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Mrs. Homer Voylds of Morrow
'UNLOADING'AT JAIL
Judge Offers Remedy
For Market Drunks
(Editor’s note: Grading has
started on the new South Ex
pressway site of the Farmers
Market which is scheduled to
be in full operation for the
1958 spring marketing season.
The State will have ample time
to correct the situation des
cribed in this story by Judge
Luke Arnold, Atlanta Municipal
Judge, before moving the oper
ation from Atlanta).
Municipal Court Judge Luke'
Arnold said Thursday that men
who load and unload produce at
the State Farmery Market here
often do too much of their "load
ing” on alcholic beverages.
And as a result, he said, too
many of them are being unload
ed from the paddy wagon at City
Jail.
In a letter to Commissioner of
Agriculture Phil Campbell, Judge
Arnold suggested that a shed be
provided for workers with no
permanent home when the new
farmers market is built on the
South Expressway.
Far too many of the market
extras are spending their free
time drinking, Judge Arnold said.
He said a steady flow of the
worMers comes into Municipal
Court — the result of the pre
vious night’s roundup by market
officers and city police.
“Even raifroad detectives find
them down on the railroad prop
erty building fires and cooking a
combination of all kinds of in
gredients put in a can called
some kind of stew,” the judge’s
letter said.
“And drinking anything they
can find with alcohol in it, in
cluding shoe polish,” the judge
added. Most are arrested on
drunk charges, Judge Arnold
noted. Others are arrested on
charges of idling and loitering,
he said.
“They sleep anywhere they
can, just to get out of the weath
er,” the judge said.
His suggestion to the agricul
ture commissioner “is not for
some place for vagrants to drink
and 101 l around,” Judge Arnold
said.
"My understanding is that,
these people who work at the
market as loaders and unloaders
make S6O to S7O a week. And
should a man be sincere about
his work and be out there for
the purpose of making a living,
he should be entitled to some
place out of the weather,” he
said.
Judge Arnold said he didn’t I
think it would cost the state I
over “a few hundred dollars” to
provide the proposed shed for
the market extras. He proposed
that stoves and benches be pro
vided so the extras could be
comfortable and at the same
time be subject to call when
needed at the market.
KIWANIS KORNER
By Capt. Charles S. Roberts, Jr.
The August 23, 1956, meeting
of the Forest Park Kiwanis Club
was held at the Youth Center
with Charlie Tucker as speaker.
He talked about the Reserve
Forces Act of 1955 and how it af
fects the United States citizen of
draft age.
The Reserve Force Act utilizes
the traditional American way of
defense—a small standing army
backed by trained civilian re
serves. This policy interferes
least with the lives of most
young men. All men up to age 26
' FOREST PARK BEAUTY SHOP
1142 Main St. Forest Park, Ga. POplar 7-4222
BENNETTS LAKE
OPEN FOR FISHING SEPTEMBER 1, 1956
30 Acre Lake — Plenty of Fish — Picnicing and Boat
Riding. A Prize For The One Who Catches The Biggest
Fish Opening Day
On 138 Highway between Stockbridge and
Jonesboro
CURB SERVICE
WE SPECIALIZE IN GOOD FOOD
OPEN SUNDAYS — COMPLETELY AIR CONDITION
ED — VISIT OUR NEW DINING ROOM — FAMILIES
INVITED — CURB SERVICE
Brock's Supper Club
Dixie Hwy. — Just Past Overhead Bridge
Forest Park. Ga. POplar 7-9194
SIOO TOMATO
IS DREAM OF
MRS. VOYLES
Dreaming of a SIOO tomato.
Somebody, somewhere in Geor
gia, will receive a hundred dol
lars at the Southeastern Fail
next month for growing the
largest tomato in the state. Mrs.
Homer Voyles, Morrow, nurtures
the plant she dreams may bear
the top prize, to be given by
Donald Hastings of Atlanta,
former president of the Cham
ber of Commerce, sponsor of the
non-profit Fair Corporation.
Other blue ribbon awards
ranging from ten to twenty
five dollars will be given by the
Fair.
Barney L. Kennedy, horticul
ture show coordinator and treas
urer of the Men’s Garden Club,
says entries should be brought
to the Horticulture Building for
weighing-in ceremonies by 11
a.m. Monday, October 1. For the
first time in the Fair’s 42-year
history, amateur greenthumbers
as well as professional farmers
will be eligible to compete.
The Fair, Georgia’s largest
single event, will be held at
Lakewood Park, Atlanta, Sep
tember 27-October 6.
entering active service after Au
gust 9, 1956, via draft, enlistment
or commission have a six-year
military duty. Two, three, four or
five years may be spent in active
service with three, two, one or no
years in the ready reserve and
one year in the stand-by reserve.
Young men age 17 to 18>/ 2 may
enlist for a draft—deferred eight
year duty with six months of full
time active army service and 7^
years as members of the “Ready
Reserve.”
The Ready Reserve has forty
eight scheduled drills consisting
or a two-hour session once a
week plus two weeks of field
training during the summer at
an army camp. Training covers
all phases of modern military
science including photography,
communications, radar, auto me
chanics, electronics, etc. A full
day’s pay is paid for each class
and day. These men have an op
portuntiy to draw retired pay at
age 60 if they can obtain enough
retirement pension credits.
Mr. Tucker is a member of the
257th Field Artillery Battalion
which will have headauarters in
Building 922 at the Atlanta Gen
eral Depot. The proximity of this
battalion to Forest Park will en-
BACK TO SCHOOL
SPECIAL
Monday, Tuesday and Wednes
day, Only — Cold Waves $6.50,
under 12 years old
Clayton. County Views
BY MRS. PAULINE BRANYON
All the new-comers in Forest
Park, all the new folks who live
in the many new subdivisions in
Clayton County—and there are
hundreds of these new people—
have you ever seen “The Fair
of 1859?” I bet you haven’t. It
ain’t no fair—that is not a fair
term for this wonderful illus
trated history of a lost civiliza
tion. It is one of the 17 w’on
ders of the world, and there is
nothing like it anywhere in the
world, believe it or not. I often
wonder if the late Bob Ripley
had this wonder in his “Believe
It or Not.”
This “Fair of 1850” is located
on the expressway—just one mile
this side of Jonesboro. It has
many relics on the outside; but
oh, the inside of these old ante
bellum houses are filled precious
and priceless antiques that are
so arranged that history in the
making is seen, and a lost
civilization comes to life right
before your eyes. It is very
fashionable to know your South
ern history, it is very stylish to
own and appreciate a Confeder
ate flag; and books are still be
ing written about Civil War days,
tho’ none can touch “Gone With
the Wind.” It is very enlighten
ing and heartening to hear the
rebel yell these days, for the
ante-bellum days are so often
discussed by Southerners—also
the Reconstruction Days. We
still love “Dixie,” and who has not
tried to give the rebel yell?
They say the Damyankees were
scared almost to death when
they heard the Rebel yell during
a battle, and they well might
be; for I used to attend all the
Southern Confederate Reunions
with my late father, and those
old Rebels used to make the walls
shake with those rebel yells. I
was a pretty good yeller ,too,
then, and I felt like giving out
able many of the young men in
this area to serve in the “Ready
Reserve” with a minimum of in
convenience.
LEAN LB.
SPARE RIBS. 43c
NOBLES LB.
WIENERS.. 35c
FRESH PRODUCE
FANCY BARTLETT LB.
PEARS.... 15c
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FRESH GREEN LB.
CABBAGE... 6c
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YELLOW 2 LBS.
ONIONS ... 19c
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POTATOES . 29c
SWIFT’S CAN
Corned Beef.39c
NOTICE
These prices good Thursday,
Thru Saturday. For Your
Shopping Convenience
that piercing shriek when I saw
this “fair of 1850,” and you will,
too, when you see it—that is,
unless you are too dignified.
It will be very fitting to visit
that “Fair of 1850” these days.
It is built on sacred soil, very
close to the place where the Bat
tle of Jonesboro was fought Aug.
31-Sept. 1, 1864, just 92 years
ago. It is very fitting to visit
it now for Jonesboro will cele
brate her centennial in Septem
ber. There is no war in that
fair—it is peaceful, serene, dig
nified, but breath-taking and
miraculous. You wonder how
one man could accumulate so
much knowledge and so many
relics, but then you don’t know
Col. John W. West who created
this fair. He is a genius, and
I don’t mean maybe. There is
no smarter man in the South or
North than Col. West who was
born and reared in Clayton
County near old Bethsaida Bap
tist Church. He walked five
miles each way to a little one
room school house in his youth—
he brought that little school
house to this fair, and it is fit
ted with the same furniture, that
is benches—that he sat on then.
Some of the old benches from
Bethsaida Church show tooth
prints of the horses which old
burninghades Sherman had
stalled in that church during the
war.
Later, Col. West worked his
way through Dahlonega College
of which he is the oldest living
alumnus. When the college was
about to go to pieces he became
its president, and saved that his
toric college. He taught at the
Georgia Military Academy in
College Park for 32 years. He
also taught at Oglethorpe. It
was during his teaching career
that he realized that a civiliza
tion had died, and didn’t even
have a monument over its grave.
So he buiit this monument. He
has been offered a fabulous sum
by Chattanooga men for this
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Join the happy crowds who shop at the FOSTER’S SUPER
MARKET regularly for their grocery needs. Take advantage of
the many values we offer in quality meats and groceries. Our
prices are always reasonable. Plenty of free parking.
JEWEL . 3-LB. CAN
Shortening. 49c
STOKELY’S — 303 CAN
FruitCocktaii23c
DOUBLE “Q” PINK LARGE CAN
SALMON . 57c
fair and all its priceless fur
nishings. Would you be willing
to see this great monument
moved to another state?
There is the music room in one
building. The harpsichord, built
in 1732 still plays good music, so
does the old music box. There
are organs, zithers, melodeums,
and a square piano. He has the
finest collection of old guns in
the South; old knives, scissors,
saws, shovels and plows, and the
first reaper built by old Cyrus
McCormick. There is an old bell
from a Confederate battleship,
and the old bell used by Dahl
onega College for years.
There is the old roping ma
chine used by Ed Dodd’s grand
father (you know the artist
whose strip features wildlife).
There is the old timey shoe mak
ing from the tanyard to the fin
ished shoe. But the tanyard has
lost its odor.
All the old buildings, also his
own home, in which this para
phernalia is housed, were
brought to this fair in their
original form—all are built of
handhewn logs put together with
pegs.
You should visit this fair,
then see that your board of edu
cation puts a MUST in the school
curriculum — that all students
must visit this fair with their
teachers at least once each year.
BETHEL NEWS
Mr. and Mrs. Millard Long,
Ann and Ray spent the past two
weeks with relatives in Fort
Payne, Ala.
Mr. and Mrs. Dewitt Murray
of Atlanta were supper guests of
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Murray on
Wednesday night of last week.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Couch of
Hapeville, Ga. were visiting rela
tives here Sunday.
Paul Stewman has returned
home after a visit to his grand
mother’s in Atlanta, Ga.
Mr. and Mrs. Emory Taylor
and sons have returned from a
trip to Florida.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Puckett
and Linda of East Point were re
cent guests of M.r and Mrs. Edd
Hand.
Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Stewman
and boys spent the week-end in
Florida.
The Forest Park-Free Press-News, August 29,1956
Reminiscences of Bygone Days
BY B. M. WOOTAN
In the summer of 1900 there
was a bad wreck on the Southern
Railroad between Stockbridge
and McDonough. There was an
awful rainstorm and the water
washed out a trestle over Camp
Creek (I think that is the name
of the creek). Anyway, a South
ern passenger train plunged into
the washout, all the coaches
went into the water except the
back one. It happened in the
early morning while it was yet
dark am} more than 50 persons
lost their lives. Some people at
that time thought that probably
some bodies were never recov
ered. Os course, there was no
proof of this belief.
A few years later another
wreck on the Southern happened
somewhere between Fayetteville
and Vaughn’s Junction. It was
caused by a trestle being washed
out by heavy rains. That was the
last bad wreck to happen in this
section that I can remember.
There was a close call later at
South River where Highway 54
crosses it. The Southern had a
rail line from Atlanta to Fort
Valley. This line has been torn
up part of the way to Fort Val
ley. We had a very heavy rain
and South River went out of its
banks at the place where High
way 54 crosses it and washed the
trestle out. Mr. O. T; Kitchens,
Sr., was track foreman and lived
about one-fourth of a mile south
of the river crossing. In the early
morning hours while he was
sleeping he dreamed that the
trestle was out, so he awoke and
told his wife that he was going
to the crossing and see because
there was a passenger train due
to come soon. He found the tres
tle was gone so he called to Mr.
Daniel living on the other side
of the river to flag the train and
save it. Mr. Daniel flagged the
train and stopped it just short
of the trestle and saved many
lives.
SOME QUOTES
“When we place our interest
VALLEYDALE VIRGINIA CURED LB
BACON ... 49c
VALLEYDALE PORK LB.
Sausage R011.29c
VIRGINIA CURED
w. 49 c
lb. 39 c
lb. 45c
FROZEN FOODS
SWANSON 2 FOR
CHICKEN PIES
BEEF PIES
TURKEY PIES ~
FROSTY ACRES—6-OZ. 2 FOR
Orange Juice. 31c
FROSTY ACRES — 10 OZ. 2 FOR
GREEN PEAS.3Sc
Frosty Acres —9,0 z. French Fried 2 For
POTATOES . 29c
MORTON’S APPLE - CHERRY - PEACH
PIES 45c
STORE HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Wednes
day and Thursday 8:30 to 6:30
Friday 8:30 to 8:30
Saturday 8:30 to 7:30
in such things as genuine help
fulness, a kindly spirit, self-for
get fullness, humility of soul,
then we are in a position to be
rewarded with the invitation tq
come up higher. “One of the
heaviest loads a soul can carry
is a bundle of bad habits.
“There is only one person that
you can profitably compare your
self with and that is your yes
terday self.
“Remember a tree always lies
as it falls, and it always falls the
way it leans — so watch your
leanings!
“Which is worse, being sick or
being idle?
“Sin is dangerous when it
comes robed like a serpent, but it
is much more dangerous when it
comes in the robe of a beautiful
woman. If you could talk to
Adam he could tell you plenty.
“If you will save a dime a day
(10c) you would have 90 to 10
chances of having enough money
at your death to bury your body.
“Use your Bible to look
through and not to look at.”
Advertising Post
For F P Resident
Ervin Taylor of Forest Park has
been appointed Atlanta Area
Manager for the Osborne Com
pany of Cincinnatti, Ohio. Mr.
Taylor is an active member of
the Forest Park Lion’s Club and
resides at 130 W. Bridge Avenue.
Mr. Taylor recently spent eight
days at the home office where
he took special training and met
the company officials. The Os
borne Company has been in the
advertising field since 1888 and
Mr. Osborne was the first man
to print a calendar.
Mr. Taylor is married to the
former Marie Rudduck and they
have three children: Marie, Bob
by and Frances. They belong to
the Methodist Church in Forest
Park.
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