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Rich and fertile Calhoun County nestles in the heart of
Georgia’s most flourishing agricultural area. Products of this
important fanning county are corn, cotton and peanuts. In
addition, the county boasts thriving Industrie^ hat stem
from widespread timberlands. Located in the souAwest part
of the state, this county has a population of approximately
9,000 people, according to the 1950 census. In addition,
Calhoun is one of Georgia’s older established counties,
having been created in 1854. The county seat is Morgan.
In fertile Calhoun County and throughout Georgia, the
United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to assure
the sale of beer and ale under pleasant, orderly conditions.
Believing that strict law enforcement serves the best interest
of the people of Georgia, the foundation stresses close coop
eration with the Armed Forces, law enforcement and govern
ing officials in its continuing "self-regulation” program.
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plant near Detroit, Michigan, may resemble
the classic theaters of ancient times. Its
purpose, however, is to provide modern man
with electricity . . . generated with heat
from nuclear fuel.
The Georgia Power Company is participat
ing in the project with 16 other electric
utility companies, six equipment manufac
turers and the U. S. Atomic Energy Commis
sion. The experience gained will benefit you
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Banks Largest
Lenders to
Ga. Farmers
Again in 1956, Georgia farm
ers met the bulk of their credit
needs through loans from their
local banks, according to H. M.
Moody, executive vice-president
and cashier of The Blackshear
Bank, who represents the Geor
gia Bankers Association as Pierce
County Key Banker. During the
year, the state’s banks remained
the leaders in farm credit service
by providing far more financial
aid to farmers than any other
lending agency, he noted.
Using figures from the six
teenth annual farm lending sum
mary of the Agricultural Com
mission of the American Bankers
Association, Mr. Moody pointed
out that on January 1, 1957,
Georgia banks had a total of
$72,343,000 in loans outstanding
to farmers. On the same date,
$31,621,000 was held in Georgia
farm loans by Federal Land
Banks, the second largest lender
to the state’s farmers; $27,196,000
was held by insurance com
panies; $13,289,000 by Production
Credit Associations; and $28,963,-
000 by the Farmers Home Ad
ministration.
The total of farm credit out
standing in banks was made up
of $33,027,000 in production loans
and $39,316,000 in farm mort
gages. In addition, Georgia banks
held $20,735,000 in C.C.C. paper
not included in the above total.
Mr. Moody commented especi
ally on the increase in farm capi
tal requirements to the present
very high levels. “This increase,”
he said, “has created a growing
need for loans with repayment
periods of longer than one year.
Banks are meeting this need in
part by using a larger proportion
of real estate credit to finance
non-real estate investments.
“The shift to comparatively
greater use of real estate credit
for capital improvements and
production purposes is indicated
by estimates that over one-half
of all farm real estate loans are
now used for production and
operating expenses, new machin
ery, improvement of livestock
herds, and the like.
“A further reflection of bank
efforts to meet increased needs
for intermediate-length loans is
the substantial portion of pro
duction credit outstanding at the
beginning of 1957 which carried
a repayment period of longer
than one year.
Mr. Moody stated that “these
investments made through use of
longer term bank loans have con
tributed substantially to the ef
ficiency and progress of Georgia
agriculture.”
Mr. Moody reported that 338
of the 352 insured commercial
banks in Georgia served agricul
ture by making farm loans dur
ing 1956.
Ad Campaign
DETROIT — Dodge has sched
uled advertising space in 3,700
of the nation’s daily and weekly
newspapers to back its “most ag
gressive summer sales program”,
according to W. D. Moore, direc
tor of advertising and merchan
dising.
Moore said display ads running
from three to seven columns in
size would be used in the cam
paign, which runs for a 10-week
period extending through Sep
tember. The fii-m will spend
more than $1,000,000 on the pro
gram, including radio and tele
vision to supplement the news
paper campaign.
Based on the theme “You’re
paying for a new car — make
sure you get one!”, the Selling
program is designed to take ad
vantage of the growing market
for cars in the summer and fall
seasons; to maintain sales mo
mentum built up through the
first half of the 1957 model year;
and to meet heavy “price” cam
paigns by competitors, Moore
said.
Blackshear Leaf Market
To Close Friday, Aug. 9
With the Blackshear Tobacco Market set to officially
close on Friday, August 9, figures show that local tobacco
growers have received higher prices for their golden leaf
this season than was paid in 1956.
Although short in volume the
pounds of tobacco sold so far
this season through Tuesday of
this week amounted to 6,744,818.
Sales amounted to $3,893,320.61
for an average of $57.07 for the
season through Tuesday’s sales.
This compares to last year’s
figures of 12,077,684 pounds of
tobacco sold on the 1956 market
for $6,185,701.44. An average of
$51.22 per hundred pounds.
The Farmers Warehouse and
the Brantley Brick Warehouse
will remain open until the last
sale of the season on Friday,
August 9. The Big z and Plant
ers Warehouses were scheduled
to close for the season after their
sale on Wednesday.
One set of buyers left Black
shear after the sale on Monday.
In discussing the 1957 tobacco
market, Warehouseman, Paul
Morgan said “it was a mighty
strong market all the way
through to the very last.”
Mack Carter said “this was one
of the finest tobacco seasons we
have ever had in the history of
the Blackshear Market.”
Ben Hawthorne expressed his
opinion of the .market by saying
that “this was the best quality
crop of tobacco for middle leaf
that he has ever seen grown in
Georgia”. He said this was the
result of farmers using sucker
ing control on their crops. Mr.
Hawthorne estimated a 57 per
cent crop reduction in produc
tion over last year’s volume.
Warehousemen Paul Morgan of
the Brantley Brick Warehouse,
and Dan Currin of the Farmers
Warehouse, urge the farmers to
get the remainder of their tobac
co crop in early for the last sale
of the 1957 season on Friday.
Week-ends are the most dan-
gerous time to be on U.S. high-
ways. In 1956, more than 56 per
cent of all fatalities occurred on
Friday, Saturday and Sundays.
THE HORTENSE
CAMP MEETING ASSOCIATION
53rd. ANNUAL MEETING
To Convene Aug. 15-25,1957
REV. R. C. MULLINAX
Sunrise Prayer Meeting
Children’s Service 9:30 A. M.
Song and Prayer 10:30 A. M.
For rooms write Mrs. F. A. Lewis, Hortense, Ga. All Campers expected to
furnish bed linen. Pray much for the Camp Meeting.
Come, bring musical instruments and help with singing. Location of Camp 18
miles south of Jesup, 9 miles north of Nahunta, at junction of highways 301
and 32. Look for the sign.
Three Pierce
Liquor Stores
Are Padlocked
Three liquor stores in Pierce
county, two in Ware county and
two in Bacon county have been
padlocked by State Revenue
Commissioner T. V. Williams on
charges of violating state regu
lations.
The local stores were among
106 retail liquor establishments
which the Revenue Commission
er had ordered closed since last
Wednesday.
Ordered closed in Pierce county
were the Turner Package Store,
Highway 38, Blackshear; Rep’s
Package" Store, North Highway
Avenue, Blackshear; and E. L.
Russ, Offerman.
Although the specific reasons
for closing the Pierce county
stores were not given, Commis
ioner Williams stated that vio
lations of stores closed over the
state included buying and selling
liquor on credit, sales tax de
linquency, burning lights after
hours, and under the counter
deals. Williams said some retail
ers had also been charged with
.making “long term purchases”
by paying wholesalers with bad
checks.
Some stores over the state are
being allowed to reopen. Closing
orders against 14 stores were
lifted Monday, the same day that
34 additional stores, including the
three in Pierce county, were pad
locked.
In 1956, there were 1,280 per-
sons killed in U.S. train-car
crashes.
Preaching (Evangelist) 8:00 P. M.
YOU ARE INVITED!
Camp Meeting Committee, R. C. Harrell, Jr., Sec.-Treas.
At Hortense
Camp Grounds
HORTENSE, GA.
EVANGELIST
Rev. R. C. Mullinax
Central, S. C.
SONG LEADERS
Rev. and Mrs. H. L. McCall
Easley, S. C.
YOUNG PEOPLE’S AND
CHILDREN’S WORKER
Miss Dora Lois Coile
Lakeland, Fla.
ORDER OF SERVICES
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 8, 1951
Search For Oldest
Ford Tractor In
County Is Underway
The 40th anniversary of a de
velopment which revolutionized
farming is being observed this
year, according to R. L. Orser,
Ford tractor dealer of Blackshear
and Jesup, Ga.
Forty years ago this year, Hen
ry Ford introduced the world’s
first mass-produced tractor, the
Fordson.
To celebrate this significant
event, Mr. Orser is looking for
the oldest operating Ford-built
tractor, owned by a farmer, in
this locality.
Mr. Orser’s search is part of
a nationwide search being con
ducted by the Tractor and Im
plement Division of Ford Motor
Company to find the oldest Ford
built tractor still in operating
condition. A three-day expense
paid trip to Detroit for two per
sons is to be awarded to the
owner of the tractor.
Mr. Orser announces that he
will award one share of Ford
Motor Company stock to the
farmer in this area who is ac
tually farming with the oldest
Ford-built tractor. He pointed out
that in order to determine the
winner, every tractor owner who
is farming with any Ford-built
t Thrifty’s the Word
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Preaching (Evangelist) 11:30 A. M.
Preaching (Local Pastors) 3:00 PM
Young People’s Service 7:00 P. M.
tractor invited to come to Black
shear Tractor and Implement Co.
and register the serial number
of his tractor during the month
of August.
Blackshear Man
Faces Murder
Charge in Fla.
FERNANDINA, Fla., — Wal
ter F. Branson of Blackshear,
Ga., has been bound over on a
first degree murder charge by
the Nassau County Grand Jury.
The 19-year-old sailor is ac
cused of the July 1 slaying of
Eddie Lee Charlton, 30, of Jack
sonville whose body was found
beside a highway between Hil
liard and Callahan near the
Georgia line with a bullet hole
through the heart.
Branson was quoted by police
as saying he was absent without
leave from Patuxent River, Md.,
Naval Base and that Charlton
gave him a ride just outside
Jacksonville.
Sheriff J. H. Pittman of Pierce
County, Ga., said Branson told
him he shot Charlton because he
was driving recklessly and would
not let him out of the car.
Nahunta, Georgia
REV. and MRS. H. L. McCALL
