Volume 99 Number 51
Barnes, Freeman and Goff
New Chamber Directors
Three widely known Jackson
business men, Wayne Barnes,
Lewis Freeman and Roy Goff,
were elected directors of the
Butts County Chamber of
Commerce, Inc. at its annual
Christmas dinner meeting
Thursday night, December
14th, at the Central Georgia
Electric Membership Corpora
tion Auditorium. The meeting
was also enlivened by an
unusual December thunder
storm with thunder and
lightening and torrential rains.
The three new directors
replace L. W. May, Richard W.
Watkins, Jr. and Frank Fore
hand. Hold over members of the
Chamber directors are Frank
Barnes, Joe Taylor, Bob
Armstrong and Marion Todd.
Chamber President Frank
Barnes presided at the meeting
and because of the absence of
one of the new directors, the
election of officers was post
poned until a called meeting
which Mr. Barnes indicated
would be held in late December.
To be elected at this time will be
a president and vice president
for the ensuing year. Miss
Elizabeth McMichael is Cham
ber secretary while Richard W.
Watkins, Jr. is treasurer.
Mr. Watkins introduced the
speaker for the evening, Col.
Harold A. Dye, U.S. Army
(Ret.), a deputy director of the
Georgia Department of Indus
try and Trade. Mr. Watkins told
of an unusual incident in Col.
Dye’s military career in which
he served for some 20-30
minutes as a stand-in for
president-elect General Dwight
D. Eisenhower while in Korea.
Mr. Dye elaborated on the
story and said that as a
precautionary measure he was
asked to change jackets and
insignia with Gen. Eisenhower
and rode in a limousine down
the streets of Inchon between
cheering multitudes as a
substitute for Gen. Eisenhower.
At the conclusion of the parade
he changed jackets and insignia
with the President. There is a
marked resemblance between
Col. Dye and President Eisen
hower.
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In an interesting and inform
ative talk, Col. Dye pointed out
that in 1930 Georgia’s per capita
income was $340 while per
capita income in the United
States was S7OO. He said that
Georgia was spending the least
number of dollars in the nation
for education, being at the
bottom of the list save for
Mississippi, and that there were
only six accredited high schools
in Georgia. The state led the
nation in hookworms, pellagra
and malaria cases.
By 1970 Mr. Dye pointed out
that the per capita income had
risen to over $3400, the state was
putting more money in schools
and that our standard of living
had increased tremendously,
being competitive with other
sections of the country. He
attributed some of the South’s
obstacles to progress as
differential freight rates, a one
crop cotton economy and failure
to protest situations that existed
in the thirties.
Col. Dye waxed enthusi
astically over the state’s
natural resources, probably the
greatest most varied east of the
Mississippi. He said that the
prime consideration of a
national brewery locating near
Perry was the fact that that
section of Georgia boasts the
purest water, pure water being
a prime ingredient in the
brewery industry. He said that
Georgia has more pine trees
and reproduces them faster
than any other Area save West
Germany and that Georgia is
winning the fight for pure air
and pure water despite the fact
that much remains to be done in
pollution control.
He commented on the present
health standards of Georgians
and explained that if health
conditions that existed in 1930
had not improved to those of
today half the people in the
audience would not be alive
today.
Bill Craig, of Georgia Tech, a
member of the Area Develop
ment Branch, Industrial De
velopment Division, told of a
proposed economic survey to be
made in the county by Georgia
Tech with one third of the total
to be paid by the city and county
each with the other third to be
paid by the Butts County
Chamber of Commerce, Inc.
President Barnes said that
one of the main objectives of the
Chamber this year was to find
additional property that could
be added to Jackson’s Indus
trial Park. In working with the
city and Mrs. Martha Harris,
Mr. Barnes said that an option
was worked out on 100 acres
north of the present site of the
Jackson Industrial Authority.
This property can be reached
through the present park or
from the Stark Road off
Highway 36.
About 60 persons braved the
elements to attend the Chamber,
dinner. The delicious meal was
served by Mrs. Elizabeth H.
Watkins and Committe while
the attractive table decorations
of camellias were arranged by
Mrs. Watkins, Mrs. Nell
Carmichael, and Mrs. Winnie
Moore.
Mrs. Dye and Mrs. Craig
accompanied their husbands to
Jackson for the meeting.
Cify Readies
Parking Lot
Anew and larger off street
city parking lot is being
prepared on the vacant lot
immediately below Don Mont
gomery’s office on North Oak
Street, according to Council
man John Robert Pulliam,
chairman of the Street Com
mittee.
Mr. Pulliam said that the lot
has already been cleared off
and needs to be smoothed off
and gravel put down. However,
Mr. Pulliam explained that the
rainy weather of last week has
handicapped efforts to complete
work on the parking lot to a
large degree.
Once the new lot is complete,
Mr. Pulliam said that it would
afford free parking for shoppers
and it is the hope of the city that
it can be completed as soon
after Christmas as possible.
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JACKSON HOMES A MANY SPLENDORED THING
The homes of Jackson were arrayed in their Yule best for the annual Christmas Lighting Contest last
Friday night, the event sponsored by the Garden Club Council and The Jackson Progress-Argus.
Mclntosh State Bank was adjudged the most attractively decorated business house as the mobile Santa
and the gaily bedecked tree attest in the picture to the left. Above is the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. E.
Wade on Brook wood Avenue, first place winner in the West. On the right is the attractive doorway of
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Rooks on Kay Street, adjudged the most attractive home in the East. All photos
by Kern Thompson, professional photographer of Atlanta, who served as one of the judges.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, December 21, 1972
Rooks and Wade Homes, Mclntosh State
Bank Capture Firsts in Lighting Contest
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Sheriff-elect Barney L. Wilder of Butts County is pictured above
with “Bones.” Mr. Wilder recently completed the course at a
sheriff-elect workshop held at the Georgia Police Academy in
Atlanta.
Wilder Takes
Academy
Training
Barney L. Wilder, sheriff
elect of Butts County, was
among 29 newly elected Georgia
sheriffs and three deputies who
have completed training at the
Georgia Police Academy under
a program begun several years
ago by the Department of
Public Safety to give Uiese
officers an insight into their new
duties as chief constitutional
law officer of the county.
Held once every four years, or
when a general election is held
and new sheriffs are elected,
the program has grown to
include a sample of almost
every type enforcement condi
tion a sheriff would face.
Public Safety Commissioner
Col. Ray Pope said the
program, co-sponsored by the
Georgia Sheriff’s Association
and the Georgia Police Aca
demy, is a graphic example of
cooperative efforts by law
enforcement agencies in the
state to promote profession
alism among police ranks.
Lee Duffey
Is Named
Eagle Scout
Nevin Lee Duffey, Jr.
received the coveted Eagle
Scout Award in ceremonies
Thursday evening at the
Jackson Presbyterian Church
The presentation came as the
climax of an evening of
celebration by parents, friends
and fellow scouts.
Lee earned the highest rank
in scouting in record time,
completing within two years the
requirements for eleven man
datory skills such as First Aid,
Lifesaving, and Citizenship, and
ten optional areas inducing
Music, Theater, and Journal
ism.
Lee is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Nevin Duffey, Barnesville
Road, Jackson. He is a member
of Stark United Methodist
Chruch; and treasurer of Boy
Scout Troop 80, sponsored by
the Jackson Kiwanis Club. His
scoutmasters are David Black
and Billy Crum.
Despite many hindrances
from the weather man, includ
ing an unusual December
thunderstorm and torrential
rains Thursday night, followed
by clearing and icy winds
Friday night, most Jacksonians
found time to light and decorate
their homes, making the city a
veritable fairyland of Christ
mas in time for the judging in
the annual Christmas Lighting
Contest on Friday night,
December 15th.
When the decisions of the six
judges were eventually
reached, they adjudged that the
M. E. Wade home on
Brookwood Avenue was first
place winner in the West
Division, followed in order by
the R. H. Pinckney home on
West Avenue, second; the Hugh
Glidewell home on Buttrill
Road, third; and the Samuel
Henderson home on Chestnut
Street, fourth. Honorable men
tions in the West went to the Don
Folsom home, Mrs. J. W. Carter
home, the Thomas Wise home,
and the Chester Whidby home.
In the East Division, first
place was awarded to the
Robert Rooks home on Kay
Street, the Freddie Dodson
home on Franklin Street,
second; the Robert Fincher
home on Main Street, third; and
the Ben Wright home on Correll
Drive, fourth. Honorable men
tions in the East were accorded
the David Taylor home, the
Emory Spencer home, the Levi
Ball home, and the R. C. Kelly
home.
In the business division, the
judges voted first place to
Mclntosh State Bank; second to
Jackson Hardware, and third to
Jackson City Cleaners. Honor
able mentions went to Honey-
Cone, the Butts County Court
house, which drew much praise
from the judges, and the
Jackson Presbyterian Church.
The judges, of course, realized
the church was not a business
but did not know what category
in which to place it, therefore
giving it an honorable mention
along with the courthouse.
Members of the judging team
were Mr. and Mrs. William T.
Cantrell of Atlanta, Mr. and
Mrs. Russell DeMonbreun of
Jonesboro, Mrs. Susan Millsap
of Jonesboro, and Kern Thomp
son, professional photographer
of the Foster-Thompson Studio,
Atlanta. Mr. Cantrell is super
visor of lighting, Commercial
Sales Engineer Department,
Georgia Power Company. Mrs.
Millsap is home economist for
Georgia Power Company, and
Mr. DeMonbreun is district
sales supervisor of Georgia
Power Company office at
Jonesboro.
The judges, delayed some
what by weather and heavy
traffic, assembled at City Hall
where they were welcomed by
committees appointed by Mrs.
Jane B. Powell, Garden Club
Council president. After judging
procedures were explained the
group repaired to the attrac
tively decorated home of Mrs.
J. J. Harris on the Stark Post
Road where they were enter
tained at a delicious and
delightful buffet prepared by
members of the Mimosa and
Hawthorn Garden Clubs. Mr.
and Mrs. Doyle Jones, Jr. were
invited guests. • Mrs. Jane
Powell and Mrs. Gwen Juhlin
represented their respective
garden clubs at the dinner.
The contest is sponsored
annually by the Garden Club
Council and —the Jackson
Progress-Argus. The garden
clubs forming the council are
the Jackson, Mimosa, Chero
kee, Hawthorn and Magnolia.
The newspaper provides
prizes for the homes and
businesses, while the council
promulgates rules under which
it is held, as well as providing
transportation, entertainment,
gifts for the judges, etc.
Transportation for the judges
and placing of the ribbons, a
chore that usually requires
several hours, was provided by
the Cherokee, Magnolia, and
Jackson Garden Clubs.
The judges commented most
favorably on the appearance of
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son homes. One judge empha
sized that they placed special
emphasis on originality and
innovative ideas by the home
owners rather than mere plastic
beauty of the more traditional
and customary Christmas de
corations, such as wreaths,
candles, swags, etc. The
difficulty in the judges decisions
was heightened by the fact that
after arriving back at City Hall
for deliberation, both groups
had to ask their gracious
“chauffeurs” to drive them
again for second and third looks
at certain homes in question
before the final decision was
made. The judges also realized
and took note of the fact that the
weather had conspired toward
keeping some home owners
from decorating for the contest,
and especially praised those
who did participate for putting
up their decorations under
trying circumstances.
Nazarenes To
Have Concert
On December 30
The public is cordially invited
to attend a Sacred Concert of
music at the Jackson Church of
the Nazarene on Saturday
evening, December 30th, begin
ning at 7:30 o’clock. Appearing
on the program will be Dale and
Elnora Owen of Kankakee,
Illinois.
In announcing their appear
ance, Rev. Lon Hadwin, pastor,
stated that the talented couple
is well known for their singing
ability and have recorded a
number of sacred albums. They
are members of the First
Church of the Nazarene in
Kankakee and during revivals
and at Christmastime are often
featured as singers.
Rev. Hadwin also announces
that the two will be present for
both worship services on
Sunday and extends an invita
tion to the public to attend.
