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VOLUME 40 — NUMBER 45
Nahunta Basketball Teams Win
From St. Ceorge, Lose to Manor
Junior Woman's Club
Meeting Held Monday
The Nahunta Junior Women’s
Club held its annual reception
for the teachers of Brantley
County on Monday evening at
8:00 o’clock in the Nahunta High
School Library.
The entrance to the library was
decorated with fall leaves and
berries in wicker containers. Add
ing to the decor were arrange
ments of yellow and bronze
mums on the tables and shelves.
White organdie over pink taffeta
and silver candelabra with pink
carnations interspersed with gyp
sophilia graced the beautifully
appointed refreshment table.
Classical melodies permeated the
candlelit scene throughout the
evening.
Coffee, tea, and a colorful as
sortment of fancy cookies, sand
wiches, nuts, olives and pickles
were served by members of the
Nahunta Junior Women’s Club.
Mrs. Norman Lewis and Mrs. Ro
bert Smith presided and poured
at the coffee and tea tables.
The guests were greeted and
directed to the refreshment tables
by Mrs. Claude Smith and Mrs.
Tommy Tucker. They were seat
ed at attractively arranged tables
and the Junior Women’s Club
members moved among the guests
greeting and commending them
for the important contributions
they make to the communities in
which they serve.
The committees working to
make the occasion a brilliant suc
cess were as follows:
Food — Mrs. Emory Middleton,
Mrs. Norman Lewis and Mrs.
John V. Smith.
Preparations and decorations —
Mrs. Claude Smith, Mrs. Harry
Raulerson, Mrs. Robert Smith,
Mrs. Keith Strickland, Mrs. Dick
Schmitt and Mrs. Clint Roberson.
China and Silver — Mrs. Joe
Walker, Mrs. Tommy Tucker, Mrs.
Cecil Moody, Mrs. Wilder Brook
er and Mrs. Dick Purcell.
Clean-Up — Mrs. Dick Purcell,
Mrs. J. D. Orser, Mrs. Clarence
Allen, and Mrs. Dick Schmitt.
Recreation Training
Course Held in
Brantley County
Mr. M. L. Van Winkle, known
affectionatly as “Mr. Rip” to
those in 4-H Club work, and who
is Recreation Specialist with the
Extension Service held a 2 day
Recreation Training Course in
Brantley County.
The object of this program is
to train people in the county so
that Brantley County can provide
a good wholesome recreation
program for itself and have e
nough leaders trained in simple
terms so that they may help other
people learn. There is a need in
Brantley County for young par
ents to participate in a program
such as' this. There was a good
crowd attending.
W .. .. Sheriff J H. Pittman. Agent Wildes
OFFICERS INSPECT EQUIPMENT — A , stin inspecting the equipment
and Deputy Cato are shown made the unde.gro
used after the roof had been remoxe
s^2^^ C° un ty Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
The Nahunta High School bas
ketball teams won a double
header on the home court Friday
night against St. George.
The girls rolled to a 21-11 half
time lead, extended the lead to
38-12 at the end of three quar
ters and breezed through the
fourth quarter with the reserves.
The final score was 40-18. Frances
Saddler and Sherry Hendrix were
high scorers for the night with
21 and 11 points respectively.
The Wildcats opened the final
game with a 15-10 first quarter
lead, and after a 23 point scoring
spree the second quarter, led at
half-time 38-14. The starting team
retired for the night and the re
serves increased the lead during
the last half. Every player saw at
least one quarter of action and
14 of the 15 Wildcats scored.
Final score was 71-40. Ronald
Drury was high scorer for Na
hunta with 13 points, David King
scored 12 points.
The Nahunta team traveled to
Manor Tuesday night and were
defeated by the Manor varsity
squads.
The Nahunta girls were unable
to cope with their larger oppo
nents and were defeated 35-22.
The Manor girls led throughout
the contest and the Nahunta
girls just couldn’t catch up.
Frances Saddler was high scorer
with 10 points.
The Nahunta Wildcats lost a
close game to the Manor boys.
The Wildcats had a very bad
night in the shooting, rebound
ing and defensive departments.
After only scoring 12 points the
first half, the boys found the
range during the fourth quarter
and pulled to within four points
of the Manor boys with over a
minute left to play. The strategy
of intentionally fouling to gain
possession of the ball was em
ployed as Manor decided to run
out the clock. Manor increased
their lead via the free throw
during the final seconds of play.
Junior Lewis was high scorer for
Nahunta with 11 points. Next
home game is Friday night with
Nichols.
Highway 301 Meeting
At Statesboro Monday
U. S. 301 Highway Assoc., Inc.
annual general membership meet
ing, Statesboro, Ga., Nov. 14-16,
at Mrs. Bryant’s Kitchen.
Mon., Nov. 14: 7:00 P. M. Din
ner: Opening session, Col. Jas. F.
Risher, Carlisle Military School,
excellent speaker.
Tues., Nov. 15: All Day impor
tant business meeting: Activities
report for 1960; panel discussions;
business discussions; good speak
ers. Dinner 7:00 P. M.: D. C.
Brooks, U. S. Bureau Public
Roads, Atlanta.
Wed., Nov. 16: Safety talk —
Lt. McKinnon, Atlanta; business;
adjourn by noon.
A VERY IMPORTANT MEET
ING • • COME, HEAR WHAT’S
GOING ON IN THE ORGANI
ZATION . . ■ TAKE PART IN
DISCUSSIONS. Write Chamber
of Commerce, Statesboro, for re
servations.
R. Graham Dozier,
Exec. V-Pres.
Brantley Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga„ Thursday, Nov. 10, 1960
Leon H. Rowell
Funeral Services
Were Held Sunday
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon, November 6,
at three o’clock from the Hickox
Baptist Church for Mr. Leon
Harold Rowell, 39, who passed
away early Saturday morning,
November 5, at his home in the
Hickox community after a long
illness, with the Rev. Marvin
Smith and the Rev. E. P. Corbett
conducting the rites in the pres
ence of a large number of sorrow
ing relatives and friends.
The body lay in state at the
church for one hour prior to ser
vices.
Interment followed in Hickox
Cemetery.
Mr. Rowell was born in Brant
ley county and attended the local
schools. Until ill health prevent
ed, he was engaged in farming.
Survivors include his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rowell of
Nahunta; one sister, Mrs. Norris
Strickland of Nahunta; two
brothers, Virgil Rowell and Den
nis Rowell, both of Nahunta; four
Half-sisters, Mrs. Perry Stewart
and Mrs. W. B. Harris, both of
Nahunta, Mrs. Frank Harper of
Waycross, and Mrs. Hurdie Stone
of Tampa, Fla.; two Half-broth
ers, W. L. White of Nahunta, and
Norman Rowell of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Several nieces, nephews, and
other relatives also survive.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. Jim R. Herrin, Jasper
Johnson, Lavelle Bohannon,
Woodrow Hendrix, B. R. Hayes,
and Tom Penn Herrin.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Mr. and Mrs. Ira
Johns Remain in
Business in Brantley
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns are
NOT moving to St. Marys as was
erroneously reported in last
week’s Enterprise.
Mr. and Mrs. Johns remain in
business in Brantley County. Mrs.
Johns continues with her Wanda
Beauty Salon in Nahunta and Mr.
Johns continues with his Raw
leigh business over the county.
The Enterprise regrets the er
ror in last week’s paper.
Card of Thanks
We greatly appreciate the won
derful protection that the Na
hunta fire department renders
this area, and especially their ef
ficient service at the time our
home burned. They saved the
Rawleigh Products house and all
our outbuildings and equipment,
even though the house and furn
ishings were too far gone when
they arrived .
And please accept this as our
thanks to all our friends and
neighbors who have made it pos
sible for us to set up housekeep
ing and have given us much in
clothing and linen.
Sincerely yours,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns.
2 Men Held
In Wayne As
Rob Suspects
Wilmer Brown and Danny Den
ning have been taken into custo
dy by sheriff Reddish of Wayne
county in connection with a hit
and run accident in Pierce Coun
ty Monday night.
“Investigation shows this hit
and run is tied in with recent
armed robberies in Wayne Coun
ty, and we expect to issue war
rants for these very soon,” Clar
ence Reddish, sheriff, reports.
Sheriff Reddish and two of his
deputies, Burley Davis and L. B.
Warren have worked together
with GBI Sgt. James Dunn on the
hit and run and also the Mike
Wiggins armed robbery in Wayne
County.
Monday night, a couple sta
tioned with the army in Ken
tucky was forced off the road
between Patterson and Black
shear in Pierce County. Two men
then tried to rob them at gun
point, but because of locked doors
did not succeed.
Sheriff Reddish answered the
call, and chased the car at speeds
exceeding 110 miles an hour. Al
though they outran him, he found
the abondoned car about ten
o’clock that night with traces of
red paint on the fender.
Mr. Brown, the intended vic
tim, identified the men as Dan
ny Denning and Wilmer Brown,
according to Sheriff Reddish.
Denning is about 22 or 23 and
Brown is 52. He has served 15
years for armed robbery and
burglary, and was released from
the Wayne County Prison Branch
in 1956 on parole.
A young white man knocked
on Mike Wiggins’ door Friday
night at 8 P. M., and asked Mr.
Wiggins to take him to buy gas
for his car which he said was on
highway 99, police report.
Mr. Wiggins and two of his
children took the man in the
Wiggins car. After going a short
distance, he pointed a gun at
Wiggins’ head and told him to
stop. An older man appeared and
they tied him and also his ten
year old son. They left the young
er child untied, according to Bur
ley Davis.
The younger man returned to
the house and told Mrs. Wiggins,
“If you want to see your husband
again, give me all the money
you have.” She gave him $93
and a small check, it was learn
ed from the sheriff’s office.
Mr. Wiggins identified the
young man as Danny Denning
and the older one as Wilmer
Brown, Deputy Davis told the
Press.
Post Offices Will
Observe 2 Holidays
The Nahunta Post Office will
observe two National Holidays
during the month of November.
The first will be Friday Novem
ber 11, Veterans Day; the second
will be Thanksgiving Day, Nov
ember 24th, which comes on a
Thursday as usual.
The general delivery window
will be open from 8:00 A. M. to
8:30 A. M. and from 4:00 P- M. to
4:30 P. M. on these holidays for
stamp sales and delivery of mail
only. No money order business
will be transacted, nor will the
Rural Routes be operated.
Mail your Christmas packages
for overseas delivery before Nov
ember 20th regular mail and by
December 10th Air Mail. Consult
your local Post Office for special
regarding mailing of Christmas
overseas.
A special message will be put
out within two or three weeks
regarding mailing of Christmas
cards.
E. Parker Dodge,
Postmaster
Liveoak 4-H News
The 7th and Bth grades 4-H
Club met Nov. 8 in the High
School Cafeteria.
Wendell Herrin gave a report
on Our County 4-H Club Booth
in the Okefenokee Agricultural
Fair in Waycross, Ga., on which
we won a Blue Ribbon.
Our County Agent, Mr. Loyd
and Home Dem. Agent, Mrs. Raul
erson met with us and showed
us a film on Forestry.
Dale Hulett read the minutes
and the meeting adjourned.
Tommy Graham, Reporter.
A reckless driver drives as
though he owned the road while
a careful driver acts like he own
ed his car.
New Assessments
Made for City
Taxes in Nahunta
The Board of Tax Assessors
for the City of Nahunta have
gone over the tax returns of the
citizens of Nahunta and have
made new assessments for the
year 1960, it is announced by the
city council.
The new assessments will be
the basis of the taxes for the cur
rent year. Notices will be sent
to each taypayer in the city, noti
fying of the amount of taxes
due for 1960.
The new notices to be sent out
this week will void the notices
previously sent to taxpayers.
Some of the taxpayers who have
already paid their 1960 taxes will
receive rebates, as some of the
valuations have been reduced by
the Board of Assessors, reduced
that is, below the valuations pre
viously used and upon which the
first notices were based.
The Board of City Tax Asses
sors will meet Thursday and Fri
day night, Nov. 17 and 18 from
7:00 to 9:00 P. M. to hear any
complaints ti.it citizens may wish
to make concerning valuations of
their property for 1960 taxes.
A legal notice is being run in
this newspaper announcing the
dates and time for the meeting of
the Board of Assessors.
The city Board of Assessors
are Alvin Drury, Royce H. Proc
tor and John V. Smith.
National Corn Crop
Is Below Last Year
The national corn crop for 1960
is down about 2 percent from
last year, according to the Octo
ber crop report received at the
Agricultural Stablization and
Conservation State Office.
With the bulk of the crop be
yond any serious frost threat, the
October corn crop estimate is
4,258 million bushels, compared
with 4,361 million bushels in 1959
and a 10-year average of 3,270
million bushels. Total feed grain
tonnage produced in 1960 is ex
pected to be slightly below last
year’s record.
Stocks of old corn on farms
October 1 were estimated at 464
million bushels, 40 percent more
than the 331 million bushels on
farms a year earlier and 25 per
cent above the average of 372 mil
lion bushels. The North Central
States held 92 percent of the U- S.
total.
Disappearance of corn from
farms during the July-September
quarter was the largest of re
cord, the U. S. Department of
Agriculture report shows. It a
mounted to 879 million bushels,
compared with the previous re
cord disappearance of 786 million
bushels in the same quarter in
1959 and the average of 601
million.
The production index for all
crops, based on October 1 es
timates, reached a new all-time
record. New high yields per acre
are expected for sorghum grain,
peanuts, tobacco, and dry beans,
with corn and soybeans within 1
bushel of previous records.
Personals
The Nahunta High School P.
T. A. will sponsor a Harvest
Festival at the school building
on Saturday, November 19, from
7:30 to 10:00 P. M. At ten o’clock
a dance will begin in the school
lunchroom. Final plans will be
determined at the regular meet
ing of the Nahunta High School
P. T. A. on Monday evening, Nov
ember 14.
Mr. J. E. Morgan will observe
his birthday on Sunday, Nov. 13
with his relatives having a din
ner for him at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. C. T. Stephens. A
basket lunch will be served at
the noon hour.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to our many friends who
were so thoughtful of us during
the long illness and at the death
of our loved one, Leon Rowell.
We appreciate the kind words
of sympathy, the beautiful floral
offerings and wish to say how
grateful we were for the thought
fulness of those who brought the
covered dishes. They were so
helpful.
Sincerely,
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Rowell
and members of his family.
Newspaper advertising
pays.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Brantley County Voters Give
Majorities to All Democrats
The Democratic electors won
Brantley County for John Ken
nedy by a vote of 1,333 to 344 for
the Republican electors in the
General election Tuesday, Nov.
8.
The Democratic electors were
supposed to be unpledged but it
is understood that they will cast
their votes for the national win
ner who was Kennedy, the
Democratic candidate for the
presidency.
Every precinct in Brantley
County gave the entire slate of
Democratic nominees, both state
and county, a majority.
The only opposition to develop
against a county nominee was
about 200 write-in votes for
Jerome Lee for county school su
perintendent. Mrs. Mable Moody,
the nominee, received 1,555 votes.
Brantley County cast a total of
approximately 2,000 votes, which
is the largest vote ever cast in a
general election in this county.
Many of the ballots were wrong
ly marked or not marked at all
and had to go uncounted.
Eight Justices of the Peace
were elected and seven constables
in several districts. They were as
follows:
Hoboken, Justice of the Peace,
J. T. Ellis; constable, R. C. Crews.
Nahunta, Justice of the Peace,
T. H. Purdom; constable, Harry
Smith.
Hickox, Justice of the Peace,
J. R. Proctor; constable, Wesley
Blocker.
Lulaton, Justice of the Peace,
Dan Wainright; constable, C. F.
Rowell.
Waynesville, Justice of the
Peace, E. A. Hunter; constable,
F. C. Hall.
Atkinson, Justice of the Peace,
Julian Middleton; constable, C. F.
Drury.
Schlatterville, Justice of the
Peace, Owen Griffin; no con
stable candidate.
Hortense, Justice of the Peace,
R. T. Rowell; constable, Mack
Carver.
Brantley County voters approv-
Charley Miller, affiable purveyor of the neces
sities of life hereabouts, stepped from his car on
a squirrel hunting trip the other day and was rudely
informed that neither he nor his friend were dressed
properly for the occasion.
Ole Charley has been hunting around Georgia
for many years and until that moment had never
given a single thought about his garb. After all
this was no social gathering. It was a squirrel hunt
ing trip. z ’
“Whadda you mean?” Charlie begged my par
don, “when you say I am not dressed right. Let’s
get something straight, amigo. You dress like you
want to dress and I’ll wear what I want to wear.
If you don’t like that, you can go to the devil.”
Charley had on a yellow vest, one that just last
year was judged the safest color afield. Deer hunters
particularly were told a year ago that they must
wear yellow if they desired to achieve retirement
age.
A new team of researchers, however, has proven
that yellow is not only difficult to see in the woods,
but may be one of the most dangerous colors to wear.
Tests conducted by the United States Army, the
American Optical Company, the Massachusetts
Game and Fish Department and the Massachusetts
division of Law Enforcement at Fort Devens, Mass,
show that hunter’s orange, a new color, is safest.
The safest color is one of the new flourescents—
blaze orange—and it was tested under actual hunt
ing conditions and in all types of terrain.
Os the six colors tested, blaze orange emerged
the safest, according to the testers.
Results of the exhaustive tests showed that the
new color was the champion by a walkaway. Neon
Red was second, followed by Fire Orange and Arc
Yellow. At the bottom of the list were plain old red
—the same color we were told was safe for a cen
tury or more—and plain old yellow, the color that
a California test said was safest since 1956.
When these facts were bared to bad-tempered
Charley, he became sore again.
“Oh, great,” he muttered. “First I buy a new red
jacket, then a yellow one. Then, back to red again
and now I’m outta style again. My closet is full of
hunting togs now. I don’t have room for another
one.”
Alas, poor Charley. He is probably one of the
few thousands of Georgia hunters who will endanger
themselves as they try to stalk a deer this season.
But Charley, like those thousands of Georgians,
knows better than to make himself a target for
some untrained or unsure hunter.
The truth is, however, that knowing better sel
dom helps after guys like Charley are buried be
neath a tombstone with an epitaph that reads:
"Here lies Charley Miller, a hard-headed old duck,
who was shot by mistake for an eight point buck.”
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ed 14 of the proposed amendments
to the state constitution and re
jected five of 19 amendments.
They voted against amend
ments 3,4, 6, 12 and 19.
At noon Wednesday, Vice
president Nixon had conceded to
Senator Kennedy in the race for
the U. S. presidency. At the time,
Kennedy had a popular vote of
31,236,305 to 30,814,915 to Nixon
and an electoral vote majority of
299 to 185 for Nixon.
George W. Hickox
Funeral Services
Were Held Tuesday
George W. Hickox, 70, of Ho
boken died Monday night, Nov. 7,
after a stroke suffered Monday
morning.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs.
Laura Belle Hickox and seven
children; four sons Leon and Bill
Hickox of Hoboken, Clifford and
Randall Hickox of Jacksonville,
Fla.; three daughters, Mrs. Vera
Harrington of Jacksonville, Mrs.
Della Crews of Waycross and
Mrs. G. W. Whitley of Brunswick;
three brothers, Jack, Math and
Henry Hickox; also 23 grand
children and 4 great-grandchild
ren.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday at four in the afternoon
at Pierce Chapel Methodist
Church, with Rev. R. C. Kale
conducting the rites. Pallbearers
were Cecil Lynn, Arthur Altman,
Harvey Altman, Donald Shuman,
Alvin Shuman and Rufus Shu
man.
Burial was in the church ce
metery.
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