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Jqj SO-NO. 19
■eenville Group To Tell Jackson Of
Kntest in Meeting Tuesday Night
§H a n's Champion Home Town j
will receive help from
§■ .... a t its next meeting, Tuesday,
12, when a delegation from
Henville, 1951 first prize winner,
■ded by Mrs. R. K. Stovall, will
|B t he local committee how Green-
Ej e planned and executed its prize-
Hming strategy.
fßlrs. Stovall, editor of the Meri
thei Vindicator, was the motiva
force that led Greenville from
has-been class to the top of the
Her suggestions and obser-
Htiom should bring new inspiration
the planners who are laying the
Hundation for Jackson’s all-out ef-
in the contest.
I ■Every Jacksonian interested in a
fitter home town is cordially invited
the May 12 meeting in the Jack-
■ n Clubhouse, beginning at 8:15 p.
■ The steering committee for Jack-
B,n’s 1953 entry in the contest,
■onsored by the Georgia Power Coe
■ a public, community-building ser-
■ ce , is composed of Doyle Jones Jr.
■ chairman and Mrs. T. E. Robison,
■ rs. L. M. Spencer, John Hunt and
Settle.
I The town’s efforts in various
■bases of the contest has been as
■gned to committee chairmen, and
■here possible to a sponsoring orga
nization. These committees include:
I Municipal Development—Kiwanis
■lub, Richard Watkins, chairman.
I Beautification —Mimosa, Jackson,
■awthorn and Cherokee Garden
plubs.
Education —Jackson PTA, Mrs.
Cvelyn Apple, chairman.
Business and Industry—Exchange
Hub and City Council.
Advertising and Publicity—Doyle
(ones Jr.
Religious W e Ifare —J ack so n
lurches, Rev. P. M. Minter, chair
nan.
Tourist —Eastern Star, Mrs. Bob
bie Earnhart, chairman.
Recreation and Youth—Mrs. Mild
red T. Raven, Miss Ruby Rumsey,
Joe Bell, Frank Foster, co-chairmen.
Health and Sanitation —Jackson
B&PW Club, Mrs. Bert Carmichael,
chairman. ■
Transporation—American Legion
and Auxiliary, Roy Goff and Mrs.
Mary Lee Martin, co-chairmen.
Agriculture—All local, state and
federal agencies cooperating.
Prof. N. E. Walker of Henderson
High School and a corps of workers
is in charge of the program for the
colored citizens of Jackson. They
have shown much enthusiasm and
are ready to begin active and con
structive work.
Local Ministers
In Tennessee For
Revival Services
Rev. p. M. Minter, pastor of the
Jackson Methodist Church, and Rev.
J. R. Thompson, pastor of the Jen
kinsburg Circuit, are spending this
week at Cleveland, Tenn., where
they are assisting irt revival meet
ings. Mr. Minter is engaged at Big
Springs and Mr. Thompson at the
Cleveland Circuit.
Recently when the United Evan
gelistic Mission was conducted in the
Griffin district, ministers from Ten
nesse came here for the revivals.
Rev. Glenn E. Boye conducted ser
ies at the Jackson church, while
Rev. Virgil Hale was in charge of
services in the Jenkinsburg Circuit.
During the absence of Mr. Miuter,
Emory student Eugene Eaddy, con
ducted services at the Methodist
Church Sunday.
The Butts county ministers plan
to return home this week.
Miss Greer Is
Named As Queen
In FB Contest
Miss Mary Jean Greer, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Greer of
Iron Springs, was named as queen
in the Farm Bureau contest at North
Butts Friday night. Runner-up was
Miss Mildred Ingram of the North
Butts community.
In a close contest, the judges
awarded Miss Greer 90 points and
Miss Ingram 84 points.
The talent contest, anew feature
added in the county, resulted in a
victory for a quartet from Towaliga.
The quartet is composed of Mrs.
Kinard Thaxton, Mrs. C. L. Ridge
way, Edwin Sims and Andy Holston.
A duet from Iron Springs was
entered in the talent contest. It is
composed of Mrs. Gyp Washington
and Mrs. Wayne Washington.
The district contest will be held
June 4 in McDonough and the local
winners will compete with winners
in the fourth district for state hon
ors.
Meeting of the Farm Bureau,
held on a county scale, was post
poned from Thursday night to Fri
day night because of weather condi
tions. Despite the rain, the atten
dance was large and the community
house was comfortably filled. All
chapters in the county were repre
sented.
County Trade
In December
Was $647,931
Butts county’s cash registers rang
up a total of $647,931 in retail
sales during December in 1952, ac
cording to a series of business re
ports released by the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce.
Revenue Commissioner Charles
Redwine was praised by state cham
ber officials for inaugurating meth
ods in the Department of Revenue
which make it possible to compile
monthly retail sales volume by
counties.
Tabulation of retail sales for
each of the 159 counties is being
distributed to the state’s more than
100 local chambers of commerce, to
trade associations, the press and to
other groups interested in charting
business progress. The State Cham
ber plans to make this new business
feature a monthly service in con
junction with the State Department
of Revenue.
The report showed retail sales in
Butts and adjoining counties as fol
lows:
Butts $ 647,931
Fayette 273,087
Henry 755,729
Jasper 431,241
Lamar 687,659
Monroe 639,036
Newton 1,212,903
Pike 195,493
Spalding 3,453,193
Upson 2,555,566
RAINFALL APRIL 30
WAS 3.65 INCHES
The government rain guage at
the Lloyd Shoals plant of the
Georgia Power Company, showed
total rainfall Thursday, April 30,
of 3.65 inches for a 24 hour pe
riod, according to J. C. Holcomb,
resident manager of the Georgia
Power Company.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1953
Seniors Entrain
Tuesday For Trip
To Washington
The senior class of Jackson High
school will depart next Tuesday af
ternoon for the annual trip to
Washington City and places of in
terest in and about the national cap
ital. The trip this year will be made
by train and special accommodations
will be provided the class.
Going with the class as chaperones
will be Mrs. Mildred T. Raven and
Prof. Eldred Mann.
In the capital city places of his
toric and scenic interest will be vis
ited, including the capitol building,
Washington Monument, Bureau of
Printing and Engraving, Library of
Congress, Treasury Department,
Smithsonian Institute and others.
While in the vicinity of Washing
ton trips will be made to such fam
ous shrines as Mt. Vernon, home of
Washington; Monticello, home of
Jefferson; Williamsburg, colonial
capital of Virginia now fully restor
ed, the tomb of the Unknown Sol
dier, Charlottesville, Va., where is
located the University of Virginia.
Members of the class plan to re
turn home Saturday.
Funds for the trip were raised in
various ways. The annual pilgrimage
is an event of interest to the stu
dents and it will provide interest
and conversation for years to come.
Listed as making the trip are:
Billie Jo Bailey, Jesse Barnes, Mar
ian Clark, Johnny Colwell, Shirley
Cook, Phil Cowan, Jimmie Evans,
Ralph Goodwin, Donald Leverett,
Randolph Long, Patsy Maddox, Mel
vin McCoy, Billy O’Neal, Betty Lee
Parr, Ann Ross, Daftner Spencer,
Harold Smith, Lynwood Thurston,
Rebecca Waters, Billy Williamson.
Janice Brooks, Martha Cawthon,
Myra Cawthon, Horace Cawthon,
Jackie Cook, Bobby Dial, Joanne
Dunn, Emily Farrar, Betty Jean
Floyd, Mary Rawls, Adelaide Smith,
Shirley Thompson, Mary "Jane Wil
liams, Gordon Flint, Glenn Mere
dith, John Pettigrew, Billy Sutton,
Jerry Watkins, Peggy Evans, Mary
Alice Smith.
Jackson High Class of 1933 To Hold
Reunion at Indian Springs on May 31
The class of Jackson High School,
’33, 20 years young this May, is
planning a class reunion and picnic
at Indian Springs State Park on Sun
day, May 31. Details for the gala
reunion are being worked out by
Maurice Carmichael of Jackson and
Mrs. W. L. Holloway of Indian
Springs.
Letters have gone out to the 56
members of the class, largest senior
class in the school’s history to that
date, inviting all members and their
families to the outing. It is expected
that 100 or more persons will be on
hand for the reunion, according to
present indications.
The picnic proper is scheduled
for one o’clock Sunday afternoon
with registration prior to that hour.
Many are expected to travel great
distances to attend this reunion, to
renew old acquaintances and meet
new families.
All teachers whose addresses are
known have been invited and it is
hoped that many of them will be
present.
Invitations have been extended to
the following members of the class:
Marshall Allen, Mike Allen, Mrs.
W. O. Dorough (Gladys Bond),
Mrs. Donald Blair (Martha Bond),
Maurice Carmichael, Bernard Car
ter, Ralph Evans, James Finley,
Mrs. Ralph Eberhart (Trellis
Grant), Mrs. A. C. Adams Jr. (Mar
garet Hurt), Mrs. W. L. Holloway
(Margaret Hoard), Mrs. Perry Stan
as—Wt
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Photo by Miss Sara Bond
Dr. and Mrs. Wright Hicks To Hold Open House At
New Clinic Tuesday, May 12, From 7:30-9:30 P. M.
Band Concert Be
Given May 22 at
The Auditorium
The Jackson High school band
under the direction of Miss Betty
Jane Godfrey will be presented in
the third annual spring concert on
May 22 at 8 p. m. in the grammar
school" auditorium.
The graduating class will be in
vited as honor guests to this pro
gram which will consist mostly of
well-khown popular pieces.
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Eugene Briggs, student conductor,
will lead the band in “Themes from
the 2nd Movement ot Beethoven’s
Fifth Symphony.’’
Some of the numbers that will be
heard are: “Star Dust,’’ “Blue Tan
go,” and “Birth of the Blues.”
Admission will be 35c for children
and 50 cents for adults.
cil (Mary Dean Jinks), Doyle Jones
Jr., Mrs. R. W. Ryan (Anne Les
ter), Mrs. R. J. Camp (Katherine
Madden), Earl Maddox, Mrs. Bob
-Barnett (Lucy Evelyn Merritt), Ed
mond Merrit, Mrs. S. J. Meacham
(Sarah Mills), Mrs. Haschel Purifoy
(Alice Moncrief), L. P. McKibben
Jr., Mrs. Margaret Greer (Margaret
McMichaelh Park Newman, Elwyn
Patrick, Mrs. Cap Welch (Cola
Pope), Mrs. Danny Forsythe (Ruth
Reynolds), Mrs. Claud Lumly (Ruth
Smith), Wilfred Thornton, Henry
Turner, Wilmer White.
Mrs. Clifton James (Marian Bart
lett), Mrs. John E. Pinson (Frances
Biles), Mrs. George Black (Helen
Bond), James Frederic, Benjamin
Fuqua, W. Stokely Garner, Mrs.
Willis McClure (Sara Hodges), Mrs.
Tommy Spencer (LaFon Hooten),
Mrs. Harold Lifsey (Laßue Hooten),
Mrs. Iler Welch (Annie Lou Jinks),
David Johnson, Elmina Leverette,
Mrs. R. H. Henderson (Polly Lin
kous), Miss Carolyn Lummus, Mrs.
B. J. Haskins (Sarah Mote), Mrs.
Burnice Parkinson (Margaret Pace),
George Ridgeway, Mrs. Ezra Hayes
(Grace Singley), Mrs. Clarence Gay
(Ruth Taylor), Lamar H. Thaxton,
Mrs. Froest Powell (Carrilene Tin
gle), Mrs. M. F. Wellborn (Sara
Tolleson), Mrs. J. D. Medley (Ruby
Wells), Oscar Weaver Jr., Mrs.
Glenn Avery (Geraldine Washing
ton), Mrs. Billy Childs (Anna Frank
Woodward).
Pictures Showed
Deathly Power
Of Bomb Blast
Brigadier General Frank A. Kopf,
assistant directoj of the Georgia
Department of Civil Defense,
brought to the Kiwanis club Tuesday
night pictures of the recent atomic
bomb blast in a Nevada desert. To
gether with other personnel of the
civil defense department and other
Georgians, Gen. Kopf witnessed the
j blast, and he used the slides to il
lustrate his talk.
The program was arranged by
Hudson Peacock and Harry Ball,
vice president of the Kiwanis club,
introduced Gen. Kopf as a veteran
of World War II and now assigned
to the defense department in At
lanta.
The recent blast, not as powerful
as some released, was set off on a
300 foot steel tower and its effect
noted on a house located nearby
and another farther removed. So
great was the heat generated by
the bomb that the steel tower was
completely vaporized.
The only sure way to be protec
ted against the atom bomb is by
studying and following practices
stressed by civil defense. This, he
urged, is a duty that all communi
ties should assume and be prepared
for anything that may happen.
Mrs. Lucile Hutcheson of the
Butts County Civil Defense unit and
Clyde Walker, in charge of ground
observation posts, were Invited to
hear Gen. Kopf who spoke in the
place of Gen. Ernest Vandiver who
was unable to be present.
Joseph Sims and Tommy Collins
were present from the Key Club.
FOUR WHITES SENT
TO INDUCTION
CENTER MONDAY
The Butts County Selective Ser
vice Board sent four white youths to
the US Army and Air Force induc
tion center at Chamblee Monday,
May 4. Those going for induction
were:
Richard Dewitt Johnson, Andrew
Jackson Long, Horace Lester Banks
ton Jr., Arthur Clinton Freeman Jr.
EXCHANGE CLUB TO HOLD
BUSINESS MEET THURSDAY
The meeting of the Exchange
club Thursday night will be devo
ted to business, President John Hunt
reports. Last week’s scheduled pic
nic was cancelled because of bad
weather.
$2.58 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Jackson’s newest medical facility
will be opened to public inspection
Tuesday evening, May 12, when Dr.
and Mrs. Wright Hicks hold open
house from 7:30 to 9:30 p. m. in
their recently completed clinic on
McDonough Road.
Spacious in every respect, the
clinic is a valued contribution to the
county’s continuing efforts to im
prove the health of its citizens.
Contructed of brick and concrete
block, the clinic has commodious
white and colored reception rooms,
receptionist’s lobby, two examining
rooms, emergency room, x-ray and
diathermy room, laboratory room,
and rest rooms. Adequate storage
space is provided throughout the
building.
With asphalt tile floors, indirect
lighting, plastered walls and natural
pine woodwork, the clinic displays
beauty as well as utility in its archi
tecture.
A utility room houses the latest
in a combined heating-air condi
tioning unit designed to keep the
clinic's temperature and humidity
under constant control.
Supervising the construction of
the building was Glenn Whitaker aj*
general contractor.
Dr. and Mrs. Hicks moved to
Jackson in July ,1948, and were
residents of the city until March,
1952, when they moved to Apopka,
Fla. where Dt. Hicks opened offices
as a general practitioner.
Returning to Jackson in Decem
ber of 1952, the Hicks’ with their
two sons reside in the home former
ly occupied by Miss Hattie Buttrill,
adjacent to their new clinic on Mc-
Donough Road.
BANTAMS AND QUAIL NOW
USING THE SAME NEST
In a bantam hen nest at her home
in the Cedar Rock district, Betty
Chappell reports she found three
quail eggs. The mixture bf bantam
and quail eggs will be hatched to
further increase the chicken and
partridge tribe, Betty said.
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