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VOLUME 37 — NUMBER 14
Improvement
Winners Told
December 13
The Lake City Improvement
Club, among the top ten in the
North Georgia Rural Commu
nity Improvement contest, was
host to the four judges and
other visitors on Monday morn
ing, November 14th. The pur
pose of the meeting was to en
able the judges to determine the
standing of the ten finalists in
the contest.
The program given at the first
judging was repeated, also the
tour of the community.
After the tour lunch was
served by the club to the follow
ing: Miss Sue Stanford, Agricul
tural Extension Service, Mrs.
Mary Beth Lewis, Vocational
Educational Service, Mr. O. D.
Hall, Soil Conservation Service
and Mr. Hugh Inglish, Agricul
tural Extension Service, who
were the four judges; Mr.
Arnold Almand, Secretary,
Farmer’s Club, Atlanta Chamber
of Commerce; Mr. Neal Chase,
Colgate University student; Mr.
Zeke Morris, Agricultural Ex
tension Service; Mr. Norman La-
Motte, Secretary and Manager,
Clayton County Chamber of
Commerce and Mr. Jack
Gilchrist, representing the At
lanta Constitution and Mr. Har
old Joiner the Atlanta Journal.
On December 13th a banquet
will be held at the Biltmore
Hotel, at which time the win
ners of the contest will be an
nounced.
FOREST PARK AND
JONESBORO FIREMEN
TOUR LOCKHEED PLANT
Members of the Forest Park
and Jonesboro Volunteer Fire
Departments were guests of
Chief W. G. Jacobs of the Lock
heed Fire Department last Sun
day evenirfg, T3th. Chief
Jacobs escorted them on a tour
of Lockheed's fire fighting
equipment and familiarized
them with their methods of op
erations.
Members of both departments
were amazed at the gigantic op
erations and efficiency of the
Lockheed Fire Department and
received quite a few new ideas
for fighting conbustible fuel
fires.
Mother’s Club Has
Fine Plans for Benefit
Members of the Mother’s Club,
Forest Park, sponsors of the
benefit dinner at the Youth
Center December 3, are making
plans tor a most entertaining
evening. The Club has an
nounced that after dinner there
will be games and the winners
will receive lovely prizes.
Entertainment of this type is
attractive to the ‘family group’
where dinner is enjoyed by ev
eryone in a friendly atmosphere
and where they may all take
part later in games and fun.
Proceeds from the benefit will
be given to the Little Red School
House for Special Children, Inc.
of East Point. This school is
maintained primarily for the
purpose of educating mentally
retarded children.
Tickets can be purchased from
any one of the Club members.
They are Mrs. Art Lundstrom,
Mrs. Fred Durden, Mrs. Earle
Van Houten, Mrs. Abbie Ander
son, Mrs. Martha Killebrew, Mrs.
Mary Shone, Mrs. Louise Uffncr,
Mrs. Fred Farmer and Mrs.
Violet Schmidt.
Water Authority To Let
Bids In Jonesboro Dec. 1
■ The Clayton County Water
Authority announces that sealed
bids to complete the plans for
the distribution system to cover
the County north of Jonesboro
will be opened and let on De
cember 1 at the Court House at
Jonesboro. The letting will be in
two separate contracts, acording
to Secretary Robert LaMotte, to
be carried out simultaneously so
that all work on the main dis
tribution system can be com
pleted and.ready for the water
when the Filter Plant is ready
for operation.
Robert McMullen, the man
ager. announces he plans to be
gin signing contracts with Indi
vidual customers about January
1, 1956, so that meters can be
set and water turned on for cus
tomer use as soon as the system
la ready for operations about
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GIRL SCOUTS deliver Christmas toys to Forest Park Volunteer Firemen who will recondition
them for distribution through the Clayton County Community Chest. Shown, right to left, at
Fqrest Park City Hall are Barbara Carter, W. L. Bersch, R. L. Norton, T, J. Elliott, Mary Anne Ferg
uson, Vanita Marie Morris, Bobbie Ezelle, Linda Foley, Sherron Burks, Carren Bersch and Mary
Mays. More old toys will be welcomed to make Christmas happier for a lot of children.
Toys For Christmas
Are Being Collected
Toys for Christmas are being collected by the Clayton
County Community Chest at the Forest Park City Hall.
Dolls and toys which can be repaired will be received until
December 15. The Volunteer Fire Department members
will paint and repair these toys and return them to Mrs.
Boswick, Executive Secretary to the Community Chest, for
distribution to the children in this area who otherwise
would have no Christmas. Some of the toys which are being
turned in at the City Hall are not in need of repair.
Many unwanted or discarded
toys around the house need only
a bright coat of paint to make
them shine like new again and
to many a child, that toy could
be the difference between just
another day and a wonderful
Christmas.
Mrs. D. P. Spiker and Mrs. D.
C. Corbett have very generously
donated time to making doll
clothes for some dolls that were
given.
A girl scout troop, led by Mrs.
Thelma Fairbairn and Mrs.
Doris Stull, has taken this as
one of their most recent proj
ects. Each scout was assigned
the street on which she lives to
collect toys. With the assistance
of their parents and leaders,
they delivered the toys to the
City Hall last Wednesday eve
ning. This project will earn the
girls a badge for which they
have reason to be proud.
Mrs. Boswick urges similar
groups and organizations to
work on this worthwhile project.
She related a touching incident
to the Free Press which hap
pened last Christmas. Three
mothers with tears in their eyes
came into her office late Christ
mas Eve, saying that unless the
Chest could give their children
some toys, they would have
nothing on Christmas morning.
They knew, that as a last re
sort, they could go to the Chest
and get help if it was humanly
possible. In this particular case,
at the last minute some toys
were rounded up and donated by
some warmhearted citizens. Had
it not been for this, those chil
dren would have had nothing.
PVT. ARTHUR DODD
QUARTERMASTER GRAD
FORT LEE, VA —Pvt. Arthur
L. Dodd, whose wife, Gailey, and
father, Horace C. Dodd, Sr., live
in Ellenwood, Ga., recently was
graduated from the supply rec
ords course at the Quartermas
ter School, Fort Lee, Va.
Private Dodd entered the
Army last June and was last as
signed at Fort Jackson, S. C.
June 1, 1956. Plans are being
considered whereby the thickly
oopulated areas can be signed
ip at a central and convenient
location thus speeding up the
operation and getting all the
people of that area on the sched
ule for attention at the time
meters will be installed in their
area.
Construction and laying of the
big 16 inch mains is going along
at a rapid clip. About three and
one half miles of the 16 inch
main has been laid from the
Plant towards Morrow and two
miles of 16 inch and one mile of
six inch main from Morrow
towards the Plant. At the Filter
Plant and Pumping Station they
are pouring concrete and moving
along at a satisfactory pace. It
begins* to look like a big dream
coming true.
More Adult Leaders
Need Os Scouting
Surveys made in Clayton
County Schools have shown that
many boys not now in Scouting
would be if there were more
trained adult ieadew'liri.wvwe.
This is a proven fact. It’s also
true that a boy is a better boy
and grows into a better adult
citizen from having received the
advantages of Scout training.
It is the purpose of Mr. Robert
E. Coleman and Mr. Lester Dol
lar, Tarza District Chairman and
Tara Scout Executive respec
tively, to see that Scouting be
comes available to more Clayton
County boys.
Mr. Coleman requests that all
former Eagle Scouts, Boy Scouts'
and others interested in receiv
ing training in Scout leadership,
meet with him next Tuesday
night, November 29th, at 7:30
p.m. in the Educational Build
ing of the Forest Park Baptist
Church.
Adult Scout leaders not only
receive the self-satisfaction that
comes with doing a good job,
but other rewards as well. Week
end camps and hikes with th"
boys enable him to relieve his
own youth. Other compensations
come in the form of special in
vitations to visit various Army,
Navy, and Industrial installa
tions not generally open to the
public. Do yourself a good turn,
and come prepared to do a good
turn to others by meeting with
Mr. Coleman and Mr. Dollar
next Tuesday night.
ELIZABETH BALLARD
PLAYS ROLE OF NUN
MILLEDGEVILLE — Elizabeth
Ballard, Jonesboro, participated
as a Nun in “Murder In The
Cathedral” which was presented
by the College Theater at Geor
gia State College for Women
last week. She is the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Holcombe.
The T. S. Eliot play was the
first performance by the group
this year. College Theater is di
rected by Professor Jack Gore,
The play is modeled after the
style of the Greek tragedies,
making use of a chorus. The
story concerns the martyrdom of
Thomas a’ Becket. It was to his
shrine that the pilgrims jour
neyed in Chaucer’s "Canterbury
Tales.”
Thanksgiving Turkey
Shoot Has Rain Date
In the event of a heavy rain
on Thanksgiving Day, the Tur
key Shoot, sponsored by the For
est Park Music Club, will be
postponed until the, following
Saturday, Nov. 26.
The hours will be the same, 9
a.m. until the sun goes down,
and the same place, Mr. Luther
Tanner's place, Thurmond road
and 54 Highway.
All proceeds go to the Music
Club to be used for the benefit
of the school bands.
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1955
Barley-Oates Nuptial
Event of Dec. 2 and 3
Mr. and Mrs. Knowzie Oates
have announced the forthcom
ing wedding of their daughter,
Tiny, to Mr. J. F. Liverton Bar
ley, of Cattle Anchor, Ga. This
wedding is anticipated with con
siderable interest by the entire
community since the partici
pants are prominent members of
the younger social set in the
community.
The ceremony will be perform
ed at the Forest Park High
School Auditorium on Dec. 2,
1955 (Friday evening), at 8:00
(And will be repeated on Satur
day, Dec. 3, at the same time to
insure the knot being tied doub
ly tight). An overflowing crowd
is anticipated. In order that all
desirable and sufficient number
of witnesses may attend the dou
ble-two-ceremony precedence is
being carried out which natur
ally numerous other nuptial
groups will follow.
The wedding is under the
sponsorship of the Forest Park
Kiwanis Club and tickets are
available at the door. DON’T
MISS THE GREAT OCCASION!
Girl Scouts Visit
Rex Chair Factory
Lone Group 6, Forest Park,
visited Rex Chair Factory on
Friday and saw chairs being
made. The management were
extremely helpful, they took the
girls all the way from sawing
wood to the finished article, and
the Troup found it most inter
esting. This visit completes their
work for the Efficiency badge.
Fourteen girls were present,
with Leader Mrs< Haines, and
co-leaders Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
A’Dair.
FOREST PARK P. T. A.
MEETS NOVEMBER 29TH
The regular monthly meeting
of the Executive Council of the
Forest Park Central P.T.A. will
meet Tuesday, November 29, at
10:30 a.m. in the school audito
rium.
All parents and teachers are
welcome to attend.
Atkinsons Celebrate 10th
Knotty Pines Anniversary
Edna and Bob Atkinson arc
celebrating their 10th anniver
sary at Knotty Pines, 42 High
way, Thanksgiving Day.
The Atkinsons, who live at 114
North Avenue, Forest Park, took
over the popular establishment
on Thanksgiving Day, 1945.
There was a seating capacity
for 50 people then and it has
grown through the years to 250
at the present time.
Mrs Atkinson is proud of the
fine record of Knotty Pines and
the steady growth of this ex
cellent establishment that fea
tures fine food and on certain
days of the week offers a dance
band.
Knotty Pines caters to a high
type clientele.
During the war the Atkinsons
worked at Boeing and Bell Air
craft. Mrs. Atkinson was an elec
trical inspector and Mr. Atkin
son was sub foreman on fusil
lagc.
Just after the war they chose
Knotty Pines for a peacetime
business enterprise, and their
upcoming Thanksgiving Day
celebration marks for them a
decade of steady progress. They
specialize in large parties and
family groups.
SCHOOL FINANCES,
SCHOOL GROWTH
ARE OUTLINED
By ED EDMONDS
Superintendent
Our people are entitled to
know the financial data regard
ing the school program and are
obligated to study the demands
made on Education by our pople.
With each demand has always
come more financial costs.
Please study this data and see if
you, as an individual citizen can
deny that for too long we have
tolerated an inadequate Tax-
Structure for Clayton County
School. Education is every citi
zen’s business and responsibili
ties cannot be shifted to other
shoulders.
Clayton County’s School grow
th began to place problems on
the financial structure in 1946-47
so we are going to use that year
and compare it with the finan
cial data for the year T 954-55.
We are not, for the sake of
brevity, going into the rise in the
cost of every commodity, be
cause we believe our people al
ready have such information.
The year 1946-47 saw us with
2782 children in our schools and
from County tax sources we had
$38,060.00 to maintain and oper
ate schools. Many of our Schools
had single lights, if they had
electricity a't all, in classrooms,
no janitorial services, there were
outside toilets in use at many
school sites, inadequate equip
ment in school lunchrooms, no
asphalt tile on floors through
out the Councl Schools, not a
single Industrial Arts Shop in
the County, not a school Gym
nasium in the County, no trans
portation provided for Negro
children and many, many
schools were heated by old-fash
ioned pot-bellied stoves. Let us
look at the financial data for the
year 1946-47 and compare, after
visiting our school buildings to
day, the 1954-55 data and see if
we are willing to cut back our
scfiool progr&m because the
Clayton County School Board
simply does not receive enough
money to maintain our schools
at even the present level and
very few of us would say that
our schools today Ure good
enough:
1946-47—2782 children
1225 transported
13 teachers furnished by County
at average salary of $1583.00
total $20,579.00
Janitor Salaries .. 3,814.00
Janitor Supplies 1,432.00
Fuel 5,040.00
Water - Lights 1,188.00
Insurance . 2,386.00
TOTAL $34,439.00
County Tax—s3B,o6o.oo
The records for this year will
show that no new equipment
was purchased and that we had
only three accredited Elemen
tary Schools in the System. To
day we have ten.
1954-55—6367 children
3710 transported
36 teachers furnished by the
County at an average salary
Os $2653.00 total $ 95,508.00
Janitor Salaries 25,308.00
Janitor Suppleis 11,929.00
Fuel 15,105.00
Water - Lights 13,515.00
Desks for student in-
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Mrs. W. A. Slate and the
guests in her home will be sp
cial noon guests of Mrs. Atkin
son Thanksgiving Day.
The Atkinsons are inviting all
their friends to help them cele-
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from 12 noon until 12 midnight.*
Turky and all the trimmings will
be served.
The Atkins have a son Bobby
who graduated from Jonesboro
High School and is now playing
football with Gordon Military
Academy at Barnesville.
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MICHIE WILLIAMS, fifth grade, and Jackie Echols, seventh grade, members of the School Patrol,
are shown on the job making crossings safe for schoolchildren. The Patrol is doing a fine job.
(See story below)
School Patrol Round-Up
By MRS. PARRIS (Policewoman)
Our School Safety Patrols from, the three Forest Park
Schools are an energetic and ambitious group always on
the job. I think we would be doing them justice to admit
they are a Volunteer Junior Police Force. To hear our patrol
discuss traffic problems and offer solutions would make
any motorist salute these boys and girls.
Federal Money Is
Allocated for Schools
WASHINGTON, D. C—Senator
Walter F. George has been noti
fied of the allocation of $32,-
939.40 to the Clayton County
Board of Education for financial
assistance for schools. Os this
amount, $21,410.00 has been cer
tified for immediate payment.
The Senator said a Treasury
check will reach the Board of
Education at Jonesboro within
the next few days. •'
This Federal financial assist
ande to the Clayton County
schools has been made pursuant
to Public Law-8.74 under which
Congress directed that funds be
made available where Federal
activities produce an abnormal
demand upon the local school
system. The amount certified for
payment is based upon an ap
plication submitted by the Clay
ton School Board and is com
puted on the basis of present
school enrollment and estimates
of future enrollment. Additional
payments may be forthcoming
in the future on the basis of
actual enrollment as well as by
the availability of funds ap
propriated by the Congress.
KIWAN'S KORNER
By Capt. Charles S. Roberts Jr.
The Focst Park Kiwanis Club
met November 17, 1955 at the
High School Lunch Room.
Sharon Abercrombe was initi
ated as a new member of the
club. Martin Holder was a
visitor.
The speaker was Rev. Fred R.
McAlister, Jr., pastor of the
Forest Park P'resbyteri an
Church. Rev. McAlister discussea
four areas of social behavior in
which we could borrow from the
past and benefit from the ex
perience of our forebearers.
In the home, he suggested
that we could teach our children
better discipline, by settingdown
plainly what is right and wrong
and requiring them to obey.
Concerning ethics both per
sonal and in business, Rev. Mc-
Alister pointed out that there is
no substitute for scruplous hon
esty in all oi one’s activities. Re
laxing one’s ethics to conform is
a mistake.
Immorality always has been
present, but it should not be ac
cepted as inevitable. Rearing of
our children would be easier
without certain T.V. programs
and some magazines.
Churchgoing in the past was
to praise God. Today the
churches have become so large
and their business so complex
that it is difficult sometimes to
serve this primary purpose. The
church should be supported as
well as contributed to.
Intelligent use of the best
features of the past help us to
make a better present for our
selves and a better future for
our children.
FROMUON'SDEN
The Forest Park Lions Club
held their By-Monthly meeting
last Tuesday night, November
15th, at the Dwarf House. They
had a musical program supplied
by the program chairman. Pres
ent also was Zone Chairman,
Lion, J. T. Mays, who presented
Lion Lamar Foster with his past
president’s pen and commended
him for the fine work of the past
year.
OFFICIAL CLAYTON COUNTY PUBLICATION
It is our ambition to have the
best trained patrol group in the
state. With all the backing and
encouragement we are now get
ting we can’t fail!
They have won the admira
tion of the Police Dept., School
Faculty, Mayor Currie, Sheriff
Davis’ Dept., The three P.T.A.
groups, businesses, clubs and the
motorist—who could ask for
more ?
At any time the public has a
report, favorably or unfavorably,
for our patrols, please call
POplar 7-5183. This can help in
our training program.
Please remember! Our patrols
are voluntary. They are boys and
girls and not adults. They are
’ doing this work for our chil
i dren’s safety. We are strivjpg to
i make our program interesting by
allowing them to attend the
Fair, Shrine Circus, summer
camp and other activities. We do
not let this interfere with their
school work. We make our pro
gram with that understanding.
We wish to thank the police
men who donated their time ori
Monday, November 7th, as sub
stitutes for our patrols and
made it possible for our patrols
to attend the Shrine Circus.
Sheriff Davis’ Department sup
plied our protection for the trio.
Deputy Purmort <a first class
driver) drove the bus.
SOME OF SEWER
EASEMENTS OKAY
Easements have been cleared
up on Mitchell Street and West
Warren on the sewer line, but
the west trunk is being held up
temporarily, Mayor James K.
Currie announced this week.
Right of way has been ob
tained for the extension of
Mitchell Street to Hendrix
School, except for one small por
tion which may become Council
action. As soon as this matter
is cleared up, County Commis
sioners have agreed to cut a
street to the school.
Mrs. Ruskin Reads Play
At Riverdale Church
The W.S.C.S. of Pleasant Grove
Methodist Church is sponsoring
the appearance of Mrs. Sidney
Ruskin on Tuesday, November
22, at 7:30 p.m. at the Pleasant
Grove Methodist Church. Mrs.
Jeanette Smith, President and
Mrs. Mildred Swygert, Secretary
of Missionary Education will
wclcon\e the speaker.
An authority on the Cherokee
Indians, Mrs. Sidney H. Ruskin
will give a reading in costume,
of her own play, "The White
Man's Magic", which tells the
story of Sequoya and the Indian
alphabet.
Mrs. Ruskin wrote the play in
the’ play writing class at Agnes
Scott College, where It was pre
sented in May, 1951, by the
speech departments of both
Agnes Scott and Emory Univer
sity.
Mrs. Ruskin will bring some :
of her Cherokee artifacts to the
meeting with her. These were
collected, for the most part, in
Georgia where the Cherokees
had their last capital city (near
Calhoun) before their removal in
1838. Former State Geologist, ,
the late Dr. W. S. McCallie has
called it the best collection in I
20,000 Readers
in Clayton
and Other
Counties
Easl Clayton PTA
Learns About Teens
The Teens Talk! The East
Clayton PTA learned a great
deal about teenagers at a panel
discussion on Nov. 15, when
John Henry and Millie Jo Bond
of the 12th grade, Wayne Wil
hoit, 11th grade; Billy White,loth
grade, and Erlene Elliott, 9th
grade, all from Ellenwood, and
Harold Womack from the Atlan
ta General Depot, in Bth grade,
and Sharon Mitchell, 7th grade,
of Morrow, gave their viewpoints
on various subjects. Mr. M.
Keiser, of Rex, was moderator.
Strict teachers are preferred
and although the panel did not
receive a regular allowance and
used the “touch” system, they
thought a regular allowance a
good way to handle money. They
agreed that men and women
teachers do not have the same
view's and thought the owner
ship of a car in the teens should
be governed by the owner’s abil
ity to drive carefully, with con
sideration for others on the
road.
The East Clayton School is
having a drive this w^eek to get
all the coat hangers and paper
in the community, the proceeds
of the sale to go to the Midget
Football team.
Newcomers Are
Welcomed so FP
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Snipes
302 Shelnutt Drive
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Naramore
112 S. Parkwood Drive
Mr. and Mrs. William B.
Lewis, Jr.
113 S. Parkwood Drive
COLLEGE PARK P. T. A.
MEETS NOVEMBER 15TH
The P.-T. A. of the Maple
Street School in College Park
met on Tuesday afternoon, Nov.
15th, with a very good crowd at
tending the meeting. Mrs. Lula
Willis gave the devotional. The
pupils of the First Grade pre
sented an entertaining program
of songs, dances and poems. The
visiting teacher of Clayton
County, Mrs. Babb, gave a talk
on school attendance. Mrs.
Margaret Williams, president,
presided at the meeting. The
next meeting will be Thursday,
Dec. 15th, at 8 p.m.
) Georgia. Another of Mrs. Rus
; kin’s accomplishments was that,
’ while chairman of Indian As-
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fairs for the sth District Geor
gia Federation of Womens
Clubs, she was instrumental in
interesting the general public in
j acquiring the Chief Joseph Vann
। house at Spring Place In the
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