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VOL. 69—No. 16
Meetings Will
Extend Through
Sunday, April 19
mission preaching meets
WITH FAVOR. ATTENDANCE
IS INCREASING. EVANGELIST
IMPRESSES CONGREGATIONS
The county-wide Preaching Mis
sion which began on Monday of this
week at the Jackson Methodist
church, has been growdng in atten
dance and interest from the first
service. Powerful gospel preaching
is being done by the Rev. T. Perry
Brannon, pastor of the Gospel Tab
ernacle of Chattanooga, Tenn. His
messages are deeply spiritual, and
are delivered with such deep earn
estness that the hearts of those who
have heard them have been pro
foundly stirred. *
1 he Rev. Mr. Brannon is popular
ly known as the radio evangelist,
since for the past eleven years he
has broadcast regularly over radio
station WDOD. Throughout the de
pression, storms, tests, trials, and
hard-fought battles these radio ser
vices have continued. There has
been an expenditure of some $75,-
000.00. Some 110,000 cards and
letters have been received from lis
teners to these gospel programs.
Hundreds and hundreds of souls have
been saved, as well as backsliders
reclaimed. Many who were saved
have been called into the ministry,
and are now preaching the gospel in
various places.
In addition to the radio services,
some two hundred revivals have been
conducted by Mr. Brannon, and at
these thousands have been saved.
Churches and whole communities
have been blessed.
The Chattanooga Gospel Taberna
cle is another fruit of this ministry.
This tabernacle has sent out and
is supporting seventeen native evan
gelists in different fields. Mrs. Her- J
mon Dixson, and American, is being
supported as a missionary to Borneo
where her work is being richly bless
ed of God.
The Butts County Preaching Mis
sion was originally scheduled to
continue through Friday evening of
this week. However, the interest
and need have appeared so great
that the Methodist pastors of the
county have requested the services
to continue through next Sunday
night, to which the Rev. Mr. Bran
non has most graciously agreed.
Two services will be held daily at
10:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. for the
remainder of this week, including
Saturday. Three services will be
held on Sunday—ll:3o a. m., 3 and
8:30 p. m. The Sunday afternoon
service is to be a praise and conse
cration service for everybody, but
the young people are especially in
vited to attend.
Fine evangelistic singing is being
directed by Mr. C. E. McMichael,
and special music is being provided
by members of the choir and others.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend and profit by the re
maining services of this series.
tire board reports on
applications this week-
Report of the tire rationing board
shows these applications were acted
on :
J L. Whitaker, sawmiller, 2 tires;
Central Georgia Electric Member
ship Corporation, electric main
tenance, 1 tube; L. W. Pullin Jr.,
sawmiller, 2 tires; Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corporation,
electric maintenance, ? recaps; E.
M Wise, minister, 1 tire, 1 tube;
George Henderson, maintenance
workers car, 2 tires, obsolete; D. H.
McLeod, industrial workers car, 2
• res, obsolete; Y, L. Lummus, cat
lie hauler, 1. tire; T. M. Bentley,
sawmiller, 1 tire, 1 tube.
Old Fashioned
Revival Needed
In This Nation
MINISTER TELLS KIWANIANS
NATION NEEDS TO RETURN
TO OLD STANDARDS. REPORT
ON INTER-CLUB MEETING
In its greatest crisis, the country
needs an old fashioned revival and
vitally needs to return to the old
standards of truth, honor and right
eousness, members of the Kiwanis
club were told Tuesday night by the
Rev. T. Perry Brannon, widely known
evangelist, now conducting meetings
at the Jackson Methodist church.
Everything that America now is it
owes to the early founders and pa
triots who builded well on a founda
tion of sacrifice and toil and faith
in the ultimate triumph of right and
justice, the speaker declared.
The program was presented by J.
Avon Gaston, and invited for the
meeting were Rev. and Mrs. E. M.
Wise, Mrs. D. P. Settle, Rev. E. W.
McDoughall and Rev. J. F. Thomp
son.
Miss Pauline Mallet as chairman
of a committee from the Woman’s
Club served the fine meal.
A letter was read from Charles
Kemp, one of the members Kiwanis
has “loaned for the duration.” He
is now stationed at Columbus, Miss.,
and expressed appreciation for the
cards and letters mailed by the club.
Lieutenant Governor W. M. Red
man reported on the ninth division
meeting held Tuesday at Madison.
The next inter-club meeting will be
in Jackson at a date to be an
nounced.
Evans Given New
Term As County
Tax Equalizer
BOARD CONSISTS OF J. O. COLE,
J. H. PATRICK AND R. E. EV
ANS. BEGIN WORK ON BOOKS
FIRST OF MAY
The Butts county board of com
missioners have re-appointed R. E.
Evans as a member of the board
of tax equalizers for a six-year term,
dating from January 1, 1942.
The appointment, recently made,
was announced last week.
Other members of the board are
J. O. Cole, who has served for many
years, and J. H. Patrick.
The three-man board, provided for
under the state tax equalization law,
passed during the John M. Slaton
administration, has the responsibili
ty of reviewing tax returns and
equalizing the values of property in
various portions of the county. Prop
erty not returned to the tax receiver
is also placed on the tax digest.
The board will begin its duties on
or about the first of May.
BIG STILL OUTFIT
DESTROYED RECENTLY
BY LOCAL OFFICERS
Sheriff J. D. Pope and Policeman
G. W. Brooks report the capture of
a large still outfit in Towaliga dis
trict April 3. The outfit was one
of the largest destroyed here in
years, the officers reporting 4 big
undergrounders, about 4,000 gallons
of beer and 465 gallons of whiskey.
The still, in full operation, had a ca
pacity of 2 gallons per minute, the
officers said.
Arrested was a white man listed
as Eddie Gravitt, and one Negro,
name not immediately available. Es
caping was one Negro man.
The prisoners were turned over to
federal authorities in Macon.
Policeman Brooks reports the cap
ture of a small outfit in Buttrill
district April 11. There was no li
quor and no arrest.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1942
Gus Gray Lost
In Pacific, His
Family Advised
JACKSON BOY STATIONED ON
PEARY WHICH WAS SUNK BY
JAPS NEAR AUSTRALIA IN
ACTION FEBRUARY 19
His family has been advised by
the War Department that Gus Gray,
United States Navy, is reported as
missing and it is feared that he went
down with his ship, the Peary, sunk
in the Java Sea near Darwin, Aus
tralia, February 19, by the Japanese.
Mrs. Gray, a resident of Wash
ington City, tvas advised Saturday
that Mr. Gray:was reported missing.
She communicated with members of
the family in Jackson at once.
The Peary, Langley and Pecos
were reported several days ago as
having been lost in a naval action
in the southwest Pacific. At the
time of the announcement, news cir
culated that Mr. Gray was on the
Peary and was believed lost, but of
ficial confirmation was not made
until Saturday.
This is the first casualty from
Butts county in the present war, as
far as information shows. Several
Butts county boys were at Pearl
Harbor at the time of the attack
December 7, but with the exception
of some injuries none of the local
boys was wounded seriously.
Mr. Gray, son of the late Mr.
Henderson Gray and Mrs. Ida Gray,
was about 29 years of age. He was
born here and attended the Jackson
schools and about 12 years ago en
listed in the United States Navy.
He was home four years ago. For
three years he was stationed in the
Philippines. Since his first enlist
ment he had been advanced several
times and at last reports was serv
ing as a first class torpedo gunner.
It is comforting to his family and
friends to know that he died the
death of a hero.
Besides his wife, Mr. Gray is sur
vived by one brother, David Gray,
of Jackson, and a half-brother, Paul
Burford, of the Charleston, S. C.,
shipyards.
Youth Service
Sunday Proved
Great Success
MEMBERS OF 4-H CLUBS AND
PARENTS WERE HONORED AT
SERVICES AT FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH SUNDAY MORNING
Featured by a large attendance,
an interesting sermon by the pastor
and good papers by members, the
program at the First Baptist church
Sunday morning for 4-H club mem
bers and their parents proved one
of rare interest. This was the first
service of its kind held in the county
to honor 4-H club members.
The service came at the close of
4-H Club Mobilization Week and
was designed to call attention to
the large state and national member
ship and the important part that 4-H
club work plays in a world at war.
The pastor of the church, the Rev.
G. A. Briggs, delivered an interest
ing sermon for the occasion, direct
ing attention to the 4-H club creed
—Health, Heart, Hand, Head. He
lauded this youth movement as one
of the most important developments
of the present era, and handled the
subject in a broad and understand
ing way.
Members of the boys and girls
clubs took a leading part in the
program. Special songs were a part
of the service.
Many parents of the boys and
girls lent interest to the service.
First Baptist
j Church To Hold
Spring Revival
REV. L. O. LEAVELL OF NEW
NAN ENGAGED AS GUEST MIN
ISTER. SERVICES BEGIN NEXT
WEEK. AND RUN TO MAY 1
The First Baptist church of Jack
son will begin its spring revival
Wednesday, April 22, and the meet
ings will continue through Friday,
May 1.
The Rev. L. O. Leavell, pastor of
the First Baptist church of Newnan,
has been engaged as guest minister.
Rated as one of the able ministers
of the state, he has long been in
fluential in the affairs of the Bap
tist church and is a member of a
family prominent in that denomina
tion.
The singing will be led by the
Rev. Gaither A. Briggs, pastor of
the Frist Baptist church, and a song
leader of outstanding ability. He
will be assisted in the music by the
choir and the best singing talent of
the community and good singing will
be an enjoyable part of all services.
Two services are planned daily, at
8:30 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. The ear
ly morning service has been used
by the Baptist church here for the
past two years and appears to have
met with wide favor.
This year, because of war condi
tions, the revival will attract more
than the usual attention, since there
is a nationwide effort to mobilize the
spiritual forces to cope with power
ful enemies pledged to the overthrow
of the Christian church and all it
stands for.
The public is invited to attend all
these services.
Teachers Named
To Serve City
School System
BOARD OF EDUCATION AT RE
CENT MEETING ELECTED ALL
PRESENT TEACHERS FOR AN
OTHER YEAR OF SERVICE
At a meeting April 3 the Jackson
hoard of education re-elected all
teachers in the Jackson school sys
! tern. Superintendent D. V. Spen
cer had been elected a* an earlier
meeting.
The same salary schedule was
adopted, according to Dr. R. A.
Franklin, chairman of the board.
Elected for another year’s ser
vice are:
High school: J. F. Thompson,
principal and coach; Miss Mary Wil
liams, stenography and commercial
department; Miss Sara Beauchamp,
English; Miss Ruth Phinazee, His
tory; Miss Chloe Hearn, French and
first aid; Miss Eloise Freeman, sci
ence.
Grammar school: Miss Eva Comp
ton, seventh grade; Miss Elizabeth
Burney, sixth grade; Miss Lois Mc-
Michael, fifth grade; Miss Martha
Bond, fourth grade; Mrs. Eva Mae
Smith, third grade; Miss Elizabeth
Finley, second grade; Miss Annie
Lou McCord, first grade; Miss An
nie Lou McCord, truant officer.
COUNTY WORKERS
RECEIVED $293.00
DURING MARCH
Unemployment benefits amount
ing to $293 were paid to workers in
Butts county under the state unem
ployment compensation law in March,
Ben T. Huiet, commissioner of la
bor, reports. Number of checks was
reported at 30.
Payments for the month amount
ed to $552,074, the highest in vol
ume in any month since benefit pay
ing operations were started.
Official List Order Numbers For
Men in Third Registration Given
MINISTER FOR REVIVAL AT
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
JfraHr
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REV. L. O. LEAVELL
Two Holidays In
Schools Ordered
By Local Boards
CITY AND COUNTY SCHOOLS TO
CLOSE APRIL 24 FOR GEA
MEETING, APRIL 27 FOR REG
ISTRATION 45-65 AGE CLASS
Two holidays in the Jackson and
Butts county schools have been or
dered for the immediate future, April
24 for the Georgia Education Asso
tion meeting in Savannah, and April
27 for the registration ,of men in
the 45-65 age group. /
The April 24 holiday will afford
teachers an opportunity to attend
the state GEA meeting in Savannah.
Several from here are planning to
attend the session.
On April 27 teachers will have
charge of the registration of men
between 45 and 65 years of age.
Registration booths will be at all
school centers and the hours will be
between the hours of 7 a. m. and
9 p. m.
Teachers have assisted in con
ducting the three registrations to
date and will render valuable ser
vice in the forthcoming registration.
White, Colored
Youths Leave
For Army Duty
SEVEN WHITES SENT SATUR
DAY to fort McPherson
AND SEVEN COLORED LEFT
MONDAY FOR FORT BENNING
The nation's armed forces now in
creasing at an accelarated pace re
ceived additions this week when
the Butts County Selective Service
Board sent 7 white youths to Fort
McPherson and 7 colored boys to
Fort Benning.
Leaving Saturday for induction
at Fort McPherson were: James Ol
iver Beauchamp, Charles Daniel
Johnson, Joseph Lee Lockhart Jr.,
William Joseph Pope, George Wil
liam St. John, Warren Leonard
Evans, Rufus Lamar Bray.
Sent Monday to Fort Benning
were the following colored youths:
Obie Watkins, John Watkins, Wal
ter Claude Horton, Henry Grady
Laster, James Henry Berry, Ex
zempent Benton, Charlie Frank
Ridley.
PRESBYTERIAN. CHURCH TO
HOLD SERVICES ON SUNDAY
Services will be held at the .Jack
son Presbyterian church Sunday at
the 11 o’clock hour when the pastor,
Mr. William Hart, student at Co
lumbia Seminary, will preach. The
public is invited to attend this ser
vice. •
$2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
The Butts county draft board has
released for publication the complete
official list of the order numbers of
all the men who registered in the
third registration February 16,
1942, as determined by the recent
lottery held in Washington City.
The list, as handed to the Prog
ress-Argus for publication, is as fol
lows:
To simplify typesetting the letter
T and the numeral 10 have been
dropped from the order number. An
asterisk (*) follows the names of
colored registrants.
Order Serial
No. No. Name
327—T- I—lra Harrison Cawthon
227—T- 2—Charlie R. Trimble*
136—T- 3—Johnnie Frank Polk
350—T- 4—Thomas J. Goodrum
404 T- s—Chester Davis*
334 T- 6—Henry Head*
125—T- 7—Marcus Dewitt Moore
84—T- B—Dozier Bailey Brooks
240—T- 9—George Dewey Barnes
253—T- 10—A. B. Powell '
316—T- 11—Jim Henry Crawford*
411—T- 12—Obie Lee Roddie*
269—T- 13—John Milton Crowder*
114—T- 14—L. C. dowers*
243—T- 15—Wylie Burns*
407—T- 16—Howard B. Whitaker
155—T- 17—John Leonard Lyons
424—T- 18—Ed Lawson Long
110—T- 19—Luke Walker*
63—T- 20—Jess Freeman*
224—T- 21—Johnie J. Tyson Jr.*
374—T- 22—Elmore S. Benton*
341 T- 23—Oscar Morgan*
83—T- 24—James Robert Sims*
50—T- 25—Miles J. Ficeman*
44—T- 26—Paul Carr*
276—T- 27—Benjamin McKissick*
257 —T- 28—Frank Foster*
301— T- 29—Willie Goodman*
346 T- 30—Charles Samuel Jones
16—T- 31—Taylor T. Patrick
405 T- 32—Tommy Jester*
23 —T- 33—Louis H. Henderson*
103—T- 34—Oscar McDowell*
297—T- 35—Walter Mead Thurston
287—T- 36—Dewey Bennie Wise
280—T- 37—Ran D. Hoard
323—T- 38—Johnny Warren Gilbert
58—T- 39—-Austin Andrew Mills
35—T- 40—James Horace Stewart
236—T- 41—Enoch Jackson Byars
230—T- 42—Malcolm R. Smith
427—T- 43—Roy Lovess Lawson
302 T- 44—Ollie Vaughn*
378—T- 45—Douglas W. Mitchell
342 T- 46—Paul Ulysus Barlowe*
335 T- 47—Andrew Stodghill*
409—T-48—James Russell Cawthon
' 74—T- 49—Marquis W. Childs
311—T- 50—Herman J. Castellaw
48—T- 51; —Lucian Douglas Stroud
439—T- 52—Zelmer Lee Burford
27—T- 53—Herschel Glaze Harris
9—T- 54—Frank Woodfin Childs
18—T- 55—Cecil Wilson McGough
263—T- 56—Jefferson B. Roberts
252—T- 57—Dewey Hobson McLeod
369—T- 58 —Riley Clifford Moss
352—T- 59—Clomer Lynch
207—T- 60—Morris Shannon*
200—T- 61—Albert Harrison Kelley
229—T- 62—Archie Lee Kelley*
52—T- 63—Admirey Barkley*
296—T- 64—Simon Shannon*
197—T- 65—Lem Watkins
347 T- 66—Felton S. Bohannon
93—T- 67—Emory Morton Duke
70—T- 68—Virgil Eugene Landers
11—T- 69—Will Simms*
163—T- 70—Zenir Paul Farrar
397—T- 71—Lee Henson
367 —T- 72 John Mason Smith
247—T- 73—William J. Saunders
303 T- 74—Samuel Johnson*
188—T- 75—William 11. Freeman*
260 T- 76—Dewey Walter Cochran
40—T- 77—Harry Eugene Moore
182— T- 78—James Clarence Moss
261 T- 79—Ernest Ray Turner
119—T- 80—George W. Townsend
213—T- 81—Robert E. Vaughn
393—T- 82-—Benjamin M. Ogletree
249—T- 83—Bryant A. Williamson
78—T- 84—Walter Dewey Haynes
272—T- 85—Ernest Alvin Plunkett
245 —T- 86 —William Lloyd White
75—T- 87—Henry Dwight Gerald
21—T- 88—Thomas Floyd Coody
30—T- 89—Oscar Hay
417—T- 90—William H. Moncrief
266—T- 91—Calvin George Few
183— T 92—Johnnie Woodward*
340—T- 93—Smith Slaton*
113—T- 94—Tom Wesley Barkley*
244—T- 95—Waddie Slaton*
141—T- 96—Frank Allison Davis
202—T- 97—Otis Redmon*
190—T- 98 —John Taylor English
332 —T- 99 —Jim Henry Bridges*
85—T-100 —Richard Henry Fuqua
254 T-101—John Otis Moss
392—T-lo2—Thomas Lee Mills
290—T-l 03—Wallace J. James
395—T-l 04—Henry V. B. Hardy
131—T-105—Benjamin F. Reeves
51—T-l 06—Lee Preston Owens*
235—T-107 —Seth Harris Johnson
222—T-loß—Henry Frank Lawson*
101—T-lo9—Charlie Barnes*
366—T-l 10—Ernest Weaver
29—T-l 11 —Andrew Ray Kimbell
221—T-l 12—Claude Harkness*
130—T-l 13—Charlie R. I.abron*
255 T-l 14—Mick Carson*
361—T-l 15—William White*
426—T-l 16—Alfred Daniel Fish*
434—T-l 17—Stacer W. Washington
384—T-<llß—Curtis Mashburn
176—T-l 19—James R. Hammond
112—T-l 20—Will Barlow*
22 3—T-121 Rennie Gibson*
275—T-l22—Alvin Eugene Vaughn
147—T-l23 —Chester B. Harris Jr.
138—T-124—John Lee Burford
422—T-l 25—William M. Hilley
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