The Jackson progress-argus. (Jackson, Ga.) 1915-current, August 05, 1976, Image 8

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    Jackson High Grid
Schedule Announced
At challenging schedule of
10 varsity games and seven
B-team games for Jackson
High’s Red Devils in 1976 has
just been announced by
Tommy Carmichael, Jack
son High athletic director
and head football coach.
With a revamped coaching
staff and a squad short of
game experience, the young
Jackson coach is looking
more towards a rebuilding
season in 1976 than a regional
or state championship.
The Red Devils will open
DATE OPPONENTS LOCATION TIME
Aug. 27 Jones Cos. Jackson 8:00p.m.
Sept. 3 Open Date
Sept. 10 Hogansville Hogansville 8:00p.m.
Sept. 17 Monticello Monticello 8:00p.m.
Sept. 24 Henry Cos. McDonough 8:00p.m.
Oct. l MorganCo. Jackson 8:00p.m.
Oct. 8 Manchester Manchester 8:00p.m.
Oct. 15 Lamar Cos. Jackson 8:00p.m.
Oct. 22 HarrisCo. Jackson 8:00p.m.
Oct. 29 PikeCo. Zebulon 8:00p.m.
Nov. 5 Open Date
Nov. 12 Mary Persons Jackson 8:00p.m.
Nov. 19 Region 8:00p.m.
Championship
B-Team
DATE OPPONENT LOCATION TIME
Babb of Forest
® e P* : Park 9th Grade Jackson 7:30
Sep l 9 Open Date
Sept. (Sat.) 18 Lamar Cos. Barnesville 7:30
Sept. 23 Henry Cos. Jackson 4:30
Oct. (Sat.) 2 Lamar Cos. Jackson 7:30
Oct. 7 MorganCo. Madison 4:30
Oct 14 Monticello Jackson 4:30
Oct. 21 Henry Cos. McDonough 4:30
■■
Herman Talmadge
THE METHOD for electing the President and Vice President
has been debated from the earliest days of the Republic. Now
in this election year, there is renewed interest in modifying
the existing Electoral College.
I am opposed to the “winner take all” requirement of the
system, which gives one candidate all the electoral votes of a
state even though he may have carried that state by only one
vote. This has opened the Electoral College to efforts to dras
tically change, or even throw out, the entire system.
We need to modify the Electoral College. But, we do not
need to destroy the concept upon which it is based, and which
has served our nation well.
* * *
ONE PROPOSAL is to do away with the Electoral College
and put Presidential elections on a direct, popular vote basis.
That sounds very attractive to strict advocates of the “one
man-one-vote” principle. However, it contains inherent dangers
to the American political structure.
The framers of the Constitution made it clear that mathe
matical exactness is contrary to everything we know and
understand about our republican form of government. Witness,
for example, the United States Senate, which has two senators
from each state, regardless of their size or population.
Moreover, direct election would invest enormous power in
densely populated states, and deny smaller states any influence
whatsoever in Presidential elections. Larger states, like New
York, California, Pennsylvania, and Illinois, would virtually
control Presidential elections through the sheer weight and
power of their millions of votes.
* * *
I FAVOR allotting each candidate a percentage of a state’s
electoral votes equal to the percentage of popular votes that
the candidate received. In other words, if a candidate in
Georgia received 33 per cent of the popular vote, he would
be allotted one-third of Georgia’s 12 electoral votes.
Proportionate distribution of electoral votes would ac
curately reflect the popular strength of various candidates.
It would eliminate the “winner take all” system. And, it
would embrace the “one-man-one-vote” principle by not giving
more weight to the vote of one person in one state than to
another person in another state.
If the Electoral College is to be modified, and I believe it
should be, this is the proper course of action.
(not prepared or printed at government expense)
Georgia Frosh
To Play Five
Games in 76
The University of Georgia
Freshman-Junior Varsity
football team will play five
games in the 1976 season
including two at home and
the traditional Thanksgiving
Day game with Georgia Tech
in Atlanta.
The Bullpups open with
South Carolina in Columbia
on Monday, Sept. 20, at 2p.m.
Clemson invades Athens on
Sunday, October 3rd, at 1:30
p.m. in the annual Shrine
Game.
their 1976 season here
against Jones County on
August 27th. Other home
games include Morgan
County, Lamar County, Har
ris County and Mary Per
sons.
Sporting white jerseys for
all home games this fall, the
Red Devils will wear their
traditional red on the road,
unless their opponents re
quest another color.
The varsity and B-team
schedules are as follows:
Georgia travels to Auburn
Monday, October 18th, for a
1:30 p.m. clash with the
Tigers before hosting the
Florida Gators on Monday,
November Ist at 1:30 p.m.
The Tech-Georgia game in
Atlanta will begin at 2:30
p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
PERSONAL
Miss Emma Griffeth and
Mrs. Carl Thrift of Athens
will spend the weekend with
Mrs. Doyle Jones, Jr. They
will attend the 86th annual
session of Camp Meeting at
the Indian Springs Camp
Ground.
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