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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 2
For County School Superintendent
Herschel W. Herrin
To The Voters of
Brantley County:
This is to announce that I am
a candidate for reelection for the
office of County School Super
intendent, subject to the rules
and regulations of the Democra
tic Primary of February 16, 1960.
Please allow me to express my
appreciation for your past sup
port and your cooperation dur
ing the time I have been in of
fice. I have tried to give you the
service that you have a right to
expect from your public servants
and will endeavor to give you
the best service that my ability
will afford, if re-elected.
It is my sincere opinion that
we have made much progress in
education in recent years, and
with your continued interest and
cooperation, I am confident that
we will continue to advance in
the educational field.
Your vote and influence in be
half -c* my candidacy will be
greatly appreciated.
Respectfully yours,
Herschel W. Herrin
Nahunta Debaters
Win District
Championship
The Nahunta High School de
bate team won the Championship
of district 1-B-East at Douglas
Friday Jan. 8.
By winning both the affirma
tive and negative side of the de
bate they were declared the win
ners after the first round.
The Nahunta affirmative de
baters were Dollie Mae Warren
and Mollie Grace Saddler. The
negative side was upheld by
Steve Adams and John H. Cal
houn Jr. ,
Other teams competing at
Douglas were Broxton, Camden,
Patterson and Quitman.
The Nahunta team will repre
sent this district in the State
finals to be held in Athens on
Saturday, Jan. 23.
The question for debate is: Re
solved, That The Federal Govern
ment should Substantially In
crease its Regulation of Labor
Unions.
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Lee and
children of Hoboken and Mrs.
Alma Griffin and daughter, Co
rine of Nahunta spent the week
end with Mr. and Mrs. Coleman
Griffin in Valdosta, Ga.
A Georgia Heart Association
film on stroke rehabilitation will
be shown in Brantley County
next week for the sixth time in
two weeks. The movie, “Second
Chance,’’ will be shown to the
Hoboken Home Demonstration
Club at a meeting to be held in
Hoboken Monday. Jan. 18.
Among the students attaining
the Dean’s list at Brewton Park
College for the fall quarter was
George Thomas, son of Rev. and
Mrs. Cecil Thomas of Nahunta.
Mary Ruth Jacobs, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jacobs of Na
hunta, made the Dean’s list at
Georgia Southern College for the
fall term.
Sows should be fed a gain
about one pound per day during
gestation, says Ralph Williams,
husbandman. Agricultural Exten
sion Service.
A tried and proven ad
vertising medium —the col
umns of your hometown
newspaper.
Mrs. Mable Moody
To the Citizens
of Brantley County:
This is to announce that I am
a candidate for the office of
Superintendent of the Brantley
County Schools, subject to the
county Democratic primary elec
tion of Feb. 16.
Brantley County is my home by
choice. I have lived here since
1935. Twenty-four of those years
I have taught in your schools. I
have worked on your civic or
ganizations. I am past president
of the Nahunta Garden Club,
served since 1943 as president of
the Brantley County Cancer
Society, past chairman of the
County Red Cross Unit, as well
as other organizations.
Last year I was nominated
“Teacher of the Year” from the
County. Also, last year I repre
sented the Eighth District Science
Teachers as their chairman. Sev
eral years ago, I served as presi
dent of the local G. E. A. Unit.
I hold membership in the Delta
Kappa Gamma Sorority for
Women Educators, N. E. A.,
G. E. A., and National Science
Teachers Association.
As to qualifications for office,
I ]jold a Bachelor of Science De
gree in Education, with a major
in Science, from Georgia South
ern College. I will graduate in
August, 1960, with a Master’s De
gree in Education and a major in
science. Along with twenty-four
years teaching experience, I feel
that 1 am in a position to re
cognize school problems and have
an adequate knowledge for help
ing to solve them.
Education is not just a me
chanical process for communica
tion to the young of certain skills
and information. It springs from
our most deeply rooted convic
tions. If it is to have vitality,
both teachers and students must
be infused with the values which
have shaped our nation.
If elected your superintendent,
it will be my purpose to provide
all Brantley County children with
the opportunity to discover, to
experiment, and to investigate
the world about them. Bor surely
education-should teach people to
be independent thinkers, not
herd-followers.
Since I have no children of my
own, may I take this opportunity
to thank you for lending me your
children to work with these past
twenty-four years. I have had
so much joy. They have greatly
enriched my life. I trust that you
will give me the opportunity to
serve all the children in a great
er way.
I appreciate the interest shown
in wanting me to enter the race,
and the remarks concerning the
instruction I have given your
children. If you like that instruc
tion, then surely as your super
intendent, I would be in a bet
ter position to see that each class
room in the County has similar
instruction.
Your vote and support will be
appreciated.
Very sincerely yours,
MABLE MOODY
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman Griffin
of Valdosta, Ga. announce the ar
rival of a little girl weighing
seven and one-half pounds on
Jan. 1. She has been named
Carla Phyllis.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. James Ross an
nounce the birth of a baby boy
on Jan. 9, weighing nine pounds
and nine and one-half ounces.
He has been named Gerald Ke
vin.
A boar lot should be about one
fourth acre in size, according to
recommendations from James A.
Christian, animal husbandman,
Agricultural Extension Service.
Srattitey BtUrprta
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 14, 1960
South Georgia
To Get Lower
Electric Rates
Beginning March 1, 1960, a
substantial reduction in electric
rates for the Georgia Power
Company’s Valdosta division cus
tomers will go into effect, the
Georgia Public Service Commis
sion announced. The reduction,
affecting 20 South Georgia coun
ties, will result in customer
savings of approximately $2 mil
lion during the year.
The Company has filed with the
Commission its entire uniform
rate structure already in effect
in other divisions. These rates
are to become effective in the
Valdosta division beginning with
meter readings on and after
March 1, 1960.
The filing was in accordance
with the Commission’s order is
sued at the time the Georgia
Power Company purchased the
Georgia Power and Light Com
pany properties, now designated
as its Valdosta division.
The Georgia Power and Light
Company purchased most of its
electricity from its parent firm,
the Florida Power Corporation,
because it had no adequate gen
erating facilities in its South
Georgia area. The Georgia Power
Company, therefore, had to pur
chase the territory’s electrical re
quirements from the same re
latively high-cost source.
At the time of the purchase,
the Commission estimated it
would require three years for the
Georgia Power Company to con
struct new generating and trans
mission facilities to serve this
area from the company’s inte
grated system. The Commission’s
order authorized the continuance
of the existing higher rates in
the acquired area for the three
year period.
The order added that at the
end of this period, the rates be
made uniform with those avail
able to Georgia Power Company
customers elsewhere in the state.
To the more than 40,000 cus
tomers in the Valdosta division,
this means a savings of nearly
$2 million, or 20.3 per cent. Es
timated average reduction in
residential rates will be 21.8 per
cent; commercial, 22.7, and in
dustrial, 20.2.
Forty-nine cities, towns and
communities in the 20-county
Valdosta division receive retail
service from the Georgia Power
Company. The entire division,
which includes the Valdosta,
Bainbridge, and Waycross dis
tricts, has a population of a
quarter of a million persons.
“We are pleased,” said Mr.
McDonough, “to be able next
March 1 to apply the low rates
enjoyed by all our other cus
tomers to those in the Valdosta
division. The company is proud
that its residential rates are 18
per cent less than the national
average, and even prouder that
rates throughout the company’s
history have shown a downward
trend. In fact, our average resi
dential customer today is getting
more than 3*4 times as much
electricity per dollar as he re
ceived 30 years ago.”
One of the major Georgia
Power Company construction
projects that will play an im
portant part in providing power
for the Valdosta division is the
million kilowatt Southerrf Elec
tric Generating Company steam
plant. The new plant is located
on the Coosa River in Alabama
and will be owned jointly by the
Georgia Power Company and the
Alabama Power Company.
The plant has been under con
struction since May, 1957. Two
of its four generating units are
to be completed in the early
months of 1960.
Estimated cost of the SEGCo
project, including power plant,
transmission lines, and coal mines
is sl6l million, with half this
amount to be borne by the Geor
gia Power Company.
A 230,000 - volt transmission
line, is being constructed from
Columbus to Tifton to help de
liver the SEGCo power to the
company’s South Georgia area.
Cost of this project, including
a $950,000 substation at Tifton,
will be more than s4*4 million.
Another large transmission line
designed to bring power to the
South Georgia area is the 76-
mile, 230,000-volt line from Bon
aire, near Macon, to Tifton. Now
in operation, the line cost sl,-
996,075.
Supporting these and other con
struction projects was the sls
- expansion of Plant Mc-
Manus near Brunswick. An $868,-
928 transmission line, 67 miles
long and carrying 110,000 volts,
was constructed from Plant Mc-
Manus to terminate at Waycross.
William H. Hickox
Funeral Service
Was Held Tuesday
William Harley Hickox, 75,
died at his residence late Fri
day after a long illness.
Funeral services were held at
11 a. m. Tuesday at the grave
side of High Bluff Cemetery, con
ducted by the Rev. W. C. Rice.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Annie Henderson Hickox;
seven sons, J. C. Hickox and J.
D. Hickox, both of Hoboken,
H. L. Hickox and O. J. Hickox,
both of Brunswick, H. V. Hickox,
Savannah, C. F. Hickox, Warner
Robins, and M. H. Hickox, Hut
chinson, Kans.; three daughters,
Mrs. Wallace Griffin, Hoboken,
Mrs. H. C. Coldrin, Macon, and
Mrs. Oliver Walker, Blackshear;
seven brothers, Wiley Hickox,
McClenny, Fla., Noah Hickox,
Waycross, T. E. Hickox, Hilliard,
Fla., M. H. Hickox, Irwin Falls,
Idaho, Everett Hickox, Waycross,
and Mose Hickox, San Francis
co, Calif., and Dock Hickox,
Fernandina, Fla.; five sisters,
Mrs. Rebecca Legett, Tampa, Fla.,
Mrs. Elizabeth Craven, Waycross,
Mrs. W. R. Lee, Waycross, Mrs.
Cindy Boyd, Atlanta and Mrs.
Millard Butts, San Francisco,
Calif.
Some Rules to
Help Protect
Child’s Health
With nose and throat infec
tions approaching their annual
peak, the Georgia Heart Associa
tion urges parents to be on the
lookout for symptoms of diseases
that can lead to heart trouble
for children.
The Heart Association, point
ing out that youths are still vul
nerable to heart diseases, parti
cularly rheumatic fever and
rheumatic heart disease, suggests
that parents follow these six New
Year’s resolutions to protect the
health of their children during
1960 and in the years to follow:
.“I resolve that in 1960 I will —
“1. Learn the symptoms of
‘strep’ throat, which can some
times lead to rheumatic fever
(these symptoms include sore
throat, high temperatures, head
aches. nausea, vomiting, etc.);
“2. Be on the alert for these
symptoms and promptly contact
the doctor if they develop;
“3. Check with my children’s
teachers to see if they know the
symptoms of ‘strep’ throat and to
see if children with these symp
toms are isolated until they can
receive proper medical attentipn;
“4. Take my children for
periodical physical checkups and
ask the doctor if he can detect
heart ‘murmurs,’ indications that
a heart malformation might be
present or that the heart may
have been damaged by rheumatic
fever or other diseases;
“5. Seek expert advice and di
agnosis if there are indications of
murmurs;
“6. See that my children are
properly fed, clothed and get
plenty of sleep and rest.”
The Georgia Heart Association
added this word of advice:
“When you help the Heart
Fund you are aiding in the fight
against diseases of the heart and
blood vessels. When you contri
bute to the Heart Fund campaign,
conducted each February, you
are helping yourself, your child
ren and your country.”
Social Security
Taxes Increase
District Director of Internal
Revenue, A. C. Ross, last week
called attention to the increase
m Social Security tax rates to
become effective January 1, 1960,
under the Federal Insurance Con
tributions Act.
The tax rates will increase to 3
percent for employers and 3 per
cent for employees, or a total of
6 percent. These rates will apply
to wages paid on or after Jan
uary 1, 1960, even though the
wages are earned prior to that
date.
The taxes continue to apply to
the first $4,800 of wages paid by
an employer to each employee
each year.
Internal Revenue Service pub
lications containing revised So
cial Security tax tables are now
available at all Internal Revenue
Service offices.
1006 BUSHEL CORN CLUB
Agronomists, Agricultural Ex
tension Service, cite these figures
as inducement to Georgia farmers
to work for membership in the
1000 Bushel Com Club: In 1958
the average Georgia farmer re
ceived only 14 cents net profit
per bushel from growing com.
The average farmer in the 1000
Bushel Com Club received 70
cents net profit from growing
his com.
Most Incumbents in County Offices
Face Opposition in Primary Election
Pre measurement
Os Acreage
Possible for Farmers
Brantley County farmers can
arrange for official premeasure
ment of their 1960 acreages the
County Agricultural Stablization
and Conservation Committee an
nounced this week.
To get the premeasurement
service, which is being provided
on a cost basis, a farmer must
file a written request with the
County ASC Office prior to
March 5, 1960, says Mr. George
Dykes, Committee Chairman.
The rate to be charged for the
service in Brantley County has
been established at $5.00 per
farm plus 50 cents per acre for
the acreage to be premeasured,
and payment based on this rate
must be made at the time the re
quest for measurement is filed.
•‘The premeasurement is purely
optional,” says Mr. Dykes, “and
is offered as a service to farmers
who prefer to have an official
measurement to use as a plant
ing guide.”
The chairman explains that all
of these acreages in the county
will be measured as soon as pos
sible after crops are planted to
determine compliance with the
programs. When compliance is
checked, the official acreage shall
be the acreage premeasured if
the crop or land use is limited to
the premeasured area.
Negro Charged
With Possessing
Moonshine Liquor
James Medlock, Negro, was ar
rested Tuesday in Nahunta and
charged with possessing more'
than seven gallons of moonshine
whiskey.
The case was worked up by
city policeman C. T. Stephens and
state revenue officer Frank Ben
nett.
For Clerk of
Superior Court
TO THE VOTERS
OF BRANTLEY COUNTY:
This is to announce that I
have qualified as a candidate for
the office of Clerk of Superior
Court of this county.
I am a native of Brantley
County and have lived all my life
here.
If elected to the important of
fice of clerk, I pledge to do my
best to please the people of
Brantley County by administer
ing the affairs of the office in a
strictly honest, fair and efficient
manner.
I further pledge to stay in the
office during office hours and
give you the service you have
a right to expect. I am a graduate
of Nahunta High School.
I may not be able to see all the
voters personally, but please ac
cept this as my personal request
for your vote and support.
Sincerely yours,
Hilton Morgan
To The Voters Os
Brantley County
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for re-election to the office
of Clerk of Superior Court of
Brantley County, Georgia, sub
ject to the rules and regulations
of the Democratic Primary to be
held on February 16.
Since I have been in this office
it has been an honor and pleasure
to serve you. In the past I have
endeavored to give the people of
this county the service they have
a right to expect from me, and
so conducted myself as to merit
your confidence and continued
support.
I assure you that I appreciate
the confidence the people have
shown in me in the past by elect
ing me clerk, and that I will in
the future, if re-elected, continue
the efficient service that I have
given you in the past.
I will appreciate the votes and
support of all the citizens of our
county.
Due to the short time that we
have before the election and the
duties of this office, I will not be
able to see each voter in the
county. I make this appeal to all
for your support and vote.
Your Servant,
DELMA F. HERRIN
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Baptists to
Hold Working
On Pastorium
The congregation of the Na
hunta Baptist Church will have a
working on the new pastorium
next Saturday, Jan. 16, it is an
nounced by the building com
mittee.
A good start has been made n
the new home for the pastor. The
new pastorium will be completed
in a few weeks. The old pastor
ium is badly needed for a child
ren’s building in connection with
the Sunday school.
The working next Saturday is
not only for the members but also
for any friends of the church who
wish to help. A number of mem
bers of other churches have al
ready contributed considerable
help.
The chairman of the pastorium
building committee is Elroy
Strickland. Other members are
W. C. Long, J. Walter Crews,
Tyrus Raulerson and Clayton
Riggins.
The committee announces that
the ladies of the church will
furnish dinner for the working
next Saturday. Rev. Cecil Tho
mas is pastor of the church.
FFA Officers Met
At Nahunta Thursday
Future Farmers of America or
ficers of Area One met at Na
hunta, Thursday, Jan. 7.
Lindsay Thomas of Patterson,
president of the area, was in
charge of the meeting.
Principal speakers for the
meeting were Jim Thomas, Na
tional FFA president, and George
Westberry, state FFA vice-presi
dent. The two spoke to the group
on the duties of their respective
offices.
Officers were grouped accord
ing to the office they hold and
a general discussion of interest to
each office was held.
Following the business meet
ng, a chicken supper was held.
Youth Dies, 5 Hurt in
Wrecks Last Wednesday
Two highway accidents, a few hundred yards apart in
distance and an hour and 15 minutes in time, resulted in
one Pierce county youth being killed and five other per
sons being injured last Wednesday night, Jan. 6.
Dorrell Howell, 18, was in
stantly killed when the 1959
Chevrolet pickup truck, in which
he was a passenger, failed to
make the sharp turn at the inter
section of the Laura Chapel and
Blackshear - Trudie roads, seven
miles east of Blackshear, at about
7:05 P. M.
Injured when the truck left the
road and struck a power pole
were Lamar Howard, 16, Allen
Aldridge, 14, and Walter Al
dridge, 18, driver of the truck.
The four boys, all of Route 2,
Blackshear, were going to the
Lindsay Grace FFA Camp on the
Satilla river for a Blackshear
High School class chicken sup
per when the accident occurred.
The second accident occurred
at about 8:10 P. M. when Pierce
county Deputy Sheriff Harry
Echols, rushing the three injured
boys to medical assistance, crash
ed into -a parked R. E. A. truck
on the Laura Chapel road in less
than a minute after leaving the
scene of the first accident.
Heavy fog at the time, and ex
cessive speeds for existing con
ditions were major factors in both
accidents.
The R. E. A. truck had been
dispatched from Alma to work
on the power lines which were
broken when the pickup truck
struck the power pole.
The deputy suffered a cut nose
and Jack Perry, athletic direc
tor at Patterson High School,
bruises of the leg. The three
youths, who had received cuts
and bruises in the first accident,
were further shaken up.
Following the second accident.
Darling Funeral Home ambu
lances picked up the injured and
carried them to Pierce County
Hospital.
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About Your Home County
Subscribe for the Brantley
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$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sales Tax)
Brantley County’s political pot
began to boil in earnest this week
as the deadline for qualifying
candidates passed Monday at
noon.
When the list of candidates
closed Monday, only a few in
cumbents in county offices had
got by without opposition.
Opposing the present sheriff J.
Walter Crews were Dan Herrin
and Ben Jones. In the Ordinary's
race were the incumbent Claude
A. Smith and Perry U. Rozier.
In the race for clerk of Super
ior Court Delma F. Herrin, in
cumbent, is opposed by Hilton
Morgan.
The present superintendent of
schools, Herschel W. Herrin, is
opposed by Mrs. Mabel Moody.
John W. Wilson, tax commis
sioner, Archie Johns, county trea
surer and C. S. Kizer, coroner,
had no opposition.
In the county commissioners
races Louis Prescott of the At
kinson-Lulaton district is op
posed by J. B. Middleton.
In the Hoboken - Schlatterville
district Silas D. Lee is opposed by
Owen Griffin.
In the Hickox district Alfred
Thomas Jr., is opposed by Major
Riggins.
R. B. Brooker of the Nahunta
district and R. C. Harrell Jr., of
the Hortense-Waynesville district
have no opposition.
No candidate qualified for
county surveyor.
The county election will be
held Tuesday, Feb. 16, under the
management of the Brantley
County Democratic committee
men. The polls will be open from
seven in the morning until seven
in the evening, according to state
law. » .... ,
Morgan - Highsmith
Mr. and Mrs. Horace Morgan
announce the engagement of
their daughter, Miss Willette Mae
Morgan to Mr. Buddy Highsmith,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Taiford
Highsmith of Nahunta.
The date of the wedding will
be announced later. Both Miss
Morgan and Mr. Highsmith are
natives of Brantley County and
graduates of Nahunta High
School.
If you have news for your
local newspaper, get it in early
for best handling.
Lamar Howard and Allen
Aldridge were admitted to the
hospital but were released the
following morning. Walter Al
dridge was released following an
examination and first aid treat
ment Wednesday night. Echols
and Perry were treated at the
Patterson Clinic and released.
Troopers A. K. Dasher and F. F.
Cornelius of the Waycross Patrol
Station investigated the acci
dents.
The Aldridge vehicle was com
pletely demolished . and the
Echols auto received an estimat
ed SI,OOO damage. The amount of
damage to the R. E. A. truck is
not known.
FATALLY INJURED — Dor
rell Howell, 18-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Howell,
who was killed in the truck
accident last Wednesday night,
Jan. 6.
