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Official Organ Bryan County and City of Pembroke
Prayer Meetings
Set for Next Week
Throughout City
Prayer meetings will be neld in
fifteen homes throughout the city
and adjoining sections next week
as a forerunner of the revival
scheduled by the Baptist Church
for the first week in May.
The home at which the prayer
services will be held are located
so that at least one is in every
section and will be easily acces
sible to those interested in the re
vival. Members of all denomina
tions, as well as non-church mem
bers, are invited to attend the
meeting nearest their home.
A leader has been designated
to hold a brief devotional at each
meeting. The homes at which the
services will be held and the lead
ers follow. On Tuesday night,
April 26, hosts and leaders are
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lane, J. O.
Bacon; Mrs. Albert Bacon, Mrs.
J. O. Bacon; Misses Frieda and
Joan Speir, E. B. Miles; Mr. and
Mrs. G. B. Williams, Mrs. W. W.
Curl, Jr.; Mrs. L. M. Harvey, D. E.
Medders; Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Mc-
Gahee, Mrs. John R. Joyner; and
Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Humphries,
Thomas Williams.
On Friday, April 29, the hosts
and leaders are Mr. and Mrs. T.
L. Waters, Mrs. T. J. Bacon; Mr.
and Mrs. M. N. Starling, J. W.
Brewton; Miss Dorothy Payne,
Thomas Williams; Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Brewton, Mrs. John R. Joyner;
Mr. and Mrs. Pete Bacon, E. B.
Owens; Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Ham,
Mrs. J. 0. Strickland, Sr.; Mr.
and Mrs. C. F. Warnell, J. O.
Bacon; Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Lane,
Jr., Mrs. W. W. Curl, Jr.
Sunday morning, May 1, the
revival will get under way with
the Rev. Walter B. Feagins, D. D.,
of Clearwater, Fla., as the guest
evangelist. Dr. Feagins will be
accompanied by his wife and dur
ing their stay here will be the
guests of the Rev. arid Mrs. John
R. Joyner.
Al and Ivy Walsh, evangelistic
musicians, who will return here
for the second year, have been
invited to stay with Mrs. J. O.
Strickland, Sr.
Night services throughout the
week will start at 8 o’clock and
a definite announcement will be
made later concerning the morn
ing hour.
Following the worship hour
Sunday morning, May 1, a basket
dinner will be served at the church.
Designated as "homecoming day,"
all members, former members and
friends of the church are invited
to take part.
BCHS Gets Four
2nd Places in
Track Meet
The Bryan County High School
track team won four second places
Monday afternoon in the First
District class C track meet. Savan
nah High School was host to the
group which had been rained out
last Thursday.
Onefirst and two second places
were taken by the Richmond Hill
High School track team. In the
discuss event Saxton of Richmond
Hill scored 101 feet, 4% inches to
win, with Stetzer second. McCal
lar came in second on the 100 yard
dash and placed fourth in the 220
yard dash.
Bryan’s second places were
made by Gerald Lee in the 440
yard dash, Jimmy Cook in the 180
low hurdles, Wendell Dußois in
the half-mile, and Felton Bacon
in the mile.
In the 120 high hurdles event
Bobby Lanier and Jimmy Cook
were third and fourth places, re
spectively. In the pole vault Mar
ion Hope was fourth and in the
discus Felton Bacon was fourth.
Raymond Boyette was fourth in
the mile run.
At the finish of the meet Rich
mond Hill had a total of 12 points
and Bryan County High School
had 18 points.
Lab High of Statesboro won the
meet with 40 points, trailed by
Effingham Academy with 30%
and Darien with 22. Marlow had
15% points, Portal 5 and Nevils
failed to score.
Robert Bowers is the BCHS
coach and Ronald Weitman is
Richmond Hill coach.
Pembroke lor^d
Miss Jane Purvis
Miss Jane Purvis, who is being
sent by the John Duggar Post
Auxiliary Unit 164 to Girls’ State
held on the campus of Georgia
Military Academy at College Park
June 12-19.
Auxiliary Sponsors
Girls State Trip
For Miss Purvis
Miss Jane Purvis has accepted
the sponsorship offered her by the
John Duggar Post Auxiliary Unit
No. 164 to Girls State which is
held for a week during the sum
mer.
Girls State is a week-long rally,
sponsored by the American Le
gion, Department of Georgia, for
the purpose of educating “our
youth in the duties , privileges,
rights and responsibilities of
American citizenship.”
The announcement of the spon
sorship recipient was made Friday
night at the auxiliary meeting
after Miss Purvis had been recom
mended by a committe from the
auxiliary and the faculty from the
high school department of the
Bryan County High School where
she is amember of the eleventh
grade. Only girls in the junior
class are eligible to attend the
rally at the Georgia Mili
tary Academy in College Park
and Miss Purvis was recommend
ed from a field of several other
outstanding eleventh grade girls.
Following the committee chair
man’s motion that the recommen
dation of the committee and the
faculty be accepted, Miss Purvis
was unanimously named by the
auxiliary.
At the tenth annual session of
Girls State, which will get under
way June 12, Miss Purvis will take
advantage of the eight days of
companionship, recreation, enjoy
ment and education in store for
the carefully chosen eleventh
grade students throughout the
state.
Girls chosen for the rally do
not have to be the daughters of
veterans, but are selected for pos
sessing outstanding qualities in
leadership, character, scholastic
standing and good health. Each
girl is expected to return home
for the senior year of her high
school course and furnish lead
ership in her school and commun
ity. They should be mentally alert
and physically fit, enthusiastic
and co-operative, honest and de
pendable and capable of develop
ing further qualities of leadership.
The 17-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Purvis, Miss Purvis
is active in many extra-curricula
activities of her school and pos
sesses a high scholastic standing.
She was captain of. the cheer-lead
ers during the past season, is
treasurer of the junior class, and
is eligible for membership in the
Beta Club. She placed second in
shorthand in the recent First Dis
trict literary meet.
A versatile musician, Miss
Purvis is pianist for the Methodist
Youth Fellowship of which she is
an active member and is assistant
pianist for the Methodist Sunday
School. Last year she was a mem
ber of the school glee club, which
has now disbanded.
Miss Purvis’ transporation to
and from College Park and her
board for the week will be as
sumed by the auxiliary.
Spending the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Brodgon were Mrs.
Brogdon’s sister, Mrs. James
Cross, Mr. Cross and the couple’s
two children, Beth, two years old,
and Greg, six months old, of At
lanta.
Pembroke Water Department Shows
Profit of $23,448.31 For 37 Months
Proves The Wisdom of Revenue Certificates Which
Extended Water Mains And Cut Cost of
Operating Water System
It is indeed gratifying to Ye
Editor to see that the Water De
partment of the City of Pembroke
Showed receipts of $28,380.84 for
37 months, January 1, 1952,
through January 31, 1955. Against
an expense of $4,932.53 for the
same period. This will reveal to
the taxpayers of the City of Pem
broke just where the revenue
comes from to operate the City.
Prior to the issuance of revenue
certificates, the water revenue ran
around $4,500 to $5,500 a year and
the expense of installing water
pipe, etc., ran from two to three
thousand dollars a year,, and yet
many people were without water.
Today every family that wants
water- in the City of Pembroke has
it. Many families outside of the
City of Pembroke enjoy City wa
ter at no additional charge, which
has helped increase the revenues,
JOHNISTUBBS AND BLACK ANGUS STEER which won a sls prize
in the Farm Bureau sponsored fat cattle show. In L<. background are
John’s father, J. T. Stubbs, and D. E. Medders, county agent.
4-H BOY'S STEER
IS GRADED TOP
CHOICE QUALITY
A Black Creek 4- boy’s Black
Angus steer was graded as top
choice quality at the market re
cently after winning his young
master sls.
The award was given to John
Stubbs, Lanier, by the Bryan
County Farm Bureau who spon
sored a fat cattle show for the
second consecutive year. The show
was held in conjunction with the
Evans County fat cattle show be
cause of the lack of a market in
Bryan County. The steer was sold
at $24.90 a hundred pounds, and
the animal weighed well over one
thousand pounds, netting a tidy
sum for the young owner.
This seventh grader’s experi
ence should encourage other 4-H
members to enter the fat cattle
show and get their steers under
way by September or October of
this year. In sponsoring this proj
ect the Farm Bureau feels that
it is stimulating interest, not only
in 4-H Club and other youth or
ganization work, but also in pro
moting be 11 ei- cattle herds
throughout the county. John is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Stubbs
of Lanier.
DISTRICT WINNERS
TO TRY FOR STATE
TITLES SATURDAY
On Saturday of this week the
winners in the First District Lit
erary meet will go to Macon to
compete against other state first
place winners from other districts.
Going from Bryan County High
School will be the quartet, includ-
Buddy Owens, Sonny Owens, Da
vid Spinks and Eugene Duggar;
girl’s solo, Janice Deal; boy’s solo,
David Spinks; trio, Carolyn Ow
ens, Janice Deal, Virginia Ed
wards; girl’s typing, Rachel Buck
ner.
The contest will be held at Mer
cer University.
Mrs. Lyle DeLoach, formerly of
Camp LeJeune, North Carolina,
spent the weekend with Mrs. L.
M. Harvey of Pembroke and Mr.
and Mrs. Howell DeLoach of Por
tal. Mrs. DeLoach will join her
husband, who is connected with
the U. S. Navy in Alaska, at an
early date.
PEMBROKE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL2I, 1955
and since the large water mains
were put in, there has been very
little nee'd of additional water pipe,
which has decreased the operating
cost of the water department.
In addition to the above fine
showing, all of our people have
saved thousands of dollars in in
surance premiums. Today we have
one of the lowest rates possible,
ami as soon as our stand-by well
is put into operation it will be
still lower.
Yes, it is indeed gratifying to
all of us that had any part in
the issuance of the Revenue Cer
tificates. They have paid off and
are still paying off. Still there
are those that opposed it, but who
now will have to admit they were
wrong and that it was a godsend
to the people of Pembroke. It will
continue to pay big dividends in
the years to come.
'Operation Salk'
Is Begun Wed. by
Bryan Health Dept.
Shots of the Salk polio vaccine
were given Wednesday to 294 first
and second graders in four schools
in Bryan county. Two more
schools, located in the coastal sec
tion of the county, will be visited
by the Bryan County Health De
partment Friday and students of
the first two grades given the vac
cine. They are Richmond Hill
High School and George Washing
ton Carver School. Approximately
111 children are expected to get
the inoculation Friday.
Shots were given Wednesday
to the first two grades in the
Black Creek Elementary School, 1
Bryan County High School, Mill
Creek Elementary School and
Pembroke High School. There
were 32 absentees who will get
the shots later, Mrs. Blanche Mor
rison, public health nurse, said.
Wednesday’s absentees will still
be able to get the second series
of the shots on schedule, she said.
Assisting in giving the inocula
tions were Dr. W. E. Smith, Dr.
W. K. Smith, and Dr. I). B. Ed
wards, Bryan county physicians.
The second series of shots will
be given the week of May 9, Mrs.
Morrison said, and the booster
shot will be given several months
later.
The shots were given only to
those children whose parents
agreed to the immunization.
CHICAGO FAMILY IS
SPENDING VACATION
WITH RELATIVES
Mr. and Mrs. A. Waxer and two
children of Chicago, Illinois, ar
rived Tuesday to spend two weeks
with Mrs. J. L . Arnold here and
with other relatives in the state.
Mrs. Waxer is the former Miss
Margaret Arnold.
Before coming on to Pembroke
Mr. and Mrs. Arnold stayed ft
short while with Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Prosser, the latter being
the former Miss Evelyn Arnold,
of Bremen.
Since Mr. Waxer received his
vacation now the family decided
to come south despite school obli
gations. The couple have two chil
dren, Judy and Jerry.
Sav. District WSCS
Conference to Be
Here on April 28
When the conference of the
Woman’s Society of Christian
Service of the Savannah District
meets- at. the Pembroke Methodist
Church next Thursday one of the
outstanding figures on the pro
gram will be Miss Mary Culler
White of Oxford.
Miss White, a missionary to
China for 42 years, is a leading
personality in the Georgia confer
ence, as well as in state women’s
work. Although she is more than
80 years old, her enthusiasm and
energy would put a much younger
person to shame. She is in con
stant demand as a lecturer and
flies from one state to another,
making hair-breadth connections,
with the same ease she formerly
used to meet the many crises she
faced in the orient. Besides a lec
turer, Miss White is also an au
thor and her books are often used
as the basis for study courses.
Miss White will appear on the
program Thursday night.
Welcoming the women from the
churches in the district will be
Mrs. IL D. Griner, president of
the local Woman’s Society of
Christian Service. The program
will begin at 19:30 and adjourn
ment is set for 2:30. Mrs. W. H.
Saffold, Savannah president of the
Savannah District, will preside.
The theme of the conference is
“Where Your Treasure Is," and
Will be emphasized in both the
morning and afternoon sessions.
The morning presentation service
will be done by district officers
and during the afternoon by Mrs.
Paul Woodcock, Savannah, for the
Wesleyan Service Guild, and by
Mrs. T. 11. Taggart, Savannah, for
Bethlehem Center in Savannah.
Following the call to worship
played by Mrs. H. M. Sanders,
who will be the pianist during the
meeting, the Rev. J. L. Hendrix of
the host church will give the open
ing prayer.
Also scheduled for the morning
program are the announcements,
offering and election of officers,
besides the song services.
An organ meditation will recall
the delegates to the auditorium
after lunch for the presentation
of treasures, music and installa
tion of officers.
Officers of the Savannah Dis
trict are Mrs. Saffold, president;
Miss Irene Tos, Claxton, vice pres
ident; Mrs. A. L. Perkins, Newing
ton, recording secretary; and Mrs.
R. C. Jacobs, Ogeechee, treasurer.
Among the district secretaries is
Mrs. IL D. Griner who is secretary
of youth work.
BCHS Pre-School
Clinic Will Be
April 25-29
The pre-school clinic at Bryan
County High School for children
entering the first grade next fall
will open Monday for a five-day
session, according to R. M. Monts,
Jr., principal of the school.
To be eligible to attend the
clinic the prospective student must
be six years old on or before De
eember 31, 1955. The busses will
pick up the rural children on their
usual runs and the parents in town
will be responsible for the attend
ance of their children. Parents of
town children are requested to
pick them up at one o’clock and
the rural children will stay until
the regular dismissal time to ride
the busses unless the parents call
for them.
The only expense to the parents
will be twenty cents for lunch,
which will be served in the lunch
room. All materials used will be
furnished by the Bryan County
Board of Education, the principal
said.
The gymnasium will be used for
the classroom and children attend
ing are expected to report there
by 8:30 Monday morning. Teach
ers are Miss Daisy Averitt and
Mrs. C. F. Warnell. Five high
school students who are taking
child care in home economics will
assist with the clinic. The work
with the clinic will be done by the
students in the nature of a lab
oratory assignment. The high
school girls are Beth Henderson,
Pat Williams, Rachel Buckner,
Dorothy Payne and Virginia
I Dowd.
Pfc. Joseph Hagan
Pfc. Joseph Hagan of Pembroke,
who returned to the States after
serving with the armed forces in
Korea. He is the son of Mrs. E.
W. Parrish.
Auxiliary to Have
Part Sunday in
Poppy Dedication
Auxiliary Unit 164 in Pembroke
will participate in the dedication
in Savannah Sunday of an anchor
to the memory of United States
fighting men lost at sea in defense
of their country. The anchor will
be made of 10,000 poppies.
The official representative of
the local Auxiliary Unit is Mrs.
Purvis E. Brannen, president. She
will be among the first district
presidents receiving at a reception
held at American Legion Post 135
after the 'dedication services at 3
o’clock.
State Legion Commander Jack
Langford will be the principal
speaker at the dedication service.
An honor guard of Marines will
stand watch over the anchor which
will be taken to sea and cast upon
the waves by the Navy on Me
morial Day. The dedication and
launching of the anchor has been
an annual event for 36 years.
The tradition of the red anchor
was established by Miss Moina
Michael of Athens, who also origi
nated the nationwide custom of
wearing poppies in remembrance
of war dead.
She fashioned thousands of her
had-made poppies into the first
anchor after meeting a mother
who grieved because her son’s
grave was the Atlantic instead of
a plot on which she could place
flowers.
The first anchor was placed on
the ocean off Savannah on May
30, 1919.
Each year, thereafter, until her
death in 1944, Miss Michael made
the poppies and linked them into
an anchor. Until 1930 the symbol
was launched from Savannah.
That year, at Miss Michael’s re
quest, the U. S. Naval Academy
agreed to take it to sea annually
on a naval vessel.
After her death, Miss Michael’s
friends carried on the tradition
until 1946, when the Georgia De
partment of the American Legion
Auxiliary adopted the project.
The ten districts of the depart
ment have taken turns in perform
ing the duty. This is the First
District’s first turn.
Several members of the local
auxiliary are expected to attend
the dedication and reception.
PRE-SCHOOL CLINIC
AT PEMBROKE HIGH
SET FOR 26 AND 27
The pre-school clinic at Pem
broke High School will be held
next Tuesday and Wednesday,
April 2«th and 27th, according to
Leon Dingle, principal. All parents
with children who will be six years
old by December 31, 1955, a n d ex
pect to enroll in school in Sep
tember, should bring such children
to school next Tuesday, April 26.
We are especially asking the par
ents to bring the child on the first
day of the clinic, in order that
the parent may be able to give the
necessary information that the
child may not be able to give.
The purpose of the clinic is to
orient the child to school life.
Parents and students may use the
school bus for transportation.
Each of the newcomers will be
expected to eat in the lunch room
on these two days. The price of
the lunch is 16 cents, which in
cludes a bottle of milk.
280 RESTAURANT
2 Miles West of Pembroke
Next To Home—
The Best Place To Eat
Mr. and Mrs. Al Buhler
Volume No. 55
B.C. Sets April
29 to Have Tom
Thumb Wedding
The Black Creek Elementary
School announces a Tom Thumb
Wedding and other entertainment
will be presented in the auditori
um on Friday night, April 29, at
8 o’clock. Theadmission will be 15
and 25 cents.
The wedding is directed by Mrs.
jJ. T. Stubbs, with costumes by
Mrs. R. I. Raulerson.
i Plays by the fifth grade, “The
Circus Star’s Mistake,” and by the
fifth, sixth and seventh grades,
“School ’s Out at ’Tater Holler,”
are directed by Mrs. Frances Wil
liamson. Mrs. Williamson is also
directing a blackface skit to be
given between acts, featuring
Richard Polk and John Stubbs.
The following students are in
the wedding party: Shirley Eng
lish bride; Ray Couey, groom;
Jerald Lightsey, preacher; San
dra Kilpatrick and Thomas Croy,
bride’s mother and father; Juliette
Jones and Jack Bevill, bride's
grandmother and grandfather;
Carol Gardner, maid of honor;
Barbara Martin, Martha Jones,
Doris Shuman, Marie Edwards,
bridesmaids; Larry Kangeter,
Jimmie Davis, Derrell Newman,
Danyy Braswell, groomsmen; Judy
Davis, Linda Waller, Beverly Hen
dley, Wanda Bath, junior brides
maids; Ray Durrence, ring bearer;
Theresa Callahan and Betty Hod
ges, flower girls; Linda Rauler
son, soloist.
The cast in “The Circus Star’s
Mistake” is Jeanette Dowd, an
nouncer; Joe Thomas, Mr. Clark,
the band leader; Barbara Hurst,
Millie, the fat lady; Bobby Kline,
Muggsy, the clown; Mable Ed
wards, Linda, the <M^eback rider;
Harry Edwards, Rollo, the strong
man; and Harold Miller, Tony, the
errand boy.
Students in “Cchool’s Out at
'Tater Holler” are Beth Griffin,
the teacher; Nathan Wolfe, Ted;
Marion Hilliard, Dick; Tim Page,
William; Billy Pevey, Fred; Al
fred Rose, Herman; Jimmy New
mans, Verne; Jimmy OUiff, Zed;
Mary Jane Strickland, Lois; Sadie
Blair, Dorothy; Gail Smith, Joan;
Lawanda Burnsed, Frances; La
von Burnsed. Grace; Gwen Wolfe,
Isabelle; and Carole Williamson,
Minnie.
Farm Bureau Head
Sets Up County
Committees
J. T. Stubbs, president of the
Bryan County Farm Bureau Chap
ter, has announced the organiza
tion of five committees which have
been set up in compliance with a
request from the state Farm Bu
reau Federation staff.
In a letter to the committee
members, Mr. Stubbs expressed
the hope that each one would ac
cept their appointment and as
sured them that “you will not be
burdened with anything not per
taining to the agricultural inter
est of our county and state.”
The committees and their mem
bers are: Membership committee,
G. C. Martin, chairman, H. H.
Hagan, L. G. Gill, Mack Hagin, O.
F. Lanier, Marcus Strickland;
resolutions committee, J. T.
Stubbs, chairman, H. B. Warnell,
A. O. Smith, O. F. Lanier, G. C.
Martin; public relations commit
tee, J. T. Stubbs, chairman, Mrs.
D. E. Medders, G. C. Martin; legis
lative committee, C. F. Warnell,
chairman, O. F. Lanier, A. O.
Smith; service committee, F. C.
Drexel, chairman, Mrs. J. T.
Stubbs, Mrs. Estelle Floyd.
YWA MEETING IS
HELD MONDAY NIGHT
WITH MISSES SPEIR
The Rosa Strickland Young Wo
men’s Auxiliary of the Pembroke
Baptist Church met Monday night,
April 18, at the hbme of Miss
Freida Speir and Miss Joan Speir.
In addition to the hosteses,
those attending were Mrs. J. O.
Bacon, Miss Nan Waters, Miss
Lila Miles and Miss Ella Miles.
An interesting program on
Hong Kong was given by Miss
Freida Speir, with all the mem
bers taking part.
During the social hour delicious
refreshments were served.
Number 27