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VOL. 84—NO. 18
Kiwanis To Hold
Benefit Pancake
Sapper Friday
A benefit pancake supper to aid
the underprivileged children’s work
of the Jackson Kiwanis Club will be
held Friday evening, May 3, at the
Woman’s Clubhouse.
Pancakes will be served hot off the
griddle between the hours of 6 and
8 p. m. Ralph Carr, Sr. will preside
as chief chef and Kiwanians will as
sist him in cooking and serving.
In addition to the cakes, sausage,
bacon and coffee will be on the
fhenu. Milk or a soft drink will be
available for those preferring it.
Admission will be 50c for children,
75c for on an “all you can
eat” basis.
Tickets are now on sale by Kiwanis
members or they can be puchased at
the door.
In addition to a delicious meal,
diners will also be aiding a worthy
cause at a cost no greater than the
average family meal.
Federal Housing
Act Is Explained
To Kiwanians
The chief aim of the Public Hous
ing Authority is to provide adequate
housing for low income families, Mr.
Rose of the Atlanta Regional office,
told Kiwanians Tuesday night.
These low-rent units are owned
and administered by a local housing
authority and are amortized over a
40-year period, he explained. A max
imum income limit is §et on tenants
whq pay normally about one-fifth of
•their income as rent for the govern
ment-built housing.
In addition to bringing good hous
ing to low-income groups, the Au
thority pays 10% of rental income
to the City in lieu of taxes. This
amounts to considerably more than
the usual taxes on such property,
Rose pointed out.
Bird O’Neal was program chairman
and asked Mayor W. M. Redman to
present the speaker. The City of
Jackson is currently engaged in pre
liminary steps to secure FHA units
for both white and Negroes.
Donnie Caston and Charles Brooks
were Key Club members present and
John Cohen, of Atlanta, was also
welcomed as a guest.
Final plans and committee appoint
ments were announced for the Ki
wanis pancake supper Friday night
at the Woman’s Clubhouse between
6 and 8 p. m.
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DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS “MYSTERY FARM"
PHOTO 9 It is the third of a series of 52 that will
ap, ear in The Progress-Argtis, with Adams-Brmcoe
Seed Cos. as the sponsor. If you recognize this farm,
ar.d make identification in person at Adarr.s-Br.seoe
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HI-Y BOY OF YEAR—John
Watkins, son of Rev. and Mrs.
Lamar Watkins, has been nam
ed Hi-Y Boy of the Year by
members of the Tri-Hi-Y, a sis
ter service club for girls.
Jaycees Are To
Award Fishing
Outfit Saturday
The Butts County Jaycees are
sponsoring a Community Project
Fund in which they are selling dona
tions to a complete fishing outfit to
be given away on Saturday, May 4,
at 3 p. m. on the courthouse square.
Included in the fishing kit is a
solid glass rod, Mitchell spinning
reel, tackle box with line, plugs, etc.
Retail value of the outfit is placed
at ssl.
Tickets to the Saturday afternoon
drawing may be obtained from Jay
cee members.
Purchasers of tickets do not have
to be present to win.
JACKSON SENIORS TO
SPONSOR MOVIE, BARBECUE
Members of the Jackson High sen
ior class will sponsor a movie on
Tuesday and Wednesday, May 7-8, at
the Jackson Drive-In Theater. Sen
iors are selling advance tickets to
the movie, “The Yearling,” starring
Jane Wyman and Gregory Peck.
On Tuesday, May 7, the seniors
are sponsoring a barbecue at the
school lunch rodm. Millard Tomlin
will prepare the ‘cue and admission
will be $1.50 per plate.
F. F. A. CHAPTER HOLDS
FATHER-SON BANQUET
The Jackson Chapter of Future
Farmers of America is holding its
■£2 KSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MAY 2, 1957
Walter Smith
Succumbs To
Heart Attack
"Walter Jackson Smith, 75, prom
inent Butts county farmer, died
Wednesday morning at his Iron
Springs home of a heart attack.
Suffering a heart attack several
months ago, he apparently had made
a good recovery and his death came
as a shock to the family, and friends.
Funeral arrangements will be in
charge of Haisten Funeral Home
and were not completed when the
Progress-Argus went to press.
Survivors include six sisters, Mrs.
0. A. Andrews, Mrs. Wright Watkins,
j Mrs. Mildred Ballenger and Miss
! Ethel Smith, all of Jackson; Mrs. T.
A Lane, Dublin; Mrs. Ed Aiken, Cov
ington; four brothers, P. A. Smith
and C. H. Smith, Jackson; Dr. S- J-
Smith, Monticello; R. L. Smith, Wy
oming, Delaware; several nieces and
nephews.
4-H Clubs Face
Heavy Schedule
In Coming Week
The Lucky Clover and Four Leaf
Clover 4-H Clubs will hold their muf
fin and biscuit contests on Saturday,
May 4 ,at the Jackson Youth Center
a 10:30. Following the competition,
there will be a picnic at Indian
Springs.
Other 4-H Club meetings scheduled
for next week include:'
Towaliga—Monday, May 6.
Progressive and Loyal—Monday,
May 6.
i Green H*ers, Lucky Clover and
Four Leaf Clover —Wednesday, May
8.
Chgrm, Better Living—Friday,
May 10.
SALE OF EASTER SEALS
LAGS AS DEADLINE PASSES
Mrs. Gladys Wilson; chairman of
the Butts County Easter Seals fund
drive, reported Wednesday a total of
$253.32 had been raised on the
county’s quota of S4OO.
Of this amount S2OO had been
contributed by white citizens, while
the Negroes had raised $53.22. Mrs.
Wilson urged those who have not yet
made their contribution to please
send it promptly to Jimmy Cornell,
treasurer.
annual Father-Son banquet Thursday
night, May 2, in the school lunch
room.
Seed Cc. ->efor. 3 p. m. on Tuesday, you will be
eligible to win one of two free prizes each week.
Owner of the farm will receive a beautiful mounted
r *,gc nt of the original photo if he will call in
p.-i on at Tha Progress-A; c.<s office.
Jackson Pets
Are Killed By
Phantom Poisoner
Jackson’s phantom pet poisoner,
whose annual trips to the City are of
grave concern to all cat and dog
owners, put in his appearance a little
earlier than usual this year and, as a
result, scores of Jackson cats and
dogs fell prey to his cunning last
weekend.
Pet owners report that strychnine
was put ip groand meat and placed
at various points in the City. Some
families lost as many as three or
four pets, ps the deadly poison quick
ly killed tliem in their own yard.
Several {citizens whose pets were
victims of the weekend poisoning
were up in arms about the matter
and demanded protection from City
authorities.
Jackson has an ordinance forbid
ding the ownership of a dog, unless
the rabies inoculation has been given
and a collar and, tag attached. All
dogs without collars and tags are
subject to being killed by the City
at any time.
Placing strychnine-laden meat
throughout the City, however, kills
cats and dogs indiscriminately, be
they tagged or not. The danger of a
child findtyg the meat is always im
minent anjd the practice has been
thoroughly! condemned by the Mayor
and Council, both individually and
officially. ,
Local Farmers
Are Busy Setting
Pepper Plants
Plants from the company’s nursery
in Florida are arriving this week and
present prospects are that the area s
allotted acreage will be planted to
pimiento pepper during the next few
days, Joe Lewis, manager of the
Jackson branch of the Stokely-Van
Camp corporation announced on
Monday.
The first plants arrived Monday
and the office was deluged with
farmers seeking their quota, Lewis
said. Pepper is usually transplanted
in late April and he described the
present planting season as about
average.
Although there are many factors
to be considered, Lewis said that the
Jackson plant is definitely making
plans to can some pimiento pepper
this fall.
Last year- the plant processed a
small variety of sweet potato, especi
ally adapted for whole canning, but
the run was short and the plant ope
rated for only a few days.
Although Lewis would not hazard
a guess as to the plant’s operation
this fall, he said it was doubtful if
it would engage in as heavy a sched
ule as in 1955 when the plant operat
ed almost continuously for several
weeks.
With much middle Georgia acreage
now being planted to peaches, Lewis
said there might be a distinct possi
bility that the Pomona Products
branch of the parent organization
would be interested in processing the
fruit within the next few years, if
sufficient yields became available on
the local market.
COVINGTON DANCE BAND
TO PLAY HERE FRIDAY
The Dixie Swingettes, a popular
Covington dance band that played
for a recent dance at the National
Guard Armory, have been booked for
a return engagement oh Friday
night, May 3.
Admission has been set at 90c per
person. The dance will begin at 8:30
and last until midnight and will be
well chaperoned.
GIVES FIRST PINT
ARTHUR L. PRICE
Blood Donors
April 22 Are
Listed Here
Fifty-nine donors made contribu
tions of a pint of blood when the
Bloodmobile visited Jackson on April
22. The list of donors as announced
by David P. Ridgeway, blood recruit
ment chairman, follows:
Arthur L. Price, Clyde Herbert,
Robert A. Lehmann, Mrs. Gertrude
Wright, Mrs. J. H. Buchanan, Joseph
E. Wall, Doyle Jones Jr., William
Stubbs, Marie-Mclntyre, Rev. Don C-
Welch, Hubert Hunter.
Mrs. David Evans, Walter L. Mil-1
ler, Willie Henderson, Paul B. Mays, j
Leroy Woodward, Arthur E. Stodg
hill Jr., M. L. Hodges, Hugh Glide
well, D. L. Emfinger, Roy Mitchell,
Hammond Barnes, Charles. Fain, Ben
M. Haisten, George F. Martin, Hes
per Stephens, Elmer Britt, Herman
| Cawthon.
Charles Bernard Hardy,
Archie G. Ross, Shirley Blankenship,
Sue East, Richard Watkins, Mrs.
Cynthia Davis, William Ernest Pelt,
Guy Howard, Mrs. Polly Garr, Henry
Powers, Joe McClelland, Mrs. Eliz
abeth, Thaxton, David Evans.
Rollie McLendon, Carlton Williams,
David P. Ridgeway, Lapey Wise,
Wayne Cook, Mrs. Edna Jackson,
Henry L. Gilbert, William Sasser,
Joseph H. Bryant, Herbert Ogletree,
Doyle McMullen, Harry 11. Fletcher.
Miss Helen Thornton, F. L. Mc-
Coy, John Wise, Joe Brown, George
N. Martin.
The following list of persons of
fered blood but were rejected be
cause of varied reasons:
Jeannette Trimble, Evelyn Bush,
Billy Leverette, Mrs. Margaret Hicks,
David Taylor Sr., Mrs. Albert John
son, T. W. Leverette, Dennis Aiken,
Francis Scott, N. E. Walker, Walter
Myrick, Mrs. Bud Rossey, Mrs. Max
Polk.
Mrs. Louise Potts, Ira Wallace,
Bertha M. Crawley, Lucile Ross, H.
L. Cawthon, Henry G. Castellaw,
Mrs. Annie Lillian Rossey, Max Polk,
Elizabeth Foster, Robert Lane, C. D-
Fletcher, Joseph Davis, Fleet Duffey.
Pepperton Baptists
Slate Homecoming
For Sunday, May 5
The Pepperton Baptist Church will
observe homecoming Sunday, May 5,
with all former members and former
pastors cordially invited to attend
the day-long program.
Sunday School will begin at 10:30,
followed by the morning worship
service at 11:30 with the Rev. Sam
Britt of Griffin the guest minister.
Dinner on the ground will be serv
ed at 12:30 and a highlight of the
day’s activities will be a song service
following dinner which will assemble
singers from four counties as well
as local talent from Butts. The pub
lic is cordially invited.
$3.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Butts Court To
Convene Monday
For May Term
The special May term of Butts
Superior Court will convene Monday,
May 6, for a week’s session to dis
pose of two murder cases and several
uncontested criminal matters.
Flint Circuit Judge Thomas J.
Brown, Jr., of McDonough will pre
side at thi special term and Solicitor
Hugh D. Sosebee of Forsyth will
serve in his capacity as state’s at
tofhey.
Judge Brown said he had no plans
for calling a grand jury into session.
In addition to the two murder cases,
a number of guilty pleas might be
heard if time permits, Judge Brown
advised.
The cases of Charles Preston
Chambers, charged with murder in
the fatal shooting of his wife, Mrs.
Zelda Couch Chambers, and a 16-
year-old Negress, facing a murder
charge in the fatal stabbing of
another Jackson Negress, Dorothy
Ann Griffin, are expected to occupy
most of the week.
Paul Maddox, former Cl erlf - of
Butts Superior Court, will serve in
that capacity during the special term,
due to the illness of H. H. Caldwell,
it was announced Monday from Cald
well’s office.
Mystery Farm
Is No Mystery
To 52 Readers
The second mystery farm photo
was correctly idenitfied by 52 read
ers as that of Elon F. Welch on the
Four Points-Fincherville Road.
A. M. Cochran won a six months
subscription to the Progress-Argus
and W. D. Cochran won a prize to be
awarded by Adams-Briscoe Seed Cos.,
co-sponsors of the series with the
newspaper.
The list of those who correctly
identified the farm follows:
A. M. Cochran, W. D. Cochran,
Mrs. Virginia V. Smith, Jesse L.
Barnes, V. M. White, R. A. Garr,
Taylor Patrick, J. D. Patrick, J. M.
Washington, V. H. Ham, Leonard
Hodges, Lindsey A. Maddox, W. L.
Collins, Bessie Barnes.
Hughlon Cook, G. L. Smith, J. F.
Polk, Harry Ridgeway, Mrs Harvey
Hodges, Mrs. E. A. Parrish, Mrs.
Tommie Lee Cook, Mrs. R. A. Garr,
John F. Meredith, Lydia Williamson,
G. N. Etheredge.
Duane Leverett, A. F. Madc-ox,
Mrs. Frances Moss, Lois St. John, V-
M. Froeman, Mrs. H. W Webb, Fleet
Duffey, Wilmer White, Mrs. J. Bailey
Jones, R. W. Cook, C. D. Moftre, J.
W. Maddox, L. J. Washington, Kath
erine Wells, L. H. Perdue.
I Mrs. 11. E. Freeman, Z. L Burford,
Mrs. M. C. Johnson, Ray Saunders,
| Ted Evans, Sam McClendon, Grover
- Kitchens, T. J. Welch, Ra>ph Evans,
T. W. Leverrett, Wilbur Sirigley, E
! F. Welch.
JACKSON SCIENCE CLUB
TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE
To better acquaint the public with
work done by Jackson High science
students, some of whom have won
state-wide recognition, the Jackson
Science Club is holding open house
on Thursday, May 9, from 6 to 8 p
m.
J. C. Williamson, science teacher,
says there will be some 35 exhibits ot.
display. The student making the ex
hibit will display and demonstrate
his handiwork.
Miss Barbara Thomason is pres
ident of the Jackson High Science
Club. The public is cordially invited
to attend the open house and witness
the fine work “being done by the Joe 1
high school in the science field.