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Editorials
A Time To Buy and
A Time To Sell
The pending sale of the City of
Jackson’s gas department to the
Atlanta Gas Light Company seems
to have the weight of good
economics, excellent timing and
superb judgment in its favor.
City fathers have tested the
trial balloon on many of the City’s
civic, business and industry
leaders and the response has been
overwhelmingly in support of such
a move.
With the nation’s natural gas
supply expected to be critically
short again this fall and winter,
pure logic dictates that now is the
time to sell a system that cannot
competitively bid for a fuel in such
sparse supply.
Asa matter of fact, the City
has very little choice, or at least
none that would not work hardships
on all concerned.
The City of Jackson buys its
natural gas from the Southern
Natural Gas Company at a
wholesale rate, pumps it through
the City-owned distribution system
and makes a small profit in the
process. For 1976, the unaudited
profit realized by the system
was approximately $7,500.00. This
profit could have been higher, but
so would your gas bill and City
officials elected to go with the
lower profit and protect their
customers from gas bills that
would have been outrageously
high.
Economic growth in the City of
Jackson is stymied by the lack of
natural gas under the present
system. The City cannot add a
single new commercial or indust
rial user to its lines, to say nothing
of a residential sub-division.
If the City is to continue to own
and operate its gas distribution
system, it must double or treble its
present storage capacity for
propane gas to be used during peak
demand periods at a cost of
approximately $70,000.00. After
doing this, it would then have to
sign contracts for delivery of high
priced and scarce propane for fall
delivery.
Faced with these problems, the
nonavailability of additional sup
plies of natural gas, the excessive
storage and delivery costs of an
Gordon Needs Our Help
Gordon Junior College is
celebrating its 125th birthday in
1977, having been founded in 1852.
Over 100 Butts County students
are taking advantage of the
wonderful curriculum offered at
this aged and venerable institution,
many of them on various types of
scholarships offered by the college.
As broad as the scholarship
program is, there is a real need for
more in order that Gordon might
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alternate fuel such as propane, the
economic stagnation facing the
City due to lack of adequate gas
supplies, City officials had no
reasonable alternative other than
to sell to a firm that could better
supply the natural gas needs of
Jackson.
What can Atlanta Gas Light
Company offer Jackson’s gas
users? Most importantly, a natural
gas rate for residential users
12-to-15 per cent lower than that
offered presently by the City.
Couple this with an increased gas
supply that will permit the location
of new industry, the encourage
ment of new commercial enter
prises and the construction of new
gas-heated homes and the decision
to sell becomes easier
Sweeten this with a franchise
fee based on residential use that
should yield $9,000 or more
annually for the City of Jackson
far more than the meager gas
profits of last year-and even the
man who fell off the turnip truck
can see the logic behind such a
deal.
For additional sweeteners,
non-saccharin of course, throw in a
Jackson office of the Atlanta Gas
Ligh Company for service and the
convenience of collections and a
free inspection of all main and
feeder gas lines, including gas
appliances in the home, and the
proposition becomes even more
palatable.
Independent appraisals indi
cate that the buyer has offered the
seller a fair price for his product
and, although negotiations are still
going on over the sales price, it
seems that the City will get at least
$375,000 for its gas system.
It will be up to the Mayor and
Council to determine how these
funds can best be used. A reduction
of the City’s bonded indebtedness
for its water and sewer systems
would seem to be in order and the
retirement of revenue bonds in this
large an amount should result in
interest savings that might
possibly be reflected in lower water
and sewer charges.
There is a time for everything,
as the Bible points out., A time to
buy and a time to sell. We think
now is the time to sell.
continue to attract and hold the
brightest high school graduates in
the area.
Gordon’s annual fund drive is
on now. If you would like to help a
fine junior college serve Butts
County even more effectively, then
send a gift to the Gordon Junior
College Foundation, Barnesville,
Georgia 30204, or direct your gift to
the Foundation, in care of
Foundation Member Vincent
Jones, of Jackson.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT IONES
The enigma that began
when a soft-spoken Georgia
peanut farmer was inaugu
rated as President of the
United States continues to
confound and confuse the
nation’s press corps, who
have always preferred a
chief executive who spoke
with authority, even when he
was lying.
President Carter leaves
them flabbergasted with
erudite, although often eva
sive, answers to their ques
tions. The reporters miss the
directness of Truman, the
presence of Roosevelt, or the
charisma of Kennedy when
interviewing the Georgia
President.
They find instead a
thoroughly likeable human
being who toys with their
questions in the manner of an
experienced chess player
playing with a 10-year-old,
but who never permits a deep
invasion into the innermost
recesses of his superior
mind.
The reporters are openly
riled by their inability to rile
the President. Their often
harassing questions are met
with a boyish grin or a bit of
philosophic humor and the
President emerges from the
verbal fray unscathed and
uncommitted.
The image makers and the
phrase turners within the
administration have not been
sitting on their hands. They
have replaced the rather
meaningless and sterile
phrase “cold War” with the
more positive “human
rights." A great Georgia
song writer, Johnny Mercer,
once wrote a song based on
the need to “accentuate the
positive and eliminate the
negative.”
At the very heart of the
ongoing struggle between
two great powers with
different ideologies has been
the human rights of peoples
everywhere. No other Ameri
canpresident has evsx had
the courage to call the fight
what it is, a battle for the
hearts and minds and bodies
of billions who, at the present
time, are under the influence
of neither a democratic nor
communistic form of govern
ment.
The Russians are more
vulnerable on the issue of
human rights than any other.
They alone know the suffer
ing and tragedy inflicted
upon millions who are
enslaved by their tyranny. A
President bold enough to call
for the freedom of oppressed
people everywhere has im
paled them on their own
cross of greed and atheistic
philosophy.
Making tough decisions,
and disregarding the politi
cal consequences, is the
hallmark of a great presi
dent. His decision on an
effective energy policy for
the country will cost the
President votes and Con
gressional support, but if his
policy is fair and in the best
long-range interests of the
country, the people will
support it and him.
The jury is still out on
President Jimmy Carter. His
first 90 days in the White
House have been neither
auspicious nor disastrous.
But already the tremendous
task of governing this diverse
nation has begun to take its
toll. The smile, which once
came so quickly, is more
delayed and subdued and
appears more wan than
warm. The creases of care
have crept across the once
handsome face and in 90 days
it seems to have aged 10
years at least.
The President comes
across as a man with the
forbearance of Lincoln, per
haps too tolerant of his
friends and too inwardly
disturbed by his enemies.
We personally would like to
see him show some righteous
indignation every now and
then and unloose a tirade
against someone, or some
thing, that has raised his ire.
In addition to proving that he
is for real, and not
make-believe, perhaps it
would serve as a warning for
those who might possibly
mistake his indulgence for
weakness.
A Slroll Down j
Memory Lane
News of 10 Years Ago
Anew $400,000 elementary
school in Macon has been
named for the late Van
McKibben Lane, a brother of
Mrs. Hugh Mallet, Sr., of
Jackson.
Dawson Bryant, chairman
of the City’s aldermatic
sanitation committee, re
ports that delivery has been
made on anew $9,700
garbage truck.
Dorner Carmichael and
Hugh Glidewell have the lead
roles in the senior play,
“Onions in the Stew”. The
play is being staged and
directed by Mrs. J. B. Settle,
Miss Carol Mask and
Franklin Strickland.
Jackson girls attending the
Pine Valley Girl Scout Camp
include Ellen Pinckney, Joni
Thaxton, Linda Sanvidge,
Jerri O’Quinn, Rachel Wat
kins, Summers and
Debbie Fuqua.
Jackson High defeated
Mary Persons 62 to 54 in the
first dual track meet of the
season. Lee Fambro in the
100 yd. dash and broad jump
and Kenny Duke in the 880
and mile run won two firsts
for the Red Devils.
Cecil McGough, of Route 2,
Locust Grove, reported the
first open cotton bloom on
April 18th on a plant he had
nursed through the winter.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Benjamin Albert Cook,
78; Ike M. Wilson, 89; Mrs.
Sally Mae Caston Wise, 69;
Walter D. (Jude) Cochran,
68.
News of 20 Years Ago
The Progress-Argus and
Adams-Briscoe Seed Cos. are
sponsoring a “Mystery Farm
Contest” in which readers
are asked to identify aerial
photos of Butts County
farms.
Grady O. Jackson, Jr., a
Jackson High junior and son
of Mr. and Mrs. Grady O.
Jackson. Sr., has won third
place in the biological
sciences division of the State
Science Fair in Athens.
Six Jackson trackmen
have won regional honors
and will compete in the Class
B state finals in Macon. They
are Barry Jones in the 100
and 220-yd. dashes; Donnie
Caston-880-yd. run; Donnie
Caston-pole vault; Charles
Herring-high jump; 440-yd
relay-Ed Ridgeway, Donnie
Caston, Denny O’Neal, Barry
Jones; mile relay-Ed Ridge
way, Dulane Maddox, Denny
O’Neal, Barry Jones.
Jimmy Allen, son of Mrs.
Annie L. Allen, has won first
place in the local Roadeo
sponsored by the Butts
County Jaycees.
Borden Campbell, son of
Mr. and Mrs. B. B. Campbell,
has won third place in the
district FFA speaking con
test held at Coweta High
School.
Miss Judy Fletcher, daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. H. M.
Fletcher, has been named to
the semester honors list for
the past term at Wesleyan
College.
News of 30 Years Ago
Both the Elder apd Foy
Hotels at Indian Springs have
announced they will open for
business on May Ist and close
on October Ist.
J. R. Caldwell, husband of
the former Margaret Ham of
Jackson, has invented a
revolutionary new ball
bearing comb box for use on
cotton carding machines.
Appearing in the senior
play, “Watch Out for
Spooks” will be Arthur See,
Bette Thaxton, Betty Bur
ford, Audrey Cook, Gladys
Smith, Ladelle Smith, Vir
ginia Cook, Barbara Smith,
THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1977
Richard Fretwell, Dyer
Edwards, Frederick Anthony
and Dot Maddox.
Anne Roberts, Audrey
Rossey and Clementine
Smith have been named to
the Dean’s List at LaGrange
College.
Mrs. George Damour was
hostess to the Jackson
Garden Club on Tuesday
afternoon. Mesdames Wil
liam Sasser and Candler
Webb were welcomed as
visitors.
The Jackson Kiwanis Club
is indebted to Frank Flynt for
a box of delicious Florida
oranges.
Deaths during the week:
Henry McCord Shaver, 53,
son of the late A. H. Shaver
and Mrs. Lula McCord
Shaver, both of whom edited
the Jackson Argus in the
1890’s and 1900’s.
News of 40 Years Ago
Cattle rustlers are abroad
in the County and E. Z.
Carter, J. H. Smith and
Miller Ogletree all reported
cows stolen during the past
week.
Students at Jackson public
schools will observe Me
morial Day on April 26th by
marching to the cemetery
and placing flowers on the
graves of the Confederate
dead.
The Butts County Chamber
of Commerce is opposing the
levying of a 10 cents
admission fee to Indian
Springs State Park.
County Policemen Wil
liamson and Gifford report
the capture of three stills
during the past few days.
Hostesses for the D. A. R.
meeting Friday will be Mrs.
T. G. Willis, Mrs. E. H. Pace
and Miss Mary Downs, with
Miss Ruth Middlebrooks in
charge of the program.
The Jenkinsburg W.M.S.
met at the home of Mrs. J. C.
Tolleson, with Mrs. Marvin
Farrar, Mrs. A. D. Whitte
more and Mrs. G. W.
Chasteen appearing on the
program.
Deaths during the week:
William W. Washington, 82;
Andrew J. St. John, 76.
News of 50 Years Ago
Work on grading and
paving the Jackson to Indian
Springs highway began this
week.
The Jackson Presbyterian
Church has extended a call to
the Rev. Julian Warner to
serve as its pastor. Similar
calls are to go out from the
Fellowship and Thomaston
churches as Rev. Warner will
serve all three congrega
tions.
Appearing in the play,
“Always in Trouble” at the
Iron Springs Consolidated
School were Y. T. Sheffield,
Milliard Hodges, Robert
Thomas, Fleetwood Bledsoe,
Fleetwood Polk, Geraldine
Greer, Evelyn Lavender,
Jeffie Preston and Mardell
Strawn.
L. A. Atkinson has sold two
brick buildings at Jenkins
burg to Settle and Robison
and J. O. Minter.
Among the Indian Springs
hotels opening for the season
are The New Elder Hotel, the
Arnold House, Rock Ridge
Terrace and The Foy.
Three brothers, W. P.
Newton, R. P. Newton and A.
W. Newton, hold the ranking
offices in Alexius Com
mandery No. 22, Knights
Templar.
Editor’s Quote Book
Bea friend to yourself
and others will.
Scottish Proverb
B-r Mrs. Cfridy Brown
REASONS FOR LIVING
To see a little boy get his
first hit ever playing
ball.
To be there to dry a tear
when he strikes out for the
umpteenth time.
To see a seed turn into a
young green shoot after the
long hours you’ve spent
plowing and planting.
To see the same green
shoot turn into a healthy,
edible vegetable!
To see the first robin of
Spring.
To hear the first bird’s
song of Spring.
To hear a young child pray.
To join a young child in
prayer.
To awaken in the morning
Parents and responsible
citizens are concerned abut
the ever present so-called
drug problem. The following
article is an item that was
recently published in the
newsletter of the Georgia
Council on Moral and Civic
Concerns:
THE GREAT INFLUENCE
OF TEACHERS
Many public school drug
programs, have been
counter-productive.
With the whole drug scene
is one ball of wax; alcoh<'
nicotine, amphetamines,
marijuana, heroin.
A few years ago Parent’s
Magazine pointed out the
failure of public school drug
programs to reduce drug
abuse among youth. In
stances may be cited of
suburban communities that
have had what were held up
as model school drug
programs while at the same
time having terrible prob
lems with drug related
crimes of violence and
youthful beer bust orgies in
the community park. Why is
that?
According to the “National
Good Templar” drug in
struction that fearlessly
presents all the facts
requires a very special
teacher, a person mature,
sensitive, disciplined, con
cerned.
The Templar continues:
“Kinesics has taught us
that there are 700,000 ways of
non-verbal communications.
The youth get a message
from the total life and
personality of the teacher far
beyond the word he or she
utters. If there are poorly
trained teachers who do not
know the subject, that will
turn alert youth off. And
hypocrisy - phoniness - is the
greatest sin to youth. The
pupils know what is going on.
Any teacher in this area has
to be backed up by a
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
GLORIOUS LIVING
A church’s steeple
Precious people
Make me happy every day.
Friendly teachers
Pious preachers
Guide my footsteps on the way!
Fun and playing
Love and praying
Lead me to His throne above.
Busy working
Never shirking
hill my heart with peace and love.
feeling good.
To awaken in the morning
with everyone around you in
as good a mood as your own.
To do a difficult job well
with no help at all.
To do any work and have it
appreciated by someone
whose praise you hold highly.
To sign a report card you
are proud to sign.
To sign any report card
which shows improvement!
To answer the phone and
find that the caller is
someone you wish to talk
with or on whose call you
have been waiting.
To answer the phone and
hear someone say, “I love
you”.
To tell someone, “I love
you”.
To love someone.
disciplined life style. And you
cannot have other teachers
on the faculty in the Junior
and Senior High School level
undercutting this course by
offering youth liquor or other
drugs when they entertain
them in their homes.
“Really, for results you
have to go at the subject with
a far deeper and more
positive level - the wjll, the
conscience, the spiritual
level -with youth than just
scarce fads. It is possible
with wrong teaching simply
to arouse morbid curiosity
and to encourage experimen
tation.”
We should take heed to the
above as we work with and
teach young people.
Donald L. Folsom, Pastor
First Baptist Church
ELBERT HUBB ARD SAID
“Advertising is the educa
tion of the public as to: Who
you are, Where you are, and
What you have to offer, in
way of Skill, Talent or
Commodity, The only man
who should not advertise is
the man who has nothing to
offer the world in the way of
commodity or service.”
HOW TO BE PERFECTLY
MISERABLE
1. Think about yourself.
2. Talk about yourself.
3. Expect to be appreciated.
4. Be suspicious.
5. Be jealous and envious.
6. Be sensitive to sights.
7. Demand agreement on
your views.
8. Sulk if people are not
grateful to you for favors
shown.
9. Be on the look out for a
good time.
10. Shirk you duties if you
can.
11. Do as little as you can for
others.
12. Love yourself supremely.