The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, October 02, 1969, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextJackson Trogr;css->\rgus J. D. JONES PUBLISHER (1908-1955) DOYLE JONES JR. Editor and Publisher Published every Thursday at Jackson, Georgia 30233, and entered at the Post Office in Jackson, Georgia 30233 as second-class mail as provided by law. Address notice of undeliverable copies and other corre spondence to The Jackson Progress-Argus, P. 0. Box 249, Jackson, Georgia 30233. MEMBER TELEPHONE 775-3107 OFFICIAL ORGAN IwEW*pJ+PER BUTTS COUNTY AND Association - Founded 1885 Cir Y OF JACKSON Subscription Rates in Advance, Tax Included: One Year $5.00 School Year $4.00 Six Months $2.75 Single Copy 10c IT’S THIS WAY BY DOYLE JONES JR. Jest of the Week: “Morning,” drawled the recruit, whereupon the outraged officer gave him a stinging lecture on military courtesy, with special emphasis on saluting. “Well,” said the recruit, “if I’d known you was gonna carry on like that, I wouldn’t of spoke to you at all.” • • • THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE The decision on the second Atlanta Airport is coming down to the wire with circumstances favoring Henry County as the site most favorable and improving weekly. The Mclntosh Trail Area Planning and Development Commission is spearheading the fight to locate the facility in Henry County with Dale McLaren planning the strategy. It is reported that even an Atlanta alderman has con ceded that Henry County is the number one site, and an official announcement on the location is expected soon after the Atlanta election on October 7th. By all accounts this will be the largest and most important facility ever built in Georgia—at least a billion dollars. It is being said by those more knowledgeable about the situation that Butts, Henry and Spalding Counties will be the fast est growth areas in the state, with many comparing the anticipated boom growth to that of DeKalb County. Jackson will become a true city overnight. The population of Butts County will double in a short time and treble soon afterwards. In short, the average citizen has no adequate comprehension of the fantastic growth thut will take place here nnd in surrounding areas if the airport comes to Henry County. The effect will be staggering and stupendous . . . Con gratulations to E. B. Perdue for his recognition in “The Georgia Operator” for his 21 years of service as superintendent of the Jack son Water Works. He has been a valued and dependable employee who merits the many nice things said about him in the article . . . Judge Andrew Maynard Zellner, of Forsyth, 92 years young, retired the other day after 67 years of law practice in Monroe County. This outstanding citizen, who was paid due tribute by fellow members of the I - lint Bar Association, was credited with having organized the first Boy Scout troop in Georgia in 1910. We congratulate this splendid man and hope that he lives his remaining years in health and happiness . . . Atlanta and all Georgia as well is caught up in a bad case of pennant fever as the Braves shoot for the champion ship of the Western Division. If they succeed, and odds over the weekend favor them, they will have to contend with the “miracle” Mets for the National League bunting and to defeat them will take the best ball of which Braves are capable. However, if you are an optimist \\ orld Series tickets can be ordered . . . Don’t forget to cast your ballot in the City Primary of Friday, October 10th. There are laces for three council posts with two candidates each which should engender more than usual interest in things politic . . . After ten days of rain and clouds, late September’s and October’s bright blue weather came as a welcome relief. Nothing can match the beauty of October as the forests begin to take on their autumnal hues and the winy tang of the exhilarating air gives anew zest to living. The splendor of the seasons in Georgia is matched by few other states with October being a month that is almost universally favored . . . The Butts County Jaycees wisely decided to forego Industrial Day this year because of a lack of interest, money and manpower. Those held heretofore have been a distinct credit to the county and to the industries which they saluted, but to have attempted an event this year without proper preparation and the necessary hard work would have done an injustice to the concept of the program. We heartily subscribe to the old adage that "a job worth doing is worth doing well" and take no stock in the "half a loaf" theory. The thing to do is for the Jaycees to begin planning NOW for next year’s Industrial day. Bit by bit ... every litter bit hurtsl KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL! THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA Guest Editorial THE MACON TELEGRAPH WORK RELEASE CENTERS FOR PRISONERS NEEDED Selection of Macon for one of five proposed work release prison branches will quicken local and area interest in a long-overdue program. The State Department of Corrections has come under fire for not having established the centers be fore now. The blame does not belong to that department. For several years, funds have been sought from the Gen eral Assembly. The legislators have not seen fit to put up the money, though some of the lawmakers have put up cogent arguments in favor of work release. The program has proved quite successful in other states. In North Carolina, 10 per cent of the state’s 10,000 prisoners are permitted to work at regular jobs in the outside world. If the same percentage were used in Georgia, 850 carefully-screened inmates could be gainfully employed in the latter stages of their im prisonment and, when released, capable of more easily making the transition to productive mem bers of society. Georgia has no plans for a 10 per cent work-release system any time soon. The immediate goal is to place little more than 100 selected pri soners (none of whom committed crimes involving sex or violence) in the work-release branches. They would return to the deten tion centers at night and be un der close supervision. At full strength, the Macon branch and each of the others would house only about 50 in mates. But even this number is a worthy start. Once the program is underway, once the public ful ly understands the considerable advantages, and once the Correc tions Department learns to effi ciently use the work-release plan, the program can be ex panded. How much better for inmates with high rehabilitation poten uASGSj HEWS ASC COUNTY COMMITTEE NAMED Farmers recently named to serve as the Agricultural Stabili zation and Conservation (ASC) County Committee for Butts County are: R. H. Burford, R. G. Coker, and T. T. Patrick. Mr. Burford was elected for a three year term in 1968, Mr. Coker was elected in 1969 for a three year term and Mr. Patrick was-elec ted in 1967 for a three year term. Alternates elected were A. G. Cowan and A. B. Farrar. The 1970 election was held at the county convention September 23 at Jackson. Electors were farmers chosen as convention delegates at recent ASC commu nity committee elections through out the county. Chairman Burford points out that the ASC county and commu nity farmer-committees are in charge of local administration of such national farm programs as the Agricultural Conservation Program, the Cropland Adjust ment Program, the feed grain program, the wheat program, the upland cotton diversion program, acreage allotments and marketing quotas, the national wool pro gram. commodity price-support loans, and storage facility loans. The ASCS county office at Jackson is headquarters for the county committee, and serves as the farmers’ local contact for business connected with participa tion in the programs administered by the committees. These pro grams encourage conservation and increase farm returns by means of price supports and market sup ply-management, as well as by payments. tial to be eased back into the mainstream than to be plunged in at the end of their term a few months later, ill-equipped to cope with outside life. Men who have been accepted and who have proved themselves in honest trades and crafts are far less likely to return to crime. Society runs a far greater risk without a work-release program than it does with a good one. We hope the 1970 General As sembly will approve the Depart ment of Corrections’ budget re quest, and that Macon, centrally located as it is, will have top pri ority for one of the centers. PREPARE FOR WINTER! GET A GAS INSTALLATION WITH SERVICE you can count; on 8 • Company-trained appliance servicemen • We lend cylinders and tanks • Complete gas service for home, farm and industry' • Quality-controlled for better performance and economy • Over 45 years of leadership ... No* serving 28 states • Call us today for details PRUETTS INC. 211 W. Broadway Griffin, Ga. 30223 Tel. 227-2186 Your home for modem gas appliances • cooking • heating • water heating GM MMU Of UCCU.CNCC f hPSi 1970 Caprice. A lot of cars cost more. But few if any are really that much more car. Which explains why more and more of the smart money is coming to Caprice. Look what you get: A big substantial 18-foot-long prestige car with anew 350-cubic-inch V 8 engine, power disc brakes, Astro Ven tilation, wheel covers, deep twist carpeting, posh appoint ments. A remarkably roomy car, with a ride so smooth and . ‘Whatsoever Things’ j BY DONALD E. WILDMON j . ... I’M TIRED OF THESE FOLKS The following item recently appeared in the fl|' % paper. “The author of the disparaging book, The ’***T*) sjffmfi Passover Plot, which states that Christ’s cruci fixion was faked to fulfill Old Testament pro r phecies about the Messiah, now questions the w h°l e authority of the Christian church. Ilk'® 3 “Now Dr. Hugh Schonfield, in Those Incredible MJLMJHJIH. M Christians, lashes out at what he calls ‘vested beliefs and ecclesiastical rubbish.’ The 68-year-old Jewish scholar is allegedly without a religious creed of his own, believing in God as ‘pure spirit’.” Admits Ignorance Well, now, how about that! He is a man who, he himself admits, doesn’t know what he believes telling millions of other people that their belief is rubbish. Well, personally, I’m tired of folks like Dr. Schonfield. I’m tired of these self-appointed authorities who don’t know what is right except everybody else is wrong. Well, I’m tired. Tired of all the people who say God is dead who never knew He was alive. They live in their ivory palaces behind the sacred wall of educa tion and spin out fancy theories about the nothingness of God. They never go down to the grave and watch a mother lay her child into the cold, hard earth. They never go to the hospital where the father of four young children is dying with cancer. They aren’t ever called by the wife, whose husband is an alcoholic. But they are sure, after reading the text books, that there is no God. I’m tired. Tired of the people who say the Bible is a lie who never have even read it. Our so ciety is full of them, these intel lectual illiterates who speak in pure ignorance of the subject If you spend more for a car, you must want to spend more for a car. 10-4134 Bulk Service Cylinder Service the name of the flame ‘W pyrofax gas ...tt* fv! you c*n liv9 with, for sun! matter. I’m tired. Tired of people who say the Church of today is ir relevant because we haven’t been able to provide everybody with a mansion on the hill, a high in come, a “meaningful” job, and the best social standing. Two Choices I’m tired. Yes, I’m tired of those fine people who say they can accept Christ as great moral teacher but not as the Son of God or the Savior of men. Little do these people realize the ab surdity of their statement. A good CHARLES E. ROOKS JR. Is Interested in all the various civic organizations and industries, old and new, in Jackson, Ga. He respectfully asks you to elect him your councilman from the Fourth Ward in the CITY PRIMARY OF OCTOBER 10th silent you’ll feel like Mr. Big himself. Tell you what, though. If you absolutely insist on a more expensive car, we won’t stand in your way. Go ahead and order air conditioning. Order stereo. Order tinted glass, power windows, 6-way power seat, our new Headlight Delay system. Your Chevrolet dealer will happily help. See him real soon. Putting you first, keeps us first. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2 , l9fi9 moral teacher but not God’ If H wasn’t the Son of God ] God Himself, and did d.d, and said what Ho said, £ He was a blundering b lin!T ignorant fool. Stupid, ( w p was either Who He said He or He was a crazy idiot. But m wdl have to accept one tion of Him. God incarnate or student madman. Unfortunately the New Testament just doesn't leave room for you to classify Him as “a great moral teacher but not God Himself.” Yes, I’m tired of these know it-alls who don’t know what they believe. And let me add just one final word to them. You say you are searching for truth. If this be true, then maybe one day you will find what many of us' have already found. You see, we have already found Truth. We found it in a lowly Nazarene, apart from Whom no Truth can ever be found. a St. Johns Lodge # 45 F&AM Jackson, Georgia Regular Communication Ist and 3rd Monday Night 8:00 P. M. JOE M. MORRIS, W. M. Wm. J. SUTTON, SEC. On the move.