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THE FOREST PARK NEWS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1966
The Forest Pork News
IWh S. Ik\TR.4L ll‘L Forest Pork, Go. 366— 3080
Foat Office lee 23, Forest PoA, Go.
Newspaper
Mica ted to Service
NATIONAL (OITOCIAI
Guy Butler, Editor
Subsc-P'.on Role S2OO Yeo, • Published Eoch Thuridoy
Entered Ai Second Clou Motter ot Forett Pork, Go.
YOUR SOCIAL SECURITY
Skaggs said that 120,000 Americans reach 65 each month. He estimated that 137 of these live
In th.> East Point area, and “are vitally affected by the medicare enrollment provisions ”
According to Skaggs, the enrollment period for signing up for doctor bill Insurance Is a 7-month
period spanning 3 months before the month In which age 65 occurs and through 3 months after
the 65tL birthday month. However, Skaggs warned, persons will have medical Insurance coverage
effective at the earliest possible month (65th birthday month) only If they sign up In one of the
3 months before the month of their birthday. Those signing up In the month of their 65th birth
day or in one of the following 3 months will not be protected for 1 to 3 months after they enroll.
Skaggs pointed out an interesting sidelight. Under the law a person Is considered to reach
65 on the day before his 65th birthday. Therefore, if a birthday falls on the first day of the month
that person reaches 65 on the last day of the previous month for social security eligibility pur
poses. A person born September 1 would legally be 65 on August 31. His medicare enrollment
period for doctor bill Insurance runs from May 1 through November 30. This person would have
medical Insurance protection for the whole month of August only by enrolling before the end of
July. By waiting until September, his doctor bill Insurance protection would not begin until No
veinber.
It is not necessary to retire In order to enroll In the medicare program, Skaggs emphasized.
However, he said, an application Is a necessity. He stated that many persons nearing age 65
are continuing to work and are therefore not getting in touch with their local social security dis
trict offices. Their failure to enroll for doctor bill Insurance during the seven month enroll
ment period means that they will not have another opportunity until the last 3 months of the next
odd-numbered year or October-December 1967. In addition, there may be a higher premium than
the present $3 monthly and coverage would not begin until the following July Ist.
Some may find an added bonus by an early social security contact, he noted. Even though they
may still be working full time, some cash benefits may be payable because of the more liberal
rules regarding th’ amount they may earn and still receive partial social security cash benefits.
If any older persons are not able to visit their local social security office, Skaggs urged that they
start the application process by a letter or telephone call, v.lthout delay. The social security
distr led office in East Point is located at 2727 Main St. The telephone number Is 766-7561.
The office Is open Saturday mornings 8 a.m. to 12 noon to help those folks who cannot come In
during the week.
Oct. Vaudeville, Scouting Skill*
Cub Scouts will put on vaude
ville shows and Boy Scouts will
compete in scouting skill con
tests during October, according
to the month’s program themes
GETTING UP
MI^UTC MAKES many
mun 13 FEEL OLD
After 35. common Kidney or Bladder Ir
ritations often occur and may make you
tense and nervous from too frequent
passages both day and night Second
arily, you may lose sleep and suffer from
Headaches. Backache and feel old. tired,
depressed In such irritation CYBTEX
usually brings fast, relaxing comfort by
Curbing nutating gertns in strong, acid
Ui me and by anatomic el>H. Oct
CYBTEX at drugglEr frl Wetter-last
WILL OPEN IN
Clayton Plaza
SHOPPING CENTER
Wed., Oct. 12
AT 10 A.M.
PLAN TO ATTEND
THIS GRAND OPENING
SUNSHINE'S BRINGS YOU
FANTASTIC
BARGAINS!
2824 JONESBORO ROAD FOREST PARK
announced by Joe King, Scout
commissioner of the Tara Dis
trict, Atlanta Area Council.
Cub Scout Vaudeville Is the Oc
tober theme for Cub Scout pack;;
-in the district, and each of the
। several dens in a Cub Scout pack
will prepare a puppet show,
magic show, hootenanny, musi
cal review, pantomine, or char
age for the monthly pack meet
ing.
Most of the Cub Scout packs
also plait to take part In Fire
Prevention Week projects and
to work on earning the “Family
<» w
Tara District will practice such
Scoutcraft skills as first aid,
fire building, cooking, signal
ling, knot tying, coinpass and
map orientation to prepare for
a troop rally that will feature
competitive skill events for Its
patrols—the small groups of
boys that make up each troop.
Suggested activities for the
highschool age Explorer posts
during October Include a Hallo
ween party, a meeting for pros
pective members as a part of the
Follow the Rugged Road round
up, and a car rally to test Ex
plorers’ navigating and driving
skill, King said.
Jh • EDITORIAL t
Gmml
facts About Grapes
tAon hot cultivated a rape, tinea
HVI bitlory began. Grape
|Ala7a r seeds have been found in Bronze
ot the Swiss lake
\\ t / dwellings, and buried in the Pyr-
,a,\\ r i omids with the Pharoahs. And
47' \\ A / A ,h **« “•d* mueh lik * th*
\ V X/ i seeds of modem grapes.
America actually got its first I L
name —“Vinland”— because /r niMf I U I A
of the abundance of wild //Jfd^lSA. /7K>
grapes found by Leif Ericson TwesSy
in 1000 A.D. But grapes were W™((lyxtvKA
not actively cultivated in i"? 1
America until after 1800. ' A'S <o
Today, California leads at a 1 '
producer of “eating'' grapet. .Us*—
About 20% of all the world't H \
table grapet are grown there.
sb
Favorite for eating is the
t “while'' grape known as
Wyl' jvwivV'X Thompson Seedless. But it
Y /'PAjLUdh wouldn't exist at all except for
\ 1 a luclcy 75 yeart ago,
\ ° California farmer named
>C Williom Thompson found three
vl V) r^l A®' Jsinl If odd 'l°°kmg cuttings. Curious,
] 7 i’l/[ Irßw* A ll I be planted them. One survived
11/ ' J H and bore an unutual light green
i'V* J n’l ' berry, sweet in taste and with-
" / I ou * seeds. All Thompson Soed-
x / f / 'AV J .idL '**’ O^P B * eaten today are de-
/ I 'OnT » tß "ded from that one cutting.
MARSHALL PLAN IN REVERSE
(Editor’s Note: This Is another In the “LaGrange College Perspectives,” a weekly series of
Informative and Interpretative articles on current affairs and problems. It was prepared for The
Forest Park News by the faculty of the Methodist, coeducational, senior college In LaGrange, Ga.)
BY DR. VIRGIL S. DAVIS
History Department, LaGrange College
The South has appeared Inferior to other sections of the U.S, through much of our history. Before
the Civil War It was largely moral inferiority. The South was looked upon as Immoral because It
maintained the Institution of slavery.
Since the war It has been economic Inferiority. It took no expert to detect the abject poverty of
the South. Few have sought to understand or explain the nature and causes of this poverty. The
South was subjected to punitive measures and corrupt administration more serious than war
destruction.
There are several reasons for the declining wealth of the South. The first, of course, was war
destruction. The most obvious loss was Investment in slaves—estimated to have been from two
to four billion dollars. Without the traditional labor force land values, formerly SSO-200 per acre,
dropped to $3-5. Since slaves and land represented the two greatest concentrations of Investment
the Invested capital of the South was wiped out. Poorer land could not be given away because of
tax liabilities.
Confederate money was without value. Many assets had been converted Into Confederate securi
ties, all of which were worthless after the war. Banks and Insurance companies were thus de
stroyed. Losses of personal property equaled the entire official expenditures of the war. Colleges
and other schools were destroyed and their endowments were worthless. Atlanta, Charleston,
Columbia, Charleston, Richmond and Jackson were almost completely destroyed. It has been
estimated that there was less than SIO,OOO In Richmond when Grant occupied the city. Total
wealth of the South was reduced to less than one-third that of 1860,
War does not destroy land, however, and an agricultural section normally makes a quick re
covery from war destruction. The South was not permitted to recover. Treasury agents were sent
into the South to confiscate all Confederate-owned property and produce. Since the Confederacy
had accepted cotton, tobacco, rice, sugar and pork In payment of taxes, there was considerable
government-owned produce at the end of the war. About 150,000 bales of cotton were so owned.
Treasury agents were offered a 25 per cent commission on all goods confiscated. They swarmed
over the South and confiscated indiscriminately. Some 3,000,000 bales of cotton were taken aS
well as vast quantities of livestock, tobacco, rice, sugar, and anything else of value. Property
was sold by the agents and the money pocketed. Secretary of the Treasury Hugh McCul’ock
stated, "I am sure I sent some honest agents South; but it sometimes seems very doubtful
whether any of them remained honest very long.”
A punitive tax of two and one-half to three cents pier pound was Imposed upon cotton. This tax
alone drained over $68,000,000 from the South. Taxes In Mississippi were Increased 1,400 per
cent. Few property holders were able to survive.
The resources so sorely needed for recovery were stripped from the South and the section has
remained economically subservient to the North.
It has been suggested that the South asked for and deserved this treatment. Japan and Germany
deserved their defeats following World War H also, but the Marshall Plan poured millions into _
those countries. With WW n and the Marshall Plan within the span of our experience, the federal
government seems more concerned with securing unqualified conformity from the South than in I
its ultimate and complete recovery. It has been a Marshall Plan in reverse more often than not. ।
CLAYTON DEMOS ELECT All Buildings At "*1
Clayton County Democratic
executive committee met at the
Courthouse In Jonesboro Satur
day, Oct. 1, for the purpose
of reorganizing and electing
members of the committee to
the Sixth Congressional District
executive committee.
The following officers of the
Clayton Democratic executive
committee were elected to
serve for the next four years:
W. W. Mundy, Sr., chairman;
Mrs. Sara Scott, vice chair
man; G. P. McMullen, vice
chairman, and W. W. Wells, se
cretary and treasurer.
The following members of the
Clayton Democratic executive
committee were unanimously
elected as members of the Sixth
Congressional District execu
tive committee: Mrs. Gwen P.
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Grayson, John G. Glover, Jr.
and Howell B. Cox.
The present membership of the
committee is composed of the
following: Panhandle District,
Mrs. S. H. Price and Mrs. L.
H. Rlckett; Lovejoy District,
R. R. Purcell; Jonesboro Dis
trict, W. W. Mundy, Sr. and
G. P. McMullen; Morrow-Ad
amson District, Mrs. Gwen
P. Grayson and John G. Glover,
Jr.: Forest Park District, B.
H. Murphy and W. W. Wells;
Mountain View District, M.
Clayton Porter and Jess A. Wal
ler; Riverdale District, Mrs.
Sara Scott and C. L. Cawthon;
Ellenwood District, Roy Z.
Chamlee and Ralph Smith; Oak
District, Howell B. Cox and
J. L. Lester.
They were elected In the Sept.
14 Primary.
IS AGE OF MIRACLES PAST?
BY LEWIS LLEWELLYN
Is the age ofmlraclespast?DoesGodno longer work in wondrous ways to do His will among men’’
Certainly we do not see today, on any widespread scale, a daily repetition of healings and other
I miraculous events such as are recorded in the pages of the New Testament.
But, if God is not ordinarily working to day as He did in times past — in spectacular healings of
I the blind, the deaf, and the lame —is it necessarily true that He is not performing genuine mira-
I cles now?
NOT A MIRACLE?
J Is it not a miracle when a man who has for years been a slave to alcohol Is suddenly, through the
power of Christ, enabled to break loose from the shackles which have held him and to become a
child of God —a new man in Christ?
Those who have experienced this complete change say that it is nothing short of miraculous.
~n Ot a miracle when a teen-ager who has become a dope addict, hopelessly and helplessly
enthralled by th^ demon of drugs, finds Christ to be the way bv which he is set free from this
degrading and destructive habit?
The Bible tells of the time when Peter was in prison, by command of King Herod, who intended
to execute him. The night before the day of execution, Peter was sleeping between two guards, to
whom he was chained, when an angel appeared to him and led him out of the prison to freedom
This was a miracle.
But Is It any less a miraculous working of the power of God when a man who has been chained
by sin - from which he has often tried to break away, without success - suddenly finds that he is
set free through faith in Christ? y 1
POWER OF CHRIST
Those who have experienced this miracle in their lives will tell you that it is a real mani
festation of the power of Christ — no less a miracle because the fetters that bound them could
not be seen by human eyes.
If you have not yet felt the power of God In your life In this way, let me assure you that God is i
able to perform such a miracle in your life, as He has in the lives of many others.
He is waiting for you to come to Him -- and Jesus said, “Him that cometh unto Me I will
in no wise cast out.”
DON’T MAKE PAYMENTS TO SS FAKERS
Here’s a warning to persons
at least 65 years old from Don
Skaggs, district manager of the
East Point Social Security Of
fice. Do not make money pay
ments to anyone regarding So
cial Security matters until
you’re convinced he is a Social
Milledgeville
Meet Standards
MILLEDGEVILLE—AII build
ings at the Milledgeville State
Hospital now meet minimal
safety standards as required
by state law, Comptroller Ge
neral James L. Bentley said
here.
Bentley, State Fire Safety
Commissioner since 1963, gave
final clearance to the last two
buildings In the hospital com
pound.
Bentley, State Fire Marshal
Bob Gore and hospital ad
ministrator Dr. James Craig
Inspected new safety measures
in the two buildings, and Bent
ley signed the formal certifi
cates of occupancy.
NEWS; VIEWS
* FEATURES e OPINIONS '
Security employee. If a per
son comes to your home re
presenting the Social Security
Administration ask for his Iden
tification. All Social Security
representatives have identi
fication and will be glad to
Bail [I g >
SEE NEW HOMES LOCATED
IN
CEDAR GROVE SUBDIVISION
(Off Bouldererest, Conley, Ga.)
Restricted Area f
3 Houses - 4124 - 4177 - 4226
Cedar Valley Lane.
All - spilt level, 4 oedrooms,
3 baths, Frigidaire appliances,
central heating, double garages.
BUY DIRECT FROM BUILDER AND
SAVE FHA FINANCED
Stanley Construction Company
241-1612
The shortest distance
between two points.
Dialing Long Distance direct.
Faster. Easier.
Like calling next door.
All this, and
. low station-to-station rates, too. »
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identify themselves. Anyone
who refuses to show his identi
fication will not be a Social
Security representative. If such
a person contacts you and asks
for money payments call the
Social Security Office immedi
ately at 766-7561.