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VOL. 42 —NO. 29
POINT OF VIEW I
— 1 By DAN TROY ।
As surely as summer follows spring and winter follows fall,
etc., the American Telephone and Telegraph Company annually
renews its perpetual battle with the Federal Government in re
gards to the federal excise tax which has been placed on telephone
service.
as in business. This is purely and simply unfair and discrimina
tory against the users of telephone service.
This tax is levied against telephone customers, and, of course,
the Telephone Company acts only as a collector. In other words,
it is you and I who continue to pay for the World War II war
effort, fifteen years after the conflict has been eliminated. If the
tax is dropped, by some strange coincidence, this will mean a 10%
drop in our monthly telephone bills, which is substantial.
In 1959, the United States Congress voted to let the 10% excise
tax on local service expire on June 30, 1960 on the basis that the
tax was unfair and discriminatory. However, President Eisenhower
in his budget message in January 1960, asked to renege on its
prior commitment by continuing the tax for the fiscal year 1961.
This, Congress did in June 1960, voting to retain the tax for an
other year.
It seems strangely inconsistent that the United States Con
gress saw fit, in 1960, to send to the White House a measure to re
duce the excise tax on cabarets and night clubs from 20%10 10%.
This was signed into law by President Eisenhower. It was reported
that this was done to relieve entertainers. Why not relieve the
long suffering telephone users?
It is possible that I may have some strange ideas on this sub
ject, but it seems fairly reasonable to me that Congress could
have left the cabaret and night club tax the same as it was and
completely done away with the discriminatory excise tax on tele
phone users. Cabarets and night clubs are a luxury which no one
needs to afford. ■
It is about time that the American people joined the fight
which the American Telephone and Telegraph Company has been
carrying on for more than fifteen years. For, after all, it is the
American people who are paying the bill.
Feburary 1 Is Date
So. Bell Extends Jonesboro
Service To 15 More Cities
February 1 is the date for unlimited telephone calls on
a local basis between Jonesboro and the other 15 cities in
The Metropolitan Service Plan, according to Jack Pfeiffer,
Jonesboro Group Manager for the company.
Funeral Services
Are Held For
Mrs. W. T. Watson
The death of Mrs. W. T. (Mil
lie) Watson took place on Fri
day, January 22 at her home on
Reynolds Road, Morrow. The
passing of this beloved wife and
mother of three young sons has
grieved all who ever knew her.
Mrs. Watson had fought cancer
for the past several years with
fortitude and cheerfulness.
Besides her husband are three
sons: Billy, Tommy and Jimmy.
Mrs. Watson is survived by a sis
ter, Mrs. W. H. Hagan of Mor
row and a brother, J. E. With
erspoon of Atlanta, and her
aunt, Mrs. Mark B. Porter of
Morrow, in whose home she was
raised as a daughter. Other sur
vivors include: Mrs. F. D. Terrell
and Mrs. E. B. Reeves of College
Park; Mrs. R. L. Terrell of Hape
ville; Miss Gladys Porter, Miss
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PICTURED ABOVE are John McCannon, Dorothy Cheaver, T. J. Elliot and Mayor Puckett sign
ing 5800,000.00 in Sewer Bonds which will be used in the construction of the South Side Sewer
Project in Forest Park. The work on the project is expected to begin early this spring.
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This tax has been in effect since
World War II when it was imposed as a
temporary measure for the double pur
pose of providing revenue and discour
aging too-heavy use of telephone service
w'hich was needed for the war effort. This
temporary, emergency tax is now enter
ing its twentieth year, with little hope for
its repeal in the near future.
As we all know, the excise tax is re
served strictly for those items on the
American market which may be con
sidered as luxuries. As the situation stands
today the telephone is no more a luxury
in business or home than gas, electricity
or water; and yet, of the utilities men
tioned above, only the telephone has an
excise tax levied against it. The telephone
today is a necessity in the home as well
Telephone customers in the
area can call and be called by
people in Atlanta, Austell, Cham
blee, Clarkston, Douglasville, Du
luth, Fayetteville, Fairburn,
Lithonia, Marietta, Norcross,
Roswell, Smyrna, Stockbridge,
and Stone Mountain.
Each subscriber will receive
I instructions in the mail as to
' how to call these cities.
With the inauguration of The
Metropolitan Service Plan on
I October 2, 1960, all telephone us
। ers in the plan could call and be
[called by Atlanta. The new ar
rangement extends local calling
: between each of these 16 towns
• without long distance charges.
“There will be no increase in
monthly charges for telephone
service in this new wide-range
local service program,” said Mr.
Pfeiffer.
The Metropolitan Service Plan
will be expanded even further in
April when Alpharetta, Conyers,
Palmetto, and Powder Springs
will be added to the group of
towns having two-way calling
with each other. This will make
a total of 20 exchanges in The
Metropolitan Plan.
Charles Tucker Named Jaycee Man of Year
Joe T. Lane Heads ’6l Red Cross Campaign
Forest Park Jaycees Hold
Annual Bosses’ Night Banquet
MAYOR W. REID PUCKETT GIVEN
JAYCEE HONORARY MEMBERSHIP
An excellent dinner, served by the Jaycettes was en
joyed by the Jaycees and their “Bosses” at the “Bosses
Night” Banquet held at the Youth Center. Filling in for
' Abbit Massey was Jim Bentley, former Executive Secretary
to Senator Talmadge, who proved to be a fine speaker.
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NOTICE
The Forest Park Athletic
Association “Women’s Auxil
iary” will hold its regular
I monthly meeting on Monday,
Feburary 6, at 8:00 p.m. at the
Youth Center.
The program will be entitled
“To Market, To Market", and
we cordially extend an invita
[ tion to all ladies who are in
terested to attend. For further
information please call PO
7-3162 after 6:00 p.m.
—Lea Hill, Secretary
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S. K. Cannon New
Atlanta Ford
Plant Manager
S. K. Cannon, native Georgian
who started with Ford Motor
Company on the assembly line
30 years ago, has been appointed
manager of the Atlanta Ford
plant, it was announced today
by Denis J. Bracken, general
manager of the company’s Auto
motive Assembly Division.
Mr. Cannon, who served in
various production executive po
sitions in Atlanta from 1947 to
1953, returned to the nearby
Hapeville operation three years
ago as assistant plant manager.
Prior to returning to the Atlanta
plant he held the similar posi
, tion at the company’s assembly
I plant in Louisville, Ky., and
Mahwah, N. J.
He succeeds Harold J. Pearson,
former Atlanta plant manager,
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FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1961
A well known outstanding
young citizen, Charles Tucker, [
received the award for being the
outstanding young man of the
year. Mr. Tucker is the Clayton
County Agent. Several other
awards were also presented dur
ing the course of the evening.
Mayor Reid Puckett was given
a life-time honorary member
ship to the Jaycees in recogni
tion for his outstanding leader
ship and service to the commu
nity.
E. M. Gaultney, Jr. received
the Jaycee “Key Man” award.
"Spoke” awards earned by first
year Jaycees went to Edward
Foster, Virlyn Slaton and Tom
Vaughan. James B. Martin re
j celved an associate “Spoke”
award. Ken Kilpatrick was cho
। sen “Outstanding Jaycee” of
the month for his vigorous and
energetic work towards helping
to make the "Empty Stocking”
drive the success it was. *
Both of the local newspapers
were presented awards com
mending them for their service
in Journalism to the community
and bringing of Forest Park to
the attention of the State and
Nation.
Jonesboro PTA
To Meet Feb. 7
At the PTA Jonesboro High
School meeting February 7,
the theme will be “Guidance ,
and Council Program in our
High School” with such knowl
edgeable speakers as the past
Counselor, Mrs. C. E. Lamb,
and the present Counselor,
Miss Marie Adams.
Students are urged to attend
with their parents. The meet
ing starts at 8 p.m. in the au- ।
ditorium.
MRS. H. E. HARRISON
Publicity Chairman
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Lake City
Paper Sale
Lake City Elementary School
will hold a paper sale Feb. 2
from 9 to 11 a.m. Have vou ever
heard of OLD NEWSPAPERS
WORKING FOR A SCHOOL?
Indeed yes, they can and with
! your cooperation we can supple
ment our new school budget by
these sales and supply our
scholars with additional bene
fits—all from those old news
papers. But we must have your
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help.
Won’t you spare time to bun
dle up those papers and bring
them to the school? Mrs. Betty
Pace will be on hand to help
you, and if you tie the bundles
it will be so much easier. For
you folks who cannot bring
them, just call PO 6-3943 and
have them picked up. Thank
i you.
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NOTICE
The final presentments of
the November Session of the
Clayton County Grand Jury
are included in this issue and
may be found on the Legal
Page. The final presentments
were prepared and submitted
। by the Secretary Norman La
-1 Mote after the final session of
the jury on Wednesday, Jan.
! 25. Foreman W. Reid Puckett
| dismissed the jury after the
presentments were completed.
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Pictured above is Mr. Charles Tucker, of Forest Park, being
presented the Jaycees Young Man of the Year Award by Mr.
W. M. “Dub” Currie, President of the Forest Park Jaycees.
Biggest Budget In History
Ga. Power Plans $59 Million
Construction Program In 1961
Georgia Power Company this week announced the
greatest construction budget in the firm’s history— a
scheduled 1961 expenditure of $59*72 million.
MOUNTAIN VIEW
COUNCIL TO MEET
JANUARY 30TH
The City Council of Mountain
View has set a meeting for
Monday, Jan. 30th at 7:30.
This will be the first meeting
of the full council in two and
one half years.
Business to be taken up will
include the calling of an election
for Mayor and Council.
Three of the council, John
Conkle, Leroy Stone and J.
Frank Blalock appeared before
Superior Court Judge Banke last
Wednesday to show cause why
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Past Mayor, Councilman
J. P. PORTER FUNERAL
HELD IN JONESBORO
Mr. John Powell Porter of Jonesboro passed away at
his home, Tuesday, Jan. 24, after about two months’ ill
ness. Mr. Porter was in his eightieth year, had served Jones
boro as mayor and city councilman, and was a retired mail I
Church Os God
Establishes
In Forest Park
The Church of God, with state
headquarters in Doraville, and
with international headquarters
in Cleveland, Tenn., is establish
ing a church in Forest Park.
The temporary location of the
church is 512 Thurmond Road.
This is on Highway T6o’ where
Highway ‘s4’ and T6o' divide.
Fifty-four years ago the
Church of God organized its first
Georgia church in the moun
tainous region in the extreme
northwest section of the state.
Today—through the power of
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John J. McDonough, president,
also reported Georgia’s economic
expansion for the next three
years will increase demands for
electric power by more than a
I billion kilowatt-hours a year. He
predicted similar growth will
continue “beyond the next three
year period,”
Mr. McDonough said that the
company’s 1961 construction
budget is S2B million larger than
the capital investment of the 83
new industries which located in
the company’s service area last
year. (The capital investment
figures are based on industries
with more than $50,000 of cap
ital outlay and employing at
least 10 persons.)
The company will make a sub
stantial investment in continu
' ( ing work on the Southern Elec
jtric Generating Company’s mil-
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carrier. He served on Clayton,
County draft board throughout ’
World War II and was for 30
years a steward in the Jonesboro
Methodist Church.
He was a member and past
Worshipful Master of the Jones
boro lodge F&AM, and long at
tended the annual Grand Lodge
meetings. He was a past Patron
of the Jonesboro Eastern Star.
His was a wonderful life of de
votion to his community.
He is survived by his wife;
two daughters, Miss Grace Por
ter, Jonesboro, and Mrs. Pearl
Bowen, Marietta, and two grand
children; one sister, Mrs. R. L.
Johnson of Atlanta.
Funeral services were held
Friday at Jonesboro Methodist
Church, with interment at
Jonesboro City Cemetery. Dick
son Funeral Home of Jonesboro
was in charge.
Mr. Lane Asks Support Os
All Clayton County People
Joe T. Lane, Clayton County Ordinary and civic leader,
has been designated Chairman of the 1961 American Red
Cross Campaign for Clayton County. Through his leader
ship, Red Cross officials are hoping this will be the last in-
*AMVET* P*an*
Polio Clinic
February 4th
AMVETS and the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Forest Park
Post No. 17 sponsor Polio
Clinic. This is the third ses
sion for this clinic.
Shots will be given Satur
day, February 4, at the Health
Clinic across from College
Street School. The clinic will
be open from 9 a.m. till 1 p.m.
SI.OO donation per shot.
This clinic was planned and
formulated to combat this
dread disease paralytic polio.
AMVET and your County
Health Department urge you
to take these shots and help
stamp out this dread disease.
Jonesboro First Baptists
Honor New Church Organist
Jonesboro Volunteer
Fire Deparfmenl
Annual Report
The volunteer fire department
had a good year with no large
fires during 1960 for the second
straight year. Only one fire in
the city limits was “LOST”, and
that was lit up all over at the
time of the alarm.
There were 54 alarms during
the year as follows: 15 house
and building fires, 12 grass and
brush, 11 vehicle, 9 other types
and 5 false alarms.
However, fires are not the
only cause for response. The
M.S.A. P neol a to r resuscitator
was used to save the life of a
child on two different occasions.
Civil Defense called on the de
partment three times, twice to
help search for missing persons,
and once to stand by for several
hours during the worst of last
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t Pictured above is Mr. W. Reid Puckett, of Forest Park, being
- presented with an honorary membership in the Forest Park
j Chapter of the Jaycees by Mr. W. M. “Dub” Currie, President
of the Jaycees.
Official
Clayton County
Publication For
42 Years
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
I dependent drive for our county.
If Clayton County is successful,
we will then be in a position to
enter with the Greater Atlanta
United Appeal for the year 1962,
as our Community Chest, Boy
Scouts, and Mental Health As
sociation have done in the past.
At present the Clayton County
Red Cross Chapter is approxi
mately 3,000 dollars in debt due
to lack of funds in regards to
services our county has obtained.
Mr. Lane is convinced the
good citizens of Clayton County
will support him in the forth
coming campaign to help over
come this deficit and raise $5,000
for the year 1961.
Mr. Lane also stated that the
। campaign, which will be held in
। March, will require the com
bined efforts of citizens in every
। section of our county. Any per-
I son interested in working with
Joe should contact him at his
office, GR 8-8827 or home, PO
1-2068.
। Miss Norma McDonald of Se
[quoia Drive, Forest Park, is the
new organist at the First Bap
tist Church in Jonesboro.
Miss McDonald comes to the
Jonesboro Church from the
Grant Park Baptist Church in
Atlanta. She served for two
years at the Oakland City Bap
tist Church prior to her work at
Grant Park.
The church entertained at a
lovely reception in Miss Mc-
Donald’s honor on January 8
after the evening service. Mrs.
L- E. Oliver greeted the guests
and introduced them to the re
ceiving line, which was com
posed of Miss McDonald, the
pastor and Mrs. Long, William
C. Wells, Minister of Music and
Education, Mr. Warren Dixon,
Chairman of the Music Commit
i tee, and Mrs. Dixon, and Mr.
[ Byron Turner, Chairman of the
Board of Deacons, and Mrs. Tur
i ner.
The church looks forward to
the day that they will enter into
their building program which in-
I eludes the purchase of a pipe
[ organ for their proposed new
•' sanctuary.