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3axksotx Trngrcss-^rgus J. D. Jones Publisher - lit.'):')) 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 August Brought Changes Along with a continuation of drought conditions and a lack of relief from the protracted heat wave, August has ushered in some changes in the City’s business community. It saw, for instance, the City of Jackson sell its natural gas distribution system to the Atlanta Gas Light Company, who will operate it under the trade name of Georgia Natural Gas Company. Already, employees of the Com pany are making surveys of existing lines and counseling with homeowners on energy saving measures. Effective October Ist, the Company will take over the system completely, including billing and collecting procedures. The Atlanta Gas Light Com pany has been a good corporate citizen in every community it has served. There is no reason to expect their corporate image will change as they begin serving the City of Jackson. After almost 23 years of providing Ford products and service to Butts Countians, Milton Daniel has decided to make a change and so, consequently, Daniel Ford Sales, Inc. has become Jim Mize Ford. Jim Mize comes to town with a solid record of achievement as both a career Air Force officer and an automobile dealer. He has the background required to be a Should the Jury Be Tried? The mills of the legal God grind slowly, and exceeding small is the number of cases disposed of as compared to the total number of matters awaiting disposition. This legalistic log jam is of concern to the best minds in the legal profession, who have studied it and recommended changes, none of which appear to be workable. A layman looking at the problem can glimpse quickly one facet that would yield to some more realistic guidelines being estab lished. It is difficult for the sideline sitter, and the occasional juror, to understand why, with courts flooded with a backlog of cases, it should take days, weeks, or even months to select a jury in some of the more highly publicized jury trials. Defendants, and plaintiffs, are entitled to a trial in which their constitutional rights are fully preserved, but should this include putting the prospective jurors on trial and asking them every The School Bells Toll Although it isn’t taught to the tune of a hickory stick anymore, reading, writing and arithmetic will be the order of the day, beginning today. The light-hearted, and undisci plined. regimen of the past three months must yield to the stern realities of work assignments, A Prize-Winning Newspaper f(f§)§ 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 successful small town Ford dealer and his future in this field appears unlimited. When the announcement came earlier in the year that Addison- Rudesal would soon close their Jackson plant, there was occasion for concern over the jobs that would be lost. After a few weeks of suspense, good fortune came our way in the form of the Rommie Duboses who are now operating the Edsol Tire Exchange of Georgia, Inc. facility in the old Addison-Rudesal plant. They, and their employees, are a welcome addition to the Jackson business scene and we join the entire community in wishing them every success in their new venture. A purchaser for the City’s gas distribution system, a change in an automobile dealership, anew occupant for a large industrial building, all major additions to the Jackson scene that came swirling in out of the heat and dust of a miserable August. The changes that August wrought are made more palatable by the fact that Milton Daniel and Dick O’Hara, two valued civic leaders who were most affected by the changes, still continue to call Jackson their home. Certainly, August this year changed Jackson’s business make up considerably. We wish all of the new corporate citizens much success and a great deal of more pleasant weather. conceivable question, many of which invade their privacy and should not require to be dignified by an answer. It is the defendant on trial, not the juror. If the defendant is so concerned about the difficulty of getting an impartial jury, then let him refrain from committing the crime that necessitated a jury being chosen to judge his guilt or innocence in the first place. If the legal profession is serious about cleaning up its own house and speeding matters to and through the court room, then let it adopt a code of ethics on this matter of questioning potential jurors, and limit such questions to not more than four each from the contending sides. The constitution guarantees the defendant a trial by his peers. But the constitution does not state, and most certainly its framers did not intend, that the jurors could be placed on public trial by either the defendant’s or the plaintiff’s lawyer. tests, and the adjustments to new teachers and new friends. It is a sad time for the happy hours of play that have been temporarily lost but a challenging, and rewarding, time for those who utilize this opportunity to reach their MlV's goal. THE JACKSON FROCRESS-ARGUS. JACKSON, GEORGIA THURSDAY, AUGUST 25. 1977 The Last Straw BY \ INTENT (ONES One of the more difficult issues facing educators, parents, church and political leaders today is that of trying to motivate, or remotivate, today's children towards a higher standard of moral and ethical conduct. Too often we see our youth enthusiastically involved in the off-beat issues, the decriminalization of mari juana, the legalization of free abortions, the fight to remove discrimination against homosexuals, the right to publish and read pornographic literature or the extension of the idea of co-ed dormitories at colleges. In many cases, our youth not only champion these causes but join adult leaders in espousing them publicly through demonstrations. A nation cannot hope to long remain strong, or free, if its moral values die. The fault one can find with many of the issues that are now proving so divisive in this country is that they violate the long-established codes of moral conduct this nation has set for itself and on which it was founded. The God of pleasure can lead our young people to nothing save destruction. Self-gratification, the father ing or mothering of a child which the state will pay to abort, or the bearing out of wedlock of children to be reared as the state’s pawn, are violations of the Chris tian ethics that are self destructive. God can not be mocked. His laws are still the supreme laws of this earth and the whole concept of Judeo-Christian ethics and law are based on them. But we, and especially our youth, can be easily led to believe that these laws are outmoded and have no applicability to today's world. The responsibility, anjd obligation, of adults to rebut such a simplistic, pleasure bent philosophy is tremen dous. Fortunately, most of to days youths are still level-headed and still believe and practice a rather strict code of morality. Possibly no other force exerts more influence on our youth than does television. And although the medium does offer much wholesome, character-building entertain ment. it is at its weakest when it attempts to cover the off-beat issues. A two-minute interview with a homosexual, or a pro-abortionist, can permit a one-sided argument that does not offer any chance for rebuttal. In many cases, the truth is handled carelessly and fabrications penetrate the ears of the youthful listening audience and are accepted as the gospel truth. The flesh being as weak as we all know it to be, perhaps the real blame for a turning away from the moral code of our forefathers should rest Tfflf; HEffi 1 ,Wm 1 1 1 1J - _ J | FOOTBALII/ —-A vVg)N6 yyfi <8 uucigy 8 'f) -v i i 4 ' v f >1 -> / v ti >: • c- • * j •:5 c A Stroll Dowaa Memory Lane NEWS OF 10 YEARS AGO The Citizens School BUs Service, Banks Weaver, president, will begin its operation on September Ist. Jackson High’s 26-man football squad left Sunday for a week's workout at Camp Moultrie, with head coach Loy Hutcheson in charge. Mrs. Carmie Thrasher Cochrane, formerly of Jack son. received a Doctor of Philosophy degree in clinical psychology from the Univer sity of Georgia on August 18th. M. C. Wilkes, a lineman with the Central Georgia EMC. was fatally burned while working on a pole Friday afternoon on Georgia Hwy. 16, west of Griffin. Miss Susan Powell, daugh ter of Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Powell, received her Bache lor of Arts degree from Mercer University in gradua tion exercises on August 11th. Mrs. Mildred S. Ballenger was recently presented an official commendation for her work at the Atlanta Army Depot. Deaths during the week: Mrs. Addie Grace Jones, 73; Julian Hall Turner, Sr., 65. NEWS OF 20 YEARS AGO Grady Jackson, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Grady Jackson, Sr., was elected president of the Georgia Teen-Age Safety with the parents and not the child. For we have glamourized athletic prowess and reward ed it fabulously, invoked the doctrine of win at all costs in our athletic contests, and preached to our children the right way to live while practicing the wrong. But the time does seem right for a moral regenera tion in this country, a dedication to excellence not only on the field of play but in the classroom, home and church, a recommitment to the lasting values of life —and not to its passing pleasures— and the extension of a helping hand to all who stumble, and falter, in trying to live up to a moral code based on excel lence in all that we do. The gutter snipes will take over this country if we permit it. Human nature being what it is, the temptation to fall is often stronger than the will to rise. The time to halt the trend to moral decadence is at hand. The battle lines are drawn and the fight between good and evil was never more intense, or will never be more decisive, than now. Council during the Council’s state-wide meeting at Middle Georgia College in Cochran. The organization of a ladies auxiliary for Butts County's VFW Post No. 5374 w as assured Friday when 20 ladies applied for a charter. Approximately 2,000 at tended the 20th annual meeting of the Central Georgia EMC at Indian Springs State Park on August 13th. Under the guidance of Mrs. Cynthia Davis, HDA, 33 Butts County women made a tour through the North Georgia and North Carolina moun tains last week. R. A. Allen and Harold Cook will be installed as deacons in the Jenkinsburg Baptist Church in an ordina tion service on August 25th. Miss Roxie Mangham, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Mangham, was named president of the Northwest District of 4-H Clubs at a recent meeting at the Rock Eagle 4-H Club Center. NEWS OF 30 YEARS AGO J. M. Gaston has again been named as president of the Farmers Union Ware house Company, with W. C. Garr, vice president, R. E. Evans, secretary and J. Avon Gaston, treasurer and general manager. Named as directors W'ere J. M. McMi chael, J. D. Brownlee, DeWitt Singley and A. C. Finley. Thomas A. Nutt. Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Nutt, has been named to Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary scholastic fraternity. He will graduate August 30th from the University of Georgia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Adminis tration. Mrs. Gladys Williams, of Claxlon, has been elected as librarian for the Jackson public schools. The rather unusual case of a father and son serving on the same grand jury is presented in Butts Superior Court this week where E. Z. Carter and John W. Carter are members of the grand jury. Judge Harvey Kennedy, of the Flint Judicial Circuit, will speak to the Exchange Club of Jackson at their next meeting. Spencer Johnson is program chairman and ar ranged for Judge Kennedy’s appearance. The Jackson Kiwanis Club, with T E. Robison as project chairman, has raised funds to send a number of local 4-H Club boys to the 4-H Club Council meeting in Milledge- \ die. Deaths during the week: Charles Boyd Lee, 78. NEWS OF 40 YEARS AGO Jackson, which has been operating on daylight saving time for several months, will go back to Central Standard ( slow) time on August 29th, it is announced by Mayor W. M. Redman. Attending the annual meet ing of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association in New Orleans from Butts County were Mr. and Mrs. N. F. Land, Miss Marie Land and Gordon H. Thompson. Rev. E. L. Daniel, pastor of the Jackson, Fellowship and Bethany Presbyterian Churches, granted a leave of absence during the summer, has returned home and will resume his active duties. The City of Jackson announces the purchase of 15 lots and houses, one vacant lot and a store building, located mainly on Benton and Mallet Streets, across from the Southern depot, to H. Deraney. The City acquired the property a year or two ago when it was sold for taxes. Miss Mary Walker and Miss Margia Weems, of Macon, have issued invita tions to a few of their friends here to attend a house party this week on a small island owned by the Weems on Tobesofkee Creek near Ma con. Among those invited w ere Irma King, Sara Boone, Roslyn Redman, Stewart Head, Thomas Boone, Tho mas A. Nutt, Jr., Jack Suffridge, Ralph Carr and Harry Ball. Troy H. Vickers, a native of Flovilla, has been named postmaster at Crawfordville, Gti. Deaths during the week: Walter F. Capps, 60. NEWS OF 50 YEARS AGO The Jackson Public Schools will open the fall term on Wednesday, August 31st. with Prof. D. V. Spencer as the superintendent, suc ceeding Prof. R. I. Knox, who goes to Hartwell. Prof. T. J. Dempsey, Jr. remains as principal and athletic coach. The Junior Calf Club met Saturday afternoon, with Miss Doris Maddox, vice president, presiding in the absence of president Don Thompson. Miss Edna Ezell gave a recitation and plans for the fair this fall were discussed. A Duroc-Jersey sow owned by O. B. Knowles gave birth to 16 pigs last Saturday. With nature providing feeding places for only 12, four of the pigs will have to be bottle fed. Miss Lucy Jim Webb, a ruth at random By Ruth Bryant LIKE A PRETTY GIRL A poem’s like a pretty girl! Like hers, the format must be trim, The curves just right, the figures slim; The words, like hers, must vibrant be, With meaning fraught with honesty; The rhythm must be light and gay With rhyming in a natural way ideas must be as fresh and bold As any tale she ever told; The ending, hinting of surprise Must be as sparkling as her eyes; With inner glow and-lovely face Like hers, must lines havecharm and grace, A poem's like a pretty girl! missionary to China for the past five years, gave an interesting report to the Kiwanis Club on conditions in that country. Miss Webb is on a year’s leave of absence and is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Webb, of Blount. The Rev. Augustus Ernest, pastor of the Jackson Methodist Church, preached at the Monticello Methodist Church on Sunday morning. A former pastor of Monticel lo, Rev. Ernest has many friends there who welcomed him back for a brief visit. At the local Jersey Cattle Club and Dairy Association meeting on Saturday, Mr. Frank Behnke spoke on the creation of a livestock shipping association to ship Butts County livestock to distant markets for better prices. Deaths during the week: Mrs. S. L. Thompson, 76. What Are You Building? Isn’t it strange That princes and kings, And clowns that caper In saw-dust rings, And common people Like you and me Are builders for eternity? Each is given a bag of tools A shapeless mass, A book of rules; And each must make— Ere life is flown, A stumbling block Or a stepping stone. —R. L. Sharpe have a nice weekend... contribute your time @ CONSUMER GUIDELINES Power lawn mowers are responsible for more than 50,000 injuries each year. 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