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YARD OF THE WEEK The home of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Webb located on Freeman Street in Jackson was seieciea as
yard of the week by the BCABC Committee for the neat and picturesque beauty of the yard. The Webb home is eye appealing
year round almost without exception. Photo by Jerry McLaurin
Local Matron
Honored For
Public Service
Mrs. Cecil Scarbrough was
nominated by the Butts
County Department of
Family and Children Ser
vices for the 1976 “Georgia
Volunteer of the Year”
Award. Winner of this award
will be announced during the
week of May 16, 1976,
“National Volunteer Week.”
Mrs. Scarbrough began her
volunteer services with the
Butts County Family and
Children Services as a Food
Stamp Pre-Certification
Assistant. As transportation
became a more pressing
need of the department, Mrs.
Scarbrough began to provide
some out-of-town volunteer
transportation.
Mrs. Scarbrough resides
with her husband, an
airplane pilot, on Jackson
Lake and is active in the civic
and religious life of the
community.
Mac Collins , Mrs. Bennett
In Commission Run-Off May 4
Mac Collins, young Jack
son businessman, led the
field of three candidates
vying for Post No. 3 on the
County Commission in the
April 13th special election,
polling 810 votes to 748 for
Mrs. Walter J. Bennett and
453 for Archie G. Ross.
VOTES IN SPECIAL ELECTION OF APRIL
13,1976, BUTTS CO. COMMISSION, POST. NO. 3
BENNETT COLLINS ROSS
Jackson 432 571 365
Buttrill 48 48 12
Coody 24 57 0
Dublin 15 7 1
Indian Springs 92 51 64
Iron Springs 38 14 8
Towaliga 34 30 0
Worthville 56 25 3
Absentee 9 7 0
Total 748 810 453
City Electric Rates To
Rise 20 Percent in May
Faced with a 35 percent
increase in the wholesale
cost of electric energy, the
City of Jackson is going to
absorb part of the added cost
and pass on to its retail
customers a 20 percent
increase, effective May 1.
The Federal Power Com
mission has granted Georgia
Power Company a 35 per cent
increase, effective May 1,-in
the charges it can make to
wholesale suppliers, such as
the City of Jackson, for
electrical energy.
Under the direction of City
Councilman Roy Goff, chair
man of the City’s electrical
committee, a detailed analy
sis of the wholesale rate and
its effect on retail rates has
been made.
The study revealed that an
increase of 20 percent in
retail rates would be neces
sary for the City to recover
the added costs of the energy
supplied it by the Georgia
Power Company.
The Council then voted to
No candidate having polled
a majority, a run-off special
election will be held on
Tuesday, May 4, in conjunc
tion with the presidential
preferential primary, with
Collins and Mrs. Bennett
contending for the vacant
Commission seat.
adopt the 20 per cent increase
in billings to all retail
customers, effective May 1.
This increase will be reflect
ed on May billings which will
be received around June Ist.
The City is also conducting
a study to determine if some
of the larger commerical and
industrial customers should
be charged a demand rate.
This study should be com
pleted by the end of May and
appropriate demand rates
will then be adopted.
Collectors Buy Up $2 Bills;
Stamp To Show Purchase Date
The new $2 bills went like
hotcakes at a Kiwanis
pancake supper here on their
first day of public sale
Tuesday, as Butts countians
made a dash to buy the new
currency on its first day of
issue.
Voter turnout was surpris
ingly good for a one-race
election and should be even
better May 4 with the
presidential primary helping
stir voter interest.
Official results of the April
13 election, as released by
Probate Judge Luther J.
Washington, are as follows:
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, April 22, 1976
LL AUXILIARY PLANT
SALE APRIL 24TH
Little League Ladies Auxi
liary will have a “Plant sale”
on the square Saturday, April
24th, starting at 9 a.m.
Bedding plants, such as
marigolds, petunias, salvia,
etc. will be available; also
tomato plants, eggplants and
a variety of pepper plants for
your vegetable garden. The
public is asked to please
come out and support the
baseball teams.
To further substantiate
purchase on the first issue
date, collectors were busily
carrying their crisp new
notes to the post office, where
a stamp was affixed and
cancelled with the April 13th
postmark.
There seemed to be no
reluctance to buy the new $2
note, despite the persistent
superstition that they can
bring bad luck. It was
observed, however, that
many of the purchasers were
at least a generation re
moved from the ‘3o's when
the specters of depression
and poverty probably gave
rise to the bad luck omen.
Treasury officials believe
the $2 bill will serve a useful
purpose, save the govern
ment several million in
printing costs and aid in the
retirement of millions of
worn one dollar bills.
The literal flood of $2 bills
to be printed in the next few
months will limit their
numismatic value. But it
seems safe to predict that
millions of them will be
tucked away, complete with
the validated stamp that
proves they were purchased
on April 13, 1976.
OFFICES CLOSED
MEMORIAL DAY
All offices of the Depart
ment of Human Resources
will be closed on Monday,
April 26, in observance of
Confederate Memorial Day.
Those Butts County offices
that will be closed are the
Department of Family and
Children Services, the De
partment of Public Health
and the Day Training Center
for Retarded Chidren.
Butts Jurors
Named For
May Term
Grand and traverse jurors
to serve, during the May
term of Butts Superior Court
have been selected. Court
will be convened on Monday,
May 3, at 9:30 a.m., the
grand jury will be empaneled
and civil cases will be heard
during the first week.
The second week of the
May session will be devoted
to criminal cases and it will
convene on Tuesday, May 11,
at 9:30 a.m.
Selected as grand and
traverse jurors to serve for
the May term are the
following:
Grand Jury
James E. Cornell, Jr., S.
W. Maddox, Jr., Lonnie
Loyd, Robert W. Whitaker,
Clemmie Ward, John B.
Long, W. E. Blue, T. E.
Robison, Jr., Mrs. Claudia B.
Todd, Rudolph L. Mangham,
Mrs. Pearl Robinson, A. A.
Brittain, Russell A. Marsh,
Van jA. Duke, Luke P.
Weaver, James H. Ridge
way, Donald K. Knight, Mrs.
Georgia Lee Curry, Artis
Knowles, Miss Christine
Hardy, R. J. Bridges,
Edward R. McMichael, Wal
ter J. Smith, Mrs. Nina Mae
Holly, Wilbur T. Thaxton,
Mrs. Ruth Folds, Thomas H.
Standard, W'illiam T. Webb,
Lewis M. Freeman, Marvin
B. Mangham.
Traverse Jury
First Week
Mrs. Mary Frances Daniel,
Ray B. Kinard, Harold E.
McMichael, Ronald Scott
Coleman, S. W T . Maddox, 111,
Jimmy M. Tomlin, Frank C.
Hearn, Jr., Miss Edith
Lummus, Mrs. Shelby Jean
Henderson, Charles J.
Brown, L. C. Tribble, Newton
E. Mayfield, Harold G.
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BAKE SALE
APRIL 24TH
The Pleasant Hill United
Methodist Church will have a
bake sale Saturday, April 24.
from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. The
church is located one mile
past 1-75 on highway 36.
BEAUTIFICATION TOOLS —The Henderson Junior High CVAE. headed by James Lawson, (left in photo), will be aiding
the BCABC in their beautifu a'ion efforts with the use of gardening tools donated by the Van Deventer Foundation. In the photo
from left to right are: James Lawson, Henderson Junior High School Principal Bill Shotwell, BCABC Chairman Carol Weaver,
Mae Davis and Pliny Weaver of the Van Deventer Foundation and Philip Bunch of Hodges Hardware where the tools were
purchased at a very reasonable price. Photo by Jerry McLaurin.
Daylight Saving Time
Begins Sunday, April 25
Old Father Time is going to get fouled up again
Saturday night when Americans run their clocks ahead one
hour before retiring, in order to comply with the new
Daylight Saving Time, which will begin on Sunday, April 25.
Beginning Sunday, the longer day will have a
six-month run, extending from the last Sunday in April
through the last Sunday in October.
So if you don’t want to be late for Sunday School and
church, don’t forget to move the hands of your clocks and
watches forward one hour before retiring on Saturday
night.
Buster Duke Tells Kiwanians
Details of County's Operations
Service Station Robbed
Lone Attendant Shot
At around 5:00 a.m.,
Sunday, Jerry McKensie of
Route 3, Griffin, was shot two
times in the lower back with
what is believed to have been
a 45 caliber, automatic pistol.
McKensie, the lone atten
dant at the Nunnally Gulf
Service Station located at the
intersection of Georgia High
way 36 and Interstate
Highway 75. was the victim
of a hold up at the station.
Two young white males
traveling in what was
described by the victim as a
light blue or light green - 68 or
- 69 Buick, Chevrolet or
Pontiac robbed the station of
approximately $350 to S4OO.
After getting the money,
one of the robbers put the
pistol under McKensie’s chin
and ordered him to get into
the car. They then proceeded
south on 1-75 for about a mile
or more where the driver of
the car pulled off of 1-75 and
stopped the car. The perpe
trators then drug McKensie
into the woods, dropped him
and shot him in the back and
left him for dead.
According to McKensie's
statement, he then crawled
back to the edge of 1-75 where
a passing motorist stopped to
pick him up and carried him
back to Nunnally Service
Station.
McKensie underwent sur
gery at 2:30 p.m. Sunday and
as of Tuesday afternoon he
was listed in fair condition at
the Griffin-Spalding County’
$6.18 Per Year In Advance
Hospital.
Bill Barnes of the Butts
County Sheriff’s Department
is investigating the robbery
shooting and the Georgia
Bureau of Investigation is
also conducting an investiga
tion into the crime. A
nation-wide search is in
progress for the perpetra
tors.
This marks the second hold
up and kidnapping in recent
months at the Nunnally Gulf
Service Station. Last Thanks
giving at around 2:00 a.m.
the station was robbed while
Ernest Fountain of Jackson,
was working alone. Fountain
was kidnapped and threaten
ed with shooting. In that
case, three adults and one
youth took around S6OO worth
of cash and checks and other
t'.ems but were apprehended
soon afterwards.
JACKSON STUDENTS
WIN TIFT HONORS
Making the Dean’s List at
Tift College for the winter
quarter were Phyllis Martin
Davis. Linda Wyatt Dobbs,
and Cheryl Hilderbrand. all
of Jackson.
The Dean's List requires
that a student have a
scholastic average of 3.25 for
the current quarter on ten or
more hours work and have an
all-college average of 3.00 out
of a possible grading scale of
4.00.
In a stirring address to
members of the Jackson
Kiwanis Club on Tuesday,
April 13, Butts County Com
missioner W. A. (Buster)
Duke reviewed the situation
regarding the present tax
hassle, supported the concept
of arbitration as the less
costly method of resolving
the dispute, and deplored the
trend towards legalism, and
citizen law suits against
elected officials.
Endorsing the concept of a
county manager as a
cost-saving device, Duke
cited the proposed 1975-76
budget of $1,024,043 to
illustrate his contention that
operating the County has
become big business.
His remarks on the
county’s expenditures and
income were most revealing
and are included verbatim
here for the education of all
in the concept of operating a
county government:
“ROAD DEPT, has 14
employees, of these 4 are
funded by state, with the
county’ being reimbursed
$2,238.20 monthly. Hopefully
this dept, can live within its
$251.850.00 budget. With
prices of materials it's hard
to do; for example in 1972
asphalt was 164 cents per
gal. - the quoted price today
is 374 cents and the quoted
price is not binding. Do you
have any idea how many
gallons it takes simply to
patch one hole?
SHERIFF DEPT. Sheriff
and 5 deputies are asked to
cover Butts County 24 hours
of every day. I don't say it’s
impossible but I do say it’s
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