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All of the People in Most of
the Homes in Brantley
County Read The Brantley
Enterprise, Their Home
Newspaper.
VOLUME 36 — NUMBER 29
Sweeping the Country
DO PEOPLE READ EDITORIALS?
Many weekly newspapers do not have editorials.
The editors give various reasons for not carrying editor
ials.
Some editors say people do not read editorials. Some
say they have no time to write editorials. Others shun
editorial expression because they wish to avoid contro
versy and criticism.
THE LATE DAVE PARKER’S EDITORIALS
The late Judge Dave Parker of Waycross told me of
his experience writing editorials for a weekly paper he
once published in Baxley.
Judge Parker said he was young and enthusiastic in
those days and thought he could help solve some of the
problems of the day by his weekly editorials.
He said he would put his paper in the post office at
Baxley, then stand around the post office lobby waiting
to hear some comment on his editorials.
The subscribers would accept their weekly paper
from the postmaster, look at the front page, turn it over
to the back page, then throw the paper into the waste
basket. He said they usually failed to look inside to read
his editorials.
His experience disillusioned him about his editorial
influence on his subscribers.
OLDER EDITORS ARE NOT SO NAIVE
Older editors, • after a few years experience, have
little illusions about their editorial influence on people.
They know, to begin with, that what they say about
a given subject or problem may prove to be wrong in
the long run.
They know too that people’s opinions and attitudes
are formed over the years and that no editorial expression
can change them materially in a day or a month or a
year.
EDITOR CAN GET THINGS “OFF HIS CHEST”
One of my main reasons for writing editorials is not
to try to change people’s opinions but to get the matter
“off my chest.”
I like to have my say and I like for the other fellow
to have his say, whether he agrees with me or not.
A clash of ideas may sometimes grind out a grain
of truth.
KNOW WHEN TO GET MAD
One of my sons, Lee Broome, at Blackshear was
soliciting subscriptions for his weekly newspaper when
a man told him, “I don’t take your paper because it runs
editorials against my candidate for governor.”
“But if you don’t take our paper, you will not know
when to get mad at us,” Lee replied. The man laughed
and then paid his subscription.
EVERY PERSON IS DIFFERENT
No two people in the world see alike, think alike, or
feel alike. Everyone is unique. Each one is made up of
what he inherits from his ancestry, what his environment
has been and what he has experienced along the way
of life.
We are all composites of heredity, environment and
experience. We are made of what has gone into our
beings from these three factors.
All this leads to the conclusion that we are not
changed much by anyone’s editorial expression on a
given subject. Our change of opinions and attitudes is
usually by gradual growth, caused by the manifold im
pacts of ideas and experiences over long years.
POWER OF INFLUENCE NOT DISCOUNTED
At the same time we should not discount the powei
of influence of ideas or of facts experienced.
If a cow eats wild onions long enough, her, flesh
will taste like onions. If a man feeds his minds on onion
ideas”, his ideas and attitudes will eventually “smell like
onions.”
But even that may possibly depend on who does the
smelling and whether the smeller likes the smell of
onions.
It all comes back to the fact that it is a matter of
Personal opinion concerning a given problem or situation.
human interest editorials best
This editor has found that short subjects of human
interest discussed in editorials cause the most comment.
An edito? can write what he considers a strong edi
torial on some important subject and not cause a upp e
of comment from subscribers.
But let the editor write something about some little
human incident or some peculiar situation with a humor
ous or mysterious angle, then this will be discussed and
commented upon by many people.
For instance, my little account of the man w o oo
us” at the Broome Tourist Home caused many a chuckle
and friendly comment. -
This was probably because many peop e a\e een
“took” in some way or other and they compared our ex
perience with their own. .
All this seems to prove that it is best for an editor
not to try to be too smart but to try to write m simp e,
human interest terms, on subjects of general human in
terest.
J UST ONE MAN’S OPINION
Please remember that any editorial you read m this
newspaper is just one man’s opinion. And this man usua -
ly changes his opinions at least once every seven years.
Brantiey County Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and progressive People.
By CARL BROOME
Brantku iEntaprifiF
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 19, 1956
Georgia Tobacco Markets
Brantley County Conservation
League Hears State President
Problems of River
Pollution Discussed
By Fred Sturgis
The Brantley County Conserva
tion League met at the court
house in Nahunta Monday night,
July 16, with Fred Sturgis, presi
dent of the Georgia Conserva
tion League as the main speaker.
Mr. Sturgis outlined the efforts
being made to stop pollution of
Georgia rivers. He told of the law
recently passed by the national
congress to give outright grants
of 30 percent of the cost of dis
posal plants to cities and towns.
David Johnson, president of the
Pierce County Conservation Lea
gue also spoke on the problem
of pollution of the Satilla and
Altamaha Rivers. He indicated
that legal action would probably
be taken in the future against
towns that failed to take action
to stop river pollution.
Several new members joined
the Brantley County League at
the meeting Monday night. The
League will make an effort to
secure at least 200 members of
the local League.
It was brought out at the meet
ing that only by concerted and
cooperation effort of thousands
of citizens could the problems of
river pollution be solved.
It was also revealed that rivers
all over Georgia are being pol
luted and ruined just as the Sati
lla River has been ruined by the
pollution from Waycross, Black
shear and Alma.
Baptist Church
At Hoboken
Incorporated
The Hoboken Baptist Church is
being incorporated, it is revealed
by a legal advertisement being
run in this newspaper.
The church is being incorpo
rated under the name of “Hobo
ken Missionary Baptist Church,
Inc.” and for a period of 35 years.
The petitioners for incorpora
tion are shown to be R. R. Kelly,
H. H. Colvin, Ira Thomas, J. E.
Thomas, L. C. Colvin, Olin Du
bose, C. E. Crews, J. F. Larkins,
G. R. Stone, Fred Dowling and
S. B. Kelly, all of Hoboken.
The Hoboken Baptist member
ship plans of erect a new house
of worship in the near future, it
is understood, and the move to
incorporate the church is a pre
liminary preparation for starting
the building plans.
Social Security
Law Changes
Are Announced
Now you can earn up to SI2OO
in a calendar year and not lose
Old-Age or Survivors benefits
according to O. L. Pope, manager
of the Waycross Social Security
District Office. This new provi
sion was included in the 1954
Amendments and is effective with
the year 1955.
This change not only raises the
amount of earnings permitted be
fore loss of benefits occurs, but
puts the wage earner on the same
reporting basis as a self-employed
beneficiary, Mr. Pope said. Previ
ously, the earnings of a wage
earner were considered from
month to month whereas now it
is on an annual basis.
The new retirement test in
cludes all earnings (net incomes)
regardless of whether they are
covered by social security.
The age beyond which the re
tirement test does not not apply
has been reduced from 75 to 72.
In other words, after an indivi
dual attains age 72, he may accept
his benefit checks regardless of
the amount of his earnings.
Between the ages of 65 and 72,
a beneficiary loses a month’s
check for each SBO. 00 or fraction
thereof he earns over the SI2OO
limiatiOn.
W. C. Long Honored
At Covington Meet
COVINGTON, Ga., July 19 —
Fifteen vocational agriculture
teachers were recognized here to
day for their years of service.
Recognized for completing
twenty years of teaching were
C. F. Ingram, Winder; W. E.
Richards, Hawkinsville; J. T.
Seigler, Loganville; and J. C.
Tribble, Rockmart.
In the ten-year group were T.
C. Cliett, Wheeler couhty high,
Alamo; J. M. Fowler, Mary
Persons high, Forsyth; G. C.
Garrison, Dearing; H. H. Glisson,
Soperton; J. S. Green, Surrency;
Sidney Jenkins, Sylvania; W. C.
Long, Nahunta; L. H. Paschal,
Monticello; J. S. Perry, Guyton;
Louie Price, Collins; and James
W. Walden, Wrens.
The recognition came at the
annual breakfast of the Vo-Ag
Ten Year club. The breakfast was
held in conjunction with the an
nual conference of vocational
agriculture teachers which is
meeting at the State FFA-FHA
Camp. E. W. Graham, Millen, is
president of the service club.
The new initiates will receive
keys and certificates from Dr. M.
D. Collins when he appears on the
conference program Friday morn
ing.
Personals
Mrs. Eula Powers is now recup
erating at the home of her
brother R. D, Jones in Waycross
after undergoing a major opera
tion in a Waycross hospital on
Wednesday of last week.
♦ • *
Mr. and Mrs. Linton Brooker
and baby have moved to Bruns
wick where Mr. Brooker is em
ployed.
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Mrs. Ella Brown and Mrs.
Dorothy Brown of Brunswick and
Mrs. Graham Utley and grand
son, Billy, of Niagara Falls, New
York, were dinner guests of Mrs.
Alice Highsmith on Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Duncan
of Waycross were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert Lyons on Sun
day.
• * •
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dixon and
daughter, Zoie Jo of Detroit,
Mich, visited his sister, Mrs. C. I.
Rhoden at Lulaton lass week.
While here Mrs. Rhoden ac
companied them on a ’ trip to
Tampa, Fla. where they visited
other and relatives.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Arnett of
Interlachen, Fla. visited her fath
er, Mr. C. I. Rhoden over the
fourth of July holidays.
♦ • •
Mr. Robert Harley and son,
Billy of Sacremento, Calif, are
visiting his mother, Mrs. C. I.
Rhoden.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Peoples,
Mrs. C. I. Rhoden and son Robert
Harley and Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Saxon and daughter visited re
latives in Savannah last week.
* • *
Mr. and Mrs. C. I. Rhoden, Mr.
and Mrs. Clyde Harley, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Saxon and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Harley and
son visited on Jekyll Island last
week.
• * •
Mr. R. G. Lanier and Mr. and
Mrs. Sidney Lanier all of Tampa
visited Mrs. C. I. Rhoden on
Monday of last week.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. John Barry of
Atlanta announce the birth of
twin girls on July 9. Each of
them weighed almost six pounds.
They have been named Judith
Ann and Susan Marie.
Mr. and Mrs. Barry have two
other daughters, Lynn and Lisa.
* * •
Jourell Raulerson, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Raulerson of
Nahunta.
Walter Knox
Funeral Services
Held Thursday
Funeral services for Walter
Leon Knox of Lulaton, who died
Monday, July 16, in a Waycross
hospital, were held Thursday
morning at 11:00 a.m. at Little
Buffalo Church, near Nahunta.
Burial was in the Knox Ceme
tery near Lulaton.
Survivors include one daughter
Mrs. Romilda Knox of Miami,
Fla.; two sons, Thomas L. Knox
and J. E. Knox, all of Nahunta;
three sisters, Mrs. Maude Mixell
of Folkston, Mrs. Kate Mizell of
Miami, and Mrs. Charlie Bran
non of Atlanta. He had several
grandchildren.
Child Labor
Rules for
Warehouses
SAVANNAH, GEORGlA,—Fed
eral regulations place a hard and
fast ban on employment of most
children under 16 in tobacco
warehouses, allowing restricted
work in only three occupations
for 14- and 15-year-olds, accord
ing to William A. Savage, super
visor of the U. S. Labor Depart
ment’s Wage-Hour Field Office
here today.
Excepted jobs for those below
16 - but not under 14 - are limited
to ticket or tag boy, water boy,
or sweeper. Special regulations
prohibit employment of these
younger children for more than
8 hours daily and 40 hours week
ly when school is not in session;
stricter hours apply during school
terms. Their employment must be
confined to hours between 7 A. M.
and 7 P. M. “No night work,”
Savage warned.
Others activities around totbac
co warehouses can generally be
legally performed by those 16
years and up. Certain hazardous
occupations, however, raise the
hiring age to at least 18. These
include driving or helping on a
motor vehicle, and operation of
a fork-lift truck, each of which
jobs has been found by the
Secretary of Labor to be parti
cularly hazardous.
Best way to avoid difficulties
in employing a minor is to re
quire a certificate of age for
every employee under 19, accord
ing to Savage. He added that
county school superintendents, or
local school officials appointed by
them, issue these certificates.
Waynesville
News
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Mrs. Mary Lou Gibson left
Monday to attend the second term
of summer school at Statesboro,
Ga.
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Mrs. Marvin Robinson and Mr.
and Mrs. Cecil Moody and Nancy
and Danny left Sunday to spend
several days in Atlanta.
Mrs. Robert Edgy and Eddy
Hunter were baptized Sunday
afternoon at the Satilla River.
• * •
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walker
and Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edgy
entertained the junior class of the
Waynesville Baptist Church on an
all day outing Saturday. They
visited the Jacksonville zoo and
airport. Members of the class are;
Pasty Walker, Charlene Gibson,
Judy Dowlin, Blanche Thompson,
Don Gibson, Eddy Hunter, Buddy
Hunter, Ray Gardener, Anne Rey
nolds, Jean Reynolds and Naomi
Moody.
• ♦ •
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Walker and
Patsy and Charlene Gibson visit
ed Rev. and Mrs. L. A. Savage
in Walthourville on Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Roland Davis
were visitors in Kingsland on
Saturday and Sunday. <
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Open Wednesday
Warehouses Open Monday to
Receive 1956 Tobacco Crop
Mrs. Anne Davis
Funeral Services
To Be on Friday
Funeral services for Mrs. Annie
Robinson Davis, 61, who died at
her home in Miami in July 16
will be held at the Waynesville
Baptist Church on Friday after
noon, 2:00 P. M., July 20. Burial
will be in the Baptist cemetery.
Survivors are one daughter,
Mrs. Vinson Nickerson of Miami,
one son, Billie Davis of Miami;
a brother, Lloyd Robinson, Way
nesville; five sister; Mrs. Dessie
Hull, St. Petersburg; Mrs. Julia
Wilson, Miami; Mrs. Alma John
son, Fort Pierce, Fla; Mrs. Paul
ine Robinson, Miami; Mrs. Mar
guerite Young, Jacksonville. She
has five grandchildren.
Tobacco Crop
Support Will
Average 48.9 c
WASHINGTON—The Agricul
ture Department has announced
that 1956-crop flue-cured tobacco
will be supported at an average
rate of 48.9 cents a pound, or six
tenths of a cent more than last
year, through loans to eligible
growers.
Set to reflect 90 per cent of
the parity price of tobacco, the
support was upped from an aver
age of 48.2 cents announced in
April because farmer’s cost used
in figuring parity have increased
since that time.
Parity is a standard for meas
uring farm prices declared by
law to be fair to the farmers in
relation to the prices they pay.
Supports will vary by grades,
ranging from 12 cents a pound
for certain “nondescript” tobac
cos to a high of 74 cents a pound
for the better grades. Rates for
tied tobacco will be five cents
a pound higher than those for
the untied.
The department forecast a re
duction of slightly under 15 per
cent for the Georgia crop, or
from 147,956,000 to 126,000,000
pounds, as a result of reduced
acreage allotments.
Moderate increases are seen in
cigar wrapper tobacco produced
in northwest Florida and south
west Georgia. The Georgia total
is forecast for 1,485,000 pounds
compared with 1,410,000, and the
Florida total 5,400,000 compared
with 5,343,000 last year.
The government forecast for
all types of tobacco is 1,891,000,-
000 pounds, down 14 per cent
from last year, and the smallest
since 1943.
2 Convicts Flee
Pierce Work Gang;
Recaptured Tuesday
Two convicts who escaped from
a road gang in Pierce county
Monday afternoon near Mershon
while working on a bridge were
captured in a Negro church near
Mershon Tuesday morning.
The pair, identified by Sheriff
L. L. Taylor as Guyton M. Carrell
and William Ralph Woods, were
taken into custody by Alma of
ficers. The escaped convicts were
asleep when the officers found
them in the church.
Earlier the pair had entered
the home of John Pressley of
Mershon, taking the man’s clothes
Alma officers found the two men
in the church after seeing the
door of the building open -While
searching in the area.
Carrell is 28 years old and was
serving time for robbery. Wood,
23, was serving time for burglary.
The two escapees were return
ed to the Pierce county jail.
Ten Georgia counties across
the northern end of the state are
drained wholly or partially by
tributaries of the Tennessee Ri
ver. So says S. G. Chandler, Ex
tension Service district agent in
that area.
The Home Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
Brantley Crop
Somewhat Short
This Season
South Georgia flue-cured to
bacco markets will open next
Wednesday, July 25, to begin
auction sales of the 1956 bright
leaf crop.
Brantley County farmers are
rapidly curing their tobacco, with
some farmers reporting a short
crop. The acreage reduction of 12
percent in effect this year will
also cut down the total volume
of Brantley producers.
The tobacco in Brantley County
will be marketed at the Black
shear and Waycross warehouses
mainly, with each market getting
a good percent of the poundage
from this county.
The government support price
for tobacco this year will average
48.9 cents a pound.
Blackshear has six warehouses
for auction sales and Waycross
has five warehouses. These mar
kets were open 24 days last year
but the exact length of the sales
season this year has not been
decided.
Only 2 Contests
In Pierce
County Election
Entries in races for Pierce coun
ty offices closed Saturday at noon
with six races being uncontested
and seven candidates seeking the
two other offices.
Four candidates entered the
race for Sheriff to succeed L. L.
Taylor who did not offer for re
election. They are J. L. (Johhny)
Dixon, Owen E. Harris, J. H. Pit
tman and Herman C. Todd.
In the race for County School
Superintendent are the incum
bent, T. H. Strickland, Joe T. Lee
and C. H. D. Youmans.
Entries in the race for State
Representative had already clos
ed on June 23, with Lonnie J.
Cason seeking reelection and be
ing opposed by W. H. (Bill) Kim
mons and W. S. (Buddy) Bowen.
Unopposed candidates for re
election to other Pierce county
offices are:
Ordinary Mrs. Onie J. Aspin
wall, Clerk of Superior Court La-
Count D- Walker, Tax Collector
Roy Westberry, Tax Receiver
Mrs. Lohnie B. Smith, Coroner
Lee Broome and Surveyor J. J.
Porter.
The Pierce county primary
will be held on Wednesday, Aug
ust 15, 1956, and a majority of
the votes will be required for
election in all races. Any run-offs
will be held in the state primary
election on Sept. 12.
PahnettoNews
By Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Drury of
Vidalia visited Mrs. S. C. M.
Drury and Mr. and Mrs. J. F.
Jones on Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Johns of
Jacksonville spend the week end
here with Mrs. W. H. Jacobs
and Mr. and Mrs. Archie Johns
at Hickox.
2.91 Inches of
Rain Recorded
In Past 2 Weeks
The Patterson weather station
has recorded a total of 2.91 inches
of rain during the first weeks in
July, according to Danny Brooks
of the Pierce County Forestry
department.
On July 3 the weather gauge
recorded^ .03 inches; July 4, .01;
July 5, <O2; July 10, .20; July 11,
.51; July 14, 2.14 inches.
The mercury topped 93 degrees
on July 6,7, 14, and 16 for the
hottest days in July. During June
a high of 99 degrees was recorded.
