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Editorials
ft's Never Too Late
Although the week designated
for the Butts County Celebration is
more than half over, it is never too
late to join in the fun and frolicking
scheduled for the few remaining
days.
Saturday will be one of the
festival days of the entire week,
with a giant parade, singing and
entertainment all afternoon, com
munity and club booths and a street
dance to top it all off.
If that won’t bring you to town
and keep you here all day, then you
are either too young, too old, too
crabby or just out of touch.
Running through the week-long
celebration has been the theme of
Community Spirit. The theme
provides each of us an opportunity
to show an understanding for, and
an appreciation of, the communi
ties and neighborhoods in which we
live.
But even pride in our
community, as desirable as that
may be, should not overshadow our
pride, and our good fortune, to live
in the finest county in the state
The Curtain Rose
On Saturday night, for the first
time since the early 1960’5, Butts
Countians were treated to a
home-town walk-in movie, when
the new Hillcrest Theater held its
grand opening.
Drive-ins are fine for the kids,
especially those with romantic
attachments, but the oldsters like
the comfort of rocking chair seats
and plenty of leg room before they
indulge in the usual popcorn and
Fetching Fleeing Fathers
There is good news in the
recent report that the Georgia
Department of Human Resources
has recovered $3.1 million in back
child support in the past 10 months
from fathers who have fled their
parental responsibilities.
The 65-man child-support team
of the Department has been
successful in 67 per cent of its cases
in locating parents who have run
out on their child support
responsibilities.
Asa result of the work of this
team of human bloodhounds, 714
welfare families have been
removed from the rolls of the Aid to
Families with Dependent Children
program.
The AFDC program is a
paradox, when one considers that
basic morality was one of the
tenets on which this nation was
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That’s what the Celebration
Week is all about. It gives you an
opportunity to show that pride and
to join together with your friends,
old and new, in a week of Boosting
Butts County as the absolute
greatest.
When passing out laurels to
those responsible for such a
pleasant time, it is easy to omit the
names of many who played vital
roles in planning and staging this
week-long production. But one
name that won’t be omitted is that
of Dick O’Hara, who conceived the
idea of the first such festival three
years ago and is now chairman of
the committee staging the fourth.
This small group of dedicated
young people actually work
year-round planning events, secur
ing talent, lining up sponsors and
participants and they deserve, and
should receive, the gratitude of a
grateful community. Congratula
tions to all for another splendid
achievement this year.
soft drink.
For a town our size to boast of a
walk-in movie house is one thing,
but to have one as ornate and as
finely appointed as the Hillcrest
puts Jackson in a class by itself.
Many of those who were movie
buffs in the pre-television days
have probably gotten out of the
habit of attending the movies, but
with a fine movie house and a good
choice of shows, perhaps the habit
will be an easy one to form again.
founded.
The program, which has
Christian charity as its precept, is
a violation of the civil rights of
every moral American. To say to a
woman, go out and have all the
children you want, identify the
father if possible but identification
or not, the taxpayers will take care
of you and them is to encourage
immorality.
Any nation that subsidizes
bastardy and encourages illegiti
macy surely does not have far to go
before it finds itself wrecked on the
shoals of moral bankruptcy.
Finding the wayward fathers
and placing practical limits on
illegitimate children, like not more
than two after a pre-announced
cut-off date, might gut the AFDC
program but it would surely make
an awful lot of taxpayers happy in
the process.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS. JACKSON. GEORGIA
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
Perhaps no other Ameri
can institution is as familiar
with the quirks and foibles of
the general public as is the
insurance company. All
kinds of crazy things happen
to us, and our friends, and
most of them wind up in the
lap of an insurance adjustor.
Aetna Life and Casualty
processed over 20 million
claims last year. A few of
them offered additional proof
that truth is indeed stranger
than fiction.
Murphy’s first law: that is,
if anything can possibly go
wrong, it probably will, was
also substantiated by many
of the claims. Some of the
most odd we felt should be
shared with you, such as:
The modern-day Minute
man whose Bicentennial zeal
went a bit too far. While
re-enacting the Battle of
Bunker Hill, he got carried
away and, with his bayonet,
rammed a Redocat in the
behind.
A San Francisco driver
was in tears when he
reported that his brand new
luxury car—equipped with
very expensive water bum
pers front and rear —had
been hit broadside in a
parking lot.
In New York a woman
motorist slowed her car to
avoid hitting a pack of stray
dogs. The mutts returned her
kindness by jumping all over
the car and scratching up its
paint job.
A New Jersey man, after
lunch in his car, removed his
dentures. A heavy sneeze
seized him, the dentures flew
out the window and, as the
wayward choppers bit the
dust, a passing vehicle
squashed them.
In Chattanooga a gas
station owner thought a
motorist was taking his
advertised “Free car wash
with fill-up” too literally.
After topping off his tank
with an 87-cent gas purchase,
the man drove into the
station’s automated car
wash, only to be confronted
for payment when he
emerged.
The motorist refused, one
word led to another, and the
station owner lowered the
overhead doors of the car
wash, announcing he intend
ed to keep the driver locked
up “until I get what’s coming
to me.” He didn’t have long
to wait.
The irate customer quickly
accommodated him by hop
ping into his car, revving up
the motor, and crashing
through the closed glass
doors to freedom.
A young Milwaukee citizen
sporting a face full of hair
had his pride singed while
consuming a local tavern’s
house specialty. Drinking a
concoction called a “Fla
ming 151,” the flame licked
his face and ignited his
beard.
A quick-witted bartender
swiftly brought the flames
under control with a heavy
squirt from his selzer gun.
Which just goes to show that
people with beards shouldn’t
drink fire-water.
And then there was the
rancher whose cattle acted
like pigs. Tired of their bland
and never-changing diet,
they wandered off the open
range in search of fancier
fare. They found a neighbor’s
vegetable patch to their
liking, and promptly tram
pled down her fence to get to
it.
The neighbor, less than
sympathetic with the bovine
intruders’ goals, lassoed a
cow and threatened to hold it
for ransom until she was
reimbursed for damages. A
suggestion that the American
Society for Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals might
take exception with her
action led to the animal’s
release.
Editor’s Quote Book
You become well-to-do
by doing what you do well.
Frank Tyger
THURSDAY. JULY 7. 1977
A Stroll Down
Memory Lane
NEWS OF 10 YEARS AGO
Rev. Edward E. Galloway,
coming from Griffin, is the
new pastor of the Jenkins
burg Charge.
Benjamin M. Garland has
been named to the Dean’s
List of Distinguished Stu
dents at the Walter F. George
School of Law at Mercer
University.
The Bethany, Sharon,
Sardis, Phillippi, County
Line and Locust Grove
Baptist Churches are holding
a joint tent meeting Sunday
at the Phillippi Church.
Dr. Francis M. Holston
was cited as the “Celebrity of
the Month” in “The Bellring
er,” monthly publication of
the Westbury Home, Inc., of
Jenkinsburg.
Georgia Power Company
has announced plans to
construct thp first nuclear
fueled electric plant on the
Southern System.
Dr. R. J. Cartwright has
been honored by the Interna
tional Pain Control Institute
for having submitted the
“Case of the Month” report
in chiropractic research.
Deaths during the week:
Louis Kardane, 67; Mrs.
Leola M. Copeland.
NEWS OF 20 YEARS AGO
Announcement was made
of the purchase by Max Polk
of Bankston Jewelry and
Pace Flower Shop from Mr.
and Mrs. Gordon Bankston.
Phillip Bryant and Wayne
Phillips will represent Troop
80, Boy Scouts of America, at
the Fourth National Jambo
ree at Valley Forge, Pa.,
having won scholarships
offered by the Van Deventer
Foundation.
Lanelle Edwards and Ben
nie Thurston will represent
Jackson at the Junior Red
Cross Leadership Training
Center at Camp Green Cove,
Tuxedo, N. C.
Wendell Edwards and
Joyce Morgan will represent
Butts County at the statewide
conference of Junior Fire
Marshalls at the FFA Camp
on Jackson Lake.
Mrs. E. D. Briscoe and
Mrs. T. B. Miller were
awarded life memberships in
the W.S.C.S. at impressive
ceremonies Sunday morning
at the First Methodist
Church.
The Butts County Indus
trial Development Board has
been reorganized and the
new officers are P. H.
Weaver, president; Dr. R. H.
Pinckney, vice-president; W.
A. Holston, secretary, and L.
C. Webb, treasurer.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. S. J. Foster, 83; Mrs. M.
E. Perdue, 84; Charles N.
Johnson, 85.
NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO
Sale by Mrs. Lee Carmi
chael of the Carmichael
House to V. H. Ham was
announced last week. Mau
rice Carmichael bought the
filling station and garage
apartment in rear of the
Carmichael House.
J. W. Carter was named
first president of the recent
ly-organized Exchange Club.
J. Duvall Patrick was named
secretary and L. C. Webb,
treasurer.
Gerald McQuaig has been
named superintendent of
Indian Springs State Park
and will succeed V. W. Cole
in that post.
William Pressley brought
the first cotton bloom of the
season by the newspaper
office on July Ist. It was
grown on the B. H. Hodges’
farm. Last year, Mr. Hodges
reported the first bloom on
June 25th.
M E. Grinstead, of Macon,
has purchased the Texaco
Service Station from Hodges
and Hodges.
Six beavers have been
released at Indian Springs
State Park by the Georgia
State Wildlife Department
and the Federal Wildlife
Service.
NEWS OF 40 YEARS AGO
Jackson’s new post office
and federal building was
dedicated Saturday after
noon with impressive cere
monies. Congressman E. M.
Owen was the main speaker.
Freeman Land, former
president of the Fourth
District Letter Carriers
Association, told Kiwanians
of plans to make a national
shrine of the home of Thomas
E. Watson, founder of the
R.F.D. system.
Early records show that
the compensation of John
McCord, the second postmas
ter at the Jackson office, was
$143.50 per year in 1837.
R. W. Carr, Sr. landed a
180-pound Warsaw grouper
on a recent fishing trip to
Daytona Beach.
The appointment of Miss
Elizabeth Towles as Welfare
Director for Butts County has
been approved by state
authorities in Atlanta.
Mrs. Douglas Stroud ho
nored her son, Douglas
Stroud, Jr., on his sixth
birthday with a party
attended by about 25 of his
young friends.
Deaths during the week:
Mr. J. T. Merritt, 60.
NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO
The Jackson Rifles, crack
unit of the Georgia National
Guard, three officers and 77
enlisted men strong, entrain
Sunday for St. Simons Island
and two weeks in camp.
County Agent H. G. Wiley
announces that the following
girls, members of Butts
County agricultural clubs,
will spend a week at Camp
Wilkins; Doris Maddox,
Mary Will Jinks, Adelaide
Land, Helen Stodghill and
Sara Mote.
At impressive services
Sunday, the Rev. A. Julian
Warner was ordained and
installed as pastor of the
Jackson and Fellowship
Presbyterian Churches.
The Sixth District Medical
Society concluded a success
ful convention at Indian
Springs on Wednesday.
Among those giving papers
were Dr. A. F. White, of
Flovilla; Dr. G. H. Alexan
der, Forsyth; Dr. O. B.
Thompson and Dr. C. C.
Harold, of Macon.
County banks reporting
their condition at June 30th,
1927 included The Jackson
Banking Cos., resources of
$333,000; The Bank of
Flovilla, $111,000; The Farm
ers Bank of Jenkinsburg,
$36,000; The Jackson Nation
al Bank, $5&8,000.
Members of the Butts
County road force were
treated to a barbecue at the
County Farm on Saturday,
courtesy of the Butts County
Board of Commissioners.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. H. W. Nalley, 47; J. T.
Cochran, 67.
INHERITED
“James, spell ‘cloth’, ”
said the teacher.
James was silent.
“Come, come,” said the
teacher, “you know the word.
What is your coat made of?”
"Father’s old trousers, ”
replied the boy.
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A requested reply to the
article Delinquent Taxes due
Butts County published in the
Jackson Progress-Argus,
June 23, 1977.
“For God sake, let us
freely hear both sides!” says
Jefferson.
“The power to tax carries
with it the power to
embarrass and destroy.” -
Supreme Court of the United
States - Evans vs. Gore, 1920.
“All authority belongs to
the people,” but “There is no
pillow so soft as a clear
conscience.”
“The art of taxation
consists in so plucking the
goose as to obtain the largest
amount of feathers with the
least amount of hissing.” -
Attributed to J. B. Colbert.
There are some definitions
I would like to give:
An ass is spoken of as a
beast of burden—an animal
employed in carrying bur
dens. A black sheep is one in
a family or company whose
worthlessness or infamous
conduct causes him to stand
out from the rest as a cause
of shame and disgrace to
them.
Come, Ricky, go with me to
the barn. I want to show you
the difference between an ass
and a black sheep.
What is that over there?
Oh, they are just some tax
assessors who can take 15
acres off 200 acres and get
213 and make a taxpayer pay
high taxes on it for years. Oh
S ‘Whatsoever
Things'
By Donald E. Wildmon
THE DIFFICULTIES OF THEOLOGY
Sometimes this thing of following the Carpenter of
Galilee can get to be a very difficult thing. One of the most
complex difficulties comes in the understanding of theology.
For the average fellow can sometimes get to be a very
confusing and difficult subject to understand.
I guess that is one reason there are so many varieties
within the vast family of that Fisher of men. Even after
seven years of higher education dealing specifically with the
subject, I often find myself over my head in the subject.
One of the tragedies of the difficulty is the unkind
remarks some who are supposedly followers of that Man
have toward others who are trying equally as hard to follow.
There has been a lot of heartache and heartbreak over this
thing of theology, so difficult it becomes sometimes. Friend
has berated, brother has belittled brother, even child has
criticized parent in this area.
Personally, I don’t believe any one person or any one
group has claim on all the truth. And on the other hand I
believe that all those who sincerely are trying to follow this
grand Galilean have some truth. The mind of the human is
too small and too limited to comprehend all the Truth of the
Creator.
Like I said, sometimes I get over my head and have to go
back to some basic fundamentals of which I am certain. And
each time I step out into deep water theologically I return
thankful that the basic necessities are so simple even a little
child can understand.
Some theology is like Greek to me, and I don’t read
Greek. I guess I’m kinda like the Southern farm boy back just
prior to World War 11. Having been around the country a little
I know what other sections think of when I say Southern farm
boy. And the story fits the pattern, although we Southerners
aren’t quite as illiterate as some of our better versed
Northern and Western friends might think. This farm boy got
a questionnaire to fill out and return to the Draft Board. The
questionnaire went somewhat into detail and had what was to
the farm boy some confusing language in it.
After studying it for some time and coming to the
conclusion that he would not be able to fill it out completely
and correctly, the farm boy took his pencil in hand and wrote
across the top of the form the best answer he could think of.
“Dear Uncle Sam,” he wrote. “I’m not quite sure what you
mean with all these here questions. But I want you to know
that I’m ready when you are.” And he signed his name.
Theology does get quite difficult sometimes. But I don’t
think the Heavenly Father is concerned that we stay crystal
clear in all our theological understanding. I believe what He
wants the most is to know that we are ready when He is.
And while that doesn’t make theology simple, maybe it is
a little clearer.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
It is not the critic who
counts; not the man who
points out how the strong
man stumbled, or where the
doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit
belongs to the man who is
actually in the arena;—who
at the best knows in the end
the triumph of high achieve
ment; and who at the worst,
if he fails, at least fails while
daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with the
cold and timid souls who
know neither victory or
defeat.—Theodore Roose
velt.
yes, it has been done here in
Butts County. I know about
it. That is what we class as
black sheep.
You see so many over in
that big field? They are the
asses (burden bearers).
They carry the tax burden of
Butts County. They pay their
own taxes and sometimes
other peoples’ taxes.
For 35 years I have paid
taxes on 200 acres that the
Supreme Court told me in
1970 was not mine so I quit
paying on it.
You have me listed as a tax
delinquent on this. Your act
destroys my credit. I do not
intend to pay this. This shows
you up as not knowing
circumstance in business.
When I asked a commis
sioner if a certain bridge
would permit of hauling
pulpwood, he told me that it
would not. He said, “Find out
who owns property west of
you and get permission to go
through their property.” The
people west of me do not go
through their own property
because it is too rough. They
come my way and stop at the
bridge where they cut my
trees to put in anew
foundation for bridge.
The iron bridge has been
out for years yet the property
on this road rises each year
in value for tax purposes.
My conclusion is: “There
is . something rotten in
Denmark.”
-s- Lilia E. Watkins
SPEAKING ABOUT TIME
There’s a time to part and
a time to meet,
There’s a time to sleep and
a time to eat.
There’s a time to work and
a time to play,
There’s a time to sing and
a time to pray,
There’s a time that's glad
and a time that’s blue,
There’s a time to plan and
a time to do,
There’s a time to grin and
show your grit,
But there never was
a time to quit.