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VOLUME 35 — NUMBER 25
HUGE LIQUOR STILL FOUND
NEAR FOLKSTON CITY LIMITS
(From The Charlton County
Herald)
Charlton County’s ever expand
ing liquor industry was handed a
setback on Monday afternoon
when a huge still was uncovered
just outside of Folkston by A
gents Loftin Smith and J. O. Bur
den of the Alcohol Tax Control
Unit, and J. O. Sikes and Jessie
Gaskins of Folkston.
The still was on the property
of Sam Hannans, colored, who
lives one and one-half miles west
of town. It was necessary to open
two gates at Sam’s house, and
drive through the yard, to gain
entrance to the still.
Upon being questioned by
Sheriff J. O. Sikes, Sam stated
that he did not know any of the
men that had been going through
his yard. That they had told him
that they were drilling for oil.
And that was all Sam knew. He
was very surprised to learn that
illegal liquor was being made on
his land. In all probability the
next session of the Grand Jury
will want to talk with Sam to
see if his memory has improved.
A visit to view the remains of
the still shows it to have been
a whopper. A list of the items
confiscated are as follows:
1 — 1200 gallon steel pot.
1 — 500 gallon Flake steel and
Copper Condenser.
200 — gallons Kerosene.
7 — 50 gallon Kerosene drums.
1 Gasoline Motor and Water
Pump Unit.
75 — 5 gallon Glass Jugs.
14 — 5 gallon Tin Cans.
20 — 50 gallon Steel Drums.
10 — Gallons Shine.
15000 — gallons Mash, stored
in 22 — 500 gallon steel vats.
1 _ 1943 or 1944 Chevrolet
Van Type, 1% ton Truck.
3600 lbs. Sugar in 100 pound
Sacks.
The still was reported to have
a daily output of around 600 gal
lons of shine per day. When fig
ured on Federal Tax alone, this
was costing the government a
bout $12,600.00 per day of opera
tion, not including any State Tax.
The still was in operation when
it was found, “with a stream of
whiskey as large as your arm’’
running from the condenser. It
was reported that two men'ran
as the agents approached, but
there was <no arrest made.
Reports are also current that
another still, equally as large, was
destroyed near the highway over
pass, just north of Folkston, a
very short time ago. It was stated
that while the fermentation vats
were not as large, nor as numer
ous, the actual output capacity
was just as large as the still de
stroyed on Monday.
The W.S.C.S. of Nahunta Meth
odist Church will meet next Mon
day. night, June 27 at 8:00 P.M.
Mrs. Effie Middleton will be in
charge of the program.
NEW POLICY ANNOUNCED ON
BENEFIT PROGRAM PUBLICITY
The Brantley Enterprise is hereby announcing a new
policy regarding publicity for benefit programs.
Hereafter all benefit programs, for which an admis
sion price is charged, will be charged for at regular ad
vertising rates.
Also, if any paid entertainers, such as hired bands,
paid singers or other professional entertainers are em
ployed in the program, then this newspaper will charge
regular rates for publicizing the program.
These changes have been made because of the con
stantly increasing cost of producing a weekly newspaper.
Heretofore, where the program involved all-home talent
and all-home benefit, then this newspaper ran the pub
licity free of charge. But henceforth the policy will be:
IF YOU CHARGE, THEN WE CHARGE.
A newspaper’s space is its stock-in-trade, just as the
merchant’s goods are his stock-in-trade. The newspaper
must sell at least 50 to 60 percent of its space in each
issue, as advertisements, if it pays expenses.
Remember always that to sell a sufficient amount of
space in each issue is the only way a newspaper can stay
in business.
Remember also that the subscription of a newspaper
pays ONLY ABOUT 20 PERCENT of the cost of publi
cation. The other 80 percent must be paid by selling paid
advertising.
Considering all these facts, we believe you will agree
that it is only fair and business-like to have the policy as
stated above: IF YOU CHARGE, THEN WE CHARGE,
advertising.
Bell Appointed
Director of
Okefenoke Co-op
Mr. E. Bell, prominent farmer
and turpentine operator of St.
George and Charlton County,
Georgia has been appointed Di
rector of Okefenoke Rural Elec
tric Membership Corporation, Na
hunta, Georgia, to serve out the
unexpired term of Mr. William
A. Norman.
Announcement was made by
President R. L. Bernard follow
ing a Board of Directors meeting
on June 14 at which Mr. Bell
was unanimously elected. “We
feel that the Board of Directors
and all cooperative members are
fortunate in having a man of
Mr. Bell’s caliber serve on the
Board”, stated Mr. Bernard. Mr.
Bell is also a member of the
Charlton County Board of Com
missioners.
The Okefenoke Rural Electric
Membership Corporation is a ru
ral electric cooperative serving
over 3700 rural member-consum
ers in Brantley, Glynn, Wayne,
Ware, Charlton, and Camden
Counties, Georgia, and Nassau,
Duval, and Baker Counties, Flo
rida.
Nahunta High
Class of 1942
Holds Reunion
The Class of 1942 of Nahunta
High School held a reunion Sat
urday night, June 18 in Nahunta
with supper at the Gold House
Restaurant and dancing and fel
lowship afterwards at the Ameri
can Legion home in Nahunta.
Bobby Strickland, Effie Smith
Middleton and Lee Broome were
the committee in charge of ar
rangements for the reunion and
were reappointed to serve for
next year’s reunion.
Present were: Bobby Strick
land, of Nahunta, Miss Carrie
Lee, of Waycross, Mr. and Mrs.
Lee Broome of Blackshear, Mr.
and Mrs. Walter S. Fletcher of
near Philadelphia, Pa., (Mrs.
Fletcher is the former Miss Edna
Mae Strickland); Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Persons of Waycross; Mr.
and Mrs. Garland Lewis of Day
topa Beach, Fla. (Mrs. Lewis is
the former Miss Yvonne Lyons);
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Middleton,
of Nahunta, (Mrs. Middleton is
the former Miss Effie Smith); Mr.
and Mrs. Marshall Strickland of
Nahunta; Mrs. Julia Herrin Davis
of Nahunta.
The class plans to have another*
reunion some time in 1956 with
the date to be announced some
time later.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Goodner and
children John and Jane are visit
ing the T. S. Goodner family this
week.
JSrantky fetirryrte
Albert F. Whitaker
Funeral Held at
Swainsboro Monday
Albert F. Whitaker, restaurant
and motel operator of Nahunta,
died Sunday, June 19, in a Bruns
wick hospital after a short illness.
Born at Kite, Ga., he was a
son of the late Marcus and Nancy
Smith Whitaker. He was manager
of the St. Illa Motel at Nahunta,
a member of the Nahunta Bap
tist Church and a member of the
Nahunta Masonic Lodge.
Mr. Whitaker was well known
in the hotel business, having .man
aged hotels in Madison, Griffin,
Swainsboro and Sylvania. He had
made many friends since coming
to Nahunta and his passing away
is greatly mourned.
Mr. Whitaker is survived by
his wife, the former Miss Valeria
Orr of Madison, Ga.; two sons,
Albert Whitaker Jr., of Miami,
Fla., and William Whitaker of
Brunswick; five grand-children;
one brother, Charlie Whitaker of
Vidalia; two sisters, Mrs. Georgie
Hall of Augusta, and Mrs. Claude
Flowers of Durham, N. C.; one
aunt, Mrs. Arsia Kight of Kite;
several nieces, nephews and cous
ins.
Funeral services were held at
Swainsboro at five o’clock Mon
day afternoon. The rites were
conducted by Rev. Jimmie Teresi
pastor of the First Baptist Church
of Milledgeville and Rev. Cecil
Thomas, pastor of the Nahunta
Baptist Church. Burial was in the
Swainsboro City Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Col. Grayson
Powell, W. E. Rountree, Paul
Bell, Robert Roach, Brown Brook
er and W. A. Sumner.
Robert Lanier
Funeral Services
Held Tuesday
Robert Thomas Lanier, 18, for
merly of Hickox, Ga., died Tues
day, June 14, in an Ocala, Fla.
Hospital as the result of injuries
sustained in an automobile wreck
a few days previously. For the
past five years he resided at
Tampa, Fla.
Surviving are his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert N. Lanier of
Tampa; one sister, Mrs. Reba
Joiner of Tampa; two brothers,
Eldon Lanier and Sidney Lanier,
both of Tampa; and seven uncles.
Funeral services were held at
10:30 o’clock Tuesday morning,
June 21, at the Hortense Metho
dist Church, conducted by the
Rev. J. L. White. Burial was
in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were John Horton,
Keth Harrell, Jack Lanier, Willie
Jo Lanier, Olin Lanier and Mack
Drury. Honorary pallbearers were
Roy Harper, Johnny Eldridge,
Cecil Adams, Barney Rowell, Rip
Pearson and Jim Strickland.
Some Camden County
Citizens Oppose
Toll Road Plan
(From The Southeast Georgian)
The law firm of Highsmith and
Highsmith of Baxley, Ga., has
been employed to fight the vali
dating of bonds for the Fernan
dina Beach Port Authority’s Toll
Road through Camden County.
The law firm is noted as one
of the best on constitutional law
in the southeast and it is under
stood the fight will be carried
to the United States Supreme
Court if it is necessary.
Opposition to the Toll Road is
being brought about because
many feel it will be of no benefit
to the majority of the people of
Camden County. One county of
ficial stated “this is not intended
as a sectional fight but an op
position to something which ef
fects the county as a whole.” He
further stated “he would fight
for a bridge from St. Marys to
Fernandina Beach which would
utilize State 40 as a public road
just as hard as he is fighting to
defeat the proposed toll road.”
Mrs. Jack Spence and daughter
Wilma Ann of Chessconessex, Va.
and Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Stokes
and children, Harold and Burnie
Dean of Daugherty, Va. arrived
this week for a visit with Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Stokes and other rel
atives and friends in Nahunta.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 23, 1955
LEAF MARKET OPENING
TO BE SET NEXT WEEK
Opening dates for flue-cured tobacco markets in
Georgia and four other Southern states will be set next
week at a meeting of the Bright Belt Warehouse Asso
ciation in Virginia Beach, Va.
A tobacco advisory committee will decide the dates.
Members include five warehousemen, five grower rep
resentatives and five representative buyers.
The 1955 tobacco market opening dates will prob
ably be announced on Wednesday or Thursday of next
week.
PERSONALS
Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dupriest
and daughter, Jo Ann, and Mr.
and Mrs. Johnnie Eldridge and
daughter, Faye, returned last
Wednesday from a tour to Tal
lulah Falls, Smoky Mountains
National Park, Cherokee Indian
Reservation, Cumberland Falls,
through Tennessee and Virginia
and Atlanta.
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Bobby Chancy, Ernie Grubb,
Victor Highsmith and Mr. and
Mrs. Dale Helemn left last Wed
nesday to spend some time in
Ohio.
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The Nahunta Garden Club will
meet Tuesday afternoon, June 28
at 4:00 P M. at the home of Mrs.
Allen Barnard.
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Mrs. E. P. Dodge left Saturday
for a visit to her daughter, Mrs.
George A. Smith in Albuquerque,
New Mexico. She went to Atlanta
and went by plane from there.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Dupriest
and daughter left this week for
a trip to Miami, Sarasota and
Tampa.
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Mrs. Virginia Roberts has ac
cepted a position with the Way
cross Chapter of American Red
Cross.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Cox return
ed home Friday from a visit to
their daughter, Mrs. Doris Blank
inship in Biloxi, Miss. Before they
returned they visited points of
interest in New Orleans and spent
several days in Jacksonville.
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Mr. and Mrs. Garland E. Lewis
and children, Sharon, Steve and
Charlie of Daytona Beach spent
the week end with Mr. and Mrs.
J. R. Lewis and other relatives
in the county.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Broome
and Carolyn and Becky of Chat
tanooga left Thursday after
spending a few days with Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Broome. They will
visit Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Persall
in Jacksonville before returning
home next week.
Malcolm Cox and family of
Yokon Naval Air Base, Jackson
ville visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. John Cox last week end.
Parker Dodge, Nahunta post
master, attended the Postmasters’
Convention at Savannah from
Sunday, June 19, to Wednesday,
June 22.
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Mrs. Parker Dodge goes by
plane to Albuquerque, New Mex
ico, this week and will return to
Nahunta Friday, June 24.
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Postmaster E. Parker Dodge of
Nahunta was elected secretary
treasurer of the Eighth District
Postmasters’ convention at the
Waycross meeting this spring.
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Miss Mary Ann Goodner is vis
iting her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
T. S. Goodner, this week. She
has just returned from a tour
of the Caribbean Islands, includ
ing Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti and
Puerto Rico, returning byway
of Miami and other Florida
points. Mrs. Dorothy Graham and
her son Tommy will return to At
lanta with Mary Ann Sunday,
June 26.
Peggy Cynthia Carter, a stu
dent at Georgia State College for
Women, has been placed on the
dean’s list because of her high
scholastic record during the
spring quarter.
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Mr. and Mrs. Oliver C. Rhoden
and daughter Connie of Ports
mouth, Va., are visiting for a
week here with Mr. Rhoden’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Rho
den.
County 4-H Members
Win Awards at
Tifton Meeting
Ten 4-H boys and girls repre
sented Brantley County at the
district achievement meeting
which was held at Abraham Bald
win Agricultural College at Tif
ton on June 20-23.
The boys and girls who attend
ed, and the projects in which
they competed are:
Pat Herrin, Senior Breadmak
ing, Annice Carter, Senior Dress
Revue, Betty Jacobs, Junior Dress
Revue, Cynthia Dowling, Junior
Talent, Mary Elizabeth Dowling,
Junior Biscuits, Annette Lucas,
Junior Public Speaking, Eugene
Crews, Junior Public Speaking,
Addison Strickland, Tractor
Maintenance, Travis Jacobs, Live
stock Conservat ion, Herman
Sloan, Voting Delegate.
The 4-H’ers started their 1955
project work by carrying out cer
tain Agricultural Extension Serv
ice recommendations on the farms
and in the homes. As the projects
developed, the boys and girls kept
records and tried the latest tech
niques in carrying out their work.
At the end of the year they en
tered the community contests and
then went on to the County Con
test. They were all winner? in
their projects.
At Tifton their record books
counted 40 percent and their
demonstrations which they gave
counted 60 percent. They received
one Blue Award of Excellence,
seven Red Awards and two Hon
orable mentions.
Herrington-Parm
A wedding of much interest to
their many friends and relatives
was that of Miss Joyce Herring
ton to Mr. Roy Parm on Friday,
June 17.
Miss Herrington is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Earnie Hickox
of Waycross. She is a graduate of
Hoboken High School.
Miss Herrington wore a dress
of powder puff blue shantung
orlan with accessories to match.
Mr. Parm is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. R. L. Parm of Orlando, Fla.
After a tour of points in Florida
the young couple will make their
home at 603 Lee St. in Waycross.
Three Brantley
County Citizens
Attend ASC Meet
Three Brantley County citizens
attended a state-wide conference
of the Agricultural Stabilization
Conservation in Atlanta June 15
to 17.
The three men were George
Dykes, chairman of the Brantley
County ASC; Dan Jacobs, office
manager; and George M. Johns,
committee member.
They visited Stone Mountain
while in Atlanta and the Atlanta
airport. They returned to Nahun
ta Friday night.
HOBOKEN NEWS
Miss Lanie Shuman and chil
dren Dorothy Ray and Cheryl of
Waycross visited Mrs. Alice Park
er of Quitman last Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby O’Quinn
and Sam David and daughter
Shirley of Fernandina Beach,
Fla., visited his sister and family
Mrs. Earnie Hickox Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Perry Strickland
of Waycross is visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Edward Strickland in Cali
fornia this week.
All in this section are busy
with tobacco and have good crops
and fine season.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
ALL A MISTAKE ABOUT COUNTY
BUYING PIERCE STOCK YARD
Wilson’s Garage
Has Dealership
For Dodge Trucks
Wilson’s Garage, Hoke Wilson
owner, has secured a dealership
for Dodge Trucks in Brantley
County.
The first advertisement for the
Dodge Trucks under the new
dealership appears in this issue
of the Enterprise.
Wilson’s Garage can also get
Dodge cars for customers in this
area.
Dodge trucks and cars are
known to be among the best buys
in transportation mediums. Any
one planning to buy a Dodge
truck or car is requested to see
Mr. Hoke Wilson at Wilson’s Ga
rage, Nahunta, Ga.
SECOND POLIO
SHOTS SET FOR
THIS WEEKEND
Parents of children who receiv
ed the first polio shot during
school are urged to bring them to
the local Health Department for
the second one.
The following schedule is an
nounced:
Thursday, June 23, 9:00 A.M.
to 4:30 P.M.
Friday, June 24, 9:00 A.M. to
4:30 P.M.
Saturday, June 25, 9:00 A.M. to
12 Noon.
WAYNESVILLE
By Mrs. Clovis Johnson
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Thornton on Sunday included Mr.
E. J. Thornton, Mr. and Mrs. S. P.
McDaniels, Mr. and Mrs. B. F.
Thornton, Mrs. C. C. Blue and
daughter of Brunswick.
Miss Dorothy Davis is spending
the week in Brunswick with her
sister, Mrs. Oliver Prescott.
Joyce Padgett of Waycross is
staying this week here with her
grandmother, Mrs. Carl Driskell.
Mrs. Lioyd Robinson left Fri
day for a two weeks visit in
Mooresville, Indiana with her sis
ter, Mrs. H. Hadley.
Rev. and Mrs. G. T. Wilson and
children of Aiken, S. C. spent
the week end with Mrs. W. H.
Jacobs.
Mr. and Mrs. Rene Bernard
and daughters of Valdosta were
week end guests of Mr. and Mrs.
R. L. Bernard.
Mr. A. O. Keene celebrated his
69th birthday with a dinner on
Sunday. Thirty relatives and
friends were his guests.
Mr. and Mrs. James Hunnicutt
of Landover, Md. spent last week
here with Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Hunnicutt. Miss Betty Hunnicutt
accompanied them home.
Mr. and M rs - M. W. Young of
Jacksonville visited relatives here
for the week end.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Liles and
children of Brunswick spent Sun
day with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Drury
and children were dinner guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Rodney Harrison
in Brunswick on Sunday.
Postal Employees
Get 8 Percent
Salary Raises
Employees of the U. S. Post
Office Department have had a
salary raise of about eight per
cent under a recent law enacted
by Congress and signed by Pres
ident Eisenhower.
The raise in wages of postal
workers amounted to 8-1 percent,
according to Nahunta postmaster
E. Parker Dodge. The new salary
raise was thought necessary be
cause of the continued rise in the
cost of living over the nation.
•e 23, 1955
Your Home F.
Appreciate .
Patronage — Trade
at Home and Promote
Home Prosperity
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We’ll have to ask the Waycross
Journal-Herald to pardon us for
telling them their slip is showing.
A typographical error in two
column headline Wednesday in
the Journal-Herald said “Brantley
County Buys the Pierce County
Stock Yard, Now Open.”
It was THE BRANTLEY COM
PANY and not Brantley County
that bought the Pierce County
Stock Yard.
Brantley County has its own
stock yard which has auction
sales every Thursday. The county
does not contemplate spreading
out into another county. Its pres
ent stock yard is leased to private
parties.
As to the typographical error
in the Journal-Herald Headline
Wednesday, all newspapers make
them quite often. And they al
ways happen at the wrong place.
A lawyer sends his mistakes to
jail, a doctors buries his, but an
editor has to put his out for all
to see and criticize.
The only perfect editor went to
heaven long ago where they gave
him a job editing The Heavenly
Clarion.
PERSONALS
Mr. C. I. Rhoden, who resides
at Lulaton, is still seriously ill at
his home.
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G. M. Toole who formerly
worked for the Satilla Lumber
Company in Nahunta is in the
Memorial Hospital at Tallahassee,
Fla. He was injured in February
in the wreck of a lumber truck,
his leg being broken and suffer
ing bad burns over leg. He under
went a surgical operation on his
hip and leg Tuesday, June 21.
He is in fair condition for re
covery, the physicians say. <
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Mrs, Willis F. Moore Jr., of
Springfield, Vt. and Mrs. Louis
C. Bennett and twin daughters,
Peggy and Patsy and son Louis
Jr. of New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
have returned to their homes aft
er a visit with their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. P. Ammons of Route
1 Hoboken.
E. C. Westbrook, Extension ag
ronomist, urges Georgia cotton
farmers to have their soil tested
at one of the experiment stations
before planting any seed this
year.
ROYAL
THEATRE
Nahunta, Georgia
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
JUNE 23-24
“Young at Heart”
With DORIS DAY
and FRANK SINATRA
SATURDAY, JUNE 25
“Wyoming
Renegade”
With PHIL CAREY
MONDAY, TUESDAY,
JUNE 27-28
“With a Song in My
Heart”
With SUSAN HAYWARD
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29
“Phantom of the
Rue Morgue”
With KARL MAULDEN
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
JUNE 30 AND JULY 1
“Dial M for Murder”
With RAY MILLAND
and GRACE KELLY
