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Harksr tt progress-Argus VOL. 99—NO. 24 23 Candidates Qualified Before June 14 Deadline Twenty-three candidates beat the deadline of Wednesday noon, June 14th, to qualify as candi dates in the Democratic Primary of August Bth, 1972 with only two races contested, that of sher iff and county commissioner. Qualifying since last Wednesday were T. A. Carmichael for re election as county surveyor, and A. G. Cowan, for county commis sioner. As of noon June 14th the can didates for the various county offices are as follows. Commissioner—Jimmy (Jim bo) Darnell, James W. Gilbert, Thomas N. (Neal) Baker, Ham mond Barnes, Gery Hoard, D. W. (Dave) Bailey, Dan Fears, Haywood Hodges, Thomas Tay lor, and A. G. Cowan. Messrs. Fears, Bailey and Barnes are all incumbents. Sheriff—Hugh C. Polk, incum bent; Barney L. Wilder, John L. Coleman, James Appling and Bil ly Leverette. Clerk of Court—David P. Ridgeway, incumbent. Ordinary—Luther J. Washing ton, incumbent. Tax Commissioner—Mary Will Hearn, incumbent Tax Collector. School Superintendent—Wm. B. (Bill) Jones, incumbent. Treasurer —Billy Sutton, in cumbent. Coroner—John A. Sherrell, incumbent. Surveyor—T. A. Carmichael, incumbent. Justice of Peace, 612th District —Donald Montgomery, incum bent. 4-H'ers Do Well In Horse Show The Northwest District 4-H Horse Show was held at Stone Mountain State Park on June 8. Three local club members came home with a good supply of rib bons and trophies. Gail Marsh won 2nd place in Senior Poles, 2nd place in Senior Barrels, 4th place in Western Pleasure, 4th place in Western Horsemanship, and 4th place in Senior Reining. Gail will repre sent Butts County at the State 4-H Horse Show in four of the above classes. Joe Norton won first place and a trophy in Senior Pole Bending and sth place in Senior Barrel Race. Jenny Saunders competed in Senior Barrels and placed 3rd. Joe and Jenny will also be rep resenting Butts County in each of the above events at the State 4-H Horse Show. Each of these club members should be highly complimented because the classes were very large and the competition was extremely keen. THREE JACKSON IANS GET CLAYTON JC DEGREES ♦ John W. Browning, Jr., Marcus Preston Browning and Robert Hunt Ridgeway of Jackson were among 300 graduates receiving Associate in Arts Degree dur ing Clayton Junior College’s sec ond annual commencement exer cises Saturday, June 10, at 10 a. m. on the Morrow campus. Reg Murphy, editor of “The Atlanta Constitution,” was the graduation speaker. Clayton Junior College opened in September, 1969 as a unit of the University System of Geor gia and was accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools in December, 1971. The junior college awarded de grees to college-transfer students and to career graduates in crim inal justice, nursing and secre tarial studies at its second grad uation ceremony. Convicts Held Jasper Woman Hostage For Several Hours A sister of Mrs. O. J. Bond of Jackson, Mrs. Frances Bond Boyd of Jasper County, underwent a harrowing ordeal Tuesday, June 6th, when she was held hostage by three armed escapees from the Putnam County Correctional In stitute, the experience leaving her shaken and extremely ner vous though she was unharmed. Mrs. Boyd told her sister that about ten o’clock Tuesday morn ing the three came to her door and with a drawn pistol made her open the door. One of the three escaped convicts, identified by Putnam County officials as David Lee Forrest, 23, Jerome Young, 32, and Johnny Frank Cowles, 21, asked where the phone was and when she showed it to them they cut the wires. Mrs. Boyd then related that they demanded and received the keys to her late model car. Another escapee took her by the arm and carried her to a prison truck with an iron door and cage and put her inside with sev en men, five Negro and two whites. One of the white men, Mrs. Floyd stated, was the guard who had been overpowered, for ced to give up his weapons and his clothes, and locked in the prison bus into which she was thrust. Mrs. Boyd said that when she was put in the truck with the unclothed guard that he exclaim ed, “I’m sorry, they have taken my clothes.” Mrs. Boyd related that it was dark and close in the truck and that the escapee drove the truck to the back door of her home, jamming it up against the steps, leaving her a prisoner. She said it was at this time that the three colored escapees took her car and got away. Mrs. Boyd said her husband was in the pasture mowing when she was asked if she had a hus band. The men became fright ened that he would come to the house, learn of the circumstances and begin shooting. Mrs. Boyd said that she begged the men not to harm her and told them if they would help her escape from the truck that she could forestall any shooting. Mrs. Boyd said there were a lot of tools in the truck and that the men used picks and shovels to make a hole large enough for two men to crawl out and push the truck away from the house, beating the lock off and releasing her. Mrs. Boyd recalls that she ran to her husband in the pasture but was so hysterical that she could n’t talk but could scream. Mrs. Boyd said that a service man was near the chicken house distribut ing feed but did not know of her temporary kidnapping. When she came in sight of her husband and salesman they were talking but heard her screams and got in the truck to meet her. As they approached the house she told her husband, Floyd, not to shoot the men as she was not harmed. The guard was waving for them to come on to the house as the coast was clear. Through the use of a two-way radio owned by the feed salesman, he contacted his com pany in Macon and had them in form law officers. Mrs. Boyd re calls it wasn’t long before plen ty of people were there with dogs and offers of assistance. Mrs. Boyd said that the three men who escaped in her automo bile went into the house, changed from prison garb to her hus band’s clothes and took off. One of the escapees had on the guard’s clothes but left those af ter changing into her husband’s attire. Mrs. Boyd said that despite her ordeal she is about to re gain her composure and hopes the escapees will soon be appre hended. Body of Boy Found In Jackson Lake The body of 14-year-old Tom my Smith Bryant was discovered Thursday afternoon, June Bth, under a dock on Jackson Lake where he had disappeared from his boat Sunday night, June 4th, in the Waters Bridge area. Newton County Coroner Sam Cowan said that his body was found beneath a boat dock not far from the lakeside trailer home where he lived with his par ents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bryant, on Norman Road in the Jackson Lake area. The young boy, an eighth grade pupil at the R- L. Cousins High School in Covington, was report ed missing Sunday night when his boat was spotted with his shoes and socks in it about ten o’clock. The young boy had been seen about an hour earlier by acquain tances alone in the boat. Tommy was a native of Mcßae. Monday, Tuesday and Wednes day members of the Newton Cos. Rescue Unit, a sheriff’s posse, and rangers of the Game and Fish Department dragged the lake. His body was discovered Thursday af ternoon lodged under a dock by two boaters. Funeral services for the drown ing victim were held Saturday morning at 11 o’clock at the Ho ris Ward Funeral Home chapel in Decatur with burial in Corinth Baptist Church Cemetery. M-Sgt. Connell Decorated With Bronze Star WITH U. S. COMBAT AIR FORCES, Vietnam—U. S. Air Force Chief Master Sergeant Donald F. Connell, son of Mrs. Fairy K. Connell of 155 Lyons St., Jackson, Ga., has been decor rated with the Bronze Star Medal at Tan Son Nhut AB, Vietnam, for meritorious service while en gaged in military operations. Sergeant Connell was cited for his performance as an electronics superintendent at Tan Son Nhut. He is a 1950 graduate of Zeb ulon (Ga.) High School and at tended the University of Nebras ka at Omaha. His wife, Martha, is the daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Means of Zehulon. Billy Duke Aces Lake Hole Friday Holes in one are becoming a habit for Billy and Terry Duke, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Duke. Billy Duke, Jackson High School’s trophy winner for his golf prowess, aced the lake hole, No. 7, at Deer Trail Golf Club Friday with a nine iron shot to the cup some 105 yards away. Billy was playing with Kenny Norsworthy. One year ago to the day but on a different date his brother, Terry Duke, made a hole in one at Deer Trail, his ace coming on Friday, June 11th, while Billy’s was made on June 9th. THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1972 Mrs. Manley Has Earned Doctorate ■--& ‘///fa//* , /i , i|pss| § * •M MRS. JO ANN MANLEY Announcement is made today by the University of Georgia, that Jo Ann Seagraves Man ley of Jackson, has earned the degree Doctor of Education. Director of } Curriculum for Butts County Schools for the last five years, Mrs. Manley is a na tive of Madison County, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. George Thom as Seagraves, Sr. of Ila. An hon or graduate of Ila High School, she attended Piedmont College and received the B. S., M. E. and Specialist in Education Degrees from the University of Georgia, financing her college education with scholarships and fellowships. She has done advance work in Mathematics, Language Arts and Perceptual Psychology. She was one of the first educators in Georgia to study the SMSG Mathematics (often referred to as the Yale program or “New Math”). In 1965 she was one of 200 persons .Invited to partici pate in a Conference for super visors of English, held in Boston. In 1969 she was one of 35 in vited to Columbia University for an international conference on Innovative Curriculum. She also participated in a NSF Institute in Mathematics at University of Illinois in 1970. She is a member of the Butts County Association of Educators, the Georgia Association of Edu cators, National Educational As sociation, The International Read ing Association (a charter mem ber of the Atlanta Area Council of that organization), The Na tional Reading Conference, the State and National Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development and Kappa Delta Pi, honor Society in Education. In 1966 she was named one of three Outstanding Young Educa tors in Georgia (the only wom an so honored). When she began her career in supervision and cur riculum development in Worth County, she was the youngest in structional supervisor in Georgia and one of the youngest in the nation. She has taught at all levels from first grade through high school and graduate level in college. She is a member of the Jack son Presbyterian Church, pres ently serving as President of Women of the Church and As sistant Sunday School teacher in the Junior Department. She is also president of the newly or ganized Magnolia Garden Club of Jackson. Dr. Manley resides on Coving ton Street with her children: Molly, a student at Jackson High School; Myra, a student at Hen derson Junior High; Thomas, a student at Henderson Element ary, and pre-schoolers George and Bruce. Her hobbies center around the family and include sewing, needlepoint, reading, travel, cook ing and directing weddings. PROGRESS-ARGUS WINS HEART FUND CITATION The Jackson Frogress-Argus has been awarded a Heart Fund Citation for the newspaper’s ser vice in advancing the heart pro gram and stimulating public sup port toward the conquest of dis eases of the heart and circula tion. JACKSON, GEORGIA 30233 Wreckage of Plane Found Friday in Monroe County The dogged persistence of two local law enforcement officers, Butts County Deputy Sheriff W. L. (Bill) Taylor, Jr., and Jack son Police Chief Watson Vaughn, led to the discovery of the wreckage of a World War II fighter plane and the body of its pilot in a heavily wooded area off Lassiter Road in Monroe County, approximately two miles from the general area that the plane was observed in obvious distress Saturday morning, June 3rd, about 11:30 o’clock. The pulverized wreckage of the modified Psl Mustang that car ried pilot Richard Keith (Dick) Kestle, 43, of Columbus to his death, w-as strewn around a cra ter, gouged out of hard red clay in a heavily wooded area, that was approximately 12 to 15 feet wide and about 10 to 12 feet deep. The impact of the plane which nosed down almost per pendicularly, pulled dirt back into the crater, covering portions of the fuselage of the crumpled plane. A heavy foliage of oak and hickory trees had hidden the wreckage from planes of the Ci vilian Air Patrol that had comb ed the area since Monday after noon. Monroe County Sheriff L. C. Bittick said that the wreckage was located in northeast Monroe County, approximately 1% to 2 miles over the Butts County line. Butts County Sheriff Hugh C. Polk said that Chief Watson Vaughn and his wife were driv ing along Lassiter Road about 2:15 Friday afternoon when Mr. Vaughn spotted a solitary buz zard circling over the area where the plane was soon to be discovered. Chief Vaughn contac ted Deputy Bill Taylor on the radio asking him to come join in a search of the heavily wood ed terrain. The two men walked between % ami % of a mile across a field and into the woods where the wreckage was located approximately 200 yards deep into the forest. The plane evidently crashed almost straight down, clipping two moderate size limbs off a hickory tree. The impact dug the aforementioned crater in the hard earth, bringing instantane ous death to the pilot. The wings were sheared off, scattered in a random pattern among the trees with no single piece of the plane outside the crater being larger than a pillow slip. Sheriff Bittick said there was only one body aboard the modi fied fighter named “Miss Gator ade Cola.” Mr. Bittick said the remains were taken to Dillon Funeral Home in Forsyth. Photo by Bill Knight, Griffin Daily New* PLANE FOUND IN MONROE COUNTY— A 5-day search for a missing P-51 Mustang, owned and piloted by Richard Keith (Dick) Kestle, of Columbus, came to an end Friday afternoon, June 9th, when wreckage of the plane was discovered in a heavily wooded area off Lassiter Road in Mon roe County. The impact of the plane, which plunged almost straight down through dense trees, dug a crater some 12 to 15 feet wide and 8 to 10 feet deep, killing the pilot instantly. The plane wreck age w-as discovered by Police Chief Watson Vaughn and Butts County Deputy Sheriff Bill Taylor as they followed a lazily circling buzzard to the scene. DISCOVERED PLANE f P; i K jjsfeSßi* i TAYLOR, leLt, and VAUGHN Mr. Kestle piloted the plane in 1969 to a second straight victory in the annual Harold’s Club Transcontinental Trophy Dash, a 1,667 mile race. The Columbus pilot was be lieved to have attended the Transpo ’72 Exhibition in Wash ington and was enroute home from Dulles International Air port June 3rd when his plane de veloped trouble over Butts Coun ty. An Indian Springs State Park employee, Jack McDowell, told law officers and, searchers of hearing and seeing a place fly ing low over his house Saturday morning and only moments later hearing an explosion when it crashed. The site of the crash was almost directly in line with the area that McDowell predic ted that the plane would be found. On Sunday afternoon, June 4th. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Tor bett of Butts County discovered debris from a plane in their pas ture. Among the pieces was por tions of a plexiglass canopy that experts now believe blew off striking the plane’s trim tab •which probably triggered the fa tal crash. Since Monday afternoon. June sth, more than 100 volunteers, including Civil Air Patrol (CAP) personnel and Ft. Benning sol diers. have been engaged in the search. Lt. Harry Saunders of the Georgia CAP Wing theorized that the fighter’s canopy blew off in flight and damaged the rudder and trim tab. Sheriff Bittick said the wreck age was about s 4 of a mile from the nearest house and about the same distance from a dirt road which wound through the area. Mr. Bittick said that there w-as no indication of a fire at the scene with the plane apparently taking a steep nose dive straight through the trees and exploding. Authorities with the CAP and $5 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Federal Aviation Authorities sift ed through the pieces late Friday and Saturday morning in an ef fort to pinpoint the cause of the crash. Authorities said up to 15 planes from the Georgia CAP wing and the Alabama CAP were involved in the search at one time. Officials had expanded the search Thursday to include an area in Southeastern Alabama. Lions Install New Officers At Gala Party Monday night, June 5, was a special occasion for the Butts County- Lions Club. They- held their annual Ladies Night at which time new officers of the club were installed. The meeting was presided over by outgoing president, Stanley Maddox. Some 42 Lions, Lionesses and guests gathered at the Holiday Inn in Locust Grove for this oc casion. After a delicious meal, Lion Steve Jett led the group in sev eral songs that helped settle the food and put the group in a fes tive mood. Lion Jett then pre sented Misses Lynn Freeman, Laurie Summers, Marsha Yawn, A1 Gilbert and Glen Maddox who are members of the Youth Choir of the First Baptist Church. The group did several numbers from their now folk musical “Show Me,” which they will be present ing at a later date. President Maddox then called on Lion Don Folsom, Chairman of the Sight Conservation Com mittee. to present an award to Dr. Robert H. Pinckney for his service to the Club and the Citi zens of Butts County in the field of Sight Conservation in that a number of people have received glasses through this program who otherwise may never have been able to get them. The program w-as then turned over to Deputy District Governor Charles Wynn who was accom panied by his wife. Lion Wynn proceeded to in stall the following officers for 1972-1973 year. Millard F. Daniel, President: Steve Jett, First Vice President; George McGahee, Second Vice President; Raymond O’Quinn, Secretary; Larry- Deraney, Treas urer; Wayne King, Lion Tamer; David P. Ridgeway, Tail Twister; Jimmy Landrum, Director; Paul Erwin, Director; B. B. Campbell, Director; Hal Summers, Song Leader; Billy Sutton, Reporter.