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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 33 Brantley County Schools Will Open For Fall Term on Friday August 30 The Brantley County schools will begin for the fall opening on August 30, it is announced by Mrs. Mable Moody, county super intendent. This will be registra tion day as well as the first day of the new term for students. The following school calendar for the year was approved by the Board of Education at the regular August meeting on Aug. 12: Pre-planning week for teach ers Aug. 26-30. Children first day of school and registration Aug. 30. Labor Day Holiday Sept. 2. District GEA for teachers Oct. 31. Thanksgiving Holidays Nov. 28-29. Christmas Holidays Dec. 20- Jan. 2. Spring Holidays March 28-29. School Closes May 27, 1964. Methodists to Hold Vacation Church School Vacation Church School will be held at Nahunta Methodist Church next week. August 19 through the 23. Sessions will begin each morning at 9:00 and end at 11:30 a. m. Three classes are being planned for children ages three through twelve. The junior class will be taught by Mrs. Emory Middleton, Mrs. Nor man Lewis and Mrs. Glen Condit. The primaries will be led by Mrs. Glenn Thomas and Mrs. William Whipple. The kindergarten activities for pre-school will be directed bjt Mrs. R. H. Schmitt and Mrs. J. E. Harris. The theme this year is “Friends Near and Far”, a study with a gen eral emphasis on missions. All child ren in the community are invited to attend. CAUTION FLAG RAISED The National Poultry Survey Committee has urged poultrymen to use caution in planning broiler production for the first half of 1964. The Committee says over expansion in the industry is clearly indicated by pullet place ments for hatchery supply flocks. Some Georgia State Officials Know How to Take Care of Their Kinfolks The word “nepotism” is used to describe the art of putting your relatives on the public pay roll after you are elected to some state or county office. A number of elective officials in the Georgia State capitol have been revealed to be experts in the art of nepotism. Recent news stories have told of the many “kinfolks” some of our public servants placed on the public payroll. One of the most thrifty offi cials, according to news reports, is Ben T. Huiet, Jr., Labor Com missioner. He and five relatives are reported to be drawing down more than $60,000 a year. Running Mr. Huiet a close sec- Crime and Gambling From Dayton (Ohio) Daily News If legalized gambling is the answer to crime, as its op ponents never tire of asserting, the fact has escaped the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Thumb through the Uniform Crime Reports for 1962, just issued by the FBI. Start with the state of Nevada, the only state with open sesame to gambling. Nevada has the highest crime rate of any state in the union. Reno has the largest volume of serious crime in propor tion to its population of any metropolitan area in the nation. Yet Reno is wide open. When you legalize gambling you don’t automatically get rid of the thugs, the touts and the racketeers. On the contrary, you attract them. You even start breeding your own after a time. The state may be taking the top off the profits. It may be regulating the games efficiently and without corrupt ion. But there’s fringe money to be picked up from the get-something-for-nothing crowd. The sugar is there and it attracts the flies — swarms of them. The effective society is built on some better way of making a living than watching a set of wheels whirr or a field of horses run. The get>rich-quick ethic is a poor substitute for the create-and-contribute ethic. Those who think otherwise might try reading Toynbee for a spell — or living in Nevada for a few months. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Palmetto Church To Observe Homecoming Day The Palmetto Church of God, located on Highway 110 south of Atkinson, will hold Homecoming Day services Sunday, Aug. 18, it is announced by the pastor, Rev. Sabo rd Woods. Preaching services will be held at 11:00 A. M. and dinner will be served on the church grounds at noon. Special singing and preach ing will feature the afternoon. The afternoon sermon will be given by Rev. Jimmy Talley of Waresboro. Brantley County Welfare Board Members Named Mrs. Bruce Schaefer, Director of the State Welfare Service, has announced the following appoint ments to the Brantley County Welfare Board, effective July 1, 1963: Harvey Altman appointed for one year term. A. L. Johnson appointed for two-year term. Ike Moody appointed for three year term. W. M. Batten appointed for four year term. N. M. Herrin appointed for five-year term. Mrs. Leila Turner is County Director and the agency is now called Brantley County Board of Family and Children Service. The staggered terms of the Welfare Board will require that a member be appointed every year, as the present terms expire. 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. ond in the art of nepotism is Secretary of State Ben Fortson, Jr., who is reported to employ three of his relatives, who to gether with Mr. Fortson draw down nearly $50,000 a year from the public payroll. One of the Atlanta newspapers carried a cartoon showing a baby born to a public official. Relati ves were gathered around the in fant and they were saying: “Hush, little baby, don’t’ you cry, You’ll be on state payroll bye and bye.” One jokester said this was the reason some of them are for JFK, because his initials mean “Jobs For Kinfolks.” The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August IS, 1943 ASC Committees Being Elected Through Aug. 23 Voting time for committeemen to serve during the coming year has be gun and will continue through Aug ust 23, Dan H. Jacobs of the Brant ley ASCS Office stated. Ballots have been mailed to all eli gible voters on record and all voters are urged to vote for 5 persons from the list of nominees on the ballots. The person receiving the most votes will be elected community committee chairman and delegate to the county convention, Jacobs said. The persons receiving the second and third highest number of votes will be Vice-Chairman and regular member respectively, of the com munity comittee and alternate dele gates to the county convention. Following the community elections, Jacobs continues, the chairman of the newly elected community com mittees will meet at the county con vention to be held August 28 to elect the county committee for the coming year. The county committee, which also consists of 3 members and 2 alter nates, has general responsibility for administering the various agricul tural programs enacted by Congress. These include the Agricultural Con servation Program, Production Ad justment, Price Support, Feed Grain and other programs. Since the Com mitteemen will assume important responsibilities, close consideration should be given in voting. All newly elected committeemen will take office September 1. Personals Joseph M. Murray of Nahunta, graduated at the Twenty-Third Annual Summer Commencement Exercises of Georgia Southern College on August 15. He receiv ed the Master of Education de gree in Physical Education. Mrs. Eula Druehl of Hoboken will leave Sunday, Aug. 18, to visit her daughter, Mrs. Anton Pati^h of Washington D. C. She and Mr. and Mrs. Patich will make a vacation tour to Niagara Falls and Canada. Mrs. Ruth Dowling Davis, visiting teacher of Brantley County Schools, was awarded the degree of Master of Education at exercises held at the Univer sity of Georgia August 15. Mr. and Mrs. Parker Dodge went on a belated honeymoon to Crescent Lake and Orlando, Fla., for three days last week, return ing home to Nahunta Saturday. Carl Broome, editor of The Brantley Enterprise, has a bio graphical sketch in “Who’s Who in the South and Southwest, a book published every three years by Marquis, Who’s Who, a non profit Foundation of Chicago, 111. His son, Dean Broome, editor of The Blackshear Times, also was given a biographical sketch in the current volume. Dr. Thomas A. Roberts is the name of the new dentist who will occupy the dental office at the Medical Building in Nahunta. Mrs. H- W. Sasser, wife of the prin cipal of Nahunta High School, is a patient in Waycross Hospital for treatment for a collapsed lung. Georgia: Recreation Land Paddling their own canoe and making a pretty picture at the same time are Martha Jo Logue and Faye Pra ther. The young voyagers are having fun on Lake Sinclair in Middle Georgia. The lake, second largest wholly within the state, is one of 20 reservoirs formed by Georgia Power Company hydroelectric developments. Plant Jack McDonough Is Now in Operation Georgia Gov. Carl E. Sanders and John J. McDonough, right, chair man of the board of the Georgia Power Company, flick switches marking official start of production by the first unit at the utility’s new Plant Jack McDonough. The turbo-generator of 250,000-kilowatt capacity at the steam-electric installation is the most powerful single unit in the com pany’s system. A second unit of equal capacity is scheduled to become operational at the plant in the spring of 1964. Located 12 miles north of Atlanta in Cobb County, the plant will produce approximately four billion kilowatt-hours annually. This is enough electricity to supply the needs of more than one million homes. Electricity Now Flowing from New Plant Jack McDonough Near Atlanta Leaf Volume On Decline Prices by grades were a little lower Tuesday for Georgia-Flor ida flue-cured tobacco. A large number of grade averages de clined SI.OO and $2.00 per hun dred pounds from Monday, re ports the Federal-State Market News Service. Volume of sales decreased and ranged from light to heavy by markets. Quality of the tobacco was lower on Monday as the per centage of nondescript and poor quality leaf increased. Grades of leaf and nondescript made up the bulk of offerings. Estimated receipts of the Sta bilization Corporation Monday amounted to around one per cent of the sales. Season receipts un der the Government loan pro gram amounted to a little over three per cent. Sales Monday grossed 11,502,- 438 pounds for an average of $60.85 per hundred. This average was 69 cents higher than last Friday’s. Marketings for the sea son were raised to 150,318,391 pounds averaging $57.06. Posted Signs for Sale At Brantley Enterprise Power has begun flowing from the first unit of the Georgia Power Com pany’s new Plant Jack McDonough, located 12 miles north of Atlanta in Cobb County, John J. McDonough, chairman of the board, announced this week. The turbo-generator of 250,000-kilo watt capacity at the steam-electric installation is the most powerful single unit in the company’s system A second unit of equal capacity is scheduled to become operational at the new plant in the spring of 1964. Construction of both units will cost approximately $67 million. The new plant is designed so that it may be expanded to meet growing power de mands of industrial, commercial, farm and residential customers. The average output of Plant Jack McDonough will be approximately four billion kilowatt-hours annually. This is enough electricity to supply the needs of more than one million homes. When operating at capacity, the plant will require 4,650 tons of coal daily, or the contents of about 90 fifty-ton coal cars. Electricity generated at the new plant will be available to all Georgia Power customers via the company’s extensive distribution and transmis sion system totaling more than 30,- 000 miles of Jine. Located near Georgia Power’s Plant Atkinson on the Chattahoochee River, Plant Jack McDonough fea tures several innovations in generat ing stations. The new plant is the first on the company’s system and the first in The Southern Company — parent or ganization of Georgia Power — to utilize an electronic digital compu ter. This computer will provide auto matic data logging of any pressure, temperature, flow or other variable condition that affects plant opera tion. Additionally, it will compute per formance efficiency of the turbine, boiler and other major plant com ponents and will select the most ef ficient set of conditions for operating the entire plant at any required gen erating load. Another innovation by the company is the use of painted aluminum V beam industrial siding for the main powerhouse building. This silver green exterior siding gives Plant Jack McDonough a modem and col orful appearance, making it an at tractive addition to the landscape. The plant building is approximate ly 350 feet by 200 feet and towers to the height of a 10-story office build ing. The chimneys of the plant reach 170 feet into the air, or the equivalent of a 17-story building. Each of the plant’s powerful turbo generators weighs about 750 tons This is equal to the combined weight of 425 standard-sized passenger cars. The man for whom the plant is named is a veteran of 36 years in the electric industry. A native of Sa vannah, Mr. McDonough was named company president in 1957, after serving for six years as executive vice president In May of this year, he was elected chairman of the board of directors and chief execu tive officer of the company. Cotton Likes It Warm The temperature of the soil at the time of planting cotton has a lot to do with the stand a grow er gets, according to Agronomist Larry Torrance of the Cooper ative Extension Service. He says cotton seed germinate poorly at temperatures lower than 70 de grees. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTUY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Recreation Building Opens On Saturday, August 17 Lewis Infant Died Saturday Night Funeral services were held Sun day afternoon. August 11, at 3:30 o’clock from the graveside in High Bluff Cemetery for little David Le wis, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. I saiah Lewis of Nahunta, who passed away late Saturday night In addition to the parents, survi vors include two sisters, Miss Janice lewis and Miss Faye Lewis, both of Nahunta; two brothers, Eddie Le wis and Kenny I^wis, both of Na hunta; the maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Dryden of Waycross; the paternal grandpar ents, Elder and Mrs. Oliver Lewis of Blackshear. Several aunts, uncles and other relatives also survive. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their bereave ment. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of arrange ments. Nahunta Baptists Plan for Revival In September The fall revival in Nahunta Bap tist Church will begin Monday night, Sept 2, to continue through Sunday night. Sept. 8, with servi"'- each night beginning at 7:4. This meeting is to be lea uy two young men who have great influence through all this area, with Rev. Freddy Smith, pastor of Ten Mile Baptist Church, Baxley, bringing the message in sermon, and Rev. Walter Salter, pastor of Crawford Street Church, Waycross, returning to lead the song service. The young people, and younger a dults of the church will be encou raged to lead out in this revival, with all the church membership giving strong backing and prayers. There will be three choirs that brother Salter will work with, along with the leadership of the church music program. There will be the regular choir, largely made up of the youth of the church; a younger intermediate choir, and a great jun ior choir. Anyone from the commun ity is cordially invitee! to be part of this service. The younger married people of the church will lead in the “Pack-A- Pew” plan each night in the ser vices. Pastor Cecil F. Thomas and Mrs. Carolyn Thomas, music director of the church, join the entire church in invitation to all this area to plan to attend this week of revival services. Rhodens Plan To Celebrate Golden Wedding Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Rhoden will observe their 50th wedding anniversary at their home on Sunday, Aug. 18. Mr. Rhoden will also celebrate his 73rd birthday. Their childrern are entertain ing for them. Friends and relati ves are invited to visit them on Sunday. A basket dinner will be served at the noon hour. BLACKSHEAR TOBACCO MARKET Report of Sales and Prices LBS. SOLD AMT. AVERAGE Thursday, July 25 606,010 $250,440.14 $41.33 Friday, July 26 557,672 $227,543.32 S4O.M Monday, July 29 678,944 $359,829.79 $53.00 Tuesday, July 30 643,322 $358,761.28 $55.77 Wednesday, July 31 714,300 $409,294.19 $57.30 Thursday, Aug. 1 702,888 $414,977.54 $59.04 Friday, Aug. 2 670,876 $405,371.20 $60.42 Monday, Aug. 5 745,394 $468,834.55 $62.90 Tuesday, Aug. 6 783,930 $494,690.10 $63.10 Wednesday, Aug. 7 785,868 $502,325.16 $63.92 Thursday, Aug. 8 759,022 $477,345.49 $62.89 Friday, Aug. 9 764,574 $475,507.30 $62.19 Monday. Aug. 12 774,698 $488,698.50 S6XBB Tuesday, Aug. 13 756,692 $458,397.65 $60.58 TOTAL 9,944,190 $5,792,816.21 $58.25 Subscription Price and Tax Inside county —- . J 2.58 Outside county, in state $3 At Outside state s3.od Saturday, August 17, will see the long awaited opening of the Brantley Recreation Building. This culmination of several years efforts on part of the Lions Club was finally realized by the cooperation of the Brant ley County Jaycees, Junior Womans Club, Brantley Home Demonstration Council, and To bacco Trail Square Dance Club. The most recent contribution of the Jaycees was Eleven hund red dollars toward purchase of skates. The program for Satur day is as follows: Two until four thirty P. M. free skating, four thirty P. M. dedication service, five until eight P. M. chicken barbecue, eight until eleven P. M. teen-age square dance, sponsored by Knee Knockers, and 4-H Rec reation Club. Visiting clubs are expected from Tampa, Jackson ville, and Waycross. Spectators are invited. Regular skating days will be Monday, Thursday, and Saturday from seven until ten P. M., and Sunday afternoon from two un til five P. M. These hours will be observed Sunday 18th. and Monday 19th., but not on Thurs day 22nd. The Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club is sponsoring a Square Dance on Tuesday, Aug. 20, in the new Recreation Build ing with Max Forsyth, national caller from Indianapolis, Indiana, until eleven P. M. All proceeds will go to the air condition fund of the Recreation n,,i 'ding. Spectators are invited ome and see some real wes square dancing and hear this fine caller who provides a good evening’s entertainment himself. Cecil J. O'Quinn, 43, Pastes in Savannah Cecil Jackson O’Quinn Sr., 43, of 2120 Delesseps Ave., Savannah, died Sunday morning, August 11, at Memorial Hospital in Savan nah after a long illness. A native of Pierce county, he was raised in Brantley county. He was the son of the late James J. O’Quinn and Sally Crews O’Quinn. He was a member of Union Lodge 271 of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen and of Masonic Lodge No. 15. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mary Freeman O’Quinn; a daughter, Miss Mary Elizabeth O’Quinn; and a son, Jack O’- Quinn, all of Savannah; two sis ters, Mrs. Jeptha Griffin of Ho boken and Mrs. James E. Lee of Blackshear; two brothers, Clar ence and Fred O’Quinn, both of Miami, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at 2:00 o’clock in the Chapel of Fox and Weeks Funeral Home in Savannah. The Rev. Loyd Amason officiated. Interment was in the Screven County Memorial Cemetery. Masonic rites were held at the graveside. Pallbearers were Arthur Bra nan, B. A. Westberry, Joe Cole son, Daniel Griffin, Emory Lee and Jesse Crews. Honorary pallbearers were members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen.