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SUCCUMBS — Louisa Carter,
Pierce county’s oldest citizen,
died Wednesday afternoon at
the age of 108, at the home of
her daughter, Liller Frazier,
near Blackshear.
108-Year-Old
Negro, Oldest
Citizen, Passes
Lousia Carter, Pierce county’s
oldest citizen, died Wednesday
afternoon, at 2:30 P. M., at the
age of 108, at the home of her
daughter, Liller Frazier, near
Blackshear.
Lousia Carter, Pierce county
Negro who lived on Route 1,
Blackshear, was 108 years old
on December 24, 1960.
Born in slavery in 1852,
Louisa has been feeble and in
poor health, and for the past two
years she has been confined to
her bed, but until the later years
she could recall many interesting
facts of the early days of this
area.
She was born in Appling
county and her family belonged
to a Sellers family in that county.
Therefore, Lousia orginally took
the name of Sellers. She became
the wife of Thomas Carter, who
had taken the name of Carter
after his owners.
To Thomas and Lousia Car
ter were born eight children of
whom the only one still living
is Liller Frazier, a daughter.
Lousia made her home with her
daughter, age 72, near Black
shear.
Lousia came to Pierce county
in 1931.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at 2:30 P. M. in Baxley
at the New Jersey Church, of
which she was one of the found
ers. It was known that at the age
of 14, Lousia helped cut bushes
to hold church under.
Burial was in the Old Field
Cemetery.
Survivors include one daugh
ter, Liller Frazier, Blackshear;
and one adopted son, Monroe
Carter, Wilmington, Del, several
grandchildren and great grand
children.
New Telephone
Directory to
Be Produced
A new telephone directory for
the Brantley Telephone Company,
Inc., will be produced in the
next few weeks.
The new telephone directory
will be produced by The Brantley
Enterprise. Anyone desiring to
advertise in the new directory is
requested to contact the Enter
prise concerning space for busi
ness messages to the phone-us
ing public.
The advertisements will run
for at least a year at a flat annual
price. In other words, your ad
vertisement will stand in the
telephone directory for one year
at one price for the entire year.
The list of phone subscribers
has greatly increased during the
past year and will still further
increase during the coming
months as the telephone expan
sion program is carried out.
Present plans call for more
than 200 new phones to be in
stalled during the next six to
twelve months. This means that
advertisers will gain extra cov
erage but prices for advertise
ments have not been increased
over 1959.
The Yellow Popular or Tulip
Tree often attains a height of 100
feet, according to Thomas Will
iams, Jr., Extension landscape
architect.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Hortense PTA
Met Wednesday
Hortense P. T. A. held their
regular meeting Wednesday, Feb
ruary 8. Mrs. Muriel Mills presi
dent presided.
The meeting was called to or
der and Lottie Strickland opened
it with the devotional reading
from the Bible and ending it
with the Lord’s Prayer.
The secretary’s report was read
by Lottie Strickland. Mr. Strick
land read the treasurer’s report
and it was approved. During the
business session it was voted to
have a bike rack put up so the
bikes will not be in the way of
the autos. It was also voted to
have a white picket fence put up
in front of the school to keep the
children out of the hedge and
flowers.
The following were appointed
for the nominating committee
for new officers for the school
year of 61-62. Emma Moody, Ida
Strickland and Mary Herrin.
Hortense P. T. A. had the hon
or of having the Brantley School
Supt. Mrs. Mable Moody to at
tend the meeting.
The meeting was adjourned
with Emma Moody, Muriel Mills,
Ida Strickland and Mary Herrin
serving refreshments.
Hortense P. T. A. March meet
ing will be a night meeting. The
guest will be the Nahunta High
School Band. The meeting will
begin at 7:30 Tuesday March 7.
Everyone is cordially invited.
Dorothy Brauda, reporter.
7th-Bth Grades 4-H
Clubs Met Thursday
The Nahunta 7th and Bth grade
4-H Club met Thursday, Febru
ary 14th in the lunchroom.
Johnny Walker called the
meeting to order. Judy High
smith gave the devotional and
read the minutes of the last meet
ing. During the devotional period
we had silent prayer for Mrs.
Herschel Herrin, Lynn, Wendell
and Beth.
Mts. Raulerson asked some of
the girls if they would help the
10 and 11 year old girls learn to
sew. A church program was
planned. Plans were made to fix
a flower bed in front of the post
office.
Mrs. Raulerson then passed out
our record books and the meet
ing adjourned.
Tommy Graham,
Reporter.
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Georgia Department of Commerce
The Light of Ihe
On a peaceful December morning in 1939 a
reverent crowd assembled around a flag-draped
platform at the corner of Whitehall and Alabama
Streets in Atlanta. An ancient gas street lamp,
bearing shell marks of the Battle of Atlanta, was
obe relighted. The occasion—the world premiere of
“Gone With the Wind.”
The story of this lamp post is simple, but calls
to every reminiscent Southerner the glorious ante
bellum years and the tragic years that followed.
Fifty of these gas lamps, lighted on Christmas
Day in 1855. had burned brightly until Sherman's
destruction of the city. Only one remains now
Solomon Luckie. a well-known colored barber,
was standing at this comer when a shell struck
the lamp post, ricocheted and exploded A frag
ment struck Luckie. mortally wounding him
This lamp post by which Luckie stood was. until
1880, kept m the City Hall as a momenta of the
war. In that year it was restored to its original
site. On October 26, 1919, the United Daughters of
the Confederacy, interested in marking historic
spots in Atlanta, placed a bronze tablet on the post
and dedicated it to the memory of General A J.
West, prominent Atlantan and Confederate veteran
The tall, cast iron lamp is the stem for a glass
encasement which holds the light. Atop the post a
reproduction of the symbolic eagle, slightly turned
to one side, perches.
The flame is still glowing today Standing alone,
in the midst of the hustle and bustle of a modem
empire, the battered old lamp post remains the
“Eternal Flame to the Confederacy.”
Brantley Enterprise
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, February 16, 1961
Hershel Herrin
Died Suddenly
Os Heart Attack
Herschel Wendell Herrin, age
43, prominent Brantley County
educator, died suddenly Monday
afternoon at his residence in Na
hunta.
A native and life-long resident
of Nahunta, Herrin was well
known in education circles. He
was Brantley County School su
perintendent for 12 years and
prior to that was principal of
schools at Surrency and Alapaha.
At the time of his death, he was
a member of the faculty at Na
hunta High School.
He was a member f the Brant
ley County Education Associa
tion. A member of the Nahunta
PTA ,the Nahunta Lions Club, a
veteran of World War II and a
member of the American Legion
Post at Nahunta.
Survivors are his wife, the
former Miss Omo Lee Branch of
Riceboro; two daughters, Miss
Lynn Herrin and Miss Beth Her
rin both of Nahunta; one son
Herschel Wendell Herrin Jr. of
Nahunta; three sisters Mrs. Har
ley Lewis and Mrs. Jim Rowell
both of Nahunta and Mrs. Hil
ton Kyser of Lakeland, Ga.; six
brothers Kay Herrin, Merrick
Herrin, Cecil Herrin and Ernest
Herrin all of Nahunta, Ben Her
rin of Brunswick and Arnie
Herrin of New York, N. Y.;
Numerous neices, nephews and
other relatives.
Funeral services were held
Wednesday afternoon at 3:00
o’clock at the Oak Grove Primi
tive Baptist Church near Nahun
ta. Burial was in the Church Ce
metery. Miles-Odum Funeral
Home in charge of the arrange
ments.
TIPS ON GAINING WEIGHT
Persons who want to gain
weight often have trouble build
ing up their appetite and capaci
ty for food. Miss Nelle Boyd, Nu
tritionist for the University of
Georgia Extension Service, says
this is to be expected when a
person has been eating little for
a long period of time. Don’t try
to eat large amounts at first,
she advises. Those who need to
gain should start slowly, grad
ually increasing their capacity
for food.' It may even be help
ful to eat several small meals a
day instead of three large ones.
Confederacv
—by Laura Anderson
Railroad Merger Hearing Recessed
After 3-Day Session in Savannah
Robert White
Funeral Services
Held Wednesday
Mr. Robert (Rob) White, 62, of
Route 1, Nahunta, passed away
early Wednesday morning, Feb
ruary 15, at his home in the Hic
kox community following a heart
seizure.
Mr. White was a native of
Brantley county, and was the son
of the late Douglas and Matilda
Harris White. He received his
education in the schools of the
county. He was a turpentine op
erator by occupation and a vet
eran of World War 11, having
served in the Army.
Survivors include one sister,
Mrs. Minnie Borkins of Butner,
N. C.; one brother, Pete White of
Nahunta. Several nieces, ne
phews, and other relatives also
survive.
Funeral services will be held
from the graveside in Hickox
Cemetery Friday afternoon, Feb
ruary 17, at three o’clock with
the Rev. Cecil F. Thomas offi
ciating.
Serving as pallbearers will be
Messrs. Clarence Allen, John V.
Smith, Teon Lake, Virgil Allen,
Owen Herrin, Royce Proctor, and
Hubert Rozier.
The family have the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta will be in charge of
arrangements.
Junior Womans Club
Met Tuesday Night
The Junior Womans Club met
Tuesday night, Feb. 14 at the
Okofenoke Co-op Building with
Mrs. Ben Jones and Mrs. J. D.
Orser at hostesses.
The program was a “Heart
film — Take these three hearts”.
Present were: Mrs. Dick Pur
cell, Mrs. Tommy Tucker, Mrs.
Bob Smith, Mrs. Joe Walker,
Mrs. Norman Lewis, Mrs. Keith
Strickland, Mrs. J. D. Orser, Mrs.
Ben Jones and Mrs. Emory Mid
dleton.
Refreshments were served by
the hostesses.
Nahunta Baptist
Church Plans
Spring Revival
Revival plans for the spring
have been announced by the Na
hunta Baptist Church, by the pas
tor, Rev. Cecil F. Thomas.
The meeting will start Mon
day night, April 3, to continue
through Sunday night, April 9,
with Rev. E. Hoke Campbell of
Decatur, Ga., as the visiting
preacher.
Rev. Campbell is remembered
in this community by many peo
ple, since he formerly pastored
the St. Marys and Homerville
Churches.
Also, he was stationed here in
the C. C. C. Camp before the
last war. His wife taught school
here during that time, as Miss
Margarite O’Farrell, daughter of
Dr. Z. C. O’Farrell, well known
minister of this section, and who
led the Baxley Children’s Home
in the early years of its existence.
It is hoped by the pastor and
people of the Nahunta Baptist
Church that many people will
find it possible to plan to attend
this revival.
Drivers' Licenses
To Be Validated
In Nahunta Tuesday
State troopers will be in Na
hunta Tuesday, Feb. 21, from 1:00
until 5:00 P M for the purpose
of validating auto drivers’ li
censes.
Drivers can secure licenses on
the date announced and avoid
having to order through the
mail. This is a special service
the Department of Public Safe
ty is giving in order to expedite
renewing of drivers’ licenses
Secretary of State Dean Rusk, native of Cherokee County, Geor
gia, takes time out from the Washington inaugural festivities to re
ceive a personal invitation to “Vacation in Georgia” from Sandra
Talley, Miss Georgia of 1961.—Georgia Dept, of Commerce.
Proceedings of
Brantley County
Commissioners
The Brantley County Commis
sioners met in regular session on
Tuesday, February 7, 1961, with
all members present and trans
acted the following business.
1. Adopted a resolution to op
pose the merger of the Atlantic
Coast Line Railroad Company
and the Seaboard Railroad Com
pany, as proposed by the two
major Companies. They proposed
to take their resolution before
the I. C. C. hearing to be held the
week of February 13, in Savan
nah, Georgia. In the event the
merger is granted they request
ed the two major Companies to
sell the trackage known as the
Jesup Short Line, from Jesup to
Folkston, Georgia, to the South
ern Railroad Company instead of
abandoning as proposed in the
merger, so Brantley County and
Nahunta would not be left with
out Rail Service that is so vital
to the economy of the County.
2. Adopted a resolution declar
ing the Citizens Bank of Na
hunta as the legal depository for
all Brantley County funds for
the next four years.
3. Chairman, R. B. Brooker, re
ported that he was successful in
his trip to Atlanta, in securing ’
State Aid in rebuilding the Buf
falo Creek Bridge, known as the
Joe Knox Bridge, construction j
should get underway in the near
future, on the badly needed
school bus route. After adopting
the above they paid the follow-1
ing bills:
R. B. Brooker, salary, $18.05,.
R. C. Harrell Jr., salary, $16.00, .
Lewis Prescott, salary, $18.05,'
Silas D. Lee, $30.00, Major Rig
gins, salary, $30.00, C. Winton
Adams, salary, $38.05, John Wil
son, salary, $83.55, Archie Johns, ;
salary SBO.OO.
Road and Bridge Employees I
for the month of January: Au
thor Altman, $161.19, Ellis Alt
man, $159.54, J. M. Chancy, $192 -
35, Perry Crews, $188.64, I. C.
Harris, $179.84, Weita Herrin,
$161.35, Gillis Hickox, $144.16,1
Mitchell Hullett, $166.05, John H.
Mercer, $183.95, Roscoe Murray.
$191.75, Alex B. Lee, $154.60, Fred
Willis, $198.34, Woodrow Wilson,
$188.64, Health Department, Mrs.
Rebecca D. Griner, $329.09, sa
lary and travel, Alvin M. Po
well, $12.00, travel, Elvin F.
Cooper, $105.57, salary and travel,]
Shirley M. Howard $156.63, sa
lary, Doctor E. A. Moody, $30.00,
salary, Extension Service Em
ployees, George A. Loyd, $209.13,
salary and travel, Virginia N.'
Raulerson, $121.37, salary and
travel.
Court Officials, Cecil M Rod
denberry, $47.00, salary, Dewey
Hayes, solicitor, $63.34, salary,
W. J. Summerall, Court reporter,
$46.00, salary, S. E. Blount, $97-
00, salary Pauper List: Robert R
Riggins, SIO.OO, Thelma Sapp,
SIO.OO, Mrs. Barney Harris, $lO -
00. Dale Wilson, SIO.OO.
Public Welfare Budget, $664.-
54, Georgia Forestry Commis
sion Budget, $600.00, General
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Bills, Blalock Machinery Equip
ment Company, $147.00, cable,
Wilson Plumbing Company, $5.00,
repair lights at jail, C. S. Kizer,
$43.00, Inquest, Marshall and
Bruce, $19.07, office supplies,
Foote and Davis, $72.30, office
supplies, Try-states Culb er t
Manufacturing Company, $3,000,
concrete pipes, Carlton Company,
$11.31, repairs, A. S- Mizell, $175-
00. Bond Prem tom, Smith Hard
ware Company, $79 80, supplies,
Okefenoke R. E. A., $3.07, caution
light, Brantley Gas and Ap
pliance Company, $142.13, re
pairs and fuel, Waycross Battery
and Electric Company, $4.02, re
pairs, Georgia Power Company,
$47.59, electricity for Court
House and Health Building, J.
W. Brooker, Hardware, $227.41,
supplies, Comete Manufacturing
Company, $104.56, Janitor sup
plies, Sidneys Service Station,
$12.00, loading pipe, Recordak
Cooperation, $41.16, office sup
plies, Brantley Enterprise, $51.00,
advertising and supplies, City of
Nahunta, $22.50, Brantley Tele
phone Company, Inc., $97.68,
phones and calls, Standard Oil
Company, $367.48, gas, oil, and
grease, Llawannah D. Morgan,
SIO.OO, Typing Grand Jury Pre
sentments, Satilla Lumber Com
pany, $96.73, lumber, Mrs. J. A.
Campbell, $13.00, jurys meals,
Herrins Gift and Flower Shop,
$25.75, Flowers for O. G. Lee
Funeral, Professional Insurance
Cooperation, $99.65, Insurance
premium. Western Union Tele
graph Company, $210.00, moving
I wires for Railroad Crossing, At
lantic Coast Lide Railroad Com
pany, $64.00, labor railroad cross
ing, Doctor E. A. Moody, $15.00,1
Inquest, D. F. Herrin, $334 35,
postage and court cost, J. W 1
Crews, $614.81, service rendered,
Wilson Wainright Oil Company,
$540.68, gas, oil and grease, Wil-]
son Garage, $180.12, repairs,
Dewey Junk Yard, $4 00, repairs,,
M. J. Ammons $139.40, fence and |
labor, R. B. Brooker, $48.88, tra- ]
vel, Floyd Rowell, $30.00, three
days bailiff B. E Thomas, 20.00,
two days Bailiff, Roy’s Service i
Station, $12.00, repairs; Cotton
States Insurance Co., Ins., sls
- Georgia Hospital Service As- ]
sociation, $229.05, Ins., for a total
expenditure of $12,477.90.
There being no further busi-1
ness the meeting adjourned.
John M. Wilson, secretary.
6th Grade 4-H Club
Met Thursday
The 6th grade 4-H Club held
its February meeting on Thurs
day, February 9. The president,
Pryce Brooker, called the meet
ing to order.
Marshall Allen, song leader,
led our group in singing. Hilda
Manning, secretary, read the
minutes and called the roll.
Mrs. Raulerson talked to us a
bout National 4-H club week. The
meeting was turned over to Mrs
Raulerson and she talked to us
about our projects, gave out re
cord books and talked to us a
bout the dress revue.
Donna Lynn Tucker
Reporter
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(Plus Sales Tax)
Brantley County citizens inter
ested in keeping a mainline rail
road through the county were
left “up in the air” Tuesday when
the merger hearing at Savannah
was suddenly recessed without
hearing anyone from this section.
The hearing at Savannah con
cerned the proposed merger of
the Atlantic Coast Line and the
Seaboard Railroads. The South
ern Railway was asking to in
tervene and requesting they be
allowed to buy the Coast Line
track between Jesup and Folks
ton through Brantley County.
A large delegation of Brantley
County citizens were poised to
go to Savannah to be heard Wed
nesday morning, but word came
Tuesday afternoon that this part
of the hearing had been postpon
ed, possibly dropped altogether.
A number of strong petitions
had been drawn up by various
Brantley County civic and other
organizations. These were to be
presented to the Interstate Com
merce Commission at Savannah
Wednesday, but the Brantley de
legation and their petitions had
no chance for a hearing this
week.
The following article concern
ing the hearing appeared Wed
nesday morning in The Savannah
Morning News:
The rail .merger hearing here
was recessed Tuesday after a
heated argument between a
Southern Railway attorney and
an Interstate Commerce Commis
sion examiner over the question
ing of a witness.
Examiner Hyman J. Blond’s re
fusal to permit Southern attorney
William B. McLean of Washing
ton to question a Hardeville, S.
C. Chamber of Commerce official
brought sharp protest from Mc-
Lean.
Blond hid abruptly cat off
testimony concerning a Southern
proposal that it be permitted to
acquire trackage abandoned by
the Seaboard Air Line Railroad
in the event of its merger with
Atlantic Coast Line.
Joe E. Oliver, president of the
Hardeeville chamber, had been
called to the stand as the exam
iner’s witness. When the nature
of his testimony on the Southern
proposal became clear, Blond
halted Oliver.
Up until then, only passing ref
erence had been made to any
counter proposals to the Sea
board-Atlantic Coast Line mer
ger application, some of which
had entered the record.
Oliver was the last of 18 wit
nesses to testify Tuesday during
the second day of the Savannah
phase of the hearing. Most of
Tuesday’s witnesses opposed the
merger and a number were in
tervenors in opposition.
Testimony came mostly from
public officials of Georgia towns.
They generally agreed that their
communities would suffer if the
Central of Georgia and other rail
roads were financially impaired
by a Seaboard-Atlantic Line mer
ger.
| Centra] contends it would lose
about $4 million annually in rev
enues if the merger is permitted.
Consulting engineers for the mer
ger applicants testified at the
Richmond hearing that Central
would lose only about $2.3 mil
llion upon the merger.
When Blond cut off Oliver's
testimony Tuesday, M'c Le a n
quickly moved to question the
Hardeeville merchant and cham
ber leader on the grounds he
was a “public” witness. But
Blond ruled out any such ques
tioning. . »
McLean asked When he would
be allowed to question Oliver but
Blond said he did not know.
Ruling Explained
Explaining his move later,
Blond said that McLean had an
nounced earlier he would have
no witnesses Tuesday. He also
pointed out that Oliver had been
brought to the Xtand solely as a
witness for the explainer.
McLean said later he did not
understand Blond’s ruling, but
.insisted,that he Minted to ques
tion Oliver about the Hardeeville
chaipber’s resolution supporting
the Southern trackage proposal.
Southern and Central trackage
acquisition proposals countering
the merger application have not
officially become a part of the
merger proceeding record, al
though they are public record.
Camden County, Georgia, was
second among all the counties
in 12 Southern states in produc
tion of pulpwood in 1959 with
143,000 cords, reports C. Nelson
Brightwell, Extension forestry
marketing specialist.
