The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, March 07, 1963, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Scores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. VOLUME 44 — NUMBER 10 Nahunta Parent-Teachers Will Discuss Advantages of Combined High School Nahunta High School PTA will meet Monday, March 11 at 3 P. M. at the High School Cafeteria. The subject for discussion will be “Evaluation of your S.hools.” Last year two committees inspected our schools and recommended that we should have only one High School in Brantley County. This report will be discussed by a panel of experts including Mr. Bill Smith, Charlton County School Sup erintendent, and Mr. Barney Gowan, former Chairman of the Camden County School Board. Mrs. Mable Moody, Brantley County School Sup erintendent, Mr. John Calhoun, Prin cipal Nahunta High School and Mr. Wilbur Stanley, Hoboken High School Principal. Mr. Smith will speak on curricu lum advantages in a combined school system. Mr. Barney Gowan will speak on financial aspects of a combined school system. After the talks the panel will answer questions from the audience. All interested ci tizens are invited to attend this meet ing to hear this important discus sion. Word of Caution On Flying Kites Words of caution to boys and girls who fly kites and to their par ents were issued this week by B. F. David of Blackshear, Georgia Pow er Company local manager, who urg ed that “full precautions” be taken to fly kites safely. The Georgia Power official sug gested the following rules for safety in kite flying: 1. Don’t fly kites in rainy weather or thunderstorms. 2. Don’t fly kites near power lines. 3. If a kite becomes entangled in power lines, leave it alone. Do not attempt to get it down. 4. Don’t use metal on kites, kite strings or kite tails. 5. Instead, use dry cotton string and dry cloth in the tails. 6. Don't dash across streets or highways while kite flying. Nahunta Girls Lose to Seminole County After Winning from Manor and Pelham Nahunta girls basketball team, the best girls’ team in southeast Georgia, finally went down in defeat before the sensational goal shooting of Jackie Lane of Seminole County at Pelham Monday night, March 4. The Nahunta girls had previ ously beaten Manor for the East 1-B championship in Waycross by a score of 49 to 42 and down ed Pelham at Pelham Satur day night, March 2, by a score of 46 to 43. In the Region 1-B finals Mon day night, Nahunta played a brilliant game all the way, with Annie Ruth Johns sparking the Nahunta attack with 37 points. But even this was not enough, as the amazing Jackie Lane of Seminole County piled in 51 points. The final score was Seminole County 61, Nahunta 50. Both teams are to enter the state Class B girls tournament Thurs- Mat 7 P S/ x X ||ngTi HIirCJSEJ : ~'**^^~/ ~~~^. ■ llljk ,-—- • —2 —/ / w ■uup WP ^QF' BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Hortense PTA to Entertain Boy Scouts The Hortense Parent-Teachers wi have the Hortense Boy Scouts a their guests at the meeting on Thurs day, March 14. at 7:30 p. m. Mr. Leslie Stevenson of Waycross district scout leader, will be agues at the meeting. All the parents an. teachers of the community are urg ed to attend. Nahunta Baptist Revival Rally Friday Night The Youth Rally, in preparation for the revivals in Piedmont an Okefenokee Baptist Associations, wi be held in Nahunta Baptist Church Friday night, March 8, beginning a’ 7:30. This rally will be attended by the young people and their workers from all the Baptist churches of this area as Piedmont and Okefenokee Asso ciations extend through all this sec tion of Ware, Pierce and Charlton, as well as Brantley counties. The program is an effort to enlist all the churches to take part in si multaneous revivals, or revivals held at the same time, as nearly as pos sible, so as to make all the com munity conscious of the fact that re vivals in our communities are being held, and are the most important thing being held in our communi ties at that time. Rev. Ernest Carswell, pastor of Emmanuel Church, Blackshear, wL be chairman of the Youth Rally, a Nahunta, Friday night. Mr. Eddie Hebert of Waycross Central will bt in charge of the music program. The choir of the First Baptist Waycross, will fill the choir. Rev Freddie Smith, well-known youtl preacher of Waycross and Baxlej will be the principal speaker. Linda Burden will sing a solo anc George Brown Jr., will bring the welcome. All churches of this section are urged to have their young people at tend this great rally, and that you feel welcome, each and everyone. Cecil F. Thomas, Pastor day night, March 7. The Nahunta girls had the best record this season of any girls’ team in many years. They lost only two games during the regular season. Coach Forrest Thomas was high in his praise of every girl on the team. “They will give a good account of themselves in the state tournament at Colum bus,” he said. Players for the Nahunta girls this year were Wanda Rozier, Shirley Drury, Annie Ruth Johns, Frances Ellis, Winnie King, Patsy Murray, Beth Cal houn, Iris Proctor, Helen Ja cobs, Martha Thomas, Barbara, Wiggins, Dale Sloan, Linda Burden, Marba Jean Rowell and Geraldine Moody. John Calhoun is principal of Nahunta High School, Forrest Thomas is girls’ basketball coa ch and Johnnie Faye Eldridge is manager of the team. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 7, 1963 Layton Johns Wins Highest Basketball Honors hytsn Mrs W.ns Uishs} Cage Hsncrs Auburn’s Layton Johns, the lone unanimous choice for All-Southeast ern Conference honors this year, was named Monday as the most valuable player, best rebounder and best shot in a poll of superlatives conducted by The Associated Press. Johns, a 6-foot-7 senior from Na hunta, dominated the voting by a seven-man board of experts. He won the MVP award and best rebounder category by wide margins and nar rowly defeated Donnie Kessinger of Mississippi and W. D. Stroud of Mis sissippi State in the voting for best shot. Johns was first, second or third choice as the best rebounder on all ballots, the only player so highly re garded by the experts. 100 Bushel Corn Club to Hold Annual Lundeen Meeting in Atlanta March 16 ATLANTA, Ga. — The Voca tional Agriculture Hundred Bushel Corn Club will hold its annual luncheon on March 16, in Atlanta. Membership in the Hundred Bushel Club is made up of Fut ure Farmers, vo-ag evening class members and young farm ers who have produced 100 bushels of corn on one acre. Ac cording to J. G. Bryant, State Supervisor of Agricultural Ed ucation, a total of 650 qualified for membership in the Hundred Bushel Club this year. 617 of these were FFA members. Keys and certificates will be presented to the members. Inclu ded among the 650 to receive these awards will be 46 from Brantley County. These boys and their school are: HOBOKEN HIGH — Hamp ton Ammons, Ronald Altman Terry Altman, Eddie Bell Wayne Crews, Norman Dowing, Phillip Dowling, John Dryden, Talmadge Edwards, Jerry, Fow ler, Forrest Griffin, Tony Grif fin, Ronnie Hurst, Warren John ston, Sammy Jones, Sammie Lee, Ronnie Lynn, Walter Mil ton, David Page, Ray Murray, Durwood Redding, Tommy Sapp, Bobby Stone, Sammy Stone, Curtis Strickland, Creig Thrift, Ronnie Schuett, Ralph Shep hard, Dennis Woods, Roy Jordan. NAHUNTA HIGH: Bennie Crews, Johnnie Crews, Alton Depratter, Wayne Dubose, Har ry Edgy, George Gaudett, David 3 Men Abduct Charlton Deputy, Go on Wild Ride thru Brantley Three men arrested by a deputy sheriff near Folkston Wednesday ab ducted the officer and went on a high speed “whiskey drinking” ride on the backroads of swampy South east Georgia. They came up Highway 301 through Nahunta and into Wayne County, doubled back to Hortense and then down 32 to Brunswick. The men were captured several hours later in front of the Bruns wick hospital. “Suddenly all kinds of law pulled in around us,” said Deputy Sheriff Homer Allen of Charlton County. “Oh, man, that was the prettiest sight Tve ever seen.” City, county and state officers sur rounded the car so fast there wasn't a chance for the men to shoot and he deputy was released unharmed. He lives in Folkston and is the fath er of three children. Arrested in a car with a Florida ! icense plate were three men iden tified by police as Charles Clarence. 10, Charles Laverne Case, 29, and lames C. Joyner, 34. Home towns vere not available immediately. Police said charges would be filed ifter they were questioned. Allen said he received a repor' about three men believed to be in toxicated who were in a car on U. S 1. He stopped the vehicle 14 mile north of Folkston for a routin< "heck. "I shook them down, didn’t fin any guns, and put them in my ca and headed for Folkston,” the de ”’ty sheriff said. “I was on an over pass in the city limits when one c them put a knife in my neck an old me to stop.” Allen said they drove out U. S 301, took a dirt road, and went bacl *o where they had left their car “They decided the police car was to hot,” he said. “They had my gin and they forced me into their car.’ The car drove back to 301 an went north for about 30 miles int Wayne County. “They asked me ho' to get off the main highway,” Allei said, “and I suggested they go bac and take Georgia 32 to Brunswick, wanted to stay in the area. “By then one of them, the mai who had my gun, was real drunk,’ the deputy sheriff said. “He had i locked and he poked it in my sid< and in my face and said he’d kil me.” Finally, said Allen, the man pass ed out and the other two decided tc take him to Brunswick to get a doc tor to give him a shot. They stopped at a filling station to ask about a doctor and the woman there became suspicious and called police. The car raced away from the fill ing station, Allen said, and headed or the hospital. “The second we stopped, officers covered us from everywhere and it was all over,” he said. Jacobs, Jackie Knox, Floyd Johns, Bernard Meyers, Rogers Steedley, Terry Thomas, Barry Wainright, Johnny Walker. E. A. Wainright Died in Savannah Edwin Avery Wainwright, 82, died in a nursing home in Savannah after an extended illness. He had lived in Brunswick with his daughter for the past six years at 804 Lee Street, coming here from Brantley Coun ty. He was a retired groceryman Survivors are two daughters, Mrs Fay W. Leverette, Brunswick, and Mrs. Hazel W. Wilson, Medford. Oregon, one son, Elzie A. Wain wright, St. Simons Island, two sis ters, Mrs. C. H. Penland, Atkinson, and Mrs. Bob Allen, Folkston Funeral services were held at 3:30 p. m. at the chapel of the funeral home with the Rev. James N. Grif fith, pastor of the St. Simons Island First Baptist Church, officiating. In terment was in Palmetto Cemetery. Pallbearers were his nephews Everett Wainright, Owen Wainright, Dan Wainright, Bob Wainright, Bob Allen Jr., Rodney Parrott, Norwood Wainright and Brown Brooker. TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE “Too little” and “too late” often describes Georgians’ efforts at thin ning pine stand, according to Dor sey Dyer, Extension Service forester at the University of Georgia. He said pine stands need to be thinned fair ly early while the trees are still put ting on good height growth. Cleanup Week For Nahunta March 11-16 Mayor T. E. Raulerson, who has proclaimed March 10 to 16 as city clean-up-week, requests the help of all residents and property owners. The City will clean all ditches, trim trees along walkways and encourage property owners to improve or demolish old build ings which are in bad condition or repair. Members as the Nahunta Gar den Club have contacted owners of businesses and residences in regards to this effort. They res pectfully ask the County Com missioners to be responsible for the Court House grounds. The Junior Chamber of Com merce and the Junior Womans Club are co-operating in ma king Nahunta a beautiful place for ourselves and those passing hrough our town. Proceedings of Brantley County Commissioners The Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of Brantley County met in Regular session on Tuesday, February 5, 1963 at 10:00 A. M. with all members present and ordered the following bills paid for the month of January. GENERAL EXPENSE: R. B Brooker 11.06 Salary, R. C. Harrell, Jr. 15.90 Salary, Silas D. Lee 28.91 Salary, Louis Prescott 17.06 Salary, Major Riggins 28.91 Salary, John M Wilson 70.79 Salary, C. Winton A lams 60.45 Salary, Archie A. John? 77.10 Salary, Morty Griffin 88 00 Sa ary. ROAD DEPT.: Perry Crews 260.01 Salary, Ellis Altman 158.52 Salary Talmadge Gunter 149.07 Salary Veita Herrin 151.99 Salary, Mitchel! lulett 165.31 Salary, Alex B. Lee ’40.19 Salary, John H. Mercer 130.96 Salary, Jasper Moore 178 09 Salary, Virgel R. Murray 151 99 Salary Fred Willis 172.98 Salary, Woodrow Wil ;on 163.34 Salary. EXTENSION SERVICE: George A. Loyd 207 63 Salary and Travel, Vir ginia N. Raulerson 139.82 Salary and Travel. HEALTH DEPT: Vaxter G. Ham mond 105 84 Salary and Travel, Charlotte O. Wilson 200 35 Salary, Rebecca D. Griner 37704 Salary, Travel and Contingent Fund, Alvin M. Powell Jr. 12.00 Travel, Dr. J. L Walker 30 00 Salary, Dr. Hart S. Odum 62.00 Travel. SUPERIOR COURT: W. J. Sum merall 46.00 Salary, Dewey Hayes 113.34 Salary. FORESTRY DEPT: Georgia State Forestry Commission 600.00 Budget WELFARE DEPT: Department of Public Welfare 668 35 Budget, Willie Hayes 10.00 Pauper, Riley Crews 10.- 00 for Junior Dale Morgan, Mamie O'Neal 10.00 Pauper, Robert R Rig gins 10 00 Pauper, Daniel Roberson 10.00 Pauper. INVOICES: C. L. King 133 27 Re pair on Court House, Walter Jacobs 12.50 For transportation, Georgia Power Co. 56.98 Light bill. Profes sional Insurance Corporation 112.30 Employee’s Premium, Georgia Hos pital Association Inc. 207 25 Em ployee’s Premium, Cotton States Life & Health Insurance Co. 15.55 Em ployee’s Premium, J. W. Brooker 10.43 Supplies, Strickland Plumbing Co. 4.00 Repair on Jail, Sid’s Ser vice Station 98.27 Repair, Walker’s Office Machine Co. 1.75 Office sup plies, Dußose Garage 22 11 Repair, The Brantley Enterprise 105 10 Ad vertising and supplies, C. S. Kizer 50.00 Inquest for Roy Wainright and Mathew Melton, Jimmy’s Radio & T. V. Center 4:00 Repair, Brantley Telephone Co. 95.41 Phones and calls, Getz Exterminators 5.00 for Spraying Jail, Rccordak Corporation 49 98 for Clerk of Court, Brantley Gas & Appliance Co. 111.35 Fuel, R E. A. Corporation 3.58 Caution light Carlton Company 49.87 Repair, Town & Country Pharmacy 3.61 Drugs Chambless Funeral Home 45 00 Am bulance Service, DePratter Service Station 137.63 Repairs, L & M Truck & Tractor Co 113 40 Repair and parts, Wilson-Wainright Oil Company 731.95 Gas, Oil & Tubes, Charlo Service Station 67 49 Repairs, Way cross Battery & Electric Co. 41.20 OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTa Garden Club Makes Plans for Flower Cl tow The Nahunta Garden Club met at the home of Mrs. Jos. B. Strick land on Tuesday afternoon, March 5 with Mrs. Emmie Newton and Mrs. J. B. Lewis as co-hostesses. Reports were made on the efforts of the club in regard to the Clean up campaign. Mrs. Emmie J. Newton, chair man of year book committees pre sented the year book plans which the club approved. The program of the annual flow ers show to be held some time in May were discussed. Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland, president, gave a talk on the World’s Fair which she attended in Washington State. Others present were Mrs J. C. Allen, Mrs. Allen Barnard, Mrs. Brown Brooker, Mrs Jesse Lee, Miss Mary Knox, Mrs A S. Mizell and Mrs. Marvin Robinson The hostesses served refresh ments. Repairs, D. F. Herrin 144 30 Court Cost, J. W. (Yews 288,80 Service Rendered, Ellis Drug Store 134.25 Drugs, South Georgia Communca tions Co. 16.50 Repair on Sheriff’s Radio, Dußose & Crosby 600 00 Audit for 1962, Warren A Candler Hospital 500.00 for Calvin Drury, Ernest Knight Druggist 15 45 Drugs, M A. Parse 20.00 Baliff, B E Thomas 20 (X) Baliff, Floyd Rowell 20.00 Baliff. Charlie Roberson 1250 Transporta tion, Waiter Jacobs 12.50 Transporta tion, Cotton States Life & Health Ins. Co. 15 55 Employee’s Premium, Georgia Hospital Service Association 207.25 Employee’s Premium There being no further business the meeting adjourned. John Wilson. AN TALMADGE Reports From | ^HINCTON ONCE AGAIN, there is before Congress a measure which would, at least in part, return thia country to the Constitu tional government intended by ®ur founding fathers. This is S. J. Resolution 16, the Talmadge School Amendment, which I and ' number of like minded col-" leagues have K '|L^K re - introduced^ in the Senate. ; The purpose ‘ of the proposed Amend merit is X simple: ItH w Hi would do no more nor no less than restore to the States and local communities control over public education, where, as the Constitution makes clear, it be longs. Written into the resolution are specific safeguards to insure the protection of the Constitutional rights of every individual, every parent and school child in the nation. IN THE PAST, I regret that my efforts to correct the erosion of the Constitution—which for the most part has come about through judicial and executive fiat—have not been given con sideration worthy of their merits. Earnest attempts to return this country to the basic concept of p Constitutional government of ehecks and balances between the legislative, judicial and ex ecutive branches become bogged down in a morass of political ex pediency and selfishness. So extensive has the abuse of the judicial and executive pow ers, with the apparent acquies cence of the legislative, become that a reversal of the trend has become virtually impossible. Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state .... $3.09 Outside state $3.00 Wilson Replies To Criticism Os His Bills To the Citizens of Brantley County: Some criticism has been leveled at my proposed local legislation, and I wish to take this means to explain my position. Thirty-five years ago J. C. Strick land, Esq., an able representative from this county, wrote into law the County Commissioner Act. At that time he provided that the commis sioners would be paid at the rate of $5.00 per day, six days per month, or S3O 00 per month. He was of course aware of the fact that a Commissioner has duties other than attending the regular meetings of the Commission. Brantley County has been singu larity fortunate in that it has hart a succession of able and industriot’s businessmen and farmers, both liv ing and dead, who have served the people of this county well. Your fis cal affairs will attest to the fact that a small county can operate on a. sound financial footing. At the time the pay of the Com missioners was fixed things weie much cheaper, and the general wage scale was much lower For instance a section hand was paid alxiut $1") per day. He is now paid about $12.- (X) per day. I do not feel that it is out of line to increase the daily pay of your commissioners to a rate only slightly under that paid a ;ee tion laborer. The proposed bill to treat a Umjn ty Depository is justified by thc» fact that the present Treasurer lias indi cated that he proposes to retire at the end of this term. The County auditor has suggested that econo mies could be effected, and a dupli cation of bookkeeping could be saved by the creation of a County Deposi tory. It is my purpose to do the best job for the people of this county that I am capable of doing. I greatly appreciate your advice, suggestions and prayers. Yours very truly, Hoke S. Wilson, Representative Brantley County, Georgia. HERE IS HOW the situation was described recently by Alfred J. Schweppe, the nationally known Constitutional authority: “The theory of checks and bal ances envisioned by the Found ing Fathers is largely gone, through the obsequiousness of Congressmen intent on their own reelection rather than on the great concerns of the Re public.” Mr. Schweppe, In an address before the North Carolina Bar Association, expressed the fear that “the days of a federal gov ernment of strictly delegated powers, with all other powers reserved to the states and to the people, are definitely over.” THE CONSTITUTION was meant to bind man from mis chief, Jefferson said. However, Mr. Schweppe asserts that the “chains of the Constitution have become gossamer threads. . . . We have, through greed for pow er at all federal levels, and im patience with the orderly pre scribed procedure for Constitu tional amendment, the thing that Jefferson so greatly feared in the Virginia Protest of 1825, namely, ‘a complete government without limitation of po vers’.” I fear that Mr. Schweppe may be right. But nonetheless, when I assumed the office of U. S. Sen ator, I took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies. This I will do. The restoration of the Con stitutional balance of power be tween the federal government and the rights of the States and their individual citizens demands no less. l r