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THE FOREST PARK NEWS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1964
The Forest Park News
1172 Main St. Forest Park, Ga. 366-3080
Post Office Box 25, Forest Pork, Ga.
Guy Butler, Editor
Subscription Rote $2 00 Year - Published Each Thursday
Entered As Second Class Matter at Forest Park, Ga.
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
Theft and casualty losses may
be deducted on Federal income
tax returns under certain con
ditions, A. C. Ross, Director
of Internal Revenue in the At
lanta District, said today.
Deductible casualty losses,ue
said, include losses of property
resulting from fire, storm, flo
od, automobile accident, hurri
cane or similar event.
Special rules provide for an
election by the taxpayer to de
duct casualty losses on his
calendar year tax return, in
connection with property owned
in certain disaster areas, at
tributable to a disaster which
occurs during this filing period,
January 1-- April 15, for such
return. This rule also applies
to disaster losses occurring
after the close of a fiscal year
bu> before the regular due date
FOR THE CONTINUED
lam committed'to no future raise In taxes for the operation of
our County government unless absolutely necessary for badly
needed services. As proof of my conviction is this matter is
that when it became necessary to raise the maintenance and
operation taxes for the schools in 1961 under authority granted
by a Constitutional Amendment voted by the people of Georgia In
1960, your Commissioners
matched an Increase of five
mills by the Clayton Coun
ty Board of Education by a
similar decrease of five mil
ls in the county rate. If
you will investigate, you will
learn that the county levy in
1960 was 30 mills and that
the levy of 1962 and 1963
was 25 mills. Our schools
needed this increase and we
were glad to cooperate with
the school authorities and
with you to the extent of
decreasing the county levy
so that the combined county
and school levy would not
exceed the total of the pre
vious years’ levy.
Our members of the Le
gislature heeded our request
and passed legislation that
will allow you to vote on
the questions of giving your
Commissioners authority to
set up a county-wide gar
bage pick-up service and
fix speed limits in those lo
calities where badly needed.
These matters will be voted
on by you in the General
Election in November, 1964.
The statutory speed limits
now prevailing on our highways are the same for our many
subdivisions, where traffic conditions are similar to those in
cities, and the authority to establish some control in necessary if
we expect to prevent the maiming and death of our children.
The following are items that are badly needed and that I be
lieve can be ours within the next four year term of our Com
missioners without a tax increase:
Yours For Economical Progress,
P.K. DIXON
VOTE FOR AND ELECT
P. K. DIXON
CHAIRMAN, COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
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Dedicated to Service
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
of the fiscal year tax return.
A casualty loss can result from
complete or partial destruction
of property. Generally speak
ing, it must result from an
identifiable event of a sudden,
unexpected, or unusual nature.
Damage to your car result
ing from a collision or acci
dent can be deducted if not
due to your willful negligence
or willful act. You cannot de
duct amounts you pay for dam
age to another car with which
you collided.
On personal or nonbusiness
property, the amount of the
loss is the lesser of (1) the
cost (adjusted) or (2) the de
crease in the fair market va
lue of the asset. From this a
mount you must subtract the
insurance or other compensa
tion which you receive or ex
pect to receive. The amount
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which is left is deductible.
Theft losses, he said, includ
ing losses of money or other
personal property, are deduc
tible in the year they are dis
covered. Losses resulting from
losing or mislaying articles are
not deductible.
Some of the loss items for
which you cannot claim a de
duction are accidental loss of
cash or other personal pro
perty; damage due to rust or
gradual erosion; damage or
destruction of animals or plants
by disease; losses of property
in storage or in transit; or
amounts paid for personal in
juries.
Document 5174 which fur
nishes more detailed informa
tion on this subject is avail
able upon request from the
Internal Revenue Service.
CLAYTON COUNTY
Ahouse numbering system co-ordinated with the numbering
system of the entire Metropolitan area, which makes for greater
ease in locating persons and places and Increases the efficiency
of the svstem.
ACounty Hospital for our county which, according to all pre
dictions, will have a population of not less than 93,000 people in
co-operation in our road and bridge program.
The improvement of our County Police Department by ad
dition of more men as needed and by careful screening of the
candidates for the department. Great improvement is this depart
ment has been made both in personnel and compensation and we are
striving constantly to increase its efficiency and prestige. We are
hopeful of providing ample and satisfactory quarters for our
police department within the year.
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CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATES DEMAND THEIR
WAY-NOW-EVEN IF IT DESTROYS OUR COUNTRY
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1970. A County Hospital Au
thority was appointed by your
Commissioners in 1962 and
have already made a com
prehensive study of this pro
blem. If you are Interested,
contact Mr. Donald Hastings
of Lovejoy, Georgia, Chair
man of the Hospital Author
ity.
A continuation of our road
program, which has made
great progress in the past
three years with 50 miles
of grading and 40 plus miles
of paving. A program of re
placing old worn out bridges
with permanent bridges of
concrete and steel construc
tion has been adopted and we
now have several new brid
ges of this type. It is en
tirely possible that within
two years every bridge of
any size, and especially th
ose used by school buses,
will be concrete and steel.
We have a County Engine
er who was employed by the
State Highway Department
for twenty five years whose
association with that depart
ment has proved invaluable
to our county in getting its
Among major American cities,
Washington, D.C. is considered
one of the most beautiful. The
fact Is neither one of chance
"nor of recent date.
In 1790, President George
Washington chose a new site on
the Potomac River for the cap
ital. Commissioned to chart the
plan of Washington, D.C. was
Pierre Charles L’Enfant, a
French engineer who came to
the U. S. with General La-
Fayette.
Washington, probably morp
than any other city in the
world served by Air France,
shows the elegant influence of
Paris. Neither city has sky
scrapers. but both have hand
so m e tree - lined boulevards,
and numerous parks.
There are many ties of his
tory. art. and amity between
the capitals of France and the
United States. A further link
between them will be the open
ing on April Ist of Air France
707 jet service from Washing
ton, D C. to Paris. ""
-L'Enfant’s plan, executed in
1791. covered ten square miles,
and had a grand mall centered
on the Capitol Building and the
President's residence. Avenues
100 to 120-feet wide were laid
out in radiating fashion popular
in Paris at the time. For ex
ample, the grand sweep of Con
stitution Avenue is similar to
Paris' Champs Elyses
Six years ago I appealed to you, the good people of Clayton
County, to elect me to the Board of County Commissioners.
I promised at that time if elected to provide aggressive and
dedicated leadership for our county. The six-year record
speaks for itself. We have enjoyed prosperity beyond our
fondest dreams. The foundation has been laid to insure our
future growth. You are progressive in nature and have re
sponded at the polls each and every time you were called
on to make in investment in Clayton County’s future.
I am proud of the part you have enabled me to play in these
progressive accomplishments. My record of service and ex
perience in government is offered for your consideration in
evaluating my ability and desire to serve you on the State
level as your Representative.
NOW FOR THE FUTURE:
HIGHER EDUCATION: Rapid growth such as we are ex
periencing in Clayton County necessitates quality education
in all areas. Our county is rapidly reaching the point where
we should have a Vocational School and/or a Junior College.
It is my pledge to afford vigorous assistance toward secur
ing such facilities.
STATE ASSISTANCE TO CITIES:
Presently our cities do not have a stable program of State
aid for needed functions of city government. Some progress
has been made in this area and I would like to have a part
Your Vote and Support Are Earnestly Solicited
THIS COPY HAS BEEN WRITTEN BY JOHN C. SATTERFIELD, PAST PRESIDENT (1961 62)
OF THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION. rnuMTTTFF pnn
MR. SATTERFIELD IS SECRETARY-TREASURER OF THE COORDINATING COMNOTTEE FOR
FUNDAMENTAL AMERICAN FREEDOMS, SUITE 520, 301 FIRST ST., N. E.. WASHINGTON 3. D.C.
One of the greatest tragedies in the history of our nation is in the process of unfolding. If the
Civil Rights bill now pending in Congress becomes law our Republic will be warped beyond
recognition.
Equally tragic is the fact not one American in a thousand has significant knowledge of its contents.
All are being swept along on a flood tide of emotion, the result of the most skillfully planned
and executed propaganda campaign of this age.
Consider the bill from a lay point of view.
Purportedly it would abolish" discrimination” among all the races and religions that go to make
up our diverse population.
Well enough. But what does "discrimination” mean? Indeed, what does "race” mean? No one
knows, the bill doesn’t define either ward.
We do know the intent of the bill’s advocates. We know, because they have told us so, they mean to
place particular people in every job classification.
Assume for a moment the good intentions of those who are pushing this bill. What effect, then;,
will their design have on businesses throughout the nation?
Take, for instance, the oil industry ( and what applies to oilmen applies in this sense, and 4n
one degree or another, to all businesses).
As a matter of practice, it a geologist or an engineer employed by an oil company so much as
indicates his intention to quit, his company has him lay down his tools right that instant. He
doesn’t even finish the day. They^/ay him, of course, whatever he has coming, but as of that monent
he is finished as an employee.
Why?
The answer is simple. Geologists and engineers are holders of the company’s innermost secrets
and no oil company is willing to risk even an hour’s time if it questions an employee’s whole
hearted loyalty.
Now, then.
Let us assume a strange geologist applies for a job that has just opened and is refused. Assume
the applicant is an oriental and, upon being turned down, complains to the Federal Equal Em
ployment Opportunity Commission, the agency provided for in this bill. Assume he complains he
was not employed because of his race.
Assume, further, the real reason he was not employed lay in the fact the company simply preferred
the white gelolgist it did hire, a professional it had had its eye on for some time. Not because
one was white and one yellow but simply because the company believed the white man would suit
its needs best.
Think of the spot that company would be in.
Go farther.
Assume the FEEOC ruled in the oriental’s favor and forced the company to hire him.
There he would sit, an irritant. The other men couldn’t talk and associate freely, they couldn’t
share their findings, nor do any of the myriad things geologists must do in their eternal search
for oil.
Is that fair? Is that equity? Is it what we want?
Whatever the answer, it is what we are going to get if this civil rights bill becomes law. People
are going to be forced onto jobs for no other reason that that they are of a certain religion or a
certain race; concede their technical qualifications.
Since the bill does not define either race or religion, it is apparent those who are in political
favor will receive favored treatment.
Such is the depth to which this bill would take us.
Discrimination, in an evil sense, is deplorable and ther is no American worth his salt who would
speak for it.
Since unjustifiable discrimination because of race and religion does, in fact, exist in America
the question is how to abolish it
The best way, through education and suasion, has been rejected by militant civil rights advocates.
They demand the whole ball of wax, today: Freedom, now. They demand it even though it would
wreck our country.
And, sadly, they will get it — their way, not the right way —if thoughtful people neglect to
write their Senators and ask them to vote against this malign design that will destroy our Republic.
Mrs. Marchman And Cole
Head Red Cross Campaign
Mrs. Frank G. Marchman, of
Ellenwood, and Tom Cole, of
Jonesboro, are coordinating the
activities of the Red Cross
March Educational Month Cam
paign for Clayton County. They
have been named to spearhead
this phase of the annual Red
Cross Month, which is spon
sored by the Metropolitan At-
ELECT
TERRELL A. STARR
CLAYTON COUNTY
REPRESENTATIVE
In the Georgia General Assembly
lanta Red Cross Chapter.
Mrs. Marchman, who is Red
Cross coordinator for the coun
ty, and Cole, public informa
tion representative, will assist
Mrs. Maggie Davis, nationally
known Atlanta writer, who is
chairman of the month-long
program.
in helping increase this in every way possible as your Rep
resentative.
ANNEXATION TO CITIES: As our County grows our cities
should grow likewise. However, I firmly believe that our
affected citizens should always decide such issues in a ref
erendum with the majority prevailing. This is the Demo
cratic way.
EDUCATIONAL REFORMS: Our Governor and State Educa
tional Leaders proposed far-reaching educational proposals
affecting State participation in public education at the
present session of the General Assembly and these reforms
have now been enacted into law.
Full implementation of this sound approach will greatly
benefit the school children of Clayton, and throughout our
State. I would like to have a part, as your representative, in
seeing that these long-range plans are made a working
reality.
As the campaign progresses it shall be my purpose to out
line other important matters involving our future and my
thoughts and position concerning them.
Sincerely,
TERRELL A. STARR
Mrs. Marchman and Cole, in
coordination with Mrs. Davis
and her committee, have plan
ned activities centered around
the community visits are being
reactivated in Clayton County
this spring, emphasis will be
put on this service during the
month-long campaign.