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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 38
Satilla Baptist
Church Revival
Starts Sunday
The Satilla Baptist Church will
begin a revival meeting next
Sunday, Sept. 25, it is announced
by Perry Rozier, one of the dea
cons.
The meeting extend through
Sunday, Oct. 2, with Rev. Alvin
Williamson, the pastor, doing the
preaching.
The public is cordially invited
to attend all the services. The
services will begin each night at
8:00 o’clock.
County Band Will
Be Organized
Wednesday night, Sept. 28, at
eight o’clock in the Nahunta
Grade School auditrium and Sept.
27, Tuesday night in the Hobo
ken grade school auditorium,
there will be a special meeting
for parents and their children
who are interested in learning to
play a band instrument and be
come members of the Brantley
County Band. All children be
tween the fourth and 10th grades
are eligible.
At this time a reliable music
company from Brunswick will be
here with a display of all types
of band instruments to help Mr.
Trowbridge, Brantley County
Band Director, organize and set
up new groups.
A special rental plan will be
explained to all who are interest
ed in having their child in the
school band. Let’s all pull to
gether and make this the great
est beginner’s year in the future
advancement of the Brantley
County Bands. Let’s have a re
cord attendance.
Sales of farm products by Geor
gia farmers in 1959 exceed total
production expenses by 16 per
cent, compared with 27 percent
in 1949, according to Stephen J.
Brannen, head of the Extension
Service economics department.
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Many problems have faced our Nation during the
past quarter century — some have found t
successful solutions . . .
One of the problems facing our Peqde tot 25 years
ago was what to do to help the dar , were
between our cities and towns ... a
unserved by any source of electric po
The solution to this one stands out a lighthouse
among successful examples of the P e P , electric
the successful organization and oper
cooperatives! . . .
The money to build the lines ^^y^ nback,
people from the REA — and they a p ^ark
with interest. Electricity an d the
areas reclaimed them from oblivi .• • g
locally owned, locally controlled rural folks
terns have brought a better way of life for rural loiks
—and benefits for city dwellers as well . . -
Why argue with success?
Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Nahunta Baptists
Will Observe
Homecoming Day
Homecoming Services will be
held at Nahunta Baptist Church
Sunday, Sept. 25, and the public
is invited.
Rev. C. E. Milton, former pas
tor, will preach the Homecoming
Sermon at 11:30 A. M. His many
friends in all this area as the
state are cordially invited to come
and enjoy this day with the Na
hunta people.
One of the outstanding features
of the day will be the observance
of the tenth anniversary of the
entry of the present church house,
which was opened for public wor
ship the fourth Sunday in Sep
tember, 1950. The church plans
to have all debts on the church
building and old pastorium paid
off in full, and this will mark a
great victory in the progress of
the church.
Pastor Cecil F. Thomas, and all
the Nahunta Baptist Church, trust
this will be enjoyed by all.
On Sunday night, Sept. 25,
which is the evening service fol
lowing the Homecoming, Installa
tion of the officers and teachers
for the church, for the church
year, 1960-61, will be held. The
night service will be closed with
observance of baptism of those
who have become candidates by
profession of faith during the last
revival.
Hickox HD News
The Hickox Home Demonstra
tion Club met with Mrs. Janie
Brand on Tuesday, Sept. 20, with
Mrs. Brand preseiding.
Those present were Mrs.
Janie Brand, Mrs. Gaynelle
Keene, Mrs. Aletha Mae White,
Mrs. Leona Allen, Mrs. Elma Ste
wart, Mrs. Wilson Wainright and
Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, Home
Demonstration Agent.
The Demonstration was on the
selection and arrangement of arti
ficial flowers and fruits.
Delay is the thief of time. It
is easy to put off subscribing to
your weekly newspaper, the
Brantley Enterprise, but it is also
easy to “DO IT NOW.”
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Brantley Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 22, 1960
Social Security Amendments
Bring Disabled New Benefits
Social security amendments
signed by the President on Sep
tember 13 will bring benefits to
an estimated 125,000 additional
disabled workers and to the mem
bers of their families throughout
the country, Mr. O. L. Pope, Man
ager of the Waycross Social Se
curity Office, announced today.
Mr. Pope pointed out that the
change regarding disability bene
fits is only one of a number of
changes made by the amend
ments. The new law will bring
increased benefits to 400,000
children and, through liberalized
work requirements, will make
some 250,000 people age 65 or
over eligible for benefits. Other
significant provisions increase the
number of people eligible for
benefits and increase benefits in
some instances.
Returning to disability incur
ance, Mr. Pope explained that a
person can now qualify for dis
ability benefits without regard to
his age. If he has worked long
enough under social security and
if his disability is severe enough
to meet the definition in the so
cial security law, he and eligible
members of his family may draw
the benefits even if he has nol
reached 50 — the age requirement
in the prior law.
“Those who have already made
application to have their social
security records frozen because
of their disability do not need
to take any action now,” Mr.
Pope said. “The Social Security
Administration has their records
on file and will write to them
telling them what they should do.
However, those disabled people
who have not had previous con
tact with a social security office
to discuss disability protection
should get in touch with our of
fice right away because benefits
cannot be paid until an applica
tion for them is made.”
Another change made by the
new amendments affects people
entitled to benefits and who are
working, Mr. Pope explained. Un
changed is the rule that a person
can get social security benefits
for every month of the year if
his earnings for the year do not
go ever SI2OO. For amounts over
SI2OO — the following formula
applies beginning in 1961: One
dollar in benefits is with held for
each $2 of earnings between
SI2OO and SISOO. If a person earns
more than SISOO, he forfeits a
dollar in benefits for each dollar
that his earnings go over the
SISOO amount. However, in spite
of this rule, no one will forfeit
benefits for any month that he
earns SIOO or less in wages. If
he is selfemployed, he does not
forfeit a benefit for any month
that he does not engage actively
in the affairs of his business.
Mr. Pope estimated that 25,000
people — many of them aged wi
dows — will benefit by changes
in the law which permit payment
of monthly checks to eligible sur
vivors of working people who
died between March 31, 1938, and
December 31, 1939, with at least
a year and a half of work under
social security. Before this
change, survivors could not re
ceive benefits on the social se
curity account of anyone who
died before 1940. Also, a depen
dent widower can get benefits
even if his wife died before 1950,
if the wife met the work require
ments under social security. Be
fore this change, dependent wi
dowers could not become eligible
for benefits unless the person on
whose social security account the
benefits were claimed died in or
after September, 1950. But no one
can receive benefits under this
provision until he has made a
claim for them through the local
social security district office.
Families of a deceased worker
drawing social security benefits
for two or more children and not
now receiving the maximum pay
able to a family will find an
additional amount added to their
social security checks for Decem
ber, 1960, because of a change
which calls for payment of an
amount equal to three-fourths of
the base amount to each child.
This is changed from the formula
which provided for one-half of
the base amount to each child
with a quarter of the base a
mount divided among all the
children. Families affected by
this change need to take no ac
tion. The additional amount will
show up on the social security
check which they receive in Jan
uary, 1961.
Mr. Pope explained that the
amendments also reduce the a
mount of work time needed to
qualify for benefits. Instead of
needing two calender quarters of
work for every four quarters af
ter 1950, the number of work
quarters required is now one for
| three. Unchanged, however, is the
provision that no one may get
benefits without at least six
quarters of work. “Anyone who
has failed to qualify for benefits
in the past because he did not
have enough work under social
security should call at the local
social security district office to
find out if this new provision now
makes him eligible," Mr. Pope
explained.
Other changes made by the a
mendemnts extend social security
to parents working in a trade
or business owned by a son or
daughter, permit nonprofit or
ganizations to provide social cov
erage for present employees who
want coverage, and for employees
hired in the future even if less
than two-thirds of the employees
desire this coverage, and give
clergymen, whose social security
participation is optional, an ex
tension to April 15, 1962, to
choose to be included under the
social security plan.
A further change allows bene
fits to be paid to wives, step
children, and adopted children of
retired and disabled, workers, if
the relationship has been in ef
fect for at least one year. In ad
dition, the lump sum death pay
ment can now be paid directly to
the funeral director if no widow
or widower of the deceased sur
vives, and the person responsible
for the payment of the burial ex
penses agrees to this disposition,
or if no one assume responsibility
for the burial expenses within 90
days of the date of death.
Finally under two further
changes in social security disabili
ty insurance, a person drawing
disability benefits may have a
trial work period of 12 months
during which he will continue to
receive his monthly checks. The
second change affects anyone who
again becomes disabled within
five years of the time that a pre
vious period of disability ended.
Tri-Hi-Y Club News
The Tri-Hi-Y Club met Tues
day, Sept. 20 in the music room
for their first meeting of the
year. Ann Thomas read our de
votional first. Joyce Rowell, had
charge of our program.
The topic was “What does Tri-
Hi-Y mean?” and “Why do we
have it?’’
We discussed and decided to
et our dues for sl. They are to
be in by Sept. 30. Arlene Strick
land explained to us about get
ting a bill passed in Atlanta, and
some of the activities of the club
we could attend. We had a large
group of girls attending our first
meeting. There being no further
business the meeting was ad
journed.
The officers are as follows:
President, Linda Crews; vice
president, Joyce Rowell; secre
tary, Shirley Wainwright; treas
urer, Kay Crews; reporter, Dollie
Warren; chaplin, Ann Thomas.
World Service Chairman, Linda
Dubose; School Service Chairman,
Mary Lou Prescott; Community
Service, Arlene Strickland.
Wildlife Area Treatment in the
Satilla River Soil Conservation District
By Mallory Hatchett
Chief of Waycross District
of Georgia Game and Fish
Commission
As a result of man’s activities
during the last 200 years, consid
erable change has taken place in
wildlife habitat throughout the
state of Georgia.
Animals must have food and
cover and this must be in proper
association with one another to
permit maximum game popula
tion.
Naturally the more fertile lands
produce higher quality food and
the highest game populations.
This also applies to all other
crops of the land, whether it be
game, fish or tobacco.
Prior to colonization of Geor
gia, the game range was fairly
uniform and remained so except
when outside influence caused
temporary changes, such as burns
caused by lightning, or areas that
were crudely cultivated by In
dians. Due to the uniformity
within the habitat, game popula
tions were fairly stable.
When man entered the picture
and started clearing the land, he
naturally destroyed the habitat of
various game species, but by the
same token he created a more
favorable condition for many
species. Ever since man started
such activity, the “ecology” o:
No Conservation
Reserve Sign up
Set for This Fall
There will be no signup this
fall of additional land or con
tracts under the Soil Bank Con
servation Reserve, John F. Brad
ley, Administrative Officer of the
ASC State Office, U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, said in re
sponse to inquires from farmers
regarding the status of the pro
gram. Program contracts which
expire in 1960 or later are no
longer eligible to be extended for
an additional period of years.
Under the Soil Bank Act
enacted in May of 1956, the Se
cretary of Agriculture was au
thorized to enter into Conserva
tion Reserve contracts with pro
ducers during the five-year per
iod 1956-60.
The signup under the 1960 pro
gram was held last fall, so that
farmers would know in advance
of the cropping season whether
their land would be accepted into
the Conservation Reserve. Since
the authorization to enter into
new contracts has not been ex
tended beyond 1960, there will be
no signup period this fall.
Farmers should understand,
however, that the existing con
tracts for 1960 and previous years
will remain in effect and pay
ments will continue to be made
under them for the period of
the contracts and in accordance
with contract terms. The annual
Department of Agriculture ap
propriation bills provide money
with which to meet obligations
already on the books.
There are 15,153 Conservation
Reserve contracts in effect this
year in Georgia, involving a total
acreage of 1,061,400 acres, Brad
ley said. Contract periods range
from 3 to 10 years, and annual
rental payments for 1960 amount
to approximately $12,141,500.
Nationally, there are more than
300,000 Conservation Reserve con
tracts in effect in 1960, covering
a total acreage of approximately
28.6 million acres in 48 states.
The average rental payments for
1960 will amount to about $338
million.
Personals
Bernard Pearson left Sunday,
Sept. 18 for Cincinati, Ohio, where
he is studying at Cincinati Col
lege of Embalming.
Guests of Mrs. Alice Highsmith
over the weekend were Mr. and
Mrs. John B. Highsmith and
Michail, Mrs. Ella Brown and
daughter, Harriet, Mrs. Betty
Donnelly, Mr. and Mrs. Connie
Harrison, Mrs. Lewis Stokes and
children all of Brunswick.
Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Strickland
and Mr. and Mrs. Billy Strickland
visited their son and brother Lt.
Reginald E. Strickalnd at Shaw
Air Force Base at Sumter, S. C.,
during the past weekend. They
returned through Columbia, S. C.
and visited Mr. and Mrs. Kenyon
East, Mr. Strickland’s sister and
family.
as we know it, the animal society
has been changing continously. As
a result of these changes, it is
imperative, if we expect maxi
mum game populations, that a
program be set up directed to
ward stablizing the influences
that cause game populations to
fluctuate.
Since all life is a product of
the soil, the major problem is
treatment of the soil for the pro
duction of maximum game popu
lations. Fortunately, most of the
wildlife practices are comparable
with the land use practices,
whether it be 100 percent forest
products or 100 percent row
crops. Only the kind of game that
can be produced is controlled by
the type of land use program.
The Satilla Soil Conservation
District is quite varified in its
habitat. Consequently all game
species found in the State is
present. In the Satilla Soil Con
servation District, the State Game
& Fish Commission has an active
program directed toward the
ipanagement of all types of game
species to give hunters a reason
able opportunity to fill his bag
and to assure something to hunt.
The program is well balanced
between research and the man
agement. It has been shown that
certain species, especially deer,
•r will react readily to protection
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Bank Robbers Convicted and
Sentenced to Prison Terms
Strickland Is
Named Traveling
Science Teacher
Dr. Claude Purcell, state su
perintendent of schools, today an
nounced the appointment of Ar
thur D. Strickland of Waycross
as one of the Department of Edu
cation’s five traveling science
teachers for 1960-61.
The five teachers travel
throughout the state in science
mobiles similar to bookmobiles,
carrying the latest in science ma
terials and teaching methods to
the high schools of Georgia. This
is the third year in which they
have operated. The science teach
ers are trained at Oak Ridge.
This is a part of the stepping up
of the Georgia curriculm in math,
science, and modern foreign lan
guages.
Mr. Strickland who has
taught for three years at Black
shear and took last year out to
attend the University of Georgia,
received his Master’s degree in
science there in June. He has
taught for ten years altogether
in Georgia schools in Bacon,
Pierce, and Ware counties. He
has also taught in the Quitman
city school system. He is now at
Hoboken High. He is a native of
Brantley county, and grew up in
Nahunta. He is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. W. R. Strickland, who
live on a farm near Nahunta.
His wife is the former Miss
Carey Hill of Gaffney, S. C. They
have one daughter, Valerie, 9.
Mrs. Strickland is commercial
teacher at Hoboken High School.
Mr. Strickland will spend the
next thirteen weeks taking a
rigorous course at Oak. Ridge In
stitute in Tennessee. After that
he will work in the northwest
Georgia area.
The traveling science teachers
work in the Division of Instruc
tion. Mr. Strickland will be
working under the direction of
Victor Bulloch, who directs the
science program for Department:
The traveling science teachers
covered 79,906 miles during the
last school year, and spent about
a week at the schools on their
itinerary. They have generated
much enthusiasm for science
throughout the state, and more
students are enrolled in science
classes in Georgia high schools
than ever before.
Dr. Purcell, in announcing the
appointment of Mr. Strickland,
said, “We are glad to have him
join our staff. We think that it
is important to give depth and
dimension to our science program
in this contemporary age in which
science has taken on increasing
and strategic meaning for all of
us. Mr. Strickland comes to us
with very good experience and
recommendation, and we believe
that he has a fine contribution to
make to the school program.”
Consequently, a major portion of
the commission’s activities are di
rected toward the control of il
legal hunting of deer.
It has also been found that it
is necessary to undertake inten
sive management on selected
areas to restore and protect game
populations in key areas. One
such area is “The Okefenokee
State Forest, State Management
Area.”
Another program of the com
mission in the Satilla Soil Con
servation District is the farm
game program directed toward
the improvement of food and cov
er requirements. This consist of
establishment of bicolor lespedeza
and other suitable foods adjacent
to the woodland and other areas
where there is no food for wild
life. During the last year, the
commission furnished land own
ers in the Satilla Soil Conserva
tion District 90,000 bi-color plants,
1068 lbs of seed mixture and 150
lbs. of Millet seed.
It behooves every sportsman to
plan for the future so that he
will continue to have good hunt
ing and so that his children will
find game to hunt. This requires
planning, not just during the
hunting season but, throughout
the entire year. Most of the tech
niques are comparatively simple
and will fit within the land us<
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Subscribe for the Brantley
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$3.00 Outside the County.
(Plus Sale* Tax)
Brantley County Superior
Court was still in session Thurs
day morning, Sept. 22, with Judge
Cecil Roddenberry presiding and
Dewey Hayes as solicitor.
Three important cases had al
ready been tried. In the case con
cerning a land line Hugh Bates
and Leconte D. Walker, the
plaintiffs, were given the decision
over E. L. Sears, the defendant.
It has not been learned whether
this case will be appealed.
The two men, Robert Lee Ush
er and M. L. Jordan, who were
charged with armed robbery of
The Citizens Bank at Nahunta
were convicted. Usher was given
a sentence of not less than seven
years and not more than seven
years.
M. L. Jordan, Usher’s accom
plice, was given a sentence of
not less than four years and not
more than seven years.
The assault with attempt to
murder charge against Everett
Moody was still being tried
Thursday morning, a number of
witnesses remaining yet to testi
fy. Moody was accused of shoot
ing Ellis Strickland at a Hortense
service station several months a
go
The court is expected to con
tinue through Friday, if not long
er, as a number of cases remain
to be tried.
Hortense PTA News
The Hortense P. T. A. came to
order with Mrs. Myrtle Mills,
president, presiding. There were
37 present. Mrs. Lilly Mae Brauda
gave the devotional which was
from St. John 9:1-11.
During the business session Ro
bert Strickland gave his report
on the play ground equipment.
There will be new swings up
shortly. Mr. Strickland reported
on the new lights project which
is one of Hortense’s P. T. A. pro
jects this year. This project will
be in operation in two weeks.
Mrs. Edna Adams showed a
film “Getting Along With Par
ents.” It showed in details the
relationship between teen-agers
and their parents, in dating,
working and understanding each
other. It proved teen-agers and
parents can work and play to
gether and enjoy it.
Mrs. Lucille Parks first grade
won the picture for the most par
ents representing the class. The
picture will stay in their class
room for one month.
Following adjournment re
freshments were served by Selma
Rowell and Iris Smith.
Hortense P. T. A. will hold
their next meeting Oct. 12 at the
school lunchroom at 3:30. With
our united efforts to enroll
every parent, and teacher and
other interested citizens in the
parent-teacher organization, we
are “Strengthening the Home,
Source of Our Nation’s Great
ness.”
You are welcome to attend
P. T. A. whether or not you have
children.
Dorothy Brauda, reporter.
program of every land owner.
You should not, however, except
the land owner to undertake the
entire program of wildlife man
agement, nor can you expect the
State Game & Fish Commission
to undertake the entire job. You,
as a sportsman, should plan for
the future and assist the land
owners in developing areas for
the future hunters.
MALLORY HATCHETT
Os Game and Fish Commission
