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Johnson
Realty, Inc.
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VOLUME 46—NUMBER 33
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Bass Furniture Sales
Hit Record Heights
The new building of Bass
Furniture Co. on Main St., one
block east of its present location,
was turned over to Manage? Car
los Lewis and his staff last week.
About a week will be required
to put down carpet and another
week or slightly longer to move
in the brand-new' stock and get
it placed and be ready for busi
ness.
In the meantime the low prices
on stocks at the old location re
main in effect.
Mr. Lewis, who has managed
the Forest Park Bass store since
it opened 4V 2 years ago, reports
record-breaking business in the
past few months and indeed
every month this year except one.
“Our Moving Out Sale has pro
duced tremendous volume,” he
said, “and it isn’t over yet. We
intend to move everything in the
old building before the sale ends.
With the bargains we are offering
there is no reason why we
shouldn’t.”
Smith Leads
Jonesboro
To Victory
Joel Smith, who was the most
valuable player in Jonesboro’s
loss to Forest Park High the
week before, Friday night turned
on the heat and led the Cardi
nals to a 27-12 victory over a
hard-fighting Towers eleven on
the Jonesboro field.
It was the running and pass
ing of quarterback Smith that
turned the tide for the conquer
ing Cardinals. ’
Smith ran for two scores and
connected with Bret Raymond
and Tommy Bedingfield for two
more.
This Friday night Jonesboro is
at home for a game with the
strong Griffin High aggregation.
Kickoff is at 8 o’clock.
State Office
Plans Fire
Prevention Month
In conjunction with Governor
Sanders’ official proclamation
designating October 4-10 as “Fire
Prevention Week” in Georgia,
Comptroller General and Safety
Fire Commissioner James L.
Bentley has announced that the
Georgia Fire Marshal’s Office
will conduct an accelerated Fire
Safety Program which will in
volve every school in Georgia.
“We are extending “Fire Pre
vention Week’ into ‘Fire Preven
tion Month’ with a four-week
concentrated statewide School
Fire Safety Program,” Bentley
said.
During a four-week period be
ginning October sth, field men
from the Office of the Fire Mar- I
shal will cover the entire state, I
making an extensive check of i
fire drill procedures and safety j
programs in each school, and !
setting up adequate procedures :
and programs in schools in
which they have not been put in
effect for this school term.
At the termination of this
"stepped-up” four-week period,:
the field men will resume their
year-round duty of making rou
tine fire inspections and imple- |
menting Fire Safety Education!
programs in all Georgiy schools.
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POINT OF VIEW
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; n ■ By JACK TROY
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Once in a while in rock-ribbed Democratic Georgia you run
across a lifelong Democrat who has decided to switch parties
, and doesn’t care who knows it.
In this case, William Edward Swinson of Columbus, Ga., is
not only changing party affiliations but he is out doing all that
I believe it would be dangerous for our country to elect Johnson
and Humphrey.
Johnson is not a true conservative as he is now being pictured.
His record shows he has voted more socialistically than Ken
nedy and almost as much so as Humphrey. Humphrey is an
[. outright socialist, a member and officer of ADA (Americans for
- Democratic Action* and is not a friend of Georgia and of the
, South, as he now is being presented. Both Johnson and Hump-
I rey believe that Georgians and the South and conservatives and
business men can be easily fooled. Their idea is, and politically
t it is sound, that they do not have to fool “all of the people,” that
, they only have to fool the majority of the people, and then the
others don’t count. The purposes of Johnson and Humphrey, if
attained, are to destroy our freedom and what they call “OUR
’ free enterprise system.” They expect to make us dependent upon
J their concepts, which will lead us to complete destruction of free
enterprise and to domination by a socialistic form of government.
I am sending you and 99 other Georgia publishers a book
1 named “A Texan Looks at Lyndon,” and an attorney in your
1 town, Kenneth Kilpatrick and 99 other Georgia attorneys a book
’ named “None Dare Call It Treason.” I cannot procure the copies
of “. . . Treason” before September 28, when they will be mailed
s If the two books move you as much as they moved me, you
‘ will use the material at hand, and the material developed during
. the Democratic Convention, and the material which will develop
during the campaign, to constantly attack Johnson and Humphrey
from this day forward until the election is held.
To the cute slogan that Lyndon gave Democrats “Let us con
tinue . . . ,” the Demos expect to add “to fool them.” If we work,
Lyndon and Humphrey will lose Georgia in November.
Yours sincerely,
William E. Swinson
P.S. Will send book as soon as received.
AT ROCK EAGLE
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Davis to Attend
Training Institute |
Charles C. Davis, Jr., City
Manager, City of Forest Park,
will attend a one week training
institute for city departmental
supervisors October 11-16.
Sponsored by the Georgia Mu
nicipal Association, the training
session will instruct students in
| the basics of municipal govern
ment as well as the details of
1 running a department.
The Municipal Training Insti
: tute will be held at the Rock
Eagle 4-H Club Center, near
Eatonton.
Instructors will include mem
bers of the University of Georgia
: faculty, Georgia Tech faculty
and various specialists in the
| field of local government.
| Approximately 35 students will
I be enrolled in the initial session
of the Institute.
one man can do to try to persuade others
to follow.
We have taken no stand in the pres
idential race as lifelong democrats but are
interested in the thinking of individuals.
In this case, Mr. Swinson states his
views and we are glad to present his letter
for our readers to approve or disapprove . .
WILLIAM EDWARD SWINSON
1639 Preston Drive
Columbus, Georgia
Mr. Jack Troy
Forest Park Free Press
Jonesboro, Georgia
Dear Mr. Troy:
In 1964 I expect to vote Republican as
I never have before—for Goldwater and
Miller. That decision was reached because
This will be the first such
training course held in Georgia, i
“We have had training insti- ;
tutes for nearly all the special
ized fields within local govern
ment, but there has never been
a general program for depart
ment supervisors — the people
who direct the operation of our
sewers, our water works, our
streets and all the other func- |
tions so necessary to daily liv
ing,” said Mayor Roswell Hair of
Buena Vista, training committee
chairman of the Municipal Asso
ciation.
The course to be offered at the
Institute will feature such sub
jects as supervisory techniques,
public relations, preparations ofl I
a budget, purchasing, depart-11
mental planning, and municipal, :
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 6, 1964
Will Huie
Is Buried
In Clayton
Prominent lifetime resident of
Clayton County, William Emory
(Will) Huie died Thursday.
Funeral services for Mr. Huie.
74. were held Saturday in the
Riverdale Presbyterian Church.
Burial was in Pleasant Grove
Cemetery.
Mr. Huie, who lived on We?t
Fayetteville Road, College Park,
was a former superintendent of
the Clayton County School Sys
tem. He was a Mason and a
member of South College Park
Kiwanis Club.
For several years Mr. Huie was
employed by the state welfare
department. He was a veteran
of World War 1 and was a mem
ber of the Riverdale Presbyter
ian Church.
He is survived by his widow,
the former Lillian Middlebrooks;
sons W. E. Huie Jr., College Park;
James C. Huie, East Point, and
John E. Huie, Joseph T. Huie,
Douglas F. Huie and Donald E.
Huie, all of Atlanta; and broth
ers, J. S. Huie, College Park, and
W. P. Huie, Sr„ of Elberton.
Chicken Que
Saturday, Oct. 17
Forest Park Jr. High Band
Booster Club’s annual Chicken
Bar-B-Que Sat. Oct. 17, 1964, 11
a. m. to 6 p. m. on railroad prop
erty in front of recreation center
and City Hall.
SI.OO adults and 75c children.
Jr. Hi Band will render music
at intervals. «
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DR. EVANS, DRUGGIST
Jonesboro Drug Co.
Now in 15th Year
These are significant and suc
cessful days for the Jonesboro
Drug Company owned by Dr.
W. A. Evans, druggist.
For one thing it’s the 15th
year of business for the drug
store. Once a fixture on Main
Street, Jonesboro, Jonesboro
Drug Company since June 1 has
been in its handsome new build
ing at 140 Mill street.
It is a much better location for
Doc. Evans’ business, primarily
because of all the free parking
for customers.
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Local Men
Enlist in
Air Force
MSgt. Horace L. Orr, the local
Air Force Recruiter announced
the following men from Clayton
County were recently enlisted in
the US Air Force. Robert E.
Brock, son of Mrs. Alice G. Brock
of Joy Lake Road, Ellenwood,
Danny J. Benford, son of Mr. and
Mrs. James A. Benford of 115
Moss Dr. Forest Park, Thomas G.
Breedlove Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas G. Breedlove Sr. of 165
Rock Springs St., Forest Park,
Michael S. Kangisar son of Mr.
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Then, too, the new store has
। been built with the convenience
. of the customer in mind. Doc
Evans has all the sundries to be
found in an up-to-date drug
: store, and he has a crackerjack
prescription department which
। be heads.
: There aren’t many people in
Jonesboro who don’t know this
popular University of Georgia
graduate, and those who don’t
are invited to come in and get
acquainted. Doc Evans doesn’t
know any strangers.
An Bth Anniversary at
The Bank of Forest Park
The Bank of Forest Park is celebrating its Bth anniversary.
On October 15, 1956, the Bank of Forest Park began business with total assets of ap
proximately $300,000.00. Although small at the time, it was able to provide full service
banking for people of this area. Today, eight years later, with assets of more than six
million dollars, it still provides full service banking and is not too big to have a personal
interest in each depositor, re
gardless of how small or how
large the account.
Charles G. Duncan, former
Chairman of the Milk Control
Commission of Georgia for eight
teen years, was the first Presi
dent, and started with four em
ployees in a building on Main
Street with total floor space of
twelve hundred square feet. To
day, Mr. Duncan is still Presi
dent but the total number of em
ployees is now twenty-nine and
the total floor space is now more
than eight thousand square feet.
It is, and always has been, ac
cording to Mr. Duncan, the pol
icy of the Bank of Forest Park
to work with the people in this
area as a “good neighbor”. In
this way, the bank has been a
leader in the progressive eco
nomic development of Clayton
County.
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HIGH HONOR
Billy Mathews Named
Scout Vice Chairman
Billy Mathews, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. E. Mathews of 208 Lee
Street, Jonesboro, Georgia has
recently been elected vice chair
man of the Explorers of region
six, Boy Scouts of America.
Mathews was elected to this
high office at the National Con
vention of Explorers held at the
University of Kansas. Billy will
represent the states of North ^nd
South Carolina, Georgia, Florida,
and the Canal Zone.
Billy Mathews is 16 years of
age and attends the Jonesboro
Senior High School where he is
a member of the Library Club
and The Echo Staff. He is a
member of Explorer Post 143,
sponsored by the Jonesboro
Methodist Church. His post ad
visor is Mr. C. M. Hand.
Congratulations to Billy Math
ews on this high honor which he
brings home to Clayton County.
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tn J°y /( OR PLATE
Deliciously / (Z-i
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at the following franchised locations:
The Dwarf House, 461 Central Ave., The Huddle House, 2745 LaVista Rd.,
Hapeville, Ga. Decatur, Ga.
Old Hickory House, 265 Pharr Rd., N.E., Evans Fine Foods, 1975 Candler Rd.,
(Buckhead) Atlanta, Ga. Decatur, Ga.
Old Hickory House, 1600 Piedmont Rd., N.E., Evans Fine Foods, 2137 N. Decatur Rd.,
Atlanta, Ga. Decatur, Ga.
Old Hickory House, 2721 Stewart Ave., S.W. Dari-King Food Shoppe, Hwy 431,
Atlanta, Ga. Guntersville, Ala.
Old Hickory House, 1527 Northside Dr., N.E., Green Park Restaurant, U. S. No. 1,
Atlanta, Ga. Alma, Ga.
Weyman’s Coffee Pot, Highway 54, Harbin’s Drive-In Restaurant, Old 41
Morrow, Ga. Highway, Forest Park
"ASK FOR CHICK-FIL-A AT YOUR FAVORITE RESTAURANT"
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OTHER PRESSING MATTERS
Forest Park Rejects
Low Rent Housing
The City of Forest Park has
notified the Public Housing Ad
ministration that it cannot take
part in a proposed low rent hous
ing project in Rose town at this
time because of lack of finances
and other pressing municipal
needs.
City Manager C. C. Davis told
newsmen Thursday that Forest
Park is in dire need of improved
streets, extended sewerage and a
large water reservoir.
The letter approved by Mayor
The Speir
Insurance Agency,
Inc.
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Phone 366-5115
“You Have No Fear
When You Insure
With Speir”
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
. and Council for the information
, of the Housing Administration
: follows—
i Dear Mr. Hanson:
1 The City Council, City of For
• est Park, Georgia discussed the
above project at a recent council
[ meeting.’
; We appreciate very much your
I interest in our city and wish to
advise that we are financially
unable to proceed with this pro
■ ject at this time.
The City of Forest Park has
several public works require
ments that are urgent from an
overall public safety standpoint.
Again, let us thank you for
your interest in our city.
Very truly yours,
William H. Bateman
Mayor
N. Clayton
Defeats
Newnan
The all-conquering North
Clayton Eagles continued on
their unbeaten path Friday night
with a 28 to 12 triumph over
Newnan High at Newnan.
Favorites in their region, the
North Clayton stalwarts are
hosts to Hapeville on the North
Clayton Field this Friday night.
G. L. Green Buys
Registered Bull
G. L. Green, Forest Park, re
cently purchased an Aberdeen-
Angus bull from Ray J. Tate,
Canton, Georgia.