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The B.W.C. of the Baptist WMF
met at the church on Thursday.
Nov. 11. Mrs. Oscar Burden w ;s in
Charge of the program. Those tak
Ing part were Miss Karol Kitching-
Mrs. Louise Drury, Mrs. Oliver Feai
son, Mrs. Nellie Griffin, Mrs. Loi.
WWiams, Mrs. Lillian Baxter and
Mrs Mamie Orser were pi.
Mrs Oliver Pearson served pump
kin pie and coffee.
Mrs. James Kemp and son J: n
my, and Mrs. Beulah Woodard ai
gueets of Mr. and Mrs. P. D GiFf.
this week. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Davi s
and son, Eddie, of Plackshear, were
their guests on Sunday.
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Church will hold their rogul n
fbonthly meeting at the church on
Friday evening, Nov. 26, at 7:30
P. M. All members are urged to
be present. „
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Mr. and Mrs. Howard E. St -
hens and son, Mark of Atlanta
spent the week end at home with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Broome. Mrs. John Cunard of Mon
tfcello accompanied them to spend
; a few weeks. Other guests on Sur
day were: Mr. and Mrs. C. J.
Brome, Jr- and Lynda Sue and
? X^u Jean of' Alma, Mr. and Mrs
Broome and Joy and Mr. and
W?- Dean Broome and Dean Carl
of Blackshea t .
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® NEWS
By M' S >. C. WALJ’S
Thought for the week: When
। Thanksgiving Day is over and we
[ watch the setting sun, this is an
other time for worship, give thanks
for heritage we’ve won.
Mrs. Aaron Webb and daughter
of Baxley spent Monday with Mr.
and Mrs. John Larkins.
Mr. and Mrs. ADhur Dukes had
as their guests on Sunday, Mr. and
Mrs. George Cowart of Pearson and
TT r. and Mrs. Keith Strickland of
Nahunta
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Orser and
daughter of Blackshear and Mr. and
1 Mrs. R. Pittman and family of
, Folkston were guests of Mr. and
1 Mrs. Fred Dowling on Sunday.
Rev. and Mrs. J T. Barbee of
; Sequin, Texas, paster of First Bap
, tist Church in Seouin, Texes, are
visiting their daughter, Miss Wil
lette Barbee.
rs Middleton
’s Supervisor
For Ground Corns
Mrs. Emory Middleton has been
mpoi it'M Tost Supervisor for the
Ground Observer Corps for the
Nahunta area by the Civil Defense
Center at Savannah. Volunteers are
asked for the Ground Observers for
aircraft spotting. See or call Mrs.
Middleton.
G. A. Loyd is Civil Defense chair
man of Brantley County.
There will be an Air Craft Spot
t;ng practice some time in early
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RURAL PHONES
MUSHROOM IN
PAST 9 YEARS
Southern Bell
Manager Gives
Progress Report
The number of farm homes
and rural business establishments
provided telephone service
through the Blackshear exchange
has mushroomed during the past
nine years, according to P. W.
Shearouse, manager for Southern
Bell Telephone Company.
From 36 telephones in 1945 the
number of telephones serving the
rural areas around Blackshear
has increased to 218, a pheno
menal growth.
“Rural telephone development
has been one of the outstanding
phases of our record-breaking
expansion since 1945”, Mr. Shea
rouse stated.
Since 1945 one out of every
four telephones added in Geor
gia by Southern Bell has been a
rural telephone. Os the 380,000
telephones the firm has added in
Georgia during this period 95,000
have been rural. At the beginning
of this nine-year period of tre
mendous growth Southern Bell
served 280.000 telephones, of
which 25,000 were rural.
Among the larger rural pro
jects worked here during the
nast few vears were those serv
ing the Piney Grove, the Way
cross Highway, the Old Alma
Road and the Hy. 121 South sec
tiorts.
S2B 000.009 Program
In gaining 95,000 farm tele
phones in Georgia the telephone
enm^nnv has spent more than
S2R 000,000, exclusive of necessary
cable and central office equip
ment inside city and town limits.
The 28 million went for poles,
cross'arms, cable wire and tele
phones used on rural lines alone.
Approximately 6,600 miles of
new pole line has been built in
addition to expansion of existing
lines and the ioint use of rural
powerpoles. This involved the
construction of 120,000 poles and
the placing of 40,000 miles of iron
wire and almost 120,000 miles of
wire in cable.
For a great many months
Southern Bell has been adding
more than 1,000 rural telephones
in the state each month. This
year the firm will spend $4,000,-
000 for rural development, and
telephone engineers estimate that
a like amount will be spent for
the same purpose next year.
“Few firms arc investing so
heavily in the rural sections of
Georgia,” Mr. Shearouse said.
“But Southern Bell believes that
the telephone is on the farm to
stay. In Georgia and the rest of
the South our agriculture is going
through an evolution from one
crop to full diversification, from
hand-labor and mule power to a
great degree of mechanization.
Today more than ever before, the
telephone is highly useful, if not
necessary, to efficient farm man
agement, operation and market-
ing*
Home improvement specialists
have found that the best piece
of equipment to use for removing
!oug uwts and fritters from het
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NAHUNTA, GEORGIA
IN CHOICE. OF RED, YELLOW, GREEN, BLUE & GRAY
The water level in the old
swamp is three feet lower than
usual for this time of the year,
according to Wildlife Refuge
Manager, Roy Moore, of Way
cross. Boat tours for the first
time have been cut out; most
boat trails are dry.
For the past six weeks, push
boats have replaced motor boats
in the Suwannee Canal, one of
three public entrances into the
refuge.
Okefenokee National Wildlife
Refuge occupies about nine-tenths
of this fascinating region of
water, woods, and wildlife con
sisting of 329,000 acres. Cypress
trees in the swamp have turned
brown this summer due to drou
ght. A high percentage of fish
are believed to have been killed
as a result of diminishing water
level. Mr. Moore pointed out that
Billy’s Lake is about the only
place now to fish. Warmouth at
this and other lakes have been
caught this summer.
Birds Migrate
The Americans egrets and
other wading birds which visitors
marvelled at while chugging up
the winding trailways in better
days are scarce—result of dry
weather. One could now walk to
Monkey Lake—a fishing ground
several miles from the turn-off
in Suwannee Canal. This typlifies
conditions in the swamp, hence,
the wading birds migrated for
obvious reasons.
This summer otters (mammals
related to the minks and weasels)
ventured out into the open
swamp. As a result some of these
animals have been killed by alli
gators in ’gator holes which dot
the swamp interior, and in lakes.
“We found one last week in
Billy’s Lake,” Moore stated.
• Insofar as wild life, raccoons,
bobcats, opossums, deer, and etc.
in general is concerned, it is be
lieved that the effects of dry
weather will not be bad, accord
ing to Mr. Moore.
Fires Sweep Area
Two bad fires swept areas of
the Okefenokee Swamp this dry
summer. Both were believed to
have been caused by lightning.
On Billy’s Island 3,000 acres
were burned. At fipst, it looked
as if the timber was badly da
maged, but the trees “came out”
and apparently not much damage
was done. No harm was done to
the wildlife, Moore stated.
Black Jack Island was the
scene of the other fire, which
broke out Aug. 7. The fire lasted
in the Island two or three days,
then it reached out into the
swamp on the southern side of
the island and smouldeded for
three weeks, burning is way
menancingly to the edge of the
swamp. Nineteen thousand acres
were burned. This was one of
the times Moore flew over the
swamp to appraise the fire. Pic
tures w’ere made from the air.
On Sept. 16, fire broke out at
Huckleberry Island, but was
stopped at the swamp line. Then
tM Mew from
THURSDAY, NOV. 25, 1954
BIRDS MIGRATE, WILDLIFE
POPULATION BELIEVED CUT
Feeling the effects of severe drought is the huge
Okefenokee Swamp, storied land of mystery and intrigue
which stretches its primitive shape over a vast area of
South Georgia.
By Audrey Guest
the west, carrying fire eastward -
to a long front running from
Blackjack Island to Huckleberry
Island, to a mile or so west of
Mims Island.
Other Agencies Help
Fear was great that the fire
would spread outside the swamp
to valuable timber resources.
Agencies participating with trac
tors and crews at this strategic
.point were Rayonier Incorporat
ed, Mangle Company, Cair Wood
lands, Charlton County, and Oke
fenokee Wildlife Refuge.
On the refuge which extends
about 38 miles from north to
south and about 25 miles across
at its widest part, control burn
ing is practiced. Little can be
done to stop a fire in the huge
swamp once it gets started, so the
main thing, Moore says, is keep
ing fires out. The refuge, operated
under the United States Depart
ment of the Interior Fish and
Wildlife Service, has its own
equipment for plowing breaks,
etc.
About every four or five
years, in the winter time, when
the conditions of moisture are
right, the land on the islands is
burned off. Burning is not done,
however, when there are young
pines which fire would cripple,
Moore explained, adding that fire
breaks are plowed at regular in
tervals.
In dry July and August, several
miles of fire breaks were plow c !
around and across Chesser I
land, located on the east side m
the swamp. This was done as
precautionary measure; the
bad fire was in 1932
“Trembling Earth”
Telling of his experiences as
wildlife refuge manager of th 1
Okefenokee Swamp, one of the
oldest and most primitive swamp
in America, Moore pointed cut
that muck in the vast beg "is
like a bed of jello.” He said, o - ■
could jump (or fall) in i i k
and the trees will s'- ke, b
the famous name, "Tremb.* .g
Earth.”
A long fishing pole has been
used by the refuge manager as
a measuring stick in the mucky
w'ater. The pole, between 12 and
14 feet long did not hit bottom.
From shallow to deep is the na
ture of the floor in this bog. The
waters of Okefenokee, unique in
many respects in geologic orgin
and history, move slowly—fed in
part by subterranean springs
which drain into two rivers.
Origin of St Marys
The St. Marys River has its
orgin in the; southeastern corner
of the refuge, below Black Jack
Island. It forms the southern
boundary of Georgia for about
a hundred miles. However, the
principal outlet of the swamp is
the Suwannee River that starts
deep in the heart of Okefenokee
and flows southwest into the
Gulf of Mexico, near Cedar
Springs, Fla. The river furnished
the background for Stephen Fs>»-
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Wood For Sale
Wood for sale at Burden Amoco
Service Station. Phone 2-3471, Na
hunta, Ga. 1230
MALE AND FEMALE
HELP WANTED
Booming business makes opening
available for responsible man or
woman with car to call on farm
women in Brantley County. Full or
spare time. Opportunity to make
S4O a day. Write McNESS COM
PANY, P. O. Box 2766, DeSoto Sta
tion, Memphis, Tenn.
House and Lot for Sale
House and lot at Winokur for
sale. New four-room house with
electric lights on lot of land two.
acres deep and one-half acre wide
on highway 301 at Winokur. See
Dock Henderson, Route 2, Patter
son, Ga. 11|25
WOOD FOR SALE
Wood cut for fire place or heatei
Delivered for $lO per cord. Se
Nolan Crews, Route 1, Nahunta, G;
FOR SALE
The late Mad Cody Fleming e
tate for sale. We •will sacrifice th.,
property at the best offer we can
get. Anyone interested call Brant
ley O’Quinn, Phone 862, Brunswick,
Georgia.
Highway Frontage for Sale
Will sell Highway Frontage on
Highway 301 four miles south of
Nahunta. Available in one acre
tracts. See Mrs. A. B. Brooker, Na
hunta, Ga.
TELEVISION AND
RADIO SERVICE
We 'repair any make of T.V. or
radio. Prompt service. All work
guaranteed. Our home service com
pany will appreciate your patron
age. Nahunta Television Company,
Bill Parkes, proprietor. Located
by the Nahunta Post Office Phone
2-3734.
PRECISION RADIO SERVICE
Way cross, Georgia
Phone 269 119 Albany Ave.
Radios and Television Sets
Repaired and InstaPed
“You Know W? Know Radio”
Hickox H.D. Club
Met Thursday
The Hickox Hom? Demonstration
Club met Thursday P.M. at the
home of Mrs. W. L. Bohannon. De
votional was conducted by Mrs. U.
O. Stokes.
U O. Stokes, Woodrow Hendrix,
Neil Hendrix, Lavelle Bohannon
and Jim R. Herrin were five Farm
Bureau members present at the bu
siness meeting and discussed with
the Club plans for a Community
Center for Hickox and County Plans
for the year.
Miss Sarah Simpson gave an in
teresting demonstration on the mak
ing of place mats, napkins, bed
slippers and bits for Christmas cor
sages.
Present other than those men
tioned were: Mrs. Louise Hendrix,
Mrs. Lizzie Mae Hendrix, Mrs. Ale
tha Mae White, «Mrs. Josie Mae
Jones, Mrs. Leona Allan and Mrs.
Annie Lou Loyd.
The hostess served cookies, and
coffee during social hour.
ter’s immortal song, “Suwannee
River.”
One of three public entrances
into the swamp is Suwannee Can
al, noted for its fishing area.
Others are Okefenokee Swamp
P rk. northern entrance near
Wavcross; and Camp Stephen
Foster, west entrance located 19
miles southeast of Fargo. Okefen
okee Swamp Park is its most
noted entrance. Tours for the
animal exhibits are offered se
veral times daily, and a full pro
gram of wildlife lectures is pre
sented. When drought conditions
do not exist, boat tours are made
by tourists. Liston Elkins is exe
cutive vice-president.
How Swamp Was Formed
The story of the Okefenokee
Swamp began a half million
years ago, or longer.
Here’s some history: During
Pleistocene time, estimated to
have been between 500,000 and
1,250,000 years ago, there was a
period when the coastal region
of what is now Southeastern
United States was about 160 feet
lower in relation to sea level,
than at present. There was a
group of four islands in what is
now northern Florida. The fest
was under- water, as was a sec
tion in lower South Georgia ex
tending southward from Trail
Ridge. This famous ridge starts
just South of St. George, Ga.,
and runs north for about 100
miles to the vicinity of Jopup,
Trull h Termed
