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Newspaper Page TextAll of the People in Most of the Homes in Brantley County Read The Brantley Enterprise, Their Home Newspaper. VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 4 Bacon Representative Plans Bill to Check Corporate Buying Up of Timberlands A South Georgia freshman legislator said he plans to intro duce a measure which would “help head off lyge corporations from gobbling up the state’s tim ber lands.” Rep. C. J. Broome Jr., Bacon County lawmaker and newspap erman, said large pulp and paper mill corporations have “taken over so much timberland in Geor gia that they can control the price paid to owners in sales.” Broome said his proposal would slap a severance tax on timber cut and used by large corpora tions, similar to taxes in Ala bama, Mississippi and Louisiana. As an example Broome pointed to a Mississippi severance tax pertaining to timberlands which amounts to 12 cents per cord in pine pulpwood. Hinders Development “Some of the corporations own so much timberland it hinders the growth and development in other fields in the small rural counties,” he said, and the firms “control low ad valorem assessments through political strength and pay four, five or six dollars on land worth $100.” “There’s very little taxable land left for some counties,” he said. Henry Malsberger, executive director of the Southern Pulp wood Conservation Assn., said: “When the pulpwood companies buy land they replant it, build roads and provide employment in building up productivity of full tree production. The land might have had only 25 per cent pro duction when it was purchased. “The pattern of ownership is not changing,” added. Broome said ihe South Georgia county of Brantley has a total acreage of 286,000. Os this amount, he said, 162,000 acres be long to large corporations. He said firms have “grabbed off” one-third of the state’s 24 mil lion acres of timberland. The lawmaker said he hopes to tie in his timberland severance tax with a cigarette tax reduction bill he intends to introduce. The proposed severance tax money would replace revenue lost from cigarette taxes, he explained. Opposition Expected Broome’s measures are expect ed to meet stiff adminstration op position through Gov. Marvin Griffin’s plea to “hold the line” on tax reductions, tax increases and state spending. Broome said the extensive cor porate held timberlands have “caused a great deal of resent ment on the part of small farmers who are being shoved out of the picture.” “The large corporations outbid everyone else on timberland sales because they have the resources J and money,” he said. “Tobacco companies don’t grab acreage from small farmers nor do tex tile industries buy up the cotton farms.” Raybon Church Os God Revival Now in Progress The Raybon Church of God of Prophecy is conducting a revival meeting, with Rev. Roy Mixon of Macon doing the preaching. Rev. Earl Morgan is pastor of the church. Services are being held each night and the revival will continue through Wednes day, Jan. 30. All the people of this section are invited to attend the services. Army Recruiter Arrives Mondays Sergeant R. L. Womack, an army recruiter, will be at the Nahunta post office each Monday morning from 9:30 to 10:00 for the purpose of enlisting men for the army. • Young men wishing to enlist in the U. S. Army are requested to see sergeant Womack on Mon day. Sixty-five communities parti cipating in the 1956 Southwest Georgia community improvement program spent $126,155 to im prove churches and grounds. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Sangster-Willis Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Edith Sangster and Mr. Charlie H. Willis at Thomasville Wednesday, Jan. 16. The couple visited the groom’s parents Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Willis of Nahunta the past weekend. They will make their home in Thomasville where Mr. Willis is a TV technician. Herring-Johnson Announcement is made of the forthcoming marriage of Miss Barbara Ann Herrin of Nahunta to Mr. Charles Johnson, the wed ding is to take place Sat., Jan. 26, at 5:30 in the afternoon. Refreshments and the wedding cake will be served at a reception at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Herrin, at 6:30. No invitations will be sent but all friends and relatives are invited to attend the reception. Weather Report For Past Week By J. A. ROSS U.S. Weather Bureau report of temperature and rainfall at Nah unta for each 24 hour period of week ending. Nahunta Sta. High Low Rain Thursday 46 37 .03 Friday — 16 .00 Saturday — — .00 Sunday 67 — .00 Monday 68 48 .00 Tuesday 75 57 .09 Wednesday 77 61 .07 *** _ -r Mr. and Mrs. George Drury an nounce the birth of a son on Jan. 17 in a Jesup Hospital. Os New and Renewal Subscriptions The Brantley Enterprise ex presses its thanks to the follow ing subscribers for their NEW or RENEWAL subscriptions which have been recently re ceived: Virgil H. Allen Route 1 Nahunta, Ga. Gladys Hickox Route 2 Hickox, Ga. Alfred Herrin Ponca City, Okla. Ray Garver Mechanicsburg, Pa. Helen M. Green Woodbine, Ga. J. Malcolm Wade Folkston, Ga. E. B. Jones Route 1 Hoboken, Ga. W. K. Herrin Nahunta, Ga. Joel Herrin Route 2 Patterson, Ga. L. W. Robinson Waynesville, Ga. C. L. Blocker Snowdon, Ala. Owen Shuman • Route 2 Waycross, Ga. Col. Dewey Hayes Douglas, Ga. Mattie Lou Wildes Atlanta, Ga. O. G. Lee Hoboken, Ga. Mrs. W. C. Lane Route 2 Patterson, Ga. Births Honor Roll Brantley Enterprise Future Teachers Attend Workshop At Valdosta Meet Hoboken Future Teachers of America attended a workshop for club officers in Valdosta, Satur day, Jan. 12. Sondra Ammons from the Hoboken chapter served as reporter. The workshop is held annually to help the club of ficers know the best way to carry out their duties. Guest speakers from the State Department of Education were Mrs. S. C. Patterson, Miss Nadine Q’Steen, Miss Doris Duncan, Mrs. Knight, Mr. Young and Mr. Hughes. In discussing the project of students teaching for local teach ers during their absence, it was decided the club should be paid fifty cents per hour unless the teacher is away on school bus iness. Another point brought out in the meeting was that each school should have an F. T. A. Day and every member should have a planned class to teach with the teacher sitting in the room. It was pointed out that com munities should aid the teaching shortage by offering scholarships to Future Teachers that would otherwise have difficulty in ob taining a higher education. Hoboken High School Wins 2nd in Debate The Hoboken Debating Team won second place in the Eighth District Southern Circle, Class C Schools. The debate subject was: Re solve; “That the federal govern ment should sustain the prices of major agricultural products at not less than 90% of parity.” Members of the team were Sondra Ammons, Susie Lee Bell, Freddie Abercrombie, Jimmy Cochran, and Chairman, Dorothy Shuman. Mrs. Lula Mae Robinson joined the Hoboken School Faculty Mon day, Jan. 21. She replaces Mr. Linton Pittard who has been re called to the United States Army. Hoboken Schools feel they are fortunate in securing Mrs. Rob inson for this position. She will be remembered as a former Visit ing Teacher for the county. IN TALMADGE eports 3 ' I ss' Wf kHINGTON THE BACKBONE OF Congress is its committees. Without them legislative processes would bog down in a hopeless morass of con flicts and confusion. While the de- tion are perfect ed. Through countless hours of usually-unher alded study, research, conferences and hearings, the members and staffs of the various committees put into proper form, both as to structure and substance, each of the acts considered by the law makers for a place on the statute books. BECAUSE OF THE vital role which committees play in making our laws, I was particularly grati fied to be assigned by the Senate Democratic Steering Committee to serve on two key ones—the Com mittee on Agriculture and Forestry and the Committee on Rules and Administration. The Committee on Agriculture and Forestry is responsible for all legislative matters relating to those two fields, particularly the formulation of the nation’s farm program. It considers all meas ures pertaining to such subjects as agricultural production and prices, livestock and meat inspection, ani mal diseases, seed adulteration, in- Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 24, 1957 bates and de cisive votes give Congress its color, it is in the committee rooms that the laws of the na- * • • (Not prepared or printed at government expense) Dowling Found Not Guilty of Kidnap Charge Brantley County Superior Court continued in session Thursday, with Judge Cecil Roddenberry presiding and Col. Dewey Hayes of Douglas as solicitor. Routine civil cases were dis posed of Monday, mostly divorce suits. In the case of Mrs. Marie Lanier and Butler Blount of Thalman, charged with burglary, the defendants pled guilty and were given four to 10 years sent ences. They were charged with taking furniture from a dwelling house. The charge of kidnaping against Eugene Dowling was tried Wed nesday and the defendant found not guilty. He was charged with kidnaping 15-year-old Peggy Sapp. The evidence seemed to indicate that the girl voluntarily accompanied Dowling to various places in Waycross and Jesup. Nahunta Wins Two Games from Camden County *The Nahunta eagers won a double-bill from Camden County Friday night, the girls winning 44-34 and the boys 64-37. In the opener Velma Lee King sparked the Nahunta lassies to the win with a 31 point sharp shooting display. Jackie Wilder had 12 points to lead Camden County scorers. The Wildcats from Nahunta continued their impressive play to win the nightcap 64-37. Layton Johns topped Nahunta scorers with 18 points. Cary Peeples had 17 for Camden. Drivers Licenses To Be Validated Troopers of the State Patrol will be in Nahunta for the pur pose of renewing auto drivers licenses through the validating machine on the following dates: Tuesday, Jan. 29 — 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday, Feb. 11 —1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Thursday, Feb. 21 — 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. Monday, March 11 —1 P.M. to 5 P.M. Monday, March 18 — 9 A.M. to 5 P.M. sects, agricultural colleges, ex periment stations, agricultural research, dairying, nutrition, home economics, entomology, plant quar antine, farm credit, rural electrifi cation, crop insurance, agricultural marketing and soil conservation. • • * THE RULES COMMITTEE han dles all matters relating to the parliamentary rules and procedures of the Senate and federal elections, including those for President and Vice President. In addition, it is the agency which administers the various facilities of the Senate as well as those institutions, like the Smithsonian Institution and Bo tanic Gardens, which come under its jurisdiction. This Committee, particularly this year, will exercise great influence over the course of many measures coming before the Senate, espe cially such controversial ones as the so-called civil rights proposals. For example, it will consider all of the proposed changes in Senate Rule XXII which permits unlimited debate. • • * BOTH OF THESE Committees will be dealing with legislation in which all Georgians have a major concern not only at this session but also at sessions to come. I feel that through serving on them I will be enabled to be a more effective representative of the citizens of Georgia and the nation. * Mrs. Ouida Strickland Died at Daytona Mrs. Ouida Strickland died at her home in Daytona Beach, Fla. Wednesday. A native of Brantley County, she had lived in Florida for the past 30 years. She is survived by her hus band, J. T. Strickland Sr., of Day tona Beach; two daughters, Mrs. Mildred Hopkins of Miami, Fla., and Mrs. Amy Harvey of Way cross; six sons, Marvin, Vernice, Swaney, J. T. Paul and Franklin Strickland, all of Daytona Beach. Funeral services were held Friday at 4:30 p.m. at Wesleyan Methodist Church in Hortense, with Rev. Snellgrove officiating. Burial was in Clark Cemetery. Health Office to Be Closed Saturday The local Health Department will be closed on Saturday Jan uary 26. Both the nurse and the clerk are required to take a State Merit System examination on that date. Tractor Clinic Is Planned By Prof. Long A tractor clinic will be held for all tractor owners in this community. Last year we sponsored a clinic of this kind and it was well received. However, many farmers were unable to attend and some wanted to attend another. It will be divided into two parts. On Thursday night, Jan. 31, all owners are requested to come to the High School building, where discussions will be held and films shown on the proper service and care of your parti cular tractor. The second phase will be held on Friday when you will bring your tractor to Mutt’s Drive-in at Hickox where you will meet Service Men from the various dealers and they will help you I clean and service your tractor. This is a good opportunity for you to get your tractor ready for the job that is ahead. Be sure to come on Thursday night at 7 P.M. because this meet ing is an important part of the clinic. Mr. Nicholson from our District Office will be present with some good information for you. Also we need to know how many and what kind of tractors to expect on Friday. Please don’t confuse this with the Electrification clinic that is to be held at the school house on Monday and Tuesday night and at the Farm of Junior Thomas on Wednesday. You may feel free to attend both of these during the week. Also we want to make plans for having our cows tested for T. B. and Bang’s Disease. This is a free service, if we get it done soon so let all of us get organized and let ours be a part of the 600 cows that the Government will test in Brantley County. W. C. LONG Vo. A|. Teacher Nahunta High School House Burns, Remains of Negro Found The charred remains of a body believed to be that of James Brown, 26-year-old pulpwood worker of Bristol, were found early Sunday morning after the house in which he h^d been lin ing was destroyed by fire. Sheriff J. H. Pittman reported that Brown was brought home by some friends about 1:30 A.M. Sun day and the house was discovered in flames about two hours later. There was no immediate evid ence to indicate foul play. A coroner’s jury Monday re turned a verdict of death from “unknown causes” but added in the verdict that Brown’s remains, found in the burned wreckage of the house, were 80 to 90 per cent consumed. Brown was employed in the Rigdon pulpwood operations at Bristol. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Nahunta High School Reveals Honor Students for Fall Term Satilla Eastern Star Met with Waycross Chapter Satilla Chapter No. 365, of Na hunta met in a joint meeting with AREME Chapter No. 101, Way cross in the Masonic Temple in Waycross on Jan. 18, for the official visit of Mrs. Maude Jen kins, Worthy Grand Matron of the Grand Chapter Order of the Eastern Star of the State of Georgia. Malva Alice Keene is Worthy Matron of Satilla Chapter and Sue Nell O’Quinn is Worthy Matron of AREME Chapter. It was the regular meeting night of the Waycross chapter and they carried out their regular form of business with the Worthy Grand Matron giving her ad dress. The Satilla Chapter assumed their stations to exemplify bal loting. Present were: Malva Alice Keene, Worthy Matron; Delma Herrin, Worthy Patron pro tern; Ruby Herrin, Associate Matron; Aaron Sadler, Associate Patron pro tern. Other officers were: Daisy Hunter, Mamie Orser, Lur line Broome, Zoie Stokes, Ocie Keene, Mildred Moore, Nona Sad ler, Verona Crews, Louise Drury, Mollie Prescott, Bertha Miller, and Lila Crews and Dorothy Kelly as pro tern officers. Mrs. Daisy Hunter, Mrs. Ver ona Crews and Mrs. Louise Drury were the Past Matrons of the Satilla Chapter attending the banquet of Past Matrons and Past Patrons at six o’clock on Friday evening, Jan. 18. with the Worthy Grand Matron attend ing. Appoihtjpents made by the Worthy Grand Matron to attend the Grand Chapter meeting in Macon in June were: Malva Alice Keene, Grand Page; David, Page, Grand Guard; Zoie Stokes, Grand Usher. At the close of the business meeting the two chapters served refreshments in the banquet hall consisting of cake and coffee, sandwiches and punch. Bennett Raulerson Passes Away in Gainesville, Fla. Bennett Raulerson, age 72, of 520 N.W. 10th Avenue, Gaines villeville, Florida, died Saturday, January j 9, in the Alachua Gen eral Hospital’in Gainesville after a short illness. Funeral services were held Monday, January 21, at 11 A.M., in the Williams-Thomas Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jack Noffsinger, pastor of the First Baptist Church, presiding, Rev. McCaul assisting. Interment was in Hillcrest Memorial Park in Gainesville. Mr. Raulerson was born near Patterson, son of the late James R. Raulerson and Rachel Bennett Raulerson. He was a retired Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Agent and had worked as office manager and bookkeeper of the Latimber Tire Company since his retirement from the railroad. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory in Jacksonville; the Blue Lodge in Winter Haven, Florida; and the Gainesville Order of the Eastern Star. Surviving relatives include his wife, Rebie McGurik Raulerson; a daughter, Mrs. Louie F. Lati mer and four grandchildren of Gainesville, Florida; a daughter in-law, Mrs. Frances Raulerson and two grandchildren of Bartow, Florida; three brothers, Joe Raul erson of Hoboken, J. D. Rauler son of Lake Butler, Fla., Frank Raulerson of Jacksonville; and four sisters, Mrs. Harley Davis, Blackshear, Mrs. Mary Sapp and Mrs. Rilla Youmans, Hoboken, and Mrs. Lola Johns, Nahunta, and a number of nieces and nep hews. Pallbearers were Curtis Wil liams, Walter Winn, R. L. Shipp, Dozier Dowling, Pitt Hunter and Fred Scholfield. Honoraray pall bearers were Dr. J. E. Maines, Dr. John Crago, and the members of the D. O. W. Sunday School Class of the First Baptist Church of Gainesville of which Mr. Raulerson was a member. The Home Newspaper is Read Like a Letter From ‘ T hey Don’t Subscribe iu, h 4< r .w Enterprise. The Nahunta High School had completed the first semester of school. A number of students made unusually good grades. The following students made honor grades 93 or above in all subjects taken: 12th grade: Wain Brooker, Gay Hiller, Sybil Strickland, Wade Strickland. 11th grade: Mary Cross, William Royster, Darlene Drury, Auvelle Raulerson, Willene Rowell. 10th grade: Gene Crews, George Thomas, Norma Manning, Ric hard Tolbert. 9th grade: Cecil Drury, Betty Carol Depratter, Harry Herrin, Robert Sloan, Josephine Bryan, Betty Ann Lanier. Bth grade: Jewel Luke. 7th grade: Charlene Gibson, Michael Middleton, Janice Willis, Sandra Willis, Elaine Allen, Lin da Crews, Shirley Dowling, Mar ion Morgan, Frances Saddler, Helen Strickland, Patricia Walk er, Dollie Mae Warren, Gerelda Willis. The following students made the honor grade in two or more of their subjects; 12th grade: Glen Campbell, Bill Wainright, Mada Dean Har ris, Joan Griffin, Virleen Strick land, Celinda Batten, Evelyn Sad der, Nellie Jo Lee, Nancy Hen drix, Velma Lee King, Rose Mary Smith, Estelle Lyons, . Nelda Dowling, Marie King, Myrtice Sloan, Wilma Rowell, Audrey Fay Herrin, Jenny Stewart, Mil dred Carter. 11th grade: Emma Jean Branch, Lillie Ruth Thomas, John Willis, Carolyn Johnson, Shirley Moody, Jenelle Hughes, William Hines ley, Myra Strickland, Delores Lee. 10th grade: Edward Davis, Joe Sears, Gerald Thrift, Judy Thorn ton, Nancy Batten. 9th grade: Sylvia Rowell, Bar bara Brauda, Alice Sue Deprat ter, Sandra Williams, Gerald Kelly, Molly Saddler, Melbra Thrift, Evelyn Howell, Judy Crews, Jerry Rowell, Ernestine Dean, Aria Dean Wilson, Ivella Coleman, James Walker. Bth grade; Bonnie Crews, Chris tine Cross, Lamar King, Everett Lee, Harry Riggins, Ann Thomas, Jimmy Wainright. 7th grade: Shirley Wainright, Johnny Crews, Linda Dubose, Helen Moore, Judy Dowling, Sarah Jane Strickland, Lamar Thrift, Maxine Herrin, Ann Jones, Carolyn Johns. Meetings Set To Discuss Leaf Program Meetings are being held throughout South Georgia to give tobacco growers the latest information concerning tobacco production and marketing. Grow ers are asked to make every ef fort to attend so they may under stand the effect of these changes on the tobacco program. Growers also asked to con tact their local county agents for time and place of meeting, one of which is scheduled for Black shear and Nahunta on January 18. Convicted Negro’s Motion for New Trial Is Denied The motion for a hew trial for Clarence O’Neal was denied Sat urday by Judge Cecil Rodden berry. O’Neal, 47-year-pld Negro pulpwood worker, was convicted in the December term of Pierce County Superior Court for the murder of Curley Grey, also colored. Francis Houston and W. P. Strickland Jr., attorneys for O’Neal, will make an appeal to the State Supreme Court. cotton is king still Georgia’s 1956 cotton crop con tributed $106,203,000 to the state’s agriculture. Cotton is still king as far as crops are concerned. Income from it last year was higher than that from any other crop.