The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, January 25, 1962, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextBrantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 25, 1962 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. 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, also 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 Give dates of meeting, otherwise story will not be published. 7.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 will go to the trouble of cooperating with him. Dr. Charles H. Little OPTOMETRIST 607 Isabella St. Telephone Waycross, Ga. ATlas 3-5144 1 ] ri MMI^^^MIIM Ernest Knight DRUGGIST The Rexall Store Pharmacist Always on Duty 147 West Cherry St Phone GA 7-2254 Jesun. Ga A. S. MIZELL INSURANCE AGENCY FIRE, THEFT, COLLISION AND LIABILITY INSURANCE. FIRE INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HAIL INSURANCE FOR YOUR CROPS. Phone 2-2171 Nahunta, Ga. r^to3TYardT| I ^News ^^l At our sale last Friday, hog prices were as follows: RI, $17.10; LI, $17.26; Hl, $16.25; No. 2, $16.45; No. 3, $15.60; No. 4, $15.55; and No. 5, $16.05. Cows and calves sold up to $17.65, heavy cows up to $17.50. light steers and heifers up to $29.00, heavy steers up to $24.00 and heavy bulls up to $18.20. ||| Station WBSG in Blackshear will broadcast g |M? hog prices Friday afternoon at 3:30 from the S Pierce County Stock Yard. g H| We invite you to sell with us each Friday. W S Our good line of buyers assures you of the top 3 M dollar. g 1 WE APPRECIATE YOUR SELLING WITH 1 p THE PIERCE COUNTY STOCK YARD. g I PIERCE COUNTY I I STOCK YARD I I H. F. Allen Jr. I I 0. R. Peacock, Phone HI 9-2172 ■ I OPERATORS AND MANAGERS I For Hauling, contact O. J. AMMONS, * Hoboken, Ga., phone GL 8-3122. p BLACKSHEAR, GEORGIA ■ Stock Yard Phones Hl 9-9023 and Hl 9-3041 3 For All Your JOB PRINTING Needs Contact — BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Leveling Survey Operations Now Under Way in Georgia A field party of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, U. S. Depart ment of Commerce, is now con ducting leveling survey operati ons between several different localities in Georgia. Survey routes extend between the fol lowing: Waycross to Jesup, Jesup to Hazlehurst, Hazlehurst to Doug las, Douglas to Offerman, East man to Tifton, Macon to Dover, Macon to 6 miles southwest of Milledgeville, and from 4 miles southwest of Sparta to Augusta. Chief of Party, Mr. Robert R. Gerrish, estimates that it will require about four months to complete the project, which be gan mid-November 1961. The 17-man leveling party will determine along these pre scribed routes the exact elevation of a series of accurately spaced control stations as related to their position above mean sea level. An established network of such precisely determined points of elevation is used by engineers surveyors, arid mapping agencies as the basic framework in coord inating and orientating all sur veying and mapping activities, natural resource planning and development, and other related engineering projects. An estimated $13,800 have been expended during tht last twelve months in Georgia for similar geodetic surveys. Leveling surveys activities may be recognized from the accurate form of survey engin eering in which the party is en gaged. The observer of a leveling sub-party would be seen reading vertically held rods through an instrument balanced horizontally in a direct line of sight midway between them. Usually falling under one’s notice are the precise instruments in use and the con scientious effort of each member of the unit toward every detail of work for if an error in acc uracy has been made the eleva tion of successive points would be incorrect. The same rigid requirements as were necessary in establishing the primary network of vertical control stations across the coun try have remained practically unchanged. This field party, numbering 42 members with women and children included, is one of sev eral similar parties that method ically roam the country from border to border. Before arriving in the area, the party had just completed a similar survey in West Virginia. With mobile equipment including seven trucks, one office trailer, and six pri- fat a your Minger tips > A •A\ \ \ \ AW"^ - THE COMPLETE STORY OF FLAMELESS ELECTRIC HEATING AND COOLING . . . based on the experience of over one million families Quick as vou can say, “Reader’s Digest,” you can detach this informative eight-page booklet from the February issue and keep it as a ready refer ence. Or ask for your free copy of the reprint. This new report gives the full picture of flame less electricity at work. It discusses cost factors, installation, how to heat and air condition your whole house or a portion of it. It tells how your electric servants will look and how they’ will work. Ask for your copy at the nearest Georgia Power office. Or till in and mail the coupon below. ; GEORGIA POWER COMPANY ! Advertising Department P. 0. Box 4545 { Atlanta 2, Georgia I ; Please send me a free copy of the Flameless ! Electric story. I • Name — — I • Address I ; City Zone State GEORGIA POWER COMPANY vately owned mobile homes, the party set out for its new assign ment separating into sub-units. Headquarters were established at Hudson’s Trailer Park, 1108 Telfair Street, Dublin, Georgia and other units located in Jesup and Fitzgerald. As work pro gresses the units will move to Dublin, Macon, Metter, Warren ton, and Augusta. One member of the party, Mr. George A. So well, lives in Valdosta. The operations of a leveling party may be defined as the determination of the elevation of certain points on or near the surface of the earth as related to some arbitrary or natural level surface called a datum. The na tural level surface used for this purpose is the level of the sea. The level surface of the sea, how ever, rises and falls with the tide and is higher on one coast than on another. This obstacle was overcome by determining the mean level of the sea from continuous long term observations at 26 tide stat ions in the United States and in Canada. Starting from tide stations where the datum of mean sea level was determined, leveling parties moved inland determining the difference in elevation be tween points on the earth’s sur face as related to their position above mean sea level. Since that time, there has been established a network of lines along which are evenly marked points of known elevation. A leveling sub-party would us ually be seen along some lonely highway or railroad in the pro cess of determining accurate elev ations of this kind. A passerby would notice the observer of the party looking through a telescope shaded by a large umbrella while directly in line of sight a rodman is seen balancing a geodetic level rod on a steel foot pin. The telescope is mounted on a tripod on cone-shaped pivots, and it carries a delicate spirit level to balance the instrument in establishing horizontal lines of sight. Through this instrument the observer reads first one level rod, and then swings it around in the opposite direction for a sight at another rod. Down the center on each rod is fastened a graduated metallic tape having an extremely low coefficient of expansion. As the observer reads each level rod, he recites aloud the numbers appearing alongside the metallic tape to the recorder nearby — the difference in each reading being the difference in height of the two locations occup ied by both rods. When both rod readings are recorded, the for ward rod is held in place while the observer, recorder and other rod man advance forward to the next observing position along the route. The party continues moving for ward in this manner, recording the change in elevation from one observing position to the next until it comes upon a bronze disk, called “bench mark,” which has been set in concrete or bedrock by an advance unit. It is the elevation of this bench mark that is to be determined, and it is thus, the elevation of each suc ceeding mark is determined. In work of the highest accuracy, observations between bench marks are taken twice — once forward and once backward along the route. But to break down the existing level network at closer intervals they are made in one direction only. On each bronze disk is stamped an identifying name and the inscription: “BENCH MARK, U. S. COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY, FOR INFORMATION WRITE TO THE DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON, D. C. $250 FINE OR IMPRISON MENT FOR DISTURBING THIS MARK.” This means that the ele vation of that particular point on the earth’s surface has been de termined as accurately as hu manly possible and can be obtain ed by sending all identifying data to the Survey’s main office in Washington, D. C. Calling Long Distance? Use Area Code Numbers Southern Bell Telephone Com pany has begun a program in Waycross and Blackshear to en courage the public to place long distance calls in a new and faster way, using area code numbers. The United States and Canada have been divided into more than 100 telephone areas. Each area is assigned a three digit number for identification. This number is the area code. To call most places in the United States an area code plus a telephone number is all that is required. As an example, a call to Jack sonville, Fla., under the old me thod might be placed by saying to the operator, “I’d like to call Jacksonville, Fla., EXbrook 3- 1234.” The new program encour ages the customer to say simply, “Area Code 305 EX 3-1234.” For calls within the same area or “home area,” as it is called, only the telephone number is re quired. These calls do not require area codes or names of cities. Area codes are used for calling from one telephone area to an- A Lot of Littles Make a Lot One step won't take you very far, You've got to keep on walking. I 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! other. The area code for Way cross and Blackshear is 912. In the near future all telephone number plates will show the home area for the telephone. This new method of placing long distance calls makes is pos sible for the customer to complete calls much faster, Southern Bell officials say. The caller should not give his own telephone number until the operator asks for it. If the ope rator needs to know the name of the place to be called, she will ask for it and the call still will go through faster, the officials said. A classified ad can sell house- hold items you don't need for ready cash. Try one. All Kinds of Insurance We Buy or Sell Property Phones HO 2-3931, HO 2-3825 and HO 2-3749 Representing Cotton States Insurance. Brantley Real Estate & Insurance Agency J. Robert Smith and Clint Robinson Drury Building Nahunta, Ga. City Tax Returns Tax returns on your city property must be made to the city clerk before April, 1962. All property owners in Nahunta are re spectfully requested to come to the city office and turn in their property for 1962 taxation. Your cooperation will be ap preciated. City of Nahunta Mrs. E. T. Higginbotham, clerk. For New RCA Television and Other Used TV s See Jimmy's TV Shop Phone HO 2-3870, Nahunta, Ga.