Jladtsnn Progress-Argus
VOL. 96 —NO. 3
Jurors Drawn
For February
Term Court
Jurors for the February term
pf court have been drawn by
Judge Hugh D. Sosebee of For
syth with the Grand Jury to con
vene Monday, February 3rd, at
10 o’clock.
The case of paramount interest
a t the February term will likely
be heard on Tuesday, February
4th, when court convenes at 9:-
30 a. m. to take up the suit filed
by the Butts County Board of
Education contending that Wil
liam B. (Bill) Jones, Butts Coun
ty School Superintendent, has not
had sufficient experience to qual
ify under law. At an earlier hear
ing, Judge Sosebee disagreed
with arguments of Jones’, attor
neys that the 1963 amendment to
the Georgia Constitution estab
lishing requirements for county
school superintendents is uncon
stitutional and ruled that a hear
ing on the matter should be held.
The jurors for the second
week of court, the time when
criminal proceedings are tradi
tionally heard, will report Tues
day morning, February 11th, at
9:30 o’clock.
Jurors for the first week will
report Tuesday morning, Febru
ary 4th, at 9:30 o’clock.
Grand Jury
W. S. Weaver, G. L. Potts
Jonas Taylor, Virgil Smith, L. C.
Tribble, Harold Elliott, N. L. Duf
fey, Charlie B. Stewatt, C. J.
Kimbell, L. G. Maddox, Miss
Georgie Watkins, M. A. Price,
Bennie Cook, John B. Long, J.
D. Patrick, Johnny Colwell,
Charles M. Daniel Jr., 1 James C.
Blankenship, Robert L. Williams,
A. G. Cowan, Clyde Norris, C. E.
Washington, M. L. Hodges Jr.,
Bailey Jones, Thomas M. Free
man, W. A. Duke, Jr., H. H.
Vaughn, B. J. Smith, Miss Ruby
Lane, Steve M. Jones.
Traverse Jury
First Week
Carlton Morris, Joseph H.
Brown, Mrs. R. L. Glaze, W. C.
Morris, M. N. Maddox, Archie
Powell, Sam Folds, Charles Clark,
Marion Parker, Charlie Cash,
Toy D. Roach, Jr., Mrs. Fred
Hamond, W. C. Williamson, Mrs.
Helen S. Spencer, Randolph
Hardy, J. Dawson Bryant, Leslie
H. Hamlin, Alton P. Long, James
F. Whitaker, Hugh M. Glidewell.
H. M. Hooten, Jackie L. Cook,
Spencer Johnson, J. W. Pulliam,
Paul Waits, Rogers F. Starr, D.
P. Settle, George Ingram Sr., T.
W. Leverette, Mary T. Sasser, R.
D. Lawrence, O. P. Stephens, A.
D. Maddox, Edgar B. Duke, Mari
on W. Cook, George Henderson,
Wayne Reeves, Charles F. Sibley,
E. A. Deaver, Jr., Mrs. Sara H.
Buchanan, Jesse L. Barnes.
Booker T. Stokes, Luther
Jones, Donald R. Willard, Melvin
Jenkins, T. E. Robison, Jr., Wil
lie J. Jones, Lem Watkins, Vic
tor M. Brown, Max I. Perdue,
Byron D. Haynes, E. T. Foster,
William H. Leverette, H. E.
Freeman, W. M. Mangham, Billy
H. O’Neal, Oscar Watkins, R. A.
O’Quinn, Douglas Coleman, Vin
cent Jones.
A. F. Hammond, Frank G.
Forehand, Harvey J. Williamson,
Jesse Byars, E. M. McCord, Mrs.
J T. Fletcher, J. R. Pulliam,
Joe Shields, J. Ray Lowery,
Grover Arline, G. W. Caston,
A. H. Patrick, Paul Wells, Phillip
Bunch, Henry A. Phillips.
Traverse Jury
Second Week
Arthur A. Kirkland, Larry De
nney, James H. Kelly, K. K.
Williams, Eugene Ball, Ralph
1 ook, Mrs. Rolfe Burford, Mrs.
George R. Ridgeway, Charles E.
Books, 111, Mrs. Bonnie Caston,
James E. Kersey, Ira Lee Butler,
D- G. Payne, Howell L. Cook, S.
J- Ireland, Denny O’Neal, Joe
Marchman, John B. Yawn, Wil
iam Ball, Lewis O’Hearn, Joseph
Tiller.
Gerald E. Davis, Harold Doo
ley > John Wise, Mrs. E. D. Bris
coe, Charlie Jordon, Glenn Whit
aker. Ben Hill Dover, Stanley R.
Maddox, Robert Lee Fincher,
Bennie F. Mathis, John W. Webb,
Robert L. Smith, R. L. Glaze, W.
Butts Veterans
To Receive
More Dollars
(Special to the Progress-Argu*)
NEW YORK, Jan. 11—In
creased benefits are on the way
for Butts County veterans and
their dependents.
Their monthly compensation
and pension checks will be bigger
than ever, thanks to two laws
passed by Congress during the
past year.
In addition, for those who are
veterans of World Wars I and II
and hold G. I. insurance policies,
there will be an increase in divi
dent payments.
One of the laws provides for
anew schedule of compensation
payments to veterans who were
disabled while in active service.
It increases, by $235 million,
the annual amount to be paid to
the 1,952,000 veterans now get
ting such aid. They had been
receiving $2 billion a year, which
averaged out to $1,025 per per
son. The new average will be
$1,145.
Just how much any particular
veteran will receive will depend
upon the extent of his disability.
Those with 100 percent disability
will not get $4,800 a year, as
compared with $3,600 previously.
For those with 20 percent dis
ability, on the other hand, the
compensation will be $516.
Approximately 60 of Butts
County’s veterans will be getting
bigger compensation checks as a
result. Payments to them will
total $69,000 this year, it is esti
mated.
The increased rates will show
up in checks for January, which
will be arrving in February. The
Veterans Administration states
that recipients will get' the in
creases automatically, without ap
plication.
The second action taken by
Congress will boost payments to
other County veterans who are
getting pensions for total disabil
ity that was not incurred while
in active service.
The average increase, for the
I, throughout the country
who are getting such pensions,
will be sllO a year.
Their Increases will be based
upon anew formula that relates
the amount they will get to other
income they are receiving.
The VA announces, also, that
local veterans who served in the
two World Wars and have G. I.
insurance policies will share in
$236 million in dividends that
will be distributed during the
course of the year. It is sl3 mil
lion more than paid out last year.
JEPHTHA CHAPTER WILL
MEET FRIDAY NIGHT
Jephtha Chapter No. 252 Order
of the Eastern Star will honor the
Past Matrons and Patrons, have
Friends Night and degree work at
their meeting on Friday night,
January 24, at 8 o’clock in the
Masonic Hall.
R. Singleton, Ennis S. O’Neal, B.
C. Brooks, James F. Trimble,
William Foster, Hiram Franklin,
Porter Cawthon, Robert W. Whit
aker, Clyde L. Parker.
George B. Collins, H. G. Loyd,
J. P. McClelland, Fred Hamlin,
W. C. Norsworthy, James N.
Maddox, George Mayfield Jr., H.
L. Bankston, Jr., Darwin Camp
bell, Dickie Moore, Jamie C. Rob
ertson, Dave Taylor, Annie Mae
Wilson, A. L. Weaver, Thomas
Baker Fletcher, Hal Summers,
Nathaniel Thurman. ,
Guy H. Howard, Perry O’Neal,
Aubrey Hamlin, Russell Cawthon,
Mrs. Ruth P. Sellers, H. L. Jones
Sr., J. R. Bedsole, Charles E-
Rooks Jr., Julian Fletcher, W r . H.
Presley, C. A. R. Duff, T. F.
Peek, John Robert Maddox, W.
L. Clark, B. K. Hodges, Sr., Har
old E. McMichael, Johnny King,
H. E. Moore, Samuel D. Cochran,
J. Albert Maddox.
W. H. McClure, Hollis Ether
idge, G. C. McKibben, Jr., Willie
Wells, James L. Rice, Robert
Goodrum, Olin Singley, Larry
Washington, Howard L. Jones Jr.,
L. H. Cawthon.
THURSDAY, JAN. 16, 1969 JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233
Mac Long Is
Badly Burned
In Explosion
Last Thursday morning, Jan
uary 9, George Mcßay Long, 11,
son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Long
of Flovilla, received bad burns
on his hands and face from an ex
plosion.
Mac, because he had a slight
cold, did not attend school on
Thursday, and was staying with
his grandmother, Mrs. D. T. Long.
Late in the morning, he told
his grandmother that he was go
ing out into the yard to burn
some trash. Lighting a piece of
paper while standing on the front
porch, Mac was going to take
the burning paper out to the yard
and burn the other papers. Un
foi'tunately, the burning paper
blew out of his hands and landed
in a can of gasoline that was
sitting on the porch, causing it
to explode.
Mrs. Long, hearing the explo
sion, ran to the front porch and
was met by Joe Waits, a neigh
bor, who also heard the explosion.
Mr. Waits told Mrs. Long to call
Luther Jones of the Flovilla Fire
Department. Mrs. Long did this
and was told by Mrs. Jones that
her husband was not at home and
suggested that she call the Jack
son Fire Department. Mrs. Jones
assured Mrs. Long that Mr. Jones
would come just as soon as he
returned home.
Both fire departments arrived
as did the Jackson police and the
fire was soon put out. Mrs. Long
was trying to contact Mac’s par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. John Long,
but felt that the boy needed im
mediate attention. Emory Sigman
and W. E. Mayfield rushed Mac
to Sylvan Grove Hospital, where
he was treated for severe burns
to the face and hands.
Christmas Seals
Sales in Butts
At $467 Mark
The 1968 Christmas Seal Cam
paign in Butts County has
reached a total of $467.00 for
the fight against TB, Emphyse
ma, Asthma, Acute Bronchitis,
other respiratory diseases and
Air Pollution. This figure indi
cates contributions are lagging
behind the goal needed to serve
Butts County. “With the pressure
of Christmas Shopping and other
holiday preparations, people
sometimes forget their Christmas
Seal contributions,” said Bill Bar
tholomay, President of the At
lanta Braves, and Chairman of
the 1968 Christmas Seal Cam
paign. “However, the health
needs of Georgia citizens are
greater than ever today. Any let
down in the programs planned for
next year would be a serious dis
service to the community.”
The Christmas Seal Campaign
is still under way and hopes
are still high that the goals will
be met.
Thurston Is
Named Mayor
Of Flovilla
Kenneth Thurston, wide 1 y
known young resident of Flovilla,
was elected mayor of Flovilla for
a year’s term in the city primary
of Saturday, January 11th. Mr.
Thurston defeated C. A. Anthony
for the city’s highest elective
post.
Elected as councilmen were
Robert C. Riley Sr., Adell Mon
crief, E. R. Edwards Jr., Wayne
King and Ed Craig. Other candi
dates for council were A. F.
White, and Harvey Whitehead.
Projects of prime importance
to citizens of Flovilla and to
which the Mayor and Council will
address their attention include
finishing touches on the water
works and some additional paving
within the city.
Jackson Bank
Will Change
Name To C&S
Stockholders of Jackson Na
tional Bank will vote at their an
nual meeting on February 17,
1969 on several proposals that
President Frank Barnes said will
be advantageous to the bank.
Most prominent among the pro
posed actions is changing the
name of the bank to the Citizens
and Southern Bank of Jackson.
Under the new name, the bank
would be chartered by the State
of Georgia and under supervision
of the State Banking Department,
rather than the National Charter
held previously. Deposits at the
bank will continue to be insured
by F.D.I.C. up to $15,000 for
each depositor.
The banks directors have al
ready endorsed the action, by
adopting a resolution recom
mending that stockholders ap
prove the proposed changes. Fur
ther approval by bank regulatory
authorities would be necessary.
In 1965 Jackson National be
came a correspondent associate
of the Citizens and Southern Na
tional Bank of Georgia, when
Georgia’s largest bank bought
5% of Jackson National Bank.
Since then anew bank building,
new services, up-to-date systems,
all have contributed to progress
in Jackson.
Mr. Barnes emphasized that the
changes will not result in any
changes in the bank’s policies,
management or staff. Further,
he said they will be carried out
with no inconvenience to cust
omers.
Present checks, deposit slips
and other forms can continue to
be used by customers. New
forms will replace old ones as
they run out.
Mr. Barnes said, “we believe
that closer identification of our
bank with C&S is best achieved
with the new name. It will bring
us new business. It is something
to live up to; and a tribute to
the past performance of this
bank. C&S recognizes the po
tential of this community and
will work with us in offering
the finest full service banking
available anywhere. This can be
a vital factor in the continued
growth of our community.”
Subscribers
Vote No To
Phone Service
Mr. B. B. Campbell, Chairman
of the Study Committee of the
Butts County Grand Jury, re
leased this week the results of
the recently conducted poll.
Some 70 per cent of the tele
phone subscribers voted against
a plan which would have provided
toll-free telephone service be
tween Jackson and Atlanta. 983
subscribers were against the pro
posal, while 421 were in favor of
it.
All Butts County telephone
subscribers were mailed letters
of which 1,425 replied, and 21
of them expressed no opinion.
Mr. Campbell stated he was ad
vised of this trend the end of
September, which was the an
nounced date for replies to be
returned, however in order to get
an even better response the poll
was held open and mail replies
received until October 22. At this
time a telephone canvass was
made to an additional 155 cus
tomers who had not mailed in re
plies.
Mr. Campbell wished to thank
the members of his committee for
their assistance. The committee
was comprised of the following
Butts County citizens: Mrs. T. H.
Price, Mrs. Fred Hammond, Mrs.
E. D. Briscoe, Frank Forehand,
Hal a Summers, Alton Colwell,
Hugh Glidewell, Lawrence Mor
gan, Robert Smith, Frank Barnes,
Raymond O’Quinn, Grover Ar
line, Robert M. Jackson and S.
A. Washington.
COMMISSIONERS CITE MATTERS
TO RECEIVE THEIR ATTENTION
''' m
Don Coiner 111
Is Eufaula’s
>cq i.* 99
05 Citizen
Donald Comer 111, the dynamic
young president of Cowikee Mills,
was presented Eufaula’s Citizen
of the Year award at the Kiwanis
Club’s annual Ladies Night din
ner Thursday night.
In announcing the Citizen of
the Year, Henry B. Gray 111, Ki
wanis Governor-Elect, said the
30-year old textile executive
“makes things happen.” Dr.
Frank Rose, president, Unversity
of Alabama, was the after dinner
speaker.
W. A. Roberts, president, First
National Bank, accepted a tall
silver trophy in Mr. Comer’s be
half, Mr. Comer being in Birm
ing to attend the debut of his
younger sister, Miss Isabel
Comer.
“Eufaula has been kind to me
and my family and I am very
grateful,” Mr. Roberts read from
a prepared statement for Mr.
Comer. “There is no place that
means more to me than Eufaula,
Alabama and there is no place
that could possibly have a bright
er future. I will be forever in
debted to the Kiwanis Club and
the citizens of Eufaula for this
tribute,” Mr. Comer concluded.
A former resident of Birming
ham, Mr. Comer is the great
grandson of B. B. Comer, a na
tive of Barbour County, who
was elected Governor of Alaba
ma. Mr. Comer’s father, Donald
Comer, Jr. of Birmingham, is
chairman of the board of Cowi
kee Mills. A graduate of the Uni
versity of Alabama with a degree
in business administration, Mr.
Comer came to Eufaula following
graduation. He and his wife, the
former Jane Stephens of Birming
ham, have been active in civic
and cultural affairs in Eufaula.
Pupils Have
Holiday;
Teachers Study
Friday, January 24, there will
be no school in Butts County.
This is a day of In-Service for
teachers, who will be busy com
pleting Curriculum Guides and
studying transformational gram
mar.
A special feature of this In-
Service will be the 8:00 p. m.
session Friday night which is
planned especially for parents.
Keith Schap of Indiana Univer
sity will speak to the lay public.
His subject will be “Why The
New English.” Most teachers will
be in attendance at this session
and a large number of parents
are expected to attend, also.
The transformational grammar
workshop for Butts County Lan
guage Arts teachers and visitors
from seletced school systems in
Georgia will close Saturday at
2:30 p. m. Watch next week’s
paper for more information con
cerning the workshop in New
English.
We, the Board of Commission
ers of Butts County, in regular
session this the 6th. and 7th. of
January, 1969, have given lengthy
consideration to the following
matters which we believe to be of
paramount importance to the con
tinued progress and sound eco
nomic growth of Butts County.
These matters have been adopted
and will be carried out to the best
of our abilities.
We wish to extend to the Local
Board of the Butts County Tax
Assessors our appreciation for
the services they have rendered
in the performance of their du
i ties.
We extend our appreciation to
our most able Clerk for nis faith
ful and dedicated service in the
performance of his duties.
We recommend that our Clerk
furnish a copy of the foregoing
to the local news media for pub
publish same.
This the 7th. day of January,
1969.
ALFRED D. FEARS
HAMMOND BARNES
D. W. BAILEY
Butts County Board of
Commissjoners.
1. Carry out the recommenda
tions of the Butts County Grand
Jury of the 1968 November
Term as relates to the office of
the Butts County Commissioners.
2. Proceed with necessary
actions to remodel the Butts
County Courthouse.
3. Secure local legislation to
abolish the fee system in the of
fice of the Tax Receiver and
place the Tax Receiver on a reas
onable salary basis and appoint
the Clerk of the Local Board of
Butts County Tax Assessors as a
Deputy Tax Receiver so that said
Deputy Tax Receiver shall also
serve as the Clerk of said Board
of Tax Assessors as well as the
Deputy Tax Receiver.
4. To install a gasoline and oil
storage tank to be located at the
County Barn for the storage of
gasoline, oil, and lubricants, and
to provide for the metering and
accounting of all gasoline prod-
New Teacher
For Retarded
Is Employed
Miss Ginny Smith, of Vidalia,
will begin her work this week at
Jackson Elementary School. Miss
Smith is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia having major
ed in work with the mentally re
tarded. Classes will begin as soon
as preparatory work is comple
ted. These classes for the mildly
retarded will be limited to 12 pur
suant to state regulations.
Mrs. Robert 11. Pinckney, Butts
County’s Visiting Teacher, re
ports an estimated 131 children
in the county who need the type
training that will be offered in
Miss Smith’s class. The begin
ning class will be on the primary
level. Mrs. Pinckney said, “this
is just the beginning of the vast
amount of work that is needed
in Butts County to help the men
tally retarded. The Butts County
Chapter for the Retarded is work
ing closely with the school to
support and promote this vitally
; needed work.”
Your interest and support is
requested. Rev. J. S. Brown, pas
tor of the Pepperton Baptist
Church, is president of the Butts
County Chapter for Mentally Re
tarded. Mr. Brown says, “YOUR
retarded child can be helped. The
first step may be your accepting
the basic fact that your child
needs this kind of help. It is not
a shame to have a retarded child,
but it is a shame not to try to
do something about it when we
know it.” He urges that you
join the local chapter to help
support the work for the men
tally retarded.
$4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
ucts used by County Vehicles, and
for County business.
5. No work by County will be
done on private property by
County.
6. No drive-ways to be con
structed on private property be
yond right-of-way of road.
7. To charge a reasonable
rental to the City of Jackson for
the use of the County Farm for
dumping garbage.
8. To secure and have placed
in the corridors of the Butts
County Court House framed pho
tographs of each president of the
United States and also of the
White House.
9. To secure, if possible to ob
tain, a mural of the United States
Marines raising the American
Flag atop Mt. Sarracbachi during
World War II in the Battle of
Iwo Jima.
10. Secure for the placing in
the corridors of the Butts County
Court House a Freedom Shrine
consisting of the Declaration of
Independence, the Constitution of
the United States, and the Bill
of Rights.
11. To secure a State and Na
tional Flag to place in the Grand
Jury Room of the Butts County
Court House.
12. To secure local legislation
for the County Commissioners to
employ a County Attorney, and
prescribe his duties, salary, etc.
13. To appoint a person, or
persons, to make a detailed study
of all grants of funds available
for County government purposes.
14. To secure a neat and or
derly Bulletin Board for the
County Court House.
15. To secure local legislation
so as to authorize one County
Commissioner to render addition
al county-wide services as relates
to the office of the County Com
missioner.
16. Recommend for local leg
islation to provide that a small
part or portion of each fine and
forfeiture which is paid into the
County General Fund be desig
nated and set aside for the build
ing and maintenance fund for
the improvement of the County
Court House.
Lions To Give
Dogwood Trees
Free Saturday
The Butts County Lions Club
will be handing out dogwood
trees in the A&P-Polk Tire Com
pany parking lot on January 18.
Any citizen of Butts County can
come by and pick up trees from
9:00 a. m. until all the trees are
gone.
Frank Barnes, Lions Club Pres
ident, says “this is a good oppor
tunity to help beautify Jackson
and Butts County and everyone
is welcome to the trees at no
cost.”
Information will be available
on planting procedures and car
ing for the trees.
JACKSON KIWANIS
CLUB IS FOURTH
IN ATTENDANCE
Jackson Kiwanis Club’s attend
ance continues to be among the
states’ elite with November per
centages showing Jackson in
fourth place with 99.5%.
East DeKalb and St. Marys
were tied for first with 100%
attendance. Cairo was in third
place with 99.7, with Jackson in
fourth position.
Trailing Jackson in the top 10
were Eatonton 98.5; Griffin 98.1,
South DeKalb 98.1, Hogansville
98.0, White 97.9, Thomasville
97.2, Tucker 97.0, Meigs 96.9.
The Jackson Kiwanis Club will
celebrate its 47th birthday with
that many years of service to the
community on January 17th. The
club '.was chartered on January
17, 1^22.
