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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Dec. 17, 1964
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Official Organ of Brantley County
Carl Broome Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia
NOTHING COMMON
ABOUT EXPENSE
OF COMMON COLD
There is nothing common a
bout the common cold as far
as expense is concerned. It
runs up an uncommonly high
bill in the United States every
year.
Just how high was discover
ed this week by Miss Lucile
Higginbotham, head of the
Cooperative Extension Service
health department, as another
common cold season approa
ches.
In addition to the discom
fort and the more serious ill
ness which the common cold
causes, she said you add the
time lost from work, school
and play; a $3 billion medical
bill, and an estimated $2 bil
lion cost to industry in lost
productivity.
The common cold is com
mon in one respect, in that
it is most common of all hu
man ailments. Most every in
dividual has from one to three
colds during the year, and for
some reason young children
have more than adults.
According to Miss Higgin
botham, the non-feverish, nose
infections cold — usually call
ed the “common cold” — com
prises only a fraction of a lar
ge group of upper respiratory
diseases. The group also in
cludes certain pneumonias,
croup, influenza, and para-in-
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— and a New Year full of good health
and happiness!
It’s traditional for friends and good neighbors to
wish each other well at this time of the year. We’re
glad of the opportunity to wish you a very Happy
Holiday Season. . ..
We’d like to also give you our pledge to continue
our best efforts to make our community a better
place in which to live and work ... to continue
our endeavor to bring to our Member-Owners the
best possible electric service at the- lowest possible
cost.
This Christmas, let us all give thanks for our
many blessings ... let us renew the spirit of co
operation on which the great and beneficial pro
gram of Rural Electrification is built. . . .
OKEFENOKE
RURAL ELECTRIC
MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION
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fluenza.
The health specialist cited a
recent study by health and
medical authorities showing
there are approximately 284
million acute respiratory ill
nesses serious enough to re
quire medical attention during
the year.
Modern research techniques
have identified more than 100
new viruses of humans since
1948. Recent studies show that
many of these newly discover
ed viruses cause the more se
vere kinds of colds, Miss Hig
ginbotham said. In fact, the
great majority of colds appear
to be due to viruses.
Miss Higginbotham did offer
one encouraging note: “When
medical scientists learn which
microbes cause most of our
colds and how to use them
to stimulate the highest possi
ble degree of immunity, it
may be possible to make a sin
gle vaccine or probably seve
ral vaccines to prevent many
of these diseases.”
Meanwhile, people will pro
bably go on feeding or starv
ing their colds, going on fruit
juice diets, and swallowing e
very advertised drug they or
their well-meaning relatives
and friends happen to know
about. As far back as medical
records go, people have tried
one remedy after another to
“cure” a cold.
Miss Higginbotham said
there is still no known cure.
There are, however, some
helpful hints, such as how to
escape at least some colds;
how to prevent such helpful
hints, such as how to escape
at least some colds; how to
prevent such complications as
pneumonia, bronchitis, sinusi
tis, and ear infections; how to
avoid carelessly transmitting
colds to others, and what to
do when you feel a cold com
ing on.
She said a free copy of help
ful hints about colds may be
■ obtained by writing to the
Cooperative Extension Service,
University of Georgia, Athens.
We Do All Kinds
| of Job Printing.
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.
Specialist Gives
Helpful Hints
On Buying Toys
A Cooperative Extension Ser
vice health specialist describes
parents this time of year as
“wandering glassy-eyed with be
wilderment through a jungle of
toys.”
With so many playthings from
which to choose, they wonder
which toys will be best for their
child, said Mrs. Lucile Higgin
botham of the University of Geor
gia.
Should they be educational or
just for fun? Either way, ad
vised Miss Higginbotham, toys
should be challenging and safe.
She recommended that special
care be exercised in selecting
toys for a child who is ill or con
valescing. She said physicians pre
fer that such toys not require in
tense concentration because the
child’s attention span is short and
deep concentration may become a
strain on the youngster.
“So unreal” is the way Miss
Higginbotham described grotesque
toys. These can be very frighten
ing to a child and may cause him
to have nightmares,” she declar
ed.
The health specialist continued
that any unsafe toy is the wrong
toy. During the Christmas holi
days, she said, doctors have found
an increase in eye injuries. “Toys
such as air rises, bows and ar
rows, and a treacherous plastic
pistol with a six-inch rubber-cap
projectile may cause serious in
juries when given to a young
child.”
In addition to the safety factor,
parents were urged to consider
what the toy can do for the child,
or what it u ill permit him to do
for himself. Miss Higginbotham
suggested obtaining answers to
these questions: Will it develop
his interest, creative ability, and
knowledge? Will it invite him to
physical activity connected with
play? Will the toy, such as a doll
or stuffed animal, serve as a com
panion? Will it encourage associa
tion with other children? Will it
provide dramatic play for a make
believe world?
Or will the toy give the child
merely fleeting amusement, rath
er than continuing pleasure and
entertainment?
Miss Higginbotham pointed out
that a child learns through play,
and added that a good toy should
oermit him to achieve something,
to think, and to experiment.
HOW TO MAKE
CHRISTMAS TREES
FIRE RESISTANT
Christmas trees, in addition
to being fire hazards, also shed
foliage and create cleaning
problems.
This comes about because
the trees dry out, said George
D. Walker, Cooperative Exten
sion Service forester at the
University of Georgia. He add
ed that most of these problems
can be eliminated with a mini
mum of time and trouble.
Here’s how: First, get a fresh
tree. “And it stands to reason,”
Mr. Walker explained, “that
locally-grown trees will be
fresher than those shipped in
from northern states or Cana
da.”
If the tree is not mounted
immediately, stand it in a
bucket of water and keep it
outdoors in a cool, shady place.
Before mounting, Mr. Walk
er suggested cutting off the
end of the trunk diagonally
at least one inch above the ori
ginal cut. Place the tree in a
container of water, and keep
the water level above the cut
surface as long as the tree is
in the house.
The Extension forester ex
plained that this will mean ad
ding a little water each day.
He said many commercial tree
stands have a water container
for this purpose. He added that
a bucket of wet sand will serve
the same purpose.
The Forest Products Labora
tory tested several treatments
to reduce the likelihood of fire
and found that the most satis
factory and convenient method
was to keep the base of the
tree in water. Christmas trees
kept in this manner will stay
green, fresh, and fire resistant.
“It is surprising to find.” Mr.
Walker stated, “that these trees
| cannot be ignited by candle
or match fires.” He added
however, that they cannot
withstand a large source of
heat-
Is it possible to speak to or
contact the souls of the dead?
There is only one instance giv
en in the Bible of communication
between the living and the dead
and that is the appearance of the
departed Samuel to King Saul.
This incident is recorded in the
28th chapter of I Samuel and e
ven in that instance we find the
Witch of Endor completely sur
prised by her success.
The practice of so-called spirit
ualism is as old as man for there
has always been in the heart of
man the desire to delve into the
unknown. However, the Bible se
verely condemns the children of
God for having anything to do
with those who deal in spiritism,
necromancy, witchcraft or fortune
telling.
“Do not turn to mediums or
wizards; do not seek them out,
to be defiled by them: I am the
Lord your God.” Leviticus 19:31.
“A man or a woman who is a
medium or a wizard shall be put
to death; they shall be stoned
with stones, their blood shall be
upon them.” Leviticus 20:27. As
God gave commandments to the
children of Israel before their en
trance into the land of Canaan,
He gave them this admonition,
“There shall not be found among
you anyone who burns his son
or his daughter as an offering,
any one who practices divination,
a soothsayer, or an augur, or a
sorcerer, or a charmer, or a med
ium, or a wizard, or a necro
mancer. For whoever does these
things is an abomination to the
Lord” Deuteronomy 18:10-12
You say, “But aren’t these for
tune tellers and so-called medi
ums with their seances all fakes?”
No, difficult as it may be for
us to believe, there are those
who have contact with A spirit
world, but they do NOT contact
the spirits or souls of the dead.
However, many who have lost
loved ones have been deluded by
Satan into believing that they
have received a message from
that other world.
We must remember that there
is a spirit world around us. When
Jesus went back to heaven, He
sent the Holy Spirit into the world
to testify of Himself, convict the
world of sin and to guide the be
liever into the truth. There is al
so a great host of angelic beings
round about us who take an ac
tive interest in the affairs of men.
They protect the children of God
from harm. They guide, they de
fend, they watch over the church.
The atmosphere about you is fill
ed with spiritual beings—both
good and bad. Satan is a spirit
and the Bible tells us that he is
going up and down upon the earth
seeing who he might deceive. His
helpers, the demons, are there al
so tempting man and keeping
men and women from believing
in God.
When an individual dies, his
soul goes immediately to be with
Christ or immediately to Hell if
he is unsaved, but it, the soul,
cannot return. God has warned
against those who deal in spiri
tism and Revelation 21:8 tells us
that they shall have their part in
the lake of fire. So that leaves
Satan and his demons as the res
ponsible agents. True, there are
many fake mediums with their
tipping tables and seance rooms
who do nothing but trick the pub
lic, but there are also genuine
mediums who do contact spirits—
not the spirits of the dead, but of
demons. Satan has assigned cer
tain demons to become familiar
with the habits, voice and other
characteristics of human beings.
So when a medium puts her mind
under spirit control, the ‘familiar’
spirit takes over and is able to
answer questions concerning the
past life of the one you wish to
contact.
The ever increasing interest in
spiritism is one of the signs of
the last days and Christians
should be ever on guard that
even “in fun” they might not
come in contact with the demonic
power of Satan who is ever seek
ing those who might be led a
stray. Spiritism is demonism. Let
us beware of it.
Nahunta High School
Basketball Schedule
HOME GAMES
Tues., Jan. 5 Clinch Co.
Fri., Jan 8 Atkinson Co.
Fri., Jan. 22 Charlton Co.
Tues., Jan. 26 Blackshear
Tues., Feb. 2 Camden Co;
Fri., Feb. 5 Hoboken
Fri., Feb. 12 Odum
AWAY GAMES
Fri., Dec. 18 Charlton Co.
Tues., Jan. 12 Manor
Sat., Jan. 16 Screven
Tues., Jan. 19 Camden Co.
Fri., Jan. 29 Ludowici
Tues., Feb. 9 Patterson
Coach: Forrest Thomas
Managers: Dale Hulett. Wayne
Patton.
Colors: Black and White
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