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Beginner-Advanced Tennis,
Golf Lessons To Be Offered
The Jackson-Butts County
Recreation Department will
be offering beginning-ad
vanced tennis lessons and
golf lessons, beginning Tues
day. July 12. Morning tennis
lessons will be designed for
individuals, ages 9 to 16. Golf
lessons will be designed for
individuals, ages 9 to 16.
There will be an evening
tennis class designed for
adults beginning July 12 at 7
p.m.
Both golf and tennis
lessons will be held at the
Avondale Mills Recreation
Park. Fees will be $lO for
youth tennis (one child per
family); sls if there are two
children from the same
family desiring lessons.
Adult tennis fees will be $lO
for an adult and sls for a
husband-wife combination.
Youth golf fees will be $lO
for one child, sls for two
children from the same
family.
Registration and payment
of fees can be made at the
site of lessons. Charlie
Bryant. Physical Education
teacher for Butts County
Schools, will be providing
golf and tennis lessons.
Additional information can
be obtained from the Recrea
tion Department at 775-2404
or Charlie Bryant, 775-2367.
Description of lessons to be
taught:
Beginning Youth Tennis:
Course designed as an
introduction to tennis. Areas
to be covered will be:
history, stance, grip, funda
mentals of ground strokes,
footwork and serving, indivi
dual play, scoring, and
etiquette. Individuals should
bring one tennis racket, one
can of tennis balls and fees
for registration Tuesday,
July 12, at 9 a.m. Lessons will
be held July 12, 13, 14, 19, 20,
21 from 9 a.m. to 9:55 a.m.
Advanced Youth Tennis:
Course designed to improve
tennis skills of an individual
who has already had begin
ning tennis instructions.
Instruction will include im
provement of skills in
forehand, backhand, serving,
volleying and half volleying,
and strategies of singles and
doubles. Individuals should
bring one tennis racket, one
can of tennis balls, and fees
for registration July 12, at 10
a.m. Lessons will be held
July 12. 13, 14, 19, 20. 21 from
10 a.m. to 10:55 a.m.
Beginning Adult Tennis:
Course designed for adults.
Course description is basical
ly same as for youth tennis.
Fees may be paid at
registration. Lessons will be
held July 12, 18. and 19 from
7:00 to 8:30 p.m.
Beginning Golf: Course
designed to provide instruc
tion of basic golf skills and
actual play. Instruction will
include: history, equipment,
techniques and fundamentals
of grip, stance, swing, use of
woods, short irons, medium
irons, long irons and putting,
rules of play and actual play.
Individuals should bring a 5,
7 and 9 iron. Lessons will be
held July 12, 13, 14. 19, 20, 21
from 3:00 to 3:55 p.m. Fees
may be paid at registration.
JULY 6 DATE OF
TITLE XX HEARING
A statewide public hearing
on Title XX services will be
aired on TV’s Channel 8 at
8:00 p.m. on July 6th.
Governor Busbee and other
state officials will appear on
the one hour show.
The listening audience is
invited to call in during the
show with questions about
Title XX services in their
communities.
Title XX of the Social
Security Act deals with such
programs as day care for
children, day training pro
grams for mentally retarded
citizens, nutrition programs
for the elderly and protective
services for abused and
neglected children and
adults.
Today there are said to be
between three and four
million vegetarians in the
United States.
Ga. Wheelchair
Jamboree Be
Held in July
The Georgia Wheelchair
Sports and Recreation Asso
ciation will hold its second
annual Wheelchair Sports
Jamboree on the south
campus at DeKalb College in
Decatur. Georgia, July 22-24.
The first statewide jam
boree was held at Will-A-Way
recreational area at Fort
Yargo State Park in Winder,
Georgia. The jamboree is
co-sponsored by the Depart
ment of Natural Resources.
The two-day activity is a
highlight to the mini
jamborees held earlier in the
summer throughout the
state. Planned events will
involve participants of vari
ous physical abilities in
games such as archery, table
tennis, swimming, basket
ball, track and field, square
dancing, slalom, etc. The
games themselves are de
signed to introduce a wide
range of sports to persons
who have a permanent
mobility limitation.
The purpose of the GWSRA
is to provide information on
national wheelchair athletics
and paralympics and to
promote a recreational pro
gram for Georgia consumers
that will qualify them for
competition in national and
international games. Com
petitors in these games are
persons who do not neces
sarily need the use of a
wheelchair on a daily basis,
but still cannot compete
actively.
Any individual who is 12
years of age or older and has
a permanent physical dis
ability, and would be denied
participation in sports were
it not for the wheelchair
adaptation is eligible to
register. The registration fee
is SIO.OO. Housing and meals
will be provided.
To pre-register contact:
Roz Dickson (404 ) 656-2790,
Office of Planning and
Research, Recreation Plan
ning Section (DNR), 270
Washington Street, S. W'.,
Atlanta, Georgia 30334.
Westbury
Volunteers
Mrs. Christine B. James
Regular activities involv
ing volunteers were conduct
ed during May and June.
On June 24, Mrs. Norma
Jacobs invited Westbury
residents to her home on
Jackson Lake. Twenty-three
residents along with staff
members enjoyed fishing
and a cookout. As in the past
few years this was an
occasion enjoyed by all.
June volunteers were: Mr.
Cline Bradley, Mesdames
Cline Bradley, F. H. Morgan,
G. L. Morgan, Saundra
Threatt, Sharon Thurman,
Carolyn Grant, Sarah Mc-
Clure, Norma Jacobs, Fan
nie Norris, Ila Willard,
Louise King, Bonnie Caston,
Myrtice Strawn. Claudia
King, Maggie Smith, Mattie
Lou Grant, Zella Mae Taylor,
Mildred Smith, Christine,
Moore-Jones Appliance
Repair Service
ALL WORK GUARANTEED
FAST DEPENDABLE SERVICE
We Also Service Well Pumps
PH. 775-5636
WORK DONE ON CASH BASIS
“We want to be number one,
Give us a try, and you will see why.”
THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA
H. M. Fletcher
Rites Were
Held Friday
Funeral services for H. M.
Fletcher. 77. of Jackson,
were held Friday afternoon
at three o'clock from the
chapel of Haisten Funeral
Home with the Rev. Phil
DeMore officiating. Inter
ment was in the Jackson City
Cemetery under the direction
of Haisten Funeral Home.
Death came to Mr.
Fletcher on Wednesday af
ternoon. June 29th, at the
Westburv Nursing Home
where he had been a patient
for a brief time. On May 28th
he suffered a major stroke
and was confined to an
Atlanta hospital for several
weeks before being admitted
to the Jenkinsburg rest
home.
A lifelong resident of Butts
County, he was the son of the
late John Thomas Fletcher
and the late Maggie Spencer
Fletcher. A 1922 graduate of
Georgia Tech, he spent most
of his adult life as an
employee of the Pepperton
Cotton Mills, of Jackson,
where he retired as superin
tendent a number of years
ago.
Keenly interested in athlet
ics at both Jackson High and
his college alma mater, he
was a star athlete in his own
right, for years starring as
an infielder with the Pepper
ton baseball team during the
1920's and - 30's.
Mr. Fletcher was a
member of the Jackson
United Methodist Church,
serving on its Board of
Stewards for over 40 years,
and was a former member of
the Jackson Kiwanis Club
and the Griffin Lodge 1207. of
the Elks.
Survivors include his wife,
Mrs. Julia Bolton Fletcher,
of Jackson; daughter, Mrs.
George Cannon, Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma; son, Her
bert Maddox Fletcher, Char
lotte. N. C.; two sisters, Mrs.
Thomas J. Echols, of
Jackson, and Mrs. John H.
Haddock, of Macon; seven
grandchildren.
Serving as pallbearers
were David Ridgeway, Dr.
Richard Kicklighter, George
Lindsley, Hugh Glidewell,
Sr.. Eugene Parrish, Danny
Hoard. Denny O'Neal and
Mac Davis.
Honorary pallbearers were
M. VV. Carmichael, Harry
Redman. Fred Hammond,
John Yawn, and members of
the Official Board of the
Jackson United Methodist
Church.
Gloria King and the Acteens.
We will be on the square
July 9th selling ceramics and
craft items and homemade
ice cream. Please stop by
and shop with us. All
proceeds will go into * the
activities fund to be used for
special activities.
HOME IMPROVEMENT
SURVEY BE MADE
Householders in the County
may be interviewed during
the July l-15th period on their
spending plans for the
improvement and upkeep of
residential properties.
Mrs. Sherri Smith is the
Census Bureau interviewer
who will conduct the survey
locally.
Unemployment
Drops Again
In County
The unemployment rate in
Butts County continued to
drop during May—to 7.8
percent from eight percent in
April—according to the Geor
gia Department of Labor.
The labor force in Butts
County increased slightly
during May, from 5,082 to
5.093. In addition, the number
of those employed in the
county rose from 4,674 to
4,695.
Among the counties in the
Mclntosh Trail Area, Pike
County had the highest
unemployment rate during
May—B.l percent. Upson
County had the lowest rate
with only 4.4 percent unem
ployment.
Unemployment rates for
other counties in the Trail
Area were Fayette, 6.0;
Henry, 7.1; Lamar, 5.0;
Newton, 5.0; Spalding, 6.1.
The Trail Area as a whole
had an unemployment rate of
5.9 percent during May with
73.192 persons employed out
of a labor force of 77,802. The
number of unemployed in the
Trail Area was 4,610.
A whistling swan has 25,216
feathers, say experts in the
field.
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THURSDAY. JULY 7. 1977
PACAA Has
Program To
Enrich Young
The Piedmont Area Com
munity Action Agency has
begun its popular Summer
Cultural Enrichment Pro
gram for 30 youngsters. This
unique program, which is
designed to reduce the school
drop-out rate, provides com
prehensive and diversified
planned activities, such as
the study of reading tech
niques and mathematics
during the morning hours,
with shop classes and
counselling in the afternoons.
The students live for six
weeks at the Henderson
Junior High Gymnasium.
The program is unique in
several ways, said Executive
Director Edluie Walker, “our
program requires six weeks
residency, our very compe
tent staff has developed a
very strong rapport with the
students, and the staff instills
confidence within the stu
dents.”
Walker further stated that
even though the students are
expected to get involved in
some serious study, ample
cultural and recreational
activities are planned; such
as: attendance at profession
al sports, professional recre
ational centers, plays, opera
and church services.
The students were selected
BIG EATERS —The watermelon eating contest is always a popular part of the
competition during Butts County Week and these youthful eaters were caught as they were
going enthusiastically about the task of winning by the camera of Carole Lawrence.
based on academic perfor
mance, emotional adjust
ment and what appeared to
be untapped capabilities.
Last year, the successful
program, after pre and post
testing, realized a gain of
nine months in reading and
one year in mathematics.
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Henry VIII of England is said to have had a total
of 2,600 tapestries hanging in his various palaces.