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VOLUME 38 — NO. 51
EXPLOSION LEVELS BUILDING IN BLACKSHEAR
PT A Group Continues Panel
Study of School Problems
The second session of the com
bined P. T. A. study course was
held in the elementary auditor
ium on Monday evening. The
panel based its discussion on
eight questions asked at the first
session. These questions and the
thinking on them were as fol
lows:
1. What are the building needs
for the elementary and high
school? (a) Immediate? (b)
long range?
A covered walkway from the
main building to the lunchroom
at the grammar school seemed
to be the greatest immediate
need. Other needs were renova
ting the rest rooms and remodel
ing the building that houses the
class for exceptional children. In
long range needs a music room,
a lunch room and a library roam
connected to the main building
were mentioned.
High School building needs
were identified as an auditorium,
a shop and a band room. The
use of a gymnasium for an audit
orium was pointed out as an un
desirable situation since the ac
oustics in the building interfere
with hearing speakers. The prin
cipal way to improve the rest
room situations would be to in
stall a sewage system in the city
of Nahunta. It was brought out
that the Federal government
would pay 30% of the expense
for sewage disposal.
(2) How strict should our grad
ing system be?
There was a concensus of opin
ion that grading should be strict
but fair. It should not cheat the
child or the parent. Teen-agers
have a tendency to get by with
just what they have to do. Grades
should not be given to please
parents, but to prepare children
to do well in college and in the
professions they choose. Many
parents are not concerned about
children’s grades and takfe no in
terest in school accomplishments.
(3) What methods of grading
should be used for pupils not
capable of doing average class
room work?
The capability of each child is
important and should be taken
into consideration when grading.
Many children who cannot do
average class room work can still
learn many things.' If a child is
doing what is considered the
best he can, he should be grad
ed satisfactorily. One of the
greatest needs of public educa
tion is some provision to take
care of children who cannot do
classroom work. When children
who could do, but refuse, parents
and teachers need to get toget
her. These children are our
school’s biggest problem. No less
than a child’s best work should
be accepted. Parents are a big
factor in motivating children.
(4) Suggest some ways for
parents and teachers to work to
gether closely in promoting edu
cation.
Individual meetings and confer
ences, study courses and group
discussions similar to the ones
sponsored this year, teachers visi
ting the homes and parents visi
ting the school before any occas
ion for trouble arises, and pa
rents and teachers showing con
sideration for each other were
some ways suggested of working
together to promote education.
Many times the attitude of the
parent toward a teacher is a
major scource of controversy.
Parent-teacher relations affect
students’ grades, and if an un
pleasant situation arises between
parent and teacher the parent
always hurts the child by not
upholding the teacher. That
teacher can never help the child.
(5) What changes should be
made in our curriculum?
It was suggested that a week
be set aside as a time when
parents might visit in classrooms
to see how methods of teaching
have changed. More stress should
be placed on the dictionary, for
eign languages and English gram
mar. School need to have con
structive criticism and weakness
es exposed in order that im
provements may be made.
(6) What equipment do you
think we should have that would
improve instruction?
Brantley County Schools have
many instructional aids. It was
the thinking of the group that
use of many aids already avail
able in the school would enhance
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the educational program.
(7) What can we do to help
our brighter students?
Brighter students might be
given extra assignments, be skip
ped a grade or given instructions
by a person trained to work with
the gifted children.
(8) How much homework
should children be expected to
do?
Children need some homework
to supplement school work. They
also need to have some respon
sibility at home as a contributing
member of the family. Neither
the homework nor the home
tasks should absorb all of a
child’s time so that one must
be neglected. Children should be
given an average assignment with
an average expection that the
work will be done. To be a
top notch student some outside
work is necessary. Excuses for
not handing in homework, such
as attending ball games, .should
not be tolerated. All homework
should be given for a purpose
and the child should know that
the paper will be gone over in
class or graded by the teacher.
The panel discussing the ques
tions consisted of Herschel W.
Herrin, Carl Broome, Mrs. J. T.
Royster, Mrs. Cecil Moody, and
Mrs. Wilder Brooker. Principal
T. H. Edwards served as modera
tor for the evening. The study,
chairmen for this year were Mrs.
Lois Williams for the Nahunta
High School and Mrs. Edna Ad
ams for the Nahunta Elementary
School.
School Children
Write Verses
About Christmas
Three children in the Nahunta
school have tried their talent at
writing Christmas verse. The
three sets of verse written by
the children were submitted to
this newspaper by Mrs. Edna
Adams.
The Christmas verses are as
follows:
Christmas Bells are ringing,
Homes are bright and gay,
Reindeer feet are prancing,
Sanaa's on his way.
Glenda Sue Williams
The bells are ringing,
The children are singing,
Everyone is happy tonight.
The reindeer are running,
The birds are humming,
Because Christmas is in sight.
Buddy Allen.
Christ was born on Christmas
. Day.
Humble and lowly, alone He lay,
Reminding us to always pray
In everything you think and do
Then something good will come
to you.
Masons Elect
Smith Master
Os Lodge 391
J. Robert Smith, Nahunta at
torney, was elected Worshipful
Master of Nahunta Masonic
Lodge 391 at the annual election
of officers Tuesday night, Dec.
16. , ,
Other Masonic officers elected
to serve during the ensuing year
were Ray Johns, Senior Warden;
Ben Jones, Junior Warden, A. J.
Stokes, treasurer; T. H. Purdom,
secretary; Marshall Strickland,
chaplain; Horace Morgan, Senior
Deacon; Melvin Hopkins, junior
deacon; Jack Moore, senior stew
ard; Hubert Proctor, junior stew
ard; Faye E. Brooks, tiler.
The lodge held a basket supper
after the election of officers.
Brantley Farmers
Approves Quotas for
Tobacco and Cotton
Brantley County tobacco and
cotton producers voted to contin
ue marketing quotas in the ref
erendum held December 15, ac
cording to George Dykes, Chair
man of the County ASC Com
mittee.
Mr. Dykes stated that 208 to
bacco producers voted for quotas
15 against, 5 cotton producers
voted for quotas none against.
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James Strickland
Funeral Service
Held Thursday
Funeral services for James W.
(Uncle Jim) Strickland, 88, of
Rt. 2, Patterson, who died Tues
day at his home after a long ill
ness was held at 3 p. m. Thurs-’
day at the Satilla Baptist Church,
in Hortense, conducted by the
Rev. J. D. Strader, the Rev. H.
L. Dixon, and the Rev. Clyde
Thomas. Burial was in the Hor
tense Cemetery.
A native of Wayne County, he
was a retired farmer and mem
ber of the Patterson Masonic
Lodge. A charter member of the
Satilla Missionary Baptist Church
in Hortense, he was the son of
the late John L. and Courtney
Knight Strickland.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Rachael Manning Strickland,
Patterson; five daughters, Mrs. J.
C. Lyn of Brunswick, Mrs. B. J.
Moody, Nichols, Mrs. Ike Moody,
Hortense, Mrs. George Echols.
Patterson, Mrs. T. N. Davis, Jack
sonville, Fla.; four sons, M. E.
Strickland, Birmingham, Ala.; B.
D. Strickland, Lacy Strickland,
J. E. Strickland, all of Patterson;
one sister, Mrs. J. R. Goddard,
Milledgeville; five brothers, Nel
son and W. E. Strickland, both
of Hortense, G. O. Strickland, of
Patterson, W. L. Strickland .of
Brunswick, C. M. Strickland of
Corbin, Ky.; 42 grandchildren;
61 great - grandchildren; five
great-great grandchildren and
several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Guy Strick
land, Clinton Popwell, William
Strickland, Johnny Eldridge, Er
nest Manning and Walter How
ard.
Chambless Funeral Home of
Nahunta was in charge.
Gay Hiller made the dean’s
list at South Georgia College for
the fall quarter.
Army Pvt. Billy O. Thrift,
whose wife, Effie, and parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. N. Thrift, live
on Route 1, Nahunta, is en route
to Germany with the 37th Artil
lery.
Marine Cpl. David R. White,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira White
of Nahunta who* is stationed at
Camp Lejeune, N. C. participated
in a Battalion Landing Team
demonstration Nov. 21 for Vice
Admiral George C. Towner at
Camp LeJeune, N. C.
Rev. and Mrs. W. D. Vickery
of Selma, Ala. arrived Sunday to
visit Mrs. Vickery’s mother, Mrs.
J. D. Brooker for a few days.
Mrs. Claude Mills entertained
with a dinner Wednesday night
at her home for Rev. and Mrs.
Robert Wagnon, Mrs. J. B,
Brooker and Bennie Tallevast.
Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson and her
son Bernard and Mr. and Mrs.
Virgil Strickland attended the
funeral of Mrs. Vera Chambless
at Tallahassee Tuesday, Dec. 16.
Mrs. Chambless was the mother
of Guy Chambless of Chambless
Funeral Home, Nahunta.
Joe Thornton
Flower Show
Is Held by
Oleander Club
“Christmas in our Homes” was
the theme of the flower show
sponsored by the Oleander Club
on Saturday and Sunday, Dec.
14 and 15 in the High School
Library. Mrs. Cecil Moody and
Mrs. Harry Raulerson were the
chairmen of the flower show.
Mrs. Keith Strickland won
sweepstakes for having the most
blue ribbon entries: Mrs. Cecil
Moody the award of distinction
for best arrangement: Mrs. M.
H. Robinson, sweepstakes and
award of merit in horticulture
division; Nancy Moody, sweep
stakes in children’s division.
Other blue ribbon winners in
arrangements were; Mrs. Ben
Jones, Mrs. A. B. Brooker, Mrs.
Wilder Brooker, Mrs. Clarence
Allen, Mrs. Parker Dodge, Mrs.
M. H. Robinson, Mrs. Joe Walk
er, Mrs. Norman Lewis, Mrs. E.
A. Moody, Mrs. Harry Raulerson,
Mrs, Claude Smith, Mrs. Harold
Scott and Mrs. Dick Schmitt.
The chairmen wish to express
their apreciation to all who help
ed make the first Christmas
Flower show in Nahunta a suc
cess.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 18, 1958
Personals
Mrs. Dick Schmitt, reporter.
Nahunta Cage
Team Downs
Jesup Five
By BILLY JACKSON
The Nahunta High eagers re
sumed their winning ways here
Tuesday night, bouncing back
from a week-end loss to Wheel
wright, Kentucky, High School.
Tuesday’s story was written on
teamwork, as the taller, more
seasoned charges of coach Har
old Scott led an early barrage
of point shooting that found the
Jesup team buried hopelessly at
half time, 38-10.
The mid-point intermision was
a short one for the “Yellow
Jackets”, and the third stanza
just added more heat to the fire.
Reserve strength proved a strong
point throughout the final half
of the struggle, as the smaller
group took charge and outscored
the “Jackets” going away 24-17.
The resulting score from per
haps the best team effort of the
year gave Nahunta the spoils of
battle 62-27.
Marvin Griffin led the Wild
cats with 18 points, followed by
George Thomas with 15 and Lay
ton Johns with 11 points. The
spirited reserve crew contributed
a goodly share to the slaughter,
displaying skill at team work
and showing promising future
greatness offensively.
Last Saturday’s contest in the
Georgia Teachers College Gym
nasium proved too great a task
for the Nahunta “Cats” as the
Kentucky quintette slipped by
them 56-51.
The local “Kittens” having a
weeks rest came in strong Tues
day night in a nip and tuck con
test; finally losing 33-30 to a
fighting Jesup sextette. Sylvia
Rowell paced local scorers with
19 points followed by Mollie
Grace Sadler, a recent switch
over from the guard post which
she has held so adequately all
year, with 7 points. Kay Hues
paced the winners with 15 points.
With Nahunta’s hopes riding on
a good team effort, the boys go
into the Morning News tourney
Friday night at Savannah with a
team scoring average of 63.7
points per game against a 42.1
opponent average per game, and
a record of 9 wins againsf only
one setback. The locals are pit
ted against Benedictine, defend
ing champions on Friday night.
Mrs. Vera Chambless
Funeral Rites Held
At Tallahassee
Mrs. Vera Long Chambless, 62,
of Tallahasee, Fla., died Sunday
after a long illness. She was the
daughter of the late H. J. and
Mary Susan Langston Long and
a native of Clay County, Ga.
Surviving are one daughter,
Miss Barbara Chambless of Tal
lahassee; one son, Guy (iham
bless Jr. of Nahunta; three sisters,
Mrs. L. H. Holloway of Bluffton,
Ga. Mrs. George Bailey of Ridge
land, S. C. and Mrs. Eula Chaires
of Tallahassee; two brothers, Ar
thur Long of Wachula, Fla.
and C. L. Long of Barwick; five
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at 3 P- m. at Trinity
Methodist Church in Tallahassee,
conducted by Rev. Ranny Morris.
Burial was in Oakland Cemetery
in Tallahassee.
Pallbearers were Fred B. Ty
ler, W. F. Trawick, Wallis L.
Walker, C. Bernard Adkison, Gor
don Long and Dr. John W. Simp
son.
Culley Funeral Home of Tal
lahassee was in charge.
Oleander Garden
Club Elects Officers
The Oleander Garden Club in
stalled officers for the coming
year at the regular meeting on
Dec. 8 at the home of Mrs. Cecil
Moody. Mrs. Bob Smith, retiring
president, presided., Mrs. Dick
Percell was the installing officer.
Installed were; Mrs. Keith
Strickland, president; Mrs. Ben
Jones, vice-president; Mrs. Joe
Walker, secretary; Mrs. Cecil
Moody, treasurer; Mrs. Russell
Huffman, librarian; Mrs. Dick
Schmitt, reporter.
The hostess served open faced
sandwiches, cream puffs and
coffee.
Army Recruit Robert B. Hay
nes Jr., 18, whose parents live
on Route 1, Waynesville, re
cently completed eight-weeks
of basic combat training at
Fort Jackson, S. C.
(U. S. Army Photo)
J. T. James Died
At Homerville
HOMERVILLE — J. T. (Jim)
James, 67, prominent Clinch
County, farmer, died suddenly at
his home Sunday morning.
Funeral services were held at
Camp Branch Primitive Baptist
Church, between Argyle and Ma
nor.
Surviving Mr. James are his
wife, Mrs. Leona Lee James; five
daughters, Mrs. Lucile Smith,
Argyle, Miss Eleanor James, Ar
gyle, Mrs. Harold Smith and Mrs.
Ben T. Willoughby, Homerville,
Mrs. David Surrency, Maryland;
seven sons, Leo James, Richard
James, Argyle, Harry James, Ger
many, Rufus James and Bob
James, Columbia, S. C.; Eugene
James, Lakeland, and Jimmie
James, Athens; five brothers,
John James, Nahunta; Marcus
Kelly James, Jacksonville, Fla.;
George L. and Joe James,
Homerville; three sisters, Mrs.
Roxie Hodges, Brunswick; Mrs.
Oglesby Taylor, Homerville, and
Mrs. John Cribbs, Jacksonville;
17 grandchildren.
$4,350,000 in
Taxes Paid by
Power Company
District and local managers of
the Georgia Power Company
throughout the state this week
are presenting to municipal and
county government officials
checks totaling approximately
$4,350,000 for the company’s
1958 property taxes, according to
B. F. David, local manager at
Blackshear.
Os this amount, Mr. David re
ported, $2,246,500 goes into gene
ral county funds, $1,718,700 to
school districts, and $384,800 to
cities and towns.
The company already has paid
more than $925,000 in property
taxes for the year 1958 making
the total to be paid for this year
$5,275,000. This compares with
$4,840,486 paid for the year 1957.
Earlier in the year, municipal
partnership tax payments total
ing $1,931,983 were paid by the
company to the 381 cities, towns
and communities in which the
firm’s three per cent franchise
agreement was in effect. Under
this agreement, the company
pays each municipality in which
it operates three per cent of its
gross revenue from the sale of
electricity for residential and
commercial use.
These municipal partnership
tax payments were based on
1957 electric revenue and were
in addition to property tax pay
ments.
The Georgia Power Company
official pointed out that approxi
mately 20 per cent of the com
pany’s total revenue goes to pay
taxes, including federal and
state income taxes, municipal
partnership taxes, and others.
POSTED SIGNS
We have a supply of “Posted”
signs for posting your land
against trespassers, 10 cents each,
$1 a dozen. The Brantley Enter
prise, Nahunta, Ga.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Downtown
Ripped by
A terrific 2:15 A. M. blast Wednesday
completely destroyed a brick building on
Main street in downtown Blackshear and did
several thousand dollars damage to other
nearby buildings in window glass breakage.
The explosion and a resulting fire leveled
a building, approximately 25 by 50 feet in
size, located at the intersection of State High
ways 38 and 121.
The building had been closed for several
weeks but housed a pool room. The building
was owned by Dr. L. H. Oden.
Blackshear and Pierce county police offi
cers and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
are investigating the case. An agent from the
State Fire Marshall’s office in Atlanta was
also due in Blackshear Wednesday to take
part in the inquiry.
No definite leads as to the cause of the ex
plosion had been uncovered as this newspa
per went to press.
However, officers are proceeding on the theory that
the blast and fire may have been set intentionally by
someone. Fire Chief E. E. Harrison of Blackshear reported
that wood from the floor of the building appeared to have
been soaked with gasoline or oil and that the area had the
smell of dynamite afterward.
No motive for any incendiary or purposeful blast was
immediately known.
Police Wednesday were seeking for questioning a man
allegedly seen leaving the explosion area immediately
after the blast.
The explosion knocked out large plate glass windows
in several nearby business establishments. The Black
shear Sales Company, Blackshear Tractor and Implement
Company and Carter Motor Company across the street
suffered extensive glass breakage. Upstairs windows in
the Carter building were also knocked out.
Hobbs Auto Supply, adjacent to the Oden building, had '
front windows broken and some damage from the shock.
Jeff’s Service Station had practically all glass windows
broken, along with glass on the gas pumps shattered.
Chandler Hardware Company, the Pierce Insurance
Agency, Blackshear News Company, Knox Barber Shop,
and the Schreiber building, the former location of a fish
market, suffered window breakage, as did the Western
Auto Associate Store, and the Gilmore building which
formerly housed Estes Furniture Company.
There was also damage to Williamson’s Package Store,
the Pierce Hotel, and Carter Dry Cleaners, as far away
as across the railroad nearly two blocks from the explo
sion. Several residences near the Pierce county courthouse,
including that of City Councilman Ancil E. Davis, had
windows broken.
Maxie’s 5c and 10c Store had window damage and
Taylor’s Gulf Service station lost a plate glass window.
Other of the businesses also had cracked ceilings, mer
chandise damage, and some light fixtures were knocked
down.
Oddly, the explosion was the second call of the night
for the Blackshear fire department. A minor fire in an
oil heater at the Blackshear Sales Company had resulted
in a fire run about 7 :00 o’clock P. M. Tuesday.
The Waycross fire department sent a truck and
three men to the scene in Blackshear. However, the local
volunteer fife department had little trouble bringing the
flames under control, arriving on the scene quickly.
Nine men of the 171st Armored Infantry, Georgia Na
tional Guard, were sent to Blackshear after the explosion
to stand guard on store locations with broken windows.
No incidents, however, were reported.
Acting Mayor Aubrey Geiger expressed appreciation
to the city police, the local fire department and other
city employees, the Waycross fire department, and the
National Guard unit, for the way in which each group
responded to the emergency.
“They handled the situation skillfully and the speed
and cooperation which was shown makes me proud of
them,” he said.
O. V. Lewis, superintendent of public works of Black
shear, was on hand at the fire and quickly rounded up
several of the city employees who cleared much of the
debris so as to open up the flow of traffic. The city road
patrol was used to scrape the brick off the street.
The explosion occurred in about 30 degree weather
and firemen, police, city workers and others worked in
the freezing temperature for more than two hours.
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