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VOLUME 43 - NUMBER 41
A Voice in the Wilderness
Action Needed for Sewer System
My information is that the plans for an airport
in Brantley County are going forward and that suffi
cient funds will be available from state and federal
sources to complete the project.
In my opinion this is a worthwhile project and
the men who have pushed it through deserve our
thanks, especially the county commissioners who
agreed to buy the necessary land.
BUT my main concern is that Nahunta get busy
and secure funds for a sewer system, so that industry
can be induced to come to Nahunta.
No business concern will be caught putting a
factory down among cesspools. There are hundreds
of towns with good sewer systems and these towns
are clamoring for industry.
We cannot compete with these other progressive
towns without adequate public utilities, such as
sewers.
It has been reported to me that the city could get
a grant of 50 percent of the cost of a sewer system
and borrow the other 50 percent at low interest rates.
If this report is true, there is no excuse for our city
not getting in its application for the grant and the
loan for a sewer system.
But ACTION will have to be taken AT ONCE or
the federal funds will be exhausted by applications
from other cities.
Layton Johns
Spoke to FHA on
Money Problems
Layton Johns, an employee of
the Citizen’s Bank, spoke to the
Nahunta F.H.A. Chapter on “How
To Make Your Money Behave.”
He emphasized the importance
of budgeting and answered many
questions concerning what money
is, what it is used for and how
it can be used to its best ad
vantage. He brought out the fact
that he felt it was important for
all people to have enough reserve
in the bank to take care of any
emergencies.
His talk also included impor
tant information concerning the
different types of services offer
ed by the banks.
'LADY BIRD' BILL IS AMENDED
Tuten Bucks Johnson Forces on
Highway Beautification, Wins
Congressman Russell Tuten
played the role of “giant killer”
in the House last Thursday. He
overcame massive opposition by
Johnson administration forces to
successfully — and significantly
— amend the highway beautifica
tion bill.
The House, by a vote of 122-112,
adopted a Tuten amendment des
pite strenuous objections by ma
jority whip Hale Boggs and ad
ministration stalwarts Ed Ed
mondson, of Oklahoma, and John
A. Blatnik, of Minnesota. Edmond
son and Blatnik are chief admin
istration sponsors of the bill —
popularly known as the “Lady
Bird” bill because of Mrs. John
son’s interest in it.
Rep. Tuten said the effect of
his amendment was to protect
state and local interests from
the arbitrary exercise of power
by federal agencies.
The amendment has two parts:
one prevents the Secretary of
Commerce from contravening
state and local zoning laws; the
other sets limits on the discre
tionary power of the Secretary
of Commerce to regulate the
size, spacing and lighting of
signs.
“My amendment was designed
not to weaken the bill but to make
it more acceptable to the people
of my district,” Rep. Tuten said.
“I felt the beautification of high
ways could be accomplished with
out the extreme power granted
the Secretary in the original ver
sion.”
Rep. Tuten’s achievement was
the talk of the cloakrooms. For a
second-term Congressman to ral
ly enough support to successfully
buck the power of a President
noted for political prowess is
without precedent in the 89th
Congress. Heretofore, it has been
next to impossible for anyone —
much less a second-termer — to
achieve anything over the ob
jection of the Johnson adminis
tration.
The magnitude of the Tuten
By Carl Broome
Sponsor Work
Day Saturday
FFA Members to
The F.H.A. members will spon
sor a Work Day, Saturday, Oct.
23. If you have any jobs that you
would like for us to do (such as
washing windows, raking yards,
washing dishes, babysitting, etc.)
please save them for us to do.
The F.H.A. members are spon
soring a baby-sitting project ev
ery other Saturday (except dur
ing holidays). A play school will
be held from 9:00 to 11:00 in the
Home Economics Department at
the High School starting October
30. There will be games, singing,
story-telling, etc. for the children.
victory was broadly appreciated.
All members were acutely aware
that administration leaders were
determined to accept no amend
ment to Section D of the bill —
the very section the Congressman
succeeded in amending.
Rep. Tuten’s speech introduc
ing the amendment lasted only
three minutes. However, he had
spent the better part of two days
lining up support prior to the ses
sion.
The Eighth District Congress
man was roundly congratulated
following the vote, and not only
by those who voted with him.
Rep. Edmondson and Rep. Blat
nik, his chief opponents, were a
mong the many who compliment
ed him. Both had previously
praised him before the full House.
Speaking against the Tuten a
mendment, Rep. Edmondson had
said: “The gentleman who has
just addressed the Committee is
one of the ablest members of
the Committee on Public Works
... So it is with great reluctance
that I rise in opposition to him
on any matter.” Rep. Blatnik,
commenting on a Tuten state
ment had said: “The gentlemen
made himself, as he always does,
perfectly dear. He makes him
self clear with integrity, with
conviction, and with sincerity.”
After it was all over Rep. Tuten
might well have reflected on
something he had himself said in
a speech in Brunswick just two
days before: “An effective Con
gressman is one who can get
things done for his Congressional
district. In order to get things
done he must gain the confidence
and respect of his colleagues.
This requires loyalty, a spirit of
cooperation and respect for the
opinion of others whether they
be Democrat or Republican. I
can’t get anything done by kick
ing the administration in the
teeth. Nor can I represent my
people well by submitting to the
control of anyone. I hope you ap
prove of this approach.”
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Robert Page of Hoboken, Na
tional Vice-President of the Fu
ture Farmers of America, will be
completing a year of traveling
and speaking throughout the na
tion. He left Thursday of last
week to assist in getting every
thing in order for the Convention
which will feature Vice-President
Humphrey as one of the speak
ers. Robert will also be spotlight
ed during the session.
Kenny Johns a 1965 graduate of
Nahunta High School will receive
the Star Georgia Planters Degree
from District 2. This is the high
est honor conferred on the boys.
The state is divided into four
districts and each district selects
one boy to receive the degree.
Kenny, an outstanding student in
agriculture, plans to attend col
lege in Tifton beginning with the
winter quarter.
Mrs. Maggie Page, Robert’s
mother, is attending the Conven
tiin and will be honored along
with the parents of the other of
ficers of the Convention. Mrs. Ma
ble Moody, County School Super
intendent, is also an invited guest
attending with the Georgia dele
gation.
Tomlinsons of
Homerville
Are Honored
Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Tomlin
son of Homerville were honored
with a dinner at the home of
their son, Mr. Sherman Tomlin
son, Jr. and Mrs. Tomlinson on
Sunday, Oct. 10 in observance
of their golden wedding anniver
sary.
Guests present for the anniver
sary and for the christening of
little Barbara and Eleanor Tom-,
linson Sunday evening at the
Methodist church included Mr.
and Mrs. Richard Bailey of Pitts
field, Mass.; Miss Martha Tom
linson, Homerville; Mrs. D. T.
Dyal and Mrs. A. J. Robinson,
Sr. of Fitzgerald, Ga.; Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Rodgers, Oglethorpe,
Ga.; Susan Katiloff, Griffin, Ga.
and Dr. and Mrs. Fernandez and
Carlos of Nahunta.
Guests of the Tomlinsons on
Wednesday were Mrs. Mattie K.
Smith, Raymond, Ga. and Mrs.
Tessie Caserilla of Newark, N. J.
NEWSPAPERS, READERS SHARE
PARTNERSHIP, SAYS PUBLISHER
The newspaper business is one
of the largest and most impor
tant in the nation’s business eco
nomy today and its continuous
growth is one of the great suc
cess stories of history, Graham
Ponder, publisher of The Madi
sonian and president of the Geor
gia Press Association, stated in
an announcement calling atten
tion to National Newspaper
Week being observed this year,
October 10 through 16.
The Week was inaugurated 26
years ago to explain the role of
newspapers in American life and
this year has broadened into a
year-around program of educa
tion and information sponsored
by the Newspaper Public Infor
mation Committee of Newspaper
Association Managers, represent
ing 10,000 newspapers in the
United States with over 80 mil
lion circulation.
“The information program,”
explained Ponder, is designed to
bring newspapers and their read
ers closer together and to point
out to readers the partnership
between them and their news
papers. Readers need newspa
pers, and newspapers need read
ers. In a very true sense, they
are partners in freedom.”
Newspapers, he added, have
successfully withstood two for
midable competitors in the past
40 years — radio and television.
Each would be the doom of
newspapers, it was predicted, but
instead newspapers have emerg
ed stronger and with greater vi
tality, more readers, more ad
vertisers and greater service to
the public than ever before.
Newspaper publishing today
ranks high among the nation’s
manufacturing industries, ac
counting for 1.53% of the national
industrial output. This compares
with 1.82% for the auto industry,
Two Brantley County Boys to Be
Honored at National FFA Meeting
Two Brantley County boys are
to be honored this week in Kan
sas City, Mo. at the National F.
F.A. Convention.
IT'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Oct. 14, 1965
Deer Season
Opens Friday
Deer season opens in the fol
lowing counties October 15 and
closes January 1, 1966:
Brantley, Charlton, and Pierce
lying south of U. S. 82 and east
of Georgia 121, Echols county
east of U. S. 129 and south of
Georgia 187, Clinch county lying
south of A. C. L. Railroad and
east of the run of Suwannoochee
Creek, and Lanier county south
of Georgia 37 and east of the
Alapaha River and north of U.
S. 84. Bag limit two buck per
season.
Squirrel season opens October
15 and closes February 28, 1966
in all southeast counties. Bag
limit ten daily.
Ware County is closed to Deer
and Turkey hunting.
CARD OF THANKS
TO THE VOTERS
OF NAHUNTA:
This is to thank each person
for getting out to vote and show
that you are interested in your
city government.
I wish to thank you for your
support and confidence. I will, to
the best of my ability, do what
is right for our city and its citi
zens, as councilman.
Sincerely
Don E. Mathie
Nahunta FFA Officers
The Nahunta Chapter of F.H.A.
officers are:
Melinda Wilson, president; Beth
Herrin, Ist vice-president; Edith
Middleton, 2nd vice-president;
Frieda Manning, secretary; Gail
Riggins, treasurer; Gail Johns,
reporter; Brenda Allen, Histor
ian; Carolyn Middleton, Parlia
mentarian; June Herrin, chair
man of Mother-Daughter banquet;
Catherine Johns, co-chairman;
Judy Thrift, projects chairman;
Dona Tucker and Ginger Thrift,
social chairmen; Wanda Steedly,
devotions chairman; Dale Jacobs
and Martha Burden, Initiation;
Mary Ester McDonald, Music.
Gail Johns, reporter
1.52% for all metal products, and
1.48% for drugs and medicines.
Circulation of daily newspa
pers last year hit an all-time high
of 60,412,266, a gain of 1,500,000
over the year before. Weekly
newspapers jumped to a record
25,036,031 — an increase of 1,-
000,000! Consumption of news
print was the highest ever — 8,-
000,000 tons — an average of five
pounds of newsprint a week for
every newspaper-reading family.
Newspaper employment since
1947 has grown three-and-a-half
times faster than all manufac
turing and there are 330,000 per
sons on daily newspaper payrolls
alone today.
Journalism school enrollment
nationally is up to 15,820 — high
est since 1948 — indicating a so
lid faith in the future of news
papers on the part of young peo
ple.
Still another index of the viril
ity of the business, and the con
fidence of their owners in the
future, is the continued invest
ment of publishers in new plants
and equipment at the rate of
$100,000,000 a year.
Every newspaper is built on
solvency. Newspapers must be
self-supporting. They receive no
grants, no government subsidies.
Their economic independence is
essential to the preservation of
a free press in an open and free
society.
“As long as the press is free,”
concluded Ponder, “the people
will know what’s going on in their
free society, and what’s going
on in their government. This
makes newspapers became part
ners in freedom with their read
ers. Newspapers, like people, are
not perfect, but their attention to
the public’s business is the pub
lic’s best insurance against gov
ernment inefficiency and wrong
doing.”
REV. L. C. CALDWELL
Church of God Evangelist
Nahunta Church
Os God Starts
Revival Sunday
The Nahunta Church of God
will begin a revival meeting Sun
day night, Oct. 17, with Rev. L.
C. Caldwell as the evangelist.
Services will start each night
at seven o’clock. The meetings
will continue through Sunday, Oct.
24.
Rev. Jack Barber of Waycross
is pastor of the church. Everyone
is invited to attend all the ser
vices.
Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y
Clubs Met Monday
The Tri-Hi-Y and Hi-Y Clubs
met together in the music room
Monday, Oct. 11.
Mr. Bob Henderson, Southeast
ern District Secretary of State
Y.M.C.A., gave us a program dis
cussing the Y Clubs. First h e
discussed the history of the Y
Clubs. He explained the purpose
of our clubs.
Then he showed us scrapbooks
of some of the outstanding clubs
in the Southeastern District. And
he suggested projects and discuss
ed the District and State Confer
ences.
Judy Thrift, reporter
Senator Dean Lambasts Federal and
State Government on Tobacco Plan
State Senator Roscoe E. Dean
Jr., chairman of the Senate To
bacco Study Committee, hit out
at the actions of the Federal and
State governments which “have
attempted to break the spirit and
empty the pocketbook of the av
erage hard-working tobacro grow
er in Georgia.”
Dean said the general conclu
sion of the report just released
by his Committee, which was the
result of first-hand visits with to
bacco growers around the State,
was that “it is high time we let
the farmers farm without having
to fight government at the same
time.”
The Senate Tobacco Study Com
mittee adopted a strong resolu
tion, Dean said, asknig the Fed
eral Government to remove eith
er the restrictions on the num
ber of acres of tobacco planted
or the number of pounds sold,
and not impose both at once. The
Committee carefully, avoided par
tiality for either acreage controls,
or poundage controls but denoun
ced the new Federal Plan of us
ing both at once.
Senator Dean called for the dual
control plan “a nuisance to the
tobacco farmer.”
“We recommended,” he said,
“that so long as the poundage
method is used and the farmers
required to sell only a certain
number of pounds, acres should
not be allotted and farmers be
allowed to produce their pound
age on an acreage they may
choose. This would allow farm
ers to utilize land resources more
effectively to produce a higher
quality crop.”
He said it was also unanimous
ly agreed that steps be taken to
fully inform the tobacco farmers
that they can obtain as many
marketing cards as they may de
sire on their tobacco allotment.
It was urged that each county
ASC office notify each farmer by
letter of this service.
The regulation regarding the
sale of poundage in excess of the
allotted poundage plus 10 per cent
Newbern Morgan
Funeral Service
Held Thursday
Mr. Newbern L. Morgan, 53, of
Route 1, Nahunta passed away
at the Pierce County Hospital in
Blackshear Tuesday night, Oct.
12, shortly after being admitted
following a sudden illness.
Mr. Morgan was born in Wayne,
now Brantley county, and was
the son of the late Ephraim H.
and Daisy Gertrude Highsmith
Morgan. He received his educa
tion in the Brantley county
schools and from early manhood
until his death had been engaged
as a bulldozer operator in stump
wood operations.
For a number of years he re
sided in Florida, but had been a
resident of Brantley county for
the past seven years.
Os affable manner and genial
disposition, Mr. Morgan was well
known throughout this section and
his death brings personal sorrow
to a host of relatives and friends.
Survivors include one daughter,
Mrs. Johnny Jones of Nahunta;
one son, Donnie Morgan of Pat
terson; one sister, Mrs. Roy
Ham of Nahunta; four brothers,
Alvin Morgan of Jesup, Emory
Morgan, Willie Morgan and Mil
ton Morgan, all of Nahunta.
Five grandchildren, several
nieces, nephews and other rela
tives also survive.
Funeral services were held
Thursday afternoon, Oct. 14, at
three o’clock from the Raybon
Advent Christian Church with the
Rev. Harold Aldridge officiating.
Interment followed in Oak
Grove cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were the
Messrs. Bayne Morgan, Euley
Morgan, Leroy Ham, Conway
Morgan, Richard Howard and Ce
cil Jones.
The many beautiful floral offer
ings attested to the esteem felt
for the deceased.
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.
4-H SCHOLARSHIPS
College scholarships worth a
total of $27,229.73 were awarded
deserving 4-H Club members in
Georgia last year, according to
Dr. T. L. Walton, state 4-H leader
with the Cooperative Extension
Service.
should be clarified, he said. “The
Committee and I do not feel that
the farmers should be required to
pay a forty-four cents per pound
penalty on their excess tobacco
and also lose that poundage on
their allotment for the following
year. This is an unfair dual pen
alty.”
It was also recommended that
the State Department of Agricul
ture attach a permanent fixture
to each and every scale used to
weigh tobacco, containing the
name, address, and phone num
ber of the area scale inspector
so that he can be contacted by
the farmers if any questions a
rise.
“The members agreed that the
tobacco acreage cuts, dictated out
of Washington, have been a sour
ce of hardship to the farmers,”
Dean said. “In place of this, we
recommended that State research
and effort be given to the devel
opment of other cash crops, such
as blueberries, winter turnips and
soybeans.”
The Georgia Experiment Sta
tion was urged to do research in
the ways by which the waste pro
ducts of tobacco stalks can be
made useful — such as using
them to make egg cartons, as
has been done in Kentucky.
Senator Dean said that the
Committee requested the Coastal
Plains Experiment Station be giv
en sufficient funds to house the
facilities of the Agricultural En
gineering Department at Tifton.
The farmers feel the facilities
now at their disposal are inade
quate and unfair to them. The
Engineering Department in Tifton
has been a great help to tobac
co farmers.
In a final criticism of Georgia’s
own governmental activity, the
Committee, Dean said, recom
mended no further increase in
taxes on tobacco or tobacco pro
ducts. “I think it is time we
thought of giving tax breaks rath
er than tax burdens to our tobac
co farmers,” Senator Dean stat
ed. (Adv.)
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
County Airport Project
Gets Green Light "Go"
Hoboken FHA
Officers Named
Miss B. J. Ammons, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ammons
of Route 1, Hoboken, was elect
ed president of the Hoboken F
HA.
Other officers of the Hoboken
FHA are Minnette Sutton, vice
president; Helen Thrift, second
vice-president; Elaine Pierce,
secretary; Janice Lucas, treas
urer; Diane Edwards, degree
chairman; Frances Givens and
Wilma McCarty, music and rec
reation chairmen; Shirley Grif
fin, honors roll chairman; Janice
Strickland, historian; Shirley Har
ris, parliamentarian; and Luwan
na Carter, reporter.
Mrs. M. J. Colvin is advisor
for the Hoboken FHA.
Luwanna Carter, reporter.
Mrs. J. B. Lewis
Addresses Family
Relations Class
The Family Relations Class of
Nahunta High School enjoyed a
visit from Mrs. J. B. Lewis, Fri
day Oct. 8.
The class held a panel discus
sion during which they asked Mrs.
Lewis questions concerning the
dating customs and other tradi
tions of her time.
She mentioned that recreational
activities then were quite differ
ent from those of today. She also
brought out the fact that teen
agers of her day did not date as
frequently, they did not go stea
dy, nor did they have as much
variety in their dating activities
as we do today.
Os further interest to the class
were the pictures that Mrs. Lew
is brought. These gave the class
an idea of the styles and homes ■
of the early 1900’s.
& Al U A O '
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NO ONE is more aware of the
rising cost of education than the
American taxpayer who each
year must dig deeper and deeper
to hire more teachers and in
crease their pay, to build more
schools and classrooms, and to
seek more ways for improving
the quality of
education.
Such are the
demands of to
day and great-
ly increased
school attend
ance that it
seems we are
barely able to
keep up. School bond issues to
finance capital improvement#
are becoming regular occur
rences.
Since 1900, expenditures for
education in the United States
have risen more than 100 times
from ?284 million to some ?34
billion in 1963-64. Just since
1940, the cost of schools is up
tenfold, and indications are that
in future years the rate of
spending will climb even faster.
The financing of an adequate
educational system is a problem
none of us can afford to over
look, not at the local, state, or
federal level Education is in
deed “an investment in people,”
as the national Chamber of
Commerce recently declared in
an interesting and informative
publication. And I might add
that it is likewise an investment
in the future security and well
being of our country.
PEOPLE REALIZE that more
and better schools eost a great
deal of money, and state, city,
and county governments are
moving to meet this need, as is
the federal government, For ex
ample, recently signed into law
was the far-reaching Elemen
tasy Secondary Education
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Subscription Price
and Tax
Inside county $2.51
Outside county, in state $3.09
Outside state $3.00
By Pete Gibson
The last obstacle to con
struction of the Brantley
County Airport was hurdled
last Friday, Oct. 8, when the
Air Port Committee met with
Governor Carl Sanders and re
ceived a pledge of substantial
state aid. The conference was
arranged by Senator Roscoe
Dean, Jr. and he assisted the
committee in their presenta
tion.
Federal financial aid has al
ready been approved for the
project by the Federal Avia
tion Agency and an offer to
seU the necessary land has
been received from the own
ers. Negotiation for engineer
ing services are expected to
begin immediately and it is
hoped that construction can
get underway by early 1966.
While in Atlanta the Com
mittee conferred briefly with
Mr. Harold Diffenderfer, head
of the Industrial Development
Department of the Citizens
and Southern National Bank,
regarding industrial develop
ment for Brantley County.
Mr. Diffenderfer stated; “I am
delighted that you will soon
get an airport in Brantley
County. You have got to have
an airport if you expect to at
tract industry.”
The Committee states that
without the assistance of Sen
ator Dean and without the
keen interest of Governor
Sanders in the state airport
program this vital project
would not have been possible.
The committee members at
tending the conference with
Governor Sanders were Ray
mond Smith, Larry Stallings
and Pete Gibson.
The estimated cost of the
completed project with 2,600
feet of paved runway is $94,-
000 and with state and federal
aid the county will have to
provide less than $12,000.
The Board of County Com
missioners is to be commend
ed for its initiation and pro
motion of this important
county project.
Act of 1965, which provides for
the allocation of $1.2 billion to
the states, of which Georgia was
to be allotted some S3B million.
However, it must be remem
bered that the expenditure of
vast sums of money by no
means assures quality education
or that every boy and girl is
guaranteed their birthright of an
adequate education in keeping
with his or her individual needs
and desires.
In short, simply because more
and more money is being pumped
into our schools is no reason for
citizens to smugly assume that
all is well with education. In
many areas, quite the contrary
is true.
• * •
IN STUDYING the Chamber
of Commerce publication on the
importance and needs of educa
tion, I was much appalled by the
school dropout rate throughout
the nation, and particularly in
Georgia. I share the view ex
pressed by some educators that
to drop out of school in this day
and time is to commit “economic
suicide.”
According to Chamber of Com
merce statistics, Georgia leads
the nation with a dropout rate
of just under 60 per cent. The
number of dropouts in the 1958-
62 Georgia high school class
came to approximately 27,444,
and the economic loss to the
state was estimated to be $22
million.
Although great gains are be
ing made, we cannot afford to
regard our educational program
as satisfactory so long as this
problem persists. This is a tragic
waste of human resources and
every effort must be made to
correct the critical dropout prob
lem.
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