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Volume 104 Number 25
Butts County Recreatic II
Commission Resigns June 8
By Dale Whiten
On June 8 the Butts County
Recreation Authority Com
mission resigned “in its
entirety,” and in a letter to
the Progress-Argus the
members stated they felt
they “cannot function pro
perly under the present
operating conditions as set
forth by the present City and
County officials.”
The resignation of the
Recreation Commission
members apparently cen
tered around the Recreation
Commission’s budget sub
mitted for fiscal 1977-78 to the
County Board of Commis
sioners and the City Council.
The budget called for about
$44,000.00 in expenditures.
Among the parts of the
budget originally objected to
by the Commissioners was
the request for anew director
for the Recreation Commis
sion. The former director,
Hollis Griggs, resigned in
April of this year.
Joe Brown, a former
member of the Recreation
Commission, said the Com
missioners informed them
(the Recreation Commission
members) there would be no
director during this fiscal
year. “They also rejected the
part of the budget which
included money for repairs
on a bus and trimmed from
SI,BOO to SI,OOO a request for
money for maintenance work
to be done on all the ball
fields,” Brown added.
Brown said the County
received a $50,000 matching
grant for recreation from the
State which meant the
County and City would have
to raise $25,000 in matching
funds with the State paying
the remainder.
According to Brown, the
City approved its part of the
matching funds ($12,500), but
before the Commissioners
would approve the grant they
said they wanted to see the
figures on the cost of lighting
the ball parks, the cost of
which would be covered by
the grant.
“When the budget was
submitted with provisions for
anew director, it was
rejected,” Brown said, “but
what the Commissioners
don’t realize is that to receive
this State money, we must
have a director for the
Recreation Commission.”
Brown noted that the
summer recreation pro
grams are being operated as
scheduled. “I hope they (the
Commissioners) continue to
keep the program going, but
they’re going to have to come
up with a director, and if they
want recreation, they’re
going to have to pay for it,”
Brown said.
Another former member of
the Recreation Commission,
Freddie Dodson, expressed
some of the same sentiments
as Brown about the circum
stances under which the
Recreation Commission re
signed.
“It seemed like everything
we did the Commissioners
rejected. We turned in what
we thought was a reasonable
budget for the County, but it
was rejected and so we felt
like we didn’t need a
Recreation Commission if
the County Commissioners
were going to run it,” Dodson
said.
He continued, “Recreation
is really important to our
County in terms of attracting
industry and so forth, and if
we don’t have a good
recreation program, I think
we’ll all suffer in the long
run.”
Regarding the rejection of
the budget, County Commis
sioners William Mitchell and
E D. Briscoe disclaimed the
charge that the budget was
rejected and stated that the
budget was approved as
submitted by the Recreation
Commission.
“We accepted their budget
just as it is; if they want a
director, they can hire one,”
Mitchell stated.
Mitchell explained that
when the budget was first
submitted, the Commission
ers suggested that a director
not be hired. “When they
threatened to resign, we
backed down and approved
the budget as they had it,” he
added.
As stated previously, the
budget amounted to about
$44,000.00. Half of this
amount was to be funded by
the County and Mitchell and
Briscoe pointed out that, in
fact, more than half was
appropriated by the County—
-524,427.00. The City is
responsible for funding the
other half.
Mitchell said that when the
Recreation Commission went
to the City to request its half,
the Council responded by
tabling the request.
Councilman Allen Byars
said the Council reviewed the
budget and did table it until
the Commissioners met with
them concerning their ap
proval or rejection of the
budget, but he added, “This
never happened—they never
met with us.”
“Right now it’s at a
standstill though the City has
proved in the past it is more
willing to cooperate in the
area of recreation,” Byars
said.
Commenting on the rela
tionship of the Recreation
Commission with the new
County Commission, Mitch
ell said, “A lot of the things
they wanted from us, we
would do and then they would
say we were interfering with
them...they felt our assis
tance was interference.”
He conceded that the
Recreation Commission did
“buckle down on spending
and the members got the
department straightened out
—that’s why I couldn’t
believe they quit.”
Mitchell added that a lot of
people have got “scared”
there’s not going to be a
recreation program in the
County, but he refuted this
claim. However, he said the
Commissioners can’t run it
by themselves. “We need the
cooperation and support of
the people of Butts County to
operate the Recreation De
partment with the money
available,” he said.
Concerning the $50,000
grant, Briscoe said the grant
will come through and that
the County has approved its
share of the $25,000 in
“in-kind” services.
Briscoe said that with the
resignation of most of the
members of the Recreation
Commission, he would like to
assure the people of Butts
County that “even though
definite plans for the admin
istration of the Department
are incomplete at this time,
we will continue to have a
Recreation Department, and
it is continuing to function
uninterrupted.”
He also stated that he
hopes that some of those
members who “hastily re
signed would reconsider and
help carry on a complete and
well rounded program.”
Jackson Boy
Wins Avondale
Scholarship
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Ronald Norsworthy, a 1977
graduate of Jackson High
School, has been presented
an Avondale Mills’ Textile
Scholarship to Georgia Tech.
Ronald is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. R. C. Norsworthy of
Jackson. He was born in
Toccoa, Georgia and he
attended Jackson Elementa
ry and Henderson Junior
High Schools. In high school
he was a member of the Key
Club, the honor society and of
Co-Ed-Y. He is a member of
the Second Baptist Church in
Jackson. He enjoys baseball,
golf, hockey, skiing, reading
and cars as hobbies.
Avondale Mills awarded
twelve major scholarships
this year including two
nursing scholarships. Com
menting on the scholarship
winners Donald Comer, Jr.,
Chairman of Avondale, said,
“These young people have an
excellent scholastic record,
but in addition have all
displayed strong traits of
character and leadership.”
He added that the scholar
ship in no way ties the
student to Avondale, “They
are free to go where they
wish after graduation. We
hope, as in the past, that
many will make their
careers at Avondale.”
The initial scholarship
program was started by the
Avondale Foundation in 1954,
when five four-year scholar
ships at Auburn University
Textile School were made
available to outstanding
students in those Alabama
communities in which Avon
dale operates manufacturing
facilities. In 1960, the
Cowikee Trust joined the
program with the addition of
one four-year scholarship.
Presently Avondale awards
six scholarships, which re
ceive SI,OOO a year each for
four years. Similar scholar
ships are offered at Georgia
Tech and North Carolina
University for students from
the area of Avondale’s Indian
Springs plant in Jackson,
Georgia and the knitting
plants in North Carolina.
The winners of all scholar
ships are selected by school
officials based on their
outstanding academic work.
Each recipient not only has a
high scholastic standing, but
has been very active in
campus, church and com
munity affairs.
BUTTS CO. CB CLUB
TO HAVE COVERED
DISH SUPPER
The Butts County CB Club
of Jackson will hold a
covered dish supper Satur
day, June 25, at 7 p.m. at the
Jackson Club House, with the
regular business meeting to
follow. All members are
urged to attend as details will
have to be completed for
participation in Butts Countv
Week.
ckson, Georgia 30233, Thursday, June 23, 1977
Education Board Asks Citizens
Group To Study School Needs
Responding to the recom
mendation of a Butts County
grand jury and to an appeal
from concerned citizens, the
Butts County Board of
Education at its June
meeting appointed a Citizens
Study Committee to deter
mine the buildings and
facilities needed by the Butts
County School system.
This committee Svill make
recommendations to a state
comprehensive survey com
mittee and to the local Board
of Education. The initial
meeting of the committee
will be held Wednesday, June
29th, at the Board of
Education building at 8:00
p.m.
The following citizens were
named to the Citizens Study
Committee: Claude Maddox,
Frank Hearn, Jimmy White,
Mrs. Stanley Maddox, Patsy
P. Smith. Edith Hall, Robert
Williams, Rudy Wyatt, Fred
die Dodson, Larry Morgan,
Ernest Battle, Pauline Jes
ter, Joe Lewis Jester,
Corrine Clark, Vera Douglas,
John George Stewart, Early
L. Watkins. Charlie Frank
Thurman, Larry Smith,
Sandra Brooks and Thomas
Wise.
The resolution adopted by
the Board of Education
provided for the appointment
of the committee to study the
system's needs, give the
committee authority to make
Blood mobile* Visit Monday
Brought Out 165 Donors
The blood of Butts Counti
ans flowed freely Monday
afternoon at the National
Guard Armory as 143 pints
were donated to the Red
Cross blood program, ex
ceeding the County’s goal of
135 pints established for the
Bloodmobile’s visit.
A total of 165 citizens
offered to donate a pint of
blood to keep the County’s
blood bank program in good
standing, with 22 being
rejected for medical or
health reasons.
With Mrs. Cheryl P. Long
and Billy Crum serving as
co-chairmen of the blood
recruitment drive, it was the
most impressive showing the
County has made in years in
meeting the requirements of
the Red Cross for a free blood
program for its citizens.
Among the list of volunteer
workers who handled the
administrative and recruit
ment details were the
following:
David Ridgeway, Sr., Doc
McMiehael, Laura Wright,
Catherine Allen, Carolyn
Morgan, Grace Fuqua, Fran
ces Horton, Mervyn Pope,
Imogene Leverette, Kathryn
Haisten, Clyde Hodges, Per
ry Freeman, Mary Carr, Jan
Thaxton, Linda Ballard,
Margaret Maddox, Jimmy
Akins, Thomas Tippens,
Julia Ann Ridgeway and
David Ridgeway, Jr.
The Red Cross Bloodmo
bile program is a vital part
of. and supported by, the
United Appeal.
Among the donors Monday
were:
Patsy Lynn McCaleb,
Lanier Burford, Harris A.
McCaleb. W. Herman Caw
thon, James W. Norsworthy,
Clementine V. Thomas, Ce
ressa McGruder, David P.
Ridgeway, Richard H. Brit
ton, Roy Staples, James H.
Wallace, Harold B. Wells,
James W. Barnes, Thomas
M. Glidewell, Janice Leigh
Thaxton, Ronald Tingle.
Valray J. Hauser, Martha
Ann Cochran, Melinda Jill
Cook
Pleasant Hill
Revival Begins
On June 23rd
Pleasant Hill United Me
thodist Church at the comer
of Hwy. 36 and High Falls
road will be holding a series
of revival meetings begin
ning June 23rd and extending
through June 26th at the
morning worship service.
Services will begin at 7:30
p.m. nightly with special
themes on Friday, the 24th
(Youth Night), and Satur
day, the2sth (Family Night).
The final service will be at
11 a.m. on June 26th.
Congregational singing will
be each night with The
Messenger Trio featured on
June 24th. Rev. Jim Jenson,
pastor of the Centenary-
United Methodist Church in
Macon, will be the evange
list. Drawing from a varied
work background and fifteen
years of ministry, he makes
you know God’s got good
news for you.
recommendations to the
State Comprehensive Survey
Committee and to carry out
the final recommendations
made to the State Commit
tee.
Joel Alan Kelso. D. Walter
Barnes, Fred Raney, Merrell
Price, Ronald K. Parker,
Richard Watkins, Gordon A.
Terrell, Stanley Maddox,
Christine G. Price, Sarah
Snow O’Neal, John Emerson
Heil. W. J. Horton. Dan N.
Hoard, Porter H. Cawthon,
Douglas R. Brooks, Carl M.
Gregg, Lucile J. Smith, Hugh
M. Glidewell. Jr., Phillip D.
DeMore, Mary Elizabeth
Duke.
Arthur L. Lawson, Judy E.
Thompson, Robert M. Jack
son, Janet F. Godwin, Terry
R Dodson, David L. Burford,
Frank A. Fountain, Henry F.
Bagby, Doris W. Singley,
William D. Fountain, Celeste
F. Lawrence, Bonnie C.
Cook, Linda B. Johnson,
Vivian E. Patterson, Lucille
Tyson, Danny H. Harrison,
Mary Ruth Roberts, Vickie
W. Johnston, Mary Lee
Cleveland.
Julia Ann Ridgeway, Bar
bara Gay, Jarvis J. Jones,
Mary T. Davis, Charlene B.
Wise, Mary Sue H. Fountain,
James Lee Cook, James A.
Trimble, Jerome Bridges,
Windford E. Head, J.
Richard Beauchamp. Charlie
Edward Adams, Norma D.
Evans, Sherry Lynn Barnes,
Ann Moore Kelly, J. Frank
Barnes, Joseph H. Brown,
Jr., Marvin W. Singley,
George N. Martin. Ruth Ford
Ash, Donald L. Cook.
Lewis H. Cawthon, J.
Russell Crumbley, Jr., Stan
ley A. Washington, Sr.,
Robert J. Head, Charles F
Sibley, Jr.. John Wesley
Potts, Marvin B. Mangham,
Wesley E. Cook, Leila P
Smith, David P. Ridgeway,
Jr . G. Diane Waites, Jimmy
L Akins. Thomas N. Tippins.
Jill T. Williamson, Mary M.
Carr, Patsy Y. Johnson.
Mary J. Moore, James L.
Biles.
Juanita J. Smith, Donald
L. Folsom, D. Richard
Ballard, R. Chester Evans,
Frances J. Bowen, John A.
Sherrell, Dorothy R Price,
Harold E. McMiehael, Ida
Ruth H Taylor, Rosemary
Butts County Week Features
New and Old Crowd Pleasers
With the goal of Communi
ty Spirit as its theme, the
County’s fourth celebration
of Butts County Week is
rapidly taking shape, accord
ing to Chairman Dick
O’Hara.
With enthusiasm running
high, and participation in
creasing daily, O’Hara is still
busy putting together the
final format for the week
long festival.
Among the events already
scheduled, with the complete
slate to be released next
week, a r e these:
July 3—Church Day
July 4—Recreation Day.
Among the events scheduled
to be held at the Avondale
Park recreation field are a
beauty contest and a sky
diving demonstration by the
Green County Sports Para
chute Center of Jenkinsburg.
A fireworks display will be
held after dark about 9:30
p.m. at the high school ball
field, followed by a dance
featuring the “Free Spirit”
at the Two-Bits Game Room
in the old Carter Building
Supply building. Admission
will be $2.00 each.
July 5 —A boating safety
demonstration will be held at
1 p.m. at the Avondale pond
on Hwy. 16 by the Georgia
Game and Fish Department.
A fishing derby, sponsored
by Hodges Hardware, will be
M. Leverette, James O.
Browning, Henry A. Kitch
ens. Robert N. Reese,
William E. Craig, Charlene
E Cochran, Rudy B Wyatt,
Ruby Solomon, Vera Louise
Douglas.
Carolyn W. Morgan. Fred
rick J. Head, Kenny L.
Smith. Stephen M. Williams,
Virginia M. Ridgeway, Carl
M. Finney, Joanne S.
Oxenford, Miriam D. Duffey,
Donnie L. Gay, Charles W.
Carter, Perry E Ridgeway,
Walter F. Mangham. Artis C.
Knowles, Patricia G. Jack
son, Riley Sanford Powell,
Ethryn F. Thaxton, Anthony
M. Grant, Joseph Tiller,
Donald W. Thaxton, Jackie
L. Burford.
Richard G. Brooks. Corene
Sims Clark, Lou Ellen Henry.
Ellaree Allen, John L. Hall,
John B. Barnes, Margaret
Hicks Maddox. Dr. Jack
Riley, Allison S. Brown,
Patricia R. Polk, Elaine
Watson. Andrea K. Maddox,
David P Hood. Mary W.
Reeves. Harvey B. WTiite
head. Effie Jewel Coleman,
Willard A. Patterson.
Sam A. Smith, Franklin
Davis, Jr., Mamie Ruth
Crawford, Irene S. Blan
chard, F. Mark Maddox,
Claudia S. Washington,
Blanche C. Waits, Rosena L.
O'Hearn. Shelia L. Tingle.
Loretta Richards, Asa M.
Thurman, Byrd Garland,
Geraldine P Wright.
MS. DORN A TICE
WINS ACADEMIC HONORS
Ms. Dorna Carmichael
Tice, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. M. W. Carmichael, of
Jackson, has graduated
Magna Cum Laude from the
Medical College of Augusta
with a degree as a
Physician’s Assistant.
In a letter to Ms. Tice,
Dean Raymond Bard wrote:
“This academic achieve
ment augurs happily for your
success in the professional
career you will enter. You
have brought honor upon
yourself, your family, and
our institution. We extend
warmest best wishes to you.”
held in the same location
from 2:00 until 6:00 p.m.
Troop 80, Boy Scouts of
America, will hold an open
house encampment in the
Avondale Scout camp area
from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., with
the Order of the Arrow
Indian dance team perform
ing at 8:00 p.m.
July 6—A side walk sale on
the square in Jackson,
beginning at 12:00 p.m.
sponsored by participating
merchants. A 4-H Bicycle
Rodeo, sponsored by the C&S
Bank of Jackson, will be held
at 1:00 p.m. in the C&S
parking lot. At 2:00 p.m. the
U. S. Marine Corps band
from Albany will appear in
concert.
July 7—Golden Oldies
Disco Party at the Recrea
tion Department Hall (Old
Pepperton Baptist Church),
with prizes and free refresh
ments. Admission is free to
all over 50, and SI.OO for those
under. Johnny Smolka will be
the disc jockey and will play
music popular from the '2o’s
to the ’4o's.
July B—Dance at the
National Guard Armory,
featuring "Cottonwood''
from 8 p.m. 'til 12:00 p.m.
Admission will be $3.00 each.
Music will be three hours of
rock and one hour of medlies
from the 'so’s and '6o’s.
July 9—Arts and craft
GD&CC Group Rufus Adams
Backs MDA Heads State
Fund Campaign ASC Group
The Georgia Diagnostic
and Classification Center
Jaycees today pledged their
support to the Muscular
Dystrophy Association's
(MDA) 1977 fund-raising
efforts. The action was taken
in conjunction with the
recent endorsement of MDA
by the United States Jaycees
and the Georgia Jaycees,
according to Ray Vann,
President of the GD&CC
Jaycees
“One of our major efforts
will be to mobilize communi
ty support and institutional
support for MDA,” Vann
said.
The Jaycees' fund-raising
efforts will culminate with
the Jerry Lewis Labor Day
Telethon. Representatives of
the L T . S. Jaycees will appear
in Las Vegas with Jerry
Lewis to report on the
organization’s nationwide
fund-raising totals, while
Jaycees from GD&CC and
other chapters will appear on
local segments of the
telethon, or their representa
tive. and help answer pledge
telephones.
MDA funds a network of
178 clinics throughout the
United States where victims
of muscular dystrophy and
related neuromuscular disor
ders receive diagnosis, treat
ment, therapy, counseling,
and orthopedic appliances—
all free of charge. The
Association also sponsors an
extensive summer and win
ter camping program and
funds a world wide research
effort seeking the causes for
muscle disorder.
McINTOSH TRAIL TO
MEET THURSDAY
The next regular meeting
of the Board of Directors of
the Mclntosh Trail Area
Planning and Development
Commission will be held
Thursday. June 23rd, at 2:30
p.m. in the offices of the
Commission, located in the
Childers Building in Griffin.
The public is always
invited, and welcomed to
these meetings.
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displays, fun and game
booths, refreshments, pa
rade and dance. Local groups
that will have booths include
the C.B. Club, N.A.A.C.P.,
Westbury Medical Care
Home, Brownie Troop No.
290, William Mclntosh Chap
ter, DA R. at their club
house. Butts County Jaycees,
Butts County Chapter of
A.A.R.P., Iron Springs Sun
shine Club, Jenkinsburg
Garden Club. Order of the
Eastern Star.
In the Arts and Crafts
section, displays will be
shown by Livia O’Hara—Ma
crame; James Miller—Cop
per; Doug Bennett—Lea
ther. Candy Carmichael—
Craft Works; Patrick Par
rish Hooten —Jute. Painting,
Jewelry; Mr. and Mrs Ralph
Weaver—Macrame and Cro
chet: Mary Lynn Palmer—
Macrame: Miss Eloise Dor
sey—Art: Hugh Patrick—
Woodwork . Scott Coleman-
Art: Gail Parnell—Art.
The parade Saturday will
begin at 11:05 am. At 12:00. a
barbecue chicken dinner will
be served by the Butts
County Jaycees. From 1:00
p.m. until 5:00p.m. there will
be entertainment by singers,
dancers and musicians The
week-long celebration will
end with a street dance from
8:30 to 12:00 p.m.. featuring
Dennis Dykes and The
Country Gentlemen.
A Jackson business and
civic leader. Rufus Adams,
has been appointed Chair
man of the Georgia Agricul
tural Stabilization and Con
servation (ASC) Committee.
The announcement was
made today by Sixth District
Congressman Jack Flynt
upon the advice of Secretary
of Agriculture Bob Bergland.
Adams. 62. farms in Butts
and Monroe Counties and
operates a number of farm
and garden supply stores.
Chairman of the Georgia
State ASC committee from
1961 to 1969. he also served as
assistant state executive
director of the Georgia State
Agricultural Stabilization
and Conservation Service
tASCS) office and as a
member of the National
Commodity Credit Corpora
tion Advisory Board.
The new chairman, a
graduate of Abraham Bald
win Agricultural College, is a
member of the Butts County
Farm Bureau, chairman of
the Butts County Board of
Education, chairman of the
Sylvan Grove Hospital Au
thority. a director of Mcln
tosh State Bank and chair
man of the finance commit
tee of Jackson United
Methodist Church.
JOE. THE HOBO. SEZ:
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You can tell that Jimmy
Carter is making a good
President by the howls and
complaints that are coming
from the liberals.