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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 1
Sweeping the Country
STATE CONSTITUTION FLOUTED
BY MILK PRICE CONTROL LAW
The Georgia milk price control law is in direct con
travention of the Georgia state constitution.
In proof of the Toregoing statement I submit the
following provision of Article 4, Section 4, of the state
constitution:
“Paragraph 1. Contracts to defeat competition. All
contracts and agreements, which may have the effect,
or be intended to have the effect, to defeat or lessen
competition, or to encourage monopoly, shall be illegal
and void. The General Assembly of this State shall have
no power to authorize any such contract or agreement.”
The above provision of the Georgia State constitu
tion is being violated by the milk price control law.
The Georgia Supreme Court several years ago de
clared milk price control and cigarette price control laws
unconstitutional, but the legislature then passed an
other law, ostensibly circumventing the State constitution.
The new milk price control law was, in effect, just
as unconstitutional as the former law which was thrown
out by the State Supreme Court, because, in effect, it
sets milk prices and prevents free competition.
SOME SMART EDITORIAL WRITERS
One of the amazing things in the controversy about
the Georgia Milk Control Board is the artful editorials
concerning it in some newspapers.
I say “artful” because the writers have the smartness
to write so much about the Milk Board without touching
the heart of the issue, the unconstitutionality of the price
control law.
The ability of some editorial writers to say so much
without touching the main issue is an art to cause envy
in the minds of some of us who do start with the basic
issue and go on from there.
In away I envy the artfulness of these editorial
writers in circling so adroitly around the main issue.
It was aaid about one editorial writer, “He is an
amazing mair because he can say-so much’ about so
little.”
Much editorial controversy has raged about the
Georgia Milk Control Board, but little has been said
about the real heart of the issue, the unconstitutionality
of price fixing by legislative enactment.
It is my opinion that if half the space given to edi
torials beating about the bush on the milk price control
law had been given to hammering on the unconstitutional
ity of the law, the public would have long ago demanded
and caused the abolition of the unconstitutional Georgia
Milk Control Board.
MILK CONTROL REPORT A DUD
(From The Atlanta Journal)
A LEGISLATIVE COMMITTEE inquring into the
operation of the Georgia Milk Control Board has labored
and brought forth a dish of sour cream.
About all that the committee can find amiss with
the board is that it has the wrong name: it ought to be a
milk commission instead of a control board. That way,
the public wouldn’t get aroused.
There are some other findings, but they take the
reader out in the pasture and leave him there, munching
grass with the cows.
The committee reports, for example, that the cost of
milk to consumers from the standpoint of food value is
less than many other foods.
That’s a good platitudinous approach that ought to
be a great consolation for mothers who can’t buy the
milk they need for their young.
Then the legislators follow with a real gem. They
discover that the dairy animal is by nature a cold weather
animal and therefore has a shorter life span and pro
ductive period in Georgia than in colder climates.
That apparently is supposed to be an alibi for high
priced milk, but it’s saturated with a good coating of fog.
The committee then moves to the conclusion that
there is “a marked and tragic lack of understanding of
the dairy industry and its problems in this state.”
That obviously refers to anybody who doesn’t agree
with the philosophy of the milk control board.
The other “findings” are much in the same vein.
But this business about changing the name to
“milk commission” is really intriguing, and reminds us
of Shakespeare’s words:
What’s in a name ? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Births
Lt. and Mrs. W. N. (Bill) High
smith announce the birth of a
son on December 16th. His name
is William Sidney.
* * *
Lt. Highsmith is a son of J.
Morris Highsmith of Nahunta
and Mrs. Laurie Highsmith of Ft.
Lauderdale, Florida. He is now at
Naval Air Station, Barbers Point,
Hawaii.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
By Carl Broome
Patterson Teams
Will Play Hosts
To Nahunta Friday
The Patterson Eagles and Eag
lettes will play hosts to Nahunta
this Friday night, Jan. 4, in their
first basketball game since the
Christmas holidays.
They have another home game
with Hazlehurst on Friday night,
Jan. 11.
Snmthy Enterprise
1957 Auto Tags on Sale at
Brantley County Courthouse
Brantley county motor vehicle owners may begin buying
their 1957 license tags this week. The new dark green and
white Georgia tags went on sale Wednesday at the office
of D. F. Herrin, court clerk.
Under a new Georgia law on
automobile tags, passed two
years ago, tags must now be
bought at the local courthouse.
Mr. Herrin’s office is open
from 9:00 A.M. until 5:00 P.M.
daily for the sale of tags.
Cars under 3,000 lbs. and 1954
models or previous will require
tags costing $3.00 Cars from 3,000
to 3,500 lbs., which includes most
Fords, Chevrolets, and Plymouths,
will require a tag costing $7.50.
Cars of 3,500 to 4,000 lbs. get
tags for $10; and over 4,000 lbs.
the tags are $15.00.
Pick-up truck tags are $5.00;
one-ton truck tags, $10.00; 1%-ton
tags, $15.00; and two-ton truck
tags, $25.00. All trucks over two
tons must have tags purchased
from the State Captiol in Atlanta.
The application form for cars
is printed in black; the form for
trucks is blue; and the form for
trailers is printed in red.
New Business
Firms Added
In Brantley
The business growth of Brant
ley County was underlined this
week when the physical count
of names of businesses listed in
the November, 1956 Reference
Book of Dun & Bradstreet waft
completed. •
The new count showed an in
crease of 51.1% in the last ten
years, according to C. L. Houk,
District Manager at Jacksonville,
which office covers this area.
He disclosed that in 1946, there
were 47 rated businesses listed in
the towns comprising Brantley
County, and the count of these
same towns in the new book
showed 71 names.
The Reference Book lists com
mercial enterprises — manufac
turers, wholesalers, retailers,
and other businesses generally
those buying regularly on credit.
It does not, however, include
same service and professional es
tablishments, such as real estate
brokers, barber and beauty shops,
stock brokers, etc. Thus figures
for all businesses in this County
would be higher than the ones
quoted above.
Columbus Bullard
Dies in Jacksonville
Columbus M. Bullard, father
of Mrs. Lillie Bell Curl of Black
shear, died in Jacksonville Sat
urday, Dec. 29, after a short
illness.
He was a native of Bacon coun
ty but had lived in Jacksonville
since 1949.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Ruby Bullard of Jackson
ville; four daughters, Mrs. Mada
leine Brandup of Jacksonville,
Mrs. Nellie M. Taylor of Alma,
Mrs. Lillie Bell Curl of Black
shear and Mrs. Lou E. Waters
of Waycross; three sons, Thomas
E. and Columbus E. Bullard of
Alma and Johnny E. Bullard of
Jacksonville; 30 grandchildren
and seven great-grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Monday, Dec. 31, at Big Creek
Church with Rev. Cecil Thomas
of Nahunta officiating. Burial
was in the church cemetery.
Nahunta High School
Basketball Schedule
Jan. 4, Fri., Patterson There
Jan. 8, Tues., Hinesville There
Jan. 9, Wed., Odum There
Jan. 11, Fri., Folkston Here
Jan. 15, Tues., Surrency Here
Jan. 18, Fri., Camden Co Here
Jan. 22, Tues., Screven There
Jan. 25, Fri., Wacona There
Jan. 29, Tues., Nicholls There
Feb. 1, Fri., Hoboken Here
Feb. 5, Tues., Camden Co There
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 3, 1957
Joseph M. Sweat, 56,
Dies in Eustis, Fla.
Funeral services for Joseph
Melvin Sweat, 56, formerly of
Pierce County, who died Thurs
day afternoon, December 27, at
his home in Eustis, Florida,
were held Sunday afternoon
at 2 p.m. at the Free Will Baptist
Church in Pierce County, with
Rev. V. L. Pridgen of Eastman of
ficiating. Burial was in the
church cemetery.
A native of Pierce County, he
moved to Eustis 10 years ago
where he has been employed in
an orange grove. He was taken ill
while working and died before he
could be carried to the doctor.
Pallbearers were Keller Rob
erts, Tom Roberts, Alvin Roberts,
Ralph Peacock, H. C. Pearson and
Dessie Music.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Nora Lee Roberts Sweat, Eustis;*
one son, Earl Abbott, Eustis; six
sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Luke, Black
shear, Mrs. Maggie Scott and Mrs.
Ruby Anderson, Hortense, Mrs.
Matilda Crews, Fernandina, Fla.,
Mrs. Lillie Hurst and Mrs. Janie
Sweat, Waycross; four brothers,
Ernest Sweat, Eustis, Robert
Sweat, Broadhurst, Johnny Sweat
and Leroy Sweat, Waycross.
Darling Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. George Trhlik
and Miss Sharon Kellenbenz left
on Friday for their home in
Baltimore, Md. after vislting Mrs.
Cindy Morgan for several days.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Sanders
and family and Bobby and New
bern Lewis of Waycross; Mr. and
Mrs. Dick Lee of Manor; Mr. and
Mrs. Ivy Johns and family of
Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs. John
nie Rowell and family of Hort
ense; Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lee and
son, Michael, of Nahunta were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Harvey Lewis on Christmas Day.
» * »
Mrs. Cindy Morgan, Miss Jim
mie Herrington and their guests,
Mr. and Mrs. George Trhlik and
Miss Sharon Kellenbenz visited
relatives in Miami and Okeecho
bee last week.
Miss Mary Jane Moore will
leave Thursday to return to St.
Louis, Mo. where she is em
ployed. She has been visiting her
mother, Mrs. Annie Johns for the
holidays.
Mrs. Harley Jones of Panama
City, Fla. spent the holidays with
relatives in Nahunta.
Mr. Billy Strickland has re
turned to his home from a Way
cross hospital where he has been
a patient.
Mr. and Mrs. Vance Goodner
of Crawfordville, Ga., and Miss
Mary Ann Goodner of Atlanta
were home with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. S- Goodner dur
ing the holidays.
• • •
Prof. Cecil Tucker, formerly of
Statesville, N. C., is the new
English and geography teacher
at Nahunta High School. He
takes the place of Miss Ida Vause
who resigned.
David R. White, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ira White of Nahunta, Ga.,
completed recruit training Dec.
21 at the Marine Corps Recruit
Depot, Parris Island, S. C.
Capt. Van Bibb Sayg, stationed
at Craig Air Force Base in Selma,
Ala. and Mrs. Saye and little
daughter, Susan and Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Strickland of Atlanta
were home with their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland
for the holidays.
One bale of cotton per acre
will remove from the soil 65
pounds of nitrogen, 25 pounds
of phosphate, and 50 pounds of
potash. That’s according to Jim
Bergeaux of the College of Agri
culture Extension Service.
25th Wedding
Anniversary to
Be Celebrated
Mr. and Mrs. Elroy Strickland
of Route 2, Nahunta, will be
honored on their twenty-fifth
wedding anniversary with a rece
ption given by their children.
The reception will be Sunday,
Jan. 6, at their home from 3 until
6 o’clock in the afternoon. All
friends and relatives are invited.
Walter Crews
Takes Office
As Sheriff
Brantley County started the
New Year with one new county
official and the others holding
over from the former term.
The new official is J. Walter
Crews who took office as county
sheriff. He is a former sheriff
who was elected again in the
1956 primary after a term out of
the office.
Other county officials holding
over are D. F. Herrin, court clerk;
Claude Smith, Ordinary; Hers
chel Herrin, county school super
intendent; John Wilson, tax com
missioner; C. S. Kizer, coroner;
Archie Johns, county treasurer;
and D. S. Page, surveyor.
Sheriff Crews announced that
he has appointed Ottis Morgan as
his deputy sheriff. Sheriff Crews
will live in the jail as he did
during his former terms as
sheriff.
The jail is being renovated in
side, with new floors in the
kitchen and halfway, repainting
of other floors and also of the
wall of the residential first
floor.
The cells and furnishings up
stairs in the jail department are
also being cleaned up and reno
vated to a considerable extent.
Waynesville
News
By MRS. PETE GIBSON
Miss Joyce McMullen of Jack
sonville spent several days with
Marie Bird. Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Mullen and son spent Sunday
with Mr. and Mrs. Bird.
• * •
Don L. Smith visited his sister,
Mrs. J. C. Cooper in Jacksonville
through the holidays.
« * *
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gibson and
Mrs. T. C. Kaney and Herbert
Kaney visited Mr. and Mrs. H.
Wiggins at Jacksonville Beach on
Sunday.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. M. Miller of
Brunswick, Misses Sadie and
Ethel Stafford of Savannah; Mr.
F. L. Langford, Sr., Mrs. F. L.
Langford, Jr. of Hardieville,
South Carolina were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Truby Thornton
and Mrs. Rosa Pettigrove over
the holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Smith, Sr.
are now at home after spending
some time with a daughter in
Jacksonville.
Mr. and Mrs. Levey Thornton
and Mrs. C. G. Peeples of Chic
ago, 111. are visiting relatives in
Waynesville.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Bernard and
sons, Gregory, who is a student
at Notre Dame in Indiana, visited
in Washington, D. C. for several
days. Patrick Bernard, another
son is in Washington studying for
Priesthood.
• • •
Hr. and Mrs. Marvin Robinson,
Mi. and Mrs. Cecil Moody and
children spent the week end at
Pi ley Bluff.
• • •
P. F. C. Clara G. Peeples spent
a few days at home. She has re
turned to her base at Chicago.
From there she expects to be
stationed at an overseas base.
* * *
Mrs. Marvin Kelly is now at
home after spending several
weeks in a hospital, and is now
i >uch improved.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Constitution Sports Writer
Comments on Nahunta Team
Raulerson-Stafford
Miss Earnestine Raulerson,
daughter of Mrs. Ernest Rauler
son of Jesup and Hortense and
Roland D. Stafford, son of Mrs.
George D. Stafford of Ludowici,
Ga. were married at the home of
Rev. L. D. Edgy on December
17 with Rev. Edgy officiating.
Mrs. Stafford was graduated
from Nahunta High School.
The young couple will make
their home in Jesup where both
are employed.
Hoboken Boy
Fatally Shot
While Hunting
A 14-year-old Hoboken boy
received a fatal gunshot wound
Tuesday while hunting.
Walter Phillip Riggins was
hunting rabbits with another boy
when the accident occurred. He
was wounded with a .22 bullet,
reportedly when the weapon
caught on a bush.
Young Riggins died en route to
a Waycross hospital. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Ivey Rig
gins and a ninth grade student at
Hoboken H4"h School. Other sur
vivors are two brothers, Joseph
and Charles; his paternal grand
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Rig
gins, Hoboken; and his maternal
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wal
ter L. Carter, Baxley.
Funeral services were to be
held at 3 P»> Thursday at Ten
Mile Church near Baxley with
burial in the church cemetery.
Mincy Funeral Home of Waycross
was in charge of arrangements.
2 Men Injured
In Highway 121
Accident Dec. 26
A 23-year-old Baxley man suf
fered head injuries Wednesday
when his automobile went out of
control and turned over near
Blackshear on Georgia Highway
121.
A state patrol report listed the
injured man as Jackie J. Morris
who is stationed at Mobile, Ala.,
as a member of the U. S. Air
Force. Cecil Morris, also of Bax
ley, who was a passenger in the
vehicle suffered cuts and bruises
in the mishap. Both men were
carried to Pierce County Hospital.
Sgt. G. L. Sims of the Waycross
Georgia State Patrol Post said the
automobile was traveling at a
high rate of speed when it went
out of control. He said damages
to the vehicle were estimated at
SSOO.
Morris was charged by the pa
trol with driving under the in
fulence of intoxicating beverages.
The accident which occured at
10:30 p.m., Dec. 26 was investi
gated by troopers D. C. Strick
land and W. E. Strickland.
Hoboken High School
Basketball Schedule
Jan. 4, Fri., Waycross There
Jan. 8, Tues., Odum Here
Jan. 11, Fri., Camden There
Jan. 18, Fri., Screven Here
Jan. 19, Sat., Waycross Here
Jan. 22, Tues., Manor There
Jan. 25, Fri., Nichols Here
Jan. 29, Tues., Folkston There
Feb. 1, Fri., Nahunta There
Feb. 5, Tues., Blackshear _ There
Feb. 7, Thurs., Pattenon _ There
Boy, 12, Kills Deer with 2
Shots from Single-Barrel
Devon Kimbrell, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Foy
Kimbrell of Route 2, Patterson, shot his first deer in a
hunt last Wednesday with the Pierce County Hunting
Club at their hunting ground south of Jesup. Devon’s
father is a member of the hunting club.
Devon shot a spike buck twice with a single-barrel
shotgun. The other fellows on the hunt said Devon re
loaded and fired the second shot so fast they thought
he was shooting with a double-barrel gun.
The Honv Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
By RALPH GREGORY
In Atlanta Constitution
Friends of Harold Scott, new
coach of Nahunta’s District 8-B
basketball champions, are invited
to send horseshoes, rabbit’s paws
or any other good luck omen
available.
Things are going pretty well
now for Scott in his poaching
debut but for awhile he must
have thought all the misfortune
in south Georgia had been heaped
on his head.
Scott faces defense of the dis
trict title without last year’s main
cog, to begin with. All-state cen
ter Lonzo Griffin, who scored at
a 25-point-per-game clip last sea
son, ran out of years at gradua
tion time and left Scott minus a
big scorer in his coaching debut.
To make things worse, the two
regulars counted on to take up
the scoring slack both came down
with injuries just as the season
took its lumps in the early early
season, six times, as a matter of
fact.
Then Melvin Griffin, six-foot
brother of departed Lonzo, re
covered from a back injury and
started to hit from his forward
post. Terry Allen, the other ailing
gunner, overcame a twisted knee
and equalled Griffin’s 15-point
per-game mark.
Right away things changed. The
Wildcats won five straight games
before a holiday layoff and ran
the season’s record to 8-6.
Now, Scott feels, Nahunta is in
good shape to win the district
title, but another injury would
cripple his attack again, for he
has to play a five-man team. The
starters go all the way, at least
as long as the issue is in doubt,
for the bench strength is sadly
lacking.
Griffin and Allen are the big
point men, but all five regulars
have hit consistently in the win
ning streak. And a saphomore
center, 6-4 Layton Johns, ranks
third in the scoring with an 11-
point average. He’s improving
rapidly as a rebounder, too, and
is the biggest surprise of the
squad.
Another first-year man, 5-11
.Don Cleland, teams with Griffin
at forward, and he, too, has been
scoring well. So far his average
is 10 points per game.
Another regular from last year
rounds out the starting, and gen
erally finishing team. He’s 5-9
Wain Brooker, a guard who so
far hasn’t hit too well, but has
been “a good floorman” in
Scott’s words.
“If we can keep the starters in
there,” says Scott, “we’ll be back
in there for the district crown
again. We’ve improved 100 per
cent over the early season
games.”
200 Fox Traps
Set in Pierce;
26 Are Caught
Twenty-six foxes have been
caught in Pierce county since
the full-time fox trapping pro
gram began recently under the
supervision of Oran Henderson
of Route 2, Blackshear.
The fox trapping program is
for the purpose of reducing the
fox population to decrease the
danger of rabies spreading from
the animals.
Mr. Henderson .said the 26
animals caught from the 200 traps
now set out included 10 females
and 16 males. All were gray
foxes except two, which were
red foxes, he said.
