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Volume 104 No. 10
Cindy Brittain And Morris
Crockarell Are STAR Students
Cindy Brittain, a senior at
Indian Springs Academy,
was named the 1977 STAR
student of Butts County at the
annual Star Student awards
Banquet March 1 at Jackson
High School.
Miss Brittain, the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Allan
Brittain of Jackson, named
Mrs. Gussie Cawthon as her
STAR teacher. Mrs. Cawthon
is a math teacher at Indian
Springs Academy.
STAR STUDENT
Morris Crockarell, senior at
Jackson High School, re
ceived the STAR student of
Jackson High School award
at the students awards
banquet March 1.
Morris Crockarell, son of
Dr. and Mrs. Bailey Crock
arell of Jackson, was named
the STAR student of Jackson
High School. He selected
Miss Marian Sanders as his
STAR teacher.
The Butts County Jaycees,
sponsors of the awards
banquet, also honored some
of the outstanding young
adults of the community.
Receiving the Outstanding
Young Farmer Award was
Randy Barnes, a farmer for
almost four years. The
Outstanding Young Educator
Award went to Memford
Bellamy, a teacher with the
kindergarten program, and
David Burford, mayor of
Flovilla, received the Out
standing Young Man Award.
Selection of STAR students
is determined on the basis of
scores made on the Novem
ber or December College
Board Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SAT), scholastic
averages for the first
semester-quarter .of the
senior year and satisfactory
completion of STAR qualifi
cations.
Miss Brittain will compete
with students from the other
school systems within the
Sixth Congressional District
in the STAR program. The
winner will be announced at
the Sixth District STAR
banquet March 15 in New
nan.
School system area STAR
students and STAR teachers
County's Local Sales Tax
Income Shows Sharp Rise
Butts County’s receipts
from the optional one-cent
sales tax rose dramatically
in December to $17,689.53,
the highest monthly total
since the tax was first levied
in April, 1976, according to
Billy Sutton, Clerk of the
Butts County Commission.
With local retail sales
reflecting the Christmas
sales splurge, the County’s
tax take rose $5,034.50 over
the November, 1976 figure of
$12,655.03.
City Administrator Lewis
Freeman reported that the
City of Jackson’s receipts
from the local sales tax also
showed a marked increase in
December, jumping from
$7.823 71 in November to
$10,936.18 in December.
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STAR STUDENT OF COUNTY - Cindy Brittain, a
senior at Indian Springs Academy and selected as the STAR
student of Butts County, displays the awards she received
at the STAR Student Awards Banquet March 1. With Miss
Brittain is Mrs. Gussie Cawthon who was selected by Miss
Brittain as her STAR teacher. Mrs. Cawthon is a math
teacher at Indian Springs Academy.
Photo by Carole Lawrence.
from throughout the state
will be awarded a trip to
Atlanta by the local sponsors
and will be honored at the
Georgia Chamber’s annual
televised state banquet in
Atlanta April 21.
Other students were recog
nized at the banquet for their
academic achievement.
Those receiving Certificates
of Achievement for scoring
900-1000 on the SAT were
David Brown, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Brown; Denise
Bunch, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Bunch; Tim
Colwell, son of Mr. and Mrs.
John Colwell;
Leslie Jean Earnheart,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.
C. Earnhart; Donald Nors
worthy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Norsworthy; Charlie
Robison, son of Mr. and Mrs.
T. E. Robison, Jr.; and
Andrew Waldrop, grandson
of M'r. and Mrs. W. A.
Waldrop.
The Jaycees formed the
“1000" Club for those
students scoring 1000 or more
on the SAT. Those becoming
members of this club were
Phillip Cochrane, son of Rev.
and Mrs. Phillip Cochrane;
Lee Duffey, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Nevin Duffey; Van
Fletcher, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Lovett Fletcher; Ricky Long,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Alton
Long; Frankie Maddox,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.
L. Maddox;
Joy Morris, daughter of
The local one cent sales tax
is collected by County
merchants, remitted to the
State Revenue Department
and returned to the County
and its municipalities on a
pro rata basis. Butts County
receives 57.8 per cent of the
revenue generated by the
tax; the City of Jackson, 35.7
per cent; Jenkinsburg, 3.6
per cent and Flovilla, 2.7 per
cent.
The County’s receipts from
the sale of beer and wine
were also up in December,
Sutton reported, and down
for the month of January.
For December, 1976, the
County collected $2,632.18
from the sale of beer and
Mr. and Mrs. Carlton Morris,
Ronald Norsworthy, son of
Mr. and Mrs. R. C.
Norsworthy; Robert Pinck
ney, son of Dr. and Mrs.
Robert Pinckney and James
Smith, son of Mrs. Laruth
Smith.
The keynot speaker for the
evening was Bill Jones,
Georgia House Representa
tive from the 78th District.
Donnie Phillips, president of
the Butts County Jaycees,
presided at the banquet. John
Hall, external vice president
of the Jaycees and chairman
of the STAR program
presented the awards to the
honorees.
STAR TEACHER
Miss Marian Sanders, a
science teacher at Jackson
High School, was selected as
STAR teacher at Jackson
High by Morris Crockarell
who received the STAR
student award.
wine, while for the month of
January receipts from the
same source amounted to
only $2,097.93.
Voters in Butts County
ratified the one cent sales tax
levy in the fall of 1975, with
an effective date of April,
1976. as an alternative to
higher property taxes.
The City of Jackson cut its
tax levy for the year 1976 in
halt and Butts County's
Commissioners are expected
to lake some action during
1977 in the area of tax relief.
The optional sales tax law
requires that taxes be
in an amount equal
to revenues produced by the
one cent lew.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, March 10, 1977
Registration For Baseball,
Softball Programs Underway
Registration for the sum
mer baseball and softball
programs began on March
7th and will continue through
March 19th at the Jackson-
Butts County Recreation
Center. Hours for sign up are
9:00a.m. until 5:00 p.m. each
day during the week and
from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00
p.m. on Saturday, March
12th and 19th.
Leagues that will sign up
on these days are: Pee Wee
League - 6 and 7 year old boys
or girls; Ty Cobb League - 8
thru 10 year old boys; Little
League - 9 thru 12 year old
boys; Babe Ruth baseball -13
thru 15 year old boys; Junior
League softball - 8 thru 12
year old girls; Senior League
softball - 13 thru 15 year old
girls; American Legion base
ball -16 thru 18 year old boys.
Each participant is asked
to bring his birth certificate
unless one is already on file
at the center.
Boys signing up for Little
League for the first time in
Jackson will have try outs on
Saturday, March 19, at 4 p.m.
and Monday, March 21, at 5
p.m. at the Little League
field at James Wallace
Memorial Park on the
Monticello Highway. Bring
your glove to try out. You
must try out on one of the
designated days.
Fees have been established
by the Leagues as follows:
Pee Wee baseball and Girls
softball - $7.00 per player; Ty
Cobb baseball - $lO per
player; Little League, Babe
Ruth and American Legion
baseball - $12.50 each.
Insurance is included in the
Little League, Ty Cobb, Babe
Ruth and American Legion
fees. Insurance for the other
leagues may be purchased on
sign up day for $3.50 per
player. Insurance is required
for the leagues that are
insured automatically.
Your parent or legal
guardian must sign you up on
one of the dates given above.
If you have any questions
about sign up. please call
775-2404.
Opera Comes To Jackson This
Saturday Evening at 8 P. M.
The curtain will rise at 8
o’clock Saturday evening in the
Jackson High School auditorium
on “The Italian Girl in Algiers,”
a comic opera in two acts that
was originally presented in
Venice on May 22, 1813.
Staged by the Augusta Upera
Company, the cast will include
many of the stars who made “the
Elixir of Love” such a
memorable occasion last year
for a delighted Jackson audi
ence.
Gioacchino Rossini wrote the
musical score, the Libretto was
originally done by Angelo Anelli,
with Ruth and Thomas Martin
writing the English version.
Edward Bradberry will direct
the production, while the
22-piece orchestra will be
conducted by Norma Johnson.
Setting for the opera is the
palace of Mustafa by the
seashore in Algiers where the
Bey of Algiers is devising a
complicated and ridiculously
funny plot to get rid of his wife
so that he might marry one of
those Italian beauties he has
heard so much about.
The fun begins in earnest when
the Bey commissions the captain
of his pirate crew to find him a
beautiful Italian girl within six
days as his lover, or else lose his
life.
The plot progresses through a
series of comic situations
Gas Reported
To Be Stolen
From Cars
Jackson police detective
Denny O’Neal has reported
what he called “a rather
strange occurrence” in that
he has had reports of
gasoline being stolen from
automobiles parked in a
downtown business parking
lot during daylight hours on
March 4.
O’Neal said the reports are
still under investigation and
that no arrests have been
made in relation to the
reported incident.
In addition O’Neal said the
Kym Company on Alabama
Boulevard was burglarized
March 5 and that several
pairs of pants and some food
were taken from the com
pany .
According to O’Neal, the
burglar apparently entered
through a small window
on the roof of the company.
The burglary is still under
investigation.
MISS VAN DUSEN IS
SECOND IN DISTRICT
Miss Lani Van Dusen, of
Indian Springs, winner of the
County and District Ameri
can Legion oratorical con
test. placed second in
competition between the
Fourth. Fifth and Seventh
District winners Friday night
at St. Pius High School in
Atlanta.
She was awarded a $25
cash prize for placing second
in the competition, which
was won by the representa
tive of the Fifth District.
GRIFFIN TECH IS
TAKING APPLICATIONS
Griffin Tech's spring
quarter will begin on March
21.1977. Applications are still
being taken.
designed to keep the audience in
an uproar, while being treated to
some of the most delightful
music and lyrics ever written.
Opera is brought to Jackson by
the Opera Committee of the
Jackson Theatre Guild. Dr. Jo
Ann Manley is president of the
Guild and Scott Coleman.
Harold Grant and Sharon Woody
are members of the committee
who made arrangements for the
opera.
Working to make Opera ‘77 a
success locally are these
committees appointed by Dr.
Manley: Finance, Ticket Print
ing, Publicity, Ushers, Ticket
Sales, House Arrangements,
Programs, Food and Housing.
Each of the committees has
been hard at work the past few
weeks to insure the success of
this year’s presentation, as
opera in Jackson is a community
project.
Tickets are on sale at $3.00
each and may be purchased at
Deraney’s Dept. Store, C&S
Bank of Jackson, Mclntosh State
Bank, from Mrs. Georgia
Schroeder or any member of the
Jackson Teatre Guild.
Advance ticket sales have
been good to date and it is
anticipated that a large and
appreciative audience will be on
hand to welcome the Augusta
Opera AssociationV cast and
orchestra to Jacks .
Early Nutrition Program Gets
No Commitment from Board
At its monthly meeting
Monday, the Butts County Board
of Commissioners passed a
motion not to honor the previous
Board’s commitment relative to
the Nutrition Program for the
Elderly and requested a meeting
with the director of the program.
The motion, made by Commis
sioner William Mitchell, was
seconded by E. D. Briscoe.
Commission Chairman Mac
Collins voted against the motion.
In another 2-1 motion, the
Board voted, on a motion made
by Briscoe and seconded by
Mitchell, to pay the Butts County
Child Development Center SIOO a
month to supplement the
Center’s day care program.
Collins had made a motion not
to give any support to the Center
but his motion died for lack of a
second.
In other action the Board
refused to certify an application
by the Piedmont Area Com
munity Action Agency (PACAA)
to the Nation; 1 Health Service
Corps for additional medical
services for Butts County.
The Commissioners said they
objected to the part of the
application which would have
appointed a doctor, with a
guaranteed salary, to Butts
County without any personal
interviews by the Board before
his being selected.
A representative from
PACAA. Lanier Boatright, said
the Sylvan Grove Hospital
Authority had earlier refused to
give its certification to the
application because “the
Authority is not incorporated.”
In other action, the Board
passed a motion providing for
the closing of the landfill at
Flovilla and combining those
services with those of the
Jackson landfill. The effective
date of the closing, which the
Commissioners said will
probably eliminate the jobs of
two employes, will be April 1.
And the Commissioners refer
red two tax refund claims to the
tax assessors office to be
checked for “errors or illegal
ities in assessments.”
Ed Houghtaling, from the
Mclntosh Trail Area Planning
and Development Commission
(MTAPDC), met with the
Commissioners and expressed
the willingness and ability of
MTAPDC in helping Butts
County plan and implement
goals and programs.
Houghtaling told the Board it
is the purpose of MTAPDC to
work closely .with the state and
federal governments on behalf of
local governments.
The Board responded by
asking for the help of MTAPDC
in the planning and building of
the proposed doctors offices at
the hospital, a training center for
the mentally retarded and for
further planning of industrial
development.
A motion was passed stating
the Commission would work with
the local 4-H Club in a project to
recover and recycle scrap metal.
Tom Rodgers, of the Univer
sity of Georgia Extension
Service, explained the benefits of
such a project: promotes
collection of scrap metal
throughout the county and
removes bulky items from and
extends the life of the County
landfill.
Rodgers said the recycling
firm is a “reputable' and
international” company and ihat
the metal would be collected
every three or four months.
An additional motion was
passed to use $1,285.00 of the
special funds for repair of the
County court house to mend the
face of the clock on the court
house which was damaged
during the recent severe
weather.
The Board requested a
meeting with the executive
committee of the Recreation
Commission next Monday at 8:30
a.m.
Native Son
Sells Native
Rhodendrons
A native Jacksonian who
has found sanctuary in the
north Georgia mountains
was one of the subjects
covered in an article on
azaleas and rhodendrons in
Sunday's Atlanta Journal.
Roy Wyatt, garden editor
of The Journal, had this to
say about an amateur
horticulturalist who is turn
ing a hobby into a profes
sion .
"Barry and Ellen Jones
have lived and worked in
Atlanta and Athens, but once
nature called they bought an
old farm near Tiger, Ga.
Barry is tooling up for a
native plants nursery while
Ellen works elsewhere for
the present.
Their Tiger Mountain
Nursery. Tiger. Ga 30576. is
still in the early stages of
production, but now has
about 6.000 rhodendron liners
from among to hybrids.
Cuttings come from about
1.000 stock plants on the
place, and they hope also to
produce mountain laurel as
well as the native rhoden
dt ons such as R. maximum
and R cawtawbiense."
Barry is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Vincent Jones, of
Jackson, and Ellen is the
daughter of Mrs J B
Weaver and the late Mr.
Weaver, of Covington.
15c Per Copy
MRS. JAMES WHITAKER
WINS SMALL CORVETTE
Mrs. James Whitaker, of
Jenkinsburg. was the lucky
winner of a miniature
Corvette given away Satur
day by Bob Long Chevrolet.
Inc. as part of their grand
opening ceremony.
The car is a small version
of the full-sized Corvette and
is fully operational.
FOREST SERVICE TO
CLOSE ON W EEKENDS
Due to the warmer weather
and the decreasing number
of requests, the U.S. Forest
Service offices at Monticello
and Greensboro will no
longer be open on Saturdays
and Sundays to issue free use
permits for firewood.
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JOE, THE HOBO. SEZ:
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I see w here the Boy Scouts
are changing their name
because someone found the
word "Boy’’ objectionable.
Next, some idiots will want to
change the U.S.A., because
the United reminds them of
the United Daughters of the
Contederacy.
