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Karkson frogreHS-Argus o a,' Volume 103 Number 20 BEAUTY SPOT Almost hidden in the trees and foliage just off the High Falls Road, the home of Charlie and Margaret Gardner basks in the pine-filtered sunlight. This BCABC Beauty Spot is tastefully trimmed with shrubs and other plants and is a refreshing sight among the towering pines. Photo by Jerry McLaurin. Grand Jury Names Kitchens Judge , Small Claims Court Members of the Grand Jury serving at the May term of Butts Superior Court have appointed Terry Kitchens as Judge of the Butts County Small Claims Court and appointed Robert F. Burpee as Justice of the Peace for the 614th G.M. District to fill the unexpired term of William H. Roberts, Jr., who resigned on May 3rd. In hearing evidence pre sented them by District Attorney E. Byron Smith and his assistants, the grand jury returned 14 true bills, 12 no bills and carried one case over to the August term of the grand jury. The complete text of the grand jury’s presentments, as returned May 4th in open court, is as follows: Grand Jury Presentments Butts County Superior Court May Term 1976 We, the Grand Jury sworn and empanelled for the May Term 1976, Butts Superior Court, make the following presentments in open court. In organizing, the Grand Jury elected J. Harry Ridgeway, Foreman; Sea born W. Maddox, Clerk; T. E. Robison, Jr., Assistant Clerk and Carter Moore, Bailiff. We express our apprecia tion to the Honorable Sam L. Whitmire, District Attorney E. Byron Smith and Assis tant District Attorneys Hal Craig and Kenneth Waldrep for their assistance to this Grand Jury and for the competent manner in which the courts are conducted. The Grand Jury returned fourteen (14) true bills and twelve (12) no bills, one (1) carried over to August Term Grand Jury, one (1) handled by accusation. We recommend and res pectively request that the next Grand Jury read the presentments of this Grand Jury as their first order of business after the election of officers and determine what action has been taken. In compliance with Act Number 997 (H. B. No. 1946) an act approved by the Governor on March 24, 1976 establishing a Small Claims Court for Butts County, we, the Grand Jury do hereby appoint Terry Kitchens, Judge of said Small Claims Court for the period begin ning May 4, 1976 until the Ist day of January, 1977. Thereafter, the Grand Jury (Continued on back page) Westbury Has Open House On May 9-16 National nursing home week is being observed this week, May 9-16, by Westbury Medical Care Home, Inc., of Jenkinsburg. The theme of the observance this year is Years Make Us Special. The Butts County health care facility joins the American Health Care Asso ciation and the Georgia Nursing Home Association in inviting every citizen to visit a nursing home during this special week. The owners of Westbury issued this invitation to all Butts Countians, “We believe a visit will demonstrate to everyone what nursing homes do year-round for the elderly, chronically ill and convalescent of all ages. Indeed, we owe it to ourselves and to the com munity to visit and talk with the older members of Butts County who have been a vital part of our heritage.” A full schedule of activities has been prepared for all visitors, who will be given an opportunity to observe the wide variety of services being offered locally in the health care field. COLONIAL BAKERY HAS OPEN HOUSE MAY 16 The public is cordially invited to attend an open house reception on Sunday, May 16, at the Colonial Baking Company on 2743 Montpelier Ave. in Macon, between the hours of 1 and 5 p.m. Bakery tours will be conducted, door prizes a warded and visitors will receive favors and refresh ments. A western band will provide entertainment and clowns will be on hand to greet children. Senior Class Play Set For May 13-14 Annie Get Your Gun, senior class play of Jackson High School, will be presented tonight and tomorrow evening, Thursday and Friday, at 8 p.m., JHS auditorium. Tickets available at the door Mrs. Huggins To Lead BPW Club in 1976 On April 26th the Jackson B&PW Club installed their new slate of officers for the 1976-77 year. Among the officers are three of its newest members, Mrs. Tommie Huggins, presi dent; Mrs. Joy Long, recording secretary; and Mrs. Martha Maddox, treas urer. The other officers for the 1976-77 year are Mrs. Lynda Ballard, Ist vice president; Mrs. Mary Alice Vickers, 2nd vice president; and Mrs. Jewellene Polk, corresponding secretary. The installation of officers was performed by Mrs. Odone Hill, president-elect of the Georgia Federation of B&PW Clubs. She is from Hawkinsville where she has compiled a long list of outstanding activites. This year the club has many activities planned. They will have a booth on the square for the 4th of July celebration. There are also many committees in the planning stages. SENATOR BANKS IS ON CODE STUDY PANEL Senator Peter L. Banks, of Barnesville, has been named to a special joint research panel to study the feasibility of compiling all of Georgia’s laws into one official code. Banks was one of five senators named by Lt. Governor Zell Miller to the Code Revision Study Com mittee. Five members were also named from the House of Representatives and five from the State Bar. The panel’s first meeting will be held Wenesday, May 19 at 10 o’clock. Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, May 13, 1976 Needlework Art Be Seen Barnesville An Americana Needlwork Show will be held in the Barnesville depot Saturday, May 15, and Sunday, May 16, from 1 to 6 p.m. The Barnesville Historical Society and the Aldora Homemaker’s Club will be co-sponsors. Admission is 50 cents and many nice door prizes will be given. Entries will be welcomed from surrounding counties. Categories will include needlepoint, crewel, em broidery, crocheted and knitted items, and any other needlwork. There will be divisions for pictures, pil lows, pillowcases, spreads, tablecloths, afghans, sweaters and any other handmade needlework. Anyone can enter in any category, but only one entry in each category will be accepted. Judging will be held Saturday morning, and en tries must be in on Friday night or no later than 9 a.m. on Saturday, May 15. Security guards will be on duty at all times. Outstanding features of the show will be articles made by such prominent women as Mrs. Sam Nunn and Mrs. Herman Talmadge. Also featured will be some very special articles made by Mrs. George (Lucy) Lykins of Barnesville. Presbyterians Extend Call To Rev. Beville At a congregational meet ing, members of the Jackson Presbyterian Church voted to extend a call to the Rev. David Beville, associate pastor of the First Presby terian Church of Valdosta. Rev. Beville and his wife. Margaret, are expected to move to Jackson in mid-June to assume the pastorate of the Jackson Presbyterian Church. Rev. Beville succeeds the Rev. David Black as pastor of the Jackson church. Rev. Black and his family moved to Fayetteville in April where he assumed the pastorate of the Fayetteville Presby terian Church. In addition to taking action on the pastoral call, the congregation voted to fi nance extensive repairs to the church’s manse, located on 157 Ball Street. Mrs . Bennett Wins Commission Seat ; Carter Bandwagon Rolls About 45 percent of Butts County’s registered voters went to the polls Tuesday, May 4, to elect the first woman County Commissioner in the county’s history, and give whopping endorsements to the candidacies of Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter. Mrs. Walter J. Bennett, who operates an accounting and tax consulting business at Indian Springs, defeated Mac Collins, Jackson businessman, in the special run-off election for a county commission seat by 311 votes. Mrs. Bennett carried six of the county’s eight precincts, with Collins winning in Coody and Towaliga. Complete and official returns show Mrs. Bennett with 1,299 votes to 988 for Collins. Republican candidate Ronald Reagan led in all of the county’s precincts, with the exception of Dublin where the candidates tied, in sweeping to a decisive 248 to 81 vote margin over incumbent President Gerald Ford. The victory of the former California governor over the incumbent president was not unexpected, but the 3-to-l margin was surprising to OFFICIAL RESULTS MAY 4. 1976 ELECTION BENNETT 83 45 140 40 13 46 96 807 29 1299 COLLINS 47 60 79 17 5 58 64 636 22 988 REBUPLICAN FORD 3 2 18 3 2 1 5 45 2 81 REAGAN 17 13 30 14 2 13 12 143 4 248 DEMOCRAT CARTER 82 67 154 29 11 58 125 1042 41 1609 WALLACE 27 16 18 11 4 28 21 462 5 592 First Baptist To “Roast” Steve Jett In order to help finance their choir tour in June the First Baptist Church Youth Choir will “roast” their former Minister of Music and Youth, Steve Jett, Saturday evening. May 15 at 8:00. The dinner and the “roast ” will be held in the Fellowship Hall of First Baptist with a distinguished panel of past and present Jacksonians assembled. The panel will include former youth choir members. Ramey Pace. Larry Duke, and A1 Gilbert. Former Jacksonian Hal Summers and present resi dents, Jack Little. Virginia Wyatt, Bill Whitlatch and possibly some “surprise guests" will also be a part of the panel A chicken dinner will be served at 8:00. Tickets for the dinner are $3.00 for adults and $1.50 for children and must be purchased in advance. Tickets are avail able from youth choir members and their parents. There will be a 50 cents per person charge at the door for those who wish to see the "roast" but do not wish to eat. Steve Jett was Minister of Music and Youth at First Baptist from 1969 to 1974. He presently is Minister of Music at the Jefferson -Avenue Baptist Church of East Point. Republican stalwarts. On the Democratic ticket, former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter, seemingly unstoppable in his bid for the Democratic nomination, car ried all eight precincts in amassing 1,609 votes to 592 for Alabama governor George Wallace, his closest competi tor. Other Democratic hope fuls recorded only a handful of votes; Jackson. 12; Udall, 25; Church, 2; Shriver, 3; and Ahern, 4. Delegates pledged to support Carter’s nomination rode their favorite’s coattail to overwhelming victories. In Post No. 1, James A. Mankin, pledged to Carter, defeated two unpledged delegates with ease. Mankin had 1,446 votes to 157 for Caudelle and 158 for Williams. In Post No. 2. Carter supporter Connie Plunkett received 1,404 votes to 253 for Walter A. Foster, who was pledged to Wallace. Raymond Head. Jr., a Carter nominee, swept the Post No. 3 race with 1,403 votes to 267 for Wesley W 7. Lord, a Wallace supporter. Complete but unofficial returns of the balloting in BUTTRILL COODY INDIAN SPRINGS IRON SPRINGS DUBLIN TOWALIGA WORTIIVILLE JACKSON ABSENTEES TOTAL Central Georgia EMC Holds Microwave School on May 18 Would you like to know more about microwave cook ing? You may already have a micorwave oven but do not know how to get the most use from it. You may be considering buying a micro wave oven but do not know what features to consider before buying. You will now’ have an opportunity to learn, since five different models of microwave ovens will be used in a workshop to be held at the Central Georgia EMC DRIVER IS CHARGED IN FATAL ACCIDENT Butts County Sheriff Bar ney Wilder reports that a speeding charge has been brought by the State Patrol' against Oscar Young, driver of the pickup truck involved in the death of Donovan Wayne Sullivan of Jackson. Sheriff Wilder reports that Young was charged with going 44 miles an hour in a 35-mile-per-hour speed zone. Probate Judge Luther J. Washington has the speeding case, which may be disposed of in his court, or go to a higher court if contested. $6.18 Per Year In Advance auditorium on Tuesday. May 18, at 10:00 a m. The workshop will be conducted by Mrs. Peggy Fov and Mrs. Susan Millsap. Georgia Power Home Eco nomists. and Mrs. Elizabeth Watkins, Member Services Director, CGEMC. Reservations should be made by May 14 by calling the CGEMC Member Ser vices Department. 775-7857. Reservations will be taken on a first come, first served basis, as the workshop can accommodate onlv 30 people. Candidates Qualify From May 26-June 9 Those candidates wishing to qualify for county offices to be filled in the Tuesday. August 10, general primary may begin qualifying at 9 a m on W’ednesday. May 26. Candidates will have from that time until Wednesday, June 9, at 12 p.m. when the entries close to officially qualify for the office they wish to seek. All elective county offices will be filled at the August 10 general primary, as well as some at the state level. Several unannounced can Georgia show Jimmy Carter with 411,616 votes, or 84 percent of the total, with all 50 delegates; George Wallace, 56,485 votes, or 12 percent, with no delegates; Morris Udall with 9,489 votes, or two percent, no delegates; Robert Byrd, 3,461 votes, one percent; and Henry Jackson, with 3,256 votes, or one percent of the total. Ronald Reagan gave President Ford a susbstantial licking in Georgia, getting 127,629 votes, 68 percent of the total, and all of the State’s 48 Republican delegates. Presi dent Ford had 58.902 votes, 32 percent of the total, with no delegates. Winning in Georgia, Ala bama and Indiana on the same day, Reagan found himself the leader in the Republican contest, with about 35 more delegates than President Ford. Carter’s delegate strength swelled to over 550. about 40 percent of the number required to win the Demo cratic nomination for presi dent. although his total grows daily as uncommitted dele gates join the Carter band wagon . The class will be divided into groups with each group cooking recipes which will be served for lunch. Menu will include: turkey, roast beef, beef stroganoff. corn-on-the cob, broccoli deluxe, one step macaroni and cheese, zucchi ni lazagna, steamed cauli flower, glazed carrots, scal loped potatoes, coconut pie, fresh apple dessert casse role. and crunchy toffee bars. There will be a charge of $3.00 to cover cost of the food cooked for lunch. didates have been preening themselves for political races this summer* LIBERTY BAPTIST TO HAVE GOSPEL SING There will be gospel singing at the Liberty Baptist Church on Saturday evening, May 15th. The Christian Heralds from Macon will be the featured group. The public is cordially invited to attend and partici pate in this service.