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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 10
Brantley County FFA Members
To Compete in Area Program
Boys from the Future Farmers
of America chapters at Nahunta
and Hoboken are practicing their
skills in forestry in preparation
for the regional F. F. A. forestry
field day to be held March 21
at Broadhurst in Wayne County.
The local boys will compete a
gainst 16 other chapters in voca
tional agriculture work from 10
nearby counties. The winning
chapter will go to a state meet
to be held in April.
Purpose of the field day is to
give members an opportunity to
display the forestry skills they
have acquired in their studies
and to help encourage the boys
to improve on these skills.
Forestry knowledge and skills
to be demonstrated will include
tree planting, selective market
ing, timber and land estimation,
tree identification, scaling, and
sawing. Judging will be done by
graduate foresters of woods
working companies in each of
the regions of Georgia.
The Brunswick Pulp and Pa
per Company has been selected
to sponsor the field day for this
region. Foresters from the pulp
company working with the stu
dents are W. C. Kirby of Jesup,
and Richard Schmitt, of Nahunta.
Ten boys from each chapter
will compete in this area-wide
field day, according to W. C.
Long and Jack Moore, vocational
agriculture teachers at the Brant
ley County Schools. The local
school forest programs are in
their sixth year here.
Cash prizes will be awarded to
the winning chapter in the day’s
events and individual cash
prizes to the boys who are
champions in each of the 10 con
tests. Prizes and refreshments
as well as coordinating the field
day, are provided by the spon
soring company.
Minimum National
Corn Support
Price Announced
The price of the 1960 corn crop
will be supported at a minimum
national average rate of $1.06
per bushel, George Dykes, Chair
man of the Brantley Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
County Committee, said.
The national support rate on
corn harvested next fall may not
be lower than the announced
minimum but may be increased
if information at the beginning
of the corn marketing year
(October 1, 1960) indicates a
higher support price.
Under the law, Mr. Dykes said,
corn is supported at 90 percent
of the average price of corn re
ceived by farmers during the
preceding 3 years, but not less
than 65 percent of parity. The an
nounced minimum for 1960 is
on the 65-percent-of-parity basis,
since 90 percent of the 3-year
average would be two cents low
er at $1.04.
As in past years, corn will be
supported through loans and
purchase agreements on farm and
warehouse-stored corn. As in
1959, there will be no acreage al
lotments nor commercial corn
producing area, and all corn that
meets quality and storage re
quirements will be eligible for
support. If the relationship of the
State rate to the national rate
remains unchanged, the mini
mum 1960 rate in the county will
be $1.13.
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Industrial Committee Hears
Reports of Sub - committees
The Brantley County Industrial
Development Committee met
Tuesday morning, March 8, at the
office of Okefenoke Rural
Electric Membership Corp., with
Pete J. Gibson, chairman, presid
ing.
Reports from various sub-com
mittees were heard. The commit
tee on sewage for Nahunta re
ported some progress made in
determining the cost of a sewer
system. It was stated that a num
ber of problems remain, especi
ally finding a method of financ
ing a sew’er system.
The committee on sites for in
dustry presented a sketch of Na-
Paine - Broome
Miss May Ruth Paine, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest
Palmer Atkinson, of Atlanta be
came the bride of Linton Dale
Broome, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Broome of Nahunta on March 5.
1960, in the First Methodist
Church in Atlanta with the pas
tor, Dr. Pierce Harris, perform
ing the double ring ceremony.
Arrangements of urns and tall
baskets of fern, white gladioli
and chrysanthemums with pink
stock and candelabra holding tall
pink tapers formed the back
ground.
The nuptial music was played
by the church organist, John
Roark, and James C. Crawford
sang “The Wedding Prayer.”
The bride entered on the arm
of her uncle, A. A. Roberts of
Lockhart, Fla. The bride wore
the wedding gown which her sis
ter had worn. The gown of
Valencia lace, styled with a fit
ted bodice with long sleeves
pointed at the hand and a
sweetheart neckline, had a full
skirt, extending to form an over
train. She wore a fingertip veil
caught to a crown with seed
pearls. She carried her mother’s
white prayer book topped with
a white orchid and sprays of
pink stock.
Robin Hagin and Terry Kay of
Atlanta were the ushers.
Mrs. C. L. King Jr., sister of
the bride was her only attend
ant. Her gown was watermelon
pink and she carried a bouquet
of pink glads. James C. Craw
ford was best man to the groom.
Mrs. Atkinson, the bride’s
mother, chose a soft blue silk for
her dress. She wore a blue tur
ban and shoes to match. Her cor
sage was white carnations.
The groom’s mother wore a
navy blue shantung dress with
accessories to match. Her cor
sage was white carnations.
Mrs. Susie Atkinson, grand
mother of the bride, was present
and wore a black suit touched
with white and a corsage of
white carnations.
Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson, parents
of the bride, entertained with a
reception in the church dining
room immdeiately after the wed
ding ceremony. After the bride
and groom cut the wedding cake,
Mrs. A. A. Roberts cut and serv
ed the cake. Mrs. R. N. Paine and
Mrs. Thomas W. Paine, sisters-in
law, of the brides served punch.
Mrs. Ruth Schnatmeir kept the
bride’s book.
The young couple left im
mediately after the reception for
a honeymoon trip through Flori
da. Upon their return they will
make their home in Atlanta. The
bride’s going away outfit was a
red knitted suit with black ac
cessories. She wore the white or
chid taken from the prayer book.
After the rehearsal on Friday
night, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. King
Jr. entertained the wedding par
ty. They served punch, small
cakes, sandwiches, nuts and
mints.
Legal Notices
Georgia, Brantley County
Whereas, Owen Griffin, ad
ministrator of the estate of
Myrtie Satilla Griffin, has filed
his petition for discharge as
provided by law, all persons con
cerned are required to show
cause, if any they can, at the
April Term of this Court why
said discharge should not be
granted.
This 2nd day of March, 1960.
Claude A. Smith,
Ordinary
J. Robert Smith
Attny For Estate 3-31
hunta and three plots of land that
are available for options to be
secured for industrial sites.
Mrs. Robert Griner submitted a
report on health and welfare.
Among those attending the
meeting were Mrs. Robert Grin
er, Mrs Leila Turner, Mrs. Rhoda
Strickland, Elroy Strickland,
Mrs. A. S. Mizell, Carl Broome,
Robert Smith, E. L. Sears, Mrs.
Norman Lewis, Pete J. Gibson,
R. B. Brooker, J. W. Brooker,
E. F. Cooper, R. H. Schmitt, Car
roll Johns, Avery Strickland,
R C. Harrell Jr., Mrs. Talmadge
Griner and Joe Siegel.
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Funeral Services
Were Held Tuesday
Mrs. Lucy Jones Kaney, 71,
quietly passed away Sunday,
March 6, at her reidence on
Route 2, Nahunta, after a long
illness and her death removes one
of Brantley county’s most be
loved residents.
Mrs. Kaney was born in Pierce
county on April 24, 1888 and
was the daughter of the late
Jefferson Davis and Mary Eliza
beth Hickox Jones. She received
her education in the schools of
the county .and taught school in
Brantley county for many years.
She was also an expierenced
practical nurse and throughout
the years past ministered to
many in need of her services.
She was the widow of the late
Thomas J. Kaney, who passed a
way some 19 years .ago.
Survivors include three daugh
ters, Mrs. F. W. Gibson of
Waynesville, Mrs. Owen K. Her
rin of Nahunta, and Mrs. H. D.
Wiggins of Jacksonville Beach,
Fla., three sons, Herbert P.
Kaney of Nahunta, Thomas A.
Kaney of Fernandina Beach, Fla.,
and J. D. Kaney of Greenville,
Fla.; four sisters, Mrs. A vie
O’Quinn of Laurel, Miss., Mrs.
Ola Denmark and Mrs. Alice
Bowden, both of Jacksonville,
Fla., and Mrs. Agnes Jones of
Folkston; four brothers, Jesse
Jones of Fernandina Beach, Fla.,
Owen A. Jones of Nahunta,
Leonard P. Jones of Miami, Fla.,
and Walter T. Jones of Jackson
ville, Fla., 13 grandchildren, 8
great - grandchildren, several
nieces and nephews and other
relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
from the graveside at Hickox
Cemetery, Tuesday afternoon,
March 8, at two-thirty o’clock in
the presence of a large host of
sorrowing relatives and friends.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. E. L. Grinstead, C. D.
Gibson, Felder Kelly, Lester
Wainright, L. W. Morgan, and
Dewey Hickox.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the high es
teem felt for Mrs. Kaney.
The family have the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Brantley Retail
Sales Volume
Shows Increase
Fourth quarter business
volume in Brantley County total
ed $934,877 last year, compared
with $917,289 for the same period
of 1958, according to the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce in
its latest report based on State
sales — use tax collections.
Statewide, fourth quarter busi
ness reflected a jump of $57,-
543,022, or 4.6 per cent above
totals for the last quarter of 1958.
The most impressive results
were reflected, however, in the
year-end totals for 1959 which
nearly attained the $5 billion
mark and which leaped more
than 11 per cent above 1958’s
highly creditable figures.
Georgia’s retail sales were
$4,422,044,369 during calender
1958 and $4,913,665,828 in 1959,
official State records showed.
“The healthy increase in Geor
gia’s retail sales is indicative of
the burgeoning growth of indus
trial development in Georgia,”
said L. W. Robert Jr., chairman
of the Georgia State Chamber’s
Industrial Department.
Mulch Tillage
Demonstrations
Are Planned
A series of meetings for show
ing improved planting methods
that will save time and money
will be held for Georgia farmers
in March, according to C. W.
Chapman, State Conservationist,
Soil Conservation Service,
Athens. J. T. McAllister, Soil
Conservation Service Equipment
Engineer, Orangeburg, S. C., who
has done much to develop the
new technique, will supervise the
demonstrations.
Corn will be planted in stub
ble or residue from previous
crops, or in winter cover or graz
ing crops, without prior land
preparation. A rotary disk lister
planter with hard ground opener
will be used.
“The saving of land prepara
tion costs and getting crops
planted on time are important in
lowering proauction costs," Chap
man said. “The new equipment
can be used to plant soybeans,
sorghum, and millet directly into
small grain stubble after com
bining.”
With this method, called mulch
tillage, plant residues can be kept
on the surface of the soil. This
mulch is beneficial in saving
moisture during dry periods and
delaying weed growth. As the
mulch decays organic matter is
added to tht soil, the soil condi
tion is improved. Burning of crop
residues is not necessary when
this method of planting is used.
“With the elimination of the
preparatory practice of burning,
plowing, harrowing, and disking,
farmers can plant crops at the
most opportune time. The mulch
cover left by previous crops or
weed and grass growth is retain
ed to give maximum protection
to the soil.”
Dates and locations for the
demonstrations are: March 1,
Moultrie; March 2, Valdosta;
March 3, Tifton; March 15, Met
ter; March 17, Waynesboro:
March 29, Homerville, and March
31, Lyons. Farm locations and the
hours during which the demon
strations will be held will be an
nounced by local Soil Conserva
tion Service offices.
Final Date Given
For Releasing
Cotton Acreage
George Dykes, Chairman of the
Brantley ASC County Committee
announced that March 21, is the
final date for releasing cotton
acreage for the 1960 Crop Year.
Mr. Dykes advises all farmers
in the County who have cotton
allotments, and are not planning
to plant their acreage to visit
the County Office and release it
to the County Committee, as Cot
ton Producers who fail to Plant
or release as much as 75 percent
of their allotted acreage in 1960
will lose a portion of their allot
ment for future years.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Eula Ellis, Brantley Coun
ty teacher for exceptional child
ren, attended the District Work
shop for exceptional children
held in Blackshear at Grady
Street School on Thursday of
last week.
Mrs. J. Roy Chapman of Atlan
ta returned home with Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Broome when they
were in Atlanta for the weekend
to attend the Paine-Broome wed
ding.
Mr. Bill Willis and Bozo Willis
and Mrs. Mary Lou Kick attend
ed the funeral of Mrs. Maggie
Herrin in Dade City, Fla., Mon
day, March 7.
Home Demonstration
Schedule Announced
The following is a schedule of
meetings of 4-H Clubs and Home
Demonstration Clubs in Brantley
County for March.
March 5-12, National 4-H Club
week. 4-H Club Sunday Program
to be announced later.
March 5, Put Exhibit for Na
tional 4-H Club Week.
March 8, Tuesday, Nutrition
Leader Training Meeting, Black
shear, Nutrition Chairman.
March 9, Wednesday, Nahunta
High School Chapel Program,
Hoboken 4-H Club (2 Meetings),
Hoboken Home Demonstration
Meeting, 3:30 P. M„ Mrs. Owen
Prescott Sr.
March 10, Thursday, Raybon
Home Dem. Club — Advent
Christian Church.
March 11, Hortense 4-H Club,
Nahunta Home Demonstration
Club, Mrs. E. L. Sears, 3:30 P.
M., Nahunta Grammar School
Chapel Program.
March 14, Monday, Hoboken
Farm Bureau, to which the Cal
vary Home Dem. Club and Farm
Bureau are are invited.
March 15, Tuesday, District
Home Dem. Council Meeting at
Epworth-By-The-Sea.
March 16, Wednesday, Nahunta
Grammar School, 4-H Club Meet
ings, Hickox Home Dem. Club,
at Mrs. Clarence Allen's home
2:00 P. M.
March 21, Mon., Waynesville-
Atkinson Home Dem. Club, 2:00
Waynesville Baptist Church.
March 29, Tuesday, Nahunta
High School 4-H Club (3 Meet
ings) March is the Dress Revue
month for all Community Home
Dem. and 4-H Club Meetings.
The County Dress Revue is set
for April 8 at the Nahunta Gram
mar School Auditorium.
Democratic
Committee
Met Tuesday
The Brantley County Democra
tic Committee met at the court
house in Nahunta Tuesday morn
ing, March 8, for the purpose of
ratifying the recount vote in the
race for county school superin
tendent.
Seven members of the commit
tee signed the ratifying resolu
tion and nine members abstained
stating that they wished to wait
until after the Grand Jury met
Thursday.
Members signing the ratifying
resolution were Carl Broome,
Henry McVeigh, Cecil Drury,
Ted Strickland, Julian Middle
ton, Owen Griffin and Mrs. Julia
Gibson.
The other nine members of the
committee are Floyd Larkins,
Fred Lee, Ike Moody, Woodrow
Hendrix, Jasper Johnson, J. H
Highsmith, Clifton Strickland
J. D. Orser and Robert Ammons.
The committee recessed to
meet at a later date for complet
ing the business for which the
meeting was called.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY CQUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Grand Jury
Investigate
The Grand Jury of Brantley
County Superior Court was sche
duled to meet Thursday, March
10, for the purpose of investigat
ing the recent primary election,
according to Pete J. Gibson, the
foreman of the Grand Jury.
The Grand Jury was recessed
from the January term of court
and was re-convened upon a
petition of a majority of the jury,
it is reported.
The closeness of the vote and
the subsequent re-count in the
race for county school superin
tendent is reported to be the
cause of the Grand Jury meet
ing again at this time.
In the official tabulation of the
vote for superintendent by the
County Democratic Committee
the vote was announced as being
Herschel W. Herrin 1,333 votes
and Mable Moody 1,326 votes, a
majority of seven votes for Mr.
Herrin.
Mrs. Moody requested a re
count of the votes and the re
count commission was headed by
Judge Douglas Thomas of the
Brunswick Judicial Circuit. The
re-count as announced by Judge
Thomas, gave Mrs. Moody 1,330
votes and Mr. Herrin 1,329 votes,
a majority of one vote for Mrs.
Moody.
Upon completing the re-count
Judge Thomas commended the
Brantley County Democratic
Committee on the manner in
which the election had been con
ducted.
At the re-count of votes in
the superintendent’s race two
precincts, Hickox and Waynes
ville, showed exactly the same
vote as that announced by the
Democratic Committee. The Na
hunta precinct where about 800
votes were cast showed a change
of only one vote, this vote being
gained by Mrs. Moody and Mr.
Herrin’s Vm ■ being the same as
previously 'announced by the
Democratic Committee.
Other precincts showed a
change of only one or two votes,
except the Atkinson precinct
where Mrs. Moody gained four
votes and Mr. Herrin lost three
votes.
The Grand Jury which was
scheduled to re-convene Thurs
day is composed of the following
IN TALMADGE
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IF FIGURES DO not lie, then
the Benson Farm Program stands
condemned by a set of them com
piled by economists in Secretary
Benson’s own Department of Ag
riculture.
Last May Senator Allen J. El
lender of Louisiana, Chairman of
the Senate
F / Committee on
j Agriculture
an d forestry,
f requested that
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ment’s Tech
nical Stat! un
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study to deter
mine what would happen to farm
prices and income by 1965 under
conditions approximating the free
production and marketing of ag
ricultural commodities advocated
by Mr. Benson. The resulting
projections and an analysis of
them by the Interregional Tech
nical Committee of the Land-
Grant Colleges have been pub
lished as a Senate Document and
prove, as Senator Ellender ob
served, why the Agriculture Sec
retary "has been so unwilling” to
comply with Committee requests
for statistics on the effects of his
recommendations.
THE EXPERTS FOUND that
with the continuation of present
population, consumption and eco
nomic trends uncontrolled agri
culture would increase production
137 per cent over the 1947-49
average and, through lowered
prices and increased costs, would
cut realized net farm income 46
per cent below the 1958 level to
about $7 billion. Those figures do
not include tobacco which, it was
assumed, would remain controlled.
The effect in terms of prices
received by the farmer would be
these: cotton would drop from
33.1 to 25 cents a pound; peanuts
would fall from 10.6 to six cents
a pound; wheat would tumble
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Recent Election
citizens of Brantley County:
Perry Wainright, C. W. Easter
ling, L. E. AJdridge, 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.
Mrs. Maggie Herrin
Died in Dade
City, Florida
Mrs. Maggie Herrin, 68, died
Friday, March 4, in Dade City,
Fla., hospital after a short ill
ness.
Mrs. Herrin was a native of
Brantley County and a member
of the Oak Grove Primitive Bap
tist Church. She was a daughter
of the late Jasper and Ella Willis
Funeral services were held
Monday, March 7, at the First
Baptist Church in Dade City,
with burial in the Dade City
Cemetery. Coleman Fergerson
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.
She is survived by five sons,
Alvin Herrin of Neward, N. J.,
Bill Herrin of Tampa, Harry
Herrin of Orlando, Brice and
G. L. Herrin of Dade City; one
daughter, Mrs. Murial Douglas of
Dade City; one sister, Mrs. Eun
ice Prevatt of Jacksonville; and
several grandchildren, nieces and
nephews.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our thanks
for the many acts of kindness
toward us and the .many expres
sions of sympathy during our re
cent bereavement. We will al
ways remember your friendship
with deepest gratitude.
The family of
Mrs. T. J. Kaney.
from $1.72 to 90 cents a bushel;
corn would slide from sl.ll to 80
cents a bushel; hogs would go
down from 19.6 to 11.2 cents a
pound; beef would decrease from
21.9 to 15 cents a pound; eggs
would go from 38.3 to 29 cents a
dozen; and milk would be reduced
from $4.12 to $3.60 per hundred
weight.
As bad as they are those fig
ures would appear to be on the
conservative side. An independent
study done by agricultural econo
mists at lowa State University
recently put the reduced figures
at 21 cents for cotton, 74 cents
for wheat, 66 cents for corn, 10.8
cents for hogs and 11.5 cents for
beef.
IT IS FELT that knowledge of
this report and the conclusions
drawn from it by farm experts
was one of the reasons President
Eisenhower surprisingly backed
away from the Benson Plan in his
ucent farm message and invited
Congress to eome up with a "con
structive” alternative.
It long has been obvious that
the entire concept of our present
patchwork farm law is a failure
and it is now quite clear as a mat
ter of statistical record that Mr.
Benson’s ideas would bankrupt
what is left of the nation’s farm
economy.
Thus, we must have a new
legislative approach to the prob
lem and, unless our farmers are
to be forced to plant themselves
into the ground in a vain attempt
to close the present cost-price
gap, that approach must embrace
a formula along the lines of the
Talmadge Farm Plan which will
encourage the farmer to adjust
his production to consumption
and compensate him accordingly.
(not prepared ar printed at puceri.-n'- ' -^enee)
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