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Editorials
Getting To The Seat Of It
Now comes a nationally
recognized psychologist who, in an
address to a state convention,
advocates the abolishment of
spanking as a punishment to unruly
children.
Spanking leads to violence, he
says, and is followed “ultimately
by rape, murder and assassina
tion.”
All of which goes to show just
how badly out of line the
head-shr inkers’ heads have
shrunk.
There aren’t many middle
aged Americans who have not had
some sense jolted into their heads
by the application of a paddle at the
other extreme. And although
admittedly there have been
rapists, murderers and assassina
tors among this age group, we dare
say that statistically the occur
rence of such crimes would be far
greater in the younger age
category.
The overly-permissive parent
Let The Chips Fall
Sixth District Congressman
Jack Flynt, chairman of the House
ethics committee, has sought and
been granted broader powers to
probe the alleged wrong doings of
some of his House colleagues.
Flynt obtained the approval of
the entire House for a thorough and
complete investigation of allega
tions that a large number, possibly
as many as 50, of Congresmen have
accepted bribes and gifts from the
South Korean government.
First, the committee obtained
the services of an experienced
Watergate prosecutor who is
famed for his vigorous and
determined probes, as chief
counsel.
Then, the committee went to
the House membership to request
support and funds for an in-depth
study of the situation, and was
granted an over-whelming en-
The Long , Or Short , Of It
Whenever a state legislator
can’t find a convenient fence to hop
on when the issues are finely
drawn, the decision is usually
made to submit it to the will of the
people.
Which isn’t a bad idea in a
democracy and perhaps we might
get some better legislation if we
asked the people to share in more
of our General Assembly’s delib
erations.
The unresolved question now is
whether legislator’s terms should
remain at the present two years, or
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who fails to set down, and demand
obedience of, certain rules of
conduct for children is helping
instill the belief that moral rules of
conduct do not exist and that
pleasure, satisfaction and personal
will are the guiding rules of life.
After outgrowing the family
environment, the child then has to
cope with a society that does have
prescribed rules of conduct and it is
then that frustration sets in and
crimes against society result from
a basic inability to comply.
Children need to grow up in
homes that teach mutual respect,
love and a fundamental regard for
law and order. If it takes spanking
to bring these to the child’s
attention, then it should be applied.
' If an honest poll could be taken
of all the felons serving time in the
country today, we would wager the
learned behavioral science special
ist that the result would show many
more unspanked inmates than
those claiming to be over-spanked.
dorsement.
The stage has now been set for
a hard-hitting, no-holds-barred
investigation of the charges that
certain Congressmen have been
playing financial hanky-panky with
South Korean officials.
Call it bribery, influence
peddling, or whatever you will, but
any Congressman who will accept
money, or gifts, in exchange for his
vote, ought to be exposed to the ire
of an aroused constituency.
There is no indication that
Congressman Flynt is going to
approach the probe in other than a
tough and fearless manner. Which
the voters are sure to demand.
For, after all, his true friends
are those voters who have sent
him to the Congress 13 times, not
those few Congressmen who would
dishonor the high office to which
they have been intrusted.
be extended to four years.
The resolution would require a
constitutional amendment which
would be submitted to the voters in
the next general election of
November, 1978. If the amendment
is ratified by the people, the first
four-year terms would become
effective in January, 1979.
A similar amendment was
defeated in the general election of
1960. At least we will have some
time to ponder the matter and
decide whether the long term
might leave us on the short end of
representation.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT IONES
One of the best hopes for
the future of this democracy
is the public announcement
by President Carter that he is
to henceforth require the
authors of all federal
regulations and edicts to
affix their by-lines to every
official document they issue.
To any person who has
ever attempted to interpret,
or understand, the true
meaning of a regulation
couched in the vague
language of a true federal
bureaucrat, the President’s
ruling is the best news to
come out of Washington since
the Congressional act restor
ing General Robert E. Lee’s
citizenship.
It seems now we are to
witness the demise of those
anonymous edicts written by
faceless bureaucrats, who
were more interested in
verbiage than in claiming
parentage of their tyrannical
rulings.
Anonymity is an effective
cloak for mediocrity, or
stupidity, and President
Carter is wise to require that
authorship be known of all
future declarations of federal
policy.
The net result may be more
mild, and bland, statements
of an agency’s intent but that
will apply to both sides of the
coin. An HEW official, for
instance, isn’t likely to
declare that after Jan. 1,
1978. his agency will support
only two illegitimate children
of the same mother-even
though 95 per cent of the
voters would support such a
deeree-if he had to affix his
name to the order.
On the other hand, an
official of the same agency
isn't likely to declare that
black children will have to be
flown to Arizona, because the
public schools there do not
reflect the proper racial mix,
if such an order had to bear
his signature.
'
Only those who have been
employed by the federal
government, or who have
had a close working know
ledge of the mysterious
edicts that flow from
Washington, can properly
appreciate the President’s
action.
We recall a few years ago
we were called into the office
of a regional director of a
federal program and
promised a raise, if we could
interpret a memorandum
sent by another federal
agency in response to an
inquiry. After a half-hour’s
study, we were happy to
settle for our present salary.
To quote the memorandum
from memory is impossible,
but it went something like
this:
“In re: Ad Hoc Interdisci
plinary Committee Meeting
on Intergovernmental Af
fairs Synergy. Your memo
received and forwarded to
DSPER OCP for review of
salubrious effects. From
there, to OMBE to clear
obfuscations. OIC to study
disadvantaged employment
leverage. GSWR and BOR to
look at environmental
appulse. Also, must be
reviewed by ESA, EPA,
GAO, SSIA, ASCS and OIA
committees. Will keep ad
vised of progress.”
Laugh if you will, but that
example of the kind of
complicated communica
tions systems the federal
employees labor under is no
exaggeration. In fact, it is not
one-half so obfuscating as the
original memorandum we
had to return for explanation.
President Carter says he is
going to require those issuing
federal directives to sign
their names, say what they
mean and mean what they
say.
Federal employees, as well
as the rest of us, should
rejoice in this decision by a
fellow Georgian which will be
a giant step forward in the
lield of written communica
tions from a government to
its people.
A Stroll Down
Memory Lane j
News of 10 Years Ago
Butts County received its
first snowfall of the year
Thursday when about one
inch accumulated on the
ground.
William Mack Davis, 26, of
Chapel Hill, Tenn. has
become the new director of
the Van Deventer Youth
Center.
A wounded Jackson
soldier, Spec. 5 Harry
Napier, Jr., of Cherokee
Estates, has been awarded a
free trip to Rome and an
audience with Pope Paul VI.
While recuperating in Wash
ington’s Walter Reed Hos
pital, Napier was awarded
the trip by a Washington,
D.C. firm.
Aubrey Henson, 36, prom
inent Jackson, Miss, busi
nessman and former Jack
sonian, has announced that
he will run for the office of Lt.
Gov. of Mississippi.
J. T. Beckham, Sr., charter
president of the Jackson
Exchange Club, presented
pins to these officers at last
week's meeting: J. T.
Beckham, Jr., president;
John Moore, vice president;
Ralph Evans, treasurer;
Frank Moore, secretary and
Dennis Wise, immediate past
president.
George Weaver is touring
the state as a member of the
Georgia Tech Glee Club.
Deaths during the week:
Roscoe G. Cawthon, 64;
Wiley Matthew Nutt, 82.
News of 20 Years Ago
Rufus Adams was elected
president of the Southern
Field Seed Council at a
meeting of the group in
Nashville, Tenn.
The Jackson City Council
voted Monday night to table
the question of installing
parking meters in the City.
The people voted 158 to 144 to
install the meters in a recent
straw vote.
A girl’s professional bas
ketball team, the All-
American Red Heads, de
feated an all-male Jackson
team 42-36 Friday night.
Coach Joe Slappey, Dan
Fretwell, Jerry Long, Eu
gene Prosser and Joe Bell
starred for the locals.
The Towaliga Garden Club
met at the home of Mrs. W. T.
Pelt with Mrs. Edwin Sims
and Mrs. Lamar Letson as
co-hostesses. Mrs. Van
Fletcher and Mrs. E. D.
Patrick presented a program
on “How To Plant and Care
for Roses.”
The Jenkinsburg Garden
Club met at the home of Mrs.
Roger Bankston, with Mrs. J.
O. Minter as co-hostess.
The William Mclntosh
Chapter, D.A.R., will meet
February 20th with Mrs.
Howard Jolly, Mrs. L.
M. Spencer and Mrs. Newt
Etheredge as co-hostesses.
News of 30 Years Ago
The Jackson Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union
has called upon the Butts
County Commissioners to
revoke all beer licenses.
T. A. Nutt, Jr. has been
elected to Beta Gamma
Sigma, a national honorary
scholastic fraternity in com
merce, and was one of only 12
seniors at the University of
Georgia to be so honored.
Miss Bernice Tomlin has
won the beauty contest
sponsored by the Jackson
High senior class. Miss Sara
Mackey was runner-up and
Miss Betty Moore, third.
Extremely cold weather
led Judge Ogden Persons to
adjourn the February term
of Butts Superior Court after
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1977
a brief session on Monday.
T. E. “Sonny” Robison, Jr.
was one of 30 freshmen
admitted to membership in
the University of Georgia’s
Pythagorean Mathematics
Club.
Miss Elizabeth Hood and
Mrs. J. E. Payne compli
mented little Miss Nancy
Robison with a beautiful
Valentine party Saturday
afternoon at Miss Hood’s
apartment.
Deaths during the week:
John Fossett, 69.
News of 40 Years Ago
Gone are the horse and
buggy days for the City of
Jackson. Motor equipment
for the sanitary department
was acquired last week and
this will replace the mules
and wagons in use hereto
fore.
The Rural Electrification
Administration in Washing
ton announced Saturday a
grant of $202,000 for a 207
mile line to serve 835 farm
homes in Butts, Jasper,
Henry, Monroe, Lamar and
Spalding Counties.
An egg with three yolks,
product of a Rhode Island
Red hen, was displayed at
the office Monday by Frank
Moore.
Little Sylvia Tillery, three
year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Marvin Tillery, is
recovering after the experi
ence of swallowing an open
safety pin.
East Lyons, Second, Col
lege, Benton and McKibben
Avenues, along with six
miles of sidewalks, are to be
paved in a SIOO,OOO paving
project.
Mesdames L. H. Hurt,
Forrest Rossey, J. H.
McKibben, W. W. Jamerson,
E. H. Pace, and J. E. Lane
were hostesses at the
February meeting of the
United Daughter of the
Confederacy.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Lilly Duke, 39; Mrs. W.
D. Preston, 78; Mrs. L. E.
Hammond.
News of 50 Years Ago
Butts County has signed a
formal contract with the
State Highway Board for the
paving of the Jackson-Indian
Springs highway.
Bryant Meeks, white, has
been arrested for the hen
house raids in Jackson last
October, and along with Tom
Vaughn was sentenced Mon
day to serve 12 months in the
chain gang for the crime.
Camp John L. Barnett No.
1114, United Confederate
Veterans, has elected Z. T.
Buttrill and J. A. McMichael
as delegates to the annual
reunion of the Confederate
Veterans to be held in
Tampa, Florida.
Peach and pear trees have
been in full bloom since early
February.
Tom King, charged with
Ihe Nov. 23, 1925 murder of
County Policeman J. E.
McNair, has been sentenced
to the electric chair by a
Butts County jury, with the
date of electrocution set for
March 18th.
Taking part in the play
"Farm Folks” at the
Jackson school auditorium
were Marshall Evans, Mary
Evans, Susannah Foster,
David Evans, Frank Harper,
Carson Preston, Jane
Etheredge, Florence John
son, Mary Ellis and Ida Mae
Thomas.
Deaths during the week: R.
L. Daughtry, 76; Miss Annie
E. Ram bo.
FtHRWFa
~ By Mrs. Cindy Brown
Spring is just around the
corner. (As soon as I find out
which corner, I’ll be sure to
let you know.) Of course,
things have been better this
past week --1 think the Good
Lord knew we cold-natured
folks had to have some
respite.
Throughout this cold, cold
winter there has been one
group of folks which definite
ly deserve a Nobel Peace
Award. You don’t know who
they are? Well, they are the
mothers of this world; they
are the ladies who have been
cooped up with the standard 2
and V 2 children per family -
children who are miserable
because they can’t go
outdoors; - mothers who are
miserable because THEY
can’t go outdoors and leave
the children inside! After all,
a person can only tolerate so
much Captain Kangaroo and
■ ‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
JUST A LITTLE KINDNESS
Certainly one of the most widely read writers in the
world is newspaper columnist Ann Landers. The popularity
of her column is due in no small part to the fact that it deals
with the actual life-situations of people.
In one of her columns Ann Landers tells about a very
moving experience. A young mother of three small children
wrote Ann that a recently married couple had moved next
door to them. Wanting to be neighborly, the young mother
began sharing much of her baked goods with the newly
married couple.
One day when she carried a few slices of a freshly-baked
orange sunshine cake to the couple, the bride handed her an
envelope which was sealed and asked the mother of three not
to open it until she got home. Back home, the envelope was
opened and the contents were a heartwarming surprise.
“Do you know what was in that envelope?” the lady
asked Ann Landers. “Forty slips of paper-and on each was
written: ‘This entitles you to one night out. I will be your
babysitter.’ ”
The young bride, working to help put her husband
through law school, found an excellent method of expressing
her appreciation for all that her neighbor had done for her.
All of us, no matter how poor or handicapped, have
something to give. We each have a talent through which we
can show appreciation and make the world a little brighter.
The Carpenter taught that just a cup of cold water, given
in His name, would go a long way in making the world a
better place to live in.
Do you remember the child’s story we all heard when we
were growing up? The little boy was passing through the
jungle when he heard an awful groan. On inspection he
discovered that it came from a lion that had a thorn in its
paw. The little lad was afraid of the lion and didn’t know what
to do. He hated to see the lion suffer, but knew that lions ate
people.
Finally the little boy went over and pulled the thorn from
the lion’s paw. Quickly the boy scooted along his way. Years
later, as a grown man, he found himself cast into the lion’s
den because of evil men. However, the lion that was supposed
to attack him came and licked his face. You see, it was the
same lion from which the man had pulled a thorn from its
paw years before.
Regardless of how it may seem, little kind deeds are not
forgotten. They make a very definite and a very favorable
impression on those they are done to. And certainly they
help even those who do them. If you doubt it, ask the lady
who received the forty baby-sitting tickets. Or, if you can be a
child for a moment, you can even ask the little boy who pulled
the thorn from the lion’s paw!
A little kindness given is a little kindness received.
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
SNOW AND SHADE
Ground is now covered
Roof-tops are covered
Side walks are covered
All streets are covered
Everything’s covered with snow!
Horses are hovered
Bare trees are hovered
Fence - posts are hovered
Parked cars are hovered
Everythings s hovered with shade!
Love of Life.
Do you think mothers who
work outside the home are
immune to this problem? No.
No, working mothers have
sometimes even had it worse
than the others, because
viruses goin’ round and
therefore, they didn’t even
feel like adult company,
much less the company of
their respective little angels.
When Spring comes this
year, I think I’ll just go
stark-raving wild. At any
rate, there are three things I
definitely plan to do: (1) I
plan to install a fireplace in
every room including the
john; (2) I plan to get rich
quick so that I can afford
next winter’s doctor bills;
and (3) I plan to strike at
work, refusing to work unless
the weather falls between 30
and 60 degrees. And I have an
office job!