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Katksoti progress-Argus
Volume 100 Number 15
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■Pollution at Jackson Lake
A Question
Could we have a current report on activities
of the Coalition for Pollution Control in Jackson
Lake? We who have investments in permanent
homes here and love lake living, fear nothing is
being done to prevent the death of the lake from
filth and pollution. We have small voice
individually, but have cooperated in every way
we know: by writing letters, attending called
meetings, contributing funds when asked.
However, we see no change from inevitable,
ever-increasing pollution from sewage being
constantly dumped into the South and Yellow
Rivers by municipalities above us.
The Georgia Conservancy deplores the
situation, the Water Control Board, Georgia
Environmental Protection Agency expresses
concern and interest, stating they have no
actual power to enforce action. Then who has?
Are we helpless to prevent destruction of the
fishing and recreational facilities of Lake
Jackson? DeKalb County is perhaps the major
contributor to this impending catastrophe. Can
they not be forced to clean up or increase their
sewage disposal plant capacity immediately?
Two years, a minimum interval they are
reported to have quoted, may well be too late.
At the latest meeting we attended of the
Coalition for Pollution Control, held some time
ago in Jackson, announcement was made of
plans for a pollution count or test in the lake.
Were the results of this publicized?
When development was begun by Isaacson
Associates on the Turtle Cove recreational
area, we felt we would now have a strong ally to
help in the fight to save the lake, but, so far as
we know, no effort has been made in that
direction. Yet, number of people, use of the
lake and resulting pollution will all be greatly
increased by the hundreds of permanent and
summer homes being built and to be built
there. Constructive action is needed by
Isaacson & Associates, Georgia Power
Company, the State Recreational Division and
home and cottage owners on Lake Jackson.
Surely such a group has sufficient reason and
sufficient power to be heard. This area, and the
state as well, will be losers if Lake Jackson
dies.
We acknowledge these are questions -and
we need answers!
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gibson
Route 1, Lake Jackson
Monticello, Georgia 31064
Future Of
Ocmulgee OEO
Is Uncertain
By Allen McGill, Director
As many of you are aware,
the President has proposed to
end Federal funding for local
Neighborhood Service Centers
after June 30, 1973.
This means citizens of Butts,
Monroe, and Newton Counties
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
HOME AGAIN TO STAY
Hello, my friends, I’m here now
Back home again to stay,
With pals and neighbors near now
To talk with every day!
The scenes are all familiar
Our Court House, Stores, and Trees,
School Buildings on the Hill there
In company with these:
The Progress-Argus close by
Post Office ’cross the street,
The Bank down on the corner
And Church where loved-ones meet!
Dear Students, in compliance,
After nine years, you can say,
“Mrs. Virgil “Latin’ Bryant’s
Back home again to stay”!
will lose such services as job
placement, housing placement,
outreach, and emergency food
and clothing.
Upper Ocmulgee will be
working with business leaders,
Public Officials, and private
groups to insure that services
are maintained.
You can help by writing,
calling, or talking personally
with your elected officials to
request that revenue sharing
money be used to fund social
service programs.
The Answer
Dear Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Gibson:
The Coalition for Pollution Control, Inc.
gratefully acknowledges your letter and
appreciates your awareness of the problem and
of the fact that no significant improvement is
being made. You have done your part and are
entitled to action by the Coalition. This reply
will answer your questions and also make an
appeal to others to participate in our effort.
The Georgia Water Quality Control section is
not powerless; theoretically, this is the
enforcing agency for the State. Nor are we as
citizens helpless to act in this matter; there are
laws in the State of Georgia that can force
polluters to stop. However, in order to be
effective, citizens must act together. The
Coalition for Pollution Control was established
to facilitate such organized action; but thus far,
few citizens are supporting it. This means that
the Coalition has been financially unable to
obtain the services of an ecological group to
render a study of the pollution. Local
representatives of Turtle Cove could only
furnish a small portion of the list of their
property owners so that they might be
contacted about the pollution problem.
Those are the answers to your questions;
they are, of course, unsatisfactory to anyone
concerned about the pollution of Lake Jackson.
Therefore, allow us to further clarify the
problems the Coalition faces as a result of poor
public support and state what we propose to do
if we obtain the necessary funds.
Ten people of integrity and concern form the
Board of Directors of the Coalition. These
people have devoted thousands of hours to this
effort and continue to do so without monetary
compensation of any kind. The Coalition is
legally constituted and is efficiently organized
to fight pollution; it is at present the only group
with the capability of obtaining results
favorable to Lake Jackson. On Lake Jackson
we have people with investments ranging from
small cabins to SIOO,OOO. - plus homes, marinas
whose sole business is the Lake, owners of raw
land, developers, power companies, skiers,
campers, fishermen, numerous clubs and
organizations, and businesses off-shore and in
the City of Jackson. Therefore, many people
stand to lose a great deal if Lake Jackson, is
lost; but the fact is that the vast majority of
those people seem to be ignoring the problem of
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Jackson Man
Killed In
Henry Mishap
A Jackson man, Ollie
Vaughn, 70, of Route 1, was
killed Friday night in an
accident north of Locust Grove
on U. S. 23 when the car he was
driving south left the road and
struck a telephone pole near
the Georgia Power substation.
The accident was investi
gated by the Georgia State
Patrol. The troopers said that
Vaughn’s car was traveling at
a high rate of speed when it
went out of control on a curve,
and overturned several times
before striking the pole. Those
first on the scene reported that
the driver was thrown some
12-14 feet from the car, his body
apparently going through the
windshield. Death was be
lieved to have occurred
instantly.
It was reported here that Mr.
Vaughn had been to Atlanta to
make funeral arrangements
for his brother and was on his
way home when the accident
occurred.
He is survived by his wife,
Elsie Vaughn, of Jackson and a
daughter, Pearl Travis, of
Jenkinsburg. Trimier Funeral
Home of Jackson is in charge
of arrangements.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, April 12, 1973
Mrs. Bryant
To Write
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The Progress-Argus is
pleased to announce the
addition of Mrs. Virgil L.
(Ruth) Bryant to its staff
where it is expected she will
carry a weekly column of
poetry and chit-chat.
Mrs. Bryant recently re
turned to Jackson from
Bainbridge where she was a
welcome contributor to the
Bainbridge Post Searchlight,
one of Georgia’s leading
newspapers.
Mrs. Bryant is the widow of
Rev. Virgil L. Bryant and is
widely known in Jackson
where she formerly taught in
the Butts County School
System when she and her
husband lived here. Mr. Bryant
was a former pastor of the
Jackson-Fellowship Presbyter
ian Churches. Mrs. Bryant now
•esides at South Mulberry
Street.
Walk for Mankind Will Aid
Poverty Stricken Navajos
Avondale Mills Cited
For Safety Record
Atlanta Ga., April 3 --Twenty
Georgia textile plants have
been cited by the Georgia
Textile Manufacturers Associ
ation for outstanding safety
records compiled during the
organization’s 24th annual
textile safety contest.
Awards were presented to
each of the 20 plants during the
Association’s annual safety
conference, held at Georgia
Tech’s, A. French Textile
School. The conference was
attended by more than 175
Georgia textile executives,
who are responsible for their
plants safety program.
The awards presentations
were made by Marion W.
Stribling, President of Haber
sham Mills, Habersham, Geor
gia, and Chairman of the
Association’s Safety Commit
tee.
Appearing on the conference
program were Philip H.
Prince, V. P., Deering Milli
ken, Inc.; George Adams,
West Point Pepperell and Cois
M. Brown, Asst. Regional
Administrator for Technical
Support, OSHA.
Textile plants receiving first
place awards were: Deering
Milliken, Inc., Elm City Plant,
LaGrange; Deering Milliken.
Inc., Kex Plant, LaGrange;
Local Store Featured
In Hardware Magazine
Hodges Ace Home Center
who will celebrate their 14th
anniversary April 19-21st and
their first anniversary in their
commodious new store on East
Third Street, was the subject of
a feature article entitled
“Home Center -- Big City Style
In A Small Town” in the March
issue of Southern Hardware.
The article points out that the
present Hodges is an outgrowth
of Hodges Hardware and
Furniture founded in 1959 by
M. L. Hodges, Jr. The new
Home Center has 32,000 square
feet of which 22,000 is taken up
in sales and display area. The
receiving dock, back storage,
and appliance repair areas
across the rear consume 8,000
square feet. Along the left side
of the building taking up 2,000
square feet are the office, a
Judge Sosebee
raps parole
Judge Hugh Sosebee of the
Flint Judicial Circuit thinks the
state Pardons and Paroles
Board uses bad judgment in
commuting the sentence of a
Henry County man without
contacting him first.
Jack L. Floyd, 42, of Flippen
was granted a commutation of
his 11-month sentence. District
Attorney Ed McGarity and
Henry County Sheriff Jimmy
H. Glass both wrote letters to
the pardons board about the
Floyd case.
Floyd’s sister is a secretary
for District Attorney Mc-
Garity.
Floyd was sentenced last
December to ll months by
Judge Sosebee after violating
Deering Milliken, Inc., Gaines
ville Mill, Gainesville; Chico
pee Manufacturing Company,
Gainesville; Thomaston Mills,
Thomaston Plant, Thomaston.
Second Place awards went to
Thomaston Mills, Peerless
Plant, Thomaston; Reeves
Bros., Inc., Eagle & Phenix
Manufacturing Div., Columbus
and West Point Pepperell, Inc.,
Lindale.
Also presented were “no lost
time accidents’’ awards pre
sented to 12 plants as follows:
Deering Milliken. Inc., Alma
Plant, Alma; Social Circle
Cotton Mills, Social Circle;
Avondale Mills, Inc., Indian
Springs Plant, Jackson: Deer
ing Milliken, Inc., Calumet
Plant, LaGrange; Standard-
Coosa-Thatcher Cos., Barlow-
Division, Jefferson; Deering
Milliken, Inc., Pine Mountain
Plant, Pine Mountain; Deering
Milliken, Inc., Alan B. Sibley
Mill, Lavonia; The Bibb
Company. Ft. Valley Plant. Ft.
Valley; The Bibb Company,
Welaunee Mill, Porterdale;
Deering Milliken, Inc., Toccoa
Plant, Toccoa; United Mer
chants & Manufacturers, Inc.,
Clarkesville Knitting Mill,
Clarkesville and Mohasco
Industries, Laurens Park Mill,
Dublin.
demonstration kitchen, a
lounge, rest rooms, and a TV
repair shop.
The three active owner -
rnanagers of the business are
M. L. Hodges. Jr., president
and general manager; John
Moore, vice president and
credit-purchasing office man
ager; and Phillip Bunch vice
president and hardw-are gen
eral manager. Russell Caw
thon is vice president and
service manager for appli
ances and pumps.
The new building is 160 feet
w-ide and about 200 feet long.
Hodges Ace Home Center
moved into the new building in
February 1972 from four
locations in dow-ntown Jack
son. The official “grand
opening" of the new building
was held last April.
his probation for a simple
battery charge.
McGarity said the basis for
the situation was a compli
cated domestic problem. He
said he had discussed the
matter with his secretary.
“It was my sentence they
saw fit to raise question about,
but they never talked to me,”
Judge Sosebee said.
"If they want to let a man go,
that’s one thing But if they're
going to put it on the basis that
an injustice has been done,
then that’s another matter.
They’re talking about my
court,” Judge Sosebee con
tended. - The Griffin Daily
News.
$5.00 Per Year In Advance
Project Concern is sponsor
ing a county-wide Walk for
Mankind on May 19, which is
organized and sponsored by the
Jackson Kiwanis Club.
In five countries, Project
Concern is bringing medical
relief in areas where people
receive little medical atten
tion. The following story is
about the Navajo Nation, the
need that exists there and
Project Concern's role.
The Navajo reservation of
the American southeast is a
beautiful and haunting stretch
of silence the size of West
Virginia. No train comes
whistling from far away across
its expanse. No cities sit in the
shadows of its mesas and
buttes; there exist only a few
towns, grown from trading
posts as old as America, but as
young as the sand dunes
beneath the pinon trees. The
ancestral land of the Navajo’s
stretches farther than the
imagination.
But for 120,000 Navajo’s
today, a constant economic
depression and too few medical
facilities encourage intense
poverty.
Even with two new Indian
industries, half of the labor
force of 32.000 is unemployed.
The Navajo lives in a land of
extremely sparse industry. If
he chooses to improve his
means by expanded sheep
herding, for which the land is
most suitable, he may face, as
he did last year, a glutted wool
market.
Half of 20,000 Navajo homes
consist of one room and only
one quarter of the homes have
electricity.
The average yearly income
per person on the Navajo
Reservation is about §3OO with
the average family of five or
six persons living in a
one-room dwelling.
And as quoted from the
Navajo Area Indian Health
Service Program report to the
Navajo Tribal Council, “the
need for health care is much
greater than the Indian Health
Service’s ability- to provide and
this deficiency alone results in
unnecessary- Nav-ajo deaths
each year.’’
These are some of the
startling findings of the Navajo
Area Indian Health Service:
Navajo accident death rates
are three times higher than the
national average; Navajo
gastroenteritis dea'th rates are
eleven times higher; Navajo
pneumonia death rates are two
times higher; Navajo tuber
culosis death rates are three
and a half times higher;
Navajo infant mortality rates
are over twice as high.
In the last 15 years the infant
mortality rate has been cut in
half, so there has been
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The Progress-Argus Citizens of Tomorrow this week are,
left. Lisa Long, 6, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Coogler of
148 Hill Street, Jackson, and Dick Harris, 4, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Drexel E. Harris of 436 Freeman Street. Jackson.
inprovement. Yet, the severest
of malnutrition diseases,
kwashiork or, the disease
which bloated the bellies and
turned the hair orange of
Biafran and Pakistani child
ren, has been reported and
cases of malnutrition are seen
regularly in the Navajo area
outpatient departments.
Children always suffer the
most. The height and weight of
Head Start Navajo children
from all over the reservation
were below national norms,
which may be the end result of
the chronic calorie and protein
malnutrition acting together
with repeated bacterial and
viral infection. Clearly, the
living conditions on the Navajo
reservation are not conducive
to developing healthy children.
In 1970. the Navajo Tribal
Council asked Project Concern
to establish a medical and
dental program, seeking other
avenues of assistance to
supplement the government
efforts which had not been
sufficient.
The young Project Concern
program on the edge of the
reservation near Bisti, New
Mexico continues as a nursing
and dental station. The dentist
faces, as do the other few
dentists serving the reserva
tion. a backlog of nearly 593,000
decayed teeth recorded as of
May. 1971.
Funds from the Walk for
Mankind on May 19 will allow
the Project Concern Navajo
Program to- contL7.se and
expand as well as the
programs in Appalachia, Viet
nam, Ethiopia. Hong Kong and
Mexico.
If you wish to walk or help
the Walk for Mankind in any
way please contact Joe Brown,
Jr. at 775-7341.
Wiley Smith
Revival
Speaker
Rev. Wiley H. Smith. Jr. will
be the guest speaker at revival
services at the Worthville
Baptist Church beginning April
22nd and continuing through
April 29th.
Rev. Smith is pastor of
Clyattville Baptist Church in
Clyattville.
Services will begin each
evening at 7:30 p.m. Rev. Billy
Floyd, pastor of W'orthville
Baptist Church, will lead the
congregational singing. Spe
cial music will be provided
with Mrs. Gail Hurst in charge.
A nursery will be provided.
The public is cordially
invited to attend.
