The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, January 06, 1955, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Textdi dlwHlSi^ '\ WHr «ww*' * Jp" S * \ OOoj^. ' Wlite!Mii^^..^SL^ '&•“ ' <ss^ xb i£* . S X*< t • VC,* X r. A ‘“^ ixi J nT • -ikW, • U^SME^ SU ■ -dliL / xsCv \;' *• / ’‘ w” •S^K^ 4 -' -*’•". > Mattress made .. with 100% of ,iny s . bubbles of air entatod Foam Latex! St ' tomforf secrot of this mattressl BfSTonic uU4»«, H y ENSEMBLE A perfectly matched ensemble. Cox spring bos extra deep coils Moody Bros. Furniture Co. IDEA OF IRRIGATION AS OLD AS HISTORY (From The Savannah Morning News) The idea of irrigation, now of fered to the South under Uncle Sam's sponsorship, is as old as history itself. A biblical passage quotes the Lord: “Make the valley lull of ditches; thus ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see ram, yet that valley shall be filled With wat»*r that ye may drink, both ye and your cattie and your beasts." There’s evidence that waters ot the Nik were diverted over de tsert lands of Egypt about 4.000 years ajo. An inscription on the tomb of the Assyrian q:-cen. Se tniramis, who lived about 2000 B.C^ proclaimed: I constram- u the mighty river to flow accord ing to my will and led its waters to fertilize lands that had before been barren and without inhab itants.” Records show there was con I ; tinuous irrigation down through the centuries in Egypt, Syria, Persia, India. Java, Italy and - Holland. Indian Irrigation Evidence indicates the prehis toric Indians of the southwestern part of this country practiced irri gation. Traces of irrigation dit ches constructed by the Indians have been found in the Casa Orande National Monument in New Mexico Early Spanish missionaries brought to the United States their knowledge of irrigation from Mediterranean farms. They turn ed water from nearby streams on gardens and fields around -their missions in California. Ari jona, Nev ,md *i. .. territ-.r?s. The birth rs modm-n ipjga tion in the United States came later, in 1847, when Brigham Young and his Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (Mormon) followers diverted the Waters Os City Creek over plow ed land in the Salt l.ak<- Valb e el Utah and planted p tm. Desert Civilization During the next 15 years. pro gressive pioneers had ' - u.. t carve a civilization out »i western deserts Th- • 752 irrigation ent^* ( *v — iag water to 402 C 1 in wiUc for proper support of ihe mattress. FOUR-SIX SIZE PHONE 2-2185 THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Guaranteed for 20 years! The sleep combination you’ve heard about, read about, DREAMED about! 4'/2" thick modern mattress of genuine foam latex. Supports the entire body surface uniformly. Cushions you gently, lets you relax completely. Specially built extra-high box spring. The perfect combination for a new kind of refreshing sleep. See it here! MATTRESS AND BOX SPRING COMPLETE IS ITSELF arid land which produced food for a half-million persons in the mountain and Pacfic area. By the turn of the century a bout 9,500.000 acres of land were being irrigated by 20 130 works rep < -sen ting an invc-ti nt of 250 million dollars. Practically all of this was in the West. In the early days it v/as com- P’ratively easy for a fanner, with a team of horses and ordi mry tools, to construct 'Vches to carrv water from str'-ams to '■.! cent lands. ? o<n however. lateen* ers found the streams fringed with farms and that it was more dif ^icult and expensive to trans nort water to their more-distant fields Cooperative Movement This led to the formation of co onerative groups, several thou san. 1 of them. Most states in the Wee em^tet Pws authorizing the c ration f irrigation districts, with taxing powers, for the con struction and maintenance of ir rigation works. Private capital became inter ested in financing more expen sive '-nrks, but only a few hund red commercial ventures have survived. In general the farmers worked out their own salvation in the conservation and use of water — a precious, sometimes scanty, re source. Th? federal government show : cd an early interest in irrigation I in 1875 when Congress authoriz- I ed the sale of desert lands in California for $1.25 an acre, nro i vided the lands were placed un der water. Two years later the law was extended to It \Vo I । prn ” 3 s enacted to encourage private ir rigation. Federal Sponsorship The government in 1888 reeog ; nized the possible need £or fed i eral sponsorship of projects, with Congress appropriating $lO9 000 to investigate h<>w the arid West ■ could be developped by nri-a ton President ’ heodoie. Roo "elt said in his first message to Con gress in 1902: “It is as right for the national government to moke the streams and rivers of the arid region useful by engineering works for the storage of water $99.50 NAHUNTA, GA. as to make useful the fivers and harbors of the humid regions by engineering works of another character.” The next year Congress passed the reclamation act providing for the examination, survey and con struction of irrigation works on public lands in the West- Subsequent legislation expand ed the reclamation act, and soon the Federal Reclamation Bureau embarked on what was to be come a tremendous construction program. The program kept pace with the rapid population increase in the West early this century. Multi-Purpose Projects The growth of the area requir ed greater development of its water resources. Simple dams and canals for diversion of water to adjacent lands no longer were considered adequated. So the bureau turned to multi-purpose projects embracing irrigation, hydroelectric power, municipal water flood control, protection from silt and salt water, recrea tion, and fish and wildlife mea sures. In recent years hydroelectric power proddeted at dams im pounding water primarily for ir rigation has assumed increasing importance. Revenues from po wer sales are used to pay for a part of the projects’ construc tion costs and to help repay irri gation costs which exceed the farmers’ ability to pay. In its ambitious plans for the river basins of the West, the Rec lamation Bureau proposes to use power dam revenues to subsidize some irrigation projects which feasibility basis. Today there are more than 24 million acres of land under irri gation in the 17 Western states. Os this total about six million acres arc irrigated by water fron) federal reclamation projects. Available to Al! Now the federal program is being made available to the whole country. Congress has just extended benefits of the Water Facilities Act to all states. In a half-century* the federal government has invested more • ban ” billion dollars in Reclama bnn Bureau projects. From this investment, the government hai received revenues totaling about a half-billion dollars. Most of the remaining 1^ billion dollars will be repaid by water and power users according to long-term contracts, NAHUNTA, GEORGIA WANT-ADS STORE FOR RENT AT HORTENSE I have a store on highway 301 at Hortense for rent. It is also equipped for use as a case. If interested see me or call me at once. Mrs. A. R Adams, Hortense, Ga. Tires for Sale B. F. Goodrich tires, entirely new. One 700 by 15; three 710 by 15- two 550 by 15; one 750 by 20, eight ply; one 4 by 19 tractor. Also floor mats, seat covers and one guitar. Mrs. Dorothy Graham, phonr 2-3201, Nahunta, Ga. 16 Let Us Drill Your Well We drill wells, supply pumps help you make plans for your ir rigation projects and assist you ir any way in supplying your water needs. See or phone Rebel Inter prises, Inc., Hortense, Ga. Julian B. Middleton. Phone Nahunta 2-2216. 1127. GENERAL CAR REPAIRS We now have an expert mechanic for general auto repairing. We will appreciate your giving us a trail when you need any kind of car or truck repairs. We guarantee satis faction on all repair work. Dewey Lee at Dewey’s Junk Yard, Nahunta, Ga. , I|l3. PRECISION RADIO SERVICE Way cross, Georgia Phene 269 119 Albany Ave. Radios and Television Sets Repaired and Installed “You Know We Khow Radio” TELEVISION ANO 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 Cifice Phone 2-3734. TB Association Leader Predicts Hard Job Ahead Tuberculosis control in the future is going to be more diffi cult and more expensive than ever before and will call for more facilities and personnel than are presently available, ac cording to the president, of the Georgia Tuberculosis Associa tion. Mrs. Emilio Suarez, of Cuth bert, the second woman presi dent in the history of the As sociation, sounded a warning in a New Year’s message this week that drastic steps need to be tak en now to “catch up with the fruits of medical research.” She said the most important objective for the tuberculosis as sociation should be a strong edu cational campaign to prevent new cases. “The rate of discovery of new cases is not declining nearly as fast as the death rate,” she ex plained. “This means there are more living persons with the dis ease, approximately 15,000 in Georgia alone. “The remarkable ability of physicians to save lives with new drugs and surgical techniques places a premium on hospital beds. The quicker a victim can be started on a treatment pro gram, the quicker he can be dis charged and another patient moved into the same bed.” So often the patient comes home to conditions which are un favorable to continuing treatment and isolation. Proper supervision is difficult, the patient is direct ly involved in family problems, and often feels compelled to try to work in spite of his condition. Naturally, this does the patient no good, and he is likely to be come infectious again. Mrs. Suarez said local TB as sociations in Georgia will be strongly encouraged to expand their educational activities in the coming year, with emphasis on school health and legislative pro grams. “If school programs can be de- veloped now which will give our young people a good knowledge of community responsibility to ward controlling diseases, pro gress in the future will be much more rapid. It is also important that the public know what the problems are now, so action can be planned to correct them. Many difficul ties, particularly those having to do with patient and family re lief, will have to be resolved af ter careful evaluation by local citizens of the needs of their own patients and the ultimate cost of not providing the funds to meet these needs. ’ Iron kitchen utensils used re gularly should be washed in hot, soapy water, rinsed in hot water, then carefully dried as quickly ui passible io prevent rust. Thursday, Jan. 6, 1955 DR. BURTON, ‘MAN OF YEAR’ DEVELOPED COASTAL BERMUDA Dr. Glenn W. Burton, principal geneticist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture at the Coastal Plain Ex periment Station, Tifton, has been named Man of the Year in Service to Southern Agriculture for 1954 by The Pro- MAN OF THE YF^P FOR SOUTHERN AdRiyviAJRE ip? w Sv • ■ ■ * ■ * • ‘ .< * <■> - ,• x- RO®#® Dr. Glenn W. Burton, principal geneticist, U. S. Depaclsr.ent of Agriculture, Geo; ; : a Coastal Flain Experiment Jiatien, I — u.u Georgia. Business Firms To Receive ’54 Census Forms Report forms of the 1954 Cen sus of Business are being mailed to Georgia retail, wholesale and service businesses, theaters and other amusement places, hotels and tourist courts, early in Jan uary by the Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce. The report forms are adapted to the various kinds of business and smaller firms need answer only a minimum of basic inquiries. Approximately three million business firms throughout the United States will receive the 1954 census forms. Information collected in the census is" confi dential and will be used by the Bureau of the Census in com piling new statistics on business activities for the Nation, States and smaller areas for the first time since the results of the 1948 Census of Business were publi shed. Selected figures for Georgia from the 1948 Census of Business follow Number of stores—3s,6ss. Sales for the year—52,111,539,- 000. Payroll for the year—s2o2,l9B,- 000. Number of establishments — 3,844. Sales for the year—53,264,294,- 000. Payroll for the year—5133,260,- 000. CUTTING TREES TOO SOON Many Georgia farmers are les sening profits from timber by cutting the trees too soon, accord ing to Dorsey Dyer, Extension Service forester. A 15-year old tree six inches in diameter cut for pulpwood is worth sixteen and two-thirds cents. Left alone for only five years, this same tree will be eigth inches in diameter and worth thii-ty-three and one third cents — twice as much. Carryover of cotton in the U.S. on August 1, 1955, is expected be about one million bales 1 than that on Auguest 1 of bus year. Retail Trade, 1948 Wholesale Trade, 1948 Announcement VARIETY ORE REOPENED The Hi^hsm i Variety Store, which has been closed for several months, is now open for business under new man agement. Dawshene Highsmith is the new manager. She announces that all old stock will be sold at reduced prices. New stock will be placed in the store. We invite all our friends to come to see us. VARIETY STORE Dawshene Highsmith, manager NAHUNTA, GEORGIA gressive Farmer. The award honors Dr. Burton for his having bred and popular ized Coastal Bermuda grass. His selection was announced Dec. 26 by Clarence Poe, editor and board chairman of the farm magazine. A Nebraskan by birth, Dr. Bur ton came to Georgia in 1936 to head up a new USDA project—a program of breeding grasses tor the Southeast. Dr. Burton says he choose this position because he had always been intrigued with possibilities in the South. One of these intriguing pos sibilities was Bermuda grass, then known chiefly as a cropping nuisance. In 1937, Dr. Burton planted a crossing block that in cluded Tift Bermuda, two kinds from Africa, common, and others. From this planting came Coas tal, a hybrid from Tift and one of the African Bermudas. The value of Coastal Bermuda as a pasture plant is measured by the fact that over 30,000 acres of it are now established in Geor gia, according to estimates by county agents. Estimated acreage throughout the South is bet ween one-half and one million acres. Development and use of Coas tal is described in detail by Dr. Burton in his recent publication, Bulletin NS 2, Coastal Bermuda Grass for Pasture, Hay and Sil age. Copies of this bulletin are available from the Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tieton, Ga. Other valuable results from Dr. Burton’s work include Su wannee Bermuda, recommended for deep, sandy soils; Midland Bermuda, a Coastal type bred for cold resistance; Tift Sudan grass; Starr millet; and two out standing turf grasses, Tiftlawn and Tiffine. Tobacco Seed For Sale Tobacco seeds, triple cleaned, test ed. Highest germination and purity. Varities: Hicks Broad Leaf and 402. See Earl Stuckey, Route 2, Black shear. Pohne 4734. I|6 The fat in homogenized milk has been broken up into such small particles that it does not rise to the surface. Georgia produces more lumber annually than any state east of the Mississippi. Prevent forest fires. Use your automobile ash tray. $ PHARMACEUTICAL i tl Vl’ ill Your physician K M•MU II I P^nds on the K skill ot the phar- ■ nucisr for preci- ft ;3 sion tn filling hr> prescriptions. k K Heknowr tin'. a ben a prescrip- H K nor. r brojfjn rc >he Rcxal! B fe Drug Sr.re u compounded Kg K : wth h:r!:esr quality ingre- K p diet; , ;• . r-Cicn /iC flcdt M .-V - KNIGHT-VICKERS DRV® STORE Wr i. R. Vickers and Erne - ’ Knight, Pharmacists Pho.ie 2254 Jesup, Ga.