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Jackson Progress-Argu*
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
VINCENT JONES Publisher
DOYLE JONES JR Editor
Entered is second-class matter at
the Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
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IT’S THIS WAY
By DOYLE JONES JR.
Most men have the same hobby—
women.
Wonder why anyone hasn’t called
the kidnappers of Marie McDonald
the Body snatchers?
If the petticoats of Portugal swirl
any more fetchingly than do those
on Atlanta’s famed Peachtree, then
indeed it must be a wonderful coun
try.
Butts alumni of the University of
Georgia can be proud of the enviable
record they made in the 1957 Alumni
Campaign. In a report dated January
10th, covering the period August
through December, Butts county led
the state with 35 of 63 alumni con
tributing for a 55% ratio. In second
place was Clarke county with 32%,
followed by Troup with 28%, Thomas
with 25% and Hall with 23%. Many
alumni here who usually contribute
have not done so, and if they will
mail their check to the Alumni So
ciety in Athens or bring it by this
office, we may raise our percentage
considerably. Please help us reach
the 100% goal, which Butts has at
tained twice, the only county ever
to do so in the history of the Alumni
Society.
Two sparrows committed a sort
of electrical hari-kari last week when
they alighted on the wrong wire atop
a transformer pole behind the office
and caused quite a commotion. The
presses coughed and stopped, the
linotype wheezed to a standstill as
the power went off amid a moderate
explosion. Folks in this neighborhood
congregated on the spot to see what
had happened. Upon investigation the
body of one bird was discovered on
the ground, the other dangled head
downward from the wire by its claws.
It was all over in a minute or so,
but in that time two of God’s small
est creatures had voided one of man’s
greatest inventions—electricity.
We’ve had a lot of fun over the
story of Butts county’s 250 reducing
women. It received quite a play in
the state press and locally. Celestine
Sibley, Constitution columnist and
Atlanta’s WOTY in arts, added her
masterful touch in an article about
it. Certainly it is one of the most
beneficial and far reaching projects
ever devised by women anywhere and
if the Butts County Home Demon
stration members can lose their 2,-
500 pounds beween now and Decem
ber, it should receive national recog
nition and will. Please you “portly”
matrons, when you bake those cakes
to sell, don’t do any more than lick
the bowl.
If the opportunity presents itself
treat yourself to an eye-balling of
the controversial “Baby Doll,” the
satirical saga of a jeune fille who is
a bride but not a wife. Karl Malden,
Carroll Baker and Eli Wallach are
superb. You’ve never seen anything
like it, and won’t again, until the
censors take another nap.
Silly musing: Wonder if the reason
“Rab" Butler didn’t make the grade
THE LAST STRAW
By VINCENT JONES
The three members of Butts Coun
ty’s Commission for Roads and Rev
enues have adopted an economical,
sensible, common - sense approach
towards the securing of right-of-way
for proposed paving projects within
the county.
They have asked the cooperation
of landowners whose lands will be
traversed by paved roads, in giving
easements for cash settlements that
are reasonable and equitable.
Nothing can turn the average,
level-headed land owner into a
scheming, grasping skinflint like the
word that anew road is going to be
located in his community.
The prospects for sudden enrich
ment, at the expense of his fellow
taxpayers, goads him into a financial
frenzy in which his eyeballs sparkle
with wampum’s fire and his tongue
is coated with coin of the realm.
This sudden change of character
from the normal, respected citizen
he really is brings sorrow to his
friends and abject woe to those of
ficials who must barter meager dol
lars for his suddenly inflated land
easements.
For awhile, at least, he fancies
himself as being a poor waif of a
child and his county as the most real
Santa Claus he ever saw, and so he
figures this is the time to dig deep
into Santa's pack and come up with
the nicest prizes.
His enthusiasm for the quick pro
fit exceeds his reason for he knows
the county is poor and has no fat
checks to dispense wholesale to land
pirates.
Forgotton are the many benefits
which will be his when the paved
road crosses his land, affording easy
accessibility to nearby towns, bring
ing his neighbors closer for visits
and help in emergencies and truly
increasing the marketable value of
his land.
Land owners are entitled to a fair
price for property rights across their
land. They are entitled to, and should
receive, just recompense for any
damage or inconvenience to their
homesteads oaused by or resulting
from a highway crossing their lands.
But unreasonable demands for
easements across unused weed fields
or fancied damage to their buildings
can make life miserable for the coun-
ty’s governing body and delay the
actual construction of roads.
Above all else, though, every land
owner should be treated as an equal.
The value of the land to be lost to
the farmer should be the only con
sideration. The political value of the
farmer’s friendship should not be
worth one red cent or the whole
roadprogram might be seriously dam
aged with cries of favoritism.
If one man’s weed patch is worth
S2OO, then the next man’s should be
worth the same amount. Playing
favorites can cause the county’s
managers as much grief as money
mad land lovers.
The Commissioners have asked
ns England’s prime minister had any
thing to do with similarity to name of
a fictionalized Butler—Rhett? ,
Richard Watkins, Jr., new Butts
ordinary, was summoned from a com
fortable movie seat Friday evening
to perform his first wedding. Judge
Watkins says he was more nervous
than the young Macon couple. Per
haps it is fitting that the picture
which he was viewing when inter
rupted was “Love Me Tender”.
Those without say “money won’t
buy everything," and those with say,
“yes, but aren’t the things it will
buy wonderful”. Which hardly resol
ves the argument.
Add to your list of must see films
“Written on the Wind”, starring
Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Lauren
Bacall, Dorothy Malone and Robert
Keith. So sensational was Miss Ma
lone in her role as the black sheep
sister of oil tycoon Stack, that her
performance earned her anew long
term contract from her well pleased
studio. To me she was the scene
stealer, but all performances were
exceptionally good.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
that all land owners be reasonable in
their demands for right-of-way ease
ments. It is a sensible request that
has not been complied with in the
past, perhaps because it has never
been publicly made.
This places an obligation of good
citizenship on those citizens whose
roads are soon to be paved.
But it places an equally grave re
sponsibility on the commissioners to
treat reasonable requests with fair
and judicious action and to treat un
reasonable requests, without excep
tion, with the united scorn that they
deserve.
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Six heavily loaded Chevy
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CARD OF THANKS
At this time I want to thank my
neighbors and friends for their kind
ness to me. Since I have been sick
you gave me food, made me fires,
and nursed me. Though it be winter
and cold, Flovilla is a warm, friendly
place. Words cannot express to you
my sincere thanks. God bess each of
you is my prayer.—Mrs. J. A. Pad
gett.
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CARD OF THANKS
To all the friends of Mrs. Troy
Hardy a sincere thanks of apprecia
tion for your prayers, cards and
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THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1957
gifts; also to Dr. Hammond and Dm
Dupree for their kind attention. Gob
bless each and every one of you.—9
Mrs. Troy Hardy.
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