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Isn't It About Time for
A Juvenile Home Bond Issue?
A brand new year spreads out before us in
Clayton County, and there is reason to believe i
that 1963 will be the greatest year yet for i
the county all-Georgia is watching grow and ।
prosper.
We have much to be thankful for. Great in
dustrialists have cast their lot with, and pinned 1
their future on, Clayton; substantial home
seekers are choosing the general area as the i
place in which they want to live and raise their ]
children, and enjoy the delights of comfortable
suburban living.
In spite of all the optimistic signs, however, ;
'there is still the darker side of political unrest
and upheaval, inspired by disgruntled, self- i
seeking, half-baked Individuals. We have too i
much at stake to allow such as these to dis
turb our growth and peace of mind. If they don’t i
like it here, why don’t they move?
Time will take care of this unsavory situation i
and in the meanwhile, let’s examine a MOST '
IMPORTANT aspect of our way ol life in Clay
ton County } . . ’
A JUVENILE HOME IS A MUST . . . in 1963!
Let’s say that you are the average parents. ]
.You have children of whom you are proud. You
do everything you can to promote their best
interests. You love them. ,
And that is. of course, as it should be.
But think, now, of those unfortunate young
people, products of broken homes, or those who
have no parents at all. Some may be orphans.
Main Street
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citizens great bargains in the
second anniversary celebration
this week. “We invite everyone
to join with us. as we want to
tangibly express our thanks to
our many friends,” Manager
Lewis said Monday. See the Bass
Furniture Company ad for some
of the many outstanding bar
gains in bedding, etc.
Tom Stanford, owner of Stan
ford’s great Dept. Store and Shoe
Store, expressed deep gratitude
to the many citizens who shop
ped the two stores during the
holidays. Stanford's, completely
remodeled earlier in the year,
set all-time sales records.
The year 1963 promises to be
the greatest year yet for area
business, for folks now appre
ciate the fact that quality goods
bought at home are cheaper in
price than in the crowded down
town sections.
Friends Honor
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brother, Wendel Watterson of
Jacksonville, Fla., and a num
ber of nieces and nephews.
A wonderful lady, Mrs. Clarke,
a member of Jonesboro Presby
terian Church, had enjoyed a
long and fruitful career of pub
lic service in Georgia and Clay
ton County. She was 72 at the
time of her death.
She had been a former tax
commissioner of Clayton, a
school teacher for 22 years—
in the Clayton County school
system and in the Atlanta
school system. She was a for
mer Clayton County member
\ of the Board of Education.
\ For the past nine years.
Mrs. Clarke had been librarian
on Main Street, Jonesboro.
She was the daughter of
Judge Bill Watterson of
Jonesboro.
Mrs. Clarke and the writer
ye fast friends and had long
nned to inaugurate a plan of
notion to interest more
le in the value of the
sboro library, and to illus
more vividly the great his
\value of the area which
y marked the end of the
'tween the States She
. A Uy interested ii.
for the1L '
visi t° r s to ' :>t
f avor, 100 per . nt
A Newspaper
Os Integrity in
Fast-Moving Clayton
Dedicated to Serving the
Best Interest* of the County
If they have no place to live in Clayton County,
they must live at the County Jail. Personally,
rather than face such a situation as this, we’d
prefer to be in Hell with both legs broke, and
no asbestos suit.
Most parents realize that in the makeup of
their children there is usually a cruel streak.
Why young people should be cruel in their re
marks to or about other less fortunate young
people, only God knows.
But it’s a fact.
So when a nice kid, who can’t help it, has to
say to a classmate that his home address is the
county jail, it is a thing of great personal pain
and humiliation. It can cause a lasting inferi
ority complex.
Wouldn’t it be better to help the fine organ
ization of Clayton businessmen who for a long
time have made plans for a juvenile home, and
have at this time a drawing of the kind of home
that is needed. The property is available with
out cost as it is owned by the County. All that
is needed is for the County Commissioner to
take the lead and present a bond issue to the
people.
Anyone who would vote against such an issue
would be the kind of citizen our great, growing
county would rather not have. Let’s make 1963
the year of salvation for our unfortunate young
people who have no home but the county jail.
God will bless you for it.
An Open Letter to the
Powers That Be in CC
Men who hold political office in Clayton County are more
than familiar with a whipping boy; you are well aware of the
broken promises that have been made in regard to Fountain High
School which, through the years, has proved to be one of the
finest things that ever happened to the county in the education
of future citizens and in the promotion of racial harmony.
The patience of the people involved in the last 10 years—a
period in which we have watched with impatience the short
sightedness of certain municipal officials—has been rather re-;
markable. A dogged resistance to any overtures or attempted;
Infiltration by the NAACP is a credit to the leadership of the
area known as Rosetown.
All that the citizens of this area have ever asked is a little
help with their problems. They have never asked, pointedly, for
a swimming pool: they have asked, with “hats in hand," for a
recreation area, equipped modestly for the recreation of them
selves and their children: they have asked for help in recon
structing their football field, so that the problem of drainage
would be eliminated by the installation of some pipe to take care
of a flooded condition during the rainy season. Their requests
have been modest; the response by white officials has been vir
tually nil.
A white community would have been up in arms about this
sort of thing, and a white community would have no such situa
tion as now faces—and for many years has faced—Rosetown.
Why, there is only a half-completed paving job at the High
School, one of the best high schools for negro students in the
Greater Atlanta area.
When a visitor turns off the driveway to return to Forest
Park, he drives through mud on a rainy day to reach the paved
street. On dry days, he stirs up dust.
If we were living in a medieval age, we might understand
this sort of municipal neglect. But here we are moving into a
brand new year, 1963, and there is no longer any excuse for
passing the buck.
So, in this open letter to officials of Clayton County and
Forest Park, we on The Free Press have only this to say: It is
not our place to provide the needs of an area that has proved
itself to be worthy to the nth degree, but if something is not
done—if the old promises are not fulfilled—in a reasonable length
of time in this promising New Year. The Free Press will provide
the recreational equipment and. if necessary, will see to it that
some other powers that be send Public Works Camp labor to fix
■ the football field before the Fountain team has to half-swim, half
i float in an effort to play football on rainy days in the fall of 1963.
We once tried to help in a matter of public health: to work
out some plan whereby the lesser privileged might have an op
portunity to receive due medical attention closer by, since so few
own automobiles and cannot get to Jonesboro to the Hill-Burton
Health Center. We didn’t get to first base, then; we hope to make
it to first base this time, for municipal neglect of any area is a
thing of dereliction that makes the men elected to an office of
public trust in violation of their oath to serve all of the people.
: We feel sure that the good men and true of Mayor and Council
of Forest Park and the cooperative County Commissioners of
Clayton County may get together at least once on a matter vital
to the public interest and move in unity to correct a situation that
is long overdue for correction.
and would like to enlist the
aid of the Chamber of Com
merce and all other interested
groups, in starting the first
I Confederate shrine in 1963
dedicated to the memory of
' Mrs. Fay Watterson Clarice—a
A Prize-Winning
Newspaper
1961
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NATIONAL EDITORIAL
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building erected not only in
her honor but named the Fay
Watterson Ctarke memorial
building.
I May this great Southern lady
’ rest in peace.
—JACK TROY
THE FOREST PARK FREE PRESS —NEWS AND FARMER
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J. Edgar Hoover Associates
EDITORIAL
It's Hour of Decision
In Metropolitan Atlanta
It is the hour of decision in law enforcement in Atlanta, Ga.,
tagged by no less than the Federal Bureau of Investigation as a
metropolitan City whose spiraling crime rate is one of the most
alarming in the entire nation. It’s a disgrace to a great city. It’s a
most dangerous thing on the other hand.
And the crime is being committed, 95 per cent, by negroes who
have had the tacit support and all-out encouragement of people
like former Mayor Hartsfield, Present Mayor Ivan Allen, and Chief
of Police Herbert Jenkins.
The people NOW must decide whether to make Jenkins and
active Chief of Police or a lay preacher. He has been a sort of in
active chief and an active lay preacher. Also, together with Harts
field and Allen, he has sold his soul for the negro bloc vote.
Hartsfield can sit blissfully by. as head of Lakewood Park, and
hold his hands, or somebody else’s, and Allen can come forward
and say that, as a late measure—like locking the stable after the
horse has been stolen—that he took sides with the white citizens
against the negroes in Southwest Atlanta, to avert further block
busting, but, really, he did it to save his own white skin against
the irate individuals of the Southwest area who just might have
beaten his ’’brains” out—if he hadn't taken a stand in their behalf.
Appointment of a “special squad” of police officers—only LAST
WEEK—to curb a wave of negro-inspired crime that has been a
source of great alarm to responsible Atlanta people and the FBI
all year long—is the most ridiculous thing that vacillating Chief
Jenkins has done yet.
He has stood by while negroes killed white storekeepers, beat
up service station operators, threatened white people generally —
at gunpoint.
You haven’t seen any editorial crusade by the Atlanta News
papers Inc., Jack Tarver, President —on this vital matter. And
probably you won’t. A controlled press is about as bad as a spoiled
egg. Constitution Publisher Ralph McGill says in Look magazine,
current issue, that race relations are improving!
Chief Jenkins came out with a fancy speech at a West Coast
convention, declaring that Atlanta must be INTEGRATED. Well,
he has made his bed, and now he is gonna lay in it. Or is the word
LIE. It must be LIE, because the Atlanta Chief of Police already
has laid enough eggs, as a supposed leader of law enforcement of
the great city of 1,000.000, in which the writer is a taxpayer, as
well as in Clayton County.
Well, fellow citizens, where are we headed now—? Another
aged storekeeper has been robbed, beaten, shot and killed by an
other negro gang ... A service station operator was threatened:
“Don’t call the police, or we'll GET YOU.” That’s the last straw,
fellow citizens.
Visit to Chevrolet Plant
Sells Us On Buying a Chevy
Ie
It surely was pleasant a f|w days before Christmas, dropping
'ln to visit old Clayton County friends at the Chevrolet Assembly
Plant. Former Forest Park Mayor (Bill) Fleming, who has been
working for Chevrolet since time began, it seems, was kind enough
to invite us to lunch and to make it possible for us to break the
high-security barrier at the plant.
We met the WHEELS and the boys who make the wheels turn.
Chevy wheels, that is.
Also we met the brass in the Inspection Department, and the
two lovely young ladies, Jean Swann and Imogene Morris. And
then we ate—steak on a wooden platter banked with potatoes and
peas—courtesy of Mr. L. J. Stack, cafeteria manager who lives on
Oak Street in Forest Park. The only regret the writer had was
that it seemed to cause some "green-eyed envy” among some of
the Union observers, judging by their caustic remarks about
“plutocrats at the head table, etc.”
On the other hand, we only said hello to the wheels—Plant
Manager L. J. Biskach—and the other fine executives, including
J. K. Currie, Fisher Body executive from Forest Park, and we ate
with the members of the Chevrolet Union of the AFL-CIO. You
couldn’t beat the fare dished out personally by Mr. Stack, and
for his courtesy we are indeed grateful.
Thank goodness, Mr. Fleming took us on a tour of the as
sembly plant BEFORE lunch. It would have been difficult to make
it AFTERWARDS.
One amazing machine on the assembly line would impress
anybody. This electronic-inspired “crab” moves on automatic
directions and picks up bodies and drops them on chassis frames.
This is automation that speeds up assembly of cars, and is strictly
“uptown." We watched machines and men put a Chevrolet to
gether, and it was obvious that here is an automobile that will
stand the gaff.
We hate, of course, to leave the Chrysler field, after so many
years—hate ain’t the word for it—but our last experience with a
Dodge Station Wagon, was the LAST experience. Three motors,
four sets of tires, three fuel pumps and two transmissions later
in a low mileage 1959 product bought in 1960, left us as flat as a
Florida flounder, and did nothing at all for our morale, either.
Now. it’s Chevy for us! And, of course, it’s Martin Burks
Chevrolet Company, of Jonesboro, with whom we will wheel and
deal, and at long last we’ll be in the automobile we should have
been in, in the first place. We apologize to old friend Martin O.
Burks for being so derelict, for so long.
We’d like to say, in conclusion, that it really was pure advance
Christmas fun to visit the fine Chevrolet Assembly Plant, meet
the outstanding officials, enjoy the company of so many Clayton
County men who work there, and then to climax it with a steak
by Stack. You can hardly get them kind anymore! And to see
old friend Slim Henslee, again, led to a fine talk about fox
hunting. Thanks, gentlemen, for a fine day! At Chevrolet!
—JACK TROY
The Black Spangled Banner
O, say can you see, by de dawns
early light
How we gathers by de creek
bank—
For de fish to bite.
We is a bunch of niggers,
Without a thought or care;
We’s done convinced de
government
Dat we needs welfare!
We is paid to vote: we is paid 1
to sin;
And de politicians keep de
checks coming in!
De white folks work from sun
to sun,
Johnson to Rule
As L. C. Mayor
Presently W. Rudolph John
son, who is a real estate sales
man in Forest Park and Clay
ton County, will assume the
duties of Mayor of Lake City,
following his narrow victory
To pay all de taxes—
While us niggers has our fun.
We lives in heaven each hour of
de day, ,
We doesn’t have to work.
Cause de white folks pay!
We wait each month
For dat slip with de figgers—
Dat’s what we lives for.
We is lucky we is niggers!
’ P.S. We has children by de score,
Cause dat mean $25.00 more!
De Jews own de world; de
Catholics run it;
De Gentiles pay for it; us
niggers enjoy it!
over W. P. (Bill) Eubanks, a
pioneer developer of Lake
City, in the runoff election, 88
to 82 votes.
It would appear that many
Lake City voters are avid foot
ball fans, for obviously many
stayed glued to their TV sets
Saturday afternoon, two weeks
ago, and didn’t get to the
polls.
ROTARY
NEWS
Mrs. Mozelle Christian of the
Education and Travel Depart
ment of the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce ad
dressed the Rotary Club of For
est Park, Wednesday, Dec. 26.
In presenting the Chamber’s
Stay and See Georgia tourist
promotion program, Mrs. Chris
tian clarified the confusion
which often exists in the public
mind, which mistakenly iden
tifies the Georgia State Cham
ber of Commerce with the Geor
gia State Department of Com
merce. There is no relation be
tween the two, although both
work to promote Georgia and to
bring industry to the state. The
Georgia State Chamber of Com
merce is not a state agency. It
is one which is supported by
dues paid by its members; and
one which is operated by both
paid and volunteer staffs.
Mrs. Christian presented the
current Stay and See Georgia
program in all its ramifications,
which included organizational
data and suggestions which any
community can follow in making
their own areas and their own
people more attractive to the
tourist.
It was shown that over $400,-
000,000 was derived from tourists
last year, more than double the
income derived from Georgia’s
three principal crops. It sounds
good—but one sees Georgia only
scratching when he sees that
Florida’s tourist income is ap
proximately $8,000,000,000 per
year. Mrs. Christian feels that
Georgia is giving up profits by
being indifferent to the tourist’s
dollar.
Mrs. Christian augmented her
talk with a color movie nar
rated by Bean Calloway which
included footage of Calloway
Gardens. Okefenokee Swamps,
and other Georgia attractions,
both natural and man-made.
The film well cited the fact that
Georgia is beautifully equipped
to court the tourist with its
mountains, its seashores, lakes
and cities.
Derickson,, Family
Visiting in Florida
Wild Bill Derickson, of
Derickson studio, took off on
a recent foggy day, headed
for a visit with relatives at
West Palm Beach, Fla.
Filled with the Christmas
spirit, Derickson took along
on the trip his wife, mother
in-law and two bulldogs. He
denied that there was any
question of mother-in-law
biting the bulldogs, or vice
versa.
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Doctor, lawyer, merchant, chief. Once that pretty weir covered the business
world. Not so today though. Consider for a moment the four pictured above.
• Businessman, tourist, planner-researcher, industrial worker. Doesn’t
rhyme, but it makes for a bigger and broader economy. That’s what we’re
after in Georgia. • These four and their pursuits directly affect our State,
her future and her prosperity. That’s where your Department of Commerce
comes in. You see, we’re Georgia’s number one salesman ... working along
side our fellow Georgians, improving what we have and building toward a
promising tomorrow. • The Georgia Department of Commerce... advising
the businessman, accommodating the tourist, motivating the planner and
providing jobs for our State’s labor force. That’s our job ... to help towns
expand, build airports, attract industry and prepare for the future through
planning. Pi ogress through planning with your Department of Commerce/’
GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
JACK MINTER, DIRECTOR / 100 STATE CAPITOL/ ATLANTA,'GEORGIA
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WALTER ESTES, AGENT ■
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Rex, Georgia
December 27, 1862
Mr. Jack Troy, Editor,
Forest Park Free Press
and
Clayton County News and Farmer, -
Forest Park. Ga.
Dear Jack; . ■ I
Since you came to Clayton County, I have been a loyal sufr
porter and admirer of yours. I don’t always see eye to eye witl
you on politics nor Philosophy, but I never resent another be
cause we do not agree.
I admire constructive criticism, but ridiculous ridicule does "
not set well.
Two articles in this week paper appear to be deliberate efforts
to desooil the Administration of our newly elected Governor. Such
ridicule and aspersions will hurt the man some, but the State of
Georgia much more.
I don’t think anyone can blame Judge Kemper for not re
signing, if a $10,000.00 per year pension is available to him if he
serves out his term. According to the press account the Judge is
not being “FIRED”. His term of office is expiring.
We have never had a Governor, who did not appoint on his
team. FRIENDS not ENEMIES, certainly not knowingly. Judge
Kemper did not support a man with deep Clayton County back
ground for Governor.
The Ridicule you direct at the present and the next Gover
nor, smacks of the mental attitude of the candidate you sup
ported for Governor, and his die hard conduct, following over
whelming defeat.
COme on Jack, most Clayton County citizens are proud of
Carl Sanders, especially an overwhelming majority of the native
citizens. They expect to everything they can to help, not hinder
his Administration. We want you to become a real Clayton Coun- <
tian too.
C/C to Senator Carl Sanders.
. Yours very truly,
WALTER ESTES
Crime
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418 in 1961;
The apprehension of some 11,-
400 FBI fugitives, compared with
10,668 last year. and
Fines, savings and recoveries
totaling well over $200,000,000
compared with $148,421,690 in
1961. This figure far exceeds the
amount of funds spent to ope
rate the FBI during 1962, he
stated.
Among other achievements
noted by the FBI Director were
the location of some 19.000 stolen
automobiles in investigations
under the Interstate Transporta-1
tion of Stolen Motor Vehicles I
Statute, and the apprehension of'
PAYS TO ADVERTISE
Mrs. Currie Gets 20 Culls! P
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Mrs. J. K. Currie, wife of the Fisher Body executive and
former Mayor of Forest Park, called in to tell The Free Press
that, as a result of the classified ad she had run for the rental
of a home, that shq,hap received MORE THAN 20 calls, and only
wishes she had as many place* to rent. >
“I just want to tell you,” Mrs. Currie said, “that the response
to the advertisement I placed in the classified section of The
Free Press has been overwhelming. I rented the place the very
day the paper came out.”
TUESDAY, JANUARY J. 19R3
nearly 2,500 offenders who were
being sought at the request of
state and local authorities for
fleeing across state lines in viola
tion of the Fugitive Felon Act.
In citing individual crime
problems confronting his Bureau,
Mr. Hoover called attention to a |
“sharp increase” in violations of
the Federal Bank Robbery and (
Incidental Crmes Statute. “An
average of 100 robberies, burg- 1
laries and larcenies of banks and J
other financial institutions j
covered by this statue have been ]
reported to the FBI each month A
[this year,” he stated. “This rep- 9
’ resents an increase of approxi- 9
I mately 25 per cent over the 9
j number committed in 1961.” At- fl
' lanta is up that much, too.