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Editorials
A Triple Cause for Celebration
The City of Jackson, like small
towns all over the nation, is poised
for a gala celebration of America’s
200th birthday. Elaborate plans
have been laid, and a series of
eye-popping events will make the
week of July 4-10 one long to be
remembered.
In addition to the nation’s
birthday, the City will be
celebrating one of its own, a
sesqui -centennial birthday, the
City having been chartered on
December 26, 1826. While 150 isn’t
quite as old as 200 when it comes to
birthdays, it is an age to be
reckoned with an certainly worthy
of an auspicious celebration.
Of more immediate import is
an event that all citizens can begin
celebrating immediately with a
spirit of thanksgiving and relief
that should last all year long.
Appearing in this paper last
Are We Victims of Our
Own Creature Comfort?
In its lead editorial this week,
the paper commented on the
remarkable transformation in the
City’s financial position, which
occurred in a period of one year.
The immediate response is
likely to be, yes, that’s wonderful,
but just look how my power bill has
gone up. True, also, but not nearly
in proportion to the increase
granted the Georgia Power
Company. This utility in May
increased its rate 34 percent to its
wholesale customers, including
Jackson, while the local increase
on bills soon to be received for the
month of May will be only 20
percent. The City is absorbing 14
percent of the rate increase, rather
than pass on the staggering amount
recently awarded the utility by the
Federal Power Commission.
Is there nothing we can do
about this seemingly endless
increase in power rates? And do we
as individuals, as well as
collectively, have responsibilities
in this regard and are we acting
responsibly in discharging them?
Here’s what R. W. Scherer,
president of the Georgia Power
Hail to the Graduates
Graduation time has, rolled
around again and, suddenly, it’s
goodby to books and drive-ins and
drop-in dates and mother’s dinner
table and it’s hello to an 8-to-5 shift
and the everyday, never-ending
world of work that society requires
of its more responsible citizens.
We hope each graduate will
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week was a financial statement of
the City of Jackson. For the
calendar year 1975 it showed an
excess of revenues over expendi
tures of $178,681.43. An amazing
turn-around when one looks at the
financial statement for the calen
dar year 1974 and finds that
expenditures exceeded revenues
by $154,667.90.
It usually takes a city, or an
individual, some time to turn red
ink into black. The City of Jackson
made this remarkable about face
in its financial fortunes in one year.
To the mayor, council, department
heads and dedicated staff, we bow
with our most pronounced curtsy
and extend a great big thanks for a
job well done.
Surely the City of Jackson, and
its residents, have more than one
reason to celebrate in this
Bicentennial year.
Company, said in a recent letter on
this subject, “Our customers’ great
summer requirements for electri
city for air conditioning is the
major cause of our continuing to
have to build tremendously costly
power plants.”
No less an authority than the
President of the Georgia Power
Company brands air conditioning
as the culprit. So our creature
comforts, which we once took for
granted and enjoyed at a moderate
cost, have now turned against us
and become terribly expensive.
The shame, of course, is that
many who do not contribute to the
cause of the distress have to pay
the piper along with the rest.
We have no ready or glib
answer for a problem already
grown confoundingly complex, but
we would offer at least one
suggestion. Why not cool malls,
stores and theaters to a tempera
ture not less than 15 degrees lower
than that outside? The contrast
should still be enough to be
pleasant and maybe it would help
our creature comforts a little more
comfortable on the first of the
month.
find the sun always to their back,
and the wind soft on their face, and
that every hope will be realized and
every goal attained.
It must be great to be young,
with a diploma in hand, just
starting out to explore the nation
during its third century of
existence.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1976
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT IONES
Aside from the immutable
deadlines of calendar and
clock, many of the others we
set for ourselves are arbi
trary. We say, for instance,
there will be a family reunion
on the third Sunday in April,
or a Kiwanis pancake supper
next Tuesday night and other
similar occurrences on cer
tain established dates.
The date of July Ist was
arbitrarily set as the time for
the appearance of a Bi
centennial issue of this
paper. Coming right before
the nation’s 200th birthday it
made sense and still does.
And, although this self
imposed deadline is creating
difficulties for a small staff,
it seems now the deadline
will be met.
What goes into the pre
paration of such an issue?
Needless to say a lot of
research and work—facts
must be compiled, sorted,
and sifted; old pictures
identified, categoried and
readied for publication;
advertisements must be sold,
for no paper can afford to
research, prepare, print and
distribute such an issue
without solid support from
the business community.
All of these, and other
preparations, are being
carried on simultaneously
with the regular editions of
the paper, with printing de
mands and candidate pro
nouncements that make for
long days and nights.
Through the use of pic
tures, stories, and reproduc
tions of old advertisements,
much of the early history of
the County will be recreated
for those who may have
previously known little of its
early days.
First hand accounts of the
earliest settlers, who crossed
the Ocmulgee when this was
still Indian territory, will
be published and give
authenticity to an era that
has almost been lost to us.
Pictures of the old com
munity schools in the County,
only one or two still standing,
will be reproduced and recall
for the oldsters memories of
happier days.
Were there at one time
cities in Butts County named
East End and Mclntosh
Village and, if so, where were
they located and what has
become of them?
When did Robert Grier
come to Butts County to
study the heavens from a
rock in the back yard of his
Stark home and begin the
publication of Grier’s Alma
nac, which is still being
issued annually, and make
his weather predictions that
farmers of the time felt were
infallible?
What is the oldest church in
Butts County and was it
founded before the County
was officially constituted?
How did Jackson look
before the downtown streets
were paved and there were
hitching posts rather than
parking spaces?
How many newspapers
have there been in the
County’s history and who
were their publishers?
These, and hundreds of
other interesting questions,
will be answered by stories
and pictures in the special
issue.
These excursions into the
past notwithstanding, the
issue will in no wise propose
to be a complete, authentic
history of the County. This is
a task that will be left to the
historians and one that has
already been started and
nearly completed by the local
DAR chapter.
Our aim is to produce an
issue that will be full of facts
and features and of such
interest and import to most
readers that it will be
preserved on the book shelf
or family trunk for years to
come, and referred to
whenever one wants to
indulge in some County
nostalgia.
To produce such an issue of
a newspaper, normally the
most persishable of all items,
that will become an im
perishable part of the
County’s history, is the task,
A Stroll Down
Memory Lane
News of 10 Years Ago
Henry L. Asbury, execu
tive vice-president of Mcln
tosh State Bank, was elected
president of the Middle
Georgia Chapter of NABAC
at the annual meeting in
Macon.
Billy Turner was honored
by the Furman University
Pep Club as the outstanding
football player for the 1965-66
year.
The parents of Sgt. E 5
Clarence Whitehead, Mr. and
Mrs. Levi Whitehead of
Indian Springs, will be
presented the Purple Heart
at a ceremony Tuesday at
their home. Sgt. Whitehead
was the first Viet Nam
casualty from Butts County,
having been killed by a Viet
Cong mine.
Arthur Price, a member of
Pepperton Baptist Church,
has been licensed to preach.
Rev. S. H. Odum presented
the Certificate of License.
Deaths during the week,
Miss Maggie Currie, 94;
Thomas Jefferson Collins, 75,
and John M. Hutcheson, 70.
News of 20 Years Ago
A straw ballot to determine
the public’s sentiment on the
controversial matter of park
ing meters in Jackson is to be
held Friday.
The Jackson B&PW Club
won several honors at the
annual meeting of the
organization in Augusta.
Jackson tied with the
Savannah Club for the
Georgia Club of Achievement
in programs and Mrs. Gladys
Wilson, Mrs. Mary Sasser,
Mrs. Helen Spencer and Mrs.
Jane Powell were recognized
for their outstanding service
during the year.
Euel Wade, Jr. has been
notified he has passed the
entrance exam to West Point
and is to report July 3 for the
fall term.
The Jackson Prebyterian
Church will hold a ground
breaking ceremony to signal
construction of its new
educational building.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. W. H. Dick of
Spartanburg, S. C. (the
former Thelma Leverrett)
and Mrs. C. H. Martin, 75, of
Locust Grove.
News of 30 Years Ago
Miss Marion Thaxton, 21,
of Griffin, was drowned early
Sunday morning when the
boat in which she and three
companions were riding
turned over in deep water
near Jackson Lake Inn.
Ralph Carr, Jr. and T. A.
Nutt, Jr., students at the
University of Georgia, were
initiated into Pi chapter of
Delta Sigma Phi, a profes
sional commerce fraternity.
G. H. Ridgeway, of
Jackson, Rt. 4, owns a cow
that has given birth to five
calves within a 37-month
span. And, as the story said,
“that ain’t bull. That’s cow.”
Jackson seniors will leave
Saturday by school bus on a
five-day trip to Daytona
Beach and Silver Springs,
Florida.
Deaths during the week: G.
W. Washington, 46, and
Claude A. Evans, 69.
News of 40 Years Ago
W. W. Larsen, of Dublin,
and E. D. Rivers, of Lake
land, are the first two an
nounced candidates for
governor.
The A&P Food Store will
open its new Jackson store on
Friday Specials advertised
included Maxwell House
coffee, 25 cents lb.; toma
toes; 4 No. 2 cans 23 cents;
and the deadline, facing us.
With your help, and
support, already granted in
full measure, we will make
it.
Grandmother’s pan bread,
slice or plain, loaf, 5 cents.
The Junior-Senior prom
was held Friday night at the
women’s clubhouse. Serving
punch were Misses Sara
Boone, Cahterine Mc-
Michael, Roslyn Redman,
Irma King, Sara Godsey, and
Olga Hammond. Mrs. Eliza
beth Thompson and Miss
Susannah Foster were cha
perones.
Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Weaver
will leave soon on a delightful
trip to Grove Park Inn,
Asheville, N. C. Mr. Weaver
was awarded the trip by New
York Life for his outstanding
sales record.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. W. A. Waldrop, 85.
News of 50 Years Ago
Sams Harrison, Elwyn
Patrick, Ann Lester, L. P.
McKibben, Jr., Nettie Rose
O’neal, Brae Hodges, Jr. and
Mary Moore all had leading
roles in the juvenile operetta,
“The Golden Whistle” given
by the first four primary
grades under the musical
direction of Mrs. R. L. Smith.
The price of gasoline has
advanced one cent here and
now retails at 28 cents per
gallon.
The Larkin D. Watson
chapter, United Daughters of
the Confederacy, will enter
tain the Children of the
Confederacy Thursday after
noon, celebrating the birth
day of Jefferson Davis.
Carmichael Hdwe. had a
10-quart milk bucket for 18
cents; Allen Grocery had 5
lbs. Juliette grits for 23 cents
and 3 pounds 77 coffee for
SI.OO. $5lO would have gotten
anew Chevrolet roadster
from Settle & Robison.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Sara Catherine Paul, 79,
and Henry Thompson, 73.
r/a&u folk'
From time to time we tend
to overlook our younger
generation and forget that
many of our teenagers are
really concerned with the
changes in this world
everyday. Some set good
examples in learning anew
trade everyday. We all have
goals in life and one
particular young man,
James Robert Lowery, has
accomplished several en
deavors which normally take
years of experience and work
for most but at the age of 18,
he has learned the art of the
electronic field.
Robert has attended the
Elkins Institute of Elec
tronics for the past two
summers. He holds a second
class FCC License and will
obtain his First Class License
this year. He has attended
seminars for Pace and
Cobra, the top line manufac
turers of electronic equip
ment. Robert will graduate
this June from Jackson High
School where he has served
as school electrician. He
helps maintain the Jackson
Police Department and the
Jasper Police Department
Radios and he recently
installed the sound system at
the Masonic Hall, donating
his time and materials.
Robert is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ray Lowery of Jackson.
Everyone who knows Robert
thinks he is one of the most
polite and well mannered
young men of this day and
time. He is a credit to his
profession and city.
All his friends, the City and
County of Jackson and Butts
wish him the very best and
ask God to guide and bless
this young man as he goes
through life.
He is THE BEST.
Wm. J. Burns, Sr.
By Mrs. Cindy Brown
THE BIG ONE
A friend and I were
discussing families the other
day and we decided that no
matter what a person’s age
might be, his personality and
morals are pretty well
‘gonna’ go back to those
early years of his family life.
For my part, I can look back
over my younger years and
remember many maxims
that were literally drilled
into me. I’ll just bet that you,
too, can recollect a few:
“Don’t dispute my word.” “I
don’t CARE what everyone
else is doing; I care about
what YOU do.” “Now, your
grades may not be perfect,
but at least you can behave
yourself.” And if I were to
say, “Mother, where is my
coat at?”, I could be assured
that she would answer,
“Behind the at.”
One saying in particular
which has always fascinated
me is the old “There are two
sides to every story” line.
Land O’ Goshen! Some days I
think I have spent half of my
life trying to figger out just
where that other side is
hiding!
My high school English
teacher, a iady for whom I
have utmost respect, would
daily tell us prospective
‘Whatsoever
• Jjjy Things’
Vrß By Donald E. Wildmon
THE BEAUTIFUL AND UGLY TREES
There is a very ancient legend about a Persian ruler
who had four sons. His sons were often critical of others. This
was a habit which the father detested very much. So he
decided to teach his sons a lesson about being critical.
One winter he sent one of the sons on a journey to look at
a mango tree. During the following spring he sent another of
the sons to visit the very same tree. When summer came
he sent the third son to see the tree. And finally, that fall, he
sent the fourth son to see the tree.
Then the wise old king called all the sons together and
asked them about the mango tree. The one who went in the
winter described the tree as an old stump. The son who went
in the spring said that the tree didn’t look like an old stump,
but that it was a very beautiful green. The third son said that
both of the reports were wrong. He was the son who had
visited the tree in the summer and he said that the tree was
covered over with beautiful blossoms. Finally the fourth son
spoke up, the one who visited the tree during the autumn. He
said the tree had fruit which tasted like the finest of all fruits.
After each son had made his report, the father spoke.
“Each of you has told what you saw. And each of you is right.
The difference is that each of you saw the tree at a different
season. People are like that mango tree. They are bad and
good, and they are ugly and beautiful. You can see them in
different seasons. Try to see each person as the last of you
saw the mango tree, at its best.”
Well, the truth of the matter is that each of us both are
good and bad, beautiful and ugly. We can, if we desire,
look for the bad and ugly in people. And if that is what we
desire to see then that is what we will see. But if we have
enough love in us we can also see the good and beautiful
in people. It all depends on what we are looking for.
None of us are without faults. It is true that our faults
may not be the same as those of others. And it is equally as
true that,our faults may not be as glaring as those of others.
But, in either case, we cannot deny our faults.
Carry criticism in your attitude if you desire. It will in
no way benefit you. It will not gain for you any friends nor
respect, neither will it make you a better person. It will only
serve eventually to lead you to loneliness. For throughout the
world you cannot find one person who enjoys the company of a
continual critic.
If you desire to enjoy and have people enjoy you, then
you must look for the good and beautiful. If you want a poem
for it, here it is:
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
- E. W. Hoch
If you want a scripture for it, here it is: “First remove
the log which is in your eye, and then you can see to remove
the speck which is in your brother’s eye.
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CONGRATULATIONS
My congratulations this
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