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Commissioners Pass Several
Motions At Monthly Meeting
At the regular meeting of
the Butts County Commis
sion, February 7, the
Commissioners met with the
Jackson-Butts County Recre
ation Commission and
passed a motion that the
county appropriate $2750.00
per month for the period of
January through June, 1977
to help the Recreation
Commission pay off a debt
for the fencing of Avondale
Park.
The motion provided that
$5250.00 of these funds be
paid on the bank note and it
also stipulated that the
Recreation Commission is to
pay S9OO toward the bill for
sporting goods purchased
from these funds.
Joe Davis, chairman of the
Recreation Commission, ad
vised the Commissioners
that no state or federal funds
are available at the present
time and that the city
officials have stated that the
city will not participate in the
cost of operation.
In other business, Commis
sioner E. D. Briscoe made a
motion that the county
disallow the $8,000.00 rent for
a piece of equipment which is
billed by Road Machinery,
Inc. on a “so-called” con
tract with Butts County.
The motion, which carried
unanimously, also requested
a refund by Road Machinery,
Inc. of the $8,000.00 which has
already been paid on the
contract since the trans
action was never officially
acted upon by the commis
sioners.
The Commissioners voted
to return the G.M.C. truck to
the county barn for neces
sary repairs to bring it up to
specifications for the fire
body on orders from the
Forestry Commission.
Sheriff Billy Leverette
made a request to the
Commissioners that the
county purchase at least
three vehicles for the
Sheriff’s department, each
being a full-size vehicle with
a big engine.
Commission Chairman
Mac Collins and Briscoe
voted to accept a bid by
Carter Motor Company to
purchase for the sheriff’s
department two Gran Fury
automobiles at a cost of
$5137.10 each. Dr. Mitchell,
who was in favor of buying
mid-size cars, voted against
the motion.
Dick Pope of Jackson met
with the Commissioners and
stated that he did not feel the
people of the city should have
to pay the county for garbage
dumping privileges.
Briscoe responded that this
matter had not been dis
cussed on an official basis
but he felt that seme
workable solution could be
NOTICE TO OWNERS
OF BUSINESSES
IN CITY OF JACKSON
City Business Licenses for 1977 are now due and payable at
City Hall, Jackson, Georgia.
Every person, firm or corporation that exercises within the
City, a trade, business or occupation of any kind shall register
their name, trade, business or occupation and their place of
business in said city. This license is due on January Ist each
year and delinquent on April Ist. If the person, firm, or
corporation is not in business on January Ist, the license will
be due at whatever time the business begins.
Any person, firm, company or corporation doing business,
or exercising a trade, or following a profession of any kind as
above mentioned, and have no regular place of business, shall
be subject to the rules, ordinances, and regulations as other
persons carrying on like trade, business or calling in said City.
Any person, firm or corporation who shall fail or refuse to
register his business and pay the tax required by March 31st,
shall be subject to a penalty of 20 per cent of the business
license.
arranged.
Briscoe also made a
motion that the county
accept the bid of Carmichael
Insurance Agency for renew
ing the public officials’
liability insurance policies as
other agencies who had been
contacted could not provide
this coverage. The motion
carried unanimously.
In addition, the Commis
sioners passed a motion
stating that funds from the
beer and wine tax be
transferred from the savings
account to the general fund.
NATIONAL FHA,
HERO WEEK
FEBRUARY 6-12
The second week in
February is a special week
for members of the Jackson
High Future Homemakers
and the HERO Club. Held in
conjunction with Vocational
Education Week, all across
the country FHA and HERO
chapters are planning
observances focusing on the
theme, “Building The Skills
of America.”
One of six vocational
education youth organiza
tions, the group provide
meaning and motivation for
youth working toward educa
tional goals related to
consumer and vocational
home economics education
and reaches beyond the
classroom instruction into
the home and community.
The HERO chapters for
students in Home Economics
related occupations place
major emphasis on prepara
tion for jobs and careers with
recognition that workers also
fill multiple roles as home
makers and community
leaders.
HERO and FHA have
planned during the week:
Sunday was Church Day;
Monday, Publicity Day;
Tuesday, Community Day;
Wednesday, School Day;
Thursday, Family Day; and
Friday, Fun Day.
HERO is a vocational club
organized to help students in
the occupational fields of job
training and for out activ
ities.
H - is for the Home - to be
built, furnished and beau
tified.
E - is for Economics - for
which we have worked hard
to strive.
R - is for Related -of
students co-operations to
maintain a goal and reach it.
O - is for occupations - the
striving to get where one is
going to work when finishing
high school.
Hero Club is also an
experienced club for training
under experienced students
the rules of job training, the
how and why of a job and
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
Unpaved Roads-'The Ruts Get Deeper And Deeper’
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UNPAVED AND UNGRAVELED This road is one of the many unpaved roads in the
county which is posing serious problems for people living on these roads and for anyone
who has to travel on them. Photo by Carole Lawrence
By Dale Whiten
It’s estimated there are
about 130 miles of unpaved
roads in Butts County, and
due to the unusually wet and
cold winter, these roads are
almost impassable says
Barney Wilder who was
recently appointed to head
the county Road Depart
ment.
During recent days, there
has been a lot of activity at
ACADEMY THEATRE TO
ENCOURAGE
PLAYWRIGHTS
In order to encourage new
playwrights, to provide a
showcase for worthy, origi
nal one-act plays and to
provide an arena in which
little known directors may
display their talents, the
Academy Theatre is making
available the Second Space
Theatre located in the lower
level of the Annex Building at
the rear of the Academy
Theatre, 3213 Roswell Rd., N.
E.
The Academy Theatre
solicits original scripts from
new playwrights. Contacts
may be made with Mrs.
Minnette Meyer at 404-634-
4905.
Government Employs
Government is this na
tion's biggest single em
ployer. About one out of
every six persons is now em
ployed by government com
pared to one in 10 in 1950.
mainly the relationships of
Home Economics occupa
tions. Hero colors are Red
and White.
the Road Department with
trucks being loaded with
gravel in an effort to try to
get the gravel on the worst
roads and the ones which
people live on who depend on
school bus and rural mail
delivery service.
And Wilder says that
unless there’s a break in the
weather, conditions probably
won’t improve much anytime
soon. “The ground is frozen
pretty far down and when-
Death Claims
Mrs. Standard
Early Tuesday
Mrs. Doris Estelle Mc-
Michael Standard of Route 2,
Stark Community, Jackson,
died at 2:45 Tuesday morning
at the Georgia Baptist
Hospital in Atlanta following
a lengthy illness.
Born in Butts County, she
was daughter of the late
Samuel McMichael and Mrs.
Tassie Kimbell McMichael
Jinks of Butts County.
Mrs. Standard was a
member of Macedonia Bap
tist Church and was active in
many endeavors of her
church including Sunday
School teacher for m-.ny
years, director of the Youth
Department, and WMU di
rector for fifteen years. She
was also active in the Stark
Community Club and the
Heart and Cancer Fund
Drives in Butts County over
the years.
Survivors include her hus
band, Harold Standard,
Jackson; one daughter, Mrs.
Ronald Strickland of Ellen
wood; one son, Dr. Sam
Standard of McDonough;
mother, Mrs. V. L. Jinks of
Westbury Medical Care
Home, Jenkinsburg; a sister,
Mrs. Ila Welch of Forsyth; a
brother, James T. Jinks of
Stone Mountain; six grand
children, one great grand
child, nieces and nephews.
Funeral services were
conducted Wednesday after
noon at three o’clock from
Macedonia Baptist Church
with the Rev. R. W. Jenkins
and Rev. Ed Welch officiat
ing. Interment was in
Macedonia Baptist ceme
tery. Haisten Funeral Home
was in charge of arrange
ments.
Pallbearers were Philip
Bunch, M. L. Hodges, Jr.,
James Biles, Roland Lee,
Lewis Cawthon, Ray Miller.
CENSUS BUREAU TO
CHECK EMPLOYMENT
Local representatives of
the Bureau of the Census will
conduct a survey of employ
ment in this area during the
work week of February 14-18.
Thomas W. McWhirter, Di
rector of the Bureau’s
Regional Office in Atlanta,
announced today.
The survey is conducted by
the U. S. Department of
Labor in a scientifically
designed sample of approxi
mately 70.000 households
throughout the United States.
Mrs. Sherrri R. Smith will
be conducting interviews in
the Butts County area.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1977
ever it thaws the ruts get
deeper and deeper,” he says.
In addition the effective
ness of putting gravel on an
unpaved road is dependent
on factors such as the
condition of the roadbed, or
once again-the weather. For
example, a hard rain can
wash away much of the
gravel which has been put
down.
And County Treasurer
Billy Sutton says the 10 to 12
and \Jubi
AZALEA CLUB
SAW SLIDES
ON BCABC
The Azalea Garden Club
met on January 11th in the
CGEMC auditorium to view
the “Celebration through
Beautification” slides, pre
sented by Mr. Tom Woods
and Mrs. Carol Weaver. The
viewers were amazed at all
that has been accomplished
for the county.
The club business was
discussed, and new officers
were elected. A covered dish
supper is planned for the
February meeting.
Carol Potter served
delicious refreshments fol
lowing the meeting. Twenty
members were present.
PERSONAL
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond
Lorenz of El Paso, Texas
will arrive Thursday for a
visit with their cousins.
Misses Georgie and Delia
Watkins. Miss Delia Watkins
remains a patient at Sylvan
Grove Hospital where she
has been for two weeks or
more.
AMBULANCE CHARGES
# 1. EMERGENCY AMBULANCE CALLS CQH HH
(ANYWHERE WITHIN BUTTS COUNTY)
# 2. NON-EMERGENCY CALLS COR fifl
(ANYWHERE WITHIN BUTTS COUNTY)
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# 3. ALL OUT OF COUNTY CALLS AND-OR
TRANSFERS SHALL BE THE BASE CHARGE
LISTED ABOVE PLUS SI.OO PER MILE FROM
THE COUNTY LINE TO THE DESTINATION.
# 4 IF OXYGEN IS USED THERE SHALL BE <MT AH
A FLAT RATE OF !pO.UU
Item # 4 is to be charged over and above the
AMBULANCE RATE.
Butts County
Emergency Medical Services
1050 McDonough Rood Ph. 775-4500 Jackson, Georgia
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ROAD IMPROVEMENT This is one of the unpaved roads in Butts County which the
Road Department has put gravel on in an effort to make them passable during weather
conditions which have made unpaved roads extremely hard to travel on.
tons of gravel the Road
Department trucks can de
liver can become rather
expensive~s4.lo a ton.
However. Butts County is
not faced with gravel
shortage according to Sutton.
He says there is a relatively
large stockpile at the Road
Department and that gravel
is also available in Stock
bridge and Macon.
Explaining the policy of
providing gravel for private
PERSONAL
Mrs. E. A. Godsey is a
patient at Medical Center of
Central Georgia, Macon,
where she was admitted
Sunday after sustaining a
broken right hip in a fall. She
was reported as resting
comfortably Tuesday.
ITII HOSPITAL [WES I
Patients at Sylvan Grove
Hospital during the period
February 1-8 include:
Safronia Grier. Helen
Vaughn, Clyde Wise, Charlie
Cash, John Williamson. Ruth
Watson. W. C. Norsworthy,
Lillie Cooledge, John Moss,
Secrell James.
Peggy Cook. Jimmie
Kitchens, Hulon Smith.
Katherine Goodrum and
baby boy. Eunice Thurmon,
Thomas Jordan, Johnny
Smolka.
Elsie Grant, Allie Singley,
Leonard Singley. Delia Wat
kins, M. L. Hodges. Sr.,
Martha Franklin. Arvilla
Lewis.
driveways, Sutton says the
County will put gravel only
on the right-of-way which
includes four to five feet of
the area on the side of the
property owner.
In addition to the dirt
roads, the paved streets and
roads in the city and county
have presented problems
because of the numerous pot
holes. Wilder says these
holes can also be attributed
to the weather-that as the
JAMES L. POPE IS
MARINE LANCE CPL.
IN MARINE CORPS
Marine Lance Corporal
James L. Pope, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Jame H. Pope of
Route 3, Box 389, Jackson,
Ga.. has been promoted to his
present rank while serving at
the Marine Corps Base.
Twentynine Palms. Calif.
A 1975 graduate of Jackson
High School, he joined the
Marine Corps in November
1975. ’
MARIONETTES TO
PERFORM AT TIFT
The Tift College Lyceum
Arts Series presents Llords'
■lnternational" in a concert
of music and marionettes for
adults at 8 p.m. on Tuesday,
February 15th, in the Mary
Persons High School audi
torium.
From the company of
Stay Warm! Save Gas!
Insulating (Storm) Windows
Weatherstripped with Screens
Furnished and Installed
$19.95 Ea.
MR. SMITH 775-4579
ground thaws cracks and
holes in the pavement will
continue to appear.
Not Now
Then there’s the close
mouthed politician who shot
his girlfriend and teas con
victed of first degree mur
der Just before his hanging,
he was asked, “Have you
anything you wish to say?”
His answer? “Not at this
time.”
nearly 800 marionettes that
he has created, Daniel
Llords, world renowned solo
marionettist, has selected
characters to mime to the
modern symphonic classic,
The Firebird Suite,” by-
Igor Stravinsky.
The public is cordially
invited to attend the perform
ance at no charge.
Hard Hat History
The requirement that con
struction workers wear hard
hats on the job goes back
more than 1.600 years. When
the Egyptian obelisk was
being erected in Rome's Cir
cus Maximus during the
reign of Constantine the
Great 1 288-337). the foreman
ordered his work crews to
wear metal battle helmets
for protection against falling
masonrv.