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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 44 - NUMBER 32 Leaf Prices in Belt Reported Lower Tuesday Average prices by grades on the Georgia-Florida flue-cured tobacco markets were lower Tuesday when compared with the previous day. The Federal-State Market News Ser vice reports most losses amounted to SI.OO and $2.00 per hundred pounds and centered on grades of leaf and primings. Nondescript, however, trended slightly higher. Quality continued to improve as more leaf and smoking leaf was marketed with less prim ings. Volume of sales remained heavy. Selected baskets of better to bacco were bringing $70.00 per hun dred pounds. The season's largest volume and highest general average was record ed Monday when 12,038,566 gross pounds averaged $61.17 per hundred. This was a gain of $1.91 over last Friday's and was higher than any average established during the pre vious crop year. Season sales were boosted to 89,463,086 pounds for an average of $54.57. Receipts of the Stabilization Cor poration Monday amounted to only 1 per cent of gross sales. This was the smallest percentage of any day this year. For the season 4.5 per cent has been placed under Govern ment loan. Although the average price us tobacco throughout the Georgia- Florida flue-cured bolt declined slightly Tuesday, the Blackshear market had a $43.10 average, which was 20 cents per hundred higher than the previous day. Lynn Herrin Writes of Her Trip to Europe on People to People Program (Editors Note: The folowing ar ticle was written by Miss Lynn Her rin, daughter of Mrs. Herchel Her rin. Lynn returned Monday night from a 3-week European tour, our Notion’s first 4-H Club People to Peo ple Program. The article concerning her trip will be in several issues of The Brantley Enterprise.) By Lynn Herrin July 13 we visited a State Farm for the major part of the day. That evening entertainment was furnish ed by a Hungarian Dance Ensemble. This was in Native Costume and very colorful. Later we went to a sidewalk case and danced. July 14 found us taking a tour of the twin cities Buda and Pest. Some of the highlights of this tour were, Heroes Square (this square is si milar to the former Red Square in Moscow), Peoples Stadium seating 100,000 people, National Gallery, Parliament Building, Mathews Church, built in the middle of the past century, and the Fisherman’s Bastium (this was used during the Hungarian-Austrian Revolution). At 5:30 we left Budapest and arrived at Praque, the beautiful capital of Czechoslovakia, at 6:30. July 15: The morning was free for shopping. In the afternoon we took a boat trip down the Velava River. We were welcomed by a representa tive from the Embassy and told a bout the agricultural program in this country. July 16, we went by bus to a St^te and Collective Farm. Here we saw an ideal farm which had been set up for 3 or 4 years but had never been used! This was used for show only. On another part of the farm we were given baskets of cherries and bouquets of flowers. Later we visited the Embassy. Here we saw the city from a tower and were told about points of interest of the City and their Agricultural programs. July 17, Tour of the city included, a Sports Stadium, the king’s sum mer palace with a large flower gar den and the Singing Fountain, St. Vitus Cathederal. Loreth Square and Church which was built in the 18th century. Here we saw the crown jewels worth approximately over SBS million dollars, and the Strohov Library which contains books dat ing from the Bth. and 9th. centuries. In the afternoon we went to an ex perimental farm for breeding ani mals. The evening was taken up when we attended the Concert Hall where the Oregan Orchestra gave a Concert. July 18, Departed for Paris, the city of lights and capital of France. The afternoon was given to shopping. In the evening we took a tour of Paris. July 19, Toured modem Paris which included; The Arch of Triumph, U. S. Embassy, the Eiffel Tower, and Maxim’s (a famed Res taurant for the meeting of the High Society Group.) After lunch we toured historical Prais, including the Opera House, Magdelen Church, Notre Dame, and Napoleon’s Tomb. The evening was given to a visit to the famous Paris Follies. July 20, Left in early arternoon for Brussels. Belgium. The afternoon was spent in touring. Even though none of us were able to go to the Worlds Fair we were able to see the BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Sometimes People Quarrel at Us Sometimes people quarrel at us for removing their names from our subscription list after the subscription expires. We send out cards notifying them that their subscriptions have expired. Then we let the subscriptions “stay put” for two weeks to allow the subscribers plenty of time to renew. But so MANY PEOPLE pay no attention to our card. They just forget it and then maybe quarrel at us when we have to remove their names from our list. We just can’t keep books oi hundreds of subscriptions, not charge accounts, that is. We keep a good pay-in-advance system, which the post office department requires in order for us to get second class mailing privileges. And we just don’t make e nough profit to hire an extra bookkeeper to keep up with charge account subscriptions. Please don’t blame us when we remove your name from our subscription list for failing to re new TWO WEEKS after the subscription expires. IT HURTS US to remove your name. IT HURTS US MORE than it does you, as the man said when he took the boy to the woodshed. PLEASE pay attention to the card notifying you of subscrip tion expiration. Then within TWO WEEKS come by and re new your subscription. Or MAIL A CHECK or a MONEY ORDER. Thank you one and all for your kind consideration. site of the 1960 World’ Fair. It was truly a spectacular sight. We saw a real windmill, and the home of the Common Market. July 21, Visited 2 farms. Wheat was the major crop. Here the peo ple took great pride in their homes and flowers. Every available inch of land is used. Horses are raised here. Dairy cattle also were on these farms. After lunch we went to an open air museum of old homes. These had been moved and recon structed so that future generations could see different types of archi tecture. In the evening we enjoyed fireworks. This was quite a cele bration since it was their National Holiday. f July 22, We went shopping to a lace and linen shop. Here we saw lace being made and some of the finest made laces and linens were for sale. For dinner 3 men from the American Embassy were our guests. Left for Amsterdam, Holland. July 23, Made visits to two farms, one dairy and the other agricultural. Visited the flower auctions and the large hothouses. After dinner we took a boat trip up the canals of the City. July 24, Toured City Museum of Art seeing famous paintings. We visited a diamond factory where we saw a 3 carat perfect diamond cost ing SBSOO. After lunch we went to fisherman's vilage, a cheese fac tory and a shoe maker's shop where wooden shoes were made. Left for London, England. July 25, Sightseeing tour of London included a meeting at the Embassy with an Agriculture Attache. We saw the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. After lunch we saw Parliament, Westminister Ab bey, Big Ben, Scotland Yard, Hyde Park and London Bridge. After din ner we went to the Theatre to see "My Fair Lady.” July 26, Spent the day visiting English farming operations. Had lunch in the country with English farm youth and adult agricultural authorities. July 27, Morning was free for shopping. After lunch we went to the International Horse Show and a Wax Museum. July 28, After lunch we left for the airport, departing at 3:15 for New York, arriving at 6:00. It was quite an experience going through customs. Had a layover until 10:30 arriving in Atlanta at 11:54 P. M. I did not get homesick during the trip, but the most beautiful sight of all was my Mama, Wendell and Beth waiting for me in the Atlanta Air Terminal. This was indeed a trip of a life time! No one can imagine what freedom means unless they have seen people who no longer are able to enjoy this. The expressions on their faces will haunt me forever. Everyone was so kind and good to us, but we must never fail to love and appreciate our freedoms of Speech, Press and Religion. Miss Lucile Higginbotham, Ex tension health specialist, says the occurrence of simple goiter has been markedly reduced by the use of iodized salt in areas where water and soil are low in iodine. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August t, I*3 How to Read Symbols Showing Tobacco Grades When visiting a tobacco warehouse during the current auction season, try to pick up a copy of the “To bacco Market Price” report. Can you read the tobacco grades marked on it? What kind of tobacco is “AIR”? CSLS? X4KM? If you re member last year's grades, these will look familiar — but there may be some difference because of the new Department of Agriculture grades for flue-cured tobacco. Some of the older grade symbols are no longer used, such as “dap pled” (KR) and “pale lemon” (LL), and some new grade designations are being used, "slick” (S) and “variegated mixed” (KM). But the new grades are easy to understand. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service says there are ac tually less grades this year than there were last year, 157 now as compared to 173, and that these new grades do a better job of distinguish ing between different qualities of to bacco. As you know, a tobacco grade is always composed of three different parts: a letter to show the group of tobacco (stalk position, body etc.), a number to show quality (from choice to poor), and another letter or set of letters to show color. For example, we named three grades of tobacco above, AIR, CSLS and X4KM. Grade AIR is wrapper tobacco (A), of choice quality (1) and an orange color (F). It would probably bring more money than any other grade of tobacco. Grade CSLS, on the other hand, would not be so desirable a tobacco because it lacks ripeness and open weave which is indicated by the symbol S (slick). It would be cutter tobacco (C) taken from a mid-stalk position, of low quality (5) and of a lemon slick (LS) color. X4KM tobacco will be lug tobacco (X) grown low on the plant, of fair quality (4) and of a variegated mix ed color (KM), probably mottled. Besides cutting down the number of tobacco grades, the new grades also add a classification for “slick” or tight-faced tobacco. This is imma ture tobacco which lacks the poro sity of mature leaf. The segregation of these tobaccos and the use of the new symbol “S” for Slick should have the effect of a more conspicu ous designation for these tobaccos. Here is a handy guide to the new, tobacco grades; GROUP: (The first letter) A— Wrappers B — Leaf H — Smoking Leaf C — Cutters X — Lugs P — Primings N — Nondescript Quality: (Second symbol) 1— Choice 2 — Fine 3 — Good 4 — Fair 5 — Low 6 — Poor COLOR: (Last letter or letters) L — Lemon F — Orange R - Red S - Slick D — Walnut G — Green V — Greenish K — Variegated R — Rank Many of these color designations are used in combination, such as FR — Orange red, LV — Lemon greenish, KV — Variegated green ish, etc. Personals Mrs. V. B. Budgess and Mrs. Carl Poss of Cordele were week end guests of Mrs. C. L. Middle ton. They visited Jekyl Island on Sunday. Mrs. H. J. Braddock returned to her home in Jacksonville after visiting her mother Mrs. Alice Highsmith last week. Robert D. Sloan, electronics technician third class, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willian A. Sloan of Hortense, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS INDEPENDENCE, currently on a training refresher cruise in the Caribbean and slated to return July 26 after five weeks at sea. David C. Haney, storekeeper second class, USN, son of Mrs. J. L. Riggins of Route 2, Nahun ta, is serving aboard the attack aircraft carrier USS INDEPEN DENCE, currently on a training refresher cruise in the Caribbean and slated to return July 26 after five weeks at sea. MONEY TREES The total raw value of forest products sold by Georgia's tim berland owners is approximately $155 million annually, according They add that the forest industry in the state is valued at S7OO million annually. Mrs. Lillian Britt Died Tuesday At St. Simons Mrs. Lillian N. Forte Britt, 74. died at her residence on St. Sim ons Island Tuesday afternoon af ter an extended illness. She had lived on St. Simons Island since 1943, co; ing from Hickox, Ga. She was a member of the St. Simons Island First Baptist Church. Survivors are her husband, Colon R. Britt, St. Simons, one daughter, Mrs. H. T. Harvey, St. Simons Island, 3 sons, Robert B. Britt, Jacksonville, Fla., Major C. R. Britt Jr., U. S. Army, Fort Benning, Ga., and James E. Britt, Chicago, 111., 7 grandchildren, 4 great-grandchildren, 3 nieces and 1 nephew. Funeral services under the di rection of the Edo Miller & Sons Funeral Home, were held at 3 o’clock Thursday afternoon at the St. Simons Baptist Church, with the Rev. James Griffith officiating. Interment followed in the Palmetto Cemetery in Bruns wick. Active pallbearers were Hor ace Rowe, Mack Haskins, Lacy Griner, Woodrow Hendrix, Na hunta, Virgil Allen, Nahunta, Lavell Boha an, Nahunta. Honorary pallbearers were Russell H. Cchen, Lt. Com. C. C. Herold, A. l . Oliver, Bobby E. Lipthratt, Oi a Williams, Tracy Youmans, I ise Edwards, Dr. Ira Towsen. corge W. Bone, J. C. Searcy, e Allen, Nahunta, Roy Dowlh ahunta, John A. Allen, Nahun.a and Clarence Al len, Nahunta. Naval Stores 4-H Club Camp Is Being Held Three days of intensive training in the production and use of naval stores is in store for 98 South Geor gia boys and girls who have been named delegates to the 15th annual 4-H Club naval stores camp. The event is being held August 6-8 at the Lowndes County 4-H Camp near Valdosta, in the heart of the state’s "gum belt.” It is sponsored by the American Turpentine Farm ers Association. The 4-H members — 51 girls and 47 boys — were selected to attend the camp on a basis of their work in forestry and home improvement pro jects. C. Dorsey Dyer, Cooperative Ex tension Service forester at the Uni versity of Georgia, said youngsters who attend are better equipped to help the state maintain its place of leadership in the naval stores in dustry. Mr. Dyer said Georgia has led in naval stores production since about 1925. “For the past few years,” he continued, “the state has produced approximately 80 percent of the na tion’s supply and about one-half of the total world supply. Georgia gum producers received over $25 million for their 1962 crop.” The 4-H campers — many of them from farms where gum is produced — will study five topics related to the industry. Georgia trees and how they grow, gum production, manag ing Georgia’s forest resources, measuring forest products, and fur niture — facts and refinishing, will be presented during the three-day event. Delegates will see how gum and other forest products are processed when they tour the Langdale Co. plant near Valdosta on Wednesday morning, August 2. The camp will end Thursday after noon, August 8, with an hour-long final examination beginning at 3 p. m. Joining Mr. Dyer on the instruc tion staff are Ted Walker, Nelson Brightwell and Bill Murray, Exten sion foresters; Jim Spiers, area for ester, Southern Pulpwood Conserva tion Association; John Poole, forest er, International Paper Co., and Miss Ava Rodgers, Extension home furn ishing and art specialist. Winokur Revival Begins Monday Rev. Hughey of Waycross will be the guest minister at revival services which will begin on Monday night, Aug. 12 at Wino kur Baptist Church. There will be services each evening through out the week at 8:00 o’clock P. M. Services will go through Sun day Aug. 18 with the morning worship and a basket dinner at the noon hour. The nearby communities are given a cordial invitation to at tend. Farmers Urged To Vote in ASC Elections All farmers are urged to par ticipate in the annual ASC Com mittee Elections to be held this year during August. A large vote in the elections will mean that the committees elected will be more represen tative of the farmers they serve. All ASC committeemen and ASCS County Office personnel will exert every effort to see that the elections will be properly and fairly conducted. Last year Georgia farmers led the nation with a 67 per cent par ticipation. Brantley county had a participation of 83 per cent Ballots for voting for communi ty committeemen will be mailed to all eligible voters of record on or before August 13 and must be postmarked or personally re turned to the county office by August 23. The county convention will be held between August 26 and 31 for electing the county commit tee. All elected committeemen will take office September 1. Hortense Cub Scouts Meet Monday August 5 the Cubs opened their meeting with the pledge to the Flag. We heard Den Mother call open field and wp knew that meant our regular physical fitness for fifteen minutes. We went to the Scout hall and started working on a new pro ject which we are making a farm out of art paper, pipe clears and odd and ends. We have made animals and farm workers out of pipe clears. Some of the boys brought their handicraft back to the hall, which will be on display until pack meeting. The den mothers asked each cub to bring a picture of himself for the pack scrap book Margaret Anderson served re freshments. Bennie Mills Cub reporter Prescott Reunion Was Held Sunday A reunion of the members of the family of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Prescott of Route 1, Hoboken was held at their home on Sunday. Attending the reunion and oth er recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott were; Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Collins, Alvin Prescott, Dennis Collins; Mr. and Mrs. Derrill Moore and son, Punta Gorda, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Char lie Brian and daughters, Jackson ville; Mr. and Mrs. M. E. White and girls of Waycross; Mr. and Mrs. Owen Prescott, Jr. and child ren, Spartanburg, S. C.; Kenneth Prescott, Mr. and Mrs. Jerry La mar and son, Waycross; Claude Prescott and two sons, Folkston. ACCIDENT TOLL IS TREMENDOUS, FIGURES SHOW Accidental injuries cause a year ly average of 460 million days of re duced activity among the civilian population of the United States. Citing Public Health Service fi gures, Miss Lucile Higginbotham, head of the Cooperative Extension Service health department. Univer sity of Georgia, said 114 million days are spent in bed as a result of ac cidental Injuries, 84 million work days are lost by gainfully employed individuals, and 12 million school days are lost by children from six to 16 years of age. Miss Higginbotham explained that the remainder of the 460 mil lion days includes non-work and non-school days from these groups and restricted activity among home makers and other individuals. The health specialist pointed out that falls account for more than 37 percent of both the restricted acti vity days and the days in bed. Falls account for 30 percent of the work loss days. Motor vehicle accidents cause a bout 19 percent of the reduced acti vity days, more than 22 percent of the bed-days, and 20 percent of the time lost from work BURNING TO DEATH There are about 5,000 home fatalities each year due to bums, fires and explosions, according to Miss Lucile Higginbotham, Ex tension health specialist. It is es timated, she says, that several hundred lives and several million dollars are lost annually as the result of fires caused by improper handling of gasoline, kerosene and other petroleum products. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLBT COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Brantley County Recreation Center Will Be Dedicated Saturday, Aug. 17 Lightweight Bagging Costs Cotton Farmers Cotton growers stand to lose more than SI.OO per bale if their cotton is wrapped in lightweight jute bagging material, two Co operative Extension Service staff members raid this week. In recent years, according to Agronomist Larry T. Torrance and Engineer H. B. Goolsby, an increasing amount of bagging weighing less than 32 ounces per yard has been sold and used. Ac tual checks indicate bagging weighing nine and ten pounds per pattern has been used exten sively in some areas. The University of Georgia specialists declared: “This takes money directly from the farmer on each bale of cotton he sells.” They cited this example: A farmer takes a "four-bale” trailer of seed cotton to the gin. He gets a total of 1,916 pounds of lint, or 479 pounds in each bale. If each bale is wrapped with standard weight jute bagging (12 pounds) and ties (nine pounds), the gross weight of each bale will be 500 pounds, or a total of 2,000 pounds. Since this is a basic trade rule agreement, the price received by the fann er will reflect this 84 pounds of tare. However, if nine-pound bagg ing is used, each bale will weigh 497 pounds. On 35-cent cotton, the farmer will lose $1.05 per bale, or $4.20 on the four-bale trailer. Mr. Torrance and Mr. Goolsby said lightweight bagging also contributes to poor packaging, claims and increased handling costs. - < They urged farmmers and gin ners to be sure appropriate weight adjustments are made if cotton bagging or test materials are used on their bales. They also pointed out that ac tual weighing of bagging by farmers and ginners is the best way to be certain standard wei ght bagging is being used. Lulaton Revival To Start Monday Lulaton Baptist Church will begin a revival meeting Monday night, Aug. 12, with preaching by Rev. Jimmy Smith of Glendale Baptist Church, Brunswick. Rev. W .O. Britt of St. Simons Island is pastor of the Lulaton church. Services will start each evening at eight o’clock. Grady Boyd will lead the singing. Everyone is cordially invited to attend. New Hope Cemetery Will Be Cleaned The New Hope Cemetery at Hickox will be cleaned off Thurs day, Aug. 15, it is announced by Archie Johns. All people who are interested in the New Hope Cemetery are requested to come and bring tools for assisting in the work. PRACTICAL FAMILY LIVING ABOUT AIR CONDITIONING Are you air conditioned at your house? Really and truly air condi .tioned? You may not be getting all the benefits of this modern convenience. It not only is a cooling system but it is designed to do much more. It filters the air, greatly reducing pol len and dust It also conditions the air, controlling humidity as well as temperature. There are many days when the heat Isn’t so bad but the humidity is high. Air conditioning equipment will remove the annoying moisture without lowering the already plea sant room temperature Most everyone is interested in get ting as much for his money as pos sible. A few simple suggestions for getting the most from the air condi tioning dollar follow. Have the system installed proper ly in the first place It pays. Keep doors and windows closed as much as possible or you will be working against the air conditioner. Start it BY DORIS OGLESBY Extension Home Improvement Specialist University es Georgie College of Agriculture Subscription Price and Tax Inside county *2.5* Outside county, in state .... *3.o* Outside state *3.00 The new Brantley County Rec reation Building will be officia lly opened on Saturday Aug. 17. at two P. M. There will be free skating un til four thirty P. M. at which time the building will be dedicat ed with Pete Gibson, Rev. Wil liam Whipple, Rev. Chesley Wal ker, Rev. Cecil Thomas and re presentatives of each of the spon soring clubs participating. A barbecue chicken dinner will be served from five to seven thirty P. M. The building will be open for inspection all afternoon. The new building is 50 feet by 120 feet, made of steel in con trasting colors. It is completely insulated with one and half fiber glass and plastic. There will be a kitchen, rest room facilities and storage. There will be a 5000 square feCt Clear space of pecan flooring, especially prepared for roller skating. The entire building will be air cohditioned and is available on rental basis for any meetings. It is built on property owned by the Lions Club and with funds raised jointly by Jaycees, Lions, Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club, Junior Womans Club and Brant ley Home Demonstration Coun cil, A governing body has been ap pointed who will nave joint re sponsibility for policies and op eration of the project. This group is composed of the following per sons: Dr. J. L. Walket, Chairman representing Lions Citib, Carroll Johns, secretary-treasurer Tobac co Ttall Square Dance Club, Ed ward rt owt tntley County Jaycets, W^kcr, Juni- or Wotnans Club, Mrs. Louise Hendrix, Brantley Home Demon stration Council. This Board has made tempora ry arrangements with Forrest Thomas and Joe Murray, local high school coaches for operation of the -CMMk Vtiier volunteer workers from the organizations will assist in operating various phases of the program. Funds are urgently needed to pay for finishing phases of the building. Contributions may be given to any member of the co operating organizations. The pub lic is urged to come out and in spect the facilities. Births Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Prescott of Jacksonville, Fla., announce the birth of a baby girl, born Thurs day, Aug. 1. The baby has been named Lynn. Mrs. Prescott is the former Miss Jaurelle Drury, daughter of Mrs. Robert Drury. Richard Henry Prescott is the name of the new baby boy born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Prescott. Mrs. Prescott will be remember ed as Miss Nadine Brooker. Mr. and Mrrs. Ralph Croft who are living in Bedford, Va. an nounce the arrival of a new baby boy. He has been named Dennis I^ane Croft. The mother was the former Miss Ann Moore. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Steedley announce the birth of a son, Tim othy Ernest Steedley, bom in Waycross Memorial Hospital Thursday. The baby weighed nine pounds six ounces. early in the day. Don't wait until the bouse is hot If possible, protect the west side of the house from the hot afternoon sun Light-colored roofs reflect heat and help keep the house cooler. Re member that people and appliances add heat to the house. Appliances such as ranges and clothes dryers also add moisture. It is a good idea to have them vented. Adequate insulation Is important, especially with a central system. Just as it helps keep the warm air inside the house in the winter, it helps keep it from coming into the house from the warm outside in the summer. Heat always travels from the warmer surface to the cooler one. Another thing to keep in mind is that unless attic space is venti lated a great deal of heat may build up. . . Air conditioning is a wonderful convenience and by a little atten tion to details, it can make you and your family happy to be at home in the summertime.