The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, November 27, 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 4« “He’ s Got The Whole World In His Hands” The Bible says, “The earth is the Lord’s and its fullness thereof.” If this is true, then there is nothing that I fully own or finally control. There is nothing that I can give to God which was not given to me, At best, I can only dedicate what I have to Him and dedicate it more completely to His service. This is what Thanksgiving is all about; being grate ful to God for His gifts, sense what I owe Him, and “give to Him the best I have.” When we come to think of it, it is surprising and humbling how much of our lives we do not own and wholly control. The air we breathe, the water we drink, the heat of the sun are not ours. These are here as a gift of God’s to use for a while. The farmer does not truly own the land he claims as his. To be sure, he holds title to it; and this title gives him exclusive use of it when he lives and the right of transmission when he dies. But the land was here before he came; it will be here after he is gone; and he cannot tell who will own it a hundred years from now. Really, God will still be the owner. It is still more true concerning our own lives and personalities. We had nothing to say about when, where, or how we came into the world; and unless we committ suicide, we do not know how we will go out of this “old world.’’ Our personalities and our abilities were all given at birth. All we can do is to cooperate with God for development. But, re member, we had no part in selecting these endow ments and gifts. Actually, we are not creators (eventhough some people claim to be “self-made”), nor controllers, nor owners! We are stewards or trustees, and only that for a very short time. It seems to me that all of us are part of that great process whose power, purpose, and end are in greater Hands than ours. By being grate ful to Him and cooperating with Him, our living for ever can be abundant peace from within. Isn’t it best, then, for us to work with this process, that it may lead to our good, the good of others, and God’s glory? “May your Thanksgiving be one of humble grati tude to the eternal God who gives us more than we deserve,” is this Methodist preacher’s prayer for all. Cost of Keeping Congress in High Style to Which It Is Accustomed A revealing article in the magazine Businness Week of Nov. 15 shows how members of the U. S. Congress have feathered their financial nests in the face of calls for elimi nation of waste and control of inflation. That congress and senators do not mind spending the tax payers money, on themselves, is shown by the higher salar ies they recently voted for themselves. U. S. House members voted to hire themselves one more helper, making 12 aides for most congressmen and 13 for some of them. Members of Congress rais ed their own salaries from $30,- 000, a year to $42,000 a year. A senator is allowed $31,000 for his top aid and $30,000 for two others. A congressman is allowed $25,000 for his best man. There is a restaurant for the Senate and another restaurant for the House. Last year the Senate restaurant operated with a loss of $498 500 and the House restaurant ran a deficit of $211,000, all paid for by U. S. taxpayers. The doorkeeper for +he house gets $40,000 a year. The sergeant-at-arms and the clerk get the same, but this year the three will get $lO.- 500 raises, making $50,500. ac cording to the article in Bus iness Week. Many members of Congress go on “junkets” abroad, os tensibly to “inspect” someth in® overseas. Those junkets cost the taxpayers, overall, millions of dollars everv year, and many of them merely needless waste of tax money. Capitol Hill in Washington has a police force of 616 men. enough for 'a citv of 300 000 population. Many of the “po- Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. The Implications of the Scriptures By Rev. J. Loy Scott Pastor, First United Methodist Church licemen” are students who get the jobs by political patron age. One thing the Congress did to cut expenses: it cut the salary of the Senate chaplain. They decided the Lord’s rep resentative was being over paid. Cotton Program Referendum Set Marketing quotas, farm allotments, price-support loan and nayment rates, small farm provisions, and other features of the 1970-crop upland cotton p r o gram have been announced by the U. S. Department of Ag riculture. according to George Dykes. Chairman of the Brant ley County ASC Committee. This information is being provided by cotton producers prior to the mail referendum December 1-5. on 1970-crop cotton marketing quotas. If more than one-third of those voting disapprove quo tas. the only cotton program would be price-support loans at 50 percent of parity for growers who do not exceed their acreage allotments. If at least two-thirds of the Na tion’s upland cotton growers voting approve marketing quotas, the 1970 cotton pro gram would go into effect. Georgia’s 1969 cotton crop is forecast at 310,- 000 bales based on information reported by crop correspondents and ginners as of September 1, according to the State Crop Reporting Service. BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Help Provide Gifts for State Hospital Inmates Nahunta Baptist Church is sponsoring an effort to se cure gifts for children in Gracewood Hospital and for inmates of Central State Hos pital in Milledgeville. A box was placed at Na hunta city hall Tuesday for placing of gifts of toys, toilet articles and clothing for the inmates of the two state in stitutions. The box will stay at city hall until Dec. 5. Citizens of Brantley County are urged to help in this ef fort to bring a little joy into the hearts of the unfortunate inmates of our state hospitals. Those bringing gifts are requested to gift-wrap them, or at least to plain wrap them for handling. B. G. Shaw to Speak Sunday at First Methodist B. G. Shaw, Waycross Sub- District officer and active in the lay-witness movement of the United Methodist Church, will be speaker 11:00 A. M. Sunday, at First United Meth odist Church of Blackshear. Mr. Shaw’s heme as a child and young man was Vidalia, Georgia. At present he resides at St. Marys. He is employed at Gilman Paper Mill, and is active in the church there, as well as civic affairs. He is a former City Council member of that city. “Shaw is one of the real consecrated laymen I have been privileged to know, and a very effective and able lay speaker, during my many years of ministerial work,” said Rev. Loy Scott, pastor. First Methodist is in a “For ward in Faith Crusade,” and Mr. Shaw speaking Sunday is a part of the program. The Reverend F. J. Beverly, Jr., oastor of Trinity Church. Waycross, will be in the social hall with all of the workers in the crusade at 2:02 P. M. Sun day. Beverly is directing the Crusade and will talk with the workers for 45 minutes, in the area of instructions and directing. Funeral Services Held Friday for H. G. Lovell, 55 Henry Gordon Lovell, 55. of Route 3, Alma died last Wed nesday in the Bacon County Hospital following a brief ill ness. A native of Raybon Coun ty, he had lived in Pierce for a number of years, where he had engaged in farming. A son of the late Mr. and Mrs. James Lovell, he was a member of the Shady Grove Baptist Church in Pierce County. Funeral services were held Friday afternoon at the Shady Grove Baptist Church at 2:00 P. M. with the Rev. A. D. Stanfield and the Rev. R. J. Bowen, officiating. Burial was in the church cemetery. Serving as pallb°arers were Charles Peacock, E. W. Jor dan, Holmes Wade, Claude Courson. Bobby Dixon and Homer Peacock. B. G. SHAW Layman of St. Marys The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, November 27, 1969 Joseph Riggins Funeral Service Held Tuesday Joseph R. Riggins, 82, of the Mars Hill Community in Brantley County near Hobo ken, died early Monday morn ing in a Way cross hospital following an extended illness. A native of Pierce County, he had made his home in the Ten Mile community in Ap pling County for 20 years and had resided in the Mars Hill community for the past 27 years. He and his wife, the former Miss Molly Strickland of Brantley County, would have celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Mar. 10. He was a life long farmer and a member of the Hoboken Baptist Church. Survivors, besides his wife, include six sons, J. L. Riggins, W. J. Riggins, R. R. Riggins, and Frank Riggins, all of Ho boken, Harry H. Riggins of Jamestown and Henry H. Rig gins of Tampa, Fla.; 20 grand children and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 P. M. in the Hoboken Baptist Church. Burial was in High Bluff Cemetery. Metliodists to Meet Sunday at Pierce Chapel Churches of the Nahunta Methodist Circuit will meet at Pierce Chapel the fifth Sunday, Nov. 30, for the pur pose of voting to dispose of the Hoboken Methodist Church building and proper ty. Rev. R. S. Round, the pas tor, announces that services will be held at 11:30, followed by a covered dish dinner. The meeting will be held at two o’clock. All interested parties are re quested to attend the meet ing. Find lost articles with want ads. Annual Meeting of PCA, FLBA Stockholders Set The annual stockholder’s meeting of the Satilla Pro duction Credit Association and Federal Land Bank Associa tion of Waycross, will beheld jointly Thursday, December 4. at the Blackshear High School gymnasium in Blackshear. The evening program will get underway at 6:00 o’clock and will include financial reports, annual reports and election of directors, according to Satilla PCA Manager J. E. Bennett, Jr., and Federal Land Bank Association of Way cross Man ager, Hugh F. Bates. Patterson Schools Celebrate Thanksgiving, Birthdays, Too The lunchroom workers at the Patterson High School and at North Campus helped stu dents at both schools celebrate Thanksgiving in a big way, Tuesday. Not only did the workers provide a turkey dinner with all the trimming, but they made, decorated, and served a huge harvest birthday cake to all students who had birth days since September. 1969. The workers worked over time three afternoons getting the 24” X 12” X 6” cake baked and making a variety of harvest fruits which filled an icing cornucopia which sat on the top of the cake to serve as the decorative center of interest. NAHUNTA, HOBOKEN AND BRANTLEY COUNTY ACTIVE IN SLASH PINE DISTRICT PLANS The nine-county Slash Pine Economic Development Dis trict program, carried out by the Slash Pine Area Planning and Development Commission, is an example of a new spirit of cooperation and coordina tion at the local level to plan and carry out programs to help stimulate economic and social growth. Nahunta and Hoboken and Brantley County are partici pating actively in the Slash Pine District program. Other counties in the district »r« Atkinson, Bacon, Ben Hill, Charlton. Clinch, Coffee, Pier ce and Ware. The purpose of the district program is to encourage neighboring counties to com bine their talents and resour ces to overcome common eco nomic problems that may be too great for a single county to solve. The Public Works and Eco nomic Development Act re quires that each District in clude at least to lagging counties eligible for financial assistance frcm the Econom ic Development Administra tion. U. S. Department of Commerce. Eligibility is based on high unemployement or low med ian family incomes. EDA pro vides public works funds, business development loans and technical assistance to foster industrial and commer cial growth and create jobs where they are most needed. Atkinson. Bacon, Ben Hill, Brantley, Coffee and Pierce Counties have been designa ed by EDA as redevelopment areas because of high unem ployment rates. As members of the Slash Pine District these counties are eligible for 10 percent bonus grants for nublic projects approved by EDA. Joe T. Lee, Jr., Serving Aboard USS Saratoga USS Saratoga — Aviation Electrician’s Mate Third Class Joseph T. Lee, Jr., USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe T Lee Sr. of Purdom Driv*’ Blackshear, is serving with Attack Sauadron Seventv five (VA-75) aboard the air craft carrier USS Saratoga in the Mediterranean. Valuable prizes will be giv en to many of those attending. A barbecue supper will be served following the meeting. The annual SPCA-FLBA of Waycross meeting in Black shear is the highlight of the year for two farm loan groups and is expected to attract r large group of stockholders and visitors from this area. The two farm loan groups cover an area of eight coun ties. They are Brantley. Cam den, Charlton, Clinch, Glynn. Pierce, Ware and Wayne. Two hundred-eighteen stu dents were honored and the two cakes were ample. The lunchroom personnel who made the cakes were: Mesdames Jeanette Lowman Inez Colley, Annie Mariah Eckles, Rosalie Manning, Lil lyphine Cason, Christel Dou berly, Eunice Douberly, The dius Cason, and Mary Kate Foster. Mrs. Kitty Smith, home economics teacher, also assisted with the cake. Glenda Manning. Virginia Loper and Gail Blalock were responsible for getting the names of students who would be honored and for giving birthday greetings to the hon orees over the school’s public address system. Mrs. Mary Carter Funeral Service Held Wednesday Mrs. Mary Corrine W. Carter, 79, of the Mars Hill commun ity near Hoboken in Brantley County, died Monday after noon in a Waycross hospital following an extended illness. A native and lifelong resi dent of Mars Hill community, she was the former Miss Mary Corrine Walker, daughter of the late Charlie Wright Walk er and Mary Jane Griffin Walker. She was a life-time member of the Pierce Chapel Methodist Church. Survivors include her hus band, Arthur J. Carter of the Mars Hill Community; one daughter, Mrs. Lucille Arnold of Fernandina Beach, Fla.; one son, Eary Carter of Jack sonville, Fla.; three sisters, Mrs. Irvin Crews of Nahunta, Mrs. Homer Crews of Bruns wick and Mrs. J. S. Horvath of Jacksonville, Fla.; one brother, Dewey B. Walker of Jacksonville; six grandchil dren and five great-grandchil dren. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 4 P. M. in the Pierce Chapel Methodist j Church. Burial was in the church cemetery. Funeral Services Held Sunday for Mrs. Mobley, 83 Mrs. Rachel Lee Mobley, 83, of Route 1, Mershon, passed away early last Friday morn ing in the Pierce County Hospital following a long ill ness. A native of Clinch County, she had lived most of her life in Pierce County. A daughter of the late Henry and Emma Jane Hurst Lee, she was the widow of the late Albert Mob ley. She was a member of the Mershon Baptist Church. Funeral services were held at 3:00 o’clock Sunday after noon at the Mershon Baptist Church with Rev. Bud McGill and Rev. Billy Strickland of ficiating. Interment was in the Meir,ion Cemetery. Active pallbearers were grandsons. Clough-Pearson Funeral Home was in charge of ar rangements. Bookmobile Schedule Given for December Wednesday, December 3, Waynesville, Hickox, Nahun ta, Old Post Road. Wednesday, December 10, Brantley County Schools. Schlatterville, Hoboken, Raybon and Hortense bookmo bile run will be omitted in December due to Christmas holidays. PATTERSON LUNCHROOM WORKERS PROVIDE BIG CAKE OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Twin Bridges to Unite Georgia-Florida on 1-95 Social Security Office Hours to Change Dec. Ist The Waycross Social Secur ity Office hours are to be changed. O. L. Pope, District Manager, announced that ef fective December 1, the Way cross Social Security Office will be open Monday through Friday only,( from 8:30 A. M. to 4:45 P. M., and that Satur day, November 29, will be the last Saturday the office will be open. The Waycross office is loca ed at 704 Jane Street and the telephone number is 283- 3404. The new office hours are 8:30 A. M. to 4:45 P. M„ Mon day through Friday, effective December first. The office will be closed on Saturday after that date. Find lost articles with want ads. 'Quality Tobacco Be Presented to A “Quality Tobacco Pro gram,” designed to help farm ers improve the quality of flue-cured tobacco grown on their farms, is to be present ed at the Pierce County Agri culture Building on December 2, 9 and 16, according to Coun ty Agent Clifford Park. The sessions will be from 2:00 until 4:00 P. M. on each date. Instructors will include Jer ry Horner, USDA Grading Service; Sam Thompson, Ex tension pathologist; John French, Extension entomolo gist; James Fountain and Robert Miles, Extension a gronomists, tobacco. The Ex tension specialist are from Tifton. Mr. Park pointed out that Pierce County has a base al loted acreage of 2,620 acres of tobacco, and that greatest ef forts in the past have been Hearing Called to And Cost of All TO: Election Officials and Interested Citizens. FROM: Ben W. Fortson, Jr., Secretary of State. RE: Public Hearing Con cerning the Conduct and Cost of Primaries. I have been requested by Representative Roy McCrac ken, Chairman of the Joint House - Senate Election Law Study Committee, to inform you of a public hearing to be held by this committee in the House Chamber, State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia, at 10:00 A. M. on Friday, De cember 5. This hearing will be for the purpose or receiving com ments and reactions from po litical party officials, County SUBSCRIPTION PRICt AND TAX Inside county $3.09 Outside county, in state $4.12 Outside state s4.o* Contracts for 12 miles of paving and for double brid ges over the St. Marys River on coastal Interstate Route 95 will dominate an estimated $11,069,023.00 in new road con struction and improvement contracts upon which bids will be opened by the State Highway Department on De cember 12. State Highway Director, Jim Gillis, announced/ that the De cember contract letting will include two Interstate, six o ther Federal aid, and three State-aid contracts. The 1-95 paving project ex tends from US 17 below Rich mond Hill to the 1-16 inter change west of Savannah in Bryan and Chatham counties. The twin bridges will unite Georgia and Florida 1-95 southeast of Kingsland. To gether, they make up an es timated 6.8 million of the sll million dollar letting, the Highway Director said. Merchants wise advertise. Program' to Leaf Growers placed on increasing yields as a means of increasing net income. However, he said tobacco differs from most other crops in that before maximum yields are reached there is usually a reduction in the quality of tobacco produced. Because of this, government controls now include poundage as well as acreage. Therefore, the farmer’s on ly means of increasing net profit is by efficiently produc ing a higher quality product. Mr. Park encouraged local tobacco growers to inquire a bout the “Quality Tobacco Program” and apply its prin ciples. The scheduled sessions are designed to help the far mer better understand. How the tobacco plants grows, soil and water rela tionships, the tobacco grading and marketing system, insects and disease control measures. Consider Conduct Primary Elections Ordinaries, and interested cit izens concerning the conduct of primary elections. Topics to be discussed in clude a proposal to have all primaries conducted jointly by the Ordinary or County Elec tion Board; the fees to be paid bv candidates and the distribution of such fees; and the costs of primaries to be paid by the Counties with the election supplies to be fur nished by the Secretary of State. I will appreciate your help in informing interested offici als and citizens in your Coun ty of this important hearing. It is our hope that all inter ested persons will avail them selves of this opportunity.