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BEAUTY SPOT The home of Mr. J. W. Browning was chosen by the BCABC Committee for the stately appearance ol tne
house and grounds. Blooming dogwoods and azaleas combined with budding trees and shrubs present a colorful and enjoyable
picture to the beholder. Photo by Jerry McLaurin. .
Bicentennial Wagon Train
Visits McDonough April 14
The Bicentennial Wagon
Train will visit McDonough
on Wednesday, April 14th,
with a parade beginning at 5
p.m. and a full slate of events
scheduled for that evening.
The Wagon Train pilgri
mage will begin in Stone
Mountain and travel through
the original thirteen colonies,
arriving at Valley Forge,
Pennsylvania on July 4, 1976.
The parade, complete with
many floats and at least
three bands, will leave the
Henry County School football
field promptly at 5:00,
proceed down town and cover
a route of about 1.6 miles.
After the parade, the
center of attraction will be
the Wagon Train’s encamp
ment at Selman’s Dairy
Farm on Highway 155 just
south of Holiday Inn.
Evening ceremonies will
begin at 7 p.m. and will
include a program of
Bicentennial music by stu
dents from Penn State
University and local talent,
including the Kitchen Kuties
and the Hampton Denims.
Food will be available at
the Wagon Train Campsite
prior to the scheduled
evening events.
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Indian Springs State Park Pavilion
April 18, 1976 7:00 a.m.
Hymn “Christ Arose”
Prayer Rev. Lamar Guyton
Hymn “Christ, the Lord, Is Risen Today”
Offering
Offertory Prayer Rev. Walter C. James
Community Choir “The Cross” Mr. Alan Bowen,
Dir
“When I Survey”
“I Saw the Cross of Jesus”
"Must Jesus Bear the Cross Alone”
“Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross"
Sermon Rev. E. Ray Savage
THE POWER OK THE RISEN CHRIST"
Benediction Mr. Buster Duke
The offering will be used to help those who come
through our community and have need.
“He is not here: for he is risen, as he said.
Come, see the place were the Lord lay.
—Matthew 28:6
Butts Lions To
Sell Brooms,
Mops (or Sight
The Butts County Lions
Club will have its annual
broom and mop sale on
Thursday, April 22nd.
On that date, Lion sales
Maurice Carmichael Wins
Coveted CIC Designation
Maurice W. Carmichael,
Sr., president of Carmichael
Insurance Agency of Jack
son, has recently joined the
elite group of Certified
Insurance Counselors (CIC)
in the State of Georgia.
The popular local insu
rance executive and civic
worker received the CIC
designation by successfully
completing the Society’s four
required Insurance Insti
tutes.
The Jackson insuror at
tended each of the four
Institutes (Agency Manage
ment & Internal Control,
men will call on as many
residences as possible to
promote the sale of the two
products.
Brooms will sell for $2.50
and mops for $2.00 and both
of the cleaning devices are of
top quality.
Those persons desiring to
buy either a Lion broom or
mop in advance should
contact either Charlie Brown
Personal Lines, Commercial
Lines, and Commerical
Casualty), and passed exten
sive examinations at the
conclusion of each Institute.
The earning of this
designation reflects his
knowledge and training in
the insurance business, and
his commitment to a pro
gram of continuing educa
tion. In the future, he must
continue to attend one
Institute each year in order
to retain his CIC designation.
The Society of CIC was
Tommy Carmichael Named
JHS Athletic Director
Butts County School Supt.
Bill Jones announced last
week the appointment of
Thomas A. (Tommy) Car
michael, Jr. as Jackson High
School athletic director and
head football coach for the
school term beginning in
September, 1976.
The appointment put a
quick end to speculation as to
who would succeed Danny
Blue, present JHS athletic
director, who resigned re
cently to accept a position as
head football coach for the
new Heritage High School in
Rockdale County, effective
for the 1976 fall term.
As math teacher, assistant
football coach and head track
coach at JHS for the past two
years, the newly-named
athletic director has proven
himself to be one of the most
popular and astute coaches
and leaders of men in local
high school history.
He graduated from Jack
son High School in 1964 and
won a football grant-in-aid to
Georgia Tech where for
several years he was the
extra point specialist for the
Yellow Jackets.
Graduating from Georgia
Jackson,.Georgia 30233, Thursday, April 15, 1976
GOSPEL SINGING
LIBERTY BAPTIST
A gospel singing is sche
duled Saturday night at 7:30
o’clock at Liberty Baptist
Church with The Crusaders
from Macon to be featured.
Everyone is cordially invited
to attend this singing.
or Millard Daniel.
Profits from the broom
mop sale will be applied to
sight conservation projects
funded by the Lions Clubs of
Georgia.
established in Texas in 1969
and the program is spon
sored in Georgia by the
Georgia Association of
Mutual Insurance Agents
(GAMIA), a state-wide trade
and professional association
made up of over 400
independent insurance
agents.
Mr. Carmichael will re
ceive his official CIC desig
nation at GAMIA’s annual
convention, July 8-11, in
Savannah, Georgia.
Tech, he continued his
education to get a masters
degree in industrial manage
ment.
Joining the Army under the
Officer Candidate School
program, he served for three
years as an officer and spent
considerable time in the
European theater.
He served for a year as an
assistant football coach at
the Thomson High School in
McDuffie County, and a brief
term as Butts County
Surveyor.
Returning to Jackson High
School for the 1974 fall term,
he has completed two full
years in his present position
before his recent promotion.
Supt. Jones said that
Carmichael will be given a
SPECIAL ELECTION RESULTS
Complete, but unofficial, results of the special
election held Tuesday in Butts County to fill a
vacancy in Post No. 3, Butts County Commission, are
as follows:
MRS. WALTER J. BENNETT 748
MAC COLLINS 810
ARCHIE G. ROSS 453
A run-off between the two top vote getters will
be held on Tuesday, May 4, the same date as the
presidential preferential primary.
Butts Jobless Rate Still 11.9 Percent
Unemployment Declines
Butts County has reached its lowest unemployment
level in some time, but preliminary figures released this
week for February, 1976, showed the local unemployment
rate still historically high at 11.9 percent.
The Georgia Department of Labor report showed Butts
County recorded a .6 percent drop in unemployment from
January to February, the largest decline of any county in
the area.
Preliminary figures for February indicated Butts
County had a total labor force of 4,632, with 4,079 gainfully
employed and 553 unemployed. This was a drop from the 583
listed as unemployed in the January revised report.
Ajoining counties fared better in the February
estimates. Henry County showed an unemployment rate of
11.0; Lamar, 7.1; Newton, 7.8; Spalding, 8.3; Upson, 6.0;
Pike, 10.6; and Fayette, 9.2 percent.
Unemployment in the State of Georgia dropped to 7.9
percent in February, the first time in almost 15 months that
the state rate has fallen below eight percent.
Georgia Department of Labor Commissioner Sam
Caldwell was pleased with the latest showings. “This is
excellent,” he said. “Although we are not attempting to
paint a picture of boom times, this certainly shows that the
Cary Maddox
Wins District
Spelling Title
Cary Maddox, pictured
above, was recently crowned
spelling champion of the
Sixth District.
Cary, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Claude Maddox of Jackson,
is a freshman at Jackson
High School. He won first
place medal in Carrollton
over ten other participating
schools.
In the literary meet, the
student must write one
hundred dictated words with
no erasures or corrections.
Cary spelled accurately
words ranging from “a
nachronism” to “lugu
brious.”
This represents the first
time JHS has taken first
place in the area of spelling.
free hand in building his staff
and that he is busily engaged
now in recruiting and putting
together a staff that can
carry on the school’s winning
tradition of the past two
years.
Jones said he had not
received a resignation from
assistant coach Hyrum
Pierce but rumors persist
that he will accompany
Danny Blue to Rockdale
County for the 1976 season.
Tommy Carmichael is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A.
Carmichael of Jackson. He is
married to the former Janie
Ridgeway, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Harry Ridgeway,
and they have two daughters,
Betsy and Michelle.
$2 Bills Circulate Again;
"Bad Luck" Image Diminished
The $2 bill is back in style
after a 10-year absence,
having been introduced to the
American public on Tuesday,
and local banking institutions
are well stocked with the
newest currency issue.
The Treasury Department
reintroduced the bill on the
233rd anniversary of Thomas
BEFORE AND AFTER Above a county employee is shown removing the old
shrubbery from around the walls of the county courthouse as part of the BCABC’s
beautification program. Below, after the old shrubbery had been removed, new shrubbery was
planted. From left to right are: BCABC Chairman Carol Weaver, Flora Price, County
Commissioners Buster Duke and David Bailey and County Extension Agent Millard Daniel.
Photo by Jerry McLaurin.
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nation’s economy—and more importantly, Georgia’s
economy—is moving out of recession-depression and
towards recovery.”
Caldwell also pointed to the decline in unemployment
insurance payments and claims, both of which have gone
down to more tolerable levels than those reached during
February, 1975. The total amount of unemployment
insurance paid out so far in 1976 is around $74 million, below
the $76 million paid out for the same period of 1975.
Some of Georgia’s worst-hit areas, among them
construction and the mobile home industry, are showing
signs of recovery, along with textiles, the food industry, and
the services sector. During February, construction gained
700 jobs in Georgia, although it lost 8,700 over the year.
Excellent February weather helped.
There are several places in Georgia where the economy
will be helped soon, Caldwell pointed out. Among these are
the new midfield terminal at Atlanta’s Hartsfield
International Airport, and the new MARTA rapid rail lines,
both of which will provide jobs for several years.
Georgia’s auto industry is another bright spot, with the
Atlanta assembly plants recalling hundreds of furloughed
workers as they move towards a full production schedule.
Jefferson’s birthday, with
the hope that the public will
forget the old superstition
that the $2 bill is unlucky.
The bill will bear Jefferson’s
portrait, as did the former
issue of the same denomina
tion.
Economists figure that the
current $2 bill will have the
same purchasing power that
$1.15 had in 1966 when the
“unlucky” bill was last
circulated.
Many holders of the
original $2 note tore a corner
from the bill to ward off the
bad luck that superstition
associated with the currency.
