The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, February 26, 1959, Image 1

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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 Tinies $2.00. VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 8 F.F.A. Work Described by Wayne Boyd The F. F. A. is a National Or ganization made up of farm boys from every state in the union. Not only does it help to prepare a boy for a life on the farm, but for boys who choose not to farm, it gives a good background of leadership for them in the life they choose. Many former F. F. A. members hold key positions in their com munity and state. Leadership is a valued characteristic in any man and this is one of the main goals in F. F. A. Work. The local chapter has 37 mem bers. The officers are: Aley Lee, President, Ernest Steedley, Vice- President, Alvin Mobley Secre tary, David Hickox Treasurer, Wayne Boyd Reporter, Delaney Bohannon Sentinel, and W. C. Long, Advisor. The members carry out pro jects on their farm as well as class room and shopwork at school. Our motto is: “Learning to do, Doing to learn, Earning to Live, and Living to Serve.” To make this motto meaningful to us, in addition to our projects at home and in the shop, we maintain a forestry plot in cooperation with the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Corporation. We have a small farm where we keep purebred boars for use in our pig chain and where we grow some pasture and corn for feed. We have one member at our farm that does not attend meetings but through her efforts, we have been able to finance some of our projects. Susie, our brood sow, has ave raged 13 pigs at each farrowing for nine times. Our pig chain grows each year. We began with four Duroc gilts. Four boys took them and gave us two gilts from each. This has grown until now almost any boy can get a gilt during his first year in the F. F. A. We also maintain a purebred Hereford bull for farmers to use to improve their beef herds. We like to help the looks of our community, so we are build ing mail box posts and lettering them, so that people, riding down our roads may know the names of inhabitants. The posts are a vailable to anyone for a reason able fee to cover the cost of materials. Not only do our members work but we believe in recreation also. Each year we go camping at,our F. F. A. Camp on the Satilla River. We attend the District Ral ly in Savannah and the State Rally in Macon. • Many of our boys spend a week at our State F. F. A. Camp on Jackson Lake. At this camp a Week, packed with fun and fel lowship is enjoyed by all and many of the boys make plans to return a year later. The F. F. A. has four levels of achievement. The first is the Green Hand Degree. All, boys re ceive this after initation. The second year some qualify for the Junior Farmer Degree. In the third year a* member may quali fy for the third degree, The Georgia Planter. Our chapter has h^d several members to get this degree and has had one to get the coveted American Farmer De gree. Addison Strickland was one of 18 boys from Georgia to go to Kansas City last fall for this honor. One of the highlights of the year for us is our annual ban quet, when we invite our Fathers and supporters to come and en joy a good time with us. We had almost a hundred* present this « year. We think of George Washing ton as an outstanding early farm er; therefore, each year the week of his birthday is set aside as National F. F. A. Week. Wayne Boyd, Reporter. Big Business Economists at the Agricultural Extension Service report agricul ture in the United States buys more petroleum than any other industry, purchases 6,500,000 tons of finished steel a year, buys enough rubber to put tires on 6,- 000, cars a year, uses 50,000,000 tons of chemicals annually, and uses more electric power than Chicage, Detroit, Houston, Balti more, and Boston combined. Consistent newspaper advertis- ing brings profitable results. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Mrs. Beulah Parrott Funeral Service Held Tuesday Mrs. Beulah Odom Parrott, 74, of Route 1, Waynesville, pass ed away at her residence Sun day morning, Feb. 22, after a long illness. Mrs. Parrott was born in Wayne, now Brantley, county and was the daughter of the late William Thomas and Lucy Wain right Odom. She was the widow of the late Martin Luther Par rott. Survivors include four daugh ters, Mrs. W. H. Drury, Mrs. C. J. Walker, and Mrs. W. C. O’- Neal, all of Waynesville, and Mrs. T. F. Nail of Polk City, Fla.; four sons, L. E. Parrott of Bruns wick; Hansford, Ray and Reu ben Parrott, all of Waynesville; two sisters, Mrs. Nora Brown of Waycross, and Mrs. Kate John son of Jacksonville, Fla. Thirty grandchildren and several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, Feb. 24, at eleven o’clock from Pilgrims Rest Primitive Baptist Church with El der Barney Crosby officiating. In terment followed in the church yard cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Messrs. James Walker, Davis Lynn, Donald Parrott, Leonard Parrott, Keith Parrott, and Fate Carroll. The family has the sympathy of their friends in their bereave ment. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of ar rangements. Five Killed In Crash At Callahan CALLAHAN, Fla. — Five per sons were killed and a sixth in jured in a fiery, headon collision of an automobile and truck shortly after 4 a. m. Monday on U. S. Highway 1 about a mile south of Callahan. The dead, all occupants of the passenger car, were listed as; Mrs. Pauline Driver, 40, of Hartwell, Ga. driver of the car; her son, Garland, 12; a daugh ter, Mrs. Joyce Moore, 19, Hart well; Walter White, 43, Iva., S. C., cousin of Mrs. Driver and owner df the car, and Marine Sgt. John Austin, Columbus, Ind., who was stationed at Camp Le jeune; N. C. Austin was believed to have been a hitchhiker. State Trooper R. S. Akers Jr. said the truck was driven by Howard East, 27 of Cedartown, Ga., who suffered shock and pos sible internal injuries. He was listed in good condition in a Jack sonville hospital. Akers said Mrs. Driver appar ently fell asleep at the steering wheel of her northbound sedan. The car crossed into the wrong lane of traffic and started cut ting back into its own lane just before smashing into the front of the truck, Akers said. The semi-trailer truck was loaded with about 14 tons of shelled corn and was en route to Tampa, said Akers. The impact threw Mrs. Moore through the side of the car, plunged Mrs. Driver under the, dash and dragged White’s body about 35 feet, according to in vestigating officers. The car then burst into flames. Akers said the victims appar ently were killed instantly. Sev eral of the bodies were badly burned. Brantley H. D. Council Met at Calvary Center The Brantley County Home Demonstration Council met at the Calvary Community Center, Feb. 24 at 2:00. Mrs. Griner, our County Nurse gave the program on First Aids the homemaker needs to know. Plans were made for a dress revue in May. Those attending were: Mes dames John Wilson, Albert Pur dom, Harley Lewis, Leona Al len, Aletha Mae White, E. A. Hunter, M. H. Robinson, Pete Gibson, Fulton Hagin, Alton Ca son, L. E. Aldridge, J. L. Miles, J. R. Driggers, Goldwir^ Fow ler, J. E. Aldridge, Oscar Dol and Virginia N. Raulerson, H. D. Agent. The next meeting will be in May. Braiitku Biterprto Hoboken FFA Father-Son Banquet Held We the Hoboken F. F. A. Chap ter held our Annual Father and Son banquet last Friday night Feb. 20. We hold this meeting every year in honor of George Washington and because he was truly the first scientific farmer, also this is F. F. A. Week. The meeting took place at 7:30 we open the meeting with the regular opening ceremony with the call of officers, the officers are president Hugh Arnold, vice president Jimmy Bell, second vice-president Roy Stone; secre tary Ronnie Carter, treasurer Bennie Dean, reporter, Lonnie Dußose; advisor Mr. W. J. Moore Jr., and our chapter sweetheart, Cynthia Dowling. The F. F. A. motto is: Learning to do, Doing to learn, Earning to live, Living to serve. For the program at our Father and Son Banquet Olin Dußose gave grace, Opening Ceremony, officers Os Chapter, Welcome was given by Jerry Fowler. Response to the welcome was given by E. G. Fowler, then we had dinner. Our menu was fried chicken, potato salad, green li mas, pickled beets, hot rolls, tea and for desert we had ice cream, there were approximately 200 people there. After dinner we had a ten minute speech on water by our president Hugh Arnold. Next we had the report of chap ter progress by Jimmy Hickox, Marvis Roberts, Noah Hutichison, Roger Carter, Larry Crawford, Douglas Prescott, Ray Jacobs, Darrell Strickland, Avery Grif fin and Ray Dean Altman. The awarding of the Honorary Jr. Farmer was given by Richard Rowell. The degrees was given to Mrs. H. H. Colvin and Mrs. Ban ner Thomas. Each year the Ho boken F*F. A. Chapter picks out some outstanding person that has helped our F. F. A. Chapter and we give them these degrees. The awarding of the Chapter degrees was given by our school superintendent Mr. H. W. Herrin. The awarding of the Corn Con test Prizes was given by our school principal Mr. C. B. Little field. The prizes went to Roy Gordon first, Gene Jacobs, sec ond place, and third place, Ben nie Dean. After awarding prizes the F. F. A. Quartet sang Kentucky Babe, the members of the F. F. A. Quartet are, Roy Gordon first tenor, Tollie Lee second tenor, Marvis Roberts, baritone, and Hugh Arnold, base. Tollie Lee gave the introduc tion of guests the guests were Mr. Herrin, Mr. Littlefield, Mr. Colvin. Mr. Belcher, Mr. Wiley, Mr. Rivers, Mr. Long, Mr. Nes mith, Mr. Mixon, Mr. Thomas, Our Chapter Sweetheart Cynthia and her father Mr. Fred Dow ling. The closing ceremony was giv en by the officers of the Hobo ken F. F. A. Chapter. Lonnie Dußose, Reporter of Hoboken F. F. A. Chapter. Hoboken High School, Mr. Walter Jack Moore, Advisor. Georgia consumers bought 207,899 electric freezers in the period 1946-56, according to Miss Doris Oglesby, housing-equip ment specialist, Agricultural Ex tension Service. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. ” I'm In This Rote Too " 4-H Club Week To Be Observed In Brantley County 4-H Club members all over the nation will be observing Nation al 4-H Club Week Feb. 28 to March 7. 4-H Club Sunday, March 1, will be observed in this county as in many communities everywhere. For emphasis to be placed on this week is to show people that the activities of the youth in our nation is so important. The 4-H club is the largest youth organi zation that we have. The boys and girls practice their motto “To Make The Best Better”. They carry projects and work on them at their b^mes. They learn the newest and best methods and use them in their projects. They keep records of their projects and enter contests for trips and scholarships. • Brantley County has nine clubs with a total of 234 boys and 275 girls enrolled in the 4-H club. They carry a variety of projects. Sewing and cooking are the two most frequently carried projects for the girls. The boys carry mostly livestock and corn. There are many projects such as insects, gardening, food preservation and landscaping. An exhibit of some of the projects will be placed in the window of J. W. Brooker Hardware. May we in Brantley County salute the boys and girls as they mean as they say their pledge; “I pledge my head to clearer thinking, my heart to greater loyalty, my hands to larger ser vice, and my health to better living for my club, my commun ity, and my country. Nahunta Drops Crucial Game To Folkston The Nahunta High School bas ketball team lost to the Folks ton team Saturday night in a hard-fought contest that turned out to be crucial in the regional Class B tournament, as Folks ton went on Monday night to win from Broxton. Folkston, conquered twice dur ing regular season play by the defending champs from Nahunta, was to be denied Saturday night. The Indians from Charlton Coun ty played the taller Wildcats from Brantley on even terms during the regulation play then eked out the two-point decision in overtime. After one period, Nahunta led 8-6 but at intermission the two were deadlocked 16-16. Contin uing their low-Scoring tilt, Folks ton edged ahead 24-23 at the end of the third period and both picked up the pace in the final eight minutes with Nahunta out scoring Folkston 14-13 to end the game in a 37-37 draw. In the extra three minutes of play, Folkston tossed in 10 coun ters to eight for Nahunta and won the nerve-tingler 47-45. Nahunta outshot Folkston from the field 18-14 but accuracy at the foul line proved the differ ence. Folkston made 19 of 26 charity tosses to nine of 17 ac tual tosses by Nahunta. Nahunta committed 18 fouls to 15 for the Folkston lads. Harlan Carter led Folkston scorers with 12 points and Con ner tossed in 11 for the winner. Layton Johns flipped in 24 to pace Nahunta. 26, 1959 Big Lumber Mill to Be Started Near Nahunta in About 60 Days Activity Schedule Announced for County H. D. Work The schedule of activities for the Home Demonstration Work in Brantley County is as follows: March 1, 4-H Sunday, Hoboken Baptist Church, Nahunta Baptist Church, night service, Hickox Baptist Church. March 3, Tuesday, 8:20 Nahun ta High Chapel to present medals for outstanding club work. March 5, Thursday 7:30 Cal vary H. D.-Club. March 6, Friday 3:30, Nahunta H. D. Club, High School Library. March 9, Monday 8:25, Hobo ken 4-H Club, 2 meetings. March 10, Tuesday 8:30, Slip Cover short course (2 days) Na hunta High School Home Ec Lab. March 11, Wednesday 8:30, Sec ond day of Slip Cover short course. March 12, Thursday 8:25, Na hunta Grammar School 4-H Club (2 meetings) 2:30 Raybon H. D. Club meets with Mrs. Jimmy Highsmith. March 13, Friday 10:30, Hor tense 4-H Club. March 16, Monday 2:00, Wayn esville-Atkinson H. D. Club at Waynesville Baptist Church. March 17, Tuesday 8:25, Na hunta High 4-H Club (3 clubs meet). 3:00 Hortense H. D. Club. March 18, Wednesday 2:00, Hickox H. D. Club at the home of Mrs. Clarence Allen. March 19, Thursday 3:30, Ho boken H. D. Club with Mrs. Fred Dowling. March 24 & 25, Agent to at tend a short course for agents in Jesup. March 30 & 31, Agent to attend sort course at Rock Eagle 4-H Club Center. Woodrow Morgan Killed in Road Crash The second accident involving a farm tractor and semi-trailer, which resulted in a fatality for a Brantley county citizen, occur red early Saturday morning, Feb. 21, on U. S. Highway 301 approx imately seven miles south of Na hunta. Mr. Woodrow Morgan, 40, of Route 1, Nahunta, suffered fatal injuries when the tractor he was driving was struck by a semi trailer truck. Mr. Morgan was born in Pear son, Ga., and was the son of the late General and Katherine Da vis Morgan. He attended school in Charlton county, and had been a resident of this county for the past eleven years. He was a member of the Hickox Baptist Church, and at the time of his death was engaged in farming. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Johns Morgan of Na hunta; three daughters, Janett, Mary Joyce, and Latrelle Mor gan, all of Nahunta; four sis ters, Mrs. Folks Henderson of Manor, Mrs. Hester Ann Lee of Folkston, Mrs. Roy Thomas of Callahan, Fla., and Mrs. Dick Johnson of Winokur; three bro thers, Henry Morgan of Callahan, Fla; Colonel Morgan of Folkston, and George Morgan of Waycross; several nieces and nephews also survive. Funeral services were held from the Hickox Baptist Church Sunday afternoon, Feb. 22, at three o’clock with the Rev. Mar vin Smith, agisted by the Rev. E. P. Corbitt, conducting the rites in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Interment followed in Bethle hem Cemetery. Serving as pallbearers were Messrs. Clarence Allen, Horace Jacobs, Woodrow Hendrix, Ned Hendrix, Aley Lee, and Lavelle Bohannon. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of ar rangements. Watch the label on your paper — don’t let your sub- scription expire. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Lions Club to Sponsor STAR Scholastic Program The Brantley County Lions Club will sponsor the 1959 Stu dent-Teacher-Achievement - Rec ognition program for the local school system, E. C. Hammond, chairman of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce education deoartment announced this week. “The success of this program to encourage scholastic achieve ment and to honor Georgia’s teaching profession,” said Mr. Hammond, “lies largely with lo cal enthusiasm for the over-all program. As students and teach ers realize their community rec ognizes and appreciates their ef forts, the result will be a strengthening of educational stan dards throughout Georgia.” “For that reason,” he added, “the Lions Club is to be espec ially commended for its partici pation and sponsorship of the STAR program.” STAR students in this area and throughout Georgia will be de termined by scores made on the annual College Board Scholastic Aptitude Test Each young per son named a STAR student will be asked to name the still active Georgia teacher who, in the stu dent’s opinion, made the greatest contribution to his or her schol astic achievement. Those so sele ected will be named STAR teach ers. The Total Selling Medium How valuable is newspaper advertising to the retail mer chant? Here’s what the president of a Montana department store has to say: “If I were suddenly re stricted to one and only one ad vertising medium, I would board up the display windows, discon tinue all interior and department al selling displays, eliminate all informative show cards, discon tinue all sales meetings and sales incentives, stop all tele phone selling — and continue an aggressive business-building ad vertising investment in the news papers.” This merchant also terms newspapers “the total selling medium”. What advertiser could ask for more? ——- -™—- I 111 WBwa wMI HERMAN TALMADGE Biß ^ cporfs From I’ I | WASHINGTON ) MANY PEOPLE RAVE asked how they can help in the campaign to get Congress to submit my pro posed constitutional amendment to restore state and local control over public schools to the states for ratification question to their Senators and Congressmen. Our struggle is for the minds of people in other regions and our one last hope of obtaining a serious hearing for our viewpoint in Congress lies in eliciting a sympathetic expres sion to members of Congress from non-Southern independent thinkers. i am convinced that, if we can reach such people, they will react in support of our position. IT HAS COME as a great sur prise to many people to learn that Congress, in voting last year to ad mit Alaska to the Union, gave that State exclusive and perpetual con trol over its public schools and col leges. President Eisenhower, when asked about that at one of his re cent newt conferences, expressed surprise and said it was “a matter that I have not even heard about.” Research just completed at my request by the Legislative Refer ence Service of the Library of Con gress discloses that 10 other states likewise were granted “exclusive control” over their educational in stitutions upon their admission to statehood. Such grants of author- My answer is by writing to relatives and ac quaintances in states outside the South and asking them to express them- selves on this • • • (sol aroparM •» prmUd «l 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) A new lumber mill will begin operating at Buck Still near Na hunta in about 60 days, it has been learned. The lumber mill will include sawmill, planing mill and chip per operations and will be ope rated by J. C. Hackett of Greens boro, S. C. Mr. Hackett has a three-year contract with a paper company to say; their timber. He also has contracted with the Okefeno ke Rural Electric Corp, for elec tric power for three years. The new. lumber operation at Buck Still will employ a num ber of workers and will be a big economic asset to Brantley Coun ty. The mill will be of high capac ity and will turn out both rough and planed lumber of high quali ty. Mr. Hackett, the operator, has had long experience in the lum ber business. The land at Buck Still on Route 84 east of Nahunta is being clear ed preparatory to erecting the lumber mill. The company ex pects to begin operations in pro ducing lumber in about 60 days. If you have news for your local newspaper, get it in early for best handling. Big businesses are usually small businesses which kept on advertising. L-^Thunks to You! Your Heart Fund Saves Hearts and Lives New advances in heart surgery have saved many thousands of lives during the past 10 years. These advances were speeded be cause you gave to the Heart Fund. For more progress... avt^riCHT ity were made to the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Mon tana and Washington in 1829, Ida ho and Wyoming in 1890, Utah in 1894, Oklahoma in 1906 and New Mexico and Arizona in 1912. In each case the term “exclusive control” was used and, with the exception of Oklahoma, each such delegation of power was made “for ever.” The Oklahoma Admission Act further provided that nothing in it would “be construed to prevent the establishment and maintenance of separate schools for white and colored children.” • • • THE NUMBER OF states pos sessing such extraordinary power over theii public educational insti tutions may be increased to an even dozen in the not too distant future because the Ha "aiian Statehood Bills per ding in both Houses of Congress provide in Section s(c) that Hawaiian schools “shall for ever remain under the exclusive control of said State.” There is o objection to Alaska, Oklahoma or any other state pos sessing and exercising such au thority To the contrary, it is my firm conviction that all 49 states should have similar power and, it is out of that conviction, that I am seeking approval of my proposed amendment to ’'•sure all tates of that right for all time to come. That is a proposition with which every American who wishes a voice in che education of his children and who subscribes to our constitution al heritage of local self-determina tion should agree. <?T s^4^ '**^l i L J;’