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Editorials
Mr. Carters Cabinet
Despite the vehement, loud
mouthed objections raised by some
of the professional protesters,
there is no evidence introduced to
date to indicate that president-elect
Jimmy Carter’s selections for his
cabinet and top governmental
posts are anything other than wise
ones.
We do not profess to have ties
to the heart beat or pulse of the
public any closer than those of the
television newscasters, but we do
believe that the American public is
fed up with those self-seeking
politicians and public figures who
are always opposed to everything
and who always seem to have
access to a TV camera to state
their views.
Some of these characters are
more interested in their TV image
than the content of their views and
they spew their nothingness out
onto the air waves and ruin supper
for millions of Americans whose
opinions would be far more
objective and more intelligently
arrived at.
Unfortunately, however, we
seem to live in the age of the
protesters. In almost every sphere
of human endeavor, politics,
education, civil rights, criminology
and on ad infinitum, there is
always a loud mouth ready to spew
his venom into the nearest
microphone. Whether his thinking
is logical, his dialogue meaningful,
or his conclusions relevant is
Safety in the Woods
Almost every day during the
open season for deer, there will
appear a picture of an eight or
ten-year-old child who bagged a six
point buck.
The trend is alarming, con
sidering the extreme danger of the
high-powered rifles, or shotguns
with rifled slugs, that are the only
legally prescribed guns for taking
deer.
Is some idiot going to put a
four-year old on a deer blind
someday, hoping for a Guinness
world record, and claim his son is
the youngest person to ever kill a
deer in the nation’s history?
This fetish of arming children
with high-powered weapons in
The Bicentennial Year Ends
The passing of 1976 carried
more than the usual regrets for a
year’s ending. The year-long
Bicentennial celebration has fo
cused attention more than any
other event on the nation’s history,
its tremendous growth and
progress, the strengths and
weaknesses of its people.
It has caused all of us pause
and rpf\prt on our natio; Dast
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beside the point; he must be given
an opportunity to take the opposing
view.
While the vast majority of us,
when upset by the latest news
event, may sulk in the living room
and refuse the proferred meal, kick
the cat, or cuss husband or wife,
the intemperate, self-centered, self
proclaimed spokesman catches the
TV cameraman’s eye and offends
us with his senseless mouthing.
There seems to be no end to the
protesters’ fury and perhaps no
method yet devised that would
insure their eradication. It would
seem, however, that the television
stations could use more discretion
in selecting potential interviewees
for their personal opinion polls. At
least, give us some new faces and
new opinions, not the same old
hackneyed ones who keep repeat
ing the same old story of injustice
and discrimination.
Human nature being what it is,
no president-elect is ever going to
be able to select a cabinet on which
there is universal approval.
Those who have serious
objections to the qualifications, or
character, of any member of the
proposed cabinet have the oppor
tunity to oppose such nomination
through the Congressional confir
mation process.
To oppose a nominee because
of his or her color, or lack of it, is to
brand one’s self as a racist of the
most stubborn type.
pursuit of deer is not only sheer
idiocy, it is unadulterated folly as
well.
A child of tender age might
engage in target practice with a .22
rifle under the watchful care of his
father, but to arm an immature,
inexperienced child with a deer
weapon and place him on a blind
until something moves through the
underbrush is asking for trouble
that is bound to come.
The question is not whose child
will set the record for being the
youngest to ever kill a deer, but
which hunter will be the first
victim of a child deer hunter who
should be shooting a BB gun
instead of a .303 rifle.
and to become more appreciative
of the sacrifices of our forefathers.
Only a handful of those old
enough to remember the Bicenten
nial will be on hand for the
Tricentennial celebration. But we
hope that the celebration observed
this year and the memories
rekindled will stand the nation in
good stead for its journey into its
third 100. ,
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
The candleshine is still on
the window and the candles
are melted down into
stubless forms of wax. The
Christmas tree still blinks
out its message of the season
from its accustomed corner.
Turkey left-overs are still
being enjoyed, the mistletoe
withered and dried, the
wrappings and trappings of
the season still awaiting
removal for their 11-month
period of hibernation.
Christmas is over and
gone, with its joy and
merriment and its pangs of
loneliness and its memories
of better days and once loved
faces.
But the New Year is here to
be contended with, 365 days
of a clean slate on which will
be written the victories and
the defeats, the hopes and
despairs of both individuals
and nations before the
afterglow of Christmas re
turns once again.
The veil that separates
tomorrow from today pre
vents any sure knowledge of
what the new year portends.
Only the soothsayers, the
prophets and the foolish
would dare make predictions
of future events. That their
vision is limited was evi
denced by their failure to
pick Oakland over Pitts
burgh in the Super Bowl
preview game of last Sunday.
Although certainty is not
one of the qualities that we
will encounter in 1977, and
who is to say that any of us
would be better off if we
knew for certain what the
new year held for us, there
would seem to be at least two
qualities we should antici
pate with pleasure, and with
some degree of certainty.
For surely 1977 will be full
of promise. The promise that
the nation is finally emerging
from the excesses of a
Republican administration
and that under President
Carter it will move forward
again and that our people will
once more regain pride and
faith in our national govern
ment .
For every American there
will be the promise of a
better life, the great hope and
expectancy that the good
breaks will come our way,
that Dame Fortune will smile
on us and that life will take on
that rosy hue again.
For the ill, may there be
the promise of renewed
health; for the sad, the
promise of awakened
interests; for the lonely, the
promise of new friends;for
the poor, the promise of more
prosperous times; for the
spiritually bereft, the excit
ing promise of salvation.
Surely, 1977 will be full of
promise. Of that we can be
certain, even without the
prophets' foretelling.
As sure as we are of the
new year bringing promise,
we can be equally sure of it
bringing challenge.
For no one past their early
teens has ever gone through
an entire year without being
severely challenged. On
every hand there are the
stumbling blocks that must
be surmounted, the choices
to be made. Is popularity in
our peer group worth the
price we have to pay, is
adherence to a strict moral
code worth the cost of lost
pleasures, is being an honest,
upright citizen worth the
sacrifice of monetary gains
and lost prestige?
These are negative chal
lenges, to be sure. But they
will await you in 1977, as they
have, and will, every year of
vour life.
But there are alternatives
of the more positive type.
The challenge to excel in
whatever you do; the
challenge to make personal
sacrifices for the family’s
good; the challenge to give
more and take less in all of
your human relationships.
1977 will hold for all both
promises and challenges.
May it bring to you the joy of
fulfilled hopes and the
satisfactions of life well
lived.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1976
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A Stroll Down
Memory Lane \
News of 10 Years Ago
The death of a Marietta
man, Ray Terrell Reed, 38, in
a Jackson motel has been
ruled a suicide by a coroner’s
jury. A .38 caliber revolver
was discovered with the
body.
Brown Construction Com
pany, of Newnan, will
construct the stand pipe for
the Flovilla water system,
while the W. D. Hurst
Construction Company, of
Ohatchee, Ala., will lay the
pipe lines for the project.
Rogers Starr, Sr., of
Jackson, Twelfth Division
Lieutenant Governor of
Kiwanis International, will
install officers and directors
of the Jackson Kiwanis Club
for 1967 at Tuesday night’s
meeting. Lewis Freeman will
head the Jackson Club as it
enter its 45th year of service.
Miss Barbara Lynn Fetz,
13. of Atlanta, has died as a
result of injuries sustained in
a fall from a horse at the
Butts County farm of her
grandparents.
George L. Morgan, Jr. has
been named to the Dean’s
List for the fall quarter at
West Georgia College.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Wells R. Singleton, 53.
News of 20 Years Ago
Mrs. J. W. Carter won first
place in the Christmas
doorway lighting contest,
with Mrs. Mildred Raven,
second, and Mrs. Lou
Moolchert, third.
Attractive prizes offered
by Jackson merchants, in
cluding bales of cotton,
watches, electric trains and a
Shetland pony helped boost
Yule trade locally.
Smith Faulkner, Jr., 31,
Butts County sailor with 13
years service in the US Navy,
was killed in a motor bike
accident in Bermuda.
In a 60-hour period from
midnight Friday until early
Monday morning, 5.40 inches
of rain fell on Butts County.
Butts County Post No. 5374,
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
has donated SIOO to the
Empty Stocking Fund and
$25 to the Christmas Seals
drive.
Deaths duing the week:
Mrs. Zelda Couch Chambers,
25; Mrs. J. A. Knowles, 51.
News of 30 Years Ago
Governor-elect Eugene
Talmadge, who was to have
been inaugurated as
governor for a fourth term in
January, died Saturday at an
Atlanta hospital.
T. E. Robison, chairman,
reports that the Flint River
Council has raised $415 in
Butts County for Boy Scout
work in the area.
More than 100,000 pounds
of beef and pork has been
processed in the first six
weeks of the Butts County
Freezer Locker’s operation,
according to J. K. Sitton,
manager.
Jack Leverett, of Jenkins
burg, weighing 131 pounds,
has won the lifting title in his
class at the All-South
Weight-Lifting championship
in Chattanooga. Jack lifted
170 pounds in the two arm
snatch and 240 pounds in the
two arms class and jerk lift.
A Jackson Student Council
has been organized with
Jack Patrick as president,
Betty Burford, vice presi
dent, and Bette Thaxton,
secretary.
Jackson High sent Carolyn
Ham. Barbara Mills, Roslyn
O'Neal and Miss Julia
Traylor to the Tri-Hi-Y
conference in Atlanta. The
tragic death of 27 delegates
in the Winecoff Hotel fire
forced cancellation of the
convention this year.
News of 40 Years Ago
The consensus of most
Jackson business leaders
seemed to be, after Christ
mas sales were tallied, that
they had enjoyed the best
business since 1929. The fall
trade campaign, with valu
able prizes being given, was
declared a success. W. A.
White won a bale of cotton at
Thursday’s drawing.
W. M. Bond was installed
as High Priest of Jackson
Chapter No. 54, Royal Arch
Masons, at the annual
election Monday night.
The volume of mail
handled at the Jackson post
office this Christmas season
was the heaviest on record,
according to J. G. McDonald,
assistant postmaster.
Jackson friends of Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Street, of Dothan,
Ala., will be interested to
know that they won a prize of
$25.00 for the prettiest
decorated home during the
Christmas season.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. John W. Moore, Mrs. J.
A. Jarrell, 73; Bernard O.
Maddox, 43; Oscar B. Hardy,
52.
News of 50 Years Ago
L. B. Hopkins was named
High Priest of Jackson
Chapter No. 54, Royal Arch
Masons, when officers were
chose at the annual election
Monday night.
Stockholders of Butts
County banks will hold their
annual meetings on Tuesday
These will include share
holders of the Jackson
National Bank, the Jackson
Banking Company, the
Farmers Bank of Jenkins
burg and the Bank of
Flovilla.
According to the most
recent survey of Census
Bureau, there are presently
125 Indians residing in
Georgia.
The marriage of Miss Ruth
Pace and Mr. W. Lloyd White
took place Sunday afternoon
at 5 o’clock at the Methodist
pastorium, with the Rev.
Augustus Ernest performing
the ceremony.
The residence of Mr. J. L.
Barnes on the extension of
West Third Street was
destroyed by fire on Wednes
day night, with the house and
its contents being a
total loss.
Viewpoints
If no provision, no
allowance is made for
change by peaceful means,
it will come anyway —and
with violence.
Herbert Hoover
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if
On December 31, 1776,
the stage was set for the
Battle of Princeton, which
would begin the next after
noon, with Cornwallis stop
ped as Washington moved
into winter quarters at
Morristown. Washington
occupied Colonel Ford's
home. It and the winter
camp are now Morristown
National Historical Park.
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’ By Mr*. Cindy Brown
What a year this has been!
This year, 1976, the Bicenten
nial Year was chockful of Big
Events. For the first time
ever, the state of Georgia
produced a president, James
Earl Carter, the peanut
farmer from Plains. To
many people, he is a promise
for an honest and fruitful four
years to come.
And I heard on the news
this morning that Georgia
has had less automobile
wreck fatalities this year
than any year since 1962.
That is a great accomplish
ment in itself. After all, our
people are our best asset and
we certainly need to preserve
their talents and abilities.
One of the highlights for
me this year was the
Summer and Winter Olympic
games. More people than
ever are becoming health
conscious and those ama
teurs who performed in the
Olympics were an inspiration
to us all. And look what
Dorothy Hamil, the iceskater
did for the hair stylists of the
world!
The fashion scene this year
had a little something for
everyone. I suppose the
biggest seller in ladies’
clothes may have been the
jumpsuit, followed closely by
the Kulotte pants. I really
liked seeing the vest return to
both men’s and women’s
clothes --1 think it adds a lot
to the neatness of an outfit.
And then there are the
bluejeans: What more should
be said!!!
I suppose that ten years
from now most all of our
homes will be heated by sun
power and we will all be
cooking in radar ovens. We
caught a glimpse of these
things in 1976. The only
"progress” I really dread is
the advent of the “see while
you talk” telephone. I don’t
particularly want to be seen
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THE MISSING PASSPORT
We were at the airport in New York getting ready to
depart for Israel. There was a group of thirty of us and I
needed each person’s passport. I asked for the passports and
counted them when I had received them all. There were only
twenty-nine.
That didn’t bother me much because with an excited
group like that someone usually forgets. So I asked each
person to check and make sure I had their passport. Each
person checked, and there was no passports forthcoming.
When that didn’t produce a passport, I counted again to
make sure I had not made a mistake in counting. And a
recount came up with only twenty-nine passports.
So I went around to each person individually and asked if
they had given me their passport. And each person assured
me that they had, indeed, given me their passport. So, after
being assured by each person that I had their passport, I
counted them again. Still only twenty-nine.
Bv this time. I was beginning to become a little annoyed.
Thirty people, but only twenty-nine passports. And yet, I had
asked for the passports several times and had been assured
by each person that I did have their passport.
Well, I knew that there was one fool-proof way of
checking to see whose passport was missing. I would check
the passport against their tickets. The extra ticket would tell
me who had not given me their passport.
On the way to the- ticket counter one of the group
approached and inquired if I had counted my passport in the
number. Sure I had. I had been the first to place my passport
in the pile. I had done this many times before and knew what
I was doing.
So I went on to the counter, took all the tickets out and
placed them next to the passports. Then I began the process
of one by one matching the tickets and the passports. When I
came to my ticket I laid it aside until I came to my passport.
After going through half of the tickets I noticed that I had not
seen my passport yet. But I didn’t think much about it. I knew
mine was included.
Finally, I got down to just a few passports remaining.
Quickly I glanced through them. And then I discovered which
passport was missing. I reached into my pocket and pulled
out the missing passport.
You know sometimes we become upset with others for
doing things which we are guilty of doing ourself. So let us
have more patience and be not so quick to condemn.
Yes, it was my passport which was missing.
Editor’s Quote Book
There is nothing more
frightening than a bustling
ignorance.
Goethe
each time I make a phone
call, but I suppose that is the
cost of progress.
“There shall be wars and
rumors of wars.” And this
year was no exception. Of
course, there were no major
battles evident, just conflicts
-- what a deceiving word for
death and injury. Surely the
time will come when more
people can live together in
peace and harmony.
One of the most disturbing
aspects of the year to me,
was the new religious sects
which are springing up all
over. Many a parent has lost
a child to these new groups;
what heartache these man
oriented groups are causing.
I was taught to be tolerant of
other’s religions, but I can
not bring myself to be
tolerant of faiths which
condone hypnotism and
force.
On the book scene, the
Foxfire trilogy was the big
seller. For those of you who
are not familiar with Foxfire,
these best sellers tell you
everything from how to build
a log cabin to how to produce
you own home remedies from
old-fashioned recipes used by
the Mountain folks. The fact
that these books have been
such a hit throughout the
nation should tell us all
something.
That something, of
course, is that we have,
whether we realize it or not, a
basic desire to escape too
much modernism; and fur
ther, that we have an
unvoiced wish to bring
yesterday’s simplicity into
today’s harried world. Per
haps we should follow these
longings. If we could take the
good from yesterday and
combine it with the know
ledge of today, what a great
tomorrow we would have!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO
ALL!
‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
Save The Ashes
Ashes from fireplaces and
wood-buming stoves can be
used to supplement fertilizers
and condition soils in veg
etable gardens and flower
beds, Extension Service hor
ticulturists point out.
