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iOHOR’S MUTTO
'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 24
Miss Linda Susan Strickland
To Wed Clayton Bennett Carver
Strickland-
Carver
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Strickland
of Hortense announce the en
gagement of their daughter,
Miss Linda Susan Strickland,
to Clayton Bennett Carver, son
of Mr, and Mrs. Harvey V. Car
ver of Hortense.
They will be married at
the Satilla Baptist Church Ju
ly 5 at 7:00 o’clock P. M. No
formal invitations are being
sent. But relatives and friends
ar° invited to attend.
Miss Strickland graduated
in June of this year at Wayne
County High School. Airman
Carver was a graduate of
Brantley County High School
in 1968. He is stationed at
Lackland Air Force Base in
Texas.
Legal Notices
STATE OF GEORGIA,
BRANTLEY COUNTY.
To All to Whom it May Con
cern:
Oren R. Lanier having, in
proper form, applied to me
for Permanent Letters of Ad
ministration on the estate of
Mrs. Betty Elizabeth Blount
Lanier, late of said county, this
is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of
Mrs. Betty Elizabeth Blount
Lanier to be and appear at
my office, on Monday, July
7th, 1969 at ten o’clock, and
show cause, if any they can,
why permanent administration
should not be granted to Oren
R. Lanier on her estate.
Witness my hand and of
ficial signature, this 9th day
of June, 1969.
P. U. Rozier, Ordinary
Brantley County, Geor
gia.
E. Kontz Bennett, Atty
Waycross, Ga. 31501 7-3
Jack M. Wright
With Navy Unit
At Jacksonville
Jacksonville, Fla. — Yeo
man Second Class Jack M.
Wright. USN, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Hayden W. Wright of
Route 1, Mershon, is serving
with Patrol Squadron 45 at
Jacksonville, Fla.
The squadron recently re
turned from Sangley Point, Re
public of the Philippines
where it flew support missions
for the U. S. over Vietnam.
PROMOTED IN BREMERHAVEN, GERMANY - First Lieutenant C. Wayne DeLoach was promoted
to his present rank on April 1, in the office of Col. Charles Anderson, Commanding Officer of the
United States Army Terminal Command, Europe, Bremerhaven, Germany. Also present was his wife,
Nancy (left). Lt. DeLoach is the Assistant Provost Marshall in Bremerhaven. He graduated from
Georgia Military College in December, 1967, entered active duty on April 1, 1968 and was stationed at
Fort Gordon, Ga. until June of 1968. He has been in Europe since June, 1968.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
L J. Strickland
Funeral Service
Held Sunday
Levy Jackson Strickland, 76,
of Rt. 1, Hortense passed away
late Friday night in the Pierce
County Hospital following a
long illness.
A native and life-long resi
dent of Brantly County, he was
a son of the late Mathie Strick
land and Mary Bennett Strick
land. He was a member of the
Satilla Baptist Church, the
Nahunta Masonic Lodge No.
391, and was a retired carpen
ter.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Beatrice Strickland of Hor
tense; two daughters. Mrs.
Anne Wainwright of Hortense
and Mrs. Laverne Whittington
of Omega, Ga.; one sister, Mrs.
Lovie Ward of Waycross; one
brother, Jim Strickland of
Waycross; five grandchildren
and four great-grandchildren.
Services for Mr. Strickland
were held at 2:00' o’clock Sun
day afternoon from the Sa
tilla Baptist Church with the
pastor, Rev. Doyle Deal, and
Rev. Charles Cox and Rev.
W. C. Lane, officiating.
Interment was in the Hor
tense Cemetery with Masonic
rites at the graveside con
ducted by the Nahunta Ma
sonic Lodge.
Active pallbearers were
Mack Carver, Harvey Carver,
Homer Anderson, Lester
Moody, Guy Strickland, and
Hardie Rowell.
Honorary pallbearers were
members of the Nahunta Ma
sonic Lodge and the Men’s Bi
ble class of the Satilla Bap
tist Church.
Clough-Pearson Funeral
Home was in charge of ar
rangements.
George Brantley
Graduates from
Banking School
Baton Rougue, La. — G. T.
Brantley, Vice President and
Manager, The Citizens Bank
Nahunta, was among 284
bankers to receive certificates
at graduation ceremonies Fri
day, June 13, ending the 20th
annual session of the School of
Banking of the South.
The School meets for two
weeks each summer at Louisi
ana State University in Baton
Rougue, under sponsorship of
15 Southern state bankers’ as
sociations.
During its existence, The
School has now awarded cer
tificates to 2 447 bankers. “Our
objectives are to improve the
duality of banking by help
ing to make better bankers,”
Orrin Swavze. director of the
School, stated.
Without automatic data pro
cessing, the Veterans Admin
istration, which serves nearly
half of the nation’s population,
would find it impossible to
transact its business as speedily
as it does.
Speed-up Planned
In Issuance of
Welfare Checks
A sweeping modernization of
Georgia’s welfare check is
suance system which will get
first welfare checks to eligible
citizens within one week of
their approval for benefits has
been announced by State Wel
fare Director Bill Burson.
The streamlined system will
go into effect July 1, and rep
resents the implementation of
a six-month management im
provement study undertaken
jointly by the Divisions of
Business and Social Adminis-
tration of the State Depart
ment of Family and Children
Services. It marks the first
time in the agency’s 32-year
history that modern business
.methods have been applied to
welfare benefits payment pro
cedures.
Under the Department’s
current methods checks are
mailed on a staggered basis
over a 20-day period of each
month and new recipients
whose papers are received in
the State Officers after the
deadline for their alphabetical
sequences must wait until the
following month to receive
their checks. Under the new
system first checks will be
mailed within one week after
receipt of approval forms from
the County Departments and
all subsequent checks will be
dispatched at one time on the
first day of each month.
“Persons and families ap
plying for public assistance
need money immediately upon
approval and then they need
help in solving the problem
that caused their need for
for .money in the first place,”
Burson stated. “Our new Im
nrovement Benefits Issuance
System (IBIS) has been des
ignated to answer critical
money needs and, at the same
time, to free welfare case
worker’s time for social serv
ices to solve problems.”
IBIS is based upon maxi
mum utilization of electronic
data processing techniques to
assure efficiency and economy
of operation by eliminating
manual paper-handling op
erations and duplication of
control functions. A total of
20 forms will be eliminated
by the new system and em
ployees at both State and
County levels will be freed to
spend more time on welfare
services.
“This system marks the be
"innmg of the end of paper
=huffling in welfare,” the
State Director explained. “We
have spent too much time tied
down by bureaucratic red
tape and, as a result, we have
given more attention to filling
out forms than to helping cli
ents become self - sufficient.
“ I believe welfare recipi
mts will welcome this change
which will get their money
to them faster and I am con
fident County Commissioners
will approve of it because, by
paving State welfare checks
with greater speed, the de
mand for county-paid general
assistance on the local level
will be greatly reduced.”
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 19, 1969
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MR. AND MRS. LARRY DONAVAN JOHNS
Wed in Impressive Rites Saturday
White-Johns
Miss Allyson Gail
White, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. W. L. White,
became the bride of
Larry Donavan Johns, son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Johns in
an impressive candle ceremony
with double rings performed
by the Rev. E. J. Dixon
Saturday, June 14, at the
Hickox Baptist Church.
Miss White entered on the
arm of her father to the wed
ding music played by Mar
'-hall Allen. Miss Lula Gail
Hendrix was the soloist.
The bride wore a traditional
gown of peau de soie made
with fitted bodice and full
back, long tapering sleeves
ended in calla points at the
wrists. The scolloped neck
line was appliqued with re
embroidered alenchon lace
with some lace motifs on the
skirt. The detachable train was
held with a bow. Her finger tip
veil of illusion fell from a
crown covered in pearls. She
carried a white satin covered
Bible with yellow cvmbidium
orchids with lace ribbons.
Miss Denise White was her
sister’s maid of honor. Her
“own was a light green crepe.
Her headpiece was green net
held in place with pearl
leaves. Her bouquet was a
nosegay of yellow daisies.
W. R. Johns, father of the
“room, was b°st man. Jesse
Thrift a»d Glen Lee were
ushers.
The vows were suoken be
fore a fern tree flanked bv
baskets of white gladioli and
yellow daisies centered with
a large memory candle in a
tall white candelabra. Two
Jiehted tapers were on either
side of the large candle. The
bride and groom, together, lit
the large memory candle af
ter the prayer and during th°
solo. “One Hand One Heart.”
Each blew out the others cand
les.
A reception w’s held in th°
reception hall of the church.
Miss Gwen Strickland kept the
bride’s book. Others assisting
at the reception were Misses
Phyllis and Patricia Chancey
Misses Hilda and Frieda Man
ning, Miss Ann Rowell. Miss
es Brenda and Ginger Johns.
Mrs. Bill Harris. Mrs. Edward
Chancev, Mrs. Marie Co’vin
Mrs. Norris Strickland. Mrs
Virgil Rowell and Mrs. W. W.
Hendrix.
CARD OF THANKS
We wish to take this means
to express our heartfelt grati
tude for all the flowers, cards,
calls, and other kindnesses
shown to us during the re
cent illness and loss of our
loved one. We would also
like to thank the attending
physicians and the staff of the
Pierce County Hospital for all
the services rendered.
May God bless each of you
is our prayer.
The family of
Dan J. Dixon
Personals
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rober
son, Atlantic, Va., Mr. and Mrs.
Grady Harris, Deland, Fla. and
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Harris
of Welch, W. Va. met at the
St. Illa Court last week for a
family reunion. And spent
several days visiting relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel S. Stokes
and children, Harold, Burnie
and A. J. of Daugherty, Va.
are visiting their grandmother,
Mrs. W. A. Stokes.
Mrs. T. E. Lane and her
mother-in-law Mrs. Lane and
Jimmy Lane of Savannah visit
ed relatives near Hortense last
week.
Rexford Ham attained the
Dean’s List at Georgia South
eastern College at Americus
for the spring quarter. The
list is attained by scholastic
achievement.
Mrs. Gloria Roberson left
Monday, June 16, to meet
her husband, Robert D. Rob
erson in Hawaii. Robert has
been in Vietnam since No
vember. He will return to
Vietnam after his furlough and
Mrs. Roberson will return to
Nahunta.
Mr. and Mrs. Archie Lyons
spent the weekend with T-
Sgt. and Mrs. Samuel L. Haw
kins in Wilmington, N. C. T-
Sgt. and Mrs. Hawkins and
children, Timmy and Debra,
returned home with them and
are spending this week with
their parents.
Mrs. Lila Crews and Eugene
Crews spent the weekend with
Mrs. W. E. Walker and other
relatives in Broxton, Ga.
Waycross and
Calvary Hold
Joint Meeting
The Way cross Chamber of
Commerce and the people of
Calvary Community of Brant
ley County met together Tues
day nisht, June 17 for a Farm-
Citv Supper.
The good cooks of Brantlev
gave the Citv dwellers a feast
of home grown vegetables, p
wide choice of home made
cakes and pies, fried chicken
and other good food.
The speaker of the evening
ws L’«ton Elkins, president
of the Chamber He snoke on
the growth of Waycross.
Mrs. L. T. Woods is presi
dent of the Calvary Communi
tv Extension Heme Economics
Club.
EASY VEGETABLE
An easy vegetable to cook
on the grill is frozen corn-on
the-cob, says Miss Nelle
Thrash, home economist with
the Cooperative Extension
Service. Just wrap each ear
in heavy-duty aluminum foil
and place in hot ashes of your
grill.
Brantley Youths
To Receive
Work Training
Thirty high school youths in
Brantley County are now re
ceiving work-training exper
iences in part-time summer
jobs with 13 public agencys in
the county.
The youths began work this
week and last week and will
be employed for 10 weeks.
They are working 24 hours
per week.
Herbert Colvin of the Brant
ley County School system is
county coordinator for the
Neighborhood Youth Corps
project.
Mr. Colvin is among
17 teachers employed 15 hours
per week this summer in the
counties of Pierce, Atkinson
Bacon, Brantley, Charlton,
Clinch, Coffee and Ware.
They are responsible for co
ordinating the work being
done by youths enrolled in the
project. They are involved
with counseling the enrollees,
consulting with work site su
pervisors, evaluating work
training activities, and records
keeping.
The NYC project is sponsor
ed in the 9-county area by
Slash Pine Community Ac
tion Agency, Inc., and is ad
ministered nationally by the
U. S. Training and Employ
ment Service division of the
Department of Labor. Mershon
Aspinwall, Jr. is Slash Pine’s
NYC project director.
NYC has been in continuous
operation in the county since
the first program started in
November 1965. This summer’s
9-county area quota is 500, the
same as last summer.
The enrollees in Brantley
County are gaining exper
ences in a variety of job class
ifications, including clerical,
recreational, cafeteria, nurse
aide, custodial, library aide,
grounds maintenance, forest
trv. mechanical, and teacher
aide.
Public agency work sites in
the county include Brantley
County High, Nahunta and Ho
boken elementary schools,
Brantley County Clerks of
fice, Okefenokee REMC, Laura
S. Walker Park, County Ex
tension Service. Brantley
County Forestry Unit, ASCS,
Brantley Department of Fami
ly and Children Service, Na
hunta and Hoboken post of
fices, and the sheriff’s office.
Georgia Power
Advertising
Wins Awards
Four international awards
for excellence, one of them
from a series of ads run in
weekly and daily newspapers
throughout Georgia, have been
presented to Georgia Power
Company’s advertising depart
ment by the Public Utilities
Advertising Association.
Winners of the 46th annual
International Better Copy
Contest were announced at
PUAA’s convention held re
cently in New Orleans. The
contest is the oldest contin
uous advertising competition
in the world.
Contest entries totaled near
ly 4,000. Investor-owned elec
tric, gas, water and telephone
companies from throughout
the nation and several foreign
countries submitted their best
advertising productions.
Categories in which Geor
gia Power received awards of
excellence were public rela
tions newspaper advertising,
interior displays, painted out
door advertising and car, bus
and truck posters.
The newspaper ad ' series
outlined Georgia Power’s par
ticipation in community af
fairs. One described the utili
ty’s work with Junior Achieve
ment groups. Another told of
how the company employees
and their families each Christ
mas dress hundreds of dolls
for underprivileged children.
The third encouraged Geor
gia’s young people to study
for a career in science.
The Georgia utility’s ads
were ranked first in the PUAA
category of best complete ad
vertising programs in 1964 and
third in 1963 and 1965.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Twin Rivers
Baptist Church
Homecoming Day
The Twin Rivers’ Baptist
Church will hold its’ annual
homecoming exercises on Sun
day June 22, with the Rev. Wal
ter D. Vickery as the speaker.
The Church invites everyone
to be on hand and enjoy this
Lord’s Day with us.
Lunch will be served at
1:00, and the afternoon will
be filled with “Singing Prais
es Unto The Lord” and giv
ing testimonies.
Came Worship with us
Bobby Brinkley,
Pastor
Gordon Roberson
Participates in
Army Exercise
CRETE, GREECE—Specialist
Four Gordon E. Roberson,
whose mother, Mrs. Dorinda
Dowling, and wife, Sharon, live
on Route 2, Patterson, took
part in an Army Air Defense
Command “Short Notice
Annual Practice” (SNAP),
May 12-18 at the NAMFI
Range on the Island of Crete.
He is a member of Battery
B, sth Battalion, 73d Artillery,
a Sergeant .missle unit near,
Crailsheim, Germany.
Mrs. Carter
Dies in Palatka
Mrs. Lizzie Raulerson Car
ter died Friday, June 13, in
Palatka, Fla. after a lengthy
illness. She is a former resi
dent of Pierce County.
Among those going during
the weekend and attending the
funeral on Sunday afternoon
at 3:00 o’clock were Mr. and
Mrs. J. S. Raulerson, Mrs.
Etta Stallings, Mr. and Mrs.
J. N. Bennett, Mr. and Mrs.
Leslie Raulerson, Mrs. T.
M. Minchew, Mrs.
Bruce Hamilton, Mrs. Oscar
Raulerson, Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Raulerson, Delvin Turner,
Carnell Raulerson and Buddy
Raulerson.
Steve Moody Makes
Mercer Dean's List
Steve Moody made the dean’s
list for the spring quarter at
the Walter F. George Law
School at Mercer University
in Macon.
Steve is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. H. M. Moody of Black
shear.
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”.
SAWGRASS SCH.OOJ. IN 1916
Teacher: Miss Belle Strickland, Needmore, Ga.
Location: Three miles southwest to Hortense; 4
miles to Stewart.
Grounds: Area, 1 acre; titles in county board of
education; open, bare, unimproved; small play
grounds; no school gardens; 2 toilets, in good con
dition.
Building: Value. $750; 1 class room; cloak rooms;
well planned; well lighted; painted; in good con
dition, and well kept.
Equipment: Double patent desks; good black
boards; no maps; no charts; no globe; no reference
dictionary; no library; no pictures; water at pump;
common dippers.
Organization: One teacher; 7 grades; 50 pupils;
program posted; 40 recitation periods; no organized
clubs; 22 weeks’ school year. Corn Club, 5; canning
club. 4.
Maintenance: $220.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICfe
AND TAX
Inside county $3.09
Outside county, in state $4.12
Outside state $4.00
New Methodist
Pastor Announces
Service Schedule
Rev. Robert S. Round. n°w
ly arrived Nahunta Methodist
pastor, has announced his
schedule of services at his
three churches in the Nahunta
Circuit.
He and his wife have moved
into the chuch parsonage.
He will preach each Sunday
morning and night at Nahunta. ,
On the first and third Sun
days he will preach at Atkin
son at nine in the morning. On
the second and fourth Sun
days he will preach at Pierce
Chapel at nine in the morn
ing.
Rev. Mr. Round was former-
Iv pastor of the Alma Circuit.
He is starting a series of Sun
day night sermons at Nahunta,
giving the parables of Jesus
in modern story form.
The people of the county are
invited to attend services at
Nahunta Methodist, Atkinson,
and Pierce Chapel.
Dance to Reopen
Recreation Cent.
Friday Night
A teen dance to be held Fri
day night, June 20, from 8:30
until 12:00 P. M. will officially
re-ooen the Brantlev Countv
Recreation Center. “The Last
Truth,” from Bruunswick, will
be the band.
Admission will be SI.OO stag
and $1.50 couple. Any adult
who is interested in helping
chaperone the dance is in
vited to attend. Parents we
need you.
The Brantlev County Jr.
Recreation Committee has
worked together with the
civic clubs and community
leaders in the reopening of the
center and we would like to
ask you for your cooperation
by not having any alcoholic
beverages at the dance.
We hope that all young
people will come to the dance
and have a good time, so that
our first scheduled activity
for the center will be a suc
cess.
Sissy Smith
Publicity Chairman
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Looking for a shrub that can
be grown without too much
maintenance? Gerald Smith,
horticulturist with the Cooper
ative Extension Service at the
University of Georgia, suggests
that you consider the crape
myrtle.
