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Free Press—News & Farmer, Tues., Jan. 28, 1964
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THE FORGOTTEN ONES
ALLIE B. MANN, President
Georgia. Retired Teachers Association
Few people know that the plight of the older
retired teachers in our state is really pitiful.
There are 1,093 retired teachers who receive less
than SIOO.OO a month. Os these, 233 have taught
25 years or more and 26 have taught 40 years or
more. They taught, in the depression days when
salaries were low, buildings ill-heated, roads
muddy, and no federal lunches served. Only their
dedication to the cause of education in Georgia
kept them at their jobs. They laid the granite
foundation of the present Georgia school system.
Teachers' pay today is not completely satisfactory
but it is a lot better than it was in those days.
You may say that the cost of living was two
thirds lower then than now. True. However,
these devoted public servants are having to pay
today’s high prices with the low pensions ac
corded them years ago. They had no chance to
save—their salaries were too low'. They are now
in their 70’s, 80's and 90’s—many of them bed
ridden or in wheel chairs. They are the for
gotten ones.
Legislative Action Necessary
In 1961 House Bill No. 1115 gave permission
to legislature to increase the pensions to $6.00
per month, per years of service. On the closing
days of legislature this House Bill was substituted
by Senate Bill No. 164, which reduced the amount
permissible to $5.00 per month for each year of
CHIT-CHAT
By CHICASAVV
I
Since the Panama Canal is so
much in the public mind today
it might be well that we looked
into the history of how the
United States acquired title to
the Panama Canal zone.
In 1879 a French company be
gan work on the Panama Canal
under an agreement with the
Republic of Columbia. This
French company went broke and
transferred its interest to the
United States. The United States
entered into a treaty arrange-
TO THE VOTERS
OF CLAYTON COUNTY
In 1960 you paid me the great honor of electing me as Chairman of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenue. I have done the best I could, with
the cooperation of the other members of the Board, to give you an hon
est, efficient and progressive administration of your county affairs.
Many advancements hove been made in our county and we hove the po
tential of becoming the greatest county in Georgia. To take advantage of
our opportunities, it is necessary that we have a progressive Board of
County Commissioners who will not only handle our county affairs in a
business-like manner, but will cooperate to the fullest with our school au
thorities — which your present Commissioners have done.
To grasp our opportunities for progress and to make our county a more
desirable place in which to live we need many things, among which are:
A continuation of our road-paving program; a county hospital; authority
for Commissioners to set up speed limits, especially in our subdivisions;
a sidewalk building program in the vicinity of our schools; a house num
bering system; a county incinerator and a county wide garbage collection.
I hereby announce my candidacy for re-election subject to the Demo
cratic Primary of April 4th and pledge my efforts, if re-elected, towards
making our county the finest in Georgia.
Your active support is requested.
SINCERELY,
P. K. DIXON
A Newspaper
Os Integrity in
Fast-Moving Clayton
OFFICIAL COUNTY
LEGAL ORGAN
। ment with Columbia to build
the canal. Columbia failed to
ratify this treaty in October
1903. As a result of the failure
of the officials of Columbia to
agree to the building of the
Panama Canal the people of
Panama declared themselves to
be independent of Columbia on
November 3, 1903. At this time
American military forces pre
vented Columbia from invading
Panama.
On the 18th day of November
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
service. Even that was not fully implemented.
Legislature appropriated enough money to in
crease the pension 75c per month, per years of
service. Os course that helped, but not much.
Present active teachers, upon retirement, will get
much larger pensions.
Georgia’s Moral Obligation
Lisa Hardie, of the Macon Telegraph, went
into the matter of the neglected retired teachers
in November, 1963. She says that the facts were
enough to shame anyone. She pointed out that
some of the teachers who retired prior to 1961
should receive increases, not as charity, but as a
debt that society owes them. “In a large meas
ure,” she said, “these teachers are responsible for
the advantages that Georgia has had.”
As the Columbus Enquirer said in an article
on November 28, 1962, “Each month that passes
is a hardship for many of the women, and some
men, who devoted their lives to a job that had
to be done but afforded few material rewards.
Now in their older years, when the cost of living
is higher and prosperity is more general, they
deserve to share in the benefits which their ef
forts were widely responsible for bringing to the
state.”
Now is the Time
This situation can be corrected only by legis
lature and the Governor. They can, and we trust
they will, provide for complete implementation
of Senate Bill No. 164.
1903 there was a treaty entered
into between Panama and the
United States. This treaty was
ratified by the United States
Senate in February 1904.
The United States paid the
Republic of Panama $10,000,-
000.00 in gold and agreed to pay
the Republic of Panama $250,-
000.00 a year in addition. This
figure was raised to a million,
nine hundred odd thousand dol
lars a year in recent years.
The United States paid the
Republic of Panama over $28.00
an acre cash at the time this
treaty was made and has in
vested many, many millions of
dollars in this project in the
past sixty years.
Sixty years ago, in all prob
ability, you could have bought
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■•tier Newspaper
Contests
Talmadge Agrees With
Parts of LBJ Program
Immediately following President Lyndon B. Johnson’s State
of the Union address to Congress, Georgia’s U.S. Sen. Herman E.
Talmadge issued the following statement from his Washington
office:
“The President’s outstanding message to Congress shows his
great determination to fulfill his pledge to keep the country mov
ing and yet reduce federal spending, and to continue the program
of the late President Kennedy.
“America can grow and prosper and work toward peace with
out spending itself deeper and deeper into the hole, and I com
mend President Johnson for his efforts to prove it. In this regard,
he will have by wholehearted support.
“The President also will have my support in other parts of
his program which clearly demonstrates themselves to be in the
public interest. As in the past, I will oppose those which do not.”
The Georgia junior senator, in his current statement, did not
elaborate on “those which do not”. But obviously one of them is
the pending civil rights legislation which Talmadge is on record
as opposing. For example, following President Johnson’s first ad
dress to Congress in which he dwelled at length on civil rights,
Sen. Talmadge last Nov. 27 said:
“While I favor every citizen enjoying his constitutional rights,
I cannot and will not vote for coersive federal legislation which
would deprive the people of the right to select their own local
officials, to choose their own associates, to utilize their own pri
vate property, or to decide their own employment conditions and
union practices relative to the operation of private businesses.
“I cannot support legislation that would deprive whole states
or entire regions of federal appropriations at the caprice of anv
federal official.
“I deeply regret that President Johnson has chosen to pursue
this ill-advised course which goes against all that the Constitu
tion stands for and which I fear will continue to divide our nation
at a time when unity is of the utmost importance.”
land in the City of Atlanta for
ten or fifteen dollars per acre
and there were thousands of
acres of good farm land avail
able in Georgia at that time for
fifty cents or a dollar an acre.
Article 111 of this treaty reads
as follows: “The Republic of
Panama grants to the United
States all the rights, power and
authority within the zone men
tioned and described in Article
II of this agreement, and within
the limits of all auxiliary land
and waters mentioned and de
scribed in said Article II which
the United States would possess
and exercise, if it were the
soverign territory within which
said land and waters are located
to the entire exclusion of the
exercise by the Republic of Pan
ama of any soverign rights,
power or authority.” Legally the
Panama Canal zone is just as
A FEW WORDS ABOUT
(FIM
Candidate for the House of Representatives
Clayton County, Georgia
You probably know him. He's made quite a name for himself around Clayton County.
Folks know that once Arch sets out to do something, he never rests until it's done.
Take the time he was Mayor of Riverdale (he just stepped down Jan. Ist). Arch saw to it
that Riverdale built a new City Hall, that a metropolitan numbering system was in
stalled, and that 6300 feet of water pipes were laid.
All without raising taxes.
This is the kind of miracle work that we need in state government, the kind of per
sonal magic that gets the most for the least.
Arch Gary gets things done. He knows what. He knows when. He knows how.
Vote for him in the primaries April 4th. You couldn't find a better man.
VOTE FOR
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TO SUCCEED EDGAR BLALOCK IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WE NEED HIM
’ much the territory of the United
s States as Savannah, Georgia,
■ Washington, D. C., or Fort Knox,
• Kentucky.
If your Grandfather had sold
• property in Atlanta sixty years
i ago for a few hundred dollars
' on which is now located a multi
[ million dollar skyscraper do you
I think that you as one of his
grandchildren should be en
i titled to claim this skyscraper or
i a part of it because at one time
I a member of your family owned
the land?
At the time the Panama
; Canal was built many engineers
thought that the location of the
canal should be in Nicaragua.
In all probability we could
obtain a favorable treaty from
the Republic of Nicaragua to
build a new canal. If a new
canal was built it would be in
keeping with modern needs.
Gray Lady News
Red Cross Orientation Classes,
for Gray Lady work at South
Fulton Hospital, will be given on
Tuesday and Thursday, February
11 and 13, from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
Hospital Cafeteria. An additional
class in Gray Lady and Hospital
Orientation will be given soon
afterwards, to complete the
course. All those interested in
working as Gray Ladies are urg
ed to attend. Staffing is between
9 a.m. and 9 p.m. on the three
nursing floors, Emergency Room,
and Surgical Recovery.
A day orientation class will be
held at the Red Cross Office, 848
Peachtree St., N.E., on Tuesday
and Thursday, February 4 and
6, 10 a m. til noon. Those attend
ing will complete their Hospital
Orientation at South Fulton.
There is a need for additional
men to give volunteer service to
With two canals in existence
the Panama Canal could be
placed in moth balls with only
a few Marines stationed there to
guard the facilities and the
people of Panama would miss
the millions of dollars that now
go into that country as a result
of the American operation of
the canal, instead of the Pan
amanian people crying “go
home, yankee” they would be
saying “please come back, Uncle
Sam.”
VOTE FOR
HOWARD H.
THORNTON
CLAYTON COUNTY COMMISSIONER
April 4th Democratic Primary
Your Vote and Support Appreciated I
Ga. May Be
No. 2 In
Egg Income
Georgia is believed to be the
No. 2 egg-producing state in the
nation. California leads.
Estimates place income from
Georgia eggs at $108.5 million in
1963. If this estimate holds up,
the state will have an increase of
about sl4 million in egg sales
over 1962 and will likely go into
second place in the nation.
Just 10 years ago, the state
was 26th.
the hospital under the “Gray
Men” program, which has re
cently been started. They also
attend the same training classes
as above. Mr. Arthur E. Allison,
of 1315 Day Street, S.W., is the
first member of this group and
has been serving several months.
They help in XRay, taking pa
tients to and from the depart
ment; in Emergency, especially
during week-ends; or visiting in
the men’s ward.
For any further information,
call Office of Volunteers at Red
Cross, or South Fulton Hospital
Gray Lady Chairman, Mrs. Lank
ford, 767-1378.
Letter to
The Editor
1255 Lake Harbin Rd.
Morrow, Ga.
Editor
Forest Park Free Press
Forest Park, Ga.
Dear Sir,
My wife and I have just moved
to a new home in Clayton Coun
ty and we have already decided
that Forest Park is no place to
shop or visit. My wife is bothered
by the unholy traffic congestion
on Main, and I am bothered
about repair bills to my auto
after travelling over possibly the
worst city highways south of the
North Pole. There is a pot hole
down near the Army depot that
measures about three feet around
and some nine inches deep and
I wonder how those little foreign
cars make out. My work takes
me over eight Southern States
and if there are worse city
streets, then I have to see them
yet. To be fair to your city, I am
forced to admit that the streets
of the City of Atlanta are little
better than the streets of Forest
Park.
Alex R. Ericson.
I like the dreams of the fu
ture better than the history of
the past.
—Thomas Jefferson