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Free Press—News & Farmer, Tues., August 8, 196!
Lake City-Morrow Make Initial Plans for Merger
You Can Say That Again!... TRADE AT HOME!
By MARTIN O. BURKS
Owner Martin Burks Motor Company
Jonesboro and Forest Park
Our county of CLAYTON is the fastest growing county in
Georgia, and maybe in the U.SA. The City of Forest Park can
also claim practically the same honor, or could at one time.
I was born and raised in Forest Park and just before World
War II it was just a “wide place in the road.” Since we are so
near to a metropolitan city like Atlanta, I think we have all
developed the habit of going to “Atlanta for our needs, not
realizing that we have GROWN UP and that we have mer
chants in our own county who can serve us well, and without
the effort of traveling to the crowded city of Atlanta.
The merchants of this county, mainly, request that the
people here give us an opportunity to serve them first, then
if we are unable to do so, it is our fault, and we cannot quar
rel with our people for spending their money in Atlanta where
it will never come back to CLAYTON COUNTY. AH of us need
and appreciate your business.
All we ask is for the opportunity. Thanks . . . thanks very
much for listenin’. Or better still, for readin'. Trade at Home!
A. B. Cox Is President
Grand Jurors Association
The Grand Jurors Association has elected A. B. Cox pres
ident to fulfill the unexpired term of Loy W. Kent, deceased. |
Wesley Haynie was appointed as assistant vice president, g
Vance Stevens as assistant secretary.
The next meeting will be at the Forest Park Youth Cen- g
ter August 12 at 7 p.m. Monday night. It will be a dinner
meeting.
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CARD OF THANKS
We wish to express our deep
appreciation to neighbors and
friends for their many kind
nesses, their flowers, food, cards,
and letters of sympathy. Charles’:
brother Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Smith of Temple City, California,
and my brother. Jack Starkey of
Jackson, Miss, join us in grati
tude. Mrs. Charles L. Smith
Tommy Smith
I Personal: To A Yellow Rat I
A Thursday night while working at the office, If
fl somebody unknown called my home and engaged I
fl my wife in the following conversation:
“Tell your husband, Mrs. Troy, that if he I
fl doesn’t stop writing those LIES about the City of I
I Forest Park, the same thing is going to happen to I
I him that HAPPENED to Jimmy Collins.”
The yellow rat who wouldn’t tell my wife his fl
fl name, has an urgent personal invitation either to I
I come by my office or make an engagement with me I
fl for a face-to-face meeting. I will more than cheer- If
fl fully meet him at any place of his choosing, and I I
"f will assure this anonymous rat who refused to give I
I his name that if he has guts enough to declare him- I *
I self to me, he will not forget me for the duration of If
1 his lifetime. About 999 out of 1,000 citizens thought If
fl Jimmy Collins was frozen to death; this RAT knows |j
I what we and the police know . . . that Jimmy Collins I
I was murdered.
Jack Troy,
Editor, The Forest Park Free Press ■
Clayton Finance Co.
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1151 Main Street Forest Park
Telephone 366-4787
Rev. Shea Fills
Jones Pulpit
Rev. Ralph C. Shea is the new
pastor at Jones Memorial First
Methodist Church in Forest
Park. He is a native of Augusta,
Ga., and a graduate of Young
Harris College, Emory University
and Candler School of Theology.
Mr. Shea entered the North
Georgia Conference of the Meth
odist Church. Nov. 26, 1933. He
served in the Army during World
War II from Jan. 1941, to Jan.
. 1946. He came to Jones Memorial
from Cascade Methodist Church,
Atlanta. He married the former
Miss Vanda H. Burt who is a
native of Oglethorp County, near
Athens. They have one son,
, ialph C, Jr., who is working in
Athens.
Both Rev. and Mrs. Shea have
been active in all phases of
church work and will be a de
cided asset to the church and to
the community.
STANDING ON THE RECORD
Mayor and Ole Junior
Visited County Jail
We con only go by the record, as the politicians say.
And the record is this:
County police were in the vicinity of old Brock’s
restaurant—now occupied by a fraternal order—the now
famous night that the Mayor and City Manager emerged
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Great Piece of Equipment Rusts!
THIS GIANT crane, rusty and unused, sits for
lornly behind City Hall of Forest Park and
alongside are piles of pipe the City has never
laid at the old lakesite which the county
worked on. The county promised the City ac
tion in cleaning up the park after the pipe
KIDDIE TOWN
KINDERGARTEN
REGISTRATION Friday, Saturday, August 9-10
9-11 A.M. — 2-4P.M.
Or Register By Phone Any Time
366-6384
Mr. and Mrs.
Robert E. Youmans W
8 SOUTH CENTRAL AVENUE
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA uWjfel ■
after an evening of convivality.
The Mayor later charged “Dirty
Politics”. He aspired to be a
Senator!
The county police took a dim
view, a short time later, in fol
lowing weaving automobiles on
public thoroughfares, of the
danger involving life and limb.
So they hauled the Lord High
Mayor of the Admirality and the
Vice Mayor down to the county
jail, and there are four county
policemen who will attest as to
the officials’ complete lack of
sobriety.
That’s a real fine way, tax
payers believe, for a Mayor to
reward their confidence, and for
a City Manager, in whom they
have no confidence, to act in
public, or private.
Copies of their arrest are
available in the office of the
was laid. When is the City going to act? It is
long past due for the weeds to be cleared up,
the rocks and debris removed, and some evi
dence of municipal performance given in the
interest of the taxpayers.
(Photo by Derickson Studio)
Mayors Johnson, Mathews
Announce More Meetings
Mayor Rudolph Johnson of
Lake City and Mayor Ed Math
ews of Morrow announced Satur
day, August 3rd that a study was
being made to determine the
feasability of merging the two
cities into what would become
Clayton Countys second largest
city.
There has been three point
meetings of the governing bodies
of the two cities at which this
matter has been discussed. There
are many problems yet to be re
solved however we feel that there
would be many advantages to
the citizens of both cities under
the proper governmental setup.
“We have been advised by
legal counsel that the merger of
BRICKS COST $90.00 THOUSAND?
Forest Park Candidate
Asks Building Probe
Lynn Wells, candidate for
mayor of Forest Park, told a
special session of city council
last Wednesday that local mer
chants were left holding the bag
when a subcontractor on the
city recreation building declared
his company bankrupt.
Mr. Wells said the merchants
can’t get money the subcontrac
tor allegedly owes them because
he was not bonded.
Mr. Wells said he questions
other aspects of the controversial
recreation building.
For instance, Mr. Wells charg
ed, a mason on the building was
paid “far in excess” of what he
should have been. Bricks were
Ordinary of Clayton County.
Some odd “technicality” result
ed in their dismissal without any
charges being made. Os course,
this did not in any way boost the
morale of the county police, who
did their duty. It made them
sort of sick.
There was a famous affair in
Rosetown, too. But, of course,
this was not then generally
known to the public, nor has any
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our two cities could be effected
through an act of the legislature
without a referendum. However
we wish to make it crystally clear
from the beginning that their
positively will be no action taken
without the citizens of both cities
voting on it. Insofar as we are
concerned the people are the
government and their wishes and
desires must be carried out in an
undertaking of this nature,” the
Mayors jointly said.
There will be further meetings
in the near future to study both
the advantages and the prob
lems involved. The citizens of
both cities will be fully informed
before any final decision is made.
bought by the city for S9O a
thousand when the going price
was about $45 or SSO a thousand,
he said.
Mr. Wells suggested the coun
cil hire an auditor to monitor the
construction of the recreation
building, which reportedly has
cost the city nearly SBO,OOO more
than the original estimate.
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A GREAT HONOR FOR OUR CITY
City Manager Is First
Arrested in New Year
Who was the first Forest Park citizen arrested in the
New Year?
Newspapers often run features about the first baby
born in the New Year, and the first this and that.
We’re a little late this year. But the first one arrested
Jan. 1, 1963, was T. J. Elliott,
charged with public drunkeness,
and DI. Driving Under the In
fluence. He was booked at 1:15
a.m. on New Year’s Day.
Eight days later, the records
show, the county police got him
again. They got him later, too;
and one charge was dropped. It
wasn’t drunkenness, although
with that charge, and you’d
really have to go to great lengths
to overcome the injustice of this
one which resulted in a bond
being dropped.
If necessary, we can consum
mate this strange affair, and we
WILL, if it becomes necessary to
gain the ends of justice. You may
depend upon that! We are 100%
for the taxpayers.
NO RECORD shows that any
Forest Park policeman ever ar
rested the drunken City Mana
ger! He was their “boss”, too!
The Free Press assumes Mr. T.
J. Elliott Jr., was quoted correct
ly in The Journal last week after
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the Lord Mayor’s veto overrulled
the honorable four men of the
council who voted to fire him.
Mr. Elliott told The Journal he
intended to keep his job as City
Manager (at a ridiciously high
salary for him) and that he
didn’t know whether he would
work with the council or not.
Does he know, this ignorant sap
sucker, what the Charter says
about the duties of a City Mana
ger and to whom he is respon
sible! He is Dictator, Junior. Or
was. How he has been able to
drink so much, gamble so much,
etc., with even that ridiciously
high salary, which might not be
enough for a real city manager.
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