The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, March 04, 1965, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 48 — NUMBER 9 Mayor Abner Jacobs of Nahunta Receiving check for $1,554.62 from E. E. Pritchard, local manager for Georgia Power Company. Nahunta Future Farmers Hold Father-Son Banquet The Nahunta FFA Chapter clos ed their observance of National FFA week by honoring guests and fathers with a Father-and-Son Banquet. The banquet was called to order by the president, Kenny Johns. The opening ceremony was given by the officers. Hymerick Thomas gave the welcome and Loyd Flow ers the invocation, after which everyone enjoyed a barbecue chicken supper. Following the meal Ralph Don aldson, State Secretary of FFA gave the address of the evening. Miss Judy Thrift, the Chapter Sweetheart and Donna Tucker en tertained. Many awards were presented. Each year the most outstanding member in each level of mem bership is presented. These are called the Star members. The Star Greenhand was presented to James Harris, Star Chapter farm er Eugene Crews, and Star Geor gia Planter, Roger Steedley. The awards were sponsored by Ne- Smith’s Insurance agency & Farmers Mutual Exchange of Waycross. In the corn contest Otis Bohan non received first place, Roger Steedley second place and James O’Neal third place. These awards were sponsored by Blackshear Manufacturing Co., Nahunta. The public speaking award was received by Greg Velie, first place winner,Gary Velie, second place, and David Griffin, third place. These awards were sponsored by Walter Crews, sheriff, Delma Her rin, clerk of court, and Perry Rozier, Ordinary. In the tractor driving contest Kenny Johns, first place, and Rog er Steedley, second place. These awards were sponsored by L. & M Motors. A pin was awarded the most outstanding member in each type of project. These were beef cat tle, Keith Middleton; dairy cattle, Benny Thomas: forestry team, Wayne Debose, Emory Rowell, Odie Crews, Winton Wilson, Mikel Crews, Ronald Norton, Kenny Johns, Cleonton Rowell, Roger Steedley and Loyd Flowers; gar den, Robert Willis; livestock farm ing, Mikel Crews; livestock judg ing team, Ronald Morgan, Ben ny Thomas, Loyd Flowers and Mikel Crews; program of work, Otis Bohannon and Joe Thornton; poultry, Odie Crews; quartet, Roger Steedley, Hymerick Thom as, Greg Velie and Edward Lee: secretary, Roger Steedley; tobac co, Kenny Johns; reporter, G. W. Knox; treasurer, Mikel Crews; Chepter leadership, Kenny Johns, Chapter scholarship, Gary Velie; outstanding service awards; Car ter Morton Jr., honorary Chapter farmer, Dick Alien; farm electri-: fication, Roger Steedley. These; a wards y^ere sponsored by The Ci tizens Bank and J. W. Brooker, Hardware,« • •• E. C*> Crews was,, awarded a. plaaue^or, haying the best record book and Glen Lee for the best note^l^g'fe.l^ .^e sponsored;J^v Dick -Morgan.. - . The Greenhand degrees and Jr, FarmfW Were snorrsorfed by Chan cev Service Statltah >-r<- The speakers .table was decor ated by Mr*. J. Bt Lewis, and other &ecorati6hsft*«w FHA ahU, FFA. ' . Members'W Nahunta- Farmers arenas follows: JUNIOR FARMERS: - Eugene Crews. Otis Bohanon, E. C. Crews. Keith Middleton. Michael Purdom. Billv Rowell. Larry Knox, .James O’Ne^, La- I’ BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobrcco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. mar DePratter, Lawrence Flow ers, Joe Thornton, Wayne Du bose and Tinky Williams. GREEN HANDS: Benny Carver, Wayne Chesser, James Crews, Stanley Crews, Da vid Dowling, David Griffin, Terry Griffin, James Harris, Mike Hen drix, Jerrell Herrin, Terrell Her rin, Roger Herrin, James Hickox, Glen Lee, Bicknell Manor, Dale Middleton, Greg Middleton, Fra mon Miller, Del Reha, Danny Roberson, Charles Strickland, Jim Strickland, Terry Strickland, Danny Thornton, Gary Velie, James Wainright, Thomas Willis, Floyd Young and Wayne Jones. Personals The Nahunta Garden Club will meet at the home-of Mrs? Jos. B. Strickland on Tuesday March 9 at four o’clock P. M. Mrs. Emmie Newton will be co-hostess with Mrs. Strick land. “Day Lillies” will be the topic for discussion with Mrs. Carl Broome as leader. Mrs. Letha Tucker of Nahun ta and Mrs. Betty Jacobs Walk er of Hoboken left Saturday for New York City where they are attending the Inter national Hair Show. Mrs. A. H. Barnard, Mrs. D. F. Herrin, of Nahunta; Mrs. D. M. Atkinson, Kingsland; Mrs. Elsie Lee of Hoboken at tended a Farm Bureau meet ing held in Macon on Thurs day and Friday of last week. Mrs. Barnard is chairman of the Womans division of the Farm Bureau of Brantley County. Kenneth Newbern Lewis of Nahunta is one of thirty-two Presbyterian College students to make the Dean’s List for the first semester of the 1964- 65 session. He is the son of Mr. Bennie Harris of Nahunta and a graduate of Nahunta High School. Hortense Parents and Teach ers Association will meet Thursday, March 11, at the School at 7:30. The guest speaker will be school superin tendent, Mrs. Mable Moody. Her topic will be “Our Schools”. Everyone is invited to attend. State Revenue Shews Increase Os 4 Million State Revenue Commissioner Hiram K Undercofler reported that net revenue collections for the month of February ttere 5 4 ?,; ,908,642, an~ increase "(if $4,(j58;- 778 or over the same -per iod last year. ... This brings total revenue col-, .lections fort the > fiscal ■? year yto $328,756,568,- an increase of; .$36,- -330.278.00,-or 12.4% over the period last year. . c.*l ‘ .The largest ga’n was- shown jin Saf6& ahd ! Use Tax in the Feb dV 4be.- Department? with $i%&3.372 collected, an f Wsb» period last year. Income Tax with collections of $11,223,641 was up $2,007,197 over February of last $ lT*Ji*rt**7 r^t^r Carlie Roberson Funeral Service Was Held Friday Funeral service for Carlie Roberson, who died Wednes day. was held Friday afternoon at New Hope Advent Chris tian Church, conducted by El der Lvman Hughes and Elder Ivy Griffis. Burial was in Thomas Cemetery. Active pallbearers were Tames L. Gunter. C. L. Dryden, T. B. Carter, E. C. Carter. J. E. Carter and Elder R. G. Myers. Roberson is survived by two daughters, Mrs. L. J. Brogdon, Nahunta and Mrs. Jim Boat ri aht, Tampa, Fla.; three sons, Elmer Roberson and C. M. Ro berson. both of Brunswick and Dan Roberson, Nahunta; one sister. Mrs. Levi Strickland, Nahunta; three brothers, Ban Roberson and Wiley Roberson, both of Way cross, and New bern Roberson, Nahunta; 15 grandahi’dren and three great grandchildren. Brantley County Board of Health Is Appointed In compliance with Section 88-202 of the Georgia Health Code a new Board of Health has been formed for Brantley County. The Board consists of five members. The Chairman of the County Commissioners and the County School Superintendent are members by virtue of their office. Three members are appoint ed by the Grand Jury. One shall be a person with some experience in municipal af fairs. One shall be a licensed physician actively practicing in the county. One shall be ap pointed at large. The three members appoint ed are Mr. Huey Ham for one year, Dr. J. L. Walker for four years and Mr. Sherman Tomlinson for six years. An organizational meeting was held February 24 at the local Health Department. Members were sworn in by Judge Perry U. Rozier. Offi cers were elected. Dr. H. S. Odum, Medical Director for Brantley County gave a brief review of the new Health Code. The functions, powers, and responsibilities of the Board were discussed. The Board di rected Dr. Odom to draw up proposed by-laws for consider ation at the next meeting. The Board agreed to hold their regular meetings on the second Wednesday of each quarter. Leaf Tobacco Stocks Reach All-time High Inventories of leaf tobacco in the United States, including Puer to Rico, totaled 5.6 billion pounds, farm-sales weight, on January 1, the U. S. Department of Agricul ture reports. USDA’s Consumer and Market ing Service says this was an in crease of 361 million pounds in leaf stocks from the January 1, 1964 total, and is an all-time high. Larger stocks of flue-cured and burley tobaccos were the princi pal factor in the overall increase. Stocks of imported cigar leaf also were considerably larger than a year ago. Grower marketing of the 1964 tobacco crop up to January 1 totaled 1.9 billion pounds, accord ing'to the Consumer and Market ing Service. This, is approximate ly 84 percent of the 1964 crop. Cpgies pf : the Quarterly Stocks Repeat .may be ./obtained from the,Tobacco .Division, Consumer apd Ma^img^ryice. .Ui S. De.- parO^nC.qf . Mriculftrc,, Wash* ‘iv vess INDUSTRY.CHANGES Early 5 fertilizers' — made from meat" scraps,--‘Airied blood, fish '^raps/ and cdftenseed meal — i^ere . by-prpdpqts of the meat backing industry?' Today, how howevef, ‘ thte-cammercial fertili zer business is a highly organiz ed chemical industry with sales in Georgia alone amounting to over $75 million annually. * * S 7- The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 4, 1965 Mrs. Mamie Tudor Funeral Service Was Held Tuesday Mrs. Mamie Hart Tudor, 81, a former resident of Brantley county, passed away Monday, March 1, at her home in Ruf fin, S. C. following a sudden illness. A native of Toombs County, she was the daughter of the late Berry Thomas and Emily Jordan Hart. She received her education in the schools of Toombs county and was a member of the Methodist church. She was the widow of the late William Robertson Tudor, whose death occurred while residing in the Hickox com munity in Brantley county. Since the death of her hus band, Mrs. Tudor had been a resident of South Carolina. Survivors include one daugh ter. Mrs. E. L. Cooper of Pavo: three sons. Berry T. Tudor of Ruffin. S. C.. Ernest W. Tudor of Hastings, lowa, and J. Eu gene Tudor of Charleston, S. C. 18 Grandchildren also sur vive. Funeral services were held at five o’clock Tuesday after noon, March 2, from the chapel of the Fred Parker Funeral Home, Walterboro, S. C. Committal services followed Wednesday aftrenoon, March 3, at five o’clock in the Hickox cemetery conducted by the Rev. Lee Ramsey, pastor of the Nahunta Methodist church. Serving as pallbearers were the Messrs. Frank Foerman, Clarence Allen. Virgil Allen, J. R. Proctor. Ellis Highsmith and Morris Highsmith. The famiy has the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in char ge of local arrangements. Computer Prepared News Story Electronic computers at th° U. S. Department of Com merce’s Bureau of the Census are extracting retail trade data about each county in the Upited States from tabulations of the 1963 Census of Business, inserting the figures in news stories, typing out the stories at eye-blinking speed, and ad dressing a story to each of 16,- 000 news outlets in the Na tion’s 3,000 counties. Three elements are used to produce these “machine-made” news stories; 1. Statistics for 1958 and 1963 on number of establish ments, their kind of business and location, their sales vol ume, employment, etc. This in formation is stored in machine “memory” and is part of the process of preparing the 1963 Census of Business reports. 2. The names and addresses of the newspapers and broad casting stations, coded county by-county. 3. A set of instructions which cause the computer to select statistics concerning each county, print the statis tics at the proper points in a news story, and address the storv to each newspaper or broadcasting station in a county. The news stories, according ly. emerge as by-products of the process of preparing sta tistical reports from the Cen sus of Business. Although the scries will total more than 6 000 stories before it is com nleted it will reouire no addi tional personnel. The stories a bout retail trade will be follow ed by a series of stories about service trades in each county. The Census Bureau pioneer ed in the use of electronic e ouinment to tabulate data and to prepare statistical tab’es beginning in 1951. but this is the first time such devices have been used to prepare news stories. 5 kvCv ' W Jr I b;i sm b B BB KE JV Jackdurrence r District Governor Lions Clubs To Address Local Lions Monday District Head Os Lions Club to Speak at Nahunta Jack Durrence of Savannah, governor of Lions International District 18-B, will pay an of ficial visit to the Nahunta Lions Club Monday, March 8. Tlje club meets at 7:00 at the Red Pig Restaurant. In addition to serving as district governor, Durrence is chairman of the Lions District Governors of Georgia. Durrence is a member of Savannah’s Port City Lions Club. He has held the posts of director of his home club, zone chairman and deputy district governor. He is a veteran of World War II and a member of the Bull Street Baptist Church in Savannah. President Bill Willis urges a good attendance of members of the Nahunta Club at Mon day’s meeting. Opportunity Loans Aid Farm Development A new program of small loans coupled with farm management assistance is now open to farm families with limited incomes in Pierce County, Seth M. Kellam, county supervisor for the Farmers Home Administration, said this week. Mr. Kellam said farmers in Pierce county can participate in the program to develop higher re turns from their farming opera tions. Loans up to $2,500 are avail able to farm families with limited incomes who cannot qualify for financial assistance under regular loan programs of Farmers Home Administration or private lenders. Opportunity loans are aimed at helping farm and rural families earn more income through their own enterprises, Mr. Kellam said. Loans to farmers operating small, limited income farms may be used to purchase livestock, machinery and equipment, con struct or repair farm buildings, pay annual operating expenses for seed, feed and fertilizer, re finance real estate debts and pur chase land. The loans also may be used to buy shares in small cooperatives that serve rural people. Loans are repayable over per iods of up to 15 years. They carry an interest rate of 4% percent. To qualify for loans to finance agricultural enterprises an appli cant must be a farmer and have earnings that are too low to cover basic family living needs. In ad dition, he must be unable to ob tain credit through other sources, including regular loan programs of the Farmers Home Adminis tration. Farmers Home Administration county supervisors will assist borrowers in planning farm opera tions and management of loan funds. In addition to loans for farming. Farmers Home Administration may Bowvmake loans for nonagri cultural enterprises that will pro duce added income. Tb® agency also administers other >rWal economic opportunity programs, including loans aifd technical assistance for small c£- opAatives serving rural families Vmrhave limited income and lit tle debt carrying ability. Additional .information on lo^n prograhi^ unddr the Economic Op portunity Act is available at the Farmers Home Administration in M okl Ware County Hospital Braiding at 201 State Street in Waycross. Power Company Gives Checks to Hoboken, Nahunta Check for $1,554.62 and $610.57 were delivered this week to the cities of Nahunta and Hoboken respectively by E. E. Pritchard, local manager, Georgia Power Company. This tax payment represents three per cent of the gross re ceipts in 1964 from the sale of electric power, under the Munici pal Partnership Plan, to the com pany’s commercial and residen tial customers in the city. It is in addition to the company’s pro perty taxes, which on a statewide basis last year totaled $8,306,000. More than $3,143,000 in 1964 gross receipts taxes is being paid this year to the communities of Georgia. This is an increase of more than $240,000 over the a mount paid last year. The company’s total tax bill for 1964 was $37,678,000. This does not include the sales tax the company collects from its cus tomers for the State of Georgia. Nor does it include the sales tax the company pays on materials used in its operation. Reapportionment yfFgjJC-* '.'o/Fi 7 Passed by Lower House • ' ■ t, ■ ■ The lower house of the Georgia legislature passed a reapportion ment bill Wednesday to provide 205 members. The vote was 141 to 48. Representative Hoke S. Wilson of Brantley County was reported as abstaining, which means he did not vote on the measure. The bill now goes to the state senate. It gives the larger coun ties more representation and the smaller counties less. For instance Brantley County would be in a district with Pierce County, the two counties having oqly one re presentative. If the bill is passed by the state senate, an election will be called this summer to elect all mem bers of the new lower house. Apples Are Plentiful A bumper 1964 apple crop of more than 140 million bush els is still providing meal planners throughout the South east and across the nation with generous supplies of apples for use in winter menus, the U. S. Department of Agricul ture’s Marketing Service re ports. In the Southeast, USDA estimates that the commercial apple crop in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Vir ginia totaled 13.3 million bush els. This was an increase of nearly 1.3 million bushels o ver the previous year’s crop in the four states. USDA home economics sug gest the following apple treats for February menus: Dice tart, red skinned apples, combine with an eaual quan tity of finelv shredded cabb age. and add raisins, as de sired. Mix with a creamy sa lad dressing seasoned with horseradish and serve as a sauce for shredded cabbage. Snread crackers with a snap py cheese spread blended with apple sauce. Top each with pitted ripe olive. For a tempting luncheon or supper platter, serve fried ap ple rings with baked acorn squash halves and spicy sau sage patties or links. Enhance lemon-flavored gel atin molds with anple chunks and serve as accompaniment for roast fowl or meats. kv - t Cover a baked apple pie •”ith prated American cheese., Wane pie in moderate oven' until cheese > melts. Sjerve warm. . , . , , Information On Hunting J rf Season Given M The season for hunting Quail. Rabbit, and O’Possum ended February 27. There is no closed Reason. 4^, Fox and Raccoon i*jsotith gia. However, a hunting license is required. , ■ -ci w Mallery HStchett, ‘ Chief' ' Waycross District Southern Region OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Mayor J. T. Ellis of Hoboken accepting check for $610.37 from E. E. Pritchard, local manager for Georgia Power Company. State Highway Spending In Brantley Is Outlined I Children's Denta! r,■ ’t-<* • > - I» ~ Health J My 16-year-old son has swollen gums that are sore to touch. A friend of mine told me that he probably has trench mouth. Can this be true? While it is impossible to make a positive diagnosis without an examination, it would appear that your son may well have Vincent’s Disease — commonly called trench mouth. You should imme diately seek the advice of your dentist about the disease. What causes' trench mouth* Probably it is not an infectious disease. While poor oral hygiene definitely plays a part, healthy mouths sometimes get the dis-' ease too. Dental scientists now be lieve that one of the causative I factors is stress. When a person is under stress, from tension, worry or fatigue, his resistance is lowered, causing, changes in body chemistry which favor certain bacteria. Under 1 such conditions, the bacteria; which cause trench mouth take advantage of their opportunity and multiply. If your child has red, swollen gums and if his mouth is sore, his breath bad and the saliva flow increased, consult your den tist immediately. He will check the conditions of the mouth, exa mine under the edges of the gums to see if hidden debris may be a complicating factor, pres cribe drugs, scale the teeth and recommend a program of hy genic home care. My 12-year-old c-ppears to have gums that are receding, I thought this only happened to adults. Can children get pyorrhea? I; We know now that gum disease is not uncommon in children, as. well as adults. In fact, the A^ : merican Dental Association esti- ] mates that nearly 50 per cent oL; all youngsters have some form of gum disease. , Today we know that adults lose considerably more teeth be cause of disease of the gum than because of decay. One cause of gum disease is the formation of calculus on the teeth. This is a hard, crust-like I material, cpmposed chiefly of, minerals frbm the saliva and of bacteria and other substances nor- ■ mally found in the mouth. Cal-1 cuius is rough and irritates the | gums. Others sources of irrita-' tiqn are worn-out fillings and crowns and the sharp edges of. cavities in badly decayed teeth. Brustyng immediately after, (fating' will help reduce the for-' mation of tartar, but only re-I gular cleaning and scaling of the Teeth .by, a dentist or.a dentaLhyL rieujst will remove ,it completely, ij /nt^efore, regular dental ‘care is i the most important factor in con trolling gunv ^lseas£. - s’. EASY PURCHASE Aware of the Indians’ love for trading purposes. The pipes were 3H7 "mb Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state $3.09 Outside state $3.00 The report of the State Au ditor for the period ending June 30, 1964, shows that from the beginning of the Highway Department through June 30, 1964, Construction Allotments spent in Brantley County a mounts to $5,791,905.85. Os this amount $467,150.56 has been spent in the past 3 fiscal years and this amounts to 8-%% of the amount previously spent in the past 45 years. Presently under construction in Brantley County at various stages of completion is 38.32 miles of roadway amounting to $1,179,058.69. However, of this amount $843,919.40 has al ready been spent. The Highway Department has 7 Maintenance Employees ’ with a yearly salary of $16,260 . in Brantley County. Approximately 35 miles of I complete or near complete sur • veys in various parts of the ; county that authorization from > the General Office consisted ■ of either survey or survey and . submission of right-of-way deeds. The following projects are under way or have been com pleted in Brantley County: Nahunta — Brunswick — $288,573 Streets in Nahunta — 10,463 Rai’road Ave. in Nahunta — 1,167 i Nahunta — Brunswick — .702.518 Atkinson — Church House Branch — 176,336 Total $1,179,058.69 I Hendrix-Dean Miss Sherry Hendrix became । the bride of Charles Dean Sun day afternoon, Feb. 28, at the Nahunta Methodist Church, with the Rev. Lee Ramsey of । ficiating. The church was de । corated with yellow gladioli and yellow and white mums. For the wedding the bride chose a white two piece suit !with lavender accessories and a corsage of lavender orchids. Her attendants, Mrs. Wain Brooker, sister of the bride, and Miss Beverly Hendrix, the bride’s niece, were dressed in pink and wore corsages of white carnations. The groom chose as his best man, Mr. Clayton Riggins. I ~ Sinqing Sunday at Twin River Church ! A singing will be held at Twin Rivers Baptist Church Sundav, , March I}.1 } . at two o’clock in the - afternoon*' announced by J. R. Proctor.: 1 Everyone is invited to attend and listen .to the gospel, ringing and take-part in? it. ; j I Hickox HD Club . Met With Mrs. .Wrote i The Hickox Home Demon ystratiqjf CluSnssjf'aVthe home 'jof Mr*. Bill- J^MijKyrednesday. ‘Feb. 24/ ! Mrs. W. W. Hendrix presid ed over the meeting. Mrs. Ron ’ald Hendrix gave the devo tional and Mrs. Bill White gave a demonstration on con gealed salads. i <Xhew fltending were Mrs. Xt C- 'AlleA’Mrs. Arthur Keene, Mrs. J. E. Harris, Mrs. John I: BUI Johns and Miss Shirley' Johns. Refreshments were served by the hostess.