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THE FOREST PARK NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1965
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The Forest Pork News
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GREAT NEWSPAPER BATTLE
BY KENNETH R. BYERLY
In The March Editor’s Forum
Twenty years ago the battle cry of small community newspapers in the nation’s suburbs was:
"Two newspapers at every suburban door.” They were fighting the big city dailies then for a
share of the market.
Today the positions are reversed. The community newspapers have grown strong and are
deeply entrenched In suburbia. The giant metropolitan dallies now chant: “Two newspapers at
every suburban door.” They are battling to retain their Interest in the market.
In the major metropolitan areas of the U.S., the curculation of community dallies soared 80.5%
from 1945 to 1962. That of community weeklies jumped 93.7%. But in the same period, the week
day circulation of metropolitan dailies rose only 1.7%.
Nor Is the trend confined to the U.S. The surge of community dailies is spreading to other parts
of the world. More than 150 suburban newspapers are in the Melbourne and Sydney metropolitan
areas of Australlia,and surburban weeklies are booming In Canada-and the British Isles.
Any success that widespread must be based on something that has universal appeal. “A com
munity new^aper,” says Houston Waring, publisher of the much respected Littleton, Colo.,
Independent —a semi-weekly that flourished in the shadows of adjoining Denver —“delves deeply
into the news: Obituaries, townsmen who create something, school news (the easiest way to
bring a new family into community life), religion, and personal columns which seldom solve
great problems but do warm the hearts of readers.”
The weeklies and community dallies also provide suburbia with a needed editorial voice and
local advertising.
For these reasons alone, the future of the community newspaper seems secure. But today’s
successful community dallies stress more than local news. They also report metropolitan,
state, national and foreign news — with a local angle whenever possible.
Their growing success as “complete newspapers was evident after New York’s great metro
politan dally newspaper strike had ended. The Wall Street Journal reported on July 8, 1963,
that “many suburbanites discovered their hometown dailies during the strike and lost the habit
of reading a Manhattan newspaper.
An analysis of 1945 and 1962 circulation figures for 10 key metropolitan areas, as compiled
from N. W. Ayer & Son’s “Newspapers and periodicals,” shows:
♦Community dailies (weekday circulation) grew 42 times faster than metropolitan dailies in the
same areas.
♦The combined circulation of weekly, semi-weekly and tri-weekly newspapers Increased 49
times more rapidly than the weekday circulation metropolitan dailies.
♦Sunday circulation of metropolitan dailies dropped 4% In the 17 post-war years, while that of
the community dallies in the same 10 areas jumped 203.4%.
♦The circulation of community newspapers (weeklies and dallies) climbed 89.8%. Weekday
circulation of metropolitan dallies In the same areas Increased only 1.9%.”
Low Bid Paving Tie
For Lovejoy-McDonough
Two bidders apparently turn
ed in tied low blds on one of
the 20 Highway Authority pro
jects let to contract by the
State Highway Department. The
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“It’s a smart decision
to convert to electric
heating and cooling.”
A couple of years ago Mr. and Mrs. William
I’. Ryle installed electric heat pumps in their
big two-story home. Mr. Ryle says, "It’s one
of our best investments in home comfort."
The Ryles are impressed with the cleanli
ness of electric heating and cooling. "In fact,"
says Mr. Ryle, "my wife wonders where the
dust and dirt have gone.”
Mrs. Ryle adds, "Our home really feels like
spring all year long. The heat pumps keep an
even, steady temperature. The air stays won
derfully fresh. I never feel closed in."
Raying the same amount each month for
electricity (budget billing) and a special low
rate are additional benefits the Ryles enjoy by
owning a total-electric home. Match the en
thusiasm of this Waycross family. Move up to
the joy of total-electric living.
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almost unique occurence shook
the letting room with whistles
of surprise from the audience.
The two, Nelms Construction
Company of Newnan, and Rall
Paving Company of Gainesville,
both submitted the apparent low
bld of $33,034 on 11 miles of
resurfacing on Lovejoy - Mc-
Donough Road in Clayton and
Henry counties.
“It’s the first I’ve heard of
it in my seven years here,”
one highway spokesman said.
“We’ll check all the compu
tations thoroughly to see if
there is no mistake,” the
spokesman said.
“If there really is a tie, it
will be settled by mutual agree
ment betweer the contractors,”
he continued, and added, “I
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Ah • EDITORIAL •
GowmT
AN TALMADGE
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WASHINGTON
IT IS REGRETTABLE when
ever emotions reach such a high
pitch that legislation cannot be
discussed objectively and studied
on the basis of its legality and
merits.
We saw this situation develop
last year in the
enactment of
the so - called
Civil Rights
Act. Now we
have it again
in connection
with the Ad
ministration’s
proposed new
voting rights bill, and the emo
tional fervor seems even greater
than before.
All sense of objectivity, fair
play, and the law seems to have
been obscured by the overwhelm
ing desire to take punitive action
against the South, and to pass
legislation which would put whole
states, cities, and counties under
the heel of the federal govern
ment.
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ANYONE WHO HAS the au
dacity to oppose this bill, to
challenge its constitutionality, to
question its wisdom or necessity,
is cast down as a demagogue or
an enemy of civil rights.
Proponents of this legislation
cloud the real issues and would
have the country believe that
anyone who is opposed to it is
opposed to the right of eligible
citizens to vote. Nothing could
be further from the truth.
No one is opposed to the right
to vote. Every eligible citizen
must be accorded the full enjoy
ment of this right, and wher
ever discrimination exists, it can
and should be eliminated by the
enforcement of existing law.
In the days ahead, we will
hear a lot from those who are
bent on pushing this bill through
Congress about how it is needed
to right wrongs and to protect
the right to vote. But I doubt
that we will hear much from,
that quarter about the adequacy
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think it has happened before,
but It was a long time ago.
Today’s highway letting also
included three Interstate pro
jects for bridges on sec Hons
already under construcUon.
One Federal-aid primary, 11
Federal-aid secondary and
-of the 16 statutes which already
i are on the books to protect this
! right. I don’t expect to hear
I much from them on the alleged
1 constitutionality of the bill or on
the fact that it flies in the face
> of numerous court decisions.
They have emotions on their
side, but the law is clearly not.
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NOWHERE IN THE Consti
tution is it contemplated that
the federal government should
be empowered to take over the
election machinery of states. No
where is such authority granted.
The Congress has no authority
’ to determine the qualifications
of voters in the states, and is
forbidden from doing so. Fed
eral courts, including the Su
preme Court, have so ruled re
peatedly.
This bill purports to be based
' upon the Fifteenth Amendment
which provides that the right to
vote shall not be denied because
of race or color. But it ignores
the provisions of the Seven
teenth Amendment which re
quires that “the electors in each
' state shall have the qualifica
tions requisite for electors of
' the most numerous branch of
the state legislatures.”
Herein is reiterated the lan
guage of the Constitution as
' found in Section 2, Article I,
which the courts construe to
mean that states may determine
the qualifications of their voters
so long as it is not based on race
or color.
In ruling on the legality of
literacy tests, the Supreme Court
said in 1959: “The states hive
long been held to have broad
powers to determine the condi
tions under which the right of
suffrage may be exercised.”
This is the law that is now
being bypassed by the zealous
proponents of the voting bill.
three state-aid projects were
also let for a total of 39 pro
jects providing for work in
44 counties. No blds were re
ceived on one Federal-aid se
condary project In Harris Coun
ty. Apparent low blds totaled
$8,959,958.20.
Bids were received on 20 pro
jects in tire third supplemental
Increment of the SIOO million
Highway Authority Bond pro
gram started under the pro
gram to 8505.3 miles. Original
estimates of roads that could
be updated with the bond money
totaled 6304 miles, but en
gineering savings have added
an extra 2200 miles.
The 10.96 miles of resurfac
int on the Lovejoy-McDonough
Road, FAS Route 1583, be
gins at State Route 3 near the
north city limit of Lovejoy and
extends east to State Route
42 In McDonough. Apparent low
bld: $33,034.00, Tie bld.
QUALITY PEANUTS
Frank McGill, agronomist
with the Cooperative Extension
Service, is impressed with the
quality of Georgia’s 1964 pea
nut crop. He said between 98
and 99 percent of the produc
tion was graded SegregaUon
1. This means that a crop has
has two percent damage or
less.
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YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
If a worker in your family dies, some member of the family should inquire at the nearest
social security office to see if benefits may be payable, E. L. Rawls, social security manager
in Atlanta advises.
The Social Security Administration can help to partially replace income lost caused by the death
of the head of the family.
Nine out of 10 young American children and their mothers can count on survivors benefits to
keep the family together if the breadwinner dies. Survivors benefits may be payable to young
children when a working mother dies, even though the father if the family’s primary source of
support.
The average benefit paid to a widowed mother with two children is about $193 per month. The
benefit payable to a family ranges from S6O to $254 per month.
If you want to know more about social security for the families of deceased workers, visit,
write or telephone your social security office nearest you. The /eople there will be glad to give
you any information or assistance you need.
QUESTION: I have a hardware store and did not have a net profit of S4OO for 1964. If the op
tional method of reporting my income available to me?
ANSWER: No, the optional method of reporting self-employment income is available only to
farmers.
QUESTION: I am now past 65, but when I checked on my social security a few years ago I was
told I had not worked long enough to be eligible for cash benefits. Have there been any changes
in the social security law that may change my eligibility status?
ANSWER: Everyone over 65 should check on his social security account. Several changes in
the social security law since 1960 have reduced the amount of work required to be eligible for
benefits. More than 85 percent of the people over 65 can now qualify for monthly benefits. If
you are 65 or older, check with your social security office. You may be in for a pleasant sur
prise.
QUESTION: Even if I am eligible for benefits I don’t want to quit my part-time job. Do I have to
stop working entirely in order to get my monthly benefits?
ANSWER: Not necessarily. If your yearly earnings are SI2OO or less, you can still receive
all of your monthly checks. Even if you make over SI2OO, you can still receive benefits for any
month in which you do not make over SIOO, if you are a wage earner, or do not do substantial work
in your trade or business, if you are self-employed. In any case, get in touch with your social
security office and let them explain how the retirement rule applies in your case.
SEE OLD MEXICO
Harbin's Have Gala Time
On 5,000-Mile Tour
Bullfights, sail-fishing at
Acapulco, native folk danc
ing and gala shopping
sprees are among the mem
ories brought back by Frank
Harbin and his wife, Shorty,
from a 5,000-mile trailer
trek through Mexico.
The popular couple, own
ers and operators of Har
bin's Restaurant and Drive-
In in Forest Park, were part
of the Wally Byam Trailer
Caravan that made the trip
all the way to the Pacific
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“SHORTY” HARBIN poses on a genuine Mexican burro
at Pachuco, Mexico. She and her husband, Frank, have
just returned from a 5,000 mile tour of that country.
Canada-U.S. Goodwill
Week Kiwanis Project
Kiwanians on both sides of
the border are spearheading the
* 42rid annual observance of Can
ada-U.S. Goodwill Week, April
25-May 1, according to Robert
Oliver, president of the Kiwanis
Club of Forest Park.
April 28, which falls within
Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week, is
the 148th anniversary of the
signing of the Rush-Bagot a
greement which demilitarized
the 3,000-mile border between
Canada and the United States,
hence the dates. To dramatize
and back.
Well, almost back. For
Frank and Shorty found
Mexican gas stations had a
hard time gassing up 400
cars at a time for each
morning’s start. So they and
three couples went it alone
after a month—with car
to-car radio communication
that kept the mtogether and
warned of hills ahead.
Highlight of the trip were
special nerformances in Vic-
the peaceful nature of the coast
to-coast boundary, Kiwanians
in both countries have set up
some 35 “peace’markers,” one
at each principal port of entry.
Kiwanis, which celebrates Its
own Golden Anniversary this
year, has grown up simultane
ously in the U.S. and Canada,
President Oliver said. The en
couragement of mutual friend
ship between the two countries
has always been one of Ki
wanis’ prime efforts, he added.
Canada-U.S. Goodwill Week,
quired. You can take up to 36 months to repay, at
low bank rates.
Like folks all over town, you can enjoy better living
right now —and pay as you go, the easy bank way.
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toria ot various folk dances
from many districts. Frank
got in his sail-fishing at re
nowned Acapulco on the Pa
cific and Shorty got her
shopping done in the pictur
esque native markets—hats,
serapes, silver, leather goods
crowded their Airstream
trailer on its return.
Four days were spent in
and around Mexico City at
tending the bull fights and
touring the Pyramids and
the Floating Gardens.
They returned byway of
New Orleans.
Next trip? They’ll take off
this summer for Laramie,
Wyoming, and the Interna
tional Roundup of the cara
van club.
150,881 Listed
4-H Members
<n
Georgia 4-H Club enrollment
Increased by 2,214 members
during the past year and now
stands at 150,881—highest of
any state in the nation.
Once a farm organization ex
clusively, 4-H today claims 53,
558 (35.8 percent) urban boys
and girls. And 51,433 (34.1
percent) of the present-day
members live in rural non
farm areas. The farm claims
45,890 (30.6 percent) of the
current crop of 4-H’ers.
Dr. T. L. Walton, state 4-H
Club leader with University of
Georgia Extension Service,
cited these trends in member
ship and announced two new
projects designed to keep the
program up-to-date with the
needs and Interests of 1965 mo
del 4-H’ers.
The new projects are elec
tronics, in the engineering field
and dog care and training, in
veterinary science.
■ which is now widely observed,
was established by Kiwanis.
Os the unguarded 3,000-mile
border between the two coun
tries the late Sir Winston Chur
chill said, “That long frontier
from the AtlanHc to the Paci
fic oceans, guarded only by
neighborly respect and honor
able obligations, is an example
to every country and a pattern
for the future of the world.”
President Lyndon B. Johnson
has said, “On that border, we
have no soldiers. We have no
weapons. We have only long
and enduring friends.”