The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, June 02, 1960, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextBrantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Gx, Thursday, June 2, 1964 Brantley Enterprise Published weekly oh Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia Carl Broorna 33 33? Editor and Publisher Mrs. Cari Broome Aisociate Editor Second cl«. at Na^ ol Official Or|mn if Brantley Cmsmty AddreM all maii to Nahunta, Georgia. — ■ /&•&* •**•* W^.i <E . ^nrr^Mw-^^ Kp^' ’^* VTSw • ; ■ ~ , ft ^k. /no < FISH By FULTON LOVELL Director, Georgia Game and Fish Commission THE "HOW TO" OF TURKEY HUNTING HOW might any person attain the rank of an expert wild turkey hunter? There are innumerable answers to this question, but a key word — as in most outdoor sports — is patience. Fulton Lovell close to 20 pounds. Turkey Tactics However, this was an unusual case. Most hunters must take the time to learn about the habits of the birds — and how to make a store-bought turkey call sound like a sexy hen. Then, they practice the knowledge when they go on a hunt. Turkeys are funny birds — funny in a sense that one never knows how they will react. One such tom showed that not all gobblers are smart. He was sitting on a shrub about six feet high. A hunter spotted him and was able to walk within touching distance. The bird still didn't move, apparently thinking it was camouflaged. The hunter, not wishing to shoot it at so close a range, backed off about 10 feet and let fly. He missed the bird completely, but devastated the bush on which the turkey was perched. The gobbler, in the meantime, hadn’t moved. Getting a hold on himself, the hunter let fly again to score a kill. Later, it was discovered that the bird’s acute hearing and seeing senses were so far gone that it didn’t hear even the shot gun blast. There are, on the market, many types of turkey callers. There is the cedar box type when, worked by hand, produces a realistic yelp. Most amateur hunters use this. Veteran turkey-getters, however, swear by the mouth-operated calls. These are usually made from a turkey wing bone and, when operated properly, pro duce so effective a call that if a hunter was hidden in a penful of the birds, you couldn’t tell the yelps apart. Many prefer the wing-bone type because it allows them to have their hands free for shooting. Early Risers Most hunters agree that the great majority of gobblers are killed when they first leave the roosts. This usually occurs in the hour just before sunrise, say around 4 a.m. Therefore, the best think a nimrod hunter can do when going on a hunt is to pick out his stand a day or so before the hunt. Then, on THE DAY, walk quietly and quickly to the stand and.ait down and start yelping. Don’t move around or smoke and if you have a partner, don't talk. Just ait, yelp and listen. Turkeys are faster afoot than they are on the wing, though they aren’t slouches in this department, either. They also can tell the dif ference between a man’s walk and that of an animal such as a deer. Tyro turkey huatera need remember just one thing: don’t pay attention just to the bird, but to yourself as well. , Talking to veteran hunters may help an amateur in that these men have hunted for a period of years and become familiar with the gob bler’s habita. They also might be able to reveal a few tips on the beat way to yelp, perhaps the most important phase of turkey hunting. Limited Action Hunters in Georgia are limited to one gobbler per season. Hunters new to the bird are likely to ask, “How can I tell a gobbler from a hen? If I see a bird in the woods, I’m likely to shoot first and identify it afterwards.* One thing to do in thia case is to get a true-to-life painting of both the tom and hen birds and study it closely. Notice that the tom is much bulkier than the hen and his plumage is more irridescent. The tom also sports a “beard,” actually long gray hairs sprouting from the base of the throat. The older the bird, the longer the beard. Then too, if a bird is attracted by your call, it is not likely to be a hen. Waycross Livestock Market SOUTHEAST GEORGIA’S LEADING LIVESTOCK MARKET HONEST WEIGHTS AND COURTEOUS SERVICE. M ’ JU 4 * • At our sale on Monday, May 30, a total of 530 head of hogs arid 108 head of cattle were aold for a total volume of $17,891.22. Feeder pigs sold up to $13.75 with grade hogs prices as follows: RI, $16.- 06; LI, $16.18; No. 2, $15.75; and No. 3, $14.80. Calves sold up tp $23.50, steers and heifers up to $22.90, powi up to $lB.- 60, arid Brills Up to $20.10. We will have a good number of feeder cattle, cowi and crilTei; and steers at our sale next Monday, June 6. Plan to be with Ui. For pick-up or contact for sales please call Woodrow Wainright Phone HO 2-3471 Nahunta, Georgia. Waycross Livestock Market L. C. Pruitt, W. H. Inman and O. A. Thompson, Operators and Managers In most cases, patience must be used to hunt the wily gobbler. But I heard of one case last year where this wasn’t true. The incident occurred at the Game and Fish Department's Clark Hill Wildlife Management’ Area near Thomson. It was the first day of the first annual spring gobbler hunt. A hunter walked up to the checking station and filled out the re quired forms. He heard a gobbler’s yelp that seemed to come just within the refuge, walked a short distance into the woods, saw and shot the bird, walked out again. All this occurred within a 15-minute period. The tom, by the way, weighed TALES OUT OF SCHOOL Stat* Department of Education , nUT THOUSAND DOLLAR RAISE — Best news. I know is the thousand dollar raise approv ed by the State Board of Educa tion for the sixth year certificate! Your teachers who qualify for the sixth year certificate dust set up in the State Department of Education) get a thousand dollar raise! If they've had nine year’s experience, they’ll get $5,200, or $433.33 a month. Nobody was happier about this than, .Dr. Claude Purcell, state superinten dent of schools, and long a cru sader for “something our teach ers can hope for, as they look out to future years.’’ Way back last year, Dr. Purcell urged a thou sand dollar raise for all teachers, and then an incentive scale on top of that. He believes that we must pay good teachers good sal aries if we hold the good ones we have now, and attract bright young teachers into your child ren’s classrooms. THEY WERE going to A PICNIC — Chairman Jim Peters was telling the State Board of Education, the public and the press that what we need in Geor gia is time for teachers and stu dents to stay in the classroom and teach and learn. “I was coming up the road Wednesday — Wed nesday, mind you, right in the middle of the w-eek, and I met this flock of school buses. Do you know where they were go ing? On a picnic.” SCHOLARSHIPS FOR TEACH ER — There’s just nothing new under the sun. The other day we were capering with joy at the final approval of the scholarship program under which the Legis lature makes it possible for us to get good teachers by lending fu ture teachers up to $750 a year to go to college. Somebody point ed out that this had been done a long time ago in Georgia. In 1866, the Legislature gave crip pled veterans S3OO a year to go to college “provided they would promise to teach a year in Geor gia foi every year they went to college.” (We’ve struck a snag in the scholarship program. State Auditor B. E. Thrasher has, point ed but some difficulties in financ ing this.) THREE ITEMS THAT MAT TER TO YOUR SCHOOL — The State Board of Education didn’t do anything about this at their May meeting, but they expect to take it up in June: (1) refuse to give a school more teachers than it actually earns by the Average Daily Attendance; (2) ruling that “Maintenance and Operation” money must be used for mainten ance and operation and not to hire extra teachers, and (3) that high school teachers cannot be paid with state funds if they teach a class with an enrollment of fewer than 12, nor an elemen tary grade with Average Daily Attendance of less than 15. SUPERINTENDENTS’ MEET INGS ARE FOR SUPERINTEN DENTS AND THOSE THEY WANT TO BRING — “What a bout the superintendents’ drive in meetings?” we are often ask ed. “Can the principal go?” I asked the boss. This is what he said. I relay it to you: “The meetings are for the superinten dents and such members of their staff as they want to bring. They are the bosses of this particular meeting. If they want to bring the principal or the supervisor or the custodian or the clerk. They are welcome. But they come ONLY if the local superinten dent asks them to.” (We have a series of principals’ meetings in the fall, and also through the year we have meetings for other groups. The drive-in meetings are set up for the boss of your local school. He has the say-so about who else can come. WANT TO GO TO EUROPE? There are openings abroad for educators, working through UNESCO, for jobs that last from 2 months to a year, if you are in terested. These are 1961-62 jobs. If you want to go abroad on an educational mission, write for de tails to George W. McCown, UNESCO Program Specialist, Education Missions Branch I. E., U. S. Office of Education, Wash ington 25, D. C EXCUSE: Visiting Teacher saw a little boy going into the movie on a day he should have been in school. He called to her reassur ingly, “It’s all right. Miss Jones. I’ve got the measles.” WELL TAKE AN IMPOR TANT LOOK AT A VITAL THING — We are setting up a committee to take a look at the Minimum Foundation Program of Education. It has been in op eration nearly a decade now. It brought a new day to education in Georgia. Thousands of Geor gians worked on it, talked about it, figured it out. Maybe it can be improved now. Anyhow, we have a committee to take a look at it. Says the school chief, “In the thirties, our big break through in education was the se ven months’ school law. Sme children had been getting only two or three months of school. In the fifties it was the Minimum Foundation. In the sixties, it must By Bemicei McCullar be staffing our schools with the ablest, brightest teachers.” SCARCITY Juumy was find ing it hard to understand gram mar. When he said to his teach er, “I ain’t got no pencil/’, she stopped and explained things to him. “Iga ‘I have no pencil You have no pencil. He has no pencil. We have no pencils. They have no pencils.’ Now do you see, Jimmy?” Jimmy looked puzzled. “No'm,” he said. “What happen ed to all them pencils?" COULDN’T YOU PROVIDE US WITH A REPLACEMENT. NOW? —ls you don’t let us have your bright child to be a teacher, we are going to be in a sad state. Many of our finest teachers fire growing old, and no matter how we peer into the future, we don’t see enough bright YOUNG teach ers coming up. The colleges in Georgia graduate about a thou sand young teachers each year, but we only get about half of them. Our records show that we now have on the payroll only 731 beginning teachers this year, only 933 with two years’ experi ence, and only 988 with three years’ experience. We have from 35Q0 to 4000 who quit teaching in Georgia each year! GOOD NEWS FOR SUPER INTENDENTS — Geo rg i a’s school superintendents will get more money from the state dur ing the coming year. Some years ago there was a great hue-and-cry about developing more good edu cational leadership in Georgia. First, they tried to get the legal requirements raised. The law hasn’t been changed since 1919 that says who can be elected school superintendent. So they went at it another way. They put a premium on more study for superintendents. They set up state supplements for those su perintendents who would go back to college and take courses in administrative leadership. Now, this is the way your superinten dent is paid. He gets from the state whatever he rates on his basic teaching certificate, if he has one. Then he gets a supple ment. This year, it runs like this: if he has a five year teacher’s certificate, he will get the same pay a teacher does who holds that. PLUS a S6OO supplement. If he has a four year cer tificate, he would get that basic pay, plus a S4OO supplement. Your local board sets his salary, and they pay the difference between what we send him and what they set as his salary. If your schools stay on the accredited list that salary has to be at least a dollar more than the next highest paid person in your school system, too, (If you are interested in seeing a schedule of state pay for teach ers, superintendents, principals, supervisors, etc., write me and I will send you one ) WATCH IT, BUD! — Did you know that a college in Georgia was once closed because of a commencement speech? Well, it was. Jn 1867, a student named Cox made the valedictory address at the University of Georgia. His subject (sounds dull, if you ask me) was “The Vital Principle of Nations.” In it, he attacked the Yankees, who were at that time in charge of Georgia. The com manding general got mad, cut off funds, and closed the school for a while. Benjamin Harvey Hill, Georgia’s great statesman, was on the board of trustees and was on the stage. He got up, right under the nose of the angry gen eral, walked over to the lad who spoke and congratulated him! IT HAS BEEN A HUNDRED YEARS — We stand on the door step of our observance of a whole century that has passed since we fought the War Between the States. (Said a friend of Bob Toombs, “I thought you said we could whip the Yankees with cornstalks.” He replied, “They wouldn’t fight with cornstalks.”) Now is a wonderful time to carry your children on weekend jaunts to “read their storied land” and see the spots in Georgia that are vivid with history: Chickamauga battlefield where 34,000 Ameri cans lay dead one Sunday morn ing (Read Ambrose Bierce’s bit ter short story “Chickamauga”) . . . Liberty Hall, at Crawford ville, where Confederate Vicp president Alex Stephens lived . . . Irwinville near Ocilla, where Jefferson Davis was arrested ... . Andersonville prison cemetery near Americus (McKinlay Kan tor has written a powerful novel titled Andersonville, and there is now on Broadway a stark and gripping play about the moral obligation of Henry Wirp, who commanded the camp) . . . Sher man's March to the Sea (He gave Savannah to Lincoln for a Christ mas present!) . . . Milledgeville, where Governor Joe Brown's wife Elizabeth put candles ashine in the 60 windows of the pink Governor's Mansion ...and Kennesaw near Marietta, where the only Bishop who was also a General, and stopped the war now and then to baptize people, was killed. Buy your child a beautiful copy of Stephen Vin cent Benet’s war story of a Geor- gia boy and a Connecticut boy, titled "John Brown’s Body.” DON’T FOOL AROUND — Do»,t delude yoursplf that your child is getting quality education if he isn't. Don't be silly enough to pressure a principal or a teacher to give him A s on a re port card if he doesn’t have the A in his brain. Don’t mistake your vanity (“Mrs. Jones' Jimmy made A; it embarrasses me to have my Billy make C”) fpr the good of the child’ The future is going to get lost in the shuffle, no matter how big a house yoq live in, nor how big a check papa can write. j JUST SUPPOSIN’ -> Just sup posing that we had to have a new tax to raise teacher's sal aries in Georgia, what kind of tax woul<| you find most pain less: another penny sales tax, more state income tax, more tax on your property. What? No money you can invest will pay you bigger dividends in the fu ture of your children than see ing that a top quality, well-paid teacher is there in his classroom. (Is it true that ‘you get what you pay for,’ as the old saying goes?) GO ON, NOW, JUST GUESS- Do you really know what salary your child’s teacher makes? A man said to me the other day, “With all this hoop-and-holler about the salaries of Georgia teachers, my wife and I were dumfounded to realize that we actually had no idea of what Billy’s teacher -actually makes.” GEORGIA VISITING TEACH ER PROGRAM “OUT IN FRONT' — Some U. S. cities may have better single programs of Visiting Teachers than Geor gia, but no other state has a statewide program reaching out into the hills and hollows. Our Visiting Teacher program has been called by U. S. Commis sioner of Education, Lawrence Derthick, as “one, of the nation’s very best.” We’ve pioneered. We can be proud. We now have 155 Visiting Teachers in Georgia serving 172 schools. FAIR TRADE — Neighbor of Albert Einstein once said to him, “I have just found out that my 10 year old daughter has been coming over to your house every afternoon. I am sorry. I hope she hasn’t bothered you.” Replied the German genius, “Oh, no. We have a fine arrangement. She brings me gumdrops and I work her arithmetic problems.” THOSE LUMINOUS LINES— We get many weekly papers here in the Department of Education. Would "No-Advertising" Cost Your Business? * * * Advertising becomes expensive We read your paper almost as carefully as you do. The school news always seems to us to glow as though it were written in let ters of light because we so highly value your paper as away of communicating the educational program to you. Often we clip things from the paper and post it on our bulletin board, just outside the Office and Informa tion, where the world comes and goes. Hiere’s no paper on this earth — not the New York Times nor the Manchester Guards ian — that can rival the Frog Hollow Freewheeler for news of what’s going on in Frag Hollow. And that news is not only in teresting to the folks in Frog Hollow. It’s interesting to us way oft .up here, too: x j MILLAGE INCREASE TO BE ^OTED ON — The General As sembly has proposed a Consti tutional Amendment which will permit County Boards of Educa tion to recommend school tax millage increase from 15 to 20 mills. This amendment will be voted on in the November. Gen eral Election^ This amendment would make possible an increase in local school support of ap proximately 10 million dollars. Sources of school funds now are these: local 28 percent, State 67 percent, Federal five percent. The proposed amendment, if rati fied by the people in November, will make it possible for many more local systems to supplement the state scale of pay for teach ers. It could also provide the necessary local funds required to provide social security bene fits to teachers not now available in many systems. (About 75 sys tems now provide social security benefits for their teachers.) E PLURIBUS UNUM — I go and listen to the bigwigs talk at education meetings, but all the time in my heart I am thinking that the real achievements in education are mostly made by teacher? He must stay there in her room 180 days, willy-nilly. Pitiful, isn’t it? You know what we can do about it? See that there is a warm and loving and literate and learning teacher in every classroom. Takes money, my friend. But it’s more import ant than new cars, bigger houses, liquor, -horse racing, slot ma chines, and other things we spend billions on in the U. S. every year. YOU FIGURE THIS ONE OUT —A teacher I know — -widow with 2 children and fine mind and professional ability — takes How Much Some businessmen look upon ad- vertising as an expense. When expenses must be cut, the ad- vertising budget is first to come under the knife. The trouble with that method is—it just won’t work. The fact overlooked is that newspaper advertising repre- sents only a fractional part of the cost of goods sold. Advertising is the instrument which brings the greatest returns when it is intelligently planned. when you don’t use enough. It’s like failing to lubricate a piece of valuable machinery. You save the cost of lubri- c *nt, but eventually you have to pay the big repair bill and production losses while the machinery is idle. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE THE MORE YOU TELL THE MORE YOU SELL * * * home each month a checks $258. That’s the only income thev have. How -would -you budeet PLAYPBSS Current mis zine article describes some leges asJWPPIy ..‘adolescent pl av pens.” (The U. 8. now has 3 and one-half million College students and will, have 7 million dunn? the sixties.) g , WHY WASTE OUR FIVE YEAR-PLD§? — Tbi^.is.thc title of wx mte^tipg article th l current Harpers Magazine, by Virginia Simmons. She sa y 3 “Host kids, are eagei; and able to start reading long tiefore their teacher* will let them - and they are (thank heaven) — bored with the infantile filayschooiing they get in kindergarten.” (R e . member all the -hullaballoo we had in Georgia last year about -what age a child should be to start to school?) > PICTURE THAT HAUNTS ME —There must have been 500 pictures of children in a picture exhibit at the White House Con ference. There were happy child ren, frightened children, puzzled children, sad children. But the one I’ll remember longest was that of a naked little boy run ning down a corridor with a man in pursuit. I keep wondering who he was and what he was running from. It was a desperate sort of picture and it reminded me that childhood is not all storybooks and starshine. It can be tearful and tragic. JUNIORS — Student group that was in sympathy with the recent ‘splinter” group of teach ers that organized to get teacher raises called itself “The Knot heads.” SCHOOL BUSES AT THE LITTLE WHITE HOUSE — Big yellow school buses are all a round Georgia’s Little White House these days, as Georgia school students journey to the shrine where Franklin Roosevelt lived and died. Here came the world’s great to see this Presi dent. History happened here. Georgia children go to walk a round the green yards, to see the unfinished portrait, the walking sticks, the ship models, and the other things that make history come alive. Maeterlinck, in his famous story, “The Bluebird,” pictures the children Tyltyl and Mytyl visiting The Land of the Dead, and hearing their grand father say, “We live again when ever you think of us.” Thus with the Georgia students and FDR.