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■(-ogress Made
B Collecting
■or Cancer Fund
■As of April 27 Butts county had
H4B, it is reported by Dr. Roy Goff,
chairman of the cancer cam-
The campaign began April 15
runs to May 15.
■ With this good preliminary show
u Chairman Goff is encouraged to
the quota will be raised in
■)1.
I School children have played an
Hc:ive part in "railing funds and will
Hontinue to be a factor in seeing the
Bounty’s goal is met. The Legion
Buxiliary will sponsor the campaign
H, residential section of Jackson
■nd committees will be in charge of
■ollecting funds in the business dis
trict.
I Rufus Adams, fund chairman, has
Becently been ill and could not give
Ihe campaign the attention it de
■erves. Richard W. Watkins Jr.,
Boung attorney, is general chairman
Bnd Dr. Goff rounds out the organi-
Bation as county chairman. Commit-
Bees to handle publicity and other
Bbases of the drive were announced
Several days ago.
Preceding the financial campaign,
Biterature telling about the ravages
■of the disease and danger signals,
■were distributed. There have also
■been films shown in the schools, all
■of this making the public familiar
■with the broad purpose of the cancer
■drive.
| The American Cancer Society
■sponsors the annual campaign for
■funds to be used for education and
■ research in seeking to find effective
■ remedies for saving human lives.
Tommy McMichael
Winner in F.F.A.
Speech Contest
Tommy McMichael, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. M. McMichael and stu
dent in Jackson High school, won
the first bracket of the FFA public
speaking contest and com petes
against other bracket winners Tues
day night.
Jonesboro won the quartet contest.
The Jackson FFA chapter was host
to these two contests on Wednesday
night of last week. The contest was
conducted under the direction of the
FFA president, Johnny Colwell.
The second place winner in the
speaking contest was from Newton
county chapter, while third place
went to the Western FFA chapter.
In the quartet contest the Mary
Persons chapter, Forsyth, placed sec
ond and McDonough third.
Nine schools participated in the
speaking contest and four schools in
the quartet contest.
In Tuesday night’s contest Man
chester placed first in speaking,
Jackson second and Chamblee third.
In the quartet contest Southwest
Dekalb' was first, Woodbury second
and Jonesboro third.
The final contest for the entire
northwest Georgia district will be
held at Spalding High school May 9-
PROGRESS DAY AT MACEDONIA
CHURCH ON SUNDAY, MAY 3
Macedonia Baptist Church will ob
serve Progress Day Sunday, May 3.
A basket lunch will be spread at the
noon hour. The afternon session will
feature the burning of a note signi
fying the church is out of debt, ded
ication of the pastorium, followed by
open house. Final features will be a
hymn singihg. During the day a drive
will be launched to raise funds by
pledge to have the church building
and church top painted. There will be
no night services. The publics invi
ted.
Jesse Barnes Is
Winner in 4-H
Pasture Project
Jesse Barnes is declared winner in
the 4-H Club pasture contest, spon
sored locally by T. E. Robison, agent
for Standard Oil Company, and re
ceived a prize of sls. Others win
ners were:
Bennie Fletcher, 2nd, $10; Joseph
Sims, 3rd, $5; Gerald Stewart, 4th,
$2.50.
The contest was judged April 20
by Adrian Hardin, Newton county
farm agent.
As first place winner, Barnes is
eligible to compete in the district
and state contest. '
All the pastures were good and
several factors entered into the com
petition, according to County Agent
B. B. Campbell. The following points
entered into the judging:
Proper soil selection, 4 points; ab
sence of objectionable objects, 4
points; proper soil preparation, 8
points; soil test, 5 points; liming as
needed, 10 points; fertilizer as need
ed 15 points; proper seeding method
and seed distribution, 4 points; pro
per management, 10 points; proper
plants or combination and coverage,
10 points; production, 15 points;
knowledge and presentation of rec
ords by members, 15 points.
Barnes had a combination of crim
son clover, oats, rescue grass, or
chard grass, ladino clover and alfal
fa.
Fletcher used a combination of
crimson clover, ryegrass, oats, fes
cue and ladino clover.
Sims used barley, crimson clover
and ryegrass.
Stewart used ryegrass ,oats and
crimson clover.
Baptists Ahead
In Membership,
Survey Reveals
A survey by the Georgia Council
of Churches reveals threre are 2,009,-
394 Protestants in Georgia, out of a
total population of 3,444,578.
The state’s first interdenomial sur
vey also reveals that more than one
half the Protestants are Baptist of
%
one kind or another.
Fifty-two denomiatioinal groupings
are represented in the survey which
shows that Baptist, Methodist and
Presbyterians, in that order, are most
numerous.
The smallest denomination in
Georgia is the Independent African
Methodist Episcopal Church with 193
members in three churches.
Of the seven Baptist denomination"
al groups, the Southern Baptist Con
vention stands first with 701,821
members in Georgia. The National
Baptist Convention, U. S. A., is next
with 564,648.
Nine Methodist denominational
groups have a total of 546,267 mem
bers. The four Presbyterian groups
have 58,129 members. Largest of the
Presbyterian groups is the Presby
terian Church, U. S. (Southern).
Figures for Georgia Roman Catho
lics and Jews, are not available.
Figures were obtained by checking
the denominational yearbooks where
they were available and by inter
viewing denominational leaders
throughout the state.
NORTH CLAYTON T O
MEET RED DEVILS
HERE ON OCT. 16
The North Clayton game will be
played here on October 16 and gives
the Red Devils five home games
with West Point on September 24,
Forsyth on October 9, North Clayton
on October 16, Forest Park on Oc
tober 23 and McDonough on Novem-
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JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1953
Senior Play Is
On Stage Tonight
And Friday
The rollicking three-act comedy,
“Maid To Order,” presented by the
Jackson High school senior class, be
gan its three-night stand at the
Grammar school auditorium last
night and will show again tonight,
April 30, and Friday, May 1.
The play, a farce from beginning
to end, is designed as a rib-tickler
and carries out its purpose in a
sparkling manner from one comical
situation to another.
Curtain time is 8 p. m. and ad
mission is 25 cents for boys and
girls up through the 7th grade and
50 cents for adults. All profits de
rived from the production will be
applied on the Senior Class trip.
Included in the cast are Jerry
Watkins, Bilie Jo Bailey, Phil Cow
an, Emily Farrar, Glen Meredith,
John Pettigrew, Patsy Maddox, Ann
Ross, Jimmie Evans, Adelaide Smith
and Betty Jean Floyd.
Tommy McMichael will handle the
sound effects, Billy O’Neal the cur
tain and Lynwood Thurston the
lights.
Gen. Vandiver
To Tell Kiwanis
Of Atom Test
Gen. Ernest Vandiver, adjutant
general of Georgia, will tell members
of the Kiwanis club of the recent
atom bomb explosions in the Nevada
desert, at the meeting May 5. Hudson
Peacock is program chairman for that
date.
Prof. Horace S. Lassiter, principal
of Miller High school for girls, Ma
con, was presented Tuesday night by
H. M. Moore as program chairman.
The Macon teacher was introduced
by John M. Hutcheson and lauded
for his long and constructive record
in the cause of education.
Taking as his theme, “One World,’’
Prof. Lassiter declared the world
has shrunk in size by means of rapid
communication and transportation
and that actually there is but one
world now —a small world at that.
He contrasted the American idea of
democracy with that of Russian com
munism and predicted the ultimate
triumph of democracy because it is
founded on a belief in God and the
rights of the individual.
Dr. R. A. Franklin and Rev. John
Minter, son of Rev. and Mrs. P. M.
Minter, were visitors. Mr. Minter
favored the club with a solo and
Grady Jackson, David Deraney, Avon
1 Gaston and Merrill Minter composed
a quartet.
QUEEN WILL BE
NAMED AT BUREAU
MEET THURSDAY
A queen to represent the Butts
County Farm Bureau at the fourth
district meeting will be chosen on
Thursday night at the meeting of the
Farm Bureau at North Butts. Sup
per will be served at 7:30.
This will be a countywide meeting
and'all of the county’s six chapters
are expected to be well represented.
Keen competition is expected for se
lection of a queen to compete in the
district contest where a winner will
be chosen for the state meeting.
CAMPBELL IN SAVANNAH
FOR EXTENSION MEETING
County Agent B. B. Campbell is in
Savannah for a meeting of Exten
sion agents in the northwest Geor
gia .district. The meeting began Tues
day and extends through Thursday.
County To Give
$350 To Project
At Rock Eagle
When a delegation of 30 or more
Butts county women visit Rock Eagle
Lake Thursday, the occasion will be
used to present the 4-H project at
Rock Eagle a check for $350.00 In
the afternoon the president of the
Kiwanis club, president of Exchange
club and M. L. Powell, former coun
ty agent, will make the award.
The fund was raised by means of
a calendar project. Business firms
were quick to sense the value of the
project as an investment in youth
and and all the advertising space
was sold and many firms could not
be given opportunity to take part.
The calendars will be distributed
to business firms, members of 4-H
clubs and interested friends.
Mrs. Cynthia Davis as home dem
onstration agent will accompany the
group to Eatonton.
While Butts county 4-H club mem
bers have raised funds in various
ways to aid the Rock Eagle camp
project, this is the first county wide
effort to have a part in building and
equipping cottages at Rock Eagle
Lake for use by 4-H club members.
43 Seniors Make
Up Graduating
Class This Year
The 43 members of the senior
class of Jackson High school are
scheduled to receive certificates at
graduation exercises on
May 26. Details of the commence
ment psogsam are now being worked
out by High Schoop Principal A. B.
Duncan.
The baccalaureate sermon will fall
on Sunday, May 24, and under the
rotation plan in effect in the city
the Presbyterian Church will furnish
this year’s speaker. A definite an
nouncement as to the speaker will be
made within a few days.
This will be the second graduating
class since the twelfth grade was
installed in the local school system.
Two years ago there was a small
class during the transition period,
and last year the senior class had 49
members.
The work of the 1952-53 year is
now pointing to graduation exer
cises, and the names of the valedic
torian and salutatorian will be avail
able a little later.
Snow, Sleet Hit
County 43 Years
Ago, Paper Shows
The freakish weather that has
marked this spring is a reminder that
43 years ago, Monday, April 25, 1910,
there was snow, sleet, sunshine and
rain—all often coming together.
A newspaper account of that cold
April day 43 years ago said:
“It seems that every season of the
year contributed a slice of weather
to make Monday a day the like of
which was never witnessed by anyone
in this community. The cold was
penetrating, making fires very nec
essary; and then, April to keep up
its reputation for fickleness, had al
ternatee wind, rain, snow, sleet and
sunshine, and sometimes all came at
once. It was a queer sight to look
out through snow and sleet and see
the trees in full leaf and bushes
covered with spring’s loveliest roses.
The unusual weather wrought no se
rious damage in this section —only
to cotton. All coton which had come
up will have to*be replanted.’’
Dress Revue Be
Held May 19 To
Choose Winners
Tuesday, May 19, is the date se
lected for the annual Style Revue,
according to Mrs. Cynthia Davis,
home demonstration agent. It will be
held in the grammar school audito
rium.
At the countywide revue winners
will be named to take part in the
state meet in June.
Judging is complete on a district
basis,' with all the HD clubs holding
revues for the past few weeks. Win
ners on the district level will partici
pate in the county revue.
Judging, Mrs. Davis said, will be
on these classes :
House dress
Casual dress
Sports dress
Dressy dress
As is usual on such occasions, the
competition will be keen and some of
the county’s leaders will be seen in
the revue. It will be a highlight of the
spring season.
In announcing the date for the
revue, Mrs. Davis said complete plans
and details will be available later.
Improvement For
1953 May Witness
Several Entries
Several Butts county centers are
now debating the matter of entering
the 1953 Community Improvement
contest, according to information
received by the Progress-Argus.
To date West Butts has definitely
entered and serves warning that it
will go all out for first honors.
Last year Stark community was
state winner in the northwest Geor
gia district. The previous year it
placed second.
Iron Springs, Stark, North Butts,
Worthville, Jenkinsburg, Towaliga
and Flovilla are among the com
munities now studying the question
of getting into the contest. Much en
couragement has been extended and
a host of friends and well-wishers
want to see these communities plant
their feet in the center of the ring.
As yet no definite date has been
announced for entries to close.
• The community Improvement con
test, sponsored by the Farmers Club
of the Atlanta Chamber of Com
merce, has been the means of arous
ing civic spirit in many counties in
the Atlanta area. Lasting progress
has been made in providing club
houses, in improving homes, churches,
in better farming and in better living.
Drunken Boat
Drivers Face
Threat of Law
Atlanta, Ga.—Those p 1 e asant
weekends at the lake may not be so
pleasant this summer in Georgia un
less you behave yourself. Reason:
The last General Assembly passed a
law prohibiting drunk “boat driving,’’
use of indecent or vulgar language
and “boisterousness” —and steps are
already being taken to enforce it.
Enforcement will come under the
State Game and Fish Department,
and Director Fulton Lovell said hTB
department is adding 25 to 40 large
boats to ita patrol to enable rangers
to crack down on boisterous conduct
in boats. They’re fast boats, too, he
warned.
Allatoona and Jackson Lakes in
particular are getting an increasing
ly large number of vacationeers, he
said, and they will be patrolled more
adequately.
$2.58 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Red Cross Fund
Chairman Thanks
People For Help
Mrs. T. H. Price as fund chairman
for the 1953 Red Cross campaign in
Butts county has issued the following
statement in connection with the
drive:
A? chairman of the Red Cross
fund campaign ijor Butts county,
which has just closed, I wish to ex
press my sincerest appreciation and
thanks to each contributor, and to
especially thank each worker who so
graciously gave of their time and ef
forts to make the campaign the suc
cess it was. I would also especially
like to thank the Jackson Progress-
Argus for its generosity in giving us
all the publicity we needed during
the drive.
Our quota for Butts county was
$1,769.00, and our total gifts were
$1,641.26, making us only $128.60
short of the goal. We are proud of
this generous offering from our
county, realizing it will mean much
in carrying on the great work of our
American Red Cross in helping al
leviate suffering in disaster stricken
areas, for the great blood program
which they are engaged in, and also
in work amongst our fighting men.
Following is a list of gifts by sec
j
tions and communities:
Jackson business section, Mrs.
Mary Lee Martin, chV $392.00
Residential, Mrs. James Buchanan,
Mrs. J. W. Carter, chr 279.32
Industry and out of town, Mrs. T.
H. Price 130.50
Courthouse, Mrs. L. M. Spencer.—
Butts county teachers, Mrs. Beth
Hearn, Mrs. Sara Caldwell 38.90
Pepperton, Mrs. Edwin James,
Huey Hooten 138.05
Indian Springs, Mrs. Robert Frank
lin 14.00
Cork, Mrs. R. M. Smith 8.80
Flovilla } Mrs. E. R. Edwards Jr.—
Jackson Dam, Mrs. W. M. Thax
ton 22.00
Stark-Tussahaw, Mrs. Otho Mor
gan 40.50
Worthville, Mrs. W. W. P0pe_26.17
Fincherville, Mrs. H. L. Jones_s.so
Jenkinsburg, Mrs. H. W. Apple _
Route 36, north, Mrs. W. C. Wil
liamson 43.20
Route 16, west, Mrs. E. D. Patrick
Route 16, east and Iron Springs,
Mrs. Mildred Ballenger 25.00
Coody district, Claude Maddox
Route 42, south, Mrs. Sara Greer.
Route 42, north, Mrs. Franklin
Bohannon 33.30
Towaliga, Mrs. Pete Ridgeway
REA, Mrs. Van Fretwell 9.00
West Butts, Mrs. Andy Holston__
Henderson High School, N. E-
Walker 50.00
Tussahaw school, J. P. Godfrey —
Indian Springs school, Marcellus
Whitehead 23.81
Organizations 15.00
Total $1,641.26
PRESBYTERIANS WILL HEAR
GEORGE McMASTERS SUNDAY
George McMasters, student in Co
lumbia Theological Seminary, will
preach at the Jackson Presbyterian
Church next Sunday at the 11 o’clock
hour. He will fill the pulpit for the
pastor, Wade Bell, who will be filling
a regular engagement at Fellowship
Church on that day. The public is
invited to attend this service.
Sunday school meets at 10 a. m.
and visitors are always welcome.