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Newspaper Page TextIf you are a subscriber to The Brantley Enterprise, you don’t have to borrow your neighbor’s paper to see what is going on in your county. VOLUME 41 — NUMBER 49 2 Teen-age Girls Give Sheriff And Policeman a Merry Chase Two teen-age girls gave sheriff Walter Crews and city policeman C. T. Stephens a merry chase Tuesday when they dashed from the courthouse lobby after being picked up for questioning as run aways. The two girls were caught a gain, after running through the swamp east of Nahunta, and brought back and placed in jail. They had refused to tell where they were from. Wednesday morning the sheriff, policeman Stephans and GBI a gent Dixon questioned the girls at length and at last they ad mitted they were from Columbia, S. C. They claimed they had been mistreated at home and had hitch ed a ride south with a man in a Cadillac car, whose name they did not know. When sheriff Crews called Co lumbia, a detective there reveal ed that a frantic search had been on for the two girls and that ra dio and TV broadcasts had been resorted to in trying to find them. The parents came for the girls Wednesday night and started back toward Columbia. At Sylvania the parents left the car for a mo ment and the two girls suddenly started the car and turned back south, driving at reckless speed. The parents wired back to sheriff Crews to be on the look out for them again. But the two girls wrecked the car near Claxton, the sheriff said, and were finally overtaken by their parents. Final disposition of the case is not known. GEORGIA COTTON CROP Georgia’s 1961 cotton crop is expected to be 520,000 bales with an average yield of 378 pounds per acre. The total production is 15,000 bales above the 1960 crop and the expected per-acre yield is seven pounds above that of last year, according to the Georgia Crop Reporting Service. Nahunta Garden Club to Hold Christmas Flower Show Dec. 16 The Christmas Flower Show of the Nahunta Garden Club will be held at the Nahunta High School lunchroom Dec. 16 and 17. The show will be open on Satur day from 2:00 o’clock P. M. until 7:00 P. M. and on Sunday from 3:00 P. M. until 5:00 P. M. The theme of the show will be “Make Your Own Merry Christ mas.” Mrs. M. H. Robinson and Mrs. Harry Raulerson are chair men of the show. Mrs. Lee Herrin is president of the Nahunta Gar den Club. Classes in the artistic division include Christmas scenes, Christ mas arrangements or composi tions, compositions of dried ma terial, Christmas trees, line ar rangements and the junior divi sion. Horticulture will include camellias, perennials and bien nials, trees, shrubs, vines and pot ted plants. . Savannah Paper Will Feature News and Pictures of Brantley A reporter-photographer team from the Savannah Morning News was recently making preparations for a pictorial news feature on Nahunta and Brantley County which will appear in the Morn ing News on Sunday, December 10. Hubert Callaway, state news editor of the Morning News, gath ered information while a staff photographer was taking pictures throughout the county. The feature appearing Sunday is one of several in a series call ed “The Coastal Empire Today" which is a regular feature in the Sunday editions of the Morning News. “We have expanded our Sun day paper in order to give our readers more news and more en joyment,” Henry H. Schulte Jr., executive editor of the Morning News, announced recently. “Bet ter state coverage giving more news of our. Coastal Empire neighbors is an outstanding as pect of this expansion. The editor stated that the pic torial news stories in ‘‘The Coas tal Empire Today" series will give a modern-day view of the Southeast Georgia and South Carolina counties wit hi n the Coastal Empire. He said that the Morning News will present to day’s Coastal Empire area and its people, their farms and busi nesses and industries, their schools and churches, and their community spirit. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Chambless-Cottingham In a ceremony attended only by members of the immediate fami lies and close friends, Miss Bar bara Chambless became the bride of Levin Bruce Cottingham, 111 at 3 P. M., Saturday, Dec. 2 in the Post Chapel at Fort Myer, Va. The Rev. Harold B. Lawson of ficiated at the double-ring rites. Guy Chambless Jr., escorted his sister to the altar. Maid of honor and only attendant was Miss Nella Adams. William B. Singerhoff was best man. Usher groomsmen were Louis R. Schiave Jr. and Francis L. Drake. After a reception held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Minter in Arlington, Va., Mr. and Mrs. Cottingham left for a wed ding trip to Maryland. They will reside in Washington, D. C. Nahunta Beta Club / Initiates 13 Members The Nahunta High School Na tional Beta Club has checked grades of all students from the tenth to the twelfth grades. Those students found to be eligible to join the Beta Club were Jimmy Allen, Lynn Batten, Delores Chowning, Lynn Herrin, Sandra Jacobs, Annie Ruth Johns, Naomi Moody, Elaine Allen, Maxie Herrin, George Lloyd, Mila Manning, Ella Mae Willis and Ronald Drury. In order to join the Beta Club the students have to maintain a 90 or above average, go through initiation and an induction ser vice. Mrs. Mae McCoy Funeral Service Was Held Tuesday Funeral services for Mrs. Mae McCoy of Folkston were held in Folkston on Tuesday, Dec. 5. Mrs. McCoy was a sister of Mrs. E. L. Sears and Mr. Frank Moore of Nahunta and. Mrs. Gla dys Smallwood of Blackshear. Her surviving children are Mrs. Anne Martin, Atlanta; Mrs. Betty Jp Telford, John D. McCoy, Robert McCoy all of Folkston and Mr. i Bill McCoy of Savannah. Col. Dow Completes Operations Army Col. L. Dow Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvah R. Adams, Hortense, completed the senior of ficer advanced operations course at The Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Nov. 18. The course, the first of its kind, is designed to instruct selected personnel in- the doctrine and techniques used in the employ ment of and defense against spec ial weapons. Colonel Adams is a graduate of Nahunta High School. He attend ed the University of Georgia, Athens, is a 1938 graduate of the U. S. Military Academy, West Point, N. Y., and a 1948 graduate of the University of Southern California. Los Angeles. When buying a carpet, the closeness and density of pile tufts are qualities to look for. Turn the carpet or rug back on itself and '(you can see how close together 'the tufts are and how high they । stand. If they are too thin and too 'far apart, shop some more, sug gests Miss Ava Rodgers, Exten sion home furnishings and art 'pecialist. Brantley Enterprise Linda Dubose, reporter. Adams Advanced Course Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 12S, Nahunta, Ga.. Thursday, Dec. 7, 1961 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA 2 Library Clubs Attend Association At Lowndes County The Nahunta and Hoboken Library Clubs, under the direc tion of Miss Pollyanne Middle ton and Mrs. Mary Lou Gibson, librarians, attended the fall Stu dent Library Association at Lowndes County High School on Wednesday, November 29. Twenty-eight assistants board ed the county school bus, driven by Rev. Hilton Morgan, at 8:00 o’clock. Upon our arrival, we were wel comed and registered. We were ushered into the school library and heard a talk by Miss Theron Hambrick, librarian of Valdosta State College. Lunch was served in the cafeteria followed by a period of visitation into the var ious classrooms. We thought our library measur ed up very well in books, space and services. Sarah Anne Gibson, Reporter Tobacco Growers to Vote Dec. 12 On Marketing Quotas for 3 Years On Tuesday, December 12, growers will decide whether the present tobacco program will con tinue in effect for the 1962, 1963, and 1964 crops of flue-cured to bacco. All flue-cured tobacco farmers are urged to take part in making this important decision. The program is designed to keep the supply of flue-cured tobacco in line with the demand, and in sure a fair return to the farmers for their product. The 1961-62 marketing year is the last of three consecutive years for which flue-cured tobacco growers have previously approv ed the present program for their crops. The governing legislation requires that a national market ing quota for flue-cured tobacco be proclaimed by the Secretary for the 1962-63, 1963-64, and 1964- 65 marketing years, and that a growers’ referendum be held to approve or disapprove the quota program. Referendum The votes on marketing quotas for flue-cured tobacco will be for a period of 3 years. The ballot to be used in the re ferendum contains only one ques tion: “Are you in favor of market ing quotas for flue-cured tobacco for the three marketing years be ginning July 1,1962?” Growers will vote either YES or NO. If at least two-thirds of the growers voting in the referendum vote YES, the quotas — with penalties on marketings of “ex cess” tobacco — will be continu ed, and price supports will be a vailable to growers who comply with their allotments. If more than one-third of the growers voting in the referen dum vote NO, there will be no quotas, no penalties, and no price supports for the 1962 crop. And, there would be another referen dum next year on quotas for the following 3 years. Eligibility to Vote Any person who was actually engaged in the production of the 1961 crop of flue-cured tobacco and who shared in the crop or the proceeds of the crop as own er, tenant, or sharecropper, is eligible to vote in the referen dum. Also, each person who was either the owner or operator of a farm for which a 1961 flue cured tobacco allotment was es tablished is eligible to vote even though no tobacco was produced on the farm, if any of the allot ment was preserved for history purposes. While a person may qualify to vote for another person in the capacity of guardian, administra tor. executor, or trustee, the per son for whom he is acting will not be eligible to vote. A husband and wife who were actually engaged in the 1961 pro duction of flue-cured tobacco as joint owners of a farm are both eligible to vote. Each individual’s right to vote, whether single or married, depends upon his or hei own qualifications. A minor is not disqualified from voting sole ly because of his age if he is otherwise eligible. No person (whether an indivi dual, association, corporation or other legal entity) shall be entitl ed to more than one vote in a re ferendum. even though he may have been engaged in 1961 in the production of flue-cured tobacco in two or more communities, counties, or States. In a flue-cured referendum held December 15. 1958. quotas for the 1959. 1960 and 1961 crops were approved by 95.4 percent of the 176.607 growers voting HD Council to Meet Wednesday The Brantley County Home De monstration Council will hold its regular meeting Wednesday De cember 13 at 2:00. The group is guest of the Calvary Home De monstration Club and will meet in their Community house on the Schlatterville rural paved road. The program for this meeting will be ‘‘Operation Stop Fire.” All members and friends of the HD Council are urged to attend the meeting. Hortense PTA News Hortense Parent Teacher Asso ciation is starting the Christmas season by having a yule covered dish supper December 14, at 7:30 P.M. This party will be held at the school lunchroom. Everyone come bring what you wish. No gifts will be exchanged. Publicity, Mrs. W. J. Rowell Personals Airman First Class James L. White, son of Mrs. Ira White of Nahunta, recently reenlisted in the Air Force at James Connally AFB in Waco, Texas for an ad ditional four years. A native of Nahunta, Airman White graduat ed from Nahunta High School be fore enlisting in the Air Force. He took basic military training at Lackland AFB, Texas and was stationed at Moody AFB, Ga., prior to his assignment to James Connally Wallis F. Larkins, electronics technician second class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Floyd Larkins of Hoboken, was promoted, Nov. 16, while serving aboard the landing craft repair ship USS Pandemus, operating out of Charleston, S. C. Promotions for Navy enlisted personnel are the result of semi-annual fleet-wide competitive examinations. Mr. J. B. Lewis is a patient in Memorial Hospital in Waycross. Jimmy Conditt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Conditt, has been in Talmadge Memorial hospital since Monday of this week. He was to undergo surgery Thursday, Dec. 7. Bookmobile Schedule Announced for County The Bookmobile schedule for Brantley county has been an nounced as follows: Monday, December 11, Hobo ken, Hortense. Tuesday, December 12, Nahunta High School, Nahunta Elementary School. Wednesday, December 13, Waynesville, Hickox, Nahunta (Court House Stop). Thursday, December 14, Nahun ta Colored School. LANDSCAPE HINTS Plants often become too large to serve their original purpose. Ligustrum, Photinia, Elaeagnus and Pyranantha may need severe pruning every three or four years to keep them in bounds. If they develop large trunks it is often necessary to remove them and plant other plants, says Extension Landscape Specialist T. G. Wil liams. Points to Remember When Writing Your News Stories 1. Be sure to typewrite your news story. 2. Double-space on only ONE SIDE of paper. 3. Start at least two inches from top of page. 4. On regular size typewriter paper— no scraps, please 5. Leave at least an inch or more margin at left side ilso right side of page. 6. Give dates of meeting, otherwise story will not be published. 7. Get your news in EARLY, as paper must begin to set type days ahead of publication. 8. Don’t send in any news MORE THAN A WEEK OLD 9. Don’t put names of commercial firms in news. The paper does not run free advertising for commercial firms. 10. If your news is worth printing, it is worth taking a little trouble to get it right and in on time. Your editor will be glad to cooperate with you if you ill go to the trouble of cooperating with him. Nahunta Library Club Met Wednesday The Nahunta High School Lib rary Club held its meeting in the Library, Wednesday, Nov. 29. Jo Ann Young was accepted as a member of the Library Club. Plans were made for the Christ mas Party and names were drawn. Mrs. Gibson reminded the members of their various duties and asked for more efficient ser vice, the Club voted to attend S. L. A. at Lowndes County High School and plans were made for the trip. The Club's Project was discuss ed and a report .made. The fol lowing students and teachers have contributed a book: Henry Jacobs, Thomas Kaney, Charles Gibson, Stewart Wiggins, Mrs. Virginia Omick, Owen K. Herrin Jr., Mrs. Willene Ham, Bill Goodner, Elroy Strickland, Mrs. Rhoda Strickland, Mrs. Van ita Hawkins, Mrs. Winifred Strang, Mrs. Iris Highsmith, Jim mie Highsmith, Mrs. Lottie Strickland. Mrs. Betty Jo Har rison, Arthur Strickland, Mrs. Sy bil Strickland, Eugene Harrison, Mrs. Vera Church, Mrs. Roberta Colson, Jimmy Rogers, Mrs. Clyde Rogers, Emery Middleton, Mrs. Effie Middleton, Alice Sue DePratter, Jane Edgy, Clarence Gibson, Mrs. Ada Mae Chrisler, Mrs. Creola Woods, Clarice Her rin, Mrs. Inez Popwell, Clarence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Moody, Mr. R. D. Thomas, Mrs. Virginia Raul erson, Miss Ruby Rumsey, Mr. E. L. Sears, Mrs. Grace Sears, Mrs. Lula Brown, Billy Thomas, and Francis Harrison. Many excellent books are be ing added and excitement is still running high. About Sixty-five books have been added thus far, for which the entire school is very grateful. We would appreciate the class rolls for 1939, 1940, 1945, 1957, 1946, 1950 and 1951. Mrs. Gibson would appreciate contacting of graduate of the above classes. Sandra Willis, Helen Moore, and Truman Rowell served re freshments. The meeting adjourn ed. Barbara Wiggins Sarah Anne Gibson Reporters Wild Turkey Season Opened December Ist The season for hunting wild turkey in the Bth District opened on Dec. 1 and will close Feb. 5, 1962, it is announced by Mallory Hatchett, chief of the Waycross district, Georgia Game and Fish Commission. Bag limit is two per season. The second half of the dove season will open Dec. 7 and close Jan. 15, 1962. Bag limit is twelve. Shooting hours will be from noon until sunset. Williamson-Harrell Rev. and Mrs. Alvin William son announce the engagement of their daughter, Iralene Elizabeth of Jacksonville, Fla., to William David Harrell of Jacksonville, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Har rell of Nicholls, Ga. The wedding will be an event of Dec. 8 at 8 P. M. in Satilla Baptist Church, Hortense. The ceremony will be performed by the father of the bride-elect. Following the ceremony a re ception will be held in the home of the bride’s parents. No invi tations will be sent, but all friends and relatives of the cou ple are invited. Brantley County 4-H Club Boys Receive Com Production Awards Students to Plant Tree Seedlings On December 8 Georgia’s tree population should increase by several hundred thou sand during the afternoon of Dec ember 8. This is not unusual in itself be cause the time of year is approa ching when landowners will be setting them out by the millions. These, however, could be some of the most important trees ever planted in Georgia soil, according to the man behind this project. The trees will be planted by elementary and high school stu dents all over the state as a part of 4-H Club Tree Appreciation Day. This project is being or ganized by C. Dorsey Dyer, head of the Extension forestry depart ment of the University of Geor gia College of Agriculture, with the help of other College of Agri culture foresters, county agents and professional agricultural and forestry workers. Purpose of the day is to teach the youngsters, who soon will be responsible for the future of the state, the value of trees and some of the problems involved in grow ing them, Mr. Dyer said. Tree Appreciation Day has been endorsed, by the agriculture com mittee of the Georgia Bankers As sociation. In most counties the trees to be distributed are being purchased by local banks. In other counties they are being fur nished by garden clubs, forest in dustries and other supporters of 4-H Clubs. Four-H Club .members are pro moting the observance in each county and will handle the task of giving out the seedlings to their classmates, as well as plant ing some themselves. On that day throughout the state students will be given tree seedlings at school and asked to take them home and plant them. Before they go home they will be given thorough instructions on how to plant and care for the young tree by a county agent, vocational agriculture teacher, forester, or experienced 4-H mem ber. “Trees have played a big part in the economic growth of Georgia, and their role is going to increase in importance in the future. We want to impress on these boys and girls just how valuable the tree js to everyone in the state,” Mr. Dyer declared. He pointed out that the annual value of forest-related products made in Georgia is already more than three-quarters of a billion dollars. Most ,of these industries are located in the state because of the abundant supply here of their raw materials. Mrs. Moody Gives Information About School Bus Operations The Brantley County School System operates 23 vehicles (22 buses and 1 car to transport 1349 pupils 1,173 miles each school day. The re-routing of the bus system during the summer of 1961 by the State Department of Education cut off 4 buses with a saving of 192 miles and oper ation for same per day. Also, the Board saves $526.26 per month on bus drivers’ salaries. For the school year 1960-61, the Brantley County Board received from the State Department of Education for transportation pur poses $57,966.00. The cost of op eration to the Brantley County Board of Education for this same period of time was $71,200.46. This means, of course, that Brantley County had to provide $13,234.46 towards transportation. The Board feels sure that with this new operation each child is getting just as good service and with a considerable saving to the tax payers. No child is staying on the bus longer than State regu lations. Most children are leav ing home later in the morning and some are returning sooner in the afternoons. With this arrange ment no child is missing any class subject, only a study hall. The money that would have been spent on pupil transporta tion. that we feel was not need ed to be spent that way, is being spent on improving the school classrooms and other school faci lities. Some such improvements have been; putting 2-Bft. floures cent light fixtures in each of the One woman said eight fami lies borrowed her Enterprise each week. I didn’t know there were that many spong ers in Brantley County. Four Brantley County 4-H Club members who participated in the Hybrid Corn Demonstration Pro ject received County Awards, at a banquet given in their honor in Atlanta, by the Georgia Power Company Tuesday Dec. 5. Johnny Crews of Nahunta 4-H Club produced 120 bu. per acre and was Ist. place winner, and received a 3|B-inch electric drill and set of bits. Terry Thomas of Nahunta 4-H Club produced 115 bu. per acre and was 2nd. place winner, and received a clock ra dio. Avery Griffin of the Hoboken 4-H Club produced 108 bu. per acre, 3rd place winner and receiv ed a l|4-inch electric drill set, and David Jacobs of the Nahunta 4-H Club produced 106 bu. per acre, was 4th. place winner and receiv ed a 4-H Club jacket. The Hybrid Corn Demonstra tion Contest is sponsored by the Georgia Power Company in co operation with the Georgia Agri cultural Extension Service. Each year twelve counties in the State, with twelve 4-H Ch ' • boys from each county is select' ’ » cipate in the program. I'he j- gram has been going on since 1947, but this year was the first time Brantley County has bgen selected to be in it. Other Couh ties in the Program this year were Banks, Barrow, Brooks, El bert, Fulton, Grady, Henry, Lan ier, Miller, Oconee and Pierce. Other 4-H Club members fro j Brantley County who particip were Maxie H( rrin, | drix, Ned Hendrix ai - drix of the Hickox Ronald Sloan, Stanley Sloan and Joey Strickland of the Hortense community and members of the Nahunta 4-H Club. Also Stanley Dowling of Hoboken and member of the Hoboken 4-H Club. In these demonstrations al) these boys proved that higher yields of corn can be successfully and economically produced in Brantley County. Avery Griffin who is attending South Georgia College was un able to attend the meeting, but the other three winners from Brantley County did attend and accepted his award for him. Others attending from this County were Carl Broome, Edi tor of the Brantley Enterprise, Alfred Thomas, father of Terry Thomas and George A. Loyd County Agricultural Agent. ORGANIC MATERIALS Burning leaves and other waste plant materials is like burning money when you have to turn around and buy organic matter such as peat moss to build the soil in the yard. Grass and shrubbery trimmings can be turn ed into excellent soil builders with little effort and expense, says Extension Horticulturist Gerald Smith. Elementary classrooms at Hobo ken and Nahunta, a new deep well at Hortense and also the re wiring of the Hortense School, the materials for a covered walk-way, for the«^lahunta Ele mentary School and Lunchroom, the gym floors at both high schools have been refinished, 150 gallons of paint have been spread around to add to the beauty and maintenance of school property. Large heaters are replacing the small heaters in the school buses. These are a few of the improve ments. i Beginning with the School term 1961-62, the Board purchased 3- 54 capacity International School Buses. They were put into oper ation at the start of the term. On Nov. 22, 1961, the Board placed an order with R. L. Walker Chev rolet Co. for 2-60 capacity buses. One of these 60 capacity buses will be used on Mr. Arres John son’s route at Waynesville. The other one will be placed on the next largest route in the county. The total cost to the Board of Education for these buses is $23,- 699.09. With these larger and new er buses added to the transporta tion fleet, the Board feels that each child eligible for transporta tion can ride in comfort to and from school. Please feel free to make sug gestions for any improvement to your school. The Board and I will appreciate your help. Mrs. Mable R. Moody. Superintendent Brantley County Schools.