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Newspaper Page TextNOTIFY THIS NEWSPAPER WHEN YOUR ADDRESS VOLUME 46 — NUMBER 18 Governor Maddox Makes Protest to President Johnson in Flag Hassle In Savannah Morning News WAYNESVILLE — The Marine from this small Brant ley County town ordered to fold away his Georgia flag in Vietnam because it could be racially offensive to Negroes, got backing from his governor and congressman Wednesday. Gov. Lester Maddox sent a firmly worded telegram to President Johnson; Eighth District Rep. W. S. (Bill) Stuckey Jr. took to the floor of the House to decry the or der. Staff Sgt. Donald E. Gibson told his parents in a letter earlier this week he was or dered to take down his Geor gia state flag and a Confeder ate battle flag. He said New York and Ohio flags were al lowered to remain up. Be re fused to remove the Georgia flag. About two-thirds of the state flag, adopted in its pres ent form in 1956, is com prised of the old Confederate battleflag. Sgt. Gibson, 23, has fore bears who fought on both sides in the Civil War. His mother is from Pennsylvania and his father is a native Georgian. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Pete J. Gibson of Waynesville. The flag incident took place April 11 at the communica tions center of the First Mar ine Aircraft Wing. It pertain ed to the flags of Alabama and Mississippi as well as Georgia. Maddox fired off a telegram to the President saying it was an act “not to be tolerated.” Stuckey called on the House floor for an investigation of who ordered the flag taken down. He called the incident “ridiculous and dangerous.” Maddox told the President: . Officers making such demands against military per sonnel of the Ist Marine Air Wing or others of America military forces issuing such orders should be reprimanded. “I urge that you take im mediate action to insure that the flag of the great state of Georgia be permitted to fly and be displayed anywhere Georgia military personnel may be in service or in com bat. Your early response to this request is urged.” Secretary of State Ben Fort son Jr., whose office is in charge of sending the Georgia flag to the state’s fighting men overseas at their request, told the Morning News Wed nesday that he thought Gib son’s commanding officers were .mistaken and did not re alize that the emblem was ac tually a state flag. He said the officers, upon realizing their apparent mistake, allow ed the Georgia flag to be dis played. “I believe the officers prob ably didn’t know the differ ence and did not recognize the Georgia flag at first, but then removed their objections. We have sent over 2,000 Geor gia flags overseas and are sending more every day. We get requests from many com- Eastern Star Chapter Installs New Officers Satilla Chapter 365 Order of the Eastern Star installed a new set of officers in ritual istic ceremonies on Sunday, April 28 at the Masonic Lodge Hall in Nahunta. The installation rites featur ed Mrs. Evelyn Crews as wor thy matron and Howard Crews as worthy patron. Other officers for the year are Mrs. Mattie Seals, associ ate matron; Sherman Tomlin son, associate patron; Dorothy Brooker, secetary; E ^ a 7° r Tomlinson, treasurer; Malva Alice Brown, conductress; Mae Scofield, associate conduc tress; Lila Crews, chaptam; Ocie Keen, marshal; Effie Strickland, organist;. The star point officers are David S. Page, sentinel; Ann r*i"T CHANGES. By John Carroll BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. manding officers and even had one from Gen. Westmore land for a flag,” Fortson said. Sgt. Gibson, now on his sec ond hitch in the Marines, has signed for another six years. He plans to try to enter a service school or officers can didate school. His parents were reluctant to have his letter published, because it could possibly cause him to lose his rank or cause him to be sent into a combat outfit. They relented, however, when a friend, Ray mond D. Smith of Nahunta, advised that publishing the letter might help other South ern soldiers who may get into a predicament over such mat ters. The letter first appeared in the Glynn Reporter, a weekly newspaper in Bruns wick. Smith, a former American Air Lines employee and holder of a commercial flying license, said he thought young Gibson, as well as the state of Georgia, was due an apology from the Marine Corps. In the letter to his parents, Sgt. Gibson related that he told his commander, “I don’t know about your forefathers, but mine fought and died for the Georgia flag just as we fight and die for the Ameri can flag.” He wrote that the only Mar ine in the barracks having a Confederate flag was a Negro from Alabama, who was or dered to “take that SOB down.’’ Raylton Church Os God Revival Starts Sunday The Raybon Church of God of Prophecy will begin a re vival meeting Sunday, May 5, which will continue through Saturday, May 11. Rev. Vernon Turner will be the evangelist. Services will be held each night at 8:00. The theme for the revival will be “Train up a Child.” Friday night will be Family Night and all parents and children are invited to attend the service together. Everyone is invited to at tend all services. Rev. Harry D. Hendrix is pastor of the church. Live Oak 4-H Club Met Thursday The Live Oak 4-H Club met Thursday, April 27, at the Na hunta Elementary school, with Mrs. Virginia Raulerson. Kay Smith, president, called the meeting to order. We said the pledges to the flags. Den ease O’Berry, secretary, read the minutes of the last meet ing. Mrs. Raulerson gave a talk on “Items for Home Tool Chest.” Rebecca Wainright, reporter. Jones, Adah; Joyce Johns, Ruth; Alice McDonald. Esth er; Lydia Johns, Martha; Verona Crews, Electa; and Arlene Howard, Warder. Mrs. Ocie Keen was chosen as chapter mother for the year. Howard and David Crews are the masctots and Clindy and Terri Jones are the sweeth earts. Julian Royal was the instal ling officer. He was assisted by Mrs. Ovelia Royal, Mar shal; Mrs. Sarah Register, sec retary; Mrs. Eva Curtis, cha plain; and Mrs. Florence Henderson, organist. Mrs. Alice McDonald retired as worthy matron and Howard Crews was re-elected as wor thy patron for this year. Satilla Baptist Church Revival Starts Monday Satilla Baptist Church at Hortense will begin a revival meeting Monday night, May 6, with Rev. John Goad as evangelist. Rev. Mr. Goad is senior chaplain at the U. S. Naval Air Station at Brunswick. Rev. James E. Wood is pastor of the Satilla Church. Services will start each night at 8:00. Special songs will feature the services. Everyone is invited. Cub Scouts Do Good Cleanup Job Fourteen members of the Cub Scout group of Nahunta had as their project last week “A Clean-up”. They chose the railroad park to do their clean up. They picked up cans, glass and other litter on the park. When they had finished their chose the Naunta Garden Club served the group soft drinks. Russel Herrin is the Scout Master. Mrs. Don Mathie and Mrs. Sherman Tomlinson are Den Mothers. Mrs. Russell Herrin also assisted the lead ers. PERSONALS Jerry V. Herrin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil V. Herrin of Nahunta, has been awarded the Air Force Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service as a flight facilities equip ment repairman with the 18- 78th Communication Squadron at Plieku Air Base in Viet nam. Jerry was in service three and one-half year and in Vietnam one year. Mr. and Mrs. D. M. Atkin son and children Denise and David of Kingsland spent Sun day with Mrs. Elizabeth Brooker. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt Rhone of Woodbine spent Sunday with Mrs. Elizabeth Brooker. Pear Ie Optical Opens Waycross Office May 2nd Pearle Optical is opening its 24th Georgia office today (Thursday, May 2) at 215 Pendleton St., Waycross. Pearle Optical is Georgia’s largest optical institution. Its vice-president, Dr. C. R. Mc- Clintick, said: “We are happy to be in Waycross. Our location is placed geographically between our offices in Savannah, Brunswick, Valdosta and Tif ton, thus affording complete services to manv thousands of additional families in Ware, Appling, Wayne. Brantley, Charlton, Clinch, Lanier, At kinson, Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, Bacon, Pierce and other sur rounding counties.” Pearle Optical reports that over 300,000 Georgians have selected the firm as the source for their glasses. The com pany’s Verilite contact lenses are worn by over 10,000 Geor gians, it is stated. The new Pearle Optical of fice, located in the old Phoe nix Hotel, will display over 500 frame systems, including a wide variety of designs and colors for men, women and children. FIRE TIP Avoid spring burning of fence rows, marshlands, wood lots and croplands. According to Dave Almand, Extension Service wildlife specialist, un regulated fire destroys humus, game food, cover, nests and sometimes even the wild birds and animals themselves. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 2, 1968 PRACTICAL FAMILY LIVING Report card time seems to me to be the correct season for thinking about school and the child. Many parents think that their child’s success in school depends solely upon his teach ers. This isn’t true. The Par ents, then school, play a very important part. First of all, it is important that parents send a child to school who is as healthy as it is possible for him to be. This means he should be well-nourished and that he should get enough sleep. It means, too, that if a child has remedial defects such as diseased tonsils, de fective sight or hearing they should be attended to. Secondly, a child’s success in school depends greatly on the degree of emotional stur diness he has developed in his own house. It is important, therefore, for a child’s best learning, that his parents should get along well together, should be consistent in the use of a firm but kindly disci pline, and that they don’t play favorite. The child needs to feel secure in his parents’ af fection and to know that they are proud to have him in the family. His parents need to help and encourage him to be his own best, not. his parents’ best. Sometimes it is hard for us as parents not to expect more in school achievement than our children are able to do. We may underestimate the importance of our own atti tudes toward education and schooling. If parents have a high regard for education and consider it very important, their attitude will encourage the child to learn and to do his best in school. If, on the other hand, the father, with only a grade five education, has a good job and has made a lot of money and feels that a grade five education is enough for anybody, the boy is not So likely to be interested in school work or in staying in school. The parents’ attitudes toward school subjects affect a child’s learning. For example, if mother says, “I never was any good in arithmetic, and Jean is going to be just like me,” Jean is apt to accept the fact that she can’t do arithmetic and not even try to master it. Or if father says, “I never could write compositions and Bob is a chip off the old block,” Bob is likely to accept the fact that he can’t write composi tions. We need to remember, as parents, that we greatly af fect our child’s learning in school because we are the child’s first teacher on all subjects. — By Margaret Gor don, Home Economist-Family Life, Cooperative Extension Service, University of Georgia. New Year resolutions may be made to be broken, but setting some food preservation goals for 1968 will enable you to use your time, energy and money to better advantage in feeding your family. You can well expect to And higher prices on many foods you buy. You can’t blame all of the increases on higher prices, however, for much of the increase is due to greater buying of more expensive con venience foods. As we get into 1968, here OFFICERS SEIZE BIG STILL — Shown before destruction of a 2,000 gallon capacity still began near Blackshear are, left to right, Federal Revenue Agent Grady C. Cook, Sheriff J. H. Pittman and State Revenue Agent James Ellis. The still was raided Monday. (Hen<h-y Studio photo.) are some plans that will help you use the family food dollar more wisely: Plan to can and/or freeze foods when they are plentiful and in excellent quality. This requires checking equipment, having supplies on hand and knowing where you will get the fresh product. Process foods by a plan based on your family’s needs. With the excel lent fruits, vegetables and meats produced in Georgia to day. you’ll have no trouble in finding quality products. Plan to prepare and freeze prepared foods at home. Dou ble or trippie a recipe and then use one portion and freeze the other. Plan to store all purchased foods correctly. Keep the tem perature in the refrigerator be low 40 degrees and in the food freezer be low zero. Foods that do not. re auire refrigeration should be stored at the proper tempera ture. Be sure food is protected from insects, rodents, etc. Stop hit-and-miss buying Plan ahead. Study food ads. Determine your needs in light of food you have on hand Plan your food investment Build bargains into your meals. Stockpile food when the bargain is on. Study the labels on all oro cessed foods. Labels can help save money bv guiding you to s he rieht nroduct for your rec ipe or family taste. Be safe. Practice good sani tation at all times when handl ing food. Food-borne illnesses are caused from mishandl ing products, unclean condi tions and high temperatures. The Fair Packaging and La beling Act of 1966 authorizes the Food and Drug Adminis tration to require more com plete information in labeling and on packages and that it be presented with such prom inence and in' such terms as to facilitate value comparisons among competing items. The label will contain a statement of the identity of the food, the name and address of the man ufacturer. packer or distribu tor and the net quantity of contents. There will be chang es in many labels appearing on foods in 1968. — Bv Nelle Thrash. Home Economist Food Preservation, Coopera tive Extension Service, Uni versity of Georgia. Huge Still Is Destroyed, Man Arrested in Pierce A huge and cleverly hidden liquor still in Pierce County was destroyed Monday after noon by a raiding party con sisting of the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department, state and federal agents and its alleged operator was arrested. Arrested and held in the Pierce County jail under $2,500 bond was Robert L. Carroll, renter of the property on which the still was located, Sheriff J. H. Pittman said. The still was of more than 2,000 gallon capacity, Pittman said, capable of producing 500 gallons of whiskey on each run. It was described as Donald Harrell Killed in Action In Vietnam M|Sgt. Donald A. Harrell of the U. S. Air Force was killed in action in Vietnam as a re sult of fragment wounds in the head and chest when Bien Hoa Air Base came under rocket attack by the Viet Cong. Donald Harrell was born at White Oak in Camden County, Ga., August 7, 1928. When 10 years of age, he entered school in Nahunta in the fourth grade. He spent his boyhood near Atkinson. Later he work ed in the shipyard at Bruns wick. Donald joined the Air Force in 1950 and was later promot ed to Master Sergeant. He had only one and one-half years before he could have retired. He is survived bv his moth er, Mrs. Hettie Moody, of Waynesville, his father Fred Harrell of White Oak; two brothers, Eugene Harrell in Texas and Vernon Harrell of Jacksonville, Fla.; one sister. Mrs. Spencer Drury of Waynesville; six sons, four of whom are in the U. S. Army and two with his wdiow in England. His body was sent to Eng land for burial. Home Economics Clubs Schedule The regular monthly sche dule of the Brantley County Home Economics club meet ings for the month of May is announced this week by Mrs. Virginia Raulerson, Home E conomist. The program for this month is on the “Use of the Pressure Cooker.” Mrs. Raulerson will present the program. The schedule for the various clubs is as follows: Calvary, Thursday, May 2, 7:30 P. M., Calvary Communi ty Center. Maybon, May 9. 7:30 P. M., Ravbon Advent Church. Nahunta, Tuesday, May 14, 9:30 A. M., Mrs. Emory Mid dleton. Surburban, Tuesday, May 14, 3:30 P. M., Mrs. Lant Pear son. Hickox. Wednesday, May 15, 2:00 P- M., Mrs. W. W. Hen drix. Waynesville, Monday, May 20, 7:30 P. M. one of the largest and most efficient distillery operations found in this area in recent years. The still was located in a tobacco bam only about 50 feet from Georgia Highway 121 about five miles south of Blackshear. Pierce County Deputies Noah Strickland and John Chauncey took part in the raid. Other officers of the arrest ing group were Federal A gents Grady C. Cook and Da vid E. Whetstone and State Revenue Agents Adam Holly and James Ellis. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA 8 Nahunta Streets to Be Paved with State Funds Revival Services Start Sunday At Riverside Riverside Baptist Church will begin a revival meeting Sunday, May 5, it is announc ed by Rev. E. J. Dixon, the pastor. The evangelist will be Rev. Rufus Marr of Jesup. Services will be held each night at 8:00. The meeting will continue through Sunday, May 12, when Homecoming Day will be ob served. A singing will be held Sunday afternoon, May 12. Everyone is invited to at tend all services. Baptist Revival Starts Sunday At Waynesville The Waynesville Baptist Church will begin a revival meeting Sunday, May 5, with Homecoming Day and dinner on the church grounds at noon. Rev. Charlie Smith, the pas tor, will preach the morning hour and Rev. Chesley Walker, pastor of Hoboken Baptist Church, will preach at 8:00 p. m. in a series of revival ser vices to continue through Fri day night, May 10. Services will be held each night at 8 o’clock. Everyone is invited to attend all the ser vices. Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery To Be Cleaned Thursday To all interested people: on Thursday, May 9, there will be a general cleaning of the Pil grim Rest Cemetery and Church yards at Waynesville. Come early and bring lawn mowers and hand tools. Mrs. L. W. Robinson. I? 1 1 I Herman Talmadge f REPORTS FROM THE UNITED SDVTES?S^O | / J 98 WE HAVE FOLLOWED the maneuvering toward arrang ing peace talks on Viet Nam with a great deal of interest, when it was possible to see through some of the smoke of our burning cities, and it is our earnest hope that North Viet Nam will bring to the conference table the full and sincere intention of talking real peace. Hanoi must be earnest in a desire to end the war in Viet Nam, and the United States must not permit the Communists to stage the peace move as just a ploy to stall and gain time. For our part, the United States government has made it clear many times in the past that we are genuinely interested in discussing ways and means for halting the war in Viet Nam, and that we want to see an end to the fighting and the bloodshed at the earliest possible moment. At the same time, we have emphasized that we covet no territory and desire no control over any other nation. For any peace talks that arc to be meaningful, Hanoi must demonstrate the same resolve. THE VIET NAM WAR, which has taken a heavy toll in lives and eaten up billions of dollars, is regarded as this nation s most frustrating conflict in our history, and the American people are badly divided over our involvement there. This war has been prolonged for far too long already with out very much to show for it. It has in fact the characteristics of a stalemate, a very costly and deadly one. But, nonetheless. I hope that our efforts in Viet Nam have made it clear that the United States docs not intend to sit idly by and watch the world swallowed up piece by piece by Com munist aggression, and this determination ought to be under scored in the course of any negotiations with North Viet Nam. WE HAVE ALLOWED the war to be fought on Communist terms, but we ought not to let the Communists dictate the terms of peace. The United States policy for peace in Viet Nam should be one of firmness rather than appeasement and accommodation which in the long run will only invite more Communist aggression and result in our involvement in battlefronts in other parts of the world. (Not prepared or printed at yonnment expensej SUBSCRIPTION PRICE AND TAX Inside county $3.09 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state $4.00 Eight new streets in Na hunta will be paved soon, it is announced by Mayor T. E. Raulerson. The streets will be paved with state funds and the work will be carried out by the county commissioners. It is expected that Seaboard Construction Co. of Brunswick will get the contract for the new paving. The streets to be paved and their lengths are as follows: Morgan Street from Route 84 extending north 1375 feet; Florida Avenue from Knox Street extending 1260 feet; Allen Road from Route 84 extending south 1156 feet; Cherry Street from Allen Road extending west, then north back to Route 84, 1672 feet; East Street from Route 84 extending south 672 feet; Herrin Street from Route 84 extending north 612 feet; Cen ter Street from Cannon Street to Bryan Street extending 500 feet; and Bryan Street from Route 84 to Center Street 700 feet. Total new paving will a mount to 7947 feet, or about one and one-third miles. The new paving is expected to be completed sometime during the summer. Births Lt. and Mrs. Billy Smith of Fort Bragg, N. C., announce the birth of a son, bom Sat urday, April 27. He weighed six pounds three ounces and has named William Kevin. The mother is the former Miss Sharyn Strickland. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Johns of Kingsland announce the ar rival of a baby girl on Thurs day, April 25, at Gilman Hos pital in St. Marys. The baby weighed seven pounds and ten ounces and has been named Melissa Grace. The mother is the former Annie Grace Wil liams of Nahunta.