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Volume 102 Number 34
October 3rd Is Date Set
for City Jackson Primary
The date for the City
Primary has been set for
!' riday, October 3rd, at
which time councilmen from
the First, Fourth and Fifth
Wards will be nominated.
The date for the primary
was set Friday afternoon at a
meeting of the City of
Jackson Democratic Execu
tive Committee at City Hall.
In the event a run-off
primary is necessary, it will
be held on Friday, October
17th.
Members of the City
Democratic Executive Com
mittee are Levi Ball,
.chairman; Richard W. Wat
kins, Jr., secretary; Mrs.
Mary Lee Martin, assistant
secretary; Adeal V. Maddox,
J. 0. King, and Doyle Jones,
'Jr.
The earliest a candidate
Hampton Couple Killed
When Train Hits Car
Tuesday morning, at 10:00
a.m., Mr. Roy Wise and his
wife, Jessie Lee Wise,
became the victims of yet
another fatal accident at the
railroad crossing which leads
from Westbury Nursing
Home in Jenkinsburg to State
Highway 42.
Boosters Held
First Meeting
Of Season
By Frank Hearn
A small but enthusiastic
crowd of local supporters of
the Jackson High School
Athletic Boosters Club held
their initial meeting of the
season Wednesday night,
August 13th, at the Jackson
High lunchroom.
Highlights of the meeting
were opening remarks by
Head Coach and Atheltic
Director Danny Blue. Coach
Blue emphasized the need for
a strong Boosters Club to
support the entire school
athletic program, and
pledged his support, as
Athletic Director, to insure
that all sports are empha
sized.
Charlie Brown was elected
president with Perry Ridge
way to serve as vice-presi
dent. Mrs. Becky Cawthon
and Mrs. Ann Kelly will
serve as secretary and
treasurer respectively.
The central theme of this
initial meeting was financial
in scope. Funds, the lack of,
acquisition of, and debt
liquidation were brought of
focus. The indebtedness of
the entire Athletic Depart
ment is a major concern of
the Boosters. At the club’s
next meeting, Thursday
night, August 21st, at 7:30
MAILING LIST CORRECTED;
PLEASE CHECK YOUR LABEL
After many weeks of hard work, the mailing
list was corrected as of August 14, 1975.
Please check your label NOW. If the label
reads on or before August 14,1975, prompt renewal
of your paper is indicated.
Postal regulations prohibit carrying any
subscriber over six months in arrears.
Consequently, some subscribers will have to be
terminated unless prompt payment is forthcoming
immediately.
Again, please check your label.
can qualify will be at 9 a.m.
Tuesday, August 26th, and
qualifying will be continued
until 5 p.m. on Friday,
September 12th.
Each candidate must reg
ister his name and sign a
statement of qualification
with either Mr. Watkins or
Mrs. Martin on the dates
stipulated above.
The committee set the
same qualifying fee of $85.00
for councilman as that of last
year.
Under anew provision of
the Georgia Election Code,
absentee ballots will be
provided for the first time,
according to Chairman Ball.
A request for these ballots
may be made at City Hall.
The ballots, of course, cannot
be printed until after the
qualifying deadline of Sep
tember 12th expires, al
The elderly couple of Route
2, Hampton, was apparently
on their way from a visit at
the nursing home. As they
crossed the dangerous inter
section in their 1968 Chevro
let Impala, a south bound
Southern Railroad freight
train collided with the
right-front of the automobile
p.m. in the school lunchroom,
Supt. Bill Jones will discuss
the financial status of the
Athletic Department with
members of the Boosters
Club. All parents, friends,
and Booster Club members
are invited to attend.
Christian
Academy To
Open Sept. 2
Jackson Christian Acad
emy is now preparing, for the
opening of the 1975-76 school
term on September 2nd.
Jackson Christian Acad
emy, beginning their seventh
school term, was the first
accredited A.C.E. school to
open in Jackson.
Rev. Lamar Guyton, now
in training out in Garland,
Texas, will be administrator,
of J.C.A.
Registration is now in
process and those interested
may register at the school on
Thursday and Fridays be
tween the hours of 3-5 p.m.,
or call 775-2621.
DONATIONS NEEDED
FOR UPKEEP OF
OLD BETHEL CEMETERY
All persons having loved
ones buried at Old Bethel
Church Cemetery are asked
to send contributions to Mrs.
Pansy Vaughn, Rt. 1, Box
270, Jackson, Ga. 30233.
though a request for the
ballots can be made in
advance.
In the same primary,
members of the Democratic
Executive Committee will
also be nominated. The
present Executive Commit
tee is composed of Levi Bal,
City at Large; Mrs. Mary
Lee B. Martin, First Ward,
Doyle Jones, Jr., Second
Ward; A. V. Maddox, Third
Ward; Richard W. Watkins,
Jr., Fourth Ward; and J. O.
King, Fifth Ward.
As customary, polls in the
City will open at 7 a.m. on
election day and will close at
7 p.m. Voting will be done at
City Hall.
Attention is called to the
rules and regulations adopt
ed by the City Democratic
Executive Committee on the
legal page of this paper.
and sent the car careening
off the side of the tracks. The
badly damaged automobile
came to rest on its top
approximately 40 feet from
the crossing. The elderly
couple was pronounced dead
on arrival at the Sylvan
Grove Hospital in Jackson.
Dean Patrick
Died In
His Sleep
Mr. E. Dean Patrick of
Route 3, Jackson, prominent
Butts County farmer, mer
chant, and former Butts
County Commissioner, died
in his sleep early Saturday
morning at his residence on
the Griffin Highway. Mr.
Patrick had not been in good
health for some time and
following the death of his
wife on June Bth of this year
his condition became stead
ily worse.
Mr. Patrick was born in
Butts County on February 14,
1900, son of the late Mr. John
Henry Patrick and the late
Mrs. Josephine Weils Patrick
of Spalding County.
Mr. Patrick had owned and
operated the E. D. Patrick
General Store on Highway 16
for a long number of years.
He formerly served on the
Butts County Board of Roads
and Revenues and was also
widely known as a farmer.
Mr. Patrick was a member of
the Jenkinsburg Baptist
Church. His wife, Mrs. Sue
Redman Patrick, preceded
him in death slightly over
two months.
Funeral services were held
Sunday at two o’clock from
the chapel of Haisten
Funeral Home with the Rev.
Harry A. Shepherd, pastor of
the Jenkinsburg Baptist
Church, officiating. Inter
ment was in Jackson City
Cemetery.
Mr. Patrick is survived by
one daughter, Mrs. Ann
McClelland of Jackson; one
son, John Lee (Jack) Patrick
of Canton, N. C.; six
grandchildren; three great
grandchildren; one sister,
Mrs. J. J. Compton of
Hogansville; four brothers,
T. T. Patrick and J. D.
Patrick, both of Jackson; T.
Joe Patrick of Chattanooga,
Tenn.; and Dr. E. V. Patrick
of Carrollton; several nieces
f o'ikson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, August 21, 1975
Lisa Woodall
Has Gordon
Scholarship
BARNESVILLE The
1975 Valedictorian at Jack
son Christian Academy has
been awarded a Valdictorian
Scholarship to Gordon Junior
College.
Lisa K. Woodall of Rt. 1,
Jackson, was elected by the
Gordon Scholarship Com
mittee to receive the one
year full tuition scholarship
for her academic achieve
ment.
The daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. G. R. Woodall, Miss
Woodall will enter Gordon in
the fall as a nursing major.
BOY SUFFERS BROKEN
LEFT LEG IN ACCIDENT
An 11-year-old boy, Mau
rice Thurman of Indian
Springs, suffered a com
pound fracture of his left leg
around four o’clock Thurs
day afternoon when the pony
he was riding alongside
Highway 42 was struck by a
pickup truck near the Fresh
Air Barbecue stand.
He was taken by ambu
lance to Sylvan Grove
Hospital where his leg was
X-rayed and then transferred
to the Griffin-Spalding
County Hospital and placed
under the care of a bone
specialist.
The pony is not believed to
have suffered fatal injuries,
none of his legs being
broken.
and nepnews.
Pallbearers were Gene
Pope, Warren Patrick, Joe
McClelland, Jimmy Patrick,
Bryan Patrick, Danny Pat
rick, Tommy Patrick, and R.
B. Compton.
MARIJUANA DISCOVERED Several plants of
marijuana, size indicated above by Butts County Sheriff
Barney Wilder, were discovered last week in a field off a dirt
road just beyond Cedar Rock Congregational Methodist
Church on the Covington Highway. The plants were cut down
and destroyed. The field had been under surveillance of Butts
Deputies for at least two days. Photo by Jerry McLaurin.
17 Butts Busses Rejected
But All Are in Good Shape
By Jerry McLaurin
Last week, as the result of
the State Department of
Public Safety’s school bus
inspection, Bill Jones, Butts
County School Superinten
dent, found himself in the
company of many other
outraged county school offi
cials in Georgia. The outrage
was sparked after the
Department of Public Safety
rejected 1,046 buses out of a
total of 2,302 buses inspected
in 62 counties during the first
week of their inspection.
Eight hundred-eighteen
buses were rejected for
generally minor problems,
but 228 were labeled “not to
be driven until major
problems were corrected.”
In a news release dated
August 15, 1975 from the
Department of Public Safety.
Butts County was reported as
having a total number of 18
buses. Actually, Butts has a
total of 21 buses. “Three of
the buses were here in the
garage or close by and they
weren't looked at.” said
Charles Kersey, Butts
County school bus shop
foreman.
Of the 18 school buses that
were inspected. 17 were
rejected under the “minor
problems” category.
“Our bus fleet is in better
shape now than it has ever
been. Of the total of 21 buses,
ft are 1970 or later models,”
said Bill Jones. “Many of the
buses were rejected because
fire extinguishers which had
been taken out to be refilled
were not in the buses and
first aid kits which were on
order had not yet arrived. At
best the DPS’s report can be
called very prelimenary and
very misleading.”
“I don’t believe the
inspectors knew what they
were doing,” said Charles
Kersey, shop foreman,
“They didn’t know about the
operation of the buses. All the
buses in our fleet are in good
working condition.”
In the same DPS news
release mentioned above, the
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BUSSES FAIL TEST BUT WITH ONLY MINOR DEFECTS - Seventeen of 18 Butts
County school buses recently inspected by State Troopers from the State Department of Public
Safety were rejected but for only minor problems which, according to Bill Jones. Butts County-
School Superintendent, should all be remedied and ready to go for the opening of school on
August 28th. Pictured is a group of Butts County’s 21 buses. Photo by Jerry McLaurin.
Department of Public Safety
listed Effingham County as
having a total of 45 buses; 45
buses were inspected, 39 of
which were rejected and
seven were grounded. Thirty
nine plus seven equals 46
which means that somehow
the Department of Public
Safety rejected or grounded
46 buses in a county that only
has 45 school buses!
In Walker County the
inspecting troopers turned
down 46 out of the 50 buses
which were inspected. School
officials there were baffled
when the inspectors rejected
a bus which had just arrived
from the factory because the
tail pipe wasn’t long enough
and then could find nothing
wrong with a bus beside it
with 72,231 miles on it.
Roy Johnson, pupil trans
portation director of the state
Sen. Banks
On Grand
Jury Panel
ATLANTA Senator
Peter L. Banks of Barnes
ville has been appointed to a
special Senate Committee
which will thoroughly
examine Georgia’s grand
jury system with particular
attention to be focused on the
role of grand jury investiga
tions of public officers in
their official capacities.
Lieutenant Governor Zell
Miller has appointed Banks
to the five-member Senate
Grand Juries Study Com
mittee, which was created
under a resolution introduced
in the 1975 General Assem
bly.
The study will also include
a determination as to
whether grand juries have
the resources necessary to
carry out their responsibili
ties and the authority to see
that their recommendations
are implemented.
The Committee will submit
a report of its findings and
recommendations to the
Senate.
Banks, an attorney, is a
member of the Senate
Judiciary Committee and
Chairman of its Criminal
Subcommittee.
Other members of the
study panel include Sena
tors: Preston B. Lewis of
Waynesboro, Chairman;
Jimmy Lester of Augusta;
W. D. “Don" Ballard of
Covington; and Lawrence
“Bud” Stumbaugh of Stone
Mountain.
56.18 Per Year In Advance
Department of Education
said he felt that the
differences between school
officials and the inspecting
troopers arose because the
inspecting troopers are not
mechanics. “After the in
spectors left, we checked the
buses and could find nothing
wrong with many of the
things that they had listed as
not working,” declared
Charles Kersey. Butts
County shop foreman.
In a story which appeared
in the Atlanta Constitution.
August 15, Georgia Public
Safety Commissioner Colonel
Herman Cofer was reported
as having said. “We’re not
out to give anyone a black
eye; the inspection we make
is standard.
“W'e just apply the yard-
121 Pints Blood
Collected Monday
Over 120 pints. 121 to be
exact, were collected Mon
day at the summer visit of
the Regional Bloodmobile to
Jackson.
The Bloodmobile was head
quartered at the National
Guard Armory on Franklin
Street with the hours of
collection from 1 p.m. to 5:30
p.m. It marked the third or
fourth consecutive year that
the county had reached or
exceeded its quota. 112 pints
being the quota of the visit
Monday.
John B. Long, blood
recruitment chairman. Butts
County Chapter. American
Red Cross, thanked the
donors and the volunteer
workers helping Butts
County again “go over the
CENTRAL GEORGIA EMC
GETS $796,000 LOAN
The Rural Electrification Administration
announced last week that it has approved a loan of
$796,000 to the Central Georgia Electric
Membership Corporation in Jackson to help
finance service for 690 additional consumers, 50
miles of distribution line and system
improvements.
The $796,000 represents 70 percent of the
total loan for the year; the remaining 30 percent or
$341,000 will come from the Rural Electrification
Cooperative Finance Corporation. The money will
be used for improvements throughout central
Georgia.
Central Georgia EMC is currently serving
12,703 subscribers.
stick and tell them what has
to be done. Then we go back
later to see if it has been
done. And w-eil be back
before school starts.”
Cofer pointed out troopers
had inspected 156 buses in
Gwinnett County and found
only 5 that needed minor
repairs He said only four of
Rockdale County’s 51 buses
were found to have minor
defects.
“It is important to notice
that none of the buses in
Butts County were ground
ed.” said Bill Jones, “they
were all rejected for minor
defects.”
“Most of the work correct
ing the defects has already
been completed,” said
Charles Kersey. “All of the
buses will be repaired by the
time that school begins.”
top.”
Names of donors will be
published in next week’s
Progress-Argus.
HENDERSON BOOSTERS
TO MEET SEPT. 2ND
Henderson Junior High
Athletic Boosters Club will
hold its organizational meet
ing for the new school year on
September 2nd at 7:30 p.m.
at the Junior High Library.
President Gerald Kersev
urges all parents of students
participating in any sport
and other interested persons
to attend the meeting.