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Bth Grade
Grid Team
Outstanding
Jackson’s Junior High Red
Devil Football Team is ultra suc
cessful and undefeated in two
years and will afford the varsity
a vast measure of depth with a
few of the more talented players
probably making the scene as
varsity players in the 1970 sea
son.
The Junior High team, coached
this year by Jimmy Hardy and
Bub Ridgway, logged a 9-0 rec
ord, winning seven games by
crushing scores and two by for
feit. Feeling the heel of the tal
ented team were Forsyth, met
twice and vanquished 44-0 and
12-0; Tabor Junior High, 34-0
and also forfeiting a game;
Barnesville, downed 14-6 and 28-
6; Monticello, defeated 42-0 and
26. The other win was over Fay
ette County by forfeiture.
Coaches Hardy and Ridgway
are proud of the 199' points the
team scored as compared to 12
for their opponents, giving the
Junior Red Devils an average per
game of 28 points to 1.7 for op
ponents.
Coach Hardy said that mem
bers of the team scoring touch
downs during the year were Andy
Crumbley, 7 and passed for two;
Mark Maddox, 2; David Griffin,
2; Scott Taylor, 3 and passed for
7; Darrell McDowell, 13 and
passed for 7; Darrell Summers, 2,
one on a block punt; Randy
Usher, 1; Jodie Marchman, 1;
Billy Duke, 1; while Joe Norton
scored on a safety.
Coach Hardy singled out quar
terback Scott Taylor for his ex
ceptional play, particularly in
passing, and Andy Crumbley,
halfback, for his fine running.
The coaches had much praise for
Darrell McDowell who they pro
phecy may be a super star at
JHS before his playing days are
over.
The eighth grade team in 1968
posted an 8-0 record, winning 6
games and 2 by forfeiture. Scores
last year were Jackson 44, For
syth 0; Jackson 60, Newton Coun
ty 7; Jackson 44, Jones County
0; Jackson 13, Manchester 6;
Jackson 20, Forsyth 6; Jackson 6,
Fayette County 0. The two for
feitures were by Jones County
and Fayette County.
Last year the junior team
scored 187 points to 19 for its
opponents, averaging 31 points
per game to 3 for the opposition.
The ’6B junior team was
coached by Jimmy Hardy and
Harold Smith.
Members of the team included
the following players: Mark Mad
dox, Darrell McDowell, Mallie
Jenkins, Darrell Kitchens, Don
McKibben, Jerry Greer, Auze
Dover, Newton Maddox, James
Dupree, Kenny Smith, James
Brown, Jimmy Fogg, Roy Rogers,
James Price, Bennie Dupree, Lar
ry Fears, Tommy Stewart, Harry
Reeves, Howard Rossey.
DEEBIE CROWDER IS ON
DEAN’S LIST AT MGC
Miss Debbie Crowder, daugh
ter of Mrs. Julian Fletcher, has
been placed on the Dean s List
for this quarter. Debbie is a stu
dent at Middle Georgia College,
Cochran.
This honor, according to J. P.
Vidosic, Dean of Administration,
is earned only by the small per
centage of students whose ability,
study and perseverance are ex
emplary of the best scholarly ef
fort and thus worthy of special
recognition.
Lagomarsino
Will Head
Travel Council
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CHESS LAGOMARSINO
The Georgia Chamber of Com
merce has announced that Chess
Lagomarsino, Vice President of
the Lenox Square Association,
will be the Travel Council Chair
man for 1970.
The Travel Council sponsors
the STAY & SEE GEORGIA Pro
gram, which is now beginning its
eighth consecutive year.
The Travel Council Statewide
Committee for 1970, which will
assist Mr. Lagomarsino, consists
of the Travel Council Vice Chair
man G. Harold Northrop, Execu
tive Vice President, Garden Ser
vices, Inc., Pine Mountain, Ga.;
STAY & SEE PUBLICITY Chair
man John Cone, Director of Pub
lic Service, WSB-TV; Publicity
Committee members Don Daniel,
Publicity Director, Six Flags Over
Georgia; T. Clack Tucker, Gen
eral Public Relations Manager,
Southern Bell Telephone Com
pany, Atlanta; and Wayne J. Ed
wards, News Director, WLET-
Radio, Toccoa; STAY & SEE
GEORGIA Manager Mrs. Mozelle
Christian, Georgia Chamber of
Commerce, and the Assistant
Manager, Miss Laura Shouse,
Georgia Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Lagomarsino, a native At
lantan, graduated from Emory
University. He was associated
with Davison’s for twenty-two
years as Publicity Director and
Secretary. From 1950 to 1956 he
was Publicity Director for the J.
L. Hudson Company in Detroit.
In 1956 he was appointed Presi
dent of Richard’s Department
Store in Miami and left there in
1958 to return to Atlanta to serve
as Vice President of Lenox
Square Shopping Center, the larg
est shopping center south of
Washington, D. C. He also heads
the Chess Lagomarsino and Asso
ciates Sales Promotion firm.
Active in many Atlanta civic
organizations, Mr. Lagomarsino
is and has been associated with
the Red Cross, Atlanta Visiting
Nurses, Community Fund, Atlan
ta Symphony, Atlanta’s Woman
of the Year, American Cancer
Society, Atlanta Convention Bu
reau, and the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce.
Upon accepting the new respon
! sibility, Mr. Lagomarsino said,
; “Tourism is the business of at
tracting, entertaining and serving
travelers and is Georgia’s fastest
developing industry. Already we
I are ahead of every other state in
| the southeast, except Florida, in
i vacation - recreation spending.
Over 38 million people took more
than 13 million vacation-recre
i ation trips in our state in 1968
and spent $646.8 million dollars.
The predictions of the future are
that more people will be traveling
to more places with more time
and more money to spend. We are
proud of the Georgia Chamber
of Commerce for its foresight
seven years ago in creating STAY
THURSDAY, JANUARY 1, 1970 JACKSON. GEORGIA 30233
Jackson Rites
Wednesday For
Mrs. Settle
Mrs. Ralph O. Settle, 446 West
Third Street, widely known Jack
son matron, died at Sylvan Grove
Hospital Tuesday morning, De
cember 30th, about 4:50 o’clock
following a long period of de
clining health. She had been a
patient there since November
28th.
Born Miss Ada Mae Sams,
member of a prominent and in
fluential family, she was born the
daughter of the late Mr. J. R.
Sams and Mrs. Nannie Burford
Sams. Active in social, religious
and cultural affairs for many
years, Mrs. Settle was a member
of the William Mclntosh Chapter,
DAR, the Order of the Eastern
Star, the Hawthorn Garden Club
and of the Jackson United Meth
odist Church.
Funeral services were held
Wenesday afternoon at two o’-
clock in the chapel of Haisten
Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray
Dunahoo, pastor of the Jackson
United Methodist Church, offici
ating. Interment was in Jackson
City Cemetery with Haisten Fu
neral Home in charge of arrange
ments.
Mrs. Settle is survived by her
husband, Ralph O. Settle of Jack
son; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. Har
rison of Jackson, Miss Leila Sams
of Atlanta, Mrs. Miriam S. But
ler of Columbus; two sisters-in
law, Mrs. W. L. Sams of Rich
mond, Va., Mrs. M. D. Sams of
Harrisburg, Pa.; one nephew, J.
Sams Harrison of Montgomery,
Ala.; one niece, Mrs. L. T. Chris
tian of Richmond, Va.
Pallbearers were T. E. Robison
Sr., Max Redman, Doyle Jones
Jr., Marlin Spencer, H. M. Moore,
W. O. Ball, D. P. Settle, ~Whit
Newton, Charles Daniel, J. Ed
ward Cornell, P. H. Weaver.
PAM CAWTHON EARNS
MGC PERFECT SCORE
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Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Cawthon
of Jackson have been advised by
Mr. J. P. Vidosic, Dean of Ad
ministration, Middle Georgia Col
lege, that their daughter, Pam
Cawthon, has been placed on the
Dean’s List for the coming quar
ter. This honor is earned only
by the small percentage of stu
dents whose ability, study and
perseverance are exemplary of
the best scholarly effort and
thus worthy of special recogni
tion.
Miss Cawthon earned an aca
demic average of 4.0 out of a
possible 4.0 during the past quar
ter.
& SEE GEORGIA. No other State
Chamber in the nation has as
comprehensive a program to de
velop the Tourist Industry for
its state.
STAY & SEE GEORGIA is a
winner . . . 325 community or
ganizations have participated over
the last seven years and are cash
ing in on the financial profit and
enthusiastic community spirit en
gendered by the program. We
are now accepting entries for
the 1970 Program. The Travel
Council expects STAY & SEE
GEORGIA to be highly successful
and we invite organizations and
communities to participate.”
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Texas Mishap
Claims Three
In One Family
A tragedy of the Christmas
season was the deaths Monday,
December 22nd, of Mr. and Mrs.
Cecil Wesley Smith and their two
year old daughter, Anetta, in a
traffic accident near Midland,
Texas.
The Smiths were moving from
El Monte, California to Griffin
when the accident occurred.
Mr. Smith was a former resi
dent of Griffin and is survived by
a sister, Mrs. Allen Thornton of
Route 3, Jackson.
Funeral services for Mr. Smith,
his wife, Mrs. Betty Jean Brisson
Smith, and daughter, were con
ducted Friday afternoon at three
o’clock from the Pleasant Hill
Methodist Church with interment
in the church cemetery. Pittman-
Rawls Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
Mr. Smith is survived by three
daughters, Mrs. Brenda Snell
grove, Miss Janice Smith and
Miss Darlene Smith; a son, Tony
Smith, all of Atlanta; his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Effee Smith of
Griffin; seven sisters, Mrs. E. T.
Hatchett, Mrs. Austin Chambers,
Mrs. Riley Shackelford and Mrs.
Gladys Harris, all of Griffin, Mrs.
Allen Thornton of Jackson, Mrs.
Bobby Phinazee and Mrs. David
Faulkner, both of Milner; three
brothers, E. A. Smith and Melvin
Smith, both of Griffin, and
Charles Smith of Los Angeles,
California; one grandchild.
C&S To Add
More Parking
Spaces Soon
The C&S Bank of Jackson,
Frank Barnes, president, an
nounces additional parking space
for customers through the acqui
sition of the old Curry Building,
which faced on East Third Sreet,
from T. E. Robison, Sr. The
building was demolished before
Christmas' with additional parking
space to be put in use as soon as
the weather permits paving of
the lot and some concrete work
done.
According to Mr. Barnes the
new lot will accommodate 12 cars
and will have an entrance from
the alley leading through the
present C&S parking area in the
direction of Holly Street and will
have an exit on Holly Street near
Third.
In addition, Mr. Barnes said
that concrete bumpers will be
placed on the lot to provide pro
tection for the present buildings
and that shrubbery will be placed
in the corners of the lot as well
as along the bumper strips in
keeping with the shrubbery plant
ings at the original C&S parking
lot.
THREE FROM JACKSON ON
MGC DEAN’S LIST
COCHRAN, GA.—Dr. Joseph
P. Vidosic, Dean of Middle Geor
gia College, has announced that
three students from Jackson made
the Dean’s List for the Fall Quar
ter.
To attain the Dean’s List, a
student must attain an average
of 3.2 or better.
Students carrying a full aca
demic load (15 quarter hours)
who made the Dean’s List are:
Pamela Ann Cawthon, Deborah
Ann Crowder, James Miller Free
man.
Commissioners Made Many
Improvements To Courthouse
David Estes
Wins WSB
News Award
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DAVID E. ESTES
David E. Estes, Director of
Special Collections at Emory Uni
versity’s Robert W. Woodruff
Library, was honored by WSB
Radio on November 12th by being
presented the 750 Award as the
outstanding name in the news re
ported on WSB Five Star Fin
al.
Mr. Estes, son of Mr. and Mrs.
D. D. Estes of Jackson, was re
cently elected president of the
Georgia Library Association, suc
ceeding Miss Jean Cochran, Di
rector of the Augusta Public
Library. Mr. Estes will serve for
a two year term 1969-71.
A member of Emory’s library
staff since 1946, Mr. Estes has
long been active in the Georgia
and in the American Library As
sociation. He was program
chairman of the recent Atlanta
conference of the Georgia Li
brary Association and is a mem
ber of the Executive Council of
the American Library Associ
ation.
An alumnus of Berry College,
he received his degree in Libra
rianship at Emory and later
earned a Master’s Degree in Po
litical Science at Emory.
Undefeated In Two Seasons
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UNDEFEATED EIGHTH GRADE TEAM- -Jackson boasts one of the top teams in
the state in its age group in the Jackson Junior High Red Devil football team,
coached this year by Jimmy Hardy and Bub Ridgway, which posted a 9-0 record in ’69
and an 8-0 record in ’6B when the team was coached by Jimmy Hardy and Harold Smith.
Members of the ’69 team, from left to right, front row, are: Jimmy Fogg, Mark Maddox,
Dennis Morgan, Neil Rosser, Billy Duke, Mike Peck, Mike McDowell, Billy Reasor,
Jody Marchman, Randy Usher. Standing, left to right, Terry Moore, Joe Norton, Darrell
Summers, David Griffin, Zack Perkinson, Scott Taylor, Andy Crumbley, Darrell Mc-
Dowell. Front, manager, Mike “Cricket” Waits. In back, Jimmy Hardy, left; Bub
Ridgway, right. ,
The present Board of Commis
sioners, Dan Fears, chairman,
Dave W. Bailey and Hammond
Barnes, members, during 1969
have made many repairs and im
provements upon the Butts Coun
ty Courthouse, with probably the
most notable being the renovation
of the basement into 2700 square
feet of office space.
There are five separate and
complete new offices in the base
ment and two completely new
restrooms in the basement.
After the first of the year the
office for the County Board of
Commissioners will be located in
the basement as well as the Coun
ty Agriculture, Stabilization and
Conservation office. The office
for the County Selective Service
will be moved from upstairs to
the main floor in the courthouse
where the present commissioners
office is located.
Cost of these improvements is
less than $17,000.
A complete statement by the
commissioners reveals the work
done on the courthouse in recent
months. The statement is as fol
lows:
“During the year now ending
the present Board of the Butts
County Board of Commissioners
have made many repairs and im
provements upon the county
courthouse. Some of these repairs
and improvements are.
“1. Each office located up
stairs has been remodeled. The
stair steps have been repaired.
There’s been an office completely
remodeled for the Superior Court
Judge. There has been an office
remodeled for the District At
torney. New office furniture has
been and is being provided for
these two offices, as well as for
the other offices upstairs.
“2. Many of the floors to the
offices located on the main floor
of the courthouse have been re
paired and remodeled. All office
furniture in the courthouse has
been remodeled and is in excel
lent condition.
3. The basement to the court
house has been completely re
worked and remodeled. There is
now located in the basement of
the courthouse approximately
2700 square feet of modern of
fice space. There are five (5) sep
i arate and complete new offices in
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i the basement. There has been
$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
constructed two (2) complete new
bathrooms in the basement. The
plumbing for the bathroom fa
cilities for the entire courthouse
has been reworked, and is now
in excellent working order. A
complete new modern electric
wiling system for the basement
has been installed and is now
complete with a modern system
of fluorescent lights. Complete
new floors have been construc
ted and covered with vinyl tile.
The passage-way, or stair steps
leading to the basement from up
stairs has been completely re
worked, and remodeled. The heat
ng system of the courthouse is
in good working order. The fur
nace has been repaired. New mod
ern entrance doors have been in
stalled at the front entrance of
the basement. The walk-way of
the front entrance to the base
ment has been covered with in
laid broken tile.
“4. Five bath rooms have been
remodeled, or completely con
structed in the courthouse, with
complete new bath room fixtures
and plumbing.
“Beginning Jan. Ist, 1970 the
following change in offices will
go into effect in the courthouse:
“1. The office for the County
Board of Commissioners will be
located in the courthouse base
ment.
“2. County Agriculture Stabili
zation and Conservation Office
will be located in the courthouse
basement.
“3. The office for the County’s
Selective Service Board will be
located on the main floor in the
courthouse where the present of
fice of the Board of Commission
ers is located.
“Many more improvements
have been made upon the county
courthouse. The total cost of
every improvement for the year
ending, as well as for all office
furniture has been at a cost of
less than $17,000. The records
and vouchers for the payment of
these repairs and improvements
are on file with the Clerk of the
County Board of Commissioners.
They are available for any citi
zen of County to see and
inspect.
“Every one is invited to visit
the county courthouse during the
week of December 30th to see
these improvements.”