The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, April 25, 1968, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextNOTIFY THIS NEWSPAPER WHEN your ADDRESS CHANGES. VOLUME 44 - NUMBER 17 Miss Linda Gail Strickland Engagement Is Announced Strickland-Denny Mr. and Mrs. Elmer E. Strickland of Hortense an nounce the engagement of their daughter, Linda Gail to Eugene Jackson Denny, son of Mrs. E. J. Denny and the late Mr. E. J. Denny of Car tersville, Ga. The bride-elect is employed at Glynn-Brunswick Hospital. Mr. Denny is with the Georgia State Patrol. Friends and relatives are invited to the wedding which will be solemnized at the Sa tilla Baptist Church, Hortense, Saturday, May 25, at six o’- clock in the afternoon. Robersons Hold Birthday Dinner For 7 Members The Roberson family gather ed at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sweat Davis of Hortense Sunday, April 21, to celebrate the birthdays of seven mem bers of the family. An outdoor barbecue was held at noon. , Thost attending were Mrs. Janie Stuckey, Mrs. Ward Tur ner, Mr. and Mrs. Tab Rober son and son, Mr. and Mrs. Donald Cleland and children, Mrs. Hilda Lee and children, Mr. and Mrs. Olan Roberson and family, all of Nahunta. Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Smith and son and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Todd of Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Turner and chil dren of Blackshear, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Sam Chaney and children and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Spi vey and David of Waycross, Mr. Hilton Roberson and chil dren and Mrs. Shirley Ever ett and children of Augusta, Mrs. Mable Lane and children and Mrs. Ernestine Stafford and Gay of Live Oak, Fla. Mrs. Lucille Roberson and Janice, Mr. and Mrs. Sweat Davis, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Davis and Timmy, Rev. and Mrs. James Wood and chil dren, Mr. Jesse Lee Wood, all of Hortense; Mr. Jessie Rober son and Betty Altman of Brunswick, Mr. and Mrs. Joel Herrin and son of Twin Rivers. Farmers Asked To Attend Meet On Insect Control All Brantley County farmers are invited to attend a meet ing on the control of insects of tobacco and other crops. This meeting is to be held at the Brantley County High School, Monday night, April 29 at 8:00 o’clock. The meeting is being spon sored jointly by the Vocation al Ag. teachers, Jimmy Dub berly and Huey Ham, and County Agent, George Loyd. John French, Entomologist with the Cooperative Exten sion Service, will be here and present the program. Farmers are urged to attend and obtain the latest and most up-to-date information on insect control. Sloans Hill Church To Hold Gospel Sing A Gospel singing will be held at Sloan’s Hill Church of God of Prophecy Saturday night, April 27, at 7:30. The church is located near Hortense. Everyone is invited to attend. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. James F. Craig Funeral Service Held Monday James Finley Craig, 76, of Hortense, died Saturday morn ing in a Brunswick hospital after a long illness. The native of Lenoir, N. C., had lived in Brantley County for several years. He was a member of the Twin Rivers Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mamie Story Craig of Lenoir; four daughters, Mrs. Irene Causey of Hortense and Mrs. Mable Biddix, Mrs. Beulah Story and Mrs. Georgia John son, all of Lenoir; two sons, J. D. Craig of Lenoir and H. H. Craig of Cartersville; six grandchildren, nine great grandchildren; three great great-grandchildren; two sis ters, Mrs. Condice Hayes and Mrs. Grace Kidd, both of Lenoir, and one brother, L. H. Craig of Umatilla, Fla. Funeral services for Mr. Craig were held at 3 P- m. Monday in the Twin Rivers Baptist Church with Rev. Bob by Brinkley and Rev. Walter Vickery officiating. Burial was in the Hortense Ceme tery. Fred S. Jones Funeral Service Held Wednesday Fred S. Jones Sr., 70, of Route 2, Waycross, died Mon day morning after an extend ed illness. He was the son of the late James Edward Jones and Rosa Wildes Jones. He was a mem ber of the Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, the former Cora Bell Sapp; two daughters, Mrs. Doris Mc- Dowell of Jacksonville, Fla., and Mrs. Yuanita Liles of Waycross; five sons, Howard E. Jones of Columbus, Fred S. Jones, Jr., and Joseph P. Jones, both of Waycross, Rob ert M. Jones of Jesup, Gordon E. Jones of Hinesville; 16 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. at Pleasant Valley Baptist Church. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery. ( Brantley Boys Compete in Stock Judging Four members of the Brant ley County Chapter FFA par ticipated in the District Live stock Judging Contest, held at Reidsville State Prison Farm. These team members quali fied to enter the District Con test by winning elimination contests in their vocational ag riculture classes. The FFA members compris ing the team were Terry Grif fin, Wayne Chesser, James Harris, and Terry Strickland. 48 schools competed in the contest. Brantley County won 13th place. James Harris won third place and five dollars in the individual scores. James com peted with 190 boys for this award. Bicknell Manor, Reporter Hickox Home Economics Club Met Wednesday The Hickox Home Econom ics Club met Wednesday after noon at the home of Mrs. Er nest Steedley. Mrs. Steedley and Mrs. Woodrow Hendrix gave the devotional. Mrs. Wilson Wain right presided over the meet ing. Mrs. Woodrow Hendrix, Food Preservation Project Chairman, gave the program on tips for selecting pressure cookers for canning. Others present were: Mrs. Ronald Hendrix, Mrs. Joseph Hickox, Mrs. Salena Steedley and Mrs. J. E. Harris. MISS BRENDA HELEN ALLEN Will Become June Bride Allen-Griner Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Allen of Nahunta announce the engage ment and approaching mar riage of their daughter, Bren da Helen, to Donald Hubert Griner, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Griner of Nahunta. The couple will marry June 15 at 7:30 p. m. at Nahunta First Baptist Church. A reception will be held, following the ceremony, at the church social hall. Friends and relatives are cordially invited. The future bride is a grad uate of Nahunta High School and is presently a student at Waycross - Ware Tech, School of Cosmetology. The future bridegroom was graduated from Nahunta High School and is now a senior student at Georgia Southern College, Statesboro. ERHARD PFINGSTEN National vice-president, NFO NFO Official to Speak in Odum This Thursday Erhard Pfingsten, national vice-president of NFO, will be guest speaker at a barbecue given at Odum, Ga., on April 25, beginning at 5:30 P. M. Pfingsten was bom and reared on a farm in Gage County, Nebraska and receiv ed his college education in Kansas. In 1932, he began his career as a farmer in Western lowa. Pfingsten entered the U. S. Armed Forces in 1943 and at the close of World War 11, he bought a farm in Wood bury County, lowa. Pfingsten joined the NFO at its very beginning and has been a member continuously since that time. He was elect ed to the National Board of Directors in 1960, was appoint ed director of the meat com modity department in 1961, and was elected national vice president in 1962. He was sub sequently re-elected in 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967. All NFO members are in vited to attend. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 2S, 19M Rabid Bat Was Found in Brantley County Mr. Earl Woods, Central Ave. Extension, found a bat lying by the roadside. Think ing it was injured he stooped down to examine it and it hissed at him. Mr. Woods kill ed the bat and carried it to the Laboratory. On examina tion it was found to be rabid. This is the first rabies in bats we have had in this sec tion. Everyone is cautioned to be on the alert for any sus picious acting animals, especi ally a wild animal which does not run away. DO NOT TRY TO PET IT. An animal (or bat) may be shut up. If no symptoms are detected in ten days it can then be released. If it is necessary to kill a bat or animal, do not destroy the brain tissue. Shoot for the heart. Cut off the head, place in a can or plastic bag, pack in ice and take to the State Health Department Lab oratory, 1101 Church Street, Waycross, Ga. If anyone is bitten or scratched go to your doctor or local Health Department im mediately. Agricultural Fair Practice Act Is Passed By J. F. Jacobs President Brantley Farm Bureau Congress has passed the Ag ricultural Fair Practices Act of 1968. The marketing rights bill would permit farmers to help themselves in strengthen ing their marketing activities. The Act doesn’t bestow mag ic upon farmers of the nation. Matter of fact, it doesn’t even assure that farmers will stand together to do what the Act permits. Primarily, the Act makes illegal discrimination, coercion, intimidation, bribery, falsehood, or conspiracy to be used or threatened against a farmer for belonging to a mar keting group. By the same token such actions can’t be taken against a farmer because he elects not to belong to a marketing group. Many farm commodities are currently produced under con tract . . . and authorities in the agricultural field predict that up to 50 percent of farm production may go to the con tract route within ten years. As this occurs, fanners through Farm Bureau market ing structure want to have a voice in the terms and con ditions of contracts including even many factors that don’t even have to do with price. Only that voice will come through Farm Bureau affiliat ed marketing associations. Farm Bureau is not chartered to do the job, but its market ing affiliates are set up legal ly to operate within that area. State to Increase Welfare Benefits To Adults by $2 Public assistance benefits will be increased by $2 per month to approximately 122,- 500 aged, blind and disabled adults on the State welfare rolls effective May 1, William H. Burson, State Director of the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services, announced this week. There will be a simultan eous increase from SBO to SB2 per month in the State’s max imum payment in the adult assistance categories, he also disclosed. These adjustments are be imr made oossible, Burson ex plained, through funds freed by the recent 13 per cent in crease in Social Security bene fits. Inasmuch as federal reg ulations require all income to be taken into account in de termining welfare eligibility, those public assistance clients receiving both Social Security and welfare benefits had their welfare payments reduced correspondingly when their Social Security checks were increased last month. The increase will be made in the form of the addition of an item for transportation to the assistance budgetary stand ards for adult welfare pro grams in Georgia, he said. The addition of the across-the board item will make it pos sible for every adult recipient not in a nursing home, in cluding those receiving Social Security, to receive a boost in his welfare benefits. “This will represent an an nual increase in direct money payments to adult welfare re cipients in Georgia of an es timated $3,160,000,” the State Director pointed out. “The need for an allowance for transportation has become particularly acute with the imolementation of the Medic aid program and the expansion of food programs. The added $2 per month will make it possible for adult clients who have no transportation to pay for it in order to be able to go where necessary to obtain medical services, purchase food stamps or receive free commodities.” Burson noted there is no requirement of law that such “windfall funds” be passed on to welfare clients, but he add ed he regards the Department to “have an obligation to do so inasmuch as the funds were realized through an adjust ment in federal payments to needy adults.” He stated the Department could have made the so-called “pass-along” apply only to welfare recipients who also re ceive Social Security. How ever, he reported, this would have benefited only “about 40 per cent of the State’s adult public assistance clients.” "I felt we should do some thing to help all recipients and an across-the-board trans portation item was the most effective way to do it,” he e laborated. "This way every body except those receiving vendor payments for nursing home care will get a moderate increase instead of a minority receiving a larger one.” During March, he said, av erage monthly welfare pay ments in Georgia were $52.51 for the aged; $61.96 for the blind; and $60.63 for the total ly and permanently disabled. The increases are not appli cable to families with depen dent children. Personals Mr. and Mrs. Fred Allen of Nashville, Tenn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. S. K. Allen and other friends and relatives this week. • • • Mr. and Mrs. Richard Bai ley left Thursday of last week to return to their home in Pittsfield, Mass., after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Tomlinson. Elizabeth Tomlin son made the return trip with her aunt and uncle and will attend school there for ten weeks and will be in the sec ond grade class room of her aunt, Mrs. Bailey. • • • Mr. Lambert Knox who has been a patient in Brunswick Hospital returned home on Saturday. ( MISS MACY ANN CAUSEY Engagement Is Announced Causey-Harrell Mr. and Mrs. Inell W. Cau sey of Hortense announce the engagement of their daughter, Macy Ann Causey, to Creigh ton W. Harrell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl M. Harrell of Hor tense. The bride-elect is a junior at Wayne High School. Mr. Harrell is a graduate of Na hunta High School. The wedding will be June 9 at 3:00 in the afternoon at the Philadelphia (Sawgrass) Wesleyan Methodist Church in Hortense. Friends and relatives are invited. Future Teachers Hold Classes Members of the Brantley County Future Teachers Club are observing classes, one class each week. The students were allowed to choose a subject that was of interest to them and to observe these classes to see if they really want to pursue the career of teaching. Os the 26 members on roll, 5 went into business, 2 math. 2 English, 3 science, 8 social studise, 2 physical education, and 1 each in music, elemen tary education, agriculture and home economics. Our club is trying to get FTA in as a half unit course to allow students an oppor tunity to see if this is to be their career. Classes would meet daily and be conducted as a regular class. Ruby Chesser, Reporter. Three Brantley Students Make Honors Program Three Brantley County High School students have won places on the State Hon ors Program and will be given eight weeks of free college work this summer. The three are Russell Lew is, Carol Robinson and Tom Welch. 150 students in the Eighth Congressional District attain ed the Honor Program this year. An Honors Program stu dent must be in the upper 10 percent of his class and make a score of at least 90 on the Aptitude Test. Daylight Saving Time to Begin Sunday, April 28 Georgia and other states now observing Eastern Stand ard Time will move up their clocks one hour, when they go on Daylight Saving Time at 2:00 A. M. on Sunday, A pril 28. School children, business men and women and house wives will go about their dai ly duties an hour earlier, but according to the clock at the same time, thus giving them an hour more of daylight for other things at the end of the day. Last year was the first time Georgia went on D. S. T. The Uniform Time Act pro vides that Daylight Time be gins at 2:00 A. M. on the last Sunday of April and ends at 2:00 A. M. on the last Sunday of October. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA 28 4-H Club Members and Mothers Attend Meeting For Achievement Awards Twenty - eight Brantley County 4-H Club members and five mothers attended the Southeast Georgia Cloverleaf Project Achievement held in Jesup last Saturday. The contestants, their a wards, and projects: The second place winners were Kathryn Schmitt in Landscaping and Denise White in Poultry, and placing third was Ann Keene in Canning; each receiving blue awards. Others in the blue award group and their projects were: Pam Moody, sth grade dress revue; Deidra Brand, dairy foods; Martha Middleton, fro zen foods; and Barbara Foster, housing and equipment. Receiving red awards and their projects were; Sabra Keene, 6th grade dress revue; Mike Smith, electronics; Willie Pearl Roundtree, safety; Allen Bryant, woodworking; Myra Tripp, between meal snacks; Jill Lee, home furnishings and art; Cathy Griffin, public speaking; Jackie Stewart, rec reation; Chuck Bass, Petrol eum power; and Roger Stall ings, recreation. Mary Alice Blue received a white award in the health project. The Junior leaders were Denease O’Berry, Sonya Bass, Jan Purcell, Blake Loyd, Kay Smith, Denise Smith, Cindy Raulerson, Merrill Tripp and Edward Foster. Mothers attending were: Mrs. Eugene Moody, Mrs. James Foster, Mrs. Rayford Blue, Mrs. Arthur Keene, and Mrs. Edward Brand. The 4-H Club work is con ducted by Mrs. Virginia Raul erson, County Extension Home Economist, and George A. Loyd, County Agent. Eastern Star To Install Officers Sunday Julian Royal of Waycross will be the installing officer for the installation of officers for Satilla Chapter 365 Order of Eastern Star in the Masonic building on Sunday afternoon, April 28 at 3:00 o’clock P. M The program will be open for relatives and friends. Mrs. Evelyn Crews will be installed as worthy matron. Howard Crews will be worthy patron. There are eighteen of ficers to be installed. We Do All Kind* of Job Printing. LOOKING AT WILDLIFE BY DAVE ALMAND EXTENSION WILDLIFE SPECIALIST University «f Georgia Collego of Agriculture CONSERVATION IS Since the beginning of time, man has been instructed to conform to basic game and land management principles. In the Garden of Eden, Adam was told that there were cer tain conservation laws to fol low. “Eat this - Leave that!” But, as we all well know, greed entered into the picture and, as a result, mankind has been cursed with thorns and thistles and having to earn his living by the sweat of his brow. History, since that time, has repeated itself time after time. A civilization rises up, be comes a world power, yet dis appears under the sands of time as greed and wanton de struction lay waste to the land. Where there is no vision, the people perish. Where there is no conservation, no thought for perpetuation or the natural resources for the coming generation, there is no future for that people. There is no escaping the re sponsibility of conservation. Mankind was given ‘‘dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that SUBSCRIPTION PRICE AND TAX Inside county $3.07 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state S4.M Miss Daphne Ines WiHis Engagement Is Announced Willis-Popwell Mr. and Mrs. John A. Willis of Mt. Pleasant, Ga., announce the engagement and approach ing marriage of their daugh ter, Daphne Inez, to Jerry Michael Popwell, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton O. Popwell of Hortense. Miss Willis is a 1967 gradu ate of Wayne County High School and is now attending Brunswick Junior College. Mr. Popwell will graduate from Brantley County High School in May. The marriage will be solem nized Friday June 21, at 8:00 P. M. at Hopewell Baptist Church at Mt. Pleasant. The Rev. C. A. Pharis will offici ate. All friends and relatives of the families are invited to ’at tend. Methodists Have Postponedßevival The Nahunta Methodist re vival, which was scheduled to start Sunday, has been post poned to a later date, it is an nounced by the pastor, Rev. Leland Moore. The pastor expressed re gret that circumstances made it necessary to put off the re vival. Announcement will be made later as to when the re vival will start. Regular services will be held Sunday. moveth upon the earth” (Genesis 1:28). This means everybody—every individual. Dominion entails wise man agement Indifference, greed, desecration, the extinction of a species—none of these have any place in an acceptable management program. All of us must conserve and preserve. We must plant, transplant and harvest, remembering that the gleanings belong to the poor and the stronger. And above all, we must remember that the future depends upon our conservation of today. It doesn’t take a prophet to predict the future of Amer ica if we don’t practice good conservation. You have only to open your eyes and take a look at what is going on. Wastes pollute the former beauty of clear running streams. The water table is constantly lowering as wells are drilled deeper and deeper and the people use more and more water. Waterfowl disap pear as their former wintering and nesting grounds are drain ed for real estate and agricul tural development. The top soil is gradually washing away from our fertile soils, and the rivers are becoming choked with silt.