The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, August 27, 1970, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textjlarltsmt Brogress-Argus VOL. 97 —NO. 35 Grand Jury Presentments For August Term Court We, the Grand Jury sworn and enpanelled for the August 1970 Term, Butts Superior Court, make the following presentments in open court. The Grand Jury, in organizing, elected Mr. O. L. Weaver, Jr. Foreman; Mr. Stanley R. Maddox, Clerk and Mr. Thomas Freeman, Assistant Clerk, and Mr. Carter Moore, Bailiff. We wish to express our special word of appreciation to the Rev. Moody, Pastor of Pepperton Bap tist Church, for his inspiring opening prayer. We wish to thank The Honor able Hugh D. Sosebee, Judge, for his able charge and for the dignified and orderly manner in which he conducts our Superior Court. We further wish to thank our District Attorney, The Honorable Edward E. McGarity, and his staff for his counsel and assist ance. We also wish to thank Mr. Carter Moore, our Bailiff, and other court officials for their competent services. We wish to commend the Butts County Commissioners for their able operations of the county government and for their partic ular interest in and the contin uing improvement of the court house property. We also wish to commend the Sheriff’s Department for their diligence of duty in the enforce ment of the law in our county. We recommed that our legis lator present a bill to the legisla ture in effect to bus school stu dents that live iy2 miles, or less, to the public schools. We recommend that the Sher iff’s Department make diligent ef fort to enforce the laws pertain ing to the carrying of concealed weapons and to the narcotic and drug abuse laws. We recommend that the Coun ty Commissioners support the James H. Wallace Memorial Park in financial assistance since we feel like the youth of our coun ty is the most important asset that we have. We recommend that the Coun ty Commissioners employ addi tional help and equipment in order to work with the Butts County Sheriff’s Department due to the rapid growth of our coun ty. We recommend that the Coun ty Commissioners reimburse the City of Jackson for firemen’s salaries and operations expenses of City fire equipment that is used in relationship to any county fire outside the City Limits. We recommed that the County and City of Jackson officials seek to obtain a second entrance to the Benton and Mallet Street area, one that cannot be blocked by a train. This is a second re quest for this action. We recommend that the Mc- Intosh Trail Commission review the area zone plans that were adopted by the City and County Zoning Commission. We recommend that these pre sentments be published in our local county newspaper. Respectfully submitted, O. L. WEAVER, Jr., Foreman STANLEY R. MADDOX, Clerk Received in Open Court and ordered filed and published. This the 19th day of August, 1970. HUGH D. SOSEBEE Judge Butts Superior Court Flint Judicial Circuit Filed in Open Court, this 19th day of August, 1970. DAVID P. RIDGEWAY Butts Superior Court REGGIE COMER RECEIVES MASTERS In graduation exercises at the University of Georgia on Friday morning, August 21st, Reginald L. Comer, formerly of Jackson, received his Masters of Educa tion degree. His major of study is French. Reggie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. L. Comer of Jackson. Benson Ham Delegate To Bar Meeting __ TfDiiamar- J,<^^ $11111? JHk Benson Ham, delegate to the Board of Governors from the Flint Circuit, attended the Quar terly Meeting at St. Simons Island on Friday, August 21. The Board of Governors adopted a budget of approximately One Hundred Seventy Thousand Dol lars for the next fiscal year for the operation of the State Bar of Georgia. Committee reports were given by all committees and it was an nounced that the state had allo cated funds for the Georgia In digent Legal Services Program. Mr. Ham was accompanied by his wife, Elsie. Nazarene Selected Delegates The pastor and a large dele gation of members from the Church of the Nazarene i n this area will take part in the annual assembly of the Georgia district to be held at the Nazarene church in Warner Robins, Thurs day and Friday, September 3-4. Delegates from the Jackson Church of the Nazarene will be Mrs. H. L. Elliott, Mrs. Max Perdue and Mrs. B. H. Ring. Dele gates from the local church will not spend the night but will drive to and from Warner Robins both days. Rev. Billy Ring, pas tor, will be present the entire week. A highlight of the convention will be the report to be given by Rev. Jack Lee, district su perintendent, who will be making his first address as a district su perintendent. The presiding officer will be Dr. Samuel Young of Kansas City, Mo., who is the senior gen eral superintendent in the de nomination. He has served con tinuously in the highest elective position since 1948. Two Inmates Escape From Prison Center Two white prisoners, listed by an official at the Georgia Diag nostic and Classification Center as Joe Gresham, Jr. of Spalding County, and Roy Miller of Ful ton County, escaped on foot from an outside work detail about two o’clock Tuesday afternoon. Local blood hounds were brought to the scene and trailed the men until about midnight when they lost the scent in an area above the intersection of State Route 16 and 1-75. The two men were working at the sewage disposal plant when the escape was made. 4 Qualify In City Primary As of Wednesday noon four candidates had qualified for three posts in the City Primary of October 2nd. A likely hotly contested race has developed for mayor between C. B. Brown Jr., incumbent, who qualified August 14th and Harold Martin, member of the City Council from the first ward, who qualified Saturday afternoon, August 22nd. C. M. Daniel, Jr., incumbent councilman from the second ward also qualified August 14th with W. O. Ball, incumbent council man from the third ward, quali fying Tuesday, August 25th. Candidates have until twelve o’clock noon on Saturday, Sep tember 12th, to qualify with Frank Forehand, secretary of the Democratic Executive Committee, under whose jurisdiction and rules the city primary will be held. Candidates for mayor will be assessed SIOO, with the fee for councilman S6O. Levi Ball, chairman of the City of Jackson Democratic Ex ecutive Committee, said that rules and regulations adopted by the party called for a majority vote of a winning candidate and that those receiving a majority will have their names placed on the general election ballot which will be held On November 4th under the auspices of the City of Jackson. If a run off primary is required, Mr. Ball said that the date set by the committee is Oc tober 16th or two weeks follow ing the primary. Polls in Jackson will open at seven o’clock and close at seven p. m. Members of the Executive Commitee will meet at ten o’- clock Saturday, October 3rd, when the official results shall be declared and published. Chairman Ball said that as cus tomary no provisions have been made for absentee ballots and that no write-in votes will be counted in the October 2nd pri mary. Lay Mission Witnesses Be Heard Here “A NEW THING” is being planned for the First Baptist Church of Jackson, for the week end of August 28-30. A Lay Wit ness Mission Revival will be held beginning with a covered dish supper Friday evening at 6:30 and going through Sunday, Aug ust 30. This is anew venture in which a revival is led by laymen and laywomen from all over the state. It is under the direction of Hoyt Warren, a postal employee from Thomaston. Other members of the team are men, women and teen-agers. After the supper Friday night the next session will be held in the main sanctuary at eight o’- clock. Then On Saturday morning at ten, prayer coffees and Coke for the youth have been set up in various parts of the city. The team members will be the break fast guests of the Baptist Broth erhood Sunday morning, and will have charge of the morning ser vice. Two Attended State 4-H Congress Last week two Butts County 4-H’ers attended 4-H State Con gress at the Dinkier Plaza in At lanta. There were many banquets sponsored by businesses and con cerns who support 4-H Club work. Janice Cook gave a demonstra tion on “You and Your Check book” in the project Money Is A Tool. Perry Ridgeway gave a demonstration on “Dodder Con trol” in his project, Agronomy— Crop and Weed Study. Perry pla ced 2nd in the state. THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 1970 JHS Gridders Face New Foes in 3-AA Jackson High School gridders are hard at work preparing for their toughest schedule in Red and Black annals, made so by the change in classification from a B school to Region 3-AA West. This new classification means that Coach Loy Hutcheson will have to face for the first time this year such grid powers as Woodward Academy, Headland and Russell as well as such other newcomers as Briarwood, Morgan County, Rockdale County and La mar County. In fact of the ten games this fall, Jackson will face only three schools they have for merly played, these being Harris County, Fayette County and Henry County. In a story in the Atlanta Con stitution by sports writer Charles McCord, Coach Hutcheson said that in Bruce Hicks, Jackson has a back that rates among the best in the state. Bruce, 5-9 and 165, has played first string for three years lettering as a freshman. Bruce runs the 100 in a shade above 10 flat and has tremendous strength and balance. In fact Coach Hutcheson compares his running style to that of Brent Cunningham of Putnam High School and Geoigia Tech, a great tribute to the Jackson back. A1 Gilbert 6-0, 165, has the inside post at quarterback with Robert Griffin 5-10, 160, full back, and Steve Fletcher 5-10, 160, flanker rounding out the JHS backfield. If the opening game were tomorrow, James Brown 5-11, 180, and Nat Thurman 6-3, 175, would probably start at end. In the interior line, Steve Bennett 6-0, 200, and Billy Glidewell 6-1, 225, are fixtures at tackle. Of Glidewell Hutcheson said, “he’s starting for the fourth year and is the best tackle I’ve ever coach ed. He’s a real leader, aggressive and just plain physically tough.” Johnny Varner 5-10, 180, and Tommy Fletcher 5-9, 170, are a pair of senior guards who give Jackson experience and quality line play. Tommy Herbert 6-1, 198, is the center and brings strength to the center of the line. Members of the JHS squad at tended football camp at the FFA Camp on Jackson Lake, leaving Saturday and returning Wednes day night, August 26th. Among those attending camp were A1 Gilbert, Charlie Howell, Curtis Taylor, Robert Myrick, Steve Jones, Robert Henderson, Willie Joe Goodrum, Bruce Hicks, Ran dy Freeman, George Brown, Rob ert Griffin, James Brown, Steve Fletcher, Jeff English, Tommy Herbert, Auze Dozer, Tim Wood, Billy Woodward, Don McKibben, Kenny Smith, Tommy. Fletcher, Newton Maddox, Joe Tyus, Hozie Folds, Johnny Var ner, Wally Jenkins, Steve Ben nett, Billy Glidewell, Eugene My ricks, Nat Thurman, Calvin White, Jerry Respass, Steve Barnes, and Darrell Summers. The 1970 JHS football sched ule is as follows: Sept. 11—Harris Cos., Away Sept. I.B—Fayette Cos., Away Sept. 25—Woodward, Home Oct. 2—Headland, Away Oct. 9—Briarwood, Home Oct. 16—Henry Cos., Home Oct. 23—Morgan Cos., Away Oct. 30—Rockdale Cos., Away Nov. 6 —Lamar Cos., Home Nov. 13—Russeli, Away. Mercer Extension School Begins Term Sept. 3rd The fall semester of the Mer cer Extension School will begin Thursday, September 3rd, at the First Baptist Church with classes each evening for 15 weeks from 7 to 9 p. m. Mrs. James B. Moore will teach a course in Basic English for adults while Rev. R. W. Jenkins will teach the Epistles of John. These studies will be for pastors, Sunday School teachers, church workers, and all who would like JACKSON. GEORGIA 30233 New Voting Procedure Be Used in State Primary Benson Ham Spoke To Kiwanians Phillip Benson Ham, candidate for Representative from the 33rd District in the Stkte Pri mary of September 9th, told Jackson Kiwanians Tuesday night that the free enterprise system i n America is the most effective the world has ever known, and that the production capacity of the United States is two and on'- half times that of the Soviet Un ion. The speaker was presented by the Business and Public Af fairs Committee with Doyle Jones Jr., chairman, introducing Mr. Ham. Mr. Ham said thaf our free price economy will work well only if it rests on certain foundations. He enumerated these as a stable flow of money income, reasonable competition among buyers and sel lers, and free access to profit and job opportunity. The speaker said that monopolistic organizations are an obstacle to the effective operation of the free price sys tem. Mr. Ham said that action must be take n to improve th e position of the farmer in our free enter prise system. Today a farmer gets only 2.8 cents for the corn in a 30c box of corn flakes; 59c for each One Dollar spent for choice beef; 3.5 c for the wheat in a 22c loaf of bread; 23c for the cotton in a man’s $4.00 busi ness shirt; and 25c for each SI.OO worth of pine grown in his woods. In 1957 the farmer got 30c out of every dollar spent for fats and oil; today he gets only 26c. In 1957 he got 25c for every dollar spent on fruits and vege tables. Today he gets 26c; only a penny increase in over ten years. In 1957 he got 21c out of all products produced for use in bakery and cereal goods; to day he gets 19c. In business of the club, Denny O’Neal, Ralph Carr, Jr. and Francis Holland were elected delegates to the State Kiwanis Convention in Macon in Septem ber, with C. L. Sanvidge, J. W. O’Neal Sr., and Levi Ball elected alternates. David Black was elec ted second vice president to suc ceed Doug Gibson, resigned. An interclub delegation from the Forsyth Kiwanis Club accom panied the speaker and included Dr. Kenneth Morris, Franklin Freeman, Lamar Russell and Dr. Clifford Burgess. Ben Watkins of El Paso, Texas was a guest of his nephew, Richard Watkins, Jr. to learn more about God’s Holy Word, and to brush up o n their English. The school is sponsored by Mercer University and the Kimbell Baptist Association. The total cost to enroll is $5 for the complete 15 weeks, plus the text books. For further in formation contact Miss Dorothy Thomas, 775-7669, or Rev. S. H. Odom, 775-7917. Piano Dedicated At County Line Church Aug. 16 On Sunday, August 16th, 109 years from the original date of founding, County Line Baptist Church, near Jenkinsburg, was prerented a beautiful new Wur litzer piano by Mr::. Zadie Kim bell Greer. Mrs. Greer is the great granddaughter of Rev. John T. Kimbell, founder of the church and also of the Kimbell Baptist Association. The dedication service was held the same date with an inscribed plaque placed in the ganctuary. The plaque read as follows, “In memory of the Reverend John T. Kimbell great grandfather. James Gideon Kimbell her grandfather. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Pittman Kimbell her father and mother. Aug 16, 1970, the 109th anni versary. This piano given by Zadie Kimbell Greer.” At the dedication service the pastor, Rev. Franklin McWhirter, read his text from the 135 year old Bible used by Rev. Kimbell when he preached his first ser mon in the church 109 years ago. Following the dedication service lunch was served on the church grounds. Rita Smith Learns Of Wildlife BY RITA SMITH The 1970 4-H Conservation Camp was held at Camp Wahsega near Dahlonega on August 10-14. Rita Smith, accompanied by Miss Peggy Holland, Butts County Home Economist, who assisted with the camp, attended from Butts County. All the districts in the state attended this camp and classes were held daily in subjects such as Game Management, Ecology, Wildlife Diseases, and Parasites, Archery, Fish Pond Management, Fishing and Fishing Equipment, Hunting Safety, Snakes of Geor gia, Making Casts of Animal Tracks, Animal Damage Control, and how plants are useful to wild life. The girls attended a class in Careers that are open to women in the wildlife field and how women can help conserve. Other events of the week were a Markmanship Show, sliding down Wahsega Falls, Recreation and Vespers programs at night and many friends made. The week ended with a test on Thursday with prizes going to the persons with the highest scores. Sponsors for the camp were Sears-Roebuck Foundation, the Federal Cartridge Corporation, and the Cooperative Extension Service. $5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE New voting procedures will be inaugurated at the State Primary on September 9th, according to Luther J. Washington, Butts County Ordinary, under whose jurisdiction the primary will be conducted. Mr. Washington said that if present tentative plans are car ried through, the East and West doors to the Courthouse will be locked, with voters asked to enter the Courthouse by the South en trance. There, the names will be checked and the aisle roped off according to a division alphabeti cally. Voters will then proceed toward the center of the Court house where they will go either to the East or West corridor to cast their ballots in voting booths which will be placed along the walls. After voting is completed, all persons will be asked to exit from the building by the North corridor. Mr. Washington explained that this system will be tried this year because the usual voting rooms of county officers do not afford enough space and, because of new election laws, voting is ex pected to be in one single place if space and facilities can be provided. Ordinary Washington had pre viously stated that there would be only one voting place in the Jackson-Pepperton precinct under new state election laws and that it would be in the Courthouse. Also only one voting site will be provided in the Flovilla-Indian Springs District and that will be in Flovilla. According to Mr. Washington, all other precincts will have the usual voting place. Polls in Butts County for the primary will open at 7 a. m. and will remain open until 7 p. m. Horse Show, Frolic Set In Eatonton EATONTON —, An evening Horse Show and Frolic will be held at the 4-H Rodeo Grounds here Saturday, Aug. 29. This is the last in a series of four shows, sponsored by the Putnam County 4-H Horse Com mittee with the help of the Eaton ton-Putnam Recreation Depart ment held during the spring and summer months. The program is scheduled to get underway at 7 p. m. with 16 classes. Admission is SI.OO for adults and 50 cents for children. Participants will not be charged for admission. Classes include open halter, Appaloosa halter, showmanship at halter, adult and youth pole bending, three Western pleasure classifications, open pleasure, English pleasure, a pick up and arena race, adult and youth bar rel racing, calf roping and a wild cow milking contest. Trophies, money and ribbons will be awarded and $25 is offer ed to high-point rider of the show. The 4-H Rodeo Arena is located behind the VFW Club on the Monticello Highway. Can you guess ? Can you guess how many horses there ar e in Spald ing, Lamar, Pike, Fayette, Butts and Henry Counties? Turn to page 2 and you can see if your guess is right. (Bet it isn’t, though.)