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Sarkson Progress-Argus
Volume 104 No. 13
Board Adopts Resolution To
Create Development Authority
At a meeting Monday, the
Butts County Commission
unanimously adopted a reso
lution to create a Develop
ment Authority for the
County.
The resolution was ac
cepted with the stipulation
that the appointment of the
Authority’s required seven
directors be given further
study.
Bill Jones, state repre
sentative from this district,
discussed the resolution with
the Commissioners and ex
plained that the resolution
will, in essence, allow for the
appointment of a board of
directors to activate a local
Development Authority in
Butts County.
The resolution states that a
Development Authority,
among its general duties, has
the capability of “promoting
and expanding industry,
welfare and trade for the
public good and welfare of
Butts County and making
long-range plans for such
development and expan
sion...”
In other business, five
“The Mclntosh Trail” Is Being
Suspended (or This Summer
Sponsors of “The Mclntosh
Trail” outdoor drama in
Peachtree City have voted to
suspend production of the
presentation for the upcom
ing summer.
However, Robert K. Price
Sr., president of the sponsor
ing Mclntosh Trail Arts
Council, noted that “we’re
not at the point of no return.
While the drama is being
suspended for this season,
it’s our intention to resume
the production at a future
date, hopefully in June of
1978.”
Price said the decision was
made at an arts council
board of directors meeting
held Wednesday, March 23.
The arts council, which
began its activities last year
with the first
Shakerag Invitational Arts
& Crafts Festival and the
first season of “The Mc-
Intosh Trail,” had been
experiencing financial diffi
culties.
The arts council, in an
effort to stabilize its financial
condition, had applied to the
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WASHINGTON, D.C. United States Representative
Jack Flynt, Sixth District of Georgia, is pictured as he
prepares to introduce United States Attorney General
Griffin Bell (left) to Members of the Appropriations
Subcommittee on State, Justice, Commerce, and the
Judiciary. Attorney General Bell was on Capitol Hill
presenting testimony concerning 1978 appropriations for
the United States Justice Department.
paid their County taxes.
Jones agreed with Beau
champ that this procedure is
not only one which he should
follow but one which the law
requires that he follow.
Beauchamp asserted that
“we are not trying to single
out or embarrass anyone.
We’re trying to establish a
line of communication with
the peqple who have not paid
their taxes or have not made
any efforts to come in and
make arrangements to pay
them.”
Beauchamp added that
every case will be handled
individually and that in
“genuine hardship cases we
would not do anything to hurt
anybody and will try to work
out payment arrangements.”
The Commission un
animously decided not to
give its support to a proposed
study by the Metropolitan
Emergency Medical Ser
vices (MEMS) to determine
the feasibility of extending
MEMS to counties sur
rounding the immediate
metro Atlanta area and
which are not served by
MEMS.
Farmers Home Administra
tion for a substantial loan,
enough to meet current
obligations including pay
ment of creditors and
provide the needed front
money for this summer’s
dramatic production. How
ever, final disposition of the
loan application has taken
longer than had been
anticipated, Price revealed.
Price explained that the
decision to suspend the
historical drama production
for this summer came
because “sufficient front
money was not in sight” for
staging the drama and
“because we felt an obliga
tion to look for ways to pay
our present creditors before
attempting to begin another
season.”
Auditions for this year’s
cast of “The Mclntosh Trail”
had been scheduled earlier
this month, but the auditions
were cancelled when arts
council officials realized that
production of the drama
probably wouldn’t be pos
sible this summer.
residents of the Jackson
Lake area of Butts County
met with the Commission
and Tax Commissioner
Ricky Beauchamp to inquire
about their status for signing
up for the Homestead Tax
Exemption before the April 1
deadline.
The citizens were asking
about a piece of special local
legislation allowing for the
exemption and passed for
residents living on leased
property, such as on Jackson
Lake, and how their filing for
the Homestead Exemption
will be affected if Governor
Busbee had not signed the
legislation by the April 1
deadline.
Beauchamp told the citi
zens the Tax Commissioner’s
office would “go ahead and
take the applications, hold
them in an independent file
and wait until we find out
exactly what the legislation
says and the date when it is
signed.”
Beauchamp also discussed
with Jones the intention of
the Tax Commissioner to
make public the names of
those people who have not
Ricky Long
Is Top Key
Club Orator
Jackson High Key Club
members attended the 32nd
annual District Key Club
convention in Savannah on
March 25-27 and came back
with high honors in two
categoires.
Ricky Long, a senior Key
Club member, was awarded
the first place trophy in the
oratorical contest, while the
entire club received the third
place trophy in the silver
achievement competition.
At the Savannah meeting,
Key Clubbers from across
the state competed for state
honors and elected district
and divisional officers for the
coming school year.
Jackson Key Clubbers
attending the convention
included Joey Patterson,
David Brown, Bill Fears,
Kevin Young, Donnie Nors
worthy, Ronnie Norsworthy,
Tim Colwell, Ricky Long,
Danny Patterson, Charlie
Robison, Merrill Folsom, A1
Duke, Bobby Pinckney, Mor
ris Crockarell and Cary
Maddox.
Advisors for the Savannah
trip were Kenny Smith and
Bill Nelson.
Friday Is
Deadline For
Color Contest
Entries in the Easter
Coloring Contest sponsored
by the Mclntosh State Bank
must be delivered to the bank
not later than 5 p.m. on
Friday, April Ist.
President Pete Malone
reports that response to date
has been relatively light and
that chances of winning are
especially good in some of
the age groups.
The bank is offering prizes
of $25-first; sls-second, and
$5-third in each age from
l-to-10.
Contestants may color
each of the nine Easter
scenes that have appeared in
this paper over the past three
weeks, but may submit only
their best three for judging.
Back issues of the papers
carrying the Easter pictures
to be colored are available at
the Progress-Argus office.
Jackson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, March 31,1977
Mt. Vernon
Baptists To
Hold Revival
Revival services at Mt.
Vernon Baptist Church will
begin Monday, April 4th, and
continue through Friday,
April Bth, with the Rev.
Edward Sisson, pastor of
Crestview Baptist Church, of
Griffin, as the guest evange
list. Services will begin each
evening at 7:30 p.m.
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Rev. Sisson is a native of
Blue Ridge, Georgia and a
graduate of Truett-McCon
nell College and the Univer
sity of Georgia. He has
attended Mercer Univer
sity’s extension classes and
is now enrolled in the Middle
Georgia Baptist Institute.
Prior to his pastorate at
Crestview, Rev. Sisson has
served churches in Thomas
ton and Flowery Branch. He
was a past moderator of the
Flint River Association and
chairman of the executive
committee. In 1975, he was
voted the minister of the year
of the Greater Griffin area.
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Jack Little, Jackson civic
and church leader, will lead
the singing and provide
special music during the
revival services. Mr. Little
has served as interim music
director of the First Baptist
Church for the past five
months and has conducted
song services at revival
meetings in Tennessee,
Florida and Texas.
Attending college at Bel
mont in Nashville, Tenn. and
Carson Newman at Jefferson
City, Tenn., he served during
his college days as music
director of the Shelby Avenue
Baptist Church of Nashville
and the First Baptist Church
of Seviersville, Tenn.
Mr. Little is a past
president of the Kiwanis Club
of Jackson and was chair
man of the United Appeal
fund drive in Butts County
for the past two years.
The public is cordially
invited to attend these
special services.
BUTTS CO. CB CLUB
TO MEET APRIL 2
The Butts County CB Club
of Jackson will hold their
regular monthly business
meeting Saturday, April 2.
7:00P.M. atthe Jackson Club
House. All members are
asked to attend, also anyone
wishing to join the club is
welcome.
The Club would like to
remind all those CB ers who
would like to help in the
“traffic control for the Cystic
Fibrosis Bike-A-Thon” this
coming Saturday, April 2, to
please contact Joe Harris -
775-3642 or Buddy Nors
worthy - 775-7951 by Thurs
day evening.
Capt. Grubbs
Survives Worst
Airline Crash
Captain Victor Grubbs, a
Pan American airline pilot
with 30 years experience and
the father-in-law of Newton
Etheredge, Jr. of Jackson,
was one of the survivors of
the worst airline accident in
history Sunday in the Canary
Islands.
At least 562 persons
perished in the crash which
occurred when a Dutch
airline KLM jumbo jet,
racing down the runway at
155 miles per hour, struck the
Pan American plane broad
side as it was taxiing across
its path into a take-off
position.
Ot the 370 passengers
aboard the Pan American
jet, it is believed that 105
survived, with those in the
front section having the
highest survival rate.
All of the 235 passengers
and 16 member crew of the
KLM plane were killed in the
accident, the first in history
involving two of the huge
235-foot long Boeing 7475.
Captain Grubbs, according
to information received lo
cally, received burns about
the arms and legs and will be
hospitalized for a few days,
but is not believed to be
seriously injured. He was
piloting the Pan American
plane at the time of the
mishap.
BILL SCOTT HEADS
TEACHERS* GROUP
Bill Scott, an Atlanta
guidance counselor, was
installed Saturday as presi
dent of the Georgia Associa
tion of Educators. The group
is the most powerful
teachers’ organization in the
state.
The new- GAI president
holds a B.S. degree in
physical education and
science from the University
of Georgia, a Master’s in
secondary education from
Auburn University, and an
ED. S. in guidance counsel
ing from the University of
Georgia.
Bids Submitted To City For
Work On Sewerage System
Five bids were submitted
to the City of Jackson March
22 for construction of
improvements to the City’s
sewerage system, and Keck
and Wood of Atlanta,
engineers for the project,
tentatively accepted for the
City the bid of York and Lowe
Construction Company of
Gray, Georgia.
The bid submitted by York
and Lowe was $92,671.51 and
will be reviewed by the
project engineers before it is
officially accepted by the
City.
Tom Wood of Keck and
Wood said construction on
the project will begin during
mid April and will be
"substantially completed
within 90 days."
To cover the cost of the
project, the City received a
grant of $117,000 from the
Economic Development Ad
ministration (EDA) under
Title 1 of the Local Public
Works Capital Development
and Investment Act of 1976.
Improvements in the
sewerage system will include
the construction of about l l 2
miles of eight-inch and
12 inch diameter sewers and
installation of flow measur
ing and chlorination systems
at the Yellow Water Creek
wastewater treatment plant.
City Electricity Bills To Be
Down for Month of March
There was good news today
for customers of the City of
Jackson's electrical depart
ment.
Mayor C. B. Brown, Jr.
announced that $15,621.76
recently returned to the City
by the Georgia Power
Company will be pro-rated
among purchasers of
electricity and that the
March bills to be mailed
Aprii Ist will reflect the
rebate.
Much of the credit for tne
rebate should go to Council
man Roy Goff, chairman of
the Electric Department, the
Mayor said. Councilman
Goff, along with municipal
officials from other Georgia
cities, fought the recent
Georgia Power Company
increase in its wholesale
electric rates.
Unemployment
Continues To
Rise in County
During the month of
February, unemployment in
Butts County increased to 9.4
percent from the January
rate of 9.2 according to the
Georgia Department of La
bor.
Only two counties in the
Mclntosh Trail Area did not
show an increase in unem
ployment during February-
Spalding County’s rate de
creased from 7.6 percent to
7.5 and Upson County’s
remained unchanged at 5.0
percent, the lowest of the
eight counties in the Trail
Area.
The other rates for
February were Fayette. 7.2:
Henry, 8.6; Lamar. 6.7;
Newton, 6.1 and Pike. 9.3.
LOCAL PLANT GETS
SAFETY AWARD
The Indian Springs Plant of
Avondale Mills received a
“No Lost Time Accident
Award" at the Georgia
Textile Manufacturers As
sociation's annual safety
conference in Atlanta on
March 23rd.
In addition to York and
Lowe, those companies mak
ing bids and the amounts of
those bids follow :
Arthur Pew Construction
Company. Chamblee.
Local Committee Is Planning
Gala Events for Fourth Week
The Butts County Celebra
tion Committee, an arm of
the Butts County Chamber of
Commerce, has begun its
planning work for the fourth
annual Butts County Celebra
tion.
The festive week-long
celebration w ill be held July
3rd through July 9th. There
will be enough activities each
day during that period to
keep all Butts Countians
busy. . Bigger and better
parades, fahulous fireworks,
all types of arts and crafts
and dances for all ages are
just a few of the events slated
to take place during the
week Buttons, hats. T-shirts,
and belt buckles will all be
offered for sale.
The first activity spon
sored by the committee is an
April Fool’s dance to be held
The rebate to the City, a
wholesale distributor of
power purchased from the
Georgia Power Company,
came about when Georgia
Power several months ago
filed for a rate increase from
the Federal Power Commis
sion on its wholesale power
rates.
Under the procedure
established by the FPC, the
rate request was allowed to
go into effect until such time
as a decision could be
rendered in the case.
The final rate adjustment
was less than that requested
by Georgia Power, so
Jackson and other cities that
act as wholesalers of
electrical power were mailed
rebate checks for the amount
overcharged.
Mayor Brown pointed out
Local Red
Cross Chapter
Sets Meeting
A re-organizational meet
ing of the Butts County
Chapter. .American Red
Cross, will be held Thursday,
March 31st, at 7 p.m. in the
community room of the C&S
Bank of Jackson.
In announcing the meeting.
Stanley Maddox, chairman
of the local chapter, stressed
the importance of having all
parties interested in the Red
Cross program locally- in
attendance.
The meeting will go a long
ways in determining the
future of Red Cross pro
grams in Butts County.
Maddox said.
DODIE COLLINS IS
IN HONOR PROGRAM
Dora Lynn ("Dodie”)
Collins, a junior at Jackson
High School, has been named
an alternate to the 1977
Governor s Honor Program
to be held this summer at
Wesleyan College.
Miss Collins is the daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. James F.
Collins, of 220 Hickory- Ridge
Rd . in Jackson.
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on April Ist from 8 p.m. til
midnight at the Jackson
National Guard Armory.
Music will be furnished by
the “Free Spirit" band. All
proceeds from this dance will
be used to finance other
activities during Celebration
Week.
The Butts County Celebra
tion Committee, headed by
Dick O'Hara, is a non-profit
organization. The committee
is hard at work planning a
spectacular celebration that
Butts Countians will enjoy
and remember for years to
come All proceeds from the
week-long events will be used
to make the coming year’s
activities even better.
Any individual, group, or
organization wishing to par
ticipate in any activity, or
share their ideas, may
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that the rebate will be a one
time project, that it will be
reflected only on the City’s
March billings being mailed
today and, while it is difficult
to pinpoint an exact percent
age reduction, that the
rebate being applied to
March bills would be
“considerable and notice
able.”
The Mayor also added that
the reduction will apply only
to that portion of the bill
dealing with electrical usage
and not to the sale of natural
gas. or other charges for City
services which will not be
affected.
Mayor Brown also pointed
out that the March rebate on
electric rates will apply only
to those customers who have
been purchasing electricity
from the City for six months
or more.
Presbyterians
To Present
Visiting Choir
Observance of the Easter
season will begin locally with
a vocal treat being offered on
Maundy Thursday, April 7th,
by the Jackson Presbyterian
Church.
The 40-member youth choir
of the Wallace Memorial
Presbyterian Church, of
Panama City, Fla., will
present the musical. “Be
cause He Lives" at a special
8 p.m. service at the church.
Under the direction of
Norman Hair, the choir w-ill
present the popular religious
musical written by Bill and
Gloria Gaither.
The Rev. Wade H. Bell,
former pastor of the Jackson
and Fellowship Presbyterian
Churches, is the present
minister of the Wallace
Memorial Presbyterian
Church.
Members of the choir, and
their chaperones, will be
guests of the Church at a
dinner Thursday evening and
w ill be housed at the Indian
Springs State Park that
night. They plan to spend
Friday and Saturday on a
sight-seeing tour of Atlanta
before returning to Florida.
The public is cordially
invited to attend this musical
concert Thursday. April 7, at
8 p.m. at the Jackson
Presbyterian Church.
NORTH BUTTS TO
HAVE CHICKEN STEW
There will be a chicken
stew at the North Butts
Community Clubhouse on
Wednesday. April 6th. begin
ning at 5 p.m.
contact Dick O'Hara at
775-5423 during work hours.
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