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3axksam 'Progrsss-^rgus J. D. Jones Publisher (1908 1955) Doyle Jones Jr. Editor and Publisher (1955-1975) 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 Editorials Can Fall Be Far Behind? With Camp Meeting opening tonight, the' earth soaked again from recent rains and the first exhibition football games already appearing on the boob tube-, surely a cautious declaration that the worst of summer is over might be in order. Although the calendar says there are still almost six full weeks of summer left, there is always the hope that its early arrival will be followed by an early departure. With the back of the worst drought in the past 25 years broken by cooling rains, the spirits of the people have lifted and summer has become a time for relaxation and fun, instead of the constant exercise in cloud watching that marked its worst days of searing heat and swirling dust. Those gardens that were not victims of the drought have been Cultural Enrichment Out of the welter of state and federal programs, many of which seem to serve little purpose other than to provide employment for their staff, it is refreshing to see one that can stir the imaginations and raise the aspirations of our young people. Butts County recently termi nated a six-week summer program known as Cultural Enrichment. It was offered to 30 young boys who came from culturally and econo mically deprived backgrounds. It was designed to open their eyes to some of the beauties of life, to challenge their minds with new thoughts and to open the vistas of their poverty-imprisoned lives to a world that they might otherwise never discover. The difficulty of middle-class Americans relating to children from such backgrounds is appa rent. One can’t envision poverty, or smell it, or sense it, or experience its physical or mental debilitation, unless one has been trapped in it. A stomach that is filled three times a day, or more, has a tendency to believe that all stomachs everywhere are full. A child enjoying a room full of toys at Small Town Radio at Its Best In only a few weeks, Dallas Tarkenton, the new owner of Jackson’s Radio Station WJGA, has transformed the station into a model that all small towns in America would do well to copy. Listeners and advertisers are being offered an enlarged format with emphasis on community projects, while extensive remodel ing and repairs have changed the Station’s exterior and interior appearance. A dedicated family man, a proven radio executive, a demon strated community builder, the son of a late Methodist preacher, Dallas Tarkenton brings to Jackson radio the type of A Prize-Winning- Jr&fes&Sz. Newspaper 1977 Better Newspaper Contests Advance Subscription Rates, Tax Included: TELEPHONE 775-3107 One Year, Out-of-State $7.28 Six Months, Out-of-State $4.16 revived by the rains and harvesting goes on at a slower and more leisurely pace. Soon the seeds of fall and winter will be sown in garden and field, and thoughts will begin to turn from how to keep cool to how to keep warm. Summer’s early heat waves have left the season almost prostrate and, although on certain days the sun’s rays may still be uncomfortably warm, the tides of time and seasonal changes are already taking their toll. Before you can dismiss the thought from your mind, it will be back to school and football season again, as the glory of the growing season fades into its dormant stage. Let’s hear three cheers for fall, with all of its fun and laughter, for surely it can’t be far behind some cooling breeze already forming in the far reaches of the north. Christmas must believe that all children everywhere are similarly blessed. But we know that such fantasies are unreal. That there exists, right at our doorstep, poverty and human misery and heartache that would bring the most affluent and influential of us to our knees were it given to us to have to experience it. Lifting these children, who through no fault of their own wear the blinders of poverty, out of their world into our world for six weeks may be the catalyst they need to launch them into meaningful lives. If only a few can escape their environmental prisons, then the program must be deemed a success and those who work in it must know the joy of seeing lives rescued by their efforts. Cultural enrichment. To those who have a taste of the better life, perhaps the words have little meaning. But to the many who have little joy in the present, and small hope for the future, the words must speak volumes of discovered hopes and recovered dreams. We commend the program as worthy of our support and encouragement. concerned ownership that few small town radio stations have to offer. An enlarged listening audience will be good for the station and for Butts County, as local shoppers are encouraged to shop at home and out-of-towners are lured to our shopping districts. The type of station the new owner envisions, and is pledged to build, will be a business and community builder that will benefit our entire populace. We wish Dallas Tarkenton well in his new venture. And we only hope that Butts County can continue to attract more men of his caliber in the future. THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA THURSDAY. AUGUST 11, WJ The Last Straw BY VINCENT JONES Before you retire tonight, whatever your political per suasion, it might be a good idea for you to say a prayer for President Jimmy Carter. For, in a real sense, he might just be the last great hope of this nation. For never in its history has this country witnessed such pervasive moral decay in its highest government officials. Such moral decadence cuts across party lines. Republi cans and Democrats alike are wallowing in the muck and mire of power, greed and lust and the hearts of the populace thirst for the sight of an honest man or woman in the political realm. Our history is fraught with examples of those whose personal moral codes were corrupted by politics. But they were isolated cases, an occasional rotten egg at the bottom of the barrel. The good apples rose to the top and saved the country by their patriotism, integrity and courage. But now the whole barrel is beginning to smell and the stench is enough to affront the conscience of the most seasoned follower of the art politic. One-fourth of the members of Congress stand accused of peddling their influence for South Korean dollars (which probably came originally from our tax dollars). An ex-president, Lyndon John son, is accused of stealing an election in Texas in a successful bid for the U. S. Senate. Ex-president Richard Nix on. already shamed, humili ated and mortified by his sorry performance to cover up his illegal acts, is now further charged with accept ing a one-million dollar cash payoff from the Teamsters in payment for his pardon decision that would nof permit the missing, and presumed dead, Jimmy Hoffa from seeking a Teamster office. Roll back the clock further and witness the sad and pathetic examples of moral conduct the presidents of this nation have set as an example for the past 45 years. John F. Kennedy, idolized by the young and feared by many, is portrayed by recent disclosures as a womanizer who conducted much of his official business, despite a war-injured back, on White House sofas. Ike Eisenhower, a wartime hero and a caretaker type of president, had his image tarnished by a book written by his former girl chauffeur who pictures the former president as a willing, but wanting, partner in what could have been an adulte rous relationship. Harry Truman, profane and tough, who emerges as the most moral president in the last five decades along with Gerald Ford, in spite of his tendency to use some rather strong expletives when he felt the occasion demanded. F’ranklin D. Roosevelt, the most charismatic of the lot, hailed as the healer of a nation’s wounds when its wounds were deep and serious. By his, and his wife’s admission, a dedicated lover of his secretary and confi dante, for whose company he practically abandoned the less attractive mother of his children and the motive force that launfched his political A Str*ll Dunn Memory Lane NEWS OF 10 YEARS AGO Miss Brenda Elizabeth Allen, daughter of Mrs. Robert Allen Sr., of Jenkins burg, is now a stewardess with Eastern Air Lines. County School Superinten dent Lee Roy O’Neal says that Newton Coal and Lumber Company, of Griffin, is the low bidder at $216,000 for five classrooms and a new library at Jackson High School. A Jackson physician, Dr. Jack R. Newman, is credited with saving the life of a young Indiana girl who was injured in an auto accident on 1-75 south of Macon. Dr. Newman kept the child’s breathing passages open until she was in the Macon Hospital, where emergency surgery proved successful. Mrs. Bernice L. Terry, Registered Nurse, has been selected as the celebrity of the month in “The Bellring er," publication of Westbury Home, Inc., of Jenkinsburg. EMI Lynwood Thurston, son of Mrs. T. P. Thurston, and Seaman Sanford Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Powell, were among the 10.000 sailors forming a living flag in recent ceremo nies at Soldiers Field in Chicago. Henry Asbury has been recently elected a director of the Van Deventer Founda tion. Deaths during the week: Mrs. Levi J. Ball, 51; Garland Guy Wallace, 73. NEW S OF 20 YEARS AGO Butts County Schools will open Friday, August 30th, according to Supt. D. V. Spencer who also announced the election of Mrs. R. C. career. It is not a pretty picture of the moral decadence that has infiltrated the nation’s high est office. Multiply it ten times 10,000 times and you might get a glimpse of some of the political shenanigans going on across the nation. Into this sordid picture steps a young Georgian stout of heart and sure of purpose, a Christian gentleman who knows w'hat he believes and says he will not depart from it. Upon his inauguration, some of the stench that constantly hangs over the Potomac lifted, and the grait-gFabbers and wheeler dealers began heading back to the wide open country. To a nation more imperiled by its own moral decay than the force of arms any enemy can bring against it, Presi dent Jimmy Carter repre sents a clean breath of air, a fresh hope for a people sickened by the smell of corruption in high places. If he can keep his ideals, if he can clean up government and keep it clean, if he can ruthlessly expose the graft ers and the exploiters and hasten their defeat, then our democracy will prevail. We think his task is worthy of your concern and prayers. Edw'ards as a science teacher in Jackson High School. Willie Avery Cook, Jackson agent for the Life Insurance Company of Georgia, has been appointed Staff Manag er attached to the Griffin office of his firm. Miss Ruth Phinazee and Mrs. N. A. Powell are in Athens attending a state wide celebration on the 20th anniversary of the public welfare system in Georgia. Scott Candler, secretary of the Georgia Department of Commerce, has cited Jack son for aggressiveness in the field of industrial develop ment. Dr. John R. Church, general evangelist of the Methodist Church, from Winston-Salem, N.’ C., will open the 67th session of the Indian Springs Holiness Camp Meeting tonight at 8 o'clock. Bailey Woodward, a mem ber of the Georgia Senate from Jackson, has been appointed dealer in the middle Georgia area for the St. Regis Paper Company. Deaths during the week: Augustus Anderson White, 67. NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO Gov. M. E. Thompson has recently named four Butts County political and business leaders as lieutenant colonels on his staff. Those so honored include B. H. Hodges, R. P. Etheridge, W. M. Redman and C. T. Gibson. Paul Tyler, for 30 years a Jackson grocer, has been elected manager of the Butts County Freezer Locker Cos., Inc. L. J. Washington has been elected president of the Butts County Farm Bureau; Lovett Fletcher, vice president, and Avon Gaston, secretary and treasurer. Bobby Hammond, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ham mond, is spending this week at Camp Wahsega near Dahlonega as an officer in the Georgia 4-H Club Council. T. G. Willis announces the sale of his farm, consisting of 137 acres and located in the northwestern part of the county, known as the Tom Greer place, to Jesse Nutt and son. The first open boll of cotton of the 1947 season was reported by B. H. Hodges on July 30th. Deaths during the week: Robert Newton Etheridge, 79. NEW S OF 10 YEARS AGO Six 4-H Club boys and girls and adult workers are attending Camp Wilkins this week. Making.the trip were Benjamin Mays, Tommie Ridgeway, Louise Smith, Nelle Lane, Mrs. Charles Fletcher and Hazel Ridge way. The gins of Nutt & Bond, Inc. and Robison, Settle & Robison, Inc. are being readied for the ginning season, expected to begin shortly. In 1936 the County ginned its first bale on August 15th. August 6th is the earliest date recorded here for the first bale. Half-holiday closings in Jackson, which began in May, will end Wednesday, August 18th by agreement of Jackson business firms. Burglars who entered the home of Mrs. C. J. Greer on Friday of last week made off with a 1936 model RCA Victor radio, a man’s suit, several women’s coats and dresses, hats and other wearing apparel. Miss Roslyn Redman and jTj: ‘Whatsoever |Hll; Things' f| By Donald E * Wildmon IF YOU CAN’T SING, WHISTLE! He was a lad in the town of Cremona, Italy, in the middle of the 17th century. Cremona was a musical town and great acclaim was given to those who could sing or play. Wanting to be accepted and given some recognition for his musical talents, he tried singing. His friends called him “squeaky voice” and he soon realized that his singing would never be anything special. The young lad then tried to learn to play, but his success wasn’t much better than his singing. So he was a dejected lad as he walked through the streets of Cremona with his friends and listened to their beautiful voices. About the only thing the lad could do was to whittle on a block of wood with his knife. One day he was sitting on the edge of the street whittling as three of his friends played and sang beautiful songs for the people passing by. Appreciating the musical ability of his friends, many people dropped some coins into their hands to reward their efforts. One gentleman stopped longer than many of the others and even asked the friends to sing a song again. After they finished he dropped a coin into the hand of the singer. The he moved on down the street. Upon looking, the boys discovered that it was a gold coin! It was quite a piece of money to give a street singer. But the man who gave it could afford to do so. “Who was he?” asked the lad who whittled. “It was Amati,” his friend with the beautiful voice replied. “Amati who?” asked the lad. “Nicolo Amati,” the friend replied. “He is the greatest violin maker in all Italy!” That evening at home the lad thought about the man named Nicolo Amati. He was a man who succeeded in the musical field. But he neither sang nor played! The more he thought about the violin maker, the more he became convinced that he wanted to become a violin maker. He wanted to become the best violin maker in Italy! Early the next morning the lad hurried off to the home of Nicolo Amati. Inquiring about the way, he sat on the doorsteps after arriving and waited for the great violin maker to come out. When Amati came out, the lad told him that he wanted to become a violin maker and asked Amati if he would teach him to make violins. He explained to Amati that he couldn’t sing or play, but that he could whittle. And, more than anything else, he wanted to make violins. Amati accepted the young lad as a pupil. Day after day, week after week, month after month, year after year the young man studied from the master. In due time his work became known in Cremona, then Italy, and finally throughout the whole world. We may not have the talent to do some things as well as other people. But God has given us all a very special talent which, if we develop, can help us help others. Antonio Stradivari found this to be true. Even to this very day men still make music with his violins. And they pay upwards of SIOO,OOO to do so! Just because you can’t sing or play doesn’t mean you can’t make music. (Join Mr. Wildmon on his 11th tour of the Holy Land, Switzerland, Germany, and Belgium. 11 days. Departs Nov. 8, Write Box 68, Southaven, Miss. 38671) ruth at random By Ruth Bryant MY FLOWERS AND MY POEM I set out to paint some green leaves And some flowers to adorn them. I painted nice pink roses With luscious leaves around them. Then I sketched a pink bouquet To adorn my tall green vase. And though it is not perfect This poem saves my face! Add Nutt, Jr. entertained the members of the school set at a delightful swimming party, picnic and dance at Indian Springs on Thursday eve ning, complimenting Miss Elaine Daniel, of Moftow, guest of Miss Redman, and Misses Margie Weems and Mary Walker, of Macon, guests of Miss Irma King. About 20 guests enjoyed this gala occasion. Mr. J. F. Cook of the Stark community displayed last week a mammoth pimiento pepper, measuring 11 inches in circumference and 3'/ 2 inches in diameter. Deaths during the week: C W. Buchanan, 76. NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO Messrs. Fred and Wade Hammond hit the jackpot last week when their live stock herd increased by 29 in one day last week. Three brood sows gave birth to 27 pigs while two calves were also born on the same day.. Mrs. I . A. Roberts and Miss Frances Harkness have purchased the J. W. Carter residence on the Griffin Road. The home will by occupied by the family of Mr. W M. Harkness. Mr. Gordon H. Thompson, his son Don. Mr. B. T. M. Cauthen, of Milner, and Mr. George H. White will leave Friday by motor to attend the national convention of the National Rural Letter Car riers’ Association in Okla homa City, Okla. The White Five and Ten Cent Store, George H. White, proprietor, moved this week to the building formerly occupied by the Georgia Grocery Company on the west side of the courthouse square. Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Crawford are chaperoning a party of young people this week at the Varner Cottage at Indian Springs. On the guest list are Misses Mollie Watkins, Virginia Crawford, Elizabeth Watts, Marion Nutt, Levi and Otis Ball, Jr., Frank Harper, Robert Franklin and Ike Woodruff. Misses Ruth Maddox and Annie Watkins were guests at the party on Tuesday. Mrs. George Head compli mented her attrr -five guests. Miss Margaret d nett and Miss Theod \ Beckham, of Atlanta, with a delightful bridge party Fri das afternoon at her home on McDonough Road. Deaths during the week: Mrs Eliza Jane Wooten