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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 42 — NUMBER 25 BEN A. HODGES Seeks Circuit Judgeship Judge Hodges Asks Election For Full Term TO THE PEOPLE OF BRANTLEY COUNTY: I hereby formally announce my candidacy for nomination to the office of Judge of the Su perior Court of the Way cross Ju dicial Circuit, to a four year term of office, subject to the rules and regulations of the Dem ocratic Primary to be held on September 12, 1962. I was appointed on February 5, 1962, to serve out the unexpired term of the late Judge Cecil Roddenberry. The laws of this State require that a successor to fill such unexpired term be ap pointed, and that upon the expi ration of the term, the people of the Circuit elect their judge. The Waycross Judicial Circuit is com posed of six counties (Charlton, Brantley, Pierce, Bacon, Coffee and Ware.) At the time of Judge Roddenberry’s death, there re mained of his term approximately eleven months. In asking the people of this Circuit for a full four year term, I am fully aware of, and familiar with the responsibilities and du ties of the office. Prior to my appointment on February 5,1962, I practiced law throughout this Circuit. My personal and pro fessional reputation is well known. Personally, I was bom in the portion of Coffee County that was later incorporated into and made a part of Atkinson County. I was reared on a farm; attend ed public schools and graduated from high school at Pearson. Four years after graduation from high school, I entered Georgia Teach ers College at Statesboro, Geor gia, and later graduated from law School at the University of Geor gia, with an L. L. B. degree. I spent six years in the Armed Forces during and immediately after World War 11. I am a Baptist, a member of the Board of Deacons of First Baptist Church in Way cross; a member and Past Commander of the American Le gion Post in Waycross; a member and Past President of the Exchan ge Club of Way cross; an Elk; a member of the V. F. W. and a charter member of the Okefeno kee Fair Association. I was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives in 1956, 1958 and 1960, and was serving my sixth year as a representative of Ware County at the time I was appointed Judge of the Su perior Court. My wife and I have three children, and live at 1405 Suwanee Drive, Waycross. As your Superior Court Judge, my responsibilities are to all of the people of this Circuit. In recognition of that fact, immedia tely after I took office on Febru ary sth of this year, I prepared a schedule setting dates in each month when I hold hearings and attend other official duties at the Courthouse in each county of the Circuit. This policy has been high ly approved by the Sheriffs, Clerks of the Superior Courts, Attorneys, and the people of this Circuit who have business with the Court. I am fully aware of the tremen dous costs to the taxpayers in the operation of the Superior Courts. My policy is and will con tinue to be one of economy, effi ciency and impartiality in the operation of the Courts. Since I took office on February sth, my official duties have re quired my undivided attention; however, it is my intention to see all the people of this circuit be fore September’ 12th. Your vote and influence on my behalf will be sincerely apprecia ted. BEN A HODGES, Candidate for Judge Superior Courts Waycross Judicial Circuit Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Okefenoke Co-op to Receive Power from Federal Projects A contract between the Federal Government and the Georgia Power Company for the sale and wheeling in Georgia of power produced by the Federal projects of Hartwell and Walter F. George was signed in Atlanta, Ga., Assis tant Secretary of the Interior Kenneth Holum has announced. The arrangement expands the Allatoona, Buford, and Clark Hill contracts executed in 1957 to include the Hartwell and Geor ge projects and also permits the integration of the operations of the five projects and the Jim Woodruff Project in Florida, Mr. Holum said. Power from the five Georgia projects will be sold by the Gov ernment to public bodies, coop eratives, and the Company. Under the law, public bodies and coop eratives are given preference in the sale of power. Project power sold to the preference customers by the Government will be wheeled over the facilities of the Company and the Company will be paid a wheeling fee by the Government. Okefenoke Co-op at Nahunta will be one of the companies served. Preference customers will pay a composite rate of six mills per kilowatt-hour for Government ca pacity, and for Government and deficiency energy. At the meeting in Atlanta to day, officials of the city of Cov ington, Ga., and the Planters Ele ctric Membership Corporation, Millen, Ga., also signed contracts with the Government and the Company. Contracts with the other co operatives and cities in the State wishing to purchase Government power will be signed in the near future, Mr. Holum said. The new contract provides for wheeling to all preference custo mers in the Company’s service area ond will permit service to 39 cooperatives and 49 public bodies. Nahunta Masons to Hold Fish Supper The Nahunta Masonic Lodge 391 will have a fish supper at Brown Brooker’s fish camp Fri day night, June 29, at 8:00 o’clock. All Masons and their families are urged to attend the fish fry, according to lodge secretary T. H. Purdom. Ben Jones is Worshipful Master of the Nahunta Lodge. Sheriff Has 2-Way Radio in His Office Sheriff J. Walter Crews of Brantley County now has a two way radio hookup in his office. The radio is on the same wave length as the cars of state, county and city officers and gives the sheriff immediate connection with cars directly from his office. CANNING FOOD It is very important to process food the full period of time sug gested in a reliable time table and to make sure the tempera tures applied are correct, says Miss Nellie Thrash, Extension food preservation specialist. If not destroyed by heat, yeast and many types of bacteria can grow in a sealed jar, causing spoilage of food- West Coast Champion Train May Be Routed Thru Waycross NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN ALL INTERESTED PARTIES that the following matter has been assigned for hearing before the Georgia Public Service Com mission on Tuesday, July 3,1962 at 10:00 A. M. in the Commis sion’s Hearing Room, Room 177 of the State Offices Building, 244 Washington Street, S. W-, Atlanta, Georgia: File 19470, Docket 526-R — Application of Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company for authority to consolidate its Passenger Trains Numbers 180 and 189 between Way cross and Savannah with its Passenger Trains Numbers 91 and 92 (West Coast Champion) now operated between Folkston and Savannah via Nahunta by re routing Trains Numbers 91 and 92 (West Coast Champion) through Waycross and discontinu ing Trains Numbers 180 and 189 between Savannah and Waycross. The application contemplates Brantley Enterprise Turkey Regulatory Rules Apply Only To Qualified Handlers Supply-management regulations proposed by the turkey industry under the national turkey market ing order, on which eligible pro ducers will vote June 18-22, would apply directly to handlers (processors) of more than 7,000 pounds of turkey (liveweight) in a marketing year, W. H. Booth, Chairman of the Georgia Agri cultural Stabilization and Conser vation State Committee, said. All other handlers would only be required to keep records and report the quantity of turkeys handled. They would not be sub ject to the regulatory provisions of the marketing order. Also with either or both of the order’s proposed supply manage ment measures in operation, small producers — those marketing 3,600 pounds or less of turkey (liveweight) in a marketing year — would not be directly affected and could market their turkeys through any handler or other out let. Under one of the order’s supply management measures — Method 11, no limit is placed on the quan tity of turkeys a qualified hand ler may receive from a producer. But this measure would require that a percentage of the quanti ties received be set aside for dis posal in trade channels specified by the order’s Administration Committee. Method II is the only supply-management measure that could be used in 1962. Method I, which could be used after 1962, requires establishment of a nation-wide “desirable quan tity” of turkeys, which would rep resent the total that all qualified handlers could acquire from pro ducers in a marketing year or period. The desirable quantity would be appointed aquitably a mong eligible producers through individual allocation bases and allotments. Allen Family Reunion To Be Held Sunday The Allen family will hold a family reunion at Laura S. Walk er Park Sunday, June 24, with Allens from Brantley County and several other counties in atten dance, it is announced by Mrs. S. K. Allen of Nahunta. Jones-Allen Announcement is made of the marriage of Miss Linda Jones, daughter of Mrs. Albert Phillips of Ludowici, and Mr. Bobbie Al len, son of Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Allen of Nahunta. The wedding occurred June 7 at the Latter Day Saints Church at Jesup. The ceremony was per formed by Elder Johnson. Posted Signs for Sale At Brantley Enterprise the elimination of local passenger j service to the towns of Burroughs, ! Fleming, Mclntosh, Walthourville, Ludowici, Doctortown, Screven, Offerman, Patterson and Black shear, but railway express service to and from such of those points as are now provided such service by Trains 180 and 189 will be provided by truck to be operated by the Atlantic Coast Line Rail road. The application also contemp lates that Nahunta will be made a flag stop for the applicant’s Passenger Trains Numbers 1 and 2 (East Coast Champion.) All persons interested in the above matter will be given full opportunity of being heard either for or against the same. ASSIGNED BY DIRECTION OF THE COMMISSION, this the 19th day of June, 1962. A. O. RANDALL, SECRETARY. Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta, Ga_ Thursday, June 21, 1962 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Lawns in Georgia Hits Centipede Iron Deficiency Drying and yellowing of Centi pede grass lawns, a common oc currence in Georgia this spring, are symptoms of iron deficiency brought on by a combination of factors, according to Dr. Homer D. Wells, plant pathologist of the Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station, Tifton. This yellowing, known as chlo rosis, can be corrected by main taining Centipede lawns under relatively low levels of fertility and by applying a readily avail able source of iron as a foliage spray when the symptoms occur, Dr. Wells said. The two most commonly used sources of iron for correcting chlorosis in Centipede lawns are chelated iron compounds and ferrous sulphate. The chelated irons are available under various trade names, and should be used at the rate recommended on the manufacturer’s label. Ferrous sul fate may also be sold under the common name of copperas and should be applied at the rate of two ounces per 1,000 square feet of lawn (mixed in three to five gallons of water.) Turf treated with either of these materials will usually turn a dark green in from three to five days and make normal growth for the remainder of the season. Dr. Wells said that the application should be repeated if any sign of chlorosis reappears. In response to numerous in quiries from alarmed homeowners this spripg, Dr. Wells explained the widespread occurrence of chlorosis this way: Iron is an essential element in the production of chlorophyll the green pigment in plants necessary for manufacturing food which provides energy and building ma terials to keep the plant alive and growing. Centipede is the most sensitive of turf grass in its re quirements for iron. The three factors which most commonly contributes to iron deficiency chlorosis in the spring are: (1) over-fertilization during previous years, (2) extended dry periods the previous fall and (3) repeated late spring frosts. Over-fertilization results in lux urious growth and removal of most of the iron that is in a form that can be absorbed and used by the grass. During the latter part of the growing season, iron deficiency may have reduced the amount of food manufactured, resulting in the grass entering the winter in a weakened condition. Thus, the turf is slow in reestab lishing an adequate root system the following spring. If chlorosis is not too severe, the grass may recover. In more severe cases, the grass may actu ally starve to death as a result of failure to manufacture ade quate food. Late fall droughts cause the same type of damage. Drought weakened turf enters the winter with a low food reserve which is inadequate to develop a sufficient root system to absorb enough iron to supply the plant’s needs in the early spring. Late-spring frosts can also cause chlorosis. Initial spring growth must be made from food reserves stored in the live por tions of the plant. When a frost kills this first growth, the re serve is destroyed. Several such frosts separated by warm periods may exhaust the food reserves and kill the plant. Dr. Wells pointed out that all three of these factors affected lawns this spring. Drought dam age to Centipede was extensive last October and November. Early warm seasons coupled with late frosts killed back Centi pede turf three to five times early this spring. These two natural causes, coupled with high levels of ferti lization used to maintain lush, green lawns, combined to cause the widespread damage reported this spring. Problem Faced by American Industry Senator Barry Goldwater writes: “The one bright aspect of the steel price hassle, it seems to me, is that the whole affair has served to highlight and to dramatize the very grave pro blem faced by American indus tries which are saddled with out moded and obsolete equipment. Private studies in this field in dicate that presently there is some $95-SIOO billion worth of this kind of equipment now be ing used by American industry in a time of heavy competition. And, against this the Adminis tration is proposing a piddling 8 per cent tax credit on funds sche duled for expansion and moder nization.” M'Cullough Heads State Press Unit Glenn McCullough of New York, former Georgia newspaper man, has been named secretary manager of the Georgia Press Association. McCullough’s selection was an nounced Monday by Jack Williams Jr., editor and publisher of the Waycross Journal-Herald. Wil liams was elected president of GPA at its convention last week at Jekyll Island. McCullough replaces Harvey Walters, who accepted a position as business manager of the Cali fornia Newspaper Publishers As sociation. The new secretary-manager has been serving as special events co ordinator for the American Petro leum Institute in New York. A graduate of the University of Missouri School of Journalism, McCullough was with the Associ ated Press bureau in Charlotte, N. C., from 1953 until 1957. He served as a reporter for the Kan sas City Star, and the Rome News- Tribune and is a former editor of the Dade County Times, Georgia weekly published at Trenton. He attended Boys’ High School in Rome and West Georgia Col lege in Carrollton. Labor Official Asks Youth to Use Care in Choosing Summer Jobs Birmingham, Ala. — “When looking for summer employment, try to find a job that will be of value in your future career and be sure that it is performed under conditions not harmful to your health and welfare.” That is the advice of Regional Director Sterling B. Williams of the U. S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour and Public Con tracts Divisions, the agency which administers the Fair Labor Standards Act and its child-labor provisions. “Although it is not always pos sible to obtain the exact type of work you would like, there is a variety of jobs permissible under the Federal law,” Williams said. Boys and girls as young as 14 and 15 may be employed as clerks or stock workers in stores. They also may do office or cleri cal work in most businesses. Sixteen and 17-year-olds may work in any job — including fac tory work — except those which have been declared hazardous by the Secretary of Labor. These jobs, which still require an 18- year age minimum, include such work as truck driver or driver’s helper, elevator operator, logger, miner, sawmill worker or oper ator of certain power-driven machines. “You should, of course, check your State child-labor law to make sure that you are also com plying with it,” Williams pointed out. Furthur information on the child-labor provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act can be obtained from William A. Savage, supervisor of the Savannah Wage-Hour office at Room 401, U. S. Post Office Building. COMMON MARKET Common Market countries re ceived 22 percent of the United States’ total export of farm pro ducts last year, so any develop ment that affects exports to these countries would have a significant effect on the total American export situation, ac cording to Extension Farm Man agement Specialist Edward Brown. I Myth Improvement J What the government pay* Os Health, Wealth C/A !? r * "S ..... , MX the ability and the moral duty and Wisdom Bn to develop himself as an In* should be a dividual, independent of the I Federal Project KU dku " ci ” Oo ™ n,n ' nt ■ 9 ^FgEORCTA STATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE Brantley Boys and Girls Win Awards in 4-H Club Contests Tennessee Man Found Unconscious Beside Highway John Watkins, an elderly man from Tennessee, was found uncon scious beside Highway 84 about two miles east of Hoboken late Tuesday night, according to sheriff J. Walter Crews. The man was found by federal revenue officers who were re turning to Waycross from a raid on a moonshine still. The officers thought the man was dead and so informed sheriff Crews, but when the sheriff investigated, he dis covered that the man has merely passed out, probably from some sort of illness or seizure. He re covered shortly and was brought to Nahunta. Sheriff Crews gave the man lodgings in the county jail for the rest of the night, then bought him some medicine at local drug store. He seemed much improved and went on his way, the sheriff said. Dance Club Makes Special Announcement The Nahunta Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club held a special meeting Tuesday night June 19, 1962, and because of the recent decision of the Brantley County Board of Education denying the Club the use of the High School lunchroom for its regular bi monthly dances, decided to hold the dance previously scheduled at the lunchroom on Friday night June 22, 1962, on the concrete ramp side of the Biscayne Rest aurant. In the event of bad weather, the dance will be held at the American Legion Home. The Club voted unanimously to appear in a group before the Board of Education at its next regular meeting on July 3,1962, at 10:15 A. M., for the purpose of explaining the position of the Club regarding the reasons given by the Board of Education in denying the Club such use of the High School lunchroom. Because of the above decision of the Board of Education, the next dance of the 4-H Teenage Recreation Club ((Kneeknockers) will also be held on Friday, June 29, 1962, on the concrete ramp side of the Biscayne Restaurant. The public is cordially invited to attend these and all other dances without charge to deter mine for themselves the kind of entertainment conducted by the square dancers. Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club By J. L. Walker, president. (Advertisement) Stop on a Dime? A publication of the Jersey Central and New Jersey Power and Light Company observes that when a driver says he can stop on a dime, he means the last dime at the end of a long row of dimes. At only 20 mph — in cluding time for reacting and braking — it takes 47 feet to stop. At 50 mph it takes 243 feet, and at 70, 532 feet. Cotton normally uses 17 per cent of its total nitrogen by early squaring and 60 percent by the early boll stage, accord ing to Extension Agronomist Larry T. Torrance. Subscription Price and Tax Inside county . $2.58 Outside county, in state .... $3.09 Outside state $3.00 Sandra Jacobs won first place and a trip to the State 4-H Con gress at the District Project A chievement Meeting which ended Tuesday afternoon June 19. Sandra is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Jacobs of Route 1, Nahunta, and her project was Recreation. Taking second places were Nancy Moody in Junior Public Speaking, Melinda Wilson in Cloverleaf Frozen Foods; Jack Brooker in Junior Boys Recrea tion, and Terry Thomas in Senior Tractor Maintenance. Third places were won by Jewell Wilson in Cloverleaf Can ning, Pryce Brooker in Junior Pe can Production, and Johnny Walker in Senior Poultry. In ad dition to places won, there was a total of 15 blue, 13 red, and two white awards given. Other 4-H members attending were: Edith Middleton, Lynn Barry, Virginia Allen, Hazel Rowell, Susan Smith, Wanda Douberly, Carolyn Middleton, Barbara Allen, Dale Jacobs, La verne Middleton, Anna Dee Wil son, Joan Johns, Jane WilsonJ Edna Mae Harrison, Sandra Ja cobs, Douglas Purcell, Reggie O’- Berry, Jesse Walker, Bill Middle ton, Dan Moody, Keith Middleton, James Williamson, Dennis Rau lerson and Donnie Griner. Adults accompanying the 4-H members were, in addition to Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, H. D. Agent, and George A. Loyd, County Agent, were Mrs. C. F. Allen, Mrs. Virgil Rowell, Mrs. M. H. Robinson, Mrs. J. C. Moody, Mrs. H. T. Jacobs, Mrs. Raymond Smith, and Mrs. mory Middle ton. Personals From June 25 through June 27 the Director of the Brantley County Department of Public Welfare, Mrs. Leila H. Turner, will attend a Workshop at the Center for Continuing Education at the University of Georgia in Athens. William T. Royster, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Royster of Nahunta, attained the Dean’s list at Geor gia Southern College for the spring term. The list is made up of students making high scholas tic grades. Eddie Thelps of Jacksonville, Fla., is spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Allen. D. S. Moody who has been a patient in Memorial Hospital in Waycross is now improving. Terry Allen, Clinton Lee and Hubert Wilson arrived home this week, having been discharged from the Army after two years. All three just returned from a tour of more than a year in Ko rea. Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fisher and son, Gary of Omaha, Neb., are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Audrey Brooker and other relatives. Gaylan Taylor of Orangeburg, S. C., is visiting his uncle, F. C. Spivey and Mrs. Spivey. A reunion of all the children of Mr. and Mrs. Audrey Brooker and their families was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Brooker on Sunday. At home were Mr. and Mrs. Larry Fisher and son of Omaha, Neb.; Mr. and Mrs. Gene Bennett and children of Jackson ville; John and Candice Partain of Savannah; Mr. and Mrs. Bill Brooker and sons and Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Spivey of Nahunta and Gaylan Taylor of Orangeburg, S. C. Denise and Kay Smith, daugh ters of Mr. and Mrs. Claude Smith have been visiting with their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Ham at Byron, Ga. for two weeks. Kyle Lee of Weaver, Ala. is spending the summer with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Ham.