The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, August 23, 1956, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextSocial & Persona! Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Givens and four children, who have been visiting Mrs. Homer Thomas and other relatives at Hoboken for two weeks will leave on Friday for their home in Channel View, Texas. Mrs. Givens is a daughter o f Mrs. Thomas. Chief James H. Hansen, U. S. Navy and Mrs. Hansen and chil dren Kim and Gene who have bee n visiting Mrs. Alice High smith and family have returned to their home in Norfolk, Va. where Mr. Hansen is stationed. • * * Mrs. T. M. Patrick of Nahunta was honored with a surprise birthday dinner at her home on Sunday, Aug. 19. Present besides Mr. and Mrs. Patrick and their children, Tammy, Johnny and Marilyn were Mr. and Mrs. De- Witt Johnson and son, Robert; Mr. and Mrs. Devant Malphur all of Savannah; Mr. and Mrs. Roy Varnadore, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Vaugh and Beth of Baxley; Mr. J. C. Johnson of Winokur; Mrs. Mary Aldridge of Mershon; Mrs. A. J. Dowling and Terry and Mrs. C. M. Dowling of Nah unta. • ♦ ♦ Mrs. E. K. Ham of Nahunta and Mrs. C. P. Johnson of Hilli ard, Fla. returned last Friday from Laweranceville, Ga. where they spent a week with Rev. and Mrs. Omer Graves. • • • Mrs. W. M. Roberson returned to Pine Crest Hospital in Sav annah after spending three weeks at home here in Nahunta. * • * Miss Eppie Roberson will leave today to return to Miami where she teaches. She has spent the summer months at home. • • a Shirley Highsmith and Carolyn Herrin spent last week in Fernan dina with Elder and Mrs. Robert Huling. Legal Advertising GEORGIA, Brantley County. Whereas, Bennjamin Smith, Jr., Administrator of Ira S. Strick land Estate, represents to the Court in his petition, duly filed and entered on record, that he has fully administered Ira S. Strickland estate: This is, therefore, to cite all persons concerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if any they can, why said Administra tor should not be discharged from his administration, and re ceive Letters of Dismission, on the first Monday in September, 1956. Claude Smith, Ordinary. B—3o8 —30 WANTED BY THE FBI FLENOY PAYNE . A complaint wax filed before the U. S. ^ommisiioner at Clarksdale, Mississippi, September 22, 1953, charging Payne *ith a violation of Title l& U. S. Code, Section 1073, in that he fled from the State of Mississippi to avoid prosecu tion for the crime of murder. Payn* is described as follows: Age 47, «>rn July |8 t 1909. S^ott, Mississippi; H *'9ht, 5' II"; Weight, 139 to 160 Pounds; Build, slender; Hair, black, P m Eyes, brown; Complexion, brown; poee, Negro; Nationality, American; Occupations, laborer, farmer; Scars and "’*«• out scar on right temple, cut scar on chin, spot and cut scar on left fore an ”' vaccination scar on left arm, cut Rar on lower right buttock, two spot *«ors on back of right hand, cut scar on P°ck of head; Remarks, may be wearing m ustoche, has a loud voice. Payne has been convicted previously rnurder - He is reportedly armed * pistol at all times and should be considered extremely dangerous. Any person having information con cerning Hie whereabouts of Flenoy °yne is requested to contact the lr *ctor of the Federal Bureau of ln ^’^'Sotion, United States Department * Jwhce, Washington, D. C, or the Pecial Agent in Charge of the Federal Investigation Office nearest Barbara Herrin, Charles John son, E. B. Herrin and Mildred Carter spent Friday at Fernan dina Beach, Fla. • ♦ • Enjoying a picnic at Teston Lake on Saturday of last week were; Elder and Mrs. Robert Huling and Timmy of Fernandina Beach; H. E. White of Pearson, Ga.; Charles Johnson, Waycross; Mr. and Mrs. Elias Herrin, J. R. and Don; Velera Carter, Marnell, Clayton and Mildred Carter; Bar bara, E. 8., Jimmy, Iva Lee and Carolyn Herrin and Shirley Highsmith. » • » Charles Johnson of Waycross and Mrs. B. F. White, Mrs. Gadis White and LeGene, Wardie High smith were guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Herrin on Sunday. * * * Mrs. Kelly Allen and children of Brunswick and Mrs. Louis Puckett and children of Daven port, lowa were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Edgy on Sun day. » * » Berfja Jones of Jesup is visit ing his aunt, Mrs. C. L. Middeton this week. • * • Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Jacobs and son, G. W. left on Friday for their home in Frost Proof, Fla. after visiting Mrs. C. L. Middleton. a • • Mrs. Neville Herrin will leave on Friday to go to St. Marys, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Noel Lewis, and on to Jacksonville to spent a day with her sister, Mrs. A. L. Bennett and to return to her home in Lake Worth, Fla. She spent last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brooker. Field conditions for harvesting cotton with mechanical pickers are more suitable in late evening than they are in early morning, according to agricultural engine ers at the College of Agriculture Extension Service. J PHARMACEUTICAL ■ I Still I I □Kill I nucut for preo- I doo in filling his prescriptions. ■ I He knows th« when* prescrip- I tioo b brought to the Rexall I Drug Store it is compounded ■ with highest quality ingre- I dina and sdenrific skill. Knight-Vickers Drug Store Ernest Knight, Carey Jones, Gordon Hardie, Pharmacists Phone 2254 Jesup, Ga. Blackshear Tobacco Market REPORT OF SALES AND PRICES Lbs. Sold Amt. Average Wed., July 25 666,214 $343,348.74 $51.54 Thurs., July 26 624,644 295,034.66 47.23 Friday, July 27 360,318 177,320.20 49.21 Monday, July 30 658,898 349,035.68 53.04 Tuesday, July 31 668,898 337,071.87 50.<?9 Wed., Aug. 1 695,904 $359,243.27 $51.07 Thurs., Aug. 2 684,926 363,037.62 53.00 Friday, Aug. 3 698,268 372,080.31 53.02 Monday, Aug. 6 734,644 403,447.12 54.09 Tuesday, Aug. 7 710,332 379,089.76 53.38 Wed., Aug. 8 704,756 383,828.45 54.46 Thurs., Aug. 9 714,170 392,589.39 54.97 Friday, Aug. 10 683,656 355,938.20 52.06 Monday, Aug. 13 669,536 353,815.77 52.84 Tuesday, Aug. 14 678,744 336,705.29 49.62 Wed., Aug. 15 670,752 330,175.74 49.22 Thurs., Aug. 16 585,168 281,192.96 48.05 Friday, Aug. 17 397,142 181,714.98 45.75 Monday, Aug. 20 204,830 95,248.12 46.50 Tuesday, Aug. 21 118,512 52,513.03 44.22 TOTAL 11,924,410 $6,142,431.16 $51.05 BEST F. F. A. STRING BAND — The Blackshear Future Farmers of America string band, pictured above, won the state F. F. A. string band contest in competition at Cov ington on August 7. Members of the band are, left to right, Wendell Williams, Dou glas Thomas, Gene Davis and Rudolph Thomas. Home Inspection Os Electric Gear By Citizens Urged ATLANTA—Statistics showing that more than 200 building fires in the United States daily are attributable to electrical defects. Safety Fire Commissioner Zack D. Cravey has asked citizens to inspect their homes closely to see that none of these exist. Commissioner Cravey said that the most common origin of elect rical fires in the home, according to a national survey, has been found to be defective and worn out motors, particularly those in home refrigerators. In second place were wires and cables im properly installed or worn out. Heating appliances and incandes cent lamps placed too close to combustible material were third. Cords, for the most part on cir cuit extensions, were fourth. In the survey’s tabulation of the specific types of electrical equipment involved, it was re vealed that three times as many electrical fires originate in tele vision sets as in radios, although radio sets in use far outnumber TV sets. “During Fire Prevention Week, which comes early in October, Georgia school children will be bringing home fire inspection blanks for their parents,” Mr. Cravey stated. “I particularly urge them to watch for these electrical hazards, bearing in mind all the while that these hazards are second to matches and smoking in causing building fires.” Mississippi leads in the number of certified Tree Farms: 910. Texas is second with 831, and Alabama third with 663. The Printed Word Lives On Dorothy Kilgallen, the columnist and television star, recently had something pleasant to say about newspapers as reading matter. “You can read on a train crossing the desert or on a plane at 17,000 feet above the Atlantic—no static, no fad ing, no blips,” says Miss Kilgallen. “You can read in a bathtub or while hanging onto a pole in a crowded bus. You can read as much or as little as you want, as fast or as slowly as you want. “And if you read something you like, you can tear it out and save it to read again some day. I enjoy radio and television, and I am gainfully employed by both, but I must admit they have their drawbacks. Did you ever try to clip a television program and paste it in your scrap book?” Here’s why the newspaper holds its dominant place in the homes and hearts of Americans. And here is why— to touch on the world of commerce from which all of us draw our livings— the newspaper remains an unsurpassed means of advertising goods and services. 2h| fl w / % eW/b ana * a sw r ion -3m -< W M 1 . 11 FULTON LOVELL Jim Woodruff Reservoir THE dream of Jim Woodruff has finally materialized. For over forty years Mr. Woodruff visualized the dam that now spreads across the Apalachicola River at the base to take care of the increase in the number of fish. Bass, bream, crappie and catfish will be even more abundant than in the past. There is even a possibility that the big striped bass will make his home in these waters. There will also be an increase in revenue for the vicinity. New businesses will spring up, such as bait and tackle shops, motels and boating facilities. Many of the tourists who have been going into Florida to fish will find fishing and accommodations at the Jiin Wood ruff reservoir too good to turn down. This is the first of three such reservoirs to be built on the waters of the Chattahoochee River. The Buford Dam is all but completed and should be filled about the same time as Jim Woodruff. The Fort Gaines project has just begun and should be completed in several years. • * « * * Private Ponds The question of fishing on someone’s private pond with out a license comes up several times each week. In addition to those who ask the question, there are a great many people who go ahead and fish under the misconception that they do not need a license. The only ones who can fish on a private pond with out a license are the owner, his immediate family and his tenants. If a pond owner invites his friends over for a day of fishing, they are required to have a state fishing license. Os course, its not the responsibility of the owner to check the licenses, but it is a little embarrassing to have a wildlife ranger catch several people on his pond without licenses. Another thing that seems to be confusing to some people is what constitutes a private pond. If a stream flows through my property, it is not considered a pri vate pond. The fact that I own the land does not entitle me to stand on the bank and fish in such a stream without a license. Or, if my neighbor builds s pond on his property and extends part of it over into my property, then neither of us owns a private pond. As the law defines it, a private pond is “a body of water being wholly on or within the lands of one title, where the fish cannot go upstream or downstream to the lands of another.” ui me vnaiianoocnee ana rum. n was proper that it be named in his honor. This great project will not only provide navigation and power, but will also provide one of the finest fish ing sites in the country. The reservoir will be filled and ready for fishing by the spring of 1957. This body of water will cover an area of 37,500 acres and will have a shore line of 243 miles. As the water rises over the fertile lonrlc thorn vxrill ho noxir frnm fho Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 23, 1956 10 Negroes Testify at Hearing on Vote Case U. S. District Court Judge Frank M. Scarlett has tak en under consideration a suit asking that the board of registrars of Pierce county be required to restore the names of approximately 130 Negroes to the> voters’ list. At a two-hour hearing held Friday in the judge’s chambers at Brunswick, testimony was heard from 10 Negro witnesses that their own names or the names of persons they knew were removed from the voters’ list. Os the ten testifying, three had not been challenged, two were challenged but left on the voting list and voted in the Aug. 15 primary, while five said they went to the polls Aug. 15 and were told their names were not on the voting list. Defendants in the suit are the registrars of Pierce county, Earl Echols, J. F. Sapp annd J. A. Davis. Plaintiffs in the suit were listed as Bessie Harris, I. J. White, F. J. Brown, Emma Dugger, James L. Bevins, Nancy Boyer, Pete Jones, Leon Howard, Ethel Holmes and David Collins. As the hearing began, Lewis L. Scott of Savannah, attorney for the plaintiffs, requested a con tinuance on the ground that the challenger of the Negroes, J. C. Parker, was not present to testi fy. A summons had been issued for Parker, who lives at Patter son, but works in Jacksonville. The U. S. marshall told the court he had not been able to locate Parker to serve a summons. The suit filed by attorney Scott had alleged that Parker was a fictitious person, unknown to any of the plaintiffs. S. F. Memory, county attorney of Pierce county, representing the registrars, made a motion to dis miss the suit on the grounds that the plaintiffs had not exhausted the remedy allowed them under state laws. Mr. Memory also .moved that the names of I. J. White, F. J. Boyer, and Pete Jones be strick en as plaintiffs, stating they had not been removed from the vot ers’ list as alleged in the suit, and in fact had voted in the Aug. 15 primary. < Judge Scarlett said he would rule on the motions after hear ing all of the evidence. J. F. Sapp, one of the registrars, was called as a witness by the attorney for the plaintiffs and testified that he signed the notices sent to the Negroes notifying them to appear for the hearings. One notice was introduced as evi dence which bore Mr. Sapp's name but which he said was not signed by him. I. J. White, listed as a plaintiff, testified and said he did not get a challenge and voted Aug. 15. He admitted he signed the peti tion alleging the registrars were attempting to “strike all the names of Negro voters.” White said about 100 Negroes voted in the recent election but that some were not allowed to vote. L. C. Harris, who was not a plaintiff but appeared to be a spokesman for the Negroes at the hearings, testified that he voted Aug. 15 but that several Negroes he carried to the polls were told their names were not on the vot ing list. He said there had been about 600 Negro voters on the list before the challenges were made. Rosa Mae Goldsby testified that she received her challenged not ice on Aug. 6 for the hearing set Aug. 7 but said all the Negroes challenged did not have a day’s notice before the hearing. Some received their notices the same day as the hearing, she said. She said she voted but that several were denied the right to vote. She said she signed the required oath in the tax collector’s office. Lily Mae Douglas said she was challenged and was not allowed to vot. She said she did not get a notice that her name was taken off the voters’ list, but she ad mitted she had not signed the oath. Emma Lee Doston said her name had bedri on the voters’ list since 1949 and she had voted in each election. She said she was not challenged but tried to vote Aug. 15 and was refused the right to vote. Carrie Harris said she had voted since 1947 and was not challenged, but that when she went to vote she was told her name was “not on the book.” David Collins said he went to vote but was told his name was not on the list. He said he had appeared at a hearing after being challenged. Henry Twyner said he register ed in November at the court house, was challenged and attend ed the hearing, but was told at the polls that his name had been taken off the list. Edward Newton said he re- gistered four years ago and had been voting. He said he was chal lenged and got his notice one day before the scheduled hearing. County Attorney Memory him self took the stand as a witness for the defendant registrars. After being sworn, Mr. Memory ex plained the Georgia law on vot ing and registration. He said he represented the registrars as county attorney and acted for the registrars in mailing out the not ices. He said the Georgia law was followed in sending out the chal lenge notices and in notifying those taken off the voters’ list. Mr. Memory said not more than 60 of those challenged appeared for the hearings and not over 15 were taken off the list. Most had not signed the required oath, the attorney said. Mr. Memory said that all those taken off the voters’ list were removed because they had not signed the oath or did not meet qualifications under Georgia law. He said none of those removed were taken off because of race, color or previous condition of servitude. An issue raised in the petition of the plaintiffs was that the chal lenger, J. C- Parker, was a “fic titious” person. Mr. Memory testi fied that Parker was on the Pie rce county voters’ list, a reqiure ment for any challenger. W. J. Ritch of Patterson was called and testified that John C. Parker lives in his own house at Patterson and has lived there for at least two years. He said Parker married a resident of Patterson. Foster O’Quinn testified that he had known Parker for five years and that Patterson is Parker’s permanent address. He said Park er recently built a home at Pat terson. After hearing the case, Judge Scarlett asked attorneys on both sides to submit proposed orders on the motions they were asking. He gave them a week in which to do so. VOTE FOR DEWEY HAYES SOLICITOR GENERAL ON SEPT. 12 An Experienced Lawyer Legislator Civic Leader Veteran Your Vote and Influence Will be Greatly Appreci ated!