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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 9, 1961
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Carl Broome —Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Official Organ of Brantley County
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia.
A bargain
she can't resist
EVER SEE A WOMAN who could pass up a
good bargain? Not when it’s as tempting as
Georgia Power’s generous wiring plan.
Under the plan, the company will pay from
SSO to S2OO toward adequate home wiring.
Here’s why you may need it:
In the past two decades, scientific advances
have transformed our world into a veritable
wonderland of electrical conveniences. Today
there are more than 60 electric appliances
on the market and more are on the way
This increase in the variety and number
of appliances has meant added burdens to
household circuits. Wiring which was ade
quate four or five years ago no longer will
do the job
By taking advantage of the plan, you will
be assured that your home will have the
main service wiring and circuits needed for
full electric living.
Want more information? Simply contact
your nearest electric appliance dealer, elec
trical contractor or Georgia Power Company
representative. There’s no obligation.
TAX-PAYINO • IN V t ITOK-O WN ID
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
A Cl 111 I N WHI 1 I W I II IVI
NOTICE
TO THE
TAXPAYERS OF
BRANTLEY COUNTY
YOU MUST RETURN YOUR PRO
PERTY FOR TAXES TO ME BEFORE
APRIL 1, 1961. I AM IN MY OFFICE
DAILY MONDAY THROUGH SAT
URDAY EXCEPT WEDNESDAY AF
TERNOONS, TO RECEIVE RETURNS.
After April 1 the Tax Assessors
Will Value Your Property.
EVERY TAXPAYER MUST SIGN
FOR HIS TAX EXEMPTION.
THANKS FOR YOUR COOPERA
TION BEFORE APRIL 1.
JOHN M. WILSON
TAX COMMISSIONER BRANTLEY COUNTY
Tile Drainage Demonstration
Planned Tuesday, March 14th
Bermidrain Tile Drainage will
be featured in a demonstration
to be held on R. 0. Kimbrell’s
farm near Bristol Tuesday after
noon, March 14, at 2:00 P. M.
The demonstration will be spon
sored by district supervisors of
the Satilla River Soil Conserva
tion District.
According to Theodore Frisbie,
Pierce county work unit conser
vationist, there are many wet
areas of cultivated anl pasture
land in Pierce and surrounding
counties which could benefit
from the type of drainage to be
demonstrated on Mr. Kimbrell’s
farm.
L. D. “Red” Worley, state con
servation engineer, will attend
the demonstration as well as
county agricultural agents, A. S-
C. county office managers, coun
ty committeemen, work unit con
servationists, district supervisors
from each of the Satilla district’s
eight counties, and a good num
ber of farmers from the sur
rounding counties.
The public is invited to attend
the demonstration.
To the Victim Belongs the Soils
By D. Gray Aydelott,
Soil Scientist
The Soil Conservation Service
is continually making soil sur
veys, primarily for farmers, but
these surveys have many other
uses, such as the one set forth
in this article on city and county
planning.
Complaints, arising from dis
satisfied homeowners throughout
the country in residential de
velopments, relate directly or
indirectly to the soil and are a
source of increasing concern to
many land brokers, planners, in
vestors, lenders, developers, ap
praisers and even to Federal,
State and local authorities.
Buyer the Victim
The principal victim is the un
suspecting and often uninformed
homebuyer or real estate pur
chaser who often finds his pro
perty is unsatisfactory, unstable,
and even untenable because of
adverse soil characteristics. In
many cases he becomes an inno
cent victim of circumstances. This
is not to say that the realtor,
broker, or salesman is necessarily
responsible. On the contrary,
most people handling real estate
are fully aware of their obliga
tions of responsibilities to their
clients. The fact is that too often
sufficient soil knowledge is not
readily available to assure a buy
er of a safe, sound and problem
free site. The average, eager, en
thusiastic buyer is so concerned
with visible attractions that he
is inclined to overlook some
fundamental things governing his
future happiness and security.
One of these is the soil. There are
hundreds of cases right here in
Brantley county where disastrous
problems are occurring, due di
rectly to inherent soil deficiencies
that were not duly considered at
time of purchase.
The victim, after purchasing his
real estate and settling down to
Greenwood Corn
Luncheon Held
The Greenwood Farm of Thom
asville, Georgia, held its annual
corn luncheon March 6 in honor
of FFA members and their teach
ers of Vocational Agriculture in
Southeast Georgia. The delight
ful occasion was held at the
Swainsboro High School Cafe
teria with Dr. Pete Donaldson,
president of Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College, giving a
challenging and inspiring speech.
State FFA Vice-President Lynn
Reddick of Portal presided over
the meeting.
The Nahunta FFA participates
in this corn contest and its win
ner this year is Johnny Crews
with 116 9 bu. per acre shelled
weight. Attending the luncheon
with Johnny was Mrs. Mable
Moody, County Supt., Floyd
Johns, President of the FFA
chapter and Carter Morton Jr.,
Teacher of Agriculture.
SOIL, PREPARATION
FOR PEANUTS
A smooth, well prepared seed
bed increases planting efficiency
and helps to secure and maintain
a good stand of peanuts, reports
J. Frank McGill, Extension agro
nomist. Turn land as close to
planting time as is feasible, com
pletely burying all surface litter
below a depth of three inches,
and after turning, avoid using
any tools that will bring the lit
ter back to the surface.
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.”
Posted Signs for Sale
At Brantley Enterprise
Hoboken Students
Enter Projects
In Science Fair
Students from Hoboken school,
in classes from the first through
the twelfth grades, are planning
to enter their projects in the Dis
trict Science Fair to be held in
the Ware County gymnasium
Friday and Saturday, March 10
and 11.
The students entering are as
follows: George Dryden, Barry
Chesser, Charles Fullard, Janice
Batten, Kathy Fowler, Valeria
Strickland, Sara Jones, Patsy
Batten, Gail Stevens, Janice
Strickland, Larry Lee, Eddie
Sapp, Francis Dryden, Warren
Johnston, Lamar Thomas, Diane
Davis, Gail Cason, Larry Adams,
Carolyn Larkins, Sara Dryden,
Faye King, Robert Page, Elaine
Strickland, Elna Carter, and
Jimmy Monk.
what he believes will be a long
tenure of carefree occupancy,
often has his complacency and
pocket-book shattered by such
things as flooded basements or
yards; soil erosion or deposits
from surrounding areas; soil set
tling, swelling or shrinking,
foundation cracks and failures of
walls and ceilings; failing septic
tanks; infertile or barren soil
conditions. Then to this victim
truly belongs the soil. His pur
chase becomes a burdensome ex
pense to keep and difficult to
get rid of.
Repairs Costly
In many instances the home
owner is unable, financially, to
pay the high cost of repairs and
damage. In fact, in many cases
there is very little anyone can
do. In spite of the widespread be
lief that any soil condition or
weakness can easily be engineer
ed, the facts are that where soil
is unstable or has materially set
tled, swelled or shrunk, damage
is at the least costly and tempor
ary, and sometimes it is irrepar
able. The time for evaluations is
before the purchase is made, or
the structure is designed. Most
home owners do not realize that
there are " differences in soil or
that the soil ever caused any
trouble. Very few have any
knowledge whatsoever of soil or
potential soil problems.
The pressing demands from
dissatisfied homeowners and pur
chasers involved with “problem"
soils will continue and perhaps
increase until a more determined,
cooperative effort is made by
real estate handlers, appraisers,
engineers and leaders to provide
their clients with at least enough
basic soil information to assure
them of reasonably sound resi
dential structures and reasonably
stable living conditions.
Demonstration on
Forest Fire Fighting
Planned at Waycross
Landowners and foresters are
invited to attend a two-hour de
monstration of a new forest fire
fighting machine at the Waycross
State Forest, March 2, at 10 A.
M., announced Ed Ruark, Direc
tor, Georgia Forest Research
Council. The machine, a sand
caster, is a new approach to
forest fire fighting in the South,
Ruark added.
The sandcaster has been under
tests from the Southeastern For
est Fire Laboratory and the Geor
gia Forestry Commission for the
past several weeks. The machine
was developed by the State of
Michigan and the U. S. Forest
Service. Ruark added that studies
are being made on the amount of
sand it will cast, distance the
sand can be thrown, and its ef
fectiveness on indirect and direct
attack on forest fires.
Thus far, tests have shown that
this machine is capable of throw
ing three to five cubic yards of
sand per minute up to a distance
of 100 feet. Ruark added that this
represents the work of some 50
men. The machine moves at a
forward speed of up to one and
one-half miles per hour. A high
speed rotor-type blade cuts a
trench 26 inches wide by six
inches deep and can cast sand in
any direction.
The sandcaster, which is de
signed to extinguish and retard
forest fires, weighs 6.800 pounds.
It has its own power unit and is
controlled by a hydraulic system.
The machine is pulled by a
separate tractor unit.
Ruark pointed out that this is
just one of the many tools and
developments that are being un
covered by the forest fire re
search staff with the aim of help
ing Georgia’s landowners keep
fire losses at a minimum.
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Test Oil Well Drilling Is Underway
In Satilla Area Os Brantley County
By MERSHON ASPINWALL JR.
Staff Writer
In The
Waycross Journal-Herald
NAHUNTA — A serious effort
to find oil in South Georgia is
underway in Brantley County.
Survey Drilling Co. of Dal
las, Texas, began drilling for
“black gold” in the Satilla River
swamp near Twin Rivers, some
six miles north of Nahunta, earli
er this week.
Under contract to Humble Oil
Co., the drilling is expected to
continue around the clock until
oil is found or until they hit the
known “basement” granite rock
believed to be located at be
tween 4,500 to 4,600 feet.
The test drilling is located near
U. S. Highway 301 and is expect
ed to attract a goodly number of
tourists and local spectators dur
ing the operation
Interest in finding oil in South
Georgia continues following the
recent attempt in Wayne County
by the same oil company.
The test well near Gardi on
the Altamaha River went to a
depth of some 4,500 feet before
granite rock was hit and the op
eration abandoned. Drilling there
ceased during the Latter part of
November.
A spokesman for the Petroleum
Council of Georgia has stated
that if there’s oil in Georgia, it’ll
be found above the “basement.”
The Brantley County drilling
is being carried out on land be
longing to M. F. Helman.
Humble Oil Co. and other oil
companies have leased hundreds
of acres of land in the Brantley
county area and elsewhere in
South Georgia. The investment
in leases is an indication, the
council spokesman said, that
drilling will continue for perhaps
two years more, whether oil is
found at the Brantley well or
not.
He said that this drilling oper
ation is believed to be the only
one being drilled with a major
company’s backing in the state
now.
The Brantley County effort is
the latest in a chain of attempts
during the past 23 years to find
a producing well in Georgia.
The first deep well attempt in
the state was made near Offer
man in Pierce County in 1938. At
that time state and local officials,
including Governor Ed Rivers,
and several thousand spectators
were on hand for the beginning
of drilling operations.
That attempt, and another near
by the next year, was abandoned
when granite rock was hit.
In 1950, the State Legislature
offered a reward of $50,000 to the
first producers of a commercial
well in Georgia. Shortly after
wards it was increased to SIOO,-
000.
In 1958, it was increased to
$250,000 for the first commercial
well producing as .much as 100
barrels of oil a day. The amount
is to be divided as follows: $50,-
000 to the property owner, SIOO,-
000 to the oil company, $87,500 to
the contractor doing the drilling,
and $12,500 to be divided among
the workmen and employees.
In 1955, a test well 20 miles
north of Douglas in Coffee Coun
ty found a show of oil in a mud
formation at 2,482 feet. The well
was abandoned however when
it was determined that it was not
in sufficient quantity for com
cial production.
The next year an application
was made to drill a well 14 miles
southwest of Waycross on the
edge of the Okefenokee Swamp.
The well was never drilled, how
ever.
It was about 1949 that a test
well was drilled on the edge of
the Okefenokee in Clinch County.
The results were the same as all
previous wells in Georgia.
South Georgians, and Brantley
countians in particular, are hope
ful that this time the story will
be different.
Now at Depth
Os 2,200 Feet
Drilling had reached a depth
of about 2.200 feet on Wednesday
of this week, a check at the site
of the test oil well revealed.
The rising of the Satilla River
had forced workers at the site to
cease their drilling operations
temporarily. However, they ex
pect to start again within a few
days.
The Ladies’ Garden Club of
Athens organized in 1891, was
the first such organization to
name permanent officers, adopt a
constitution and by-laws and be
conducted according to parlia
mentary law.
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BRANTLEY
ENTERPRISE
Proper Placement of
Fertilizer Important
Proper fertilizer placement is
becoming more important as
farmers switch to higher analy
sis fertilizers and increase the a
mounts used per acre, Extension
Agronomist P. J. Bergeaux at the
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture said this week.
Main objectives of proper fer
tilizer placement are to avoid in
jury to seedlings and to obtain
the most efficient use of fertili
zer nutrients throughout the
growing period of plants, Mr.
Bergeaux explained.
Fertilizer injury, he said, is
caused by a high concentration
of soluble fertilizer salts near the
plant seed.
When the concentration of
these salts in the soil surround
ing the roots of the young plant
is high enough, the plant is un
able to take water from the soil.
In fact, he continued, water may
be drawn from the plant. A plant
injured this way often looks as
if it had been placed in an oven
and dried.
Potash and nitrogen are the
fertilizer salts .most likely to
cause injury because they are
more soluble than phosphate and
move in the soil readily. When
using fertilizers high in these ele
ments .such as 5-10-15, 4-12-12 or
6-12-12, it is necessary to place
the fertilizer away from and be
low the seed, he advised.
Research has shown that when
fertilizers are placed at least
three inches to one side and
three inches below the seed,
thre is little danger of injury.
With properly placed, high rates
of relatively high analysis fer
tilizer can be used with no dang
er of injury, he said.
Mr. Bergeaux added that many
farmers, lacking proper place
ment equipment, have resorted
to broadcasting fertilizer in or
der to avoid injury.
If the fertility level of a soil
is medium or higher in phosphate
and potash, broadcast application
will give as good results as band
placement. However .broadcast
ing does not give as efficient use
of applied fertilizer on low fer
tility soils, partcularly those low
in phosphate, as would band
placement, he said.
Georgia .Bankers
Furnish Forestry
Management Tools
The tool which is so important
in the forestry practices educa
tional program is the increment
borer, Mr. Dyer said. He ex
plained that the increment borer
is used in determining the grow
th rate of trees and timber
stands.
“It is the most valuable single
piece of equipment used in forest
management work,” he said.
“Through use of the borer, in
formation as to when and where
thinnings are needed can be ob
tained. Growth predictions can
be determined and, as a result
more efficient harvesting prac
tices can be achieved."
Mr. Dyer reported that a series
of training meetings is now un
derway to train county agents in
techniques of using increment
borers and applying the informa
tion obtained.
W. A. Sutton, director of the
Extension Service, expressed the
appreciation of the Extension
Service for the support of bank
ers in providing this equipment.
“This project will mean much
to our farmers and 4-H Club
members. The progress of the Ex
tension six-step forest manage
ment program will be greatly en
hanced by this help of the Geor
gia Bankers Association,” he said.
The project to get increment
borers in each county agent’s of
fice in the state was instigated
by the Agricultural Committee of
the Bankers Association, Mr. Dy
er said.
The Peoples Bank of Black
shear has placed this tool in the
Pierce County Agent’s office.
If you are thinking of thinning
your timber and have need of the
increment borer (increment
means gain or growth), call by
the County Agent’s office in the
Post Office Building, states Clif
ford Park, County Agent.
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Preparing
For Easter
The Easter season actually
opens weeks before the joyful
Sunday that marks the resur
rection.
On Ash Wednesday many
Christians begin a time of fast
and prayer called Lent. The term
comes from the Old English word
Lencten, meaning springtime, ac
cording to Mrs. Francine Klags
brun, religion editor of World
Book Encyclopedia. Early Christ
ians in Rome held a 40-hour fast
and vigil in remembrance of
Christ’s rest in the grave. But the
period was later extended to the
40-day Lent, probably as a re
minder of the 40 days Christ fast
ed in the wilderness.
On anticipation of this solemn
season, Christians in many parts
of the world celebrate with
carnivals. In New Orleans, for
example, the season of carnival,
or farewell to the flesh, lasts
from about January 6 to Shrove
Tuesday, which is Mardi Gras
Day. The French named the holi
day Mardi Gras, or fat Tuesday,
after the custom of parading a
fat ox through the streets of
Paris on Shrove Tuesday.
The day is also known as Pan
cake Day, and every year the
women of Olney, England, and
Liberal, Kansas, compete in a
pancake race.
The next day is Ash Wednes
day, when the priest marks a
cross on the foreheads of the de
vout with ashes. Since Biblical
times, sprinkling oneself with
ashes has expressed sorrow.
The last week of Lent is Holy
Week. It begins with Palm Sun
day, named for the palms that
lined Christ’s path as He made
a triumphant entry into Jerusa
lem. The palms exhibited on this
day are later bOrned* .and the
ashes are used for Ash Wednes
day of the following year.
Maundy Thursday commemor
ates the Last Supper and the time
when Jesus washed the feet of
His disciples as a token of broth
erly love. At one time, the king
or emperor of Austria, Russia,
Portugal and Spain would wash
the feet of 12 poor persons.
Good Friday is a day of mourn
ing as the anniversary of
Christ’s death on the cross, while
Holy Saturday is spent in anti
cipation. Then, at dawn, comes
Easter Sunday and the happy ce
lebration of the resurrection.
SPRAY or DUST for LICE
If your cattle are shedding hair
or spending a lot of time rubbing
on trees, fences, or posts, there
is a good chance that they are
lousy, says Dr. O. G. Daniel, head,
Extension husbandry department
at the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agriculture. It takes a
bit of feed to offset the damage
done from lice. Spray or dust for
lice can be purchased at most
any farm store. It is a worth
while investment that will pay
off in extra pounds of .milk and
beef.
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