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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 27, 1959
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Carl Broome Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Official Organ of Brantley County
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia.
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HERMAN TALMADGE
{ Reports from 1
Kiil 81
THERE IS NO mure convincing
argument against extending the
life of the Commission on Civil
Rights than the experience of the
Commission itself
F '
*
Mils
creation two
years ago the
Commission
has been hard
pressed to find
enough evi
dence of depri
vation of any
one s civil
rights to keep its 69 full time em
ployees busy Despite all the
publicity attendant to its estab
lishment and authorized function,
the agency had received as of the
end of the 1959 fiscal year last
June 30 only 979 complaints from
throughout the nation and its
territories and only 254 of those
were in the form of sworn affi
davits—a fact which prompted
Congressman John J Rooney of
New York, in his capacity as
Chairman of the House Subcom
mittee on Departments of State
and Justice, the Judiciary and Re
lated Agencies Appropriations to
comment: “It does not look as
though the Commission has had
very much to do."
• • •
THE COST TO the American
taxpayers as of June 30 of invest)
crating this handful of complaints
many of which admittedly have
turne ’ out to be the work of
cranks and motivated busybodies
has been $977,000 or $997 96 per
complaint. Another $288,000 has
been appropriated to carry the
Commission through its Novem
ber 8, 1959, expiration date and
its Chairman has indicated an
additional $500,000 will be re
quested for the remainder of the
1960 fiscal year in the event Con
gress votes to extend it.
Ernest Knight
DRUGGIST
The Rexall Store
Pharmacist Always on Duty
147 West Cherry St.
Phone GA 7-2254 Jesup, Ga.
A. S. MIZELL
INSURANCE AGENCY
FIRE, THEFT, COLLISION AND LIABILITY
INSURANCE. FIRE INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HAIL INSURANCE FOR YOUR
CROPS.
Phone 2-2171 Nahunta, Ga.
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.
If you are already a registered voter in the City
of Nahunta, you do not have to re-register.
MRS. E. T. HIGGINBOTHAM
CITY CLERK
ironically enough, the Commis
sion has found it necessary to
spend more time attempting to
justify its constitutionality than
investigating complaints. It has
been a storm center of contro
versy and litigation since its in
ception and only recently a three
judge federal tribunal was em
paneled in Louisiana to determine
whether its existence and powers
can be squared with the Consti
tution. As opponents of its crea
tion warned in debates before
Congress in 1957, the Louisiana
judge held that the Commission’s
procedures deprive witnesses be
fore it of their -constitutional
rights to know the charges made
against them and to cross
examine their accusers.
Since its
GEORGIANS CAN derive sat
isfaction from two aspects of this
fiasco. Oiie is that it completely
refutes the contention that force
legislation is necessary to the full
enjoyment of civil rights. The
other is that there is now an offi
cial record proving that Georgia
is doing more than talk about giv
ing its citizens the real and mean
ingful civil rights.
Os the few complaints received
by the Commission, according to
the last breakdown, only 17 came
from Georgia while there were
60 from New York, 45 from Cali
fornia, 26 from Ohio and 25 each
from Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Furthermore, Commission Chair
man John A Hannah testified be
fore the Rooney Subcommittee
that “the voting situation in
Georgia is pretty good and get
ting much better” and that in the
field of housing “there was a
story in Atlanta that could well
be told to the country.”
Power Company
Lineman Hurt
As Pole Falls
Ralph C. Sasser of Waycross,
a lineman for the Georgia Power
Company, was injured Tuesday
afternoon in Blackshear when a
pole he was trying to replace fell
and threw him on the pavement.
He was carried to the Waycross
hospital with compound arm frac
tures above the elbow and with
hip injuries and facial bruises.
The accident happened on Oak
Street.
• • •
Social & Personal
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Johns and
son, Kenneth of Hickox have re
turned home after visiting PFC
Gerald Johns and his wife of
Melvoir, Va., for a week. They
visited Washington, D. C. and oth
er points of interest on their trip.
• » »
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. (Bill) Johns
and family of Hickox are moving
back to Okeechobee, Fla. after
speeding the summer at their
home here.
• ♦ ♦
Miss Shirley Johns, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johns was
honored by her parents with a
birthday party on Saturday night
the occasion of her fourteenth
birthday. Friends and relatives
enjoyed the party. Birthday cake,
ice cream and soft drinks were
served.
♦ * ♦
Mrs. W. C. Eubanks, Mrs. Helen
Balree and son and Russell Smith
and Miker Smith all of Jackson
ville were guests of Mrs. Zonie
Harris and Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Smith of Lulaton and Mrs. Beu
lah Hickey of Hickox last week
end.
• ♦ •
Visitors at the home of Mrs.
Alice Highsmith for the weekend
were Mrs. Noble Lee and daugh
ter, Wanda, of St. Marys; Mrs.
O. A. Keen and granddaughter
of Waynesville John Highsmith
and family, Howell Highs.mth
and family, Mr. and Mrs. Connie
Harrison all of Brunswick and
Mrs. Aleen Green and son of Na
hunta.
♦ * *
Stan Siegel of Aberdeen, So.
Dakota spent the weekend with
his parent,s Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Siegel. He returned on Monday to
Aberdeen, taking his two child
ren, Mary Sue and Joey with
him. They had spent the summer
months with their grandparents.
♦ * ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edgy and
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Evans and
daughter Vicki visited Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Edgy and family in
their new home at Fancy Bluff
last Sunday.
Tobacco Prices
Tobacco brought record prices
on the Georgia-Florida flue-cur
ed markets during the 1959 sea
son with Blackshear’s market
rating second among the 28 mar
kets in average prices paid.
The U. S. Department of Agri
culture report shows that
Blackshear’s price average was
$60.91 as compared with Way
cross’ $61.56 which led the state.
Other leading markets which
averaged over 60 cents were Jas
per, Fla., Adel, Alma, and Doug
las.
Blackshear sold 9,444,504
pounds and stayed open for 17
selling days while Waycross sold
4,995,504 pounds and stayed open
15 selling days.
In gross poundage on Georgia-
Florida .markets, Blackshear was
in fifth place. Statesboro was the
leader, followed by Vidalia,
Douglas, Moultrie, Blackshear
and Tifton.
Cash returns for the Georgia-
Florida belt were 16 million
dollars ahead of the 1958 season.
The overall average price of
$57.85 a hundred pounds set a
new high mark for the third
successive year. This was .72
cents above the 1958 average.
Total poundage for the entire
belt was 160,624,111 for a gross
of 93 million dollars. The cash
return was the third highest in
history, exceeded only by 99 mil
lion in 1955 and 98^ million in
1953.
Funeral Services
Held Monday for
Noah E. O’Steen
Funeral services for Noah Ep
hriam O’Steen, 54, who died
Sunday morning at the residence
of Hansford Johnson near Patter
| son, were held Monday morning
at 11 o’clock at the Shiloh Primi
। tive Baptist Church near Black-
I shear, conducted by Elder Barney
, Crosby. Burial was in the church
I cemetery.
O’Steen, a native of Pierce
[ county, a farmer and official of
the Shiloh Church, had attended
preaching at the New Home
Primitive Baptist Church Satur
| day and was spending the night
at the residence of Mr. Johnson,
j He was stricken during the night
' and died before a physician could
be reached.
Survivors are his wife. Mrs.
Alma Altman O’Steen, Black
shear; five daughters, Mrs. James
Melton and Misses Adeline O’-
Steen. Ruth O’Steen, and Mary
Lee OSteen, all of Blackshear,
Mrs. J. H. Smith of Douglas; three
sons. Noah E. O'Steen Jr., David
O'Steen, and Daniel O'Steen of
Blackshear; one sister, Mrs. Ezra
Dowling, Blackshear; six broth
ers, H. J O'Steen, J. H. O’Steen.
Blackshear. J. G. O Steen, Bristol,
L. W. O’Steen, Valdosta, S. B.
O’Steen. W. L. O Steen, Jackson
ville. Fla.
The brethren es the church
were the pallbearers.
Darling Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Charlie and Jerry Davis are
spending this week in Jackson
vile wth their Aunt and Uncle,
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Herrin and
boys.
• ♦ *
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brand
and children, Dana, Dalton and
Deidra have returned home after
a two weeks visit with Mr. and
Mrs. Johnnie Herrin and family
in Memphis, Tenn, and Mr. and
Mrs. Barney Smith and family of
Hamilton, Ohio and Mr. and Mrs.
Joe Dixon of Dublin, Ohio.
• • •
Ronnie and Bill Middleton of
Miami, Fla. and Mr. and Mrs.
Sammy Middleton and Doug and
Sandy of St. Simons were guests
of Mrs. C. L. Middleton of Hor
tense last week.
• ♦ ♦
Mrs. Sallie Robinson left on
Wednesday of last week to go
to Brunswick to spend three
weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Roberson before returning to
Savannah.
♦ ♦ •
Mrs. Edna Adams, instructional
supervisor of Brantley County
schools, received the degree of
Master of Education at the sum
mer graduation exercises at the
University of Georgia.
Tales Out
Os School
By Bernice McCullar
THE PROFESSION BECOMES
A MAYOR — There are many
educators in politics in Georgia.
One is Dr. Edgar Wilson, pro
fessor at the Walter George Law
School at Mercer. He is a member
of the Legislature, and now has
been elected mayor of Macon.
When he was in my office the
other day, I asked him if he
would have to give up teaching
when he started to mayoring. He
said No, he would teach .at least
one class, "just to keep my hand
in.”
WHAT DOES YOUR TOWN
DO WHEN KIDS ARE HUN
GRY? I guess you read the head
lines in the papers last week a
bout My Wonderful Town — At
lanta, which I love dearly, and
would rather live in than any
where else in the whole world —
having a sad case of a mama, 28
years old, who gave away her
eight children when she could
not feed them. She went to three
fine agencies — the Welfare De
partment, the Atlanta Christian
Council, and the Salvation Army
for help. Red tape snarled
things up. She got no help. She
sold her furniture $35, gave her
children away, and took a bus,
to get away from her problems.
Then she came back. We put her
in jail. Is that the answer? Are
there any hungry kids in your
town? Are you sure? What do
you do with them and for them?
How does your school lunch feed
the ones who have no money
to pay? Have you ever thought
about this? Have you ever been
hungry, with nowhere to turn
to get food? Do you know how it
feels? Did YOU ever have hunger
gnawing at your stomach and de
spair eating at your heart? What
would YOU do? ,
WHERE’S AT AT? One of
Georgia's ten women school su
perintendents — twinkly — eyed
Miss Lizzie J. Deariso of Worth
County — was born at a dot on
the Georgia map known as "At,
Georgia.” Know w r here At’s at?
You should have studied your
geography better.
KINFOLKS — The election of
Kleven Boston as superintendent
of Cherokee schools, gave us two
sets of brothers who are superin
tendents in Georgia. He is a
brother of Green county’s Super
intendent Ford Boston. The Lan
caster brothers are also superin
tendents, Bela at LaGrange, and
Otis in Jefferson county.
NOTE TO HIGH - SCHOOL
STUDENTS — You can now get
the lovely, lilting lines of Edna
St. Vincent Millay’s poetry for
fifty cents a volume. Her sonnets
are in a red paper back that
costs fifty cents, and her lyrics
are bound in blue, same price.
Or maybe it’s vice versa. Anyway,
get them for your own personal
bookshelf. Read and teach your
heart to dance by her “I will be
the gladdest thing under the sun
. . and “All the good I know
was taught me out of two grey
eyes a long time ago . . . and
read and weep over the sad and
wishful, “Be to her, Persephone,
all the things I could not be.”
(This one . . . the lamest of a
mother over a rebellious and
now-dead teen-age daughter, will
twist your heart in two.)
SURPRISE — I sat in the au
dience of Future Farmers the
other day and listened to words
of advice being given them by a
prominent Georgia business ex
ecutive. Know what he told them
was the most important thing for
them to learn? Not how to milk
a cow, nor candle an egg. nor
plough a furrow'. How to handle
the English language! Nothing,
said he, will be more important
in your life than learing how to
communicate effectively. Nothing
It delighted my heart to hear.
10 Forest Fires
Reported in
Brantley in July
Fifty-six of the Georgia Fores
try Commission’s 133 forest fire
protection units reported no fires
in July, Brantley County Ranger
Avery Strickland announced.
Brantley County nad 10 fires
which burned 16.48 acres in
July, Ranger Strickland added.
Forest fire losses dipped to 846
acres in Georgia in July, or less
than one-tenth of what they aver
aged for the first four months of
1959. Total fire losses through
July are 44,744 acres, compared
to a loss of 41,108 acres through
April. There were 186 in Georgia
in July.
Badly needed rains have restor
ed the forest fire danger situa
tion to normal, Ranger Strickland
pointed out, adding that no one
should get complacent about the
improved record because the crit
ical fall fire season is fast appro
aching.
The twelve-unit Ninth Forestry
District had fires in only three
counties in July to lead the state.
Fires were reported by five for
estry units, each in the First,
Second and Eighth Districts.
Ten units in the fifteen-unit
Second District reported no fires,
while the First Districts had no
fires in nine counties. Only one
county in the ten-unit Sixth Dis
trict reported no fires.
No unit in the state reported
more than Ten fires during the
month and more than half had
either none or one fire. All fires
in Brantley were started by light
ning.
Mary Sue and Joey Siegel
were entertained on Friday at a
surprise going-away-party, given
by Mrs. Talmadge Griner and
Mrs. Wilder Brooker.
* ♦ •
Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Malvin
of Savannah were guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Siegel last weekend.
• • ♦
Miss Eppie Roberson left on
Friday to return to Miami after
spending a few weeks at home
here in Nahunta.
Legal Advertising
Georgia, Brantley County
To Whom It May Concern:
Please take notice that Clay
ton P. and Doris L. Riggins,
whose address is Nahunta, Geor
gia, are the owners of that cer
tain business now being carried
on in Nahunta, Georgia, under
the trade name of DAIRY KING,
and the nature of said business
is the presentation and serving of
food and drink to the general
public.
This the 26th day of August,
1959.
J. Robert Smith
Atty. For Owners. 9)3
GEORGIA, BRANTLEY
COUNTY
TO ALL WHOM IT MAY
CONCERN:
Owen Griffin, of said State,
having been selected by the next
of kin, and having applied for
Letters of Administration on the
Estate of Myrtie Satilla Griffin,
deceased, late of said County:
This is to cite all creditors and
heirs of said deceased to show
cause at the next term of this
Court on the first Monday in
September, next, why Letters of
Administration should not be
granted as prayed.
Witness the hand and seal of
the Ordinary, this 3rd day of
August, 1959.
|s] Claude A. Smith, Ordinary, and
Ex-Officio Clerk of the Court of
Ordinary.
J. Robert Smith,
Petitioner’s Attny. 8 27
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FOR SALE
One 1956 International Pickup
— Fair Shape. Sealed Bids to be
in by 12:00 noon, Monday, Aug-.
ust 31st. Truck can be seen at
office of Okefenoke REMC 8:00
— 5:00 Daily.
FOR SALE
One 1956 Ford F-100 Pickup —
Fair Shane. Sealed Bids. All bids
to be in by 12:00 noon, Monday,
Waycross Livestock Market
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA’S LEADING
LIVESTOCK MARKET
HONEST WEIGHTS AND COURTEOUS
SERVICE.
We had a sale of 540 head of hogs
and 287 head of cattle on Monday,
August 24, for a volume of $35,350.-
12.
Feeder pigs sold up to $19.00 and
No. 1 hogs brought $15.61; No. 2,
$14.74; No. 3, $13.35. Odd sows sold
up to $13.25.
Calves sold up to $30.00 per hun
dredweight, steers and heifers up to
$26.75, cows up to $22.50, cows with
calves up to $21.50 and bulls up to
$21.40.
Waycross Livestock Market
L. C. Pruitt, W. H. Inman and
O. A. Thompson, Operators and Managers
"INSOMNIA"
usual case had many and the con
dition is of long standing. The
general health is usually affected since insomnia produces a type
of nervous exhaustion which prevents proper organic function.
By correction of the cause, the affects disappear and prove to be
secondary. Chiropractic has assisted nature in restoring healthful
rest to hundreds who were threatened with taking something be
cause they could not sleep unless under the influence of opiates.
DR. A. E. TUTEN
Tuten Chiropractic
Health Center
917 FRANCIS STREET
COMPLETE FACILITIES FOR COLORED PEOPLE
August 31st. Truck can be seen
at of office of Okefenoke REMC.
8:00 — 5:00 Daily.
FOR SALE
One 1956 Ford F-100 Pickup
body new — Sealed Bids. All
bids to be in by 12:00 noon, Mon
day, August 31st. Body can be
be seen at office of Okefenoke
REMC. 8:00 — 5:00 Daily. 8’27
How many times have we
said or heard “If I could only
sleep?” This statement is suffi
cient most of the time to stamp
a case of “isomnia” and with it
all the traits of other symptoms
that follow. Basically insomnia
is a condition which prevents the
nervous system from relaxing.
Organic trouble has been fre
quently blamed and usually en
ters into the complaints but when
vitality has been restored to the
nerves and sufficient pressure
removed to permit them to re
lax, sleep follows that is natural
and refreshing.
While several pressures on ner-
ves can produce insomnia, the
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA
PHONE ATlas 5-1559
