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Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
VOLUME 47 — NUMBER 3
Brantley Primary Election Is Set for March 11
POWER FOR SPACE-AGE INDUSTRY — C. W. Roberts, vice-president,
Georgia Power Company, throws a switch to send the first electric
power to the new Thiokol Chemical Corp, plant in Camden County.
Also participating in the switch-throwing ceremony were W. L. Berry,
left, superintendent of the newly built space-age plant, and F. C. Wilson,
center, Georgia Power’s Brunswick district manager. The ceremony
was the climax of a $1,019,700 construction program during which the
utility firm built a new substation and 13% miles of transmission line
through the Camden County marshland to serve the new plant.
New Lagoon at Rayonier to
Control Altamaha Slime
JESUP, GA. — Jan. 9th — Ray
onier announced today that an
85-acre waste water lagoon, cost
ing over $200,000, is nearing com
pletion at its Jesup mill and will
be in use shortly after the first
of February.
Company officials said the pri
mary purpose of the new lagoon
is to help control non-toxic slime
growth in the Altamaha River
below Jesup.
The slime is described as heavy
concentrations of a harmless bac
terial growth. While existing in
all parts of the Altamaha, this
organism multiplies and grows to
abnormal proportions below the
Rayonier mill when fed nourish
ing organic material, including
wood sugars, discharged into the
river in used process water. Sug
ars are produced by the mill
when wood chips are digested in
to pulp, officials explained.
Slime has been a problem, said
the Company, because fragments
sometimes drift in the river and
foul the nets of commercial shad
fishermen. The lower reaches of
the Altamaha is considered one
of the best shad runs on the
Eastern Seaboard. Each season,
shad catches totaling several hun
dred thousand pounds are taken
by some 600 Southeast Georgia
fishermen.
In addition to wood sugars, ab
normal slime growth is also in
fluenced by water temperature
and river level. Since these con
ditions are most ideal just before
and during shad season, which
extends frocn January 1 through
April 15, the problem has been
particularly difficult for the com
pany to solve.
Rayonier technicians believe
the slime can be substantially re
duced by pumping sugar-contain
ing process water to the new la
goon and holding it for an ex
tended period. By storing the
water over the three and a half
month period covering the shad
season, Rayonier expects to liter
ally starve the bacteria and thus
reduce its growth.
The facility is being carved
out of a swamp about a mile
from the plant. With the capacity
of a small lake at 175 million gal
lons, it will be capable of holding
in storage virtually all mill ef
fluent containing wood sugars
discharged over a period of four
months. Target date for comple
tion of the lagoon is early Febru
ary, time enough, the Company
believes, to keep slime under con
trol throughout the current shad
season.
In its six year battle to solve
the Altamaha slime problem, the
Company previously installed
several other costly systems and
adopted new operating tech
niques, all partially successful
but none the complete answer to
be provided by the lagoon. In
1960, additional pulp washing e
quipment, installed at a cost of
nearly $400,000, reduced food
bearing process water to one
fifteenth of its former volume.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
After considerable experimenta
tion, the Company last year in
stalled an irrigation system to
spray this water over a large
area of sandy soil. Engineers had
hoped the natural filtering action
of the earth, together with evap
oration .would permit the dis
posal of process water without
adding wood sugars to the river.
However, difficulties were ex
perienced with this system be
cause of unsatisfactory soil con
ditions, leading to the company’s
decision to build, the lagoon.
Biologists early identified the
slime producing bacteria as Spha
erotilus Natans, a common, other
wise harmless organism which
exists in most fresh water
streams
Employers of
Household Help
Given Reminder
With the mailing of several
hundred letters to housewives in
this area, the Waycross social
security district office has begun
an all-out search for delinquent
employers of household help.
The idea behind this effort is
to inform every housewife in the
area about her responsibilities for
reporting social security taxes on
the wages paid to maids, cleaning
women, ironers, and other domes
tic help.
Last year the social Security
folks found 21,000 American
homemakers who were not mak
ing proper returns for their em
ployees, according to O. L. Pope,
Waycross District Manager.
“Most of these “delinquents’ were
exposed when their former em
ployees made requests for re
tirement payment,” Pope said. He
explained that in such cases the
employer is liable for both shares
of the taxes that have not been
paid over past years. The tax and
penalties that are exacted for not
reporting at the proper time can
be sizeable amounts. Pope sug
gested that rather than own large
amounts at a later time, local
housewives learn whether social
security taxes are due on wages
now being paid and begin im
mediately to make proper reports
for domestic employees.
If a household employee is
paid SSO or more in a calendar
quarter, social security taxes
must be reported whether the
employee wants to be under soc
ial security or not, according to
Pope. He urged any housewife in
the area who needs advice about
this matter or help in making
proper returns to call or visit the
social security office at 704 Jane
St. in Waycross, telephone AT 3-
3404.
InJiirimT PfUHT
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 16, 1964
Third Round Polio Vaccine
Will Be Given on Sunday
By Rev. W. M. Whipple
The third and final round of polio
vaccine will be given on Sunday,
Jan. 19. This will complete the area
wide effort to immunize the popu
lation from this crippling disease.
Hoboken High School, Hortense
Elementary School, Nahunta High
School, and Nahunta Colored School
are the stations designated for their
areas. The oral vaccine will be ad
ministered from 12:00 a. m. to 6:00
p. m.
It is just as necessary to receive
the third vaccine as the first. Each
vaccine deals with a certain type
of polio. No one can consider him
self immune unless he has taken
all three saturated sugar cubes.
Persons who have failed to receive
one or the other vaccine should still
take this one. If an individual miss
es a particular Sunday, he should
remember which type he failed to
receive, and take advantage of the
first opportunity to be immunized.
The vaccine comes frozen in large
quantities, and is simple to admin
ister on a mass basis. It is more
difficult to provide in individual
quantities by a doctor or health nur
se.
The present supply can be kept
only one week. In case someone is
not able to come on Sunday because
of sickness, the vaccine can be re
ceived at the health office in Na
hunta during the following week.
Since many people have colds and
other minor sicknesses during this
time of year, they may wonder if
they should go. Dr. Lee Walker
stated that anyone can take it pro
vided they do not have a fever at
the time.
Brantley County has rated well
with other counties in percentages
receiving the vaccine. The goal is
80 percent of all citizens, whether
young or old. This percentage is
deemed sufficient to eradicate the
disease completely. Since the Sabin
Oral Polio vaccine destroys the vi
rus in carriers as well as victims,
every citizen is urged to take it.
Wildlife Rangers
In District Made
523 Cases in '63
Wildlife Rangers of the Way
cross District State Game and
Fish Commission checked 13,572
hunting and fishing licenses in
1963. They also made 523 cases
for violations of the game, fish
and boating laws.
They appeared in court on <22
cases, and removed 125 traps,
baskets, nets and seines from the
streams of the district.
The Rangers presented 50 pro
grams to schools, civic clubs, etc.
The Way cross district consists
of 13 counties with District Head
quarters in Way cross. The coun
ties are: Clinch, Echols, Lanier,
Atkinson, Charlton, Berrien, Ba
con, Pierce,, Ware, Appling,
Brantley, Wayne, and Lowndes.
Annie Ruth Johns
Leading Nahunta
By LURNER WILLIAMS
In Savannah Morning News
Nahunta’s fabulous Annie Ruth
Johns would very likely have set a
state scoring record last week had
coach not taken her out of the
game after the first half.
Coach Forrest Thomas and his 6-1
senior star both agreed that scoring
75 or 100 points would have served
no good purpose.
As it was, Annie Ruth scored 48
points in the first half against out
classed St. George, and she saw no
further action.
The 48 points brought her to an
even 2,500 points in her three year
career—and she still has almost
half a season to go.
Friday night Atkinson County came
into Nahunta bent on an upset and
tried a control type game. The At
kinson girls out-rebounded Nahunta,
and the unbeaten Wild Kittens were
fortunate to pull out a 34-32 decision
and extend their win string to 17
games. Coach Thomas said so.
Annie Ruth score her season low
of 24 points in the Atkinson game,
and it pulled her season average
Stockholders of
Citizens Bank
Hold Meeting
The annual meeting of The Citizens
Bank was held Monday, January 13.
In reviewing the years operation
Mr. Lester pointed out that total as
sets show an increase of 12 percent.
Operations were correspond
ingly satisfactory and continued
growth is anticipated for the year
1964.
Directors reelected were Mr. Wil
liam Mizell, chairman of the Board,
J. H. Lester, Jr., C. E. Glenn, J. V.
Gowan and W. C. Hopkins.
New directors elected were W. A.
McQueen, B. S. Johnson, H. S. Wil
son and G. T. Brantley.
Mr. Lester was elected to serve
as president of the bank, Mr. Glenn,
vice-president and cashier; M. C.
Mizell, assistant cashier; and Mr.
Brantley, vice-president and mana
ger of the Nahunta branch.
Bartow Farmer
Grows Corn
As Cash Crop
Lewis Jackson, a Bartow County
farmer who produced an average of
92 bushels of corn per acre on 200
acres, is an excellent example of
what many corn growers are doing
in Georgia’s expanded corn produc
tion program, according to W. H
Gurley, Extension agronomist of the
University of Georgia.
“Such a record is no accident,”
Mr. Gurley said. “It took a lot of
planning and a pretty good ‘prescrip
tion’ to make such a yield on a
large acreage.”
The agronomist pointed out that
most Georgia soils will produce only
20 to 25 bushels per acre without
the addition of adequate amounts of
nitrogen, phosphate and potash.
A good “prescription” for growing
corn, and one which Mr. Jackson
followed, the agronomist said, is
phosphate, lime and potash applied
according to soil test recommenda
tions and one and one-half pounds
of nitrogen for each bushel of com
expected. “Generally, 60 to 80 pounds
of phosphate and potash are required
to produce 100 bushels of corn. The
soil pH should be between 6.0 and
6.8.”
Mr. Jackson used 100 pounds of ni
trogen, 60 pounds of phosphate and
60 pounds of potash per acre to pro
duce his crop. He grew 11,000 plants
per acre. “Enough plants per acre
of an adapted hybrid are important,”
Mr. Gurley said, pointing out that
Mr. Jackson probably could have in
creased his yield by having 2,000 to
3,000 more plants per acre.
Mr. Gurley pointed out that 1,690,-
000 acres of corn or grain were
grown in Georgia in 1963 with a re
cord-breaking state average yield of
43 bushels per acre. “Many farm
ers,” he said, “are realizing that
corn can be a good cash crop when
proper production practices are fol
lowed.”
Sets Fast Pace in
Girls Winning Team
down to 42 points per game.
In 17 games she has canned 713
points, and the Nahunta guard corps,
Winnie King, Iris Proctor and Helen
Jacobs have held the opposition to
661 points.
Annie Ruth, who did not play bas
ketball as a freshman in order to
devote more time to her studies
(she is a Beta Club member), aver
aged 35.35 last year, by scoring 1,-
202 points in 34 games.
Many think Annie Ruth could have
scored 100 points against St. George.
Coach Thomas, however, said flatly,
“It wouldn’t have been right.”
Teaming at forward with Annie
Ruth is Frances Ellis, with a 12-
point average, and Martha Thomas,
the coach’s sister.
Most coaches and fans say of the
modest Nahunta star that she is the
most complete girl basketball play
er ever to play in southeast Georgia.
A tremendous rebounder and ball
handler, Annie Ruth moves fast and
well. Her jump shot is her main
scoring weapon, and her 62 per cent
average from the field this year
testifies to it’s accuracy.
90 New Industries
Lccate on Power
Company Lines
Ninety new industries, representing
a capital investment of 45,923,000,
located on the lines of the Georgia
Power Company during 1963, E. A.
Yates, Jr., vice president and man
ager of the company’s area develop
ment department, announced this
week.
This compares with 80 new indus
tries, with an investment of 55,497,-
000, that began operation in the
power company’s service area dur
ing 1962.
All facilities as reported by the
power company are manufacturing
or processing plants, each with a
minimum capital investment of $50,-
000 and employing at least 10 work
ers.
In addition to the new plants, 73
existing industries expanded their
operations in 1963, Total investment
in these expanded facilities was $21,-
861,000. The previous year, 66 manu
facturing pants increased their pro
ductive capacity at a cost of $20,-
130,000.
The new and expanded units of
1963 will give employment to 10,-
472 Georgians at annual wages of
$34,400,880. Manufacturing plants and
additions during 1962 provided 8,830
jobs at annual wages of $30,605,980.
Specialist Gives
Report on Poultry
And Livestock
While cotton, corn, peanuts, tobac
co and pecans were producing re
cord yields and contributing to an
SBS million increase in the value of
Georgia crops in 1963, it looks like
income from poultry and livestock
was about the same as in 1962.
One dramatic increase in the poul
try-livestock area, however, was in
income from eggs.
Paul C. Bunce, Extension Service
market information and outlook spe
cialist at the University of Georgia,
said estimates place income from
Georgia eggs at $108.5 million in
1963. If this estimate holds up, it
will mean an increase of about $14.5
million in egg sales over 1962.
“And it probably means that Geor
gia has moved into second place in
income from this commodity,” ac
cording to Mr. Bunce.
In 26th place just 10 years ago,
the state trailed only California,
Pennsylvania, and lowa in 1962.
Leaders believe California is now the
only state producing more in
come from eggs than Georgia.
Mr. Bunce said the increase from
eggs probably will more than offset
estimated declines for broilers, hogs,
and cattle.
Broilers slaughtered under inspec
tion increased, but price declines
probably kept total income near 1962
levels.
The outlook for 1964 is for increas
ed broiler supplies through Febru
ary, and more layers in broiler sup
ply Hocks assure enough eggs to
make increases possible into the fall
of the new year.
Mr. Bunce said broiler supplies in
excess of increased demand proba
bly will cause pressure on prices to
continue throughout most of 1964.
As for hogs, their estimated num
bers went down in 1963, and so did
prices. Mr. Bunce explained that
this was due to the fact that na
tional numbers were up, causing
reduced prices throughout the coun
try, including Georgia.
Indications are that there will be
fewer hogs slaughtered in 1964 than
in ’63. Mr. Bunce believes low prices
in the winter months will be fol
lowed by a rising trend beginning
by March, when supplies of hogs
going to market decline.
He said hog prices should contin
ue upward to a summer high at
about the 1963 level. They could be
a little higher, he continued, but
competition from cattle and broilers,
both of which are expected to be in
larger supply, may keep hog prices
from going above last year’s figure.
Cattle numbers reached about 107
million head on farms as of Jan.
1. This is up three percent from a
year ago.
Cattle kept for milk have declined
aeain bv about three percent, so
beef cattle numbers are up by about
five percent.
Personals
Tommy Tucker, Jr., of Nahunta
is a cadet at Georgia Military Co!
lege, Milledgeville, Ga. He entered
college at the beginning of the win
ter term.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Hamp Walker
Died Wednesday
At His Home
Mr. Hamp Walker, 76, of Rt. 1,
Nahunta, passed away Wednes
day, January 15, at his home
following a coronary seizure. Mr.
Walker had returned to his home
from Jacksonville on Tuesday
and was in apparent good health
when last seen in Nahunta. His
body was discovered on the porch
of his home by a neighbor, who
in turn notified the authorities.
Mr. Walker was born in
Wayne, now Brantley, county and
was the son of the late Hamp
and Dora O’Brien Walker. He
received his education in the
schools of the county and from
early manhood until his retire
ment had engaged in farming
operations.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs.
Laura Crews Walker; four daugh
ters, Mrs. Hazel Annis of Har
mony, Maine, Mrs. Ernest Wil
liams, Mrs. Louise Johns, and
Mrs. Waddell Crews, all of
Jacksonville, Fla; four sons, Clyde
Walker of Opelika, Ala., Lester
Walker of Jacksonville, Fla., El
ton Walker and Morris Walker,
both of Harmony, Maine; one
sister, Mrs. Polly Crews of
Brunswick.
29 grandchildren, 4 great
grandchildren, several nieces,
nephews and other relatives also
survive.
Funeral services will be held
Saturday afternoon, January 18,
at three o’clock from the Hickox
Baptist Church with the Rev.
Eddie J. Dixon officiating.
Interment will follow in the
Hickox Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers, all
grandsons, will be Messrs. Eu
stis Walker, Lavelle Walker,
Jackie Williams, Tommy Crews,
Kenneth Williams and Wayne
Crews.
The family has the sympathy
of their many friends in their
bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral Home
of Nahunta is in charge of ar- t
rangements.
March of Dimes
Campaign Starts
In Brantley
The March of Dimes campaign to
raise funds has started in Brantley
County.
The goal this year is $1,300, the
same amount raised last year. Mrs.
Carl Ellis is chapter chairman.
W. C. Long is chairman of the
finance committee, in charge of the
present drive. Mrs. Guy Chambless
is chairman of the Mothers March.
Herbert Colvin is chairman of the
Hoboken district in the March of
Dimes campaign.
The funds raised are used for
treatment and research on such dis
eases as arthritis and birth defects.
SATILLA RURAL ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION MAKES
1963 PROPERTY TAX PAYMENTS — Shown above handing a check
for $538.08 to John M. Wilson, Brantley County Tax Commissioner is
R. L. Lanier, Manager of Satilla Rural Electric Membership Corporation
The Cooperative paid a total of $48,097.39 in property taxes to the state
counties and cities for 1963. This is for property values located within
the respective areas served. Rural electric cooperatives throughout
Georgia paid over one million dollars in property taxes during 1963 The
Satilla Co-op serves only a small part of Brantley County, in the Hot -
tense area. The Okefenoke Co-op serves the most of the rural sections
of the county.
Subscription Price
and Tax
Inside county — $2.58
Outside county, in state .... $3.09
Outside state $3.00
Brantley County primary elec
tion to nominate county officials
will be held Wednesday, March
11, according to the decision of
the Brantley County Democratic
Committee which met at the
courthouse Wednesday night, Jan.
15.
Candidates for county officers
must qualify by noon Saturday,
Feb. 1, the committee decided.
The election was set for March
11, with the requirement that
majority rule prevails. Any run
off necessary would be held on
Wednesday, March 25, two weeks
after the first election.
It was decided that all fees
paid in by prospective candidates
would be retained and that no
fees would be returned in case
of a candidate’s withdrawal.
It was decided to have the
county representative run in the
fall state primary election, with
the fee set at S3OO and the quali
fying date the same as may be
set for state officers by the
State Democratic Committee.
Qualifying fees for the various
county officers were set as fof
lows:
Sheriff, Ordinary, Clerk, Tax
Commissioner and Superintend
ent of Schools S3OO.
Treasurer $75, county commis
sioner S6O, c®roner SSO, surveyor
$25.
Members of the Brantley Couri
ty Democratic Committee are as
foliows:
Hoboken: R. R. Kelly an d
Fred Lee.
Atkinson: Cecil Drury and
Julian Middleton.
Hortense; Ted Strickland and
Ike Moody.
Hickox: Woodrow Hendrix arid
Jasper Johnson.
Lulaton: Clifton Strickland and
S. B. Highsmith.
Nahunta: J. D. Orser and
Ewell Herrin.
Schlatterville; Robert Amm «ns
and Owen Griffin.
Waynesville: Virginia Omick
and Henry McVeigh.
Let's Find Out
What's Causing
That Cough
By The Medical Association
of Georgia
More than 300 Georgians die of
lung cancer each year. This tod
could be reduced if all persons with
persistent coughs would see their
doctors promptly and if adults over
40 would have periodic X-ray exam
inations.
If this were done, more lung can
cers would be detected in earlier
stages and more lives undoubtedly
would be saved. Persistent cough is'
the first sign of lung cancer in pn
estimated 90 per cent of the patients
who have the disease. And it is most
likely to occur in persons over 40.
The disease is more often found
among city residents than among r»u
ral people. It is often found among
persons who consistently breathe
dusty, irritating or polluted air and
among heavy smokers. It has bejen
found to be more common among
people in certain occupations — tin
smiths, welders, persons working
with certain chemicals and radioac
tive materials — than in the general
population.
