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RITA DURRETT
I really don’t think rebates
should be given and favor
instead a permanent tax
reduction.
May Is High Blood Pressure
Month ; Early Detection Helps
Georgians are more aware
of the dangers of high blood
pressure than they were a
few years ago, and more of
them with high blood
pressure are keeping it under
control.
“But there are still
thousands of Georgians who
know they have high blood
pressure and are not doing
anthing about it,” according
to Joseph A. Wilber, M.D., of
Atlanta, president of the
Georgia Heart Association.
“When a person with high
blood pressure follows his
doctor’s advice about diet or
medication to keep it under
control, he greatly reduces
his risk of heart attack,
stroke and kidney failure, the
serious health problems that
can result from uncontrolled
high blood pressure,” Dr.
Wilber said.
As supervisor of adult
health for the Georgia
Department of Human Re
sources, Dr. Wilber heads the
state’s stroke prevention
program. He is a nationally
recognized authority in high
blood pressure.
Georgia is a leader in the
nation with the progress that
is being made in efforts to
control high blood pressure
and to reduce the more than
20,000 deaths in the state
each year from heart attack,
stroke and kidney failure.
Of the 800,000 Georgia men
and women with high blood
pressure, three-fourths know
they have it, but only
one-fourth have it under
control.
“The encouraging aspect
on the statistics,” Dr. Wilber
said, “is that three-fourths of
the people with high blood
pressure have found out that
they have it. A few years ago,
only half of the total were
aware of their problem.”
High blood pressure usual
ly has no symptoms, and the
first sign of trouble may be a
trip to the hospital with a
heart attack or stroke.
May is High Blood Pres
sure Month, an observance
that is coordinated at the
state level by the Georgia
Heart Association and the
Georgia Department of Hu
man Resources as part of an
on-going effort to control
HBP.
Purpose of the month,
which is being proclaimed by
Governor George Busbee, is
to urge Georgians to have
their blood pressure checked
regularly and to follow their
doctor’s advice about treat
ment.
The only way to find out if
you have high blood pressure
is to have it checked, a
procedure that is quick and
painless, using a blood
pressure cuff wrapped
around the upper arm.
Oldest Things
Earth’s oldest living
things are the bristlecone
pines of California’s White
Mountains, according to
National Geographic. One
pine has been dated at more
than 4,600 years old.
What Do You Think of President Carter Dropping
His 50-Dollar Tax Rebate Proposal?
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MARK COOK
It doesn’t really matter
whether we get a $50.00
rebate because it’s going to
be eaten up in federal taxes
anyway.
Report From
Indian Springs
By Mrs. Clyde Hoard
Mr. and Mrs. Frank
McMichael attended the
“Swampland Opera” in
Toomsboro, Saturday night.
Mrs. Wilma Jones and
children of Greensboro were
weekend guests of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Taylor and
family.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hoard
and Rev. Ed Hoard visited
Thursday and Friday with
Mrs. W. T. Roach in Dublin.
Ed officiated at the Ordina
tion Service for one of his
members at the Olivet
Baptist Church Frjday night.
Mrs. Neil Mullis and
children of Dublin spent last
week with Mr. and Mrs.
Danny Hoard and Barrett,
and Mr. and Mrs. Joel Crane.
Miss Lisa Taylor visited
Miss Margaret Love in
Jackson, Saturday night.
Ted McMichael of Georgia
College and Miss Debbie
Chapman of Forest Park
were weekend guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank McMichael.
Mrs. Louis Taylor, Mrs.
Jack Hawley and Mrs.
Buddy Burge were visitors in
Atlanta on Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Orville
Kitchens visited Mrs. Belle
Waldrep Wednesday and her
weekend guests were Mr.
and Mrs.' Danny Maddox and
son of Mountain View and
Mrs. Maggie Scott of Griffin.
Miss Amy Williams of
Jackson visited her grand
parents, Mr. -and Mrs.
Charlie Williams, Saturday
night.
Mrs. Spencer Johnson
spent last week with Dr. and
Mrs. Sidney Johnson and
children in Hazlehurst.
Mr. Stan Hogan visited
Thursday with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Hogan,
in Dublin.
NOTICE
Effective May 1,1977
JACKSON OFFICE SUPPLY
will be changed to
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Contact us for all your office and
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We have typewriters, adding ma
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
MARY BOLTON
The President shouldn’t
have mentioned the possi
bility of a rebate if he wasn’t
going to stand by the
proposal.
Friends of Mr. Kyle
McMichael will be interested
to know he had eye surgery
at the Memorial Clinic in
Atlanta Friday. Mrs. Mar
garet Greer spent the
weekend with Mrs. Frances
Hursch while Mrs. McMich
ael was at the hospital with
Kyle.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Holloway
visited Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Everett, Irwinton, and Mrs.
R. L. Holloway and Mr. and
Mrs. James Darden in
Forsyth on Sunday.
Mr. Joel Crane celebrated
his birthday Sunday with all
his children and grandchild
ren present. Also visiting him
during the day were Mr. and
Mrs. James Adams, Jackson
Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Carol
Harper, Mrs. Charlotte Turn
er, Jackson; and Mrs.
Skeeter Grant and Adam.
Miss Rita Bennett of
Athens spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Bennett.
Dr. Raphael Divisio of
Washington, D. C. was guest
Sunday of Miss Blannie
Stallworth.
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TERRY KING
Well, I wanted and could
have used the rebate—l’ve
got four kids, a disabled wife
and a $157.00 a month home
payment so I could have
really used it.
COUNTY PAPERS WIDELY
READ
The boys wanted to know
what I was reading the other
afternoon when they came
down to the back yard to
pitch horse shoes and found
me sitting on the ground
against an apple tree. Well, I
was reading my county
newspaper-The DeKalb New
Era -and I was reading just
like all of us countrymen
read our weekly newspa
pers—from the front to the
page back—everything in it!
The weekly newspaper is
one of the greatest of all
American institutions. They
may insist on taking a lot of
our precious inheritances
from us in these new-fangled
times, but I do hope they will
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30 Mulberry St.
Jackson, Ga.
leave us the county weekly
newspaper. I could not get
along without it. I am certain
that I speak for many others
in expressing a deep convic
tion about the function of the
weekly newspaper.
For one thing, they are so
personal. They tell us about
our own folks, and they are
not ashamed of it. If
somebody in the community
builds a barn, or buys a mule,
or trades for anew wagon, or
finds a turkey nest or
anything else, the county
newspaper is glad to report
it If somebody gets sick, that
is news to the neighbors. If
somebody gets married, that
is news to the neighbors. If
they give a candy-pulling
across the creek, that is a
newsworthy event. The
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THURSDAY, MAY S, 1977
county newspaper regards
the everyday affairs of the
people of such importance as
to merit front-page record
ing.
I always read the obitu
aries in the county newspa
per-one of the best sources
of history anywhere to be
found.A farmer whose name
was never found in the big
dailies, lives his quiet,
wholesome life, and when he
reaches the end of his way,
some neighbor sits down,
with other neighbors about
him. and the next week it
appears in the county
newspaper. The people cut it
out and put it in the family
Bible —that is history worth
preserving.
And I love to read the news
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items sent in from the
respective communities.
Miss So and So visited Miss
So and So last Saturday. Mr.
So and So was seen with Miss
So and So at the “exercises
last Friday night.’’ Wonder
what it means that Mr. So
and So’s horse was hitched in
front of Miss So and So’s gate
again last Sunday night?”
Man. that’s the life—By
Louie D Newton, from the
May 6. 1937 Progress-Argus.
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