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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. NUMBER 20 VOLUME 38 Brantley Farmers Methods Show Grass Base Rotation Pays Off Grass base rotation pays off, according to James A. Ross, Work Unit Conservationist. Delma Herrin of Nahunta turn ed a four year old sod of Coast al Bermuda grass in 1956 and fol lowed it with tobacco. There was a good sod, and the land was well prepared and early in the spring. The tobacco was planted early in the spring and grew off well, Mr. Herrin states that he finds that by planting tobacco follow ing grass that the tobacco will grow to a more even age stand. Mr. Herrin sold an average of 2100 pounds of tobacco per acre and averaged 62 cents per pound. The tobacco was planted on a class three Norfolk soil which is one of the most common high land soils in Brantley County. Planting tobacco behind coast al bermuda or bahia grass also helps control Nematode and other diseases. Coastal bermuda can be kil led out if the tobacco is cultivat ed too much while the soil is dry cultivation should be done in away not to kill the grass out but let it come back while the to bacco is maturing. Mr. Herrin planted part of his tobacco behind coastal bermuda this year. Next year he plans to plant tobacco behind bahia grass which he feels sure that is the best rotation for him at this time. Mr. Banner Thomas of Hobo ken planted his tobacco behind a two year old sod of bahia grass last year on the same kind of soil as Mr. Herrin did his coast al bermuda. There was a good sod, it was turned early and har rowed twice before planting. A good quality of tobacco was produced, approximately one ton per acre of tobacco was produced which averaged about 60 cents per pound. The bahia grass was completely killed as a result of good land preparation. No prep arations other than this would have been required for a row crop was needed. Mr. Thomas says that other people need not be afraid to plant tobacco behind bahia grass or even coastal bermuda, provided they turn their sod early and prepare their land well. A three to five year old sod would be much better than a two year old sod. Planting tobacco behind bahia grass also helps to control Nema tode and other diseases. If a good seed crop is produced the year before planting tobacco and turned with the sod, there is a good chance that there will be a stand of grass to come back the year the tobacco is planted. Mr. Thomas plans to continue ucs>jbiAii tkAMA fIEKIVIAN IALHiAUVE | |Jj ^Orfieporfs From I I Hi x | I ll!lli sw M 6row . SINCE 1948 THE United States, according to Life Magazine, has spent $420 billion from public and private sources on various pro grams seeking the impossible and utopian end of making the world over in our own image. Os that amount, more than $64 billion has been spent or appropriated for what we call foreign aid. With Congress | once more soon I to begin eon | aidering this % question, the (propaganda drums already i are beating 1 loudlv about the urgent neces sity for continued foreign aid spending. Report after report and witness after witness have been brought forth to give lip service to the cause of bigger and better foreign giveaways. But none of the witnesses and none of the re ports has dispelled the fact that the proposed Mutual Security Act of 1958 offers nothing better than a continuation of the waste and boondoggling which has character ized the American foreign aid pro gram from its inception. • • • the ADMINISTRATION asked for a new foreign aid appropri ation or fiscal 1959 of $3.9 billion hut the total figure will amount to more than $lB billion. That is true because at the end of the current fiscal year there will be a carryover of foreign aid funds estimated at $6.2 billion, the capitalization of die Import h-xport Bank is to be increased by ♦2 billion, the Public Law 480 au- (Mt ar prmUd at fcvarnmant Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. to plant tobacco behind bahia grass. He made the best crop of tobacco last year that he ever produced. Neil Hendrix from Hickox has planted his tobacco behind bahia graass this year and is doing good. Lots of other farmers are plant ing row crops behind grass and getting good results. Highway Worker Killed in Wreck Near Blackshear A Pierce County man was kill ed instantly Wednesday after noon, May 14, in a wreck, invol ving two trucks which occurred on Highway 38 about five miles east of Blackshear. The man killed was Allen Mar ion Courson, age 25 of Patterson, an employee of the State High way Department, assigned to the maintenance crew which operates out of Patterson. Sheriff J. H. Pittman of Pierce county reported that Courson was driving a state highway truck and traveling west on highway 38, and met another truck driven by W. R. Peacock, traveling east. The steering apparatus on the Peacock truck apparently failed and the truck swerved into the highway truck almost headon and crushed the front of the high way truck back into the drivers seat killing Mr. Courson. Peacock was not seriously in jured, but was treated and dis missed by a doctor. The truck he was driving was operated by Wright Brothers of Blackshear. Both the Pierce county sheriffs department and the Georgia State Patrol investigated the ac cident. Weather Report For Past Week U.S. Weather Bureau report ot temperature and rainfall at Nah unta for each 24 hour period of week. Nahunta Sta. High Low Rain Thursday 80 41 0.00 Friday 86 49 0.00 Saturday — — 0.00 Sunday — — 0.38 Monday 79 57 0.11 Tuesday 76 55 0.16 Wednesday 79 58 0.00 thorization for fiscal 1958 has been increased by SSOO million and the authorization for 1959 set at $1.5 billion, the Defense Department will spend more than $3 billion maintaining service personnel and bases abroad, servicemen will spend more than S6OO million from their own resources in the coun- tries in which they are stationed and the Federal Government will pay almost S4OO million in salaries to American and foreign civilians it employs in other countries. • • • ADD TO THIS the more than $l.B billion which American tour ists will spend abroad during the year and the almost $4 billion which American private enterprise will invest in foreign economic de velopment and the total American foreign expenditures for the next year will run to *24 billion. It is hardly likely that the Amer ican taxpayers, struggling to make ends meet in this period of inflated recession, will look very sympa thetically upon an outpouring of more than 18 billion of their hard earned tax dollars overseas during the next fiscal year. It is rather my conviction that, if the masses of the American people had their way, the majority of the members of Congress would vote against giving any more “blank checks” to the Executive Branch to be spent on a program which is shrouded in secrecy, devoid of any promise of accomplishment and steeped in the threat of national bankruptcy. 0 Brantley Biterprae By J. A. ROSS Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 15, 1958 Proceedings Os County Commissioners The Brantley County Commis sioners Proceedings, May 6, 1958. The Brantley County Commis sioners of Roads and Revenues met in regular session May 6, 1958, Present were R. B. Brook er, Chairman, R. C. Harrell, Jr. Clerk, C. H. Penland, Alfred Thomas, and Silas D. Lee. The Following Commissioners were paid for six days service each. R. B. Brooker, $22.35; R. C. Harrell, Jr., $22.35; C. H. Pen land, $22.35; 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; Thelma Sapp, $10.00; Thei dore Thrift, SIO.OO. The following Road hands were paid for the month of April 11, 1958, Perry Crews, $135.74; Wood row Wilson, $211.24; I. C. Harris, $119.84; J. F. Willis, $251.24; Mon sie Wilson, $209.84; Talmadge Gunter, $152.74; Roscoe Murray, $221.24; Mitchell Hullett, $226.44; O. G. Lyons, $141.24; Albert Crews, $122.24; Ellis Altman, $178.24; and O. G. Lee $244.35; The following General bills were paid, S. E. Blount, SIOO.OO, Janitor; D. F. Herrin, $150.02, Salary and Fees, C. Winton Adams, $42.50; Salary; Archie A. Johns, SBO.OO, Salary, Dewey Hayes, $63.34, Salary; Cecil Rod denberry, $50.00 Salary; W. J. Summerall, $46.00, Salary; George A. Loyd, $190.00, Salary; Ga. State Forestry Comm. $525.00, Budget; M. E. Winchester, $62.00; Salary; Alvin M. Powell, Jr. $12.00, Trav el; Elvin F. Cooper, $113.45; Sal ary; Rebecca D. Griner, $315.70, Salary; Anice L. Carter, $164.93, Salary; Dr. E. A. Moody, $30.00, Salary; R. R. Kramer, $15.00, Den tal Clinic, Edna J. Kramer $5.00, Dental Clinic; Ga. Dept of Pub lic Health, $22.50, Vaxine; Sad dler Plumbing, $79.00; Repair; Na-Hunter Electric Co. $3.50, Re pair; Satilla Lumber Co. $97.80; Lumber; The Falconer Co. $75.72, Office Supplies; The Satilla Rural Elect. Membership Corp. $848.10, Moving Poles, Marshall & Bruce Co. $57.25, Office Sup plies; The Blackshear Mfg Co. $731.87; Wire; Farmers Mutual Exchange, $2.10, Supplies; May fair Sales, $3.09, Supplies; Oke fenoke R. E. A. $4.00, Caution Light; Brantley Telephone Co. $91.72, Phones & Calls; Finn Brothers Brake Ser vice, $6.60, Repair, Robert Med lock, $5.00; Labor, L. Gaudett, SIO.OO, Labor; J. T. Royster, $24.- 50, Labor; Carlton Co. $16.45, Re pair; Kerby Concrete Co. $136.00, Concrete, City of Nahunta, $22.- 50, Water; Waycross Wood Pre serving Co. $66.00, Fence Post; The Brantley Enterprise, $104.50, Advertising & Office Sup. Brant ley Gas Co. $67.95, Fuel; Foote & Davis, $36.54, Office Supplies; Standard Oil Co. $624.28, Gas & Oil; J. W. Crews, $208.45, Ser vice Rendered; So-Ga. Communi cation Co. $6.65, Repair; Wilson & Wainright Oil Co. $485.19, Gas & Oil; J. W. Brooker, $155.96; Supplies; H. S. Wilson, $391.66, Repair; Harry DePratter, $25.90, Repair; Dept of Public Welfare, $632.58, Budget; A. B. Brooker & Son, $14.24, Supplies; T. H. Pur dom, $64, Registror, King Fune ral Home, $25.00, Burial; A. M. Griffin, $64.00, Registror; J. W. Eldridge, $30.00, Registror; J. F. Larkins, $50.00, Travel; Brantley County Lions Club, $17.00 Brooms Cotton State Life & Health Ins. Co. $37.32 Insurance; Teachers Retirement Board, $100.56; Re tirement; There being no further busi ness the meeting adjourns in regular order. R. B. Brooker, Chairman R. C. Harrell, Jr. Clerk. Waynesville News Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy King and family and Mrs. Mamie King are visiting relatives in Texas. * • • Mrs. W. R. Gibson spent a few days in the Jesup hospital the past week. * • • Mrs. Virginia Evans and little daughter of Athens are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edgy. ♦ • • Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Robin son attended Church near Pear son Sunday. • • • Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Gibson of Tampa were weekend visitors at i Waynesville. MISS NANCY HENDRIX Business College Graduate Miss Nancy Hendrix, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neil W. Hen drix of Nahunta will graduate from a Brunswick business school in exercises at the Oglethorpe Hotel on Friday night, May 16. She is an honor student. Correction on Story About Eaton Suit The editor of The Brantley En terprise wish to point out and cor rect an error which was made in the May 8 edition’s story con cerning a suit in Pierce Superior Court. The story stated that the suit was by Carl Eaton and should have read that the suit was by Dorsey Eaton. Carl Eaton did not sue Mr. Powers and we wish to bring attention to our readers of this matter. The error was made by The Enterprise and was unintentional. The plaintiff in the suit was Dor sey Eaton and the defendant was Alfred D. Powers. Mrs. Willie Peeples Funeral Service Held Thursday BRUNSWICK, GA., — Mrs. Willie Saxton Peeples, wife of Elvie Peeples, well known Brant ley resident, died in a Savannah hospital Tuesday night after an illness of several weeks. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the Atkinson Methodist Church with the Rev. Horace Williams, former pastor of the church, offi ciating. Burial was in Smyrna Cemetery near Lulaton. Mrs. Peeples, a native of Wayne County, was 67 years of age. She had spent practically all of her life in Brantley County. She has been a lifelong member of the Methodist Church in Atkinson. Survivors, besides her husband are three daughters, Mrs. A. C. Lucre Sr., Kingsland; Mrs. T. S. Aiderman, Savannah; Mrs. G. A. Owens, Savannah; one son, Sam Peeples, Savannah; two sisters, Mrs. Annie Rfioden, Lulaton; Mrs. Katie Davis, Tampa, Fla.; one brother, Joe Saxton, Detroit, Mich. Ga. Power Company Will Dedicate Plant Hammond Dedication ceremonies for the Georgia Power Company’s Plant Hammond, 300,000-kilowatt steam electric generating plant near Rome, have been scheduled for Tuesday, May 27, John J. McDonough, president announced this week. Highlighting the event will be talks by Lt. Gov. S. Ernest Vandiver and by Congressman Erwin Mitchell, of the Seventh Georgia District. Dr. A. F. Routledge, chairman, Floyd County Commission, will wel come the group. H. M. Old ham, Georgia Power vice presi dent and Rome division man ager, will preside. Mr. McDonough will intro duce special guests. No. i “guest of honor” for the occasion will be William P. Hammond, vice president in charge of engineering of the Georgia Power Company, now retired, for whom the genera ting plant on the banks of the Cosa river was named. A native of Atlanta and a graduate of Georgia Tech, he began work in 1913 for a con struction company associated with the Georgia Power Com pany. During his more than 40 years of service with the company he helped to design and construct nearly every major generating plant in the company’s system — including Carolyn Herrin Is Crowned Beauty Queen A recent event of much interest was the beauty contest held in the Nahunta High School gym natorium. It was under the di rection and supervision of Mrs. Herschel Herrin and Mr. Harold Scott. 57 contestants and their escorts appropriately dressed in formal attire, participated in the beauty march. The stage was beautifully bank ed with pines, and featured a sweetheart trellis gateway over which running red roses and greenery were placed. In the Miss Junior High con test Miss Frances Sadler won second place. Winner was Miss Paulette Dubberly. Miss Carolyn Herrin was crowned queen in the Miss Na huna High division. Her escort was Donald Cleland. The runner ups were Miss Lana Hendrix with her escort, Ned Hendrix; and Miss Gloria Popwell with her es cort, Joe Sears. Rozier - Herrin Mr. and Mrs. Hubert W. Roz ier of Route 3, Folkston announce the engagement of their daugh ter, Emily Jean, to Elias B. Her rin, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Elias B. Herrin, Sr. of Nahunta. Wedding plans will be announ ced later. Personals Mrs. Harvey Howell has re turned from Homerville hospit al where she has been a patient. Mr. E. J. Lewis was reported to be in a critical condition in Talmadge Memorial Hospital in Augusta. Mrs. Lewis and Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Riggins were called to his bedside on Saturday of last week. Mrs. Fred Strickland is a pat ient in Memorial Hospital in Waycross following a major op eration last week. Mrs. George Carter and little son, Tommy Dean, of Waycross and Mrs. Wal ter Fletcher of Huntsville, Ala. are at home with their father, Mr. Fred Strickland. Henry A. Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sloan of Hor tense, graduated from recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111., on May 3. Mrs. Mildred Moore was reg ularly installed as organist for the year for Satilla Chapter 365 of Eastern Star, at the regular meeting in the Lodge Hall on Tuesday night, April 13. NEWS OF YOUR HOME COUNTY EVERY WEEK IN THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE the one which bears his name. Mr. Hammond’s niece, Miss Cornelia Moreland Hammond, of Atlanta, will unveil the dedicatory plaque. Conducted tours of the plant will follow the dedication ex ercises. Plant Hammond is the sec ond largest steam-electric gen erating station on the Georgia Power Company system. Ap proximately 700,000 tons of coal annually are used to pro duce the steam which powers the three 100,000-kilowatt generators. The plant can produce ap proximately two billion kilo watt-hours annually, enough to suppy the needs of more than half a million homes. The first two generating units went into operation in 1954, and the third in June, 1955. Tall as a 10-story building, with chimneys reaching 200 feet in the air, Plant Ham mond represents a s4l million investment OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Small Liquor Still Is Destroyed by Revenue Officers A 100-gallon liquor still was seized and two men were ar rested in connection with the il licit still Tuesday, May 13. The still was found near the Satilla River about two miles south of Lulaton, according to state revenue agents who found the still and made the arrests. The two men who were arres ted were Ernest Boyd and Ru fus Smith, according to sheriff J. Walter Crews. The revenue agents were H. J. Watkins and Frank G. Bennett of the State Revenue Department. J. L. Shan ley of the Federal Revenue De partment helped to locate the still. The still was in operation and was about 100-gallons capacity, according to the officers. About 200 gallons of mash were found at the still site. Negro Girl Confesses to Taking $ 152 A 14-year-old Negro girl has confessed to taking $152 from the home of Jim Hill, Negro, on April 22, according to sheriff J. Walter Crews who investigated the theft of the money. The girl’s confession, .made in the presence of three witnesses, was as follows: “On 22nd April 1958, Mr. Jim Hill sent word for me to come to his house and do some cleaning for him. I took my sister with me and we went to Mr Hill’s house and did the cleaning. We spent the night there and I saw his pocketbook under the ice box. The next morning the three of us (Mr. Hill Ethel, and myself) left the house and started walking to Miss Do ra’s house. When we got across the fence, I made an excuse that I had to go off in the bushes for a few minutes. Ethel and Mr. Hill went on a piece to wait for me. “I went back to Mr. Hill’s house and got his pocketbook from the floor under the icebox. The pocketbook contained $151.00 in bills and one silver dollar, making a total of $152.00. I went back and joined Mr. Hill and Ethel. Mr. Hill went on his way, and Ethel and I went to Atkinson an caught a ride on a pulpwood truck to Waynesville. From Waynesville, we caught another pulpwood truck to Brunswick, and went to Evalina Green’s house. That night (23rd April) I went over to Bo’s Service Station by myself. I gave him the $151.00 in bills to keep for me, and I spent the silver dollar. The next morning I threw the pocketbook in a garbage can on Johnson St. To my knowledge, Ethel did not know anything at all about any of the money that I had taken.” “I hereby state that this state ment is given of my own free will, with no reservation or pro mise from anyone concerning it at all.” Church of God Will Present Play A play “Rocking along in an Old Rocking Chair” will be pre sented at the Nahunta Church of God on Friday night, May 16 at 7:30 p. m. Taking parts in the play will be Mrs. Nina Sloan, Mrs. Della Altman, Mrs. Gladys Lyles, Mrs. Mae Thompson, Miss Lafane Foreman, Mrs. Janice Prescott, Mrs. Jesse Walker, James Altman and Miss Christine Walker. Everyone is given a cordial in vitation to be present. No ad mission will be charged. Nahunta Girl Scouts Met Thursday The Nahunta Girls Scouts met Thursday, May 8, at the high school, with Mrs. Robert Smith and Mrs. Ben Jones as leaders. The girls made pins and pot holders. Refreshments were ser ved consisting of cold drinks and crackers. Mrs. Burden was in charge of refreshments. All members were present. They were Lynn Herrin, Gail Strickland, Lorna Harden, San dra Jacobs, Linda Riggins, Linda Burdn, Brenda Hickox, Diane Hendrix, Chat Allen annd Mil dred Bohanon. 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) New Hoboken Church Nears Completion The Hoboken Baptist Church is rapidly completing its new church building which adjoins the two story educational building. The church deceided sometime ago to tear down the concrete church auditorium and rebuild with a larger brick structure. The new building is 32 feet by 65 feet and is topped by a beauti ful pointed steeple which has vari-colored glass windows. The new building will cost ap proximately $25,000 when com pleted and furnished. The church already had the two-story Sun day School building and the new house of worship adjoins the ed ucational structure. The pulpit committee in charge of erecting the new building is composed of the following mem bers of the church: Tom Las tinger, chairman; Herbert Colvin, Fred Dowling, S. D. Kelly, No lan C. Davis, Ray Thomas and Frank Dukes. Rev. L. B. Jones is pastor of the Hoboken Baptist Church. The Rev. Mr. Jones has been seriously ill for several weeks. Hoboken Baptist Church Plans Homecoming The Hoboken Baptist Church will observe homecoming day Sunday, May 25, with preaching service in the morning, dinner at the church and an afternoon program of songs, talks and prayers. Rev. W. C. Rice, a former pas tor, will preach at the morning hour. The Rev. Mr. Rice will also preach the commencement ser mon for the Hoboken High School at night on the same day. Rev. L. B. Jones, the Hoboken pastor, has been confined to his bed with a serious illness for sometime. Waynesville Revival Starts Monday Night Revival services will begin at the Waynesville Baptist Church on Monday, May 19. Rev. Neal, Pastor of Pine Ridge Baptist Church in Brunswick will be the visiting minister. Services will be held each eve ning at 8:00 p. m. Everyone is given a cordial in vitation to attend the services. 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 & FRIDAY MAY 15 and 16 “THE DEEP SIX” Starring ALAN LADD DIANNE FOSTER and WILLIAM FOSTER IN COLOR SATURDAY ONLY MAY 17 “MOHAWK” Starring SCOTT BRADY RITA GAM IN COLOR SUNDAY and MONDAY MAY 18 and 19 “HEAVEN KNOWS MR. ALLISON” Starring DEBORAH KERR and ROBERT MITCHUM LN COLOR Get More Out Os Life Go Out To A Movie