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3 By JACK TROY
3 Editor, The Free Press
BAINBRIDGE — Piney Woods Pete got a swift kick in the
teeth Friday night when an overflow crowd of 800, taking every
available seat in the big armory, pledged Decatur County to
Marvin Griffin, candidate for Governor, in a rally probably the
most rewarding in the long political experience of the area’s
favorite son.
Piney Woods Pete, the SAPPY SAGE of The Atlanta Journal,
had said that Marvin Griffin couldn’t get 500 votes. Bainbridge’s
able County Commissioner suggested a BIGGER LIE was never
written, inasmuch as 800 people in the armory, wearing white
GRIFFIN FOR GOVERNOR CARDS ON THEIR LAPELS, were
all-out for Marvin Griffin, and their friends were just as enthusi
astic in support of the local publisher and businessman for
Governor.
Six hundred seats had been sold in advance for this $25-a
--plate dinner; two hundred more solid supporters of the former
Governor who has done so much for his state, in so many ways,
crowded in the door, and room was made for them by the won
derful committee headed by Mack Willis, Decatur County and
Bainbridge C. of C. president. Griffin friends and supporters
meant to be in hearing distance of TV and radio, and of the
rostrum, for this outstanding Marvin Griffin Appreciation
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County Firms Plans for Hill-Burton Hospital
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Second’ Battle of Jonesboro
Must Be Won Before 1964!
Commemorative pro‘gflrams of the Battle of Jonesboro in 1964,
sponsored by a Centennial Committee, should coincide with the
WINNING of the SECOND Battle of Jonesboro which is an eco
nomic battle for the tourist dollar, and can be achieved with a
boro Case.
The Judge suggested that NOW and NO LATER, is the time
to start on making the area around Highway 138 and the South
Expressway an integral part of the state’s greatest historical
attraction. For it was HERE that the TURNING POINT of the
Great WAR took place, and it was FROM HERE that SHERMAN
and his Union soldiers began their INFAMOUS MARCH TO THE
SEA, cutting across to Highway 42.
Young Joneshoro boys, dedicated to the last boy, showered
down with every weapon at their command until, overpowered by
vastly superior Union forces, they heroically gave their lives for
home and South ... a South that is rising again — industrially —
so fast that it makes Yankee heads swim, particularly in formerly
industrial New England. We are winning the “secend” war with
out firing a shot. We’ll win all the economic wars! ;
NOW, as Judge Watson says, NOW we must begin, HEADED
by PATRIOTIC JONESBORO ORGANIZATIONS, tc win the “sec
ond” Battle of Jonesboro, with the attraction of uncounted tour
ists and with accomodations — motels, souvenir shops, Johnny
Reb restaurants, and the like — so that our visitors may come
and spend a while — and money — to study the historical lore
and to read the NAMES of the JONESBORO and UNION heroes
who lost their lives in battle.
Just imagine what a great thing it would be to have the
Fair of 1850 fully restored; to add museum buildings near the
Confederate Memorial Cemetery and at the Battle Site on High
way 138 at the South Expressway, and to have old breastworks
and trenches restored, and to move Fitzgerald Road to that same
area and to forget the old Fitzgerald House, since, EVEN
THOUGH IT IS TARA, Mr. Stephens Mitchell, brother of the
late Margaret Mitchell, OBJECTS to its inclusion in Jonesboro’s
great history. WHO NEEDS IT?
The restoration program would include the old Orr Home where
the Yankees stopped; the Warren Home, old breastworks; Johnson
Home; old Court House, where the Masons now meec: House on
Jodeco Road, where people refugeed to just prior to the big Battle;
old home on Carnes Road — off Jodeco Road — the old Dorsey ‘
home on road to left at old site of Hastings Farms. And on and on.
And, by all means, one of Mr. Davis’ Johnny Reb restaurants!
We have all of this history, and the moonlight and magnolias,
so what, indeed, are we waiting for? Tourists? ’
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. Something OUT OF THIS WORLD for Georgia |
~ school kids is coming in August at Lake Spivey [
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A Swift Kick in the Teeth for Piney Woods Pete
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Clayton County News and Farmer
little “blood, sweat and tears’—plus imag
inative effort.
Why should Jonesboro, as great and out
standing as the history of Jonesboro is in
state annals, stand idly by while promoters
seek to make leading historical places out
of Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Moun
tain Memorial Park? We are a counterpart
of the RED BADGE OF COURAGE!!
Don't we realize, fully, that Jonesboro
RIGHTFULLY should be Georgia’s foremost
HISTORICAL CITY, same as WILLIAMS
BURG, Va., or MT. VERNON, Md.,—in the
national picture?
Judge John Watson, himself quite an
historian, as well as being a World War II
veteran of some renown; Judge Watson and
the writer were talking about the “second”
Battle of Jonesboro over coffee at the Jones-
Dinner.
The affair was an assured success in advance because of
Griffin’s home town and home county popularity, and because
of the outstanding work of such able committeemen as Louis
Wynne and Earle May, aids to Chairman Willis.
This writer, who has been in attendance at a multiplicity of
events of all kinds during the past 35 years, can say, in all can
dor, that NEVER had he witnessed such a spontaneous showing
of affection by a city and county for any kind of a figure, po
litical or otherwise.
The warmth and affection shown by his friends deeply
touched the hard-working, conscientious Griffin, and when Mack
Willis stepped up with the Sunday punch of the tremendous rally,
it almost floored the Barnyard Barrymore of Bainbridge. Willis,
telling of the great belief and faith in him shared by citizens of
Bainbridge and Decatur County, handed Marvin Griffin a check
for $15,800!
During the day Rabbi Louis Wynne — not a practicing
Rabbi now — received other checks from farmer friends for
Georgia’s next governor.
It has been said so often that some people actually believe
that a PROPHET IS NOT WITHOUT HONOR, SAVE IN HIS
OWN BACKYARD. Decatur Countians not only have great ad
miration for Marvin Griffin; but Friday night they backed it up
with their money — not peanuts.
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PICTURED ABOVE is the Gulf oil Corporation’s all-new “Minute Shopper” service station located
on Highway 54 in Forest Park, across from the Clayton Plaza Shopping Center. The new station is
only the second one of ts kind in the country, the other being located in Houston, Tex. The Grand
Opening is this Friday and Saturday. (Staff Photo by Bigham)
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Gulf Opens “Minute Shopper”
At a formal opening Friday, Gulf Oil Corporation begins operating the second of its
unique new service stations—-the Minute Shopper—in Forest Park, a suburb of Atlanta.
Mr. Paul Dixon Passes;
Brother of Commissioner
Mr. Paul Dixon, Jonesboro,‘
passed away Friday evening,
June 8,1962,
The second son of Mr. Warren
Pleasant Hackney Dixon and
Emma Sophronia Dickson Dixon,
he was born at the old Dixon
homeplace near Lovejoy. He had
many friends in and around
the community of Bumblehook‘
including the Browns, Keys,
Carnes and many others tor‘
whom he always had a cheery
greeting and a wave of his hand
or his walking stick. |
101 Beautiful Lots to Choose From
Woodview Estates Opens Unit No. 2,
Passes $1,000,000 Sales Mark
Woodview Estates, Inc., one of Clayton County’s largest and finest subdivisions, an
nounced the opening of Woodview Unit No. 2. Owned by Walker Hall of Charlotte, N.C.,
Woodview iistates was opened in September of 1961 and already the gross sales have
passed the $1,000,000 mark, according to Mr. Joe Waits, head of the Woodview operation.
Located on a beautiful 100 acre
wooded tract on Morrow Road‘
just outside Forest Park, Wood
view Estates offers the prospec
tive home-owner the ultimate in
suburban living, within a price |
range which is almost unbeliev- |
able. Woodview homes begin at |
$17,000. !
Wheén Mr. Wait§ was -asked |
how his company could offer a|
=:DECATUR COUNTY EMBRACES GRIFFIN
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1962
| He resided with his sisters,
| Miss Bertha and Odessa Dixon,
and, until felled by a broken hip
was a hewer of wood,” carrier of
water and runner of errands for
his family and others.
Baptized by Pastor Paul Rem
bert, he later belonged to Noah'’s
Ark Methodist Church. He lived
| 75 years in Clayton County prior
to his death. :
| He was a brother of Clayton
Commission Chairman P. K.
Dixon.
custom built home at project
prices, he stated, “We are able
to offer these terrific buys in a
home because of one basic and
very important factor, volume
building. Walker Hall, Inc., is
one of the largest home builders
in the south and as such can buy
construction materials at a
much lower price as the average
The ham served at $25 a plate was a little more expensive
than Talmadge ham and, according to many present, a lot bet
ter, too.
EVERY County, EVERY City official was present at the
Appreciation Dinner. Well, that is, excepting Cheney Griffin,
Mayor of Bainbridge and brother of the next Governor of
“Georgia, who was at Jekyll Island for the meeting of the
Georgia Municipal Association. Cheney will stay at home dur
ing Marvin’s next term.
Candidate Griffin was limited in his histrionic efforts by
time, because of the 30-minute TV program taped and rebroad
cast on the Albany station of State Democratic Executive Com
mittee Chairman James Gray, also owner of the Albany Herald,
who was seated at the head table.
But Candidate Griffin was not limited in the salient points
of his bombastic address in assailing Federal encroachment on
civil rights, state’s rights, and other constitutional rights. He
said he would fight further encroachment with every means at
his command. And he wasn’t just whistling Dixie. He meant
every word of it. He has never backed down on a campaign
promise; he has never failed to deliver what the people in city
and rural areas needed from their state government.
Candidate Griffin pointed out how many city roads —a
great many, indeed — had been paved during his administra
tion, in addition to the vast road building program for the rural
One of four such outlets to be
built by Gulf (one was opened
in Houston in March of this
year, and two more are sched
uled to be built in Pittsburgh
and Washington, D. C. respec
tively), they are considered to
be a forerunner of a new era in
service station design and mer
chandising.
This newest station is located
at Joneshoro Road and Curtis
Drive in what is recognized to
be the fastest growing commu
nity in the Southeast.
Unlike the traditional one
building station, the new facility
consists of three separate sales
points: a pump island unit, a
service bhuilding, and a supple
mentary island.
The most striking architee
tural feature of the station, and
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contractor. Coupled with the
vast experience of our company
we can offer the prospective
homeowner these low prices and
quality workmanship.”
Woodview Unit No. 2 will offer
over 100 wooded lots to choose
from, with county water, sewage
and natural gas. It will offer
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Donald Hastings Is Chairman of
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Important Study C(ommittee
DREAM OF COMMISSION CHAIRMAN P. K.
DIXON TO BE REALIZED BEFORE TOO LONG
A dream of P. K. Dixon, chairman of the Clayton County Commissioners, will be
redlized within a few Short years in Clayton when construction begins on a new Hill-
Burton Hospital and Health Center. !
Bystander laughing about
the Ed Sullivan Show. Sullivan
interviews “spaceman” Jose
Montrez. “Jose,” asked Sulli
van, “did you pass a Russian
capsule?” Jose: “No, I didn’t
even swallow it!”
“Reduce with Bruce” signs
coming down off Georgia
Power poles in Jonesboro, and
Power Company Manager Red
Garner threatening prosecu
tion if it happens again. How
would Bruce reduce insurance
rates?
Forest Park youngster, who
traded in his piccolo for a
football suit, being interviewed
by WEAD’s Frank Lokey dur
ing school system appreciation
day at Lake Spivey.: “What do
you think, son, of Southern
Bread?” “Southern Bread? It
makes me drunk.” End of
commercial.
At Meeting
In Virginia
Lee Webb, a representative of
Etna Life Insurance Company at
Riverdaie, will attend the 34th
annual meeting of the com
pany’s corps of Regionnaires
June 11-14 at the Williamsburg
Inn and Lodge, Williamsburg,
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[t Won't Be Long Now!
Many Pleasant Surprises Await
At the
"ALL NEW"
DWARF HOUSE
areas which got so many deserving citizens out of the mud.
“But, of course, you never hear what Marvin Griffin has
done for the city folks; he can’t do anything right in the big
cities, or anywhere else, according to the Yankee Atianta News
papers.”
He referred to the “IBM machine” — Ivan, Bill and Mills
(Mayor Allen, Hartsfield and Banker Lane), and pledged his
undying efforts to destroy the corrupt Atlanta political
machine.
Griffin had some pointed remarks to make about Ralph
McGill, whom he forgot to call Rastus; and about the Rev.
Martin Luther King, the “uncrowned boss of Atlanta.”
It was a sincere speech, a reiteration of the vital things he
has told his fellow Georgians all over the state; he promised
an efficient, progressive government; a government of courage
and not one of cowardice. It is time a man of proven ability and
of the courage of his convictions —a man who served his coun
try with the greatest distinction under battle fire — returned
to the Governor’s chair, Marvin Griffin is that man and the
citizens of his native land, Bainbridge and Decatur County, have
supreme confidence that they will be joined by Georgians of
courage and conviction everywhere in returning Marvin Griffin
to office by a LANDSLIDE. For Marvin Griffin has a record of
accomplishment unmatched by any other state administration
in the history of the Great State of Cieorgia!
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2nd Big Week
7
Os Leach’s Sale
Emory Leach, who started
last week the celebration
of the 10th anniversary of
Leach’s Shoe Store on Main
Street in Forest Park, an
nounced Saturday that he is
continuing the celebration
sale for another week because
of the outstanding sales suc
cess in the first week.
Mr. Leach said that in ap
preciation for the fine cus
tomer response he is dras
tically reducing prices on all
brands of shoes this week.
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ADVERTISING,
PUBLIC RELATIONS
A new advertising and public
relations firm was organized
this week in Clayton County and
will be incorporated during the
week.
The new advertising and pub
lic relations firm, set up to
handle advertising accounts and
to provide public relations serv
ices to any type businesses or
industries is named TROY AND
ASSOCIATES.
The firm will also handle pub
lications, posters, hand bills,
cards, and any other type of
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MASTERS
HORSE SHOW
Saturday,
July 7
Inmteowwmm
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Mr. Dixon could not attend ail
of the meeting held Friday night
at Wisteria Restaurant, as he
received word mid-way of the
meeting of the death of his
brother.
But before Mr. Dixon left the
meeting, plans already had been
formed and a committee set up
to push forward with all pos
sible haste in the' development
of the Hill-Burton Hospital and
Health Center, to be located
somewhere between Forest Park
and Jonesboro, within easy
reach of the various municipali«
ties,
The project will receive Fed=
eral and State aid, with no
strings attached. No Federal or
State Control. It seems logical to
call on Lake City, Morrow, North
Clayton, East Clayton, Mountain
View, Jonesboro and Riverdale
to participate financially with
Forest Park and Clayton County
in this undertaking, providing
the people do not see fit to ap
prove a bond issue—WHlCH, for
Health’s sake,—THEY SHOULD.
It very likely will be a hos
pital and health center costing
around $1,000,000, based on an
estimated cost of $22,000 per
bed. This figure may be ade
quate, figuring on the fast
growth in population in Clay
ton County, and the potential
growth.
So it may be that a million
dollar bond issue would best
serve the interests of the citi
zens. It is a MUST. Jonesboro
for years has had a Hill-Burton
Health Center.
The whole area needs a Hill-
Burton Hospital and Health
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