The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, April 10, 1969, Image 1

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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 17 Brother Thomas Retires From Nahunta Pastorate Pastor of Nahunta Baptist Church, the Rev. Cecil F. Thomas is retiring after serv ing as minister for a total of 45 years. He will live between Nahun ta and Hoboken, in Brantley County and will be available for interim pastoral, supply and evangelistic work; wher ever he is needed, he said. An appreciation service and reception will be held at the Nahunta Baptist Church dur ing the morning and afternoon of April 13. with Dr. Searvy S. Garrison, the Rev. J. Omer Jones, the Rev. Carl E. Mil ton and others bringing mes sages of greetings. The after noon will be given to a recep tion at the pastorium. 3-5 P.M. ORDAINED by Satilla Bap tist Church in Appling Coun ty in 1924, the Rev. Mr. Thom as has served 19 churches in three associations in South east Georgia. His last 14 years have been at the Nahunta Church. In denominational service the Rev. Mr. Thomas has served as moderator of Symerna and Piedmont Association and was clerk of Symernia Association for 15 years. He has served on the State Executive Committee of Baptist for three different terms. He has preached the in troductory sermons of Conso lation, Smyrna and Piedmont Associations and the Georgia Baptist Convention Sermon, in August in 1954. He is at the present a member of the Board of Trustees of Brewton —Parker College. He is a graduate of Pied mont Institute and Mercer University. MRS. THOMAS is the form er Lillie Mae Turner of Ap pling County. Their children are Mrs. Addison W. Carter Jr., Waycross. Cecil Forest Thomas Jr. of Nahunta, James E. Thomas of Nahunta, Miss Lilie Ruth Thomas of Clark ston, Dr. George W. Thomas of Ft. Campbell, Ky., Miss Ann H. Thomas, and Martha Thom as of Brunswick and Hymerick Meeks Thomas of Nahunta. Four of these are teachers in the public schools of Georgia. They also have eight grand children. The Rev. Mr. Thomas has been pastor of the following churches: Satilla, Mt. Vernon, O’Quinn, Friendship, Union Springs and Philadelphia in Consolation Association; Big Creek, Stokesville, Saginaw, Central, Nichols (for 19 years) Douglas Chapel and Antioch in Smyrna Association; Mer shon, Rehoboth, Screven, with Nahunta Baptist ^ **»**■ A Rev. and Mrs. Cecil F. Thomas BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Nahunta and Oak Grove, (the present pastorates), in Pied mont Association. A biography of his life was written by the Rev. H. J. John ston. called “The Wiregrass A postle,” because of his pastor al life in this section of Geor gia. Rev. and Mrs. Thomas have both been school teachers in their earlier life. In their ser vice to the people of their sections, the records of Bro ther Thomas, (as he likes best to be called) show the he has conducted 400 revivals, per ^rned 600 weddings, baptized 1.500 new members, and ta ken part in 2,000 funerals in all parts of Southeast Georgia and other places. Attention Citizens Os Brantley County Yoy are cordially invited to attend a workshop in the Brantley County Courthouse on April 17 at 7:30 P. M. This workshop is sponsored by the Brantley County De partment of Family and Chil dren Services and will involve information on eligibility re quirements for public assist ance, as well as an explanation of child welfare services and other programs. There will be two short films and a brief speech by a State and local person from this department. Please come and share in this information meeting with us. Card of Thanks We would like to take this means of expressing our sin cere thanks and deepest ap preciation to all those who were so nice and thoughtful to us during the illness of and the death of our loved ones. We are especially grateful for the messages of sympathy, floral tributes, covered dishes and other acts of kindness shown us. May the Lord’s richest bles sings abide with each of you. The Family of Mrs. Pearl H. Crews Your Home Newsp^p? Reflects the History Os Your County- Church Pastor’s Retirement Service April 13, 1969 1954 — 1969 Boy Preacher To Start Revival At Bachlott A 16-year-old boy evange list will preach at Bachlott Church of God Sunday night, April 13, at 7:30. A series of revival services will be held each night during the following week, with visit ing ministers doing the preach ing. Special singing will feature each service during the revi val. Everyone is invited to at tend. Potato Patties a Vegetable Treat Potatoes make a delicious accompaniment to meat, poul try and fish dishes. A tasty way to serve this vegetable favorite is Potato Patties. Try this recipe soon, sug gests the Consumer and Marketing Service of the U. S. Department of Agricul ture, while potatoes are in abundant supply. POTATO PATTIES 2 cups seasoned mashed po tatoes. 1 egg or 2 egg yolks, slightly beaten. 1 tablespoon finely chopped onion. ] tablespoon chopped green pepper. 2 tablespoons fat or oil. Combine all ingredients except fat; mix well. Shape into six patties. Brown well in hot fat, about 4 minutes on each side. Note: Leftover mashed potatoes or instant mashed po tatoes, prepared according to package directions, may be used in this recipe. (Makes 6 patties) Hortense Memorial Church Homecoming The 38 annual homecoming day will be observed at Me morial Church near Hortense on Sunday, April 20. Rev. R. C. Mathis will be the morning speaker. A basket dinner will be served at noon. The afternoon will be devoted to fellowship and singing. Schedule of Services Lulaton Baptist Church Sunday school every Sun day at 10:00 A. M. Prayer meeting every Wed nesday night at 7:30 P. M. Church services second and fourths. Sundays at 5:00 P. M. 5-8 A Brief History of ... . We extend a very cordial welcome to each and everyone attending this special day in the life of our pastor, and our church. God bless you. From the records that Mrs. Lula Brown and her committee have obtained we find Nahunta Baptist Church was constituted in 1890. The names of Mrs. Sallie B. Lary and Mrs. Queen Morgan come down to us, as charter members. The pastors who have served the church, and the years served, are: J. J. Little and Albert Bennett, 1890’s; A. H. Horton 1901-03; J. A. Harper 1904; J. B. Smarr 1904-05; J. A. Thompson 1906; W. B. Bennett 1907-08; H. J. Johnston 1910-15; E. L. Little 1915-20; J. W. Durrence 1920-22; G. L. Brooks 1922-23; I. R. Walker 1923-24; J. Omer Jones 1924-28; Omer E. Graves 1929-34; A. J. Harper 1936-38; C. J. Broome 1938-39; T. R. Spell 1939; Earl F. Stirewalt 1940-42; J. D. Poindexter 1942-43; J. J. Winburn 1943-46; W. R. Croft 1947-49; C. E. Milton 1949- 54 ; Cecil F. Thomas 1954-69. We honor all our pastors, as we come to the retirement time for our present pastor, Rev. Cecil F. Thomas. For fourteen and one-half years, we have served together. In material things, we have together paid off the indebt edness on our church building, erected in 1950; we have built the nice commodious pastorium, (giving the pastor and his family the old pastorium), put in air conditioning in the church. In finances, we have increased our gifts to missions to 20% to the Cooperative Program of our unspecified gifts. During these years there have been 234 baptisms and 132 by letter added to the church for which we are thankful! The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, April 10, 1969 Schools Have Come a Long Way In 1916 the Georgia Department of Education made an “Educational Survey of Wayne County, Georgia” showing the many small schools of the county, with pictures of the schoolhouses. The Enterprise has secured a reprint of the “Survey” and will each week carry a picture of a (now) Brantley County schoolhouse of 1916, with description provided in the original “survey”. It should be noted that Wayne and Brantley counties have “come a long way” since 1916. Brantley County has now in 1969 only three schoolhouses, the splendid new Brantley County High School building, with all modern equipment and facilities, Nahunta Elementary School and Hoboken Elementary School. Yes, the educational system of Brantley County has “come a long way” since 1916. DRURY SCHOOL 1919 Teacher: Miss Carrie Hires, Atkinson, Ga. Location: Two and one-half miles southwest to Atkinson; 4^ miles north to Stewart. Grounds: Area, one acre; titles in county board of education; beautiful surroundings of live oaks and pines; unimproved; no school gardens; very small playgrounds; 1 toilet, in average condition. Building: Value, $150; one class room; no cloak room; fairly well lighted; unceiled and unpainted; good condition, and well kept. Equipment: Double patent desks; good black board; no maps; no charts; no globe; no pictures; no reference dictionary; no library; water from near by well; common dippers. Organization: One teacher; 6 grades; 18 pupils; 22 weeks’ school year. Canning club, 2 members. Maintenance: $192.50. Arc Welding and Blueprint Reading Course Announced The Savannah Area Voca tional-Technical School in co operation with Pembroke Steel Company is offering an in plant pre-employment training course in arc welding and blueprint reading. Trained welders are needed for immediate employment with this expanding steel pro- NAHUNTA BAPTIST CHURCH ducts company. Classes will begin March 25, 1969. These classes will be con ducted on Tuesday, Wednes day, and Thursday evenings from 7:00 P. M. to 10:00 P. M. at the Pembroke Steel Com pany, Pembroke, Georgia. Registration for this course can be accomplished by calling the Industrial Coordinator, O. R. McCarter, Jr., telephone 964-4389 in Savannah or Doyle Wells at 653-4456 in Pembroke. Father’s Day in 1969 will be on June 15. Governor Maddox to Speak At Airport Dedication Service Saturday, April 12 Interest in Catfish Farming Is Grewing in Georgia, Southeast The lowly catfish may not be so lowly after all. They are big business in some areas of the country, and interest in producing them for profit is “snowballing” throughout the Southeast. That was the word recent ly frpm David Almand, Ex tension wildlife specialist, University of Georgia, at the state’s first “commercial fish farming” conference. Despite the conference name, the channel catfish was the star of the show, which also include 16 speakers and some 200 delegates from five states. Mr. Almand set the stage for the two-day meeting by citing one Arkansas County that had an income of $4 mil lion from 10,000 acres of fish, compared to $6 million from 110,000 acres of soybeans. He said a recent survey by Georgia county agents revealed that nearly 15 tons of fish are purchased in the state each week by restaurants and other buyers. And he added that on ly those using at least 500 pounds of fish per week were included in the survey. The conference, conducted by the Extension Service in cooperation with the Univer sity’s Institute of Community and Area Development, was designed to bring landowners up-to-date on the potentials of fish farming — plus some of the techniques and prob lems. While there is a new interest in .making catfish a cash crop in Georgia, there is nothing new about fish farming. The industry dates back to 500 B. C. when the Chinese cultiva ted carp and goldfish. Should fish farming catch on here, it will be a boon to other businesses. For every one million pounds of fish pro duced, somebody will have to grow and process two million pounds of feed, Mr. Almand explained. He added that the main ingredients of catfish feed are soybean oil meal and peanut cake, and that it takes 14,538 bushels of ‘beans and 700 tons of peanuts to make enough feed for a million pounds of fish. With properly constructed ponds and good management practices, 1,000 pounds of fish can be produced in one acre of water. Mr. Almand said ponds as small as one-tenth acre can be used to grow fish. The wildlife specialist con tinued that Georgia has over 60,000 farm fish ponds, many of which can be converted for catfish farming at little ex pense. Mr. Almand indicated the major problems facing fish farming here are harvesting, processing and marketing. “These problems are very real and very basic to the growth of the industry,” he stated, “but they are being solved in other areas and I am sure they can be solved in the Southeast.” One thing sure — when fish farming does come there will be no more of this nailing a catfish to a tree and skinning it by hand. Machines have been developed that can skin over 600 fish an hour. Daylight Saving Time To Start On April 27th On Sunday, April 27, at 2:00 A. M., Georgia and other states now observing Eastern Stand ard Time will move up their clocks one hour, when they go on Daylight Saving Time. 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 District Rotary Convention Set In Savannah Representatives from the Blackshear Rotary Club have been invited to attend the Dis trict 692 Rotary International Convention being held in Sa vannah at the DeSoto Hilton and the Savannah Inn & Coun try Club. Headlining the meetings, which will be held April 27- 29, will be Vince Dooley, head football coach of the Universi ty of Georgia and presiding at the meeting will be E. Wil son Hawes of Thomson, Dis trict 692 Governor. Also featured on the pro gram will be Savannah’s Mad rigal Singers and the Rotary foreign students studying at Georgia schools. Nationally known lecturer and humorist, Sheron Elebash, will be the speaker at the Rotary Gover nor’s banquet with music be ing furnished by Ken Palmer’s Savannahians. Besides meetings and plan ning sessions, Rotarians and Rotaryanns will have an op portunity to practice in a golf tournament, a tour of historic Savannah, and a boat tour of the harbor facilities. Notify This Newspaper Wher Your Address Changes 301 Road Association Will Meet at Nahunta Mills Tarver, Georgia Presi dent of the U. S. 301 Highway Association has announced that a meeting has been called for all members, business men, city and county officials in the Nahunta Area. The meeting will be at the REA ' office in Nahunta. The meeting will have two main purposes. 1. To review the recent in depth study made of the ef fectiveness of advertising me dia. 2. Up to this point the small Mayor Raulerson Proclaims Rev. Cecil Thomas Day Whereas Rev. Cecil F. Thomas has given 45 years of his life to the service of the Lord and to humanity as a minister of the Gospel: And whereas, Brother Thomas has proven to be a good friend and counselor to all the people of our county and section: And whereas, he and his family have been a great blessing to our community for 14 years and have en deared themselves to all who know them : And whereas, our nations and our times need the service and the inspiration of such men and such families: And whereas, we regret that Brother Thomas and his family are retiring from the leadership of our Na hunta Baptist Church : Therefore, as mayor of the City of Nahunta, I do hereby proclaim Sunday, April 13 as Rev. Cecil Thom as Day in appreciation of Brother Thomas and his family, in the hope that they will know how much we appreciate them and wish for them the blessings of the Lord upon them. T. E. Raulerson Mayor City of Nahunta. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE AND TAX Inside county $3.09 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state $4.00 Governor Lester Maddox will be the main speaker at the dedication program for the Brantley County Airport Sat urday, April 12, it is announ ced by George Stewart, chair man of the County Commis sioners. The program will begin at 10 o’clock Saturday morn ing with music by the Army Band frem Fort Stewart. The speaking program will start at 11 o’clock. Pete Gibson will be master of ceremonies. After the national anthem by the army band, Rev. Cecil Thomas will deliver the invo cation. George Stewart, commission chairman, will welcome those in attendance and introduce guests. Short talks will be made by Representative Robert Har rison, Senator Roscoe Dean, Chester Wells of the Federal Aviation Administration and Colonel Harold Dye of the Georgia Department of Indus try and Trade. Perry Rozier, Brantley County Ordinary, will then in troduce Governor Maddox who will make the main ad dress. Rev. Chesley Walker will give the benediction. A dinner of barbecue chick en will be served free to the large crowd expected to at tend. Brantley County Airport is located at Lulation, four miles east of Nahunta, on Highway 84. It was constructed as a joint county, state and feder al project, on a 59 acre tract of land. The 2600 foot asphalt paved runway extends north and south. Personals Mr. and Mrs. H. B. High smith of Thalman were dinner guests of his mother, Mrs. Alice Highsmith and sister on the old farm on Sunday. Din ner was served in the yard tin der the shade trees. Motel and Restaurant owner have not been able to share in the many credit card plans available. It is becoming evi dent that most people are now traveling by credit cards of one kind or another. A plan has been developed by the association whereby the small operator can be part of this program without invest ing any more money in the program. Neither will he have to wait more than one week to receive reimbursement.