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j By JACK TROY
/1 Editor, The Free Press
' *962 probably was the most
significant year in the history
of Clayton County, a year in
which the county moved up
from 34 to 13th on the license
Plates, and gained tremendously
in home building, industry and
4n potential developments and
business.
The county stood at 52,000 in
population after the census was
taken, and experts were pre
dicting that, in view of great
developments planned, the pop
ulation in the next five years
will exceed 100,000.
1962 was the year that Union
Bag of Savannah picked Clay
ton County for a multimillion
dollar development on the South
Expressway. It was the year the
Noble Foundation, having al
ready purchased the old Geor-
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Blanton Cinuitu attb farmer
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Georgia's
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Largest
County!
VOLUME 43 — NUMBER 46
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I Review of Outstanding
Year 1962 in Forest Park
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POINT OF VIEW
■ By JACK TROY
HOW AN ABSENT-MINDED
PROFESSOR GOT THE CURE!
When I had finished addressing a New Year’s greeting to
> Garland (Bulldog) Williams, memory stirred as to a particularly
funriy incident involving the great Georgia football tackle of other
days.
mix in the fray, was pulled OFFSIDE on five straight plays. Tech
moved 25 yards and Georgia had to fight out of a hole.
"Bradberry wrote, for his lead of this game, “Jones remem
bered, “the following which was the greatest line he ever wrote”:
“ "Army had Blanchard, Mr. Inside, and Davis, Mr. Outside,
and today the University of Georgia had Bulldog Williams, Mr.
OFFSIDE!”’
Jones, it so happened, was public relations director of the
Bulldogs at the tithe, and when The Sunday Constitution reached
Athens. Bulldog Williams took a copy to Publicist Jones.
“Mr. Jones, I don’t like this,” Bulldog Williams said?
Jones soothed Bulldog, a big country boy from Arkansas, and
kept Bradberry from being racked up.
Later, Bulldog Williams became football coach at Atlanta’s
swanky Westminister school, country or not. And, as I understand
it, he sent Bradberry a note to Auburn, where the former Con
stitution sports editor was engaged in running the Reeder and
McGaughey sporting goods store in the Loveliest Village of the
Plains.
“Mr. Bradberry,” Bulldog is said to have written, “Mr. OFF
SIDE is now MR. INSIDE.”
And he really was. In like Flynn. Only the richest kids went
to Westminister, and their coach was Bulldog ’Williams. How
about that. That’s the All-American Way.
After Atlanta Army Depot’s Jimmy Jones finished his tour
of duty as U. of Georgia publicist, he joined the United States
Marines, and he went through boot camp at Paris Island, although
no longer a young man. Jones said it almost killed him, and sure
enough today his hair is almost turned to silver.
I hate to tell this on Jones but he once was a professor, and
truly he was the model of the oft-joked-about absent-minded
- professor.
Jones had worked on the Macon Telegraph as Sports Editor,
and he and the late and great W. L. (Young) Stribling were in
separable friends.
Jones came on up to The Constitution in the sports depart
ment to write baseball and football and boxing, and features, and
he was then married to the former Kathleen O’Brien.
One day Jimmy and Kathleen visited Macon and were eating
in a restaurant when Young Stribling sauntered in. He invited
Jones to take an airplane ride with him in his private plane.
Jones told Kathleen to wait for him, and she did for several
hours; then she got in the car and spent the night with friends
before returning to Atlanta. Jimmy had completely forgotten
about leaving her in the restaurant, and he returned to Atlanta
the next day. Jones isn’t absent-minded anymore.
Crime Increases
25% Over Last Year
In a year-end report to At- <
torney General Robert F. Ken- ]
n edy concerning the operations
0{ the FBI during 1962, Director i
j Edgar Hoover has disclosed
that marked increases were re-; j
cqxded in all major categories!
The Year 1962 — Greatest in Clayton County’s Growth
S'
gia Baptist Dairy farm for sl,- i
000.000, decided to break ground i
in .964 for a tremendous South- i
Lanta Suburban City, a much
bigger undertaking than Lenox :
Square on the northside.
And 1962 was the year a de- !
veloper named Oregano, from I
New Jersey, announced that 1
1,500 homes would be built, to- i
gether with a shopping center, :
on the old Hastings farm prop
erty in the south end of the
county. It was the year in which ।
the old Arrowhead golf course
became the site for a new ।
shopping center and home de
velopment, with Big Apple lead
ing the way as Big Apple did in
the Clayton Plaza Shopping
Center. Scott Hudgens of Col
lege Park is the developer of
Arrowhead Shopping Center
which is destined to be big, in
the final analysis.
In early summer, a new River-
I remembered only a part of it, so I
beat it over to the Atlanta Army Depot for
a cup of coffee with Jimmy (Leatherneck)
Jones the Depot’s highly capable PIO;
Frances Cleveland, an old friend of the
family, and Personnel Manager Harry
Wrens, old Oglethorpe classmate.
Jones, who had worked with us on The
Constitution, and later was sports editor
of The Louisville Courier-Journal, remem
bered the story in detail.
“It provided the finest opening para
graph Johnny Bradberry ever wrote on The
Constitution,” Jones recalled.
It seems that Georgia was squared off
with Georgia Tech, and Paul Duke, great
center, was faking a snap, alter the Techs
came out of the huddle.
Bulldog Williams, eager as always to
ol FBI accomplishment in the
Past year.
According to Mr. Hoover, final
tabulations for 1962 will show:
More than 12,700 convictions
in FBI cases, compared with 12,-
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dale Shopping Center was be
gun, and Riverdale Rexall Phar
macy is now the initial tenant
in the center on Highway 85,
near the traffic light.
Two separate projects, the
Noble Foundation South-Lanta
Suburban City, and the Oregano
home-building deal represent
approximately $150,000,000 or
more in proposed development
expenditure.
Early in the year, Jan. 3,
Clayton County Federal opened
a branch office in Forest Park,
complementing the Jonesboro
company.
Now, the first anniversary of
the branch office is being cele
brated at the same time as the
7th anniversary in Jonesboro.
The Savings and Loan company
operations are highly successful.
Mountain View got a tremen
dous Capital City warehouse in
the late summer, and the poten-
NORTH CLAYTON'S OLIVER MAN OF YEAR
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MAN OF THE YEAR, E. W. Oliver, principal of
G. W. Northcutt School, is shown being honored
by South College Park Kiwanis at the annual
ladies night banquet Thursday in North Clay
ton. Lamar Northcutt presents a certificate,
with plaque to come, paying the highest re-
Mr. MOTY of North Clayton
Kiwanis Is Ellery W. Oliver
They tagged it “annual ladies night” at the Kiwanis Club of South College Park in
N. Clayton last Thursday night but, in reality, it turned out to be a BIG night for Ellery
W. Oliver, principal of the fine G. W. Northcutt school, scene of the annual banquet.
Mr. Oliver, traveling in fast company—for all nominees for the honor of Man of the
Year were men who had done outstanding deeds—proved almost as resourceful as his
great young son, Captain Frank
Oliver, 145-pound colossus of
the champion North Clayton
Eagles, and also a scholastic
leader of the senior class.
Unwittingly, Mr. Oliver had
signed his own Man of The Year
certificate, at the behest of
Lamar Northcutt, who appealed
to Mr. Oliver as Club secretary,
to give him a temporary certifi
cate, until such time as a plaque
could be obtained. Mr. Oliver
thought he was signing as sec
retary for some other lucky club
member.
So, when Lamar Northcutt,
building the award up to a
climax, in a suspense-filled way
as only Lamar can do it, finally
announced the selection of Mr.
Oliver as Man of The Year, Mr.
Oliver was almost overcome
with surprise and emotion, and
a finer man could not have
been selected. He has done SO
MUCH for North Clayton in
education, as well as in civic
and church and other activities
including role as a family man.
He has two children in college
and one, Frank, going.
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★ ★★★★★
A Great Present
For G. Christian,
A 1963 Calendar!
The old Master of the
Hounds, who’s thinking eagerly
about serving as a judge at
the Roberta Fox Hound trials
in a few weeks, reported to
his barber, Mr. Jackson, in the
Main Street Shopping Center
the other day that he had
received a most beautiful
Christmas present from the
family—a 1963 calendar.
George Christian told Mr.
Jackson: “The calendar is
circled —that is, key dates are,
so that I will know what day
to pay the bills for the Christ
mas presents I received,”
George declared.
• tial for industry seemed terrific.
Jonesboro, already with a
: new quarter-million-dollar jail,
, looked forward to ground break
ing for a new Courthouse in
. early January, and as a New
t Year comes in, the Courthouse
> is now occupied by various
; county officials and depart
• ments. It is one of the state’s
; most handsome structures in
county government.,
, A $1,000,000 structure was
I built by Filler Products.
, Municipal growth, led by fab
> ulous Forest Park—fastest grow
ing city in the U. S. A.—was
’ characterized as well by the
■ news in early summer that Lake
i City had passed Morrow in pop
. ulation.
' North Clayton, second largest
. area in the county, came up
with a championship football
i team, the North Clayton High
• Eagles, who won the South
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. JANUARY 1, 1963
spects to a great educator, citizen, Kiwanian,
church and family man. Retiring President
George Gage is seated at left, and Lt. Governor
Bob Price of Fayetteville, who installed new
officers, is seated at the right. Another Picture
on Page 5. (Special Free Press Photo)
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GENE SAUNDERS, 19, finally had a Christmas all his own, after
playing Santa Claus for Eggleston children’s hospital, and for
families of Forest Park Woman’s Club members. He got a gift
certificate for three pairs of shoes, and a check, subscribed by
fine Forest Park individuals, for $75. Fire Dept. Chief Joe Picard
presents check above. Subscribers who wanted the fine young
ster to have his first merry Christmas and Happy New Year in
cluded: Mayor W. Reid Puckett, Al Ewing, Bill Fleming, T. J. Elli
ott, Jack Troy, J. K. Currie, Picard, Chief James Quinn, Edgar
Blalock, Bill Lee, Terrell Starr, Henry Dorsey, Dr. Bill Weldon,
Dr. Needham Bateman and Eddie Chisen. Forest Park Woman’s
Club sponsored Gene during the holidays.
(Special Free Press Photo)
MULTI MILLION PLANT IN CLAYTON
J. W. Butler Named
Union Bag Manager
J. W. Butler has been appointed sales manager for
Union Bag-Camp Paper Corporation’s new multi-million
dollar corrugated box plant now under construction in
Greater Atlanta, in Clayton County, on the South Express
way. — . ■ -
“The new plant,” according to
A. W. Schulte, vice president of
the company's container divi
sion, who made the announce
ment, “will enable Union-Camp
to better service industry and
commerce in the rapidly grow
ing Southeast.
“The number of plants near
Atlanta, for example, has grown
by 33 per cent in the past ten
years, and Mr. Butler will now
be in a better position to pro
vide their corrugated box re
quirements.” .
Mr. Butler, who has been with
Union-Camp for 15 years, will
headquarter at the new Clayton
County plant. In addition to his
new responsibilities, he will con
tinue as sales manager for the
company’s Savannah^y plant.
Georgia AA championship, and
played Rossville for the state
title, losing to a vastly heavier
and superior opponent. But it
was a great start and many
followers, including Kiwanians,
who had aided in the develop
ment of the athletic program—
“from the cradle to the grid
iron”—looked forward to greater
things under Coach Max Dowis
and a very fine coaching staff.
Max Dowis was greater Atlanta
Coach of the Year, and also
named All-time Coach in Clay
ton County.
Future Farmers of America,
. at their annual banquet in
February, honored Representa
tive Edgar Blalock and Free
Press Editor Jack Troy.
Jonesboro’s high school de
bating team won a champion
ship in early February.
A review showed that county
aviation prospects were bright,
MAIN SI. MERCHANTS
SEI YULE SALES RECORDS
SANTA CLAUS PROMOTION, RINGS THE BELL OF BETTER
BUSINESS AND SETS TEMPO FOR GREAT NEW YEAR IN FP
Yes, friends, there is a Santa Claus, and he helped the Forest Park Business Asso
ciation members enjoy a record-breaking Christmas season in 1962.
Santa drove up and down Main Street in a station wagon, geared to music and
topped by a Christmas tree, and he attracted youngsters and adults by the thousands,
often blocking traffic, on Main Street and sometimes creating a traffic jam on Hwy. 54.
Understanding FP police, who
enjoyed it as much as Santa, di
rected traffic at such times.
Bass Furniture Company, Co
lonial Stores, Jean’s Flowers,
Smith Hardware and Supply
Compnay, Stanfords Depart
ment Store and Shoe Store,
Kwik Shop, Davis Office Sup
ply, Hollingsworth Jewelers,
Evelyn’s, drug stores, restau
rants reported record Christ
mas business. Smith’s sold a'
record number of bicycles, about
10 per sent above any other
year, for instance.
Carlos Lewis of Bass was de- i
lirous as Christmas type business '
continued over the week-end.
Bass, entering a second anniver- :
sary celebration this week, ’
smashed all records for sales, ]
and now offers Clayton County ,
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Sen. Talmadge Favors
Extinction of Castro
A World War II “90-day wonder”, long engaged here in the country ham business, ate
high on the hog with the quartermasters of the Defense Supply Association, Atlanta
Army Depot, Friday night at the Depot Officers Mess. And after United States Senator
Herman E. Talmadge of Lovejoy consumed a steak the size of a Texas steer’s thigh, he
got to his feet, following an appropriate introduction by Colonel Joseph E. Murray, Asso-
ciation President and Depot
Commander, and fired a “Naval
broadside” at “two-bit dictator
Castro of the little island of
Cuba,” 90 miles offshore (Miami)
from the continental United
States.
Senator Talmadge, whom
listeners agreed delivered one of
the greatest, most inspiring
speeches of his life, pointed out
how the United States govern-
MORE THAN 250 members and guests of the
Defense Supply Association were inspired by an
address by U, S. Senator Herman Talmadge of
Lovejoy Friday Hight at the Officers Mess, At
lanta Army Depot. Notables, left to right: Wil-
I as the South Expressway Air
i port continued to grow and
■ progress.
■ At year’s end, following good
news along the new, Atlanta
■ Coca-Cola Bottling Company
announced plans for building a
bottling plant in Clayton Coun
ty. This was a great Christmas
gift, for having a. Coca-Cola
label in industry is like having
a Hart, Shaffner and Marx
label in your suit. It’s a prestige
deal, the like of which is not
easy to excel. And, of course, we
already had mighty Kawneer,
Knox Glass, American Can Com
pany, U. S. Rubber Company,
etc.
And the World’s largest Farm
er’s Market had come into its
own in 1962, and served a vast
area.
At the year’s end, it was an
nounced that “Big, bad John”
(Brennan), a former U. of Notre
Friends Honor Memory
Os Mrs. F. W. Clarke
Mrs. Fay Watterson Clarke of Jonesboro, mother of
W. W. (Billy) Clarke, Jonesboro; Mrs. Tom Stanford, For
est Park; and Mrs. Irene Salmons of East Point, passed
away Christmas Day, a few hours after an operation for a
twisted hernia. Docators had found a heavy blood condition,
not uncommon in elderly per
sons, and it contributed in large
part to her death.
Funeral services, attended by
many friends of the family,
were held Thursday, Dec. 27, 4
p.m., from Dickson Chapel,
Jonesboro, with the Rev. Philo
McKinnon officiating. Inter-
। ment had goofed on the commu
• nist Castro.
He said that our government
sent a U. S. Ambassador to Cuba
i to notify Batista that he must
abdicate in favor of Castro and
t his mangy band of volunteers,
who had fought in the Madeira
Mountains during the revolu
’ tion.
“I had not only suspected but
liam J. (Bill) Lee, Clayton Representative;"
Stewart McGinty, Col. Joseph Murray, Sew *“
madg, Major Vernon Porter, and Co'
Franklin. Other Pictures on Page f
(Special Free ,
■ Dame basketball star, was con
l tractor and developer of 500
homes in Young America, units;
[ 1 and 2, and in Vinton Woods, a
t third adjoining home building
, project off Holiday Boulevard,
t South Expressway. A fancy va
. riety of homes ranged in price
i from $11,500 to $16,500. They are
t Knox-built homes, of brick and
; aluminum, some of colonial de- I
J sign, and are selling like hot
. cakes. More than 150 had been
; sold as they rang out the old
. year.
, Back in August the Jones
boro Volunteer fire department
, proudly occupied a new $30,000
fire station, and it was all paid
■ for out of municipal funds,
i Mayor Hugh Dickson proudly
; announced.
And 1962 marked the begin
• ning of a two-party system, as i
’ one primary followed another,
i (Continued on Page 6)
HAPP^
Ww rW
Yea* UI
As old 62 slips out, we
give a rousing wel
come to young ’63
Hope he treats you
well.
Free Press
News & Farmer
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
« ment was in Jonesboro city
cemetery. The countless flowers
i were indeed beautiful.
, Besides the one son and two
I daughters, Mrs. Clarke was sur
, vived by a sister, Mrs. Nannie
i Royston, of Jonesboro, and a
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■ had firm reason to know that
Castro was a communist at the
; time,” Senator Herman told a
: capacity crowd at the Officers
; Club. More than 250 association
1 members and guests.
• The great influence exerted
by the American government
• sent Castro riding into office on
streets paved with “U. S. gold
. (Continued on Page 5)