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J. D. Jones Publisher
(1908 19551
Doyle Jones Jr. - Editor and Publisher
(1955-1975)
MRS. MARTHA G. JONES PUBLISHER
VINCENT JONES EDITOR
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Georgia 30233 by The Progress-Argus Printing Cos., Inc. Second Class
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Editorials
A Statement of Policy
Covering Social News
News is news only so long as it is
fresh, of recent vintage, and before
it becomes community knowledge.
This applies to all types of news, be
it community happenings, sports,
or society news.
Because of that, and because of
the increasing number of weddings
and party accounts which persons
in the Butts County area wish
published in the Progress-Argus, it
is necessary for the paper to
restate its policy concerning
society news.
Wedding accounts of weddings
occurring more than 35 days (five
weeks) prior to the publication date
will not be accepted. Weddings
occurring prior to December 9th,
for instance, would not be used in
the January 13th issue.
The paper welcomes pictures,
but will continue its policy of
charging for publication of a
wedding or engagement picture
due to the costs of preparing the
photograph for publication. This
fee, which is reasonable, must be
paid in advance.
Pictures to accompany wedding
accounts must be less than three
weeks (21 days) old for publication.
All responsible professional photo
graphers can meet this deadline.
Parties and showers accompany
ing a wedding must appear either
with the wedding write up or prior
to the wedding write up. No stories
An Auspicious Beginning
The new Butts County Commis
sioners got off to a good start in
their first meeting last Monday,
showing right away that they mean
business and that they intend to
operate the County’s affairs
openly, efficiently and economical
ly-
Reducing the County’s tax rate
by over seven mills is an indication
they believe that certain economies
of operation can be established
that will save the taxpayers about
one-fourth of their tax bill each
year.
There is evidence also they are
A Benign 7976
One of the hopeful signs to come
out of the nation’s 200th birthday
celebration was the spirit of
togetherness that seemed to
pervade our land.
For one year, at least, the
divisiveness that split us into
cliques and clubs and factions
seemed to have disappeared and
we were no longer black, or white,
or Jew, or Catholic, or Protestant,
but we were all American, proud of
our heritage, certain of our future
and glad to have so many good
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of parties for a bridal couple may
be published after the wedding
account is published.
Write ups of all parties, wedding
or not, should be submitted for
publication within two weeks of the
date the party was held. Accounts
of parties held more than two
weeks prior to the publication date
will not be used.
The paper welcomes items for
inclusion in its social and personal
columns, club news, the comings
and goings of its readers, dinner
parties, anniversaries, special
events, etc., but to insure their
publication, such items should be
submitted not later than noon
Monday on the week that
publication is desired.
Readers desiring help in the
preparation of social items may
call the newspaper office, 775-3107,
for assistance, or to submit local
news for publication.
Forms to help the prospective
bride and groom with their
engagement and wedding accounts
are available at the Progress-
Argus office during regular
business hours.
The paper’s entire editorial staff
is ready to assist in the preparation
of society news for the paper, but
we must ask for your cooperation
in making the social pages lively
and interesting with recent
happenings.
moving with dispatch to resolve the
lengthy hassle over property taxes
that has hindered the County’s
growth for the past eighteen
months and occupied too much of
the time and talent of County
officials.
As political newcomers, their
youthful enthusiasm is refreshing
and, although their administration
will not be mistake-free, we are
delighted to see them attack the
County’s problems with such vigor,
intellect and determination and we
wish them well in their endeavors.
friends of all sects, colors and
creeds by our side for the journey
into the future.
Such feelings of awe, good will
and brotherhood were not easily
discovered-it having taken 200
years-and, we pray, will be even
more difficult to lose.
A spirit of good will to all and a
generous application of the Golden
Rule will go a long way towards
keeping the spirit of 1976 alive,
long after the memory of its events
has faded away.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1977
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
Hard by the rutted field
roads of yesteryear, often
hidden by the ever encroach
ing forest primeval, known
only to farmers, hunters and
hikers, are the abandoned
burial plots of the County’s
pioneers.
Unlike those whose spirits
have communion with the
mocking bird in the church
cemetery, or reckon time by
the striking of the city clock,
these are the few, forgotten
and abandoned, whose final
resting place is nestled in the
wilderness they conquered.
They rest now beside the
lost lanes, within the sound of
the singing streams, their
only canopy a cover of
needles that have fallen
silently from the guardian
pines that stand as their
living memorials.
As true frontiersmen they
came, over a century and a
half ago, with their axe and
long rifle, to face the Indian
tomahawk and a quiver full
of arrows, and they hacked
down the pines and built the
rugged log cabins they called
home.
They brought their dreams
with them and they lived to
see some of them come true
beneath skies that became
friendly ere their mortal task
was done. From them and
their seed have come many
of the leaders of today.
Most of them rest in
eternal peace within the
sanctuary of church or city
cemeteries or in family
burial sites that are still
properly maintained.
But the sands of time run
out on families, just as on
individuals. Many of the
pioneer families of Butts
County have no direct
descendants living today, at
least not within the County.
Grandchildren, great and
great-great, nieces, nephews
and cousins thrice removed,
and living in distant cities,
cannot be expected to keep
up these old burial sites, if
indeed they knew precisely
where they were located.
It would seem that the
location, and identification
where possible, of those
private burial plots that have
been abandoned and neglect
ed, would be a worthwhile
project for any active civic
group in the County which
wanted to make a lasting
contribution to the County’s
historical records.
Even where identification
was not possible, the cutting
away of heavy undergrowth,
Will Santa Come in January ?
Although one can hope the
measure is but a stop-gap one,
there is room for dismay in the
announcement that president-elect
Jimmy Carter will sweeten the pot
of the public works’ advocates by
some two billions upon his
inauguration.
Make-work programs by the
federal government just aren’t
workable. The costs-benefits ratio
is too high, the federal deficit
increases, inflation heightens, the
created jobs are temporary in
nature and the latest estimate,
which is probably too low, is that it
costs the taxpayers over $26,000 to
create each job under a federal
public works program.
For the unemployed, tem
porary work is better than none.
But workers don’t buy automobiles
or houses while employed on
construction jobs of a few months
duration. And if it costs over $26,000
to make one unemployed person
happy, why not make three happy
with a federal subsidy of $9,000
each?
Unfortunately, in this as in
so many other federal pro
grams, the small cadre of insiders,
the planners, economists, archi
tectural and enginering firms will
get the cream off the top, long
before old John Doe gets a chance
to lay his first brick. Planning
costs, in both time and money, for
most of these public works projects
is outrageous and the time, effort
and expense spent in application
A Stroll Down
Memory Lane
■1 • —.
News of 10 Years Ago
Tommy Beckham has been
installed as president of the
Exchange Club of Jackson
for 1967. Other officers are
John Moore, vice president;
Frank Moore, secretary, and
Ralph Evans, treasurer.
At the annual stockholders
meeting of Jackson National
Bank, J. Frank Barnes was
elected president. The bank
had a successful year in 1966,
with a substantial increase in
the surplus and undivided
profits categories.
Mrs. Ethel Travis, 55, of
Jackson, Route 4, died
January sth at an Atlanta
hospital after suffering third
degree burns over 75 percent
of her body in a Christmas
Eve fire.
Mrs. V. H. Ham has been
named president of the
Cherokee Garden Club for
the 1967-68 year.
The engagement of Pa
tricia Mary Glidewell and
marking the site with steel
posts and heavy chain and
the locating of the site on a
County map, would give
future historians something
to work on should proper
identification be desired in
the future.
Now is the time to begin
such a project, while there
still exists links to the past
through the memories of
those who can still remember
how it was 80 years or so ago.
Once lost, these priceless
clues to families that lived in
the vicinity of unidentified
burial sites will never be
regained and the task of
identification, even a tenta
tive one, will become
increasingly difficult.
These pioneer families
deserve better than to be
abandoned to the forest.
They deserve to have their
final resting place marked,
cleared and mapped, so that
a thousand years from now,
one could still know when and
where his forefathers fought,
lived, died and rests beneath
the soil of Butts County.
preparation is prohibitive.
The program’s popularity
feeds on the naive belief of the
populace that somehow, someway
we are going to get something for
nothing. No better illustration can
be found than the skyrocketing cost
of the proposed Butts County
multi-use building. When it was felt
that local money would have to
construct the building, the cost
level was established at about
$400,000. Once old generous Uncle
Sam got into the picture with the
hope that he would build it for
nothing, then the cost rose to over
$1,000,000.
Even the public works pro
gram, as costly and wasteful as it
is, is not without some redeeming
features. Buildings, water sys
tems, sewage treatment plants,
industries and other facilities are
constructed under the program and
they help make our towns and
cities more attractive and liveable.
But the costs are high and the
mistakes are many, as witness the
many vacant buildings built for
industries on loans from this same
federal program.
It looks now like Santa may
come riding into Washington in
January or February with another
two billions in his sleigh. Which is
all right so long as we recognize the
package for what it is. It is not a
gift he brings, but a loan, the
interest on which you and I and our
children’s children will continue to
pay.
Robert Michael Jackson,
both of Jackson, was an
nounced.
Deaths during the week:
Miss Azalee Jackson, 79;
Leonard Howard Perdue, 62;
Mrs. Callie Sauley Patrick,
94.
News of 20 Years Ago
A Butts County family has
been awarded $38,340 by the
Southern Railway Company
in a personal injury suit
growing out of permanent
injuries suffered by Brenda
Ann Berry, & minor, who
was injured in July, 1954 by a
Southern train in the city
limits of Jackson.
For the second time within
a month, the E. R. Edwards
store at Flovilla was robbed
Saturday night and about
SIOO in merchandise was
taken.
The Butts County Commis
sion, composed of Van M.
Freeman, chairman, A. F.
Maddox and T. W. Nelson,
has named W. M. Redman as
its clerk.
A man and wife robbery
team, suspected of engaging
in the recent burglary at
County Line Baptist Church,
have been caught in Pike
County. The pair specialized
in robbing churches in
several mid-Georgia
counties.
Mrs. J. B. White gave a
seated luncheon for her
daughter. Miss Emily White,
on the occasion of her
thirteenth birthday.
Deaths during the week:
William J. Grammer, 61.
News of 30 Years Ago
The Jackson Ice Corpora
tion had a satsifactory year
in 1946 and directors voted a
SI.OO per share dividend at a
recent meeting.
S. W. Causey has been
inducted as president of the
Jackson Kiwanis Club for
1947.
B. B. Garland will repre
sent Butts County when the
Georgia General Assembly
convenes on Monday and will
vote on the controversial
fight for the governorship
between M. E. Thompson
and Herman Talmadge.
Henderson High School
students are now publishing
a school paper, “The
Henderson Panther”. Eddie
Lee Thomas is editor and
Mamie Lee Maddox and
Maggie Barlow are associate
editors.
Jack, Peter, Adelma and
David Ridgeway delightfully
entertained the Agilawots
Tuesday evening at a New
Year’s Eve party.
Deaths during the week:
Tom Thurston, 69, of Macon,
a former Butts County
Sheriff.
News of 40 Years Ago
Two members of Company
A, 121st Infantry, Georgia
National Guard, were killed
when the army truck in
which they were riding
overturned near Jenkinsburg
about 9 o’clock Tuesday
morning. Julian Evans, 24,
and Ferrell Maddox, 24,
received fatal injuries and
died a few hours after the
accident. Eight other mem
bers of the detachment were
injured, some seriously.
Butts County farmers will
plant between 800 and 900
acres in pepper this year.
Processors will pay $30.00
per ton for field run pepper.
A Conservation Club will
be organized here at a mass
meeting called by M. O.
McCord, secretary of the
Amm
By Mrs. Cindy Brown -
MOTHER-IN-LAW
I have heard my friends
fussing about their mothers
in-law. For some peculiar
reason, husbands’ mothers
are often depicted as
interfering, son-pampering,
overly possessive old biddies.
Ido not understand: My own
mother-in-law, Doris Brown,
fondly known as Grand
mother to several lively little
boys, is (or evidently must
be) the ideal “husband’s
mother” figure. Grand
mother does not act like a
referee in the game of her
son’s and my marriage. In
fact, on the few occasions
when she has proffered the
advice of her wisdom,
“Mother Brown” has done so
in a manner that would make
any marriage counselor
proud!
I offer the following
examples to show you what a
good mother-in-law is like:
1. Whenever I fuss about
hubby to his own mother, she
does not automatically take
his side. In fact, she usually
agrees with me! (After all,
she knows him far better
than I do.)
2. When my darling
YOUR EXPERIENCE CAN PAY YOU
AN EXTRA $1.200A YEAR.
Earn it one weekend a month. If you’ve had military
service and you’re interested, ask your local Army Reserve
unit what grade you come in at.
THE ARMY RESERVE.
IT PAYS TO GO TO MEETINGS.
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
DOGWOOD AND PINES
Tall pines climbing up so high
Wearing cloaks of ivy-green
Glisten brightly in the sky
Whispering secrets in between,
A dogwood tree with bending boughs
And graceful limbs of criss-crossed lines
Waves flowers white and leaves dark green
Against the tall trunks of the pines!
This picture just reminds me of
A stained-glass window ‘gainst a frieze
That lifts up to the shining blue
Thanks of azaleas on their knees!
Butts County Chamber of
Commerce.
In compliment to Mrs. M.
L. Powell, a charming bride
of December, Mrs. T. A.
Rape and Mrs. P. H. Weaver
entertained at a beautiful tea
Saturday afternoon at the
home of Mrs. Rape.
Mrs. A. T. Buttrill enter
tained members of the Gay
Nineties Club Wednesday
afternoon at her home on
West Third Street.
News of 50 Years Ago
Butts Countians may sell
their surplus stock of
chickens for cash on Satur
day when the Southern
Railway System will have a
“peddler” car here to
purchase poultry.
The Jackson Ice Corpora
tion elected R. P. Newton as
president and treasurer, R.
N. Etheridge, vice president,
and R. P. Sasnett, secretary
at a recent stockholder’s
meeting.
More than 22-million auto
mobiles are now in use in the
United States, or one to every
five persons.
Misses Jones and Hardy
will present their pupils in a
piano and expression recital
on Friday evening at the
Jackson auditorium.
F. S. Etheridge has been
named chairman of the
board and E. L. Smith,
president, of the Jackson
National Bank.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. C. F. Etheridge; Mrs.
Nannie Walthall, 66; James
Sidney Price, 8.,
informed his mother that I
was incapable of making
decent biscuits, “Mother
Brown” told him that man
could not live by bread alone.
What a lady!
3. When she found out that
we were expecting son Clint,
now 2 and one-half year old,
did she lecture us on planned
parenthood? No. she only
offered to keep the older boys
for my interminably long
stay in the hospital.
4. And that ain’t all:
Besides being a failure at
biscuit making, I can’t tell a
bobbin from a needle on a
sewing machine. Does
“Mother Brown” offer to pay
my way through sewing
school? Of course not - she
even made my wedding
dress.
The afore-listed examples
don’t begin to tell why my
mother-in-law is more like a
mother to me, but perhaps
you get the picture. I am one
Lucky daughter-in-law. Yes,
I am a little spoiled by
“Mama Brown”, and yes I
DO know how fortunate I am.
“Mama Brown” sub
scribes to the Progress-
Argus - maybe she’ll see
this. I hope so.