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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 46 - NUMBER 30 Many Brantley Citizens Are Signing Petition Against Kennedy's Proposal Many Brantley County citizens are signing the petition being circulat ed against President Kennedy’s civil rights proposal, it is announced by Clint Robinson. It is estimated that more than 1000 names have already been sign ed to the petition in various parts of the county. The petition declares that the sign ers will not “continue to support a party that permits its political ambitions to deprive the majority of the people of this nation of their rights and freedoms in order to fa vor and gain the support of a mi nority group.” Such a petition has been circulat ed in Pierce County also and is re ported to have been signed by more than 3000 citizens of that county. Similar petitions are reported to have been circulated in a number of other South Georgia counties. Riley Jolins Injured in Auto Accident Riley Johns of Route 1, Nahunta, was seriously injured in a traffic ac cident on Highway 301 at Hickox Monday morning, July 22, about 10 o’clock. Mr. Johns’ car collided with a car driven by H. J. Carrice of Penna., on 301 when Mr. Johns drove from a side road into the main highway. Both cars were severely damaged and the occupants of the other car were injured, Mrs. Carrice having teeth knocked out, and suffering a leg fracture. Mr. Jonns was carried to a Way cross hospital by a Chambless Fun eral Home ambulance. His condition is reported as serious but improv ing. The Carrices were treated at the Brantley Medical Center. Personals Marine Corporal Eugene T. Sloan, son of Mr. and Mrs. William A. Sloan of Hortense, is serving with Marine All-Weather Fighter Squadron 531, which returned to the Marine Corps Air Station at Cherry Point, N. C., June 15, after completing more than three months’ temporary duty with the North American Air Defense Command, at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Key West, Fla. • • ♦ Mr. and Mrs. James Hanson and little daughter, Jennie of Jackson ville, spent the weekend with Mrs. Alice Highsmith and family. • * • Mrs. Van B. Saye, Jr. and Susan and Sandra who have been visiting Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland for two weeks left on Friday of last week to return to their home in Baton Rouge, La. • • * Mrs. Ethel Higginbotham re turned from an extended holiday vacation. She joined Mrs. Loree Mosley of Jesup and they toured Florida, visiting many interesting points in the Sunshine State. Baptist Youth Camp to Begin Monday At Waycross for Two Associations The Youth Camp for Piedmont and Okefenokee Associations wil begin Monday afternoon, July 29, at Camp Waycross, opening at 3:00 P. M. This camp is conducted and led by the leadership of these two Baptist associations, for the youth of this area, (Ages 9-17,) for the week of July 29, through August 2. Leaders for the camp include Rev. A. J. Harper, Waycross, camp man ager; Rev. John Beach, Waycross, counselor; Rev. Cecil F. Thomas, Nahunta, program director; and Rev. Howard Grimes, Waycross, re creation. The pastors serving one day each, are Jesse Alligood, Patterson, Ern est Carswell, Blackshear; Hugh Gar ner, Baxley: Stafford Hebert, Way cross, and Walter Pipkin, Waycross, with foreign missionary Thomas 0. High, of South Carolina, and state Watch This Newspaper For Announcement of ANNUAL HARVEST SALE of Moody Bros. Furniture Co. Beginning Thursday, Aug. 1 BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE USDA Tobacco Forecast Is Lower Than '62 WASHINGTON — The Agriculture department has forecast a flue-cur ed tobacco crop this season of 1,341 million pounds, 5 per cent below last year but 19 per cent above a verage. Production estimates by types for flue-cured tobacco, with last year’s production in parentheses: Type 11, Virginia 114,100,000 (129, 360,000), and North Carolina 334,- 850,000 ( 335,260,000). GEORGIA OFF Type 12, eastern North Carolina belt 432,900,000 ( 427,050,000). Type 13 North Carolina 119,325,- 000 (130,500,000) and South Carolina 176,000,000 (190,260,000). Type 14, Georgia 136,770,000 (146,- 150,000); Florida 26,085,000 (29,008,- 000) and Alabama 808,000 (860,000). It is estimated the combined aver age yield for the bright leaf types would be 1,933 pounds, slightly a bove last year and 16 per cent above average 5 PCT. BELOW 1962 The 693,600 acres planted to flue cured tobacco will be 5 per cent be low last year’s acreage but nearly 2 per cent above the five-year aver age. Basic allotments for flue-cured growers were lowerd 5 per cent for this year. The burley crop was estimated at 670 million pounds, 5 million less than last year but second only to 1962’s record production. This compares with a 1957-61 aver age production of 504 million pounds. NEAR 1962 RECORD The department’s July crop report, giving the first forecast for the year, said the estimated yield of 1,979 pounds approaches last year’s re cord high yield of 1,992 pounds per acre compared with the average of 1,657 pounds. The 338,800 acres planted to bur ley is the highest since 1954, al though only fractionally above the 1962 average. The five-year average acreage is 303,860. Production of all types of tobacco was estimated at 2,222 million pounds. This would be 4 per cent be low the 2,309 million pounds produc ed last year but 21 per cent above the 1957-61 average. The current es timate indicates the second highest production since 1954. AVERAGE IS HIGH The department estimated the average yield per acre this season for all types of tobacco at 1,874 pounds, second only to last year’s record of 1,884 pounds. The five-year average is 1,623 pounds. Growers plan to harvest about 1,- 185,500 acres this year, 3 per cent below 1962 but about 5 per cent a bove the 1957-61 average. The de partment said that decreases from last year are expected in flue-cured, Maryland, and each cigar class. A slight increase is indicated for dark air-cured but no appreciable change is apparent for burley or fire-cured types, it said. missionary Otis Andrews, of Sand ersville, Ga. Teachers will include Mrs. Bob Williams, Waycross, Miss Caroline, Waycross, Dick Wainright, Mershon, and Jesse Alligood, Patterson. The song program will be out standing, featuring Intermediate and Junior Choirs, with Eddie Hebert and Bob Williams directing the In termediates, and Walter Salter and Larry Varnadore leading the Jun iors. The group from Nahunta Baptist Church, which, according to pastor Cecil F. Thomas, already has over twenty registered, will leave the church at 1:00 P. M., Monday, July 29, and would invite any church group of all this section to come, and join with them. The costs for the week are very reasonable. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 25, 1963 Army Pvt. Bivian B Rowell, Aon of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Rowell, Hor tense, completed the eight-week ra dio relay and carrier operation course at The Southeastern Signal School, Fort Gordon, Ga., late in June. The 19-year-old soldier enter ed the Army in February 1963 and completed basic training at Fort Gordon. He was graduated from Na hunta High School in 1961. (U. S. ARMY PHOTO) Tobacco Has Long History It was Columbus who, on a voyage to the New World, spoke of meeting Indian villagers “with firebrand in the hand, and herbs to drink the smoke thereof.” He spoke of tobacco! Historical sources say that by 1531, less than 40 years after the discovery of America, Spaniards were cultivating the crop com mercially in the West Indies. Europeans grew it as an orna mental plant and for its medici nal qualities in 1560. By 1580, its commercial culture had ex tended to Cuba and Venezuela, and by about 1660 to Brazil. In the Old World, history shows that Sir Francis Drake was one of the men who first introduced the materials and implements of tobacco smoking to England, in 1586. Drake gave them to Sir Walter Raleigh, and it was Ra leigh’s influence that is credited with making smoking fashion able. The rise of the tobacco indus try as a profitable commercial venture in the New World is credited to John Rolfe of James town Colony, Virginia - who also has the distinction of having mar ried the fabled Pocahontas. According to history, Rolfe ar rived from England in late May 1610, found the colony in dire need, and realized that survival depended upon finding a profit able export. Rolfe hit upon tobacco. He cul tivated and exported the first crop of American tobacco pala table to the Englishman. Tobacco played such a major part in the life of Jamestown, in fact, that Rolfe grew it in the streets, and wives were bought and ministers paid with specified quantities of it. Raulerson Cemetery Will Be Cleaned Raulerson Cemetery near Twin Rivers will be cleaned off Sat urday, Aug. 3, it is announced by Mrs. Elizabeth Pearson. All people who are interested in the Raulerson Cemetery are requested to be on hand and help with the work of beautifying the burial grounds. Births Gary Josef Walker Gary Josef is the name of the new baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. James I. Walker of Ft. Eustis, Vir ginia on July 20. The little boy is the grand-son of Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Morgan of Nahunta. WE’RE FIRST. BY GUM! Georgia had approximately 4,300 producers of pine gum in 1962, according to Cooperative Extension Service foresters. These producers worked 30 mil lion faces. Georgia’s gum naval stores production last year a mounted to around 80 percent of the nation’s total supply of gum rosin and turpentine. FEWER LUPINE SEED The severe cold weather last win ter killed most of the lupine planted in Georgia last fall. As a result, the Georgia Crop Reporting Service pre dicts a lupine seed production of 220,- 000 pounds. In 1962 over one and a half million pounds of lupine seed were produced in the state. Mrs. Ella Brown Funeral Service Held Wednesday Mrs. Ella Dorinda Brown, 80 years of age, ,the widow of the late Cyrus H. Brown, died at her residence in Brunswick Monday, July 22, after an extended illness. Mrs. Brown had been a lifelong resident of Glynn and Brantley Coun ties. Survivors are 3 daughters, Mrs. Dorinda Utley, Niagara Falls, N. Y., Mrs. Margurite Gleen. Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Mrs. Harriett Whit ener, Brunswick, 1 son, Martin N. Brown, Miami, Fla., 9 grandchild ren, one of which she raised (Alfred Whitener), 20 great-grandchildren, and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services under the direc tion of the Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home were held at 2 o’clock Wed nesday afternoon in the chapel of the funeral home, with the Rev. Ralph Croft oficiating. Interment was in the Smyrna Cemetery, near Lulaton, Ga., at 4 o'clock, on Wed nesday afternoon. Active pallbearers were Ira F. Brown, Randall Cribb, Artis Knight, J. E. Donnelly, Harold Highsmith, John A. Joyner and Lindberg Par rish. Floyd Broome Funeral Service Held Wednesday Funeral services for Floyd Lee Broome, 70, brother of Carl Broome Enterprise editor, were held at Cov ington, Ga., Wednesday afternoon, July 24. Mr. Broome was a resident of At lanta and had been in ill health for several years. The services were held in the chapel of Harwell and Son Funeral Home in Covington. Inter ment was in the Covington City ce metery. Four sons and two daughters sur vive him; also one brother Car) Broome of Nahnnta, and three sis ters, Mrs. Paul Chaffin of Waycross, Mrs. Morgan Milner of Macon and Mrs. J. Roy Chapman of Atlanta. Hortense Cub Scouts Monday, July 22, Hortense Cub Scouts Pack 401 was called to order by Den Chief Stanley Rowell. With the Den Chief leading with the pledges of allegiance to the Ameri can flag, sang “God Bless America.” Then we went to the open spaces for our regular fifteen minutes of physical fitness led by our Den Chief and Den Mother. Some of the Cubs brought toys that they made to go with the theme, “When Dad was a Boy.” Some of the boys played checkers with one of the boy’s homemade checkers. With closing, it was announced that the Den meetings will be at nine in the mornings instead of ten. We had refreshments served by a mother. Cub Reporter Benny Mills Tobacco Facts It takes a lot of seed to produce an acre of tobacco! One tobacco plant produces a bout a half-ounce of viable seed, representing around 150-thousand seeds. This is enough to plant 100-square yards in a seedbed area and, under favorable con ditions, to produce enough seed lings to plant 2 to 5 acres. The more popular types grown in the United States include Flue- Cured tobacco — grown in Flor ida, southern Georgia, South Car olina, North Carolina, and south ern Virginia — and the light air cured tobaccos, which include Burley tobacco, grown primarily in Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee, and the Maryland tobaccos. Flue-Cured tobacco makes up more than 60 percent of the vol ume of tobacco grown in the United States. Its name comes from the metal flues of the heat ing apparatus originally used in all curing bams. Its normal range in color is from yellow to red ish- orange, thin to medium in body, and mild in flavor. Burley, however, is the most widely grown single type of tobacco in the United States and is produc ed in 8 states. Flue- cured tobacco is the prin cipal export type, and accounts for more than 80 percent of the total leaf exported. Most of the crop is used in cigarettes, both in the United States and abroad. MARILYN HICKOX IS HONORED AT BRIDAL SHOWER Miss Marilyn Hickox, bride-elect, was honored with a shower at the home of Mrs. A. C. Lee on Thurs day afternoon, July 18. Those assisting Mrs. Lee in serv ing were Mrs. Clarice Bell, Mrs. Iva Harris and Mrs. Ebb Morgan. Others present were Mrs. Doris Allen, Mrs. DeWitt Moody, Mrs. Kay Bergar, Mrs. Bertha Rhoden, Mrs. Pearl Chancey, Mrs. Eula Ellis, Mrs. Myrtis Smith, Mrs. T. H Pur dom, Mrs. Johnny Tripp, Mrs. Eve lyn Strickland. Mrs. George Dowl ing, Mrs. Cecil Thomas, Mrs. Fen ton Morgan, Mrs. Hazel Wilson, Mrs. Edward Chancey, Mrs. Bill Willis, Mr. and Mrs. Ebb Morgan. Mrs. Jeanette Youmans of Jack sonville and Betty Stewart of Way cross were out-of-town guests. New Banking Hours Are Announced Here The Citizens Bank of Nahunta is announcing new Ranking hours, effective Thursday, Aug. 1, 1963. The bank will be open from 9:00 A. M. until 2:00 P. M. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. The bank will be closed all day on Wednesdays The bank will be open from 9:00 A. M. until 12:30 P. M. on Saturdays. Announcement of the new banking hours is also made in an advertisement in this issue of The Brantley Enterprise. The announcement says, “Please arrange your banking business accordingly.” Brantley County Canning Plants Plan to Close It is announced this week by Huey R. Ham, teacher of Agri culture at Hoboken High Scool and Carter Morton, Jr., Teacher of Agriculture at Nahunta High School that the Hoboken Canning plant will be closed Thursday, July 25. The Nahunta Plant will close on Monday, July 29. Any person having canned goods in the plant are asked to please pick them up on or before the closing dates. The canning plants are not responsible for goods left beyond the closing date. Farmers May Nominate ASC Committees It was announced this week by the Brantley County ASCS Office that the slate of nominees will be selected for this year’s ASC com mittee elections by the present community corhmittees. In addition, farmers throughout the county may furnish nominees by petition to the presently ser ving community committees in care of the ASCS County Office by August 2. Petitions must be signed by 6 or more eligible voters. Commit teemen now serving may be in cluded. After all petitions have been received, the respective commun ity committees will make addi tional nominations to complete the slate. The community com mittees will meet in the County ASCS Office on or before Aug. 8, for the purpose of completing the slate of nominees. The County Office will mail out ballots to all known eligible voters on or before August 13. Complete instructions will ac company the ballots furnishing information on how they should be marked and returned to the County Office in postage free envelopes by August 23. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere ap preciation to everyone who was so thoughtful of us at the time of the death of our baby, Alton William Keene. Thanks for the beautiful flor al offerings and every expression of sympathy to us at this time of be reavement. Sincerely, Mr and Mrs. Arthur Keene. OFFICIAL ORGAN IULANTLKY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Poorer Quality Leaf Cuts Opening Day Price Average Woman Killed, 4 Injured in Auto Crash Mrs. Helen Z. Ruhl, 65, of St. Pet ersburg, Fla., died as a result of a head-on collision on the Little River bridge on U. S. 301 north of Nahunta shortly after seven o'clock Sunday morning, July 21. Mrs. Ruhl was a passenger in the north bound auto being driven by Mrs. Dorothy Van Patten, also of St. Petersburg According to State Patrolmen who investigated the accident, the mis hap occurred when an auto being driven by Mrs. Patrick F. McNally of Riviera Beach, Fla., attempted to pass a truck on the bridge and col lided head-on with the other vehicle. Injured in the accident, according to the Patrol, were Mrs. Dorothy Van Patten, who suffered severe facial injuries and chest injuries; Miss Sandra Kimmins, a fractured nose and wrist; Mrs. Patrick Mc- Nally, a fractured ankle and chest injuries; Miss Patricia McNally, se vere facial injuries and an ankle in jury. Ambulances from the Chambless Funeral Home carried the injured to Pierce County Hospital in Black shear. Mrs. McNally, Patricia Mc- Nally and Sandra Kimmins were transferred later to Memorial Hos pital in Brunswick for further atten tion. Mrs. Ruhl was a native of Ger many and for many years resided in Rochester, N. Y. She was a mem ber of Pinellas Park Chapter No. 234, Order of the Eastern Star. She had been a resident of St. Peters burg for the past 7 years. The remains were sent to Roches ter, N. Y„ Monday night, July 22, for funeral services and interment. The CteMßNeos Funeral Homo of Nahunta was in charge of local ar rangements. Hickox-Morgan Mr. and Mrs. Lester Hickox of Route 2 Waycross announce the en gagement of their daughter, Miss Marilyn Hickox to Reagan Morgan, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Morgan of Nahunta. The wedding will take place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Hickox with a garden wedding on Saturday, P. M. July 27 at 6:00 P. M. No formal invitations have been sent, but relatives and friends are invited to attend Bam taimai&W Mt HV ■ ARI «■ ■ W ARI MM MH ■ Reports From |g||B ■ ^SHINGTON L| SO INTENT is the federal government on forcing so-called civil righto legislation on the people of this country that it ■is resorting to tactics sadly rem iniscent of Reconstruction. In fact, the President*! civil rights package now pending in the Congress is more stringent and f ar-reach- ing than any ether nth measures since those dark years follow ing the War Between the States. , , This legislation is political and punitive in nature, and eith er ae patently unconstitutional or totally unwarranted that it comes near to being downright absurd. If it were to be enacted, it would enable the federal gov ernment to lay a heavy hand on the rights and property of in dividuals in the daily conduct •f their lives and businesses. Though the legislation is ob viously aimed at the South in an attempt—as during Recon struction —to beat it into sub mission, these proposals will af fect the rights of citizens throughout the United States. THE PACKAGE is especially punitive in proposing that fed eral funds be denied the citizens of states and cities if someone in Washington decided that he didn’t like the way a federal-aid program was being operated. Under this section, bureau crats in federal agencies could become virtual dictators over • • • prtparid ts •< tzpeMt) Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state .... $3.09 Outside state $3.00 Tobacco auctions sales opened Thursday morning throughout the Georgia-Florida flue-cured belt, with average prices lower due to poorer quality tobacco. Bidding was brisk for better quali ty smoking tobacco and companies were paying up to 63 cents per pound for good grades. Some dam aged leaf of lower grades sold as low as 10 cents per pound. The highest price paid on the first two rows at one warehouse in Black shear was 67 cents. The average for the first two rows was 42.88 cents. Much of the tobacco sold from 20 to 40 cents, due to damage from water, hail and leaf spot. The opening day price average on the Blackshear market last year was $55.96 per hundred, indicating that poorer quality leaf on opening day was cutting the general average price by approximately 10 cents per pound. Crews-Dußose Enlisting interest in this area is the engagement and approach ing marriage of Miss Linda Lee Crews and Lonnie Melvin Du- Bose, both of Hoboken, which is told by Miss Crews’ parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. B Crews of Hoboken. The bridegroom-elect is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Du- Bose, also of Hoboken. The wedding will be an event of Aug. 11 at 4 p. m. at the Mount Calvary Baptist Church. Formal invitations will not be issued, but all friends and rela tives are cordially invited. The Rev. Mr. W. F. Hayes will perform the ceremony. Miss Crews, attractive bride elect, is the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Griff in of Hoboken and Mrs. I. J. Crews and the late Mr. Crews of Hoboken. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mm. Alonso Robbins and the late Mr. Robbins of Waycross and Mrs. Lee Dußose and the late Mr. Dußose of Ho boken. Both Miss Crews and her fiance are graduates of Hoboken High School. She is a senior stu dent at Crawford W. Long School of Nursing in Atlanta. Miss Crews, who plans to continue her training after her marriage, will affiliate with Chattahoochee State Hospital in Chattahoochee, Fla., for further training. Mr. Dußose is presently em ployed by the Brunswick Pulp and Paper Co. in Brunswick. After their marriage, the couple will live in Brunswick. the expenditure of funds after they have been lawfully appro priated by the Congress. A state which would not op erate its welfare department, highway projects or hospitals the way some agency csar thought they should be operated could find funds for these pro grams summarily cut off. The extremes to which suck power could be carried are almost without limit. • e e THIS SOUNDS like the bra zen suggestion made last April by the Civil Rights Commission, which would have had the Pres ident deny all federal-aid funds to Mississippi because members of the commission didn’t like the way that sovereign state was managing its internal affairs. President Kennedy quickly re jected that idea as too extreme and unwarranted. The New York Times said it could “think of no suggestion less calculated to pro mote civilized race relations or to cool the inflamed passions that erupted in the Civil War.” There is a provision in the Constitution which says that “the citizens of each state shall be entitled to all privifeges and immunities of citizens in the several states.” The idea of threatening the states with less of federal funds, as put forth in the new civil rights bill, ignores the rights of individual states and the Con stitution just as the Civil Rights Commission did when it made its outrageous proposal.