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Jackson IJrngress-Argns
Volume 100 Number 30
Central Georgia s Annual Meet
Set August Bth ; Nunn Speaker
Wednesday, August Bth, is
the date set for The Central
Georgia Electric Membership
Corporation’s thirty-sixth An
nual Meeting to be held at
Indian Springs State Park. The
program will begin at 10
o’clock with registration begin
ning at 9 o’clock a.m. The first
750 members to register will
receive a free bag of light bulbs
and a spill-proof ice tray.
The Honorable Sam Nunn,
United States Senator, will be
the featured speaker. Three
directors, one to serve Butts
County, one to serve Monroe
and Bibb Counties and one to
serve Spalding and Lamar
Camp Ground Put In Readiness
For Opening of 83 rd Session
Officials of the Indian
Springs Camp Ground Asso
ciation are expecting a record
year at the 83rd annual session
of the Indian Springs Holiness
Camp Meeting which begins
Thursday, August 9th, and
extends through Sunday night,
August 19th. The ten day camp
meeting is expected to draw
exceptionally large crowds to
hear three widely known
evangelists, Dr. J. Harold
Loman, Dr. Lawrence B.
Hicks and Dr. James L. Lentz.
Frank Harris, of Carters
ville, president of Indian
Springs Camp Meeting Asso
ciation, reports that reserva
tions have been going at a
speedy pace and it appears
that all rooms at the
campground will be filled by
the first Sunday, August 12th.,
Mr. Harris states that con-;
struction is nearing completion
on the new worker’s cottage
and that 40 rooms at the hotel
have been remodeled, renovat
ed and modernized. Despite
food shortages and high prices
Mr. Harris says that the new
and modern cafeteria will
again be able to serve three
Jenkinsburg Woman Falls In
Well and Dies; Cat Rescued
A 66-year-old Jenkinsburg
woman, Mrs. Willie Batson
Mills, fell through a weakened
portion of her back porch into a
60 foot unused well and was
either drowned or suffered
fatal injuries in her fall. The
freakish accident happened
about 11:45 a.m. Monday with
her body being removed from
the well approximately one
hour later.
Mrs. James Mixon, of
Jenkinsburg, a daughter, told
the Progress-Argus that her
mother and father and her four
children, Beth 13, Mark 16,
Mickey 14 and Dwayne 11, had
been sitting on the porch and
out under a shade tree in the
yard when Mrs. Mills went
back into the house to finish her
dinner.
After a short time one of the
children asked his grandfather
where Mrs. Mills was. The
child went to look for her in the
house and was unable to find
her. It was at this time the hole
in the porch was noticed
through which she fell into the
well and to her death.
The Butts County Sheriff’s
Department was notified with
Sheriff Barney L. Wilder and
deputies reporting to the scene
at once. Neighbors and friends
had assembled and efforts
were being made to lower
Sheriff Wilder into the well
when the Butts County Civil
Defense Unit arrived. John
Chiappetta quickly provided
ropes and descended into the
well to tie a line around the
body of Mrs. Mills which was
brought to the porch floor after
Mr. Chiappetta came up from
Counties, will be elected to
serve three year terms each,
beginning August Bth. Present
incumbents include G. L.
Morgan, T. F. Freeman and W.
C. Futral respectively.
According to Co-op General
Manager R. F. Armstrong, The
Central Georgia EMC furnish
es electricity for 11,810
consumers in a service area of
2,188 miles of line that extends
into a portion of 14 counties.
The June 30th operating report
reveals that the latest annual
power purchase was $1,107,293-
.35 while the Cooperative paid
$54,416.88 in ad valorem taxes
in 1972.
excellent meals a day at a
nominal cost with the cafeteria
able to accommodate several
hundred persons per meal.
The schedule for camp
meeting, as announced by
President Harris, is as follows:
7 a.m. Prayer Service in
Tabernacle; Ba.m., Breakfast;
8:45-9:25 a.m., Bible Study in
Tabernacle; 9-10:30 a.m.,
Pre-Teens’ meeting in Glenn
Tabernacle; 9:30-10:30 a.m.,
Peoples meeting in Taberna
cle; Young People’s study in
Youth Tabernacle; 11 a.m.,
Preaching in Tabernacle;
Children’s meeting in Glenn
Tabernacle; 12:30 p.m.,
Lunch; 3 p.m., preaching in the
tabernacle; 5 p.m., dinner;
6:30 p.m., Veranda Prayer
Meetings; 6:30 p.m., Young
People’s Vespers in Youth
Tabernacle; 8 p.m., Preaching
in Tabernacle.
The Indian Springs Camp
Meeting was founded in 1890
and in this year’s brochure the
paragraph on its history is
reproduced as follows: “Since
1890 Indian Springs Holiness
Camp Ground has held before
the world the high claims of
the well’s depths.
To add a macabre touch to
the incident, a black kitten,
about three or four months old,
also fell into the well and had
found a place of precarious
safety against a ledge close to
the water line. After the body
of Mrs. Mills was recovered,
Mr. Chiappetta was again
lowered into the well with a
sack and flashlight where he
recovered the terrified feline
from its perch. The kitten was
released unharmed outdoors
and scurried off to the safety of
a large fig tree and an
outbuilding.
Mrs. Mixon said that all
members of the family had
been over portions of the floor
that collapsed literally hun
dreds of times as it was
between a freezer and a
washing machine. The well
was not used by the family for
their water supply as it came
from another source, Mrs.
Mixon stated. In fact, Mrs.
Mixon was not certain that she
or members of her family knew
of the well’s existence since it
had been boarded over during
the time they had resided at the
house.
Mrs. Mixon said that a
message she would like to
convey would be for everyone
to “cover up old wells, which
by doing would help prevent
tragedies such as happened
Monday morning."
Mrs. Mills was the wife of
Ernest W. Mills and was born
August 28, 1906 in Dooley
County. She was the daughter
of the late Mr. William Batson
and Mrs. Cora Shell Batson,
Quimby Melton, Jr., editor of
the Griffin Daily News, will be
Master of Ceremonies. Group
singing will be led by Steve
Jett, Minister of Music for The
First Baptist Church of
Jackson, acompanied by Mrs.
Gervin Lewis.
Top prize will be a General
Electric No Frost Food
Freezer, given by General
Electric and Polk Tire and
Service Company of Jackson in
cooperation with The Central
Georgia EMC. Many other
prizes will be presented during
the meeting to the lucky ticket
holders.
God in Jesus Christ. Standing
firmly upon the doctrine of
‘holiness in heart and life,’ she
has sounded the call each
August for eighty-three years.
To her altars have come both
young and old, rich and poor,
learned and unlearned, to
‘drink freely of the fountain of
life.’
“Her influence today circles
the globe and her message is as
relevant to the needs of human
life as ever before.”
Dr. James L. Lentz will open
the camp on Thursday night,
August 9th, at eight o’clock
with Dr. J. Harold Loman to
close the camp on Sunday
night, August 19th.
People will welcome back
Dr. Z. T. Johnson of Wilmore,
Ky. as Bible teacher, Dr.
Johnson being a former
president of Asbury College
and an emeritus trustee of the
camp ground association.
Workers for next year have
been announced as Dr. John R.
Church, Dr. Dennis Kinlaw and
Dr. Robert E. Coleman.
who survives.
Mrs. Mills had resided in
Jenkinsburg about ten years
and was a member of the
Jenkinsburg Baptist Church.
Her body lay in state at
Sherrell Funeral Home until
three o’clock Tuesday after
noon when it was carried to the
Raney-Dekle Funeral Home in
Cordele. Funeral services were
conducted Wednesday morning
at 10 o’clock from the chapel of
the funeral home with inter
ment in Sunnyside Cemetery in
Cordele. Sherrell Funeral
Home of Jackson was in charge
of local arrangements with
Raney-Dekle Funeral Home at
Cordele in charge of final rites.
Mrs. Mills is survived by her
husband, Ernest W. Mills;
mother, Mrs. Cora S. Batson of
Cordele; a daughter, Mrs.
James Mixon of Jenkinsburg;
a son, Marvin Mills of
Perry; two sisters, Mrs. Gebie
Meadows of Cordele and Mrs.
George Martin of Macon; 7
grandchildren.
Lisa Browning
Has Chosen
Gordon JC
By Kaye Simons
Public Information Officer
The “Star Student” from
Butts County, Lisa Browning,
has decided to attend Gordon
Junior College in Barnesville
this fall. Miss Browning, who
recently graduated from Jack
son High School, said she chose
Gordon because of its excellent
secretarial science program
and its dormitory facilities.
She said she is looking
forward to attending Gordon
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, August 2, 1973
Campbell
Joins
Law Firm
The many friends of Charles
E. Campbell, widely known
young Jackson attorney, will
be pleased to learn of his
affiliation with the law firm of
Heyman and Sizemore, 310
Fulton Federal Building, in
Atlanta.
Announcements were mailed
last week that Mr. Campbell
had become a partner in one of
Atlanta’s better known law
firms. Mr. Campbell joins with
Lamar W. Sizemore, Terry P.
McKenna, Robert E. Hicks,
William H. Major, W. Dan
Greer, Maurice N. Maloof,
Benjamin H. Oehlert, 111,
Ralph G. McCallum, Jr.,
Thomas Henry Nickerson and
Neal H. Ray in the practice of
law.
Mr. Campbell is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Cumpbell of
Jackson and is a graduate of
the University of Georgia Law-
School. For several years he
served on the staff of the late
Sen. Richard B. Russell where
he rendered dedicated and
valuable service, being at Sen.
Russell’s bedside at the time of
his death in a Washington
hospital in 1971.
Mr. Campbell is a member of
the Jackson Kiwanis Club and
spends some of his time here at
his home on Brookwood
Avenue and in Atlanta. His
many friends are extending
congratulations on his affilia
tion with the highly regarded
Atlanta law firm.
because the college will give
her an opportunity “to learn
independence and develop a
career.” Gordon is ideal, she
said, because it is located
“close to home and I can come
to Jackson for the weekend, yet
I can live away from home and
become more independent.”
Miss Browning said she
looked at several schools
before choosing Gordon, But
Gordon was the only college
that allowed secretarial
science majors to begin
working on a career during the
freshman year. She said she is
anxious to begin her secre
tarial work and happy to go to a
school where her first quarter
will offer her experience in
secretarial skills, such as
typing and shorthand.
Miss Browning graduated in
the top ten of her 1973 class at
Jackson High School. She was
*a member of Honor Society,
FHA, Tri Sigma Chi Publicity
Chairman, Tri-Hi-Y Secretary
and Co-ed Y Vice-President.
When she was chosen Star
Student, she selected Mrs.
Nancy Houghtaling as Star
Teacher.
Last Spring, Mrs. Houghtal
ing sponsored a trip to
Barnesville for a group of
seniors to visit Gordon Junior
College, Miss Browning said,
"and I was quite impressed.”
She said the Gordon staff
answered questions the Jack
son students wanted to know
and gave an interesting tour of
the campus. "That is when 1
decided to go to Gordon," Miss
Browning said.
Miss Browning is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.
Browning Jr
Contract For Water
Systems Is Awarded
Head-On
Crash
Kills One
Butts County suffered its
first traffic fatality of 1973
when Jimmy L. Ammons, 22, of
Round Oak, died Thursday
night, July 26th, of injuries
sustained about four hours
earlier in the head-on crash of
the ear he was driving and of a
pick-up truck driven by Bobby
Watkins, widely known young
Jackson businessman, on the
Monticello Highway about five
miles east of Jackson.
According to Butts County
Sheriff Barney L. Wilder, the
collision occurred during a
heavy rain when the car driven
by Ammons attempted to pass
another vehicle and collided
head-on with the West bound
pick-up driven by Mr. W’atkins.
The accident occured a short
distance west of Troy’s T. V.
Service.
Mr. Watkins. 35, of Jackson,
was critically injured, suffer
ing a dislocated hip, a
compound fracture of his lower
leg, a broken bone in his foot
and a knee injury, all to his
right leg. He suffered a
severely bruised and battered
neck but x-rays thus far have
disclosed no fracture. Mem
bers of his family said Monday
that he still can’t talk and that
his back and chest are
extremely sore from a lick
from the steering wheel. His
jawbone was severely bruised
but not broken, it is believed.
After several bad days he was
showing definite improvement
Sunday and family members
said he might be able to return
home this weekend if all goes
well.
Passengers in the car driven
by Ammons were Robert
Hunter, 18, and Marvin
Johnson, 16, both of Round
Oak. They were seriously
injured and were reported to
have suffered multiple frac
tures. Ammons suffered a
fractured skull, leg and arm
and was transferred to St.
Joseph’s Hospital in Atlanta
where he succumbed soon after
arrival. All four victims of the
accident were taken by
ambulance to Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital.
An accident in Griffin
figured in the aftermath of the
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VARSITY FCXITBALL CHEERLEADERS - Jackson High's varsity football cheerleaders for 1973 include, left to right, lower
level. Rita Smith, Reba Kelly, Janice Fletcher, Captain; Maxine King, and Kathy Maddox. Higher up, left to right, are Kim Schroeder
and Debra Dawson. Not pictured is Janet Robison, Co-captain. - Photo by Pati Galt.
Butts County collision when
two employees of the Coca-
Cola Company and a Griffin
police car collided at Fourth
and Solomon Streets in Griffin.
The police car, driven by
Officer Harry Murphy who was
with Officer John Arthur, was
answering an emergency call
to meet an ambulance which
was transporting the wreck
victims to the Griffin Hospital
from Jackson when the two
vehicles collided at the
intersection. The Coca-Cola
employees, identified as Des
mer Scroggins, 40, of 1716
Ridge Street and his passen
ger, Robert Lee Jordan, were
shaken up but not believed to
be seriously injured.
Coleman
Is Badly
Injured
A prominent Jackson busi
nessman and councilman from
the Fourth Ward. John L.
Coleman, is recovering from
serious injuries sustained late
Saturday afternoon when a
car. on which he was working
at his garage in Jackson, fell
off the jack, pinning him
underneath until he could be
removed.
Mr. Coleman suffered la
cerations and bruises to the
head, five fractured ribs, and
internal injuries, but was
reported by members of his
family as making satisfactory
progress at Piedmont Hospital
in Atlanta. Immediately after
the accident, he was taken to
Sylvan Grove Hospital in
Jackson and later transferred
to Piedmont.
Mr. Coleman was reported to
have been working on a starter
underneath the car when the
car moved enough to fall off the
jack.
Mr. Coleman is owner of
Coleman’s Garage and Body-
Shop and has represented the
Fourth Ward on the City
Council for several terms.
At noon Tuesday Mr.
Coleman’s condition was listed
as "fair". He was reported on a
breathing machine and an
internal injury was causing
kidney complications.
$5.00 Per Year In Advance
The Mayor and Council of the
City of Jackson voted unani
mously at a meeting Monday,
July 30th, to accept the low bids
for the construction of Division
I- Water Plant and Division II
- Water Lines. The bids
accepted went to Scottdale
Contractors, Inc., Scottdale,
Ga., on a bid of $744,050 for
Division I and to Patterson and
Wilder Construction Cos., Inc.,
Birmingham, Alabama for
$396,886 for Division 11.
The acceptance of these bids
was indicated in a letter from
Keck and Wood, Inc., Atlanta
DIVISION I- WATER PLANT
1. Scottdale Contractors, Inc., Scottdale, Ga. $744,050
2. Bard Construction Cos., Inc., Anniston, Ala. 777,777
3. J. W. Meadors & Cos., Jacksonville, Fla. 789,000
4. Ethridge & Dumas Cons. Cos., Gray, Ga. 832,500
5. Alpine Construction Cos., Pelham. Ala. 849,949
6. Peabody - Petersen Cos., Orlando, Fla. 859,065
7. Arthur Pew Construction Cos . Inc . Chamblee, Ga. 884.300
DIVISION II - WATER LINES
1. Patterson & Wilder Cons. Cos.. Inc., Birmingham, Ala. $396,886
2. Statewide Grading Cos. (1), Norcross. Ga. 398.360
3. Nardei Contracting Cos., Inc., McDonough, Ga. 414,959
4 J.D. Stephens & Cos.. Lilbum.Ga. 434,164
5. Abernathy Cons. Cos . Inc (2), Cleveland, Ga. 467.511
6. Ethridge & Dumas Construction Cos., Gray, Ga, 532,041
7. T. L. Griffin Plumbing Cos . Macon Ga. 558,910
8. Black Grading Contractors. Inc., Doraville, Ga. 660,687
(1) Incomplete bid. No bid bond.
(2) Corrected total.
The letter from Keck and
Wood. Inc. indicated that each
of the low bidders have a
record of experience on work of
a similar nature. The project
construction costs of both
Division I and Division n as
tabulated by the Atlanta firm
totals $1,140,936.
Thomas M. Wood in his letter
stated “the low bids received
are obviously substantially in
excess of anticipated costs.
However, in view of the
contractor interest expressed
by the number of bids received,
it appears that these costs are
representative of the times and
circumstances associated with
competitive bidding on works
of this nature. It is unlikely that
readvertising the project with
out some substantial change in
work and economic conditions
would result in low bids.
Consequently, in an effort to
reduce the water plant cost we
have contacted the low bidder
engineers, designers and plan
ners, to the Mayor and City
Council dated July 25th.
Jackson Mayor Bobby Mack
ey said that he was “extremely
pleased that the contract had
been let and hoped that work
will begin soon on the improved
water expansion program
which will provide water to and
beyond 1-75 at Route 36. as
well as improved fire protec
tion for certain areas of Butts
County."
The bids were opened at the
City Hall in Jackson on July
19th with the following bids
received:
regarding certain changes
and-or deletions in the work as
bid."
“Our recommendation to
award contracts to the low
bidders. Scottdale Contractors,
Inc. for Division I in the
amount of $685,684 and
Patterson and Wilder Con
struction Cos., Inc. in the
amount of $396,886 is predicat
ed on supplemental project
funding in the amount of
$433,000.
AT THE HOSPITAL
Patients at Sylvan Grove
Hospital July 25 - 31st include:
Willie Joe Waits, Celestine
Sullivan, Daisy Grant, Eulee
Rosser. Francis Williams,
David Parker. Joseph Broad
us. D. D. Estes, Virgie Raney.
