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Newspaper Page TextNOTIFY THIS NEWSPAPER WHEN YOUR ADDRESS CHANGES. VOLUME 44 - NUMBER 7 Proceedings of Brantley County Commissioners The Brantley County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue met in regular ses sion Tuesday, Jan. 2, at 9:00 with all members present and transacted the following busi ness. GENERAL: John M. Wilson 89.19 Salary, R. B. Brooker 76.00 Salary, Owen Griffin 68.45 Salary, W. E. Eldridge 47.80 Salary, Major Riggins 47.80 Salary, Lloyd E. Grimes 65.00 Salary, James H. Ham 47.80 Salary, Archie A. Johns 89.62 Salary. SUPERIOR COURT: W. J. Summerall 46.00 Salary, De we" 113.34 Salary. EXTENSION SERVICE: Georgia A. Loyd 200 00 Salary and travel, Virginia N. Rauler son I’Ogo Salarv and travel. GEORGIA STATE FORES TRY COMMISSION 810.93 Budget. BRANTELY COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT: Brantley County Health De partment 450.18 Budget. Dept, of Family and Chil dren Service 1158.31 Budget. SHERIFF DEPT. Robert W. Johns 515.84 Salary, Jim R. Herrin 252.70 Salary, Jim Tatum 50.00 three days with Sheriff Dent. Robert W. Johns 97.50 for Board for prisoners. JANITOR: D. W. Lee 119.50. ROAD DEPT: Banner J. Wain right 522.50 Salary, Ce cil Harris 450.16 Salary, Ar chie J. Daniels 273.39 Salary. Ward Tumor 253.49 Salary. E. R. Joh”s 271.89 Salary. Rob ert S. Harris 197.34 Salarv, Lankford Worker 275 74 Sal ary, K’'"mit Crews 3’5 61 Sal ary. Herrin 280.84 S’l larv. Michell Hulett 206 54 Salary. Julius O. Smith 3’o 06 Salarv. Jasper Moore 282 64 Salprv. Tnl’nnrtco d'mtf»r 264,- 04 Caiarv, Richard Harris 294.- 44 Salary. INVOICES: American Oil Company 78.00 Sheriff Credit Cara, Carlton Company 492.57 Parts, Nimrner Chevrolet Co. 1976.25 Truck 1968 % ton Chevrolet, Lloyd E. Grimes 100.00 Legal work on special election, The Brantley Enter prise 62.40 Advertising and supplies, Whson and Sons Oil Co. 65.38 Oil and grease, Wil son and Sons Garage 4.70 Re pair, The State Dept, of Rev enue 8570.00 Dues on Tax Revaluation. Tri-States Trac tor Co. 12.835.70 Paysoraper, Brantlev Telephone Co. Inc. 175.60 Phones and Calls, Geor gia Power Co. 40.24 Light bills, I Bennett Bros. Inc. 49.30 for Commissioner and Tax Asses- | sors. Dmts Buicks Co. 15.50 ( Sheriff Dent. Bronz Seal Che mical Co. 10.00 for 10 cans of Bronz Seal, for Road Dept. The Welding Supply Co. 1 50 Road D“nt, Curtis Industries Inc., 52.92 Road Dent. Del Chemical Corn. 91.54 Suonplies for Road Dent. The Harrison Co. 92.00 Law Books, Kenneth Willis 25.00 Innuest. Slash Pine Area Planning & Deve lonment Comm. 368.19 Dues, The HWr and Gift Shun 25.- 75 Wrea+h for Sheriff Crews Funeral. Carlton Comnanv 97.- 60 Parts. Ed Waterhouse Busi ness Forms 185.50 Supplies for Clerk nf Court. Gulf Oil Corp. 9.23 Ph“riff C-mdit Card. Ser vice Uniforms Co. 30.42 Sher-ff Dent. Professional Ins. Co. 146 n. 5 F.mnlovees Premium, Moto- Part, Co. 138 75 Sup plies for Road Dent. Clint Ro binson Ins. A»<mcv 210 00 Bonds for Sheriff. Clerk. Sur veyor, Ordinary. Tax Cot^ums sion°r. an 6 Denutv. R. E. A. Co-on 5.87 Caution Light. on Co. 625 20 Road and Sh°riff D°nt. Marshall and Bru-e Ho. 32 04 Simnlies for Clerk W. B. Willis 58 08 Tires for Road dent. Nina Harden 171 no Lnmb°r for Road D“nt. Tomlinson Drug Store 95 30 Dnirq Pierro CountV Hospital 150 00 for Wilmer C. Bailev. Qlvnn - Brunswick Hosnital 150.00 for Elnora W. Bell, Mrs. Peart Crews 50 00 Hony tal bin. R. B. Rrooker 837 61 Cemet. wire fence and small tools and sunnlies, for Road dent P R. Pronker 50 00 Rent for Ham" Makers Office, J. C. Allen 125.00 ten davs as Chief RartieTror. TVnvev L"e 12 00 Renairinw Ballot boxes. C. L. Ki„e 35nn renair on County Agents Office. Hilton Morgan 310 0O lai? hours Tav Ass«s. SO rc n. F. Herrin 3’ 00 two davs court cost and re cording Tax Assessors Arbit- BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. : ration papers Brantley County Board of Education 300.00 Li l brary Fund, John King Ford j Co. 1495.00 1968 Ford Police Special with trade in on 1967 Chevrolet Smith Auto parts 26.07 Sheriff D’pt. Smith Auto Parts Inc. 207.30 Parts for j Road Dept. J. W. Crews 175.28 i Salary for 8 days service, R. . B. Brooker 40.00 Trip to At- I lanta, Macks Auto Parts 163.54 Parts, Dixie Concrete Service 224.00 Gravel for Road Dent. Brantley Gas & Appliance Co. 26.85 Fuel. Re’d Inc. 157.72 Parts. Vaughn Radiator Shon 12 00 Parts, R. E. A. Co-op 28 30 F“nce po«t, C. L. King 182 00 Wiring fnr Road Dept. Cecil Harris 50 00 Exnencg ac count, Halls Funeral Home 10022 for F l nora Bell, Geor gia Homintal Service Associa tion 189.50 Tnsuuranop Prem ium. for employees. Chambless Funeral Home 100.00 trans nortation 25 00 for funeral of Ravmond Crews. Employees Retirement System 1578.42 Fmplovees Social Security Tax, District Director of In ternal Revenue 868.61 Income Tax Withheld, from employ ees. There being no further busi ness the meeting adjourned. John M. Wilson Sc. to County Commis sioners FHA bans and Grants Mada to Three Counties The benefits of modern water service and sewer sys tems are being brought to more than 3150 people in Brantley, Charlton and Ware Counties through projects fi nanced bv the U. S. Farmers Home Administration. FHA County Supervisor Seth M. Kellam said. Loans and grants totaling $1,061,580 since January 1966 are financing new water sys tems in the Hoboken and Man or communities and new sew er system at Folkston. A constant, clean supply of water at the turn of a tap is bring achieved for 280 familv homes and 20 businesses and institutions seared bv the new water lines, Mr. Kellam re ported. The wafer svstem projects received $209,690 in loans and SBB,OOO in grants from Farm ers Home Adminisf-ntim during 1967, for a $297 690 loan and grant total toward Brantley and Ware Countv water projects the past two years. The Folkston sewer system is serving 447 homes an d oth"r buildings. Farmers Home Ad ministration loaned $423,090 and granted $340,890 to build the system. Denise Sears Sixth Birthday Celebration Little Miss Denise Sears cel ebrated her sixth birthday with a party at Lollipop Play school Friday Feb. 9. Those attending were class mates Tara Smith, Rose Ann Austin, Olivia- Pearson, Donna Brantley, Kleve Mathie, Dal las Purdom, Matt Brooker, William Harris, Colt Stallings, Layt and Beth Johns. Other guests were Emory Pearson, Wanda and Debra Brantley, Douclas Brand. Lisa Rhoden, Alan Dowling, Marion Schmitt. Kathy and Ronald Ham and Laura Thomas. Assisting in serving other than Mrs. Layton Johns was Kim H"rrin and Donna and Chris Popwell. Births Mr. and Mrs. Laurance O’- Berry announce the birth of a baby girl born on Feb. 10. She has been named Lisa Re nee. The mother was the former Miss Diane Morgan. Fourth year Home Economics Class at Brantley County High has finished cake decorating as part of the Catering Unit. Shown with birthday Cake she decorated is Miss Allyson White. Mrs. Dorothy Ham and Mrs. Macle Colvin are Homemaking Teachers at Brantley County High School. Sgt Jerry V. Herrin Sgt. Jerry Herrin Returns Home From Vietnam Sergeant Jerry V. Herrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil V. Herrin, Rt. 2, Nahunta, return ed from Vietnam February 8. Sgt. Herein has been station ed at Pleiku and Ban Me Thout. Sgt. He rin maintained a Tactical Air Navigation (TACAN) set which is used by aircraft pilots to deter mine distance and direction to an airbase. Sergeant Herrin was dis charged from the Air Force Feb’narv 9, and plans to live at Nahunta. McGee Heads Way cross Office of Georgia State Employment Service WAYCROSS — The new mana ger of the Waycross office of the Georgia State Employment Ser vice is a young man in a hurry. Richard W. McGee, who took over the office’s top spot in No vember 1967, is only 28. In those 28 years he has found time to earn a college degree, head two private firms, serve a hitch in the Navy and build a sparkling reputation in the State Depart ment of Labor. He succeeded J. Ashley Gold wire, who retired after 23 years as manager of the Waycross of fice. Born in Birmingham, McGee went to high school in Augusta, then earned a degree in Business Administration from Georgia Southern College in Statesboro in 1961. After a two-year hitch in the Navy, he returned to Augusta in 1963. where he founded the A&M Sand and Gravel Co. In 1965 he moved to Waycross, where he be came president of McGee Oil Co. Richard joined the Georgia De partment of Labor in April 1967 as an employment interviewer. Seven months later he became manager of the local office. Commissioner of Labor Sam The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga„ Thursday, Feb. 15, 1968 Bids Sought For Post Office At Hortense The Post Office Depart ment is seeking competitive bids for an improved build ing to house its postal oper atinns at Hortense, Georgia 31543, Postmaster General Lawrence F. O’Brien announ ced. Under the Department’s Construction program, a con trart wi’l b° awarded tn 4 h“ bidder wh« desigpates a build ing suitable to the Deoart ment’s needs and agrees to im pmv" it, or provide a new birlding, amnrding to depart mental specifications and th®n rent it to the Department for a basic period of five years, w ; *h three five year renewal opf’ens. The Department’s capital in- V oc*me-'t. will b“ limited sub stantially to portal emin mont. Th" building will remain nnd“r private ownership. w’ + h th“ owner paying local real Riddin<r documents m n V be ob*am-d f-om L1"”d C. T.Porn ic P—■> Rctat" Officer. P. O. Ro” 4786, Atlanta, Georgia 30302. The Real Estate Office will supply bidding forms, specifi cations, rent provisions and other information. Bids must be submitted to the Real Estate Officer by March 11, 1968. 2-15. Caldwell calls McGee "one of the brightest young men in the de partment. He has impressed us with his leadership ability, and he possesses maturity and judg ment far beyond his years. “Richard has a brilliant future in the department. I’m sure the people of the Waycross area share our pride in his accomplish ments.” McGee’s primary concern is expanding the scope of the Way cross office’s operations. “We have a fine, needed service which is not being utilized to its fullest,” he said. “We want to make more employers and more job applicants aware of the many programs instituted by the Department of Labor to better serve their needs.” The Waycross office serves Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Pierce, Ware and Wayne counties. McGee and wife Jane, who live at 1712 Dean Drive in Waycross, have three daughters. They are Methodist, and his community service includes membership in the Lions Chib and Jaycees, of which he is a former vice presi dent. , When not at the office, McGee likes to be outdoors . . . hunting, fishing and golfing. Bills Are Introduced to Revamp Brantley County's Government ATLANTA — A bill reor ganizing the Brantley County Commission was introduced in the House Tuesday by Rep. Steve Nimmer of Blackshear. I The bill proposed reducing ' the size of the commission from five to three members and electing them on a coun tywide vote. One post would be designated as the chairman ship. At nresent, members of th’ board elect their own chairman. 1 Nimmer also introduced a legislation that would abolish ‘h*» office of county treasurer ’n Brantley. He said Brantley is ore of th° few counties in Georgia still retaining the treasurer’s office. In a thi^d measure. Nimmer nroposed salaries for the Brant -1“v ordinary, clerk of Supe rior court, and tax collector in lieu of the fee system. Tn a fourth action affecting Prartlev Countv. Nimmer in troduced a constitutional a mendment resolution estab lish’ng th“ Brantley Develon mont Authority. Nimmer said the resolution is a step to clear un a legal cloud over the constitutionality of the present authority. If this reso lution clears the House and S®nat.e. it will vo before the voters of Brantley for a de rision in the November gener al election. Economics Clubs Schedule Given The schedule for the Exten sion Home Economics Clubs this month is as follows: Waynesville, Feb. 19, 2:00 p. m. Waynesville Baptist Church. Nahunta, Feb. 20, 9:30 a.m. Mrs. Jesse Lee. Suburban, Feb. 20, 3:30 p. m.. Mrs. Layton Johns. The program is on Heart Diseases. Personals The Dean of the College of Business Administration at the University of Georgia has an nounced the names of students who appear on the fall ouar ter Dean’s List for academic achievement. Among those students is Wavne Talmadge Inman of Nahunta. Revival of Interest is Cotton Production Expected for 1968 The Agricultural Commodity Cammission for Cotton is op timistic over prospects for im provement in Georgia’s cotton economy. The current situ ation with respect to supply and demand for cotton, higher prices, development of new varieties and recent changes in the government cotton pro gram indicate a market re vival of interest in cotton pro duction. Under the 1967 cotton pro gram Georgia’s cotton grow ers could have planted 475,000 acres in cotton even after al lowing for a maximum diver sion of 35%. Due to unfavorable weather, abandonment, and a provision of the cotton program which provided for price support payments on cotton even though it was plowed un and ulanted to oth er cash crons, the cotton acre age actuallv left for harvest was only 270 000. This repre sented a Joss of over 200 non acme whi^h with average 1067 yields and prices meant, a loss of about. 25 million dollars to Georgia’s cotton growers a”d several times this much to the State’s total economy. Pierce County producers could have grown o’o acres of cotton under the 1967 pro« Tam. Only 309 acres were actually harvested. On the basis of recent average county yields this resulted in a loss in cotton income to pierce County farmers of some $47 000. Prospects for cotton pro duction in? Georgia and in Pierce Countv are much more favorable in 1968 than in 1966 or 1967. The carryover of cot ton in the United States has been reduced from about 17 million bales on August 1, 1966 John T. Rocker Funeral Service Held Sunday CRAWFORDVILLE — John T. Rocker Sr., 86, died in the Will Memorial Hospital Fri day afternoon at Washington, Ga. The native of Taliaferro County was a farmer and was member of the Phillips Hill Bantist Church. Survivors are seven daugh ters, Mrs. Sh’lton Evans of Coppervilie, Mrs. DeWitt Moo dy of Nahunta, Mrs. John R. Hays and M^. Larry Putcel of Atlanta. Mrs. George L. .Tones of Kansas Citv, Mn„ Mrs. London Greer of Nash ville. Tenn., and Mrs. H. B. O’Neil of Macon; three sons, ,T. T. Rocker Jr. of Metter, Bobbv Rocker of Conperville, and H. P. Rocker of Dallas, Tex.; three brothers. Eddie Rocker of Twin City, Wvman Rocker of Portal, G. A. Rook er of Davenport, Fla., and 24 grandchildren and eight great grandchildren. Funeral services were held at Phillips Hill Baptist Church at 2 p.m. Sunday. Community Action Committee to Meet The Brantley County Com munity Action Committee will meet Thursday. Feb. 22, at 3:60 n.m. at the Okefenokee REMC budding in Nahunta, with chairman George Lovd presiding. Now representatives elected during this month to coryp fn” th° present year, will b° tfe canted to the Committee. Chm-man Lovd urges the new momb''rs as well as all other members to he present in or der that th" rwaswrv business matters might be transacted. Flementary PTA Meets Monday Night The Elementary Parent- Teachers Association will meet at the schoolhouse Monday night. Feb. 19. it is announced bv Mrs. Gerald Johns, presi dent. The theme of the meeting will be “A Time to Remem ber.” to about 12% million bales on August 1, 1967. Indications are that the carryover on August 1, 1968 will not exceed six to seven million bales most of which will be low quality cotton. There is no longer a surplus. As a matter of a fact cotton of good quality which is in strong demand by the mills is already in short supply. With the exceptions of to bacco and peanuts cotton is still the most profitable cash crop available to farmers equipped to produce this crop. Recent research completed by the Department of Agricultur al Economics of the College of Agriculture shows that the av erage net return per acre to land, operators labor, and man agement from cotton with a 500 pound yield under the 1967 program was 48.00 dollars. The net return from soybeans with a3O bushel yield and current price was 42.00 dollars per acre and the net per acre re turn from com' with a 50 bush el yield and present price was about 22.00 dollars. Georgia farmers can plant over 475.000 acres in cotton in 1968 with a 35 per cent diver sion, and up to over 650.000 acres with 5 per cent diversion. Pierce County farmers can plant over 900 acres with 35 per cent diversion and up to 1.300 acres with 5 percent di version. Recent changes in the 1968 cotton program, larger per mitted acreages, higher prices for quality cotton, availability of seed of the Atlas and Coker 413 varieties and improved production technology all add up to better times for cotton farmers and for Georgia’s cotton economy. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Jimmy Edwards of Alma and Crew Laying Tile on Farm of E. Goldwire Fowler Tile Drainage Os Cropland Is On Increase TILE DRAINAGE By C. D. Sims, Jr., Work Unit Conservationist More than 5,000 feet of clay drain tile has been installed on Brantley County farms in the past two weeks. This pipe has been laid 3 to 4 feet be neath the surface to provide permanent drainage for wet land. Tile drains provide per manent insurance against crop drowninps on wet water logged soils. This is the same dram tile used in fields for septic tanks. A contractor docs the entire operation after the conserva tinnist has surveyed. designed '”d stakeri the a—on to ho rlroin -d. A m°ehin o rli+"h"a the lon<l —oq to be oOVPreH ,r)O’H*io the -Rrt asido for another- n'°ce n* 'h® eewinment to follow a lone, with a man seated deep : n the trench placing the ti!" nine and being followed with a roll of polyethylene nlastic that places a layer on ♦op of th" tile. As this opera tion is being n°rformcd, a truck loaded with sawdust and “munoed with an auger tm ’onding device. f°eds th" saw dust into a hopner that distri butes it ove r th" nine and nlas tic. A tractor with a blade i« us°d to cover th« ditch, to "omnlete th" operation. Th" ACP program is cost ebarin® in the tile operation ,p h" total cost is about $250 Soils that can be adenuofolv drain°d with tile are detor minod hv a’ soil seieptief with the So’l Conservation ponton who describes characteristics CHILDREN'S DENTAL HEALTH I recently took my three year-old child to the dentist for the first time. The dentist told me that my child has badly decayed teeth. What caused this? I thought very young children didn’t get de cay. As soon as teeth erunt into the mouth, they are exposed to decay-causing attacks by acids in the mouth, so even very young children can have decayed teeth. It is at this time that teeth are most susceptible to de cay. The important thing to remember is to protect your child bv keeping his sweet in take down, because sweets are the leading cause of decay — in any age group. Two recent studies found that very voting children often have badly decayed teeth be cause they were fed sweeten ed milk or other sweet sub stances for prolonged p°rtnds of time. One of the studies, condueted in England, showed that children who were given a bottle containing a sweet substance at bedtime averaged 11 decayed teeth. These chil dren ranged in age from 1 to 5 years. In 1967. an American Den tal Association editorial point ed out that “there is indeed a casual relationshin between sugar and dental decay.” The editorial also emphasized that "candy, especially sticky tvpes such as canmel, is harm ful to the teeth.” Care of vour child’s teeth, then, should begin eartv in his life. Train him early to limit sweetq. Often 1 , ydse par ents establish a once-a-week candy treat routine for their children, giving them sweets — in small a- SUBSCRIPTION PRICE AND TAX Inside county $3.09 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state $4.00 of these soils on a soil and cap ability map. These maps be come part of a conservation farm plan which shows plan ned conservation treatment a greed on by the landowner and the soil conservation district. Farmrs having land drained the past two weeks are Owen Griffin and E. G. Fowler. Others in Brantley County who plan to install tile this year are Perrv Rozier and Charles and Jimmy Dukes. Egg Cooking Hints Good cooks never hard boil eggs. They know that hard cooked eggs are easier to shell, and will have a clear yellow yolk when cooked in barely simmering water — promptly cooled under running water. Too .much h°at makes eggs touch and “rnhberv”. To errioy tender cooked eggs, use low cooking temperatures — and the shortest possible cooking time. Tired of eggs cracking when cooked in the shell? Try this tip — brings eggs to room temperature before being placed in hot water. To speed un the warmup, hold eggs under warm running water, or place in pan of warm water for a few seconds. E"g whites beat up faster and to a larger volume if re moved from the refrigerator about a half hour before use. They should be at room tem perature before beating. We Do AH Kind* of Job Printing. mounts — on Sunday perhaps. I would add, too, that these parents teach their chil dren to brush their teeth right after eating meals, even snacks. And, these parents also prepare their children for pro fessional care at about age 2% or 3, when all the primary teeth have erupted. All of these factors — limit ing sweets, brushing regularly after eating and routine pro fessional care — play an im portant part in preventing dental decay and other dental diseases. If you follow these practices, your children will be assured good dental health all of their lives. I would like to stress the use of fluorides too, for fluori dation is the most effective method known to modern den tal science forth" prevention of dental decay. Children who live in areas where there is fluoride in the water — in the amount of about ore part of fluoride to one million parts of water ~ have approximate ly 65 per cent less decay than children who live in nonfhior ied areas. Although dental scientists do not know exactly how fluoride prevents de cay, they do know that fhioride is absorbed by tooth enamel and makes the enamel resistant and more im pregnable to acid attacks. Scientists have also found that fluoridation is comoleteiv safe. If your community does not have fluoridation, your family dentist most likely will paint your child’s teeth at sn"cified intervals with a fluoride so hition. While this method isn’t ouite as effective as water fluoridation, it does prevent a good deal of decay.