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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 1 R. L Walker Chevrolet Company Makes s l,ooo Donation to Swimming Pool Fund Plans are underway to build a $20,000 swimming pool at the Brantley County Recreation Cen ter. A Way cross businessman has made a SI,OOO contribution to the fund, announces the Brantley County Lions Club. According to the announcement made at the meeting of Brantley County Lions Club, R. L. Walker Chevrolet Co. of Waycross con tributed SI,OOO to start the fund. Avery Strickland revealed the fund contribution. “Our plans are to have the swimming pool ready by summer but to do so we must have a large portion of the funds available by Feb. 1,” Strickland says. Tentative plans call for a pool 40-feet by 80-feet. It will be built near the Recreation Center and will incorporate the latest design and equipment, Lions Club offi cials point out. The Recreation Center has been financially successful to the present time with income suffi cient to pay operating expenses and take care of the monthly payments on the building loan, a spokesman said. Operation of the Recreation Center is by a board composed of one member each from the * Brantley County Lions, Brantley Home Demonstration Council, Brantley Jaycees, Tobacco Trail Square Dance Club and the Juni or Woman’s Club. At the recent meeting of Brant ley County Lions, Lt. Com. Glenn Frank Thomas spoke on his tra vels in Mediterranean countries. He showed slide films of cities he visited. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our deep appreciation to all our relatives and friends for their many kind nesses to us on the occasion of the death of our loved one, Lonnie C. Morgan. We sincerely thank each and everyone of you for your words of sympathy, the flo ral tributes and the covered dish es. We will always remember your friendship and helpfulness with heartfelt gratitude. May the Lord’s richest blessings be yours always. The Morgan Family. Subscribe to the BRAN fLEY ENTERPRISE WANT ADS BRING RESULTS o From U Uhßshincton WE BEGIN the Second Ses sion of the 88th Congress with just about the same issues be fore us as a year ago. There are still unresolved problems involving the proposed income tax cut, the so-called civil rights legislation, medical ¥ fl " ' ‘ Rk i J care for the ; aged, federal i aid for educa- ; tion, and var- ' ious other mat- ! ters which ' have confront- i ed the Con- i gress for many years. I Virtually unrestrained federal spending and the need for a bal anced budget continue to be ma jor concerns. The country still is in dire need of a new and workable farm program which will benefit the farmers and re vitalize the American agricul ture economy. The need is clear cut and demanding in the cotton industry, but it is equally appar ent in other basic commodities. THESE THEN are matters which probably will take up a good part of this session of Congress. And I will be sur prised if debate over them is not long and vigorous. Since this is an election year, both parties will have their eyes on the conventions next summer and on the voters next Novem ber. In the upcoming scramble for votes —particularly those of the minority groups—l hope (not proparod or Brantley Ceunty — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Mrs. A. B. Brooker entertained with a dinner on Sunday honor ing Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Jones of Orange Park, Fla., Mrs. A. B. Dotson, Brunswick; Dr. Della Hickox, Waycross; Mrs. Emmie J. Newton and Dan L. Jones of Nahunta. Deborah and Richard Rhoden of Ariton, Ala. spent the holidays with their mother, Mrs. Ed Har rell. Mr. and Mrs. Connie Harrison, Mr, and Mrs. Louis Stokes and children, Mr. H. Browne High smith and Mr. Kiser Harrison of Brunswick were weekend guests of Mrs. Alice Highsmith. Mrs. E. K. Ham spent the holi days with Rev. and Mrs. Omer Graves in Lagrange, Ga. She was accompanied home on Friday by Dr. and Mrs. Raphael Graves and son, Mark. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Chambless and family have moved into their new home on Florida Street opposite the Nahunta Baptist Church. The Chamb less Funeral Home will continue at the present location on Highway 84. Mrs. W. E. Morgan of Nahunta left Sunday, Dec. 28, for San Diego, Calif., where she is visiting her daughter and family, Mr. and Mrs. David Walter who have a new baby girl, named Sheryl Lynn. Roger F. Moore, airman ap prentice, USN, son of Mrs. Voda Moore of Nahunta, is serving a board the attack aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard, currently operating in Hawaiian waters. Income Tax Clinic To Be Held Monday And Tuesday Nights The public is cordially invited to attend an income tax and social security clinic which will be held Monday and Tuesday nights, January 6-7 at Nahunta High School in the new Vocational Building. The time of the meetings is 7:30 each night. All phases of income tax and social security will be discussed by J. F. Nicholson of the State Depart ment of Education. During the meet ings, everyone is encouraged to ask questions they might have. All persons need to be informed about income tax regardless of whether or not they have someone else to fill out their forms. those who seek positions or lead ership will not lose sight of what is in the best interests of the country, and that they will act accordingly. Some members of Congress who don’t vote the way certain groups want them to already have been threatened with bloc vote purges. Such pressure of course is contemptible and an in sult to the House of Representa tives and the Senate, and clear ly an attempt to intimidate Con gress. * * * WE HOPE that Congress, as it goes into a political year rife with emotionalism and contro versy, will address itself to leg islation of genuine importance to the welfare of all the people of the United States. And we further hope that the rude threats and headline-catch ing utterances of self-styled leaders of pressure groups will be ignored as they properly should be. I favor the full enjoyment of constitutional rights by all our citizens, but to grant unwar ranted rights to one group of people while taking away the liberties of others could ulti mately lead to the destruction of our republican form of gov ernment and an all-powerful federal hierarchy with virtually absolute control over the ac tivities of everyone. < Hito*' £ at fovommont uptnoe) BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Personals MjiiTint/ The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 2, 1964 More Skill Needed I \ iVC"*' I \ \iWi\J**'**•» lx Help Wanted ads in the 1970’s will be asking for skilled tech nicians, analysts and specialists, instead of laborers and clerks, according to the Georgia Governor’s Commission to Improve Education. Studies of the Commission show that 40 out of every 100 jobs available in 1975 are expected to be in categories which now require at least a high school diploma. Resolve Not 1964, Heart “Resolved, that I will safeguard my heart and health by avoiding or dropping the cigarette habit.” This New Year’s resolution was proposed for adoption by teenagers today by the Georgia Heart Associa tion, which cautioned non-smoking youngsters that the best method of dealing with the cigarette habit is never to let it get started in the first place. The Association said that young people who smoke should resolve to discontinue cigarettes; if they persist they run a real risk that their life-span may be shortened due to heart direase or other serious health problems. “Whether you are a teenager or an adult,” said the Association, “you should remember that heavy cigar ette smoking may contribute to or accelerate the development of cor onary heart disease or its compli cations. “A number of medical studies have demonstrated a substantial as sociation between cigarette smoking and illness and death from coronary artery disease,” the Association con tinued. “In these studies death rates from heart attacks in middle-aged men were found to be 50 to 200 per cent higher among cigarette smokers as compared with non-smokers and pipe or cigar smokers. “A few of these studies also offer evidence that illness and death from disease decrease significantly among those who have stopped smoking,” said the Association. Parents were urged by the Heart Association to provide an example for their children since twice as many high school students smoke when both parents smoke as when neither parent smokes, the Asso ciation said. It is especially important for a dults with a high risk of coronary heart disease to discontinue cigar ette smoking, the Association noted. This group includes those with a family history of heart attack or stroke in middle age, high blood pressure, high levels of fatty sub stances in the blood and other fac tors associated with greater prone ness to hardening of the arteries. Statistical analysis of existing data indicates that cigarette smoking is associated with a yearly increase of about 60,000 premature deaths from coronary disease among American men. This is approximately equal to the estimated increase in deaths associated with cigarette smoking from all other diseases combined. Air Force Offers Commissions to Qualified Lawyers Jacksonville, Fla. — Major George A. Lang, Commander of the USAF Recruiting Detachment 302, announc ed here this week that the. United States Air Force would again offer direct commissions to lawyers who are qualified for the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General program. He stated that lawyers or law stu dents who are interested should con tact their nearest Air Force Recruit ing Office, immediately, for further information. Selection will be made on a best qualified basis by a board of Senior Legal Officers using academic re cords, legal experience and career potential as criteria. Applicants may not be older than 39% years of age. Law school seniors may apply not more than 90 days prior to the sche duled date of graduation. Graduates of an accrediated law school may apply for appoinment prior to admis sion to the bar. to Smoke Cigarettes in Association Makes Plea Residential Use Os Electricity Was Up in 1963 Residential customers of the Georgia Power Company used 9.3 per cent more electricity in 1963 than during the previous year, John J. McDonough, chair man of the board, announced this week. Residential sales last year were 3.3 billion kilowatt-hours. The residential customers of Georgia Power used an average of 4,972 kilowatt-hours, compared to 4,687 in 1962. Part of this increase is attri buted to the company’s low total electric rate, introduced in late 1962, which has encouraged more than 4,200 residential customers to go total-electric in 1963, the utility executive reported. Homes served by the company use 11.2 per cent more electricity than the national average and pay 23 per cent less per kilowatt hour, Mr. McDonough said. Total sales to all customers of the company last year were 14.1 billion kilowatt-hours, an in crease of 6.8 per cent over 1962. Os this amount, industrial and commercial sales were 7.8 billion kilowatt-hours, up 5.5 per dent over the previous year. During 1963, the company add ed more than 25,000 customers to its lines. Os these, 22,500 were residential customers, and 3,450 were commercial and industrial power users. Georgia Power now serves more than 783,000 custom ers. In 1963, Georgia Power’s con struction program required an in vestment of approximately SBS million in new generating, trans mission, distribution and other electric facilities. Approximately 28G miles of transmission lines and 590 miles of distribution lines were built. The company now has 31,000 miles of transmission and distribution lines — more than enough to reach around the world at the equator. During 1963, Georgia Power completed construction of a 250,- 000- kilowatt generating unit at Plant Jack McDonough, near At lanta. Work continues on a sec ond unit of equal capacity at the large steam-electric installation and is scheduled for completion in the spring of 1964. Also completed was a 29,600 kilowatt generating station at North Highlands Dam in Colum bus. Company taxes for 1963 amounted to $32,000,000, or 28 per cent more than the company’s operating payroll. These tax monies go to the support of pub lic schools and other state and local services and to the federal government. Crowded stands of trees are not good investments for land owners. George D. Walker, forest er with the Cooperative Exten sion Service, says crowding re duces the growth rate of trees and makes them more susceptible to insect and disease attacks. He recommends regular thinnings. Lonnie Morgan Funeral Service Held Monday Mr. Lonnie C. Morgan, 71, pass ed away Saturday morning, Dec ember 28, at his home on Route 1, Nahunta, following a coronary seizure. Mr. Morgan was born in Wayne, now Brantley, county and was the son of the late N. L. and Lovie Thomas Morgan. He re ceived his education in the local schools and was a member of the Nahunta Baptist church. For a number of years, he resi ded in Screven and had been a resident of Brantley county for the past 25 years. Until ill health forced his re tirement, he had engaged in farming operations. Os affable manner and genial disposition, Mr. Morgan was well known throughout this section and his death brings personal sorrow to a host of relatives and friends. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Eliza Dykes Morgan; five daugh ters, Mrs. Everett Roberson and Mrs. Ward Roberson, both of Screven, Miss Ophelia Morgan of Nahunta, Mrs. Claude Thomas and Mrs. Alex Pittman, both of Jesup; one son, J. T. Morgan of Nahunta; three sisters, Mrs. D. R. Florie of Screven, Mrs. Cora Long of St. Petersburg, Fla., and Mrs. Ernest Harris of Odom; one brother, L. L. Morgan of Wray. Ten grandchildren, eight great grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and other relatives also survive. Funeral services were held Monday afternoon, December 30, at three o’clock from the Nahun ta Baptist Church with the Rev. Carl E. Milton, assisted by the Rev. Cecil F. Thomas, officiating. The body lay in state in the church for one hour prior to ser vices. Interment followed in Green lawn Cemetery near Way cross. Serving as pallbearers were Messrs. Ira Francis Brown, Jim my Dykes, Jimmy Rogers, Ernest Bill Harris, Neel Harris and Way ne Dykes. The many beautiful floral of ferings attested to the esteem felt for the deceased. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their be reavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of ar rangements. 'Buy Lines' FOR GEORGIA CONSUMERS Q. Is it important for adults to drink milk to help maintain good health? A. The nutrients which make milk an excellent food for chil dren are also needed by adults, though often in less amounts. Milk is an especially valuable food for elderly persons since it is high in protein, minerals and vitamins. It is expensive and im practical to have a balanced diet without milk and milk products. If your physician has recommend ed a low fat diet, he may recom mend that you include skim milk and milk products with low fat content. Q. Which is a better buy — raw milk or pasteurized milk? A. Neither health authorities nor the dairy industry recom mend the use of raw milk. Raw milk may contain germs that cause septic sore throat, undulant fever, tuberculosis or other in fections. Present-day methods of pasteurization have no effect on calcium, protein and riboflavin, the nutrients for which milk is so important. Q. We have two pre-school age children. Should we buy milk with vitamin D added? A. Vitamin D helps the body to use calcium and phosphorus. In recent years research has shown that the use of vitamin D milk (and vitamin D concentrates as prescribed by a physician) for infants and children has greatly reduced the number of cases of rickets. Q. Does homogenizing milk destroy its food value? A. No. The vitamins, minerals and protein which are contained in milk are not affected by ho mogenizing The fat of the milk is also the same. These “Buy Lines” weie pre pared by Lucile Higginbotham, head, Health Education Depart ment, University of Georgia Co operative Extension Service. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Barter Will be Speaker At Educational Meeting Lee-Groover Mrs. George Lee of Nahunta announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter, Alsean, to Harry Groover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Loyal C. Groover of Hinesville, Ga. The wedding to be an event of Jan. 18, at six o’clock P. M. at the Gum Branch Baptist Church. No invitations are being sent, but friends and relatives are in vited to attend. Nahunta Teams Show Class in Alma Tournament Nahunta High School basket ball teams gave a good account of themselves at the recent In vitational basketball Tournament at Alma, the girls winning the tourney by defeating two oppos ing teams and the boys finishing second when they lost the last game to Bacon County High School Saturday. In the games Thursday night, Dec. 26, Coach Murray’s boys downed Coffee County by a score of 54 to 52. Coach Forrest Thomas’ sextet of girls took the Coffee County girls by 64 to 50. In the final games Saturday Coach Murray’s girls edged out the Bacon County sextet by a score of 61 to 58, with the score seesawing on the board through out the game. Annie Ruth Johns leds all scorers with 45 points. She shot 13 of 14 free throws, and tossed in 16 markers besides. The Nahunta boys were not so lucky and finally bowed to the Bacon County boys by a score of 70 to 42. Careful driving can save your life. Georgia Veterans to Receive More Than $ 4 Million Insurance Dividends ATLANTA — Georgia veterans will receive more than $4 million in insurance dividends between Jan uary 2 and 25, Pete Wheeler, Direc tor, Georgia Department of Veter ans Service, said. The 80,449 Georgia veterans who hold dividend-producing policies will receive a total of $4,012,230, accord ing to the Veterans Administration. Normally, dividends are paid on the anniversary date of the policy, but President Johnson ordered the early payment as a method of sti mulating the nation’s economy. Throughout the nation, 4.5 million World War II veterans who hold Na tional Service Life Insurance po licies will receive $219 million. An other sls million will go to 225,000 World War I veterans. Korean vet erans hold non-participating policies that provide no annual dividend pay- Most Doctors Lead Busy Lives and Are Expected to Respond to Many Needs By the Medical Association of Georgia In most areas doctors are in short supply. This means that a doctor opening an office in a community soon develops a busy practice. This is particularly true in small com munities where it doesn’t take long for the doctor to become well known. The physician practicing is “on call’ twenty-four hours each day. This means he always must be a vailable to respond to a call for help. He must arrange his life so that he is always near a telephone or accessible via a radio page sys tem. He is responsible for the care of his patients in the hospital and must visit them as often and for as long as necessary. He will probably have some bed-ridden patients under treatment in their homes. In addi tion, patients who come to his of fice must be cared for. The doctor practicing in an asso ciation has the help of his asso ciates in the care of patients. This arrangement enables him to have more freedom than the doctor prac ticing alone. However, even in an association, the physician bears the basic responsibility for his patients. The practicing physician is re- Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Oatside county, in state .... 53.09 Outside state $3.00 A mass meeting of Brantley County citizens who are interest ed in education has been called for Monday night, Jan. 6, at the Recreation Building in Nahunta, it is announced by Mrs. Mable Moody, county school superinten dent. J. Mack Barber, president of the School Board Association of Georgia, will be the main speak er. Everyone who is interested in the educational progress of Brantley County is urged to at tend. The meeting opens at 7:30 P. M. A committee of Brantley Coun ty citizens was recently appoint ed to promote publicity on the report of Governor Sander’s Edu cation Commission. The meeting Monday night will be used as a forum to discuss the various angels of the education report and to determine how Brantley County can best cooper ate in the campaign to develop higher educational standards in Georgia. Mr. Barber, the main sped^er, is not only president of the dwcr gia School Board Associating but he is as for many years been state representative from Barrow County and one of the leaders in promoting legislation for the bet terment of Georgia schools. Births Mr. and Mrs. David Walter of San Diego, Cal’*, ann^'-no the birth of a baby girl weighing seven pounds 11 ounces. She has been named Sheryl Lynn. Mrs. Walter is the former Caroline Morgan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Morgan. Mr. Walter is in the navy. CURVED OR STRAIGHT? Which is better —a curved dr straight walk? Landscape Spe cialist T. G. Williams, Jr., of the Extension Service, says a straight walk is usually better for short distances on fairly level ground. “It is difficult to design a good curve in a cramped space,” he adds. ments. Death rate among veterans is low er than was anticipated wherf the premium rate was established. Di vidends come from the additional funds paid into the plan by veterans’ themselves. Payment of the dividend will be automatic and no application or cor respondence is necessary, Mr. Wheeler said. TRANSPLANTING PECANS Extension Service Horticultur ist R. L. Livingston recommends buying pecan trees from three to five feet high. He says they also should have had proper T care since being harvested from the nursery. Proper case includes storage in a moist media toi pre vent drying out of roots. sponsible for keeping up with the latest developments in medicine. . This he does by organizing and at- 1 tending conferences on timely sub jects. He also keeps up by reading articles pertaining to his field in some of the hundreds of scientific journals published each month. Postgraduate medical education courses offered by medical schools and various medical organizations help him stay abreast of medical ad vances. The physician devotes part of this time to the development and oper ation of hospitals that serve his community. This entails committee meetings, staff meetings, and the constant evaluation of the profes sional aspects of the hospital. He freouently has responsibilities such as these in several different hospi tals. — Because of his position in the com munity, the physician frequently is called on to serve in various civic and educational groups. His advice is often sought in local public af fairs dealing with health problems. He often is active in his church and may spend a good bit of time working with religious leaders in giving aid and sympathy to those in need.