The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, March 15, 1956, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextBrantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 15, 1956 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 Subscription Rates: Inside Brantley County $2.50 a year, plus 8 cents sales tax. Other Georgia counties $3.00 a year, plus 9 cents sales tax. Other states $3.50 a year. Single copies ten cents. We charge for cards of thanks, memorials and resolutions. We charge for advertising all affairs for which you charge. Work of Soil Conservation Districts Extended in 1955 An additional 4,824 farmers began cooperating with the Soil Conservation Districts in Georgia during 19.55, according to a year-end report just released by C. W. Chapman, State Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service. This brings the number of farmers cooperating with the state’s 27 Soil Conservation Districts to 92,424. According to Chapman, these farms include 17,500,000 acres of land. This is a record of which the citizens of Georgia, as well as the farmers, can be proud, Chap man says. The report shows that more and more landowners are realiz ing that soil conservation is es sential and economically profit able. We still have a long way to go, but the results through 1955 are very encouraging. The SCS works chiefly through the Soil Conservation Districts, organizations of local farmers, set up under state enabling laws. Upon request they obtain techni cal assistance from the SCS in carrying out local conservation programs. With the help of the SCS something like 75 percent of the land in farms in Georgia has been planned for soil and water conservation and a large percen tage of the planned practices have been established. These in dividual farm plans have as their objective putting each acre to its best use and the establishing of the necessary practices for maintaining and increasing fer tility for the present and future. At the end of 1955 the 92,424 farmer-cooperators, with the Soil Conservation Districts, had es tablished conservation crop ro tations on more than three mil lion acres of land and more than two million acres were being cultivated on the contour. The story is similar for cover cropping, tree planting, drainage, irrigation, terracing and other soil conservation practices. Some of the major soil and water con servation practices applied dur ing 1955 are shown below. Tree Planting — 83,552 acres. Pasture Planting — 177,892 acres. Terracing — 1,261 miles. Drainage — 24,925 acres. Pond Construction — number. Improvement of Wildlife Areas — 7,753 acres. Progress was also made in flood control and watershed ac tivities in 1955, Chapman reports. Flood damage prevention meas ures are being applied on the Coosa River Watershed at a con tinually increasing rate. The Coosa is one of the eleven water sheds in the U. S. on which this type program is currently opera ting. In 1953 Congress authorized the establishment of 60 pilot water sheds where small watershed pro tection methods are tested and proved. One such watershed is located in Georgia on the North Fork of the Broad River in Ste phens and Franklin Counties. Fifty percent of the planned pro gram has been completed on this watershed. Throughout the state 46 ap plications from small watershed groups have been received as a result of legislation passed by Congress in 1954. Os this num ber, 30 have been approved by the State Soil Conservation Com mittee and transmitted to Wash ington, Chapman reports. Authority has been issued by SCS Administrator D. A. Wil liams to conduct investigations and surveys on six of the 30 ap plications. Os these six. Bear Creek Watershed in Newton and Jasper counties has had a work plan completed which has been presented to the Agricultural Committee of the House and Se nate for approval. Plans are be ing developed on watersheds on Wilkes, Pierce and Bacon, White and Habersham, and Oconee and Barrow Counties. “Some Georgia rivers still run red to the sea”, Chapman con cludes in his report. But, he adds, more and more of our streams are showing the results of soil and water conservation. This, however, is merely inci dental to the real purpose behind soil and water conservation, he says. Os greater interest to land owners and business men of Georgia is how much soil and water conservation has added to the value of the state’s farm and timber land. Increased acreage has also been attained by drain ing and irrigating land otherwise unsuited for crop production, thus bringing land into profitable pro duction and adding to the state’s soil resources. Get Qualified Tax Assistance, Director Urges “Taxpayers who find it neces sary to obtain outside assistance in the preparation of their 1955 Federal tax returns should be careful to consult qualified tax practitioners,” District Director Paul Cobb of Internal Revenue this this week. “Too often taxpayers obtain in competent persons to assist them in the preparation of their re turns,’’ Mr. Cobb declared. “The smaller fees charged by these persons are the usual inducement. The type of person offering this suspect service usually sets up office in some business estab lishment where temporary desk space may be obtained. “Taxpayers requiring assistance in complex matters should con sult qualified tax practitioners wherever possible. This is not designed to eliminate the highly valuable assistance often provid ed by company cashiers, auditors and bookkeepers or bank per sonnel who help their employees —a service we recommend and appreciate. “J feel it imperative however that taxpayers who seek dubious assistance in the preparation of their returns be reminded that they must stand responsibility for the accuracy of their entries and calculations.” Mr. Cobb also reminded tax payers that April 15 is again the deadline for the filing of Federal tax returns and that checks or money orders accompanying the returns should be made payable to the district director of Inter nal Revenue, and mailed to him at 449 West Peachtree Street, Atlanta 8, Georgia. 2,611 PLANNING PLANT BEDS For Georgians growing their own tomato, pepper, or eggplant plants this year, Extension Hor ticulturist Cecil Blackwell advises planting the seed from six to eight weeks before they can be set in the open. A seed box which can be set in the sun during the day and inside for protection at night can be used for growing a few plants for the garden. Georgia farmers irrigated 1,116 acres of peanuts last year, accord ing to Willis Huston, irrigation specialist for the Agricultural Extension Service. When bringing gasoline inside buildings, use a labeled container of approved safety type and not more than one gallon in capac ity. Brunswick Man Who Killed Officer Nabbed After Chase Thru Brantley A Brunswick man, using his eight-year-old son as a hostage, was arrested on Highway 38 near Screven Sun day for the killing of a police officer in Brunswick. State Patrolmen F. F. Cornel ius and D. C- Strickland appre hended William Golden, 35, after a chase through Pierce county at speeds up to 100 miles per hour before Golden pulled to a stop just across the Little Satilla Ri ver from Pierce county. Cornelius said Golden made his son, George, lie down on the front seat of the car during the chase for fear the officers would shoot. The two troopers spotted Gol den’s car and gave chase near Hortense on Route 32 after a radio pickup went out to police officers in Southeast Georgia. Golden was chased at high speed through Patterson and Offerman in Pierce county before deciding to give himself up. State Patrolmen and sheriff’s officers from Glynn, Wayne, Ba con, and other counties converg ed the Pierce county area after Golden was spotted by Cornelius and Strickland. Assistant Police Chief James A. Bisson at Brunswick said Golden fled with his son after shooting officers H. D. Copeland and H. W. Brooks who had an swered a call from Golden’s neighbors. When arrested, Golden was brought to Blackshear and plac ed in the Pierce county jail, be fore later being transferred the same day to the state prison at Reidsville for safekeeping. A large crowd gathered at the Pierce county jail as Golden was jailed and police officers from several surrounding counties Religiously Speaking By Rev. Howard D. Blalock, Pastor Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear WHY DO PEOPLE GAMBLE? There is a dare in the air, typified by the phrase “take a chance”. This proposal and its many other manifestations, has induced many people to gamble away many things; with money probably the least important. For a large number of people, gambling is a progressive habit. It begins modestly, and like other dangerous habits, it often grows beyond control. A sociologist named Edward Devereaux, Jr., spent three years studying gambling and gamblers. The result was a 1,000-page doc tor’s thesis at Harvard Univer sity. He discovered that gambling, like alcohol or dope, can become an addiction, and the person who is in its clutches is a pathetic thing to watch. Elderly widows have lost their inheritances at the bingo table, and men have caught the horse-race fever, em bezzled the boss’s money and gone off to prison. Devereaux discovered that gambling is the biggest single cause of such crimes as embezzle ment; it is also a cause of bro ken marriages, neglected child ren, poverty and sometimes sui cide. Richard L. Evans says: “It be comes a ruinous obsession and fosters false living by encourag ing the futile belief that we can continually get something for nothing. The spirit of gambling also fosters the fallacy that the someone who loses is ultimately going to be someone other than ourselves. “And when we gamble with things other than money or pro perty —for example, with hap piness or with health, with law or with life — our foolhardiness has then reached a reckless ripe ness. Some are so foolish as to gamble with conscience. But no man ever won a gamble with his own conscience”. The Russian novelist, Dostoev ski, himself a habitual gambler who pawned his wife’s jewelry for money to lose at roulette, wrote a book on the habit of gambling called “The Gambler”. It is one of the most hair-raising stories of a wasted life ever put on paper. Nobody can read it without concluding, all questions of morals or theology aside, that habitual gambling can be a de vastating evil. For some people gambling is a means of escape. They seek to escape from their feelings of anxiety. The effect of anxiety can be likened to the effects of a heat wave. Like anxiety, hot weather causes us to be tense, irritable, restless, and even phy sically upset. There are many ways to attempt to escape the were on hand. Copeland Killed Copeland, a 21-year veteran of the Brunswick force, died seve ral hours later in a Brunswick hospital. Brooks, who took seve ral of the shotgun blasts in the face and hands, was in fair con dition, hospital attendants said. Bisson quoted a neighbor, W. H. Johnson, as saying Golden had been drinking and threaten ed to beat his 17-year-old step son, Raymond. Johnson said when the two policemen answer ed the call, Golden came out of his house and got a shotgun from his car in the driveway. Johnson said Copeland told him to put it down and Golden obeyed, but grabbed the weapon again and fired several blasts pointblank into the front seat of the patrol car. When captured, Cornelius said Golden told him he had been having trouble with his stepson and “couldn’t make him mind,” Golden said he had told Cope land on a previous occasion “not to bother me and my family any more.” Feared For Child Cornelius said Golden was a bout “half drunk.” He quoted Golden as saying he would have given up earlier in the chase but feared his son might be hit if the officers fired. Golden said he tried to put the boy out of the car on a lonely country road at one point in the chase, but that the boy refused, saying “I don’t know where I heat; likewise there are many ways to attempt to escape anx iety. Gambling seems to be the best way for many people. Act ually they have a mental and psychological problem and the result of it is gambling. Dr. Otto Fenichel says in his be ok, “The Psychoanalytic Theo ry of Neurosis”, that: “The pas sion of gambling is a displaced expression of conflicts around in fantile sexuality, aroused by fear of losing necessary reassurance”. Then he explains the specific passion for gambling. He says: “Gambling in its essence, is a provocation of fate, which is forced to make its decision for or against the individual. Luck means a promise of protection in future instinctual acts. But what is more important is that the typical gambler consciously or unconsciously believes in his right to ask for special protec tion by fate. His gambling is an attempt to compel fate in a magi cal way to do its ‘duty’; however, gambling is a fight with fate.” Gambling, in the beginning, is thought of as “playing”. Under the pressure of inner tensions, the playful character is lost; “the ego can no longer control what it has initiated, but is over whelmed by a very serious vic ious circle of anxiety, violent need of reassureance and anxiety over the intensity of this vio lence. The pastime becomes a matter of life and death”. CORN PRACTICES One hundred thirty-three Geor gia farmers, included in a survey made last year by Extension agro nomists, averaged 109 bushels of corn per acre on 1,846 acres at a cost of 58 cents per bushel. They applied an average of 499 pounds of 4-12-12 fertilizer at planting and side dressed with 200 pounds of 28 percent nitro gen fertilizer. They had an aver age of 11,860 plants per acre, and two cultivations were used. All these factors add up to high, economical yields, according to the agronomists. Annual lespedeza is used by some farmers on the heavier soils of South Georgia as a summer legume in rotation following small grain. When properly done, burning of rough Georgia woods can re duce the rough areas, control brown spot, prepare the seed bed, and prepare the planting area. Georgia farmers produced 1,- 439 pounds of tobacco per acre in 1955, a record yield for the state. The 1944-53 average was 1,132 pounds per acre. am.” The youngster was not hurt. Cornelius said Golden had a shotgun and a rifle in the car but offered no resistance. The two patrolmen said they had withheld theih fire because of the report that the boy was in the car, although they could not see him. Previous Dispute Mrs. Golden told a reporter that her husband had previously had a dispute with Copeland. She said when Golden was mar ried to another woman a little more than a year ago he had been drinking and making threats with a gun and that po lice had to route him from his home with tear gas. She said it was then that Golden told Cope land not to “bother him” any more. The Goldens have a 10-month old daughter, Rose, in addition to George, and two step-children, Raymond and 11-year-old Joyce. Golden’s neighbor, Johnson, said Brooks fired one shot in return after Golden had fired the shotgun several times. He said Brooks withheld fire after several women and children, at tracted by the shots, entered the yard. Mrs. Golden said her husband had been drinking since he got off work as a Southern Railroad telegraph operator early Sunday morning. She said he wanted to take their infant daughter for a ride in the car. She said she argued against it and that when their voices became loud, the neighobor apparently phoned po lice. LEGAL ADVERTISING Georgia, Brantley County. This is to notify all persons corcerned that Roy Harper as administrator of the estate of Wm. Quarterman (Bill) Hall, de ceased, has filed with me an ap plication for leave to ssll the following lands belonging to said estate, for the purpose of paying debts and making distribution, and that I will pass upon said application in my office in Na hunta, Georgia, at the April term, 1956, of my Court. Description of property to be sold: City lot number 13, in the Brooker Addition to the City of Nahunta, in the 2nd land District of Brantley County, Georgia, and being a portion of original land lot number 88, said lot is more fully described in a plat of said “Brooker Addition” to the City of Nahunta, which is of record among the current public records of Brantley County, Ga., in Plat Book 1, at page 91, and said plat is by reference made this des cription for all purposes. Said lot fronts on Talmadge St. a dis tance of 56 feet and is 118 feet and 9 inches in depth. Said lands being well known as “The Bill Hall Home Place”. This 7th day of March, 1956. Claude A. Smith, Ordinary, Brantley County, Georgia. C. Winton Adams, Atty. for Roy Harper, Administrator. •' 329 Georgia, Brantley County. This is to notify all persons concerned that Mrs. Melissa Shu man as administratrix of the estate of A. J. B. Shuman, de ceased, has filed with me an application for leave to sell the following lands belonging to said estate, for the purpose of mak ing distribution and that I will pass upon said application in my office in Nahunta, Georgia at the April term, 1956, of my Court: Description of property to be sold: 105 acres more or less in the North-West corner of origi nal land lot number 169, in the Ninth Land District of Brantley County, Georgia, and 60 acres, more or less, in the South-West corner of original land lot num ber 170, both of said tracts are in the Ninth Land District of formerly Pierce, now Brantley County, Georgia, and lie together and form one tract of land bounded as a whole as follows: North by lands of Perry Strick land; East by the run of a Branch and Lands of John Craw ford, South by lands of Rufus, Lanie and Cleo Shuman; and West by the original land lot lines of said lots. This is all the real property owned by the said A. J. B. Shuman, on this date. This sth day of March, 1956. Claude A. Smith, Ordinary. Brantley County, Georgia. C. Winton Adams, Atty., Mrs. Melissa Shuman. 3 29 Strict Stream Pollution Laws Are Serious Need in Georgia (From The Moultrie Observer) Stream pollution has been a problem in this and other states for a number of years—particularly has it been true since the arrival of the age of industrialization, ast several years promise to r in the streams. Drought conditions for the increase the problem of wa State Game and Fish Commis sion Director Lovell is laying the foundation for more stringent stream - pollution laws in this state. He warns that low streams and pollution are combining to en danger health in many sections. A half-century ago there was little thought given to rivers and creeks beyond the fact that they contained fish and furnished wa ter for various purposes. The majority of the streams were flowing with endless quantities of water. As far as the popula tion was concerned, these streams had been flowing constantly for hundred and perhaps thousands of years. To the mind, the streams would continue to do so. But what has happened? Growth of population, heavy industrialization, terracing and other things have combined with periods of drought to change the picture. Streams which once flowed many thousands of gal lons — even millions —of water per day, are only a trickle. Some are dry beds, others filled with small pot-holes. Old-timers report that back in the 1880’s, Okapilco Creek and the Ochlochnee Creek overflow ed their bands and met each other on what is now South Main street. Today these streams are but a miniature of their for mer status. Hundreds of other streams all over Georgia and neighboring states have shrunk similarly. When the drought periods give way to heavy rainfalls again, streams will come back toward normal. It is doubtful, however, if streams will regain their full flow again in our lifetime. 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Throughout the nation people must learn to control pollution and utilize to maximum advan tage the water which does enter the streams. Personals Mrs. Minnid^bowling entered the Ware County Hospital Mon day, March 12, and underwent a major operation Tuesday. She expects to remain in the hospital about IQ days. ♦ ♦ ♦ Students from Georgia State College for Women left the class rooms Thursday, March 15, as the annual Spring Holidays be gan. Included in the group are Iris Barr, Gladys lona Johns, Betty Jean Sadler, Marion La verne Strickland, and Josephine Warren, all of Nahunta; Peggy Cynthia Carter, Mattie Grace Strickland, both of Hoboken; and Mary Lou Gardner of Waynes ville. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. Homer Freeman of Day ton, Ohio, mother of Charles W. Parkes, is visiting her son and daughter-in-law at the home of Mrs. Gertie Strickland. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Blocker and their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Boyd and children of Snowden, Ala., visit ed Mrs. S. C. M. 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