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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 40 — NUMBER 3 Grand Jury Presentments of January Term Superior Court Georgia, Brantley County. We, the Grand Jury for Brant ley County, Georgia, for the January Term, 1960, of the Su perior Court of said County, beg leave of the Court to submit the following presentments: We wish to commend and thank the Hon. Cecil Roddenber ry, Judge of said Court for his able charge to our body and ex press to him our appreciation for the efficient manner in which he has conducted the Court for this term. We wish to commend Hon. Dewey Hayes, Solicitor General, for his able assistance renderd to our body during the present term. We wish to commend our County Officials for the faithful and efficient manner in which they conduct their various of fices. We the Grand Jury, commend the County Commissioners on the progress that has been made in removing limbs, tress and shrub bery which abstruct view of roads, especially on School Bus Routes. We urge them to continue this good work until this job is completed. We recommend that Middleton Bridge west of Highway No. 301 be repaired. We recommend that County Commissioners contact the party owning the private roads which is adjacent to the south side of Hortense School Campus and at tempt to work out an agreement to close at least during School hours this road for the safety and welfare of the School children. We recommend that White Ford Bridge and road East of Hickox be kept in traveling con dition. We the Grand Jury recommend that the pauper list remain as it We recommend that the Brant ley Enterprise be paid for pub lishing these presentments. Respectfully submitted this 19th day of January, 1960. Pete J. Gibson Foreman John I. Lee Clerk Approved and ordered filed this 19th day of January 1960. Cecil Roddenberry Judge Superior Court, Brantley County, Ga. Dewey Hayes Solicitor General. Atkinson Methodist Church to Hold Chicken Supper The Atkinson Methodist Church will hold a chicken supper Friday night, Jan. 22, at the Nahunta High School cafeteria for the benefit of the church building fund. Admission will be $1 for adults ancj 50 cents for children. (Adv.) birthday Tree It’s a nice custom to mark a child’s birthday by planting a tree for him. As the two grow up together, the youngster has a very personal tie with another living, growing thing. If the tree is a pecan, this cus tom is as practical as it is senti mental. There is a ready market for pecan nuts since demand, far exceeds supply. Your child’s birthday tree can be his “spend ing money” tree! ' You can buy a young pecan tree from a neighborhood nurs ery or shelling plant. Ask your nurseryman for free instructions in planting and care. Pecan trees require little attention—even a child can handle the upkeep. If there is a pecan shelling plant in your area, you have a nandy market for your first •rep of pecans. As his birthday grows, so will your cMM» Wab account! Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Leaders Named For Easter Seal Campaign Two Brantley County citizens will head the 1960 Easter Seal Campaign to help crippled child ren and adults in the area, W. H. Rogers, District Chairman for the drive, announced. Serving as County Chairman will be Hershel W. Herrin, Na hunta, and acting as County Treasurer, A. S. Mizell, also of Nahunta. County Chairman Herrin will direct teams of volunteers who will work from March 17 through Easter Sunday, April 17 to raise funds for maintaining and improving services needed by the disabled in Brantley County. James I. Walker, son of Mrs. Llawanah Morgan, Nahunta, re cently was promoted to specialist four at Fort Campbell, Ky., where he is a member of the 329th Transportation Detach ment. Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Spivey of Jesup were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Purdom on Sun day. They also visited Mrs. Lula Brown and Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis. Mr. P. D. Griffin is now im proving following a major opera tion in a Jacksonville hospital last week. The W. S. C. S. of the Nahunta Methodist church will meet at the parsonage with Mrs. R. C. Kale as hostess on Wed., Jan. 27, at seven o’clock P. M. SP 4 Clara Peeples, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Peeples of Waynesville, is at home on leave from her duties as a WAC at Fort McClellan, Ala. She will depart Jan. 22 for Heidleburg, Germany, where she will be sta tioned. Navy Warrant Officer James E. Stewart, Civil Engineer Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. William P. Stewart of Nahunta graduated Jan. 14, from the Pre-service training school at the Naval Re training Command, Portsmouth, N. H. James B. Carter, seaman, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Car ter of Route 1, Hoboken, departed Charleston, S. C., Jan. 12, aboard the submarine USS Thornback for a four-month tour of duty with the U. S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. Roddy and Mikey and Jimmy and Lisa the two sets of twins of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Johns of St. Marys, Ga. are spending this week with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns of Hic kox. Power Company Will Help Pay On Wiring Costs A wiring plan designed by the Georgia Power Company to help its customers live better electri cally is being enthusiastically re ceived by electrical contractors, builders, appliance dealers and other groups throughout the state, according to John J. Mc- Donough, company president. The plan in which the power company pays a large share of residential wiring costs, is be lieved to be the only one of its kind in the nation. It went into effect January 1. Mr. McDonough said the new plan will enable many Georgia citizens to use modern electrical appliances they have been unable to use before because of inade quate electric wiring in the home. It was pointed out that the higher cost of good wiring is one of the main factors deterring many contractors and homeown ers from building homes with enough power outlets and good wiring to meet today’s electrical requirements. In order to help eliminate the “bottleneck” of inadequate wir ing, the power company proposes to pay a large share of the cost of installing heavy-duty service entrance wiring in residences on its lines. Both existing homes and those to be constructed are eli gible under the plan. ißrattfUy Eitterpria® Personals Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 21, 1960 50 Million Pine Seedlings Available To Landowners The Georgia Forestry Commis sion announced some 50 million pine seedlings are still available this season to landowners in this state. Sanford P. Darby, chief of the Commission’s Reforestation Divi sion, said 190 million seedlings already have been sold this sea son, but approximately 40 million slash and 10 million loblolly pines are still on hand at the state nurseries. Darby, who termed the cur rent crop “the best we have ever had,” said the seedlings are short and stocky and more uniform than in any previous crop pro duced by the Commission. The reforestation chief said many landowners who are now receiving Soil Bank approvals should consider ordering seed lings this season while the quali ty is superior, instead of wait ing until next fall to plant. He said excellent planting conditions will prevail through February. Persons interested in ordering pine seedlings, which cost $4 per thousand, are advised to contact their county forest ranger. In counties which do not have a forestry unit, the orders may be placed through the county farm agent or an ASC official. 2 New Firms Start Business In Nahunta Two new businesses have been started in Nahunta recntly. One new business is The Bar gain Store which is located in the Highsmith Building. It is owned by C. S. Bush of Jesup and Mrs. Iris Highsmith is local manager. The Bargain Store handles a line of drygoods, fishing tackle and equipment The store opened for business Saturday, Jan. 16. Another new business is the Douglas Fish Market, located in the Branco Cleaners Building. Mr. .and Mrs. Ernest Douglas are the proprietors. The Douglas Fish Market will handle fish and shrimp and oys ters in season. Georgia Is 47th Among States In Treating the Mentally 111 By Harvey Walters Georgia editors agree it would be a good thing if all adult citi zens of the state could tour our hospital facilities at Milledge ville. The editors were given this op portunity recently and came a way unanimous in their opinion “you must see to believe” at Mil ledgeville State Hospital. It is not like seeing anything else on earth, and you can not see all that needs to be seen in a few hours, or even during an eight-hour day with guides. Our state hospital at Milledgeville is a 10,000-acre community. Its population of 14,222 per sons represents every county of Georgia. Thousands of Georgia’s well-known families are repre sented. There are people at Mil ledgeville from every known pro fession and every income group. Twelve thousand of the total are patients. The other 2,222 are cooks, seamstresses, clerks, bak ers, medical doctors, nurses, phychiatrists, attendants, me chanics, electricians, psycholo gists and social workers. There are not enough of any of the latter to properly care for and rehabilitate all of the eligi ble patients. This is one of the problems placing Georgia 47th on the list of states in development of a mental health program for our people. The need for additional psy chiatrists, medical doctors, psy chologists and nurses is really tremendous, and all of these are high-priced personnel. If you will ask your legislators to sup port the mental health bills be ing offered right now, you may get what is needed and what is deserved at this critical time. Our State Health Department has just employed a new super intendent for the hospital. He is Dr. I. H. Mac Kinnon, until re cently head of psychiatry at New York City’s great Columbia Uni versity. It is pretty obvious to all who meet this man that he is a God send to the Georgia scene. Mac Kinnon is obviously a man of parts, and one of the parts is a dedication to duty. Another is vision. Another, a sense of ur- Waynesville HD Club Met Monday The Waynesville Home Demon stration Club met at the church Monday afternoon, Jan. 18. The devotional was led by Mrs. Dorothy Gibson, after which a business session was held. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson show ed two films, “Second Chance” pertaining to paralytic strokes and “How to Take Care of Ap pliances.” Refreshments were served by Mrs. Thelma Thompson. Among those present were mesdames Daisy Hunter, Marian Gibson, Thelma Thompson, Margurite Ja cobs, Virginia Raulerson, Marvin Robinson, Frank Walker and Dorothy Gibson. Area Scout Council Is Held at Jekyll Island Mrs. Wilder Brooker and Mrs. Pete Gibson attended the Oke fenokee Area Scout Council at Jekyll Island Thursday evening, Jan. 14. At the meeting three South Georgia men were honord with the highest award local Scouting can give. The Silver Beaver A ward was presented by Veteran Silver Beaver holder J. B. Har ly of Waycross to George W. Brumley, resident manager of St. Marys Kraft Corp.; Arthur G. Papadeas, carman with the Coast Line Railroad, Waycross; and Emmet E. Motes, Solvay Process Division, Brunswick. Junior 4-H Club Met Thursday The Nahunta Jr. (6th grade) 4-H Club met Thursday, Jan. 14, in the School Auditorium. The meeting was called to order by Nancy Moody, Club President. Singing was led by Kate Proc tor. We sang “America the Beautiful.” The devotional was given by Barbara Allen and minutes of the last meeting read by Cheryl Davis. Mr. Loyd and Mrs. Raulerson showed us a film about Health and we discussed it together. Tommy Graham, Reporter gency in the present drastic situation. He can not say so in so many words, but it is obvious that we the people of Georgia must rally as never before to a cause so long neglected. A program or $14,106,000 in ad ditional mental health expendi tures was recommended to the General Assembly Monday by Governor Vandiver. Milledgeville State Hospital spending would rise from $10.7 million to sl2 million. Bills currently before the Gen eral Assembly will insure the ap propriation of the needed funds, but these bills will not be enact ed into law without the support of the great majority of the people of Georgia. During the next few weeks you will read and hear much about two bills introduced by House members, Culver Kidd, Philip Chandler and others in terested in this pressing problem. Both Kidd and Chandler are Milledegville merchants who have devoted hundreds — per haps thousands —of hours of study to the complex needs of your state hospital for the in sane. To them, it seems the people must rally “now or never,” for they have struggled against great odds and they know well the many pitfalls (amend ments) that can be attached to a bill after it has been introduced from the floor of our General Assembly. Governor and Mrs. Ernest Van diver have expressed both inter est and concern following their recent visit to Milledgeville, and the Governor has now .made clear his support of remedial legisla tive measures. Homer M. Rankin, editor and publisher of The Daily Tifton Gazette, and president of the Georgia Press Association, has • visited the hospital on two recent occasions, and has urged the support of both the people and the press. What then shall it be? A tele phone call? A letter? From whom? If we are to move for ward from 47th, we must have action from every person inter ested in those less fortunate than himself. Committee Is Organized to Promote New Industry in Brantley County An Industrial Development Committee for Brantley County has been organized and held its first meeting on Thursday after noon, Jan. 14 at the Okefenoke Rural Electric Membership Cor poration qffice. The aim of the committee is to take the neces sary action to bring industry to our county. Thursday’s meeting was divid ed into five distinct parts: 1. Welcome, Mr. Pete Gibson, Manager, Okefenoke Co-op gave the welcome. He assured those present that the co-op facilities are available for such meetings and encouraged their use. 2. Mr. Gibson also discussed the purpose of the meeting. He read a letter from Dr. George 1. Whitlatch, Senior Research Scientist from Georgia Tech. This letter was Dr. Whitlatch’s recom mendations following an Indus trial Development Workshop held here on Nov. 17, 1959. His comments about the county were good but he also pointed out some liabilities. Among those mentioned were the lack of sewage disposal system, bad tax structure, and the lack of an or ganized effort on the part of the local people. 3. The need for industrial de velopment was discussed by Car roll Johns. He pointed out that the county is loosing population. That while the towns and along U. S. Highway 301 the popula tion is increasing, the rural sec tions are loosing more rapidly. The cause of this decline or trend away from the farm is the me chanical age in which we live. One person with .modern equip ment can tend the ground that once required several people. He pointed out that we need industry to give us an economic balance between agriculture, in dustry, trade, etc. We need in dustry to keep our people here. Now, when e farmer finds it necessary to sell out and move there is no job available in in dustry so he has to go some place else to find work. If we had local industry he would not have to leave the county and in I many instances he wouldn’t sell his farm. He would continue to live on the farm and commute back and forth to work. Mr. Johns pointed out that we now loose about 95 percent of our high school graduates. They leave because there are no jobs for them. They are the people who would build new homes and rear their families here. When they say goodbye we loose the possibility of that additional family. With them goes the pos sibility of another family to shop at the retail stores and ser vice stations and to support local churches and civic organizations. 4. Carroll Johns discussed the purpose of the committee. He stated the purpose of the com mittee is- to get information a bout Brantley County, to organ ize the information to make it presentable to those concerned, to put it in the hands of the pro per people, to acquire industrial sites, and to work to eliminate the county’s liabilities. The com mittee will also be charged with the responsibility of working with industrial prospects. 5. Mr. Pete J. Gibson and Mr. R. B. Brooker then concluded the program by calling for an active committee. Those present unani mously agreed that we need in dustry and to serve on the com mittee to get it. Mr. Pete J. Gibson was then appointed chairman of the com mittee by Mr. R. B. Brooker, president of the Brantley County Industrial Development Corpora tion. After a unanimous vote by the committee Mr. Gibson ac cepted. Those present at the meeting i were R. B Brooker, Pete J. Gib- ( son, Carroll Johns, T. J. Thorn ton, D. F. Herrin, Hershel W. Herrin, Ben Jones, Larry Stall ings, Mrs. Hershel W. Herrin, Carl Broome, George A. Loyd, i H. T. Jacobs, E. F. Cooper, Mrs Robert Griner, J. C. Allen, R. H Schmitt, A. S. Mizell, Parker, Dodge, James A. Ross, John 1.1 Lee, J. W. Brooker, Mrs. Norman. Lewis and Clinton A. Roberson., Card of Thanks I wish to thank each and every one who gave me blood while I was in the Waycross Me morial Hospital. May God bless each of you. Mrs. Minnie Haynes Some men grow under respon sibility — others only swell! OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Raybon Church To Begin Revival Sunday Jan. 24 Revival service, at .e Raybon Church of God of Pi ^phecy will begin on Sunday, Jan. 24 to go through two weeks it is announc ed by Mrs. Mamie Smith. Service will be held each even ing at 7:30 P M. Rev. J. D. Williams of Axson, Ga., will be the evangelist for the services. Students Block Roads for March of Dimes The students of home econo mics at the Nahunta High School are sponsoring roadblocks for the March of Dimes on Saturdays during the month of January. Teams are set up to work in shifts from 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Mrs. Wilder Brooker, Mrs. Lois Williams, and Mrs. Winton A dams are aiding Mrs. Herschel Herrin, the homemaking teacher, in promoting the project. A group of elementary children are cooperating also. On January 16, the teams col lected $151.23. Those participat ing in the day's activities were Frances Sadler, Marilyn Herrin, Juanita Herrin, Lynn Highsmith, Lynn Herrin, Jack Griffin, Ray Griffin, Tommy Graham, Jimmy Bennett, Wendel Herrin, Lorna Harden, Jackie Brooker, Janice Willis, Shirley Wainright, Alice Sue DePratter, Sandra Williams, Gary Willis, Helen Jacobs, Michael Lee, Danny Thornton, and Tomm^Tuyker Jr. Children of Working Mothers Miss Audrey Morgan, family life specialist. Agricultural Ex tension Service reports that wo men make up one-third of the la bor force in America. Fifty-three percent of these are mothers. Over 400,000 children under 12 years of age must care for them selves. Only five percent of the pre-school age children are in nursery schools or child care centers, she states. • ■■ HERMAN TALMADGE J Reports From | IlhmnM II J||iiiSH/NCTON ■HLHIiIIki ' W FOR THOSE WHO like riddles, here’s a gem: When is something wrong made right because some one said it was wrong? The answer: When the Department of Justice says it is. If you don’t get it, neither did I when the Justice Department filed a brief be fore the Unit ed States Su preme Court last month which con tended, in effect, that the rules of the Commission on onstitutional be cause I said in a speech before the Senate in 1957 that they are unconstitutional. In what appar ently was an effort to establish Congressional intent to exempt the Commission from observance of constitutional guarantees, the Department has given us a per fect example of the loss of per spective caused by that peculiar type of vertigo which affects bureaucrats too long associated with the civil rights issue. THE CASE IN question arose in the State of Louisiana when registrars summoned to appear before the Commission chal lenged the constitutionality of Commission rules which denied them their rights to know the charges made against them and to face and cross-examine their accusers. Their contention was upheld by a three-judge federal tribunal which permanently en joined the Commission from hold ing any further hearings in that State. The Government has ap pealed to the High Tribunal to overrule that decision. It is true, as the brief points Keep up with the News About Your Hot. j C inty Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) (not pre fared or printed at government expenee) Brantley HD Council Holds Training Meet The Brantley County 4-H Club Council held a Leader Training Meeting Wednesday night, Jan. 20th. at the Nahunta High School Lunch Room. 150 4-H Club members, 4-H ad visors and parents were present to a covered dish supper follow ed by a meeting where State 4-H Club Leaders were the Guest Speakers. Presiding over the meeting was Miss Aria Dean Wilson County Council President. Alice Sue De- Pratter led the 4-H Club pledge, followed by Linda Beth Manor who gave the welcome. Mr. George A. Loyd, County Agent, introduced the 4-H ad visors and County Agricultural leaders who were present. Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, Home Dem. Agt., gave the pur pose of the meeting and intro duced Mr. R. J. Richardson, South East Georgia County A gent and Miss Leonora Anderson, South East District Home Dem. Agent, who told those present how proud she was of the 4-H Club program in Brantley Coun ty and how she was hoping it would continue to grow. M,. R. J. Richardson, State 4-H Club lead er presented some slides and dis cussed "What is 4-H Club Work.” He showed how many opportuni ties are open for 4-H Clug mem bers who are interested and will ing to keep their records and try "To Make The Best Better.” Miss Hhonwyn Lowry, a State 4-H Club Leader and herself an outstanding 4-H Club member as she was growing up, encouraged all members to make a goal and try to reach it knowing, that a goal reached takes time and can not be rushed. The parents were shown slides “Growing Up,” presented by Miss Lowry while the 4-H members were led in recreation by Mr. Ronald Luke, who is a 4-H Ad visor. out, that I told the Senate that the act creating the Commission made no provision for notification of charges or cross-examination of accusers. But it also is true, as the brief does not point out, that I warned that such omis sions “constitute tyranny in its rankest form” and that a com mission so constituted could “de prive a man of his fundamental constitutional rights” of which I listed 14 specific examples.- I do not think it an overstate ment to state that my arguments were' fully substantiated by the Federal Court and no amount of legal legerdemain can turn them into points for the other side. AN EVEN MORE intriguing aspect of the litigation, however, is the fact that the Louisiana ruling is grounded upon the Supreme Court’s own controver sial decision of last year in which it held the Defense Department’s industrial security program was unconstitutional because the same rights denied to Louisiana regis trars were denied to persons being investigated for alleged commu nistic nssociations and sympathies. it will be interesting to see whether the Supreme Court be lieves state officials should have the same protection in their con stitutional rights as do persons suspected of disloyalty. 1* it ij right for one, it is right for the other and, as the Lower Court so aptly emphasized, anything less “does violence to the American concept of justice—that all per sons accused of crime are pre sumed to be innocent until proven guilty by competent evidence.”