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FOREST PARK AND JONESBORO, GEORGIA
Forest Park Post Office Box 87
Jonesboro Post Office—Box 487
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Phone: Jonesboro 6641
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VOTE SATURDAY
(From Page 1)
ORREN EDWARD HAYNES—
Ward 2
Residence—llo North Avenue
Married—two children
Has lived in Forest Park ap
proximately four years.
Member of Masonic Lodge and
Elks of East Point. Retired Army
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To The Citizens Os Forest Park
It will be impossible to see everyone between now and election day, Dec. 3.
So with this last edition before the election permit me to present some of my
views and solicit your vote and support for Mayor.
out and abide accordingly to the end that we may have a
city governed by law and not by men.
Property owners have not been assessed for paving done by the city in the
past. It docs not seem fair now to assess some and not others.
No area should be annexed to the City without the peoples knowledge and a
majority vote.
If you want a Mayor who is not connected with or obligated to any person,
group or clique, one who will work for and respect the rights and interest of all
parties and yield to the pressure of non\ one who will not pass the buck, one
who will deal with every one on equal basis and not a big I and a little you, then
VOTE FOR AND ELECT D. M. JOHNSON. Your vote and support appreciated.
D. Al. JOHNSON
(Paid Political Advertisement)
major.
PLATFORM
Sidewalks to the schools
Uniform tax evaluation
A building code
Uniform representation for all
the people.
LLOYD E. HELMS—Ward 5
Residence—lo 9 Ash Street
Married—one child
Attends Jones Memorial Meth
odist Church where he is Presi
dent of the Friendship Class
and Vice President of the Meth
odist Men’s Club.
Resident of Forest Park since
1953.
Employed as Head Plumber by
the Henry Waldrop Plumbing
Co.
PLATFORM
City needs more sidewalks for
the safety of our children going
to and from school; we need
। more facilities for their educa-
I tion and recreation. Would like
। to see a nice park adjoining the
swimming pool and an athletic
I field for all the community to
Everyone agrees that there arc many improvements
needed in the City, but few seem to know just how much
money will be available to spend next year. I am advised
by one of our Councilmen that approximately $28,000.00
has already been spent on paving alone to be paid out of
next years funds. I am also advised that the city has been
unable to meet current bills for the past several months.
I deem it essential to our future progress to maintain a
good credit standing for the city. If elected, this I will
endeavor to do.
If elected I will work with the Council for the overall
improvement of the city, however, I will oppose any act
or ordinance that is childish, vindicative or illegal. If I
do not know the law applicapable to any particular phase
of the city’s business I will make it my business to find
enjoy.
W. L. McMILLIAN—Ward 5
Residence — 701 Madison
Street, Forest Park
Married—one child
Resident of Forest Park for
three years.
Constable in the Forest Park
District, Member of Volunteer
Fire Dept.
PLATFORM
Only promise I can make to
' the citizens of Forest Park is
that I will employ honesty and
common sense in the fulfillment
of the duties of the office.
CARL E. MERCK—Ward 5
Residence — 114 White Oak
Drive, Forest Park
Married—one child
Has lived in Forest Park ap
proximately three years.
Member of First Baptist
Church of Forest Park, member
of Volunteer Fire Dept. Employ
ed at Lockheed Aircraft.
PLATFORM
Wants continued progress of
city as it has been in past.
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Clayton. County Views
BY MRS. PAULINE BRANYON
Senator Walter George, you
mow the feller with the um
jrella, is trying to backtrack the
;tack he shuffled and muffled
>n his appeasement and so-call
ed peace talks with Russia and
Jhina; but still insists that
omething finer has come out of
he Soviet summit, but he can’t
nake up his mind and wind out
what has come from it. Now he
says we should not talk peace
with China unless she would
eease coveting Formosa, and
‘promises” not to attack For
mosa—a real flying saucer. Did
anyone ever know a Red to keep
a promise,” be alive, or be he
dead?”
George is a good Republican,
but he knows better than to go
with Secretary Dulles to the
European Talks, he balks on
that; he knows the voters might
smell a rat. As if they didn’t
now, and how! He gets reams
and reams of publicity from the
Atlanta papers, it seems, wheth
er he sits on skyscrapers, or re
laxes on his farm while he dis
cusses taxes. He refused to yield
the field of a SSO cut in taxes
last year for the “poor man”,
now he wants the “average poor
man” to have his income taxes
cut next year, but hear: provided
government expenses, most of
them non-senses, can be cut. He
is in a rut now, he knows if he
would STOP recommending and
condescending to give nearly all
we have to foreign aid, we could
have paid that SSO and more
years ago to the poor. Most of
us are in that “poor class”, and
the rest of our citizens, will be
there tomorrow with much sor
row, if taxes are paid and paid
so that the foreign countries
can raid our treasury.
The foreign spending, and so
called lending, should have been
stopped years ago, those coun
tries have just about mopped up
with us; and that is their in
tention, no use to mention that.
We have too many, entirely too
many members in Congress who
keep on paying “our money”
to keep their Red friends sup
plied; and they have defied the
poor voters to complain, telling
us we would be insance if the
money was not forthcoming, and
that ain’t funny. They really be
lieve we are idiots because we
receive their explanations with
no violent exclamations.
When Senator George speaks
at a meeting, the Atlanta papers
carry his words for weeks, a lot
of tommy-rot, but why not?
They have an axe to grind on
all Senator George has signed.
But when Herman Talmadge
makes a LOTS BETTER speech
at the same meeting, they think
they are defeating him by giv
ing him one or two paragraphs.
It is quite a while till voting
time, but Senator George thinks
it is not a crime to keep himself
propped up before he is mopped
Consistently
Good
DWARF HOUSE
Forest Park, Ga.
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CHRISTIAN'S PHARMACY
1266 Main Street — Forest Park, Ga. — POplar 7-9726
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By POPE DICKSON
“THOSE WHO CAN COMMAND THEMSELVES,
COMMAND OTHERS ”
Leadership, or the ability to command others, is a quality
which rightly begins with the individual. Although the major
ity of us harbor no great desire to command others, It is quite
necessary to exercise leadership over our own destiny unless
our existence is to be a willy-nilly of worry and vacillation.
It is surprising how many people in the world have little
command over their own emotions. It Is surprising, too, how
many people lead fretfol and worrisome lives becaose they
lack cither the will or the coorage to make and enforce de
cisions which are actually nothing but workday problems
which confront them regularly.
Although, as we said, the majority of us do not necessarily
seek to command others, it is most important that we take
command of ourselves. For it is this command which will
benefit us in terms of stability, self control and a greater
peace of mind.
Dickson Funeral Home
PHONE 2211
Jonesboro, Georgia
up. Some time soon the can
didates will croon, so don’t be a
goon, but read between the lines
and catch the signs that are
coming our way.
You have a right to your “say”,
you have a right to vote as you
please; but you will sneeze your
hay fever away if you stay on
the side that loves his own coun
try better than his letter on for
eign aids. It has taken several
decades to soak all this into our
skulls, but little by little, each
mulls over what has become of
the taxes paid, and promise no
relaxes until the truth is told
Somebody bold? Sure, but the
American Legion and a few
others are trying to inform all
the brothers that the piper has
been paid, too, yet you and me
who are supposed to be free,
have been under a yoke so many
years, are now ralizing that
penalizing ourselves don’t make
things right. We must fight for
the might to indite those who
would use us to further their
own ambition with no recogni
tion of the little feller—unless
he carries an umbrella.
SWAPPING LETTERS
(From Page 1)
as a letter carrier on Atlanta
streets, Mr. Davis looked after
two jobs for a time after decid
ing to go intc business for him
self.
He had all the confidence in
the world after resigning from
the Post Department. But at the
same time establishing a guinea
pig business is one of the tough
est projects a man can under
take, Mr. and Mrs. Davis agree.
“I had been raising fancy
show rabbits,” Mr. Davis ex
plained. “Then I learned that
practically all the guinea pigs
used in Atlanta laboratories
were shipped down from the
North. Doctors told me they’d
like to have pigs raised here if
they could get them in
quantity.”
Mr. Davis thought he’d work
a few hours every evening after
he got off from his mail route at
3 o’clock. “But you can’t get
much done in just a few hours.
I told my wife to turn on the
outdoor lights when it got dark,
and I worked as long as I could
keep going,” he said.
Meanwhile, he pointed out,
everybody advised him to qtiit
and move back to town. If there
was any money in guinea pigs,
somebody else would be raising
them, was the usual argument.
CLAYTON COUNTY REALTY
COMPANY
Buying — Sales — Rentals
Developing — Leasing
DANIEL L. VURA, Owner
Ph. PO. 7-2660 Mt. View, Ga.
But Davis said “I went ahead and
paid $5 apiece for my first
breeding stock. Then the bottom
fell out of the market, and my
$5 pigs were worth 25 cents
apiece. The rabbit experts said
I’d better drop the whole thing
before I sank any more money in
the project. Instead, I bought
more breeders at $25 a hun
dred.”
Mr. Davis keeps six females
and one male in each pen. The
females produce five litters a
year, of two to six pigs to the
litter.
With the stock multiplying all
over the place, Mr. Davis set out
to find buyers. And then he dis
covered that guinea pigs are a
lot easier to raise than to sell.
The district Army procurment
officers told him, “You haven’t
got enough guinea pigs to sell
us. When you have more than
we can use, I’ll be glad to talk
business, but we can’t buy a few
from you and more from some
body else.” Large health and
medical laboratories in Atlanta
gave similar replies. Finally,
after he had been in bunsiness
a year and a half, Mr. Davis
made his first big sale. “Then
orders sort of multiplied like the
guinea pigs,” he said. “Nearly
every customer has recommend
ed to another customer.”
“But selling guinea pigs,” says
Mr. Davis, “is not like any other
business in the world. A hos
pital or laboratory often doesn’t
know that it wants my animals
until there is an urgent need for
them, and then the order must
be filled immediately. Whether
I have a surplus or not, I can
sell as many as the customer
wants.”
132 AC RES 2 GOOD HOMES
AUCTION
On Hampton-Woolsey Paved Road, 2YI Miles West of 4-Lane Highway
28 Miles South of Atlanta
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1955 10:00 A. M. ON THE- PREMISES
PROPERTY OF MRS. E. W. WILKINS
136 acres subdivided into small acreage tracts. 87 acres open, some in pasture. Good cotton
allotmen. Good 5-ROOM HOUSE with bath, electric lights. 4-ROOM HOME with electric
lights. 4,000 capacity chicken house and several good barns. Running water on place. Long
road frontage. This is one of the best small farms in this section and is located in a good
community and fast growing section. On school bus and mail route. Only about 2 miles
South of Lake Talmadge.
Also included are: 1955 Ford Tractor with ail equipment, 1953 Combine, Compost Spreader.
The reason for selling the owner is a widow and cannot operate the farm. Look this nron
erty over before sale date. Signs on property. Title good. For full particulars see owner on
property, or write or call our office. Everything sells regardless of price. Buy any part or
all of this fine farm, for safe, sound, profitable investment.
i TERMS: HALF CASH
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The Forest Park Free Press-News, December 1, 1955 •
The guinea pigs eat 200 pounds
of pellet feed a day, and three
bales of hay. Feeding them,
keeping up with their birth rec
ords, taking them out of the
cages to wean, and separating
them according to sex and age,
required so much time that Mr.
Davis had to hire help.
“But that wasn’t practical,” he
said. “Counting taxes and every
thing else, I was paying my
helpers around SBO a week and
I was making $75. So I did the
logical thing. I gave up my job
and devoted my full time to
guinea pigs.
“And I believe I did the right
thing. All those blank walls I
had been running into have
fallen down, or something, and
I had clear sailing ahead.
Fully as happy as Mr. Davis
about the whole thing is his
wife. “No one ever thought
we’d make a go of it,” said Mrs.
Davis. “Some friends made the
direst predictions about the
project, others thought it was
funny and made some very cute
jokes. But our real friends
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1247 Main Street PO piar 1-9854
Forest Park, Georgia
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thought about the idea.”
The passing years have shown
the Davises knew what they were
doing.
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