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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 |Pg JB b -*--*>• WMy , >t :; Mi mW ‘ isH 1 v, - HA 9 • 1 Mi II c.:^ ai Op ■ ■g*. H -A ft ft -j ' ®S ' mSB H|mH v ,_ . 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. f ’ am 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. w ■ i ■ ;, . 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. Georgia-$100.638.05. W. L. Carey. Royston. Georgia slol,227.so. Davidson Brothers -SI 10.023.00, Pitt man Highway Contracting Company-5132.009.41 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 15c Per Copy 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. JOE. THE HOBO. SEZ: / -V J-V. n i About the meanest thing you can say to a man is to call him a has been who never was.