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VOLUME 43 —NUMBER 45
Coca-Cola Plans Bottling Plant in Clayton
POINT OF VIEW
, By JACK TROY —
The matter of the Junketing Legislators which has been
a source of much so embarrassment to Governor Vandiver and
his so-called “Honesty in Government” program is a well founded
thing, and long has cost taxpayers of Georgia unnecessary and
Martin, now of Inside Outdoors on WGST.
I was invited to tour with the Legislators, and we traveled
in two or three chartered buses, in order to be able to swing
around to Waycross, before turning eastward to the coast.
Jack Williams, the late legislator and publisher of the Way
cross Herald, was a delightful host in Waycross. We had lunch at
his beautiful home out among the sheltering pines.
Naturally, such a safari—Greyhound style—produced a thirst,
and so when the buscade reached the General Oglethorpe, there
was an immediate en masse study of the bar—the kind that has
nothing to do with a river bar or of Coastal Fisheries either.
Our junketing party spent a couple of days around the shrimp
boat docks in the Savannah area, and there was always a multi
tude of boiled shrimp for our inspection. We moved on down the
coast to Brunswick, and there the crabmeat was out of this world.
I am not sure, in retrospect, even to this day, what the trip
proved about Coastal Fisheries, except to say that we were the
guests of some wonderful hosts who owned shrimp boats and crab
nets.
That hardly proved anything to this roving junketer, how
ever, for Kenneth Rogers, then chief photographer of The Con
stitution, and I had long known about the succulent seafood, and
the fine winter trout fishing off Jekyll Island.
We had been down there with the Crackers in their annual
training camp, and we had been there dozens of other times on
marsh hen hunts and duck hunts and turkey shoots, et. al.
Once our friends in Brunswick, Ward and Mack Rozier, con
structed a raft that would have been the green-eyed envy of such
as Robinson Crusoe. It was designed for us to float down the
mighty and treacherous Ogeechee River. Our designers had fitted
the boat with electric lights, coal pots for heat, awning for cover,
cots, enough food for the French Foreign Legion, and other items.
They had overlooked only one thing. They had built it too
wide to pass through the river bridge, and so, after a day and
night of floating and being propelled by an outboard motor, we
had to send for a Coastal Game and Fish warden, Louie Andrews,
to come and rescue us in a state boat.
Before we reached our destination in Brunswick, we traversed
the old rice plantations, part of Henry Ford’s property at Ways,
Ga., and we found the duck hunting especially good, inasmuch
as the late Mr. Ford’s own private game wardens couldn’t locate
us.
Anyway, we doubt the wisdom of legislators junketing at
state, or taxpayers’ expense, because nothing ever has been proved
by one of these joyrides, except that it costs only a little bit more
of the taxpayers’ money for certain legislators to go first class.
We congratulate Messrs. Blalock and Lee for being more con
siderate of their constituents’ welfare.
Georgia Power-County's Top jaxpayei
Checks bringing the amount
of the Georgia Power Company’s
1962 property tax payments to
$7,305,000 are being presented
this week to municipal and
county government officials,
according to J. A. Garner, Dis
trict Manager, who presented
check to Clayton County in the
amount of $176,854.84 and cities
of Forest Park, $30,995.87; Jones
boro, $761.67; Riverdale, $152.33;
Morrow, $61.87; total of $208,-
826.68.
Georgia Power Company is
Clayton County’s largest tax
payer!
Mr. Garner reported the
amount compares with a total
of $6,719,098 paid by the com
pany for its 1961 property taxes.
Os this sum, $3,496,920 goes
into general county funds, $2,-
498,925 to school districts, sl,-
179,044 to cities and towns, and
$52,308 to Georgia and adjoining
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considerable coin of the realm.
Clayton County Representatives Bill
Lee and Edgar Blalock have wisely re
frained from joining their colleagues on
such trips as the investigation of wildlife
in Los Vegas, etc.
I know about the value of these
junkets, having gone on one with a past
legislative group, including former Repre
sentative Muggsy Smith, which was de
signed as a study of Coastal Fisheries, but
actually developed as a close scrutiny of
the General Oglethorpe Hotel bar, and the
delectable boiled shrimp and crabmeat,
around the Savannah-Brunswick areas.
Sports Editor of The Constitution at
the time, I always was" interested in the
promotion of an Outdoor Page, published
each Sunday,, and later edited by John
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DISTRICT MANAGER GARNER presents whopping check to
Robert Coleman, right. County Tax Commissioner.
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THERE WAS sunlight and magnolias SaturdKjHM||sA\4m to wish BeWfraBBKP
happy 85th birthday at his home, 1238 Main Tartar The Wo<^B|||^KU|mßwMH^l
65th wedding anniversary Thu|B*M(k In^^^P^ er ick^^ A
Miss Forest Park of 1963, cutmhe birtnAMTj^ke ^J^BRghtly ML WqotaiS|B^N9H^HßK, J
beams approval. At Mis^Mchko’s Im is Thofn^' J.fcifter, |
Office. Atlanta Army DSot, who ljß> Jp ffyj^jijffiliiy^tht^ SMBMajMK j
ager and Business Association offyi^^^^E^H^^Hf^lßtanW^MM^Reid^HßtetT^Mß
W. H. (Bill) Flemiiumvlw for W’ootai^^W^MMW^F of Stewfcds, |
Jones Memorial Mdlnodft ChuJlß|^Bß^^BHß|MMnay party WoiyUrA WW j
Mrs. Wootan also wy ^■m'isecn^U^BSßMHHK^f a beautiful purpw>*tmn3M^^|L Will
mirer. (Photo by^®ic^H| St®^); .
50Q^MH^^cheJuled
In ^■Hvelopments
TWO UNirH!FFqiM YINTQN WOODS
OFF HOLIDAY BOULEVARD DEVELOPED BY BRENNAN
Already 12^!lWHes oi’aluminum and brick, and many^ of C^riial design, have been
built in the Yoking America subdivisions off Holiday H&jleSrem adjacent to the South |
Expressway. A-nd, let it be sfiid, that any resemblance^ development and old i
Holiday Hills is not even conc^eHtal. JPurely not! Jn
With a pricjfe range sJ^od'toJ^soo, the Young-^BerMßhomes of two and three'
bedrooms and Ope and tw<r
baths, with large kitchen
ample closet spac^, ma^
large basements, and wits $
wide variety of house coltrs^Bß
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constructed in conformance wfm
the contour of tin land, mid
they are, indeed, beautiful.
A BIG Irishman from In
dianapolis, John Brennan, for
mer Notre Dam^ basketball
star, is general ccmtractor for
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1962
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tßßrlM2,|Kg6®Ber(rpaid by
t^HpßKpH^io tne 392 ^Ues,
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iwPRi the firm’s partm^hj^,
flfranchise agreemeßP*^
Wfect. Under this ag^ niy
the company pays ea^Hp^
nicipality in which it operates
three per cent of its gross reve
nue from the sale of electricity
for residential and commercial
use. These municipal partner
ship tax payments were in addi
tiontonmjjigitiidMwqMfMM^
***ffleGeorgia Power Co. official
pointed out that more than 18
per cent of the company’s total
revenue goes to pay taxes, in
cluding federal and state in
come taxes, municipal partner
ship taxes and others.
Truly a citizen wherever we
serve, Mr. Garner, Veteran Dis
trict Manager, added.
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I'camptH^n ^dfW'TMmut^f
Technology, Atlanta, Georgia,
Alfred Allen Camp, son of Mr.
and Mrs. H. Glenn Camp, 193
Lee Street, Jonesboro, Georgia,
was commissioned a Second
Lieutenantlnfa^^^AAftHMl
Lieutenant Camp was grad
uated from Jonesboro High
School, Jonesboro, Georgia, in
1958. He received his Bachelor
in Industrial Management at
Georgia Tech. While a student
at Georgia Tech, Lieutenant
Camp was active in Society for
Advancement of Management,
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President Arthur Montgomery
Praises Fabulous Area Growth
COMPANY NOW OWNS PROPERTY NEAR CLAYTON
BUT DOESN’T PLAN TO BUILD A PLANT THERE
The Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company, parent plant of all the big companies
manufacturing this popular Atlanta-concocted soft drink around the world, is planning
to locate a bottling plant in Clayton County within the next year or two, The Forest
Park Free Press learned exclusively this week.
President Arthur Montgomery
told the writer Tuesday that his
company has a piece of land
near Clayton County—in Fulton
County—but that the chances
are remote that a plant will be
built there.
Mr. Montgomery is so im
fabulous home
building 'industrial growth
ol Clayton County now Geor
giasv^m Wyeth county in
growtte^S^om believes the
best Coca-Cola
locate
the nexs
Interv^4^i^^|j^J|ice on
-faring Stre^^^H^H|^omery,
MB is stK^^H^^Vof the
Mm e r icon Cancer Society’s
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ijcikyttih CountWnßßlre—with
wl; MBressw^^fJT^m e t e r
U.. S. fu p e AMghways,
SH^HU^etcibis unMmfted.
J^BS^aKe Ke Clayton
be
housing
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, ^PMgggdlvllopHlmi t clKnot be
ignored, mm cl^k theßfact be
ignored tlWuhewauAtion of
the area W double
within the iffiK fin yews.”
Clayton Ccß& Kg^as more
than 52,00Qj|HlenHjtahe out
look is ^fbr 100,od^H|fejnore.
within
In this,lgfec^'HlM||M
tion will 01111(1 a South-Lanta
Suburb^ City Oh Old Georgia
Baptis|^Mw the
■South .Wiressll^B^jlpt De-
Bregan, bl Mfew. Jersey,
lias plans- ftST h/lWfousing
devfeloiundSt W, i:®°pping
■ > center, on the bid Hastings farm
in the or Udiithbrn, end
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PURI OPINING
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i iwfvicO Station Grand
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BfUhironi ihanater—are as fol
and Girls ’
Writ McNair dr Forest Park;
wowf-Bm^de tires, Ruby
।.Wentz. and, ladies
I IKggageSWßwFDuffey, of Jones
boro. £ ,
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KIDS —SANTA'S COMING!
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Hey, kids, here comes Santa Claus, down Santa Claus Lane, in
Clayton County! At top, ole Saint Nick is parachuting to the
rooftop of the J. W. Lambs, 642 Pine Ridge Drive, Forest Park,
and in the lower picture, Santa stands by the chimney atop
the home of the Heely’s on the South Expressway. Mr. Heely is
an engineer for WSB. There are five anxious children in the
Lamb household—Marion 15, Jerry 12, Carol 10, Mellisa 7, and
Timothy 5. Mrs. Lamb is the former Chungai Lei of Seoul, Ko
rea. (Photos by Derickson Studio.)
Clayton Officials
Are On the Move
Clayton County officials are on the move—from the
old Courthouse to the resplendent new edifice which is a
credit to a great, growing county.
■ It will be some time before all transfers have been
made, all business is being transacted in the new Court-
house, and actually began last
Thursday, when Commission
Chairman P. K. Dixon moved 1
into his new quarters, and was
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Shop for
| Christmas!
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
followed by the Ordinary, Clerk
of Court, Judge Harold Banke,
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