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VOL. 79—NO. 8
One Thousand Telephones Connected
With The Jackson Exchange Office
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Mrs. Forest J. Johnson of Jenkinsburg using the one thousandth
telephone installed in her home on the Jackson exchange.
The 1000th telephone was recently
installed at the Jackson exchange of
the Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany.
The rapid growth of telephone ser
vice in the Butts county area is
shown" in figures quoted by A. T.
Ross, Griffin district manager. Since
February 1942 the number of tele
phones has increased from 320 to
1,000 the first of February of this
year, Mr. Ross explains. A break
down by years shows the following:
February 1942, 320
February 1947, 498
February 1948, 547
February 1949, 670
Supper To Launch
Iron Springs In
‘Year’s Contest
The Iron Springs community will
launch their Community Improve-
I ment contest Friday night with a
chicken stew supper. Every member
of the community is cordially invited
The Jackson FFA Chapter Join In
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The Jackson FFA chapter is join
ing with other chapters of the coun
try in observing National FFA Week
February 16-23. According to J. M.
L. Comer, leader, no special obser
vance is planned locally.
A release from headquarters says
this country needs 130,000 new
farmers every year if we are to
keep up our high rate jof agricultural
production. One of the most fertile
training organizations for these new
farmers is the Future Farmers of
America. Its members are farm boys
February 1950, 708
February 1951, 850
February 1952, 1,000
A good deal of this expansion at
the Jackson exchange is due to the
intallation of phone service in rural
areas. With the exception of the
Worthville and Fincherville areas,
designated for service this year, ru
ral areas of the county are adequate
ly served by the Bell system.
In addition to the expansion re
quired to serve rural areas, many
new residents have moved to towns
of the county and this has called for
many new phones.
to come and bring their families.
There will be a definitely planned
program and fun for all. Iron
Springs is going into the Community
Improvement program with the full
intention of winning. |
The Butts County Farm Bureau is
sponsoring this program in the coun
ty with SIOO.OO award money thus
far set up. It is hoped that more will
be given later.
studying vocational agriculture in
our rural high schols. There are 300,-
000 Future Farmers in the United
States and over 15,300 in Georgia.
Mr. Comer said that several events
are scheduled later in the year for
the local chapter. Officers of the
Jackson chapter are:,
Charles Coker, president; Hugh
Lee O’Neal, vice president; Eugene
Maddox, secretary; Ray Thaxton,
treasurer; Tommy McMichael, repor
ter. The local chapter now has 48
members.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 21, 1952
Cooking School
At Stark Named
For Feb. 27-28
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MRS. FRANCES McDOWALL
Sponsored by City Electric Shop
and with the Stark HD club as the
beneficiary, a cooking school will be
held at the Stark community house
Wednesday, February 27, at 2 p. m.
and Thursday night, Feb. 28, at 7:30.
The public is cordially invited to at
tend. There will be prizes awarded
by the sponsoring agency.
The cooking school will be under
the direction of Mrs. Frances Mc-
Dowall, home economist for W. D.
Alexander Cos., Georgia distributors
for General Electric products. She
has had long and varied experience
in this field, having formerly served
as home economist for a north Geor
gia electric utility company. She
holds a B. S. degree in home eco
nomics from the University of Cin
cinnati.
During the cooking school GE ap
pliances will be used and their use
and service explained by the com
pany and visiting specialist.
Voters To Ratify
Or Reject New
Jackson Charter
Legislation recently enacted by the
General Assembly which would cre
ate anew charter for the City of
Jackson and extend the city limits of
the municipality to incorporate addi
tional territory, must first be rati
fied by the voters before the act
becomes effective.
Introduced by Sen. Vincent Jones,
the bill remedies a defect in the pres
ent charter which did not meet the
required provisions as to local adver-'
tising, and extends the city limits to
incorporate the area between the old
and new McDonough roads.
The bill was amended in the House
by Rep. Dan Fears, making its pro
visions effective only upon ratifica
tion by the voters.
Under Rep. Fear’s amendment,
Section 1 of the bill, extending the
city limits of Jackson to include pro
posed additional territory, shall not
become effective unless the Act is
approved by a majority of the quali
fied and voting voters embraced
within such additional territory.
However, the Charter itself, with
the exception of Section 1, may be
come operative upon its approval by
a majority of the qualified voters re
siding within the corporate limits of
Jackson. •
The amendment also provides that
the Ordinary shall call an election
within not less than 20 or more than
60 days after the passage of the Act.
Separate ballot boxes will be provi
ded for those living within the city
limits and those in the territory pro
posed to be annexed.
BOYS IN SERVICE
Leßoy O’Neal, stationed at Fort
Jackson, visited his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. O’Neal, over the weekend.
Jackson Wins Fourth District Class B Championship
With Tremendous 38-34 Upset of Villa Rica Friday
Mr. Blackwell To
Leave Pastorate
At Stark Church
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REV. W. M. BLACKWELL
Resignation of Rev. W. M. Black
well as pastor of Macedonia Baptist
church at Stark to accept the pasto
rate of Oak Hill church in Griffin,
effective March 15, has been an
nounced.
Mr. Blackwell, one of the state’s
widely known ministers, came to the
local field on May 15 last year from
Cumming where he had served as
pastor for several years. During the
time he has served the Macedonia
church there has been an expansion
of all church work, with new mem
bres added, a large building program
completed and last fall the church
observed its 125th anniversary with
an all day program. While serving at
Macedonia Mr. Blackwell quickly
took his place as one of the leading
ministers in the Kimbell Association.
He is popular not only with the mem
bers of his owrt congregation but by
the people of the entire county.
Mrs. Blackwell has likewise proved
a capable worker and leader in all
phases of church work and commu
nity life.
The new conection at Oak Hill is
considered a deserved promotion for
Mr. Blackwell and scores of friends
here join in wishing him abundant
success in his new field of service.
Mrs. Powell Had
Class At Kiwanis
Meeting Tuesday
Mrs. M. L. Powell brought mem
bers of the Kiwanis club a rare treat
Tuesday night when she presented
members of her kindergarten class
in several numbers. Ten girls and
six boys appeared in the clever num
bers and the bright and attractive
children captured the hearts of the
Kiwanians completely. Mrs. Powell is
doing splendid work with these
belles and beaus of tomorrow and it
was a privilege for the club to wel
come such a charming group. Moth
ers accompanied the tots to the club
house for the program.
Appearing were Ann Adams, Beth
Barnes, Lisa Ball, Mary Ann Hunt,
Janice Peacock, Diane Rooks, Jan
Ridgeway, Janice Ridgeway, Judy
Weaver, Susan Powell, Joey Hassell,
Joel McClelland, Bruce Rowe, New
ton Etheredge, David Potts, Douglas
Freeman.
Members of the club were asked to
help get out the vote in the coming
county primary, and provisions of
the absentee ballot, how obtained and
voted, were explained by J. D. Jones
Sr.
J. Fred Ball, Atlanta, was a guest
of the club. The program for Febru
ary 26 will be announced by Lewis
Freeman.
A rags-to-riches Cinderella team,
Cinderella being synonomous with
Jackson, with upset victories over
two of the state’s top ranking sex
tettes on successive evenings, wears
the 1952 Fourth District Class B
crown as of Friday night, won by
inspired tournament play that trans
formed mid-season mediocrity into
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post-sesaon brilliance. The diadem
was won by a stunning, unexpected
defeat of Villa Rica in the district
finals, 38-34, played in the Jackson
gym before a capacity throng. Milner
captured the consolation game from
Manchester 33-31. >
Jackson’s season record of 11-6-1
furnished no indication of their
matchless tourney performance. They
had been an in and out team, blowing
alternately hot and cold. Full of fire
and determination their greatest
weakness seemed to be in beating
themselves. Coach Joe Bell honed
them to razor sharpness for the
tournament and turned loose a white
hot team, a team that couldn’t but
did, that singed and seared the best
the Fourth District had to offer in
spectacular and convincing fashion.
On Tuesday night at North Clay
ton, Jackson met and defeated Jones
boro 49-15, but Jonesboro was below
par this season and the score was
neither surprising nor indicative. On
Wednesday night they tangled with
the host team, North Clayton, and
emerged a 30-19 victor, with no real
importance attached to the win. Af
ter all, wasn’t Jackson meeting Mil
ner Thursday and wouldn’t this fine
Milner sextette, already twice winner
over Jackson and possessor of a 23-1
season record, 3how this upstart
Butts county team where to head in?
Ninety-nine out of a hundred thought
so, in fact, about everybody but six
girls. Even Coach Bell was on the
doubtful list.
Thursday night in a super-charged
game that will go down as a Fourth
District classic, Jackson pulled the
unbelievable and upset Milner 30-27.
It was inspired, determined ball that
downed the Milner juggernaut and
placed Jackson astride the path to
the championship.
Barring the road to the crown was
one last hurdle, perhaps the most
formidable of all. Villa Rica, all-con
quering Western Division titans, un
beaten in 25 games, faced Jackson in
the finals in what must have appear
ed to the favored visitors as a ridic
ulously easy game, sorta routine, a
long ride on a cold, rainy night just
to go through the formality of salt
ing away the district trophy. The
chips were stacked high in the center
of the table, winner take all, and the
joker in the Villa Rica deck was that
Jackson cut high card for the deal.
Jackson drew first blood in the
Jackson Plays
Pickens County
Wednesday Night
Coach Joe Bell’s amazing sextette,
winners of the Fourth District bas
ketball crown by virtue of some of
the most inspired and determined
play ever witnessed locally, will meet
their supreme test of the season
Wednesday night when they meet the
all-conquering Pickens County team
at 8:15 p. m. in the state finals in
Macon.
For the last two years, Pickens
County has won the state Class B
championship and has pieced togeth
er an unbelievable victory string of
105 consecutive triumphs.
In the Ninth District finals, Cum
ming extended the Pickens County
lassies severely . before succumbing
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opening minute when Joanne Waits
sank a layup and at one time in the
quarter had fashioned a 8-1 lead, but
the end of the first eight minutes
found Jackson ahead 10-7. The Villa
Ricans, sparked by the deadly accu
racy of star forward Joanne Wallace,
and the sharpshooting from the char
ity line of Joanne Hannah, pulled to
a half-time deficit of one point, 17-
18, after having tied it within the
clock’s red minute, only to see Waits
break the deadlock with a one-point
er. The game see-sawed in the third
period with Jackson ahead 26-25 at
the period’s end. Superb guard play
by Judy Fletcher, Mary Jane Wil
liams and Charlotte McCrary kept
the visitor's off balance and even
tually led to the victory.
Villa Rica died hard but seven
quick points early in the final quar
ter spelled doom for the great North
Georgia team. Betty Sue Tomlin cut
under the basket for a snowbird, Bil
lie Jo Bailey hit on a long set shot
and Joanne Waits hooked in a beau
ty. Tomlin, turned head over heels in
a flurry under the basket, bucketed
a free throw and school was out. The
now fearful and thoroughly aroused
visitors could never close the gap to
less than three points, and as the
clock ran out and it was obvious that
Jackson’s victory was assured, scenes
approaching hysteria were manifest
ed by the partisan Jackson crowd and
the final buzzer went unheard in the
babble and bedlam. The happiest and
most kissed man in Jackson was
Coach Joe Bell, who as always, wears
his honors with modesty.
The trophies were presented im
mediately after the game to the four
teams by J. E. Edmonds of the Jones
boro School.
In thi exciting consolation game
Milner edged past a fine Manchester
team 33-31. Janelle Torbert scored
17 points for Milner while Betty Jo
Shiver, one of the classiest players
to perform on the local court this
season, paced her team with 14
points.
Jackson (38) Villa Rica (34)
Wait. (19) F Wallace (18)
Bailey (6) F Hannah (10)
Tomlin (13) F Morrow (6)
Fletcher G Pope
William* G Morris
McCrary G Martin
Sub*: Jackson —Fretwell. Villa Ri
ca— (None.)
Milner (33) Manchester (31)
Domingos (12) F Ellerbee (7)
Morgan (4) F Teague (10)
Torbert (17) F Shiver (14)
Cramer G Morgan
Evans G Pike
Cook G Chapman
and this game, scouted by Jackson
coaches, gives rise to the hope that
another of Jackson’s inspired efforts
could achieve the basketball upset
of the* year in Georgia.
But win or lose, Coach Bell's girls
will be primed to make the supreme
effort their career Wednesday
night and hundreds of Butts county
fans are expected to be on hand to
cheer this fine Jackson team on to
victory.
Boys in Service
Edwin O’Neal, stationed at Camp
Gordon, spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Pickett.
Lt. Victor Carmichael Jr., U. S.
Air Force, is spending a leave with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Victor
Carmichael. He spent 18 months in
Korea and Japan and has just recent
ly returned to the States.