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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 13
24,000 Future Homemakers to
Celebrate Week of April 3*9
By Bernice McCullar
Georgia has 24,000 Future
Homemakers who are celebrating
Future Homemaker Week April
3 to 9. Governor Ernest Vandiver
signed a proclamation asking the
state to join with them in observ
ing this week. This was one of
the last things the Chief Execu
tive did before he went to the
hospital last week.
As he signed the proclamation,
red roses — the FHA flower —
were on his desk, brought to him
by Jo-Evelyn Whitfield of Aus
tell, state FHA president.
The 24,000 Future Homemakers
are high school home economics
students. They are learning the
skills of housekeeping and the
art of homemaking. They study
family relationships, child care,
family health, clothing, foods and
nutrition, and housing and home
furnishings. They can bake a
cherry pie, but they can also tell
you the chemistry that regulates
nutritional values in food, and
how it affects Georgia’s health.
They make thousands of dol
lars worth of their own clothes
each year, saving much money
for the family budget, and stitch
ing up miles of bright cloth they
buy from their local merchants.
They know how to choose a good
refrigerator and a sweater that
will last. Their programs of con
sumer education give them sound
buying values for the future.
(American teen agers have ten
BILLION dollars of their own
earnings and allowances to spend
each year, and FHA’ers have
helped develop a national pro
ject designed to help them know
how to spend it wisely.)
Georgia’s FHA was organized
in 1945 at the beautiful lakeside
camp near Covington, which the
Future Farmers and Future
Homemakers have just helped
expand. Here in summer they
spend a week, with about 500
coming and going weekly. Here
they hold their leadership con
ferences, where they laern techni
ques that help them in their
chapters back home.
In their communities, Georgia’s
24,000 Future Homemakers work
hard and enthusiastically beauti
fying their communities,
Strengthening their homes, de
veloping good recreation for their
youth groups, helping with play
grounds, assisting their teachers,
HERMAN TALMADGE
9
Cf' >/‘^eporfs From «>
WASHINGTON
(Editor’s Note: The following is the first of two columns
analyzing the report of the Pilcher Foreign Aid Study Mission.)
OF ALL THE studies made of
foreign aid, the first to result in a
truly-objective report is that re
cently completed by the Special
Mission of the House Committee
on Foreign Relations headed by
Georgia’s able and respected Con
gressman J. L. Pilcher of Meigs.
The Pilcher Mission spent 44
days last Fall circling the globe
I in a first-hand
inspection of
foreign aid
| projects and
| its findings,
| therefore,
, have an auth
| enticity which
■cannot be
| shrugged off
I
by the starry-eyed advocates of
bigger and better foreign give
aways. While concluding that
foreign aid in its proper perspec
tive has a definite place as an in
strument of American foreign
policy, the Pilcher Mission em
phasized that it has gotten far
afield and, despite the expendi
ture of more than SBO billion since
World War 11, is threatened with
"ultimate failure.” Ite report
called for a “complete revision of
programs and operations.”
THE PRINCIPAL criticism
made by the Mission of foreign
aid as presently administered was
its “illogical and impracticable
preoccupation with the building
of large and costly projects at the
expense of basic economic de
velopment." It pointed out that
the aim of the program should be
simply that of “helping little
people help themselves” and in
sisted that that could best be done
by assisting in the provision of
“an adequate food supply and
elementary education.”
The report cited specific cases
(not prepared or printed at government ezpenee)
and doing a hundred and one
other services that make their
home towns good places to live
In a universe where the head
lines blaze with juvenile delin
quency and the beatniks shuffle
off responsiblity for a better
world, constructive groups like
the Future Homemakers shine
like the evening star. Young,
energetic, this group of high
school students is making a re
markable contribution to the
present and the future.
Their beautifully worded creed
expresses their attitude and des
cribes their program:
“We are the Future Homemak
ers of America.
We face the future with warm
courage,
And high hope.
For we have the clear concious
ness of seeking
Old and precious values.
For we are the builders of
homes,
Homes for America’s future.
Homes where living will be the
expression of everything
That is good and fair.
Homes where truth and love
and security and faith
Will be realities, not dreams.
We are the Future Homemak
ers of America.
We face the future with warm
courage,
And high hope.”
Personals
The Nahunta Garden Club will
meet Tuesday, P. M., April 5,
at 4:00 o’clock at the Home
Economic Building. The program
for the afternoon will be devoted
to the planning of the Flower
Show which will be held on
April 23. Mrs. Elroy Strickland
will lead the program.
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Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woodhouse
of Corning, N. Y., visited friends
in Nahunta on Saturday. They
visited Mrs. Grace Wakely and
Mrs. J. B. Lewis.
♦ ♦ ♦
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Willis of
Decatur and little Tommy Willis,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Willis
of Decatur were recent visitors
to their parents, Mr. and Mrs.
W. B. Willis.
of “poor programming and exces
sive spending” and stressed the
fact that in more than one in
stance operations “have actually
been hampered by an excess rath
er than a paucity of funds.” It
scored the building of “grandiose
dams and multi-million-dollar
fertilizer plants” as creating
“economic dislocation and con
fusion” and placing serious
strains upon the limited economic
capacities of the countries they
are aimed to help.
PERHAPS THE MOST lauda
tory conclusion of the Mission
was that the United States no
longer is in an economic position
to continue spending $3 to
billion a year on foreign aid and
that those nations which it haa
helped rehabilitate should now
“make every effort to assist” in
the military and economic de
velopment of the still-needy na
tions of the world. It bolstered
that assessment by citing the fact
that the American dollar is now
selling at a discount abroad and
many of the nations which the
United States helped get on their
feet have turned into economic
competitors.
The Mission warned that the
United States must take every
possible wise step “to protect our
own position in world trade as
well as the stability of the Ameri
can dollar.” It is due the grati
tude of every American for mak
ing it obvious from its findings
that the first of those steps must
be the “realistic review and re
appraisal of our aid program”
which it said is “immediately
necessary.”
Brantley Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga.. Thursday, March 31, 19fi0
David T. Rowell
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Mr. David Tillman Rowell, 55
of Route 2, Patterson, passed a
way early Friday morning,
March 25, at the Jesup Hospital
after a short illness.
Mr. Rowell was born in Wayne,
now Brantley county and was the
son of D. F. Rowell and the late
Vashti O’Quinn Rowell. He re
ceived his education in the
schools of the county and for a
number of years was connected
with the railroad as a Bridge
Foreman. He was a member of
the International Union of Op
erating Engineers and was at the
time of his death engaged in
farming.
In addition to his father, sur
vivors include his wife, Mrs, Min
nie Rowell; three daughters, Mrs.
Mack Drury of Patterson, Mrs.
Edgar Morgan of Nahunta, and
Mrs. K. H. Hamil Jr., of Swains
boro; one son, R. T. Rowell of
Patterson; three sisters, Mrs. Per
ry Stewart of Nahunta, Mrs.
Frank Harper of Waycross, and
Mrs. Herdie Stone of Tampa,
Fla.; one brother, Norman Rowell
of Jacksonville, Fla.; one half
sister, Mrs. Norris Strickland of
Nahunta; three half-brothers,
Leon Rowell, Virgil Rowell, and
Dennis Rowell, all of Nahunta;
step-mother, Mrs. D. F. Rowell;
one step-sister, Mrs. W. B.
Harris of Nahunta; one step
brother, W. L. White, Nahunta;
seven grandchildren; several
nieces, nephews and other re
latives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon, March 26, at
three o’clock from the Satilla
Baptist church with the Rev.
Lester Dixon and the Rev. Clyde
Thomas conducting the rites in
the presence of a large number
of sorrowing relatives and
friends. The body lay in state in
the church for one hour prior to
services.
Interment 'followed in Rauler
son Cemetery.
Serving as active pallbearers
were Messrs. A. C. Herrin, Sweat
Davis, Joel Herrin, Edison Pear
son, Johnny Eldridge, and Ernest
Manning.
The honorary Escort was com
posed of Messrs. Clint Robinson.
Harry DePratter, Roy Ham, Roy
Harper, A. S. Mizell, DeWitt
Moody, J. Waler Crews, Dr. E. A.
Moody, Frank Clarke, R. J. Wain
right, Ralph Raulerson, Charlie
Stahl, Floyd Cantrell, Ted Strick
land, R. B. Brooker, Lacey Strick
land, and Charles Druhl.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the high es
teem felt for Mr. Rowell and he
will be sadly missed by a wide
circle of relatives and friends.
The family have the sympathy
of their .many friends in their be
reavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Farmers Urged to
Select Good Seed
And Fertilizers
With the crop planting season
at hand, County Agent, George
A. Loyd urges farmers to use
care in seed selection and ferti
lizing crops.
Unless they do, Loyd states that
many farmers, will obtain poor
yields, due to poor stands, and
unadapted varieties.
Assuming that a program of
adequate fertilization is to be
followed, it should be kept in
mind, that the best yields can
be obtained, only by taking full
advantage of the natural re
sources, which is in the soil.
It takes as much time and gas
to plow the skips in a row as it
does where plants are growing
The same is true in cultivating,
varieties that yield less than
others.
The high analysis fertilizers of
today are capable of injuring
seed when planted in direct con
tact with such fertilizers, there
fore farmers should avoid plant
ing seed directly in where the
fertilizer is applied.
This can be done by applying
the fertilizer three or four inches
to the side of the row. When this
is done, and when only seed with
high germinating percentage, that
has been treated to prevent in
sect rodents and birds from des
troying them, are planted on a
well prepared seed bed, chances
are that a satisfactory stand will
be obtained.
Debris burning is the major
cause of forest fires in Georgia,
says George D. Walker, forester,
Agricultural Extension Service.
Mrs. Sarah Dowling will be 100 years old on April
24. She is shown here with her great-great grand
daughter, Peggy Marie Allen, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Maxie Allen.
Mrs. Sarah Dowling to Hold
100th Birthday Celebration
Mrs. Sarah Dowling will be 100
years old Sunday, April 24, and
will celebrate her birthday two
weeks ahead of time on Sunday,
April 10, with a family reunion
at Laura S. Walker Park.
All friends and relatives are
invited to attend her birthday
celebration, welch will be the
second Sunday in April.
Five of her eight children sur
vive to join in the birthday cele
bration. They are Mrs. Agnes
Strickland, Nahunta; Mrs. Lalie
Strickland, Blackshear; Mrs. Ma
zelie Strickland, Waycross; Mrs.
Ben O’Berry, Millwood; and
Mrs. Hattie Raulerson, Jackson
ville, Fla.
Those who attend the birthday
celebration Sunday, April 10, are
requested to bring a basket lunch
for “dinner on the ground.”
So far as is known, Mrs. Dowl
ing is the first person in Brant
ley County to have lived to be
100 years old.
Mrs. Dowling was born on
April 24, 1860. She is the widow
of the late Dennis J. Dowling
who was a life-long resident of
Brantley County. She had three
sons, now deceased, Wiley Dowl
ing, Willie Dowling and Charlie
M. Dowling.
She has nearly 200 descendants,
including five children, 46 grand
children, 117 great-grandchildren
and 20 great-great-grandchildren
Methodist Women
Hold Program
On Stewardship
The W. S. C. S. of the Nahunta
Methodist Church met at the
church on March 22 with Mrs.
Grace Wakely in charge of the
program on “Stewardship.”
Mrs. R. C. Kale led the devo
tional. Mrs. W. C. Long, Sr. gave
a talk on stewardship.
Election of officers for the
coming year was held. Mrs. R. C.
Kale was elected president; Mrs
Dick Schmitt, vice-president; and
Mrs. Effie Middleton, secretary
and treasurer.
Mrs. J. B. Lewis led in prayer
for the closing.
Mrs. E. A. Moody was hostess
serving, apple pie, bacon thins,
com crisps, tea and coffee.
The next meeting will be held
at the home of Mrs. J. B. Lewis
on May 3, a change from the re
gular meeting date on account of
the revival at the Methodist
Church. Mrs. Russell Huffman
will be co-hostess with Mrs
Lewis.
Card of Thanks
We take this opportunity to
express our deepest appreciation
for the many expressions of sym
pathy, floral offerings and other
acts of kindness shown us during
the death of our loved one.
May God's richest blessings a
bide with you always.
The family of
Mrs. Mary Lee Jacobs Gale.
Boost your home town.
Jim Thomas
Continues
On FFA Tour
Continuing to carry out his
duties as National FFA president,
Jim Thomas left last Thursday
by plane for Salt Lake City,
Utah, to attend the four-day
state FFA'convention there.
On Tuesday of this week he
traveled to Pulman, Washington,
where he will be the guest of the
University of Washington and a
principal participant in FFA con
vention in the northwestern
state.
During the coming weekend he
will be visiting in the farm home
of Lyle Raider, American Star
Farmer for 1960. The top ranked
national FFA farmer lives near
the university.
Pierce county’s ambassador of
good will leaves late Sunday for
Columbus, Texas, where he will
address the Father-Son Banquet
at the city’s “Gold Emblem”
FFA Chapter. The Columbus
chapter is one of the leading
chapters in the nation.
Oswell Smith, Jim’s Patterson
FFA advisor, has reported that
Jim plans to return home for a
couple of days before returning
to the lowa State FFA Conven
tion April 6, in Cedar Rapids.
After visiting relatives in Des
Moines, lowa, Jim will be guest
of the president of lowa State
University on April 11 and 12.
Afterwards he will attend the
state FFA convention at Purdue
University in Purdue, Indiana,
before returning home.
Other April engagements in
clude an April 20 address to the
American Turpentine Farmers
Association in Valdosta and an
appearance with Miss Bernice
McCullar, State Department of
Education official, on a panel
forum at the Continuing Educa
tion Center in Athens on April
21.
The current issue of the Na
tional Future Farmers magazine
carries a feature article on “Jim
Thomas Day” in Georgia and the
celebration held in Patterson.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Bobby A. Smith
announce the birth of a baby
girl on Saturday, March 21,
weighing six pounds and one
ounce. She has been named
Karen Joan.
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Willis of
Decatur announce the arrival of
a new baby boy on March 18
He has been named James Brant
ley. He is the grandson of Mr.
and Mrs. Bill Willis of Nahunta
Hunters were responsible for
nine percent of the forest fires
in Georgia in 1959, report forest
ers, Agricultural Extension Ser
vice.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Nine Members of Democratic
Committee Met Last Monday
Hickox HD Club
Met Last Wednesday
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club met Wednesday, March
23, at the home of Mrs. Lizzie
Mae Hendrix.
Mrs. Hendrix presided over
the meeting. Janie Brand read
the minutes of the previous
meeting.
Mrs. Aletha Mae W de report
ed on the distr meeting at
Epworth-by-the > . A program
was held on >r dr orating
Brantley Co u first place
in name tags.
Mrs. Virginia Raulerson gave
instructions on proper potting
and drain® of put plants.
Others t. nding the meeting
were mesdam^s ”Louise Hendrix,
Leona Allen, Josie Mae Jones,
Julia Smith and Gaynelle Keene.
196 J Census
Taking to
Start Friday
The 1960 Census of Population
and Housing, the Nation’s 18th
decennial nose count, gets under
way on Friday morning, April 1,
with 160,000 census takers start
ing their rounds which will take
them to every dwelling unit in
the United Stales.
District Supervisor John D.
Mattox stated that residents of
this area can speed up the big
count by having their Advance
Report Forms filled out and
ready for the xemsus takers. This
action wdl Jave time for both
the householder and the census
taker, the census official said.
Census takers for Brantley
County will be Mrs. Daisy Hun
ter of Waynesville, Mrs. Eva
Hickox of Hoboken, Mrs. Steph
ens Kelly of Hoboken, Miss
Naomi Adams of Hortense, Mrs.
Carolyn Lewis of Nahunta, and
Mrs. Maggie Middleton of Hor
tense.
Mrs. Mary Brantley of Black
shear is crew leader of this area.
April 3-9 Designated
National Library Week
From April 3-9, 1960 the United
States will celebrate the third
National Library Week —r a con
certed, nation-wide effort to
focus attention on the import
ance of reading and libraries in
our national life.
Everywhere in America there
is concern over the quality of
our intellectual life. Today, more
than ever before, we need to read
in order to renew our spiritual
and cultural heritage, to enlarge
our knowledge and understand
ing of the other peoples of the
world, to expand our mastery of
the scientific revolution in which
we live and to give us intellec
tual vigor to face our problems.
A “better read, better informed
America" is imperative. The
printed word is a basic necessity
for keeping us in watchful readi
ness to exercise responsible citi
zenship. A well used library can
add new demensions to our lives
Therefore,
Members of the State Board of Education were honor guests recently
at the annual luncheon of the Vocational Agriculture Hundred Bushel
Corn Club in Atlanta. Future Farmers from southeast Georgia who
were district corn production award winners are being congratulated
by State Board members, Lonnie E. Sweat of Blackshear (I.) and Paul
F. Stone, Waynesboro. The Future Farmers are Tommy Robinson,
Effingham county and Roy Jordan, Hoboken.
Keep up with the New*
About Your Home County
Subscribe for the Brantley
Enterprise, $2.50 a Year,
$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sales Tax)
Hearing on
Contest Is
Set for Friday
Nine members of the Brantley
County Democratic Committee
met in Nahunta Monday, March
28, and passed a number of mo
tions and resolutions, according
to a three-page type-written do
cument received Wednesday by
the (editor of the Enterprise from
a law firm in Jesup.
The nine members of the com
mittee reported to have been
present at the meeting Monday
were Clifton Strickland, James
H. Highsmith, Ike Moody, J. D.
Orser, W. W. Hendrix, Jasper
Johnson, Fred Lee, J. Floyd Lar
kins and Robert Ammons.
According to the document re
ceived by the editor of the En
terprise, the nine members “voted
to investigate the contest of elec
tion results filed by Herschel W.
Herrin for the office of county
school superintendent of Brantley
County.”
As a result of the purported
“investigation,” a resolution was
adopted declaring that “three
v es were illegally cast for Mrs.
Mable Moody.”
The njne members then voted
to declare Herschel W. Herrin
the “Democratic nominee for the
office of county school superin
tendent.”
It was not stated where in Na
hunta the meeting was held or at
what hdur. Also, the chairman
of the committee, Julian B. Mid
dleton, stated that he was not
nc'ified of the meeting. It is un
derstood that none of the other
sever rr of the Democra-
tic Committee, including the
chairman, wbre notified.
In view of the fact that the
chairman and other members of
the committee were not notified,
a question arose as to the legal
implications of the proceedings
at the meeting Monday, and
whether or not the actions of
only a part of the committee had
any meaning in the election con
test now at issue in the courts.
The hearing on the recount
contest, which was to have been
heard by Judge Cecil Roddenber
ry last Friday was postponed un
til Friday, April 1, at 10:00 A. M.
The points at issue in the con
troversy will be presented to
Judge Roddenberry Friday morn
ing, it is understood.
New Hope Cemetery
Will Be Cleaned
The New Hope Cemetery at
Hickox will be cleaned off next
Thursday, April 7. it is announc
ed by Archie Johns.
Citizens of this section who
are interested in the New Hope
Cemetery are requested to come
next Thursday and bring tools
for helping to clean the burial
grounds. Please bring lawn mow
ers for mowing the grass.
PROTEIN SUPPLEMENT
Animal Husbandman Ralph
Williams, Agricultural Extension
Service, says cattle should be
supplemented with one to two
pounds of protein supplement per
head daily while consuming low
quality roughage from fields, pas
ture, or the stored supply.
