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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUNTY AND CITY OF JACKSON
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Editorials
Let's Protect the Public
When Butts County was
decided upon as the location of the
Georgia Diagnostic and Classifica
tion Center, the projected use of
the facility was that of a way
station, at which prisoners would
be screened and given a barrage of
physical, psychological and educa
tional tests to determine the proper
long-term station in which they
were to be incarcerated.
Like so many well-intentioned
projects, the present use of the
facility bears little resemblance to
the picture presented the public at
the time of its construction.
Instead of a testing ground for
youthful offenders, the Center now
serves as a home for many
hardened criminals, the rehabilita
tion of many of whom appears
hopeless.
Faced with long-term sen
tences, these prisoners often seek
premature release through escape
attempts, too many of which seem
to meet with success.
For the Little Things
Man is so apt to fall into lapses
of ingratitude that he often fails to
give thanks for the little things.
In a spring and summer
infested by drought, he has
watched the family garden burn to
a crisp, corn tassel at one-third its
normal height, and soy beans die in
the ground for lack of rain.
Perspiration wets his brow,
but often inspiration fails to
penetrate his brain.
A kindlier way of looking at it
is, as one friend remarked, “the
weather isn’t hot, it’s just the
people that are in it.”
Frustrated in field and garden,
man still has seen nature’s bounty
all about him, if he but took a look.
The fruit crop has been
abundant. Plums hung in profusion
from the hedgerows, dewberries
and blackberries dotted the seared
landscape like black jewels, apple
tree boughs bent beneath their
burden. Peaches are tasty and
relatively cheap. Blueberries are
Is God on Vacation?
Almost universally, in small or
large churches, attendance slacks
off during the summer months as
members of congregations head off
to their choice vacation spots for a
period of physical and mental
restoration.
All of us need these brief
respites from the workaday world
that can get too much with us if we
cleave to it too closely and fail to
realize the emotional drain it is
exacting from us.
But we should all realize that
the church needs our attendance
and support as much, or more,
during these slack periods as it
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If the State of Georgia
misrepresented to the people of
Butts County the type of facility
they were to build here, which they
did, then it certainly is the
obligation of the State to protect
the citizens of Butts County from
any depradations which escaped
murderers, robbers or rapists
might commit.
This best can be done by
tightening security at the Center,
particularly on the work details,
which seem to afford the best
opportunity for escape. If addition
al security forces are needed, they
should be provided.
It is a matter which addresses
itself to the County’s, and the
area’s, legislative teams who
should take steps to see that the
Corrections Department is provid
ed with enough funds, and staff, to
adequately protect the citizens of
this section by providing maxi
mum security at the Center.
yielding a record crop and pears
hold enough promise for several
makings of pear relish. Pecans are
not bounteous but they are fruiting
well and there will be enough for
the holiday feasting.
Summer’s sun has not burnt
out the children’s enjoyment of the
season. Lake and pool have been
their habitats and they walk
around, half clothed, looking like
gold-painted stars out of a James
Bond movie, so effectively has the
sun done its bronzing chore.
The morning and evening
birdsong was never sweeter,
friends have never been dearer,
sunrises brighter or sunsets
clearer.
So, amid a summer whose
fulfillment has not matched its
promise, let us pause to give
thanks for the little things. For
indeed they are many and, upon
examination, we often find they
really are the big and most
important things in our lives.
does during the festival days of
Easter or Christmas.
Getting back into the swing of
things after a brief absence may
not be easy but neither should it be
difficult for a true Christian.
After all, he might ask himself,
what if God were on vacation
during my time of special need, or
what if he posted a sign, “closed
for the summer months” and my
petitions went unanswered, as they
banged against an unsympathetic
signboard.
How long a vacation does God
take? Perhaps ours, and our
absence from church, should not be
much longer than His.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1977
The Last
Straw
BY
VINCENT JONES
WHY IS IT:
That good habits are hard
to make and easy to break,
while bad habits are hard to
break but easy to make?
That “permanent” waves
last only a week?
That a woman will pay S2O
for a slip, then fuss if it
shows?
That our tribute to Mothers
lasts but a day, while it takes
a whole week for us to salute
the tart cranberry or the
succulent Bartlett pear?
That what the common
man needs most is an
uncommon income?
That so often the surly bird
gets the worm?
That the figure-control ads
always show models who
need to put on some rather
than take some off?
That no matter what
happens there is always
someone who knew it would
occur just that way?
That cash is often the cause
of a marital clash?
That those people who have
the right aim in life so often
have difficulty finding the
trigger?
That the government can
scare the stock market down,
but can’t frighten prices into
not going up?
That in the eye of a
used-car salesman, cars
always improve with age?
That property lines are so
rigidiy respected by neigh
bors with lawn mowers?
That the female can
distribute the news with
greater dispatch than the
mail?
That a budget is necessary,
other than to confirm your
suspicion that you can’t
afford your style of living?
That free advice is so
plentiful, and so costly if
heeded?
That it is so easy to spot the
intelligent people, because
they always agree with you?
That a fool and his money
are usually separated by a
dame?
That those words which
come out so easily are often
the most difficult to swallow?
That a bachelor prefers to
remain single, while others
would knot?
That men who don’t believe
in Santa Claus, still believe in
Wall Street?
That the letter marked
“important contents” is
never important enough to,
warrant a 13-cent stamp?
That the original owners of
this country, the red men,
never enter into the horse
trading constantly going on
between white and black men
to determine which race
should prevail?
That a man’s reputation
and his character are
oftentimes considered to be
one and the same?
That experience is the
world’s greatest creditor, for
each of us goes in debt to it a
little more each day?
That only the impatient
can wait in a hurry?
That discretion comes to us
only alter we are too old to be
indiscreet?
That people who enjoy in
health are never happy with
compliments on how well
they look?
That most husbands are
created by fears their
sweethearts had of becoming
old maids?
That men never realize
women are explosive until
they drop one?
That politicians belong to
the opposite party and
statesmen to ours?
Editor s Quote Book
We know too much,
and are convinced of
too little.
T. S. Eliot
A Stroll llown
Memory Lane
NEWS OF 10 YE ARS AGO
John A. Sherrell announces
the opening this week of
Sherrell Funeral Home at 212
East College Street.
Burglars struck twice in
two days in Jackson, hitting
the Kym Company Sunday
night and Bill Strickland’s
Texaco service station on
Monday evening. Losses
were reported as minor in
both instances.
Four senior 4-H’ers from
Butts County attended the
4-H Leadership Camp held at
Camp Wahsega near Dahlon
ega last week. They were
Ellen Pinckney, Patsy Mad
dox, Paul Rice and Perry
Ridgeway.
Employees of the Indian
Springs Plant of Avondale
Mills have returned from a
delightful vacation trip to
Camp Helen, near Panama
City, Fla. Paul Erwin and B.
T. Kitchens won the fishing
honors, while Valita Singley
was the prize bingo player.
Bill Nelson won first prize
in the under 15 category of
Griffin’s Junior golf tourna
ment, with a score of 167 for
36 holes. William Barnes, Joe
Brown, Jr. and Charlie
Brown all placed fourth in
their age groups.
Miss Mary Ruth Martin,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Martin, is serving as
a 4-H camp counselor at
Rock Eagle this summer.
Deaths during the week:
George Leonard Hodges, 71;
William Cliett Redman, 86.
NEWS OF 20 YEARS AGO
Eugene Prosser, water
safety instructor with the
Red Cross, says that 150
Butts County boys and girls
have completed the learn-to
swim program this summer.
The Butts County ASC
Committee is moving its
office from the basement of
the post office building to the
Van Deventer Youth Founda
tion building, according to H.
C. Hammock, office Manag
er of the local ASC
committee.
Miss Roxie Mangham
leaves Monday for the Camp
Fulton Forestry camp which
she is attending by virtue of
her excellent 4-H forestry
project.
Henry Whitehead, of Indi
an Springs, has purchased 20
lambs and is one of the few
local farmers to be carrying
on a sheep project, according
to County Agent C. A.
Ogletree.
Ralph G. Coker, Rt. 4,
Jackson, retired June 28th
after 30 years of federal
service, 16 as a letter carrier
and 14 at the Atlanta General
Depot.
Work on paving three miles
of streets in the City of
Jenkinsburg is progressing
satisfactorily and should be
completed soon.
NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO
Pomona Products Com
pany plans to begin the
canning of peaches at its
Jackson plant this week. The
late season of peaches this
year should merge with the
pimiento canning season,
beginning about mid-August.
About 300 will be employed,
according to manager Joe
Lewis.
The Rev. W. Sam Norton,
of the Jackson Methodist
Church, has been returned
for another year of service.
Local FFA boys attending
camp this wteek include
Eugene English, Ennis O’-
Neal, Edwin Williams, Jerry
Latham, O. B. Colwell, Jack
Knowles, Wilburn Ridgeway,
Billy Greer. Arthur Free
man, Charles Stewart, Joe
Harris, Charles S. Sims and
Emmett Pelt.
The local Rogers Store has
purchased all of the Butts
County 4-H Club garden
exhibits, thus continuing the
project for another year.
The Jackson Garden Club
held its July meeting at the
home of Mrs. J. C. Newton in
Atlanta.
Under the supervision of
W. P. Thornton, a self-ser
vice laundry will be opened
next week on Second Street,
near the Farmers Union
Warehouse building.
Deaths during the week:
Miss Laura Smith.
NEWS OF 40 YEARS AGO
Barbara Lavender, of
Indian Springs, and J. T.
Harris, of Jenkinsburg, are
local winners in the 4-H Club
Health Contest.
The Jackson public schools
will be open August 30th. The
only faculty change will be in
high school French, which
Miss Chloe Hearn will teach
this year.
Miss O’Delle Moore is on
leave of absence from the
WPA in Augusta to assist
with the registration of social
security recipients.
Mrs. T. G. Walters, of
Toccoa, has been elected
head of the Georgia Rural
Letter Carriers Association’s
Auxiliary, succeeding Mrs.
N. F. Land, of Jackson, in
that post.
Willis B. Powell, of Indian
Springs, former Chamber of
Commerce executive in
several Florida cities, spoke
to the Griffin Chamber of
Commerce on Friday.
To date, 347 have signed up
for old age pensions under
the social security program
in Butts County. Six have
applied for the needy blind
assistance and 18 for depend
ent children aid.
Deaths during the week:
Mrs. Forest G. Varner; J. A.
Collins, 56; Mrs. Nancy
Elizabeth Settle, %; John
William Stewart, 82.
NEW S OF 50 YEARS AGO
The Flint Circuit Bar
Association has been organ
ized with E. O. Dobbs, of
Barnesville, president; B. S.
Willingham, Forsyth, vice
president, and W. E. Wat
kins, Jackson, secretary.
Mrs. C. M. Compton,
Milton Compton and Miss
Susannah Foster are attend
ing the Atlanta Presbytery’s
camp at Smyrna.
The third Sunday night
union service of the three
Jackson churches was held
Sunday evening at the
Presbyterian Church. The
next will be held with the
Baptists. An attendance goal
of 300 has been set.
Dr. A. F. White has sold 82
acres to W. N. and A. T.
Saunders on the Jackson-
Pittman’s Ferry Road. Con
sideration was listed as
$2,400, or S3O per acre.
Butts County girls spend
ing this week at Camp
Wilkins in Athens include
Clotie Vick Carter, Adelaide
Land, Mary Will Jinks, Helen
Stodghill, Sara Mote and
Doris Maddox.
The next meeting of the
Butts County Jersey Cattle
Club and the Junior Calf Club
will be held with R. H.
Burford at Major G. E.
Mallet’s farm. The Septem
ber meeting will be held with
F. H. Morgan.
BUMPER STICKERS
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By Donald E. Wildmon
WHAT DO YOU SAY WHEN YOU DIE?
His name was Thomas Jefferson. He was born at
Shadwell, Virginia, on April 13,1743. He died on July 4, 1826.
The date was a tribute to the man. And in between those two
dates he tied together a life of service to his fellowman.
You probably remember him as the author of the
Declaration of Independence. And most of all, he would have
wanted you to remember him for that. He even wrote his own
epitaph. He had a reason for doing so. Before his death, he
gave his daughter Martha Randolph instructions to have
these words inscribed on his headstone. “Here was buried
Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American
Independence, of the Statute of Virginia for Religious
Freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.”
That is saying a lot about a man’s life—any man’s life.
Jefferson could have put more on that headstone, you know.
He could have added a long list of accomplishments. He could
have stated that he had served the state of Virginia as its
governor. Most of us, had we the honor of being governor,
would have included it in our epitaph. For we would have
wanted others to know. But not Jefferson. Also, he could have
stated that he was a member of Congress. For he was. But he
did not choose to include that fact on his headstone.
Jefferson could have also reminded those who were to
view his headstone of the fact that he was minister to France.
And Secretary of State. He was that, you recall, under the
administration of George Washington. And that would have
been something worth recalling for most of us. But not
Jefferson.
From that position Jefferson moved up to the number
two man of these United States. He served as Vice-President
under John Adams. But not even that was included on his
headstone.
Or, had he wished, Jefferson could have had engraved on
his headstone the fact that he was President of this country.
Not once, but twice! And that is an honor shared by very,
very few men. But Jefferson did not consider even that fact
worthy to be included in his most precious accomplishments.
Most of us would agree that pride is often a vice that
destroys many of us. We accomplish something and we
cannot wait for the world to learn of our deed and praise us
for doing it. And many of us keep telling people years after
our accomplishment of what we once did.
Some people learn how to handle pride. Jefferson was
such a man. He learned how like all people do who do
so —through a great desire to be a servant. Why didn’t
Jefferson include all those other accomplishments on his
headstone? He told his daughter when she sought the reason:
■ The things that are not on my inscription are the things the
people did for me,” he said. “The things that are on it are
things I did for the people.”
That’s proper control of pride. Pray to God that we can
all acquire it. (Join Mr. Wildmon on his 11th tour of the Holy
Land, Switzerland, Germany, Brussels. 11 days. Departs
Nov. 8. For info, write Box 68, Southaven, Miss.)
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A CALL FOR HELP!
“An excuse is worse and
more terrible than a lie, for
an excuse is a lie guarded.”
—Pope.
“I think we have more
machinery of government
than is necessary, too many
parasites living on the labor
of the industrious.”—Jeffer
son - Letter to William
Ludlow.
“The labor unions shall
have a square deal, and the
corporations shall have a
square deal, and in addition,
all private citizens shall have
a square deal.”—Theodore
Roosevelt.
“The great are great only
because we are on our knees.
Let us rise!”—Stirner.
This is a call to my
brothers to come help me.
Who are my brothers?
They are the Tax Protective
Association of Butts County.
ruth at random
By Ruth Bryant
MORNING SHINE
Good morning, Merry Sunshine,
This song I like to sing
It cheers me every morning
And so I make it ring!
You even leave a sparkle
On my plastic garbage bag.
You glitter in my pine tree
To make a shadow lag!
Of all the joys that cheer me
Your light is most divine
It brings a warmth of glory
With early morning shine!
The black sheep have gone
out. Out of what? All out of
reason.
They raised the value of
my country acreage $lO,
344.00 from last year’s value.
What has been done to
cause such a raise?
I ain’t done a darn thing.
Come on boys we got to do
something NOW. There is no
excuse for this.
Lilia E. Watkins
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