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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 41
Sweeping the Country
WILL THE STATE SADDLE BUSINESS
WITH ITS INCOME TAX COLLECTION?
A move is on foot in Georgia to saddle the business firms
of Georgia with state income tax collections.
Already business is required to collect a great part of
federal income taxes from employees. Now there is con
siderable propoganda for having the legislature pass a law
to require employers to withdraw state income taxes from
payrolls.
Business firms of the state already have to collect fed
eral income taxes, unemployment taxes, and state sales
taxes. Many firms have to employ extra help to handle
all these collections of taxes for the state and federal gov
ernment.
Business has almost reached the breaking point in the
expenses of doing business. Just why anyone should expect
employers to collect taxes for state or federal government
is a puzzle to me.
The only explanation from state and federal govern
ments is that they can collect more taxes this way.
The probability is that if the state adopts a law requir
ing employers to collect state income taxes, the state will
Collect little more than the plan will cost Georgia business
in collecting it.
If the state and federal governments require employers
to collect taxes, they should pay at least 10 percent of the
take to the business men for their trouble and expense of
collecting the money. This would enable employers to hiie
the additional workers necessary for making out the re
ports and attending to the tedious details of collecting
taxes for state and federal governments.
It is my opinion that the business owners of Georgia
should raise a loud objection to having their businesses
saddled with more tax collections. If they do not immedi
ately make themselves heard, they will find themselves yet
more bogged down in making out complicated reports on
collections of taxes.
The bookkeeping job on all these tax collections is
heavy and complicated. But if we allow the state to add to
our burdens with still more tax collections we probably
deserve the hea «aches we will have about t.
Every business man who does not want to be saddled
with still more tax collections should speak to his repre
sentative in the legislature and tell him to help killl any
bill that adds this extra burden to the employers of the
Already the people have grown too indifferent to the
brainstorms of people who undertake to heap extra ui
dens upon them.
It is time to tell our lawmakers to let us alone with
burdensome schemes that tend to stifle business and cause
more and more firms to go into bankruptcy.
Brantley Man
Arrested In
Car Theft Case
A Brantley County man has
been arrested by federal officers
in connection with a car theft
case, according to news reports
from Savannah.
Charles Brown, agent-in-charge
of the Savannah office said
James Franklin Jones, 35, Brant
ley County; C. Connell Jones Jr.,
29, Wayne County; and Jessie
M. Rollins, 67, Toombs County,
are charged in the case.
All were arrested in their
home counties.
C. C. Jones Jr. and Rollins are
charged with receiving stolen
autos transported across a state
line.
The other Jones is accused of
transporting stolen autos from
Brantley County to Florida.
The low sale prices attracted
attention of “local law enforce
ment officers, who called in the
F. B. 1., Brown explained.
Junior Woman’s
Club Met Tuesday
The Nahunta Junior Womans
Club held its regular meeting at
the home of Mrs. Stephen Rig
don, with Mrs. Dick Purcell as
co-hostess, Tuesday night, Oct 13.
Mrs. Tommy Tucker, the vice
president presided at the busi
ness session. Mrs. Emory Middle
ton was in charge of the program
and introduced Mr. Emory Mid
dleton who gave a talk on the
plans for the Brantley County
Medical Center.
The hostess served a salad
plate during the social hour.
Those present were Mesdames
Clint Robinson, Cecil Moody,
Claude Robinson, Joe Walker,
Norman Lewis, Tommy Tucker,
Emory Middleton, Dick Purcell,
Stephen Rigdon, Ben James and
Dick Schmitt
t ty — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
By Carl Broome
Personals
Mr and Mrs. Ralph Thomas of
Americus, Ga. visited their pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Thomas
and Mrs. Aaron Sadler last week
end. Both are teaching in the
Americus school.
Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Drury re
turned on Sunday from South
Carolina where they visited Mr.
and Mrs. A. G. McDaniels and
Mr. and Mrs. N. O. McDaniels
in Mullins and Conway, S. C. for
several days. Mrs. N. O. Mc-
Daniels and daughter, Mary Lee,
made the return trip with them
and are spending this week with
relatives.
M-Sgt. R. B. Ham left on Tues
day of this week to be on way
to Germany. He and Mrs. Ham
and children arrived two weeks
ago and have been visiting re
latives. Mrs. Ham and the child
ren, Bernard, Deborah and Ro
bert will remain in Nahunta
where the children will be in
school for a while until arrange
ments are made for them to join
M-Sgt. Ham in Germany later.
First Sergeant and Mrs. John
ny C. Childs and son Michael
left Oct. 5 for Missouri where he
will be stationed. He Has been
home on a 30-day leave from
Japan where he has been for the
past 13 months.
Jaycees to Stage
Minstrel Show
Saturday Night
Brantley County Jaycees will
stage an old-fashioned Negro
Minstrel Show at the Nahunta
Grammar School auditorium
Saturday night, Oct. 17 at 7:45,
it is announced by Ben Jones.
The show’ is for the benefit
of the local Junior Chamber of
Commerce. The organization will
use the benefit funds for various
worthy causes which the Jay
cees sponsor from time to time.
Brantley tntrrprtse
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta. Ga.. Thursday, October 15, 1959
ONE MILLION NON-FARM WORKERS NOW IN GEORGIA
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Atlanta, September 25—" Georgia’s non-farm
worker ranks now exceed one million!” Georgia’s
Commissioner of Labor Ben T. Huiet tells Governor
S. Ernest Vandiver. The million mark was previ
ously predicted for September or October of this
year. However, the opening of a mammoth shopping
center in the Atlanta area, and the usual seasonal
gains in manufacturing, trade and government
and a large number of temporary workers in whole
sale tobacco markets pushed the total beyond the
one million goal in August, a total of 1,003,300.
Brantley Band
Marched in
Waycross Parade
The band of Brantley County
Schools made its first marching
appearance at the Rodeo Parade
in Waycross Thursday, Oct 8.
The marching band consisted
of 45 members from Hoboken and
Nahunta and was led by drum
majorette, Sandra Williams, Na
hunta High School senior. The
students wore the customary
black trousers for boys and skirts
for girls with white shirts.
Director Norras states that
there may be other parade op
portunities during the year. Plans
also include performances by the
individual bands of Hoboken
and Nahunta at local basketball
games as well as concerts.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Chambless
of Nahunta announce the arrival
of a baby boy born Friday, Oct.
9, in a Waycross hospital. He
has been given the name Joel
Miller.
Robert Eugene is the name giv
en to the baby boy born to Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Addy Jr., of St.
Marys. The baby was born Oct.
5 in a Brunswick hospital. It
weighed seven pounds 11 ounces.
Lt. Glenn F. Thomas and Mrs.
Thomas, stationed at Corpus
Christi, Texas, announce the ar
rival of a baby girl born on Oct.
8. She has been named Susan
Rebekah.
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Herrin
announce the birth of a little
girl on Wednesday, Oct. 7, weigh
ing seven pounds and eleven oun
ces. She has been named Kath
erine Elaine.
Grammar School
4-H Club Officers
The sth grade held its 4-H
Club Meeting on Thursday, Oct.
8, with Mr. George A. ♦ Loyd,
County Agent and Mrs. Virginia
N- Raulerson, Home Demonstra
tion Agent and elected officers
for the school year as follows:
President, Dale Jacobs, Boy’s
Vice-President, Carvella King,
Girl’s Vice-President, Pat Jacobs,
Secretary, Libby Davis, Treasur
er, Eugene Crews, Reporter, La
mar Wainright.
Lamar Wainright, Reporter
HELP IN The kitchen
Sharing kitchen work is good
for family relations and it also
can be means of serving meals
more efficiently and quicker,
points out Mrs. Mana T. Pratt,
nutritionist. Agricultural Exten
sion Service. She suggests des
ignating jobs according to in
dividual interest and capability,
but switching jobs around so
that no one feels “stuck” with
the same job all the time.
Births
Slight losses in construction, industries and hard
goods manufacturing were completely overshadowed |
by these gains. So far, the steel strike has shown
little effect on Georgia employment. This informa
tion is revealed in the Georgia Department of La
bor’s regular monthly report "Wages and Employ
ment,” released today by Commissioner Huiet.
During the past year, Georgia employers hired
119,124 workers through the 35 Georgia State ED"
ployment Service offices of the Department.
Tales Out Os School
By Bernice McCullar
WE WANT TO EDUCATE
GEORGIA — Our goal is an edu
cated Georgia. We want an adult
population with an average school
age higher than our present 7.8
years. Average in Utah and the
District of Columbia is 12 years.
We are now third from the bot
tom. We intended to keep climb
ing. We have come up from far
ther down than we are now. Ave
rage for the nation is 9 3 years
of schooling for people over 25
years of age. Os our adults, 4.5%
have finished college. California
heads that list with 8.1% Ark
ansas is lowest with 3.1%.
THEY WON’T BE DUMPING
GROUNDS — It will take ability
to be admitted as a student at
any of the area trade schools
when they are set up in Georgia.
They will not be bumping
grounds for the academically in
competent, as some people mis
takenly think vocational schools
are. It takes as much ability to
understand the intricacies of elec
tronics and neon lighting and
television mechanics as it does
to read Latin or to appreciate
a Shakesperian sonnet. It’s just
different ability; that’s all.
LEARNING IS A LONESOME
THING — Encourage your child
ren to study on their own, to read
unrequired books that they do not
have to make a book report on,
to read the daily papers and
newsmagazines, to listen to news
casts, to collect fine records, and
to visit art museums and know
good paintings. Most of what cul
tivated people know, they had to
learn by themselves. Schools
can’t teach everything. The people
who know the most and do the
most that matters in this world
are those who have a sort of
built-in curiosity and learn for
themselves. Educating a human
being is a little like growing a
geranium. You can provide the
soil and water, and put it in the
sunlight. But you can’t grow for
it. It has to do its own growing.
Your child must do his own learn
ing, and at its best, learning is
a lonesome thing.
NEW IDEA — Trend in teach
er education is toward four
years of solid content, plus a
fifth professional year of learn
ing how to teach. Like it?
“IT’S A ROOSTING PLACE”,
HE SAID — Georgia school
haunted by tragedy pops up in
the deliberations of the State
Board of Education every now
and then. It’s a school with a sad
story: the Brewton school built
for six hundred Negro children
down in Laurens county. There
was some objection to a Negro
school being located there. The
school had cost about $400,000. So
after it was finished — and never
used a single day — the county
had to scrap the bottom of the
barrel for ar other $400,000 to
build another new school for the
same 600 children a few miles
over, in another location. They’ve
tried to figure out what to do
with the unused school, which
was built on land that ran over a
few feet into privately owned
property. The owner would not
sell. At a recent meeting of the
State Board, the Laurens school
officials asked for permission to
take out the fixturesand use them
in other county schools. Granted.
“The abandoned school is just a
roosting plase for pigeons now,”
said a Board member. (And un
less some smart person can come
up with a better solution, it is
likely to remain so. Officials have
scheduled a meeting this week to
see if anybody had a bright idea
about how to use a brand new,
abandoned school that cost nearly
a half million dollars of Georgia
money.)
YOUR TEACHER MAY SUD
DENLY depart FOR alaska-
Unless she is rooted in your com
munity, or you have made it a
very pleasant place to live and
teach, your favorite teacher may
suddenly depart for Alaska. Our
newest state pays the highest of
all teaching salaries (and has the
highest cost of living, too!) What
is more, if she wants to find a
husband, there’s her chance. There
are sixteen men to every woman
up there. If she’s interested, she
should write to the Superinten
dent of Public Instruction in
Juneau, Alaska. But if you’ve
been good to her, I hope she’s
not interested.
Nahunta Tri-Hi-Y
Officers Attend
Waycross Meeting
The officers of the Nahunta
Tri-Hi-Y represented the club
at a meeting in Waycross on
Thursday of last week. The
speakers for the evening were
Bob Henderson, district secre
tary, and Mr. and Mrs. Jerry
Bryant.
Those from Nahunta attending
the meeting were: Sandra Wil
liams, Vivian Halo, Arlene
Strickland, Dollie Warren and
Mrs. Marshall Strickland, spon
sor.
Dollie Warren, Reporter.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Middleton
Is Crew Leader
For Farm Census
Appointment of Mrs. Maggie
J. Middleton of Hortense as a
crew leader for the 1959 Census
of Agriculture was announced
today by Field Director Thomas
W. McWhirter of the Census
Bureau’s regional office at At
lanta.
Mrs. Middleton will direct a
force of census takers who will
canvass all farms in Brantley,
Camden, Glynn and Pierce coun
ties. Before assuming her post,
she w’ill go to Albany, where she
will receive five days of training
by a member of the Census Bu
reau’s staff.
Topics to be covered include
procedures for recruiting of cen
sus takers, census taker training,
canvassing methods, preparation
and submission of reports, and
the supervision of census takers
to insure a complete and accu
rate count.
The crew leader is one of the
key people in the field operations
of the Census of Agriculture. The
crew leaders responsibility is to
recruit and train the census tak
ers and supervise their work;
plan and allocate work assign
ments; review the work of the
census takers and take remedial
action where necessary, and to
conduct difficult interviews.
After completing her training,
Mrs. Middleton will return to her
district where she will spend
several weeks recruiting census
takers, and training them in pre
paration for the start of the field
canvass on November 18, 1959.
Mrs. Arizona Johns
Funeral Service
Was Held Friday
Mrs. Arizona E. Johns, 60, of
Rt. 3, Waycross, died late Wed
nesday, Oct. 7, in a Waycross
hospital.
A native of Brantley County,
she was the daughter of the late
Franklin J -hns and Nancy Walk
er Johns. She attended Brantley
County schools and was a mem
ber of the Missionary Baptist
Church.
Survivors are four daughters,
Mrs. Roy Thrift, Mrs. Johnny
Taylor, both of Waycross, Mrs.
Seab Mixon, Winokur, Ga., Mrs.
Clarence Rozier, Brunswick; one
son, James R. Johns Jr. of Way
cross; one sister, Mrs. Walter
Crews, Hilliard, Fla.; three sons,
Preston Johns and Tommy Johns
of Hilliard, and Carswell Johns
of Belglade, Fla.; seven grand
ren; several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Friday at 4 p. m. at the graveside
in Bethlehem Cemetery near
Hickox, Ga.
Junior 4-H Club
Holds Meeting
The Nahunta Junior 4-H Club
meeting was held Thursday, Oct.
8, in the school auditorium.
Nancy Moody, president, called
the meeting to order. Barbara
Allen gave the devotion.
The minutes were read by
Cheryl Davis after which the
meeting was turned over to Mr.
Loyd and Mrs. Raulerson, who
talked to us about our projects,
Mr. Loyd talking to the boys and
Mrs. Raulerson to the girls.
Since there was no other busi
ness, the meeting adjourned.
Tommy Graham, Reporter
These are some of the questions
you will find answered in The
Blackshear Times Historical E
dition to be published Thursday,
Nov. 26, 1959.
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Proceedings
Os County
Commissioners
The Brantley County Comis
sioners of Road and Revenue met
in regular Session, October 6,
1959. Present were R. B. Brook
er, chairman, R. C. Harrell Jr.
clerk, Louis Prescott, Alfred
Thomas, and Silas D. Lee. The
following commissioners were
paid for six days service each:
R. B. Brooker, $21.05; R. C. Har
rel Jr., $15.05; Louis Prescott,
$21.05; Alfred Thomas, $30.00;
and Silas D. Lee, $30.00.
The following pauper list were
paid for the month of Septem
ber, 1959: Ocie Moody, $10.00;
Thelma Sapp, $10.00; and Ro
bert R. Riggins, SIO.OO.
The following road hands were
paid for the month of September,
1959: I. C. Harris, $206.35; Roscoe
Murray, $216.10; Monsie Wilson,
$177.10; Weita Herrin, $164.42;
Mitchell Hulett, $185.35; Tal
madge Gunter, $196.60; Ellis Alt
man, $206.50; J. H. Mercer, $156-
33; Lonnie Wilson, $164.42; Wood
row Wilson; $206.35; Joe Lewis,
$158.78; J. F. Willis, $216.10; and
O. G. Lee, $274.98.
The following general bills
were paid. Brantley Telephone
Co., $73.30, phones & calls; Ga.
Hospital Service Association Inc.,
$179.00, Insurance; Ga. Power
Co., $91.81, lights & power; S. E.
Blount, 96.75, janitor; Cotton
States Life & Health Ins. Co.,
$24.88, Insurance; C. F. Rowell,
$40.00, Baliff; E. L. Sears, $50.00,
Industrial Developments; R. L.
Bernard, $25.00, hospital ade., C.
Winton Adams, $41.05, salary;
D. F. Herrin, $440.65, salary &
fees; Archie A. Johns, SBOOO,
Salary; Dewey Hayes, $63.34,
Salary; Cecil Roddenberry, SSO
- Salary; W. J. Snmmerall,
$46.00, Salary; George A. Loyd,
$201.87, Salary; Virginia N. Raul
erson, $106.15, Salary; Ga. State
Forestry Chmm., S6OO 00, Budget;
M. E. Winchester, $62.00, Salary,
Alvin M. Powell Jr., $12.00,
Travel; Elvin F. Cooper, $106.02,
Salary; Rebecca D. Griner, $327.-
05, Salary & Expenses; Dr. E. A.
Moody, $30.00, Salary; City of
Nahunta, $22.50; Water; Ike Her
sey, $37.85, Repair on Typewrit
ers; Marshall & Bruce Co., $26.-
69, Office Supplies; Carlton Com
pany, $113.92, Repairs; Okefeno
kee R. E. A., $2.00, Caution
Light; Brantley Telephone Co.,
$80.89, Phones & Calls; Mayo
Brothers Inc., $87.00, Cemeht;
South East Sales Co., $296.42,
Repairs; Bennett Brothers, $7.28,
Office Supplies; Brown Brothers,
$6.00, Office Supplies; Ed Water
house, $18.23, Office Supplies;
A. S. Mizell, Agent, $67.67, In
surance; Mendelson Office Sup
plies Co., $3.00, Office Supplies;
The H & W. B. Drew Co., $35 48,
Office Supplies; W. B. Harris,
$3.00, Repair on Lawn Mower;
Porter & Farr, $1.50, Office Sup
plies; Leo. Smith M. D., $5.00,
Treating Prisoner; Waycross
Tractor Co., $31.48, Repairs; J. W.
Brooker, $188.42, Supplies; The
Falconer Co., $18.28, Offibe Sup
plies; The Brantley Enterprise,
$41.50, Advertising & Supplies;
Wilson & Wainright Oil Co.,
$417.48, Gas & Oil, & Tires;
Blackshear Mfg. Co., $64.65, Eno
culation; J. W. Crews, $816.87,
Feed & Turkeys, & Fees; Joel
Herrin, $50.00, Baliff; B. E.
Thomas, $50.00, Baliff; Larry
Stalling, $50.00, Baliff; O. O.
Johns, $50.00, Baliff; H. S. Wil
son, $185.53, Repairs; Dept, of
Public Welfare, $874.52, Budget;
C. Winton Adams, $200.00, Addi
tional Fees; Standard Oil Co.,
$364 54, Gas & Oil; Brantley Gas
Co. $63.13, Fuel; Chambless Fu
neral Home, $25.00, On Howard
Burial; Mrs. George Jordon,
$90.00, Court Reporter; Nahunta
Ice Co., $4.95, Ice; Ga. Hospital
Service Association Inc., $179.00,
Insurance; Harry Depratter, $31.-
45, Repairs; Sheriff Robert E.
Lee, $120.25, Board for Prisoners;
Mrs. J. A. Campbell, SIOO.OO,
Feeding Jurys.
There being no further busi
ness the meeting adjourned.
R. B. Brooker, Chairman
R. C. Harrell Jr., Clerk
Card Os Thanks
We wish to acknowledge with
thanks the many expressions of
kindness and sympathy extended"
to us during the illness and at
the loss of our beloved wife and
mother, Mrs. Minnie Griffin.
The Ruel Griffin family.
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