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Editorials
Let's Show Our Colors
Here we are knee-deep in the
celebration of our country’s 200th
birthday and our downtown area is
totally devoid of any visible
evidence of that fact.
Let’s get Old Glory up in front
of every business house and let her
catch the brisk April breezes,
rather than waiting until the hot,
languid days of July when she lies
limp upon the staff.
What a project for the
Merchant’s Association, or the
Chamber of Commerce. What a
fund-raising project for the DAR,
or the Legion Auxiliary, or the
Bicentennial Committee or some
other organization with enough get
up and go to get out and sell.
Perhaps the City of Jackson
Hometown Shopping Pays
There is sentiment abroad for
activating the defunct merchants
association and staging once again
an appreciation day program at
which merchants offer bargains
and prizes designed to make
out-of-town shoppers look home
ward.
It is an idea we endorse
wholeheartedly and offer the
unqualified support of this news
paper in bringing about.
There is nothing like doing
business with friends and home
town merchants are’ our friends.
They support every worthwhile
endeavor in this community and
they are entitled to receive in the
same generous spirit in which they
give.
How many times are they
asked to support school or
Butts County Wins a Case
Without a Trial
Hearty congratulations arejn
order for the county attorney,
county commissioners and direc
tors of the Butts County Taxpayers
Protective Association for bringing
to arbitration most of the tax cases
pending against Butts County over
the 1975 tax assessments.
The final count is not in yet, but
it now appears that about 90
percent of the litigants in this
matter are willing to submit their
cases to a three-man arbitration
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would assist in preparing proper
anchor spots for the flag staff,
where they may not exist at the
present time.
This is not an ordinary
celebration. None of us old enough
to remember is ever likely to
witness the nation’s 300th birthday.
So let’s show our colors . . .
not just for a week . . . but for the
rest of the year. Let’s make May 1
flag day in Jackson and set as our
goal a flag before every business
establishment on that day.
Just imagine the emotional
impact of 50 or more flags catching
the breeze in downtown Jackson,
signalling to the world that this city
is a true All-American city, proud
of its heritage and confident of its
future.
community projects only to find
that the very person soliciting their
help is chronically shopping for
bargains in another city?
Shopping at home is a habit
and it is a good habit to form, if you
don’t already have it.
You wouldn’t think of going out
of town regularly to attend church
services. Why? Because Butts
County churches offer good
spiritual values and you don’t have
to go elsewhere to find them.
Butts County merchants offer
good values in material things. If
you don’t believe it, or haven’t tried
to find what you need at a
hometown store lately, then give it
a try. You’ll like what you will find.
And we’ll wager you the price of
gas to get to and from the nearest
town. Even at 53 cents a gallon.
board.
This board, after ruling in 10
trial cases, will then apply the
average reduction, or increase, in
those cases to the case of each of
the others contesting the original
assessment.
The savings in potential court
costs to the county will be
tremendous. It would seem to be
the speedy, common-sense way to
resolve most of the pending cases
and clear the court docket for more
important matters.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1976
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
The political battlefields of
the nation are riddled with
the bodies of those able
bodied Democrats who
volunteered to serve but
whose candidacies were met
with abject rejection.
One by one they have
thrown their hats into the
ring only to have them tossed
back with the word “unac
ceptable” stamped in indeli
ble, large letters.
The Democratic horse race
for the post of party color
bearer becomes more re
stricted with each passing
week. Now, it is down to
Carter, Jackson, Udall and
Wallace with Humphrey and
Kennedy watching the pro
ceedings from the safety of
their stables.
Udall is having trouble
with his groomsmen, since
they evidently have not
prepared him for this kind of
race. Wallace has been
disappointing, a pre-race
long shot who has experi
enced difficulty at the
starting gate.
As we come to the first
turn, it’s Carter in the lead
with Jackson trailing, about
a hundred delegate votes
behind. Both men have a long
way to go, and hundreds of
delegate votes to obtain,
before the winner wears the
party’s blessing, but they are
far ahead of the trailing field.
Despite the outcome of the
New York and Wisconsin
primaries, Carter must do
well in the Georgia primary
of May 4 to prove that he can
corral votes at home, as well
as in Illnois and Florida.
He has powerful interests
opposing him. The Washing
ton Post and the New York
Times, the nation’s two most
vocal espousers of libera
lism, are literally beating
their breastplates at the very
thought of a Georgia peanut
farmer being a presidential
candidate, or heaven forbid,
president of the United
States.
Shades of Robert E. Lee. A
Southern president. Why,
lawsy me, he’ll have us all
learning the Virginia reel
and our girls in hoopskirts in
no time at all. And he’ll move
the nation’s capital to
Richmond and he’ll do all
those things the South never
got the chance to do after
Appomattox.
Are the Post and the Times
hurting Carter too much?
Probably not, for their
philosophy is too closely
identified with George Mc-
Govern, and, mercy me, the
voters sure showed that
misguided soul what they
thought of his modern
liberalism. And even the
extreme liberal press, as
exemplified by the Post and
Times, knows in its secret
heart that this country is not
ready for a wild-eyed liberal.
Surely, they learned that
from the McGovern fiasco.
Jimmy Carter is a bona
fide condidate for the
Democratic nomination. He
has found strength, and
support, in his youthful vigor
and the determination and
confidence he radiates, and
his isolation from the
Washington political scene
has made his candidacy
more acceptable and believ
able than others who have
been too closely identified
with some of the madness
that has eminated from the
nation’s capital.
It is the opinion, and
uneducated guess, of this
writer that if the Democrats
could not win with a
Carter-Brown (Gov. Jerry
Brown of California) ticket,
then they cannot win with
any other horses that are
known to be in the stables, or
in the back pasture.
Should the Republicans
have the good judgement to
go with President Ford and
Ronald Reagan as his
running mate, then any
combination of potential
Democrats would have to run
the race of their life to win.
Should Carter win the
nomination, his troubles will
just have begun. For it is
then that fence straddling
must go, the youthful smile
must fade as the voters
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Memory Lane
News of 10 Years Ago
The Jackson High seniors
were presenting two plays,
one starring Dennis Waits,
Mary Lee, Emily McKibben,
Dennis Mangham, Mary
Ruth Martin, Jimmy Patrick
and Cherry Dover. The
second starred Gale Smith,
Mark Ingram, Phyllis
Vaughn, Larry Letson, Lind
sey Powell, Susan Parker
and Susie Gilbert.
Mrs. Lou Moelchert as
sumed on April Ist a position
with the Butts County
Department of Family and
Children Services.
Julian W. Fletcher has
been named a member of the
President’s Club by the Life
Insurance Company of Geor
gia.
Cadet James M. Cawthon
was placed on the North
Georgia College Honors list
for outstanding academic
achievement during the
winter quarter.
The second annual Jackson
horse show has been sche
duled for May 4-5 by the
Exchange Club of Jackson,
sponsors of the event.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Gordon Tingle, 53; Mrs.
Johnnie Frank Polk, 50; Mrs.
Annie Lois St. John Adkins,
63, and Thomas Homer Ham,
85.
News of 20 Years Ago
Sale of Smith Drug Cos. to
Franklin Parrish, of Metter,
was announced Tuesday by
Dr. W. G. Smith.
The Jackson canning plant,
a division of Stokeley-Van
Camp Company, will can
whole sweet potatoes exclu
sively this summer. Pimien
to peppers have been canned
here for many years.
Miss Patricia Anne Long
has been named Butts
County’s champion speller in
the Atlanta Journal Spelling
Bee and awarded a prize of a
$25 Savings Bond.
J. W. Kelly won sl4 in
Saturday’s Appreciation Day
program. Jackson mer
chants have awarded over
$2,500 in the nine months the
program has been in force.
Mrs. Hugh D. Sosebee, wife
of the solicitor general of the
Flint Judicial Circuit, died
Monday in an Atlanta
hospital.
News of 30 Years Ago
Butts County property
values for 1946 will be raised
20 percent over 1945 levels.
This will increase the
average per acre valuation in
the county from $5.73 to $9.75
per acre.
Mrs. E. R. Edwards and
Mrs. Howard Jolly will
expect, and demand, to know
his programs on defense,
welfare, revenue sharing,
tax reform, foreign trade,
detente with Russia and a
hundred other issues that
have voters troubled.
It is a long, hard road to the
presidency. But Carter is on
his way. And he has not only
the Republican but the
Democratic party profes
sionals, who like to hand pick
presidential candidates,
worried and fearful that his
quick jump from the starting
post is not a false start.
represent the Butts County
PTA at the Georgia PTA
Congress in Savannah.
The Butts County Board of
Education named Mrs. C. B.
Harris as visiting teacher,
Mrs. J. L. Garr to the faculty
of Jackson High School and
Mrs. Edna Forrer to the
grammar school staff.
Lieut. Col. Charles L.
Redman, Jr. is now instruc
tor of Military Science at the
University of Michigan.
The body of a 12-year-old
Porterdale girl, missing for
three weeks, hag Jogen found
in a swampy thicket about
four miles from her home.
Georgians will observe
eastern standard time
thoughout the summer and
will not advance their clocks
as residents of many states
will do.
Miss May Beth Evans, 41,
died of a heart attack at the
Fincherville home of her
sister.
News of 40 Years Ago
The Progress-Argus an
nounced a subscription con
test, with the winner to
receive the choice of either a
new Ford or Chevrolet.
Winners in the county
primary were: Sara Foster,
Clerk of Court; Tom Thurs
ton, Sheriff; J. S. Ball, Tax
Collector; J. Edward Car
michael, Tax Receiver; J. C.
Newton, Treasurer; William
G. Preston, Superintendent
of Schools; B. H. Hodges,
County Commissioner, and J.
M. D. Bond, Coroner.
Miss Martha Boyt Fran Kim
modeled Shirley Temple
dresses at High’s Depart
ment Store in Atlanta on
Saturday.
Deaths during the week:
Walter Clay Pippin, 46;
Oscar S. Wood, 63, and Mrs.
W. B. Cochran, 77.
The sale of 3-Centa,
Georgia’s newest soft drink,
was announced in Jackson
with many local stores
offering the drink for sale.
News of 50 Years Ago
A large delegation attend
ed the first meeting in
Forsyth of the Indian
Springs-Fruitland Highway
Association. Purpose of the
meeting was to organize an
association to promote a
highway from Loganville,
through Indian Springs, and
on into Florida. Hugh
Hardin, of Forsyth, was
elected president and J. D.
Jones, of Jackson, secretary.
Lois White, a 12-year-old
Negro girl, was killed
instantly when struck by
Southern Railway’s fast
Ponce de Leon train, as she
tried to cross the tracks near
the depot.
Commencement exercises
at Flovilla High School began
with a sermon by Rev. W. J.
Bryson. Miss Marie Woods
presented her pupils in a
piano recital and Mrs. E. R.
Edwards directed her pupils
in a play.
Mrs. Pinkie Vandigriff, 43,
died Friday at her Jenkins
burg home from complica
tions of pneumonia.
HJ)IKWRRI
By Mrs. Cindy Brown
MORE ASPIRIN
More Aspirin, or more
orange juice and more
chicken soup. Great Land of
Goshen, will we ever recup?
“Mama, my legs hurt. May I
have a tissue?” The cost of
the doctor ain’t even an
issue.
And now they do tell us that
one nine seven seven will be
worse than this year, oh
gracious, my heaven. If we
have all this to go through
again, I’m thinking of hiring
a live-in R.N.!
MAMA, DADDY AND
THE UMPIRE
It is that time of year
again: baseball sign-up time
—you know, the beginning of
annual-warfare between
parents and coaches, parents
and umpires, and parents
and parents. Only the
children seem to get along
with anyone themselves!
This will only be my second
year as a veteran parent of a
potential Pete Rose. How
ever, I should gain immea
surable experience as I shall
have two geniuses at bat for
the first time. (And I do use
the term geniuses advised
ly!)
Last summer when attend
ing the local duel of ball, bat
and adult, I was constantly
amazed at the vehemence
with which parents would
defend their sons. Now, it
didn’t matter if the little
homerun king was 3’11”,
bespectacled, and ran from
home plate to third, he was
... about your
Social Security
IS SOCIAL SECURITY
“INSVRANCE”
By Kate McLaurin
Griffin Social Security Office
Q. Is social security
insurance-since a person is
not assured of getting back
what he puts into it?
A. Although there are
many different kinds of
insurance, the unifying prin
ciple is not individual equity,
but a sharing of risks. To this
extent social insurance,
which in many ways is quite
different from commercial
insurance, follows the in
surance analogy. It is a
pooling of funds for certain
specified risks and benefits
from the pool are paid in
accordance with the agree
ment entered into by the
parties. Some participants
those who suffer the risk-will
collect, and will receive
much more than the cash
value of their premiums.
Others —those who are for
tunate enough not to become
disabled or who may die
younger—may not receive as
much. But from the stand
point of the value of their
protection, everybody will
get his money’s worth.
Q. Is social security
insurance-since it lacks the
full cash reserves that
private insurance companies
are required to maintain to
prove financial soundness?
A. Because compulsory
social insurance is assured of
new entrants into the
program, it does not have to
build up the kind of reserves
that a commercial insurance
company is required to
maintain. It only has to
maintain a contingent fund—
assests sufficient to pay
benefits during a period of
severe fluctuations in the
economy. In lieu of the huge
reserves, the system has two
other financial safeguards—
closed trust funds which,
when added to one year’s
receipts, provide more than
enough for one full year’s
benefits, .and compulsory
still considered the Mighty
Casey by Mama and Papa.
And woe be unto the umpire
who called the Mini Midget
out on strikes, for he (and I
speak yet of the Ump) was
“blind”, “ignorant”, and all
manner of other ungracious
etceteras. Why, one lady
even threw her “taste that
beats the others cold”
container onto the field, all
the while insinuating that the
Ump should have checked in
with Doc Pinckney before
the game. I knew right then
that she was acting totally
ridiculous - that is until MY
Pete Rose came to bat. That
was a horse of a different
color. Oh, I didn’t yell and
bely my trust, not me. I am a
sulker. I am the type who,
when dissatisfied, boycotts
the concession stand, lets the
air out of the tires of the
umpire’s car and the like.
Benny, my other half, let
the kids sign up on one
condition: I must at all times
conduct myself like a
nonparent. And I will, I will.
(Until that son of a gun calls
my “baby” out.) Then I’ll be
relatively nice. I’ll TREAT
him to a free visit at the eye
doctors. (Always thought he
needed bi-focals anyway.)
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CONGRATULATIONS
My congratulations for this
week go out to the “Great
White Fisherman,” C. W.
England - he caught his first
fish of the Bicentennial year
last week. Now, C. W., was
that fish REALLY red, white
and blue?
participation, assuring new
entrants into the system.
Q. Why can’t social
security be voluntary instead
of compulsory?
A. A compulsory social
insurance program balances
both individual equity and
social adequacy—the great
est good for the greatest
number. With a pooling of
economic risks among mil
lions of contributors and with
a guaranteed flow of income,
better benefit protection at a
much lower cost is possible.
If social security were
voluntary, many people who
need protection must —such
as low-income workers and
younger people with families
—would not sign up because
of more pressing day-to-date
financial needs; but when
they have a loss of income,
society would still have to
care for them through
general revenues. People
who would participate would
be those who could expect a
large return for their
contributions, and this would
drive costs sharply upward.
Ijufyffiif to' Me, ||
The 1976 Heart Fund
Campaign was a very good
one in Butts County. Over one
hundred percent of the goal
was attained. At latest count
the sum attained was
$3,043.78.
A special thank you is owed
to the Jackson Progress-
Argus for the excellent
publicity the staff gave to the
drive. Another big thank you
goes out to Radio Station
WJGA for the very helpful
publicity given.
On Heart Sunday, the
Honor Society at Indian
Springs Academy helped
conduct the Road Block to
secure funds and they
certainly did a fine job.
Mrs. Charlotte Barber,
cHairman of the Heart Fund,
and Mrs. Brenda Williamson,
treasurer, worked long and
hard to make this year's
drive such a tremendous
success.
Cindy Brown
Publicity Chairman