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VOLUME 42 — NUMBER 3
Mrs. Mable Moody Reports to
Brantley County Tax Payers
A REPORT TO THE TAXPAY
ERS ON the operation OF
BRANTLEY COUNTY SCHOOLS
FOR THE YEAR 1961.
By Mable Moody
I believe that it is only fair
that taxpayers know how their
money is spent and how the
schools are operated. In this is
sue of the Brantley Enterprise
is an itemized listing of some of
the bills paid and improvements
made from county taxes.
An amendment to the State
Constitution, voted on in the 1960
General Election by the people of
Georgia, to increase the mills for
schools purposes from 15 to 20
mills has been a help. But
Brantley County is receiving less
money from the State beginning
with the 1961-62 school term. The
State Department is requiring
more local effort on the coun
ty’s part for the support of
schools. This is being done in
every county in the state. Also,
the county lost two teachers this
year because of attendance. This
means that we receive SIOOO.OO
less in M & O (maintenance and
operation) money from the State.
All counties are contributing
more to the Teacher Retirement
System this year. Social Security
payments for bus drivers were in
creased beginning Jan. 1962. All
this, along with the rise in the
cost of school materials, with the
decreases and increases in cer
tain areas, the Board of Educa
tion hopes to have about the same
amount of .money for the school
system operation as in former
years.
Space will not permit my list
ing everything, but every citizen
and taxpayer is welcome to exa
mine the books of the Brantley
County Board of Education at any
time. Here one will find the com
plete payments and receipts.
With the payment of old bills
and the improvements made, we
are keeping the usual operating
bills current as to payment. Also,
we have paid the deductions from
the employer’s payroll; that is,
Federal and State Withholding
taxes, Teachers’, Lunchroom Em
ployees, and bus drivers Insur
ance, Social Security and Teach
er Retirement promptly. This
means that we are operating
more in the black and less in the
red.
Please feel free to talk with
me or any member of the Board
about school problems or any
suggestions for improvement.
Mable R. Moody, Supt.
Brantley County Schools
Rhode Island
Woman Died at
Nahunta Friday
Mrs. Janet Levesque Beaulieu,
31, of Pawtucket, Rhode Island,
passed away Friday, January 12,
in Nahunta following a brief ill
ness. She and her family were en
route to Pompano Beach, Fla. at
the time of her death.
Mrs. Beaulieu was born in
Providence, Rhode Island, and
was the daughter of Mrs. Loret
ta Pion Levesque and the late
Theophile Levesque. She receiv
ed her education in the Central
Falls schools and was a com
municant of St. Leo’s Catholic
Church.
Survivors include her husband,
Laurent Beaulieu of Pawtucket,
R. I.; two daughters, Miss Renee
Beaulieu and Miss Donna Beau
lieu, both of Pawtucket; two sons,
Thomas Beaulieu and Peter Beau
lieu, both of Pawtucket; her
mother, Mrs. Loretta Levesque of
Central Falls, R. I.; two sisters,
Mrs. G. L. Bonenfont of Central
Falls, and Mrs. W. A. Alix of
Pawtucket; one brother, Ralph
Levesque of Central Falls.
Several nieces, nephews and
other relatives also survive.
The remains were carried to
Pawtucket, R. I. via rail where
funeral services and interment
were to take place.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta was in charge of lo-
cal arrangements.
Card of Thanks
We wish to express our sincere
thanks to each and everyone for
the many acts of kindness shown
to us on the occasion of the death
of our father, Fred Strickland.
Also for the many floral tributes
and covered dishes.
May God’s richest blessings be
with each of you.
The children of
Fred Strickland.
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Fred Strickland
Funeral Service
Held Monday
Fred F. Strickland, age 74, of
Nahunta, died at the residence of
his daughter, Mrs. W. S. Fletch
er in Huntsville, Ala.
He was a native of Brantley
County, son of the late Gabriel
L. Strickland and Sarah Wain
wright Strickland.
Strickland was a retired rail
road section foreman for Atlan
tic Coast Line and served as ma
yor of Nahunta for 12 years. He
was a member of the Nahunta
Baptist Church and had served as
church treasurer for a number of
years. He was also a member of
the church’ board of deacons.
Survivors include two daugh
ters, Mrs. W. S. Fletcher, Hunts
ville, Ala., Mrs. G. W. Carter,
Fitzgerald; two sons, W. V.
Strickland, Nahunta, and T. C
Strickland, Rebecca; six sisters,
Mrs. Harvey Griffin, Hoboken,
Mrs. N. A. Stevens and Miss Lou
Strickland both of Waycross, Mrs.
Everett Roberson, Brunswick,
Mrs. A. B. Bennett and Mrs. S. M.
Bennett, both of St. Augustine,
Fla.; two brothers, Gabriel Levi
Strickland and Everett Strick
land, both of Nahunta; three
grandchildren and several nieces
and nephews.
Funeral services were held at
10 A, M. Monday at Nahunta
Baptist Church with interment in
Greenlawn Cemetery.
Funeral rites were conducted
by Rev. Cecil Thomas, pastor of
the Nahunta Baptist Church.
Members of the Men’s Bible
Class of Nahunta Baptist Church
served as honorary pallbearers..
Welding School to
Meet Thursday
An evening arc welding school
for adult farmers will begin
Thursday, January 25, at the Na
hunta vocational agriculture
shop. The school will be conduct
ed one night a week for five con
secutive weeks.
It is for beginners and others
wishing to improve their welding
skill. Carter Morton Jr., Nahun
ta High School Vocational Agri
culture Teacher, will instruct,
teaching welding in various posi
tions, on different kinds of me
tals, welding cast iron, hardsur
facing and soldering, cutting and
brazing with an arc welder.
Everyone who attends all five
sessions will receive a certified
diploma.
All farmers interested in learn
ing Farm Maintenance Welding
are asked to attend the first
meeting Thursday, Jan. 25, at
7:30 P. M. at the Nahunta voca
tional agriculture shop.
Norman L Highsmith
Died in Brunswick
BRUNSWICK — Norman Lee
Highsmith, 64, died Sunday after
noon at the Glynn-Brunswick Me
morial Hospital after an extend
ed illness.
He was a native of Nahunta
but had lived in Brunswick since
1928. Highsmith was a member
of the Norwich Baptist Church
and was a member of Nahunta
Masonic Lodge No. 391.
। Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Rosa T. Highsmith; a daughter,
Mrs. C. J. McClellan, Jackson
ville, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Lessie
Leaverton; a brother, G. W.
Highsmith, Nahunta; three grand
children; and several nieces and
i nephews.
NAHUNTA
“WILDCATS”
Basketball Schedule
HOME GAMES
Jan. 19 —Nicholls
Jan. 23—St. George
Jan. 26—Jesup
Feb. 2—Manor
AWAY GAMES
Dec. 15 —Hoboken
Dec. 19 —Camden Co.
Jan. s—Darien5 —Darien
Jan. 12—Surrency
Jan. 30—Blackshear
Feb. 9 —Nicholls
Feb. 13—Folkston
Brantley Enterprise
Changes Announced
In Regulations on
Selective Service
Recent amendments to Selec
tive Service Regulations, issued
by the President, were explain
ed today by Colonel Mike Y.
Hendrix, State Director of Se
lective Service for Georgia.
The regulations were amended
by a Presidential Executive Or
der to:
1. Create a new Selective Ser
vice classification.
2. Remove from regulations de
tailed class standing and college
qualification test score criteria
used by local boards in consider
ing students for deferment.
3. Provide for the accelerated
induction of Ready Reservists
who enlist in the so-called six
month reserve program before
age 26, upon certification by the
reserve component of unsatisfac
tory participation.
The new classification is “Class
I-Y,” the State Director said. Re
gistrants who are found not
qualified by the Armed Forces
for military service under cur
rent physical, mental, and moral
standards, but who are consider
ed to be qualified to serve in an
emergency will be placed in the
new class. Previously such men
were placed in Class IV-F. Only
men not qualified for any mili
tary service will be placed here
after in Class IV-F, the State Di
rector added.
Current standards of physical,
mental, and moral acceptability
are higher than those which the
Armed Forces would use in an
emergency, the State Director
said.
The new classification permits
the ready identification day by
day of men who are considered
to be qualified and available in
an emergency, .and thus facili
tates the mobilization of man
power rapidly in case of need.
The State Director estimated
that 22 percent of the registrants
of Georgia now being found not
qualified by the Armed Forces
would be eligible for the new
classification.
Local Boards will continue to
use class standing, Selective Ser
‘ vice college qualification test
' scores, and all other related evi
dence in considering registrants
for student deferments, the State
Director said. These criteria,
heretofore spelled out in detail in
the regulations, have never been
binding on the boards, he ex
plained. The removal of the cri
teria from the regulations will
emphasize their advisory nature.
The amended regulations leave
with the National Director of Se
lective Service the authority to
issue similar or other criteria in
some other type of administra
tive publication for the guidance
of local boards. The Selective
Service College Qualification test
is offered each year to college
students.
The third major change in the
regulations implements legisla
tion adopted by. the Congress, and
approved October 4, 1961. The
legislation, Public Law 87-378,
authorized the accelerated induc
tion of any man who enlisted in
the so-called six-month reserve
program under age 26, and after
October 4, 1961, and who there
after failed to participate satis
factorily in Reserve training.
Prior to the passage of that law,
only men who enlisted in these
programs under age 18% were li
able to be certified for accelerat
ed induction.
Local Boards of Selective Ser
vice act simply as agents to de
liver such unsatisfactory reserv
ists for induction, the State Di
rector explained. Determination
of unsatisfactory participation
and certification of the reservists
for induction are functions of the
Armed Forces, he added. When
such reservists are inducted, they
are inducted into the branch of
the armed forces of which their
reserve component is a part.
Prior to the approval of Pub
lic Law 87-378 and the amend
ments to Selective Service regu
lations, men who entered the six
month reserve between the ages
of 18% and 26, and thereafter
failed to participate satisfactor
ily, lost their deferment as mem
bers of the reserve. But they
would be inducted only if avail
able and when reached in their
normal turn, determined by date
of birth. 313 men have been in
ducted in Georgia to date under
the accelerated induction provis
ion of the Act.
PERSONALS
Mrs. Horace Jacobs is recuper
ating in Memorial Hospital in
Waycross following a major op
eration on Tuesday of this week.
Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 18, 1962 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Sally Lee
Funeral Service
Held Tuesday
Mrs. Sally Chesser Lee, 63,
passed away early Monday morn
ing, January 15, at her home in
Nahunta following an extended
illness.
Mrs. Lee was born in Charlton
county and was the daughter of
the late Allen and Elizabeth Alt
man Chesser. She received her
education in the schools of
Charlton county and had resided
in this community for many
years. She had been a resident of
Nahunta for the past 20 years.
She was a member of the High
Bluff Primitive Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband,
John E. Lee; six daughters, Mrs.
Ewell Herrin of Nahunta, Mrs.
M. C. Martin of Brunswick, Mrs.
W. C. Jenkins of Jacksonville,
Fla., Mrs. L. S. Carmichael of At
lanta, Mrs. James T. Prescott of
Cullman, Ala., and Mrs. Eugene
Dixon of Blackshear; eight sons,
W. A. Lee and Kenneth Lee, both
of Jacksonville, Fla., Ward R.
Lee of Pensacola, Fla., B. T. Lee
of St. Mary’s, Earl Lee and Mar
vin Lee, both of Nahunta, Eugene
Lee of Waycross, and Dean Lee
of Brunswick; six sisters, Mrs.
Vinnie Boyett of Callahan, Fla.,
Mrs. Grady Gibson of Fernan
dina Beach, Fla., Mrs. Vannie
Hickox and Mrs. Dock Ryder, both
of Folkston, Mrs. Walter Rein
shaw of St. George, and Mrs. Sea
born Lastinger of Jacksonville,
Fla.; three brothers, Harry Chess
er and Ben Chesser, both of
Folkston, and Robert Chesser, of
Moniac.
27 grandchildren, several
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Graveside services were held
in High Bluff Cemetery Tuesday
afternoon, January 16, at 2:00 o’-
clock.
Serving as pallbearers, all ne
phews, were Messrs. Clifford
Chesser, Arthur Reinshaw, Hen
schel Hickox, James Chesser, Er
win Reinshaw, and Allen Ches
ser.
The many beautiful floral of
ferings attested to the high es
teem felt for the deceased.
The family have the sympathy
of their many friends in their be
reavement. The Chambless Fun
eral Home of Nahunta was in
charge of arrangements.
McKinley Barnard
Funeral Services
Held Last Sunday
McKinley Lee Barnard of Pat
terson, 45, a State Highway De
partment employee, was killed in
stantly Thursday afternoon, Jan.
11, while working on the Satilla
River bridge at the Pierce-Brant
ley county line.
He was spreading rock on the
ice-covered bridge when a car
driven by a Negro woman ran in
to him, throwing him against the
loaded gravel truck.
Funeral services were held Sat
urday afternoon at 2:00 P. M. at
the Patterson Baptist Church
with the Rev. Jesse Alligood, Rev.
H. L. Dixon and Rev. Clyde
Thomas officiating.
Interment was in the Mill Creek
Cemetery.
A native of Pierce county, Pat
terson had been his home most
of his life. He was a member of
the Patterson Baptist Church and
was employed by the mainten
ance department of the State
Highway Department.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs.
Lewis J. Barnard, Patterson; four
sisters, Mrs. J. E. Brewer, Way
cross, Mrs. Wade Hardee, Apop
ka, Fla., Mrs. Fleming Crosby
and Mrs. Harvey Dixon, both of
Patterson; two brothers, Rev. T.
J. Barnard, Hinesville, and Rev.
Monroe Barnard, Bloomingdale.
Active pallbearers were Ernest
Bryant, Herbert Callahan, Troy
Sellers, Felton Thornton, J. P.
Barnard Jr., and Lewis Stanfield.
Honorary pallbearers were Fel
ton Tyre, Claude Hall, Allen Wal
ker, Rev. Elmer Dixon, Frank
Hall, James Griffin, Doris De-
Loach, Diaz Bryant, Aaron Thom
as, Joe Douberly, Mauldin Chan
cey, Bert Howard, H. H. Rodden
berry, Tollie Brown, J. P. Barn
ard Sr., Wiley Cowen, J. J. Port
er, Dan Poppell, Sammy Gard
ner, Son Thomas, Jimmie Wo
mack, E. L. Walker, Mershon As
pinwall Sr., C. H. D. Youmans,
Melvin Herrin, R. T. Riggins, and
Delmas Aspinwall.
Tell some people you can’t get
along without them and before
long you can’t get along with
them.
Board of Education Paid $47,889
On Old Debts During the Past Year
Needless Deaths-The Uterine Cancer Tragedy
By A. H. Letton, M. D.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is one
in a series of articles by phsi
cian board members of the A
merican Cancer Society’s Georgia
Division to alert our readers to
the best ways to guard them
selves and their loved ones a
gainst death from cancer.)
One of the great tragedies of
our time is that people do not
take full advantage of the dis
coveries already made in medical
research. Far too many people
die needlessly each year because
they do not avail themselves of
methods now being used for de
tecting, preventing and curing
various fatal diseases.
A tragic example is the toll in
lives claimed each year by can
cer of the womb. Research has
given us a weapon against this
form of cancer in a detection
examination, named after its dis
coverer, Dr. George N. Papani
colaou.
technique called the “Pap” smear
The “Pap” smear examination,
or “cell examination” as it is
sometimes called, is a simple,
painless technique whereby cast
off cells are collected by a doctor
for examination under a micros
cope by a pathologist for the pre
sence of possible cancer cells. It
will detect signs that may indi
cate uterine cancer even before
any symptoms appear. The “Pap”
ly cancer of the mouth of the
smear is excellent in finding ear
womb and is occasionally useful
in finding early cancer of the
body of the uterus. When uterine
cancer is detected in this early
stage, it can be cured almost 100
per cent of the time. The Amer
ican Cancer Society predicts that
maximum use of the “Pap” smear
technique could virtually elimin
ate this form of cancer as a cause
of death.
Yet, this detection technique
has been available for a number
of years and uterine cancer still
is the second leading cause of
cancer deaths among women,
taking about 14,000 lives each
year, some 500 in Georgia.
A great deal of progress has
been made. In 1936, the American
Cancer Society assisted by the
General Federation of Women’s
Clubs, launched its "Women’s
Field Army” with the major ob
jective being education to pre
vent needless deaths from can
cer of the uterus. Since 1936
there has been a dnop of 50 per
cent in the death rate from this
type of cancer. Some 180,000 wo
men who have had cancer of the
uterus are cured, alive and well,
five years or more after the con
clusion of treatment.
This is progress, but we must
focus our attention on the lives
that are still being lost, lives that
could have been saved through
earlier detection and treatment.
No one can predict who cancer
will strike, so everyone must be
on guard against it.
A danger signal which may
mean cancer of the uterus is “un
। usual bleeding or discharge.”
Even at the stage where this
danger signal appears, eight out
of 10 cancers of the uterus treat
ed while it is still localized are
being cured. Through the “Pap”
smear technique, detection is
possible before this danger sign
al .appears and in this stage al
most 10 out of 10 can be cured.
Every woman should go to her
doctor for a complete health
check-up including a “P ap”
smear examination at least once
a year. The incidence of cancer
rises rapidly after age 35 but no
age group is immune.
The American Cancer Society
has free literature on uterine and
other types of cancer and educa
tional films for women’s groups.
The film entitled “Time and Two
Women” about uterine cancer
Myth
Increased
wages
mean
increased
may be obtained through your lo
cal Unit of the Society or by
writing to the American Cancer
Society, Georgia Division, 2025
Peachtree Road, Atlanta 9, Geor
gia. This film should be seen by
all women’s groups that hold
meetings and by women em
poyes in firms using the Socie
ty’s Employe Education Pro
gram.
Future of Farm
Mechanization
To Be Displayed
Machinery that will do every
thing from unloading stored feed
facilities to mixing feed and feed
ing animals will be among the
displays at Farm Materials Hand
ling Days on the University of
Georgia campus January 18-19.
A list of exhibitors released
this week shows over 50 differ
ent firms and organizations who
will have equipment on display
at Stegeman Hall.
This will be the most compre
hensive display of farm materials
handling equipment ever assem
bled in Georgia, according to Dr.
C. C. Murray, dean and coordina
tor of the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture.
More and more automation is
the outlook for farming, and this
display has been organized to
give farmers an opportunity to
see the latest equipment develop
ed by a large number of com
panies, Dean Murray said. Much
of the equipment is being brought
to the event from manufacturing
plants and is not available for
demonstration at local dealers.
Farm Materials Handling Days
is being sponsored jointly by the
College of Agriculture and the
Georgia Farm Electrification
Council.
VALUE OF 1961 CROPS
Cotton was the highest valued
crop in Georgia in 1961 with a
value of $93,316,000. Other top
crops in the order of their value
were tobacco, $83,838,000; corn,
$76,986,000, and peanuts, $61,-
198,000, according to the Georgia
Crop Reporting Service.
If you can’t get behind a move
ment for the good of the com
munity, the least you can do is
get out from in front of it.
At Brantley Enterprise
Posted Signs for Sale
Superior Court
Two Important
Brantley County Superior 1
Court continued in session Thurs- j
day, with criminal cases being
tried.
The court spent Monday and
most of Tuesday on civil cases.
The Grand Jury adjourned Tues-
day afternoon for the session.
In a civil case of W. O. High
smith versus I. J. Davis the jury
gave a verdict in favor of Mr.
Highsmith. The case involved the
rights to a street adjacent to Mr.
I 1 c
■^T'EOKGIA 8
buying
power
One woman said eight fami
lies borrowed her Enterprise
each week. 1 didn’t know
there were that many spong
ers in Brantley County.
The present school superinten
dent, Mrs. Mable Moody, and the
County Board of Education have
made big gains in paying off the
old debts of the school system,
according to a financial report
in this issue of the Enterprise.
The figures reveal that the old
debt as of Jan. 1, was $60,212.56.
Payments were made during
1961 totaling $47,889.04. This left
a balance on the old debts of
$12,323.52.
In the meantime the new im
provements for the county schools
were being made, calling for new
loans of $11,000.00. The total debt
therefore, new and old, totaled
only $23,323.52 on Jan. 1,1962.
This means that the school sys
tem made a net gain of $36,889.-
04 in one year on the total debts
of the school system. This sub
stantial improvement in the fin
ancial status of the Brantley
County school system reflects
great credit on the County Board
of Education and the county
school superintendent, Mrs.
Mable Moody.
The County School Board is
composed of the following: Elroy
Strickland, chairman; Virgil H.
Allen, Marshall Dryden, J. F.
Larkins and Ted Strickland.
Nahunta High
Debate Teams
Win Contests
The Nahunta High School de
bate teams won the Region 1-B
East debate held at South Geor
gia College in Douglas on Friday,
January 12.
The debate topic was: "Resolv
ed: That the federal government
should equalize educational op
p««Uuutka by meana of grants to
the states for public elementary
and secondary education.”
Both affirmative and negative
Nahunta teams won.
Nahunta’s affirmative team
consists of Janice Willis and John
Calhoun Jr. The negative team is
composed of Charlene Gibson
and Dollie Mae Warren. These
students will represent the Re
gion at the State Meet in Athens
on January 27th.
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Disposes of
Civil Cases
Highsmith’s motel property in
south Nahunta.
In another civil case of Annie
Todd and Dewey Todd versus J.
B. Middleton and Claude A.
Smith the jury rendered a verdict
in favor of the Todds. This case
concerned deeds to some land
near Atkinson. The Todds claim
ed they thought they were sign
ing a deed to secure debt, but in
stead they mistakenly gave a
real deed to the land.
Truth
When wages go up with
out a corresponding In
crease in production,price*
are boosted,thus reducing
purchases by consumers.
This causes reduced pro
duction, unemployment
and less buying power.
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