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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 12 Neal to Preach In Nahunta Baptist Revival Revival Services at the Na hunta Baptist Church begin with the Saturday night service, March 26, at 7:30. The preaching will be brought by Rev. H. K. Neal, Pastor of Pine Ridge Church, Brunswick. This fine pastor has been in one revival before here, and his lead ership is looked forward to by the entire community. Services will be twice daily, beginning Monday, March 28, to continue through Friday night, April 1, at 9:00 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. The song service will be a strong part of each service, and will be led by Mr. Milton Nor ras, the regular church song lead er, with the church pianist and organists in their places. The junior choir will meet each night at 7:00, with Mrs. Milton Norras serving as leader. Pastor Cecil F. Thomas and the entire church invites the public to worship with us these days of revival. Six cottage prayer .meetings each night have been held this week, in preparation for the re vival, which has been well at tended and with good interest. 6th Grade 4-H Club Met Wednesday The Nahunta 6th grade Jr. 4-H Club met Wednesday, March 16. Wanda Steedley gave the de votional. Cheryl Davis read the minutes and called the roll. The meeting was then turned over to Mrs. Raulerson and Mr. Loyd, and we watched the talent show and Dress Revue. The students taking part were Nancy Moody, Jack Brooker, James O’Neal, Kate Proctor, Bar bara Allen, Linda Dubberly, Mable Herrin, Virginia Thrift, Linda Dowling, Zonia Ruth Smith, Jane Thrift, Cheryl Davis and Wanda Steedley. Tommy Graham, reporter. 1959 ASC Record Shows Increase In Soil and Water Conservation Georgia’s two largest and most important farmer type soil and water conservation programs ad ministered by the State Agricul tural Stablization and Conserva tion Committee indicate increas ed interest and accomplishments in 1959 over 1958, John F. Brad ley, Administrative Officer of the Agricultural Stablization and Conservation State Office, stated this week. The Agricultural Conservation Program and the Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank assist farmers by sharing in the cost of establishing approved soil and water conservation practices, thereby conserving our land, wa ter, wildlife and natural re sources. Preliminary reports of the ma jor conservation accomplish ments of the two programs com bined were: 798,094 acres of vegetative cover establisher; 347,- 321 acres planted to tree seed lings and woodland improvement; 825 farm ponds constructed for livestock water or wildlife pur poses. A total of 44,939 farms re presenting approximately one third of the total number of farms in Georgia participated in these programs in 1959 earning $11,627,778 in cost-share pay ments. Bradley stated that, taking into account the .amount paid by the farmer in establishing these prac tices, approximately $25,000,000 was spent in the conservation of the State’s water, soil and na tural resources through these two programs for the year 1959. The Agricultural Conservation Program offers cost-sharing as sistance to farmers to help pay part of the cost of applying need ed soil and water conservation measures to their land. Payment rates vary according JO the con servation practices being estab lished. However, cost-share pay ments average about 50 percent of the cost on the extent approv ed in advance by ASC county committees. Farmers pay the balance of the cost and in addition furnish their their labor and machinery. In this process, farmers are assisted in performing additional soil and water conservation above that which could be performed with their own resources. Some of the Waynesville HD Club Met Monday The Waynesville Home Demon stration Club met Monday after noon, March 21, at the church. The devotional was led by, Mrs. Margurite Jacobs. The mem bers of the club were asked by Mrs. Virginia Raulerson to judge corn meal muffins which were made by some of the members of the Grammar School 4-H Club. Mrs. Raulerson described the type of soil suitable for potting plants and stressed the import ance of proper drainage. She also gave instructions concern ing fertilizing potted plants. Members present were mes dames Daisy Hunter, M. H. Ro binson, Thelma Thompson, Niari ane Gibson, Frank Walker, Myr tle Davis, Dorothy Gibson and Virginia Raulerson. Refreshments were served by Mrs. Myrtle Davis. Jernigan to Be Speaker At PTA Meet State senator Wallace Jernigan of Homerville will be the main speaker at the meeting of the Na hunta Grammar School Parent- Teachers next Monday night, March 28, at 7:30. The meeting will be held in the grammar school auditorium. Senator Jernigan is chairman of the senate education committee and will speak on problems of education in Georgia. The subject for discussion of the PTA meeting will be “Ob taining and Keeping Good Teach ers.” Mrs. Cecil Moody will be leader of the program. Mrs. Wilder Brooker is pro gram chairman for the PTA. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson is president of the organization. Mrs. Edna Adams will talk of the problems of getting and keeping good teachers in our schools. 1959 conservation accomplish ments under the ACP are: vege tative cover establishd — 676,000 acres; tree seedlings planted on 47,838 acres; lime applied on 279,391 acres; constructed 2,407,- 157 feet of terraces; laid 44,959 feet of pipeline for livestock wa ter; constructed 800 dams for livestock water and irrigation; drilled 1096 wells for livestock water. The Conservation Reserve of the Soil Bank provides for the withdrawal of cropland from production, helping to adjust total crop acreage more nearly in line with the demand. At the same time, it provides and as sists farmers in establishing and maintaining sound soil and water conservation practices on the land they put in the reserve. Unlike the Agricultural Conser vation Program, in addition to the sharing of the cost of estab lishing soil and water conserva tion measures, this program also makes annual rental payments during the period each contract is in effect. Annual payments to farmers in the State for contracts in effect in 1959 amounted to $8,471,000 Both the Agricultural Conserva tion Program and the Conserva tion Reserve of the Soil Bank are voluntary programs. Some of the 1959 Soil and wa ter conservation accomplishments under the CR program are: es tablishing permanent vegetative cover on 122,094 acres; planting 299,483 acres of trees, construc tion of 25 farm ponds and, es tablishing 1238 acres for wild life habitat. Approval of cost-shares under the Agricultural Conservation Program and contracts under the Conservation Reserve are admin istered bylodal'ASC county com mitteemen. Under certain condi tions a farm may participate in both programs, but cost-shares are not generally approved under both programs on the same a creage. Present indications are that interest by farmers in these two programs for the year 1960 is even greater than 1959 and greater accomplishments will only be limited by funds avail able. Brantley Enterp Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga.. Thursday, March 24, 1960 Hubert Pearson Named Brantley STAR Student Hubert Pearson, senior in the Hoboken High School, in Brant ley County, has been named the 1960 STAR Student of his school and also for the Brantley County School System, the Nahunta Lion’s Club has announced. The STAR Student is the son of Mrs. Inez Pearson of Hoboken. The announcement has been made as a part of the Student Teacher Achievement Recogni tion program sponsord by the Georgia State Chamber of Com merce. This program encourages and honors scholastic achieve ment in Georgia high schools. Hubert has, in turn, named Hugh Belcher, science teacher in the Hoboken High School and coach of the girl’s basketball team, as the STAR Teacher and the one who has .made the great est contribution to his scholastic achievement. Hubert states that Mr. Belcher helped him to de velop a keen interest in the study of science and has been a willing guide and advisor to him in his projects. Mr. Belcher has been teaching in the Brantley County School System for two years. Hubert has made an outstand ing record as a student and in other school activities. He is a Beta Club member, plays in the Hoboken High School Band, and is active in FFA and 4-H Club work. The STAR Student in a high school is the senior making the top score on the College Board Scholastic Aptitude Tests. Hu bert’s score was the highest of all the Brantley County students taking the tests, therefore he and Mr. Belcher will represent the county as guests of the Georgia State Chamber of Commerce STAR Luncheon in Atlanta on April 22. They will also be given a tour of the City of Atlanta. Card of Thanks We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends and neigh bors for the many expressions of kindness shown us at the time of the death of our loved one, Everett Edward Jones. We appreciate the words of sympathy, the beautiful floral of ferings and the helpfullness of those who assisted with the plans and arrangements. The covered dishes sent were very helpful and appreciated. The Family of Everett Edward Jones. Hortense Library Club Holds St. Patrick Day Party Members of the Hortense Li brary Club held a St. Patrick’s Day party at the home of Van Winfield Strickland Jr. Games appropriate to the oc casion were played. The decora tions and refreshments accented the Irish holiday. Those in attendance were Der win Drury, David Jones, Doris Lane, Lorene Lyle, Annette Moody, Latrelle Moody, Mack Rowell, Dale Sloan, Gale Sloan, Mary Jane Smith, Harry Strick land, Jerry Strickland, Ji m Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Van Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Rowell and Pollyane Middleton. M ho Training Sessions For Census Takers To Begin March 28 Census takers who will visit every dwelling unit in the area during the 1960 Census of Popu lation and Housing which starts April 1 will participate in four training sessions next week, Dis trict Supervisor John D. Mattox announced today. The training sessions, to be conducted by the crew leaders, will be held on March 28, 29, 30 and 31. Each census taker will receive a total of approximately nine hours of instruction. Em phasis will be placed on the im portance of a systematic, thorough canvass o f every dwelling unit during the census to insure a complete count. Class room training will cover proper manner of asking questions, use of the Census questionnaire, Census definitions, and map reading. Map reading is an important census-taking technique since, without maps, defining the limits of each district to which a cen sus taker is assigned, the job would be a welter of confusion. About 250,000 maps have been prepared for the 1960 Census. This provides an individual map for each of the 250,000 districts into which the country has been divided for the census. Every census taker will be furnished with a map of his dis trict. As they .make their rounds, census takers will be required to canvass every street and road and visit every housing unit within the boundaries of their assignments shown on these maps. Hickox Baptist Revival Starts Monday Night Revival services will start at the Hickox Baptist Church next Monday night, March 28, with Rev. Lester Dixon of Patterson as the revival preacher. Dick Allen of the Hickox church will lead the singing. Rev. Marvin Smith of Homerville is the pastor. The revival will continue through Sunday, April 3, with an all-day homecoming on that date. Dinner will be served on the church grounds and songs, talks and prayer service will feature the afternoon of the Homecoming Day. The public is invited to attend all the services. Mrs. Lila Crews Reelected Worthy Matron of OES Mrs. Lila Crews was re-elected as Worthy Matron of Satilla Chapter 365 Order of Eastern Star at a regular meeting of the chapter on Tuesday night, March 22 in the Nahunta Lodge Hall. Other officers elected for the coming year at the meeting were; T. H. Purdom, Worthy Patron; Mrs. Lucille Roberson, Associate Matron; J. Walter Crews, Associ ate Patron; Miss Malva Alice Keen, Secretary; Mrs. Mamie Orser, Treasurer; Miss Jourelle Drury, Conductress; Mrs. Joyce Johns, Associate Conductress. Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, Mrs. Joyce Johns, Mrs. Carl Broome, Mrs. Louise Drury, Miss Malva Alice Keen and Mrs. Mamie Or ser were the committee serving cake, sandwiches and soft drinks for refreshments. A small advertisement in The Brantley Enterprise will be read like news. One time 75 cents, three times $2.00. "Support the Church" Series Os Pages Wins 6th Award Readers of the Brantley Enter prise will be interested to learn that the Keister “Support the Church” series, currently appear ing on these pages, has received the sixth award from the Free doms Foundation at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. Announcement that the series again received the George Washington Honor Medal was made on Washington’s Birthday. The conferring of the honor will take place in the old Supreme Court Chamber of the National Capitol, Washington, D. C. at a later date. This is the sixth annual award Robert Sloan Is Named Nahunta STAR Student Robert Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sloan, of Hortense, has been named STAR Student of the Nahunta High School for 1960. The Georgia State Chamber of Commerce sponsors the program in the high schools throughout the state. The program honors the top student in the senior class and recognizes the teacher who, according to the STAR Student, has had the greatest influence on his scholastic achievement. Ro bert has chosen Russell Huffman as STAR Teacher. Robert has been an honor stu dent throughout his entire school exnerience. In addition to top scholastic rating, he has been an able member of the FFA, the 4-H Club, and the basketball and baseball teams. In choosing Mr. Huffman, Ro bert stated that learning English in his classes is easy and pleas ant. His classroom and his teach ing techniques create a good en vironment for learning. He has an understanding of youth, a friendliness toward youth, and an insight into the problems of youth. Mr. Huffman has taught Eng lish in the Nahunta High School for three years. He has been active coaching the debating teams and the one-act plays. His debaters were the winning team in the Eighth District this year. For the past two years he has been a sponsor of the senior class. He has served as Chairman of the Eighth District Georgia Council Os Teachers of English. At present he is president of the Brantley County Unit of The Georgia Education Association. Personals Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Davis and sons, Billy, Chuck, Max and Johnny of Macon spent the week end with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sears. Edgar Sears, student at Geor gia South Western at Americus, and Joe Sears, student at Univer sity of Georgia at Athens, were home with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sears, for the spring holidays. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sears visit ed Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Sears in Savannah on Tuesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Anderson, formerly of Route 1, Nahunta, have moved to Waycross where they reside at 501 Linden Drive. They have for many years been identified with Brantley County and have been counted among this section’s leading citizens. They invite their friends to visit them in Waycross. Miss Janice Higginbotham was a recent guest of Mrs. Cora John son and Miss Betty Geiger of Bolougne, Fla. She toured Chest er, Fla., and had lunch with Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rheim. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Higginbotham, Wanda, Rusty, Terry and Mrs. Johnson accompanied Miss Higginbotham home Sunday. Recent guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Higginbotham were Mrs. M. J. Martin and son Danny of Patterson, from Wed nesday until Sunday. Owen K. Herrin Jr., boilerman third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen K. Herrin of Route 1, Nahunta, Ga., is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Forrestal operating with the U. S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediter ranean. Mr. and Mrs. Lacey Wildes and family of Bonair, Ga., visited Mr. Wildes father, M. F. Wildes, the past weekend. that the Keister organization has received for its "Support the Church” series,, which is current ly running in Over 950 newspap ers in the USA and Canada. The award is presented for “an outstanding achievement in helping to bring about a better undersanding of the American Way of Life.” The Keister series has appear ed in the Brantley Enterprise for more than a year and sponsors and all individuals making this program possible will undoubt edly take pride in this most re cent award. rise OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Mandamus Petition Will Be Heard by Judge Roddenberry Beta Club Members Attend Convention And Throw Snowballs Members of the Beta Club of Brantley County attended the re cent annual Beta Club Conven tion in Atlanta. They were Linda Crews, Marian Morgan, Ann Tho mas, Harry Herrin, Una Wilson, Frances Sadler, Carol Hagin, Cynthia Dowling, John Calhoun, Betty Ann Lanier, Joyce Rowell, Tyrus Manning, Josephine Bryan, and Dollie Warren. They were accompanied on the trip by Mrs. DeWitt Moody the sponsor and Mrs. W. C. Long and Mrs. Daisy Henderson. At the Convention we heard talks by a number of state offic ers of the Beta Club. These were good examples of leadership and it showed the abilities that our youth are developing in the Beta Club. We were greeted in Atlanta with a four inch snow, which was the biggest the city had had in forty years. Throwing snow balls proved to be exciting to the Betas. We visited Stone Mountain but much to our disappointment U was too icv weathK wns mra, our tours of the city were limited. But we did catch a glimpse of the gleam ing dome of the Capitol. The Club attended Druid Hills Baptist Church on Sunday morn ing, where we received a very warm welcome from Dr. Louie Newton, the pastor, and from the entire congregation. To be a member of the Beta Club one must attain a 90 aver age in academic studies and have good character and high moral standards. Dollie Warren Reporter BIDS PAY Harold Baxter, forestry mar keting specialist, Agricultural Ex tension Service, reports a recent survey of timber stumpage sales shows that where more than one bid was obtained, each additional bid resulted in an increase of $1.25 per thousand board feet in the sale price. AN TALMADsW ''' gWw aB Reports From^Sß ■ m I ^HINGTON THOSE WHO HAVE been castigating the South for its criticism of the Supreme Court’s school ruling now have found out that the shoe pinches mighty hard when it is put on the other foot. The same papers and persons who have preached that the 'W Court’s deci | sions arc the | “law of the land” an d f ^^**7 must be obey ed without question are loudly inr that T 'b'l BBEjk An HOzU rial’s recent edict that state governments can fire employees who refuse to testify before committees of Con gress about alleged subversive affiliations. They contend the Court has, in effect, reversed a 1956 decision holding that teach ers who invoked the Fifth Amend ment under similar circumstances could not be discharged. The New York Times, which vigorously ap plauded the former ruling, has deplored the latter as a perform ance which “deprives the Su preme Court of the intellectual respect it needs.” THERE IS NO difference in the manner by which the High Court reached its verdict in the school cases and that by which it fash ioned its latest employment rul ing. In both instances the Justices ignored precedent and upset pre vious decisions of the Court. They proved the point Southerners have tried for almost six years to make—that however much one may approve of the result of an illegal decision he must recognize that the same procedure can be followed later to reach a result of which he may violently disap prove. The irony of this latest flip-flop Keep up with the News About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) (nut prepared or printed at government erpe-nte) ... *1 A hearing will be held before Judge Cecil Roddenberry Friday morning, March 25, at 10:00 o’clock, on mandamus proceedings brought by Mrs. Mable Moody against the Brantley County Democratic Committee. The mandamus proceedings in volves requiring the Democratic Committee to adopt the report of the recount committee and de clare Mrs. Moody the nominee for school superintendent of Brantley County. Seven members of the Demo cratic Committee signed the reso lution certifying the recount and declaring Mrs. Moody the nomi nee and nine members abstain ed. On the first count of the votes by the Democratic Committee Mr Herrin apparently won by seven votes. Mrs. Moody asked for a recount and a committee composed of Judge Douglas Tho mas of the Brunswick Circuit, attorney S. F. Memory Jr., and attorney Lamar Gibson recount ed the votes in the superinten dent’s contest. The recount resulted in a one vote majority for Mrs. Moody. After the recount Judge Thomas stated that Georgia law requires the Democratic Committee to adopt the recount report and de ci^ the majority candidate the no. nee of the Democratic Par ty. PESTICIDE SPRAYS Engineers, Agricultural Ex tension Service, say sprayers are designed for applying three types of pesticide sprays — space sprays, residual (or surface) sprays, and dual-purpose sprays. Read the container label to make certain you apply the pesticide correctly, the engineers advise. LITTLE WANT ADS 4 \ on the part of the present Su preme Coui* serves to reinforce the blistering criticism of it by Harvard Law Professor Henry M. Hart in a recent issue of the Har vard law Review. Dr. Hart took the Court to task for its indul gence in “the sweeping dogmatic statement” and endeavoring to “ram its own personal prefer ences down other people’s throats." He maintained that “far too few of the Court’s opinions genuinely illumine the area of the law with which they deal.” EARLIER THIS MONTH, dur ing the course of a debate collo quy on the Court’s recent decision in the Terrell County voting case, I stated in the Senate thatr “The lower court held that the applicable provision of the 1957 Act was unconstitutional but when the case got to the U. S. Supreme Court . . . the learned Justices called in their psychiatrists IW their socio logists, they checked Gunnar Myrdal’s interpretation of the Constitution, they looked through their rryst^fcall, and they said, ‘Yes, this is a case involving the National Associa tion for the Advancement of (pl ore d Pppple,’ and everyone knows that organization cannot lose in the U,' :S- Supreme Court.” The spontaneous laughter and applause fromthosC in the Senate Gallery is proof of the fact that the Supreme Court’s derelictions are not being lost upon the gener al public. So the New York Times is right when it says the Court has lost “respect,” but it is right for the wrong reason.