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VOLUME 36—NUMBER 46
Movies of Events Will Show Off Clayton County
CAN’T MAKE IT IN BED— But sometimes like in dry Clayton
County, which doesn’t have any dry cows, however, you can
sometimes make it sitting down even if you aren't a chicken.
Atlanta papers, please note. The industrious milk man is Clayton
Clayton County Cal
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Nabors, it pains us no end to
admit Fulton County’s got us
skinned on even one city
ord’nance, but it’s a fact, and
facts is what we alius deals in,
e’en iffn we has t’ lose one face
and put on t’other.
They's got a city limit speed on
them trains cornin’ into old
Marthasville and sub’ubs, an’
there ain’t much whistle blowin’
theah, ’specially in th’ early
mo’nin hours, and cert’nly none
o’ that death-defyin’ roarin'
through th’ middle o’ town.
Trains roarin’ through Fo’est
Pak and Jonesboro at odd hours,
day and nite, seem to have a
disrespec’ fo’ all the rights and
priv’leges of human bein’s and
aminules alike. Those roarin’
monsters ain’t fasther than th’
speed o’ sound. They keeps up
with the sound, and light
sleepuhs suffers insomnya some
thin’ offle, and th’ houses shake
and gen'rlly th’ disturbance is
mo’ than annoyin’. It’s ruff as
a cob on nerves, dispst’n, an’
wot not. Cain’t sumethin’ be
Engel Happy He Can Find
Forest Park on July 21
Joe Engel said in Chattanooga
last week that he’s delighted di
rectional signs have gone up
showing people how to find For
est Park.
“Earl Mann told me he almost
missed the place, although he
was born In Riverdale,” Engel
pointed out. “He missed the pa
rade for the Little League,’ he
said he was happy he found the
ball park.”
Engel is coining to Forest
Park Thursday, July 21, under'
city auspices, for a Junior Pot
o’ Gold, and a speech on the
advantages of junior baseball.
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Engel Knothole Gang, composed
of 120 teams and 15,000 young
sters in the Chattanooga area.
The YMCA handles the program.
It Is the greatest program of its
kind in the United States. Engel
is the game's greatest showman,
one of the greatest talent scouts
who ever lived, and President of
the Chattanooga Lookouts, now
fighting for the Southern League
pennant.
“I am delighted at the oppor
tunity presented me to come to
Forest Park, in Earl Mann's
backyard,” he said last week.
“Keep the Cokes cold and the
wieners hot,” Engel added.
Enge! recalled with pleasure
that State Representative E. A.
County Commissioner Tarp George, Aristocrat Dairies and Aris
tocrat Farms. He’s really a gentleman farmer now. He is a U. of
Georgia graduate. ,
(Staff Photo—Fly Boy Hooper)
Mclntyre, Blassie Battle;
Austalian Tag Match Too
There are only 200 ringside seats for the first big time
professional wrestling match ever held in Forest Park, un
der the promotion of Services for Clayton County Youth,
Inc., and Paul Jones, Atlanta.
Police and firemen are coop
erating in the sale of these
tickets, selling at $1.50, and the
purchase of them in this con
tinuing program is urged. Gen
eral admission is SI.OO, for the
grandstand, and .50 for children.
You’ll see the same kind of
wrestling on Friday, July 15, at
Kiwanis Athletic Field, that
you'd sec in the City Auditorium,
Atlanta, since Freddy Blassie,
the Southern Heavyweight
Champion, is meeting former
Southern Heavyweight Cham
pion Don Mclntyre in the best
two cut of three falls feature
match. Then the boys join forces
—Mclntyre with Eddie Gossett
and Blassie with Don’s brother,
Red—for an exciting Australian
tag team match, best two out of
three falls.
Man alive! Forest Park is see
ing sucn a match in the flesn
only Because there s no wrestling
in Atlanta on that date—Friday,
July 15.
Other matches Jones will pre
sent here during the year will be
predicated on similar circum
stances, and a goodly percentage
going for the greater good of
Clayton County youth.
Help our youngsters have the
best advantages in life, by sup
porting this great event—an
other in a series of outstanding
attractions right here at home.
Foster drove him in a Model T
Ford in the Chattanooga-Clav
ton County celebration viewed by
10,000 Atlanta fans several Sun
days ago at Ponce de Leon Park,
Atlanta.
While in Foresi Park, Engel
will be the guest of E. A. and
Evelyn Foster,, who rode in the
Ford at Ponce de Leon.
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1955
U.S.Marine Corps
Announces Course
In a re-emphasis of its tradi
tional air-ground relationship,
the Marine Corps has announced
a new training program for pro
spcctive Marine aviators.
The first new program for
Marine officers since World Wai
11, it has been termed the Avia
tion Officer Candidate Course.
It will result in earlier commis
sions as second lieutenants for
men who desire to become
Marine pilots.
Applications for Marine Avia
tion Officers Candidate Course
are now being accepted. College
graduates wishing further infor
mation on this, new program
should contact Captain Francis
R. Hittinger, Room 541, Peach
tree-Seventh Building, 50 Seven
th Street, Atlanta, Georgia.
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SADA YOSHINUMA, HONOBTsTCM^Ii®^^
Square Dancing
Plans Forming
Plans for the return of popular
square dancing in Forest Park,
under the auspices of Services
lor Clayton County Youth, Inc.,
will be announced soon.
Full details are now being
worked out whereby one of the
arsa’s finest callers will serve
with a fine local hillbilly band
for a regular series of square
dancing at popular prices.
Spokesmen for Services for
Clayton County Youth, Inc., an
nounced this week that square
dancing will be presented by
popular demand, and that a
suitable location will be an
nounced together with full de
tails at the proper time.
Square dancing was once one
of Forest Park's Tsust popular
forms of entertainment, and
should never have been allowed
to end.
Fortunately, at this time, there
Is ample talent for calling the
sets and for supplying the music,
and so it will not be necessary to
go out of Clayton County for
talent.
A large portion of the pro^
reeds will be used in behalf of
Clayton County youth, in con
junction with the many other
promotions of Services for Clay
ton County Youth, Inc.
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CITIES NOT LIABLE
FOR ESCAPE INJURIES
In the, absence of a specific
charter provision, a city cannot
be held liable for medical bills
Mhcyi'i-ed in the treatment <of a
prisoner shot and wounded by
police officers during an escape
attempt, Attorney General Eu
gene Cook has ruled in a recent
unofficial opinion.
Reckoning by Abacus Table
Sada Yoshinuma’s Dish’
OGLETHORPE’S ALL-TIME HONOR GRAD
NOW RUNNING POPULAR WISTERIA HERE
BY JACK TROY
Abacus, civilization’s oldest reckoning table with slid
ing balls, does a better job lor Sada Yoshinuma (Wisteria
on U. S. 41 Expressway) than does an adding machine—in
the simpler valculations, but not on the larger problems.
Sometimes business is so good
at Wisteria that Yoshinuma, as
in accompanying picture, uses
both the abacus and the old
fashioned calculating machine.
He has been known to use both
at the same time, and there’s a
reason. Yoshinuma, in 1930,
graduated from Oglethorpe Uni
versity, Atlanta, with the highest
honors. He remains Oglethorpe’s
all-time honor student.
Just as Yoshinuma, born in
Tokyo, was blazing his trail of
glory as a major in commerce
(the modern art of trying to
keep money you make),' the
writer was enrolling in the
Stormy Petrel school.
Everybody liked Yoshinuma
for his genteel manner, his help
fulness and his never-failing
courtesy. Not many old Ogle
thorpe boys bow from the waist.
Yoshie is a great fellow, and
for about 20 years he had such
famous Atlanta restaurants as
Wisteria Gardens, Camellia Gar
den, Iris Garden, etc.
Now he’s a neighbor, and he
serves the same fine food that
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Mays Awarded
For Fine Work
In Scouting
Jesse Mays of Forest Park has
been presented an award for his
work in Boy Scout activities in
the Tara District.
In ceremonies during a meet
ing of Scout Troop 297 of the
Atlanta General Depot Monday,
June 27, Eagle Scout John Davis
of the AGD Troop presented a
trophy to Mays lauding his ef
forts in organizing the boys
gi oup in August, 1952. Since that
time he has heloed direct the
Troop and has served as chair
man of the advancement com
mittee and as District training
committee chairman.
Mays is connected with the
Depot Ordnance Automotive
School Technical Training Divi
sion.
attracted the customers by
droves in his outstanding At
lanta places.
Yoshie did dual duty while
winning highest scholastic hon
ors at Oglethorpe; he worked in
his Wisteria Gardens restaurant
at night.
Up until 1930 when he died
Joshie’s brother, Kaye, helped
him in his business.
Yoshinuma is in business about
five miles south of Forest Park,
and he will enjoy meeting all the
fine folks around here. You’ll en
joy meeting him, too; he hasn’t
changed a bit in all these years.
He’s still the same genteel, cour
teous host, and quite a cook in
his own right.
Dallas, Tex. — At least three
persons were killed and eight
others hurt when a downtown
building collapsed on top of an
other and crushed it. The build
ing which fell first was a vacant,
three-story structure being raz
ed.
OFFICIAL CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLICATION
Color, Black and White
Films Offer Sequence
Ponce de Leon and Earl Mann Visit,
Engel Visit, 'Birthday' on Film
By JACK TROY
Editor, Free Press-News and Farmer
For the first time, pictorial proof of the wonderful
County of Clayton—Clayton County’s Finest—will be avail
able within a short time, in color and black and white 16-
millimeter movies.
The first big event was Clayton’s joining Joe Engel, the
Barnum of the Bushes, in an event witnessed by 10,000 peo
ple at Ponce de Leon park, Atlanta. The full splendor of the
event is on beautiful 150-foot length kodochrome color.
The next big event was Earl Mann’s visit for the open
ing of the Little League at Kiwanis Athletic Field. Due to
the hour—a 6:30 parade, etc.—this film was shot by Strick
land Film Company, Atlanta, in black and white.
The next big event, Joe Engel’s visit for Junior Pot o’
Gold, also will be shot by Strickland in black and white. All
Clayton County will join in the big parade.
But the next one, The Golden Anniversary celebrating
the 47th birthday of Forest Park, will be in color, with all
the events on kodochrome 16-millimeter film. This will be
a daytime event.
The films will be spliced together, a sound-track added
with suitable commentary, and the fabulous events avail
able for showing all over Fulton County and elsewhere.
Atlanta Newspapers, Inc., will be cordially invited to see
the REAL Clayton County in action.
STATE NOT LIABLE
TO PAY FOR ROADS
BUILT AT MARKETS
The State Department of Ag
riculture is not liable to pay as
sessments made against it by
cities for street improvements on
the grounds of state farmers’
markets, Attorney General Eu
gene Cook has ruled in an offi
cial opinion requested by Agri
culture Commissioner Phil
Campbell.
The question arose when the
City of Augusta sought to levy
an assessment against the Agri
culture Department for improve
ments placed on Gwinnett (street
on which the State Farmers’
Market is located in Augusta.
Mr. Cook pointed out that
Georgia law provides that the
State is “not bound by the pas
sage of a law unless named
therein.” He also cited the rule
of “implied exemption” laid
down in several cases by the
Georgia Supreme Court which
holds that “all public property
is exempt from assessment by a
municipality in the absence of
express authority to so subject
the state property.”
ROAD VEHICLES
IN HOME COUNTY
OF THE OWNER
Trucks, tractors and vehicles
used in road construction thru
out the State are taxable in the
county where the owner resides,
Attorney General Eugene Cook
held m a recent unofficial opin
ion.
Mr. Cook pointed out that the
Georgia Supreme Court has ruled
that “personal property is ordi
narily taxed in the county where
the owner resides” and to become
eligible for taxation in anothe*
county it must “be connected
with some business enterprise
that is situated more or less per
manently” in that county. Con
sequently. he said, it is his opin
ion that “the county of the resi
dence of the owner would be the
country in which the trucks and
tractors in question would be re
turned for taxation.”
BASEBALL CONTEST
WINNERS FOR WEEK
In the popular Cracker-ad
contest of the Forest Park Free
Press-Clayton County News and
Farmer, Brenda Johnson, Box
231 Kennedy Road, Route 1, For
est Park, Ga.; Mrs. Guy Smith,
119 Bridge Ave., Forest Park,
Oa„ and Ellen Darrington. Box
237 Route No. 1, Forest Park,
Ga„ were the lucky winners.
Winners were drawn by Mrs. ।
Dorothy Gibson, 120 Granade
Drive, Forest Park, Ga. Find
lucky number 444 In one of the
ads, clip and mail to P. O. Box
87, Forest Park, and P. O. Box
487, Jonesboro.
20,000 Readers
in Clayton
and Other
Counties
DAVY CROCKETT,
BEAR TO PERFORM
AT FOSTER BROS.
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Davey Crockett and his wres
tling bear will be at Foster
Brothers Supermarket most of
the day Friday,, and this will oe
one of the summer’s entertain
ment treats for grownups and
children alike.
There will be favors for the
youngsters, and music and en
tertainment for all who come to
the air-conditioned store for
shopping from 8:30 a.m. ’til
8:30 p.m.
Davey and his bear probably
will perform from 9:30 a.m. ’til
about 6 p.m. There’ll be Davey
Crockett music, interviews by
Davey with the children, and
many features.
Can Davey beat the bear?
That’s a good question—and it
will be answered during the day
Friday.
In popular demand, Davey and
his bear arc making their first—
and only—appearance this sea
son in Forest Park at Foster
Brothers Supermarket.
Many, many thousands have
seen the duo perform at super
markets in the Fulton and De-
Kalb area this summer.
Make your plans now to be at
Foster Brothers during. the day
Friday. You’ll be thrilled with
Davey Crockett and his bear.
• See Foster Brothers Supermar
ket ad, Page 2, this issue.
BUDDIES
The largest number of young
Georgians ever to enlist to
gether under the “buddy sys
tem,” were sworn in yesterday at
ceremonies in the American Le
gion Hall of Thomasville, Ga.
The 47, who will take baste
training together and return
home together for a fourteen day
leave, will constitute an entire
platoon.