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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta., Ga., Thursday, Nov. 9, 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.
Traveling Through Georgia
The Lost Gold at
Washington, Ga
By Charles E. Hooper
Have you ever wanted to search
for a lost or buried treasure? For
nearly a century a search for
thousands of dollars in gold has
been going on in Wilkes County.
On April 2, 1865, a half million
dollars in gold, silver, and bul
lion — all that was left of the
treasury of the Confederate gov
ernment — started out under
heavy guard from Richmond,
Virginia. For several weeks the
boxes and chests were moved
from one southern town to an
other to protect it from being
seized. Washington, Georgia was
the last town to which the gold
train was moved while the for
tune was still intact. As the Con
federate government began fall
ing apart, Davis fled and some of
the gold was captured with him
at Irwinville. On June 4, 1865
northern soldiers seized SIOO,OOO
of the original amount that was
stored in the Washington bank.
The destination of the balance of
the great treasure was swallowed
up in confusion. Records indicate
that plans were made to smuggle
some of it out of the country by
way of Savannah, but legend
persists that Confederate gold is
buried in or around Washing
ton, Georgia.
You may not wish to search
for this “yellow gold" in Wash
ington. However, if you don’t
there is another type of “gold”
that you will find even more
fascinating to see and visit — and
it’s easy to find. Some refer to it
as “white gold." Washington's
stately trees, green lawns and
luxuriant fall flowers frame this
“white gold” — its many old
homes. Among them are white
clapboard cottages of the late
eighteenth century and the larg
er and more impressive, glisten
ing white horned ©f the Greek
Revival.
Here in Washington is where
patriots turned back attacking
British forces and broke their
hold on Georgia - . . where Con
federate General Robert Toombs
lived . . . where a worried and
tired Confederate President Jef
ferson Davis and his last cabinet
met . . . where General Porter
Alexander founder of the Signal
Corps lived.
The Robert Toombs House, the
Ficklen-Lyndon-Johnson House,
the Mac Edwards House, the Mc-
Rae-Tupper Barnett House, and
the Berry-Hay-Pope House all
reflect a gay era when gracious
ladies once danced the minuet,
reel and jig to the accompani
ment of fiddles and banjos. Some
of the homes are furnished as
they were long ago, and their
Stock Yard
News
At our sale last Friday, hog prices
were as follows: RI, $16.80; LI, $16.-
74; Hl, $16.00; EHI, $15.00; No. 2,
$16.06; No. 3, $15.87; No. 4, $17.05;
No. 5, $17.23; LR, $14.35; HR, $14.-
20; EHR, $14.10 and males, $8.35.
Feeder pigs sold up to $22.25.
Heavy cows sold up to $16.30,
steers and heifers up to $23.00 and
bulls up to $19.70.
Station WBSG in Blackshear will broadcast
hog prices Friday afternoon at 3:30 from the
Pierce County Stock Yard.
We invite you to sell with us each Friday.
Our good line of buyers assures you of the top
dollar.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR SELLING WITH
THE PIERCE COUNTY STOCK YARD.
PIERCE COUNTY
STOCK YARD
H. F. Allen Jr.
0. R. Peacock, Phone HI 9-2172
OPERATORS AND MANAGERS
For Hauling, contact O. J. AMMONS,
Hoboken, Ga., phone GL 8-3122.
BLACKSHEAR, GEORGIA
Stock Yard Phones Hl 9-9023 and HI 9-3041
white column and shaded veran
das are eloquent of the hospi
tality you will find there. In any
event you will enjoy your visit
to Washington especially if you
are searching for the “yellow
gold” or the “white gold.” Your
search among the towering oaks
and shaded avenues of the old
south will leave you .many mar
velous memories to carry home.
Power Company
Will Sponsor
Wiring Clinics
Plans for the Georgia Power
Company to sponsor for the se
cond year an extensive state-wide
program of farm shop wiring
clinics were announced this week
by John J. McDonough, company
president.
The clinics once again will be
conducted by the Georgia State
Department of Education’s voca
tional agricultural division in co
operation with the power com
pany.
Success of the 1961 program,
which attracted nation-wide ac
claim among agricultural leaders,
led to the company’s decision to
present a 1962 series of clinics.
J. G. Bryant, state supervisor,
vocational agriculture, pointed
out that thousands of Georgia
farmers last year utilized the
clinics to speed the growth of
mechanization on farms over the
entire state.
A scheduled series of 20 clinics
will be held throughout the
state. As a part of the program,
farm shop equipment totaling
$3,000 will be given to qualifying
men on whose farms the demon
stration clinics will be held/
These farmers will have their
choice of an electric welder,
bench grinder, drill press, or air
compressor.
“WILDCATS”
Basketball Schedule
HOME GAMES
Nov. 21 —Surrency
Dec. 1— Camden Co.
Dec. 8, —Blackshear
Dec. 12 Odum
Jan. 9 —Folkston
Jan. 16 Atkinson Co.
Jan. 19—Nicholls
Jan. 23—St. George
Jan. 26 -Jesup
Feb. 2—Manor
FOR SALE — 1955 Ford station
wagon, $325.00. See Lee Broome
at Broome Service Center,
Blackshear, Ga. 11-9
Civil Defense Suggests This
Emergency Food Supply for
Each Person for Two Weeks
Reduce list by one-fourth. In
rease evaporated or powdered
milk amounts. Add strained or
chopped baby foods and powder
ed formula mixtures. (Increase a
mount of drinking water for this
age groilp)
Older Persons and Invalids:
Substitute appropriate canned
foods for canned foods listed.
Meat, Poultry, Fish, Dried Beans
(about 8 to 9 lbs.):
2—l lb. cans beef stew
I—l lb. can gravy with beef
I—l lb. can gravy with pork
2 -6 to 7 oz. cans tuna
1— 15-1 2 oz. can spaghetti and
Following enemy attack, your
gas, electricity, water, as well as
normal channels of food distribu
tion, would be disrupted.
You should keep a two week’s
supply of food in your home plus
a three-day food survival kit in
your family car.
Food Supply List for One
Person for Two Weeks
To estimate how much you
need for your family’s survival
rations, multiply the number in
your family by the amounts list
ed below:
Adults and Teenagers:
This suggested list for each.
Infants and Toddlers:
meat balls
I—ls-114 oz. can macaroni and
cheese
I—l lb. can baked beans
I—l 2 oz. can luncheon meat
Vegetables (about 11 lbs.):
3—l lb. cans tomatoes
2 —16-17 oz. cans peas
2—12-16-1 2 oz. cans corn
2 15-1:2 oz. cans green beans
2 16-17 oz. cans whole potatoes
Fruits (about 10 lbs.):
2—l lb. cans peaches
2—l lb. cans pears
2—l lb. cans pineapple
2—l lb. cans applesauce
2—l lb. cans fruit cocktail
Cereals and Baked Goods
(about 5 to 7 lbs.);
14 individual packages ready
to-eat cereal
2 8 oz. can date bread
I—l lb. package crackers
I—l lb. package cookies
Melba toast or canned bread
Spreads for Crackers and Bread
(according to family needs):
Peanut Butter, Cheese Spreads,
Jam, Jelly, Honey, Catsup or Mus
tard
Milk (equivalent of 7 qts. liquid):
4—14-112 oz. cans evaporated
milk
6 —6 oz. cans evaporated milk
I—l lb. package non-fat dry
milk (allow water for this)
I—jar dried cream, if desired
Other Beverages (as family pre
fers):
2 —2 oz. jars instant coffee or
tea, or
2—l lb. packages cocoa
2 —l qt. 14 oz. cans tomato juice
2—l qt. 14 oz. cans orange juice
2—l qt. 14 oz. cans grapefruit
juice
Soft drinks, if desired
Soups:
B—lo-1128 —10-112 oz. cans soups that
would be palatable cold.
Water: ,
7 gallons (minimum amount)
CIVIL DEFENSE RECOM
MENDS THESE ADDITIONAL
SUPPLIES FOR YOUR FAMILY
First Aid Supply List
1. Antiseptic solution; Benzal
konium Chloride Solution, U. S.
P., 3-6 oz. bottle, 1 to 1,000 parts
of water.
2. Aromatic spirits of ammonia,
1-2 oz. bottle.
3. Table Salt, 1 box.
4. Baking soda, 8-10 oz. box.
5. Triangular bandages, 4, fold
ed, 37 x 37 x 52 in., 2 safety pins.
6. Medium first aid dressings,
2, folded, sterile, with gauze en
closed cotton pads, 8 x 7-l|2 in.
Packaged with muslin bandage
and 4 safety pins.
7. Small first aid dressings, 2,
folded, sterile, with gauze enclos
ed cotton pads and gauze band
ages, 4 x 7 in.
8. Eye drops, 1)2-1 ofc. bottle
with dropper
9. Tongue blades, wooden, 12.
10. Water purification tablets —
(a) iodine, bottle of 50 to 100
(trade names — Globaline, Bur
soline, and Potable Aqua), (b)
Chlorine, small bottle (trade
name—Halazone).
11. Large bath towels, 2.
12. Small bath towels, 2.
13. Bed Sheet, 1.
14. Paper drinking cups, 25-50.
15. Flashlight, 1.
16. Flashlight batteries, 3.
17. Safety pins, 12-15, 1-12 in.
long.
18. Razor blades, 3, single edge.
19. Toilet soap, 1 bar.
20. Measuring spoons, 1 set.
21. Splints, plastic or wooden,
12, 1 8-I'4 in. thick, 3-1)2 in. wide
x 12-15 in. long.
CIVIL DEFENSE SUGGESTS
THESE ITEMS BE INCLUDED
IN YOUR FALL-OUT SHELTER
SANITATION LIST
Soap
Soap Powders
Detergents
D. D. T.
Disinfectants
Room Deodorizers (air freshen
ers)
Facial Tissues
Toilet Tissues
Paper Towels
Garbage Bags
Bucket
Garbage Can (20 gal.)
2 covered pails for toilet pur
poses (or portable toilet)
Tooth Brushes
Toothpaste
Waterproof Gloves
Disposable Diapers
MISCELLANEOUS SUPPLIES
Matches (in covered jar or can)
Candles
Pins
Needle and Thread
Aspirin
■ Paper Cups
Paper Plates
Paper Napkins
Sterno Stove
Extra cans Sterno
Cooking Utensils
Eating Utensils
Can Opener
Bottle Opener
Leasing of Tobacco
Allotments Explained
Legislation enacted by Con
gress late this year permits the
leasing of a 1962 tobacco acreage
allotment from one farm to an
other under certain conditions, W.
H. Booth, Chairman, State Agri
cultural Stabilization and Conser
vation Committee, reports. The
new program provision applies to
all kinds of tobacco except bur
ley.
Specifically, the Chairman ex
plained, the new provision per
mits the owner and operator —
' acting together if they are differ
ent persons —of any farm for
which an “old farm” 1962 tobac
co acreage allotment is determin
ed to lease all or part of the allot
ment to any other owner or op
erator of a farm in the same
county which has a 1962 allot
ment —old or new —for the
same kind of tobacco. Any allot
ment acreage leased to a farm, he
stated, may not be subleased to
another farm.
Booth also said that a 1962
“new farm” allotment may not be
leased or transferred under this
program provision, and any farm
for which the 1962 allotment i^
reduced to zero will not be eli
gible to receive any leased allot
ment acreage. Furthermore, the
1962 tobacco acreage allotment
for a farm which for 1962 is
entirely covered by a Conserva
tion Reserve contract is not eli
gible for lease or transfer. If only
part of a farm is covered by such
a contract, no more allotment a
creage than the permitted acre
age may be leased from the farm,
and no more than the amount by
which the regular 1962 allotment
is less than the permitted acre
age may be leased to the farm.
Restrictions governing the a
mount of tobacco allotment acre
age which may be leased include
the following: (1) not more than
5 acres of allotment may be leas
ed to any farm, and this will be
adjusted downward if the normal
yield for the lessee farm is more
than 110 percent of the normal
yield for the lessor farm; and (2)
the total acreage allotted to a farm
(its own allotment plus the leas
ed acreage) may not exceed 50
percent of the farm’s cropland
acreage. Under the leasing provi
sion, according to the Chairman,
the 1962 allotment acreage leased
to a farm becomes a part of the
1962 allotment for that farm only
for marketing quota and price
support eligibility purposes.
For purposes of determining fu
ture tobacco allotments, the to
bacco acreage history remains
with the farm from which the
allotment is leased. In other
words, the farm from which the
acreage allotment is transferred,
will be credits" with planted a
creage equal to the acreage trans
ferred. The farm to which the a
creage allotment is transferred
will not be credited with any of
the leased acreage for future al
lotment or tobacco history acre
age purposes.
Booth emphasized that any
lease transferring a tobacco allot
ment should be entered into for
1962 only, and a copy of the
lease must be filed with the ASC
County Committee no later than
April 1,1962.
Farmers who are interested in
this leasing provision of the to
bacco allotment program are urg
ed to get in touch with the ASCS
County Office for further details.
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Brighten Towns
To Lure Tourists,
Georgians Urged
Tourists leave more than S3OO
million annually in Georgia,
Governor S. Ernest Vandiver told
a conference on tourism held Oc
tober 26-27 at the Riviera Motel
in Atlanta. The potential for in
come from tourism is even much
greater, the Governor said.
Attending the meeting from
this area were Mack Carter of
Blackshear, Frank Dukes of Ho
boken and J. W. Daniels of Met
ter, all represehting the Wood
pecker Trail Association.
The route, known as the Wood
pecker Trail, which passes
through Blackshear and Pierce
county, runs through four states,
from Charlotte, N. C., to Gaines
ville, Fla.
From Athens, Ga., to Florida,
it is the shortest route south, Mr.
Carter pointed out.
The conference group was urg
ed to go home and ask their fel
low Georgians to clean up and
brighten up their towns as a
means of inducing tourists to
stop in Georgia. Good facilities
and proper advertising can easi
ly increase the income to Geor
gians from the tourist industry,
it was stated.
Short Course on
Tobacco Planned
At ABAC Nov. 7th
TIFTON, GA? — A , “Tobacco”
short course will be held Tues
day, November 7, at Abraham
Baldwin Agricultural College,
with Dean T. M. Cordell in
charge.
Registration will begin at 9:45
in the Rural Life Building and
the program at 10 A. M.
J. G. Gaines, plant pathologist
at Georgia Coastal Plain Experi
ment Station, will speak on “Me
thods of Producing Tobacco
Plants, and John B. Preston, As
sociate agronomist with the Agri
cultural Extension Service, on
“Growing Plants Under Plastic.”
During the afternoon Mr.
Gaines will give information on
“Tobacco Diseases”; J. D. Miles,
agronomist - tobacco, with the
Coastal Plain Experiment Station
on “Good Tobacco Production
Practices;” Dr. Loy Morgan, en
tomologist at the Coastal Station
on “Insect Control on Tobacco;”
and James L. Shepherd, agricul
tural engineer at the Experiment
Station, on “Tobacco Barns and
Curing of Tobacco.”
Following this program two
farm equipment representatives
will show slides and motion pic
tures of a tobacco combine made
by their company.
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Brantley County
Tax Books Open
We Are Now Ready to Receive Pay
ment for Your 1961 State and County
Taxes. Please pay your taxes before Dec.
20.
Thank you for your cooperation.
John M. Wilson
Tax Commissioner Brantley County
The case of the
missing housewife
THERE’S a roast cooking to perfection in the
electric range. Ice cream is being made in
the refrigerator. Coffee is percolating. The
children’s play clothes are being washed clean
as new. But there’s no one in the kitchen!
One clue solves the case—electricity. It
works automatically—mother doesn’t have
to stay in her kitchen. Right now, she’s
attending a P.T.A. meeting. And when she
gets home, the dinner will be ready, the
laundry done! She has found the advantage
of full electric housepower.
If inadequate wiring limits the number of
electric servants you can enjoy, ask about
our wiring plan. Learn how we can pay SSO
to S2OO toward helping you wire your home
so you can live better electrically.
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GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
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