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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 49 Hoboken Future Farmer Chapter Receives Highest Award in State The Hoboken Chapter of Future Farmers of America received the Superior Chapter Award. This makes four years in a row we have received this award. The superior Chapter Award is the highest award which the State offers. It is the second highest in the national Award. We con sider it a great honor to have received this award for the last four years. To receive this award a Chap ter must meet the standards es tablished by the national organi zation. When a Chapter attains superior rating the first time it is awarded a plaque by the founda tion. Every year after, the chap ter receives an engraved plate showing the rating for attachment on the plaque. Some of the requirements for receiving this award are: 1. Must have held at least 12 meetings per year, including two summer meetins. 2. The Chapter each year con fers the honorary Chapter Farm er Degree upon adults who are deserving of the recognition. 3. Chapter earn sufficient mon ey to adequately finance its ac tivities. 4. The Chapter have a partici pant in the F. F A. public speak ing contest. 5. Chapter represented in a jud ging contest conducted or appro ved by the State Association. 6. Have an F. F. A. member ship equal to 100 percent of the net vocational agricultural enroll ment in high school. 7. Chapter representative at tended the National F. F. A. con vention. Ronnie Lynn, reporter Mrs. Moody Serves On Glynn County Reevaluation Committee Mrs. Mable Moody, county school superintendent, went t o Brunswick Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of this week to serve on a committee to reevaluate the Glynn County school system, in cluding Glynn Academy. The Glynn County reevaluation program is for the purpose o f continuing the system’s member ship in the Southern Association for Secondary schools and col leges. HEART ATTACKS KILL Many states still report more hunting fatalities due to heart at tacks than gunshot wounds, re ports Miss Lucile Higginbotham, head of the Cooperative Extension Service health department. Piedmont Association Plans Mobilization Night Dec. 7th The Piedmont Baptist Associa tion will hold Mobilization Night on Monday, December 7, at the Community Center in Nahunta, Ga., at 7.30 P. M. The theme for M Night is “That Men Shall Worship Him.” Zephaniah 2:11. Rev. Virion Griner, pastor of the Blackshear Emmanuel Bap- 'Make Georgia Beautiful Week' is Planned for January 24-30 “Make Georgia Beautiful Week” will be held January 24-30. The University of Georgia Coop erative Extension Service and the Tourist Division of the Georgia Department of Industry and Trade will jointly sponsor the effort which will result in the planting of 300,000 dogwood trees and the removal of trash and litter from thousands of miles of Georgia roads. “I urge all Georgians to partici pate in this project. The results of it will be immeasurable and every resident of this state will benefit as well as Georgia will be more appealing to tourist,” said Governor Carl Sanders when told of the “Make Georgia Beauti ful Week” plans. County Agents will coordinate the plans for the campaign and will work with over 400 Communi ty Clubs and many Civitan Clubs. Garden Clubs throughout the state will join in the effort. Thousands of 4-H Club members will form units to police the main highways on Saturday Jan. 30. They will march out from cities along de signated highways picking up lit ter. Younger 4-H members will BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Pete Gibson Returns from South America Pete J. Gibson, manager of Oke fenoke Rural Electric Member ship Corporation returned Mon day from a week-long trip to sev eral cities in Ecuador, South A merica. Some of the cities visited were Panama City, Panama; Cali, Columbia; Quito, Guayaquil, Daule, and Santo Domingo, Ecu dor. Mr. Gibson made the trip as representative of the Georgia Electric Membership Corporation to observe two rural electric co operatives being formed in Ecua dor. Also making the trip were Mr. Norman A. Clapp, Adminis trator of the Rural Electrification Administration, and Mr. Clyde T. Ellis, General Manager of the National Rural Electric Coopera tive Association, both of Wash ington, D. C. The rural areas of Ecuador are almost completely unelectrified and the United States Government is assisting by long term loans and technical assistance through its AID program to help the Ecua dorian government establish some pilot rural electric co-op projects patterned after the highly suc cessful co-ops in the United States which have been instrumental in bringing central station electric power to about ninety nine per cent of rural America. “The rural people of Ecuador in the areas where I visited are most enthusiastic over the prospects of receiving electric power and I am convinced that their co-ops can be just as successful as are ours in the United States,” stated Mr. Gibson. “The average citizen of Ecuador seems to have great respect for the United States and it is my opinion that their friend ship is due in large part to the good job being done in that coun try by the U. S. — AID officials, the Peace Corps, and the ordin ary U. S. citizens living there.” WHITE OR BROWN? Whether an egg shell is white or brown has no bearing on the nutritive value of the egg. Egg shell color is a breed characteris tic of the hen, explain Cooperative Extension Service poultrymen. The cooking performance, as well as the nutritive value, of eggs of the same grade are identical regardless of color. tist Church, will be the guest speaker. A program of special music has been planned for the evening and loving cups will be awarded to the church with the highest attend ance and to the church with the highest percentage of their en rollment present. patrol the towns. Industries are participating by cleaning up around their com plexes and planting shrubs and dogwoods. Over 300,000 dogwoods which were grown in Georgia Forestry Commission nurseries and provided at a special price will be available, for planting throughout the State. The Georgia Nurserymen’s Association will co operate in the campaign by offer ing special sales during the week. Various contests will be spon sored to determine the county the achieves the most, covering the largest number of miles or weighing in the most pounds of litter. Civic Clubs will participate in tearing down unattractive and un safe buildings, cleaning up va cant lots, removing out-dated po litical signs and promoting a gen eral paint-up and clean-up. Home Demonstration Clubs will be re sponsible for planting dogwoods at club houses and churches. For information on how to do vour part in “Make Georgia Beautiful Week” or on obtaining logwood trees, contact your Coun ty Agent, Clifford Park. Mrs. Thomas Is Honored with Bridal Shower Mrs. Terry Thomas was honor ed with a miscellaneous bridal shower at the R. E. A. Satur day night, Nov: 28. The gift table held an arrange ment of white and yellow chry santhemums and the punch bowl was encircled with the yellow and white mums entwined in green ery. Miss Iris Arnett served at the punch bowl, Miss Sarah Ann Gib son coffee, and Miss Patsy Wal ker kept the guest book. Those attending the occasion were Mrs. Effie Middleton, Mrs. Eloise Hulett, Mrs. Ruth Smith, Mrs. Ruby Morgan, Cindy Rauler son and Miss Marion Morgan, Na hunta. Mrs. Daisy Middleton and Ka thy, Atkinson. Mrs. Charlotte Thomas, Mrs. Lizzie Mae Hendrix and Karen, Mrs. Virginia Bass and Sonya, Hickox. Miss Dorcas Dyess, Mrs. J. L. Dyess and Priscilla, Woodbine. Mrs. Louise Jones, Mrs. D. F. Walker, Mrs. Agnes Johns, Mrs. Mary Lou Gibson, Mrs. Dorothy Gibson, Misses Beth Hunter, Iris Arnett and Faye Coker, Waynes ville. Mrs. Lana Lackey, Jacksonville, Fla. Miss Sarah Anne Gibson, Bruns wick. Mrs. Lorna Thomas, Folkston. Mrs. Virginia Raulerson, Mrs. Marion Gibson and Miss Patsy Walker were hostess. Methodists Plan Kindergarten The Nahunta kindergarten pro gram is once again being plan ned, and will begin on January 4. Arrangements are being made to begin at that time and con tinue till May 28. The program will include all children from four to six years old. Sessions will be held Mon day through Friday from 8:30 A. M. till 11:30 A. M. Registration will be held on December 29, from 2:00 P. M. to 5:00 P. M. at the Nahunta Methodist Church school building. Garden Club To Sponsor Flower Show The Nahunta Garden Club i s sponsoring a Flower Show on Sa turday, Dec. 5, at the High School Cafeteria. Everyone is encouraged to en ter an arrangement. This includes those who are not members of the Garden Club. Make Christ mas or other arrangements. Everyone must have their en tries in place by twelve o’clock noon. Mrs. J. B. Lewis is chairman of the show. Personals Rev. Omer Graves and Mrs. Graves spent Thanksgiving Day with Mrs. Graves’ mother, Mrs. E. K. Ham. They all had Thanks giving dinner with Mrs. Ham’s son Elmer K. Ham and family at Jesup. Mrs. M. L. Anderson of Waycross was with them at the dinner in Jesup. Mrs. E. K. Ham visited her sister, Mrs. Cora Johnson at Hil liard, Fla. They also visited Mrs. Nora Rhine at Yulee, Fla. Mrs. Rhine is recuperating from an illness. Mrs. C. P. Ammons is spend ing several weeks in New Smyr na Beach, Fla., with her daugh ter and family Mr. and Mrs. Lou is C. Bennett and^children. Mrs. Emmie Newton has return ed home after spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jones in Orange Park. Fla. and Mrs. A. B. Dotson of Brunswick. Mrs. Dot son returned home with her and is spending this week. Visitors with Mrs. Alice High smith and family over the week end were Mrs. John B. Highsmith and daughter, Michael of Bruns wick: Mrs. Jimmie Dußarry and children, Jeannette and Jimmie of Big Springs, Oklahoma and Mr. David Russell, Northrick Shore, North Carolina. Hortense P. T. A. will meet Dec. 10, at 7:30 p. m. in the lunchroom. There will be a Christ mas social with a covered dish supper. Everyone is invited. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 3, 1964 Government Forecloses on Lumber Company The Small Business Administra tion bought in the Satilla Lum ber Company assets at a fore closure sale in front of the Brant ley County courthouse Tuesday, Dec. 1. The price bid by the govern ment lender was $30,000. The debt owed by the company was report ed to be upward of $60,000, the balance on the original loan of SBO,OOO. What disposition of the property will be made is unknown. The Satilla Lumber Company operated a lumber and planing mill on Highway 84 about a mile east of Nahunta. 301 Highway Association to Meet at Claxton A meeting of all Georgia mem bers of the 301 Highway Associ ation will be held December 8, at 10:00 A. M., at the C & J Restaurant in Claxton, Ga. The agenda will include the e lection of directors for the State Association. Each community hav ing a member in the Association is eligible to elect one director. Each association member is eli gible to name a director. Com munities eligible to elect direc tors are Sylvania, Statesboro, Claxton, Glennville, Ludowici, Je sup, Nahunta, Folkston. The Statesboro Chamber o f Commerce is also eligible to ap point one Director. After the election of directors, the directors will name their own president and director to the National Board. High on the agenda will be a discussion of a program which it is hoped will make possible some four-laning on U. S. 301 through Georgia. Nahunta Teams Lose to Odum Nahunta lost both games to Odum Tuesday Dec. 1, in Odum. The score for the girl’s game was 38-36. The boy’s score was 52-43. The girls playing for Nahunta were Catherine Johns with 27 points, Brenda Allen with 6 points, Martha Thomas with 3 points, Evelyn Wainright, Iris Proctor, Gail Riggins, Barbara Wiggins, and Linda Burden. The boys playing for Nahunta were Jeff Morgan with 12 points, John Jones with 11 points, Joey Strickland with 11 points, Dennis Raulerson with 6 points, Biily Rowell with 1 point, William Hur sey with 2 points, Hymerick Tho mas, Eugene Crews, Carvella King, Michael Lee, Freddie Hen drix, and Gary Willis. Nahunta Amateur Cage Team Beats Rayonier The Nahunta basketball team of the South Georgia amateur League won from Rayonier by a score of 58 to 51, with Leroy Ham leading the scoring with 18 points. Terry Allen and Layton Johns got 16 points each. Nahunta team members are Terry Allen, Lee Ramsey, Leroy Ham, Bob Hendrix, Layton Johns Claude Smith, Bob Chancey, John Cleland, Wain Brooker and Wayne Rowell. State Revenue Show Increase Os 6 Million The State Revenue Department reported that revenue collections for the month of November were $39,997,262, an increase of $5,983,- 769, or 17.6 percent over the same period last year. This brings total revenue col lections for the fiscal year to $198,552,242, an increase of $28,- 135,305, or 16.6 percent over the same period last year. Flue-cured Acreage Cut 20 Per Cent WASHINGTON - Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman Friday cut the flue-cured tobacco acreage for 1965 to 515,425 acres. This is 19’^ per cent below the 1964 acreage of 639,861 acres. Freeman also set Dec. 15 as the date for a grower referen dum in which farmers will vote whether they are in favor of or opposed to marketing quotas for the next three flue-cured tobacco crops—in 1965, 1966 and 1967. Marketing quotas have been in effect for flue-cured tobacco each year since 1936. The acreage cut, the largest since 1957, was made because supplies of flue-cured tobacco have reached an all-time high of 3,743,000,000 pounds. This is a bout three times expected from domestic use and exports. A de sirable supply generally is con sidered to be about 2% times do mestic use and exports. The state allotments for the 1965 flue-cured crop compared with 1964 allotments: Alabama 500 in 1965, 500 in 1964; Florida 10,949 in 1965, com pared to 13,586 in 1964; Georgia 52,295 in 1965, compared to 64, 912 in 1964; North Carolina 339,- 115 in 1965, compared to 421,093 in 1964; South Carolina 59,709 in 1965, compared to 74,128 in 1964; Virginia 51,570 in 1965 compared to 64,042 in 1964. The department said it will re tain 1,228 acres as a new farms reserve in 1965, compared to 1,- 600 acres in 1964. Dismukes Opens Law Office in Nahunta Attorney Abner B. Dismukes o pened a law office in Nahunta Wednesday, Dec. 2, in the Brook er Building. Mr. Dismukes is a graduate of the Mercer University Law Echool in the class of 1962. He is a na tive of Edison, Ga. He was busi ness manager of the Macon Hos pital for 18 months. Country Music Show and Square Dance The Brantley County Recrea tion Building will have a Coun try Music Show and Old Fashion Square Dance, Saturday Decem ber sth, 9 p. m. 12 midnight. Ken Clark and The Merry Moun- Jtain Boys from Jacksonville, Flo rida will be featured. The regu lar Saturday night skating ses sion will be held Friday night December 4th this week only. The “Sparkles” band from Way cross will play for the regular teen dance Friday, December 11th, 8-11 p. m. They will also play for a special dance New Years night, Friday January 1, 1965. On Friday night, December 25th the Mustangs from Callahan, Flo rida, will play for the regular dance. A New Years Eve country mu sic show and square and round dance will be held from 9 p. m. to 12 midnight, December 31st, again featuring Ken Clark and The Merry Mountain Boys. NON ALCOHOLIC refreshments (free) will be served and favors will be given to all. Charge will be $2.06 per person including refreshments and favors. The recreation committee wish es to remind every one that drink ing is not allowed at any of these functions and violators will be asked to leave. A coupon printed in this issue of the Enterprise and also next week, will entitle anyone to skate for 25c on any Thursday night in December. ’Adv.) ON CHILD CARE Children are able to accept al most any of the human emotions in parents but a “phony” one, according to Miss Audrey Mor gan, head of the Extension Ser vice family life department. “In stead of trying to be perfect par ents,” she says, “it is more im portant to strive to be better peo ple.” Liquor Still Is Destroyed By Officers A liquor still of 5000 gallons ca pacity was destroyed by county and state officers six miles south of Atkinson Wednesday, Nov. 25, according to Sheriff J. Walter Crews. Officers on the raid besides the sheriff were Wesley Burden, de puty sheriff, and state revenue a gents Fischette and Williams. 3000 gallons of mash were found at the still but no liquor and no operators. TURKEY, PEANUTS TOP DECEMBER FOOD PLENTIFULS The U. S. Department of Agri culture’s marketing Service lists turkey, peanuts, and peanut pro ducts at the top of the Decem ber plentiful foods list for the Southeast. Other plentiful foods on the list are apples, beef, broiler-fryers, cranberries, canned and frozen red tart cherries, and canned ripe olives. USDA estimates turkey growers will raise 98.7 million birds this year —a crop second irr size only to the record 108.2 million turkeys raised in 1961. Turkey marketings in December are ex pected to top those of a year ago, the Agricultural Marketing Service reports. The 1964 peanut crop, at more than 2 billion pounds, is 6 per cent larger than last year and nearly a fourth larger than aver age. CYCLING ACCIDENTS TAKE LARGE TOLL Last year, 570 persons were killed when their bicycles were struck by automobiles. Another 30,000 were injured. Os the 570 killed, more than 400 were children between the ages of 5 and 14. Children should be taught to ride properly and should learn the rules of bicycle safety be fore they are allowed to ride. Single copies of a leaflet, “Safe Cycling” are available, free of charge, from the Associ ation of Casualty and Surety Companies at 110 William Street, New York, New York 10038 Legal Advertising NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that there will be heard before the Judge of the Superior Court of Brantley County, on the 14th day of December, 1964, at 2:30 o’clock, P. M., at the Courthouse in the City of Nahunta, Georgia, the case of the STATE OF GEORGIA VS. BRANTLEY COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT, Number 21- 54, pending in said Court, the same being a proceeding to con firm and validate a bond issue in the amount of $200,000 to be issued by Brantley County School District for the purpose of pro viding funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing and equip ping school buildings and facili ties useful in connection there with, adding to, improving, reno vating, repairing and equipping existing educational facilities of Brantley County School District, acquiring the necessary property therefor, both real and personal, and paying expenses incident to accomplishing the foregoing, and any citizen of the State of Geor gia residing in said County, or any other person wherever resid ing, who has a right to object may intervene and become a par ty to these proceedings. This the 27 day of November, 1964. D. F. Herrin Clerk, Superior Court, Brantley County, Georgia 12-10. NOTICE Pursuant to Section 59-319 of the Georgia Code, as amended, no tice is hereby given that the Grand Jury for the January Term, 1965, of Brantley Superior Court will appoint three members of the Brantley County Board of Health, whose terms and qualifications shall be in accordance with Sec tion 88-205 of the Georgia Code Annotated (Georgia Health Code, Act 936, approved March 18, 19- 64). This 30th day of November, 19- 64. D. F. Herrin Clerk, Superior Court Brantley County, Georgia. Seal. 12-10. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Tobacco Growers Vote on Quotas Tuesday Dec. 15 Flue-cured tobacco growers will vote Tuesday, Dec. 15, on market ing quotas for the next three crops, George Dykes, Chairman of the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation County Commit tee, reminded farmers. Growers eligible to vote in the referendum are all those who pro duced flue-cured tobacco in 1964 and shared in the crop or its proceeds. Also, each person who was either the owner or opera tor of a farm for which a 1964 flue-cured tobacco allotment was established is eligible to vote, e ven though no tobacco was act ually produced on the farm in 1964, if an allotment was estab lished for the farm for 1965. For the 1965 crop of flue-cured tobacco, the Department of Agri culture has announced a total of 515,425 acres available for allot ment. This compares with 638,- 241 acres alloted for 1964. Under an allotment program, the allot ments are announced annually, for one year at a time. The total supply of flue-cured tobacco for the current market ing year is 3,743 million pounds, including a July 1 carryover of 2,379 million pounds and estimated 1964 production of 1,364 million pounds. The carryover included 685 million pounds under Govern ment loan. This total supply is an all-time high and represents 3.0 times ex pected disappearance (domestic usage plus exports). It is also a bout 500 million pounds above a desirable level—generally consid ered to be about 2.5 times dis appearance. Intensifying our supply problem are the large surpluses in for eign producing countries availa ble at lower prices as compared with our prices. “The decision to be made in the quota referendum can be simply stated,” Chairman Dykes de cared. “If quotas for flue-cured tobacco are approved by at least two-thirds of the growers voting, the law provides that the present program will be continued for the next three crops— with penalties on excess tobacco marketed, a creage allotments and price sup ports. “On the other hand, if more than one-third of the voters dis approve quotas by voting NO, there will be no marketing quo- Questions and Answers on the Bible BY MRS. GLADYS B. JOHNSON Readers are invited to submit questions they would like dis cussed to Mrs. Gladys B. Johnson, Blackshear, Ga. How can we reconcile the Bi ble account of Creation with the fact that Science claims the world to be millions of years old? First of all let me say that true science and the Bible are always in complete agreement. Scientific theories, no — but as science has advanced in its dis coveries of the workings of this wonderful world of ours, it has found the Bible statement to be absolutely true. In the first verse of the Book of Genesis we read, “God created the heaven and the earth.” Cre ated — meaning to bring into ex istence that which had no PRE VIOUS existence. Let us keep in mind Paul’s words in Hebrews 11:3, “Through faith we under stand that the worlds were fram ed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” Has God ever created or done anything that was not perfect? Os course not. Therefore, we must assume that when He had com pleted His creation it was good and beautiful and finished. Yet, in the second verse we read, “And the earth was without form and void: and darkness was up on the face of the deep.” How could that be? This was a world of darkness and emptiness — for void means empty, desolate, uninhabited. In Job 9:5-7 we find that God caused the sun to remain hidden for a period of time in these ear ly ages so that without light or heat there resulted a sudden change of temperature upon the earth, dropping to several hun dred degrees below zero. This caused the earth’s surface to be covered with water and ice. Ev erything living was destroyed in- Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state $3.09 Outside state $3.00 tas, no penalties on excess tobac co, and no price support pr o gram on the 1965 crop.” Leaf Tobacco Stocks Higher Than year Ago The U. S. Department of Agri culture reports that leaf tobacco stocks as of October 1 were higher than a year earlier. USDA’s Agricultural Market ing Service says that tobacco stocks in the United States and Puerto Rico totaled 5 billion pounds on October 1. This was 270 million pounds more than on October 1, 1963. The report is based on the quarterly reports of dealers and manufacturers. Stocks held under government loan, and included in the total, were nearly 1.2 billion pounds (farm-sales-weight). This com pares with 724 million pounds a year ago. Loan stocks were di vided as follows: Flue-cured, 818.- 8 million pounds; burley, 265.4 million; fire-cured, 42.1 million; dark air-cured, 21.4 million; Maryland, 16.6 million; and cigar leaf, 9.1 million. Total stocks of flue-cured to bacco on October 1, acording to the Agricultural Marketing Ser vice’s Tobacco Division, were 2,720,150,000 pounds, or about 93, 637,000 pounds more than on October 1, 1963. Stocks of burley tobacco total ed 1,412,168,000 pounds, or about 184,272,000 pounds more than a year earlier. Fire-cured tobacco stocks to taled 118,282,000 pounds on Oc tober 1. This was about 4,828,000 pounds more than a year ago. Maryland tobacco stocks, at 89,- 549,000 pounds, were about 3,- 504,000 pounds larger than a year earlier. Dark air-cured stocks, at 65,347,- 000 pounds, were up 2,060,000. CORN YIELD FORECAST Georgia’s 1964 corn yield i s now forecast at 43 bushels per acre, the same as last year’s re cord-breaking yield. cluding those huge creatures whose fossil remains are occa sionally found today. In Isaiah 45:18 we read, “For thus saith the Lord that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be INHABITED.” He formed it to be inhabited but here it i s without form and void. So between the first and sec ond verses of Genesis there evi dently was a period of time which may account for all the geologic ages with which science con founds us. Millions of years could have elapsed between the origi nal creation and the statement given in the second verse that “the earth was (or became) with out form and void”. God did not feel it necessary to tell us how this confusion and chaos came a bout, but many reliable Bible scholars believe it may have been the fall from heaven of Satan and “the angels that sinned.” Isaiah 14:12-17 is a description of that fall. If you will turn to Jeremiah 4:23-26 you will read there of a judgement of God in a time BE FORE ADAM which destroyed the world as it originally was cre ated. Isaiah 24:1 says, “Behold, the Lord maketh the earth emp ty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scat tereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.” The full truth of the matter is in the mind of God and we should be content to leave it there. As a seeker of truth once said, “If I can believe the first verse of the Bible I can believe the whole Book.” Ask God to give you the faith to take Him at His Word.