The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, January 07, 1960, Image 1

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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. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People^ VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 1 Brantley Superior Court Will Convene at Nahunta Jan. 18 Brantley County Court will convene at Nahunta Monday, Jan. 18, with Judge Cecil Rod denberry presiding and Solicitor Dewey Hayes as prosecutor. The jury lists as announced by D. F Herrin, clerk of the court, are as follows; GRAND JURY Perry Wainright, C. W. Easter ling, L. E. Aldridge, J. R. Lewis, R. E. Ammons, I. M. Morgan, R. E. Johns, Pete J. Gibson, Glynwood Dowling, B. M. Tho mas, Ray Johns, Louis Thrift, H. T Jacobs, R. E. Sloan. S. L. Rowell, John I. Lee, R. L. Barnard, C. L. King, James A. Herrin Sr., D. A. Cason, W. L. Bohanon, W. P. Strickland, C. E. Crews, Edgar Morgan, Fred Lewis, J. D. Orser, E. B. Camp bell. TRAVERSE JURY Joe McDonald, Leon A. Jacobs, Taiford Highsmith, Joe C. Crews, C. A. Robinson, George Lee, E. G. Fowler, E. L. Sears, A. J. Carter, J; R. Driggers, T F. Dowling, Alvin Shuman, J. O. Strickland, N. A. Brauda, Rev. Cecil F. Tho mas, Charlie Crews, H. E. Tho mas. J. A. Smith, W. A. Williams, C. C. Dixon, Delmas Griffin, Ike Moody, G B. Prescott, Ira E. Johns, D. S. Moody, Sweat Davis, E. C. Carter, George M. Johns, L. J. Cason, Harvey Lewis, J. I. Riggins, J. B. Middleton, Ellis Altman, L. L. Rhoden Sr., Albert Purdom. R. J. Douglas, L. E. Dickerson, R. T. Rowell, John Chesser, D. E. Waldron, R. A. Lee, Vornie Crews, W. H. Brown, E. J. Wil son, W. K. Herrin, Gerald D. Tho mas, J. D. Lane, J. W. Walker, Bennie F. Harris, S. L. Watson, Riley Walker, Farley O’Berry. J. A. Batten, R. B. Crews, Van W. Strickland, S. M. Aldridge, J. B. Carter, Robert Griner, M. E. Strickland. B. J. Crews, O. W. Carter, H. D. Edgy, J. R. Proctor, Everette E. Hickox, George Dow ling, Kenneth B. Smith, J. O. Wainright, Glynn Lee, I. V. Ho ward, George Steedley. John C. Crawford, Riley Johns, Howard Davis, Kenneth Willis, H. R. Rowell, A. J. Hickox, Elmer F. Aldridge, Fred Lee, Fred Gib son, O.mie Wilson, Robert Jones, Cecil Lynn, Donald Miles, Leon Griffin, Sidney Hulett, J. Q. Smith Jr. It helps to make the job of ironing easier if you remember that it is the heat and not the pressure that does the ironing, re minds Miss Doris Oglesby, hous ing-equipment specialist, Agri cultural Extension Service. Former 4-H’ers Harold Joiner A Jackson county housewife and an Atlanta newspaperman have been honored as Georgia’s “outstanding former 4-H club members” in the 1959 National 4-H Club Alumni Recognition program conducted by the Coop erative Extension Service. They are Mrs. Robert H. Pinck ney, Jackson, and C. Harold Joiner, of 2408 Meadowpark Drive, Atlanta. Each received a burnished copper plaque donated by the Olin Mathieson Corp.’s Plant Food Division. President for two years of her local 4-H club in Lamar county, Mrs. Pinckney won a Junior col lege scholarship for her 4-H club work and continued her 4-H ac tivities at the University of Geor gia. After graduation, Mrs. Pinck ney became Extension Service home demonstration agent as signed to Paulding county. Her work covered 25 4-H clubs and 10 home demonstration clubs. Joiner was a 4-H club member for six years in Laurens county. He was president of his local and county clubs and was a state winner in garden and leadership projects. For two years Joiner was presi dent of the Georgia Master 4-H Club, a group of former club members who have won state awards. In 1955 he was recommended by the journalism school for the post of farm editor on the At lanta Journal "because of his vast experience with 4-H clubs.** When the International Farm Youth Exchange sent him abroad in 1952, Joiner formed a 4-H club in Staffelstein, Germany. Geor gia’s 4-H headquarters gave im mediate approval of this move “to strengthen understanding be tween peoples.” H. K. Persons, Sr. Funeral Service Held Sunday Jan. 3 Funeral services for Harvey K. Persons, Sr., of Nahunta, who died Friday, Jan. 1, in an Atlanta hospital following an extended ill ness. were held Sunday at the First Baptist Church in Monti cello, Ga. Mr. Persons was a retired State Highway Department warden. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ethel Sweat Wainright Persons; two daughters, Mrs. Watson Winn of East Point and Mrs. Aubrey Sikes of Glennville; a stepson, W. M. Wainright of Warner Robins; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Tommy Fisher of Cochran and Mrs. Brown Brooker of Nahunta; four brothers, J. D. Persons, Howard Persons and Ray Persons, all of Monticello and Hugh Per sons of Millen; two sisters, Mrs. Ethel Wilson of Monticello and Mrs. Hal Lynch of Jacksonville; several grandchildren including Harvey K. Persons, 111, Barrie S. Persons and Pamela Persons of Waycross. Those from Nahunta attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Delma Herrin, Mr. and Mrs. Hoke Wilson, Mrs. C. H. Penland, O wen Wainright, Everett Wain right, Mr. and Mrs. Brown Brook er Willie Bennett Funeral Services Held Dec. 25 Willie E. Bennett, 83, of Hor tense, died Wednesday Dec. 23 at his home. He was a retired farmer. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. W. E. Bennett of Hortense; one daughter, Mrs. Annie Wills of Jesup; one soh, Willie J. Bennett, Jesup; one step-son, Ross Flowers of Hortense; one sister, Mrs. Win nie Weller of Gainesville, Fla.; 15 grandchildren; four great-grand children. Funeral services were held Dec. 25 at the Hortense Methodist Church, conducted by the Rev. Jimmy Slater and the Rev. Hinton Johnson. Burial was in the church cemetery. Pallbearers were W. C. Flow ers, Bobby Bennett, Fred Ben nett, Ronald Flowers, Harvey Flowers and Elbert Flowers Mrs. Sally Smith Funeral Service Held Sunday Jan. 3 BRUNSWICK — Funeral serv ices for Mrs. Sally E. Smith, wife of W. T. Smith, 3411 Lee St., who died Friday, were held Sun day at the Arco Methodist Church with the Rev. Simpson P. Clay, pastor, officiating. Burial was in the Daniels Cemetery near Way nesville under direction of the Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home. Pallbearers was W. R- Hail, George B. Perry, Joe D. Glover, Alvin W Willis, J. A. Jackson, and T. J. Newman. Mn. Pinckney Strickland Family Hold Reunion on Christmas Day The children of Mrs. Albert Strickland were all home with her for a family reunion on Christmas day. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. James H. Highsmith, Mr and Mrs. Elroy Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Avery Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Wainright and Mr. and Mrs. Clifton Strickland all of Nahunta. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Kelly of Waverly and Mr. and Mrs. Finley Strickland of Daytona Beach, Fla. The grandchildren present were Helen Strickland, Glen and Margie Strickland, Arvell and Myra Raulerson, Jane, Arlene and Gail Strickland, Ann, Janis and Reggie Strickland, Lovie Estelle and Mary Ellen Strickland, Den ise Kelly and Shirley Wainright. A covered dish dinner was served. Corn records go back to 1866. says Harold Gurley, agronomist, Agricultural Extension Service. The state average per-acre yield that year was six bushels, Gur ley reports. Nutritionists, Agricultural Ex tension Service, say enrichment is the most economical means of replacing the vitamins and min erals lost or removed in the mill ing process. Srattiky BtfrrprißF Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 7, 1960 Nahunta Garden Club Met at Home of Mrs. Jesse Lee The Nahunta Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. Jesse Lee with Mrs. J. R James as co hostess on Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 5. Mrs. Lee Herrin is presi dent. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson was in charge of the program. Miss Alice Sue DePratter gave a talk and demonstration how she land scaped her garden. Mrs. Rhoda Strickland led the devotional. Projects for the year were dis cussed during the business ses sion. Others present were Mrs. Mollie Highsmith, Mrs. Collis Highsmith. Mrs. Edna Adams, Mrs. J. C Kale, Miss Mary Knox, Mrs. Grace Wakely, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard, Mrs. Joe Seigel, Mrs. Cecil Thomas and Mrs. J. B. Lewis. The hostesses served sand wiches, fruit cake, pickles, nuts and coffee. Hoboken Boys Rout Nahunta But Girls Win Four players scored in double figures at Hoboken Tuesday night to lead Hoboken in a 61-21 rout of Nahunta. Henry Aldridge and Avery Griffin had 14 points apiece, Roy Griffin 13 and Earl Woods 10 as the locals won their 14th game in 16 starts. Robert Sloan topped Nahunta with eight points. The Nahunta girls took a 41-38 decision in the preliminary, placing three players in double figures. Sherry Hendrix had 20 points, Sylvia Rowell 11 and Frances Sadler 10. Carol Hagin hit 26 and Annette Lucas 10 for Hoboken. Polio Increase In Georgia Is Alarming With 178 cases of polio report ed by Dec. 18, Georgia showed an alarming increase in cases in 1959, according to Herbert Col vin, March of Dimes Director for the January campaign. Only 56 cases were reported to Dec. 5, 1958. The 1959 total of new cases represents a 150 per cent increase over last year. Eleven people died from polio this year in Georgia. Because of the large number of new cases and the heavy back log of old cases, most of the Georgia chapters are in the worst financial situation in years. Over $50,000 in unpaid hospi tal bills on polio patients is out standing in the Southeastern Georgia area of 40 counties. The national polio toll is also alarming. 8,278 cases have been reported to December 5, 1959, as compared with 5,739 cases on this date last year. Paralytic cases in 1959 are almost double those in 1958. The March of Dimes Director blamed the public for the tragic polio increase. 91,000,000 people are unprotected, he said. We will have more crippled children and adults and more deaths until the public wakes up to the need for vaccination. Mr. Colvin urged every person to take the vaccine. He asked for all-out support of the March of Dimes in January. “In the fu ture,” he said, “your dimes and dollars will help to bring an end to polio and give hope in the new fight against birth defects and arthritis.” Card of Thanks We wish to express our deep appreciation to everyone who was so kind to the family at the time of the death of our husband and father, Frank Harris. We thank you for the kind words of sympathy, the lovely floral offerings, the covered dishes and every act of kindness. We shall always remember your kind deeds and may God bless you all. Sincerely, His wife and son Sows should be bred so that they produce two litters of pigs a year, say animal husbandmen. Agricultural Extension Service. Brantley County Democratic Primary Will Be Held on Tuesday, Feb. 16 Nahunta Methodist Church to Hold Services Every Sunday The Nahunta Methodist has gone to full time preaching and will have services every Sunday morning and night, it is announc ed. The Nahunta congregation started their full time services last Sunday, Jan. 3, with the pastor Rev. R. C. Kale preach ing both hours. Rev. Kale has done splendid work in building up interest in the church work since coming to Nahunta and the church is looking forward to greater grow th under his leadership. The church plans to start re modeling the church building sometime, in the near future, it is reported. Train Hits Car on Track In Blackshear A stalled car on the tracks at the Hendry street railroad cross ing in Blackshear — that was the unfortunate circumstance Irvin (Cohort) Foster of Blackshear found himself in on Monday night of this week at approxi mately 10:30 P. M. The outcome —a completely destroyed 1955 Ford automobile; no injuries to the Blackshear High School senior; a 45-minute delay for northbound ACL freight train No. 204. Returning from his part-time disk jockey job at WAYX in Waycross, young Foster, after the car stopped on the tracks, got out and lifted the hood to investigate. Very shortly thereafter, he looked up and saw the train ap proaching. He quickly decided to run down the track and try to stop the train. The train, however, was not able to stop and struck the right front of the car, knock ing it some 30 feet into the road side ditch. ACL Conductor Sidney Cook investigated the accident for the railroad. The front of the train engine was slightly damaged. Drivers Licenses. Schedule Announced For Renewing The schedule of state troopers for renewing auto drivers’ li censes has been announced for Brantley County as follows: The validating machine will be in Nahunta at the courthouse Monday, Jan. 11, Monday, Jan. 25, Monday, Feb. 8 and Monday, March 14. Hoboken Basketball Team Is Praised for Winning Streak By Paul Atkinson in The Atlanta Constitution Hoboken’s male basketball people were hobbled with a 6-19 anchor last season. Now they’re 13-2 and a distinct threat in 3-C South. Why the change? “Balance,” a deep south Geor gia cage patron was saying Fri day, after the Hobokens had bombed Blackshear, 46-42, for the 13th verdict. “You can’t guard one man,” this cage authority said, “because the others will get to scoring on you.” And that’s certainly true of Coach Dudley Spell’s Hobokens. Spell has no height to speak of. Senior forward LaDon Dickerson is, in all likelihood, the tallest of ’em all at 6-2. Then there’s Roy Griffin, 6-0, 205-pound center called, of all things, “Little John.” And 5-10 junior guard Avery Griffin, 5-11 sub Ronnie Carter; 5-11 guard Earl Woods and 6-0 senior for ward Henry Aldridge. And if reserves are needed, Spell calls on Derrel Strickland, a junior who knows what this cage game is about. There are three particular ri- AH Faiths Will Give to Build Chapel Convinced of the desperate need for a center of worship for the 13,000 Georgians who are mentally ill in Milledgeville State Hospital, the religious lead ers of Georgia, at the request of Governor Ernest Vandiver, have set February as the month when every member of every congrega tion in the state is asked to give to build the Chapel of All Faiths. Sunday, February 7, has been named as Chapel Day in all the churches, with the pastors, priests and rabbis asked to present this appeal for a voluntary offering from Georgians of all faiths to raise SBOO,OOO to build and furn ish the Chapel of All Faiths at the Hospital. One pastor has suggested a minimum goal of one dollar per member in his Church, and al ready he has received $1,789 from 13 members. The gifts through the churches will be first credit ed on the church rolls, then sent through the respective denomi national headquarters in Georgia, and, in turn, forwarded to Mills B. Lane, Treasurer of the Chapel of All Faiths Fund, Citizens and Southern National Bank, Atlanta. Pastors will be supplied with posters and leaflets, describing the Chapel, which will be of Georgian Colonial design, air conditioned and completely furn ished for the expanded chaplain ministry at the Hospital. Chimes will be placed in the steeple, and played every afternoon at sunset. The Chapel will have a pipe or gan, and a choir seating 200. Births Mr. and Mrs J. D. Orser an nounce the arrival of a new baby girl, born on Dec. 28, weighing seven pounds and one and one half ounces. She has been named Kimberli Anne. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Roberson of Brunswick announce the birth of a little girl on Dec. 26, weigh ing five pounds and eight ounces. She has been named Debra Ann. In freezing fruit pies make the filling with slightly more thick ening than usual, advises Miss Nelle Thrash, food preservation ist, Agricultural Extension Ser vice. vals of Hoboken in 3-C South to wit, Surrency and Ludowici, both victims already, and Odum, a 53-50 conqueror of the Hobo kens. It’s believed that a vigorous duel between the four will be waged when tournament time ar rives. For Nathan Carter's Sur rencys lost only by 31-29 to Ho boken, and Blakely Thornton’s Ludowicis lost only 37-36 and has good people in Jerry Gordon, Jer ry Parker and Dale Strickland. These players have been with Spell for four years, in some cases. They are steady, don’t rat tle easily And they’ve got the “big game” coming up Tuesday with Brant ley County rival Nahunta, a Class B power of long standing. That’ll be at Hoboken. This season Nahunta has fallen upon losing ways, after the gra duation of 6-7 center Layton Johns, now at Auburn. But the Nahuntans took Hoboken into camp twice last season; Hoboken would like to reciprocate. At the winning rate the Hobo kens are traveling, don’t bet they won’t. Editor’s note: and you bet, they did. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Deer and Turkey Hunting Season Ended Last Tuesday Ranger A. M. Rowell states that the hunting season on deer, turkey and squirrel ended on Tuesday, Jan. 5, and that the season on quail and rabbit will end Feb. 25. Mr. Rowell also tells of some unusual happenings to good sportsmen during the hunting season just ended. He said one hunter pulled on his gun trigger so hard that the trigger was badly bent Another hunter sighted at a deer with such force that he bent his gun barrel. Also, three hunters hunted all day with out any shells in their guns. It seems that the hunters are trying to keep up with the fisher men in telling tall tales, and a funny thing is that many of the “tall tales’’ are true. Hortense Library Group Held New Year’s Party Mrs. Maggie Middleton assisted by Mrs. Sammy Middleton of St. Simons was hostess to the Hor tense Chapter of the G. A. L. A. Club January Ist. Among those participating in the happy salute to 1960 were: Shirley Harper, Danny Jones, Dave Jones, Doris Lane, Lorene Lyle, Annette Moody, June Faye Sloan, Mary Jane Smith, Jerry Strickland, Joey Strickland, Van Strickland, Jimmy Rowell, Atlanta, Douglas and Sandy Middleton, St. Simons; Mrs. W. P. Sloan. Miss Pollanne Middleton is faculty sponsor. Vitamin C is found in such foods as citrus fruits, tomatoes, strawberries, cantaloupe, broc coli, and raw cabbage, and should be included in the daily diet, points out Miss Lucile Higgin botham, health education spec ialist, Agricultural Extension Service. HfRIMAN TALMAIpH Oh ^Reports From B 1110 IhFA I w^shingto^^R THE ONLY SURE prediction one can venture about the year 1960 is that the future of every American will be greatly influ enced by the choices and decisions which will have to be made dur ing its course. Issues of grave constitutional, social, economic, military and in ternational im -1 P” 1 1 :ir ” 1 * n & before the fX J| Second Session I ^3!^? of th® 86th J Congress now underway. Next Spring the J ji; , J, our will seek to resolve various world crises at a summit meeting. Summer and Fall will bring the presidential comventions, campaigns and elec tion which will determine both the personalities and the philos ophy which will guide the nation during the following four years. AH are so intimately interrelated that each undoubtedly will in fluence the others and the effect for good or bad ultimately will be felt by all citizens. OF MOST IMMEDIATE con cern are the questions which Con gress must answer. Generally they fall into the four categories of whether the United States will: 1. live within its income or pursue deficit spending and in flation further down the road toward economic disaster. 2. repair its lagging defenses, particularly in the missile field, or court destruction through continued confusion, indecision, delay, waste and duplication in its military establishment. • • • (sot prepared er prints Keep up with the New* About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) All County Officials to Be Nominated The Brantley County primary election will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 16, it was decided at the County Democratic Committee meeting which was held Jan. 29. The date for qualifying as a candidate in the primary was set as of noon Monday, Jan. 11, whiph is next Monday. The committee provided for a run-off in any contest in which no candidate received a majority of the votes cast. The run-off would be on Tuesday, March 1. Qualifying fees for the various county officers was set as fol lows: For sheriff, ordinary, clerk of court, tax commissioner and superintendent of schools S2OO. For treasurer and coroner SSO. For surveyor $35. As of Thursday .morning, Jan. 7, the following candidates had given their announcements in this newspaper: For ‘sheriff, J. Walter Crews, Dan Herrin and Ben Jones. For Ordinary, Perry U. Ro- Zier and Claude A.. Smith. For county commissioner from the Hoboken-Schlattterville dis trict, Silas D. Lee. For commissioner from the Hortense - Waynesville district, R. C. Hamdi Jr. For commissioner from the Hickox district, Major Riggins. The races for county repre sentative and state senator will be run in the state primary in September. The fees were set by the county committee at S2OO in each case. BEHAVIOR PATTERNS Sometimes traditional ideas bounded in misunderstandings are passed on to parents points out Miss Audrey Morgan, family life specialist, Agricultural Ex tension Service. Whatever a child says or does reveals his person ality and expresses his needs and difficulties and longings, Miss Morgan says. 3. rescue the farmer from economic ruin or doom him, and through him eventuaDy itself, to extinction. 4. uphold constitutional prin ciple and individual freedom or destroy both through enact ment of further force legisla tion in the field of human rela tions. For us who live in Georgia and the South the consequences of any of those alternatives are too dire even to contemplate, but by far the most disturbing of all lit the eventuality of the passage of laws which would destroy the do mestic tranquillity guaranteed to us by the Constitution. 4 WITH BOTH THE Majority and Minority Leaders of the Sen ate pledged to force the issue next month, it is a foregone con clusion that the Upper Chamber will have a prolonged and bitter fight over misnamed "civil rights’* legislation of some description. Although Southern Senators are badly outnumbered on this question, it goes without saying that they will fight all such bills with every effective weapon at their command. As for myself, Georgians may be assured that I am prepared and determined to talk against any attempt either to implement the arrogant recom mendations of the Commission on Civil Rights or to enact a punitive force bill on the order of the pro posals of Senators Hennings and Javits for as long as I can stand on my two feet and utter a sound or until the gag of cloture is voted on me. „ / £ at government expenee)