The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, July 21, 1955, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextBrantley Enterprise. Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 21, 1955 BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Organ of Brantley County Warehousemen Told Big Crop, High Taxes Create Difficulty Georgia-Florida tobacco warehousemen, meeting in Blackshear Saturday, were warned that this year’s bump er production of cigarette tobacco may create selling and price difficulties. Rising cigarette taxes, upped in Georgia from 3 to 5 cents a package, and reports that tobac co may affect health, are also factors which add to a “serious situation,” F. S. Royston of Hen derson, N. C., president of the Bright Belt Warehousemen’s As sociation, said. Royston addressed about 150 warehousemen and members of their staffs at a bi-state meeting to prepare for Thursday’s mar ket opening. “The situation is not hopeless,” Mr. Royston told his fellow ware housemen. He urged them to put forth their best efforts to keep leaf prices high, but warned that more tobacco this year will prob ably go into the Stabilization loan program. “Tremendous” Crop Mr. Royston described this year’s crop prospects as “tremen dous”. He asked that the ware housemen present the true pic ture to farmers “so they can take necessary steps to bring supply and demand closer together.” The present indication, he re ported, is that production will exceed demand by 150,000,000 pounds. This, he reminded the tobacco men, will be added to the already burdensome carry over of 2.8 years supply. The North Carolinian called on fellow tobacco men to rally strongly in a fight against in creased taxation. He said that a survey shows that cigarette con sumption in states without taxes averages 150 packages a year per person, and only 68 in states with a tax of 6 cents or more a package. Health Factor Mr. Royston said he believes “the worst is over” in difficulty created by reports of a connec tion between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. He said he did not believe this would be an im- SMOKED SAUSAGE SPECIAL 10 POUNDS OF SMOKED SAUSAGE WILL BE GIV EN FREE WITH EVERY TRADE WITH O. J. AMMONS DURING OUR 39 th Anniversary Sell-A-Bration WE WILL SELL 100 NEW FORDS SEE 0. J. AMMONS King Bros. SOUTH GEORGIA’S OLDEST DEALER Waycross, Georgia portant factor at any time in the foreseeable future, if ever. The warehousemen took note also of reports of “unscrupulous selling practices” in the belt last year, but said this involved an “infinitesimal minority” of ware housemen. He advised ware housemen to comply strictly with corrective regulations. The group meeting in Black shear adopted recommended reg ulations for the 1955 season, in cluding a rule that tobacco be taken out of sheets before being weighed in at warehouses. There was considerable discussion on this matter, but it was finally passed without a dissenting vote. Elect Officers The Georgi a-Florida ware housemen re-elected J. L. Bowen, Tifton, president, and H. B. Las siter, also of Tifton, secretary treasurer. They named as first vice-president, F. B. Stubbs, Douglas; second vice-president, Guy Barnes, Vidalia, and mem bers of the board of governors, Leo J. Allen, Blackshear; A. E. Brannen, Statesboro; Joe T. Spears, Camilla and Adel; J. S. Darby, Vidalia, and Claude B. Strickland Jr., Lake City, Fla. The group was served with luncheon at the Grady Street School lunchroom by the Black shear Woman’s Club before ad journing. 4-H PASTURE PROJECT WINNERS ANNOUNCED John Treadway, Bartow coun ty, and Edwin Nix, Fulton, have been named winners in the North and Northwest Georgia districts in the 1955 Four-H pasture es tablishment and improvement project. They will each receive S4O and an expense-paid trip to State 4-H Club Congress in At lanta this fall. In 1954, Georgia home dem onstration club women canned over six and a half million quarts of food and froze more than five million pounds. Over 42 thousand Georgia 4-H Club members carried health projects last year. GREYHOUND'S pLA^^ ®wß| • With New Luxury Equipment • With Time-Saving Schedules • Wit!: Vacation Planning Service Once again alt. of Greyhound’s complete highway U^el. ities and services are yours to enjoy. Greyhound is Going Places . . . next time you're going places, take a Greyhound! Jesup, Ga. .65 Savannah, Ga. 2.15 Charleston, S. C. 4.85 Columbia, S. C. 5.45 Charlotte, N. C. 7.85 Fayetteville, N. C. 8.70 Winston-Salem 9.40 Norfolk, Va 12.85 Washington, D. C. 14.30 Raleigh N. C. 9.55 Goldsboro, N. C. 10.15 New York City __19.65 Plus Tax. Extra Savings on Round Trips GREYHOUND TERMINAL Campbell’s Drug Store Nahunta, Georgia QSEEEEQSI^S 28 Markets to Operate; Crop Quality Is Higher The 1955 crop of Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco will be offered at auction starting Thursday, July 21. Twenty-eight markets will operate in the belt this season, reports the United States Department of Agriculture. This is a new record as facilities for selling tobacco have been added at Swainsboro and Thomasville, Georgia, and Mad- ison, Florida. The outlook as of July 1 by the United States Crop Reporting Board was for a harvest of 150,- 828,000 pounds. This is practically the same as production in 1954. Average yield per acre was plac ed at 1,233 pounds compared with 1,189 last year. However, there are nearly 5,000 acres less for harvest than a year ago. It was estimated that this year’s total flue-cured production would be 1,412,478,000 pounds. Last year producers’ sales on the Georgia-Florida markets a mounted to 164,692,671 pounds and averaged $46.79 per hundred. This average was the lowest since that paid for the 1951 crop. Outlook Is Good The outlook at present is for a crop better in quality than last year. The plants were retarded somewhat by the cool spell early in the growing season but re sponded well to later seasons. The crop reached full size and maturity in most sections, where as many areas last year suffered drought conditions. Loans covering the 1955 flue cured tobacco crop will be made available by the Commodity Credit Corporation and adminis tered by the Flue Cured Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization Corpo ration. The average loan rate for the crop is 48.3 cents per pound compared with the average loan fate ’of 47.9 cents per pound for the 1954 crop. The support price for each grade of untied tobacco is 5 cents less than for tied tobacco of the same grade. Tobacco is sold on the Georgia-Florida markets un- More Payrolls for South Georgia! GEORGIA POWER LIGHT COMPANY tied. Individual allowances on ap proximately half of the grades were unchanged from last year. Others were mostly 1 cent per pound higher with a few 2 cents per pound higher. A small num oer of the lowest quality grades of lugs, primings and nondescript were lowered by 1 cent per pound. The top allowance re mained at 68 cents per pound for choice lemon wrappers while the lowest rate is 7 cents per pound for certain nondescript grades. Rule on Stabilization Tobacco is eligible for advan ces only if consigned by the orig inal producer and only if pro duced on a cooperating farm. An eligible producer is one for whom a “With-in-Quota” Marketing Card has been issued under ap plicable marketing quota regula tions. Last year growers consign ed 8,275,000 pounds or 5 percent of net sales in the Georgia-Flor ida belt to the Stabilization Cor poration under the Government Loan Program. The Warehouse Association set the maximum rate of sales not to exceed 400 baskets or piles per hour. Maximum basket con tent was again set at 300 pounds. From about 100 boys in 1905, Georgia’s 4-H Club enrollment has grown to 135,337 boys and girls between the ages of 10 and 20. Everyone in the family enjoys reading The Black shear Times. The addition of Rayonier Incorporated to Jesup marked another milestone in the progress of South Georgia which has doubled in industrial growth during the past ten years. In 1940 Jesup had a population 0f'2900 - today it is a bustling city of over 6000 people. We of the Georgia Power and Light Company recognize the need for a balanced economy in South Georgia and are doing everything in our power to assist in the industrial development of this fast growing area. We know that more industries such as Rayonier mean more payrolls, in fact, more of everything for everyone in South Georgia. Electric power and industry go hand-in-hand. The employees of the Georgia Power and Light Company - 2 4 5 strong - are doing their best to keep well ahead of the electrical needs of the area we serve in order to be able to supply plenty of low-cost power for your farms, stores, homes and industries. Pond Owners, Take Heed In Stocking With carp, gar, suckers, and other undesirable species of fish giving the Georgia Game and Fish Commission a run for its money, there now comes another great threat to the sport fisher men of Georgia. The deliberate stocking, or the stocking through ignorance, of species of fish, which are far worse than any of the aforementioned fish. As you drive through the State you notice many pond owners are commercializing on the fish ing rights to their ponds. The signs usually read; “Fish All Day $1.00”, and as a rule the sign mentions that the particular pond has recently been stocked. Some things, however not mentioned on these signs advertising the a bundance of fish in these par ticular ponds, is the fact that in many instances pond owners have brought into our State various types of fish from other states which are diseased and very un desirable species, and that by bringing these undesirable fish into private ponds throughout the State our sport fishing is being placed in jeopardy. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service recently inform ed the Georgia Game and Fish Commission’s Director, Fulton Lovell, that the dreaded Sea Lamprey, which has almost de pleted the once great fishing in dustry of the Great Lakes by at- tacking all types of game fish, probably is among the fish be ing placed in our Georgia ponds. These undesirable fish often es cape through outlets, or when a dam happens to break, allowing them to go into our other streams and on into our larger reservoirs. Mr. Lovell states that this mat ter is being closely watched by HELPING BUILD SOUTH GEORGIA the State Game and Fish Com mission and will probably bring about the asking for new laws to eliminate, or at least control these practices. This should not be construed to mean that the State Game and I WANTED-PEARS Contact Braswell Food Company, Statesboro, Ga. Phone Poplar 4-3235. Will Buy Pears One Bushel to 1,000 Bushels. We Pay Good Prices. Braswell Food Company Phone Poplar 4-3235, Statesboro, Ga. Milk Cows For Sale Load of Tennessee Guernsey and Jersey springers. Some heavy dairy type. Others first and second calf heifers. TB and Bangs tested. V. B. GUEST Blackshear, Ga. Phone 4971 (Night) Fish Commission is in any way criticizing the pond owners who depend upon these ponds for a livelihood but is a warning to all people what the results of bringing these fish into our State might easily be. Aerial view of Rayonier’s new est and most modern cellulose plant located in Jesup.