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— NUMBER 30
VOLUME 39
5 Vehicles Involved in
Crash and Fire on Bridge
Seven persons miraculoulsly es
caped serious injury in a spec
tacular five-vehicle accident, ex
plosion and fire about five miles
east of Nahunta on U. S. 84 short
ly after noon Wednesday.
The five vehicles, all traveling
in the same direction, were in
volved in the accident on a dead
river bridge on which repairs
were being made. Three vehicles
and three boats were completely
demolished by the accident and
ensuing fire and the driver of
one of the trucks involved sus
tained second and third degree
burns to his arms, hands and
face.
In addition, part of the wooden
bridge was destroyed by flames
Trooper A. K. Dasher of the
State Patrol identified the injured
man as Herman Bryan of Rice
ville, driver of the gas truck. He
was taken to a Waycross hospital.
Bryan was injured when he and
Donald O. Trice of Brunswick
rescued two women and a man
from one of the vehicles which
caught fire after the crash.
The vehicles involved were
identified as: A 1956 pickup truck
owned by the State Highway De
partment and driven by Donald
Oliver Trice of Brunswick; a 1956
pulpwood truck operated by
George Washington Hall of Na
hunta; an Amoco gas truck driven
by Bryan; a 1953 Chrysler sedan
driven by Samuel C. Edwards of
Atlanta and a 1956 Ford pickup
hauling four motor boats, driven
by Howard Leroy Caulkins of
Tampa, Fla.
Trooper Dasher said Lucy Mae
Edwards and Jane Edwards, both
of Atlanta, passengers in the
Chrysler, sustained painful but
not serious burns.
According to the investigator,
the accident occurred about 1:20
P. M. as traffic was being stopp
ed for one-way movement across
the bridge.
The Highway Dept, pickup
stopped as did the pulpwood
the gas truck and the
Chrysler. Trooper Dasher said the
pickup hauling the boats crash
ed into the rear of the Chrysler,
knocking it into the gas truck
and causing the fire.
Dasher said the gas truck was
knocked into the pulpwood truck
which in turn crashed into the
stopped Highway Dept, truck.
The Highway Dept, pickup truck
and pulpwood truck were only
slightly damaged and pulled away
from the other three vehicles
which were were enveloped in
flames.
Damages totalling $8,260 were
estimated to the vehicles and
bridge by the State Patrol.
A charge of driving with insuf
ficient brakes was made against
Caukins, the State Patrol said.
Assisting Trooper Dasher in in
vestigating the mishap were
Trooper H. M. Jenkins and M.
R. Hamrick of the Waycross Pa
trol Post and sheriff J. Walter
Crews of Brantley county.
Fire departments from Nahunta
and Waycross aided in putting
out the fire of the burning bridge.
Special Service
At Hortense Church
Special service will be held at
Hortense Memorial Church on
Sunday morning, Aug. 2, with
the Giddeons of Waycross in
charge of the morning service at
11:00 A. M.
The public is invited to attend
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Blackshear Tobacco Market
REPORT OF SALES AND PRICES
Lbs. Sold Amt. Average
Thursday, July 23 643,796 $360,997 $56.07
Friday, July 24 650,838 371,574 57.09
Monday, July 27 719,240 443,556 61.67
Tuesday, July 28 733,048 455,423 62.13
TOTAL 2,746,922 1,631,550 59.39
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progre
C. M. Dowling
Passed Away
Wednesday, July 29
Mr. Charles Mitchell Dowling
73 of Route 2, Nahunta passed
away shortly after noon Wednes
day, July 29, at the Memorial
Hospital in Waycross after a short
illness.
Mr. Dowling was born in Way
ne, now Brantley, county and was
the son of Mrs. Sarah Robinson
Dowling and the late Dennis
Dowling. He received his edu
cation in the schools of the coun
ty.
Until declining health forced
his retirement, he had engaged
in extensive farming operations
in the county.
In addition to his mother, Mr.
Dowling is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Minnie Johnson Dowling of
Nahunta; four daughters, Mrs.
P. H. Rogers, Mrs. H. L. Luke,
and Mrs. Bruce Thomas, all of
Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. F. A.
Gribble of Tallahassee, Fla.; five
sons, Doyle Dowling of Annapolis,
Md., C. M. Dowling of Tacoma
Park, Md., Grady Dowling of
Alma, Ga., Audy Dowling of
Green Cove Springs, Fla. and
Marolyn Dowling of Springfield,
Mo.; five sisters, Mrs. Agnes
Strickland of Nahunta, Mrs. Mo
zelle Strickland of Waycross, Mrs.
Mamie O’Berry of Millwood, Mrs.
Hattie Raulersoin of Jacksonville,
Fla., and Mrs. Newt Strickland of
Blackshear. 16 Grandchildren, 3
great grandchildren, several nie
ces and nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services will be held
from the Nahunta Baptist church
Friday afternoon, July 31, at two
o’clock with the Rev. Lester Dix
on and the Rev. Cecjl F. Thomas
officiating.
Internment will follow in Oak
Grove Cemetery.
Pallbearers, all nephews, will
be Messrs. Elroy Strickland, Ave
ry Strickland, William D. Dowl
ing, Jr., Carlos Strickland, Clifton
Strickland, and Gillis Strickland.
The body will lie in state at
the church for one hour prior to
services.
The family have the sympathy
of their many friends in their be
reavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta is in charge of ar
rangements.
Henry P. Todd
Funeral Services
Held Monday
Funeral services for little Hen
ry Parnell Todd, infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Todd of Na
hunta, who passed away early
Monday morning, July 27, at the
Pierce County Hospital, were
held from the graveside
of Knox Cemetery in Brantley
county Monday afternoon at 5:00
o’clock with the Rev. F. C. Norris
of Blackshear officiating.
In addition to his parents, sur
vivors include his maternal
grandmother, Mrs. Isabelle High
smith of Nahunta; paternal grand
mother, Mrs. Joe Griner of Way
cross; paternal grandfather, H. C.
Todd of Blackshear; maternal
great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.
Mac Herrin of Nahunta; and se
veral aunts and uncles.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Sranihy JzntaprtHF
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 30, 1959
PRAYER OF THANKS FOR HARVEST — The Rev.
Hugh P. Garner, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist
Church, leads in prayer before auction sales began at
the Big Z Warehouse, operated by Paul Edmunds, Ben
Hawthorne and Mack Carter.
Personals
Mrs. Sallie Roberson of Sav
annah arrived this week to spend
a few weeks at her home and
to spend some time with her son
Joe Roberson and family in
Brunswick.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Barnes of
Swainesboro, Ga. were guests of
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Broome Sat
urday and Sunday of last week.
They were vacationing and were
to visit relatives in Florida, also.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Braddock
-who have been vacationing at
the home of their mother, Mrs.
Alice Highsmith have returned
to their home in Jacksonville.
Other weekend guests with Mrs.
Highsmith were Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Ogden of Deerfield, Fla.,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Williams of
New York City.
Miss Jeanne Knox of Jackson
ville arrived on Friday of last
week and is spending some time
with her aunts, Miss Mary and
Miss Lera Knox and other rela
tives.
Mr. and Mrs. Louis Marginhoff
and daughter, Diane, of Charles
ton, S. C., were guests of Misses
Mary and Lera Knox last week
end.
Mrs. Cecilie Jones of Panama
City, Fla., spent Sunday night
with Misses Mary and Lera Knox.
She left to go to Columbia, S. C.,
for a visit with relatives.
Army Pvt. David A. Hutchison,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Acie Hut
chison, Hoboken, completed eight
weeks of advanced individual ar
mor training July 18 under the
Reserve Forces Act program at
Fort Knox, Ky.
Ernest M. Hickox, gunner’s
mate third class, USN, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James B. Hickox of
Route 1, Nahunta, serving aboard
attack aircraft carrier USS Han-,
cock, took part in a full-scale
naval review and visit to San
Francisco, Calif., July 17-20, after
completing a major exercise held
off the California coast.
TSgt. Renzo Davis and his
wife of California are visiting
Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Roberson
of Hortense for three weeks. Mrs.
Davis is a sister of Mrs. Rober
son. T|Sgt. Davis will go from
here to Ladd Air Force Base,
Fairbanks, Alaska where he will
be stationed.
Mrs. Vera Strickland and Miss
Mary Ruth Jacobs, who are at
tending summer school at Geor
gia Teachers College at States
boro were home for the weekend
Mrs. J. A. Thornton entered
Memorial Hospital in Waycross
on Monday of this week she will
undergo major surgery.
Miss Jerry Harper and Miss
Carolyn Higginbotham left this
week to attend summer school at
Georgia Teachers College.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kelley of
Hoboken announce the birth of
a baby boy on July 12 weighing
four pounds and fourteen ounces.
He has been named Elery Harri
son Kelley and will be called
Rusty. Mrs. Kelley and the little
boy are now both home from the
hospital and both doing fine.
A dollar spent at home will
come back to you to be spent
again.
Dr. Tuten Opens
Waycross Office
For Chiropractic
A modern, well-equipped chiro
practic health center has been
opened at 917 Frances street,
Waycross, by Dr. A. E. Tuten, of
Blackshear.
The cllnfc has a spacious and
modernly appointed reception
room, consulting room, quiet re
laxing rooms, and a completely
equipped X-ray laboratory de
signed especially for the chiro
practic field of X-ray.
The son of Chris C. Tuten of
Blackshear, Dr. Tuten attended
Palmer College of Chiropractic at
Davenport, lowa. Before coming
to Waycross, he was associated
with his brother, Dr. Chris C.
Tuten Jr. in Savannah. He was
also for a time associated with
Dr. W. E. Stuckey in Brunswick,
and then on the staff of Dr. Sid
Williams Clinic at Austell, Ga.,
where he was especially trained
in the principles and practice of
chiropractic.
After serving a tour of duty
with the U. S. Army, Dr. Tuten
chose to locate in Waycross due
to the friendliness of the people
in this area, and the opportunity
for service in the chiropractic
field.
CHIROPRACTOR — Dr. A. E.
Tuten, a native of Blackshear,
who has opened a chiropractic
health center in Waycross.
Harry Johnson of
Brunswick Passes
Harry Johnson, retired mech
anical engineer, died unexpected
ly Sunday night at his residence
in Brunswick, Mr. Johnson, a resi
dent of Brunswick for three years,
went there from Elizabeth, N. J.
He was a veteran of World War
I, serving in the Army.
Survivors include his wife,
Mary T. Johnson of Brunswick,
daughter of Millard Johnson of
Blackshear; and one brother, Ar
thur Johnson of Norwalk, Conn.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday at 10:00 A. M. in the
chapel of the Edo Miller and
sons Funeral Home with the Rev.
D. P. Ward, pastor of the Blythe
Island Baptist Church officiating.
Following services in Bruns
wick, the funeral cortege came
to Blackshear where graveside
services were held at noon with
the Darling Funeral Home of
Blackshear in charge. Military
rites were held at the graveside
by a detachment from Fort
Stewart.
Tobacco Prices and Volume
Range Higher Than Last Year
Prices paid for tobacco and volume sold on the Blackshear market were up substant
ially from last year for the first four days of the 1959 auction season.
Blackshear’s average price paid reached $61.67 per hundred Monday and was
$62.13 Tuesday. The volume on Tuesday of this week also reached a season high with
733,048 pounds being sold.
Volume was reported heavy
through Wednesday and good
prices apparently prevailed al
though July 29 sale totals were
not available at press time.
During the first four days of
sales this season, the Blackshear
tobacco market sold 2,746,922
pounds of leaf for $1,631,550 — an
average of 59.39 cents per pound.
This compared with 1,980,692
pounds sold in Blackshear during
the first four days of the 1958
season, bringing $1,156,678, for an
average of 58.39 cents per pound.
Better Leaf Rises
Better quality leaf showed gains
of SI.OO to $2.00 per hundred
pounds Tuesday in Blackshear
and generally throughout the
Georgia-Florida belt. Leaf grades
started an upward trend on Mon
day. Practically all tobacco grad
ed in the straight lemon and or
ange colors averaged $60.00 to
$66.00.
Blackshear’s average of $61.67
on Monday of this week was $2.38
per hundred above the belt aver
age of $59.29.
Brantley County
4-H Club Members
To Represent County
At District Meeting
Some Brantley County 4-H
Club boys and girls have been
working very hard to prepare
themselves for representing the
County at the South East Geor
gia District Project Achievement
Meeting to be held at Rock Ea
gle Aug. 3-5.
The projects and those repre
senting are:
Crop and weed Study demon
strations, Linda Beth Manor.
Beautification of Home
Grounds, Alice Sue DePratter.
Clothing, Una Wilson, Grace
Middleton, & Laverne Middleton.
Jr. Electric, Anna Dee Wilson
and Dennis Raulerson.
Jr. Forestry, Gail Strickland.
Jr. Gardening, Wendell Herrin.
Public Speaking, Carolyn Alt
man, Doris Lane and Johnny Wal
ker.
Meal Preparation, Charles Gib
son.
Cloverleaf Frozen Foods, Sha
ron Herrin.
Junior Frozen Foods, Lynn Her
rin.
Senior Frozen Foods, Aria Dean
Wilson.
Between Meal Snacks, Joan
Johns.
Jr. Health, Shirley Jones.
Home Improvement, Marlene
Ross.
Cotton and It’s Uses, Lorna
Hardin.
Muffins, Dian Davis.
Livestock Conservation, Terry
Thomas.
Tractor, Aley Lee.
Better Breakfast, Barbara Al
len.
Cloverleaf Canning, Jane Wil
son.
Biscuits, Carolyn Meyers.
Talent, Sandra Jacobs, Jimmy
Allen, Nancy Moody, Jack Brook
er and Margaret Davis, with Ela
ine Allen, accompanist.
These boys and girls who re
present almost every community
in the County, have already sent
their records to the State 4-H
Club office in Athens for judging
Their speeches, and demonstra
tions will be judged by accredited
judges and will count 60 per cent
while the records count 40 per
cent.
Examination to
Be Held for
Rural Mail Carrier
An examination for Rural Car
rier for the post office at Nahun
ta, Ga., will be open for accept
ance of applications until Aug.
25, 1959, the Commission an
nounced.
Applicants must take a written
test for this position. They must
have resided within the delivery
of the office one year immediate
ly preceding the closing date of
the examination. In addition, they
must have reached their 'lßth
birthday on the closing date for
acceptance of applications. There
is no maximum age limit How
ever, persons who have passed
the age of 70 may be considered
only for temporary renewal ap
pointments of one year.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Belle Crafton
Passed Away
In Tampa, Fla.
Funeral services for Mrs. Belle
Wainright Crafton, a former re
sident of Brantley county, who
passed away in a Tampa, Fla.,
hospital Wednesday, July 29, will
be held Sunday afternoon, Aug
2, at two o’clock from the Hickox
Baptist church with the pastor,
the Rev. Marvin Smith, officiat
ing.
Interment will follow in Hickox
Cemetery.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Hattie Peterson of Dunellon,
Fla.; two sons, Thomas Blocker
and Joseph Blocker, both of Dun
elion, Fla.; and one brother, G.
W. Wainright of Nahunta.
Mrs. Crafton’s body will arrive
in Nahunta Saturday morning via
rail and will be carried to the
Chambless Funeral Home in Na
hunta where it will remain until
taken to the church at one o’-
clock Sunday afternoon to lie in
state for one hour prior to ser
vices.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta is in charge of ar
rangements.
Sheriffs Want
To Abolish
Fee System
The Georgia Sheriffs Associa
tion has set in motion a campaign
to abolish the fee system for pay
ing sheriffs and to substitute a
salary-budget plan similar to one
recently enacted in Florida.
The association, in a two-day
I convention at St. Simons Island,
Ga., last week-end, also named a
steering committee to push plans
for a boy’s ranch as a home for
needy and worthy boys, and em
powered this committee to act in
selecting a site from among off
ers that have been made. The
committee will also decide on
plans for financing the project
through special gifts in addition
to $lO a year honorary member
ships which are now being offer
ed.
Sheriff Jewell L. Futch of Low
ndes county, re-elected without
opposition for another term as
associate president, said the pro
posed salary-budget plan would
assure sufficient funds for oper
ation of sheriffs departments and
eliminate the controversial fee
system. The association attorney,
John Jernigan of Covingon, Ga.,
was instructed to prepare a sal
ary-budget bill for introduction in
the next session of the Georgia
General Assembly after the plan
was unanimously endorsed by the
approximately 75 sheriffs attend
ing the convention.
Other officers elected by the
association are: Sheriff Fred
Stewart of Chattooga county,
first vice president; Sheriff John
Maples of Mitchell county, sec
ond vice president; and Sheriff
Robert E. Lee of Ware county,
secretary-treasurer.
NOTICE TO CITIZENS
OF NAHUNTA
If you wish to vote in the city election
on Oct. 7, you will have to register at the
city hall at least 15 days before the elect
ion.
You must have resided in Nahunta six
months prior to the election in order to
vote in a city election.
MRS. E. T. HIGGINBOTHAM
CITY CLERK
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Farmers Urged
To Vote in
ASC Election
George Dykes, Chairman of the
Brantley County ASC Committee,
urged again that all eligible vot
ers attend and vote in the 1960
ASC committee election meetings
to be held on August 5. Persons
attending these meetings will vote
for the committee membership
positions by secret ballot. The
nominations will also be by se
cret ballot.
The meetings will be held in the
Nahunta, Hickox and Hoboken
Communities at the time and
places listed as follows: Nahunta,
County Courthouse Auditorium;
Hickox, J. P. Courthouse; Ho
boken, High School Gymnasium.
The meetings will begin at 12:30
P. M. and continue until voting
for all positions has been com
pleted.
Full instructions on making
nominations and voting will be
provided voters at the meetings.
The Community Election Board
will be in attendance and respon
sible for the conduct of the elec
tions. The Community Election
Board will settle all questions
of eligibility to vote, tabulate the
votes and declare persons elected
during the meetings.
Persons eligible to vote in the
elections this year are those who
are of legal voting age and who
have an interest in a farm as
owner, tenant, or share-cropper:
and any person not of legal vot
ing age who is in charge of the
supervision and conduct of farm
ing operations on an entire farm.
Mr. Dykes pointed out that
committeemen today have in
creasingly important roles in the
administration of the various
programs which include ACP,
Allotment and Marketing Quota
Programs, Price Support Pro
grams, Soil Bank and other pro
grams administered through the
ASC. In view of the many re
sponsibilities carried out by
County ASC Committeemen, ser
ious consideration should be given
by all voters in making their se
lection for committeemen to
serve them in the coming year.
Youth Camp
The Piedmont Association You
th Camp is being held at Camp
Waycross this week. Approxi
mately 125 children and young
people are attending the camp
which will continue until Friday
noon.
The major emphasis of the
camp this year is the Training
Union program.
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