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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 7
Basketball Tournament Starts at Nahunta Tuesday
Nahunta High School girls basketball team: front row, left to right, Judy
Thornton, Lana Hendrix, Nancy Hendrix, Jane Strickland, Velma Lee King,
Myra Strickland, Wanda Gail Herrin, Wanda Purcell.
Back row, left to right, Principal and coach Earl May, Mary Cross, Delores
Lee, Alice Sue DePratter, Faye Marshall, Emilee Rowell, Margie Herrin, Carolyn
Johnson, Molly Saddler, Sandra Williams, Gay Hiller.
Polio Drive in
Brantley Nets
$1438 Funds
The 1947 campaign for funds
for polio brought a total of
$1,438.45 in Brantley County, ac
cording to Prof, Cleve Jones of
Hoboken, director of the drive.
Funds for polio “March of
Dimes” raised by various organ
izations in the county, as an
nounced by Prof. Jones, were as
follows: .
Hortense School $201.29
Hoboken Elementary and
High Schools , 332.56
Hoboken Colored School .. 18.30
Nahunta Elementary
School : 551.73
Nahunta High School ... 225.80
Nahunta Colored School .. 15.42
Nahunta Businessmen .... 78.35
American Legion ......' 15.00
Total $1438.45
Arthur Hartwig is in the
Veterans Hospital at Dublin. He
underwent an operation for the
amputation of a leg on Friday,
Feb. 8. His condition is reported
as fair.
EASTERN DIVISION — EIGHTH DISTRICT
“B” BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 19, 20, 21
GIRLS
WACONA
TUES., FEB. 19
9:30 P. M. ——
NAHUNTA (
FOLKSTON Thursday, Feb. 21 - 8:00 PM. r
TUES., FEB. 19
740 P M.
CAMDEN CO.
WEB., FEB. 20
8:15 P.M.
PATTERSON
(BYE)
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Mrs. Charles Johnson
Honored with Shower
Mrs. Charles Johnson was hon
ored with a miscelloneous shower
at the home of her aunt, Mrs.
Earl Austin, Wednesday, Feb. 6.
Among those present were Mrs.
(Vibert Ruling, Mrs. Carmen
Shaw, Mrs. Robert Huling and
Timmy Huling, Mrs. B. F. White,
Mrs. Gaynell Keene, Carolyn
Herrin, Shirley Highsmith, Mrs.
Jona Smith, Mrs. John Paul
Jones, Mrs. Essie Thrift, Mrs.
Allie Wainright, Mrs. Walter
Crews, Mrs. W. C. Long, Mrs.
E. B. Herrin, Sr., and others.
The hostesses were Mrs. Willie
Brooker, Mrs. Raymond Edumnds
and Mrs. Earl Austin. Refresh
ments were served. Fifty beauti
ful gifts were received by the
honoree, Mrs. Charles Johnson.
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, 80 59 .00
Friday 80 50 .00
Saturday — — .00
Sunday — — .00
Monday 66 51 .55
Tuesday 59 34 .00
Wednesday 69 29 .00
Sraniky Enterprise
Waynesville
By Mrs. Julia Gibson
Rev. Thomas Lee of Fernan
dina, Fla. preached at the home
of Mr. and Mrs. B. A. Lightsey on
Friday evening.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Persons of
Waycross visited their daughter,
Mrs. C. D. Gibson on Saturday.
» » »
Mrs. B. A. Lightsey and Mrs.
Lula Griffin visited Mrs. Light
sey’s brother, Mr, Rex Cannady
in Baxley on Sunday.
» » *
Miss Inez Driskell has moved
to Brunswick where she is em
ployed. (
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Mr. and Mrs. Noble Lee and
daughters, Ellen and Wanda of
St. Marys spent the week end
here with Mr. and Mrs. O. A.
Keene.
» • *
Mrs. Raiford Pierce and little
son, Sammy of Brunswick visited
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. A.
Keene last week.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. Hansford Parrott
and family have moved here from
Nahunta.
Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Thornton
of Waycross and Mr. and Mrs.
Ted Thornton of California visited
Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Thornton on
Sunday.
» • »
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Thompson
and little daughter, Joyce of
Clearwater, Fla. spent several
days the past week with his
mother, Mrs. Thelma Thompson.
» * *
Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Stonecypher
have recently moved to Waynes
ville from Nahunta.
• • •
Mrs. Lloyd Robinson left on
Thursday of last week for a visit
with relatives in Miami.
Paige - Willis
Mrs. Emmett J. Paige announ
ces the engagement of her daugh
ter, Josephine, to Thomas Ronald
Willis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil
liam B. Willis of Nahunta.
Miss Paige graduated from
Henry Grady High School and
the Georgia Baptist School of
Nursing in Atlanta. She is pre
sently employed as a staff nurse
at Georgia Baptist Hospital.
Mr. Willis graduated from
Nahunta High School, and is a
junior at the Georgia State Col
lege.
The wedding is to take place
March 16th in the Chapel of
I Peachtree Christian Church, Atl
anta.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 14, 1957
News
Nahunta Boys
To Defend
Championship
Boys and Girls
Teams of 5 Schools
Will Compete
The eastern division Class B
basketball tournament will be
held at Nahunta Feb. 19 through
Feb. 21, it is announced by Prof.
Earl May, principal of the Na
hunta High School.
Basketball teams of five high
school in the eastern part of the
Eighth District will compete at
Nahunta. Both boys teams and
girls will be represented in the
tournament which begins Tues
day night, Feb. 19, at seven
o’clock.
Both Nahunta teams meet the
Wacona squads Tuesday night,
the girls playing at 8:15 and the
boys at 9:30. The first game Tues
day night. will be between the
Folkston and Camden county girls
teams at 7:00.
The Nahunta boys team is be
lieved to have a good chance to
win the tournament but Coach
Harold Scott is taking nothing
for granted as his team must first
defeat Wacona Tuesday, manage
to get by the Folkston team
Wednesday night, then on Thurs
day overcome the winner of the
Patterson-Camden County con
test.
TheNafrunta girls, if they win
from Wacona Tuesday night, will
not play again until Thursday
night, when they would meet
the winner of the Folkston-
Camden County-Patterson fra
cases.
Referees for the tournament
will be Junior Harrison and
Robert Nabors. Score keeper will
be Jack Moore, time keeper
Dudley Spell and announcer
Auvell Raulerson.
The winners of the eastern
division tournament will meet the
winners of the western division
tdurnament in play-offs for the
Eighth District Class B champion
ship.'
The winners of the district
tournament will then compete in
the State B tournament for the
state crown.
The Nahunta High School boys
team won the district champion
ship last year and went to the
semi-finals in the state tourna
ment when they were defeated
by Perry, the team that won the
state Class B championship.
Oak Grove Wesleyan
Church Revival and
Homecoming Day
The Oak Grove Wesleyan Meth
odist Church will start a revival
meeting Friday night, Feb. 14,
and also hold a homecoming rally
Sunday, Feb. 17, it is announced.
Rev. Alexander is pastor of the
church. The homecoming pro
gram will last all day Sunday,
with dinner served on the church
grounds at noon.
The public is invited to attend
the revival services Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday, and also the
homecoming program.
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:
Thursday, Feb. 21 — 9 A.M. to
5 P.M.
Monday, March n—l P.M. tb
5 P.M.
Monday, March 18 — 9 A.M. to
5 P.M.
During the school year ending
June, 1956, more than 62,000
schools took part in the Special
Milk Program—a gain of more
than 50 percent over the previous
year, says John Conner, dairy
marketing specalist, Agricultural
Extension Service.
Nahunta High School boys basketball team: front row, left to right, Wain
Brooker, Melvin Griffin, Layton Johns, Terry Allen, Donald Cleland.
Second row, left to right, George Willie Thomas, coach Harold Scott, man
ager William Hinesly, Jerome Rooks.
Back row, left to right, William Royster, Auvell Raulerson, Gordon Howard,
Burnette Dubose.
Iris Barr to Sing
On College Band
Concert Program
Miss Iris Barr of Nahunta, who
is a senior at Georgia State Col
lege for Women at Milledgeville,
will sing two numbers at the
Milledgeville Concert Band Pro
gram Wednesday night, Feb. 20,
at 8:30.
Miss Barr is majoring in music
education. She is president of the
college government association.
Last summer she was a member
of the cast of the Municipal
Theater Under the Stars in Atl
anta.
Miss Barr will accompany the
Concert Band on a tour of Middle
Georgia towns where they will
give a program of instrumental
and vocal music.
They will be at Georgia Mili
tary Academy Thursday, Feb. 21,
also at Sparta, Sandersville and
Wadley on Friday, Feb. 22.
Personals
Sybil Strickland of Nahunta
High School has been named
Homemaker of Tomorrow because
she received the highest score
in a written examination on
homemaking knowledge and atti
tudes taken by the senior girls.
♦ • ♦
Thomas J. Herrin, 20, son of
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Herrin,
Route 2, Hortense, Ga. is com
pleting his Air Force basic mili
tary training at Lackland Air
Force Base in Texas.
* * ♦
Mrs. Ollie Johns and Mrs. Mat
tie Seals who have been living
in Kingsland, Ga. are spending
a few days with Mr. and Mrs.
Ira E. Johns as they are ar
ranging to move to' Hickox to
make their home.
• * •
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Wainright
have moved to Hickox from Hor
tense, Ga.
Mrs. Ella Brown and Mrs. Betty
Donelly of Brunswick, Mrs. Gra
ham Uttly, Virginia Falls, New
York and Mrs. Harriett Whitener
of Fort Dix, New Jersey were
dinner guests of Mrs. Alice High
smith and family on Saturday.
Brown - Simons
Miss Mary Ann Brown, Savan
nah and Bobby Simons of Savan
nah were married Saturday night,
Feb. 9 at the home of Mrs. Julia
Gibson at Waynesville with
Judge Gibson performing the
ceremony. ,
The young couple left immedi
ately after the ceremony for
Savannah where they are both
employed.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Nahunta Wins From Camden,
Jesup and Hinesville Teams
Nahunta High won three dou
bleheaders in a row by defeating
Camden and Jesup last week and
Hinesville Tuesday. The local
teams have but one more contest
before ending their regular sea
son play, that being with Darien
Friday night in Darien. The girls
record now stands at 14 won and
13 lost, while the boys have a 19
won, 8 lost record.
Last week the Nahunta girls
defeated Camden 56-49, and
Jesup 58-47. In the Camden game
Velma Lee King had 28 points,
Jane Strickland 16, and Nancy
Hendrix 12. In the Jesup game
Strickland had 25, King 22, Hen
drix 11. Tuesday night the local
lassies was victorious over Hines
ville 49-36. Strickland had 20,
King 18, and Hendrix 11.
The Nahunta boys dropped
Camden 73-37, and Jesup 66-45.
In the Camden game, Griffin had
21, Allen 17, Johns 10, Cleland 9,
Brooker 4, Royster 4, Dubose 2,
Thomas 2, Rooks 2. Against Jesup
Allen had 29, Griffin and Brook
er had 12 each, Johns 7, Cleland
6.
Tuesday night the boys handed
a powerful first district Hines-
EASTERN DIVISION — EIGHTH DISTRICT
“B” BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT
NAHUNTA, GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 19, 20, 21
BOYS
PATTERSON
WED., FEB. 20
7:00 P. M. —
CAMDEN CO.
NAHUNTA ■
Thursday, Feb. ?1 - 9:15 P.M.
Tues., Feb. 19
8:15 P.M.
WACONA
WED., FEB. 20
9:30 P. M.
FOLKSTON
(BYE)
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ville team a 63-37 defeat. Cle
land had 20, Griffin 14, Allen 13,
Brooker 10, Johns 6.
Barney Harris, 38,
Os Hoboken Passes
Barney Harris, 38, of Hoboken,
died Saturday in a Waycross
hospital after a short illness. A
native of Brantley county, he was
a veteran of World War 11. He
was employed by the Brant’ y
County Road Commission.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Mildred Griffin Harris, three
sons, James, Testy, and Thomas
Harris, i all of* Hoboken; two
daughters, Shirley Ann and Ellen
Louise Harris, both of Hoboken;
one sister, Mrs. Felix Highsmith
of Jacksonville; three half sisters,
Mrs. Ellis Highsmith, and Mrs.
Jessie Griffin, both of Nahunta
and Mrs. A. J. Taylor of New
York; two half brothers, Roscoe
Johns and Ira Johns, of Nahunta;
and his mother, Mrs. Nicie Johns
of Nahunta.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at the graveside in
Hickox cemetery.
