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VOL. 62—No. 3
Citizens of Butts County Donate Acreage to State Park
1934 JANUARY 1934
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JURORS DRAWN FOR
WINTER TERM COURT
FEBRUARY TERM WILL CON
VENE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY
FIFTH FOR SCHEDULED SES
SION OF TWO WEEKS
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Jurors for the February term of
Eutts Superior Court, which will con
vene on February 5, have been
drawn.
Tuesday was return day in Su
perior Court. But few new cases
were filed, according to Clerk S. J.
Foster.
The February term is scheduled to
run for two weeks, with civil cases
being heard the first week and crim
inal cases being on the calendar for
the second week.
Jurors as drawn for the February
term are as follows:
Grand Jurors
C. W. Buchanan, W. H. Thurston,
J. O. Cole, T. W. Higgins, R. F.
Chambers, O. E. Smith, R. H. Hay,
A. B. Stallsworth, J. F. Cook, J. G.
McDonald, T. A. Nutt, W. A. Smith
(609), R. J. Carmichael, J. E. Cor
nell, I. M. Wilson, F. S. Bohannon,
H. G. Harris, S. K. Smith, W. F.
Capps, E. S. Foster, L. L. Washing
ton, A. W. Newton, W. W. Wright,
C. H. Farrar, R. N. Etheridge, A. J.
Goodrum, W. C. Redman, J. G.
Childs, O. L. Weaver, R. P. Newton.
Traverse Jurors, First Week
H. D. Williamson, H. S. Martin, V.
H. Carmichael, C. F. Stroud, A. F.
Taylor, R. H. Henderson, Victor Wil
son, A. F. Whitney, Rufus Kitchens.
A. F. Hammond, Dozier B. Brooks,
J. L. Heath, Morris Hilley, J. R.
Johnson, H. H. Koch, J. C. Funder
burk, P. H. Weaver, V. L. Jinks, J.
H. Smith, Jr., S. Whit Moore, Ralph
SW. Carr, Hugh Mallet, W. C. Stod
ghill, G. L. Hodges, C. L. Britton,
C. A. Bennett, T. G. Brooks, E. Z.
Carter, T. W. Nelson, G. W. Caston,
0. L. Cawthon, J. 0. Minter, J. W.
Welch, J. E. McKinley, G. P. Saun
ders, W. E. Smith, B. F. Maddox,
Lynn Thaxton, E. R. Edwards, J. M.
Washington, Geo. D. Barnes, Sam
J Smith, S. C. Biles, Asa E. O’Neal,
J. A. Treadwell, C. M. Compton, J.
W. Gilbert, J. Bailey Jones, J. M.
Gaston, G. C. Harkness.
Traverse Jurors, Secolnd Week
W. W. Hooten, J. L. Burford, H.
C- Childs, Robert Fletcher, L. L. Col
well, H. J. Greer, W. H. Barnes, Sr.,
W. N. Treadwell, G. C. Moore, J. L.
Whitaker, T. E. Robison, J. W. Pul
liam, W. Floyd O’Neal, J. E. Petti
grew, A. A. Cook, H. L. Higgins,
Geo. F. Etheridge, W. L. Collins,
Van Fletcher, Geo. F. Mallet, H. M.
Fletcher, Jr., A. F. Maddox, W. K.
Thaxton, C. B. Sims, T. E. Watkins,
T. C. W T alarop, W. B. Hodges, L. E.
O'Neal, David Evans, D. P. Settle,
Geo. R. Harper, J. S. Robison, N. L.
Greer, J. G. Brooks, W. S. White, E.
W. Standard, J. B. Kitchens, Walter
J. Smith, J. T. Chambers, Obie Wat
kins, M. C. Johnson, J. W. O’Neal,
A. L. Clark, A. L. Bickers, F. H.
lummus, J. F. Moore, Sr., W. H.
TSmgley, R. L. Allen, L. D. Stroud,
B B. Watkins.
ATLANTA PRESBYTERY HAD
j| MEETiNG AT VILLA RICA
The mid-winter meeting of the At
lanta Presbytery was held Tuesday
with the Villa Rica church. Rev. G.
L. Riddle, pastor, represented the
Jackson and Fellowship churches ac
that meeting.
COTTON DRIVE TO
END JANUARY 31
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED
CONTRACTS BEEN SIGNED
TO FIRST OF WEEK. FARMERS
ARE CO-OPERATING
The campaign for the reduction of
cotton acreage will close on January
31, accorting to information reecived
by County Agent Drake. All con
tracts must be in hand by that date.
The campaign is progressing at a
satisfactory rate, Mr. Drake says.
Up to the first of this week more
than one hundred contracts have
been completed. This is ocnsidered
a good sohwing in view of the dis
agreeable weather which has handi
capped the committees in their can
vass of growers.
Farmers are showing a good spirit
of co-operation, it is declared. Al
most without exception there is lib
eral support of the government plan.
According to figures compiled by
Mr. Drake the plow-up campaign last
summer was worth $150,000 to far
mers of Butts county in increased
prices and benefits.
1 Frogress of the acreage reduction
campaign for 1934 is having a stim
ulating effect on cotton prices and
the 11 cent has been passed and the
upward trend continues.
! In connection with the acreage
reduction campaign the following ar
ticle is released by the Extension
Service of the University of Georgia:
l Athens, Ga.—Controlling the pro
duction of cotton by co-operative
action is no new thing to Southern
growers. In the adjustment campaign
during the summer of 1933, they re
moved 10,400,000 acres from pro
duction and decreased the probable
supply of cotton by 4,400,000 bales.
The reward for this was a price last
fall fullly double what it would have
been, and the additional reward of
liberal rental and option payments.
"With this background of achieve
ment and this knowledge of their
own ability to improve their economic
conditions, it is believed that the pro
gressive growers of the South will
welcome the new opoprtunity further
to stabilize the cotton situation,”
says Cully A. Cobb, chief of the cot
ton section of the Agricultural Ad
justment Administration.” Many
growers who secured the loan of ten
cents a pound on their 1933 cotton
and will get a further loan of four
cents a pound on their option Got
ten, will of course sign the reduction
contract. This is a large nucleus
around which other progressive pro
ducers may gather.”
Reinforced by the knowledge of
what happened last year as a result
of the cotton adjustment campaign.
Mr. Cobb believes that alert growers
stand ready to repeat this year. The
new contract being offered the grow
ers during the present month is sim
ply another effort by the adjustment
administration to allow cotton pro
ducers to help themselves.
There arp two alternatives. Either
the growers may co-operate and re
ceive better pries for the cotton pro
dued, or they may fail to co-operate
and face the same disastrous situa
tion with which they have had to
contend in past years of over-pro
duction. The answer therefore ap
pears simple. Since the farmers
themselves are to receive all the
profits and since the present program
is intended solely for their benefit,
it is believed that the movement
cannot fail to meet with a whole
hearted response.
Bombay, Indian, is located on the
Arabian sea.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1934.
FAVORS CHAMBER COMMERCE
Editor Jackson Progress-Argus: Sir:
I desire to commend you on the significant first
page editorial in your last week’s issue calling upon
an united citizenry of Butts county to go en masse
to Atlanta and demand a bridge across the Ocmul
gee river on route 16.
In my opinion Butts county has not received its
full share of Federal money that has been placed at
the disposal of the country. In Lake county, Flori
da, where I was secretary of its commercial body,
nearly a half million dollars is to be expended from
the same funds that have doled out a few thousand
of dollars to Butts county. For instance Eustis, a
town about the size of Jackson, receives from the
Civil Works Administration the sum of $70,000;
Leesburg $125,000, Tavares, not much larger than
Flovilla or Jenkinsburg, $76,000. This has been
brought about, not by the hysteria of a large number
of people assembled to go en masse and make a spas
modic plea, but by the well laid plans of commercial
bodies, representative of all people.
Forty-five years in public life, largely at the head
of commercial bodies, I know without a question of
doubt that the Federal government in its various
activities, whether it be a bill before Congress or a
project before the Rivers and Harbors or other com
mittees is governed largely in its verdicts for or
against by the representation of the projects made
before it by an organized body.
According to your plea, and as there is nothing
better available at this time, you ask that 1,000 peo
ple swoop down upon the state capitol and the pow
ers that be and ask for this bridge improvement.
This would necessitate the using of 250 automo
biles, with a total .mileage of approximately 35,000
miles, consuming 3,500 gallons of gasoline at an ex
pense of $770.00, and with oil and tire-wear, in ex
cess of SI,OOO. Add to this meals at Atlanta and oth
er expenses incidental to a day’s outing, the total fig
ure would be in excess of $1,500.
With SI,OOO there could be maintained a Butts
County Chamber of Commerce, which amount would
pay for the stationery, stamps, office equipment,
and a small sum or a part-time secretary.
This amount should be secured by memberships
at one dollar the year; the larger business houses,
incorporations and loyal citizens taking out dual
memberships up to $lO a year. There should be
400 to 500 memberships scattered throughout the
county.
The board of directors would be chosen from
each political section of the county, they to elect the
officers. Thus each community would have as much
power as the other, irrespective of size or impor
tance.
The directors would meet once a week for an
hour on Saturdays, and one meeting during each
month the public asked to meet with them, and when
necessary, like the bridge matter you refer to, issue
a call for a general meeting.
Thus each section through its director, is repre
sentative of that section, and when all directors have
agreed to a plan or a policy, that plan or policy
would be representative of the entire county, and
instead of 1,000 people making ballyhoo a dignified
conference of the Butts County Chamber of Com
merce with those in power. The cost for an entire
year’s activity would be much less than one single
onslaught on the Capitol.
Nor, would this be the entire mission of the
commercial body. There are always problems for
the common welfare to be considered —marketing,
co-operative buying, sales days, bringing new capi
tal to the county, new industries, new people, adver
tising Indian Springs and routing travel through
Butts county; through highways and more paving,
and so on.
I brought this matter up over seven years ago
and met with so much opposition that I simply let
it pass. Everything I suggested was met with the
response “It cannot be done.’’ I suggested then, as
there was no picture house in Jackson that there
should be one. “It has been tried and failed,” I
was told. Yet, after seven years, we have a picture
house in Jackson that puts out the SRO sign night
after night—too small to accommodate the demands
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CRAWFORD LANDS TO BE USED
TO ENLARGE PARK ACTIVITIES
MONROE, CLAYTOJF
WILL CIT PAWNS
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TWO PROJECTS? ON ROUTE 42
WILL BE INCLUDED IN CON
TRACTS TO BE LET FEBRU
ARY 1. GAP BEING CLOSED
Monroe and Clayton counties will
chare in paving contracts to be let
cn February 1 by the state highway
department. Both of the projects
are on Route 42, from Atlanta to
Forsyth.
According to announcement made
by the highway board in Atlanta
Monday Monroe county will receive
4.158 miles of paving, beginning at
Forsyth and extending toward In
dian Springs, and 2.083 miles will
be awarded Clayton county, begin
ning at the Henry county line.
These links, when paved, will help
to close up the gap on route 42. The
link from Locust Grove to the Butts
county line is now in process of con
struction. Contract for that project
was awarded last fall and paving is
about ready to begin.
Governor Talmadge and members
cf the state highway department are
committed to the early paving of
route 42, it is declared. The gover
nor, whose old home was in Monroe
eounty, want* to see No. 42 hard
surfaced as early as possible and has
given assurance that this will be
done.
With contracts already awarded
and to be let, unpaved links on this
route include the five miles from the
Henry county line to Jackson and
from Indian Springs to Forsyth, as
well as a portion of the road in Clay
ton county. These gaps, it is declared
on good authority, will receive at
tention at an early date.
Citizens of this entire section of
the state appreciate the interest Gov
ernor Talmadge and the highway de
partment are showing in the paving
of Route 42, one of the main north
and south highways between Atlanta
and Macon through middle Georgia.
ANNIVERSARY NIGHT BE
OBSERVED BY KIWANIS
CLUB WAS ORGANIZED IN 1922
AND BEGINS THIRTEENTH
YEAR. ATTENDANCE CONTEST
STIRS INTEREST OF MEMBERS
At its meeting next Tuesday the
Kiwanis club of Jackson will observe
anniversary night. The club was
organized in January, 1922, and be
gins its thirteenth year of service
to the community. A program ap
propriate to the occasion is being
planned.
Tuesday night’s meeting marked
the first week of the attendance con
test and one team reported a 100
per cent score. This contest will con
tinue for six months with the losing
team to compliment the winners with
a fish fry.
Rev. R. B. Harrison, pastor of the
First Baptist church, was the speak
er at Tuesday night’s meeting. Mr.
Harrison spoke of action and reac
tion, declaring the good one does
come back to him, likewise the evil.
He made a plea for the Golden Rule
and support of home institutions.
Marvin B. Farrar was the guest of
J. W. O’Neal. Dinner was served by
the U. D. C., with Mrs. L. M. Craw
ford as chairman.
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$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
$10(1,000 PROGRAM
ifINDIAN SPRINGS
BRIDGE, CASINO AND PA
VILION Vmong PROJECTS TO
BE CARRIED OUT WITHIN THE
IMMEDIATE FUTURE
Citizens of Butts county, in co
operation with members of the Geor
gia F'brestry Association and inter
ested friends, have donated to the
state of Georgia, to be used for for
estry and park purposes, the Craw
ford lands at Indian Springs.
This acreage, consisting of 130
acres, joins lands already owned by
the state. Two or three years ago
citizens of the county donated what
was known as the Crawford dairy
tract, consisting of twelve acres.
With the enlarged acreage a large
building program will be carried out
ac Indian Springs. Without the added
acreage there w&b a strong probabili
ty that all improvements at Indian
Springs would have been stopped.
Anew bridge, to be of stone, wilt
be built and plans call for a new
casino and pavilion to be of stone,
to replace the present wooden struc
ture. These, and other improvements,
are planned by the Georgia Forestry
Association, working in connection
.with the i&ate Forestry Board, and
the Civilian Conservation Corps.
Work of construction will be done
by the CCC camp.
These improvements, in addition
to the Indian museum, which has
been completed and will be stocked
with Indian relics, will make the In
dian Springs park one of the show
places of Georgia.
A modern golf course is under
consideration on the new acreage..
With more land available the For
estry Association will carry out ex
perimental work. A lake may also
be built on the new tract.
The improvements contemplated
at Indian Springs call for an expen
diture of SIOO,OOO or more.
The C. C. C. camp will be contin
ued for at least another year, it is
believed, and activities will be cen
tered in carrying to completion the
improvements at Indian Springs.
Acquisition of this land is consid
ered one of the most important
movements ever put over in Butt3
county. It was made possible by the
public spirited citizens of Indian
Springs, Jackson, Forsyth, the C. C.
C. ’boys and citizens of the entire
state.
Mrs. M. E. Judd, of Dalton, who
is in charge of park improvements
at Indian Springs as a member of
the Georgia Forestry Association,
was in Jackson Saturday and helped
to complete the negotiations for the
Crawford lands.
Certain legal requirements are to
be complied with before the land
can be turned over to the state. This
will receive attention at’ once.
The postmaster general of the
United States receives $12,750 An
nual salary.
President Land appointed J. L.
Lyons, P. H. Weaver and W. W.
Wright members of a committee to
report on advisability of staging a
Roosevelt Ball on January 30, the
proceeds to go to the Warm Springs
Foundation.
Members voted on objectives for
the year, and the result of the ballot
ing will be announced next Tuesday.