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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, G*., Thursday, May 3, 19541
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL 8R00ME.... EDITOR and PUBLISHER
Entered at the Poet Office at Nahunta, Georgia aa
second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Palmetto News
By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Leicester Poppell,
Mary Lou and Mollie Ann of
Dock Junction were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Orsbom
Johnson.
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Mr. and Mrs. Lester Oglesby
of Waycross visited Mr. and Mrs.
A. F. Gibson Sunday afternoon.
• • •
Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison and
sons Terry and Teddy of Blythes
Island were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Rooks Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Coleman
of Jacksonville visited Mrs. Cole
man’s mother, Mrs. S. C. M.
Drury on Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Johns
visited relatives in Jacksonville
during the weekend.
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Miss Arizona Rooks of Waynes
ville and Mr. Hubert Clemmons
of Lyons and Brunswick were
married Friday, April 27. They
will make their home in Bruns
wick.
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Miss Ruth Jacobs of Waynes
ville and Mr. Donald Smith of
Louisville, Ky., and Waycross
were married Thursday, April 26.
They will reside in Waycross.
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A revival will begin at the
Browntown Baptist Church Sun
day night, May 6. Rev. W. G.
Bryant of Brunswick is pastor.
Rev. S. B. Smith of Brunswick
toOT
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..because
they went to their doctors in time
Many thousands of Americana are being cured of cancer every
year. More and more people are going to their doctors in tune. Thal
is encouraging I
But the tragic fact, our doctors tell us, is that every third cancer
death is a needless death... twice as many could be oared.
YOUR BEST CANCER INSURANCE is (1) to seo your doctor
every year for a thorough checkup* no matter how well you may
feel (2) to see your doctor immediately at the first sign of any one
of the 7 danger signals that may meaa cancer.
For a list of those life-saving warning signals and other facts of life
about cancer, call the American Cao*»r Society office nearest you
or simplv write to ‘‘Cancer” in caro of your local Poet Officer
will be guest preacher. The re
vival will continue through Sun
day, May 13. Services at eight
o’clock each evening. Everyone
is invited to attend.
Marine Recruiter
To Be at Waycross
And Brunswick
A veteran Marine recruiter,
Master Sergeant Harlan W. Me
serve will visit the Navy re
cruiting office in Waycross every
Tuesday to interview local ap
plicants for the Marine Corps.
A former criminal investiga
tor with the Marines during the
Korean campaign, Sergeant Me
serve cordially invites young
men and women of the Greater
Waycross area to drop around
for a friendly chat with him dur
ing his visit here. His office
hours at Waycross are from 9:00
a. m. to 2:30 p. m.
Office hours at Brunswick
Mondays 9:00 to 5:00.
The recruiter pointed up the
Marine Corps’ present two-year
active duty program and urged
young men to consider this op
portunity when deciding how
best to meet their military ob
ligation. Sergeant Meserve will
be glad to answer questions a
bout draft liability under the
existing law and explain the ad
vantages of a Marine Corps
enlistment.
“I am not here just to re
cruit men,’’ he said, “but to of
fer a service to the community
as well.”
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland
returned on Friday of last week
from points in Texas where they
have been for four weeks. They
visited Mr. and Mrs. Roger
Strickland and family in Texas
City, Texas; Mr. and Mrs. Billy
Thomas in Bryan, Texas; Mr. and
Mrs. F. O. Cherry of Bay Town,
Texas. Mrs. Cherry was the for
mer, Miss Celia Johns. They
made a trip to Matamoros, Mexi
co, and a number of other points
of interest in Mexico and Texas.
• • •
Mrs. T. J. Johnson of Brook
lyn, N. Y., arrived last week to
spend three weeks with her sis
ter, Mrs. J. M. Rogers. . .
• • •
Rev. Clyde Thomas and family
of Patterson spent Sunday with
Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Morgan. Rev.
Thomas is a brother of Mrs. Mor
gan.
• • •
Ronald Willis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Willis, who is a stu
dent at Georgia State College in
Atlanta was on the Dean’s List
at the College last quarter.
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J. W. Harris has completed his
basic training at Lackland Air
Force Base at San Antonio, Texas
and was home with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Harris for a
twelve day leave. He left on
Monday of this week to be sta
tioned at Clovis, New Mexico.
• • •
Gerald Willis, who has been
home with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Willis, left on Monday
to return to his post at Roswell,
New Mexico. J. W. Harris joined
him in the trip by car to New
Mexico.
♦ • •
Ist Lt. Laverne Smith, a jet
pilot in the U. S. Air Force,' has
been discharged from the service
after five years in service. He
recently returned home from two
years in Japan.
• * •
Gleen Strickland and Dewitt
Drury were among the class of
Botany students from South Ga.
College at Douglas, who were
going by bus to Gatlinburg, Tenn.,
on a field trip on Thursday of
last week when the bus failed to
make the turn on a curve near
Mcßae and Wrecked. Most of the
students were injured. Glenn and
Dewitt were only slightly injur
ed.
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Mrs. W. H. O. Smith and La
verne Smith visited W. H. O.
Smith who is a patient in Veter
ans Hospital in Dublin, Ga., on
Thursday.
Religiously Speaking
By Kev. Howard D. Blalock, Pastor
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear
FAMILY FACTS
Os the more than 116 million
persons more than 14 years old
and older in the United States,
24,484,000 are single, 79,452,000
are married, 9,952,000 are widow
ed, and 2,356,000 are divorced.
There are' more than 43,500,000
families, and it has been pre
dicted that more than eight mil
lion new families will have set
up housekeeping by 1956.
In 1954 marriages dropped be
low ten per thousand population;
the rate was 9.2, the lowest since
1933.
More older people are remar
rying than ever before, except
for bachelors and spinsters. Dur
ing the past ten years, remar
riages of widows and widowers
over sixty-five increased by 90
per cent.
Couples today are having more
second, third, fourth, and fifth
children. In 1953 as compared to
1940 there were 90 per cent more
second children per family, 85
per cent more third children, 60
per cent more fourth children,
and 15 per cent more fifth
children.
There were 80 per cent more
adoption petitions filed in the
United States in 1953 than were
filed in 1944. There are ten a
doption applications for every a
vailable child, according to the
Child Welfare League of Ameri
ca.
The average income of Ameri
can families was $5,330. The av
erage city family’s income in
1955 was estimated at $6,393.
More than one-fourth of the fam
ilies living on farms in the Unit
ed States had cash incomes of
less than SI,OOO a year.
Each year 100,000 married men
disappear. Deserted wives and
children in the United States to
tal four and one half million.
The Federal Government spends
$260 million a year on this prob
lem through the Aid to Depen
dent Children program.
According to the Surgeon Gen
eral of the United States Public
Health Service, the divorce rate
in 1954 was the lowest since the
end of World War 11. On the
basis of reports from 25 areas of
the nation, the 1954 rate dropped
four per cent from the compara
ble 1953 figures. This represents
a total reduction of about 40 per
cent from the post-war peak
reached in 1946 and continues a
YOUR VOTE
IS IMPORTANT
Register Now
Only Two More Days
- f
Deadline May 5
t
* A Wl Because this year you elect state officers,
Whlf a Con ^ re » B ™ a n, a U. S. Senator, a Presi-
■ 111 l dent and Vice-President in the state pri-
" maries and general election.
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■ Afi YOU — if you are a citizen, at least 18
■Nf NA years old, have lived in Georgia one year
W W IIV and m Brantley county six months.
B A|| Registration forms are available at the
Inf nor A ? ax ^“"“"ioner’s office at the court
■ 1 llwl v house m Nahunta.
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When NOW — the deadline is Saturday, May 5.
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Register Yourself
Take Another with You --
Every Vote Counts.
trend that has been in progress
since ..that year.
A social agency in one south
ern city recently studied the fac
tors in the separation of the
couples with whom they were
dealing. They found that behav
ior problems were the leading
factor in 51 per cent of the sep
arations. Included in this cate
gory were such problems as al
cohol, gambling, desertion, inade
quacy, sex difficulties, and per
sonality problems. Twenty-five
per cent separated because of
economic problems, due to the
inability of the husband to sup
port the family or to the problems
arising when both the wife and
husband were working outside
the home. Eighteen per cent of
the marriages broke up because
of ill health, either mental or
physical. The remaining six per
cent separated because of miscel
laneous factors or a combination
of those previously mentioned.
One of the most important
family facts is this: The church
has much to' contribute to the
family. As Dr. Theodore F. Ad
ams says: “The church helps to
produce the kind of people who
can live happily together, men
and women with character, in
tegrity, unselfishness, self-re
spect, and the other qualities of
life so essential to an enduring
relationship. Christian faith helps
to promote emotional stability
and give the poise and peace and
inner disciplines required for
marriage today. The church sos-
ters Christian homes where
children grow up in an atmos
phere of security from which
they gradually evolve as inde
pendent citizens, ready and able
to face whatever life may bring.”
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