The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, December 17, 1953, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textolume 33, Number 51 HOMING Seek^fcawer Rates For South Georgia The Georgia Public Service ‘■“Commission Thursday ordered •.two of the state’s largest power ^•conyjanigq.’ to appear before it *2‘in an effort to work out ’■iome arrangement for lower e- Uectric rates fbr south Georgia customers.;*. ‘ The PSC wants the Georgia . Power and Light Co. of Valdosta «to show cause why it should hot -be r^oilW^^d* purchase its power -from Georgia Power Co., which i’it could sell at a much lower Trate than at present. 'Parent Company Georgia Power and Light Co. .* now is supplied by its parent company, The Florida Power Corp* whose manufacturing pro cess, hy ,fuel oil is considered by power-experts to be one of the nposLex^ensive there is. MiJstof "Georgia Power’s sour ces ’’for 'cheating electricity are water 'and coal, which are less expensive. The PSC also wants to discuss the possibility of Georgia Power Co. buying the south Georgia firm. Bates Lowered PSC officials said Georgia Po wer and Light Co. retail rates were 25 to 30 per cent higher than comparable rates by Georgia Power Co. in other sections of Georgia. The long controversy over the higher electric rates in South Georgia was touched off again last October when the PSC voted 3-2 to authorize the company to raise its rates to bring in an ad ditional $128,401 a year. How ever, this was less than half what the company had asked for. Commissioners Walter R. Mc- Donald and James A. Perry, who voted against the rate increase, wrote strong dissenting opinions. REDDY FOR W I /W \l I s Christinas is the time of year I Va That calls for gifts of lasting cheer! That’s why folks are buying more i tk Electric gifts than ever before. J । U So fill your list with ’Lectric joys— H ’Lectric helps and ’Lectric toys— H Give the things that keep on giving IM U Electric gifts ... for Electric Living. I ©fYour Electric Servont v\n * w® w Ji / ^^S^^ST^nLDmiauT oj nermr nt" —, -- x GEORGIA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY COMMISSION ORDERS ON POWER PROBLEM Increase Cited The PSC granted the J>128,401 after a rehearing of an earlier petition. In the rehearing, the company had cited an increase in the price of fuel oil and an in- I crease in the cost of labor re sulting from a wage hike to its workers. It was on these grounds, said McWhorter, that the ma jority members of the PSC grant- I ed the latest hike in rates. “Under tne law we have to give them (the companies) a fair rate of return on their investment or they can take their re'quests to the courts and get them,” Mc- Whorter said. He cited several cases in which companies had won increases in the courts after the PSC had turned them down, one being Southern Bell. WAINRIGHT IS ELECTED MASTER nahu mi masons Hunter Is Senior Warden and Morgan Junior Warden The Nahunta Masonic Lodge elect ed officers and held a supper Tues day night. December 15. Officers elected to serve during the coming yeai’ are Dan Wain right, worshipful master; E. A. Hunter, senior warden; E. A. Mor gan, junior warden; M. B. Strick land, secretary; W. A. Stokes, treas urer. Other officers appointed are Ter rell Crews, senior deacon; Malcom Robinson, junior deacon; R. R. Jones, senior steward; Sidney Hulett, jun ior steward; R. D. Thomas, chap lain; Ellery Kelley, tyler. Brantky NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, Thursday, December 17, 1953 Brantley Schools To Close Friday । For Holiday Week Brantley County schools will close for the Christmas holidays Friday, December 18 and reopen for the spring term on Monday, December 28, it is announced. The teachers and children will therefore have only one week for Christmas in order that the schools can end the term earlier in the, spring. Brantley Girls To Visit College At Milledgeville Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 15, —Over 400 high school students will be invited ot the campus of the Geor gia State College for Women on Jan. 22-24 for the fifth annual Georgia Girls Guest Assembly. Earl W. May and Cleve Jones have already received an invitation from Dr. Henry King Stanford, GSCW president, to .name several students from the high schools at Nahunta and Hoboken to be guests of the college for the weekend. Other invitations will be extended by President Stanford upon recommen dation of GSCW student, faculty, and alumnae. The highlight of the occasion will be a performance by world-famous Cornelia Otis Skinner and a review by the entire battalion of the Geor gia Military College. Visiting stu dents will also be invited to attend regular college classes and to con fer with members of the GSCS fac ulty about college studies and plan ned programs leading to specific pro fessions. If you want to posi 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. NAHUNTA TEAMS LOSE TWO AND WIN ONE Bow to Hoboken And Blackshear, Beat Brunswick Friday night, December 11, Na hunta played: Blackshear at the Nahunta gymnasium in what turn ed out to. be the most exciting games of the season. Although 'both the boys and girls lost by narrow margins the games were contests which could have been decided either way at almost any time during the games. The score at the half for the girls was 24-24 with a final score of 42.40. The high scorers were Raulerson for Nahunta with 23 points and Oden with a total of 18 points for Blackshear. The guard from both teams played an outstanding game. The boys score at the half was 31-20 in favor of Blackshear. The score at the end of the regular playing time was 45-45. They play ed a three minute play off ending with a score of 53-51 in favor of Blackshear. The high scorer for the boys game Were Cleland with 17 pomts for Nahunta and Brantley witn 17 points for Blackshear. All players on the two teams played well. Saturday night, December 12, ths Wildcats played Brunswick at the local gymnasium. Both Nahunta teams came out on the winning end. The girls score at the half was 30-23 in favor of Na liunta. The final score was 56-37. The high scorers for this game was Raulerson with a total of 36 points for Nahunta and Burke with a total of 17 points for Brunswick. The Nahunta boys defeated the Brunswick boys. The score at half time was 44-17. The final score was 61-48. Tuesday night, December 15, the Wildcats played Hoboken at Ho ooken. The Wildcats were not so fortunate. Both the Nahunta boys and girls were defeated, Dryden led the Hoboken girls with a score of 23 points. Rauler led the Nahunta girls with a score of 17 points. The score at the end of the half was 20-46. The final score was 33-46. The. Hoboken boys defeated the Nahunta boys with a score of 66-55. Owen Prescott led the Hoboken team with 43 points. Bobby Chancey led the Nahunta team with 17 points. Thursday night, December 17, Nahunta will visit Camden county high in Woodbine. This will be the last game played this year. January 5 the Wildcats will play Waresboro at the local gymnasium. The game will begin at 7:30. BLACKSHEAR BEATS NAHVHTA IN CLOSE GAMES Going . into an overtime period to win in'the boys’ game, the bas ketball te^ms, of Blackshear hung up a clean sweep in a double-head er w:th-the ^s^rpng Nahunta teams Friday^ght. r ’ In a.<^ltest that was tied up six times in* the last quarter an over limJ petipd, the Blackshear boys sta . off a surging Nahunta team to wmij!®3-51. The , girls contest was also a nip-and-tuck go as the score was knotted nine times in the course of play. But Blackshear was ahead when the game ended, 42-40. In the boy’s game, Blackshear jumped off to an early lead and nad Nahunta 31-20 at the half. At the end of the regulartion game, things were even up at 45-all. George Brantley with 19 points, McCoy Carter with 12 and Donald Bowen with' H led the victor's scoring. J. Cleland with 19 and B. Chaney with 11 point? were the Nahunta leading scorer?. ? — r — This newspaper'ls reap '‘like e .ette r from home” by most of the ->eople in Brantley County every week. If you want to sell ’em, why aot tell ’em? Allen Gunter Died At Nahunta Saturday Allen Gunter, 66, of Nahunta, died suddenly Saturday afternoon in Nahunta. Mr. Gunter was a retired farm er of Brantley county. He was a member of Mars Hill Baptist Church for more than 20 years. He was born and reared in Brantley coun ty, where he had spent most of his life. .. .... Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Aremica HowdlLof Na hunta; two sons, Lloyd Gunter, Rt. 2, Way cross, and James L. Gunter, Savannah; three daughters, Mrs. Romie Thornton, Ludowici, Mrs. Quinton Griffin, Brunswick, and Mrs. Archie Hickox, Route 2, Way cross; two brothers. Lester Gunter, Waycross, and Lonnie Gunter, Black* shear; three sisters, Miss Alma Gun ter, Route 2, Waycross, Mrs. Law ton Crews, Hoboken, and Mrs. Eb Morgan, Nahunta; 17 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Mon day afternoon at’ three o’clock at Mars Hill Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Mincy Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. BAPTIST CHOIR TO PRESENT CANTATA DEC. 20 The combined choirs of the Na hunta Baptist Church will present the Christmas cantata “Chimes of the Holy Night” by Holton Sunday evening, Dec. 20, at 7:30. A piano and organ prelude will proceed the cantata. The piano pre lude will consist of carols. The pas tor Rev. C. E. Milton will give the invocation. Soloists for the occasion are Mis ses Ruth Dowling, and Iris Barr and Mrs. Harmon Spell, sopranos; Ernie Grubb, baritone; John Strick land, tenor. The cantata is under the direction of Bowman Barr, * who is director of music for the church. The public is invited to attend the special service commemorating the Savior’s birth. Nahunta Stores to Close Dec. 25 and 26 For Christmas Holidays The stores and other business pla ces in Nahunta will be closed for two days for Christmas, Friday and Saturday, December 25 and 26, it is announced. The two days holidays and Sun day means that the business firms’ employees will have a total of three days holidays during Christmas. Card of Thanks We wish to express our apprecia tion for the kindness shown us dur ing the illness and death of our loved one, J. A. Gunter. May God bless you. The Gunter Family. City Builds Room Joining Police Station Building The Nahunta city council ha. authorized the addition of a roor o the new city police station an. ne space will be used as a cil. all. The new room will join the po lice station on the soutn side an; a door will be cut between ti. .wo rooms. The addition will b constructed of concrete blocks lii. he police station. The concrete foundation of *h ticn has already be^n poured. If you have bon’rtn>Hg to st . 50 een T < ad' trt’s. ;ncm m l't Brantley Enterprist will be read b people all over tht county. Radios and Tet’asfoa Sets Repaired and Installed “You Know Know Had:.:” PRECISION <AD»O eiERVIC* Phone 269 119 Albany W?>*ross, Georgh OFFICIAL ORGAN OKEFENOKE REA OCCUPIES NEW HEADQUARTERS The office and headquarters of the Okefenoke Rural Electric Mem bership Corporation has moved to the new Headquarters Building just east of Nahunta on U. S. 84. Move ment of records and fixtures was started on Thursday, December 3, and-was completed during the week of December 7. The new building is a fine con tribution to the growth of the city and county. It is designed to meet the needs of the cooperative' in its steady growth. The combination lobby, directors room and kitchen in this building affords excellent facilities for group meetings. All of the various clubs and civic organizations of the com munity are urged to make use of the fine facilities of this building. Grading and site beautification will be completed in the near fu ture. All members and friends are urged to visit the building at any time. HOBOKEN GAGERS SPLIT GAMES WITH WARESBORO In a basketball double-headed fea tured by two close contests, the Ho boken girls won 54-50 and the War esboro boys triumphed 50-49. In the boy’s game, the Hoboken Trojans started the scoring but by the half, the Waresboro Mar tins were out in the front 22-20. High scorer for Hoboken was Owen Prescott with 29 points and Elwyn Caldwell led Waresboro with 17 points. The Hoboken girls led by the scor ing of Grace Hickox who hit for a total of 24 points, pulled out ahead in the final half to overcome Wares boro’s lead of 33-30 at the half. Bob bie Spence led the Waresboro girls’ scoring with 26 points. ROYAL Theatre Nahunta, Georgia Saturday 6:47 and 8:15 MON., TUES.. DEC. 14-15 PROGRAM THURS., FRI., DEC. 17-18 “Trader Horn” Starring HARRY CAREY SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 “Pack Train” With GENE AUTRY MON., TUES., DEC. 21 - 22 “Grand Ole Opry” WEAVER BROS and ELVIRY WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 “In Old Missouri” With WEAVER BROS. THURS., FRI., DEC. 24-25 J “Latins Lovers” With LANA TURNER, RICARDO MONTALBAN and JOHN LUND. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26- ‘Montano Desperado” With JNO. M. BROWN