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Newspaper Page TextThe Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 7, 1953 Brantley Enterprise Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia 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. Tales Out of School WOULD YOUR COUNTY LOSE MONEY ON THIS DEAL? Oscar Joiner, our director of fi nance and administration, says (in answer to many questions about this) that 140 of our local systems will lose money if the present distribution formulas are repealed. One county would lose $96 per child annually. PAGES IN THE LEGISLA TURE — There's a movement on foot to restrict “paging" in the legislature to children who are at least 12. We’d like to see it । restricted to Bth graders who study Georgia history, and who ' could really take a week’s course in Georgia history at the State Capitol while they are here. NOTE TO YOUR SUPERIN TENDENT — If you did not get a copy of the Department of Education’s Biennial Report to the Governor and the General Assembly when you were at ( “Bootstraps," please write us for , one. WE’VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS — Bobby Kennedy says in a recent book of his that , Russia thinks it is doing some ' thing new when it announces free textbooks for school child ren, whereas America has been doing this for a century. FAMOUS SCHOOL DROP OUTS — Einstein, Churchill, Truman. PRE-SCHOOLERS — Mona and Lisa Chick, pre-school 5-year old granddaughters of Mr. and Mrs. Hoyt Chick, of Athens, Georgia, recently tok a look at the famous Mona Lisa of Leon ardo da Vinci in Washington. When the people in charge found out their names, they made a picture of Mona and Lisa and Mona Lisa. CONFEDERATE WOMEN School children write us every day about information on the wortien of the Confederacy. These are the most interesting to me: Mary Chestnut who wrote DIXIE DIARY, Fannie Andrews who kept JOURNAL OF A GEORGIA . GIRL IN WAR TIME, Dolly Lunt, of Covington, who wrote her memoirs, Rebecca Latimer Felton, who lived through the terror and became the first U. S. Senator in the nation, Mrs. Jef ferson Davis, who refugeed through Georgia and was at Ir winville when her husband was arrested. First monument to the women of the Confederacy was built at Rome, Georgia. Its in scription was written by Wood row Wilson, who had married a Rome girl. YOU'LL BE SHORT OF TEACHERS AND BUS MONEY — If the legislature drops the present budget as proposed, the schools in Gergia will not get all the teachers their Average Daily Attendance has earned next year. They will also have to figure out how to haul 13,000 more bus children without any increase in bus money. If you don't like this, speak to your legislator. Under the new law, it is the legislature that now has control of the bud get. Ai NOW more than ever before the Air Force needs for ward thinking young men to fill important jobs. Here is a unique opportunity for a young man to begin a career in aviation and missile maintenance, electronics, administration or security. These are the vital skills of the Aerospace Age. Air Force training can give a young man a headstart on a bright future. By Bernice McCullar State Department of Education — A bulletin on What High School Teachers Should Know has just been published by Har vard. But do you think they call ed it anything as simple as that? Oh, no! The title is The Aca demic Preparation of Secondary School Teachers. What education needs is to teach itself to read and write simply. NEWS OF TEACHERS — Supt. D. Leon McCormac has re signed as head of the Savannah- Chatham school system . . . Sen ator Glen Pelham of Cairo is back in the legislature. He coach ed winning teams in the Cairo High School for some years, and they have shining golden tro phies there to show for it. FIRST SCIENCE COLLEC TION — Did you know that the first science teacher had a pupil who gave a million dollars in gold to make a science collec tion? And plenty of people to help him do it. The teacher was Aristotle. The pupil was Alex ander the Great. WELL, GO ON AND ANS WER THIS What does your community get most excited a bout? Hiring a fine teacher? Hav ing a National Merit Scholar? Sending two-thirds of its grad uating class to college? Or winn ing the football game? TEACHER SALARY — The average teacher salary in the U. S. is now $5,735; in Georgia, $4,568. YOU WON’T HAVE ROOM TO STAND Dr. John Fulmer, Tech professor, points out that the earth’s population, which is now about 3 billion, will be 6 billion by the end of this cen tury. The earth will gain more in habitants in the next 40 years than it did in 200,000 years. Then he says, “One of the main ob jectives of college education is problem solving.” The only । trouble is that too few of our people go to college to learn how to solve problems. Out of a hundred thousand that start to school, only 36,000 now stay to graduate, and only 12,000 of these go on to college, and only half of those graduate from college. Who’s going to solve the prob lem of the population explosion? MOST INTERESTING GOV ERNOR — We have had 74 gov ernors, and every now and then I get to pondering on which one was the most interesting. Was it Treutlen, the first one, who van ished like a ghost? Was it Peter Early, who when he was a judge sentenced a gossipy old woman to be dipped in the Oconee Riv er? Was it old Matthews, who journeyed to Washington to beat up President John Adams? Was it Gilmer, who wrote a book so gossipy that Walter Winchell and Louella Parsons could have tak en lessons from it? Which? The school children of Georgia should know something about these 74 governors. Each one of them was an interesting man, in his own way. Two fathers and sons were among them, and both fathers have statues on the Capitol ground. U. S. Air Force Recruiting Service HOW EDUCATION SAYS IT Children's Denta! Health (This is the third in a series jf questions and answers on den al health published by The Blackshear Times in cooperation vith the Southwestern District Dental Society.) Does a decayed tooth ever heal itself? No, it does not. Once decay has begun in a tooth, the only way the progress of this disease can be stopped is for a dentist to re move the decayed part and place a restoration in the tooth. If the tooth is not restored, the decay process continues until, eventual ly, the tooth must be removed. Does fluoridated water really reduce tooth decay? Fluoridated water is the most effective public health measure in reducing dental decay, as pro ven in more than 30 years of re search. If your child drinks fluoridated water, he will have as much as 60 per cent less tooth decay than he would have if he drank fluoride-deficient water. President Kennedy and his family drink fluoridated water. So did the Eisenhowers when they lived in the White House. More than 40 million Americans, in addition to millions of people in England, Germany, The Neth erlands, Belgium and many oth er countries, drink fluoridated water. In Ireland, fluoridation is required by law. The American Medical Association found fluori dation safe and endorsed its wide spread use. The cost of this protection is often as little as a dime a year per person — less than the price of one ice cream cone. The cost of a single filling equals one person’s payment for fluoridated water for about 30 years. Will we have a vaccine against tooth decay some day? As dental researchers learn more and more about the role of mouth bacteria in causing tooth decay, a vaccine may become a real possibility. Meanwhile research into the causes and prevention of dental diseases is being carried out on many fronts. Experiments with guinea pigs and hamsters are being conducted at the National Institute, of Dental Research in Bethesda, Md. These experiments have led to the establishment of a direct cause and effect between certain bacteria and dental decay in the teeth of these animals. Laboratory tests have shown that germ-free animals which have been fed a diet that ordinarily causes decay do not develop caries in the absence of bacteria. On the other hand, these animals develop typical tooth decay when exposed to a single strain of bac teria taken from the mouths of animals that do have decayed teeth. Dr. Seymour J. Kreshover, as sociate director of the Institute, said this is a “break-through in the fight to conquer caries. We are on the way to more adequate control measures.” Personals Little Kathy Ham, who has been with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Morgan for a month, returned home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Huey R. Ham to Athens last weekend. They spent the weekend with their parents. Miss Marian Morgan, student at Georgia Southern at States boro, was home for the weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. C. Davis and boys, Billy, Chuck, Max, Johnny and Frank of Gray, Ga., visited Mrs. Davis’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Sears, over the week end. The boys enjoyed the air boat Danny had made using a discarded attic fan and a garden tractor motor. Mr. and Mrs. Wain Brooker and little son, Matt, have moved to St Marys, Ga., where Mr. Brooker is employed. Registration for a class in Western Style Square Dancing will begin Friday, March 8, at 8:00 P. M. at the Legion Hall in Nahunta. The class is sponsored by the Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club, and will be taught by Dr. Walker. Anyone desiring information may contact any member of the club or call Dr. Walker. GEORGIA STUDENTS WILL EXCAVATE ANCIENT BIBLE CITY Georgia students can “dig” in Israel’s Negev desert next sum mer and get scholastic credit. Emory University theology students will join those from four other seminaries in helping excavate an ancient Biblical town. They will study archaeolo gical methods, language and geo graphy as well as live in the an cient land of the Bible. Emory Archaeologist, Dr. Immanuel Ben-Dor will be one of the pro fessors. HEAVY LOAD Tobacco products, which are manufactured by more than 700 factories in 32 states, are th? most heavily taxed of all agri cultural products. Traveling Through Georgia Black Waters By Charles E. Hooper There’s a tourist attraction in Georgia, larger than the State of Rhode Island that’s full of gim micks and tricks. These aren’t the types of tricks and gimmicks that you associate with “being taken.” They are nature’s own pranks and it is a foregone con clusion that we will be “taken" with her tricks of beauty and splendor. Eight miles south of Waycross, Georgia, on highways one and twenty three, 700 square miles of natural swampland beauty make up the highly popular Oke fenokee Swamp Park. Since 1838, when General John Floyd initiated his campaign to drive the Indians out from that terri tory, writers have been using an abundance of descriptive adjec tives . . . “land of the trembling earth,” “most photogenic spot in America,” “a dark water para dise for wild life,” and “true and false islands.” You’ll find nature there full of surprises. The age of old cy press trees with spidery Spanish moss are silent monuments in the black reflective water. They may shelter or hide owls, ducks, hawks, herons, panthers, pos sums, coons, deer, black bear or wild cat. If your hands become dirty while making the trip through the moving islands and floating earthworks, all you have to do is to reach for the “po-man bush.” A few of the leaves from this bush, crushed in your hand, will give you ample sudsy soap to cleanse with. The meat-eating multi-colored flowering lilies and dragon plants will suddenly scoop up an unsuspecting insect for lunch. And when you glance back to the island that you just passed, you’ll find that it has mysterious ly disappeared. And don’t be surprised if a fish jumps in your boat. Bass, perch, bream, and long nose pickeral abound. Not only do they provide sport and delight for the fisherman, but al so to the hundreds of alligators that make the mouth of the Su wanee River their home. The Okefenokee Swamp, un disturbed by man, abounding with wildlife, tropical flowers and shrubs, black, yet reflective water, and secretly quiet and en chanting with its age old beauty, has been one of the most popu lar attractions in Georgia. It rates as one of the Wonders of the United States. No doubt when you visit the Okefenokee Park, you’ll find it to be one of your favorite at tractions in Georgia. New Clover As Forage Crop Shows Promise Research agronomists of the University of Georgia Agricul tural Experiment Stations have been looking over a brand new clover and they like what they see. Right now they couldn’t be more pleased if every stem bore four leaves. Introduced from Italy and now officially named Amclo Arrow leaf, the clover has consistently produced about two and a half times as much dry matter as Crimson clover for the past three years. In test plantings at the Plant Materials Center at Ameri cus, dry matter yields of Amclo have averaged 7,700 pounds per acre compared to 2,300 pounds per acre for Crimson. Dr. E. R. Beaty and Mr. John D. Powell, who have been test ing Amclo at Americus, say its extra yield probably is due to its longer growing period. Throughout the tests Amclo clip pings have been made in May — about one month later than com parative clippings of Crimson. Similar to Crimson in winter growth, Amclo begins very rapid growth about mid-March and reaches full bloom in mid-May. Stems are succulent and pithy until full bloom. Dr. Beaty says cow’s graze Amclo readily w’ith apparent relish. Amclo also makes excellent hay, Dr. Beaty asserts. Plants cut in full bloom have tested 11.88 percent pro tein. Amclo also looks very good from the standpoint of seeding When cows are taken off about May 10, Amclo reseeds itself. It combines well, too, as there has been little or no loss from seed shattering. Another seeding ad vantage. according to Dr. Beaty, is that it takes less seed to start a stand. The seeding rate for Amclo is eight to 10 pounds per acre compared to 30 pounds per acre for Crimson. No seed are available at pre sent. but seed will be increased as fast as possible by Foundation Seeds, Inc. of Athens and distri buted by the Georgia Crop Im provement Association. WELL WRAPPED Some 40 million pounds of cellophane were purchased to wrap tobacco products in 1961, New Book by Georgian Tell Story Os Salzburg Lutheran Expulsion BV DOZIFi The story of a band of Ger nan Lutherans who left Salz- irg in the 18th century to find eligious freedom in Georgia has ieen stirringly told by a retired Georgia State College professor. Dr. Carl Mauelshagen — pro "essor-emeritus of history, a na tive of Germany, and a graduate of a German Lutheran teachers college — is the author of “The Salzburg Lutheran Expulsion ind Its Impact,” a book just pub lished by Vantage Press, New York City. The book, illustrated with photographs of rare prints and paintings, is based on German sources found in Salzburg, Augs burg, Munich, Vienna, the Uni versity of Chicago, and other col leges in the United States. Preceding an account of the mass migration of the Salzburg ers to other countries in Europe — and some of them to Georgia — is a history of Salzburg itself, which Dr. Mauelshagen says he believes is “the first such his tory in the English language.” Salzburg is a strategically im portant province about 350 square miles in area lying be tween Germany and Austria in the Bavarian Alps. The city of Salzburg itself is noted for its scenic beauty and as the birth place of composer Wolfgang Mo zart. The world-famous Mozart Music Festival is held there an nually. Os special interest to Geor gians, and more especially des cendants of the Salzburg refu gees, is the material on “The Salzburg Exodus to Georgia” be tween 1734 and 1741, during the early years of the settling of that British Colony. Earlier, in 1731, the Lutherans had been expelled from Salzburg by ambitious Prince-Archbishop Leopold An ton von Firmian of the Catholic Church. One German writer of the time, himself an ardent Catho lic, said the refugee in their march to Berlin “reminded one of the flight of Israelites from Egypt into the Promised Land.” To some contemporaries, the Salzburgers were “saints” and “martyrs” to their Lutheran faith. The Salzburgers came to Geor gia in four “waves.” The first migrants were recruited by Sam uel Urlsperger, Senior Pastor of St. Anne’s Lutheran Church in Augsburg, at the request of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America. (He was the only non-English member of the Trustees.) The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, in Eng land, solicited funds for the journey, and the Trustees agreed to bear all expenses for trans portation of the Salzburgers to Georgia and for their support in the colony until they had be come self-sufficient. After taking an oath of alle giance to the British crown, the refugees were guaranteed all the rights and privileges of English men, and' all children born to them in Georgia were to be Bri tish citizens. The transport bearing the first Salzburgers bound for Georgia— -28 in number — sailed from Do ver on January 8, 1734. They were welcomed to America at Charleston by General James Oglethorpe, founder of the Geor gia colony, and arrived in Sa vannah Harbor on a Sunday — March 10, 1734. They lived in Sa vannah until April 7, when they moved to a place they called Ebenezer (stone of help). The second transport left Lon don on November 12 that year, bearing 59 Salzburgers plus the Indian chief Tomo Chichi and his party, returning from Lon don to Georgia. They reached Savannah Harbor on December 27, and arrived at Ebenezer on January 13, 1735. After the third ship with 52 Salzburg refugees arrived at Sa vannah on February 16 the next year, General Oglethorpe laid out a new town for them — named New Ebenezer — over looking the Savannah River. It was nearly six more years be fore the fourth, and final, wave of 64 Salzburgers docked at Sa vannah on December 2, 1741. An appendix to the book con tains a Register of all persons who settled and died at Ebene zer and New Ebenezer from the first settlement in 1734 to May 19, 1739; the names of planters, their acreages in vegetables, and their crop reports: and the list of Salzburgers on the fourth trans port. Dr. Mauelshagen, the author, holds three degrees in history: a Bachelor of Science from the University of Tennessee, a Mas ter of Arts from the University of Chicago, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. He taught at Geor gia State College 20 years, re tiring in 1955 while chairman of the History Department. He is presently translating the Ger man diary of the Moravian Mis sion among the Cherokee Indians at Springplace, Ga.. 1800-1834. 1-H Club Week Being Observed The Brantley County 4-H Club members are celebrating National l-H Club Week with their Annual 1-H Achievement Banquet. It will be held at the Nahunta High School lunch room Friday evening March 8. The banquet is given by the County Home Demon stration Council to honor outstanding 4-H Club members and their parents. National 4-H Club week is being observed throughout the Nation .March 2-9. The Georgia 4-H Club is 58 years old, having begun as the “Boys Corn Club” then “Girls To mato Club.” There are 143,207 boys and girls enrolled in Georgia 4-H Clubs for 1963. There are 577 boys and girls enrolled in the 8 Brantley County 4-H Clubs. The motto under which 4-H Club members strive in their project work is “To Make The Best Better.” TOBACCO SLEUTH Sherlock Holmes, the most celebrated smoker in the world of letters, once called a tough case a “three-pipe problem.” Subscribe for Your Home Newspaper The Brantley Enterprise Announces Office Location In Harper Building C. Winton Adams, Attorney at Law INCOME TAX RETURNS Office Hours 9:00 A. M. to 9:00 P. M. Monday thru Saturday ERNEST A. DRURY In Association with A. M. Drury, Sr. 1401 Richmond St., Brunswick, Ga. A. S. MIZELL INSURANCE AGENCY Phone 2-2171 Nahunta, Ga. FIRE, THEFT, COLLISION AND LIABILITY INSURANCE. FIRE INSURANCE FOR YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HAIL INSURANCE FOR YOUR CROPS. Stock Yard I News I At our sale last Friday hog prices were as follows: RI, $15.00; LI, $15.01; Hl, $13.60; No | 2, $13.75; No. 3, $13.00; No. 4, $11.49; and males, $8.90. Feeder pigs sold up to $16.00. Heavy cows sold up to $18.30, heavy steers up to $24.10, heavy bulls up to $20.10, light steers up to $29.30 and light heifers up to $24.40. Station WBSG in Blackshear will broadcast & hog prices Friday afternoon at 3:00 from the < Pierce County Stock Yard. | We invite you to sell with us each Friday. <1 Our good line of buyers assures you of the top dollar. WE APPRECIATE YOUR SELLING WITH THE PIERCE COUNTY STOCK YARD. | PIERCE COUNTY I 9 STOCK YARD | I H. F. Allen Jr. I I 0. R. Peacock, Phone 449-5522 I OPERATORS AND MANAGERS BLACKSHEAR. GEORGIA U Stock Yard Phones 449-5305 and 449-5471 For Hauling, contact O. J. AMMONS. If J Hoboken Ga,, phone GL 8-3122 Okefenoke Co-op Pays $527.56 Tax To Nahunta A check for $527.56 was mailed to the City of Nahunta Friday, March 1. This represents a 10 percent in crease over 1961. This payment represents 3 percent of the gross receipts from the sale of electric power for both residen tial and commercial members in the city of Nahunta in 1962. This pay ment made to the municipalities, is in addition to $17,967.04 in property taxes paid to the counties and muni cipalities last December. Okefenokee Co-op has paid $18,870.- 99 in property taxes for 1962 to six counties in south Georgia; Brantley, Charlton, Camden, Glynn, Wayne, and Ware; three counties in north Florida; Nassau, Duval, and Baker and three municipalities; Nahunta, Folkston, and Hilliard, in which it serves. WATER FOR LAYING HENS Cold, freezing weather calls for a double-check on the water supply for laying hens, says Dr. Marion L. Jones, Extension Ser vice poultryman. It is a good idea, according to Dr. Jones, to provide warm water for birds at all times during extremely cold spells. Winton Adams