The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, June 30, 1955, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text154 MAY DIE OVER JULY 4TH LONG WEEKEND Speeding Will Cause Nearly Half of Wrecks NEW YORK — Nearly one-half of the fatalities and injuries fear ed likely to occur on the nation’s streets and highways over the Fourth of July weekend will re sult from excessive speed, the Association of Casualty and Sure- I if FILLING < ; I PRESCRIPTIONS! IS OUR MOST f | IMPORTANT SERVICE H KNIGHT-VICKERS DRUG STORE Ernest Knight, Carey Jones and Luke Stewart, Pharmacists Phone 2254 Jesup, Ga. YES, WE WANT NEWS, WE WANT YOUR NEWS, SEND US TRE NEWS! * A great part of the news you read each week in this newspaper is sent to us voluntarily by subscribers and friends to the newspaper. We do not maintain a staff of reporters for gathering news and must depend on our friends to send in any timely news of interest to the people of the county. DON’T DE TOO MODEST And don’t be hesitant to send us news about yourself or your family or relatives. The other readers of this newspaper want to read the news about what happens to you and yours. People outside Brantley County who get this news paper want to read about the people of Brantley County. NAMES MAKE NEWS It is the names of people and what happens to them that makes news. Give us items about people, people, people. People — you and others — are what other people are interested in. The Brantley Enterprise a “YOUR HOME NEWSPAPER” ty Companies announced here to day. Despite the fact that the holi day weekend, which begins of ficially at 6:00 p.m. Friday and ends at midnight, Monday, will give motorists better than three days for travel and relaxation, 154 motorists and passengers will face death and 9,100 may suffer injuries as a result of driving too fast. An additional 72 are likely to be killed and 1,860 injured while driving on the wrong side of the road. Other fears are for 50 deaths and 2,000 injuries from reckless driving, 42 deaths and 5,000 in juries from failure to yield the right-of-way, 26 deaths tnd 1,100 injuries from fatigue or falling asleep at the wheel. Accidents from all other causes will account for 41 more deaths and the bal ance of injuries. If these estimates hold true, 385 people will be killed and 21,- 000 injured in Fourth of July holiday traffic accidents. In ad dition, 3,000 pedestrians will suf fer personal injuries. Drinking will be a factor in one out of every four fatal traffic accidents. “If motorists would not try to pack too much activity into the 78-hour holiday, much of this needless tragedy could be avoid ed,” Thomas N. Boate, manager of the Association’s accident pre vention department declared. “The time to begin being cau tious is when planning the trip. R/ \ GREENLAND,/ S ICELAND ip Oban / \ fA J Lon donk, / I CANADA J ATLANTIC OCEAN ^NEWFOUNDLAND /u.S? (rt T«rr«nc*ville jSf S,dn., Mine, CONTINENTAL CONTINENTAL JoNew York NOVA SCOTIA S ” ELF NAUTICAL MILES SHELF 1952 J 1750 1500 1250 1000 750 500 250 I 0 — rsd?. — - —o 300 —— — Cable of British design ' 7 " Z 1 ' 1 "' 1 1000 J for shallow water \ / \ ° —— Cable of American design fek- I[\ a* SOH S'* for deep sea water —’ - — 2000 L.^<l .. . _ 2500 Don’t try to cover too much ground; begin your trip, and your return home, so as to allow a little extra time for traffic con gestion and emergencies. The rest is simply adhering to the basic driving rules and exercising a little courtesy and self control when you drive. These simple things could mean the difference between a safe trip and tragedy for every motorist on the road.” TELEPHONE CABLE TO SPAN ATLANTIC NOW BEING LAID U. S., British And Canadian Firms in Project Laying of the world’s first transoceanic telephone cable — to span the Atlantic between New foundland and Scotland — began June 22, it was announced by P. W. Shearouse, manager of Southern Bell Telephone Com pany. The transatlantic voiceways are to be extended 300 miles west ward from Newfoundland to the eastern tip of Nova Scotia via another submarine cable, and from there to the United States over a 575-mile radio relay sys tem. The project is a joint undertak ing of American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the British Post Office and Canadian Over seas Telecommunication Corpora tion and will cost about $40,000,- 000. Service will be established late in 1956. Mr. Shearouse quoted Henry T. Killingsworth, vice president of A. T. & T. in charge of the Long Lines Department, as saying the first cable of a twin cable system would be spun out across 2,000 miles of ocean bottom by sum mer’s end. Summer is the only time the Atlantic is calm enough to permit such an undertaking. Laying operations will start at Clarenville, Newfoundland, and be completed at Oban, which is on the west coast of Scotland about 60 miles from Glasgow. The second cable is to be laid from Scotland to Newfoundland in the summer of 1956. The new cable system will greatly improve the telephone service between the United States and Great Britain. This service was inaugurated in 1927 and is handled entirely by radiotele phone. The transatlantic cables and the Newfoundland-Nova Scotia cable will be laid by HMTS Monarch. The ship is now loading the first segment of deep-sea cable at the Simplex Wire and Cable Com pany plant at Newington, N. H. A radio relay route, connecting with the cable, will pass within sight of the grave of the former home of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. Bell was among the first to believe that this continent could be con nected to Europe by voice cable. Telephone scientists have spent many years developing the am plifiers needed to make a deep sea voice cable operable. Unique in quality, design, and structure, these amplifiers give weakened voice currents new strength as they speed along their 2,000 mile underwater journey. Each of the transatlantic cables will be equipped to transmit speech in one direction. Thus voices from New York will travel eastward over one cable and voi ces from London will be carried westward over the second cable. The system will be able to carry 36 conversations at the same time, almost tripling the present radiotelephone capacity between the U. S. and Great Britain. State Non-Farm Jobs Up 165,000 In Six Years Since 1949, one hundred sixty five thousand new jobs for Geor gia workers have been created in non-farm industries, Commission er of Labor Ben T. Huiet an nounced today. He reported that the total non-farm jobs in the state now stands at approximate ly 912,000. In 1949 the number was 747,500. This increase in employment has been steady despite efficiency in production and continuous trends toward automation, Huiet pointed out. Manufacturing industries, sta tistics show, accounted for the biggest gain, with 57,000. Gov ernment was next with 33,000; Trade, 30,000; and Construction, 20,000. Not much change was shown in public utilities. “The sharp rise in factory em ployment was accompanied by considerable gains in factory workers’ earnings. Since 1949 the average weekly earnings rose from $38.80 to $52.93 (April, this year). The average factory pro duction worker’s hourly pay in cluding overtime and other pre mium pay, during the same pe riod, went up from SI.OO to $1.33,” Huiet concluded. HIGH SPEED AND TRAGEDY GO HAND IN HAND Drive Safely Over the Holidays — Be Alive July sth! Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 30, 1955 TO ROLL 3 BILLION MILES FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND CARS OVER CHICAGO — What is the death rate in this country? Your own speedometer may give you the answer. That advice to motorists who try to drive too far too fast on holidays was issued by the Na tional Safety Council, which is coordinating a nationwide cam paign aimed at reducing traffic accidents over the Fourth of July weekend. One hundred and sixty national organizations are par ticipating in the campaign. The Council estimates that more than 40 million vehicles will be on the move during the three day weekend and that they will roll up more than three billion miles. In such heavy traffic a driver is never more than a second away from an accident, the Council says. It is estimated that he must make from 20 to 50 decisions an hour — and a wrong one can be fatal. Over the Memorial Day week end, 368 persons were killed in traffic accidents. “If they had died in a nationwide epidemic the whole country would be taking frantic steps to see that it would never happen again,” Ned H. Dearborn, president of the Coun cil said. “But they did die from an epidemic —a highway epi demic we might call the three Ts’ — incompetence, indifference "Sure, We Use McCulloch ChuinSov "We use McCulloch Chain Saws because they have p what it takes to perform — day in and day out on any " kind of logging job . . . And I we recommend them for ■ loggers who want to lower 1 costs and speed up produc- p tion ...” 1 e _ iII x O-l-l F So says Albert Belcher. president of W. A. Belcher Lumber Company, past presi dent of the Alabama Forest Products Association and a director of the Southern Pine Association. "We've been using McCulloch Chain Saws exclusively since they came on the market in 1948," he says. "Their light weight, ease of handling and dependability make McCul loch's four outstanding models top choice with us." W. A. Belcher Lumber Company is one of the largest lumber manufacturers in the South. f McCulloch .. , MODEL 4-3OA frieet of / McCulloch Saw* / / Start At $195.00 J f.O.b. factory tNw Oregon Chain* Available J on All Make* of “bain Saw* WILSON’S GARAGE Phone 2-2721 Nahunta, Ga. LESTER’S AUTO SERVICE 2129 Norwich St. Phone 9346 Brunswick, Georgia and irresponsibility! “Their deaths are a tragic re minder that too many of us have forgotten to use the Golden Rule in traffic. When we share a com mon highway, we are our broth er’s keeper in a very real sense. I believe the Memorial Day toll could have been cut in half if that attitude had prevailed more gen erally.” For a safer Fourth, the Council offers four driving tips: 1. Start early, before traffic is heavy. You can cover a lot . of miles in relatively light traffic early in the day. 2. Don’t compete in traffic — let the other fellow go first. 3. Don’t follow the car ahead too closely. Double check before passing or changing lanes. 4. Above all, don’t speed. Los ing a little time is better than losing your life. CORN YIELD DOUBLES Since 1946 Georgia’s corn yield has almost doubled. In a recent report, agronomists for the Uni versity of Georgia Agricultural Extension Service, point out that under guidance of county agents 2,796 Georgia farmers have pro duced 100 bushels or more of corn per acre. Following too closely is dangerous in traffic. May;