The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, May 10, 1956, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAll of the People in Most of the Homes in Brantley County Read The Brantley Enterprise, Their Home Newspaper. VOLUME 36 — NUMBER 19 Satilla River, Once lifeline' of Section, Reduced to Shame by Pollution, Drought 57 Seniors to Graduate at Nahunta High School May 29 Frank Hughes To Deliver Final Address The Nahunta High School clos ing exercises are announced by Principal Earl W. May. The School activities and dates are as follows: May 11 — 8:00 p.m. — Junior Senior Banquet- May 18 — 8:00 p.nr — High School Concert. May 23, 24, 25 — Semester Examinations. May 25 — Last day of school. May 25 — 8:00 p.m. — Senior Class Play. May 27 — 11:00 a.m. — Bac calaureate Sermon — William S. Brace, Rector, Grace Episcopal Church, Waycross, will bring the message. May 29 — 8:00 p.m. — Grad uation Exercises — Mr. Frank Hughes, Executive Secretary of Georgia Education Association, will deliver the principal address. May 30 — 6:00 a.m. — Seniors depart for Washington and New York. Mrs. Moody will accom pany them on the trip. May 28 - June 1 — Post-plan ning for all teachers. June 1 — 8:00 p.m. — Piano recital by Mr. Bowman Barr’s students. Carolyn Higginbotham, daugh ter of Mrs. Gladys Higginbotham, has been named the first honor graduate of Nahunta High School. She will give the Valedictory ad dress at the graduation exercises May 29. She has a scholastic av erage of over ninety-six for the four years in high school. Deloris Drury, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Drury, is second honor graduate and will give the Salutatory address. She has an average of over ninety-three for her four years of work. The following students made the honor roll for four years by making ninety or above: Carolyn Higginbotham, Deloris Drury, Marva June Thrift, Jim my Thornton, Hubert Manning, Dorothy Morgan, John Allen Moody, Ronald Flowers, Pauline Thrift, Mary Ruth Jacobs, Leland Brooks, Jerry Harper, Geneva Cross, and Eugene Sloan. Below is a.list of Seniors who will graduate May 29: Charles Allen, Verlie Allen, Loretta Altman, Sonja Batten, Leland Brooks, Sally Bryan, Bet ty Chesser, Roy Crews, Geneva Cross, Marcia Davison, Deloris Drury, Bernicestine Dubberly, Ronald Flowers, Lonzo Griffin, Robert Lee Hallman, Huey Ham, Jerry Harper, Myrtice Hickox, Barbara Ann Herrin, Iris Herrin, Janice Herrin, Linton Herrin, Marilyn Herrin, Carolyn Higgin botham, David Hiller, Mary Ruth Jacobs, Robert Jacobs, Betty Johns, Gerald Johns, Claude Johns, Linda Johns, Bud Jones, Margie Faye Johns, Hubert Man ning, Mary Frances Manning, Willene Manning, John Allen Moody, Mary Grace Moody, Do rothy Morgan, Wade Morgan, Hartwell Purdom, Loretta Rooks, Pearl Rowell, Eugene Sloan, Her man Sloan, Helen Smith, Ronald Smith, Geneva Steedley, Mildred Steedley, Larry Stewart, Marva June Thrift, Pauline Thrift, Jim my Thornton, Richard Thornton, Jimmy Thomas, Christine Walk er, Steve Willis. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Carl Highsmith Voted Best Basketball Player Carl Highsmith, a Nahunta student at South Georgia College, received recognition at the an nual Honors Day banquet held at the college on Thursday, May 3. He was presented a statuette for the honor of being voted by his teammates as the Most Val uable Basketball Player of the year. Carl, a freshman, is working toward a bachelor of science de gree. He has been active in a number of student clubs and or ganizations and was named on the Dean’s List for the fall quar ter. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Highsmith of Nahunta. Oleander Garden Club Met Tuesday With Mrs. Long The Oleander Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. W. C. Long Tuesday, May 8. Mrs. Earl May, president, presided during the bu siness session. Mrs. Harry Raulerson gave a talk on “Balance in Flower Ar rangement” during the program. After the meeting refreshments were served and a stork shower was given for Mrs. J. D. Orser. Those attending were Mes dames Horace Williams, Dick Schmitt, Dick Purcell, Emory Middleton, Clyde Anderson, Oli ver Pearson, Collis Highsmith, Harry Raulerson, Norman Lewis, Earl May, W. C. Long, J. D. Or ser, and Robert Smith. Hearing on Water Laws Set May 21 The Georgia Water Law Re vision Commission will hold a hearing at the courthouse in Waycross on Monday, May 21, on the matter of stream pollu tion and other water problems. Mr. and Mrs. Lyde Thomas and sons of Statenville and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Strickland of Blythes Island were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Ro binson on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Roland Davis and children visited Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Wildes in Brunswick on Sunday. Mrs. Frank Walker and Mrs. Myrtle Davis were visitors in Woodbine on Tuesday. Mrs. Robert Edgy and children are visiting in Atlanta with her sister, Mrs. P. J. Oxford. Mr. and Mrs. Bell are moving into a new home in Waynesville which they built after their old home was burned. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Gibson spent Monday in Macon. Miss Prances Walker spent the weekend visiting in Woodbine and Jacksonville. Waynesville News By MRS. PETE GIBSON • * • •- * • • • • • * • • • • • • • Sraniky tiiirriirwi Rural Road Paving Set For Brantley The State Rural Roads Author ity has announced that Brantley County will get about five and a half miles of paving of rural roads some time this fall. The road to be paved will be the Nahunta-Raybon road by way of Oak Grove church. The paving will extend from Nahun ta to Oak Grove Church and thence back to Highway 301 at Purdom’s Store. The bonds for the project will be sold some time in July. The Brantley County project is only a small part of the plans for paving about $15,000,000 worth of rural roads in Georgia during the next few years. Wreck at Patterson Injures 6 Six people were admitted to the Pierce County Hospital Wed nesday night, May 2, as a result of a head-on collision in the east city limits of Patterson on Geor gia Highway 38. The injured were listed as James Ellis Graham of Patterson, Mrs. Edna Graham and three children, Jennifer, Jimmie and Joetta, and M. J. Henderson of Albany. Henderson was charged with driving at a high rate of speed, under the influence of liquor and failure to grand the right-of-way. He was traveling west in a 1956 Chevrolet when he pulled out to pass another car and hit the Studebaker driven by Graham head-on. Henderson suffered a broken leg and was transferred from the Pierce County Hospital to an Albany Hospital on May 6. Graham suffered internal in juries and head lacerations and was dismissed from the hospital Tuesday of this week along with his daughter, Jimmie, 3, who al so suffered internal injuries. Jen nifer Graham, 13, was dismissed Saturday after being treated for lacerations of the face and arms. Joetta Graham, 9, was treated for lacerations in the emergency room and released the night of the accident. Mrs. Graham’s condition was reported as serious. She suffered from shock, internal and head injuries and lacerations of the face. She was transferred to a Jacksonville hospital for special ized treatment on Monday of this week. Troopers W. E. Strickland and D. M. Griffin investigated the accident. AUTOMATIC INSECT sprayers Insects on cattle can cause a lot of trouble, says Dr. C. R. Jordan, Extension entomologist. Use of an automatic sprayer with the proper insecticide will help control horn flies, protect animal from stable flies, horse flies and deer flies, and often keep flies off cows during milking. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 10, 1956 Crops Look Good After Bad Start According to George A. Loyd, county agent, the agricultural crops in Brantley County are looking good considering the bad start they have had. Mr. Loyd states that blue mold on tobacco beds made tobacco setting a week or two later than usual and that cold windy wea ther in March and early in April caused much of the tobacco and corn to have to be replanted. The good seasons that have prevailed for the past three weeks, Mr. Loyd says has done much to offset the adverse con ditions suffered earlier in the spring and that crops are com ing along nicely at present. He says that it has been a little tod wet in some areas of the county for the last week for farmers to do the best job of controlling grass and weeds but that no ser ious damage has resulted from too much rain. The agent stated that a few words of warning to tobacco farmers, is for them to be on the lookout for those insects that da mage their crops and start spray ing or. dusting in time to kill these pests before they have time to do too much damage, also that farmers with tobacco planted on low land should keep it on a fairly high bed, and keep the end of the furrows open in order that the water can get off the land quickly in case of heavy rains, to lessen the chances of their crop could drown. Palmetto News By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Drury and children of Brunswick visit ed their mother Mrs. S. C. M. Drury Friday. < • • • Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Johns spent the weekend visiting friends at GSCW, Milledgeville. They also attended the Spanish Majors’ Reunion at the Institute of Languages. » » » A revival is in progress at Browntown and everyone is in vited to attend at eight o’clock each evening. • • • Mrs. Spencer Drury and child ren and Mrs. S. C. M. Drury visited in Brunswick Saturday. » • * Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Jacobs and children of Raybon spent Sunday with Mrs. W. H. Jacobs. * * » Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Smith, Boyd, Floyd, Anne, and Frances were Sunday dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Rooks. Junior Thomas Thanks Voters To the Voters Os the Hickox District: I wish to express my thanks to the voters of the Hickox dis trict of Brantley County for their confidence in me as ex pressed by electing me county commissioner. I will do my best to merit your confidence and will try to serve you in the manner you have a right to expect. Please call on me if I can be of service to any of you at any time. Thank you again for your sup port. Yours sincerely, Alfred (Junior) Thomas. Georgia com growers are ad vised to side dress their crop with 80 pounds of nitrogen per acre; to cultivate early, rapid and shallow, and to lay by 35 to 40 days after planting. George Says He Won't Run Again Senator Walter F. George announced Wednesday that he will not run for re-election to the U. S. Senate. The veteran senator from Georgia, chairman of the pow erful Foreign Affairs Commit tee, stated that President Eisen hower had offered him a post as personal representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization: Herman Talmadge, when told that George would not run, praised the senator and also immediately announced his own candidacy for the U. S. Senate. Age Limit Is Extended On Polio Vaccine The age limits for Salk polio vaccine have been extended to include all persons over six months of age and below their 20th birthday. The extension was recommend ed by the State Advisory Com mittee on Polio Vaccine and ac cepted by the Georgia Depart ment of Public Health. Chairman of the Committee is Dr. John Venable, assistant to the director, Georgia Department of Public Health. About 300,000 persons will be added to the eligibility list as a result of the extension. Pregnant women before the eighth month are still eligible. The former priority included children from one through 14 years of age, and pregnant wo men before the eighth month. Pregnant women are still eligible under the new extension. J. Walter Crews Thanks Voters To the Citizens Os Brantley County; I would like to take this means of expressing my sincere apprec iation and thanks to those who supported me in both races for Sheriff of Brantley County. It is my desire to serve all the people faithfully and impartially to the best of my ability. For this privilege I am very grateful. Again I would like to thank you for your vote of confidence in electing me Sheriff of Brant ley County for the next four years. Yours sincerely, J. Walter Crews. Children Reply To Questions On School Exams From children’s papers came these classics: “Longfellow made many fast friends. Among the fastest were Phoebe and Alice Cary . . . Launcelot knocked at the castle door and asked if he could be put up with for the night . . . A monologue is a conservation between two people, like hus bank and wife . . . In Christianity a man can have only one wife. This is known as monotony . . . Climate lasts all the time, but weather only lasts a few days. Mrs. lona D. Sikes and family and Margaret Louise Rozier of Lulaton were guests of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sikes in Callahan, Fla., on Sunday. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Sewerage Problem Acute as Water Level Grows Lower The Satilla River, reduced to shame through pollu tion and drought during past years, once again has been restored to at least a partia rains that have flooded its h ers, stained by vegetation, i south of Jekyll Island, when Ocean. The shame of the abuse and injustice to the beautiful stream, winding through South Georgia, by using it as a sewerage dispo sal method has been the subject of much controversy during the past few years as people have been awakening to the fact that the river is becoming a health hazard as well as a menace to unknowing sportsmen who fished in the dark waters. Droughts during the past years saw the river reach the lowest water level in history. A station gauge is located at the Waycross river bridge to record the rise and fall of the water by the De partment of Interior geological survey. During 1955, in places the river bed was dry, with the once gleaming white sand bars, green and brown with oil and sewerage which is dumped into the river at Waycross, and the Blackshear sewerage which is carried to the Satilla down the Alabaha River. The fish caught from the river in the area covering many miles downstream from Waycross, are oily and unfit for eating. The rains this fall and spring have once again brought the river to life and on the surface it a gain looks normal and flows ma jectically on its course to the ocean. But only the surface has changed as the sewerage is still being dumped into the flowing waters, contaminating fish life, and making it a health hazard for persons to go swimming or wad ing in its waters. It will continue to be a health menace and rec reational, loss until cities and towns bordering the river build sewerage disposal plants. The history of the Satilla River is glowing with color as the river itself was the pulse of life as the early settlers began to popu late this area. In the late 1700’s, the area bordering the river on the south was heavily populated by the Spainards coming in from Florida and it is believed that the name being changed to St. Illa, later being changed to Satilla af ter the Spainards were driven back into Florida. The area between the Satilla River and the little Alabaha Creek was said to have been Indian territory extending north ward through several counties. It is believed that the Indians nam ed the Alabaha Creek and that the name had a special signifi cance, probably “dark waters”. This is a belief of O. D. Johnson, who has made a study of the rivers bordering Pierce county. The Alabaha Creek is one of the Satilla’s largest tributaries. It originates at the merger of the Big and Little Hurricane branch es in the Sunset community and empties into the Satilla River below the Osborn Watson place on the river. The little creek is approximately 16 land miles long, although it winds and twists through the county until it is ap proximately 50 river miles long. Logging Industry Early settlers coming in from the coast after Oglethorpe landed in Georgia began to migrate fur ther up the river, settling and clearing small farms along the banks of the deep stream. The river was then used as a contact with the coastal areas and log ging was one of the main indus tries, as people cleared their small tracts of land and floated the logs dovm stream. Later, as the river area be The Home Newspaper is Read Like a Letter From Home. If They Don’t Subscribe, They Borrow The Enterprise. By Dorothy M. Clough In The Blackshear Times 1 degree Os its past glory by ianks carrying the dark wat mto the St. Andrews Sound, 5 it empties into the Atlantic came more heavily populated, settlers made rafts of logs, load ing the rafts with cross ties and rosin and floating the rafts into Burnt Fort, the only timber mar ket in this area at that time. The cross ties and rosin were also sold and the loggers would re turn to their homes up the river by boat. Although the early settlers of this area were hard working in dividuals who suffered many de privations and sufferings from the Indians and the land itself, it was also an era of destruction of the abundant natural resources that made the land rich and bountiful. History recalls the times when “log rollings” were held and the whole community gathered at small farms for the purpose of clearing lands for crops. It was a time of celebration when mighty men matched their strength and skills in the rolling of logs. It was also a time of merry mak ing, for there was little social life at that time and the women cooked and served the men at their laborious tasks. Era of Waste It was also a time of destruc tion .as only the select timber was saved and floated down the river to Burnt Fort to be market ed. The other that was not used for building purposes was piled into big piles and burned. The era when the river was used for logging extended for approxi mately J3O years reaching its peak in the late 1890’s. Faster transportation came in the build ing of roads and railroads. A. M. Johnson opened a timber market in Atkinson around 1890. Conservation minded people are conscious that today all means must be taken to save the for ests and prevent waste from fire because we will not have another crop of natural resources to waste and we must conserve to meet the present and future need. The Satilla River was at one time commercially used to At kinson for farm commodities, cross ties, rosin and lumber. Prospects were that it would be used for commercial inland na vigation. The river was survey ed to the Waycross railroad bridge by the U. S. Engineers for the possibility of making it navi gable from Way cross to the coast but it was never completed due to rail transportation being cen tered around its headwaters, ( bringing pressure on the river projed. - Congress Assisted Congressman W. G. Brantley, of Pierce county, in the late 1800’s got Congress to appropriate $15,000 for snag work on the Satilla River. The project now would cost upwards of one-half million dollars. Surveys have shown that the water level has continued to lo wer extensively during the past 25 years until it is essential that water conservation measures are adopted if we are to maintain adequate supply through drought seasons. Nature once provided dams by the large amount of beavers in this section which dammed the streams. Then, too, there was no extensive ditching and water re mained in the small ponds and streams keeping a high water level throughout the area.