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• Free Press—>News & Farmer, Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1963
■ — THE PROTECTORS! ■
'Oh, Kvw We Miss You
Tonight!-Grey & House!
Now it can be told .
You know the old sons — “Oh( how I miss you tonight! . . .
Miss you when lights are l(.?w!”
Well. Major Puckett a,W Ms puppets THREE missed a most
important factor as the roof fell in on them at City Hall Monday
night, August s—a RED LETTER DAY for the taxpayers of For
est Park.
They missed Anthony Grey — .and they missed a thief and con
artist who had been a ' TRUSTEE’' .in the purchase of The Forest
Park News by the Publisher of the FJee Press from Mr. Grey. You
spell that G-R-E-Y. Anthony always i nsisted. Somehow we always
thought of him as one of the Gray la>dies. G-R-A-Y.
When Mr. Gray — that is. Grey — ■.established The News on a
base of political culpability, personal gain and citizens’ betrayal,
Mayor Puckett and his puppets felt orr safe ground. Mr. Gray
would attack the Editor of The Free Press, put him on the defense,
and make him fight back while consummating nefarious affairs
NOT in the interest of the taxpayers whatsoever.
It was a grandiose plan for bilking the people and protecting
the lying, conniving politicians.
The Editor of The Free Press was maligned, slandered, kicked
around, threatened. They tried repeatedly and endlessly, by use
of every dirty trick and Communist-inspired device, to try to run
the Editor of The Free Press out of Clayton County. Numerous
times, using impressive fronts, they tried to buy out the Free Press,
and thus to ELIMINATE a voice that might, one day, ring out and
ruin them for life.
It was a pat scheme for Mr.
Junior J Herman House to steal
the News under the cover of
darkness from 1172 Main Street
after the Editor and Publisher
of The Free Press had put up
$12,000 for the purchase and
$1,500 for operating capital.
“This will break him,’’ they
reasoned. “He won’t be able to
get the paper back for more
than a year, and in the mean
time we’ll harass him endlessly
■while he pays back those stiff
bank notes out of Free Press
funds. “We may even put him
back in the hospital and then
we’ll have his young son, Dan,
in an untenable position, as well
as his kindly assistant, Mrs
Frederick Lee.”
They are really CHARMING
people—all of them—and they
don’t all operate politically in
Forest Park. The ring-around
the-rosy embraced Jonesboro as
well. We know them all. We
hope they’re feeling GOOD! We
hope they will be DOING ALL
RIGHT next year!
We hope soon to enlist, the
services of two fine writers and
use their byelines on the stories
CLEARANCE SALE
ONE LOT LADIES' DRESSES
Asst. Styles. Broken Sizes.
SI.OO
ELKINS DEPT. STORE
Hapeville
I You Can't Even Tie This!...Dent & Damage Sale!)
I FIRST COME 1 STARTS TODAY!
I In the process of handling new mer-
I chandise there inevitably are SLIGHT Eft?' J
I SCRATCHES and DENTS. Must go-all pOWWJ ■
ot it-at a sacrifice up to— "ysjW^. Hr JIMILTMHB^
I “ 25% Discount - '^llll
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I Choice items to chose from. Just take J
I a look across the way at what we are ■Hh|||MHBMHBM
A HANDSOME RECLINING CHAIR FOR
I EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY. SPECIAL! Merchandise 0/ S
■ ^mriyiyCT^ H mH Traditionally, the valtues in this Dent and Damage Sale are al-
H » flyllCrOl \yUUII Ly . W ways noteworthy. This year, they are even more important. We
VW , |* ' xX A W Easy to live with .. . invite you to come in and see for yourself the scope of the sav-
ML -0 ' comfortable to use B ings. You'll really please your budget and vour home.
■- good to .
B and s P eciallv priced.
I “« TRADER ED SAYS: Our loss is your gain! First
I \ “S co“S“ n ’ Uons Come, First Served! No Phone Calls, Please!
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I op en From: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday,
I MHEnlii om - to 9'oo P m ’ Thursday and Friday -9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Saturday
I MANUFACTURERS
p FURN | TURE sales
I HIGHWAY 54 FOREST PARK . 366-3241
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. | —Tommy Brooks and Dorothy
] J Putnam!
f | So the vicious ring of two-bit
t j politicians didn’t have Mr. An-
r 1 thony Gray, nor Junior Herman
j House, any longer for the pro
-11 tection of their many and
varied schemes of municipal
r mismanagement.
) An old refrain haunts me as
> I sit here and write this sort of
-1 Police Gazette style story for the
1 I paper. The refrain—The Jail- .
f [ nouse Blues!
; | For almost 10 years a group
1 1 of seif-seeking, underhanded '
1 creeps “worked over” the Editor ■
• of The Free Press and Clayton
1 County News and Farmer. 1
“Spread the word that he j
drinks Vodka” (The editor’s .
actually a teetotaler and it
enraged the m because they
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AN INADVERTENT'ERROR;
IT WAS WATER DEPT.
Mr. Arrington, temporary City Manager-Clerk-Engi
neer, (ells The Free Press that an “inadvertent” error was
made in our reporting of the more than $l,lOO missing in
the water department. The Free Press printed a lesser fig
ure and put it on the tax department. The bonding com
pany has paid off — and cancelled the City of Forest Park’s
bond. Grady Lindsey has accepted a new bond for the city.
Our apologies for an “inadvertent” error!
• 2 Graduates
From Clayton
At Southern
Statesboro — Two Clayton
County students graduated at
the twenty-third Annual Com
mencement Exercises of Georgia
Southern College on Aug. 15, at
10:30 a.m., in the McCroan Audi
. torium. Speaker for this occa
sion was Dr. Paul D. West, Su
. perintendent, Fulton County
Schools. Rev. Gilbert Ramsey,
pastor of the Pittman Park
Methodist Church, gave the in
vocation.
Those graduating seniors of
Clayton County and their de
grees were:
Master of Education: Henry
Thomas Ward (Couns.), Morrow.
Bachelor of Science in Educa
tion: Robert Lynn Orr (Soc.
Science), Riverdale.
No free spirit ever dreamed of
“security”—or, if he did, he
laughed; and lived to shame his
dream. —E. E. Cummings
couldn’t get him DRUNK and
SET HIM UP for the kill!).
With Mr. Grey, an EDITOR
with NO CREDENTIALS except
that he was a good politi
cal hatchet-man for the late
Eugene Talmadge, the RING
figured that no one individual
aided for a long time only by a
kindly English lady who was
crippled because of a childhood
motorcycle accident in her na
tive England—could take the
PRESSURE, the SLANDER, the
THREATS, the SHAME of their
propaganda. They figured that
the TIRED OLD MAN would
crumple like an accordion and
they’d then take care of his
young son and Mrs. Lee.
They sure played hell! The
TRUTH finally caught up with
the libel!
REPEAT CHORUS
“Oh, how we miss you tonight,
Miss you when lights are low
. . . More than you’ll ever
know!”
—The End!
stab in the
We Simply Shrug Own Off — Bui
Mayor Rudy Johnson lsn'l So Forgiving!
While we were concentrating on the Forest Park Story— <
a sordid chapter or three of municipal misbehavior, culpa
bility, greed, mismanagement, and warding off death threats,
and what have you, we hardly expected a “stab in the back”
from an old friend and long time associate in the Clayton
County school system . .
Then, too, there was the little matter of concentrating
furiously on the annual “Back to School” edition ... in the !
interest of presenting the complete preview of the new school
year.
But in recent days we have been reading in the uptown
daily press — in Fulton County — such headlines as this:
CLAYTON SCHOOLS GET
$6.5 MILLION BUDGET
z Clayton Voters
To Decide
School Bonds
We are sure that the school system, for which we ran
their own school-edited tabloids as a public service last school
year, didn’t really mean to give us the PURPLE SHAFT while
our back was turned, as well as our attention, to matters of
prime interest to Forest Park taxpayers. So we cheerfully
take the editorial beating—the uptown SCOOPS—and hope
all in the school system will have their best year yet in the
new school year, and we pledge—as the “Back To School
edition” with this issue of the paper suggests—our full co
- operation!
We have a communication from an official of Lake City
government who isn’t too happy about what he considers a •
“stab-in-the-back”, and we herewith present Mayor Rudy g
Johnson’s views — as a free press must do:
“Once again the “Little Dictator” of the Clayton County B
School System, Mr. J. E. Edmonds, has shown how low he
will stoop in order to have his way. No one dares to disagree
with this “Little Napoleon", especially if he of she is con
nected with the school system of Clayton County.
“In January of this year, a public hearing was held in
Lake City, concerning the annexation of the Forest Park
Senior High School. There was approximately 200 citizens
present at this hearing. One of these persons was Mr. Floyd
M. Blaylock (Major U.S. Army retired) who was, until June i
, 4, 1963 a school bus driver. Major Blaylock was informed on
June 4th that his contract as school bus driver would not be
renewed, because some members of the Board of Education
did not like what he had to say at the public hearing, re
garding the annexation of the Forest Park Senior High
School. Any man who would fire another man for exercising
his constitutional right of free speech, is not, in my opinion,
mentally qualified to be Superintendent of our school system
and should be removed from office and I shall recommend
his removal wholeheartedly when election time rolls around.
“W. RUDOLPH JOHNSON,
Mayor, Lake City, Ga.”
Jerry Stewman,
Jonesboro, Given
A Scholarship
ATLANTA—Jerry H. Stewman
of Jonesboro has been named
recipient of the Georgia Rexall
Club Scholarship, according to
an announcement today by Dr.
Oliver M. Littlejohn, dean of the
Southern College of Pharmacy.
The award is presented an
nually to a First Professional
Year pharmacy student on the
basis of scholarship, and Stew
man will enter the Southern
College of Pharmacy, a school
of Mercer University, next
month.
Stewman completed his pre
professional study at the Uni
versity of Georgia and Georgia
State College.
Bell, Brady
Have Changed
Considerably
Both the Bell System and
Brady Denton, Jr., have changed
considerably since the two first
met officially back in 1951. Then
Brady, a six-year old waist-high
tyke, shared with his family a
tribute from the Bell System as
the company’s one-millionth
shareowner.
Now considerably more mature
and standing over six feet tall,
Brady returned to New York for
a second visit with the Bell Sys
tem. It, too, had changed.
The number of shareowners,
he also found, had since more
than doubled to well over two
million.
It was, he had discovered, still
the Bell System, but it had
changed—almost as much as he
had.
About the only thing that has 1
remained the same is stock cer
tificate No. 1,000,000 for seven
shares of A. T & T., still held
by the Denton family in a bank
in Saginaw, Michigan.
But in away, the stock cer
tificate for seven shares has
also changed. Purchased in 1951
for a little over SI,OOO for seven
shares, it is today worth over
$2,500.
If living in disobedience to
Him, we ought to feel no se
curity although God is good.
—Mary Baker Eddy
Addis' Nephew, Ex-Councilman Dunn, Got
City's Group Insurance, Just Like That
Forest Park ex-Councilman
Roy Dunn, together with Uncle
Paul Addis, former councilman
and mayor pro-tem, and the
late Ben Lopez, councilman—
wrote the editor of The Free
Press a “stinging” letter several
years ago. SEE PAGE 1. In the!
letter they demanded that The
Free Press tell the TRUTH.
The Free Press is DELIGHTED
to oblige . . .
A representative of the great
Prudential Insurance Company
called The Free Press this week
and revealed some of the inner
workings of the group policy in
surance deal awarded to Mr. Roy
Dunn of Metropolitan Insurance
Company by late City Manager
T. J. (Junior) Elliott.
This Prudential representa
tive, who couldn’t get “heads”
or “tails” out of Elliott, who is
no longer with us—and will do
SECOND PAGE ONE
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TURNED AUTRY THOMAS DOWN
Puckett Couldn't Even
Give a Friend a Break
At a council meeting last year, Autry Thomas, lifelong
supporter of W. Reid Puckett, came to council chambers at
a regular Monday night meeting asking for a license for ice
cream carts he planned to send into the suburban areas of
the City of Forest Park.
Mr. Thomas had been engaged
in the same business some years
before in Forest Park.
Having supported Mr. Puckett
vigorously in all his political
campaigns, Mr. Thomas natu
' rally assumed that if the vote
1 developed into a tie, that Mr.
Puckett, his old friend and
“buddy”, would settle it for him.
Well. Mr. Puckett did settle it
for him.
The vote was deadlocked at
three to three, and it took the
Mayor’s vote to decide whether
or not Mr. Thomas got his
license for the ice cream carts,
which operate all over Atlanta
in Fulton County-
Mr. Puckett, looking evasive,
cast the deciding vote. Was it
for his long-time supporter and
friend, who needed the busi
ness?
well to get lost—told The Free
Press: “I can save the City of
Forest Park thousands of dol
lars.”
Ex-Councilman Dunn, nephew
of ex-councilman Addis, was
j supposedly in competition with
Prudential, Coastal States,
Globe and North American Life
Companies.
Elliott asked all companies to
submit proposals and meet a
weird set of requirements. There
was no explanation by Elliott as
to why Dunn and his company
got the group coverage.
Involved was a $25 deductible
thing, in which employees paid
the first $25.
The charge made by the Pru
dential representative, who
lives in Forest Park, is that
Mr. Junior Elliott did not
EVEN LOOK at the other pro
posals. Apparently, someone
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★ ★★★★★
No Kirkland,
But Miss Georgia!
Somehow, Principal Kirk
land of Forest Park Senior
High School, failed to get us a
picture of himself for the
“Back To School” Edition. So
we “dressed up” his story with
a picture of Miss Georgia. No
apologies to Mr. Kirkland;
■ Miss Georgia’s a lot better
looking!
★ ★ Ar ★ ★
Certainly not. Mr Puckett
acted in true Reid Puckett
fashion. He voted AGAINST Mr.
Autry Thomas’ request!
1 How about that!
H. ADAMSON
WINS THE PONY
Hansel Adamson of the
Adamson Brothers Dairy fam
ily, Route 1. Morrow, is the
winner of the Shetland pony,
saddle and bridle given by
Yarbrough's Barbecue Kitchen
at the recent grand drawing.
During the couple of months
the contest was in force, hun
dreds of Barbecue Kitchen
! customers, who like the new
cafeteria, received tickets on
the beautiful pony.
charged. Junior Elliott was too
busy “filling up with .Billups.”
Was Dunn overheard to be
talking of running for Council?