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VOLUME 43 —NUMBER 48
POINT OF VIEW
——. By JACK TROY , —J
You Really Don't Have to Be a
Millionaire to Live Like One
Shekel Island, Ga.—The little man who wasn’t (all) there,
said he didn’t want to be a millionaire; he just wanted to live
like one, and sure enough it came to pass that he discovered Jekyll
Island for a long, low-cost, fun and history-filled vacation, and
ground” of America's ultra social and ultra rich. It wasn’t the
giant sea turtles that made this most famous of all the Golden
Isles known as the treasure island of the greenbacks. The con
centration of wealth represented by the Rockefellers and the
Morgans, the Goulds, the Pulitzers and dozens of others who were
in the exclusive Jekyll Island Club—top drawer financiers—was
unequalled in all the world, and in every old “cottage” today you
may see vaults that would have done credit to any 19th century
bank. Don’t guess the Robber Barons trusted banks when they
came to “Shekel” Island for the winter. J. Pierpont Morgan came
in a yacht, the Corsair, which was just 30 feet longer than a foot
ball field! This truly was “Shekel” Island, and it is too bad the
Barons got scared when the Germans ran a U-boat along the St.
Simons coast in 1942 and torpedoed a freighter. The Government
suggested the officers and directors of the Jekyll Island Club,
who were holding a big meeting, depart post haste, and post haste
they departed, and then they decided to sell out. A new thing
known as tightened government taxes helped them make up their
mind. They had been getting off Scot free, and you know, if you
know Scots, what that means.
And so today you inspect millionaires’ row on the island’s
west side, along the Jekyll river, and you marvel at a strange and
somewhat fabulous era of Americans.
This old Hut.not ancient golf writer, who has had experiences
at Augusta National, Boca Raton, Pinehurst, East Lake arid a few
other world renowned courses, at last has found Golfhaven, which
is the other name for the magnificent Wanderer—the year
around resort luxury Motel—named, incidentally, for the last
slave ship the Wanderer—and here you’re a slave to lazy luxury
living and golf fun the dour Scots never dreamed of at the time
of the game’s invention in Bonny Scotland. A great pro-amateur
golf tournament is coming up. More about that in’a later column.
We played nine holes of the layout, and the freeze which ruined
3-4th of Florida’s citrus crop also killed the fairway grass, and
the pros and the amateurs faced problems.
Say, if you have not seen “Shekel” Island, you owe it to your
self, the wife and the kids to plan a vacation here, and if you
live in Clayton County you’ll experience mixed emotions in driving
here along the route of Sherman’s infamous March to the Sea.
Driving out of Forest Park early last Sunday morning and
crossing over from Highway 54 to 42, we followed, then, the route
of the March, and in imagination tried to reconstruct the mad
acts of the former old Southern War Skule professor, Sherman,
who committed the same type atrocities as winning military
leaders have done since time began. The Bible tells us that men
of this kind usually roast in Hell, so a Happy New Year to Gen
eral Sherman, who was careless with fire, and our fervent hope
is that some of the lads wielding the red hot pitchforks on the
General are rabid Rebels who couldn’t make it to the pearly gates
either.
We passed through McDonough, where Senator Tom Ellis is
domiciled as a country lawyer, and stopped at Jackson for coun
try ham and eggs while the early morning sun fought bravely to
pierce the rain-filled clouds. It was too early for Publisher Doyle
Jones of the Jackson Progress—Argus to be up and about and
closed, of course, was Daniel Motor Company. So we didn’t deter
mine whether this was a relative of my fine late father-in-law,
John Harvey Daniel, who had many relatives in the general area
of The Rock and around here. On down the road at Indian
Springs, we noted the inviting appearance of the Elder Hotel,
where Mr. Daniel and family stayed on summer holidays, as did
so many older Georgians, at this most popular resort hotel.
Before departing last week we had read a story which said
that it is too late to save historic Wesleyan College on the out
skirts of Macon, and we thought in driving by and looking at
the spacious grounds and the many historic buildings of this
great Southern girls school, how tradition is being shot on the
ground. Tradition is like Jekyll Island’s centuries-old moss-draped
oak trees; it builds slowly and once destroyed is lost forever.
Madame Chiang Kai Chek. on the isle of Formosa and of free
China, was educated at Wesleyan, and countless Southern belles,
past and almost present, were and are an integral part of this
great Southern family tradition. What a shame it is to destroy
Wesleyan College! As one tradition after another is lost, either by
coure decree or violation of our constitutional rights, it makes some
of us grateful that we can’t live long enough to see politically
appointed sapsuckers of North turn twentieth century America
into an Egypt, Greece, or a Nineveh and a Tyre. Meddle with
God’s laws, as they are doing, and take the consequences in that
Land Beyond The River. They think they are clever but, in reality
they’re only poor physical and mental specimens who will have
to account for their misdeeds on the Judgment Day. History tells
us so.
Who knows but that we’ll be there to see it! At least, some of
us will, perhaps.
As we looked at some scorched fields along the way, we
thought of the burning devastation wrought by Sherman, and we
recalled how one “bleeding heart” Atlanta editorialist had re
cently eulogized the Great Emancipator, Lincoln. Booth, a North
erner, shot him, not a Southern Rebel, and one of the main things
we remember in reading history is that Lincoln was kicked around
in public by his wife, and he ran.
Maybe, as some historians claim, he would have, had he lived,
sent the liberated slaves to Liberia, and we think, in retrospect,
it would have been well if he had planned to go with them. In
that way, he could have escaped the wrath of his charming
spouse, and he would have been among his proteges for life. And
maybe, then, he could have enlisted Sherman as his aide, and
the South could have avoided such a tragic era. We can only be
thankful now that we’re winning the modern “civil” war of in
dustry, and knocking off New England like a star bowler scat
tering tenpins.
When we reached Perry and turned by the fire station, di
rectly behind the station, great gobs of black smoke and orange
red flames billowed up into the gray sky. The historic Brown
house, built long before Sherman and the War Between the States,
had caught fire in the upper story, and it was gone before the
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he lived it up a lot more than did the
“Robber Barons” who bought the historic
island from the Du Bignon family for
$125,000 in 1886. A steal, even then.
In the twentieth century, Gov. M. E.
Thompson bought it for the state of Geor
gia from the millionaires, more familiarly
known as the Robber Barons, for a bar
gain-priced $600,000. There were those who
yelled: “We wuz robbed!” but, actually, the
old Professor Thompson got the state an
outstanding bargain in real estate—an
island that is today worth millions. It is
easily accessible to the tourist trade, and
yet it is remote and romantic and in
triguing, and all that sort of thing.
That dateline at the top of this column
is no mistake, for this was the famous 19th
century rendezvous and exclusive “play-
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County Police and U.S. Treasury men located
and destroyed the 1,000 gallon still pictured
above this past week in a raid which resulted
County Police, T-Men
Breakup Big Still
The Clayton County law enforcement agencies, in cooperation with officers of the
United States Treasury Department, pulled off a day tirhe raid on a Clayton County
moonshine liquor still and captured four of the five men operating the still. The raid
disclosed that the suspects were operating two 1,000 gallon stills. The still was located
off the South Expressway about four miles south of Jonesboro.
The area and men had been
under’ observation for more
than two weeks when the raid
caught them red handed and
completely off guard. The still
had been in operation only two
days when the raid was made.
Arrested and jailed in the
raid were: John Wesley, 17,
Route 3, Fayetteville; Wilbur Lee
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PICTURED ABOVE is the newly opened Sunshine Center, com
plete laundry and dry cleaning operation located at 1183 Main
Street in Forest Park. Sunshine Center is holding its Grand
Opening this week.
Sunshine Center
Open in Forest Park
Clayton County’s first complete laundry and dry clean
ing operation opens at 1183 Main Street in Forest Park
this week it was announced by Bill Burdett, manager. The
new operation, called Sunshine Center will feature the
newest and most modern Philco-Bendix equipment which
MR. SEEBY IS
REINSTATED BY
COUNCIL VOTE
Mayor W. Reid Puckett and
the Forest, Park City Council
voted this week to reinstate rec
reation board member James
Seeby and to continue his ex
pense allowance of $50.00 per
week. The action of mayor and
council which resulted in the
suspension of Mr. Seeby had
taken place in the December 17
meeting. This action was re
scinded at the regular meeting
ing. In addition a motion was
made by H. E. Waldrop, was see*
onded by W. W. Foust and car
ried with Lynn Wells abstain
ing. In addiiton a motion was
made and past that the Forest
Park Recreation Board and Mr.
Seeby be given a vote of confi
dence.
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1963
Morgan, 17, Route 3, Fayette
ville; Ernest W. Morgan, 24,
Route 2, Hampton; Clyde Dan
iel, 42, College Park. All were
charged with manufacturing
non-taxpaid liquor, and also
possessing illict distilling ap
paratus.
In addition to destroying the
includes coin operated dry
cleaning machines, coin oper
ated washing machines and
dryers.
Sunshine Center will also fea
ture a pickup station on all
laundry and dry cleaning, Mr.
Burdett stated. Mr. Burdett
stated, “the Sunshine Center
will be Forest Park’s and Clay
ton County’s first complete one
stop self service and standard
laundry and dry cleaning opera
tion. We have installed the
finest in equipment, with
trained personnel on hand to
answer any questions which you
might have on its operation. We
are looking forward to serving
the area in this new location,”
Mr. Burdett concluded.
Mr. Burdett, who has been
the manager of Forest Park
Cleaners and Laundry for a
number of years will act as
manager of both locations.
in the arrest of four men. The still was located
off the South Expressway about four miles
below Jonesboro.
two groundhog type stills the
officers broke up 177 gallons of
distilled moonshine and de
stroyed several cases of gallon
jugs which came from the near
by Knox Glass Company.
Officers included in the raid
were: John P. Hays, George
Corley, Frank Lane, Charles
Weems, all special agents for
the Treasury Department; Clay
ton Deputy Sheriff Sam Bla
lock, Clayton County Police
Chief Howard Smith, C. E.
Sanders, Bill Murray, all of the
Clayton County Police Depart
ment.
Depot to Host
Richmond Academy
104 Member Band
Col. Joseph E. Murray, Com
manding Officer, Atlanta Army
Depot, announced today that
the Depot will provide quarters
for the Richmond Academy
band of Augusta on the night
of Jan. 14. The 104-member
band will be in Atlanta to play
for the Governor’s inauguration
on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
A representative of the Depot
will meet the band at the Farm
er’s Market cafeteria at 6 p.m.
Monday, the 14th, and escort
the group to the Depot.
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Brig. General George 11. Wil
son, Commander of the 445th
Troop Carrier Wing, Dobbins
Air Force Base, Georgia, will
be guest speaker at the noon
luncheon of the Atlanta Army
Depot Center, Reserve Offi
cers Association, on, Friday,
January 18, at the officers
Open Mess. Born in Boon
ville, Miss., General Wilson
has had an outstanding Air
Force career. He will be intro
duced by Lt. Col. James B.
Gregory, President of the
Depot Chapter, ROA.
(US AIR FORCE PHOTO)
Newnan-Henry Co. Top
Flint River Tourney
NEWNAN STOPS FOREST PARK 54-53 IN OVER TIME;
HENRY COUNTY STOPS NORTH CLAYTON FOR TITLE
The Panthers of Forest Park played host to the annual Flint River Basketball Tour
nament this past week and narrowly missed taking home all the marbles in the boys :
divisions when Newnan won the finals in an over time thriller 54 to 53. The winner of
girls division was Henry County, undefeated this year in 14 games. Other teams in the
tourney included North Clayton, Jonesboro and Lakeshore.
The Tournament this year
failed to produce any surprise
upsets in either bracket. Forest
Park and Newnan were seated
1-2 in the Boys Division and the
redoubable Henry County Girls
were seated no. 1.
The final game of the Tourna
ment saw Newnan guard Robert
Kelley coolly firing in a jumper
with seven seconds remaining in
an overtime period here Satur
day night to win the Flint River
tournament over spirited Forest
Park, 54-53, at Forest Park,
The Panthers, paced by Ed
Sigmon and rangy Gene John
son, had fought back from a 10-
point intermission deficit to
knot the count the count at 50-
all with 23 seconds left in regular
time.
Johnson and Charles Hodges
hit three points for Forest Park
before Lewis Grizzard’s long shot
set the stage for Kelley’s tourna
ment-winning tally.
Center John Wells led Newnan
with 18 points while Tommy
Cobb stood out defensively with
10 rebounds. Johnson’s 16 points
and nine rebounds was outstand
ing for the losers.
In the preliminary, undefeated
Henry County’s girls wore the
tournament tiara of victory with
an easy 32-22 win over North
Clayton. Petite Kay Lewis led
Coach Jim Baker's winners with
14 points, while Gwen Wiggins,
sporting a 26 - point tourney
average, was high for the
Eaglettes with 19.
NEWNAN (54)—Kemp 3, Cobb
5, Barnes 4, Wells 18, Kelley 6,
Glover 6, Bryant 2, Grizzard 10.
FOREST PARK (53)—Johnson
16, Hodges 13, Smith 3, Frock 1,
Sigmon 11, Loving 9.
Halftime: 29-19, Newman.
HENRY CO. (32)—Brannan 6,
Lewis 14, Chaffin 12, Weldon,
Robinson, E McGarity.
NORTH CLAYTON (22)—Ad
cock 2, Wiggins 19, Hale 1, Al
bert, Robb, Warr.
Halftime: 12-8, Henry County.
Rotary Reports
Walter H. Phillips, Postmaster
of Forest Park, addressed his
fellow Rotarians at the Bow and
Arrow Restaurant, South Ex
pressway, on Wednesday, Jan. 2.
Mr. Phillips, who is currently
Chairman of Clayton County
Family Care, reviewed the work
of this organization—its struc
ture, its objectives, the areas in
which it can help the distressed
Clayton family, and its source
of income.
Clayton County Family Care
was termed a chartered organi
zation with one paid employee,
the Executive - Secretary, with
all other help, particularly the
invaluable assistance of Mrs.
Ralph Huie, being entirely vol
untary. The Board of Directors
are chosen from Clayton County
School districts, with these mem,
ber» being largely responsible
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CHARLES HODGES (44) and Gene Johnson (54) go up for a
rebound during the semi-final round of the Flint River Basket
ball Tournament held in Forest Park January 10-11-12. The
Panthers lost in the finals to Newnan in an overtime 53 to 54.
IN PLAZA SHOPPING CENTER
Riverdale to Get
New Post Office
A contract has been awarded
, to Cawthon & Hollums Prop.,
Inc., P. O. Box 231, East Point,
Georgia, to rent new quarters to
the Post Office Department in
the Riverdale Plaza Shopping
Center, Highway 85, to improve
postal operations in Riverdale,
Georgia, Postmaster General J.
’ Edward Day announced.
“We are continuing to build
new post offices where they are
; needed,” Mr. Day said, “but we
are constantly re-assessing our
lease construction program to
; determine whether present
buildings can be remodeled, or
whether our postal needs can
1 be served by moving to an ex
! isting building at a new loca
tion.
1 “We now have about 45,000
post office locations throughout
. the country, handling a volume
i of 56 billion pieces of mail a
! year. By 1970 it is expected to
■ rise to 90 billion. It is clear,
therefore, that we must re
s double our efforts, not only in
' expanding our capacity but also
, in devising new postal tech
: niques to meet the demands of
our growing population.”
MAKE THIS
YOUR
NEW YEAR'S
RESOLUTION—
RESOLVED,
TO TRADE
AT HOME
IN '63!
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Under the Department’s Con
struction program Cawthon &
Hollums Prop., Inc., will im
prove the building according to
departmental specifications and
: rent it to the Department for
five years, with no renewal
, options.
The new quarters at Riverdale
will contain 2,117 square feet of
interior space, with an area of
4,500 square feet for parking
’ and maneuvering of postal
vehicles. It is expected to be
completed by March 1, 1963, at
which time the Post Office will
move from its present location.
HENDREk DRIVE
PTATOMEET
। The January meeting of
The Hendrix Drive PTA will
i be held Tuesday, January 18,
, at 7:30 p.m. in the school
cafeteria. The program for
i the month is “GUIDANCE”.
। A nursery will be provided
for pre-school children.
—Mrs. G. W. Chasteen, Jr.
Publicity Chairman