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• Forest Park Free-Press-News, June 23, 1955
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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Jonesboro
FOREST PARK AND JONESBORO, GEORGIA
Forest Park Post Office Box 87
Phone: FAirfax 5811
Phone: Jonesboro 6641
Offices:
FOREST PARK REALTY CO. BLDG., 1138 North Main St.
ROOM NO. 6, CITY HALL, JONESBC RO
CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLISHING COMPANY
JACK TROY ... Editor and Publisher
E. W. VAN HOUTEN __ Associate Editor
MRS. CONNIE BROWN ... . Society Editor
MRS. CORINNE BLALOCK Society Editor
JOHN CURRIE Reporter
P. L. HOOPER 1 Staff Photographer.
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, CLAYTON COUNTY ———
Herman Talmadge Says:
My good friend, Jack Troy, editor and
publisher of this paper, asked me recently
the value to a community of a prison camp
and prison labor.
Living in neighboring Henry County and,
though owning some lake property in Clay
ton, I can best answer that by acquainting
you fine people of Clayton County with my
experience as Chief Executive of our great
State of Georgia.
The State used prison labor to build the
Boys’ Camp at Blackshear and the 4-H Club
installations at Rock Eagle Lake.
I feel sure the expenditure—a saving of
hundreds of thousands of dollars—will in
terest you. Not having the exact figures
before me but being thoroughly familiar
with the breakdown of costs, I can tell you
that the saving to the taxpayers of Georgia
amounted to about $1.25 on every $2.00 of
work.
In other words, the State of Georgia,
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'Farmers Be Dammed’ Appears
To Be Present Federal Policy
Here in God’s county of Clayton County,
where we have in the neighborhood of 900
farms—and County Agent Tom Cole pur
sues a relentless six and sometimes seven
days-a-weck schedule to get around to aid
his friends and serve the area to the best
of his great ability—observations of Agri
culture Commissioner Phil Campbell will
be of more than passing interest.
Campbell recently told delegates to the
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation
convention, Atlanta, that “federal policies
have favored big business to the detriment
of the farmers.”
Campbell was in no position to take the
broader view and tell tire convention that
our government, ever since the Republicans
took office, has favored big business in ev
ery detail.
The writer spent a long tour of duty with
the National Association of Manufacturers
and, while the dear old NAM claims that it
represents big and little business around
the country, the full-blown lobby in Wash
ington-one of the most powerful of all
lobbying organizations—is set up, geared
and synchronized to the ideal of big busi
ness. And when you run down a score
sheet of bills rammed through the Congress,
you’ll find that big business is in the driver’s
seat. NAM-sponsored legislation, when
pushed hard, usually passes.
When all this happens to the detriment
of the farmer, on whose back-breaking toil
and produce, the nation depends, then it's
Spider Wise Mr. Merchant
Editor's Note—We are indebted to Ed
Brown for sending us this gem of wis
dom.)
During Mark Twain’s early days in the
newspaper business in Missouri he received
a letter from a subscriber stating that he
had found a spider in his paper and Risking
if this was an omen of good or bad luck.
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using prison labor in these two places, made
an expenditure of .75 cents against what
would have been a normal expenditure of
$2.00, using contract labor.
A swimming pool that would normally
cost in excess of $50,000 was built down
there at $1.25 off on every $2.00 that would
have been spent had the pool been built by
a contractor.
In my years in the Governor’s office I
tried conscientiously to keep the taxpayers
in mind in the expenditure of dollars- I
fully realized it was the people’s money, not
the State’s, and I thought it only fair that
we get the fullest possible return on these
dollars.
If the proposed prison camp in Clayton
County becomes a reality the savings to the
taxpayers will be just as great as it was to
the citizens of Georgia in the operations at
Blackshear, Rock Eagle and in other places.
time for somebody to speak out.
The Republicans clamored loudly that it
was time for a change, when General Eisen
hower, the hybrid “politician,” who was a
Democrat and turned Republican, was
picked as the prime candidate of the party
because of his wartime popularity.
Eisenhower blundered through some
campaign speeces about farm problems, of
which he knew exactly nothing, and the
listeners on those radio and TV programs
couldn’t help but notice it.
Ike got smoother in his speeches, but no
“brain” on farming problems, as he went
along. The Palace Guard called the shots,
and the inevitable result when you have
dollar marks in the Nation’s Capital instead
of human beings, was that the farmer—the
salt of the earth—has caught it in the neck
through these long years of drouth, freeze
and Republicans.
Adding insult to injury, when Senior Sen
ator Walter George, Vienna, could have
aided his farmer friends in Georgia by join
ing with Sam Rayburn in the fight for a
S2O-a-head reduction in income taxes, he
instead became the nominal leader of the
Republican party, shilled for Big Four, and
advocated tossing a few extra billion into
the pot for Asian aid. He opposed the tax
cut with all his might.
I’m a cross-eyed Davy Crockett, if the
Chinks need any greater aid than our tax
paying Clayton County and Georgia farm
ers. And you can bet me-
Twain replied: "Finding a spider in your
paper is neither good luck nor bad. The
spider was merely looking over our paper
to see which merchant was not advertising
so that he could go to that store, spin his
web across the door and lead a life of un
disturbed peace ever afterward.
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Letters to the Editor
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Mr. Jack Troy, Editor
Forest Park Free Press
Forest Park, Georgia
Dear Jack:
On behalf of the City of Forest Park, I would like to express
our appreciation to the Forest Park Free Press and to Foster Broth
ers Super Market for your splendid effort in behalf of the Little
League baseball teams and youth of Forest Park for the auspicious
opening made possible by your efforts.
We all know and recognize our responsibility to the youth of
our community. Efforts made to use up their energies in a worth
while cause will reflect in better citizens when the boys grow into
manhood. I am sure all the citizens and civic organizations in the
City join me in expressing our appreciation for this event.
Yours very truly,
MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF FOREST PARK
By W. H. Fleming, Mayor Pro-Tem.
Dear Editor,
I would like to call your attention to an article in the Free
Press by Herman E. Talmadge. Mr. Talmadge was criticizing the
Federal government for not reducing Federal taxes to pre-Korean
levels.
Mr. Talmadge’s criticism was very inappropriate at the time
and should have been at the State government. I am not a Re
publican; but at least, they are not raising our taxes as the Demo
cratic party of our State is.
The fact is that during the time Mr. Talmadge was governor
our State taxes increased $100,000,000, and now the present admin
istration is trying to add $65,000,000 more. I think the people of
Georgia should correct the taxes of our State first.
There was one part of the article that I agreed with Mr. Tal
madge on, that was about Canada lowering taxes to increase busi
ness. This is the first thing that I’ve agreed with Mr. Talmadge on
since he tried to “take over” Georgia when his father died.
So I say to you and to Mr. Talmadge, “Let’s correct our State
taxes so something will ‘grow’ in Georgia beside taxes.”
WILLIAM L. GREEN,
CA 5930—June 3, 1955
Mr. Jack Troy, Editor
Forest Park Free Press
Forest Park, Georgia
Dear Jack:
We take this means of expressing to you our sincere thanks for
your help, suggestions, and participation in the Little League Base
ball program this year which officially got underway on Monday
night, June 6, 1955.
If it'were not for your kind and liberal contributions together
with other groups and clubs, the program could not have gotten
underway in such grand fashion on opening night.
The “Boys and Girls” Committee of our Kiwanis Club has
charge of this program and any questions, suggestions, or publicity
with respect thereto should be directed to this committee or to the
Little League Director, Lynn Wells. Members of said committee
are William McCoy, Chairman; W. H. (Bill> Fleming, W. W. Foust
and Terrell Starr.
We urge you to come out and see some of the ball games. You
will be glad that you did.
Thanking you again, I am.
Sincerely,
BILL LEE, President,
The Kiwanis Club of Forest Park
C/ayton County Views
BY MRS. PAULINE BRANYON
Forest Park, like Topsy, “Itr
just crowed", and now it is
bursting out of its seams even ;
' with all its new clothes. It wasn't ,
. many years ago when it was a ;
quiet little village with two
store;, and the Post Office was ।
' in the late Frank Puckett’s home
; —he, a beloved old dear, was
postmaster as long as he lived
He was post master before Astor.
; Ga. became Forest Park.
The Confederate veterans of
the old 30th Georgia Regiment
used to hold their annual re
unions in the grove where the
City Hall now stands. Frank
Puckett and my late father, who
was ^resident of the reunion, did
all the work, but folks came for
miles around to hear the oratory
and the war was fought all over
again by the Clayton County
• veterans. They met annually, the
last Friday in July until almost
; the last man had passed on.
Jonesboro, quiet and sedate.
r was bigger than Atlanta at one
’ time just before Civil War Days.
> we have been told. Eycn during
. the late 70s, Jonesboro had about
28 saloons, and on Saturday aft
ernoons was very tough. Would
g you believe it. the people got rid
of the saloons without the aid cf
the Atlanta papers?
Mountain View was named
Maxwelton first, a good old
Scotch name given it by the late
Mrs. Loulie M. Condon, the best
known photographer in Atlanta
then. She lived in the house on
the hill where the girls’ camp
now stands and she commuted
to Atlanta on the “dummy”.
That dummy! What would
people in Clayton County have
done without that dummy which
J made five fdund trips per day
between Jonesboro and Atlanta?
It was a train with a personality,
and everybody in all parts of the
county loved it with its smoke,
soot, dirt and noise. Working
folk had to ride the dummy to
get to Atlanta, tor the automo
biles had not run the poor old
dummy off the tracks then. It
finally had to give way to prog
ress in the late 20s.
We don’t want the “good old
days" to come back, we like the
new days much better. We like
all the new inventions that
make living so much easier. Mod
ern transportation takes us
places in a hurry. Radio and tele
vision give us the news just after
“it happened". Modem farming
and modern dairying are no
longer drudgery, but if Clayton
County continues to spread,
where will the fanners farm, and
the dairymen dairy?
The big new stores and super
markets in Forest Park. Jones
boro, and other towns constant
ly amaze us. The “general store”
where Saturday afternoons draw
crowds of horses and buggies,
and maybe a few ears, are al
most history. Yet we love th?
memory of those calico and
gingnam shelves, and the smell
of the foods, and kerosene
sprouting potatoes. No chain
store can take that away from
us.
New things, new ideals and
Ideas, new inventions, new peo
ple cause us to burst at the
seams, but isn’t it nice to put
on a new dress? Clayton County
has its brand new dress—not just
Sunday-go-to - meeting" dress,
but a new dress for every day.
Thit’c just how fast we are
growing.
From Where I
SELDOM
sit
By Lloyd
W. Lloyd Matthews,
“Wliat a wonderful feeling” as
of Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday. I felt like Tuesday was
Thursday, Wednesday and Fri
day and here I come up with
three days left.
Now, thanks to Jack Troy who
is bearing this load, I can go
fishing, golfing and have some
time in my back yard.
Don’t get me wrong, this is
just half of the responsibility
I’ve been carrying. I still have
the job printing part of this
business which I will personally
supervise. In^the event I’m out
drumming up new orders, Mr.
Doug Compton can take care of
all phases in that end and we
can be reached by phone at the
old number, Jonesboro 5021
However the new listing in the
telephone directory will be under
Lloyd’s of Georgia with the same
number, 5021.
The new number of the Clay
ton County News will be Jones^,
boro 6641 or at Forest Park FA
5811.
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DAVY CROCKETT WAS
CAREFUL MAN
This fellow Davy Crockett
everybody is singing about must
have been quite a chap. The fatt
that he lived such a long and
useful life before winning im
mortality at the Alamo may have
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been due to the
fact that he
never smoked in
bed, never burn
ed leaves and
brush on a
, windy day and
never struck
I flint and steel
while peering
[into his powder
horn to see if
his powder was
dry.
Carelessness when dealing with
man s worst enemy — FIRE —
has cost more lives and destroyed
more property than wilfulness.
We do have arson cases to inves
tigate in Georgia, but only a
^ery small per cent of the fires
m this state or in these United
States are set intentionally.
Most of them are caused by
men and women whose inten
tions were entirely innocent.
They didn't even intend to he
careless. They just plain forgot
to be careful in the face of firs
hazards in the home or in Th*-
various places where they work.
Arson investigations are an
important feature of the work
of the Georgia Safety Fire Com
mission; but more important is
the constant practice and
preaching of fire prevention
methods. Our fire prevention
program in Georgia has served
as a pattern for many sister
states to follow. From other
states and from foreign coun
tries come inquiries concerning
the work of school children who
have served their state so well as
Junior Fire Marshals and Jun
ior Fire Inspectors. I cannot
commend their earnest efforts
100 highly, and I can only hope
and pray that their elders will
be as careful as they are when
working or playing with fire.
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This was a doggoned fun-loving area, or let us say, the boys
used to have more excitement than otherwise at election time,
Christmas and Halloween in the days when Grandpa Frank Puckett,
wearing his long white beard, gave the City a fine administration
with the help of one constable.
Good old Forest Park. Uncle, or Grandpa, Frank Puckett had
was marshal then. Or constable.
Maybe it wasn’t exactly in Uncle Frank’s administration, but
jt was as close as first base is to second, when the boys wpuld
drink a little tea at election time and sit around and shoot out the
fire.
As if that wasn’t enough, they got hold of an infernal cannon,
and the first time they let go with a five-gun salute, they cracked
the plaster in the new Currie home. Christmas was a time for high
jinks, and what they hoisted atop the water tank at Halloween was
just about everything that wasn’t screwed down.
We'll tell you more about old Forest Park later. Right now old
rockin’ chair’s got me, chained by my side. See you next week.
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THOUSANDS OF GEORGIANS turn to the
lakes of the Georgia Power Company each
summer for outdoor sports and recreation.
Dams thrown across the clear mountain
streams of North Georgia and the stately rivers
of Central Georgia create huge reservoirs where
sailing, motor-boating, fishing, swimming, pic
nicking and other hot-weather diversions are
enjoyed. /
Designed to generate hydroelectric power,
these lakes create pleasure for the people of
our State as a by-product.
Our lakes and dams and powerhouses were
t built with the savings of private investors, with
out cost to the taxpayers. Furthermore, they
themselves pay taxes, helping to support local
I governments and adding to the permanent
* assets of the State.
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a “lazy seat,” but PucketL.who
was postmaster, mayor, etc.,
didn’t have much time for that.
With only one constable there
was a lot of law enforcing to do
because, as the story goes, when
time for celebrating was in order,
the constable was geared for par
ticipation. *
We think'you’ll agree that the
Forest Park of today, outgrow
ing any other area by leaps and
bounds, is as tame as a house
broke cat by comparison with
that old brawling rough-as-a-cob
era.
There was progress along with
the pranks. Puckett built the
first pumping station, and Forest
Park also was a train stop. Manse
Waldrop’s dad hauled wood when
the Central of Georgia was using
wood burners. Uncle Bill Boyd