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The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Jan. 16, 1969
Brantley Enterprise
Published weekly on Thursday at Nahunta, Georgis
Official Organ of Brantley County
Carl Broome Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Carl Broome Associate Editor
Second class postage paid at Nahunta, Ga.
Address all mail to Nahunta, Georgia 31553
Pierce County Plan to
End Dual System Called
'Not Adequate' by HEW
The Pierce County Board of
Education’s plan for ending the
dual school system in the
county “can not be considered
adequate,’’ the Board has been
informed by the U. S. Depart
ment of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW).
The possibility of enforce
ment proceedings being initi
ated and the cutting off of
Federal financial assistance to
the county's school system is
mentioned in a letter the
Board received recently from
Paul M. Rillings, Regional Civ
il Rights Director, Office of
Civil Rights, in Atlanta.
The letter follows:
Mr. R. T. Riggins
Superintendent
Pierce County Schools
Blackshear, Georgia 31516
Since you have not assured
us that the dual school struc
ture will be eliminated, under
free choice, by September
1969, or by September 1970,
under an indefinite construc
tion program, the plan which
you have submitted can not be
considered adequate to accom
plish the purposes of Title VI
of the Civil Rights Act of
1964.
In accordance with the pro
cedures set forth in Subpart D,
Section 24 of the enclosed Doli
cies, your failure to submit an
acceptable plan leaves us no
alternative but to forward the
information on your case to
our Washington Office for ad-
Dear Mr. Riggins:
This will acknowledge re
ceipt of your letter of Decem
ber 2, 1968, advising that your
board can not proceed with
further plans until you can
determine if State consolida
tion money will be available
in January or, possibly, July,
1969.
In our letter dated October
28. we advised you that this
office required school districts
Rh Vaccine Prevents Birth Defects,
Infant Deaths, Says March of Dimes
Turning points have a
way of slipping by un
noticed. Their significance
is often apparent only after
years have passed.
But in 1968, a major turning
point in modern medicine was
immediately recognized when
a vaccine to prevent “Rh dis
ease” was approved by the
Federal Government.
For the first time in history,
doctors have the means to pre
vent a major cause of birth
defects. The remarkably effec
tive Rh vaccine, called ‘‘Rho-
GAM,” promises to eradicate
a condition which each year
threatens an estimated 40,000
babies with death or damage
before or soon after birth.
‘‘The Rh vaccine is so im
portant to potential parents
and to the health of so many
future children, no one can
afford to overlook its avail
ability,” says Dr. Virginia Ap
gar, vice president for medical
affairs for The National Foun
dation-March of Dimes.
The voluntary health or
ganization, which initiated a
national campaign . against
birth defects ten years ago
after the conquest of polio
was assured, has undertaken
an aggressive education pro
gram to inform the public
about the new preventive for
Rh disease. Through radio, TV,
magazines, newspapers and
leaflets distributed at mar
riage license bureaus and
other outlets, young people
are urged to have a doctor or
clinic check their blood for Rh
factor identification.
The Rh factor is a part of
the blood which is found in
about 85 per cent of the popu
lation. Those who have it are
called Rh positive; those who
don’t are Rh negative. Whether
an individual has the Rh fac
tor or not makes no difference
to his or her own health. But
it can cause serious Rh disease
in children if a mother is Rh
negative and the father Rh
positive.
In such a case, if the unborn
child inherits the father’s
blood type, the mother’s sys
tem may react against the
child she is carrying. This
rarely occurs in a first preg-
with construction plans, for
which funds were not yet a
vailable, to submit an alterna
tive plan that could be imple
mented in September 1969, if
funds should not become avail
able by that time. You have
not submitted such a plan.
Your present plan will con
tinue free choice at the ele
mentary level and hence two
small, all-Negro, elementary
schools will remain open for
the 1969-70 school year with no
full-time white teachers as
signed to them.
ministrative enforcement pur
suant to Section 602 of the Civ
il Rights Act of 1964. If en
forcement proceedings are in
itiated and if an order for ter
mination of your system’s Fed
eral financial assistance is is
sued, the order could take ef
fect immediately following the
close of the 1968-69 school
year. (This procedure is dis
cussed in greater detail in the
Department’s December 8, 19-
67, letter to the Chairman of
the Senate Subcommittee on
Education, a copy of which is
also enclosed.)
Please direct any further
communications you may have
in this matter to:
Dr. Lloyd R. Henderson
Chief, Education Branch
Office for Civil Rights
Department of Health, Edu
cation and Welfare
Washington, D. C. 20202
Sincerely yours,
Paul M. Rilling
Regional Civil
Rights Director
Office for Civil Rights
Wading anglers should car
ry their wallets in a small
plastic freezer bag, says Miss
Margie Mclntyre, home econo
mist with the Cooperative Ex
tension Service. In case of a
ducking, money and papers
will be unharmed.
PREVENTIVE VACCINES for certain birth defects bring a turning
point in modern medicine. Vaccine against Rh disease is now avail
able. A forthcoming German measles vaccine will protect future
children from multiple defects like those affecting this little boy.
nancy, but the danger rises in
subsequent pregnancies • with
the result that a Child may
die in the womb or be bom
severely anemic and jaundiced
due to “erythroblastosis fet
alis,” the medical term for
Rh disease.
An injection of the new vac
cine, given to an Rh negative
mother within 72 hours after
the birth of each Rh positive
baby, prevents an adverse re
action in the mother’s blood
which can endanger future
offspring.
For those women who have
already been sensitized by
previous births, the Rh vac
cine is ineffective. But new
techniques of giving blood
transfusions to unborn babies
can save many Rh babies who
might otherwise be stillborn.
And exchange transfusions
immediately after birth protect
95 per cent of the babies bom
alive with Rh disease.
Effective as these corrective
measures are. The National
Foundation-March of Dimes
considers prevention of birth
defects through universal use
Spicy Onions
Have Many Usas
O is, obviously, the 15th let
ter of the alphabet — as any-
one knows.
O is for Onions.
O is also for Out-Of-The-
Ordinary dishes using TASTY,
PLENTIFUL ONIONS.
See the pretty onion?
Sound like an elementary
grade reader?
Well it may, but the fact re
mains that onions are both
tasty AND plentiful now, and
you’ll find them a wise choice
to add flavor to holiday menus,
says the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
USDA’s Consumer and Mar
keting Service offers the fol
lowing ideas for using onions
in family meals:
CURRY CREAMED ON
IONS (6 Servings) — Peel a
pound of onions and cook in
boiling, salted water 20 minu
tes, or just until tender. Drain.
Stir-in a can of condensed
cream of mushroom soup, 1/3
cup milk and U teaspoon
curry powder. Heat slowly,
stirring once or twice, until
bubbly-hot and creamy-smoo
th. Serve hot.
SAUCY HAM-EGG-ONION
— Broil slices of onion (as
many as desired) with ham
slices. Place onion on toasted
English muffin, then ham slice
and poached egg. Pour Holl
andaise sauce over top and
serve hot.
BARBECUED ONIONS
(Quantity as desired) Cook
peeled onions until almost ten
der, in boiling, salted water.
Place onions in baking dish
and pour a tangy barbecue
sauce over them. Bake at 400
degrees about 45 minutes, bast
ing several times. Serve with
a sprinkling of chopped par
sley.
SWEET AND SOUR CAR
ROTS AND ONIONS — Plac»
a pound each cooked whole
carrots and onions in a bak
ing pan and pour a sweet-sour
sauce over them. Heat at 359
degrees for 20 minutes. Tr
prepare sauce, if you don’t
have your own favorite re
cipe: Brown 14 cup butter,
blend-in 1/4 cup cornstarch
and continue browning. Salt
and pepper to taste. Combine
1/4 cup each sugar and vine
gar with 2 cups hot water and
gradually stir into butter.
Cook slowly until thickened,
stirring constantly.
Information on
Hunting Seasons
The season for hunting deer
and bear ended Thursday,
January 2. ,
Duck and dove season will
end January 15.
Rabbit and squirrel season
will end February 28, and
quail season will end March 1.
There is no closed season on
fox and raccoon in south Geor
gia.
of the vaccine far more de
sirable.
For the same reason, March
of Dimes volunteers are al
ready preparing for another
turning point in medicine,
hopefully within the next few
months, when Federal approval
is given to a vaccine to pre
vent German measles.
This deceptively mild infec
tion, also known as rubella,
can cause serious birth defects
of the heart, eyes, ears and
other organs when an expec
tant mother contracts it during
the early months of pregnancy.
More than 20,000 damaged ba
bies were born to mothers who
had the virus infection during
the epidemic which swept the
United States in 1964-65.
German measles vaccines
are now being tested. As soon
as a safe and effective one is
licensed, March of Dimes vol
unteers will spearhead efforts
to make sure that every po
tential mother is protected
against the disease, thus chalk
up another advance in their
unrelenting campaign to pre
vent birth defects. •
40 Practical
Nurses to Be
Trained in Area
Atlanta— Commissioner of
Labor Sam Caldwell has
announced that two programs
totaling $106,761 to train 20
practical nurses in Way cross
and 20 in Jesup have been
approved and funded in Wash
ington.
The training, for a period
of 49 weeks, is offered jointly
by the Georgia Department
of Labor and the Division of
Vocational Education of the
State Education Department.
Classes will begin within 60
days.
The training — part of 25
projects announced today
costing $1,257,704 — brings the
state’s total 1968 allocation for
training under the Manpower
Development and Training
Act to $3,641,925.
Trainees will receive instruc
tion at no cost to them, and
those who qualify will be
paid a weekly allowance dur
ing training.
Ponting out that .more than
85 per cent of Georgia’s MDTA
gradutes have been placed in
training-related jobs, Com
missioner Caldwell encouraged
unemployed and underemploy
ed w^nen in Brantly, Charl
ton. Clinch. Pierce, Ware and
Wayne counties who desire
more information to contact
the State Labor Department’s
Waycross office at 1712 Dear
Drive.
“Skill training classes such
as these have proved to be a
worthwhile exoenditure of
tax money,” Caldwell said
“They are just one phase of
our program of providing max
imum training and emplov
ment opportunities for all
Georgians.”
The Veterans
Corner
Q — My husband, a World
War II veteran, died in 1958.
We did not have any children.
My application for a widow’s
pension was denied at that
time because I had only been
married for three years to
my husband. I am now un
able to work because of dis
ability. Will this be a con
sideration if I should reapply
for a pension?
A In itself your dis
abilitv would not be a consi
deration. However, a law
passed in 1967 liberalized the
five-year marriage reauire
rnent in effect at the time of
your husband’s death. Now
a widow needs to have been
married to the veteran only
one year before his death to
meet this pension eligibility
requirement. For information
and assistance in reapplying
for a pension, contact your
nearest VA regional office.
Q — I am receiving a pen
sion for my nonservice-con
nected disabilities. When is!
the deadline for returning my
income questionnaire from the
Veterans Administration?
A— The deadline is Jan.
15, 1969.
Q — What is the limit on
the amount of a guaranteed
home loan a veteran can ob
tain from a lending institution,
and what is the maximum
length of time allowed to re
pay this type of loan?
A— The VA has no limit on
the amount which may be
borrowed with a guaranteed
loan. However, there is a
limitation on the amount of
the VA guaranty to the lender.
The guaranty cannot be more
than 60 per cent of the loan
and in no event can it exceed
sl2 500. GI home loan mort
gages may run up to 30 years.
LIME FOR FISH
The addition of lime to a fish
pond can play an important
part in helping you get the
most from the pond fertiliza
tion program. According to
Dave Almand, wildlife specia
list with the University of
Georgia Cooperative Exten
sion Service, in some cases the
addition of lime cuts fertili
zation costs by 50 percent.
Classified ads bring
results.
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NEWSPAPERS MAKE A BIG
DIFFERENCE IN PEOPLE'S LIVES
People who lead vital, dynamic lives mesh their thinking and
activities into the whirring gears of today's social, economic and
political machinery.
To stay in gear, they need all the help and information thev
can get. Most of it they get from newspapers . . . the only news
medium which puts information in their hands in a retainable form
to be read and digested when they need it and have time for it.
To be of genuine importance to people, newspapers must be
free. No peoples are free where the press is gagged. So, it makes a
big difference in people's lives whether or not their newspapers are
free.
!T MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to people whether the cold
war is warming up, whether we are losing or winning the space
race . . . newspapers bring people the truth.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to home owners whether
taxes go up or down, whether fire and police protection is adequate
. . . newspapers keep them informed.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to investors whether prices
of securities go up or down, whether business is good, employment
up or down . . . newspapers provide this news regularly.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to housewives whether or
not they get the most for their money when they shop for food,
furniture or fashions ... newspapers help them to shop intelligently.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to sports fans whether or no
their favorite teams win or lose, where and when fishing's best.
They find out in their newspapers.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to women what the latest
fashion news is from Paris and Hollywood . . . their newspapers
tell them.
IT MAKES A BIG DIFFERENCE to merchants whether or
not customers are attracted to their stores . . . they use newspaper
advertising to make this happen.
Newspapers make a big difference in the lives of everyone
because . . .
NEWSPAPERS SERVE EVERYONE
IN SO MANY SPECIAL WAYS
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
