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VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 44
Nahunta High School Student
Council Adopts Constitution
The Nahunta High School Stu
dent Council met Friday, Oct. 27.
The meeting was called to order
by the president, Terry Thomas.
A new constitution was adopt
ed and reads as follows:
The constitution of the Nahun
ta High School Student Council:
Article I: The name of this or
ganization shall be the Nahunta
High School Student Council.
Article II: The purpose of this
organization shall be to provide
leadership through which to de
velop qualities and attitudes
such as high moral standards, or
dered behavior and in general
an atmosphere conductive t o
learning.
Article III: The officers shall
be as follows: President, Vice-
President, Secretary - treasurer,
and Reporter.
Article IV: In the future the
officers of this organization shall
be elected in September of every
school year at the first meeting.
The process of the election shall
be: A nominating committee con
sisting of two representatives
from each home room, appointed
by the homeroom teacher. Sev
eral nominations for each office
shall be made by the nominating
committee. Nominations shall
come from the committee. Regular
members of the student body
will have to make special appear
ance before the nominating com
mittee and the committee shall
vote and elect officers.
Article V: All decisions and
laws passed by the Student
Council shall require a majority
vote for passage except as stated
in Article IV and for amending
this constitution which shall re
quire the backing of 2 3 of all
present.
Article VI: The meetings shall
be the third Tuesdays of each
month school is in session.
Article VII: All decisions shall
be subject to approval by school
faculty and any changes they see
need to make.
Schoo! projects were discussed
and for the month of November
we chose; to keep the traffic from
being so heavy in the gym while
ball games are in session, to keep
people off the new gym floor and
to keep the paper throwing at a
minimum. This will be a year
project, too, but it will be stress
ed more during the month of
November.
Other projects the council will
work on this year are: to stop
smoking from being done in rest
rooms and to keep students out
of parked cars while school is
in session.
There being no further busi
ness, the meeting adjourned.
Sandra Jacobs,
reporter.
Speech by Golden
Insult to District
Says Iris Blitch
Congresswoman Iris Blitch has
labeled as “unpatriotic and of
fensive” remarks by Harry Gold
en which prompted her to walk
out while the author spoke to the
Georgia Library Association on
Jekvll Island Friday.
Mrs. Blitch said, “The ultra
liberal columnist insulted the peo
ple of the Eighth District when
he criticized segregation practices
of the south.”
The Georgia Congresswoman
was invited to be a guest of the
banquet, and said she attended
out of respect to librarians.
“I was curious to see what
Golden would say, but I realized
I was in the wrong pew when he
announced that he came to the
librarians’ convention direct from
a .meeting of the NAACP, Mrs.
Blitch remarked.
As a U- S. Representative, it
was highly offensive to hear the
man desecrate the song, “America
The Beautiful,” said Mrs. Blitch.
She quoted Golden as saying,
“There is nothing to the song
except possibly the last verse.”
She explained, “I found other re
marks of his speech equally of
fensive.”
Mrs. Blitch left the meeting,
accompanied by a member of her
staff as quietly as possible, but
she found it necessary to circle
the banquet hall to reach the
only unlocked door, only a few
feet from the speaker’s table. “He
is free to talk and I am free to
leave.” an aide quoted Mrs.
Blitch, an unyielding segregation
ist.
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FFA Boys Take
Honors at
Waycross Fair
One of the greatest highlights
of the Okefenokee Agricultural
Fair was the Area Pig Chain
Program which was held on
Tuesday preceding the regular
livestock show.
This is the first year that a
swine improvement program of
this type has been sponsored in
this area of the state. Nahunta
and Hoboken FFA chapters help
to make up the eleven chapters
in southeast Georgia that are
participating in this program.
This program is designed
whereby five boys receive a
purebred gilt each and one boy
receives the male each year. The
boys having the five gilts, upon
their farrowing date, returns to
his FFA chapter one of the best
gilts from the litter and each
of these gilts in turn make up the
chain the next year. A new male
is purchased each year and is
entirely the expense of the boy
that keeps him.
In the Area pig chain show
each FFA chapter is limited to
two gilts and the male. Everett
Lee and David Jacobs entered
their gilts and won a white rib
bon and a red ribbon respective
ly.
Cordell Wainright entered the
male and won a blue ribbon.
These hogs were judged on the
“Danish System of Judging”
which means that each hog is
judged according to its individual
merit.
Other Nahunta FFA entries in
the fair were: Lamar Thrift; Du
roc male over 2 yrs., Red Ribbon;
David Jacobs, Landrace gilt un
der 1 yr., Red Ribbon; Don Hen
drix, Dairy heifer over 1 yr.,
White Ribbon; Wilfred White,
Polled Hereford Bull, over 2 yrs.,
Red Ribbon; Frank Foerman, Jar
strained honey, Blue Ribbon;
Bernard Meyers, Jackson’s Corn,
White Ribbon; Jackie Knox, Beef
heifer, Red Ribbon.
Junior Womans Club
Wins Attendance
Award at Meeting
The Nahunta Junior Woman’s
Club won the attendance award
at the Eighth District Federation
of Women’s Clubs, held at the
First Christian Church in Way
cross on Thursday, Oct. 26. The
Nahunta Club had almost three
fourths of their members pre
sent.
Mrs. Mamie K. Taylor, past
president of the Georgia Federa
tion of Women’s Clubs, and Rep.
Tom Parker, representative, were
the .main speakers on the topic of
a bill to create a State Depart
ment of Youth to handle prob
lems involving delinquent and
neglected children.
Mrs. DeWitt Moody, Brantley
School superintendent, and Mrs.
Oscar U. Davis, Brantley County
visiting teacher, were among the
special guests.
Members of the Junior Wo
man’s Club of Nahunta present
were Mrs. Claude Smith, presi
dent, Mrs. Clarence Allen, Mrs.
Joe Walker, Mrs. Harry Rauler
son, Mrs. Ben Jones, Mrs. Nor
man Lewis, Mrs. Emory Middle
ton, Mrs. Dick Percell, Mrs.
Wilder Brooker, Mrs. Dick Sch
mitt and Mrs. Cecil Moody.
Hog Bites Teacher
At Okefenokee Fair
Prof. Carter Morton, Agricul
tural teacher at Nahunta High
School suffered painful injury
when a boar hog at the Okefeno
kee Fair bit him on the right
leg below the knee Tuesday, Oct.
24.
The injury occurred in hand
ling hogs at the Fair exhibits.
The wound was so severe that
18 stitches were required to sew
it up. Prof Morton was given a
tetanus shot and is rapidly re
covering from the injury.
At Brantley Enterprise
By Ronnie Hendrix
Posted Signs for Sale
Brantley Enterprise •
Pvt. Windell Courson, son of*
Mrs. Lovie J. Courson, 219 Idle
wild dr., Houma, La., completed
the teletype operation course at
the Army Signal Training Cen
ter, Fort Gordon, Ga., Oct. 20.
During the eight-week course
Courson was trained to receive
and disseminate communications
using the stanlard teletype set
with military keyboard. The 17-
year-old soldier, son of James I.
Courson, Route 1, Hoboken, Ga.,
entered the Army in June 1961
and completed basic training at
Fort Jackson, S. C. He was grad
uated from Terrebonne High
School, Houma, La., in 1961.
(U. S. ARMY PHOTO)
Deadline Date for
NROTC Qualifying
Examination Nears
High school seniors and gradu
ates have only until November 17
to apply for the Navy’s Reserve
Officer Training Corps. Appli
cants will take the nationwide
competitive examination on De
cember 9 as the first step toward
an appointment as midshipman.
Designed to supplement the of
ficer output of the Naval Aca
demy, the NROTC program makes
it possible for a young man to
earn a regular commission while
studying at a civilian college of
his choice which has an NROTC
Unit. All tuition, fees and books
are furnished by the Navy, and
the student receives an annual
retainer of S6OO for not more
than four years. During the sum
mers the student goes on inter
esting training cruises to many
parts of the world. After com
pleting the usual four year col
lege course, he is commissioned
in the Regular Navy or Marine
Corps and goes on active duty
as a prospective career officer in
the Naval service. He receives
the same promotional opportuni
ties, duty assignments and bene
fits as his Naval Academy con
temporary.
High school seniors and grad
uates who have reached the 17th
anniversary of birth and have
not reached the 21st anniversary
of birth on 1 July 1962 may ap
ply for the NROTC aptitude test.
Those who make a qualifying
score will be given a rigid physi
cal exam early in 1962. From the
number of qualified young men
remaining in competition, at
least 1600 will be selected to be
gin their naval careers next Sep
tember.
The NROTC college training
program is also open to enlisted
men on active duty with the
Navy and Marines. A separate
quota is established for appli
cants within these services.
Application forms are avail
able at high schools, Navy Re
cruiting Stations or from the
Chief of Naval Personnel, De
partment of the Navy, Washing
ton 25, D. C.
Lewis-Harris
Mrs. Bennie Harris of Nahunta
announces the marriage of her
daughter Miss Linda Lewis to
Mr. Kenneth Harris, son of Mrs.
Roy Lyons of Jacksonville, Fla.
The marriage was solemnized
Saturday, Oct. 28, at five o’clock
in the afternoon at the home of
Mrs. B. B. Thomas, aunt of the
bride. The ceremony was per
formed by Rev. Hilton Morgan in
the presence of a group of rela
tives and friends.
After the ceremony the wed
ding cake was cut and Mrs.
Thomas served refreshments to
the wedding party.
Merchants wise — adver-
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Nov. 2, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTURY COUNTY AND CITY OF NABUNTA
Hoboken Cagers
Win Doubleheader
From St. George
By LURNER WILLIAMS
On a sweltering Halloween
night in this deep South Georgia
village, Hoboken High’s Trojans
ushered in the 1961-62 basket
ball season with a twin win over
St. George, Georgia’s smallest
high school where 23 of the 32
students enrolled play basket
ball.
Hoboken’s girls team waltzed
to a 39-20 win and Hoboken’s
boys made it a clean sweep with
a 53-25 contest.
The playing of the National
Anthem preceded the opening
game and a sign reading “Play
for keeps but keep it clean" was
prominently displayed before the
64 participating players and ap
proximately 350 fans.
Hoboken’s girls broke to a 10-
0 lead after four minutes and
went on to hand St. George its
third defeat of the infant season.
Patsy Carter, who scored the
first two points of the season, led
the winners with 15 points. Dot
Milton shot 12. Evelyn Conner
topped St. George with 12.
Coach Dudley Spell cleared his
bench early and his team held
a 33-10 advantage at intermission.
Dennis Wood, with 18 points, and
Dewayne Thomas, with 11, led
the Hoboken onslought. Ernest
Connor scored six to lead St.
George.
PREVENT TOOTH LOSS
Pyorrhea, the most common
cause of tooth loss after 35 years
of age, usually can be prevented
if treatment is started early
enough, says Miss Lucile Higgin
botham, head of the Extension
health department. Studies show
that one in every five Americans
has lost all his teeth by the time
he is 40 years of age. At 60 the
figure is two out of five, and at
70 it is three out of four.
District Fallout Shelter Workshops
Planned by State Defense Department
ATLANTA — District fallout
shelter workshops are being held
by the Georgia Department of
Defense to advise Georgia fami
lies on building home shelters,
Governor Vandiver said this
week.
The Governor said the work
shops will cover the entire state
and are being held for city and
county engineers, building inspec
tors and civil defense directors.
His disclosure of the workshops
follows the Governor’s personal
urging last week that all Geor
gians should consider building
anti-radiation fallout shelters at
their homes to protect their fami
lies in the event of an enemy at
tack.
The Governor made the recom
mendation after returning from a
meeting of the National Gover
nor’s Conference on Civil Defense
in Washington.
Governor Vandiver was one of
seven governors who met to try
to agree on ways the states and
the federal government can best
bring to reality President John F.
Kennedy’s stepped up Civil De
fense program.
After returning from the con
ference, Governor Vandiver said
he was recommending for the
first time — in view of the world
situation — that every Georgia
family consider immediate con
struction of a home shelter.
A fallout shelter for use by
the Governor and his family, and
the families of successors will be
built at the Governor’s Mansion.
Governor Vandiver also said
he will ask the 1962 Georgia Gen
eral Assembly to enact a law ex
empting fallout shelters from
local property taxes.
Similar national legislation is
being considered by members of
Georgia’s Congressional delega
tion. This legislation would allow
taxpayers to deduct the entire
cost for constructing a fallout
shelter, up to a certain amount.
One or two fallout shelter
workshops will be held in each
of Georgia’s 10 Congressional
Districts, and several of them
have already been held.
Others have been set up so that
the workshops can cover the en
tire state as soon as possible.
Workshops have been held in
Atlanta, Griffin, Columbus and
Cedartown and others are sched
uled in Gainesville, Calhoun and
Thomaston.
Georgia’s Civil Defense Divi
sion, of which Major General
George J Hearn, Adjutant Gen
eral. is director, has distributed
thousands of informational bul-
Personals
Representing Brantley County
at the Georgia Library Conven
tion at Jekyll last week were
Mrs. Mable Moody, Mrs. Mary
Lou Gibson, Miss Verla Garrett
and Mrs. Pollyanne Middleton.
The Brantley County singing
convention will be held at Lula
ton Baptist Church Sunday, Nov.
5, from two o’clock until four
in the afternoon.
Robert Page, president of the
Hoboken FFA chapter and Cor
dell Wainright, president of the
Nahunta FFA chapter, were
honored by having the opportuni
ty to serve as ushers for the
Georgia Farm Bureau Conven
tion which convened at Jekyll
Island this week.
Mr. Jesse Crews, railroad man
of Savannah and former Brant
ley County man, was a visitor to
the office of The Brantley En
terprise, Oct. 27.
Ira F. Brown is a patient in a
Jacksonville hospital following
an operation on Monday of this
week.
Donna Lynn has been a pa
tient in Memorial Hospital in
Waycross since Monday follow
ing an apendectamy.
Mrs. Avery Strickland, Mrs.
Elizabeth Barnard, Mrs. Virgin
ia Raulerson, Mrs. Elizabeth
Robinson and Mrs. J. B. Lewis
attended the Fall Conference of
Federated Garden Clubs of
Southeast Ga. held in Pembroke,
Ga. on Thursday of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Lewis
spent the weekend with relatives
in Valdosta, Ga.
The Nahunta Garden Club will
meet Tuesday at 4:00 P. M. Nov.
7 at the Red Pig. There will be a
work shop making and demons
trating Christmas arrangements.
Mrs. Mable Moody, county
school superintendent of Brant
ley County, is working with a
school evaluation committee at
Ware County High School this
week.
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letins on shelters and their con
struction, the financing of shel
ters and the dangers of atomic
fallout since President Kennedy
emphasized the need for shelters
in a speech late in July.
Where they have been request
ed, the Georgia Civil Defense
Division has provided detail plans
on five recommended types of
shelters — basement concrete
block, above-ground double wall,
pre-shaped metal with stairway
entrance, concrete underground
and new basement construction.
The informational bulletin on
financial assistance for shelter
construction points out that vari
ous federal agencies have taken
actions to assist home owners or
home buyers in financing shelter
construction costs through loans,
loan guarantees or mortgage in
surance.
The Federal Housing Adminis
tration will insure Title 1 loans
— shelters are in this category —
up to $3,500 directly to home
owners for improvement of pro
perty.
The FHA also makes possible
insured mortgage financing for
homes built with fallout shelters.
In addition, FHA assistance will
be available for financing shel
ters in multi-family dwellings
as mortgage insurance.
The bulletin also points out
that shelters could come under
rehabilitation program loans of
the FHA or could qualify as a
basic improvement. They could
serve in a dual role as laundry
or dark rooms, but would have
to conform to standards of the
Office of Civil and Defense Mob
ilization and the FHA.
One recent study on fallout
radiation danger explained that
if a nuclear bomb of 5-megaton
capacity is exploded, it will
punch a hole in the ground 200
feet deep and a half mile in ra
dius.
Its mushroom cloud will suck
up many tons of dirt, which be
comes highly radioactive. The
cloud will rise to an altitude of
20 miles and grow to some 50
miles in diameter. As the cloud
cools, the radioactive dirt within
it will begin to fall to the
ground, creating fallout radiation
fields wherever it lands.
As the cloud is carried by the
wind, radioactive dirt will be
spread over a Large area down
wind of the point where the bomb
exploded
Shelters are needed to pro
tect the population from the ef
fects of such radioactive fallout.
U. S. Highway 301 Will
Be Widened and Resurfaced
Farm Bureau
Members Attend
State Meeting
Delegates and leaders of the
Brantley County Farm Bureau
attended the State Farm Bureau
Convention held on Jekyll Island
the first of this week.
Delegates to the Convention
were P. U. Rozier, County Presi
dent; L. T. Woods, Vice-President,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard dele
gate for women of Farm Bureau.
Others from Brantley County
who attended the day and night
sessions were Mrs. Virginia N.
Raulerson, Home Dem. Agent;
Everett Strickland, Donald Ste
vens, Alfred Thomas Jr. and
County Agent, George A. Loyd.
Others who went down Tues
day evening to attend the Farm
Banquet were Sheriff J. W.
Crews, Harry Raulerson, Mayor
elect and Mrs. Earl Raulerson
and Mrs. Nellie Griffin, who is
County office secretary.
The highlight of the banquet
was a speech by Senator Herman
Talmadge. Senator Talmadge is a
member of the Senate’s Agricul
tural Committee and his speech
concerned the National Agricul
tural Program, with emphasis on
foreign aid and America’s keep
ing a firm stand against Com
munism.
George Loyd's
Mother Died in
Macon Last Week
Mrs. Ophelia Green Loyd, 86,
mother pf Brantley County farm
agent George A. Loyd, died at
the home of her oldest son, Al
bert L. Loyd in Macon Wednes
day night, Oct. 25.
Funeral services were held
Friday afternoon, Oct. 27, at Re
hobeth Baptist Church at Kite,
Ga., in Johnson County. Mrs.
Loyd was a member of the Re
hobeth Church. The funeral rites
were conducted by Elder Brady
Brantley, assisted by Rev. Mr.
Dixon, pastor of the Rehobeth
Church.
Besides her two sons, Mrs.
Loyd was survived by 11 grand
children and 12 great - grand
children.
Waycross Educational Television
Station to Begin Operation Soon
ATLANTA — One of two edu
cational television stations for
which Governor Ernest Vandiver
has provided funds will soon be
ready to begin telecasting.
Station WXGA at Waresboro, 12
miles north of Waycross, should
be “on the air’’ in November,
Governor Vandiver said. Actual
telecasts will get underway after
construction of the tower and ne
cessary “test runs” have been
completed.
Governor Vandiver authorized
the State Board of Education to
use $500,000 for the construction
of the station, which will reach
29 school systems in 26 Georgia
counties.
There are 3,370 public school
teachers in these systems, teach
ing 90,503 pupils. Schools in
these systems will be able to pur
chase television sets with funds
under the National Defense Edu
cation Act.
The Department of Education
has already received clearance
from the Federal Communications
Commission in Washington for
erection of the station.
According to a survey of a pro
posed educational television net
work to cover the entire state,
which was made last year by a
Dallas, Texas, consulting engi
neer, the Ware County station
will reach classrooms in a 60-mile
range, from Brooks to Tattnall
Counties and from Telfair to
Camden Counties.
The state-wide network envis
ions putting all Georgia schools
within reach of an educational
TV station.
Governor Vandiver has also al
located $350,000 for a television
studio which is scheduled to be
gin production of TV films for
genera] use in late 1962.
Plans have been drawn for the
studio which may eventually be
built at the old State Farmers’
Market in Atlanta.
Governor Vandiver has promis-
\ newspaper h like a wife—
every man should have one
of his own and not want to
borrow his neighbor’s. Be
sides, it’s awfully inconven
ient sometimes.
U. S. Highway 301 will soon be
widened and resurfaced, accord
ing to an announcement from the
State Highway Department.
Bids will be taken for the pro
ject on Dec. 4. Funds from the
second increment of the Highway
Authority improvement program.
The work on U. S- Highway
301 will extend from Highway
341 at Jesup to the junction with
Highway 1 near Folkston, for a
distance of 50.51 miles.
The project will involve wid
ening, leveling and resurfacing,
the announcement stated. The
work will probably be done some
time next spring.
School Carnival
Receipts Total S7OO
Kay Smith, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude Smith, and Da
vey Roddenberry, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Cecil Roddenberry, were
winners of the Halloween king
and queen contest in the Nahun
ta Grammar School. They were
crowned by Clarence Allen of
the PTA.
The carnival netted a total of
S7OO from the various enterprises.
The funds have been used to
complete payment on a walk-in
freezer for the lunchroom.
Rhodens Injured
In Accident
In Waycross
Three persons were injured in
an auto-truck collision at the in
tersection of City Blvd, and Me
morial Drive just before noon in
Waycross Wednesday.
City Police Patrolman Clyde
Guest said O. E. Edenfield of
Waycross and Mr. and Mrs. Thom
as V. Rhoden of Rte. 1 Nahunta
were injured when the two ve
hicles collided at the intersection.
According to the investigating
officer, Edenfield sustained lacer
ations and bruises to his head
and hands while Rhoden suffered
facial lacerations and Mrs. Rho
den sustained head cuts and
bruises to the chest and knee.
Edenfield and Rhoden were
treated at Memorial Hospital and
released while Mrs. Rhoden was
admitted to the hospital, Guest
said.
A 1962 model auto driven by
Edenfield was estimated to be a
total loss while a 1951 model
pickup truck driven by Rhoden
was damaged an estimated S4OO.
ed that Georgia, under his admin
istration, will remain “in the
forefront of the states exploring
and implementing TV teaching . .
. . a medium which brings excel
lence and new vigor into class
rooms for learning.”
The State Board of Education
already has approved a resolution
to purchase a site at Pembroke
for another educational TV faci
lity. This station, proposed for
the Savannah area, has been ap
proved for eventual construc
tion by the FCC.
The Department of Education
is presently sharing an educa
tional television station with the
University of Georgia in Athens
on Channel 8, with about 625
teachers in the North Georgia
area using the lessons in their
classrooms.
Tapes which have been made in
the production center at Athens,
in the Center for Continuing Edu
cation, will be used for transmis
sion over the Ware County sta
tion, on Channel 9.
At present, the Department is
teaching languages, biology, ele
mentary science, mathematics,
and music over the Athens sta
tion.
Georgia first began utilizing
television for adult education un
der the adminitsration of Gover
nor Herman Talmadge with the
institution of a series of educa
tion programs over an Atlanta
commercial station. Similiar pro
grams have been broadcast in Co
lumbus and Savannah.
The State Board also provided
the equipment for a pilot project
in closed-circuit television to
study the effectiveness of televi
sion in broadening educational
opportunities for children.
This project is in operation in
the Conley Hill School in East
Point. ,
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