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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 21
John Calhoun
To Head
NahuntaSchool
Nahunta High School will have
a new principal for the term of
1959-60 because of the resigna
tion of T. H. Edwards, Jr. The
new principal is John H. Cal
houn who comes to Nahunta from
Screven, Ga.
Mr. Edwards goes to Hazle
hurst as principal of the high
school there. He has been at
Nahunta for two years.
Mr. Calhoun, who is the new
head of Nahunta High School,
has been at Screven for seven
years. He is married and has two
children, one son, John Jr., and
one daughter, Beth.
Mr. Calhoun is a graduate of
Mercer University and has a de
gree of Master of Education from
the University of Georgia. He
taught at Montgomery County
High School before going to
Screven.
The Calhouns will move to Na
hunta as soon as they can se
cure a suitable residence.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our thanks
to all our friends and relatives
for their kindness to us during
the illness and death of our lov
ed one, Mrs. Norman Johns. We
deeply appreciate everything, es
pecially the floral offerings and
the covered dishes. We will al
ways remember you with sin
cere gratitude.
Norman Johns
and family.
Card Os Thanks
We take this means to express
our appreciation to our friends,
neighbors and relatives for their
many acts of kindness extended
us during our bereavement in the
loss of our huband, father, son
and brother, Norman Walter Lee,
also for the beautiful floral tri
butes and covered dishes.
Mrs. Norman Walter Lee
and family.
4-H Forestry Camp
To Open June Ist
Between 75 and 100 Four-H
Club boys from 38 south Georgia
counties who have outstanding
forestry records are expected to
attend the 15th annual South
Georgia 4-H Club Forestry Camp
which opens June 1 at Laura S.
Walker Park near Waycross.
These boys will be even better
young foresters after having at
tended the week of camp, accord
ing to L. R, Dunson, 4-H Club
leader in charge, provided they
follow in the footsteps of boys
who have preceded them in the
past 14 years.
Dunson said that attendance at
the South Georgia 4-H Forestry
Camp, which is sponsored by
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.,
often becomes an important mile
stone in the life of a 4-H boy
who is interested in forestry. It
is one of the oldest 4-H forestry
training camps in the nation to
day and there are a number of
professional foresters in Georgia
and other states who begin their
forestry career at one of these
annual camps, he declared.
A course of study including out
door classes in seven major as
pects of forestry will give the
boys opportunity to learn many
forestry facts from professional
foresters who will serve as in
structors, Dunson said. Heading
this instruction program will be
C. Dorsey Dyer, Extension forest
er for the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture.
In addition to the classes, which
the boys will meet in small
groups, the study program will
include a forest fire control dem
onstration, a trip to the Union
Bag-Camp Paper Corporation
Plant at Savannah, and a field
trip to nearby Okefenokee
Swamp.
Foresters who will serve as
camp instructors are: Calvin
Cherry, J. W. Smith, R. H. Tift,
A. E. Wright, V. G. Thigpen, all
of Union Bag-Camp; H. W. Wil
liams, Jr., of the Georgia Forest
ry Commission; J. A. Henson, of
the U. S. Forest Service; G. D.
Walker, Bill R. Murray, and
Dyer, all of the Extension Ser
vice.
County agents who will assist
with camp activities are: Joel
Gunnels, Worth county; Julian
Rabun, Telfair; Franklin Morris,
Laurens; Billy Meyers, Twiggs;
J. A. Mauldin, Mitchell; W. E.
Hunter, Macon; H. J. Harris, Ter
rell; Vernon Reddish, Taylor; Es
ton Daniels, Toombs; Leon J.
Peebles, Bulloch; G. A. Loyd,
Brantley; R. P. Leckie, Pierce;
and Wendell Moore, Treutlen.
Joseph T. Harris
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Mr. Joseph Thomas Harris, 76,
of Atkinson passed away early
Thursday morning, May 21, at
his home after an illness of four
weeks.
Mr. Harris was born in Wayne,
now Brantley county, and was
the son of the late Elijah and
Melissa Lane Harris. He received
his education in the schools of
the county and was a member of
the Baptist church. Until de
clining health forced his retire
ment, he was engaged in timber
operations in the county.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. Daisy Etta Johnson
and Mrs. Nancy Blackshear, both
of Jacksonville, Fla.; one , son,
Oran Harris of Hortense; two
sisters, Mrs. L. O. Taylor of At
kinson and Mrs. Martha Loper
of Hortense; one granddaughter,
three great grandchildren and
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Saturday morning, May 23, from
the Hortense Methodist Church
at ten o’clock with the Rev. Dal
ton Little, assisted by the Rev.
J. A. Wiggins, conducting the
rites.
Interment followed in Hor
tense Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. Roy Wainright, Ernest
Campbell, Raleigh Sloan, Floyd
Moody, Donald Lane, and J. W.
Lane.
The family has the sympathy
of their friends in their bereave
ment.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
John N. Duncan
Funeral Service
Held Thursday
John Needham Duncan, 75, of
Atkinson, died Tuesday afternoon,
May 26, at his home after a long
illness.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Amelia Forbes Duncan, Atkin
son; two daughters, Miss Julia
Duncan of Macon, Mrs. Jerry
Valek of Titusville, Fla.; three
sons, Lowell F. Duncan of Jesup,
J. F. Duncan of Savannah, Enoch
Duncan of Lexington Park, Md.;
one brother, W. L. Duncan of
Jacksonville, Fla.; 11 grandchild
ren; one great-grandchild; seve
ral nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. at the
chapel of the Rinehart Funeral
Home, conducted by the Rev.
Montegue of Nahunta. Burial was
in the family plot in the Jesup
Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Howard Mid
dleton, Julian Middleton, Rich
ard Alstrum, Paul Howard, Da
vid Dukes, Howard Powell.
Nahunta “Y” Clubs
Wins “AA” Rating
By Karol Kitching
Cr. Bob Henderson, District
Secretary of Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y
Clubs, has just notified the Na
hunta Tri-Hi-Y Club that it has
reached “AA” rating, the highest
honor and achievement that a
club can attain.
The Nahunta Club has worked
very hard on the 500 required
points for this honorable rating,
and they are proud of the covet
ed award.
Among the requirements are
attend the various conferences,
have a devotional and program
each school month, be sure all
reports are in the District Office
on time, have some work and
effort on projects for school, com
munity and home each month,
and to regularly install the of
ficers in addition to “Teen Talks”.
We hope our club will main
tain this rating through the
years. The President, Vice Presi
dent, and Secretary should at
tend the training school at Rock
Eagle this June. If our club is
not represented, we lose 70 points
on next year’s rating, which can
not be made up any other way.
Please get some lady to act as
an advisor and attend this very
important meeting. Let’s keep
our rating and honor before us,
work harder to even higher
goals.
DIVERSIFICATION
Marketing specialists, Agricult
ural Extension Service, point out
that wide diversification which
has taken place in Georgia ag
riculture in the past 25 years has
brought about new problems.
Markets for new products have
not come easily. Competition from
established production areas and
lack of concentrated volume to
justify market facilities and at
tract buyers have caused serious
problems.
Srantky Entrrprw
Mrs. Marvin Swilling Named
"First Lady of the Valley"
Mrs. ^larvin Swilling, mother
of Mrs. A. S. Mizell of Nahunta,
has been named “First Lady of
the Valley’’ at Langdale, Ala.,
where she has lived for many
years as the wife of a retired
Methodist minister.
The award of “First Lady of
the Valley” refers to the Chat
tahoochee Valley area of Alaba
ma and Georgia, an area that ex
tends from Westpoint, Ga., and
Langdale, Ala., southward to the
Gulf of Mexico.
The announcement of the a
ward to Mrs. Swilling was made
in a half-hour tribute to her over
a West Point, Ga., radio station.
The announcement told how
Mrs. Swilling met her future hus
band, Rev. Marvin Swilling, while
they were both students at Pied
mont College, Demorest, Ga.
After their marriage in Decem
ber, 1906, Rev. Mr. Swilling
taught school at Gillsville and
Villa Rica, Ga. Their first Metho
dist Charge was at Albertville,
Ala. They served various Metho
dist churches until they were
sent to Langdale, Ala., in 1931.
They served the Langdale
Church for four years, then serv
ed a number of other Methodist
Charges until they returned to
Langdale when Rev. Mr. Swill
ing retired from the active minis
try.
The Swillings had six children.
They now have 12 grandchildren
and one great-grandchild.
In describing Mrs. Swilling the
announcer c voted the book of
Proverbs, “She looketh well to
ways of ner household and eateth
not the bread of idleness. Her
children rise up and call her
blessed.”
The Swillings celebrated their
50th wedding anniversary on
Dec. 26, 1956, with many rela
tives and friends from their own
section and from several other
states present to congratulate
them.
The announcement of the a
ward as “First Lady of the Val
ley” also spoke of Rev. Mr.
Swilling as “a gentleman and a
scholar.” It referred to what Mrs.
Swilling called her “hobbies”.
Her hobbies were her husband,
her family, flowers, arts and
crafts, garden club, stamps.
Her stamp collection is im
pressive, with many rare French
and German stamps. The an
nouncer of the award closed his
talk as follows;
“She is a valuable member of
her church, of her community,
of her family and her entire sec
tion of the country. She is liv
ing proof that people do not grow
old if they continually enlarge
their interests. She believes that
there is always something new to
learn and always a better way
to do things. We salute you, Mar
ion Huit Swilling, First Lady of
the Valley.”
FARM INCOME INCREASE
The three functions of the Col
lege of Agriculture, University
of Georgia (teaching, research,
and Extension) are re-aligning
their programs looking forward
to the accomplishment of the goal
of $400,000,000 annual increase in
Georgia’s farm income by 1965.
The plan has been outlined by
Dr. C. C. Murray.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 28, 1959
4-H Club News
Os Brantley County
The Hortense Junior 4-H Club
met Friday, May 8.
Truman Rowell, president, call
ed the meeting to order and
Wanda Rozier led the 4-H Club
pledge. Geraldine Moody and
Shirley Harper entered the Jun
ior Better Breakfast; Doris Lane
and Patsy Murray entered the
Speech making contest. All of
them won blue ribbons. Mr.
Loyd adjourned the boys and
Mrs. Raulerson adjourned the
girls.
The 4-H Club officers from
Hoboken, Nahunta, and Hortense
met May 18 to elect officers for
a county 4-H club council.
Mrs. Raulerson called the meet
ing to order and after everyone
introduced himself we began e
lecting officers. They are as fol
lows: president, Aria Dean Wil
son,; girls vice-president, Margar
et Davis; boys vice-president, A
ley Lee; secretary, Lannette
Moody; treasurer, Hubert Pear
son; reporter, Shirley Ann Drury;
parliamentarian, Jimmy Thomas.
The meeting was then adjourned.
Army Pvt. Gerald J. Johns,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Riley Johns,
Route 1, Nahunta, completed the
ten-week liquid-oxygen plant op
eration course May 8 at The
Engineer School, Fort Belvoir,
Va. Johns entered the Army la»
November and received basic
training at Fort Jackson, S. C.
Miss Marvine Mizell and three
of her friends from Atlanta left
Atlanta on Friday of last week
to make a tour of the Dominican
Republic and the Virgin Isles.
They went byway of Miami.
They are on an air tour and
will return on Sunday, May 31.
Mrs, Ella Brown and daughter,
Harriett and Mrs. Bowen, John
Highsmith and Mrs. Lewis Stokes
and children all of Brunswick,
and Mr. and Mrs. Connie Harri
son of Thalman were visitors of
Mrs. Alice Highsmith and family
last weekend.
YOUR HELP
NEEDED
The Brantley Enterprise,
like most newspapers, oper
ates on a rather tight sche
dule which is built around
deadlines that must be met.
This statement is made to
call attention to the fact
that all news copy, in order
to be assured of publication
must be in the Brantley En
terprise office not later than
Wednesday noon.
Shirley Ann Drury, Reporter.
Personals
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HD Club Women and Girls Combine
Dress Revue and Talent Contest
The Home Demonstration Club
Women and 4-H Club girls are
to be congratulated on the fine
display of fashions which they
made to model at the county re
vue last Thursday night.
This was the first time a dress
revue had been held that the
public could review and it was
combined with a 4-H club talent
contest. All of the contestants
had been blue award winners in
their individual clubs to be eli
gible for participation in the
county contests. The 4-H clubbers
were judged 40 percent on rec
ords and 60 percent according to
score sheets for the dress and
talent contests set up by the
state 4-H club office. The Home
Demonstration women’s garments
were also judged by the state
dress revue score sheet.
The 4-H cloverleaf girls who
are 10 or 11 years old were re
quired to make simple skirts.
First place winner who will com
pete in the district dress revue
at Rock Eagle in August was La
verne Middleton, from Atkinson
and daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Julian Middleton, from Atkinson.
Second place went to Dean
Davis of Hoboken, and tied for
third place were Sharon Herrin
and Nancy Moody.
Others in the cloverleaf revue
were Karen Strickland, Loretta
Johns, Brenda Hickox. Cheryle
Davis, Linda Dowling, Mable
Herrin, Nora Faye Johns and
Anna Dee Wilson.
The 4-H Junior girls who are
12 to 13 years old were required
to make simple dresses or skirts
and blouses. First place winners
will also go to Rock Eagle repre
senting Brantley County at the
district contest. First place went
to Grace Middleton of Atkinson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Julian
Middleton. Second place, Mar
lene Ross of Nahunta, and third
to Shirley Jones of Hoboken.
Others in this group were John
ny Faye Eldridge, Wylene Ma
nor, Beatrice Crews, Sandra Ja
cobs and Linda Lewis.
The Senior 4-H Club girls
were required to make dresses
for school, church, sports or party.
The first place winner will also
represent the county at Rock
Eagle in August. Taking first
place was Una Wilson modeling
an aqua dress for church featur
ing a large collar and a straight
skirt. She chose white accessor
ies to contrast with the dress.
Una is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. John Wilson of Nahunta.
Second place went to Evelyn Ho
well who modeled a sheath dress
with a white jacket. Evelyn is
the daughter of Mrs. Harvey Ho
well of Nahunta. Third place was
taken by Wanda Purcell who mo
deled her white floor length ev
ening dress which she designed
herself. Wanda’s parents are Mr.
and Mrs. Dick Purcell. Others
participating were Carolyn Alt
man and Linda Beth Manor.
The over-all winner of the
Home Demonstration club dress
revue was Mrs. M. H. Robinson
of Waynesville. Her dress was
black eyetet embroidery with
black and white accessories and
entered under Special Occasion
division. Mrs. Robinson will re
present the county at the State
Home Demonstration Council
meeting which will be held at
the University of Georgia in
August. The alternates winner
was Mrs. M. L. Anderson who
modeled her pink floral voile
print, church dress with white
accessories. Mrs. Anderson is a
member of the Hickox club. Oth
er winners were Mrs. Jimmy
Highsmith, in house dress; Mrs.
Blanche Jones, who tied with
Mrs. Anderson for first, and Mrs.
John Wilson second in church
dreSs; Mrs. Ann Long, first, and
Mrs. Louise Hendrix, second in
tailored dresses; Mrs. Gaynelle
Keene, first, and Mrs. Thelma
Thompson, second, in stylish
stouts; Mrs. Lawson Dußose,
first, and Mrs. Gladys Strickland,
second, in suits.
Modeled were a few of the
suits and coats made during the
tailoring school by Mrs. Blanche
Jones, Mrs. Louise Hendrix, and
Mrs. M. H. Robinson, and child
rens coats, modeled by Dana
Brand made by her mother, Mrs.
Janie Brand and Karen Lewis,
made by her aunt, Mrs. Effie
Middleton.
The 4-H talent contestants w'ho
will represent Brantley County
at the district project achieve
ment meeting are: Margaret Da
vis, senior girls, who played the
piano solo and junior contestants
Nancy Moody and Jack Brooker
who did, “I have my baby", a
tap dance number, also Sandra
Jacobs and Jimmy Allen, who
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
did a black face, “I’m Coming”.
Other contestants were Elaine Al
len and Aley Lee, senior club
members and Marvin Howell,
harmonica; Lorene Lyle, song,
and band member by Wendell
Herrin, Tommy Graham, James
O’Neal and Hymrick Thomas.
A beautiful job was done by
Mrs. Nolan Davis Jr. who nar
rated the program, Mrs. W. W.
Hendrix who gave the welcome
and Mrs. M. L. Anderson who
gave the Home Makers Creed as
the devotional.
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club was hostess and served
refreshments from a beautifully
appointed tea table. The Nahunta
Home Demonstration Club was
responsible for the stage decora
tions.
Judges were: Miss Dorothy
Godwin, assistant HDA, Wayne
County; Mrs. Johnny Price, HDA
Camden County; Miss Jo Ann
Parker, State 4-H Club Officer;
Miss Alice Williams, HDA Charl
ton County; Miss Nan Flanders,
HDA Ware County; and Mrs.
Georgia Jordan, HDA Pierce
County for the clothing contest
ants. Miss Ivey Dee Chaffin, mu
sic teacher, Jesup, and Mrs. L.
H. Nelson, from Camden county.
Mr. Loyd County Agent pre
sented the talent awards and
Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, Home
Demonstration agent presented
the clothing winners.
Nahunta Post Office
Will Be Closed
Saturday, May 30
All Post Offices will be closed
Saturday, May 3C, in observance
of Memorial Day.
The General Delivery window
will be open at the Nahunta Post
Office from 8:00 A.M. to 8:30
A.M. and from 4:00 P.M. to 4:30
P.M. for sale of stamps only. No
money orders will be sold nor
will there be any Rural Service
on this date. Regular schedule to
be resumed Monday, June 1.
Dewey McNiece, poultryman,
Agricultural Extension Service,
declares the predator is probably
an owl if one or two chickens
are killed each night and their
heads and necks are missing.
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OPPONENTS OF MY pro
posed constitutional amendment
to restore slate and local control
over public schools conjured up
some absurd bogeymen in testify
ing against it.
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dom and separation of church and
state and that it would open the
door to lowered standards, capri
cious regulations, restricted edu
cational opportunities and all
manner of fancied racial, reli
gious and economic discrimina
tion. They further maintained
that Congress did not mean what
it said when it granted “exclusive
control” over schools to the last
12 states admitted to the Union.
THEY IGNORED THE pre
ponderant historical evidence that
the framers of the Fourteenth
Amendment did not intend that it
should apply to the field of edu
cation and they completely dis
counted the fact that the pro
visions of the various state
constitutions afford ample pro
tection against infringement upon
religious liberty and any relax
ation of the doctrine of separation
of church and state.
The argument that educa
tional standards would be
jeopardized by the adoption of
the Talmadge School Amend
ment is a gross insult to the
intelligence, vision, aspirations
and humanity of all Americans
and is of itself an admission of
those advancing it that they
desire absolute federal control
all facets of education.
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Vacation Bible
School to
Start Friday
The annual Vacation Bible
School in Nahunta Baptist
Church will begin with registra
tion at 2:00 p.m. Friday, May 29,
all interested in attending the
school, ages four through 16, will
be welcome.
The classes will begin Monday
morning, June 1, at 8:30 to con
tinue each day for the week until
11:30 a.m.
Those serving as superinten
dents will be: Mrs. C. F. Thomas,
Intermediates; Mrs. Effie Strick
land, Juniors; Mrs. W. C. Long,
Primaries; Mrs. George Dowling,
Beginners. There will be a nur
sery for the small children of
the teachers working in the Bible
School.
The church extends an invita
tion to all parents that do not
plan a vacation Bible School in
your church to send your child
ren to this school.
The pastor, Rev. Cecil F. Tho
mas, will serve as principal, and
Mrs. Dorothy Graham will be the
secretary.
Commencement exercises are
planned for Friday night, June
sth, at 8:00.
Bookmobile Schedule
For June 8 and 9
The Bookmobile schedule has
been announced as follows:
Monday, June 8: Hoboken,
Schlatterville, Pleasant Valley,
Hortense, Twin River, Raybon,
Thalman.
Tuesday, June 9: Riggins com
munity, Hickox, Nahunta,
Waynesville, Atkinson.
The bookmobile will begin
working at the greatest distances
away, working back toward
Brunswick. Any group of boys
and girls wishing to get books
are requested to stop the book
mobile or .meet it at the regular
stops.
Under their philosophy, the
meaning of the Fourteenth
Amendment could be distorted
not only to give the Supreme
Court authority to decree who
shall attend what school but
also to determine the number
of teachers for each school, the
amount of salaries they shall
receive and the scope of the
curricula and the content of the
textbooks taught.
While it is granted that the
Supreme Court which has substi
tuted books on sociology and
psychology for law books as the
basis for its rulings has not
passed on the statehood acts in
question, it cannot be denied that
there is no more convincing proof
than their school provisions of the
intent of Congress that the Fed
eral Government should never
interfere with the operation of
public schools by the individual
states.
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IT IS MORE than coincidence
that those who advanced these
arguments are the same individ
uals who would force others tc
comply with their personal no
tions of sociology regardless of
the consequences.
The American people will have
degenerated to a sad state in
deed when, as these persons main
tained, the Supreme Court and its
strained interpretations of the
Fourteenth Amendment are the
only remaining deterrents to dis
crimination and inferior educa
tion in this country.
Fortunately for the nation, the
American people do not have so
low an opinion of their conscience,
sense of justice and fair play and
ability to manage their own af
fairs &s do some of their de
tractors on the national scene.
