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BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Publishd weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL BROGME
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as second
ass matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Inside Brantley County, one year
Six Months
Outside Brantley County, one year
Six Months
FORMER PIERCE
RESIDENT DIES
OF GUNSHOT
Accident Fatal
To Lewis Thomas
An accidental gunshot wound
Monday was fatal to Lewis Tho
mas, 47, of Cornelia, a former
Pierce county resident.
Mr. Thomas is reported to have
come into the barbershop he
operated in Cornelia after re
turning from a hunting trip. In
putting away his shotgun, the
weapon fell over and was dis
charged, killing Mr. Thomas.
A native of Pierce county, Mr.
Thomas was the son of the late
Dan and Julia Proctor Thomas.
Survivors include six sisters,
Mrs. Warner Walker and Miss
Lizzie Thomas of Patterson, Mrs.
Tom Davis of Mershon, Mrs.
Martha Middleton of Jackson
ville, Mrs. Fred Palmer of At
lanta, and Mrs. Dicie Hardy of
Decatur; also four brothers, John
Thomas of Patterson, Joe Thomas
Os Mershon, Jake Thomas of Je
sup and Leonard Thomas of
Charlotte, N. C.
Funeral services were conduct
ed Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’-
clock in Cornelia.
Nahunta Methodist
Church Holds
Services Sunday
The Nahunta Methodist Church
will hold regular services next Sun
day, Jan. 10, with the pastor, Rev.
Starnes, doing the preaching.
Services will be held at 11:00 A.
M and 7:30 P. M., it is announced.
Everyone is invited to attend.
Iron utensils should be washed
in soapy, water for regular
Hire. Steel wool is used for
scouring iron. To prevent rust,
always keep iron thoroughly dry.
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Official Organ of Brantley County
The Brantley Enterprise
EDITOR and OWNER
MISS COLLIER
RETIRES FROM
A. G. EXTENSION
Miss Luriine Collier, who be
gan teaching school at the age
of 13 in her native Jackson coun
ty, Thursday, December 31, end
ed her long career of public ser
vice by retiring as state home
demonstration agent for the Uni
versity of Georgia Agricultural
Extension Service.
State home demonstration agent
since 1932, and in Extension work
since December 1917, she has
seen the women’s organization
grow from a few hundred mem
bers to nearly 50,000 at the end
of this year.
She was state girls’ 4-H Club
agent during the period 1927 to
1932, and laid some of the ground
work for Georgia’s present-day
4-H program that reached 126,-
927 boys and girls this year.
Miss Collier’s administration as
home demonstration agent has
been responsible for greater par
ticipation by rural women in
planning and developing home
demonstration programs through
community clubs, county coun
cils and the State council.
Miss Katherine Lanier and
Miss Susan Mathews, who pion
eered in home demonstration
programs of food preservation
and nutrition, and Miss Collier
were presented silver loving cups
by their co-workers at the De
cember Extension Service staff
meeting.
Miss Lanier, food preservation
specialist, retired June 30, and
Miss Mathews, nutritionist, retir
ed October 31.
At the same staff meeting Mrs.
E. D. Alexander accepted the
loving cup for her late husband,
who retired in September as Ex
tension agronomist just a few
days prior to his death.
The names “Miss Collier” and
“home demonstration” have al
most become synonymous in
Georgia. The popular Extension
worker, who is in great demand
as a lecturer — especially on
flower arranging — joined the
service in 1917 as home demon
stration agent in Jackson Coun
ty. Previously, she was a teach
er at Martin Institute in Jeffer
son, and cooperated in develop
ing the first 4-H Club program
in the county.
Miss Collier served as agent in
Jackson county until 1923 when
she enrolled at the University of
Georgia. She received her B. S.
degree in home economics a
year later.
She then served as district a
gent in the Atlanta area, home
demonstration agent in DeKalb
county and as the first state
clothing specialist before becom
ing state 4-H Club agent in 1927
and state home demonstration
agent in 1932.
Nahunta, Georgia THURSDAY, JAN. 1954
Charles L. Gowen, the first announced candidate for
governor of Georgia in this year’s election, spoke to the
Blackshear Rotary Club Tuesday, and warned against
proposed plans of the present administration to abolish
the public school system if the Supreme Court rules
against segregation.
Gowen termed the constitution
al amendment which will be vot
ed on this November a “serious
threat” to education in Georgia.
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Tracing the history of Georgia’s
school system, the Glynn county
representative said public edu
cation in the state is compara
tively new, being established in
1877. He stated that a proposal
by Robert Tombs to limit public
schools to the teaching of “readin’,
•riting’, and 'rithmetic” was de
feated by Only one vote that
year.
The present high school pro
gram was established in 1912,
Gowen said, pointing out the pro
gress that has been made down
through the establishment of the
Minimum Foundation Program
which will call for the expendi
ture of $l2O million this year.
Favors Segregation
While urging that the people
of Georgia not vote to do away
with the public school system,
the gubernatorial candidate said
he personally favors segregation.
“Segregation must be preserv
ed and can be preserved,” Go
wen declared, “but let us not
in a moment of panic abolish our
public school system,”
A 21-member commission has
been appointed by the General
Assembly and Governor Tal
madge to study the situation, Mr.
Gowen said. The findings of this
group should be heard and stud
ied before taking any drastic
action, he urged, adding that ab
olition of the pubilc schools
should be a “last resort and not
a first resort.”
Possible Losses Told
The Brunswick candidate list
ed these as some of the things
that would be lost if Georgia
should abolish its public schools:
1. The Minimum Foundation
Program of Education. Gowen
declared that the substitute plan
would provide that each boy and
girl be given a check to pay for
his schooling, thus giving heavi
ly populated centers a tremen
dous educational advantage over
sparsely populated regions.
2. The School Buliding Auth
ority, which this year is expected
to spend approximately $200,000,-
000 on school buildings, but can
only spend these funds on public
school buildings.
3. The free school book pro
gram would be in jeopardy and
might again fall into control of
the “school book lobby,” causing
constant changes in the text
books used.
4. The University System of
Georgia would be changed from
a public system to one in the
hands of private interests.
5. Local boards, county school
superintendents, and the office
of state school superintendent
would be done away with.
6. The vocational rehabilitation
program would be lost, since a
major part of this program is fi
nanced by federal funds which
can only be used for public edu
cation.
7. The quality of teachers in
the state would be likely to de
cline since the Teacher Retire
ment Program would be in the
hands of private interests with
out the guarantee of the state
behind the program. Mr. Gowen
stated that this program has
been a considerable incentive in
the holding of many teachers
who .might otherwise seek posi
tions in other states.
“Education for the Few”
Urging that Georgians think
carefully before voting to end
public education, Mr. Gowen
said the proposed constitutional
amendment would return the
state to the time when education
was only for the few.
The speaker was introduced by
Count Gibson of St. Simons, a
former District Governor of Ro
tary International. Mr. Gibson
had been introduced by Steve
Nimmer, program chairman.
Other visitors at the Rotary
Club meeting Tuesday were Ed
Reid of Waycross; Boone B.
Owen, T. H. Strickland, John B.
Fendig and Ed Logan of St. Si
mons; Bill Glascock and Kermit
Thornton, Rufus Smith, Lyman
Walker, J. B. Truett, and Ward
Peacock.
CERTIFIED SEED VALUABLE
Certified seed is the key to an
increase in crop yields and pro
fits on many farms, agronomists
say. A farmer who prepares a
good seed bed, properly fertilizes
and irrigates his land, but doesn’t
consider the seed he will plant,
has only done half the job, they
continue.
CANDIDATE WARNS AGAINST
ABOLISHING PDBLIC SCHOOLS
CANDIDATE — Rep. Charles L.
Gowen of Glynn county, first
man to announce his candidacy
for the governorship of Georgia,
in 1954 election, who spoke to
the Blackshear Rotary Club
Tuesday.
MAKING COAT LININGS
An extra fullness of two or
three inches should be allowed
in the lining of a coat down the
center of the back to allow for
ease through the shoulders.
Front linings should be cut full
enough for ease between under
arm seam and facing and a gen
erous seam lap along the front
facing, clothing specialists state.
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Land use in Georgia adds up
like this, according to Fanning
two out of every three acres are
in timberland (22 million acres
in all) leaving 12 million acres
for crops and pastures and three
million for cities, rivers, and
roads. In 1914-15 Georgia farm
ers planted five million acres to
cotton alone. Now less than two
million acres are used for cot
ton, peanuts and tobacco com
bined. The trend is downward in
crop land and upward in pas
tures, small grains and legumes,
he adds.
With a total tillable land area
of about 509 million acres,' thp
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NAHUNTA, GEORGIA
Economist Cites
Land Use Trends
In Agriculture
Pointing to the present rate of
production in the United States,
and then taking a look at the
population which is increasing by
two and one-half million a year,
J. W, Fanning, Agricultural Ex
tension Service economist, says
that by 1975, 115 million addi
tional acres of crop land will be
needed to maintain our present
standard of living.
He estimates that around 30
million acres of cropland in var
ious parts of the country are
idle each year because of wet
weather, drought, lack of capi
tal, soil erosion, low fertility or
other reasons. Much of this idle
land could be improved by ero
sion control, cover crops, clear
ing of brush, drainage, or irri
gation.
the largest acreage of arable
land. All of Europe, except that
part which lies in the Soviet Un
ion, contains only about four
fifths as much tillable land as
the United States. The Soviet
Union is reported to have about
500 million acres of tillable land.
About one-fourth of the land
in continental United States is
cropland and more than half is
permanent pasture and grazing
land. Altogether, around four
fifths of United States land area
is at present used for some kind
of agricultural production. If all
other timber and woodland is
LEGAL
ADVERTISING
CITATION—Year’s Support ,
State of Georgia, *
Brantley Court, of Ordinary.
January 5, 1954.
The appraisers upon application
of Mrs. Beary Parrott widow of
said Daniel H. Parrott for a twelve
months’ support for herself and tfj
minor children, having filed theU
return; all persons concerned here
by are cited to show cause, if any
they have, at the next regular Feb
ruary term of this Court, why said
application should not be granted..
James N. Stewart, Ordinary. •
Brantley County.
State of Georgia,
Brantley Court of Ordinary.
January 4, 1954.
The appraisers uppn application
of Mrs. America Gunter, widow Jes
said James Allen Gunter, for. ♦
twelve months’ support for hereto
having filed their return; all pSt
sons concerned hereby are cited „$►
show cause, if any they hav^^
the next regular February term #
this Court, why said applicad«q)
should not be granted.
James N. Stewart, Ordinal.
Brantley County.
State of Georgia,
Brantley Court of Ordinary.
January 4, 1954.
The appraisers upon applic&tiofc
of Mrs. Lula Griffin, widow of
Jesse J. Griffin, for a twelve
months’ support for herself, ha^laf
filed their return; all persons
cerned hereby are cited to thotf
cause, if any they have, at the alley
regular February term Os ttb
Court, why said application shouM
not be granted. * *•
James N. Stewart, Ordinary.
Brantley County.
knock requirements of the
overall performance in new and 1
so necessary in correctly
CITATION —Year’s Support
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