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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 48 — NUMBER 1 Jury Lists Are Drawn for January 18 Court Term GRAND JURY R. F. Hagin, C. F. Dukes, D. A. Cason, I. J. Davis, Lester J. Edgy, Stewart J. Wiggins, George Steedley, Ellis Altman, E. T. Rozier, J. E. Aldridge, Virginia Omick. J. C. Clubb, Lee Godwin, J. C. Harrison, Bobby Harris, Sam McAfee, L. J. Cason, L. W. Robinson, W. B. Willis, N. C. Davis Sr., C. J. Easterling, Charles H. Gillis, Harry Smith, Ira Thomas, Jasper Johnson, Dave Rowell, R. H. Schmitt, N. M. Herrin, E. H. Kelly, Dan Jacobs. TRAVERSE JURY Gordon Howard, J. H. Lee, Otis Lewis, Johnny Cleland, John C. Crawford, Perry Rho den, Ira F. Brown, Claude G. Sears, Perry Johns, L. H. Lani er, T. J. Thornton, John Ches ser, S. D. Kelly, Lester Gunter, Jr., George M. Johns, H. L. Gunter, W. R. Batten, Riley Johns, Fred Lee, H. B. Green, Everett E. Hickox, Emory Middleton. R. B. Crews, Joseph D. Hic kox, Mrs. C. P. Riggins, R. D. Thomas, Edward Brand, D. S. Stevens, R. E. Austin, Arthur C. Altman, J. F. Crews, Lester S. Hickox, Albert Purdom, J. R. Herrin, Roscoe Murray, Mitchell Hulett, W. J. Steedley, Teon Lake, L. C. Batten, F. P. Hunter, J. V. Strickland, H. W. Brauda, W. A. Brooker, Mrs. Vernon Strickland, O. A. Jones. Robert Hunter, Mrs. C. F. Dußose, Leon Sikes, Claude Dußose, W. C. James, Jr., S. D. Lee, Roy Harper, M- H. Edgy, J. L. Brauda, D. 0. Ingle, Joel Herrin, H. C. Morgan, John I. Lee. Donald Davis, E. M. Tucker, R. E. Austin, John W. Davis. E. K. Pearson, Mrs. P. D. Griffin, R. P. Aldridge, Julia Gibson, T. L. Dowling, Kennon Altman, Harry Knox. Harry DePratter, J. Q. Smith, Vernon E. Nichols, Joe C. Crews Jr., James M. Kelly, A. J. Carter, J. F. Brooker, A. C. Herrin. A. W. Adams, W. W. Hendrix, Alvin Drury, E. B. Campbell, Hilton Morgan, W. C. Thomas. C. E. Hickox, R. T. Thrift, Donald Shuman, Ray Johns, Clyde Dowling, L. E. Dickerson, W. L. Montague. Long to Head March of Dimes Fund Campaign W. C. Long will again head the Brantley County March of Dimes in 1965. Mrs. Carl Ellis, Chair man of the Brantley County Chapter, made the announcement at a March of Dimes meeting held Dec. 31. March of Dimes workers attend ing the meeting included Mrs. J. C; Clubb, Mothers’ March Chair man; Mrs. Guy Chambless, Jr., Assistant Mothers’ March Chair man; Mrs. W. L. Montague, Vice- Chairman of the Chapter; Mrs. Clara Highsmith, Chapter Treas urer; and Mrs. Nellie Long. The March of Dimes group a greed to ask Mr. Herbert Colvin to serve as Chairman at Hobo ken and Mr. Jimmy Thurston as Chairman at Hortense. The 1964 March of Dimes in Brantley County totaled $1,628 and ranked third in per capita giv ing in the 52 county area in south east Georgia. State Revenue Collection Shows Quarterly Increase Deputy Commissioner Martin B. Roberts of the State Revenue Department reported that revenue collections for the month of De cember were $35,539,459.00, an in crease of $4,039,490.00, or 12.8% over the same period last year. This increase marks the forty sixth continuous month of growth in state revenue collections. Total revenue collections for the first six months of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1964, are $234,- 091,701.00. This is an increase of $32,174,796.00, or 16%, over the first half of fiscal 1964. When revenues are compared on a calendar year basis, Georgia’s economy during 1964 showed a BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Personals Mrs. Bill Johns is a patient in the Baptist Memorial Hos pital in Jacksonville, Fla. Mrs. Randall Lee who was ill at the home of her daugh ter, Mrs. C. R. Ingram in At lanta is better and spent last week at home. And has re turned to the home of her daughter in Atlanta. Mrs. Winnie Moore has re turned from Champaign, 111. where she spent a week with her brother and family, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Jacobs. Mr. Ja cobs is on the faculty of the University of Illinois. James David Jacobs, U. S. Navy completed his basic training at Great Lakes, 111. on Dec. 16 and has been on leave at home with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Horace Jacobs. He has been assigned to the ship, U. S. S. Rosevelt at May Port, Fla. where he is now station ed. Regular meeting of Hortense P. T. A. will be January 14th at Hortense Lunch Room Thursday 7:30 P. M. Cub Scouts have the program. Everyone is invited. John W. Wainright, 20, whose mother, Mrs. Allie Wainright, lives on Route 1, Nahunta, was promoted to specialist four, Dec. 10, in Germany, where he is serving with the 36th Artillery. Speci alist Wainright, a wireman in Battery C of the artillery’s Ist Battalion in Germany, entered the Army in October 1962. He completed basic training at Fort Gordon, Ga. Seaman Recruit James Ja cobs, 19, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Jacobs of Route 1, Nahunta, has completed, basic training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, 111. Mrs. Alma Griffin is in the Claxton Hospital. She enter ed the hospital Monday, Dec. 28 and will remain there for probably another week. Miss Glenda Wylene Manor is attending Georgia Southern College at Statesboro. She graduated from Nahunta High School in 1963 in 11 years, skipping the second grade. She completed the two-year course at South Georgia College last fall. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Carter Morton, Jr., and daughter Camilla of Cairo, Ga., were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Billy Rowell and son John of Hor tense. Mr. Morton is with the State Agricultural Department and Mrs. Morton is teaching at Pelham. CARD OF THANKS Our sincerest and most grateful thanks go out to all our friends and relatives who so graciously extended help, kind words of sympathy and comforting presence during the illness and death of our loved one, Mrs. Minnie Dowl ing. We are deeply grateful for the floral tributes, the covered dishes and every act and word of comfort with which you tried to help as suage our grief. May the Lord’s richest bless ing be upon evreyone of you for your kind hearts and help ful hands. The family of Mrs. Minnie Dowling. rate of gain that more than doub led that recorded during calendar year 1963, the Deputy Commis sioner reported further. During calendar year 1964, a total of $494,289,457.00 was receiv ed, an increase of $65,659,617.00, or 15.3% more than that col lected during the calendar year 1963. During calendar year 1963, the increase in revenue over the prev ious year was only 7%. The largest gain was shown in Sales and Use Tax in the De cember report by the Department with $16,819,831.00 collected, an increase of $1,329,882.00 over the same period last year. Proceedings of Brantley County Commissioners The Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue of Brantley County met in regular session on Tuesday, December 1, 1964, with all members present and trans acted the following business and ordered the following bills paid for November. GENERAL: C. Winton Adams 60.45 Salary, Archie A. Johns 77.- 10 Salary, John M. Wilson 94.88 Salary, Brown Brooker 78.53 Sal ary, Silas D. Lee 48.19 Salary, Major Riggins 48.19 Salary, Louis Prescott 36.34 Salary, R. C. Har rell, Jr. 35.16 Salary, B. 0. Smith 96.38. SUPERIOR COURT: W. J. Summerall 46.00 Salary, Dewey Hayes 113.34 Salary. EXTENSION SERVICE: Vir ginia N. Raulerson 139.82 Salary and Travel, George A. Loyd 207.- 63 Salary and travel. FORESTRY DEPT.: Georgia State Forestry Department 725.00 Budget. HEALTH DEPT.: Dr. Hart S. Odum 62.00 Travel, Alvin M. Po well 12.00 Travel, Mary Hipp 12.- 00 Travel, Vaxter G. Hammond 115.01 Salary and Travel, Re becca D. Griner 404.62 Salary and travel, and Contigent Fund. Charlotte O. Willis 221.43 Salary, Dr. T. A. Robert 15.00 Dental Clinician, Mrs. R. D. Webb 5.00 Dental Assistant, Dr. J. L. Walk er 30.00 M. C. H. Clinician. DEPT. OF FAMILY AND CHILDREN SERVICE: Dept, of Family and Children Service 994.- 25 Budget, Nora Bell Ham 10.00 Pauper, Riley Crews 10.00 for Junior Dale Morgan, Mamie J. O’- Neal 10.00 Pauper, Robert R. Rig gins 10.00 Pauper, Daniel Rober son 10.00 Pauper, T. D. Warner 10.00 Pauper, Joseph English 10.- 00 Pauper, Lizzie Williams 10.00 Pauper. ROAD DEPT.: Kermit Crews 193.04 Salary, Woodrow Wilson 218.26 Salary, Mitchell Hulett 190.- 72 Salary, Perry Crews 281.71 Sal ary, Roy Warner 188.85 Salary, Gillia Brooker 179.95 Salary, Jas per Moore 223.27 Salary, E. R. Johns 202.39 Salary, Weita Her rin 210.77 Salary, Hermon Lewis 221.12 Salary, Talmadge Gunter 212.67 Salary, Conway Morgan 192.44 Salary, James F. White 220.11 Salary, Dave Rowell 233.22 Salary, Fred Willis 218.26 Salary, Wayne Rowell 197.58 Salary. INVOICES: E. J. Smith 162.97 Brantley Crossing, B & W Com pany 2000.00 Advance on Disaster Construction work, Macie Defoe 100.00 Dirt to be used for emer gency project, Cotton States Life & Health Ins. Co. 12.44 Em ployee’s Premium, Georgia Hos pital Service Association 173.95 Employee’s Premium, Clemmons Truck Parts, Inc. 390.00 Truck parts, F. H. Brooker 6.00 Paint ing cabinet at Health Office, Ma cie Defoe 50.00 Fill dirt, Georgia Power Company 43.05 Light bill, Florida Equipment Co. of Jack sonville, 255.12 Parts, Foote & Davies 198.26 Supplies for Office, Professional Insurance Corp. 152.- 54 Employee’s Premium, Florida Steel Corp. 656.64 Steel pipe, Of fice Machines & Equipment Co. 46.00 Cleaning and adjusting type writer, Standard Oil Company 563.79 Gas and Oil, General Of fice Supply Co. 16.12 Supplies for County Agent, Carlton Company 4,515.29 Parts and repairs, Oke fenoke Rural electric Corp. 41.93 Signal control, The Harrison Company 20.00 Law Book, D. F. Herrin 31.00 Court cost and stamps, The Brantley Enterprise 152.70 Advertising, Ballots and supplies, Vaughn Radiator Shop 15.00 Repair, Depratter Service Station 602.93 Parts and repair, Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co. 600.00 Tank car tank, J. W. Brook er 189.11 Supplies, Okefenoke Ru ral Electric Corp. 4.61 Caution light, Motomco Inc. 85.00 Rat Poison, J. Walter Crews 263.60 Service Rendered, Ellis Drug Store 107.85 Drugs, Tomlinson Drug Store 185.47 Drugs, Way cross Memorial Hospital 89.40 for Mary Jane Crawford, Sam Mc- Afee 50.00 Five days Registrars Service, Alvin Shuman 30.00 Three days Registrars Service, Jessie J. Lee 20.00 Two days Re gistrars Service, Mr. R. C. Har rell Jr. and Mr. Louis Prescott 48.40 Trip to Atlanta, Ga. L. & M Truck & Tractor Co. 258.08 Parts and repair, Wilsons Garage 63.- 60 Supplies, Wilson’s & Sons Oil Co. 720.83 Gas and Oil, C. L. King 10.00, Tommy Broughton 62.50 Re fund Beer License, W. E. Strick land 15.00 Fifteen loads of sand. There being no further business the meeting adjourned. John M. Wilson Clerk of Commissioners The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 7, 1965 Nahunta Teams Split Games With Clinch The Nahunta Wildcats beat Clinch County 78-66 Tuesday Jan. 5 here in Nahunta. In the opening B-Team game the Nahunta boys beat Clinch Co. 35-24. The Clinch Co. girls beat the Nahunta Wild catettes 39-24. Playing for the Nahunta Wild cats were: Catherine Johns with 12 points, Brenda Allen with 10 points, Beth Herrin with 2 points, Martha Thomas, Evelyn Wain right, Dale Sloan, Iris Proctor, Gail Riggins, Barbara Wiggins, Sharon Griffin, Linda Burden, and Melinda Wilson. In the boy’s game John Jones did a fine job of scoring, John and Billy Rowell also did a good job of rebounding during the en tire game. Playing for the Wild cats were: John Jones with 33 points, Billy Rowell with 12 points, Dennis Raulerson with 10 points, Jeff Morgan with 9 points, Hy merick Thomas with 8 points, Joey Strickland with 6 points, and William Hursey. Our next game will be Friday night, Jan. 8, in Nahunta with Atkinson Co. Robertson- Royster Dr. and Mrs. Hunter Marshall Robertson of Statesboro, Ga., an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Mattie Amelia Robert son to Lt. William Thomas Roy ster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Thomas Royster of Nahunta. The wedding will be solemnized at the First Baptist Church in Statesboro on Saturday, Jan. 23, at three-thirty in the afternoon. The bride-elect is a graduate of Georgia Southern College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics. The groom-elect is a graduate of Georgia Southern College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration. He is stationed in Germany in the U. S. Army. No invitations will be sent but all friends and relatives are in vited to attend the wedding. Citizens Bank Assets Show Big Increase The Citizens Bank of Folkston and Nahunta has increased its as sets by $616,542.61 since the last report made in July 1964, six months ago, it is revealed in the bank’s statement published on another page of this newspaper. The Citizens Bank has con tinued to make substantial growth for many years, but the increase in the past six months’ period has been the largest in years. The bank now has assets of $6,432,143.46. J. H. Lester is president of the bank. G. T. Brantley is manager of the Nahunta branch. Garden Club Met Tuesday Mrs. Hubert Sasser, Mrs. Iris Schmitt and Mrs. A. B. Brooker were hostesses to the Nahunta Garden Club at the home of Mrs. Sasser on Tues day Jan. 5. Mrs. Elroy Strickland was in charge of the program giv ing a report on the recent flower show. Others present were Mrs. Elizabeth Barnard, Mrs. Doro thy Graham, Mrs. Jesse Lee, Mrs. Guy Chambless, Mrs. Iris Schmitt and Mrs. Dorothy Brooker, the president. Congealed salad, party mints and nut;s were served. CARD OF THANKS We wish to express our sincere appreciation to every one who was so considerate of us during the illness and at the time of the death of our loved one, Gertrude Hartwig Smith. We thank each one for their kind words of sympathy, for the beautiful floral offerings and those who sent the cover ed dishes. May God bless each one. Sincerely, The family. Robert Page Honored at Hoboken By 1500 at Speaking and Barbecue By John Carroll In Savannah Morning News Wednesday was “Robert Page Day” in Georgia and about 1,500 persons turned out to honor the Brantley County Youth in cere monies at Hoboken High School. Page, 20, the son of Mrs. Mag gie Page of Rt. 1, and an agro nomy major at the University of Georgia, was honored after hav ing been named national vice president of the Future Farmers of America. Walter Harrison of Millen, man ager of the Georgia Rural Elec tric Membership Cup. was speak er at the outdoor celebration which included a barbecue on the school grounds. Page, past president of the Georgia FFA, sat on the speak er’s stand with his mother, mem bers of the program committee, Harrison, Jim Thomas of Patter son, who is a past national presi dent of the FFA; Dr. M. D. Mob ley, executive secretary of the American Vocational Association, Inc., in Washington D. C. and a native of Paulding County; offi cers of the state FFA; J. G. Bryant, state FFA advisor and state supervisor of agricultural education from Atlanta; L. E. Sweat, of Blackshear, a member of the Georgia Board of Educa tion and many others. Master of ceremonies was W. C. Long, chairman of Robert Page Day committees and a resident of Nahunta, the county seat. The Patterson High School band, from Pierce provided music for the oc casion. Chairman Long presented Page with a folder containing 50 letters from public figures who could not attend the gathering. The letters included one signed by Gov. Carl Sanders, who proclaimed Wednes day as Robert Page Day in Geor gia. Letters also came from Sen. Richard B. Russell and Sen. Her man Talmadge, First Dist. Rep. G. Elliott Hagan, Lt. Gov. Peter Zack Geer and Billy Bowden, who was the first Georgian to be e lected to the FFA national pre sidency. Mrs. Mable Moody, superinten dent of the Brantley County schools, presented Page with the governor’s proclamation. The pro gram committee presented him with a check for $l5O. Page, who served as chapter president of the FFA while at tending Hoboken High School where he was class valedictorian in 1962, was introduced by Chair man Long. Page credited his success as a national FFA officer to his moth er, his FFA advisor Jack Moore (now teaching at Adrian), and to his brother, David, who worked the family’s 79-acre farm “while I attended FFA meetings.” “I hope to repay my mother for all she has done for me by becoming the man she would want me to be,” Page said. He added that he hopes to bring more at tention to the state of Georgia while serving as FFA vice presi dent. The young university student is attending college on an FFA scholarship and one from the Sears Roebuck Foundation and money earned on his farm. The farm produces swine, beef cat tle, tobacco and corn. Harrison, former mayor of Mil len and former Jenkins County legislator, told those attending that “Georgia needs more young men like Robert Page, because there are those who want to un dermine rural Georgia and the rural U. S.” He said that now, as never before, the farmer has to cope with the bigness of the govern ment and match wits with the man in the city who does not realize the importance of agri culture. Harrison said that within 15 years the nation will have a popu lation of 250 million and it will still be up to the farmer to pro duce the food to feed them. “This is no time to allow agri culture to be plowed under and the price gap between the farm and the dining table must be closed. A new day has dawned in Washington and in Atlanta for the farmer and the farmer must apply himself and continue to be come stronger,” Harrison stated. Harrison was introduced by No lan Davis Jr. of Hoboken, a mem ber of the Brantley County Board of Education. An unannounced part of the pro gram came when the 1,500 per sons attending rose to sing “hap py birthday” to Mrs. Page who sat beaming in a blue dress throughout the afternoon. Others attending the ceremon ies were Brantley County Com mission members, mayors of towns in the area, FFA advisors, and J. M. Baker, district supervi sor of the FFA and a representa tive of the State Department of Education from Swainsboro. Page, a member of the Univer sity of Georgia Student Council, Interfrateraity Council, and treas urer of his fraternity, will take a year’s leave of absence in order to fulfill his traveling duties for the 400,000-member national FFA. Georgia has about 18,000 FFA members. Henry Lewis Funeral Service Held Tuesday Mr. William Henry Lewis, 67, of Route 2, Nahunta passed away at his home in the Ray bon community Sunday after noon, January 3, following a sudden illness, and his death brought sorrow to a large host of relatives and friends. Os affable manner and gen ial disposition, Mr. Lewis was well known throughout this section. Mr. Lewis was born in Way ne, now Brantley, county and was the son of the late William Riley and Lou Rhenda Lyons Lewis. He received his educa tion in the schools of the county and was a member and Deacon in the Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church. He was a veteran of World War I and from early manhood un til his retirement due to ill health had engaged in farming operations in the Raybon community. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Avie McClelland Lewis; one daughter, Mrs. Richard Harvey of Macon; two sisters, Mrs. Verdie Willis and Mrs. Jeannie Riggins, both of Na hunta; one brother, Elder Oli ver Lewis of Blackshear. Two grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and other re latives also survive. Funeral services were held Tuesday morning, January 5, at eleven o’clock from the Oak Grove Primitive Baptist church with the Elder Elton Dowling officiating. Nephews served as pallbear ers. Interment followed in the Oak Grove Cemetery. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in char ge of arrangements. Elderly Taxpayers To Save on Medical Expenses for 1964 Medicine and drug expenses for taxpayers 65 years and older will be fully deductible on this year’s Federal income tax returns. The full deductibility of these expenses under the 1964 Revenue Act was pointed out today by A. C. Ross, District Director of In ternal Revenue. He said this will save elderly taxpayers about $lO million a year in taxes. Under previous law, expenses for medicines and drugs were in cluded in medical expenses to the extent that they exceeded one per cent of adjusted gross income. Elimination of the one per cent floor applies to the medicine and drug expenses of a taxpayer and his spouse if either is age 65 or over at the close of the taxable year. It also applies to such ex penses paid on behalf of depend ent parents age 65 or over. There are no other changes in the provisions regarding the de ductibility of medical expenses, Mr. Ross said. These expenses are fully deductible, subject to cer tain maximum limitations, for taxpayers 65 and over, but are subject to a three per cent floor for taxpayers under 65. The one per cent floor on medi cine and drug expenses for tax payers under 65 continues in ef fect, Director Ross said. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA 3 New Commissioners, Ordinary Take Office Brantley County has a new Or dinary and three new county com missioners as the new year be gins. New officials taking office Sat urday, Jan. 1, were Ordinary Terry U. Rozier, succeeding Or dinary Claude A. Smith; commis sioner Banner Wainright, suc ceeding Louis Prescott in the At kinson-Lulaton district; commis sioner W. E. Aldridge, succeed ing R. C. Harrell, Jr., in the Hor tense-Waynesville district; and ~Mrs. Lewis Honored In nine out of ten individuals, With Bridal Shower Back Hurt? according to Miss Lucile Higgin botham of the Extension Service, low back pain is likely due to minor injuries to soft tissues or slight tears in a ligament which will heal without surgery. She says rest, support, and avoiding heavy lifting and high heels us ually bring recovery. Money Trees How to increase income from woodland acres? Cooperative Ex tension Service Foresters recom mend a six-step forest manage ment program which includes: fire control, reforestation, timber stand improvement, diversified utilization, good harvesting, and wise selling. Advertising pays. Lonnie E. Sweat Has 17 Years Service on State School Board Lonnie E. Sweat of Blackshear will, in January, begin his 17th year on the State Board of Edu cation, representing the Bth Con gressional District. Mr. Sweat, who is a member of the Board’s committee on in struction, was appointed in Janu ary, 1949, by Former Governor Herman Talmadge to fill an un expired term. In 1953, Talmadge appointed him to a full seven year term, and in 1960, Former Governor Ernest Vandiver re appointed him to another seven year term. Mr. Sweat, who was bom at Cutting in Clinch County, has a farm in Pierce County, where he raises Brahma cattle. He was once R. F. D. carrier at Pat terson. He resigned to enter the University of Georgia. He served as postmaster at Blackshear for 17 years, and was, for 12 years, tax collector of Pierce County. He also was, for five years, secre tary-treasurer of the National Farm Loan Association. He is married to the former Agnes Taylor of Blackshear, whom he taught when he was history professor at Pierce Col legiate Institute. They have two sons. One is Forrest Sweat (nam ed for Civil War General Na than Bedford Forrest). He is sup ervisor of business management in the Oldsmobile Division of General Motors, and lives in Jacksonville, Florida. He has three daughters and a son. The other one is Lonnie E. Sweat, Jr., of Greenville, South Caro lina, who is sales representative for Atlantic Steel. He has three children, including twins. Mr. Sweat goes to Atlanta at least once a month to the regu lar meetings or committee meet ings of the board in the State Department of Education. He also attends various educational con ventions to keep informed about educational progress in the na tion. He recently returned from Washington, D. C., where he at tended a conference on educa tional television. Mr. Sweat made the original motion that launched Georgia’s present plans for a ten station ETV network, which al ready has four stations on the air. Returning from Washington, he said, “I was amazed and grati fied to learn that Georgia is in Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state $3.09 Outside state $3.00 commissioner Owen Griffin, suc ceeding Silas Lee in the Hobo ken-Schlatterville district. Banner Wainright was elected chairman of the commissioners and R. Brown Brooker elected clerk at the first meeting held Tuesday, Jan. 5. Mr. Wainright succeeds R. Brown Brooker as commission chairman and Mr. Brooker suc ceeds R. C. Harrell, Jr., as clerk. Mrs. Terrell Crews was made secretary in the Ordinary’s office. Mrs. Evan J. Lewis, Jr. a recent bride, was honored with a bridal shower on Jan. 2 at the home of Mrs. Lester Edgy with Mrs. Mary Lou Smith and Mrs. Moina Purcell as co-hos tesses. The bride is the former Miss Patsy Walker. She receiv ed many lovely gifts. Present were Mrs. Clayton. Riggins, Mrs. Glen Strickland, Mrs. E. J. Lewis, Sr. Mrs. Frank Walker, Mrs. S. B. High smith, Mrs. Lena Strickland, Mrs. Cecil Thomas, Mrs. W. C. Long, Mrs. O. S. Moody and Mrs. Sara Ann Morgan. A green and white color scheme was used, and was car ried out in the serving of lime sherbet and party cakes. Mrs.. Lewis will join her husband at Forbes Air Base in Topeka, Kas. in about two weeks. LONNIE E. SWEAT State School Board Member the forefront of progress in educa tional television. The Board vot ed some years ago to take advan tage of the remarkable modem means of educating children, and the State Department of Educa tion has done sound work in plan ning and launching the program. Other state delegations in Wash ington were amazed that we have been able to do so much with edu cational television so quickly. We are, of course, indebted to the governors and the legislatures that have supported us by provid ing the money. Besides the courses in science, foreign lang uages, music, history, that we have for the children, we also have television courses for teach* ers. For instance, more than 15, 000 Georgia teachers are now taking a course by television in the teaching of reading. The pos sibilities for education by tele vision are tremendous, and I am happy that Georgia is taking ad vantage of them.” The only other one of the ten members of the State Board of Education who has served as long as Mr. Sweat is Chairman James S. Peters of Manchester, his longtime friend and former col lege classmate. They went to school together at Sparks Insti tute. Mr. Sweat also attended Blackshear Institute and the Uni versity of Georgia, where he won the Demostherrian Literary So ciety’s medal for debating.