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VOLUME 39 — NUMBER 51
Sweeping The Country
WILL NAHUNTA GO FORWARD OR
CONTINUE TO STAND STILL?
The report of Dr. George Whitlatch of Georgia Tech
concerning Nahunta’s industrial possibilities has given our
citizens much food for thought.
Nahunta lies almost in the center of a vast area be
tween Waycross and Brunswick and Jesup and Folkston.
Our town, judging by its strategic location in this south
east Georgia empire, should be a growing center of trade
and commerce. But for various reasons, difficult to ana
lyze, we have not yet attracted industries to supply jobs
for our young people who finish school and for others
who would wish to locate here.
Dr. Whitlatch said one thing in his report that should
cause us some soul-searching. He said, “All in all, per
haps Nahunta’s chief handicap to industrial development
is complacency of the community, if not outright opposi
tion — the problem may even lie in a too conservative
leadership.”
He goes on to urge greater community interest and gives
suggestions for stimulating action among our people.
Now “complacency” means self-satisfaction, apathy,
indifference, or a general attitude of just letting things
drift. Yet, we know that our citizens really want to make
progress industrially but that we have not yet got together
to make the great effort necessary to attract factories to
our town.
It takes a lot of sacrificial leadership, a lot of hard
work, a lot of cooperation for a town to make industrial
progress when so many other towns are doing so much to
get the industries that seek new locations.
It is my opinion that we should, immediately after the
New Year call a meeting of our citizens and re-activate
the Brantley County Industrial Development Corporation.
This corporation is already set up. What is needed is that
it become active and go to work for the long pull to get
industries for our town and county. No one is going to
help us unless we get busy and help ourselves.
We are going to have to pull ourselves up by our own
bootstraps. It will be a long, hard and tedious pull, but
it CAN BE DONE if we all pull together long enough and
hard enough.
Dr. Whitlatch outlined some of the other handicaps for
our getting industries. In later issues of the Enterprise 1
hope to discuss some of these handicaps and offer sug
gestions as to how we can try to oveicome them.
Any citizen wishing to express himself concerning this
matter will be given space in the Enterprise to discuss
them.
Machine Can
Read Numbers
Electronics scientists are finally
teaching their huge mechanical
brains how to read.
The Bell Telephone Labora
tories announced they have pro-
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With this old fashioned
greeting we wish you all
well in the coming year.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
By Carl Broome
duced a machine that can read
hand written words. The small
experimental model can decipher
only nine scrawled words: the
figures one to nine, written out.
But scientists said more elaborate
models might become useful for
a number of businesses.
Sraniku Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128. Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 24, 1959
Carpenter Is
Speaker at
HD Council
Brantley County Home Demon
stration Council was held Wed
nesday, Dec. 16 in the Home
Economics room of the Nahunta
High School with the Rabon HD
Club as hostess.
The speakers for the evening
were R. L. Carpenter, fire chief
of the Waycross fire department
and Mrs. Dixie Kiefer, home ad
visor of Georgia Power Co. of
Waycross.
Mr. Carpenter spoke on the
topic “Before it is too late” stress
ing caution of the many fire ha
zards in and around the house.
Mrs. Kiefer talked on “More
light on a light subject” and
demonstrated with slides the per
fectly lighted home and also
showed the effect of different
lights on drapes. Mrs. Virginia
Raulerson .assisted Mrs. Kiefer
in the demonstration.
Mrs. Elroy Strickland led the
devotional.
Mrs. E. A. Hunter of Waynes
ville is president of the County
Council and presided during the
business session. The council
meets every three .months and
will have the next meeting on
February 17 with the Waynes
ville HD Club as hostess.
Mrs. E. A. Hunter’s birthday
was observed with the singing of
Happy Birthday and the cutting
and serving of a birthday cake.
During the social hour an ex
change of gifts of aprons by the
members and the Rabon Club
served pecan pie and coffee.
Present from Rabon club; Mrs.
John Wilson, Mrs. Albert Pur
dom and Mrs. Elroy Strickland,
Waynesville members were; Mrs.
Thelma Thompson, Mrs. Hunter,
Mrs. Marguerite Jacobs, Mrs.
P. J. Gibson and Mrs. Marvin
Robinson. Nahunta Club; Mrs.
Elizabeth Barnard, Mrs. Ben
Jones, Mrs. Carolyn Lewis and
Mrs. Lena Strickland, Calvary
Club; Mrs. J. R. Driggers, Mrs.
J. E. Aldridge and Mrs. Mildred
Fowler. Hickox; Mrs. Ganelle
Keene, Mrs. J. C. Allen, Mrs.
W. W. Hendrix and Mrs. M. L.
Anderson.
Mrs. M. L. Anderson,
reporter.
HOME FOR SALE
8-room house and three acres
of land for sale at Hickox. 15
bearing pecan trees, hot water
heater and electric stove, two
wells, shallow and deep. See or
call J. R. Proctor, Phone HO
2-2345, Nahunta, Ga. 1-14.
HOUSE FOR RENT
5-room huse in Nahunta for
rent, bath and hot water heater.
Will be available Jan. 15. Call
HO 2-2505, Nahunta, Ga. 1-14.
In 1958 the value of corn pro
duced in Georgia was SIOB mil
lion. Corn represents 30 percent
of the total crop production in
come in the state, say Agricul
tural Extension Service agrono
mists.
Miss Lucile Higginbotham,
health education specialist, Agri
cultural Extension Service, points
out that electric cords trailing a
cross rooms, under rugs, or along
baseboards are fire hazards.
The New March of Dimes Targets
The theme selected for the New March of Dimes in
January is a simple, direct statement: Prevent Crippling
Diseases! Yet it says a number of things not always ap
parent to the average American.
Most of us are barely conscious of the crippled child or
adult. We'see a boy dragging along a braced leg trying to
keep up with his playmates. The little girl on crutches or
the man in a wheel chair are usually taken for granted as
an unchanging way of life.
Crippling has many causes. The New March of Dimes
singles out three major fields of crippling disease for a
frontal attack. These are birth defects, arthritis and polio.
Here is the size of the problem:
Every year a quarter of a million infants — 685 a
day — are bom with birth defects. At least half of them
face a lifetime of serious chronic illness and disability.
Upwards of 11 million people in the United States alone
are affected by arthritis and rheumatism. Apart from the
physical pain, the economic loss to the nation tops $1.5
million annually.
In polio The National Foundation continues its aid to
over 50,000 patients, most of them paralyzed in previous
years. The past year added many to the patient aid roster.
The need for braces, crutches and wheel chairs, to say
nothing of iron lungs, rocking beds and other respiratory
aids, went on without respite.
This year when you join the New' March of Dimes by
giving your time and your money, you will be helping
people toward a better life, protecting the nation against
crippiers that may attack even you and your family.
County Democratic
Committee Meets
Tuesday, Dec. 29.
The Brantley County Democra
tic Committee will meet at the
courthouse in Nahunta Tuesday
morning, Dec. 29, at nine o’clock
for a business session, it is an
nounced by J. D. Orser, com
mittee secretary.
The committee will probably
decide the date and rules and
regulations of the i 960 county
primary election. The primary is
usually held in February or
March every four years. All
county officers and the county
Democratic committeemen will
be nominated in the county pri
mary.
Sheriff and
GBI Man Get
$250 Rewards
Okefenoke electric co-op today
paid a reward of $250 each to
Brantley County Sheriff J. Wal
ter Crews and Lt. John Wolfe,
GBI Agent, for their parts in the
arrest of Edwad Fenderson and
William Tukes, both colored, for
the theft of 2,060 lbs of copper
wire from the co-op yard in Na
hunta on the night of November
24th.
Fenderson and Tukes plead
guilty and were each sentenced
to two years hard labor by Su
perior Court Judge Cecil Rod
denberry. Fenderson had just
been released from prison where
he had served a six month term
for stealing wire from Okefenoke
Co-op’s yard last December 29th.
That time he was arrested in
Callahan, Florida by Policeman
Ralph Hicks, with the wire in
his possession.
Although few clues were left
at the scene of the crime, by
brilliant detective work of Sher
off Crews and Lt. Wolfe, within
two days the wire hed been re
covered and the thieves appre
hended. The wire had been sold
to a junk dealer in Brunswick.
Hortense Cemetery
Will be Cleaned
The various churches of the
Hortense community have ap
pointed a committee to have the
local cemetery cleaned off.
Mr. Joe Smith is secretary of
the committee and Mr. Allen Ro
well is treasurer. Work on the
project will probably start Dec.
28.
Nahunta Stores to
Close 2 Days
For Christmas
Nahunta stores will close both
Friday and Saturday, Dec. 25 and
26, for Christmas holidays, it is
announced by Wilder Brooker,
secretary of the Merchants As
sociation.
The stores will be open again
for business Monday morning,
Dec. 28.
Garden Club
Holds Annual
Yule Party
The annual tour and Christ
mas party of the Nahunta Garden
Club was held on Thursday night
of last week, meeting first at the
home of Mrs. J. B. Lewis where
they observed her decorations
and Mrs. Lewis was assisted by
Mrs. Russell Huffman in serving
cookies, pickles and oriental tea.
From the home of Mrs. Lewis
the group went to the High
School to see the many Christ
mas decorations made by the
Home Economics class of Mrs.
Lee Herrin.
They concluded the tour at
Gay’s restaurant where Mrs.
Parker Dodge, Mrs. Elroy Strick
land and Mrs. Allan Barnard
were hostesses. The restaurant
was decorated in the Christmas
motif. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson
gave a reading on "The spirit of
Christmas.”
Present were; Mrs. Edna
Adams, Mrs. A. B. Brooker, Mrs.
J. B. Graham, Mrs. W. H. Herrin,
Mrs. Mollie Highsmith, Miss
Mary Knox, Mrs. E. A. Moody,
Mrs. Joe Siegel, Mrs. Grace
Wakely, Mrs. Calhoun, Mrs. Rus
sell Huffman, Mrs. Avery Strick
land, Mrs. J. B. Lewis and Mrs.
Jesse Allen.
The hostess served pineapple
and ham sandwiches, cheese balls,
angel food cake chunks rolled in
nuts and hot coffe.
Marketing Quotas
For Cotton
Approved by Farmers
Farmers have approved mar
keting quotas for the 1960 crop
of cotton, John F. Bradley, Ad
ministrative Officer of the Agri
cultural Stablization and Con
servation State Office, has an
nounced.
The preliminiary returns from
the December 15 growers’ refer
endum shows a favorable vote by
95.2 percent of the 15,851 cotton
farmers voting. At least two
thirds of the growers voting must
approve quotas if they are to be
come effective. Approval of
quotas by cotton growers means
that:
1. Quotas with penalties on ex
cess cotton will be in effect for
the 1960 crop.
2. Price support to growers who
comply with their farm allot
ments will be at the full level
available under the law.
3. Allotments will continue in
effect for the 1960 crop of cotton.
4. Upland cotton farm opera
tors in 1960 will have a choice
between two allotment-price sup
port programs — “regular” farm
allotments with support at not
less than 75 percent of parity, or
40-percent-larger farm allotments
with support at not less than 60
percent of parity.
The marketing quota penalty
on “excess” upland cotton will
be 50 percent of the cotton parity
price as of June 15, 1960.
New Sewerage
Disposal Plant
Now Operating
The sewerage disposal plant and
lift station have now been com
pleted and are in the process of
being checked out to be turned
over to the City of Blackshear,
it is announced by Mayor Lee
Broome.
The Harry Pepper Company has
finished the construction work
and is now engaged in painting
the plant and doing clean-up
work.
The final inspection by the
federal government will be done
early in January and the city
should complete its grant trans
actions with the government a
bout February 1.
No raw sewerage is being
dumped into the Alabaha river
for the first time since the ori
ginal sewer system was installed
in Blackshear and all sewerage
is being carried in closed pipes
to the disposal plant.
Final payment to the contrac
tor will not be made until after
the final government inspection,
although the contractor will be
finished in Blackshear within a
bout a week.
Excessive nitrogen without ade
quate potash over stimulate"
Coastal Bermuda grass making it
more susceptible to winter in
jury, declare agronomists, Agri
cultural Extension Service.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Georgia Power Company Pays
Large Sum in Property Taxes
Personals
Mrs. J. B. Lewis was the
speaker at the Hoboken Womans
Club on Saturday night, Dec. 19
at the home of Mrs. Banner Tho
mas in Hoboken. She demonstra
ted making dried arrangements
and showed Christmas arrange
ments and gave information in
the preparation for the making.
Mrs. Bertha Jones was co-hostess
with Mrs. Thomas in serving cof
fee, fruit cake and sandwiches
Mrs. A. L. Dukes, Mrs. Frank
Dukes, Mrs. Bell, Mrs. Macy Col
vin, Mrs. Bertha Jacobs, Mrs.
Banner Thomas, Mrs. Douglas
Spell, Mrs. Ruth Davis, Mrs.
Floyd Larkins, Mrs. Fred Dow
ling and Mrs. Colvin of Hoboken
were members of the Womans
Club visiting Mrs. J. B. Lewis on
Sunday night to observe the de
coration of her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Arlie Griffin
and family of Gadsden, Ala., are
visiting Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Hickox and other relatives in
Brantley County this week.
Jack Whitehouse, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. R. Whitehouse, visit
ed Tommy Tucker Jr., son of
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Tucker, the
past week.
Sheldon O. Dubberly, SA,
USCG, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eu
gene Dubberly of P. O. Box 365,
Hortense, has completed thirteen
weeks of basic training at the
U. S. Coast Guard Receiving Cen
ter, Cape May, New Jersey.
Roger D. Altman, SA, USCG,
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Hop
kins of P. O. Box. 355, Hortense,
has completed thirteen weeks of
basic training at the U. S. Coast
Guard Receiving Center, Cape
May, New Jersey.
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Change . . . change . . . these are days of change
and progress!
And how did the cornfield become a “neighbor
hood”?
Because, when folks first wanted to build a house
in it, the Rural Electric System serving nearby was
willing and able to bring in low-cost electricity—
no one else would undertake the job! . . ,
Then came others . . . because that most-needed
element, electricity, was available. 'Soon, just out
side the city limits, there stood a thriving neigh
borhood, where once the corn grew . . .
Rural Electric Systems are forbidden by law from
extending electric service to anyone already re
ceiving electricity . . . Rural Electric Systems seek
only to provide their own Members with the best
possible electric service at the lowest possible cost.
Okefenoke Rural Electric
Membership Corporation
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District and local managers of
the Georgia Power Company
throughout the state this week
are presenting to municipal and
county government officials
checks which will bring the a
mount of the company’s 1959
property tax payments to a total
of $5,683,400.
B. F. David, local manager at
Blackshear, reported the amount
compares with a total of $5,275,-
000 paid by the company for its
1958 property taxes.
Os this sum, Mr. David report
ed, $2,812,344 goes into general
county funds, $1,919,320 to school
districts, $906,805 to cities and
towns, and $44,931 to Georgia
and adjoining states.
Payments of $119.03 went to
the City of Nahunta and $3,467 -
69 to Brantley County. Total pay
ments for the Valdosta division
of the company amounted to
$247,740.24.
Earlier in the year, municipal
partnership tax payments total
ing $2,135,107 were paid by the
company to the 382 cities, towns
and communities in which the
firm’s partnership franchise a
greement was in effect. Under
this agreement, the company pays
each municipality in which it
operates three per cent of its
gross revenue from the sale of
electricity for residential and
commercial use. These municipal
partnership tax payments were
in addition to property tax pay
ments.
The Georgia Power Company
official pointed out that approxi
mately 20 per cent of the com
pany’s total revenue goes to pay
taxes, including federal and state
income taxes, municipal partner
ship taxes, and others.
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