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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 50
Safe Crackers
Hit Hoboken
Post Office
The Hoboken post office was
broken into and burglarized
Tuesday night, Dec. 15, when
about $45 cash and S3BB worth of
stamps was taken from the safe.
The burglars broke through the
back door and cut open the iron
safe with an acetylene torch, ac
cording to postmaster Banner
Thomas.
The burglars left the acetylene
torch in the post office. Officers
later discovered that the acety
lene torch had been stolen from
a Brunswick firm.
Sheriff J. Walter Crews, the
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
officers and also federal officers
are investigating the burglary.
“Local state and federal of
ficers are really pushing the in
vestigation,” postmaster Thomas
said.
Christmas Tree
Safety Urged
By County Agent
By George A. Loyd
The Christmas season for most
of us has been a season of happy
memories, but this might not be
so. Many tragic fires are caused
each Christmas season as a result
of negligence in Christmas tree
decorating. These fires are avoid
able.
An important precaution is to
use lights and cords bearing the
Underwriter’s Laboratories Label.
This label means that the pro
duct has been manufactured un
der rigid safety regulations.
Light sets that have frayed
cords, faulty, ill-fitting sockets,
or loose connections should not
be used in decorating the tree,
and care slx-uld be taken not to
overload the electrical circuit.
Other don’ts for safety sake in
Christmas decorating are: On
outside decorations, don’t hang
sockets so they will collect wa
ter; don’t use candles on trees;
and don’t leave tree lights on
while gone from home.
To keep your Christmas merry,
let’s follow these safety sug
gestions.
Be careful on the highways —
the life you save may be your
own.
> To each of our many
/ good friends we send
. y our heartiest greetings
/ and best wishes for a
| happy holiday season
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t * mes and good fellow-
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BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Frank Harris
Funeral Service
Was Held Tuesday
Frank Harris, age 74, died at
his home at Lulaton on Sunday,
Dec. 13, following an illness of
several weeks. Graveside funeral
services were held at Knox
Cemetery on Tuesday afternoon
with Elder Barney Crosby offi
ciating.
Besides his wife he is surviv
ed by five sons, Johnny Harris,
Herman Harris, Cecil Harris and
Frankie Harris of Nahunta and
Virgil Harris, U. S. Navy, sta
tioned in Virginia; three sisters,
Mrs. T. L. Davis and Mrs. Albert
Depratter of Waycross and Mrs.
James Higginbotham of Bruns
wick. He has two grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Winton Har
ris, Kenneth Harris, Bobby -Har
ris, Mack Strickland, Ed Smith
and Ronald Smith.
Powell-Williams
Miss Agnes Virginia Powell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earl
Powell of Hobe Sound, Fla.,
and Mr. James Pinkney Williams,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wil
liams of Salerno, Fla., were unit
ed in marriage at the Hobe
Sound Presbyterian Church, Nov.
21.
The ceremony was performed
by Rev. Floyd B Hager. Mr. Wil
liams is a former resident of
Brantley County. The couple will
reside at Salerno, Fla.
Hickox HD Club
Met Tuesday
With Mrs. White
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club met Tuesday, Dec. 15,
at the home of Mrs. Bill White
for their Christmas party.
Mrs. Bill White led the devo
tional. Mrs. Lizzie Mae Hendrix
presided over the meeting. Mrs.
Janie Brand read the minutes of
the November meeting.
Mrs. Virginia , ; Raulerson gave
a demonstration on Christmas de
corations made of corn shucks,
bay leaves, candles and heater
rings. She showed how Christ
mas stockings could be made of
flannel.
An assortment of covered dish
es were brought to the meeting
for refreshments. Alethea Mae
served coffee and cold drinks.
Others present were Mesdames
Maurice Anderson, Leona Allen,
Louise Hendrix, Ander Turner
and Gaynelle Keene. Christmas
gifts were exchanged among
those in attendance.
Brantley tukryrtap
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 17, 1959
Masons Elect
Officers and
Hold Supper
Nahunta Masonic Lodge 391
elected officers and held a sup
per Tuesday night, Dec. 15.
Officers elected for the coming
year were as follows: J. Robert
Smith, Worshipful Master; C. Ray
Johns, Senior Warden; Ben O.
Jones, Junior Warden; A. J.
Stokes, treasurer; T. H. Purdoxn,
secretary; W. V. Strickland, chap
lain; Horace C. Morgan, senior
deacon; E. A. Middleton, junior
deacon; R. H. Proctor, senior ste
ward; Leland Brooks, junior
steward; Fay Brooks, tyler.
After election of officers the
lodge members and their wives
and families went to the high
school cafeteria where a basket
supper was held.
100,000 Fish
Released in
Satilla River
The State Game and Fish
Commission released about 100,
000 bluegill and shellcracker
fish in the Satilla River Dec. 7
and 8 in Brantley County, it is
announced by Ranger A. M. Ro
well.
Ranger Rowell quoted Mallory
Hatchett, chief of the Waycross
district, as saying that more fish
will be released in the river in
the next few days.
Ranger Rowell calls attention
to the fact that the hunting sea
son on deer, turkey and squirrel
closes Jan. 5, but that sportsmen
will then have plenty of fish to
angle for in the Satilla River.
Brantley Lions
Supply Lunches for
School Children
The Brantley County 'Lions
Club made several children hap
py this week when they pre
sented a lunch ticket for the
Christmas dinner to each child
in the Nahunta Elementary
School who did not buy his own
lunch.
The dinner with all the tra
ditional trimmings was served in
the school lunchroom Wednes
day. Turkey, dressing, cranberry
sauce, green beans, slaw, and
plum pie were served to all pu
pils, teachers, board members,
and administrative personnel.
Farm Bureau in
National Meeting
Hears Jim Thomas
Jim Thomas returned home
Wednesday after speaking be
fore the national Farm Bureau
convention in Chicago on Tues
day evening of this week.
His appearance on Tuesday’s
program, as head of the Future
Farmers or America, was at the
invitation of national Farm Bu
reau President Charles B. Shu
man.
The convention, which began
last Sunday, is continuing
through Thursday of this week.
On Monday, Dec. 7, Jim was
presented with an achievement
award by the Atlanta Chamber of
Commerce at their 100th Anni
versary meeting. He was on hand
for the presentation.
The certificate stated that it
was being presented in recogni
tion of his accomplishments in
the field of agriculture and the
renewed interest which is being
expressed in the “noble occupa
tion of farming.”
Mr. and Mrs. James H. Tuttle
of St. Marys, Ga., announce the
birth of a new baby boy. He was
bom in a Folkston hospital on
Friday, Dec. 11, and weighed
eight pounds and eight ounces.
The mother is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wainright of
Brantley county.
Mr. and Mrs. C. Y. Delgado of
Titusville, Fla., announce the ar
rival of a baby girl on Novem
ber 23. weighing eight pounds
and eight ounces. She has been
named Carol Ann. The mother is
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs
Joe McDonald of Nahunta.
Births
Miss Vola Elizabeth Strickland
Granddaughter of Mrs. A. A. Strickland
Engagement Is Announced
Tales Out of School
’ By Bernice McCullar
SEVENTY - NINE MARY
SMITHS — We have the records
of more than a hundred thousand
teachers in our Certification Of
fice. Among them are seventy
nine Mary Smiths — and of
these, nearly a dozen are Mary
Ann Smith. That’s why we ask
them to write their entire name,
the name of mamma, papa, and
town of birth. Our 79 Mary
Smiths range from Mary Smith
of Daisy, Georgia, to Sister Mary
Charlotte Smith, a gentle nun
who teaches in a Catholic school
in a big city. Some of the 79 are
retired now, and others have just
come into profession. We also
have a teaching folder for Mister
s|B Smith of South Georgia, who
is named in H. Allen Smith’s in
teresting book, "People Called
Smith.” When Mr. s|B Smith first
sent in his application, our man
in charge of this office returned
it to him, thinking that the
fraction was a typographical er
ror. But it wasn’t. That’s his
name. His father named him
that to keep him from being nick
named.
WE NEED THEM — We need
4,526 classrooms right now, and
this will increase every year,
since more than 100,000 children
are born in Georgia annually.
We have 64,896 more elementary
children than we have normal
classroom space for righ now',
and 34,934 more high school stu
dents. We need 3,327 rooms for
them. We also need 1,199 class
rooms for youngsters who are
now housed in obsolete class
rooms. These classrooms would
cost $15,00 each (with related
school lunch and other facilities)
to build. But that’s what we need.
And as long as our birthrate
keeps going up, our classroom
needs will keep skyrocketing, too.
LOOK WHO CAN GO! You
remember that we have S3OO
grants to Georgia teachers of
math, science, and foreign lan
guages (including Latin) to go
back to college and study their
subjects. Recently, the State
Board of Education voted to let
other teachers go, too. These are
the ones which the Board minutes
show as included for the coming
summer: science, math, foreign
language, Latin, English, and so
cial science (including history,
civics, economics, sociology, etc.).
This was voted on motion of Lon
nie E. Sweat of Blackshear, se
conded by Francis Shurling of
Wrightsville.
RING THE BELLS, AND TELL
THE PEOPLE — Many bright
students are taking the exams for
the National Merit Scholarships.
Many in Georgia have won
them — and they carry the pos
sibility of up to six thousand dol
lars for a college education. If
there is one of these winners in
your town, see if you can’t save,
a little of that wild enthusiasm *
you display when the football ।
team wins, to cheer and sing and
yell and have a dinner to honor
these brains. It’s brains that save 1
the world — if it is saved — and
not just the ability to make a
touchdown. Yet we often let the
achievements of these bright
youngsters go virtually unnoticed
while we yell ourselves hoarse at
the ones who carry the ball over
the goal. Where are our values?
Did we mislay them somewhere
among the old, lost years?
NOT ONLY HOT GUNS
CRACKING, BUT JOHN KEATS,
TOO — The whoosh of jet planes
and the crack of hot guns in Wild
West shows will not be the only
sounds modern children grow up
with, if the State Department of
Education has its way. Tapes of
resonant voices recording old,
loved poems have just been add
ed to the Department’s audio
visual collection, which already
has 6,200 tapes being used by
Georgia schools.
The new poetry collection is 1
done by Professor F. Earl Ward
of Macalester College. It includes
the readings of such poems as
John Keats’ Eve of St. Agnes,
Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient
Mariner, Houseman’s Shropshire
Lad, and Poe’s The Raven. There
are also lessons in Tennyson’s
versions of the King Arthur
stories, and John Milton’s L’Al
legro, El Pensoroso and Lycidas.
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales make
up a section of the teaching
tapes, too, which will give mo
dern students some idea of the
English of Chaucer’s day and in
troduce them to old time favor
ites like the Wife of Bath, the
friar, the pardoner, and the
others of the host that wended a
famous way to Canterbury and
told their varying tales.
The Department’s audio-visual
library— the largest of its kind
in the world — added tapes about
three years ago. They are widely
used in the schools of the state.
Garland Bagley, director of the
service, said that the new poetry
series is one of the finest that
has been done for modern stu
dents.
IT SHOWS UP AT CHRIST
MAS |— America’s 18 million
teenagers have ten BILLION dol
lars to spend each year. It’s al
lowances and earnings. Good
homemaking classes help them
learr. values, so that they don’t
make bad bargains, like Ben
Franklin and his whistle. They
don’t accept shoddy values.
Many buy things and make their
own gifts, stretching their dol
lars. (By the way, research
shows that the average teen age
girl in the nation spends $33.01
on presents for the men in her
life: $9.31 for father, $7.11 for
older brother, $5.50 for her little
brother, and $11.09 for he? beau,
says Seventeen Magazine.)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY — First
grader was singing a merry little
tune on Christmas morning. Her
daddy, listening, heard her sing
ing "Happy birthday.” “Haven’t
you got your holidays mixed up,
honey?” he asked. “This is
Christmas.” Then he realized that
he was the one who was mixed
up. What she was singing was
“Happy birthday, dear Jesus,
Happy birthday to you.”
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Satilla Soil Conservation
District Awards Are Made
Strickland-Hoss
Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Strick
land of Daytona Beach. Fla.,
formerly of Jacksonville, an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter, Vola Elizabeth, to Jo
seph Morris Hoss, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harold M. Hoss of Laurel,
Miss.
Miss Strickland, granddaughter
<of Mrs. A. A. Strickland of Na
hunta, is a graduate of Mainland
High School and is presently at
tending Daytona Beach Junior
College.
The bridegroom-elect, a gradu
ate of Marion Military Institute,
Marion, Ala., is a student at Ala
bama Polytechnic Institute, Au
burn, Ala.
Their marriage will be solemn
ized December 22, at the Presby
terian Church in Daytona Beach.
Marriage vows will be spoken at
5:30 o’clock in the afternoon.
Cattle Testing
For Brucelosis
Begins in Brantley
According to George A. Loyd,
Co. Agent, the testing of cattle
for the purpose of keeping
Brantley County Certified as
brucelosis free, will begin within
the next few days. However, this
is not expected to involve as
much work, and time as it did
when the original work was done
about three years ago, f.oyd said.
Only spot tests will be made at
this time and will involve only
about 10 per cent of the cattle
in the County, but if the farm
ers who are called on, when the
testing begins, will lend their
cooperation it will hasten the
work, and make it much easier
for those’ maxing the tests.
Brantley County was among
the first Counties in the state to
be certified as a Brucelosis free
County, when the Brucelosis era
dication program was started
some 4 years ago, and for it to
remain on the certified list it
is necessary for about 10 per cent
of the cattle to be retested from
time to time.
Nahunta Tri-Hi-Y
Met Tuesday
The Tri-Hi-Y of the Nahunta
High School met Tuesday, Dec.
15, in the ladies lounge of the
school. We discussed ways of
earning money for the club and
also discussed sending two dele
gates to the Youth Assembly in
Atlanta.
After hearing suggestions for
the topic of the bill to be sub
mitted to the Youth Assembly
the meeting adjourned.
Dollie Warren, reporter.
Personals
William B. Knox, signalman
first class USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Bill W. Knox of Route 2,
Nahunta, Ga., and husband of
the former Miss Lois A. Minton
of Long Beach., Calif., returned
to Long Beach, Calif., the end of
November aboard the heavy
cruiser USS Toledo, following
six months of operations with the
U. S. Seventh Fleet in the Far
East.
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Mrs. Katherine Rogers left on
Thursday of Last week to go to
Hollywood, Fla., where she will
spend several weeks with her
sister.
Mrs. Coyla Drury and Miss
Jourelle Drury attended the fun
eral of Robert Lee Clark with
burial in Homeward Cemetery
on Thursday, Dec. 10. Mr. Clark
died at his home in Waverly
Tuesday morning. He was a rela
tive of Mrs. Drury and Miss
Drury.
Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Purdom re
turned on Saturday from Ocala,
Fla, where they spent a few days
with Mr. Purdom’s brother, Mr.
and Mrs. G. A. Purdom.
A small advertisement in The
Brantley Enterprise will be read
like news. One time 75 cents,
three times $2 00.
Your home newspaper —
a living record of your com
munity’s progress.
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The Annual Essay Awards
Banquet of the Satilla River Soil
Conservation District was held
at the Nahunta High School on
December 10, 1959 at 7:00 P. M.
There were 92 attending.
The supper was sponsored by
the Satilla River Soil Conserva
tion Supervisors.
Master of Ceremonies, J. Mar
vin Strickland from Waycross.
Welcome, W. L. Bohanon from
Nahunta.
District Prizes were presented
to the winners which were as
follows;
Ist. place, Charlton County,
Jerry James $50.00.
2nd. place. Pierce County, San
dra Dean $40.00.
3rd. place, Wayne County,
Glynn Murray $30.00.
Contestants attending from
Brantley County were Robert
Page Hoboken, Dollie Mae War
ren Nahunta, Donna Powell Na
hunta.
Jerry James, the District Win
ner, read his winning Essay.
A delicious supper of turkey
and dressing was served by Mrs.
Herrin’s Home Ec girls, which
was enjoyed by all those pre
sent.
Parents Go
Back to School
At Nahunta
The Nahunta High School PTA
met in the school cafeteria ou l
evening of December 14 for a
session of “Back to School” for
the parents. Mrs. Elroy Strick-*
land program chairman, was in
charge.
The principal, Mr. John H Cal
houn, briefed the parents on pro
cedure, then released them to
follow an abbreviated schedule
of their children's school day.
Each teacher was in his or her
classroom find gave parent a re
some of the work being done at
this time in each class. Follow
ing completion of the schedule,
the group assembled in the music
room to hear Miss Nan Stephens’
glee club sing carols. At Miss
Stephens’ request, parents joined
in singing some of the most fami
liar numbers. The group then re
turned to the cafeteria for a
short business session which was
opened with prayer by Rev. Cecil
Thomas.
The hostesses, Mrs. Edna
Adams, Mrs. Bertha Jacobs, Mrs.
J. H. Calhoun, Mrs. Lois Wil
liams, Mrs. J. T. Royster, Mrs.
Rebecca Griner, Mrs. Hoke Wil
son, Mrs. Harry Raulerson and
Mrs. Friel Rhoden, served home
made cookies and candies, coffee
and cold drinks.
About 75 were present, and
teachers and parents reported
that "back to school” had proved
to be an especially enjoyable ex
perience.
Post Office Hours
Announced for
Holiday Season
There will be no change in the
regular service hours of the Na
hunta Post Office during the holi
day season except for closing on
Friday, Dec. 25th, Christmas Day
and the following Friday, Jan
uary First, New Year’s Day. The
rural routes will not run on these
two days but WILL run on Satur
days, Dec. 26 and Jan. 2.
The General Delivery window
will be open from 8 A. M. to
8:30 A. M. and from 4:00 P. M.
to 4 30 P. M. on both Christmas
and New Year’s Days and an at
tempt will be made to deliver all
Christmas mail that is in the
Post Office by Christmas morn
ing.
At this time it looks as though
more mail will be handled than
ever before, so all are urged to
get their Christmas cards in the
mail TODAY and for all rural
patrons to obtain stamps in ad
vance and affix same to their
cards before mailing. It is im
possible for the carriers to do
this and get the cards off the
day of mailing.
Outgoing packages still remain
ing to be mailed out of state must
go via AIR MAIL to assure
Christmas delivery.
E. Parker Dodge,
Postmaster.
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