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Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 4,1962
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Cari 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.
Be
BIG
RESULTS
A Lot of Littles
Make a Lot
One step won't take you very far.
You've got to keep on walking.
One word won't tell 'em who you are
You've got to keep on talking.
An inch won't make you very tall,
You've got to keep on growing.
One little ad won't do it all,
You've got to keep them going.
A constant drop of water
Wears away the hardest stone;
By constant gnawing, Towser
Masticates the toughest bone.
The constant, cooing lover
Carries off the blushing maid.
And the constant advertiser
Is the one who gets the trade!
Want
Ads
May
Small
But
They
Bring
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By Harvey Walters
Secretary-Manager,
Georgia Press Association
Atlanta — The work slate of
the 1962 General Assembly is
lengthening as House and Senate
committees which have been
meeting off and on since ad
journment of the last session
complete their reports. Some of
the legislation they propose is
controversial enough to bring on
heated floor fights.
Now at Christmas when illegal
fireworks sadly but too often re
sult in the maiming or blinding
of a number of Georgia children
is a good time to note that Rep.
Mac Pickard of Muscogee county,
expects to press for passage for
a law banning the sale of fire
works absolutely. Present legisla
tion leaves some wide loopholes.
It is legal to sell fireworks for
agricultural or railroad work.
This has been interpreted in
many counties as meaning fire
works can be sold in any farm
area and roadside stands abound.
Rep. Pickard has headed a House
subcommittee studying means of
tightening up control.
Even if the House or Senate
turn down a stricker fire works
law, he believes present laws can
stop the sale of fireworks to un
authorized persons if communi
ties will just enforce them.
The “fireworks lobby’’ 'will, of
course, fight Rep. Pickard’s new
bill, just as the Parent-Teacher
Association and other groups will
support it.
A joint House-Senate commit
tee headed by Senator Earl Sta
ples of Carrollton (37th District)
and Rep Johnny Caldwell of Up
son county have completed a re
port on activating the much-de
bated Auto Title Registration
Act, passed at the last session.
The committee report — sug
gesting changes in the present
law — recommends that title re
gistration begin in the late sum
mer or fall of 1962 when the
1983 models appear. During the
following year registration
would be require?! for all 1964
models and the resale of 1962
and 1961 models. By 1967 — five
years from the time the law be
came effective — all models
would be covered.
The present law, passed at the
last session, would cover all mo
dels within three years. Gov.
Ernest Vandiver has not set up
the machinery to put it into ef
fect because funds for personnel
and offices haven’t been avail
able.
Rep. Ebb Duncan of Carrollton,
a member of the joint committee,
points out that under the amend
ment now proposed administra
tion of the act would not cost
much the first year. Expenses
would go up as income from title
registration — SI.OO per car —
increases.
The committee report also will
recommend that cars brought into
Georgia which have been titled
in other states be titled here as
soon as the Law is put into opera
tion.
A House Committee on Tax
Equalization is prepared to re
commend that the General As
sembly appropriate $1,500,000
each year for the next three
years as a loan fund for counties
seeking to equalize their tax
structures.
A million dollars for this pur
pose was appropriated in 1961,
but Gov. Vandiver already has
advanced $883,515 from it for
loans to 17 counties. Floyd,
Dougherty, Washington, Chat
tooga, Clayton and Butts are now
on the waiting list for loans.
Counties are allowed five years
to repay the money.
Members of the committee re
porting on the equalization fund
are Reps. Maddox Hale of Dade,
William Sties of Harris and Ar
thur Bolton of Spalding.
For several years Rep. M. M.
(Muggsy) Smith of Fulton coun
ty has been trying to get a bill
through the House raising the age
of a person subject to the death
penalty from a Georgia court.
Now anyone over 14 may be sen
tenced to execution. His efforts
haven’t aroused much support.
His chance of success during
the coming session appear .much
better due to national interest in
the sentencing of a 16-year-old
Negro boy, Preston Cobb, to
death for killing a white farmer.
The case is now being appealed.
Gov. Vandiver has said that if
necessary he will grant the boy a
stay of execution until the Le
gislature has a chance to take a
“hard look” at the present law.
The Election Laws Study Com
mittee, headed by Secretary of
State Ben W. Fortson, has re
stored to its old date of the se
cond Wednesday in November.
The last General Assembly pass
ed an act allowing the time to
be set by the State Democratic
Executive Committee on any date
between June 1 and Sept. 15.
It is uncertain whether the re
port will apply to the 1962 pri
mary. Gov. Vandiver has said the
Democratic committee won’t set
a date until after the Legislature
adjourns.
Seed Packaging
The use of paper bags for pack
aging certified seed is on the in
crease, reports Extension Seed
Marketing Specialist Harvey
Lowrey.
Firearm accidents took the
lives of 1,200 persons in the Unit
ed States in 1960, nearly one
fourth of them being in the 5
through 14 age group, according
to Extension Engineer Willis
Huston.
georgia ... the "new south"
Georgia Agriculture Week
... celebrating a decade of new progress!
georgia agriculture week
FEBRUARY 12 18, 1962
Traveling Through Georgia
By Charles E. Hopper
Throughout the years, the cele
bration of New Year’s Day in
Georgia has been as varied as its
scenic wonders and natural beau
ty — According to an old diary,
New Year’s Day in Savannah in
1741 began with the “prayers of
the church, and in the afternoon,
the generality of the people
traveled to various sections of
the young town and diverted
themselves in active sports, cric
ket, and quotes which put an end
to the Holidays of this Season
without any offense or distur
bance given.”
In the January Ist issue of the
Savannah newspaper in 1804, ar
ticles dealt with shipping, auct
ions, advertisements for the new
almanac, and poems for peace.
However, a great deal of space
in the paper was devoted to news
about people from the surround
ing countryside traveling to Sav
annah to see the two hit plays
of the season, “Everyone Has His
Fault” and “Drawing on Tight
Rope.”
Even today in Georgia, New
Year’s Day is celebrated in a
variety of ways. Some attend
church, others take that long a
waited hunting trip that they
were unable to make because of
the Christmas rush, resolutions
are made, hog jowl and black
eyed peas are customarily serv
ed in many homes, and the re
turn to school is made.
No matter how varied the type
of New Year celebration or the
time — 1741 or 1962, there is one
thing that Georgians had and still
have in common — and that is
travel. The pleasures of driving
in the new year can be multipli
ed by careful preparation and
alert, courteous driving. Planning
ahead is important even for a
short trip. Included should be a
safety check of the car’s tires,
brakes, lights, windshield wip
ers, battery and muffler. Ample
time should be allowed for the
"I,
N s
Remarkable progress has been achieved in Georgia agriculture
during the past decade. The introduction of scientific methods has
enabled our farmers to greatly increase both production and effi
ciency.
Agriculture is basic to the economic welfare of people in our State.
It furnishes jobs to nearly 55 per cent of our working force. The
transportation industry, the packers, canners, grocery stores, the tex
tile industry, manufacturers who use lumber from our forests, and
many others. All are dependent upon agriculture!
Let us work together to keep this forward look in Georgia!
The Georgia Press Association and Georgia’s country newspapers
are sponsoring a statewide and national publicity effort in behalf of
the people of agriculture. Join hands with us to support progress . . .
let us rededicate ourselves next month — Georgia Agriculture Week.
In keeping with this theme, the Governor of Georgia signed on the
15th day of September, 1961, a proclamation setting apart the week
of February 12-18, 1962, as “GEORGIA AGRICULTURE WEEK.”
trip so as to avoid speed and
reckless driving.
Once behind the wheel drivers
should maintain a positive frame
of mind, staying alert to road,
weather, and traffic conditions
and making allowances for un
predictable actions by other driv-
Brantley Enterprise
Nahunta, Georgia
Sponsored As a Public Service By
The Brantley Enterprise
"A Local Citizen... a Local Business"
Waycross Livestock Market
SOUTHEAST GEORGIA’S LEADING
LIVESTOCK MARKET
HONEST WEIGHTS AND COURTEOUS
SERVICE.
At our sale on Monday, January 1,
918 head of hogs and 304 head of cat
tie were offered for a total volume of
$55,533.11.
Regular No. 1 hogs sold at $17.36,
Li’s at $17.48, No. 2’s at $16.36, No.
3’s at $15.78, No. 4’s at $16.55 and
No. s’s at $16.75. Rough sows sold up
to $14.34 and feeder pigs up to $lB.-
25.
Calves sold up to $31.00, steers and
heifers up to $24.00 and cows up to
$20.50.
For pick-up or contact for sales please call
Woodrow Wainright Phone HO 2-3471 Nahunta,
Georgia.
Waycross Livestock Market
L. C. Pruitt, W. H. Inman and
O. A. Thompson, Operators and Managers
in agriculture
ers and pedestrians.
The New Year of 1962 prob
ably has in store for you some
very exciting and wonderful
trips ... to the mountains, the
seashore, the beautiful pilgram
ages in the Spring, to hunting
and fishing trips, to the small
and large cities.
The human heart rests about
eight-tenths of a second between
! each contraction.
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