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VOLUME 43 — NUMBER 43
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Malx STREET MERCHANTS of the newly-named Forest
Press and Clayton County News and Farmer collaborated
H this Yule season in the presentation of Santa Claus for
the children of the Clayton County area. Santa drives a
station wagon with a Christmas tree on top, and plays
music and distributes candy every day on Main Street.
POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY —
The late Ed Danforth and I were competitors for 15 years—
Danforth on the old Georgian and Atlanta Journal, and I on The
Atlanta Constitution in the sports department.
Those were the glory days of newspapering in Atlanta—in the
him tor a brief period in 1929. Ralph McGill had come from the
Nashville Banner as his assistant in the sports department.
Danforth didn't stay the year out. He went back to the Georgian
with Herbert Porter, the big wheel, and he got a substantial raise
in so doing.
Danforth didn’t have much time for me, the young Ogle
thorpe writer, but McGill did. And when McGill succeeded
Danforth, he gave me a great deal of attention out of the good
ness of his heart. Years later, in 1937, I succeeded Mr. McGill as
sports editor of The Constitution.
Now, Danforth and I were on an equal footing. He rolled the
late Morgan Blake for his job as sports editor of The Journal
when the Georgian was purchased by The Journal. He first tried
to roll me for my job but he didn’t succeed.
The ship hit the sand, as the saying goes, in 1939, when
Wallace Butts was named coach of the Georgia Bulldogs, suc
ceeding Joel Hunt. Wally had been imported from Male High,
Louisville, Ky., by George Woodruff of Columbus to be Hunt’s
assistant, just in case Hunt, the old Texas Aggie star, didn’t make
the grade. Butts had been very successful in Georgia high school
coaching circles before he went to Male High, and he had been
a great performer at Mercer under Coach Bernie Moore, now
Southeastern Conference Commissioner.
Butts had a flock of turkeys for his coaching debut at Geor
gia in 1939. And, unfortunately, the schedule opener was against
Furman, a pretty good country team then, in Furman, South
Carolina. Furman, playing Georgia on an ill-lighted field, de
feated Georgia, 20 to 0.
Next day Danforth wrote: “What does Georgia expect, hiring
a high school coach?” Well, they had to restrain young Wally
Butts from driving to Atlanta and claiming Mr. Danforth’s hide.
Oddly enough, Ralph McGill wrote an editorial in the same vein,
and in the same issue of The Constitution, I wrote All in The
Game defending Butts. Again, the ship hit the sand. McGill was
incensed. He was the executive editor of The Constitution. I was
only the sports editor and his successor.
One day a Georgia fan mailed us a letter. The letter con
tained a double sheet of paper headed GEORGIA TECH CONFI
DENTIAL. It was authored by Mr. Danforth, and it purportedly
presented the inside dope on Tech, and often took swipes at the
U. of Georgia Bulldogs. Danforth was paid so much per Tech
subscriber.
I didn’t think that was according to Hoyle, since I had been
told that any Atlanta writer haa to treat Tech and Georgia
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so-called Golden Age of Sports—and there
was no love lost between rival writers.
Often, we had only one writer on an op
position paper we’d call friend, or would
even consider writing his stuff if he were
under the weather. On Danforth’s staff,
the late O. B. Keeler was my friend. I
would do anything for him, and did.
It burned us up on the easy-going, in
formal Constitution in the old building
adjoining Rich’s when, one day, we learned
that a bulletin had gone up on the board
in the Journal editorial offices saying, in
effect, that henceforth employees would
address Danforth as "Colonel.” A Kentucky
Colonel yet.
We didn’t exactly address him as
"Colonel” on The Constitution. We knew
him. I broke in the newspaper game under
Above, he prepares to give candy to youthful admirers *3
Lane Keith, 1099 Highland Street, seated on hood, and
Billy Davis, 15 Orchard Place, Morrow. Lane is the five- jp
year-old son df Mr. and Mrs. Barney Keith, Forest Park, K '
and Billy is the five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd J. |
Davis of Morrow. Santa is helping Christmas business.
Forest Park Business
Body 'Finds' Santa Claus
KIDS TREATED TO FREE CANDY
DONATED BY CHAIN STORES
Merchants of Forest Park, meeting last week in a
special pre-Christmas business session wisely decided to
[ change the name of the Association to Forest Park Business
' Association, instead of the old confirning name of Forest
: Park Main Street Merchants Association.
Now, many new members in
business around the city are
eligible to join, and already two
new members have signified
their intention of signing up
with the live wire organization
to promote area good will, busi
ness, and so on. And so forth.
Max Evans is president of the
Association, with Carlos Lewis
vice president, Bill Davis secre
tary and Curtis Patrick treas
urer.
Titanic Tom Stanford is the
new chief of public relations,
advertising and publicity. Stan
ford, who once handled adver
tising for the Macon branch of
a well known Atlanta depart
ment store, is keenly cognizant
of the value of promotion and
advertising.
This past week the Associa
tion and The Free Press got to
gether and matched a Sarita
Claus with the station wagon
which the Association has
bought for year-around promo
tion.
Curtis Patrick came through
for Colonial Stores on the re
quest for candy for Santa Claus
to distribute to the children,
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MOUNTAIN VIEW
VOLUNTEERS
SELL YULE TREES
Mountain View Volunteer Fire
Department will sell Christmas
trees again this year, on Old 41
Highway, opposite the Mountain
View Post Office. Proceeds will go
toward buying additional equip
ment for the Fire Department.
The lot will be open Dec. 13. The
Department’s Annual barbeque
held this year Sept. 22 was re
sponsible for the purchase of two
self-contained breathing units at
a cost of some S6OO each. The
Christmas tree YOU buy will
buy other important equipment
for the Fire Department.
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1962
' STUNT NIGHT
Maple Street
Variety Show
Friday Night
Would you like to support the
Maple Street School PTA and
enjoy yourself at the same
time? Then come to the Maple
Street School in College Park,
Friday night, Dec. 14, at 7:30
p.m., settle back and enjoy
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Lake City to Vote
For Mayor Wed.
FOUR CANDIDATES SEEK OFFICE;
FIVE VIE FOR 2 COUNCIL SEATS
Wednesday is the big day in Lake City, when a mayor
and two councilmen will be elected for a two-year term in
the city election.
Four candidates long ago qualified for the office of
Mayor. Three of them have lived in Lake City for a long
period of time, one moved there
in only comparatively recent
times but is well known in the
area as a real estate promoter
and developer.
Floyd M. Blalock has served
before as Mayor and is well
known for his interest in civic
work; W. P. (Bill) Eubanks has
served as a councilman, and is
well known in the area; W. Ru
dolph Johnson is another who
has been around and has a lot
of friends and Grady L. Lindsey,
Champion Eagles Get Enough
Trophies to Fill a Big Case
PHIL SMITH, GEORGIA-BOUND, MOST VALUABLE PLAYER, AND
OLIVER, RECTOR, JENKINS, DELOACH, WILLIAMS, TAYLOR HONORED
U. of Georgia’s Mike Castronis, whose freshman team took the sting out of the Tech Baby Jackets on Thanks
giving Day in the annual Scottish Rite game for crippled children at Grant Field, had inspiration for his fine talk at
the annual banquet of the champion North Clayton Eagles Thursday night in the overflowing school lunchroom.
Before Castronis, Black Mike—Georgia All-American—rose to his feet, a Georgia bound Eagle—Phil Smith—was
presented the Most Valuable Player award by Coach Max Dowis, AA Coach of the Year in the Greater Atlanta area and
named by The Free Press Coach
of All Time in Clayton County.
Castronis was proud to hear
that Smith, a great end or
tackle in any kind of high
school competition, had decided
to cast his lot with the Red and
Black as he regretfully ends his
days with the Blue and White
of North Clayton.
When Castronis got up to
speak, he had the highest of.
praise for a boy of the calibre |
of Phil Smith, and spoke
feelingly of his desire to coach
such a boy as a Georgia fresh
man next year.
Coach Castronis came be
fore the eager Eagles as a
man well-suited for their
speaker, for .he exemplified i
everything the young North
Clayton team stood for in the
1962 highly successful season.
Castronis, a teacher for 14
years and a leader at Athens
“Y” Camp, made All-American
at Georgia, dl^ough he played
under the handicap of having
only one kidney. The way he
blocked people into the third
row of the stands—his reckless
blocking and tackling—made it
clear to the supporters of the
Georgia Bulldogs that Castronis
didn’t really care if he wound
up with no kidneys at all. His
ace in the hole was a fighting
heart, same as the 23 Eagles
who carried North Clayton’s
Blue and White to a South
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North Clayton to
Dedicate New
Community Center
A new Civic building for N.
Clayton has come into being to
fill a long felt need in the com
munity. The building will house
the new Court House, Civic
groups, and the N. Clayton Home
Demonstration Club. Dedication
and Open House have been set
for Saturday, Dec. 15 (this Satur
day) from 3 till 5 p.m. Mr. Carey
Webb, Councilman, will tell how
the building was built, P. K.
Dixon, Chairman, County Com
misioners, will speak, and the
Dedication Prayer will be given
by Rev. T. Perkins, Pastor, Flat
Rock Baptist Church. The Home
Demonstration Club will host the
affair, and will serve refresh-i
ments during the Open House
period.
The building is situated on
Bostwick Drive, at the junction
of Riverdale Road and Bostwick.
A hearty invitation is extended
to the public.
—Mrs. Ruth Crews, publicity
chairman.
who operates a real estate office
in Forest Park, built his new
home in Lake City.
Names that will appear bn the
ballot for councilmen are: Joe
Petriello, T. D. (Dave) Trammell,
Clifton Vaughn, Johnny R.
Walker and W. A. Whiting.
Registered voters are expected
to exercise their sovereign right
to ballot by turning out in large
' numbers at the polling place,
. which will be open from 7 a.m.
1 until 7 p.m.
ALL-STATE
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PHIL SMITH, Georgia-bound
tactiio of the Nj.O Clayton
Eagles, has made The Journal-
Constitution All-State Team.
Co-Captain Smith and Captain
Frank Oliver were honored.
Oliver was given Honorable
Mention, but made the AP All-
State Team last week, and
Smith was honorable mention
on AP’s team. Max Dowis ear
lier was named Coach of the ;
Year by The Journal and
Constitution. (Photo by Pete
Smith Studio)
Downing and
Steele Win
Riverdale’s city election Satur
day developed into a contest be
tween nine candidates for two,
positions on City Council.
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INSTALLATION of officers of the Kiwanis Club
of Forest Park was a feature of the annual
ladies’ night banquet last Thursday night at
the Officers’ Club, Atlanta Army Depot. Facing
the officers at the rostrum is Robert K. Price
of Fayetteville, Lt. Governor-elect of the 12th
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। SCHOLARS, TOO- _
Oliver, Rector Lead Class
There were a great many signs on the walls of the
North Clayton High School lunchroom last Thursday night
■ at the annual—and greatest—banquet, sponsored by South
College Park Kiwanis Club for the champion Eagles.
There were signs like this—“ Hats off to a great team
and their fine coaches ... in
our hearts you’re champions!
”1962—North Clayton’s best
year. Our team won 12 straight
to become South Georgia’s AA
j champions!”
“EAGLES — South Georgia
' champions.”
And then there was another
sign of great significance. It pro
claimed that in the good year
1962—in fact, only two weeks
ago—North Clayton received its
accreditation rating in the
Southern Association of schools
and -colleges. ... .
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Which of the proud officials
present would DARE to say that
this latter sign meant more
than all the football signs com
bined?
Not one. Every one ap
proached quietly and asked to
say that the scholastic achieve
i ment was greater than a foot
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division, who installed the new officers. Left
to right. President J. W. Smith, Bill Foust, Er
nest Dunbar, Bob Oliver, Mr. Price, Max Evans,
Tom George, Secretary and Treasurer Emmett
Owens and Vice President Mit Bradford. Seated
is Mrs. Tom George.
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Tom Barrett
Back From
U. S. Duty
The recent Cuban crisis was
brought close home to Clayton
County by the calling up for
duty of one of our well-known
business men.
Tom Barrett, Jonesboro agent
for State Farm Insurance Com
pany, received his call Oct. 28
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