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VOLUME 44 —NUMBER 27
POINT OF VIEW
—i. By JACK TROY
We're Giving the U. of Georgia
Back to the "Alumni!"
I started to write this week about Marcelle, the Hair Dresser,
since I had just seen the PERMANENT WAVE on the gymnasium
floor at the City of Forest Park “Recreation?” Center, the darn-
the GOOD NAME and FAME of Coach and Athletic Director Wal
lace Butts, should apologize by phone or letter or wire to this fine
gentleman and his family. I personally grieved when I saw what
the FALSE and DAMNABLE CHARGES had done to him, so the
other night at the Dinkier Plaza, I gave him a bottle of Geritol,
and told him that, within a reasonable time, these high potency
vitamins would help to alleviate his nervousness and his torn
mental condition, and that if the supply — at three day — was too
small, to give me a ring in Forest Park. I have a lot of them on
hand for my own personal use.
I have to agree WHOLEHEARTEDLY with the fine sports edi
tor, JESSE OUTLAR, of The Atlanta Constitution, that it is “your
university, now”, NOT OURS.
When Dan Magill, public relations director, offered us some
FREE tickets recently to certain Georgia games, for covering for
our county papers, I had to decline. I wouldn’t even watch a Grif
fith-coached team on a PASS!!
There are THREE things, however, that I would PAY to see
Mr. Griffith do.
(D—l would PAY to see him put on a toreador suit and enter
a Spanish or Mexican bull ring as the lone adversary of
a wild Mexican bull!
(2)— I would PAY to see him visit Ross Allen at Silver Springs,
Fla., not far from our birthplace back in the piney and
live oak woods of Florida, and MILK a RATTLESNAKE!
(3)—l would PAY his EXPENSES to Brazil for the opportun
ity to see him wrestle a Brazilian CROCODILE!
Oh, well, he has to live with himself. God help him. God help
so many others, too! But somehow big money can’t buy everything.
One fine Georgia Coach, who admitted under oath that he
had been forced to give false testimony against Wallace Butts,
had the FINAL courage to come back to court and admit he had
LIED, and that, truly, he ADMIRED Wallace Butts.
I wrote a book — LEADING A BULLDOG’S LIFE, all about the
fine things, the light, anecdotal history, the fine coaches—featur
ing Wally Butts, the Little Round Man— and there wasn’t a SOR
DID chapter in it. NOW—I ought to REWRITE the book and in
clude, as the lead chapter, this incredible saga of GUTLESS per
formance by certain alumni who sit on the front seat in the
church, the 50-yard line at the games, hold their heads high in
business, and generally, present a false front to all of their friends
and associates. NUTS TO THEM! I don’t think my daughter, Jan
ice, is too proud NOW that she spent FIVE (5) years at Georgia
Baptist Youth
Retreat Is
Scheduled
The second annual Clayton
Baptist Association Youth Re
treat is set for August 30-Sep
tember 1, at Camp Pinnacle.
Theme for this year’s program
will be “Now Is The Time”. The
program will include Confer
ences on Christian Recreation,
Vocational Guidance and Mis
sions. There will be inspirational
services along with lots of free
time to enjoy Christian fun in
the North Georgia mountains.
Program personalities include:
Rev. and Mrs. Earl Peacock,
Missionaries to Brazil; Rev.
Julian Snyder, of the Georgia
Baptist Training Union Depart
ment; Rev. Aubrey Hawkins,
State Secretary of Baptist Stu
dent Union; Bill Enete, Educa-
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Just Arrived!
LARGE SHIPMENT OF ASH TRAYS
In all the colors and shapes you have been wanting—Orange, Turquoise,
Pink . . . Priced so you can buy one for 7Qc Ol O
every room of the house g " "mBwW
Dwarf House
Gift & Card Shoppe
1424 Main Street Forest Park
dest piece of construction, together with
the low-ceiling OLYMPIC (?) Swimming
pool, that I have ever seen! That is a prime
example of municipal “malfeasance.”
But I’m not going to write about Mar
celle, turned floor layer; instead, since the
Wally Butts decision has been handed down
by Judge and Jury in the Federal District
Court, I would just like to say —
WALLACE BUTTS, The Little Round
Man, IS TOO GOOD for the University of
Georgia, in ALL RESPECTS. He wasted all
the good years making the school interna
tionally famous in football!
Every individual who claims to be an
“alumnus” of the U. of Georgia, and who
stayed HIDDEN (IN SHAME( because of
false, politically-inspired charges made by
bad check artists and politicians, against
C. Conklin II
Going to
Bank School
Charles S. Conklin 11, Assist
ant Vice President, Bank of
Jonesboro, Jonesboro, Georgia,
will attend the inaugural ses
sion of the National Mortgage
■ School, to be held August 18
through 24 at the College of
Commerce and Administration,
Ohio State University, Colum
bus.
Mr. Conklin is one of 140
bankers who will attend the
one-week session of the school,
which is so-sponsored by Ohio
State University and The Amer
ican Bankers Association. The
student body represents 38
states, the District of Columbia
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The Story of a Political Football Fix
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A Color Portrait for a Fine Family to Cherish
Mrs. Bill Derickson said she could have a color
portrait of the late Robert Kemper, polio
victim son of Judge and Mrs. Alan Kemper, of
Jonesboro, ready within the week, and she did.
The result is shown here. Judge Ed Kemp and
I. L. Huie Jr., who honored Robert with a scout
ing award and badges 10 years before at Grady
hospital, presented the framed color portrait
County-Wide Athletic Program
To Be Sponsored By Newspapers
The Forest Park Free Press and Clayton County News and Farmer and The Forest
Park News, in cooperation with the Clayton County School System and Buddy’s Toy and
Sporting Store, will present a physical fitness program, with ample rewards, in the coun
ty this year, the Publisher announced this week.
It is to be almost identical
with the program the Publisher
conceived and promoted among
Greater Atlanta schools in Ful
ton County during his tenure as
Sports Editor of The Atlanta
Constitution.
The physical fitness intra
mural athletic program is de
signed for young people who do
not qualify for varsity letters in
the major sports activities.
Dan Troy, assistant editor of
The Free Press, will work with
Pat Patterson, school system
athletic director, in the im
plementation, handling and pro
motion of the intramaural ath
letic program, with the “best
wishes” of County School Supt.
TROY PAT
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1963
J. Ed. Edmonds, himself a for
mer football coach of Jonesboro
High School.
Mr. Patterson is eminently
qualified, as he is Forest Park
high school’s former football
coach, and Mr. Troy has had
brqad training in the field of
youth leadership, coaching, offi
ciating and counselling.
He majored in the Humanics
Foundation program at Ogle
thorpe University, and for more
than a dozen years attended
Athens Y camp near Tallulah
Falls under the most able camp
director in Georgia, Pop Pear
son, of Athens YMCA.
Mr. Troy also coached Y
teams and elementary school
teams in Atlanta. He is a grad
uate of Henry Grady High
School and a former football
player.
He will coordinate his ac
tivities between assistant editor
duties and head of the Athletic
Promotion Dept, of the news
papers.
U. S. Senator Herman Tal
madge of Lovejoy has urged de
velopment of such a program in
the schools on national broad
casts from Washington, D. C.,
and doubtless will be the prin
cipal speaker at the first annual
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We're Sick of the Whole Darned Mess;
So We'll Try to Help Keep it Clean Now!
The Forest Park Free Press and Clayton
County News and Farmer will not pursue
any further (unless it becomes necessary
in the public interest) the tangled finan
cial affairs, the many other examples of
municipal mismanagement, and private
enterprise with taxpayers’ money in the
City of Forest Park, awaiting the annual
audit, which will be published IN FULL as
a public service to the long-suffering tax
payers of this fine city.
This is the decision of the Publisher, who
is sick and tired of having to suppress
Church news — in the last issue — an ac
count of sordid activities on the part of
some public officials. The Publisher an
nounced that he would not, under any cir-
to Judge and Mrs. Kemper Saturday at their
home. Mrs. Harvey (Shirley) Turnipseed, Rob
ert’s sister, and brother Calvin are smiling at
left. Calvin has Just received his commercial
pilot’s license at South Expressway Airport.
The gift was to the family from The Clayton
County News and Farmer, formerly owned by
the Kemper family. (Photo by Bill Derickson)
“PROPOSALS”
Another Ghost
Comes Back to
Haunt A. Grey
All these years we’ve kept in
our desk drawer “proposals”
from Anthony Grey, former
owners of The Forest Park
News, which we have ignored
with the same intensity of
purpose that we have ignored
efforts to run us out of the
county, put us in our “grave,”
and to “cover up” wrongdoing
in public office.
We will not publish Mr.
Grey’s amazing “proposals” in
full, but simply will present
one paragraph only. As wc
recall, now, this "left-handed
pitch” was delivered to our
office, by hand, about eight
years ago. The one paragraph
follows:
“10. Combine efforts on cer
tain editorial drives, particu
larly those which are mu
tually beneficial, for example,
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Reconstruction of Crime
Clearly Indicates Foul Play
By JACK TROY, Editor, The Free Press
“We’re hitting them where it hurts,” Editor Clay Blair, of The Saturday Evening
Post, said in his deposition to the District Federal Court in the Wally Butts vs. Saturday
Evening Post libel suit last week.
Mr. Butts, former coach and athletic director of the U. of Georgia, sued for $10,000,-
000 . . . when the Post story, flatly proclaiming a “fix” of the Georgia-Alabama game
of 1962 by Georgia’s Athletic Di
rector Butts and Alabama Coach
Paul (Bear) Bryant, charged the
two men of national coaching
repute with “corruption” and
game outcome “rigging.”
So, Mr. Blair, we like to return
the compliment (The Post has
been so kind to Mr. Butts and
Mr. Bryant). For, you see, even
today, in the Old South , Mr.
Blair, we try to be chivalrous. We
still yield our seats on buses to
ladies with babies in their arms.
And we only lynch Negroes on
Saturday nights now, after
they’ve had their Saturday night
bath. See?
The Forest Park Free Press
charges this week that the real
“fix”—the real “rigging”—has
been done by The Saturday Eve
ning Post, desperately seeking
greater circulation to survive by
admitted character assassina
tion of prominent national fig
ures; by Furman Bisher of the
Atlanta Journal; and by the
politically-inspired “mouse trap”
play cleverly “quarterbacked” by
HOW DOES ATTY. GEN. COOK EXPLAIN THIS?
The Attorney General of Georgia, Eugene Cook, who was at Mercer the same time as
Wally Butts, suddenly became a persistent searcher of Butts at the instance of the Gov
ernor, but of all the stuff presented, there was only one thing in favor of Butts — and it
was concealed!
James Therrell, with whom we went to school at Oglethorpe, finally had to bring up
the Carmichael testimony when an energetic Atlanta Journal newsman uncovered it in
the files. Therrell and Cook tried to explain it away by saying “we had such a volume of
stuff.” Nuts! Cook and Therrell should be brought to account for indirectly trying to hurt
Butts by concealing pertinent testimony. All Carmichael said, of course, was that the
“notes” Burnett originally had shown him w?re not the same quotes that came out in The
Post story. Actually, all Burnett had, in the final analysis, were notes covered with “doo
dling.’
old Georgia SUBSTITUTE quar
terback Carl Sanders, Governor
of the Great State of Georgia,
in COLLUSION with Dr. O. C.
Aderhold, President of the U. of
Georgia, and the other “athletic
board members” who appeared
as witnesses against Mr. Butts:
namely Treasurer J. D. Bolton
(since 1933) and others.
We didn’t name Burnett
among the others above, but we
will now. We charge that Mr.
Burnett, a congenital liar, did
not, in fact, hear a thing in that
“electronic mixup” via Southern
Bell long distance, Atlanta to
Tuscaloosa, and that Mr. Bur
nett spent his time as he eaves
dropped on a private conversa
tion involving Mr. Butts and Mr.
Bryant, who had a perfect right
to discuss the upcoming Geor
gia-Alabama game; Mr. Burnett,
we say, spent his time doodling
on a pad and drooling in antici
pation of the “payoff” he was
promised! What did he have to
lose? Some tire company ought
to hire him. He is an expert in
rubber checks ... of long
standing, and present standing
as well!
Where does O. C. Aderhold
and Gov. Carl Sanders fit in the
“mouse trap” play of the Satur-
cumstances, publish any stories involving
innocent families, and, therefore, awaits
the audit. It is our hope that Mayor W.
Reid Puckett will see the light, and quietly
resign, without fanfare, and that a cer
tain employce-“contractor” will admit his
mistakes and do likewise. We’re sick of the
whole mess; we’ll try to help keep things
clean in the future. One and all may be
assured that if events demand exposure,
both The Free Press and the Forest Park
News will present them to the public. We
hope this will not be necessary.
Citizens living in the former ‘garbage
dump’ area behind City Hall are grateful
that this mess is being cleared up, too.
Recreation facilities for Rosetown is next.
SINGLE COPY 10c
day Evening Post, which long ।
has been supported financially
by such subsidiaries of the Cur
tis Publishing Company as the
Ladies Home Journal and other
publications?
Well, Athletic Director Wal
lace Butts committed himself
politically to Marvin Griffin. Mr.
Butts sat on platforms at Grif
fin rallies with many members
of the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia.
He was sitting with guberna
torial candidate Griffin, of
■ Bainbridge, LONG BEFORE San
ders, of Augusta, decided, with
; the financial “rigging” of Mr.
Mills B. Lane to eliminate Gar
: land Byrd as Mr. Griffin’s oppo
nent, and instead “Dimples”
; would smile his way to victory
' on a double bushel basket of big
■ bank greenbacks.
So Sanders entered the race
i and Mr. Butts could not have
i cared less. He coached him at
’ I Georgia, same as he did Coach
< Griffith, who, incidentally, QUIT
as a freshman at Georgia!
At first, Griffith entered
wholeheartedly into the conspir
acy to ruin Wallace Butts. The
Post story referred to some sort
of identifying label on special
pass plays which Mr. Griffith
said could be known only to
Wallace Butts! He also said, in
crying about the mild loss to
Alabama—it could have been 100
to o—that “I DIDN’T HAVE A
CHANCE, DID I?” No, dammit,
you didn’t have a chance, be
cause you are a quitter, for one
thing, and you are a lousy coach
for another. You allowed the
fine Butts family to take you in;
allowed Wallace Butts to give
you a job as scout and material
scout, and to show your true
character, beyond any shadow
of a doubt, you extended your
appreciation to a great coach
and a gentleman—a fine family
man—by STABBING HIM IN
THE BACK!
The writer thought so much
of Carl Sanders as a player at
Georgia during the early war
years, that he didn’t even men
tion him in his book, LEADING
A BULLDOG’S LIFE!
The writer felt the same way
about Griffith, although he
should have mentioned in pass
ing, in the writing of the book,
that Mr. Griffith had QUIT. U.
of Georgia has a “proud record”
and generally old Bulldog per
formers can’t “stomach” quit
ters.
NOW—to paraphrase an old
saying—
Sanders doth protest too
much.
You read last week in the
Journal about the Republican
inspired charge on the Governor
of milk-price rigging! He, of
course, DENIED it.
You read last week In the
Journal of the JFK speech “fix.”
And, of course, old Sanders DE
NIED it.
You will recall one of his first
ACTS as Governor of the Great
State of Georgia. He and old
“Honest Ernest” (Vandiver),
who had just left the Governor’s
office and had become counsel
for the railroads—well, he and
“Dimples” tried to “steal” the
state of Georgia’s state-owned
railroad. They wanted to “sell it”
OFFICIAL
Newspaper
Os
Clayton
County
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
or “buy it” badly, but The At
lanta Journal pulled the TRIG
GER on them, and they couldn’t.
Oh, my aching back!
But I, too, was committed to
support Marvin Griffin—same
as Wallace Butts—and you don’t
change horses in midstream if
you have even an ounce of in
tegrity.
So I didn’t change and Mr.
Butts didn’t change—after the
“rigging” of Garland Byrd and
his subsequent HEART AT
TACK. Mr. Byrd’s old friend,
Sanders, really “mouse-trapped”
him, didn’t he?
You only had to sit in the Fed
eral District Courtroom in At
lanta and THINK a LITTLE bit
to reconstruct the CRIME.
Here came Aderhold, Presi
dent of the University of Geor
gia, who is head of the Athletic
Board but doesn’t know “one
player from another,” and he
said Wallace Butts’ character
was “bad” and that he wouldn’t,
believe him under oath! Know
something? Before Aderhold be
came President of the Univer
sity, Georgia was winning a lot
of football games. Georgia hasn’t
done so well since he has been
unhappily filling the president’s
chair and the other chair of the
“Athletic Board,” and of the
“Athletic Association.”
Witnesses came on as Athletic
Board “members.” Some brazen
ly spoke for their “neighbor
hoods” in Athens. And it all
sounded like a broken record.
Had they “rigged” this in ad
vance, or was it just a coin
cidence? Each and everyone said
the same thing! Reputation?
“Bad!” Believe him under oath!
“At this time, I would not.”
Wasn’t that a BOMBSHELL
when the Federal Judge began
asking Treasurer (since 1933) J.
D. Bolton about the Athletic
Board and the Athletic Associa
tion at the U. of Georgia.
Bolton told the Judge that
some legislator had put an act
through, a long time ago, mak
ing both of these fine athletic
bodies — PRIVATE CORPORA
TIONS in a tax-supported state
institution. And who audits the
books? THRASHER? No, BOL
TON! Oh, oh, my aching back!
So, friends and neighbors of
the University of Georgia, where
my daughter, Janice, enjoyed
five fine years—her counselor
when she needed advice was
WALLACE BUTTS — the real
story of the “College Fix” is the
one arranged by certain poli
ticians, certain University Pres
idents and The Post.
I wonder where this leaves
The Saturday Evening Post and
Editor Blair, and writer F. Bish
cr. You KNOW where it leaves
Burnett. Frank Graham, Jr.,
didn’t DARE come in under oath
in a Federal Court, and the
Journal apparently, DIDN’T
WANT Bisher there', either, as
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