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Durham. llrngreaa-Argua Volumue 103 Number 45 Carter Carries County,- Carter Projected Winner; Flynt Wins Congress Seat With complete results not in when tallying stopped in Butts County about midnight Tuesday, it appeared that approximately 4,000 voters had gone to the polls to express their preference in the contested races. As expected, Jimmy Car ter carried the county with ease, receiving 2,786 votes to 768 for President Ford. Carter was leading the President in the State by more than a two-to-one majority. Sixth District Congress man John J. Flynt, Jr. received 2,432 votes to 749 for Republican Newt Gingrich and held an 8,000 vote lead in the District with two-thirds of the votes tallied. Jimmy Carter took the South solidly and held a decisive lead in electoral votes. Later in the morning all three networks declared Power Cos. Has Recreation Representative J. C. Burnes, formerly district merchandise sales man in the Georgia Power Company’s Milledgeville office, has been named recreation representative for the company’s Sinclair and Jackson Lake reservoirs. In his new position, Burnes will manage and supervise the activities of Georgia Power’s land department as they pertain to Lakes Sinclair and Jackson. Burnes joined Georgia Power in 1971 as a merchandise salesman in Macon and later was named district merchandise sales man in Milledgeville. A native of Sparta, Burnes attended Young Harris Col lege and holds a bachelor of science degree from Georgia College. He served in the U. S. Air Force in Germany 1965-1969. The new recreation repre sentative is a member of the Eatonton Exchange Club and serves on the board of directors of the Eatonton Elks. He is an assistant Scoutmaster and a member of First Baptist Church. Burnes is married to the former Theresa Gardner of New Orleans, La. They have a son and a daughter. PROGRESS-ARGUS HAS GIRL PHOTOGRAPHER Miss Carole Lawrence has joined the staff of the Jackson Progress-Argus as a parttime photographer. The talented Miss Law rence is doing free lance photographic assignments for the paper in addition to conducting art classes for the County's young artists. W pf I James E. Carter 1 — —' Beautification Contest Nears End in Butts County Judges representing the state-wide beautification contest will be in Butts County today to determine if the county should receive top honors in the final compe tition. Only two other counties- Crisp and Oconee-are still in contention for the award. Carol Weaver, chairman of the Butts County Project, said the county’s success in the contest has been due to a “cooperative, coordinated effort with splendid partici pation” from all individuals and groups who have been asked, or volunteered, to serve. Judges for the events today are Vickie Crowley, Home service advisor and member services representative for the Cobb EMC; Cecil Phillips, executive director of the Georgia Conservancy; and Frank Craven, chief of forestry education for the Georgia Forestry Commis sion. The remaining judges will include George Lightfoot of the Georgia Electric Mem Kiwanians To Serve Pancakes November 9 The Jackson Kiwanis Club will have its semi-annual Pancake and Sausage Supper at the Jackson Elementary School lunchroom November 9 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Money derived from the supper will be used in community service projects sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. Tickets are $1.50 each and may be purchased from any Kiwanis member or at the door. ' * ♦ DIT'KY POTATO—This sweet potato, which has the perfect conformation of a duck, or goose, was grown by T. H. lYice.of Jenkinsburg. Mr. Price reports that most of his sweet potato crop this year consisted of monsters, weighing loui' pounds or more, with almost none of baking size. Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, November 4, 1976 bership Corporation and Dennis Hopper, assistant executive director of the Georgia State Soil and Water Conservation Committee. The judges will be viewing the scenery along most of the major highways leading from Jackson, and in the city the major and more promi nent streets will be judged. A kick-off brunch for the events will be held at the Electrical Membership Cor poration (EMC) building at 9:30 a.m. to greet the judges and other guests, and a “covered dish” luncheon will be held at 11:30 a.m. in the EMC auditorium. The public is invited. The state-wide beautifica tion program was sponsored by the Georgia Electric Membership Corporation and the Georgia Association of Conservation District Supervisors. The program’s main goal was to encourage individual home owners, communities and counties to dress up their natural assets while also protecting the environment. UNIVERSITY SYSTEM HAS FEWER STUDENTS The University System of Georgia, consisting of 33 institutions of higher learn ing, had a total of 124,938 students enrolled in the fall quarter of 1976. This repre sents a decline of 4,058 from the 128,994 enrolled in 1975, the first decline to occur in a number of years. Leading the enrollment parade was the University of Georgia with 21,238 students, followed by Georgia State University with 20,283 and Georgia Institute of Tech nology with 9,496. Goals For Dale Whiten Selection of Grand and Trial KSuL £ s£f Jurors ° Len9thy p,ocess The convening of Butts Grand jurors selected cannot compartment “two” until the Larry Morgan has been selected as chairman of a committee for Educational Goal-Setting for Butts Coun ty. He stated that the purpose of the committee is to conduct a series of activities whereby the entire com munity would get involved in setting educational goals for its children. The committee is the result of Governor Busbee’s Conference on Education held last spring. The commit tee's work is geared to be completed before the 1977 Governor’s Conference on Education to be held in Atlanta March 13 and 14. Mr. Morgan says the committee will contact as many people as possible through surveys, news arti cles, radio announcements, organizations and meetings. Each person desiring to will have the opportunity to respond and thereby state the goals he desires for students to attain during the school years. A goal is a statement which expresses the product or outcome that is desired at the end of a process. The end in this case would be upon graduation from high school. The following could serve as an example: Each student should be able to read a wide variety of materials. Other members of the committee are as follows: Robert L. Williams, Jr., Grady Head. Roland Lee, Dr. Bailey Croekarell, Mrs. Bailey Croekarell, Mrs. Ben Wright, Dr. Danny Hoard, Mrs. Norma Evans, Mrs. Shelby Henderson, Lee Duf fey, Larry Smith, George Tate, Bill Jones, and J. M. L. Comer. The committee members will welcome suggestions concerning educational goals from anyone, Mr. Morgan stated. SPAGHETTI SUPPER TO HONOR HJH FOOTBALL PLAYERS A spaghetti supper is scheduled for Thursday evening, November 11th, in Junior High Cafeteria for football players, cheer leaders, and their parents. There will be no charge for admission. The supper is sponsored by the Henderson Junior High Booster Club. Sales - Tax Revenue Continues to Increase Revenue from the local option sales tax in Butts County continued to increase for the months of July and August. County treasurer Billy Sutton reported that for July the sales tax brought in $15.:!75.00 and over $16,000.00 for August. In the city of Jackson, an increase was also reported. July figures showed $9,505.00, and in August the amount had increased to over $9,920.00. The one cent increase in sales tax in the county was voted in last fall in an effort to bring down property taxes. Each month the various retail outlets in the county pay to the state revenue department one per cent of their retail sales. The revenue department then charges the county one per cent for collection and divides payments of the county and its municipalities _.YM* iTitT Dale Whiten has joined the Progress-Argus staff as a news reporter and feature writer. A native of Seneca, S. C., he is a graduate of. the University of Georgia with an A.B. Degree in Journa lism . While at the University, he was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, professional jour nalism fraternity, and a staff member of the Red and Black. University of Georgia student newspaper. The young journalist is a graduate of Emmanel Col lege. Franklin Springs, Georgia, where he graduated with honors, as he did from the University. In addition to his under graduate work, he has worked part and full time for Bolk Department Stores and came to Jackson from the Bolk store in Greenville, S. C. He is married to the former Miss Jacqueline Brown of Royston and they have one daughter. Lara. The Whitens live at 286 Forrest Avenue in Jackson. Kiwanis Club Addressed by General Davis The Kiwanis Club of Jackson had as their guest speaker General Raymond G. Davis, retired U.S. Marine Corps, at its October 26 meeting. General Davis, one of only 12 marines to attain the rank of Four Star General, discussed the maintaining of a strong military defense. Davis also talked about the Soviet Union defense system in comparison to the Ameri can complex and noted that he believes the “gap is widening" in the arms race in favor of the Soviet Union. according to the following formula: Butts County-57.8 per cent Jackson -35.7 per cent Jenkinsburg-3.6 per cent Flovilla-2.7 per cent Despite the good news for July and August, the county treasury office has said that the amount of revenue generated may be down for the month of September though the figures are not yet available. Sutton explained that the decline may be in line with the general lull in business activity during September before the tre mendous surge in sales during the three months preceding Christmas. Additionally, it was report ed by the county treasury’ oft ice that revenue collected from the beer and wine tax was off for the month of September. The figures for September were $2,790.00 compared with almost $3.5110.00 for August. County Superior Court -with Judge Sam Whitmire presid ing - has probably caused many of the selected jurors and those who are certain prospective jurors to harbor questions as to how and why they were chosen. The process begins with the compiling of a jury list of "intelligent and upright citizens of the county.” This list is composed from those named on the current official registered voters’ list by the board of jury commissioners. In order to safeguard agaiiist the selection of an unfair and non-representa tive cross-section of the county population, Georgia law has been revised to require the jury commis sioners to go out in the county and personally acquaint themselves with possible jurors who might have been discriminately omitted. When the general selection of the jury list has been made, the jury commis sioners then begin the process of choosing grand and traverse (trial) jury members. Those whom the commis sioners deem are the “most experienced, intelligent and upright" citizens are chosen to serve as grand jurors. County Road Deer Hunters Note : Signs Go Up, Certain Cartridges Come Down May Be Dangerous An investment of $3,000 in road signs for Butts County's post roads seems to be literally going down the drain. A spokesman for the Butts County Commissioners said Friday that several of the attractive, and useful, signs have already fallen victim to vandals and pranksters. The road markers are on steel blades attached to steel posts which are then anchor ed in concrete. The posts and mountings are almost indestructible and the thieves do not bother them, but rather have an affinity for the steel blades which are disconnected with a special wrench. Homeowners and-or motorists who observe any one tampering with a road sign are requested to contact the sheriff's office or the county commission office in the courthouse. MR WESTBURY RINGS THE BELL Writing in the October issue of “The Bellringer", monthly publication of West bury Medical Care Home, Inc . S. J. Westbury writes of the visit he and Mrs. Westbury made to a termi nally-ill friend in the Clifton Springs Hospital in New York State. Mr Westbury says he was impressed by a motto on the nwrisng station that read. "We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible, for the ungrate ful. and we have done so much, for so long, with so little, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing." Steinmann Concert Conceited; Rescheduled For November 20 Rev Lannie W. Smith, pastor of tlie Towaliga Baptist Church, announced Tuesday that the vocal concert planned for Satur day . November 6th, at the Chinch has been cancelled. The illness of Miss Nancy Steinmann. vocalist for the First Baptist Church of $6.24 Per Year In Advance exceed two-fifths of all the names on the jury list. The grand jury is presented the prosecutor’s case and re turns indictments when there is sufficient evidence to warrant them. According to David Ridge way. Clerk of Superior Court, the grand jurors also appoint the judge of Small Claims Court and the board of tax equalization. These appoint ments were made this week when court opened. Traverse jurors are select ed from the entire number of jurors first chosen including those w ho were later selected as grand jurors. However, when a name is drawn for a traverse juror and that person has already been chosen to serve on the grand jury for the same term, then another name must be drawn. The names of both grand and traverse jurors are drawn from separate boxes with two compartments. At the close of each term, the Superior Court Judge un locks the box in open court and in the presence of the clerk or deputy clerk of the Superior Court. Between 18 and 60 names are drawn from compart ment “one" and deposited in (GRAND ISLAND. NE BRASKA; - Frontier Cart ridge Company is recalling certain lots of 30-30 ammuni tion which have a structural weakness. This weakness may cause the case head to separate upon firing which may result in injury from escaping gas. Frontier purchases empty primed cases from Federal Cartridge Corporation and Federal has advised Frontier to recall this ammunition. The ammunition involved is Frontier 30-30 ammunition loaded with either 150 gr. round nose or 170 gr. flat point bullets bearing lot number 6-38-76-9 . 6-42-76-9. 9-68-76-9. 9-71-76-9. The lot number is located on the inside end flap of each box of 20 and on the outside end of the shipping carton. Persons having Frontier 30-30 ammunition with one of these lot numbers should take the ammunition back to their dealer or write Frontier Cartridge Company. P. O. Box 1848. Grand Island, Nebraska 68801. This notice is limited to 30-30 cartridges with the lot numbers de scribed. ANNOUNCEMENT Jackson Lake C. B. Club—giving a "Deer Coffee Break" Friday, 4:00 P.M. til Saturday 6:00P.M., Highway 16 location - Monitor Ch. No. 1. Welcome to everyone, especially all you Deer Hunters Atlanta, who was to appear in concert here, has caused the cancellation, Rev. Smith said. Miss Steinmann s concert’ has been rescheduled for Satin day evening, November 20th. at 7:30p.m., according !< Rev Smith. names in the first compart ment are exhausted and then the alternate process will begin from the second compartment. The list is finalized when all the ineligible prospective jurors have been ruled out by the process of elimination. This year there are 374 names on the Grand Jury list and 1122 on the traverse jury list. Some persons are indeed eligible to be exempt from jury duty. These include law enforcement officers, fire department personnel, per sonnel of the court system, and those employed in the medical and dental fields. Exemptions also apply to attorneys, school teachers, those 65 or older, and mothers with children 14 or younger. The current members of the board of jury commis sioners in Butts County are E. D Briscoe. Stanley Maddox. O. L. Weaver, Jr., Mrs. Mary M. Carr, Mrs. Edna Miiler, and Arthur Lawson. The members, who are appointed by the Superior Court Judge, meet every two years to revise the jury list. They serve a six-year term with two terms expiring every two years. Federal Cartridge is re calling certain 30-30 rifle cartridges and empty un primed 30-30 cartridge cases which have a structural weakness making them po tentially dangerous to shoot. The recall is for 30-30 ammunition or empty 30-30 cases with lot codes ending in -5289 through -6285. Lot codes are stamped on the back of each box. Boxes may have the brand names of Federal. Revelation, Wards, or Hia watha. Shooters who have this ammunition should call 800- 328-7525 (in Minnesota call collect to 612-333-8255' or write Customer Service, Federal Cartridge. Anoka, Minnesota 55303 for proper disposition and refund in formation. The case heads of a small number of these cartridges may separate on firing, resulting in a jammed rifle and possible injury from escaping gas. Although no serious injury has been reported, they should not be used. Only a fraction of one per cent of the several million cartridges and unprimed cases produced are suspect. JOE. THE HOBO. SEZ: From the size of the multi-million dollar handouts both major candidates got from the federal govern ment . it is evident that both are enthusiastic supporters oi the welfare program.-•