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Karksuu Progress-Argua
VOL. 96 —NO. 50
Judges Are Announced For
Lighting Contest Dec. 18
Expert judges, all competent
and qualified in the field of light
ing and decorations, have been
obtained for judging in the De
cember 18th Christmas Decora
tion Contest, sponsored this year,
and for the last several years, by
the Garden Club Council and the
Jackson Progress-Argus.
The judges, secured by Mrs.
Richard W. Watkins Jr. of the
Cherokee Garden Club and an
nounced by her, include Mr. and
Mrs. Cornelius Lumsden, Mrs.
Herschel Dickens, Mrs. Sara Per
kins, Mrs. Lußay Carpenter, and
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew L. Fowler.
Mrs. Watkins said all the judges
are experienced in lighting and
are from the Atlanta area.
The judges will be entertained
at dinner at the home of Mrs.
Richard W. Watkins Jr. with the
Cherokee Garden Club and the
Jackson Garden Club responsible
jointly for the hospitality accord
ed to the judges. The judges are
expected to arrive at 6 o’clock
at City Hall.
Miss Elizabeth McMichael of
the Cherokee Garden Club is gen
eral chairman of the Garden Club
Council.
Standards to give judges some
thing to work toward include the
following:
1. The over-all design and ar
tistic effect.
a. Good proportion and
scale.
2. Lighting effectiveness.
a. Manner of placement of
lights for over-all effect.
b. Concealing wiring, me
chanics and lights.
3. Color.
a. Suitability to setting:
color harmony, over-all de
sign.
The Jackson newspaper offers
prizes of SIO.OO, first; $7.50, sec
ond; and $5.00, third; for the
homes adjudged most appropri
ately decorated in keeping with
the architecture of the individual
home. Miss McMichael points out
that the city will again be divided
into two areas, East and West,
with Mulberry Street serving as
a dividing line, with three win
ners in each area to be selected
by the judges. One group of
judges will view the homes East
of Mulberry Street, while another
group considers those homes on
Mulberry Street and West of it.
Doyle Jones Jr., editor-publish
er of The Progress-Argus, states
that in addition to prizes for the
most attractively lighted homes,
the newspaper is also offering
prizes in the same denomination
to the most attractively decorated
business establishments around
the square and those streets ad
jacent to and leading into the
business district. Miss McMichael
reminds citizens that no formal
entry need be made for partici
pation in the contest and that
every lighted and decorated
home within the city will be view
ed by the judges and considered
in making their decisions.
The four garden clubs of Jack
son, the Jackson Garden CluS,
the Mimosa Garden Club, Haw
thorn Garden Club, and Cherokee
Garden Club, have cooperated
with the lighting contest since its
inception with the president of
each club serving on the Garden
Club Council and other members
appointed to the Interclub Com
mittee. The council obtains and
entertains the judges and estab
lishes rules for the contest. This
year, according to rules of the
sponsoring agencies, all homes in
Jackson will be included as well
as those on the Griffin Road to
the Willie Avery Cook residence,
homes beyond the city limits on
Erookwood Avenue, and those on
the Monticello Highway to the
C. E. Washington home.
First place winners in the
Christmas decoration contest last
year are not eligible to compete
for prizes this year. These include
the homes of the T. E. Robisons
on Dempsey Avenue, the W ayne
Park Newton Jr.
Has Achieved
Brilliant Career
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R. PARK NEWTON JR.
It has been announced by R.
Park Newton Jr., President of Ap
plied Engineering Cos., Orange
burg, S. C., and R. Hugh Daniel,
Chairman of Daniel Construction
Cos., Greenville, S. C., that Dan
iel Construction Cos. and Applied
Engineering Cos. have merged as
of December Ist.
Mr. Newton will remain in
Orangeburg as head of Applied
Engineering Cos. In announcing
the merger the Orangeburg Times
and Democrat has this to say of
Mr. Newton.
Starting in 1944 with one en
gineer, R. P. Newton Jr., now
president and treasurer of the
company, one draftsman and a
part time stenographer, it has
“come a long way.”
Whether or not the founder
and president-treasurer of Ap
plied Engineering ever visualized
the exact amount of growth the
company has attained, or whether
he even had in mind developing
this kind of company, is hard to
ascertain. Park Newton isn’t
much given to talking about him
self.
Pleasant, dignified and re
served, Newton is practically a
copyright picture of what most
people believe a company or cor
poration president to be.
Born in Jackson, Ga., the son
of Mr. Robert Park Newton and
Mrs. Bessie Powell Newton, Rob
ert Park Newton Jr. received his
BS in Chemical Engineering from
the Georgia Institute of Technol
ogy in 1935.
In 1936, he married Elizabeth
Edwards and they have three
children, Nancy, who is doing
graduate work at Emory Univer
sity, Robert Park 111, a business
man in Tampa, Fla., and William
Aris, presently in private school.
Newton served as assistant
chemistry instructor at Georgia
Tech in 1936 and then as re
search chemist for Swann & Cos.
of Birmingham until 1939 and
as plant design engineer for Na
val Stores in Valdosta in 1940.
He became a resident of South
Carolina in 1941 when he moved
his family here to take up a
new position as executive vice
president of the Wannamaker
Chemical Cos. where he remained
until 1945.
In 1945-46, Newton struck out
for himself, beginning what
eventually became Applied Engi
neering Cos., with himself as the
“company” and his ability and
talent the main company asset.
Founded as a consulting engineer
ing firm, it remained at this
level for about a year.
He is a director of the First
National Bank of Orangeburg, a
member of the American Chem-
Barnes on Griffin Road. In the
business division Etheridge-Smith
Company was first place winner.
THURSDAY, DEC. 11, 1969
Burglars Make
Heavy Haul
At Slax Shoppe
Burglars who displayed more
brute strength than ingenuity
tore out a 12 x 17 inch hole in
the rear of the Slax Shoppe at
the I-75-State Route 36 inter
change Sunday night and made
off with approximately $7,000
worth of suits, sport coats,
sweaters, slacks and underwear.
According to Jim Robertson, a
partner in the firm, the burglary
was discovered Monday morning
by employees reporting for work.
He said the front door suffered
considerable damage in an at
tempted entry that way as did an
air conditioner at the side of the
building which was damaged in
an attempt to move it. Entry was
eventually gained by knocking a
hole in the end of the concrete
block building which allowed
them access into the building and
through which merchandise was
removed.
Mr. Robertson said that the
GBI and the Butts County
Sheriff’s Department are investi
gating the case and theorized that
the burglary was the work of
amateurs and small ones at that
since mostly sizes 30-31 in slacks
and suits in sizes 37-38 were
taken. Several tire tracks and
foot prints were found with
moulages made of them for fu
ture use if and when the bur
glars are apprehended.
Nazarenes To
Depict Live
Nativity Scene
With Christmas at hand, the
Jackson Church of the Nazarene
will depict a live Christmas scene
featuring a stable, Mary and
Joseph, the Shepherds, Wise Men
and the Christ Child.
The stable scene will be on the
lawn of the Jackson Church of
the Nazarene on Indian Springs
Street and may be viewed by the
public each night, December 15th
through December 21st, from
eight until nine o’clock. Volun
teer members of the church will
portray the parts each night.
As this is expected to be a most
impressive scene, the public is
cordially invited to drive by and
view it.
KIWANIS CLUB
RANKS HIGH
IN ATTENDANCE
The Jackson Kiwanis Club con
tinues to rank among the top ten
clubs in attendance percentage
for the month of October placing
sixth in the state with a percent
age of 97.3.
Saint Marys and Smyrna led
the the state with perfect attend
ance followed by Decatur 98.4;
Rockmart 98.3; Cairo 97.6; and
Jackson 97.3.
ical Society, a director of the
South Carolina Chamber of Com
merce, a member of several clubs
and a member of Phi Delta Theta,
Tau Beta Pi and Alpha Chi
Sigma.
With all his myriad activities,
he still finds time to keep reas
onably active in the field of
chemical inventions. He has in
vented and patented several engi
neering devices.
He al3o is a registered chem
ical engineer in “at least” 20
states of the Union.
He has many plans for the fu
ture of Applied Engineering and
also hopes to keep his hand in
when it comes to developing new
ideas and devices. This is, he said,
very important to him.
Andrew Fuqua
Awarded ROTC
Scholarship
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ANDREW J. FUQUA
Andrew J. Fuqua, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Benjamin F. Fuqua,
1037 College Station Rd., Athens,
has been awarded a four-year
Army ROTC scholarship from the
Department of the Army. The
scholarship covers tuition, books
and other costs including an ad
ditional SSO monthly allowance,
tax free.
Fuqua is a 1969 graduate of
Athens High School and enrolled
at the University of Georgia dur
ing the summer quarter. While at
Athens High he was the com
manding cadet officer of the
ROTC unit.
High School ROTC awards won
by Fuqua include: Cadet of the
Year, Best Squad Ribbon, Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Superi
or Cadet Award, Merit Ribbon,
American Legion Military Excel
lence Award, and U. S. Army Let
ter of Commendation.
The scholarship award was
made by Stanley R. Resor, secre
tary of the Army. An accom
panying certificate said: “Be it
known that Andrew J. Fuqua,
having achieved a meritorious
record in his academic studies,
extra-curricular activities and
college entrance examination
while a secondary school student;
having demonstrated exceptional
leadership potential and physical
fitness; having expressed a de
sire to serve his country as an
officer in the United States
Army; and having been selected,
on a competitive basis, from other
highly qualified secondary school
graduates throughout the United
States is hereby awarded a Four-
Year Army ROTC Scholarship at
any college or university of his
choice . . . .”
His grandparents are: Mrs. J.
A. Treadwell and Mrs. A. A. Fu
qua of Butts County.
Yule Decorations
Can Be Seen At
Open House
The Home Economics and Fam
ily Living classes of Jackson High
School extend a cordial invita
tion to the genera] public to at
tend an Open House to be given
on December 17th in the Home
Economics Lab (Room 103). You
are invited to call between the
hours of 3:30 and 5:30 p. m.
to view the Christmas decorations
made by the students of these
classes.
The display will include Della
Robbia decorated table trees,
wreaths, hanging baskets, and
scented candles. Much of the ma
terial used has been discarded
wreath forms, styrafoam, coat
hangers, plastic bags, artificial
flowers, fruits and empty bottles.
Natuial nuts, cornshucks, sumac,
sweet gum balls, pine cones,
Jimpson weed, and cottonwood
burrs have been put to practical
use. Ingenuity has been the key
note of this project.
It is hoped that the people of
Butts County will visit the dis
play of the decorations that are
appropriate to this holiday season.
JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233
Hampton L Daughtry Is
Named "Man of the Year"
Jackson Lake
Stocked With
Striped Bass
Some surprised angler several
years hence may land a 50
pound striped bass from Jackson
Lake and ask that the fish be
identified since he might not know
that the first stocking of young
striped bass in Jackson Lake was
made last Thursday by the Geor
gia Game and Fish Commission.
Some 9,000 stripers, from three
inches to ten inches in length,
were placed in the lake last week
as a part of a wide spread re
search project to learn more
about the success of stocking this
species of saltwater fish in fresh
water lakes in the Southeast.
Jackson Lake is one of two Geor
gia lakes and Georgia is one of
three states selected for the pro
ject. Lake Sinclair received a
stocking of stripers earlier this
year.
Jackson Lake is scheduled to
receive up to 23,000 striped bass
in all, if that many are avail
able. The fish came from the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Hatchery in Orangeburg, South
Carolina.
Jackson Lake was selected for
the study because of its high fer
tility and because it is believed
that the Alcovy River, the clean
est section of the lake, will afford
a spawning place for the stripers.
The bass currently being intro
duced into Jackson Lake can ex
pect to obtain a weight of 114
to 2 pounds by next summer. The
fish grow to enormous size under
proper conditions. A 63 pounder
was pulled out of the Ocmulgee
River near Dublin two years ago.
Vicki Washington
Named DAR
Good Citizen
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MISS VICKI WASHINGTON
Miss Vicki Washington, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Stacer Wash
ington of Jackson, has been
named winner of the Good
Citizen Award given annually
to an outstanding senior girl at
Jackson High School by the Wil
liam Mclntosh Chapter, Daugh
ters of the American Revolution.
In her Junior year at Jackson
High, Vicki won the DAR His
tory medal. Among the qualifica
tions for this award is the high
est scholastic record in her class
;n American History.
Qualifications for the Good
Citizen Award include unusual
characteristics in dependability,
leadership, patriotism and service.
Vicki is a member of the
Worthville Baptist Church, of
the National Honor Society and
of the local chapter of Future
Teachers of America. She has
received two academic letters for
making the honor roll and several
perfect attendance awards at
Jackson High School.
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HAMPTON L. DAUGHTRY JR.
Hampton L. Daughtry, Jr.,
prominent Atlanta business ex
ecutive and founder of the Van
Deventer Memorial Scout Foun
dation which operates youth pro
grams in Butts County for well
over 900 children of both races,
was honored Tuesday night by
the Jackson Kiwanis Club by be
ing chosen as the club’s first
“Man of the Year” at a ladies
night banquet which assembled
over 100 guests at the Jackson
Clubhouse.
The idea for the award was
conceived by the Public and Busi
ness Affairs Committee, Doyle
Jones, Jr., chairman, who made
the presentation to Mr. Daughtry.
Other members of the committee
include Richard W. Watkins, Jr.
and Lee Roy O’Neal. A handsome
ly engraved plaque was presented
Mi\ Daughtry at the close of the
presentation speech.
In making the award, special
effort was made to bring out
little known facts about the recip
ient’s early and personal life that
would not be known generally to
the public. This was accomplished
through the cooperation of Mrs.
Marjorie W. Daughtry.
Born in Butts County, Mr.
Daughtry was the younger son in
a family of five children born to
Florrie and Hampton Lamar
Daughtry, Sr. Upon completing
the local schools, Mr. Daughtry
worked his way through Georgia
Tech after summers spent on
a surveying job in Brunswick, in
the railroad yards at Corbin,
Kentucky, and in the pit and
furnaces of a rubber company in
Dayton, Ohio. He received his
degree in 1923 and acecpted a
degree in 1923 and accepted a
New York.
Possessing an itchy foot, Mr.
Daughtry exhibited a strong de
sire for travel, wanting to go
places and sec things. An avid
reader, Mr. Daughtry used to
pour over the pages of National
Geographic and longed to see the
far away and exotic places
depicted therein. A four months
stay in Mexico in 1949 crystal
ized his ambition to go around
the world which he did via the
Clipper Ships. He was in Seoul,
Korea four weeks before the out
break of the Korean war and had
the definite feeling that some
thing was afoot.
With a dose friend, Clair Har
ris, Mr. Daughtry formed The
Viking Corporation which soon
prospered.
In early life Mr. Daughtry had
fallen under the influence of Dr.
Robert Van Deventer, former pas
tor of the First Baptist Church,
who organized the first Boy
$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Scout Troop in Jackson and be
came an inspiration to Mr. Daugh
try, who named the foundation
he created after his benefactor,
From a modest beginning from
part of a donation made which
had been deposited in the Jackson
IJank, Mr. Daughtry used to tell
the late Mr. Add Nutt that “some
day we’ll put it to work for the
young people.” Over the years
additional sums have been poured
into the foundation until it ranks
as the foremost in the state for
youth and one of the better ope
rated and managed over the na
tion.
When the clues to the “Man
of Year” identity gave out and
it was announced that Mr. Daugh
try was the first recipient, the
audience in a spontaneous action
gave him a standing ovation and
a round of applause that lasted
for several minutes. Both Mr.
and Mrs. Daughtry made brief
remarks upon presentation of the
plaque.
To entice Mr. Daughtry to
Jackson without suspicion of the
award he was to receive, a pro
gram was also arranged at which
he presented three Georgia Tech
architectural students who pre
sented their plans for remodeling
the old Ford building on West
Third Street into anew and mod
ern youth center. Those students
offering their ideas were Bill
Hooker, Carl Kling, and Norm
Teahon. These students presented
their sketches on drawing boards
with each eliciting much favor
able comment and inspection by
the large audience at the con
clusion of the program.
President Denny O’Neal wel
comed the Kiwanians and their
ladies, and the many guests who
were present. Rogers F. Starr
introduced Kiwaniennes attending
for the first time since the last
ladies night meeting and the dis
tinguished guests, many of whom
were from out of town. One of
the principal guests, who attend
ed at the invitation of Mr. and
Mrs. Daughtry, was John Henson
of Atlanta, president of the Met
ropolitan Atlanta Boys Club and
close friend of the Daughtrys.
EASTERN STAR PLANS
YULE PARTY DEC. 12th
Jephtha Chapter No. 252, 0.-
E.S., will have their Christmas
party at their regular meeting
on Friday night, December 12th,
at 8 o’clock. All members will
please bring a dollar gift to be
exchanged. Also bring something
for the party shower for the
O.E.S. Home.