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BUTTS COUNTY RECEIVES BICENTENNIAL FLAG
Butts County has received official recognition and designation as a Bicentennial
County. A bicentennial flag was presented by the Georgia Commission for the National
Bicentennial Celebration to local government officials at the recent county-wide Thanksgiving
Service. Accepting for the county was W. A. Duke, commissioner, and for city, John L.
Coleman, mayor pro-tem. According to Mrs. R. H. Pinckney, chairman of the Butts County
Bicentennial Committee, a framed certificate from the American Revolution Bicentennial
Administration in Washington certifying the recognition will be hung in the courthouse. The
flag will fly, along with the American flag, from City Hall throughout 1976. Above, W. A. Duke
and John L. Coleman are shown raising the new flag over City Hall. Photo by Jerry
McLaurin.
Arthur Gavin
Employee
Of The Year
The Georgia Department
of Corrections-Offender Re
habilitation (DCOR) has
named Arthur Gavin as
Rehabilitative Services Em
ployee of the Year. Gavin is
employed as a counselor at
the Georgia Diagnostic and
Classification Center (GD &
CC), in Jackson, Georgia.
Gavin is regarded as one of
the most competent counse
lors at the Jackson facility.
He has developed an out
standing relationship with
both inmates and staff and
has demonstrated a willing
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AWARDS LUNCHEON The Butts County Association for Beautification through
Conservation was presented a check for SIOO at the Georgia Association of Conservation
District Supervisors awards luncheon held November 24. Attending the luncheon were, left to
right: Harold McMichael, Luther Washington, Frank Freeman, Mrs. Roy Prosser, Mrs. Lou
Moelchert, Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, Mrs. Frank Freeman, Mrs. M. W. Juhlin, Miss Christine
Hardy, Mrs. Eilene Milam, Charlie Huggins, Larry Morgan, Mrs. R. F. Armstrong, Buster
Duke, Millard Daniel and Alan Byars.
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ness to accept responsibili
ties above and beyond his
regular duties.
Gavin, a native of Savan
nah, holds a B.S. degree from
Armstrong State College. He
will receive the M.Ed. degree
in December from the
University of Georgia. Gavin
joined DCOR in 1973.
The presentation of the
award naming Gavin as one
of the eight outstanding
employees for 1975 will be
held as a part of the special
dinner meeting of the State
Boards of Corrections and
Offender Rehabilitation,
December 8, in Milledgeville,
Georgia.
Local Lawyer
Is Given High
District Post
A Jackson attorney, Ric
hard W. Watkins, Jr., was
named Friday to the State
Democratic Executive Com
mittee by delegates of the
17th Senatorial District meet
ing in Barnesville.
Watkins thus joins Miss
Gigi Leverette, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Billy Leverette,
who had been previously
Girl Hit
By Car
Near Stark
Monday morning around
11:30 a.m., four-year-old
Sandra Douglas of Route 2,
Jackson, suffered severe
head injuries as the result of
an automobile accident.
According to the Butts
County Sheriff’s Depart
ment, little Sandra Douglas
was crossing Halls Bridge
named a delegate along with
Glenn Starr of Henry County
and Lamar Akins of Lamar
County.
The action Friday was
taken by delegates from the
seven counties comprising
the 17th Senatorial District.
In addition to the Jackson
attorney, John McGarity of
Henry County was also
named a delegate.
Other counties besides
Butts in the 17th Senatorial
District are Henry, Lamar,
Pike, Talbot, Upson and
Crawford.
Present at the Friday
meeting in Barnesville was
Wes Lord, chairman of the
Sixth Congressional District
Democratic Committee.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, December 11, 1975
PROGRESS-ARGUS EDITOR REMAINS
ON CRITICAL LIST AT EMORY
Readers of the Jackson Progress-Argus and
the many friends of Editor Doyle Jones, Jr. will
regret to learn that he is critically ill at Emory
University Hospital.
Mr. Jones suffered a massive stroke early
Sunday morning at the Sylvan Grove Hospital,
was transferred immediately to the Griffin-
Spalding County Hospital and from there to the
intensive care unit at Emory Hospital.
His condition late Tuesday afternoon was
still listed as extremely critical.
Kitchens Wins
Justice Peace
Run-off Race
In one of the closest
elections ever held in Butts
County, Terry Kitchens de
feated John Moore by one
vote in the run-off election for
Justice of the Peace in the
Jackson District.
Butts County Ordinary
Luther Washington, who
supervised the Thursday,
December 4th election, re
ported Kitchens had 451 votes
to Moore’s 450.
After the initial count
showed two votes separating
the candidates, a recount
NEW FIRE NUMBER: 775-7838
Residents of Jackson and Butts County have
anew number to call to report fires. The number.
775-7838, is for the reporting of fires only. In the
past, fires were reported to the police department.
The Jackson City Police Department says that it
will continue to take fire calls but for a faster
expedition of the fire forces, the new number is
recommended.
Road, on her way to the mail
box from her house near
Stark United Methodist
Church when Joseph Deptula
of 613 Covington Street in
Jackson, driver of the car
which hit her, slowed for her
to cross. Sandra had her back
to the car as it approached;
when she turned and saw the
automobile she, apparently
frightened, jumped back into
Butts County
Gets Award
In B-C Contest
The Butts County Associa
tion for Beautification
through Conservation was
presented a check for SIOO in
recognition of their being a
group winner in the Beautifi
cation through Conservation
Contest. The award, which
will be applied toward the
continuing program of beau
tification in Butts County,
was made at the Georgia
Association of Conservation
District Supervisors awards
luncheon held Monday, No
vember 24, at the Holiday Inn
in Gainesville. Mrs. M. W.
Juhlin, chairman of the
BCABC, accepted the award.
Jackson County was the
state winner of the contest
sponsored jointly by the
Georgia Electric Member
ship Corporation and the
GACDS. Other group winners
were Colquitt, Glynn and
Gordon.
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was held which resulted in
the one vote margin for
Kitchens, Washington said.
Kitchens was elected to fill
the unexpired term of Don
Montgomery, who resigned
the post. He will serve for the
calendar year 1976 but will
have to seek reelection
during that year for a
four-year term.
The 901 votes polled in the
run-off were approximately
25 percent of the 3,554
registered voters in Jackson
District.
the path of the car and was
struck.
Sandra was unconcious at
the scene and suffered head
injuries with possible inter
nal injuries. From Sylvan
Grove Hospital, she was
transferred to Clayton Gen
eral in Atlanta.
Sandra is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. James Douglas
of Route 2, Jackson.
Citizens To
Discuss Butts
Health Plan
Butts County’s needs for an
adequate training center for
the mentally retarded will be
discussed at a community
wide meeting at the Van
Deventer Youth Center on
Monday, December 15 at
10:30 a.m.
John Hall, chairman of a
committee named to investi
gate this need and Doug
Durrett, chairman of a
building fund to provide such
a facility, encourage all
interested citizens to attend
the December 15 meeting.
The present center, located
in the old Presbyterian
Manse on Mulberry Street, is
severely overcrowded. There
are 22 students enrolled at
the present time and many
others on the waiting list.
Both Hall and Durrett
stressed the importance of a
concerted community effort
to bring into being an
adequate training center for
the county’s mentally retard
ed and expressed hope for a
good attendance at the
December meeting.
Durrett said the Jackson
High Home Economics De
partment has volunteered to
provide lunch for all atten
dees.
Christmas Lights To
Be Judged on Dec. 18
The festive air of Christ
mas time in a small town is
becoming increasingly evi
dent as the time rapidly
approaches for judging the
1975 Christmas lighting con
test in the City of Jackson.
Already, lighted Christmas
trees blink from the town’s
shop windows, the City has
decorated its streets and
sidewalks in a tasteful
manner and an occasional
home displays the tree, bell,
star and candle symbolic of
the season.
The Christmas Lighting
contest has been sponsored
annually for many years by
the Jackson Progress-Argus
and the Garden Club Council,
who jointly announce that
this year’s contest will be
judged on Thursday, Decem
ber 18, beginning at 7 p.m.
Judging will be continued
until a final decision has been
rendered.
Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins
has again secured accredited
judges for this year’s
competition and they include
Ivan L. Winsett, executive
C&S Bank To Present
Christmas Choir Program
The C& S Bank of Jackson, in an effort to do their part in celebrating the true meaning of
Christmas, is sponsoring a series of choral programs during the two weeks preceeding
Christmas Day, beginning December 15 and ending December 23.
Two thirty minute programs of Christmas music will be presented each day by various
church choirs from the community at the C&S Bank of Jackson. The programs will begin each
day at 4 p.m.
The schedule is presented below:
Monday, December 15, 4:00 p.m., Macedonia (of Jackson) Youth Choir; 4:30 p.m.,
Macedonia (of Stark) Choir
Tuesday, December 16, 4:00 p.m., Macedonia (of Jackson) Junior Choir; 4:30 p.m.,
Mount Zion Choir
Thursday, December 18, 4:00 p.m.. First Baptist Carol Choir; 4:30 p.m., W. C. James
Male Chorus
Friday, December 19, 4:00 p.m.. China Grove Junior Choir; 4:30 p.m.. Worthville Adult
Choir
Monday, December 22, 4:00 p.m., First Baptist Youth Choir; 4:30 p.m. Mount Vernon
Church Choir
Tuesday, December 23, 4:00 p.m., China Grove Senior Choir; 4:00 p. m. Isarel Temple
CME Choir
HELP FOR THE RETARDED President of VFW Ladies Auxiliary No. 5374 of Butts
County, Carolyn Thaxton is pictured above delivering the first cash donation to the Butts
County Association for Retarded Children Building Fund Chairman. Doug Durrett. The VFW
Ladies Auxiliary No. 5374 has been a long time supporter of the Association for Retarded
Children; and a very dependable one.— Photo by Jerry McLaurin.
$6.18 Per Year In Advance
director, Georgia Electrifi
cation Council, Inc., Agricul
tural Engineering Center,
University of Georgia and
Dr. Derrell McClenden,
assistant professor, Agricul
tural Engineering Division,
University of Georgia.
Mrs. John Chastain, home
service supervisor, Georgia
Power Company, Atlanta;
John Chastain, Tax Commis
sioner, Cobb County; Mrs.
Ted Stehle, sales specialist
home economist, Georgia
Power Company, Atlanta;
Ted Stehle. General Electric
sales representative, Atlan
ta.
Mrs. T. H. Price, president
of the Garden Club Council,
and Doyle Jones, Jr.,
publisher of the Progress-
Argus, announce that the city
will be divided into East and
West divisions and that
identical prizes will be
awarded those homes ad
judged most attractively
decorated in both divisions.
These include: first prize of
$12.50, second prize of SIO.OO,
third prize of $7.50 and fourth
prize of $5.00.
In addition, the three best
decorated business houses
will be awarded prizes of
SIO.OO, $7.50, and $5.00
respectively.
The same rules that
applied in the past will be
used and include;
No formal entry applica
tion need be made.
Every home within the
confines of the contest
boundaries will be judged
and ribbons placed the same
night. Checks will be mailed
the next day by the
newspaper.
The Garden Club Council
advised that all homes in
Jackson will be judged as
well as those on the Griffin
Road as far as the W. A. Cook
residence. Homes will be
included beyond the city
limits on Brookwood Avenue,
those on the Monticello
Highway to the C. E.
Washington home and those
on Buttrill Road.
Homes on the Barnesville
highway will be judged as far
west as the American Mills
plant.