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Uniforms To
Be Turned In
On Saturday
Ail boys that still have foot
ball uniforms from one of the
Van Deventer football teams are
requested to please turn them in
at the Van Deventer Youth Cen
ter on College Street, Saturday,
January 10, from 9:00 a. m. to
12:00 noon.
You may purchase your same
jersey for two dollars and a pic
ture of your team for one dollar.
Cheerleaders may also pet a pic
ture of their cheerleading team
on Saturday, Jan. 10, from 9 a.
m. to 12:00 noon at the Van De
venter Youth Center for one dol
lar each.
Please turn your uniform in on
Saturday, Jan. 10, from 9:00 a.
m. to 12:00 noon.
PERSONA L
Mr. and Mrs. Riley Thaxton
and children, Joni, Tim, and Bill,
left Saturday for Chambersburg,
Pa. where they will be for the
next two months.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Jones Jr.
visited Saturday evening with
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Musser in
Griffin. Friends of Mrs. Musser
regret to learn that she is con
fined to her home with an attack
of arthritis.
CONSOLIDATED REPORT OF CONDITION OF
Mclntosh State Bank
OF JACKSON IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA AND DOMESTIC
SUBSIDIARIES AT THE CLOSE OF BUSINESS
ON DECEMBER 31, 1969.
ASSETS
Cash and due from banks (including $53,104.28
unposted debits) $ 411,285.30
U. S. Treasury securities 356,365.62
Securities of other U. S. Government agencies
and corporations 505,171.88
Obligations of States and political subdivisions 111,837.39
Federal funds sold and securities purchased under
agreements to resell 250,000.00
Other loans 2,759,189.10
Bank premises, furniture and fixtures, and other
assets representing bank premises 93,098.22
Other assets 17,241.80
TOTAL ASSETS $4,504,179.33
LIABILITIES
Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and
corporations $1,092,221.21
Time and savings deposits of individuals, partnerships,
and corporations 2,084,780.84
Deposits of United States Government 224,505.26
Deposits of States and political subdivisions 304,607.46
Certified and officers’ checks, etc. 5,508.83
TOTAL DEPOSITS $3,711,689.00
(a) Total demand deposits $1,404,621.12
(b) Total time and savings deposits $2,307,068.48
Other liabilities 345,069.70
TOTAL LIABILITIES $4,056,759.30
RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES
Reserve for bad debt losses on loans (set up pursuant
to Internal Revenue Service rulings) 38,038.27
TOTAL RESERVES ON LOANS AND SECURITIES $ 38,038.27
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Equity capital, total $ 409,381.76
Common stock—total par value 250,000.00
(No. shares authorized 25,000)
(No. shares outstanding 25,000)
Surplus 100,000.00
Undivided profits 69,381.76
TOTAL CAPITAL ACCOUNTS ? 409,381.76
TOTAL LIABILITIES, RESERVES, AND
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS $4,504,179.33
I, CL Alton Colwell, of the above-named bank, do solemnly affirm
that this report of condition is true and correct, to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
G. ALTON COLWELL
Correct —Attest:
H. Wayne Barnes, E. M. McCord, Henry L. Asbury, Directors
State of Georgia, County of Butts, ss:
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 6th day of January, 1970,
and I hereby certify that 1 am not an officer or director of this bank.
MARTHA C. PULLIAM. Notary Public.
My commission expires April 6, 1970.
Ralph Carr Jr.
Reviews
Kiwanis Work
Ralph Carr Jr. was program
chairman at the Tuesday night
meeting of the Jackson Kiwanis
Club and presented a resume of
the club achievements during the
past quarter from reports sub
mitted by committee chairmen.
Mr. Carr praised the club for
undertaking so many worthwhile
projects, particularly citing the
club for its attendance record
which has seen the Jackson club
in the top ten clubs in the state
in attendance during 23 of 24
months. Mr. Carr called attention
to the fact that on Tuesday night
41 of 48 members were present
on a particularly bad night
weather wise.
Joe Hopper was sung a musical
Happy Birthday on a belated
natal date. Malcolm Brenner was
a guest of the club.
PERSONAL
Mrs. Bertha Black of Bearing
was a guest last Thursday night
of Mr, and Mrs. Morris Williams.
Mrs. F. A. Holston has re
turned home from a visit in Pan
ama City, Fla. with Mr. and Mrs.
F. R. Welch and family and in
Montgomery, Alabama with Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Post.
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Newt of 10 Year* Ago
Rogers Starr, Sr. was installed
as president of the Jackson Ki
wanis Club by Thomas J. Brown
Jr., of McDonough, Lieutenant
Governor of the 12th Division.
The lovely home of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. O’Neal on East Col
lege Street was almost completely
destroyed by a stubborn fire
Monday night.
A fire alarm that sounded
shortly after midnight in Locust
Grove set in motion a chain of
tragic circumstances that led to
the death of Mrs. Zella Wilder,
45, of Locust Grove, who was
fatally injured when the car she
was driving rammed into the side
of a Southbound passenger train.
The Jackson High Debaters
placed third in the district tour
ney at West Georgia College
Thursday. Debaters for the af
firmative team were Ben Garland
and Charles Campbell, while de
baters for the negative were
Angeline Sims and Donnie Faulk
ner.
An argument over a can of
tobacco about four o’clock Sun
day morning resulted in the death
of Henry Wise, well known Negro
carpenter, from a pistol wound
near the heart at the hand of
Charlie Watts, Negro, also of
Butts County.
New* of 20 Year* Ago
Wayne Barnes was installed as
president of the Jackson Ex
change Club at a Ladies Night
meeting Tuesday.
Sheriff J. D. Pope has been ap
pointed by Governor Herman Tal
madge as a member of the State
Game and Fish Commission.
The City of Jackson faces the
new year with confidence and on
the first day of 1950 the out
standing bonded debt is only $15,-
000.
Ralph Carr Sr. was installed
as president of the Jackson Ki
wanis Club Tuesday night by B.
B. Garland, Lieutenant Governor
of the ninth division.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Cooper
held open house December 31st
frow two to four o’clock in ob
servance of their fiftieth wedding
anniversary.
New* of 30 Year* Ago
Election of Elwyn Patrick, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Patrick
and graduate of Mercer Universi
ty, as principal of Tussahaw Con
solidated School has been an
nounced by the County Board of
Education .
Fire, the origin of which is un
known, detected between ten and
eleven o’clock Friday night, dam
aged the Pepperton Store, com
missary of the Pepperton Cotton
Mills, considerably before being
brought under control.
County police will be dispensed
with after the first of February
according to a report of the Butts
County Board of Roads and Rev
enues at the monthly meeting
Tuesday.
Eight persons met death on the
highways of Butts County during
1939, an examination of records
reveals. This is an increase of
two over the preceding year.
Sunday’s ice and sleet storm
caused an estimated SSOO damage
to the lines of the Central Geor
gia Electric Membership Corpo
ration and interrupted service in
some counties as much as a day,
E. I. Carruthers, superintendent
of the CGEMC, announced Wed
nesday.
Newt of 40 Year* Ago
Walter B. Roper was installed
as new president of the Jackson
Kiwanis Club at the Tuesday
night meeting.
Following an illness of only a
few days during which he suf
fered from a complication of dis
eases, Mr. Augustas R. Jones, 52,
died at his home in Pepperton Fri
day afternoon at four o’clock.
Following a week’s illness of
double pneumonia Mrs. L. J.
Washington, one of the county’s
most promient and widely be
loved women, passed away at her
home in Worthville Wednesday
night at six o’clock.
Of cordial interest to a wide
circle of friends was the marriage
of Miss Sara Wright and Mr. A.
F. Hammond which took place in
Forsyth on Christmas Day. The
ceremony was performed by
Judge G. W. Newton.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Homemaker's
Corner
BY PEGGY HOLLAND
County Extension Home
Economist
the C&S Bank of Jackson. All
presidents and vice-presidents of
clubs in the county are asked to
attend.
The Butts County Home Eco
nomics Club will meet January
13, Tuesday night, 7:30 p. m. in
the Jackson High School Home
Economics Lab.
CARE NEEDED
Conditions inside the home
during the winter are anything
but ideal for indoor plants, ac
cording to Troy Keeble, horti
culturist with the University of
Georgia Cooperative Extension
Service. Warm temperative, low
humidity and reduced light pre
vail in most homes. Be sure to
check these plants frequently for
soil moisture.
PERSONAL
Dr. and Mrs. C. F. Sessions
and Miss Kathie Stanik of At
lanta, Miss Katherine Sessions of
Charleston, S. C., Mrs. C. C.
Sheppard of Conyers, Mrs. Berley
Shealey Sr. of Hampton, S. C.
and Mr. and Mrs. Berley Shealey
of Decatur were the guests of
Misses Jessie and Mary Sessions
during the Christmas holidays.
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Banks
ton had as their guests on New
Year’s Eve for dinner Mrs. Bur
ford Watkins of Forest Park, Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Palmer of Rex,
J. Loran Cash of Ellenwood,
Michael Botts of Ellenwood and
Mr. and Mrs. Porter Ham.
Mrs. J. J. Williamson of At
lanta visited Mr. and Mrs. Gor
don Bankston last Sunday.
Mrs. Maude Watkins, Mrs. Han
nah Cook, Mrs. Thelma Eberhart
of McDonough and Mrs. Jack
Meadows of Jacksonville, Florida
spent New Year’s Day with Mr.
and Mrs. Mercer Hodges.
Mr. and Mrs, H. E. Freeman
had as their supper guests Sat
urday night Mr. and Mrs. Joe
Baker of Macon, Mr. and Mrs. W.
H. Kitchens, Roy and Henry and
SP/4 William J. Kitchens of
Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Rev. and Mrs. Billy Glover and
Tina, of Owensboro, Kentucky,
and Mrs. Ofa Glover, arrived
Tuesday for a visit of several
days with Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Weaver and Miss Willene W'eav-
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Warner of
Valdosta are visiting Mrs. W. T.
Feely.
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wilder
have returned to Arkansas after
spending two weeks with Mr. and
Mrs. Barney Wilder and Mrs.
Clyde Walker.
Mr. and Mrs. Bennie Thurston
of Griffin spent New Year’s Day
with Mrs. T. P. Thurston.
Mr. and Mrs. C. K. Silas of
Jacksonville, Florida spent the
weekend with Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Stevens and Miss Kiki
Carmichael.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients at Sylvan Grove Hos
pital during the week of Decem
ber 31 to January 7 include:
Mrs. Margarey McCoy, Mrs.
Ida Coker, Sallie Meredith, Am
burs Abner, Mrs. Evelyn Hodges,
Mack Finney, Mrs. Flor ri e
O’Neal, Mrs. Effie Pinnell, T. L.
Silas, Miss Mary Newton, Clar
ence Whiten.
Cornelius Smith 111, Mrs. Irene
Bevil, H. R. Cochran. Bennie H.
Moss, Ronnie Howard, Bryant
Williamson. Otis E. Tyre, Pauline
H. Tyre, C- M. Ledford.
Lillie Morgan, Jesse Byars,
Verneal Fish and baby boy, Mary
Henderson, Betty Wilkes.
Southern
Railway Pays
$28,343 Taxes
Southern Railway has paid to
Butts County, Ga., a total of
$28,343 in 1969 ad valorem
taxes for itself and a subsidiary,
the Citico Realty Company.
Figures for 1968 show that
the total taxes paid by the rail
road in Georgia reached $4,031,-
288. Last year, Southern Railway
employed 7,255 people in the
state whose 1968 payroll topped
$53,700,000. The railroad’s total
purchases and other payments in
Georgia during the year amount
ed to .$54,822,960. Southern ope
rates 2,813 miles of road in the
state.
The Butts
County Home
E conomics
Council Meet
ing will be held
Friday, Jan
uary 9, at 2:00
p. m. in the
Civic Room of
JACKSON DRIVER
HITS STUDENT AT
LOCUST GROVE
A fifth grade student at Shoal
Creek Elementary School in Lo
cust Grove was injured on his
way to school Monday morning
when hit by a car in Locust
Grove.
Ricky Johnson, 10, was admit
ted to the Griffin-Spalding Coun
ty Hospital shortly before nine
o’clock with head and possible
internal injuries. He was listed
in fair condition Tuesday morn
ing.
Details of the accident were
not readily available at the Grif
fin State Patrol post but it was
reported that the driver of the
car that struck the young boy was
Charlie Grier, of Route 1, Jack
son.
DORNER CARMICHAEL ON
GEORGIA DEAN’S LIST
Miss Dorner Lee Carmichael,
406 Woodland Way, Jackson, has
been named to the Dean’s List of
the College of Arts and Sciences
for the Fall Quarter, 1969, at the
University of Georgia.
Miss Carmichael was so in
formed by a letter to her from
H. Boyd McWhorter, Dean. Miss
Carmichael is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M'. W. Carmichael
of Jackson.
"The Hen's Nest"
North Mulberry Street, Behind Jackson Hardware
PHONE 775-2544
DRIVE-IN BUSINESS
Shop From The Convenience Of Your Car
Specials For The Week-End
3 Doz. Grade A Large Eggs. . .$2.10
3 Doz. Grade A Jumbo Egg5...52.10
With a Purchase of Eggs
1 Gal. Sweetmilk sl.lO
All Prices Include Tax
On Purchase of 3 Doz. Eggs and 1 Gallon Milk
You Save 60c
jiMrainsiiKißiuiiwwiaiiiiMaraHnialiHiHMaiik
All Eggs Produced in Lamar and Upson County
Delivered Fresh Daily
GRIFFIN TECH,
CGEMC SPONSOR
ELECTRIC COURSE
Griffin Tech and Central
Georgia Electric Membership Cor
poration are offering another
course in electricity. Electrical
Technology II starts at 7:00 p.
m., January 15. The class will
meet Tuesday and Thursday
nights at Central Georgia Elec
tric Membership Corporation.
This course is a continuation of
Electrical Technology I which was
offered previously. Persons in
terested in enrolling should have
completed Electrical Technology
I or the equivalent.
For more information contact
Griffin Tech or Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corporation.
PERSONAL
Mrs. George D. Head has just
returned from a visit with her
brother, F. M. Curry, and Mrs.
Curry in Orlando, Florida.
On New Year’s Day Mr. and
Mrs. J. O. Harrison had as their
guests Ricky Tierce and Mr. and
Mrs. David Whatley of Griffin.
Last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. J.
W. Pelt of Griffin and Mr.
Claude Gossett of Macon visited
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Harrison.
Mrs. J. J. Harris had as her
guests Christmas Cpl. Jim Watts
of the Marines, stationed at
Charleston and Miss Holly Watts
of Milledgeville.
Boys in Service
Friends of Sgt. Jimmy R. Bar
field, USAF, stationed in Übon,
Thailand, will be interested to
learn that he was promoted to
Sergeant on January Ist. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. E.
Barfield of Jackson and in a re
cent letter to his parents wrote
that he was one of 29 service men
from 1,400 selected to attend the
Bob Hope Show in Viet Nam. He
also said he had the opportuni
ty of shaking hands with Neil
Armstrong, one of the Astro
nauts. Sgt. Barfield has been in
service approximately two years.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8, 1970
Georgia Trucks
Pay S4B Million
In Road Rental
Trucks are now paying a S4B
million-a-year rental fee for use
of Georgia highways, latest fig
ures show.
Statistics released by the Geor
gia Motor Trucking Association
show that in 1968 truck owners
paid $47,953,000 in state “high
way-user” taxes in Georgia, rep
resenting license tag fees and
state motor fuel taxes, chiefly.
The truck payment represent
ed 28.2 percent of the $169,992,-
000 paid by all motor vehicles.
Trucks licensed in Georgia to
taled 429,122, or 18.4 percent of
the grand total of 2,331,516 mo
tor vehicles, GMTA’s figures
showed.
GMTA pointed out that the
truck highway-user tax payment
nearly doubled the $25 million
highway maintenance expenditure
in Georgia in 1968.
PERSONAL
Spending the day on Tuesday
with Mrs. J. J. Harris were Mr.
and Mrs. Billy Turner of McDon
ough, Mrs. Walter Mitchell and
Bill, Mrs. Ed Jones, Will and
Lucy of Atlanta.
Capt. and Mrs. Joseph Bubenik
of Fayetteville have purchased a
cottage on Jackson Lake.
WANTED
Female Receptionist,
21 - 35, high school
graduate, some typ
ing.
Apply in person to
Rogers Starr,
Georgia Diagnostic
& Classification
Center,
Jackson, Ga. 30233.