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NATIONAL NEWSPAPER WEEK
OCTOBER 9-15
GUY LINES •’ fouYßi,n "
Still Baffled
While Georgia folks are still
scratching their heads and some
are kicking
themselves In
the pants over
what happen
ed on run-off
day we can
be certain of
one thing:
The Maddox
victory as
suredly obfus
cated Messrs.
McGill and
Patterson. They can’t stand Re
publicans and they can’t stand
Lester Boy. They have really
been caught in a switch. And
yet, true to the blind Demo
cratic tradition, they appear
to be going along, bitter a pill
as it is to swallow, with their
old Pickrick pal.
A wag brought out another
good election point by which
the taxpayers might benefit,
which is a wee-bit of consola
tion: If Maddox goes into the
new million dollar mansion,
the guy says, we’ll get the new
furniture at a discount.
The writer has encountered
many people since the Big
Upset of last week who admit
ted they were for Callaway
but that they did a cross-over
and voted for Maddox on the
theory that he would be an
easier mark for Callaway Nov.
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But the strategy might very
well turn out bad. They may
have built themselves up a
Frankenstein for, off his two
impressive runs in the pri
mary and the run-off, the
’man who popularized the ax
handle may now go on to take
it all. Thus the Callaway sym
pathizers who were pulling a
smart play, they thought, may
have matched the feat of Wrong
Way Roy Riegels, the Califor
nia center who picked up a Tech
fumble in the Rose Bowl that
time and raced headlong toward
his own goal. He didn’t score a
touchdown for Tech because one
of his own men tackled him at
the two-yard line, But it set up
a score for Tech that beat
California.
Thus, those who voted for Mad
dox last week didn’t win the
game for Uncle Lester but they
TRY OUR FAMOUS
BROASTED
CHICKEN
may have set up the final victory
for him.
Maddox has generated a lot of
momentum in these last two
outings that may just sweep'
Mm right on into the governor
ship.
Has Momentum
Not a little of that steam was
built up by The Atlanta rlotlngs
and those of Chicago, San Fran
cisco and St. Louis, which were '
untimely for Ellis Arnall but
very timely for Maddox.
They undoubtedly produced
considerable white backlash.
I’ve heard a few people say
these last few days, “Well,
I’m a middle-of-the-roader
myself but if the Georgia peo
ple are just determined to have
somebody like Maddox, OK,
I’m going to vote for him Nov.
8 too and enjoy all the fun
that’s going to result.”
The question naturally comes
up: Once Maddox gets Into the
governor’s chair what’s he go-.
ing to do? What CAN he do to
correct the situation as it exists
today? Does he expect to turn
back the clock eight or 10 years
and return the Negro to his
old way of life? How can he?
The Supreme Court and Johnson
and Humphrey and Bobby
Kennedy and Javits and Adam
Clayton Powell will stand in
the way of that. Say nothing of
Martin Luther King and Stokely
Carmichael.
He might reject the Guidelines,
as Qov. Wallace has done, but
that Is only a stop gap.
Bo Callaway came In for some
criticism for a “weak kick
off” speech. But the contest has
a distance to go yet and while
Maddox could certainly win It,
don’t disparage the 39-year
old Republican’s chances.
It should be a dog-fight.
Politics & Sex
Callaway, we must admit,
Is the better-looking candidate
In the race and what does that
have to do with It? Well, just
this: I was reading an article
just yesterday from Made
moiselle Magazine In wMch the
author pointed out that thewo-
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TED TO PROGRESS ANO SERVICE IN CLAYTON COUNTY
Expansion Of’
Holiday Inn
At Callaway
PINE MOUNTAIN — Conven
tion and banquet facilities to ac
commodate 1,000 people are be
ing added to the present Holiday
Inn of Callaway Gardens. Con
struction began last week on the
new addition announced Alvin S.
Davis, president of Gardens
Services, Inc.
The new addition will combine
the present Holiday Center
building and the Gardens View
section.
Campaign Secrets
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Nancy Pudvin, 8, of Decatur, the 1967 Easter Seal
Poster Girl, whispers campaign secrets to University
of Georgia football coach Vince Dooley, 1967 state
Easter Seal campaign chairman. Listening also is
C. M. Wallace, Jr., president, Georgia Society for
Crippled Children and Adults, and vice president in
charge of sales, Georgia Power Company. To become
the state Easter Seal poster girl. Nancy, who has
received Easter Seal service for five years, won an elec
tion conducted by 78 Key Clubs throughout the state.
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FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1966
Women’s Clubs Back
GWTW Amphitheater
Plans for the construction of an
amphitheater and production of
an outdoor dramatic version of
“Gone With The Wind” moved
a step closer to reality this
week with announcement that
the Georgia Federation of Wo
men’s Clubs will lend Its state
wide support to the project for
the next two years.
Meeting in Macon, approxi
mately 250 members of the
Federation’s state executive
board heard Stan May, executive
vice president of the Clayton
County Chamber of Commerce,
review the progress thus far
and outline the task that lies
ahead. In making the presenta
tion, Mr. May commented that
“a non-profit corporation is
now being chartered to handle
the pagent and permission has
been obtained from the Mar
garet Mitchell Estate to name
it “Gone With the Wind Pagent,
Inc.’’ In addition, preliminary
CLOTHES BANK PICKS
OFFICERS FOR DRIVE
The Clothing Depository ad
visory committee held a dinner
meeting at Campbells Restaur
ant In East Point. Thirty two
members were present.
Reports were made of pro
gress. Over 2,000 families are
on record as receiving clothes.
About 700 children stay In
school with clothes furnished
them by the Clothing Bank.
Progress on building a down
stairs for storage was report
ed. Immediate Improvements of
a chain fence around parking
area, painting the building and
other things were voted when
the money becomes available.
The Christian ladles who put
up the clothes and wait on the
less fortunate were honored foi'
their faithful Christian work.
Vice chairman Buck Watson
praised the clothing workers
for their fine efforts In cloth
ing the needy.
A final act of business was to
elect officers for 1967:
E. E. (“Ed”) Crumbley, gen
eral chairman; Buck Watson,
vice chairman; A. O. ("Andy”)
Cochran, treasurer; Mrs. Jane
discussions are already under
way with a noted author to adapt
the book to the stage.”
Initial plans call for the con
struction of a 3,000 seat amphi
theater to be located In Clayton
County. Long range plans for the
total complex call for a his
torical museum to be known as
the “Margaret Mitchell Me
morial Museum.” The museum,
however, will not be Included
in the first phase of construc
tion.
M. G. Keiser, chairman of the
Amphitheater and Pagent Steer
ing committee, commenting on
the Women’s Clubs support,
said “tills is one of our big
gest single achievements to
date. We feel the Gone With
the Wind Pagent will develop
Into one of Georgia’s major at
tractions, thus benefiting all
Georgians. I’m sure this was
a deciding factor In the Wo
men’s Clubs decision to getbe
hlnd this project.”
Smith, secretary; Mrs. J. B.
Knox, schedule chairman; Mrs.
Beulah Cleutat, coarrange
ments chairman; Mrs. Grace
Wilkie, co-arrangements
chairman; Mrs. Sam Gilbert
records chairman; Golden
Greene, auditor projects chair
man.
Sponsors of the operation are:
Loyal Order of Moose, East
Point, Hapeville, Forest Park
Lodges; Tri-Cities B&PW Club;
Ministerial Assn, of East Point;
Lay Comm, of East Point Heal
th Council; VFW, East Point
Post #7007; American Legion,
East Point Post #sl.
Newnan
Outlasts
N. Clayton ,
North Clayton’s once-pow- ■
erful Eagles, struggling to
regain the glory of old after
a winless season in 1965,
fought a good fight against
Newnan High in Newnan last
Friday night but succumbed.
14-0.
The Eagles held Newnan
0-0 through the first half
but were worn down in the
last two periods when Eddie
Traylor and Buddy Cooper
sped through them for
touchdowns.
It was a Region 4-AA con
test and Clayton’s third de
feat In five games.
This week the Eagles bat
tle Hapeville in College Park.
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Dooley Again
Easter Seal
Head Coach
Georgia’s head football coach,
Vince Dooley, will carry the
ball again for the Easter Seal
campaign as 1967 State Chair
man, it was announced by Eas
ter Seal Society president C.
M. Wallace, Jr., sales vice
president of Georgia Power Co.
Tagged with the title, “Eas- ■
ter Seal’s Head Coach,” Dooley
rallied thousands of volunteers
over the state to help crippl
ed children and adults. Their
efforts inspired Georgians to
contribute $276,765.10 to the
1966 Easter Seal Appeal. This
was an increase of almost sl9,
€OO over the 1965 campaign
total.
In taking the state chairman
sMp again, Coach Dooley stated,
“I found working with the Eas
ter Seal Society most gratify
ing and hope to do an even bet
ter job in 1967.”
Clayton CC
Endorses
Bond Issue
The board of directors of the
Clayton County Chamber of
Commerce, In recent action,
unanimously endorsed the en
tire bond Issue that will be
presented to the voters Tues
day, Oct. 25.
The bond Issue covers two pro
grams. One program, totaling
$1,100,000, will provide for the
following: addition of 4 class
rooms and lunchroom at Ash
St. Elementary; addition of 6
classrooms and toilets at the
Lee Street Elementary; addi
tion of 4 classrooms, library
and offices at Riverdale Ele
mentary; converting Mt. View
Elementary to County Sewage
System; laboratory center on
Suder Campus (partly financed
by U. of Ga.); equipment for
North Clayton High, Lake Har
bin Elementary, and all other
above additions.
The second program, totaling
$4,900,000, covers the cost of
constructing and equipping a
new Junior College In Clayton
County as announced recently
by tire State Board of Regents.
In announcing the board’s ac
tion, Martin Burks, Chamber
president, emphasized the need
for continued progress In the
County’s rapidly growing edu
cation system by providing the
best possible facilities. He add
ed, “Clayton County is current
ly leading the entire state In
rate of growth, and we now
have the Bth largest school
system. All Indications are
that this growth will continue,
and we must act now to meet
these needs so as to Insure
a favorable school program.”
With respect to the new Jun
ior College, Mr, Burks stated
I “the college Is planned to ac
• comodate an Initial enrollment
। of 2,000 students. Since It will
employ approximately 150 per
sons, mostly professional, It
will, In addition to Its educa
tional significance, be the equi
valent of adding a several mil
lion dollar Industry to our com
munity. We wholeheartedly en
; dorse this program and urge
the voters to support It on Octo
ber 25th.
Jonesboro
Loses After
Hard Fight
The Jonesboro Cardinals
put up one of their sternest
battles of the season last
Friday night on their home
gridiron before bowing to
Therrell High of Atlanta,
13-6. All the scoring hap
pened in the first half, the
Cardinals rising up with a
rugged defense to halt the
foe in the third and fourth
quarters.
Therrell gained 12 first
downs to Jonesboro’s 5 and
outrushed them, 241 yards
against 25. In passing it was
58 to 24.
Halfback Bob Kunis scored
both times for Therrell, go
ing 3 yards and 26 yards, re
spectively.
Viars got Jonesboro's TD,
intercepting a pass and
dashing 36 yards.
Henry W. Grady High in
vades the Cards’ domain
Friday night.
State’s Papers
Add 58,521
Georgia newspapers, weekly
and dally, made a circulation
gain of 58,521 during the last
12 months, the new Georgia
Press Assn, directory shows.
Present combined circulation
Is now 1,443,380.
The 1967 edition of the offi
cial directory of Georgia news
papers show 219 member
newspapers, 31 of which are
dally and two seml-weekly.
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'STRANGEST’ RACE
NOW UNDER WAY
(GPS) The strangest political race in perhaps all Georgia
history is now under way. It is for the governorship of Georgia.
The contestants are Howard (Bo) Callaway of Pine Mountain,
a one-term Republican U.S. congressman from the third district
who once was a Democrat, and Atlanta businessman Lester
Maddox, a staunch segregationist who has never been elected
to public office. .
What make the race so un
usual is the way they became
the nominees of their respec
tive parties. Callaway’s name is
on the Nov. 8 general election
ballot by virtue of the petition
process, a perfectly legal
maneuver.
Maddox became the Democra
tic party’s nominee after he fin
ished second in the recent pri
mary and then went on to defeat
former Gov. Ellis Arnall in a
runoff election. His victory has
been described as the biggest
upset victory in Georgia in mo
dern times.
Some Democrats charged that
Republicans voted In large num
ber in the Democratic primary
and helped Maddox win so Call
away would be facing the weaker
of the two candidates. The Re
publicans deny this, saying that
failure of top Democratic lea
ders to publicly express their
preference in the runoff had
more to do with the outcome than
anything else.
Both Callaway, a 39-year-old
textile industry millionaire, and
Maddox, former Atlanta res
taurateur and now in the furni
ture business, are strong advo
cates of states rights and are
classed as conservatives, Mad
dox, who closed his restaurant
rather than serve Negroes, is an
admitted out-and-out segrega
tionist.
Callaway, who sat on the side
lines and held his fire while the
six Democratic candidates
knocked themselves out for the
right to become his opponent,
lost little time In officially
launching his campaign after the
runoff was decided.
Two days after It was over —
on Maddox’s 51st birthday—
Callaway unveiled his platform
at a large rally in downtown
Atlanta on the fringe of the
Georgia State College campus.
It was preceded by a parade
which featured floats,“GOBO”
girls, banners and old automo
biles.
The youthful GOP candidate in
his speech took a strong stand
for states rights, honesty and
efficiency in government, better
education, mental health ad
vances, industrial and tourism
development, highway im
provement and “protection of
life and property.”
Giving top priority to educa
tion, Callaway said his first ap
propriations bill as governor
would put most of the SIOO
- state surplus into edu
cation.
“It is a matter of record.”
he declared, “that areas with
great economic growth also
have a great educational sys
tem.
“Industry once was attracted
by promises of cheap labor and
cost savings. Today they ask
‘How good is your education
al system?’ And when they do
our answer must be, ‘The best
in America.”’
Callaway promised that part of
the surplus and “a healthy por
tion” of other revenue will go
for pay raises to teachers and
administrators. He also went on
record for more school build
ings, extended vocational edu-
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NUMBER 174
Sen. Murphy
Speaker At
Fund Dinner
Plans are being finalized for
what is termed “one of the lar
gest fund-raising dinners ever
held in Georgia Oct. 8 at 8
p.m. at the Dinkier Plaza Hotel
in Atlanta.
Dinner chairman Dillard Mun
ford, said California Sen.
George Murphy will be the
speaker at the SIOO a plate
affair to raise funds for guber
natorial candidate Howard (Bo)
Callaway’s campaign.
"This dinner will draw inter
ested citizens from the entire
State of Georgia,” Mun
ford said. “We expect this to
represent a monumental effort
on behalf of Bo Callaway.”
Munford called Sen. Murphy
“one of the really outstanding
senators in the country today.
Sen. Murphy is a truly dynamic
person as evidenced by his de
feat of Pierre Salinger for the
Senate seat in 1964.”
cation, more junior colleges anJ
improvements to universities
and graduate schools.
A former director of the State
Chamber of Commerce, Calla
way disclosed a three-point
program for industrialization
and otcupational training. His
“Human Investment Act” would
offer tax benefits to employers
for training or retraining work
ers.
“Keep Georgia’s Talent”pro
gram would Induce students to
stay in the state, he said. He
also called for special pro
grams to attract scientific in
dustries.
Callaway’s anticrime platform
plank calls for prevention by
way of better education, men
tal health and recreation—fea
turing a “program of small
state parks, located within city
neighborhoods and containing
modest gymnasiums” to be run
by cities and independent or
ganizations.
Vowing to beef up law en
forcement agencies and over
haul the prison system, the
GOP candidate declared:
“Rehabilitation is our goal,
but if we cannot erase the
criminal tendencies in a man
we must insist that sentences
for habitual criminals be made
stiffer.”
In promising toimprove Geor
gia’s highways, Callaway as
serted that his administration
“once and for all is going to take
the State Highway Dept, out of
politics.”
Meanwhile, after Callaway’s
big kickoff in Atlanta, Lester
Maddox is continuing his cam
paign by making trips over the
state and shaking many hands.
As both these candidates cam
paign, the sl-plus million go
vernor’s mansion in Atlanta is
expected to be finished to re
ceive one of them in January.
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