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VOLUME 42 — NUMBER 17
POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY
Wallace Butts . . . .
A Winner All the Way!
The news is good. Very, very good.
The name and reputation of a long-time friend, Wallace
Butts, was cleared last week by the U. S. Supreme Court, the
highest court in the land.
conversation between Butts and Bryant. Butts, who hadn’t
been attending Georgia practices, was supposed to have told
all about Georgia’s game plan. It was a ridiculous thing.
For you see Alabama was No. 1 in the country and Geor
gia was low man on the totem pole in the Southeastern Con
ference. Georgia was so lousy Bear Bryant probably couldn’t
make much out of the game pictures Alabama studied to
learn about their Bulldog opponents.
A U.S. District Court jury in Atlanta returned a verdict
for Wally Butts on Aug. 20, 1963, giving him $60,000 in gen
eral damages and $3 million in punitive damages, the sec
ond highest libel award in history.
The district court, however, found the punitive dam
ages to be “grossly excessive” and reduced them to $400,000.
The U. S. Supreme Court last week upheld the $460,000
libel award to Wally Butts. He won the judgment against
the Curtis Publishing Company in 1964, as the result of the
article that appeared in the Saturday Evening Post.
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He Has Gone Through ‘Hell
If the district court could have realized the “hell” Wally
Butts had gone through after resigning as Athletic Director
at the U. of Georgia, the court wouldn’t have been so free
about not awarding him the $3 million. If anyone ever has
deserved it, Wally Butts does. But he says he is happy to
have won the suit. A good game to win, he says. But look
what the libel has done to his career.
One thing happened during the trial in the district court
that we will not forget.
The then President of Georgia A. C. Aderhold got on the
stand and said he wouldn’t believe Wally Butts’ word under
oath. That earned Mr. Aderhold the nickname of ole Addle
head. If he felt that way about Wally Butts why was it that
he didn’'t fire him? We feel sure he could have persuaded
the Athletic Board to go along with him. Not all members of
the Athletic Board but perhaps-a majority. A President has
weight.
During the years Wally Butts has had to sweat out the
decision of the Supreme Court, he certainly found out that
a good many folks were willing to believe the worst about
him. Wonder how they feel now? Ashamed maybe?
Wally Butts, a former great Coach and Athletic Direc
tor, has been a winner in his field from high school days on.
He has a fine family and we are proud for them that things
have turned out as they should.
P. 8. The Curtis Publishing Company didn’t dally in
Bear Bryant’s suit against the company. The company paid
him off years ago because they said they couldn’t get a fair
trial in Alabama.
Well, the CPS got a fair trial in Atlanta, Ga., and also
in Washington, D. C. Why couldn’t it have been a $3-million
award? A man’s reputation is sacred. And there wasn’t a
word of truth in the charges made against him.
2 Clayton Residents
Delta Air Lines has announced the promotions
of two Clayton County residents.
R. E. (Roy) Vreeland, of 379 Lady Guinevere
Way, Jonesboro, has been promoted by Delta Air Lines
from Assistant Manager-Cargo Sales to District Sales
Manager, Los Angeles, Cali
fornia.
R. E. (Bob) Duncan, of
205 Graceland Circle, Mor
row, has been promoted from
Assistant Manager-Military
& Government Sales to Man
ager-Interline Sales.
Vreeland has been with
Delta since 1958 and in the
Atlanta General Offices
since 1960. Prior to his ap
pointment as Assistant Man
ager-Cargo Sales, he was
Cargo Sales Representative
in Chicago.
Duncan was employed by
Delta in 1958 as Ramp
Service Agent in Miami. He
served as Ticket Agent and
Passenger Service Agent in
Miami, Sales Representative
in Tampa, and Sales Mana
ger at Cape Kennedy before
transferring to Delta’s Gen
eral Offices in April 1966.
Annual Barbecue—Jones
boro Masonic Lodge—Tues
day, July 4—ll am. to 8 p.m.
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The Saturday Evening Post had
libeled Athletic Director Butts of the
University of Georgia. The Post had
featured a story about an alleged
football fix; The Post didn't allege
the fix; they came out point blank
with the charge that Wallace Butts
and U. of Alabama Coach Bear Bry
ant had conspired by telephone, with
Wally Butts telling Coach Bryant
about the plays Georgia would use
against Alabama.
This charge was made by a two
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FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30050, TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 196"
BOOKSELLER MEETS AUTHOR. Jim El
ler of Forest Park shown with Jacqueline
Susann who wrote the best-seller novel,
‘The Valley of The Dolls.” They met at a
recent convention of the American Book
sellers Association in Washington, D. C.
The novel is now in a Bantam paperback
Smoke Signals Hickory Hut
Opening in Forest Park
Did you smell that good hickory smoke on Jones
boro Road at Main Street in Forest Park? It signals
the opening of Hickory Hut No. 2, the city’s newest
barbecue specialty drive-in and restaurant, owned
and operated by Johnny Baker of Jonesboro.
He built and opened Hick
ory Hut No. 1 in Jonesboro
nearly a year ago. It has
been so successful that
Johnny is now doing the
same in Forest Park.
Specializing in real pit
cooked barbecue, Hickory
Hut has an apetizing menu,
something to suit the whole
family. There are hambur
gers, cheeseburgers and hot
dogs, too. And breakfast
served any time. They’re
open seven days a week.
There’s an attractive dining
room seating 40, and plenty
of parking spaces for curb
service, too.
Johnny Baker dreamed of
running Hickory Huts sev
eral years ago while he was
security guard at Lake Spi
vey and when the time came
he put his plans into shape
with the Joneshoro Hickory
Hut which he built in eighf
days. He is originally from
Mississippi and is married to
a West Virginia girl, the for
mer Connie Wyrick. They
have two small daughters,
Jacqueline and Melissa.
Hickory Huts are the com
Old-Timey Melodramas
At Callaway Gardens
PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga.—Audiences will again
hiss the villain, shed tears for the heroine, and cheer
the hero during performances of old-timey melo
dramas at Callaway Gardens this summer.
Actually satirizations of the serious melodramas
which were popular across
America at the turn of the
century, the performances
will open on Thursday eve
ning, June 22.
This is the second year for
the LaGrange College Sum
mer Theatre to perform the
melodramas at the gardens.
However, this year, ac
cording to Dr. Max Estes,
head of the LC Speech and
Drama Department, four
productions instead of three
will be presented, the season
will be longer, and the com
pany has moved into a new
physical setting.
The melodramas will be
presented in the new and
air-conditioned Callaway
Ballroom at the gardens.
The performances are
scheduled throughout the
week, except Sundays and
Mondays, through Sept. 2.
Last summer’s most popu
lar melodrama, “No Mother
To Guide Her,” a tear- (or
laugh-) erker of 1905 vin
tage, will open this sum
mer’s schedule on June 22.
edition which will be available July 3 at
the Eller News Center in Grant City South.
Mr. Eller is the publisher of the first
street-indexed map of Clayton County
which is being distributed through his
store.
ing thing in Clayton County.
Watch their smoke! They’re
sure to go far in pleasing the
appetites of any and all.
Mrs. Arsenault
To Address
Women Voters
Mrs. Lawrence P. Arsenault
will be the guest speaker of
the Clayton County League
of Women Voters morning
unit meeting on Thursday,
June 22, at 9:30 a.m. This
unit meeting will be held in
the Meeting Room of the
new library on Main Street
in Forest Park.
“National Continuing Re
sponsibilities” will be the
subject of Mrs. Arsenault’s
address.
Mrs. Arsenault, who came
to the Atlanta-Fulton Coun
ty LWV more than 10 years
ago from Milton, Mass., has
served on the Atlanta Board
as Unit Chairman and at
present is Unit Leader and
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It will be directed by Miss
Marilyn McKay, assistant
professor of speech and
drama.
Other productions in the
collegiate actors’ repertoire
will be “Billy the Kid,” an
other hilarious “meller
drammer;” “Enter Laugh
ing,” a contemporary Broad
way comedy hit; and “The
Fantasticks,” an off-Broad
way musical comedy now in
its seventh year of continu
ous production,
In addition to performing
in the various plays, the
students have various tech
nical responsibilities. These
include making costumes,
painting sets, taking up
tickets, and providing musi
cal accompaniment for the
plays.
Another feature of each
summer theatre program
will be the grande oilo, a
group of vaudeville acts
which allow the actors an
opportunity to display more
of their individual talents.
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EXPO °67
®
Drivers
Warned
If you're driving to visit
Canada's Centennial Year
Celebration, “EXPO ’67",
this summer you should
carefully check your auto
mobile insurance policies,
warns Lee Speir, head of the
Speir Insurance Agency of
Forest Park.
Canada law requires a
minimum of $35,000 in “In
clusive” liability insurance,
Mr. Speir said.
Under Georgia law, he
continued, a motorist must
have a maximum of only
$25,000 automobile liability
insurance.
This is broken down in a
10/20/5 fashion—slo,ooo for
injury to one person, $20,000
maximum for all persons in
jured in one accident, and
$5,000 coverage for property
damage.
In other words, a motorist
carrying legally adequate
coverage in Georgia would
still fall short of sufficient
coverage in Canada.
To Subscribers
Will you please let wus
know your new house num
ber, together with the old
one, so that we can make
the necessary change?
Cast members for “No
Mother To Guide Her,” the
opening production, will be
Noble Shropshire of Carters
ville as Livingstone, the vil
lain; Margaret Lunsford of
Elberton as Mother Tagger,
the witeh; Carolyn Mitchell
of Cartersville as Rose, our
heroine;” Ernest “Butch”
Miller of Clarkston as Ralph,
“our hero;” Alice Brooks of
Atlanta as Bess; Michael
Purnell of Red Level, Ala,
as Bunco; Lynn Underwood
of LaGrange as “Jake” Jor
dan; Ned “Trip” McCord 111
of Atlanta as Silas Water
bury; Laura Fieldsteel of
Garden City, N. Y., as Lindy
Smithers; William “Bill”
Kiser of Cartersville as
Farmer Day; and David
Williams of West Point as
the Sheriff.
Other cast and technical
crew members of the reper
toire company are Rosemary
Neely of Pine Mountain,
Thomas Ritter of Reading,
Pa., Lucius Harwell of Car
tersville, David Ascher of
Atlanta, Kathryn Kerr of
Columbus, Daniel Sheffield
of Miami, Fla., Nancy Eliza
beth James of Auburndale,
Fla.,, and Charles E. Whalen
Jr. of Gainesville.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
THE 2,000,000th ATLANTA-BUILT Ford
passenger car came off the line at Ford
Motor Company’s Atlanta Assembly Plant
early Tuesday, with Pete G. George, cen
ter, assistant plant manager, presenting
the keys to Hapeville Mayor Herb Tim
merman. Hapeville Police Chief G. B.
Atlanta-Built
Hapeville Police Drive
The 2,000,000th Atlanta-built Ford passenger car
came off the assembly line of Ford Motor Company’s
Atlanta Assembly Plant early Tuesday.
Plant Manager S. K. Cannon drove the milestone
unit off the customer acceptance line at 8:45 a.m.
The car will soon be a fa
miliar sight to residents of
suburban Hapeville, the city
in which the Ford plant is
located. It is to be delivered
through Harry White Ford,
Inc., to the Hapeville Police
Department for use as a pa
trol car.
Watching the brief cere
mony were Harry P. White,
president of the Hapeville
Ford dealership; James M.
Moore Jr., Ford Division At
lanta District sales manager,
Herb Timmerman, Hapeville
Mayor; G. B. Pearson and
James Clay, chief and as
sistant chief of the Hape
ville Police Department, and
Ford executives and produc
tion workers.
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W. T. Grant May
Sales Up 5.29 Pet.
J. H. Howard Jr., manager of the W. T. Grant store in
Forest Park, today announced company sales for the month
ended May 31 of $73,904,047, up $3,712,388 or 5.29¢: over May
1966 sales of $70,191,659.
Calendar year to date sales of $307,195,079 are up SB,-
880,204 or 2.98 over sales of $298,314,875 for the like period
last year.
During the month the Company opened its largest store
in the mid-west, in East St. Louis, 111.,, and two major en
largements of stores in Rockville, Md., and Venice, Cal. Two
small stores were closed, in Dover, N. H., and Shamokin, Pa.
At month’s end W. T. Grant Company had 1,099 stores in
operation.
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CLAYTON COUNTY LOCATIONS:
BUTCH’S CHICKEN HOUSE — 192 HWY. 54, JONESBORD
CARROLS DRIVE-IN — 2907 JONESBORO RD., FOREST PARK
THE FLAMING TORCH — HWY. 42, RT. 2, ELLENWOOD
FOREST HOUSE — 1270 MAIN ST., FOREST PARK
HARBIN’S DRIVE IN — RT. 1, FOREST PARK
WEYMAN'’S FINE FOOD — HWY. 54, MORROW
Pearson, whose department is buying the
milestone Ford for use as a patrol car,
looks on. Ford Motor Company produced
its first million cars in Atlanta in 43 years
— from 1915 to 1958 — and its second mil
lion in only nine years.
The two millionth unit
was a Brittany blue Ford
Custom four-door sedan,
with a 315-horsepower V-8
engine, Cruise-O-Matic
transmission, power disc
brakes and Ford’s police
“Cruiser” package to tailor
the car to police patrol
needs.
Mr. Cannon observed that
more than 43 years — from
March 29, 1915 to April 29,
1958 — elapsed before the
first million Ford cars were
built at the Company’s
plants here.
“We have produced our
second million automobiles
here in about nine years,”
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ATLANTA ARMY DEPOT—
Robert L. Morris, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold F. Morris
of Forest Park, who has
been named by Congress
man John J. Flynt, Jr. as
an appointee to the U. S.
Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Md. A 1967 honor graduate
of Forest Park High School,
young Morris has been em
ployed on a part-time basis
at the Depot Post Library.
(U. S. ARMY PHOTO)
W. H. Fleming, Sr., Presi
dent, called the monthly
meeting of the Board of Di
rectors of Clayton County
Family Care, Inc. to order
for the first time in the new
offices at 713 Central Street,
these offices having been
secured since the May meet
ing. Present were Mrs.
Trudie Boswick, W. M. Tay
lor, Mrs. R. H. Huey, Mrs.
D. C. Durham, M. P. Gunter,
Mrs. B. H. Pruitt, T. W. Cole,
Raymond White, Mrs. Wilma
Shelnutt, R. H. Huey, Mrs.
Jimmy Wike, D. C. Corbett,
Mrs. George Kelly, Mrs.
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