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VOLUME 44 - NUMBER 36
Why Not Try Your Luck
As a Political Prophet?
Why not try to win a SSO prize?
It costs nothing but a stamp to
try your skill at being a poli
tical prophet in the Enterprise
guessing contest about the race
for governor.
Pick the six Democratic candi
dates in the order they finish in
the Sept. 14 primary election.
Then pick the winner of the run
off, if a runoff is necessary. You
may win the SSO prize offered for
correct predictions.
Lastly, pick the winner in the
General Election the first Tues
day in November.
You may use the blank pub
lished in the Enterprise from
time to time or you may make
out your own blank and fill it in
with your prediction.
Entries in this contest must be
sent through the mail and must
be post marked not later than
Monday, Sept. 12.
Read the rules of the contest
in the Enterprise and make your
prediction. Remember, it costs
nothing to try for the SSO prize.
Harris Joins
Independent
Grocery Stores
Harris Grocery Store in Na
hunta has joined the Independent
Grocery Association and has a
full-page advertisement in this
newspaper announcing the fact.
Independent Grocery Associa
toin is a cooperative organization
for independent grocery stores.
Members of the IGA are enabled
to buy wholesale groceries at pri
ces competitive with chain stores
and thus serve their customers
with lower prices and better ser
vice.
Mr. Bill Harris, proprietor of
the Nahunta IGA grocery store,
invites the people of Brantley
County to visit his store and note
the reduced prices on many items,
especially the specials offered in
the page advertisement.
A Better FUTURE for YOU
JOB DEVELOPMENT MEANS
A BETTER FUTURE FOR YOU:
The Slash Pine Area Planning and Development
Commission is now searching for low income fami
lies which will qualify for a program of increased
income and skills through better jobs and training.
In order to be considered for this program, give us
the following information.
The coupon below should be filled out by family
head or other working members of family:
NAME...
ADDRESS..
Please Check (x)
Family Head (
Employed ( ) Unemployed ( )
EDUCATION:
( ) Less than 4th grade
( ) 4th thru Bth
( ) 9th thru 12th
( ) over 12
Age
Approximate yearly income
Number in family
Work experience
Mail coupon to:
SLASH PINE AREA PLANNING
AND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
201 STATE STREET
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Two ASC Office
Workers Win
Service Awards
Mr. Neil Hendrix and Mrs.
Moina Purcell of the Brantley
Agricultural Stabilization and
Conservation Service county
office, were recently prsented
awards for ten years of service
with the United States De
partment of Agriculture.
In presenting the Lenght-of-
Service Certificate and em
blems, Mr. Verlon Minchw,
District Fieldman for ASCS,
commended Mr. Hendrix,
member of the County Com
mittee, and Mrs. Purcell, office
clerk, for their dedicated
service to Brantley county
farmers and the USDA.
The ASC county committee
and staff are responsible for
administering federal farm
programs in Brantley County.
Nahunta Baptists
Announce Special
Mission Services
In cooperation with the other
church of Piedmont and Okefeno
kee Associations, the Nahunta
Baptist Church will have the fol
lowing servcies, and speakers:
Sunday Morning, Sept. 4, Dr. G.
W. Strother, Foreign Missions;
Sunday night: Mrs. M. G. White,
Foreign Missions: Monday night,
Sept. 5: Rev. E. J. Jenkins, Home
Missions; Tuesday night, the 6th:
Rev. M. G. White, Foreign Mis
soins; and Wednesday night, the
7th: Rev. J. R. Bowen, Associa
tion Missoinary, Vidalia, Ga.
A welcome to all people is giv
en.
) Other ( )
LUTHER H. BELL, JR.
Named sales specialist
Bell, Brown of
Georgia Power
Get New Posts
Luther H. Bell, Jr., has been
named sales specialist for the
Georgia Power Company’s
Waycross district, and Ralph
W. Brown has been named dis
trict commercial sales engi
neer, Rodney E. Moore, Way
cross district manager, an
nouned this week.
Mr. Bell, a native of Hali
fax County, N. C., joined the
power company in 1928 as a
meter reader in Waycross. He
has srved the company in
Waycross as meter supervisor,
storekeeper and clerk, com
mercial sales representative,
chief clerk, office manager
and district commerical sales
engineer.
The newly promoted em
ployee received his elementary
and high school education in
Waycross schools and attended
Georgia Tech. He is a member
of the First Presbyterian
Church, Elks Club and Geor
gia Tech Alumni Assn.
Mr. Bell is married to the
former Miss Mildred Gwen
dolyn Jordan, of Waycross.
They have one son.
Mr. Brown, a native of Au
burn, Ala., joined the Georgia
Power Company last year as a
commercial sales engineer in
Valdosta. He was formerly em
ployed by the U. S. Depart
ment of Agriculture.
A registered professional en
gineer, Mr. Brown holds the
bachelor of science degree in
agriculture engineering from
Auburn University and the
master of science degree in
agricultural engineering from
the University of Georgia. He
is a member of the American
Society of Agricultural En
gineers and the Methodist
church.
Mr. Brown is married to the
former Miss Sue Brown, of
Montgomery, Ala. They have
two sons.
Satilla Baptist
Church News
Rev. Charles Cox, pastor of
Satilla Baptist Church, will hold
revival services at Pleasant Hill
Baptist Church in Patterson dur
ing the week of Aug. 29.
Satilla Baptist W. M. U. have
changed their monthly meetings
to the first Thursday morning be
fore the third Sunday.
Satilla Baptist will hold their
annual Sunday School picnic La
bor Day at the church. They will
be host to 35 children from the
Baptist Home for Children near
Baxley.
Nahunta Stores
And Bank Will
Close Monday
The stores and the bank in Na
hunta will be closed Monday for
Labor Day holiday.
Customers are requested to
transact their business Saturday
in advance so they will not be
inconvenienced by the closing
Monday.
Herrin-King Reunion
Will Be Held Sunday
The Herrin-King family reunion
will be held Sunday, Sept. 4, at
Laura Walker Park.
Basket lunch will be served at
noon at table 500. All relatives
and friends are invited.
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, September 1, 1966
RALPH W. BROWN
Commercial sales engineer
Personals
Airman 3rd Class Sammy D.
Jones has left for Fresno, Calif.,
to continue his term of duty with
the Air Force, after spending sev
eral weeks with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. E. B. Jones of Hoboken.
He recently returned from Africa
where he had been stationed for
18 months.
Mr. and Mrs. Ward Turner and
Mrs. Donald Cleland and Paula
returned Saturday from a trip to
Ringgold, Ga., where they visit
ed Mr. and Mrs. Carol Lee and
Tina. They also visited Lookout
Mountain.
The Womans Missionary Socie
ty is honoring Mrs. Lula Brown
with a reception at her home on
Thursday, Sept. 1, the occasion of
Mrs. Lula’s 75th birthday. Friends
and relatives are invited to at
tend from 4:00 P. M. to 7:00 P.
M.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brooker and
Mrs. Guy Chambless will be hos
tesses to the Nahunta Garden
Club Sept. 6 for their first meet
ing after the summer recess.
They will meet at the home of
Mrs. Brooker. Mrs. Virginia Rau
lerson wlil be in charge of the
program on “Birds of the Sea
shore.” All bird lovers are in
vited to attend at 4:00 P. M.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray M. Brown
visited Mrs. Alice Highsmith last
week. They were returning from
a sightseeing tour in North and
have returned to their home in
Belle Glade, Fla
Willie Rowell, Route 1, Hor
tense, has been promoted to group
supervisor in the sheet and struc
tural shop of The Babcock & Wil
cox Company’s Brunswick. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Silas L.
Rowell of Hortense.
Roscoe Emory Dean Jr.
Dean Supports
Better Streets,
Roads, Highways
Senator Roscoe Emory Dean
acted strongly this year when it
became apparent that this great
district of ours was being short
changed in some highway depart
ment work. “A road or street in
front of your home, church or
place »f business is more impor
tant to me than any road any
where else in Georgia,” Senator
Dean recently told a group of
interested people of this District.
Senator Dean supported an ap
propriation of sl3 million for new
highways, streets and roads. This
is YOUR MONEY, and you are
entitled to know’ where it is being
spent. Senator Dean has fought,
and will continue to fight to see
that you get your share of this
progress.
On September 14, vote against
the selfish interest political ma
chine .... Vote for Roscoe
Emory Dean, YOUR State Sena
tor, "The People's Candidate."
(Advertisement)
Ben J. Crews
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Mr. Benjamin J. Crews, 73,
of the Hickox community
passed away shortly before
five o’clock Thursday after
noon ,August 25, at the Mc-
Coy-Jackson Hospital in Folk
ston where he was carried
earlier following a coronary
seizure at his home on Route
1. Nahunta, and his death re
moves one of Brantley Coun
ty’s most esteemed residents.
A native Georgian, Mr.
Crews was the son of the
late Archie and Deliar
O’Bryant Crews. When only a
small boy, he moved to the
old Bachlott school while that
section was still a part of
Charion County. In later
years, he moved to the com
munity in which he resided
at the time of his death and
had been a resident of Brant
ley County for the past 50
years.
He was a trustee of the old
Hickox school for many years
and until his retirement had
engaged in extensive farming
operations.
He was twice married, the
first marriage being to the
former Miss Emmie Crews,
who preceded him in death.
His second marriage was to
the former Miss Ethel Strick
land, who survives.
Os affable manner and gen
ial dispostion, Mr. Crews
made friends easily and was
well-known throughout this
section and he will be sadly
missed by a wide circle of re
latives and friends.
In addition to his wife,
survivors include one daugh
ter, Mrs. Roy Crews of Fern
andina Beach, Fla.; five sons,
Plen Crews, Cager Crews, J.-
D. Crews and Archie Crews,
all of Nahunta, and Willie
Crews of Orlando, Fla.
Twenty-four grandchildren,
eleven great grandchildren,
several nieces, nephews and
other relatives also survive.
Funeral services were held
at three o’clock Saturday af
ternoon, August 27, from the
Hickox Baptist Church with
the Rev. Marvin L. Johnson,
assisted by the Rev. E. J.
Dixon and the Rev. George
R. Lee, officiating.
Interment followed in the
Bethlehem Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were
the Messrs. Harry DePratter,
John V. Smith, Horace Jacobs,
Clayton Riggins, Woodrow
Hendrix and Major Riggins.
The many beautiful floral
offerings attested to the es
teem felt for the deceased.
The family has the sym
pathy of their many friends
in their bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral
Home of Nahunta was in
charge of arrangements.
Crosby Family Reunion
Will Be Held Sunday
All relatives and friends of the
late Joel Crosby of Ware County
are invited to attend the annual
family reunion at Laura Walker
Park Sunday, Sept. 4.
Registration begins at 10 A. M.
at picnic shelter 100. A basket din
ner will be served at noon.
DEVELOPMENT OF JOBS IS SOUGHT
Survey Is Underway to Compile List
Os Low Income and Jobless Families
A job development survey
designed to locate and gene
rate job opportunites, refer
unemployed and under-em
ployed persons to available
training programs got under
way in Ware County and
eight other area counties last
week.
A team of three researchers
from the University of Geor
gia’s School of Business Ad
ministration are now working
out of the offices of the Slash
Pine Area Planning and De
velopment Commission.
A major effect is under
way to locate and identify
workers in the area who can
be assisted by such a pro
gram. Questionnaires are be
ing distributed through the
newspapers, public schools
and names are being obtained
from welfare and health de
partments.
The Brantley Enterprsie is
carrying the questionnaire
Wilson-Lewis
Mr. and Mrs. John M. Wil
son of Nahunta announce the
approaching marriage of their
daughter, Anna Dee, to James
Donald Lewis, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh D. Lewis, Route 1,
Nahunta.
The wedding will be solem
nized Sunday, September 4,
at the Raybon Advent Chris
tian Church at 3:00 o’clock
P. M.
A reception will follow the
ceremony at the church social
hall.
Formal invitations will not
be issued, but friends and
relatives of the couple are
invited to attend.
J. ROBERT SMITH
J. Robert Smith
Announces for
Representative
TO THE VOTERS OF
BRANTLEY COUNTY.
GEORGIA:
Subject to the rules and reg
ulations of the State Democra
tic Primary to be held Septem
ber 14, 1966, I hereby an
nounce my candidacy for Rep
resentative from District 84,
comprising Brantley and Pier
ce Counties, to the General
Assembly of the State of
Georgia.
I am a former resident of
Brantley County and served
as your Representative in 1961
and 1962. I am a practicing at
torney now residing in Black
shear.
Your support and vote will
be greatly appreciated, and it
is my intention to represent
the interests of all the citizens
of both counties.
Respectfully,
J. Robert Smith ts
elsewhere in the issue. Dr.
Carl Eakin, who is directing
the survey, urges all who are
interested to fill it out and
return it to he Slash Pine
office.
Persons located during the
3-week survey will be offer
ed assistance under a job
development program made
available through the Office
of Economic Opportunity. A
$48,767 grant has been given
the Slash Pine Commission to
carry out the program for one
year.
Dr. Eakin said a staff of
four professional job develop
ers and counselors and one
resident secretary-bookkeeper
will untilize the information
assembled, counsel prospec
tive beneficiaries concerning
existing training programs,
job opportunities and motiv
ate such persons to take ad
vantage of existing opport
unities.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Mrs. Raulerson Announces Schedule
Os County Home Economic Meetings
Miss Diane Davis
Gets Scholarship
Miss Diane Davis, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Nolan Davis, Jr.,
of Hoboken, has been awarded a
college scholarship by the Geor
gia Department of Education.
She is one of 276 freshmen to
enter college this fall with schol
arships from the state. Scholar
ships range from S3OO to SIOOO a
school year.
Miss Davis plans to become a
school teacher.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Carroll an
nounce the birth of a daughter,
Mary Kimberly, Friday, Aug. 26,
at Wayne Memorial Hospital.
The baby will be called Kim.
Mrs. Allen is the former Una Wil
son.
Crews Family Reunion
Will Be Held Sunday
The Crews reunion will be at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ran
dall B. Crews of Hoboken Sunday
Sept. 4.
Relatives and friends are invit
ed. Basket lunch will be served
at 12:30 P. M.
Personals
Boatswain’s Mate First Class
Joel M. McDuffie, USN. son qf
Mrs. Elizabeth McDuffie of N-a
hunta, is with the Sixth Fleet in
the Mediterranean as a crew
member aboard the destroyer ten
der, USS Shenandoah.
Some Things Some People Don't
Know About a Weekly Newspaper
1. A weekly newspaper must get 85 percent of its
expenses from advertising.
2. Space is the newspaper’s stock in trade. The
paper sells space, like the store sells goods, to pay
expenses.
3. Only about 15 percent of a paper’s expenses is
received from subscriptions.
4. The paper must first have subscribers in order
to be able to sell space for advertising.
5. The cost of publishing a weekly newspaper has
increased about four-fold in the last 25 years.
6. The increased cost is caused mainly by the great
increase in costs for labor and machinery.
7. A newspaper does not charge for publishing
news articles, that is, items that are non-commercial
and not personal messages, memorials or resolutions.
8. A newspaper can publish only a limited amount
of news in each issue.
9. A newspaper must cut down many articles of
news to fit the space available and the time to set
type.
10. A newspaper editor reserves the right to edit
all news articles, that is, to shorten, to correct or to
improve.
Blackshear Tobacco Market
Report of Sales and Prices
LBS. SOLD AMT. AVERAGE
Wednesday, July 27 575,746 $386,012.36 $67.20
Thursday, July 28 457,512 $304,716.82 $67.13
Friday, July 29 289,760 $196,347.00 $68.01
Monday, August 1 578,716 $398,326.29 $68.83
Tuesday, August 2 600,710 $416,976.50 $69.41
Wednesday, August 3 607,918 $428,263.91 $70.45
Thursday, August 4 597,956 $424,092.00 $70.92
Friday, August 5 415,676 $295,979.00 $71.20
Monday, August 8 597,066 $426,163.94 $71.35
Tuesday, August 9 625,248 $445,248.74 $71.36
Wednesday, August 10 540,062 $387,106.00 $71.68
Thursday, August 11 472,118 $333,293.00 $70.58
Friday, August 12 375,186 $265,421.00 $70.74
Monday, August 15 543,806 $385,095.00 $70.81
Tuesday, August 16 320,594 $222,912.54 $69.53
Wednesday, August 17 217,630 $152,757.00 $70.19
Thursday, August 18 312,498 $218,728.00 $69.99
Friday, August 19 281,654 $193,755.00 $68.79
Monday, August 22 391,744 $259,004.00 $66.12
Tuesday, August 23 219,480 $140,850.00 $64.17
Wednesday, August 24 127,256 $75,281 00 $59.16
Thursday, August 25 58,544 $32,469.00 $55.46
TOTAL
Subscription Price
and Tax
Inside county $2.58
Outside county, in state $4.12
Outside state _.... $4.00
The regular monthly schedule
of the County Extension Home
Economics Club meetings for
Brantley County for the month of
September is announced this week
by Mrs. Virginia Raulerson, Ex
tension Home Economist.
The topic for this month is
“Pencil Pointers-Who Made the
Best Buy.” The program will be
presented by the Home Manage
ment Project chairmen of each
club.
The schedule for the various
clubs in the county will be as fol
lows:
Calvary Club at Calvary Com
munity Center, Thursday, Sept. 1,
at 7:30 P. M.
Raybon Club at Raybon Advent
Church, Thursday, Sept. 8, at 7:30
P. M.
Waynesville Club at Waynesville
Baptist Church, Monday, Septem
ber 19, at 2:00 P. M.
Nahunta Club at Mrs. Jesse
Lee, Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 9:30
A. M.
Suburban Club at Mrs. Mary
Lou Smith, Tuesday, Sept. 20, at
3:15 P. M.
Hickox dub at Mrs. Edward
Brand, Wednesday, Sept. 21, at
2:00 P. M.
SPECIAL PROGRAMS:
The County Extension Home
Economics Committee will meet
Thursday morning Sept. 8 at 10:-
00 in the Co. Extension office.
There will be a work day for
making alumnium trays Sept. 28
at Calvary Communtyi Center.
Subscribe to the
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BRANTLEY
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