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VOLUME 46 - NUMBER 50
Nahunta Baptist Church to
Hold Christmas Programs
Plans for the Christmas season
have been made and announced by
the Nahunta Baptist Church and by
Pastor Cecil F. Thomas.
White Christmas tree plans have
been made for Sunday, Dec. 15,
both the morning and evening ser
vices. The Love Gifts made to this
program will go: (1) To the help
of local families in need of help to
have some of the simple, and yet,
meaningful things that we think of
as Christmas; (2) To make the high
est possible gift to Foreign Missions;
and, (3) To really start the fund off
for the children’s rooms to have air
conditioning next summer.
Sunday night, Dec. 15, the services
will be shortened, with B. T. U. being
held from 6:30 until 7:10, and the
worship services, still stressing the
White Christmas, will be held only
until 7:45. Then, everyone will be
urged to go to the Methodist Church,
to attend their special Youth Christ
mas service.
Sunday, Dec. 22, will be another
special day in the church service.
Regular services at Sunday School
and morning worship hours will be
at 10 and 11 A. M.
That night, Dec. 22, will be the
time for the Christmas program in
music and pageant, striving to por
tray the picture, and feel the in
spiration of this season. It is ex
pected that some 35 voices will blend
in a service of music, while scrip
ture reading, and characters pre
senting the picture of those who
came around the manger at the first
Christmas. This program of service
will begin at 7:30 P. M. and the
entire community is invited.
Nahunta Cagers
Win Both Games
From Screven
Nahunta downed Screven in a
basketball twin bill on the home
court Tuesday night. The girls
won 58-44 and the boys took a
60-30 win.
Annie Ruth Johns’ 32 points
sparked the Nahunta girls. She
was followed by Frances Ellis
with 19. Pat Bennett had 29 mark
ers for Screven.
J. L. Jacobs led Nahunta’s boys
with 16 points, and John James
followed with 14. Craig Davis
had eight markers for Screven.
Nahunta Grammar
School PT A to
Meet Monday
The Nahunta Grammar School
Parent-Teachers Association will
meet Monday, Dec. 16, at 7:30 P.
M.
A Christmas program is being
planned, with the high school
glee club taking part.
Refreshments will be served in
the lunchroom after the program.
Baby sitters will be provided for
mothers with small children.
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BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley HD
Council Met
At Nahunta
The Raybon Home Demonstration
Club was hostess to the Brantley
County Council of Home Demonstra
tion Clubs at the Okefenoke social
hall Wednesday, Dec. 11, with a
luncheon. Mrs. Hazel Wilson is presi
dent of the Raybon Club.
Mrs. Louise Hendrix presided.
The Council presented Sandra Ja
cobs with a charm for her 4-H
charm bracelet. Miss Jacobs was
named National 4-H Recreation
Champion in Chicago Dec. 2. She
gave an account of her trip to Chica
go.
Mrs. John E. Reese of St. Simons
was guest speaker, talking on “Per
sonality and Charm.”
Officers for the coming year were
installed. They are President, Mrs.
Margaret Jacobs; Ist vice-president,
Mrs. J. L. Miles; 2nd vice-president,
Mrs. Lawson Dubose; 3rd vice-presi
dent, Mrs. N. W. Hendrix; secretary
and treasurer, Mrs. Norman Lewis;
and 4-H advisor Mrs. John Wilson.
The Nahunta, Waynesville, Hickox,
Raybon and Calvary clubs were re
presented, with 39 members present.
Postmaster Asks
Cooperation on
Christmas Mail
MAIL EARLY. These five sugges
tions will help in your Christmas
mailing.
1. Do your shopping for your
Christmas gifts now.
2. Check and revise mailing lists
for cards and presents.
3. Package and mail Christmas
parcels promptly. Don’t worry a
bout being too early, just mark
them “Do Not Open Until Christ
mas.”
4. Buy Christmas cards now and
address them right away, separat
ing them into out-of-town and local
bundles. Mail them immediately
with ZIP Codes on them and you’ve
got it made.
5. Buy plenty of five cent stamps
for your cards where they can be
forwarded or returned to you.
Office hours will be the same ex
cept on Wednesday, Dec. 18, we will
be open all day. Window service for
stamps and packages, also money
orders.
Louise D. Drury,
Acting Postmaster
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means of
extending our sincere thanks to
all our relatives and friends who
were so kind to us on the occas
ion of the death of our loved one,
Mrs. Laurhea Gibson.
We deeply appreciate the words
of sympathy, the floral tributes
and the covered dishes. May the
Lord bless you all for your great
kindness toward us.
A. F. Gibson
and Family.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 12, 1963
Funeral Services
Held Saturday
For Smith Infant
Funeral services were held Satur
day afternoon, Dec. 7, at two o’-
clock from the Waynesville Baptist
church for little Karen Denise Smith,
two month old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Donald R. Smith, who pass
ed away early Friday morning, Dec.
6, at the family home in Waynes
ville, with the Rev. Duane Partin,
assisted by the Rev. H. H. Strick
land, conducting the rites in the
presence of a large number of sor
rowing relatives and friends.
Interment followed in the Mount
Olive cemetery.
In addition to the parents, survi
vors include two sisters, Miss Denna
Ruth Smith and Miss Sheila Ann
Smith, both of Waynesville; three
brothers, David Anthony Smith John
Edward Smith and Joseph Byron
Smith, all of Waynesville; the mater
nal grandmother, Mrs. Marguerite
Jacobs of Waynesville.
Several aunts, uncles and other
relatives also survive.
The many beautiful floral offer
ings attested to the love held for
the infant girl and the high esteem
felt for the Smith and Jacobs fami
lies.
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.
Hoboken Honor
Roll Announced
The honor roll for the second six
week’s period at Hoboken School
was announced today by Principal
Wilbur Stanley.
To be eligible for the Honor Roll
a student must have a 90 average
with an A in conduct.
12th grade: Patsy Carter, Jerrell
Crawford, John Robert Dryden, Ruby
Johns, Carolyn Larkins, Diane
Pierce, Sammy Stone and . Janeth
Waldron.
11th grade: Chelsa Walker, Mar
gie Lewis, Linda Hickox, Lavem
Clark, Rita Fowler, and Cheryl Kel
ly.
10th grade: Gail Cason, Diane Da
vis, Barbara Dryden, Frances Giv
ens, Susie Jones, Annette Lane, and
Hilda Murray.
9th grade: Janice Altman, Melissa
Chesser Sarah Justice, Leea Walk
er, Elaine Pierce, Kathy Sapp, and
Wilma McCarty.
Bth grade: Dewayne Bell, Josse
lene Crawford, Vicki Easterling,
Philip Gillis, Johnny Griffin, Mary
Nance Lee, Micheal Lee, Carole Rue*
hlen, Betty Stone, and Carolyn
Thornton.
7th grade: Janice Lucas, Sandra
Dale Melton Margaret Jones, Kathy
Fowler, Ronald Jacobs, Terry Ja
cobs, Claude Dryden, Charlene Ja
cobs, Jane Ammons, Nell Lee,
Dickie Cox, Monroe Griffin, and
Tony Thrift.
6th grade: Ruby Chesser, Darlene
Crews, Lydane Dickerson, Glynn
Griffin, Alec Jacobs Nancy Justice,
Marilyn Lee, Sharon Prescott, Stan
Stanley, Sandra Griffin, and Glenda
Hickox.
sth grade: Marie Stevens, Donna
Aldridge, Stevie Altman, Sheila Ben
nett, Debbie Crews, Judy Davis,
Donna Faye Pierce, Patty Rhodes,
Gary Hickox Marilyn Thornton, Lin
da Waldron, Ernest Lee, Terry Dean,
and Lawrence Melton.
Miss Ella Mae Willis Weds Mr. Lee
Meyer in Impressive Church Ceremony
The wedding of Miss Ella Mae
Willis, daughter of Mrs. Verdie
Willis of Nahunta and Lee Meyer,
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Robert
Strohlen of Lanesborough, Mass.,
took place Friday, Dec. 6, at
Mount Zion Advent Church.
The Rev. Hilton Morgan per
formed the double ring ceremony
at 6:00 P. M. before a large as
semblage of relatives and friends.
The church was impressively de
corated with pine, magnolia, and
centered with an arrangement of
white glads. A glow of candle
light came from several branched
candelabra.
Miss Mary Lou Prescott, pianist,
accompanied Miss Grace Middle
ton as she sang, “I Love You
Truly” and “O, Promise Me.”
The bride, given in marriage
by her brother, Bozo Willis, chose
an elegant gown of Chantilly lace
over taffeta. The round neck
line was enhanced by long ta
pering sleeves and the fitted
waistline fell into a bouffant
skirt of lace. She wore a pearl
tiara which held a shoulder
length veil of silk illusion.
The bride carried a crescent
of roses, and fluffs of illusion.
Maid of honor was Miss Marilyn
Herrin. She was attractive in a
4,318 Persons
Take Type 3
Polio Vaccine
4,318 persons in Brantley
County received Type 111 Sabin
oral polio vaccine on Sunday,
Dec. 8.
The breakdown for the indi
vidual clinics is: Hoboken 1240,
Hortense 637, Nahunta High 1922,
Nahunta Colored 506.
Sickness and bad weather
caused some to miss the vaccine
and it is hoped they will be able
to come to the Make-Up Clinics
at the Health Department on
Wednesday or Friday from 9:00
A. M. to 5:00 P. M.
After the vaccine is thawed, it
lasts only one week which ex
plains why we have to be exact
on the time.
Type I will be given again in
the spring for those who missed
their first feeding. No plans are
being considered for giving Type
111 or Type II again.
Type II will be given Jan. 19,
with the same clinic stations and
the same hours.
Brantley Sales
Show Increase
Third quarter retail sales in
Georgia totaled $1,561,212,518 this
year as compared to sl, 445, 923,-
999 during the same period in
1963, according to a report re
leased today by the Georgia
State Chamber of Commerce.
Chamber Research Director
Morris Ward noted that 131 coun
ties registered increases during
the third quarter.
“This increase is indicative of
the growth we are now under
going in Georgia, and attests to
the healthy business climate we
are enjoying,” Ward said.
Third quarter business volume
in Brantley County totaled
$1,297,763 in 1963 as against
$1,283,280 in the same quarter
in 1962.
Personals
Mrs. Lula Brown entered Mem
orial Hospital in Waycross on
Wednesday, Dec. 11, where she
expects to undergo eye surgery
on Thursday.
Mrs. Emmie Newton returned
home on Friday of last week
from Florida where she spent ten
days with Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Jones at Belle Glade, and Mr.
and Mrs. D. F. Jones of Orange
Park.
Mrs. Virginia Ellis and little
daughter, Terry, returned to their
home in Savannah on Sunday
after spending a few days here
with her mother, Mrs. E. J. Lewis
and sister and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Clayton Riggins.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson con
tinues ill in St. Vincent Hospital
in Jacksonville where she has
been a patient since Thursday of
last week.
Stanley W. Sloan, 19, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Raleigh E. Sloan
of Route 1, Hortense, is under
going recruit training at the Na
val Training Center, Great Lakes,
111.
dress of kelly green satin with
an oyer jacket of lace and pat
terned on the same lines of the
bride’s dress, with matching
green shoes.
Miss Herrin wore a matching
headpiece with short veiling and
carried a cluster of white car
nations.
Ushers were Phillip Arango
and Vincient Barlow.
Serving as best man for Mr.
Meyer was Nicholas Mazzaco.
Mrs. Willis chose a dress of
blue silk with which she wore
matching accessories and a cor
sage of white carnations.
A reception was given immedi
ately following the wedding.
Among those assisting in enter
taining were Misses Juanita Her
rin, Oma Lee Wilson and Sherrell
Crews. Mrs. J. L. Morgan presid
ed at the bride’s book.
Attracting attention was the
lovely bride’s table, covered with
a cloth of organdy over green. The
three-tiered bride’s cake in all
white was centered and punch
was served from a crystal service.
After receiving best wishes, the
couple left for a wedding trip to
Florida. Upon their return they .
will make their home in Bruns- j
wick where Mr. Meyer is employ-1
ed.
Mrs. Gibson
Funeral Service
Held Thursday
Mrs.Laurhea Rooks Gibson, 48,
wife of Franklin Gibson, Hor
tense Route 1, died Tuesday, Dec.
3, in a Brunswick hospital after
a brief illness.
She was the daughter of the
late W. H. and Arbella Harper
Rooks. She was a native of
Wayne County but had resided
in Brantley County most of her
life.
Survivors, besides her husband,
include three sons, Franklin D.,
Walter H. and Steve L. Gibson,
all of Hortense; one daughter,
Mrs. Billy Freeman of Brunswick;
four grandchildren, one sister,
Mrs. Geraldine Edwards of Hor
tense; and one brother, Woodrow
W. Rooks of Jacksonville.
Funeral services were Thurs
day, Dec. 5, at Trinity Church of
the Nazarene on the Post Road.
The Rev. Dalton Little and the
Rev. Harley Strickland officiated.
Interment was in the Mount
Olive Cemetery in Brantley
County. Active pallbearers were
Alvin Drury, Cecil Drury, Clin
ton Robinson, Brown Brooker,
Harold Highsmith, W. L. Oglesby,
Sr., and DeWitt Moody.
Personals
Elroy Strickland, chairman of
the Brantley County Board of
Education, Mrs. Mable Moody,
county school superintendent,
and county representative Hoke
Wilson went to Atlanta for the
Tuesday meeting of the gover
nor’s conference on education.
David S. Stewart, son of Mr.
and Mrs. A. H. Stewart of Nahun
ta, left Monday, Dec. 9, to return
to San Diego, Calif., where he
will be aboard the U. S. S.
Ticonderoga.
Staff Sergeant Lawton Strick
land, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E.
Strickland of Hortense, was pro
moted to Technical Sergeant on
Dec. 1. He is stationed at Amaril
la Air Force Base, Texas. His wife
is the former Miss Oleta Lewis.
Visitors at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. Roberson of Na
hunta Sunday were Mr. and
Mrs. David Roberson of Charlotte,
N. C.;Mr. and Mrs. James Rob
erson and Mr. and Mrs. Emory
Roberson of Brunswick, Mr. and
Mrs. Demory Roberson of Jack
sonville, Mr. and Mrs. Francis
Roberson of Hortense, Mrs. Ruth
Jones and family of Nahunta and
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Wright of
Fitzgerald.
Mrs. Robert Warren and chil
dren, Cheryl and Robert, Jr., of
Revere, Mass., are visiting Mrs.
Amos Warren and family.
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson of
Nahunta is a patient in St. Vin
cent’s Hospital in JacksonviHe,
where she was carried Friday,
December 6, via ambulance.
Mr. Grooms Harris of Nahunta
is a patient in Talmadge Mem
orial Hospital in Augusta, where
he was carried Thursday, Dec.
5, via ambulance. He had been a
patient in the Brunswick Hos
pital since Monday, December 2.
Mrs. Shirlene Thomas of Na
hunta suffered head injuries
early Monday morning, Dec. 9,
when her automobile plunged
over the bridge railing at Atkin
son and landed in the Satilla
River. An early morning frost
covered the bridge and this was
listed as the cause of the acci
dent. Nearby workmen waded in
to the icy water and brought Mrs.
Thomas to safety. She was carri
ed to the Medical Center via
Chambless ambulance and later
taken to her residence in Nahun
ta. She is the wife of Lt. Comdr.
Glenn Thomas.
Mrs. Mable R. Moody, County
School Superintendent, left Mon
day for Atlanta where she atten
ded the Governor’s Conference
Tuesday, Dec. 10. From Atlanta
she goes to Lake Jackson to at
tend the State Superintendents
Conference December 11, 12, and
13.
Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Kick and
children of Smyrna, Ga., visited
Mrs. Kick’s mother, Mrs. Verdie
Willis of Nahunta the past week
end.
The Christmas social of the
Hortense Parent Teachers Assoc
iation will hold their annual
social at the lunch room of the
school on Friday evening, Dec.
13 at 7:00 P. M. it is announced
by publicity chairman, Mrs. H.
V. Carver. This will be a covered
dish supper.
The Nahunta Garden Club will
have their annual Christmas par
ty at the home of Mrs. A. G. Mi
zell on Dec. 19 at 7:30 P. M. Co
hostesses with Mrs. Mizell will
be Mesdames Dan Jacobs, Eliza
beth Robinson and Mrs. E. L.
Sears. Rev. W. M. Whipple will
have charge of the program,
OFFICIAL ORGAN BBANTLKY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Nahunta Methodist Church
To Show Christmas Drama
Negro Youth
Dies in Scuffle
On School Bus
A 17-year-old Negro youth died on
a county school bus near Waynes
ville as a result of a scuffle with
other students on the bus, according
to Brantley County sheriff J. Wal
ter Crews.
The dead boy, Frank Hutcherson,
was in some kind of a scuffle with a
Negro girl, when another Negro
youth, a patrol boy, attempted to
quiet the row, it is reported, and
shoved the first boy.
An autopsy performed by a state
laboratory technician indicated that
the dead boy had suffered a brain
injury and rupture of blood vessels
at the back of the head possibly
caused by his head striking the back
of a bus seat.
Sheriff Walter Crews is continuing
his investigation of the affair.
Library Aides
Held District
Meet at Ocilla
The Hoboken and Nahunta Lib
rary assistants, with their sponsors
Mrs. Mary Lou Gibson, Nahunta lib
rarian, and Mrs. Polly Anne Mid
dleton, Hoboken librarian, attended
Eighth District Student Library As
sistants meeting at Irwin County
High School, Ocilla, Ga., Tuesday.
Registration began at 10:00 o’clock
and was followed by a welcome. Miss
Carolyn Rose Larkin, Hoboken lib
rary assistant, and out going vice
president of Bth District S. L. A.
gave the response.
Sandra Jacobs and Lynn Herrin
of Nahunta Library were given re
cognition. Lynn for her People to
People Tour to Europe, and Sandra
for her national recognition for being
a 4-H winner in Chicago recently.
Walter Johnson librarian at ABAC
College, Tifton, and president of
Georgia Library Association, gave
the address on “How Much Educa
tion is Enough?”
Virgil Rowell drove the bus. His
wife accompanied him.
Frances Ellis and
Kenny Johns, reporters
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IINGTOfI^
TWO RECENT studies made
Tinder the auspices of the Geor
gia Department of Labor and
Georgia Tech point dramatically
to the fact that times are get
ting hard for the unskilled job
seeker.
There is a growing shortage
of jobs for the
untrained and
for those work
ers with obso
lete skills. This
is a problem
nationwide and
of course it is i
especially se
vere in states |
like Georgia which are rapidly
making a transition from an
agricultural to an industrial
economy.
The Georgia Tech Industrial
Development Division, in its re
port, "Economic Highlights of
Georgia,” called attention to this
transition and said that it has
been a difficult one for the state,
for farm workers and for indus
try.
In 1940, almost 35 per cent
of the workers in Georgia were
employed in agriculture, with
manufacturing employment run
ning a poor second with only
19 per cent of the total em
ployes. In i 960, the picture had
drastically changed, with 27 per
eent of all workers in manufac
turing and agriculture account
ing for only 9 per cent of the
work force in the state.
• • •
THE CHANGING economy is
due of course to a variety of
- but principal among //\
them is the great migration d. fC
from farm to city when the r
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I
next five years, some 65,581 jobs
will be open for technical, skilled
and clerical workers in Georgia,
with 80 per cent of these open
ings occurring as the result of
growth in the state’s economy.
As the labor study stated: "If
Georgia is to stay in the parade
of satisfactory economic growth,
it must prepare to have these
workers ready when they are
needed by industry.”
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Inside county $2.58
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A Christmas drama and page
ant will be presented by the Na
hunta Methodist Church Sunday,
Dec. 15.
The program will be presented
aj 5:00 P. M. and again at 8:00
P. M.
The Methodist and Baptist
Churches will worship jointly at
both hours.
The play is entitled “The Can
dle Christmas.” The script is writ
ten by Rev. W. M. Whipple and
it is directed by Mrs. Whipple. It
is the story of an eighteenth cen
tum candle peddler who is not
able to sell his candles on Christ
mas Eve.
With no money and a house
full of unsold candles, they re
solve to celebrate Christmas. This
leads to a series of incidents that
they had not anticipated.
A Christmas pageant will be
presented a part of the program.
It is performed off-stage as a
natural outcome of action of the
Play .
The worship will close with a
candlelight service in which all
the congregation participates.
A volunteer choir will sing
Christmas carols as background
support for the play.
The cast is composed entirely
of young people. The family in
cludes Father, and Mother, play
ed by Johnny Walker and Linda
Hursey. Wanda Herrin, Ken
Walker, and Debra Harris are the
children. Visitors to the home
include Nancy Moody, Carolyn
Middleton, Donna Tucker, Bill
Middleton and James Harris.
Children taking part in the
pageant are Sylvia Schmitt, Dan
Moody, Scott Lewis, Jesse Walk
er, Bruce Griner, Andelene Parse,
Sandy Brooker, Andy Harris,
Leonard Harris, Durwin Brooker,
Al Schmitt, Carol Thomas, Sheila
Brooker, Mary Lee Griner and
Catherine Schmitt.
Sunday, Dec. 22, the Methodist
Church will join with the First
Baptist Church for their Christ
mas Cantata.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to extend our sincere
thanks to all our relatives and
friends who were so kind to us on
the occasion of the death of our
loved one, Karen Denise Smith.
We deeply appreciate every word
of sympathy, the floral tributes and
the covered dishes. May the Lord
bless each and everyone of you for
your gracious kindness toward us.
Mr. and Mrs. Don Smith
and Family.
small farmer could no longer
make a living. Farm mechaniza
tion contributed largely to this
situation by reducing the need
for unskilled farm labor.
From 1940 to 1960, Georgia
lost some 257,000 jobs in agri
culture. For many of these dis
placed farmers it meant going
to an urban center for factory
work—if it could be found.
And in industry, automation
was taking the jobs of thou
sands of unskilled workers and
it became more and more neces
sary to have a high degree of
technical training to find work.
• • *
THE PROBLEM, then, is to
train enough men and women in
skills now required by industry
and to create enough new jobs
for the ever-increasing labor
force. Georgia is making much
progress in coping with the de
mands being made by its chang
ing industrial economy, and ac
cording to the Department of
Labor study these demands are
expected to increase even more
in years to come.
It was estimated that in the
