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Newspaper Page TextGot Anything to Sell? Want to Buy Anything? Put a Want-Ad in the Brantley Enterprise. 75 Cents or 3 Tinies $2.00. VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 9 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. Truck Driver Is Assured His $lO Bond Was Accounted For A truck driver, who was put under $lO bond by city police chief Stephens for passing in a no-passing zone in front of a schoolhouse, has written a letter to “The Town Newspaper, Na hunta, Ga.” expressing criticism of chief Stephens. The letter was deli" p red to the editor of the Brantley En'erprise, who investigated the matter and found that the truck driver was wrong in referring to the situa tion as “this hijacking racket” and that the case against him was handled in an entirely legal way and his $lO bond is well accounted for by the City of Na hunta. The copy of charges against the truck driver showed that he gave his name as Earl E. Hop kins and that the case was made on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1957. The copy of charges bore the serial number “1396” in chief Stephens' book. The letter of the truck driver was postmarked at Callahan, Fla., and was as follows: “Dear Sir; “I am writing this to your edi tor so that if you have a news paper in your town you will fol low through on this hijacking racket your police dept, is pull ing on your highways. “Your city policeman Stephens stoped me for passing when the yellow line was on my side. I was wrong so the fine would be just, but he as much as said if I paid him $lO I could go on my way. He called it a bond. “In my city & state the traffic fines go toward road improve ment and schools. What I would like to know is how .much of this money your town gets and how much your policeman get for there own pocket. “I would like it if you would check this number just to see if the town of Nahunta got the $lO or if Stephens pocket got a little fatter, receipt No. 1396 made out on 27 day of Feb. to appear at session court March 4, 1957. “If you are a newspaper man you will dig into this racket go ing on in your town. “A Truck Driver.” Editor’s Comment The editor of the Enterprise wishes to assure the “truck driv er” that his case was handled strictly on the “up and up” and that a Nahunta city policeman has every legal right to take bond for appearance at police court. State law provides that city police can accept cash bonds from people charged with traffic vio lations upon the authorization by the mayor in writing to the police department. The violator of a city or state law has the privilege of putting up a cash bond or of promptly appearing before the mayor for the disposition of his case. In Brantley County Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Nahunta Boys Win Class B District Championship other words, the offender is given the choice of putting up a cash bond, returnable to the Monday police court, or of appearing at once before the mayor. The cash l?ond provision is for the convenience of the traveling public, so that an offender, if he wishes, can put up a cash bond and continue on his way. He can then return on Monday, or at anytime, for that matter, for the trial of his case. Again, this editor can assure the truck driver that his case was handled in a strictly legal way and that his $lO bond money was handled legally and fully acounted for. It might be stated also that the truck driver still has plenty of time to appear at police court in Nahunta next Monday morn ing, March 4, at 10 o’clock and have his case gone into thorough ly in the city police court. It might also be added that Nahunta policeman are on strai ght salary and have no financial interest in bonds and fines as sessed against law violators. The policeman are merely try ing to do their duty and should have the cooperation of law abiding people, especially as re gards traffic on our highways near our schools. News Is Not News If It Is Ancient History, Says Editor The Brantley Enterprise wishes to remind all reporters for vari ous clubs and organizations that we want news of your activities, but we want the news while it is still news and not ancient his tory. We cannot use “news” brought or sent to us that is two weeks old. News means something new, not something that is stable with age. Get your news to us while it is new. If it is more than a week old, we can rarely use it. We have on our desk a story that would have made a good news item last week. It was taken about a week old. Now it is two weeks old and no longer NEW and therefore not news. We are anxious to get all the news possible, but we want it while it is current news and not past history. Your cooperation in giving us the news while it is fresh, not more than a week old, will be greatly appreciated. ciate your business. The editor. Home town merchants appre- Srantky Enterprise Mrs. Gracie Crosby Died in Way cross Mrs. Gracie Crosby, 66, died Friday, Feb. 22 at the home of her sister, Mrs. Ella King, in Way cross after an extended illness. Mrs. Crosby was a native of Brantley county and was the wife of the late Dorsey D. Crosby of Waycross. She was a life-long member of High Bluff Church in Brantley county. She is survived by four daugh ters, Mrs. W. H. Thrift and Mrs. Joe Anderson, both of Waycross, Mrs. Bert Janinski, Fort Lupton, Colo., and Mrs. Elbert Murphy, Derby, Colo.; five sons, E. J. Crosby and Quillian Crosby, both of Waycross; three sisters, Mrs. Ella King, Waycross, Mrs. Edna Cameron, Jesup, and Mrs. Pearl Allen, Jacksonville, Fla., four brothers Clifford Griffin, Way cross, Lonnie Griffin, Walter Griffin and Guy Griffin, all of Jacksonville; 15 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Two Women Are Injured In Car Crash Two women were carried to the Ware County Hospital after suf fering injuries in an auto accident on Highway 301 near Hickox Tuesday morning. The injured women were Mrs. Fredia Brown of Connecticut and Mrs. William D. Schweitzer of Pennsylvania. The car driven by Mr. Sch weitzer was reported to have crashed into the rear of the car driven by Mr. Brown. Sheriff Crews and deputies in vestigated the accident. Mr. Schweitzer was charged with failing to have his auto under control. He was brought before Ordinary Claude Smith and a fine imposed. Nahunta Garden Club Met Tuesday The Nahunta Garden Club met on Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 26 at the home of Mrs. C. Winton Adams at Hortense with Mrs. R. B. Brooker as co-hoscess. Mrs. I. F. Brown had charge of the program and spoke on “ Con servation”. Mrs. J. B. Lewis, president, led the business ses sion. Present other than those men tioned were: Mrs. Collis High smith, Mrs. E. A. Moody, Mrs. Allan Barnard, Mrs. A. B. Brook er, Mrs. C. F. Thomas, Mrs. J. J. Lee, Mrs. D. S. Moody, Mrs. Grace Wakeley, Miss Mary Knox, Mrs. Mollie Highsmith, Mrs. Dorothy Graham, Mrs. Elroy Strickland, Mrs. Jos. B. Strick land. Cherry pie, coffee and nuts were served for refreshments. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 28, 1957 Woman and Son Die in Fire at Waycross Saturday A 76-year old woman and her 35-year old son died in a fire that swept their frame dwelling in Waycross Saturday night. Dead were Mrs. Nancy Brooker and M. F. Brooker. They lived on Marion street. Capt. L. C. Henderson of the Waycross Fire Department said both bodies were found in the kit chen of the house. The house was destroyed. Cause of the blaze was not known. Mrs. Brooker was a native of Charlton County but had lived here for several years. Her son also was a native of Charlton County. She is survived by one daugh ter, Mrs. Mary Ann Dowling of Waycross; one son, Howell Brook er of Waycross; three sisters, Mrs. Mimia Goldberg of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Sally Crews of Wino kur, Ga., and Mrs. Leila Crews of St. Marys; one brother, Joe Hen drix of Hillard, Fla.; nine grand children. Brooker is survived by two sons, Robert and Lamar Brooker, both of Winokur; his sister and brother and several nieces and nephews. Double graveside services were held Monday at 2 pm. in Beth lehem Cemetery in Brantley County near Hickox. Charles M. Thomas Died Tuesday, Funeral Was Sunday Funeral services for Charles Melvin Thomas, who died Tues day morning, were held Sunday at 3 p.m. at the Hoboken Baptist Church with the Rev. James L. Sentz, pastor of the Advent Chris tian Church, assisted by the Rev. A. J. Harper of Waycross, offici ating. Burial was in Marrs Hill Cemetery near Hoboken. Active pallbearers, all nephews, were Rudolph Butts, Ferrell Thomas, Harvey Thomas, Keith Thomas, Kennis Thomas and Dar rell Aldridge. Honorary pallbearers were Wesley G. Garwood, Bill Rober son, Bill Evans, J. C. Griner, Homer Wilson, Bill Keltner, Andrew Herring, R. D. McCullou gh, R. T. Moye and Cecil B. Miller. Be loyal to your home town — give your local businesses first chance to serve you. AN TALMADGE ■ ■ Reports From ' 5 4 R 1 ASHINGTOi& ■ ’lff VETERANS ARE FINDING it Increasingly difficult, and in some instances impossible to obtain home loans under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act. The reason is that mortgage money has been made scarce by inflation and the Eisenhower Administration’s hard money policies and what is avail able is going into the more profltable FHA loans which bear five per cent interest. hibits passing discounts on to the veteran, builders either must ab sorb them or compensate for them by cutting corners in construc tion. The veteran loses either way as builders who absorb the dis counts are reluctant to undertake such projects and those who com pensate for them give the former serviceman less than full value for for his money. • • • IT HAS BEEN proposed that Congress seek to remedy the situa tion by raising the interest rate on veteran’s loans from four and one half to five per cent to make them competitive with FHA loans. How ever, advocates of that course fail to consider that it would add $1,725 to the cost of a $20,000, 25- year loan. (Not prepared or printed at government ejn.en»e> Nahunta Boys Win Basketball Championship of Bth District Three Changes Made in Laws of Nahunta Three important changes were made in the Nahunta city charter by amendments introduced in the Georgia legislature by county representative J. Floyd Larkins and passed by that body. One amendment to the city charter allows the city council to pay the mayor a salary of not more than SIBOO a year. Under this provision the council can pay the mayor any amount from $1 to SIBOO a year, thus leaving it to the judgment of the city council as to how much the mayor is worth to the city. Another amendment provides that if the mayor is absent or in capacitated for more than one month, then the mayor protem will be paid the mayor’s salary. A third provision of the new law is that a Nahunta police of ficer can pursue a city law violator to the state line if the policeman sees the offense com mitted and remains in “continous pursuit” of the fugitive. The former city law provided that the city police could chase a violator only a mile beyond the city limits. The amendments to the Na hunta city charter were passed by the state legislature and signed by Governor Griffin, ac cording to representative J. Floyd Larkins. , 16 Foxes Caught In Brantley County The fox trapping program in Brantley County has resulted in 16 foxes being caught, it is an nounced by Everett Strickland who has charge of placing the traps and carrying on the pro gram. Six coons and six possums were also caught, Mr. Strickland stated. The program started in Brantley County last week and will con tinue for several weeks. The fox trapping program is made necessary by the outbreak of rabies among foxes of this sec tion. Believing that there are reme dies short of increased interest rates, Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas, Senate Democratic Major ity Leader, and I, along with some 40 of our colleagues, have intro duced a bill which we feel will help to break the bottleneck in the veterans' home loan program. • ♦ * THIS MEASURE WOULD do three things: 1. make available 25 per eent of the National Service Life Insurance Fund for mak ing direct home loans to vet erans. 2. increase the maximum loan entitlement to veterans from (10,000 to $14,000. 3. set a time limit of 20 days for action on loan appli cations even in cases where assistance is sought to find private financing. • » * Those fortu nate enough to obtain veterans’ loans report builders are be ing charged dis counts ranging from eight to 11 points. Since the law pro- THE ADVANTAGES OF this approach are that it presents a course which does not require ad ditional appropriations or the crea tion of any new agencies and does not increase the cost to veterans. Furthermore, it provides for beneficial utilization of service men’s life insurance funds without jeopardizing future dividends from them. Considerable interest has been evidenced in this proposal and 1 hope it will be enacted into law. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Mrs. Katie Griffin Mrs. Griffin Is Teacher Os the Year Mrs. Katie H. Griffin, teacher in the Hortense school, has been elected Brantley County Teacher of the Year, it is announced by Prof. Herschel Herrin, county superintendent. Mrs. Griffin has taught in Brantley County for 12 years, including the old Davison School, Hickox School and Hortense School. She is a native of Bran tley County. Mrs. Griffin has had college work at North ' eor^ia College at Dahlonega, South Georgia Col lege at Douglas and Georgia Teachers College at Statesboro. Teachers of the year in the various Brantley County schools have also been elected. Prof. Bowman Barr was elected teacher of the year in the Nahunta High School, Mrs. Cleve Jones in tbe Hoboken High School and Mrs. Lois Williams in the Nahunta Grammar School. Mrs. Griffin was elected Teach er of the Year for the entire county. Sloan’s Hill Church To Present Play A play entitled “Rocking in an Old Rocking Chair’’ will be given Friday night by the Sloan’s Hill Church of God. The public is invited to attend the play. No admission charge will be made for the play but a chicken supper will be held before the day. Old Newspaper Pages Carried Queer Advertisement Pages from an issue of The Atlanta Journal dated March 7, 1909 were found by Freddie Brooker behind a picture that was being removed from its frame. The ancient pages, yellowed by age, are notable in that they carry a page-wide advertisement by a “doctor” who claimed he could cure “Consumption.” “I Cure Consumption” was the heading of the big advertise ment. Then the “doctor” went into columns of description of how he cured “consumption” by his machine which he called an “Ozonator Cabinet.” The “doctor” seemed to be an outright quack who made as tounding claims for his cures of all kinds of lung diseases, also of all kinds of “female trouble.” Advertisement of such rash claims are not run by newpapers in this modern age, but they were rampant in the early part of the century. Some of the quack “doctors” of those days made a lot of money preying on gullible people who were desperate for relief from their ailments. Reputable medical doctors never advertise, much less make such ridiculous claims as the quack doctors make. "■ 1 • Keep up wit! About Your H Subscribe for 'OO Enterprise, s2.^« $3.00 Outside the " i (Plus Sales Tax) Go to Macon For State Tournament The Nahunta High School basketball team won the Class B district championship in a blaze of glory at the Waycross city auditorium Saturday night, Feb. 23, by beating the favored Lake land quintet by a score of 67 to 56. Entering the game as the “un derdog”, the Nahunta team pro mptly took command and led the highly touted Lakeland squad all the way. Hal Scott’s Nahunta quint took a 6-2 lead in the opening minutes of the boys game and never trail ed. Ahead 20-15 after one period, the Nahunta lads, billed to lose by about 20 points, just simply disregarded any underdog role and rolled on. Leading 36-31 at intermission, the Wildcats took a 46-33 lead with 2:35 gone in the third stan za and from there on in held about a 10 points .margin, being out front 54-44 at the three quar ter mark. The Lakeland quint tried hard in the final stanza but lacked the weapons to out quel the Brantley County sharp shooters. Four Nahunta starters hit the two-digit scoring column. Terry Allen sparked the attack with 21 points but received valuable as sistance from Layton Johns, with 18, and Melvw , 16. Donald Clelland had 10 and Wain Brooker two for Nahunta. Barck Creer was the only Lake land performer to reach his pot ential, hitting for 28 points. D. W. Spells had 13 and Thad Stud still nine before fouling out. BEAT PATTERSON Nahunta won the right to enter the district finals by beat ing Patterson in the Eastern Division finals at Nahunta Thurs day night, Feb. 21. Nahunta took Patterson by a score of 47 to 40. The Wacona girls won the dis trict crown by beating Pearson 62 to 57 Saturday night at Way cross. Wacona had won the East ern Division tournament by beat ing Patterson at Nahunta Thurs day night. The Nahunta boys squad will go to Macon and play Valley Point in the state tournament Wednesday afternoon, March 6, at five o’clock. HOW NAHUNTA WON The story of how Nahunta won the eastern division title and finally the district championship is told by the score in the several games as follows: Nahunta 62, Wacona 60. Nahunta 51, Folkston 49. Nahunta 47, Patterson 40. Nahunta 67, Lakeland 56. 2 Arrested In Liquor Raid Monday A raid by state revenue agents and Brantley County sheriff Walter Crews and his deputies on the Blue Spot Motel near Hortense resulted in the seizure of 27 gallons of moonshine whis key and the arrest of two men Monday afternoon, Feb. 25, ac cording to sheriff Crews. The two men, Ignitius Rauler son and Theo Raulerson, were charged with selling and posses sing non-tax-paid liquor. They were put under bond for appear ance at the next term of Supe.- ior Court. Officers taking part in the raid were state revenue agents R. B. Haynie and Lofton Smith, sheriff J. Walter Crews and deputies Ottis Morgan and Dan Herrin of Brantley County. The moonshine liquor was in 45 half-gallon jars and one five gallon jug, the officers revealed.