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MRS. CONNIE BROWN ; Society Editor
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ZACH D. CRAVEY Columnist
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OFFICIAL PUBLICATION, CLAYTON COUNTY — EBZIQEKECDXi
Herman Talmadge Says:
In a vigorous editorial on June sth the
Indianapolis STAR newspaper raises some
searching questions about foreign aid:
The publication said in part:
“The Senate has just increased foreign
aid over last year and the new total is
about the size of the Federal deficit. It is
noteworthy that in the foreign aid bill is
S4O million for Communist Dictator Tito
plus some planes and guns of undisclosed
cost. Also about $65 million is earmarked
for ‘neutralist, socialist’ Nehru of India.
Both of these gentlemen of late expressed
direct opposition to American foreign policy
plans. Each vigorously support entrance of
Comunist China into the U. N. which only
10 per cent of the American voters (accord
ing to the Gallup poll) support and 67 per
cent vigorously oppose. Now whose interest
does a Senator or Congressman serve by
voting against the wishes of 67 per cent of
the American people—and probably more?
Could Balance Budget
“If foreign aid were stopped right now,
we could immediately balance the budget. If
foreign aid were stopped right now we
would save enough to reduce individual in
come taxes by 10 per cent. Do members of
the Senate or House think their constitu
ents would oppose such a tax cut or an
end to deficits? Do they really believe the
voters would rather send out more foreign
aid than pay 10 per cent less in taxes?
“As a matter of fact, how much do we
really need that additional money just ap
proved by the Senate for foreign aid? The
Foreign Operations Administration right
now has $8,728,000,000 left over which it
can spend for foreign aid next year if it
wishes. The Senate voted to add $2,500,000
to this for next year. That is over sll bil
lion. Do you know how much money that
is? It is enough to reduce your taxes b v
more than 25 per cent. It is enough to give
us a Federal surplus of $7,500,000,000 next
year. It is over 18 per cent of the total Fed
eral budget. And it is all going abroad.
“Congress is making foreign aid a per
manent, not a temporary program. It is
leading other nations to expect foreign aid
whether they help themselves or help us
or whether they do not. Congress, at least
the majority, is now in the very strange po-
How Else Can Ike Play Golf and Fish in Such Grandeur?
Let us ask vou something, please—if you
were President of the United States with all
the freedom of the present one, would you
retire or offer for another term?
Unless you have rocks in your head, we
believe, you’d keep right on keeping on—
because how else could you play golf and
fish in such grandeur—in your own govern
ment plane, etc., with an honor guard?
Ike may be doing a terrific job behind the
scenes . ... but we’ll swear to you, we must
apologize to Harry S. Truman for those
seemingly frequent trips to Key West, Fla.,
for bathing, sunning on the beach, and sip
ping of tea at the poker sessions.
We’ll all agree that work is hard. Ask
any farmer. Ask anybody who personally
edits more than one newspaper in more
than one state. Ask anybody who works.
He’ll tell you work isn’t easy, no matter
what kind of work.
But the heck of it is, most of us who
work hard don’t have too much time for so
much golf and fishing, and we aren’t paid
by the taxpayers either. We share the bur
den of those horrendyous taxes.
Once upon a time Americans elected Pres
idents to work at the job full time. We ap
preciate military greatness and concede
without a struggle that Ike Eisenhower was
the greatest.
On the other hand, he may not be the
greatest president. He went into office on a
wave of wartime popularity, and then came
Dixon-Yates, and before that the little mat
ter of getting his ghost-written book. Cru
sade in’Europe, on capital gain—when any
struggling author has to accept a smaf
percentage on his books.
We won’t quibble about that, except to
add that this is not an observation made
in behalf of other struggling authors, but on
Forest Park Free Press-News, July 1, 1955
sition, for a democratic body, of paying
greater heed to the people in foreign coun
tries and listening more to Washington bu
reaucrats than they do to the American peo
ple and their own constituents.
“We do not believe the inevitable and an
gry backfire from the American people is
going to be long in coming.”
“Amen!’
To which I add an “Amen” because it
sums up my own feelings on the subject!
I sometimes wonder just whom some of
our leaders think they are fooling on this
matter of “foreign aid.”
They have exhausted the alphabet chang
ing the name of agency after agency, but,
when stripped of all the fancy titles, the
same old foreign give-away program is still
with us, costing the American taxpayers bil
lions upon billions.
First it was the ECA (better known as the
“Marshall Plan”).
Then came the MSA.
That was followed by the FOA.
And now we have the ICA.
Billions Wasted
To date, as best as can be ascertained
from conflicting reports, the military and
economic assistance given by the United
States to foreign countries since the end of
World War 11, including both ECA and
MSA, totals $46,874,000,000. And, there is
more than $7,900,000,000 in unexpended
balances—already appropriated, but not yet
spent—waiting in the bank to be spent by
the International Cooperation Administra
tion.
The lack of crystal-clear information on
“foreign aid’ was the subject of criticism
from the floor of Congress by Representa
tve Charles B. Brownson of Indiana on June
Sth when he said:
“It has disturbed me to discover that fre
quently reports providing a clear, compre
hensive and tightly - written statement of
the previous programs on a country - by
country basis were not available to the Con
gress as a whole. . . . The fact that 34 sep
arate agencies with a total of over 115,000
employees overseas have been angaged di
rectly or indirectly in activities related to
foreign aid has not simplified congression
al consideration of this complex problem
nor has the utilization of security classifi
cations to surround many of these projects
facilitated congressional security except for
the privileged few on appropriations com
mittees.”
—HERMAN E. TALMADGE.
our own behalf. We got that small percent
age on a book And we don’t figure, as a hu
man being, that we deserve any less for the
sweat of writing a book than even the
President of the United States. All things
being equal, of course, his book will outsell
most, even on percentage. The point is he
should have got the percentage.
We sorta feel that old schoolmate, Merri
man Smith, of Oglethorpe, who wrote “Meet
Ike Eisenhower” on percentage, may be off
base in predicting that “Ike will run in 1956
—straight to his farm in Maryland.”
We feel that Ike will examine all the ad
vantages of being in the position of No. 1
fisherman-golfer of these United States, and
give the matter careful attention.
Those Republicans of the Palace Guard
will go down swinging to keep Ike out there
jn front. The public relations men in the
administration may be going crazy over
such things as the Secretary of State, Fos
ter Dulles, having to fly to Maine to find
the President on a stream, or at an extra
curricular speaking engagement, to discuss
important state matters. It isn’t the first
time Dulles has had to seek out the Presi
dent. He has done it a couple of times right
here in Georgia, at the Secretary of the
Treasury’s lush plantation near Thomas
ville. and at the Little White House, sitting
hard beside the Augusta National Gertf
Course. George Humphreys has a lot of
quail on his place and some nice streams
too. No golf course.
Ike may stand to lose his TV coach, Rob
ert Montgomery, who is a fastidious gentle
man, and sure ain’t gonna look him up or
any streams or golf courses for voice
expression coaching.
It may be Ike is the first President who
ever had a coach? Who paid for that?
THE EVER HOPEFUL DOVE
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By JACK TROY "- * ■
You’ll pardon us, we hope, for a little pardonable pride in point
ing out some of the fine folks who’re helping to serve you in the
We feel you will always enjoy the literary outpourings of Mrs.
Pauline Branyon, of Riverdale, who shamefully was puttering
around in retirement, with all her wonderful ability to write on the
shelf. It wasn't her desire, we know. But it still was a shameful
thing. She is a great newspaper woman.
And then, of course, we appreciate the knowledge and wisdom
and writing ability of Lloyd Matthews-Lloyd’s of Georgia. After
a short vacation he soon will take in Minnesota, he'll be baqk
with us regularly.
In other parts of the paper we have the valuable services of
Mrs. Corinne Blalock, Mrs. Connie Brown, John Currie, as writers,
and behind the scenes Jimmy Collins, whose brother, Robert, is a
star writer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and formerly an At
lanta Journal reporter. Jimmy's sharp on the business side.
We're here purely to serve .you in any way we can, in Georgia's
fastest-growing area. ' gj £ #
Letters to the Editor
Atlanta, Ga., 24 June 1955
The Honoable Jame K. Currie
Mayor, City of Forest Park
Forest Park, Georgia
Dear Mayor Currie:
At about 2:00 J. M. EST on 11 June, 1955 an F4U-4 “Corsair"
fighter aircraft from the Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Georgia, ex
perienced complete engine failure while flying in the vicinity of
your city. The pilot, Lieutenant (junior grade) Paul V. Bibsby.
USNR. made a forced landing which resulted in complete wreckage
of the aircraft and damage to private property. The pilot received
superficial burns and bruises and fractures to the vertebrae.
Reports received from Navy Investigation and salvage personnel
were unanimous in their high praise of the very able, prompt and
efficient assistance provided in inumerable ways by the citizens of
Forest Park, particularly the members of the Volunteer Fire De
partment.
It was impossible to obtain the names and address of all those
who participated. It is therefore respectfully requested that you
convey to all citizens of Forest Park our sincerest thanks and ap
preciation for the services they rendered.
Sincerely yours,
J. H. S. JOHNSON
Captain, U. S. Navy
Commanding Officer
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5 Injuries
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12 Flower
13 Relates
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combined Forest Park Free Press
and Clayton County News and
Farmer.
Our columnists, like Herman
Talmadge and Zach D. Cravey,
are men greatly Interested in this
area, as well as the whole State
of Georgia.
Now and then the Carroll
County Georgian runs the Tal
madge column, but we started it
because of his interests in our
area, and we are the only paper
in the state using the Hon. Tal
madge as a regular columnist.
We are the only one using the
Hon. Cravey regularly. Both of
these gentlemen have served,
and are serving, their state with
unusual distinction. They will be
viewed in the light of history as
two of the greatest of our state
servants, we firmly believe.
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By Lloyd
W. Lloyd Matthew*^
While Jack and his staff are
conscientiously laboring on this
week’s edition of the Forest Park
Free Press and Clayton County
News, the Mrs. and I will oe
on the happy highways for two
weeks—the longest break-away
for me in eleven years.
This is not altogether a pleas
ure trip, as I will see my moth
er, probably for tht last time be
fore she is called home. It may
turn out to be a family reunion
some of whom I haven’t seen for
over sixteen years.
Mrs. Corrine Blalock is com
fortably located in her new of
fice, Room 6, City Hall building,
phone 6641 Jonesboro, where she
will assist all readers with their
needs. Mr. Doug Compton will
hold down the fort at the Print
ing office, Lloyd’s of Georgia,
phone 5021 Jonesboro.
We’ll be thinking of you!
Kyour ®
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Clayton County Views
BY MRS. PAULINE BRANYON
Riverdale —such a pretty name
for a town—is another fast
growing town in Clayton County
for people have found this com
munity a good place to live. It
has never lost touch with its
good-neighbor habits, and to
prove this the Baptist and the
Presbyterians worshipped at the
same church for a dozen years
or more. Now each denomination
has its own church. The Baptists
have a very handsome edifice
going up, and the Presbyterians
have a lovely new church of their
cwn. Besides these two, there is
anotner Baptist Church, a Meth
odist Church—Pleasant Grove
which has been there a long,
long time. There is also a Church
of God in Riverdale.
Riverdale was founded inlßß7,
and was named for the late W. S.
Rivers, a large land-owner wtw
donated the land for the town.
Lots of people think it was
named for Flint River which
flows lazily on the edge of town.
However, the river did cause this
section to become a great cotton
growing center, and the first
cotton gin was built by Bob Las
seter’s father. Bob, himself ran
this gin and a warehouse from
1907 to 1945. He still has a large
fertilizer business and a general
store.
The Adams, the Huies, especi
ally the Huies, the Nisbetts, the
Camps, the Hancocks, the La*-
seters, the Turners were the old
er settlers who “moved to town”,
and made it thrive. The late W.
M. Adams and Joe L. Huie owned
the first store, and it was a big
one, too. The late Dr. J. R. Nis
bett, the only physician in that
part of the county at that time,
and W. L. Adams started the first
drug store. That fellow Adams
was a go-getter. A few years
later, W. O. Camp and H. C
Turner opened another store,
and ran it together till they de
cided to run separate stores. The
Camp store is still going strong,
though W. O. Camp has passer’
on.
“Joe L.” to distinguish him from
so many Huies, was the singing
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WASHERS — REFRIGERATORS — RANGES
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ORDER TO GIVE OUR USUAL
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teacher of the county. He held
singing schools on Saturdays
throughout the summer, and
young folk came for miles and
miles to learn to sing and read
music from the old American
Tune Book, now extinct, gone.
G. M. Huie and W. O. Camp
opened the first bank for that
town had plenty of cotton money
in those days from the farmers
No bank, now—no cotton to feed
it. The town was incorporated in
1908 with 100 people; now it has
700 people, and still growing with
Eoyt Voyles as mayor, a new
housing project with 126 new
homes is on its way.
B. F. Hancock came there as
a blacksmith in 1890, and put up
one of the first buildings. His
son, Leon, carries on his father’s
work, yet not blacksmithing be
cause old Dobbin no longer needs
new shoes.
G. M. (Monroe, he was always
called i Huie was county repre
sentative and state Senator for
several terms. Bealer Hute was
sheriff of Clayton County for
years; and David Huie and
Jimmy Huie along with other
Huies left many children, but
somehow most of them left town
to seek wider fields.
Riverdale has a modern ele
mentary school with a 12 acre
campus. It is situated on two
highways, 139 and 85, with peo
' pie running through so fast, they
had to have traffic lights. Now
the automobile drivers stop to
admire the town, anti some of
them decide to make it their
1 home after taking a good look.
The founders of the town have
passed on, just as the old Fort
Valley R.R. had to give up and
■ pass on. Trains and automobiles
have never been very friendly
1 cnyway, and they always have
1 collisions when they meet too
hurriedly. Wonder if the auto
■ mobile will ever eliminate the
train as it did the horse and
‘ buggy!
Riverdale, like all towns in this
1 county, is friendly. It is oroud
of its background, and it has fine
' citizens to back it up.
Pauline Branyon