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VOLUME 35 — NUMBER 41
Bth District Editors Told To
Offer "Constructive Criticism"
Eighth District editors were
told to “keep alive constructive
criticism because power corrupts
and absolute power corrupts the
absolute, by the Rev. Jake Hillis,
pastor of First Methodist Church,
Way cross, in speaking to the
group at a dinner meeting.
“We need self-criticism of in
dividuals, groups and nations,”
he continued.
New officers were elected in
cluding: Shelby Davis, Douglas,
President; Jack Williams Jr.,
Waycross, vice-president; and
Jim Pinson, Secretary; Grover
Patten, Adel News, Treasurer.
President C. J. Broome Jr. of The
Alma Times presided.
“We need the power to see
ourselves as others see us” con
tinued the Rev. Hillis. Sometimes
we don’t want to get into any
thing that will prove difficult.
He emphasized the right of
minorities to have their say
pointing out in dictator countries
there are no minorities. They
are wiped out.
“At one time, England thought
the thirteen colonies should be
killed out and Edmund Burke
wrote of reconciliation.
The speaker doesn’t see how a
whole people can be indicted.
Newspapers and Pulpit
He quoted John P. Marquand’s
character in “Point of No Re
turn” who knew all the answers
to the little questions, but not
to the big.
“We live in a moral universe”
he continued. Historian Toynbee
recalls there have been 21 civili
zations in the world’s history, 16
of them are gone and the five
remaining are vastly changed.
“How long our civilization lasts
depends on how the press, pulpit,
brains measure up combined with
God’s forces.”
He mentioned in Hitler’s day
the only unsquelched force was
the church because it is allied to
the moral force of the universe.
He advocated building bridges
into better worlds”.
“It is a job for editors” he
concluded “to build bridges into
better worlds through construc
tive criticism and protection of
rights of minorities.”
Mayor McGregor Mayo in wel
coming the group to the city said
he knows of no agency that has
done more to keep the people in
formed than the free press.
Albert Jenkins, editor of the
News-Banner, Baxley, responded.
President Broome mentioned
another fine address the editors
heard recently by Liston Elkins
speaking at the annual Elks ob
servance of Newspaper Week.
Mrs. Iris Blitch, Congresswo
man of the Bth district, and B.
E. Blitch, were special guests.
She reported she thinks the Bth
District is on the threshold of
great development being the lar
gest congressional district in
Georgia, in the largest state East
of the Mississippi.
Mrs. Blitch gives newspaper
advertising much of the credit for
her successful campaign because
she says she believes in the in
fluence of the printed word.
“The march of industry south
ward has been barely touched”,
she said.
A discussion followed on pub
lication of Constitutional Amend
ments being in politics, was led
by Editor Carl Broome of Na
hunta.
The group decided to request
the Governor to reduce the num
ber of times to be published to
four as an economy measure.
This was carried fcy five votes,
three not voting.
Adequate Circulation
In the discussion period editors
agreed that you can’t do a good
advertising job without adequate
circulation.
By-Laws as presented by Jack
Williams Jr., chairman of the
bylaws committee, were adopted.
Friends noted the presence of
Iverson Huxford of Horfierville
after a long absence and express
ed their gladness at seeing him
in attendance.
Corporal Talmadge Dixon, son
of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Dixon, is
home on leave. He arrived in
the states from Okinawa on Sept.
28 and reached home Oct. 4. He
will report to Camp Le June,
N. C., Oct. 17.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
College Students
Attend Various
Georgia Schools
Students from Brantley Coun
ty recently leaving for college
are as follows:
To South Georgia College at
Douglas are: Carl Highsmith, Roy
Johnson, Allen Sloan, Russell
Patten, Glenn Strickland, Dewitt
Drury, Ronnie Hagin, and Virgil
Pierce.
Going to ABAC at Tifton, Ga.,
are: Vandilla Purdom, J. L. Pur
dom, Janice Royster, Byron High
smith, Addison Strickland, Ralph
Thomas and Norris Carter.
Girls at G.S.C.W. at Milledge
ville are: Iris Barr, Jo Warren,
Marion Strickland, Mary Lou
Gardner, Margie Lou Dryden,
Doris Stone, Peggy Carter, Grace
Strickland, Betty King and Betty
Jean Saddler.
At the University of Georgia
at Athens are: Marvine Mizell
and Leonard Crews. At Atlanta
Division of University are: Ron
ald Willis, Sidney Willis and
Ralph Willis. Dwight Moody is
attending Georgia Tech. Margar
et Crews and Iris Highsmith are
at Berry Schools. Carl Dubose is
at Armstrong College in Savan
nah. John Curtis Strickland is at
Auburn University in Alabama.
Inez Driscoll, Aubrey Highsmith
and Forrest Thomas are at Geor
gia Teachers College at States
boro.
Brantley Wins
Award At
Wayx Fair
County, community and school
exhibit winners in the Okefeno
kee Agricultural Fair are announ
ced this week by Taylor Zachry,
chairman.
In the county division, Ware
County won the top prize of SIOO.
The theme is “Progress Through
Better Relations” — rural and
urban.
Brantley County came in for
second prize, winning SSO for an
exhibit highlighting the theme of
“Better Country Living”.
In the community division,
Bickley Farm Bureau, with a
slogan of “Farm Bureau Shows
the Way for Higher Standards of
Living” won top prize of SIOO.
Brantley County’s Calvary com
munity won SSO for “Better
Homes Build a Better World.”
Waresboro won $25 for com
munity development theme.
In the school division, Wacona
won first prize of SIOO for its ex
hibit “Growing Pains in Ameri
ca’s Schools.” The exhibit pointed
up the problem, the cause and
offered a solution.
Second prize went to the ex
hibit of the Waresboro school en
titled “A Tree Is Known By Its
Fruits”, a community achieve
ment display.
List of Preachers
Announced for
Methodist Revival
The list of visiting Methodist
preachers who will preach in the
coming revival has been announ
ced by the pastor, Rev. Horace
Williams.
The revival starts Monday, Oct.
17, and will continue through
Sunday, Oct. 23.
The names of the ministers
who will preach are as follows:
Rev. Colvin Morgan of Screven,
Rev. Curtis Tillman and Rev.
Carolyn Crosby of Waycross, and
Rev. N. R. Smith of Alma.
Hoboken PTA Will
Meet Monday
The Hoboken P.T.A. will meet
at the school auditorium on Mon
day night, Oct. 17, at eight o’-
clock.
Mr. Cleve Jones will have
charge of the program. The stu
dent program will be under the
direction of Mrs. Peggy Spell and
Mrs. Floyd Larkins with the fifth
grade students.
Mrs. Alton Cason is president.
Srantky Enterprise
PIEDMONT BAPTIST ASSOCIATION — Pictured above is a group of delegates
from the churches in the Piedmont Assocation attending the 140th session of the
Association held at the Emmanuel Baptist Church in Blackshear Thursday, October
6. A bountiful dinner was served by the host church to -more than 400 guests.
Rev. H. D. Blalock was host pastor.
Clinic on Church Promotion
Planned in Atlanta Nov. 4
This newspaper, as a member of the Georgia Press
Association, will help sponsor the Third Annual Georgia
Church News Clinic in Atlanta, Friday, Nov. 4. All
ministers, church secretaries and other religious leaders
in the Blackshear area are cordially invited to attend
the clinic.
Principal speakers will be
Braswell Deen, prominent legis
lator from the Eighth District,
who will be the luncheon speak
er, and J. Oliver Emmerich, edi
tor of The McComb Enterprise-
Journal, McComb, Mississippi.
Workshops on specific church
promotion problems will be of
fered, and all sessions will be
held at the Georgia State College
(formerly Atlanta Division, Uni-
"Let
Urge
The best policy for public of
ficials to follow is to “let the
people know’ the truth,” former
newspaperman Liston Elkins said
in a National Newspaper Week
address Thursday night, October
6, in Waycross.
Elkins, executive director of
the Okefenokee Swamp Park and
former managing editor of the
Waycross Journal-Herald, point
ed to what he described as a
“dangerous trend” in this coun
try.
“There are things we prefer
not to publish,” he said “and
sometimes a good case can be
made out not to do so. It might
be more pleasant not to publish
it.
“But”, Elkins declared, “the
best policy is to let the people
know the truth”.
Elkins spoke at the annual
Elks’ dinner honoring the press.
Waycross area newspaper people
were guests of Way cross Elks
Lodge. Exalted Ruler Al Ingram
presided and introduced the
speaker and guests.
Jack Williams Jr., managing
editor of the Journal-Herald ex
pressed to the members of the
Elks Lodge the appreciation of
the press for the National News
paper Week program.
Elkins criticized governmental
bodies for holding closed door
sessions while transacting the
business of the people.
“A government which belongs
to the people should let the peo
ple know what it is doing,” he
said.
The popular Waycrossan cited
examples of the slogan of Nation
al Newspaper Week, “Your news
paper fights for your right to
know. He said the Columbus
newspapers ferreted out the facts
that helped launch a cleanup in
Pheonix City, Ala.
Elkins singled out the small
town and rural press of this area.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, October 13, 1955
People Know" Elkins
In Press Week Talk
versify of Georgia.) The clinic is
non-denominational.
Total cost, including luncheon
is $1.50. Those who want to at
tend should write immediately
to the Georgia Press Association,
24 Ivy Street, S. E., Atlanta 3,
Georgia.
When driving, watch out
for speed too fast for con
ditions.
He said the small city daily and
country weekly play roles as im
portant as the metropolitan dail
ies and one section of the press
should not be placed above the
other.
He called Journal-Herald pub
lisher Jack Williams the “em
blem of a newspaperman” and
lauded him for his enthusiasm
for his community.
Carl Broome, editor of the
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, is
one of Georgia’s finest political
analysts, he said. Mr. Broome
heads a South Georgia newspa
per family which publishes pa
pers at Nahunta, Blackshear and
Alma.
Citing the many ways the
newspaper helps to build a com
munity, Elkins pointed to the
press’ participation in various
drives and promoting worthwhile
projects.
He quoted the English writer
Goldsmith as saying: “A map
does not exhibit a more distinct
view of the situation and bound
aries of every country, than its
news does a picture of the genius
and morals of its inhabitants.”
Calling the press “the most
powerful agency in our life” the
speaker said he believed the
press has had a great deal to do
with the revival of religious fer
vor in recent years.
He asked, “What would the
schools be without the press?
What would happen to baseball
if newspapers stopped running
box scores and standings?
The National Newspaper Week
dinner is an annual project of
the Waycross Elks Lodge. The
Elks Grand Lodge encourages si
milar observances throughout the
country.
Out of town newspapermen at
tending the dinner were Lee
Broome, The Blackshear Times,
C. J. Broome, Jr., and Byron
Kearby, Alma Times.
Child Killed
As Pulpwood
Falls On Car
A 6-year-old child was killed
and five persons were seriously
injured about noon Tuesday, Oct.
11, when a load of pulpwood fell
on their car about 13 miles south
of Jesup on U. S. Highway 301.
The dead child was identified
as Thomas Michael O’Dell, son of
Summers O’Dell, 29, and Lucille
A. O’Dell, 26, of Summerville, W.
Va. Injured were Mr. and Mrs.
O’Dell and their three other
children, Everett Gregory O’Dell,
2; Stephen O’Dell, 7; and Sharon
Sue O’Dell, 4.
State Trooper W. A. Seymour
and Deputy Sheriffs L. B. War
ren and Louis Poppell of Wayne
County, who investigated the ac
cident, said the O’Dell automo
bile was crushed beneath a load
of pulpwood which fell off a
truck driven by Kenneth Graham
Harrell. 19, of Hortense.
The officers said a tire on the
truck blew out and thew it out
of control. As Harrell tried to
bring the truck back into control,
the load of pulpwood he was
hauling slipped and crashed
down on the O’Dell car. The ve
hicles did not collide, officers
said.
The injured O’Dell's were tak
en to a Jesup hospital, where
they were listed as being in ser
ious condition.
Enterprise Editor
On Two News
Panel Programs
Carl Broome, editor of the
Brantley Enterprise, will be on
two special news panel programs
during the next few weeks, one
church news clinic to be held in
Atlanta Friday, Nov. 4, and one
school news clinic to be held at
Waycross, next Tuesday, Oct. 18.
The school news program will
be sponsored by the State De
partment of Education under the
leadership of Bernice McCullar,
public relations specialist. This
meeting will be held in the Way
cross vocational building Tues
day evening from 3:30 to 6:30.
The school news clinic will
deal with the problem of how
the schools and the newspaper
can best cooperate in publiciz
ing the work of the public
schools. School officials and
teachers are urged to attend.
The church news clinic will
be held at the Georgia State
College, formerly the Atlanta Di
vision, Atlanta. This program will
deal with church news problems.
All ministers and editors of the
state are invited to attend this
meeting.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
5 Die, 13 Hurt in Rail
Wreck Near Hazlehurst
Five persons were killed and 13 injured in a head
on collision of a Southern Railway passenger and freight
train about a mile north of Hazlehurst Saturday after-
Roddenberry
Wins For
Representative
Cecil M. Roddenberry won the
race for representative from
Brantley County over J. Floyd
Larkins by a vote of 836 to 490,
according to unofficial figures
compiled by Ordinary James N.
Stewart Wednesday night.
The race was for the unexpired
term of Bill Harris who resigned
because of ill health. The unex
pired term extends until Dec. 31,
1956.
The vote by districts in Wed
nesdays election was as follows:
Precinct R’berry Larkins
Nahunta 248 100
Lulaton 53 25
Hortense 76 81
Hickox 120 22
Atkinson 76 8
Hoboken 63 174
Schlatterville 147 65
Waynesville 53 15
TOTALS 836 490
Calvary H.D. Club
Plan Booth at
Way cross Fair
The Calvary Home Demonstra
tion Club met at the home of Mrs.
W. M. Marr on Thursday, Oct. 6.
Eighteen members and visitors
were present.
Final plans were made for the
Calvary Community Booth in the
Waycross Fair.
Reports were given by the var
ious committees. The clothing
chairman reported that six dress-
CS and one skirt had been made
during September. In Food Pre
servation the members had can
ned 34 quarts and 1 pint of but
terbeans, 29 quarts of pears, 29
quarts of grape juice and 25
quarts of jelly.
After the business meeting ad
journed refreshments were serv
ed by Mrs. Marr.
Atkinson Methodist
Church to Hold
Fish Supper
The Atkinson Methodist Church
will hold a fish supper at the
church Saturday evening, Oct. 15,
from 5:30 until 7:30 for the bene
fit of the church building fund,
it is announced by Mrs. B. G.
Middleton.
The public is invited to attend
and enjoy a good fish supper and
also help on the building fund.
Enterprise Office
Will Be Closed
Friday, Saturday
The office of the Brantley En
terprise will be closed Friday and
Saturday, Oct. 14 and 15, when
the editor and his wife will visit
Sarasota and other points in
Florida.
Anyone having business with
the Enterprise is requested to
visit the office Monday afternoon,
Oct. 17, or any day next week
when the office will be open for
business again.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn F. Thomas
announce the birth of a baby girl
on September 30. She has been
named Carol Lynn. Lt. jg. Glenn
F. Thomas is stationed at NAS
Whidbey Island at Oak Harbor,
Washington, and Mrs. Thomas is
with him. Mrs. Thomas is the
former Miss Shirleen Parks.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Morgan
announce the arrival of a new
baby girl. She has been named
Jaunita Gay.
BIRTHS
Let Your Home Newspaper
Help You to Invite
Your Home People
to Trade with You
noon, October 8.
W. D. Sharpe of Jesup, hus
band of the former Miss Pauline
Peacock of Blackshear, was a
mong the fatalities. Mr. Sharpe
was the engineer on the north
bound freight train No. 6 enroute
from Jesup to Macon.
The two diesel engines smash
ed together with terrific force at
3:50 P. M. Saturday after round
ing a blind horseshoe curve on a
single tract. The passenger train
No. 17 carried 18 passengers and
was running about 50 minutes.
Four of the passengers were in
jured, none seriously. The other
eight injured were trainman and
members of an auxiliary crew
riding south to pick up another
train.
Killed on the freight train
were Sharpe, the engineer; C. M.
(Rib) Peele of Roberta, the con
ductor; and J. E. Hancock, Ma
con, the trainman.
Passenger train crew members
killed were the engineer, Newt
G. Askew of Macon and the fire
man, B. J. Johnson of Macon.
Fireman H. C. Bell of Macon
and Brakeman Harry W. Jones
of Cochran saw the passenger
train seconds before the accident
and jumped from the freight
train. Beil suffered a broken leg
and Jones received only minor
injuries.
Southern Railway officials
were still investigating the col
lision early this week and de
clined to issue a statement as to
the possible cause of the wreck.
lAn unofficial guess placed the
loss at one million dollars.
Card of Thanks
We take this means to express
our deep appreciation to every
one who was so helpful to us at
the death of Vilas D. Shumake.
We thank you for the kind words
of sympathy, the beautiful floral
offerings and everything done to
show your consideration to us.
MRS. V. D. SHUMAKE
AND FAMILY.
ROYAL
THEATRE
Nahunta, Georgia
TIME SCHEDULE: <
MONDAY thru FRIDAY
8:00 P.M. 4^.J
SATURDAY
7:00 and 8:30 P.M.
PROGRAM
THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
OCT. 13 - 14
“Fire Over Africa”
With MAUREEN O’HARA
and MCDONALD CAREY
SATURDAY, OCT. 15
“Jesse James vs
the Daltons”
With BRETT KING
MON., TUES., OCT. 17 - 18
“PHFFFT”
With JUDY HOLLIDAY
and JACK CARSON
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19
“Creature with the
Atom Brain”
With RICHARD DENNING
THURS., FRL, OCT. 20 - 21
“Siege at Red River”
With VAN JOHNSON
and JOANNE DREW
SATURDAY, OCT. 22
“Pirates of Tripoli”
With PAUL HENREID
