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Brantie? Enterprise. Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 22, 1960
Want Ads
NEW BOAT FOR SALE
New boat for sale. Call HO 2-
3197 between 7:30 A. M. and 6:30
P. M. 9-22
FISH. SHRIMP, OYSTERS
We now have fresh fish,
shrimp and oysters for you at the
COUNTRY' STORE AT HICKOX,
GA. 9-29
ATTENTION PARENTS
Select yur child’s piano NOW
during our big September sale.
New pianos, used pianos, rebuilt
and practice pianos. Famous
makes included. Largest stock-
Lowest prices-Easiest terms.
Come in or call TAYLOR PIANO
STORE, 910 S. Peterson Ave.,
Phone EV 4-2477, Douglas, Ga.
9-29.
FOR SALE •
Six-room house for sale on
two-acre lot in Nahunta; also,
one acre land on lot No. 364 five
miles from Nahunta. Contact
J. O. Hallman, Blackshear, Ga.
phone HI 9-4286. 9-22
CHICKEN SUPPER
Nahunta High School
Benefit Nahunta Methodist Church
Friday Night, Sept. 23, 6:00 to 8:00
Adults SI.OO, Children 50c
A. S. MIZELL
INSURANCE AGENCY
FIRE, THEFT, COLLISION AND LIABILITY
INSURANCE. FIRE INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME
OR BUSINESS. HAIL INSURANCE FOR YOUR
CROPS.
Phone 2-2171 Nahunta, Ga.
Waycross Livestock Market
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA’S LEADING
LIVESTOCK MARKET
HONEST WEIGHTS AND COURTEOUS
SERVICE.
At our sale on Monday, September
19, 865 head of hogs and 212 head of
cattle were offered for a total volume
of $34,599.21.
Regular No. 1 hogs sold at $16.68,
with Li’s at $16.74, No. 2’s at $16.40,
No. 3’s at $15.65, No. 4’s at $17.00
and No. s’s at $17.10. Special No. I’s
sold at $16.81 and feeder pigs up
to $24.75.
C
alves sold up to $22.50, steers and
heifers up to $21.80, cows up to $20.-
00 and bulls up to $lB.lO.
We will have a number of good cat
tle on our next sale, September 26.
We invite you to be with us on this
date.
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 expressing my deep gratitude to the people of the Eighth Dis
trict for the overwhelming confidence shown in me by their re-electing
me to Congress for a fourth term, I also have to express my great
humility. It is a humbling experience when you know that hundreds
of people believe so much in your integrity and honesty that they Will
work day and night in your behalf. Many individual instances of
such self-sacrifice I know of. Many I do not and may not ever
know of.
But from the bottom of my heart I thank each of you and the
thousands of people who went to the polls to vote for a Representa
tive — Your Representative —for 1 belong to all the people of the
Eighth District and each individual citizen has an equal demand upon
my services.
I ask your continued prayers that 1 may remain strong physically,
mentally and morally — always true to the principles of freedom
upon which our Nation was founded — principles which you the people
of the Eighth Congressional District of Georgia have proved that you
believe in so passionately.
WANTED — YOUNG, AMBITI
OUS MAN 25 TO 40 TO OPER
ATE WATKINS ROUTE IN THIS
AREA. EARN SIOO.OO TO $150.-
00 PER WEEK. MAY BE YOU
CAN QUALIFY. WRITE WAT
KINS 659 WEST PEACHTREE
ST. N. E., ATLANTA 8, GA. 9-22
Mrs. Ray F. Browne who has
been visiting her mother, Mrs.
Alice Highsmith for past two
weeks has returned to her home
in Belle Glade, Fla.
The Nahunta Grammar School
Parent-Teachers meeting will be
held at thes chool Mnday night,
Sept. 26, at 7:30 o’clock. The par
ents present will inspect the vari
ous classrooms and view the
teachers’ program for the pupils.
All parents who have chidren in
the grammar school are urged to
attend.
Mrs. Mable Moody, Mrs. Polly
anne Middleton, Mrs. Jennie Lar
kins, Mrs. Ruth Davis and Mrs.
Macie Colvin attended a luncheon
meeting of Delta Kappa Gamma
Society in Waycross Saturday,
Sept. 17.
I THANK YOU
Personals
Your sincere friend,
IRIS BUTCH
JIM L. GILLIS SR.
Highway Board Chairman
HIGHWAY
BEAUTIFICATION
By Jim L. Gillis, Sr.
The State Highway Depart
ment is very much interested in
beautifying our highways to
make them more attractive to
the traveling public. The regret
table part of building new high
ways is that, in so doing, many
of our natural beauties are des
troyed and replaced by unsightly
scenery. It is often true that
beauty and quality are the ne
cessary sacrifices in many forms
of progress.
It would be ideai if the High
way Department could replace
some of this natural beauty a
longside the highways once they
are built. However, the financial
burden of such a program makes
it prohibitive. If the highways
in Georgia were in good condi
tion, then serious consideration
could be given to a state-wide
beautification program.
The most pressing need in the
Highway Department today is
for additional maintenance funds
to widen and resurface most of
our primary and secondary high
ways. It has been estimated that
some $75 million dollars are need
ed to bring these highways up to
minimum standard. This is a re
sult of insufficient maintenance
funds to provide a program of
continuing and preventive main
tenance during the past several
years.
In many areas throughout
Georgia, Garden Clubs and Civic
Clubs have developed highway
beautification projects on a local
level. They have done an out
standing job in this respect in
many counties in Georgia.
Whenever one of these local
organizations decides to beautify
a section of highway, the State
Highway Department will coop
erate in every way. Although we
don’t have funds available for
this type of development, we do
have personnel who are well
versed on the subject and are
willing to meet with organiza
tions to advise them of the type
of growth that shoud be planted
and the best time to do so.
Also, our maintenance person
nel in each county are available
to assist in the initial planning
and in .maintaining the plants. It
should be pointed out, however,
that most maintenance personnel
know very little about shrubs
and flowers and should be direct
ed by the organization sponsoring
the project.
The easiest and most effective
type of beautification is to plant
trees and shrubs along the right
of-way line and limit the plant
ing inside the right-of-way to
some type of grass. This provides
a neat and attractive view and
is less expensive and easier to
maintain.
Trees such as dogwood and
pine and shrubs such as crepe
myrtle, abelia, forsythia and si
milar deciduous plants which do
not require a great deal of wa
ter are recommended for this type
of planting.
If flowering plants are used
they should be confined to small
areas and should be well attend
ed by the sponsoring organiza
tion.
FOOD IS LIFE
By Frank P. King, Director
Georgia Coastal Plain
Experiment Station
Tifton, Georgia
Soil is rock. Scientists tell us
that it takes about 300 years of
weathering to convert rock into
soil. When we think of soil pro
duction in that kind of term, it
should make us appreciate more
fully the some six inches of top
soil upon which our lives are ful
ly dependent. While we cannot
conceive of soil being destroyed
in our lifetime, we must be con
cerned about our children and
our children’s children.
The world production of food
on a dry-weight basis amounts to
about 1,830 million pounds. Os
this, plants represent 94 percent
and animals 6 percent. Grains re
present 80 percent of the total.
Actually, of course, all man’s food
comes either directly or indirectly
from plants. From one part of the
world to another the percentage
of food contributed directly by
plants varies quite widely. The
actual annual per-capita con
sumption of dry food averages
558 pounds, varying from a low
of 543 in Asia to a high of 587 in
Europe. Judging from Asia, we
are always pretty near the star
vation level. However, there is
more difference in the quality of
food consumed in Asia and
Europe than there is in the quan
tity.
In all, there are some over two
billion, two hundred million peo
ple in the world. If all the world
population were on Asia’s starva
tion diet, we could support 2 bil
lion 800 million people. If all the
people in the world went on the
European standard diet, we would
have to reduce the population to
about 2 billion people. But if
everybody in the world insisted
in the North American diet, we
would have to reduce the world
population to 902 million people.
These figures are given to indi
cate how fortunate we are to
have good soil and farmers who
have the ability and initiative to
utilize the soil to a good advant
age in producing an abundance of
food.
Mankind has found it easier to
increase his numbers than to in
crease his food. Several genera
tions ago, a man by the name of
Mathus propounded a population
theory which, in effect, said that
mankind tends to multiply in a
geometric ratio but his food sup
ply tends to increase in an arith
metic ratio.
While science has found ways
to more rapidly increase food sup
ply and reduce the rate of birth
(the latter being more than offset
by lower death rates), neither of
these scientific developments is
in universal use. While we, as a
nation, live better than ever be
fore, we as a world are no worse
off foodwise only because mil
lions are starved out each year,
thus keeping our population in
balance with our minimum food
requirements.
Just as our soil and its fertility
must be given more serious con
sideration by farm people and by
our urban population, so must our
economists see the significance in
budgetary matters not yet set up.
In establishing costs or urban
production, the final figures in
clude allowances for perpetuation,
improvement, and even expan
sion of them. Prices of urban
commodities include costs of per
petuating all the different busi
nesses ever in contact with them.
Quite the opposite is the case
with the price of food commo
dities created in the rural area.
Prices here are not costs; instead
they are only what the public will
offer.
In setting the prices of a bushel
of corn, for example, our econo
mic valuation and taxation pro
cedures take no account of the
fact that for every bushel of
grain there must be mobilized
out of the soil as nitrogen, phos
phorus, and potassium fertilizer
costs equivalent of about 35 per
cent. There is very little chance
for any of that fertility ever to
be put back into the soil or for
NEW PRESIDENT — SAVAN
NAH — Dr. Arthur M. Knight
Jr., Waycross physician and in
ternist, was elected president of
the Georgia Heart Assn, here
Saturday at the organization's
12th annual meeting. Dr. Knight
is chief of medicine at Waycross
Memorial Hospital, has served
as chief of the Waycross Heart
Cunic and is a consulting in
ternist for several hospitals in
Cie V. are County area.
its cost to be recovered in a cash
transaction.
My hope is that the good work
of the conservationist in edu
cating the people, farm and non
farm alike, will continue. There
in, I feel, lies our chance of real
success in conserving our re
sources; therein lies our chance as
a nation to continue to be able to
feed our people well.
Our soils are the major means
by which we create our food.
Without ample food supply, man
ceases to be a socialable human
and is no longer amendable to
the laws of a stable society and
government. When we view our
soils in that light, will come from
all of us our best effort in con
serving and maintaining our soils
and in giving us the best means
of maintaining ourselves in our
democracy.
Many Subscriptions
Are Now Expiring,
Renewals Appreciated
Many subscriptions to the
Brantley Enterprise have run out
in July and August and we are
anxious for everyone to renew
at once.
Our system requires that sub
scriptions be paid in advance.
We send you a card notifying you
that your subscription has ex
pired. Then we usually wait TWO
WEEKS after it expires, then we
remove the name from our list.
We regret that we cannot make
exceptions to this rule, as other
wise we would be literally BOG
GED DOWN in a bookkeeping
wilderness.
We really hate to remove the
name of any subscriber from our
list. We can truly say, “It hurts
us more than it does you.” But
we MUST have a workable sys
tem, otherwise we are “sunk” a
bookkeeping.
A subscriber who renews on
time is “a joy forever” to the
editor of a weekly newspaper.
Please give us your much-need
ed help in this matter.
Look at the label on your pa
per. If it is “8-60,” your sub
scription expired Aug. 31; and if
it is “9-60,” your subscription
will expire Sept. 30.
The Editor.
Selling timber wisely is as im
portant an any phase of forest
management in order to get the
largest returns from timber lands,
says B. R. Murray, Extension
forester.
At the end of 1959, the United
States had an electrical generat
ing capacity of 183 million kilo
watts. Russia’s generating capa
city at the end of 1959 was 59
million kilowatts. The United
States’ lead is expected to in
crease another 10 million kilo
watts by 1965.
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Phone HO 2-2721 Nahunta, Ga
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The man
who
travels light
A PAD, A PENCIL, binoculars and a snakebite
kit. These items go with the long-striding men
who patrol our power lines.
These patrolmen have rivers to cross and
treacherous swamplands and rugged mountain
ranges. They follow wherever men have cleared
the way enough to raise transmission towers
and stretch wires.
Their eyes are trained to see broken insu
lators, burned conductors, slackened guywires,
timber near the lines, anything that could
interrupt the flow of electricity.
Most of the patrol work is done with air
planes, but there are some times and always
places that call for the man on foot.
Somehow, to us, the solitary figure of a line
patrolman is a symbol of vigilence. He is a
reminder of our duty to fulfill your trust by
serving you well.
The man who travels light helps us to carry
this heavy responsibility.
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