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Newspaper Page TextGot Anything to Sell? Want to Buy Anything? Put a Want > Ad in the Brantley Enterprise 75 Cents or 3 Times $2.00. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. NUMBER 21 VOLUME 41 Power Company To Make Awards To FFA Members Cash awards and two Univer sity of Georgia College of Agri culture scholarships will be pre sented to winners of the annual FFA winter grazing and farm electrification programs at a special awards barbecue at 11 A. M. Tuesday, May 30, at Lake Sin clair near Milledgeville. The Georgia Power Company each year sponsors the program in cooperation with the State De partment of Education’s division of vocational agriculture. C. W. Roberts, of Macon, vice president of the power company, will welcome the more than 300 FFA youths, advisors, state agri cultural leaders, and company re presentatives. L. T. Wansley, man ager of the company’s rural divi sion, will preside, and C. M. Wal lace Jr., the company’s vice presi dent in charge of sales, will pre sent the awards. J. G. Bryant, state supervisor of vocational agriculture, will ad dress the group. A barbecue is scheduled for 12:30 P. M„ and a tour of Sinclair Dam and hydro electric plant will follow. Winter grazing awards totaling $l,lOO will be divided among six winners in each of four vocational agriculture districts, four advisors of winning chapters, and a north and south Georgia winner. Farm electrification prizes totaling $l,lOO will be divided among 28 district winners and four chap ter advisors. The first and second place state winners in farm elec trification each will be awarded scholarships to the College of Agriculture. Winter grazing awards are bas ed on selection of land, use of experiment station recommenda tions on fertilizer, seeds, land preparation and pastureland uti lization. Electrification awards are based on modernization of farm wiring systems and use of electricity in the farm residence. The May 30 event will mark the 14th annual presentation of a wards in the winter grazing pro gram and the sixth annual pre sentation in the farm electrifica tion program. Anybody Here Seen A White Persian Cat? A woman from Ocean Grove, New Jersey, lost her white Per sian cat when her car overturned Sunday, May 21, somewhere in Brantley County, according to a letter received by The Brantley Enterprise. The letter was as follows: “While going through your town today I had a blowout, my car overturned. My white Persian cat with leash attached jumped from the car. Would you please put ad in your paper for one week, send me bill.” The letter was signed, as near as could be made out, by “Mrs. A. Henlen, 45 Broadway, Ocean Grove, N. J.” Motor vehicles account for the largest single group of deaths, says W. E. Huston, Extension agricultural engineer. Social & Personal On May 17, 1961 the F. F. A. held an election to elect officers for the coming year. The boys elected were President Cordell Wainright, Vice President Don Hendrix, Secretary H. C. Morgan, Treasurer Bennie Crews, Reporter Ronnie Hendrix, Sentinel Jerry Johns, Parliamentarian David Jacobs. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Eugene (Dink) Crews have returned to their home in Manitou Springs, Colora do after visiting with his par ents Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Crews of Hoboken. Jonnie Inez Campbell of Hor tense will complete the require ments for the Master of Educa tion degree at Georgia Southern College at the end of the Spring Quarter. Sue Carol Moore Marsh, daugh ter of Mr. S. C. Moore of Hobo ken will complete the require ments for the B. S. in Education degree at Georgia Southern Col lege at the end of the Spring Quarter Wallis F Larkins, electronics technician third class, USN son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Floyd Larkins Sheriff and Ranger Warn Citizens About Water Safety The rules and laws are about the same on the lakes and streams as they are on our high ways. Ranger A. M- Rowell and Chief Mallory Hatchett made a case a gainst Thomas G. Herrington of Hawkinsville, Ga., while boating on the Satilla River. Case was for operating boat in reckless manner and endangering the lives of others. He was using a 35 horse power motor. He posted a S2OO bond. Similar cases will be made if found to be in violation. Please handle your boats in a safe manner. Sincerely, J. Walter Crews, Sheriff, A. M. Rowell, Ranger. Capping Exercise Planned May 30 for Student Nurses The Waycross Vocational School of Practical Nursing will present student nurses with caps May 30, at 8:00 P. M. at the Isabelle Street School Auditor ium in Waycross. The capping will be combined with the grad uation for a class in Business Education. The student nurses have suc cessfully completed the proba tionary period of their training and the cap will complete the nurses uniform. The Practical Nurse School is under the direc tion of Vocational and Adult Education, supervised by the State Board of Practical Nurse Education and approved by the State Board of Practical Nurses. After receiving the caps the students will continue studies and observation under the super vision of the affiliating hospitals. They are being prepared, in this one year program, to give good nursing care and to stand a national test pool examination for a license to function as a practical nurse. Affiliating hospitals are: Coffee County Hospital, Douglas; Pierce County Hospital, Blackshear. The public is invited to attend the service. Card of Thanks Mr. and Mrs. C. Russell Huff man and daughter Camille wish to take this opportunity to ex press their sincere appreciation to their many friends who came by to bid them farewell Sunday afternoon at the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sears. It is with a feeling of regret that we leave this hospitable community. Our association and friendship with the good people of this county will always be a treasured memory. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Huffman and daughter Camille. of Hoboken, is serving aboard the minecraft repair ship USS Pan demus taking part in operation “Sweep Clear VI” off the coast of Charleston, S. C. * * « Miss Jane Strickland and her Physical Education class from Georgia Southern College at Statesboro visited Jane’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Avery Strickland Sunday afternoon, May 21, where Mrs. Strickland entertain ed them at supper. The party in cluded 19 students and two teachers. They made a tour of Jekyll Island before coming to Nahunta. * * * Mrs. Bibb Saye and little daughters, Susan and Sandra, have returned to their home in Baton Rouge, La. after spending several weeks with their mother, Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland. Mrs. Strickland returned with them to Baton Rouge for a visit. • • • Mrs. E. P. Dodge returned on Wednesday of last week from a visit with her daughter and her husband, Colonel and Mrs. W. S. Isengard, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She also visited Juarez, Mexico. Brantley Enterprise Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Moody Give Party The graduating classes of Na hunta and Hoboken High Schools and the teachers of Brantley County were entertained at a tea recently by Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Moody of Nahunta. Greeting the guests at the door were Mrs. Blanchard and Mrs. Calhoun, wives of the principals of Nahunta and Hoboken; direct ing the guests to the receiving line were Principal Blanchard and Principal Calhoun. Composing the receiving line were board members and their wives including Mr. and Mrs. El roy Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Larkins, Mr. and Mrs. Mar shall Dryden, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Rowell, Mr. and Mrs. Dick Allen, and Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt Moody. The guests were directed into the artistically decorated dining room where they were served sandwiches and cookies decorated in the schools’ colors, black, white and red by Mrs. Dorothy Graham and Mrs. Ruth Moody. Serving punch on the breezeway were Mrs. Ann Long and Mrs. Ruth Davis. Approximately one hundred twenty-five guests call ed between the hours of four to six P. M. Students Presented Merit Certificates By Georgia University In accordance with the national effort to identify and reward su perior scholastic achievement a mong our high school students, the University of Georgia has a warded a Certificate of Merit to the following named students, who are members of the Junior Classes at Nahunta High School and Hoboken High School: Nahunta High School: John H. Calhoun, Ronald Drury, Charlene Gibson, Michael Middleton, Dollie Mae Warren, Janice Willis. Hoboken High School: Robert Page, Willis Lee and Marvis Roberts. This award recognizes outstand ing achievement for the first three years of high school and encourages the students to pursue a formal program of higher edu cation. The Nahunta certificates were presented by Brantley County Re presentative J. Robert Smith, and alumnus of the University of Georgia. The Hoboken certificates were presented by county agent George A. Loyd who is also an alumnus of the University. Plastic Covers Used in Tobacco Demonstrations A young Colquitt County to bacco grower, J. B. Lewis Jr., who lives on Route 5, Moultrie, successfully grew 1,000 square yards of tobacco plants this year using plastic covers in place of the traditional cheesecloth. Mr. Lewis was one of 18 Col quitt County growers conducting demonstrations with this new method of plant production, ac cording to County Agent J. Harold Brown. The demonstrations, located in all sections of Colquitt County, attracted widespread interest from other tobacco growers. The program was climaxed with a tour of five of the beds. Mr. Lewis seeded his beds be tween January 17 and 20 using one-half ounce of seed of the Hicks variety per 100 square yards. This seeding rate is too high and will be reduced next year, he reported. Prior to seeding, the beds were fertilized with two pounds of a 4-9-3 plant bed fertilizer per square yard. He believes that one pound per square yard would be ample. The plastic covers re mained on the beds continuously for about 50 days before they were removed to slow down plant growth and to toughen the plants. Plants were ready for setting from these beds in 60 days. It was necessary to irrigate the plants three times and he dusted them three times for blue mold control. Mr. Lewis bases his fer tilizer use on soil test recom mendations and uses one ton of 3-9-9 per acre. Mr. Lewis set three to four acres of tobacco for each 100 square yards of plant bed. If plants produced by this method produce well in the field, he will grow all his plants under plastic in the future, he says. Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 25, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Hoboken Church Will Observe Homecoming Day Homecoming Day will be ob served at the Hoboken Baptist Church Sunday May 28. Activities of the day include church school at 10 o’clock and morning worship at 11:00. The Rev. J. C. Shepherd, a former pastor will be the guest speaker. At 1:00 a basket lunch provid ed by the women of the church will be served. A cordial invitation is extend ed to former church members and friends. Tales out of School By Bernice McCullar PRAYER OF A STUDENT BEFORE EXAM — “God, help me to think clearly today and to do the best I know how. Give me quietness in my mind so that I can find the words to put down what I know, and the honesty not to try to pretend that I know when I don’t. Help me to remember that I must live with myself long after the marks of this exam are record ed. Strengthen me in my ability to hold on to good values and to know that personal decencies and intellectual integrity must have priority. If today I must face up to failure because of not studying, keep me from feeling sorry for myself and from blaming others Warning Given on Fusiform Rust in Pine Tree Stands MACON — Georgia landowners are again confronted with da maging new infections of fusi form rust, ah age-old disease that makes its appearance each spring in the form of yellow power filled blisters on loblolly and slash pine trees. At present, there is not much a landowner can do about the disease, which in later stages produces a grotesque swelling on stems and branches. In thin ning pine stands, foresters re commend that diseased trees be removed. The Georgia Forest Research Council, however, announced here today that forest scientists at the Georgia Forestry Center have several intensive research projects underway in a search for a solution to the problem. H. E. Ruark, Council Director, said current studies have two objectives: Finding the means of eradicating the disease in estab lished forests and the develop ment of a pine strain which resist fusiform rust infection. Ruark, who pointed out that $10,600,000 worth of saw timber in Georgia and the South is destroyed annually by the dis ease, said Dr. A. A. Foster, U. S. Forest Service pathologist stationed at the Center, is now testing antibiotics in an effort to control the stubborn fungus. He said Foster is also engaged in an experiment in which he is inoculating pine seedlings with fusiform teliospores to determine which trees can resist the infec tion. Ruark said the seedlings from this experiment which show resistance to fusiform are turned over to John C. Barber, a gene ticist with the U. S. Forest Ser vice at the Center, for outplant ing and further tests. In regard to other research, the Council recently published a report on Foster’s work in protecting seed orchards and tree nurseries from fusiform rust by timing ferbam sprays to coincide with infection periods. At pre sent, however, the high cost of the chemical treatment prohibits its use in commercial forests. “Contrary to widespread be lief,” Ruark said, “the infectious fusiform spores do not spread from pine tree to pine tree. The spores are carried by wind to where spores capable of infecting pines are produced. Wind takes the spores back to pine stands.” The Council director said “wood-using industries in Geor gia are especially concerned over the tremendous loss suf fered as a result of the disease and they are encouraging the strengthening of research pro grams. To clean a coffeemaker which is made of aluminum, use a non- scratchy household cleanser or soap-filled wool pad to remove stains. HD Council Met Wednesday May 17 The Brantley County Council Home Demonstration met May 17 at the Red Pig in Nahunta, with Mrs. Mildred Fowler, pre siding. Mrs. Lena Strickland gave the devotional. The Council guest was Mrs. Dixie Keefer, from Georgia Pow er Company who gave several demonstrations on cooking with electric appliances. There was a discussion at the meeting about sending delegates to Rock Eagle. Mrs. Lena Strick land was nominated Georgia Homemaker to represent Brant ley County in Atlanta. Mrs. Gwendolyn Stevens was nominated Reporter for the Brantley County Council. Hos tess was the Nahunta H. D. Club. They served lemon pie and tea. Ladies attending the H. D. Council Meeting were as follows: Lizzie Mae Hendrix, Janie Brand, Thelma Thompson, Emma Lou Hagin, Kathleen Miles, Elizabeth Barnard, Marion Gibson, Virginia Raulerson, Elizabeth Robinson, Mrs. C. C. Conner, Mrs. C. F. Dukes, Mrs. Doris Driggers, Mrs. Rita Smith, Carolyn Lewis, Ef fie Middleton, Elovie Walker, Dorothy Gibson, Lena Strickland, Gaynelle Keene, Mildred Fowler, Gwendolyn Stevens and Mrs. Dixie Keefer. Farmers to Use More Credit, PCA Official Believes “Farmers will need and use more credit in the years ahead,” according to Roy C. McDonald of Waycross, Georgia, president of the Satilla Production Credit As sociation, who has just returned from Jekyll Island where he at tended the annual conference for directors of production credit as sociations on May 15 and 16th. Reports at the conference indi cated that farmers are going to continue to develop larger more specialized operations with in creased capital investments and operating costs to adjust their farm business to changing tech nology and economic conditions with a view of maintaining a reasonable standard of living for their families. Mr. McDonald said, "The loan volume of PCA’s in North Caro lina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida reached an all time high in 1960 which totalled nearly $202 million, an increase of about 9 per cent over 1959.” Officials of the Federal Inter mediate Credit Bank of Columbia reported that service to agricul ture through the Credit Bank- PCA system in the four states had almost doubled in the past five years and it is possible that it could double again in the next five years. “The Satilla association served 794 farmers with loans totalling $2 million, 270 thousand, in 1960 in Pierce, Wayne, Ware, Brant ley, Clinch, Charlton, Camden and Glynn counties,” Mr. McDonald added. Other officials of the Satilla association attending the con ference included O. R. Peacock, Vice President, of Blackshear, C. M. Crump, director, of Mershon; David E. Waldron, director, of Hoboken; C- E. Ammons, director, of Screven; and A. B. James, general manager. PULPWOOD PRODUCTION Georgia produces and sells more pulpwood than any other state in the South and ranks se cond in the nation in production, according to Extension Forester C. Dorsey Dyer at the University of Georgia College of Agricul ture. Combustible rubbish is FIRE'S FAVORITE WOO! A. I I Now K THE TIME 70 CIEAK VOUE t HOME MP OF THE it ftfE t 92 Baptist Converts Are Baptized in Alabaha River By Mershon Aspinwall Jr. In Waycross Journal-Herald A joyful mother sat in a chair on the bank of the Alabaha River near here and saw three of her children, four grandchildren, and a son-in-law baptized in what is believed to be the largest bap tismal service ever held in South Georgia. Mrs. J. L. Winn of Bristol saw 92 members of the Bristol Bap tist Church immersed in the dark waters of the Pierce County river. She and several hundred others watched as another son-in-law, Rev. Clyde Thomas, the church pastor, baptized each candidate in the simple but impressive ser vice. A fifth grandchild had joined the Church during the recent re vival but because of a foot in jury was not able to participate in yesterday’s service. Two others were also unable to be present. Mrs. Winn said that she had never seen so many baptized at one time and numerous others ex pressed the same thing. C. M. Crump, 73, prominent Pierce County farmer and mem ber of the Pierce County Board of Education said that he had never seen nor heard of a service like it in his lifetime. He had a son, daughter-in-law, and two grand children among those baptized. Mrs. G. L. Smith of Mershon said it was the largest number she had ever known to join a Pierce County church during one revival and be baptised at one time. Mrs. Smith is an active member of the Mershon Baptist Church which has used the same river location for baptismal ser vices. Mrs. M. J. Keener, Route 1, Blackshear, and Mrs. Henry Sweat, Patterson, were equally impressed with the large number. Both had members of their fam ilies among those baptized. The service which lasted a lit tle more than an hour was held beside the river bridge on High way 121 about two miles north of Blackshear Sunday. Though the Rev. Thomas im mersed each member personally, he was assisted in the water by Johnny Jones, Bristol, chairman of the Board of Deacons and nine other men in the Church who guided the candidates through the several yards of water to the baptismal spot. Several women ERMAN TALMADGE Lil ^^Reports From bl fl WASHINGTON - i f upev.w TN THE NAME of “civil rights,” the Justice Department has taken a step which threat ens the most basic of all civil rights—the right of the people to govern themselves. Despite the fact that Congress on two separate occasions has i refused to give ; the Justice De partment au thority to in tervene in school cases, the Attorney General and his associates ( have filed a * £ federal court suit to prohibit the State of Virginia from spending state funds for the operation of public schools so long as the schools in Prince Edward Coun ty which are under court order to integrate remain closed. The effect of the action is to dictate to the General Assembly of a sovereign state how it can and cannot spend public funds in the field of education. If success ful, it would establish a prece dent for federal control aver any facet of life in which the Executive Branch for any rea son might choose to intervene. * * * THERE IS NOTHING in the Constitution of the United States which requires states and their political subdivisions to operate public schools or which author izes the Executive Branch of the Federal Government to ex ercise any degree of supervision or control over the manner in which public education is or is not provided on the state and local levels. When the time arrives that the Federal Government, through (not prepared or printed Keep «p with the New* About Your Heine County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, >2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) of the Church stood by with towels as the newly baptized moved out of the river. Prior to entering the water the Rev. Thomas conducted a short service on the river bank. At the conclusion of the baptismal ser vice the Rev. John Mallard, pas tor of Rehobeth Baptist Church in Pierce County pronounced the benediction. On hand to assist in handling highway traffic and the parking of an estimated 200 cars were members of the Pierce County Sheriffs Department and the Georgia State Patrol. Prior to the revival Bristol Baptist Church had 190 members, the Rev. Thomas stated. More than a hundred of those joined the Church since the pastor be gan his ministry there in 1954. In '55, ’56, and '57 he was pastor at Bristol and Pine Grove Baptist Church. When Bristol went full time in 1958, the Rev. Thomas be came its full-time pastor. The recent revival had as visit ing evangelist the Rev. Albert Evans, pastor of the Bellevue Baptist Church, Macon. Smith-Strickland The wedding of Miss Rose Mary Smith to Wade Strickland will take place at the Nahunta Baptist Church on June 17 at seven o’clock P M. No formal invitations will be sent but friends and relatives are invited to attend the wedding and the reception which will fol low. Card of Thanks We wish to thank our many friends for the beautiful floral of ferings and their many acts of kindness during the illness and death of our loved one, George W. Lyons. The family of George W. Lyons. The color of the shell has nothing to do with the quality or flavor of an egg, according to R. A. Gayvert, Extension poultry marketing specialist. court decrees or executive or ders, can force state and local governments to spend the taxes they collect contrary to the will of their citizens, then the consti tutionally-reserved right of the American people to govern themselves in all areas not spe cifically delegated to the Fed eral Government will have been destroyed. Should such circum stances ever prevail state and local governments will have been rendered useless luxuries and the Constitution of the United States reduced to an arti fact of a free society which no longer exists except in name. * * • THERE IS OBVIOUS incon sistency in an Executive Branch which on one hand seeks enact ment of a program of federal aid to education on the assur ance that it will be free of fed eral controls while on the other hand asks the federal courts to issue orders controlling the ex penditure of state and local funds for the same purpose. Surely it cannot be seriously be lieved in official circles that the American people can be fooled by such working of both sides of the street. It would be interesting to know whether Attorney General Kennedy read what President Kennedy said in his message to Congress recommending enact ment of a federal-aid-to-educa tion bill. It was in that message that President Kennedy declared that “education must remain a matter of state and local con trol, and higher education a matter of individual choice." at government expense)