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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 22
20 Georgia
For Tobacco
WASHINGTON — The Agri
culture Department has complet
ed a survey of south Georgia to
bacco areas to determine damage
done to crops by recent exces
sive heat and rainfall.
Aides to Sen. Richard B. Rus
sell |D-Ga.) said the department
informed them that a decision
would be made soon as to what
assistance the department could
furnish the growers.
Sens. Russell and Herman Tal
madge and Rep. Iris Blitch, Geor
gia Democrats, last week asked
the department to ascertain whe
ther the section would be des
ignated as a disaster area and
thus become eligible for federal
loans or other assistance.
The state disaster committee
meeting at Athens earlier decid
ed to ask that 20 tobacco-growing
south Georgia counties be declar
ed disaster areas because of the
recent ravages of rain and heat.
The recommendation will go to
Gov. Ernest Vandiver for passing
on to President Eisenhower or
Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Benson.
A national disaster committee
will consider the report and de
cide whether or not to ask Pre
sident Eisenhower to declare the
counties a disaster area.
If these 20 counties are con
sidered stricken to a disaster de
gree, farmers there may apply
for a 3 percent Farmers Home
Administration loans.
The state disaster committee
picked these 20 counties from a
mong more than 60 that submit
ted reports of the damage to their
tobacco crops.
About 15 county disaster com
mittees in these reports declared
their counties to be suffering
from a major disaster, according
to J. L. Morgan, chairman of the
state disaster committee.
Another five counties were
considered by the state commit
tee io be disaster areas also, m
at least will be if the rain doesn’t
let up mighty soon, he indicated.
The 20 counties are all cluster
ed together in the southern por
tion of the state.
They are: Atkinson, Bacon, Ben
Hill, Berrien, Brantley, Charlton,
Clinch, Coffee, Cook, Echols, Ir
win, Jeff Davis, Lanier, Lowndes,
Montgomery, Pierce, Telfair, Tift,
Ware and Wilcox counties.
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A SECOND LOOK at the Cul
tural Exchanges Agreement sign
ed last year between the United
States and the Soviet Union raises
a serious question as to whether
this country has thereby fallen
into a Russian propaganda trap.
Cultural ex
changes be
tween nations
which are un
dertaken in
good faith and
which reach
the rank-and
file of the citi
zenry of both
countries can be productive of
international understanding and
good will and should be en
couraged. Such desired results
cannot be achieved, however,
when one of the participating na
tions approaches such exchanges
with a view toward obtaining par
tisan advantage from them and,
from the record of the past, there
is no reason to believe that the
Russians look upon them as any
thing but a one-way street.
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AT ITS RECENT winter meet
ing the American Bar Associa
tion, in adopting the report of its
Special Committee on Communist
Tactics, Strategy and Objectives,
called attention to the fact that
Soviet Premier Khrushchev in
1956 listed cultural and business
exchanges as “one of those de
velopments which will bring about
Jie growing weakness of the
United States and advance world
socialism.” The lawyers concluded
from the evidence presented that
“the primary activity of every one
of Moscow’s cultural delegates
while in this country is to pro
mote the Communist world revo
lution.”
Therefore, it is quite obvious
that the Russians see the Cultural
Exchanges Agreement as an op-
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Counties Ask
Crop Loans
Strickland -
Raulerson
Mr. and Mrs. Avery Strickland
of Nahunta announce the engage
ment and approaching marriage
of their daughter, Myra Strick
land, to Au veil Raulerson Jr.,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Auvell Raul
erson Sr., of Perry, Fla.
The wedding will be solemn
ized June 6, Saturday evening at
7 o’clock at the First Baptist
Church in Nahunta. A reception
will be held at the church social
hall.
The bride-elect was graduated
from Nahunta High School and is
presently attending Georgia
Teachers College, Statesboro.
The bridegroom-elect was gra
duated from Nahunta High
School and is presently attending
the University of Georgia, Athens.
Formal invitations will not be
issued but all friends and rela
tives of the couple are cordially
invited to the ceremony and the
reception.
4 Brantley Teachers
Receive Grants
For Special Study
Four Brantley County teachers
have received grants to do study
in special areas this summer.
Mr. Hugh Belcher, high school
science teacher in Hoboken, and
Miss Peggy Carter, an elementary
teacher, will attend the Science
Workshop at Georgia Teachers
College. Mrs. Carroll Johns, high
school mathematics and language
teacher in Nahunta, has been in
vited to attend the special Work
shop in Foreign Languages at
G.S.C.W. She will do this in pre
paration for a class she is to
begin in Spanish in the Nahunta
High School next term.
Mrs. Herschel W. Herrin, teach
er of Home Economics in Na
hunta has been asked to parti
cipate in the seminar on Family
Finance to be held at the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Dairymen, Agricultural Exten
sion Service, point out the 32,177
first services by Georgia’s art
ificial breeding association in 19-
58 is an all-time high in number
of cows inseminated.
portunity to send their espionage
agents into this country posing as
artists, dancers, scientists, farm
ers and the like and to open the
doors of America’s theaters and
homes to Communist propaganda
movies and television and radio
programs. Furthermore, they ex
pect to reap a bountiful harvest
of publicity through the United
States’ free news media while, at
the same time, using their tight
control over all avenues of infor
mation within the Soviet Union
to suppress or distort news about
the American counterparts in the
program of exchanges.
A case in point is the manner
in which Radio Moscow and the
official Soviet newspaper, Pravda,
already are denouncing and be
littling the American Cultural Ex
hibit to be shown this summer in
Moscow’s Sokolniki Park at a cost
of $3,600,000 to the American tax
payers.
CULTURE TO US in the United
States means “enlightenment and
refinement,” but to the dictators
of the Kremlin it means only “pro
duction and propaganda.” Thus,
from the standpoint of definition
alone, it is impossible to have a
meaningful agreement on cultural
exchanges with the Soviet Union.
The term of the present two
year agreement expires next Jan
uary and it is to be hoped that
the President, after serious second
thought, will heed the admonition
of Robert B. Pitkin, Managing
Editor of the American Legion
Magazine, that “no true exchange
of culture is possible in the rela
tions of the Soviet Union with any
country” and refuse to jeopardize
further the security of this coun
try through any extension of this
"Trojan-Horse” Agreement.
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Brantley Entaprifi?
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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 4, 1959
Tommy Tucker Wins
Master Prize in
Hair Styling
Tommy Tucker of Nahunta
won the Master Prize in hair
styling at the 39th annual Hair
Fashion Forum at Savannah on
May 31.
Mr. Tucker’s model was Mrs.
Radeena Moody Hiers of Way
cross. The contest at Savannah
was open to all licensed hair
dressers and was attended by
many beauticians from several
states.
Mr. Tucker’s Master Prize was
a golden statuette suitably in
scribed. He is a member of the
firm of Tucker Hair Stylists, Na
hunta. His wife, Letha, is the
other member of the firm. She
has won a number of national
and international cups for her
hair styling.
Tree Seedlings
Now Available
For Farmers
The 1959-60 Georgia Forestry
Commission seedling ordering
period commenced June 1, ac
cording to Brantley County Rang
er Avery Strickland.
Order blanks are now available
to Georgians at Forestry Com
mission county units, district of
fices and state headquarters, and
at county agents’ and soil tech
nicians’ offices, Ranger Strick
land said.
Reforestation Chief Sanford P.
Darby announced that the order
ing period will close Oct. 1, but
that orders may be cancelled
without penalty until Jan. 1, 1960.
Darby emphasized that 25 per
cent of the puchase price will be
deducted, to cover clerical costs,
from orders cancelled after Jan
uary 1.
Ranger Avery Strickland said
that for a small charge the Com
mission will deliver orders of
75,000 trees or less to county for
estry units, or offices of county
agents or soil technicians in
counties which have no forestry
units. Purchasers must pick up
all orders larger than 75,000 trees
at the nursery where the trees
are grown.
Darby stated that ASC pur
chase orders will be accepted, as
well as checks and money orders.
Longleaf, loblolly and slash pine
will cost four dollars per thou
sand and eastern red cedar and
yellow poplar ten dollars per
thousand. Eastern white pine will
cost six instead of nine dollars
per thousand, because the Com
mission will grow its own in
1959-60. c
Ranger Avery Strickland add
ed that shipment of loblolly and
slash seedlings will start about
Nov. 15. Shipment of other spe
cies will start about a month la
ter. Weather conditions may, as
in the past, cause the schedule to
vary, Ranger Avery Strickland
pointed out.
Embry M. Kendrick,
Brantley Company
Accountant, Dies
Embry Mayes Kendrick, 55, At
lanta accountant who was well
known to many Pierce counti
ans, died Tuesday, May 26, while
attending a class in the Geology
Building at Emory University.
Mr. Kendrick had been coming
to Blackshear several times a
year for many years as an ac
countant for The Brantley Com
pany and its affiliates.
He was a partner in the firm
of Waite & Kendrick in Atlanta,
which served the local company.
Mr. Kendrick was found dead
in the rest room of the Emory
University building after com
plaining of feeling ill during a
class. His hobby was geology and
he had been attending an adult
short course in paleontology at
Emory.
Mr. Kendrick had complained
of pains in the chest and later
complained in the classroom of
feeling hot. His death was att
ributed to natural causes.
Bom in Warrenton, Ga., Mr.
Kendrick had lived in Atlanta
most of his life. He was a grad
uate of old Tech High School and
received his degree in business
administration from Emory Uni
versity.
He was active in the Georgia
Society of Certified Public Ac
countants and was a member of
the Georgia Mineral Society. He
was also a member of the At
lanta First Baptist Church.
His home was at 568 Linwood
avenue, N. E., Atlanta.
KATHERINE FOERM AN
Had Perfect School
Attendance Record
Katherine Foerman
Had Perfect Record
For 12 School Years
Katherine Foerman, a member
of the 1959 graduating class of
Nahunta High School, has a per
fect attendance record for her
12 years in the public schools of
Georgia.
She attended school in Folkston
until she completed the tenth
grade. For a period of two weeks
she was enrolled in the Homer
ville High School. There was a
return to Folkston for four
weeks and then a move to Na
hunta where she graduated.
Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F.
C. Foerman, of Nahunta, made
each of the moves during a week
end in order for her to attain
this splendid record. There is a
ring of pride in their voices as
they discuss the daughters that
have already graduated with ex
cellent records. Education to the
Foerman family is an important
factor in the growing up process,
and they have cooperated in see
ing that each of their children
has thus far finished high school.
According to her teachers, Ka
therine was a good student to
work with and to have in class
Her attitude about school and
school work was highly commen
dable. She was dependable,
cheerful and cooperative.
Tests Show Light
May Limit Yield
Os Forage Crops
The yield of well-managed
forage crops may be limited by
the intensity of light, according
to cooperative studies by the U.
S. Department of Agriculture and
the University of Georgia.
Scientists Glenn W. Burton and
James E. Jackson of USDA’s Ag
ricultural Research Service and
Franklin E. Knox of Georgia be
lieve that light conditions, at the
site of the experiment, may set
the ceiling on annual production
of Coastal Bermuda grass at 12
tons of dry matter per acre no
matter how much fertilizer and
water are applied.
Their findings also help to ex
plain the belief of many live
stockmen that cattle make poor
er gains during rainy, cloudy
weather. Livestockmen have
sometimes placed the blame for
poor performance on the increas
ed amount of water in the forage.
The research, which was done
at Tifton, showed that shade in
creased the moisture content of
forage about eight percent and
that water adhering to the sui>
face of the grass further increas
ed the amount of water ingested
by the animals.
Os greater importance, from the
standpoint of animal weight
gains, say the scientists, may be
the sharp decrease in available
carbohydrates and the increase
in iignin—a woody plant mater
ial—which, in turn, should de
crease the digestilility of all
constituents in the herbage. Ani
mals consuming such forage
could be expected to make poorer
gains, they explained.
At moderate fertility levels of
the type generally used in Geor
gia, (less than 200 pounds of ni
trogen per acre) a one-third re
duction of sunlight with artifi
cial cotton-cloth shading did not
greatly affect the yield, persis
tence, or chemical composition of
Coastal Bermuda.
In experiments to determine
the effect of trees on pasture a
reas, it was found that as long
as pine trees are small and spac
ed so direct sunlight strikes the
grass during part of each day,
the grass will give satisfactory
performance. However, when the
trees reach considerable size and
begin to close the canopy, Coas
tal Bermuda can be expected to
make little growth.
Methodist Women
Met Friday Night
The WSCS met at the Metho
dist parsonage on Friday night,
May 29, with Mrs. W. A. Wig
gins as hostess.
Mrs. W. C. Long, Sr., directed
the program on “Building Chris
tian Characters”. Rev. J. A. Wig
gins led the devotional prayer.
Mrs. E. A. Mdody, president, pre
sided during business session.
Mrs. Grace Wakeley and Mrs.
J. B. Lewis were others present.
Mrs. Wiggins served sand
wiches, cookies, sand tarts and
iced tea.
Births
Ist Lt. George F. Stewart and
Mrs. Stewart who are stationed
in Italy, announce the arrival of
twin girls on May 31, weighing
six pounds and four ounces each.
They have been named Jeannette
and Jeannetta. Mr. and Mrs. Ste
wart have three other little girls.
The grandparents of the new
babies are Mr. and Mrs. Perry
Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. John
A. Allen of Nahunta.
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Sandra Diane is the name of
the new baby girl born to Dr.
and Mrs. Van Bibb Saye of New
Orleans, La. on May 12. Mrs. Jos.
B. Strickland of Nahunta is the
grandmother of the new baby.
Personals
Mrs. Gertie Strickland, Mrs.
Mollie Highsmith of Nahunta and
Mr. and Mrs. Norman Strickland
of Mershon, Ga. returned to their
respective homes on Tuesday of
this week after making a trip
to Port Arthur, Texas where
they spent a few days and attend
ed the wedding of John Curtis
Strickland, son of Mrs. Gertie
Strickland, to Miss Ann Hopkins
at Proctor Street Baptist Church
in Port Arthur on May 30.
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Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland returned
home on Monday of this week
from New Orleans, La. where
she has been spending some time
with Dr. and Mrs. Van Bibb Saye.
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Mr. Shirley Terry of Corning
N. Y. brother of Mrs. Grace Wak
eley, was here to visit his sister
and to escort her to New York
for the summer. Mrs. Wakeley
is a teacher in the Nahunta
School. They left on Friday of
last week.
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The Nahunta Garden Club will
meet Tuesday afternoon June 9
at 4:00 p.m. at the St. Illa Rest
aurant. Mrs. R. B. Brooker and
Mrs. A. B. Brooker will be host
esses Mrs. Dorothy Graham will
have charge of the program.
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Mrs. Grace Wakeley and Mr.
Shirley Terry of New York were
dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Lewis on Thursday even
ing of last week.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Ansley of
Columbia, Ohio, are visiting Mrs.
Jos. B. Strickland this week.
Mrs. Dorothy Ham will leave
from Jacksonville on Friday to
go from there to New York from
where she will go by air to
Frankfurt, Germany, to join her
husband Pvt. Huey R. Ham who
has been stationed in the Army
at Hanau Germany since March
of this year They will both be
there for 21 more months before
returning to the United tSates.
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Mrs. Irven Crews accompanied
Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huffman
to North Carolina on Tuesday of
this week. Mr. and Mrs. Huffman
will spend the summer months in
North Carolina. Mrs. Crews will
visit Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brady
and family and Miss Margaret
Crews in Statesville, N. C., and
return to Nahunta some time next
week.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hickox of
Hickox will celebrate their 53rd
wedding anniversary Sunday,
June 7, with a dinner. Friends
ai)d relatives are invited.
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Hattie Vandilla Purdom will
receive her degree of Bachelor
of Science in Home Economics at
commencement exercises at the
University of Georgia June 6.
A Bostonian on a sightseeing
trip in Texas was being shown
some of the monuments to Texas
heroes.
Texan — Now there is Sam
Houston, the greatest man who
ever lived, and over there . . .
Bostonian (interrupting) — We
had many heroes in New England,
too. Now there was Paul Revere,
and ....
Texan — Paul Revere? You
mean that fellow who ran for
help?
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Brantley Included in Plans
For Industrial Workshops
Brantley County will be one
of 32 Georgia counties to take
part in industrial workshops be
ing sponsored by the Georgia De
partment of Commerce.
As the first step in a long-range
industrial development program
of the Georgia Department of
Commerce, a series of industrial
development workshops will be
conducted this summer in 32
Georgia counties.
They will be sponsored by the
Commerce Department, the Geor
gia Tech industrial branch, and
the Georgia Rural Electric co
operatives.
Commerce Director Abit Mas
sey, who announced the program
Wednesday, said the first 32
counties selected are those which
are declining in population and
“which, according to our rec
ords, do not have a chamber of
commerce or industrial develop
ment agency.”
Massey said letters offering the
services to the counties are being
sent to members of the House of
Representatives from the re
spective counties, with copies to
county and municipal officials.
The letters state that the work
shops are being offered to “meet
a growing need for assistance in
the planning and implementation
of local industrial development
programs.”
The workshops will offer eight
hours of intensive work. The pro
gram will include a quick survey
of the apparent assets and liabil
ities of a county and a study of
means of eliminating the liabili
ties and taking advantage of the
assets.
Massey said the counties will
be asked to bear part of the cost
of the project.
Most of the workshop teams
will be provided by Dr. Ken Wag
ner, head of the Tech industrial
branch, Massey said, with assis
tance from the staffs of Walter
Harrison, head of the co-ops, and
the Commerce Department.
The commerce director said the
workshops in the first 32 coun
ties likely will run through Aug
ust and that later the program
will be offered to other counties.
The first 32 counties are Towns,
Gilmer, Banks, Madison, Oconee,
Oglethorpe, Lincoln, Taliaferro,
Paulding, Columbia, Glascock,
Most Peptic Ulcers Can
Be Managed Without Surgery
(Health Article Supplied by Georgia Medical
Association)
Peptic ulcers which affect a
bout 10 per cent of all Ameri
cans at one time or another may
occur in either the stomach or
the duodenum — the extreme up
per portion of the small intestine.
These ulcers are 10 to 12 times
more common in the duodenum
than in the stomach.
Stomach or gastric ulcers may
become’ cancerous and usually
should be treated surgically. Duo
denal ulcers which never become
cancerous may be handled very
well without surgery — provided
the patient carefully follows his
doctor’s directions and no com
plications exist. Most of them
heal within three weeks after in
tensive treatment is begun.
Peptic ulcers most commonly
develop in persons who have a
certain type of personality and
whose stomach produce too much
acid. These people are usually
very busy persons. They must be
doing something all the time.
They find it difficult, if not im
possible, to relax or to outward
ly express anger or frustration.
They work long hours and take
their worries to bed with them.
They’re never satisfied with their
achievements.
Because the predisposition to
ulcers lasts a lifetime, dietary and
other precautions are necessary
for an indefinite period to pre
vent recurrence of ulcers.
Symptoms of peptic ulcers may
be a burning or gnawing sensa
tion in the upper abdomen and
digestive discomfort one to three
hours after a meal. Eating foods
that contain a lot of acid or are
tough in texture, drinking bever
ages or smoking often precedes
an attack. The symptoms may be
so severe they waken the victim
from sleep. They’re usually re
lieved by drinking milk or eating
some food that contains no acid.
The major object of treatment
for duodenal ulcers is to keep
the stomach as free of acid as
possible. This is done by giving
the patient medicines that inhi
bit the stomach’s acid secretions
and by eliminating foods from
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HD Schedule
Announced
For Month
Your Home Demonstration A
gent will be on vacation during
the first two weeks in June so
there are several changes to no
tice for June.
June 15th — Monday, 2:00 p.m.,
the Waynesville - Atkinson Home
Demonstration Clubs will meet
with Mrs. Margarite Jacobs.
June 16th — Tuesday, 4-H Bet
ter Breakfast, Corn Meal Muf
fins, biscuits, oven meal, yeast
bread and public speaking con
test at 9:36 Nahunta High School
Home Economics Department.
June 17th — Wednesday, 2:30
Hickox Home Demonstration
Club at Mrs. J.C. Allens’.
June 18th — Thursday, 2:00,
Raybon Home Demonstration
Club - place to be announced
later.
June 19th — Friday, 3:00, Na
hunta Home Demonstration Club
to meet with Mrs. Keith Strick
land.
June 24th — Wednesday 3:30,
Hoboken Home Demonstration
Club to meet with Mrs. Nadine
Prescott. <
The demonstrations this month
will be on oven meals at the
Home Demonstration Club meet
ings.
There will be a special Record
Book Clinic held for 4-H Club
members. The time and place of
the meeting will be announced
later.
Virginia N. Raulerson,
Home Dem. Agent.
It’s everybody's job to keep
America clean, safe and beauti
ful.
the diet that "would increase the
amount of acid in the stomach.
Most anti-ulcer diets eliminate
the following: 1. Acid containing
foods such as citrus friuts, toma
toes ano vinegar. 2. Rough foods
such as nuts, corn, fried foods,
peas and beans. These would ir
ritate the lining of the stomach,
thus causing it to secrete acid.
3. Strong seasonings. 4. Very hot
and very cold foods. 5. Caffein
containing foods including coffee
and practically all bottled soft
drinks. 6. Alcohol. And it is
mandatory that the patient not
use tobacco in any form.
Complications of peptic ulcers
may occur. These complications
are bleeding, rupture, or perfora
tion and obstructions. Erosion in
to a vessel in the wall of the
stomach or duodenum causes the
ulcer to bleed. The patient may
vomit blood which may be bright
red or look like coffee grinds.
He may pass a tarry stool.
The rupture of an ulcer is us
ually accompanied by sudden, se
vere pain in the abdomen. Such
ruptured ulcers are almost al
ways promptly treated by sur
gery. At times the ulcer bearing
and perhaps the ulcer prone parts
of the stomach and duodenum
must be removed.
Obstruction to the passage of
food may occur when scar tissue
contracts and narrows the nor
mal pathways. When this hap
pens, the patient may vomit food
eaten 12 to 24 hours previously
and often loses weight. A bleed
ing ulcer or an obstruction caus
ed by an ulcer may be treated
either medically or surgically, de
pending on the circumstances of
the case.
DOC MAG SAYS:
If you are under medical treat
ment for an ulcer, follow your
doctor’s directions faithfully.
Take particularly good care of
yourself when you’re faced with
seme unusual strain or stress.
If symptoms of complication de
velop, seek medical aid immed
iately.
