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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 24, 1963
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgi-.
Official Organ of Brantley County
Carl Broome Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia.
Eman talmadge
Reports From ■
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AMERICAN FARMERS to
day face two critical problems
which the government must act
to correct before it is too late
and the nation’s agriculture
economy is virtually reduced to
ruins.
The pressing need for a sensi
ble, workable national farm pro-
gram becomes
more and more
evident. This
can be seen in
the multi-bil
lion dollar sur
pluses stored
at the taxpay
er’s expense,
and in the in-
come of the farmer which clear
ly shows that he is not getting
his fair share of the national
economy.
The farmer must be rescued
from the hodge-podge of exist
ing farm laws which for the
most part are politically inspired
and subject to abuse and racket
eering, such as that brought to
light in the Billie Sol Estes case.
But more important, our pres
ent farm laws do not work to
substantially increase farm in
come. The farmer is denied his
rightful place in our prosperous
society.
• • •
RECOGNIZING THESEsWt
comings in our present
am again introducing the 'Tal
madge Farm Plan in the current
88th Congress. This is a realistic
and. meaningful plan, which
would return the farmer to the
free enterprise system and
guarantee him certain compen
satory payments, from the fed
eral government.
The Talmadge Plan would
bring us nearer goals which I
have long sought to reach, that
is, to let the farmer farm, to
guarantee him his proportionate
Nahunta High School
Basketball Schedule
HOME GAMES
Tues. Jan. 29 — Screven
Tues. Feb. 5 — Camden County
Tues. Feb. 12 — Folkston
Fri. Feb. 15 — Surrency
AWAY GAMES
Fri. Jan. 25 — Atkinson County
Fri. Feb. 1— Patterson
Fri. Feb. 8 — Ludowici
I" Stock Yard |
I News
At our sale last Friday, hogs prices were as
follows: RI, $15.75; LI, $15.75; Hl, $14.29; No. S
2, $14.59; No. 3, $14.54; No. 4, $14.01; and No. |
5, $14.08. Sows topped at $13.65.
Heavy cows topped at $19.90, heavy steers
sold up to $24.50, heavy heifers topped at $24.- >
00 and stocker calves sold up to $25.25 with
veal calves topping at $27.50.
Station WBSG in Blackshear will broadcast ■
hog prices Friday afternoon at 3:00 from the
Pierce County Stock Yard.
J: We invite you to oell with us each Friday. M
Our good line of buyers assures you of the top B
S dollar. ■
WE APPRECIATE YOUR SELLING WITH g
" THE PIERCE COUNTY STOCK YARD. S
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0. R. Peacock, Phone 449-5522
OPERATORS AND MANAGERS
BLACKSHEAR. GEORGIA
Stock Yard Phones 449-5305 and 449-54/1
For Hauling, contact O. J. AMMONS, |
H Hoboken. Ga., phone GL 8-3122. «
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(not prtforti or pKnkJ at fOt<rnmfnt
share of the national income,
and to put American farm com
modities back on the world mar
ket at competitive prices.
The plan would eliminate all
acreage controls and govern
ment loans and would assign
each farmer a domestic produc--
tion quota based on pounds,
bushels, bales and other such
measures.
It would take the federal gov
ernment out of the business of
buying, transporting, storing
and selling farm commodities.
The taxpayers ultimately would
be relieved, of having to foot the
bill for the costly storage of the
$8 billion in farm surpluses.
ALSO FACING the farmer
and the future of our entire
economy is the threat posed by
the European Common Market
and the protective tariffs it is
imposing on imports from out
side the six-nation alliance.
Rising tariff walls in the Com
mon Market threaten the very
existence of American farmers,
especially those in the poultry
industry and others for which
there is a large overseas market
The stance taken by the Com
mon Market countries could
mean a staggering loss to farm
sales in Western Europe. The
poultry industry could go under,
and American agriculture could
suffer an enormous depression.
The Common Market squeeze
appears to be on. It calls for
some tough bargaining by our
trade negotiators, and if the new
Trade Expansion Act isn’t
enough to protect the interests
of the farmers then we need
some new legislation that will*
Hoboken Basketball
Schedule Announced
Surrency — Here Frj. Jan. 25
Ware Co. — Ther.e lives. Jan. 29
Hilliard, Fla. —- There Fri. Feb. 1
Folkston — Here Tues Feb. 5
Blackshear — Here FH. Feb. 8
Odum — There Tues Fe'b. 12
Plenty of Steel
The average automobile has
more than 13,000 parts made of
160 different kinds of steel.
Text of Roben Dixon's Essay Which
Won District Conservation Award
An essay by Robert Dixon,
Jackshear High School student,
vvon first place in Pierce county
and second place in the Satilla
River Soil Conservation District
competition.
Awards in the contest were
presented in December at a ban
quet held in Brunswick.
Dixon’s essay, entitled “Soil
jnd Water Conservation Districts
—a Story of Service — Yester
day, Today and Tomorrow,” fol
lows:
Soil and water are two of the
most important and valuable re
sources we have in the United
States. Water is perhaps the
most important of the two; how
ever, without soil we would also
perish.
As we turn back the pages of
history, we may find that many
civilizations fell because of the
.act that they were not conserva
tive people. These fallen peoples
go back to the Sumerians of
Mesopotamia in the Near East
and follow through with all the
countries and peoples of China,
Europe and slowly on to these
great United States of America.
Yes, we too were slowly let
ting our land go to waste by soil
erosion and not being prepared
to save our water. All the coun
tries and civilizations that have
fallen, fell mainly because the
people and governments did not
conserve the soil and waters that
were available to them.
Yesterday there were several
persons in the state and federal
governments that were interest
ed in our land and water and
what was happening to it. These
people were and are the primary
source responsible for the great
conservation program we have
working today. They were inter
ested enough that in 1934 the
first soil erosion control demon
strations were set up.
These conservation measures
were taken here in our native
state of Georgia with their head
quarters being at Athens under
the Soil Erosion Service, United
States Department of the Inter
ior. Shortly after these were set
up, they were followed by more
projects, and in 1935 the Soil
Conservation Service of the
United States Department of
Agriculture was established and
took control of these projects.
It was during Roosevelt’s term
as President of the United States
that the first Soil Conservation
Districts were set up. The first
district in Georgia was estab
lished on March 26, 1937. During
the ensuing fourteen years, there
have been twenty-seven districts
established to cover the entire
state. These districts are govern
ed by the local and district
boards of farmer supervisors
that live in each district and are
fully pledged cooperators with
the soil conservation program.
The United States Congress in
1944 passed Public Law 566 and
amended it in 1956. It gave the
Soil Conservation Service major
responsibility including water
shed protection and flood pre
vention on small watersheds.
Yesterday the Soil and Water
Conservation Districts and pro
grams were established. They
are the work and doings of a
generation of hard-working peo
ple who have and continually
10, believe in conserving our
God given blessings and essen
tials of life.
Today the Conservation Dis
tricts are a main force in keep-*
ing America strong. This is a
very true statement. It is true j
because the highly successful
and essential atomic submarines,
missiles, tanker ships, Strategic
Air Command, and all our other
means of defense in war can not
operate on their own. They must
have healthy and intelligent men
to operate them.
This is not the only example
of what our Conservation Dis
tricts are doing today. They are
keeping us able to be healthy,
active and intelligent people that
may attend church, the fair,
school, and all the other things
that we do. They are keeping us
able to do these things because
of their great decrease in our
cropland erosion and water
waste.
Today in Georgia we have one
of the nation’s best conservation
programs. Why? Because the
people of Georgia are interested
in their own land. They have
been told and shown that soil
conservation does pay.
We have come a long way in
the past decade and we are
steadily advancing. The results
of these efforts can readily be
detected on the land, in the
clearing streams and rivers, and
in the economic progress of the
state as a whole and in the coop
erating farmer’s steady increase
in his bank account.
Today as I was riding home
on the school bus, I began to
think about the land and how
some of it was treated. There
were those farmers who had eag
erly followed the conservation
•orogram and those who had not.
You could easily detect those
farms as if they had a big red
sign on them. Those farms that
hod not followed the program
vere still too wet in some fields
and too dry in others.
There were the woodlands
whi h had not been cleared of
hardwoods and hardly a pine
was in view; also, there were
the pine thickets which would
have been producing trees four
teen inches in diameter had they
been cleared and properly tended.
i also saw the hill that would
not grow anything but oaks, sup
posedly said the owner, which
would have been a beautiful hill
of long-leaf pines, and the rains
that fall are allowed to run
wherever they may.
These precious drops of water
could be conserved in the irri
gation pond providing that ter
races and drain ditches had been
opened to the pond. Then there
were the farmers who under
stood and practiced the objective
of the soil conservation districts,
which is to use each acre of land
according to its capability and
treat it in accordance with its
needs for protection and im
provement. This objective is vi
tal to us because our land and
water resources are the very
foundation of our industrial and
agricultural strength, and they
are the principal source of our
wealth. These farms were also
easily spotted.
The fields were terraced with
waterways established and ponds
in the most advantageous place
to the farmer, for the farm, and
for conserving the land and wat
er.
There were wind breaks es-
tablished, contour farming, per
manent pastures, crop rotation,
wildlife and woodland conserva
tion in clear view to the by
passers. These were ideal farms.
Not all of them had a complete
conservation program working
for them, but they were gradu
ally turning their complete farms
into conservative ones.
In Jerusalem in June of 1939
when invited to broadcast a talk
on soil conservation, Mr. W. C.
Lowdermilk, who is the former
Assistant Soil Conservation Ser
vice Chief, gave for the first
time what has been called the
“Eleventh Commandment,” it
follows:
“Thou shalt inherit the Holy
Earth as a faithful steward, con
serving its resources and pro
ductivity from generation to
generation. Thou shalt safeguard
thy fields from soil erosion, thy
living waters from drying up,
thy forests from desolation, and
protect thy hills from overgraz
ing by thy herds that thy de
scendants may have abundance
forever. If any shall fail in this
stewardship of the land, thy
fruitful fields shall become
sterile stony ground and wasting
gullies, and thy descendants shall
decrease and live in poverty or
perish from off the face of the
earth.”
We have inherited the Earth,
and it is our duty to be a faith
ful steward to it so as our des
cendants will live in the flour
ishing happiness and wealth that
we enjoy today.
Today the Soil Conservation
Service offers to the farmer and
cooperator conservation informa
tion and assistance tailored to
the needs of their own land.
Tomorrow, the world will be
dependent upon how well the
peoples of today conserve the
land and waters. Tomorrow
there will be many more people
to feed. Their food must come
from fewer farms than we have
now. This is true because there
will be more homes and high
ways and industries built on
much of the farming land now
being farmed. There will be
twice as much water needed per
day in 1975 as there was in
1950. This means that tomorrow
about 1,800 gallons of water will
be used for every man, woman,
and child.
As Moses stood on Nebo
Mountain and looked across the
Jordan Valley to the Promised
Land, he described it to the
Israelites in words like these:
“For the Lord thy God bring
eth thee into a good land, a land
of brooks of water, of fountains
and depths that spring out of
valleys and hills, a land of wheat
and barley and vine sand fig
trees and pomegranates, a land
of olive oil and honey; a land
wherein thou shalt eat bread
without scarceness; thou shalt
not lack anything in it; a land
whose stones are iron and out
of whose hills thou mayest dig
brass.’’
Even though Moses used these
words to describe to the Israel
ites the Promised Land. I can
think of no other land they des
cribe better than our own United
States.
If our children and their child
ren are to be priviledged to live
in the Promised Land that have
we, then J. J. Hill’s words to
the Second National Conserva
tion Congress still remain true.
Those words are:
"There remains an opportuni
ty and a need of conservation
transcending in value all others
combined. The soil is the ulti
mate employer of all industry
and the greatest source of all
wealth. It is the universal bank
er. Upon the maintenance, un
impaired in quantity and quality
of the tillable area of the coun
try. its whole future is condition
ed ”
The Soil and Water Conserva
tion Districts are truly —a story
>f service.
Financial Report of the Brantley
County School System for 1962
The Brantley County Board of Education is out of debt, except for a
few current bills that can be taken care of with M & 0 money received
monthly from the State Department of Education.
The remainder of old accounts that were outstanding January 1, 1961
have been paid in full.
The amount and list not previously reported is as follows:
American Floor Machine Company $ 128.56
American Seating Company 2,754.70
Atlantic Bag & Paper Company 254.76
Bioscope Manufacturing Company 376.79
Cambosco Scientific Supply Company 60.56
Calhoun Company 486.75
California Test Bureau 22.74
Clint W. Lee Company 2.90
Farquar Machinery Company 66.24
Gaylord Brothers, Inc 80.00
Georgia Supply Company 214.48
Guardian Chemical Company 131.35
Harry Finklestein Company 31.90
I. B. M. Corporation 33.78
Instrumental Music Company 42.13
Jesup Sentinel - 31.50
King Brothers Motor Company 21.54
Mrs. Mable R. Moody (Dec., 1960 trip to State
Department, Atlanta) 35.21
Murray Plumbing Company ~. 425.11
Paramount Chemical Corporation 757.00
Sinclair Refining Company 18.41
Singer Sewing Machine Company 659.80
South-East Sales Company 146.81
Southern Desk Company 850.00
Sporting Goods, Inc 24.15
Stansi Scientific Company 81.48
State Dept, of Ed. (Surplus Property) 799.80
The MeGregor Company 974.54
The Todd Company 116.47
Universal Manufacturing Company 418.38
Vaughn Radiator Shop 106.00
Vestal, Inc 165.00
Ware Welding & Supply Company 87.10
Waycross Plumbing Company 169.00
Western Auto 4.00
W. M. Welch Company 112.12
Charles-Merrill Books, Inc 6.71
Sanico 24.15
Dowling Furniture Company 1,316.01
School Sound System, Inc. (paid by Nahunta
High School.) 165.00
TOTAL $ 12,202.93
The above list totals $60,091.97 paid since January 1, 1961 on bills
outstanding as of that date.
Below is a list of most of the 1962 major items of expense for schools
for which local tax money is used:
Library Materials $ 781.55
Regional Library Service 400.00
Teaching supplies 4,242.65
Repairs to teaching equipment 321.06
Five (5) 60-capacity school buses 25,549.82
Bus Insurance 667.68
Tires and Tubes for School Buses:
Pennsylvania Tire Company 1,528.38
Wilson-Wainright Oil Company 5.34
Norton Tire Rebuilders 98.45
Pupil Transportation Service. (Repair & Parts) (does not
include gasoline & oil) 8,866.95
Special School Trips (payment to drivers) (does not
include gasoline) 180.00
Fuels for heating buildings 5,110.42
Custodial Supplies 2,512.67
Labor and Materials for buildings (Maint & repairs) 6,859.57
Water Coolers — Nahunta High & Nahunta Gram 983.45
Insurance on School Property 1,490.73
Nahunta & Hoboken Home Ec. Dept. Maint 360.00
Teacher Bonus payments , 6,865.00
Typewriters 1,273.00
City of Hoboken (larger water main to school) 445.59
Supplements to Principals & Coaches 7,591.00
Salaries from Local Funds:
Superintendent 3,000.00
Custodians 5,150.00
School Secretaries 5,000.00
School Bus Mechanic 2 880.00
Board Members Per Diem 600.00
Permit Teachers 864.00
Bonds for Superintendent & Principals 90.00
Printing and Office Supplies 547.06
Brantley Telephone Company 680.00
Bd. of Ed. required Contributions to Teacher
Retirement System 2,841.54
Bd. of Ed. payment to Social Security 1 304.87
Water 1,535.58
Lights 3,913.53
TOTAL $ 104,539.89
PAID ON ACCOUNTS PRIOR TO JANUARY, 1961
(as listed) $ 12,202.93
loan — MABLE R. MOODY — $11,000.00
@ 4% interest 11,440.00
TOTAL FOR MAJOR ITEMS LISTED ABOVE $ 128,182.82
RECEIVED IN COUNTY TAXES IN 1962 $ 69,973.51
THE ABOVE DOES NOT INCLUDE EVERY ITEM OF EXPENSE
SUCH AS TEACHERS’ AND BUS DRIVERS’ SALARIES, ETC., FOR
SPACE WILL NOT PERMIT. YOU ARE WELCOME TO EXAMINE
THE BOOKS AT ANY TIME.
BUILDING FUND
RECEIVED FROM STATE DEPARTMENT BUILDING
AUTHORITY ON JANUARY 26, 1962 $ 53,220.78
CURRENT BUILDING FUND DEPOSIT
CITIZENS BANK, NAHUNTA $ 28,220.78
SECURITY HOLDINGS — FIRST FEDERAL LOAN AND
SAVINGS, WAYCROSS, GEORGIA $ 15,000.00
AMOUNT USED FROM THIS FUND UNTIL
DECEMBER, 1963 TO DEFRAY SCHOOL
EXPENDITURES LISTED ABOVE $ 10 000.00
TOTAI $ 53 220 78
