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VOL. 68—No. 51
P. H. Weaver Wins Silver Beaver Award
For Outstanding Work In Scouting
At the annual meeting of the
Flint River Council, Boy Scouts of
America, held in Griffin December
12, P. H. Weaver long active in
scouting in Butts county, was pre
sented the Silver Beaver Award for
outstanding work in Boy Scout ac
tivities. This is the highest honor
that can be conferred in scouting.
Mr. Weaver has served as scout
master of Jackson troops for sever
al years, has been district com
missioner and chairman of the dis
trict finance committee. In addition
to his work in scouting, Mr. Weav
er is a former mayor of Jackson, a
past president of the Jackson Ki
wanis club, a member of the Butts
County Welfare Board and is active
in the First Baptist church. The
honor is one that friends of Mr.
Weaver appreciates.
T. T. Blakely, Griffin banker and
merchant, was elected president of
of the Flint River Council, succeed
ing W. W. Kirby of Newnan. Other
officers include: Harrison High
tower, Thomaston, re-elected vice
president; Claude Christopher, of
Griffin, re-elected as treasurer. J.
D. Roan, Zebulon, was elected as
Council Commissioner, and W. N.
Banks, Newnan, and R. M. Mat
thews, Thomaston, were named as
Council representatives on the na
tional council.
W. M. Redman, Jackson, was
elected a member of the executive
board.
Ellis Arnall, Georgia’s attorney
general, was the principal speaker
at the meeting which assembled
representatives from all counties in
the Griffin council.
A report showed the Griffin
council now has approximately one
thousand Scouts and 104 Cubs.
Camp Thunder, near Thomaston,
owned by the Griffin Council, rep
resents an investment of $12,000,
it was shown in reports.
W. M. Redman, P. H. Weaver
and J. W. O’Neal were among those
from Jackson who attended the
meeting in Griffin.
Workers Here
Paid $762.77
In November
iiNCREASED EMPLOYMENT RE
SPONSIBLE FOR FEWER AP
PLICATIONS, STATE DIREC
TOR POINTS OUT
Unemployed workers in Butts
county were paid $762.77 in bene
fits by the Bureau of Unemploy
ment Compensation in November,
Commissioner Ben Huiet has an
nounced. Number of checks was re
ported at 125.
Total payments for the month,
he said, amounted to $259,162.42,
smallest amount disbursed in any
month this year.
Fewer persons, the commissioner
said, sought benefits in November
than in any month since the bene
fit-paying program was started in
January, 1938. He attributed this
to increased employment through
out the state.
The Employment Service, with
32 local offices in Georgia, made
6,558 placements of unemployed
persons in jobs.
TWO WHITE, TWO COLORED
CALLED FOR CCC SERVICE
Butts county has been asked to
supply two white boys and two col
ored boys for CCC camp duty, ef
fective January 9, the Welfare of
fice says. All white youths inter
ested in CCC service are asked to
call at the office in the courthouse
before Saturday noon.
Benefits Will
Brighten Yule
Season Here
MORE THAN $1,200 PAID CLAIM
ANTS MONDAY. OLD AGE
PENSION LIST PASSES THE
200 FIGURE
Distribution of $1,274.50 to cli
ents of the Public Assistance pro
gram Monday should go a long ways
toward brightening the Christmas
season for the recipients. Checks
were delivered Monday by Mrs. L.
M. Spencer, acting director of the
Butts county Welfare Department.
Listed for December payments
were: Old age pensioners, 209, who
received $1,100.50; five blind per
sons, who got $36,00 and eight de
pendent children, $138.00.
The December payment is the
largest in recent months and was
made possible by additional funds
allotted several months ago by the
state department.
Members of the Butts County
Welfare Board met Monday night
and considered the January budget.
Expanded Park •
Program Will
Be Presented
TRIMBLE HEAD OF COMMITTEE
TO STUDY RECREATION
NEEDS OF STATE AND OUT
LINE PROGRAM
Lee Trimble, executive vice presi
dent of the Macon chamber of com
merce, president of the Georgia Park
and Recreation Association, as the
chairman of a committee to study
the state park system, will recom
mend an expanded park program to
the governor.
Under the plan as recommended
will be co-ordination of several
agencies into one body, development
of an adequate state park system,
including two 15,000 acre tracts,
one near Stone Mountain and the
other at the coast, and promotion of
an expanded municipal park and
recreation system.
Also called for are the preserva
tion of all historic sites, the develop
ment of more Negro parks, the
beautification of highways and the
construction of roadside parks, the
planning of public buildings for rec
reation purposes and the elimination
of stream pollution.
The program asks the development
of local recreation centers, on a ba
sis that will provide an acre of park
land for every 100 persons in every
city, a children’s playground within
half a mile of every city child, and
a full time recreation director in
every city of 15,000 population.
As part of the highway beautifi
cation plan the committee proposes
to eliminate roadside advertising in
every form from all state right-of
way.
BIRCHMORE HERE
TO HOLD SCHOOL
FOR KIWANIS CLUB
John Birchmore, of Covington,
lieutenant governor of the ninth di
vision of Kiwanis clubs, came to
Jackson Thursday night and con
ducted a training school for officers
and committee chairmen. The meet
ing was held at the clubhouse and
was presided over by Clyde Calla
way, president-elect of the Jackson
club. An active year for the ninth
division was predicted by Mr. Birch
more.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1940
Play Time To
Begin In All
Schools Dec. 20
CITY AND COUNTY SCHOOLS
TO END FALL TERM DURING
WEEK. PAYMENT OF SALA
RIES GIFT FROM SANTA
Play time will begin in all Butts
county schools December 20, as the
fall term draws to a close and a
rest period will be called to pay
tribute to the spirit of Christmas.
The Jackson public schools will
have a holiday from December 20 to
January 6, according to decision of
the board of education.
The Butts county schools will be
closed from December 20 to Jan
uary 1, Superintendent William G.
Preston says.
Good work has been done in all
schools here and the vacation period
will be welcomed by pupils and in
structors. Many of the teachers
from a distance will spend the holi
days at their respective homes.
Announcement by city officials
said arrangements would be made
to pay teachers in advance of the
holidays. This required local fi
nancing, it was explained, as the
state department was short of ready
funds.
County Superintendent Preston
said the board planned to pay sala
ries during the week, depending up
on the collection of local taxes. The
payment by corporations of a con
siderable amount of taxes was ex
pected to be sufficient to meet the
December payroll, Mr. Preston ex
plained. The board expected noth
ing from the state department.
Counties Send
Applications
To State Office
TO DATE APPROXIMATELY
4,000 APPLICATIONS BEEN
FILED. PAYMENTS WILL BE
MADE EARLIER THIS YEAR
Approximately 4,000 applications
involving more than $300,000 have
been certified for Georgia farmers
by the state AAA office, T. R.
Breedlove, Georgia administrator
of the AAA, announced this week.
Burke county leads the list of 50
counties from which payment ap
plications have been received, as
well as in number of certifications.
Burke has submitted 586 applica
tions to date, 274 of which have
been certified for payment. Total
payments represented by Burke
certifications amount to $45,000.
To date the state AAA office in
Athens has certified 33 applications
amounting to approximately $2,000
from Butts county, according to
Charles Kemp Jr., county adminis
trative assistant of the AAA.
Breedlove asserted that payments
this year are about eight weeks
ahead of those for 1939. He said
the work in the state and county
offices is more nearly on a current
basis today than it has ever been.
Farmers in every county with the
exception of one now have their
cotton allotments. This, in Breed
love’s opinion, will enable farmers
to plan their farming operations
better for 1941.
Farmers were urged by the state
AAA official to sign their applica-,
tions as soon as requested, so that i
payments will not be delayed. He
stated that applications now being
received in the state office are be
ing handled promptly but it is pos
sible to handle immediately twice
the current number.
Safe Driving
Stressed At
Holiday Season
STATE TROOPERS WORK TO
REDUCE LAST YEAR’S TOTAL
OF 45 KILLED. “SAFE AND
SOUND’’ RULES LISTED
In a final pre-holiday appeal,
State Troopers today asked Butts
countians to observe the “safe and
sound” rules of driving.
They reminded that last year 45
persons were killed and 1,575 in
jured in Georgia accidents between
Christmas eve and New Year’s eve
night.
“The holidays held no joy, you
may be sure, for those persons or
their families,” Major Lon Sullivan,
safety commissioner, said.
Troopers have volunteered to
give up their own Christmas holi
days so that they can be on the
highways as much as possible, pa
trolling the roads for safety. They
asked motorists to observe especial
ly the rules which say, “keep the
driver sober,’” and “never drive
faster than conditions warrant.’”
Failure to follow both of those
caused one of the season’s most
tragic accidents last year, Major
Sullivan said.
A young mother and her little boy
were returning to their home Chsist
mas eve night after visiting his
grandparents. Her car lights were
bad so she stuck near the center
line. From the other direction a
young college student, who had tak
en a few drinks, was en route to
spend the holidays with his parents.
He, too, hugged the center line
traveling above 60 miles per hour,
and the two cars crashed on the
crest of a hill. The mother died of
a crushed skull and the young man’s
neck was broken and he died in
stantly. The child was made a per
manent cripple.
“We are trying to prevent just
such tragedies as those when we ask
drivers and pedestrians to observe
the rules of safety,” Major Sullivan
said. “The best Christmas present
any of us can give is to let our fel
lowman stay alive and well.”
EIGHT MILLION
FISHERMEN BUY
LICENSES IN ’39
Over 8,000,000 men, women and
children fished up and down the
streams and lakes of the nation in
the 1938-39 fishing season and paid
some $10,837,168 for this privilege.
A total license sale of 7,858,275
was chalked up and this represented
an increase of 422,098 over the
same period for the year before. An
additional 4,000,000 persons were
exempt from license requirements
because in some states an owner
may fish on his own property with
out a license.
In Georgia a total of 35,641 li
censes were issued and receipts from
their sale were $45,183. Florida
sold 30,459 licenses, while Alabama
sold 29,942.
441 DEFICIT IN
NUMBER BALES OF
COTTON GINNED
Butts county, a census bureau
report shows, had ginned 4,223
bales of cotton to December 1, com
pared with 4,664 bales to the same
date last year, a decrease of 441
bales. Total production in the coun
ty last year was approximately
5,300 bales.
Georgia, figures show, had gin
ned 957,143 bales, against 900,578
bales in 1939.
Burke county with ginnings of
34,144 bales is leading the state in
cotton production, according to
the census report.
Pre-Christmas Livestock Sale Monday
Will Be The Last For The Present Year
Library Will
Close 3 Days
At Christmas
LIBRARY IN COURT HOUSE AND
TRAVELING LIBRARY TO OB
SERVE HOLIDAYS. NEW
BOOKS ADDED TO LIST
Announcement was made Monday
by Mrs. J. W. Carter, WPA libra
rian, that the Butts County Library
will be closed Monday, Tuedsay and
Wednesday, Dec. 23-24-25. The
traveling library will also be closed
for those three days.
Mrs. Carter says several new vol
umes have been added to the library
during the last few days. The num
ber includes:
Fame Is The Spur, by Spring, au
thor of My Son, My Son; I Married
Adventure, by Osa Johnson. There
is never a dull moment in following
Mrs. Johnson in her jungle travels.
Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Rob
erts. This novel’s descriptive style
has made Kenneth Roberts Ameri
ca’s outstanding historical writer.
Saphira and the Slave Girl by Wil
la Cather. The setting is the beau
tiful Virginia countryside and the
narrative is peopled with unusual
characters.
Trelawny by Margaret Armstrong.
Now with the same sparkling vigor
which distinguished her life of Fan
ny Kemble, Miss Armstrong writes
of Trelawny.
Other books include: The Red
Saint by' Deeping; Auto-biography
of a Cad by Macdonnell; Ben Hur
by Lew Wallace; The Case of the
Deadly Diary by William Dußois;
Invitation to Live by Lloyd C.
Douglas; Mrs. Marlow Stops for
Brandy by John Bentley; The Crime
Wave at Blandings by Wodehouse;
Too Many Beaux by Scarberry; Ac
quittal by Graeme and Sarah Lori
mer; The Man Without a Heart by
Ruby M. Ayers; The DeMauriers by
Dephne du Maurier; The Great Mis
take by Mary Roberts Rineheart.
Mrs. Carter also thanks Joseph E.
Edwards for a sign he painted for
the library door.
SEVERAL NYA
AIDES PLACED IN
COUNTY RECENTLY
Several Butts county girls are
now receiving aid from the Nation
al Youth Administration by being
placed in schools and offices in the
county. The list is as follows:
Welfare office, Elizabeth Duke
and Louise Hardy.
County school superintendent’s of
fice, Hilda Godsey.
City school superintendent’s of
fice, Ann O’Neal.
Pepperton school, Sara Hardy,
Mildred Welch.
County WPA library, LuNette
Pope.
Towaliga school, Mary Will Rape,
Marjorie Fletcher.
Tussahaw school, Catherine Cook,
Catherine Williams.
Indian Springs school, Martha
: Long, Willie O’Kelley.
Jenkinsburg school, Carolyn Wells.
County agent’s office, Mary Lou
Morgan.
BUTTS COUNTY SINGERS
ATTEND 12 COUNTY MEET
Several Butts county singers and
music lovers attended the monthly
meeting of the Twelve County Sing
ing Convention in Barnesville Sun
day. An all-day session was held
with entertainment being provided I
by Lamar county singers.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Officers of the Central Georgia
Livestock Association believe the
urge for a little extra cash at Christ
mas will help to bring out a large
offering of livestock in the auction
set for Monday, December 23. The
sale will get underway at 1:30 p. m.
at the Watkins barn and F. 11. Mor
gan will do the honors as auctioneer.
This sale will bring to a close the
1940 season in Butts county. Live
stock sales were started here in
May, 1939, and the auctions have
been the means of distributing many
thousands of dollars to livestock
producers in this and neighboring
counties. Livestock is now running
next to cotton and lumber as a
source of cash income in this sec
tion.
Not only have the sales turned
loose cash, but the quality of cattle
has improved remarkably through
placing of approved beef animals on
farms and a pasture improvement
campaign has been carried oti suc
cessfully.
Probably the most important thing
gained is the demonstration that a
cash market exists at homo for all
the livestock produced.
Immediately after the first of the
year officers of the association plan
a meeting to boost the livestock in
dustry in Butts county.
Prices in the main are holding up
well and livestock is moving in vol
ume to all markets. The three live
stock markets in Bulloch county re
ported sales of more than $25,000
last week.
F. H. Morgan, president of the
Central Georgia Livestock Associa
tion, invites all buyers and sellers
to attend Monday’s sale.
Garland Heads
Masonic Lodge
For Year 1941
OFFICERS ELECTED AND IN
STALLED AT 96TH ANNUAL
MEETING MONDAY. REPORTS
MADE BY OFFICERS
At the 96th annual meeting of
St. Johns Lodge No. 45, F. and A.
M. Monday night, Col. Benjamin B.
Garland was elected as worshipful
master for the year 1941. Other of
cers elected were:
L. J. Brown Jr., senior warden;
W. F. O’Neal, junior warden; A.
W. Newton, treasurer; W. F. Ma-
Laier, secretary; G. C. Moore, se
nior deacon; T. P. Thurston, junior
deacon; C. D. Thacker, senior stew
ard; H. E. Moore, junior steward;
C. F. Singley, tyler; F. H. Morgan,
chaplain.
The finance committee is compos
ed of H. O. Ball, R. P. Newton and
J. W. O’Neal.
Following the election, officers
were installed by W. E. Watkins, a
past master of the lodge, acting as
deputy grand master, assisted by J.
C. Newton, past master, as grand
marshal.
Business reports were submitted
: by officers, showing the lodge to be
in sound financial condition.
Col. Garland succeeds G. C. Moore
as worshipful master.
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