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March Os Dimes
Needs Up In ’66
March of Dimed leaders this
month are appealing for in
creased public support to meet
new commitments in the fight
against birth defects, especially
the needs of thousands of vic
tims of the recent German mea
sles epidemic.
Speaking for the 1966 March of
Dimes as the traditional Janu
ary campaign opened, Clarence
Hlse of Macon, state chlarman,
underscored the necessity for
addtitlonal funds this year:
“Our programs to strike both
the causes of birth defects as
well as their results are being
stepped up dramatically In
1966,” he said. “We will be
making a major effort to in
crease the opportunities for
babies to be born healthy while
offering significantly Improved
diagnosis and treatment for
substantially more birth defect
victims.”
It Is estimated that the Ger
man measles epidemic which
swept across the nation in 1963
and 1964 caused in excess of
15,000 defective births, due to
MRS. HAZEL BYCK NEW
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James H. Pair, president of James Pair Personnel Ser
vice, Inc., has named Mrs. Hazel Byck manager of the firm’s
Clayton Plaza branch.
“Mrs. Byck’s extensive experience In personnel training and
Industry administration,” said Pair, “makes her well-fitted
to handle this growing branch office.”
After graduating from University of Washington, Mrs. Byck
spent ten years with Allied Stores in various positions of which
one was the training of junior executives. In Atlanta Mrs.
Byck was associated with the McDonough Construction Co.
Most recently she supervised the installation of a new data
processing system for James Pair Personnel’s main office.
Lectures On Wesley
At Ministers’ Meet
Ministers from throughout
Georgia and nine southeastern
states will attend Emory Uni
versity’s annual Ministers’
Week in Atlanta, Jan. 17-21.
Dr. Maldwyn Edwards, a Bri
tish minister and lecturer, will
deliver a series of lectures on
the Wesley family. John Wesley
was founder of the Methodist
Church around 1740.
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the motners naving Deen infect
ed during pregnancy.
“These new cases, In addition
to the 250,000 usually occurring
each year will place a greater
demand on our more than 50-
birth defect centers across the
country. We must try to ex
pand these facilities and create
new ones If we hope to give
these children proper medical
care.
"While doing this,” Mr. Hlse
added, “the March of Dimes
will be sponsoring a program
aimed at providing better pre
natal care because healthier
mothers usually have healthier
babies.
“And, of course,” the
campaign leader pointed out,
“we must continue to expand
our scientific research pro
gram into the causes and means
of preventing birth defects. The
birth defect problem seems to
be growing bigger, but our
efforts against It will grow at
an even greater rate,” he said,
“if the people of Georgia will
help us.”
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Flint River Fives
Open Here Today
The annual Flint River basketball tournament starts today
at 4:30 p.m. at the Forest Park High school gym and In the
Jonesboro High gym. Four games will be played here, the
other three In Jonesboro,
Eight schools are entered: Forest Park, Jonesboro, North
Clayton, Campbell of Fairburn, Griffin, Pike County, New
nan and Milner.
At 9 o’clock tonight the Panthers engage Griffin In round
♦ne. At 6 p.m. the Forest Park girls battle North Clayton.
The tournament runs through Saturday night with the finals
at 8:30 that evening.
It Is a single elimination event.
IN TRANSITION
Progress Keeps
Clayton Busy
FROM THE JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
Clayton County, on the threshold of metropolitan adulthood,
in the midst of transitory problems and progress, is rounding
out what many describe as its greatest year.
—Voters have approved a bond
issue that will result iti the build
ing of a $4 million hospital in the
county.
—Clayton awaits an announce
ment, expected Io come early in
1966. from the state board of
regents on the site of a $4 mil
lion junior college which the
county snapped from beneath
the nose of an embarrassed Ful
ton County.
—ln November, the county be
came one of seven in Georgia
able to boast adequate facilities
for the detention of juveniles.
Youngsters moved from the.
county jail info a modern $200,-
000 juvenile home.
—With the county's judicial
eystem bursting at the seams,
a new civil and criminal court
was established which, last year,
handled some 4,500 cases.
—Construction was begun, un
der a $2 million bond issue, on
120 new classrooms to help han-1
die the 2.t00 additional students
who came to the county last
year.
SEVERAL Innovations were
undertaken in county adminis
tration, such as a newly insti
tuted civil service program,
zoning and planning proccedures
were overhauled, and service
organizations were expanded.
Clayton is the fastest growing
county in Georgia, percentage
wise, according to figures from
the Atlanta Region Metropolitan
Planning Commission, and one
of 43 in the nation to experience
a 100 percent increase in popu
lation from 1950-1960.
While the average increase
since 1960-65 has been 4.567, the
county last, year saw an esti
mated population growth of
some 6.000.
This rapid growth has brought
with it additional problems.
Many feel that the county has
too many new people and not
enough new industry.
“We don’t want Clayton to be
come a ‘bedroom’ county," said
44th District Senator Kenneth
Kilpatrick, “where people live
and work somewhere else."
Sen. Kilpatrick expressed con
cern that his county is “just not
getting enough industry.” “The
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revenue homes bring in is just
not enough to provide all the
services a large population de
mands."
THE SENATOR said he feels
the county has more than
enough to offer potential indus
try but falls short in attracting
it.
“We need to do like DeKalb
has done,” he said. “That is. go
out and grab industry and bring
it in.”
Sen. Kilpatrick, and others,
feel that with the steadily grow
ing population, more and more
services will have to he offered; ■
and only the economic benefits
of nwe industry will he ade
quate to pay the bill. 1
Former Stale Representative
Torrell Starr suggested that the
answer may lie in setting aside
a certain amount of the lax dol
lar for promotional purposes,
following again the example of
more urban DeKalb.
Clayton, a relatively small
county geographically, has also
found much of its land taken off
the tax books for public use. The
Atlanta Army Depot takes up
some 4,500 acres; 1.300 acres of
the municipal airport lie in
Clayton.
i WITH 33 MILES of state and
federal highways now in the
county, three new interstate ar
terics are under construction,
removing a large amount of tax
able land.
Change is sometimes painful,
and to a county that to years
ago was as far removed from
the hustle and bustle of the city
as any, it can be bewildering
and hectic.
Thousands of new citizens
must be given water, sanitary
facilities, police protection, edu
cation -the list is endless. The
tobacco chewing, suspender
snapping rural politician and
the shadetree policeman have-,
disappeared.
Faced with the problems of a
big city, county officials have
been forced to adopt big city
methods.
Meanwhile, Clayton officials
feel that they have at least
Meet On
Henry Co.
Road Job
A preconstruction conference
on a contract for 7 1/2 miles
of Interstate 75 In Henry Coun
ty has been scheduled for Fri
day, Jan. 7, according to John
W. Wade, Field Division En
gineer of the Thomaston Field
Division of the State Highway
Dept.
The conference will be held
in the field office of Resident
Highway Engineer James E.
Stewart, 706 Main St. In Mor
row. Participants will Include
representatives of the State
Highway Dept., the U.S. Bur
eau of Public Roads, four af
fected public utilities, and the
contractors Involved In the pro
ject. It will begin at 10 a.m.
and any Interested representa
tives of the new media are wel
come to attend, Mr. Wade said.
Work to be discussed consists
of 7.568 miles of roadway and
eight bridges on Interstate 75,
beginning -at Federal-aid route
755 southwest of Locust Grove
and extending north.
Contract for the Interstate
project was let Nov. 19 to
Hugh Steele Construction Co., of
Centre, Ala., on a low bld of
$3,965,813.09. The contractor
is allowed 805 calendar days
to complete the project.
Mr. Wade explained that the
purpose of the preconstruction
conference Is to get all per
sons Involved In the project
acquainted with the job and with
each other, to establish respon
sibility and a tentative time
table for each phase of con
struction, and to discuss any
unusual problems or special
contract provisions Involved In
the job.
Scout Week
Boy Scout Week, the 56th
anniversary celebration in
February, will be a major
item on the programs of the
Cub Scout and Boy Scout
roundtables to be held in
January for pack and troop
leaders in the Tara District
of the Atlanta Area Council,
Boy Scouts of America.
A special feature of the
Boy Scout roundtable, under
the direction of Greg Ivester,
Scout Roundtable Commis
sioner, will be a review of
major citizenship projects
and how Boy Scout troops
can plan them.
The principal feature of
the Cub Scout roundtable to
be held at Jones Memorial
Methodist Church, 7:30 p.m.,
/an. 10, will be the discus
sion •of plans for traditional
Blue and Gold banquet in
cluding suggestions for win
dow displays, the banquet
program, and other Boy
Scout Week activities.
M. D. (Fritz) Hand, Cub
Roundtable commissioner,
will be in charge of the Cub
Scout roundtable and will
be assisted by Pack 412,
sponsored by the Philadel
phia Presbyterian Church,
B. D. Mitchell, Cubmaster.
gained a step on the treadmill.
With a new hospital, a new col
lege, an up-to-date school sys
tem. and a more comprehensive
governmental structure arriving
in 1966, they term 1965 as “a
very progressive year.”
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FAMOUS GEORGIA DOGWOOD
MAKE GEORGIA BEAUTIFUL MONTH’
Advantages Os Nursery Grown
Dogwoods
BY GERALD SMITH
Extension Horticulturist College of Agriculture
University of Georgia
Why purchase dogwood trees
from commercial nurseries
when they can be obtained with
out cost from the woods?
There are several reasons
why it is better to purchase
nursery-grown dogwoods.
There are definite advantages
in obtaining dogwoods which
have been grown in the fields
of commercial nurserymen.
Perhaps the greatest advant
age is the reduction of trans
planting shock and thus loss
during the first growing sea
son.
Dogwoods obtained from the
woods do not have a compact,
fibrous root system. Such trees
usually have a few large roots
that may extend several feet
from the plant. And these large
roots have only a small num
ber of fibrous roots.
It Is the number of small,
fibrous roots that males the
difference in survival. This Is
the type of root system that
has the ability to take up wa
ter readily.
Nursery-grown dogwoods are
root pruned as part of the pro
duction procedure. This root
pruning causes the production of
an extensive fibrous root sys
tem that can be dug easily.
This results in a mlnumum
amount of shock to the plant. It
becomes established readily,
grows off quite fast in compari
son with trees obtained from
the woods, and has a very good
chance of surviving.
Another advantage Is the fact
that nursery produced dogwoods
are grown In the open sun.
Those obtained from the woods
are generally from shaded
areas. Nursery grown plants,
when planted in sunny areas
in the yard, are already ac-
climated to the sun.
Nurserymen also have named
varieties of dogwoods avail
able. We generally think of
only white and pink forms of
the flowering dogwood which
is botanically known as Cornus
Florida. There are, however,
a number of named varieties
which are appearing on the
market that have superior char
acteristics. Cornus Florida Ru
bra Is the pink form with which
we are all familiar. It has the
same habit of growth, period of
flowering, and general behav
ior as the native dogwood. The
flower bracts are medium to
light pink in color.
A patented variety, “Chero-
Abercrombie In
Mayor Chair Now
Sharon Abercrombie, the mor
tician, is the new mayor of
Forest Park, having been sworn
in last Monday night by County
Ordinary Joe Lane at City Hall.
Three holdover councilmen
were sworn in too but by City
Manager C.C. Davis. Theywere
Raymond Johnson, Ward 1; Lo
ren B. Cheaves, Ward 2, and
Charles W. Summerday, Ward
5. Johnson had no opposition in
the recent election but Sum
merday and Cheaves were re
elected.
Art Caln succeeded Aber
crombie in Ward 3, the for
mer having resigned to run
for mayor. But Caln was sworn
in immediately following the
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kee Chief,” produces flower
bracts that are deep pink in
color and definitely darker than
those of “Rubra.” It Is a vi
gorous grower that flowers and
fruits readily. “Sweetwater,”
another recently Introduced
dark pink dogwood, shows con
siderable promise.
“Cherokee Princess” Is a
name variety of white dogwood
that is a considerable improve
ment over the standard white.
It is characterized by prolific
flower production. The large
white bracts begin to appear
when the trees are young.
“Cloud Nine,” another re
cent Introduction, is noted for
its flower production at an un
usually early age. The white
flower bracts are very wide
and tend to overlap, thus giv
ing the appearance of a more
complete flower.
“Springtime” is another new
white dogwood that shows pro
mise.
election.
A brief meeting was held under
the new mayor but little was
done. The next regular council
meeting is set for Jan. 17.
It was revealed yesterday that
Gary M. Bremer of Sylvester,
Ga., has been hired to suc
ceed Vernell Dickerson as city
finance officer, the latter hav
ing resigned effective last Dec.
24. to enter private employ
ment.
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