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VOL. 84—NO. 10
B&PW Club To
Present Circus
Here March 11-12
The circus spectacular, Laff-O-
Raina, will be presented at the high
school gym Monday and Tuesday,
March n and 12, with curtain time
at 8:13 p. m. The circus is under
the sponsorship of the Jackson Busi
ness and Professional Women’s Club.
It will include a popularity con
test in which a King' and Queen,
Duke and Duchess, Prince and
Princess will be crowned Tuseday
evening. Voting boxes are in stores
where they will remain until 4 p. m.
Tuesday when they will be taken to
the gym where votes may be cast un
til 8 o’clock before being tabulated.
•Members of the cast include Willie
Ayery Cook, Bill Sasser, Clarence
Coggins, Ted Evans, John Meredith,
Jimmy Cornell, Tom Bond, Milton
Daniel, Andy Holston, Bill Holloway,
Ed Gilchrist, Joseph Slappey and Jul
ian Fletcher.
Mary Zane Hearn, Mary Sasser,
Mae Carr, Chip Moelchert, Scouts
from Troop 80, Nancy Ann Robison,
Ennis O’Neal, Jennifer Coleman,
Maymie Coggins, Winnie Moore, Ed
na Kelly, Olive Lewis, Beatrice
Wood, Jackson Cub Scouts, pupils of
Mrs. Betty Bell, high school band,
The Jacksonaires, and music by Julia
Lewis.
Attention is called to the cast as
it appears in the Laff-O-Rama ad
vertisement in this issue.
World Day Of
Prayer Observed
Here March 8
' The World Day of Prayer program
to be held at the Jackson Presby
terian Chtnc-h on Friday evening,
March 8, at 7:30 o’clock, will consist
principally of 15 Jackson High boys
and girls who will take part on the
program, sponsored by the HitY, the
Tri-Hi-Y, and the churches of the
town.
A cordial invitation is extended
to the public.
Immediately following the service
there will be a social gathering for
the young people of all churches in
the Assembly Room of the Presby
terian Church.
HEAVY VOLUME CATTLE
AT SALE FEBRUARY 27
Fifty-six hogs and 237 cattle made
the sale at Middle Georgia Livestock
Pales Cos. Wednesday, Feb. 27.
Hogs topped at $16.60 per cwt.
Bulls to $13.00 per cwt.
Stockers to $17.10 per cwt.
j Heavy calves to $17.00 per cwt.
! Springers to $150.00 per head.
Photo Sara Bond
JACKSON SWEETHEARTS —Jackson, Feb. 26 —Miss Lola
Caldwell (left- was crowned “Sweetheart of Jackson High” at
the school’s annual beauty pageant sponsored by the Beta
Club. Miss Nancy Carter (center) was runner-up in the con
test, and Miss Becky Reynolds placed third.
Mat courtesy Atlanta Constitution
Red Cross Fund
Drive in Butts £
Picks up Steam
Butts county’s 1957 Red Cross
quota is $2,009.00, according to an
announcement this week by P. H.
Weaver, fund chairman. The county
will retain 52 percent of this quota
or $1045, with 48 percent being sent
to the National Red Cross.
Chairman Weaver, aided by Mrs.
Ben Haisten, Butts County Chapter
Chairman, and David Ridgeway,
Blood Recruitment Chairman, met
with Negro workers at Henderson
High School recently to formulate a
program for the colored workers.
During the meeting a film pertaining
to the disaster program was shown
while optional programs were ex
plained by Mrs. Eleanor Koops, Re
gional Director from Macon, on the
National Level and by Mrs. Haisten
and Ridgeway locally.
This week the business district will
be solicited. Mr. Weaver is planning
a kick-off dinner for workers in the
home and community areas Friday
evening. Peqple will be notified by
him to attend this instructional meet
ing.
The motto this year is “Join and
Serve.’’ A dollar contribution entitles
you to full membership in the Red
Cross but Butts countians must dig
deeper than last year to meet the
increased quota.
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Kiwanians Endorse
Science Club’s
Movie Project
Jackson Kiwanians were taken on
a visual tour of their county and
given a deeper insight into its beau
ties Tuesday night as they viewed a
series of full color slides of; local
scenery, taken and shown by J. C.
Williamson, Jackson High science
teacher.
The slides showed the county’s
recreational, industrial, religious and
educational-facilities, as well as many
of the lovely homes and historical
sites found in Butts county.
Horace O’Neal as program chair
man presented the instructor, whose
hobby is photography. Williamson
gave pertinent facts about the coun
ty as his slides were being shown.
He described the work of cataloguing
Butts county on color film as a pro
ject of the Jackson High Science
Club.
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Among visitors welcomed at the
meeting were Sylvan Jay, of Mon
tana, Fred Raney, Mrs. P. H. Weaver
and Key Clubbers Scott Coleman and
Leslie Caldw-ell.
Smith Settle and Ralph Carr Sr.
were congratulated on their birth
days during the week.
JAC , GEORGIA, THURSDAY MARCH 7, 1957
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, Photo Sara Bond
JAYCEE PRESIDENT, Jack
son, Feb. 26—David P. Ridge
way has been named president
of the Butts County Junior
Chamber of Commerce. He suc
ceeds Billy Leverette, who re
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Courtesy Atlanta Constitution
Deadline For
Tag Purchase
Is April 1
With over 2,000 tags to be sold in
the remaining three weeks before the
April deadline, Butts county motor
ists face the unhappy prospect of
long waiting lines unless they act
promptly.
In the nine weeks since the 1957
license plates went' on sale in the
Tax Collector’s office, Mrs. J. Harry
Ridgeway, local tag agent, reports
that a total of 993 have been sold,
for an average week’s sale of approx
imately 110.
Butts county was issued 3,-114
tags, Mrs. Ridgeway explained, al
though some of these will be surplus
to be sold at various times during
the year.
If local motorists are to beat the
deadline, and the accompanying pen
alty, they must increase their tag
purchases during the next three
weeks to a total of about 600-700 a
week, or about six times the present
rate of sale.
Penalty for failure to purchase a
tag before the deadline is 20% of
the cost of the tag, plus a SI.OO fine.
This penalty will increase the cost
of the $7.50 license plate, used on
most popular priced cars, to $lO.
Spring Holidays
Are Set For
March 21-22
School bells will be stilled in Jack
son on Thursday and Friday, March
21-22, in order for teachers in the
local system to attend the annual
state GEA meeting- j n Atlanta.
The period of Spring holidays tra
ditionally ends the winter quarter’s
work and is looked forward to by
both faculty members and students
as a period of relaxation.
The Butts County GEA unit usual
ly sends a strong representation to
the state meeting and is expected to
do so again this year.
JACKSON WOMAN WINS
IN NATIONAL CONTEST
Mrs. Vincent Jones has been noti
fied that she was one of 25 second
prize winners in the recent Calumet
Baking powder’s “Houseful of
Prizes” contest.
She will receive an American Her
itage dinnerware set by Stetson. The
set is described as a complete service
for 12, all pieces being.hand painted.
Teacher Banquet
Attracts Capacity
Audience Thursday
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Glowing tribute was paid J. M. L.
Comer as the county’s Teacher of
the Year at a banquet Thursday eve
ning in the school lunch room.
The Butts County Jaycees, spon
sor of the local teacher award, spon
sored the banquet, sold tickets and
ushered a capacity crowd of over
200 into the cafeteria.
Teachers, pupils and school pa
trons attending the banquet were
treated to a sparkling address by
Georg-e P. Donaldson, president of
ABAC College at Tifton, who left
them full of philosophy and over
flowing with laughter.
Rev. Edgar Welch, pastor of the
Macedonia Baptist Church, opened
the program with the invocation.
Rev. Wade H. Bell Jr., pastor of
the Jackson Presbyterian Church and
a Jaycee member, acted as toastmas
ter.
Miss Lola Caldwell, Jackson High
senior, beauty queen and outstand
ing student, was presented as a fu
ture teacher by Principal N. F. Lang.
David Ridgeway, Jaycee president,
presented the Teacher of the Year
with an engraved plaque emblematic
of the honor bestowed upon him by
his fellow teachers, who annually
select the year’s outstanding teacher.
In a speech ringing with humility,
Comer accepted the award “on be
half of the teachers of Butts County,
aity one of whom could have been
najmed Teacher of the Year.”
Rufus Adams, member of the Butts
Board of Education, then presented
Dr. Donaldson'.
In a speech filled with meaning
and told through the medium’of an
ectodes, Dr. Donaldson gave a verbal
blast at the tensions that plague
modern living and offered his own
Jfefc'O# B-’* m a solution.
He listed rocking, reminiscing,
reading- and rededication as sure
cures for most of the tensions that
often rob life of its true enjoyment.
He prescribed a rocking chair, a
good book and a period of quiet med
itation as better nerve medicine than
any tranquilizing tablet.
Unaccustomed as the audience was
to- an after-dinner speaker of his
caliber, he kept their rapt attention,
interspersed only with rounds of
laughter at his humorous insights
into life.
Jaycees Are To
Select Young
Man of Year
The Butts County Jaycees are
again sponsoring this year their
Young Man of the Year award as a
means of recognizing the outstanding
contributions made by youthful cit
izens during the past year.
Any person or organization may
nominate a candidate for this award.
The only rules are that the nominee
must not be over 35 years of age and
that nominations must be either mail
ed or delivered to Richard Watkins,
together with a list of reasons why
the nominee is eligible for the honor,
before 5 p. m. Monday, March 18.
Watkins is head of the Jaycee com
mittee promoting the annual award.
C. B. Brown Jr. was named the 1956
Young Man of the Year for his out
standing civic work.
Serving as judges for the event
will be Clyde Herbert, Blackman
Settle, Edward Washington, Mrs.
Gladys Wilson, David Ridgeway and
Doyle Jones Jr.
The announcement of the winner
will be made a few days after the
nomination deadline, Chairman Wat
kins said.
Fred Raney Buys
Western Auto
Store in Jackson
Announcement is made this week
by Grady O. Jackson of the sale of
his Western Auto Associate Store to
Fred Raney, of Lawrenceville, who
has already assumed direction of
the firm. The same clerks will be re
tained.
The local branch of the Western
Auto chain was opened in Sept. 1962
when the Jackson family moved here
from Greensboro. Liberally patron
ized since its opening, the firm has
enjoyed txdellent customer relations
under Jackson’s management.
The Raney family will move to
Jackson soon and occupy the Gordon
Bankston homo on Second St. Mrs.
Raney is the former Miss Virgi Goff,
a sister of Jackson pharmacist Dr.
| Roy Goff. The Raneys have four
children, Jane, 19, of Atlanta, and
Gloria, 17, Freddie, 13, and Tommy,
7, who will soon enroll in the Jackson
school.
During nine years of residence in
Lawrenceville, Raney was associated
with the General Shoe Corp. He was
a member of the Lawrenceville Ki
wanis Club. The entire family holds
membership in the Lawrenceville
Baptist Church.
The Jackson family has no inten
tion of leaving. Jackson at the pres
ent time, Grady Jackson said Tues
day. Mrs. Jackson is librarian at the
Jackson High School and a former
faculty member of the Jackson Ele
mentary School and their son, Grady
Jr., is a pouplar member of the
! junior class at Jackson High.
Gordon Bankston
Is New Member
Of Draft Board
Gordon Bankston, owner of Banks
ton’s Jewelry and City Councilman,
has been named a member of the
Butts County Selective Service
Board, it was announced this week
by J. Duvall Patrick, chairman of the
Butts County Board. Mr. Bankston
succeeds Eugene Rooks, resigned,
who recently moved to Cordele, and
Mr. Patrick replaces Mr. Rooks as
chairman of the board.
Mr. Bankston, a veteran of World
War 11, was seriously wounded in
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Members of the Butts County
Selective Service Board include Mr.
Patrick, chairman; Doyle Jones Jr.
and Mr. Bankston. Mrs. W. D. Pope
Jr. serves as clerk in both Butts and
Henry counties with offices in the
Butts County Court House, open here
on Mondays and Fridays.
NAZARENE CHURCH HOLDING
YOUTH WEEK SERVICES NOW
A series of Youth Week services
are in progress at the Church of the
Nazarene and will extend through
Sunday evening, with Edward Bul
lock of Laurel, Miss., as evangelist,
and Miss Peggy Kraft of Kentucky,
singer.
These services begin at 7 :30 each
evening.
CIVIL DEFENSE MEETING IS
SET FOR GRIFFIN ON MARCH 11
The Spalding County PTA Council
is sponsoring an important Civil De
fense meeting March 11 at 7:30 p.
m. at the Spalding Junior High
School auditorium with local, region
al and State Civil Defense officials
leading discussions.
The program is entitled “Forum
Discussion on Survival Planning.”
All Butts citizens will be cordially
welcomed.
$3.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Milner Girls Win
District Tourney;
Jackson Is Third
Milner High’s girls team copped
the Fourth District Class B title in
Friday night’s finals at Franklin, de
feating Harris County 52-38, while
Jackson High won third place in the
consolation game by bopping Villa
Rica 77-39.
Sylvia Piper and Kay Domingos,
who wrecked Jackson’s title hopes in
the Wednesday night division final
here, found the Franklin court to
their liking, scoring 27 and 16 points
respectively. Kraft scored 14 and
the Oliver sisters 12 each for the
losers.
The victory Friday gave Milner a
double District championship in bas
ketball, their boys having already
annexed the District court title.
MILNER (52) HARRIS CO. (38)
F—Piper (27) Oliver, Bee (12)
F—Tyu. (9) Oliver, Bea (12)
F—Domingo* (16) Kraft (14)
G—Englir.H Porter
G—Wilson Jones
G—Cook Pierson
Substitutions: Milner—Thomas.
Substitutions: Harris Co.—Curtis.
The capacity crowd, described as
the largest to ever witness a game in
Franklin, were accustomed to good
shooting before Piper and Domingos
stepped into the spotlight, for Jack
son’s Peggy McElheney and Faye
Mitchell had given' them a double
demonstration, to the tune of 36 and
33 points in the opening game.
Villa Rica could not compete with
such heavy firing and after the half
Coach Henry Powers emptied his
bench in an effort to hold down the
score and see what his future court
stars could do in the District finals.
JACKSON (77) VILLA RICA (39)
1 F—McElheney (36) Candler (24)
F—Mitchell (33) William* (8)
f—Smith (8) Shedrlck (5)
G—Cawthon Whit*worth, L.
G—Carter Whitworth, J.
G—Dodson Cardan
Substitution*: Jackson—Gray, BaL
longer, Watkins, Ridgeway, Blue,
Smith, F.
Substitutions: Villa Rica —Jonea
(2), Newman, Roberson, Hembree,
Busby, Leathers.
County Line
Pastor To Be
Ordained Sunday
On Sunday, March 10, at 2:30 p.
m., W. Jack Bunkley will be ordained
into the Baptist ministry at County
Line Baptist Church where he has
been called as pastor.
Mr. Bunkley is a native Floridian
and a graduate of Oglethorpe Col
lege in Atlanta. He was a student at
the Southern Baptist Theological
j Seminary in Louisville, Ky., until
stricken with bulbar polio in May
1954. After being released from the
Warm Springs Polio Foundation, Mr.
Bunkley studied at the Columbia
Presbyterian Seminary at Decatur.
He is now teaching and coaching at
Fairview Elementary school in Henry
county.
Mrs. Bunkley is the former Martha
Lamar of Beech Island, S. C.
Moderating the ordination will be
Rev. Jack Bridges, pastor of Locust
Grove Baptist Church. Others on the
council are Rev. Glen Waldrop, pas
tor of McDonough Baptist Church,
who will preach the ordination ser
mon; Rev. Aubry Hawkins, director
of the Department of Student Work
for the Georgia Baptist Convention;
Rev. Durward Cason who will bring
the charge to the church; Rev. James
P. Westberry, pastor of the Morning
side Baptist Church of Atlanta,
where the candidate was licensed,
and president of the Georgia Bap
tist Convention.