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Sacksmt — ■ hen : 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 |BWfc- §*■*•*-,. J svf Jn^^K^^^imKj^^awm^Kl^^^sl^^f^iiiaStK^ : ’*'iLr ~~ i<li. z'jKßm*flsSßfw&temrSKS?i'&. * iWM - —•- r .\ ’ . 21 * _ iß!Maitt*&ptt£i&£Emß*?ftiiTfl^*H&3jmffm3g£ffl&M&Bi&' - lt ■■ ;. i fl - , a -. _e>. , 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.