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Newspaper Page TextNotify this newspaper when your address changes. VOLUME 48 - NUMBER 26 MISS MARY LOU PRESCOTT Engagement Prescott-Drury Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Prescott announce the engagement of their daughter Mary Lou to Mr. James DeWitt Drury, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil F. Drury. Miss Prescott is a graduate of Nahunta High School and attend ed business school. Mr. Drury is a graduate of Na hunta High School and holds a de gree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia. He is now employed in Bruns wick. The wedding will take place August 1 at four in the after noon at the Atkinson Methodist Church, with the Rev. Lee Ram sey officiating. All friends and relatives are in vited to attend. Waynesville News By Mrs. Julia Gibson Louise D. Jones, postmaster at Waynesville, attended the post masters convention at Jekyll Is land June 23-27. She was accom panied by Jim “Jimbo” Lynn and Jon Jones, also Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Church and son Dougie of Alexandria, Va. Rev. and Mrs. Eugene Reece went to Miami during the past week. Rev. Reece is pastor of Waynesville Baptist Church. Mr. and Mrs. George Gibson and sons Joe and Bill of Rome visited his mother Mrs. Sarah Gibson the past weekend. Misses Naomi Moody, Brenda Branch and Iris Arnette of Bruns wick were visitors here Thurs day. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Gibson and son Tom attended the golden wed ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Jones in Fernandina Sun day. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gibson have named their new daughter Vir ginia Lavada. She will be called “Ginger.” Births Mr. and Mrs. Roy Thornton of Route 1, Patterson announce the birth of a daughter, Edith Mae, June 29, at the Brantley Medical Clinic. Edith weighed five pounds fifteen and one-half ounces. Mrs. Thornton is the former Susan Al dridge of Nahunta. Mr. and Mrs. Billy Gibson of Waynesville announce the birth of a daughter June 24, at the Brantley Medical Clinic. The ba by weighed six pounds thirteen and one-half ounces and has been named Virginia Lavada. Mrs. Gib son is the former Lois Mobley of Nahunta. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Is Announced Personals Mrs. Emmie Newton returned home on Friday of last week from Franklin, N. C. where she spent a week with her brother, Mr. and Mrs. Wess Jones a t their summer home in the moun tains. * ♦ ♦ Mrs. Llawanah Morgan was carried to Memorial Hospital in Waycross Wednesday, June 30, for treatment for a heart condition. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mrs. George Bruce of Cocoa, Fla., is visiting her brother, R. C. Harrell, Jr. for a few days. She will also visit other relatives in Georgia. Terry Brooker Given Birthday Party Terry Brooker, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Brooker, celebrated his eighth birthday Friday, June 25, with 23 guests present. They were Dennis and DaJ^d Atkinson, Sandy and Derwin Brooker, Andy Raulerson, Stan and Julie Siegel, Ken and Ronald Strickland, Donna and Chris Pop well, Mary Lee Griner, Blake and Stuart Loyd, Roger Stallings, Den nis and Tony Clubb, Kervin Ma thie, Cleve Harden, Scott and Shiela Brooker, Mrs. Brooker and Hazel Davis. The children played baseball and other games. Cookies, punch, cake, ice cream and potato chips were served. Georgia was the first state to send a schooner against the British in the American Revo lution. The first hymn book in the United States was written by Charles Wesley in 1737. Nahunta People S From Waycross Journal-Herald The dedication of a new light ed athletic field at Nahunta again underscores the fine job the citi zens of that community are do ing to provide recreational facil ities for young and old alike. Nahunta Jaycees took the lead in the campaign for the new fa cility which fittingly has been named Jaycee Field. According to the story from Brantley County there was coop eration all along the line on the project. The Brantley County Board of Education gave its sup port. The Junior Woman’s Club helped. The Okefenoke REA provided the electric facilities and REA employes donated their time i n installing the equipment. This is by no means the first time that the public-spirited citi zens of Nahunta and Brantley County have demonstrated that Bids Asked for Improved Post Office at Hoboken The Post Office Department is seeking competitive bids for an improved building to house its postal operations at Hoboken, Ga. Postmaster General John A. Gro nouski announced. Under the department’s con struction program, a contract will be awarded to the bidder who designates a building suitable to the department’s needs and a grees to improve it (or provide a new building) according to de partmental specifications and then rent it to the department for a basic period of five years, with three 5-year renewal options. The department’s capital in vestment will be limited substan tially to postal equipment. The building will remain under pri vate ownership, with the owner paying local real estate taxes. Bidding documents may be ob tained from Mr. J. W. Pope, real estate officer, P. 0. Box 4964, Jacksonville, Fla. Hie real es tate officer will supply bidding forms, specifications, rent provi sions and other information. Bids must be submitted to the real estate officer by July 30. Bookmobile Schedule For July 6 to 9 Tuesday, July 6, Riggins Com munity 9:30-10:00 A. M.; Hickox 10:30-12:00 A. M.; Nahunta 1:00- 3:00 P. M. Wednesday, July 7, Raybon 9:- 30-10:00 A. M.; Twin River 10:30- 12:00 A. M.; Hortense 1:00-3:00 P. M. Thursday, July 8, Waynesville 9:30-10:30 A. M.; Atkinson 10:45- 11:30 A. M.; Lulaton 12:00-1:00 P. M. Friday, July 9, Pleasant Valley 10:00-11:30 A. M.; Schlatterville 12:00-1:00 P. M.; Hoboken 1:30- 3:00 P. M. The time schedule may vary slightly because of the number of readers at each stop. COOKING OUTDOORS WITH CHARCOAL Unless you have a specially built indoor barbeque pit or grill with a vent to carry away the fumes, the only way you can cook with charcoal safely is to do it outdoors. That word of warning was issu ed this week by Miss Lucile Hig ginbotham, Extension home eco nomist-health, University of Geor gia. “Family members and guests have been overcome by carbon monoxide after a burning grill was brought into the garage or basement — or even the kitchen or living room — during rainy or cold weather,” Miss Higginbo tham pointed out. “People have also been asphyxiated by trying to heat tents, cabins, and auto mobiles with charcoal.” She explained that charcoal bri quets can produce carbon mon oxide as long as they are. giving off heat. Some victims, she said, have been poisoned because they thought they were safe if they waited until the charcoal turned to gray ashes before bringing the grill inside. Miss Higginbotham continued that even placing a grill in a fireplace can be hazardous unless there is a good draft in the chim ney. “And the dining room table is no place for the small hibachi cooker,” she declared, “despite all advertising to the contrary. For your own protection, do not cook in an unventilated area with even a few charcoal briquets.” how the Way they want the best for their com munity and are willing to work for it. They built a clinic several years ago and, in one of the best moves any community ever made, got Dr. J. L. Walker to come to Nahunta to minister to the medical needs of the people. Not only has he done this but Dr. Walker has become a lead er in many phases of commun ity activity. He was one of those instrumental in developing the recreation program which would be a credit to a town much lar ger than Nahunta. There is an excellent recrea tion center which is air-condition ed and the scene of numerous activities particularly on week ends. Our neighbors over in Brantley County are to be congratulated on what they have done and are doing to build a better commun ity. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, July 1, 1965 Debra Herrin Funeral Services Held Thursday In one of the worst car-train accidents in Duval County, Flori da, in the past 20 years, the daughter of former Brantley coun tians was killed instantly Monday afternoon. Little Debra Lynn Herrin, 8, of 1437 E. 11th Street, Jacksonville, Fla. was a passenger in an auto mobile driven by one of her neigh bors. The driver, along with four members of his family were also killed in the accident which oc curred shortly after noon as the party was returning from the country. The automobile was struck by a 28 car freight train which was bound for Jackson ville. Debra Lynn was the daughter of Ward Huland Herrin and Mary Alice Rhoden Herrin. She was born in Jacksonville and was a third grade student at the John Love Elementary School. In addition to her parents, she is survived by three sisters, Miss Alice Faye Herrin, Miss Nancy Kaye Herrin and Miss Cheryl De laine Herrin, all of Jacksonville; her maternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. V. Rhoden of Na hunta. Several aunts, uncles and other relatives also survive. Funeral services were held Thursday afternoon, July 1, at three o’clock from the Hickox Baptist Church with the Rev. E. J. Dixon, assisted by the Rev. George Lee, conducting the rites in the presence of a large number of sorrowing relatives and friends. The body lay in state in the church for one hour prior to ser vices. Serving as pallbearers, all cous ins, were Messrs. Edward Lee, Everett Lee, Terrell and Jerrell Herrin. The many beautiful floral of ferings attested to the esteem felt for the little girl and her family. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their be reavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta was in charge of ar rangements. Giant Men and Giant Cows and Rivers of Milk Sixteen million dairy cows produced about 55 billion quarts of milk in the United States last year. And that, says Extension Service Dairy Marketing Spe cialist John L. Williams in the understatement of the year, is a lot of milk. In fact, it’s enough milk to fill a river more than 3,000 miles long, three feet deep, and 40 feet wide. Square quart bottles filled with this much milk and plac ed side by side would circle the wirld 140 times. Stacked one on top of the other, they would reach the moon 30 times. This is enough milk to fill a lake large enough to float 72 battleships. In terms of manpower, Mr. Williams offered this June Dairy Month fact: “If you could take all the men con cerned with the dairy indust ry and put them into one man,” he said, “the entire cot ton crop would be needed to make one pair of overalls for him.” And if all the dairy cows could be combined into one, she would be quite a cow in deed. She could stand with her front feet in the Great Lakes, left hind foot in the Gulf of Mexico, and right hind foot in the Caribbean Sea. “She could flick flies off the equator with her tail, could root up palaces along the St. Lawrence River with her horns, and lick the mist off the Aurora Borealis with her ton gue,” said Mr. Williams. Calling the dairy cow “a marvelous food factory,” he declared that no other beast or bird, or no man-operated manufacturing machine or plant, is more effective in pro ducing food for man. She takes the grasses and grains of the fields and converts them into the most nearly per fect single food — milk. On the average, she produces from an acre of crops the fol lowing: 2,190 pounds of milk which contains 72 pounds of digestible protein and 71.2 units (therms) of energy. Softball League Games Scores For Past Week By Gene Wiley The Midgets of Hortense and Hoboken opened action last week with the Hortense Midgets slipping by Hoboken in a very close bat tle. The score was 6 to 4 in fa vor of Hortense. Al Strickland led his team with two of the six hits made by Hortense. Other action on Monday of last week saw the Nahunta ladies de feat the defending champions of last year in a squeaker as the Nahunta ladies edged Hoboken by a score of 4 to 3. Nahunta was led to victory by Nancy Brook er and Lois Hulett with two hits each. Linda Altman and Hunkey Dowling of Hoboken banged out two hits a piece. Tuesday of last week the Na hunta Midget girls whalloped the Hortense Midget girls. The at tack of Nahunta was led by H. Thornton with seven hits, K. Al len with six hits, and F. Allen who homered and tripled. Following this game the Way nesville Juniors clobbered Hobo ken as Greg Middleton hammer ed out five hits including a home run and two doubles. Terry Alt man had two hits for the Hobo ken boys. In the adult league, the Jay cees continued in championship form as they clipped Hoboken. Claude Smith led the Jaycee at tack with four hits including two homers and a double. Leroy Ham also collected two homers for the Jaycees. Ray Dean Grif fin tried to keep Hoboken alive with his three hits of which two were doubles. Wednesday of last week the Midget Champs of last year took up where they left off by de feating Hoboken. The score, Meth odist 8 and Hoboken 4. Randy Tur ner led the Methodist with a double and a single. The Hobo ken Midgets managed to collect only three hits. Thursday night the Hoboken la dies returned to form and de feated the Hortense ladies 11 to 5, Winnie Prescott and Carol Lee led Hoboken with three hits each, as Becky Cox of Hortense match ed them with three hits. Friday night action was rained out and these games are to be re-scheduled. Anyone who might be interest ed in swimming lessons this summer please contact Gene Wi ley for further information and arrangments. Attorney Deen Sworn in as Appeals Judge Braswell Deen Jr. of Alma was sworn in as a judge of the Geor gia Court of Appeals in a cere mony last Thursday at the State Capitol in Atlanta. Governor Carl E. Sanders, who had appointed Deen to the post to succeed the late Judge Robert L. Russell, administered the oath to the former Alma attorney. Married to Blackshear Girl Mrs. Braswell Deen Jr., the former Miss Jean S. Buie of Blackshear, along with their two children, Sanders Deen, 3, and Braswell D. Deen 111, 5, were on hand for the ceremony, as was Braswell Deen Sr., of Alma, father of the new judge. Braswell Deen Jr. served as Bth District campaign chairman for Sanders during his successful race for governor. He was also District campaign manager for President Johnson last November. Deen’s friendship with Sanders dates back to their college class mate days at the University of Georgia. UNCLE REMUS GOES JAPANESE The Uncle Remus tales of Brer Rabbit and the tar baby are just as popular in Japanese as in the original Southern dialect. Emory University’s Special Col lections Library recently receiv ed a Japanese translation of “Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings.” The book has sold over 50,000 copies. Parts are even used as a primary text in Japanese schools. Some Uncle Remus tales are also in Indian, French and Dutch. County Commissioners to Ask for Bids on Survey For Property Revaluation Schedule Given For County HD Club Meetings The regular monthly schedule of Home Demonstration Club Meetings for Brantley County for the Month of July was announced this week by Mrs. Virginia N. Raulerson, Home Demonstration Agent for Brantley County. The programs for the club meetings during July will feature demonstrations and information on Our American Heritage, the agent said. The programs will be presented by Mrs. Raulerson. The schedule for the various clubs in the County will be as follows: Calvary Club at Calvary Com munity Center at 8:00 P. M. Thursday, July 1. Raybon Club at Raybon A. C. Church at 7:30 P. M. Thursday, July 8. Waynesville Club at Waynesville Baptist Church at 2:00 P. M. Monday, July 26. Nahunta Club at Mrs. Virginia Raulerson at 9:30 A. M. Tues day, July 27. Suburban Club will meet Tues day, July 27 at 3:15 P. M. The place will be announced later. Hickox Club at Mrs. N. W. Hen drix at 2:00 P. M. Wednesday, July 28. Mrs. Raulerson urged all mem bers of the local clubs to attend the meeting of their club. She pointed out that the Home Dem. Club provides an opportunity for members to learn improved prac tices which will enable them to become better homemakers and better informed citizens. Insect Control Is Key to High Nitrogen Use Georgia cotton growers are sometime reluctant to use high rates of nitrogen on cotton be cause of the possibility of rank cotton and delayed maturity, says P. J. Bergeaux, soils and fertiliz er specialist of the University of Georgia Extension Service. “Nitrogen,” he says, “is asso ciated with vegetative growth but it is also essential for boll forma tion. In fact, the cotton plant ab sorbs its greatest amount of ni trogen from early boll formation to maturity.” The secret to success in using high rates of nitrogen on cotton is proper insect control, he said. When cotton insects are adequate ly controlled, the applied nitrogen goes into boll formation. When cotton insects are not controlled, however, the added nitrogen is utilized by the cotton plant for vegetative growth. The result is rank cotton with few mature bolls. Recent Georgia research shows that the optimum amount of ni trogen to apply to cotton when ef fective insect control measures are followed is 150 pounds of ni trogen per acre, Mr. Bergeaux said. Top Georgia cotton growers are applying this research informa tion in their cotton fertilization program, he continued. Typical of these is John M. Sheppard, Jeffer son County, who applied 145 pounds of nitrogen per acre to his 24-acre cotton crop in 1964. Other fertilizer elements were supplied in optimum amounts through soil analysis results. Phosphorus and potassium re quirements were met by applying 600 pounds of a 5-10-15 fertilizer per acre. The cotton field had been limed in 1963 and did not need additional lime for the 1964 crop. Mr. Sheppard also kept cotton insects under control by poison ing 10 times. “This combination of good practices and excellent management by Mr. Sheppard re sulted in an average yield of 820 pounds of lint cotton per acre for the entire 24 acres,” Mr. Ber geaux declared. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Nahunta Stores And Bank to Close Monday Nahunta stores and The Citi zens Bank will be closed Mon day, July 5, to celebrate July Fourth, which comes on Sunday this year. All citizens are requested to make their purchases and do their banking business the last of this week to carry them over un til Tuesday. The Nahunta post office will al so be closed Monday. Patrons are requested to get money orders and other service Friday, July 2. Travis Highsmith Is Promoted to Master Sergeant Travis Highsmith, son of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Highsmith of Brantley County, has been pro moted to Master Sergeant in the Air Force. Sergeant Highsmith is station ed at Tyndall Air Force Base at Panama City, Fla. He has been in the Air Force about 20 years. He is a graduate of Nahunta High School and is making the Air Force a life career. He is a Vehicle Maintainance Technician. CARD OF THANKS We would like to take this means to express our sincere thanks and deep appreciation for the many acts of kindness shown us during the recent illness and death of our loved one. We es pecially appreciated the messages of sympathy, covered dishes and floral offerings. May the Lord bless each of you is our prayer. The Family of Mrs. Nora H. White THE CONGRESS has again gone through the annual ritual of increasing the national debt limit Debts and obligations of the United States Government which keep on mounting because of ex cessive federal spending and def icit budgeting necessitated rais ing the debt ceiling this year to $328 billion. In just the last two fiscal periods, the na. tional debt lim itation has risen from $315 billion the year before last to $324 billion during the most recent fiscal period. The present trend is not likely to be reversed until the federal government takes positive action to curtail all unnecessary spend ing and to balance the budget. It is simply a matter of living within our means, rather than continuously exceeding them. ♦ * * THE PRESENT fiscal policy of the government and the spi raling public debt should be a matter of grave concern to all American citizens. But at the same time, there is increasing evidence that the people should reappraise their own spending practices and debt accumulation. Private and personal debt has reached an all-time high and is still climbing at an unprecedent ed rate. Experts believe that private debt may be reaching a dangerous level and that it (Nat prtpartd or printed at govarnment axptme) Subscription Price and Tax Inside county $2.58 Outside county, in state $3.09 Outside state $3.00 The Board of Commissioners of Brantley County voted at a spe cial meeting Monday, June 28, to ask for bids from professional firms to carry out a survey of property for the purpose of re valuation and tax equalization. Page Pryor of the State Rev enue Department attended the meeting and explained the vari ous steps necessary for equitable property revaluation. Mr. Pryor also gave the com missioners a list of the firms ap proved by the state for carry ing out the revaluation survey. Professional firms bidding on the task of revaluation will have until the first Tuesday in August to submit bids. The cost is ex pected to be upward of $30,000. All county commissioners were present at the meeting, including Banner Wainright, chairman; R. B. Brooker, Owen Griffin, W. E. Eldridge and Major Riggins. County tax assessors were also present. They are George W. Her rin, Henry G. Lee and Raymond D. Smith. The tax revaluation, if carried out, will mean greater valuation of property for tax purposes but lower millage rate. A number of counties in south east Georgia have already car ried out revaluation plans, includ ing Ware, Pierce and Bacon coun ties. Hickox HD Club Met with Mrs. Keene The Hickox Home Demonstra tion Club met at the home of Mrs. Arthur Keene on Wednes day, June 23. Mrs. Woodrow Hen drix presided and Mrs. Keene gave the devotional. The demonstration was “Bas ics of flower arrangments” given by Mrs. Virginia Raulerson. Others present were Mrs. J. C. Allen, Mrs. Neil Hendrix, Mrs. J. E. Herrin, Mrs. Conway Ho ward and Mrs. Edward Brand. Refreshments of sandwiches, cookies, chips and soft drinks were served. creates an uneasy economic sit uation. According to U.S. Department of Commerce figures recently published by U.S. News & World Report, the American people now owe some $264 billion dollars, approximately one quarter of a trillion dollars. One dollar out of every $5 that people receive in income, after taxes, is paid just to meet the cost of debt Going into debt or buying on time has definitely become a part of life in America. Inas much as it allows individuals and families to have homes and conveniences they otherwise could not afford, there is noth ing wrong with this—up to a point. ♦ ♦ ♦ THAT POINT is fast being reached, according to a number of leading economists who are concerned over the rise in per sonal bankruptcies and the steady increase of mortgage foreclosures in recent years. The old philosophy of accu mulating savings in order to purchase what one desires ap pears to have been supplanted by the concept of buy now and pay later. Individual citizens, like the government, can find themselves in real trouble by continuously pursuing a policy of spending more than is made. In my opin ion, the time has come for the American people to be more cau tious in piling up debt after debt.