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VOL. 79—NO. 7
Billy Presley
Honored By Corn
Club of Georgia
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BILLY PRESLEY
Billy Presley, 10-year-oid son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Presley and
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. B. H.
Hodges, who as a 4-H club member
was a winner in the Butts Corn
contest sponsored by the Kiwanis
Club, recently was honored by elec
tion to the Georgia 100 Bushel Corn
Club. He is, probably the youngest
member of the state club composed
of those who have produced 100 or
more bushels of corn per acre.
The honor is one his friends ap
preciate and it is tribute to this fine
4-H club member that he was select
ed for statewide recognition. He is
a member of the fifth grade of the
Jackson grammar school in which his
mother, Mrs. Ruth Hodges Presley, is
a teacher.
In winning county and state hon
ors, Billy planted Georgia 101 hybrid
corn, and put two loads of stable
manure and 560 pounds of 4-8-6 fer
tilizer at time of planting. He side
dressed with 480 pounds of nitrate of
soda and had 11,468 stalks per acre.
His yield was 129 bushels per acre
and the cost was 40 cents a bushel.
R. C. Lunsford and B. H. Hodges
were adult farmers .who grew 100
bushels or more corn per acre and
were recently honored at the state
meeting of the 100 Bushel Corn Club
in Athens. Other Butts county farm
ers who have qualified for member
ship in the state group are Chester
O’Neal and W. C. Godsey.
Postmaster At
Flo villa To Be
Chosen By Test
An examination to fill the office
of postmaster at Flovilla has been
ordered by the United States Civil
Service Qommission. The examina
tion will be held at Jackson and the
receipt of applications will close on
March 6.
The fourth class office at Flovilla
pays a salary of $2,494.00.
The examination is open to all who
are citizens of, or owe allegiance to,
tjie United States who reside within
the territory supplied by the post of
fice for which this examination is an
nounced and who are at least 21
years of age, but not yet 65, on the
date of the .close of receipt of appli
cations for this examination.
Application blanks and full infor
mation about the requirements of the
examination may be secured from
the post office for which this exam
ination is announced, or from the
US Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington, 25, D. C. Applications must
be on file with the commission at
W T ashington, D. C. by March 6.
The date of examination will be
stated on admission cards mailed to
applicants after the close of receipt
of applications.
TOWALIGA CEMETERY TO BE
CLEANED BY 4-H MEMBERS y
The Towaliga 4-H Club will clean
the Towaliga Baptist church ceme
tery this year and anyone wishing to
give a donation will please see Mr.
Dewitt Singley or Mr. J. 0. Petti
grew.
Short Session
Criminal Court
Was Held Monday
The second week of Butts Super
ior Court was adjourned Monday af
ternoon after disposing of several
petty criminal cases. The February
term was one of the shortest on rec
ord in Butts county. Last week the
civil division held less than a day and
the same was true of the criminal di
vision meeting Monday morning.
The following cases were disposed
of during the day:
Charlie Wise and John Horton,
gambling, plea, 12 months suspended
and court costs.
Clayton Watts, John Middlebrooks,
2 cases of larceny, plea, 12 months
in each case.
Amos Dickson, 2 cases, public
drunkenness and drunk driving, plea,
12 months suspended or S2OO in first
case; 12 months or SIOO in second
case.
Annie Lee Williams, public drunk
enness, plea, 12 months or SIOO.
James Stewart, public drunken
ness, plea, 12 months or SIOO.
Buster Foster, possessing liquor,
plea, 12 months or $75; contempt of
court, $lO.
Jonas Price, contempt of court,
$5.00
Sidney Phinazee, public drunken
ness, plea, 12 months or SIOO.
Ben Wilkes Jr., two cases, burg
lary, plea, 2 to 5 years in each case.
Matthew Wilkes, 2 cases, burglary,
verdict, 2 to 5 years in each case.
TVA Group Comes
Here To Advise
REA Committee
W. R. Walker, head agricultural
engineer in the research department
of the electrical development branch
of the Tennessee Valley area, and
Miss Leßh Parker, TVA head home
economist, with headquarters at
Chattanooga, Tenn., with represen
tatives from each of the five TVA
district, were guests of R. F. Arm
strong, manager of the Central Geor
gia Electric Membership Corporation,
Thursday, February 7, at Jackson.
Purpose of the meeting was to
study the membership-education pro
gram of the Central Georgia Co-op,
especially the activities of the Power
Use Committee, under the leadership
of Mrs. Elizabeth Hood Watkins, di
rector of the co-op Power Use com
mittee and co-op economist, looking
toward the establishment of at least
one such organization in each of the
five districts covered by TVA. Mrs.
Watkins called on Mrs. Jim McMich
ael, Butts county Power Use leader,
who outlined the work as it is carried
on in each of the seven units in the
co-op area.
Others from TVA attending the
meeting were Mrs. George Gale of
Nashville, Tenn., Miss Dorothy Bar
bee of Jackson, Tenn., both home
economists; James A. Neely of Jack
son, Tenn., A. M. Legett of Tupelo,
Miss and W. H. Griffin of Wilson
Dam, Ala., all agricultural engineers,
whose research work includes such
projects as control of insect pests by
light and ultra-sonics.
The all-day conference included a
trip to the home of Mrs. John Butler,
co-op historian, to observe her com
pletely remodeled home; a visit to
the Jackson Presbyterian church, re
cently redecorated with emphasis on
j lighting, and the model first grade
class room of Miss Annie Lou Mc-
Cord at the Jackson elementary
school. Miss McCord spoke briefly on
the advantages of good lighting tow
ard pupil behavior
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14, 1952
Recreation For
Youth Is Needed,
Mrs. Davis Said
/ '
The Kiwanis club Tuesday night
was challenged by Mrs. Cynthia Da
vis, home demonstration agent, to
provide recreation for 4-H members
and youth of the county. Mrs. Davis,
speaker for the evening, was welcom
ed to the club and to the county by
Blackman Settle, program chairman.
In her talk, one of constructive
thought, Mrs. Davis told something
of the 4-H movement and by means
of graphs illustrated the several
points. In addition to the home, the
church and school, youth wants a
place where it can learn to be self
governed and creative and to do its
own thinking, to learn to get along
with people, to cultivate faith in the
future.
Mrs. Davis closed her interesting
talk by declaring the people of Butts
county are the most friendly she
has ever met in her work as home
agent. She mentioned that the for
mer 4-H club and Boy Scout camp
at Indian Springs is to be dismantled
and challenged the people to provide
needed facilities where youth can
meet and have clean and wholesome
recreation.
C. B. Guest of Athens was a vis
itor and John Pettigrew was present
from the Key Club. Lou Moelchert
was wished happy returns on his
birthday during the week.
Morrell Powell will have the pro
gram February 19.
Poultry Chain
Members To Get
Chicks March 1
Butts county 4-H club boys and
girls who are members of the Sears-
Roebuck Poultry Chain will get their
chicks on March 1, it is announced
this week at the office of the county
agent.
Each member enrolled in the chain
will be given 100 chicks by the spon
soring agency. The birds will be
grown out and shown at a poultry
show in the fall. The chickens will
then be sold and the proceeds placed
in a revolving fund to keep the work
going another year.
This project has been carried out
on a successful scale for the past
several years and Butts county mem
bers have produced some fine chick
ens for market and home use.
Personnel to receive the birds will
be announced in a few days by Mrs.
Cynthia Davis, home demonstration
agent, and B. B. Campbell, county
agent.
TOTAL $1,424 WAS
COLLECTED IN THE
DIMES CAMPAIGN
A total of $1,424 was collected in
Butts county for the March of Dimes,
County Chairman Ben Haisten re
ports.
This is the largest amount ever
collected in a similar campaign and
compares with S6BO realized last
year.
The quota was $2,000 and while
not realized in full, the showing is
considered a splendid one and is a
tribute to the hard work of the chair
man and assistants and the sponsor
ing agency, the Exchange Club.
In announcing the success of the
campaign, Mr. Haisten desires to ex
press sincere appreciation to all who
aided in any way, and to the public
for a hearty response in the fight
against infantile paralysis.
Registration To
Approach High
Record in 1952
If the present rate of registration
is maintained, it is possible that the
1952 registration will equal or ex
ceed the previous high of more than
4,000 in 1948.
Since the county political cam
paign got under way there has been
a sharp pickup in registration' ac
cording to records in the office of
Tax Collector Wayne Barnes. How
long this spurt will last remains to
be seen.
In the 1948 primary more than
4,000 voters qualified to vote. But in
1950 when the new registration law
was effective the number was redu
ced to 3,683. The new law was enac
ted for the purpose of preventing
\yhat the administration called “bloc
voting,” and as a result rigid stan
dards were set up and many Negro
voters were stricken from the list.
However, since that time the legis
lature has provided that registration
under the old or new law is valid.
Persons becoming 18 years of age
since 1950 may register and take
part in all the elections of the year.
New residents of the county who
have lived here a sufficient time may
also register and vote by securing the
proper transfer from the counties
where they formerly resided.
t
As is the case in all purely local
elections with several offices at
stake, interest is running high. The
vote then falls off in the state pri
mary and again in the general elec
tion. But the local contests are fol
lowed with such avid interest that
everybody wants to register and
vote.
Jackson Splits
With Spalding
Friday Night
Jackson High’s basketball teams
.played their last regularly-scheduled
games of the 1951-52 season Friday
night in Griffin when they tangled
with Spalding in two games, the local
girls winning the opener 21-11 while
the hosts took the nightcap 48-33.
A relentless Jackson defense that
held the Spalding sextette to but 11
points was the difference in the
girls’ game. Betty Sue Tomlin and
Rose Fretwell each contributed nine
points to help matters along but the
brilliant defensive play of Williams,
McCrary and Fletcher stole the show.
Jackson (21) Spalding (11)
Tomlin (9) F Colwell (2)
Bailey (3) F Beall (4)
Fretwell (9) F Woodward (5)
Williams G Morris
McCrary G Lassiter
Fletcher G Jones
Substitutions: Jackson —Thompson,
Crane, Gray. Spalding—Caldwell,
Leach, Bell, Shirey, Walker, Penn.
Coach Strickland’s boys ran into
more talented opposition and were
never able to close the gap that stood
at 23-13 against them at half time.
Aubrey Rooks, used but little this
season, showed that he could handle
a basketball equally as well as a
football, ringing up 14 points to lead
his teammates. Stansell accounted
for 21 points for the winners and
was a constant thorn in the Red Dev
il’s side.
Jackson (33) Spalding (48)
Evans (4) F Stansell (21)
McMichael (2) F McGuffey (5)
Smith (2) C Creghorn (11)
Funderburk G Trenton (2)
Fletcher, J. (5) G Boogs (1)
Substitutions: Jackson —Watkins
(2), Collins (2), Rooks (14), Davis
(2), Long. Spalding—Cody (2), Bar
field (5), Lewis (1), Carlyle.
Thieves Busy on Lake Front With
Motors, Furniture Among the Loot
Grand Jury To
Meet in April
To Study Taxes
The Butts county grand jury at
the February term of Butts Superior
Court recessed Wednesday, February
6, to meet again April 14.
General presentments were made
Wednesday afternoon. F. L. Maddox
was recommended for appointment to
succeed himself on the board of ed
ucation, and Harry W. Ball was rec
ommended to succeed L. J. Ball on
the board.
When the grand jury reconvenes
in April it will go into the matter of
uncollected taxes, it is explained.
There is about $16,500 for 1951 and
previous years in uncollected taxes,
according to an official announce
ment.
A substantial part of the taxes un
paid is backed by real estate, while
some is on old automobiles and is
considered of doubtful value, one
source said.
The grand jury met with the Coun
ty Commissioners and Sheriff Pope
and various suggestions were made
as to the best method to pursue in
collecting the past due taxes. Fi fas
were issued by Tax Collector H. W.
Barnes and the consensus is that he
has discharged his duty according to
law.
In order not to interfere with the
present political campaign, the grand
jury considered it wise to postpone
action until April when the county
primary will be out of the way.
As the question of such a large
amount of unpaid taxes becomes bet
ter known, there is a growing convic
tion that the matter will be brought
to a head when the grand jury con
venes again in April.
Planning Group
Meets Feb. 21
To Study Work
A countywide meeting of the Butts
County Agricultural Program Plan
ning Committee is scheduled at 7:30
p. m. February 21 in the county
agent’s office to outline objectives
for the next quarter. A full atten
dance of members is expected.
The question of expanding the
county’s poultry and livestock indus
tries will be among the subjects for
study. There was recently held here
an all-day meeting in the interest of
eggs and poultry and considerable in
terest is being shown, according to
County Agent B. B. Campbell.
A committee from the planning
group will meet with Butts county
feed dealers and endeavor to work
out a plan to finance the new pro
ject. Those starting in the produc
tion of eggs and poultry on a com
mercial basis will need help from
feed dealers, it is explained.
Following the meeting next week
there will be a better picture of the
future of the egg and poultry proj
ect.
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$2.58 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Thieves are running wild on the
Jackson Lake front, according to in
formation reaching The Progress A
rgus, and the theft of motors, refrig
erators, silver, furniture and other
things of value are reported.
An inquiry last week brought from
Sheriff J. D. Pope the statement that
the burglaries were confined largely
to the Newton and Jasper county
side of the lake.
This week, however, the Butts
county lake front has been the scene
of depredations, according to the in
formation reaching this newspaper.
One resident who maintains a cot
tage on the lake reported Monday
the theft of practically everything
in his cottage, including a refrigera
tor, silver, range, check book.
The Jackson Lake front, in Butts,
Jasper and Newton counties, has sev
eral hundred cottages and many of
these are occupied by people living
in Atlanta, Macon and other cities.
Most of them come down for the
weekend and others spend a consid
erable part of each summer on the
lake.
The cottage owners are substantial
citizens who have invested their
money in homes and spend a consid
erable amount of money with Butts
county business firms. The lake front
is the fastest growing part of the
county.
Officers have been alerted and
with the aid of the Georgia Bureau
of Investigation are seeking to break
up this racket, which unless checked
threatens to break up a tourist in
dustry that means much to the coun
ties involved.
Farm Machine Cos.
Give ’Cue Tuesday
For Butts Fanners
Carter Truck and Tractor Compa
ny and the Massey-Harris Implement
Cos., of which the former firm is
Butts county dealer, were hosts at
an elaborate barbecue dinner at the
Veterans Building Tuesday noon that
assembled some 150 farmers, busi
ness leaders, FFA boys and other
guests. The delicious barbecue and
Brunswick stew Was prepared by Ar
thur Stodghill and served by a com
mittee of local women.
During the day demonstrations of
Massey-Harris farm machinery was
held and proved of wide interest. The
implement company had assembled
in front of the Veterans Building a
sizeable array of tractors for inspec
tion by the farmers and guests. This
was an enjoyable feature of the day.
All the guests at the barbecue were
registered and after the fine meal
door prizes were given by the host
firms.
Those who attended the demon
strations and dinner left with the
firm conviction and hope that Messrs.
J. W. and Hubert Carter and the
Massey-Harris Cos. make this an an
nual affair.
BOY SCOUTS ATTENDED
METHODIST CHURCH SUNDAY
The Jackson Boy Scouts, Troop
No. 80, attended the Jackson Meth
odist church in a body Sunday morn
ing at the 11 o’clock service. A good
number were present and were ex
tended a hearty welcome by the pas
tor, Rev. Ralph Shea. Rev. Henry H.
Jones, district superintendent from
Griffin, was the visiting minister at
the morning service. He paid tribute
to the good work the Scouts were
doing and commended the members
and their leaders. Joe Bell, Scoutmas
ter, accompanied the boys.