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Jackson Progress-Argus
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IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES, Jr.
Indian Springs -will never be the
same!
Bent and bowed under the impact
of the largest crowd in history the
usually staid and quiet park, oldest
in the state park system, bludgeoned
by the whims of an estimated 15,000
holiday revelers, almost gave up the
ghost but was saved by opportune
darkness for with another two hours
idle would have split at the seams..
They came early and stayed late.
From far and near. And every size,
;hape, color, creed and race. Indian
Springs for the day was the Coney
L land of middle Georgia and played
the part of host to the enormous
crowd graciously.
it was a happy, good humored
throng, taking advantage of perfect
weather, that broke all previous at
tendance records at the park. Eat
ing appeared to be the foremost
thought of the day judging from the
tempting array of food spread in
tiny convenient spot in the picnic
area or on the emerald lawns. It is
ti conservative guess that over I,ooo]
fryers made the supreme sacrifice
to make this also the best fed crowd
in history. Fried chicken was plen
tiful as redbugs and running a close
second were luscious, red water
melons hawked at 40 and 50 cents
hy foresighted vendors who had fer
ried a truck load from south Geor
gia.
Willis B. Powell, retired news
paperman, writer and Chamber of
Commerce executive, and native of
Indian Springs since 1926, stated
positively that this was the largest
erowd ever at Indian Springs and es
timated it as between 12 and 15,000.
Few could be found to disagree with
him.
Cars were parked in every con
ceivable place and the highway be
tween Jackson, Indian Springs and
Forsyth reminded one of the roads
converging on Athens the morning
of a Tech-Georgia game.
The modes of dress were varied
s the people. Two- ninety eight
playsuits were holding their own
-with $lB creations, silks were vicing
with voiles, and cotton generally was
Icing.
Saturday was but an interlude be
fore another onslaught Sunday. In
the interim citizens of Indian Springs
lire attempting to catch their second
wind.
South Georgia melon growers are
leaving to give away their products
in some cases because markets are
slutted. Lack of proper distribution
seems to be the main trouble.
The cotton outlook in this part of
the state is anything but bright. A
late, cold and wet spring and insect
damage has set the crop back and
picking will be late.
Consumers do not have much to
crow about these days. Prices are
4>eing hiked constantly and how to
make ends meet is the $64 question
shut is worrying most people.
For the next several weeks the
picking, packing and shipping of
peaches will make Central Georgia a
-beehive of activity. School boys and
gpsrls are helping to save the peach
Georgia may well pat itself on the
•hack that so far it has had no sen
's s floods or storms.
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
Often times events that occur
when one is aw'ay from home and in
the most unlikely circumstances tend
to bear out pet theories that have
been harbored, with some misgivings,
for years.
Such an. event transpired at a re
cent convention of a national civic
group which we were privileged to
attend and though the significance
of the occurrence within itself is as
nothing, yet hidden within its appar
ent insignificance it what we believe
to be the key to human nature.
This particular group needed more
money to finance its office and ad
administrative force. Its treasurer
cited figures to support such claim.
At the time, sentiment was evenly
divided as to whether the proposed
raise in dues would be approved. A
member of the organization from a
western state took the floor and be
gan an ill advised denunciation of
officers, the trustees, and those on
the finance committee, charging
them with inefficient handling of
funds.
Boos and cat-calls answered his
every vicious charge. Sentiment
which had been evenly divided on
the question now swung sharply to
support the officers whose character
he had tried to besmirch. On a voice
vote the motion was carried with
only two dissenting voices being
heard.
It goes to prove, we believe, that
you cannot attack or question the
motives of men who have devoted
their lives to unselfish service to
others. Especially when such service
is without financial reward. There
are, quite naturally, outspoken and
carping critics of men and women
who place their lives on such a high
plane. We have cited the example of
one such critic. His charges and his
false thinking was defeated 1,000
to 1. And we believe that to be the
normal ratio between friend and foe
of men who carry the burden of
leadership.
The leader of any group is at a
distinct disadvantage. He cannot en
joy the friendly, carefree associa
tions that the members of the group
prize so highly. His is the burden,
not only of leadership—and who
would say it is not difficult to lead
when there are so many paths one
can follow —but of the responsibility
that accompanies it. And add to
these burdens the fear or doubt
that he might have, after hearing
some chance remarks of one of his
group's critics, that he is not doing
a good job and you saddle the bur
den of leadership with more weight
than the average man wants or is
able to carry.
, The logic that it is more blessed
to give than to receive is indisputa
ble. All who have given a little ehilld
a piece of candy and watched his
face light up with happiness know
the eternal truth of it.
The same urge that prompts men
to give unto chilldren also stirs them
to give of their time and talent to
the development of their schools,
churches, homes, towns and states.
And they are blessed by the growth,
spiritual and material, of the objects
of their love and affection.
There is no form of mankind
more closely associated with the par
asites of nature than that man who
continually takes from his communi
ty all that he possibly can and never
offers to repay, with interest, the
debt he owes.
A man or woman who is not gen
uinely interested in some worthwhile
organization but whose sole purpose
in living is a selfish, but vain, search
for pleasure is keying his life to a
false note. Nothing good can come
from selfish seeking for pleasure
but at some future time the realiza
tion that an unfruitful life has just
about been spent.
It is good to know that the carp
ing critics are overwhelmingly out
weighed by those who are willing to
suport and help carry the burden
of clean living and honest thinking.
But can't the critics make a lot of
noise at times?
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
SPECULATIONS
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%:-k AND
|/M OBSERVATIONS
By MADAME ROAMER
We heard that the Freeman Lands
were contemplating moving to At
lanta some time soon—in fact as
soon as they can find a house which
suits them. Here’s hoping that it will
be a Jong time before they find that
house. Jackson would hate to give up
so fine a family . . . Howard Bailey
reports that his brother, Captain
Charles S. Bailey, whom he has been
visiting in Washington, D. C., is now
on his way to Pearl Harbor where
he will be stationed for some time.
Pearl Harbor is not anew haunt for
Charles because he has spent many
years in Hawaii during the thirty
years he has been in Uncle Sam’s
Navy . . . Now since sugar is ‘‘free”
we haven’t any excuse for not mak
ing pies ’n rolls but the extremely
hot weather. Sometimes we almost
wish we could offer the excuse that
we haven’t enough sugar to make a
dessert to the Boss, hoping that he
would forget that it is plentiful now.
We have heard so much about balan
ced meals until we think now we
are getting our’s overbalanced . . .
Hazel Turner and her friend went
out to pick enough blackberries for
her mother to make a pie. When her
mother inquired about the quantity
she found out that she ought to have
asked the number in the bucket. Not
enough to make a cup pie. Hazel
said they “et ’em up” . . . We hear
that Roger W’oodward, with the U.
S. Army since his graduation from
West Point about 12 years ago, and
now a full Colonel, is attending a
military school in England. We pre
sume Roger knows everything there
is to know about Military in this
country and is taking some lessons
from the Royal Armies . . . GLIMP
SED HERE AND THERE—Eliza
beth Robison pulling down the flap
on the U. S. mail box the second
time to see if her letter went down
O. K. . . . Carmie Thrasher gracious
ly substituting for the regular pian
ist at the Presbyterian church last
Sunday . . . Levi and Eleanor Wal
ker Ball just back from their wed
ding trip tidying up their home on
West Second Street . . . Davy Fletch
er Lee and her son-in-law and daugh
ter, Sam and Mary Lee Piei-ce, of
Ephrata, Penn. Davy was showing
them all the points of interest in and
around Jackson . . . Florrie O’Neal
holding the light for Byrd to work
his garden. “Too hot to work in day
time” says Byrd . . . Nettie Rae Pitt
man spilling a tray of drinks in the
middle of the street when Avon Gas
ton gave a wicked blow from his car
horn at close range . . . Master Bert
Carmichael asking “Hutch,” J. M.
Hutchinson, that is, if he wanted a
shine. “How long have you been
shining shoes,” asked Hutch. “Ever
since I was one year old,” said six
year-old Bert.
Prospects were never better for a
good corn crop in this section. There
is an old saying that when it is wet
enough for corn it is too wet for
cotton and this seems to be true this
year.
Georgia, according to a report by
Governor Thompson, has obtained
more than five thousand new indus
tries in the past few years. It is up
to home communities to support
them and make them prosperous and
successful.
Growing cotton under present
conditions is a rich man’s game, ac
cording to many growers. King Cot
ton is sitting on an unsteady throne
in this region.
The July 4 holiday has been hurd
led and this is a reminder that 1947
is more than half over. Soon the
busy crop and trade season will be
at hand.
Looking Backward
Through The Files
News of 40 Years Ago
Miss Berta Duke and Tom Caw
thon were married Saturday.
Prince Harris, colored, possibly
the oldest man in the state or the
South, died at the age of 111 years
in Jackson June 30.
News of 30 Years Ago
Dr. Roy Gunter was commissioned
first lieutenant in the medical re
serve corps.
Jackson baseball team defeated
Forsyth in two games July 4..
Hugh Mallet and H. O. Ball an
nounced plans to install a feed mill
in Jackson.
Morris Redman was appointed
calendar clerk in the house of repre
sentatives during the legislative ses
sion.
For benefit of Red Cross chap
ter Jackson merchant team was to
play Jackson regular team Monday.
News of 20 Years Ago
Mrs. R. A. Franklin, Mrs. J. B.
Settle, Mrs. David Settle and Mrs.
R. W. Mays joined Representative
R. A. Franklin in Atlanta Saturday
and attended the reception given by
Governor and Mrs. L. G. Hardman.
H. L. Allen, W. F. Newman, Paul
Tyler and H. G. Wiley were ordain
ed as deacons in Jackson Baptist
church.
Miss Lucile Jordan, Perry, was
elected as expression teacher in the
Jackson public schools.
Attending Georgia Rural Letter
Carriers Association in Atlanta were
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Grant, Mr. and
Mrs. V. W. Fretwell, G. H. Thomp
son, J. C. Redman and H. B. Whit
aker.
News of 10 Years Ago
Plans were made to entertain the
State Singing Convention in Jack
son July 11.
The 1937 cotton crop was esti
mated at 34,192,000 acres.
A report showed 583 killed in
July 4 holiday accidents.
Miss Elizabeth Towles was elected
Welfare director in Butts county.
Bob Carmichael and Richard Wat
kins were attending summer school
at Georgia Tech.
Jackson city council sliced light
and power rates to save customers
an estimated $1,400 per year.
Ralph Carr caught a 180 pound
Warsaw grouper at Daytona Beach
and brought home the ‘‘evidence”
to prove his fish tale.
One divorce in every two mar
riages is the record now predicted.
It is not a healthy sign for the na
tion.
First cotton blooms have been re
ported. Now for more and bigger
watermelons.
Scrapings From
Hard Scrabble
dear editer,
The only crops what we is got that
is good is morning glories, dog fen
nell and cow itch. We never is seen
the like uf them. We gointer learn
ter stew mornin glories. We know
Miss Lizziebeth Hood is got a reseet
for makin it. She knows evything
else. We got ter find sumpin what
is easie ter grow. Looks like our
chickens aint doin much. Looks like
they all got the big craw. Judgin
from our bills fer the chicken feed
we erlows that they all mout have
too big er craw.
We aint bout ter perish tho. Old
Bess done found anew calf and we
goin ter have plentie uf milk. Soon
as one goes dry ernother one comes
in. The Lord will provide or help
Old Bess ter previde.
We use ter hear smart folks say
that the clouds would be sunshine
termorrow and we think termorrow
done got here. Mouty hot evey day
out this way.
So long.
Susie Stuckey
Charter No. 13897 Reserve District No ‘ 6
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
JACKSON NATIONAL BANK
OF JACKSON
In the State of Georgia, at the close of business on June 30, 1947.
Published in response to call made by Comptroller of Cunency under
Section 2511, U. S. Re.vised Statutes.
ASSETS
1. Cash, balances with other banks, including reserve
balance, and cash items in process of collection 595,948.96
2. United States Government obligations, direct and
guaranteed 924,290.88
3. Obligations of States and political subdivisions 74,731.07
4. Other bonds, notes, and debentures 30,157.50
5. Corporate stocks (including $3,000.00 stock of Federal
Reserve bank) 3,000.00
6. Loans and discounts (including no overdrafts) 283,909.94
7. Bank premises owned $8,600.00, furniture
and fixtures SI6OO 10,200.00
11. Other assets 247.22
12. TOTAL ASSETS $1,922,485.57
LIABILITIES
13. Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations $1,730,045.32
15. Deposits of United States Government (including
postal savings) 20,221.75
16. Deposits of States and political subdivisions 50,133.42
18. Other deposits (certified and cashier’s checks, etc.) 2,508.19
19. TOTAL DEPOSITS $1,802,908.68
24. TOTAL LIABILITIES $1,802,908.68
CAPITAL ACCOUNT
25. Capital stock:
(c) Common stock, total par $50,000 50,000.00
26. Surplus 50,000.00
27. Undivided profits 19,576.89
29. TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS .___s 119,576.89
30. TOTAL LIABILITIES & CAPITAL ACC0UNT5__51,922.485.57
MEMORANDA
31. Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and
for other purposes 115,000.00
State of Georgia, County of Butts, SS:
I, J. W. O’Neal, president of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear
that the above statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
J. W. O’NEAL, President
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of July, 1947.
NETTIE RAE PITTMAN, Notary Public, State at Large.
CORRECT—Attest:
T. E. Robison, H. O. Ball, W. O. Ball,Directors
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(Formerly Hodges & Hodges)
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