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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 10
Nahunta Baptist
Church Starts
Revival Monday
Revival services at Nahunta
Baptist Church will begin next
I Sunday, March 15, and will have
only evening services, with the
pastor and the different organiza
tions of the church leading wor
ship, beginning at 7:30. Mr. Sam
Johnson will direct the song ser
vice.
Beginning next Saturday night,
March 21, Rev. J. Omer Jones,
a former pastor, will come to us
and bring the messages twice
daily through the next week,
March 22-29. The weekday ser
vices will then be at 9:00 A. M.
and 7:30 P. M.
In the CHURCH REVIVAL
next week, March 15-22, the fol
lowing organizations will assist
the pastor in the services; Mon
day, Deacons and Brotherhood;
Tuesday, Woman’s Missionary
Union; Wednesday, all the
church; Thursday, Adult Depart
ments of Sunday School; and,
Friday, Young People.
If you are not in revival at
your own church, you have a
welcome with us in this special
season. Pray for us.
Brantley Sales
Increase for
4th Quarter
Retail sales in Brantley Coun
ty totaled $903,988.00 during the
fourth quarter of 1958 as com
pared to $890,391.00 in the same
period of 1957, according to the
Georgia State Chamber of Com
merce in its latest report based
on sales-use tax collections.
For the State as a whole, fourth
quarter business showed an in
crease of $141,423,741 over the
fourth quarter in 1957. The 1958
State totals were $4,514,104,935
compared to $4,319,681,100 in
1957. This indicates an increase
for the year of $194,423,835.
“There can be no question but
that the nearly $200,000,000 in
crease in Georgia business in
1958 was strongly influenced by
the record industrial growth our
State was experiencing,” com
mented E. A. Yates, Jr., chair
man of the Georgia State Cham
ber’s Industrial Department.
Personals
Pvt. Odis F. Moore, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Andy Moore of Nahun
ta, completed the 11-weeks air
plane repair course at the Trans
portation School, Fort Eustis, Va.,
on Feb. 27. He completed basic
combat training at Fort Jack
son, S. C.
GOVERNOR VANDIVER SIGNS OPEN RECORDS BILL INTO
LAW — Governor Ernest Vandiver signed Senate Bill No. 78
(Open Records Bill) into law this week, while two distinguished
Georgians looked on. Shown with the Governor above, left to right
are M. A. Perry, editor of The Metropolitan Herald of Atlanta and
president of the Georgia Press Association, and Rep. Frank S.
Twitty of Camilla, the Governor’s floor leader in the Georgia
House of Representatives. Introduced by Senator Eldridge Wells
Perry of Buena Vista, the new law says state, county and munici
pal re:ords shall at all times be open for a personal inspection by
any citizen of Georgia, and that such records may also be photo
graphed by any citizen. Adoption papers, income tax records and
the like are exempt and do not become open to public inspection
tinder the new law. Also supporting the Open Records bill were
Lieutenant Governor Garland Byrd of Reynolds, Ga. and Senate
Floor Leader Carl Sanders of Augusta, Ga.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Mrs. Verdie Howard
Funeral Service
Was Held Monday
Mrs. Verdie Minchew Howard,
76, beloved Nahunta resident,
passed away at Oglethorpe Sani
torium in Savannah Saturday
night, March 7, after an illness
of some time.
Mrs. Howard was born in
Charlton county and was the
daughter of the late William Is
aac and Mollie Jane O’Quinn
Minchew. She received her edu
cation in the schools of Charlton
county. She was the widow of
the late William H. Howard, a
former sheriff of Brantley coun
ty. She was a member of the
Nahunta Baptist Church and of
the Eastern Star.
Survivors include seven daugh
ters, Mrs. I. J. Davis and Mrs.
J. Walter Crews, both of Nahun
ta; Mrs. Reuben Crews of Ho
boken; Mrs. H. L. Johnson of
Homerville; Mrs. R. H. Flowers
and Mrs. M. G. Johnson, both of
Savannah; Mrs. G. B. Ash of
Oliver; two sons, William H. Ho
ward, Jr., of Navata, Calif., and
Conway Howard of Savannah;
five sisters, Mrs. Delene Schooly
and Mrs. Ray Lyle, both of Lake
land, Fla.; Mrs. M. M. Smith of
Hilliard, Fla.; Mrs. Arie Johns
of Nahunta; Mrs. Doris Sue Klein
of Wichita, Wisconsin; one bro
ther, A. P. Minchew of Waycross;
23 grandchildren, 21 great grand
children, and other relatives.
Funeral services were held
from the Nahunta Baptist Church
Monday afternoon, March 9, at
three o’clock with her pastor, the
Rev. Cecil F. Thomas, assisted
by the Rev. L. E. Fountain and
the Rev. Hoke O. Hatcher, con
ducting the rites in the presence
of a large number of sorrowing
relatives and friends.
Interment followed in Hickox
Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all grandsons,
were Messrs. Donald Lee, Claude
M. Guice, Lavon Crews, Howard
Davis, A. P. Minchew Jr., and
Lacey Johnson.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the high es
teem felt for the deceased and
she will be sadly missed by a
large host of relatives and
friends.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Mt. Calvary Baptist
Church Starts
Revival Sunday
A revival meeting will start at
Mt. Calvary Baptist Church near
Hoboken on Sunday, March 22,
it is announced by Harvey Hurst.
Rev. J. D. Strader will be the
evangelist for the meeting. Rev.
M. M. Guy is pastor of the
church. The people of this en
tire section are invited to attend
all the services.
Brantley Enteryrta
Oleander Garden
Changes into
Junior Womans Club
The regular meeting of the O
leander Garden Club was held
Tuesday night, March 10 at the
home of Mrs. J. Robert Smith.
Mrs. J. D. Orser was co-hQs
tess. At the meeting the Olean
der Garden Club was dissolved
and the Nahunta Junior Womans
Club was organized.
Mrs. Marvin Strickland, senior
advisor of the Waycross Junior
Womans Club and Mrs. Ray
Eleazer, past president, were
visitors and discussed the Junior
Womans Club organization.
At a previous .meeting Mrs.
Wendell Jordan, junior director
of the Georgia Junior Womans
Club, and Mrs. C. C. Patrick
were guests.
Officers for the Nahunta Jun
ior Womans Club are as follows:
Mrs. Keith Strickland, president;
Mrs. Ben Jones, vice-president;
Mrs. Joe Walker, secretary; Mrs.
Cecil Moody* treasurer; Mrs.
Dick Schmitt, reporter; Mrs.
Russell Huffman, librarian.
The hostesses served cheese
cake, coffee and nuts at the
social hour.
Commissioners
Proceedings
The Brantley County Com
missioners of Roads and Revenue
met in regular session March 3,
1959. Present were R. B. Brook
er, chairman, R. C. Harrell Jr.,
Clerk, Louis Prescott, Alfred
Thomas and Silas D. Lee.
The following Commissioners
were paid for six days service,
each. R. B. Brooker, $21.05; R.
C. Harrell, Jr., $21.05; Louis
Prescott, $21.05; Alfred Thomas,
$30.00, and Silas D. Lee, $30.00.
The following Pauper List was
paid for the month of February:
Ocie Moody, $10.00; Thelma ^pp.
$10.00; and Robert R. Riggins,
SIO.OO.
The following Road Hands
were paid for the month of Feb
ruary, 1959: Perry Crews, $187.-
94; Woodrow Wilson, $187.94;
Monsie Wilson, $167.94; Lonnie
Wilson, $161.50; J. H. Mercer,
$157.94; Mitchell Hulett, $182.34;
Talmadge Gunter, $177.94; Ellis
Altman, $187.94; Roscoe Murray,
$187.94; Weita Herrin, $170.00;
J. F. Willis, $187.94; Joe Lewis,
$170.00; and O. G. Lee, $271.05.
The following General Bills
were paid: C. Winton Adams,
$41.05, salary; S. E. Blount,
SIOO.OO, janitor; Archie A. Johns,
SBO.OO, salary; D. F. Herrin,
$79.15, salary and fees; George
A. Lloyd, $201.87, salary; Vir
ginia N. Raulerson, $106.05, sal
ary; Cecil Roddenberry, $50.00,
salary; Dewey Hayes, Sol. Gen.,
$63.34, salary; W. J. Summerall,
$46.00, salary; Ga. State Fores
try Comm., $525.00, budget; M.
E. Winchester, $62.00, salary; Al
vin M. Powell Jr., $12.00, travel;
Elvin F. Cooper, $103.54, salary;
Rebecca D. Griner, $334.55, sal
ary and expense; Annice L. Car
ter, $176.65, salary; Dr. E. A.
Moody, $30.00, salary; R. R. Kra
mer, $15.00, dental clinic; Edna
J. Kramer, $5.00, dental assistant;
Marshall & Bruce Co., $220.35,
office supplies; Waycross Wood
Preserving Co., $15.20, posts;
Brantley Gas & Appliance Co.,
$73.13, fuel; The Harrison Co.,
$ll.OO, office supplies; Carothel’s,
$6.80, office supplies; South Ga.
Communication Co., $23.50, in
stalling radio; DePratters Service
Station, $60.29, repairs; Carlton
Co., $6.65, repairs; South East
Sales Co., Inc., $159.82, repairs;
Okefenokee REA, $4.61, caution
light; Brantley Telephone Co.,
$103.11, phones and calls; Stan
dard Oil Co., $419.29, gas and oil;
Dixie Concrete Service, Inc.,
$239.40, concrete; Wilson &
Wainright Oil Co., $81.70, gas and
oil; The Brantley Enterprise,
$109.00, adv. and supplies; J. W.
Brooker, $6.75, supplies; Dr. E.
A. Moody, $3.50, treating prison
ers; H. S. Wilson, $256.11, repairs;
J. W. Crews, $126.85, services
rendered; Atlantic Coast Line
R. R. Co., $1,600.00, tank cars;
Dept, of Public Welfare, $925.48,
budget; A. B. Brooker & Son,
$16.64, supplies; J. F. Johns,
$45.00, putting up fence; E. C.
Hickox, $55.00, putting up fence;
Western Union, $315.00, RiW ex
pense; Atlantic Coast Line R. R.
Co., $195.00, R W expense; Way
cross Tractor Co., $559.59.
There was a resolution made
and passed beginning April 7,
1959 the County Commissioners
will meet at 10 A. M. instead of
2 P. M. There being no further
business the meeting adjourned.
R. B. Brooker, Chairman.
R. C. Harrell Jr., Clerk.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 12, 1959
Rev. M. M. Youngblood
Hoboken Evangelist
Revival Starts
At Hoboken
Next Monday
The Hoboken Baptist Church
will take part in a simultaneous
revival crusade beginning Mon
day, March 16, it is announced
by the pastor, Rev. W. C. Rice.
The crusade will start with a
week of prayer March 16, thru
March 21. The various auxiliar
ies of the church will lead the
prayer services each night dur
ing the week.
Rev. M. M. Youngblood of
Chicamauga, Qa., will be the
evangelistic preacher, beginning
Monday, March 23. Services will
be held each night at 7:30. Day
services may be announced later.
Hoboken Baptist Church will
be only one of the many Baptist
churches in this area carrying on
the revival crusade during the
same time.
Rev. Youngblood, the Hoboken
evangelist for the Hoboken cru
sade, is pastor of the Fellowship
Baptist Church at Chicamauga,
Ga. He has also held pastorates
in Tennessee and is a former
pastor of the Second Baptist
Church at LaFayette, Ga.
Increase Reported
In Livestock
The index of livestock and
poultry numbers on farms and
ranches as of January 1, 1959,
increased five percent from 1958,
but was seven percent below the
all-time peak established in 1944,
according to a Department of Ag
riculture report received by
Brantley County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation of
fice manager, Dan H. Jacobs.
The report shows that meat
animal numbers were up five
percent from a year earlier, cat
tle for milk down two percent,
poultry up four percent and
horses and mules down eight
percent.
Nahunta H. D. Club
Met Friday with
Mrs. Cecil Moody
The Nahunta Home Demon
stration £lub met Friday after
noon at the High School Library,
with Mrs. Cecil Moody serving as
hostess.
Mrs. Virginia Raulerson led an
informal discussion on “Home
Furnishings”. She showed sam
ples and gave information in
floor coverings, windows, mat
tresses, furniture and upholster
ing.
Present were: Mrs. Clint Ro
binson, Mrs. Dick Schmitt, Mrs.
Ben Jones, Mrs. Avery Strick
land, Mrs. Allan Barnard, Mrs.
Delma Herrin, Mrs. W. C. Long
and Mrs. Norman Lewis.
New Tuberculosis
Testing Program
Is Announced
Tuberculosis is still not con
trolled. The new drugs will cure
it along with rest and a high
calorie diet. The problem is in
finding the cases before the dis
ease does so much damage. By
the time the patient feels bad
he is a very sick person.
By a simple process known as
the skin test we can find sus
ceptible bases. All positive tests
will be X-Rayed to see if there
is active tuberculosis. This pro
gram is to be a routine procedure
in the schools, testing each year
the first, fifth and tenth grades.
These are the age groups most
likely to show a change.
David E. Craven
Died Monday
At Tallahassee
David Elroy Craven, 23, -died
Monday at his home in Tallahas
see, Fla.
A native of Brantley County,
he had made his home in Talla
hassee for the past two years
and was employed as an auto
parts clerk. A veteran of the Ko
rean conflict, he was the son of
Mrs. J. F. Craven of Waycross
and the late J. F. Craven.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs.
J. F. Craven, Waycross; six sis
ters, Mrs. J. A. Hodges, Mrs. J.
L. Gunter, both of Waycross;
Mrs. John A. Lee of Waynesville,
Mrs. W. M. Roberson of Fernan
dina Beach, Fla., Mrs. R. E. Al
bury, Hialeah, Fla., and Mrs. C.
C. Lunsford, Jr., of Atlanta; two
brothers, J. A. Craven of Talla
hassee and R. M. Craven, Way
cross; several nieces and nephews.
Lonnie Guy
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Lonnie Guy, 66, died Thursday,
March 5, in a Waycross hospital.
He was a retired sheet metal
worker for the Atlantic Coastline
Railroad.
A native of Brantley County,
he had been living in Ware Coun
ty for a number of years. He was
a member of the First Baptist
Church.
Survivors include four sons, J.
L. Guy, Roy Edward Guy, L. M.
Guy and Troy P. Guy, all of
Waycross; three daughters, Mrs.
W. W. Thrift, and Mrs. James A.
Thrift, both of Waycross, and
Mrs. Louise Taylor of Jackson
ville, Fla.; 18 grandchildren; one
great grandchild; a sister, Mrs.
Horace McCloud of Hoboken; one
brother, Joe Guy of Chattahoo
chee, Fla.; a number of neices and
nephews.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon at 3:00 o’-
clock at the Pleasant Valley Bap
tist Church, conducted by Dr. A.
Barnum Hawkes and the Rev.
Sam Watson. Burial was in the
Thomas Cemetery.
Owen Prescott
Heads Hoboken
Farm Bureau
The members of the Hoboken
Farm Bureau met in the Agri
culture Building March 9th and
elected officers as follows: pre
sident, Owen Prescott; vice pre
sident, Leon Jacobs; second vice
president, G- R. Stone; secretary
and treasurer, Jack Moore.
We set the second Tuesday of
each month for our regular meet
ing night. The next meeting will
be April 14 at 7:30 pm. and ev
eryone is to bring a covered dish
and one vegetable and one meat.
We will have a program of in
terest for each one. This is the
way for farmers to get together
and learn the new changes in
agriculture. Now is the time for
every farmer to stick together
and this is the way.
There are a lot of things that
the Farm Bureau can give its
members, so come out and sup
port your chapter.
Hoboken Girls
Team Loses
To Laurens
Hoboken High School girls’
basketball team lost to Laurent
County in the state Class C tour
nament at Macon Wednesday,
March 11, by a score of 40 to
33.
Lester Farr’s Laurens Tigers
outlasted Hoboken, 40-33, as Re
gina Farr, Gale Knight and Peg
gy Simmons scored 17, 12 and 7
points. Betty Ruth Welch seared
the nets for 26 points in prodding
Hoboken, a leader at 8-7 after
the first quarter but behind, 13-
12 and 27-19, at the half and
third quarter.
Hoboken (33) Laurens H. (40)
Hagin, 2 Simmons, 7
Welch, 26 Farr, 17
Redding, 5 Knight, 12
Herrin Evans
Joiner Brown
Sapp Jackson
Waste and spoilage are major
marketing problems in Georgia,
marketing specialists for the Ag
ricultural Extension Service de
clare. About 25 percent of our
perishable fruits and vegetables
are lost before reaching the con-
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Baptist Churches of Brantley
County to Join in Revivals
Nahunta “Y” Clubs
Win Award at
Atlanta Meeting
The Nahunta “Y” Clubs return
ed home from the Youth Assem
bly with a feeling of pride and
of victory. Even though our Bill
was killed by the House Com
mittee on Public Welfare, we
won the highest honor that any
“Y” Club District can earn.
Last Saturday morning the
coveted awards were announced,
and we were thrilled over the
fact that our Tri-Hi-Y Club had
won first place in the District
for presenting the best Bill.
The Bills presented by each
Club over the State were judged
by a committee appointed by the
State officials; they were judged
on their merit oi* value, content,
preparation, and the manner of
presentation.
A Bill does not have to pass
the Assembly in order to win
the award. The officials had al
ready judged each Bill, and had
made their decision before the
Assembly met. The trophy is a
beautiful thing, and is given by
the Atlanta Constitution in honor
of all the young people who lost
their lives in the Winecoff Hotel
fire.
The trophy will be placed on
display at the Brooker Hardware
Store next Tuesday afternoon,
after it has been presented to
our school. We want everyone to
come and see our award, and at
the same time offer suggestions
as to how we may win it again
next year for our school.
MORE MILK PER COW
In 1957 the average production
per cow in Georgia of the 11,290
cows on Dairy Herd Improve
ment Association test was 7,632
pounds, report dairymen at the
Agricultural Extension Service.
The top herd in the state aver
aged 16,129 pounds. Extension
dairymen believe per cow pro
duction can and must be increas
ed.
Your home newspaper —
a living record of your com
munity’s progress.
HERMAN TALMADGE
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IT WILL BE interesting to see
what kind of report is submitted by
the Special Presidential Committee
now engaged in evaluating this
country’s foreign aid program.
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hower last November to help him
prepare the mutual security spend
ing recommendations he will make
to the First Session of the 86th
Congress. Although created spe
cifically to appraise the worth of
American military assistance, the
panel of outstanding business and
military leaders also was author
ized to weigh the various economic
development projects and to deter
mine the “relative emphasis” which
should be given to the military and
economic phases of foreign aid.
• • •
THERE HAVE BEEN a number
of such studies in the past but, un
fortunately, most of them did little
more than issue general reports
which sought to whitewash the
existing program and to trade on
the prominence of their members
to propagandize Congress for big
ger and better foreign aid appro
priations.
If the Draper Committee is seri
ous about its assignment, it can
get some eye-opening examples of
the waste and boondoggling which
has characterized American for
eign aid since its inception from
the recently-released transcript of
testimony taken by the House Sub
committee for Review of the Mu
tual Security Program at closed
hearings last December. Some of its
shocking disclosures prompted Con
gressman Wayne Hays of Ohio to
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The Baptist Churches of Brant
ley Codnty will join together
with the others in the Baptist
Revival Crusade this month.
Those participating, with their
dates, pastors and evangelists,
are as follows:
Calvary Church, near Hobo
ken, Marvin Guy pastor, will hold
their revival March 15 - 22, with
J. D. Strader as evangelist.
Waynesville Church, L. A. Sav
age, pastor, will have March 22-
29 as their date, and Robert T.
Jones of Jacksonville, as evan
gelist.
Satilla Church, Hortense, J. D.
Strader pastor, will hold revival
March 22 - 29, with Horace E.
Gilbert, Brunswick, as evangel
ist.
Hoboken Church, W. C. Rice
pastor, will hold theirs March 22-
29, with Rev. M. M. Youngblood
of Chickamauga, Ga., as evangel
ist.
Hickox Baptist Church, Marvin
Smith pastor, will have their
revival March 30 - April 5, with
Cecil F. Thomas as evangelist.
Nahunta Baptist Church, Cecil
F. Thomas pastor, will have the
two weeks of March 15 - 29, as
the date, with J. Omer Jones of
Atlanta as evangelist March 21 -
27.
All these churches will hold
their evening services at 7:30
and extend a Christian welcome
to all friends in Brantley County
to help make the revivals a great
success. We are a small part of
this great Baptist Simultaneous
Crusade, as some 40,000 churches
in the United States and Canada
are expected to take part, but
we can help by giving our best
effort right here in Brantley
County. Attend the church of
your choice.
Card Os Thanks
The family of Mrs. Beulah Par
rott wish to express their thanks
to everyone who showed their
thoughtfulness and sympathy to
us during the illness and at the
death of our loved one.
We thank you for the covered
dishes which were so helpful and
the kind words of sympathy and
every consideration.
May God bless you, everyone.
THE FAMILY OF
MRS. BEULAH PARROTT.
declare that he was “for sending
somebody to jail for this mess.”
The Subcommittee learned, for
example, that despite the expendi
ture since 1956 of $579,000 in Amer
ican tax dollars and $382,000 in
United States-owned Chinese cur
rency, the International Coopera
tion Administration has yet to let a
contract for a planned sawmill for
Formosa’s Ta Shu Shan Forest.
At the same time the ICA left
$500,000 worth of sawmill equip
ment rusting on an Iranian moun
tainside for two years because it
was found inadequate for handling
Iran’s heavy teakwood logs. An
other disclosure was that three gi
gantic irrigation pumps bought for
Pakistan at a cost of $1,176,000
may have to be scrapped unused
because insufficient engineering
data was developed for constructing
a pumphouse.
♦ • •
AID EXTENDED IN such a
fashion can have only the opposite
of the desired effect. It helps
neither us nor the recipient nation
and serves only to generate con
tempt abroad and disgust here at
home.
Foreign aid which strengthens
the defense posture of this country
and economic assistance which
helps dependable allies like Korea
and Turkey in maintaining large
and effective armies in defense of
the perimeter of the Free World
certainly are in our best interests.
But it is obvious from even a cur
sory examination of the available
facts that the concept of foreign
aid as followed by the Federal
Government since World War II has
been a miserable failure which has
pleased our enemies and dismay ed
our allies.
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