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Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
VOLUME 46 — NUMBER 45
New Brantley County ASC Building
Was Dedicated at Thursday Meeting
The new ASC building in Nahunta
was formally dedicated at a supper
at the Red Pig Restaurant Thurs
day night, Oct. 31.
The meeting was attended by a
bout 60 citizens, including county
commissioners and other officials.
After the supper George Dykes,
chairman of the county ASC Com
mittee expressed appreciation to the
county commissioners for erecting
the new office building to house the
activities of the county Agricultural
Stabilization Committee.
The new building is near the old
jail and is 22 feet by 40 feet, with
adequate office space for ASC work.
State and area ASC officials at
the meeting were William L. Lanier,
State Executive Director, Hugh L.
Edison, Assistant Chief Administra
tive Division, Powell J. Legg. Ad
ministrative Training Instructor, all
of Athens; and J. Verlon Minchew,
Farmer Fieldman, Waycross.
William L. Lanier was the main
speaker. He showed slides of his
trip to Russia, with a party of
American. He discussed the many
differences in the American and the
Russian farm economy and the var
ious aspects of the Russian collec-
tivism.
Mr. Lanier also showed the great
difference in many political and re
ligious aspects of the two nations.
He showed that Russia has no reli
gious liberty to speak of, there be
ing only three churches, Baptist,
Catholic and Jewish, in Moscow, a
city of several million people.
Mr. Lanier told of talking to var
ious Russian people and of the
seeming inability of the Russians to
understand the American system of
free elections and freedoms in its
many manifestations and privileges
here.
He told of the one Baptist Church
he attended in Moscow and how it
was packed with people who sobbed
as they heard the Gospel preached.
The Brantley County ASC Com
mittee is composed of George Dy
kes, chairman; Neil Hendrix, vice
chairman and Donald Stevens, mem
ber. Dan Jacobs is office manager.
Grammar School
PTA Met Monday
The Grammar School Parent-Tea
chers Association met Monday
night, Nov. 4.
The program theme was “Know
Your PTA”.
The chairman of each committee
gave a talk on what her committee
does.
It was decided to use PTA funds
for more playground equipment and
for books for the school library.
The net proceeds from the Hal
loween carnival were $395.82.
Mrs. J. D. Orser, reporter.
Atkinson Boy Scouts
Met Monday Nov. 4
Troop 257 Boys Scouts of At
kinson held their Court of Honor
Monday, Nov. 4, in the communi
ty church.
Charles Majors and Atwood
Freeman of Brunswick were
presiding officers.
The following advancements
were granted:
Tenderfoot scouts, Charles
Chancey, Tommy Gibson and
Gary Middleton.
Second Class, Stanley Drury
and James Jones.
.Star, Williams Knox.
Life, Johnny Walker.
The following boys received
merit badges, Perry Griffin, Wil
liam Knox, Gary Velie, Grey
Velie, and Johnny Walker.
Ronald Norton and Johnny
Walker were appointed junior
assistant scout masters and Terry
Griffin was appointed senior pa
trol leader.
Satilla PCA and FLBA Will
Hold Meeting
The morning program will get un
derway at 10:00 A. M., and will in
clude financial reports, annual re
ports, election of directors and valu
brate its “30th Anniversary” at their
annual stockholders’ meeting, which
will be held jointly with the Federal
Land Bank Association of Waycross,
at the Pierce County Courthouse in
Blackshear, Ga., Tuesday, Novem
ber 19.
The Satilla Production Credit As
sociation of Blackshear, will cele
able door prizes for many of those
attending, accordiug to Satilla PC A
manager, A. B. James and Federal
Land Bank Association of Waycross
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Lime Needed to
Correct Acid Soil
Are acid soils and the lack of
calcium in your soils the weak links
in your Big M Pasture Program?
County Agent George A. Loyd
says this is true of many Brantley
County Pastures.
The county agent goes further and
points out that many farmers are
buying more high analysis fertilizers
and better seed each year. But
some of these farmers are not ap
plying enough lime to insure this
large investment, he warns..
“Lime is the only material that
corrects acid soil,” he declared.
“Lime supplies calcium which is so
badly needed in animal and human
nutrition.
“Lime will increase the efficiency
of farm manures and mixed fertili
zers. It will improve the growth of
beneficial soil organisms.
“The lack of lime results in poor
crops, poor feed returns, poor live
stock, poor family health and poor
living.
“Acid soils are stealing Brantley
County farm profits. These acid
thieves never rest. They work night
and day taking away pasture pro
fits. You farmers can protect your
selves against these losses by taking
soil samples of your pasture lands
and then liming them according to
soil test recommendations.”
Management of
Timber Has More
Than One Use
There is more to timber manage
ment than just cutting and selling
trees, says Henry G. Backus, forest
er with the U. S. Forest Service.
Timber management could be called
the “tool of multiple Use.”
The harvest of timber provides
jobs and family income, helps to
stabilize communities and pays
taxes.
Timber management also has a
hand in outdoor recreation, such as
hunting and. fishing. A poorly man
aged forest is not a productive for
est. There is very little wildlife be
cause of no foods. A well managed
forest is a productive forest. It pro
vides timber for wood products, food
and cover for game and shade for
streams. Timber harvesting prac
tices bring an increase in available
browse for game and bring forest
openings which are good wildlife
habitat.
Harvesting operations can be in
teresting and educational for recrea
tion visitors and healthy growing
trees will provide settings for camp
and picnic areas needed in the fu
ture. Harvesting also prevents a
build up of hazardous trees along
roads, trails and streams used by
recreationists.
Logging roads and skid trails pro
vide access for hunters and fisher
men. Timber management provides
trees of all ages which assures a
continuous supply of game food and
habitat for cover.
Let’s manage our forests with
“multiple use” in mind, water, wood,
wildlife, forage and recreation.
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to express our
sincere gratitude and deepest ap
preciation for the messages of
sympathy, the floral offerings,
the covered dishes and other acts
of kindness shown us during our
recent bereavement.
May God’s richest blessings a
bide with each of you.
The Family of
Lacy E. Stirckland.
On Nov. 19th
manager, Hugh F. Bates.
Climaxing an interesting and in
formative program will be an old
fashioned barbecue served at noon.
The annual SPCA-FLBA of Way
cross meeting in Blackshear is the
highlight of the year for the two
farm loan groups and is expected
to attract a large group of stock
holders and visitors from this area.
The two farm loan groups cover
an area of eight counties. They are:
Pierce, Wayne, Glynn, Camden,
Charlton, Brantley, Ware and Clinch.
Everyone is invited to attend and
bring their family and friends.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Nov. 7, 1963
4-H Leadership
Training Class
Met Tuesday
By Emory Middleton
The 4-H Leadership Training Class
held the second class Tuesday, Nov.
5, at the Nahunta High School.
A series of seven classes have
been scheduled by the county agent,
Mr. George Loyd, and the County
Home Demonstration Agent, Mrs.
Virginia Raulerson.
This series of classes is designed
to train adult leaders to assist the
County Agent and Home Demonstra
tion Agent in extending help and as
sistance to more of our 4-H Club
boys and girls. Brantley County cur
rently has 633 boys and girls enroll
ed in 4-H Clubs.
The adults attending these classes
are reporting to the school at 6:30
P. M. for supper. The suppers are
sponsored by business men interest
ed in the 4-H Club Program. The
first supper was sponsored by R. L.
W'alker Chevrolet Company of Way
cross. The supper at this meeting
was sponsored by K. S. Varn Com
pany of Hoboken.
After the meal the group moved
to the school library for class work.
The program of this course is de
signed for the adults to act as the
4-H Club member. In this second
class a 4-H Club of the sth and 6th
grade boys and girls was organized
as a part of the training program.
The name selected for the club is
the Tip-Top 4-H Club.
Officers elected for the club are:
president Dorothy Griffin; vice-pres
ident Hazel Wilson; sec.-Treas, Clara
Highsmith; reporter Emory Middle
ton; parliamentarians Horace Jacobs
and Jimmy Thornton.
Miss Lowry gave instruction on the
duties of each of the officers of th«
Club and the duties of the adult
Leaders of each club. Each Club has
an adult school Leader, two adult
program leaders and two adult pro
ject leaders.
PARENTS CAN HELP
BOLSTER STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT RECORD
Most young people, like most
adults, rarely operate at full capa
city, but parents can take steps to
help the child who is classed by edu
cators as an “underachiever,” ac
cording to Changing Times, the Kip
linger Magazine.
An article in a recent issue of the
magazine states that about half of
all able boys and a quarter of all
able girls are in this category —
bright youngsters whose marks show
they are not doing as well as they
should.
Most underachieving youngsters
need more confidence and under
standing, less nagging and reproof,
the article advises. Parents who
think their child falls in this category
should have a conference with his
teacher. “The important thing is to
find out whether he is producing
substantially below his ability and if
so, why.
“Lack of interest in school, re
bellion, frustration and personal psy
chological problems are causes of
underachievement,” the article con
tinues. “So are unsympathetic teach
ers and unsympathetic parents. Boys
need approval from their fathers
plus the knowledge that their fathers
respect education. They need to gain
independence from their mothers.
Girls need expressions of love from
their fathers, and mothers who are
not dominating and not dissatisfied
with their role as wife and mother.”
Most students in the underachiever
category do leam the basic informa
tion and skills they need to move up
through the grades, the article points
out, but the work they turn out is
close to the minimum they can get
by with and far below what they are
capable of.
In boys, the tendency toward un
derachievement shows up as early as
the first grade and usually is pretty
clear by the third or fourth, ac
cording to Changing Times. Girls
aren’t generally spotted until the
sixth grade. “Though many an un
derachiever appears to be sailing
blithely along, most are deeply con
cerned about failure and are disap
pointed in themselves, their teachers
and their parents,” the article notes.
“They know they could be doing bet
ter but don’t know why they should
or how to get themselves to make
the effort.”
Personals
Mr Jesse Crews visited his
mother Mrs. Tena Crews during
the past week. He is employed by
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
in Savannah.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Broome re
turned Monday from North Geor
gia where they visited Mr. and
Mrs. Howard Stephens and Mrs.
J. Roy Chapman in Atlanta,
friends in Hiawassee, Ga. and
their granddaughter, Miss Becky
Broome who .is a student at
Young Harris College.
Nahunta Wins
Both Games
From Screven
Nahunta defeated the Screven
High eagers in a doubleheader Tues
day night at Screven. The Nahunta
girls won 57-27 and the boys 67-48.
Annie Ruth Johns and Frances
Ellis led the Nahunta girls to vic
tory. Miss Johns hit the nets for
37-points and Miss Ellis contributed
10 as Nahunta girls copped their se
cond straight win.
Joyce Morris had 14 and Patricia
Bennett 12 for Screven.
Coach Joe Murray’s Nahunta quin
tet got double-digit scoring from a
quartet of players to win the night
cap, their first victory of the year
after a tie with Darien.
J. L. Jacobs had 18-points, Den
nis Raulerson and Steve Hendrix 12
each and Joey Strickland 10 for
Nahunta.
Derby Waters pumped in 28 to
lead Screven.
Nahunta hosts Hoboken next Tues
day night.
Annie Ruth Johns
"Rides Again" to
Shoot 45 Points
With Annie Ruth Johns leading
the way with 45 points, Nahunta’s
girls defeated Darien, 60-36, and the
boys played to a 32-32 tie in a bas
ketball doublereader at Darien Fri
day night.
The boys game was called by the
10 p. m. curfew. Jay Jacobs had 11
points to lead Nahunta’s boys, and
Robert Davis scored 10 for Darien.
Lottie Jacobs scored 16 for the
losing girls.
Telephone Poles
Take a telephone pole that costs
roughley $35 new, use it for 20 years
to carry telephone cables and wire.
After 20 years, sell it for SIOO, mak
ing a profit of almost 200 per cent.
Impossible? Not for the Lummi
Indians of Bellingham, Washington.
Here in an Indian community, old
telephone poles are carved into col
ful totem poles and sold as souve
nirs to people who use them as de
coration in their homes and yards.
The Pacific-Northwest Telephone
Company furnishes the old poles
free of charge to the Indians as
part of a civic undertaking sponsored
by Bellingham businessmen to help
increase the economic sufficiency of
the local Indian groups. Material
and equipment is donated to the In
dians by the local businessmen, and
the Indians, using their highly-devel
oped native skills, transform the
material into objects of marketable
value.
OVERSTOCKED TREES
One of the greatest problems in
Georgia’s forests, in the opinion of
Extension Forester Bill Murray, is
overstocking. He says this reduces
profitable growth rate of stands, and
suggests that landowners check their
stands for overstocking and thin
them if needed.
LEFT-OVER TURKEY
Left-over turkey after a big meal
need not be a problem, says Miss
Nellie Boyd, Extension nutritionist.
She says turkey is one meat that
can be served as a left-over and
still be popular with the entire fam
ily.
MRS. DIXON RECEIVES
FARM BUREAU AWARD
Macon, Ga. — Mrs. Alvin A. Dix
on, a Pierce county farmwife of Rt.
1, Blackshear, was awarded the
Eighth Congressional District Dis
tinguished Service Award for out
standing service to her county, dis
trict, and state during the 25th An
nual Georgia Farm Bureau Federa
tion Convention.
One of ten recipients of the award
in Georgia, she was one of three
farmwomen receiving the recogni
tion in the entire state.
Mrs. Dixon has been a supporter
of the Home Demonstration Club,
Farm Bureau, Production Credit As
sociation, and other movements to
increase the pleasures of rural life.
She was a leader in setting up a
blood testing program in her rural
county. Taking an active interest in
upgrading health of farm people and
medical care, Mrs. Dixon has been
a prime promoter of health pro
grams.
She is equally adept at handling a
farm truck or tractor, or building a
stronger Farm Bureau.
The Pierce County farm woman
has served as chairman of Pierce
County Farm Bureau Women, at
tended local Farm Bureau board of
directors meetings for the past five
years.
John Raulerson
Appointed to
Defense Reserve
John Raulerson, Brunswick Port
Authority manager, was appointed
to the National Defense Executive
Reserve, a recently-established or
ganization of civilian reservists to
act in times of emergency.
Presenting Raulerson’s creden
tials was C. J. G. Wentz, special as
sistant to the Maritime Administra
tion’s Atlantic Coast director for
emergency port planning.
Wentz said Raulerson’s appoint
ment was approved by Secretary of
Commerce Luther Hodges. Rauler
son was subjected to a security
clearance investigation and will be
eligible to work with classified mat
erials, Wentz declared.
In addition to responsibilities for
national port operational readiness
planning, the Maritime Administra
tion has been designated to admin
ister necessary controls over the
utilization of U. S. ocean port sys
tems and facilities in the event of
national emergency or war.
The executive reserve will be
comprised of key men in port and
industry operations, Wentz said.
Wentz said Raulerson’s appoint
ment won approval of Brunswick
Port Authority chairman I. M. Ai
ken. Selection of the port official
was hailed by banker Harrison Ai
ken as deserved because "Rauler
son, more than any man, has brought
the Port of Brunswick to its current
status.”
His wife is the former Dorothy
Rogers of Nahunta.
Shower Is
Planned for
Fire Victims
A “shower” will be held at the
Hortense lunchroom Monday
night, Nov. 11, to aid the J. B.
Strickland family who lost all
their household goods in a fire
that destroyed their home Satur
day night, Nov. 2.
The main thing needed is
household goods. Citizens of this
section are urged to attend the
shower meeting and bring what
ever articles of household use
they spare.
The meeting will begin at 7:00
P. M.
Nahunta Garden
Club Met at
Lewis Home
Mrs. Allen Barnard and Mrs.
J. B. Lewis were hostess to the
Nahunta Garden Club at the
home of Mrs. Lewis on Tuesday
afternoon, Nov. 5.
Mrs. Jos. B. Strickland, presi
dent, presided and gave a talk
on Garden Theraphy.
Others present were Mrs. Eli
zabeth Robinson, Mrs. Jesse Lee,
Mrs. Dan Jacobs, Mrs. Emmie
Newton and Miss Mary Knox.
The hostesses served fruit
salad, wafers, nuts and coffee.
Mrs. Dixon has taken an active
leadership role in her local com
munity organizations, solicited far
mer votes for formation of all Geor
gia Commodity Commissions, and
supported highway safety among
rural young people.
She has written special newspaper
articles, appeared on radio pro
grams locally, and been active in
district and state Farm Bureau pro
grams. She helps publish the Pierce
County Farm Bureau News Letter,
and is an active supporter of the
Farm Bureau scholarship program
for youth and all other service pro
grams.
Mrs. Dixon, a farm woman with
out pretense, is an inspiration to
rural men and women. She obtains
more members within her local
chapter, and perhaps leads the state
in this respect.
She may be seen serving warm
coffee to the Pierce county Farm
Bureau board of directors as they
work to solve farm problems on a
cold winter night, or as she did be
fore for years—loaded chairs from
her community center to a central
ly located place for holding of mon
thly Pierce County Farm Bureau
meetings.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLKY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
4,176 People
Polio Vaccine
Jack Parris
Awarded Air
Force Medal
Col. Howard J. (Jack) Parris,
former athletic director and teacher
in Nahunta High School, has been
presented the Air Force Commenda
tion Medal on his retirement follow
ing more than 22 years of military
service.
Col. Parris was chief of the be
havioral sciences laboratory at
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in
Ohio.
A native of Polk County, Ga., Col.
Parris was graduated from Cedar
town High School and Piedmont
College. He earned the master’s de
gtee in psychology at the University
of Southern California and doctorate
at Ohio State University.
He is married to the former Miss
Bernice Rogers of Nahunta. They
have two children, Lindy and Patsy.
Col. Parris has accepted a position
with a Houston, Texas corporation.
Nahunta Seniors
Elect Students
With Mostest
The seniors of Nahunta High
School met and elected superla
tives, Monday, Nov. 4.
They are: most intellectual:
Joan Johns and Patrick Wain
right; most likely to succeed:
Glenda Faye Roberson and Lynn
Batten; most dependable: Sandra
Harris and Harry Edgy; most
talented: Jo Ann Young and Da
vid Morgan; most athletic: Annie
Ruth Johns and Steve Hendrix.
Best all arojind: Sandra Jacobs
and Jimmy Allen; best person
ality: Sarah Anne Gibson and
Kenny Batten; prettiest: Lynn
Herrin; most handsome: Barry
Wainright; and wittest: Chat
Allen and Jerome Lee.
The superlative pictures for
the Annual were made at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Horace
Jacobs. Mrs. Jacobs served divi
nity candy.
Harry Edgy, Reporter.
Fire Department
Members Asked
To Meet Monday
The Nahunta volunteer fire de
partment will meet Monday night,
Nov. 11, at the fire house to reor
ganize the department for better ef
ficiency, it is announced by Robert
W. Hendrix, who is now fire chief.
All citizens who are interested in
planning for a better fire fighting
organization in Nahunta is urged
to attend the meeting and help with
the reorganization.
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"MISS SOUTHEAST GEORGIA" WINNER
Miss Genelda Odum of Wayne county is being kissed by Miss Carolyn
Barwick of St. Simons, last year’s title holder. The Odum beauty cap
tured all three divisions of the pageant to win the area crown. She will
represent Southeast Georgia in the Miss Georgia Pageant in Columbus
next spring. (Hendry Studio Photo.)
Subscription Price
and Tax
Inside county $2.58
Outside county, in state .... $3.08
Outside state $3.08
Took Oral
On Sunday
One of the largest turnouts of
people in the history of Brantley
County enables SOS Sunday to be
termed a success.
Seventy percent of the citizens of
Brantley County took the Sabin Oral
Polio Vaccine on Sunday, Nov. 3.
4176 people passed through the four
stations during a six hour period.
One vaccine every 12 seconds was
given at the Nahunta High School
station.
Practically all the pharmaceuti
cal and medical personnel in the
county were enlisted to help with
the program. In addition, a large
number of volunteers handled the
book work.
Large numbers of men, women
and children came to each station.
Hoboken High School reported 1169
vaccines given. Hortense counted an
exact 600, and Nahunta High totaled
1754. The Nahunta Colored School
gave 557 vaccines. Both the white
and colored averaged about the
same percentage of the total popu
lation.
The goal of 80 percent of the po
pulation was missed by some 536
persons. However, a good number
have been receiving the vaccine at
the Public Health office in efforts to
complete the total. Mrs. Robert Gri
ner, the County Health nurse has al- ••
so been visiting homes of shut-ins
to administer the vaccine.
Health officials claim that if 80
percent of the population is vaccina
ted, the polio virus will be effective
ly eliminated.
A second clinic for type 3 polio
virus will be held on December 8.
Type 2 will be administer on Janu
ary 19 in a pattern identical to this
one.
Any person may receive the vac
cine at the Public Health office in
Nahunta until the supply of Type I
Vaccine is exhausted.
Methodist WSCS
Monday
The Womans Society of Christian
Service met Monday, Nov. 4, at
the education building, with Miss
Lera Knox presiding.
The program was presented by
Mrs. Glenn Condit oh the subject
“What the WSC Means to Me.” Mrs.
J. T. Royster, Mrs. W. M. Whipple
and Mrs. S. D. Tomlinson took part
in the program.
It was decided that, future meet
ings of the WSC would be held on
Monday after the (irst Sunday in
each month. Plans .were started for
the Thanksgiving and Christmas
programs of the WSC.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Walker
of Hoboken announce the birth
of a baby boy weighing eight
pounds and five ounces. He has
been named Jerry Eldon.
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Leisa Ann is the name of the
new baby girl born to Mr. and
Mrs. Leroy Moore of Nahunta on
October 24.
