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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 29, 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.
TALES OUT OF SCHOOL
State Department of Education
TRIBUTE OF A LIBRARIAN
— “The man who cuts meat in the
supermarket reads the most
gorgeous books on the world’s
religions.”
WHAT ABOUT A PIN FOR
YOUR BRAINY SCHOLARS?
The Atlanta Board of Education
has started something interesting:
pins for the top brains in the
graduating class. They hope it
will become a sort of high school
Phi Beta Kappa trophy, with
value and prestige. I was at a
dinner given recently out at
Henry Grady High School (and
paid for by the Board) to honor
its bright students, from the
eighth grade through the senior
class. They lighted the “lamp of
knowledge,” and each student
who had studied and achieved
the highest rank, stood in the
spotlight for a minute — WITH
HIS OR HER PARENTS — and
received the plaudits of the
crowd. It was a scene that old
Socrates and Plato and Aristotle
would have understood and liked.
Incidently, Marshall Gesner, the
1961 Georgia STAR Student, goes
to this high school. Roger Der
thick is principal. Why not a
Board pin for your community’s
bright students?
THE SUPERINTEN DENT
GOES TO THE WHITE HOUSE—
Dr. Claude Purcell, state super
intendent of schools, visited Wash
ington recently to talk 'with
Georgia Congressman and the
NEA and the U. S. Office of Ed
ucation officials about federal
support for schools, was a guest
of the White House liaison people
who help Kennedy keep in touch
with Congress about educational
matters. Said the liaison .men,
“You people in Georgia have
done very effective work in
helping us get more federal sup
port for schools, and we can see
the result of your work, here on
Capitol Hill.”
ANOTHER TV STATION —
We now have the site, at Pem
broke, for what we hope will be
come the 3rd or 4th educational
TV station in Georgia. Here’s the
present status of educational TV:
we are already operating Chan
nel 8 in Athens, in partnership
with the University of Georgia.
We are constructing our second
station in the Waycross area; it
will be ready when school opens
next September. We are negoti
ating, in partnership with the
Muscogee School Board, plans for
a station on Pine Mountain to
reach 12 counties, and the station
in the Savannah area, for which
we have FCc clearance, but no
money yet.
HERE'S FEDERAL AID IN A
NUTSHELL — Want a briefing on
federal aid for education? Here
it is. (1) In 1785, the Survey
Ordinance provided that from
public lands west of the 13
colonies, one lot in every town
ship should be dedicated to the
maintenance of the public
schools; (2) The Northwest Or
dinance of 1787 declared that
“schools and the means of educa
tion shall forever be encouraged.”
(3) Morrill Act, 1862, set up one
college in each state to promote
practical education; (5) G. I. Bill
for World War II and Korean
I THERE'S A REASON. . . I
A newspaper advertisement works for you 24 hours
a day — not for just split seconds.
A newspaper ad can be seen and read, over and
over again, at your leisure and it is not necessary for
the customer to be at a fixed place at a fixed time to
$ see or hear your ad message. ■
Busy merchandisers know these facts. That’s why
they are busy and why you will find their advertising g
elsewhere in the columns of this newspaper.
I The Brantley Enterprise I
Nothing Brings Results Like Newspaper Advertising.
By Bernice McCullar
veterans educated thousands; (6)
Public Laws 815 and 874 in 1950
sent money to all states for fed
erally impacted areas’ education
costs, and (7) In 1958, the 85th
Congress made a billion dollars
available under the National De
fense Education Act.
PAPA WENT, TOO — Proud
of his handsome wife —a former
teacher — who has just been
elected president of Georgia’s
270,762 — member PTA, Cicero
Johnson of Atlanta went to Kan
sas City, Missouri, to the national
PTA convention. Mrs. Johnson,
who will direct the Georgia
pTA’s mountain-moving power
to help the schools for the next
two years, was one of 50 state
presidents who walked in the
spotlight at the great convention
in Missouri. Mrs. Ralph Hobbs of
Columbus, a past state president,
regional vice-president, and
chairman of the national publici
ty committee, was elected na
tional secretary.
TOP TEN — Down at Ocilla,
Keely Phillips’ board of educa
tion has a banquet and awards a
statuette to the Top Ten in the
graduating class. This is the
third year. The Top Ten juniors,
sophomores, and freshmen are in
vited as guests. Parents, too. Best
thing I’ve heard in a long time.
Congratulations to board mem
bers A. A. Childs (chairman), L.
V. Walters, R. C. Owens, W. O.
Wingate, W. J. C. Brown. That’s
the kind of educational leader
ship we could use more of in
Georgia.
HERE’S ONE REASON WHY
THE SCHOOLS ARE BETTER IN
GEORGIA — Os the 36,171 teach
ers and school administrators on
Georgia’s state payroll, 90.2 per
cent of them have 4 year college
degrees, and fifteen years ago,
only 40 percent did. Even as late
as ten years ago, only 62 percent
did, Now 6,898 of them have
master’s degrees, and some have
their doctorates. We no longer
even issue certificates to begin
ning teachers 'who do not have
college degrees. There are 9.8 per
cent of our school people who are
still without degrees, and they
can still teach; but no beginning
teachers can get certificates with
out college degrees. What is more,
if schools insist on using “permit”
teachers who are not really
qualified, they will have to pay
half of their salaries, beginning
in September. Georgia teachers
have never been so well qualified
as they are today to teach Geor
gia children. You can ge proud!
GRANDMOTHER AND THE
SCHOOL — Dr. Claude Purcell,
state superintendent of schools,
sent a copy of the new school
bulletin this week to the Grand
mothers’ Club at Patterson, Geor
gia. He wrote, “I can’t think of
any group with more real inter
est in education than women who
have had children in school and
now have grandchildren there.”
Mrs. I. L. Echols is founder and
past president of the group, and
Mrs. T. N. Harrison is current
president.
WE’VE GOT SOMETHING
HERE! — Did you know that of
the three BILLION people in the
world now, about six hundred
million of them are children of
school age, between 7 and 16. Os
these six hundred million, only
half even have schools to go to.
The average education obtained
by the other three hundred mil
lion is fourth grade. But in our
country, we are rapidly approach
ing an average of 10th grade for
our citizens.
GRANDMOTHER AND THE
BABY — Down in Valdosta
where nearly 200 boys and girls
were graduated this month, there
were two people that interested
me most of all. One was the
valedictorian’s great grandmoth
er, a little lady delicate as an
egg shell and altogether lovely,
who came in a wheel chair to
see her fine, intelligent great
grandson graduate. The other was
the six-imonth old baby whose
mommy was one of the prettiest
graduates — and the only mar
ried girl —of the graduating
class. Mommy had finished her
work by telephone connected
with the school. Her baby and
her diploma are two proud pos
sessions of this beautiful girl. Bill
Nunn is superintendent o f
schools in Valdosta and Howard
Bridges is principal. Two board
members, Earl Mayo and Dr.
Ralph Thaxton gave out the dip
lomas and each of them had the
opportunity of presenting a dip
loma to his own child.
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Airstrips in All
Counties Urged to
Attract Industry
ATLANTA — In this modern
age airstrips go hand-in-hand
with growing industrialization,
in the opinion of Jack Minter,
director of the Georgia Depart
ment of Commerce, the state’s No.
1 agency for promoting industrial
expansion.
And the State Commerce De
partment is campaigning hard to
get an airstrip built in every one
of Georgia’s 59 counties as a
means of spurring new industry,
he said.
Minter said he didn’t intend to
announce this program until later
but when Kentucky Gov. Bert
Combs came to Georgia recently
and boasted about the 13 airstrips
his administration has built he
decided to disclose his depart
ment’s plans.
The commerce director also
matched Gov. Combs’ boasts,
made during the recent national
Jaycee convention in Atlanta, a
bout Kentucky’s four-plane fleet
to ferry visiting industrialists a
round his state.
Georgia, Minter revealed, soon
will have a state plane of its own
for that same purpose. The state
has purchased a surplus twin-en
i gine Beechcraft plane from the
Defense Department and is now
overhauling it for use on official
trips by the Governor and to
show visiting industrialists pos
sible Georgia plant sites, he said.
It is expected to be in operation
25 per cent.
In Georgia, the state has no
money for building landing strips.
But Minter said his department
is now processing 17 applications
for federal funds from localities
that plans to put up the full 50
per cent.
The State Commerce Depart
ment is preparing an airport di
rectory showing that Georgia
now has a total of 128 air fields,
ranging from all-weather ports
to simple landing strips, the di
rector further said.
Forestry Training
Southern pulp and paper mills
have provided summer forestry
training camps in nine states of
the region. More than 1,000 farm
youngsters have attended these
camps every summer for the past
decade.
Os Georgia’s 198 school sys
tems 159 are county systems and
39 are independent.
In 1960-61, Georgia had only
7 one-room schools; in 1930, there
were 3,422.
Fewer Cows, More
Milk Is Story
Os Dairy Industry
Fewer cows and more milk.
This, in a few words, is the
story of what is happening in the
Georgia dairy industry, an econ
nomist at the University of Geor
gia College of Agriculture said
this week.
Extension Economist Paul C.
Bunce backed up this statement
by pointing out that milk output
per cow has increased 31 percent
in the ten-year period from 1950
to 1960.
Even more spectacular gains in
milk production have been re
corded by a large number of
dairymen in the state. These are
the ones that use Dairy Herd Im
provement Association records as
a guide in their operations.
While the milk production of
the average cow in the state in
creased 1,120 pounds of milk in
this period, those on the DHIA
test program increased more than
twice that amount — 2,540 pounds.
In 1960 DHIA cows average
production was 8,372 pounds.
“Although progress has been
good in the entire dairy industry,
these herds where special empha
sis is being placed on good man
agement and increased produc
tion efficiency are continuing to
widen the gap,” the economist de
clared.
One method which is speeding
up improvement in efficiency is
artificial insemination, he said.
A DHIA study of 922 artificial
ly sired cows showed they pro
duced 883 pounds more milk than
their dams. This shows clearly
the value of making the better
bulls in the country available for
use in all dairy herds, he explain
ed.
There are now over 40,000 ar
tificially sired dairy cows in pro
duction in Georgia, and their im
proved production potential is be
ing handed down to their off
spring each year.
This improved efficiency of
dairy cows is worth about $1.7
million over what might have
been produced without the im
provement program, Mr. Bunce
figures.
Total milk production in 1960
was 996 million pounds. It came
from 212,000 cows.
Last year producers sold 720
million pounds of milk, and it
came from 152,000 fewer cows
than the 564 million pounds sold
in 1950.
The increasing efficiency com
bined with expending production
to meet the nutritional needs of
the people of Georgia add up to
a bright future for the dairy in
dustry, Mr. Bunce concluded.
Forestry Commission
Using Mist Blowers
For Weed-Tree Control
MACON — Some 17 mist blow
ers are now being used in the
Georgia Forestry Commission
weed-tree program, announced
Commission Director Ray Shir
ley.
Shirley stated that with the
elimination of the aerial spray
ing program, prompt by last
weeks helicopter accident, areas
designated for such operation
will be handled by the mist
blowers provided specifications
are met. Spraying is done during
the growing season and is avail
able on a contract basis, Shirley
added.
Commission Management Chief
W. H. McComb pointed out that
the areas to be treated by mist
blower must have trees not more
than 20 feet tall, a clearance of
660 feet between the spraying
area and crops, and the area must
be penetrable by tractor. The
girdling or tree injection method
is recommended for trees above
20 feet, McComb said.
The cost of the mist blowing
operation is $7.50 for the first 25
acres and $7 for each additional
acre. Requests for this operation
should be directed to the local
county ranger or district forester.
McComb emphasized that the
Commission’s weed-tree program
is being applied where scrub or
lowgrade hardwoods exist and
are preventing the growth of
valuable commercial pine. The
chemical used is not harmful to
human or animal life.
Smokey Says:
Use the outdoo-s with some
respect—thinks!
Research Shows
Silos Should Be
Filled Rapidly
Silos should be filled as rapid
ly as possible and sealed with an
air-tight cover as they are filled,
according to research results re
ported by Dr. W. J. Miller, asso
ciate dairy husbandman at the
College Experiment Station of the
University of Georgia.
Dr. Miller’s report contains the
findings of a study which he and
his colleagues, Dr. C. M. Clifton
and N. W. Cameron, have made
of the effect of rate of filling
and soybean flakes on nutrient
losses and silage quality.
In this experiment the slow rate
of filling increased the dry mat
ter losses of silage during fer
mentation by about six percent
of the total ensiled. The slow rate
of filling also lowered the quali
ty of the silage.
Dr. Miller said that the results
of the test are contrary to the
widespread popular belief that
when making silage from high
moisture forages, silos should be
filled slowly in order to develop
a higher temperature during fer
mentation.
Use of soybean flakes, a spec
ially processed soybean hull pro
duct which is highly digestible
and has a high water holding ca
pacity, unlike many products, did
reduce seepage losses appreciab
ly-
In this test four 8 x 24 foot
tower silos were filled with a
mixture of rye grass, crimson
clover and oats. Two silos were
filled slowly over a five-day per
iod and the other two were filled
rapidly in one day, the third day
of the five-day period. Immediat
ly after filling the four silos were
sealed with polyethylene plastic
covers which were weighted.
Soybean flakes at the rate of
146 pounds per ton of forage were
added to one of the slowly filled
silos and to one of those rapidly
filled.
CONFEDERATE
VETS ENTITLED
TO MEMORIALS
ATLANTA — Confederate vet
erans who died in service or
whose last discharge was honor
able are entitled to a free govern
ment headstone or marker the
same an any member of the U. S.
armed forces.
Veterans Service Director Pete
Wheeler says inquiries are often
made about applying for me
morials for unmarked graves of
Confederate soldiers buried in
private cemeteries.
Next of kin may choose an up
right headstone of marble or a
flat marker of marble, granite or
bronze for any eligible veteran,
depending on regulations of the
cemetery. Some private ceme
teries have restrictions on the
type and design of memorials.
Next of kin must pay transpor
tation and erection expenses for
the private cemetery memorial
after it is shipped at government
cost to the nearest freight station
designated.
Memorials are secured auto
matically for veterans buried in
national cemeteries and the en
tire cost of transporting this
marker and its erection will be
paid by the government.
Wheeler said the law does not
provide for a monetary allowance
instead of furnishing headstones
or markers, nor does it provide
funds for fences or any other pur
poses connected 'with improving
the grave site.
Georgia farmers used more fer
tilizer in the year ending June
30, 1960, than in the previous
year, USDA reports show.
J
Brantley Enterprise
Jig fishing for bass is a very popular sport,^par
ticularly in the warmwater streams and lakes of
south Georgia.
It’s very effective, too. ,
Shallow water, not over six feet deep say,
with plenty of cover is ideal for Jig fishing.
Around clumps of reeds, near old stumps, moss
^The lure, usually a rubber imitation of a reddog
or spring lizard with plenty of hooks, can e pgg
back and forth on top of the water or in a figure 8
pattern.
If there’s a bass around you can bet your
life that he’ll come a-runnin’ to investigate the
flutter on the water’s surface.
A stout cane pole from 12 to 16 feet long with
from 12 to 15 inches of 50-70 pound monofilament
line attached to the end is ideal for jigger fishing.
Sporty, too. . „ . *
Avery Rowell, a game and fish Ol “
of Nahunta, is an expert jigger. On his off
hours, Rowell is known to bring home quite a
few big bass taken on his homemade jig, tied
to the end of a cane pole.
Rowell isn’t too keen on telling the secret of his
success but many folks figure it’s the w’ay he dab
bles the lure on top of the water.
Taking the cane in his hands, Rowell flutters IT
back and forth with a steady motion until he’s got
his bass or he’s convinced there’s not one around.
Each area has its own name for jig fishing. I
read many in a magazine the other day. They
ranged from “doodle-socking” to “go-deyiling.” Re
gardless of what it’s called, jig fishing is an excit
ing way to latch onto old linesides.
Years ago, commercial fishermen employed
this method of taking large numbers of bass.
That was before the states passed laws against
sale of game fish taken from public waters.
This is a good testimonial of the effectiveness of
jig fishing.
Os course, picking the right places to fish is the
most important part of this popular form of fishing.
Good fishermen usually know a ’“bassy”
looking place when they see one. That’s where
you’re likely to find what you’re looking for.
The real lunkers hang around spots with plenty
of food around, but not far from a hiding place.
If you’ve never tried jigger fishing, give it a
whirl. Even an amateur is sometimes stunned when
a large bass grabs the lure and dances like a western
bad guy who has just been hit with a good load of
birdshot
Waycross Livestock Market
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA’S LEADING
LIVESTOCK MARKET
HONEST WEIGHTS AND COURTEOUS
SERVICE.
715 head of hogs were offered and
prices were as follows:
Regular No. 1 hogs 17.58; light No.
I’s 17.50; No. 2’s 16.01; feeder pigs
up to 21.00.
Cattle prices were as follows:
Calves 22.90; steers and heifers 21.-
25; cows 19.00; bulls 19.25.
Total volume was $2,546.27.
For pick-up or contact for sales please call
Woodrow Wainright Phone HO 2-3471 Nahunta,
Georgia.
Waycross Livestock Market
L. C. Pruitt, W. H. Inman and
O. A. Thompson, Operators and Managers
Nahunta, Georgia
GAME
AND
FISH
By FULTON LOVELL
Jigger Fishing
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