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Th* Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, March 31, 1966
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgia
Official Organ of Brantley County
Carl Broome Editor and Publiaher
Mr*. Carl Broome Associate Editor
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DEADLINE MARCH 31
FOR AUTO TAGS
Please get license tags for
your car and truck before
March 31, as that date is the
deadline according to state law.
Thank you for your cooperation.
DELMA F. HERRIN
BRANTLEY COUNTY TAG AGENT
This Spring, add the room, finish off the basement, or modernize
the kitchen. It will make living more fun and increase the value
of your home besides! (Our Home Improvement Loan experts
are available to give you good advice on this.)
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FOLKSTON AND NAHUNTA, GA.
Sad Tale of the Weekly Editor
BY EUGENE MOORE
In Th* Atlant* Journal
MY FRIEND, Bo McLeod, a
stalwart South Georgia editor
whose frequent exercises in wit
appear on this page, moaned soft
ly the other day about the perils
of editing a weekly newspaper.
Mr. McLeod intimated that the
only way a weekly editor can
bring home the bacon is to stick
up a pig. All too often he is too
busy mailing out final notices to
slow-paying advertisers to open
his own final notices from slow
burning creditor?.
The worthy Scot from Donalson
ville spoke for all of us who are,
have been or may become editors
of the weekly press.
I am a have-been. I once put
out a weekly in a Middle Georgia
town so small that the only rea
son it exists at all is that there
is no other place in the county
to put the courthouse.
APOLOGIZED
The townspeople at first con
sidered me a foreigner. Later,
when my poverty was made glar
ingly obvious, they considere4.be
a damn foreigner. But I tried to
laugh it off. After all, I said to
my secretary, I’m a native Geor
gian.
“Yeah?” she said, popping her
gum. “I thought you were from
Atlanta.”
Finally, after I meekly apol
ogized on the front page for ask
ing readers to pay for their sub
scriptions, many of the local folks
took a liking to me. But it was
a short romance.
The town is a Williamsburg
without the restoration — 17th
century. Backwardness is the
status quo. When I lived there,
local politics cried out for a dose
of democracy. Stiff whiffs of un
derhandedness wafted out of
courthouse windows.
My goal, then, was to make my
newspaper a shining light in this
wayward community. But there is
a truth in smalltown newspaper
ing: Only a prosperous newspaper
can be a progressive newspaper.
And in all my four pages there
were not enough ads to keep the
printer in snuff.
Adding to my chores that of an
advertising salesman, I canvass
ed the town.
There was only one grocery
store and the owner wouldn’t ad
vertise because, and I quote, “We
don’t want any more business than
we already got. I’d have to hire
another clerk.”
The pharmacist was a faithful
advertiser until a competitor open
ed shop a few doors down the
DOIT,
DOIT,
DOIT!
street. The oldtimer promptly
quit doing business with me.
“Ain’t no use letting that other
fellow know what I got on sale,”
he said.
The only case in town wouldn’t
buy because everybody already
ate there. The bank said it would
advertise when I had paid off the
mortgage. The ladies’ ready-to
wear shop said it would take a
small ad when more trade started
coming in. And a little man who
sold insurance said he wouldn't
advertise because he disliked my
politics.
SCREWWORMS
“But the only thing I’ve come
out against is the screwworm,” I
protested.
“Ain’t none of your business
what a screwworm does,” he
said. I agreed but suggested that
they bothered cows.
“Then that’s the cows’ sayso,
seems to me,” my tomentor snap
ped, and then he wanted to know
if I carried enough life insurance.
A defeated politician who adver
tised heavily during a local elec
tion wouldn’t pay his bill — and I
telephoned him to talk about it.
“Son,” he said. “Them ads didn’t
do me a bit of good, so why should
I pay for them?”
Desperately, I sought advertis
ers in a nearby large town, and
got them. But then, strangely,
subscription cancelations started
pouring in. I called one of my
exsubscribers and asked in a gen
tle voice why he didn’t want my
paper any longer.
“I ain’t going to read no paper
that tries to run business away
from local merchants,” he ex
plained. That was the afternoon
I started packing.
W FILLING 11
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B IMPORTANT SERVICE 11
Ernest Knight
DRUGGIST
The Rexall Store
Pharmacist Always on Duty
147 West Cherry Street
Phone GA 7-2254 Jesup, Ga.
MEMBER
F. D. I. C.
and she still
thinks electric heat
is too expensive
She’s not the only one. But today that idea
is ’way outdated. The truth is, if it’s properly
installed in a home with adequate insulation,
electric heating costs no more than any other
kind. Very often, less
Want facts-and-figures proof? Just ask for
one of our residential sales engineers or heat
pump sales engineers. Or call a Certified
Electric Heating Dealer.
You’ll get an estimate of your annual heat
ing bill. Then, if you wish, you’ll get a modern
heating plan designed especially for your
home. No cost to you.
And our low total-electric rate was made
for people of modest means. Budget billing
keeps your electric bill the same every month.
So, make a clean break with the past. Step
out of the fossil-fuel age. Step up to the joy
of total-electric living.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY
LEGAL ADVERTISING
GEORGIA,
BRANTLEY COUNTY
By virtue of an order of the
Court of Ordinary of said State
and County, there will be sold
at public outcry, on the First
Tuesday in April, 1966, at the
Court House door, in Nahunta,
Ga., between the legal hours of
sale, to the highest bidder for
cash, the following described pro
perty located in Brantley County,
Ga., to-wit:
A One-half (%) acre more or
less of land in the Second (2nd)
Land Dist. of said State and
County and in original land lot
No. 231, and being more fully and
accurately described in a deed
from W. J. Barlow to G. C. Rog
ers, recorded among the general
records of Brantley County, Geor
gia, in Deed Book 1A at page
193, said recorded deed is for all
purposes made a part of this
description by reference. Said
land being well known as “The
old C. H. Rogers Home place,”
and is where Mrs. Cora P. Jones
long resided.
Said sale will continue from
day to day between the same
hours until all of said property is
sold.
This is the 7th day of March,
1966.
Alvin A. Dixon
As guardian of
Mrs. Cora P. Jones
C. Winton Adams
Atty, for said Guardian 3-31
GEORGIA,
BRANTLEY COUNTY
IN THE COURT OF ORDINARY
OF SAID STATE AND COUNTY:
The petition of Mrs. Katie Bell,
guardian of the person and pro
perty of Julia Griffin an incom
petent, having been filed asking
leave to sell certain property
owned by said ward for the pur
pose of support and re-investment.
All persons are hereby notified
to show cause before this court at
10:00 A. M. on the first Monday
in April next, why said order
should not be granted as prayed.
This is the 7th day of March,
1966.
Perry U. Rozier
Ordinary of Brantley
County, Georgia
C. Winton Adams
Petitioner’s Attorney. 3-31
GEORGIA,
BRANTLEY COUNTY
All creditors of the estate of
Kate Kelly Parrott, deceased, late
of Brantley County, are hereby
notified to render in their de
mands to the undersigned acrord
ing to law, and all persons in
debted to said estate are requir
ed to make immediate payment
to me.
March 1, 1966.
/s/ Mrs. Mamie Smith
Executrix of
Kate Kelly Parrott,
deceased
ClTATlON—Administrs
GEORGIA,
BRANTLEY COUNTY
TO ALL WHOM
IT MAY CONCERN:
J. B. Middleton having applied
for Permanent Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of Noah
Warner late of said County, this
is to cite the creditors and next
of kin of Noah Warner to be and
appear at my office within the
time allowed by law, and show
cause, if any they can, why per
manent administration should not
be granted to J. B. Middleton on
Noah Warner estate.
Witness my hand and official
signature, this 9 day of March
1966
Perry U. Rozier,
Ordinary.
C. Winton Adams,
Atty, for Applicant. 3-31
Deadline for
Enrollment in
Medicare Near
Everyone 65 or older who gets
social security or railroad retire
ment benefits has received an en
rollemnt card for the medical in
surance part of health insurance,
popularly known as Medicare, ac
cording to 0. L. Pope, social se
curity district manager in Way
cross.
Many people have marked the
card, signed their names and re
turned it. Others may have put
the card aside, intending to make
their decision later.
If the enrollment card has been
misplaced or lost, the social se
curity office in Waycross can pro
vide another. It is very impor
tant that you make a decision,
Pope added. If you were 65 or
over January 1,1966, you will have
medical insurance when the pro
gram starts only if you sign up
by March 31, 1966.
For further information, write,
call or visit your social security
office— located at 704 Jane St.,
Waycross.
Dr. Charles H. Little
OPTOMETRIST
607 Isabella St. Telephone
Waycross, Ga. ATlas 3-5144
RECREATION
GROW TIMBER AS A CROP
BRUNSWICK PULP & PAPER CO.
MANUFACTURERS OF FINE QUALITY PULP AND
PAPERBOARD FOR
SCOTT PAPER COMPANY and THE MEAD CORPORATION
R. H. Schmitt, Division Land Manager, Nahunta, Ga.
Western Auto Store
Announces New Service
* Appliance repairs, all makes and models.
* Electric Wiring. * Plumbing.
* Air Conditioning and Heating Systems.
* Fedder's Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps.
Western Auto Associate Store
James Griner, Mgr. Nahunta, Ga.
Notice to Brantley
County Tax Payers
Make your state and county
tax returns by April 1.
Don't be confused by the work
being done by the Georgia Ap
praisal Company in regard to the
equalization program. The pro
gram will not go into effect until
1967.
I will appreciate your coopera
tion in getting your tax returns in
on time. Thank you.
John M. Wilson
Tax Commissioner, Brantley County
BETTER LIVING FROM TREES
WOOD
MR.
1 LANDOWNER...
If you have merchantable trees
and intend to sell them, be sure
you get complete information
from a trained forester.
WATER
WILDLIFE
