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VOLUME 38 — NUMBER 29
VANDIVER LEADS IN THE FIGHT
FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT IN GEORGIA
The clear-cut call by Ernest Vandiver for good govern
ment in Georgia in his opening campaign speech at Dublin
last Saturday has given the vast majority of Georgians
new hope.
Vandiver said many things that needed to be said and
his friends were thrilled and greatly encouraged that a
man had come forward who was willing and able to meet
the real state issues headon.
Too long have many politicians pussy-footed and com
promised with graft and corruption in government. Too
long have many officials used public office for their own
selfish interests rather than for the people. Too long have
we as citizens shrugged our shoulders and taken waste,
graft and political skullduggery for granted.
POLITICAL PARASITES ARE ALWAYS
AGAINST HONEST MEN FOR OFFICE
The people need not be surprised when wasters, grafters
and political crooks band together against an honest man
for governor. Birds of a feather flock together. And they
sometimes make queer nesting mates at that, as witness
some politicians who are opposing Vandiver and support
ing a preacher for governor.
Some of these politicians are mortally afraid of Ernest
Vandiver. They have nightmares when they think of Van
diver becoming governor and using his “big broom with
the long handle” that Vandiver said he would use.
Those who know Ernest Vandiver know that he is stub
bornly honest and that he will, as the Bible says, “swear
to his own hurt and change not.” I have known Ernest
Vandiver many years and am convinced that he is unshak
ably true to his honest convictions and that no self-interest
will cause him to deviate from what he believes to be
right. This too the opposition knows about Vandiver. And
they want none of him or his kind to upset their apple
cart and clean house in Georgia.
TREMORS OF MORTAL FEAR SHOOK THE
TEMPLES OF FALSE POLITICAL GODS
When Ernest Vandiver’s challenge to political corruption
in Georgia sounded out to the tremendous crowd and over
the air to all Georgia citizens last Saturday, a tremor of
mortal fear shook the temples of the false political gods.
While the crowd on the scene shouted their approval and
the hosts of citizens at their radios and reading their
newspapers breathed a prayer of thanksgiving, the false
prophets of greed, graft and political corruption rushed
to support their tottering idols.
It was a new day in Georgia’s political and governmen
tal life, as all will see before Vandiver’s four-year term
as governor is ended. The people sometimes drift and ap
pear indifferent to political corruption, until things get
into an awful mess and morass of waste and graft. But the
time comes when the people realize the real situation
and rouse themselves from lethargy and get behind a man
or men who will clean the Augean stables of corrupt gov
ernment and let in the fresh air of renewed political faith.
That time has now arrived in Georgia under the leadership
of Ernest Vandiver.
THE PEOPLE HAVE AS GOOD GOVERNMENT
AS THEY ARE WILLING TO DEMAND
It is axiomatic that the people get only the kind of
government that they are willing to demand and support.
Water rises no higher than its source and government
is never any better than the people make it themselves.
The people may not be to blame if a few officials go
wrong or that some abuses in government creep in, but
the people are to blame if the corrupt officials stay in
office and if the abuses continue without remedial action
at the polls by the people.
Ernest Vandiver has lifted up a standard, calling the
people to honesty and decency in Georgia’s government.
Let the people back him in this crusade to restore the
principles of honor and integrity to our state’s public
life.
Leadership' Is Topic of
Talk to Blackshear L ions
The South and Georgia is the
“high ground” in national lead
ership today, Rep. C. J. Broome
of Bacon county told the Black
shear Lions Club in a talk last
1 hursday night.
Rep. Broome discussed the sub
ject of “Leadership,” commending
Blackshear Lions for the many
community projects which they
have undertaken and accomplish
ed in recent years. He said good
leadership is needed at the com
munity, state and national level
m order to make progress.
The speaker praised the nation
al leadership being offered in the
e. S. Senate by Senator Richard
B Russell and Herman E. Tal
madge.
Special guests at the Lions
b^b meeting included Jack Hit
-spn, new director of the Black
shear High School athletic depart
menL Ralph Parrish, new princi-
Pal at Grady Street School; Ru
fus Smith of Bristol; Carl Broome
Nahunta, editor of The Brant-
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
ey Enterprise and father of the
speaker; and Dean Broome, editor
of The Blackshear Times.
Weather Report
For Past Week
U.S. Weather Bureau report of
temperature and rainfall at Nah
unta for each 24 hour period of
week.
Nahunta Sta. High Low Rain
Thursday 93 68 0.00
Friday 93 68 0.00
Saturday — - J
Sunday - -
Monday 92 68 0.64
Tuesday 91 71 0.01
Wednesday 93 68 0.25
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Srantku Btterprte
By J. A. ROSS
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 17, 1958
Bigger Leaf
Yield Seen
In Georgia
ATHENS, Ga. — The yield of
flue-cured tobacco in Georgia
was estimated last week at 84,-
100,000 pounds, 3 per cent more
than last year, as part of a nation
al crop of 1,688,559,000 pounds,
Auction sales begin July 29.
The Georgia Crop Reporting
Service said the estimated figure
is 43 per cent below the record
crop of 1955, and with the excep
tion of last year the smallest
since 1943.
Florida is expected to add 14,-
985,000 pounds to the Georgia-
Florida Belt total.
The yield per acre this season
was estimated at 1,450 pounds
compared with 1,290 last year and
the record high of 1,465 in 1955.
The relatively low production
forecast for this year is due to a
decline in tobacco acreage of
5,000, down to 58,000 acres.
The 1958 corn crop is expected
to be a record high for the state.
The forecast of 73,197,000 bushels
will be slightly more than two
million bushes above last year
and 43 per cent above the 10-year
1947-56 average. The yeid per
acre at 27 bushels also promises
to be a record.
Favorable harvesting weather
during the first two weeks of
June enabled Georgia farmers to
finish combining wheat under
nearly ideal conditions. As a re
sult, total production is now es
timated at 1,840,000 bushels, an
increase of 80,000 bushels above
the May 1 forecast.
Albert Purdom
Announces Opening
Os Service Station
Albert Purdom has opened the
Purdom’s Service Station at the
former Brooker Service Station
in Nahunta, on Highway 301 in
the northern part of town.
The service station handles
Standard Oil Products, including
Atlas Tires, batteries and acces
sories. Mr. Purdom is a well
known young businessman of Na
hunta and has many friends.
He is inviting the patronage of
all Brantley County people.
TALES OUT
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Help for Your Bright Children:
Dr. Claude Purcell, State Super
intendent of Schools, announced
this week that Miss Margaret By
num will be with the State De
partment of Education working
with the program for exceptional
Children. She will devote her
time to helping schools that are
developing programs for bright
children.
Well, The Principals Don’t
Think So: A Gallup poll of one
thousand and one hundred Ameri
can school principals recently
showed that nine out of ten of
them believe that the schools de
mand too little work of their
students. A similar poll taken
of parents showed that one out of
three think the present demands
are all right. Just goes to show
you, the school folks .may want
to give you better schools than
you want to be given. A commun
ity has the kind of schools that
YOU want, Mamma and Papa.
Think about that for awhile.
The Honor Roll and The Dilly-
Dallies: We are getting copy
ready for the annual School Di
rectory. We want to get it out
early so it will be of real use to
the school people and the public.
We need copy from 199 local
school superintendents. You’d be
surprised at which ones make our
Honor Roll of Those who Hurry,
and the ones that drag out a
snail trail of delay and put-it-off.
One person can hold up a pro
ject like that and inconvenience
a thousand and one other people.
Nowhere does efficiency and good
manners show up more clearly
than when you are working on
a cooperative venture like this.
Let’s Work On A Problem; I
wish the PTA would have fewer
paper sales and more getting
their-teeth-into such problems as
why forty thousand Georgia
children drop out of school every
year. Every time I go to a school
commencement, I think there
should be on that stage a chair
draped in crepe for those who
fell by the wayside sometime be-
tween starting in the first graded success and pleasure. For
and graduation night. Yet, I have which, orchids to the librarians!
Aaron Saddler
Found Dead of
Gunshot Wound
Aaron S. Saddler, 41, owner of
Saddler Plumbing Co., w’as found
dead of a gunshot wound in the
backyard of his home a mile
north of Nahunta early Wednes
day morning.
It is believed that the head
wound that caused his death was
either self-inflicted or accidental.
Mr. Saddler’s automatic shotgun
was lying near the body. No one
heard the gunshot and the ex
act hour of death is not known.
Mr. Saddler was a member of
the Nahunta Church, a Mason and
a member of the OES, also a
boy scout committeeman. He was
son of Ira Saddler and the late
Mamie Avery Saddler of Climax,
Ga.
He was a native of Decatur
County. He is survived by his
wife, Mrs. Nona Harris Saddler;
four daughters, Betty Jean, Eve
lyn, Mollie Grace and Frances;
three sons, Dan, Don and David;
two sisters, Mrs. Judson Boutwell
Bainbridge, and Mrs. Bill Rob
erts, Clio, Ala.; his father, Ira
Saddler, Climax; also a number of
neices and nephews.
Funeral arrangements were to
be announced later by Chambless
Funeral Home of Nahunta.
Hickox H. D. Club
Met at Hendrix
Home Wednesday
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club met at the home of
Mrs. Louise Hendrix on Wednes
day afternoon, July 16, for the
first meeting with the new Home
Demonstration Agent, Mrs. Vir
ginia Raulerson.
During business session plans
were discussed for the program
for the coming year. Mrs. C. F,
Allen president and Mrs. Louise
Hendrix, secretary are to meet
with Mrs. Raulerson to formulate
the program. The birthday of
Mrs. Ganelle Keen was honored.
Mrs. Raulerson gave a demon
stration on southern sponge rolls,
which were served during social
hour when Mrs. Hendrix served
pound cake, and punch. She was
assisted by her daughter, Miss
Sherry Hendrix.
Others present were; Mrs. G.
A. Loyd, Mrs. Lizzie Mae Hen
drix, Mrs. Ganell Keen, Mrs. Ale
tha Mae White and Mrs. M. L
Anderson.
The next meeting will be a
family get together to be held at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Bill
White on August 22.
OF SCHOOL
never heard the first word of
mourning for them on graduation
night. What becomes of these
children? Why don’t we keep
them? Could we if we cared
enough? Could we if schools were
more interesting and challenging?
Think about this. It is your prob
lem, too.
Wrong Timing: The reason why
teachers do not get more raises
is that they ask for them at the
wrong time. What they need to
do is to ask about the second
month after vacation starts, just
when mamma has had Johnny
and Suzy underfoot, practically
the whole summer. I heard of a
town where the parents bought
a page in the local newspapers
the first week in September and
this is what they put on it: Wel
come, Teachers! P. S. You don’t
know how welcome you are!”
New Money: The Governor
signed our budget this week. It
totals $151,277,599.70. That’s state
and federal funds that come
through the State Department of
Education. It includes ten and a
half million in “new money”, and
of that seven million will go for
teachers. The seven million is
for three things: (1) starting in
to operation our new salary
schedule. (No more across-the
board raises), (2) $2,400,000 for
about 800 teachers which we
have to add to take care of the
additional enrollments we have
each September, and (3) $250,000
for mid-term adjustments. That
last item means that if a school
has to hire more teachers than
it thought it would, because of
more children showing up there,
the state pays these extra teach
ers from the date they were hir
ed.
Book Review, by an eight-year
old: “That book told me more a
bout penguins than I was interes
ted in knowing.”
Big Success: Georgia’s Vaca
tion Reading Clubs. Geared up
to the orbit and satellite idea the
clubs held every summer for
years have reached new realms
Clara Peeples
Reccommends WAC’s
For Career Girls
Travel, adventure and educa
tional opportunities offered by
the highly technical Women’s
Army Corp's has again attracted
the service of Clara G. Peeples,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
C. G. Peeples, P. O. Box 35,
Waynesville, Georgia. Clara a 19-
54 graduate of Nahunta High
School, first entered the WAC’s
under their exclusive “Reserved
for You” program shortly after
her graduation.
Upon completion of her basic
military training at Fort Mc-
Clellan, Alabama in 1955 she at
tended the school which she had
chosen prior to her enlistment.
After graduating from the Wo
men’s Army Corps Clerical and
Stenographical Course at the
same station, she was assigned
to sth Army Headquarters in
Chicago, Illinois, for about one
year. Then came the most excit
ing day of her life . . . .order to
report to Camp Zama, Japan. For
Clara this meant that she was a
bout to see the dream of her life
time come true. She journeyed
overseas and served in an admin
istrative capacity with our great
uncle while being able to see the
Far Eastern Command and the
.many interesting sites throughout
Japan at what Clara explains as,
“very little expense to me”. Clara
insists that it would have been
impossible for her to have such
opportunities unless she had been
a member of the WAC’s.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
appreciation to every one who
was so helpful to us at the time
of the death of our loved one
Ollie White Herrin.
We want to thank the people
who came out and picked the
tobacco and put it in the barn
for us, when it would have been
impossible for the family to do
this. Our neighbors and friends
proved to us their kindness and
their sympathy in so many ways.
We want to thank every one
for everything. The beautiful
flowers, the kind words of sym
pathy, the covered dishes which
were so helpful. We shall always
remember what you did for us
in our bereavement.
Sincerely,
Elias B. Herrin and Children
Mrs. B. F. White and all her
brothers and sisters.
Bargain hunters gunning for
low prices can bag their limit
by watching the advertisements
in this newspaper.
HERMAN TALMADGE
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(Editor’s Note: The following is the first of three columns
analyzing recent Supreme Court decisions involving Com
munism and subversive activities.)
THE SENATE INTERNAL
Security Subcommittee in its 1957
Annual Report concluded that a
number of decisions by the United
States Supreme Court since 1956
have given comfort to Commu
nists and criminals.
prove the pertinency of their ques
tions and held that mere advocacy
of violent overthrow of the Gov
ernment is not a crime, the Sub
committee stated: “The net of
these decisions has been comfort
for Communists and criminals,
frustration for law-enforcement
officials, serious interference with
Congress’ self-informing function
and destruction of all efforts of the
American people to protect them
selves against subversion at home
through their state governments.”
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THE REPORT EMPHASIZED
that the Court has attempted to
establish new “rights” for persons
accused of or questioned about
subversive activities. It noted that
in the Watkins Case the Court
held that an individual’s “right to
privacy” is more important than
Congress’ need for information on
Communist activity. It pointed out
that in the Sweezy Case the Court
ruled that “academic freedom”
rnd “freedom of political associa
t.on” are more important than the
right of a state to investigate the
(nut prtpartd or
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Vandiver Pledges Integrity,
Economy, Service, No Mixing
Speaking to thousands of Georgians gathered in Dub
lin last Saturday, Lieut-Governor Ernest Vandiver, in his
first political speech of the gubernatorial campaign, set
forth a comprehensive program of service and responsi
bility to the people of Georgia, and dedicated himself to
carry it out with all his heart and soul.
M|Sgt. Thomas Earl Cleland
and wife, Sylvia and little son
Tommie arrived in U. S. on
June 18 and have been visiting
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.
A. Cleland in Nahunta and Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Boren in Jackson
ville. They have been stationed
in France. Earl for four years
and his wife for three years.
M|Sgt. Cleland will leave this
week end to report to McCoy
Air Force Base in Orlando, Fla.
where he will be stationed. His
wife and Tommie will follow
shortly.
Mrs. Ruby Wainwright has
been in Memorial Hospital in
Waycross since Sunday night.
Mrs. Wainwright has been ill at
her home for some time, follow
ing an operation in an Atlanta
Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Jones and
daughter, Kathy, of Okeechobee,
Fla. are vacationing this week,
spending the time with relatives
in Nahunta.
Mrs. J. T. Morgan is a patient
in a Jesup hospital following an
operation on Monday of this week.
Guests of Mr. and Mrs. I. J.
Crews on Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Horvath and Linda
of Jacksonville; Mr. and Mrs.
James Welch of Waycross; Rev.
Jack Rowland and Mrs. Rowland
and two sons, Larry and Loyd
of Astatula, Fla.
S Sgt. Travis Highsmith and
wife and two children, Cynthia
and Claude have arrived in
the States from England where
they have been for four years.
They are visiting their parents,
Mr. and Mrs. James H. High
smith and other relatives. He
will now be stationed at Hunter
Field in Savannah.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Braddock
of Jacksonville are spending this
week with their mother,' Mrs.
Alice Highsmith.' ' '
backgrounds of its college pro
fessors.
A further point was made of the
Court’s insistence in the Sweezy
Case that to compel a man to dis
close his “past expressions and as
sociations” constitutes governmen
tal interference in such matters.
About this the Subcommittee com
mented: “In other words, asking
about what a man has done
abridges his right to do it.”
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Referring
specifically to
those rulings
which scrapped
state anti-sub
version laws,
required Con
gressional in -
vestigating
committees to
PROMPT LEGISLATIVE action
to correct the errors of the Court
in this field was recommended by
the Subcommittee. It stressed the
fact that such a course has been
urged by both the National Asso
ciation of Attorneys General and
the Association of State Chief
Justices.
"Congress,” the Subcommit
tee declared, “has both the
right and the duty to preserve
and protect its own autonomy
as an independent and coequal
branch of Government; to pro
tect the rights of the States,
guaranteed under the Tenth
Amendment of the Constitu
tion, and restore them where
they have been wrongly
abridged; and to protect the
internal security of the United
States to the fullest possible
degree.”
Only in so doing can Congress
prevent further instances of what
the Subcommittee called “under
mining of official efforts at effec
tive anti-Communist activity in the
United States.”
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“Economy, Reform, Reorganiza
tion, Integrity and Preservation
of our way of life form the key
note of this campaign”, Vandiver
told the huge crowd which filled
to overflowing the entne court
house square.
Vandiver pledged himself anew
to preserve segregation of the
races in Georgia schools and col
leges, with these words: “When
I am your governor, my three
children, nor any child of yours,
will ever attend a racially-mix
ed school in the State of Georgia.
... No mixed college, school or
classroom will be permitted with
in the University System during
my administration as governor”.
The candidate promised to de
fend and uphold the county unit
system, and to use the full re
sources of the State and its legal
.machinery for that purpose.
The Lieut.-Governor said that
when he became governor he in
tended to start with the Gover
nor’s office and streamline and re
organize every department of
State government, to help “a
chieve an honest dollar’s value
for every tax dollar honestly
spent”.
He pledged that the conduct of
the State’s business will be “open
and above board”, and that all
public records and official acts
will be open to the public and
the press at all times.
He said: "There will be no pork
barrels for a favored few at the
expense of the oppressed, hard
working, laboring, tax-paying
i citizens of this state.”
PURCHASING PROCEDURE
Vandiver said common sense
and good business practices de
mand that in the purchasb of
goods for the State that the low
est possible prices on quality
merchandise and quality work
manship be obtained. He guaran
teed that during his administra
tion public notice will be given
to every person, firm or corpora
tion desiring to bid on State
business.
INDUSTRY
The candidate proposed the
creation of a suitable instrument
ality of the State for the pur
pose of insuring industrial plant
loans up to a reasonable percent
age of appraised value of the
facility, and said that he will
seek to put such a program into
effect.
EDUCATION
Continued progress in education
in Georgia will be one of his
primary goals, Vandiver promis
ed, with the Minimum Founda
tion Program for Education con
tinuing to move forward.
AGRICULTURE
He said: “We will continue our
efforts to improve the productivi
ty and diversification of our
farms through better crop meth
ods, through research and demon
stration, through better market
ing procedures, and through con
certed efforts to make farm life
even more attractive.”
HIGHWAYS
Vandiver said that he would in
stitute an accelerated program to
speed construction on Federal
aid highways, and that he favors
a pay-as-you-go plan for build
ing rural roads. He promised to
put all available highway dollars
into building roads rather than
in “high interest exorbitant fees,
waste and lax practices”.
WELFARE
Concerning the public welfare
program, he said: “I favor taking
full advantage of all available
matching funds for the old age
and other public assistance pro
grams. Our senior citizens in the
twilight of life deserve the best
from a grateful State.”
The candidate discussed var
ious other phases of State affairs,
and pledged himself, when gover
nor, to operate the state gover
ment “with economy, efficiency,
honesty and decency”.
A barbecue was served immed
iately after the speaking with the
Laurens County Vandiver for
Governor Club as hosts.
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