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VOLUME 36 — NUMBER 26
Extra Effort Asked to .
Keep Down Highway Toll
CHICAGO — With the nation facing an all-time
high traffic death record this year, two leading traffic
safety organizations this week called for a crack-down
enforcement policy during the Fourth of July holiday.
The National Safety Council
and the International Association
of Chief of Police said that ap
peals to driver responsibility
must be supplemented by strict
enforcement of the law to curb
the heedless and reckless minor
ity.
Such action is the only effec
tive way to hold down the death
toll on an immediate and short
term basis, the two traffic safety
groups agreed.
The joint enforcement recom
mendations for the 30-hour 4th
of July period were:
1. Cancel all days off for po
lice and put every available of
ficer on duty. Assign as marij’
personnel as possible in plain
clothes and unmarked cars to
traffic patrol, especially from 6
p.m. to midnight on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
2. Concentrate manpower on
high volume or high speed streets
and highways where serious ac
cidents are most likely to occur.
3. Concentrate on hazardous
moving violations, especially
speeding. Be alert for erratic
driving and other evidence of
evening-hour driving after drink
ing.
4. Coordinate the effort with
other enforcement agencies.
5. Use whatever other enforce
ment means are available local
ly, such as radar.
6. Publicize the program in ad
vance so motorists will under
stand and cooperate with the ob
jectives.
The Council estimates that
there will be 50 million vehicles
on the move during the holiday.
Usually extra travel means ex
tra hazard.
One hundred and sixty nation
al organizations are participating
in the Fourth of July effort to
current three main holiday driver
fault—
1. Haste — to crowd the most
fun into the shortest time.
2. Impatience — which leads to
chance-taking as the result of
congestion delays.
3. Drinking and driving.
Lura Crews Died
At Hoboken Tuesday
Lura Crews, 34, of Route 2,
Hoboken, died Tuesday afternoon
at his residence.
He is survived by one sister,
Mrs. Bertha Lewis of Hoboken;
two half sisters, Mrs. Caroline
Layton of Folkston and Mrs.
Mary Knox of Nahunta; two
brothers, Oliver Crews of Way
cross; eight half brothers,. Wiley
Crews of Rocky Mount, N. C.,
Jessie Crews of Georgia, Flem
ing Vows and Walter Crews of
Fernandina, Fla., Melton Crews
and Lanne Crews' of Folkston,
Randall Crews of Hoboken, Cal
vin Crews of Nahunta, and se
veral nieces and nephews.
DEDICATE DOUGLAS aKMORY — State officials who attended the dedication
ceremonies of the new $87,000 armory at Douglas last Thursday are shown, left to
right, Lt.-Gov. Ernest Vandiver, Revenue Commissioner T. V. Williams, Gov. Mar
vin Griffin, Adj. Gen. George Hearn, Master of Ceremonies Dewey Hayes (Coffee
County Representative), Georgia Guard Commander Joseph Fraser, and Highway
Chairman W. A. Blasingame.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Two Canning
Plants Now
Operating
The canning plants in Nahunta
and Hoboken are now open each
Tuesday and Thursday for the
purpose of preparing food for
canning or freezing, it is an
nounced by W. C. Long and Jack
Moore.
We have, through the coopera
tion of the County Board of Edu
cation and the State Department
of Education, added a pea shelter
which is very efficient for both
green peas and butter beans. The
vegetables need not be dry just
as they would to be shelled by
hand. They should be free from
water as this will cause them to
cling to the machine.
We also have a tomato juicer
and corn silker that are quite
helpful in canning. These mach
ines caused considerable invest
ment so let us show our apprecia
tion by utilizing them.
Remember that a fresh product
going into the can or freezer will
come out a better food. All food
should be gathered the day it is
to be preserved and coYn should
be broken just a short time be
fore it is cooked.
For additional information call
phone 2-3234.
Palmetto News
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Church,
Barbara Ann and Dougie of Al
exandria, Va., spent Sunday night
here with Mrs. Church’s mother,
Mrs. S. C. M. Drury. They were
en route to Jacksonville to visit
relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Redick Thornton
and children, 80, Robert and
Sinda, and Mrs. Don Smith of
Waycross, were guests of Mrs.
W. H. Jacobs over the weekend.
William Jacobs returned home
with them to spend a week.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Freeman
and famiiy attended the wedding
of Miss Audry Merrow and Rene
Drowdy at Pine Haven Baptist
Church in Brunswick on Sunday.
Mr. Drawdy is a nephew of Mrs.
Freeman.
Miss Hazel Knight and Jimmy
Anderson of Thalman were mar
ried in Brunswick on Sunday,
June 17.
Mrs. Ernest Knight left on
Thursday for Winter Haven, Fla.,
to visit her parents.
By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
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Braniky iuiterprw
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 28, 1956
Allen Family
Reunion Held
Sunday, June 24
The Allen family reunion,
which is an annual affair, had
their regular meeting Sunday
June 24, at Laura S. Walker Park
with one of the largest crowds
ever present .
There were family connect
ions and friends from several
States, including Georgia, Flor
ida, California and Ohio.
These are some of those who
attended:
Mrs. Charity Allen, J. C. and
Leona Allen, Mr. and Mrs. S. K.
Allen and children, Mr. and Mrs.
J. A. Allen and children, Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Allen and child
ren of Nahunta, Mr. and Mrs. W.
R. Allen Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Law
rence Allen, Folkston; Mr. and
Mrs. G. W. (Dick) Allen, Mr. and
Mrs. Richard Allen, Miami, Fla.,
Mr. and Mrs. Henry H. Allen,
Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Allen.
'Kennie Allen and John R. Al
len, of Jacksonville, Mr. and Mrs.
Noah Jordan, Ludowici, Mr. and
Mrs. Durwood B. Mills, St. Si
mons Island, Mrs. Paul Chapman
and son, Freddie, Mr. and Mrs.
Gene B. Lee, Mrs. Pauline Mes
tretta and children of Waycross,
Mr. and Mrs. Maxie Allen, Mr.
and Mrs. Rae G. Deane of Way
cross, Walton B. Allen of Folks
ton, Mrs. F. E. Phelps and child
ren of Savannah, Mrs. Lottie Al
len Williams of Blackshear, Mr.
and Mrs. J. F. Allen, Avon Park.
Leon Allen, DeLand, Mr. and
Mrs. John McNab, Tampa, Mrs.
Lucille Allen Robinson and child
ren of Hortense, Mr. and Mrs.
Jasper Johnson of Nahunta, Mrs.
Mildred Hector and children of
Tampa, Mr. and Mrs. John A.
Smith, Sarasota, Mr. and Mrs.
James Halligan and children of
Eastman, Mr. and Mrs. J. E.
Bonner of Jacksonvile, Mrs. Con
nie Allen Colvin of Brunswick,
Mrs. Vonnie Allen Sikes, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Thomas of Hoboken,
Mrs. Augie Allen Wainright, Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Sestito and child
ren, Mrs. J. B. Allen, Miami, Mrs.
C. G. Edgy of Brunswick, Mr. and
Mrs. H. B. Robinson of Jackson
ville.
Some of the friends and guests
were:
Rev. and Mrs. Cecil Thomas
and children of Nahunta; Mrs.
Robert Sapp and children of
Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Hack
Prescott of Dayton, Ohio, Louis
Prescott, Atkinson, Joyce Pres
cott, Mary Lou Prescott, Mrs. J.
O. Hughes, Redwood, Calif., Mrs.
W. A. Rozier, Blackshear, Mr.
and Mrs. O. J. Ammons, Mr. and
Mrs. Owen Carter, Hoboken, Mr.
R. L. Prescott, St. Simons Island,
Mr. and Mrs. Woodrow Wain
right of Nahunta, and a host of
others.
A basket dinner was served
with a barrel of lemonade and
iced tea.
More than 766,000 persons we
re injured in weekend traffic
accidents last year.
Four to 8 P- m. are the most
dangerous hours of the day to
drive.
Want to Help
Good Cause?
Here It Is
If you want to help in a good
cause, why not give what sum
of money you can spare to help
ing to pay the hospital expenses
of a little girl who has been
desperately ill for nearly two
months?
The little girl is Gloria Wilson,
young daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Omie Wilson. Gloria has been in
the hospital nearly two months
with encephalitis and is now cri
tically ill with an added inter
nal infection.
The parents of Gloria have
not asked for public aid but this
newspaper has taken it on itself
to make this appeal for funds
for this worthy but unfortunate
family who are among our best
citizens.
The Bible tells us, “Bear ye one
anothers burdens and so fulfill
the law of Christ.”
This newspaper does not make
it a practice to make appeals for
funds in Qases of ordinary need,
but this case is exceptional and
so we are making an exception
of it.
If you can help in any amount,
please forward your donation to
The Brantley Enterprise.
A list of donors will be made
and put on file at The Enter
prise office for checking by any
one who wishes to do so.
Third Polio
Shot Is Now
Available
Health Department officials
and private physicians have been
advised by the State Polio Vac
cine Committee that, effective
immediately, all children who
had their second injection seven
months or more ago may now
receive their third (booster)
shot.
Present plans are to continue
giving vaccine throughout the
summer.
If your child was among the
first to receive the vaccine we
urge you to give his booster be
fore the polio season.
Immunizations are given in
your local Health Department all
day Wednesdays and until noon
on Saturdays except on legal
holidays.
Lulaton News
Mrs. lona D. Sikes and family
and granddaughter Margaret Ro
zier visited relatives and friends
in Callahan, Fla., Wednesday.
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Pfc. George W. Sikes has re
turned to the states after 14
months duty in Germany. George
and Mrs. Louise Sikes are visit
ing Mrs. lona Sikes for a few
days.
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Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sikes
of Callahan visited Mrs. lona D.
Sikes and family over the week
end.
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T|Sgt. Darius Arnett of Al
bany, Ga., visited the Rhoden
and Sikek families during the
weekend.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Stalings
of Baltimore, Md., announce the
birth of a baby boy on June 2.
The baby weighed nine pounds
and two ounces. He has been
named Lawrence Rogers.
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Mr. and Mrs. Wm. B. Graham
of Waycross announce the birth
of a daughter, Marian Faye, born
on June 12 in a Waycross hospi
tal. Mrs. Graham is the former
Faye Dowling of Nahunta. Pat
ernal grandmother is Mrs. Thel
ma Blount of Nahunta.
For just five cents, a miller
can enrich a year’s supply of
corn meal for the average Geor
gia family. So says John’Noland,
corn meal enrichment specialist
for the Agricultural Extension
Service.
Vacation Bible
School in Progress
At Waynesville
Vacation Bible School started
at Waynesville Baptist Church
on June 25 with 51 present.
The officers are as follows:
Principal, Rev. L. J. Edgy; Or
ganist and Treasurer, Marguerite
Jacobs; Intermediate Teachers,
Mrs. Emmie Walker and Mrs. B.
A. Lightsey; Junior Teachers,
Mrs. Mary Lou Gibson and Mrs.
Mamie Moody; Primary Teachers,
Mrs. Julia Gibson; Beginners
Teachers, Mrs. Vivian Drury;
Helpers, Mrs. Frank Walker, Mrs.
C. D. Gibson and Mrs. Myrtle
Davis; Crafts, Rev. L. J. Edgy,
Mrs. Daisy Hunter and Mrs. Ma
rian Gibson.
Hostesses for the week: Mon
day, Mrs. Marian Gibson and Mrs.
Dorothy Gibson; Tuesday, Mrs.
Myrtle Davis and Mrs. Frank
Walker; Wednesday, Mrs. Mildred
Kelly and. Mrs. Jeanette Jones;
Thursday, Mrs. Daisy Hunter and
Mrs. Emmie Walker; Friday,
Misses Annette Dowling and
Frances Walker.
Everyone is invited to attend
the closing exercises on Friday
night, June 29, at Waynesville
Baptist Church.
Waynesville
News
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Mr. Truby Thornton is now at
home after undergoing eye sur
gery in a Waycross hospital.
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Mr. Marvin Robinson is a pa
tient at the Homerville hospital.
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Mrs. W. B. Whitener of Jack
sonville visited her mother and
father, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith
last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Persons
and Mrs. Hawkins of Waycross
were guests of Mr. and Mrs. C.
D. Gibson on Wednesday.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Wiggins
and Dyer and Mrs. Jerry House
of Jacksonville Beach, Mr. and
Mrs. Thomas Kaney of Fernan
dina visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Gibson on Saturday.
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Mr. and Mrs. M. Robinson took
a fishing trip to Crescent City,
Fla., on Tuesday and Wednesday
of last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Thornton
of Waycross, Mrs. B. F. Thornton,
Mrs. Coleman Blue and Nancy,
and Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Miller
and family, all of Brunswick,
were guesst of Mr. and Mrs. T.
E. Thornton on Sunday.
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Matthew Phillips, Kenneth
Haynes of Perry, Fla., Johnny
Edgy of Brunswick and Miss
Shelba Jean Parrot of Woodbine
were guests at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Walker last
week.
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Miss Reba McVeigh and Miss
Cathy Pearson of Florence, S. C.,
are visiting relatives in Waynes
ville this week.
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Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Robinson
spent Sunday on St. Simons Is
land.
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Mrs. L. W. Robinson wil leave
on Thursday of this week for a
trip to Mooresville, Ind., where
she will spend several weeks
visiting her sister.
Mrs. Marvin Kelly and child
ren spent the weekend in Lake
City, Fla., visiting her father.
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Professor Brank and the Cen
tral Quartet from Central Col
lege, Central, S. C., were dinner
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Day
of Waynesville on Thursday of
last week.
FEDERAL MEAT INSPECTION
Federal meat inspection, an act
passed by Congress in 1906, costs
the nation less than a dime a
year per person, Bill Clayton,
Extension beef cattle specialist,
points out. Today’s family food
shopper is assured of clean and
wholesome meat by the small
purple shield stamped on meat
which indicates the package has
been inspected.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Thompson Enters Senate
Race Against Talmadge
ATLANTA — Former Gov. M. E. Thompson qualified
at the last hour Saturday to challenge former Gov. Her
man E. Talmadge for the U. S. Senate seat being vacated
by veteran Sen. Walter F. George.
COL. LORENZO D. ADAMS
Colonel Adams
Graduate of
Army War College
Colonel Lorenzo D. Adams,
whose wife, April, lives at 202
De Salles Ave., Mobile, Ala., was
graduated from the Army War
College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa.,
June 14. Colonel Adams was one
of 200 senior officers completing
a ten-month course at the Army’s
highest educational institution.
He has received orders assigning
him to the Far East Command.
A 1938 graduate of the U. S.
Military Academy, the colonel
entered the Army in 1938. Among
his awards he holds the Bronze
Star Medal and the Purple
Heart. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Alvah R. Adams, live in Hor
tense.
Nahunta Garden Club
Met at Knox Hotel
Tuesday Afternoon
The Nahunta Garden Club met
at the Knox Hotel Tuesday af
ternoon, June 26.
Miss Mary Knox led the mem
bers on a tour of beautiful gar
dens in Nahunta. The gardens
visited were those of Mrs. Ma
bel Moody, Mrs. Albert Mizell,
Mrs. E. A. Moody, Mrs. J. B.
Lewis, Mrs. Jessie Lee, Mrs. A.
B. Brooker and Mrs. Herschel
Herrin.
Refreshments were served at
the home of Mrs. Herschel Her
rin by Mrs. Herrin and Mrs. El
roy Strickland.
Among those present were
Mrs. E. A. Moody, Mrs. J. B.
Lewis, Mrs. Lula Brown, Mrs.
Allen Barnard, Miss Mary Knox,
Mrs. Jesse Lee, Mrs. Lois Wil
liams, Mrs. Mollie Highsmith,
Mrs. Rhoda Strickland, Mrs. Her
schel Herrin and Mrs. Dorothy
Graham.
BEST PROTECTED FORESTS
Georgia has more privately
owned forest land under orga
nized fire protection, than any
state in the union. More than
20 million acres of Georgia tim
ber land are now under such pro
tection, according to C. Dorsey
Dyer, College of Agriculture
Extension Service forester.
Saturday is the most danger
ous day of the week to drive.
Lt.-Gov. Vandiver Asks
Curb of Court's Powers
ATLANTA — In a series of speeches over the state,
Lt. Gov. Ernest Vandiver is warning Georgians that A
merica is in for “a reign of judicial tyranny” unless the
powers of the U. S. Supreme Court are curbed. Pointing
to the court’s desegregation decisions and those declar
ing the alien and sedition acts of 37 states illegal, he
declared:
“Unless Congress can find away to get back some
of the powers the court has taken into its own hands
without authority, we are in for a reign of judicial tyran
ny .. . the only answer to the problem is to send men
to Congress who have the guts to say ‘no’.”
The Home Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
A hot race was immediately
indicated as Thompson released
a statement charging Talmadge is
the handpicked candidate of “big
money and big business.”
Talmadge, 42-year-old champ
ion of states’ rights and white
supremacy, retorted with a state
ment linking Thompson, 53, with
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People.
A third candidate, D. Talmadge
Bowers of Canton also has paid
his SSOO entry fee in the Senate
race.
The clash between Talmadge
and Thompson will be the only
major race in Georgia this year
since the governorship and most
statehouse offices are not at
stake.
A lively race appears shaping
up in the Bth Congressional Dis
trict, however, as the present
Rep. Iris Blitch is opposed by
Braswell Deen Jr. of Alma.
Judge Cecil Roddenberry is
unopposed for election to the re
mainder of the unexpired term
of the late Judge Walter Thomas
in the Waycross Judicial Circuit.
Three candidates are in the
race for the unexpired term of
the late Solicitor General J. R.
Walker Jr. of Blackshear. They
are Andrew Tuten of Alma, pre
sently serving by appointment of
the governor; John S. Gibson of
Douglas, a former solicitor; and
Dewey Hayes of Douglas, Coffee
county Representative in the
General Assembly.
Williams - Ramer
Miss Joann Williams, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Williams,
became the bride of Jack Ra
mer, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Ramer of Opp, Ala., in a double
ring ceremony at the Lulaton
Baptist Church, with Rev. Hilton
Morgan performing the rites, at
eight o’clock on Saturday, June
23.
The ceremony was performed
at the altar arched with branches
of bay leaves, ivy with white
zenias. Arrangements of white
glads and white zenias were used.
Carl Highsmith sang, “I Love
You Truly” with Mrs. Lester
Edgy playing the nuptial music.
Pearl Williams was the bride’s
maid with Charles Dean as best
man to the groom. Miss Williams
and Mr. Dean also acted as ush
ers. Kathy Strickland and Terry
Strickland were the flower girl
and ring bearer.
The bride was dressed in a
white ballerina length dress,
wore white lace mittens, a finger
tip veil and she carried a white
Bible topped with white glads
and Queen Annes lace. The
bridesmaid wore blue lace with
pink glad corsage.
Immediately after the wedding
a reception was held at the home
of Mrs. Evelyn Harris. Mrs. J. M.
Rogers assisted Mrs. Harris in
serving the wedding cake and
punch. Miss Pearl Williams and
Mrs. H. F. Rawls kept the bride’s
book.
The young couple will make
their home in Nahunta where Mr.
Ramer is employed.
More than 441 per cent of the
deaths and -more than 35 per
cent of the injuries due to motor
vehicle accidents last year oc
cured on Saturdays and Sun
days.
