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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 20
Georgia Power Company to
Construct New Transmission
Line Thru Brantley County
Construction of 67 % miles of
110,000-volt transmission line
from the Kettle Creek substation,
near Waycross, to Offerman and
from Offerman to Plant McManus
near Brunswick now is under
way, John W. Lashinger, vice
president and Valdosta division
manager of the Georgia Power
Company, announced this week.
Mr. Lastinger estimated work
on the project will be completed
by July 31. He said R. H. Bouli
gny, Inc., of Charlotte, N. C., will
construct the Kettle Creek-Offer
man line. Preliminary work on
this line had started prior to the
purchase of the Georgia Power
and Light Company properties
by the Georgia Power Company.
Construction crews of the Geor
gia Power Company, totaling 50
men under supervision of J. C.
Cox, the company’s supervisor
of line construction, are building
the Offerman-Plant McManus
line.
Headquarters of the Bouligny
Company crews are in Black
shear, and the Georgia Power
Company crews will be stationed
in Hortense and Brunswick. Total
cost of the project is expected to
reach more than $877,000.
Mr. Lastinger pointed out the
entire line is being equipped with
two overhead ground wires as a
protective measure against light
ning damage. He said construction
will be especially 1 difficult in the
Brunswick area, because of large
expanses of swamp and marsh
land. Steel tower rather than
wooden pole construction will be
used in these areas.
From Offerman to a point near
Brunswick, the line will be erect
ed on the abandoned A B and C
Railroad right of way.
Building of the transmission
line is part of an overall expan
sion program instituted by the
Georgia Power Company to bring
improved service to customers in
the Valdosta division. The com
pany now is serving these cus
tomers with electricity from the
Florida Power Corporation sys
tem.
Construction of the new line
also will strengthen serivce to
customers in the Brunswick area,
including Camden and Mclntosh
counties.
Agricultural Extension Service
poultrymen say vaccinating chic
kens when they are several days
old generally will give better
immunity than vaccinating at day
old.
- HERMAN TALMADGE
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WASHINGTOIJJ
A SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE
House Committee on Agriculture
is engaged in a study of a matter
of great concern to farmers and
consumers alike—the reasons for
rising food costs during a time
when farm prices are steadily de
clining.
> MSsm creased 16 per
■Hk 3b cent during the
past 10 years while farm prices
have declined 14 per cent. It fur
ther points out that, while the aver
age family has increased its annual
spending for food from SI,OOO to
$1,500. this greater outlay does not
purchase any greater quantity of
food and of the increase only $45
finds its way into farmers’ pockets.
• * *
THE REPORT ILLUSTRATES
what has happened in the food
price field by citing the example of
cereals and bakery products. Dur
ing the decade under consideration,
the farm price of wheat dropped
seven per cent while the retail
prices of cereals and bakery prod
ucts increased 34 per cent. In the
case of a one-pound loaf of bread,
it was shown that, while the retail
cost has gone up from 12.5 to 17.9
cents, the farmer’s share has de
clined from 2.9 to 2.6 cents.
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Brantley County Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Grace Strickland
Receives High
Honors at GSCW
Miss Grace Strickland, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E- Strick
land of Hoboken was recently
elected to Phoenix, the highest
honor which Georgia State Col
lege for Women bestows upon
students. The award was present
ed at the Honor Day Program at
the College on May 10.
Phoenix is an honorary scholas
tic society with membership
limited to the upper seven per
cent of the senior class. Members
are recognized for their scholas
tic achievement and are elected
by a special faculty committee.
Miss Strickland, a senior at
GSCW is majoring in secondary
education with a major in biology
and minors in chemistry and psy
chology. During her college
career she has been a member of
Phi Sigma, international Rela
tions Club, Chemistry Club, Psy
chology Club and elected to Pi
Gamma Mu, Social Science Or
ganization. Grace has kept her
name permanently on the Dean’s
List.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Davis
announce the birth of a baby boy
on Thursday, May 9, weighing
seven pounds and eleven ounces.
He hase been named Michael
Howard.
• * *
Lt. and Mrs. George F. Stewart,
Stationed at Fort Sill, Oklahoma,
announce the birth of a little
girl on April 29. She has been
named Linda Suzanne.
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 80 56 00
Friday 82 58 .00
Saturday — — -55
Sunday — — -66
Monday 87 67 00
Tuesday 88 65 .00
Wednesday 88 66 .01
What, then, accounts for this
great economic discrepancy ? That
answer, of course, is what the Sub
committee is seeking. But it. indi
cates in the preliminary report
that it is perhaps more than signifi
cant that, of the SSOO increase in
the average family’s yearly food
bill, S4OO is going to various proc
essing and marketing agencies.
How much of that reflects the addi
tional cost of the ready-prepared,
fresh-frozen and specially-pack
aged foods which consumers now
demand is one of the more impor
tant things the Subcommittee in
tends to find out.
• • •
WHETHER THIS STUDY pro
duces any solutions or not, it never
theless will be of great value if it
serves no other purpose than to
place the relationships between the
nation’s agricultural depression on
the one hand and the rising cost of
living on the other into proper
focus.
At the very least it will make it
a matter of record that the farmer
is not the one to be blamed for the
high cost of food. Furthermore, it
very well may have the desirable
effect of creating on the part of the
general public an understanding of
the farmer's plight in being denied
the guarantee of his proportionate
share of the national income.
A preliminary
statistical re
port by this
Consumers
Study Subcom
mittee shows
that retail food
prices have in-
Srantky Biterprto
Births
By J. A. ROSS
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 16, 1957
Sybil Strickland
Wins Highest Honors
At Nahunta High
Sybil Claire Strickland has
been declared the valedictorian
of the Nahunta High School by
leading her class for your years
with a four year average of 96.48.
Sybil is the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. J. D. (Ted) Strickland
of Hortense. She attended Hor
tense School and transferred to
the Nahunta High School for her
four years of high school work.
Sybil has not only been a lead
er of her class in the academic
field, but she has also been active
in many school activities. She is
a member of the Beta Club, Tri-
Hi-Y Club, Future Teachers of
America, Student Council, Co-
Editor of the school paper, Editor
in-Chief of the School Annual.
She won first place in the Betty
Crocker Home Makers of the year,
represented her school in the es
say contest of the eighth district
in 1956, represented the school
in district typing 1957. Sybil was
voted by the Senior Class mem
bers the most intellectual, most
dependable, and the most likely
to succeed.
Personals
A birthday dinner honoring
Mrs. Ruby Morgan was given by
her daughters, Dorothy and Mar
ian, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Morgan on Sunday, May
12. Present were Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Thomas and sons, Mr.
and Mrs. Buddy Pittman of Jesup;
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Roberson and
Mr. and Mrs. Everett Roberson
of Screven; Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Noland, Mrs. Betsy Dykes, Mrs.
Charlie Smith and Rose and Jean,
and J. T. Morgan.
Attending the 301 Road Assoc
iation Meeting at Allendale,
South Carolina on Friday and
Saturday, May 10 and 11 were
Mr. and Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland,
G. A. Loyd, Brown Brooker,
Jesse Allen and Mr. Seigal of
the Gold House Motor Lodge.
* • *
Mrs. C. H. Crews of Brunswick
visited her sister and family, Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Edgy of Waynes
ville on Saturday.
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Guests at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. H. D. Edgy on Sunday were
Mrs. Nellie Liles, Mrs. Maude
Burney and Edgar Burney of
Jacksonville; Mrs. Pete Coleman
and boys and Mrs. Mable William
son of Brunswick and Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Edgy and boys of
Waynesville.
• • »
Mrs. C. E. Higginbotham and
Mrs. Marshall Martin returned
on Thursday of last week from
Detroit, Mich, where they visited
their brother, Mr. Fred Merritt.
Mrs. B. R. Hayes and sons,
Steve and Junior spent the week
end in Jacksonville with Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Hayes and family.
Mrs. Christine Vickery of
Selma, Ala. arrived Sunday to
spend this week with her mother,
Mrs. J. D. Brooker.
R. Loyd Scott, Past Grand
Patron of Grand Chapter Order
of Eastern Star, State of Geor
gia was the installing officer with
Mrs. Bertha Scott as Marshall
Elma Crews as Chaplain and
Louise Drury as Easter, officer,
officers of Satilla Chapter 365
O. E. S. at regular meeting on
Tuesday night, May 14.
Wade Strickland
Makes Fine Record
At Nahunta High
Avery Wade Strickland has
won second high honors in the
graduating class at Nahunta High
School for 1956-57. His four year
average is 96.29. He is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Strickland
of Nahunta. Wade has spent all
his twelve years in the Nahunta
Schools.
Wade has been a leader in
many of his school and class acti
vities. He was president of the
freshman cAss. He has served as
Secretary and Treasury of the
Junior and Senior classes, presi
dent of Beta Club, President of
Hi-Y Club, member of Student
Council.
Wade was on the debating team
representing his si 1001 for three
years. He was in u e district one
act play and the junior class
play. He was Business Manager
of the school Annual 1956-57.
Wade was voted by the members
of the senior class the best
dressed, most dependable* and the
most likely to succeed.
Seminars Set
On How to
Get Industry
“How To Get More Industry
In Your Town” will be the theme
of a statewide series of industrial
development seminars to be held
May 13th through 17th under
the sponsorship of the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce.
They will be conducted in 10
Georgia towns at widespread
points around the State and are
expected to draw hundreds of
business and civic leaders con
cerned with industrial develop
ment. Particular emphasis is to
be placed on the activities of
small towns engaged in this end
eavor.
“We are gratified by the large
number of communities which
plan to have a sizeable contingent
of businessmen and city and coun
ty officials representing them at
these sessions,” said State Cham
ber President Ivan Allen, Jr. “As
the search for new payrolls grows
more competitive, it is essential
that community spokesmen keep
themselves apprised of the latest
information and techniques in
this field.”
An especially prepared guide
is to be provided as a textbook
for all attending the 2 hour
courses, according to Mr. Allen.
He pointed out that the public
is invited to all sessions and
there would be no admission
charge.
Mrs. Betty Alexander, consum
er education specialist, Agricul
tural Extension Service, says
about 200 companies were manu
facturing cake, bread, cookie, and
mixes in 1955.
BRASSTOWN BALD, GEORGIA’S HIGHEST MOUNTAIN, CENTER; PICNIC AREA LEFT; RANGER’S TOWER,
Nahunta High School Commencement
Program Will Begin Next Monday
Retail Sales
Top 4 Million
In Brantley
Brantley County’s total retail
sales for the year 1956 were $4,-
180,538, according to figures re
leased by the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce.
Other counties in the southeast
Georgia area showed total retail
sales as follows:
Camden County, $15,558,943;
Charlton County, $6,069,880;
Clinch County, $4,292,169; Glynn
County, $61,731,850; Pierce Coun
ty, $7,109,983; Ware County, $38,-
431,301; Wayne County, $27,688,-
509.
The figures for retail sales are
based on Georgia sales tax col
lections by the State Revenue
Department.
Mrs. Rosa Pettigrew
Funeral Services
Were Held Friday
Mrs. Rosa Harrison Pettigrew,
age 80, died at her residence in
Waynesville Wednesday night,
May 8, after an extended illness.
She was the widow if the late
G. E. Pettigrew and was a native
of Waynesville. She was a mem
ber of the Central Baptist Church
in Waycross.
Funeral services were held at
the graveside in Harrison Ceme
tery Friday morning at 11 o’clock
with the Rev. D. E. Little of
Waynesville officiating.
Active pallbearers were: Ernest
Crandall, Roy Miller, Milton Re
gister, Hubert Harrison, W. W.
Beard and Brantley Harrison.
She is survived by several
nieces and nephews, including
Mrs. T. E. Thornton, Waynesville,
Mrs. A. T. Harrison and Monroe
Miller of Brunswick.
Hortense Wesleyan
Methodist Women
Met Tuesday
The Hortense Wesleyan Meth
odist Missionary Society met at
the home of Mrs. Glenn Day at
Waynesville on Tuesday, May 14.
The president, Mrs. D. E. Alex
ander led the devotional. The
program chairman, Mrs. E. A.
Strickland led a discussion on
the Mission Field in Hawaii.
Trials in language study and
evangelistic work was the topic
given by Mrs. C. B. Mills. History
of the Wesleyan .mission in For
mosa by Mrs. J. C. Strickland. A
sketch of “Christ at the Bamboo
Curtain” by Mrs. Alexander.
Present other than mentioned
were Mrs. Joe Smith and Mrs.
Zade Harrell. Refreshments were
served by the hostess.
Satilla Baptist
Church Revival
To Start Monday
Revival services will start at
the Satilla Baptist Church at.
Hortense Monday, May 27, it is
announced by Rev. J. D. Strader.
The evangelist for the meeting
will be Rev. L. C. Ballenger,
pastor of the Calvary Baptist
Church of Waycross.
The meeting will continue until
Sunday, June 2, when the annual
homecoming day will be observed
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Pre-school Clinic
Scheduled for
Monday, May 20
Pre-school examination and re
gistration for children entering
the first grades in September has
been set for Monday, May 20.
Dr. E. A. Moody will be in
charge of the clinic which will
be held at the local Health Of
fice from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Parents are urged to bring a
record of immunizations received
elsewhere.
Data Given on
Tobacco in
Loan Program
Raleigh, N. C. — L. T. Weeks,
General Manager, Flue-Cured
Tobacco Cooperative Stabilization
Corporation, released information
today stating that Stabilization
has in inventory 619.5 million
pounds (farm weight) of tobacco
from five crops - 1952 through
1956. The bulk of the inventory
consists of 1955 and 1956 crop
tobaccos. Weeks stated that slight
ly over 62 million pounds of the
present inventory consists of 1952,
1953 and 1954 crop tobaccos.
Asked as to the availability of
various grades of tobacco, Weeks
revealed that Stabilization has
tobacco in 158 different grades,
with quantities in each grade
ranging from 1,000 pounds to
over 50,000,000 pounds. He further
added that “there are only ten
grades in which Stabilization has
no tobacco at all?. Weeks stated
that in grade B4F r a grade which
carries good flavor, orange color,
and desirable body, Stabilization
holds over 49 million pounds.
Weeks said that B4F tobacco was
tobacco “bought in large quanti
ties at the beginning of the sea
son in each belt last year by the
trade”.
Questioned as to reports that
Stabilization’s stocks contained
large quantities of pale, slick
tobacco, Weeks referred to the
fact that Stabilization “packed
only 26 million pounds of “LL”
and “KL” grades from the 1956
crop receipts which totaled 319.9
million pounds”. He asserted that
“it is the same kind of tobacco
from which the trade, both dom
estic and export, purchased
slightly over 1,102 .million
pounds”. “Stabilization tobacco”,
he added, “is regraded before
being redried and packed into
hogsheads to insure uniformity
from the standpoint of quality,
color and length”.
In further comments on the
availability of different grades of
tobacco, Weeks stated that there
are only 25 grades out of the 158
in which there is less than 100
hogsheads (100,000 pounds) of to
baco. In such grades as BL, BF,
CL, CF, HL, HF, XL, XF,
PL, PF and N, Stabilization has
sizeable quantities.
He further added that “with
the number of different grades
and quantities held by Stabiliza
tion, there is an available supply
of tobacco with a wide selection
of quality”.
Stabilization Corporation is a
cooperative marketing associa
tion, owned, operated and con
trolled by tobacco growers in the
flue-cured area of Florida, Geor
gia, South Carolina, North Caro
lina and Virginia. Its purpose is
to make available to its members
the 90% of parity support price
for flue-cured tobacco as pro
vided for by Federal legislation.
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Seniors to Get
Diplomas on
Monday June 3
The schedule of acivities for
Nahunta High School commence
ment will begin Monday night,
May 20 and continue through
Monday night, June 3, it is an
nounced by principal Earl May.
The complete schedule of com
mencement exercises is as fol
lows:
May 20, 8:00 P.M., Concert to
be given by the music students of
Bowman Barr of Nahunta and
Mrs. John Griffin of Hoboken.
May 24, The Junior-Senior
Banquet and Dance.
May 31, The last day of school
for this term.
June 2, 11:00 A.M., Commence
ment Sermon by the Rev. Cecil
F. Thomas, Pastor, First Baptist
Church of Nahunta.
June 3, 8:00 P.M., Final gradu
ating exerdises for fifty-three
seniors. The Honorable J. M. C.
Townsend, Judge Georgia Court
of Appeals.
June 2-6, Post planning for
teachers.
Baccalaureate Sermon
June 2 - 11:00 A.M.
Prelude
Processional, Seniors.
Invocation, Rev. Lester Edgy.
Song, (Audience) “Onward
Christian Soldiers”.
Announcements, Earl W. May.
Scripture, Rev. Cecil Thomas.
Senior High School Chorus,
“Lord’s Prayer”.
Sermon, Rev. Cecil Thomas.
Benediction, Rev. Horace Wil
liams.
Recessional, Seniors.
; Postlude.
County Board Members: Elroy
Strickland, Floyd Larkin, Allen
Rowell, Woodrow Hendrix, Nolan
Davis and Supt. Herschel W.
Herrin.
Class Sponsors, Gordon Wright
and Bowman Barr.
Ministry of Music, Bowman
Barr.
Wain Brooker, Class President.
Commencement Exercises
June 3 - 8:00 P-M.
Processional, Seniors.
Invocation, Gay Hiller, an
honor graduate.
Third Honor, Class History,
Wain Brooker.
Salutatory, Wade Strickland.
Valedictory, Sybil Strickland.
Class Song, Senior Class.
Announcements, Earl W. May.
Introduction of Speaker, Judge
Cecil Roddenberry.
Address, Honorable J. M. C.
Townsend, Judge, Georgia Court
of Appeals.
Awards, Earl W. May. .
Presentation of Diplomas, Supt.
Herschel W. Herrin.
Alma Mater, Seniors.
Rev. Ashley Hobbs
To Preach at
Atkinson Church
Rev. Ashley Hobbs a former
pastor, will preach at the Atkin
son Church next Sunday morning
and night, May 19, it is an
nounced.
Services wil be held at 11:00
in the .morning and 7:30 at night.
The public is invited to attend
both services.
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