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VOLUME 48 - NUMBER 21
A Voice in the Wilderness
BACK OUR PRESIDENT
Our Pr^sijdent, the Commander, in Chief, has made
a difficult and courageQus decision to attack and
destroy North ’Vietnamese liases and war supplies a
long the South Vietnamese' border inside Cambodia.
His goals are understandable, particularly to mili
tary men: (1) to shorten the war, (2) to save A
merican lives, (3) to enable his Vietnamization plan
to carry on to a successful conclusion, (4) to permit
self-determination of the South Vietnamese to con
tinue to fruition, and (5) to minimize the prospects
of disastrous defeat as the strength of oiir forces in
Vietnam grows less during his previously announced
withdrawal program.
The order has been given, American military men
are now in combat carrying out the Commander-in-
Chief’s orders, and some are dying in order that a
larger number may live.
At home, opponents of the Administration, the
“Doves”, the Peace-At-Any-Price advocates, and
those who have been persuaded that the United
States has only to withdraw its forces from South
east Asia in order for universal peace to exist
throughout the world, are working right now to toe
the hands of our President in this endeavor. Many
well-meaning supporters of those policies seem to
forget the additional jeopardy to which such actions
will subject our troops in Vietnam.
President Nixon told patriotic organizations, two
days before his talk to the Nation, that the action he
was soon to order was imperative if we were to es
cape the probability of total and humiliating defeat
in Vietnam. Information from captured enemy docu
ments, prisoner interrogation, aerial reconniassance
and other intelligence sources available to him had
convinced him and his military advisors that our po
sition in South Vietnam would soon be untenable,
the Vietnamization program destroyed, and humiliat
ing defeat in Vietnam almost assured unless he or
dered immediate and positive action to destroy the
forces and massive supplies of arms, ammunition,
food and equipment which had been stored in un
derground shelters in North Vietnamese “sanctuar
ies” on the Cambodian side of the border along the
great length of South Vietnam. These stores were,
he said, sufficient to supply several North Vietnamese
divisions for six months.
I am convinced that the President had no alterna
tive; to do nothing would almost certainly insure the
loss of all that we have been fighting for in support
of free peoples everywhere, and the abandonment
of the principles for which more than 40,000 Ameri
can men have died in this war.
The voices of the organized minority are stridently
raised against our President’s action, giving great
comfort and aid to the enemy.
I believe that, as a citizen, you will want to add
your support to those of us who have for too
long been the “Silent Majority” by upholding our
Commander-in-Chief in his resolve to bring about an
honorable peace, maintain the integrity of this nation,
fulfill its commitments to its allies, and honor those
who have died in their efforts to preserve freedom
for all peoples.
ACTION FOR YOU TO TAKE IN SUPPORT OF
YOUR PRESIDENT.
1. Phone, wire or write your Senators and Congres
sional representatives and express your support of
the President’s action.
2. Write a letter to your local newspaper editors
expressing your feelings on this issue and request
that he print your letter.
3. Request the Program Chairman of Civic and
Professional organizations to which you belong to
obtain an informed speaker who can factually ex
plain the present military situation in Vietnam and
Cambodia to all of your members.
4. Bring these facts to the attention of educators
at all levels, including school boards, college trus
tees, and your own alma mater.
5. Talk about this critical situation with your
friends and neighbors.
OUR ADVERTISERS.
THEY MAKE THIS
NEWSPAPER POSSIBLE.
SUPPORT
BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE
Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People.
Mr. Ferguson — Beth Crews,
Sandra Griffin, Lucy Johns,
Beverly Smith, , Kay . Wain
right.
Mrs. Sutton — Barbara Alt
man, Ruby Chesser, Sandy
Stewart, Stacy Crews, Howard
Flowers, Glen Griffin, Edward
Nichols, Ronald Hickox.
Mrs. Snowberger — Lynell
Griffin, Darlene Crews, Scott
Lewis, Alec Jacobs, Arlene
Chesser, Kathy Strickland, La
fane Highsmith, Diane Rober
son, Wilma Jean Roberson,
Sharon Prescott.
11th Grade
Mr. Wiley — Charlene Gam
ble, Peggy Griffin, Wanda
Morgan, Phyllis Pearson, Don
na Pierce, Cindy Raulerson,
Cathy Wynn. Jerol Drawdy,
Lawerence Melton.
Mrs. C. Thomas — Jerry
Crews, Gary Hickox, Pam
Patten. Clifton Roberson, Jo
Nell Roberson.
Mrs. Joiner — Bonnie Brau
da, Judy Davis, Ann Rowell,
Sylvia Schmitt, Al Strickland,
Marcia Thrift.
10th Grade
Mrs. Gillis — Mary Robinson,
Bessie Sloan, Melanie Stall
ings.
Mr. J. Thomas — Bedell
Johns, David Lee, Kathy Mid
dleton, Bennie Mills, Miles
Moody, Cherry Thomas, Judy
Thomas.
Mr. Netherton — David
Carter, Barbara Hickox, Judy
Jones, Sissy Smith, Katherine
Morton, Patricia Wajnright.
Mr. Ham — None.
9th Grade
Mr. Davidson — Esther Brau
da, Kathy Harris, Beverly
Montague.
Mrs. Ham — Judy Rowell.
Mrs. McCall — Barbara
Smith, Jeff Velie.
Mr. A. Thomas — None.
Mr. Waldren — None.
Bth Grade
Mrs. Ferguson — Vinny
Brooks, Kathy Cleland, Linda
Cleland, Debra Gunter, Ann
Murray, David Pierce, Glenda
Rooks, Kathryn Schmitt, Terry
Thompson, Mike Walker.
Mr. Edgy — Johny Deal,
Mary Alice Hqwpll, Pearl
Roundtree, Catherine Taylor.
Miss Sheffield — Cheryl
Ann Hanchey, Greta Hickox,
Ambia House, Gail Corbitt,
William Crews. Sabra Keen,
Carol Patten, Dottie Pearson,
Charlene Riggins, Debbie
Waldron. Bruce Wainright.
BCHS Honor Roll
Honor roll for fifth six-weeks.
l£th GRADE
Mrs. Edgy — Deidra Brand,
Tony Cleland, Scott Ferguson,
Cathy Griffin, Sandra Griffin,
Clarke Lee, Donna Popwell,
Bruce Rowell, Linda Stevens,
Jacqueline Stewart.
East Taylorsville
Youth Crusade
Here June 4
The East Taylorsville Baptist
Church Evangelistic Team
Crusaders, Taylorsville, N. C.,
a team of approximately 35
voices, will be at the Nahunta
Baptist Church on Thursday
night, June 4, to conduct a
crusade service at 7:30 P. M.
Rev. Douglas Willett, pas
tor of the East Taylorsville
Baptist Church, is director of
the group. He says the home
church is a “base and launch
ing pad for missions,” and that
“God has opened a door for
these young people to launch
out for Christ.”
The 35 young people, rang
ing in ages 13-22, are divided
into teams for the purpose of
singing, testifying, and wit
nessing for Christ.
The Rev. Ernest Purcell,
pastor of the local church,
cordially invites the public to
attend.
In Memoriam
In fond and loving memory
of our dear Mother, Tena L.
Crews, who departed this
life 4 long years ago, May 22,
1966.
Loving and kind in all her
ways, upright and just, to the
end of her days.
God giveth, and taketh a
way. He has you in His keep
ing, we have you in our hearts.
We have spent lonely days,
and sleepless nights. Loving
thoughts shall always wander
to the spot where you were
laid.
Signed,
Your loving children
The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, May 21, 1970
Macon, Ga. — The 1970 an
nual meeting of the Georgia
Forestry Association will be
held at Jekyll Island, June 7-
8-9. President Gerald B. Saun
ders, president, Alexander
Brother’s Lumber Co., Colum
bus, will preside. The conven
tion will be held in the Aq
uarama.
Saunders said a highlight'
of the meeting will be the ap
pearance of the four major
gubernatorial candidates. They
are James L. Bentley, Jimmy
Carter, Carl E. Sanders and
Hal Suit. They will appear on
the Monday afternoon pro
gram.
Other speakers will direct
their remarks to the third
forest, how forestry reaches
into the urban communities of
the state and timber salvage in
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Deborah Rhoden Engagement Announced
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Mrs. Gretchen Harrell an
nounces the engagement and
approaching marriage of her
daughter, Deborah Ruth Rho
den to Slaton Manning, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Manning
of Manningtown, Georgia.
The wedding will be an e
vent of June 7th at 4 P. M. at
the home of the bride. No in
vitations are being sent, but
all friends and relatives of
the couple are invited to at
tend.
The bride-elect is a 1968
The City of Nahunta announces its intent to
hold a public hearing on May 22nd, 1970 at 8:00
P. M. at the Brantley County Court House Na
hunta, Georgia to consider adoption of a zoning
ordinance for Nahunta.
The public is invited.
A VIEW
OF THE FOREST
BY
H L. NEAL, JR.
AREA FORESTER
E. J. RHODEN
COUNTY RANGER
connection with natural disas
ters.
Saunders added that the
general session, election of of
ficers, crowning of Miss Geor
gia Forestry and the presenta
tion of awards head the list of
other activities.
A delegation of more than
; 700 foresters and landowners
are expected, anounced Harold
Joiner, executive director,
GF A, Atlanta. A Luau will fl
pen the annual meting on the
evening of June 7. The festiv
ities will feature the introduc
tion of participants in the Miss
Georgia Forestry Pageant.
The Forestry Queen will be
named at the annual banquet
on June 9. The reigning queen
is Miss Sarah Amelia Walls of
Brunswick.
graduate of Brantley County
High School and is presently
taking a business course in
Brunswick, Georgia.
The bridegroom-elect is em
ployed with the Bruns
wick Pulp and Paper Company
in Brunswick, Georgia.
New Hope Cemetery
Committee Slated
To Meet May 22
The New Hope Cemetery
Organization Committee will
meet Friday evening, May 22.
at the REA Building. All
members are urged to attend.
NOTICE
Mrs. E. T. Higginbotham
City Clerk
AND
Post Office
To Aid Livestock
Producers
Hm .
Livestock 1 producers havei
witnessed ' some dramatic
shifts ip both price and pro
duction in the livestock busi-’
ness recently. To obtain a
measure of the size and direc
tion of these shifts in produc
tion, Postmaster Mike Dowling
has announced that his Rural
Carriers will assist area live
stock producers and the De
partment of Agriculture in a
mid-year livestock survey. In
addition to measuring the
change in livestock holdings
since the first of the year, the
survey will determine the
size of the spring pig crop and
the expected calf crop for the
year.
Mr. Dowling said that the
carriers who will be helping
with this Junel Livestock Sur
vey are: Route 1, Lavon
Crews.
A June 1 Livestock Survey
card will be left in mail box
es along these carriers routes.
Everyone who receives one of
these cards is requested to
complete it promptly gnd re
turn the card to his carrier.
No postage is required. The
carriers will forward the
card to the Georgia Crop Re
porting Service in Athens for
processing with livestock
cards from all sections of the
State.
Frasier T. Galloway, who
heads the State Reporting Ser
vice, stressed the importance
of these little cards by point
ing out that the sale of live
stock alone brought over $285
million last year for Georgia’s
farmers. This represents a $52
million, or 22 percent, increase
over 1968 sales. Galloway said
that an industry of this size
with this kind of growth
must have current data on
which to base plans for fu
ture production. Livestock re
ports are needed from thou
sands of individual producers
over the State to develop a
picture of where the livestock
industry is now and where it
is heading.
NYC Meets In
Regular Meeting
The Brantley County Neigh
borhood Youth Corps met
May 11, at Brantley County
High School with H. H. Colvin
and Marion Blunt.
The meeting was called to
order by the president, Wanda
Morgan. The minutes were
read and aproved.
Annie Mae Hall gave a re
port on the NYC field trip
that all NYC members partici
pated in. The trip included
the Cola Bottling Company,
the Waycross Vocational
School, and the Okefenokee
Swamp Park.
Mr. Colvin went over sever
al NYC matters and talked to
the summers workers about
working.
Mr. Blunt showed a very
interesting filmstrip “Think of
Others First.”
The meeting adjourned at
2:16 p. m.
Janice Middleton
Reporter
Personals
Sp-4 Richard Eunice has
completed his tour of duty in
South Viet Nam and after
spending several days with
his mother, Mrs. Daisy Eun
ice, has returner to his new
duty station. Sp-4 Eunice has
been reassigned to the 521st
Military Police Co., Fort Bel
voir, Virginia.
Mr. John A. Allen remains
a patient in the Waycross
Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Dick Morgan is a patient
in the Waycross Memorial
Hospital.
Mr. John Wilson has re
turned home after spending
several days in the Jesup Hos
pital.
Births
Mr. and Mrs. Donny Hand
announces the birth of a giri,
bom May 7th. Little Miss
Hand weighed in at 5 lbs. and
5 ozs. She has been named
Eve Hand. Mrs. Hand will be
remembered as Miss Myrtle
Strickland.
OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA
Brantley County Poultry Judging
Team Wins Place On State Team
Three members of Brantley
County’s Poultry Judging
Team won places Qn Georgia’s
Poultry Judging Teath and
will represent the state at the
Regional . Poultry Judging
contest in Richmond, Virginia.
Keith Thomas, Jerry Crews,
Thomas Herrin and County A
gent, George A. Loyd from
Brantley will make the trip.
Poultry Judging is a 4-H
contest composed of teams. In
each district, tht four club
members from one county,
who have highest scores make
the district team. Brantley
County had the winning team
from Southeast Georgia. Two
boys from Ware County made
the 6 member team.
At the State Cotest held at
Rock Eagle last Saturday,
PASTOR'S PEN -t
Faith in the Holy Trinity
Sunday May 24, 1970 is Trinity Sunday in most of
our churches and I will try to explain what the Trin
ity is.
In the beginning of history men found God in the
open spaces and under the open sky. There they e
rected their stone alters for their searching spirits.
Later, feeling the need for a visible dwelling place
for their most high God, they built an ark and, cloth
ed it with sacredness and the inspiring awe of God’s
presence. Then in the unfolding of their honor and
respect for the house of God, they erected a temple
and within the center they put a Holy of Holies into
which the Holy center the priests alone could enter.
On through the ages men have been seeking to make
real the presence of God in their midst.
They have found out that the Father is the creater
and ruler of the universe; the Son is the Lord and
Savior of mankind; the Holy Spirit is the sanctifier
and helper of the people of God. This leads us to rea
lize that there is but one living and true God, ever
lasting, without body or parts, of infinite power,
wisdom, and goodness; the maker and preserver of
all things, visible and invisible. And in unity of this
Godhead there are three persons, of one substance,
power, and eternity. The Father, the Son, and the Ho
ly Ghost.
This three id one and one in three business can be
confusing, but as a 14 year old girl said to her young
er brother .“You know, I think I got it figured out:
Mother is mamma to us, she is Bernice to daddy, and
she is Mrs. Smith to a lot of people.”
Os course we know that this little girl is wrong
even if she has a faint idea of what the Trinity is,
The Trinity is more than a matter of a lot of names.
The early Christians knew that the Trinity is a
mystery that cannot be fully explained, but this was
their one way of acknowledging the ways in which
God was disclosed to them and also experienced by
them.
Rev. Robert S. Round
Methodist Church
Nahunta, Georgia
Left to right, Mr. Edward Newton, Mr. Moultrie Purdom, J. C.
Allen and Mr. H. B. Lee, Jr.
Members of
Selective Service
Board Honored
Mr. H. Branch Lee Jr., Field
Supervisor attended the regu
lar meeting of Local Board No.
13 on Monday night, May 11.
Mr. Lee presented (20) Year
Certificates of Appreciation
for Uncompensated Personnel.
The following members of
Brantley County Board No. 13
were presented Certificates.
Mr. Moultrie Purdom (Chair
man of Board 20 year certifi
cate) and pin.
southeast district had the
highest scores, hich made them
eligible or this trip. Keith
Thomas, Thomas Herrin and
Jerry Crews for Brantley and
Michael Gillis \ _ from J Ware
made the top scores, and by
having the most members,
county agent, George Loyd,
was named coach and will
make the trip with the boys.
Keith Thomas had the third
highest score in the state.
The highest scoring team
was Columbia County, who a
long with their county agent,
will represent Georgia at the
National Poultry Judging
Contest to be held in Chicago.
Keith, Jerry, Thomas, Rosa
Edwards, and Mrs. Revis Ed
wards went to Rock Eagle
with Mr. Loyd last Saturday
for the State contest.
Mr. J. C. Allen, (Advisor to
Registrants - 20 year certifi
cate) and pin
Mr. F. R. Newton (De
ceased) 20 year certificate
was presented to his son, Mr.
Edward Newton and pin.
Mr. Lee complimented the
members of the Brantley
County Board of the excellent
manner in which they were
handling the affairs of this
Board. He stated this is one of
the outstanding boards in the
’ state. The Board consist of the
following:
Mr. Moultrie Purdom
(Board Chairman); Mr. M. M.
Manor-Board Member; Mr.
Donald F. Stevens-Board
Member; Mrs. Nellie W. Grif
fin, Executive Secretary; and
Mr. J. C. Alien-Advisor.
