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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 6
25 Legislators Want Probe
Os Corporate Land Holdings
Twenty-five south Georgia
legislators Wednesday proposed
an investigation of problems
caused by the “enormous” timber
land holdings by corporations in
the state.
They drafted a resolution call
ing for a House-Senate commit
tee to study legislation that might
be needed to “equalize the tax
burden in counties wherein the
acreage owned by said corpora
tions is in excess of 50 per cent
of the total acreage of the
county.”
The resolution was intro
duced formally in the House
Thursday.
While not spelled out in the
resolution, authors of the pro
• posal made it clear it is aimed
at the paper companies which
are buying great acreages of pine
and farmland, particularly in
south Georgia.
“The trend of the purchasing of
land devoted to agricultural pur
poses by corporations for the pur
pose of producing forest products
has created serious problems in
local government,” the resolu
tion declares.
It says corporate land buying
is causing a “hardship” in the
financing ofYounty and city gov
ernments because land owners
who sell out often leave the
county.
“The loss of the revenue from
the taxes on personal property
of the persons formerly residing
on such acreages has reduced
the tax revenue of the counties to
an alarming figure,” the resolu
tion declares.
It calls for a six-man joint
committee, with subpoena pow
ers, to make a “thorough study
of the problems involved.”
Chief sponsors of the resolu
tion are Reps. Francis W. Allen
and Wiley B. Fordham of Bulloch
and William L. Lanier of Candler.
In an accompanying statement,
the three legislators said there is
“great concern” about the trend
toward corporate land holding in
their section of Georgia.
“It is believed that certain cor
porations have acquired control
of more land than is needed to
assure an adequate supply of raw
timber,” they declared.
Naval Jet Base May Be
Built in South Georgia
At least five different sites in Southeast Georgia and
north Florida are under consideration for a multi-million
dollar naval jet base, according to the Associated Press
Three possible sites in nearby
Appling and Wayne counties have
been surveyed by a private en
gineering firm and reports from
Dublin and Jacksonville reveal
sites in the trade areas of each
of these cities are under con
sideration.
A recent television broadcast
reported Jacksonville officials
highly optimistic about obtaining
the jet air base for mat area.
Naval air officials are also re
ported to have inspected a 30,000
acre tract as a possible site for
base near Dublin recently.
A delegation from Baxley and
Jesup was in Washington last
week to solicit the aid of Con
gresswoman Iris Blitch and other
members of the Georgia delega
tion in support of their recom
mended sites in Wayne and Appl
ing counties as against the sites
being considered in Florida.
The site in the Dublin area was
inspected on January 24 by of
ficers including Rear Admiral
Delbert Cornwell, commander of
the Jacksonville Naval Air Sta
tion, and Commander F. B. Stone,
operations officer.
Congressman Carl Vinson,
chairman of the House Armed
Forces Committee, was quoted in
Dublin last week as saying the
S4O million jet base would mean
a complement of 540 officers and
3,830 enlisted men.
More than 160 planes of four
aircraft carriers in the Atlantic
Fleet would be used at an installa
tion in the Sixth Naval District,
the congressman was quoted as
saying. He was also quoted as ex
pressing hope that a site may be
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Honor Roll
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:
J. W. Walker
Waynesville, Ga.
Harvey Lewis
Route 1 \
Nahunta, Ga.
E. R. Abercrombie
। Hoboken, Ga.
J. T. Royster
Nahunta, Ga.
C. B. Mills
Route 2
Patterson, Ga.
C. E. Crews
Route 1
Hoboken, Ga.
F. H. Dragoe
Route 1
•Nahunta, Ga.
Roy Ham
Nahunta, Ga.
J. L. Miles
Route 2
Waycross, Ga.
D. E. Waldron
Route 1
Hoboken, Ga.
Donald Shuman
Route 1
Hoboken, Ga.
I. J. Davis
Nahunta, Ga.
W. R. Johns
Okechobee, Fla.
M. G. Johnson
Route 4
Savannah, Ga.
R. J. Lyons
Route 2
Nahunta, Ga. •
selected by the Navy by May,
and he indicated that an appro
priation for the new base would
be sought at the next session of
Congress.
Triplet Kids Born
To Nanny Goat
A goat belonging to Jerry
Strickland gave birth of triplet
kids last week, on the farm be
longing to his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Buck Strickland at Twin
Rivers. It is unusual for a goat to
give birth to more than two at
once.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Rowell of
Hickox announce the arrival of
a baby daughter born Friday,
Jan. 25, in a Jesup hospital. The
baby has been named Alice Gail.
She weighed eight pounds four
ounces.
ROOM FOR MORE IRRIGATION
Willis Huston, Extension Ser
vice agricultural engineer, has
this to say about irrigation: “With
the large percentage of increase
in irrigation in Georgia, we are
still irrigating only 8.3 percent
of the 745,058 acres that can be
irrigated in the state if all of
the available water supply was
utilized fully.”
Srantlvy Entr rpHsr
Danny Strickland, 17, has been hailed as Georgia’s all-time corn
growing champion. The Brooks county 4-H Club boy’s 1956 yield
of 203 bushels per acre is a state record. His average for the last
four years is 159 bushels. Starting with certified seed of Dixie 18
hybrid and using heavy fertilization, Danny employs unique cul
tural practices to make his record-breaking yields. He was honored
for his feats at a dinner in Quitman recently by the Agricultural
Extension Service, College of Agriculture Experiment Stations, the
seed and fertilizer industry, and all phases of the state’s agriculture.
$52,005 Paid
For 740 Acres
At Auction
A tract of 740.2 acres of Brant
ley County land in the Hickox
section brought $52,005.00 or ap
proximately S7O an acre at public
auction in Nahunta Tuesday
morning, Feb. 5.
The land was bought by Isaiah
J. Davis after about an hour of
spirited bidding between him and
Jesse Allen.
The land was sold as part of
the estate of Mrs. Rosella Wain
right, Mrs. Lucille W. Robinson
administratix.
A tract of 74.7 acres of the
same estate was bought by Lloyd
Wainright for $6,000.00.
Weather Report
For Past Week
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 83 52 .00
Friday 80 54 .00
Saturday 78 56 .00
Sunday 80 55 .00
Monday 80 53 .00
Tuesday 85 51 .00
Wednesday 83 59 .06
3 Young Men
Inducted into
Military Service
Three young men of Brantley
Feb. 5, for induction into military
Feb. 5, induction into military
service, it is announced by Mrs.
P. D. Griffin, draft board clerk.
They were Carswell Royster,
Lant Pearson and John Sidney
McKinney. They went to Jack
sonville where they will be as
signed to training camps in the
armed services.
NITROGEN IN
THE POULTRY HOUSE
The longer poultry manure is
kept in the house the more the
nitrogen is reduced, according to
H. W. Bennett and P. J, Bergeaux
of the College of Agriculture
Extension Service. When litter is
kept dry, they point out, the loss
is not so great. “It is a good prac
tice to clean the laying house
at least once each year and the
broiler house between broods.”
WHERE DOGWOOD
grows BEST
Dogwood in the native state us
ually grows in a semi-shaded lo
cation. Gerald E. Smith, Agricul
tural Extension Service horticul
turist, says there is less likeli
hood of encountering difficulty
with the tree if such a location is
selected for planting.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 7, 1957
By J. A. ROSS
Unemployed Workers
In Brantley Paid
$4,328 in 1956
Unemployed workers in Brant
ley County were paid a total of
$4,328.00 in 1956, it is revealed in
a report by Commissioner of
Labor Ben T. Huiet.
The office of the department
serving Brantley County is at
215 Pendleton St., Waycross. The
office also serves Ware, Pierce,
Wayne, Clinch and Charlton
counties.
The office in Waycross is man
aged by J. A. Goldwire who
assists employers in filling non
farm jobs. At present there are 11
unemployed workers drawing job
insurance on claims filed in the
county.
Personals
Iva Lee Aldridge of Hoboken
High School has been named
“Betty Crocker Homemaker of
Tomorrow.” She received the
highest score in a written exam
ination on homemaking know
ledge and attitudes given to
senior girls Dec. 4.
Sergeant First Class George W.
Herrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. G.
W. Herrin, Route 1, Nahunta,
recently arrived at a manuver
area near Fort Polk, La., where
he will participate in army
manevers this spring.
• • •
Harry Edmunds AN, of the U.
S. navy, volunteered for service
in Cuba. Since arriving there
he was notified that he had
passed the test for pretty officer,
third class, and would be re
turned to his home base at the
Naval Air Station at Jacksonville.
Don Brenier, A. N., of the U. S.
navy volunteered for service in
Cuba. He has been in the Cuba
naval hospital for the past four
weeks.
* * *
Mrs. Max Barker of Salisbury,
N. C. is spending two weeks with
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Orr and Mrs.
A. F. Whitaker. She is mother of
Mrs. Orr and Mrs. Whitaker.
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharpe of
Mansfield, Ohio and Mrs. Martha
Haley of Kenton, Ohio were
visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B.
Strickland on Tuesday of this
week.
Mrs. B. F. Strickland has re
turned to her home at Trudie.
She spent the winter months
with Mr. and Mrs. Troy Strick
land and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford
Strickland and Mr. and Mrs. Q.
A. Strickland in Morehaven and
Orlando, Florida.
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The W. M. S. C. S. of the Meth
odist Church met at the church
Jan. 30 with Mrs. R. H. Schmitt
as leader on “Devotional Read
ing”. Present were Mrs. S. S.
Sarvis, Mrs. Grace Wakeley, Mrs.
E. A. Moody, Mrs. Osgood Moody,
Mrs. W. H. Howell, Mrs. Horace
Williams and Mrs. J. B. Lewis.
Drive to Innoculate Dogs
Starts in Brantley Monday
Mad Fox Tries
To Attack
Children
Two more mad foxes have been
reported in Brantley County near
Hortense, one of them trying to
attack some children waiting for
a school bus and the other attack
ing dogs at a farm house.
School bus driver John R.
Lewis reported that a mad fox
tried to attack children waiting
for the bus near the Raleigh
Sloan home Monday morning,
Feb. 4.
The children fought off the fox
with stick and Mr. Sloan killed
the animal with a 22-calibre rifle.
Another mad fox is said to
have attacked a dog at the home
of Douglas Roberson Sunday
night, Feb. 3. The fox came into
the yard and bit the dog, it is
reported. The fox escaped and
may possibly be the same one
that tried to attack the school
children Monday .morning.
Tobacco Consultant
Speaks at Nahunta
Monday Night
. There will be a Tobacco Con
sultant at the High School to meet
with all tobacco farmers in this
community on Monday night,
Feb. 11, at 7 P.M.
With the tobacco allotment
being cut each year, it is im
portant that we get the best yield
from our acreage; also after the
yield, we must get the most
money from our pounds. This
man is suppose to be able to tell
us some things that will enable
us to do just that.
He will be able to answer
questions about the Stabilization
Corporation and other facts about
marketing your crop.
Let me urge each of you to
take advantage of this meeting
and be present at 7 P.M. We shall
meet in the Vo-Ag. Class Room.
W. C. Long.
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THE QUESTION OF so-called
jivil rights vs. constitutional rights
is closely tied to six resolutions
pending before the Senate Rules
Committee.
' These meas
| ures are aimed
at changing,
| Senate Rule
XXII which re
quires a vote of
| two- thirds o f
the Senate
I membership, or
I 64 Senators, to
limit debate. They propose re
visions which run the gamut from
a majority of all Senators, or a
total of 49, to a simple majority of
those present and voting. Most
attention centers on the Knowland-
Johnson “compromise” which
would shut off debate upon affirma
tive vote of two-thirds of the
Senators in attendance.
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ADVOCATES OF CIVIL rights
want to limit debate in order to
push the enactment of legislation
establishing absolute federal con
trol over every facet of life. They
are aware that such measures are
hardly likely to be passed so long
as the proponents of constitutional
rights can utilize the historic right
of free debate to voice their ob
jections and warn the nation of
the consequences.
The issue raises the fundamental
question of the wisdom of placing
the weapon of “gag rule” in the
hands of a partisan majority. Such
would present the possibility of
substituting legislation by political
stampede for legislation by mature
deliberation and pose a threat to
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
G. N. Rogers Died
At Dothan, Ala.
G. N. Rogers, age 68, a native
of Brantley County, died in
Dothan, Ala. where he was living
on January 29 after an extended
illness. Burial was in Troy, Ala.
Besides in his wife in Dothan,
Ala. he is survived by three
brothers, Lee Rogers of Bruns
wick; Perham Rogers, Detroit,
Mich; Conway Rogers of Bir
mingham, Ala. and two sisters;
Mrs. Effie Bryant and Mrs. C. C.
Carmichael both of Birmingham.
P re-Measurement
Os Tobacco Land
Is Available
Brantley County farmers can
arrange for official premeasure
ment of their 1957 acreage the
County Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Committee an
nounced this week.
To get the premeasurement
service, Which is being provided
on a cost basis, a farmer must
file a written request with the
County ASC Committee prior to
February 15, 1957, says Mr.
Dykes, committee chairman. The
rate to be charged for the service
in Brantley County has been es
tablished at four dollars ($4.00)
per farm plus seventy (0.70)
cents per acre for tobacco plus
forty (0.40) cents per acre for
cotton, and payment based on this
rate must be made at the time
the request for measurement is
filed.
"The premeasurement is purely
optional,” says Dr. Dykes, “and
is offered as a service to farmers
who prefer to have an official
measurement to use as a plant
ing guide.”
The chairman explains that all
of these acreages in the county
will be measured as soon as
possible after crops are planted
to determine compliance with the
programs. When compliance is
checked, the official acreage shall
be the acreage premeasured if
the crop or land use is limited to
the premeasured.
our two-party system through
stifling minority views.
• • •
NONE OF THE proponents have
been able to cite a single example
of real injury suffered by the
American people as the result of
freedom of debate in the Senate.
The truth is that only five meas
ures ever have actually been de
feated by filibusters —the force bill
of 1890, the armed-ship bill of 1917,
the anti-lynch bill, the anti-poll tax
bill and the FEPC bill —all but the
second of which were of doubtful
constitutionality and should have
been defeated.
Those who would make this radi
cal change fail to consider the
danger of the precedent they thus
would set or to recognize that the
device they so criticize today for
protecting the rights of the people
of the South tomorrow may prove
to be the very means through which
the rights of the minorities they
represent may be safeguarded from
similar attack.
IT STANDS TO reason that so
sweeping a revision in our nation’s
system of checks and balances is
not something which should be
entertained with haste or without
careful deliberation. It is a mat
ter which rails for the most serious
study by »nd full hearings before
the Rules Committee.
As a member of that body, it
shall be my purpose to support that
viewpoint.
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The Home Newspaper is
Read Like a Letter From
Home. If They Don’t
Subscribe, They Borrow The
Enterprise.
State Health
Department
Is in Charge
An intensive campaign to in
noculate all dogs in Brantley
County against rabies will be
started Monday, Feb. 11, by the
State Board of Health, it is an
nounced by George Loyd, coun
ty agent, who has been appointed
county rabies inspector.
The Brantley County board of
health is cooperating in the anti
rabies campaign. The county
board is composed of Dr. E. A.
Moody, R. B. Brooker, chairman
of the county commissioners, and
Prof. Herschel Herrin, county
superintendent.
The intensive drive to get all
dogs in the county innoculated
against rabies is caused by the
outbreak of rabies among foxes
in Brantley County and neighbor
ing counties.
Dr- L. E. Star of the State
Board of Health was in Nahunta
last week helping to plan the
anti-rabies campaign.
Dr. Bronze Youmans, veterin
arian, of Waycross was in Na
hunta to set up the details of
drive and he will be in charge
of the actual work of innoculat
ing dogs. He will also have an
assistant to help hold the dogs
while they are being innoculated.
The serum and the innocula
tion is absolutely free to all cog
owners. The innoculation will
make the dogs immune to rabies
for four years, according to Geor
ge Loyd, county rabies inspector.
Each dog owner will be given
a certificate and a tag for his dog.
All dogs not wearing innocula
tion tags will be picked up by
the sheriff’s department a week
after the campaign is ended and
the dogs will be disposed off.
All citizens having dogs pre
urged to carry their dogs to the
innoculation centers on the dates
specified in the schedule and
have them innoculated. This in
cludes all dogs previously in
noculated with the “one-year”
serum because the planned in
noculation is good for four years.
The sche4ule of Dr. Youmans
and his trained assistant in in
noculating dogs has been an
nounced for Brantley County as
follows:
Monday, Feb. 11: Pierce Chap
el from 8 to 10 A.M.
Tuesday, Feb. 12: Raybon,
Purdom’s store, 8 to 10 A.M.
Hortense, Eldridge’s store, 10
to 12 A.M.
Brownton, intersection of high
way 32 and Waynesville road, 1
to 3 P.M.
Wednesday, Feb. 13: Waynes
ville, Robinson’s store, 8 to 9:30
A.M.
Atkinson, Prescott’s store, 9:30
to 11 A.M.
Lulation, Wainright’s store, 11
A.M. to 12:30 P.M.
Nahunta, stock market, 2 to
5 PM.
Thursday, Feb. 14: Riverside
Church, 8 to 10 A.M.
Hickox, Herrin’s store, 10 to
12 A.M.
Hoboken, Lastinger’s Garage,
2 to 4 P.M.
Calvary Community Center,
4:45 to 5:45 P.M.
Saturday, Feb. 16: Hoboken, 8
to 11 A.M.
Nahunta, 1 to 4:30 P.M.
Saturday, Feb. 23, Clean up, at
Hoboken 8 to 11 A.M.
Nahunta 1 to 4:30 P.M.
Drivers Licenses
To Be Validated
Troopers of the State Patrol
will be in Nahunta for the rur
pose of renewing auto driven
licenses through the validating
machine on the following dates:
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.
