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VOL. 96—NO. 8
JACKSON BOYS WIN
SUB-REGION TITLE
The Jackson High Red Devil
boys vaulted into the finals of
Region 5-B with a hair-raising,
last second win over Harris Coun
ty in the sub-region finals Mon
day night in Manchester. Lee
Fambro, who averaged a torrid
28 points per game in tourn
ament play, brought victory to
the Red Devils with a field goal
in the last seven seconds to de
feat Harris County 50-48 in one
of the great games of the tourn
ament.
The victory left Coach Danny
Dunaway’s boys with a 19-6
record, one of the most scintil
lating of a Red Devil team over
the last decade. The stirring vic
tory earns Jackson the right to
face an unnamed opponent, which
will not be known until Wednes
day night, in the region finals
Friday night in Carrollton. If
Jackson wins, they are auto
matically in the state touranment.
If they lose, the season will come
to an abrupt halt as Coach Dun
away described it.
Enroute to their sub-region
championship, Jackson defeated
Manchester 68-53 on Thursday
night in Manchester with Lee
Fambro pouring through a siz
zling 35 points. He was aided and
abetted by Victor Davis with 19,
Bill Nelson with 16, John Head
with 8. Jimmy McCormick was
scoreless from his guard post.
Substitutes were Nat Thurman,
Don Cook, Tommy Glidewell,
Mike Browning, Jimmy Head and
Thomas Davis. “It was a great
game and a great victory,’’ Coach
Dunaway said of the Red Devil
win over the host team on their
home gym, especially by a rpargin
of 15 points.
Friday night Jackson downed
Hogansville 68-61 with Fambro
hitting for 25 points, Victor Da
vis 20, Bill Nelson 16, John Head
6. Again McCormick was score
less but conrtibuted great defen
sive play. Mike Browning was the
lone substitute.
The finals would have been
played Saturday night but were
postponed because of the ice and
sleet storm over the northern
half of Georgia. It was played in
stead on Monday night with Jack
son coming from a 16 point
deficit to nip Harris County at
Weekend Ice Storm Does
Only Slight Damage Here
Mother nature touched Butts
County and the mid Georgia area
once over lightly with her brush
of rain, sleet, freezing rain, ice,
and snow over the weekend with
most local residents thanking
their lucky stars for escaping the
weekend blast of bad weather
with no more than minor damage
and slight inconvenience in driv
ing and walking.
Residents awoke Saturday
morning to find a light ice storm
had moved across the Middle
Georgia area during the night,
coating power lines, trees and
bridges with a thin sheet of glaze.
Freezing rain began falling in the
Jackson area about midnight but
some sleet preceded this by sev
eral hours.
Damage in the main was light
although ice encrusted trees and
limbs fell across some power and
telephone lines, interrupting ser
vice.
Hardest hit by the freakish
weekend weather pattern was the
C entral Georgia Electric Mem
bership Corporation which on
Sunday reported outages of as
high as 30 percent over the 14
county area with damage wide
spread, though Jasper County
was perhaps the hardest hit area.
Construction crews were brought
to Jackson from Alma, Douglas,
and Cumming and work around
the clock to restore electricity to
co-op customers with 10 percent
the final buzzer by virtue of Lee
Fambro’s last second shot. Fam
bro again paced the attack with
24 points, followed by Victor Da
vis with 15, Bill Nelson with 7,
John Head 3, and Jimmy Mc-
Cormick 1. Substitutes were Mike
Browning and Nat Thurman.
The Jackson girls ended their
season with a 11-9 record, bow
ing out on the first night of the
sub-region tournament.
Hammond Is
Colonel In
Air Force
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Jackson’s world travelling Air
Force officer, Robert Allan Ham
mond, has been promoted to the
rank of lieutenant colonel. The
son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Ham
mond, he is now an instructor at
NATO Weapon Systems Depart
ment of the U. S. Army School,
Europe, in Oberammergau, Ger
many.
Col. Hammond, 37, has been
decorated with the Bronze Star,
the Air Medal five times, the Air
Force Commendation Medal two
times, the Vietnamese Service
Medal and Vietnamese Campaign
ribbon, primarily for valor in
action in the combat zone in
Vietnam.
Compared to his previous as
signment at Seventh Air Force
Headquarters in Saigon, Col.
Hammond’s current tour of duty
still out as of Monday morning,
according to an estimate by Ray
mond O’Quinn, CGEMC engineer.
Mr. O’Quinn said the most
damage to the lines was done by
either trees or limbs falling
across them and that two slight
injuries occurred among crew
members working to restore the
damage. One of the workers fell
off a pole, sticking his spur
through his big toe, while another
required six stitches in his head
when he was hit by a limb being
cut.
The City of Jackson was al
most totally free of damage to
its power lines, but not so for
Georgia Power Company which
had several outages and crews
working long hours to re-ener
gize the lines.
Several large limbs fell about
the city, one of the largest be
ing an oak limb that split off a
tree in the yard of Mrs. Hugh
Mallet Sr., while another fell
from a wateroak in the yard of
the J. D. Jones homeplace on In
dian Springs Street and onto the
Roy Mitchell yard. Several pine
trees were uprooted in the yard
of the Watkins home on McDon
ough Road.
Sleet, heavy at times, began
falling about two o’clock Satur
day afternoon and continued for
several hours, adding to the
danger of the already critical sit
uation by dumping a half to three
THURSDAY, FEB. 20, 1969 JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233
David Haisten
Has Scholarship
To North Georgia
David Marlin Haisten has been
awarded a Hammock Scholarship
by North Georgia College, Dah
lonega. This scholarship is made
to students with a demonstrated
aptitude for outstanding scholas
tic achievement, and plans for
graduating from North Georgia
College.
David is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ben Haisten of Jackson, and
attends Jackson High School.
is a deserved vacation, but no
less strategic. He teaches senior
officers of the 14 NATO nations
the employment of and defense
against weapon systems.
Oberammergau is a beautiful
year ’round resort town in the
Bavarian Alps, famous for its
decennial Passion Plan and wood
carving. Col. Hammond lost no
time in learning the art of wood
carving. He has been studying the
techniques of woodcarving under
Kuno Bierling, one of the town’s
master carvers. He has already
completed an early American
rooster plaque for wall decora
tion and another plaque of a Con
federate soldier.
A member of the Fraternal
Order of Dadalians, Col. Ham
mond, like his wife, Joanne, and
three children,, is an active com
munity leader. He is captain of
his bowling team and was a mem
ber of the team that won the
Commandant’s Golf Trophy last
year. Col. Hammond is also presi
dent of the Parent-Teacher As
sociation of the Oberammergau
American Elementary School.
Col. and Mrs. Hammond have
three children who sometimes try
to outdo each other on the local
ski slopes. Deborah, 15, attends
the American High School in
Munich; Cynthia, 13 goes to Gar
misch Junior High School, in view
of Zugspitze, Germany’s highest
peak; and Douglass, 11, attends
the Oberammergau Elementary
School.
quarters inch of slush to the
roads and streets. Snow began
falling in Jackson about 10:30
Sunday morning and continued
for several hours. Fortunately,
I however, a slight warming trend
set in Sunday night with much
of the snow and ice melting, with
it continuing through the day
Monday.
Hazardous driving conditions
were issued beginning late Fri
day night for portions of Atlan
ta and northward. Many Atlanta
businesses closed early Saturday
afternoon because of the heavy
sleet and many school systems
were closed on Monday as a safe
ty precaution. However, those
school systems that closed Mon
day were reopened Tuesday.
Employees of the State High
way Department, Third Division,
Maintenance Crew, worked
around the clock to keep bridges
and over-passes in their area cov
ered with sand and cinders as
protection against the icing con
ditions which were so prevalent
on such structures. Despite the icy
conditions of the roads, only one
accident was reported, that oc
curring on Sunday morning when
a Kentucky bound motorist, Mrs.
Beulah Isrigg, 66, of Louisville,
was injured on 1-75, when the
car in which she was a passenger
skidded and struck a guard rail,
injuring her shoulder.
February
Term Court
Calendar
The February term of Butts
Superior Court was concluded
last week with many cases dis
posed of with pleas before Judge
Hugh D. Sosebee of the Flint Ju
dicial Circuit and with a few
cases being heard by a jury.
The February Court Calendar,
as released by David P. Ridgeway,
Clerk of Butts Superior Court, is
as follows.
Robert Johnson, Non-Support,
Plea of Guilty, 12 months sus
pended on payment of SB.OO per
child per week and fine of $50.-
00.
Franklin Hill, Public Drunk,
Plea of Guilty, 6 months or pay
fine of $75.00.
Hulon James Epps, Public
Drunk, Plea of Guilty, 6 months
or pay fine of $75.00.
Albert C. Brown, Driving Un
der Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months probated upon payment
of fine of $250.00.
Eugene Hightower, Driving
Under Influence, Plea of Guilty,
12 months or pay fine of $150.00.
Marvin Pike, Driving Under
Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months or pay fine of $200.00.
Walter George Conwell, Carry
ing a Concealed Weapon, Plea of
Guilty, 12 months probated upon
payment of fine of $75.00.
Merrell Brock Warren, Receiv
ing Stolen Goods, Plea of Guilty,
12 months or pay fine of $200.-
00.
Howard Conwell, Public Drunk,
Plea of Guilty, 12 monrhs pro
bated on payment of fine of
SIOO.OO.
Marvin Hall, Possessing Non
Tax Paid Whiskey, 12 months,
Plea of Guilty.
Marvin Hall, Carrying a Con
cealed Weapon, 12 months, Plea
of Guilty.
Marvin Hall, Driving Without
Drivers License, Plea of Guilty,
6 months.
Grady Thomas Smith, Public
Drunk, Plea of Guilty, 12 months.
Grady Smith, Public Drunk,
Plea of Guilty, 12 months .
Larry Noye Caldwell, Hunting
at Night, Plea of Guilty, 6 months
or pay fine of SIOO.OO.
Eddie Lee Childs, Leaving the
Scene of an Accident, Plea of
Guilty, 12 months probated on
payment of fine of $200.00.
Lester Calvin Barr, Non Sup
port, Plea of Guilty, 12 months
suspended on payment of $7.00
per week and payment of hospital
bill of SIOO.OO and pay fine of
$50.00.
Robert Van Johnson, Driving
Under Influence, Plea of Guilty,
12 months.
Harry Evans, Pointing a Gun
at Another, Verdict of Guilty, 12
months probated on payment of
fine of $150.00.
Van Heath, Non Support, 12
months suspended on payment of
$15.00 per week per child and
payment of fine of $50.00.
Willie Lee Tyson, Driving Un
der Influence, Plea of Guilty,
12 months or pay fine of $150.00.
Roger Stewart, Cheating arid
Swindling, 3 months or pay costs
of Court.
Benjamin Morgan, Charged
with Murder, Verdict of Guilty
of Manslaughter, 2 years.
Johnnie E. Morrell, Driving
Under Influence, Verdict of
Guilty, 12 months probated on
payment of fine of $200.00.
KENTUCKY WOMAN HURT
AS CAR SKIDS ON ICE
Mrs. Beulah Isgrigg of Louis
ville, Ky. suffered a possible
shoulder fracture Sunday morn
ing about 10 o’clock when the car
in which she and her husband
were traveling South on 1-75 hit
an icy spot in the pavement, with
the driver losing control and the
vehicle striking a guard rail.
The injured woman was taken
by ambulance to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital where
her condition was not believed to
be serious.
The mishap occurred north of
the Rt. 16 interchange, between
it and the Locust Grove exit.
Jaycees Make Superlative
Awards In Many Fields
The Butts County Jaycees, at
a star-studded awards night ban
quet Tuesday night at the school
lunchroom, recognized superla
tives in several fields and heard
a provocative address by Dean
Kenneth L. Waters of the Univer
sity of Georgia School of Phar
macy. A representative audience,
with members of several civic
clubs present as a gesture of co
operation with the Jaycees, greet
ed the award winners.
Dr. James Yeomans, Jaycee
president, opened the program
with an address of welcome which
was followed by the invocation
by Rev. Charles Stevens, pastor
of the Pleasant Grove Congrega
tional Methodist Church. Willie
Avery Cook again served as mas
ter of ceremonies and presented
Donald Sams, principal of Jack
son High School, who introduced
the STAR Student.
STAR STUDENT
KEN BARNES
The first award of the night
went to Kenneth Barnes who was
named as Jackson High School’s
STAR Student for 1969. Born
September 27, 1951 in Atlanta,
Kenneth attended Lakeside High
before coming to Jackson. A bril
liant student, he has been accep
ted at Georgia Tech where he
plans to major in aerospace en
gineering. He is a member of
the Student Council, editor of the
Annual Staff, president of the
Science Club, and vice president'
of the Honor Society. Kenneth is
the son of J. Frank Barnes, presi
dent of the Jackson National
Bank, and Mrs. Frances Hundert
mark Barnes.
star teacher
MRS. ROY PROSSER
Coming to the podium, Ken
neth promptly named Mrs. Roy
Prosser as the STAR Teacher,
citing her for her contributions
to his scholastic progress. It was
the third consecutive year that
Mrs. Prosser has been named
STAR Teacher at Jackson High
School.
Born and reared in Coweta
County, Mrs. Prosser holds an
AB degree from Tift College and
has a major in mathematics. She
has taught mathematics eight
years at Jackson and had 10
years of teaching experience in
Coweta County before moving to
Jackson in 1042. She is a mem
ber of the First Baptist Church
where she is active in church af
fairs and is a past president of
the Butts County PTA, past
president of the Cherokee Gar-
den Club and a former member
of the Jackson-Butts County
Planning Commission.
JAYCEE OF YEAR
JERRY THAXTON
The next award was Jaycee of
the Year and it was presented to
Jerry Lee Thaxton by President
Yeomans. Born January 4, 1935
in Butts County, Jerry is the son
of Mr. and Mrs. R. 11. Thaxton
and attended Jackson High
School. He served six years in the
U. S. Army and is employed by
State Supply Company. Since
joining the Jaycees in August of
1968, he has proven one of the
club’s most energetic workers,
being named a director and ex
tremely active in last year’s In
dustrial Day program for which
he built the Jaycee float almost
single handedly. Jerry was named
winner of three of five Jaycee of
the Month awards and was active
in the Empty Stocking Fund
which furnished Christmas cheer
for well over 100 children. For
this outstanding service and de
voted work, Jerry was chosen
Jaycee of the Year by appreci
ative club members who accorded
him the honor.
FARMER OF YEAR
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C. L. RIDGWAY
Next on the agenda was the
Farmer of the Year with Carl
Brack, County Agent, tapping C.
L. (Pete) Ridgway for this well
deserved honor. Mr. Brack told
how a committee composed of
farmers and agricultural workers
in the county selected Mr. Ridg
way, a widely known dairy farm
er, for this honor. Mr. Ridgway
started in the dairy business with
his father many years ago and at
first they hauled milk to town in
a wagon. Mr. Brack said the very
fact that he is in business proves
him a good manager because since
1946 more than half of the
dairies in Georgia have gone out
jof business. Mr. Ridgway in-
I creased his milking herd to a
I present total of almost 100 cows
and produces almost all the feed
i they consume on his 275 acres of
open land. Mr. Ridgway produces
60 acres of hay, 60 acres of corn,
40 acres of temporary winter
grazing and 40 acres of temporary
summer grazing. He also feeds
out 20 to 30 head of hogs per
year with most of the meat used
at home, but sells any hogs not
needed for home consumption.
In addition, Mr. Ridgway man
ages about 400 acres of woodland
and still lives on and operates a
farm on which he was born.
The next award, Community
Service, went to David R. Black,
pastor of the Jackson and Fel-
$4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
lowship Presbyterian Churches,
for his dedicated work as Scout
master, the Scouting program in
the county being sponsored by
the Jackson Kiwanis Club. Hugh
Glidewell, president of the Jack
son Kiwanis Club, presented the
award to Mr. Black.
COMMUNITY SERVICE
AWARD
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Jail :
DAVID R. BLACK
Mr. Black accepted a call to
the local church in January 1968
while he was studying for his
Master’s degree at Columbia
Seminary. He was born August
16, 1939 in Cairo, West Virginia
but has spent much of his life in
Texas and graduated from Wash
ington High School in 1957, re
ceived his B.A. degree from Mid
western University in 1961, and
his Bachelor of Divinity degree
from Austin Presbyterian Semin
ary in 1966. The young minister
served several student assistant
pastorates in Texas and served
as Chaplain Intern both at the
Institute of Religion and Ander
son Hospital in Houston and at
Grady Memorial Hospital in At
lanta.
Since coming to Jackson, Mr.
Black has been president of the
Butts County Ministerial Asso
ciation and soon after arrival ac
cepted the Scoutmaster post of
the local Boy Scout troop where
he has rendered effective and
dedicated service.
YOUNG MAN OF YEAR
ERNEST BILES
Last award of the evening was
that of Young Man of the Year
with the recipient being Ernest
Biles. The award was presented
by Joe Brown.
Mr. Biles is by no means a
novice in the uward winning
field, having already been pre
sented the Distinguished Service
to Comunity award for his work
in service with the youth of Butts
County. Since this work has been
enhanced and enlarged in scope,
Mr. Biles has been chosen as the
Young Man of the Year.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs,
C. B. Biles and lives in the Stark
Community where he has been a
member of the Macedonia Baptist
Church since he was 12 years
old. He is a Sunday School teach
er for 9 and 10 year old boys and
a member of the choir. Mr. Biles
is presently employed by the Van
Deventer Youth Center and is a
temporary substitute mail carrier.
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