.
Pointing to the difference in the
average rate of the Georgia Power
and Light Company with the Geor
gia Power Company, the Chamber
Director said, “South Georgia must
have equal rates with the rest of
the state, else we never will be
able to progress industrially with
our neighbors.”
He presented data showing that
Wayne* County and 21 other South
Georgia counties served by Georgia
Power and Light pay $6.88 per 250
kilowatt-hours for residential ser
vice, while the rest of Georgia un
der the Georgia Power Company
pays $5.85 for the same amount of
power service.
Adams stated that the differen
tial amounts to a 26.5 per cent
higher rate under Georgia Power
and Light for residential customers,
29.3 per cent higher for commercial
customers and substantially higher
for industrial customers. These fi
gures were received by the division
director from Walter R. McDonald
of the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, who along with James A
Perry dissented in the recent rate
increase granted the Georgia Power
and Light Company by the Com
mission.
Adams said there were five al
ternatives for the Chamber of Com
merce to follow in its fight for e
qual rates. They were listed as re
newal of the Georgia Power and
Light franchise, a city-owned dis
tribution system, sever relations and
deal with other power sources, op
erate without a franchise, or to
develop a local power system with
a steam.or hydro plant and produce
our own power.
Three sub-committees were ap
pointed by Committee Chairman
Palmer Otto to survey various po
sibilities for Jesup and Wayne coun
ty. To survey possibilities in public
powe r are Robert Pascal, Wamei
B. Gibbs, George Weinstein an<
Logan Dent. Surveying possibility
with other sources are R. T. Little
field, Bill Harrell, Hubert Howard
and L. L. Schelpert. Appointed *
survey future franchise possibility
are Ronald Adams, R. W. Murphy
W. B. Rhoden and Dennis Brdwn.
Nahunta Stores to
Close at Six P. M.
The stores of Nahunta will clos
each day except Saturdays at sb
o’clock P. M., it is announced in a;
advertisement in this issue of th
Enterprise.
The new closing hour will be
come effective next Monday, No\
16. The former time for closin;
was seven o’clock P. M. The shor
ter days during the winter make i
more practical to close an hour ear
Her.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Stricklanc
spent several days with the Lloy
Robinsons.
Miss Frances Walker, a student al
G. S. C. W. in Milledgeville, spent
the weekend with her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. D F. Walker
OFFICIAL ORGAN
MONROE WRITES
ABOUT HIGH
POWER RATES
The Editor,
Brantley Enterprise.
Nahunta, Ga.
Dear Sir:
Your editorial which was put in
the Waycross Journal Herald cer
tainly hit the nail on the head.
You probably know the whole
story and that is that the Power
Company is getting a 10 percent re
turn on their original investment
and not s’^ percent. This 516 per
cent is based on their own new
averages with repreciation added
back after it had been charged off
as operating cost.
We in this area are certainly get
ting a raw deal and all we need
is some good leadership to pass an
act in the Legislature correcting the
method of fixing rates.
Mr. Ronald Adams, pf Jesup, is
very .much interested in this because
his town as well as ours is being
penalized. I would like you to get
in touch with him and let’s try to
have a meeting in the very near
future in Waycross and get some
representative who has courage of
his convictions to introduce a bill
which will provide for one rate in
the State of Georgia for any com
pany which serves more than five
cities.
I only wish my health was good
so that I could head up a movement
of this kind but I do not have the
strength; however, I shall be glad
to lend any assistance I can.
With best wishes, I am
Sincerely,
M. M. Monroe.
If you want to post your land,
get the signs from The Brantley
Enterprise. Signs read as follows:
‘Posted, No Hunting or Trespassing
Allowed”. Signs cost only five cents
each.
Home improvement specialists
find that aluminum pots and pans
will buckle if placed in cold.”
water while they are hot. Let
them cool before washing.
ROYAL
Theatre
Nahunta, Georgia
Monday to Friday B^4 F. M.
Saturday 7:00 and 0:80 F. M.
PROGRAM
THURS.., FRL, NOV. 18-13
“Detective Story
With KIRK DOUGLAS
and ELEANOR PARKER
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14
“Shadows of
Tombstone” *
With REX ALLEN
MON., TUES., NOV. 16-17
“Come Back Little
Sheba”
With BURT LANCASTER
and SHIRLEY BOOTH
WEDNESDAY, NOV. IB
“Fast Company”
With HOWARD KEEL
TH URS., FRI., NOV. 19-26
“Scandal at Scourie”
With GREER GARSON
and WALTER PIDGEON
SATURDAY, NOV. 21
“Bandits of the West”
With ROCKY LANE
