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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 24, 1956
CLASSIFIED
ADS
SALESMAN WANTED
Be a traveling salesman. Make
$75.00 to SIOO.OO per week operat
ing own Watkins business in this
county. Write the J. R. Watkins
Company, 659 West Peachtree St.,
Atlanta, Georgia. 5|24
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May this hour remain one
of your fond memories.
Congratulations class of '56.
Moody Bros.
Furniture Company
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Claude A. Smith
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Get Cutter’s Snake Bite Kit at
Moody Bros., Nahunta, Ga. “Bet
ter be safe than sorry”.
Complete jet type convertible
water system, fully automatic,
ready to install, $89.95. Moody
Bros., Nahunta, Ga.
COTTAGES FOR RENT
Two cottages for rent at At
kinson, Ga. Apply at Prescott
Grocery at Atkinson, Ga. 6|7
HELP WANTED
Family man for Georgia poul
try farm. No experience neces
sary. Modern house furnished
family. Apply in person at Room
21, Bon-Air Motel, Jesup, Geor
gia, from 2:00 to 5:30 p.m. on
Tuesday, May 29. 524
MALE AND FEMALE
HELP WANTED
Man or woman wanted to han
dle McNess Products full or
spare time. Opportunity to make
S4O a day. No experience neces
sary. Write McNESS COMPANY,
P. O. Box 2766, DeSoto Station,
Memphis, Tenn. 5|24
Greetings
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success and I
happiness.
Roy &
Katie Ham
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good fortune.
Dick Purcell
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WE OFFER BEST WISHES
FOR A HAPPY FUTURE.
Mr. & Mrs.
R. B. Brooker
Pollution of Satilla River Is
Protested at Waycross Meet
The newly organized Pierce County Conservation
League took its first public action toward helping to clean
up local streams by presenting their stand on the conser
vation of water to the Georgia Water Law Revision Com
mission at a public hearing in Waycross Monday, May 21.
The meeting was held at the
Ware County courthouse and was
well-attended by citizens of this
section of Georgia.
The commission was created by
the Georgia Legislature to study
water problems in Georgia and
report back to the 1957 session
of the Legislature with recom
mendations for new or additional
laws concering use management
and use of water in Georgia.
Scott Candler, chairman of the
Georgia Water Law Revision
Commission, presided with a pa
nel committee that included G.
F. Powers, Milledgeville, repre
senting Soil and Water Conser
vation; Thad McDaniel, Jesup,
representing industry; Malcolm
L. Taylor, Savannah, represent
ing pulp and paper industry; W.
H. Wier, State, Health Depart
ment.
Speaking for the Georgia Con
servation League were Fred Stur
gis, president of the League, of
Macon; P. L. Ploeger, of Darien;
Sheriff Tom Poppell, director of
the League, of Darien, and O. D.
Johnson, director, of Blackshear.
Mr. Johneon is also executive
secretary of the Pierce County
Conservation League.
Representing the Pierce Coun
ty Conservation League were
Lannis Thomas, president; Lee
Broome, director.
Lannis Thomas, president of
the Pierce County Conservation
League, made a statement to the
commission on behalf of the lo
cal league. In his statement Mr.
Thomas told the commission of
the great damage being done to
the Satilla River by the city of
Waycross and the damage to the
Alabaha River by the city of
Blackshear, in the dumping of
raw sewerage, oil, etc., in the
rivers.
Mr. Thomas stated that fish
caught in the Satilla were unfit
for eating and asked the commis
sion to recommend laws helping
to remedy this situation.
Lee Broome, member of the
board of directors of the Pierce
County Conservation League, and
an editor of The Blackshear
Times, followed up Mr. Thomas’
statements telling the commis
sion that:
“It is the moral and civic duty
of Blackshear and Waycross to
install sewerage disposal plants
so‘that nothing will go into the
Satilla River and Alabaha River
that would in any way pollute
the streams.’’
Mr. Broome continued with the
statement “ . . . I appear before
this commission to ask that you
recommend o the General As
sembly of Georgia that laws be
enacted at the next session, with
teeth in them making them en
forceable, making the cities of
Georgia clean up the mess they
are making by installing sewer
age disposal plants, giving them
a reasonable length of time in
which to do so”.
Waycross city manager Charles
Dixon had appeared prior to Mr.
Broome and stated that the city
of Waycross could not possibly
finance the installation of sewer
age disposal plants at this time,
to which Mr. Broome replied:
“The City of Blackshear, dur
ing the past few years, has spent
about SIOO,OOO in sewer and wa
ter main extensions and improve
ments. The City of Waycross is
now in the process of spending
approximately $400,000 in sewer
and water \nain extensions and
improvements, but the City of
Way cross says it cannot finance
a disposal plant. I contend that
they could finance it if the mo
ney that is being spent was di
verted toward this much need
ed project”.
"The rivers of Georgia are not
the property of cities, and there
fore they have no right to de
stroy them. They belong to all
the people of Georgia and should
be preserved for them,” Editor
Broome concluded.
Lee S. Purdom, city attorney of
Blackshear and Patterson, made
statements concerning what the
two municipalities are planning
and also expressed his views as
a private citizen concerning the
pollution of the rivers of this
area by cities and industry.
Mr. Purdom said the situation
of pollution had become so bad
on his property on the Satilla
River that he was erecting a sign
“this stream is polluted, wade or
drink at your own risk.”
“If the situation isn’t abated
we are going to file suits in the
Ware Superior Court against the
city of Waycross, the Atlantic
Coast Line and the sand clean
ing company, and we’ll call on
State agencies, sportsmen and
conservation groups to testify,”
he warned.
He reported that Blackshear is
engaged in the planning stages
of promoting a bond issue for
a sewerage disposal plant.
Health Department official
Wier said, “The cities of Way
cross and Blackshear need sewer
age treatment plants.” He also
said some of the industries have
been offending, especially with
oil.
Atlantic Coast Line official G.
G. Lynch, Wilmington, N. C., as
sistant superintendent Motive
Power and Equipment, pointed
out that the railroad put in oil
separators to take care of the
oil waste from the shops in Way
cross, but added that this was
just recently done and that there
had been an engineering slip-up,
and that the separators weer not
doing the job needed. He contin
ued that the project was being
reworked and the situation of oil
from the shops would soon be
remedied. He delared that this
will take care of about 90 to 95
per cent of the oil waste.
O. D. Johnson, Blackshear lum
ber man, and member of Georgia
Conservation League board of di
rectors said “We need laws with
teeth in them to abate pollution
of streams and to conserve wa
ter.”
He compared the folly of hav
ing a $350,000 hospital in Black
shear, and about 300 yards from
the door of the hospital, the raw
sewerage empties into an open
ditch.
“We take them into the hospi
tal, cure them, and turn them
out into the filth. I ask you, is
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Johnson continued that Way
cross had a situation just as bad:
Roaches, which cause a lot of
trouble in the kitchen, thrive on
waste food and other garbage.
The best way to get rid of them
is to clean up, thereby removing
their food supply.
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Phone 269 ’l9 Albany Ave.
Waycroc*. Georgia
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The Country Store
Senior Class Play
Will Be Held
Friday Night
“Fuedin’ Over Yonder”, a hill
billy comedy, will be presented
by the Nahunta High School
senior class at the school gym
nasium Friday night, May 25.
Admission prices: children un
der 12 years 25 cents.
Adults 50 cents.
Everyone is urged to attend.
The proceeds will be used on the
class trip to New York. (Adv.)
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