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IT’S THIS WAY
BY DOYLE JONES JR.
Jest of the Week: The inexperienced speaker stood up to speak,
hut was suddenly speechless. The huge audience dazed him. As he
stammered and stuttered, a voice from the rear shouted, “Tell ’em
all you know, Bill. It won’t take long.”
“I’ll tell ’em all we both know,” he shouted as his voice returned.
“It won’t take any longer.”
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A BELATED NEW YEAR’S WISH
For those of a philosophical bent we invite your attention to
this beautiful prose and th*e thoughts it so indelibly expresses. You
may wish to clip it, as did the writer, and accord it a prominent place
in your scrap book.
THESE GIFTS
These gifts I wish for you in the coming year:
The gift of work: I wish for you the absorbing, useful and re
warding work, for there is no tragedy so great as the knowledge of
one's own uselessness.
The gift of believing: I wish for you the gift of believing that
men and women are basically good, that they wish to be so and
remain so; that people do not really want crime, immorality, cor
ruption in government and anarchy here in the United States, and
that properly motivated they will do something about it.
The gift of love: I wish for you the gift of love, because the
love of family and friends and the love of people brings the only true
happiness, along with life’s inevitable sorrows.
The gift of peace: I wish you the tfift of peace of mind and
peace of heart, which bring contentment and above all, peace on earth
to men of good will.
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NOTICE
We respectfully ask that residents of Jenkins
burg please do not use the city cutoffs to cut
their water off, because if these should be
broken we would have no way to cut the water
off.
If you have a cutoff, please use it or call the
Water Department to cut your water off. Again
we stress the importance of not using the city
cutoff.
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BUTTS COUNTY AND
CITY OF JACKSON
Guest Editorial
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
FACTS HEAVILY FAVOR
SOUTH ATLANTA AIRPORT
Delay of as much as three weeks in deciding where
Atlanta’s second airport will be located is an excel
lent idea, particularly since most of the top airline
officials seem determined to override all opposition
and stick the airport north of Atlanta near Alpha
retta.
Macon and Middle Georgia, which stand to gain
tremendously if the Henry County site southeast of
Atlanta near Locust Grove is picked, have no say-so
in the selection.
But vast numbers of Georgians in our area who
would use the facility have a right to wonder why
the major airlines are so insistent on the Alpharetta
site. (One of the big airlines, United, has not gone
along with the others.)
Yesterday Bibb Rep. Carr Dod
son, Monroe Rep. Harold Clarke
and Spalding Rep. Quimby Mel
ton Jr. offered a resolution, as
the General Assembly convened,
to seek an authoritative investi
gation of the airlines’ selection of
Alpharetta. Sen. Oliver Bateman
of Macon plans to follow suit in
the state senate.
Well the matter might be in
vestigated. An independent site
survey team found the Henry
County location to be preferable
to three others in the running,
including Alpharetta.
The southern site, which is flat
ter than the hilly terrain north
of Atlanta, would be much cheap
er to buy and develop. Relatively
few people would be displaced.
Henry County leaders want the
airport, whereas the citizens of
Alpharetta area are up in arms
about being chosen.
Moreover, with Atlanta’s al
most impossible north-south traf
fic problem, transfer of passen
gers, luggage and cargo would
be extremely difficult.
Airline employees favor the
southern location.
In fact, just about everyone
does except the heads of the air
lines.
Delay of two or three weeks in
making a final decision will give
time for both sides to review
their argument and, hopefully,
avoid making a mistake running
far into the hundreds of millions
of dollars.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Barnes
and Rev. and Mrs. Gene Howard
were dinner guests Sunday of Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Williams.
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Williams
and David of Moultrie spent the
weekend with relatives in Butts
County.
Mr. and.Mrs. James E. Thomp
son, Jim, Tim and Curt of Colum
bus spent the weekend with Mr.
and Mrs. R. E. Mabry.
Mrs. R. C. Riley Sr. and Mrs.
E. R. Edwards Jr. visited Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Davis and Mr. and Mrs.
Warren Hudderston in Locust
Grove Sunday.
Jackson
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WEEKEND
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Moelchert
and son, Homer ‘ Chip” Moel
chert, spent the weekend in Mars
Hill, North Carolina, as guests of
another son, Louie Moelchert,
Mrs. Moelchert and Louis 111.
The Moelcherts reported much
snow and ice on their trip and
had to attempt several routes be
fore reaching Asheville and then
Mars Hill. They left Friday with
hazardous driving warnings for
all of north Georgia, North Caro
lina and Tennessee.
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Garland and
Mr. and Mrs. Byrd Garland of
Athens, were dinner guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Ben Garland in Macon
Sunday.
Friends of Mrs. D. D. Estes re
gret to learn that she was ad
mitted to Emory University Hos
pital Sunday in serious condition
and that she is under the care of
a heart and lung specialist.
Nearly two thousand years ago
a lowly Nazarene told a story
about people like these modern
day searchers for freedom. This
Nazarene said there was a young
man who came to his father, de
manded his share of the estate
while he was young enough to en
joy it. The father gave in to his
wish, for the boy had the right
to the money. Soon the young
man had packed his bags and
headed for another country. He
was tired of all the old restraints
and restrictions of his society. He
was tired of people telling him
that he couldn’t do what he had
the right to do. What he wanted
was freedom. And as he walked
down that dusty road away from
the father he felt this freedom
in his soul. He was free at last,
free to do as he pleased. There
was no longer anyone to cram
any religious doctrine down his
throat. Finally, he found what he
had searched for all his life—
freedom!
Story Continues
But the Carpenter didn’t end
the story there. Many of you re
member it. He said that before
long to young man’s money was
gone, and with it went his free
dom. He had to go to work, to
give up his freedom in order to
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‘Whatsoever Things’
BY DONALD E. WILDMON
WHAT IS FREEDOM?
Freedom. Millions are in search of it. They
want what our constitution guarantees them.
Freedom of speech, freedom of expression, free
dom of the press. And they are taking these rights
of theirs, these freedoms, for they are tired of be
ing enslaved by the society around them.
Want Their Rights
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Have we ever thought through this word free
dom? What do we mean by it? How does one give an explanation of
freedom? Just what does it mean to be free? Our world is full of
people now who have, they think, found the definition to the word.
Tired of all the old restraints and restrictions, they are exercising
their freedom. They fill the stands full of pornography and smut
because they have freedom of the press, a right guaranteed them
by the constitution. They are on the warpath to get any mention
of a Higher Power out of our official society because the freedom
of religion guarantees them this right. And the list could go on
and on, people who are exercising their rights to get away from the
old restraints and restrictions, to gain freedom.
survive. The best job he could
get was feeding the pigs. Finally,
amid all the filth, the young man
came to his senses. He got up and
went home to seek his father’s
permission to work as one of the
hired hands on the family farm.
He was willing to take the lowest
place in his old slavery rather
than the highest position in his
new freedom.
What is freedom? Well, never
make the mistake of thinking that
freedom is a matter of rights. It
isn’t. It is a matter of right. There
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JANUARY 31, 1970
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JACKSON CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
THURSDAY, JAN. 29, 1970
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Kermit Williams
and Keith were Sunday visitors of
Mr. and Mrs. B. 0. Williamson.
Mrs. Champ S. Vance of Grif
fin was the weekend guest of Mr.
and Mrs. H. M. Fletcher at their
home on East Third Street.
Mr. and Mrs. John Chiappetta
and daughter, Angelyn, moved to
Jackson over the weekend from
Gainesville to take up residence
at Route 3. The new family j s
being welcomed to the communi
ty-
Mr. and Mrs. Cary V. Kelly of
Norcross spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. C. E. Daniel.
is no freedom except spiritual
freedom. And no man can become
free until he has become a slave
to something higher and greater
than himself.
Freedom? Somehow I have an
idea that those who are crying
out the loudest for the freedom
to do as they pleased will one day
come to themselves. For the more
they get of what they want, the
less they will want of what they
get.
“Make us captives, Lord, and
then we shall be free.”—FlVE
STAR.
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