Newspaper Page Text
(The JFnreM
anil
dlaytnn (Enmity Nmi attb farmer
Serving
Georgia's
11th
Largest
County!
VOLUME 43 — NUMBER 50
E. M. Fortson, Hampton, Donates Land for 4-H Youth Center '
POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY ■
The New Year’s wire from Col. E. R. (James) Seashole, Mayor
of Lutz, Fla., and horse show promoter extraordinary, was cheery
but also contained a heart-breaking message . . .
“Jack, our mutual friend Sam Butz is in critical condition in
his last days at home as he would be in the hospital.
We stopped by the Kincaid cattle ranch—owned by a cousin,
Marion Kincaid—and called Sam’s wife, Ellen—at their home, for
merly owned by another relative, Kitty Kincaid.
I drove over there, just past the home of the President of the
University of Florida, and found Sam resting in bed. Ellen had told
me before I went in to see him that "it’s malignant and terminal.
Please don’t stay more than 10 minutes.”
Sam Butz had gone home to die.
I still don’t believe it . , .
This fine honor graduate of Annapolis, outstanding Florida
newspaper executive, and lifelong friend, is in the prime of life.
The many years he was on the Times-Union, first as sports
editor and later as executive managing editor, Butz served his
state in an exemplary manner. He was prominent in the affairs
of the ’Gator Bowl, a former president of the Jacksonville Touch
down Club. I was his guest at an annual affair a few years ago.
When I was a youngster still in Mainland High School, Day
tona Beach, Sam Butz used me as a sports correspondent, and paid
generously.
Years later—in 1949 — I left The Atlanta Constitution and
worked for the Times-Union under Sam Butz, and he sent me all
over the state to write feature articles and also used me around
Jacksonville as a feature writer. As usual, he paid well. That is con
trary to the old policy of The Atlanta Constitution, where prestige
and tradition were supposed to take the place of a reasonable sal
ary check for performance.
However, The Constitution was generous in taxi cab use and
expense accounts. But I should have joined the Newspaper Guild
for my own protection. I was talked out of joining.
Sam Butz left The Times-Union a few years ago when a mem
ber of the Pepper family died, and he returned to Gainesville to
run the Pepper printing plant.
Not long ago the Cowles publications—Look Magazine—bought
the Gainesville Sun and the printing plant, and his wife, Ellen, re
ceived a substantial sum from the sale. Chances are Sam Butz
would have returned to The Times-Union, for he was at the peak
of efficiency as a newspaper executive.
He told me, in our talk in his bedroom, what had happened to
him. He and Ellen had gone to New York, enjoyed seeing old friends
and the shows, and he began feeling bad in the general area of his
bladder.
After an examination, he had an operation, and a tumor al
most as big as a fist was removed from his bladder. Then, further
examination showed that cancer was spreading from the prostate
gland, and it was too late to stop it.
Malignant and terminal . . .
Sam Butz, surrounded by books and newspapers, pulled up on
his bed and said: "Come back to see me . . . maybe I can lick this
thing.”
I thanked him for all he had done for me through the years—
his thoughtfulness, generosity and friendship that you don’t al
ways find in the newspaper profession. It was hard to hold back
the tears, because you knew he couldn’t lick the dread adversary,
cancer, and it was a hopeless feeling standing there as the warm
sunlight streamed through the windows and knowing you might
not see him alive again.
Judge Tom Sebring, former University of Florida football
coach, now Dean of Men at Florida State University, was a visitor
while I was there. Our paths had not crossed since I last saw him
in Nurenberg, Germany, in 1947, when he was sitting on the bench
at the Nazi war crime trials, and I was with the Stars and Stripes
in the European Theatre.
We exchanged pleasantries, but refrained from talking about
our mutual friend and former associate, J. S. C. Butz. He always
signed his letters this way.
As I walked across a fragrant pine needle carpet through the
great oaks and pine trees, enjoying the warmth of the soft sun
shine, I thought of Humphrey Traylor, executive vice president of
the Bank of Forest Park, who is again heading up the American
Cancer Society drive in Clayton County. He asked me if I would
serve on the board. I decided then and there in Gainesville, Fla.,
that I would, and give it all I haa to nelp raise the money for the
continuing research that is so desperately needed to find the cause
and cure of this dread killer. Nothing could bring the need home
more forcefully than to glance back toward Kitty Kincaid’s old home
(Continued on Page 6)
“THANK YOU”
DORIS AND GEORGE CHRISTIAN
(See Page 7)
the Gainesville, Fla., hospital. Cancer. His
brother-in-law. Calvert Pepper, says there
isn’t much hope for him. We were in
Gainesville last Sunday.”
Sam Butz dying of cancer! I found it
hard to take. The former managing editor
of The Florida Times-Union is a lifelong
friend. The Pepper family into which he
married long have been friends of my fam
ily. Sam married Ellen Pepper of the
Gainesville Sun and Pepper Printing Com
pany family. They have a grown son and
daughter.
I took off the other day and drove to
Gainesville to see Sam and found out, on
arrival at Gainesville with my mother, that
officials of the Alachua County Hospital
had conferred with members of the family,
and agreed he would be as comfortable in
FBI Will Publicly Demonstrate Police Techniques
Os Training in FP High School Stadium This April
First Public
Demonstration
To Be At Night
J. Edgar Hoover
Sanctions Program;
Smith Chairman
By JACK TROY
Editor, The Free Press
The first public demonstra
tion by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation agents in the
techniques of training local and
county police departments will
be presented under the sponsor
ship of The Forest Park Free
Press next April in the Forest
Park High School football sta
dium.
This great educational feature
is a FlßST—first in America—
and is being done with the
hearty approval and sanction of
the outstanding director of the
FBI, J. Edgar Hoover.
C. Dallas Mobley, veteran FBI
agent stationed in the Atlanta
Field Office of the FBI, will
work with Clayton County
Police Chief Howard Smith in
setting up the night program,
and in arranging all details.
Smith is the program chairman.
Mobley set up the police
school for Clayton County police
which began last Wednesday
night and will continue twice a
month throughout the year.
The writer and the veteran
FBI agent were Oglethorpe Uni
versity classmates.
The Free Press proudly pre
sents the program of outstand
ing law enforcement training,
and is pleased to point out that
(Continued on Page 3)
Jonesboro
Post Office
Tops $50,000
Postmaster Wilber L. Harris
announces that postal receipts
at the Jonesboro Post Office were
$51,002.86 for 1962, compared to
$44,695.55 for 1961.
Ten years ago, Postmaster
Harris said, the receipts were
$20,911.06 and have been climb
ing each year with the exception
of 1952. Jonesboro has three city
routes covering 80 miles, and one
rural route, with 83 miles. The
four routes serve over 2,200 boxes.
According to present indica
tions, Mr. Harris added, the
Jonesboro Post Office will ad
vance to FIRST CLASS on July
Ist this year.
Dr. Bateman Proposes
Bond Issue for Rosetown
RECREATION NEEDS IN AREA GREAT;
COMMITTEE APPOINTED TO AID MATTER
W. H. Bateman took the lead at the Mayor and Council
meeting of January 21 in behalf of needs for recreation in
the Rosetown area of Forest Park, and a bond issue in the
spring may be the result. It’s a must.
Minutes show that “Motion was made by W. H. Bate-
man, that a committee be ap
pointed to work with the Rec
reation Board to determine
needs for the colored area and
proposed a bond issue in the
spring, seconded by E. M. Gault
ney, and carried unanimously.”
Action also was taken on
naming a committee of council
[to work with leaders of the
Rosetown community.
‘‘Motion was made by W. H.
Bateman that Rev. C. W. Grant,
Principal M. D. Roberts, Lind
sey Campbell and three mem
bers of the council be named on
the committee to work methods
of fulfilling the needs of rec-
(Continued on Page 6)
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1963
GREAT DAY
Colonel Sanders
And Col. Davis
Serve Chicken
Colonel Sanders and all ft
his Kentucky aides came j|
out to Davis House last |
Wednesday and aided in |J ;
the introduction to Forest |
Park and Clayton County |
gourmets of Colonel Sand- |
ers Kentucky -.
fried, finger- ft
lickin’ chick- ft
en—boxed to
take out. This
is planned I
as Clayton’s
largest TAKE
OUT chicken -
house.
Col. Ted
Davis, a famous restau
rateur of the Davis Broth- *
ers chain of Johnny Rebs,
etc., revealed Thursday :
that 2,200 boxes of the de
licious chicken had been J
dispensed to customers on :
that COLI^ Wednesday — ■
between the hours, largely, \
of 11 and 7. It was so-o-o f
COLD after that, that f
everybody gave up, and
stayed home. But what a “
START it was for this new
TASTE TREAT. Col. Davis
was delighted and Colonel
Sanders said he was
mighty proud of the re- ft
ception given his Kentucky
fried chicken. “Wish I could
serve you a mint julep,
suh,” the Colonel said.
Rites Held
For Forest
Park Resident
A collision between a trailer
tractor truck and a private car
lon 41 highway at Forest Park,
(Monday night, Jan. 21, resulted
lin the death of a Forest Park
[resident, Hugh D. Oxford, 1211
! Skyland Drive.
A native of Morgan County,
and married to the former Miss
Theressa Headrick also of Mor
gan County, he had lived here
since 1959, and in Atlanta area
[ for the past 25 years. He was
employed by the Hub Ford CO.,
I and a member of the First Bap
tist Church of Forest Park. He
land his wife have two children,
Adelia Lucile, 19 years, who is
presently training at Crawford
W. Long school of nursing, and
Patricia Kate, 14, at Junior
(Continued on Page 3)
★ ★★★★★
TEEN DANCE
IS SET FOR
JANUARY 31
There is to be a teen-age
dance January 31 from 7 to
10:30 p.m. at the youth center
on South Avenue. The dance
will be sponsored and chap
eroned by members of the
Boys and Girls Committee of
the Kiwanis Club. Admission
is 50c per person.
MeDONOUGH’S George Alexander, left, and
Clayton's 1). M. Hastings-, right, flank Hamp
ton's E. M. Fortson, who has made possible great
advances in 4-H Club work with a generous
land donation, and Clayton's Commission
Chairman, P. K. Dixon, who accepts the deed
to the land for Henry and Clayton County.
Others in the picture, reading from left rear
are: James Parker, Clayton County assistant
—— ■ ■ —— — ———— . .—»— ——,—
$30,000 Libel Suit Filed Against
M. M. Buice and Equal' League
A $30,000 libel suit has been filed in Superior Court against M. M. Buice, Highway
85, Clayton County, and the Fair and Equal League by Jack Troy, Editor and Publisher
of The Forest Park Free Press and Clayton County News and Farmer.
The suit was filed Friday by Jonesboro attorney and Hapeville Judge John Watson
for Mr. Troy with the Clerk of Court Joe Mundy.
The suit alleges that the
“defendants are residents of
Clayton County, Georgia, and
are subject to the jurisdiction of
this honorable court.”
The suit is based on a legal
advertisement run by Mr. Buice
in The Forest Park News on the
28th day of June, 1961.
It was headed “To All Tax
payers of Clayton County” and
the article, an attack on the
County Commissioners, basi
cally, conducted in this man-
ner—
“ They say that we have
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS—
Well, we would like to know
why the Forest Park Free
Press refused to publish this
advertisement. Could it be
that they have to get permis
sion from the Commissioner’s
office? As the news and in
formation from the Court
House seems to have some
strings attached.”
Anthony Grey, then editor
an d publisher of The Forest
Park News, later sold all interest
in The News, and is living in New
Jersey. Allegedly, he took pas
sage on the Queen Mary last
week for a proposed European
trip.
Gail Hilverink
To Be Hostess
At Homecoming
Students presiding over Stet
son University’s 80th Anniver
sary Homecoming, Feb. 14-17,
will be Host Bill Perry, a senior
from Live Oak, and Hostess Gail
Hilverink, senior from Rex, Ga.
Perry, a religion major, is
president of the Baptist Stu
dent Union, and in charge of
alumni relations for the Min
isterial Association. He is active
in the Student Senate, Residence
Halls staff, Men’s Council, and
in Stetson’s chapter of the
Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity.
He was recently initiated into
Stetson’s chapter of Omicron
Delta Kappa, national leader
ship honor society for college
men.
Miss Hilverink, a physical
education major, is active in
Panhellenic Council, Women’s
Council, Alpha Chi Omega so
rority, and Greek Week and
(Continued on Page 3)
agent; Robert Whitaker, Henry County; John
Pipkin, Henry County; Joe Acker, Clayton
County; Charley Tucker, County Agent; Ches
ter Lane, George Kilpatrick, Jim Sinbach and
Mayor Jake Mays of McDonough. The picture
includes the trustees of the 4-H Youth Train
ing Center. (See Story)
(Photo by Deriekson)
A ft Z I
-- - ” <#"< ** » v zW
. _ J
SWEET GENEVIEVE Meza, of Mez-Art studios, Clayton County,
was the adagio skating star of Holiday on Ice eight years ago.
Friday, with her patio frozen over, she took a youngster to
kindergarten, and then came out of retirement to skate for
WSB-TV and The Free Press. She looked real good, red hair and
snow suit, and all. Her form on the ice and otherwise was ex
cellent. Husband Ted Meza, who, with sweet Genevieve, designs
and built the props for Holiday on Ice, agreed. A young son
bundled up at the edge of the patio enjoyed his mama’s per
formance. (Photo by Deriekson.)
Congratulations
TO TED DAVIS AND DAVIS HOUSE
PERSONNEL...
For being awarded the franchise in the Atlanta
area for that "finger-lickin'good"
Col. Sander's Kentucky Fried Chicken!
TRUETT CATHY
Dwarf House
Hapeville
JOIN THE
MARCH OF
DIMES
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
P. K. Dixon
And Trustees
Accept Deed
GREAT 4-H FUTURE
IS ASSURED BY
GENEROUS GRANT
A great citizen of Hampton
and Henry County, E. M. Fort- '
son, has deeded 71 acres of land
to Henry-Clayton County 4-H
clubs for a Youth Training Cen
ter.
With representatives of Henry
and Clayton present in the Com
missioners’ office in the Clayton
County Courthouse last Wednes
day night when it was cold
enough to freeze ice in the boiler
room. Mr. Fortson completed his
most generous land donation
and thus paved the way for un
limited development of 4-H club
programs in the future.
No picture or publicity had
been planned. It just happened
that The Free Press editor and
photographer Bill Deriekson
were at the Courthouse for the
opening of the FBI school for
Clayton County police.
Commission Chairman P. K.
Dixon rambled into the school
and revealed that McDonough,
Hampton and Clayton trustees
and officials of the 4-H clubs
were meeting to accept Mr. Fort
son’s donation of land for a 4-H
Youth Center for Henry and
■ Clayton County 4-H’ers.
And that’s how the story
broke.
The 4-H Youth Training Cen
ter, which possibly should be
named the E. W. Fortson Youth
Center, will operate under the
direction of a 13-member board
of trustees—five private citizens
from each county, county agents
and Mr. Fortson.
Chairman of the Board is Mr.
John Sinback—we thought his
first name was Jim — Chester
Lane, vice chairman: Robert
Whittaker, secretary - treasurer.
Other members are D. M. Hast
ings, George Kilpatrick, P. K.
Dixon, Joe Acker, Jake Mays,
Mayor of McDonough; George
Alexander, McDonough business
executive, and Tom Steele.
Mr. Fortson has made possible
a bright new era for 4-H club
development and expansion in .
Henry and Clayton.
—JACK TROY
New Section
Is Edited By
School People
Clayton County School News
—a two-page section done by
the school people — writing,
editing, ad selling and all—ap
pears as a feature of The Free
Press this week, and will be a
regular monthly reading must
for subscribers.
Principal E. W. Oliver of G. W.
Northcutt School, who once
worked for the old Georgian in
Atlanta, heads up the staff of
teachers in charge of the school
news section.