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Newspaper Page TextGot Anything to Sell? Want to Buy Anything? Put a Want > Ad in the Brantley Enterprise 75 Cents or 3 Times $2.00. VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 43 Hoboken Basketball Team To Give Opponents Hard Time The Hoboken basketball team is expecting a good season this year, with a high percentage of games on the win side. Coach Dudley Spell, whose Trojans finished with a 6-17 won-lost record last year, has three first-stringers and several reserves who saw plenty of ac tion from whom he will select tonight’s starters. Roy Griffin, a 6-1 senior, and a couple of senior six-footers, Henry Aldridge and Ladon Dickerson, are the tallest members of the squad, captained by Earl Woods and Avery Griffin, who stand 5-8 and 5-7 respec tively. The rest of the squad includes Roy Jordan, Ronnie Carter, Der rell Strickland, Wayne Douglas, Jerry Kickerson, Ray Deen Alt man, Marvis Roberts, DeWayne Thomas, Dennie Woods, Jerry Fowler, Richard Hickox and Phillip Dowling. The girls’ squad is coached by Hugh Belcher and is co-captained by Carolyn Sapp and Cynthia Dowling. Others include Annette Lucas, Carol Hagin, Edith Ald ridge, Pearl Redding, Elaine Strickland, Margaret McClain, Rosslyn Herrin, Myra Jane Lee, Vannie Griffin, Elsie Hickox, Benetta Redding, Margaret Pierce, Ann Hickox, Diane Col vin, Connie Aldridge, and Tali tha Tallevast. Berry Jacobs is manager. The schedule; Hoboken Basketball Schedule Surrency, Oct. 30, There. Manor, Nov. 3, There. Ludowici, Nov. 6, Here. St. George, Nov. 10, There. Nahunta, Nov. 17, There. Ware County, Nov. 20, Here. Waycross, Nov. 24, Here. Patterson, Dec. 1, Here. Odum, Dec. 4, There. St. George, Dec. 8, Here. Folkston, Dec. 11, There. - Ware County, Dec. 15, There. Hoboken Alumni, Dec. 29, Here. Blackshear, Dec. 31, Here. Nahunta, Jan. 5, Here. Odum, Jan. 8, Here. Screven, Jan. 12, There. Manor, Jan. 15, Here. Waycross, Jan. 22, There. Homerville, Jan. 26, Here. Folkston, Feb. 2, Here. Blackshear, Feb. 5, There. Ludowici, Feb. 9, There. Surrency, Feb. 12, Here. Want Ads MUTT’S DRIVE IN FOR RENT Mutt’s Drive-In is for rent. It is a restaurant and filling station. Has living quarters in the back. See M. M. Manor at Hickox or phone 2-2326. 11-12 HOUSE FOR RENT House for rent, two bedrooms, running water and garden space. sls a month. Joe Smith, Phone HO 2-3180, Hortense, Ga. 10-29 ACRE LAND FOR SALE For sale, one acre of land with 210 feet frontage on Highway 301. Located four miles north of Nahunta. For information see Albert Purdom, Phone HO 2-3328 or 2-3788, Nahunta, Ga. 11-12 HOUSE FOR SALE House and acre lot for sale in Nahunta. Five rooms and bath, hot water heater, all convenien ces. On paved street. J. K. Harris, Nahunta, Ga. Jersey Heifers for Sale Six Jersey heifers for sale, will be fresh last of this month, Octo ber, and during first weeks in November. J. V. Strickland, Phone GL 8-3631, Route 2, Way cross, Ga. 10-29 WAREHOUSE PIANO SALE ATTENTION PARENTS—SeIect your child’s piano now during our gigantic warehouse piano sale. Largest stock of new, used and rebuilt pianos to select from. Practice pianos $95 up. LOWEST PRICES — EASIEST TERMS. Act now for best se lection. TAYLOR PIANO STORE, 910 S. Peterson Ave., Phone EV 4-2477, Douglas, Ga. 11 19 Kidney Danger Signals Getting up nights, burning, fre quent or scanty flow, leg pains or backache may be warning of functional kidney disorders — “Danger Ahead”. Help nature eliminate excess acid and other wastes. Flush kidneys with BUKETS. Your 50c back at any drug store in 4 DAYS if not pleased. NOW at Campbell Drug Store. Nahunta, Ga. 10-29 Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progre Five Brantley Youths Get Planters Degree The annual state meeting of the Future Farmers of America was held in Macon City Audi torium on Saturday, Oct. 2. Five boys from Brantley Coun ty received Georgia Planters’ De grees during the impressive cere mony. Three of the boys gradu atd from high school last Spring and are continuing their FFA work in other areas. They are Roger Carter who is studying Deisel Mechanics at the Albany Trade School, and Ed mond Jacobs, a major in Agri culture at ABAC in Tifton. These boys graduated from the Hobo ken High School. Ailey Lee, who graduated from Nahunta High, is farming. The others receiving the Georgia Planters Degrees were Benny Dean and Robert Page of Hoboken. Accompanying the boys were their Vocational Agriculture teachers, Mr. W. C. Long of Nahunta and Mr. Jack Moore Jr. of Hoboken. Including the five listed, around seventy Brantley County boys attended the meet ing. 2 Pierce Men Die in Crash Two Pierce county men were instantly killed early Wednesday morning when their auto ram med into the rear of a parked lumber trailer-truck near Wares boro. Leonard E. (Spring) Bowen, Route 1, Blackshear, and Alton Smith, Route 1, Mershon, were riding in a 1955 Buick which struck the large truck at the in tersection of U. S. Highway 82 and State Highway 158 near Waresboro. The accident occured about 2:40 A. M. According to investigating of ficers from the Waycross Patrol Station, the car left the highway 155 feet before striking the truck, which was parked some five feet off the highway. The driver, James A. Hollis of Douglas, was asleep in the vehicle which be longed to Beadles Lumber Co. of Nicholls. He was shaken up, but otherwise uninjured. Sgt. G. L. Sims and Trooper F. F. Cornelius investigated the accident on the scene. Further investigations are being carried out. ATTEND CONFERENCE — Georgia Educators who attended the National Conference on School Bus Transportat ion held at University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, October 4-7. Show n, left to right, back row’, George Patrick, Griffin, Mr. McWilliams, Mr. Baker, Atlanta and Paul Stone, member State Board of Education, Waynesboro. Front row, left to right, Lonnie E. Sweat, member State Board of Education, Blackshear, Dr. Claude Purcell, State Superintendent of Schools, and Joe T. DeFoor, Atlanta. Brantley enterprise Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, October 29, 1959 Fire Fighting to Be Demonstrated At Nahunta Monday Dr. Quigley of the University of Georgia will be in Nahunta on Monday, Nov. 2, 8:00 P. M. to demonstrate fire fighting. The meeting will be held at the Nahunta High School. Dr. Quigley will bring with him the most modern fire fighting equip ment with which he will demon strate the various types of fire fighting. All local volunteers and inter ested persons are urged to attend. In case of rain the meeting will be held at the fire station. Georgia Sheriffs Buy Land for Boys Home VALDOSTA, Ga, — A ranch for homeless boys was much closer to reality this week after the Georgia Sheriffs Asociation closed a deal to purchase 604 acres of choice farmland in Lowndes and Berrien counties. The association obligated itself for the purchase price of $65,000. Georgians will be asked to con tribute monies, materials and equipment to establish the ranch. The sheriffs’ Boys’ Ranch Steering Committee selected the farm, located six miles east of Hahira on Highway 122, after a year-long search for a suitable site. The property has more than 100 acres of terraced permanent pastures, another 80 acres i n cultivation, a well-stocked fish pond and considerable timber land. It is bordered for about a mile by the paved highway and more than two miles b y the Withlacctochee River. Sheriff Jewell Futch of Lowndes county, president of the association, said work on modern buildings and other ranch faci lities will be pushed as fast as funds and materials become available. Worthy boys to be chosen by a competent committee of citizens and sheriffs, will be accepted at the ranch as soon as possible after completion of necessary building. The ranch will not be for juvenile delin quents, Futch said, but rather for boys whose environment might lead them into lives of delin quency. It will be a real western type ranch, with horses for the boys to ride and cattle for them to round up. No other medium brings such consistent, profitable results as newspaper advertising. Four Youths Are Accused Os Burglaries Brunswick — The arrest by city police of four youths accused of looting a board of education safe have solved recent burglar ies in seven Southeast Georgia counties, FBI agent Bill Thag gard said Friday. On hearing of the youngsters’ apprehension, law enforcement officers from neighboring coun ties streamed into the city police headquarters for a crack at ques tioning the defendants. Three of them have admitted entering 12 offices, stores and schools in Toombs County, Thag gard reported. Hardest hit in that county were the Rural Electrifi cation Administration office for $l5O and a school for S2OO, he said. Confessions of the Brantley County burglaries also have been received. E. A. Hunter’s store in Waynesville was reported to have been one of the victims, approxi mately 12 pairs of shoes having been stolen there. Also burglar ized were Mutt’s Drive-in, $45, and a Nahun^ school. The school safe was severely battered but was not opened. The safe contain ed $560, according to C. L. Ste phens, Nahunta city policeman. The youths’ admissions cover a school and recreation building in Jesup, Thaggard declared. Money and merchandise from many victims have been re covered. Warrants will be sworn against the trio in all the affected coun ties, the agent said. Police identified the suspects as Danny Porter, 19, Kenneth Riner, 17, and Kermit Henry, 17. Porter’s younger brother, Ed ward, 17, is thought to have play ed a lesser role than his com panions, authorities said. Charges against him have not been deter mined. The four were arrested Wednesday. Negro Boy Injured When Struck by Auto at Waynesville A seven-year-old Negro boy was seriously injured early Mon day, Oct. 26, when he dashed into the path of an auto at Waynes ville, the State Patrol reports. The Patrol listed the victim as Carl Witherspoon of Waynes ville. Investigators said the youth sustained internal injuries, com pound fractures of the right arm and leg and suffered shock. State Trooper W. E. Strick lafid identified the driver of the auto involved as Walter Lee Justice of Rt. 4, Waycross. The Trooper said Justice was traveling East on U. S. 84 and as he passed an on coming vehicle, the boy darted into the path of Justice’s car. Waynesville Baptist Church Revival To Start Sunday The Waynesville Baptist Church will start a revival meet ing Sunday, Nov. 1, with preach ing each night at 7:30. Rev. C. H: Moss, acting pastor, will preach Sunday morning and night and Rev. Cecil Thomas will preach each night from Monday through Saturday. W. R. Bennett of Brunswick will have charge of the singing. The people of this section are in vited to attend all the services. World War I Veterans Plan State Meeting The Fall Conference of the Department of Georgia, Vet erans of World War I, and Auxi liary will be held Sunday, Nov. 1, at the Dempsey Hotel in Macon. State Commander William C. Kemp of Augusta said the con ference will open at 10 a. nr. and close at 2 p. m. with the depart ment and Auxiliary holding separate meetings. Kemp said a report will be made on the national convention held in September in Louisville, Ky. Plans will also be discussed for the forthcoming drive for new members and the establish ment of new barracks in Georgia. Kemp said officers and mem bers of World War I barracks throughout Georgia and other interested veterans of World War I are invited to take part in the Macon meeting. Local World War I veterans wishing to attend are asked to contact W. B. Knox at Knox Barber Shop in Blackshear for further information. Births Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. West fnoreland of Jacksonville, Fla., announce the arrival of a daugh ter, born Oct, 14 in a Navy hos pital. She weighed seven pounds three ounces and was named Anna Lee. The mother is the former Miss Merle Steedly of Nahunta. The grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Seward Steedly of Nahunta. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse B. Thomas announce the arrival of a son, born Monday, Oct. 19, in the Waycross Memorial Hospital. It weighed eight pounds 10 ounces and was named Dwayne Jesse. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Nahunta Wildcats to Open Basketball Season Tuesday Editor Broome “Strikes Oil” In Oklahoma Carl Broome, editor of The Brantley Enterprise, "struck oil" as a judge in the “Better News papers" contest held recently by the Oklahoma Press Associ ation. Mr. Broome was asked to act as the judge in the contest to decide the best weekly news paper as to typography, press work and makeup in towns of 1500 population or less. The Oklahoma newspaper con test was held in connection with the Oklahoma State Fair. The Vici Beacon was adjudged to have the best typography, press work and makeup in its class. The Vici Beacon also won first place in the General Excellence contest. 14 weekly papers entered the contest which was judged by Mr. Broome. The judge appraised each of the 14 entries in the con test, giving comment and criti cism of each entry. The secretary of the Okla homa Press Association writes Mr. Broome that he is sending along "a barrel of Oklahoma oil” in appreciation of being a judge in the contest—a miniature barrel of black gold from Oklahoma. Editor Broome stated that he Will use the miniature barrel of oil to prime the dry oil wells in South Georgia. Library Chaper Organized at Hortense School The Hortense Chapter, Geor gia Association of Library As sistants, announce the following organization for 1959:60: Presi dent, Joe David Jones; vice president, Sandra Kay Pearson; secretary-treasurer, Doris Mae Lane. Regular meetings are scheduled the first Monday of each month. We are 100 percent members of GALA. Some members have placed orders for the recently adopted sterling pins and we hope to participate in more state activities. Other members are Derwin Drury, Shirly Harper, Danny Jones, Lore n e Lyle, Annete Moody, Sheldon Rowell, Dale Sloan, Mary Jane Smith and Van Strickland. Miss Pollyanne Middleton is the sponsor. The principal is Mr. William Robert Strickland. High School Band Elected Officers The Nahunta High School Band held its first business meeting, October 15, at the high school gym. Officers for the year were elected, and they are as follows: Captain, Charlene Gibson; Librarian, Patsy Walker; Secre tary-Treasurer, Marion Morgan; Reporter, Lynn Herrin. Dues were decided upon for the purpose of socials that will be held during the school year. There are 30 members and we are looking forward to a most successful year. Lynn Herrin, Reporter. NEWS OF YOUR HOME COUNTY EVERY WEEK IN THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE g /"T \ you want g want || 0 JR® when you J llr l then 3 ™ el are for you! 3 Keep up with the News About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) ssive People. The Nahunta basketball team will open its cage season on Tuesday evening, November third, at seven-thirty. The Wild cats will clash with Darien in initiating the 1959-60 sports events. Ronald Luke, coach of the Wildcats, will start with a com pletely new line-up. The starting five of last gear’s team and two of the experienced substitutes will be missing. He is in the pro cess of rebuilding a team. In ad dition to regular practice, the boys have been working hard four evenings a week in an effort to be ready for the opening game. Mr. Luke also stated that tfye boys have a greater desire and determination to play than any team he has ever coached. Forest Thomas, the coach of the girls’ team, has only three of Last year’s string in this year’s line-up. Mr. Thomas thinks that the girls are#improving in their play and will develop into a stronger team as the season goes along. Their enthusiasm and spirits are high and there is a willingness to play the game hard but fair. When the whistle sounds next Tuesday night, let’s all be out to give our team a rousing send off. Home town support is im portant to our boys and girls. “WILDCATS” BasfwtWl SrtadUle Wildcats! Wildcats? Tooth and Claw! Wildcats! Wildcats! Rah! Rah! Rah! HOME GAMES Nov. 3 —Darien Nov. 17 —Hoboken Nov. 24—Blackshear Dec. 5- Camden County Dec. B—Ware County Dec. il- Nichols Dec. 18—Surrency Jan. B—WaycrossB—Waycross Jan. 15—Charlton County Jan. 22 —Patterson Feb. 2 —Clinch County Feb. 12—Lanier County Game Time 7:30 AWAY GAMES Nov. 6 —Surrency Nov. 13—Nichols Nov. 20- Lanier County Dec. I—Darien1 —Darien Dec. 15—Clinofc County Jan. s—Hoboken Jan. 12—Camden County Jan. 16 —Patterson Jan. 19— Blackshear Jan. 26 —Way eroes Jan. 29—Ware County Feb. 6- Charlton County —■ Mrs. Leila Turner Heads Heart Fund Mrs. Leila H. Turner, of Na hunta, has been named Chairman for the 1960 Heart Fund Drive in Brantley County, according to George H. Brodnax and Carter L. Redd, State Campaign Co- Chairmen. Mrs. Turner is Director of the Brantley County Welfare Depart ment. She is a member of the American Legion and the Na hunta Baptist Church. Mrs. Turner served with the United States Army in Europe during World War 11. Nahunta Bth Grade Elected Officers Using Parliamentary procedure on Tuesday, October 20, we in our eighth grade English class elected our class officers. They are as follows: President, Marlene Ross; Vice- President, Jerome Lee; Secretary and Treasurer, Lynn Herrin; Re porter, Aleta Bourgeois.