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Iwksia
VOL. 69—No. 20
School Program
May 25-27 Has
Been Arranged
COMMENCEMENT SEASON WILL
BEGIN SUNDAY, MAY 25 AT
AUDITORIUM. QUIMBY MEL
TON ADDRESS GRADUATES
The program for the closing exer
cises of the Jackson High School has
been announced by Superintendent
D. V. Spencer, and main features
will be the commencement sermon,
May 25 in the auditorium by the
Rev. Gaither A. Briggs, and the lit
erary address Tuesday night by
Major Quimby Melton of Griffin.
Efforts are now being directed
toward completion of the spring
semester. Final examinations begin
in a few days and promotions to
higher grades will then be in order.
The Jackson public schools are
completing a year of gratifying
progress in all departments. All
teachers were recently re-elected for
another year.
As announced the commencement
program is as follows:
Sunday, May 25, commencement
sermon in auditorium at 11 o’clock
by the Rev. Gaither A. Briggs, pas
tor of the First Baptist church of
Jackson.
Monday, May 26, 10 a. m. sev
enth grade graduation exercises,
with the Rev. J. C. Callaway, pastor
of the Jackson Methodist church, as
speaker.
Monday, May 26, 8:15 p. m., op
eretta, “Tom Sawyer,” by primary
and grammar grades. Admission
will be 5 and 10 cents.
Tuesday, May 27, 8 p. m., grad
uation exercises of the senior class.
Address by Hon. Quimby Melton,
editor of the Griffin Daily News
and active and influential member
of the American Legion.,
State Leaders
Will Discuss
Park Problems
CLUB WILL MEET
STATE OFFICIALS AND TRY
TO WORK OUT DEVELOP
MENT PROGRAM AT PARK
*
A meeting is planned for May 28
at Indian Springs between state of
ficials and members of the Jackson
Kiwanis club in an effort to work
out a development program in and
about the state park. The meeting
is scheduled to be held at Hotel El
der at 8 p. m. It will be a Ladies’
Night meeting.
Members of the committee on ar
rangements consists of J. Avon
Gaston, N. F. Land and J. W.
O'Neal.
It is expected that Zack Cravy,
Erector of the division of Natural
Resources, as well as other state
leaders, will attend the meeting.
The building of an assembly hall
where large conventions can be en
tertained, and other arrangements,
will be studied at the joint session.
INDIAN SPRINGS
LIBRARY WILL
OPEN 23RD MAY
The Indian Springs library, which
quarters in the museum build
ing, will open on May 23. The
Works Projects Administration will
furnish the librarian, this service
having been available by this agen
cy for past seasons. The library
serves a large number of people, in
eluding visitors to Indian Springs.
Announcement is made that the
WPA book project will have visiting
days during the observance of “I
Am an American Week.”
Evangelistic
Services Are
Well Attended
REVIVAL AT THE METHODIST
CHURCH BEGINS UNDER FA
VORABLE CONDITIONS. TWO
SERVICES HELD DAILY
The evangelistic meetings at the
Jackson Methodist church began
Sunday under conditions that prom
ise a successful revival. The ser
vices are scheduled to continue
through Sunday, May 18.
Dr. Pierce Harris, pastor of the
First Methodist church in Atlanta,
arrived in Jackson Monday and
preached at the afternoon service
on the court lawn. In introducing
the guest minister, the Rev. J. C.
Callaway, pastor, directed attention
to Dr. Harris’ successful career as
a minister and said he started sev
eral months ago to engage Dr. Har
ris for these special services.
Those who have so far heard Dr.
Harris have been impressed with his
ability as a speaker, his grasp of
spiritual truths and his faculty of
entertaining and instructing the con
gregations.
The afternoon service, usually
held to forty minutes, is proving
popular with businessmen. The eve
ning service begins at 8 o’clock.
There have been large crowds and
there is a fine show of co-operation.
The Rev. L. F. Huckaby, pastor of
the Rockmart Methodist church, is
directing the singing, and has the
assistance of a large chorus. A
splendid song leader, Mr. Huckaby
has demonstrated that good singing
is a vital part of all church services.
A children’s chorus is a uniqe feat
ure of the evening worship period.
Ministers of churches in nearby
cities have shown their interest in
the revival by attending several of
the services and otherwise have
been helpful and co-operative.
The pastor and officers of the
church extend to people o/ the en
tire county a cordial invitation to
attend the services.
Boy Scouts To
Aid In Defense
Publicity Drive
POSTERS ADVERTISING DE -
FENSE BONDS DISTRIBUTED.
SCOUTS MAKE PLANS FOR
SUMMER OUTING
The Boy Scouts of America have
been called upon by the president
of the United States to distribute
the posters advertising the defense
bonds. Scouts of the Flint River
Council have distributed the first
supply of these posters in Upson,
Fayette, Henry, Butts, Spalding,
Pike, Lamar and Coweta counties.
That is the first call that the Scouts
have received in the present na
tional emergency. It is expected
that Scouts will serve in many other
ways in the near future.
To better train themselves in ser
vice Scouts will participate in a big
camporee at Camp Thunder this
week-end. Scouts will come in pa
trols and camp on their own, bring
ing their own equipment. The group
will swim, hike over the camp prop
erty, play games, enjoy camp fire
programs and learn camping. Those
patrols that qualify will receive the
camporee emblem.
Camp Thunder opens July 6 and
will run for seven weeks. The coun
cil expects to camp better than 500
Scouts for a full week each during
the summer season. For this sum
mer’s camping a great many im
provements have been made, in
cluding work on the lake, addition
al new tents and a complete new
troop camp site.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. MAY 15, 1941
g FOR AMERICOIIY COTTONS ? |
COTTO^fe^
Workers Here
Pledge Fealty
To Government
PROGRAM PLANNED SUNDAY,
MAY 18 FOR “I AM AN AMER
ICAN” DAY. SIX PROJECTS BY
WPA IN BUTTS COUNTY
Their fealty to the American gov
ernment and the American way of
life sworn to in signed statements,
39 Butts countians this week will
I join in the nation-wide celebration
of “America at Work Week.”
These 39 are on the rolls of the
Work Projects Administration and
to hold their position they signed
an oath that they are American cit
izens and are not members of any
organization the purpose of which
is to overthrow the American gov
ernment.
In the celebration the Work Pro
jects Administration and the local
sponsors have arranged to throw
the various programs in the county
open to the public from May 14
through May 21. The keynote of
the week will be the observation of
“I Am An American Day” on Sun
day 18. All through this week the
programs will invite the public to
see for themselves the work which
is being done in this period of na
tional emergency to preserve the
solidarity of American homes and
American families.
Butts county can boast of six
programs maintained by local spon
sors and the community service di
vision of WPA all of which are wel
coming visitors. These are the
school lunch room, adult education,
book repair, library, recreation, and
surplus commodities distribution. All
employees are being urged to offer
their services and participate in the
local celebration which will be a
part of the great national event “I
Am An American Day.”
While the program is particularly
designed for youths who have at
tained their majority in the last year
and naturalized citizens, the State
Department of Education has ask
ed the superintendents of schools
in the various counties of the state
to assume the rsponsibility of plan
ning a program for Sunday. The
Work Projects Administration of
this area is offering to lend what
ever assistance the superintendants
may require of them.
LIBRARY WILL OBSERVE
“I AM AN AMERICAN DAY”
The Butts county library will ob
serve ‘‘l Am An American Day,”
from May 14 to 18. The public is
invited to visit the library during
that period.
Beltwide Cotton
Week Drive Off
To Flying Start
FOURTEENTH ANNUAL CAM
PAIGN DESIGNED TO IN
CREASE USES OF COTTON
GOODS OVER THE NATION
Memphis, Tenn. Calling more
than 12,000 shock troops to the red,
white ’ and blue colors of National
Cotton Week, May 16-24, the Na
tional 1 Cotton Council today launch
ed jointly with the Cotton-Textile
Institute the year’s greatest cotton
merchandising event.
The' Council announced the mail
ing of complete community-wide
Cotton Week programs to all its
delegate-members and county com
mittee chairmen, to the 2,000 coun
ty and home demonstration agents
of the Belt, and to the 2,300 civic
clubs and 1,000 chambers of com
merce in the eighteen cotton-pro
ducing states.
The program provides places in
the Cotton Week promotion for
merchants, newspapers, theaters,
radio stations, outdoor poster com
panies, civic clubs, chambers of
commerce and public officials.
“Indications are that Cotton Week
this year will be the greatest single
cotton merchandising event ever
staged in the Belt,” a Council
spokesman said. “At no time in
the past have we seen such en
thusiastic arid whole-hearted re
sponse from both individuals and
organizations as is manifest this
year.”
Originated fourteen years ago,
National Cotton week is sponsored
by the Cotton-Textile Institute, the
National Cotton Council, and the
Cotton Consumption Council. It is
estimated that approximately 150,-
000 retail stores will participate in
the 1941 event.
MRS. HAM NURSE
SUPERVISOR FOR
FOURTH DISTRICT
Friends are interested to know
that Mrs. D. W. Ham, who has been
doing resident nurse work at the
Chapman Springs NYA camp, has
been named supervisor of nursing
in the Fourth District. Mrs. Ham
as director of NYA nursing for the
district will make headquarters in
Jackson. She has already assumed
the new connection.
Sh~ is considered most efficient
in nursing and recreation work and
was former health nurse for Butts
county. The program is a deserved
tribute to Mrs. Ham's experience
and ability.
More Men Will
Be Classified
By Draft Board
QUESTIONNAIRES MAILED ON
MAY 8 TO FIFTY REGIS
TRANTS UNDER ORDER TO
CLOSE WORK BY JUNE 30
Fifty additional Butts county
registrants, numbers 458 to 509,
were mailed questionnaires by the
Butts county draft board May 8.
Replies were ordered by May 12.
The local board was recently or
dered to classify all registrants by
June 30.
Mailed questionnaires May 8
were:
James Daniel Fogg, James Law
son, Arthur Clifford Stewart, J. C.
Stewart, Waymon Henderson, Wil
liam Thomas Fletcher, Robert Al
dean Smith, Everette Elva Hender
son, Leon Gordon Washington,
James Besley, Allison Settle Cook,
Arnold Judson Hearn, Jerry Newby,
Lewis Monroe Maddox, Tommie
Thornton, Lucius Lamar, Elbert
Phillip, Elzje Lee Minton, John
Morgan Wise, Johnny Andrews, Al-
bert Woods Reeves, William Henry
Stubbs, James Frank Whitaker, Nos
by Watson, Walter Alexander But
ler, Hiram Steel Pc-lk, Carlton Fleet
wood Moss, Rayford Willis Thomp
son, Grover Milton English, Paul
Heflin Taylor, Wesley Brown, An
drew Wilmer Kelly, Stanley Allmon
Washington, Grover Cleveland
Drake, James Henry Letson, Ohio
McDaniel, Homer Clifford Robin
son, William Marvin Kimbell, Bur
, /
roll Key Bailey, Earnest Williams,
Benjamin Byrd Garland, Homer
Chester Capps, Travis Harold
Reeves, Willie Fred Smith, Asa -Mar
shall Allen, Ohio Johnson, Johnnie
Oliver Roddy, Charlie Roland Lew
is, A. G. Goodrum, Earnest Redman.
Progress Made
On The Short
Route Highway
8188 COUNTY COMPLETES
GRADING TO THE MONROE
COUNTY LINE. NEW HIGH
WAY BE FINE TYPE ROAD
Grading on Jackson Short Route
has been completed to the Monroe
county line, but so far nothing has
been done in that county, says Eu
gene Anderson, conductor of the
“Around the Circle” column in the
Macon Telegraph. Writing of the
new highway Mr. Anderson says:
Through Bibb the road has been
given an airline direction from Col
lege street to and through Holton,
on up to the line of Monroe. Some
big trees and bigger rocks had to
be removed, but the engineers were
determined to make the road
straight, and they succeeded. Many
fine trees had to be cut down and
dug up in the grove of the late Capt.
R. E. Park at Holton, and a few
hundred yards beyond a great rock
deposit was encountered. This, too,
was blasted out.
People of eastern Monroe have
been counting on some improvement
of their situation for a long time.
They say they once had the most
valuable and best developed section
of the county, but after the sawmills
and boll weevils got through with
them, their outlook was not bright.
They still have some of the best
sources of tax income from their
water power, but lack of passable
roads has kept them at a standstill
for many years. In the rainy sea
sons of winter, they are sometimes
weather-bound for weeks at a time.
There is no local news on the short
route, Butts county commissioners
pointed out.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Youth Needs
Guidance, Dr.
Harris States
THIS IS AN AGE WHEN TRAIN
ED MEN ARE NEEDED MEM
BERS OF KIWANIS CLUB
TOLD TUESDAY NIGHT
The old definition of a scholar as
one who knew something about ev
erything has given place to the
present definition as one who knows
everything about something, Dr.
Pierce Harris, guest speaker at the
Kiwanis club meeting Tuesday night,
told members. It is an age of spe
cialization and trained men are
needed in business and in industry,
a fact brought to the front because
of the present national emergency,
declared Dr. Harris.
Youth needs guidance and wise
counsel and it is the mission of the
civic clubs to help shape and train
young minds in right channels, the
speaker said. In the age that will
follow the war the world will have
to be largely remade on the wreck
age of a decaying social order, and
youth will play an increasingly im
portant pnrt, it was explained.
Above all, Dr. Harris said, youth
needs to be taught the right princi
ples of worship. Civic clubs, ho
pointed out, can help by interesting
youth in the church. He quoted Dr.
James 1. trance, eminent Presby
terian minister, as saying the
“church is backed into a corner”
and must do something about the
problems that face civilization.
P. H. Weaver was added to the
committee of J. A..Gaston and W.
M. Redman to work .with the Thom
aston club in arranging entertain
ment for the California-Nevada dis
trict at the International convention
in June.
Guests of the club were Dr. R. L.
Russell, superintendent of the Grif
fin district, Kiwanian L. F. Hucka
by, president of the Rockmart club
who is directing the music at the
Methodist revival, and Kiwanian L.
W. Bluckwelder, president of the
Griffin club.
Dinner was served by the Wom
an’s Club, Mrs. O. A. Pound chair
man. The evening’s quartette was
composed of N. F. Land, B. Y.
Lunceford, R. P. Harrison and T.
E. Robison.
Rocky Creek To
Have Council
Meeting May 21
The Workers’ Council of the Kim
bell Association will be held at
Rocky Creek church May 21, be
ginning at 10 a. m. State leaders
will be present. The program fol
lows:
10 a. m., Song service; 10:16,
devotional, the Rev. Z. M. Lcverette;
10:30, report /of churches; 10:46,
message from the convention, the
Rev. G. A. Briggs. 11, song; 11:10,
sermon by Dr. C. L. McGinty, "The
Steadfastness of the Church;” 12
noon, dinner.
1:16 p. m., executive committee
meeting; 1:30, special address by
the Rev. Leslie S. Williams of
Barnesville, “Onward, God with Us;”
2:10, miscellaneous business, an
nouncements, adjournment
CHURCH OF NAZARENE
HAVE GUEST SPEAKER
The Rev. Harvey H. Crawford of
onroe, Ga., will preach at the Church
Monroe, Ga., will preach at the
Church of the Nazarone Sunday
night at 8 p. m. in the absence of
the pastor. The pastor, the Rev.
W. H. Boswell, will have charge of
the morning service. A special in
vitation is extended the public to
attend these services.