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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 Times $2.00. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 15 Ernest Rogers Comments on Congressional Renting Policy Ernest Rogers, columnist for The Atlanta Journal, has written a satirical article based on the recent revelations that congress woman Iris Blitch and other members of congress have rented garages .and front porches to the government for home office quarters. Mr. Rogers’ article was as fol lows; congressional renting POLICY SUGGESTS AN IDEA FOR HIS DEN By Ernest Rogers Dear Boss: Recent revelations in the press concerning the manner in which certain members of Congress, in cluding our own lovely distaffer from south of here, have turned a pretty penny by charging the government for use of parts of their dwellings and grounds leads me to think that maybe you and I could work out a little deal. If a lady congressman’s garage is worth SIOO a month to the government it seems to me that the use of my den, where I often write pieces for the paper and do my heavy thinking, should have some market value of its own. True, I do take copy paper and an occasional pencil home from the office but I use my own typewriter and burn my own electricity in the interest of providing you with harmless bits of literary fluff for the editorial pages. But, somehow or other, I never get around to putting in an expense account for this stuff. Use Garage As a matter of fact, it might not be out of line to pay me a little something for the use of my garage inasmuch as that is where I retire to ponder one thing and any.her when things are not going jcoo well, wifewise, inside the house. I have noted that one con gressman up nawth has set up an office on his porch for which he charges t)ie g«w*m|Ment mere than somewhej an item of rent. If we can get together on this thing I easily can convert my screened porch, ordinarily used as a breakfast room in warm weather, into a spare of fice that could be commandeered in emergencies — such as when somebody insists on running the television machine while I am in the throes of composition in the den. Furthermore, if you are sold on this sort of thing I don’t see why we couldn’t put up a me dium-sized billboard in my front yard calling attention to the benefits to be derived from reading our family newspaper. Right Price But the price would have to be right. Boss, if we go through with that billboard thing because certain people in my household would raise holy you-know-what if anything should be done to detract from the landscaping done so expertly by the faithful “G. 8. Before going any further, though, I think there should be a .meeting of the minds on sev eral points: (1) Have I sold you on the idea? (2) Must I put in an expense account for the use of my house and grounds every month or do I get the check au tomatically; (3) Will I be paid a lump sum for use of the den, garage and front yard or indi vidual checks for each one? (4) How much? If the answer to No. 1 is “No-” there is no point in going any further and until I hear from you in regard to it I assume the status quo will remain in effect. But I am hoping you can see things my way, Boss. You know, with inflation and taxes and one thing and another I could cer tainly use the money. What is more, if elected officials are get ting .away with renting their stuff to the government maybe you could start a new trend by introducing this policy into pri vate business. ' Hoping that you will give this matter serious consideration and let me hear from you soon I am, Greedily, ERog - - - Card Os Thanks We wish to express our thanks to everyone for their kindness and for their expressions of sym pathy during the illness and death of our loved one, Mr. J. A. Wainright. We deeply appreciate every thing done for us and will al ways remember you with heart felt gratitude. Mrs. J. A. Wainright. Mrs. C. H. Penland. Mrs. R. B. Brooker. Satilla Baptist Church to Start Revival Sunday The Satilla Baptist Church at Hortense will start a revival meeting Sunday night, April 19. The revival will continue through Sunday night, April 26. Rev. Horace Gilbert of Bruns wick will be the revival preach er. Services will be held each night at 8:00 o’clock. Rev. J. D. Strader is pastor of the church. The public is cordially invited to attend all the services. Birthday Supper Held on Saturday At Martin Home A birthday supper honoring Mrs. A. A. Clark, Mrs. F. D. Rozier and Miss Earline Clark was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Martin on Satur day night, April 11. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Clark and family, Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Altman and family, Mr. Pete Murray, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Rozier and family, Mr. F. L. Murray, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Murray and son all of Pierce county. Mrs. C. E. Higginbotham, Miss Janice Higginbotham and Miss Jaurelle Drury of Nahunta. The honoree received many beau tiful gifts. Newspapers Are Source of Many Books ATHENS, Ga. — Newspapers are the stuff of which books are made. And Georgia newspapers — the small-town weeklies particu larly — are the backbone mater ial from which books about Geor gia are being written and will be written from now on. But nobody, not even an his torian, wants to stack up his at tic, his basement, and all the closets with old newspapers just so he can use them later on for reference. There may come a time, however, when he’ll need some information appearing in the paper you are reading right now. When that happens a writer checks in at the library, which has a fetish for hanging on to things anyway and which may be equipped for turning bulky newspaper files into pocket-size rolls of microfilm. During National Library Week, being observed April 12 - 18, there’ll be many a tribute paid to a library and its books, but there should be some sort of ac colade for .a library and its news papers, too, for newspapers are the chronicle of life as it is lived. Without them the job of the his torian would be formidable in deed. The library at the University of Georgia has perhaps the most complete file of Georgia news papers available. Currently, this library is microfilming 40 Geor gia newspapers; including 33 weeklies, so that they can be used by historians and by any one else who wants to see how life was lived in Georgia during any week or any year. Plans are being made now to microfilm more newspapers at a later date. Some of these files date far back into the early 1800 s and run to date, while others have shorter runs, but they are all invaluable sources of material for the years they represent. John Bonner, archivest at the University library, says that these newspapers are the main source material for many mas ter’s theses and doctoral disser tations written by University graduate students, and are one of the most valuable sources for the historian who writes books. “Nobody who does research on Georgia history can ignore Geor gia newspaper files,” he said. “These papers provide the color, the life, the local history that the historian needs.” Georgia weeklies, incidentally, serve a double purpose at the University library. After they are microfilmed, the papers are read and clipped, the clippings being stached away into appropriate folders by counties and subject matter. The Brantley Enterprise is a mong the papers now being microfilmed at the University. Srantky Etitaprto Auditorium Under Way at State's FFA-FHA Camp V I I K Uli " BWB •. OH r Mi B » USSI vWimwm W B BBlß^Ww -4 wills *^ol KBSB ' BF HHk W Bl i I fl H * B H|B — ' Georgia leaders break ground for the new $50,000 auditorium to be built at the state FFA-FHA camp near Covington under sponsorship of the Georgia Power Company. The group participating in the ground-breaking ceremonies includes, left to right, Miss Inez Wallace, state supervisor of the Future Homemakers organization; W. R. Bowdoin, former chairman of the camp develop ment committee and first president of the Georgia Future Farmers group; T. G. Walters, state supervisor of vocational education, and John J. McDonough, president, Georgia Power Company. Personals The George-Anne, publication of Georgia Teachers College, fea tures a Nahunta graduate, Hu bert Manning, as the Student of Week in its latest issue. It states, “Hubert Manning, a junior physical science major from Na hunta, Georgia, is acting presi dent of the junior class. Hubert has been active in campus clubs and activities, especially the Science Club. Sybil' Strickland, of Hortense, is listed among the students mak ing outstanding academic records during the winter quarter at the Georgia State College for Wo men. This announcement is made known by Dr. Donald MacMahon, dean of instruction at the col lege. Mrs. C. E. Higginbotham, Miss Janice Higginbotham and Miss Jaurelle Drury were guests of Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Martin and family of Patterson last week end. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Colson of Jacksonville are spending this week with her .mother, Mrs. Ro bert Drtiry of Waynesville. Mrs. Oscar Strickland return ed to her home on Wednesday of last week after being a patient in Blackshear hospital following an operation. She is now recup erating at home. Mrs. T. J. Johnson of Brook lyn, N. Y., arrived last Wednes day to spend several weeks with her sister, Mrs. J. M. Rogers at Lulaton. Sunday guests of Mrs. Alice Highsmith were Mr. and Mrs. Bailey Nelson and son and Mr. Dryals of Hilliard, Fla., and Mr. and Mrs. H- B. Highsmith and Mr. J. B. Highsmith of Bruns wick. The regular meeting o£ the Junior Woman’s Club was held at the home of Mrs. Keith Strick land Tuesday night, April 14. After the meeting the group went to Waycross where they were guests at the Waycross Junior Woman’s Club at their clubhouse. Going to Waycross were Mrs. Ben Jones. Mrs. Cecil Moody, Mrs. Norman Lewis, Mrs. Keith Strickland and Mrs. Claude Smith. Homecoming at Hortense Church Sunday, April 19 The annual homecoming will be held at Hortense Memorial Church on Sunday, April 19th, with all day services. Rev. Irwin Bishop will preach at the regular morning worship hour. In the morning there will be special music by the choir and good congregation songs. The program will open at 10:30 a.m. with a 30-minute piano con cert by Mr. Edward Kunow. At the noon hour basket din ners will be served on the grounds. The afternoon will be devoted to fellowship and good singing by the Singing Convention, in cluding the Ware County Assoc iation and others. Everybody is invited. Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 16, 1959 The first clash between a play er and his archenemy — the um pire — occured June 19, 1846, when the Knickerbocker Club of New York played the New York Baseball Club at Elysian Field in Hoboken, N. J. A player named Davis was fined six cents for cussing. The umpire was Alexan der Cartwright, a leading player for the Knicks, who had chosen to umpire instead. That game was also the first instance of team baseball as we know it. The New York club won 23 to 1 after four innings. The Knickerbocker Club, form ed in 1845, was the first regular baseball organization. And in their third season, the members donned blue and white uniforms to become the first team uni formly outfitted. A breach of baseball etiquette Junior Woman's Club of Nahunta Receives Charter The Junior Womans Club of Nahunta received their charter at the State Convention of Fed erated Women’s Clubs held in Statesboro, Ga., on April 8. Mrs. Keith Strickland is president of the Junior Woman’s Club at Na hunta. The charter was present ed by the state president, Mrs. Barnes. Attending the meeting with Mrs. Strickland were Mrs. Ben Jones, Mrs. Steve Rigdon, Mrs. Joe Walker and Mrs. Norman Lewis. The business meeting was held in the morning. A dress revue was presented in the afternoon. The groups were entertained by chorouses of the various clubs of the state. Bookmobile Schedule For Brantley County Brantley County Bookmobile schedule has been announced as follows: Monday, April 20, Hoboken, Hortense. Tuesday, April 21, Waynesville, Hickox, Nahunta High School. Wednesday, April 22, Nahunta Elementary School, Nahunta (town). Thursday, April 23, Brantley County Colored School. Baseball Fans, "Firsts" in the Any baseball fan can tell you the number of home runs Mickey Mantle belted last year or the salary of Ted Williams. But can he tell you who wore the first baseball glove? Or what player was the first to catch a ball dropped from the Washington Monument? Statistics will be flying thick and fast now that the baseball season is here. But for those who really want to impress their wives or girl griends, here are some baseball firsts: Hortense Junior 4-H Club Met on Thursday, April 9 The Hortense Junior 4-H Club met April 9 at the Hortense School auditorium. Truman Ro well, president, presided. The meeting was called to order and the devotional was read by Lan nette Moody. The 4-H pledge was led by Wanda Rozier. The min utes were read by the secretary. Next, was the talent contest and dress revue. Those who par ticipated in the talent contest were: Loraine Lyle, blue award; Joann Lane, Margie Crews and Wanda Rozier placed red awards; Edward Lane, white award. Those who participated in the dress revue were: Johnny Faye Eldridge, blue award; Erma La nier, Wanda Rozier and Linda Flowers placed in the red award group for the junior girls. Karen Strickland placed, blue; Dale Sloan and Gale Sloan received red ribbons for the cloverleaf girls. The blue ribbon winners will compete in the County con test May 20. Shirley Ann Drury, Reporter. POSTED SIGNS We have a supply of “Posted” signs for posting your land again st trespassers, 10 cents each, $1 a dozen. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga. Watch the label on your paper — don’t let your sub scription expire. Here Are Some National Game made Al Reach the first paid ball player. In 1864, it was consider ed unethical for a player to “jump” from one team to anoth er. Reach, however, deserted the Brooklyn Atlantics when he was offered money by the Philadel phia Athletics. Five years later, the Cincin nati Red Stockings turned pro fessional and became the first salared team. In those days, baseball was far from the gentlemanly game the Knickerbockers had played. A player might leave the field bleeding or unconscious after stopping a fast ball, but he re fused to baby himself by wear ing protective equipment. In 1875, however, Charles Waite, first baseman for Boston, put on a glove — flesh-colored, so the fans wouldn’t notice it. A. G. Spalding finally wore a dark brown glove, adding stuff ing to it a little at a time. The first catcher’s mask was developed in 1878 for a Harvard player who preferred being call ed a sissy to have his fine Barry more profile smashed. Still wondering about the Washington Monument? Well, Billy “Pop” Schriver of a Chica go ball club caught a ball dropp ed from the 500-foot level of the memorial in 1892. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Georgia's 1958 Conservation Achievements Show Progress Accomplishments of Georgia’s two largest and most important farmer-type Conservation Pro grams administered by the State Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Committee indicate an increase over 1957, John F. Bradley; State Administrative Officer for the State Agricultur al Stabilization and Conservation Committee, stated this week. The Agricultural Conservation Program and the Conservation Reserve Program of the Soil Bank assist farmers by sharing in the cost of establishing ap proved conservation practices, thereby conserving our land, wa ter, wildlife and natural resourc es. Preliminary reports of the major conservation accomplish ments of the two programs com bined were 169,428 acres of per manent vegetative cover estab lished, 154,993 acres planted to tree seedlings and. woodland im provement, 1,032 farm ponds con structed for livestock water or wildlife purposes, 408,405 acres of winter and summer cover crops seeded. A total of 39,898 farms participated in these pro grams in 1958 earning $9,236,547 in cost-share payments. Bradley stated that this means about one farm in every four participated in one or both of these programs during the year. The Agricultural Conservation Program offers cost-sharing assis tance to farmers to help pay part of the cost of applying needed conservation measures to their land. Payment rates vary accord ing to the work being done. How ever, cost-share payments aver age about 50 percent of the bal ance of the cost and in addition, furnish their labor and machine ry. In this process farmers are assisted in performing additional conservation about that which could be performed with their own resources. Some of the 1958 conservation accomplishments under the ACP are: permanent vegetative cover established on 151,140 acres, tree seedlings planted on 25,165 acres, improvement of permanent past ure and hay land on 63,158 acres, woodland improved on 9,122 acres, winter cover seeded o n 317,714 acres, summer cover seed ed on 90,691 acres, lime applied on 125,171 acres, constructing 2,973,156 feet of terraces, laid HERMAN TALMADGE M j From WASHINGTON llf HliH UMI THE UNITED STATES Con stitution by both content and in tent makes it clear beyond doubt that one state cannot enjoy a right or exercise a power denied to another. FA] citizens in the i several states and the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights reserves to the states and the people all “powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the States.” Inasmuch as control of education is one of those powers which the Consti tution neither delegated to the Federal Government nor pro hibited to the states, the obvious sum of those two provisions is that it was the intention of the framers of the Constitution to vest all states with absolute con trol over all matters relating to education. IN VOTING TO admit Hawaii to statehood Congress empha sized anew the ludicrous situation in which it and the Supreme Court h^ve competed with each other in seeking alternately to grant and deny this already un equivocally-reserved authority. Section s(f) of the Hawaii Act specifies that that state’s schools “shall forever remain under the exclusive control of said state,” a provision which brings to an even dozen the number of states to which Congress has made legislative grants of sole educa tional jurisdiction since 1889. The Paragraph 1, Section 2, Ar ticle IV pro vides that “the citizens of each state shall be en titled to all privileges and immunities of * ♦ » (n»t prtfuni tr frintti «< Keep up with the News About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Pius Sales Tax) 59,060 feet pipeline for livestock water, constructed 1,015 dams for livestock water and irrigation, drilled 976 wells for livestock water. The Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank provides for the withdrawal of cropland from production, helping to adjust to tal crop acreage more nearly in line with the demand. At the same time, it provides and as sists farmers in establishing and maintaining sound conservation practices on the land they put in the Reserve. Unlike the Ag ricultural Conservation Program, in additions to the sharing of the cost of establishing conservation practices, this program also makes rental payments during the period each contract is in ef fect. Annual payments to farm ers in the State for contracts in effect in 1958 amounted to $2,- 952,128. Both the Agricultural Conservation Program and the Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank are voluntary programs. Some of the 1958 conservation accomplishments under the CRP program are: establishing per manent vegetative cover on 18,- 288 acres, planting 120,706 acres of trees, construction of 17 fish ponds and one irrigation pond and establishing 78 acres for wildlife habitat. Approval of cost-shares under the Agricultural Conservation Program and contracts under the Conservation Reserve Program are administered by local Coun* ty ASC Committeemen. Under certain conditions a farm may participate in both programs, but cost-shares are not approved un der both programs on the same acreage. Present indications are that participation in these two pro grams for the year 1959 will be even larger than 1958, said Mr. Bradley. BETTER LIVESTOCK Increased demand for meat ani mal products seems assured, say animal husbandmen for the Ag ricultural Extension Service. Reasons they cite are: industrial ization of Georgia and the South east, increasing population, and rising family income. The goal of the Extension livestock program, they say, is two fold —to increase numbers and to improve quality of livestock. Supreme Court decision of May 17, 1954, and subsequent rulings, on the other hand, have denied 17 so-called Southern States that same right. ' All of which has divided the constitutionally-equal states of the Union into three unequal classes—l 2 possessing exclusive control over their public schools by act of Congress, 17 denied ex clusive control over their public schools by decree of the Supreme Court and 21 in the middle not knowing where they stand. ♦ ♦ ♦ THE ARGUMENT IS mads that the Congressional grants of authority must give way to the decrees of the Supreme Court. That theory is convincingly chal lenged by the constitutional facts that it is Congress, not the Su preme Court, which was specifi cally authorized to implement the 14th Amendment and that because statehood acts must be ratified by the residents of the territories concerned they are in effect treat ies between the United States and the people of the territories con cerned and, as such, hold status under the Constitution as the “supreme law of the land.” It is the purpose of the con stitutional amendment which eight of my colleagues and I have proposed to remedy this situation by writing into the Constitution an explicit guarantee of the right of the states to perpetual and exclusive control over their pub lic school systems. In that way the authority for local control of education would become both the express and the implied law of the land.