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Jackson Progress-Argus
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IT'S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES JR.
Maurice and Juanita Carmichael
got to Durham the hard way, ticket
wise, that is. In company with Jim
and Evelyn Howell they set sail via
motor Friday afternoon for the
North Carolina city that Bull Durham
made famous or vice versa, after a
last minute stroke of good fortune
put the Carmichaels into possession
of two precious ducats. Jim and Ev
elyn secured their tickets through
friends in Smithfield, N. C., but Mau
rice had to learn that advertising
pays before he came through with
two last minute pasteboards. Maurice
exhausted all his Atlanta contacts the
first of the week without avail in
search of tickets, and at one time the
trip seemed destined to fall through.
In a last measure gamble he placed
an ad in the Journal Want Ad col
umns Thursday and got an immediate
nibble which produced the tickets, he
making a trip to Atlanta the same
evening to obtain the hard-come-by
ducats. This little saga shows to what
xtent a bona fide football “bug
will go to follow his team. And well
night all Tech men feel proud of
this ‘52 juggernaut, one of the En
gineer's finest, tha t threatens to
sweep through to an undefeated, un
tied season. But of course, in the re
mote event that Duke upends the
Techs then it could be just as well
that Maurice is in the company of a
doctor, for it’ll be a long ride back,
that road from Durham to Jackson
. ... To my mind one of the most
interesting programs ever presented
here was the one last week at which
the two Tech exchange students were
presented by the International Rela
tions Committee of the Jackson
Business and Professional Women’s
Club. Their appearance here was ar
ranged by Miss Sue Ryals, IRC chair
jnan, and to her go the sincere thanks
of those present for bringing this
most unusual program. The students,
Yasuhiro Mutsumoto of Japan and
Gottfried Griener of Germany, were
so well liked and warmly received
by the members and guests of the
B&PW Club, that they received an
invitation to the Kiwanis Club and
several offers of Sunday dinners.
They promised faithfully they would
return and we are looking forward
to their next visit .... This is about
the time of the year that a friend
walks up to you, throws an arm about
your shoulder in ultra affectionate
fashion and pops the old question,
‘Do you know where?” If you have
not already guessed, the remainder
of the interrogation without excep
tion goes, ‘‘Do you know where I can
get a coupla tickets to Tech-Geor
gia?” And so the frensied search for
these priceless gems will continue
until 2:00 p. m. Saturday afternoon,
November 29, at which hour the Bull
dogs of Georgia will be sacrificed to
the Tech powerhouse in a gory two
hour spectacle on Athens’ Sanford
Field. The score won’t be close, for
this year Georgia is AA caliber while
Teen is strictly major league, but
the mad quest for tickets will con
tinue apace till the kickoff. It can be
caid that tickets may be had if the
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
With one political stew barely
done, Georgia’s ever-boiling political
pot was simmering Monday with the
addition of at least one ingredient
that threatened to burst a hoped-for
political calm wide open.
Speaker of the Georgia House
Fred Hand tossed the bomb-shell
Saturday when he announced that
constitutional bills will be introduced
in the next General Assembly propo
sing that Georgia abandon its pres
ent system of electing county school
superintendents.
Backing Hand’s proposal will be
two state school groups, the Georgia
Education Association and the Geor
gia Association of School Adminis
trators.
According to Hand, at least two
bills will be submitted to the Gen
eral Assembly. Under one proposal,
the present practice of appointment
of county board by the grand jury
would be continued. The board would
then appoint the superintendent.
As an alternate, another measure
would provide for the election of
board members by local voters, if
two consecutive grand juries recom
mend such a practice. The board,
elected by the direct vote of the
people, would then appoint the su
perintendent.
Many Georgia counties already
have the authorization to have their
county ( school superintendents ap
pointed by local school boards. This
has been accomplished by passing lo
calized constitutional amendments.
However, under the terms of the
proposals outlined by Speaker Hand,
all counties would comply with the
regulation and the election of county
school superintendents by a direct
vote of the people would be a thing
of the past.
Since this question is one that will
come up next January and Georgians
have been briefed on its arising,
there is time for much serious think
ing on the subject by all interested
citizens.
Georgians are united in their de
termination to separate school ad
ministration from politics but cer
tainly there will be a wide differ
ence of opinion as to how this can
best be accomplished.
If a five-man county board ol
education is to be elected by the peo
ple and given the power to appoint
the superintendent, then it seems to
us that you have taken one election
and divided it into five smaller ones,
with the board candidates receiving
the backing of the various candidates
for the superintendent’s job. And
you have not taken a great step tow-
pocketbook can keep pace with the
demands of the flesh. The prices will
go higher as game time nears ....
After the election the only thing
solid in the South is the Tech line
. . . . Bob Schloss, Georgia cage star
of recent vintage and assistant foot
ball coach at Manchester alongside
Georgia gridder, Herb St. John, told
me Thursday night that “Jackson’s
No. 10, Jimmy Evans, is the finest
running high school fullback I have
ever seen.” That is praise indeed
from a coach whose team ran rough
shod over Jackson to the tune of
35-7 on our home field. Jimmy was
one of the heroic figures in Jackson’s
lost cause and is one of the finest
boys in Region 3-B football, on and
off the field. He is a great team
player, always trying his hardest, a
delight to coach and an inspiration
to the team. He closes out his high
school grid career against the Geor
gia School for the Deaf here Friday
night. Be on hand to cheer Jimmy
and the other seniors on to victory
in their last game for the Red and
Black .... Sign glimpsed in Atlanta
office: “Don’t Bother Me. I’m an 8
Ulcer Man on 4 Ulcer Pay” . . . .
What will Durante do for a TV pard?
Ike and Mamie have no daughter to
take Margaret’s place .... Mink
coats in Washington may be sold to
provide one-way tickets out of the
capital as the exodus begins in Jan
uary.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS- ARGUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA
ards ridding your school administra
tion of politics.
On the other hand, if a grand-jury
appointed board is to be given the
authority to appoint the superinten
dent, then, too, politics might rear
its ugly head and various candidates
for the board and superintendent’s
job would be trying to influence the
jury in its selection of board per
sonnel.
But regardless of which side wins
out, or if we retain our old system
of direct election of school superin
tendents, Georgians must not be sold
a bill of goods about the divorcement
of their school system from poli
tics.
Under our present scheme of
things, politics is in everything,
school, church, social and civic clubs,
business and every other field of
human endeavor.
Let us not engage in a false cru
sade to kill a giant with a popgun.
For the game of politics, which is
nothing but the fine art of human
relationships, will be with us long
after the hunters terminate their
witch hunt, slated to begin in Jan
uary. .
RICHARD W. WATKINS, JR.
Lawyer and Counselor at Law
General Civil and Criminal Practice in State and
Federal Courts with a Specialty in Taxation.
Private Offices in Home on Dempsey Street
(Behind Jackson Baptist Church)
Phone 6671
Jackson, Georgia
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Americans of every political faith
would do well to get behind the nom
inee and present a solid front to the
world at large. National unity is
greatly needed in America.
Because of the severe summer
drought there will be no record
yields of corn and cotton in Georgia
this year—not in this area at least.
The contests, which have already
accomplished great good—must go
*on in the future. Butts county is
proud of the progress already made
in increasing yields of corn and cot
ton.
A good resolution for all Georgians
would be to forget the rancor and
bitterness of the political campaign
and unite for greater industrial and
agricultural development.
Now that the general election is
behind us it will be desirable if
Georgia embarks upon a large cam
paign of construction for the new
schools that are badly needed. There
is scarcely a county in the state that
does not need new and modern school
buildings and facilities.
The Armistice season is again at
hand and surely the people of Amer
ica will not forget the sacrifices
made by the men in World War I and
in the other wars in which the nation
has since engaged. The nation honors
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He’s found from experience that the service
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1952
I itself in honoring the men who
! brought victory through hardships
and suffering.