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laxkscn Trcgrßss-^rgus J. D. Jones Publisher 11908 1955) Doyle Jones Jr. Editor and Publisher H 955-1975) MRS. MARTHA G. JONES PUBLISHER VINCENT JONES EDITOR OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUNTY AND CITY OF JACKSON Published every Thursday at 129 South Mulberry Street, Jackson, Georgia 30233 by The Progress-Argus Printing Cos., Inc. Second Class Postage paid at Jackson, Georgia 30233. Address notice of undeliverable copies and other correspondence to The Jackson Progress-Argus, P.O. Box 249, Jackson, Georgia 30233. One Year, in Georgia $6.24 Six Months, in Georgia $3.91 kditorials Educations Basic Goals Ask a number of chance acquaintances what the proper goals of education are and the odds are very good that you would receive a variety of responses, varying from the ridiculous to the sublime. Reading, writing and arithme tic would be the stock answer and certainly these are the basic tools that today’s students must master if they expect to achieve very greatly in life. But education, and the influ ence of teacher on pupil, certainly goes much further than the mechanical instruction which is only a small part of the student’s preparation for life. The philosopher Plato once said that “the direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.” George Gissing pointed out the difficulty of the teacher’s assign ment with these words, “education is a thing of which only the few are capable; teach as you will only a small percentage will profit by your most zealous energy.” Henry Brooks Adams was more optimistic about the teaching profession when he wrote “a teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.” This year, perhaps as never before in its history, Butts Countians are taking a hard look at their public school system to determine what physical facilities the system desperately needs and to determine, in a larger context, what legitimate goals a public school education should encom pass. Certain guidelines have been established for the citizen’s committee now engaged in this effort. While not all-encompassing, at least they provide basic guidelines by which a system’s effectiveness can be measured. They were recommended last year by a goal-setting committee Protecting the Elderly In his advocacy -of more stringent punishment for those criminals who prey on our senior citizens, Lieutenant Governor Zell Miller has struck a chord that will ping at most of our heart strings. For too long gangs of punks and thugs have been ripping-off our elderly, and often defenseless citizens, intimidating them and keeping them virtual prisoners of fear in their own homes. Check stealing, muggings, assault and battery, shake downs, you name it and our elders have experienced it at the hands of a few young vandals. NATIONAL NEWSPAPER ASSOCIATION fHll HU FrttPrtsign NNASUSTAINiNG gi MEMBER-1977 Advance Subscription Rates, Tax Included: TELEPHONE 775-3107 One Year, Out-of-State $7.28 Six Months, Out-of-State $4.16 chaired by Larry Morgan and they have since been adopted by the local Board of Education. The study committee and the Board feel that a student completing his studies in the Butts County School System should: 1. Communicate with under standing through reading, writing, and speaking. 2. Understand and use basic mathematical operations. 3. Understand the purpose, structure and operations of various levels of government. 4. Respect, understand and cooperate with people with whom he works and lives. 5. Have the basic foundation necessary to pursue his chosen vocational occupation. 6. Have a sound basic education to enable him to enter college if he so desires. 7. Have an appreciation of the performing arts and visual arts. 8. Understand and participate in healthful living habits. 9. Have a desire and the knowledge to research, examine and use information. 10. Use his leisure time wisely. 11. Be able to manage his income to live within his means. The report concludes with the statement that “basic to these goals is that the means for reaching them should be provid ed.” We will be hearing a lot about our public schools before the long, hot summer fades into fall. Many interested citizens will spend many hours seeking answers to the pressing problems and needs they are facing today and growing with each tomorrow. Contributions to the solutions— the problems are known—will be welcomed by the Board and the citizen’s committee engaged in the study. It is a contribution to the well being of the community and its future progress that every thought ful citizen should be proud to make. The Lieutenant Governor advo cates legislation that would call for mandatory prison sentences for those who commit crimes against the elderly. No plea bargaining, no suspended sentences, no wrist slaps—but straight prison sen tences. That is tough talk but it is needed and long overdue. And while the Lieutenant Governor is rightfully concerned about our senior citizens, as we all are, how about tightening the screws on the criminals who choose as their victims the majority of us who have not yet reached that venerable age. THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA The Last Straw BY VINCENT JONES In spite of color radar and the elaborate electronic paraphernalia that the TV weather forecasters use to support their miscalcula tions, most of us would not recognize a high pressure cell if one went kerplunk on our front door. And yet we are familiar enough with the term to know that one of its ilk has been the villain this summer in producing some of the most persistently hot, dry and stagnant air masses that the State has seen in the last 23 years. One would probably have to go back to 1954 to find a summer so cloudless, with such intense heat and high humidity. Back then, the City of Jackson was getting its water supply from a small branch, which was boasting ly referred to as a creek by the Chamber of Commerce, and when the drought and heat struck, the water supply was reduced to a trickle. The heat began then, as it did this year, in late May and early June, searinglyhot days with no clouds to shield the earth or its inhabitants from a merciless sun. The mercury climbed steadily, to the 90’s, to the mid-90’s, to 100 and over. And it got stuck there. The water supply became critical. Cars were not washed at all and humans very gingerly. Dish and bath water was saved and applied to flowers and shrubs that were literally panting for life. Gardens burned to a crisp and farm crops for the most part, were a total loss. The culprit then, as now, was a high pressure system that backed in from Bermu da and hovered for weeks off the Atlantic coast, blocking the flow of moisture-laden winds from the Gulf. A group of South Georgia farmers are going to attempt to seed clouds if they can find any, with a chemical that hopefully will cause them to drop their moisture. Which brings up a larger question, can man control the weather by devising a method of moving stagnant air masses, either hot or cold, when they threaten his crops, his livelihood and his well being? The bitterly-cold weather of last winter was caused, so we are told, by the high-speed and high-altitude jet stream which dipped down lower into the South east than normal and brought paralyzing cold weather with it. Can man dare tinker with the jet stream? He has dared send men to the moon, explored other planets with electronic devices, and yet he permits the jet stream, or a high pressure system, to either freeze his hide or burn his crops to a cinder. We have dared to explore the universe and yet we have not made serious attempts to control the weather five miles above our own earth. It would seem that a nation which can successfully do the one could be reasonably expected to accomplish the other. Perhaps the weather should remain as Mark Twain wrote about it, something that we all talk about but about which none of us do nothing. Otherwise, just envision the confusion that might exist when the weathermak er turned his dial, and John got too much rain on his squash, Mary too little on her roses and Tom thought growing conditions were ideal and wanted neither more nor less rain on his corn. Sometimes man, in his desire for progress, creates conditions that only point out the folly of the change and the better life he knew before the new ways were disco vered. THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1977 A Stroll Down Memory Lane NEWS OF 10 YEARS AGO Haisten Funeral Home will have an open house later this month at its new home at 321 S. Harkness Street. District II of the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs welcomed 102 guests from 28 clubs at Sunday’s business meeting held in the Jackson Presbyterian Church. Misses Kay Pinckney, Peggy Goff and Cathye Blue assisted with the first Ben Massell Camp for Muscular Dystrophy held last week at Indian Springs State Park. Kiwanians will turn radio broadcasters on their Radio Day on Station WJGA July 18th. Army Captain Frank C. Hearn has reported for duty to the Military Assistance Command in Vietnam. The Finley-Gray Post No. 102, The American Legion, will serve supper to a number of patients at the Veterans Hospital in Dublin as they return from watching an Atlanta Braves baseball game. Deaths during the week: Gene Milton Drake, 51; James Butler Wells, 60. NEWS OF 20 YEARS AGO Scott Coleman has won an honorable mention award and $25 in the Fisher Body Craftsman’s Guild competi tion for teen-age model car designers and builders. The Jackson Baptist, Me thodist and Presbyterian Vacation Bible Schools will be kicked off Friday with a joint parade. Among the Butts County 4-H'ers appearing on WAGA TV were Mary Dell Ridge way, Joyce Morgan, Shirley Hooten, Linda Morgan, Su sannah Ridgeway, Judy Evans and Roxie Mangham. Butts County Ordinary Richard W. Watkins, Jr. announces that a driver training school has been opened for traffic violators and those who wish to voluntarily improve their driving. Dorothy Ann Smith, a junior at Jackson High School, was a delegate to Girls State at Wesleyan College the last week in June. Sandra Thomason is spend ing the week at the Wildlife Camp in Lowndes County, having won the trip by virtue of her 4-H project in Entomology. Deaths during the week: Grover C. Moore, 72. NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO Eight Future Farmers of America extracted a promise from Governor M. E. Thompson to pave nine miles of road to the Jackson FFA Camp, a request the Govern or said he would have “turned down if it came from your fathers.’’Herman Caw thon and Charles Stewart represented Butts County in the delegation. The Central Georgia EMC has obtained permission to construct a permanent head quarters at the corner of a lot on North Mulberry St. Building costs are estimated to be $70,000.00. Hail, described as the size of quail eggs, devastated crops Tuesday morning from Tussahaw Creek to Fincher ville. Reunion of the Jackson Rifles as constituted in 1916 when called to the Mexican border will be held at Carr’s Camp on Jackson Lake this Saturday with a fish fry being the center of attrac tion. Among the Butts County girls competing in District 4-H competition in Carrollton are Martha Fay Barnes, Hazel Turner, Joyce Cole man, Betty Ann Weaver, Barbara Jones, Betty Thax ton, Betty Hammond, Barba ra Greer, Joan Stewart and Polly Colwell. The net tax digest for Butts County in 1947 showed a $13,052 gain over 1946. The 1947 net digest is $1,358,555. Deaths during the week: James Riley Hooten, 59; Jesse McMichael, 67; George W. Brooks, 70; Mrs. George W. Brooks, 65. NEWS OF 40 YEARS AGO After lengthy service at the Jackson post office, J. G. McDonald has resigned as assistant postmaster. Duval Patrick has been hired as clerk; Victor H. Carmichael is postmaster and Mrs. J. G. McDonald, assistant. The S. H. Eiseman resi dence on West Avenue was destroyed by fire early Friday morning. Although residing in Jackson, Mr. Eiseman is now engaged in business in Metter. A mammoth still with 500-gallon-daily capacity was destroved Mondav bv County Policemen Gifford and Wil liamson and Officer C. H. Smith. Hartley Toots and His Honey Boys, fresh from an engagement at New York’s Cotton Club, will play for Spec Brooks’ next dance at Indian Springs. E D. Patrick has let a contract for a brick bunga low on the Griffin Road to be constructed by H. F. and G. F. Gilmore. Wilfred Thornton, recent graduate-of Duke University, has accepted a position as teller with the Jackson National Bank. NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO A play will be staged at the Jackson school auditorium to raise funds to send boys and girls to Camp Wilkins. Among the cast are Frances McKibben, Harold White, Fred White, L.P. McKibben, Jr., Frances Pettigrew, Mrs. G. H. Thompson, Mary Evans, Ethel Carter, Mrs. Fretwell, Jane Etheredge, Mrs. Adams, Lucile Pace and Susannah Foster. Miss Laßue Barnes has won second prize in the adv. writing contest conducted by the Atlanta Constitution and a cash prize of $200.00. A giant pimiento pepper, measuring 12V 2 inches in cir cumference, was brought to the newspaper office this week by John Cook from the J. C. McClendon farm. Eleven carload shipments of peaches were made from Butts County this year, seven from Jackson, and two each from Flovilla and Jenkins burg. Shipments were smal ler than last year and the Elberta crop was the earliest seen here in many years. Miss Clara Nolen, secreta ry for the past six years of the Norfolk, Va., Y.W.C.A., is spending some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Nolan, after a year spent abroad. Miss Ruth Copeland was the gracious hostess at a lovely prom party Friday evening. Misses Elizabeth Finley and Elise Barnes served refreshing punch from an attractive alcove on the front porch ftraFßi Mrs. Cindy Brown I have been a little melancholy lately—l have decided that my “boys” are growing up and frankly, I’m a little scared. I was watching them the other day as they played outside; not one seemed to have a care in the world. Oh, I know they do—they worry about their friendships, their grades, their place in a child’s world. Yet they seem most of the time to be carefree. Most days are spent climbing trees, building “forts”, reading and swim ming—l wonder if they know what “mama’s” thinking. I wish I had a way to preserve the relative ease of their lives, so that later on when they are older and really difficult problems arise, a bottle could be opened and an immediate dose of ease scooped out. Some evenings when my three urchins come in for supper, I have a hard time just recognizing them—how they can get THAT much dirt on such small bodies is beyond me; usually I identify HOW DO YOU STAND WITH GOD? This is an important question, because it concerns the hereafter of every soul and every soul should be concerned as to where will I be in the hereafter. I know where I am going and it burdens me to wonder where my friends and loved ones are going to be. I see so many people who never show any signs of having a Savior and never stop to say “Thank You, Lord for what you have done for me”. In our spiritual venture we are ever seeking to become, but the path to our goal is seldom a straight ascending line. Often it resembles a badly damaged spiral. If Christ should suddenly con front you with your record, should He hold the mirror up to your loyalty and perfor mance, could you look Him in the face. A1 is what can you say when you meet Him, or what will He say to you? It is not His will that any should perish (Matt. 18:14) All flesh from HISTORY’S SCRAPBOOK OATES AND EVENTS FROM YESTERYEARS July 15,1919—The War Department announces that, as of this date, more than 330,000 American men have been classified as World War I “draft dodgers.” July 16, 1790—Congress establishes the District of Columbia on the Potomac River, voting to set up there the permanent seat of the government of the United States. July 17,1821—Florida is formally ceded by Spain to the United States. July 18, ..A.D. 64—Rome burns; Nero fiddles. July 19, 1918—World War I German armies begin to retreat across the Marne River in France, after their last great offensive in that country is successfully repulsed by the Allies. July 20, 1861—The Congress of the Confederate States starts holding its sessions in Richmond, Virginia, the new capital of the Confederacy. July 21, 1873—The world’s first train robbery takes place at Adair, lowa, when the notorious Jesse James holds up the Rock Island Express and escapes with $3,000. ruth at random By Ruth Bryant ODE TO PARENTS The care you give your children As they are growing up Will always be a blessing That will overflow their cup! And if you teach your children To be what they should be They'll be a source of comfort In your lovely family! them by their smiles which seemed to be cut out of dusty small faces. I can remember the days of my childhood when I, too, could play outside for hours on end, sometimes in the now world and other times in a scenario of magical make-believe. My only worry was what Mother was fixing for supper. I wonder if she watched me as I do them. Could she have anticipated the way my life would lead? Could she know the extent of my joys and the depth of my sorrows? She led me in wise ways, preparing me to find my solutions. And as it has been through the ages, I hope to follow Mama’s recipe for helping me in preparing the formula to cushion my own children. When they look back on life twenty years from now, I hope they’ll find my answers adequate and my “pre serves” a real favor. If I could only label the jar, I’d write, “From Mother, with love, packed with an humble spirit and a hopeful hand. Open twenty years from now” shall perish together and man shall turn again unto dust (Job 34:15) But not the soul. The soul belongs to the Lord, He breathed into the nostril the breath of life and man became a living soul. (Gen. 2:7) The soul is the one thing that makes man differ from other orders of creation. Poverty cannot degrade the soul. Fire cannot consume it. The mortician cannot encase it. Slander cannot defame it. The clergyman cannot com mit it. The grave diggers cannot bury it. So vital is it, that Jesus said it is the worse kind of bargain to gain the whole world and lose your soul. (Mark 8:36) Friend, let nothing deter you as you follow the Divine footsteps. Think seldom of your enemies, often of your friends and everyday of Christ. Cultivation of the soul is most important. For whatsoever a man soweth, so shall he reap. (Gal. 6:7) Cora E. Tipton