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Sucksoi gripcss-l^ps VOL. 79—NO. 8 One Thousand Telephones Connected With The Jackson Exchange Office ~ t v ..'’g’"" — 1 ,! ; ||^| ® j| Jp I Ipk* ♦ • • I H.Wir' M J 9 K . j 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 ObiCTiiri. Wwt IA2J 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 HiHiL ’wtmMC i V -$^S ..v ■rrTi :3&j|PM- U , 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 I§§BB Jjr • ,<v-y ■>•*■ •>*** "BB 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 9 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 $2.88 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE 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.