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Of 80—NO. 14
Vs. Garland Is
■osen As Head
■ Eastern Star
BPm
jeers to serve Jeptha chapter
■ r Eastern Star have been named
Mollie Garland, worthy rna
-3 b. Garland, worthy patron;
■ Beulah Armstrong, assistant
■ on , with Mrs. Betty Peek pro
m Charles Rooks, assistant patron,
Ralph Carr Sr. pro tem; Mrs.
Bankston, secretary, with Mrs.
Earnhart pro tem; Mrs. Ruth
treasurer, with Mrs. Martha
pro tem; Miss Doris Singley,
with Mrs. Madge Pick
fctJH tem; Mrs. Mae Carr, associate
with Mrs. Louise Thurs-
Hpro tem; Mrs. Leslie Redman,
with Mrs. Lollie Rooks pro
■. Miss Pauline Mallet, marshall,
Mrs. Willie Wade pro tem.
Madge Godsey, organist, with
fl. Ada Miller pro tem; Mrs. Imo-
Goff, Ada, with Mrs. Nan Mc
■ald pro tem; Mrs. Florigene
Ruth, with Mrs. Flora Stodg-
X pro tem; Mrs. Ruby Singley,
Hier, with Mrs. Fanny Nutt pro
H; Mrs. Sara Yarborough, Martha,
Mrs. Sandra Johnson pro tem;
Mary Castellaw, Electra, with
H. Dolly Bailey pro tem; Mrs.
Bobo, warder, with Mrs. Ethel
Hley pro tem; Herman Castellaw,
Htinel, with Tommy Thurston pro
B'ancy Goff, sweetheart; Bryd
mascot.
committee; Mrs. Clyde
Mrs. Van Jones, Mrs. Julia
Relief committee: Mrs. Madge
Charles Rooks, Mrs. Mollie
Visiting committee: Mrs.
He Carr, Mrs. Ruby Singley, Mrs.
Miller.
will be installed at a meet
ill in the Masonic hall Thursday,
Bil 9, at 8 p. m. with Miss Ernes
|B Adams of Thomaston represent
raj the grand lodge, in charge.
■ng-Cristiani
■reus in Griffin
In April 7
■"he circus is coming to Griffin
Hesday, April 7, when the King
■s. and Christiani combined cir-
I® exhibit at the Kiwanis Fair-
under the auspices of the
Business Club.
■'raveling with the circus are 600
in addition to 30 advance
Twenty-two tents covering 12
of ground house the transient
in the daytime.
Burned for its menagerie, declared
■be the finest traveling zoo in the
Bid. the circus also features world-
Bious acrobats, equestrians, animal
Bners and many daring acts not
Bdicated anywhere.
will be given at 2
B 8 p. m. Doors will be opened an
B>r earlier to permit an inspection
zoo.
BA SELLS HOLLANDS
W help renovate
B-D AUDITORIUM
to Holland’s maga
■e ill be solicited by volunteer
■A workers through Monday, April
to Mrs. Evelyn Apple,
of the local chapter.
B r Jr.ds derived from the magazine
■ applied on the PTA-project of
-and renovating the Jackson
H Err,rn£r school auditorium.
B- g the subscription drive in
c jrnirlUß ’-ty in the county. Hol
h ' KP -o'*n as The Magazine of
■ sells for SI.OO per year.
Sandra Cox To
Head Revival At
Nazarene Church
SANDRA COX
Sandra Cox, the child evangelist,
who was here about one year ago is
returning this week for revival ser
vices at the Church of the Nazarene.
The services begin April 3 and extend
through April 12.
Services will be held daily at 7 :30
p. m. except Sunday when the hours
will be 11 a. m. and 7:30 p. m.
Friends here will be glad to know
that Miss Cox is coming here for a
return engagement. Thousands have
heard her in services in the southern
states, Indiana and Illinois.
Sandra is not a show, but a 13-
year-old girl called of God, and filled
with His Spirit and is a divine mir
acle of His Grace. Everyone enjoys
! her beautiful singing as well as ap
preciating her gospel messages.
The public is cordially invited to
attend these revival services.
The Methodist
Church To Have
Easter Program
Easter services in the Jackson
Methodist Church will begin with a
special early-morning observance of
Holy Communion at 7:30. The adult
choir will sing a selection with the
young people’s group. Judy Fletcher
will give an Easter poem, and Ran
dolph Long, also of the Youth De
partment, will bring the Easter scrip
ture reading. Following these num
bers the Lord’s Supper will be ob
served by the congregation partici
' pating in the ritual.
Sunday school will be held at the
usual 9:45 a. m. hour with special
emphasis on Easter.
The 11 o’clock service will include
special musical numbers by the choir
and the Easter sermon by the pas
tor.
A special baptismal service for
babies will be held at 4 p. m. Sev
eral small children will be dedicated
to the Lord at that time.
The Youth Fellowship will meet
at the usual time 7:15 p. m.
A speeial feature of the 8 p. m.
worship service will be special Eas
ter music by the Children’s choir
and the reception of children who
have been trained for membership
in the church.
A cordial invitation is extended to
all to attend these services on Easter
Sunday.
VISITING SPEAKER WILL BE
AT IRON SPRINGS FB FRIDAY
A speaker from Macon will speak
on Blue Cross insurance at a meet
ing of the Iron Springs Farm Bu
reau chapter Friday, April 3, at the
community house. Picnic supper will
be served at 7:15 p. m. and the pro
gram will begin at 8 o’clock. All
members are invited to attend and
provide lunch for the supper. A
large attendance is expected for the
meeting.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 1953
CHAMPION OR CHUMP?
A champion Webster says is “one who has ob
tained the formally acknowledged supremacy.” We
of Jackson are seeking such supremacy, a supremacy
that would place Jackson as the number one town
in Georgia in the population group of 1,000 to 3,000.
Jackson has entered the Champion Home Town
contest sponsored by the Georgia Power Company.
It is not the first time our city has entered. It will
not be the last. But' this year for the first time the
citizens of Jackson appear willing to bestir them
selves to put forth the necessary effort to make
Jackson a championship contender.
It is more than a contest. It is a challenge to
the people of our city to move forward through pro
gressive planning, cooperation and execution. It is
an opportunity for the citizens of our town to speak
in voices of civic improvements, and there is a role
for every man and woman in the confines of our
corporate limits.
Those who would seek to guide and direct this
contest to successful fruition earnestly ask your
support and help, believing that you are willing to
devote your time and talents toward building a bet
ter Jackson.
The next meeting of the committee will be held
at the Jackson Clubhouse Monday, April 6, at 7:30
p. m. If you have a genuine desire to offer your ser
vices to the committe chairmen, who urgently need
more workers, please attend this meeting and con
sider this editorial an invitation. As the planning
continues it is the idea of the chairmen to draw all
civic organizations in the city into the program and
many, many individuals. You are invited and need
ed.
Jackson can gain the supremacy of which Web
ster spoke. But to gain the victory we must pay the
price with sweat from honest toil, long hours at con
ference tables, and perhaps an occasional tear. We
can make Jackson a better town, perchance a win
ner ; or we can wallow in our rather obvious apathy
and leave Jackson in October about as it is in April,
a long, long way from the championship class. The
decision is yours .... champion or chump?
1 DOYLE JONES JR.
Many Agencies
Shared in Health
Center Project
Because of a lack of complete in
formation The Progress-Argus in
mentioning the beautification of the
Butts County Health Center inadver
tently failed to give credit to all
cooperating agencies who shared in
the cost of the project.
The six garden clubs in the coun
ty received valuable assistance from
the ten home demonstration clubs,
the Eastern Star, Business & Profes
sional Women’s Club, Kiwanis Club,
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, Health Center personnel, Mrs.
Gladys Wilson, B. H. Hodges.
Originally conceived by the Mimo
sa Garden Club, the project was soon
found to be too large for that club’s
budget, and other garden clubs, other
agencies and individuals stepped in
and made the cost lighter on sponsor
ing groups. The cost of the beatifi
cation project was approximately the
sum of $250.00, it is explained.
Shrubbery was planted by Billie
Moore Nursery and Frank C hilds
Nursery. Mrs. C. M. Coggins of the
Mimosa Garden Club was chairman
of the committee.
DR. R. H. PINCKNEY TOOK
PART IN ATLANTA CLINIC
Dr. Robert H. Pinckney t of Jack
son took part in the Subnormal Vis
ion Clinic in Atlanta March 29-30.
Purpose of the clinic was to demon
strate anew and powerful lens said
to be powerful enough to give ade
quate eyesight to half of the 150,000
partially blind persons in the United
States. Practicing optometrists from
Georgia, North Carolina, Florida and
Tennessee convened in Atlanta for
the clinical sessions.
Installation At
The Presbyterian
Church on Sunday
With Dr. Franklin C. Talmage, su
perintendent of Home Missions in
the Atlanta Presbytery, officiating
an installation service will be held at
the Jackson Presbyterian Church
Sunday morning. Aldine Carmichael
will be installed as elder.
The church will also observe com
munion service Sunday morning.
Music appropriate to the Easter
season will be a feature of the ser
vice.
The public is cordially invited to
attend all services of the church.
monticello to play
INTER-SQUAD GAME
MONDAY, APRIL 6
The band, crack drill squad and
majorettes of Gordon Military Col
lege will put on a half-time exhibi
tion at the Monticello Inter-Squad
football game fo be played in Monti
cello Monday, April 6at 8 p. m. in
the Rose Bowl stadium.
Under direction of Coach Milton
McLaney, thirty-seven boys have en
gaged in a period of intensive spring
training for the past few weeks.
The game and the half-time exhi
bition are sponsored by the Hurricane'
Club of Monticello. Admission will be
SI.OO for adults and 25 cents for stu
dents.
EXCHANGE CLUB TO HAVE
MINISTERS AS VISITORS
The Rev. Alex Herring, guest min
ister at the First Baptist Church
revival, and the Rev. Gaither Briggs,
pastor, will be guests of the Ex
change Club Thusday night. Mrs. J.
L. Garr will also present a group of
girls in musical selections.
McDonough Signs
Earl Wheby As
Football Coach
Earl Wheby, former star halfback
at Georgia Tech and a high school
football coach with eight years ex
perience coaching Class A schools,
has been signed as head coach and
director of athletics at McDonough
High School for the coming season.
Coach Wheby will assume his new
duties on July 1.
Recognized as one of the foremost
gridiron architects in high school
circles, Coach Wheby began his
coaching career in 1946 at West
Georgia Junior College, which fielded
its first team under Wheby. Within
two years the magical Wheby touch
carried the West Georgians to an
impressive won and lost record and
a post season victory in the Tobacco
Bowl.
In 1948 he took over the head
coaching reins at Fitzgerald, pro
duced a state championship team, an
All-American halfback in Lauren
Hargrove, and received an invitation
to play in the Peanut Bowl in Co
lumbus.
From Fitzgerald, Wheby moved to
Athens where for the three years his
teams have been highly regarded in
Class A circles.
Wheby is now serving as head
football coach and director of ath
letics at Clearwater, Fla, and will
complete the present school term
there before coming to McDonough.
Coach Wheby will replace Coach
Charley Goulet who organized the
first football team in McDonough’s
history two years ago.
Gridiron fans of Region 3-B, gen
erally rated as one of the roughest
Class B leagues in the state, will be
watching McDonough and Coach
Wheby as the foatball fortunes of the
Golden Tornado seem destined to rise
under the guidance of its new men
tor.
Easter Seals
Mailed During
The Past Week
Mailings of the 1953 Easter Seals
were made last week over the state
by volunteer workers who were busy
stuffing envelopes so that crippled
children might benefit. Edgar P. Ey
ler, Savannah businessman who heads
the Georgia Society for Crippled
Children, the Easter Seals agency,
said that contributions are being re
ceive steadily by county chairmen
and predicted a successful drive.
Few personal solicitations are being
made, Eyler said, and those receiving
the seals are requested to send their
contributions back by mail.
Frank C. Hearn is county chair
man, Saunders Cawthon treasurer.
Contributions may be left with Mr.
Cawthon at Jackson National Bank.
State chairman Fred J. Turner, At
lanta, issues a strong plea for wide
support of the 1953 Seal campaign.
He said, “this is our opportunity to
give promise to the lives of children
who most urgently need it.”
TOWALIGA MEETING SUNDAY
TO ORGANIZE GA GROUP
There will be a meeting at Tow
aliga Baptist Church Sunday, April
5, at 3 p. m. for the purpose of or
ganizing a Girls Auxiliary band. Mrs.
T. R. Cobb will teach the GA manual,
officers will be elected, pictures will
be taken of the first meeting and re
freshments served.
Following this meeting there will
be regular weekly meetings each
Friday at 4 p. m. at the church. Mrs.
Ruth Ridgeway will be counselor
for this group. All girls interested in
youth activity are invited to attend.
$2.58 PER YEAR IN ADVANuci
April Ushers In
Flurry of Activity
At Jackson High
April usually bursts upon the high
school scene with a flurry of schol
astic and athletic events and Jack
son High school finds itself caught
up in the frenzied activity that ac
companies the calendar change.
On April 1, the Senior - spelling
contest was held for Class B high
schools. Competing simultaneously in
their own schools, the results of the
competition will be determined when
comparative scores are examined.
On Friday, April 10, at 2 p. m.,
Jackson High football coach Hunter
Strickland will take the wraps off
his 1953 gridiron squad when they
engage in the traditional inter-squad
game to terminate the Spring prac
tice grind.
For the past several weeks, Coach
Strickland has been working with
a group of 38 boys, small in size
but big in spirit, in an attempt to
rebuild a graduation-riddled squad.
Jackson fans, along with Coaches
Strickland and Joe Bell, are anxious
to see the progress made by the in
experienced squad.
The Fourth District literary meet
will be held in Forest Park on April
10-11 and Jackson will be well rep
resented in every phase of the lit
erary events.
Griffin will be hosts on April 17-
18 to the track and field teams of.
the district for their annual track
meet. The thin-clads of Jackson High
*
have annexed the district crown for
two years running but competition,
promises to be keener this year.
Already, Jonesboro is being touted
as the favorite to win the District
track meet, but the Red Devils are
conceding nothing until the last event
has been run.
Coach Joe Bell has been in charge
of the track team while Coach Strick
land drilled the football squad and
the Red Devils are expected to make
an all-out effort to retain their title
for the third successive year.
Pettigrew And
Briggs Get High
Rating at Meet
At the State Music Festival in Mil
ledgeviile last week, Eugene Briggs
and John Pettigrew, Jackson High
school students, were given an ex
cellent rating in the wind instrument
class.
John Pettigrew competed in the
trombone contest, while Eugene
Briggs was entered in the trumpet
class.
These Jackson High students com
peted against several hundred con
testants. The attendance was estimat
ed up to 5,000. The state music fes
tival opened Monday and extended
through Friday.
At the Fourth District contest in
Thomaston, Briggs and Pettigrew
were given a superior rating.
They were the only contestants
from Butts county.