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VOL. 90—NO. 3
Know Your Hospital
(Editor’s Note: To better ac
quaint the public with the person
nel and facilities at Sylvan Grove
Hospital, the Progress-Argus will
carry a series of articles from
time to time on the general sub
ject “Know Your Hospital.” The
article this week deals with the
Nurses).
Who are the people in white
that administer so soothingly and
professionally to the sick and suf
fering at Sylvan Grove Hospital?
Where did they train and what
are their qualifications?
The staff at Sylvan Grove Hos
pital consists of five registered
nurses, one licensed practical
nurse and one registered medical
technician. There are seven
nurses aides and three orderlies.
Miss Ann Grant is the Direc
tor of Nurses. She is also an
anesthetist and can administer
anesthestics for any surgery per
formed in the hospital.
Miss Grant trained in Rome
and was director of nurses at the
Floyd County Hospital at Rome.
Mrs. Anne Colvin of McDon
ough is supervisor of the opera
ting and obstetrical departments.
She is a graduate of Crawford W.
Long Hospital School of Nursing
and has worked at Georgia Bap
tist Hospital and Grady Memorial
in Atlanta. More recently she has
been employed at Griffin-Spald
ing County Hospital.
Other registered nurses are
Mrs. Marilyn Fletcher who grad
uated from Piedmont Hospital
School of Nursing in August. Be
fore coming to Sylvan Grove Hos
pital, Mrs. Fletcher worked at
Tanner Memorial Hospital in Car
rollton.
Mrs. Lee West of Barnesville
is an able and skilled RN who
works during the weekends. She
is idle Public Health Nurse for
Barnesville and Lamar County.
Miss Ester Cooper is a grad
uate of Grady Memorial Hospital
and has worked at Tanner Memo
rial Hospital in Carrollton.
Mrs. Mildred Fears of Jackson
concludes the list of registered
nurses for the hospital. Mrs.
Fears trained at Middle Georgia
Hospital in Macon and received
a BS in Nursing from the Univer
sity of Georgia.
The licensed practical nurse on
duty at the hospital js Mrs.
Katreen Duke who trained at the
Griffin-Spalding County Hospital
Practical Nurses School.
Mr. William Franks is the reg
istered medical technician. He
trained at Milledgeville State
Hospital and worked at Monroe
County Hospital. He does both
x-ray and laboratory work.
The nurses aides include Mrs.
Joan Stewart as ward clerk, Mrs.
Bonnell Turner in the nursery,
Mrs. Ray Thaxton in central sup
ply and Mrs. lone Kent.
Colored aides are Florine
Whitehead, Gladys Whitehead
and Marion Henderson.
Orderlies are Joe Lewis Allen,
Garfield Smith and Alvin Willis.
City Officials
To Attend Fete
For Ga. Mayors
Mayor C. B. Brown Jr. of Jack
son, along with hundreds of other
Georgia city officials, will par
ticipate in the fifth annual
Mayors’ Day in Atlanta, January
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The city leaders will attend a
mid-winter conference of the
Georgia Municipal Association
during the afternoon, during
which the Association’s legislative
program will be discussed.
In the evening, they will en
tertain the entire General Assem
bly at a banquet at the Dinkier
Plaza Hotel. Governor Carl San
ders will address the group.
Other city officials from Jack
son who are planning to attend
are Councilmen W. 0. Ball, John
L. Coleman, C. M. Daniel Jr., and
Bill Sasser.
Committees For
Kiwanis Club
Are Announced
The Jackson Kiwanis club re
cently heard committee chairmen
outline projects for the year.
Kiwanis President B. Y. Lunce
ford urged each member of the
club to strive for a succesful
year in carrying out these com
munity endeavors.
Mr. Lunceford listed the pro
jects ,their chairmen (first name)
and members as follows:
Boys and Girls Work: Julian
Fletcher, Denny O’Neal, W. D.
Windsor, Lee Roy O’Neal, Bill
Cawthon, Charles Rooks.
Key Club: R. H. Pinckney, Bill
Cawthon, Julian Fletcher, Rich
ard Watkins, Fred Raney.
Vocational Guidance: Lee Roy
O’Neal, Rogers Starr.
Agriculture and Conservation:
M. L. Powell, P. H. Weaver,
James Payne.
Public and Business Affairs:
Morris Redman, Milton Daniel.
Support of churches in their
Spiritual Aims: Bill Cawthon,
Levi Ball, Doyle Jones Jr., Milton
Daniel.
Inter Club Relations: P. H.
Weaver, Tom Collins, W. D.
Windsor.
Kiwanis Education and Fellow
ship: Rogers Starr, J. W. O’Neal,
Morris Redman.
Public Relations: Doyle Jones
Jr., Tom Collins.
Attendance and Membership:
Morris Moore, P. H. Weaver, M.
L. Powell.
Birthdays: R. P. Newton.
Music: Milton Daniel, J. W.
O’Neal, Morris Redman,
House Administration: Charles
Rooks, Fred Raney.
Finance Committee: T. E. Robi
son, David Settle, J. W. O’Neal.
Reception Committee: J. M.
Hutcheson, Denny O’Neal, Fred
Raney, Roy Goff.
Laws and Regulations: R. H.
Pinckney, Richard Watkins, B. Y.
Lunceford and James Payne.
Volunteer Help
For Heart Fund
Is Now Secured
“Additional leadership for the
1963 Heart Fund campaign in
Jackson and Butts County has
been secured,” Miss Dorothy
Thomas, local Heart Fund Chair
man said this week.
Mr. Marion Whiten has been
appointed vice chairman. Other
volunteers have been given their
divisions in which they will assist,
Miss Thomas said.
This single annual appeal to
prevent heart deaths and disabil
ities will be conducted here dur
ing Heart Month, Feb. 1-28. The
high point will be Heart Sunday,
February 24.
Mr. Whiten is a past chairman
of the Heart Fund Campaign for
Butts County, having served in
that capacity in 1962. He is a
member of the First Baptist
Church and a Mason. Mr. Whiten
is employed as a bookkeeper for
the G. H. Barnes Lumber Com
pany.
Community and division chair
men include Miss Georgie Wat
kins, Special Gifts Division; Mr.
W. O. Ball, In-Plant Division;
Dr. Roy Goff, Business District;
Mrs. Evelyn Apple, Rural Divis
ion; Mr. James Stewart, Profes
sional Division; Mr. Billy Sutton,
Government Division; Mr. Lee
Roy O’Neal, Educational Division;
Mrs. Billy Leverette, Special
Events (Clubs and Organiza
tions) ; Mrs. Hugh Polk, Heart
Fund Treasurer and Mrs. K. L.
Wise, Publicity Chairman.
“The goal of the Butts County
Heart Fund Drive in February
will be to give every individual
in the county an opportunity to
support the fight against heart
disease,” Miss Thomas said.
Development At
High Falls Be
Completed in ’63
Representative Bailey Wood
ward of Butts County is in At
lanta for the current session of
the Georgia General Assembly,
which convened Monday at 10 a.
m. All 205 representatives and 54
senators were sworn in as the
first order of business Monday.
Mr. Woodward was appointed
vice-chairman of the Hygiene and
Sanitation Committee, and a
member of the Industrial and
Natural Resources Committees.
News was received in Jackson
from Rep. Woodward that the
state will match federal funds of
$60,000 to complete development
of High Falls State Park during
1963. According to Mr. Wood
ward, Fulton Lovell, State Direc
tor of the Game and Fish De
partment, received news that the
Federal Government had made
available $60,000 for the High
Falls project, if the state would
match that sum. Gov. Ernest
Vandiver Monday agreed to do
so, Rep. Woodward said, and an
nounced that the development
program, originally set up on a
five year plan, will in all likeli
hood be completed this year.
Jack Long Wins
1,000 Dimes in
Colonial Contest
Dimes, 1,000 of them, were
presented to Jack Long by Julian
Fletcher, manager of the Jackson
Colonial Store at the local store
on Monday, January 14. Mr. Long
won the 1,000 dimes in the Lucky
Dime Contest, currently being
sponsored by Colonial Stores.
Mr. Long was the first Butts
County winner in the contest and
won during the first week it was
inaugurated. He also received
1,000 Gold Bond Stamps in ad
dition to the dimes.
According to Mr. Fletcher, the
contest is open to everyone and
no purchase is necessary to re
ceive the Lucky Dime Card. It is
easy to play and everyone wins,
Mr. Fletcher said.
Mr. Fletcher urges everyone to
ask for the Lucky Dime Card
when they come into the local
Colonial Store and enter the con
test. If everyone enters there will
be many more Butts County win
ners, he said.
Willow Valley
Dairy Host At
Dinner Meeting
Directors and advisors of the
Georgia Guernsey Breeders Asso
ciation met Thursday, January
10, at a dinner meeting at Wil
low Valley Dairy.
Before taking up the business
of the club, the group motored to
Riverside Barbecue for an enjoy
able meal.
The business session included
making plans for the year’s activ
ities and the annual meeting and
luncheon were planned for Mon
day, February 11, at the Georgia
Experiment Station.
Attending the meeting were C.
J. Jacobs, American Guernsey
Cattle Club representative of
West Point; Nelson Maddox and
H. K. Welch Jr., Extension Dairy
men from the University of Geor
gia; Herman Haga, Clearbranch
Farm at Fort Valley; D. L. Cline,
Cline Dairy Farm, Cartersville;
W. W. Denney, Nejasco Farms,
Canton; Lewis Parker, Parker
Guernsey Farm, Dublin; James
McCordle of Thomson and the
hosts, Rolfe H. Burford and
George N. Martin.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JAN. 17, 1963
Laundry Expert
Sets Barnesville
Talk on Jan. 23
Mrs. Ann Sterling, Director of
Consumer Education for the
American Institute of Laundering
with headquarters in Joliet, Illin
ois, will be the guest speaker at
a meeting in Barnesville to be
held on Wednesday, January 23,
at the Gordon Grammar School
Cafetorium at 7:30 p. m.
Mrs. Sterling is well known
throughout the country as an
authority on fabric care. She is
the author of a monthly column
“Favor Your Fabrics” which ap
pears in newspapers across the
nation. She has been seen and
heard by millions of people on
television and radio where she
gives information on fibers, fab
rics and their care. She is a wide
ly experienced speaker before
industry and consumer groups as
well as school groups, and wom
en gain much information on the
selection and care of fabrics now
on market. She is author of a
handbook on fabric care which
is distributed to housewives in her
meetings. Mrs. Sterling travels
throughout the United States ap
pearing on programs for various
groups. She will stop over in
Barnesville only for the 23rd.
She leaves immediately to go to
Florida for similar work.
The Lamar County Home Dem
onstration Clubs are working with
Mrs. Ruth Allen, proprietor of
Allen’s Laundry, on the presen
tation of this program. Mrs. Allen
was fortunate in securing the
services of Mrs. Sterling after at
tending a school of Fabric Care
recently in Joliet.
There will be no charge to this
program and the public is invited
to attend. The meeting will be
helpful to merchants of fabrics,
housewives, girls in Home Eco
nomics classes, girls in 4-H clubs,
in fact anyone mrho is interested
in the hew materials on market
and would like to know more
about how to care for them will
be benefitted.
The sponsors urge those in
terested in Butts County to come
to Barnesville for this program.
Butts Jaycees
Will Sponsor
STAR Program
The Butts County Junior
Chamber of Commerce will be the
official sponsor of all Student
Teacher Achievement Recognition
(STAR) activities in the Butts
County school system, James
Beavers Jr., Newnan 4th district
chairman for the STAR program,
announced this week.
“Fine local support by civic
minded organizations like this one
has been a major factor in the
success of the project since its
launching in 1958,” he said.
He pointed out that the STAR
program is unique among educa
tional activities in that it seeks
to raise the levels of academic
achievement among high school
seniors while at the same time
“giving long-overdue public rec
ognition” to outstanding students
and their mentors in the teaching
profession.
March of Dimes
Events Told By
Chairman Crump
Don Crump, chairman of the
March of Dimes campaign in
Butts County, revealed this week
that the Jackson Tri-Hi-Y Club
will sell Microscope lapel pins in
downtown Jackson on Saturday,
January 19. All proceeds will go
toward the 1963 March of Dimes.
The annual Road Block will be
held on Sunday, January 20. The
members of the Jackson Varsity
Letter Club will be on the main
street of Jackson from 9 to 5
o’clock to hold this road block,
Mr. Crump said. Proceeds will go
toward the 1963 March of Dimes.
82.122.00 To Hospital
Over $62,000 Paid To County Nursing
Homes Under State Welfare Program
Talmadge Lauds
Russell For Long
Senate Service
ATLANTA,—(GPS) The U. S.
Senate the other day paid tribute
to one of its members who biog
raphy contained in the Congres
sional Directory simply says:
“Richard Brevard Russell, Demo
crat, of Winder, Ga.”
But his colleagues, Democrats
and Republicans alike, know there
is far more to be said about the
man than that. And that’s why
they took the occasion of his
30th anniversary of Senate ser
vice to pay homage to the senior
Senator from Georgia.
Of all the laudatory speeches
recorded, none perhaps was more
elaborate nor more sincere than
the one delivered by his junior
Georgia colleague, Sen. Herman
E. Talmadge. Leading off the
eulogizing, Talmadge said:
“For three decades, Sen. Rus
sell has tirelessly and devotedly
dedicated himself to service io
his nation and his native State
of Georgia. No other member of
the Senate in modern times has
risen to such high prominence or
won the genuine respect of his
fellow Senators as that achieved
by Sen. Russell.
“In the preservation of the
Senate as a great deliberative in
stitution fulfilling its constitu
tional responsibilities, no other
member in recent history has had
a more significant role or exerted
a greater influence.
“The nation and every citizen
is indebted to Sen. Russell for
his devotion to duty, for his
genius, courage, imaginative fore
sight, and insatisfiable love of
hard work. Sen. Russell is a
valiant defender of the individual
liberties of all the people of this
country.”
After pointing to Sen. Russell’s
many accomplishments as chair
man of the Senate Armed Ser
vices Committee and the Senate
Agriculture Appropriations, a3
well as those in other areas, Sen.
Talmadge declared:
“His statesmanlike conduct and
parliamentary prowess has won
wide acclaim. Yet, Sen. Russell
is a modest and unassuming man.
He wants only to serve the
people.”
Social Security
Number Must Be
On Tax Return
“Your social security number
must be entered on your 1962
Federal Income Tax Return,” A.
C. Ross, District Director of In
ternal Revenue, reminded tax
payers today.
The Director stated that tax
payers may experience some de
lay in receiving refunds if they
fail to use their social security
number.
“Ample space for this number
is provided on page 1 of all types
of tax returns,” Mr. Ross advised.
“It is a safe practice,” he
added, to enter your social secur
ity number before completing the
remainder of the reportable
items.”
Husbands and wives who file a
joint income tax return or dec
laration of estimated tax need
include only the husband’s ac
count number if, for the taxable
year covered by the return or
declaration:
(1) the wife’s separate gross
income is less than S6OO (or
SI2OO if she is 65 or older);
(2) she does not have self
employment income; or
(3) she does not have income
such as wages, dividends, or in
terest paid to her (otherwise
than with her husband) which
the payer is required to report on
a return or statement of infor
mation.
New Dial System
Is Explained To
Jackson Leaders
Telephone users in Butts Coun
ty will soon be able to place a call
to San Francisco in a matter of
13 seconds, Albert Harrell. South
ern Bell Telephone Jonesboro
Group Manager, told members of
the Jackson Kiwanis Club Tues
day night. Mr. Harrell used this
call in an example to show the
group the efficiency and service
of the proposed direct dialing
system to be put into effect local
ly in April, 1964.
Mr. Harrell pointed out that
prior to the inauguration of the
direct distance dialing, the local
area phone numbers will become
seven digits. For this area, all
numbers will have the prefix 775.
This change over in numbers is
scheduled to take place in July of
this year, Mr. Harrell said.
When these changes go into
effect, Mr. Harrell said, the Mc-
Donough Exchange will be dis
continued and all calls will be
routed to the Griffin Exchange.
Further explaining the changes,
Mr. Harrell stated that the seven
digit number plan is being put
into use so that the company will
have enough combinations of
numbers to provide everyone with
a different number. With these
prefixes, the area code number,
used in direct distance dialing to
identify a given area, and a net
work of electronic equipment,
Jackson will be able to go into
the direct distance dialing with
no major difficulties, Mr. Harrell
pointed out.
Several questions were asked
Mr. Harrell when he completed
his informative talk. The major
subject was on the Atlanta dial
ing system in which an area of
approximately 30 miles from At
lanta can dial within the area
without paying toll charges.
Mr. Harrell quite candidly told
the questioners that at present
better service for Jackson and
Butts County will be obtained
from the Griffin Exchange. Ac
cording to the group manager, in
stallation of the most modern and
up-to-date equipment the compa
ny possesses is now taking place
at Griffin. He did not rule out
future connection with the At
lanta system.
Other telephone personel pres
ent at the meeting were Mrs. Jess
Henley of the Jackson office and
Mr. L. A. Wood, Newnan District
Manager.
Members of the Exchange Club
meeting with the Kiwanis Club to
hear Mr. Harrell were Messrs.
M. L. Hodges Jr., G. R. Lewis and
W. A. Cook. Mr. A. H. Thurmond
Jr. represented the Jackson Lake
Cottage and Cabin Owners Asso
ciation, Inc. Mayor C. B. Brown
Jr., Mrs. K. L. Wise and Mrs. P.
H. Weaver also attended the
meeting.
Roy Prosser was welcomed back
into the club during the business
session.
Next Tuesday will be ladies
night and President B. Y. Lunce
ford urges a good attendance to
greet Lt. Gov. Bob Price, of Fay
etteville, Founder’s night speaker.
R. J. THORNTON GREW
3 LB. 10-OZ. TURNIP
Mr. R. J. Thornton had a tre
mendous crop of turnips this
year. His garden patch yielded
several giants with one weighing
in at three pounds and ten
ounces.
Mr. Thornton had the Purple
Top Turnip on display Monday
and several farmers who viewed
the odd shaped vegetable said it
was the largest they had ever
seen. It measured 2114 inches
around.
According to the grower, the
recent severe cold weather spelled
the end to his amazing crop of
gigantic turnips.
$4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Mr. Alan Kemper, State Wel
fare Director, summed up the re
sults of the year-old Georgia
Medical Care Program initiated
under the Kerr-Mills Act on Jan
uary 1, 1962 in an article recent
ly-
State-wide the Medical Care
Program reached a peak amount
ing to $8,200,000 in payments, ac
cording to Mr. Kemper.
Of this sum, $64,212.46 went
to the hospital and nursing homes
in Butts County for the care of
indigent welfare clients.
Eleven indigent patients were
admitted to the local hospital
since its opening in August, 1962,
according to Mrs. Jane Powell,
Butts Welfare Director. Vendor
payments in the amount of $2,-
122.00 were paid direct to the
hospital by the state for these
patients’ care, Mrs. Powell said.
Bills were paid at various other
hospitals in the amount of $2,-
798.57 for care of 16 patients
under this program on the Butts
County Welfare rolls, Mrs. Powell
stated.
Who qualified for the Georgia
Medical Care Program and what
is it?
Under the expanded program,
effective September 1, all recip
ients of Aid to the Blind and Aid
to the Disabled, as well as those
receiving Old Age Assistance, can
receive hospitalization benefits
for a possible 30 days per admis
sion and 60 days for the calendar
year. In addition, the program
will pay a stipulated amount di
rect to an approved nursing home
for those indigent citizens pro
vided the recipient does not have
sufficient income and the family
is unable to pay. These payments
are made direct to the hospital
or nursing home submitting the
bill. The patient has to be a recip
ient of the Welfare Assistance
before being eligible for assist
ance under this program.
According to Mrs. Powell, un
der the program for assistance
for indigent patients in nursing
homes in Butts County, a total
amount of $62,190.46 was paid
for the year 1962. At present
the department has 45 old age
recipients on their rolls at the
two nursing homes in the county.
A number of old age cases from
other counties are in process of
being transferred as these are
transferred to the local welfare
department after the recipient
has been in the nursing home
more than two months.
The recipients, Mrs. Powell
said, receive only an $8 money
payment when residing in a nurs
ing home. The state pays the
nursing home bill for old age
recipients direct to the nursing
homes. However, the county is
responsible for 4% of this cost
for blind and disabled recipients.
At present, Butts County does not
have a recipient in a nursing
home under the blind or disabled
assistance, Mrs. Powell said.
Mrs. Powell pointed out that
the county pays only 4% of the
$8 money payment going to the
recipients in all three categories.
Knights Templar
Slate Inspection
For January 18th
Alexius Commandery No. 22,
Knights Templar, will be inspec
ted by Sir Knight W. G. Ham
mock, a past commander, repre
senting the Grand Commander of
Georgia, W. Tom Bateman. The
inspection will be on Friday, Jan
uary 18th.
Other Grand Line officers will
be present including the Grand
Commander.
Dinner will be served at the
Jackson Clubhouse at 6:30 p. m.
by Mrs. W. H. Wilson, chairman,
assisted by a committee of wives
of Alexius Commandery members.
Alexius Commandery has 96
members from Butts, Henry and
Jasper counties. All members are
invited to dinner and inspection.