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Newspaper Page TextVOLUME 49 — NUMBER 3 A Voice in the Wilderness County History fort Mclntosh Colonel Louis V. Fuser of the British Army, did not want to make concessions to the defenders of the tiny fort called Mclntosh. Fuser did believe that Winn and his men would die fighting before sur rendering under any other terms so he agreed to the stipulation. After the surrender on February 18, 1777, the long march to Fort Howe began. One company of British Regulars accompanied the captured Whigs to protect them from the unpredictable Indians, who, although fighting for the British, usually did as they pleased. Late that evening, Captain Winn’s worst fears were realized when the British and their In dian allies disappeared into the night leaving the Whigs defenseless. Realizing that something had to be done, Winn: . roused up his men, and to avoid falling into the hands of the Indians, took a direc tion through the woods for Fort Howe on the Altamaha, after passing through bays, swamps, and ponds, about thirty five miles, which had probably never been tra versed by any human being, he reached Fort Howe the next day about ten o’clock.” This action probably saved the lives of both Winn and his men, as the Indians were known to ambush travelers on the one road to Fort Howe, and they knew the rebels would most likely use that road. The Redcoats burned the fort to the ground and today’s students of Georgia military history wonder why Fort Mclntosh was built in the first place. It was about thirty miles in advance of Georgia’s main line of defense along the Altamaha River. This was two days march for supplies and reinforcements if needed, making the fort highly yunerable to attack and capture as history indicates. Today, the site is impossible to reach by land as all signs of a road in to the area has disappeared. The exact loccation is unknown today but according to historian Hugh Mc- Call, the fort was made of wood, one hundred feet square, had a bastion in each corner, and a block house in the center which answered for the com bined purposes of a lodgement for the troops and a magazine, and a place of defense. The late Dr. John H. Goff, after years of study, decided that the fort was located at the bend in the Satilla River a bout where the present day Brantley-Camden line intersects the river. The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. Mr. anr Mrs. Wesley M. Burden To Celebrate Silver Anniversary Mr. and Mrs. Wesley M. Burden of Nahunta will cele brate their twenty-fifth wed ding anniversary on January 31, 1971. Mrs. Burden is the former Rachel Rawlins of Coffee County. The Burdens have three children, Mrs. Linda Steedley, Mrs. Martha Davis, and Mrs. Jonnie Ruth Griffin and four grandchildren. The daughters will honor their parents with a recep tion, at the Burden home, be tween the hours of three and five in the afternoon. All friends and acquaintan ces of the honorees are in vited to attend. MAGNIFICENT WOMEN Flip a switch, push a but ton, turn a dial. And your kit chen equipment is off and run ning. Your Extension home e conomist has information that will help you get the most ef ficient use of those electric and gas marvels. It’s free. Give her a call for yours. OUR ADVERTISERS. THEY MAKE THIS NEWSPAPER POSSIBLE. by GEORGE —Viscount Morley Cloverleaf 4-H Club Met The fifth grades of the Na hunta Elementary School held a 4-H club meeting in the cafeteria Thursday, January 14. Mr. Sherman Tomlinson gave a pprogram on drugs and the danger of using them. The officers for the year are: President — Derrick Brad shaw. Boys’ Vice Pres. — David Royster. Girls’ Vice Pres. — Joyce Jacobs. Secretary & Treasurer — Patricia Flowers. Reporter — Lisa Wilson. Parliamentarian — Scott Dean. Reporter, ,Lisa Wilson Want ads are inexpen sive and bring excellent results. SUPPORT BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey, Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. (Part III) Herons Sweep Doubleheader From Nichols, Girls Down Blackshear Emotions' were high on Monday night of last week as the Herons girls and boys clipped Nichols for a double win. Freshmen and sophomores played the entire second half of the girls game and coasted to a 52-33 win. The boys took the lead on the opening bas ket .and never gave up to win by a 66-47 score over Nichols. The Heron girls added another win to their record on Friday night as they defeated Black shear 54-31. The boys were not able to withstand the at tack of the Blackshear quin tet and became Blackshear’s ninth victim 76-61. On Satur day night the Herons traveled to St. Marys and came home the loser in both the girls and boys games. The girls score was 33-29, and the boys score was 57-41. Kay Smith had a hot hand on Tuesday night against Nic hols as she scorched the nets for 11 points in the first quar ter to gain a 16-3 yead after one quarter. The Heron girls continued to roll up points as the defense did a sterling job stopping the Nichols girls. Half-time score was 37-10 and third quarter score stood at 45-20. The Freshmen and Sophomore girls continued to gain experience as they pro vided a 52-3 J finish to the game. Scoring honors for the game went to Kay Smith with 19 points. Carol Addy and Sissy Smith each added 10 points. Rosa Edwards had 5 points, Sheila Bennett had 2 points, Debbie Altman 2 points, Dar lene Baker 2, and Susan Rig gins 2 points. Others playing included Cindy Raulerson, Donna Bell, Denease O’Berry, Allison Chambless, Susan Chambless, Lou Ann Lee. Di ane Shuman, Sandra Thomas and Debra Addy. Regina Wil son led the Nichols girls with 14 points. Martin Brooker made the first 4 points of the boys game to put the Herons in front to stay. Jerry Crews made the last points of the first quarter to make the score 16-11 in favor of the Herons. A strong defense held the Nichols boys to 6 points in the second quarter as the Brantley Herons forced Ni chols to play Brantley’s game and the half time score stood at 32-17. Third quarter score was 45-31 in favor of the Her ons. Nichols began to rally in the final quarter but could not stop the Herons as Brant ley’s boys notched their sec ond win 66-47. Philip Purdom led the Her ons with 18 points. Three oth ers in double figurers includ ed Larry Lane 16, Martin Brooker 14, and Benjie Walk er with 13. Jerry Crews add ed 5 points and David Carter also played. Norman Tomlin was high scorer for Nichols with 17 points. Action on last Friday night saw the Heron girls stop Blackshear cold in the first and second quarters as the defense limited the Black shear girls to 10 points the first half. The offense rolled up 27 points. The Blackshear girls pulled to within 17 ooihts at the beginning of the fourth quarter and the Heron girls moved on to win by a 23 point margin, 54-31. Carol Addy and Kay Smith shared scoring honors with 19 points each, while Sissy Smith was adding 12 points. The Brantley Enterprise, Nahunta, Ga., Thursday, January 21, 1971 ONE SECTION OF THE TWO WOODEN BLIMP HANGERS, IMMEDIATELY AFTER DEMOLITION. (PHOTO BY WEST) Sheila Bennett had 4 points and the defense was composed of Cathy Wynn, Susan Cham bless, and Donna Bell. Cindy Raulerson played offense and i defense. Alberta Harris was high scorer for Blackshear with 11 points. ! Blackshear’s Leslie Barnes put on an impressive show in the boys game as his play led the Blackshear boys for three quarters. The Heron boys fell behind 22-13 in the first quarter and never threatened again. Blackshear put in re serves in the third quarter and the Heron boys gained from a 52-26 score to a final score of 76-61. The closest the Herons got was 13 points. Philip Purdom again led the Herons with 20 points. Martin Brooker had 16, Larry Lane had 12, Benjie Walker 8, Jerry Crews 5, and Andy Harris also played. Leslie Barnes of Blackshear grabbed scoring honors of the game with 29 points. Saturday night in St. Marys might have been a football game had you seen our girls return. The lead swapped back and forth with Camden Co., in front 6-2 at the end of the first quarter, but the Heron girls took the lead at the end of the half with a 21- 16 score. The four point lead of Camden’s girls at the end of the third quarter held as the game ended 33-29 in favor of Camden. Sissy Smith led the Herons with 13 points, while Cindy Raulerson and Kay Smith each had 6 points. Carol Ad dy had 4 points and on de fense was Donna Bell, Cathy Wynn, and Susan Chambless. The Heron boys stayed close to Camden as the score stood at 8-7 in favor of Camden af ter one quarter of play. Cam den began to ease away from the Herons in the second quar ter to make the score 27-19 at half-time. The htird quar ter score was 46-32 as Camden increased their lead and went on to win by a 57-41 margin. Philip Purdom led the Her ons again with 10 points, and Jerry Crews had 9 points. Benjie Walker had 7 points, Martin Brooker 6, Larry Lane 4, Andy Harris 3, and George Dryden 2 points. David Car ter, Archie Lee White, and Richard Stevens also played. ! BCHS - PTA Meeting Scheduled For January 25 The Brantley County High School P. T. A. meeting will be held at school library Mon day. January 25 at 7:30 p. m. Mrs. Ruth Davis is in charge of the program which will be on Average Daily Attendance. All parents and teachers are urged to attend. The Phildelphia Plan re quires all bidders on Federal ly-involved construction pro jects exceeding $500,000 to submit affirmative action plans setting goals and timetables for utilizing minorities. The plan covers six high-paying construction crafts in the Phil adelphia area. Brunswick Landmark Comes Down The two wooden blimp hangers of the Naval Air Sta tion Glynco, the largest wood en thructures of their type in the world, will soon be de molished tht Navy announced today. The cost of destroying the hangers, which stand 182 feet high and more than 1,000 feet long amounts to $232,350. An Atlanta contractor, Hudgins And Company, Inc., has be gun preliminary work on one hanger and will begin demo lition preparation on the other on March 1, 1971. Both hangers are scheduled to be gone by December 31, 1971. The twin Glynn County landmarks in recent years housed offices and classrooms, but since the disestablishment of the airship training group 1959, have for the most part stood as monuments to an era of Naval aviation past now for more than a decade. Construction of the gigan tic structures was begun in September, 1942. During the Summer of that year concern mounted over the German Ü boat threat to the Atlantic Seaboard shipping lanes. The establishment of airship oper ations to protect coastal ship ping lanes off the coast was selected approximately six miles north of Brunswick, Georgia for the proposed Na val Air Station Glynco. Considering the scope of the undertaking and the enormo rous difficulties in construc ing two hugh wooden hang ers in which the airships would be stored, it is amaz ing that all construction for the air station was finished a short 14 months later. The hangers presented the major problem of construct tion. The two gigantic wood en structures were constructed of timbers cut in Oregon, fa bricated and numbered, and shipoed to NAC Glynco via treating plants on heating cars, the heavy Douglas fir timber trusses forming the pparabolic arches of the gigantic hangers, which measured 1058 feet long, 297 feet wide, and 182 feet high. Almost every other construc tion job on the station was completed before the finishing touches were put on the air ship hangers. Total cost of the hangers and their equip ment was $3 million each, and •approximately 2,300 civilians were employed at the peak of construction. The hanger trusse timbers were completely fabricated, as- Tacoma, Washington yards of the Henry Mill and Timber Company. Each section was then num bered, knocked down, and shipped to the fire proofing plants according to a pre-ar ranged schedule. These plants treated the timbers which were reloaded into cars in the same sequence, schedule. Like hudge jigsaw puzzles the hangers grew into huge enormous wooden structures, each big enough to enclose six football fields. In June 1968 the horto spheres, geographicaly wed to the airship hangers for more than 25 years, began to disap pear from the Navy Glynco profile. Their removal was a prelude to the inevitable de molition of the two giant air ship hangers, landmarks of a gone by era. The huge spheres, named for the president of the firm that constructed them in 1942. served as storage points for impure helium. Groundbreaking ceremonies held November 6, 1968 for the new A.ir Traffic Control School Building served warn ing to the hangers that their usuefullness was short-lived. The modern $1.6 million fa cility, constructed by Hayes Construction Co. of Brunswick, was opened on August 12, 19- 70 for limited use. It is located midway between the two blimp hangers where ATC classrooms had been located. With the completion of the new building the ATC schools will make use of the 39 class rooms, 32 laboratories, and 31 offices located there and watch from their new air conditioned home as their two old and rather large friends fade from the face of Navy Glynco. PASTOR'S PEN I had been reading quite a lot lately about Africa and came across this story. In certain parts of Af rica wild monkeys are trapped by a very smart method. The natives make small opening in a coco nut just large enough for a monkey to put his hand in the shell. The native then takes the white meat out of the nut and partly fills the shell with rice and places it in the grove where the monkeys play. And then this story goes on to tell how the monkey puts his hand into the coconut and grabs a handful of rice. Os course that makes a fist out of his hand so that he can’t get it out of the little hole. And so he is caught because he can’t climb a tree or run with that coconut over his hand. He gets caught just because he won’t let go of a little rice. It goes to show how little sense monkeys have, doesn’t it? Still, you wouldn’t expect that a monkey would have much sense, but with human beings of course it should be different. And yet, what about the man who keeps on drinking when he knows that the ha bit is a frightful handicap to his health and well being? What about the boy who keeps on smoking cigarettes when he has been warned that this will undermind his health ? Is this habit of drinking or is the cigarettes worth any more than the rice is to the monkey? How about the girl who suffers tortures with her aches rather than give up her extra high heels, or the nerson, male or female, young or old who over eats? Maybe if we don’t want to be monkeys in any of these cases we would all be better look and see what brand of rice we are hanging on to! Anyone may have a great desire, not only for meat, or flesh, or for cake or candy, even for tobacco or drugs. The only drunkard you think about or talk about is the man who gets intoxicated on beer or whiskey, but you want to remember that a well preserved man is never preserved in alcohol. Anyone can be intoxicated by food or money or dress or many oth er things. Whether or not the world would be greatly bene fited by total and final doing away with all intoxi cating drinks seems to me to be an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess so with their ton "ues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts. But each of us is like that monkey. If we don't let go of our bad habits, we will be caught and we will never be able to climb the tree of our ambition, and so, your conscience must be your guide. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Brantley Superior Court Postponed Until Feb. 23 Brantley County Superior Court was postponed until February 23, 1971. The post ponement was made after it was learned that Attorney Pritchard represented all the defendants in cases to be heard. According to Mrs. Ruby Herrin, Mr. Pritchard’s moth er was seriously ill and could not be present in court. The Grand Jury true billed all caes received, which a mounted to ten. The last true bill returned was against Lewis and Ruth Strickland who were charged with Com pounding a Crime. Pleading guilty to the crime of cow stealing were Harold Mosley and Ira Crews, he defendants were sentenced to four years with three suspended. Norman Wilson, Jr. pled guilty to (two) counts of Theft by Taking. According to Sheriff Johns, was sentencing was delayed. In another area of Superior Court it was learned that (41) divorce cases were filed in Brantley County during 1970. According to D. F. Herrin, this is the most divorce cases that has been filed in Brant ley in any one year. Judge Hodges commented that 41 di vorce cases is completely out of proporation to the pop ulation of Brantley County. Herrin stated that more than 90% were by people 25 years or younger. Nearly everybody reads want ads. Rev. Robert S. Round Box 126 Nahunta, Ga. 31553 Mrs. Mary Crews Johns Services Held Monday Mrs. Mary Crews Johns, 84, of the Bachlott Community of Brantley County, passed a way early Saturday morning in the Gilman Hospital in St. Marys following a long ill ness. A native of Charlton Coun ty, she had lived most of her life in Brantley County. A daughter of the late Cager Crews and Elizabeth Pelham Crews, she was the widow of the late Jacob Alfred Johns. She was a member of the Bachlott Church of God. Survivors are two daugh ters, Mrs. Ernie Prescott and Mrs. Edna Flowers, both of Nahunta: four sons, Yulee Johns, Mark Johns, and Ivey Johns, all of Nahunta, and Joe M. Johns of Haines City. Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Versie Wainright of Nahunta and Mrs. Lovie Allen of DeLand, Fla.; There are nine grand children, ten great grandchil dren and a number of other relatives. Services for Mrs. Johns were held at 11:00 o’clock Monday morning from the Bachlott Church of God with Rev. Robert Horton and Rev. Pete Thrift officiating. Internment was in the church cemetery. Active pallbearers were Calvin Crews, George Johns, Vernon Johns, John I. Lee, W. F. Allen and Archie Crews. Clough-Pearson Funeral Home of Blackshear was in charge. Prisoners Escape From County Jail Three prisoners escaped from the Brantley County jail Saturday night, January 16 at about 11 p. m. One of the escapees was recaptured the same night by Deputy Patton and returned to jail. The other two escapees ap parently stole an automobile belonging to Mr. L. C. Allen of the Bachlott Community to make good their escape. Ac cording to Brantley Sheriff Johns, a look out has been posted for the two. The three made their escape from the county jail when a Deputy Sheriff or City Police man looked up another per son, and was up stairs in the jail, leaving the main door down stairs open. The three escapees apparently hid themselves in a broom closet and escaped through the main door that was left open. Al Anon Family Group Organized In Nahunta Does someone in your fam ily have trouble with drink ing? He may well be considered an Alcoholic. There are over seven million problem drink ers in the U. S. alone. Every alcoholic affects not only three to four members of their family but his or her ill ness often creates a need for help from clergymen, doctors, phychiatrists, social workers and sometimes the law. More and more families and friends of alcoholics are turning to the Al-Anon family group, a fellowship with a construc tive approach to this serious problem. Al-Anon is an active, grow ing force that gives hope and purpose to the daily lives of thousand of relatives and friends of alcoholics. An Al-Anon Family Group has been organized in Nahun ta, meeting every Monday night at 8:30 in the Ofefenoke REMC building. For further information call 462-5606.