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Jackson Progress-Argut
J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1958)
DOYLE JONES JR Editor
and Publisher
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tbe Post Office at Jackson, Ga.
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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES. JR.
Jest of the Week: During
World War 11, a sergeant and a
private were court-martialed for
striking a colonel. The sergeant
testified that, during an inspec
tion, the colonel had stepped on
his foot, “Instinctively,” he said,
“I threw up my hands and nit
him. It was an accident, I assure
you.”
Then the private was asked for
his explanation. “Well, you see,
sir,” he said, “when I saw the
sergeant hit the colonel, I thought
the war was over.”—Ties.
Georgians are shocked and
aghast at the increase of crime
in Atlanta. Armed robbery is par
ticularly rampant with banking
and loan institutions, liquor
stores and filling stations favorite
targets. Crimes of almost every
nature are plaguing the over
taxed police department and de
tective bureau and has led to the
formation of a special squad of
picked patrolmen and detectives.
These men will attempt to thwart
robberies and apprehend the per
petrators of both old and new
robbery cases.
We trust that steps will be
taken by Atlanta officials to halt
this criminal element in their
tracks. Georgians point with par
donable pride to Atlanta as our
capital, foremost city in the
Southeast and one of the fastest
growing in the nation. We would
not like to see this image of
greatness, which is Atlanta’s,
shattered in the eyes of the world
by the ravages of uncontrolled
crime.
Residents of the counties com
prising the Flint Judicial Circuit,
as well as other friends over the
state, regret to learn of the re
cent heart attack that has caused
the hospitalization of Judge
Thomas J. Brown Jr., of McDon
ough.
Striking before the Christmas
holidays, the cardiac seizure im
mobilized the prominent jurist in
the Griffin-Spalding County Hos
pital. Happily, more encouraging
news has come from his bedside
of late.
Judge Brown has been missed,
and we join his host of friends
in Butts county in the sincere
wish that his recovery be rapid
and complete, and that he may
soon resume his place on the
bench of our courts.
Cathie Crabb, writing in the
Jan. 1963 issue of “Folks” says:
“We need a curfew on parents,
more than kids,” Len Sparks,
Camphorville’s mayor, says. “The
youngsters we have the most
trouble with are the ones whose
folks don't know enough to go
home.”
You know, there's a lot of
truth in that homey bit of philos
ophy. We hear on every hand of
juvenile delinquency. Yet with
the example many parents set for
their children by drinking, bicker
ing, gambling, adultery, absentee
ism from home, open domestic
brawls, alcoholism and just plain
lack of common sense, it is sur
prising that delinquency among
those under 18 is not more wide
spread. The circumstances far too
many children are forced to en
dure at home fit them more pro
perly for a psychiatrist’s couch
than for first class citizenship.
And no one is to blame more than
parents.
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Guest Editorial
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
BY DORIS LOCKERMAN
BLAME FOR MURDER
LIES WITH SOCIETY
The fatal stabbing of the young Pennsylvania col
lege student at the hands of “hecklers” as he traveled
through this state from Florida adds a fearsome knell
to our life and times, far more ominous than the toll
of the drivers on public highways who maim or kill
through their recklessness or even the person who
murders in hot blood.
The details of the story from
Baxley were chilling in their
mindlessness. A rattletrap car
driven by hateridden men haras
sed a pair of unknown young
travelers by bumping their auto
mobile off the highway and then
one of the young men was stab
bed to death with monstrous cold
ness.
The frightening thing about
such action is its impersonality.
Such assailants are not specif
ically vengeful; their malice 's
toward all mankind: It is a fever
of degeneracy, fanned by the
company of their own kind, with
whom they commit their crimes
boastfully, to prove their mean
ness to each other. From such
conscienceless assassins, the inno
cent have no protection.
It is useless to flail at law en
forcement agencies when such
incidents as this occur. If they
can discover the guilty, they may
deter further violence by them.
If, however, the guilty are sen
tenced to serve time in our ill
managed prisons, they may be
released more hardened than
when they went in. It is society
itself that spawns and nurtures
people with such nature.
The Baxley case has already
become shocking headlines every
where, but more or such violence
occurs than we realize in our
land, in our state, even in our
city.
We point with distant accusa
tion at the senseless rumbles of
young mobs in cities, read of
Telephone
Talk
By
ALBERT HARRELL JR.
Your Telephone Manager
NOBODY HOME? If you’re out
when your telephone serviceman
calls, you’ll find this bell on your
doorknob. It tells you our repre
sentative came and lets you know
where you can call to have your
request completed. You may also
be given this reminder by your
telephone man if he comes and
you are not ready for service at
the time. The bell with its message
is another way your telephone company works to turnish
you quick, efficient service.
* * *
FOR BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL PEOPLE who
must be away from their offices during regular work hours,
2,500 Telephone Answering Bureaus across the nation act
as private secretaries. An estimated billion calls are han
dled annually by 42,000 Telephone Answering Service
attendants. Answering services now handle about 10% of
all business customers and give greater flexibility to busi
nesses that require outside, away-from-the-office contacts.
* * *
IT’S COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT ALMOST
ANYWHERE YOU GO ... there’s probably a telephone
not far away. In addition to the familiar outdoor telephone
booths, there are drive-in booths that let you telephone
without getting out of your car ... walk-up booths in
places where there's not room for a conventional booth.
So whatever kind of talking you need to do ... business,
social, serious, fun or family talk ... whether you’re at
home, or out, there’s a convenient telephone nearby
FOR THE AWAY-FROM
HOME STUDENT IN YOUR
FAMILY, there’s no better gift
than a call home. School may be
great, roommates fun, grades
g00d... but sometimes only the
sound of a family voice will do.
Why not establish a regular time
for your son or daughter to call
home? Begin enjoying regular
voice visits with them now.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS. JACKSON, GEORGIA
purposeless gangs marauding by
impulse and without reason, but
the time has come when no per
son may drive or walk at night
without a sense of foreboding
apprehension that assault may
lurk in the darkness.
Sometimes merely dr i ving
within the speed limit will invite
an attack. Automobiles with con
genitally angry drivers tail goad
ingly close, then shoot out, barely
grazing the side of the slower
car, and pull in sharply, trying
to nose him from the road and
into the ditch.
All young people experience
this again and again. They know
they are helpless if their cars are
finally forced from the road and
they are attacked by a roadside
gang.
The story of Baxley will make
the irritations of victims of speed
traps elsewhere in America fade
into insignificance. What can be
done to make our highways safe
from human beasts?
FALLOUT DECAY
Danger from fallout drops
rapidly in the first days after a
nuclear explosion because many
of the radioactive materials are
short-lived. Fallout which radiates
1,000 units one hour after the
bomb burst would radiate about
100 units an hour seven hours
later. Within two days it would
radiate only 10 units per hour
and would be down to one unit
within two weeks.
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Letters To The
Editor
Coincident with the pending
change in telephone service to
inter-city dialing service it ap
pears from information furnished
by telephone company officials at
a recent civic meeting in Jackson,
that the telephone exchange in
McDonough will be discontinued
sometime this summer. Due to a
determined and successful drive
by the good people of McDon
ough, subscribers in Henry Coun
ty will be furnished Atlanta
Metropolitan service at a flat
monthly rate. This simply means
that McDonough may call any of
some 23 towns and cities within
the Metro area as often as de
sired without long distance
charge or the same as local ser
vice within the city of Jackson.
Since the meeting last Tues
day I find considerable confus
ion exists locally as to the actual
rates of the Metro plan as com
pared to present local rates. Of
ficial present comparative rates
are offered in the following.
Jackson Metro
rates rates
8 party lines $2.35 $4.00
4 party lines 2.35 4.00
2 party lines 2.65 5.00
1 party line 3.50 6.00
Business Lines 6.50 17.00
Taxes are extra and those pay
ing mileage and construction
charges will pay the same sums as
Herc’s news for you:
f w it’s better to beat
When unpaid bills begin to pile up, it usually spells trouble
ahead! Best way to avoid financial difficulties is to consolidate
all debts and wipe them out with cash from a loan, that you
can pay-off monthly.
• Low-cost loans for any purpose.
• Convenient terms arranged.
• A steady job is the only requirement.
When it’a a question of money, we have the answer
JACKSON LOAN CO.
TOM HALLFORD, MANAGER
Everything piles up handsomely in a Chevy II including savings
Imagine a low-loading wagon roomy enough to
handle most anything you can heft—and still
trim enough to slip into cramped parking spots.
We imagined it, built it and called it Chevy 11.
Made it as dependable as a wagon can get.
And made it so it’ll keep piling up savings
over the years. Those snow up in the way
TuiLx;‘Bf /lAu !\
Nova ItOO U-Doot 6-Passenger Station Wagon
See four entirely different kinds of cars at your Chevrolet dealer’s . . . Chevrolet, Chevy 11, Corvair and Corvette.
A B W CHEVROLET CO., INC.
JACKSON Phone 4681 108-116 E. Third St
285 ANIMALS SOLD AT
MIDDLE GEORGIA SALES
Middle Georgia January 16th
had a run of 35 hogs and 250
head of cattle.
Hogs topped $17.00.
Heavy calves $25.50.
Stockers $26.50.
Beef cows $17.20.
Bulls $20.00.
Springers $200.00.
at present, in addition to the flat
rates above.
Butts County subscribers will
be changed to operate through
an expanded and improved Grif
fin exchange. As it is stated the
inter-city dialing service will not
become effective until 1964 it ap
pears our hopes for this year will
be a net of three additional digits
in each number with exception
of improved long distance service,
particularly as regards inadequate
volume as at present experienced
at certain times. Whether Butts
County ever gets the wonderful
inter-city service under the Metro
plan depends entirely on being
willing to pay the charges, want
the service and can persuade the
telephone company and Public
Service Commission to approve
same. At the recent meeting the
telephone officials did state that
the pending inclusion of Butts
County in the Griffin exchange
would not in any manner jeopar
dize the possibility of furnishing
Metro service at some later date.
A. H. THURMOND, JR.
Jackson, Ga.
GIVE TO THE MARCHING
MOTHERS
An army of Marching Mothers
will soon be knocking on doors
throughout the country in the an
nual March of Dimes.
Welcome the neighbor who
rings your doorbell with a gener
ous contribution. Here’s why.
Every year hundreds of thou
sands of American children suf
fer the cruelty of birth defects
and arthritis. Just as the National
Foundation discovered in the
polio fight, these children can be
helped if they get proper medical
care and that is the prime goal
of the 1963 Mother’s March.
Funds raised will help expand the
March of Dimes treatment cen
ters for birth defects, arthritis
and polio. There are already more
than 50 of the centers located
throughout the country.
The March of Dimes research
program proved that polio can be
controlled. Research scientists
whose work is financed by March
of Dimes funds are seeking clues
for the prevention and cure of
birth defects and arthritis.
You are helping crippled
youngsters get the help they so
desperately need when you give
to the Marching Mothers.
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE!
NOTICE
1962 FEDERAL & STATE INCOME TAX
RETURNS PREPARED BY
John M. Hutcheson
After January 1, 1963
Call 7459 or see him in his office
over Newton Hardware.
this one goes and goes on a gallon. They grow
with brakes that adjust themselves. An exhaust
system that lasts longer. And a Delcotron
generator that keeps battery reserve power up.
Want to hear more? How about a low price,
natty interiors, Body by Fisher craftsmanship
—and a talk with your Chevrolet dealer soon!
CHEWY!
Keeps Going Great
THURSDAY, JAN. 24, 1963
Thomas Jones
Dies at Milner
Funeral services for Mr. Paul
Thomas Jones, 63, of Route 1,
Milner, who died at his home,
were conducted Saturday after
noon at 2 o’clock from the Li
berty Baptist Church with the
Rev. G. E. Finleyson officiating.
Interment was in the church
cemetery.
Mr. Jones was a retired farmer.
He is survived by his father,
Henry H. Jones; five sons, Law
rence E. Jones of Griffin, Jesse
Jones of Forsyth, Marcus Jones
of Atlanta, Bobby Jones of Jack
son and Billy Jones of the U. S.
Army, stationed in Maryland; two
daughters, Mrs. Opal Duncan of
Griffin, Mrs. Eleanor English ef
Atlanta; two brothers, George
Jones of Brooks and Felton Jones
of Zettella; three sisters, Mrs.
Gladys Jones of Experiment, Mrs.
Troy Cato and Mrs. Emmett
Gunnells, both of Griffin.
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