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— NUMBER 48
VOLUME 41
You Don't Have to Retire Work
To Get Social Security Benefits
Are you a working person 65
or over who has never applied
for social security benefits? If
so, you will want to ask your
social security office for a copy
of a new leaflet.
Entitled, “You Don’t Have to
Retire Completely to Get Social
Security Benefits,” the leaflet ex
plains changes in the law recent
ly enacted by Congress which
raise the amount an older work
er can earn and still collect some
benefits in addition to his earn
ings.
Older working people, made
eligible to collect some benefits
because of these changes, will
need to get their applications on
file before the end of January
1962, according to O. L. Pope, dis
trict manager of the Waycross
social security office. Otherwise,
they stand a chance of losing
some of the social security pay
ments due them.
He cited the example of a cou
ple who would be entitled upon
application to a monthly check
of SIBO, about the maximum now
payable to a retired worker and
dependent wife.
Under the law in effect until
the beginning of this year, Mr.
Pope said, this couple could not
be paid any benefits for the year
if the husband’s earnings exceed
ed S2OBO. Under the new law, his
earnings could go as high as
$3610 before this couple would
have to forego all of their social
security benefits.
A retired worker with no de
pendents, entitled to a benefit of
$74 (the average now being paid)
could earn about $2300 in a year
and still get some of his bene
fits.
Many older working people in
the Nahunta area have not yet
applied for their social security
benefits, Mr. Pope noted. He said
that many of them may not real
ize that their earnings are at a
level which will now permit them
to get some payments.
Some others may be under the
impression that if they earn more
than SI2OO in a year, they can
not collect any social security be-
Ip
Fashioned
to fit
any
kitchen
WOMEN are naturally fashion-conscious. That
goes for everything from hats to kitchens.
And the pace-setter of any modern kitchen
is a flameless electric range.
Makes no difference whether your kitchen
is big or small, wide or narrow, baby blue
or shocking pink, there’s a stylish electric
range expressly designed to fit your needs
and your taste.'
Made-to-measure electric ranges come in a
variety of styles and models. You can choose
the color that pleases your eye and suits the
mood of your kitchen ... be it a gleaming
white, rainbow-bright or mellow-muted tone.
Today’s style-conscious homemaker will be
right in vogue with any one of several popu
lar models. It makes for modern electric
living at its very best.
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nefits. This is not so, he said.
Another thing many people
don’t realize is that regardless of
their annual earnings, a social
security beneficiary can be paid
his benefits for any month he
does not earn more than SIOO in
wages nor work in self-employ
ment.
The social security district
manager suggested that working
people 65 or over who have not
yet applied for their social se
curity benefits write or phone his
office to get a free copy of the
new leaflet, “You Don’t Have to
Retire Completely to Get Social
Security Benefits.” The leaflet
describes the provisions of the
law in simple words and also
contains a table to help the older
worker estimate how much of
his benefits he can collect if he
earns over SI2OO a year.
WMU Requests Help
In Campaign for
Clothing for Needy
The W. M. U. of the Nahunta
Baptist Church will cooperate
with the mayor of Nahunta in
the drive for clothing for the pa
tients at the State Hospital at
Milledgeville and for the retard
ed children at Gracewood Train
ing School, it is announced by
Mrs. T. H. Purdom and Mrs. J. W.
Crews. They ask that coat hang
ers be included.
The clothes should be cleaned
and boxed and left at the office
of Sheriff J. W. Crews by Dec.
13. Or call Mrs. J. W. Crews or
Mrs. T. H. Purdom.
Research has shown that for
each 100 pounds gain in body
weight during the dry period, a
cow may be expected to produce
1,200 to 1,400 pounds of addition
al milk in the next lactation.
Brantley Enterprise
IN AIR FORCE — Airman Bas
ic Billy Stone, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Gordon R. Stone, Hobo
ken, is being assigned to the
USAF technical training course
for air armament and gunnery
specialists at Lowry AFB, Colo.
He completed basic training at
Lackland AFB, Tex., and was
selected for the advanced
training on the basis of his
interests and aptitudes. A grad
uate of Hoboken High School,
he attended Georgia State Col
lege at Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Johns of
Deland, Fla., are the proud par
ents of a baby boy born Tuesday,
Nov. 21, in a Deland hospital.
The baby weighed nine pounds
seven ounces and has been nam
ed Demarus Johns, Jr. Mrs.
Johns will be remembered as the
former Miss Ann Johns of
Brantley County.
Fall vegetable production this
year is expected to be four per
cent smaller than in 1960, ac
cording to the Georgia Crop Re
porting Service.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
GEORGIA STATE
HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
PROJECT NO. RA 2-23 (4)
COUNTIES OF CHARLTON
BRANTLEY-WAYNE
Sealed proposals will be receiv
ed by the Georgia State Highway
Authority at its General Office
at No. 2 Capitol Square, Atlanta,
Georgia, until 11 A. M., Eastern
Standard Time, December 14,
1961, for furnishing all labor, ma
terial, equipment and other things
necessary for construction of 46.-
27 miles of widening and resur
facing on the Folkston-Jesup
Road, State Route 23, beginning
at the north end of the Folkston
Interchange .approximately 1.3
miles north of Homeland and ex
tending north to the Intersection
of State Route 27 in Jesup, ex
cepting 4.03 miles between Na
hunta and the Wayne County
Line.
Plans and Specifications are on
file at the office of the undersign
ed at Atlanta, and at the office of
the State Highway Department,
No. 2 Capitol Square, Atlanta,
Georgia, and at the office of
the Division Engineer of the State
Highway Department at Jesup,
Georgia, where they may be in
spected free of charge.
Copies of the plans may be ob
tained upon payment in advance
of the sum of $5.00. Copies of the
Standard Specifications may be
obtained upon payment in ad
vance of the sum of $3.00, which
sums will not be refunded.
The Standard Specifications of
the State Highway Department of
Georgia have been adopted by the
Georgia State Highway Authori
ty and will govern any construc
tion under these proposals.
THE APPROXIMATE QUANTI
TIES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
650 Cu. Yds., Unclassified Ex
cavation.
950 Cu. Yds., Subgrade Treat
ment Material.
30900 Tons, Soil Cement Stab
ilized Base Course.
11480 Bbls. Portland Cement.
14200 Gals. Cutback Asphalt
Prime.
71500 Gals. Emulsified Asphalt
Tack Coat, AE-0.
81510 Sq. Yds. Asphalt Cement
Surface Treatment, Stone Size
M-6, Type 111.
3000 Tons Asphalt Concrete “E”
or “F”
66000 Tons Asphalt Concrete
“E”.
1,150,000 Gals. Asphaltic Mater
ial.
70 Tons, Aggregate for Pene
tration Macadam Paving.
1100 Gals. Bituminous Material
for Penetration Macadam Paving.
Said work shall begin within
ten (10) days after formal exe
cution of contract and shall be
completed within 200 working
days. When contract has been ex
ecuted, written notice shall be
given the Contractor, at which
time, and not before, work man be
started.
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Nov. 30, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Births
Legal Advertising
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. George Loyd and
family of Nahunta visited rela
tives and friends in Fellsmore,
Orlando and Ocala, Fla., over the
Thanksgiving weekend. Mr. Loyd
is reported to have caught a
“mess” of fish.
George D. Williams, boat
swain’s mate third class, USN,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Mathie F.
Williams of Route 1, Nahunta,
while serving aboard the dock
landing ship USS Oakhill, parti
cipated in a large-scale Navy and
Marine Corps training exercise
observed by Admiral George W.
Anderson, chief of naval opera
tions, on Nov. 18, off the coast of
Southern California.
Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Ham of Na
hunta had as their Thanksgiving
weekend guests the following re
latives: Rev. and Mrs. Omer
Graves of Lagrange, Dr. and
Mrs. Raphael Graves and child
ren of Atlanta, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer K. Ham and children of
Jesup and Mrs. Cora Johnson of
Hilliard, Fla.
Pvt. E-l Leland Brooks will
leave Thursday for Fort Lee, Va.
after spending twelve days with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Faye
Brooks. He completed his basic
training at Fort Jackson, S. C.
He will be in training in the
quartermasters corp at Fort Lee.
Mrs. I. M. Brandies and child
ren, Tommy, Sally and Cecelia of
Callahan, Fla. were guests of
Mrs. Gretchen Harris and family
on Sunday, Nov. 26.
Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Strickland
spent Thursday of last week with
relatives in Blackshear.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Broome at
tended a reunion of members of
the Broome family on Sunday at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Mor
gan Milner in Macon.
Contract executed pursuant to
this Notice is binding on the
Georgia State Highway Authority
as such. Said contract will not
create liability, expressed or im
plied, against the undersigned
Chairman of the Georgia State
Highway Authority as an indivi
dual, nor against any employee of
the Georgia State Highway Au
thority in his or her individual
capacity nor against the State
Highway Department of Georgia,
nor against any officer or em
ployee of the State Highway De
partment in his or her individual
capacity.
Proposals must be submitted on
regular forms which will be sup
plied by the undersigned, and
must be accompanied by a certi
fied check, cashier’s check, nego
tiable United States Bonds or
other acceptable security in the
amount of $20,000.00, and must be
plainly marked “Proposal for
Road Construction,” County and
Number, and show the time of
opening as .advertised. Check of
the low bidder will be cashed and
all other checks will be returned
as soon as the contract is award
ed, unless it is deemed advisable
by the Authority to hold one or
more checks. If an unusual con
dition arises, the Authority re
serves the right to cash all
checks. Bidders Bond will not be
accepted.
A charge of $5.00 will be made
for each proposal issued.
Such a bond will be required
of the successful bidder as re
quired by law for contractors
contracting with the State High
way Department of Georgia.
Contracts will not be award
ed to contractors who have not
been placed on the list of qualifi
ed contractors prior to the date
of award. No proposals will be
issued to any bidder later than
9 A. M. Eastern Standard Time of
the date of opening bids.
All bids must show totals for
each item and total of amount of
bid. Right is reserved to delay
the award of the contract for a
period of not to exceed thirty
(30) days from the date of open
ing bids, during which period
bids shall remain open and not
subject to withdrawal. Right is re
served to reject any and all bids
and to waive all formalities.
Upon compliance with the re
quirements of the standard speci
fications, ninety (90) percent of
the amount of work done in any
calender month will be paid for
by the 25th day of the succeeding
month, and the remainder within
thirty (30) days after final esti
mate is approved by the Engineer.
This the 22 day of November
1961.
GEORGIA STATE
HIGHWAY AUTHORITY
JIM L. GILLIS, SR.,
CHAIRMAN
WILLIS N. HARDEN,
MEMBER
CLARKE W. DUNCAN,
MEMBER 12-7.
Mrs. Auvell Raulerson
Honored with Shower
The lovely home of Mrs. J. B.
Lewis was the setting for a Stork
Shower for Mrs. Auvell Rauler
son recently. Mrs. Raulerson is
the former Miss Myra Strickland.
Hostesses were Mrs. J. B.
Lewis, Mrs. Dan Jacobs and Mrs.
Gladys Higginbotham. Mrs. Lew
is was the hostess for a Stork
Shower given 20 years ago, short
ly after Mrs. Avery Strickland
gave birth to her twin girls Myra
and Jane, and this gave the oc
casion a special significance.
Miss Sandra Jacobs led the
guest in games which led into
the opening of gifts.
Guests who attended the show
er were Mrs. Raulerson’s mother
and grandmother Mrs. Strickland,
Mrs. Harry Raulerson, Mrs. M. H.
Robinson, Mrs. J. A. Stone, Mrs.
Virgil Strickland, Mrs. Travis
Highsmith, Mrs. H. T. Jacobs,
Mrs. Maude Highsmith, Mrs. Mel
va Alice Brown, Mrs. Jos. B.
Strickland, Mrs. Emmie J. New
ton, Miss Arlene Strickland, Mrs.
Clifton Strickland, Mrs. Janice
Royster, Mrs. Gladys Strickland,
Mrs. Sidney Walker, Mrs. Rhoda
Strickland, Mrs. Gladys Higgin
botham, Mrs. Bertha Jacobs, Mrs.
Elizabeth Barnard, Mrs. Cecil
Thomas, Mrs. Dorothy Graham,
and Miss Dale and Sandra Jacobs.
FHA Girls Hold
November Meeting
The FHA girls held their No
vember meeting in the Home Ec
Room.
Elaine Allen called the meeting
to order and Janice Higginbotham
lead the devotional.
The FFA boys asked the FHA
girls to meet with them in the
lunchroom to hear the report on
the poll the boys took on “What
Girls Like in Boys.”
A committee was appointed to
plan for stunt night. They are
Chat Allen, Aleta Bourgeois,
Marilyn Herrin, Lois Mobley,
Lynn Highsmith, Hilda Turner,
Edna Lane and Faye Anderson.
Patsy Walker, reporter.
Palmetto 4-H Club
Officers Elected
The Palmetto 4-H Club offi
cers for the year are Charlene
Gibson, president; David Jacobs,
vice-president; Lorna Harden,
girls’ vice-president; Patsy Wal
ker, reporter; Grace Middleton,
program chairman; and Mickel
Middleton, parliamentarian.
Grace Middleton led the devo
tional. A committee was appoint
ed to plan for stunt night. They
are Gail Strickland, Lorna Har
den, Mary Lou Ellis, Terry Thom
as and Junior Lewis.
Mrs. Raulerson and Mr. Loyd
showed a film on insects.
Patsy Walker,
reporter.
Hoboken Wins
Both Games
From Patterson
The Hoboken Trojans and Tro
janettes downed Patterson in
both ends of a court twinbill at
Hoboken Tuesday night.
Hugh Belcher’s undefeated Ho
boken sextet rolled to its seventh
win of the season by taking the
opener 37-32. Dudley Spell’s Tro
jans came from behind to win 36-
27.
Dot Milton paced Hoboken
with 16 points, aided by Pat Car
ter’s 15 and Annette Lucas with
six. Edith Aldridge, Diane Col
vin, Rosslyn Herrin, Carolyn
Rose Larkins and Linda Altman
turned in sterling performances
for Hoboken.
Pat Strickland had 16 points for
the Patterson girls with Docie
Loper adding 13 and Debbie
Strickland three.
Hoboken fell behind 17-15 at
halftime of the boys game but
the score was tied 19-19 after
three periods. The Trojans rallied
to win.
Leading Hoboken scorers was
Dennis Woods with 15 points, De-
Wayne Thomas had 14, Altman
three, Hickox two, Dryden and
Dowling one each.
Bobby Crews and Terry Smith
each had six for Patterson with
W. D. Strickland, Smiley and
Bennett adding five each.
Hoboken invades Odum Friday
for a 3-C game.
Waycross Educational Television
Station to Go on the Air Dec. 4
WXGA-TV, the new television
station of the State Department
of Education, will go on the air
from Waycross December 4.
This is the second in a net
work series which the state hopes
will eventually reach all of Geor
gia’s 1,936 schools. The education
department has been sharing
WGTV, an Athens station with
the University of Georgia for the
past two years, and has televi
sion classes in science, mathema
tics, foreign languages, music and
Georgia history reaching 392,000
school pupils in north and mid
dle Georgia.
The Waycross station will reach
Emory University to Observe
125th Anniversary Dec. 10
Emory University in Atlanta
will observe its 125th anniversary
Sunday December 10.
Emory has grown, from a small
school in Oxford, Ga., into one of
the nation’s major privately en
dowed universities. Over 4,000
students on the Atlanta campus
study liberal arts, or attend the
professional schools of business
administration, dentistry, law,
medicine, nursing and theology.
The medical school is the nu
cleus for a major medical center
developing in Atlanta. The theo
logy school trains more Metho
dist ministers than any Methodist
seminary in the world.
Chartered by Georgia Metho
dists in 1836, Emory was named
for Methodist Bishop John Emory.
The town laid out around it was
named for the English Universi
ty, Oxford, where John and
Charles Wesley studied. Most of
the leaders in Southern Metho
dism had intimate associations
with Emory from its beginning.
Among its early presidents
2 Men Charged
With Burglary
Os Sikes Garage
Three men were arrested in
Waycross Tuesday night and two
of them were charged with pos
session of a stolen car and also
of breaking and entering Sikes
Garage and Service Station at
Lulaton, according to sheriff J.
Walter Crews.
The third man turned out to be
a hitchhiker who was asleep in
the car when the other two bur
glarized the service station, the
sheriff said.
The two men charged with
stealing the auto in Tampa and
committing the break-in gave
their names as Edwin Lee Mata
ko, 19, originally of California,
and Ernest Eugene Fuller, 18, of
Jacksonville. The hitchhiker was
Elvin Nelson Moore, 26, of South
Carolina who, the others said
they picked up between Jackson
ville and Brunswick.
The men were arrested in Way
cross when they tried to swap
motor oil, stolen at Lulaton, for
gasoline. At Lulaton the two
men had broken in the door of
the Sikes Garage and stolen mo
tor oil, two rods and reels, can
dies and crackers.
Investigation of the case is
continuing, sheriff Crews said.
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Merchants wise — adver-
tise.
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
One woman said eight fami
lies borrowed her Enterprise
each week. I didn’t know
there were that many spong
ers in Brantley County.
about 100,000 school pupils and
some 3500 teachers in south
Georgia. Reports coming in from
the fringe areas indicate that the
tone signal is being clearly re
ceived in a radius of approxi
mately 75 miles in every direc
tion from the broadcasting site,
which is 16 miles north of Way
cross.
Videotapes will be broadcast
about 6 hours a day at present,
from 9 to 3 covering the school
day. The evening program will
begin at 6:30 and run until 10:
00. The evening broadcasts will
begin about the first of the year.
were Ignatius Few, Bishop George
Foster Pierce, Augustus Baldwin
Longstreet and Alexander Means.
Judge Longstreet was known for
his description of frontier days in
“Georgia Scenes.” Alexander
Means established the scientific
tradition at Emory. He demons
trated what many regarded as the
first electric light in America in
1852 using crude charcoal instead
of carbon. Bishop Pierce, before
coming to Emory, was the first
president of Wesleyan College,
first college in the world to pre
pare women for college degree
programs.
During the Civil War Emory
was forced to close its doors.
Some of its buildings were used
as a military hospital. Shortly af
ter the War the college reopened
with a number of Georgia veter
ans whose education was financ
ed by the state, a farsighted and
little known move by Georgia
that antedated the famed GI edu
cational bills of World War n by
eighty years.
Odum Boys Win,
Nahunta Girls Win
Odum — Nahunta and Odum
split a court bill at Odum Tues
day night, the Odum boys win
ning 48-27 and the Nahunta girls
taking a 43-30 verdict.
Carroll Chadwick led Odum's
quintet with 16 points. Jerry Ro
well had six for Nahunta.
Annie Ruth Jones flipped in 24
to lead the Nahunta girls with
Diane Martin getting 22 for O
dum.
Booklets on
Fallout Shelters
Are Available
Representative Iris Blitch has
made nearly 2000 “Family Fallout
Shelter” booklets available to
citizens of Pierce county. These
booklets are being distributed by
the Pierce county Civil Defense
unit and may be obtained from
the following pick-up points:
County Commission’s office.
County Agent’s office, First Meth
odist Church, and Hendry Studio
in Blackshear, and Mayor J. P.
Barnard’s office in Patterson.
“The Family Fallout Shelter”
is a 32-page booklet prepared by
the national Department of De
fense in 1959 and reprinted in
September of 1961. It contains
reasons for providing fallout shel
ters and plans for building them.
Any citizen of Pierce county may
have a copy by stopping at one of
the above named places and ask
ing for it
