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Volume 102 Number 2
Union Cavalry Sword Has
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C. W. McGOUGH AND UNION SWORD
By Jane Oppy
A cavalry sword that has
been in his family for 110
years was brought to the
Progress-Argus office last
Friday by C. W. McGough, a
local descendant of several
generations of veterans.
“I have been offered lots of
money fos.it, but I don't want
to part with it,” said Mr.
McGough, who showed the
Dick O'Hara Will Head
Chamber Commerce Again
The Board of Directors of
the Butts County Chamber of
Commerce, Inc., met Mon
day, December 23, and
elected Dick O’Hara as
president for 1975. Mr.
O’Hara also served as
president for 1974 and guided
the Chamber to one of its
most successful years.
Other officers elected
include Maurice W. Carmi
chael, Vice President; Lewis
Freeman, Treasurer, and
Miss Elizabeth McMichael as
secretary.
After the election of new
Senators and Representatives
'To Be Minutemen Guests Tonight
The Central Georgia EMC
will hear Franklin Rogers,
rate consultant for the
Southern Engineering Com
pany of Georgia, speak on the
cost and availability of
electricity Thursday, Jan
uary 9th.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins,
Member Services Director,
said that six state senators
and twelve state representa
tives have been invited to
attend the dinner meeting at
the CGEMC auditorium at
7:00 p.m.
Among the senators invited
are Virginia Shapard, Dis
trict 28; Peter Banks,
District 17; Don Ballard,
District 45; Lee Robinson,
District . 44; Culver Kidd,
District 25.
Representatives invited
are John Carlisle and John
well-preserved, deadly-look
ing weapon around town.
Although he has been
approached by museums as
well as private buyers, Mr.
McGough says the sword has
never left his family.
The sword was taken from
a Union soldier in the battle
of Sunshine Church near
Hillsboro in 1864 and fell into
the hands of Mr. McGough’s
grandfather, James Robert
officers, the 150th birthday of
Butts County was discussed
and a decision was made to
start as soon as possible so as
to make the sesqui-centen
nial more successful than the
Chamber of Commerce’s
July 6th week-long celebra
tion of last year.
Frank Barnes, a former
president of the Chamber
and president of the C&S
Bank of Jackson, was
appointed to the position of
Director Emeritus.
It was decided at the
meeting that each member of
L. Mostiler of District 17;
William J. “Bill” Lee, Frank
I. Bailey, Jr., Jim West, and
Rudolph Johnson, of District
72; Ray Tucker, District 73;
Benson Ham, District 80; J.
R. Smith, District 78; Roy
Lambert, District 112; Pat
Banks, District 104; and
Bobby Eugene Parham,
District 109.
Rogers, a native of
Georgia, received his degree
in industrial engineering
from Georgia Tech in 1955
and attended Emory Law
School. After three years
service in the Navy he began
work for Southern Engi
neering Company of Georgia,
an engineering consulting
firm.
Rogers is a veteran of rate
and contract negotiations for
both co-ops and municipal
systems.
McGough, whom he believes
10 have been with Company I
of the Second Georgia
Regiment.
Mr. McGough’s uncle,
Augustus Bankston, received
the sword from James
Robert McGough and passed
11 on to Mr. McGough’s
father, William Thomas
McGough.
According to the story that
was passed on along with the
sword, General George
Stoneman, commander of the
Union troops that surren
dered at Sunshine Church,
“sat down and cried” when
he realized what a small
bunch of Confederates he had
surrendered to.
Mr. McGough said he was
about six years old when he
first saw the sword. “I
thought it was a terrible
weapon at the time,” he
remembered.
He said his father kept the
sword hanging on the wall
but would let his children
take it down and look at it.
Mr. McGough remembers
trying to get his grandfather
to tell him more about the
sword but having no success.
“My grandfather was a
man who didn’t talk too
much, anyway,” Mr. Mc-
Gough recalls. “I would
bring the subject up to him
many a time, but he was a
person that when the war
was over, he talked very
little about it.”
Mr. McGough plans to keep
the sword in his family, along
with a number of other war
memorabilia he has collected
through the generations.
“My wife and I don’t have
any children,” he said, “so I
am going to give it to
my nephew, Randy Knott.”
the Chamber should be
assigned to a committee,
informed of the committee
appointment, and given a
chance to accept or reject
such appointment as early as
possible.
Mr. O’Hara said that a
questionnaire will also be
mailed to each member
concerning important activi
ties that the Chamber will
likely be involved in during
1975. Upon receipt of the
questionnaire the results will
be I allied for further use.
use.
Baptist To
Have Men’s
Day Sunday
On January 12th the First
Baptist Church will observe
Baptist Men’s Day. Begin
ning with a Brotherhood
Breakfast at 8:00 o’clock at
which time Rev. Bobby G.
Dollar, Vice President of
Days Inns of America, Inc.,
will be the speaker, the
laymen of the church will be
in charge of the services.
Mr. Dollar will also be the
guest speaker in the pulpit at
the eleven o’clock service.
The public is invited to
attend.
Baptist Men’s Day is under
the direction of the Brother
hood Department of the
Church. Kenneth Dobbs is
the president of this organi
zation.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, January 9, 1975
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Arch Avary
To Speak
At Kiwanis
J. Arch Avary, Jr.,
Executive Vice President,
Trust Company of Georgia
Associates, Atlanta, will
speak to the Jackson Kiwanis
Club Tuesday night, January
14, at 7:00 o’clock on three of
today’s most important so
cial issues and in a very
unique way hit a real blow in
fighting cancer.
Free enterprise, student
unrest, and the morality gap
are the issues, and Mr. Avary
is the catalyst that brings
these issues into focus.
Relating the role of each in
today’s society, Mr. Avary is
able in his own inimitable
way to show the humanitari
an role of the Free
Enterprise System in face of
its opposition.
Avary, himself a cured
cancer patient, hits hard on
defending the Free Enter
prise System with its deeds,
not rhetoric deeds that
are reflected in such tangible
terms as lives saved from
untimely cancer deaths.
Avary's “Gifts For Ex
amination Program” began
as an idea of motivating
people to get check-ups by
offering free gifts. Through
this program, which is
u%ique and without prece
dent in the nation, he offers
suits of clothes and other free
prizes to people who hear
him speak and go within
sixty days for a cancer
detection examination. He
also offers prizes to school
children who hear him speak
and get their parents to go for
an examination.
Avary appears before
student bodies with suits of
clothes, portable radios,
towels, walking shorts, bla
zers, women’s blouses, cases
of Coca-Cola and other prizes
he offers. His opening
remarks are, “I am here
today to help you keep your
mother and father out of a
premature cancer grave, and
the Free Enterprise System
of Georgia makes it possible.
The industries which have
prizes here before me have a
deep concern for human
values and are demonstra
ting it by making the
program possible.”
The 17 participating Geor
gia industries are Warren
Sewell Clothing Company,
Bremen; all Coca-Cola Bott
ling Companies in Georgia;
Roy Richards, the Southwire
Company, Carrollton; Dun
dee Mills, Griffin; Riverside
Manufacturing Company,
Moultrie; Blue Bird Body
Company, Fort Valley; Sa
vannah Foods & Industries,
Inc., Savannah; Oxford
Manufacturing Cos., Atlan
ta; J. P. Stevens & Company,
Inc., Milledgeville; Rome
Manufacturing Company,
Rome; Coronet Mills, Dal
ton; Arnold Mitchell, Mit
chell Motors, Inc., Atlanta;
Williams Brothers Lumber
Company, Atlanta; Gold
Kist, Atlanta; Deering Milli
ken Company in 14 Georgia
communities.
Avary was born in West
Point, Georgia, and has spent
his business career in
banking.
Flu Epidemic Postpones
School Opening Two Days
There is no doubt about
it—the flu has hit Jackson.
And nobody is glad about it
but the kids, who got an
extended Christmas vaca
tion.
Although a Progress-Argus
check with local schools
before the holidays did not
show serious incidence of flu
then, Supt. Bill Jones felt that
things were different a week
later. Schools opened on
Monday, January 6th, in
stead of Thursday, January
2nd, as planned.
“We checked with the
health department and the
doctors and thought that this
virus may have almost
reached epidemic stages,”
he said. “We felt like it was in
the interest of all concerned
that we give ourselves time
for it to reach its peak.”
The Prcgress-Argus called
local physicians and pharma
cists and found agreement
that the virus had become
serious.
“It looks like a mild
epidemic, at least,” said Dr.
Rev. Westbury In Africa For
Two Months Missionary Work
Rev. S. J. Westbury of
Jenkinsburg is on his way to
Africa to carry out his annual
mission to the native pastors
of Nairobi, Kenya.
For the past 13 years. Rev.
Westbury has conducted
classes in Christian leader
ship for the pastors, many of
whom travel as many as 200
miles to Nairobi to study with
him for two months. This
year, his 14th, expects to
teach about 1,000 people.
“Since he is no longer
pastoring a church, this is his
missionary work,” his wife
said.
Mrs. Westbury described
her husband, whose ministe
rial career spans the past 25
years, as a missionary
evangelist to the Elim
Fellowship, the international
organization to which the
Kenya pastors belong.
Although occasional con
gregations to whom he
preaches contribute to his
work, Rev. Westbury bears
the primary expense of
feeding and housing the
WORTHVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH
TO HOST TWO MUSIC GROUPS
The Lamplighters Quartet
of Lindale, Georgia will give
a concert on Saturday night,
January llth. at 7:30 at the
Worthville Baptist Church.
The Lamplighters will be
accompanied by J. O. (Bert)
Smith, a native 'of Butts
County.
Gordon Will
Offer CRP
Technique
Barnesville - Cardiopul
monary resuscitation, a
basic life-saving technique,
will be taught at Gordon
Junior College on Jan. 20 and
21 at 7.00 p.m.
Mrs. Marie LoMonaco,
chairman of Gordon’s nurs
ing division, will instruct
individuals in the techniques
of artificial breathing and
artificial heart-circulation
through films and practical
Gerald Ross.
On the other hand, he said
it did not appear to him to be
a particularly bad kind of flu.
He said he prescribes
medication to control ac
companying coughs and
fever but that antibiotics are
not especially effective.
Dr. Jack R. Newman said
most of the cases he has seen
have responded very rapidly
to treatment, with recovery
in as little as two to three
days. He prescribes rest and
plenty of fluids, and advises
those coming down with the
bug to see their doctor if
fever persists over 48 hours.
The doctors said the
contagious stage of the flu
begins five to seven days
before obvious symptoms
develop. First a mild sore
throat, appears, then a
cough, followed by fever, and
a moderate amount of
aching.
“You don’t have to tell
them to rest, because they
don't feel like doing anything
else," Dr. Ross said.
native pastors himself. Many
of them. Mrs. Westbury said,
bring their wives as well.
“We use the money to
spread the gospel for the
people," said Mrs. Westbury,
who has accompanied him
for many years. A pianist,
she has been called upon to
perform in some unusual
circumstances.
On one of her first trips,
she was greeted by the wife
of one of the resident
missionaries, who said, “Oh,
you got here just in time to
play for the wedding!”
Not knowing what to
expect. Mrs. Westbury went
to the church and found that
the couple who were to be
married were from India. “I
expected it to be rather
offbeat, but they sing just
like we do." she said,
“except in Swahili.” Not
knowing what else to do. Mrs.
Westbury played the tradi
tional Mendellssohn wedding
march and "Saviour, Like a
Shepherd Lead Us," which
the wedding guests sang in
The Living Stones, a youth
group from Mount Zion
Baptist Church of Morrow,
will present a program of
music and singing at the
evening worship hour Sunday
night. January 12th, at 7:30.
The public is invited to
attend these programs
application.
"CPR is an important
life-saving measure applied
when someone stops breath
ing. The two steps are so
simple that anyone can
master the technique.” Mrs.
I also encourages
those who are already
certified to take the course as
a refresher
The two-night course is
open to all ages but limited to
30 people. Reservations must
be made by Jan. 17. The class
will meet in Smith Hall.
Room 114. Call the Office of
Community Services. Gor
don Junior College, 358-1700.
for more information.
$6.18 Per Year In Advance
Dr. James C. Howell felt
that the virus had reached
“epidemic proportions." and
called it “worse than any
time in the last 22 years.” He
said it seems to be hitting all
age groups, but the elderly
are most likely to suffer
complications, such as pneu
monia or meningitis. He said
he has seen two or three
cases of pneumonia, but none
of the latter, however.
Dr. Howell's advice to
those who hope to stay
healthy is, “Stay away from
it. Stay out of crowds.”
Dr. Newman disagreed.
"The only way not to get it is
to put yourself in a sterile
room and stay there,” he
said. The 20 to 50 age group is
the most susceptible, he said,
largely because of their
higher exposure to people.
He gave about 200 flu shots
last fall to his elderly
patients and others with
serious health problems, and
they have been adequately
protected.
"So far I haven’t had a
single person to come to my
office who had the flu shot,”
Swahili
Though many of the native
pastors speak English, Rev.
Westbury conducts his clas
ses through an interpreter.
The day is long, with classes
in the morning and after
noon, and services in the
evening.
On this trip. Rev. Westbury
will be assisted by his son.
Ron. who is a student at
Central Bible College in
Springfield. Mo. Rev. West
bury will be away for two
months; his son Ron will
return to school during that
time.
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A HAPPY HUNTRESS Mrs Cecelia Boan
shows concrete evidence, a 70 lb spike, that men don’t kill all
the deer. Mrs. Boan bagged hers on December 31st off
Brownlee Road with a Marlin 30-30. She had been on her stand
about 30 minutes when the deer appeared below her in a
valley. She missed the first shot but caught the small buck in
the shoulder on her second. It was Mrs. Boan’s first deer after
about three years of hunting. Husband Robert was about as
proud of the deer as was his wife. Photo by Jerry
Mct-aurin.
Dr. Howell said. “Apparently
it’s working. But we didn’t
have a whole lot of people
taking them.
“I had to return a good bit
of our supply. We gave only
maybe 100 shots,” he said.
“Of course, it won’t do any
good now.”
Dr. James C. Shaw, Sylvan
Grove Hospital administra
tor, said the hospital’s
emergency room was busy
during the Christmas holi
days and is still seeing
patients with flu symptoms
in the emergency room;
mostly babies, small child
ren. and younger people.
“We give them medication
and send them home,” he
said. “There is not too much
we can do unless they run
into complications.”
A Jackson pharmacist said
he has filled some prescript
ions for antibiotics for
secondary infections. Some
pa;n medication is also being
prescribed. It is fortunate
that the schools were out to
prevent it from spreading
more rapidly, the pharma
cist said.
Basketball
Registration
Continues
The Jackson-Butts County-
Recreation Commission is
continuing to accept sign-ups
for youth basketball until
January 10th.
Director Perry Manolis
stated that sign-ups have
been very slow, but expects
them to pick up now that the
Christmas holidays are over.
The youth basketball pro
gram is for boys and girls
eight years to 13 years old.
Boys and girls may sign up at
the Recreation Commission
offices, the Van Deventer
Center, or the Henderson
Community Center. Monday
through Saturday.