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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 14
Layton Johns Voted Best
High School Cage Player
By Mrs. Edna Adams
Layton Johns, a senior in the
Nahunta High School, was hon
ored at a banquet in Atlanta on
Wednesday, March 25, by the
Tip-off Club of Georgia. He re
ceived a trophy as the Georgia
High School Player of the Year.
Layton is seventeen years of
age, is six feet and seven inches
tall and weighs two hundred and
three pounds. In academic sub
jects he is an above average stu
dent, takes a special interest in
science and serves on the annual
staff.
During his last three years of
high school Layton has partici
pated in basketball, track and
baseball. As a sophomore, in his
first year of basketball play,
Layton made the honorable men
tion all state list. His team lost
in the final game of the State
Class B tournament by a 44-43
score.
Layton’s team, the Nahunta
Wildcats, won the State B Cham
pionship last year. He averaged
25 points a game. His junior year
was climaxed by his selection as
captain of the all-state team.
This year, as captain of his
team, Layton averaged 23 points
a game, in spite of the fact that
he sat out a good part of many
of the games. His team won 26
of 29 games. The games lost were
to Wheelright, Ky., in a prelim
inary at G.T.C. by four points;
to Ludowiti, in the final game of
the Christmas tournament by
two points; and to Folkston in
the semi-finals of the regional
tournament by two points in
overtime play.
During the playing season, the
Nahunta team was scouted by
many schools. Approximately 20
colleges contacted Layton, and
he has signed a grant-in-aid with
Auburn.
At present Layton is prepar
ing for the regional track meet
and baseball competition. He
throws the shotput and discus in
track and plays first base on the
baseball team.
States Rights
Meeting Set
For Folkston
A. meeting of the States Rights
Council of Georgia will be held
at Folkston Thursday, April 16,
at the grammar school auditor
ium.
Hon. Roy V. Harris of Augusta
will be the main speaker. A
number of citizens from Brant
ley County plan to attend the
rally.
The Georgia States Rights
Council has as its aim the de
fense of the Southern Way of
Life by preserving segregation
in the schools.
All the people in Brantley
County who are interested in the
States Right movement are urg
ed to attend the meeting at
Folkston next Thursday.
It is planned to hold such a
rally in Brantley County some
time in the future.
Nahunta High
By Emmett Mayes
The students in the ninth and
tenth grade are now studying
plays of Shakespeare — Julius
Ceasar and As You Like It. Os
five main eleirients of the play—
plot, character, atmosphere,
scene, and speech — the students
are concentrating on plot more
than any other element. Plot,
which generally means the main
story of a play, etc., seems to
be the element of Shakespeare’s
plays of which a knowledge is
most assumed as necessary if one
is to understand anything at all
about Shakespeare’s plays.
For college-bound students and
non-college-bound students, a
study of Shakespeare is provided
to arouse an awareness of the
power of professional speech.
Although Shakespeare wrote for
money, unlike the playwrights of
today, he wrote for a people who
enjoyed and took pride in their
ability to express themselves
elegantly. He used the common
speech of his day in his plays,
but he gathered the plots for his
plays from many sources — es
pecially Greek and Latin sources.
Some high school students
think of Shakespeare as a re-
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Karen Brooker
Funeral Service
Was Held Tuesday
Karen Brooker, 18 mopths old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Linton
Brooker, of 3304 Kemble Ave.,
Brunswick, died at the Bruns
wick Hospital Saturday night,
April 5, after an illness of one
week.
Mr. and Mrs. Brooker moved
to Brunswick about three years
ago, from Nahunta. Karen was
born in the Brunswick Hospital.
Survivors, besides her mother
and father, is one brother, Timo
thy.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock
in the chapel of the First Bap
tist Church, Brunswick, with
the Rev. Jack Lowndes officiat
ing.
Edo Miller & Sons Funeral
Home was in charge of arrange
ments. Burial was in the Bruns
wick Memorial Park Cemetery.
School English
mote, dry subject that must be
confronted in order to fulfill the
requirements of the high school
English course. It is true that for
many high school students
Shakespeare has been a bore; but
the students of Nahunta High
School are fortunate to be re
ceiving, as supplements to their
textbook material on Shake
speare, numerous films and tape
recordings on Shakespeare’s life
and his works. Mrs. Mary Lou
Gibson has aided the program
greatly by securing the films and
tape recordings for special dates.
It is hoped that these two me
dia will be used more widely
in the future since, without them,
Shakespeare could very well be
a very uninteresting subject for
the average ninth or tenth grade
student.
Most people do not find it
hard to appreciate Shakespeare
as s a .man after they discover
that he never had more than
seven years of formal education
and yet, for many years, has
been considered as having been
one of the “few real geniuses in
the history of the world.” How
many students shall ever begin
to realize how Shakespeare gain
ed such a worthy reputation?
LAYTON JOHNS
Voted Best High School
Basketball Player
Bratttku EnUrprar
James A. Wainright
Funeral Service
Was Held Sunday
Mr. James A. (Jim) Wainright,
80, of Atkinson, passed away at
his home Friday night, April 3,
after a long illness.
Mr. Wainright was born in
Brantley County and was a son
of the late Mathew J. Wainright
and the late Rebecca Strickland
Wainright.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Eva Parrott; two sisters,
Mrs. Robert Allen, Sr., of Folks
ton, and Mrs. C. H. Penland of
Hortense; one brother, E. A.
Wainright Sr., of Brunswick; and
25 neices and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon, April 5, at
three o’clock at Atkinson Metho
dist Church. Burial followed in
Smyrna Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were
nephews Gelon Wasdin, Nor
wood Wainright, Everett Wain
right, R. J. Wainright, Donovan
Wilson and Oliver Prescott.
Peoples Funeral Home of
Douglas was in charge.
Horace Yarrington
Drowns When Car
Plunges into Water
A 76-year-old New Jersey man
was drowned Thursday after
noon, April 2, when the car he
was driving plunged off the
highway into the swirling back
waters of the Satilla River on
U. S. 301 north of Nahunta.
The victim was identified as
Horace Wright Yarrington of
Hackensack, N. J., a retired ele
vator inspector, who was return
ing to his home after a vacation
trip to Florida and Nassau.
Efforts to locate the automo
bile in the deep water was made
by Kenny Rosen of New York
City, a passing tourist, who div
ed into the water numerous
times.
The remains were placed a
board the East Coast Champion
Friday night, April 3, and were
carried to Ridgefield Park, N. J.,
where funeral services and in
terment were to take place later
in the week.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of lo
cal arrangements.
Personals
Captain F. C. Fisher is in
Nahunta on leave from the U.
S. Air Force. His wife, the for
mer Miss Phyllis Brooker, has
been at home with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Brooker, for
several months. Captain and
Mrs. Fisher will go to Offutt Air
Force Base at Omaha, Neb.,
where Captain Fisher has been
assigned to service after his per
iod of duty recently completed
in Germany.
Miss Sybil Claire Strickland of
Hortense was named on the
dean’s list at Georgia State Col
lege for Women at Milledgeville,
for outstanding academic record
during the winter quarter.
Mrs. Frank Hickox has return
ed home from the Waycross
Memorial Hospital after 10 days
stay. She is doing well. Her
daughter, Mrs. Clyde Walker, of
Opelika, Ala., is staying with
her this week.
Mr. J. Seigel has returned from
Augusta, Ga., where he attended
the “Masters Golf Tournament”
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Sawyer
from Rosement, Pa., will arrive
in Nahunta Friday, April 10, for
a visit with Mr. and Mrs. J.
Seigel. Mrs. Sawyer and Mrs.
Seigel are sisters.
Patricia Lee of Nahunta is one
of 52 new students enrolled at
Georgia Teachers College for the
spring quarter. Miss Lee is a
senior at GTC.
Out-of-town relatives attending
the funeral of Mr J. A. Wain
right Sunday were Mr. and Mrs.
Oliver Prescott of Griffin, Mr.
and Mrs. Gelon Wasdin of Bre
man, Norwood Wainright and
Oren Parrott of Savannah, Mr.
and Mrs. I. W. Fisher of Coch
ran, Mr. and Mrs. Noble Lee of
Kingsland, Mr. and Mrs. Ivory'
Highsmith, Mr. and Mrs. Ballard
Higginbotham, Mr. and Mrs. Ray
ford Pierce, Mrs. Corbett Scheal
ter, Jack Bruce, Elzie Wainright,
Brunswick, Mr. and Mrs. Everett
Wainright, Waycross, Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Allen, Folkston, Mr.
Donovan Wilson, Mr. and Mrs.
G. W. Borser, Jacksonville Beach,
Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Knox, Ha
:lehurst.
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Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 9, 1959
GERALD THRIFT
Gerald Thrift
Is Named
Star Student
Gerald Thrift, son of Mr. and
Mrs. T. N. (Pete) Thrift, Nahun
ta, has been named the STAR
Student of Brantley County for
the school year 1958-59.
Gerald, member of the Nahun
ta High School senior class, rat
ed the highest score on the col
lege entrance examination, which
is required of all seniors plann
ing to enter college.
The STAR Student program
was begun with the present
school year, by the Atlanta
Chamber of Commerce, with a
dual purpose, to honor the top
student of each county and to
recognize teachers. The STAR
student selects the teacher, who
in his opinion made the greatest
contribution to his scholastic ac
hievement. Gerald’s selection
was Mrs. DeWitt Moody.
Mrs. Moody and Gerald will
be guests at a district banquet
in Waycr<^s in the near future.
During the latter part of April
they will be guests of the At
lanta Chamber of Commerce for
a tour of the city and a lunch
eon.
Be careful on the highways —
the life you save may be your
own.
Navy Man Commends Brantley
County Citizen for Good Deed
H. Pierce Mallory, Chief War
rant Officer of the U. S. Navy,
has written the editor of the
Enterprise a letter commending
one of Brantley County’s citizens
for help received when' his car
broke down near Hoboken Sun
day, March 22.
His letter and what he wrote
in his navy news letter was as
follows:
The Editor
Brantley County Newspaper
Nahunta, Georgia
Dear Sir:
I don’t suppose I’m assuming
too much by the manner in
which I’ve addressed this letter,
as .most Georgia counties have a
weekly newspaper which usual
ly emanates from the County
Seat.
I don’t claim to be an Editor,
but it does happen that in my
present duty (I am a Chief War
rant Officer in the Navy) I am
required to publish a weekly
flyer of sorts that is usually re
ferred to' as ‘the paper’ (among
other things less complimentary).
Last Sunday night I was in
volved in an accident (I don’t
refer to it as an accident as no
one was hurt) in your county,
the end result of which became
my ‘Editorial’ for this weeks pa
per (in case you can’t read the
banner, it does say ‘Extra Cre
dit’ (the origin of this name is
somewhat obscure) and I thought
that you might be interested in
it as one of your citizens was
involved.
I hope to be traveling through
your county again in the near
future and if the balance of
your citizens are as nice and
human as Mr. Sapp, I would like
to shake the hand of each and
everyone of them.
Here’s wishing you and all of
the folks in Brantley County the
best of everything.
Sincerely,
H. Pierce Malloy
“Editor” AO School
Extra Credit
“The Modern Samaritan”
While returning from the fair
state of Georgia Sunday night,
March 22, your Editor encoun
tered one of those Jacksonville
type “pot-holes” (18” wide —
18” deep) and hit same at 50
MRS. DeWITT MOODY
Stone—Johns
Final wedding plans have been
completed for the marriage of
Miss Jo Ann Stone, daughter of
Mr, and Mrs. Preston Stone, to
Pvt. Gerald Johns, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Riley Johns.
The date of the wedding has
been set for Saturday, April 11,
at 4:30 in the afternoon in the
Hoboken Baptist Church.
No formal invitations have
been issued but all friends and
relatives of the couple are cor
dially invited to attend.
Naval Stores Loan
Program Announced
Price supports for naval stores
(gum turpentine and gum rosin)
will continue in 1959 on substan
tially the same terms as in 1958,
according to word received at the
Brantley Agricultural Stabiliza
tion and Conservation office.
Loans will be available through
December 31, 1959 on eligible
gum naval stores. The support
level will reflect nearly 89 per
cent of parity for March 1959.
Under the 1958 program, about
15 percent of the gum rosin erop
and three percent of the gum
turpentine output were placed
under loan. All of the loans have
been redeemed, and, in addition,
significant sales have been made
out of rosin stocks acquired un
der earlier programs, the local
office reports.
MPH just north of Hoboken, Ga.
Needless to say, both wheels
on the right side of the little
Renault were badly bent. I man
aged to straighten the rear one
through expert manipulation of
the Ordnanceman’s most treasur
ed tool, a large hammer, but the
tire had lost all its pressure a
round the bent rim, so a pump
was needed in order to get un
derway again.
Attempts to flag passing cars
were unsuccessful until the sixth
one came by and reluctantly
stopped. The driver had no pump,
but said he would dispatch a ga
rage man to my rescue.
Finally after an interminable
wait, a gent in a sedan pulled up
and said he’d come from town
to give me a hand. I assumed he
was from a local service station,
so we loaded the wheel in his
car and set off for Hoboken.
There we found a closed service
station that had left its air hose
out for the night and while fill
ing the tire and checking it with
his gauge, the gent advised me
that he was in the refrigeration
business.
Upon returning to my car he
assisted me to reinstall the wheel
and when the job was finished,
I asked how much I owed him.
His answer was, “Owe me, for
what? — I didn’t do anything.”
Further conservation indicated
that this gentlman, Mr. Paul
Sapp by name, frequently assists
tourists and other transients pass
ing through his area ... as he
put it, “I just try to help folks
when they get caught out.”
It seems to me that in the
hustle and bustle of our modern
civilization, in our ever present
eagerness to make a buck and
keep up with the Jones’, that we
are passing up a great many op
portunities to “help folks who
get caught out” . . . not just out
on the highway, but in ordinary
living and the little problems
connected therewith.
As for me, I intend to make
it my business to repay Mr.
Sapp’s kindness by helping some
one else who is “caught out”.
Try it yourself, you might find
that this sort of thing is conta
gious . . . and . . . this is the
kind of epidemic our country
could use right now.
DIVERSITY OF GEOWM
AFRII’S9
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY GF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Dowling of
Brantley County
99 on April 24
Mrs. Sarah Dowling, Route 1,
Nahunta, will be celebrating her
99th birthday on April 24. She is
perhaps Brantley county’s oldest
citizen, . having been born in
what was then Wayne county in
1860. '
Mrs. Dowling, wife of the late
Dennis Dowling, is the mother
of eight children, six of whom
are still living. She has 47 grand
children and numerous great
grandchildren.
The wife of a farmer, she has
been a devoted and loving mo
ther for more than 70 of those
99 years. She has been a .member
of the Primitive Baptist Church
for the past 41 years.
On Sunday, April 12, a birth
day dinner will be held at the
home of her son, Charlie Dowl
ing, Route 1, Nahunta. This is
the old home place where the
Dowling family spent many
years. Dinner will be served on
the grounds with a large num
ber of relatives and friends at
tending.
The six living children are:
Mrs. Agnes Strickland and Char
lie Dowling, Nahunta; Mrs. Lalie
Strickland, Blackshear; Mrs.
Mamie O’Berry, Millwood; Mrs.
Hattie Raulerson, Jacksonville,
Fla.; and Mrs. Mozell Strickland,
Waycross.
Nahunta Garden
Club Met with
Mrs. A. S. Mizell
The Nahunta Garden Club met
at the home of Mrs t A. S. Mizell
on Tuesday afternoon, April 7,
with Mrs. Herschel Herrin as
co-hostess.
Mrs. R. B. Brooker presented
the schedule of the flower show
for approval and the date of the
show will be April 18 at the
High School building. Any one
desiring to make an entry may
get a schedule from Mrs. A. B.
Brooker.
Mrs. A. S. Mizell and Mrs.
Edna Adams, delegates to the
conference at Glennville, gave a
report of the meeting. Delegates
to the Spring Conference held at
Baxley on April 7, will report
later.
Others present were: Mesdames
Joe Siegel, Mollie Highsmith,
Jesse Lee, Collis Highsmith, Jos.
B. Strickland, Elroy Strickland,
J. C. Allen, John James, J. B.
Lewis and Harry Raulerson, a
new member.
Chicken chantilly, crackers,
cornets, spiced apples, nut cook
ies and iced tea were served for
refreshments.
Mrs. J. B. Lewis, reporter.
Institute to
Confer on
State Problems
ATLANTA, Ga., April B—State
government reorganization will
be the subject of discussions at
Emory University April 14 and
15 when 75 Georgia leaders ga
ther for an invitational spring
session of the Institute of Citizen
ship.
Dr. M. W. H. Collins, director
of the Institute of Law and Gov
ernment, University of Georgia,
will give the keynote address.
State government systems will
be analyzed and problems of re
organization taken up in small
informal group sessions. Books
furnished by the American As
sembly, Columbia University,
will be used for background ma
terial.
Representatives of business,
education, agriculture, labor and
women’s organizations will at
tend. Serving, as leaders will be
political science professors from
the University of Georgia, Geor
gia State College, Georgia Tech,
South Georgia College, and
Emory.
Dr. Cullen B. Gosnell of the
Emory faculty is institute found
er and director. William M. Hep
burn, law school dean, is chair
man of the institute’s executive
committee, and Dr. John A. Grif
fin, director of community edu
cational services, is secretary.
Carl Broome, editor of the
Brantley Enterprise, will attend
the conference and take part in
the discussions.
J. J. Lancaster, economist-farm
management. Agricultural Ex
tension Service, says good rec
ords don’t just happen. They re
sult from a farmer’s conscious
effort to keep abreast of his bu
siness.
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11 Indicted
For Felony in
Tax Crackdown
The special session of the
Brantley County Grand Jury
Monday brought 11 indictments
for felony against people who
signed that they had paid taxes
on their cars when in fact the
taxes were still unpaid.
Felony is punishable by sen
tence of one to five years and
SIOOO fine. A number of citizens
paid their taxes on their cars be
fore the special session of the
Grand Jury met Monday.
Considerable sentiment had
been aroused among Brantley
County citizens because a num
ber of people had signed false
affidavits that taxes had been
paid on their cars. State law re
quires that before a car tag can
be secured, all taxes must have
been paid on the vehicle.
The demand grew throughout
the county that the courts crack
down on those who had perjured
down on those who had made
false affidavits.
Approximately 175 people had
been involved in the matter but
most of them rushed to straigh
ten the matter out by paying
their taxes. About $4,000 in back
taxes was collected from people
in arrears.
The amounts of back taxes
ranged from one dollar to about
SSOO.
Pitches No-Hitter,
Strikes Out 17,
Wins 39 to 0
It was a baseball game for
“Ripley’s “Believe It or Not” last
Friday when Nahunta High
School played the Hoboken High
School team.
Cecil Drury hurled a no-hitter
as Nahunta defeated Hoboken
39-0 in a baseball merry-go
round.
Drury backed his sterling
mound performance with some
lusty hitting, belting four safe
ties in five trips* to pace the Na
hunta batting attack.
In pitching the no-hit victory,
Drury struck out 17 batters and
only four balls were hit out of
the infield.
Food Service Meeting
Planned at Nahunta
Mrs. Edna Adams, instruction
al supervisor for Brantley Coun
ty Schools, will speak at the Tri-
County Food Service Meeting to
be held at the Nahunta high
school Wednesday, April 15, at
3:30 p.m.
Mrs. O. A. Jones and her staff
of lunchroom workers will be
hostesses. Miss Margaret Roper,
assistant state supervisor of
lunchrooms, will present plans
for a summer workshop.
Lunchroom supervisors and
workers from Pierce, Brantley
and Ware counties are being in
vited to attend.
Hortense PT A
Met Wednesday
The Hortense Parent Teacher
Association met at the school for
the regular meeting on Wednes
day afternoon, April 8.
The meeting was called to or
der by the president, Mrs. Edna
Adams. Mr. Eugene Drury gave
the devotional. Mrs. Adams made
a talk.
At the close of the business se
ssion Mrs. Ileene Strickland, Mrs.
Betty Rowell and Mrs. Louise O’-
Berry served refreshments of
fruited jello with whipped cream,
crackers and iced tea.
Methodists Plan
Vacation School
Workers’ Institutes
District institutes for vacation
school workers in the Methodist
churches of the Waycross Dis
trict will be held April 14-15 as
follows:
Woodbine, 10:00 A.M. to 2:30
P.M., and Baxley, 7:30 to 9:30
P.M., April 14; Waycross, First
Methodist, 10:00 A.M., to 2:30
P.M., April 15.
Institute leaders, as announced
by Mrs. Wesley Carr of Black
shear, District Director of Child
ren’s Work, will be:
Mrs. Joe Glover of Brunswick,
kindergarten; Mrs. Reginald Ed
enfield of Macon, primary; Mrs.
Smith Richardson of Macon,
junior; and Rev. W. Raymond
Wilder of Brunswick, intermed
iate.
Textbooks will be on sale at
the institute. A number of Metho
dist workers from this county
are expected to attend.
