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VOLUME 36 — NUMBER 28
Sweeping the Country
rock and roll sweeps the country
Rock and roll music and Elvis Pressley’s body gyra
tions have taken the younger generation by storm, so it
seems from the yakity-yak blaring from the juke organs
and from the squeals and swooning when Pressley squirms
on TV.
A big response can always be expected from a large
segment of people when their primitive emotions are ap
pealed to.
Savage races can outdo the moderns in “rock ani
roll”, with their primitive dances and crude efforts at
music with drums, tom-toms and shell rattling.
The rock and roll instinct goes “away back” but it
seems to make many devotees think they are “modern”.
A joke recently heard somewhere was that in a cer
tain “jive joint” the waiter dropped a platter full of
dishes and six couples got up to dance.
Could be, brother, could be, from the rattlings and
raspings we hear clattering from the radio and from the
juke organs.
MODERN ART HAS “ROCK AND ROLL.”
The rock and roll “music” has its counterpart in
much of the so-called modern art.
The art of it is to daub a few smears of paint around
on a canvass in away to make the “picture” meaning
less, call it by some silly title and claim it is “modern
art”.
No picture is really art the meaning of which is not
at least reasonably clear. And the clearer the meaning,
the greater the art.
Most so-called modern art is merely a pitiable revela
tion of a lack of talent, a spurious counterfiet that de
ceives only the ignorant “sophisticates” who themselves
have no clear word with which to express themselves.
Rock and roll “music” and rock and roll “art” only
expresses the state of confusion in which many people of
the present age find themselves.
There is a strong tendency in humanity to resort to
the primitive “rock and roll” outlets of emotion when
frustrated by problems and ideas too complicated for
easy solution.
It takes a lot of ability, conscience and character to
face the possible terrors of an atomic age and not be
tempted to flee back to the age of simple barbaric aban
don of “rock and roll”.
WAYCROSS - BRUNSWICK ROAD
BADLY NEEDS RESURFACING
Highway 84 from Waycross to Route 17 badly needs
a blacktop resurfacing job.
This road is the worst paved road in south Georgia,
according to what I have seen of the roads in our section
of the state.
Highway 84 was topped with coarse gravel several
months ago from Way cross to Nahunta but it is now in
worse condition than before the gravel job.
And the highway is in still worse condition from
Nahunta toward Brunswick as far as Route 17. It is so
wavy that several cases of road sickness have been re
ported.
A wavy road makes some people ill with a malady
similar to seasickness.
The people of Waycross, Hoboken, Nahunta and
Brunswick should make every effort to get the State
Highway Board to resurface Route 84 from Waycross
to Route 17.
YOU CAN’T STOP TRAFFIC DEATHS
BY CODDLING RECKLESS DRIVERS
It seems that Governor Griffin has called for a
crackdown on reckless automobile drivers in Georgia, in
an effort to stop the mounting toll of death and injuries
on the highways.
Some of the daily newspapers too- are now calling
loudly for better traffic law enforcement.
Only a few months ago some of the towns and
counties trying to curb the reckless drivers were accused
of having “speed traps’’ and a former governor was
threatening to revoke the charters of towns accused of
having “speed traps.’’
In most cases the so-called speed traps were mere y
the sincere efforts to officials to save lives and property,
but every screwball reckless driver caught was willing
to swear that he was innocent and to run to some motor
organization with a wail that he was being trappe
by some ogre of a small town or county officer.
From my experience as mayor of Nahunta I am con
vinced it is the nuts and crackpots that raise the loudest
howls when their recklessness is checked by any aw en
forcement officer. .. , .
These reckless, and sometimes very neurotic, drivers
can do no wrong in their own eyes. They try to make you
believe black is white and red is green. ,
It is true that once in a blue moon you ml B in
an officer or a town that would instigate area spee
trap” but most of the howls about speed traps were
caused by sincere efforts to try to stop highway slaughter.
I have listened to too many false alibis from reckless
drivers to be fooled by the clamor about speed traps.
You would only have to get a little ^penence m
traffic law enforcement to quickly learn w a e
are all about.
uraxiLiey VO
By CARL BROOME
inty — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Srantky
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 12, 1956
Bids Asked for Two Highway
Projects in Brantley County
Bids are being requested by
the State Highway Board on two
highway projects in Brantley
County, it is revealed by two
legal advertisements being run
in The Brantley Enterprise.
One project is by the Rural
Roads Authority for the Nahun
ta-Oak Grove-Raybon road. The
project is for 5.505 miles of grad
ing and paving and one bridge.
The second project is for 3.516
miles of fills and grading thru
the Satilla River swamp on High
way 301. This project starts five
miles north of Nahunta and the
fill will paralell the present road
through the river lowlands.
It is understood that bids will
be asked later for concrete
bridges on his new lane for 301.
PROCEEDINGS
OF COUNTY
COMMISSIONERS
The Brantley County Commis
sioners of Roads and Revenue
met in regular session July 3,
1956. Present were R. B. Brooker,
chairman, R. C. Harrell Jr.,
clerk, C. H. Penland, Silas D.
Lee, and T. . Rhoden.
The following commissioners
were paid for six days service
each: R. B. Brooker, $30.00; R.
C. Harrell Jr., $22.28; C. H. Pen
land, $22.28; T. V. Rhoden, $30.-
00; and Silas D. Lee, $30.00.
The following pauper list was
approved and ordered paid: Ocie
Moody, $10.00; Dora Merritt,
$10.00; and Thelma Sapp, SIO.OO.
The following road hand were
paid: Perry Crews, $165.85;
Woodrow Wilson, $157.85; I. C.
Harris, $173.85; J. F. Willis,
$157.85; Monsie Wilson, $194.28;
Ottis Morgan, $165.85; Talmadge
Gunter, $157.85; Elvin Griffin,
$162.30; Roscoe Murray, $165.85;
Barney Harris, $152.00; and O.
G. Lee, $225.00.
The following General Bills
were paid: Billy Mosley, $75.00,
janitor; City of Nahunta, $22.50,
water; W. B. Branch, $315.00,
termite control; C. W. Adams,
$25.00, salary; Andrey J. Tuten,
$63.34, salary; Archie A. Johns,
SBO.OO, salary; D. F. Herrin, $94.-
81, salary, fees; Georgia State
Forestry Comm., $525.00, budget;
George A. Loyd, $190.00, salary;
Sarah Dot Simpson, $106.05, sal
ary; Dr. M. E. Winchester, $62.-
00, salary; Cecil B. Ragsdale,
$93.50, salary; Rebecca D. Gri
ner, $273.60, salary; Lorena R.
Strickland, $193.30, salary; Dr.
E. A. Moody, $30.00, salary; City
of Nahunta, $22.50, water; The
Brantley Enterprise, SIOO.OO, ad
vertising and supplies; Sadlers
Plumbing, $5.00, repair; J. W.
Brooker, $61.67, supplies; Carl
ton Co., $404.38, repair and parts;
W. B. Branch, $95.00, termite
control; Blalock Machinery Co.,
$27.90, parts and repair; Satilla
Lumber Co., $4.88, lumber; Oke
fenoke FEA, $3.07, caution light;
Standard Oil Co., $215.01, gas,
oil; Washington National Ins. Co.,
$59.93, insurance; W. E. Johns,
$15.00, repair; Dr. E. A. Moody,
$6.50, treating prisoner; Depart
ment of Revenue, $235.80, W. H.
Tax; Teachers Retirement, $115.-
35, retirement; Brantley Tele
phone Co., $62.36, phones and
calls; Dept, of Public Welfare,
$923.76, budget; B. O. Jones,
$150.00, salary; B. O. Jones, $96-
90, fees, turnkeys; Dr. E. A.
Moody, $3.50, treating prisoner;
Sgt. Coleman, $102.50, school pat
rol camp dues; Mrs. R. L. Raul
erson, $1,650.00, R|W; M. B.
Hurshey, $1,125.00, RW; Roy
Harper, $266.67, RW; Roy Har
per, $2,763.90, R|W; C. R. Druhl,
$897.46, R|W; A. B. Brooker,
$5.53, supplies; C. Winton Adams,
$200.00, R|W, title work; H. S.
Wilson, $180.07, repair; Elroy
Strickland, $300.00, R|W; Porter
& Farr, $22.56, office supplies;
J. W. Walker, $50.00, piling; Mrs.
J. D. Brooker, $2,352.60, RW;
Lastingers Garage, $35.85, re
pairs.
There being no further busi
ness the meeting adjourned in
regular order.
R. B. Brooker, Chairman.
R. C. Harrell Jr., Clerk.
Georgia Plays
4 Home Games
Inl9s6Season
ATHENS, GA. — The Univer
sity of Georgia football team will
play four home games in San
ford Stadium, the stadium that
has more good seats on the sides
of the field than any other in
Dixie.
The opening home game on
Sept. 29 is against up-and-com
ing Florida State in a non-con
ference clash. Then follow bat
tles with three Southeastern Con
ference rivals: Mississippi State,
Kentucky and Georgia Tech.
The home schedule:
Sept. 29 — Florida State at 2
p.m.
Oct. 6 — Mississippi State at
2 p.m.
Oct. 27 — Kentucky at 2 p.m.
Dec. 1 — Georgia Tech at 2
p.m.
Palmetto News
By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Coleman
of Jacksonville visited Mrs. S.
C. M. Drury and Mrs. J. F. Jones
here on Sunday.
* * •
Phillip Poppell of Dock Junc
tion was a visitor in our com
munity on Sunday.
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Mr. and Mrs. Elvery Johnson
of Jacksonville were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Johnson on
Saturday and Sunday.
• * *
Miss Maxine Freeman and Miss
Duane Gibson and Billy Free
man were visitors on Jekyl Is
land on Sunday
Sheep are on the way back in
Georgia. Agricltural Extension
Service reports show that in Oct
ober, 1954, there were only 7,000
sheep in the state. As of June,
1956, there are over 30,000.
Social and Personal News
Fred Mcßee of Port Washing
ton, N. Y., left on Saturday after
spending a week with his aunt,
Mrs. Julia Morgan in Hickox.
• • *
Word has been received here
of the death of Robert Edgar
Barnes, 68, of Swainsboro, Ga.,
who died at his home on July
9. He was the father of Clyde
Barnes, a former resident of Na
hunta.
• * •
Mrs. J. H- Perry and Mrs. W.
B. Harper of Greenville, S. C.,
Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Adams and
family of West Palm Beach,
Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Harper
Jr., of Jacksonville; Mr. and
Mrs. C. H. Crews of Brunswick;
and Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Oxford
and daughter of Atlanta, were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. J.
Harper of Lulaton and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Edgy of Waynes
ville last week. Mrs. Oxford and
daughter stayed to spend a while
with relatives.
* • *
Mrs. Bill Goodner and two
children of Birmingham, Ala.,
and Miss Mary Ann Goodner of
Atlanta are spending this week
with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. S. Goodner. Mr. Bill
Goodner will arrive this week
end and his family will return
home with him.
• • •
Mrs. Ray M. Brown and little
daughter, Reba Jean, of Belglade,
Fla., are spending the summer
with her mother, Mrs. Alice High
smith.
• • •
Mr. jand Hrs. James B. Mad
dox and Linda and Gene of
Pensacola, Fla., are spending this
week with their parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. R. Johns,
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Chapman
of Knoxville, Tenn., were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Strick
land last week.
Rowell Birthday
Dinner Attended
By Large Crowd
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. (Billy)
Rowell of Hortense celebrated
their birthdays Sunday, July 8,
with a dinner spread under the
trees at their home.
Mr. and Mrs, Rowell have been
married 57 years. Mr. Rowell is
86 years old and Mrs. Rowell is
75.
A large birthday cake was fur
nished by their children in ap
preciation of the many happy
years they have spent together.
Among those present at the
birthday celebration were Mr.
and Mrs. B. W. Rowell, Mr. and
Mrs. Tollie Rowell and children,
Mr. and Mrs. Hardie Rowell and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell
Rowell and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Silas Rowell and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Dave Rowell and family,
Mr, and Mrs. Henry Brauda and
family, Mrs. Eva Rowell and
family, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Moody.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Carver,
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Rowell and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. G. C.
Rowell and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Billy Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. John
nie Rowell and family, Mr. and
Mrs. James Rowell and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Willie Joe Rowell
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Alvin
Rowell and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe W. Rowell and family, Mr.
and Mrs. J. P. Moreland, Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Lenox Anderson,
Mr. and Mrs. Carswell Royster,
Mr. and Mrs. Dean Lee, Mrs.
Zettie Bowen, Mr. and Mrs. E.
F. Carter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Doyle Carter and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Mike Carter and
family, W. H. Harris, B. W. Har
ris, Sarah Wainright, Addie Five
ash, Sandra Harris, Mrs. Hoke
Highsmith, Mrs. Conrad Harris,
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert A. Nodine
and A|lc John L. Scott.
MORE WATER, PLEASE
Henry Massey, Agricultural Ex
tension Service poultryman, says
a lack of water can cause chick
ens to give the symptoms of near
ly every poultry disease. There
should be at least one fount of
one gallon capacity per 100 chicks
and they should be well spaced
around the brooder, Massey
states.
Mrs. Don Caskey and Diane
and Jan of Lima,* Ohio, arrived
by plane at Jacksonville on Wed
nesday to -visit her sister, Mrs.
Jos. B. Strickland for two weeks.
Mrs. Strickland and Mrs. Bibb
Saye met them at the air port.
• • •
Dr. Van Bibb Saye, formerly
on the medical staff at Virginia
College of Medicine in Richmond,
Va., is now is the Air Force sta
tioned at Craig Air Base, Selma,
Ala. He is now rated as Cap
tain. Mrs. Saye and Susan, who
have been with their parents in
Nahunta for two weeks, will
leave this week end to join Cap
tain Saye in Selma.
« • •
Mr. and Mrs. R. Lloyd Scott
of Blackshear were visitors at the
meeting of Satilla Chapter 365
OES on Tuesday night, July 12.
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Mr. and Mrs. Sherwood Broome
and two daughters, Becky and
Carolyn, who have been living
in Chattanooga, Tenn., have mov
ed to Alma, Ga., where Sher
wood is associated with his bro
ther, C. J. Broome Jr., on The
Alma Times. At Chattanooga he
was with the Chattanooga (Dai
ly) Times.
♦ • *
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Lynch, Mrs.
Minnie Buchans, Mrs. Annie
Dupree, Dorothy Lynch and An
nie Laura Lynch of Creedman,
N. C. spent the week end with
Mr. and Mrs. Elias B. Herrin.
• * *
Guest at the home of Mrs.
R. E. Austin on Sunday were Mr.
and Mrs. Pete White and family
of Jasper, Fla., Mr .and Mrs.
Billy Lynch, Dorothy and Annie
Laura Lynch, Mrs. Anne Dupree
and Mrs. Minnie Buchans of
Creedman, N. C. and Mr. and
Mrs. Elias B. Herrin and family.
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Mrs. Annie B. Petty is a pati
ent in a Waycross hospital since
Monday of this week and is
seriously ill.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Fred Sturgis Will Be Speaker
At Conservation League Meet
Couple Killed
In Head-on
Auto Crash
The two parents in a family
of four were killed in an auto
accident on Highway 301 about
14 miles south of Nahunta Thurs
day morning, July 14, about five
o’clock.
Those killed were Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Edward Black of Lake
land, Fla. In the station wagon
with them were two small sons.
Eddie, five years old, was slight
ly injured. A four-year-old son
was uninjured.
The 1955 Plymouth station
wagon driven by Mr. Black
collided head-on with a truck
driven by S. W. Lister of Hart
ford, Conn. The Blacks were
traveling south on 301 and the
truck going north.
The Blacks’ station wagon was
reported to have cut left over
the center line and head-on into
the big tractor-truck. The Ply
mouth station wagon was com
pletely demolished. The' Truck
was damaged to the extent of
approximatelly $2,000, it is re
ported.
State troopers F. F. Cornelius
and W. E. Strickland investi
gated the accident.
The bodies of the couple killed
were carried to Adkins Funeral
Home at Folkston.
Warehouseman’s
Father Helped
To Start Market
One of the first promoters of
the Blacksear tobacco market was
the late E. L. Morgan of Burling
ton, N. C., father of Warehouse
man Paul Morgan of Blackshear.
The elder Morgan, associated
with the Brantley Company, help
ed to open the first warehouse
in Blackshear in 1919, and was
assisted by his son, Paul.
Market Opened
In Blackshear
37 Years Ago
The Blackshear tobacco market,
one of the oldest in Georgia,
opened for the first time in 1919.
Aproximately three-quarters of a
million pounds was sold the first
year.
SHEEP PARASITES
During warm weather sheep
men are advised to keep a close
watch for wool maggots and
screwworms on their sheep. Den
nis DeLoach, sheep specialist for
the Agricultural Extension Ser
vice recommends clipping the
wool away from the infected area
and applying Smear 335. He adds
that a second treatment a few
days later may be necessary.
The Alma Times Commends
Judge Roddenberry
The Alma Times’has highly commended Judge Cecil
Roddenberry of Nahunta and congratulated him on hav
ing no opposition for Judge of the Waycross Judicial Cir
cuit.
The Alma Times editorial was as follows:
JUDGE CECIL RODDENBERRY
DESERVES THIS HIGH HONOR
The Alma Times offers its congratulations to Judge
Cecil Roddenberry, who will be unopposed in the Sept
ember Primary as the Democratic nominee for Judge of
the Waycross Judicial Circuit.
Judge Roddenberry was appointed to fill the vacan
cy caused by the death of the late Judge Walter Thomas.
He is now unopposed for the unexpired two year term.
Few, if any, political observers expected Judge Rod
denberry to have opposition. During the few months in
which he has presided oyer the courts of the Waycross
Circuit, se has won the respect and admiration of citizens
of every county. Law enforcement officers, lawyers and
others who participate in judicial proceedings, readily
praise Judge Roddenberry’s vigorous, but dignified con
duct of court business.
It is a tribute to his integrity that he is unopposed.
We believe he will continue to measure up to this high
honor and high office.
The Home Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
River Pollution
Will Be Main
Subject Discussed
Fred Sturgis, president of the
Georgia Conservation League,
will be the speaker at a meet
ing of the Brantley County Con
servation League Monday night,
July 16, at 8:30 o’clock, at the
courthouse in Nahunta.
All the citizens of Brantley
County are invited to be pre
sent and hear Mr. Sturgis tell
of the plans to stop pollution of
Georgia rivers.
J. C. Allen is president of the
Brantley County Conservation
League and George Loyd is sec
retary. The purpose of the Lea
gue is to promote conservation
of natui-al resources, especially
as regards the prevention of ri
ver pollution.
It is the desire of the County
League to have a big crowd at
the courthouse to hear Mr. Stur
gis Monday night. He is a car
dealer at Warner Robins, Ga.,
but is giving much of his time
and a great deal of his own funds
to promote the movement against
river pollution in Georgia.
Soil Bank
Is Now in
Operation
George Dykes, Chairman of the
Brantley County ASC Committee,
announces that the Soil Bank
for 1956 is in operation.
Mr. Dykes advise all farmers
interested in puting some or all
of their allotted crop in the Soil
Bank for this year to call at
the county office for details. The
time limit for filing appplications
is July 20, 1956.
Waynesville
News
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Miss Joyce Padgett of Waycross
is spending this week with her
grandmother, Mrs. Carl Driscoll.
• • *
Miss Nell Miller of Brunswick
visited Mrs. Rosa Pettigrove a
few days last week.
• • •
Miss Dorothy Davis visited the
Miller family in Brunswick for
several days.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Prescott of
Woodbine spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. R. O. Davis.
• • •
Mr, and Mrs. Jessie Driscoll of
Orlando, Fla. spent the week with
his parents in Waynesville. Miss
Inez Driscoll went back to Or
lando to spend the summer with
her brother.
