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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 3, 1957
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
CARL BROOME EDITOR and PUBLISHER
Entered at the Post Office at Nahunta, Georgia as
second class matter under the act of March 3, 1879.
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Religiously Speaking
By Rev. Howard D. Blalock, Pastor
Emmanuel Baptist Church, Blackshear
THOSE RESOLUTIONS
Most of us like to begin a new
year with a hope or determina
tion that it shall be happier than
the preceeding year. Unfortun
ately many of us close the year
with our fond hopes and deter
minations blasted. This is the
case because our resolutions have
been broken and our hopes have
faded into disappointments. Why
are our resolutions so difficult
to keep?
Well, for one thing, we forget
that good habits are not made
just on one day in the year, nor
is Christian character made at the
beginning of a new year. A year
includes common days, tiresome
hours, plain old tools, and every
day clothes. Our New Year re
solutions should take this into
consideration. New Year’s day is
not magical. If we make resolu
tions on New Year’s days we will
have to keep them on the com
mon days, and the tiresome days
as well as on the first few days
of a new year. The new year
just gives us renewed inspiration
to do old duties. I challenge you
THE BRANTLEY COMPANY
LEO J. ALLEN, President
Blackshear, — — — — — Georgia
100 YEARS
OF PROGRESS AND SERVICE
The Blackshear Bank * Brantley & Pomeroy
Member Federal Reserve System Member Federal Deposit Ins. Corp. FIRE INSURANCE, BONDS AND HAIL INSURANCE
THIS STRONG BANK SOLICITS YOUR BUSINESS
The Blackshear Manufacturing Co. + Brantley Brick Warehouses
—1 and 2 —
MAKERS OF BRANTLEY’S BLACKSHEAR FERTILIZERS
SELL YOUR TOBACCO WITH US. “WE SET THE PACE”
Pierce Trading Company _ ~~
“The Oldest Store in Blackshear” Wayne Trading Company
EVERYTHING FOR THE FARM, HOME AND YOU - Everything for the Farm and Home d
ocreven, Georgia
to begin this new year by re
solving to do something about
these old duties.
First, find a solution to the
Sin problem. Sin is our great
est enemy. It fills our jails, our
asylums, breaks up our homes,
leads our youth astray, under
mines our country’s strength,
and ultimately ruins our lives
unless we find a solution to it.
As we pause beside the door
of the rtew Year, with Christ’s
birthday bells still resounding in
our ears, he says: “Enter through
me; for lo! I am the door.” This
is the answer and the only ans
wer to the sin problem. If we
enter through Him we can sing
with the Psalmist: “As far as the
east is from the west, so far
hath he removed my sins from
me.”
Next, learn to serve. So long as
we spend our time securing the
service of others we will have
misery. It is more blessed to give
service than to receive it. Let
us joyfully serve God, our
church, our fellowman, our com
munity, and our country. Let us
fill every day full with service
and the year will be filled with
joy. Let us practice the observa
tion of Christ when he said, ac
cording to Paul, “It is more
blessed to give than to receive.”
It really is. Try it.
Next, learn that art of trans
forming sorrow. “All things work
together for good to them that
love God. . .” Christians have
been enriched more by their sor
rows than by their joys. Look
always for something good in
your sorrows. It is always there,
and it is awaiting your discovery.
When you find it your sorrow
will be transformed and will
work out for the enrichment of
your life.
Finally, do not borrow trouble.
Much of our troubles are borrow
ed. We borrow them from the
future or from our wild imagina
tions; neither of these make good
loaning agents. The results is
that we suffer more ills from
these things in the future and
our imaginations than any other
troubles we have. The troubles of
today are sufficient, why bor
row tomorrow’s? Christ has
promised strength one day at a
time. “As thy day, so shall thy
strength be.” There it is. A
promise that is sensible. As the
day comes with its joys or
troubles, your stength shall be
accordingly. But there is no
promise regarding the days that
have never arrived.
If you resolve to do these things
you will not come to the close
of the year with all your resolu
tions blasted. You will conclude
the year with a sense of ac
complishment because you have
made some resolutions that kept
you busy all during the year;
some resolutions that really
changed your life. ,
Your year may be hard, but
with duties well done it can be
happy. Make is such!
ARTIFICIAL BREEDING
ON INCREASE
The number of first service
cows bred artifically in Georgia
in November of 1956 set a new
record for the month. The num
ber was 4,263. The most first
service cows bred artifically
during a November before was
4,255 in 1953.
GAME
and QU
< FISH -
FULTON LOVELL
Rabbit and Quail Seasons Set
For Same Dates This Year
LAST year, the rabbit season opened on October 1, and
closed on February 28. This year, the season has been
shortened considerably and corresponds with dates set for
quail season. The season for both opens
on November 20 and closes on Febru
ary 25.
One of the problems we ran into
when the rabbit season was longer
was whether a hunter was actually
hunting rabbits or hunting quail.
There were numerous cases of hunt
ers in the woods in October and early
November hunting quail. When they
were approached by a ranger, they
merely said they were hunting rab
bits, and if the ranger couldn't find where they hid
the quail they had bagged, he had no case. This, of
course, was unfair to the many quail hunters through
out the state who waited for the season to open on
November 20. Many of them expressed their concern
over the situation and appealed for measures which
would protect the quail until the season was opened.
Also, most of the sportsmen in Georgia felt that the
season started too soon and lasted too long for adequate
reproduction of rabbits. In early October too many of
them were being killed while their young were still ir
the nest.
Three years ago the rabbit season was opened all
I ear round. There was no limit on rabbits and no
iw to prevent them from being sold. There are a few
people In the state who would prefer to change the
laws back as they were then. These people are not
interested in conservation of wildlife, they don’t un
derstand the balance of nature which must be main
tained, and they were either not aware of the exploita
tion of rabbits on the open market or else they were
• part of It
Rabbits were being sold in markets all over Georgia.
Some people were making a living out of doing nothing
hoating rabbits, and the number of rabbits was rapidly
dwindling down because they weren’t given a chance to
reproduce. Also, many people were rearing domestic rab
bits and selling them on the market as wild ones
I remember a case in one of the middle Georgia
counties where a certain gentleman was making a good
living by simply picking up rabbits each morning in
his truck. A number of hunters placed their rabbits
in boxes outside their houses and he drove by each
morning and picked them up and carried them to the
farmers market in Atlanta. This was a typical example
of how the rabbits were being exploited all over
G Even now, with a law which prohibits the sale of wild
rabbits, there are a few people who try to get away with
it Some of them do for a time. A while back, we had a
report on a merchant in the Atlanta market who was sell
ing wild rabbits. One of the rangers approached him m
plain clothes and told him he wanted to buy some Georgia
wild rabbits for a restaurant downtown The merchant
sold them to him and, on the request of the ranger gave
him a written guarantee that they .were Georgia wild rab
bits. After a case was made against him, the merchant
produced invoices of rabbits that were shipped from Au
stralia and claimed that these were part of them
But for the most part the law has stopped the salt
of wild rabbits on the market, and the shorter season
will give them a chance to reproduce to the extent that
sportsmen will be able to hunt rabbits in Georgia for
a long time to come. The bag limit is five daily with no
weekly limit, so the hunter can take a maximum of 35
rabbits each week during the season.
There is a new amendment in the present law which
allows hunters to train their dogs to hunt rabbit and quail.
The dogs can be trained any time in or out of season
(except on Sundays) so long as the trainer has a permit.
Out of season, the trainer is not authorized to capture or
kill any quail or rabbits while training the dogs. The
permit is free and can be obtained from the Game and
Fish Commission in Atlanta. The trainer must carry this
permit at all times during the off season while he is train
ing his dogs.
Hearing Set January 9 on
Natural Gas Service Plan
South Atlantic Natural Gas
Corporation’s application to serve
natural gas to Blackshear and 42
other South Georgia communities
will be heard by the Georgia
Public Service Commission in
Atlanta beginning at 10:00 a.m.
on January 9.
In addition to providing natural
gas for Blackshear, the amended
application stated that said ser
vice would also be available to
Fort Stewart near Hinesville, the
state prison near Reidsville, and
the industrial plants of Rayonier,
Inc. at Jesup and the St. Marys
Kraft Corporation in Camden
County.
Cost of the pipeline, which
would cross the southern portion
of the state from a point near
Springfield to Eastman and via
Jesup and Waycross to Bruns
wick, St. Marys and Albany, will
be approximately $12,000,000.
The proposed rate, as listed in
the application, is 47.4 cents per
1,000 cubic feet. A company
spokesman said the “economical
layout” of the 611.7 mile pipe
line has resulted in a proposed
rate several cents below that
being promulgated by a competi
tive system.
Cities to be served would in
cluded Adel, Ailey, Alamo, Ash
burn, Alma, Baxley, Blackshear,
Brunswick, Claxton, Collins, Dou
glas, Eastman, Fitzgerald, Glenn
ville, Glennville, Guyton, Hagan,
Hazlehurst, Helena, Hinesville,
Jesup, Kingsland, Ludowici, Lum
ber City Lyons, Mcßae, Metter,
Mount Vernon, Nashville, Nic
holls, Ocilla, Patterson, Pem
broke, Reidsville, St. Marys,
Soperton, Springfield, Swains
boro, Sylvester, Tifton, Vidalia,
Waycross and Woodbine.
State and industry nurseries in
Georgia produce more than 130,-
000,000 tree seedlings per year.
