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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 44 — NUMBER 25 Statement of Senator Russell on Kennedy's Civil Rights Proposals The Presidents speech appeal ed eloquently to the emotions but completely disregarded rea son, human experience and true equality under the Constitution. The fact that every citizen has the same right to own and opperate a swimming pool or dining hall constitutes equality. The use of Federal power to for ce the owner of a dining hall or swimming pool to unwillingly ac cept those of a different race as guests creates a new and special right for Negroes in derogation of the property rights of all of our people to own and control the fruits of their labor and in genuity. The outstanding distinction be tween a government of free men and a socialistic or communistic state is the fact that free men can own and control property, where as statism denies property rights. “From each accordng to his a bility and to each according to his needs” may have greater e motional appeal than “work hard to acquire property and the law will protect you in its enjoy ment.” However, Marxism has not worked and can never work because it does not take human nature into account. To rebut the emotional appeal, we have the hard, undeniable fact that in our free enterprise system we have plenty, whereas the Marxists (though they have never been a be to apply literally their avowed creed) all suffer from scarcity and privation. Our American system has al ways rejected the idea that one group of citizens may deprive an other of legal rights in property by process of agitation, demon stration, intimidation, law defi ance and civil disobedience. I do not believe that the A merican people will be easily frightened into discarding our system for adventures into socialism that have been discre dited wherever tried. The highest office of the land should symbolize respect for law, whether it be legally enact ed ordinances of the meanest hamlet in the land or the written word of our national charter — the Constitution. I was, therefore, shocked to hear the President justify, if not encourage, the present wave of mass demonstrations, accom panied by the practice of sitting or lying in public sreets and blo cking traffic; forming human walls before the doors of legal businesses and assaulting with deadly weapons officers of the law whose only offense was un dertaking to maintain order and protect private property. The South has its shortcom ings as well as other areas. But a calculated campaign waged by the metropolitan press, television and radio, has magnified the un fortunate occurrences in the Sou th while crimes of violence in other areas have been minimized This has generated bitterness and hatred against the white peo ple of the Southern states al most amounting to a national di sease. It is also encouraging a condition bordering on anarchy in many communities. These ter rible conditions are sure to fur ther deteriorate with increasing disorder unless the President of the United States desists from using threats of mass violence to rush his social equa lity legislation through the Con- CHILD’S PLAY O 40^6: ® / makes driving tougher r SCHOOL’S OUT WATCH FOR KIDS Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. gress. No American citizen has the right to select the laws he will obey and those he will disobey. The President of the United States has a higher call to lead ership than to use threats of mass violence and disregard of reasonable local laws as a means of securing action in the courts and Congress, however desirable he may regard it to be. The Congress of the United States, by an enactment of Mar ch 1, 1875, declared that all per sons were entitled “to the full and equal enjoyment of the accom modations, advantages, facilities and privileges of inns, public conveyances on land or water, theaters and other places of pub lic amusement”. The Supreme Court of the United States on October 15, 1883 declared this Federal restriction upon the use and control of private property to be unconstitutional. In accor dance with the contentions of those who would use Federal power to mix the races socially, this has been the “law of the land” from that date and still ap plies today. The President and the Attor ney General now say that they will predicate this new thrust for race mixing on the already tortured Commerce clause of the Constitution. If the Commerce clause will sustain an act to com pel the white owner of a dining hall to accept a Negro against his wishes, it can be used to sus tain the validity of legislation that will compel his admittance ino the living room or bedroom of any citizen. I believe in equality before the law for every American. In equal measure, I reject the idea that Federal power may be in voked to compel the mingling of the races in social activities to achieve the nebulous aim of soc ial equality. Every Negro citizen possesses every legal right that is possess ed by and white citizens, but there is nothing in either the Constitution or Judaeo-Christian principles of common sense and reason which would compel one citizen to share his rights with one of another race at the same place and at the same time, such compulsion would amount to a complete denial of the inalien able rights of the individual to choose or select his associates. I hope that the American peo ple will not be swept further down the road to socialism by the present unprecedented wave of propaganda. To me, the President’s legislative proposals are clearly destructive of the American system and the con stitutional rights of American citizens. I shall oppose them with every means and resources at my command. I do not believe a majority of the Congress will be frightened by thinly veiled threats of violence. Mr. and Mrs. Cecil R. Burch am of Waynesville announce the arrival of a six pound, fourteen ounce boy on June 11. He is to be called Cecil Wayne. Mrs. Burch am will be remembered as Miss Blanch Thompson before her marriage. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Births The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 20, 1943 Okefenokee Campmeeting Begins Thursday Okefenokee Holiness Camp meeting began June 20, and will continue through June 30. Rev. Fletcher Digby, former pastor of First Church of the Nazarene, Waycross, will be main speaker. Rev. Ray Seay, Faith Temple pastor will be in charge of the music and also youth worker. Services each night begin at 8:00 o’clock. Morning services at 10:00 each day, Monday through Friday. Activities for the young people will be held each evening at 7:00 beginning Monday, June 24. Thursday the 26th morning and evening services will be in the charge of Rev. and Mrs. Frank Robbins, missionaries to Bolivia. The public is cordially invited Knee Knockers Attend Dance Convention A group of the Knee Knock ers Recreation Club attended the “Teen Room” at the Florida Square Dance Convention last Saturday. They danced to call ing by some of Florida’s lead ing callers, who also invited Sandra Jacobs, a Brantley Coun ty girl to call for the group. Attending were Linda Hardin, Brenda Allen, Barbara Allen, Sandra Riggins, Carol Robinson, Dona Brand, Sandra Jacobs, Dale Jacobs, Beth Herrin, Susan Smith, Tommy Walker, Jesse Walker, Donnie Griner, Dany Middleton, LaCount Smith and Tommy Highsmith. Accompanying the group was the leader Dr. J. L. Walker, Mrs. Raymond Smith, Mrs. Emory Middleton, Mrs. Clint Robinson, and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Raul erson. Hortense Memorial Cemetery Committee Meets Saturday Night The Hortense Memorial Chur ch cemetery committee will meet at the Hortense school lunch room Saturday night, June 22 at eight o’clock, it is announced by the chairman P. U. Rozier. All people who are interested in the cemetery at the Hortense Memorial Church are requested to attend the meeting of the ce metery committee. They Say .... A conservative is one who loves existing evils, and a liberal is one who wants to replace them with worse evils. Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia. Want Ads LAWNS MOWED Lawns mowed in or near Nahunta. Contact Bobby Warren, Nahunta, Ga. 7-11. TRUCK FOR SALE 1954 International Truck for sale, in excellent condition, al most new 6-ply tires. SSO. down and take over payments of $34. a month. See Jimmy Herrin, HO 2- 3596, Nahunta, Ga. 6-20 FISHING TACKLE 50 PERCENT OFF Up to 50 percent off on all fishing tackle now in stock. Moo dy Bros. Furniture Co., Nahunta, Ga. 6-20 PULPWOOD STUMPAGE WANTED I want to buy pulpwood stumpage in the Brantley Coun ty area and surrounding sections. Good wood $8.60 per cord. Char les Sloan, P. O. Box 315, Hor tense, Ga. 6-20. DURALITE PAINT Inside flat Latex, two gallons $6.- 98. Outside white or colors, two gal lons $8.98. Moody Bros. Furniture Co., Nahunta, Ga. 6-27. BUILDING LOTS FOR SALE Saratoga Heights building lots are now accepted by the Farm Home Administration for home building loans at only four per cent interest. One home is now being built in Saratoga Heights by Mr. Clinton Williams. The lots are located three miles south of Nahunta. They are high, well drained home sites, reasonably priced. For information see Cecil Moody, Nahunta, Ga. 6-20 Nahunta Police Department Reports Cases The Nahunta police department made a total of 278 cases from Jan. 1, 1963. to June 8, 1963, ac cording to mayor T. E. Raulerson. A breakdown of the cases made is as follows: Speeding, 91. Running red light, 105. Illegal passing, 48. Public drunkenness, 16. Driving under influence, 7. Reckless driving, 6. Disorderly conduct, 3. Warnings, 2. This report shows only 257 cases made in over four months for traffic violations. This record indicates that the Nahunta police department is very lenient in making traffic cases, since High way 301 through Nahunta carries a year-around average of 6000 vehicles a day, while Highway 84 carries up to about 500 ve hicles a day. Tuberculosis Committee Annual Report The annual report of the Brant ley County Tuberculosis Commit tee has just been completed. Pro ceeds of 1962 Seal sale was $161.50. Disbursements: Assistance to patients, $55. Educational materials, $13.22. Supplies and postage, $29.25. State and National Assn., $49.26. A tuberculin skin testing pro gram is carried on each year in the schools. Follow-up tests are done on reactors and their house hold associates. This is a joint program with the Public Health Department. The Association is now assist ing in research for all lung dis eases. A meeting is planned soon to select new committee members. Dorothy Graham, Chairman. 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. LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE OF SALE GEORGIA, BRANTLEY, COUNTY: By virtue of power of sale con tained in that certain security deed executed and delivered by S. K. MERCER to MID-STATE HOMES, INC. by deed dated June 1,1962 and recorded in Mortgage Book 49, Pages 552-53, in the office of the Clerk of Superior Court, Brantley County, Georgia, there will be sold at public outcry before the court house door in said state and county by the undersigned, during the legal hours of sale, on the 2nd day of July, 1963 to the highest bidder for cash, the following described pro perty, to-wit: That certain piece, parcel or tract of land, situate, lying and being in Land Lot No. 84 in the 9th Land District of Brantley County, Geor gia, known and more particularly described as: Commencing at a point where the East line of Land Lot No. 84 and the West line of Land Lot No. 101 intersect the center line of “Old Stage Road” formerly a dirt road, now a paved road also known as the North East corner of lands deeded from P. D. Mercer to D. L. Mercer in Deed Book 15, Page 111, March 13, 1946, run thence South along the East line of Land Lot No. 84 for 112.09 feet to an iron and P. 0. 8., thence continue South along the East line of Land Lot 84 for 75 feet to an iron, thence West per pendicular to the East line of Land Lot No. 84 for 100 feet to an iron, thence North and parallel to the East lines of Land Lot No. 84 for 75 feet to an iron, thence East on a line perpendicular to the East line of Land Lot No. 84 for 100 feet to an iron and point of beginning Containing 0.17 acres. The above parcel of land is part of the land deeded from D. L. Mercer to S. K Mercer and Betty Lou Mercer on June 5, 1960. Said property will be sold for the purpose of paying the indebtedness secured by said deed; and the pro ceeds of the sale will be applied to the payment of said indebtedness and interest and all charges and ex penses in connection with this fore closure as provided in said deed and the balance, if any, wll be turned over to the said S. K. Mercer. This 3rd day of June, 1963 MID-STATE HOMES, INC. As Attorney in Fact for S. K. MERCER Perry, Walters & Langstaff Attorneys at Law Albany, Georgia Personals Two Brantley countians have been promoted to the fourth year class of the Medical College of Georgia. They are Leon Davis Jacobs, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon A. Jacobs of Route 1, Hoboken; and Avery Wade Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Avery Strickland, of Nahunta. Army Pvt. Lewis A. Strickland, 25, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Strickland, Route 2, Nahunta, completed a 12-week equipment maintenance course at The Engin eer School, Fort Belvoir, Va., late in May. Jerry A. Sapp, seaman appren tice, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Sapp of Route 1, Ho boken, participated in operations aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk on June 6, when President Kennedy visited the ship to view a demonstration of naval power. Marine Corporal Eugene T. Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wil liam A. Sloan of Hortense, is serving at the Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla., with Marine All- Weather Fighter Squadron 531, the first Marine squadron to be assigned temporary duty with the North American Air Defense Command. Sgt. and Mrs. Robert Keene of Albuquerque, N. M., are sp ending a few days with Sgt Keene’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Keene of Waynesville. Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Blount, Jac kie and Diana Blount of Okee chobee, Fla., will return home Saturday after visiting relatives and friends at Nahunta for .-ev eral days. Mrs. Frank Brady and Da vid, Diane and Don of States ville, N. C. arrived Monday for a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Crews. Mrs. Buleah Hickox, Mrs. Lei la Turner, Mr. and Mrs. I. J. Crews and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Crews were in Swainsboro, Ga. on Sunday to attend the birthday dinner honoring Mr. Owen Strickland. MANY FARMERS WAIT TOO LONG TO THIN TREES Thinning crowded stands of trees should not be delayed too long. That advice was offered this week by George D. Walker, Co operative Extension Service for ester at the University of Georgia. “Even better,” Mr. Walker add ed, “never let the stands get in a crowded condition.'” The Extension forester said many woodland owners wait un til trees are quite crowded before they think about thinning. “A thinning at this time is good, but quite often the one benefit is maintaining the present growth rate.” / L \ // u -kJ* \ w FLIPPER ^=6,l THE SKIPPER ft ry SAYS: ( 1 THERE’S St 1 1 U NO TRICK W H TO SAFE © Boating is more fun if you do it right, and proper equipment is vi tal to competent boat handling, says Flipper the Skipper, spokes man for the National Safe Boating Week Committee How many of the 13 items of recommended equipment shown can you name? (turn for answer) •mi* mm* •mp* 0 O «« © • SpM O ’ll ® »'• ut O snpwj • NATIONAL SAFE /JUNE 30 BOATING WEEK /JULY 6 STATE GAME & FISH COMMISSION ATLANTA, GEORGIA OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLIY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Brantley At Rock bitter weeds CLASSIFIED Afi POISON PLANTS A Cooperative Extension Ser vice weed control specialist said this week that many Georgia farmers are poisoning their cattle and don't know it James F. Miller of the Extens ion agronomy department at the University of Georgia, said farm ers have known for a long time that cattle don't do well on bitter weed pastures. “Few, however, realize that bitterweeds are act ually classified as poison plants,” he declared. With the advent of chemical weed control, Mr. Miller con tinued, it is a fairly easy matter for farmers to become weedkill ers and feed their cattle instead of poisoning them. He explained that from one half to one pound of 2,4-D per acre will rid pastures of these pests. The 2,4-D should be mixed with 20 gallons of water and ap plied when the weeds are only two to four inches tall (before bloom). Mr. Miller said cattle don't like bitterweeds and won't eat them if other feed is available. “But where bitterweeds grow, the poor cow has no choice,” he continued. “The weeds force the grasses out. The result is that the cow, forced to eat the bitterweeds, suffers both from lack of feed and from plant poisoning.” If weed competition is elimina ted, grasses then have a chance to utilize fertilizer to provide good grazing, the agronomist stated. ONLY.OOO WILL BE A VAJLABLE for grants-in- aid for in-service study for the 1964 sum mer. Money for grants for 1962 totaled $362,000. The legislature cut this num to $172,000 for the next year. 1,129 persons will re ceive grants this summer totaling S6O for three week’s study, $l2O for six week’s study, and SIBO for nine week’s study. At this same ratio, should the same number of persons qualify for grants in 1964, the drastically cut budget will a llow assistance of only $lO, S2O, and S3O. DATES FOR THIS YEAR’S STATE-WIDE School Plant Maintenance and Custodial Work shops have been announced. The workshop for white service per sonnel will be held June 24-27 at Middle Georgia College in Coch ran. The Negro service personnel workshop will be held at Fort Valley State College, June 19-21. MAH TALMADvI ^Reports From ANOTHER FIGHT seems to be shaping tip in the Senate over renewed efforts to ram through force legislation which strikes at the heart of our Con stitutional government and is against the beat interests of the nation. ■ All of this is ! being done in : the name of civil rights, ' when in fact it would strip the people of the last vestiges of I state and indi- BUILC JUJU inui vidual rights, guaranteed them by the Constitution. This iniquitous and dangerous legislation being proposed in the area of public schools and pri vate businesses would subject the people to a federal judicial and executive tyranny which would completely destroy the right of man to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” Moreover, the people of this country would be driven into bitter, sectional factions and the internal strife already sweep ing the land would be greatly intensified. HUMAN PROBLEMS cannot be legislated away and all the ills of our society cannot be cured by enactment of a law. Yet, we have starry eyed ideal ists who seem to think legisla tion is just a panacea. It might also be noted that votes in the next election have not entirely escaped their consideration. So what we have facing us are attempts to take away from the 50 sovereign states the au thority over education reserved for them by the Constitution and to give the Justice Department 4-H Members Win Awards Eagle Achievement Meeting ? Al f' • • • Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.5$ Outside county, in state .... $3.09 Outside state .... $3.09 Misses Sandra Jacobs and Di ane Dowling took top honors at the Southeast District 4-H Club Project Achievement Meeting held at Rock Eagle last week, and Johnny Walker, president of the Brantley County 4-H Coun cil was elected reporter of the district. Sandra’s project is the Senior Recreation and makes her eligi ble to compete in the state con test to be held at the 4-H Con gress in Atlanta in August. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Jacobs of Rt. 1 Nahunta. Diane won first place over 24 other corn meal muffin makers who were winners in their res pective counties. Diane is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Glen wood Dowling of Rt. 2, Nahunta. Taking second places were Miss Beth Herrin in the Junior Textile Uses Project; Jesse Wal ker, Cloverleaf Health project; and Benny Thomas in the Sen ior Tractor competition. Three Senior Club members walked away with third places. They are Joan Johns, Teen Fare (a foods project); Jane Wilson, Canning and Johnny Walker, Poultry. The competition was very keen with 900 boys and girls from the Southeast District com peting for honors. Those taking blue awards were Bill Middle ton, Diane Dowling, Patsy Pat ten, Jewell Wilson, Beth Herrin, Joan Johns, Barbara Allen, Jane Wilson and Sandra Jacobs. Taking red awards were Lucy Johns, Linda Harden, Sue Wil son -‘b< ’*‘-ns, Carolyn ion, Vilaon, Don- na Tucker, Dale Jacoba, Susan Smith, Nora Faye Johns, Bob Long, James Williamson, Reggie O’Berry, Benny Thomas, Jesse Walker, Johnny Walker, Glen Hendrix and Staey Crews. The boys and girls were jud ged up to 40 points on their re cord books and up to 60 points on their demonstrations. Those with a 35 and above on their re cord books were Lynette Jones, Diane Dowling, Carolyn Middle ton, Jewell Wilson, Melinda Wilson, Joan Johns, Sandra Ja cobs and Bill Middleton. The record books were sent in to the state office for judging in May. Accompanying the group were parents, Mrs. Letha Tucker, Mrs. Horace Jacobs, and Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Allen and County Ex tension Agents, Mrs. Virginia Raulerson and Mr. George Loyd. ywra to interpose the executive branch of government between the individual and his right to lawful redress of wrongs. This would change the right to private action to government action, a short-cutting of th® law dictated not by legal proc esses but by political caprice. ANOTHER ATTEMPT to leg islate in the area of human re lations would go so far as to deny private businesses, built and paid for by private individ uals, the right to determine, ac cording to their own will, whom they will and will not serve. According to the backers of this measure, the Attorney Gen eral would be authorized to file civil .suits against private busi nesses which deny their “advan tages, privileges and facilities’* to any individual. More far reaching than it may seem, this proposal covers the entire Amer ican free enterprise system of business. No longer would businesses be private or enterprise be free; they would be government con trolled, and owners, operators and even lesser employees would face fines and jail, without ben efit of jury trial, for alleged vio lations. Those of us in the Senate who believe in Constitutional gov ernment, in state and individual rights and in the rights of busi nessmen to conduct their affairs as they see fit will use every weapon at our disposal to pre serve these rights and resist this infam””- legislation. £