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VOL. 64—NO. 22
DIPLOMAS GIVEN
TO SENIOR CLASS
INTERESTING COMMENCEMENT
SEASON BROUGHT TO CLOSE
TUESDAY NIGHT. SMITH DE
LIVERED LITERARY ADDRESS
Bringing to a close an interesting
commencement season in the Jackson
public schools, graduation exercises
for the senior class were held at the
First Baptist church Tuesday night.
Diplomas were presented to a class
of fifty-three boys and girls, one oi
the school’s largest and finest classes,
by Hon. W. M. Redman, vice chair
man of theboard of education.
A feature ofthe graduation exer
cises was the splendid address deliver
ed by Prof. Mark A. Smith, of Thom
aston. Mr. Smith is a weli known
educator, president of R. E. Lee In
stitute, president of the State High
School Association and a former
■governor of the Georgia dis
trict of Kiwanis International. His
talk on that occasion was pronoun*
| ced one of the best' yet heard on a
similar occasion.
The church was filled to capacity
by friends and parents of the grad
uates. The following program was
given:
Chords —Oh, Wondrou* Night,
senior girls.
Invocation, Rev. R. B. Harrison.
Salutatory, Nelle Taylor.
Address, Hon. Mark Smith.
Presentationof diplomas, Hon. W.
M. Redman.
Valedictory, Vera Edwards.
Chorus—Volga Boatmen’s Song,
senior boys.
Benediction, Rev. R. P. Etheridge.
Senior Honor Roll
Seniors averaging ninety or higher
in conduct and in all the subjects
taken in the senior year were placed
on this list.
Vera Edwards 97.638
Nelle Taylor 97.110
Ruth Hodges 96.999
Dorothy Barnes _96.666
Frances Hyatt 95.944
Woodward Lavender 95.856
Ruth Plymale 95.621
Robert Garner 95.221
Alberta Morgan 95.110
Virginia Smith 94.666
Marion Nutt 94.613
Lucile Vaughn 94.588
Margaret Huie 94.16 r
Emily Byron 93.499
Vincent Jones 92.760
Maragret Lummus 91.072
Nell Lane 91.032
Jennie Lou Pope 90.944
Compton Blankenship 90.236
Class Roll
Lucile Atkinson, Dorothy Baines,
Wayne Barnes, Ruby Biles, Compton
Blankenship, Autrey Bohannon, Mary
Lee Burford, Emily Byron, Bob Car
michael, Sara Carter, Warren Childs,
Virginia Cohve'l, Vera Edwards, Rus
sell Edwards, Lamar Fletcher, Grace
Fuqua, Walter Fuqua, Robert Garner,
Thompson Grant, Mallory Henderson,
Hendricks, Brae Hodges,
Ruth Hodges, Margaret Huie, Frances
Hyatt, Foy Ingram, Annie Van
Jones, Dorothy Jones, Vincent Jones,
Beulah Kent, Nell I>ane, Woodward
LUvender, Foster Leverett, Margaret
Lummus, Jesse Lunsford, Robert
Milner, Alberta Morgan, Helen Mc-
Michael. Joe Nelson. Willie Nors
worthy, Marion Nutt. Ruth Plymale,
Jennie Lou Pope, James Preston,
John Preston. Helen Ridgeway, Eliza
beth Sitton. Virginia Smith, Nelle
Taylor, Marian Thurston, Woodrow
Tingle. Lucile Vaughn. Bailey Wood
ward.
More than 8 per cent of the 13,-
000,000 foreign-born population of
the United States do not speak Eng
lish.
ATLANTA SCOUTS
HAVE NAVAL BASE
NAUTICAL BASE BE USED FOR
TRAINING AND SEVERAL
TYPES OF BOATS WILL BE
AVAILABLE FOR SCOUTS.
The following article appeared in
The Atlanta Journal of May2o:
Selection of Jackson Lake as a
nautical base and plans for a cam
paign to boost the Atlanta Sea Scouts
to a membership of over 2,000 boys
were announced Wednesday by
Weaver Marrs, Scout executive.
C. E. Ramsey, vice commodore of
the Atlanta Council, recently trans
ferred here from the Panama Canal,
will assist Commore Harry Dobbs in
the expansion program, while the
U. S. Navy and Army will co-operate
iu furnishing equipment for a minia
ture naval base at the lake.
Plans have been made to have be
tween ten and sixteen boats of all
types available for Sea Scout activ
ities on the 4,400-acre lake before
the end of the summer.
A summer cruise aboard U. S.
Navy vessels, complete naval train
ing through actual building and
handling of smaller craft and courses
in navigation will be offered eligible
members of the organization.
Sea Scouting is open to boys from
15 years of age to ear-Jy manhood
who are first-class Boy Scouts. It
is senior program of scouting and
has the whole-hearted endorsement
of naval, military and youth leaders.
The campaign for full membership
for this area will be launched at an
inspection of present Sea Scout
members Thursday evening at the
Naval Reserve Auditorium, Georgia
Tech. Sea Scout headquarters are
in the 101 Marietta Street Building.
RURAL CARRIERS WILL
HOLD MEET SATURDAY
ANNUAL SESSION FOR FOURTH
DISTRICT WILL BE HELD AT
WARM SPRINCS. MRS. N. F.
LAND IS OFFICER.
Butts county carriers will take a
leading part in the annual meeting
of the Fourth District' Rural Letter
Carriers Association to be held at
Warm Springs Saturday. This will
be National Decoration Day and a
legal holiday for the post office
department.
Mrs. N. F. Land is president of
the Woman’s Auxiliary, which meets
in connection with the carriers, and
Mrs. S. M. Ridgeway is secretary
and treasurer of that group. Mrs.
Land is also state president of the
Woman’s Auxiliary and.Mr Land was
a former president of the fourth dis
trict R. L. C. A., while Gordon H.
Thompson served as state president
of the carriers.
The fourth district group is out
of the most active in the state and
has a large membership in all the 15
counties of the district.
Business matters, an interesting
program and inspection of the gov
ernment projects in and near Warm
Springs wll be included in the day’s
activities.
Officers of the Fourth District
Rural Letter Carriers Association
include: S. W. Ware, Woodbury,
president; B. T. M. Cauthen, Jones
boro. vice president, and J. D.Clark,
Meansville .secretary and treasurer.
At Saturday’s meeting delegates
will be named to the state convention
to he held in Athens in July.
BANKS WILL CLOSE FOR
JEFF DAVIS’ BIRTHDAY
Bank.- of the country will close;
rn Wednesday, June 3, the birthday j
of Jefefr-or. Davis and a legal holi-1
day in several of the southern state-!
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936
FACULTY ELECTED
FOR CITY SCHOOLS
BOARD O FEDUCATION ANNOUN
CES PERSONNEL FOR NEXT
SESSION. MR. SPROULLIS
NAMED AS PRINCIPAL.
Teachers to serve the Jackson pub
lic schools for the next term have
been announced by the Jackson
Board of Education, following a rc
centmeeting.
At a meeting held some weeks ago
the board re-elected Prof. D. V.
Spencer as superintendent, a posi
tion he has held for the past eight
years.
New members of the faculty in
clude Prof. R. C. Sproull, of Rock
marJ, Ga., as principal and teacher
of science; Miss Lois Harvey, of
Hawkinsville, Latin and science;
Miss Eleanor Walker, of Griffin,
French, and Miss Bessie Ruth Buriz,
of Newnan, sixth grade.
Mr. Sproull is an A.. B. and M. A.
graduate of Mercer University and
for the past three years has been
principal of schools at Wadley. He
comes well recommended.
Miss Walker, the new French
teacher, will be graduated with
honors from the University of Geor
gia in June.
Miss Harvey is a graduate of the
University of eGorgia.
Miss Buvtz, named to the place
formerly held by Miss Elise Barnes,
who will complete her education at
Bessie Tift College, is a graduate of
LaGrange College.
The complete faculty for the 1936-
37 session is as follows:
D. V. Spencer, Superintendent..
R. C. Sproull, principal.
Miss Sara Beauchamp, English.
Miss Ruth Phinazee, History.
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, Mathe
matics.
Miss Lois Harvey, Latin, Science.
Miss Eleanor Walker, French.
Miss Eva Compton, 7th grade.
Miss Bessie Ruth Burtz, 6th grade.
Miss Lois McMichael, sth grade.
Miss Jane Brownlee, 4th grade.
Mrs. Eva Mae Smith, 3rd grade.
Miss Susannah Faster, 2nd grade.
Miss Annie Lou McCord, Ist grade.
Mrs. J. W. O’Neal, music.
Mrs. L. M. Spencer, expression.
Honor Roll of Jackson
Schools For May, 1936
First grade—Mary Frances Allen,
Christine Allen, Margaret Kempson,
Agnes Maddox, El wood Robison, Jr.
Second Grade —E'izabeth Ethe
ridge, John Reid Gaston, Emily Mal
let, Arthur Price, Martha Rich.
Third grade—Frankie Mae Duke,
Wilhelmina Fletcher, Jean Johnson,
Annette O’Neal, Riley Thaxton,
Jeanette Wilson.
Fourth grade—Ruth Jones, Jan*
Ann Mallet, Claire Morris, Gladys
Pope, Helen Standard.
Fifth grade—Virginia Ball, Black
man Settle, Baxter Watkins, Jr.
Sixth grade—Charles McMichael,
Margaret Sams, Horace Williamson.
Seventh grade—Elizabeth Duke,
Beth Ferris, Josephine Jones, Mary
Mallet, Frances Sowell.
Eighth grade—Marion Etheridge,
Jim Howell, Ellen Jane Sams.
Ninth grade—Sara Boone, Vir
ginia Etheridge, Margaret Ham,
Stuart Head, Billie Lockhart, Cath
erine McMichael, T. A. Nutt, Jr.,
Barbara O’Neal, Roslyn Redman, Bob
bie Reynolds, Smith Settle, Jr.
Tenth grade—Martha Maddox,
Mettie Chapman, Rosie Lee Collins,
Sara Evalyn Compton, Marjorie
Etheridge .Jeffy Lee, Virginia
Webb.
Eleventh grade—Vera Edwards,
Robert Garner, Ruth Hodges, Frances
Ilyatt. Woodward Lavender, Marion
Nutt, Ruth Plymale, Virginia Smith,
Nelle Taylor, Lucile Vaughn.
MRS. PACE WINNER
OF CAPITAL PRIZE
PROGRESS-ARGUS’ CIRCULATION
CONTEST CLOSED SATURDAY
NIGHT. CLOSE RACE DECI
DED BY OFFICIAL COUNT.
Mrs. E. 11. Pace won first place in
The Progress-Argus’ circulation con
test, which closed Saturday night,
after a run of eight weeks,
Mrs. Ruth Lane Redman won sec
ond prize; Miss Mary Newton third;
Miss Virginia Crawford fourth and
Mr. R. D. Bankston placed fifth.
First prize was the choice of a
Chevrolet or Ford, SSOO in cash or a
trip t'jo Europe.
The second prize was S2OO in cash.
Special prizes offered during the.
campaign included $lO in cash, won
by Miss Mary Newton; an Elgin
Wrist Watch, won by Mrs. Redman
and an Elgin Wrist Watch, won by
Mrs. Pace.
The official vote, as tabulated by
the judges, who were picked by the
contestants themselves, stood as
follow#:
Mrs. E. H. Pace 7,448,850
Mrs. Ruth U Redman. 7,029,500
Miss Mary Newton 6,119,500
Miss Virginia Crawford 4.584,900
Mr. R. D. Bankston ___1,833,400
Thq judges, J. W. O’Neal, E. S.
Settle, W. B. Thompson, H. M
Fletcher, and P. H. Weaver, met at
Jackson National Bank, following the
close of the campaign at 8 o’clock
and checked iftie votes.
A large: crowd was at The Prog
ress-Argus office to hear the winners,
announced by Mayor Weaver.
In addition to the capital ptizes,
other contestants were paid weekly
for their earnings and at the close
of the campaign received check# for
the amount they had earned in the
last week of the campaign, when all
votes were placed in a sealed ballot
box.
Friends of the contestants congrat
ulated them on their winnings.
One result of the campaign was
to greatly enlarge the circulation of
The Progress-Argus and enable it to
better serve its advertisers and the
people of Butts county and this sec
tion. Several hundred new sub
scribers were added during the eight
weeks of the campaign and the paper
has a paid-in-advance circulation that
will compare favorably with any
newspaper of the size in the state.
To all who had a part in the cam
paign The Progress-Argus is grate
ful. The contestants worked hard
and faithfully to make the paper
better known and their efforts will
always be cherished by the manage
ment of the paper.
The contest wasmanaged by Mrs.
Myrtle Atkinson, with a long and
successful experience in circulation
building. She won and held the con
fidence of all contestants and they
were impressed with her courtesy
and tact and business ability. While
in Jackson Mrs. Atkinson made many
warm friend's.
As rapidly as possible all new
subscribers will be placed on the
mailing list and credit will be given
for those who have paid in advance.
Naturally errors may be expected,
but these will be corrected as speed
ily as possible. Subscribers can be
of material assistance in getting a
coiTect mailing list by reporting any
discrepancies to this office.
With sincere appreciation to all
who worked unselfishly to make the
campaign a success and to the great
body of readers who made the cam
possib’e -to one and all The Prog
ress-A rgus pledges its faithful ef
forts to serve to the limit of its re
sources.
A long ton is 2,240 • a short ton
ten 2,000 pounds.
DR. HOWELL WILL SPEAK OVER
RADIO ON ISSUES OF CAMPAIGN
REV. A. G. HARRIS
IS HEARD SUNDAY
COMMENCEMENT SERMON ONE
OF INTEREST AND WAS HEARD
BY LARGE GROUP. SPECIAL
MUSIC WAS A FEATURE.
Rev. A. G.Harris, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Macon,
brought an interesting and construc
tive message to a large congregation
Sunday morning at (he Methodist
church in the first number of the
commencement program of the Jack
son high school.
Under the rotation plan of the
Jackson churches, this was the year
foi the Presbyterians to furnish the
minister and Mr. Harris, well known
os a civic leader and speaker, grac
iously accepted an invitation to de
liver the baccalaureate sermon. Mr.
Harris, accompanied by JMrs. Harris
and Prof. E. L. Ray, former Butts
county citizen, was most cordially
welcomed during his visit.
An appropriate program of music
was rendered as a feature of the ser
vice. The church was prettily decor
ated and seals were reserved in the
center aisle for the members of the
large graduating class.
The invocation was given by Rev.
E. L. Daniel of the Presbyterian
church and the scripture lesson by
Rev. R. P. Etheridge of the Method
ist church.
In a short hut interesting message
Mr. Harris told the graduates that
to attain thehighesfl and greatest
success they should dedicate their
lives to service. He mentoned as
parts of the well-rounded life (1)
e. life devoted to unselfish service;
(2) to ambitious service; (3) prac
tical, faithful service; (4) sacrificia 1
service and (5) consecrated service.
Many of the parents and friends
of the large class were present for
the commencement sermon.
HALF HOLIDAY STARIS
IN JACKSON JUNE FIRST
MAJORITY OF BUSINESS PLACES
AGREE TO CLOSE EACH WED
NES DAY AFTERNOON FOR
THREE SUMMER MONTHS.
The half holiday in effect here
for the- past few seasons will lie pu
into effect on the first Wednesday
afternoon in June and will continue
through the last Wednesday in Aug
ust, according to an agreement
reached by a majority of Jacksor.
business firms.
Thirty business firms signed the
following agreement, as handed to
The Progress-Argus for publication.
“Following our custom of the past
several summers and in conformity
with the practice of neighboring
towns and cities, the following busi
ness houses agree to close at 12
o’clock noon, on Wednesday during
June, July and August.”
The half holiday is intended to
give owners and employees an op
portunity for rest and recreation
duringthe hot summer period.
HAWKES LIBRARY BE OPEN
TWO DAYS FOR THE SUMMER
Mis. W. H. Wilson, librarian for
the summer months, announces that
the Hawkcs Library will be open on j
Tuesdays and Fridays from 3 to 5
p. M. All those desiring books are j
asked to keep the days and hours in '
mind.
Anew shipment of books is ex
pected in a few days.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
LIVE QUESTIONS IN STATE
GUBERNATORIAL CAMPAIGN
TO BE DISCUSSED IN FRANK
MANNER FRIDAY, JUNE 5.
Dr. 0.8. Howell now serving his
second term as chairman of the Butts
County Board of Commissioners and
a prominent figure in the political
life of Middle Georgia, announces
he will deliver a radio address over
station WSB on Friday night, June
5, from 9 to 9:30, Centra' Standard
Daylight Saving Time. He will dis
cuss the issues of the gubernatorial
campaign.
Among the questions that will be
discussed in the address are:
Another use for our money con:
modify, cotton.
How counties can operate on a
small advalorem tax.
How the State can build and main
tain hospitals for the poor and indig
ent without levying additional taxes.
How the State can match federal
old age pensions.
Free school hooks for all children.
Full co-operation with the Federal
Government.
All of these questions are of live
and timely interest and will be widely
discussed before' the close of the
state primary on September 9. They
are expected to be main planks in
the platforms of a majority of the
candidates for governor in the forth
coming campaign.
All Georgians who are interesteu
in the progress and development of
the state are invited to listen in and
hear the issues of the campaign dis
cussed in a frank, honest and
straightforward manner.
Dr. Howell has been '■widely men
tioned for the past few years as a
candidate for governor. He was
given favorable mention two year*
ago and recently his friends have
insisted that he stand for that high
post. He has the matter under con
sideration and will announce a deli
rite decision at a ’ater time.
As chairman of the board of
county commissioners here Dr. How
ell has made a good record. When
he assumed office the county had
large floating debt, in addition to thi
bonded debt for roads and bridges.
By careful management the floating
debt has been dared up, while the
bonds are being retired as they ma
ture, arid all this has been done while
maintaining the counlly roads in
good condition. The county board
has been widely commended for its
good work in handling the county’s
fiscal affairs. By safe and conser
servativo management the board
hopes to reduce the tax rate this
fall. Dr. Howell is admitted to be
a good financier.
It is conceded that Dr. Howell’s
radio address will be accorded an
attentive hearing and the issues as
outlined will arouse Georgians to
careful consideration of the state
campaign.
The address is being widely public
ized throughout the state.
STATE OIL TAXES SET A
NEW HIGH WATER RECORD
( Atlanta, Ga. —State fuel oil taxes
paid to Comptroller General G. B.
Carraker Monday amounted to $ 1
414,969.91, an increase of more than
SIOO,OOO over May collections last
year.
The payments, of which $1,396,684
were from gasoline taxes and $lB,-
285.04 from Kerosene, were the
highest for the past several months.
Collections for the pa.-t several
months have averaged approximately
$1,250, OOP.