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Newspaper Page TextEDITOR’S MOTTO “Be not diverted from your duty by any idle reflections the silly world may make upon you, for their censures are not in your power and should not be at all your con cern”—Epictetus,Roman philo sopher. VOLUME 47 - NUMBER 7 A Voice in the Wilderness Lei's Get Highway 301 4-Laned thru Nahunta One of the big improvements needed for Na hunta is four-laning Highway 301 through the town. Just why Nahunta has been put off for so long in getting this project under way is somewhat of a mystery. Go over Georgia in almost any direction and you find four-lane highways through most of the incorporated towns. Here in Nahunta the situation is worse than in many other towns because of the congestion of traf fic on Highway 301. The two lanes through Nahunta are jammed with traffic a great part of the time, with vehicles bumper-to-bumper on many days. Vehicles cannot pass one another for long stretches because the through traffic is trying to get through the local traffic. On the average about 6000 vehicles a day pass through Nahunta. In other words, Nahunta is a traffic bottleneck on 301. With a four-lane highway from city limit to city limit the tourist and commercial traffic could flow through the town safely and expeditiously. It seems to me that our city and county officials could undertake no better project than to get 301 four-laned through Nahunta and thus relieve the critical traffic problem now existing. It is my understanding that federal funds would pay 90 percent of the cost, with state, city and county paying the remaining 10 percent. Let us push hard for this great improvement. The creaking axle gets the grease. ASC Chairman Dykes Urges Farmers To Consider Feed Grain Provisions The Chairman of the Brant ley County Agricultural Sta bilization and Conservation Committee urges farmers to study provisions of the 1969 feed grain program to insure they don’t overlook benefits available only to those who participate. Chairman George Dykes said producers who are eligi ble to participate in the vol untary production control pro gram have received their noti fication of “base acreage” as well as general information on program provisions. Further details on the program are a vailable at the County ASCS office and from county and community ASC committee men. Mr. Dykes said the principal benefits to cooperators are the availability of price-support loans, price-support payments, acreage diversion payments and higher prices resulting from a better balance between supply and demand for the commodities. Farmers must re duce their feed grain acreage to be eligible for these bene fits. Sign-up period for the pro gram is February 3 through March 21. Mr. Dykes said the 1969 program is similar to the one in effect last year — with the only major exception that barley is included this year. The other two eligible feed grains are corn and grain sor ghum. Goal of this year’s program is the diversion to conserving uses of more acreage than last year. Nationally, the goal is a diversion of 37 million acres, nearly five million more acres than last year when barley was not in the program. Card of Thanks We wish to express our sin cere appreciation to everyone who was so thoughtful of us and of our loved one, Mrs. Agnes Purdom, during her long illness and at the time of her death. We want to thank those who came to sit up with her at night, the doc tors and the nurses who at tended her. Our sincire thanks for the lovely floral offerings and the covered dishes and every word of sympathy and act of kindness. May God bless each of you. Sincerely, The children and grandchildren of Mrs. Agnes Purdom. Sincerely, By Carl Broome Friendship Home Economics Club The Friendship Home Eco nomics Club meeting was held Feb. 11, at the home of Mrs. A. J. Hickox. Mrs. Jimmy Lee presided over the meeting. Mrs. Carlton Lee read a poem for the de votional. Mrs. Gaynelle Keene gave a demonstration on the care of furniture. Others present were Mrs. Richard Jackson, Miss Glynn Hickox, Mrs. Ernest Hickox and Mrs. Fleming Crews. Air Taxis to Speed Mail in Georgia and Carolinas Area Atlanta Postal Regional Di rector Banks Gladden an nounced this week that two new air taxis providing faster mail service between the Caro linas and Georgia went into operation Jan. 13. The first air taxi started op erating Monday, January 13, on a schedule of round-trip flights six nights a week be tween Florence, South Caro lina and Atlanta, Georgia, with a stop at Columbia, South Ca rolina, Mr. Gladden said. One week later, on Monday, January 20, another air taxi will go into operation provid ing round-trip service between Charleston, South Carolina and Charlotte, North Carolina, with a stop in Columbia. Mr. Gladden said Columbia will become a major inter change city with both air taxis exchanging mail there. The new air taxi routes were announced by Postmaster General W. Marvin Watson last September, but have not b°en put into service pending final approval by the Civil Aeronau tics Board. Mr. Gladden said the new air taxi routes greatly extend the range of overnight delivery of first-class and air mail be tween Georgia and the Caro linas. Faster service will also re sult for mail to and from other major areas throughout the country because of later con nections with scheduled air line flights than was previous ly possible, he said. Mr. Gladden said these new routes are part of an air taxi BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Captain Grimes Returns from South Vietnam Captain James S. Grimes, of Newnan, arrived in the United States on the 21st of January after serving his second tour in Vietnam. Captain Grimes arrived in Vietnam to begin his latest tour on the 25th of January last year. He was assigned as the Senior Advisor to the Third Vietnamese Airborne Battalion. The 3rd Battalion was committed to repel the enemy’s Tet offensive on Sai gon. Captain Grimes accom panied the battalion for five months when thev were com mitted in the fighting in Quang Tri. Khe Sanh, and A Shau Valley. For his courage and gallantry in action, the Viet namese awarded Captain Grimes the Cross of Gallan try. For the last six months Captain Grimes has been as signed as advisor to the Viet namese Airborne Division’s Deputy Chief of Staff of Poli tical Warfare. In this job he had to advise his counterpart on psychological Operations. Military Security, Social Wel fare and Rehabilitation of the wounded soldiers of the Viet namese Airborne Division. Captain Grimes did such an outstanding job that again the Vietnamese honored him, this time with a National Order of Vietnam. American decora tions Captain Grimes holds are the Bronze Star Medal for gallantry in action and the Army Commendation for gal lantry in action. Captain Grimes is the hus band of Mrs. Betty Lillie Grimes of Newnan, and the son of Mr. James H. Grimes of Brunswick. Captain Grimes formerly re sided at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purdom and at tended school at Nahunta. Neighborhood Youth Corps Met Tuesday The Brantley County Neigh borhood Youth Corps met Tuesday, Feb. 11. The meeting was called to order by the president, Ruby Chesser. Lafane Highsmith, the secretary, read the minutes. Three film strips, “You and Your Clothes”, “Looking at the Future”, and “Getting Down to Work” were shown to the class. Our co-ordinator, Mr. Colvin, oointed out the educa tional features of the film strips. The meeting was then adjourned. Cathy Herrin, Reporter. svstem being established throughout the country to speed up the amount of over night mail delivery between areas. Seven air taxis already serve the Region and several others are pending final approval. The air taxis are small two engine airplanes owned and operated by private carriers under rates set bv the CAB. They haul mail during late evening and early morning hours when scheduled airline flights are generally not avail able for mail transportation. The air taxis are coordinated with all surface transportation serving each area. Mr. Gladden said the seven air taxis that serve the At lanta Region have proven very successful. “Because the planes must be equipped with instru ment flying and with deicing equipment, maximum depend ability has resulted,” he said. “Weather has not prevented many flights.” The air taxi service will be nrovided each nicht except Saturdays and holidays. When all proposed air taxi routes are operating in the Atlanta region. Mr. Gladden said “about 40,000 pounds of first-class and air mail can be carried each night. , “This is .mail that generally is posted late in the day and would have received second day delivery before air taxis were inaugurated. We feel air taxis offer a new demension in service that is in line with our goal to provide Americans the best mail service possi ble.” The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, Feb. 13, 1969 Miss Carol Ann Robinson, STAR Student And Miss Shirley Joyce Conner, Teacher Carol Ann Robinson, Shirley Joyce Conner Are STAR Award Winners Miss Carol Ann Robinson has been named the 1969 STAR Student for the Brantley County High School System, the Brantley County Lions Club announced this week. Ca rol is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clinton A. Robinson and is a senior at Brantley County High School. The STAR Student has se lected Miss Shirley Joyce Con ner of Brantley County High School, as her STAR Teacher, because of the great contribu tion she has made to her scho lastic development. Carol said, she felt Miss Conner had made the greatest contribution to her education of any teacher. These announcements were made as a part of the Student Teacher Achievement Recogni tion (STAR) Program, spon sored statewide by the Georgia Chamber of Commerce and in the Brantley County school system by The Brantley Coun ty Lions Club. STAR Students are chosen on the basis of scores made on the November 2 or December 7, 1968. College Board Scho lastic Aptitude Test (SAT) and scholastic averages the first semester of the senior year. School Svstem STAR Stu dents and STAR Teachers from all over th® State will be a warded a trip to Atlanta by their sponsors to be specially honored at the Georgia Cham ber of Commerce STAR Ban quet Fridav. April 18. Con gressional District STAR Stu dents and STAR Teachers. Ist runner-up System STAR Stu dents in each District and four top-ranking SAT scorers from the State at large will leave immediately thereafter for a week-long education STAR Tour of Georgia. Community Action Elections Will Be Held Feb. 20 at Hoboken and Nahunta Neighborhood elections will be h°ld at two places in Brant ley County Thursday, Feb. 20, to elect five members of the Brantley Countv Community Action Committee. An an nouncement of the election was made today by T. E. Raulerson, Committee Chairman and May or of Nahunta. One election will be hold at the Brantley Countv Court house and the other at the school house in Hoboken. Both will be held during .meetings which begin at 7:30 p,m. Pre ceeding the elections, office’s of the Slash Pine Community Action Agency will be present to discuss the Community Ac tion program in Brantley County and the nine-county area. Among the programs opera ted by the Slash Pine Agency and sponsored by the Brant lev County Committee are Neighborhood Youth Corps; Home Management Aides: A dult Education: Job Develop ment; Food Distribution; E mergency Food and Medical Services. Neighborhood representa tives whose terms are expir- Personals Mrs. Ben Jones and daugh ters, Lynette and Janet of Belle Glade, Fla., and her brother, Capt. James S. Grimes who recently returned from his second tour in Vietnam, spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Purdom and other rel atives in Nahunta. Captain Grimes will now be stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C. James D. Wainright, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Owen Wainright of Nahunta, has passed the Uniform Public Accountant’s examination and is now employed by a CPA firm in Brunswick. He is a graduate of Nahunta High School 1961. Mr. and Mrs. Ira F. Brown were visitors in Orlando and Silver Springs, Fla., last week end. On Feb. 6, Miss Deborah Gibbs and Betty Pittman, two senior F.T.A. members from Atkinson County High, visited and observed some of the var ious classes at Brantley Coun ty High. Their purpose was to evaluate different schools as a project for their Future Teach ers Club. Arlene Aldridge, Reporter. Notify This Newso^oer Wher Your Address Changes ing are Mrs. Lizzie White and Mrs. Florence Davis of Na hunta; Mrs. Mary Lee Pink ney of Waynesville; Michael S. Dowling and Rev. A. L. Gaskins of Hoboken. Three i representatives are to be e | lected at Nahunta and two at the Hoboken election. Other members of the Brantley County Committee who served for the past year are C. W. Easterling, R. B. Brooker, Mrs. Mable Moody, ,T. E. Raulerson, Mrs. Leila Turner, Mrs. Rebecca Griner, Mrs. Virginia Raulerson. George Lovd. Pete Gibson and Mrs. W. C. Easton. Under Committee structure, one-third of the members must be neighborhood repre j Sentatives: one-third represen tatives of government; and one-third representatives of civic organizations and institu tions. At a meeting subsequent to the neighborhood elections, an election of officers will be held to organize for 1969. Other ; new members are expected to | serve on the Committee fol lowing local governmental of fice changes. C. S. Kizer Funeral to Be Held Friday Brantley Countians were saddened to learn of the pas sing of Mr. Charles Shuler Kizer, 81, whose death occur red early Wednesday after noon. Feb. 12, at Memorial Hospital in Waycross following an extended illness. Os affable manner and genial disposition, Mr. Kizer was well-known throughout this section and enjoyed the friend ship of a host of friends to whom his death brings per sonal sorrow. A native of Dorchester County, S. C., Mr. Kizer was the son of the late Ellis Reu ben and Emma Rosa' Kizer. He recieved his education in the schools of his native county and from early manhood un til he moved to Nahunta was engaged in farming. He was a devoted member of the Atkinson Methodist Church and served on its Board of Stewards for many years. Fraternally, he was a mem b"r of Nahunta Lodge No. 391, F. and A. M. He served as Cor of Brantley Cdunty for several terns and also managed a grocery concern in Nahunta for 12 years. Until the trains ceased bringing mail to Nahunta approximately one year ago, he held the contract for this service for many years. He was preceded in death by his wife, the late Mrs. Em ma Drury Kizer, on May 25, 1968. Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Kermit Parks of Brunswick and Mrs. J. H. Travis of Cleveland, Ohio; one son, Emory D. Kizer of George town, S. C.; two sisters, Mrs. Annie K. Infinger of St. George. S. C. and Mrs. Bessie K. Faulling of Orangeburg, S. c; Ten grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren, several nieces, nephews and other rel atives also survive. Funeral services will be held at three o’clock Friday afternoon, Feb. 14, from the Hortense Memorial Church with the Rev. George E. Clary, assisted by the Rev. Cecil F. Thomas, officiating. The body will lie in state in the Church for one hour prior to services. Graveside services will be conducted by the local Nahun ta Masonic Lodge and inter ment will follow in the Hor tense Cemetery. Active pallbearers will be the Messrs, Joe Fulford. Clay ton Riggins. W. B. Harris, Max Anderson. N. W. Hendrix and J. Cecil Moody. The honorary escort will be composed of Masons. The family has the sympathy of their many friends in their bereavement. The Chambless Funeral Home of Nahunta is in charge of arrangements. Garden Club Met Tuesday The Nahunta Garden Club met Tuesday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Brook er with Miss Mary Knox as co-hostess. The program was a discus sion of the spring flower show Mrs. Guy Chambless presided over the meeting. Other members present were Mesdames: J. J. Lee. Sherman 7 omlinson, Virgil Strickland. Jos. B. Strickland, A. B. Brooker, H. K. Persons, R. B. Brooker, Elroy Strickland, R. H. Schmitt and G. A. Loyd. Harrell-Strickland Mr. and Mrs. Paul C. Har rell of Hortense announced the engagement of their daughter, Carolyn Pauline to Pfc. Brom ley Strickland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Strickland of Scre ven. Miss Harrell is a 1967 grad uate of Nahunta High School. Mr. Strickland is a 1966 graduate of Screven High School. He is presently serv ing a year at Cam Rhan Bay in Viet Nam. The wedding date will be announced later. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Eugenia Rawls Looked Like Tallulah Bankhead By Molly Sinclair In Atlanta Constitution “Tallulah insisted I take a bow on the stage alone.” Eugenia Rawls, the Georgia born actress who has such a marked resemblance to the late Miss Bankhead, was recount ing the time — 28 years ago this month — she and Tallulah appeared together in “The Lit tle Foxes” at Atlanta’s old Erlanger Theatre. Tallulah had the lead of Re ginia Giddens in Lillian Hell man’s tale of the South at the turn of the century. Miss Rawls had the ingenue role of her daughter, Alexandra Gid dens. The performance here was Feb. 15 and 16, 1941. A Promise “We played all over the South,” Miss Rawls said. “Once in Atlanta my grandmother, then 83, was in the audience. Tallulah was fulfilling a prom ise she had made in a letter to her which said, ‘Eugenia and I will be coming South one of these days and no matter how crowded the house, we will be playing for you especially’. ” Miss Rawls was very close to Tallulah, the gravel-voiced, chain-smoking, flamboyant ac tress who drawled her way through innumerable films and plays. Tallulah died Dec. 12 of pneumonia after a bout with the flu. She was 65. “With all my heart I shall never stop missing her,” Miss Rawls said a few days ago. She was speaking long-distance on the telephone from New York City where she and her attorney husband Donald R Seawell live in an apartment on the city’s East Side. About her friendship with the woman who once said she called everyone “Dahling” be cause she “was terrible at re membering names,” Miss Rawls said; Curtain Calls “The story begins with two grandmothers — Tallulah’s in Alabama, mine in Georgia. . . . They gave their names Tallulah and Eugenia to us. their granddaughters. The Al abama grandmother watched a young girl make her theatri cal debut on the New York stage and wrote home, ‘Tallu lah was very good. She re ceived many curtain calls and many roses — long-stemmed ones, not garden.’ “My part of the story began backstage at the National The atre in New York when Al fred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne sent me to see Miss Tallulah Bankhead about a part in ‘The Little Foxes’. “When she saw .me, she said, ‘Who are you?’ and I said I was Eugenia Rawls. She said, ‘You look enough like me to be a Bankhead.’” Besides looking like Tallulah (Miss Rawls has often been mistaken for Miss Bankhead), she sounds much like the late actress. “I guess both being Southerners we had the same voice timbre . . . and the ac cent.” And like Tallulah, Miss Rawls talks fast—about 245 words a minute, she said. She recalled that when her engagement to Seawell was an nounced, “Tallulah took over and ran the show.” Tallulah was matron of honor at the ceremony and hostess at the wedding breakfast in a Phila delphia hotel. “When our first child (Eu genia Brook) was born Tallu lah sent to the hospital not just flowers but a whole tree of gardenias with instruction that I was to call them cape 2-B East Tournament Are Underway Thursday The girls and boys 2-B East Sub-Region basketball tourna ment will get underway this week in Way cross. Games will be played in the Waycross High School gym nasium on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, February 13, 14 and 15. Teams to compete in the tournament are Blackshear, Patterson, Charlton County and Brantley County. Black shear boys and girls are top seeded. Two games are scheduled each evening with girls games beginning at 7:00 P. M. and SUBSCRIPTION PRICb AND TAX Inside county $3.09 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state $4.00 jasmines. A few years later when our son came along someone asked his name and his grandmother said ‘Donald’ and Tallulah said ‘Brockman’ (that was Miss Bankhead’s middle name), so we called him Donald Brockman Sea well.” Silver Gifts Tallulah, godmother for both children, presented each a sil ver cup soon after they were born. She was “like family” and “always there” for the chil dren’s christenings and con firmations and on other spe cial occasions. “When Brook married in 1967 Tallulah sat in the front pew and when I came in, she stood and gave me a little curtsy,” Miss Rawls said. Once when Miss Bankhead was in the process of moving from one home to another, she stayed with the Seawells while her new Quarters were being readied. “She had all her paintings here then, too,” Miss Rawls said. Among those paintings was a small landscape done bv Renoir — one Miss Bankhead referred to as “my Renoir." She bequeathed it to Miss Rawls along with a diamond brooch and a mink cape. The two Seawell children also re ceived legacies. Husband Executor The actress named Miss Rawls’ husband executor qI her estate which is estimated to be in excess of $1 million. Both Tallulah and M’ss Rawls came from old South ern families. Miss Bankhead was the daughter of William Brockman Bankhead, a long time member of Congress and once speaker of the House, and the granddaughter of John Hollis Bankhead, a U. S. sena tor for many years. She left home in Huntsville, Ala., when she was 15 to invade Broad way. Miss Rawls, who still has the sword that belonged to her great-grandfather, a surgeon in the Army of Northern Vir ginia during the Civil War, also was stagestruck at an early age. Born in Macon, she moved to Dublin as a youngster with her family where she recited for her grandmother, Mrs. Ben jamin Heyward Rawls, and learned about acting from an aunt, Miss Gussie Bell Ratwls, who was a dramatics teacher. Her father was Col. Hubert Rawls, an attorney, and h°r mother was the former Louise Roberts who “loved music and the theater.” The resemblance between Miss Rawls, who looks to be in her late 40’s and Miss Bank head was “extraordinarily strong in the eyes and in the contour of the face,” the ac tress from Georgia said. This similarity was notice able as far back as 1941 even to casual observers, one of whom exclaimed in a theatre lobby after seeing “The Little Foxes”: “She (Miss Rawls) looks more like Tallulah Bankhead than Tallulah does herself.” PRESCRIBED BURNING January is a good month for prescribed burning in pine areas, according to foresters with the University of Geor gia Cooperative Extension Ser vice. They emphasize the word “prescribed” indicating burn ing is done for a specfic pur pose and it’s done with care. A good bum will reduce the hazards of wildfires later on. boys games at 8:30 P. M. On opening night, Black shear and Charlton girls will tangle in the opener, followed by a contest between the Pat terson and Charlton County boys. On Friday, games will be played between Patterson and Brantley County girls and Blackshear and Brantley Coun ty boys. Finals will be played on Saturday night. The 2-B East Region tourna ment will be played at South Georgia College in Douglas on February 20-21-22.