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NUMBER 31
VOLUME 38
Man Captured at Nahunta
Accused of Murder at Yulee
A man arrested at Nahunta
early Monday morning has been
charged with the murder of a
woman at Yulee, Fla., sheriff J.
Walter Crews reported.
The accused man, Ralph D.
Sandy, 21, of Elkins, Va., is ac
cused of shooting and killing Mrs.
Staten Ogilvie of Oceanway at a
nightclub at Yulee, Fla., about
two o’clock Monday morning.
Sandy was arrested by night
policeman Pless of Nahunta a
bout three o’clock Monday morn
ing after the officer chased San
dy’s car for speeding. Another
man in the car, J. W. Davis pro
prietor of the nightclub at Yulee,
dashed from the car and ran into
the woods, policeman Pless re
ported.
Davis came back from the
woods and stated that he had
been kidnapped by Sandy at his
place of business at Yulee. He said
Sandy had put a pistol on him
and forced him into the car af
ter the shooting of the Mrs. Og
ilivie at Yulee.
The arrest was .made at the
Speed Service Station in the
northern part of Nahunta on
Route 301. Officer Pless had spot
ted the car speeding through Na
hunta and gave chase. Sandy
had a 22-caliber revolver when
captured but made no resistance.
Sheriff J. Walter Crews was
called to the scene and aided in
the investigation of the bizarre
case. Davis, the second man in
the car, told how he had been
kidnapped and robbed by Sandy,
brought through Kingsland and
Folkston and on to Nahunta.
Davis was a throughly frighten
ed man, the sheriff reported, and
told how he had been threatened
with death by Sandy.
The car Sandy was driving was
reported to have been stolen at
Jacksonville. Davis, the nightclub
owner, told how Sandy entered
his place and threatened custom
ers. He said Sandy had the pistol
under his loose shirt and kept
it pointed at him.
The FBI is reported to be in
vestigating the kidnapping angle
of the case and also the trans
portation of a stolen car across
state lines. Sandy, the accused
man, is a sailor from the Jack
sonville Naval Air Station but
he had on civilian clothes when
captured, Sheriff Crews report
ed.
Sheriff H. J. Youngblood of
Nassau county, Fla., came to Na
hunta Monday and took Sandy
to jail at Fernandina.
TALES OUT
By BERNICE McCULLAR
Let’s Tell Them While They’re
There: Has it ever struck you as
odd that we spend little time tell
ing Johnny how much that piece
of chalk he is throwing costs
mama and papa and the other
taxpayers? Although he sits there,
a captive audience, for 12 years,
we do little to help him to un
derstand how his own schools
are organized and run and fi
nanced. Yet just let him graduate
we practically organize mobs to
and get elected to the legislature,
run up to Atlanta and besiege
him imploringly to vote more
funds for the schools. He would
understand better if we had star
ted when he was a schoolboy to
helping him understand how
much is invested in his education.
Where Do They Go — and
why? i have a small memo to
your PTA program chairman.
Why don’t you have study groups
on how many children drop out
of your local school somewhere
day when they enter the first
between that bright and shining
grade and the night when they
should have stood on the stage
and received a diploma? Why do
they drop out? What could we
do about it? We have 40,000
dropouts a year in Georgia.
Point Os Pride: No state in the
nation has done more to house
’ts children in bright, modern
schools - at more economical cost
than Georgia. (Yet even now,
we need four thousand more
classrooms.)
Know What This Is? Have you
card about pre-planning week?
t is the week that the good
school staff spends before your
children go to school, getting
f^ady f° r them. Os course, we
av e some slipshod school sys
(rns that just go through the
m °tions of pre-planning week to
satisfy the regulations. But if
y°urs is an up-to-date school
system, your school administra
°rs and their staff have a bang-
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
People Pay the
Piper in Big Fire
Losses in Georgia
During the past five years, in
spite of the stepped-up activities
in the field of fire prevention
all across the state, Georgia’s
fire losses have continued to rise
at an alarming rate.
Figures released by the Geor
gia Inspection and Rating Bu
reau show Georgia’s insured fire
losses during the period 1952-
1956 to be $70,000,000; this is more
than a 50% increase over the
years 1947-1951.
This monetary loss, as stagger
ing as it is, still does not reflect
the hardships and tragic heart
break of the Georgia families who
have lost their homes and their
loved ones in these fires.
These increasing fire losses
must be curbed. They are not
only taking an appalling toll of
lives and property each year, but
they are digging deep into the
pocket-book of every property
owner in Georgia by increasing
fire insurance rates.
Many people do not seem to
realize that fire losses set fire
insurance rates. When fire losses
increase, rates increase. When
fire losses decrease then rates
go down. Fire prevention is
everybody’s business for when
fire losses go up everybody pays.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Maddox of
Callahan, Fla., announce the
birth of a little girl. She was
born in a Folkston hospital on
Sunday, July 27 and weighed
seven pounds and four ounces.
She has been named Betty La-
Dell. Mrs. Mattox is the former
Gertrude Morgan of Nahunta.
Mrs.. Maddox and baby arrived
Tuesday and will spend two
weeks with her mother, Mrs. Mar
tha Morgan in Nahunta.
Subscriptions
Now Due
Many subscribtions to The
Brantley Enterprise have expired
during the last few weeks.
Just a bit of thought and you
can remember to come by the
newspaper office and renew
your subscription. It will be
greatly appreciated. Why have to
read your neighbor’s paper when
you can easily have it coming to
your mailbox each week.
OF SCHOOL
up, achieving week planning to
have a better school than you
ever had before in your commun
ity. Teachers get paid for it, and
if absent, must forfeit that week’s
pay. It’s a State Board of Educa
tion regulation.
Pictures On The Wall — If
you come by the State Depart
ment of Education to pay a small
visit to Dr. Claude Purcell, your
new state superintendent of
schools, you will see two very
interesting pictures on the walls
of his office. The pictures are
probably of two of your old
friends. One is Dr. M. D. Collins,
for 25 years state superintendent
of schools and new State Super
intendent Emeritus. The other is
one of the late Dr. John Allman,
who was for years assistant sup
erintendent. (The State Depart
ment staff is having a catfish
supper for Dr. Collins in late
July. The Department and school
administrators will honor him at
a convention banquet this fall.)
What Do You Think? Here are
the pros-and-cons of the Driver
Education program of the schools.
There are many who think our
traffic deaths and accidents are
such that it is important to put
driver education into the schools,
even if we push other things out
of the curriculum. They say
nothing can be more important
than staying alive and that the
state should finance this training
which costs about thirty dollars
per pupil. The other side says
that while driver education is im
portant, it could and should be
done after school during sum
mer vacations. Since the teacher
can only teach a few students,
they say this is too costly a use
of our already limited supply of
teachers. Moreover they feel that
since this can be done elsewhere
the basic learnings -history,
science, math, and communica
tions - must not be pushed out
to make room for it.
Srantkv BitrrprtHE
Births
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 31, 1958
REV. AND MRS. W. L. SNELLGROVE
Song Leaders for Camp Meeting
Hortense Camp Meeting to
Convene Thursday, Aug. 14
The Hortense Camp Meeting
will convene for its 54th annual
session at Hortense Camp Ground
Thursday, Aug. 14, it is announ
ced by R. C. Harrell, Jr., secre
tary-treasurer of the association.
Rev. Virgil S. Vardaman of
Jonesboro, Ind., will be the Camp
meeting evangelist. Rev. and Mrs.
Snellgrove of Waycross will be
the song leaders for the meet
ing. Mrs. Fred Hughes of Mel
bourne, Fla., will be young peo
pe’s and children’s worker.
The Camp Meeting will run for
10 days and end on Sunday, Aug.
24. The order of services will be
as follows:
Sunrise prayer meeting.
Children’s prayer, 9:30 a. m.
Song and prayer, 10:30 a. m
Preaching, evangelist, 11:30 a
m.
Preaching, local pastors, 3:00
p. m.
Young people’s service, 7:00 p
m.
Preaching, evangelist, 8:00 p.
m.
Want Ads
HOUSE TRAILER FOR SALE
OR TRADE
27 - foot house trailer for sale
or trade. Will sell or trade for
furniture. In good condition. See
W. D. Griffin, Nahunta, Ga. 8-14
SUNDAY SCHOOL BUS
AND PIANO FOR SALE
The Satilla Baptist Church at
Hortense has a Sunday school
bus and a piano for sale. Both
reasonably priced. Contact A. S.
Rowell, Hortense, Ga. or Rev. J.
D. Strader, Hortense, Ga.
HOUSE AND LAND FOR SALE
New 4-room house and one acre
of land for sale, near Lulaton.
Small down payment and balance
like rent. Contact Harry W. Her
rin at Modern Homes Construc
tion Company, 1514 Albany Ave.,
Waycross, Phone ATlas 3-5212
collect. 8-31
NATIONALLY ADVERTISED
WATKINS PRODUCTS. OPEN
ING AVAILABLE NOW FOR
BRANTLEY COUNTY. WRITE
THE J. R. WATKINS COMPANY,
659 WEST PEACHTREE ST., N.
E., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. 8-14
FOR SALE OR RENT
Five-room house in Nahunta
for sale, bath and all convenien
ces. Two lots, next door to health
office. Down payment, balance on
easy terms. Rent, $45.00 per
month. Contact John E. Lee, Na
hunta, Ga. Phone 2-3644. 8-7
MAPS LOST
One clip board containing
aerial photographs lost in or near
Nahunta. Finder please contact J.
A. Ross, Phone 2-3493, Nahunta,
Ga. 8-7
HOUSE FOR SALE
5-room concrete block house
and lot for sale in Nahunta. Will
sell furnished or unfurnished.
After five call Howard 2-2301,
Nahunta, Ga. 7-
Classified Ads bring RESULTS.
Classified ads take no ‘holiday’
They get results every wee:
REV. VIRGIL S. VARDEMAN
Camp Meeting Evangelist
Negro Child
Killed When
Hit by Truck
A five year old negro child was
killed Tuesday afternoon in Pat
terson when he dashed in front
of a pickup truck.
David Earl Millege, son of Doc
and Armenie Millege, was play
ing with some other children at
a culvert near his home on the
Tyre Bridge road within the city
limits when he dashed from some
weeds in front of a 1955 Ford
pickup truck driven by J. C.
Boyette, Rt. 1, Patterson.
The child was rushed to Pierce
County Hospital where he died
shortly afterwards.
The accident was investigated
by city police, Harry Echols, and
Sgt. E. L. Sims and Trooper M.
R. Hamrick of the Waycross Pa
trol Station. The accident was de
clared unavoidable and no char
ges were placed against Mr. Boy
ette.
A tried and proven ad
vertising medium—the col
umns of your hometown
newspaper.
Broome for Lieut - Governor
Rally Is Planned at Douglas
There will be a South Georgia rally for C. J. Broome,
candidate for lieutenant-governor of Georgia, this Satur
day, August 2, at the courthouse in Douglas.
The rally will begin at 4:00
p. m. and Broome is scheduled
to make a speech over a South
east Georgia radio network at
4:30.
A cordial invitation is extended
to all supporters of C. J. Broome
for lieutenant - governor and
the general public to attend the
Douglas rally.
Radio stations which will car
ry his talk include:
WCQS — Alma.
WHAB — Baxley.
WSIZ — Douglas.
WAYX — Waycross.
WACL — Waycross.
WHAB — Baxley.
WGBR — Jesup.
WDMG — Douglas
WMOG — Brunswick.
WDAX — Mcßae.
WGIG — Brunswick.
Tobacco Price Average Higher
Than Last Year on First Sales
Man Killed
In Head-on
Auto Crash
An Ohio man was killed and
four persons were injured in a
head-on collision of two cars on
Route 301 south of Jesup Tues
day, July 29.
Michael S. Stanek of Belltire,
Ohio, died about two hours after
his southbound car was struck by
a car driven by Ray Hoover, 54,
of Gassaway, W. Va.
Mrs. Olive Riffle, 51, of Sutton
W. Va., a passenger in Hoover’s
car, told police that Hoover lost
control and that his vehicle ran
into the other lane of the wet
highway.
In Jesup hospital wth injuries
were Mr. and Mrs. Riffle; their
son, Ray Hoover Jr., 6; and Bar
bara Barnett, 12, of Telsa, W.
Va.
Stanek was driving alone.
Personals
James D. Haney, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. L. Riggins of Route
2, Nahunta graduated from re
cruit training July 26 at the Na
val Training Center, Great Lakes,
111.
Mrs. Douglas M. Church and
two children, Barbara Ann and
Doug, Jr., of Alexandria, Va. are
visiting Mrs. Church’s mother,
Mrs. S. C. M. Drury this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. McGee and
children, Vickie and Nancy, of
Humbodt, Tenn, were recent visi
tors of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence
Allen.
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Allen
and Virginia returned last week
from Sarasota, Fla., where they
visited Mr. and Mrs. Allen’s sis
ter, Mrs. Betty Faucher.
Mrs. Sallie Roberson is home
for a few weeks before she re
turns to a nursing home in Sav
annah.
T|Sgt and Mrs. Pete D. Strand
and daughter, Sherry of Washing
ton, D. C. spent last week with
their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Rob
ert Drury of Waynesville and
Mrs. W. B. Wynn of Jackson
ville.
Miss Debra Johns daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray Johns of Na
hunta spent last week with her
aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs.
P. D. Griffin and children of
Jesup.
Guests of Mrs. C. L. Middleton
of Hortense last week were Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Sheffner of Val
dosta; Mrs. E. S. Stirckland, Way
cross; Mrs. Sammie Middleton
and Doug and Sandy of St. Si
mons; Mr. J. W. Horton and
Mary Ann of Brunswick.
Weather Report
For Past Week
By J. A. ROSS
U.S. Weather Bureau report oj
temperature and rainfall at Nah
unta for each 24 hour period of
week.
Nahunta Sta. High Low Rain
Thursday 94 69 0.25
Friday 91 70 0.00
Saturday 95 68 0.00
Sunday 94 73 0.00
Monday 93 72 0.00
Tuesday 97 72 0.06
Wednesday 97 71 9.94
Raybon Church
Pastor to Preach
At Courthouse
Rev. Stanford Robertson, pas
tor of Raybon Church of God of
Prophecy will conduct a street
service on the Court House
Square at Nahunta on Saturday
afternoon. August 2 at 3:30 p.
m.
Rev. Robertson will preach and
will be assisted in the service by
Rev. Hinton Johnson. Everyone
is invited to attend.
Your home newspaper —
a living record of your com
munity’s progress.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
MRS. EDNA ADAMS
Attends Important Conference
Mrs. Edna Adams
Attends Conference
At Columbia U.
Mrs. Edna L. Adams, Instruc
tional Supervisor of Brantley
County Schools, left Saturday,
July 26, to attend the three-weeks
Summer Work Conference on Ru
ral Education held at Columbia
University, N. Y.
Mrs. Adams is one of two
Georgia Supervisors invited to
attend this group of select edu
cators of the nation.
The group will work together
on the current problems facing
smaller communities throughout
the country, study new develop
ments which give promise of
meeting new conditions we face,
and work individually and in
small groups with specialists on
problems they bring to the con
ference.
This is the fifteenth of these
conferences, and in the past they
have given valuable aid in their
own work to the individuals at
tending and at the same time
assisted in developing ways of
improving education throughout
the nation.
Postage Rate Goes Up Friday
On Your Letters and Cards
Everyone who uses the mails
should take thought of the new
postal rates which go into ef
fect Friday, Aug. 1.
Letters will require four cents
postage. Post cards will require
three cents for mailing and air
mail will require eight cents for
letters and five cents for post
als.
The new schedule of postal rate
effective Friday, Aug. 1, is as fol
lows;
First Class Letters — 4c an
Ounce.
Postal Cards — 3c Each.
Air Mail (up to 8 ounces) — 7c
An Ounce.
Third Class Mail — 3c First 2
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PULP AND PAPER MILLS IN THE
SOUTH DAILY BUY AN AVERAGE
OF 55,535 COWS OF WOOD
FROM SOUTHERN TIMBER
GROWERS!! STACKED CORDON
CORD, THIS WOULD MAKE A PILE 1
MORE THAN ISO TIMES
TAUER THAN THE 1,472 FT. |
EMPIRE STATE BWJXNG/ I
neußse soutwsrn pulpwood conscriation
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)
Tobacco prices on the South
Georgia markets averaged higher
than last year for the first two
days of auction sales, according to
reports from various markets.
A number of Brantley County
farmers reported getting 68 cents
a pound for sales made the first
day, Tuesday, July 29. Prices
were reported slightly down
Wednesday but fetiU holding a
bove last year’s prices.
Warehouses at Blackshear and
Waycross were not all full, in
dicating that many farmers are
waiting to sell later. Quality of
leaf is reported better than last
year and production per acre is
also higher.
Brantley County tobacco is ra
ted better average quality than
most other counties because of
the type of acid soil which is
especially suited to flue-cured to
bacco production.
Prices for the first day on the
Blackshear market averaged $55.-
58 per hundred pounds. Last
year’syear’s first-day sales ave
raged only $49.22.
German B. Drury
Funeral Service
Was Held Thursday
German B. Drury, 75, a life
long resident of Brantley County,
died at his home Wednesday in
Browntown. He was a member of
the Browntown Baptist Church.
Funeral services were to be
held Thursday at 4 p. m. at
graveside in Mount Olive Ceme
tery, conducted by the Rev. Stet
son Bennett.
Pallbearers were J. F. Jones,
Clint Popwell, Connie Harrison,
Council Nail, Ernest Hunter and
N. Gibson.
Survivors include his wife,
Nora; seven daughters, Mrs. Mary
Drawdy, West Palm Beach, Fla.,
Mrs. Frances Warren, Charleston,
Mrs. Sue Eastman, St. Petersburg,
Fla., and Mrs. Elizabeth Arnett,
Douglas; two sons, Cleveland
Drury, Charleston, and Oliver
Drury, Browntown; a brother,
Thomas (Buddy) Drury, Bruns
wick; 13 grandchildren and four
great grandchildren.
Ounces, Each added ounce.
Weight limit for Third Class
is increased up to but not includ
ing 16 ounces.
Consult Postmaster concerning
other changes.
A small advertisement in The
Brantley Enterprise will be read
like news. One time 75 cents,
three times $2.00.
If you have news for your
local newspaper, get it in early
for best handling.
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this MEANS NEARLY <405,500,000
IN GASH INCOME YEARLY
FOR THE SOUTHS ECONOMY
FROM WOOD SALES. <771 PER
MINUTE OF EVERY HOUR/
<462*0 PER HOUR OF EVERY
DAY/ AND < LI 10, 240 EVERY
| DAY OF THE YEAR/
WOOD BOUGHT gY THE SOUTHERN
PULP AND RAPER INDUSTRY CURING
(THE YEAR WOULD MAKE A TRAIN
OF IMSIO FIFTY-FT CARS
9,599 MILES LONftsrcnawG
J TIMES ACROSS THE ENTIRE
UNITED STATES/
