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VOLUME 45 — NUMBER 17
What Our Flag Means
By JOYE H. SPATES
Clayton County Extension Home Economist
As we approach Independence Day, July 4, we will
hear patriotic talks and the words of the popular son,
"God Bless America.” In these days of universal
chaos, it is well that we recall that the flag of Ameri
ca is the supreme guarantee of human welfare and
liberty.
Nothing that can be said can speak with such im
pressiveness as the words spoken some years ago by
A. W. Hawkes, then president of the' Congoleum-
Nairn Company: “I, as your flag, represent true de
mocracy in the representative form. Before I took
form and became reality, millions of people through
out the world had given up their lives trying to give
me birth . . .
‘‘lf you would not fail me, you will preserve me
in what I represent for you and for those to follow.
Your work in preserving me is only the fulfillment of
your obligation to principle and justice and those who
created me for you. They gave to you, through me,
liberty and freedom and the opportunity for indi
vidual accomplishment—fair reward for services and
the protection of the law in the rightful enjoyment
of property legally acquired.
‘‘l leave you with this thought: I, your flag, will
mean just what you make me to mean. I will stand
for you and what you are and what you do. I can be
no more and no less than the representative of your
character, courage and nobility of purpose I hope
your acts will enable me always to hold my head high
and place on earth, proceeding always in the inter
est of justice, in the support of the will of God on
earth, and in promoting the development of making
rightful happiness.
“May you never forget your obligation in return
for your privileges—and remember, I shall be with
you always, if you make me stay.”
Clayton Precincts
For School Bond
Election July 8
It is hereby ordered that the
following precincts will be
open for the School Bond
f lection to be held on Tues
day, July 8, 1969, Clayton
County, Georgia:
Adamson-Morrow.
Ellen wood.
Forest Park.
Jonesboro.
Lovejoy.
Mountain View.
New Oak.
Old Oak.
Panhandle.
Riverdale.
The voting places that will
be open from 7:00 A. M. until
7:00 P. M. on July 8, 1969 for
the School Bond flection will
be as follows:
Adamson-Morrow City
Hall.
I Henwood-Justice Court
house.
Forest Park-Forest Park
Junior High Gymnasium.
Jonesboro-Jonesboro Junior
High Gymnasium.
Lovejoy-Justice Courthouse.
Mountain View-Justice
Courthouse.
New Oak-North Clayton
Junior High Gymnasium.
Old Oak-Justice Court
house.
Pa nh a n dle-J ustice Court
house,
Riverdale-Justice Court
house.
This the 6th day of June,
Try Our U. S.
CHOICE STEAKS
They're Great!
1969.
H. W. Roberts, Judge
Court of Ordinary
Clayton County, Georgia
Durrance
Back From
Vietnam
Sp/4 James Dale Durrance,
son of Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Dur
rance of Morrow, has just re
turned from a year’s tour of
viet Nam. During the year,
Sp/4 Surrance served with the
3rd Squadron, 17th Air Cavalry
of the U. S. Army. He was
based in Dian, northwest of
Saigon, and then in Dong Tam,
of the MeCong Delta, before
returning home on May 30,
1969.
On July Ist Sp/4 Durrance
and his wife, the former Bar
bara Davenport, will report to
Ft. Knox, Kentucky, where he
will serve his last six months of
active duty in the army.
While serving in Viet Nam,
Sp/4 Durrance received the
Army Commendation Medal,
the Compat Infantry Badge
and the Air Medal for Meri
torious Achievement while par
ticipating in Aerial Flight.
HARBIN'S DRIVE-IN
RESTAURANT
(Georgia and Old Dixie Hwy.)
Serving All of Clayton County
THE NEW J. C. Penney Catalog Distribu
tion Center, retail outlet and auto service
center in Forest Park. The center will
J. C. Penney's New Forest Park
Catalog Center Will Employ 2500
The J. C. Penney Com
pany’s new regional Catalog
Distribution ('enter located in
Forest Park, will enable the
company to extend its catalog
sales into mid-Atlantic and
northeastern markets as well as
to provide more efficient ser
vice to its customers in the
south. The new distribution
center will supply more than
130,000 items of merchandise
ranging from furniture and
major appliances to wearing ap
parel and jewelry to a 26-statc
area and Puerto Rico. By the
end of the year, Penney’s ex
pects to operate more than 900
catalog units in 42 states, offer
ing 48-hour service from each
of its highly computerized and
automated centers in Mil
waukee and Atlanta.
The 2.2-million-square-foot
center is one of the largest
structures under one contin
uous roof in the United States.
It is so huge that 35 football
fields could fit onto its roof
with room to spare. In addition
to the distribution center,
there is a I 04,000 square foot
retail outlet store, and a
24,000 square foot free-stand
ing auto service center.
SP/4 DURRANCE
FOREST PARK. GEORGIA 30050, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1969
Parking for the center and
store accommodates 2,000
automobiles. The store and
center combined occupy 121
acres, leaving an additional 149
acres for expansion.
New ideas in color and arch-
Morrowiles to Take
Nostalgic Journey
Quite a few people from the
Morrow area will join together
on July sth for a trip down
“Memory Lane” via the Geor
gia Peach Special train which
will be run by Southern Rail
way and Central of Ga, to Fort
Valley- Macon and return. The
journey might Be called “Nos
talgia, U.5.A.,” for some folks
will be reliving by gone days,
while the youthful generation
will be experiencing something
“new” because it is really old!
The journey has been plan
ned by the Atlanta Chapter
National Railway Historical
Society, of which Morrow’s
own councilman. Dr. Tommy
Allen, is a member. It is he
who has helped to entice the
local travelers to climb aboard
the old double-header steam
locomotive-driven- cars when
the conductor hollers the
famous “Board!” -,at old
Morrow Station. Included in
the intrepid track-traipsers will
be young Bill Hanley and
Benny Treadaway, former
mayor and present Assistant
Fire Chief Bob Elliott, Kath
leen, and their two children,
Police Officer Dorsey Manning,
Mrs. Manning, and children,
Officer Chuck Hall, Mrs. Hall,
and children, Mr. and Mrs.
Harley Strong, Fire Chief D. L.
Shirley, Jr., Carolyn, and
daughters, Dr. Allen and
daughter Elaine, Mr. and Mrs.
M. E. Allen, and Council
woman Jensen and children.
Tickets may still be purchased
al the railway station on Spring
St. in Atlanta while they last,
at $9.00 per adult, and $5.75
each for children.
provide catalog service to customers in
the mid-Atlantic, northeastern and South
ern markets.
itectural design have been in
corporated into the structure,
making the building not only
functional but also pleasing to
the eye.
To facilitate handling of
merchandise, there are 211
shipping and receiving doors,
60 of which have their own
hydraulic lifts. There is also a
railroad spur capable of hand
ling 35 forty-foot railroad cars
at one time.
The center contains enough
electrical power to serve a city
of 40,000 people. Its 12 miles
of rollers and conveyor belts,
utilizing 2-million ball bearings,
are capable of carrying, during
peak periods, three tons of
merchandise per minute, or
800,000 pieces a day. To store
the merchandise, the company
has installed 74 miles of shel
ving, or 130,000 separate
shelves.
Manager of the center,
which will employ 2500 asso
ciates, is Robert E. Smith, who
has for the past four years been
operations manager for Pen
ney’s Catalog Distribution Cen
ter in Milwaukee. Prior to join
ing Penney’s in that capacity,
Mr. Smith was Manager of the
McCrory Corporation’s distri
bution center at York, Pa.
Grant’s Opens
New Department
Grants Department Stoie has
announced the opening of a
fine jcwelery, watch repair and
engraving department. Grants
is located in Grant City South
Shopping Center, 4855 Jones
boro Rd., Forest Park.
Take a Bag
of CHICK-FIL-As
Home Tonight
New FP
Fiscal Year
Begins
There was good news lor all
Forest Park citizens in deci
sions made al the city council
meeting Monday. June 23.
Taxes were not, repeat, not
raised.
The governing body ap
proved a new budget lor the
fiscal year which began July I.
but held the line on any tax
hike for the next twelve
months.
With costs of city services
soaring, this was generally con
sidered to be quite a fiscal teat.
But as one spokesman put it,
“we simply feel that the people
of Forest Park need some relief
somewhere, what with every
thing else going up. So we kept
the lid on city taxes.”
It is a tact, particularly since
state grants to cities have been
cut this year, that maintaining
growing city services on cur-
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Dr. Henry L. Foley
Elected for Tenth
Consecutive Year
The Clayton County Juve
nile Court Advisory Board met
at its regular stated meeting for
June at the Juvenile Court
Home in Jonesboro and elected
Dr. Henry L. Foley Chairman
of the Board for the tenth con
secutive year. The meeting was
attended by members of the
Advisory Board, Judge lidwin
S Kemp, and representatives
of the Home. Dr. Foley has
been an active member of the
Juvenile Court Advisory Board
since 1957, working with
Judge Kemp and aiding Mrs.
Trudie Boswick when and
wherever possible. Dr. Foley
was elected Chairman of the
Board for the first time in
1960 and succeeded the late R.
P. Bowdon, who was the first
Chairman. The Advisory Board
had been in existence since its
formation in 1957.
Dr. Foley has long been ac
tive in Youth activities and in
Clayton County Juvenile Court
work, and was instrumental in
helping to obtain the passage
of the bond issue which ulti
mately supplied the funds for
the Juvenile Court Home con
structed in Jonesboro, and in
use since 1965.
Dr. Foley is a native of
Louisville, Ky., and is a prac
ticing Chiropractor in Forest
Park where he has maintained
an office since 1957. He has
lived in Georgia intermittently
since 1952 and became a per
manent resident in 1957. Dr.
Foley attended college in Ken
tucky, California and lowa. He
is a member of the Ash Street
Baptist Church, a member of
the Fayetteville Masonic
Lodge, the Atlanta Consistory
of the Scottish Rite and is a
thirty second degree Mason
and Shriner in Yaarab Temple
in Atlanta.
Dr. Foley presently resides
with his family on Gilbert
Road in Fayetteville.
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Marion Gaddy Promoted to
Executive Vice President
Marion A. Gaddy, Vice Pres
ident of the Bank of Forest
Park, has been promoted to
Executive Vice President. He
joined the bank in 1964 as
Cashier. In 1967 he was pro
moted to Assistant Vice Presi
dent and Manager of the Con
sumer Loans Department. Ear
ly this year he was promoted
to Vice President and given the
additional duty of officer in
charge of credit cards opera
tion. He is a member and secre
tary ot the Board of Directors
of the Bank of Forest Park
He has been active in the
Forest Park Rotary Club, cur
rently serving as treasurer and
DR. FOLEY
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MARION A GADDY
member of the board of direc
tors. Mr. Gaddy enjoys a game
of golf and is a member of the
A.A.D. Goll Club.
Born in Thomaston, Geor
gia. Mr Gaddy attended Geor
gia State, is a graduate of the
Georgia Banking School, and
has completed several courses
with the American Institute of
Banking.
Mr. Gaddy began his bank
ing career with the First
National Bank of Atlanta
where he served in various
capacities.
Head Start’s Annual
Family Night
Clayton County Head
Start’s annual Family Night
will be held July 9, 10, and 15,
1969 at three local schools.
Family Night is for children
enrolled in Head Start and
their parents. It includes sup
per and slides showing what’s
being done in Head Start.
Parents will enjoy seeing first
hand how the program is work
ing.
On July 9, the families will
gather at Suder School in
Jonesboro. The Riverdale area
program will be July 10 at
Church Street School. Tuesday
July 15 is the d ue for I amilv
Night at Huie School in Forest
Park. Each of the programs will
begin al 7:30 P. M.
Transportation will be pro
vided parents and children via
the regular Head Start bus
route on the evening of the
programs.
