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VOL. 97—NO. 47
lloodmobile Coming Nov. 23rd
Ifith 120 Pints Set As Quota
The Fall visit of the regional
Bioodmobile is scheduled for Jack
mi on Monday, November 23rd,
with the county assigned a quota
of 120 pints, according to John
E. Long, blood recruitment chair
man for Butts County.
Mr. Long said this week that
the quota includes an 8-pint
deficit from the last visit which
lias been added to the regular
quota of 112 pints.
The National Guard Armory on
Franklin Street will be the site
for the Bioodmobile with the cus
tomary hours of 1 to 6 p. m. to
be observed. As usual, members
of the Jackson Business & Pro
fessional Women’s Club and other
voluntary workers will staff the
visit with local merchants do
nating food, drinks and other sup
plies to be used in the canteen.
Mr. Long expressed confidence
that the visit Monday would be
a successful one, stating that “we
usually achieve our quota at the
Fall visit when school is in ses
sion, people are at home and
through with their vacations, and
usually feeling better with the
advent of colder weather.” Chair
man Long pointed out that usual
ly the Summer visit causes the
most trouble in meeting the
quota because of so many peo
ple being away for vacation peri
ods, plus the fact that the schools
are not in session, from which
source a large number of donors
are usually accepted.
Mr. Long explained that if
the quota is not reached, the
county will in all probability be
placed on probation with the
deficit to be added to the next
visit of the Bioodmobile in the
early Spring. If the quota is not
achieved on this visit, Mr. Long
said that it would be a grave
possibility that the county would
lose its eligibility for free whole
blood and would be placed on a
credit card system whereby only
the immediate families of donors
would be covered under the blood
program. Mr. Long was quick to
point out that such a credit card
system would work financial
hardships on many families who
being denied free whole blood
would have to purchase blood at
prevailing prices, generally from
$25 to $35 a pint.
Mr. Long said that a recent
change in regulations now per
mits an 18-year-old to give blood
without parental consent. He ex
plained that formerly it was
necessary for a person in this
age group to obtain a parental
release from a parent or guardian
before blood could be accepted.
Chairman Long also pointed
out that since the last visit of
the Bloodmobile here county pa
tients have used approximately
90 pints of blood which needs to
be replaced by families and
friends of those who received it.
The appearance of the Blood- 1
mobile in Jackson has long been
endorsed by local doctors and the
Butts County Ministerial Associ
ation with all civic and service
clubs lending their assistance and
approval. Mr. Long said posters
have been placed in store win
dows around town and in indus
tries calling attention to the
' loodmobile next Monday.
ELISABETH FREEMAN IS
FRATERNITY SWEETHEART
Miss Elisabeth Freeman, a
ophomore at Reinhardt College
*n Rome, was chosen as sweet
eart of Sigma Theta Pi, a local
raternity on campus, recently.
Miss Freeman is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Freeman
°f Indian Springs Street in Jack
n and is a graduate of Jackson
Migh School.
EASTERN star will
meet NOVEMBER 27th
Jephtha Chapter No. 252 will
old their regular meeting Fri
day night, November 27th, at 8
clock. All members are asked to
ting gifts for a pantry shower
for the O.E.S. home.
Two Murder
Cases Heard
At Last Court
Two homicide cases were heard
at the November term of Butts
Superior Court with verdicts of
guilty in both with the defendants
both receiving life sentences.
The November term of court
was concluded last Thursday for
jurors when they were excused
for the remainder of the term by
Superior Court Judge Hugh D.
Sosebee of the Flint Judicial
Circuit. Other court matters were
considered Friday.
David P. Ridgeway, Clerk of
Butts Superior Court, made avail
able the list of cases heard during
the criminal week of court. It is
as follows:
Sidney Fletcher Fincher, Pub
lic Drunk, Plea of Guilty, 6
months or pay fine of $75.00.
Willie Lewis Roberts, Non-
Support, Plea of Guilty, 12
months suspended on payment of
$6.00 per week support and pay
fine of $50.00.
Ulyses Thurman, Driving Un
der Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months suspended on payment of
fine of $150.00 and Driver’s li
cense suspended for 30 days.
Charles Respress, Driving Un
der Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months suspended on payment of
fine of $150.00 and Driver’s Li
cense suspended for 30 days.
John Henry Taylor, Driving
Under Influence, Plea of Guilty,
12 months suspended on payment
of fine of $150.00 and Driver’s
license suspended for 30 days.
Albert Taylor, Driving Under
Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months suspended on payment of
fine of $150.00 and Driver’s li
cense suspended for 30 days.
Orlando Collins, Driving Under
Influence, Plea of Guilty, 12
months suspended on payment of
fine of $150.00 and Driver’s li
cense suspended for 30 days.
Charlie Robert Evans, Driving
Under Influence, Plea of Guilty,
12 months suspended on payment
of fine of $150.00 and Driver’s
license suspended for 30 days.
John L. Ball, Possessing Exces
sive Amount of Tax Paid Liquor,
Plea of Guilty, 12 months pro
bated of payment of fine of
$250.00.
Walter Gay, Jr., Murder, Ver
dict of Guilty, Life in Prison.
Charlie F. White, Murder, Ver
dict of Guilty, Life in Prison.
Marion Head, Aggravated As
sault, Verdict of Guilty of Simple
Assault, 12 months.
Roosevelt Williams, Robbery,
Plea of Guilty, 12 years.
Union Service
Be Held At
Thanksgiving
The Second Baptist Church of
Jackson will be the host church
at the annual Union Thanksgiv
ing Service on Wednesday night,
November 25th, at 7:30 o’clock.
The Union Service, usually
widely attended by Butts Coun
tians of all faiths, is sponsored
by the Butts County Ministerial
Association with ministers of the
county taking part on the pro
gram. It is announced by Rev.
R. W. Jenkins, pastor of the
Macedonia Baptist Church, presi
dent of the Ministerial Associ
ation, that Rev. Jimmy Landrum,
pastor of the Pleasant Grove Con
gregational Methodist Church,
will be the speaker for the eve
ning and in addition will have
charge of the music.
The Union Service is held at
a different county c-hurch each
year and is interdenominational
in its appeal with people of all
faiths joining together to give
thanks to God for his bountiful
mercy at the Thanksgiving sea
son.
Melba Price
Has Nursing
Scholarship
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MELBA PRICE
Melba Price of Jackson has re
ceived a scholarship to study
nursing through the student aid
program of the State Scholarship
Commission of Georgia.
Don Payton is executive di
rector of the commission, and
Dr. Carey T. Vinzant of Monroe
County is the State Scholarship
Commission board member from
the Sixth Congressional District.
A graduate of Jackson High
School, Miss Price will attend
Georgia Baptist School of Nurs
ing. She is the daughter of the
Rev. and Mrs. A. L. Price.
The State Scholarship Com
mission administers state funds
appropriated by the Legislature.
Residents of Georgia may receive
scholarships for vocational, col
lege or post-graduate fields in
which an acute shortage of skilled
personnel exists. Recipients re
pay the scholarship by working
in these critical fields in Georgia.
Yule Lights
Go On At
Thanksgiving
Jackson’s Christmas decora
tions will be put up within the
next several days and will be
energized about dusk on Thanks
giving afternoon, thus officially
marking the beginning of the
Christmas shopping season in the
city.
Jackson Mayor C. B. Brown Jr.
said this week that the same
decorations will be used again
during the forthcoming Yule Sea
son. Mr. Brown said that finan
cial exigencies of the past several
months have made it virtually im
possible for the City Council to
see their way clear to add addi
tional decorations at this time.
The decorations within the city
of the past several years have
been praised by local residents
and tourist alike as making Jack
son one of the most attractively
decorated and lighted small towns
in the state, a fact pleasing
to the Mayor and Council and to
heads and employees of the de
partments responsible for placing
the decorations.
PTO Group
Will Meet
Nov. 19th
The Butts County Parent
Teacher Organization will hold its
regularly scheduled monthly
meeting on Thursday, November
19, at 7:30 in the Jackson High
School Auditorium.
Steve Jett, Minister of Music
at the First Baptist Church, will
be in charge of the program. Also
to be distributed at the meeting
will be the Stuckey candy which
will be the PTO’s first money
making project.
THURSDAY, NOV. 19, 1970
Over 360 To
Attend
Frosh Game
Approximately 362 children
and adults will board six school
busses about noon Thanksgiving
morning and will travel to Atlam
ta where they will be guests of
Hampton Daughtry, founder of
the Van Deventer Memorial Scout
Foundation, at the annual Tech-
Georgia Freshman football game
at Grant field.
William Mack Davis, Van De
venter Youth Director, said that
the tickets to the game are be
ing made available through the
generosity of Mr. Daughtry and
that an appeal made recently
through local news media for vol
unteer adult chaperones met
with unqualified success.
Mr. Davis said that the bene
ficiaries of Mr. Daughtry’s phi
lanthropy will be the players of
both the Van Deventer and Hen
derson Pee Wee teams as well
as the players of the Hamp
Daughtry League, children from
all teams and approximately 65
to 70 adults who will supervise
Ihe trip.
Present plans call for the
busses to leave about noon
Thanksgiving with the busses to
go directly to parking areas
near the stadium. Mr. Davis said
that those planning to attend the
game are asked to meet at the
youth center at 11:30. An attempt
will be made, Mr. Davis said, to
obtain regular bus drivers for
the trip. The party is expected
to be back in Jackson by 6:30
o’clock, according to Mr. Davis.
Mr. Davis said that to the best
of his knowledge this is the sev
enth or eighth year the trip has
been made to the annual Fresh
man game which is considered a
classic of its kind in the United
States with crowds of 35,000 to
40,000 present when the contest
is favored with good weather.
Lay Witness
Revival Set
By Methodists
A Lay Witness Revival will be
held at the Jackson United Meth
odist Church on November 20,
21 and 22. The revival will begin
with a meal at 6:30 o’clock on
the 20th and the first service
will be held at 7:30 p. m. and
continue each evening at the
same time through Sunday.
Fred Harris, a layman from
Cartersville is coordinator of the
revival.
The Lay Witness Revival is
sponsored by the Board of Evan
gelism of the United Methodist
Churches and is being held in all
protestant churches throughout
the country.
The public is cordially invited
to attend these services. A nurs
ery will be provided for small
children.
First Ice
Of Season
Tuesday
The first ice and large frost
of the season descended on the
local area Tuesday morning when
temperatures in Jackson and its
environs fell to the 26-30 degree
mark. At Indian Springs, the
county’s ice box, the mercury
plunged to 22 degrees.
A cold front moved across the
Southeast Saturday and Sunday
with temperatures cold enough
Monday morning to have slight
traces of ice reported by some
residents, but Tuesday left no
doubt as temperatures fell well
below freezing in the Middle
Georgia area. A heavy frost fell
Monday night, covering areas
with a white mantle that resem
bled a light snowfall.
There were reports of some
hog killings Monday and Tuesday,
an almost certain sign that win
ter is almost upon us.
JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233
HENRY CO. SELECTED
AS SITE FOR AIRPORT
Gala Events
Planned On
Youth Day
Many gala events are being
planned for Youth Day on Satur
day, November 21st, with a three
p. m. parade through downtown
Jackson one of the highlights and
with the day’s activities to be
climaxed by the all-star football
games beginning at 6:30 o’clock
at James H. Wallace Memorial
Park.
Joining in the parade will be
the Jackson High School Band,
the Boy Scouts, members of the
football teams and cheerleaders,
contestants vieing for queen of
the Pee Wee League and contest
ants for queen of the Hamp
Daughtry League, and others.
William Mack Davis, Van De
venter Youth Director, said that
the all-star games will feature the
Pee Wee stars against Barnesville
with the game to begin at 6:30
o’clock. At the intermission be
tween this game and the next on
the agenda between the Hamp
Daughtry all-stars and Lawrence
ville, the queens for 1970 will be
crowned. At the conclusion of the
second game the television set
will be awarded to a lucky ticket
holder.
Mr. Davis said that the queen
contestants include th e following:
Pee Wee League: Lynne Duke,
Byars, Ltd.; Rhonda Hutcheson,
Etheridge-Smith Cos.; Traci e
Smith, Jackson Progress-Argus;
Trina Smith, Jackson Drug Cos.
Queens representing the Hamp
Daughtry League include:
Jackie Burford, Taylor’s Hor
nets; Kathy Butler, Brown’s Ti
gers; Tanzie Norsworthy, Mcln
tosh State Bank; Diane Duke,
Settle & Robison.
Queen contestants in the Hen
derson Youth League include
Marion Smith, Jackson Hardware
Cos.; Karen Head, Gateway Lug
gage of Georgia, Inc., Jacqueline
Andrews, American Mills; Valerie
Irene Benton, Kym Cos.
Mr. Davis said that each girl
represents her team and from
these girls one queen will be
chosen. Each league will have a
queen who will be crowned by
last year’s queens who were Lin
dy Mackey, Little Miss Pee Wee
and Tandi Williamson, Little
Miss Hamp Daughtry.
Chamber
Dinner
Tonight
The annual dinner of the Butts
County Chamber of Commerce
will be held tonight at seven
o’clock at the Jackson Club
house.
According to David Ridgeway,
chamber president, there will be
two directors elected for a three
year term and one director elec
ted for a one year term to fill
the unexpired term of Henry L.
Asbury. Mr. Ridgeway said that
there is also a proposal for two
changes in the bylaws to be voted
on.
The Hon. Phillip Benson Ham,
of Forsyth, representative-elect
of the 33rd district, will be the
speaker for the occasion.
Mr. Ridgeway said that a nomi
nating committee has offered the
names of Alton Colwell, Ran
dolph Long, Bob Jackson, and
Porter Cawthon as nominees for
the two year terms and that the
names of Luke Weaver and L. W.
Moelchert have been submitted
for the unexpired term of Henry
Asbury. Mr. Ridgeway explained
that nominations may also be
made from the floor for both
the full and unexpired terms.
Heart Attack
Was Fatal To
E. Clay Mi Iby
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CLAY MILBY
E. Clay Milby, popular and
widely known song evangelist at
the Indian Springs Campground
for a number of years, died Wed
nesday, November 11th, in a Val
dosta hospital following a heart
attack suffered the previous
Friday.
Mr. Milby, 63, was a resident
of Valdosta where he had lived
for 22 years and was widely
known throughout the southeast
where he had directed the sing
ing in many churches and camp
grounds. He was a Methodist and
had served for a long number of
years as a song leader.
Mr. Milby was a native of Tal
lulah, Illinois.
Funeral services were conduc
ted Friday, November 13th, at
four p. m. from the Valdosta
First United Methodist Church
with burial in Sunset Hill Ceme
tery.
Mr. Milby is survived by his
widow, the former Iva Wright;
and a daughter, Mrs. T. It. Bent
ley of Grissom Air Force Base,
Indiana.
Owner JHS
Ring Is
Identified
Ownership of the missing Jack
son High School ring by a mem
ber of the Class of 1923 was
established last week through the
cooperation of Radio Station
WJGA and the Jackson Progress-
Argus.
An article was carried in the
paper telling of a woman, Mrs.
Boyd Jackson of Route 1, Bald
win, Ga., having possession of a
1923 ladies ring. The original
article was noted in the Gaines
ville paper by an aunt of Mrs.
Lou Moelchert who sent the clip
ping to her. After the account
was published in the local paper,
Johnny Smolka of the WJGA
staff obtained the names of the
1923 graduating class from the
files of the Progress-Argus.
Through his efforts it was de
termined that the ring found in
Gainesville belonged to Miss Ed
rie Lyle Edwards, now deceased,
the step-daughter of Mrs. R. R.
Edwards of 427 West Avenue,
Jackson. Mrs. Edwards said that
her step-daughter died a number
of years ago and she has no idea
how her ring came to be in that
area of Georgia.
Mr. Smolka called Mrs. Jackson
in Baldwin and she told him that
a girl at work gave her the ring
and told her that she had had
it for two or three years. The
ring is being sent to Mrs. Ed
wards as she has no mementoes
of her step-daughter and would
like very much to have the ring.
$5.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
Events have moved at a rapid
pace since Atlanta Mayor Sam
Massell announced Friday after
noon that Henry County had
been chosen as the site for At
lanta’s second airport. Th e lo
cation of the second airport south
of Atlanta hinges on Federal ap
proval and financing. Mayor Mas
sell said that the committee
studying the location of the sec
ond facility had unanimously
recommended the Henry County
site after a “thorough” investi
gation of all the alternatives.
Mayor Massell estimated the
cost of the Henry County plan
would be between S2O and $25
million.
The Atlanta Mayor said the
Federal Government will be asked
to approve the Henry County
site for air safety and to insure
there will be no danger of dam
aging the environment. Mayor
Massell said the go ahead signal
for the airport should be forth
coming within “a few months”
and that he hopes work can be
gin on the facility “during my
administration.”
In event the Henry plan falls
through, Mayor Massell said an
alternate site in Dawson County,
a considerable distance north of
Atlanta, has been obtained from
the Lockheed Corporation. The
cost of the Dawson site would be
about $5 million.
The Board of Atlanta Aider
men voted unanimously Monday
in favor of the proposed location
in Henry County. Vice Mayor
Maynard Jackson termed the ac
tion as a “historic vote” with the
aldermen voting 15-0 to request
Federal Aviation Administration
approval of the location south
of Atlanta. The aldermen also
voted to ask the airlines for com
mitments to finance the new air
port but Delta Air Lines has
opposed the location while East
ern Air Lines has said it will co
operate. The two airlines handle
about 80 percent of the traffic to
the present airport.
In a map published in an At
lanta paper of Saturday, Novem
ber 14th, showing the proposed
site of the airport favored by
Mayor Massell and the Atlanta
Board of Aldermen, it was noted
that portions of the new airport
would extend over into Butts
County in at least four areas.
1-75 Mishap
Injures Two
Two persons were injured and
a car demolished in a spectacular
accident Sunday night in the
southbound lane of 1-75 about a
mile and a half South of the
Route 16 interchange.
According to the Griffin State
Patrol Post, Otis Ponder, 28 of
Jones Street, Forsyth, was ad
mitted to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital when his ear
was struck from the rear by a
large truck driven by Henry
Randolph, 42, of 210 Pine Street,
Swainsboro.
Ponder, according to investiga
tors, was pinned in the wreckage
of his demolished automobile un
til he could be freed and rushed
to the Griffin-Spalding County
Ilosepital. He was listed in fair
condition Monday morning. Hen
ry was carried to the Sylvan
Grove Hospital in Jackson for
treatment of his injuries.
United Appeal
Short Of Goal
The Butts County United Ap
peal has collected to date in the
current drive $11,097.00, leaving
it short of the $15,000.00 goal.
Contributions are still being ac
cepted, and anyone who wishes to
contribute may send their dona
tion to the Butts County United
Appeal, P. O. Box 233, Jackson,
Ga.