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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 38 — NUMBER 3 Nahunta Basketball Team on Scalping Spree, Says Logue By JOHN LOGUE In THE ATLANTA JOURNAL Nahunta High School has liv ed up to its Indian heritage by scalping the last 13 consective basketball teams it has faced in Region 1-B East competition. After dropping their opening game of the year, the 1957 state Class B runner-ups have won every regular season. contest. No less than four of Coach Harold Scott’s five starters are carrying a double-digit scoring average. And the biggest Indian of them all, 6-7, Layton Johns, is ripping the nets at a 25-point a-game clip. “Johns is only a junior, but he handles himself as well as any boy his size I’ve seen in high school,” reports Scott. “He moves well and can get the good shots against anybody I’ve seen this year.” How does Scott rate this year’s team with the squad that drop ped the ’57 state championship match to Stone Mountain by one point? “We just as good right now,” said Scott, “and should be better by tournament time.” “The difference is Johns, He was only a sophomore last year and has come on to do a tremen dous job.” Johns is not the only red-hot Nahuntan. Guard Don Cleland is hitting at a 15-point-a-game clip while forward Marvin Griffin (6- 0) and guard George Thomas (5-7) boast 12 - point averages. The other starter, guard Burn ett Dubose, is the play-maker and sparkplug of the team. Scott rates Nichols (who de feated Nahunta earlier) and Broxton the teams to beat in 1-B East. Nichols has since dropped four games and Broxton two, leaving Nahunta the obvious fav orite to take region honors at the end of the season. And as far as state competit ion is concerned, Scott sees South East Bullock as the obvious heir apparent to Stone Mountain’s Class B title. Bullock defeated powerful AAA contender Rich mond Academy in the Savannah Christmas Tournament. However, Scott agrees that if Johns stays well, and his boys keep hitting, anybody in the state is liable to have their hands full when they take the floor against his Nahuntans. Geraldine Harper, granddaugh ter of Mrs. Mamie K. Orser of Nahunta won a place on the Dean’s list at South Georgia College for the fall quarter 1957. WiIAN TALMADGE I I ulfrW SF '■■ Ki L& F 1 W fl iMlshmgtow g THE CONSENSUS OF 48 world leaders recently polled by the Com mittee for Economic Development that the United States must under take over the next 20 years “to help ® achieve a better w balance of world H wealth” is an i admission, at long last, of the real object of " foreign aid. It is ironic fl that in the same AHH country where the late Huey Long was ridiculed a quarter of a century ago for advocating a program to balance the wealth among individuals, it should be proposed now that the nation seek to balance the wealth of the world. It is particularly ludicrous in light of the fact that the United States has been sorely strained to balance its own na tional budget only five times since 1930. * ♦ ♦ IT IS IMPOSSIBLE to under stand the thesis of. those who con tend that the Soviet threat to our nation’s military superiority must be met with greater outlays for foreign aid. Programs to utilize the wealth and resources of the United States to strengthen its military posture are necessary and justified. As sistance to nations such as Korea and Turkey which are maintaining large and effective armies in de fense of the perimeter of the free world certainly is in our best interests. On the other hand, aid to other (Kat prtparti ar printid at fcvtmmtnt txptntt) Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. F. F. A. Pig Chain Is Explained By Billy Allen .Santa Claus is still real or at least seems that way to the mem bers of the Nahunta F.F.A. For several years now we have maintained a Duroc Pig Chain for our members and this has grown considerably and many boys have become the proud own er of a registered pig on their own farms. For the chain to be at its best it was necessary for the chapter to maintain a purebred boar. Be cause of age and disease, it is necessary to replace these sires and this is expensive. The R. L. Walker Chevrolet Co. of Waycross smarted us with our gilts and Mr. A. S. Mizell of ''Na hunta gave us our first boar. When we have needed a new pig Mr. Mizell did not let us down. Then the new meat type hogs began to gain popularity in Geor gia and again Mr. Mizell did not let us down. He supplied us with a fine pair of Beltsville No. 1 pigs. Our luck was bad last year and one of our large Duroc boars and our new Beltsville gilt took the bangs di sease, which is incurable. Again our friend and support er, Mr. Mizell, came to our res cue and we have a fine new Belts ville gilt on our little farm north of town, and a new Duroc Boar ordered to furnish new blood to our growing pig chain. Once we get some Beltsville pigs we’ll begin a new chain. The chain works like this: A boy enrolled in a Vocaational Agricultural Education Class re ceives a young gilt. He feeds and sees after this pig until she weans a litter of pigs and at this time he returns two pigs back to the the Chapter to be placed in the Chain. We feel that this plan has hel ped to improve the hog industry in our community. And we want to say thank you again to these men who have helped us to help ourself. We be lieve that we learn by doing. The public is invited to see our hog project at any time. Billy Allen, Reporter Miss Gladys lona Johns of Na hunta and Miss Mattie Grace Strickland of Hoboken attained the Dean’s list at Georgia State College for Women for the fall term. ( Robert W. Hendrix, son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil Hendrix of Na hunta enrolled at Georgia State College in Atlanta for tbe win ter quarter. J countries given in terms of general social welfare programs cannot achieve anything but to bankrupt our nation and to make the Ameri can people despised for meddling in the domestic and foreign affairs of those so helped. • • • IF THE PURPOSE of foreign aid programs is to buy friends, it is fallacious because everyone ought to admit at this late date in the history of the world that friendship cannot be purchased. And, if the alternative idea is to so bolster the economies of other nations that Communism will not be a threat to them, it should be remembered that for all our spend ing programs between 1933 and 1940, we could not even relieve the unemployment situation in our own country. Those who would have the United States attempt to spend itself strong and give itself secure ignore history’s fundamental economic laws. To rely on dollars alone is to court the national bankruptcy which Marx and Lenin predicted for us. The strongest army and the mightiest missile fleet will be of no avail if we cannot afford to operate them. The only way in which we can successfully resist any potential enemy, including Russia, is to make the best of what we have and to give as much attention to preserving our economy as to maintaining our defenses. Brantley Enterprise R. A. Boyd, Sr. Funeral Service FOLKSTON, Ga., Jan 11 — R. A. Boyd Sr., 70 died at the hospital here Saturday morning from a heart attack suffered a bout eight days ago. He was a native of Reeman, Mich., and came to Folkston as an ACL operator 46 years ago. He became associated with the Citizens Bank here in 1925 as cashier and vice president, which position he held at the time of his death. Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. J. L. McElvey of Jacksonville and Mrs. J. R. Bertine of Cocoa, Fla.; one son, R. A. Boyd Jr., of Atlanta; four sisters, Mrs. M. M. Knight of Mascotte, Fla., Mrs. C. J. Cro stick, Muskegon, Mich., Mrs. Howard Ryan of Muskegon, Mich., Mrs. Ralph Church, Grand Rapids, Mich., and one brother, Frank Boyd, Grand Rapids, Mich. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Folk ston* Methodist Church at 3 o’- clock by Rev. S. A. Douthit and Rev. Clyde Jones. Proceedings Os County Commissioners THE BRANTLEY COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PROCEED INGS, Jan. 7, 1958. The Brantley County, Commis sioners of Road and Revenue met in regular session, January 7, 1958, Present were, R. C. Har rell, Jr., Clerk, C. H. Penland, Silas D. Lee, and Alfred Thomas. The following Commissioners were paid for six days services, each. R. B. Brooker, $30.00, R. C. Harrell, Jr. $30.00; C. H. Pen land, $30.00; Alfred Thomas, $30.- 00; and Silas D. Lee, $30.00. The following Pauper List was approved and ordered paid: Dora C. Merritt. $10.00; Ocie Moody, $10.00; and Thelma Sapp, SIO.OO. The following Road hands were paid for the month of December, 1957: Perry Crews, $175.39; Woodrow Wilson, $158.39; I. C. Harris, $196.89; J. F. Willis, $206- 89; Monsie Wilson, $186.89; Tal madge Gunter, $166.89; Roscoe Murray, $186.89; Oscar Lyons $166.89; Mitchell Hullett, $176.89; Ellis Altman, $158.39; Albert Crews, $166.89, and O. G. Lee, $250.00. The following general bills were paid; Cotton State Life & Health Ins. Co. $37.32, Insurance; R. M. Herrin, $55.00,, moving fence; Rebecca D. Griner, $315 - 70, salary; Annice L. Carter, $158.92, salary; George A. Loyd, $190.00, salary; Llawanah D. Mor gan, $15.00, salary; Archie A. Johns, SBO.OO, salary; Brantley Board of Education, $200.00, Lib rary Mobile; S. E. Blount, $75.- 00, salary; C. Winton Adams, $50.- 00; salary; Sarah Dot Simpson, $106.05; M. E. Winchester, $62.00, salary; Alvin M. Powell, Jr. $12.00; traveling exp.; Elvin F. Cooper, $101.41, salary; Dr. E. A. Moody, $30.00, salary; R. R. Kramer, $15.00, salary; Edna J. Kramer, $4.00, salary; D. F. Her rin, $79.00, salary & fees; Bran tley Gas, Co. $56.84; Kerby Con crete Co. $863.24, concrete; The Harrison Co. $160.50, Ga. Code Pocket, Parts; Kelly Parts & Service, $3.83, parts; J. Robert Smith, $50.00, representing pris oners; A. S. Mizell, $145.00 Of ficers, Bonds; Sadler Plumbing, $33.06, repair; J. W. Crews, $365.- 55, services rendered; H. H. Bur nett & Co. $50.00, treasurer, bond; Employees Retirement Cys tem, $26.33, Retirement; H. S. Wilson, $411.25, repairs; Brant ley Telephone Co. $459.91, mov ing line off R-W; Carlton Co. $627.06. repairs; Brantley Enter prise, $40.00, advertising; Wilson & Wainright Oil Co. $339.36, gas & oil; Dept of Public Welfare, $651.82, Budget; Waycross Wood Preserving Co. $76.76, fence post; J. W. Brooker, $52.39, supplies; Blackshear Mfg. Co. $517.96, Wire Fence; Standard Oil Co. $428.45; Gas & Oil; City of Na hunta, $22.50, water, Smith Hard ware Co. $13.75, supplies; Marsh all & Bruce Co. $42.68, office supplies; Brantley Telephone Co. $78.97, phones & calls; Kerby Concrete Co. $189.55, concrete, Waycross Battery & Elec. Co. $5.44, supplies; Okefenokee R. E. A. $5.10, caution light; Dewey Hayes, $63.34, salary; Cecil Rod denberry' $50.00, salary; J. F. Johns, $543.50, moving buildings & fence off R-W. There being no further bus iness the meeting closed in reg ular order. R. B. Brooker, Chairman, R. C. Harrell, Jr., Clerk. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 16, 1958 MISS MARY FRANCES MANNING Her Engagement Is Announced One Killed, 3 Injured in Truck Crash One man was killed instantly and । three were injured in the collision of a small truck and a big trailer-truck on Route 121 a bout five miles south of Hoboken early Wednesday morning Jan. 15. Felton Beasley of Hoboken was killed and Noah Griffin, Morty Griffin and Roy Martin all of Nahunta were injured and sent to a Waycross hospital. The dead .man and his three companions were riding in the smaller truck on Route 121 about 5:30 Wednesday morning when they attempted to turn off the road. The big truck, driven by Paul Lee Whithead of Miami, struck the smaller vehicle from the rear,, it is reported. Whitehead was placed in jail charged with involuntary man slaughter. Deputy sheriff C. T. Stephens and state patrolman J. M. Moses investigated the acci dent and made the case against Mr. Whitehead. Fugitive from Prison Gives Himself up A fugitive from a West Vir ginia prison voluntarily gave himself up to sheriff J. Walter Crews Wednesday .morning, Jan. 15. He gave his name as Brooks Layner of Route 3, Elizabeth, W. Va. An odd angle to the case was that Layner had spent the night in the Brantley County jail and had been released by Nahunta city policeman J. L. Strickland without charges against him. Layner had been a hitchiker with Floyd Jenkins of Jackson Springs, N. C. Jenkins was arres ted by city policemen Strickland and Brown Tuesday evening and Jenkins was charged with being drunk. Layner was allowed to spend the night in the jail with Jenkins. Police Strickland stated that he suspected Layner of being an escapee and questioned him at length but could get no admission from him. After being released Layner proceeded up Highway 301 to the home of Arnold Mor gan where he knocked on the door and told the Morgans that he was an escaped prisoner and wanted to give himself up. Mr. Morgan called sheriff J. Walter Crews who came and took Layner back to jail. Layner stat ed that he had been a trusty at an Old Folks Home in West Virginia, had got drunk and run away. Pvt. Melvin Griffin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Onimus Griffin of Nahunta recently was graduated from the heating and ventilating course at the Engineer School, Fort Belvoir, Va. The staff of this newspaper appreciates your help in getting in all news copy early. Manning-Wainwright Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Manning of Nahunta announce the engage ment of their daughter Mary Frances to Kenneth I. Wain right, son of Mr. and Mrs. Tim othy Wainright of Folkston. Miss Manning is a graduate of Nahunta High School and is now employed at The Citizens Bank at Folkston. Mr. Wainright is a graduate of Folkston High School and is employed with the M. Y. White & Son at Folkston. The wedding will be an event of February. $950 Stolen From Under Her Mattress Charged with taking $950 from the home of Rosa Lee Hall, a Negro by the name of Eddie Lee Hill was placed in jail by sheriff J. Walter Crews Saturday, Jan. 11. Rosa Lee Hall of Atkinson, Negro school teacher of the Na hunta colored school, reported to the sheriff Saturday that $950 had been taken from under a mattress at her home near At kinson Wednesday while she was busy with her teaching duties at Nahunta. She told the sheriff that she had seen prints of a slick auto tire near her home. The sheriff went to investigate and found Eddie Lee Hill with slick tires on his car. Under questioning Hill admitted taking the money and said he had spent $550 of the money but still had S4OO of it in a Brunswick bank. The S4OO was recovered and Hill was placed in jail under a charge of burglary. Hill said he had used a skeleton key in gain ing admittance to the Hall home. ACP Is Good Plan For Farmers, Says Chairman Dykes Brantley County farmers who are making thoughtful plans to manage their farms in the com ing year for both their family’s production needs and their land’s conservation needs, will find the 1958 ACP a useful tool, George Dykes, ASC county chairman, said. “Our 1958 county Agricultural Conservation Program will offer from 50 to 70 percent of the cost on 14 conservation practices,, which are demed .most needed in the county in 1958,” Mr. Dykes said. * “In keeping with ACP princi ples, cost - sharing is offered only for those practices needed to help the country’s conservat ion problems and those which a farmer cannot carry out entirely on his own or to the extent need ed in the public interest of con servation,” the chairman pointed out. Copies of the complete 1958 county list of ACP practices have been mailed to all farm operators in the county. Further informat ion about the county program and cost-sharing rates may be obtained at the county ASC of fice at Nahunta. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Brantley Superior Court to Convene at Nahunta Monday Mrs. Addie Herrin Funeral Service Held Thursday Funeral services for Mrs. Ad vdie Wilson Herrin, 72, of Route 2, Nahunta, who passed away Tuesday night at her residence after a long illness, were held this Thursday morning, Jan. 16. at eleven o’clock from the grave side of Lex^is Cemetery. Mrs. Herrin was born in Wayne County, now Brantley, and was the daughter of the late Robert B. and Mary Ellen Lewis Wilson. She received her education in the Wayne county schools and was a lifelong resident of this section. She was the widow of the late J. D. Herrin. Mrs. Herrin is survived by four sons, Ewell Herrin, Marvin Her rin, Gilbert Herrin, and Chesley Herrin, all of Nahunta; two bro thers, Evan Wilson and Elliott Wilson, both of Nahunta; 9 grandchildren and 5 great grand children also survive. Serving as pallbearers were Hoke Wilson, Moncie Wilson, Frank Wilson, Woodrow Wilson, Omie Wilson, and Kenneth Wil lis. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of ar rangements. 1958 Forestry Outlook Good, Loyd Says BY GEORGE A. LOYD County Agent Georgia’s 1958 outlook for for est products is generally toward an increase in demand as the population grows, according to Extension Economists S. J. Bran nen and J. J. Lancaster. The state’s position in relat ion to markets and climate is very favorable. In the future, Georgia will be called upon to produce more and more of the forest products needed in the United States. SAWTIMBER U. S. Sawlog production in 1957 amounted to 34.8 billion feet — down 6 per cent from 1956. This trend has continued since 1955, but is ex pected to level out and then in crease as the “war babies” of the early forties increase the de mand for new residences. Final figures for 1957 product ion of sawlogs in Georgia are ex pected to show a slight increase over the estimated 1.5 .million board feet of 1956. Sawtimber prices, at 5 near all-time high, have remained fairly firm, Only minor changes in sawtimber stumpage prices are expected in the coming year. PULPWOOD production in Georgia last year was more than double that in 1956—nearly 4 million cords which was almost 20 percent of the South’s total production of 20 million cords. It is expected to increase in 1958. Prices for pulpwood, currently at an all time peak in Georgia, are expected to continue their steady rise. The price different ial between hardwood ahd pine is expected to continue due to the abundance of hardwood stum page in the state. The increase in the use of hardwoods represents only a very small portion of the total pulpwood produced and hardwoods probably will con tinue to be acceptable only in limited quantities. GUM NAVAL STORES are ex pected to decrease from 1956 pro duction by about 8 percent. Pric es have declined in 1957, result ing in a sizeable increase in the percentage of this crop, placed in the government loan program. Sales over the past year, how ever, have about equaled the a mount of rosin, pledged to the program in 1957. Turpentine and high grade gum prices are expected to rise early this year, but little change is expected in medium grade rosins. Senior 4-H Club Met with Mrs. Loyd The Senior 4-H Club met Jan. uary 14 with Mr. George Loyd Mrs. Sarah Hellemn annd Mrs. Harry Raulerson. Judy Thornton read the dev otional and called the roll. Plans were made to have a party at the American Legion Hall on January 25. Both boys and girls were given project books. Projects for the year were discussed. Reporter, Wayne White Keep up with the News About Your Home County. Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) Brantley county Superior Court will convene at Nahunta, Mon day, Jan. 20, with Judge Cecil Roddenberry presiding and Col. Dewey Hayes as solicitor. The Grand Jury list and the Traverse Jury list as realeased by clerk of court, Delma F. Her rin, is as follows: GRAND JURY Glynwood Dowling, Fred Lee, E. J. Dixon, I. J. Davis, Fred Chesser, Owen Griffin, S. M. Ald ridge, Culbert Johns, J. H- Mer cer, Joe McDonald, H. F. Crews, Albert Purdom. W. J. Moore, Jr., Ellis High smith, C. L. King, J. G. Moody, R. L. Dubose, N. M. Herrin, Joe C. Crews, Owen Shuman, Troy Harper, S. L. Rowell, A. C. Her rin, Riley Altman, W. L. White, Vornie Crews. TRAVERSE JURY Perry Crews, C. B. Keene, Mil tonu Rowell, R. W. Hagin, Owen Prescott, Fred Lewis, Hilton Mor gan, Banner Wainright, Homer Griffin, L. M. Manning, John W. Davis, Jasper Johnson, Silas Har ris, Silas Altman, Paul A. Lewis, Norman Lee, John Griffin. M. M. Martin, Floyd Warner, L. C. Colvin, I. M. Morgan R. I. McDuffie, Dan Jacobs, W. P. Sloan, C. E. Higginbotham, Par nell King, Carroll Moody, Les ter Lee, Perry Hickox, D. A. Cason, Sam Chesser, George Lloyd, W. H. Lewis, Joel Herrin. Fulton Jacobs, Earnest Thrift, Archie Crews, John R. Bennett, J. R. Riggins, L. A. Hickox, J. L. Aldridge, James A. Herrin, Sr., Riley Johns, Alton M. Griffin, Cager Crews, W. O. Highsmith, Alton Crews, W. A. Sloan, Har ley Cole, H. L. Anderson, Far ley O’Berry, P. D. Griffin. A. J. Stokes, S. D. Kelly, Babe Ruth Hayes, R. E. Strickland, Neil Hendrix, Major Riggins, N. A. Stevens, G. W. Wainright, O. O. Johns, Roy Strickland, James H. Ham, Alvin Moody, M. L. Hopkins, J. W. Highsmith, Ave ry Strickland, J. E. Wilson. H. D. Edgy, Joel Lee, M. M. Manning, J. W. Eldridge, H. S. Highsmith, T. M. Aldridge, Van S. Strickland, Henry G. Lee, M. R. Dryden, H. V. Carver, J. E. Harris, Lein Jacobs, G- R. Stone, W. L. Norton, L. E. Dickerson, George Steedley, Dudley Spell. Ira Brown Takes Up Duties As City Policeman Ira F. Brown of Nahunta has been put on the city police force as the third man on a three mad force. Mr. Brown began his duties Saturday. The Nahunta police men will work in three shifts of eight hours each, with some overlapping at critical hours, it is reported. The other Nahunta policemen are J. L. Strickland and Toomer Herrin. Royal Theater Program All Pictures in Cinemascope or wide screen. Show time: 7:30 P.M. week days; Saturdays 6:45 and 8:45 Sunday 3:30 P.M. only. Admission adults, .45; children f 2O FRIDAY AND SATURDAY JAN. 17 and 18 ’ “River of No Return” Starring MARYLIN MONROE RORY CALHOUN and ROBERT MITCHUM SUNDAY and MONDAY JAN. 19 and 20 “Satellite in the Sky” FIRST TIME SHOWING CLOSED TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY TV Getting You Down? See a Good Movie.