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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. VOLUME 42 — NUMBER 46 Brantley Singing Meet at Nahunta The Brantley County Singing Convention will meet in Nahunta Sunday, Nov. 25, at 10:00 A. M. it is announced by J. R. Proctor, president of the convention. The singing will continue all day, with a basket dinner at the noon hour. Brantley County peop le are requested to bring basket dinners to help entertain the many visitors who are expected to attend. It is expected that singers from over the state, as well as some from outside the state, will at tend the meeting, according to president Proctor. Bacon Man Is Killed in Hunting Accident A Bacon County man was pro nounced dead on arrival at a Jacksonville hospital Thursday, Nov. 15 from gunshot wounds sustained in a hunting accident near Atkinson in Brantley Coun ty- Brantley County sheriff J. Walter Crews said Jerry Wade, age 20, of Rte. 3 Alma, was struck by a load of buckshot from a shot gun fired by his cousin, Wil lard Carter of Alma. Carter saw the bushes shaking and thought is was a deer. Investigators said Wade was a bOut 40 feet from Carter and the shot struck him in the head. The wounded .man was rushed to the Jacksonville hospital* “but whs dead on arrival, authorities said. Wade was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Wade, of Alma. Pierce Man Killed As Car Hits Tree A 21-year-old Pierce County man was fatally injured early Sunday morning, Nov. 18, when he lost control of his car on Highway 203 north of Blackshear and crashed into a tree. Authorities report that Marvin Joe Hodge of Route 3, Alma, was killed instantly when his car overturned upon leaving the high way and then struck a pine tree. Police said that a high rate of speed was apparently the cause of the accident which occurred approximately six miles north of Blackshear around 1:00 A. M. Sunday. They reported that Hod ge was alone at the time and his was the only vehicle involved in the mishap. Hodge’s car was totally demo lished, it was reported. Investigating the accident were Georgia State Highway Patrol men J. D. McDaniel and W. E. Peacock, and Pierce County Sher iff J. H. Pittman. If 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. H Convention to Sunday Nov. 25 WMU Meeting Features East Asia Theme The W. M. S. of Nahunta Bap tist Church held a study course on East Asia at the church Thurs day night Nov. 15. The meeting was planned in the form of a din ner featuring oriental dishes and decorations. The tables held ming trees, made by Mrs. D. S. Moody and Mrs. E. L. Sears, and Chinese figurines and Japanese unbrellas. Rows of Japanese lanterns were suspended from the ceiling, and tables in appropriate places in the room held lights and figu rines in the oriental motif. An attractive oriental arrangement made by Mrs. J. B. Lewis graced the main auditorium. The menu consisted of Matsu yama rice, Cantonese pork chops. Taiwan salad, asparagus Yokaha ma, Hong Kong chews and orien tal tea. The. teachers for the evening were Mrs. Elroy Strickland, Mrs. John Calhoun, Mrs. Lester Edgy, Mrs. Lula Brown and Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland. Forty-two ladies from the Na hunta and Lula,ton Churches at tended the dinner and study course. The Committee in charge of the plans and arrangements were: Mrs. E. L. Sears, Chairman; Mrs. D. S. Moody. Mrs. Elroy Strick land, Mrs. Walter Crews and Mrs. Clyde Dowling. Those attending were Mrs. Lula Brown, Mrs. Bertha Miller, Mrs. Irvin Crews, Mrs. Mae Bell Griffin, Mrs. Mary Sikes, Mrs. S. B. Highsmith, Mrs. Pauline Daniel, Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland, Mrs. Johnnie Tripp, Miss Mary Knox, Mrs. Carlos Highsmith, Mrs. Elroy Strickland, Mrs. Jesse Lee, Mrs. Maude Cleland, Mrs. John Calhoun, Mrs. Lawson Du- Bose, Mrs. Tim Hickox, Mrs. Al vin Drury, Mrs. Allen Barnard, Mrs. Tom Purdom, Mrs. Dorothy Graham, Mrs. Beulah Hickox, Mrs. W. C. Long, Mrs. Lester Edgy, Mrs. George Dowling, Mrs. Cecil Thomas, Mrs. Bill Harris, Mrs. Edward Chancey, Mrs. Dan Jacobs, Mrs. Avery Strickland, Miss Gail Strickland, Miss Lynn Herrin, Mrs. Virgil Strickland, Mrs. James Stone, Mrs. Mollie Highsmith, Mrs. E. L. Sears, Mrs. Walter Crews, Mrs. DeWitt Moody, Mrs. Amos Warren, Mrs. Dick Purcell, Mrs. Wesley Bur den, Rev. Lester Edgy and Rev. Cecil Thomas. EMERGENCY MILK SUPPLY FOR INFANTS Families with babies should keep a several-week supply of canned or packaged dry milk in a protected place. In case of radioactive fallout, milk from cows eating heavily con taminated feed would be unsafe to use, especially for infants, accord ing to the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. Want ads may iook insignifi cant, but they do a BIG job ot ■selling. Brantley Enterprise Brantley Enterprise P. O. Box 128, Nahunta. Ga., Thursday, November 22, 1»62 >FFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Whites Are Honored With Tea Celebrating Wedding Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Bill White were honored at their home Sunday afternoon Nov. 18, with a tea celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary. The Tea was given by the Hickox Home Demonstra tion Club, of which Mrs. White is an active member. Mrs. Bill Harris, sister of Mr. White greeted the guests at the door, and presented the celebrat ing couple. The guest book was kept by Allyson White, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. White. The home was attractively decorated with silver and white arrangements. The Tea Table ar rangement featured silver cand les and white gladiolus, with clus ters of Silver grapes on a cloth of beige. Mrs. N. W. Hendrix presided over the Tea Table. Assisting with serving were: Mrs. John I. Lee, Mrs. Edward Brand, Mrs. Arthur Keene, Mrs. Ronald Hendrix, Mrs. N. W. Hendrix, Mrs. Harry Raulerson, Mrs. Lavelle Bohannon and Mrs. Bill Johns. Many friends and relatives at tended the celebration. Ira Griffin Died Tuesday Ira Griffin, 55, died at home early Tuesday morning, Nov. 20. He lived in the Pierce Chapel Schlatterville Community and was engaged in farming. He was born in Brantley Coun ty on May 7, 1907, and has long been a member of Pierce Chapel Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Emma Melton Griffin, and four daughters, including twin baby girls. The daughters are Mallie Mae, Peggy Sue, Mary Frances, and Marilyn Nancy Griffin. He has two surviving brothers, Leon and Owen Griffin of Brantley County, and five sis ters, Mrs. D. W. Henderson and Mrs. J. T. Minchew of Manor, Mrs. Avant Strickland, Rt. 2, Waycross, Mrs. Vinie G. Hill of Onancock, Va., and Mrs. R. P. Drayton, of Jonesville, Mich. Trinity Nazarene Church to Start Revival Monday Trinity Nazarine Church, locat ed on the Post Road about five miles north of Waynesville, will begin a revival meeting Monday night, Nov. 26, it is announced by the pastor, Rev. H. H. Strick land. The services will start at 7:30 P. M. each night. The evangelist will be Rev. W. L. Snellgrove of Louisville, Ga. He will be assist ed by Mrs. Snellgrove. The revival will continue through Sunday, Dec. 2. Everyone is cordially invited to attend the services. SEAT BELTS Your chances of being killed or seriously injured in an automobile accident are five times greater if you are thrown from the vehicle, which can be prevented by wearing seat belts. Prolonged studies show that the use of seat belts reduces by more than one-third serious and fatal injuries, according to Exten sion Engineer W. E. Huston. Peggy Rowell Wins First Place In Conservation Essay Contest Miss Aggy Rowell won first place in the Brantley County es say contest which is sponsored by the Supervisors of the Satilla River Soil Conservation District. W. L. Bohanon, Brantley Coun ty Supervisor for the Satilla River Soil Conservation District, announced the winners of the es say contest. Peggy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Rowell of Hortense, h»I scheduled to compete with other cdcfnty winners in the Satil la River Soil Conservation Dis trict which Comprises Wire. Pier ce, Wayne,* Atkinson, Charlton, Camden and Glynn counties in addition to Brantley County. Prizes of SSO, S4O and S3O for the three best essays written will be awarded by the District Board of Supervisors. The District winner will then compete with the other 26 Dis- County Resources Board Holds Planning Meet The Brantley County Resources Development Board held its annual Program Develop ment Meeting at the Okefenoke Rural Electric Cooperative Build ing. Monday night, Nov. 19. Those present were: R. B. Brooker, L. T. Woods, J. C. Al len, W. L. Bohanon, W. C. James, Elroy Strickland, Donald Stevens, Johnny Walker, Hoke Wilson, E. L. Sears, J. L. Miles, Dick Sch mitt, H. A. Strickland. P. U. Ro zier, H. T. Jacobs, Mrs. Rebecca Griner, Mrs. Maggie Middleton, Mrs. Elroy Strickland, Emory Middleton, Mrs. Virginia Rauler son, George A. Loyd and Richard Long. Mr. Long is a Marketing specialist with the Agricultural Extension Service, Athens, Ga. Those present worked with specific committees and reviewed the long range program the coun ty has, and made recommenda tions where it was thought to be needed. The different committees were: Soil and Water, Youth, Rural De velopment. Forestry, Livestock and Poultry, Agronomy, Home Economics, and Health and Wel fare. The chairman of these commit tees plan to meet again on Dec. 17. to take an over all look at and approval of the revised pro gram. The program will then be pub lished and put into the hands of county leaders who will assist in ^carrying it out. 3^x4* ANNUAL EASTER SEAL DRIVE IS BEING PLANNED J. Arch Avary,- Jr.-, executive vice president of- t-he Trust Com pany of Georgia Associates, has accepted appointment to head Georgia as State Chairman for the 1963 Easter Seal Campaign, J. J. McDonough, president of the Georgia Society for Crippled Children and Adults, the Easter Seal Society, announced. Mr. Avary stated that the grow ing demand for Easter Seal ser vices makes it vital that the 1963 campaign break all records. In 1962 $129,209.40 was spent on care and treatment for crippled child ren and adults. More could have been served had funds been a vailable. Nearly 90 percent of all Easter Seal contributions remain in Georgia. Handicapped youngsters and disabled adults were treated at Atlanta and Albany Easter Seal Rehabilitation Centers; at T. D. Tinsley School, Macon and at the ABC Crescent School and Play-to-Learn Schools in Griffin. Others were treated in the home. Easter Seal service programs benefited crippled children and adults through the Equipment Loan Pool, Family Camp Week ends at Rock Eagle, recreational swimming programs and summer day camps. Mr. Avary came with the Trust Company as executive vice presi dent in July 1959. He is Chair man of the Citizens Committee on Urban Renewal for Atlanta; a director of West Point Railroad; member of Small Business Ad ministration for the Southern Area and Fulton County Indus trial Commission. He is a steward of Atlanta First Methodist Chur ch. Watch the label on youi taper — don’t let your sub cription expire. trict winners of the State for an SBOO college scholarship which is sponsored by the Georgia Associa tion of Soil Conservation Dis tricts and the Georgia Bankers Association. George Brown, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Brown of Nahunta, won second place and Miss Gail Cason, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alton Cason of Route 2 Waycross, was awarded third place. The subject of the essay was “Soil and Water Conservation — A Story of Service-Yesterday, To day and Tomorrow.” The English teachers and Voca tional Agriculture teachers of Nahunta and Hoboken High Schools assisted Mr. Bohanon with the contest this year. Peggy received an award of । $25 for her first place essay while i, the other finalists received a -| wards of sls and $lO respectfully. Hickox HD Club Met With Mrs. Anderson The Hickox Home Demonstra tion Club met Wednesday 'after noon Nov. 14 with Mrs. Maurice Anderson at her home on Linden Drive in Waycross. Mrs. Gaynelle Keene presided during the business meeting. Plans were made for a Christmas decorations workshop for the reg ular December meeting which will be Mon. December 10. The Brantley County Home Demon stration Council will be held the second Wednesday, Dec. 12. Gifts will be exchanged. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson gave an informative program on fam ily insurance and the different needs for it. Others present were Mrs. Ruth Jones, Mrs. M. H. Roberson, Julia Belle Bohanon, Lydia Johns, Eula Mae Lee, Louise Hendrix, Janie Brand, Betty Hendrix LaFane Davis, Lizzie Mae Hend rix, Annie Lou Loyd, Ruth Wain right, and Dawshine Mathie. The club was pleased to learn of Mrs. Anderson’s being voted “Woman of the Year” by her club. Refreshments were served. Gospel Singing At Raybon Church There will be a gospel sing at the Church of God of Prophecy at Rabon on Saturday night, Nov. 25 beginning at 7:30 P. M. Rev. and Mrs. McGuffin of Louisville, Ky. will be the evan gelist in a -revival beginning Sun day night, Nov. 26. Singers in the community are invited and the public is wel come to the services through the week at 7:30 P. M. each even ing. Marvin Highsmith Accidentally Shoots off Toe Marvin Highsmith, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Highsmith, acci dentally shot off one of his toes on the right foot Saturday morn ing, Nov. 17. Marvin haji placed the barrel of the hammer-type shotgun on his foot and was toying with the trigger when the gun fired. A middle toe was completely sever ed by the shot. IDLE TRACTORS ARE COSTLY, STUDY SHOWS Tractors can be expensive “white elephants” on Georgia farms, according to a recent stu dy of the cost and utilization of tractor power and equipment by agricultural economists of the Georgia Experiment Station near Griffin. Idle tractors are expensive tractors and figures turned up by J. R. Russell and J. C. Elrod show that many North Georgia farm ers own tractors which they sel dom use. Os the 311 tractors found on the 151 farms in 26 North Geor gia counties in this survey, more than half (164) were in the medium-size class. Forty of these tractors were used an average of only 171 hours per year while 29 others were used an average of 951 hours per year. The cost of operating the 40 seldom-used tractors was $2.03 per hour com pared to the $.79-per-hour cost of operating the 29 often-used tractors. The remaining 45 tractors in the medium-size class were used an average of 435 hours per year at an average cost of $1.26 per hour. Average annual use and aver age per-hour cost of all 311 trac tors increased with size as fol lows: small — 293 hours at sl.Ol per hour; medium — 462 at $1.08; large — 507 at $1.22, and extra large — 637 at $1.36. For all tractors, annual use averaged 457 hours at $1.14 per hour. This survey also showed that there is no shortage of tractors on the 151 sample farms. Two thirds (102) of the farms had two or more tractors and the farms which had less than 50 acres of cultivated land each averaged almost five tractors per farm. Complete results of this study are available from the Georgia Experiment Station in Bulletin N. S. 95, “Cost and Utilization of Tractor Power and Equipment in North Georgia.” Citizens Bank Doubles Capital Stock and Surplus Fund Assets Municipal Group Seeks Legislation To Aid Towns, Cities The Georgia Municipal Associa tion has announced its legislative program for the 1963 session of the General Assembly. Mayor ^Roswell Hair of Buena Vista, As jsociation President, presented the proposals November 14 at a hear i'ing held by the joint Municipal Study Committee. Mayor Lee Broome represented the Bth Dis trict group of GMA at the meet ing. The seven-point program in cludes allocation by the state of $lO million in highway user tax es to the municipalities, "not as a gift but as a return of a part of these taxes to the municipal citizen for related street use.” Georgia’s cities will receive $1 million this fiscal year — their first state grant in history— as a result of an allocation by Gov ernor Ernest Vandiver in August. The program also requests an equitable share for the cities of any new state taxes. Another proposal is a boundary adjustment act which would per mit cities to adjust boundaries in adjacent areas which meet cer tain standards and which are, in effect, part of the particular city concerned. At present, boun dary adjustment must be voted by the General Assembly, or by a 100 per cent approval of the property owners in the area af fected. The Association proposes to fl mend the sales tax law to permit local discretion in broadening the municipal tax base. Mayor Hair also announced that a bill would be sponsored to establish a set of minimum stan dards for incorporation of a muni cipality, so that communities not actually performing municipal functions would not be charterr I. Also included in the program is more home rule and a bill to permit the State Highway De partment to contract with muni cipalities. Mayor Hair reported that the legislative program had been de veloped and approved by the As sociation’s Board of Director,':, and had been presented to Governor- Elect Carl Sanders for his consi deration. Chairman of the Municipal Study Committee is Mac Pickard of Muscogee County. Other mem bers are Senators Charlie Brown of Fulton and Hugh McWhorter of DeKalb and Representatives Fred Walker of Lowndes and Hines Brantley of Candler. RESIST OVERPLANTING HOME GROUNDS It’s easy to over-plant the home grounds and end up with a mass of unrelated plant material. Every plant should strengthen the overall design and be in character with its neighboring plants, suggests Exten sion Landscape Specialist T. G Wil liams. Fire Prevention First Step In Effective Forest Program By George A. Ix»yd County Agent Wildfire and forest manage ment don't mix! In my last article on forest management, I mentioned that the next would be on the first step in any forest management program. This step is the pre vention and control of fires. Fire in a short time can easily de stroy the fruits and many years of hard effort and money spent. For this reason, it is placed first. Local units of the Georgia Forestry Commission are doing an excellent job of spotting and controlling woods fires. This is evidenced by the fact that the acreage burned per fire is lower^ in Georgia than in any neighbor-* ing state. Even so, we *should all do our part in controlling -al4 fires on or near our farm. Fire prevention Js out real problem. Even if*, fires are put out quickly, the-large number of fires we have each,-year do con siderable damage. Georgia led the nation in 1961 with over 8,800 wild fires. Brantley County had 76 fires during 1961. Georgia had more than 56,000 acres burn ed. We suffered losses on 187 acres. These ane some figures we shouldn’t have to live with. What causes all these fires? Is it lightning, “fire-bugs,” trains, hunters? These are some of the causes, but our number one cause is debris burning. Subscription Price and Tax Inside county .— $2.58 Outside county, in state .... >3.09 Outside state _ 33.00 The Citizens Bank of Folkston and Nahunta has increased its capital stock from $50,000.00 to $100,000.00 and its surplus funds from $50,000.00 to $100,000.00, it is announced. The semi-annual statement of the bank, published in July, showed that The Citizens Bank had. assets of $4,860,767.35. William Mizell of Folkston is president of the bank and A. S. Mizell' of Nahunta is vice-presi dent. The bank has long been regarded as one of the soundest and fastest growing banks in the state. The Citizens Bank had assets of only $634,818.96 on Dec. 31, 1937, which was 25 years ago. This is an increase of approxi mately 800 percent. The bank is a member of Fede ral Deposit Insurance Corpora tion. Personals Week end visitors of Mrs. Alice Highsmith and family were John Highsmith and family and Mr. and Mrs. Connie Harrison and family of Brunswick; Mr. and Mrs. Jim DuPree and baby, Ok lahoma City, Oklahoma and Mil ton Herrin of Gainesville, Fla. Airman 3C James C. Harris, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. C. Harris of Route 1, Nahunta, is stationed at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. He took basic at Lakeland Air Force Base. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johns of At lanta have returned home after spending several days with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Johns and other relatives in Nahunta. Mrs. Ovey O. Herrin left Fri day to go to Millington, Tenn, where she will spend several months with her daughter, Mrs. Frank L. Abney. Mi. and Mrs. Kart!. left Tuesday after spending ten days with their mother, Mrs. J. B. Lewis. From here they went to Athens, Ga. to visit her mother before returning to their home in Washington, D. C. Mr. and Mrs. Royce Lewis of Augusta spent the week end with Mrs. Lewis’ sister, Mrs. Carl Broome. THIN AND PRUNE PINES To have healthy, well shaped pines on the home grounds, thin them to a reasonable number and properly prune those that remain, says Extension Forester C. Dorsey Dyer. If trees are too thick, they will have small crowns, a slow rate of growth and poor form. They also won't have enough vigor to ward off insect attacks. County agents can give advice on thinning and prun ing trees around the home. Shipment of a crop of tobacco to England 350 years ago marked the beginning of this nation’s foreign trade and commerce. This is one cause we can all do something about. Debris burn ing is nothing more than burning brush piles, trash, or other dis carded materials. Quite often this is done near the house with the idea in mind that it can be eas ily watched. This is a good idea, but too often we become occupied with other activities and the fire ■ blows or spreads into nearby fields or woods. Debris burning causes more than twice as many fires as . our number two cause, smokers. Let us jail, be a little more fire ; conscious. The next time you burn debris, plow around the a -1 re* or at least rake any combus ■ time rfiaterial such as leaves or ! grass away from the burning i/area. Watch .the fire, you can I never tell when a puff of wind । -may blow a burning ember away [•from the‘fife." Smokers, »use care I when .discarding matches and : “smokei.”' , ’ After Wb become fire conscious, we should be ready to improve I our woodlands for increased for est income. In a recent Georgia survey 16%, bTlhe farmers in i terviewed said that timber is their main source of farm income. Many of the others lean heavily ■ on their woods as a source of ad ! ditional income and as a savings account. My next article will be on re ' forestation which still has an ■ [ important place on almost every । farm.