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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. VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 38 Nahunta FFA Members Attend Training Clinic By Ronnie Hendrix The officers of the Nahunta Future Farmers of America join ed local officers of other south east Georgia chapters from areas one and two in Baxley Monday Sept. 18 for their annual leader ship training clinic. Attending the meeting with their F. F. A. advisor, Carter Morton, were Cordell Wainright, president; Don Hendrix, vice president; H. C. Morgan, secre tary; Benny Crews, treasurer; Ronnie Hendrix, reporter; John Wainright, sentinel; and David Jacobs, parliamentarian. The purpose of the clinic was to acquaint each officer with his du ties and responsibilities. The meeting was divided into two parts, a general session and a worship session for each office in F. F. A. In the general session newly elected State F. F. A. president, Robert Page of Hoboken spoke to the chapter leaders about their roles as officers and leaders. “Leadership is not a thing to be taken lightly,” said President Page. “ . . . you officers set the pattern for your chapter . . . you owe it to yourself and to your chapter to do the very best job you know how.” In the workshop sessions the officers were given a chance to discuss their duties and responsi bilities with boys from other chapters, and they were given actual situations they would need to know how to handle in their respective offices. The F. F. A. is a national and State organization for high school boys studying vocational agricul ture. The Nahunta Chapter has a total membership of 81. The members of the Phillip Wainright family plan a reunion at Grace Chapel Church in Charlton County on Sunday Oct. 1, it is announced by Mrs. Eliza beth McDuffie Manning. Friends and relatives are invited to at tend. Life in the farm and rural homes of today is vastly different from that of just one short genera tion ago . . . and chiefly responsible for much of the growth and development of rural areas, and a better way of life for the people, are the Rural Electric Systems which were organized to bring electricity to Member-Owners who could get this service no other way. But the blessings of this great program are not limited to the Members of the Rural Electric Systems. All Americans live better because of the higher quality food and fiber, produced eco nomically with the help of low-cost electricity available in rural areas . . . and everybody benefits, directly or indirectly, from the vast market for goods and services created by this 20th Century miracle — Rural Electrification! ©N«ECA Brantley Bridal Shower Is Given Miss Moore A bridal shower honoring Miss Elsie Moore was given by her friends at the home of Mrs. Clif ton Strickland Saturday evening, Sept. 16. A pink, white and green color scheme was used in the flower arrangements throughout the house. In the dining room the large round table was covered with a round hand crocheted table cloth over white linen. The punch service was attended by Janis Strickland and Barbara Bohanon. There were arrange ments of pink, white and green mints and nuts. The gift tables were covered with white cloths. An umbrella covered with white with rows of pink ruffles centered the gift arrangement. Pink and white wedding rings tied with pink bows represented the coming mar riage and yellow and white rings tied with yellow ribbon with hopes of the golden wedding in the future were arranged on the edge of the table. Games were played and a door prize given. The hostesses with Mrs. Strick land were Mrs. James High smith, Mrs. Gladys Morgan, Mrs. Jewel Purdom, Mrs. Shelba Jean Haney, Mrs. Mildred Wainright and Miss Anne Strickland. Attending were Miss Elsie Moore, Mrs. Grace Moore, Mrs. Myrtle Dußose and Linda, Mrs. Annie Bell Highsmith, Mrs. Ger tie Strickland, Lorrie Parks, Mrs. Jo Carolyn Johns, Miss Bonnie Strickland, Miss LaFain Strick land, Mrs. Beatrice Crews, Mrs. Lena Strickland, Mrs. H. A. Strickland, Mrs. Rhoda Strick land, Mrs. Agnes Strickland, Mrs. J. L. Dußose, Mrs. Inez Pearson and Mrs. Lena Rowell. Mrs. Lula Brown returned home Monday from a seven weeks trip to Albuqueque, New Mexi co; Chico, Calif., and Champaine, 111., where she visited relatives. Bernard Pearson has returned home from Cincinatti, Ohio where he has been for a year studying embalming. OKEFENOKE RURAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION COMMUNITY OWNED • COMMUNITY BUILT • COMMUNITY BUILDER ty — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. LeU twL iiuuk (b ui/bo/ Utlb o|j twkg.. Brantley Enterprise Personals Mrs. Jennie Larkins, Miss Hal lie - Blair and Mrs. Pollyanne Middleton attended the annual Delta Kappa Gamma workshop held at Jekyll Island Saturday, Sept. 16. Workshop participants included Tau and Alpha Alpha chapters of Waycross and Bruns wick. Mrs. DeWitt Moody, Supt. of Brantley County Schools, and Mrs. Ruth Davis, Visiting Teach er of Brantley County Schools, attended a Leadership Confer ence Sept. 15-16, at Lake Jack son, Covington, Ga. The Confer ence was sponsored by the State Department of Education and brought together system Superin tendents, Directors of Curriculum and Division of Instruction Staff. Miss Augusta Jenkins, Lang uage Arts and Social Studies Con sultant, visited with the Brantley County School system Sept. 18 giving assistance and advice as to good instructional methods in the above mentioned areas of study. Miss Wanda Purcell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dick Purcell of Nahunta, has returned home .after spending several .months in a hair-styling school in Miami, Fla. Wanda resided with her aunt and uncle while in Miami. Candidates Qualify for City Election The Nahunta city election will be held Wednesday, Oct. 4, when a mayor and four aidermen will be elected to serve for the next two years. Two candidates for mayor qualified with the city clerk, Mrs. E. T. Higginbotham, by Monday night, Sept. 18, which was the last qualifying date. The two candidates for mayor are Rudolph Morgan and Earl Raulerson. Eight candidates qual ified to run for the four places open for aidermen. The eight candidates for aider men are L. P. Carter, George Dowling, Harry DePratter, Mit chell Hulett, Dewey Lee, J. T. (Dick) Morgan, J. T. Royster and Clayton Riggins. The present city council is com posed of T. J. Thornton, mayor; Wilder Brooker, Dewey Lee, Har ry DePratter and J. T. Morgan, aidermen. Dennard McCool Died Wednesday In Augusta Dennard Iverson McCool husband of Mrs. Jessie Mercer McCool, a native of Appling county and resident of Hoboken for a number of years, died early Wednesday in an Augusta hospi tal. He had been a resident of Au gusta for the past eight years. Son of the late Rev. A. M. Mc- Cool and Ellie Vez Collins Mc- Cool of Brantley County, he was a member of the Hill Baptist Church in Augusta. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of the National Society Sons of the American Re volution. Funeral services were held at Platt’s Funeral Home chapel in Augusta Thursday at 10:30 A. M. with Dr. T. S. Doehm officiating. Interment was in the Oakland Cemetery in Waycross at 5 P M. Thursday with graveside services being held at the cemetery. Survivors include his wife, the former Miss Jessie Mercer; one son, Dennard I. McCool Jr., At lanta; one brother, A. Milton Mc- Cool Jr., Atlanta; two sisters, Mrs. Lois McCool Dryden, Waycross, Mrs. Bernice McCool Bullock, Ra leigh, N. C., three grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. Card of Thanks We wish to express our appre ciation of the many acts of kind ness shown us during the illness and death of our loved one, Ce cil Highsmith. We are deeply grateful for the many words of sympathy, the neighborly visits, the covered dishes and the floral tributes. Our hearts have been comforted and our faith strength ened by your friendship and sup port in our bereavement. May God bless and keep you all. The family of Cecil Highsmith. Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 21, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN Nahunta Baptists Will Observe Homecoming Day Homecoming Services at Na hunta Baptist Church are plan ned for next Sunday, Sept. 24. beginning with Sunday School at 10:00 A. M. The morning service will fea ture a song program and specials furnished by the church choir and friends. The sermon will be brought by Rev. Earle F. Stire walt, a former pastor, who now lives at Lithonia, Georgia. Rev. Mr. Stirewalt has recently resigned an outside pastorate at Millen, Ga., and is now associated with the state evangelism depart ment of Georgia Baptists. This will be one of his first sermons during his new work, and we all can look forward to it. He will be accompanied by his wife, the former Miss Christine O’Farrell, and young son. All friends of the Stirewalt family and of the church are cordially invited to attend. Dinner on the grounds will be served at 1:00 P. M., a time which will enable those of the sur rounding communities to come after services in their churches. There will not be a formal pro gram in the afternoon, other than fellowship and visiting by those who are able to came. The Sunday night service will begin at 8:00, and will feature the installation of officers and teachers of the church for the year, 1961-62. This will follow promotion exercises for all those who have reached the age of pro motion to the older classes of the church. A candlelight installation service is being planned, accord ing to Pastor Cecil F. Thomas. Effort Being Made to Get Truck Line An effort is being made by Na hunta citizens to secure a com mercial truck freight line through this area, it is announced by state senator W. C. Long. Mr. Long, Pete Gibson, mana ger of the Okefenoke REA, and Wilder Brooker, local merchant and member of the city council, went to Atlanta Monday, Sept. 18, to confer with the Georgia Public Service Commission con cerning the matter. Citizens from Brunswick and Albany also appeared before the commission in behalf of the pro posed truck route. It is under stood that Harper MotoY Lines have made application for a franchise to run a truck line through Hoboken and Nahunta by way of Highway 84. The Instate Commerce Commis sion will also have to approve the plan before the truck line can start operating. Hortense 4-H Club Met Last Friday The Hortense Junior 4-H Club meeting was called to order Fri day September 15, at 10:15 A. M. Mrs. Raulerson, our acting chairman, opened the floor for nominations of officers. Alter the president, Geraldine Moody, was elected she took over and asked for nominations of other officers. They are as follows: Boys Vice- President, James Williamson; Girls Vice-President, Peggy Ro well; Secretary-Treasurer, Doug las Chowning; Reporter, Ashley Henderson; Parliamentarian, Mar la Jean Rowell; Program Chair man, Eula Moody. After the nominations and e lections of officers the meeting adjourned. Ashley Henderson, reporter. Nahunta Garden Club Met on Tuesday The Nahunta Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson on Tuesday, Sept. 19 with Mrs. W. H. Herrin as co hostess. Mr. Carter Morton gave a talk on “Preparation of Soil.” Present were Mrs. Jesse Lee, Mrs. Talmadge Griner, Mrs. Dan Jacobs, Mrs. Avery Strickland, Mrs. Dorothy Graham, Mrs. Joe Siegel, Mrs. J. B. Lewis and Mrs. Carter Morton as a guest. Congealed salad, sandwiches, fruit cake and punch were served. The next meeting will be Octo ber 3. William C Allen Assisted in Good-will Activity Army PFC William C. Allen, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Allen, Route 1, Nahunta, recent ly assisted sh a German-Ameri can good-will activity near the East-West border in Germany. Allen and other members of the 2d Armored Cavalry Regiment, distributed gum and candy to West German children living in towns near the Czechoslovakian bordor. This is the second year the unit has conducted this good will activity to foster good rela tions between the German people and Americans in this area. The 2d Armored Cavalry Regi ment has the .mission to patrol more than 250 miles of the vital border between East and West Germany and Czechoslovakia in around-the-clock surveillance a gainst potential aggression. A driver in Troop F of the re gime nt ’ s 2d Reconnaissance Squadron in Bamberg, Allen en tered the Army in October 1960 and received basic training at Fort Hood, Tex. He arrived overseas in March of this year. Allen is a 1960 graduate of Na hunta High School. Feed Grain Payments Get Under Way Final payments to farmers who earned them by taking part in the 1961 feed grain program for corn are now being made throughout the county, George Dykes, Chairman, County Agri cultural Stablization and Conser vation Committee, announced. Advance payments were made to many producers at the time they signified their intention of participating in the program as a means of helping meet produc tion expenses and maintaining farmers’ income. Brantley County farmers are eligible to receive a total of $14,- 002.34 for diverting corn acreage into soil-conserving uses, as pro vided under the program. Pay ments are made in the form of certificates, which producers may exchange for grain or the cash equivalent of grain. In earning these payments, farmers in Brantley County di verted 557.4 acres from corn pro duction to conservation. Taylor to Preach At Methodist Church Sunday Rev. Carroll Taylor of Way cross will preach at the Nahunta Methodist Church Sunday morn ing, Sept. 24 at 11:00 o’clock, it is announced by the pastor Rev. H. D. Overman. Rev. Mr. Taylor will bring his 8-year-old granddaughter with him and little girl will sing at the church service. She is report ed to be a good singer. Everyone is invited to attend the service. Youths Sentenced In Pierce Court Two Negro youths from Lyons, who admitted burglarizing 20 bu sinesses in Pierce and Brantley County over a period of several months, have been sentenced to the State Training School at Mil ledgeville until they are 21 years old. The youths appeared before Pierce County Juvenile Court Judge Cecil Roddenberry Thurs day, Pierce County Sheriff J. H. Pittman reported. One youth, 12-year old Ernest Hubbard, was being tried for a second offense and publication of his name was released according to state law. The other, a 14-year old youth, was a first offender and the names of first offenders are with held in accordance with state law. Two other youths, both from Pierce County, also received training school sentences from Judge Roddenberry, Pittman said. A 15-year old white juvenile was sentenced to an indefinite term for larceny. He was a first offense. Fourteen-year old Preston Ho ward, a second offender, also re ceived an indefinite training school sentence for larceny, the Pierce County sheriff said. Soil Fertility Program Raise Brantley County Nahunta Grammar School PTA To Meet Monday The Nahunta Grammar school P. T. A. will meet Monday, Sept. 25, at 8:00 P. M. in the school auditorium. Officers for the next year are Mrs. Claude Smith, president, Mrs. Keith Strickland, vice president and Mrs. George Lloyd secretary and treasurer. Mr. James Stone, principal, and the teachers will have charge of the program entitled, “Back To School.” This is a repeat from last year by request from many parents- They will visit the class rooms for a discussion with the teachers on all phases of instruc tion. Also they will have the op portunity to look over the text books, visual teaching aids and observe samples of the children's work. Last year an unusually large number of fathers attended the "Back To School.” program and the committee hopes that this year the program will be even more successful. Hortense PTA Holds First Fall Meeting Hortense Parent-Teacher Asso ciation held their first meeting Wednesday, Sept. 13, opening the meeting with Mrs. Claude Mills presiding. The invocation was given by Mrs. Alvin Williamson, a poem titled: "It’s Up to You” Have you made someone happy, or someone sad, What have you done with the day that you had? God gave it to you to do just as you would, Did you do what was wicked, or do what was good? Did you hand out a smile, or just give ’em a frown, Did you lift someone up, or push someone down? Did you lighten some load, or some progress impede, Did you look for a rose, or just gather a weed? What did you do with your beautiful day, God gave it to you, did you throw it away? She gave a scripture reading from Psalms 1, chapter, closing with a prayer. The introduction of new teach ers and members was as follows: Mr. Dewitt Drury, Mrs. Mortten, Mrs. Peoples, and Mrs. Chowning. Mrs. Ted Strickland, secreatry, read th<- minutes. Mr. Robert Strickland, treasurer, gave the treasurer’s report. Mrs. Ted Strickland, secretary, gave the report from the execu tive board, changing the Parent Teacher Association meeting from the second Wednesday of each month to the second Thursday night of each month. This was voted on and approved. Tho following committee chair men gave their reports: Mrs. Joe Smith, program; Mrs. Farley O’- Berry, health and summer round up; Mrs. Norman Brauda, year book; Mrs. Lacy Strickland, mem bership; Mrs. Roy Harper, hospi tality; Mrs. Norman Brauda, room mothers; Mr. Dewitt Drury, re creation. Mrs. Henry Brauda, vice-presi dent, read the by-laws for the Parent Teacher Association offi cers. New business was discussed and those interested in the Parent- Teacher magazine or manual see your secretary, Mrs. Ted Strick land. Those interested in helping with the Halloween Carnival see Mrs. Farley O’Berry and Mr. De witt Drury. After Mrs. Joe Smith, program, explained the room visiting pro cedure refreshments were served. Following Mrs. Mable Moody, su perintendent of schools, gave a discussion on school problems. We want to thank our hospital ity committee for the signs wel coming our new teachers and the cut flowers arrangement, also the parents who were present, who numbered 35. Mrs. Willie Joe Rowell, publicity. Mr. Fred Rogers has returned home from Veterans Hospital in Lake City, Fla., where he has been a patient for ten weeks. He Is now much improved. Keep up with the News About Your Home County Subscribe for the Brantley Enterprise, $2.50 a Year, $3.00 Outside the County. (Plus Sales Tax) COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA The Soil Fertility Program be ing launched in Brantley County this month has already proved in other counties to be one of the most effective programs to in crease farm income, County A gent George A. Loyd pointed out. The county agent called atten tion to the progress this program brought in the six original coun ties where it began. In Coffee County, for example, gross income from farm enter prises rose from sl4 million in 1957, the year before the program was begun, to S2O million in 1960. This happened in a period when corn, broiler and peanut prices were falling. Larry Torrance, who was coun ty agent in Coffee County until recently, when he joined the agronomy staff of the Extension Service, gives a lot of credit to the Soil Fertility Program for bringing about this increase. “It was everybody’s program in the county," Mr. Torrance recall ed. “A great deal of credit is due to the county Farm Bureau, the Agricultural Workers Club (re presenting all agricultural a gencies in the county), the banks and fertilizer dealers. It took them all to make it a success.” Another top Georgia farm county, Colquitt, experienced an increase of from sls and one-half million to almost s2l million in the same period. The other four pilot soil fertility counties also reported large increases in farm income after putting across the program. Extension Director W A. Sut ton called the program “the greatest thing that’s ever happen ed to Georgia agriculture.” Superior Court Adjourned on Wednesday Brantley County Superior Court adjourned Wednesday af ternoon after trying a number of cases. Haynes Holland was found guilty of assault and battery for shooting Boots Harrison last Oc tober. He was sentenced to a year in the penitentiary. Gene Holland was tried on the same shooting case and found guilty of assault and battery. He will be sentenc ed later. Luther Bryant, Negro, pled guilty to involuntary manslaught er for killing Willie Tootle, Ne gro, last May. Sentence will be passed on him at a later date. Judge Cecil Roddenberry pre sided and Dewey Hayes is soli citor. Delma F. Herrin is court clerk. Nahunta Grammar School Forms Student Council The Grammar School student council was formed by each room in grades four through six se" lecting two room representatives to the council. The room representatives se lected the student council offi cers. The officers selected were: President, Beth Herrin; Vice president, Jesse Walker; and Se cretary Melinda Wilson The stu dent council is an organization of students, selected by the students to represent them, and to provide leadership in many school acti vities. All of the students of the school are a part of the student council. It is not an organization of “selected” or “best” students. Every student in the school is qualified to serve in the student council and to bring ideas and suggestions to the meetings. The primary aim of a student council is to teach good citizen ship. The best way to learn to be a good citizen is by doing the things which a good citizen does. The duties and responsibilities of good citizenship are learned in the classroom. The student council provides an opportunity for students to put into practice the lessons which they have learned. Students learn to plan and to carry out projects of their own rather than always following ready made plans and instruc tions. By planning and working to gether on projects of their own choosing students have a chance to do something at school which will help them to feel that the school is a better place because they were there, and that they are better people, better citizens, bcause they came to school. Can Income