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Karfesoit Brogresa-Argus Volume 103 Number 17 . / Ofl, RST*pi|H|gw * *#-. -j^anri ‘ f -*? J>< pSßipt!. ? f ’SjSfte*^ aL.A B§ IK 9 fe ,>jW *“ ■* i■ • '*''•■ _._ ~tt.- -.- |-1 n <-apfcK 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. (Continued on back page) 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 (Continued on back page)