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Jackson Progress-Argus
J. D. JONES PUBLISHER
(1908-1955)
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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: As told in
numerous newspaper accounts,
this really happened.
An undertaker from a South
ern state was returning home with
a body, taking turns at the wheel
of his hearse with a helper he had
brought along for the purpose.
At a fueling stop, the under
taker went into the service sta
tion to get a pack of cigarettes.
While he was gone, a hitchhicker
approached the helper (still sit
ting in the hearse) and asked for
a ride.
The helper said it would be
okay, if he didn’t mind sitting
in the back with the corpse. The
hitchhicker shrugged indifferent
ly, climbed into the back and set
tled down for the ride.
The undertaker returned to the
hearse—unaware that a passen
ger had come aboard—paid for
the gasoline, and drove off.
The miles rolled away.
Then the hitchhicker pulled
back the glass partition behind
the driver’s seat, tapped the un
dertaker on the shoulder and
asked, “Is it all right to smoke
back here?’’
It was reported that while there
were no injuries, the hearse it
self was damaged when the driver
put it in the ditch.
Like many Georgians we have
taken another look at Atlanta’s
Mayor Ivan Allen and we liked
what we saw.
The slender, gray-haired chief
executive of the state’s largest,
pulsating city has been conspic
uous, bravely so, even to the risk
of grave personal danger, in the
race riots that blasted Atlanta’s
calm last week. In the first, he
mounted a car in an effort to
quiet the rioters, was jostled off
by a group of angry Negroes,
and in all later disturbances has
been in the forefront of the bat
tle to restore law and order.
He did not have to be in the
front ranks. He chose to be. A
fighter by nature, he seeks to
lead by precept and example. By
his very fearlessness he instilled
some sense of respect in the mob,
making it easier for the police to
contain them before the seeth
ing demonstrators became ab
solutely unmanageable.
But most notably he gave an
swer to the mob that Atlanta is
an open city, that it does not
belong to them, and indeed, that
if it belongs to any one person,
then it is Ivan Allen’s.
He has proven he is a fighting
mayor. Atlanta should be proud
of him. Most Georgians are!
We miss our old time weather
prognosticators like Montezuma
Andrews and Evans Smith who
forecast by the “signs” and did
about as good a job as the mod
erns do with all their gadgets.
Both had remarkable memories
on both weather and other events,
particularly political and histori
cal. They never ceased to amaze
me by saying that on such and
such a day in such and such a
year the temperature fell to min
us 2 or eight above, and that it
rained on September 6th to break
a 52 day drought. And if you
cared to check, you’d be astound
ed to find that they were correct
-95 per cent of the time.
I have noticed the leaves fal
ling prematurely, the way the
wind sighs through the trees, and
an unseasonable nip in the early
morning air, all of which would
lead me to prophesy an early
fall, with frost on or before Oc
tober 17th. I wonder if my de
| parted friends would read the
f signs as I did and would concur.
Guest Editorial
THE GRIFFIN DAILY NEWS
COUNTY WATER
We all know what happened when Clayton County
provided county-wide water. Empty land began fill
ing up with people. Property values soared. Shop
ping centers sprang up. Subdivisions blossomed.
Clayton County became one of the fastest growth
areas in Georgia. And still they come. The great
metropolis spreads and spreads. It is not far now
from Griffin.
Planning for orderly development is a necessity.
The “strip city” stretching along the expressway
can go in any direction: shoddy strip city and rural
slums, or orderly and prosperous business near su
burban homes.
The first requisite for proper development is
county-wide water.
Now comes this headline in
last week’s Fayette County News
“Water Lines Are On The Way.”
The accompanying pictures and
story report that work has begun
on the Fayette County water sys
tem. Fayette is developing and
water under pressure will mean
much to it.
Here in Spalding we have water
lines to the heavier populated
areas. But less urbanized sections
still lack them. The County Com
missioners are considering meth
ods of extending the lines to all
parts of Spalding. Engineers are
studying the practicality of lines
to some sections to be financed by
the Farmers Home Administra
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
NO PARKING METERS NO SOLUTION
A trend toward the removal of parking meters in
a good number of smaller cities is reported by the
American Automobile Association. The purpose is
to attract more customers to downtown business
areas.
In a survey of 42 cities, AAA found 35 had taken
down all or most of their parking meters in down
town sections.
But the AAA study showed retail sales as not hav
ing increased noticeably as a result of no parking
meters. On the other hand, loss of meter revenue
was reported as ranging from SI,OOO to $220,000.
The cities involved are to be commended for seek
ing to make downtown shopping more attractive, but
apparently other answers will have to found to the
problem.
Indian Springs
MRS. W. A. HOARD
(Last Week’s Letter)
Mrs. A. W- Tucker returned to
her home in Atlanta Sunday after
spending a couple of weeks with
her sister, Mrs. B. T. McMichael
and mother, Mrs. Lucy Torbet.
Mrs. Craig Parker is in Sylvan
Grove Hospital. There is no
change in her condition.
Mrs. D. E. Grant spent Sunday
with her sister in Jackson.
Mr. and Mrs. Joel Giles of Indi
ana spent Saturday night with his
mother, Mrs. Florrie Giles, and
uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. B.
T. McMichael.
Mrs. Doris Foster of Jackson
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tion. The Housing Act of 1965
makes such loan funds available
to communities which qualify.
Milner already has a water system
financed in this manner. Others
have been completed in William
son, and Tyrone. Money has been
obligated for Concord and Brooks.
In addition to the one from Spald
ing County, applications are
pending from Meansvillc and Mo
lena.
We wait with much interest
the engineers’ report on Spald
ing and hope that county-wide
water is not far in the future. It
will do more for the development
of Spalding County than almost
any other single thing.
ville spent the weekend at her
home here.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Cox, of
Atlanta, visited with Mr. and Mrs.
John Webb on Labor Day.
Dr. and Mrs. Spencer Johnson
of Hazlehurst, Georgia, are the
proud parents of a baby girl born
September 7th at Macon Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Fitzgerald
of Macon, Danny Hoard, Misses
Salli and Susie Fletcher are
spending a few days in Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Klyne Wheeler
and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Wilson
Wheeler spent the weekend at
their home in Anderson, S. C.
These couples are making their
home at Indian Springs while
their husbands are employed with
the Highway Department and
working on Highway 1-75.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Rites Thursday
At WorthviUe
For Mrs. Kent
Funeral services for Mrs. Dee
lie Barkwell Kent, 42, of Route
2, Jackson, were conducted
Thursday afternoon, September
8, at Haisten’s Chapel in Jackson
with Rev. James S. Brown, pas
tor of the Pepperton Baptist
Church, officiating. Interment
was in the WorthviUe Baptist
Church cemetery with Haisten
Funeral Home in charge of ar
rangements.
Mrs. Kent was killed in an
automobile accident Tu e sday
night of the past week when the
car in which her husband, Albert
(Pete) Kent, was driving over
turned on old Highway 36 near
the WorthviUe Baptist Church.
Mrs. Kent was the daughter of
Mr. Jim Barkwell and Mrs. Olla
Otwell Barkwell.
Mrs. Kent is survived by her
husband; her mother, Mrs. Olla
Barkwell of Savannah; three sis
ters, Mrs. Lannie Kilgore of
Douglasville, Mrs. James Wilburn
of Fairburn, Mts. Sadie Todd of
Savannah; two brothers, Tommy
Barkwell of Newnan, and Ivy
Barkwell of LaGrange.
Pallbearers were C. L. Martin,
Ernest Kent, Henry Kent, H. L.
Pierce, Carl Harris, Harvey Kent.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Waldrop of
East Point and Mrs. J. H. O’Neal
spent Sunday in Jackson and at
tended services at the First Bap
tist Church. They later visited
with friends and relatives. Mrs.
O’Neal, who has spent the sum
mer with her daughter and Mr.
Waldrop in East Point, will fly
to her home in Mesa, Arizona on
September 24th.
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