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VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 31
Tobacco Brings Record Price for First 4 Days
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Grayson (Joe) Sears
MARRIAGE RITES SOLEMNIZED JULY 23
Popwell, Sears Marriage Vows
Given in Lovely Home Wedding
Miss Gloria Annette Popwell,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clin
ton Popwell of Hortense, became
the bride of Claude Grayson (Joe)
Sears, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L.
Sears of Nahunta, in a double
ring ceremony performed on the
lawn at her home on Sunday af
ternoon, July 23, by Rev. Cecil
Thomas, pastor of Nahunta Bap
tist Church, assisted by Rev. A. C.
Blount, pastor of Thallman Bap
tist Church.
The bride marched from the
home on the arm of her father
who gave her in marriage. They
proceeded to a solid arch of mag
nolia leaves and other greenery
to the music of “The Melody of
Love” and “The Bridal Song”
played by Mrs. Jean Day of
Brunswick. The arch made a
complete setting with a large
stand of pink gladioli and pots
of sword fem on each side form
ing a crescent.
The bride is a graduate of Na
hunta High School and was em
ployed in Brunswick. The groom
also graduated from Nahunta
High and is a senior at the Uni
versity of Georgia. He is employ
ed in Americus.
The bride chose a gown of
bow knot lace over taffeta with
a captivating split pouse back
bustle and a wide sweep tram.
The fitted bodice was enhanced
by a transparent yoke which was
double edged with scalloped jew
eled venice lace and a scooped
neck line. She wore a two-tiered
illusion veil and carried a cascade
bouquet of yellow roses, white
fern and dainty bridal flowers.
Miss Merlene Hickox of Bruns
wick, maid of honor was dressed
in yellow brocade taffeta with
matching head piece and veil.
She carried a cascade bouquet
of feathered yellow carnations.
The bridesmaids were Miss
Gail Strickland of Jesup and
Miss Betty Dowling of Hortense.
They wore dresses of blue or
gandy over taffeta with match
ing head pieces and veils. Each
carried a cascade bouquet of yel
low baby chrysanthemums in yel
low netting and combed ribbon.
Edgar Sears, brother of the
groom, was best man. Jerry Pop
well and Danny Sears were the
ushers. Rex Popwell was ring
bearer.
Terri Popwell and Donna Pop
well were flower girls. They
were dressed in pink.
Mrs. Popwell, mother of the
bride was dressed in shrimp pink
and wore a purple orchid cor
sage. Mrs. Sears, mother of the
groom, was dressed in banana
yellow and wore a purple orchid.
Mr and Mrs. Popwell enter
tained with a reception in the
home following the wedding. The
home was beautifully decorated
with a mantle arrangement of
white carnations and gladioli and
a piano arrangement of blue
birds of happiness nesting in
greenery. The alcove had a cres
cent of dahlias, crepe myrtle and
pink carnations. The table was
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covered with a lace cloth over
pink. The punch bowl was en
circled with deeper pink dahlias,
asters and greenery. The four
tiered wedding cake was of pink
and blue, topped with a tiny
bride and groom and blue birds
of happiness.
Serving were Misses Charlene,
Freddye Lou and Sarah Anne
Gibson, Miss Patsy Walker and
Miss Billie Sue Strickland. They
wore pastel cottons and wrist
lets of pink asters.
Mrs. Jimmie Williamson of
Brunswick kept the bride’s book.
The young couple are at home
to friends in Americus, Ga.
Out-of-town guests included
Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Smallwood,
Blackshear; Mrs. Dave Morgan,
Marcia, David and Mary Anne,
Americus; Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Davis, Billie, Chuck and Max of
Macon; Mr. and Mrs. Joel Larry,
Baxley; Misses Marie and Evelyn
Jackson of Tennessee; Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Wages and Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Boyd of Jacksonville;
Mrs. Bertha Cook, Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Luring, Mrs. Bonnie
Hyres, Mr. and Mrs. Bill Ammons,
Mrs. Grayson Day and Crystal,
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Day, Mr. and
Mrs. Bobby Day, Mr. and Mrs.
Arnold Day, Mr. and Mrs. Dan
Wainright and Randy, Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Popwell, Rex and
Terri all of Brunswick. And
many from Nahunta, Hortense,
Waynesville, Browntown and
Thallman.
Miss Norina Kaye Crews Becomes
Bride of Mr. James O'Berry
Miss Norma Kaye Crews,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elias B.
Herrin, of Nahunta became the
bride of James O’Berry, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Frank O’Berry of
Folkston, at the home of her aunt,
Mrs. Katie Griffin, on Saturday
July 29, with the bride’s grand
father, Elder Frank Hickox, per
forming the double-ring cere
mony in the presence of members
of the families and close friends.
The bride wore a white day
time dress and wore a corsage of
pink sweetheart roses and carri
ed a white Bible.
Linda Crews, sister of the
bride, was her only attendant
and Loretta Riggins was the ring
bearer.
After the wedding Mrs. Katie
Griffin entertained with a recep
tion on the lawn. The bride’s
table was centered with the
three-tiered wedding cake top
ped with a tiny bride and groom.
Arrangements of pink flowers
surrounded the cake'* and punch
bowl.
Assisting Mrs. Griffin in serv
ing were Arlene Strickland. Gail
Walker, Lynda Crews and Mrs.
Billie Thrift.
The young couple will make
their home in Folkston where
Mr. O'Berry is employed.
Brantley Enterprise
More Males
Than Females
In Brantley
There are 99 more white males
in Brantley County than white
females, according to the 1960
census.
The total white population of
Brantley County is 5,118. Os this
number 2,851 are males and 2,-
[752 are females. This would seem
to indicate that women who want
to find a husband would do well
to come to Brantley County.
The same holds true of two
other counties in this area. Charl-
I ton County has a total white pop
ulation of 3,611. Os this number
1,815 are males and 1,622 are fe
males.
In Brantley County the total
non-white population is 784. Os
this number 392 are males and
392 females, exactly the same in
each case.
Four counties, Brantley, Charl
ton, Pierce and Wayne, have a
total population of 38,803. The to
tal white population of the four
counties is 30,383. Os this num
ber 14,895 are males and 14,293
are females. Wayne county is the
one county of the four with more
white females than males, the
white males totaling 5,657 and the
white females totaling 5,785.
Nahunta Masons to
Hold Called Meeting
Saturday, Aug. 5
A called meeting of the Na
hunta Masonic Lodge will be held
Saturday, Aug. 5, it is announced.
The secretary has issued the
following announcement to lodge
members:
“There will be a called com
munication of Nahunta Lodge 391
F. & A. M. Saturday, Aug. 5, at
8:00 P. M. Work will be in the
Entered Apprentice Degree. All
brothers urged to be present.
Visiting brothers welcome.”
C. Ray Johns, W. M.
T. H. Purdom, secretary.
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VEGETABLE PRODUCTION
Production of spring and sum
mer vegetables and melons in
Georgia for fresh market is es
timated at 17 percent below last
year’s level of production, ac
cording to the Georgia Crop Re
porting Service. Major vegetable
crops with reduced production
are cantaloupes, tomatoes, onions
and watermelons.
Tales out of School
By Bernice McCullar
MISS SAMANTHA HAS VAN
ISHED — If you have a teach
er image of a vinegary female
with her hair skinned back, and
a basic black dress and a plodding
mind, you are behind time in
your thinking. Today’s Georgia
teacher is likely to be a bright,
personable, stylish looking wo
man with a .master’s degree. She
may even be working on her
sixth year of college or her doc
torate. Os Georgia’s 34,000 teach
ers, 90.2 percent have college de
grees. We do not even grant a
certificate to teach now to any
beginning teacher who lacks a
college degree.
STATISTIC FOR NEXT YEAR:
Georgia’s 1,949 schools will en
roll 1,030,000 children, says Paul
Wills, director of our statistical
services.
When washing, drying, and
pressing silk or wool, use mo
derate temperatures, advises
Miss Leonora Anderson, head,
Extension clothing department.
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 3, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Laurie Colvin
Funeral Service
Was Held Tuesday
Mrs. Laurie C. Colvin, Hobo
ken, died in a Waycross hospital
late Sunday afternoon. She was
the former Miss Renna Minchew,
daughter of the late John R. Min
chew and Mary Harrison Min
chew.
She was a member of the Ho
boken Baptist Church and the
Federated Woman’s Club of Ho
boken.
Survivors include her husband,
L. C. Colvin, two sons, James M.
Colvin, Thomasville, and John
Calhoun Colvin, Brunswick; two
sisters, Mrs. Will Carter and Mrs.
Will Henderson, both of Way
cross; one brother, J. R. Minchew,
Waycross; four grandchildren;
and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were held
Tuesday afternoon at three o’-
clock in the Hoboken Baptist
Church. Interment was in Green
lawn Cemetery.
Personals
Hoke Wilson was a patient in
the Waycross Hospital for three
days for treatment for a heart
condition. He has returned to his
home in Nahunta and is much
improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey High
smith visited Mr. Highsmith’s
parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. B. High
smith a week until last Thurs
day. Aubrey Highsmith served
two years in the army. They will
reside in Augusta, Ga., where
they will both teach in the Au
gusta school system.
Carl Highsmith, son of Mr. and
Mrs. S. B. Highsmith, visited his
parents for a week recently. He
is in the army and is stationed
at Red Stone Arsenal, Ala.
Mrs. C. E. Higginbotham of
Waynesville spent last week with
her sister Mrs. C. L. Mosley of
Jesup.
Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Higginbo
tham and Janice and Mr. and
Mrs. Gardy Boyd spent Sunday
afternoon at Crooked River
State Park near St. Marys, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Middleton
and son Bill of Miami visited
Mrs. Maggie Middleton for the
past week. Mr. and Mrs. Middle
ton left for home Monday. Mrs.
Maggie Middleton and grandson
Bill will leave for Miami next
Sunday, Aug. 6.
Mr. and Mrs. Sammy Middle
ton and sons Doug and Sandy of
St. Simons visited Mrs. Maggie
Middleton for a week.
Mrs. Verla Garrett of Alma
visited Mrs. Maggie Middleton
the past weekend.
Miss Norma Kay Crews, bride
elect, was honored with a bridal
shower at the home of Mrs. Ty
Raulerson with Mrs. Katie Grif
fin as co-hostess on Thursday
evening, July 27.
Mrs. Lula Brown left Thurs
day of last week for a trip to
California and New Mexico. She
will visit Mrs. A. A. Glenn in Al
buquerque, N. M. and Mrs. R. H
Ford in Chico, Calif. She will be
away two months.
Mr. Hoke Wilson has returned
home from Memorial Hospital
where he has been a patient for
several days.
Hoboken Youth Heads
From The Waycross Journal-Herald
It always makes us real proud to read of a Waycross
area youth being honored by election to some high state
office.
Robert Page of neighboring Hoboken was chosen recent
ly to be president of the Georgia Association of Future
Farmers of America for 1961-62.
The FFA is an outstanding organization of farm boys
who learn by doing. Their projects command the respect
of adults because they are practical.
Young Page, for example, has a supervised farming pro
gram in vocational agriculture which includes swine, corn,
cattle, poultry, pastures and gardens.
Now a senior at Hoboken High, he plans to be a vo
cational agriculture teacher.
In addition to his FFA work, he participates in numer
ous other school activities including athletics. He is also
youth pastor and a Sunday School teacher at his church.
A boy has to be outstanding to be elected president of
the state FFA organization because the competition is
keen.
We’re happy that Hoboken’s Robert Page was selected
He reflects credit on his parents, his FFA Chapter advisor
and the people of this area.
Robert Page Elected President
Georgia Association of FFA
COVINGTON, GA., July 28 —
A 17-year-old Hoboken youth,
Robert Page, was elected presi
dent of the Georgia Association
of Future Farmers of America for
1961-62 here Thursday, July 27,
by 350 delegates in attendance.
Elected to serve as vice-presi
dents of the association were Earl
Cheek Jr. of Perry; Bud Wiley
Jr. of Eastanollie; Rufus Cantrell
of Taylorsville; Danny Brett of
Wadley; Don Mahaffey of Blairs
ville; and Donald Shirah of Ca
milla. Selected as secretary was
Morgan Cantrell of Ellijay.
Page, who plans to be a teach
er of vocational agriculture, is a
senior at Hoboken High School.
He has been a member of the Ho
boken High FFA Chapter for
four years and has held several
offices in his local chapter.
The new Future Farmer presi
dent has been active in FFA
work and agriculture. His super
vised farming program in voca
tional agriculture includes swine,
corn, cattle, poultry, peanuts, pas
ture and garden.
Page has also been active in
his school, church and community
work. He is a member of the Fu
ture Teachers of America, Beta
Club, Science Club and the let
terman’s club. Page participates
in basketball, baseball and track
at Hoboken High and is the youth
pastor and Sunday School teach
er at the Mt. Calvary Baptist
Church.
Retiring president Don Thomp
son handed over the gavel to
Page shortly before noon, Thurs
day, as the eight new officers
took their posts for the closing
ceremqny of the convention.
Folk Dance Club
Is Organized for
4-H Club Members
A group of Nahunta 4-H mem
bers met and organized a Folk
Dance Club last Thursday night
at the Okefenoke R. E. M. C. The
purpose of this Club is to pro
vide better recreation for 4-H
Clubbers.
Under the rules set up by the
boys and girls for this Club, Act
ive 4-H Club members who will
be in the Bth, 9th and 10th
grades during the 1961-62 school
term are eligible.
The officers elected are: San
dra Jacobs, Pres.; Jack Brooker,
Vice-Pres.; Nancy Moody, Sec.-
Treas.; Tommy Graham, Report
er; Wendell Herrin, Parliamen
tarian. Advisors: Dr. and Mrs. J.
L. Walker, Mrs. Wilder Brooker,
Mrs. Cecil Moody, and Mrs. Doro
thy Graham. Dr. and Mrs. Wal
ker are giving their time as in
structors for this group.
Laverne Middleton was hostess
and Jack Brooker was host for
this meeting.
Anyone who is interested in be
coming a member should contact
the County Agents Office or of
ficer of the Club.
Traffic accidents are the lead
ing cause of accidental death a
mong rural youth under 25 years
of age, reports the National Safe
ty Council.
Rural Carrier
Examination Set
For Hoboken Office
An examination for Rural Car
rier for the post office at Hobo
ken, Georgia, will be open for ac
ceptance of applications until Au
gust 22, 1961, the Commission an
nounced.
Applicants must take a written
test for this position. They must
have resided within the delivery
of the office for one year immedi
ately preceding the closing date
of the examination. In addition,
they must have reached their 18th
birthday on the c 1 sing date for
acceptance of nations. There
is no age limit. However, persons
who have passed the age of 70
may be considered only for tem
porary renewable appointments
of one year.
Complete information about the
examination requirements and in
structions for filing applications
may be obtained at the office for
which this examination is being
announced. Application forms
must be filed with the U. S. Civil
Service Commission, Washing
ton 25, D. C. and must be receiv
ed or postmarked not later than
the closing date.
UNITED STATES
CIVIL SERVICE
COMMISSION
Births
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Thomas of
Hoboken announce the birth of a
baby girl born in a Waycross
hospital Wednesday, July 26. She
weighed seven pounds six ounces
and has been named Marjorie
Rebecca.
Efir Mi MM M T* *M A C
HEKMAN lALfnAWC
re pit Reports From
WASHINGTON
mi •
THERE IS A growing con
cern throughout the nation
about the tendency of courts at
all levels to favor the criminal
at the expense of society.
Police officials and prosecut
ing attorneys see a direct re-
;
ment through pleading violation
of their “rights”. Nowhere is the
situation more acute than here
in the nation’s capital where
Congress for the second time in
as many years has had to in
crease the strength of the Metro
politan Police Department in an
attempt to cope with a reign of
terror which has made it danger
ous for even able-bodied men to
walk alone on the streets at
night and has left women unsafe
in their own homes. Police re-
FFA
port the criminal elements are
well briefed on the advantages
favorable court decisions have
given them and do not hesitate
to lecture arresting officers about
them.
A NOTORIOUS example of
what is happening is the case
of Andrew Mallory, a Washing
ton Negro convicted on the ba
sis of his own voluntary con
fession and sentenced to death
for rape. The United States Su
preme Court held that Mallory’s
confession could not be used
against him because he was
held and questioned by police
too long before he was charged
with the crime.
That decision left District of
Columbia authorities with no
choice but to free Mallory be
cause the victim of and only
witness to his heinous crime
was driven insane by her expe-
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• • •
Tobacco prices on the Black
shear auction market reached a
record level for the first four
days of the 1961 marketing sea
son.
A total of 2,815,174 pounds had
been sold through Tuesday of
this week, for $1,711,080 — an
average price per pound of SBO -
78.
This compares with 2,113,168
pounds sold during the first four
days last year for $1,203,142, or
$56.80 per hundred pounds aver
age.
Tobacco prices on the Black
shear market and throughout
the belt reached an all-time
high on Monday of this week.
The belt average; on that day
was $61.62 per hundred. Black
shear’s average was $62.27, the
highest for any day in the history
of the local market.
Sales continue brisk and the
Stabilization Corporation receipts
for the Georgia-Florida belt are
running only 1% to 2% of baskets
sold, less on the Blackshear mar
ket.
Sales in Blackshear for the
first four days of this season
were as follows:
Thursday, July 27, 687,232
pounds for $422,973.87; average
$61.54.
Friday, July 28 — 695,384
pounds for $415,151.70; average
of $59.70.
Monday, July 31 — 717,800
pounds for $446,997.83; average of
$62.27.
Tuesday, August 1— 714,758
pounds for $425,957.39; average
of $59.59.
Visitors with Mrs. Alice High
smith over the weekend were Mr.
and Mrs. James Harrison and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Braddock, all of Jacksonville,
and Mr. and Mrs. Connie Harri
son and little nephew, Mike and
Mrs. J. B. Highsmith and Mich
ail of Brunswick.
Puxhing a child to learn too
rapidly beyond his rate and pat
tern of growth can contribute
to mental illness, says Miss
Audrey Morgan, head of the
Georgia Extension family life
department.
rience and could not testify.
Within six months Mallory waa
back in jail on charges of as
sault and housebreaking and,
after serving a sentence for
those offenses, went to Phila
delphia where he committed an
other rape and was freed by a
jury verdict which the trial
judge termed from the bench as
“a gross miscarriage of jus
tice."
The Mallory case precedent
has hamstrung law enforcement
in Washington and Congress this
year is considering remedial leg
islation for the third time since
1958.
* * •
OTHER RECENT federal,
state and local court decisions
dealing with arrests, searches,
seizures of evidence and police
methods have had equally-det
rimental effects upon law en
forcement. Particular abuses
have occurred in the use of the
plea of insanity and in the cod
dling of juveniles guilty of
adult crimes. In Washington
alone insanity pleas now ac
count for one-fourth of the de
fenses against crime, taking ad
vantage of the Supreme Court’s
so-called “Durham Rule” which
requires the prosecution t o
prove the defendant’s sanity in
stead of the accused to prove
his insanity.
While no right - thinking
American would tolerate police
state methods of law enforce
ment or condone the violation of
anyone’s constitutional rights,
the conscientious and law-abid
ing citizen nevertheless has the
right to expect the courts to
protect him, his loved ones and
their home from the lawless
and the depraved. The inevit
able result of placing the rights
of individuals ahead of the
rights of society can be nothing
less than anarchy.
