The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, July 03, 1969, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextKacksun Brogr^ss-Arnits VOL. s>6—NO. 27 —■ - r * Maj. Fletcher Wins DSM Guard Award fort STEWART, Ga. A Georgia Army National Guard Major has received the state’s highest honor —the Distinctive Service Medal of the State of Georgia. Major William L. Fletcher, of Jackson, Ga., received the medal recently in ceremonies at Fort Stewart where his National Guard Unit, the 176th Military Police Battalion, Forsyth, is undergoing two weeks’ Annual Field Train ing. The citation praised Major Fletcher for his “exceptionally meritorious and distinctive ser vice.’’ Major Fletcher, formerly of the S-3 section, 2nd Brigade, 48th Armored Division, was given the task of retraining the person nel of the newly formed Military Police Battalion on January 1, 1968, the result of reorganization of the Georgia National Guard. There was not one single quali fied Military Policeman in the unit when Major Fletcher began the job. The citation states that he ac complished his job “in an out standing manner” and that the new MP’s received an “overall Superior rating for all units of the Battalion.” Rev. Landrum Is Pastor At Pleasant Grove \ fwmm' Jr ¥ REV. JIMMY LANDRUM Le\. Jimmy Landrum, a former Pastor of the Hargraves Memo- Congregational Methodist j *' . Houston, Texas for two accepted a pastorate ‘ 1: ; mt Grove Congregation a -i*- nodist Church in Butts ■ f'ne new pastor succeeds ! es Stevens who recent ly resigned. Landrum has pastored ’ n Lufkin, Texas and ° !, a. He has completed a ■ea> Bible course at West- T College, Tehuacana, , ' n, J Hrs. Landrum, the Laura Booth of Homer e ‘°rmer residents of Ho . ■ nd they have four chil . ’ ' vid 8 ; Pamela, 6; Jona riv ! "* ' C * nd y, 2. They ar rj.,.'' .heir new pastorate on Jes day. July Francis Ford Is Pastor At Jenkinsburg REV. FRANCIS FORD Rev. Francis Ford has been ap pointed by the North Georgia Methodist Conference as pastor of the Jenkinsburg charge which consists of the Stark, Flovilla, Jenkinsburg, and England Chapel United Methodist Churches. He succeeds Rev. Ed Galloway who has accepted an appointment as an Air Force Chaplain. A native of Atlanta, Rev. Ford attended Atlanta schools, the University of Georgia, and the Candler School of Theology. He was licensed to preach in 1955 and served as Youth Director of Mt. Zion Camp Ground, Centry- Zion Chapel Church, and from 19C0-1965 the Ebenezer Church as well as attending school, work ing as a cost accountant with a trucking firm and as a salesman for an Atlanta office supply com ..any. In 1965 he devoted his full time to the ministry and was as signed to the Haddock-Sunshine in Jones county, which he served until his appointment to Jenkins burg. Rev. Ford, his wife, the for mer Miss Elizabeth Allen of The Rock, and two sons, Alan Baxter, 6, and John Wesley, 4, moved into the Jenkinsburg parsonage last Thursday. NANCY G. WAITS IS ON SPRING DEAN’S LIST ATLANTA, Ga.—Nancy Goff Waits of Jackson was among twenty-seven students at Mercer University’s Southern School of Pharmacy named to the Dean’s List for the Spring Quarter. To qualify, a student must car ry a full course of 12 or more quarter hours and have a B-plus average in the courses. Mrs. Waits is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roy D. Goff of Jackson. STAN BALL IS NAMED SECRETARY OF COUNCIL CARROLLTON, Ga. Stan Ball of Jackson and a junior at West Georgia College was recent ly elected Scholarship Chairman of the Interfraternal Council. The Interfraternal Council is the governing body of all fra ternities and sororities and con sists of two representatives from each association. THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1969 Alton Coleman Promoted To Lt. Colonel June has proved a momentous month for Lt. Col. Alton H. Cole man, presently stationed in Mon terey, California. On June 6th Lt. Col. Coleman, a career army officer and a grad uate of the United States Mili tary Academy, was promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel from major. Thirteen days later, on June 19, his wife Mary, gave birth to a baby daughter, Sharon Kay, at the Fort Ord Hospital. Lt. Col. Coleman writes that “Mother is here now and thanks to her everything is getting back to normal. Not an easy task with a four year old boy, a two year old girl, and anew baby in the house.” In addition to his army duties Col. Coleman somehow finds time for academic pursuits and if all goes according to schedule he will finish a two year course at the Navy Post Graduate School in October and will receive a Mas ters Degree in Operations Re search. Col. Coleman states that as yet he does not know where his next assignment will be, but is looking forward with keen antici pation to a visit in October of a few weeks here with his mother, Mrs. Alton H. Coleman, other rel atives and friends. Col. Coleman is the son of Mrs. Coleman and the late Mr. Cole man, his father having been killed 20 years ago in a traffic accident. A graduate of Jackson High School where he was a stellar athlete, Col. Coleman received an appointment to West Point from Congressman John J. Flynt Jr. of Griffin. While at the Military Academy Mr. Coleman excelled in scholastic work, graduating high among members of his class. Dr. Ross Began Practice Here Tuesday, July 1 Dr. Gerald Ross has completed his internship at Macon Hospital and opened his office for general practice in Jackson on Tuesday, July Ist. The young physician, son .of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Ross of East man, moved to Jackson early in February from Warner Robins. He is a native of Dodge County where he graduated from Dodge County High School in 1958, at tended Middle Georgia College, and graduated in 1962 from the University of Georgia School of Pharmacy. He attended the Uni versity of Tennessee School of Medicine, graduating in 1968, and compfeted his internship at Macon Hospital on June 30th. Dr. Ross is married to the for mer Miss Nora Estes, also a na tive of Dodge County. She also attended Middle Georgia College and the University of Georgia. The Rosses have three children, Marie, Jon, and Lee. Dr. Ross began his practice at .381 East Third Street on Tues day. His telephone number is 775-3166. JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233 Paving Begun In Henry On Last 1-75 Link A feature front page story in the McDonough Weekly-Adver tiser of June 26 states that Bal lenger Corporation of Greenville, South Carolina will begin pour ing concrete on the final 1-75 link this week. A spokesman for the company explained, “We plan to start at Highway 351 west of Flippen and continue southward to Highway 155 interchange near McDonough, Then we’ll go back to Highway 351 and begin working north.” Ballenger is on the site and ready to begin pouring right away, “But we can’t pour uptil the road bed is ready. Actually our have been ready to come here for a month or so. We’ve been working down near Dublin and the job has dwindled down to the point only one 8 hour shift is needed to keep it go ing.” The Interstate -75 contract from Highway-155 into Morrow, closing the final link to Atlanta, is slated for competion October, 1969. Workmen have advised “not to bet on it,” however. A considerable amount of road shoulder preparation and finish ing remains after paving is com pleted. The paving itself should move rapidly through utilization of mechanization which spreads a strip of concrete on one entire lane. The device averages about two-thirds miles per day. An operator pointed out, “It’s possible to do more than a mile in a day, but that exceeds the average by a good bit. If we can get down 3500 feet per day, the job should move right along.” Of course, this phase of con struction becomes absolutely de pendent upon weather. Paving could conceivably be completed within a matter of weeks, how ever, there still remains the time consuming job of dressing out shoulders, marking the road, and erecting signs. < Another possibility is opening the four-lane to traffic immedi ately after completion of paving as was done on the southern por tion of Henry County. That would require finishing side dressing, signs and grassing after traffic is turned onto the road. It would also require special State Highway instructions with no present indications they will be forthcoming. However, it has been done before and there are indications the State Highway Department will give 1-75 top priority. Martin Ridgeway President Of Junior RLCA Martin Ridgeway, of Jackson, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Harry Ridgeway, was elected president of the Junior Georgia Rural Let ter Carriers Association at the state convention in Augusta June 22-25. Martin attended the convention in accompaniment with his parents, with the Ridge way family being guests in the home of Col. and B. U. Porter and Miss Pattie Porter. In addition to Martin as presi dent other officers of the RLCA include Barry McDonald, Vice President, Warrenton; Gloria Smith, Secretary and Treasurer, Nicholson; Loma McDonald, Re porter, Warrenton; Tom Callo way, Chaplain, West Point. The Juniors and the Ladies Auxiliary’s main project for the past year was aid to crippled children and adults with over S6OO being donated for research in this field. While in Augusta the Ridge ways visited the home of Presi dent Woodrow Wilson, the First Presbyterian Church where Presi dent Wilson’s father was pas tor, the old Medical College, the Augusta Garden Center, and made a tour of the Kimberly Clark Corporation. 24 Deaths Predicted In State Over 78-Hour Holiday Period Susan Norton Wins First In Horse Show ■■fiaiL, I'lilittwihi i Br w w J /v 'i SUSAN NORTON Butts county 4-H participants have once again proved that they can be the best. Miss Susan Norton of Jenkins burg, 16 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Norton, was a double winner Friday in the 4-H Horse and I’ony Project. Susan won two first place honors at the Northwest District Horse show in Griffin. She was the fastest par ticipant in pole bending and the barrel race and will go to the state show July 12th in Athens. Susan raised her horse, Sunny, from a colt and he is now three years old.' She has won recog nition by winning seven first places, 27 ribbons with placement one to five, and five trophies and has entered shows in many neighboring towns and communi ties. BOND SALES IN BUTTS OVER 40% MARK Savings Bond sales in Butts county through May stand at 40.8% of the county’s goal of $52,000, according to a report released this week by Mrs. Eliz abeth H. Watkins, Butts County Chairman of the U. S. Savings Bond program. During May local residents purchased $3,966.00 in E Bonds and $202.00 in notes, bringing the county’s total through May to $21,223. Other counties in the sixth dis trict through May stand as fol lows: Henry $140,721 or 46.9% ; Lamar $78,035, or 39.0%; Mon roe $13,181 or 24.0%. \ ¥ k \ BITIOI ROCK EAGLE Newly elected officers of the Northwest District 4-H Club Council, left to right, are: Doug Hargrove, Newton County, parliamentarian; Ann Bentley, DeKalb, secretary-treasurer; Don Griffith, Haralson, boys’ vice president; Patricia Ellen Pinckney, Butts, president; Charles Goss, Polk, reporter, and Susan Lee, Fulton, girls’ vice president. As district officers they will work with 4-H Club leaders and pthers on the University of Georgia Extension Service staff in giving lead ership to the 4-H program in 27 counties in the area. They will be in charge of assembly programs, vesper services and other activities at district project achievement meetings, rallies and camps. They were elected at the recent 1969 project achievement meeting at the 4-H Club Center here. ATLANTA, — (GPS) A mas she traffic enforcement opera tion—planned as the “toughest, most concerted” safety campaign in Georgia’s history—-will be car ried out during the long Fourth of July holiday weekend. in announcing plans to cope with the heavy traffic on Geor gia’s highways over this summer’s initial action-packed holiday week end, Col. R. H. Burson, director of the Georgia Department of Public Safety, warned motorists that it will be a “no-holds-barred” crackdown on law violators. State patrolmen have orders to “get tough” when necessary. The prolonged holiday period officially begins at 6 p. m. Thursday, July 3, and continues through midnight Sunday, July 6 —a total of 78 hours. While the patrol is aiming for a “deathless” holiday span, in dications are that despite all ef forts tragedy will strike. For ex ample, based on past holiday ex perience and present trends, the patrol predicts that at least 24 persons will be killed and 360 others injured in 1,128 accidents during the 78-hour period. (Last year during a 102-hour July 4th holiday period, 25 per sons lost their lives and 345 others were injured in 806 wrecks.) Maj. Porter Weaver, the pa trol’s commanding officer who is the chief strategist in mapping the enforcement drive, said troop ers from all patrol posts in the state-wide system, as well as Atlanta headquarters personnel and GBI agents, will be on active Wayne Jordan Is New Scout Executive Wayne Jordan, 21, a native of Douglas, assumed his duties June 16 as District Scout Execu tive of Butts, Henry, and Fay ette counties of the Flint River Council. The new scout executive resides in McDonough at 96 Sims Street. Mr. Jordan, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Jordan Sr. of Doug las, is a graduate of Broxton High School and graduated from Berry College in June with a BS degree in Art and Physical Edu cation. Mr. Jordan was a member of the Berry College track team for two years and is interested in various sports and athletics. Married to the former Miss Jeanette Smith of Woodland, Alabama, Mr. and Mrs. Jordan $4.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE duty throughout the campaign. All weekend passes have been cancelled for the period. In addition, agents from other state enforement agencies will be utilized as “spotters,” both from the ground and in aircrafts. When they observe an obvious traffic violation, these “spotters” im mediately relay the information via radio to uniformed patrol men who go into action in run ning down the suspected viola tors, Major Weaver explained. “We will use more people, more patrol cars and more speed-timer devices, including 40 recently acquired Vascar units and radar machines, in our effort to main tain safety on the roads and save [lives,” he said. “We’ll concentrate on the more heavily traveled interstate and main U. S. highways, with road checks at odd hours and at un announced places on an around the-clock basis. Other of our troopers, particularly those com prising our tactical squad, will be anywhere and everywhere we think they can do the most good in holding down accidents.” Col Burson, Lt. Col. L. G. Bell, deputy safety director, and Maj. Weaver will be traveling over the state in directing strategic ma neuvers. In announcing plans for the gigantic enforcement operation, Col. Burson called on all drivers, local and county law enforcement officers, the press, radio and television stations and various safety organizations for their full cooperation in helping to make it a success. JACKSONIANS ATTEND TIFT SUMMER SCHOOL FORSYTH, Ga. Attending the summer session at Tift Col lege which ends August 5 for most students are 171! women. Women enrolled for a special six-week educational workshop course which substitutes for stu dent teaching will enjoy summer holidays after July ISth. Among those attending from Butts County this summer are: Mrs. Linda M. Hoard, Jackson; Judy Smith, Flovilla; Martha Leverette, Jackson; Sue Walker, Flovilla. both are members of the Brox ton Baptist Church. Mrs. Jordan attended Jacksonville State Col lege in Alabama. The new scout executive, who visited Jackson last week to make friends and meet local scout of ficials, will work closely with | Hoke Copeland, Griffin, Director [of Flint River Council.