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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 23
Brantley 4-H Members Go to
Rock Eagle for District Meeting
Twenty-nine 4-H Club members
of Brantley County, Twenty-two
girls and seven boys, will demon
strate their 4-H Project skills
and vie for district honors at
Rock Eagle 4-H Club Center June
13-15, during the annual South
Eastern District 4-H Project
Achievement meeting.
County Agent George A. Loyd
said that all the 4-H boys and
girls are county champions in
their respective 4-H projects.
“Cloverleaf and Junior members
will end their competition for
project awards at the district
level,” he explained, “but seniors
will compete for higher stakes,
the right to represent the district
at the State 4-H Congress in At
lanta Aug. 23-26.
Demonstrations which the
4-H’ers will give at the District
4-H Project Achievement will
count 60 per cent and 4-H record
books kept during the previous
year will count 40 per cent in
judging to determine district win
ners, the agent explained. The
boy or girl making the highest
combined score in a project will
be named district winner.
Senior 4-H Club members at
tending as voting delegates will
vote by secret ballot in the elec
tion of district council officers
for the coming year, he continu
ed. All 4-H’ers from this county
will participate in the traditional
outdoor candlelighting service in
which 4-H’ers renew their 4-H
pledge. While emphasis at the
project achivement .meeting will
be on project demonstrations,
4-H’ers will have time set aside
for swimming and other types of
recreation.
Brantley County boys who will
attend, their home communities,
and project demonstrations they
will give are: Seniors; John Cal
houn, Nahunta, Public Speaking
and Terry Thomas, Nahunta,
Tractor Maintenance. Junior
Boys: Wendell Herrin, Nahunta,
Gardening; Johnny Walker,
Waynesville, Public Speaking,
and Dennis Raulerson, Nahunta,
Electric. Cloverleaf Boys: Jack
Brooker, Nahunta, Talent and Re
creation, Tommy Tucker, Nahun
ta, Between-Meal-Snacks.
Mrs. Virginia Raulerson, Home
Dem. Agent, said the following
girls will attend: Senior girls:
Alice Sue DePratter, Nahunta,
Beautification of Home Grounds;
Una Wilson, Nahunta, Clothing;
Patsy Walker, Waynesville, Food
Preparation, Bread; Charlene
Gibson, Waynesville, Food Pre
paration, Quick Meal; Grace Mid
dleton, Hortense, Home Indus
tries, Cotton and its Uses; and
Margaret Davis, Hoboken, Recre
ation.
Junior Girls: Laverne Middle
ton, Hortense, Clothing; Anna
Demand Honesty in Government
(From The Waycross Journal-Herald)
Politicians, like the rest of us, must reap what they
sow.
In releasing what he termed “the first chapter’’ in a
report on business transactions of the administration of
former Gov. Marvin Griffin, Gov. Ernest Vandiver said
the information unfold “an almost unbelievable tale of
graft and corruption.”
Among other things the report noted that R. A.
(Cheney) Griffin, brother of the former governor who
served as his aide, received sales commissions of more than
SIO,OOO from tractor sales to the state.
Georgia law prohibits state employes from doing busi
ness with the state.
During the past state administration there were re
peated revelations of irregularities. Many involved high
officials profiting personally from state transctions with
private firms.
It has already been established through court cases
and other information that the taxpayers of Georgia re
ceived what could be politely termed something less than
value received. .
Yet there are those who take the cynical view that
corruption is par for the political course somet mg
to be expected and nothing to become alarmed oyer.
Happily this outlook does not prevail. An ever increas
ing number of Georgians see no more reason to era
graft and corruption in government than in t eir own
businesses and personal affairs. -
Why, indeed, should there be a double standard of
morality. Public funds belong to all the peop e. e
honest official is stealing from the poor, t e m en y ’
the blind and from everyone who is entitled to state
vices f
Georgians should demand faithful
their public officials. Those who violate a public trust are
unworthy of the people’s confidence.
Honesty is the best and only policy for a government,
the business of the people.
Brantley County Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Dee Wilson, Nahunta, Electric;
Anna Sue Pitman, Hoboken, Food
Preparation, Better Breakfast;
Joan Johns, Nahunta, Food pre
paration, Biscuit; Jane Wilson,
Waynesville, Food Preservation,
Canning; Lynn Herrin, Nahunta,
Food Preservation, Frozen Foods;
Doris Lane, Hortense, Health;
Marlene Ross, Nahunta, Home
Improvement; Beth Calhoun, Na
hunta, Public Speaking and San
dra Jacobs, Nahunta, Talent and
Recreation.
Cloverleaf Girls: Wanda Steed
ley, Nahunta, Clothing; Carolyn
Middleton, Nahunta, Food Pre
paration, Muffins; Barbara Allen,
Nahunta, Food Preparation, Be
tween-Meal-Snacks; Dale Jacobs,
Nahunta, Food Preservation, Can
ning; Dian Davis, Hoboken,
Food Preservation, Frozen Foods,
and Nancy Moody, Nahunta, Tal
ent and Recreation.
Adults who will accompany the
4-H boys and girls to their dis
trict meeting are: Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Brooker, Mrs. Cecil Moody,
Mrs. Horace Jacobs and Mrs.
John Wilson.
The Brantley County delega
tion will leave from Nahunta at
7:00 A. M. on Monday, June 12,
and return home Wednesday,
June 15.
Brantley HD Council
Sends Delegates
To State Meeting
The Brantley County Home
Demonstration Council sent its
President, Mrs. E. A. Hunter of
Waynesville and Mrs. Allen Bar
nard of Nahunta, as its voting
delegates to the State Council
Meeting being held at Rock Eagle
4-H Club center this week.
Mrs. Fulton Hagin of the Cal
vary community is attending as
the dress revue contestant.
The highlight of the state meet
ing to the Brantley County dele
gation will be the installation of
Mrs. Nolan Davis Jr., as the State
President of this Woman’s Or
ganization. Never before has such
an honor come to a Brantley
County woman.
Attending in addition to Mrs.
Hunter, Mrs. Barnard, Mrs. Ha
gin and Mrs. Davis are. Mrs. C.
C. Connor, Mrs. Banner Thomas
and Mrs. C. F. Dukes of Hobo
ken. Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson
County Home Demonstration A
gent is accompanying the group
and will give a report as acting
chairman of the Research Com
mittee at the State Home Demon
stration Agents Association Meet
ing.
Brantley Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 9, 1960
Hoboken HD Club
Elects Mrs. Dukes
As President
The Hoboken Home Demonstra
tion Club met Wednesday, June
1 at 3:30 P. M. at the home of
Mrs. Banner Thomas.
Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson,
County Home Demonstration A
gent of Nahunta, made an inter
esting talk. She then introduced
Miss Marlene Ross of Nahunta,
who gave a demonstration on
“How to remove paint off furni
ture.”
Election of officers for another
year were: Mrs. C. F. Dukes,
pres. Mrs. Fred Dowling, vice-
Pres., Mrs. N. C. Davis, Secre
tary and Treasurer, and . Mrs.
Eula Druehl, social reporter.
Plans were made for members
to attend the State Council Meet
ing at Rock Eagle 4-H Club Cen
ter June 7 through 10. Those
planning to attend from Hobo
ken are: Mrs. N. C. Davis Jr.,
Mrs. C. F. Dukes, Mrs. Banner
Thomas, Mrs. Floyd Larkins and
Mrs. C. C. Connor.
Augus 10th is the date for a
picnic at Jekyll Island for all
Club members.
Present at the meeting were:
Mrs. C. F. Dukes, Mrs. W. C.
Rice, Mrs. Wade Colvin, Mrs. C.
C. Conner, Mrs. N. C. Davis Sr.,
Mrs. N. C. Davis Jr., Mrs. Bertha
Jones and Mrs. Eula Druehl.
At the close of the meeting re
freshments were served by the
hostess, Mrs. Banner Thomas.
The Club will meet Wednesday,
July 13 at 3:30 P. M. at the home
of Mrs. Macie Colvin.
Personals
Miss Wannis Ammons of Hobo
ken received her degree at com
mencement exercises at Georgia
State College for Women on Sun
day, June 5. She has returned to
her home in Hoboken.
Young ladies who have been
students at G. S. C. W. at Mil
ledgeville for the past scholastic
year and returning home for the
summer are: Mary Sandra Am
mons, Susie Lee Bell, Norma
Jean Manning, Wanda Purcell,
Janice Royster, Evelyn Sadler,
Rose Mary Smith, Eula Virleen
Strickland and Lillie Ruth Tho
mas.
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Snare and
children and Mr. Snare’s mother
from Gainesville, Ga., were
weekend visitors of Mr. and Mrs.
W. R. Strickland.
Mrs. Alma Griffin and daugh
ter, Corine and Modine Griffin
and children spent the weekend
visiting relatives in Valdosta.
Coleman Griffin who has been
stationed in Air Force at Moody
Base in Valdosta has been trans
ferred to San Antone, Texas. He
and his family are moving to
Texas this week.
Mrs Freddie Brooker is a pa
tient in Memorial Hospital for a
few days.
All children and grandchildren
of Mr. and Mrs. Audrey Brooker
were home Sunday for a family
reunion. They were: Cpt. and
Mrs. Larry Fisher and son, Gary;
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bennett and
children of Jacksonville, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Brooker and two sons
and Mr. and Mrs. Neville Herrin
of Nahunta and John and Candy
Partain of Savannah.
Marine Pvt. William R. Gib
son, son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete J.
Gibson of Waynesville, complet
ed recruit training May 24 at the
Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Par
ris Island, S. C.
Sherry Hatcher of St. Simons
Island was the guest of Cynthia
Smith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert Smith, all last week.
Capt. and Mrs. Larry Fisher
and son, Gary left on Monday
for his post in Omaha, Neb., af
ter spending three weeks in Na
hunta, Jacksonville and Savan
nah with relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Miller of
Rochester, N. Y. and Mrs. John
Miller of Woodhall, N. Y., were
guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Lewis on Sunday.
Members of the Nahunta Gar
den Club and their families en
joyed a picnic on Jekyll Island
on Tuesday afternoon, June 7.
Those attending were: Mr. and
Mrs. H. W. Herrin and Lynn,
Wendell and Beth; Mr. and Mrs.
Elroy Strickland and Helen; Mr.
and Mrs. J. B. Lewis; Mr. and
Mrs. Winton Adams and son,
Steve and their visitors, Niel
Lamberth of Macon; Mrs. Dan
Jacobs and Mary Ruth; Mrs.
Dorothy Graham and Tommy;
Mrs. Jesse Lee and Gwendell;
Mr. Elizabeth Robinson; Miss
Mary Knox and her guest, Mrs.
Lambert Knox of Hazlehurst.
John Calhoun Jr.
Elected 4-H Council President
Lions Club to
Incorporate in
Brantley County
The Brantley County Lions
Club are in process of incorpora
ting the organization, according
to a legal advertisement appear
ing in The Brantley Enterprise
this week.
The petitioners for the Lions
Club are J. C. Allen, J. W. Crews,
George Loyd, Avery Strickland
and-Elroy Strickland.
The purpose of the corporation
is stated to be to form a body of
men thoroughly representative
of the business and professional
interests of Brantley County, and
to unite its members in the clos
est bonds of good fellowship and
to promote a closer business and
social union among them.
“To encourage and promote
active participation in all things
that have to do with civic, re
creational and industrial better
ment."
The corporation will have no
capital stock but will be purely
'promotional and community
serving.
When the corporation is com
pleted, trustees will be elected
as the governing body of the or
ganization.
Georgia Retail Sales
ncrease $60,000,000
Georgia retail sales during the
first quarter of 1960 increased
$60,035,591 over the same period
last year, a Georgia State Cham
ber of Commerce report showed
today. Sales during January-
March of this year, the report re
vealed, totaled $1,166,860,980.
“This impressive increase shows
that Georgia is on the march in
dustrially,” said L. W. Robert Jr.,
chairman of the State Chamber’s
industrial development depart
ment.
First quarter business volume
in Brantley County totaled $990,-
211 this year, compared with sl,-
017,254 for the same period in
1959, the report showed.
Summer School Is
Started at Nahunta
Summer school for students to
make up school work started at
Nahunt^ Monday, June 6, it is
announced by the principal, John
H. Calhoun.
Prof. Forest Thomas is instruc
tor in the summer school. The
class hours are from 7:00 P. M.
until 10:00 P. M. Monday through
Friday.
Students are requested to
check their records to see if they
need to attend summer school.
There is now a new regulation in
regards to this matter, the prin
cipal stated.
All students needing to make
up school work are urged to re
gister at once.
Holiness Camp
Meeting to Start
Thursday June 16
The Okefenokee Holiness camp
meeting, Waycross, will begin
June 16 and close June 26.
Rev. Paul Hill will be the chief
speaker. Rev. John Stephens and
wife will direct the music.
Services each evening at 8:00
P. M. Beginning June 20, morn
ing service at 10:00 A. M. except
Sunday, when the day service
will come at 3:00 P. M.
Come and enjoy these services sion Service, recommend check
and good fellowship on the shady ing a milking system each three
campus near the Satilla river. months.
George Thomas
Named Boy of the Month
At Brewton-Parker
U. S. Department
Os Agriculture
Warns on MH-30
The United States Department
of Agriculture has cautioned to
bacco growers that the use of
meleic hydrazide (MH-30) on
tobacco to control sucker growth
could seriously jeopardize the to
bacco price support program and
the domestic and export markets
for United States tobacco.
This caution to growers was re
leased by USDA after it had re
ceived strong protests against the
use of the chemical from the ma
jor tobacco companies, according
to John F. Bradley, Administra
tive Officer of the Agricultural
Stablization and Conservation
State Office.
The buyers emphatically stated
that they will not knowingly buy
tobacco treated with the chemi
cal. Their protests were based on
evidence collected from their la
boratory tests on flue-cured, bur
ley, Maryland and cigar tobaccos
which they contend showed that
maleic hydrazide (MH-30) seri
ously affects the physical and
chemical properties of the leaf. In
these tests, tobacco treated by a
variety of methods with maleic
hydrazide (MH-30) was compar
ed with tobacco that was hand
suckered. The treated tobacco,
they stated, tended to be more
dense in leaf structure and to
have a soggy nature and poor
texture, resulting in poor taste.
A loss of firmness in treated to
bacco was also reported. Loss of
firmness in tobacco, a quality not
overcome in manufacturing, is
considered a serious defect by the
tobacco trade. Cigarette manufac
turers are especially critical of
this characteristic of treated to
bacco since consumers prefer
firm, well-filled cigarettes. Com
pany researchers attribute this
defect to the ability of treated
tobacco to hold more moisture.
Another serious buyer objection
to treated tobacco is loss of the
free-burning rate of cigarettes.
They repored that the treated
samples failed to continue burn
ing during smoking tests.
While the buying companies in
sist that they will not knowingly
buy treated tobacco, they readily
admit the treated tobacco, in
many instances, does not show
adverse physical effects that can
be detected on the auction floor.
In these instances, any undesir
able and chemical attributes and
inferior smoking quality can only
be established by laboratory
tests and in factory operations.
This discovery will take place
long after the buyer has purchas
ed the tobacco. The manufacturer
is then forced to use the tobacco
that he does not want to use in
his product. Should this situation
continue, it is likely that the de
mand for United States tobacco,
both domestic and foreign, will
decrease.
After the tobacco enters loan
stocks, samples are made avail
able for inspection by prospec
tive buyers. This marketing pro
cedure applies for all tobacco tak
en under loan. If the buyer
wishes, he may take samples for
testing in the laboratory to deter
mine, among other things, wheth
er or not the tobacco was treated
with maleic hydrazide (MH-30).
Where the use of maleic hydra
zide (MH-30) is suspected, USDA
said it is doubtful that such to
bacco would move freely into the
channels of trade. Thus, there
would be an accumulation of bur
densome surpluses of tobacco un
der loan. This would not only
jeopardize the tobacco price sup
port program but would also
cause future reductions in farm
acreage allotments.
Dairymen, Agricultural Exten-
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Fish Killed in Satilla by
Oil from Waycross Canals
By PAUL ROBINSON
Thousands of game fish have
been killed in the Satilla River
East of Waycross during the past
48-hours. A State Game and Fish
Commission biologist said the
cause of deal was oil which was
determined to be coming from a
box-like construction located in
the drainage canal at the edge of
the ACL railroad yard.
Discovery of what Game and
Fish Commission officials termed
"needless slaughter of game fish
in wholesale proportions’’ was
made about noon yesterday. The
biologist was summoned immedi
ately and tests initiated to deter
mine the cause and source of the
oil.
According to P. C. Pierce, the
biologist with the State Game
and Fish Commission, extensive
testing was conducted on samples
of water taken from the Satilla
River. He said accurate water
chemistry readings were impos
sible to obtain due to “the a
mounts of oil.”
After discovery of the “fish
kill” in the Satilla River yester
day, Waycross District Game and
Fish Commission Chief Mallory
Hatchett and Wildlife Ranger W.
T. Hewitt accompanied a news
man to the river.
At a spot about eight river
miles below U. S. Highway 32,
large bass, trout, bream, red
breasts, catfish and other game
fish, many weighing as much as
about two pounds, were either
dead or gasping for oxygen.
Schools of fish yere discovered
hovering in small sloughs or dead
water ponds adjacent to the river
where the oil had not been swept
by the flow of the river.
Oil skim on top of the water
was virtually as wide as the
stream which is now at its lowest
level in several months. Fish dip
ped from the river by Ranger
Hewitt were greasy and grimy,
many near death from lack of
oxygen, others already dead.
The rangers and newsmen trek
ked about a mile up stream from
the point entered, finding the
same oily skim and dead fish
floating in the stream.
Chief Hatchett described the in
cident as "a serious blow to area
sportsmen.”
Hatchett said during the past
three years, the State Game and
Fish Commission has placed sev
eral hundred thousands of fish in
the Satilla River in an effort to
restock the stream. These were
AN TALMADGE
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Repor ts From'^fSg S
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kSHINGTON I
IN RECENT YEARS Georgians
and Southerners have been con
stantly reminded that the South’s
vigorous insistence on maintain
ing its way of life and working
out its own problems without
benefit of Federal compulsion was
seriously damaging the area eco
nomically.
These prophets warned that
business and manufacturing
jpg A
ion’s new-found industrialization
would soon dry up on the vine.
Those who have been spreading
this false talk will find little com
fort in a series of official U. S.
Department of Commerce reports
recently released for publication.
* • •
ONE REPORT DECLARES:
"Manufacturers in the past eight
years have put nearly seven bil
lion dollars into new plants and
equipment in the Southeast. The
seven-state area remained well
ahead of the nation as a whole in
rate of increase in such expendi
tures taking place since World
War Two. The region’s 68 per
cent gain in manufacturing out
lays in 1958 as compared with
1947 exceeds the rate for the na
tion by twenty-one (21) per cent.”
Georgia’s showing in the area’s
sweeping economic upsurge was
both revealing and spectacular. Os
the approximately seven billion
Keep up with the New*
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Enterprise, $2.50 a Year,
$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sales Tax)
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Griffin of
Ludowici announce the birth of
a baby boy on May 25, weighing
eight pounds and eight ounces. He
has been named Robert Mitchell.
Dollars spent at home event
ually come back to you to be
spent again.
| concerns in
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Some even
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placed at intervals from the Sat
illa’s source at Ben Hill and Ir
win counties to the mouth at St.
Andrews Sound off the coast in
Camden County.
Just recently, 10,000 game fish
were placed in the Satilla at the
Waitertown bridge in Ware Coun
ty.
The extent of the “fish kill”
during the last two days cannot
be determined, rangers say. The
low level of the Satilla makes for
slow drainage and the oily skim
may remain for sometime, killing
as it slowly works its way down
stream, they stated.
Safety Regulations
On Boats Given
By Ranger Rowell
The Boat Safety Law went into
effect June 1.
The law requires that every
person in a boat or any kind of
water craft must have a life
preserver for every one on board.
No person shall operate any wa
ter craft while under the influ
ence of intoxication.
Buoyant vest, ring buoy, or
buoyant cushions, of the type ap
proved by the U. S. Coast Guard
in good condition. This includes
all kind of boats on all lakes and
streams.
No person shall operate a boat
in a reckless manner so as to en
danger the limb, life or property
of anyone.
This law is now in effect.
We are asking the cooperation
of every person.
The new Boat Registration Law
will go in effect July 1.
Any water craft using more
than 10 Horse Power will have to
be registered by July 1.
Any boat using 10 H. P. or less
will not have to register.
Thank you for your coopera
tion.
Ranger A .M. Rowell
Births
dollars which manufacturers
poured into the seven southeast
ern states, Georgia topped the list
with a hefty $1,314,822,000.
Further pointing up the state’s
remarkable economic showing is
this quotation from another Com
merce Department report: “Geor
gia’s post-war industrial growth
has been greater than that of the
Nation in ten of fifteen major
lines of manufacturing activity.”
The report continues: “The gains
made in such lines as food and
kindred products, apparel and re
lated products, pulp, paper and
their products, stone, clay and
glass products, fabricated metals,
machinery except electrical, print
ing and publishing and electrical
machinery has been nothing short
of ‘phenomenal,’—in all eight in
stances the outnut doubling, trebl
ing or quadrupling.”
AN AMAZING performance by
any standard but, of even more
significance, these cold, hard facts
proclaim in unmistakable lan
guage that Georgia and the six
other states of the Southeast are
on the march economically and
have taken over the lead in show
ing the rest of the Nation the way
to business and industrial expan
sion.
And finally this record provides
an appropriate and convincing
renly to those prophets of doom
whose real concern is not the
area’s economic ■well-being but the
South’s uncompromising devotion
to away of life—one that will not
be.intimidated by shouts of money.
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