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VOLUME 44 —NUMBER 19
POINT OF VIEW
—. By JACK TROY ■ ■
When You Trade Where You Live
It Helps All Concerned
A day late and a dollar short.
But not really.
We can offer a glowing first quarter report on retail sales in
Clayton County, but it will be a lot better if we can encourage a
County merchants need the support of their citizens.
We certainly buy that and if more of our fine citizens will
buy the message and spend more with area merchants, soon the
outstanding County of Clayton will hold the standing it should
enjoy in retail sales and dollar volume.
You can buy it in Clayton County, whatever you’re in the
market for, and you’ll find that the price is right.
Concentrated local buying will mean greater prosperity in
Georgia’s fastest growing county. It helps all concerned when you
trade where you live.
Fine Youth Programs Impress
A Noted Visitor to Forest Park
Sometimes you can be too close to the forest to see the trees.
Ar maybe you take for granted such things as the fine youth
programs that are arranged and the facilities provided for foot
ball, baseball, etc.
What we’re getting at is the recent observation of a noted
visitor and what really impressed him about the City of Forest
Park.
We had lunch with Col. Louis Crouch, Atlanta Army Depot
Commander, a career army officer, native Georgian, graduate of
the University of Georgia, and a personable Southern gentleman
with a solid background in athletic affairs.
He was a fine athlete in high school at Ocilla, Ga.
For all we know he may have been as good as his younger
brother, “Jumping Joe” Crouch, who starred for Georgia football
teams under Harry Mehre. Col. Crouch had an athletic scholar
ship to Georgia, but played Lacrosse, and you naturally don’t get
national prominence in this sport, although it is a demanding one
and requires stamina, skill and fortitude of the first order.
The main thing is that Col. Crouch knows the value of ath
letic programs. He was a student manager of Georgia teams.
He was telling us that on a tour of Forest Park he was greatly
impressed with the fine stadium provided for football, the many
fields for Little League, Babe Ruth and Connie Mack baseball
and the supervised play he had observed.
Many fine citizens give freely of their time and talents in the
supervision of the youth programs and their efforts are rewarded
in personal satisfaction. They may not hear about it but others
take note of their fine work and applaud them for it too.
FOK COMMUNITY SERVICE
FP Moose Lodge Wins
International Award
Chicago, Ill.—Forest Park Moose Lodge No. 1875 was
today awarded a citation for community service activity, in
competition held among the more than 2,000 Moose lodges
throughout the United States
NEW RATE
Forest Park
Awaits Class
6 Rating
Forest Park has qualified for
and is awaiting official notifi
cation of a 6 class fire insurance
classification, lowest in Clayton
County, and the same as en
joyed by DeKalb County, Hape
ville and College Park.
In a letter to Mayor W. Reid
Puckett, C. T. Jones, Division
Engineer of the Southeastern
Underwriters Association, de
clared:
“We are pleased to note from
an engineer’s report that our
recommended improvements in
fire defenses to justify National
Board 6 class have been sub
stantially complied with and we
are forwarding the information
to the Georgia Inspection and
Rating Bureau for their review
and consideration in connection
with your insurance classifica
tion. You may expect to hear
shortly from Business Manager
Parker regarding this.”
After completion of the fire
department drill tower and
training area now underway,
and extensive water supply im
provements in process, the City
of Forest Park may then qualify
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and
Clayton (tanty Nms and farmer
few more folks to trade at home.
Not that any merchants are dollar hun
gry. but more home patronage will increase
not only the standing of the area but the
prosperity, too.
The Chamber of Commerce reports first
quarter retail sales of $11,785,213, compared
to $8,934,459 for the same period in 1962,
representing a 36 per cent increase.
That’s great.
Os the five counties making up Metro
politan Atlanta, Clayton had the largest
increase percentage-wise. But there’s a
catch. In dollar volume the lowest.
So here’s the message . . .
Clayton is now Georgia’s eleventh largest
county in population, yet number 18 in re
tail sales
The Chamber suggests that Clayton
and Canada.
Announcement of the award
for outstanding community
service work during the past
year by the local lodge was
made by Earle W. Horton, direc
tor of civic affairs for the fra
ternity, at the 75th annual in
ternational convention being
held at the Conrad Hilton Hotel
here.
Horton indicated that official
presentation of the award to the
lodge, a special framed scroll
designating a certificate of
merit, will be made at appro
priate ceremonies to be held at
the local Moose Home in the
near future.
William A. Jenkins, civic af
fairs chairman for the Forest
' Park lodge, was awarded a
framed scroll for conducting
the award-winning community
service program for his lodge.
Forest Park was one of 25
lodges to receive citations. Ma
jor awards were presented to:
River Grove, Ill.; Aurora, Ill.;
Milwaukee, Wis.; Powell River,
B. C.; Parkersburg, W. Va.;
. Greenville, N. C.; East Point,
| Ga.; Chatham, Ont.; and Sid
i ney, N. Y.
’ for a Class 5 rate in the not dis
’ tant future.
The Class 6 rating will mean
a reduction to 16 cents per SIOO.
For example, if you have
$6,000 worth of fire insurance, it
means a reduction of $12.00.
There is a differential of four
, to five cents in brick and frame
1 dwellings.
INCOMING PRESIDENT of the Georgia Asso
ciation of Postmasters, Walter H. Phillips, Jr.,
Forest Park, accepts gavel and congratulations
from outgoing president, Woodrow W. Sutton,
Ocilla. Others in picture, left to right: C. Banks
Two Clayton Postmasters
Elected to State Positions
WALTER IL PHILLIPS JR., IS NAMED PRESIDENT
AND MRS. FRANCES COWAN SECRETARY-TREASURER
Walter H. Phillips, Jr., Postmaster, For is t Park, Georgia, was elected President,
Georgia Chapter, National Association of Postmasters, at the state convention held in
Atlanta, Georgia, June 16-18, 1963, succeeding Woodrow W. Sutton, Ocilla, Ga.
Postmaster Phillips was appointed acting postmaster, September 1, 1953, and com
missioned postmaster August 12, 1954. Hi has served the organization as county and
district membership chairman
and various chapter committees
including chairman of the Con
vention Committee for the At
lanta Convention. In 1962, he
was awarded the Habersham
Certificate of Outstanding Post
master of the Year. He served
as executive vice president of
the Georgia Chapter during the
past year.
Mrs. Frances Cowan, Post
master, Ellengood, Ga., was
elected secretary-treasurer of
the Georgia Chapter, National
Association of Postmasters, at
the state convention held in At
lanta, Ga., June 16-18, 1963, suc
ceeding Mrs. Tommie F. Kelley,
Rochelle, Ga. Mrs. Cowan was
appointed acting Postmaster
June 1, 1957 and commissioned
Postmaster January 1958. She
has served as secretary, Fourth
District, on various convention
committees and was secretary of
the Convention Committee for
the Atlanta Convention.
The officers were installed by
National Committeeman Alton
Harvey, Postmaster, Thomaston,
Ga., at the annual banquet
featuring Assistant Postmaster
General Ralph Nicholson, Bu
reau of Finance, as principal
speaker.
D. M. Johnson Ordered to Resign,
Marvin Miller Acting Solicitor
Climaxing a five-day trial in
the Jonesboro Courthouse, Su
perior Court Judge Emeritus A.
M. Anderson Friday directed the
jury to deliver a verdict of guilty
in the disbarment case of Clay
ton Sol. Gen. D. M. Johnson on
the charge that he (Johnson)
had solicited business.
Judge Anderson’s order stipu
lated the resignation of Johnson
as solicitor general of the Clay
ton Judicial Circuit. The original
order and verdict called for
Johnson’s disbarment; the sec
ond order, which called for his
resignation, permits Johnson to
continue private law practice
East Bell CA Presents Runway Facts
The East Bell Civic Associa
tion is an organization of prop
erty owners in the area that
seems to be destined for im
prisonment, by the Atlanta Air
port Runways on three sides
and a limited access connector
road on the fourth. Much has
been said about the proposed
runway, but the Association
feels that these pertinent facts
should be brought to the pub-
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 25, 1963
Gladden, Regional Director, Atlanta Region;
Mrs. Gladden; General Ralph Nicholson, As
sistant Postmaster General, Bureau of Finance,
Washington, D.C.; Postmaster Sutton, Post
master Phillips and Mrs. Phillips.
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FRANCES COWAN
Stagecoach Plans
Annual Picnic
The Stagecoach Club of East
Clayton will have its annual
picnic at Mrs. W. A. Slate’s lake,
located at 485 Slate Road, Con
ley, Saturday afternoon, June
29. Festivities will start at 5 p.m.
Picnic supper will be spread at
under certain conditions.
The trial began Monday with
testimony from A. D. McTindal
and T. J. Burton, who initiated
the suit against the solicitor.
Testimony was offered that
Johnson prepared a contract to
represent a group of people in
damage suits against the City
of Atlanta and then turned the
contract over to another man to
obtain signatures of persons who
wished to file suit.
Anderson held that since the
contract prepared by Johnson
had approximately 200 blank
spaces for signatures of parties
that wished to hire him, this
lie’s attention:
1. We believe it would be
nothing less than criminal to
require children to attend
schools between jet runways.
Further, homes and churches
between these runways would
be exposed to the same noise
and danger factors as the
schools. The FAA proclaims it
safe, but to the observer, Rus
sian Roulette is safe—not to the
Remodeling
Sale Is Set
By Bass
Carlos Lewis, manager of Bass
Furniture Company Main Street,
Forest Park, announces that a
comprehensive remodeling pro
gram of the store front and the
store interior will begin this
week.
In this connection, he said
that a big Remodeling Sale to
reduce inventory, featuring ex
ceptional buys, will be featured
all this week.
Complete modernization of the
Bass Furniture Store will be the
end result of the remodeling
program, Manager Lewis said.
6:30 p.m.
All members, their families
and guests should enjoy the
event. An interesting and amus
ing program has been arranged
by the Entertainment Commit
tee, headed by Mrs. Paul Trippe.
The picnic replaces the regular
June meeting.
constituted solicitation of busi
ness.
The salient points of Judge
Anderson’s order read as fol
lows:
“It is the order and judgement
of this court in said matter that
the said D. M. Johnson be and
he is hereby suspended from the
practice of the law for a period
of 12 months from this day; pro
vided, however, he may under
the supervision of the under
signed presiding Judge and sub
ject at all times to the approval
of his personal and professional
conduct in practice, and until
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participant, however.
2. To say that there would be
। any improvement of the noise
. problem in our area is obviously
. propaganda. Everyone is aware
; that traffic will increase rather
than decrease, and for us, it will
be in sterophonic sound.
3. We cannot move away from '
, the problem without suffering
an intolerable financial loss. In
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Engineers Survey
For New Four-Lane
ROAD WILL RUN FROM OLI) HWY. 41 ON GEORGIA AVENUE
TO HIGHWAY 54 ON CENTRAL AVENUE IN FOREST PARK
State Highway engineers have begun the survey of Georgia and Central avenue for
a four-lane boulevard extending from old H ghway 41 to Highway 54 in Forest Park.
State engineers started last week at oil 41 and Georgia avenue and staked out the
four-lane along Georgia, cutting across We 4 Street parallel to the Central of Georgia
Railway and had progressed past Ash Street on Central avenue during the week.
The City of Forest Park has -
been informed that the four
lane is on the agenda, but no i
time schedule is available yet.'
The governing body hopes thatl
the State Highway Department ।
Will start the paving before ■
October.
The same route for a four-’
lane was surveyed years ago by
the State and then the project I
failed to jell. This time every- ■
thing is approved for its com
pletion.
The road will connect on the
west with the Fanner’s Market
4-lane.
ZIPCode~
PO Numbers
Assigned
The five-digit ZIP Code for
post offices in Clayton County
was announced this week by
Postmaster W. W. Mann, River
dale, President. Clayton Post
masters Association.
“Everyone in Clayton County
will use their respective city’s
ZIP Code on all their corre
snondence to speed mail de
liveries and reduce the chance j
of missent mail,” Postmaster
Mann said.
ZIP Code numbers are—
Conley, 30027
Ellenwood, 30049
Forest Park, 30050
Jonesboro, 30236
Lovejoy, 30250
Morrow, 302260
Mountain View, 30070
, Rex, 30273
Riverdale, 30274
ZIP Code, the Post Office De
partment’s revolutionary new
system of improved mail dis
patch and delivery, goes into'
effect nationally on July 1, 1963.
Postmaster Mann stressed the ,
importance of all citizens learn
inq their city’s ZIP Code and
using it in their return address I
on ail correspondence. In an- 1
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$643,563 Is Approved
For Rosetown Housing
PUBLIC HOUSING AUTHORITY GRANITS LO \N
FOR CONSTRUCTION OF 50 LOW RENT UNITS
Congressman John J. Flynt, Jr., announced this week from Washington that the
Public Housing Administration has approved a $643,563 Federal loan to the Housing
Authority of the City of Forest Park.
The loan will provide for the
construction of fifty low rent
housing units. Four of these;
units are to be built for the
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EXPLORER POST 143, sponsored by the Jonesboro Methodist
Church, the Rev. Boyd Winn, Pastor, awarded the God and
Country award to three outstanding young men in the Sanday
morning church service June 9. Left to right: Donald Moziey,
Sian Kemp and Tommy Gurley.
Services Held
For John Waller
Funeral services for John J.
Waller, 76, of 3841 Union Ave
nue, Hapeville, were held at
3:30 p.m. Wednesday at the
Hapeville First Baptist Church
with the Rev. Bob Hite offi
ciating. Burial was in the Col
lege Park cemetery.
Mr. Waller died Monday in a
private hospital. A native of
Clayton County, he was a mem
ber of the Hapeville First Bap
tist Church and was retired
from the United States Civil
Service.
He is survived by his wife,
the former Lora Lee Thomas of
Clayton County; two daughters,
Mrs. Roy E. Bartlett of College
Park and Mrs. John L. Watson
of Jonesboro; a son, Jess Waller
of Mountain View; two sisters,
Mrs. C. J. Barronton of Jones
boro and Mrs. C. L. Couch of
Hapeville, and two brothers,
J. E. Waller of Morrow and
I W. A. Waller of Jonesboro.
elderly. The average cost of
; each unit will be $9,214.
According to the Fourth dis-
! trict representative, Forest Park;
OFFICIAL
Newspaper
Os
Clayton
County
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
i
y
SANDY HEELY, member of Post
i 143, sponsored by the Jones
boro Methodist Church, was
j awarded the Eagle Scout
| Badge by Mr. Ted Waller, Tara
District Scout Executive at the
Sunday morning church serv
■ ices June 9. He also holds the
, 1 God and Country award. He is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. O. H.
Heely.
। received the maximum amount
of money allowed to each appli
cant under this program.
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