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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 9, 1960
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
State Department of Education
TEACHER, WANT TO STUDY
-FREE” THIS SUMMER? — Your
teacher can still get S3OO or $450
just handed out on a silver plat
ter tc her, “free gratis for
nothing” as the old saying goes, if
she wants it to go back to col
lege this summer to study. (First,
she had to take the National
Teacner Exam and make a high
enough score.) She must be a
teacher of elementary science or
a high school teacher in one of
these seven fields; math, foreign
languages including Latin, social
studies, business education, li
brary science, English, or science.
We had 636 applications, had to
turn down 100, have approved
536, and still have some money
left to allot to more teachers. Os
our $300,000 set up for these
grants (to strengthen the teach
ing and learning in your school),
we have only allotted $193,000
thus tar. Surely there are more
teachers who would fairly jump
at the chance to get graduate
study paid for, especially when
it means a higher salary. As a
matter of fact, 44 of these smart
teachers who are getting grants
this summer are doing their 6th
year of college work. When they
finish it and take the exam and
score high enough, they will get
the new sixth year certificate
that means a thousand dollar
raise. It is hard for me to think
of anything except duty to a
family that would keep a Georgia
teacher from taking — and ap
preciating the chance to take —
free money held out on a silver
platter, hers for the asking! We’ve
extended the time to apply. How
many teachers from your school
did’
WE WANT SOME MORE, TOO
—Don’t miss Dr. Henry Hill’s
article in the current Atlantic
Monthly, titled “Wanted: Profes
sional Teachers.”
FIRST GRADER, FISHING
WITHOUT RESULTS IN THE
HOT SUN — "I’m going home. I
can’t get waited on!”
GETTING BETTER AND BET
TER — In the 124 counties that
have already held their elections,
only 21 new county school super
intendents have been elected.
Some of these replace superinten
dents who did not offer for re
election. There are 23 elections
still to come. The other systems
have superintendents who are
named by their boards of educa
tion. This high rate of re-election
is in contrast to elections in 1952
and 1956, when about half of the
superintendents have gone back
to college and studied school ad
ministration. The Department of
Education put a state supplement
on this further study three years
ago. They get paid more if they
hold professional superintendents’
certificates. Running a school
system is a full time job. You
can’t farm or run a bank or a
store five days a week and tend
to the schools on Saturday. It’s
a 24 hour job.
NEW HONOR FOR THE
STATE SUPERINTENDENT —
John Marshall Law School in At
lanta will confer a Doctor of
Laws degree on Dr. Claude Pur
cell, state superintendent of
schools, at its commencement ex
ercises on June 4. President T. D.
Fenster said, "We are honoring
Dr. Purcell for his outstanding
achievements in the field of edu
cation, an interest to which he
has devoted many years of his
life.”
YEAR ROUND SCHOOLS?
People are asking oftener and of
tener “Why should we stop school
for three months in the summer
just because children were once
needed to help with farm work?
Why should we leave those ex
pensive buildings idle, especially
when modern youngsters are in
a hurry to get their 12 years of
education and get on to college
or to work?” What do you think
about this?
HONEST ANSWER — Com
mencement speaker to senior,
‘‘Were you in the top half of your
class?” Answered the graduate,
“No, sir. I am one of those that
make the top half possible.”
THERE WAS MISS MOF
FATTS SCHOOL, SHE SAID -
We were riding around Nacoo
chee Valley in the shadow of
Pink Mountain, not far from
Blue Creek. My hostess, Teresa
New, a native Vermonter who
came to Georgia many years ago
and is now instructional super
visor in White county, pointed to
a little spot up in the mountain.
“There stood Miss Moffatt’s
school once,” she said. An old re
sident had told Teresa about it
when she was writing the history
of education in her county for
one of her graduate degrees.
“Who was Miss Moffatt?” I ask
ed. She didn’t know, except that
she was a blessed person who
gathered around her the little
children of the mountains and set
their feet upon the bright path to
knowledge. Riding round that
mountain, I said a little prayer
for Miss Moffatt and all those
like unto her, who open the doors
of wonder for the children of
men.
DON’T FORGET THAT WORK
By Bernice McCullar
CERTIFICATE — Your school su
perintendent must issue a work
permit for any youngster under
18 who is employed. Just now,
with summer work coming up, it
is important for you to remem
ber this. Ben Huiett, labor com
missioner, says that during sum
mer vacation, boys from 12 to 16
may work 40 hours a week in
such places as groceries and drug
stores. But they can’t work after
9 P. M. Same rules apply to girls
14 to 16. During the school term,
boys 12 to 16 and girls 14 to 16
may work 4 hours a day after
school, and 8 hours on Saturdays
and holidays. But remember,
they cannot work after 9 P M.
There’s not a limit on the hours
of work for the 16 to 18 year
olds, but they must have a work
certificate.
THOUGHT I LIKE — “One
does not get’ an education. One
becomes an educated person by
patient study, quiet meditation,
intellectual courage, and a life
devoted to the discovery and ser
[ vice of wisdom. Most people nev
er get beyond a mere bowing ac
quaintance with knowledge.” —
From the magazine, “Wisdom.”
YOUR PRINCIPAL GETS A
DIME RAISE — The state supple
ment for your principal goes up
a dime next year. But before you
start after a tin cup to take up
a collection for him, read on. If
he has a P-5, he will get a state
supplement of $8.40 per month
for every teacher (up to 25) that
he has in his school. This went up
from this year’s figure of $8.20.
If he has a P-4 certificate, he will
get $5.20 per teacher, up from
this year’s $5.10. (These certifi
cates mean that he is skilled in
his job and has taken courses in
professional educational admin
istration. Chances are, he is run
ning a good school for you. Let
him know that you appreciate it.)
THINGS I WONDER ABOUT—
Why the end of school is called
commencement . . . Why some
smart business firm does not
build really good shelters all over
the state where children have to
wait to catch a bus on cold or
rainy mornings . . . Why parents
who snatch up a child for the
slighest injury and take him to
the highest priced doctor they
can find, never think to take a
look in the schoolroom and see
what kind of person is affecting
his mind 180 days in the year . . .
Why some parents raise such a
fuss about Johnny’s learning to
read when they themselves
haven’t read a good book since
Who knows When . . . Why PTA’s
have to take up so much time
with committee reports and hear
ing about the smallest thing the
president did last year when it
could be printed for the mem
bers to read, and they could use
that time to hear a good book re
viewed or think about what to do
about the drop-out problem . . .
How many parents walk into the
office of the principal and say,
“You’ve done a peach of a job
for this community this year. We
appreciate it.”
PUTTING IDEAS TO WORK-
How soon do new ideas get into
action in your school? It is an old
saying that it takes 15 years for
a new idea to get put into action
in 3 per cent of the schools, and
50 years for it to get into all of
them. There is now a new organi
zation that hires itself out to
schools to put new ideas into
action in their classrooms prompt
ly.
HAVE A PARTY’ — Let's put
i a prestige value on fine TV
shows. Have a coke-and-cookie
party for the seniors some night
to see the Play of the Month. Or
a sandwich orgy for the small
fry to listen to the Leonard Bern
stein concerts. Let’s surround
quality with dignity and joy.
Once we complained to high
heaven that we could not afford
to buy our children tickets to
concerts and the theater. Now*
the best is in everybody’s living
room, and we don’t do much a
bout it. Let’s start beating the
drums for quality. Then write
the TV stations about it. The
Presley and the shoot ’em up
Westerns get tons of mail. The
quality programs get little.
WELL I DIDN’T SAY IT —
Old fellow I know, uninclined to
mince words said, “It’s a funny
thing to me that though kids
and souls are the most important
things we have, PTA’s and pul
pits can be the dullest, dreariest
spots on earth.”
EVER NOTICE IT? — There’s
always one mamma w’ho tries to
run the PTA and one teacher
who tries to tell the principal
how to run the school. Couldn’t
be YOU now r , could it?
THE DESK SET — On Capitol
Hill, government workers are re
hearsing for an early summer
play “The Desk Set” — drama
that was on Broadway, with Shir
ley Booth. They plan to honor
the Governor’s Lady, and raise
funds for one of her pet in
trtests: the program for patients
at the Milledgeville State Hos
pital.
Plant Food Institute Heard
Jim Thomas Speak on Monday
Soil Districts
Give Leadership
In Conservation
By C. W. Bartlett
Soil Conservation Service
Soil Stewardship Week is be
ing observed throughout our na
tion during May 22 through May
29. This week is set aside to re
mind man of his duties and obli
gations as a steward of our pre
cious God-given soil. This is also
a time to take stock — to look
back at what has been accom
plished — and to look forward to
future needs in conserving and
improving our soil resources.
At one time American farmers
were wasting and abusing soil at
a rate faster than any other na
tion. However, today America has
assumed a position of world lead
ership in soil and water conser
vation. In only 25 years, since th?
first organized approach to soil
conservation in the United States
was begun, great progress has
been made in conserving our vi
tal resources.
Locally organized and direct
ed soil conservation districts have
provided the leadership respon
sible for the great strides being
made in soil and water conserva
tion. Today, 2,868 of these dis
tricts cover 90 per cent of the
agricultural land and 95 per cent
of all farms and ranches in the
U. S. It is through these soil con
servation districts that individual
farmers get the technical assist
ance of the U. S. Soil Conserva
tion Service.
Accomplishments of farmers
cooperating with the Satilla
River Soil Conservation District,
which includes Atkinson, Brant
ley, Camden, Charlton, Glynn,
Pierce, Ware and Wayne counties,
is typical of the conservation
progress being made throughout
the nation. Since the District was
organized in 1942, more than 82,-
000 acres of approved crop rota
tions have been established on
district cooperator farms; 13,000
acres are farmed on the contour;
50,000 acres of pastures have been
planted; trees have been planted
on over 60,000 acres; 380 miles of
ditches have been constructed to
drain 60,000 acres; 270 ponds have
been constructed and 434 miles
of terraces have been completed.
These are only part of the lengthy
list of accomplishments by the
over 3,500 farmers cooperating
with the Satilla River Soil Con
servation District.
Hovzever, much remains to be
done if we are to continue to
conserve and improve these soil
and water resources for future
generations. A study of conser
vation needs in the District re
veals that many thousands of
acres need treatment for erosion
protection or improved land use.
We, as Americans, can be proud
of the progress that has been
made in soil and water conserva
tion, but we must also remain
alert to the job that remains to be
done. Constantly increasing pres
sure is being placed on our re
maining soil resources to support
our exploding population. The
soil conservation movement can
not succeed without the support
of all America.
Book of Poems
To Be Published
By Ouida Roton
Free lance writer, former a
ward-winning newspaperwoman,
and onetime "Woman of the
Year” Ouida Wade Roton of Ac
worth, Georgia, has signed a con
tract with Exposition Press of
New York for publication of her
book, “Fan the Ember,” a cilec
tion of poems, chiefly meditative.
“As I have done church work
through the years,” the author, a
Methodist, wrote to her publish
ers, “particularly in women’s or
ganizations and in teaching
youth, I have felt the need of
this type of book to supplement
my remarks. A short poem given
midway in a talk can break the
tedium and spark the interest of
the audience. Or sometimes it is
more dramatic to use such a
poem near the beginning or at
the very end of a devotional. At
any rate, I didn't always find
the type of poems I wanted. So
I wrote my own. I thought these
should be made available to the
general public.”
Named after the nineteenth
century French novelist, Ouida,
Mrs. Roton was born in 1906 in
Mobile, Alabama, and was edu
cated in the Cotton Sate. In 1935
she became secretary to the late
Hugh White, then president of
the Alabama Public Service Com
mission, and later worked on the
“Cobb County Times” and the
“Marietta Journal," both in Geor
gia, and as a state news corres
pondent for the “Atlanta Consti
tution.”
In 1948 Mrs. Roton and her
newspaper husband, Pete, bought
the “Acworth (Georgia) Pro
gress” and during her tenure on
the paper she was named “Cobb
County Woman of the Year” (in
1956) and won four state awards
for editorials.
White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.
— Jim Thomas of Patterson, na
tional president of the Future
Farmers of America, told the
1960 convention of the National
Plant Food Institute here Mon
day that “with an exploding
population, and the competition
for the underdeveloped countries,
the production of food and fiber
will take on increasing import
ance,” and “we Future Farmers
believe that we have a wonderful
future.”
Speaking on the subject of “A
Future Farmer Looks At His Fu
ture in Agriculture,” young Mr.
Thomas paid tribute to the fertili
zer industry.
“We boys of the FFA have long
realized the importance of plant
food in American agriculture,” he
said. “The revolution in farm
fertilizer development and the
use of fertilizers has been accom
panied by a revolution in farm
practices and production. This
latter revolution has produced a
richer and better farm picture in
every sense, and we know that
you men and the organization you
represent (the National Plant
Food Institute) have played a
vital role in this task.”
Mr. Thomas said that members
of the Future Farmers of Ameri
ca “believe in the future of farm
ing” and pointed out that “there
is no alternative for agriculture
not to maintain its position as an
important segment of our eco
nomy.”
“We boys also believe that we
are standing on the threshold of
a fantastic age in farming,” he
said. “An age that will make our
farming more complex.”
Arthur Strickland
Wins Masters Degree
Arthur D. Strickland, son of
Mr .and Mrs. W. R. Strickland of
Route 2, Nahunta, was awarded
a Master of Education degree
last Saturday, June 4, at the
University of Georgia.
Arthur attended the University
last year on a scholarship from
the National Science Foundation
and has been awarded a grant
for six weeks further study this
summer.
He and his wife taught three
years before going to Athens.
They have one daughter, Valeria,
who is eight years old. Their
home is on Route 2, Waycross.
IN JUST 15^MINUTES
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and burning disappear! Use in
stant-drying ITCH-ME-NOT day
or night for eczema, ringworm,
insect bites, foot itch, ther sur
face rashes. TODAY at Camp
bell’s Drug Store, Nahunta, Ga.
6-16.
ah conditioning-—Temperatures made to order—
tor eil weather comfort. Get e demonstration!
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APARTMENT FOR RENT
2-bedroom apartment for rent.
See Dan Jones, Nahunta, Ga. 6-16
ATTENTION PARENTS
Select your Child’s Piano NOW
and SAVE. Big Discounts on All
Spinet Pianos, Used and Rebuilt
Pianos during our BIG JUNE
PIANO SALE. Don’t miss this
Opportunity to give your Child
a Chance to Learn to Play the
Piano. TAYLOR PIANO STORE,
910 S. Peterson Ave. Douglas, Ga.
6-30.
HELP WANTED
WANTED AT ONCE — Raw
leigh Dealer in Wayne County.
See or write Fieldman Walter
Carter, P. O. Box 420, Griffin,
Ga., or write Rawleigh’s Dept.
GAF-1480-3 Memphis, Tenn. 6-9.
WELDING DONE WELL
Arc welding, acetylene weld
ing and burning done at reason
able prices. Prompt service on all
welding jobs. Contact Sikes
Texaco Station, South Nahunta
on 301. 8-25.
WANTED — YOUNG, AMBITI
OUS MAN 25 TO 40 TO OPER
ATE WATKINS ROUTE IN THIS
AREA. EARN $75.00 TO SIOO.OO
PER WEEK CAN QUALIFY.
WRITE WATKINS 659 WEST
PEACHTREE ST. N E ATLANTA
8. 6-16
POTATO PLANTS FOR SALE
Government inspected sweet
potato plants for sale. 100-to-Hill
variety, 35 cents a hundred.
$3.50 per thousand, above 1000
at $3.00 per thousand. H. W.
Brauda, phone HO 2-3108, Hor
tense, Ga. 6-9.
HOUSE FOR SALE
House for sale, three bedrooms,
in Nahunta. Phone HO 2-3673 or
contact W. E. Strickland, Hor
tense, Ga. 6-9.
ATHLETE'S FOOT
Imbeds deeply — Toes crack,
burn, itch — Get fast relief.
USE T-4-L BECAUSE
This Strong fungicide sloughs
off and dissolves affected outer
skin. Exposes deepset infection
to its killing action. Relieves itch
ing and burning, speeds healing.
Watch new, healthy skin appear.
IN 24 HOURS,
If not pleased with liquid T-4-
L, your 48c back at any drug
store. Colorless, instant drying,
easy to use. Also fine for itchy,
sweaty feet, insect bites, poison
ivy. Get T-4-L FOOT POWDER
too — gives your feet a film of
antiseptic protection. NOW at
Campbell’s Drug Store, Nahunta,
Ga. 6-9.
TIMBER MARKETING
Foresters, Agricultural Exten
sion Service, point out Georgians
have good markets for pulpwood,
sawtimber, naval stores, veneer,
poles and piling. Products should
be grown to take advantage of
all of these markets, they say.
Free Snowballs
For Saturday, June 11
We will give away free snowballs to
everyone who visits our store on next
Saturday, June 11.
COUNTRY STORE
Hickox, Georgia
I Stock Yard |
I News I
A good run of livestock was sold
Friday, June 3, at the Pierce County
Stock Yard with prices as follows:
I No. RI, $16.62; LI, $16.67; No. 2, I
$15.75; No. 3, $14.27; specials $17.-
00, and feeder pigs $14.50.
Cattle prices were as follows:
calves up to $23.50; cows up to $17.-
80; and steers up to $23.00.
We invite you to sell with us each
Friday. Our good line of buyers as
sures you of the top dollar.
I PIERCE COUNTY I
I STOCK YARD I
Stock Yard Phones HI 9-9023 and HI 9-3041
I O. R. Peacock, Phone HI 9-2172. I
Baxter Bennett, Phone HI 9-6435.
Donald Bennett, Auctioneer.
Blackshear, Georgia
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Putting “all the eggs in one ba s
ket" may not be a wise course
to follow in timber products
they add.
Get posted signs to post y OUr
land at The Brantley Enterprise
office. Five cents each.
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