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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 8
Fox Trapping Program Starts
This Week in Brantley County
Land Owners
Asked to
Cooperate
A county fox trapping program
has been started in Brantley
county, with Everett Strickland
in charge of placing the traps
for farmers who cooperate in the
plan.
The fpx trapping program is
necessary because of the pre
valence of rabies among foxes
of southeast Georgia. A number
of mad foxes have attacked dogs
in Brantley County and even
tried to attack school children
waiting for a school bus.
S. M. Canup, assistant district
agent of the U. S. Fish and Wild
life Service was in Nahunta
Monday and Tuesday, helping to
get the fox trapping program
started in the county.
The Brantley County commis
sioners are in charge of the pro
gram and have employed Everett
Strickland to be in direct charge
of getting permission from land
owners and placing the fox traps
in the woods and fields.
All landowners are urgently re
quested to see Mr. Strickland and
give him permission to place
traps on their land. The extreme
danger from mad foxes makes
the trapping program an im
mediate necessity.
The fox trapping program has
already been carried out in
Bacon, Pierce and many other
Georgia counties where the mad
fox problem has arisen. Hundreds
of foxes have been caught in the
counties where the trapping drive
has been carried out.
Signs will be put up on land
where fox traps have been plac
ed .There signs are already avail
able, as well as the fox traps.
Brantley County will have
available about 27 dozen fox
traps or more than 300 traps. The
fox trapping program is for the
protection and benefit of the
people of Brantley County.
The county commissioners and
Mr. Everett Strickland will great
ly appreciate the full cooperation
of all land owners in helping to
get rid of the grave danger from
mad foxes.
Other Counties
The fox trapping program has
resulted in the catching of ap
proximately 1,600 foxes in five
other southeast Georgia counties,
according to Mr. Canup.
Approximately 200 foxes have
been caught in Pierce County,
300 in Wayne County, 300 in
Bacon County. 200 in Appling
County and 572 in Coffee County.
Only in Coffee County has the
program been completed for the
time being. Additional foxes are
still being caught in the other
four counties.
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Have yeu lost anything?
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A small advertisement in The
Brantley Enterprise will be read
like news. One time 75 cents,
three times $2.00.
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810.200 deaths at all ages in the United States in 1955—more than all
other causes combined. This dramatically underscores the need to ac
celerate research, education and community heart programs supported
hv the Heart Fund. You can contribute directly to your Heart Amocm
^n or by Addressing “HEART,” care of Post Office.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Boys Confess to
Burglary and
Attempted Theft
A teen-age youth has confessed
to burglarizing the Phillip 66
Service Station in Nahunta on
Jan. 9, it is reported by sheriff J.
Walter Crews.
The youth also confessed to
stealing tires off an automobile
in Ware County, the sheriff
stated.
Two others teen-age boys have
confessed to attemping to -take
gas from a school bus parked
near the Nahunta High School
building Sunday afternoon, Feb.
17, according to sheriff Crews.
Willis - Kick
Mrs. George Willis announces
the engagement of her daughter,
Mary Lou to Donald John Kick,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Kick
of Rochester, New York.
Miss Willis graduated from
Nahunta High School and is pre
sently employed as director at a
radio station in Waycross.
Mr. Kick is a graduate of Ac
quinas institute in Rochester,
New York and is employed as
engineer at a radio station in
Waycross.
The wedding will take place in
the spring at St. Joseph Catholic
Church in Waycross.
Miss Mary Ann Goodner of
Atlanta spent the weekend at
home with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. T. E. Goodner. Mr. Goodner,
who has been a patient in a Way
cross hospital returned home on
Tuesday of this week.
The Nahunta Garden Club will
meet at the home of Mrs. Edna
Adams in Hortense next Tuesday,
Feb. 26 at four o’clock P.M. Mrs.
R. B. Brooker will be co-hostess
with Mrs. Admas. Mrs. Lula
Brown will be leader of the pro
gram.
Rev. and Mrs. Omer Graves
have returned to their home in
Atlanta after spending several
days with Mr. and Mrs. E. K.
Ham.
Pvt. Kelly S. Brown, son of
Mrs. B. W. Brown of Nahunta, is
a member of the 4th Transporta
tion Training Command at Fort
Eustis, Va. He is a clerk-typist in
the command’s headquarters.
Mrs. C. L. Middleton of Hor
tense is in Miami where she is
visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. V.
Allen who is seriously ill from
a heart attack.
Bill Would Increase
Circuit Judge Pay
A bill has been introduced
in the Georgia House to pay
the judge of the Waycross
Judicial Circuit an additional
$3,600 a year.
The measure provides that
the additional sum would be
paid, S6OO each, by Bacon,
Brantley, Charlton, Coffee, Pierce
and Ware counties.
Personals
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Srantby Enterprise
16-Year-Old Boy
To Preach at
Church of God
The Nahunta Church of God
will start a revival meeting on
Sunday, March 3, with a 16-year
old evangelist doing the preach
ing.
The revival preacher will be
Rev. Walter Mathis of Rome, Ga.
He has been preaching since the
age of 13. He is a successful youth
evangelist and has been preach
ing for the Church of God Youth
Camp.
Rev. Thomas McQuaig is pastor
of the Nahunta Church of God.
During the revival the church
will have special songs and in
strumental music.
No-Burn Ban
Again Ordered
For This Area
A spreading epidemic of wild
fires in Georgia’s drought-hit
Eighth District brought a no
burning ban in this area Friday,
Feb. 15, Georgia Forestry Com
mission Director Guyton De-
Loach said.
The ban went into effect at
10 a.m. Saturday. It is the second
time in recent months the ban
has been imposed in the south
Georgia coastal area.
According to the order, no out
door fires may be lighted until
the ban is lifted. Controlled burn
ing maybe conducted only if a
state or federal forestry agent is
present. Violators will be subject
to prosecution for a misdemeanor,
DeLoach said.
Counties included in the Eighth
Forestry District are: Appling,
Wayne, Coffee, Bacon, Berrien,
Atkinson, Ware, Pierce, Brantley,
Glynn, Camden, Lanier, Charlton,
Clinch, Echols and Lowndes.
Waynesville
News
By Mrs. Julia Gibson
Lloyd Peeples has returned to
his ship the USS Rochester some
where in the Pacific after visit
ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Peeples. Sr.
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Mr. William Bird of Jackson
ville is spending his vacation
here.
Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Robinson
spent the week end in Crescent
City, Florida.
Mrs. Alma Omick of St. Marys
is visiting relatives here.
Mrs. Ollie Vee Whitner has
returned to her home in Jack
ville after spending a few days
here with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. Q. Smith, Sr.
Mr .and Mrs. Monroe Miller
and family of Brunswick spent
Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. T. E.
Thornton.
Mrs. Sylvia Harrison of Bruns
wick spent Sunday with her
sister, Mrs. T. E. Thornton.
Mr. John Proctor and family
of Jesup visited his mother, Mrs.
D. C. Proctor on Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Drury and
family, Mr. Vernon Drury and
family of Vidalia; Mr. and Mrs.
Spencer Drury and family of
Raybon, Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer
Drury and family of Jesup and
Mr .and Mrs. Marvin Drury and
family of Brunswick all spent
Sunday with their mother, Mrs.
S. C. M. Drury.
The W. S. C. S. of the Nahunta
Methodist Church will meet on
Wednesday, Feb. 27 at the home
of Mrs. J. B. Lewis. Mrs. Effie
Middleton will be hostess. Mrs.
Horace Williams will have charge
of the program. They will meet
at seven o’clock P.M.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 21, 1957
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Proceedings
Os County
Commissioners
The Brantley County Commis
sioners of Road and Revenue met
in Regular Session Feb. 5, 1957.
Present were R. B. Brooker;
Chairman, R. C. Harrell, Jr.,
Clerk, C. H. Penland, Alfred
Thomas, & Silas D. Lee.
The following Commissioners
were paid for six days service
each. R. B. Brooker, $30.00; R. C.
Harrell, Jr., $22.28; C. H. Pen
land, $22.28; Alfred Thomas,
$30.00; & Silas D. Lee, $30.00.
The following pauper list was
approved and ordered paid. Ocie
Moody, $10.00; Dora C. Merritt,
$10.00; Thelma Sapp, $10.00; &
Russell Crews, SIO.OO.
The following road hands were
paid for the month of January,
1957. perry Crews, $165.85; Wood
row Wilson, $189.85 I. C. Harris,
$213.85; J. F. Willis, $222.85;
Monsie Wilson, $224.28; Talmadge
Gunter, $181.85; Elvin Griffin,
$197.10; Roscoe Murray, $186.45;
Barney Harris, $192.00; & O. G.
Lee, $250.00.
The following general bills
were paid, S. E. Blount, $75.00,
Janitor; C. Winton Adams, $25.00,
Salary; D. F. Herrin, $430.00,
Salary & Fees; George A. Loyd,
$190.00, Salary; Sarah Dot Sim
pson, $106.05, Salary; M. E. Win
chester, $62.00, Salary; Alvin M.
Powell, Jr., $12.00, Travel; Cecil
B. Ragsdale, $93.50, Salary; Reb
ecca D. Griner, $280.60, Salary;
Annice L. Carter, $146.85, Salary;
Dr. E. A. Moody, $43.00, Salary &
Treating Prisoners; R. R. Kramer,
$15.00, Dental Clinic; Edna J.
Kramer, $4.00, Dental Clinic;
Archie A. Johns, SBO.OO, Salary;
Burns Electrical Cont., $4.00, Re
pair on Jail; H. S. Wilson, $3,387.-
91, New Truck; H. S. Wilson,
$242.41, Repair; Harry Depratter,
$255.05, Repair; Carlton Co.,
$1,878.16, Repair; Labrone Ma
chinery & Equip. Co., $353.44,
Repair; Blalock Machinery Co.,
$165.14, Repair; Sinclair Refin
ing Co., $335.80, Gas & Oil;
Standard Oil Co., $256.44, Gas &
Oil; Satilla Lumber Co., $21.26,
Lumber; Brantley Telephone Co.,
$228.44, moving poles on R|W;
J. W. Crews, $669.21, service
rendered; Mrs. E. H. Kelly,
$60.00, Baliff; L. O. Morgan,
$60.00, Baliff; Mike Henderson,
$60.00, Baliff; B. E. Thomas, $50.-
00, Baliff; Joel Herrin, $50.00,
Baliff; Llawanah Cox, $7.50,
Preparing Presentments; Morgan
Grocery, $2.00, gas can; J. W.
Brooker, $158.33, road supplies;
Porter & Farr, $22.50, repairing
typewriter; Paint & Title Inc.,
$36.25, supplies for jail; Okefen
okee, R. E. A., $2.56, caution
light; Claude A. Smith, $140.00,
County Officers, Oath & Bond;
Saddler Plumbing, $20.35, Repair;
Brantley Telephone Co., ^SO-10,
Phones, Calls; Dewey Lee, $5.00,
Repair; Marshall & Bruce, $113.-
48, Office Supplies; A. S. Mizell,
$205.00, County Officers, Bonds;
Brantley Gas & Appliance Co.,
$57.25, Fuel; The Brantley Enter
prise, $172.00, Advertising &
Supplies; Recordok Corp., $102.90,
Office Supplies; Mrs. J. A.
Campbell, $42.00, Feeding Jury;
I. J. Davis, $18.70, Feeding Jury;
Bennett Brother. $7.97, Office
Supplies; C. S. Kizer, $43.00, In
quest; Dept, of Public Welfare,
$889.85, Budget; Ga. State Fores
try Comm., $525.00, Budget; Mem
orial Hospital, $8.45, Health Aid;
Pearce Drug Store, $11.85, Med
icine; Washington National Ins.
Co., $53.93, Insurance; T. E.
Raulerson, $226.89, Salary &
Travel; A. B. Brooker & Son,
$16.84, Supplies; Dan Jones, $403.-
20, Lumber; Dept, of Public Wel
fare, $46.60, Travel & Bord. on
Convention Expense; Dewey
Hayes, $63.34, Salary; City of
Nahunta, $22.50, water.
Nomination was made and
voted on unaminously by all
members that Mr. R. B. Brooker,
serve as chairman, and Mr. R. C.
Harrell, Jr. serve as clerk, for
the insuing term. There was also
a resolution passed on unamin
ously, so that the State Vete
narian may check all cattle in
Brantley County, for Bangs dis
ease.
There being no further business
the meeting adjourns in regluar
order.
R. B. Brooker, Chairman,
R. C. Harrell, Jr., Clerk.
Nahunta Boys Beat Wacona
And Folkston In Tourney
Nahunta Girls
Drop Game
To Wacona
Nahunta and Patterson basket
ball teams advanced to the finals
in the eastern division Class B
tournament at Nahunta and were
to play Thursday night for the
division title.
The winner of the eastern
division will meet the winner of
the western division for the dis
trict championship.
The Nahunta boys squeaked by
the fast Wacona squad Tuesday
night by a 62 to 60 score, after
the game was tied at the end
of the regular session. Only after
the three-minute play-off did
Nahunta manage to win by two
points.
The game was a hectic affair,
especially in the last half when
Wacona put on a drive that al
most won the game. Nahunta led
31 to 19 in the first first half but
the Wacona five put on the steam
and rapidly closed the gap.
A shot through the basket in
the last seconds was a bit too
late to win for Nahunta, as the
buzzer had already sounded, ac
cording to the referee, and the
over-time period was then neces
sary.
Patterson downed Camden
County Wednesday night by a
score of 66 to 40.
Nahunta beat Folkston Wed
nesday night another close shave,
the score being 51 to 49. The
game was close and fast from
the first play, with only from
six to one points separating the
two team for the game’s dura
tion.
Nahunta Girls Lose
The Nahunta girls squad lost
to Wacona Tuesday night by a
score of 62 to 47. Camden Coun
ty. Camden County girls downed
the Folkston five 45 to 33.
Patterson girls beat Camden
County Wednesday night by a
score of 57 to 37." The Wacona
girls team and Patterson girls
were to fight it out Thursday
night for the eastern division
title.
Nahunta-Wacona
Boys Box Score
Nahunta Points
Griffin 22
Allen 21
Johns 1
Cleland .* 8
Brooker 8
Royster 2
Howard 0
Total 62
Wacona Points
Murray 8
Schupp 17
Pearson 14
Culpepper 6
Blount 4
Bryan 11
Strickland 0
Total 60
Nahunta-Folkston
Boys Box Score
Nahunta Points
Griffin , 11
Allen 15
Johns ... 17
Cleland 8
Brooker 0
Total 51
Folkston Points
Crews 13
Cornathan 14
Pickelen 8
Duggen 8
Gowen 6
Benson 0
Total 49
Nahunta-Wacona
Girls Box Score
Nahunta Points
J. Strickland ...... 17 .
King 18
Hendrix 12
M. Strickland, Margie Herrin,
Cross, Thornton, Wanda Herrin,
Rowell.
Total 47
Wacona Points
Dell 32
Hersey 24
Meeks 6
Sweat, Cheney, Hayes, McCor
mick.
Total 62
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Eye Test Program
Conducted by
Hoboken School
The Hoboken Parent-Teacher
Association conducted a vision
testing program in the Hoboken
Schools to test children for near
sightedness and farsightedness.
This project was under the lead
ership of Mrs. E. G. Fowler,
chairman of the P.J.A. Health
Committee.
It is hoped that parents will
follow up the report by taking
their children with defective
vision to an eye specialist. The
Nahunta Lions Club will assist
in obtaining glasses where the
parents are unable to buy them.
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 70 29 .00
Friday 71 35 .00
Saturday 73 40 .01
Sunday 65 34 .00
Monday 69 28 .00
Tuesday 81 56 .15
Wednesday 69 45 .00
Card of Thanks
I wish to express my heartfelt
thanks to all our friends who
aided us and sympathized with us
during the illness and death of
our husband and father, Barney
Harris, i
We will always feel a deep
sense of gratitude to everyone
who was so kind and helpful to
ward us in our bereavement.
Thank you again, one and all.
Mrs. Barney Harris
HEIMAN TALMADGE
From ■
WASHINGTON
wm h n i w h
THE PROPOSED FEDERAL
budget for 1957-58 looks like an
oversized Sears-Roebuck catalog.
It is a formidable book of 1251
pages, not including the 356-page
supplement required to list the
Government’s payroll, and weighs
four and three-fourths pounds. Un
like the “wish book,” however, it
does not contain something for
everybody as it leaves the poor
taxpayer out without even a hint
of that long-promised tax cut.
as The $71.8-biL
to “cut federal
spending to something like S6O bil
lion within four years.” Rather it
is strangely reminiscent of the final
Truman budget which horrified the
incoming Eisenhower Administra
tion and prompted a $lO billion cut.
It also points up a striking incon
sistency with the President’s State
of the Union message in which he
pled for labor and mangement to
combat inflation by foregoing un
necessary wage and price increases
and resolved that the Federal Gov
ernment would utilize “only a
prudent share of the nation’s re
sources.”
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MERELY TO READ the budget
thoroughly would require at least
three days of uninterrupted read
ing and to make a comprehensive
study of it would take months.
Several significant facts stand out,
however, even upon superficial
examination.
Although the total of the budget
is stated at $71.8 billion, carryover
appropriations and authorizations
from previous years would almost
double that figure. Should the
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A new telephone directory is
now being planned by the Bran
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the job of selling the advertising
for the new phone book and
printing it.
budget be enacted as proposed and
the Government utilize every ap
propriation and authorization, fed
eral spending during the next fiscal
year could run as high as $143.3
billion.
Despite the fact that the national
debt has been reduced during both
the last and present fiscal years,
the interest on it has shown a
steady increase as the result of the
Administration’s hard money
policies. It now totals $7.3 billion
and constitutes the second highest
item in the overall budget.
; Hou new spend-
I ing program is
| a far cry from
I the pledge
; which President
■ Eisenhower
i made as a can
| didate in 1952
The Administration has com
mitted itself to a program of per
petual and ever-increasing foreign
aid. With a specific presidential
message on this subject still to be
presented, the budget serves notice
that new appropriations of $4.4
billion will be sought, a substantial
portion of that amount on a “blank
check’” basis.
WHILE THIS NEW budget is in
theoretical balance, it must be rec
ognized that that balance is based
upon increased revenues rather
than reduced expenditures. Fur
thermore, it gives every indication
of further increases to come and
holds forth no hope for tax reduc
tion in the foreseeable future.
Secretary of the Treasury
George Humphrey emphasized the
consequences of continuing such an
unsound fiscal policy with his dec
laration that its ultimate result
would be “a depression that will
curl your hair.”
Anything as large as the 7-0-
posed new budget obviously cs 1
be reduced considerably without
impairing any essential services or
programs. I hope that the Demo
cratic majority in Congress will
undertake to do just that.
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put an advertisement in the new
telephone book should contact a
representative of The Brantley
Enterprise immediately.
The new book is guaranteed
to be in use at least 12 months.
The old book now in use will
have had 18 months of use when
the new book is issued. This as
sures the advertiser long months
of top-notch advertising for a
year or more.
Prices for advertising in the
new phone book will be quoted
upon request by representatives
of The Brantley Enterprise. 600
telephone books will be printed
and approximately 500 of them
will be distributed to phone
users immediately after being
printed.
Hickox W.M.S Met
With Mrs. Lewis
The W.M.S. of the Hickox Bap
tist Church met on Tuesday of
last week at the home of Mrs.
Fred Lewis.
Mrs. Loraine Jacobs was pro
gram director on the topic “Like
a Watered Garden”, with Mrs.
Lizzie Mae Hendrix and Mrs. M.
L. Anderson taking part on the
program.
Mrs. W. L. Barefoot, Jr. of
Waycross was a visitor.
The hostess served cherry pie
with ice cream and coffee for
refreshments.
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