The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, June 20, 1974, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextWANT ADS All classified advertising 6c a word, cash in advance unless regular account is main tained with The Progress-Argus. Mini irum charge for an ad is $1.25. Phone 775- 3107. KEEP carpet cleaning problems small - use Blue Lustre wall to wall. Rent electric shampooer sl. Jack, son Hardware. 6/20/ltc. SALES A SERVICE: We fix all makes sewing ma chine, household and com mercial. Griffin Sewing Machine Cos., 204 Meriweth er St., 227-8663. 6-20-3tp. — HOUSE FOR SALE - On Jackson Lake. 3 bedrooms, carpeted, fireplace, central air conditioning, dishwasher.. In mid 30’s. Phone 468-8659 i evenings. 6-20-ltc. FOR SALE: House and store building on 1% acre lot in city. Real bargain at SII,OOO. Piedmont Realty, 775-2100. 6-20-tfe. Air Conditioners By Hotpoint We have the size and price to fill your needs. If you purchase by 12 noon, wo will install name day. HODGES ACE HOME CENTER 775-7501 922 E. THIRD ST. HELP WANTED AVON •y ... EXTRA SPRINGTIME EARNINGS can get you the summer vacation you thought you couldn’t af ford. No experience neces sary. Call 775-3613. 6/20/ltc. WINDOW GLASS CUT JACKSON HDWE. PASTURE LAND FOR KENT: Call 775-7559. 6/13/4tc. FOR SALE: House, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, brick, double carport. 1,700 sq. ft. In city limits. 775-3824. J. S. Wilson Realty Cos. 6/13/3tc. CLEAN rugs, like new, so easy to do with Blue Lustre. Rent electric sham pooer sl. Western Auto. 6/20/ltc. FOR RENT: Five-room house,.furnished, on Brook wood. Bobby Thaxton, 775- 5701. 6/13/tfc. Name Brandt inch a* Americans of Martinsville Bassett Broyhill Tell City HODGES HARDWARE & FURNITURE CO. *22 E. THIRD ST. PHONE 775-7501 Plenty Free Parking OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAYS ROTO ROOTER Service, prompt service, reasonable prices. Call Carter Heating and Plumbing, 775-7987. 6/13/3tp WASHINGTON Heating & Air Conditioning Sales - Service Installation Phone 775-2512 Jackson, Ga. 6/13/tfc, GIFTS For Best Selections Try Our Shop at HODGES Ace Home Center ATTENTION For expert wheel align ment see or call Polk Tire Cos. All work guaranteed. Polk Tire Cos., phone 775- 7331. 3/22/tfc. / BUILDING? REMODEL ING? REPAIRING? For a job well done call Johnston Contracting, 468-8339. 5/23/tfc. SEE US for your paint needs. Custom colors our specialty. Carter Builders Supply. 2/22/tfc. L. P. N’s APPLY Westbury Nursing Home. 8 - 4 Mon.-Fri. 775-7832 3-11 Shift Part or Full Time $24.50 Per Day Fringe Benefits 5/9/tfc “Best Buys” New & Used Motorcycles Mini-Bikes, Go Carts, Custom Parts & Accessories Franchised Chaparral Dealer THE CYCLE SHED Alabama Blvd. 775-3919 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Mon. to Sat. 5/23/ltc. LIFETIME BATTERY i TRUTEST .. . , lIIZ $33.95 Jackson Hardware STARCRAFT Boats and Campers. Evinrude Motors. We sell ’em for fun. May and Carter. 5/4/tfc. FOR SALE: McCaskill Drive, two lovely lots, wood ed, approximately one and three quarter acres, stream, sewers, paved streets, all utilities. $3,850 each. At lanta 876-1321. 3/21/tfc. FREEZERS By Hotpoint HODGES Ace Home Center THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA FOR RENT: One and two bedroom apartments. Stove refrigerator, and air con ditioning. Carpeted bed rooms. $85.00 per month and up. New Apt. Manager. Call Mr. & Mrs. Coop, 775- 3975 between 10 a. m. and 6 p. m. for appointment. Miller Apartments, Jenkins burg, Ga. 5/23/tfc. Mobile Homes and Spaces For Rent Large Shady Lots Swimming Pool Jackion 775-5106 Locut Grove 957-2850 WANTED GOOD USED MOTORCYCLES THE CYCLE SHED 775-3919 RICHARD’S ELECTRIC —All types electrical work. No job too large or too small. Call 775-5775. 3/28/tfc. ATTENTION! SAVE MONEY on your TIRE needs. Let us RECAP your TIRES now. Your neighbors do! POLK TIRE CO. 6/13/tfc. ALL TYPES remodeling and repair. Walter Joe Ben nett. 775-7759. 4/18/tfc. LOSE WEIGHT safely & fast with X-ll Diet Plan $3.00. REDUCE Excess Fluids with X-Pel $3.00. Money Back Guarantee. City Pharmacy. 3/21/15tc. NOTICE: I am affiliated with Thomaston Va u 11, Burial & Monument Cos., Thomaston. When in need of anything, please call Mrs. Bertha (Howard) Perdue, 775-7179. Well Drilling. Water Pumps repaired. Deep and shallow well pumps, submersibles. Water treatment systems. Larry Strickland - 228-8942. 3/28/tfc. ARIENS RIDING MOWERS HODGES HDWE. & FURN. CO. LEASE PROGRAM We are looking for per sons in your area to service Hot Food Vendors in In dustrial Plants with major nationally advertised prod ucts. Persons selected have option to buy with lease purchase agreement. To qualify you must be bond able and have good credit, 3-10 hrs. per wk. Nets ex cellent income. Cash invest ment of $1224.04 refund able plus interest on your money. Machines installed and complete training by company. In Georgia call Toll Free 1-800-282-5036 for more information or write CAB Enterprises - [ 1960 Century Boulevard N. E., Suite 8, Atlanta, Geor gia 30345. OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS 6/23/30tc CATFISHING FUTRAL’S LAKE . Only $1.50 per day. 2 Poles, 15 Catfish limit. Closed Sun days. Pay before entering at Cliff Futral’s Store, Grif fin-Jackson Highway 16. 3/28/tfc. LA-Z-BOY Recliner Rockers HODGES Ace Home Center PHONE 775-7501 LET US TRUE & BAL ANCE your tires for smoother riding and longer wear. Polk Tire Cos., Jack son, Ph. 775-7331. 7/30/tfc. Land Wanted We’ll buy land in Butts and surrounding coun ties. Call collect. Ray Mitchell. Days - Jones boro 1-471-8400; Nights- Jonesboro 1-471-6399 or write. 3 Offices, 102 Real Estate Agents RAY MITCHELL RLTY. 6670 Tara Blvd. Jonesboro, Ga. 30236 6/6/4tc LUGGAGE By Samsonite HODGES Ace Home Center JACK TAYLOR Sale* Representative 4 5i• t... : 1717 Fulton National Bank Bldg. Atlanta, Ga. 30303 522-4410 Ext. 392 Res. 255-3248 In Jackson Ph. 775-7836 All lines Life, Group and Hospitalization Now have Group Insurance for 2 people. Televisions RCA COLOR The Gift That Keeps On Giving We have our own Ser vice Shop, located in store, available six days a week. JAMES LAMAR, Service Technician Hodges Ace Home Center 922 E. THIRD STREET PHONE 775-7501 FREE DELIVERY PLENTY FREE PARKING OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAYS 12/14/tfc. The Ceramic House 775-5736 Tues. Nite 7-10 Wed. Afternoon 1-5 Thurs. Morning 9-12 Thurs. Nite 7-10 Sat. Afternoon 1-5 Bun. Afternoon 2-5 Paulette Washington A Look at Georgia Politics By Jerry McLaurin Staff Writer The officers are gathered; the goals are set; the plans are laid and the soon to be entangled strategies have been schemed. Georgia has been set up and another campaign is under way. An “oficially declared leader” in the campaign, Lt. Governor Lester Maddox, picked Clayton County to kick off his ’74 campaign. He addressed a crowd of about 350 at Tara Stadium in Jonesboro on Saturday, June 15. He promised ‘‘to wage war on crime” and “open up state government.” Maddox said that none of the 15 other qualified candidates for governor will be significant opposition for him. Mary Hitt, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, officially opened her Atlanta Campaign Head quarters Thursday, June 13, at the Sheraton Gardens Inn. She was elected Mayor of Jesup in 1970; she served one year on the State Democratic Executive Committee and in 1972 she was elected to the National Democratic Com mittee. Hitt has publicized a fifteen plank ACTION Plat form which she intends to SIGNS PAINTED Indoor and Outdoor Contact Jeny McLaurin Ph. 775-7498 after 5 p. m. CARPETS Wall to wall or room size carpeting. Priced to meet your budget. Cleveland Car pets, Jenkinsburg, Ga. Ph. 775-5602; night 775-2322. 9/27/tfc. Charlie's Heady House Utility Houses All sizes, all color trim Come to see them, at 444 E. 3rd Street Phone: 775-7451 5/2/tfc. Well Pumps WELL PUMP HEADQUARTERS YOUR AUTHORIZED MYERS A JACUZZI PUMP DEALER Myers & Jacuzzi Well Pump Sales Myers & Jacuzzi Well Pump Service Myers & Jacuzzi Well Pump Installation Call Russell Cawthon Service Manager at HODGES HARDWARE & FURNITURE CO. 922 E. THIRD STREET PHONE 775-7501 PLENTY FREE PARKING OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAYS 12/30/tfc. FOR SALE: House and 1 acre of land in City limits. Call 775-2454 after 5 p. m. 6/23/tfc. JACKSON LAKE MO BILE HOME DEVELOP MENT, Stark Community, now selling lots. Phone 776- 6775. 5/23/tfc. NOTICE For the best buy in used appliances and televisions, check our used merchandise department. Polk Tiro Com pany, phono 775-7331. 3/22/tfc. TAPE PLAYERS For Autos HODGES Ace Home Center THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1974 undertake when she is elected lieutenant governor of Georgia. She emphasizes five of these fifteen as having top priority. They deal with the clashing of personalities at the State Capitol; tax reform; quality education; law enforcement and, local governmental autonomy. Saturday, June 15, Demo cratic gubernatorial candi date David Gambrell served up free hot dogs, soft drinks and music along with political oratory to about 1,000 in Atlanta’s Grant Park. Gambrell accused Lt. Governor Lester Maddox of sweeping a legislative pay raise “under the rug”, putting “new sales taxes on the people” and humiliating Georgia while he was governor. Seven Democratic guber natorial candidates address ed a session of Georgians United for Education, an alliance of state education groups including the Georgia Association of Educators (GAE), Georgia School Boards Association and the state Department of Educa tion in Atlanta Monday, June 17. The seven candidates 4 Million in FHA Grants Are Allocated for Georgia A total of $3,945,000 in grant funds is available to rural communities in Georgia to supplement Farmers Home Administration loans for construction of water and waste disposal systems. J. N. McDuffie, FmHA State Di rector, announced this week. The newly released grant funds combined with pre vious grants of $1,097,000 and $15,505,000 in loans allocated for fiscal year 1974 provide a total of over 20V 2 million dollars for rural water and sewer system construction in Georgia. These funds are made available to help financially needy communities which presently lack water and sewer systems and are not able to develop them with usual methods of financing. Grants help keep the user rates at a reasonable level. “With these additional rural development funds, many communities can pro ceed with water and waste disposal projects that will enhance living conditions and encourage economic FOR SALE: ’73 Pinto Wagon, low mileage, auto, trans., air con. Call after 5 p. m. 775-2483 6/13/ltp. Appliances Hotpoint Fast, dependable, fac tory trained service men. Just as close as your telephone. Call Russell Cawthon, Service Manager at HODGES Ace Home Center 922 E. THIRD STREET PHONE 775-7501 OPEN ALL DAY WEDNESDAYS l/17/tfc. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS Do you have a drinking problem? If you want to drink, that’s your business; if you want to stop, that’s our business. Alcoholics Anonymous every Friday night at eight, at the Health Center. l/31/4tc. spoke for about 45 minutes each to the group; all made promises concerning state education. David Gambrell promised to add $75 million to spending for education next year, to implement the first stage of state-wide kindergarten, to raise teacher’s salaries, and to lower the pupil to teacher ratio in grades four through seven. He also promised to study the possibility of eliminating the 12th grade. Bert Lance promised to conjure up SIOO million to spend on education next year, to appoint members of minorities to the state Board of Education and to change the constitution so that teachers could serve on the state Board of Education. Promises for more money for education also came from George Busbee who said more money could be funded for APEG (Adequate Pro gram for Education in Georgia) without raising taxes. He promised an immediate SSO million for education, higher teacher salaries, and state-wide kindergarten. George T. Smith promised $78.6 million for education, state-wide kindergarten, blacks on the state Board of growth,” McDuffie said. Loans and grants for water and waste disposal systems can be made to public entities such as municipali ties, counties, and water and sewer authorities. Applications for loan and grant assistance from the Farmers Home Administra tion can be made at any of the 60 county offices serving Georgia. Additional informa tion concerning any of the agency’s programs may be obtained from the State Office in Atlanta which will Homes For Sale JACKSON MODERN BRICK HOME, 3 BR, 1% Bath, Family Room, Carpeted thru-out. Central Air and gas. On beautifully landscaped lot 100’ x 200’ with chain linked fenced backyard. Close to Jackson High and Elementary School. JACKSON - Owner transferred to Texas. 3 Bedroom, 2 Bath Brick Home on 1% Acre Lot. Back fenced with Fruit Trees & Vineyard. 12’ x 18’ Workshop/Util ity Bldg, w/wiring. Pay owner’s equity and assume low note. Monthly payments $149. includes Ins. & Taxes. JACKSON - Modern Brick Home -3 BR, 1 Bath, Den with wide rock fireplace. On beautifully landscaped, wooded lot 100’x300’ - Termite protected Low utilities, back yard fenced, Fruit Trees. Also Workshop/Utility Bldg. 14’ x 27’. Pay owner low equity - assume 7 % loan balance. Monthly payments $l6B - Includes Ins. & Taxes. Farm For Sale JACKSON - 104% Acre Farm, 1 Mi. So. of City Limits, Public Water & deep well & pump, 2 Acre Lake. Over % in finest pasture with cross-fence. 2 good homes & 2 tenant homes. Owner will finance, 29% down. Interest only 5 years. Mum 6474 GRESHAM PLACE UNION CITY, GEORGIA 30291 PHONE (404) 964-2233 ROY GOFF TOM O’DELL (404) 775-7999 (404) 775-7624 (404) 775-7812 Education and a 50 percent cut of school dropouts and failures. Harry Jackson followed the pack and promised to fund APEG and get blacks on the state Board of Education and denounced the new age requirements for first graders. Lester Maddox promised a 5 percent pay raise to teachers in January, to cut the pupil to teacher ratio in the first three grades apd refused to support APEG without further study object ing to the new age requirements for first graders. “Diagnostic and evalua tion centers” were proposed by Bobby Rowan along with shifting the basis of the state teacher allotment from aver age daily attendance to enrollment count and op posed state assumption of required local effort. Self avowed white racist and Democratic guberna torial candidate J. B. Stoner has surfaced as victor in his battle to keep his political ads on Macon and Augusta city buses. Federal judges in Macon and Augusta ruled Monday, June 10, that those cities must permit the ads to remain on city buses. be located in Athens after July 1. The new address of the State Office will be P. O. Box 1848, 355 E. Hancock, Athens, Georgia 30601. PERSONAL Mrs. A. C. Adams 111 and two month old son, A. C. Adams IV, visited recently with Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Hurt, Sr. and Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Adams, Jr. She and her son left Sunday to spend some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Willford of Montgomery, Alabama. %