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(1955-1975)
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VINCENT JONES EDITOR
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MEMBER—-1975
One Year $6.24
School Year $5.20
Editorials
It's Time to Push
For a County Manager
The dual action taken recently
by the Butts County Commis
sioners in offering tax credits to
some and raising the tax millage
for all is too fraught with legal
technicalities for any intelligent
assessment at this time.
For one thing, the State
Revenue Department must ap
prove the 1976 tax digest as it was
submitted and this had not been
done at the present writing.
There is talk of an injunction
being brought to prohibit the
payment of tax rebates to those
who were not involved as active
litigants in the legal hassle over
1975 assessments.
These and other issues, some of
them political in nature, have
resulted in the County being
fractured into several factions, all
of which combine some pettiness
along with their grandiose ideas as
to how the County should be
operated.
It is a distressing thing to see
the unity of our people shattered. In
a small county with limited human
and material resources, it is high
time we realized that we are either
going to progress together, or
retrogress singly.
Given a proper spirit of unity,
there are few problems our people
cannot overcome. An antagonistic,
divisive attitude, however, can so
separate us into cliques as to make
any worthwhile progress difficult
to achieve.
Nothing can divide a people
into warring camps as quickly as
those issues that touch the
pocketbook. Calling a man a
profane name doesn’t hurt him
Hail to the Victors
The Butts County Association
for Beautification Through Conser
vation Committee has overcome
the handicap of such a name and
emerged as the State winner in the
contest to foster beauty and
conservation in the State’s small
towns.
It is an honor richly deserved
Is Death Inevitable?
Add to the crazy cults
springing up everywhere in a
frighteningly mad world that of the
immortalists.
The immortalists allegedly
believe that death is a disease and
that it can be conquered, just as
other diseases that have plagued
man throughout the ages have
yielded to scientific knowledge.
Of course most immortalists
are young, for the young believe
they will never grow old and that
their physical bodies are, indeed,
immortal.
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nearly so much as taking an
additional SIOO from him in taxes.
Most of us realize that taxes
must go up as the inflationary
spiral continues to rise. It is not
that point that divides us but rather
the question of who is to pay more
and how much, and who is to pay
less and how little.
We submit again, as we have
before, the premise that a county
manager could save the county
enough money to make a
substantial difference in the tax
bills we all pay.
Butts County’s 1977 budget will
be approximately $1,200,000. Is
there another business in the
County, or elsewhere, with that
kind of receipts and expenditures
being run with part-time executive
talent?
Now is the time for contacts to
be made with our representatives
in the General Assembly to pass
enabling legislation that would
permit Butts County to hire a
county manager.
Or perhaps there may be
sufficient authority in the County’s
present legislation to appoint an
administrative aide, a county
administrator, or some similar
post with duties identical to that of
a county manager.
With a full-time administrative
officer, the County Commissioners
could then devote their time to
setting policy, salving hurt feelings
and enchanting the disenchanted
before full-fledged wars broke out.
We believe the appointment of
a County administrative officer is a
step towards achieving that unity
of purpose that lately has escaped
us.
and one that belongs to the entire
County, where so many people
worked tirelessly to put together
the kind of effort required to win
against such strong competition.
So, instead of patting indivi
duals on the back, we give the
County a solid whack and say, well
done, and may it be only the first of
many such awards.
It is only when the eyes fail, the
hair falls, the teeth drop and the
step falters that both men and
women begin to look down the road
to the long night and the peaceful
sleep that knows no waking.
In the meantime, we wish the
immortalists well. If they truly aim
for immortality, we would suggest
they attempt to implant a human
mind and consciousness into a
mechanical body. And, even then,
they would have difficulty finding a
source of perpetual energy.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1976
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
Since time immemorial,
editors have attempted to put
some humor and wisdom into
their publications. Witness
these excerpts from the
Middle Georgia Argus, print
ed at Indian Springs, Georgia
in the year 1881:
Not he who has little, but he
who covets much, is the poor
man.
This world would be a
dreadfully silent place if
people talked as little as they
thought.
A gentleman being twitted
by a friend about the brevity
of his underpinnings, replied,
“My legs reach the ground,
what more can yours do?”
The cold weather we have
had this winter is calculated
to discourage divorce suits. A
woman will stand consider
able abuse from her husband
for the privilege of warming
her feet in the hollow of his
back.
You might as well back a
mule up against a beehive
and tell him not to kick, as to
tell a woman about a
wedding and not set her
under jaw in motion.
We appreciate no
pleasures unless we are
occasionally deprived of
them. Restraint is the golden
rule on enjoyment.
NO NEW JOKES
There is absolutely nothing
new in jokes. They never
die. The jokes that are
familiar to us are those
which our ancestors enjoyed.
They are found in the most
ancient literature that re
mains, and in hieroglyphics
of the ruined monuments of
dead empires. Their un
changed existence through
these ages does not allow that'
these, like the earth and
man, may have been created
by a process of development;
they must have been created
absolutely. At some stage of
the work of creation the jokes
were launced into being, and
they have continued to
revolve by their own gravity,
the same as the planets.
The thing we cauliflower
by any other name would
smell as sweet.
Weather Prophecy-When
you see two cats on the
woodshed looking each other
in the eye and waving their
tails, it is a sign of a squall.
“Now, George, you must
divide the cake honorably
with your brother, Charles.”
“What is honorable,
mother?” “It means that you
must give him the largest
piece.” “Then, mother, I’d
rather Charley would divide
it.”
Sad spectacles-broken
glasses.
When death consents to let
us live a long time, it takes
successively as hostages all
those we have loved.
An irritable man lives like
a hedgehog rolled up the
wrong way, tormenting him
self with his own prickles.
“Do you know who built the
ask?”, asked a Sunday
school teacher of his tender
charge; and the little fellow
replied, “Naw.”
The child never sees the
necessity of strict obedience
until it becomes apparent.
Sweet Evelina from the
suffocating embrace of her
lover cried out, “Give me
liberty or give me breath.”
Last words of the balloon
ist: “It’s all up with me.”
Last words of the gosling:
“It’s all down with me.”
At what season did Eve eat
the apple? Early in the fall.
A counter attraction-a
pretty girl clerk.
| A Stroll Down
Memory Lane |
News of 10 Years Ago
The Jackson National
Bank moved November 23rd
and 24th into its spacious new
building at the intersection of
Third and Mulberry Streets.
The High Falls recreation
area has been raked by a
series of burglaries, with
several cabins being entered
and their owners reporting
many valuable items have
been taken.
T. E. Robison, Sr. won
SIO.OO in the football guessing
contest being sponsored by
several Jackson firms.
Jack Long has qualified for
the 1967 Torch Club of
Liberty National. Member
ship is reserved for the
Company’s top salesmen.
Mrs. Levi H. Hurt, Sr. was
tendered a surprise birthday
dinner durng the Thanks
giving holidays upon the
occasion of her birthday on
November 25th.
Miss Mary Ruth Martin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George N. Martin, Jr., was
declared a national 4-H Club
winner in the dairy program
at the 4-H Club Congress held
in Chicago.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. R. L. Smith; John
Wesley Kelley, 80; Mrs.
Lewis N. Maddox, 81.
News of 20 Years Ago
Haisten Funeral Home, of
Jackson, announced this
week the purchase of
Peacock and Ball Funeral
Home, of Jackson.
To raise funds for several
community projects, the
Butts County Jaycees are
giving away a Shetland pony
on Christmas Eve.
W. C. Garr, with a yield of
187 bushels per acre, has won
the Butts County Corn
contest sponsored by the
Jackson Kiwanis Club.
Jackson High coaches
Henry Powers and Joe
Slappey report the local
basketball teams as ready
for the season opener here
Friday against Pike Cos.
Thirty boys and girls
assembled at the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice Carmi
chael to help little Miss
Candace Carmichael cele
brate her sixth birthday on
Thanksgiving Eve.
Deaths during the week:
Asa Ellis Martin, 43; Mrs.
Harvey A. Mills; John Levi
Fletcher, Sr. 74; Rev.
Thomas G. Linkous, 78.
News of 30 Years Ago
Miss Louise Thurston has
been named one of the
supervisors at the Children’s
Hospital in Birmingham.
Mrs. A. G. Potts has been
named acting officer of the
AAA program in Butts
County, following the resig
nation of Roy Aiken to accept
the administrative officer’s
post in Newton County.
R. C. Thomas says he will
give an additional $2.00
bonus--the county commis
sioners already offer $2.00-
for all four feet of all foxes
killed within one mile of his
home in the Iron Springs
district.
The Par-Teens met at the
gymnasium Saturday night
for a scavenger hunt, with
Betty Moore and W. C.
Norsworthy winning the
prize.
Miss Peggy Colwell has
been named president of the
Towaliga 4-H Club
Lamar McMichael, 7-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Howell McMichael, received
painful burns Sunday morn
ing when his clothing caught
as he was making a fire in a
heater.
News of 40 Years Ago
In changes announced at
the North Georgia Confer
ence, Rev. A. E. Barton will
come to the Jackson Metho
dist Church, while Rev. R. P.
Etheridge will go to Chipley.
Scout leaders in Jackson
and Pepperton who will
attend the Flint River
Council meeting in Griffin
include Ralph Carr, J. O.
King, Dock Boyd, Louis
Bachelor, Davis Willard,
H.O. Ball, Bert Carmichael,
Rev. J. B. Harrison and Rev.
E. L. Daniel.
Mr. and Mrs. James
Buchanan have recently
purchased the Will Merritt
lot on West Third Street and
begun construction of a
nine-room house.
The engagement of Miss
Louise Ingram, of Jesup, and
Mr. Morrell L. Powell of this
city has stirred much
interest. The marriage will
be solemnized during the
Christmas holidays.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Harvey Bray, 25; Mrs.
R. L. McMichael; Mrs. Lucy
McKibben, 93.
News of 50 Years Ago
Butts County alumnae of
Brenau College have orga
nized with Mrs. Joseph
Edwards as president; Mrs.
Elwood Robison, vice presi
dent; Miss Janie Lee Hardy,
treasurer; Miss Ruby Jones,
program chairman; Mrs. W.
O. Brown, recording secre
tary, and Miss Lollie Carmi
chael, chairman member
ship committee.
Playing at the Jackson
High auditorium was “The
Scarlet West”, with Robert
Frazer and Clara Bow.
Attending the lovely
Thanksgiving dinner party
given by Miss Mollie Watkins
were Misses Neva Fletcher,
Ruth Maddox, Annie Wat
kins, Virginia Crawford and
Marion Nutt and Messrs. Otis
Ball, Jr., Robert Franklin,
Levi Ball, J. T. Moore, Jr.,
Ike Woodruff and Park
Newton.
Buttrill Bros, was advertis
ing big stock high buggy and
auto robes at sacrifice
prices.
Deaths during the week: J.
J. Wilson, 80, a member of
Cos. “G”, Third Georgia
Reserves, in the Confederate
army.
Ksfytfa/iA ’tO' Uw
Thanks for “The Last
Straw”. These articles are
praiseworthy. You wield a
“facile pen,”
Thanks for “50 Years
Ago.” Waves of nostalgia
recall pleasant memories.
Your Special Edition
credited N. J. Harmon as
being one of the first editors
of the Butts County paper
(Argus-Progress, etc.) He
was my father. He died when
I was six years old. Thanks
for mentioning him. We
moved to Savannah in 1913.1
was born in Jackson and still
love it.
N. J. Harmon
785 Dill Ave., S. W.
Atlanta, Ga. 30310
fir BICENTENNIAL I WJ
wL bypaths iPJ
QUB (QUNIBY 700 r 1 A B AGO J
As November, 1776 came
to an end the convention
ot New York authorized ex
penditures to provide a
chain across the Hudson
River to obstruct passage.
The work was to be done
under direction of General
George Clinton, at Fort
Constitution.
% ,
HyIKURRI
By Mrs. Cindy Brown
PEOPLE I WOULD LIKE
TO MEET AND WHY
1. Mother Nature: I would
like to get her address so that
I can sue her for personal
damages incurred to my
body.
2. Father Time: Ditto Ms
Nature
3. The Bobbsey Twins: I
would like for my children to
meet them. I would like for
my little angels to know that
the Bobbseys don’t always go
to the seashore, the moun
tains, the ranch, etc. Why
don’t we ever find books
about the Bobbsey Twins
Visit The Doctor, The
Bobbsey Twins Fail Spelling,
The Bobbsey Twins Stand in
the Corner....
4. Ralph Nader: I need to
discuss all of my consumer
problems with him: My car
which doesn’t work, my
vacuum cleaner which
doesn’t work, my dishwasher
which doesn’t work, my
children who don’t work....
5. Minnie Pearl: I would
like to know where she buys
her hats....
6. The Jolly Green Giant: I
want to know where he thinks
Gardening
in the South
By Dr. Frank Willingham
Manager,
Callaway Gardens Greenhouses
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. -
So you want to make your
gift plant part of your
permanent plant collection?
What do you do now?
The following steps offer a
logical approach for
maximizing survival of gift
plants, some of which may
come to you disguised as
perfectly normal, healthy
specimens.
1. Check to see that you
are actually dealing with a
potted plant, that is, one with
roots. Remove any foil
surrounding the pot, knock
out the plant and remove any
extra materials that may have
been added for aesthetic
appeal from leaves, such as
dried plant parts, little
papermaiche birds, etc.
2. Make a preliminary
evaluation of the health of
the plant based on the
condition of the root system.
Roots are where the action is,
and regardless of how the
upper part of the plant looks,
you haven’t got a chance if
things aren’t healthy down in
the soil. Look for a wellfilled
rootball, not potbound, and
individual roots that are light
colored and crisp, like fresh
lettuce. If the roots are in
poor condition or severely
pruned, as often is the case
with potted azaleas, you
would be better off to throw
the plant away and save
yourself a lot of wasted
effort.
3. If your plant does seem
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
THANK YOU, LORD
Thank You for rest all through the night
Thank You for sending morning light
Thank You for clouds of snowy white
Thank You for guidance in the right!
Thank You for gift of fading sight
Thank You for will to win and fight
Thank You for trust with all my might
Thank You for serving You aright!
he gets off Ho, Ho, Hoing at
me all the time.
7. Mrs. Santa: Speaking of
Ho, Ho, Hoing, I would like to
know where she found Mr. C.
Perhaps he has a brother.
8. Uncle Sam: I want to
break his finger. It’s always
pointed at somebody.. .The
Army needs you and me and
your brother and my sister,
etc.
9. Snap, Crackle and Pop:
I’m darned tired of all that
noise they make all the time.
10. Perry Mason: I never
met a lawyer who never loses
a case.
11. Mrs. John Walton: I
would just like five minutes
to let her know that I don’t
believe her house is as happy
as they like to make out, and
besides, I hate women who
are perfect homemakers.
12. Telly Savalas: I want to
find out who his hairdresser
is.
13. Raquel Welch: I want to
see for myself just what my
husband finds to be so
appealing about her.
14. And finally, I’d like to
meet Charlie Brown --1 just
love him. To heck with Little
Orphan Annie, she ain’t
nearly as cute as Charlie.
healthy, plan your strategy
based on the type of plant.
First, determine optimum
growing conditions for your
plant. Be especially attentive
to light requirements,
temperature, and moisture
level. Remember that during
the winter m onths
(November to February)
most plants tend to be
somewhat dormant. Water
very sparingly (perhaps only
once every two weeks). Use
no fertilizer, and avoid
placing the plant in front of
heating vents. Concentrate on
keeping the plant alive until
the spring growing season.
4. In spring, follow your
normal watering and
fertilizing schedule.
5. Special Note! For those
Christmas poinsettias, it’s
best to cut them back to
about six inches after the
holiday season and keep them
watered for normal, active
growth. The new varieties
sold by florists in the last few
years do not require a
dormant period before
restarting. A hard pruning
will insure good form the
following year.
The environmental
awareness movement has
certainly had its effect on the
florist industry. More potted
plants, instead of cut flowers,
are given as gifts. With a little
plant knowledge and care,
your potted plant gift can go
on giving pleasure far beyond
just a few days.