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VOLUME 38 — NO. 45
Brantley County Dogs to Be
Innoculated Against Rabies
Brantley County dogs will be
innoculated against rabies on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day, Nov. 10-11-12, it is announ
ced by Herschel Herrin, superin
tendent of schools.
Rabies is a constant threat to
men and animals and every dog
in the county should be innocu
lated against the fatal disease,
state officials say. The serum for
the innoculations is being sup
plied by the state and will be
administered under the super
vision of George Loyd, county
agent.
The schedule of the time and
place for innoculating dogs is as
follows:
Pierce Chapel, Nov. 10’ 3:30 —
4:15 p. m.
Calvary Community Center,
Nov. 10, 3:30 — 4:15 p. m.
Schlatterville, Nov. 11, 3:15 —
4:30 p. m.
Hortense School, Nov. 11, 3:30
— 5:00 p. m.
Hickox Voting House, Nov. 12,
3:30 — 5:00 p. m.
Hoboken, Nov. 12, 4:30 — 6:00
p. m.
Raybon, Chancey Store, Nov.
13, 3:30 — 5:00 p. m.
Atkinson, Prescott Store, Nov.
14, 3:15 — 4:00 p. m.
Waynesville, Hunters Store,
Nov. 14, 4:10 — 5:00 p. m.
Nahunta Courthouse, Nov. 15,
9:00 — 12:00 a. m.
Nahunta Garden Club
Met Tuesday
With Mrs. Moody
The Nahunta Garden Club
met at the home of Mrs. D. S.
Moody on Tuesday, Nov. 4, with
Mrs. Dorothy Graham as co-hos
tess. Mrs. J. B. Lewis presided.
Mr. Aubrey Davis of Waycross
demonstrated Christmas arrange
ments.
During business session the
club voted to contribute fifty
dollars to the beautification of
city parks. The decision was
made to have the Christmas party
on December 19.
Present were: Mrs. H. T. Ed
wards, Mrs. A. B. Brooker, Mrs.
Mollie Highsmith, Mrs. E. A.
Moody, Mrs. Parker Dodge, Mrs.
Allen Barnard, Mrs. J. W. Wig
gins, Mrs. J. J. Lee, Mrs. Collis
Highsmith, Mrs. A. S. Mizell, Mrs.
Herschell Herrin, Mrs. Edna Ad
ams, Mrs. Cecil Thomas, Mrs.
Grace Wakeley and Mrs. Edna
Lewis.
Congealed salad, crackers, a
variety of cookies, pickles and
coffee were served by the hostess
es.
Explore
With Books
By MARY LOU GIBSON
Books are no substitute for
living, but they can add immeas
urably to its richness. When life
is absorbing, books can enhance
our sense of its significance.
When life is difficult, they can
give us momentary release from
trouble or a new insight into our
problems, or provide the rest and
refreshment we need. Books have
always been a source of infor
mation, comfort, and pleasure for
the people who know how to use
them.
This is just as true for child
ren as for adults. Indeed, it is
particularly true for both.
A good library is an open
door to a store house of many
books in every field of endeavor.
The above being true it behooves
everyone to visit your libraries,
to know whats in them and to
use the many services. They are
yours for the asking.
One big way to appreciate the
growth of the schools and the
progress of education in Brant
ley County is to see the growth
and the interest in the libraries
in your county.
November 2-8 is National
Book Week, and a good time to
visit the Library near you, to
know the personnel, and to ex
plore with books on the shelves.
Remember great men have be
come great directly or indirect
ly through the use of many
good books!
By Mary Lou Gibson.
Ernest C. Johns, of the Okefe
noke Rural Electric Membership
Corp, staff, attended a wiring
clinic at the University of Geor
gia Oct. 27-28.
Brantley County - Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores. Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing - and Progressive People.
Molly Jane Moore
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Funeral services for Molly Jane
Moore, infant daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jasper Moore of Na
hunta, were held from the grave
side at Rob Lewis Cemetery Sat
urday, Nov. 1, at 10:30 o’clock,
with the Rev. Stanford Robert
son officiating.
In addition to her parents, the
little baby is survived by five
sisters, Elsie, Helen, Barbara
Ann, Paula, and Lavonne Moore,
all of Nahunta; four brothers,
Charles, Carlton, Jimmie, and
Harry Moore, all of Nahunta; the
maternal grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Dempsey Edwards of Way
cross; and several aunts and
uncles.
The Chambiess Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Hamer Killed
In Car Wreck
Near Sylvester
William B. Hamer, piano teach
er in Brantley County schools,
was killed Sunday, Nov. 2, near
Sylvester, Ga., in an auto wreck
in which two other people were
killed and two people injured.
The accident occured when two
car collided at the intersection
of Routes 32 and 257 near Syl
vester, according to news reports.
Robert L. Gaither airman at
Turner Air Force Base, and his
1-year-old daughter were also
killed in the smashup.
Billy Jackson, counselor and
biology teacher in Nahunta High
School, was seriously injured in
the wreck. Mr. Hamer resided
at Demopolis, Ala., and Mr. Jack
son resided at Attapulgus, Ga.
Nahunta H. D. Club
Organized Tuesday
The Nahunta Home Demon
stration Club was organized Tues
day, Nov. 4.
They elected as president Mrs.
Avery Strickland; vice-president,
Mrs. W. C. Long; Sec-Treas.,
Mrs. Clint Robinson; 4-H Club
Advisor, Mrs. Wilder Brooker;
and reporter, Mrs. Norman Lew
is.
The group set the first Friday
as their regular meeting date at
3:30 p. m. and the school library
as their meeting place.
The hostesses were Mrs. Harry
Raulerson and Mrs. Wilder
Brooker.
Lyons - Rowell
Mrs. C. T. Lyons of Route 2,
Patterson, announce the engage
ment of her daughter, Faye, to
Franklin Hey ward Rowell of Hor
tense.
The bride-elect was' graduated
from Nahunta High School in
June.
Mr. Rowell is the son of Mrs.
M. H. Rowell of Hortense. He is
a graduate of Nahunta High
School serving four years in the
U. S. Air Force, and is now em
ployed by the Air National Guard
in Brunswick.
Wedding plans are being ar
ranged for the early Spring.
Methodist Women
Met With Mrs. Lewis
The W. S. C. S. met at the
home of Mrs. J. B. Lewis on
Wed. Oct. 29 with Mrs. Effie
Midleton as hostess. Mrs. E. A.
Moody presided.
Mrs. J. B. Letvis was in charge
of-the program on Prayer and
self denial. All members took part
on the program.
Present were; Mrs. J. W. Wig
gins, Mrs. R. H. Schmitt, Mrs.
Russell Huffman, Mrs. Grace
Wakeley, and Miss Edna Lewis.
The hostess served pound cake
and peaches and coffee.
Pvt. James L. Morgan; son of
Mrs. Martha Morgan of Nahunta,
was home the past week end. He
is stationed at Fort Jackson, S.
C. Mrs. Morgan also had as Sun
day guests Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Harris, Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Har
ris and Mrs. Gertrude Maddox
and little Dell of Callahan, Fla.
Erantley EntrrpHHß
ASC Committee
Elected Officers,
Dykes Is Chairman
Results of the Brantley County
ASC Committee Election held
this year show that George Dykes
of Nahunta was elected chair
man, Neil Hendrix of Hickox
vice-chairman, Owen Prescott of
Hoboken regular member, W. E.
Strickland of Hortense and J. B.
Carter of Hoboken alternates.
All of the committeemen are
farmers. Four were reelected,
one is new.
The newly elected committee
men will take office on Novem
ber Ist and will be responsible
for county administration of the
Agricultural Conservation Prog
ram, Soil Bank Program, Price
Support Activities, Allotment and
Marketing Quota Programs and
other activities which may be
assigned.
Mr. Dykes the Chairman, owns
and operates a farm at Nahunta.
On this farm he produces com,
tobacco and livestock. He has
been cooperating in the Agricul
tural Conservation Program since
1940. This year he is carrying out
the following Agricultural Con
servation Program practices, Cro
talaria for summer cover and
soil building. Small grains for
winter cover and grazing.
The Vice-Chairman’s farm is
located at Hickox where he pro
duces corn, tobacco peanuts and
livestock. He also is carrying out
ACP Practices on his farm. The
regular members farm is located
at Hoboken where he produces
corn, tobacco, and livestock. He
also is carrying out ACP prac
tices on his farm. The alternates
farms . are located at Hortense
and Hoboken where they produce
corn, tobacco and livestock. They
also are carrying out ACP prac
tices on their farms.
Dr. George Sparks, Beloved
Educator, Died October 28
Students, alumni and friends
from every part of Georgia last
week mourned the passing of
Dr. George M. Sparks, founder
of Georgia State College of Busi
ness Administration, Atlanta.
Dr. Sparks died October 28
while visiting a daughter, Mrs.
William T. Eison, at Tyron,
North Carolina.
Born at Quitman, Dr. Sparks
graduated from Mercer Univer
sity and started work as a news
paperman on The Macon Tele
graph. He was a war correspon
dent with the Pancho Villa Ex
pedition across the * Mexican
border in 1916 and was with the
Washington Times during World
War I.
Returning to Macon, he was
city editor of the Telegraph un
til 1924 and later became assis
tant to the president at Mercer
University. He was the author of
three war books during this per
iod, for which he received nation
al recognition as an author.
After becoming public relations
director for Georgia Tech in 19-
28, he became head of the night
division of Tech’s Commerce
School, an institution which was
showing losses of up to $15,000
per year.
Under Dr. Sparks leadership
the school became the largest in
the university system and the
largest accredited business col
lege ir the South. In addition to
degrees in business administra
tion, the college now offers a
bachelor of arts degree with ma
jors in English, history, political
VETERANS DAY PROCLAIMED —Representatives of veterans organizations were present
as Governor Marvin Griffin signed a proclamation designating Nov. 11 as Veterans Day in Geor
gia. Looking on are (left to right) John M. Slaton, Atlanta; Dr. W. H. Thiele, Atlanta; Fred
Cliff, Atlanta; Mrs. Emily Walk, Savannah; Waiter L. Doster, Athens; Mrs. Alice Doster, Athens;
Bill Todd, Atlanta; Ernest Nash, Clarksville; Mrs. Dorothy Rogers, Chicamauga; Grady Pittard,
Winterville; the Rev. James E. Rogers, Atlanta; Marion Williamson, Atlanta; and Pete Wheeler,
Atlanta.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, November 6, 1958
SSO Reward
Offered for
Tire Thieves
Burglars broke into the Spell
Service Station at Hoboken Sun
day night, Nov. 2, and stole 14
auto tires, it is reported by
sheriff J. Walter Crews.
The burglars gained access to
the station by breaking a window
according to the sheriff.
Sheriff Crews is offering SSO
reward for information leading to
the arrest and conviction of the
burglars.
The tires were the Vanderbilt
brand, as follows:
2 tires 7.10 x 15 size.
2 tires 7.70 x 15 size.
2 tires 7.50 x 14.
3 tires 6.70 x 15.
2 tires 8.00 x 14.
Also three used tires.
Nahunta Post
Office to Close
November 11
The Nahunta post office will
close Tuesday, November 11 for
the usual observance of “Veter
ans Day”.
The General Delivery window
will be opened from 8:00 a. m.
to 8:30 a. m. and from 4:00 p.
m. to 4:30 p. m. for delivery
of mail and the sale of stamps
only. No money orders will be
sold.
The Rural Routes will not
run.
Usual business hours will be
resumed Wednesday.
Watch next week for sugges
tions for Christmas mailing.
Parker Dodge, Postmaster.
science and psychology.
The educator guaranteed a col
lege education to any student
who would move into Atlanta
and work. Jobg were secured for
the applicants and school courses
were offered day and night,
twelve months of the year. This
process continues today and
many of the early graduates have
become Georgia’s leading finan
ciers and professional people.
Nahunta Boys
Beat Screven,
Girls Lose
Last year’s state Class B
champs — the Nahunta basket
ball team — started off their
1959-59 season here Tuesday
night with a 59-34 win over
Screven High School.
Layton Johns with 21 points,
Marvin Griffin with 15 and
George Thomas with 12 were
high for Nahunta, Ronnie Was
din threw in 10 for the visitors.
In the girls game, Screven
beat Nahunta, 47-38. Betty Mor
ris of Screven and Alice Sue
DePratter of Nahunta tied for
scoring honors with 18 points
each.
Mrs. Jesse Woodard
Funeral Service
Was Held Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Jes
sie Martin Woodard, of Hoboken
who died Wednesday, were held
Sunday at 3 p. m. at the Hoboken
Baptist Church, conducted by the
Rev. W. C. Rice and the Rev.
Carlton Sheppard.
Burial was in Greenlawn ceme
tery.
Active pallbearers were former
students of Mrs. Woodard and in
cluded J. C. Dryden, Silas Ed
wards, Clyde J. Jones, B. M.
Thomas, John Lee, and E. E.
Jones.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Brantley County
Board of Education, faculty of
the Hoboken School and the
board of deacons of Hoboken
Baptist Church and N. C. Davis
Sr., K. S. Varn, Wayne Seaman,
C. F. Dukes, T W. Lastinger, J.
CA. Hickox and R. D. Thomas.
A native and lifelong resident
of Hoboken, Mrs. Woodard was a
school teacher for 35 years. She
was a member of the Hoboken
Baptist £hurch and the Satilla
Chapter 365 Order of Eastern
Star at Nahunta.
Survivors include four sisters,
Mrs. Tom Ellis, Hoboken, Mrs.
Fred Matthes, Jacksonville, Mrs.
Eula Druehl, Falls Church, Va.,
and Mrs. F. M. Aldridge, Long
Beach, Calif., and a brother, S.
C. Moore, Hoboken.
Veterans Day
To be Observed
November 11
This year’s Veterans Day theme
will stress the many things vet
erans have done for their coun
try and community since leav
ing the service, according to Pete
Wheeler, state chairman for the
observance.
November 11 will be the Fifth
National Veterans Day. Until
1954, when Congress replaced Ar
mistice Day with its present de
signation, November 11 honored
only veterans of World War 1.
“We believe the general pub
lic will be amazed at some of
the peacetime contributions of
veterans,” said Wheeler, who is
Director of the State Department
of Veterans Service. “It’s becom
ing the usual thing, these days,
to find more and more veterans
in positions of leadership, of re
sponsibility.”
Governor Marvin Griffin has
signed a proclamation officially
designating November 11 as Vet
erans Day in Georgia, and calling
on all citizens of the state to ob
serve it. •
Commanders of all state vete
rans organizations and their auxi
liary presidents were invited to
be present as Governor Griffin
signed the proclamation.
Commanders of all state vete
rans organizations and their aux
iliary presidents were invited to
be present as Governor Griffin
signed the proclamation.
America’s population of living
veterans now is more than 22,-
700,000 Wheeler pointed out. To
gether with their families, vete
rans make up more than 40, per
cent of the total population of
of the United States.
Miss Edan Lewis of Wellsboro
Penn, is spending three weeks
with Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Brantley County Entries Win
Prizes at Okefenoke Fair
Seven 4-H Club members from
Nahunta 4-H, win six first places,
two, second places, two third
places, one reserve Champion. Al
so the Grand Champion in jun
ior division of the swine show at
the Okefenokee fair this week.
Those having entries, the num
of animals enered and the plac
ings are as follows:
Jimmy Thomas, three hogs en
tered, won three first places, and
Grand Champion.
Eldon Thomas, two entered,
first and second place.
Terry Thomas, one entered,
first place and Reserve Champ
ion.
Benny Thomas, two entered,
second and third place.
J. M. White, one entered, third
place.
George A. Loyd Jr. one enter
ed, first place.
Wayne White, one entered, but
keen competition prevented his
animal from placing.
Terry Thomas also won second
place with F. F. A. entry.
In the adult division, Alfred
Thomas was awarded first and
third places with two entries.
Jim R. Herrin given first place
and Reserve Champion with his
single entry.
Other exhibits from Brantley
County was County H. D. Council
booth, awarded fourth place.
Tommy Jacobs, Ducks, first
place.
Ronald Morgan, Bantams, third
place.
Johnny Walker, hens, hadn’t
been judged.
Mrs. R. E. Lee. Pumpkin, first
place.
Mrs. Frank Rowell, Pumpkin,
second place.
Hoboken School and Hoboken
P. T. A. both had first prize
winning booths. There was also
a large number of winners
among the hogs entered by the
F. F. A., members and adult farm
ers of the Hoboken area.
One Killed,
Two Injured in
Headon Wreck
A Wayne county man was kill
ed and two others injured ser
iously late Sunday night, Nov. 2,
in an auto collision at Clough
curve on U. S. Highway 82 in
Pierce county between Black
shear and Waycross.
Floyd Valdine Eason was kill
ed when the car in which he was
traveling toward Waycross failed
to make the curve and crashed
into another auto heading toward
Blackshear.
Injured was James Robert
Walker, Rt. 1, Jesup, who lost a
leg. He was owner of the car in
which Eason was riding.
The driver of the other car,
Thomas Nunn, negro, of Black
shear, was also severely injured.
The accident occurred at 11:30
p. m., according to the investi
gating officers, Troopers W. E.
Strickland and W. E. Peacock of
the Waycross State Patrol. The
injured were taken to a Waycross
hospital.
On Wednesday morning Walker
was transferred to the Veterans
Hospital in Augusta for further
treatment. Nunn remained a pa
tient in the Waycross hospital.
Personals
Miss Mary Ann Goodner of
Atlanta spent the weekend at
home with her mother, Mrs. T. S.
Goodner.
Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Wilson
spent the weekend in George
town, Ga. where they attended
the Centenial celebration of that
town.
tyrs. Osgood Moody entered the
hospital in Waycross on Sunday
where she expected to undergo
a major operation this week.
Guests of Mrs. Alice High
smith and family for the week
end were Mr. and Mrs. James
Hansen and family of Jackson
ville, Fla. and Mrs. Hansen, Sr.,
of Minnisota, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Braddock and family of Mayport,
Fla., and Mrs. Braddock’s mother
Mrs. Smylie of Wisconson and
Mrs. H. J. Braddock of Jackson
ville, Fla.
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Hoboken Teams
Lose Games
To Surrency
Surrency defeated Hoboken
High in both ends of a cage
twinbill at Hoboken Friday night
The visiting sextet downed Ho
boken 46-26 and the Surrency
boys won 57-38.
Surrency’s girls rolled up a 30-
9 first half lead and coasted in
for the win. Jean Stanfield scor
ed 26 points for Surrency with
Buanell Fennell getting 14. Car
ol Hagin had 17 for Hoboken.
Hoboken’s quintet dropped be
hind 28-20 at halftime and Sur
rency pulled away in the final
two periods to win. Bud Dixon
had 14 points to lead Surren
cy’s attack with Henry Aldridge
getting 13 for Hoboken.
Following is the remainder of
the 1958-59 Hoboken High School
basketball schedule:
Nov. 11 Coffee County, home
Nov. 18 — Nahunty, home.
Nov. 21 — Ware County, home
Nov. 25 — St. George, away.
Dec. 2 — Blackshear, away.
Dec. 5 — Odum, home
Dec. 9 — Folkston, away
Dec. 12 — Patterson, home
Dec. 16 — Ware County away
Jan. 2 — Patterson, away
Jan. 6 — Nahunta, away
Jan. 9 — Ludowici, home
Jan. 13, — Screven, home
Jan. 16 — Odum, away
Jan. 17 — Waycross, home
Jan 20 — Blackshear, home
Jan. 27 — Surrency, away
Jan. 30 — Coffee County (girls)
away
Feb. 3 — Folkston, home
Feb. 6 — Waycross, away
Feb. 13 — St. George, home
Democrats Win
Full Control of
National Congress
The Democratic Party won
full control of the national Con
gress in the election Tuesday,
Nov. 4, with the victories in near
ly all the contested races for
congress and senate.
The exception was in New York
State where Nelson Rockefeller
won the governor’s race against
Averill Harriman, the present
governor and Keating defeated
Hogan for the U. S. Senate.
The Democrats wrested control
of California from the Republi
cans by defeating Knight and
Knowland. The chances of Nixon
for the Republican nomination in
1960 were dimmed somewhat by
Republican reverses in Nixon’s
home state.
The victory of Rockefeller and
Keating in New York gave a set
back •to the power of Desapio
as the leader of Tammany Hall
and projected Rockefeller into
the spotlight as a possible candi
date for president in 1960.
Dr. and Mrs. L. E. Coolidge of
Greenville, Tenn, were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis for a
few days last week.
GRIM REMINDER
ON HIGHWAYS
Crosses like this one will dot
Georgia’s main roads where traffic
accidents claimed human lives. In
erecting the markers, the State
Highway Patrol hopes this will
serve as a warning to motorists to
drive carefully and sensibly.
