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EDITOR’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 33
A Voice in the Wilderness
Editor to Take Vacation
The Brantley Enterprise will close up shop next
week and take a vacation for one week.
In order to do this the paper for next week will
be printed this week and left to be mailed Thurs
day, Aug. 21. This has been made necessary because
Blackshear Times print shop will be closed for one
week and all the shop’s printers will be given a
week”s vacation.
The Enterprise is printed at the Blackshear shop
and we have to adjust our printing to their schedule
of work. Also, the editor of the Enterprise needs a
vacation, which will be the first in many years.
All important news stories that happen next week
will be carried in the issue of the following week,
Aug. 28.
Please be reminded that the Enterprise shop will
be closed from noon Saturday, Aug. 16, until Monday
morning, Aug. 25.
Cattle Drive to Atlanta
Viewing the big cattle drives on some of the west
ern TV movies brought back memories of the time
I helped drive a drove of cattle from Villa Rica
to Atlanta.
Some of the western drives were for 500 miles,
from Texas to the rail head at Abilene, Kansas. Our
drive in 1902 was for only 44 miles, but I was a
barefoot boy of 12 andwalked all the way to Atlanta.
My father and a Mr. Bagwell bought up a drove of
cattie, about 100 head as I remember. We started be
fore daylight, my father, Mr. Bagwell, my 10-year
old brother Floyd and a Negro man whose name I
connot recall.
My brother and 1 were both barefoot but we en
joyed every mile of the way. We were going to At
lanta for the first time.
Between Douglasville and Austell the dirt road
ran beside the Southern Railroad. A train came a
long and the cattle stampeded down through the
woods and into a farmer’s cornfield. They made ha
voc of that green growing corn. After rounding them
up and back into the road, the farmer was paid dam
age for his riddled cornfield.
After the stampede a rope was put on the lead
cow and the cattle were kept in the road the rest
of the way.
We spent the night with a farmer near the Chatta
hoochee River, sleeping on his front porch in the
bright moonlight, while the cattle rested in the
farmer’s pasture across the road.
Next day we drove the cattle across the Chata
hoochee and into Atlanta. A cattle buyer met us in
the suburbs and began to dicker to buy the herd.
The cattle were sold on Peters Street. Then my
father took my brother and me to a drygoods store
and bought us some shoes.
One thing I remember, which perhaps were better
left out. My father was a “teetotaler,” dead set a
gainst drinking, bought himself a drink and had
the bartender mix a little spirits with water and
sugar and give my brother and me. It was a case of
EXCEPTION after that long hard walk driving the
cattle.
About midnight we boarded the train and rode
back to Villa Rica, my brother and I with shoes on
too I
Yes, that cattle drive to Atlanta 67 years ago
still looms vividly in my memory. They don’t make
them like they used to.
Georgia Power Company to Build
Generating Plant on the Oconee
The Georgia Power Com
pany has received from the
Federal Power Commission a
license for construction of a
major hydroelectric project on
the Oconee River, Edwin I.
Hatch, the utility’s president,
announced.
“ The document received,”
Mr. Hatch said, “ is some 50
pages in length and contains
a numebr of provisions not J
included in our application for
a license filed with the Com
mission in April, 1966. This
is not unusual, but naturally
requires an in-depth study of
these provisions. The Commis
sion allows a 30-day period
for consideration.”
Mr. Hatch said the proposed
Laurens Shoals dam would be
located 13 miles east of Eaton
ton and two miles north of
the Georgia Route 16 crossing
of the Oconee. The power sta
tion would have a generating
capacity of 324,000 kilowatts
and would be the first hydro
electric installation on the
company’s system to use
By Carl Broome
pumped storage.
With pump storage, Mr.
Hatch explained, some of
the water discharged during
time of high power demand is
returned later, when this
power demand is less, by
pumping it to the plant’s up
stream reservoir. The water
then is used again to gener
ate electric power.
Mr. Hatch pointed
out that Georgia
Power is not only inter
ested in the hydroelectric de
velopment of the Oconee but
also plans eventually to locate
one or more large steam-elec
tric plants on the reservoir. If
the Laurens Shoals project is
built, the Oconee River area
will become an even more im
portant power-generating
complex, the utility president
said. Immediately downstream
from Laurens Shoals is the
company’s Sinclair hydroelec
tric dam and reservoir. Plant
Harllee Branch, a major stream
; power plant, is located on the
Sinclair reservoir.
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
NEGRO SHOT
AND KILLED
BY ANOTHER
A coroner’s jury Monday re
turned a verdict of “justifiable
homocide” in the shotgun
slaying of Alton R. Reaves,
31, of Loris, S. C. who was
killed Sunday evening in
Blackshear.
Reaves, a Negro, was shot
by Howard Brown, another
Negro, at Brown’s home at
213 Hall Street in Blackshear.
Coroner Franklin Aspinwall
reported that testimony show
ed Reaves went to the Brown
home Sunday evening and,
brandishing a .22 calibre pis
tol, “ran everybody off.”
Shots were exchanged by
Brown and Reaves after which
Brown went for more shells
for his gun. When he returned,
Reaves was hiding behind a
door with his gun pointed and
was shot and killed by Brown.
Funeral Services
Held Monday for
James O. Guest
James Oliver “Jim” Guest,
55, of the Rehobeth Communi
ty in Pierce County passed a
way early Sunday morning in
a Waycross Hospital following
an illness of several months.
A native and life long resi
dent of Pierce County, he was
a son of the late Andrew and
Georgia Waters Guest. He
was a retired farmer.
A member of the Rehobeth
Baptist Church, he was a
member of the Men’s Bible
class, the Woodmen of the
World, the Pierce County For
estry Commission, and the
Dowling Hunting Club.
Survivors are his wife, Mrs.
Kay Dee Henderson Guest of
Blackshear; two daughters,
Mrs. Georgia Dixon of Jack
sonville, Pla. and Mrs. Joe
Corbett of Savannah; a son,
Wendell Guest, of Blackshear;
a brother, Mr. Tracy Guest of
Blackshear; and three grand
children.
Services for Mr. Guest were
held at 5:00 o’clock Mondav
afternoon from the Rehobeth
Baptist Church with the pas
tor, Rev. Walter Pipkin, and
Rev. Hugh Garner officiating.
Interment was in the Re
hobeth Cemetery.
Active pallbearers were Bill
Guest, Butch Guest
Edgar Guest, Buddy
Dowling, Donald Henderson,
and Cleve Henderson,
Honorary pallbearers were
E. L. Waters, Stephen Waters,
Reppard Henderson, James
Henderson. Alton Henderson,
Kenneth Brumbeloe, Aubrey
Geiger, John L. Peacock, O
mer Lovett, Guthrie Davis,
Tracy Mattox, W. L. DeLoach,
Wendell Waters. Dorsey Ca
son, Bradley Waters, J. O.
Echols. Arthur Cason, Cole
man Beecher, Gene E. Smith,
Everett Moore, Alvin Cason,
Delmas Cason, Gene Bowen, T.
H. Davis, Clifford Knowlton,
M. C. Thornton, Morris Dow
ling, D. L. Thornton, and Ray
mond Cason.
Clough-Pearson Funeral
Home was in charge of ar
rangements.
LETS CATCH
THE MALICIOUS
WWW WOOPS
BURNER*
let him get away with it
Sp-4 Donnie Strickland Gets
Army Commendation Medal
U. S. Army Vietnam —
Specialist Four Donnie G.
Strickland, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Eugene R. Strickland,
Route 2, Blackshear, received
the Army Commendation Me
dal July 10 while serving with
the 9th Infantry Division in
Vietnam.
Spec. 4 Strickland earned
the award for meritorious
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, August 14, 1969
Edwin Dowling
Funeral Service
Held Tuesday
Mr. John Edwin Dowling,
56, of Nahunta passed away
Sunday morning, August 10,
at the Veterans Administration
Hospital in Lake City Fla.,
following a short illness and
his death brings personal sor
row to a host of relatives and
friends throughout this sec
tion.
A native of Wayne, now
Brantley County, he was the
son of the late David Allen
and Nancy Highsmith Dow
ling. He received his education
in the public schools of Brant
ley County and was a Navy
veteran of World War 11.
For many years, he was en
gaged as a farmer and in more
recent years was employed by
a Brunswick seafood proces
sing plant.
Surivors include his wife,
Mrs. Sadie Cox Dowling of
Nahunta; two sisters, Mrs. Al
vin Drury of Nahunta and Mrs.
N. O. McDaniels of Conway,
S. C.; one brother; Clyde Dow
ling of Nahunta.
Other survivors include
several nieces, nephews and
other relatives.
Funeral services for Mr.
Dowling were held at three
o’clock Tuesday afternoon, Au
gust 12 from the Nahunta
Baptist Church with the Rev.
Ernest S. Purcell, assisted by
the Revi Cecil F. Thomas, of
ficiating.
The body lay in state in the
Church for one hour, prior to
the services.
Interment followed in the
family plot in Knox Cemetery.
Serving as pallbearers were
the Messers. Clayton Riggins,
J. L. Jacobs, Sr., Byron High
smith, Hugh Lewis, R. I. Mc-
Duffie and John V. Smith.
The many beautiful floral
tributes attested to the esteem
felt for the deceased.
The family has the sympa
thy of their many friends in
their bereavement.
The Chambless Funeral
Home of Nahunta was in
charge of arrangements.
Brantley 4-H
Members Attend
Summer Camp
One hundred and eighty 4-H
club members and leaders
from Brantley, Pierce and
Candler Counties attended
County 4-H Club camp at
Camp Wahsega near Dahlone
ga, last week.
Fifty of the .members at
tending were: Mike Davis,
Tony Morgan, Terry Brooker,
Sabra Keen, Ephraim Keen,
Linda Cleland, Kevin Mathie,
Kymer Mathie, Denise White,
Sonya Bass, Shirley Crews,
Ginger Johns, Kay Smith,
Donna Popwell, Martha Mid
dleton, Phyllis Douberly, Pa
tricia Dowling, Su
san Thornton, K a
ren Lewis, Tamara Smith,
Pamela Johns, Terry Herrin,
Allen Bryant, Terry Thomp
son, Edward Kirkland. Mike
Smith, Mike Lyle, Ronald
Strickland, Mark Middleton
Wain Strickland, Ernie Johns,
Debra Ann Johns, Vicky Cook,
Penny Gunter, Rosa Edwards,
Mel Rowell, Joan Carter, Pam
Moody, Kay Waldron, Myra
Fain, Vasco Canaday, Cindy
Raulerson, Blake Loyd, Ruth
Ann Fox, Cleve Harden, Rus
sell Dußose, Terry Dußose,
Terry Jones, Tim Jones,
and Stuart Loyd.
The campers from Brantley
। County were accompained by
i Mrs. Virginia Raulerson, Coun
ty Home Economist, George
l Loyd, County Agent and Mr.
1 John Wood.
service as a signal specialist
in Headquarters and Company
A of the division’s 709th Main
tenance Battalion.
He entered the Army in
May, 1968, completed basic
training at Ft. Benning, Ga.,
and was stationed at Ft. Gor
don, Ga., before arriving o
verseas in February of this
year.
Sleeping Sickness in Horses Has
Been Reported in Brantley County
Mrs. Myrtis Smith
Funeral Service
Held Saturday
Mrs. Myrtis Smith, 68, died
Friday in a Waycross hospit
al.
She was a native of Pierce
County.
Survivors are three daugh
ters, Mrs. Gene Thomas of
Nahunta, Mrs. Hilda Mc-
Mongle of Brunswick and
Mrs. Rosemary Strickland of
Augusta; four sons, Barney
Smith of Fairfield, Ohio, Har
ry Smith and Joe Smith of
Hortense and Claude Smith of
Nahunta; her mother, Mrs.
Isabella Dixon of Hortense; a
sister, Mrs. Blanche Deprat
ter of Hickox; two brothers,
The Rev. Eddie Dixon of
Hickox and Joe Dixon of Bub
lin, Ohio, and 23 grandchil
dren.
Graveside service for Mrs.
Myrtis Smith, was held Sat
urday afternoon at Rob Lewis
Cemetery in Brantley Coun
ty.
The Rev. Cecil Thomas, the
Rev. Ernest Purcell, the Rev.
Lester Dixon and the Rev.
Bobby Brinkley officiated.
Pallbearers included Michael
Lee, Levelle Bohannon, Ed
ward Brand, Jimmy Rowell,
Huey Ham and Quitman Lew
is.
Find lost articles with
want ads.
As Family Grows,
Income Increases
And Debts Decline
Washington, D. C. — Al
though no simple formula ex
ists for families to use in de
termining how much debt they
can safely carry, recent stud
ies by the Department of Ag
riculture show ratios based on
several averages suggest cer
tain guidelines. The guidelines
reflect average income, expen
diture, debt and liquid assets
for four broad age groups in
the early 19605.
Finance Facts, a .monthly
newsletter on consumer beha
vior published by the National
Consumer Finance Association,
shows how debt to income ra
tio declines as families grow.
For young families (head
under 35 years) current ex
penditures averaged slightly
more than current income. The
breadwinner in families in this
group, on the average. will
gain increased income but also
greater responsibilities and
heavier expenditures.
The study shows that as a
family grows older, they own
more and owe less and their
assets generally increase.
The trick is to own more
and owe less and still be
young enough to enjoy the
comfort of financial stability.
BEES AND MELONS
Honey bees are a necessity
for pollination of watermelons.
According to horticulturists
with the Cooperative Exten
sion Service, thousands of bees
are necessary per acre to in
sure adequate pollination and
a good crop of watermelons.
Most Leaf Markets Close Friday;
Blackshear Will Remain Open
Through Thursday, August 21
All but eight tobacco mar
kets in Georgia will be closed
after this Friday, August 15,
but the Blackshear market
will remain open through
Thursday. August 21.
State Senator Roscoe Dean
informed The Times Tuesday
of action by the Georgia De
partment of Agriculture in
designating which markets
will remain open.
The other markets will sell
through Thursday of next
week are Douglas, Nashville,
Tifton, Valdosta, Moultrie,
Hazehurst and Caxton.
Backshear is the only mar-
Two cases of Equine Ence
phalitis (sleeping sickness of
horses), have been reported
in Brantley County during the
past week, according to Geor
ge A. Loyd, County Agent.
One case was in the Way
nesville area, and the other
in the Raybon Community.
Loyd says that these two wide
ly spread cases are an indi
cation that the disease caus
ing organism may be present
throughout the county. And
that all horSe owners, who
haven’t already done so, should
have their horses vaccipated
at once; as there is little or
no chance of recovery once a
horse contracts this disease,
which can be prevented by
vaccination.
Since some people of the
county have shown concern,
for fear that sleeping sickness
of horses might be transmis
able to people, Mrs. Rebecca
Griner, Brantley County Heal
th Nurse, has contacted Dr.
David Dresson, of the Georgia
Department of Public Health
in Atlanta. Dr. Dresson assur
ed her that there is no cause
for alarm. The virus that
causes this disease in horses is
not known to attack people.
However, Dr. Dresson said
that parents should be caution
ed to repair screens, and use
recommended insecticides to
control mosquitoes in homes;
and to protect children from
being bitten by mosquitoes
and other biting insects, by
using repellents, when they are
outside in heavy mosquito in
fested areas.
Education Board
Accepts Bids
For Supplies
The Brantley County Board
of Education awarded the fol
lowing bids at their regular
meeting Friday, Aug. 8.
Standard Oil Company —
Regular Gasoline 13.69 c gal;
Anti-Freeze 1.30 per
gal; Lubricating Oil
10.94 per lb. (No. 90);
Motor Oil 65c per gal (55 gal.
drum); Chassis grease .1214 c
per lb. (120 lb. drum).
Folkston Gas Co. Propane
Gas 14c per gal. and free
servicing.
Wilson & Son Oil Co. Fuel
Oil No. 2 14c per gal.
Herrin-Lee
Mr. and Mrs. Ewell V. Her
rin announces the engagement
and approaching marriage of
their daughter, Adrian Elaine
to Ronnie Dale Lee, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Silas Lee
of Hoboken.
He is employed by Seaboard
Coastline.
They are planning to be
married August 15, at six o’-
clock at the home of the bride.
All friends are invited.
Pierce County
Bi-racial Group
Plans Meeting
The Pierce County Bi-Ra
cial Committee will meet Mon
day, August 18, at 8:00 P. M.
in the Agricultural Building.
All members and interested
citizens are invited to attend
ket in the 6th Senatorial Dis
trict which will remain open
after this Friday. Senator Dean
interceded with the Denart
nient of Agriculture to desig
nate Blackshear as one the
markets to remain open. One
full set of buyers will be kept
on the Blackshear market.
Beginning August 25, only
four markets in the state will
remain open, and these are
yet to be designated, Senator
Dean said.
The Blackshear market will
have a sale this Friday, Au
gust 15.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Sheriff Johns Starts
Legal Action Against
County Commissioners
Personals
The annual Kelly Family
Reunion will be held August
17th. at Crooked River State
Park in Camden County.
PFC. Gary C. House, son
of Mrs. Isla Roberson of Na
hunta spent 20 days leave at
home. He left for Fort Dix, N.
J., from where he will go to
Germany. He has a brother,
Pfc. Kurt House, serving in
Vietnam.
Pfc. Michael Lee has return
ed to Semeca Army Depot at
Romulus, N. Y., after spending
a leave with his parents Mr.
and Mrs. Carroll Lee of Na
hunta.
Ward R. Lee of Pensacola,
Fla. visited his father, John
E. Lee and other relatives
last week.
Mrs. J. R. James and her
niece Mrs. Tom Grant return
ed to Nahunta for a few days
visit last weekend. Mrs. Ja
mes is at Magnolia Manor in
Americus, Ga. Mrs. Grant lives
in Atlanta.
Keith Thomas
To Attend State
4-H Congress
Keith Thomas, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Alfred Thomas, Jr.
of Rt. 2, Nahunta, will repre
sent Southeast Georgia at the
State 4-H Congress to be held
in Atlanta, August 19-22.
Keith won the honor of
representing his district in
the State 4-H Poultry demon
stration by winning first place
in the district contest held at
Rock Eagle 4-H Center in
June of this year.
In Atlanta Keith will com
pete against 11 boys and girls
who are the other district win
ners in the poultry project. The
State winner will be awarded
a trip to the National 4-H Con
gress in Chicago.
CARD OF THANKS
We would like to express
our sincere thanks and deep
est appreciation to our friends
and relatives who helped us
in so many ways during the
extended illness and death of
our mother, Mrs. Myrtis Smith.
We are especially grateful
for the covered dishes, floral
tributes, messages of sympathy
and other acts of kindness.
May God bless you.
The Myrtis Smith Fami
ly.
DESSERT TIP
Looking for a cool, tasty
low calorie dessert? Home ec
onomists with the University
of Georgia Cooperative Exten
sion Service suggest that you
serve watermelon balls with
a topping of mint sherbert.
Remember, watermelons are
low in calories.
Blackshear Tobacco Market
Report of Sales and Prices
Wednesday, July 23 633,930 $454,713.00 $71.73
Thursday, July 24 612,832 $432,314.00 70.54
Friday, July 25 424,178 $301,744.00 $71.14 \
Monday, July 28 649,240 $485,778.66 $74.82
Tuesday, July 29 658,098 $489,319.24 $74.35
Wednesday, July 30 509,932 $385,941.00 $75.68
Thursday, July 31 627,604 $463,590.00 $73.87
Friday, August 1 516,528 $394,814.00 $76.44
Monday, August 4 663,330 $506,805.66 $76.41
Tuesday, August 5 636,776 $487,602.24 $76.57
Wednesday, Aug. 6 532,910 $413,017.00 $77.50
Thursday, Aug. 7 611,938 $463,224.06 $75.70
Monday, Aug. 11 645,285 $492,154.00 $76.27
Tuesday, Aug. 12 601,629 $446,060.54 $74.14
TOTAL 8,324,210 $6,217,097.40 $74.69
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE
AND TAX
Inside county $3.09
Outside county, in state $4.12
Outside state $4.00
Sheriff Robert Johns of
Brantley County has initiated
mandamus proceedings against
the Brantley County Commis
sioners in an effort to com
pel them to pay the salary of
his deputy, Alvin DePratter,
records in the county clerk’s
office show.
A hearing on the matter
will be held Thursday, Aug.
28, before Judge Dan Flexner,
of the Brunswick Judicial
circuit.
The commissioners, George F-
Stewart, chairman, W. E. El
dridge and J. E. Strickland,
notified the sheriff that as of
July 21 payment of the depu
ty’s salary would be discontin
ued, according to court clerk
D. F. Herrin.
Both sheriff Robert Johns
and his deputy Alton DePrat
ter are salaried officials, the
fee system having been abo
lished in Brantley County. The
law indicates that the depu
ty is to be hired by the sher
iff with the approval of the
commissioners.
In Memoriam
In memory of Rev. T. B.
Hall who departed this life
August 17, 1954.
Fifteen years have gone by,
but you are not forgotten. We
miss you, oh, we .miss you and
we are so lonely without you.
The days and nights are so
lonely and can never be the
same.
But sweet precious memo
ries cling tenderly to your
name, how you worked so hard
to make our home so happy.
No one knows the sadness for
the one we love so well. But
God loved you best, so happy
angels came and took you
home to rest from this world
of sin, pain and sorrow. He
took you to a home where all
are happy and sorrow is un
known. But we shall never
lose sweet memory of the one
we loved so much.
Sadly .missed by wife,
Rosa Lee Hall and Ora
Bell, Tammy and Chris
Cooper, also Houston.
Youth Revival
Starts Sunday
At Waynesville
A youth revival will begin
at Waynesville Baptist Church
Sunday, Aug. 17, to continue
through Sunday, Aug. 24.
Mr. Guy Kelly of Norman
College will bring the message
and Mr. Dennis Rogers, also
of Norman College, will be
song leader.
Everyone is invited. Young
people are extended a special
invitation by the pastor, Rev.
J. C. Shepard.
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