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Kacksott Progress-Argus
VOL. 93 —NO. 34
BUTTS CO. SCHOOLS SCHEDULE 1966-67
Pre-Planning August 23-24-25
First Day of School August 26
Holiday, Labor Day September 5
First Month Ends September 23
One Day out for District Teachers Meeting
Second Month Ends October 24
In-Service Training November 18,
Third Month Ends November 22
Thanksgiving Holidays November 24-25
Last Day of School Before Christmas Holidays December 20
First Day of School after Christmas Holidays January 3
Fourth Month Ends January 4
In-Service Training January 20
Fifth Month Ends February 2
Sixth Month Ends March 2
In-Service Training March 3
State Teachers Meeting 1 Day
Spring Holidays March 24-27
Seventh Month Ends April 5
In-Service Training April 21
Eighth Month Ends May 4
Ninth Month Ends June 1
Post Planning June 2-5-6
Explosion On
Saturday Hurts
Federal Agent
A Federal Reveue Agent, listed
by Butts County Sheriff J. D.
(Bud) Pope as Walter Smith, 35,
of Orange Street. Macon, was
seriously injured Saturday morn
ing when a stick of dynamite ex
ploded during a raid on a moon
shine still in Butts County.
After receiving treatment at
Sylvan Grove Hospital, Mr. Smith
was rushed to Macon Hospital
where surgeons reportedly re
moved a piece of steel from his
right chest. Doctors at the hos
pital reported that the blast punc
tured his chest but no condition
report was available early Sun
day.
Sheriff Pope said Smith, along
with other agents, was partici
pating in a raid on a still six
miles east of Jackson off Georgia
Highway 16, about 8 o’clock Sat
urday morning when the accident
happened. The Butts sheriff
said the agent had already raided
the 720-gallon still, making four
arrests and were in the process
of destroying the still and equip
ment with dynamite.
It is believed that one of the
charges failed to go off, the ac
cident occurring as Mr. Smith
went back into the area to check
on this with the explosion inflict
ing a serious chest injury.
Sheriff Pope said that the
agents involved in the raid, as
well as the four arrested men, all
joined together in assisting the
injured man reach his car which
was parked about one-half mile
away.
Sheriff Pope listed those ar
rested in the raid as Henry Las
siter, Henry Banks, John Lewis
McClendon, and Lewis Dotson,
all of Butts County.
Jackson Scouts
At Pine Valley
Second Session
Pine Valley Girl Scout Camp
closed its second session with 53
campers and 20 staff in attend
ance. Mrs. Kathleen Barrow was
Camp Director. Scouts were from
Griffin, Fayetteville, McDonough,
Jackson, Villa Rica, Carrollton,
Thomaston, Bowdon, LaGrange,
Bremen and West Point, Geor
gia. Also from Lanett, La Fay
ette, Fairfax and Shawmut, Ala
bama.
The camp had two tent units
and one adventure unit. Emphasis
was placed on camp craft, water
front activities and nature pro
jects. A feature of this session
was the small craft program
which included sailing. The girls
established camp traditions and
in years to come will have the
pleasure of knowing they helped
make camping history at Pine
Valley’s own camp site.
Among those attending from
Jackson were Maria Ann Evans,
Jenny Washington, Kay Pinck
ney, Ellen Pinckney.
JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233 Address All Mail (Subscription Change of Address Form 3579) to P. O. Box 249, Jackson, Ga. 30233
Lt. Armstrong
Top Officer At
McConnell AFB
First Lt. Thomas L. Armstrong,
son of Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Arm
strong of Jackson, has been
named outstanding Junior Offi
cer of the 381st Strategic Missile
Wing for the period January 1
through June 30, 1966.
Lt. Armstrong was assigned to
the 381st Aerospace Security
Force (ASF) in July 1965. A
newcomer to the missile security
business, he devoted himself to
long hours of study improving his
knowledge of the numerous di
rectives governing missile securi
ty, so read the personal citation
accompanying the recommenda
tion.
In February and March 1966,
Lt. Armstrong was the only of
ficer assigned to the ASF. He
filled the dual role of the Chief,
Security and Law Enforcement
as well as the Security Operations
Officer during this period prov
ing his ability to make accurate
and timely decisions in all phases
of security.
Shortly after his assuming
these responsible positions, the
381st SMW underwent an Opera
tional Readiness Inspection. The
security inspectors commented
that “unbelievable progress had
been made since the last inspec
tion.” The progress was attribu
ted to Lieutenant Armstrong’s
leadership and management abil
ity.
Lt. Armstrong graduated from
the University of Georgia with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
physical geography prior to being
commissioned in 1964. Before
coming to McConnell AFB he was
assigned to the 39th Combat
Defense Squadron, Eglin AFB,
Fla.
He presently resides at 16
Hawthorne Road, Wichita, Kans.
Car Hits Pole
In McDonough
And Three Die
A spectacular high speed crash
in the city limits of McDonough
Saturday morning about 2:40
o’clock killed three persons, de
capitating one of the victims,
Griffin headquarters of the Geor
gia State Patrol, reported.
Victims in the crash, as identi
fied by the patrol, were Nathel
Branch, 27, of Route 3, McDon
ough; Evelyn Johnson, 19, of 104
Phillips Drive, McDonough; and
Rossi J. Tyson of Valdosta. This
accident helped boost Georgia’s
weekend death toll to 32, anew
high in highway carnage for a
two-day weekend.
The accident happened just
north of the McDonough business
district in the curve on U. S. 23.
According to witnesses the auto
mobile in which the victims were
riding at a reported excessive
speed rate overturned and ca
reened into a utility pole. The
bodies were reportedly badly
mangled with one of the victims
being decapitated by the impact.
Poverty Loans
By FHA Made To
750 Families
Over 750 families in Georgia
found the means to start working
fheir way up from the poverty in
come level through family Eco
nomic Opportunity loans during
fiscal 1966, S. L. VanLanding
ham, Farmers Home Administra
tion state director said this week.
Mr. VanLandingham reported
on progress of a lending program
administered by the USDA Farm
ers Home Administration for the
Office of Economic Opportunity.
The past fiscal year saw 774
loans totaling $1,329,330 to rural
families in the lowest income
group to provide tools, supplies,
and working space they need in
order to earn a better living.
Since the program began in
January, 1965, loans totaling
$2,275,570 have been made to
over 1250 families throughout
Georgia.
Mr. VanLandingham said the
Economic Opportunity borrowers
are following more than 75 dif
ferent nonagricultural enter
prises, in addition to farming, as
a result of the helping hand ex
tended them through the pro
gram. Loans average $1790 a
family, with a maximum of $2,-
500 in effect.
“These are loans to families at
the bottom of the economic lad
der. Nationwide more than half
of them exist on less than $1,500
a year for family living expen
ses,” VanLandingham said.
“The borrowers are rural peo
ple who have been isolated in
poverty, with nowhere to look ex
cept to their own capacity for
self-employment. Their most
common handicap has been lack
of money or credit to equip them
selves for more profitable work
they might do if they had the
tools.
“Economic Opportunity loans
help them overcome this obstacle.
The loans stake them to the
things they need for a profitable
farming enterprise or to increase
their income by following a trade
or performing a service needed in
their home communities.
“The plan is working. The rural
Economic Opportunity borrowers
are working their way forward,
and paying back their loans.”
JACKSON STUDENTS
GRADUATE FROM
GEORGIA AUG. 19
ATHENS, Ga. —The University
of Georgia will award almost
1,000 degrees at summer com
mencement, August 19, at 10.30
a. m. in the Coliseum. Dr. Frank
G. Dickey, executive director of
the National Commission on Ac
crediting, will speak. Marsha
Lynn Newton of Millen will give
the valedictory.
Summer commencement will
bring to more than 3,200 the
number of degrees awarded this
year, 113 of them at the doctoral
level. Among those scheduled to
receive degrees are:
Jesse MacArthur Long, Bache
lor of Science in Chemistry; Luke
Penn Weaver, Bachelor of Busi
ness Administration in Insurance.
Mr. Long is the son of Mrs. Ruby
G. Long; Mr. Weaver is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Weaver
Jr.
PLINY WEAVER IS
MEMBER OF NYL
1966 STAR CLUB
Pliny Weaver of 260 West
Third, Jackson, has qualified as
a member of the 1966 Star Club
of New York Life Insurance
Company.
The Star Club is composed of
New York Life’s outstanding
agents and is based upon 1965-66
sales records, according to Gen
eral Manager Chester L. Camp
bell of the company’s Atlanta
general office.
Asa member of the Star Club,
Weaver has qualified to attend
this year’s educational conference
August 25-28, 1966 at Biloxi,
Miss.
County Receives
$52,476 For
Streets, Roads
Butts County and its munici
palities will receive a combined
total of approximately $52,476
in state grants for use on streets
and roads during fiscal 1966-67,
State Treasury Dept, records
show.
State highway use taxes on
trucks will supply approximately
$13,066 of the total, according to
the Georgia Motor Trucking As
sociation.
Each year, from its motor fuel
tax revenues, Georgia apportions
among the 159 counties approxi
mately $9.3 million for their use
in construction and maintenance
of county roads. An identical
amount is now apportioned
among “eligible and qualified”
municipalities, according to popu
lation, for road use.
The truck portion is computed
by applying the percentage of
total motor fuel taxes paid in
Georgia by trucks (24.9) against
the total allocations.
Asa group, trucks pay more
than $35 million a year in Geor
gia in highway use taxes—chiefly
license plate fees and fuel taxes.
A license plate for the largest
trucks costs $7lO. The state
trucking association has com
puted that user taxes paid to
operate a single tractor-trailer
unit in Georgia are equal to the
taxes paid to operate 40 automo
biles.
Butts County will receive $36,-
924.
“Eligible” municipalities in
Butts County, and the amount
each will receive, are:
Flovilla, $2,646; Jackson, $lO,-
736; Jenkinsburg, $2,170.
Mercer Begins
Extension
Class Here
Mercer University is to have
an Extension School in Jackson
for this area starting Thursday,
September 1, and each Thursday
thereafter for a 15 week’s semes
ter. It will be sponsored by the
Kimbell Baptist Association. This
school will be for Sunday School
teachers, pastors, church workers,
and anyone who would like to
learn more about the Bible. Cer
tificate credit will be given by
Mercer University to all who take
courses doing satisfactory work.
The hours for classes will be 7
to 9:00 p. m. starting Thursday,
Sept. Ist.
Rev. Bill Thomas, pastor of
Macedonia, will teach a course on
“The Life Of Christ,” 7:00 to
8:00 p. m.
Rev. James Brown, pastor of
Pepperton, will teach a course
“An Introduction to the Study
of the Bible” 8:00 p. m. to 9:00
p. m.
Tuition will be $2.00 per course
for the 15 weeks semester plus
the text books.
It is not just for the Baptists,
but for any one who would like
to learn more about God’s word.
For more information call either
Rev. S. H. Odom, or Arthur
(Bubber) Price.
CAROL LAVERNE MASK
ON TIFT DEAN’S LIST
Forsyth, Georgia—More than
11 per cent of the students at
tending summer quarters at Tift
College were named to the Dean’s
List for high academic achieve
ment, it was revealed this week
by Tift College Dean Gordon S.
Miller.
The Dean’s List requires that a
student have a scholastic average
of 2.25 for the current quarter on
10 or more hours of work and
have an all-college average of
2.00 out of a possible grading
scale of 3.00.
Among Tift students named to
the Dean’s List was Carol La
verne Mask of Jackson, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Mask of
Jackson.
Jackson Girl
Earns Promotion
At State Hospital
Three promotions in the So
cial Work Department at Mil
ledgeville State Hospital have
been announced by Kenneth Jas
nau, Director, as follows:
Miss Guynelle Bearden, MSW,
will be Acting Director of Social
Work in Unit 111, succeeding Mr.
T. Ray Mills. Miss Bearden is a
graduate of Smith College School
for Social Work, Northampton,
Massachusetts. She has been em
ployed as a psychiatric social
worker in Unit 111 since Septem
ber 16, 1965. Miss Bearden is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Guy
Bearden of Jackson.
Miss Jane Price, MSW, will be
Acting Director of Social Work in
the Children’s Unit. Miss Price is
a graduate of the Columbia Uni
versity School of Social Work in
New York City and since August
31, 1965, has been employed as
a psychiatric social worker in unit
111.
Mr. Lloyd Mendelson, MSW,
will be Acting Director of Social
Work in Unit I, replacing Miss
Margaret Giddings. Mr. Mendel
son is a graduate of the Univer
sity of California in Los Angeles,
School of Social Welfare and he
has had a year’s experience as a
psychiatric social worker with the
California Department of Mental
Hygiene and the Los Angeles
Suicide Prevention Center. Since
June 27, 1966, he has been em
ployed as a psychiatric social
worker in Unit I.
Rogers Starr Is
Lt. Gov.-Elect
Of 12th District
At the annual business meet
ing of Jackson Kiwanis Club
Tuesday night Rogers Starr, Sr.,
a past president of the club and
active civic and religious leader,
was elected Lieutenant Governor
of the 12th Division and will be
installed next Tuesday at an in
terclub meeting by incumbent
Lieutenant Governor Woodrow
Light of Barnesville.
Election of officers was also
held with Lewis Freeman being
elected president for the ensuing
year. Other officers include
Frank Forehand, Ist vice presi
dent; Hugh Glidewell, 2nd vice
president; James Payne, secre
tary; Richard W. Watkins, Jr.,
Treasurer. The seven directors
for 1967 are Guy Bearden, Don
Eai nhart, Hewlett Kelly, Seaborn
Maddox, Robert Pinckney, Clif
ford Sanvidge and Kenneth
Welch.
The club approved by-laws
which were drawn up and rec
ommended by a committee com
posed of the late John M. Hutche
son, Richard W. Watkins and Lee
Roy O’Neal. Mr. O’Neal presented
the by-laws to the club.
President Henry Asbury an
nounced that Ralph Carr Jr. and
Bobby Taylor will be inducted in
to the club early in September.
Guests Tuesday night included
Luke Weaver and W. L. Corley.
Bob Thompson and Rogers Starr
were wished many happy returns
on birthdays during the week.
THREE JACKSON IANS GET
DEGREES AT WEST GEORGIA
CARROLLTON, Ga. —Seventy-
four degrees were conferred at
summer graduation exercises at
West Georgia College. Mrs.
Bernice McCullar was the fea
tured speaker, and Dr. James E.
Boyd, president, conferred the de
grees.
Among those receiving degrees
were:
Bachelor of Science in Educa
tion: Weldon Darrell Pippin, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Herschel Lever
rett of Jackson.
Bachelor of Arts: Thomas
Wood Leverrett, Jr., son of Mr.
and Mrs. T. W. Leverrett of Jack
son; Joyce Morgan Norris, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Otho Morgan
of Jackson.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1966 $4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Housing Loans j
Eased For Rural
Farm Families
Georgia farm and rural fam
ilies with limited incomes stand
a better chance of moving into
new or improved housing due to
the expanded real estate loan
program of the federal govern
ment’s Farmers Home Admini
stration.
So explained Davis D. Slappey,
Chief, Real Estate Loans, who
spoke during a two-day meeting
of Farm Home Administration of
ficials at Athens on August 3-4.
Attending this meeting besides
state office officials were area,
district and county supervisors.
Mr. Slappey pointed out that
expanded credit is being made
possible through anew program
in which private lenders advance
funds needed to finance housing
construction in rural areas. Under
this insured loan program, the
federal government guarantees
repayment of these funds.
“This expanded rural housing
loan program,” Mr. Slappey con
tinued, “is proving to be a major
step toward giving rural people
equality of opportunity to have
a decent home.”
In addition to the insured loan
program, the new housing legis
lation, enacted last fall, enables a
rural family to purchase a pre
viously occupied house or to pay
the expenses of fixing up their
present home.
He added that this Farmers
Home Administration loan pro
gram has benefited more farm
and other rural people during the
past four years than in the pre
vious 12 fiscal years.
Mr. Slappey said about 57,500
rural families received over $536
million in housing credit from
fiscal 1962 through 1966. This
compares with 47,576 families
and a loan volume of $323.3 mil
lion during the previous 12 fis
cal years.
“And delinquencies,” Mr. Slap
pey added, “are only 2/100th of
one percent.”
In addition to the above, Mr.
Slappey said the agency advanced
88 loans totaling $4,617,650 un
der the senior citizen rental hous
ing program between 1963 and
December 31, 1965. The rental
units are providing housing for
over 1,600 rural people 62 years
of age and over.
The agency also has made 38
loans totaling $1,997,490 to pro
vide modern living accommoda
tion for low-income farm workers.
Real estate loan applications
are made through some 1,600
field offices serving every coun
ty in the United States, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Citizens School
Bus Service
Begins Aug. 26
Board members of the Citizens
School Bus Service, Banks Weav
er, president, request that all par
ents who desire their children
ride the school bus beginning Fri
day, August 26th, make applica
tion as early as possible.
Mr. Weaver and board mem
bers Clyde Herbert, Sammy Pace,
Mrs. Betty Peek and Mrs. Sylvia
Coleman, secretary and treasurer,
emphasize that it is imperative
that applications be filed imme
diately so definite plans for the
bus service can be made. As was
pointed out last week, cost per
child per year will be $27.00,
payable 75c per week, $3.00 per
month, or the total sum annual
ly. Mr. Weaver emphasized that
no child will be permitted to ride
the bus irregularly, and that pro
visions for payment must be
made in advance. The bus drivers
will be completely in charge of
discipline on the bus and will
be backed up by the board mem
bers.
For those children In the East
Jackson Avondale area the coun
ty will continue to provide trans
portation for them unless other
wise notified.
Ga. Road Deaths
Over Labor Day
Predicted At 18
ATLANTA, (GPS) The
year’s traditional pleasure-seek
ing, summer-ending holiday week
end—Labor Day—is close at
hand. For many people it will turn
out to be just what they had
hoped for—a happy occasion. But
for others it will be marred by
tragedy that will bring sadness
to many more.
For example, the State Patrol
predicts that at least 18 persons
will lose their lives in Georgia
traffic accidents during the 78-
hour Labor Day weekend which
officially begins at 6 p. m. Fri
day, Sept. 2, and ends at mid
night Monday, Sept. 6
The prediction is based on a
study of Georgia’s past Labor
Day holiday accident experience
and current trends in the traffic
toll. In addition to the 18 poten
tial fatalities, the prediction is
that another 252 persons will be
injured, and that could mean
some are serious, crippling in
juries and some are minor hurts.
In all, 512 traffic accidents are
forecast in Georgia during the
period.
Col. Lowell Conner, director
of the Georgia Department of
Public Safety, who has been
through many of these prolonged
holiday weekends, worries about
what may happen. And he’s wor
rying about what’s going to hap
pen during the upcoming Labor
Day weekend.
“I’ve said it before and I’ll
say it again,” he declared. “I
hope we are completely wrong in
our prediction of traffic deaths
and injuries. We’ll be out on the
roads in full strength, but remem
ber this, the only ones who can
prevent these tragic accidents are
the drivers themselves—nobody
else.
“They are the ones behind the
wheel and their foot is on the
accelerator, it is their responsibil
ity to avoid accidents. They can
meet that responsibility if only
they will obey all traffic laws and
drive carefully and sensibly at
all times. Records show that driv
ers are responsible for 96 per
cent of all traffic fatalities,
while the condition of the ve
hicles and the highways account
for only five per cent.
It is plain to see from these
records why we keep appealing to
the individual driver to face up
to his responsibility in maintain
ing safety on the roads. Then, and
only then, will the needless
slaughter of human beings be
diminished.”
Strickland Is
Phone Manager
Athens District
Thomas E. Strickland has been
appointed District Manager for
Southern Bell in Athens.
Mr. Strickland succeeds J. T.
Murphy, District Manager here
since 1963, who has been ap
pointed District Manager with
headquarters in Marietta, Geor
gia.
The new District Manager, is
a widely experienced telephone
man. He joined Southern Bell in
1952 in Atlanta where he gained
his early experience in the Com
pany’s Commercial Department.
Later he held positions of increas
ing responsibility in Albany, Ma
con and Atlanta. In 1965 he re
turned to Macon as Division Com
mercial Supervisor and held that
position until coming to Athens.
Strickland is a native of Rome,
Georgia and attended public
schools there. He attended the
University of Georgia in Athens
where he graduated in 1952 with
an A. B. degree in Political Sci
ence. He is an ATO Alumni.
During World War II he served
in the U. S. Army, Central In
telligence Corp., at General Head
quarters Allied Command in To
kyo, Japan He is married to the
former Margaret Ann Smith, of
Hendersonville, North Carolina,
and they attend the Presbyterian
Church.