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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 48 - NUMBER 26 PASTOR'S PEN “THEN GOD MADE MAN” In the article for last week we showed that dur ing successive periods God created all, then He made man. In order that men be capable of accomplish ing God’s will, he was given the power to reason and understand, thus the power of choice. This power of choice is surely made evident in the charge God made to Adam, “And the Hord com manded the man, saying, of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the know ledge of good and evil, thou shalt surely die” (Gen. 2:16-17). Other texts which set forth the fact of the power of choice are 1 Kings 18:21, when Elijah said, “How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord by God, follow him: but if Baal, then fol low him” and in Joshua 24:15 we find Joshua say ing to the people “choose you this day whom ye will serve.” God did give man the capacity to cho'ose. But the ability to ^hoqs<? s is riecessarjly |isqsgd. r . T^ye. some things which man cannot choose. this, were not so man wpuld not only try to Vetoing his own God, as he does now, he Would actually become his own God. Therefore, as an instance of this limitation we are made aware that man cannot choose his parents or where he will be born. There are more examples of this limitation but the one given will il lustrate our point. We are made mindful, however, by the above scriptures, that a man can chose be tween God and the Devil as to which one he will serve. The Bible says that yDu can’t serve both at the same time. When God made man and gave him the power of choice, He imposed a limitation upon himself. God, we know, is omnipotent (not limited in authority oi' power). This, of course, means that God is not limit ed at any place it is He who has imposed the limita tion. The limitation of which we speak is that God will not override man’s freedom to choose “whom he will serve.” The limitation which God has placed upon himself can be best understood when explained in terms of of His nature. The nature of God is love (1 John 4 8, 16). The love of God has been ill-understood by men over the years. But know this, O Man, we are the object of this wonderous love. Immediately after man decided not to obey God, thereby severing the divine-human relationship, God sent out to draw man back to himself. This brings us to the point of mentioning the con tent of the Bible. From the account of the fall of man onward, the 66 books of the Word of God are devoted to “Heilsgeschichte” or Salvation History. MR. AND MRS. SLAYTON MANNING BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE , • • , 1 ' .. Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. Ernest S. Purcell, Pastor Nahunta Baptist Church Robert Harrell Funeral Services Held June 20 Hortense — Robert Calvin Harrell, Jr., 83, died Thursday, June 18, at Glynn-Brunswick Memorial Hospital after a long illness. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Loree Woods Harrell of Hor tense; a daughter, Mrs. Doro thy Harrell Laws, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; a stepson, J. C. Jewell, Rochester, N. Y ; five sisters, Mrs. Sara Chaney, Jacksonville, Fla., Mrs. Mary Bruce, Brunswick, Mrs. Gene va Bruce, Deßerry, Fla., Mrs. Dora Drury, Deland, Fla. and Mrs. Ada Hallman, Pierson, Fla.; four brothers, Cavada Harrell and Sayvant Harrell, both of White Oak, Napoleon Harrell of Sanford, Fla.; and Raleigh Harrell, Jacksonville, Fla.; 16 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held at 11 a. .m.. Saturday June-20, at ;r. Philadelphia L Wesleyan Methodist Church. Burial waa at Hortense Cemetery. Armed Robbery At Waynesville Mr. Wiley H. Pearsons of Nahunta, a local insurance a gent of Security Life and Health Company of Georgia was robbed at gun point Wed nesday morning, June 24 near Waynesville. Mr. Pearsons stated that af ter calling on a client and was enroute back to Waynesville, he was stopped by an automo bile parked in the center of a bridge. One of the two men in the parked car got out and upon advancing to the Pearson car, pulled a pistol and de manded money. Mr. Pearson was hit repeatedly a bout the head when he at tempted to get out of the car and again after he handed o ver the money to the bandit. According to Mr. Pearsons, the armed robbers stole ap proximately $350.00 dollars and threatened to take his life and would have if he had hesitat ed and if he had not beg ged for his life to be spared. An unusual amount of rob bery and petty theft has been committed in Brantley Coun ty in the past year. Incidents have ranged from petty or malicious theft up to stealing value. Houses have been bro ken into with money and oth er valuables taken. Pulpwood producer’s equipment has been a favorite and apparently lucrative target for the theives with hogs running a close sec ond. In commenting on the a mount of thievery in our area, Mr. Pearsons stated that he was taken by complete sur prise in the robbery. However, due to the increase in stealing here, it would be natural to assume that armed robbery would follow. Local Girl Bitten By Snake Joyce Murray a senior at Erantley County High School was bitten by a snake, believed to be a timber rattler last Tuesday morning around 8:30 Miss Murray was bitten while picking peas on the farm of Mrs. Lula Mae Herrin at Hi kox. Miss Murray was rushed to the Waycross Memorial Hospital by Sheriff Robert Johns where she was treated for snake bite and was kept in the hospital overnight. Junior Class Sponsors Dance On Saturday night, June 27th at 8:00 P. M., the 1970-71 Junior Class is to sponsor the first in a series of dances; Featured will be The Revol vers of Jacksonville, Fla. The dance will be at the Nahunta Elementary School Gym, and the admission is $1.50 per per son. INDISTINCT PRINT The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, June 25, 1970 UPB ’’ IMHx 'T? '' ' - • w* "Sb niCTDIPT Uld I Klb I . - 4H WINNERS “ II nl nllLnll ■ ' ® : r ' A ■ 11 | FjLnb v .di TT J . | "B&. M| » H ' ’ • ' ’ ’ Brantley County 4-H winners, L. to R: .Cindy Rau- . Virginia Ba : 7 - ; erson, Mrs. Virginia Raulerson and Kathryn Schmitt. Brantley County 4-H'ers Join Parade of Winners Brantley County 4-H’ers marched in the parade of winners at the 1970 Southeast District Project Achievement meeting held at the Rock Ea gle 4-H Center last week. Local 4-H’ers returned home with 2 district winners, accor ding to Mrs. Virginia Rauler son. Extension home economist and George A. Loyd, County Agent. These district winners were spotlighted during the traditional 4-H parade of win ners at the climax of the three dev event. Brantley County boys and girls joined nearly 800 Four-H chamoions from some 25 area counties for the 1970 achieve ment meeting. The theme of the event was “Soar Into The 70’s With 4-H.” District winners from Brant ley County include: Kathryn Shmitt, Jr. Girls Landscaping, and Cindv Raulerson, Sr. Home Furnishings and Art. Cindy is a senior member and now will have a chance at state titles when the Georgia 4-H Congress is held in Atlan m August. If she wins in Atlanta, she will get to attend the National 4-H Congress in Chicago and compete for na tional honors. Mrs. Raulerson and Mr. Loyd pointed out that the oth er local 4-H winner is a jun ior. and a district title is as high as she can go. In addition to the 2 first olace winners, 7 Brantley Countians came hone with second and third place honors. Second place district win ners and their projects are: Debbie Colvin. Jr. Home Fur nishings and Art;' Denise White, Jr. Poultry; and Blake Loyd, Sr. Electric. Coming in third at Rock Ea gle were: Martha Middleton, Better Breakfast; Boyd Grif fin, Jr. Boys Landscaping; Sheila Bennett, Teen Fare; and Rosa Edwards. Sr. Poultry. Sonya Bass placed first in Girls Recreation Demonstra tion and was eligible for the sweepstakes where Talent and Demonstrations compete for District honors. The boys and girls had qual itv project work as they ex celled in their Record Books and Demonstration Scores during the Project Achieve ment winning 18 Blue Awards and 7 Red Awards. Those who attended the Dis trict Project Achievement Meeting in addition to those already mentioned were: Gre ta Hickox, Cheryl Hanchey, Deidra Brand, Myra Tripp, Linda Cleland, Ky.mer Math ie, Sabra Keen, Jo Ann Davis, Willie Pearl Roundtree, Debra OUR ADVERTISERS. THEY MAKE THIS NEWSPAPER POSSIBLE. Gunter, Penny Gunter, Lyn nell Griffin, Merrell Tripp, Denise Smith and Ernie Johns. Mrs. Raulerson and Mr. Loyd said all the local 4-H’ers consider themselves winners, regardless of whether they took top honors in their pro jects. Assembly programs, ves per services, group discussions, new friends and recreational activities were also features of the district program. Hoboken Canning Plant Ceases Operation The Hoboken Canning Plant has ceased operation because of a boiler failure. The repairs to the boiler would cost $350.- 00 and because of declining use of the two plants over the past several years, I feel that this expensive repair could not be justified. Since the close of the Hobo ken Plant, the Nahunta Plant has undergone extensive reno vation and can adequately supply the needs of the citi zens of Brantley County. The Nahunta Plant is open each Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday from 8:00 A. M. until 5:00 P. M. No food is taken after 12:00 for process ing due too the length of time in processing. The Nahunta Plant will be .limited to shelling and blanch ing only next week due to the -fact that I will be attending a short-course on Forestry in Covington, Ga. We will re sume normal operation on Monday, July 6th and will op erate through July 24th. Huey R. Ham Vo. Ag. Teacher Homecoming Set For Nahunta Church of God Homecoming will be held Sunday, June 28th at the Na hunta Church of God. Services will begin at 11 o’clock. Dinner on the ground will be served at 1 o’clock, with singing in the afternoon. Rev. B. H. Morton and mem bers of the church invites the public to attend. SUPPORT Homecoming Set For Twin Rivers Baptist Church Homecoming will be held at Twin Rivers Baptist Church Sunday, June 28th. Services will begin at 11 o’clock. After the morning services, dinner will be served at the church. Following the dinner and fel lowship hour singing will be held in the chapel of the church in the afternoon. Rev. Hugh Corbett and the congregation invites i the pub lic to join them on this occa sion of their homeedming. Dinner will be served at 1:05 P. M. final Check For £ in* a ' 4.T < Missed' Families In 70 Census Underway in South One of the final steps in the 1970 census in rural and small city areas of the southern States —a check by mailmen — is now Underway, according to the U. S. Department of Commerce’s Bureau of the Census. The 70 census was taken by two methods: by mail-cut and mail-back of questionnaires in most major metropolitan areas and by census takers in the rest of the United States. The latter procedure entailed the mailing out of questionnaires and subsequent visits by cen sus takers who would pick up filled-in forms or, lacking this, interview families while following a house-to-house route. Canvassing in the metropol itan areas required checking of addresses by postal employ ees before the mailout. A sim ilar step is now being taken by mailmen following the vis its by census takers. This is the procedure: When census district offices com pleted their preliminary counts, they turned over to the post office a set of White cards listing every address canvassed. The mailmen, in turn, check these addresses a gainst the households on their routes. If the mailmen dis covers what he considers a “missed” address, he fills out a blue card noting this fact. The blue cards are referred to the Census Bureau, which will check them against the census records. The Census Bureau has found from experience that many households for which such cards are filled out have already been enumerated. This can happen for a number of reasons. For instance, some peonle get mail at two or more addresses, or there may be dif ferences in the way a rural ad dress is described. The Census Bureau will check the blue cards turned in by mailmen and then take ap propriate steps to provide a complete census count. Griffin-Knox Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Shaf ter Griffin of Hoboken an nounce the betrothal and forthcoming marriage of their daughter, Vicki Cheri, to Dav id Larry Knox, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Knox of Nahunta. The bride-elect is the grand daughter of Mrs. Blanche Pitt man of Waycross, and the late Motron Mortenson of Chris tiansand, Norway and Mrs. Marcie Griffin and the late Dewey S. Griffin of Hoboken. A graduate of Brantley County High School, Miss Griffin is employed by East ern Underwriters Incorpora ted of Brunswick. The bridegroom-elect is the grandson of Mrs. Nellie Knox and the late Elwood Knox of Nahunta and the late Mr. and Mrs. Joshua Elwood Proctor of Waynesville. A graduate of Nahunta High School. Mr. Knox is employed as credit manager at Fried man’s Jewelers in Brunswick. The couple plan to marry July 11 at 3p.m. at the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church in Ho boken. A reception will follow the ceremony. All friends and relatives are cordially invited to attend. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA ASC Community Committeemen To Be Named By New Procedure The U. S. Department of Ag riculture has announced sever al procedural changes for elec tion of Agricultural Stabiliza tion and Conservation (ASC) community committeemen. Local candidates now will be nominated by petitions sub mitted by farmers. This change provides the opportunity for individual farmers to have first choice in nominating can didates for ASC community committees. The incumbent community committee can sub thit names of candidates only if fewer than six have been nominated by petition. If 8 percent or more of the eligible voters are minority group members and none have been nominated by petition, at least one of the candidates added to the slate by the in cumbent committee shall be a minority group member. A farmer who is a owner, tenant, or sharecropper is eli gible to sign a nominating pe tition and to vote for ASC community committeemen. Any six eligible voters may nominate an eligible farmer, and may nominate more than one. A voter may sign as many petitions as he wishes. The nominating petition must con tain at least six signatures and be submitted from July 28 through Aug. 17. Annual election day will be the second Friday in Septem ber (Sept. 11 this year). To reduce the number of ties, vo ters this year will be instruc ted to vote for three or fewer candidates, instead of five or fewer as in prior years. Community committeemen select county ASC committee men at a county convention. The new regulations require that the convention be held not later than 15 days after the community election date. New county and community committeemen will take office on Oct. 1 annually. Across the nation there are approximately 9,000 farmers serving on county committees. About 3,000 are elected each year to 3-year staggered terms. These committeemen run farm programs locally. The community committees also as sist county committees in local management of farm pro grams. Tri-County Hog Prices June 22 Tri-County Hog Prices June 22. 180-190 $24.00; 190-200 $24.- 25; 200-240 $24.75-$25.25; 240- 270 $24.25; 270-300 $23.75; 300- 350 $22.00; Sows: $16.00; Boars: $16.00. MISS CHERI GRIFFIN John H. Scott Receives Army Commendation Medal Specialist Four John H. Scott, 24, whose sister, Mrs. Lizzie White, lives in Nahun ta, Ga., recently received the Army Commendation Medal while serving with the 4th In fantry Division near An Khe, Vietnam. Spec. Scott earned the award for metitorious services as a cook in Headquarters and Ser vice Battery, 4th Battalion of the division’s 42nd Artillery. Personals Sgt. and Mrs. Vernon Cox and Wayne, Jr. will make their new home in Paris Is land, South Carolina, where Sgt. Cox has been assigned as a Drill Instructor. Mr. Joe T. Crews remains a patient in the Lake City, Fla. Veterans Hospital. Allen Family Reunion Slated For June 28 The annual reunion of the Allen family will be held Sun day, June 28th at Laura Walk er Park. Table No. 500 has been re served for the Allen family. Dinner will be served at 12:- 30. Card of Thanks We would like to take this means of expressing our sin cerest thanks and deepest gra titude to those friends who were so kind and thoughtful of us at the time of death of our loved one. We are especially grateful for the beautiful floral tri butes, covered dishes, mes sages of sympathy and other acts of kindness shown. May the Lord bless each of you is our prayer. The Family of Sarah Parrott Keene RO ACH CONTROL What is the best way to con trol roaches in the home? It’s by prevention of an infesta tion, says Rodney Coleman, en tomologist with the University of Georgia Cooperative Exten sion Service. Once an infesta tion is present, a vigorous pro gram of control is needed to eliminate it.