The Brantley enterprise. (Nahunta, Brantley County, Ga.) 1927-2014, July 27, 1972, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextBrantley County Rescue Unit 462—5007 VOLUME 50 - NUMBER 30 Lions Club has Rescue Speaker Brantley County Rescue LMit Chief Gary Crews was the guest speaker at the Lions club Mon. day. New Lion President Rob. ert Page introduced Mr. Crews to the membership. Citing the history of the two year old Unit, Chief Crews stated, “ in the original con. cept the Rescue Unit was not to be in the emergency am bulance business.” After res. ignation of the original Chief, the Unit membership voted to provide Emergency Ambulance Service to anyone in Brantley County at anytime without cost. Crews said that between Jan. uary 1 through the last of June this year , there has been $7 39.00 general donations m ade and $3,912.97 donated for the new Ambulance Unit. The Coun ty Commission Contributes $200.00 per month to the Unit. During the same period there has been 148 runs made to hospitals with 8,468 miles Canning Plant Closes Friday The Brantley County Canning Plant is finishing up this seasons business on Fri day, July 28th. All persons with food at the plant are urged to pick it up before 4:00 p.m. on Friday as the plant will not assume responsibility af ter this time and date. The participation infood pro cessing this summer has been the best it has been in seveal Atlanta Paper Places Nahunta as Distribution Point for Drugs Appearing in the Atlanta Journal • Constitution last Sunday was an article concern, ing drugs or drug abuse within this area in general and spec ifically mentioned Nahunta. St aff writer Charles Seabrook quoting ( Police ) said, “ one such town Police know about, but where they have been un sucessful in controling the drug traffic is Nahunta, officials say Seabrook continues by quoting officer Mercer of the Waycross Narcotics Squad “ addicts that we have talked to say they pick up a lot of their dope at Nahunta or — Nahunta Mayor Purcell, Na hunta Police Chief Mack Crews and Brantley County Sheriff Robert Johns commented on the article to the ENTERPRISE. Mayor Purcell when asked " what about the report of dr ugs in Nahunta ” said, ” it SMALL TOWNS FEEL PRESSURE Heroin in South Georgia By CHARLES SEABROOK Joarna]«Constltutien Staff Writers WAYCROSS, Ga. -Heroin addiction and the sale of her oin always have been con sidered problems of the big cities, but residents of smaller towns in a 16-county South Georgia area are slowly real izing that the situation has crept into their backyards. Indeed, some of the towns, which lack big-city law en forcement facilities, have be come distribution points for heroin and less-harmful, though illegal, drugs. Narcotics officials in Way cross, which already is feeling social and economic pressures from a large heroin-using pop ulation, say that drug pushers are being harassed by police in the larger cities and are moving into smaller towns to “escape the heat” and to ply their wares. State narcotics officials esti mate Waycross’s heroin addic tion population, which for many years reportedly was confined to the town’s black community and almost ig- BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE Brantley County — Land of Forest Products, Naval Stores, Tobacco, Livestock, Honey. Hunting, Fishing — and Progressive People. THIS WE BELIEVE! IF YOU FIRST SUBMIT, YOU WILL LATER SURRENDER. ”. . . and having done all, to stand. Stand therefore. .” Ephesians6:l3.l4 driven. There were 520 vol unteer man hours by the Res cue Unit members. Chief Crews said, ” I feel that our Unit members are well qualified in rescue work be cause they have attended sev eral classes in First Aid Tr aining and most have auquired good experience. “ A new state law going into effect the first of the year may have some effect on our Unit, however, I am fully confi dent that we shall continue to operate, said Crews. ” We in tend erecting a new building to house the Unit here in Na. hunta ”, he added. The planned building will be built on land for that purpose and it will be 48 ft. x 24 ft. and will consist of five rooms. The building will be sufficient in size to handle the whole Unit and vehicles. Crews said that estimated cost of the build ing was $ 8,000.00. years. Some 69families canned over 5400 cans of fruits and vegetables plus several hun dred pounds were either shell ed or blanched to be put in home freezers. Foof processing has slowed up as compared to past years but from this years partici pation it looks like canning could be coming back. Huey R. Ham Vo. Ag. Teacher seems to give Nahunta a bl ack eye because the informat ion came from a Waycross Narcotics Specialist and based on what a drug addict said. When asked " is there a drug problem in Nahunta ” Purcell said, “ there might be, I don’t know, I’ve seen no evi dence of it.” He added that " we have considered stop ping some cars coming here from Jacksonville and Way - We don’t know that they are hauling drugs but I suspect they are.” Mayor Purcell said parents should talk to their teenagers and tell them of the dangers. He added “ I admit many youn gsters think they know more than their parents but there is unquestionably a danger to drug abuse. Sheriff Johns said the At> lanta paper didn’t give us a nored by city officials, to be about the same as Atlanta’s on a percentage basis. BUT HEROIN now has be come readily available to the town’s white youth population, “and the situation wall become uncontrollable if people around here don’t wake up to what’s happening,” says a menber of Waycross Police Department’s narcotics squad. Indeed, the drug abuse prob lem has become so acute in Waycross, which has a popula tion of about 25.000, that city officials have found it neces sary to assign three men full time to the narcotics squad. The narcotics squad’s rec ord has been mainly confined to arrest of “two-bit pot users.” police admit, but the record is sorely lacking in her oin arrests. “W’e know definitely that thers is heroin here, and we know where it is coming from, but those pushers are so slick we can’t catch them,” said one Waycross policeman. Waycross policemen even Democratic Platform Is Assailed By Vandiver ATLANTA (PRN) - Former Gov. Ernest Vandiver has said the Democratic Party platform bordered on the subversive, and laid much of the blame on Sen. David Gambrell. “The political platform of the ‘new’ Democratic Party makes the astounding pronouncement that we must restructure the social, political and economic relationship throughout our entire society in order to insure the equitable distribution of wealth and power,” he told a fund-raising dinner crowd for his U.S. Senate race. “I am appalled by this radical attack upon the free enterprise system of our great United States, which has been of such benefit to all people. “I cannot condone such politics, which is not only narrowly self-serving, but borders on the subversive. “And yet your current appointed senator openly supports these so-called reforms in the Democratic Party delegate selection system which permitted Sen. McGovern to attain his present position of power. “To my way of thinking, this is an affront not only to the traditions of the South, but to the traditions of the Democratic party and the United States. “When I was governor, the radicals of the Democratic Party attempted such so-called fair shake in singling us out from other area small town and Counties. He said there is a drug abuse problem here. ” Marijuana is the biggest problem,” said Johns. “ Th ere are some pills but I think that the report of addicting dr ugs is wrong, or at least I hav. en’t any indication of it,” he added. When asked if the Sheriff’s Department plans any incre ased activity to combat the drug situation Johns said, ” We must have funds to hire out side help.” The Sheriff said “ It is almost impossible for local uniformed officers to do anything about the problem.” Narcotics agents in Way cross has been of some assis tance to Brantley County and I have discussed our problems with them. Nahunta Police Chief Crews hint that they may be a little “fearful of our lives” to go into the black community to clean up the heroin problem. ONE BLACK addict, who now is undergoing methadone treatment, told doctors that “every morning you can see dudes going down Oak Street (a street which runs through Waycross’s black section) to Brunswick or Jacksonville to get some more dope.” But stopping the drug flow from Jacksonville or Bruns wick is perhaps where the problem lies, South Georgia police say. “We often get tips of a load of heroin or other drugs com ing here from Jacksonville,” says Waycross narcotics offi cer Jimmy Mercer. “But be fore the pushers get to the Ware County line, they stash the dope in the woods and swamps around here, and it’s impossible to find it. “Then, when we stop the suspected vehicle and persons to search them after they cross th»* there •« THE BRANTLEY ENTERPRISE, NAHUNTA, GEORGIA, JULY 27, 1972 reforms at the 1960 Lot Angeles Convention, but I successfully opposed them. “The radicals at Chicago in 1968 attempted to enforce once again so-called reforms of much the same nature and were somewhat successful. “It is passing strange, is it not, that Senator McGovern was at the forefront of the changes that have been instituted, the very changaa that brought him the party** nomination. The appointed senator openly supported these reforms which have irreparably divided the Democratic Party. “He may think that the so-called reforms and McGovern leadership are happy changes for the betterment of the American people. I emphatically do not. “I prefer to stand and fight for the principles of the traditional Democratic Party which were so ably and courageously defended by such Georgia stalwarts as Senator Walter George and Senator Richard B. Russell. “The appointed senator insists that he is not a liberal. I agree, in the light of the McGovern reforms, I can only say that the junior Senator is an out and out radical. “As for myself, I refuse to vote for Senator McGovern, but plan instead to write in the name of some Jefferson-Jackson type Democrat in November.” said there is a problem con cerning drugs here. ” There has been three arrests within the last year. In fact in one case, a young man dropped a pouch containing what later proved to be Marijuana that resulted in a ‘ true bill ’ by the County Grand Jury”, Crews said. In another case, crews poin ted to a Conviction in Superior Court of illegal drugs. Crews said,” the individual kept some Marijuana hidden here in Br antley County and come into the County from Waycross to get it when he apparently made a sale. We, the members of the N&> hunta Police Department have found it next to impossible to catch someone on a drug char, ge while working in uniform and in a marked Police car. no trace of heroin or other drugs.” Mercer and fellow narcotics officer Jim Blackburn have jurisdiction in the entirety of Ware County, in which they act as deputy sheriffs. BUT WHY ISN’T the drug flow stopped somewhere be tween Ware County and Jack sonville? Police suggest that Georgia counties along the drug pipe line lack law enforcement per sonnel capable of apprehend ing the pushers — the com munities and counties simply lack the money to hire such personnel. “And we can stop the main load of heroin from coming into the county, but we can't stop the heroin users from going outside the county to pick up one or two ‘bags’ or to shoot up,” says Blackbum. Illegal drug dealers have taken advantage of smaller towns to distribute their prod ucts. authorities say. Even cit- Cont. Page 3-Col. 1 Market Opens-Auctioneers Chant Eighty Five cents appeared to be the “ high dollar ” paid for the yellow gold of Brant ley County on opening day. Praticing up on their "Pot-Luck Cooking" are 1 to r; Mra. Myrtle Dußose, Mrs. Nancy Brooker and Mrs. Louise Hendrix Oide Fashioned Pot Luck Supper Mark August 4th as a spec ial day on the calendar • on this Friday an Oide Fashioned Pot Luck Supper will be pre pared and served by the Brant, ley County Homemakers Club members at the County High School between the hours of 6:30 and 9 o’clock. A special program of the evening will be a Back • to - School Fashion Show presented by the Waycross Merchants Association of the Waycross Chamber of Commerce. Brant, ley County young people will be the models for the new school fashions. There will be two shows • one starting at 7 o’clock and one at 8 o’ clock. The tickets went on sale this week by Hom emaker Club mem. bers. The price is $ 1.00 per person. This is for a meal and to see the Fashion Show. The event is a real summer treat for all Brantley County Citizens. Mrs. N.W. Hendrix of the Hickox Club is chairman of the event and Mrs. Wain Br. ooker is in charge of tickets. Mrs. Lawson Dubose is presi. dent of the County Homemakers Council. Get your tickets now ! Mark your calendar and make your plans to attend. Many of the tobacco growers from Brantley County had their first load of tobacco on the floor for the first day sale. 50 WARS AGO TODAY PERSONAL ITEMS Mr. W. M. Roberson left Thursday for Atlanta. Mrs. U. W. Mackey spent Friday in Hoboken. Messrs. Coax Smith and Roy Dowling were in town Friday. Miss Lessie Highsmith gave a water melon cutting Wednes day. Quite a crowd attended. Mr. Ralph Force returned to Waycross Friday. Miss Mary Lou Manning of Trudie was the guest of Miss, es Ivory Brooker and Eula Brooker, Thursday and Friday. Dr. C. M. Kirkland made a business trip to Jesup, Thurs day. Mr. Mabray Brooker made a business trip to Jesup. OFFICIAL ORGAN BRANTLEY COUNTY AND CITY OF NAHUNTA Goldwire Fowler, ‘ Shot ’ Strickland, Fleming crews and Joe Lake at the warehouse were asked, ” how did it sell”? Mr. W. M, Brooker had a very serious attack of appen dicitis last Sunday. Mrs. Tommy Purdom spent last week-end at Raybon. WAYNESVILLE ITEMS Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Me - Veigh of Brunswick motored up here Sunday. Mrs. S. J. Wiggins has been very ill for several days. We hope for her a speedy recov ery. The week’s meeting at the Methodist Church here begins Sunday. Everybody is invited to attend. Rev. C. D. Ogg, of Brunswick preached at the Baptist Church here Sunday night. RUSMISELLE • McVEIGH Miss Letha Rusmiselle of Danvillp Vq ond Nnrman MEMBER NeWA™ Association • Foundad The ENTERPRISE received a resounding eighty five cents II I Shaw McVeigh were married at seven o’clock Saturday af ternoon at the parsonage of the First Methodist Church in Br unswick by the Rev. T. H. Thompson. The young couple will be at home to their many friends at Waynesville. WAYNESVILLE RTE 1 Miss Cora Edgy has been on the sick list for a few days. We hope for her a speedy re covery. Mrs. W. T. Odum was the week-end guest of her daugh ter, Mrs. E. L. Brown. Mr. Leonard Crews and sis ters, Letha and Annie and Mis ses Lizzie and Melvie Causey visited Dr. Atkinson’s bathing pool Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Willie McElder and Misses Edna and Frances Ro zier spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. W T Fdov.