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Jackson Progres-Argu J. D. JONES PUBLISHER (1908-1955) DOYLE JONES JR Editor and Publisher Second-das* postage paid at Jackson, Georgia 30233 NATIONAL NEWSPAPER c 6 TI S N TELEPHONE 775-3107 OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUNTY A CITY OF JACKSON SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE, TAX INCLUDED One Year $4.00 Six Months $2.25 Single Copy .10 IT’S THIS WAY BY DOYLE JONES JR. Jest of the Week: “Aren’t you ready to go yet?’’ the impatient husband shouted upstairs to his wife. “Will you please stop nagging at me,” she yelled. “I told you an hour ago I’d be ready in a few minutes!”—Ties. The strangest, quietest guber natorial race in Georgia in over a generation will be climaxed with the state primary on Wednesday, September 14 th. There are six candidates, most of whom are well known to Butts countians, but I venture the pre diction that more voters will go to the polls uncommitted and un decided and with leas enthusiasm than in any governor’s race in re cent history. Ellis Arnall is generally con ceded to be the top man in the gubernatorial sweepstakes and might win without a run off. Sec ond place is hotly contested be tween Lester Maddox and James Gray. Jimmy Carter is ticketed for fourth place finish, followed by Garland Byrd and Hoke O’Kelley. Congressman John J. Flynt Jr. is expected to win handily over Frank Maddox in the primary, but Republician votes in Bibb and larger counties in the Sixth Dis trict are slated for Maddox to help embarrass the veteran con gressman. Although few things are certain in politics, Butts County can safely be counted in the Flynt column in both the pri mary and against Republican G. Paul Jones in the general elec tion. With our nation imperiled at home by inflation, racial turmoil, strikes, and other serious internal problems, and overseas by war in Viet Nam and challenges around the globe by defiant, arrogant Communistic aggressors, this is no time for apathy on the part of voters. We are far past the time we can languish on our heels and wait “for George to do it.” The ballot box is perhaps the last remining area in which the average citizen can make his weight and influence felt, and to fritter away the right of suf frage is to invite national dis aster. This writer, and all the hun dreds of others who will be mak ing a similar appeal in papers both large and small, doesn’t give a tinkers damn for whom you vote, but he is vitally interested that YOU vote. Indifference and inertia on the part of voters can lead to a national calamity. Vot ing is a prime responsibility of good citizenship. Unless we assert ourselves at the polls, there will soon come a time when the ma jority will be ruled and governed by the voting minority. When that happens, America may be the ripe plum the Communists will pluck next. Vote, my friends, and be thankful the right of a free and secret ballot is still yours. It may not always be true! City of Flovilla officials are understandably elated over the good news last week that funds for their proposed water system have been allocated through the Farmers Home Administration. A loan for $120,000 and a grant for $46,500 have been approved. This paves the way for water and fire protection to be made available at an early date for Flovilla, Indian Springs, and the Indian Springs Holiness Camp Ground. Approximately 174 fam ilies have signed for the water, kand city officials at Flovilla hope Jwork can begin in the immediate future. Guest Editorial THE METROPOLITAN HERALD, ATLANTA Public education is the business of the public. Pub lic educational systems do not belong to the local boards of education. Public educational systems do not belong to the state boards of education. Public educational systems do not belong to the U. S. Office of Education, nor do they belong to the U. S. Depart ment of Health, Education and Welfare. Public edu cational systems belong to the citizens. Whenever officials, be they local, state or federal, meet to chart any course for the operation of our public school systems the public has an inherent right to be present or to have representatives present at such meetings. Last Thursday night, down in Griffin, a meeting had been called by the Griffin-Spalding Board of Education to discuss with federal officials diffi culties over interpretations of the school integration guideline edicts. The federal representatives were some 40 minutes late in ar riving. The chairman of the school board then called the meeting to order and said he would by-pass formal introductions since the meeting was late starting. At that point one James Rich, the spokesman for the federal group, interrupted the chairman. “The meeting cannot go on as long as the public and members of the press are present,” he de clared. The shocked chairman protes ted and so did other members of the board. They wanted no secret meeting. Their board meetings are held under an “open door” policy. The federal bureaucrats were adamant. There would be a secret meeting or no meeting at all. These instructions, they said, “come from Washington.” Over official protests of mem bers of the board, the meeting was finally closed to the public and the press. MUulukgL/ V / when you realize that farm mach inery is built, grain is milled, ovens are heated, meat is processed, lettuce is refrigerated .. . electrically. In :/ the same way, there's electric power in most everything we buy . . , Helping to keep the price of power to all con sumers fair and reasonable is one of the beneficial effects of the consumer-owned rural electric systems. We make up one of the elements in the "consumer's electric yardstick", which furnishes competition by example. By operating with a mission of service only not to make profits for distant stockholders we help make it possible to know the true cost of providing electric service. This helps keep electric rates in line, and means benefits shared by ALL Americans! CENTRAL GEORGIA \g) ELECTRIC MEMBERSHIP CORPORATION gy COMMUNITY OWNED • COMMUNITY BUtU Ckvc • COMMUNITY BUIIDR What right have these federal bureaucrats to order such secre cy? What right have they to shut out the public from discussion of the public’s educational sys tem? These two-bit dictators have no such right. They have arro gantly assumed this power for themselves under a cloak of sec recy and the awesome assumed authority of the executive de partment of the U. S. Govern ment. Who said federal aid wouldn’t mean federal control of our local school systems? We are fast learning the bitter truth. A local board of education can’t even hold an open meeting because the federal bureaucrats object. It is past time for some whole sale firing in the U. S. Office of Education and the U. S. Depart ment of HEW. It is time these lit tle men, who think they own the public school systems, be sent packing. It is time for Congress to assume its rightful duties and THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS. JACKSON, GEORGIA DOGWOODS DRY? Recently transplanted do g woods are very susceptible to drouth injury during the first spring and summer months un less they are properly watered and mulched, warns Horticul turist Gerald E. Smith of the Co operative Extension Service. He points out that browning of tips or margins of leaves is one symp tom of this difficulty. responsibilities and forever out law such secret meetings and such dictatorial actions. BUTTS COUNTIANS! For A Positive, Dynamic Program VOTE ARNALL FOR GOVERNOR He’ll Give You An Aggressive, Forward-Moving Georgia. We Must Keep Moving. Look Ahead! Look Up! , jj| |||J. # jHH a- jHf ■Hi Vote Ellis Arnall FOR GOVERNOR Democratic Primary, Sept. 14 (This ad paid for by Butts County friends of Ellis Arnall) Boys in Service FORT LEE, VA. (AHTNC) Private Walter R. Wells, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wells, Route 4, Jackson, Ga., completed a can vas repair course at the Army Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Va., August 22. During the eight-week course, Pvt. Wells was trained in the storage and repair of canvas and webbed equipment. He received extensive instruction in hand and machine sewing. Progress-Argus Honor Roll New and Renewal Subscriptions Of The Past Few Days Rev. John F. Freeman, Jackson James Darnell, Flovilla S. F. Harkness, Jackson Clem Thaxton, McDonough T. L. Stevenson, Jackson Linton Grant, Atlanta Mrs. James O. Browning, Jack son Jackson Kiwanis Club, Jackson THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, i 966 CARD OF THANKS I wish to thank all 0 f th friends who remembered m e 5 flowers, cards, gifts and praye while I was in the hospital and since I have returned home. Ev e kind deed was appreciated. Mai God bless each one of von in ' Wiley B. Cameron. ' Mrs. Arthur Williams, Barnes ville Melvin Jenkins, Flovilla F. H. Morgan, Jackson Mr. and Mrs. E. S. 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