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irs THIS WAY
By Doyle Jones Jr.
Jest of the Week: One evening as the Wilshire bus drew to a
stop awaiting a signal, a drunk staggered in and fumbled for his
fare. The driver noticed his condition but asked, “How far are you
going?”
The drunk replied, “To San Bernardino.”
“We don’t go to San Bernardino,” said the driver, easing the
bus back into the flow of traffic, “you’re headed the wrong way.”
The poor fellow sat down resignedly and waited. After
several blocks, the driver suddenly pulled to a stop and yelled.
“San Bernardino!” The drunk quickly jumped to his feet and
stumbled off the bus. - Marian Y. Black in The American Legion
Magazine.
THIS AND THAT ABOUT THESE AND THOSE
Butts County has about the sharpest looking courthouse
clock in the state. Last week, as part of the “bath” being given the
courthouse, workmen painted the face of the clock white and the
numerals and hands black for a really handsome appearance. The
exterior of the courthouse is cleaner than ever before because of
the sand blasting and is beginning to take on a real spic and span
appearance. The Butts County Commissioners are to be
commended for the restoration of the courthouse .... The
City of Bamesville recently removed its parking meters with
merchants reported generally Dleased. With free parking offered
by shopping centers and malls, downtown merchants have enough
to worry about and should not have to be concerned about parking.
I do not know how City of Jackson officials feel about them, but it is
noted that more and more towns are removing parking meters.
They may wish to take a long look at the meters, pro and con, real
soon .... Some state politicos are beginning to hint that
Lester Maddox can be defeated in his expected bid to return to the
governor’s chair. While he has his vulnerable spots, whoever beats
him had better get down to the nitty gritty soon and stay late. He’ll
be the odds on favorite to be the next tenant of the executive
mansion .... If Jackson Methodists fail to recognize their
new (renovated) church, it is understandable and they should be
forgiven. Those rich Methodists are planking down a cool $250,000
for a major rehaul of their church, inside and out, I suppose in an
effort to keep up with those rich Baptists who are building a
handsome new edifice out Griffin Road. The Nazarenes are
building an imposing new sanctuary on the Monticello highway.
The po’ Presbyterians are struggling to keep afloat while this
opulent spending is going on by the other denominations. We’re
delighted these new churches are being constructed and renovated
and only hope that the congregations can worship God more
readily in their new buildings .... Two prominent Georgia
political figures will fulfill speaking engagements in Butts County
within the next 20 days. The Hon. Sam Nunn, junior senator, will
speak at the 36th annual meeting of the Central Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation at Indian Springs on August Bth. The
Hon. John J. Flynt Jr. will address the Jackson Kiwanis Club on
August 21st at a Ladies Night meeting. We are fortunate in having
these two splendid Georgians in our midst and look forward to
visiting with both of them .... We are proud of the manner
in which Senator Herman Talmadge has conducted himself as a
member of the Watergate Committee and the exposure he has
received on national television. There is not a member of the
committee who possesses a more brilliant and analytical mind
than does the senior senator from Georgia, nor does anyone outdo
him when it comes to the spoken word, the senator being a master
of language he uses so effectively and, on occasions, with drama
and humor. The senator and I were classmates at the University
of Georgia in the depression days of the early 30’s and I quickly
became to admire him for his mind and rhetoric. He is following in
the footsteps of the Senator’s Senator, the great and revered
Richard B. Russell, and to be compared most favorably to him is
accolade enough for any man .... Conservationists and
highway officials state that 1,000,000 animals are killed each day
on the nation’s roads and highways. These include your pets and
mine - dogs, cats, coons, rabbits, horses, deer, cows, squirrels,
foxes, possums, etc. - in fact, about any animal you can name. It is
a high price to pay for man’s mania for speed. I recall once a man
who lived on highway 41 in the Griffin area told me that he had
lost 10 dogs to traffic and that he mourned every one, picking up
the remains and burying them in a row in the corner of his yard. As
the recounter of this sad tale was a hunter of note, some of the dogs
he lost were of high value. He said that over the years he had had
several thousand dollars worth of dogs sacrificed to speeding
motorists. This story, of course, is repeated countless times in our
county and over the nation. When we consider human life so cheap
on the highways, a dumb animal has no chance whatsoever. We
can count on the animal slaughter to keep pace with that of
humans.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Guest Editorial
THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
The Tape Tale
Sen. Barry Goldwater says he went in to talk to President
Nixon a vear or so 00. The next dav what he had to say to the
President was printed almost word for word in Jack Anderson’s
widespread column. Goldwater, the next time he saw the
President, asked him if he knew his oval office might be bugged.
Evidently the President did know. The Senate Watergate
committee, interrogating a surprise witness, stumbled over the
information that all - all conversations by phone or in person in
President Nixon’s White House offices and several of his other
offices are taped.
The White House lost no time in confirming that this is true.
And it turns out that Presidents Johnson, Kennedy and
Eisenhower taped at least some conversations - in Kennedy’s case
conversations on foreign policy and national defense.
The reaction to this revelation has been varied. Some find it
shocking -one more indication that we are on the road to 1984.
Others say, So what? - A president ought to keep accurate records
of his conversations. Foreign embassies in Washington didn’t
seem to be very much upset. “Every statesman is aware,” one
envoy from a Communist nation said, “what if conversations are
not recorded as they happen, they will be recorded later from
notes.”
Is there any difference between President Nixon’s
recordings and those of earlier Presidents? It isn’t clear whether
Kennedy or Johnson taped conversations without the other party’s
knowledge - Johnson’s aides deny that he did. But very few of
those taped in President Nixon’s offices knew that this was
happening.
That raises this question: why keep the fact that a person is
being recorded or taped a secret? If the tapes are for historical
archives, or only to insure accuracy, why must the visitor be kept
in the dark? Why not go ahead and tell him?
We ask these questions not out of any great objections to the
idea of taping as such. But there is, surely, a possibility of gross
abuse. It doesn’t take much imagination to see how this might
happen. Sen. Goldwater’s anecdote underlines that point. It could
just be that he didn’t care to have his remarks to the President
taped and later broadcast in Anderson’s column. Simple fairness,
which in this case means letting a visitor know that he is being
taped, would prevent the chance for abuse.
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Herman Talmadge
IN WHAT COULD SARCASTICALLY be called a blazing
display of fiscal courage, the Senate has very neatly sidestepped
an attempt to block a pay raise for members of Congress, fed
eral judges, and high ranking administration officials.
The action boiled down to this: Some senators talk fiscal
responsibility and reductions in federal spending, but not to
the extent that it would deny them a pay raise, which could be
as high as $12,500 a year, or an increase of almost 30 percent.
Members of the Senate, through a series of legislative de
vices, succeeded in watering down and in ultimately defeating
an amendment which would have barred these pay raises out
right. I and about 36 other senators cosponsored the legislation
with this thought in mind: Because of the deplorable state of
our economy, each and every member of Congress ought to be
trying to find every possible means to reduce federal spending,
rather than looking for ways to raise their own salaries.
It is preposterous to me that this matter has been allowed to
come as far as it has. Prices are virtually frozen. The wages of
working people are controlled. Already heavily burdened tax
payers are threatened with even more taxation. We have not
balanced the budget, and our economy is in a shambles.
* * *
FOR CONGRESS TO VOTE on the one hand to freeze
wages and salaries and, on the other hand, to allow salaries of
senators and representatives to be raised would be the height
of hypocrisy. In an effort to combat inflation, the government
has had to put wage and price restraints on the people. Con
gress ought to restrain itself as well.
Congress should not only tighten its own belt and certainly
forego any such extravagance as a pay raise, it also should
make every effort to cut federal spending in every possible
area and balance the budget. Earlier in the year, there was con
siderable momentum in Congress toward fiscal responsibility and
budget control. This momentum must not be allowed to falter.
Wage and price controls are only temporary expedients which
treat symptoms rather than causes.
It is my hope that Congress will take positive action this year
to stop runaway, inflationary spending and return control over
the federal budget.
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DECISIONS
Who knows how much is at stake in the decisions we make
everyday? We decide to do something which seems so small, and it
ends up shaping our whole life.
I chose one day to become a Christian. I never realized when
I made that choice how far reaching the effects would be. It didn’t
seem to be such an earth-shaking choice at the time. I just looked
at the options available as to a way of life and the Christian faith
made more practical sense than any of the others.
I am old enough now to know that that decision was the
wisest choice I have ever made. Because of my Christian faith I
have been able to fit together the pieces of life’s puzzle.
I was in a big city recently and while there I watched the
people who walked the street. There were three young people who
were cursing loud and clear, threatening to kill another person
they knew if such and such a thing happened.
I walked past the bars and they were crowded. The music
was loud and the booze was flowing. Supposedly, they were there
to have a good time. But that sure looked like a miserable way to
have a good time.
I spoke to a few people I met on the street. A few spoke back.
Most ignored me. Some looked at me as if I was rather stupid for
offering a smile.
Every person is what he is because of the decisions he has
made. Of course each of us is influenced trememdously by others
in the decisions we make. But, in the final analysis, we do our own
deciding.
Like I said before, we hardly ever realize the range of
effects that our decisions will have on our life. We choose this or
that, we go one way or another, and when we do it brings us a
certain kind of life.
It is wise, as we travel along this road of life, for each of us to
have a destination picked out where we wish to arrive. Then, each
immediate decision which we are called upon to make can be
made against the destination toward which we are traveling.
Unless we do this, our immediate decisions can be totally
unrelated and we will not have any idea where we will end up until
we are already there.
Each of us will have to go on making decisions for this
process is a part of life. And after we make our decisions, our
decisions then make us.
Like I said, one never knows how far reaching the effects of
a decision will be. I made a decision one day to follow the Way. It
has affected my life more than any other decision I have ever
made. And the longer I live the happier I am that I made the
decision I did. - FIVE STAR
PERSONAL
Representing The Jackson
Church of the Nazarene at
Boys-Girls Camp this week at
Camp Adrian in Adrian are
Rev. Lon Hadwin, Gary Cook,
Mary Ann Elliott, Melanie
Tomlin and Jed Wall.
Mrs. Jessie Mackey spent
the weekend in Warm Springs
with her children, Rev. and
Mrs. Bob Prater.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Patterson
of Hialeah, Fla. were recent
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jimmy
Kitchens.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Hutcheson of Hawkinsville
arrived this week for a visit
with their son, Loy Hutcheson,
Mrs. Hutcheson and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Dykes of
Murfreesboro, Tenn. were
recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs.
Rogers F. Starr.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim Robertson,
Lisa and Renee spent last week
touring points of interest in
Florida including Tampa, St.
Petersburg and Daytona
Beach, returning to their home
Sunday.
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1973
‘Whatsoever
Things’
By Donald E. Wildmon
Ginger, Samantha, Carmen
and Chad Plymel of Jonesboro
were weekend guests of their
grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. R.
T. Plymel.
Rev. and Mrs. R. W. Jenkins
and Wally motored to Georgia
Southwestern College Saturday
for Parent-Student orientation.
Mrs. G. G. Wallace and Mrs.
H. H. Caldwell visited last
week in West Point with Mr.
and Mrs. Carl Phillips and also
in Atlanta with Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Brown and Sheila.
Mr. and Mrs. Alton Potts and
Julian Desnoyers spent several
days recently vacationing at
Cocoa Beach, Fla.
Miss Annise Potts of Atlanta
and Jackson and Mr. Frank
Tierney of Atlanta returned
recently from Cleveland, Ohio
where they visited Mr. and
Mrs. Brent Marston and family
and Dr. and Mrs. Ed Bishop
and other friends and relatives.
They were joined by Mrs. John
B. Tierney of Melbourne, Fla.
for a few days.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Desnoyers, Julian and Peter of
Richford, Vermont, Mr. Jim
my Desnoyers of Cherry Point,
N. C. and Mr. and Mrs. Alton
Potts and Mr. Frank Tierney of
Atlanta were recent guests of
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Potts and
family.
Friends of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Avon Gaston are delighted to
learn they have returned to
their Jackson home after an
extended visit in Melbourne,
Fla. with Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Gaston. Misses Tina and
Sabrina Gaston returned to
Jackson with their grandpar
ents.
Mr. Julian Desnoyers re
turned to his home in Richford,
Vt. last week after an extended
summer visit with Mr. and
Mrs. A. G. Potts, Annise and
Amie, and Mr. and Mrs. Alton
Potts.
Mrs. Ethel Plank spent
Monday night in Conyers with
relatives.
Mrs. Ethel Plank spent
Saturday night in Mansfield
with friends.
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Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Collins
and Mrs. H. H. Koch of Atlanta
visited Friday with Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmy Kitchens.
Miss Kibbie Carr spent last
week at the University of
Georgia in Athens with her
sister, Miss Emily Carr.
Mrs. Henry Whitehead of
Loudon, Tennessee is spending
two weeks with Mr. and Mrs.
Troy Whitehead and family.
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Watkins,
Stacey and Trincher, of
Atlanta, visited in Jackson the
last of the week, coming down
to visit Mr. and Mrs. Lem
Watkins, and to visit Bobby
Watkins, who was injured in an
automobile accident late
Thursday.
Mr. and Mrs. Troy Allen,
John and Sam attended the
Blue Grass Festival Sunday at
Lavonia.
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Moody
and children, Chip and Susan,
spent two days last week
vacationing at Walt Disney
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