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VOLUME 35 — NUMBER 14
Civil Defense Film
To Be Shown
Friday, April 15
A film on Civil Defense will
be shown at the grammar school
auditorium Friday night, April
15, which will be used to teach
the Brantley County Ground Ob
server Corps how to identify
planes.
The local Ground Observer
Corps, headed by Mrs. Emory
Middleton, will attend the film
showing. All others who are in
terested or who will volunteer
to act as ground observers in the
Civil Defense Corps are urged
to be present.
BRANTLEY MEN
SENTENCED FOR
SETTING FIRES
Two Brantley County men got
prison sentences in Superior
Court Monday for setting fires
to woods in the county. They
were sentenced to two years in
the public work camp.
Jimmie Jones and Frank Cur
ley entered pleas of guilty be
fore Judge Walter Thomas. They
had set fires on March 12 on
lands of Union Bag and Paper
Corporation, B. G. Middleton and
Floyd Warner, according to re
port made by Frank Osborne,
state investigator for the Georgia
Forestry Commission, who signed
warrants for their arrest.
Sheriff T. E. Raulerson was
active in investigating the fires
and ferreting out the guilty par
ties. The men had pulled off
their shoes, it is reported, and
left them at a house. On return
ing for their shoes they got their
shoes mixed and put on wrong
shoes. Their mistake about the
shoes led to clues that helped
solve the case.
About 12 acres of land was
burned over before the forest
fire was stopped by Ranger A
very Strickland and his assistant,
Mitchell Hulett, also with the
aid of land owners in the section.
Allen E. Driggers
Died Monday,
Funeral Tuesday
Allen E. Driggers, 59, died
early Monday morning at his
residence on Route Two, Way
cross, after a long illness. Mr.
Driggers was a life long resi
dent of Ware County and had
spent his entire life in the house
in which he was born He was
one of Ware County’s progres
sive farmers and was a member
of the Congregational Methodist
Church.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Laura Boyles, two sons,
Allen E. Driggers, and R. Huey
Driggers, both of Route Two,
Waycross; three daughters, Mrs.
W. L. Thompson, Jacksonville,
Fla., Mrs. C. M. Strickland and
Mrs. W. Q. Harper, both of Way
cross; two brothers: J. W. Drig
gers and W. H. Driggers, both
of Waycross; three sisters: Mrs.
W. H. Musgrove, Portsmouth,
Va., Mrs. W. P. Adams, Orlando,
Fla., and Mrs. O. A. Woodard,
Way cross; and five grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at 4:00 o’clock
at Williams Chapel with the Rev.
Ralph Worley and the Rev. Ash
ley E. Hobbs officiating. Burial
was in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery.
Pallbearers were: Roy Aycock,
John R. Driggers, Willis Crosby,
Warren Driggers, Micky Blount
Jr., and Willie Woodard.
Mincy Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Hortense Memorial
Church Cemetery
To Be Cleaned
The cemetery at the Hortense
Memorial Church will be cleaned
off on Wednesday, April 13, in
preparation for Homecoming Day
the following Sunday, it is an
nounced by the church commit
tee.
All people who are interested
in the cemetery at the Hortense
Memorial Church are urged to
come on the date named and
bring tools for beautifying the
burial ground.
EXTRA MONEY for the extra
things you’d like can be made
by using want ads to sell sur
plus household itema
EASTERN STAR
TO INSTALL
OFFICERS
R. Loyd Scott, Worthy Grand
Patron O. E. S. of the State of
Georgia, will be the installing
officer of the Satilla Chaper 365
O. E. S. at a meeting on Tues
day night, April 12, in the Na
hunta Lodge Hall at 8:00 P. M.
Mr. Scott will be assisted by Mrs.
Bertha Scott, Grand Marshall,
and Mrs. Clifford Russell with
Miss Karol Kitchings as pianist.
To be installed are officers e
lected at the regular meeting on
March 22. They are: Mrs. Willie
Brooker, Worthy Matron; J. W.
Crews, Worthy Patron; Miss Mal
va Alice Keen, Associate Matron;
David Page, Associate Patron;
Mrs. Daisy Hunter, Secretary;
Mrs. Mamie Orser, Treasurer;
Mrs. Ruby Herrin, Conductress,
and Mrs. Nona Sadler, Associate
Conductress. The appointive of
ficers to be installed are: Mrs.
Louise Drury, Chaplain; Mrs.
Elizabeth Robinson, Marshall;
Mrs. Martha Edgy, Adah; Mrs.
Elma Crews, Ruth; Miss Zoie
Stokes, Esther; Mrs. Lurline
Broome, Martha; Mrs. Bertha
Miller, Electa; Mrs. Ocie Keen,
Warder; Delma F. Herrin, Sen
tinel. *
The program is open to the
public with friends and relatives
of members invited.
State Income Tax
Returns Due by
Friday, April 15
ATLANTA, GA.—Georgia Rev
enue Commissioner T. V. Wil
liams asked State income tax
payers today to submit their 1954
tax returns before the April 15
deadline and warned that those
who do not do so are subject to
heavy penalties.
The Revenue Commissioner
said that the department’s pro
gram which he inaugurated to
check state records against Fed
eral returns is producing substan
tial results and disclosing a num
ber of delinquent taxpayers. He
pointed out that all such State
income tax delinquents are being
assessed penalties provided by
law in addition to being requir
ed to pay the back taxes.
“As soon as we complete pro
cessing the returns which are
filed, the State Revenue Depart
ment will begin checking 1954
returns against Federal returns
to discover any taxpayer who
should have filed State returns
this year, but did not. Those who
do not file their returns as re
quired by law will be assessed
heavy penalties. The penalties
are an additional 25 per cent for
failing to file the return by the
April 15 deadline and in case of
fraud, an additional 50 percent,
as well as levying costs,” Com
missioner Williams said.
The deadline of April 15 for
filing State income tax returns
is the same as the deadline for
filing individual Federal tax re
turns.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Gibson
of Waycross and Nahunta an
nounce the arrival of a baby boy
born Thursday, March 17. He
weighed eight pounds and 10
ounces. He has been named
Douglas Lamar. Mrs. Gibson is
the former Miss Betty Jones,
daughter of Prof, and Mrs. Otis
W. Jones.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy Dykes
announce the birth of a baby boy
weighing seven pounds on April
4. He has been named James
Kary. Mr. and Mrs. Dykes are
living in Waycross.
Regional Library
Schedule Announced
For Brantley
The Brantley County schedule
for the Regional Library is an
nounced by supervisor T. C. Hen
drix as follows:
Wednesday, April 13, Hoboken
School and Mrs. Sikes’ restaurant.
Thursday, April 14, Nahunta
Grammar School, 10 until 12 A.
M.; Nahunta courthouse, one un
til two P. M.
Sraniky Enterprise
DISEASES OF THE HEART AND BLOOD VESSELS are responsible for more death* than all other
causes combined. Aa indicated in the above chart, they head the liat even when we conaider only death*
in the most productive years below 65. This underecore* the importance of the 1955 Heart Fund, which
enable* the American Heart Association and its affiliates to fight the heart diseases through research,
education and community heart programs. Send your contributions to your local Heart Association, or to
“H-E-A-R-T," care of Post Office.
CANTATA SET
AT BAPTIST
CHURCH SUNDAY
The cantata “Christ Victorious”
will be presented at the morning
worship hour at the Nahunta
Baptist Church Sunday, April 10,
it is announced by Bowman Barr.
The same cantata will be pre
sented at the Hoboken Baptist
Church at the evening service.
Soloists are; soprano, Willette
Barbee; alto, Iris Barr; tenor, Carl
Highsmith; bass, Bowman Barr.
Miss Willette Barbee is direct
ing the choirs and Bowman Barr
is accompaning on the piano. All
the people of the community are
invited to worship on Easter by
attending these services.
WAYNESVILLE
By Mrs. Clovis Johnson
Mrs. Marvin Robinson spent
the weekend in Warwick, Ga.,
visiting her brothers, John A.
and Willie Merrit.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Liles of
Brunswick spent the weekend
with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Walker.
Mrs. Lloyd Robinson visited
relatives in Jacksonville on Sun
day and Monday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Young of
Jacksonville spent the weekend
here with relatives.
Mrs. Thelma Thompson an
nounces the marriage of her
daughter, Miss Nina Mae Thomp
son to B. F. O’Quinn of Brook
man on Friday, April 1, in Kings
land, Ga.
Mrs. Betty Prescott was hon
ored with a stork shower on
Wednesday at the home of Mrs.
D. F. Walker with Mrs. Carswell
Moody as co-hostess. Attending
were the Mesdames Marvin Ro
binson, Inez Popwell, Mamie
Harrison. Pete Gibson, Elsie Ja
cobs, Oliver Carter, Emmie
Walker, Marvin Kelly, J. Q.
Smith, Jr., Clovis Johnson, R. O.
Davis, Mrs. Reynolds of Waynes
ville, Mrs. Osborn Moody of Na
hunta. Misses Alice Prescott, La
vonne Reynolds, Margaret Pres
cott, Betty Jo Hallman and Mary
Lou Gardnes, and Mrs. Johnny
Jones. Cup cakes and soft drinks
were served.
Mrs. D. F. Walker visited rela
tives in Brookman on Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Drury and
children of Brunswick are visit
ing Mrs. W. H. Jacobs this week.
Miss Janie Reddish of Way
cross spent Sunday with Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Lightsey.
Mrs. Jerry Walker, Mrs. Buster
Walker and Mrs. Miller spent last
Tuesday in Brunswick visiting
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Liles.
DO YOUR PART. Buy at home
yourself. Urge others to buy at
home. Money spent in your
home town will eventually come
back to you.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 7, 1955
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Dykes Announces
Method Change
In Acreage Count
Mr. George Dykes, chairman of
the Brantley County ASC Com
mittee announces that the method
of computing flue-cured tobacco
acreage for 1955 has been chang
ed.
Each field or subdivision of to
bacco computed will be recorded
in acres and hundredths of acres
dropping all thousands. (Thus
2.799 acres becomes 2.79 acres.)
The total acreage of tobacco
for farm shall be the sum of the
field and subdivision acreages
and shall be recorded in acres and
hundredths of acres. There shall
be no tolerance and any excess
acreage disposed of shall be com
puted in hundredths, dropping
all thousandths.
Any acreage above your allot
ment which amounts to as much
as one-hundreth of an acre will
be excess acreage and will have
to be disposed of if you want to
get your acreage within your
allotment.
HOBOKEN NEWS
By MRS. G. C. WALLIS
Thought for the week: Com
mit yourself to God with com
plete confidence. Leave to Him
the “I will” and “I won’t”. Let
there be but one mind and one
heart between you and God.
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Miss Bettie Lastinger and Mr.
and Mrs. Morris McClure and
daughter, Kimberly, of Jackson
ville spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Lastinger.
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Youmans
of Atlanta spent Thursday with
friends and relatives.
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Mr. and Mrs. Rauls of Way
cross spent Sunday in Hoboken
with relatives.
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Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Shepard,
Mrs. L. C. Colvin, Mrs. Wade
Colvin and Mrs. G. C. Wallis, at
tended the W.M.U. Rally at
Folkston on Thursday, March 31.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Dryden
gave a family dinner on Sunday,
April 3, with Mr. and Mrs. R. R.
Kelly and Miss Vida Mae Kelly,
Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Kelly and
daughters, Mr. and Mrs. Elery
Kelly and daughters attending.
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Rev. Henry Johnston of Alma
was dinner guest of Mr. and Mrs.
Ira Thomas on Sunday. Rev.
Johnston conducted the Sunday
morning worship service at the
Baptist Church.
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The W. M. U. of the Hoboken
Baptist Church met at the church
on Monday night, with Mrs. Ru
pert Jones as leader on “The Co
operative Program”. Mrs. J, H.
Sikes led the devotional, Mrs.
Wade Colvin presided during the
business session. Taking part on
the program were Rev. and Mrs.
J. C. Shepard and Mrs. Frank
Dukes. Nine members were pre
sent.
PARENTS MUST
REQUEST POLIO
VACCINE
Parents of first and second
grade children now have until
April 18 to sign the parental
request form on the poliomyeli
tis vaccine program.
The State Department of Pub
lic Health has announced this
time extension, since the Francis
evaluation report on the vaccine
will not be issued until April 12.
Rebecca Griner, County Health
Nurse, said that approximately
89 of the parents in Brantley
County had already given appro
val for their child to be vaccinat
ed. We are hoping to have 95
to 100 percent approval by April
18, Mrs. Griner said.
Vaccine field trials held last
spring, with nearly 2,000,000 par
ticipating children, showed the
Salk vaccine to be safe. The vac
cine will not be used unless the
present evaluation study shows
it to be effective and it is li
censed.
The National Foundation for
Infantile Paralysis is spending
$9,000,000 in March of Dimes
money to provide the vaccine.
The State Department of Public
Health has complete authority in
handling the vaccine program.
E. L. Griffin Died
Friday, April 1,
Funeral Saturday
Early Lester Griffin, 70, died
suddenly Friday at his home of
a heart attack.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ida Walker Griffin; five
daughters, Mrs. Marvin Kim
brell, Waycross, Mrs. Norman
Lee, Hoboken, NJrs. Ardis Powers,
Blackshear, Mrs. Thomas Bates
and Mrs. Alfred Crosby, Jack
sonville, Fla.; seven sons, Noah
Griffin, Hoboken, Oliver Griffin
and Willis Griffin, Waycross, Ed
win Griffin, stationed with the
U. S. Army in Austria, Evan
Griffin and Oden Griffin, Jack
sonville, Fla., and Feldon Griffin,
Orlando, Fla., 31 grandchildren
and 11 great grandchildren.
Graveside services were held
Saturday morning at 10 o’clock
in High Bluff cemetery.
Rozier —Thrift
Sgt. Russell Eugene Thrift and
Miss Virginia Rozier were mar
ried Saturday, April 2, at Na
hunta by Ordinary James N. Ste
wart.
Sgt. Thrift is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Louis Thrift of Wino
kur. The bride is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Rozier of
Winokur.
The couple left soon after their
wedding for West Palm Beach
and Miami, Fla., on their honey
moon. They will make their home
in Columbus, Ga.
REAL ESTATE worth millions
of dollars is sold every year
through want ads. Whether you
have a $30,000 house or a crib
of corn to sell, want ads do
the selling job quickly and
economically.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Methodists to
Dedicate SBO,OOO
Lodge April 12
An SBO,OOO lodge will be dedi
cated Tuesday, April 12 at Ep
worth-by-the-Sea, St. Simons
Island, as a memorial to the first
bishop of American Methodism,
Francis Asbury.
Bishop Arthur J. Moore, resi
dent bishop of the Atlanta area,
will dedicate the building in a
ceremony beginning at 2 P.M.
Over 400 persons are expected
to attend.
Built and furnished by laymen
of the South Georgia Conference,
the 20-room lodge is an impres
sive addition to the Methodist
shrine on historic St. Simons Is
land. B. I. Thornton, conference
lay leader from Cordele, will
make the formal presentation of
the building to Bishop Moore, for
dedication, on behalf of the
South Georgia Conference Board
of Lay Activities.
Others participating in the
ceremony will be District Super
intendents Earle J. Garbutt,
Americus; Roy McTier, Colum
bus; James H. Wilson, Dublin;
L. A. Harrell, Macon; Anthony
Hearn, Savannah; J. B. Smith,
Thomasville; Norman Lovein,
Valdosta; and James R. Webb,
Sr., Way cross.
A shore dinner will be served
preceding the ceremony.
A bronze statue of Francis
Asbury on his horse stands in
Washington, D.C., as a memorial
to the pioneer preacher who
traveled over 275,000 miles on
horseback, preaching in nearly
every state in the union, during
his 45 years in America. He visit
ed Georgia 20 times.
President Calvin Coolidge,
speaking at the unveiling of the
statue, said: “If anyone should
ask the reason why the figure of
this Methodist itinerant is in the
national capital and on the public
grounds of the Capitol—the only
preacher honored thus —let him
look about the nation into whose
life this man built the principles'
of Jesus Christ.”
Francis Asbury was appointed
by John Wesley in 1771 as
“general assistant for the work
of Methodism in America.” He
became known as the “prophet
of the long road,” and in 1784
was elected bishop of the newly
organized Methodist Episcopal
Church. He died in 1816, leaving
a church with more than 700
ordained ministers and over 200,-
000 members. The church now
has over nine million members
in the United States and its pos
sessions.
Epworth-by-the-Sea, the con
ference assembly ground for
South Georgia Methodists, is fre
quently the scene of national
Methodist meetings and of civic
organizations of Georgia. This
summer’s program is devoted
largely to camping and training
sessions for youth. Non-Metho
dist groups will include the
American Legion Auxiliary of
Georgia, April 23-24, and a rural
letter carriers meeting June 26-
29.
The conference center is situ
ated on the scenic island where
John and Charles Wesley, fa
thers of Methodism, worked in
colonial days as ministers of the
Church of England. The naming
and dedication of the Lodge adds
the name of another founding
father to those memorialized at
the center.
The Francis Asbury Lodge is
part of an improvement program
that is nearing the $500,000 mark.
Proposed projects include a
swimming pool, camp cottages,
and classroom buildings. Julian
Strickland, Valdosta, is chair
man of the South Georgia Con
ference Center Commission, and
Dr. Walter Blasingame, Moultrie,
is secretary- treasurer. The Rev.
Frank Nalls is superintendent
and Mrs. Frank Cason is hostess.
Methodist Pastor
Announces Services
For Next Sunday
EASTER SUNRISE SERVICE
Sunday morning, April 10,
there will be an Easter Sunrise
Service on the court house lawn
at 7:15 o’clock.
It is to be a union service, all
the churches of the community
co-operating. The public is in
vited to attend and urged to be
on time, which, let me repeat,
is to be at 7:15 o’clock.
METHODIST SERVICES
SUNDAY
There will be preaching at the
Methodist Church this coming
Easter Sunday, April 10, both
morning and evening.
“Immortality” will be the sub
ject for the 11:00 o’clock hour,
and “After Easter—What?” will
be the subject for the evening
hour at 7:30 o’clock.
The public is invited to wor
ship with us at both services.
C. F. STARNES, Pastor.
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Your Home Firms Will
Appreciate Your
Patronage — Trade
at Home and Promote
Home Prosperity
SEN. GEORGE
FAVORS NEW
PEACE EFFORTS
Gives Enterprise
Editor His Views
In Recent Letter
United States Senator Walter
F. George has given the editor
of the Enterprise some of his
views concerning the China sit
uation and the general problem
of peace efforts in a letter re
cently received from the sena
tor.
The Enterprise editor sent
Senator George a copy of his
editorial entitled, “A Plea to
President Eisenhower from a
Grassroots Country Editor”.
The editorial was a plea to
President Eisenhower to keep
the United States out of war a
bout the small Chinese islands
of Quemoy and Matsu.
Senator George’s letter in re
ply was as follows:
April 4, 1955
Mr Carl Broome
Editor and Publishe.
Brantley Enterprise
Nahunta, Georgia
Dear Mr. Broome:
I thank you for sending me
your strong editorial “Sweeping
The Country” in the Enterprise
of March 31, 1955.
While I cannot speak for the
President and would not under
take to do so, I cannot think that
he will do anything in connection
with the Quemoy and Matsu Is
land group to bring us into a
world conflict with China.
As a matter of fact, I do not
believe you can have a limited
war off the Coast or on the main
land of China. I think it would
spread into a world conflict. 1
know something of the difficul
ties of the problem, but I cannot
help feeling that when the chips
are down the President of the
United States will listen to those
who wish to avoid war. Os course,
if an all out major movement
along the China Coast should
clearly indicate an imminent at
tack on Formosa, which we must
defend, I do not know what the
President’s decision would be,
but my friends in Georgia may
depend upon one thing: if it is
humanly possible for us to win
peace, I shall be the first to tra
vel in that direction. Actually 1
think we should have a four
power conference with our Euro
pean allies, and I do not think
that we should hesitate to follow
a new approach that is the so
lution of our Far Eastern prob
lems.
With cordial regards and best
wishes, I am
Sincerely yours,
WALTER F. GEORGE.
Jacobs—Johns
Mrs. W. H. Jacobs of Waynes
ville announce the engagement
of her daughter, Miss Agnes Eli
zabeth Jacobs to Ernest Carrol)
Johns, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ar
chie Johns of Hickox. A June
wedding is planned.
MAKE YOUR MONEY do double
duty. Spend your money in your
home town to get what you
help get what your town wants
—Prosperity.
ROYAL
THEATRE
Nahunta, Georgia
Time: Monday thru Friday
Saturday: 7:00 and 8:30 P.M.
PROGRAM
Thurs., Fri., April 7-8
“Deep in My Heart”
With Jose Ferrer, Merle Oberon
and Helen Traubel
SATURDAY, APRIL 9
7:45 P.M.
“Sunset in
El Dorado”
With Roy Rogers
