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DRbVING AND DRINKING SUBJECT
OF REPORT BY SCHOOL STUDENTS
Driver Training
Group Writes on
Important Problem
Have you ever heard the ex
pression oil and water don’t
mix? The same goes for alcohol
and gasoline. This simply means
you can’t drive while under the
influence of alcohol and stay in
one piece.
Accidents are caused day in
and day out by too .many ig
norant people who think they
can drive while under the in
fluence of alcoholic beverages.
Often these drivers never live
to realize their mistakes, but
more often poor innocent vic
tims are killed by these reck
less drinkers. These drinkers have
to live with consciences the rest
of their lives paying for their
crime.
Many people never stop to
realize the seriousness of this
situation, but if they were aware
of the fact that one out of every
nine fatal accidents is caused
by a driver who has been drink
ing, mabe, they would think
twice before drinking and driv
ing.
Drunk drivers aren’t the ones
y/ho are dangerous, but the ones
who have had only three or four
drinks and are beginning to feel
reckless are the ones who cause
the most traffic accidents since
drunk drivers hardly ever make
it to the car.
„ The public doesn’t realize the
hazardness of this situation. If
they did, they would probably
crack down on the drivers who
drink while they drive. When
they have a drinking driver up
in court, they don’t give a stiff
enough sentence or fine. Too of
ten this driver gets off too light.
Then he doesn’t care if he gets
caught while driving under the
influence of alcohol.
Drivers who have had a drink
seem to have a fantasy for speed
ing, and they usually end up in
the hospital with other innocent
victims.
Drinking gives drivers a kind
of false confidence that drives
him to take chances — chances
that he wouldn’t dream of taking
while sober.
When an intoxicated driver
looms up on a pedestrian, he is
more likely to say “jump you
idoit!” than he is likely to slam
on brakes.
Authorities say, “don’t drink
and drive”, if you must drink,
let someone sober take the wheel.
Alcohol, even when taken in
small quantities, has an effect
on the system; it definitely im
pairs vision, judgement, muscu
lar efficiency, and reduces ac
curacy and speed of reaction.
For instance, if an intoxicated
driver gets into a close place or
in a real jam, he probably won’t
get out alive or without an ac
cident, whfereas a driver who has
not been drinking could probably
get out of the same situation
without an accident.
Legislatures, the police, and
the courts consider the intoxicat
ed driver the most serious men
ace in modern automobile traf
fic.
Away has been devised to de
tect drinking drivers and we
quote from “Man and the Motor
Car”. “Recently developed che
mical tests make it impossible
for an intoxicated person to con
ceal the fact that he has been
drinking. These tests give scien
tific evidence as to whether or
not alcohol is in the system —
and if it is, how much is pre
sent. When properly given, such
tests help to convict the guilty
and are a means by which the
innocent may be protected. In a
number of states, the evidence
obtained from these tests are ac
cepted in the courts.
In the future, chemical tests
will probably. play a large role
in keeping alcoholic drivers off
the streets and highways.
A person being tested by the
police usually takes the breath
test, which consists .merely of
blowing up a toy balloon, which
is from the persons lungs and is
usually passed through a chemi
cal solution. The volume of
breath required to change the
color of the specitl solution from
purple to light brown, determines
the approximate concentration of
alcohol in the blood stream and
the brain tissue. Careful scien
tific research has proven that it
is feasible to use air from the
lungs for the tests because there
is a very close relationship be
tween the amount of alcohol in
the brain — which controls al
ertness and efficiency — and the
amount in the blood and breath.
A person may not be forced
to take a breath test. They some
times tell the amount of alcohol
by giving you a blood test. They
are unable to do this without a
qualified physician. There is an
other system which you also use
in measuring the alcohol which
you have consumed. It is call
ed the saliva test. The saliva test
is rather unsatisfactory because
it takes a considerable length of
time.
Most people agree that the
breath test is really simpler and
easier.
To date, only fourteen states
have legalized chemical test pro
cedures^ other states (and num
erous cities) employ it as sup
porting evidence without legis
lative action; but everywhere
lawyers fight it bitterly as “self
incrimination.” Only a legal
mind, however, could explain
why blowing up a toy balloon is
any more self-incriminating than
submitting or giving your finger
prints. So far, five state Supreme
Courts have refused to overrule
chemical tests legally obtained.
Driving when you’ve been
drinking is a serious violation of
the rules of common sense and
decency, not to mention those of
safety. It is not a question of
how many drinks a driver can
endure before he becomes in
capable of operating his car. The
fact is rather that even the
smallest quantity of liquor has
a definite, traceable effect upon
his mental and physical reaction
— it will cause him to exhibit
bad judgement in his attempt to
avoid objects in the road, and to
display glowing inaccuracies in
estimating speed and distances.
It is going to take more than
a father to son talk to curb
drunken driving.
A sober man is willing to agree
that drinking and driving don’t
mix, but often the third drink
viewpoint of some individuals
becomes warped and it is often
the third drink that a sound
viewpoint becomes important to
the public at large.
There seems to be an agree
ment that the curbing of drunk
en driving is a matter best con
trolled by sound enforcement
and much can be done by judges
and traffic officers toward reduc
ing the great menace.
In some communities and
towns, campaigns against drunk
en driving have been carried on
with notable success. Still there
is a crying need to make the ef
fect nationwide and continuous
rather than spotty and sparaodic.
Penalties such as fines, jail
sentences, and license suspen
sions, should be varied to fit the
degree of responsibility and the
possible effect on both the de
fendant and his family.
This penalty should be severe
enough to make a substantial im
pression on the myid of the in
dividual inclined to imbibe too
freely. Fines alone have proved
ineffective, but license suspen
sions and jail sentences have had
a wholesome effect. Where wise
ly meted out, they meet with
wholehearted public approval.
Many people believe that after
the third or fourth convictions
for drunken driving, that their
licences should be revoked.
Do you think that it is logical
to just ask for an accident? Well,
that is just what you are asking
for when you drive while you
are drinking.
The experienced drinker ar
gues that he can take six drinks
and not feel it, while someone
else might take two drinks and
be spinning. We agree with him
there because one person’s sys
tem burns up alcohol faster than
another's. The smart police offi
cer today isn’t interested in how
many drinks of what you have
had, but in how much alcohol
remains in the system.
It is generally known that a
person has to have five percent
alcohol in his blood to be con
victed of an accident.
One of the dangers Os the
drinking driver is that he “must'
show off. He shows everyone
how cute he is, how good he can
cut corners, how quick he can
take off, how fast he can stop
when he does take off, how many
stop lights he can run without
being caught, how many fenders
they can scrape and lots of
ctaer things.
The result is not that he shows
other people how cute he is, but
usually he winds up causing a
terrible accident which involves
innocent people.
A show-off is dangerous any
time but when he has been
drinking he is hazardous.
Then there is the kind of dri
ver who has been drinking that
instead of showing off, he gets
kind of dozey and about half a
sleep. He has hardly any con
trol over his vehicle or what it
does since he is only half awake
and half asleep. Soon his foot
begins to get heavier and heav
ier on the gas and before he
knows it, he may be going nine
ty miles on hour. Not only may
the driver be speeding, but more
than likely he is swerving from
side to side causing many a
chance for an accident. If he
doesn’t cause one, he may run
off the side of the road or into
a telephone pole and overturn
killing himself, but more likely
he will kill or seriously injure
someone else.
Most or all drunken drivers
aie likely to forget the rules of
safe driving, traffic laws and
iegulations. Or if he should hap
u, remember them, he ap
p.ics them oit. n at the wrong
tune or place. There +
that the man who has been
_umn.mg tan uo to compensate
The Brantley Enterprise
HOBOKEN NEWS
The Thought for the week: If
you ever find happiness by hunting
for it, you will find it as the old
woman did, who lost her spectacles,
safe on her nose all the time.
By Josh Billings.
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Col. Charles Russell of Waycross
was the speaker at the regular
meeting of the Hoboken PT A at the
gymnasium on Monday night, Jan.
11.
Col. Russell spoke on Civil De
fense, stating the necessity of hav
ing well organized groups of citizens
with alert and efficient leaders that
will be prepared in the-event that
any near cities are bombed.
Col. Russell is a veteran of 37
years of service.
Prof. Cleve Jones announced the
Mothers March of Dimes Campaign
to be held this year. The date of
January 28 has been named the
county-wide day when citizens are
asked to leave a candle lighted on
the porch as a sign of their willing
ness to contribute.
Mr. Jones presided over the meet
ing with Mrs. R. R. Jones secre
tary. Miss Strickland’s room won
the grade count. The door prize was
awarded to Mrs. N. C. Davis Jr.
Refreshments were served by
Mrs. Elery Kelly, Mrs. Luther Dic
kenson, Mrs. John Lee, Mrs. J. C.
Hickox and Mrs. Clyde Johns. Fifty
members were present.
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Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Dukes spent
Sunday with his sister, Mrs. J. N.
Guest and Mr. Guest in Jasper, Fla.
HEALTH DEPARTMENT’S ROLE IN
POLIO VACCINE STUDY ANNOUNCED
A nationwide study which will
get under-way in February to '
determine the effectiveness of a
new polio vaccine will effect
several counties in Georgia.
The counties will be selected
by the National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis bn statistical
information supplied by the Geor
gia Department of Public Health.
The information shows which
counties have had the highest po
lio rates in the past five years.
Dr. T. F. Sellers, state health
director, has announced the role
of the Health Department in the
study, and has commented on
the effectiveness of the new vac
cine. “It has long been recogniz
ed by polio workers,” he said,
“that no solution will come un
til (1) all viruses have been
identified and isolated, and (2)
vaccines have been prepared to
stimulate in the human body the
same condition as the disease,
without producing the disease,
thereby causing the body to pro
duce its own resistance.”
The new vaccine, said Dr. Sel
lers, will have been thourough
ly tested in scientific laborator-
ies and on a select group of sev
eral thousand school children be
fore the nationwide tests take
place. Tests are made on second
grade children, who make up
the age group most susceptible
to polio.
The State Health Department
he added, once the Foundation
has selected the counties which
are to receive the vaccine, will
arrange with the counties,
through the local health organi
zations, to set up and administer
the vaccine. The Polio Founda
tion will furnish clerical person
nel for keeping records.
State and local health organi
zations will have the responsibil
ity of keeping a close check on
polio cases reported later in the
season in the test counties, and
will follow up each case for ad
equate and complete information
and evidence. Private physicians
will be called in to participate
in administering the vaccine, and
their efforts w T ill be coordinated
with those of the health depart
ments.
The object of the study in to
determine whether the vaccine
will produce immunity in a child
who has been exposed to polio
under natural conditions, and to
determine how long such immun
ity lasts.
February has been selected aS
the month for tests in order to
have the children vaccinated be
fore the summer polio season be
gins, thus giving the children a
chance to develop resistance be
fore exposure to the disease.
for the lowering of his driving
skill and his reduced accuracy
of judgment. That is why the
legislatures, the police, and the
courts regard him as one of the*
most serious menaces in modern
automobile traffic, and deal with
them accordingly.
(This report was made by
group five: Frances Dixon, Jo
Dean, Bobby Foster, Sue Colley
and J- S. Dixon, members of the
Driver Education Class of Black
shear High School, Bob Ed
wards, teacher.)
By MRS. G. C. WALLIS
Miss Raye Osborn of Dalton, Ga.,
was guest of Mr. and Mrs. N. C.
Davis Jr, during the weekend.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Dowling of
Blackshear visited Mr. and Mrs.
Tom Lastinger on Sunday.
Cpl. James Wyre who is station
ed at Fort Benning, Ga., is spend
ing a 30-day leave with relatives
in Hoboken.
Mr. and Mrs. Reavis Pittman and
children of Folkston were visitors
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Dowling and
other relatives on Sunday.
Homer Shepard of Lansing, Mich.,
was speaker at the Sunday night
service at the Hoboken Baptist
Church. He is a brother of Rev.
J. C. Shepard,
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Those attending the annual As
sociational meeting of the WMU
held on Friday, Jan. 14, at the Na
hunta Baptist Church, were: Mrs.
Fred Dowling, Mrs. N. C. Davis Sr.,
Mrs. J. C. Shepard, Mrs. R. R.
Jones, Mrs. L. C. Colvin, Mrs. J. K.
Larkins and Mrs. G. C. Wallis.
Mrs. Wade Colvin returned to her
home on Saturday after spending
some time with her daughter, Mrs.
Latimer Tyre and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Homer Shepard and
children of Lansing, Mich., are
guests of Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Shep
ard and Mr. Shepard’s mother, Mrs.
Daisy Shepard in Waycross.
Farmer’s Share cf
Consumer Dollar
45 Cents in ’53
The farmer’s share of the con
sumer’s food dollar—based on an
average of prices paid for food
in retail grocery stores—fell this
year to 45 cents, according to
Steve Brannen, Agricultural Ex
tension Service economist. This
is down two cents from last
year and is three cents less than
the 1951 average of 48 cents, he
said.
When farm prices drop and
farm incomes are sharply affect
ed, more attention is turned to
the difference, or “spread” be
tween the price received by the
farmer and the price paid by
the ultimate consumer of his pro
ducts, Brannen points out.
A recent report on marketing
and transportation sheds some
light on how the farmer’s share
changes in periods of inflation
or deflation.
Marketing margins-the dol
lar-and-cents-charges for all ser
vices performed in processing,
distribution, and selling of farm
products—usually do not shrink
with farm prices, the report
shows, and therefore tend to
take a larger percentage of the
consumer’s dollar when farm
prices drop. In 1953, for example,
it cost $556 to market products
which brought farmers $461.
Brannen said that the market
ing costs are based on such things
as wages paid to workers in food
industries, transportation costs,
rents, and costs of machinery and
facitities used in food handling
and processing. “These things fol
low trends in the general level
of non-farm, rather than farm,
prices. They do not respond di
rectly to changing prices for the
commodities being handled,” he
added.
Farm prices, on the other hand,
he explained, are very sentitive
to change in supply and demand.
They rise suddenly in response to
war or defense-created shortages,
and fall just as suddenly when
demand falls off and surpluses
are created. Overall marketing
costs are slower to react. But
o"ee they have rises in response
t 1 wige contracts calling for
1 r pay schedules, increases
ip t xes and rents, and higher
freight and utility rates, any at
tempt to lower them meets with
great resistance.
Other factors contributing to
the spread between farm prices
and retail prices of food, Bran
nen states, are a trend toward
performance of more market
ing services such as packaging,
mixing, and precooking of foods
sold at retail, and the shipping
of foods over greater di stances
from supply areas.
The marketing of farm pro
ducts now requires more workers
than farm production itself, a
recent U. S. Department of Ag
riculture report shows. The num
ber of workers in agriculture has
decreased by 10 to 15 per cent,
during the last 20 years, while
the number engaged in market
ing farm products may have in
creased more than one third.
NaKunta, Georgis
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THURSDAY. JAN. 21, 1954
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL NEWS
Leonard Crews, son of Mr. and
Mrs .Russell J. Crews, Hortense,
earned a place on the South Georgia
College Dean’s List for the fall
quarter.
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Mr. and Mrs. R. I. McDuffie and
daughter Helen spent the past
weekend in Augusta visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Hubert Sasser. They also
visited the Clark Hill Dam in South
Carolina.
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Mrs. Ruth Knight of Miami is
visiting her mother, Msr. Lola Johns
and other relatives in Nahunta and
Brantley County.
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The WSCS of the Nahunta Metho
dist Church will meet at the home
of Mrs. Norman Lewis on Monday
More Naval Stores
Producers Using
Tack-on Tins
Area Forester Henry G. Bac
kus reports that many progres
sive naval stores producers and
gum farmers are planning to put
up virgin faces this year using
the improved tack-on spiral gut
ter attached with removable
double-headed nails.
Mr. Backus stares that tests on
commercial operations in long
leaf pine showed that faces put
up using the tack-on gutter sys
tem produced 22 percent more
gum than faces installed using
the inserted tin method. This in
crease in production amounted to
5.4 barrels per thousand faces
which at $25.00 comes to $135.00.
In other words producers us
ing the broad axe system of in
serting the tins into the trees are
damaging the tree and cutting
down their gross return by about
$125.00 per thousand faces on
long leaf pine or $1250.00 per
crop. This is an unnecessary
waste that can be avoided.
When a broad axe is driven
into a tree and a tin slipped into
the incision the tree is weakened
and damaged. The presence of
the tin in the tree blocks the
flow of sap up the tree and
causes it to produce less gum.
Tins tacked on the tree with
double-headed nails do practical
ly no damage to the tree and do
not disturb the flow or produc
tion of gum.
By using the spiral gutter, it
is possible to put a face on the
tree almost equal in width to the
diameter of the tree. The width
of the face determines to a very
large extent the amount of gum
produced. Narrow faces run lit
tle gum. By increasing the av
erage face width one inch a pro
ducer can increase his yield from
one to one and a half barrells
per thousand faces.
Double-headed nails are easily
pulled out of the tree and by
using them the same tins and
nails may be used until the face
is worked out; this reduces the
cost of tins and nails and amounts
to a considerable saving.
Sawmillei s, pole buyers and
pulpwood producers will use the
entire worked part of the tree
where double-headed nails have
been used. They know that the
double-headed nail can be easily
seen and removed from the tree,
thereby avoiding damage to their
saws and knives. By using the
double-headed nail landowners
can increase the sale valud of
their timber by 30 percent since
pulpwood or sawtimber opera
tors will use the entire worked
portion of the tree if all the
metal has been removed.
The Naval Stores Conservation
Program in 1954 will make a
payment for the use of the spiral
gutter and double headed nails
when installing virgin or elevat
ing faces for the first time. Don’t
miss this opportunity to conserve
your timber and increase your
income.
If you plan to put up virgin
faces or elevate your cups for
the first time this season contact
Area Forester Backus at Box 361
or Kicklighter Bidg., Jesup, Ga.,
for advice on this improved sys
tem and he will be glad to call
at your place to help you with
any of your turpentine prob
lems.
GEORGIA’S SWEET
POTATO CROP
The 1953 sweet potato crop in
Georgia showed a 24 per cent
increase over 1952, according to
figures released by the Agricul
tural Extension Service. This
year’s crop is estimated at 2,080,-
00 bushels, approximately 80
bushels per acre. The yield per
acre in 1952 was 70 bushels, and
over a 10-year period, from 1942
through 1951, it was 77 bushels.
MARCH OF DIMES
One of the most vital activities
of the March of Dimes is to re
cruit emergency medical help to
meet the threat of enidem^s
1923, the organization sent 573
three doctors into stricken areas,
nurses, 99 physical therapists and
By Mrs. Carl Broome
। night, Jan. 25 at eight o’clock. Mrs.
C. F. Starnes will have charge of
program arrangements.
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Mrs. W. W. Carter, Mrs. E. A.
Moody, Mrs. J. B. Lewis and Mrs.
Clyde Easterling and Mrs. C. F‘j
Starnes attended the District Con
ference held in Folkston on Thurs
day, January 14. /
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Regular church services will be
held at the Nahunta Methodist
Church on Sunday, January 24. RevJ
C. F. Starnes is pastor.
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Miss Barbara Driver, a senior at
GSCW is doing practice teaching at
Thomson, Ga. She will return to
GSCW in March. ;•
WAYNESVILLE ]
By Mrs. Julia Gibson ‘
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Robinson
spent Sunday in Statenville with
Mr. and Mrs. Lyde Thomas.
Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Themas
and children of Canton, Ga., Ms.
and Mrs. Rayford Pierce and sen,
Mrs. A. O. Keene, and Mr. and
Mrs. Alvin Keen and children of
Brunswick and Mr. and Mrs. John
Liles and son were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Jerry Walker during the
weekend.
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Mr. and Mrs. Eldon Strickland
are spending the week in Jesup.
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Buddy Millis of Jacksonville
visited Ben Rozier on Saturday.
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Sgt. L. D. Thompson, Army Air
Force, stationed in Cocoa, Fla.,
spent the weekend with his mother,
Mrs. Thelma Thompson.
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Carl Driskell and daughters of
Mcßae were callers at the home of
Mrs. Jesse Griffin on Sunday.
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Ward Proctor of Valdosta spent
the weekend here with his family.
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Clyde Sewell visited friends here
Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Gene Strickland
and children of Blythes Island were
supper guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Lloyd Robinson on Sun
day.
Mrs. Cecil Moody and children
of Nahunta spent Thursday with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin
Robinson. •
Miss Agnes Jacobs of Hoboken
spent the weekend with her mother,
Mrs. W. H. Jacobs.
FARMERS URGED TO
ORDER FERTILIZER
EARLY THIS YTAR.
The fertilizer supply for the
1953-54 crop year looks very fav
orable at this time, Dr. H. D.
Morris, professor of agronomy at
the University of Georgia, said
this week.
“Since there are frequently ^pot
shortages of certain favored ma
terials, even in a year of good
overall supply,” Morris pointed
out, “I’d like to remind Georgia
farmers that the best way to be
sure of having the right type
and the desired amount of fert
ilizer available when it is need
ed is to order early.” Fertilizer
can be stored safely in any dry
< place, he added.
Morris said that indications
are that supply of fertilizer for
the 1953-54 season will be up
about 11 percent over the total
available during the last grow
ing season. The amount of nitro
gen will be about two million
tons, phosphate two and two
thirds million tons, and potash
a little under two million tons.
Last year’s total supplies a
mounted to 1.8 million tons of
nitrogen, 2.4 million ions of phos
phate, and 1.7 million tons of
potash.
Rabies are being fed beef now
as early as six weeks of age and
studies show that these infants
are healthier, happier and have
greater resistance to infection.
During the past 16 years the
March of Dimes has provided
$20,500.00 for polio research and
$18,900,000 for public and pro
fessional education about the
disease.
Agronomists recommend 32 lbs.
of nitrogen per acre on Ladino
clover-fescue mixtures'in North
Georgia to increase growth.
This newspaper is read "like a
letter from home” by most of the
oeople in Brantley County every
week. If you want to sell ’em, why
hot tell ’em?
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