The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, July 16, 1970, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textjfarksott Brngress-Argits VOL. 97 —NO. 29 Bloodmobile Visit Monday Has Quota Of 112 Pints Butts countians will be asked to perform the always difficult task of contributing 112 points of blood in July at the first visit of the new fiscal year of the re gional bloodmobile to Jackson on Monday, July 20. John B. Long, blood recruit ment chairman for the Butts County Chapter, American Red Cross, reflected this week on past difficulties in obtaining the quo ta during the Summer visit and laughingly observed, “I don’t know what’s the matter with July but we traditionally have trouble with our quotas at the Summer visit. One thing is the schools are not in session. Many people are away on vacations and occu pied in out-of-door activities. These, plus other factors, gen erally work against us at this time of the year.” However, Mr. Long pointed out that the county is in excellent standing as far as the blood program is con cerned. A deficit was made up at the March 16th visit with 121 pints collected. Mr. Long announced that the bloodmobile will be headquartered at the National Guard Armory on Franklin Street with the usual hours of from 1 to 6 p. m. to prevail. The Jackson Business and Professional Women’s Club, as sisted by other volunteer work ers, will staff the visit. Mr. Long said it is incumbent upon county citizens to reach or exceed the quota, else the county will be placed on probation with the deficit to be made up at the next visit in the Fall. If the county were to fail on two con secutive visits to achieve the quo ta, in all probability the county would be placed on a credit card system which would allow free whole blood to donors and their immediate families only. Others not covered under this system would have to purchase blood at the prevailing price of from $25 to $35 per pint. The bloodmobile has long been endorsed by Butts County civic clubs, the Butts County Minis terial Association and member churches, the business world, civic leaders and by other organiza tions. Mr. Long pointed out that the county usually uses more blood than it collects and that as long as the county maintains its eligibility all persons are cov ered. W C. Barr Wins $1,300 On Brave Homer W. C. Earr has probably never met Braves Outfielder Tony Gon zalez in person, but that’s prob ably his utmost ambition since Gonzalez hit a fifth inning, 2-run homer Sunday afternoon against the Cincinnati Reds at the stadi um to put the Braves in a tem porary 5-4 lead. What made Gonzalez homer especially appealing to Mr. Barr is that he was batting for him in the Braves Home Run for the Money game. As the ball streaked into left field seats, it meant $1,300 to Mr. Barr who re sides on the Monticello Highway. Th e Reds scored two runs in the eighth inning to edge the Braves 6-5. REGISTER TO VOTE Joye Adams Won Firsts in Horse Show JOYE ADAMS AND JOY BELL Miss Joye Adams, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Adams, of Route 4, Jackson, took part in the Griffin Horse Show Saturday and exhibited her fine horseman ship by winning two firsts, a sec ond and a third in the various events. The show was sponsored by the Flint River Saddle Club. Miss Adams rode a horse, Joy Bell, owned by George Gilmore as she amassed her winning points. Joye confesses that horses are the love of her life and that she owns three, all quarter horses. She is presently raising a horse, Mr. John, which will make his debut in the show ring next year. Mr. John will be two years old in August with his dam being a race horse, Miss Judge. Another fa vorite of Joye’s is Misty, also a quarter horse. The accomplished equestrienne has been riding three years and during the last two years has won 26 ribbons, 9 firsts, 6 seconds, 9 thirds, 1 fourth, 1 fifth and 7 trophies. Only 13 years old, Joye will be in the eighth grade in the school term upcoming in Septem ber. She has three sisters and one brother. White Store At Stark Burglarized Bold burglars, believed pro fessionals, cut through the roof of the Lloyd White Store at Stark Thursday morning, July 9th, broke into the safe and made away with over S3OO in cash, a large amount which was in silver. Mr. White said that neighbors heard several dogs barking vio lently about two o’clock Thursday morning, the time the burglary is believed to have taken place. The burglars gained entry through the roof by using a brace and bit and boring a hole in the top. They finished entry through a door in the ceiling that was used to let hot air out in the summer and for getting in the top of the store. Once inside the burglars broke into the safe by using a pick, drill and a heavy hammer which allowed them to punch the lock off the safe. Mr. White said that among the items taken were S3OO in cash, 60 cartons of cigarettes, a pistol, a blackjack, three or four flashlights, a carton of flash- by JULY 20th Th is Voter Registration Campaign Is Sponsored by the Jackson Kiwanis Club Plans Made For Sale Appliances Plans for the up-coming New, Used, Bent and Bruised Appliance Sale were discussed and final ized Monday night, July 13th, at a dealer dinner meeting at the Central Georgia Electric Member ship Corporation’s headquarters building at 7:30 o’clock. The annual event, the first being held last year, has been scheduled for Friday and Satur day, September 4th and sth, at the National Guard Armory in Jackson with five dealers to par ticipate. These include Polk Tire Company, Hodges Hardware & Furniture, Jackson Mobile Homes, O’Neal Mobile Homes, all of Jackson; and Cain’s of Griffin. Mrs. Elizabeth H. Watkins, member services director of the Central Georgia EMC, presided, explaining that the three parti cipating dealers last year sold a total of $33,000 in appliances during the sale and the two weeks following. Mrs. Watkins called on Billy Furr, representing the W. D. Alexander Company of Atlanta, who explained the ob jectives of the sale and helped finalize plans for advertising and publicity. M. L. Hodges, Jr. of Hodges Hardware & Furniture, and Gerald Davis of Polk Tire Company were named to head the committee drawing up ads and commercials for the advertising program. R. F. Armstrong, Co op manager, told of the role the Co-op will play in the sales event. Many door prizes will be given and other special events will be a part of the sale, with some to be announced later. About 30 guests were invited to the meeting which was catered by Mrs. Helen Holsomback of The Bonnie Restaurant. DR. Z. T. JOHNSON WILL PREACH HERE JULY 26th Dr. Z. T. Johnson, president emeritus of Asbury College, Wil more, Ky., and widely known lo cally through his activities at the Indian Springs Holiness Camp Ground, will preach at the Jack son Presbyterian Church at the morning worship service on Sun day, July 26th. The service be gins at 11:15. For a long number of years Dr. Johnson led the Bible Study in the tabernacle and has been widely praised for his knowledge of the Bible. Dr. Johnson is also author of a book entitled “His tory of Indian Springs Camp Ground.” He and his wife have been at the camp ground since May. Doyle Jones Jr. is making ar rangements for Dr. Johnson’s ap pearance. light batteries and some canned goods. The Butts County Sheriff’s Department and the Georgia Bu reau of Investigation are looking into the case. Watson Vaughn, Jackson Police Chief, is also in vestigating to see if anything is related to the recent robbery of Redman Seed Company. GBI Agent Howard Bray said he be lieved it was the job of profes sionals because of the way the safe was opened. THURSDAY, JULY 16, 1970 improvements Made At Camp Ground Indian Springs Camp Ground officials are preparing for large crowds this August. Practically every room and apartment has been reserved, and many visitors are expected. Improvements sre being made Dodge Memorial building has been re-wired, and extra bath rooms built. Two buildings have been ceiled and made more com fortable. The holding pond for the disposal system has been puri fied and emptied. This was com pleted last year, and proved to be adequate to care for the sew age. Gravel roads have been built in the trailer and camping area, making room for about 50 trail ers and campers. Electricity and sewage are in this area. Two boys under the direction of Dr. Z. T. Johnson are cleaning all buildings, and hauling leaves and fallen trees and tree limbs. The whole campus is being mowed and made attractive. The roofs of the tabernacle, the hotel, and the book store have been painted. Several cottage holders have also had their roofs painted. Mrs. C. E. Rooks Sr. is de veloping a beautiful flower gar den in the center of the grounds where the two large buildings burned a couple of years ago. Seven houses have been sold by the Board of Trustees since last camp meeting and they are be ing repaired to be used this year. The Camp opens Thursday, August 6, with Dt. Jimmy Lentz, Vice President of the World Gos pel Mission, preaching. The other evangelists are Dr. John Church of North Carolina, and Dr. Rob ert Coleman of Asbury Seminary. Clay Milby is the song lader. An outstanding program has been planned for the Youth, with Dr. Kenneth Kinghorn of Asbury Seminary as Bible teacher, and Phil Jones, of Simpsonville, S. C., preaching. Bud Beadle, of Orlan do, Florida is the youth song leader. Thursday, August 13th, is Butts County recognition day with spe cial program at 8 p. m. Visitors will find a well run cafeteria for their benefit, with Mr. Hovis as Dietitian, and Archie Ross, of Flovilla, as Chef. Kiwanis Radio Day T uesday Final plans for Kiwanis Radio Day on Tuesday, July 21st, are being made by hard working Ki wanians who will turn broadcas ters for the day. It is the Kiwanis Club’s single most important fund raising project, one in which the entire membership of the club takes part, some selling ads over Radio Station WJGA, preparing copy and then eventually broad casting over the station for the day beginning at 6 a. m. and ex tending to 10 p. m. Ralph Carr, Jr. was program chairman Tuesday night and com pared the military and naval power of the Soviet Union and the United States with America on the short end of many cate gories. Mr. Carr especially stressed the wide superiority that Russia is gaining in inter-conti nental missiles and in defense systems against missiles. He quo ted latest figures from national magazines showing that Russia has some 800 missile launching JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233 Voters Asked To Approve $500,000 In School Bonds : ? IHr V - ■ 4 Wjg. A TVr Mme? \ PERU BOUND —Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Holston and family will leave August 3rd for missionary work in Peru. Pictured above, from left to right, are Dr. Francis M. Holston, Mrs. Fran Holston, Lee Holston. Standing, left to right, Lynn, Joe and Jane Holston. Boy Killed When Truck Overturns A panel truck containing four passengers from Madison over turned about noon Monday on the Monticello Highway about six miles East of Jackson, throwing all occupants out and rolling on to Daniel R. Walker, 7, killing him almost instantly. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Sylvan Grove Hospital by a Jackson physician who re ported he suffered a massive skull fracture and fractures of both legs. The light panel truck was traveling East on Route 16 when Mrs. Raymond R. Walker, driver, and mother of the victim, lost control when she ran off the shoulder and attempted to cut back sharply. The truck over turned just east of King’s Gro cery and Bait Shop, throwing all occupants onto the pavement with the truck falling on the young victim and fatally injuring him. Other passengers in the truck, in addition to the victim and his mother, were Steven Walker, 10, a brother, and Ellen Walker, 3, a sister. An eye witness to the tragedy said that it appeared that Mrs. Walker had almost gained con trol of the vehicle when the brakes locked, probably causing the car to turn over near the middle of the pavement which had recently been resurfaced. It was reported that the family had visited friends at the group camp at Indian Springs State Park and were enroute home when the accident occurred. The mishap was investigated by the Butts County Sheriff’s office and the Georgia State Pa trol. sites and a missile capable of carrying 25 million tons of ex plosives. Statistics revealed that the Soviet has 64 ABM sites de ployed around Moscow while the United States has no ABM’s ope rational. All in all Mr. Carr, a retired Army officer, painted a rather gloomy picture of the United States attempting to keep up with Russia’s armed might. Guests were Irvin Webb of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Rev. Donald Gray, pastor of th e Jack son United Methodist Church. Holstons To Depart Peru On August 3rd Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Holston, formerly of Jackson, will depart for Peru for medical work with Wycliffe Bible Translators, Inc. on Aug. 3. The Holston’s depar ture for the field came after they completed an extensive training program which included linguistics studies at the Summer Institute of Linguistics, Norman, Oklahoma, and a six months pro gram at Jungle Camp in southern Mexico. Dr. Holston was in private practice for seven years in Jack son before becoming affiliated with the Wycliffe Bible Transla tors. Wycliffe Bible Translators work among 400 tribes reduc ing unwritten languages to writ ing and translate the Bible into these languages. A large mem bership of support personnel be hind the scenes assist translators in their task of reaching the iso lated tribes of the world with God’s word. Wycliffe Bible Translators be gan work in Peru in 1945, short ly after co-founder William Cameron Townsend signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education in that country. The barrier of the jungle had turned away many efforts in the past. Working in cooperation with the Peruvian government, a bilingual school program is in full opera tion, training Indians as teachers and sending them back to the jungle to teach their own people to read and write. The Wycliffe jungle base at Yarinacocha is the radio and airplane communica tions center for 33 tribal loca tions. Twenty-four tribes now have access to published scrip tures. The last tribe to be reached, the savage Mayorunas, was entered this spring. On Sunday evening, July 19, the First Baptist Church will hold a Commissioning Service for Dr. Holston and Mrs. Holston at which time the church commends and approves the Wycliffe mem bers and they in turn pledge themselves to the service of the Lord. It is hoped that a repre sentative of the Wycliffe Trans lators will be present also for the service. The public is cordially invited to attend this service at 8:00 p. m. Sunday, July 19th. Register in Tax Collector's Office, Courthouse, And At City Hall. $5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Butts County voters will be asked to approve a $500,000 bond election on August 18th with the bonds to be used for the purpose of providing funds to pay the cost of acquiring, constructing and equipping school buildings in the Butts County School district. Attention is herewith called to the legal advertisement in this issue which contains in detail the notice of the bond election. The election is called by the Butts County Board of Education, Rufus Adams president and mem bers, Frank McMichael, Harry Ridgeway, Sims Crawford and Albert Maddox. Butts County School Superin tendent William B. Jones in com menting on the bond election said this week, “The State De partment of Education has a policy that is followed in alloca ting capital outlay funds of local school systems. In essence it states that before a school sys tem can be eligible for State Cap ital outlay grants, it must first have outstanding capital outlay debt obligations in an amount suf ficient enough to require at least a one mill levy for the retirement of this debt. Currently the tax levy in Butts County designated to pay off outstanding school bond indebtedness amounts to % mill. This fact of course keeps us from being eligible for any further state capital outlay grant funds. “In the event this referendum pusses, about 85% of these funds will be used to construct badly needed classroom spaces. The remainder will be used for ren ovation of the existing build ings.” Voters in each militia district will be able to cast their ballots in their respective districts with the polls over the entire county to be open from 7 a. m. to 7 p. m. All persons qualified to vote in the general election and only those registered and qualified to vote in said election will be al lowed to vote in this election. No Inquest In Death Of Negro Man No inquest was ruled necessary by Butts County Coroner John Sherrell in the death Saturday afternoon of Ed Ward, 56, Negro man, who dropped dead from the result of an apparent heart at tack at a house on Cemetery Street. Investigation was made by the Jackson Police Department, the Butts County Sheriff’s Depart ment and Coroner Sherrell. Mr. Sherrell said that Mr. Ward had been walking and talking with friends on the street and in the yard and appeared in his accus tomed health when he entered the house and was standing talk ing to friends when the fatal seizure occurred. The residence in which he died was almost di rectly across the street from Howard Funeral Home. He was rushed by ambulance to Sylvan Grove Hospital where he was pro nounced dead on arrival. Coroner Sherrell stated that he and law officers were satisfied that death resulted from a heart attack.