The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, March 29, 1973, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextJamboree Here March 30 To Mark End of Spring Practice BY BRIAN WAITS Progress-Argus Sports Writer The Jackson Red Devils’ 1973 spring football practice is well under way, as Ron Wade and his assistants go about the task of rebuilding Jackson High football for the 1973 season. Coach Wade is looking over a large group of young players in hopes of finding the right boys to fill seven vacancies in the offensive and defensive lines. Despite a dim outlook for the future, Coach Wade states that many of the young players are working hard for a spot on the team. He also added that there are many boys working out with the team but not out for football, and he feels that these boys would be an asset to the Jackson High athletic program. Forty boys reported for practice when it began on March 5. Those going out for football include Bobby Long, Timmie Moss, Scott Taylor, Andy Crumbley, Ricky Askin, John Morgan, Jimmy Cle mons, Sam Thurman, Johnny McGruder, Marvin Banks, Clifford Lawson, Darrell Sum mers, James Morgan, Curtis Smith, Norman Alexander, Bobby Askin, Bernard May field, Randy Trimble, Keith Hobbs, Aubrey Burford, Mark Cawthon, Mike Hamlin, Ellis Giddens, Jeff Patterson, La mar Smith, Vincent Smith, Ricky Smith Buddy Smith, Dale White, Charles Jones, Jerry White, James Clark, Riley Lawrence, Larry Jester, and Tom Robison. Regulars returning from the 1972 Red Devils squad are James Morgan, Scott Taylor, Bernard Mayfield, Darrell Summers, Andy Crumbley, Timmie Moss, and Bobby Askin. Riley Lawrence is also expected to return in the fall, despite a foot injury this spring. Wade also cited many players who have worked hard and looked exceptionally well. This group includes Jimmy Clemons, Dale White, Ricky Smith, Lamar Smith, James Clark, and Larry Jester. Fishing Rodeo For Fun And Prizes Begin Soon Few fishermen ever expect to be paid for their catches but if you are lucky enough to catch the largest one the thrill of angling will be supple mented by cold hard cash to the tune of $25 first prize in the Butts County Sportsmen’s Club’s annual fishing rodeo which will begin March 28th and will continue through April 7 th. Rules and regulations under which the contest is conducted provide that fish must be caught locally (Butts County); fish must be caught with fishing hook, artificial or live bait; person must have ticket before fish is caught; fish must be caught on inclusive dates above and tickets must be presented to weighing stations approved by the Sportsmen’s Club. These include Duke’s Store on Highway 36; Old River Station and Bait Shop on Highway 16 east; Kersey’s Boat Dock on Jackson Lake; Big Dam Store; McMichael Trading Post; Cawthon’s Bait Shop on Covington Road; Martin’s Marina on Jackson Lake and Jones Bros. Grocery at Stark. Prizes are offered in three categories - Bass, Bream, and Crappie. First prize is $25 in cash while second prize is sls value fishing tackle in each category with the third prize $lO of fishing tackle in each category. Fishing Rodeo tick ets are $1 each and are being sold by members of the Sportsmen’s Club or any 4-H Honor Club member. Proceeds go toward 4-H Club and scholarship fund. County agent Millard Daniel and Butts County Sportsmen’s Club President Jack O’Quinn are pushing the project and urge cooperation of Butts citizens in making the rodeo a success. Want Ads Get Results Many others are coming along well and improving with every day’s workout. The kicking game is also something that has received special attention in the past several weeks. The loss of James Brown leaves the Devils without an accomplished place-kicker or punter. Darrell Summers, Andy Crumbley, Rex Smith, and Tom Robison have all been working on this phase of the game this spring. Coach Ron Wade describes the style of play for the up coming season as one of change. There will be several changes in offensive sets, and the Devils will switch to a multiple defense, as they lack the size of the 1972 Red Devil team. The month long spring practice climaxes on March 30 at 8:00 p.m. with the annual Football Jamboree. This year’s Jamboree will be played on Red Devil Hill. Jackson and Henry County will go up against Monticello and Mary Persons. The coaching staff will also get a chance to look at the Jackson team as they go up against last year’s senior football players at 7:30 p.m. on March 23. Progress-Argus Honor Roll New & Renewal Subscriptions Of The Past Few Days Mrs. H. F. Washington, Jackson E. E. Jenkins, Flovilla Mrs. C. E. Everett, Atlanta Otho Morgan, Jackson William R. Thaxton, Jackson Herbert Shapard, Jackson Lorene Askin, Jackson Donald Sheffield, Jackson Mr. &Mrs. Joe D. Buchanan, Macon Mrs. G. D. Head, Jackson Mrs. Tom Clark, Jackson Kenneth W. Jones, Jonesboro Robert Lee Fincher, Jackson Troy H. Norsworthy, Jack son Richard A. Swan, Atlanta W. D. Pope, Jr., Jackson Roland Calhoun, Jackson R. L. Estes, Jackson E. F. C. Fisk, Griffin Mrs. Sara F. Hamil, Decatur David Waterhouse, Colum bus J. G. Webb, Forsyth Mrs. D. W. Bailey, Jackson = six \v x m m FABULOUS \ , = PERFORMANCES \ . = gj TICKETS MOW OH SALE TTg ==■■■■■■-■ Macon Coliseum, The Bookshop in j / *s“ - Warner Robins. Orders taken at First == National Banks and Soars. / A Ifffll THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA ii|gfei^B||aßi 10 Years Ago The 15th annual Father-Son Banquet of the Jackson Chapter of the Future Farmers of America was held Sunday night. Heaping platters of hot pancakes, sausage and gallons of hot coffee will replenish the tired citizens erf Jackson Tuesday evening when the team of Kiwanis cooks gear up their stoves at the Woman’s Clubhouse. “Vote, March Ist.,” support ers of the $250,000 school bond issue are urging in a last minute appeal to the voters of Butts County. George Carlton Prickett, 70, father of Mrs. Clyde Herbert of Jackson, died at his home near Commerce Tuesday. 20 Years Ago The Farmers Co-operative Fire Insurance Cos., chartered August 15,1899, recently began its 54th year of service to farmers of Butts County. During the last two weeks, “Greystone Acres,” home of Col. and Mrs. F. L. McCoy on the Covington Highway beyond Jackson has been the scene of much social activity. At the Fourth District Music Festival in Thomaston Tues day, Jackson High School furnished two contestants, Eugene* Briggs and John Pettigrew, who won a superior rating and will compete in the state meet later in the Spring. Mrs. A. S. Mills, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Mills and Mr. and Mrs. Euell White spent Sunday with Mr. Austin Mills at Rome. 30 Years Ago Judge and Mrs. G. D. Head received a wire Friday morning from their son, Ensign Stuart Head, stating that he had just landed at San Diego, Calif. Ensign Head survived the sinking of the Cruiser Chicago, off Guadal canal, on Feb. 1. At a meeting of the Butts County Commissioners Mon day a contract was awarded for repairing the old county jail to be used as a community canning plant. The Butts County Chapter of the American Red Cross at a meeting Friday afternoon mapped plans to raise the quota of SI,BOO in the War Fund Drive. Started as a WPA project, the Butts County Library will be retained by action of Butts County, the city of Jackson and the Butts County Board of Education. 40 Years Ago The fire department was called Saturday afternoon to extinguish a blaze at the home of Mrs. T. W. Ham on N. Mulberry St. ‘Things are going up and this is a buying market,” Hon. W. E. Watkins, well known Jackson attorney, told mem bers of the Kiwanis Club Tuesday night. An order of the Purple Heart Medal has been awarded to > Clarence Moss, of Indian Springs, from the War Dept, for meritorius service, for wounds received in action in France. Mr. and Mrs. Smith Settle returned Monday evening from Washington where they went to attend inaugural festivities. Were Listening Editor’s Note: (A local teacher asked if the Progress- Argus would reproduce the following letter to Quimby Melton, Jr., Editor of the Griffin Daily News, which was printed recently on its editorial page. The letter and Editor Melton’s response is gladly printed in its entirety.) WE RE LISTENING Dear Mr. Melton: Tonight I feel so sad at our mixed up values. I’m a teacher -a very dedicated teacher with a Masters degree and working toward a doctorate degree. I received a check today with a $34.10 increase in pay for this month. That amounts to $409.20 for the year. That lodes so pitiful and tells me so much of the value society has for my caring, planning, studying, teaching and reaching out to students 24 hours each day. The average increase pro posed for a judge will be over $12,000 per year - $3,000 more than the teacher of my training and experience earns for a year’s work. Now that’s the increase! I firmly believe that if we put our priorities in the proper places that we could provide a better education by paying teachers a part of what we pour into a corrective system and many of these problems would not exist. Each day I attempt to meet the needs of 150 students in class, plus a homeroom of 30. No business man, no judge, no lawyer, no doctor would attempt to interview 150 persons each day. Yet the public asks, “What’s wrong with our schools?” Yes, there are successes. And these are so warm and valuable, that more than anything else they keep me coming back each fall. But those successes don’t pay the rent, food bills, insurance, doctor’s bills, nor for clothes for my own youngsters. It’s very disheartening. I know money isn’t everything, but in our society it’s about as good a signal of esteem as we have and we’d not insult a master by offering him a pittance for his work, yet we say to teachers; be Masters, wgm mm iii iiii MACON COLISEUM S4.SO $4.00 $3.50 $3.00 APRIL 11.13 WED. THRU SAT. 8:00 P.M. ‘Saturday 2:30 PM Sunday 2:30 PM ‘Children 16 and under Vi price MAIL ORDERS nftSS Make Check To: HOLIDAY ON ICE Send To: Moron Coliseum, 200 Coliseum Drive, Macon, Go. 31201 I 1 Enclosed is check/M.O. in the amount of $ I *or ADULT tickets at $ each, and/or| j JUNIOR tickets at $ each fod j performance on at p.M.j I NAME | j ADDRESS Phone I | CITY state Zip | Please enclose stamped, self-addressed envelope for prompt! * service and safe delivery of your tickets. I I J THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1973 BBjLt * Herman Talmadge I HAVE INTRODUCED legislation to punish drug pushers as “public menaces,” which is precisely what they are. For too leng new, this vicious and unprincipled criminal has been stalking our society and preying on our nation’s most valuable asset —our young people. These people represent the lowest and most vile form of human life. They deserve neither sympathy nor compassion. When I refer to them as “public menaces,” I mean the indi vidual who is not, himself, caught in the iron grip of drug addiction, but who lines his pockets with the money of desper ate neopie whore lives this predator is destroying. He moves among our youth like a silent, deadly disease, mercilessly seeking out the gullible and the ignorant, and leading them into the most wretched and bleak form of human existence. The young man or woman who is ravaged by drugs cannot think of his or her family or job. Their entire lives are domi nated by a driving need to secure more drugs to feed their habit. It soon becomes so expensive that they cannot support it by legal means, so they turn to a life of crime. Everytime this public menace makes another conquest, it is as though a pebble were dropped into a pond. The first ripple represents the addict himself, and all other ripples are the innocent victims that he robs, beats, and even murders to feed his habit. * * * MY LEGISLATION is a frontal attack on the drug pusher, and to make the punishment fit the severity of the crime. My bill provides that any person convicted of distributing more than four ounces of “hard drugs,” and who is not an addict himself, will be declared a “public menace” and there would be a mandatory prison sentence of 10 to 30 years, with no provision for probation or parole. A second conviction would require a mandatory life sen tence, with a minimum of 30 to be served before parole con sideration. In my judgment, if we can make the punishment for hard drug pushers severe enough, we can curtail the sale of nar cotics in America and significantly reduce the nation’s crime rate. A person who will entice another human into an existence of quiet drug desperation is not fit to breathe the same air as decent people. I want him off the streets, and I think most Americans want the same thing. . <?r;£k—^ (not prepared, or printed at government expense) work miracles, and perhaps we’ll throw you a few crumbs. Sincerely, (S) A teacher. RESPONSE: My son is an education major practice teaching this quarter. I, too, think the profession is under paid. City Tips Will Save You Money 1. A good test to see if your commode is leaking is to use some bluing in the tank. If there is a continuous leak, the blue water will come through into the bowl. 2. An odorant is added to our natural gas at the distribution center for your safety. If you smell gas in your home, you may have a leak. Call your City Gas Department and it will be checked. The number is 775-2669. 3. All of our utilities are metered and our rates have not increased. If your bill is excessive, check your bill to see which utility is out of line, then look for the trouble. 4. Your City has no intention of overcharging anyone and our rates are set at a minimum just to help cover the expense of operating your City Govern ment. If we can in anyway suggest ways of helping you conserve, please feel free to ask. 5. Our February purchase of gas from Southern Natural was the largest bill we have ever had, which means that our people as a whole used more gas in their businesses and homes than they have ever used. Since we begin reading the meters on the 10th. or 12th. of each month some of the big consumption will be reflected in your next bill on April Ist. Please understand that a part of this bill will be for the last half of February. 6. Your City Administration is ready to advise or help in anyway possible. PERSONAL Mr. and Mrs. Lee H. Brand, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Porter of Atlanta, spent last week in Sturgis, Missis sippi as the guests <rf Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morgan and four children. Homer Moelchert of the University of Georgia spent the Spring holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lou Moelchert, and grandmother, Mrs. India Bailey. First Grade Round Up Indian Springs Academy BROWNLEE ROAD Saturday, March 31st Refreshments will be served Please enroll all new children at this time for next school year. All teachers are Georgia certified and all classes are restricted to 25 or under. Want Ads Get Results Weaver Insurance Agency Complete INSURANCE Service LIFE FIRE AUTOMOBILE P. H. WEAVER Phone 775-2626 SPECIAL 10% Off List Net Price $197.95 Offer Expires April 7, 1973 i J | * jllllp more than just a tiller People prefer Earthbird Tillers because of the outstanding, all-around perfor mance they deliver. 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