Gris List: The name behind it, 10 things you could get for Father’s Day in 1975

The Name Behind It

• The I-16 interchange at Ocmulgee East Boulevard (Georgia Highway 87) was named the Fred Black Memorial Interchange in July 2013. Black, of Macon, was the first Georgia State Patrol trooper killed in the line of duty on December 20, 1940. He was fatally shot after pulling over an escaped convict near Ringgold after a traffic violation.
• The Tom Fontaine Sports Complex on Anthony Road was  named after the late Tom Fontaine, who was instrumental in bringing Little League baseball to Macon in 1952.
• Richard Gammage Memorial Way on Maynard Street, in Fort Hill between Emory Highway and Shurling Drive, is named after the late Rev. Richard Gammage, a civic leader and pastor of the New Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church for 37 years.
• The Patrolman Donald J. Mander Memorial Underpass was named after Mander, a Macon police officer who died from injuries while trying to apprehend a suspect in 1986. The underpass was dedicated in 2012 and is located at the railroad trestle at Forsyth Road and Napier Avenue.
• Neva Langley Fickling Hall in Mercer University’s McCorkle Music Building is a 200-seat performing arts venue. It is named after the late Neva Langley Fickling, of Macon, who was an accomplished pianist and Miss America 1953.
• L.H. Williams Elementary was named for Lewis H. Williams, a turn-of-the-century educator who taught at Pleasant Hill School from 1888-1901 and Green Street School from 1901-1918. Williams purchased land in Pleasant Hill and gave it to the board of education to build a school.
• Bowden Golf Course, which opened on Millerfield Road in September 1940, is named after Charles L. Bowden, who served as Macon’s mayor from 1938-1947. It was the first public facility in the city to be racially integrated in 1961 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.
• Huguenin Heights, the first neighborhood revitalization project by Macon Heritage Foundation in 1994, is named after Edward Huguenin, a successful cotton broker and pecan farmer who developed the neighborhood. 
• The Peyton Anderson Community Services Center, at the corner of Mulberry Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, is named after the late Peyton Anderson. Anderson was the former owner and publisher of The Macon Telegraph and News and one of the city’s most well-known philanthropists.
• Pio Nono Avenue is named after Pope Pius IX, whose reign of 32 years from 1846-1878 is the longest of any pope in the Catholic Church.

Ten things you could get Dad for Father’s Day in Macon 50 years ago (June 1975)

• An Izod Classic LaCoste shirt for $15.50 from the Squire Shop at Jos. N Neel on Cherry Street
• A striped hammock for $12.88 from Key Catalog Showroom on Eisenhower Parkway
• A saddle-brown vinyl recliner for $78.88 at Bert Maxwell Home Furnishings on Second Street
• Gold Toe dress socks for $1.50 to $3 at the Burden-Smith department store on Third Street
• A 4-ounce bottle of Musk Oil cologne and aftershave for $6 from Eckerd’s Drugs at Northeast Plaza on Shurling Drive
• A 12-inch RCA black-and-white television for $84 from the Hunt-Ragan appliance store on Poplar Street
• A Kawasaki K2-4005 motorcycle for $998 from Kawasaki of Macon on Columbus Road
• A Norelco VIP adjustable razor with pop-up trimmer, floating heads and self-sharpening rotary blades for $21.88 at KMart on Pio Nono Avenue
• A necktie (what else?) for $6.50 from Stephen’s Men’s Shop on Cherry Street
• A Mitchell Model 300 spinning reel with tungsten carbide line guide and adjustable drag system for $14.88 from JC Penney at Napier Square