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VOL. 96 —NO. 48
easting and Football Popular
pastimes During Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving might properly j
be described as a 4-F day for j
many Butts Countians and if that
terminology requires elucidation
the F’s are for Fun, Family,
Football, and Feasting—not nec
essarily in that order.
Despite the fact that few for
mal observances are scheduled,
Butts Countians will greet
Thanksgiving with thankful hearts
and praise to God for his bounti
ful blessings.
One of the formal programs on
the Thanksgiving agenda was the
Union Thanksgiving Service No
vember 26th at the First Baptist
Church with the Rev. Francis
Ford, pastor of the Jenkinsburg
Charge, delivering the sermon on
“Thanksgiving is Thanksiiving.”
Pastors of various Butts County
churches took part in the inter
denominational service and these
included Steve Jett, Minister of
Music - Youth, First Baptist
Church; David Black, pastor of
the Jackson-Fellowship Presby
terian Churches; Billy Ring, pas
tor of the Jackson Church of the
Nazarene; Don Folsom, pastor of
the host church; R. W. Jenkins,
pastor of Macedonia Baptist
Church; Theodore Terry, chap
lain, Westbury Medical Care
Home; and Jimmy Landrum, pas
tor of the Pleasant Grove Congre
gational Methodist Church.
As usual, football will play an ;
important role in the celebration
of Thanksgiving Day. Thanksgiv
ing afternoon will find over 500
boys and girls and adult leaders
in the Van Deventer Memorial
Scout Foundation programs in at
tendance at the annual Scottish
Rite Shrine game at Grant Field.
The freshmen teams of Tech and
Georgia meet each Thanksgiving
afternoon in a game that has be
come a classic and hailed as the
premier freshman game in the
nation. The Van Deventer Memo
rial Scout Foundation is playing
host at the game for the youth
ful participants in all athletic
programs as well as coaches,
sponsors, cheerleaders, parents,
adult leaders, and invited guests.
The Bullpups have a 3-1-0 record,
compared to the Baby Jackets
2-3-0 mark, but the Tech frosh
rate a slight edge due to the home
field advantage and the presence
of Eddie McAshan, sensational
Negro quarterback signee from
Florida.
Family gatherings will be the
order of the day with many local
families expecting guests, with
others going out of town to visit
relatives and friends. As usual,
eating will be one of Thanksgiv
ings favorite pastimes with
groaning festive boards featuring
turkey and dressing with all the
trimmings.
Business in the community will
come to a stand-still for the day
Union Thanksgiving Service
Nov. 26th at Baptist Church
Have you counted your blessings lately? Have you taken time
to thank God for his goodness to you? Perhaps you woul 11.'-
aside a special time to give thanks. If so, you are invited to attend
tlu- Union Thanksgiving Service sponsored by the Butts oun y
H nisterial Association.
Thi, special Thanksgivine Service will be held Wednesday eve
rung, November 26th, at Bp.m. at the hirst Baptist urc o
JacKson. Special music will be offered by the combined choirs of
the host church. Pastors representing the various chui. es 0 ®
, *v,e, order of worship is provided
county will lead the service, and the order ox
tore for vour spiritual anticipation and P U U t - ■
' all to Wn r.hin Combined Choirs - Steve Jett
all to Worship David Black
' nVoCation -- Tom King
Hymn: “Come Ye Thankful People Come g Ring
sponsive Reading _ Youth Choir
.Anthem: “Hallelujah" Don Fol , om
Welcome
Offertory Hymn: “This Is My Fal j,. r; k:ns
Offertory Prayer Theodore Terry-
Scripture
Anthem: “My Shepherd Will Fra ci, Ford
Sermon; “THANKSGIVING IS THA h
Hymn: “America the Beautiful Jimmy Lan drum
Benediction
with mail at the county post of
fices to be dispatched on the holi
day schedule. Hunting will prove
an avocation for many with local
nimrods taking to the - field in
search of the wily quail.
On the grim side of the holiday
scene is the prediction by the
Georgia Department of Public
Safety that 39 persons will be
killed and 480 injured in auto
mobile accidents over the state
in the period from 6 p. m. Wed
nesday, November 26th, through
midnight Sunday, November 30th.
Traffic through Jackson is ex
pected to be reasonably heavy
with many motorists traveling to
and from their homes over the
holiday period.
If the weather is cold and in
clement, for those who like foot
ball, armchair style, television
will be serving up several top
games, both collegiate and pro
fessional, with the Minnesota
Vikings meeting the Detroit Lions
at 12:15 p. m.; the Denver Bron
cos taking on the Kansas City
Chiefs at 1:30 p. m.; 4th ranked
Arkansas meeting Texas Tech at
2:45 p. m.; the San Diego Charg
ers vs. the Houston Oilers at 4
p. m. with the night cap serving
up the San Francisco 49ers vs.
Dallas Cowboys at six o’clock.
While it’s true that many eyes
will be focused on Grant Field
Thanksgiving afternoon, the ma
jor interest of the sports scene
will be the game Saturday in At
lanta between the Sun Bowl
bound Bulldogs of the University
of Georgia and the Yellow Jackets
of Georgia Tech. With the game
remaining Saturday Georgia
shows a record of 5-3-1 while
Tech is 3-6 thus far. A capacity
crowd of almost 60,000 is expec
ted to view the game with many
Jacksonians in attendance at
Grant Field.
TIFTON RESIDENTS ARE
INJURED IN 1-75 MISHAP
Two Tifton residents were in
jured last week in an accident
ten miles north of Forsyth on
1-75, according to a report from
troopers of the Griffin Post of
the Georgia State Patrol.
Mrs. Linda L. Garey, 22, of
Benjamin Drive, Tifton, said she
apparently went to sleep at the
wheel, causing her car to run off
the road and hit a guard rail on
the Johnsonville Road bridge.
Melinda Garey, 4, of the same
address, was treated for bruises
to the eye.
Both were treated at the Syl
van Grove Hospital in Jackson,
Mrs. Garey for abrasions and
lacerations of the nose.
The State Patrol reported
I about SSOO damage to the 1964
i model station wagon.
THURSDAY, NOV. 27, 1969
Flynt Thinks
Airport Site
Decision Made
Sixth District Congressman
John J. Flynt Jr. told the group
assembled at the Mclntosh Trail’s
first annual meeting at the Moose
Lodge in Griffin Thursday night,
November 20th, that he had an
idea the location of the new At
lanta Airport already has been
decided. However, he told some
500 people at the meeting that
he frankly did not know where
the airport would be located.
Congressman Flynt said that if
it comes to the Henry County
site, he predicted a growth toward
this area that would be compar
able to that of the Dallas-Fort
Worth section of Texas. “You
won’t be able to tell where At
lanta ends and Griffin begins,”
Mr, Flynt said. He pointed out
that before the two airports were
built in the Dallas-Fort Worth
area, the two cities were separate.
The airports made one metropoli
tan area of them.
The Mclntosh Trail Area Plan
ning and Development Commis
sion has been pushing for the
Henry County site.
Congressman Flynt was intro
duced by J. D. Arp, Fayetteville,
chairman of Mclntosh Trail. Mr.
Arp reviewed the accomplish
ments of the organization in its
first five months of operation.
Larry Gridley, staff director
for Mclntosh Trail, coordinated
the program. Vice Chairman Joe
Dutton of the Griffin City Com
mission welcomed the guests.
Homer Davis, Griffin assistant
city manager, introduced officials
of the Mclntosh organization.
A large number of Jackson
and Butts County citizens attend
ed this first annual meeting,
among whom were: Mr. and Mrs.'
C. M. Daniel Jr., Kyle McMichael,
Henry Asbury, Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Barnes, Mr. and Mrs. M.
L. Powell, Mr. and Mrs. R. W.
Watkins Jr., Mr. and Mrs. P. H.
Weaver, Mrs. Robert C. Edwards,
Miss Elizabeth McMichael, Mr.
and Mrs. W. O. Ball, Mr. and Mrs.
Guy Howard, Mr. and Mrs. Da
vid Ridgeway, Mr. and Mrs. Carl
Brack, Mr. and Mrs. Hal Sum
mers, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Todd,
Rev. Ray Dunahoo, Hammond
Barnes.
Jimmy Patrick
Wins DMS Honor
In Tech ROTC
Jimmy Patrick, a student at
Georgia Tech and son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. Duvall Patrick of Jackson,
has been selected as a distin
guished military student and will
be so recognized at the ROTC
Brigade Review on December
11th.
In a letter to his parents from
Colonel Wayne W. Bridges, Pro
fessor of Military Science, Jim
my was cited as follows, “During
the past three years your son has
distinguished himself by his ex
cellence in both academic and
ROTC classes. To qualify for se
lection as a Distinguished Mili
tary Student, Jimmy ranked in
the upper third of his ROTC
class and in the top half of his
college class, in addition to dis
playing outstanding leadership
qualities. Continuation of this
fine work can result in his being
selected as a Distinguished Mili
tary Graduate, which is the high
est honor that may be bestowed
on an Army ROTC graduate. The
recipient of this honor may ap
ply for a commission in the Reg
ular Army rather than a Reserve
Commission.”
At the review on December
11th at 11:15 a. m. Jimmy will re
ceive the DMS Insignia which will
be worn as part of his uniform.
County Over
The Top With
118 Pints
Butts County came through
with flying colors at the visit of
the Regional Bloodmobile Mon
day, with 118 pints of blood col
lected in the five hour visit from
1 to 6 p. m. at the National Guard
Armory. The county quota was
112 pints which quota being made
and exceeded maintains the coun
ty in good standing and full elig
ibility on the free whole blood
program locally.
John Billy Long, blood recruit
ment chairman for the Butts
County Chapter, American Red
Cross, thanked the people of the
county for their wonderful re
sponse in going over the top. He
reminded that if the county had
failed on a second consecutive
visit the county would have been
placed on a credit card system
which would have offered cover
age only to donors and their fam
ilies. Mr. Long also thanked the
merchants and stores who do
nated items of food for use in the
canteen and expressed appreci
ation to the Jackson B&PW Club
and other volunteer workers who
assisted during the visit, with the
many duties that have to be per
formed by volunteers.
A list of those offering blood
Monday were:
Robert Chester Evans, Thomas
Wood Leverett, Karen Sue Mea
ley, Helen Thornton, Winona
Rawls Cook, Frank Aden Foun
tain, James Doyle Jones, George
Newton Etheredge, Horace Caw
thon, David P. Ridgeway, Robert
William Britton, George Wilmer
Washington, Early F. Watkins,
Ollie Lee Woodard, Lamar Cur
tus Gaye, Sammy Coleman, Hen
ry Lee Gilbert, George Akins, Ed
ward Charles Rooks, John Thom
as Askin.
John Willis Jefferson, Ricky
Lee White, Lenell Reaves, Linda
Reva Childs, Trellis Stewart, Her
man F. Waits, Jimmy Cliett Long,
Charlie Andrew Jackson, Leroy
Willis, Madeline Goodrum, John
ny Hightower Jr., Jonas Price,
Larry Darnell Douglas, Douglas
Randall Brooks, Robert Michael
Jackson, Gerald Wade Ross, Jack
Riley Newman, Thomas Miller
Freeman, Virgie Pauline Raney,
Mrs. Nora Ross.
John Daniel Grier, Merrell
Amos Price, Russell Jenkins,
Maurine Kay Shields, Stanley
Maddox, Randolph Long, Artis
Clinton Knowles, Norma I). Ev
ans, Raymond Larry Lunsford,
Mrs. James T. O’Neal, Willie
Ronald Tingle, Fred G. Raney,
Michael Wilson Morgan, Nancy
Houghtaling, Edward Lyndon
Houghtaling, Onita Cross, Myrtle
Ruth Batchelor, Marie Holland,
Calvin L. Ridgeway, Ellis Patrick
Cook.
Roy R. Henderson, Florigene
Moore, Donald Kay Knight, Dan
N. Hoard, James O. Browning,
Ola Mae Greer, Velma Webb,
Sara Parker, Peggy Winda Nolan,
Rosa Lee Thurman, Riley L.
Tingle, Doris Ann Hunter, Arthur
Lawson, Sandra M. Moore, Rev.
Donald Folsom, Jimmie Earl
Hurst, Harry H. Fletcher, Joseph
Davis, Gary L. Pecht, Bobby Wy
lie Kendrick.
William P. Couch, Jessie Lelton
Proctor, Mrs. Glenda Anderson,
Lynn Black, Chester K. Whidby,
Jean Ellis Summers, James Kelly,
Wm. Andy Holston, Robbie Lou
Foster, Mrs. Daftner Fincher,
Robert Lee Fincher, Barbara
Maddox, Marion Wayne Cook,
William Foster, Guy H. Howard,
James Seckinger, A. M. Grant,
Charles Starr, Porter Harrison
Cawthon, R. F. Starr, Henry As
bury.
Richard Watkins, C. W. Wil
liams, Nora Sanders Ball, Levi
Ball, Bailey Morris Crockarell, Al
bert B. Thomason, Claude Mad
dox, Mrs. Annie Lillian Rossey,
Connie J. Hamlin, Miss Doris
Singley, Jerry Lee Thaxton, Rob
in James, Rudy Wyatt, Jessie J.
Nutt, Harold McMichael, Geral
dine Wright, John Wm. Brown
ing Jr., Joel Cawthon.
George Mayfield, Horce Ed
ward Carter, Lula Cook, Annie
Besley, Dorothy Mae Berry, Viv
ian Childs, Fannie Myrtle Besley,
Claudette Harper, Maynette
JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233
Christmas Lighting Contest
Be Held Again at Yule Season
39 Road Deaths
Seen For State
During Holiday
ATLANTA—(GPS) At least
39 persons will lose their lives on
Georgia’s , highways during the
102-hour Thanksgiving holiday
weekend, the State Patrol pre
dicted.
The patrol said also that 480
persons will be injured. In all,
there will be an estimated total of
1,504 traffic accidents across the
state during the long holiday
weekend, beginning at 6 p. m.
Wednesday, Nov. 26, and ending
at midnight Sunday, Nov. 30.
Last year 36 persons were
killed and 293 injured in 905 ac
cidents.
“We anticipate a big volume
of traffic, and I would strongly
recommend to every driver that
he drive defensively at all times,”
said Col. R. H. Burson, director
of the Georgia Department of
Public Safety.
Col. Burson said all available
state troopers would be out on
the roads during the holiday peri
od. They will be backed up by
GBI agents, license examiners
an and other patrol personnel,
as well as agents from other state
enforcement agencies who will
act as “spotters” for the patrol
men, he said. Maj. Porter Weaver,
commanding officer of the patrol,
said VASCAR and radar timing
devices will be used extensively
throughout the state in an at
tempt to hold down speed—the
major cause of fatal crashes.
“Every able-bodied man we
have will be on the roads working
around-the-clock in an effort to
maintain safety and save lives,”
he said.
Col Burson, Lt. Col. L. G. Bell,
deputy safety director, and Maj.
Weaver will be traveling over
the state directing this huge en
forcement operation.
Smith, Banks Weaver, Dorothy
Ann Webb, Mildred Ann Smith
Jessie Mae Stewart, Arlenda
Cash, Geraldine Roberts, Sylvia
Gilbert, Eugene Mitchell, Charles
Starr, Mrs. James Etheridge, C.
I). Edwards Jr., Mrs. Frank Peek,
Margarite Young, Clifford San
vidge, Christine Greer, Nina Mae
Holley, Corine Clark.
Among the volunteer workers
staffing the Bloodmobile visit
were;
Mrs. Frank Barnes, Mrs. Dan
Fears, Mrs. Jim Trimble, James
Biles, Mrs. Gladys Wilson, Mrs.
Lucille Fountain, Mrs. Blanch
Thornton, Mrs. W. D. White, Mrs.
Flora Price, Mrs. Arthur Cleve
land, Mrs. Gwen Juhlin, Mrs.
Hanna Cook, Mrs. Clyde Hodges,
Mrs. Grace Burgan, Mrs. C. E.
Morton, Mrs. Pat Smith, Miss
Dottie Leverette, M. L. Hodges
Sr., Frank Fountain, Mrs. Maude
Watkins, Mrs. Charles Bailey,
Mrs. George Swan, Miss Ruby
Lane, Mrs. Bertha Perdue, Miss
Debbie Dover, Miss Peggy Hobbs,
Miss Nancy Leverette, David
Ridgeway, Carl Brack, Billy
Crum, Jerry Crum.
Yule Lights
Be Turned On
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving afternoon is the
date set for turning on the
Christmas lights and decorations
in the City of Jackson, which
event will officially signal the
advent of the Christmas season '
locally.
According to Mayor C. B.
Brown Jr. the lights and decora-
tions have been placed prior to j
Thanksgiving and will be ener
gized about dusk Thanksgiving 1
afternoon or earlier if the day is j
cloudy or dark.
Mayor Brown said that the !
decorations will be primarily '
Harris Pope
Named To Top
CD Position!
HARRIS M. POPE
Harris M. Pope has been named
Acting Regional Director, Office
of Civil Defense, Region Three.
The Regional Office, headquar
tered in Thomasville, Georgia
serves the seven southeastern
states —Alabama, Florida, Geor
gia, Mississippi, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Tennessee—and
the Canal Zone.
Mr. Pope, 49, joined the Re
gional OCD staff in January 1961
to become Director of Admini
stration and Facilities. In Septem
ber 1963, he was appointed as
Deputy Regional Director.
In his new position he directs
the development and maintenance
of plans to conduct regional em
ergency operations during periods
of increased readiness, attack
and postattack as well as for re
gion responsibilities in natural or
other type disasters. He also acts
on requests for Federal assist
ance and reviews State and local
government use of financial as
sistance and compliance with Of
fice of Civil Defense require
ments.
Mr. Pope was born in Jackson
on March 19, 1920. He was called
to active duty in the Georgia Na
tional Guard in 1940, soon after
completing high school.
He won his commission as a
Second Lieutenant after attend
ing Officer Candidate School in
1943 and served during World
War II with the Sixth Infantry
Division, being promoted to Cap
tain.
During the Korean Conflict he
served as an Infantry Battalion
Commander in the Ninth Infantry
Regiment where he received the
Silver Star, three Bronze Stars
for bravery, and was wounded in
action.
During his military service he
attended Infantry Advanced
School, Command and General
Staff College, U. S. Armed For
ces Institute and studied at the j
European Brartch of the Univer
sity of Maryland. Upon returning '
to the li. S. completed special
courses in political science and
public speaking at Oglethorpe
University.
He is a member of the Thomas
ville Elks Club, on the Board of
Directors of Rotary, a member of
the Board of Stewards of the
First Methodist Church, and The
American Legion.
He is married to the former
Esther Sitton of Easley, South
Carolina. They have three chil
dren; Esther, age 22; Dusty, age
16; Miller, age 10; and live at
129 Plantation Drive, Thomas
ville.
Mr. Pope is the son of the late
Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Pope Sr. of
Jackson, his father serving as
Sheriff of Butts County for a
long number of years.
those used in past years with a
few additions. During the past
several years Jackson has re
ceived many compliments from
tourists and local citizens alike
for the beauty and attractiveness
of the downtown area.
$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Announcement is made this
week that the Garden Club Coun
cil and the Jackson Progress-Ar
gus will again co-sponsor the an
nual Christmas Decoration Con
test which has been held in the
city for the past several years.
December is the date set
for the judging, Miss Elizabeth
McMichael, chairman of the
Garden Club Council, announced
this week. She also stated that
judges will be obtained in the
near future.
The lighting contest, conceived
by the Progress-Argus and co
sponsored by the Garden Club
Council, has done much over the
years to add a festive glow to
Jackson during the Yule season.
The paper offers prizes of $lO,
first, $7.50 second and $5 third
for the homes adjudged most ap
propriately decorated in keeping
with the architecture of the in
dividual home.
As usual the city will again be
divided into two areas, East and
West, with Mulberry Street serv
ing as the dividing line. Three
winners are to be selected by the
judges in each area. It is expected
that one group of judges will
view the homes East of Mulberry
Street, while another group con
siders those homes on Mulberry
Street and West of it.
In addition, prizes in the same
denomination will be offered to
the most decorative business es
tablishments which will include
the square and those streets
adjacent to and leading to the
business district.
In rules set by the sponsoring
agencies, all homes in Jackson
will be included as well as.those
on the Griffin Road to the W. A.
Cook residence. Homes will be
judged beyond the city limits on
Brookwood Avenue and those on
the Monticello Highway to the
C. E. Washington home.
First place winners in the
Christmas Decoration Contest in
1968 are not eligible to compete
for prizes this year. Those include
the homes of the Wayne Barnes’
on Griffin Road and the T. E.
Robison Sr’s, on Dempsey Avenue.
In the business division Ether
idge-Smith Company was first
place winner.
Commandery
Inspection
December 5
The annual inspection of Alex
ius Commandery No. 22, Knights
Templar, is scheduled for Friday,
December 6th, at the Masonic
Hall.
James F. Moseley, of Griffin
and Macon, a past grand com
mander and present grand re
corder, will be the inspecting of
ficer. Several grand officers will
be present and other dignitaries
from other bodies in masonry will
be present.
Dinner will be served at the
Jackson Clubhouse at 6:30 o’clock
with the inspection to follow at
7:30 p. m. All qualified members
are invited to attend the dinner
and inspection at the Masonic
Hall.
Alexius Commandery No. 22 is
62 years old and was chartered
May 9, 1907. It has members
from Butts, Jasper and Henry
Counties as well as other parts
of the United States.
CADET MOORE PROMOTED
AT NORTH GA. COLLEGE
Cadet John Allen Moore has
been promoted to the rank of
Cadet Sergeant in the Corps of
Cadets at North Georgia College,
Dahlonega, Georgia. He will be
serving as Squad Leader for Com
pany F. His promotion was based
upon academic as well as leader
ship qualities.
Cadet Moore is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Herbert E. Moore, 329
McDonough Road, Jackson, Geor
gia.