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VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 37
Notice to Delinquent Tax
Payers of Brantley County
In preparing our 1962 Digest, I
find that a good many people
have purchased car and truck
tags for 1961 without paying
their 1960 Tax on the Vehicles as
required by Law.
If this information is request
ed by your Grand Jury, it will
have to be made available to
them.
If there is any doubt, whether
your Taxes are paid or not, please
check with my office, it may
save you money, trouble and em
barrassment.
Yours very truly,
John M. Wilson
Tax Commissioner
Brantley County
Nahunta, Georgia
Liquor Still
Destroyed by
Sheriff Crews
A liquor still was destroyed
last week by sheriff J. Walter
Crews and state revenue agent
Frank Bennett.
The still, a 200 gallon capacity
outfit was found about five miles
southeast of Hickox.
No one was found at the still,
the sheriff stated.
Smyrna Cemetery
Will be Cleaned
The Smyrna Cemetery near
Lulaton will be cleaned off Wed
nesday, Sept. 20, it is announced
by W. R. Strickland. All persons
interested in the Smyrna Ceme
tery are requested to come to the
burial grounds on that date to
help to clean it off. Please bring
tools for working.
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Grand Jury to
Elect School
Board Member
A member of the County Board
of Education from the Hortense
district will be elected by the
Grand Jury at the forthcoming
session of Brantley County Sup
erior Court.
The present member of the
Board of Education from the
Hortense district is A. S. Rowell.
Mr. Rowell is postmaster at Hor
tense.
Booth
Phillip
in Florida
Died
Phillip Booth, 51, a former
Brantley County citizen, died in
Florida Tuesday, Sept. 12.
Mr. Booth has relatives and
friends in Brantley County who
will regret to learn of his death.
No details of the plans for the
funeral been received.
page^Hollowell
Miss Betty Page, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. David S. Page of
Nahunta, was married to Mr.
Walter Hollowell at Titusville,
Fla.. Saturday, Sept. 2.
The ceremony was performed
in the First Methodist Church at
Titusville. Both young people are
employed at Cape Canaveral
where they will make their
home.
Negro Youths
Accused of
16 Burglaries
Two Negro youths, now in the
Pierce county jail, have admitted
carrying out 16 burglaries in
Blackshear and vicinity during
the past eight months. Sheriff J.
H. Pittman reported this week.
The boys, both juveniles, were
picked up in Waycross on a shop
lifting charge and turned over
to Sheriff Pittman after investi
gation connected them with the
offenses in Pierce county.
The series of burglaries at
Blackshear began in February
and had continued into August of
this year.
The boys, 12 and 14 years of
age, were originally from Lyons.
Ga and reported committed the
burglaries on trips to Blackshear
at various times. They also re
portedly confessed two burglaries
in Hoboken.
South Georgia
Singers to Meet
At Brunswick
The Old South Georgia Sing
ing Convention will be held Sat
urday and Sunday at the Nation
al Guard armory in Brunswick.
Roy Harper, Hortense, presi
dent of the convention, and Mrs.
G. A. Lewis, Waynesboro, an
nounced plans for the annual
event Saturday.
They reported singers have ac
cepted invitations to attend from
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee,
South Carolina and North Caro
lina as well as from all parts of
Georgia.
Saturday’s sing will be from 7
to 10 P. M., and Sunday’s singing
will be all day. Lunch will be
served the singers on Sunday.
The program will consist almost
entirely of singing non-sectarian
hymns. On the planning commit
tee to complete the program and
arrangements are E. L. Smith,
Sterling, and J. M. Dorsey and
Clarke Wiggins, Brunswick.
The convention was organized
in 1875 by “Uncle” Billy Royal
of Irwin County.
Personals
Postmaster Parker Dodge of
Nahunta attended the two-day
Postal Workshop conducted for
the First and Eighth District post
masters on Jekyll Island Sept.
10-11.
Mrs. Maggie Middleton of Hor
tense has been appointed public
relations worker for Boys Estate
near Brunswick. She will work
in about' half the state.
Mrs. Gordon and son G. W. of
Frost Proof, Fla., spent Last week
with Mrs. Maggie Middleton and
other Brantley County relatives.
Pratt Roberson of Atlanta visit
ed his sister, Mrs. Pearl Waits
last week. He returned to Atlanta
Saturday.
Serving aboard the attack car
rier USS Forrestal operating out
of Norfolk, Va., is Owen K. Her
rin Jr., boilerman second class,
USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen
K. Herrin Sr. of Route 1, Nahun
ta.
Mrs. F. O. Cherry, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. (Rock) Johns,
Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Frank Thom
as, Mr. and Mrs. Roger Strick
land and families are in the area
of the big hurricane Carla in
Texas.
Leon Davis Jacobs of Hoboken
and Avery Wade Strickland of
Nahunta have been enrolled as
sophomore students at the Medi
cal College of Georgia at Au
gusta.
Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland left
Tuesday for Ohio where she will
visit relatives.
Guests at the home of Mrs.
Alice Highsmith over the week
end were Mr. and Mrs. H. J.
Braddock of Jacksonville, Mrs.
Arvis Johnson, Waynesville and
Mr. and Mrs. John Cot and daugh
ter, Debra of Woodbine.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johns and
family of the Hickox community
have moved to Okeechobee, Fla.
Bachlott Church
Os God Revival
Begins Sunday
The Bachlott Church of God
will begin a revival meeting Sun
day, Sept. 17, it is announced by
the pastor Rev. L. C. Allen.
Services will begin each night
at 7:30, with special music and
singing. Rev. R. L. Anderson of
Savannah will be the evangelist
for the meeting.
The meeting will continue
through Sunday. Oct. 1.
A district Youth and Fellow
ship meeting will be held Mon
day night, Sept. 18, the pastor
stated. All the people of this
section are cordially invited to
attend all the services at the
Bachlott Church of God.
The new technique of direct
seeding as a method of planting
trees, some of which is done from
helicopters and fixed-wing air
craft, is gaining in acceptance a
mong pulp and paper company
foresters. During the 1960-61 sea
[son, 4,859 acres of land in the
South were planted by the direct
! seeding method.
Brantley Enterprise
Atkinson Methodist
Homecoming Day
Is Sunday Sept. 17
Homecoming Day will be ob
served at the Atkinson Metho
dist Church Sunday, Sept. 17, it
is announced by C. S. Kizer.
The church building has been
entirely paid for, Mr. Kizer stat
ed, and no collection will be tak
en on the Homecoming Day.
All the people of this section
are invited to attend. Preaching
services will be held in the
morning and dinner will be serv
ed on the church grounds at
noon.
Hortense PT A
Plans Work for
School Terms
A called meeting was held for
the Hortense School Parent
Teacher Association executive
committee members in the school
lunchroom for .an informal dis
cussion, planning the coming
year’s activities.
The meeting was called to or
der by the president, Mrs. Merle
Mills, with the invocation given
by Mrs. Iris Smith.
Executive board members for
the coming year are Mrs. Merle
Mills, president; Mrs. Lilly Mae
Brauda, vice president; Mrs. Lot
tie Strickland, secretary; Mr.
Robert Strickland, treasurer and
finance.
Mrs. Iris Smith, program; Mrs,
Mary Harper, hospitality; Mrs.
Dorothy Brauda, year book; Mrs.
W. J. Rowell, publicity; Mrs. Ida
Strickland, membership; Mrs.
Dorothy Brauda, chairman of
room .mothers; Mrs. Louise O’-
Berry, health and summer round
up; Mr. Dewitt Drury, recreation.
Truck Turns
Over with
4,000 Chickens
A truck carrying 4,000 chick
ens overturned near the Brant
ley-Ware county line Saturday
morning, Sept. 9, about six o’-
clock.
The truck was loaded with the
4,000 fryers at the chicken farm
of J. Q. Smith Jr., near Waynes
ville. The driver was Linnon
Jack Crews, according to sheriff
Crews.
About one-fourth of the chick
ens were killed when the truck
overturned and most of the re
maining chickens were scattered
over the area, making it almost
impossible to recapture all of
them.
The driver of the truck claim
ed that another car almost ran
into his truck and drove him
off the road where the truck
overturned. The truck belonged
to a Douglas poultry firm, sher
iff Crews reported.
Soil Fertility
Meeting Set
For Monday
The Brantley County Soil Fer
tility Kick-Off Meeting is set for
Monday night Sept. 18, at the
Red Pig Drive In Restaurant in
Nahunta.
At this meeting Brantley Coun
ty farm leaders and homemakers
will be presented a program that
can add thousands of dollars an
nually to the economy of Brant
ley County.
Brantley County Agricultural
Agent, George A. Loyd, says that
the potential benefit that farm
ers in the County could derive
from this program, could equal
to a fifty percent increase in to
bacco allotments, and is of such
great economic importance to the
welfare of the people of this
County that the people of
Brantley County cannot afford to
fail in giving it their full sup
port.
LEADING PULPWOOD
COUNTIES
Pulpwood production figures
for 1960 show that three Georgia
counties each produced over 100,-
000 cords of round pulpwood
during the year. W’are County,
with over 130,000 cords, was the
leading pulpwood producing
county, according to C. Nelson
Brightwell, Extension forestry
narketing specialist.
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 12«, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 14, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Cecil Highsmith
Funeral Service
Held Thursday
Mr. Cecil Edwin Highsmith, 72,
passed away Tuesday, September
12, at his home on Route 1, Na
hunta, following a short illness.
Mr. Highsmith was born near
Lulaton and was the son of the
late Joseph and Janie Wainright
Highsmith. He received his edu
cation in the schools of the coun
ty and was a member of the
Bethlehem Primitive Baptist
Church. In July of this year, he
and Mrs. Highsmith celebrated
their Golden Wedding anniver
sary.
Until ill health forced his re
tirement, he had engaged in
farming operations in the county.
Os affable manner and genial
disposition, Mr. Highsmith was
well-known throughout this sec
tion and his death brings personal
sorrow to a host of relatives and
friends.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Mary Cordelia Todd Highsmith
of Nahunta; two daughters, Mrs.
E. H. Geiger of Brunswick and
Mrs. Sam Chesser of Nahunta;
eight sons, Collis Highsmith and
Ellis Highsmith, both of Nahunta,
Willie Highsmith of Augusta,
Clarence Highsmith and Albert
Highsmith, both of Jacksonville,
Fla., Ruel Highsmith of Sheridan,
Ark., Talmadge Highsmith of
Oakland, Calif., and Morris High
smith of Cross City, Fla.; one
sister, Mrs. Ruth Davis of Bruns
wick; four brothers, Henry High
smith of Waycross, Joe High
smith, Jasper Highsmith,
and Felix Highsmith, all of Jack
sonville; four half-sisters, Mrs.
Amos Warren of Nahunta, Mrs.
Verdie Bell of Hoboken, Mrs.
Mary Trembly and Miss Vinie
Highsmith, both of Jacksonville,
Fla.
Thirty-eight grandchildren, 10
great grandchildren, several
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon, September
14, at two o’clock from the Beth
lehem Primitive Baptist Church
with Elder Elton Dowling and
Elder Oliver Lewis conducting
the rites.
Interment followed in Bethle
hem Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were
Messrs. C. L. King, Avery Strick
land, E- L. Sears, R. B. Brooker,
J. Wilder Brooker and Allen
Barnard.
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 be
reavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of ar
rangements.
Farm Bureau Sets
District Meetings
Macon, Ga. — The Georgia
Farm Bureau Federation today
reported a schedule of district
meetings throughout the state.
The farmer conferences will serve
as a prelude to the staging of the
Federation’s gigantic, .annual, vo
luntary membership drive.
Harry L. Brown, Georgia Farm
Bureau Federation President of
Mountain City, in announcing the
schedule extended an urgent in
vitation to County Farm Bureau
Officers, County Membership
Committees, County Office Secre
taries, County Resolution Com
mittees, and others to attend.
Schedule of dates and places
for the district Farm Bureau
meetings are as follows:
First District: September 13,
Claxton, High School Cafeteria;
Second District: September 15,
Moultrie, Agricultural Building;
Third District: September 18, El
laville, American Legion Home;
Fourth and Fifth Districts: New
nan, Coweta Veterans Club.
Sixth District: September 19,
Irwington, Wilkinson County
High School; Seventh District;
Rome, Plantation House; Eighth
District: September 14, Waycross,
Ware County High School; Ninth
District: September 25, Gaines
ville, Georgia Anne Restaurant;
Tenth District; September 21,
Washington Wilkes High School.
Each of the district conferences
will begin at 7:00 P. M.
About 1,150 persons died from
poisonous gas last year in the
United States; 800 of these deaths
occurred in and around the home,
according to Miss Lucile Higgin
botham, head of the Extension
health department.
Nahunta High PTA
Will Meet Tuesday
The Nahunta High School P. T.
A. will meet at the High School
cafetorium Tuesday, September
19, at 8:00 P. M.
The members of the faculty
will lead the program entitled
“Do You Know Your Child’s
Schedule?” Parents will visit the
classrooms and review their
child’s entire schedule with the
teachers.
This affords a most important
opportunity for the parents and
teachers to discuss many things
relative to the successful pro
gram. Later in the year another
program will be planned to re
turn to the classrooms for an
evaluation of the work for the
year. All High School parents are
urged to make a real effort to at
tend this first meeting.
Kneeknocker Club
Holds Skating Party
The Kneeknocker Club recent
ly went on a skating and bowl
ing party.
Twenty members attended and
we all had a wonderful time. The
following parents accompanied
us: Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Walker,
Mrs. Cecil Moody, Mrs. Herschel
Herrin, Mrs. Dorothy Graham,
Mrs. Sidney Hulett, and Mrs.
Claytin Riggins.
The regular meeting was held
on Thursday night, Sept. 7th, at
the R. E. A. building. Martha
Thomas and Ken Walker served
refreshments.
Tommy Graham,
Reporter.
Dykes Family
Holds Reunion
A reunion of the members of
the Dykes family was held at
the home of Mrs. C. B. Keen on
Sunday Sept. 10.
Present were Mr. and Mrs. C.
B. Keen and children of Jackson
ville; Mrs. Betsy Dykes, Gail
Spradley and Mrs. Sarah Mc-
Cloud and children of Waycross;
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Pittman and
daughter, Baldwin, Fla.; Mr. and
Mrs. Ward Roberson and son,
Screven; Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie
Morgan and Othelia, Mrs. Jos. B.
Strickland, Mr. and Mrs. J. T.
Morgan and Marian, Tyrus Man
ning, Mrs. Huey Ham and baby,
Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns, Mrs.
Mollie Highsmith, Mr. and Mrs.
I. F. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. R. E.
Lee, Mr. and Mrs. George Dykes
and children, Mr. and Mrs. T. B.
Hickox and children, Mrs. Pat
Hinton and Dan Jones.
A basket dinner was served
picnic style on tables outside.
Lee^Harris
Miss Edna Grace Lee, daughtr
of Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Lee, be
came the bride of J. W. Harris,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Harris,
at the Nahunta Baptist Church on
Wednesday evening, 8:45 with
Rev. Cecil Thomas performing
the double-ring ceremony.
The bride wore a white batiste
street length dress. Her corsage
was a purple orchid.
Immediately after the wedding
a reception was held in the secial
hall of the church. Mrs. Jimmy
Herrin and Mrs. Edward Chancey
were the hostesses. They were as
sisted in serving punch and cake
by Mrs. Gordon Howard and Miss
Arlene Strickland.
They will make their home in
Nahunta where both are employ
ed.
Moore^Duhose
Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Moore of
Nahunta announce the engage
ment of their daughter, Elsie
Moore to Mr. Carl Elsworth Du-
Bose, son of Mr. and Mrs. Law
son Dußose of Nahunta.
The marriage will take place
early in October. The time and
place of the wedding will be an
nounced later.
Mr. Dußose is employed in
Carrollton, Ga.
NYLON WHITENERS
Specialty products known as
nylon whiteners or brighteners
are available. They are effective
aids in maintaining the white
ness level of nylon garments
when used repeatedly, and can
be used to improve the appear
ance of use-discolored nylon, ac
cording to Miss Leonora Ander
son, head of the Extension cloth
ing department.
Brantley Superior Court
Will Convene Next Monday
4-H Club Congress
Met in Atlanta
By Sandra Jacobs
The 19th Annual State 4-H
Club Congress was held in At
lanta.
District winners from Brantley
County attending were Terry
Thomas, Tractor Maintenance;
and Sandra Jacobs on the Recrea
tion Project.
The Recreation demonstrations
were held by the Recreation
Specialist, Mr. M. L. Van Winkle.
Eleven contestants were compet
ing for the first place title and
the trip to Chicago.
Although I didn’t place, I
scored a blue ribbon. Terry
Thomas demonstration was held
at the Southeastern Fair grounds.
The Congress was officially
opened Tuesday night at a ban
quet. We attended 3 banquets,
and 2 dances. We attended a
breakfast which was quite an ex
perience. We met different people
from all over Georgia and In
ternational Farm Youth Ex
changees from Japan and Ecua
dor. This was the most thrilling
experience of my life and I learn
ed many things from this trip.
Friendships were made which
will never be forgotten even
though we may never see these
people again. I truly enjoyed all
of these experiences and I am de
termined to work even harder in
my 4-H projects.
Retail Sales
Increased
In Brantley
Retail sales in Georgia during
the second quarter of this year
showed a decrease over the same
period in 1960, a Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce Survey
revealed today.
Sales during the second quarter
of 1961 totaled $1,276,461,099 as
compared to $1,291,733,100 during
the same quarter last year.
Second quarter business volume
in Brantley County totaled sl,-
049,742.00 in 1961, compared with
the $994,691.00 for the same per
iod in 1960, which was an in
crease of $55,051.00 over last
year.
HERMAN TALMADGE
R j eports From
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WM^HINGTON |
SOME ASPECTS of the Peace
Corps raise doubts as to its wis
dom, but it must be admitted
that its basic concept is sound.
The contrast between its prem
ise of helping people who ask
not explains in large measure
the monumental failures and in
ordinate waste which have char
acterized the latter. The differ
ence is that between building
superhighways in countries with
no automobiles as we have done
under foreign aid and sending
surveyors and engineers to help
people of the countries con
cerned build their own farm-to
market roads as will be done
under the Peace Corps.
• • •
ONE CANNOT help but spec
ulate how different the results
of foreign aid might have been
had the program been based
from the beginning upon giving
realistic technical assistance to
countries requesting instruction
in the know-how of lifting them
selves by their own bootstraps.
For one thing the cost would
have been only a fraction of the
S9O billion thus far spent or
obligated. Too, the resentments
engendered by gifts w’hich smack
of bribery would have been
avoided and none of the evils of
aid on a government-to-govern
ment basis would have arisen. 1
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Brantley County Superior
Court will convene at Nahunta
Monday, Sept. 18, for the fall
session, it is announced by Del
ma F. Herrin court clerk.
Judge Cecil Roddenberry will
preside and attorney Dewey
Hayes is the solicitor.
The Grand Jury and Traverse
Jury have been drawn by Judge
Roddenberry. They are as fol
lows:
GRAND JURY
R. E. Johns, Lester Wainright,
Norris Strickland, L. E. Dicker
son, Sam McAfee, W. M. Batten,
Kennon Altman, C. L. King, Joe
C. Crews Sr., Sidney Hulett, L.
L. Gunter, Harvey Carver.
Clyde Dowling, Charles H. Gil-
lis, Ernest Thrift, Jesse J. Lee,
Howard L. Davis, Jimmy H.
Ham, James Herrin, Alfred
Thomas, John Chesser, Donald
Stevens, R. J. Douglas, E. B.
Campbell, James L. Altman.
traverse jury
J. E. Harris, Charlie Anderson,
Cager Crews, J. W. Blocker, Paul
Harrell, Herbert Lyons, A. E.
Strickland, L. W. Robinson, John
W. Davis, Floyd Strickland, Har
ry DePratter, Fred Chesser, A.
L. Dukes, W. T. Norton, A. C.
Lee, Cecil V. Herrin, Wilson
Wainright.
R. A. Griffin, I. J. Davis, Van
W. Strickland, Dan Jacobs,
Charlie Crews, O. S. Moody,
Everette L. Hickox, Andrew
Johns, Lloyd Wainright, L. L.
Hickox, Joel Lee, H. A. Strick
land, Fred W. Gibson, B. N. Car
ter, R. J. Wainright, Joe J. Bass,
C. C. Adams, Avery Strickland,
E. H. Kelly.
Lant Pearson, Joe J. Smith,
Homer K- Thomas, L. J. Cason,
Lester Hickox, P. U. Rozier, H.
R. Rowell, R. F. Aldridge, Henry
G. Lee, R. F. Hagin, F. H. Dragon,
Franklin Gibson, Dave Rowell, E.
G. Fowler, Porter Hunter, Mit
chell Hulett, J. D Hickox, M. J.
Ammons.
S. M. Aldridge, W. W. Hendrix,
John A. Allen, E. W. Davis, W. C.
Thomas, R. E. Sloan, Rufus Cox,
M. M. Guy, J. P. Morgan, Perry
Hickox, Hamer Crews, J. C. Dry
den, D. R. King, Perry Crews, A.
B. Crews, Jasper J. Crawford,
Walter Gibson, D. E. Walden.
Lawerence Thomas, W. K. Her
rin, Homer Griffin, Foster Sapp,
Donald J. Miles, A. W. King,
Harry Smith, Robert Hunter, J.
W. Jacobs, W. P. Stewart, Ellis
Highsmith, C. P. Riggins, G. W.
Freeman, William S. Rowell.
Equally important, primitive
and needy people who derive no
benefit from hydroelectric dams
and grain elevators could have
been helped directly through
training in techniques to im
prove their own lot through
their own efforts.
That is what Georgia Con
gressman J. L. Pilcher and his
Special Foreign Aid Study Mis
sion had in mind when they rec
ommended a foreign aid pro
gram of "helping little people
help themselves.”
* • *
THE PRINCIPAL weakness
of the Peace Corps is that it
will draw its personnel from in
experienced youths who have
neither the broad practical and
professional backgrounds nor
the ideological maturity to cope
with the physical hardships and
political challenges with which
they will be faced. It was in
recognition of that fact that the
Senate voted to require the
Peace Corps to include in its
training instruction in the phi
losophy, strategy, tactics and
menace of Communism.
Most of the doubts about the
Corps could be resolved by staff
ing it with experienced profes
sional pecpie and by making it a
substitute for, rather than an
overlapping addition to, foreign
aid. In the absence of those fac
tors the prevailing attitude in
Congress is to give the idea a
try on a limited baris and keep
a close watch on the results.
for help to help
themselves and
the foreign aid
philosophy of
arbitrarily
trying to re
form people
whether they
want to change
their ways or
