The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, February 25, 1960, Image 4

The Brantley enterprise., February 25, 1960, Image 4

About The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1960)

Page of 4

Prev Issue Next Issue

Text PDF JP2 (5.0 MB) Clip/Print Image

Page of 4

Prev Issue Next Issue

Return to Top

Newspaper Page TextBrantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga,, Thursday, Feb. 25, 19M Want Ads CAT LOST Gray, tiger cat, female, white leet, red collar, white tip on tail. Lost near Paloma Court Wednes day, Feb. 10. If found, please hold and call Phone SPring 5- 2177, Hyannis, Mass. WANTED SEMI - RETIRED COUPLE TO OPERATE FULL OR PART - TIME WATKINS ROUTE IN YHIS‘ AFEA. EARN $50.00 TO SIOO.OO WEEKLY, DE PENDING ON TIME DEVOTED TO THE BUSINESS. WRITE WATKINS. 659 WEST PEACH TREE ST., NE ATLANTA 8, GEORGIA. 3-3 Timber Cruising, Marking, Appraisals, Management Registered Consultant Forester. JOSEPH ALFRED 1001 E. Myrtle Ave., AT 3-5354 Waycrosa, Ga. McDuffie County \ FAMOUS GOLD MINES \ \ xnDk. v LA MW** McDuffie County was established in 1870 and named for George McDuffie, a Georgia-born South Carolina politician. Thia county is significant aa the site of the famous Columbia Gold Mines. Located near Thomson, seat of McDuffie County, the Columbia mines yielded SBO,OOO worth of bullion in 1834. This spectacular single-year output was attributed to the "stamp mill’’ invented by a Jeremiah Griffin to speed his mining operations. Today, McDuffie is a thriving industrial center with the manufacture of prefabricated homes, textiles and men’s, women’s and boys’ slacks its major industries. Cotton, com and small grains farming are other high ranking enterprises of this prosperous county. Cattle and tree farming add to agricultural diversification. Clark Hill Lake makes McDuffie the center of a booming recreation area. In McDuffie County, and throughout Georgia, the United States Brewers Foundation works constantly to assure the sale of beer and ale under pleasant, orderly conditions. Be lieving that strict law enforcement serves the best interest of the people of Georgia, the Foundation stresses close co operation with the Armed Forces, law enforcement and governing officials. Georgia’s Beverage of Moderation lOver a million dollars a week jKr' to bring you more electric power EVERYONE is using more electricity —in homes, businesses, industries and on the farms. To meet this growing demand, in 1960 the Georgia Power Company will spend $54 million—more than $1 million a week— to expand and improve the electrical facilities that serve you. This year’s construction will include the beginning of Plant McDonough, a 500,000- kilowatt, steam-electric generating station to be built near Atlanta. Work will be started at mid-year on a 30,000-kilowatt plant for North Highlands Dam at Columbus. Other generating projects are well under way, and hundreds of miles of power lines will be built. During the past 10 years the Georgia Power Company has spent much more than $423 million in anticipating and meeting your demands for electric power. That’s a lot of money, to be sure, but it makes sure that you have electricity whenever and wherever you want it. T A X - P A Y I N • • INVISTOI-OWNIB GEORGIA POWER COMPANY a ciriiiM wNfttvaa wi iit vi Personals Dinner guests and waiters at the home.of Mr. ai^-Mrs^U O. Stokes on Sunday were, Mrs Mozell Robinson of Npva Scotia, Canada; Mr. ancj- Mrs. McGee and son of Jacksonville; Mrv and Mrs. U. T. Jones and ttvd «dr<s of Brunswick; Mr.‘ and Mrs. Jim Crews and Mr. arid Mrs P. O. S.tokes of Folkston; Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Lee and son and Mrs. M. L. Anderson of Nahunta and Mrs. Nora White of Hickox. Fadis M. White Jr., was at home on leave from the navy the past two weeks. He was in train ing fit Great Lakes, 111., and now has been sent to Norfolk, Va. United States Brewer* ] I Foundation * rwJi ° Georgia Division I r 710 S'- N. E. I |gg| Atlanta, Georgia | TALES OUT OF SCHOOL State Department of Education RED LETTER DAY: On Jan uary 11, the General Assembly will convene and the State Board of Education will meet. Both meetings will greatly affect the schools of Georgia — and your child. (A legislator I know has been talking about a proposal to let a majority of the parents in local communities, who are re gistered to vote, vote on what they want to do about the schools. Anybody not satisfied with the decision could get a transfer for his child, or a grant to send him elsewhere. That’s only a proposal now, and is simply in the we’re still-talking stage, remember. It’s one of many that will no doubt come up when the legislature meets.) This is the most impor tant session Georgia has had since the Civil War, if you ask me. It is even if you don’t ask me. TIME FOR TEXTBOOK A DOPTIONS — Next year, we have adoptions in reading and literature scheduled. State Board of Education has appointed a textbook committee (as we do whenever a new adoption somes up.) The committees are always made up of one member from each congressional district. Here’s the new committee: Paul S. Stone of Waynesboro named Mrs. Sara Lee Miller, principal of the Penn sylvania Elementary School in Savannah. Bob Wright of Moul trie named Mrs. TrOy Carlton of Norman Park; Clark Duncan of Buena Vista chose W. C. Mathews of his home town; Chairman Jim Peters picked Harry Brown, prin cipal of the Manchester school; J. J. McDonough of Atlanta nam ed Mrs. Frances Douglas of At lanta; Francis Shu r ling of Wrightsville also picked a home town teacher — Mrs. Ruth Brin son. Henry Stewart, vice-chair man of the Board from Cedar town, chose Mrs. Ruth C. Kerr of Rockmart; Lonnie Sweat of Blackshear named Mrs. H. J. Johnston from Alma; Mrs. Julius Talmadge named Miss Lucy Clark of Athens, who will be serving in a position she has held several times before. Mrs. Bruce Schaefer named Mrs. Lida Sims, also of Toccoa. It’s a good com mittee I SEE THE CAT — Francis Shurling, our State Board mem ber from Wrightsville, thinks we could do a lot of sub-conscious teaching by using our learning to-read textbooks for something besides such innocuous sentences as “I see the cat” and “The wa gon is red.” Since we can learn to read just as well with one set of words as another, says he, why don’t we get double value out of this by letting them read im portant things they’ll need to know about health or nutrition or driver training. For instance “I eat fruit. It makes me heal thy.” Or “A good driver is cour teous.” Or “Ten dimes make a dollar.” Or “Georgia has 159 counties.” What do you think of this idea? TEACHER CAN’T COME TO SUPPER — She’s cramming for exams! The State Board approv ed our Department of Education plan for sixth year of study for teachers. (Also a fifth of these who don’t already have that and want it.) But it’s going to take real talent to do this. The teach ers will take a stiff test, but they can get S3OO or $450 grants to finance this study each summer, and when they get these “career” certificates, they will qualify for the money plums that hang high on the salary tree. It should start us toward a genuine top quality teaching group, made up of our best present teachers and others who want to become better. If your child’s teacher can t come to supper or be on your club program this next year, you 11 know it’s probably because she’s at home studying to take as stiff a test as Georgia teachers have taken in many a moon. The re ward will be worth it for her in prestige and in money. WHAT ABOUT YOUR COUN TY? Committee went down to take a look at a south Georgia county recently, help them re route bus schedules, abolish un necessary routes, re-allot their teachers, and plan a tightened up, better quality program. The new plan - which is really an old plan of the local people themselves — would save the county $33,422.96. And provide a better educational program besides. VOGUE VIEW OF TEACH ERS Teachers, whose pinch penny salaries once forced them to dress drably in last year s made over-black, often look like a page out of Vogue these days. Smart outfits I’ve seen them wearing lately: Savannah’s Dons Thomas in a tweed of purple and gray with a purple beaver hat and purple shoes, all worn with an elegant gray fur stole . . • . Thelma Davis of Griffin, presi dent of Georgia’s Classroom Teachers, in smart grey, with a ruby-red velvet hat . . . .Cordele s Anna Belle Tabor in a swishy green dinner dress and green shoes to match ... Ditto Bruns wick’s Mary Dan Coleman in blue . . . GEA President Gladys Darling of Waycross wearing a silver grey suit and hat that just By Bernice McCullar set off her diminutive figure and her silver grey hair. HOW’S THIS IN YOUR SCHOOL? Everybody’s excited about mental health these days. Good thing, too. It’s important. But the schools have been doing something about mental health for years. It’s in school the child ren shape much of their attitude. They catch attitudes from a teacher quicker than measles. (Another reason why we need top quality, well educated, e motionally mature teachers in every classroom.) If you are in terested in this subject, read the little yellow booklet titled, “What Could You Do About Mental Health in Schools?” (Florrie Still, our state consultant for Visiting Teachers, has just been elected chairman of the Health Education Committee of the De partments of Education and Health.) BARGAIN FOR YOUR SCHOOL BOARD — Did you know that school furniture can be bought at remarkably low' prices at the Industrial Institute at Alto? It is made by the boys at the State Training School there and can be sold only to tax - supported institutions. But if your School Board or Super intendent went up there and took a look — or your PTA president, for that matter — they would be amazed to find that they could get furniture just as good as they can buy anywhere — and at about half the price, I am told. This includes such things as school desks and the laboratory frames into which you can place the electronic equipment for the new language laboratories your school can buy with funds com ing to you through the National Defense Education Act. This is a thing to look into if you are in terested in saving money. THE THINGS YOU CAN GET FREE WILL ASTONISH YOU! One of the most remarkable ser vices we have in the State De partment of Education is the War Surplus Warehouse. (We have moved this from a traffic-hazard area in Atlanta out to the Old Farmers’ Market. We also have branches at Swainsboro and Americus.) You can get anything from tacks to tractors, carbon paper to clinic equipment free, paying only a small handling cost, as low as three per cent average. The warehouse does not always have the things you want, but you have never in all your SPRING fWiCLEARANCE USED CAR WE MUST MOVE THESE AUTOMOBILES 1957 Mercury $1195 4-Door Hardtop. All Power. Loaded with Ex tras. Auto. Trans. Extra Clean. 1958 Ford $1595 4-Door Hardtop V-8 Motor. Auto. Trsnemle alon. Radio and Heater. A REAL BUY 1957 Plymouth $1195 4-Door Hardtop. V-8 Motor. Powerfllte Trans mission. Rsdio, Heater and Loaded. You must see this one to appreciate IL JACK PASCAL VMWW ■ w ■ Wwß Hi HOME OF BIG VALUES & LOW PRICES 142 NORTH FIRST JESUP, GEORGIA IF YOU CAN T COME BY TO SEE THESE BARGAINS JUST CALL GA 7-3471 AND WE’LL BRING THE CAR FOR YOUR INSPECTION. born days seen such an astonish ing array of things as they do have. Your school can get them free All your school man has to do is get a card that says he’s qualified to get these things — and they are yours! The wonder to me is that there are still some schools in Georgia wha don’t need free things. Is yours one? IS YOUR SCHOOL PROVID ING A SHOW FOR THE COM MUNITY? One of the things pointed out in the Jernigan Re port (done by the legislative committee on education) is this: “Our emphasis on championship football and basketball teams, bands, and social functions has infringed on home study time for students and preparation time for teachers. We must realize that the basic purpose of our schools is to EDUCATE our youth rather than to provide a show for the community. We need to re-direct our efforts, and recognize scholastic achievement equally with athletic achievement.” (De you agree?) THE SENATOR AND THE TEEN - AGERS: Senator John Kennedy, whb wants to be Presi dent, has this to say about your high school sons and daughters: “Youth doesn’t mean folly; age doesn’t mean wisdom. Young people can and must take part in politics. The country gains when they do because they are altruis tic, and uninterested in personal gain. Youth has its own advan tages: vitality, adaptability, freshness.” THIRTY THOUSAND MORE GO TO SCHOOL — Our Average Daily Attendance reports are in for the fall. Paul Wills, director of our statistical service, tells me that they show 28,945 more children in daily attendance than time last year. That’s 11,801 more elementary school children and 17,144 more high school children. White schools have an increase of 12,912 elementary children and 13,649 more high school children, a total of 26.561. The Negroes have 1,111 FEWER children in grades one through seven, but 3,495 more children in daily at tendance at high school. These figures do not include kindergar ten nor all exceptional children. WELL, HERE’S WHY WE NEED MONEY, MEHITABEL — You ask why the schools need more money. Here’s the answer. It costs twice as much now to educate a child in Georgia as it did a decade ago. Our statistical office has just compiled the “per pupil” cast that shows it. In 1949, we were spending slll per child; in 1959, we were spending $214. When this year’s figures are in, it will be something like $220. Moreover, we have a quarter of a million more children in school than we had in 1949. LOOK WHAT $49.50 WILL BUY 'SO Chevrolet 'SO Studebaker 'sl Chevrolet All of these cars run and will make excellent work or fishing cars. Never buy toys with sharp edges and small parts that can be removed by a child, warns Miss Lucile Higginbotham, health edu cation specialist, Agricultural Ex tension Service. Money spent at home will come back to you to be spent again. ’52 CHEVROLET $195.00 As Member-Owners, each owns an equal share in his Rural Electric System, which seeks only to provide the Membership with the best possible electric service at the lowest possible cost . . . 1955 Plymouth $495 4-Door Sedan. Hester. Extra Nice. 1955 Ford $595 2-Door, Radio and Heater. V-8 Motor. Auto. Transmission. A REAL BARGAIN. 1954 Chevrolet $395 2-Door Sedan—2lo Series —Heater. Automatic Transmission. 1958 FORD PICKUP $895 Dr. Charles H. Little OPTOMETRIST 607 Isabella Street Telephone Waycross, Georgia At 3-5144 M/h Omul a kuwit EUcfuc Sutent ? You may say . . “farmers, sure, but what about the others?” . . . Rural Electrics were organ ized by rural people to pro vide electric service for them selves because that was the only way they could get it. Times have changed, of course, but the Members still own these systems. Rural Electrics make it pos sible for farmers to use and enjoy electricity —for more efficient and better produc tion of food and fiber, and for higher standards of living (which means purchases of millions of dollars worth of goods and services from in dustry!) ... a country store can have refrigeration, and provide other services be cause of electricity . . . and many city folks have farms, rural businesses, and places in the country , . . the factory worker can enjoy the com forts of electrical living in his home “a little way out from town” ... all because Rural Electrics brought elec tricity to the un-served areas! OKEFENOKE RURAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORP. COMMUNITY OWNED • COMMUNITY BUILT COMMUNITY BUILDER