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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 Times $2.00. VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 31 Jim Thomas Ending Year As State FFA President An outstanding year of service to Georgia’s Future Farmers of America will be concluded Thursday when Jim Thomas of Patterson steps down as president of this statewide farm youth organization. New officers for the coming year will be named Thursday at the state convention which be gan Monday at the state FFA Camp at Lake Jackson near Cov ington, Georgia. Presiding over this convention of some 400 delegates, Jim Thomas has lead the group through business sessions, the awarding of contest winners of the year, and presented several distinguished speakers to the delegates. Three sessions have been held each day. During the week lead ership courses have been held. As president Jim has estab lished an enviable record. He attended the National FFA Convention in Kansas City last October and this spring partici pated in a good will tour of Georgia, its major cities and in dustries. In June he was guest of the City of Atlanta for a week. During this very active year Jim has attended 13 banquets and visited 11 civic clubs at which he was an honored guest. He has made 45 speeches be fore high school and FFA as semblies, civic clubs, and ban quet gatherings. Several times he has made appearances on ra dio and television. Jim left for Lake Jackson last Saturday where he and other of ficers worked out program de-, tails before the convention be gan Monday. The convention will end Fri day afternoon. Births Mr. and Mrs. Archie Crews an nounce the birth of a baby girl born July 10 in a Folkston hos pital. She has been named Shir ley Ann. ‘ Dona Lynn Tucker, young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elton R. Tucker of Jacksonville, vis ited her aunt and uncle Ms. and Mrs. Delma Herrin the past weekend. Blackshear Tobacco Volume Reaches 5,268,294 Pounds The volume of tobacco sold on the Blackshear mar ket Tuesday had reached 5,268,294 pounds for the first nine days of selling during which record prices were paid. The peak sales volume and top price was reached Monday of this week when 737,484 pounds w^re sold for a 61.46-cent aver age. However, volume appeared to be declining 'Wednesday and .it was believed that the peak vol ume for the season has been reached. Local warehousemen Said that’ a full\sale might be ex pected Monday, but that the flow of tobacco to market is now “ta pering off.” Tobacco prices have held up well. Monday’s average price of 61.46 cents was the highest aver age for any day in the history of the Blackshear tdbacco market. .. ' l ' I.- 1 ' The Stabilization Coporatibh is receiving only about dne per cent of the gross sales at Geor gia markets generally^ showing that prices offered by the com panies are generally well above the government support price. Blackshear Tobacco Market REPORT OF SALES AND PRICES Lbs. Sold Amt Average Thurs., July 18 432,884 $242,591.90 $49.22 Friday, July 19 131,328 64,352.61 49.00 Monday, July 22 482,576 267,035.01 55.11 Tuesday, July 23 672,804 377,588.95 56.12 Wed., July 24 712,974 410,918.64 58.03 Thurs. July 25 686,828 409,022.50 59.05 Friday, July 26 647,254 390,872.28 60.30 Monday, July 29 737,484 453,270.83 61.46 Tuesday, July 30 704,162 419,365.61 59.55 5,268,294 3,035,018.33 57.06 Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. 24 Future Farmers Leave for Camp Next Monday Twenty-four Future Farmers from Nahunta high school have made reservations, to spend a week at the FFA-FHA Camp this summer. They will be accompanied by their teacher of • agriculture, W. C. Long. The camp is 12 miles south of Covington in Newton county. It is on the headwaters of Lake Jackson. Approximately 400 FFA and FHA members from schools over the state meet there each week of the summer to take part in a leadership training and rec reational program. The following F. F. A. boys from Brantley County will at tend the camp: Jimmy Coleman, Isiac Lee, Aley Lee, John P. Jones, Elbert Flowers, Estes Anderson, Wen dell Rozier; Donald Herrin, Rob ert Stewart, Layton Johns, Jack Dowling, Wayne Rowell, Jimmy Thomas, Robert Sloan, Clayton Carter, Harry Herrin, Bobby Rowell, Johnny Allen, Kenny Allen, Kenny Harris, Tommy Jacobs, J. M. White and Thomas Purdom. They will leave for camp Mon day, Aug. 5. 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 82 73 0.18 Friday 90 70 0.04 Saturday 91 71 0.08 Sunday 88 73 0.70 Monday 87 71 0.00 Tuesday 89 66 0.00 Wednesday 92 69 0.00 Kermit Crews Is Recovering from Rattlesnake Bite Kermit Crews, 15, son of Ms. and„,Mrs.. Plen Crews, who was bitten by a rattlesnake Tuesday, July 23, while picking okra, is now back home from the hos pital and is out of danger, it is reported. • : His mother is credited with saving his life by splitting the boy’s leg with a razor blade and’ also by putting a tourniquet around his leg. Kermit was bitten below the knee just above the ankle. He hAd bn dungarees and the snakes fangs pierced his dungarees and into his leg. The fang marks in dicated it was a large rattle snake, but in the excitement the snake escaped. J; - 3?* A 7 . ' Personals Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Kaney of Fernandina Beach, Fla., vis ited Mr. Kaney’s mother, Mrs. T. J. Kaney, the past weekend. * * * Miss Cecelia Brown of Bruns wick was guest of Miss Marian Morgan last week. * ♦ ♦ Mrs. Sallie Roberson of Pine crest Hospital in Savannah is spending a few weeks at home. Miss Delora Roberson of Bruns wick spent last week with her grandmother in Nahunta. * * ♦ Mrs. J. H. Patterson of Miami and J. B. Patterson of Fort Lau derdale, Fla. were guests of Mrs. Alice Highsmith last week. * » » Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Walker of Broxton, Ga. spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Crews. • • * Mrs. Jack Rowland will return to her home in Lakeland, Fla. on Friday after spending several days with her sister, Mrs. I. J. Crews. » » * Mrs. A. C. Lee and son have returned home after a month’s visit in Florence, S. C. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Lee and son spent a few days last week with Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Jones of Okeechobee, Fla. * ♦ * Mr. and Mrs. J. D. McMeeken and son, Judy, of Atlanta left on Wednesday of last week after visiting their grandmother, Mrs. Mary Roddenberry of Hortense. Georgia Bulldog Football Tickets Are Now Available ATHENS, GA. — The 1957 University of Georgia football team will have the honor of playing the toughest schedule in the Bulldogs’ history: seven arch rival Southeastern Conference foes and three non-league pow erhouses like Texas, Michigan and Navy! Eight of these foes must be played on the road, only two at home in beautiful Sanford sta dium. The rugged row the Bulldogs will try to hoe: (starting times and ticket prices in parenthesis) Sept. 21 Texas at Atlanta. (8:00 p.m,, $5.00 and $2.50). Sept. 28 Vanderbilt in Ath ens. (2:00 p.m., $4.06)? Oct. 5 — Michigan at Ann Ar b^r. (1 am., $4.00). ’ Oct. v 1 Tulane at New Or leans. p.m., $54.00): - - Oct - 19 —. Navy at Norfolk. (2:15 p hi., $4.50). . . Oct. 26 — ,senfucky at Lex ington. (8:00 p.m., $3.50). Nov. 2 r- Alabama ip Athens. (2:00 p.m., $4.00). Nov. 9 — Florida at Jackson ville. (2:30 p.m., $4.50). . Nov. 16 — Auburn at Colum bus. (2:30 p.m., $4.50). / Nov. 30 — Georgia Tech at Atlanta. (2:00 p.m., $5,00). The Michigan game . will be. Georgia’s first footbail clash with the perennial titan of the Big Ten conference. Georgia And Navy have met once previously: 1916 at Anna polis .with the Middies winning, 20-3. Georgia and Texas also have played once before, the Longhorns winning 41-28, in the Orange Bowl, New Year’s Day 1949- ' A ' J : \ ‘ ’ Ticket orders are ' being re ceived here now and may be made by writing the Athletic Assn., University Os Georgia,' Athens, Ga. Early News Helps Editor Do Good Job A weekly newspaper must rely upon the help of its readers to obtain much of the news it prints — particularly social and per sonal items. It is of tremendous help to the editors and mechancial staff when news is turned in EARLY. Your newspaper can give bet ter coverage and handle more accurately news which comes in early in the week. We solicit the cooperation of our readers and correspondents in this matter, that we may give all of your news the best pos sible coverage. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 1, 1957 Royal Theater To Reopen Friday Aug. 16 The Royal Theater in Nahunta will be reopened Friday, Aug. 16, it is announced by Sybert Jones, the new operator of the theater. Opening again under new management, the Royal Theater will have cinamascope and wide screen and will give Brantley County people an opportunity to see many of the best pictures available. Good shows will be presented each night, Mr. Jones stated. An nouncement will be made next week of the shows to be pre sented Friday and Saturday, Aug. 16-17. Contract Let For Paving On Route 301 R. G. Foster and Company of Wadley, Ga, were the low bid ders on the three and one-half miles of paving to be done oh Route 301 in the Satilla River swamp area in Brantley County, it is announced by the State Highway Board. The State Highway Board op ened bids Friday, July 26, on 62 new road projects in Georgia. The projects are located in 66 counties. Apparent low bids on the new road work total: $9,563,264.65. The new projects bring to some $40,000,000 the total in the road work throughout Georgia let to contract by the Highway Department so far this year, ac cording to Roy F. Chalker, High way Board chairman. During the entire calendar year 1956 the department let some $39,000,000 in road con tracts and,in 1955, the first un der the Griffin administration, the corresponding figure was some $32,000,000. This points up the vast increase in roadbuild ing expenditures now under way in the state. The figures include construction costs of all federal aid, state-aid and Rural Roads Authority. Exceptional Child Poses a Special Schooling Problems “Exceptional children” has come to be a doubje jointed term to describe youngsters who are especially gifted as well as those who are retarded. If this creates some confusion in the public mind, it is far less disturbing than the problem the term embraces. In the South alone, there are at least a million ex ceptionahchildren. Some are talented, some handicapped. From an educational viewpoint, their plight is comparable. Here and there in a few urban school systems, limited progress has been made in establishing special classes for the public education of handicapped or retarded pupils, with the level of training geared to individual ability. But nowhere has the program attained the full scope it deserves, under statewide sponsorship, with adequate fin anical support. There is a cripping shortage of trained teachers in the special education field and insufficient re search to develop effective techniques. .: ' The lot of the gifted child in the public school pro gram is even more woeful. But in large, he is offered an educational diet based on a theoretical median that pro vides him no oyportunity to develop his talent and robs him of incentive to excel. It is not a problem that has been ignored- by school administrators; is it, for most of them, of constant concern. An approach to satisfactory solution has been blocked by the lack of money, space, staff—and by public apathy—in a time of educational crisis. It is encouraging, then, that the Southern Regional Educational Board has now appointed an Advisory Council for Excentional Children. Headed by William C. Geer, who was formerly with the Nashville city schools, it is comprised of 13 members, 12 of them professional educators, and consultants re presenting United Cerebral Palsy and the Association for the Aid of Crippled Children. Its announced air: The early establishment of more high quality training and research programs in special education, and promoting broader public understanding of the requirements of exceptional children. The goal is worthly; the move welcome. Here is potential stimulus in an area of vast need. Two Stricklands Celebrate Birthdays With Surprise Dinner Mr. Everett Strickland and his oldest son, Everett, Jr., were honored with a surprise birth day dinner on Sunday, July 28. The group enjoyed a basket din ner at the noon hour. Among those present were; Mr. and Mrs. Everett Roberson, Mr. and Mrs. Stencie Highsmith of Brunswick. From Waycross were Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Stevens, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Stevens, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Donald Stevens and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Haseil Waters, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ivey, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Thomas and chil dren, Mrs. Harvey Griffin and Miss Annie Griffin. From St. Augustine, Fla. were Mrs. S- N. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Tal madge Bennett and Dennis, Par nell Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Strickland and boys,' Mr. Brisco Bennett and daughter, Melanie. Mr. and Mrs. Vern King and family of Jesup. From Nahunta were: Mr. and Mrs. Everett Strickland and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Griffin and children, Mr, .and Mrs. Norris Stfickland and Gwen. Mr. Vernon Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Mack Strickland and boys, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Strickland, and Virleen, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wainright and Shirley, Mrs. Agnes Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Strickland and fam ily and Miss Lou Strickland. Special Services Announced for Hickox Church A • special service will be held at the Hickox Baptist Church on Sunday night, August 4 begin ning at 8:00 o’clock PM. Rev. John Futch of Homerville will be the visiting preacher. The purpose of the meeting is the Building Fund Rally. The people of the community are' working to build a new Baptist Church. Every one in the com munity and the surrounding communities is invited to come to ’ the meeting. and lend their support ' in the project. .A cordial invitatiori is extend ed to everyone to come and en joy the singing and the preach ing service. • • ■ ’ ■—~ OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA One Dies, 2 Injured in Car-Truck Crash Tuesday One person is dead and two others are in the Pierce County Hospital as the result of a wreck Tuesday morn ing on Highway 121 just north of the Blackshear city limits. Bristol Child Killed When Hit by Auto Roma Francis Smith, 11-year old son of Mr. and Mrs. E. D. (Sam) Smith of Bristol, was killed instantly Monday after noon when he was struck by an auto on Georgia Highway 121 at Bristol. The State Patrol reported that young Roma was attempting to cross the road near Jones’ Drive- In when he was struck by a southbound station wagon driven by Trivette James Irvin of Whit mire, South Carolina. Seconds before, young Smith, or “Little Man” as he was called by family and friends, had wait ed for a northbound auto and house trailer to pass before crossing the road. According to the investigating officer, eye witnesses reported that young Smith dashed from behind the trailer and into the path of the Irvin vehicle. Trooper F. F. Cornelius inves tigated for the Patrol. No charges were placed against Irvin. Funeral services were held Wednesday .morning at H o’clock at the Mill Creek Cemetery with the Rev. Clyde Thomas officiat ing. Survivors include his parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Smith of Bristol; five sisters, Crecy, Lynn, Deloria’ Ann, Sylvia, and Mrs. Margaret Morgan of Baldwin, Florida; two brothers, Rubin and George; and paternal grand mother, Mrs. Crecy D. Smith of Patferson. Darling Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Raulerson Cemetery Will Be Cleaned Wednesday, Aug. 7 The , Raulerson Cemetery ’ in Piercy County near Twin Rivers .will he cleaned off Wednesday, Aujg. -7.. All people ‘who are th tyfested in the Raulersoh Ceme tery are requested to be present with topis for cleaning off the bprial grounds. • HERMAN TALMADGE . 4Mb|m Kj ^Reports Front • q iMAXUsurrnu nAinl NGT OH nl vte&kUa. : .^;. 1 ,MY RECENT TRIP to South* America as representative of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Forestry to the Marketing Conference of Agricultural At taches held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, left me with two profound impressions. majority of the people are of mixed blood. It was my observation that about 10 per cent of them are white, another 10 per cent are black and the remaining 80 per cent run the gamut of every shade between. Brazil’s experience in this regard is a complete and irrefuta ble answer to those in our own country who contend that racial integration does not result in racial amalgamation. • • • THE OTHER THING which •truck me was the evidence on every hand of the unlimited op portunities for expanded trade, particularly in surplus agricultural commodities, which South America offers for the United States. Despite its tremendous wealth of natural resources, this continent, outside of its population eenters, is largely undeveloped and the diet of most of its people consists prin cipally of beans and rice. In Brasil alone, for example, not enough eot- Keep up with the News About Your Home County. Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2,50 „ a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. ■ • r (Plus Sales Tax) ‘b 1 ■ • ; * t<jnhr produced annually to provide each of its more than 60-million inhabitants with one item of wear ing apparel. From these facts it is easy to visualize the possibilities for the export of poultry and dairy prod ucts, wheat, corn, cotton and other items which we in this nation are producing,in surplus quantities at this time. • • r EVEN IN THE absence of a concerted program, the United States last year sold 1523,600,000 in such commodities to the coun tries of South America and the Caribbean Area. The agricultural attaches—all of whom impressed me as dedicated, knowledgeable and hard-working men —told me that this represents only a fraction of the potential trade in farm goods which eould be realized through intensive competitive sales efforts. I left Brazil with the firm con viction that ways must be found to tap this vast market not only for the benefit of our own farmers and domestic economy but also for the advancement and uplifting of our neighbors to the South. I could not help thinking on my return flight how blindly foolish it is for as here at home to be so bent on reducing our agricultural production that we cannot see and take advantage of the great demand for our farm commodities which exists in the remainder of the world. One of these was my first hand view of the results of a national policy of total racial integration. No segregation i s practiced in Brazil and the aawr* viivugll wv meeraS ar *rt«ta4 at aamaaaa) The wreck occurred about 3:00 a.m. Tuesday morning, July 27, just north of the cement bridge on 121, when a car driven by James Leroy Halligan, of Route Two, Baxley, crashed into the rear of a parked tractor-trailer, operated by Arthur Roland Bea man of Route Two, Waltonburg, N. C. Gertrude Forehand, 30, of Alina died Wednesday morning in the Pierce County Hospital and Mrs. Faye Sloss, 37, of Alma is in critical condition at the hospital. Both women were occu pants of the car driven by Halli gan, and suffered multiple in juries. Halligan is in the hospital with multiple cuts and bruises but was not as seriously injured as Mrs. Sloss. Investigation of the accident was conducted by Trooper Strickland of the Waycross State Patrol office and he described the accident as follows: Halligan was driving north on 121 in a 1947 Plymouth and the 1955 Chevrolet truck and trailer was parked in the right traffic lane after having motor trouble. The car plowed into the left rear side of the trailer completely de molishing the automobile and damaging the truck. The truck was loaded with to bacco and was being operated by Clay Transfer Co., of Rocky Mount, N. C., and was being driven by Mr. Beaman. Baptist Circle Met At Baptist Church Thursday July 24 Mrs. Virgil Strickland was hostess to “The Francis Gold finch” Circle of The First Bap tist Church Thursday, July 25 at 8 o’clock. Mrs. Edward Chancey was in charge of the program which was on "Prayer”. Short talks on “Effective in Prayer", by Mrs. lian-y DePratter and “Two Wo men Prayed” by Mrs. Tom Hic kox. The .minutes were read and approved, also new officers were ejected. Mrs. Strickland served ice cream and cake for refreshment. Other members present were Mrs. Jqhmiy Cleland and Mrs. George Dowling. They invite other women to attend their program and be come members.