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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 34
Two Sections
Brantleyßoads
To Be Paved
Two separate sections of rural
roads in Brantley County will be
paved by the Rural Roads Au
thority in the near future, it is
revealed by a legal advertise
ment being run in this week’s
Enterprise.
The Georgia Rural Roads Au
thority is asking bids to be sub
mitted Friday, Sept. 6, on grad
ing and paving 2.292 miles on
the Trudie - Blackshear road
and 3.738 miles on the Hickox -
Burnt Fort road, including a
new bridge over Buffalo Creek.
The Trudie - Blackshear road
will extend to the Pierce county
line. The Hickox - Burnt Fort
road will start at Hickox on fed
eral Route 301 and extend south
east toward Burnt Fort.
Hortense Camp
Meeting to Run
Thru Sunday, Aug. 25
The Hortense Camp Meeting is
continuing this week with good
crowds in attendance.
Preaching services are being
held each morning and night,
with prominent evangelists and
pastors doing the preaching.
A sunrise prayer meeting is
held each day, also a children’s
service at 9:30 in the morning.
Rev. R C. Mullinax of Central,
S. C., is the evangelist. Rev. and
Mrs. H. L. McCall of Easley,
S. C., are the song and music
leaders.
The Camp Meeting will con
tinue through Sunday night,
August 25.
Edgar Sear*, Jr.
Completes Course
At Signal School
Pvt. Edgar L. Sears Jr., son
of Mr and Mrs. E. L. Sears, re
cently completed the communica
tions center operation course at
the Army’s Southeastern Signal
School, Fort Gordon, Ga.
The eight-week course trained
Sears to receive, process and re
lay messages by various means
of communications.
Sears entered the Army last
January and received basic train
ing at Fort Jackson, S. C. He
attended Georgia Southwestern
College.
Sears is now stationed at Se
venth Field Station in Alaska.
GROSS SALES AND AVERAGES
GEORGIA-FLORIDA FLUE-CURED
TOBACCO MARKETS
• /
1957 SEASON
Market Pounds Average
GEORGIA:
Adel . - 3,486,094 $57.41
Alma 1,944,888 56.69
Baxley 3,742,160 ' 56.50
BLACKSHEAR 6,859,228 57.61
Claxton 4,909,467 53.86
Douglas 8,387,720 58.41
Fitzgerald ... 2,472,540 54.75
Hahira 3,325,380 55.99
Hazlehurst 3,918,498 57.83
Metter 5,091,703 52.76
Moultrie. 8,083,906 57.47
Nashville 6,091,358 56.82
Pearson 822,500 57.91
Pelham 3,933,916 57.26
Quitman 2,410,060 56.53
Statesboro 10,156,862 51.00
Swainsboro 1,144,330 ’ 50.12
Sylvester 1,691,844 56.48
Thomasville 2,186,112 56.66
Tifton 8,793,218 ' 57.30
Valdosta 4,486,548 55.70
Vidalia 7,320,766 52.80
Waycross 3,453,750 56.89
TOTAL GA 104,712,848 $55.77
FLORIDA:
High Springs 1,446,531 56.39
Jasper 3,446,168 58.44
Lake City 2,773,846 54.74
Live oak 6,296,568 56.85
Madison 1,303,586 55.47
TOTAL FLA 15,266,699 $56.66
Total Type 14 .- 119,979,547 $55.88
Brantley County t- Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Mr. and Mrs. Johns
Honored with
Birthday Dinner
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johns were
lonored Sunday, August 18, with
i birthday dinner at their home.
Among those attending the
dinner and in the afternoon were
Mr. and Mrs. F. O. Cherry, Nan
cy and Paul, of Bay town, Texas;
Mrs. Gussie Mae Maddox, Linda
and Gene, of Pensacola, Fla.;
Mrs. Estelle Moore and David
and Mrs. Myrtle Morgan and son,
of Savannah; Mr. and Mrs. Ward
Lee, Danny and Alan, of Flint,
Michigan; Mrs. Alene Brown,
Kim, Denny and Laura, Mr. and
Mrs. Woodrow Wildes, Diane
Johns, Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Car
son, Willene and Eben, Mrs.
Frank Roberson and Marsha, Mr.
and Mrs. Carlton Morgan, Car.
and Penny, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Thomas and Vanessa, Johnny
Brooker, Althea Brealand, J. W.
Courson, Judy Horne. Mrs. Je
rome Jacobs, Philip and Tony, oi
Brunswick; Mr. and Mrs. Mark
Wildes, Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Was
den and Linda, Mr. and Mrs.
Clarence Jacobs, Pat and John,
Mr. and Mrs. Everette Highsmith
and Coletta, ?*r. and Mrs. Hor
ace Morgan, I*. C. and Weletta,
Mrs. Mary Stevens, Waymon,
Wanda, Richard and Bimbo, Mr.
and Mrs. Ray Johns, Judy, De
bra and Michael, Mr. and Mrs.
Culbert Johns, Wayne, Patsy, De
bra, and Stevie, Blanche Jane
Johns, Sandra Lee, Mr. and Mrs.
Barney Strickland, Mr. and Mrs.
Ewell Herrin, Sharon, June and
Adrain, Misses Maud, Mary and
Annette Harris, Leo Pember, Mr.
and Mrs. Hamor Crews, Jane
and Detra, Joe Crews, Curtiss
Crews, Jeff Johns, Mr. and Mrs.
Joe McDonald, Mr. and Mrs. Aa
ron Saddler, Mrs. Albert Purdom
and J. E. Morgan, all of Na
hunta.
Lulaton Revival
Services Begin
Monday, August 26
Revival services will begin at
Lulaton Baptist Church on Mon
day, August 26, with Rev. Har
rison doing the preaching, it is
announced by Dan W. Wainright
Song service will start at 8:00
P. M.
Everybody is welcome to come
and enjoy good old Gospel preach"
ing and singing.
Any quartett, duets or soloists
are given a special invitation to
come and assist in the music.
The services will continue
through the week.
SrantUy Biterprifi?
Class of 1937
Holds Reunion at
Laura Walker Park
Members of the graduating
class of 1947 of the Nahunta High
School met at Laura Walker
Park on Saturday, August 17, fpr
a class reunion. They enjoyed a
picnic lunch at the noon hour.
The members and their fami
lies attending were; the girls—
Evelyn Wainright Thornton, her
husband and children, Albert, E
laine, Linda Kay, Vicki, Ernes
tine, and Carolyn Wainright of
Jacksonville; Velma Jean Cox
Raleigh, her husband and daugh
ter, Lana, of Orange Park, Fla.;
Mildred Lee Ingram and Walter
and Mariam of Atlanta; Kathryn
Crews Stewart and Greg and
Karen, Myrtle Keen Hickox and
children, Edward, Junior and
Dennis, Ann Rozier Raulerson
and Tim and Blake, lone Ham
Smith and children, Derek, De
nise and Dereen, all of Nahunta
The boys of the class present
were: Dewey Crews and wife and
Carmen of Waycross; Frederick
Knox and friend, Golie Watson
of Jacksonville; Virgil Rowell
and wife and Hazel and Ann; and
Laverne Smith of Nahunta.
Plans we remade for a reunion
again in 1958.
S. C. Markets
Expect End to
Tied Tobacco
OLANTA, S. C. — Graded and
tied tobacco may be a thing of
the past on South Carolina flue
cured markets.
That the tenor of a state
Grange recommendation that
grading and tying be abandoned
after this season if the extra work
doesn’t command a better price.
A Grange study announced
here Saturday by B. A. Graham,
a member of the Grange tobacco
committee, shows loose leaf on
Georgia markets brought a high
er price than South Carolina’s
tied and graded leaf this year.
GEORGIA MARKETS opened
earlier.
The result, Graham and other
tobacconists have estimated, is a
shift of South Carolina leaf to
Georgia markets where it can be
sold loose. *
South Carolina tobacco mar
kets are complaining along with
growers of the price.
Estimates are that as much as
20 million pounds of the state
crop has gone to Georgia mar
kets this year, 50 per cent more
than went there last year.
Graham said a five cents a
pound differential promised by
buyers last year for tied tobacco
has not materialized.
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THE URGENT NEED for th*
adoption of an amendment to elose
the loophole of “treaty law” in the
Constitution of the United States
was emphasized by the recent de
cision of the United States Su
preme Court surrendering Special
ist Third Class William S. Girard
to a Japanese court for trial on
manslaughter charges.
rier” to his surrender under the
terms of an executive agreement
entered into between the United
States and Japan. It, therefore,
reiterated, and extended into the
field of individual rights, its pre
vious decisions that treaties and
executive agreements override the
limitations of th* Constitution.
• • •
UNDER THIS CONSTRUCTION
placed on Section II of Article VI
of the Constitution which makes
treaties, slong with the Constitu
tion, the “supreme law of the
land,” the constitutional rights of
every man and woman wearing th*
uniform of this nation ar* placed
in jeopardy. It makes Status of
Forces Agreements like the one
with Japan superior to all of the
rights guaranteed by the Constitu
tion and the Bill of Rights as well
as the prohibitions against Inter
ference with their exercise.
So long as thia constitutional
loophole is left open and these
agreements are allowed to remain
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 22, 1957
m The Court, in
g ruling on the
question of
§ whether such
would violate
| Girard’s consti-
H tutional rights,
1 found “no con
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■ statutory bar-
sceeses* •» as esrsmiml sesssiU
OBSERVE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY — Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Strickland Sr. are shown at their recep
tion on Sunday afternoon, August 11, when they
celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at their
home in Mershon. About 300 friends and relatives
called during the afternoon to greet the Strickland’s
on their anniversary. (Hendry Studio photo.)
Attorney General
Rules on Veterans
Business Licenses
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook says
a disability of 10 per cent or
more would entitle a veteran, to
a certificate of exemption from
■payment of State, County and
Municipal business or occupa
tional licenses.
The Attorney General, in an
unofficial opinion, wrote that
Code Section 84-2012 provides
that a veteran must “furnish sa
tisfactory proof” to the State
Revenue Commissioner issuing
the exemption that the veteran
has a physical handicap disabling
to the extent of 10 per cent or
more.
Mr. Cook said that Code Sec
tion 84-2016 provides that only
the business .described in the
veteran’s application for exemp
tion shall be exempt.
That same section, he said, pro
vides that “no person shall op
erate in his own name any other
business than that described in
his application filed with the
State Revenue Commissioner.”
The law also requires that no
exemption shall be issued ex
cept to residents of the State of
Georgia.
Another requirement cited by
the Attorney General is that “the
income of such person is such
that he Or she is not liable for
the payment of State income
taxes.” *
in effect, they are like tickling time
bombs which any hour may explode
the lives end hopes of other young
Americans who, like Girard,
through no choice of their own ar*
required to serve their country on
foreign shores.
• * *
PRIOR TO THE negotiation of
the various Status of Forces Agree
ments, the United States undeviat
ingly followed the policy laid down
by Chief Justice John Marshall dur
ing the early days of the Republic
that the Constitution follows th*
Flag. These Agreements should be
repudiated and th* Marshall Tenet
once more re-established as the pol
icy of this nation.
Furthermore, Congress should
proceed to submit to th* states for
ratification an amendment, like the
so-called Bricker Amendment
which would prohibit any treaty or
executive agreement in conflict with
the Constitution and provid* that
no such treaty or executive agree
ment could be effective as interna)
law inside this country except upon
implementation by legislation en
acted by Congress.
• • •
IT 18 UNTHINKABLE that the
United States should draft its sons
to protect its freedoms and then
rob them of those mum freedoms
while they wear the uniform of
their country. If the United States,
as the strongest nation on earth,
eannot protect the right* of its
servicemen and their families in
foreign countries, then it should
bring them home.
Some Drivers
Fall Short
Physically
ATLANTA — One of every 10
Georgia drivers is physically un
fit to operate a motor vehicle,
tests given 12,253 Georgians dur
ing the past fiscal year show.
Three of the remaining nine
have driving handicaps which
should be corrected, it was re
vealed in tests given in a tractor
trailer unit driver testing lab
sponsored by the Georgia Motor
Trucking Association .
Scientific equipment in the
mdbhe lab, operated in coopera
tion with state departments of
Public Safety and Education, test
drivers all over., the state for dis
tance judgment, side vision, glare
resistance, color perception, hear
ing, steadiness and other quali
fications for a safe driver.
Latest 12-month totals show 64
per cent (7,842) fully qualified;
26 per cent (3,156) with correct
able handicaps (example — near
sightedness); and 10 per cent
(1,255) with handicaps which
cannot be corrected.
In eight years of operation as
a public service by the trucking
association, the lab has tested
an estimated 90,000 Georgians.
Personals
Mrs. E. L. Sears and son, Dan
ny, accompanied Mrs. W. G. Da
vis and her sons, Billy, Chuck
and Max on a trip to Washing
ton, D. C., where they visited
Mr. Davis who is employed with
the Navy in Washington.
• • •
Visitors with Mrs. Alice High
smith last week and last week
end were Mr. and Mrs. Elbert
Nettles of Folkston, Ga.; Mr. and
Mrs. H. J. Braddock of Jackson
ville; Mrs. Ralph Fowler and
little son and her mother, Mrs.
Jenkins of Deerfield, Fla.
• • •
Mr. John B. Highsmith and
little daughter, Michiel, who have
been visiting his mother have
returned to his home in Florence,
Alabama.
• • •
Diane and June Chestnut,
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. W. P.
Chestnut of Lumpkin, Ga., are
visiting their aunt, Mrs. Hoke
Wilson. They will return home
Saturday, August 24.
• • *
R. F. Burch of Eastman was a
visitor in Nahunta Tuesday. He
is a former county commission
er of Dodge County and has
been prominent in Georgia poli
tics for many years.
• • ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Ruel E. High
smith and children left for their
home in Arkansas Sunday, Aug.
11, after a week’s visit with Mr.
Highsmith’s parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil E. Highsmith.
Eugene V. Drury, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Robert Drury, left for
induction into the U. S. Army on
August 6. He will take basic
training at Fort Bragg, N. C.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
H. M. Brooker, Mayor
Os Blackshear, Passes
Mayor Hubert M. Brooker, 46,
of Blackshear, died Tuesday af
ternoon after an illness of several
months.
Mayor Brooker suffered a
heart attack in June and later
developed pneumonia and other
complications. He again entered
the hospital Sunday and death
came about 3:00 P.M. Tuesday.
Brooker, owner of Brooker’s
Garage, was serving his second
term as mayor. He had previous
ly served on the City Council of
Blackshear for four years.
He was a member of the First
Methodist Church, Blackshear
Masonic Lodge No. 270, F. & A.
M., Hassan Shrine Temple, Al
bany, Ga., the Blackshear Lions
Club, the Blackshear - Pierce
County Chamber of Commerce
and the Waycross Lodge of the
Elks.
A native of Nahunta, Ga.,
Brooker was the son of the late
J. W. Brooker and Thadonia
Brown Brooker, prominent citi
zens of Brantley county. He had
lived in Blackshear for the past
15 years.
Brooker served with the First
Calvary of the U. S. Army in
Texas from 1927 to 1936.
Brooker’s tenure as mayor of
Blackshear has been marked by
a number of improvements in
cluding the purchase of a new
fire truck and a modern garbage
truck for the city, water and
sewer extensions, more street
lights, improvement of the city’s
financial condition, and the be
ginning of plans for a sewerage
treatment plant.
During his 15 years residence
in Blackshear as a private citi
zen, businessman and public fi
gure, Brooker has made many
friends locally and throughout
this section who deeply mourn
his passing.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Rhoda Barnard of
Jesup; a daughter, Mrs. W. G
O’Brien; a son, Bobby, and two
grandchildren, all of Blackshear;
five sisters, Mrs. Ira Thomas,
Hoboken, Mrs. D. G. Harrington,
Buffalo, N. Y., Mrs. W. E.
Thompson, Savannah, Mrs. J. B.
Harris, Homestead, Fla., and Mrs.
Dan Atkinson, Kingsland; four
brothers, A. 8., R. 8., and Wilder
Brooker, all of Nahunta, qnd
Linton Brooker of Brunswick;
and his stepmother, Mrs. Alice
Barnard of Nahunta.
Funeral, services were held
at 3:00 o’clock P. M. Thursday at
the First Methodist Church in
Blackshear with the Rev. W. B.
Cheshire and the Rev. R. C.
Johnson officiating. Burial was
in the Blackshear cemetery and
Masonic rites were held at the
graveside.
Active pallbearers will be
James Dunn, Aubrey Geiger,
Troy Sellers, Julian Dean, Lee
Broome, Morris Dowling, Lannis
Thomas and Loran Jordan.
Active pallbearers were
H. M. Moody, J. B. Hendry, Dr.
W. A. Hendry, A. E. Davis, O.
V. Lewis,' Chris Waldron, J. E.
Thomas, S. B. Owens, O. F.
Ward, A. M. Ratliff, B. B. Owen,
Dr. G. M. Cauthen, Leon Rig
gins, J. H. Pittman, Franklin
Kelly, T. W. Walker Jr., Irvin
Gilmore, C. H. S. Russell, Dr.
W. G. Brown, Ed Ehrensperger,
Talmadge Harrison, S. D. Nim
mer. Dr. L. H. Oden Jr., Ken
neth Henley, O. D. Johnson, C.
A. Thompson, R. L. Orser, T. M.
Colley, John Shacklefard, Frank
C. Dixon, Vasco Proctor, Daniel
Taylor, W. W. McDaniel, La-
Count p. Walker, Roy- Westberry,
Judson Foreman, Everett Smiley
R. F. Parkman, R. W. Highsmith,
C. T. Strickland, R. A. Johnson
Eddie F. Rudderman, Mac
Thompson, Leo Allen, A. L. Ho
ward, Fred Hobbs, H. D. Sum
merall, S. Thomas Memory, S
Forster Memory, Glynn Bennett,
Dr. E. D. Hendry, Jack Miller,
Dr. Robert Thompson Jr., Dr.
W. F. Austin, Mayor Dunn of
Baxley, Sam Crutchfield, Sam
Dußois, Jim Akins, Guy Hutch
inson, Barton Gardner, John
Wolfe, W. E. Strickland, L. E.
Sweat.
Darling Funeral Home was in
charge of the arrangements.
Walker - Tucker
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Walker of
Waynesville announce the en
gagement of their daughter
Frances to Boyce Cecil Tucker,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Tuck
er of Statesville, N. C.
Miss Walker is employed in
Brunswick. Mr. Tucker is at
tending school in Boone, N. C.
Wedding plans will be announc
ed later.
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H. M. BROOKER
Blackshear Mayor Dies
Waynesville
News
Mr. George Gibson of Rome,
Georgia, has been visiting his
mother, Mrs. W. R. Gibson.
Mrs. Mildred Kelly and child
ren are visiting relatives in Lake
City, Fla.
• * *
Misses Freddye Lou and Smith
Ann Gibson and little brother,
Tom, have returned home after
visiting relatives in Jacksonville
and Fernandina.
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Little and
little daughter, Deborah, of St.
Marys visited here and at
Browntown over the weekend.
• * •
Miss Linda Miller of Bruns
wick spent the weekend here
with her aunt, Mrs. T. E. Thorn
ton.
Royal Theater
Program
All Pictures in Cinemascope or
wide screen.
Show time: 8 P.M. week days;
On Saturday two shows,
7 PM. and 8:30 P.M.
Sunday 3:3d P.M. only.
Closed on Tuesday.
Admission adults, .45;
children .20
FRIDAY & SATURDAY
AUGUST 23 - 24
“The Big Land”
Starring ALAN LADD,
VIRGINIA MAYO and
EDMOND O’BRIEN
In Color
SUNDAY & MONDAY
AUGUST 25 - 26
“The Girl He
Left Behind”
With TAB HUNTER,
NATALIE WOOD and
JIM BRACKUS.
In Color.
CLOSED ON TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
AUGUST 28 - 29
“Toward the
Unknown”
With WILLIAM HOLDEN
and VIRGINIA LEITH
In Color
FRIDAY & SATURDAY •
AUGUST 30 - 31
“Three Violent
People”
With ANNE BAXTER
and GILBERT ROLAND
In Vistavision
