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Jackson Progress-Argus
i. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
BOYLE JONES JR Editor
and Publisher
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the Post Office at Jackson, Ca.
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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES, JR.
Jest of the Week: “William,
that’s your fourth piece of pie,”
admonished the boy’s mother.
“Don’t you know there was once
a little boy like you who ate
four pieces of pie and burst?’’
“That wasn’t too much pie,”
replied the lad. “It just wasn’t
enough boy.”—Ties.
Perhaps at the Christmas
season more than any when
men are mellower, more con
templative and evidence more
compassionate concern for his
fellow man, we focus a sympa
thetic eye and troubled heart on
the plight of those less fortunate
in our very midst.
We do not have to turn to a
major city with its teeming mil
lions, nor travel abroad to the
poverty stricken and famine
plagued lands of China and
India to behold misery, suffering
and lack of minimal necessities
to keep alive the spark of life.
These conditions are at hand now
in Butts county and in Jackson.
They will not improve either un
less help is immediately forth
coming.
America is a strange paradox—
a land of plenty and a land of
want. We boast of our nation’s
bulging storage bins, yet hunger
is a stark reality to millions of
our people. We pay our farmers
to plow under crops to avoid
overproduction, yet famine and
starvation annually claim millions
of lives in lands overseas. The
hunger pangs of u boy in Shang
hai, a girl in Calcutta are no
different from those of a child
in Butts county save for one fact.
In all probability the boy in
China and the girl in India will
die for there is no succor, no aid,
no helping hand to stave star
vation’s inexorable end. Here,
when the situation is known,
help usually arrives promptly
enough to save a life if not a
soul. Are we our brother’s keep
er?
Through the Empty Stocking
Fund, sponsored annually by the
Butts County Jaycees, the charit
able efforts of Jackson and Butts
county churches, and through the
generosity of individuals, most
families in the county are accord
ed a measure of Christmas cheer
—if their need is known and
bona fide. Persons desiring Yule
aid, or those knowing of fam
ilies in distress who might for
reasons of pride or otherwise not
apply, are asked to register for
Empty Stocking assistance until
December Bth with Billy Sutton
in the courthouse..
Certainly at this Christmas
season most of us can share a
portion of our abundance to help
alleviate the likelihood of n cheer
less Yule for the less fortunate
of our town and county. To share
with others will give life and
Christmas a richer, more signifi
cant meaning.
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Guest Editorial
SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS
TOURISM IS
THE ANSWER
The Govenior-elect of Georgia laid on the line
the other day the facts about tourism in our state.
Georgia collected $297 million in benefits from
tourism last year, said Gov.-elect Carl Sanders, but
compared to what could be done, “our returns are
pitifully small.”
Our neighbors to the south in Florida receive $l.B
billion in tourist revenue each year, and most of the
people who travel to Florida pass through Georgia
on the way. Viewed in that context, our state’s
tourist income shows up much too small.
Tourism is a natural source of
revenue for Georgia and for
Chatham County. The potential is
already here.
As Mr. Sanders put it: “We
have just us much to offer as
Florida has—we just haven’t
done as good a job about showing
it off.”
Ambitious investment of money
and effort at the local and state
levels can turn this potential into
tourist income.
The incoming state administra
tion has committed itself to a pro
gram of expanded tourist promo
tion. But there is much to be done
and all cannot be done by the
state.
Georgia is now spending $240,-
000 annually for tourist promo
tion, compared to $1.6 million
spent by Florida last year. Great
er effort at both state and local
levels will be needed to compete
for the tourist trade.
Tourism is the quickest route
to improvement of the local and
state economies. It is a means of
increasing the state’s tax revenue
without increasing the taxes
levied on Georgia citizens.
If we are to meet the challenge
of our future, both in our state
and in our community, we must
improve the economy and find
new sources of revenue.
Tourism is the answer, and the
investment required to make this
a thriving industry in Georgia
will be repaid many times over.
Did you know that both the
Salk and the Sabin polio vaccines
were developed solely with March
of Dimes funds? Join the 25th
Anniversary March of Dimes in
January and fight crippling birth
defects, arthritis and polio.
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Hardware and Appliance
Boys in Service
USS BAUSELL (FHTNC)
William J. Maddox, engineman
first class, USN, son of Mrs. Lois
Maddox of Jackson, Ga., is serv
ing aboard the destroyer USS
Bausell, which is deployed out
side the United States.
The Bausell is part of the
mobile destroyer force of Amer
ican seapower, an instrument of
national policy and good will
around the world.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
JIMMY MALLORY
Jackson High salutes our Stu
dent of the Week, Jimmy Mallory.
Jimmy is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. B. Mallory of Route 2, Jackson.
Jimmy came to our school in
1961 from West Point High
School. Asa student in West
Point, he participated in many
activities. He was vice president
of his Freshman and Sophomore
Class, a member of the football
team, baseball team, basketball
team, Hi-Y, Letter Club; and was
a Superlative in 1959.
During the past two years Jim
my has held the positions of
President of the Hi-Y, President
of the Key Club, Captain of the
football, and treasurer of the
Junior Class.
We are proud to have Jimmy as
a student at J. H. S. and we hope
that he will get the best out of
life.
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Student Of
Week
BY JANIE RIDGEWAY
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Jones
and Alan Jones visited Saturday
with Barry Jones and his fiancee,
Miss Ellen Weaver, in Atlanta.
Dinner guests Sunday of Mr.
and Mrs. Wright Watkins were
Mrs. S. L. Austin, Miss Delia
Watkins, Miss Georgie Watkins,
Miss Helen Easter of Riverhead,
N. Y., Mrs. Bessie Bryans, Mr.
Basil Keaton of Alaska and Ari
zona, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wat
kins and children.
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CASH & CARRY, INC.
Phone 7955 Jackson, Ga.
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looking and spirited to be
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is what it is in price and up-
a ’63 Chevrolet Impala Sport Coupe v ’63 Corvair Monza Club Coupe
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108-116 E. Third St. Phone 4681 Jackson, Ga.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Lou Moelchert
and Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Powell
were among those from Jackson
going over to Athens Saturday
for the Tech-Georgia game.
Dr. and Mrs. Wright G. Hicks,
Wright Jr. and Bruce, and Mrs.
W. C. Stinson went over to
Athens Saturday for the Georgia-
Tech game.
Mr. Jimmy Cornell was a visi
tor in Atlanta on Sunday.
Keeps Going Great!
THURSDAY, DEC. G, 1962
PERSONAL
Forming a congenial party
motoring to Athens Saturday for
the Tech-Georgia game were Mr.
and Mrs. W. 0. Ball, Mr. and Mrs.
Bill Sasser, Mrs. R. P. Harrison
and Miss Elizabeth Finley.
Mr. and Mrs. M. W. Carmich
ael, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Haygood,
Forsyth, and Mr. and Mrs. E. D.
Briscoe formed a congenial party
going over to Athens Saturday
for the Tech-Georgia game.
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