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VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 24
Brantley County Tax Assessors Raise
Land Valuation to $7.50 an Acre
Brantley County tax assessors
have raised the valuation of land
from $6 and acre to $7.50 an acre
for taxation purposes, it is an
nounced by John Wilson, tax
commissioner.
The tax assessors have also
undertaken to equalize all pro
perty values so that the burden
of taxation may rest equally on
all property owners.
The tax assessors are George
W- Herrin, chairman; W. E- Johns
and Leon A. Jacobs.
The .assessors are sending out
the following letter to all tax
payers in Brantley County:
All Tax Payers
of Brantley Co.
Pursuant to the recommenda
tion of the Grand Jury, and after
a careful study of the financial
condition and requirements of the
County, the Board of Tax As
sessors has instituted a program
of tax equalization for all pro
perty owners.
Your property has been asses
sed for taxes in the amount
shown below. The Board of Tax
Assessors will be in session on
the date shown below for the
purpose of answering any ques
tions and hearing any complaints.
This is a general applying
equally to all property owners. It
is designed to raise the neces
sary revenue for the proper op
eration of the County Govern
ment and to enable the County
to render the services required
by its citizens in a time of ever
incraesing costs of operation.
This program is not intended
to impose a hardship on anyone
but is meant to equalize the bur
den of operating the County on
all property owners fairly.
Respectfully
Board of Tax Assessors
Brantley County
Industrial
Corporation
Meets Thursday
The Brantley County Industrial
Development Corporation was
scheduled to meet Thursday, June
15, at 2:00 P. M. for the purpose
of re-activating the organization,
according to a letter sent out by
R. B. Brooker, president
The industrial Development
Corporation was organized in
Brantley County. The organiza
tion has been “dormant” for sev
eral years and has held no meet
ings for sometime.
Officers and directors of the
corporation were to be elected at
the Thursday’s meeting.
Personals
Wallen Crews has been present
ed a Certificate of Merit in Farm
Mechanics, for showing the
greatest farm mechanics ability
among the graduating seniors of
Hoboken High School.
Jack Whitehouse, son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. R. Whitehouse of
Jacksonville, Fla., visited Tommy
Tucker Jr., this week. He will re
turn home Friday.
Mrs. A. B. Dotson has return
ed to her home in Brunswick
after visiting friends and rela
tives in Nahunta for several days.
Mrs. Ocie Keen returned Sat
urday from Jacksonville where
she spent a few days with her
son Colonel Keen and his family.
Gene Crews, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell J. Crews, Hortense,
Cynthia Dowling, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. T. F- Dowling, Ho
boken, and Cecil Drury, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Cecil F. Drury,
Route 1, Hortense, won places on
the Dean’s List at South Georgia
College for the spring quarter,
1961. The Dean’s List is the high
est scholastic recognition award
ed at South Georgia.
Eugene Crews, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Russell Crews of Hortense,
received his diploma from South
Georgia College Friday, June 2.
4-H Club Members
Prepare for Contests
The winners of the Brantley
County 4-H contest who are to
represent the County at the
Southeast District Project A
chievement Meeting June 22, 23
and 24 are busy preparing them
selves for their contest.
The countv has a variety of
contestants from the entire coun
ty A list of contestants and
their projects will appear in next
weeks paper.
Nahunta Canning
Plant Is Operated
Mondays & Thursdays
The Nahunta Canning Plant is
now open for the processing of
fruits and vegetables. The plant
is being operated on Mondays
and Thursdays of each week be
ginning at 8:00.
Please be advised that no corn
can be taken after 12:00 and
nothing can be taken after 3:00.
Patrons cooperation in this
matter will be greatly appreciat
ed.
Baptist Village
Day Observance
Planned Sunday
BY DOROTHY SMITH
Waycross, Ga. — Baptist
Churches of Georgia will ob
serve the fifth annual Baptist
Village Day on June 18 as a big
expansion program is being pro
posed for Baptist Village, homes
for retired people.
“Brighten the tomorrows for
God’s older children” is the theme
of the Baptist Village Day ob
servance and a goal of $150,000
has been set for the special of
fering to be taken in more than
2,800 Baptist churches.
The offering will be used for
building new units and for the
maintenance of residents who
otherwise could not live at the
Village.
In preparation for this special
day in the life of Baptist Village,
all the Baptist churches of the
state have been supplied with
material relating to the ministry
of the Village, the newest agency
of the Georgia Baptist Conven
tion.
A third apartment-type resi
dential unit to accommodate 28
persons, an infirmary unit for 28
and the administration building,
which will be the service area
for the entire Village, are includ
ed in the million dollar building
plan proposed by the board of
trustees of the Village.
Completion of these proposed
buildings will increase the resi
dent capacity of the Village to
112, according to the administra
tor, the Rev. Harvey Mitchell.
The overall plan for the Village
calls for an ultimate capacity of
300 men and women.
The trustees have asked the
executive committee of the Geor
gia Baptist Convention to recom
mend to the Convention at its
annual meeting in November that
permission be granted to start this
building program.
Another phase of the Village
program will begin in August
when work will start on two cot
tages for couples, the administra
tor said.
One of the cottages will be
financed by a couple already ac
cepted for residence at the Vil
lage, while the other will be
built as a gift by an individual
and his church. Baptist Village
architects have been engaged to
design the cottages.
“Erection of these units will
mark a significant step in the
overall ministry for older people
at Baptist Village,” the Rev. Mr.
Mitchell said.
Dr. Searcy S. Garrison, execu
tive secretary of the Georgia Bap
tist Convention, in praising the
ministry of the Village said, “The
residents are receiving superior
care in comfortable quarters in
an atmosphere of love and se
curity.”
Dr. Dick H. Hall Jr., president
of the Village board of trustees,
expressed the hope that “we can
continue with our building until
we have reached the capacity of
300.”
“Then we can minister,” he
said, “to an ever-increasing num
ber of those who have come to
the time in life when they should
be surrounded by love and kind
ness, and enjoy Christian fellow
ship at its fullest.”
Residents at the Village come
from all walks of life and from
many areas of the state. The re
sidents share the cost of their
care at the Village according to
their ability to pay.
“Baptists of Georgia, through
the Baptist Village Day offering
and other contributions, supple
ment the cost of care for those
who are unable to pay the full
amount,” the administrator ex
plained.
Brantley Enterprise
New York Man
Killed in
Auto Accident
A 50 year-old New York man
was killed Monday afternoon,
June 12, when the automobile
which he was driving struck an
oncoming truck and plunged off
the highway on U. S. 301 south
of Nahunta, the State Patrol re
ports.
The Patrol identified the vic
tim as Mr. Frederick Hugo Schil
ler of Rosedale, Long Island, New
York.
The investigating trooper said
the Schiller auto was traveling
North on 301 and was attempting
to pass other vehicles. Seeing on
coming traffic, Mr. Schiller at
tempted to return to the north
lane of traffic and in so doing
struck the left rear wheel of the
approaching truck which caused
his vehicle to leave the road, turn
over several times, throwing the
victim from his car some twenty
odd feet from where the auto
came to rest.
Mr. Schiller was born in Ger
many and was a machinist in the
printing industry in New York.
He was a member of the Luther
an Church, and was returning
home from a vacation' in Florida
at the time of the accident.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Marie Henter Schiller of
Rosedale, N. Y.; two daughters,
Mrs. Sylvia Morgenfruh and Miss
Diana Schiller, both of Rosedale,
N. Y.; and one son, Frederick H.
Schiller Jr. of Rosedale, N. Y.
The remains were placed a
board the West Coast Champion
Tuesday night. June 13, and were
carried to Rosedale, N. Y., where
funeral services and interment
were to take place later in the
week.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of
local arrangements.
3 Injured When
Car Overturns
Marvin P. Milikin of Jackson
ville, Fla., his daughter and an
other passenger were injured
when the car Milikin was driv
ing left the road eight miles south
of Hoboken on Highway 121 Sun
day afternoon.
Troopers A. K. Dasher and W.
E. Peacock reported that the
driver apparently went to sleep
and ran off the left side of the
road and rolled over several
times.
Milikin suffered cuts and bruis
es, his daughter, Sandra Milikin
received a cut on her left leg and
right arm, and Trady F. Dudley
of Jacksonville suffered a broken
collarbone and two broken ribs.
The 4:20 P M. accident caused
total damage to the car which
Milikin said he bought last week.
Masons to Hold
Basket Supper
At Patterson
The Nahunta Masonic Lodge
and the Nahunta Order of East
ern Star will hold a basket sup
per at the Patterson Park, Pat
terson, Ga., Friday, June 23, at
8:00 P. M., it is announced by
T. H. Purdom, secretary of the
Masonic Lodge.
The basket supper will be for
all members of the Nahunta Ma
sonic Lodge 391 and their wives,
also for all members of the East
ern Star Lodge of Nahunta.
The supper is an annual af
fair and its purpose is to bring
together the Masons and their
wives and Eastern Star members
for an evening of fellowship and
recreation.
The Patterson Lions Club Park
is on Route 32 just outside the
town of Patterson. The park has
tables, a swimming pool and
other recreational facilities.
1951 Ford, 2-door, black. Good
Condition. $175. Lee Broome,
Broome Service Center, Black
shear, Ga. Phone HI 9-5941. 6-22
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 15, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
FOR SALE
Miss Evalyn Marvine Mizell
To Wed James White Simpson on July 19
Mizell^Simpson
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Sidney
Mizell announce the engagement
of their daughter, Evalyn Mar
vine, to James White Simpson,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Earle
Simpson of Buford, Ga.
Miss Mizell attended John B.
Stetson University and was
a member of Zeta Tau Alpha
fraternity. She is employed by
a business firm in Atlanta.
Mr. Simpson attended Georgia
Military Academy and the Uni
versity of Georgia where he was
a member of Alpha Tau Omega
fraternity. He is employed by an
insurance firm in Atlanta.
The bride is the granddaughter
of Rev. and Mrs. Marvin Swill
ing of Langdale, Alabama and
the late Mr. and Mrs. William
Mizell Sr. of Folkston. Mr. Simp
son is the grandson of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene Simpson of
Ware Shoals, South Carolina and
the late Mr. and Mrs. C. I. White
of Buford. He is the nephew of
the late Judge E. W. White of
Buford.
The wedding will take place
July 19 at the First Baptist
Church in Nahunta.
Georgia HD
Council Met
At Rock Eagle
Mrs. Nolan Davis Jr. of Hobo
ken opened the Annual Georgia
Home Demonstration Council
Meeting at Rock Eagle last week.
There were 909 women registered
the first day with more attend
ing later.
The program was full of speak
ers who had topics of interest to
Home Makers. Miss Emmie Nel
son, former Georgia 4-H Leader
and now field Representative of
National 4-H Service Committee,
spoke on “Home-Lasting Values
in a Changing World.”
Th e witty Mr. Leo Aikman,
Community Service Director with
the Atlanta Journal and Consti
tuion, had “Caution — People
Ahead,” as his topic.
Jack Barker of Ware County
who was the International Farm
Youth Exchange to Switzerland
last year gave an account of his
stay in that small country.
There were project group meet
ings where the Brantley County
delegation attended different
groups. “How Are Your Driving
Manners?” and “White House
Conference on Children and
Youth” were special interest
groups.
The Brantley County delegates
took part in the planned recrea
tion activities. The dress revue
was one of the most outstanding
ever held.
Those attending from Brantley
County were: Mrs. Davis, Mrs. C.
F. Dukes, Hoboken, Mrs. Gold
wire Fowler, Calvary Club, Mrs.
Allen Barnard and Mrs. Norman
Lewis, Nahunta Club. Mrs. Vir
ginia N. Raulerson, County Home
Demonstration Agent accompani
ed the group.
PINE GUM PRODUCTION
Georgia had approximately
3,500 producers of pine gum in
1960. They worked 24 million
faces and accounted for 81 per
cent of the nation’s total supply
of gum rosin and turpentine, re
port Extension foresters of the
University of Georgia College of
Agriculture.
Ray DePratter
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Funeral services were held
Saturday afternoon, June 10, at
three o’clock from the Nahunta
Baptist Church for Mr. Ray De-
Pratter, 56, with the Rev. C. E.
Milton, assisted by the Rev. Cecil
F. Thomas, conducting the rites
in the presence of a large num
ber of sorrowing relatives and
friends.
The body lay in state at the
church for one hour prior to ser
vices.
Interment followed in Hickox
Cemetery.
Mr. DePratter passed away
Thursday morning, June 8, at the
McCoy-Jackson Hospital in Folk
ston after being rushed there via
ambulance following a coronary
seizure suffered while working
in a tobacco field earlier in the
morning. His death removes one
of Brantley county’s most respect
ed citizens.
Mr. DePratter was bom in
Wayne, now Brantley, county and
he was the son of the late Robert
and Annie Hickox DePratter. He
received his education in the
schools of the county and was en
gaged in farming operations. For
the past twelve years, he had
driven one of the county school
buses and was a great favorite
with the school children who
rode on his bus. A member of the
Baptist Church, he was on the
Board of Deacons at the time of
his death. He was also an active
member of the Brantley County
Farm Bureau.
Survivors include his wife, the
former Miss Vera Cleland of Na
hunta; one daughter, Miss Alice
Sue DePratter of Nahunta; two
sons, Harry DePratter and Alton
DePratter, both of Nahunta; three
sisters, Mrs. J. B. Smith of St.
Simons Island, Ga., Mrs. J. O.
Strickland and Mrs. W. O. Strick
land, both of Nahunta; three
brothers, Dock DePratter of Simi,
California, Melvin DePratter and
Lonnie DePratter, both of Na
hunta.
Two grandchildren, several
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. Hilton Morgan, Orris
Lee, Joe MacDonald, Ralph Her
rin, Emory Morgan and Louis
Prescott.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the high es
teem felt for the deceased.
The family have the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Card of Thanks
We wish to thank all our
friends and relatives for their
many kindnesses to us on the oc
casion of the death of our loved
one, Ray DePratter. We deeply
appreciate the words of sympathy,
the floral tributes, the covered
dishes and every act of helpful
ness. We will always remember
your great kindness toward us in
our bereavement. May God bless
you all.
Mrs. Ray DePratter
and Family.
Farmers Reminded
Os Conservation
Reserve Compliance
Farmers who have Conserva
tion Reserve contracts were cau
tioned by George Dykes, Chair
man of the County Agricultural
Stabilization and Conservation
Committee, about compliance
with those contracts during the
current cropping and grazing
season.
The contracts call for no graz
ing or harvesting on the design
ated acreage and for planting
within the permitted acreage of
Soil Bank base crops on the
farm.
A farm with a Conservation
Reserve contract has a designat
ed acreage of land that has been
taken out of production and is
now devoted to conservation uses.
The conservation uses include
trees, grasses and legumes, water
storage, and plantings beneficial
to wildlife. In return for annual
payments, the designated land is
kept entirely out of production.
Before the planting season
started, each farmer with a Con
servation Reserve contract was
sent a notice of his permitted a
creage of Soil Bank base crops.
All small grains, oilseed crops,
and most row crops are consid
ered Soil Bank base crops under
the Conservation Reserve Pro
gram.
Mr. Dykes said failure to com
ply with one of these three con
tract obligations is the most fre
quent cause of loss of the an
nual Conservation Reserve pay
ment.
H. C. Overton Is
New Methodist
Pastor at Nahunta
Rev. H. C. Overton is the new
pastor who has been appointed to
serve the Nahunta Methodist
Church, according to announce
ment by the South Georgia Meth
odist Conference which met at
Columbus, Ga.
Rev. Mr. Overton comes to Na
hunta from Douglas where he
served a charge of Methodist
Churches. He succeeds Rev. R. C.
Kale who has been pastor at Na
hunta for two years.
Rev. Mr. Kale has retired and
moved to his home at Bainbridge,
Ga.
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A TWO-STAGE assault on
the right of Southern people to
run their own affairs is being
planned in Congress for this
year and next.
The strategy calls for action
this year further watering down
rule change would reduce from
two-thirds to three-fifths the
number of Senators required to
impose gag rule —a revision
which, with all 100 Senators
present and voting, would mean
that 60 instead of 67 Senators
could cut off debate. The likely
vehicle for new force legislation
is the six-bill package of anti-
South proposals introduced re
cently by Senator Joseph Clark
of Pennsylvania and Congress
man Emanuel Celler of New
York.
• * •
THE CLARK-CELLER bills,
if enacted as introduced, would
establish an absolute federal dic
tatorship over every facet of hu
man conduct. They would re
quire all counties in the South to
submit school desegregation
plans and make the Secretary of
Health, Education and Welfare
a czar to approve and enforce
them. They would give the At
torney General unlimited author
ity to go into court and require
compliance with his notions of
civil rights and would establish
a FEPC to tell every business
(Nat prf pared or prii
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Mrs. Emmie Hall
Funeral Service
Held Sunday
Mrs. Emmie Lee Hall, 50, died
at her home at Waynesville early
Friday morning after a short ill
ness. A native of Griffin, Geor
gia, she had made her home in
Brantley County for the past 25
years.
Survivors are her husband,
Fred C. Hall, Waynesville; 1 son,
Franklin R. Hall, Clearwater,
Fla.; 4 sisters, Mrs. Lois Cobb,
Griffin, Mrs. Ruby McLain, At
lanta; Mrs. James Brannen, At
lanta and Mrs. H. A. Malone,
Jesup; 1 brother, Sgt. Vernon
Nelms, Huntsville, Ala.; and 4
grandchildren.
Funeral services were held
Sunday afternoon at 2 P. M. in
the Waynesville Baptist Church,
with Rev. Marvin Guy, pastor of
ficiating.
F’allbearers were Fred Gibson,
Stewart Wiggins, N. S. McVigh,
Grady Boyd, C. D. Gibson and
E. A. Hunter.
Interment was in the Waynes
ville Cemetery under direction of
the NeSmith-Harrison Funeral
Home.
J. Thomas Keene
Funeral Service
Held Tuesday
Funeral services for James
Thomas Keene, 89, was held at
2:00 P. M. Tuesday, June 13, at
Oak Grove Methodist Church in
Brantley County near Nahunta,
with Rev. Nolan Harris of Jack
sonville officiating.
Burial was in Lane Cemetery,
Mr. Keene was a life-long resi
dent of Brantley County. He was
born in Camden County. He died
in a Jacksonville hospital.
He was a member of the
Methodist Church. Survivors in
clude two sons, James W. and
Worth L. Keene, both of Jack
sonville, Fla.; three daughters,
Mrs. Evie Clark and Mrs. Margie
Miller, both of Jacksonville, and
Mrs. Lettie Warner of Atkinson.
Georgia cash receipts from live
stock reached a record high of
over $420 million in 1960, ac
cording to the Georgia Crop Re
porting Service. This is a two
percent increase over the record
high of 1958 and about eight and
a half percent above returns for
1959.
in the country whom it could and
could not hire and fire.
The decision to aim the initial
attack against free debate in the
Senate is a recognition of the
fact that the only way punitive
and coercive laws requiring un
deviating conformity in human
relations can be enacted is
through short circuiting that
check-and-balance of constitu
tional government which stands
as the last safeguard of local
self-government in this country.
It means that those Senators
who believe the Constitution of
the United States means what it
says when it reserves to the peo
pie the right to determine their
own destiny in all areas not spe
cifically delegated to the Federal
Government must make a do-or
die stand on that point this year.
• • *
the Senate rule
governing lim
itation of de
bate and en
actment next
year of an
other force bill
in the field of
civil rights.
The proposed
THERE CAN BE no further
compromise of the constitutional
power of Senators to protect
the rights and interests of their
states and constituents through
talking issues out before the
country on the floor of the
United States Senate if our re
publican concept of limited na
tional government with ultimate
power in the hands of the states
and the people is to prevail.
Unfortunately for the future
of our nation the ranks of those
in the Senate who believe in that
concept have grown thin and
weary. The only promise which
I, as one of them, can make is
that it will not be thrown into
the discard so long as I can
stand on my two feet and up
hold it
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