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Stone Mountain
Sets Celebration
STONE MOUNTAIN, Ga.
Old-fashioned
Independence Day
excitement is rekindled at
Stone Mountain Park June 30
July 7 with symphony
concerts, spectacular
fireworks, a barbershop
quartet, clogging groups,
bluegrass and jazz bands and
folk dancing.
Opening the week, singing
star Frankie Laine joins the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
June 30 for a “Pops” concert.
Concluding the festivities,
Danny Davis and the
Nashville Brass blend the
sound of brass with country
music while performing with
the Symphony July 7. The
informal Sunday concerts
conducted by John Head will
be held at 2:30 p.m. in the
Park Coliseum.
Over a thousand shells will
explode at dusk atop and
from the base of Stone
Mountain to light the sky in
celebration of the Fourth of
July. The brilliant display
annually draws more than
70,000 spectators. Patriotic
music will be played by the
Dekalb Summer Band on
Memorial Hall lawn preceding
the fireworks.
Independence Day Carillon
Concerts on the 732 Bells of
Stone Mountain will be
performed by Mabel Sensing
Sharp. Summer carillon
concerts are performed at
noon, 4 and 8 p.m. weekdays
and 1,3, 5 and 8 p.m.
Sundays.
Afternoon musical tours of
the attractions will be made
July 1 by the New Seasons of
Grass, July 5 by the Capital
City Jazz Band and July 6 by
the Goodtime Singers
barbershop quartet.
Clicking heels will echo on
;he Riverboat Docks July 1 as
the Chamblee Clogging
Squares dance at 7 p.m.
Yaarab Red Devil Clowns will
entertain July 2 from 2 - 5
p.m. at the attractions.
On July 3, Young
American Day, performances
by elementary school age
doggers, modem dancers and
orchestra members will be
featured at the Skylift from 7
- 9 p.m. Groups scheduled are
Little General Cloggers,
Atlanta Recreation and
Dance Theater and
Callanwolde Band Camp.
A “Sing Out for America”
program will be presented by
Watermelon
Day Planned
Georgians have set aside a
special day of tribute to one
of the State’s most important
cash crops - the watermelon.
Described by Mark Twain as
“the chief of this world’s
luxuries”, the fruit, will be
honored at the 12th Annual
Watermelon Day at the
Atlanta State Farmers
Market, June 30.
Thirty-five thousand ice
cold melon slices will be given
to visitors beginning at 2 p.m.
and continuing throughout
the day. The inevitable
watermelon eating contest for
children (between the ages of
5 and 10) will highlight
festivities, and National
Watermelon Queen Terri
Schmidt will be on hand. The
1974 Georgia Watermelon
Queen will make her first
appearance at the Farmers
Market festivities.
Top-name country and
western musicians are
scheduled to appear at two
shows in the afternoon.
Singer Jim Ed Brown, The
Cates Sisters, piano player
Ronnie Milsap and country
music’s answer to Sonny and
Cher, Ronnie and Patty, will
be onstage for a performance
starting at 3 p.m.
Local Atlanta country and
western disc jockeys will host
another music show featuring
Bobby Johnson and the
Swingin’ Gentlemen
beginning at 4 p.m.
Georgia’s watermelon crop
is the third largest in the
nation and nets state farmers
some 10 million dollars
annually.
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July 6 at 4:30 p.m. at
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except the symphony
concerts. Tickets for the
concert are general admission,
$2.00; box seats, $3.75; and
tables for 6, $16.00. (PRN)
July 4th Fireworks Can Be Dangerous!
Very few people would
regard an explosive as a toy
or consider it safe in the
hands of amateurs or
children, yet each year
thousands of people buy and
use fireworks in states where
they are legal, and more who
live in states such as Georgia
where they are illegal
deliberately cross state lines
to buy them and bring them
back.
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Last year fireworks injured
6,500 people seriously
enough to require hospital
treatment. Two-thirds of the
victims were under 15 years
old. Fireworks injuries are
THE FORSYTH COUNTY NEWS—WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1974-
usually burns or lacerations.
Some are relatively minor,
but there are all too many
cases in which the victim may
face days or weeks in the
hospital. Such injuries often
result in the amputation of a
hand or a foot, the loss of an
eye, permanent
disfigurement, and, in rare
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a $7.50 order or more
cases, even death, particularly
if a young child’s clothing
catches on fire.
The most dangerous
fireworks are cherry bombs,
aerial bombs, “M-80 salutes,”
and fire crackers containing
more than two groins of
powder, but even lesser
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fireworks can be dangerous.
The lowly sparkler can reach
temperatures of 2,000 F. The
sale of the major fireworks
named above is now banned
by Federal law, though
undoubtedly some are still
being sold illegally. ALL
fireworks, including sparklers,
are illegal in Georgia.