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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 25
Big Liquor
Still Found
Near Odum
WAYCROSS — Federal Reve
nue agents report the seizure of
a huge illicit liquor operation
Tuesday about eight miles north
west of Odum in Wayne County.
W. H. Maine, federal revenue
agent of Waycross, reports the
arrest of two men and the tak
ing of five stills with a total ca
pacity of 3,900 gallons, 7,020 gal
lons of mash. 373 gallons of no
tax paid whiskey and a 1954 pick
up truck.
Maine identified the two men
arrested as Frank Holmes and
Jonny Richard Morris. Both of
Lyons, the pair was arraigned
here Tuesday before U- S. Comm
issioner Alma Hardy and released
on SSOO bond each.
Agents participating in the raid
with Maine were H. L. Mueller,
Way cross, Glen T. Cawthron, Sa
vannah, Brack Poe and William
W. Williams of Macon.
In another recent raid, Maine
reports the arrest of Otto Pitt
man of Manor who was charged
by the agents with transporing
materials to a distillery. Pittman
was released under SSOO bond fol
lowing a hearing before Com
missioner Hardy, Maine said.
Seized in the Ware County raid
were a 1951 auto, two complete
copper stills and 250-gallons of
mash.
Maine, Mueller and state agents
Frank Bennett and Frank Cliett,
all of Waycross, participated in
this raid.
Local Stores
To Close
On July 4
Most of the stores and business
places in Nahunta will be closed
on Saturday, July 4, for the ob
servance of the annual July 4
holiday, it is announced.
The post office also will be
closed and the rural routes will
not have mail carried on that
date.
Citizens are requested to pur
chase their weekend needs not
later than Friday, July 3.
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Reports From
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THE CALL OF Senator Mike
Mansfield of Montana for a “thor
oughgoing reform” of the nation’s
foreign aid program is an encour
aging straw in the wind.
ity on foreign affairs, has on two
recent occasions addressed the
Senate about the urgent need for
Congress to act to correct what
he aptly called “the administra
tive decadence with which foreign
aid is now surrounded . . . (and)
the costly bureaucratic obsession
to expand the aid program into
whatever, nation will have it,
whether it is needed or not.” The
fact that he, has added his power-
ful voice to those of us who long
, have spoken out against the ex
cesses and follies of the present
aid program is perhaps the best
indication yet that the growing
disenchantment of the masses of
the American people with it is
making itself felt in Washington.
• • •
WHILE IT WOULD be too
much to expect Congress to re
verse itself overnight, hope has
been renewed that the day of the
great giveaway is drawing to a
close. There seems to be a good
chance that that end may be has
tened with the adoption at this
Session of some of the amend
ments proposed ay Senator Mans
field and others, including myself.
Senator Mansfield wants to
abolish the International Coopera
tion Administration and end all
foreign aid grants, economic as
sistance and defense support in
Mrs. M. F. Wildes
Funeral Service
Was Held Tuesday
Mrs. Zona Johns Wildes, 73, of
Route 2, Nahunta, passed away
Sunday morning, June 21, follow
ing a long illness.
Although she had been in ill
health for many years, Mrs. Wil
des had borne her suffering with
a fortitute which had made her
life a blessing to the entire com
munity, and her death brings
personal sorrow to many and re
moves one of Brantley county’s
most beloved residents.
Mrs. Wildes was born in Way
ne, now Brantley, county and was
the daughter of the late Frank
lin and Celeste Dowling Johns.
She received her education in the
schools of the county.
Survivors include her husband,
Mr. Mark F. Wildes of Nahunta;
four daughters, Mrs. R. M. Tho
mas of Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs.
L. T. Wasdin of Folkston, Mrs.
W. C. Scott of Morrisville, Penn.,
and Miss Mattie Lou Wildes of
Atlanta; two sons, Lacey M. Wil
des of Bonaire, Ga., and Woodrow
W. Wildes of Brunswick; one sis
ter, Mrs. Cora Herrin of Thomas
ville; two bothers, Jeff Johns and
W. Rock Johns, both of Nahunta;
10 grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews also survive.
Funeral services were held
from the graveside at Knox Ce
metery Tuesday morning, June
23, at eleven o’clock with the
Rev. Lester Edgy and the Rev.
Cecil F. Thomas conducting the
rites in the presence of a large
number of sorrowing relatives
and friends.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. Banner Wainright, Ray
Johns, Stanley Higginbotham,
Lee Prescott, and James Higgin
botham.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Safer Sunbathing
When acquiring a sun tan, pro
tective creams or lotions should
be used and exposure periods
should be for a short time at
first, gradually adding a few
minutes each day to avoid over
exposure. This hint for safe sun
bathing is from Miss Lucile
Higginbothan, health specialist,
Agricultural Extension Service.
three years. He would replace
them with scaled-down programs
of military assistance to depend
able allies under the Department
of Defense and of repayable loans
for specific economic projects un
der the Department of State. He
also is advocating removing the
present shroud of secrecy which
prevents both Congress and the
neople from learning exactly how
foreign aid dollars are being
spent.
The Senate
Democratic
Whip, who is
one of the
most respect
ed members of
the U nll e d
States Senate
and a recog
nized author-
In addition, 20 of my colleagues
and 1 have offered an amendment
to require the Administration to
submit to Congress detailed bud
gets of its proposed yearly ex
penditures under the existing
program.
THERE IS AMPLE evidence to
support the recent assertion of
the Wall Street Journal that the
program has become “unhinged
from reason” and that a “new
sense of proportion” must be re
stored to it. Failure to act on
that evidence will amount to, in
the words of the House Minority
Report or Mutual Security writ
ten by Georgia Congressman J. L.
Pilcher, “irresponsibility and in
def°nsible dereliction.”
There is no man possessed of
conscience and a sense of Chris
tian duty who would oppose any
reasonable and practical program
designed to assure the safety of
his country and to help the needy
of the world. Conversely, the
same sense of proportion and re
sponsibility demands the unquali
fied rejection of the philcjophy
that the Treasury of the United
States is a cornucopia whose out
pourings of dollars can solve al!
the problems of the world.
ity — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
• • •
Brantley lEntrryrtse
'oman Hurt
When Car
Overturns
Mrs. Peggy Jones of Bruns
wick suffered a broken shoulder
and cuts and bruises when her
car overturned on Route 84
three miles west of Nahunta Sun
day, June 21.
The car evidently was traveling
at a high rate of speed when
Mrs. Jones tried to pass another
car and overturned, according to
sheriff J. Walter Crews who in
vestigated the accident.
The car was a total loss. Mrs.
Jones was carried, to the Black
shear hospital.
5 Winners
Chosen in
4-H Contests
The County 4-H Contest held
this week and last week show
winners who will represent Bran
tley County in the District Pro
ject Axhievement Meeting to be
held at Rock Eagle in August.
Barbara Allen, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. S. K. Allen showed the
judges that her methods of cook
ing Breakfast made her the win
ner in the Better Breakfast Con
test.
Carolyn Meyers, whose parents
are Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Meyers
of Waynesville can cook a deli
cious biscuit and will compete
with other girls in South East
Georgia in making and cooking
biscuits.
Dian Davis daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Nolan Davis Jr. of Ho
boken was winner of the Corn
Meal Muffin Contest and will
make Muffins at Rock Eagle.
Doris Lane daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. H. Lane of Hortense is
winner of the Junior Girls Pub
lic Speaking Contest. Her speech
was on “What 4-H Club means to
me.”
Johnny Walker son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Walker of Waynes
ville won the Junior boys Public
Speaking contest. His speech is
titled “I Believe”.
Brick Plant
Being Built
At Patterson
Pierce county’s newest indus
try , a plant which will manufac
ture brick and tile, is now under
construction in Patterson. The
products which will be made of
concrete in several different col
ors is something new to this sect
ion.
J. O. Echols, owner and opera
tor of the new plant, to be known
as Echols Concrete Products, Inc.,
states that this new type of brick
and tile is fast growing in popu
larity in other sections of the
country. He says the nearest plant
in this section is at St. Augustine,
Fla.
Construction started about a
month ago. The machinery ar
rived last week and is now be
ing installed. The Cavitex mach
ine, from which the brick get
their name, will produce 8,000
brick a day. The same machine,
when set for tile production, can
make 16 x 16 inch patio tile at
the rate of 2,000 per day.
The brick will be made in 4
x 16 inch and 8 x 16 inch sizes,
while the patio tile, called Ter
racrete, can also be make in 8
x 16 inch size.
The plant is being built on a
one and a half acre lot, fronting
on Highway 82, within the city
limits.
Mr. Echols stated that from five
to twelve persons will be needed
to operate the machinery and
handle the production at the
plant site. From the loading pits
the mixture will go to the au
tomatic conveyor hoist to the 16
cu. ft. mixer and from there to
the Cavitex machine. The bricks
will be stored on curing racks and
carried to the kilns for curing.
The curing rooms are the latest
thing devised in concrete curing
methods, Mr. Echols said.
As soon as production gets un
derway Mr. Echols plans to hold
open house day, at which time
the public will be invited to see
the plant in operation.
Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga„ Thursday, June 25, 1959
Miss Lola Jean Driver
To Wed John Richard Rogers in September
Driver-Roger*
Mrs. Roger Glynn Driver of
Reidsville announces the engage
ment of her daughter, Lola Jean,
to John Richard Rogers, son of
Mrs. Henry Edward Rogers and
the late Mr. Rogers of Reids
ville. The wedding is being plan
ned for September.
Miss Driver is the daughter of
the late Roger Glynn Driver of
Nahunta and Carrollton. She is
the granddaughter of Mrs. W. A.
Stokes and the late Mr. Stokes
of Nahunta. She graduated from
Reidsville High School, attended
the University of Georgia, and is
now a sophomore at Georgia
Teachers College.
Mr. Rogers is a graduate of
Reidsville High School and Geor
gia Teachers College, associated
with a national inurance com
pany.
Edgy-Chorba
Miss Mary Grace Edgy became
the bride of William Chorba on
Saturday, June 20, at 10:00 A.
M. at the home of the bride’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elliot Ed
gy of Waynesville.
The groom is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Steve Chorba of Sway
erville, Pa.
The bride wore a sheath dress
of white lace over silk, with white
accessories. She wore a red or
chid corsage.
Rev. L. J. Edgy, uncle of the
bride, performed the double-ring
ceremony in the presence of a
few close friends and relatives.
After a wedding trip to Sway
erville, Pa., the couple will reside
at Patuxent River, Md., Where
the groom is stationed with the
U. S. Navy.
Atlanta College
Set to Become
Part of Mercer
The Southern College of Phar
macy in Atlanta will become a
school of Mercer University on
July 1, as a result or final action
by the respective boards of trust
ees of the two institutions.
The pharmacy school will tr
ansfer its charter and all assets
to the Baptist institution in Ma
con effective July 1. Under the
new arrangement, the Atlanta
school will parallel the Walter F.
George School of Law as a part
of the University. The pharmacy
school will continue to operate
in its present location at 223 Wal
ton Street, NW, in Atlanta.
Dr. Spright Dowell, acting pre
sident of Mercer, said the Mercer
trustees “have long been aware
of the excellent service of the
Southern College of Pharmacy
and are pleased that it is to be
come a part of Mercer Univer
sity.”
Carlton Henderson, chairman
of the SCP Board of Trustees,
said the board has long recog
nized the advantages of affilia
tion with a large institution.
At present SCP has 122 stu
dents enrolled, and an enroll
ment of 200 is expected this Fall.
The college has alumni in 115
Georgia counties.
Tobacco Co-op
Meeting Set
This Friday
Tobacco growers from the Bri
ght Leaf belt which embraces the
flue-cured area of Florida, Geor
gia, South Carolia, North Carolina
and Virginia are urged to attend
Stabilization’s 13th Annual Stock
holders Meeting. The meeting will
be held in Raleigh, N. C., on June
26th at the Sir Walter Hotel, be
ginning at 10:00 A. M.
L. T. Weeks, General Manager,
and Dorsey Matthews, Director
from District 2 (Georgia), an
nounced that James P. Richards,
President of The Tobacco Insti
tute, Inc., will be the principal
speaker. Mr. Richards who has
served in Congress from South
Carolina and held high positions
in government is very familiar
and well informed on problems
facing tobacco growers. His ad
dress will certainly be of interest
to members of Stabilization.
Other highlights of the program
will be the annual reports of Gen
eral Manager Weeks and Presi
dent Carl T. Hicks.
During the business session,
there will be a confirmation of
directors who were elected at the
district meeting earlier this year.
Directors elected were: Billy W.
Hill, District No. 1 (Florida);
Dorsey Matthews, District No. 2
(Georgia); T. W. Williamson,
District No. 3 (South Carolina);
and T. W. Allen, District No. 8
(Middle Belt of North Carolina).
All were elected for 3-year terms.
Both officials pointed up the
need for growers to fully acquaint
themselves with Stabilization’s
overall condition and other re
lated problems that seriously af
fect the growers’ welfare.
They urge all flue-cured coun
ties to send a large delegation
to the meeting.
Hickox HD Club
Met Wednesday
The Hickox Home Demonst
raton Club met at the home of
Mrs. J. C. Allen on Wednesday
of last week.
The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year;
Mrs. Lizzie Mae Hendrix, presi
dent; Mrs. Louise Hendrix, vice
president; Mrs. Janie Brand, se
cretary and treasurer; Mrs. Al
etha Mae White, FH advisor and
Mrs. Gaynelle Keene, reporter.
The nominatiing committee
were: Mrs. J- C. Allen,'Mrs. G. A.
Loyd and Mrs. M. L. Anderson.
Mrs. Virginia Raulerson dem
onstration cooking an oven meal
and served the meal to the mem
bers.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
U.S. Routes 301 and 17 Are
Georgia's Busiest Highways
Personals
W. S. C. S. will meet on Wed.
night, July 1, at the Methodist
church at 7:30 P- M. Mrs E. A.
Moody will be hostess. Mrs. W- C.
Long will have charge of the pro
gram.
Mrs. U. O. Stokes is a patient
in Waycross Memorial Hospital
following an operation on Tues
day of this week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Siegel and
grandchildren, Mary Sue and
Joey of Aberdeen, S. D., who are
spending the summer with their
grandparents, and Miss Better
Siegel of San Francisco, Calif., are
spending this week in Havana,
Cuba.
Mrs. Esther Mott of Jackson
ville, Fla., is visiting Mr. and Mrs.
T. H. Purdom this week.
Mr. and Mrs. P. U. Rozier and
daughter Wanda went to Atlanta
Sunday to enroll son Wendol in
college at a business institution.
They returned home Monday.
Wendol graduated at Nahunta
High School this spring.
Willie J. Dowling, seaman ap
prentice, USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Elbert Dowling of Route 2,
Hortense, is serving with the Ad
ministration Department of the
Naval Air Station Sanford, Fla.
Large Nest of
Yellow Jackets
Creates Problem
Destroying a yellow jacket nest
the size of a 55-gallon drum in
the residential section of Black
shear was the job facing exter
minating men about 10 O’clock
Wednesday morning of this week.
The huge nest, alive with work
ing yellow jackets, was attached
to the corner eaves of the roof
at the home of John R. Griffis on
Main street.
Mr. Griffis says that he dis
covered the nest about six weeks
ago and at that time it was a
bout the size of a man’s head.
He, his neighbor, and numerous
visitors who heard about its un
usual size, have watched its fast
growth since that time.
The insects got their material
for building the nest from decay
ed wood in the picket fence a
round the house.
Jim Hendry, Blackshear photo
grapher, stated Wednesday morn
ing that they chew the wood up
into paper fiber substance to build
their nest. Several were seen on
the pickets gathering their build
ing material.
Up until the exterminating men
started using a gas on the nest
only one person had been stung.
Mr. Griffis stated that his niece
was stung a few days ago while
playing in the yard.
The exterminating men, Harold
Harper and Lonice Thomas of
Economic exterminating Co. of
Jesup, attacked he nest with a
gas dust, using a long nozzle. The
dust was sprayed well around
the nest, but not before Thomas
was stung three times and Harper
twice.
At 1 p.m. Wednesday it was
reported that the men had dis
covered another nest in the at
tic of the house even larger than
the one outside, and, after de
stroying the one outside, were
trying to figure away to get to
it- Thomas was reported to have
been stung 12 times by the time
this issue went to press.
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Dr/Ve Safely on the Fourth
Accidents killed 655 “other guys” during the Fourth
of July holiday last year.
Three hundred and seventy “other guys” died in traffic,
192 by drowning and 93 in miscellaneous accidents.
Not one of those 655 thought an accident could or would
happen to him.
The “other guy” is all of us. No one is immune from
accidents. Or rather, everyone is immune to the extent of
his own caution or common sense.
This Fourth of July — like last year’s — will be a three
day weekend holiday for millions of Americans. The Nat
ional Safety Council has warned that motorists will clog
highways and funseekers will jam parks, lakes and pic
nic grounds. The time will be ripe for some kind of ac
cident.
Don’t you be one of the “other guys” this Independence
Day,
Keep up with the News
About Your Home County
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$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sales Tax)
U. S. Highways 17 and 301 ran
practically a dead heat as the
most heavily traveled routes in
the state last year.
In places, some highways car
ried far more vehicles.
But the State Highway Depart
ment’s 1958 traffic flow map
shows that-17 and 301 had the
heaviest uniform length through
Georgia.
TOURISTS CHOICE
The two are popular routes for
Eastern tourists traveling to and
from Florida.
U. S. 17, the coastal route, picks
up heavy local traffic at Savan
nah and Brunswick. Further in
land, 301 intersects no large ur
ban areas and has the most uni
form pattern of through and local
traffic.
Measured at rural points where
local traffic is not a major factor,
both routes show an average of
around 4,500 vehicles per day.
U. S. 41 HEAVIEST
The heaviest traffic load in the
state, of course, is on U.S. 41 from
Atlanta north to the Tennessee
line.
The average is nearly 20,000 a
day in Atlanta and around 17,000
at a point near Marietta. It
reached 12,000 at Cartersville,
and 11,000 at Calhoun and Dalton.
Traffic on U. S. 41 also is heavy
south of Atlanta, but it begins
south of Griffin, and below Ma
con it drops to less than 3,000
vehicles per day outside urban
areas.
Another heavily traveled route
is U. S. 23 northeast of Atlanta.
From Atlanta to Gainesville,
the average count was between
7,000 and 10,000 vehicles daily.
It drops to around 4,000 or less
northeast of Gainesville.
But south of Atlanta, traffic on
23 is much lighter.
U. S. 78, similarly, carries a
heavy volume of traffic around
Atlanta and Athens, but is much
more lightly traveled outside the
urban areas.
Wool Payment
Rate Will Be
Announced Soon
Payments under the 1958 wool
incentive payments program will
be made this summer, according
to George Dykes, Chairman, of
the Brantley County Agricul
tural Stabilization and Conser
vation Committee.
Under the incentive payment
program, payments on shorn wool
are made at a percentage rate
which will bring the national
average price received by all
growers for wool sold during the
1958-59 marketing year up to the
announced 62-cent-per-pound in
centive level. The 1958 program
percentage payment rate is ex
pected to be announced sometime
this month, when the 1958 aver
age price can be determined.
Average prices for shorn wool
for the first 10 months of the
season we^e about one-third be
low the 19*7 season average of
53.7 cents. Since the program’s in
centive level of 62 cents per
pound was the same for both
season, total payment under the
1958 program may exceed $75
million compared with sl6 mil
lion in 1957.
On the basis of sales already
made, indications are that prices
received for wool sold during
the 1959 marketing season will
be substantially above 1958.
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