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VOLUME 38 — NUMBER 13
Sweeping the Country
ROY CHALKER’S WEEKLY PAPER
The Georgia Recorder, weekly newspaper published
by Mr. Roy Chalker, chairman of the State Highway
Board, suggests to my mind a great idea for a possible
reduction in taxes for the people of Georgia.
My idea is that every department of state govern
ment start a weekly paper, sell advertising to the people
who deal with the given department, and give the profits
from each paper to the state treasury.
For instance, the Highway Board Chairman already
has a paper selling advertisements to asphalt dealers,
machinery dealers and others who sell to the state and
to state contractors. All the profits could be turned in to
the state treasury, inasmuch as the time given to publish
ing this paper should be given to highway board affairs.
Then the governor can start a weekly paper, sell
advertisements to all who are dependent on him for fa
vors, and turn the profits from the paper over to the
state treasury.
The comptroller could publish a paper and sell ad
vertisements to the insurance companies and the small
loan companies and turn the profits over to the state
treasury.
The purchasing agent of the state could start a paper
and sell advertising to people who want to sell to the
state and the profits could be turned over to the state
treasury.
And so forth, on down the line of state officials, each
with a newspaper selling advertisements to those who
would like to deal with the given official or his depart
ment.
A huge profit could probably be realized and turned
over to the state treasury and a proportionate reduction
could be made in state taxes.
Mr. Chalker, chairman of the State Highway Board,
is reported to have said that profits from his Georgia
Recorder are given to the Scottish Rites Hospital. But we
don’t know how much “profits” have thus accrued to
the hospital.
And too, it has not been revealed how much Mr.
Chalker charges at his Waynesboro printing plant for
printing the Georgia Recorder. Also, we are not told how
much salary Mr. Chalker pays himself for editing the
Georgia Recorder. All the receipts of the paper could
possibly be absorbed in such expenses.
If my plan to let each state official publish a news
paper is adopted, the state would probably have to install
a “Newspaper Profits Inspector” whose duty it would be
to see that the printing and editing expenses of such
newspapers did not eat up the profits. Otherwise the
temptation would be for each official publishing a paper
to hog all the profits through big charges for printing
and editing.
Now, I contend that my idea is the first really great
plan suggested in many years for a huge reduction in
state taxes. For the boys who head our state governmen
tal departments could really sell that advertising. And
they could really charge a high rate for space in their
newspapers.
Os course some citizens have the old-fashioned no
tion that a state official should give his time to carrying
out the duties of his office, instead of running a news
paper. The people might have to be “educated” to the
idea that a state official could run his state job as sort
of a sideline while he pulled down a lot of advertising
profits to turn over to the state.
Now, I claim that my plan for reducing state taxes
is original and challenging and deserves the attention of
our citizens, along with the Sputniks and space travel.
(Editor’s note: so many people take all they see in
the papers as real truth and facts that I must admit that
this editor’s tongue is in his cheek and that what he is
seriously thinking is, “How long, Oh Lord, how long?”)
Hortense Memorial
Church Plans
Easter Program
The Hortense Memorial Church
plans an Easter program on Sun
day night, April 6, at 7:00.
The pastor, Rev. Otis Hand,
will preach at the regular morn
ing worship service at 11:00 A.
M. Sunday School will be at 10
o’clock. The Easter Service will
take the place of the evening
worship hour.
The program will be a play on
the Easter Story. Mrs. W. T.
Sloan is directing the program.
Taking part in the play are:
Roy Wainright, Rusty Morgan,
Mrs. Roy Wainright, Mrs. Rusty
Morgan, Casey Jones, David
Jones, J. V. Nichols, Billy Wain
right, Larry Wainwright, Joey
Strickland, Stanley Sloan and
Ronald Sloan. Mrs. Peggy Grif
fis is the pianist.
Tom Prescott, son of Mr. and
Mrs. L. J. Prescott, is at home on
leave for 30 days. He has been
in th U. S. Navy since 1945.
He will return to duty April 1,
with the Second Marine Division
a t Camp Lejune, N. C. He is
a First Class Hospital Corpman
in the marines.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
By Carl Broome
Jack Remer Injured
In Accident
Jack Remer of Nahunta was
injured in a pulpwood accident
Monday afternoon near Raybon
when a circular saw was knock
ed from the hands of a working
companion and struck Mr. Remer
on his hip and arm.
Mr. Remer suffered a badly
torn hip and a fractured arm.
He was carried to Memorial Hos
pital, Waycross, by the Chambless
Funeral Home ambulance.
County Not Liable
For Private Water
Pipes Under Roads
The county will not be respon
sible for private water pipes
across the county highway, it is
announced by R. B. Brooker,
chairman of the county commis
sioners.
People who run water pipes
or other connections under or
across county highways do so at
their own risk, it was stated. If
county machinery in working or
grading roads tears up the pri
vate water pipes, the county will
not be responsible for the dam
age, according to the announce
ment.
Erantky Enterprifii
4 Injured in
Auto Collision
At Waynesville
Four people were injured in an
auto collision about a mile east
of Waynesville on Route 84 Sat
urday afternoon, March 29, it
is reported by Brantley Coun
ty sheriff J. Walter Crews.
A car driven by Mrs. L. E.
Thomas of Waynesville was hit
from behind by a car driven by
William Kaher of Route 1, Bruns
wick, according to sheriff Crews.
Mrs. Thomas suffered a pos
sible fracture of the spine. Her
daughter Doris, 5, suffered a
broken shoulder blade. Her son
Gene, 7, suffered a head con
cussion. William Kahler, the
driver of the other car, was treat
ed by Dr. D. S. Moody for cuts,
bruises and leg injury.
Mrs. Thomas was making a
right turn into her driveway
when the Kahler car struck her
car from the rear, sheriff Crews
reported.
The accident was investigated
by deputies L. O. Stallings and
Dan Herrin. William Kahler was
charged with driving under the
influence of alcohol.
The two cars were damaged
to the extent of about SI,OOO the
deputies stated.
Big Truck Tire
Smashes Plate Glass
Os Service Station
A big tire from a truck plung
ed through the plate glass of the
Phillips 66 Service Station in Na
hunta sometime Tuesday night,
causing about SI,OOO damage.
The tire was evidently from a
large truck or van. It traveled
about 100 yards from where it
broke loose from the truck
wheel and curved slightly to the
right as it bounded toward the
service station.
The driver of the truck seemed
not to have known about losing
one of his tires, because no one
had claimed the tire Wednesday
morning.
The tire struck the curbing
around the service station, bound
ed upward through the plate
glass and damaged the ceiling
of the service station. It then
bounced back outside. The plate
glass on two sides of the station
was broken, the north side be
ing smashed out entirely and the
east side front being badly
broken.
The station is operated by
Paul Sapp for the Phillips 66
company.
Nahunta High
Students Entei
Literary Meet
The Nahunta High School will
be represented at the Class B,
Bth District Literary Meet in
events and the names of students
participating are as follows:
Boys’ declamation: Gene
Crews; girls’ declamation: Caro
lyn Johnson; boys’ essay: Wil
liam Royster; girls’ essay: Mary
Cross; piano: Myra Strickland;
male quartet: William Royster,
Auvell Raulerson, Bobby Rowell,
Gene Crews; boys’ vocal solo:
Auvell Raulerson; girls’ vocal
solo: Jean Ester Highsmith; girls’
trio: Duane Gibson, Lillie Ruth
Thomas, Jean Ester Highsmith;
boys’ typing: John Willis; girls’
typing: Emma Jean Branch;
shorthand: Willene Rowell; home
economics: Aria Dean Wilson.
Debates and one-act play are
literary events which have been
held previously. Those students
who participated in the debates
were George Thomas, William
Royster, Auvell Raulerson, and
Gene Crews. Joe Sears, Carolyn
Johnson, Darlene Drury, Willene
Rowell, and William Hinesley
participated in the one-act play.
Nahunta High School won the
second place in the district meet
last year.
New Hope Cemetery
Will Be Cleaned
Thursday April 10
The New Hope Cemetery near
Hickox will be cleaned off
Thursday, April 10, it is announ
ced by Archie Johns, one of the
deacons.
All who are interested in the
New Hope Cemetery are reques
ted to come and bring tools for
helping to clean off the burial
grounds.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 3, 1958
Jos. B. Strickland, Honored
Citizen, Paid Last Respects
In Funeral Service Saturday
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon, March 29,
from the Nahunta Baptist Church
at 2 o’clock for Mr. Joseph Bar
ney Strickland, 72, who passed
away at Memorial Hospital in
Waycross early Thursday morn
ing, March 27th, after a week’s
illness, with his pastor, the Rev.
Cecil F. Thomas, assisted by the
Rev. Lester Edgy and the Rev.
J. A. Wiggins, conducting the
services in the presence of the
family and a large host of relat
ives and friends.
Interment followed in Oak
land Cemetery in Waycross after
Masonic rites were conducted at
the graveside. Honorary escort
and active pallbearers were com
posed from members of Nahunta
Lodge No. 391 F & A. M.
Mr. Strickland was born in
Lulaton on March 3, 1886, the
son of the late James Henry and
Mattie Willis Strickland. He re
ceived his education in the schools
of the county and for a long
number of years was engaged
in the mercantile business.
When Brantley county was
created in 1921, he served as the
first representative from the
county and subsequently served
a total of four terms. He had
also served as State Senator from
the Third District.
For the past 35 years, he had
been local agent for the Stand
ard Oil Company. He had served
on the Board of Brantley Coun
ty Commissioners for 20 years,
and had been its chairman for
many years during his term of
office.
He was also a former State
Democratic committeeman. From
an early age, he had maintain
ed an avid interest in school and
road improvements and for all
endeavors that would benefit and
bring progress to Brantley coun
ty. He helped to organize and
was a member of the US High
way 301 Association, and spent
considerable time and money in
having the route pass through
the county.
Fraternally, he was a member
and past master of Nahunta
Lodge No. 391 F & AM. He was
also a member of the Royal Arch.
A member of the Baptist Church,
he was on the Board of Deacons
at the time of his death. He
held membership and was a char
ter member of the Brantley coun
ty Lions Club.
Mr. Strickland was twice
married, first to the former Miss
Nora Virginia Rogers, who pre
ceded him in death in 1921. La
ter he was married to the former
Miss Juanita Brugler, who sur
vived him.
As a tribute of respect, all
business houses in Nahunta clos
ed from one til three o’clock
Saturday afternoon, The body lay
in state for two hours prior to
the services at the church.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Jaunita B. Strickland of
Nahunta; one daughter, Mrs.
Bibb Saye of Selma, Ala.; three
sons, Roger Strickland of Texas
City, Texas, J. L. Strickland of
Atlanta, Ga., and Marshall Strick
land of Nahunta; two brothers,
Charlie Strickland and Ray
JOSEPH BARNEY STRICKLAND
Brantley County Leader Passes Away
Strickland, both of Jacksonville,
Fla.; four grandchildren also
survive.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the love and
eseteem in which Mr. Strickland
was held.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of
arrangements.
Sunrise Service
Announced for
Nahunta Churches
Easter services for the day
next Sunday will begin with the
community sunrise service to be
held on the steps of the east side
of the Brantley County Court
house at 6:30 a. m.
All the churches of the com
munity are invited to take part
in this annual union service.
This year the program will be
as follows'
Opening remarks: Cecil F.
Thomas, pastor Baptist Church.
Song: “Christ Arose”
Prayer: Rev. L. H. Davis, pas
tor Church of God.
Song: “He Lives”
Easter Message: Rev. J. A.
Wiggins, Pastor Methodist
Church.
Song: “All Hail the Power of
Jesus Name”.
Everyone will find a welcome
to this service commemorating
the resurrection of Jesus, our
Lord, from the grave. If the weat
her be bad for an outdoor service,
the meeting will be held in the
Methodist Church building near
by. Let’s have the largest crowd
we have ever had for Easter
sunrise service.
Funeral Service
Held Sunday
For Tommy Lyons
Funeral services for Tommy
Lyons, age sixteen months was
held at Oak Grove cemetery on
Sunday, March 30. He was the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Laverne
Lyons of Brunswick.
The child died Friday short
ly after he was run over by an
automobile near the home of his
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Les
ter Lyons, in Brunswick.
Elbert A. Lewis
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Masonic graveside rites for
Elbert A. Lewis, who died
Thursday March 27, were held
Saturday afternoon in Rob Lewis
Cemetery.
Mr. Lewis was living in with
a brother, Fulton Lewis, in Sav
annah where he died. He former
ly lived in Brantley County and
was a member of the Masonic
Lodge in Nahunta, and was a
past Master of the lod^e.
Besides the brother, Fulton
Lewis of Savannah he is sur
vived by a sister, Mrs. Tom Pea
cock of Waycross.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Pulp Mills Pay Huge Sum
For Pulpwood in Brantley
Hickox Baptists
Will Observe
Homecoming Day
Homecoming day will be ob
served at the Hickox Baptist
church on Sunday, April 6.
Revival services began on Sun
day night, March 30 with Rev.
Algie Carter of Baxley as visit
ing minister. Rev. V. C. Bailey
is pastor. Services will continue
through Saturday, and will close
with homecoming on Sunday
with an all day meeting with
dinner on the ground.
Everyone is invited.
Broome Asks
Special Session
Os Legislature
ATLANTA — Bacon County
Representative C. J. Broome has
called on Governor Griffin to
convene a special session of the
General Assembly to extend the
county unit system to the Gen
eral Election.
Representative Broome, presi
dent of the Georgia Press Assoc
iation, said in a telegram to Gov
ernor Griffin it is “urgent” that
the Assembly be called into ses
sion to “provide us with yet an
other barrier against attempt to
destroy” the unit system.
He referred specifically to what
he termed “the recent danger
ous attack that has been made
on it by Atlanta’s Mayor Harts
field in a suit filed in federal
court.”
“The urgency of such a special
session is obvious,” he said.
“We must take action to pre
pare for a possible court decis
ion destroying our present coun
ty unit law.”
He said that with a special leg
islative session, such an amend
ment could be voted on by Geor
gians in this year’s General El
ection.
“This would give Georgians the
strongest possible defense of the
county unit system by writing it
into the state Constitution itself,"
the legislator said.
He said although an attempt
to extend the unit system to the
General Election had been turned
down by Georgians on one prev
ious occasion, “the overwhelming
majority of Georgians would now
vote YES" to such an amend
ment.
“A majority of the General As
sembly and of the citizens of
Georgia will now support such
a special session and will approve
an amendment writing the unit
system into the General Elec
tion,” he said.
Representative Broome said he
was calling for the special ses
sion on behalf of the two-unit
county of Bacon and all Geor
gians living in rural or small
counties.”
The Hartsfield suit, he said,
was purposely filed after the re
cent session of the legislature
and its admitted aim is to de
stroy the county unit system.”
“With one stroke of a pen, the
Federal Court may throw out
a system of government which
has taken Georgians generations
to develop and to preserve”, the
legislator said.
The representative also sent a
telegram to Senator Herman Tal
madge asking the Senator’s sup
port in uniting Georgia political
leaders for providing another
barrier to destruction of the unit
system.
Reports from Atlanta Wednes
day stated that Governor Grif
fin would refuse to call the leg
islature into special session as
requested by representative
Broome.
Sunday School Class
Is Entertained by
Mrs. C. L. Middleton
The Intermediate Sunday
School Class of Hortense Mem
orial Chui ch was entertained by
their teacher, Mrs. C. L. Middle
ton at her home on Friday night,
March 28.
The young people attending
were: June Faye Sloan, Steve
Adams, Casey Jones, David
Jones, Danny Jones, Sandra and
Shirley Pearson, Vivien Rowell,
Wayne Rowell, Clarice Rowell,
Mary Ellen Nichols, J. V. Nich
ols, Roy Flowers, Shelby Jean
Loper, Larry Wainright, Stanley
and Ronald Sloan.
Mrs. W. T. Wainright assisted
Mrs. Middleton in entertaining
and serving hot dogs, cookies and
soft drinks.
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)
Over one and one-quarter mil
lion dollars is coming into the
Brantley County economy each
year from five pulp and paper
mills having woods operations in
this county.
Os this amount approximate
ly $1,195,000 is paid to land
owners for wood purchases by
the mills, making Brantley Coun
ty a sizeable part of Georgia’s
booming pulpwood business.
The five mills have 16 employ
ees living in Brantley County
drawing a direct total payroll of
$55,520 annually.
In addition there are 81 pro
ducers in Brantley County selling
wood to the mills, and they in
turn employ another 186 woods
workers. These 283 people draw
ing their weekly pay directly
from the mills or indirectly
through wood producing make
up a sizeable segment of Brant
ley County’s working population.
“These figures compare very
strikingly with the blank figures
of 1936 when the first pulp and
paper mill in continuous operat
ion was begun in this state,’’
said H. J. Malsberger, general
manager of the Southern Pulp
wood Conservation Association.
“Trees are the number one
cash crop in several states al
ready, and the future is even
brighter,’’ Mr. Malsberger said.
“For that reason we believe it
is of utmost importance to alert
farmers and business leaders to
the tremendous economic opport
unities of more intensive tree
growing.”
The paper industry hopes to
point up the growing demand for
pulpwood and to alert landown
ers to the economic opportuni
ties in tree growing by a south
wide observation of Pulp and
Paper Day April 15. The day’s
observance will include open
houses at paper .mills, luncheons,
tours of wood yards, dinners, and
many other activities to acquaint
the general public with the eco
nomic importance of the South’s
22-year old pulp and paper in
dustry.
Satilla Baptists
To Begin Revival
Next Monday Night
Rev. Clyde Thomas of Patter
son will be the visiting minister
in revival services which begin
next Monday night, April 7, at
Satilla Baptist Church at Hor
tense. Services will be held each
evening at 7:30 pm.
Cottage prayer meetings are
being held in the homes in the
community each night this week.
Rev. Robert Wagnon will con
duct Sunrise services on Easter
morning, April 6.
Royal Theater
Program
All Pictures in Cinemascope or
wide screen.
Show Time: 8:00 p. m. Weekdays;
Saturdays 7.-00 P. M.
Sundays 3:30 P. M.
Admission adults, .45;
children .20
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
APRIL 3 and 4
“BOMBERS B-52”
Starring NATALIE WOOD
and KARL MALDEN
SATURDAY APRIL 5
“SHORT CUT TO
HELL”
Starring ROBERT IVERS
and GEORGANN JOHNSON
SUNDAY & MONDAY
APRIL 6 and 7
“THE BIRDS AND
THE BEES”
Starring GEORGE GOBEL
MITZI GAYNOR and
DAVID NIVEN
THURSDAY and FRIDAY
APRIL 10 and 11
“THE PAJAMA
GAME”
Starring DORIS DAY
and JOHN RAITT
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