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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, Mawh 17, 1 975 7.J CHARLIE C. JONES Pfo iie of a Letter Writer By GRF.C01Y JAYNES Casey Jones heard the 0 LuiUtS 7 carrier put the newspaper in i Get Ilia Fads mailbox about 5:30 in the jl. fKtE UNtfWluG I a jOkM Hunt, would wear from the clothesline that above bis bed. He dries his clothes in his bedroom because the dry heat from the furnace is bad for his sinuses, and the moisture from the drying clothes is good for his sinuses. He put on khaki pants, a brown undershirt, a green cotton shirt, a brown sweatshirt, a black cloth coat and a black baseball cap, socks, and the kind of shoes old men are fond of.

The three mutts that Casey Jones lives with yapped at him and pawed his legs as he went for the paper. morning. The carrier is always on time, and the open-shut sound at the mailbox is Casey Jones' alarm clock. He reached for his bifocals. That is the first thing he does each day.

Now awake, he discovered he had forgotten to spit out his chewing tobacco before going to bed. His subconscious had taken over, he figured, and kept him from strangling. He selected the clothes he Blthiltflnr. -ITT tiHp Bnrtplifcwwwf fci e)n A) MM. I'M.

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HO. He always spreads tne paper out on the top of the washing' machine in the ers. He lived In a heme for the homeless. "Wam't nothing but heilfire," he recalls. "Nobody was ever gonna make it, you know, get saved, but the preacher." Casey Jones is financially comfortable with bis Navy pension.

His only conversations are obligatory. He speaks with the woman at the grocery and he speaks with the man at the pharmacy and be speaks with the children in the neighborhood, most of whom pick at his dogs. Writing letters is the way be has chosen to com-, municate. He is a smart man (he scored very highly on his tests to get a high school diploma when he was 39) but he had never written before. "I knew that if I was going to write something and somebody was going to print it, it had to be right," he says.

Casey Jones, the gentlest of men, once wrote a letter to a dead Judge. The judge's nephew had hit Casey with his' car, seriously injuring his' legs. The case came up in the judge's court and the case never went anywhere. "Dear Judge," Casey wrote, after the judge had died, "I hope you got to where I think you went." Some Say This Fill, aw kitchen, and be stands while i lot nr. wt, Wo Think You'rtlleetfy SUPER SFECIAL I.2...i.i he reads.

He peers through roriiiii 2 SPECIAL UMITED TIME ONLY YOUR FIRST TRIAL TREATMENT $2.00. NO OBLIGATION. Long Ago: Casey as Boxer the top of bis bifocals at the headlines, and, if something strikes him as interesting, he brings the paper, almost all the way up to his nose dnd reads the story with the help of the bottom lenses in his eyeglasses. He turned first to AM UUUL.J NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY PRIVATE BOOTHS FOR LADIES HOURS. DAIIYT0A.M.-7 P.M.-SAT.

10 A.M.-? P.M.-CIOSED YOU'LL WANT T3 SEE THIS ADULTS ONLY! the editorial page and he saw 1 All MALE CAST XXX-RATED letter, bearing the title "Shared and the signature "Charlie' C. Jones." Charlie Casey Jones was as ATLANTA uCAiua PHONI IXCLBSIVE SHCW1NS! OnH 10:45 il COMPLETE NEW SHOW yvrnv wnwftay cmema Ill-Mil DEKALB MEDICAL BIDG, 551 MEDIOCK RD. SUITI l-PHOMS THE MEDICAL ARTS BLOO. 3S4 PEACHTREE N.E. (SUITE 205) 322-7954 excited as a child, and ne put the paper down without reading further.

He walked Very fast to the filling station two blocks away and he bought MWUm ST. (DOWNTOWN) four more issues of the These he would send to ii JaIMiIlx friends and relatives. This was the 22nd letter-to- the-editor that Casey Jones had had published. His letters' f.ai! ji i are neither dull nor crackpot, They are always funny or poi mummnnzmi SET NEW Now Showing "TRAVELIN' "IF MOTHER COULD SEE ME NOW" gnant and they are short and they always end with a kind of 0. Henry twist Hi types them in the kitchen on his 10 Royal typewriter, sits atop a flat gieen two-drawer COMPLETE NEW SHOW EVERY FRIDAY! TTTT 1 fttinilMMlllMTntYTIimimUMI Pren I ADULTS 0 ociom OLSJ ONLY on fcA.M WIT file cabinet.

He published bis first letter two years ago, when he was 64. He began writing because he didn't have anyone to complain to, but it has gone much beyond that hpson met ii Ml IDMIIICO' Opositivt proot MI IfOHIMO' WOW gm 1:00 Lot. oooooc could be. But she had these two kids Casey himself had four chil-. dren, all by his first wife.

He and his first wife were married and divorced three times. She was the type woman who had to have everything her way. On Saturday nights, when he stays up -late watching the Mary Tyler Moore show, laughing by himself in a totally bare living room, one of the mutts on his lap, he is reminded of his first wife. She was like Mary Tyler Moore, only she had no personality. One of his children, a daughter, who is 40 years old, wrote him a letter recently.

"Dear Daddy: I was going to buy a card for your birthday and then I thought, 'Just how Buy a card with a silly verse written by someone who doesn't even know you to tell you that I wish you a happy birthday." She went on to thank him for teaching her to always cherish, and never abuse, the truth. That has something to do with the reason Casey Jones writes letters to newspapers. The first one he wrote was about Ramsey Clark. He wrote it because he appreciates anyone who has the guts (a term he likes) to speak his mind. Casey's father went to work' one day and the family didn't hear about him for 40 years; and what they heard was that he was dead.

That has something to do with his letter writing, too. The man was born a little over a mile from where he lives now. He lives near Grant Park. He spent over 20 years in the Navy and then moved back here. His house has been paid for for 12 years.

He drives a 13-year-old car. He does not drink coffee or tea or alcohol and he does not eat sweets. The best meal he ever makes for himself involves two or three pieces of leftover chicken, a 10 inch frying pan, a can of hominy, a can of chili beans and a half cup of water. He is not a religious man. He recalls, as a child, listen He had mailed another let Sunday after the first full moon after the first day of spring.

"I held my composure well. Then I hurried home to check a calendar. He was right for this year, last year, and next He had written this Easter letter simply because he thought people might be interested. He did not think many people knew the information be was passing along. He made up the part about the' kid and the pharmacy.

Casey Jones was a prizefighter when he was a young man and he won more fights than he lost There is a clipping from a Knoxville newspaper in his scrapbook and the story begins, "Casey went to bat last night at the Lyric Theatre and delivered the hits. Casey Jones, of Atlanta; Gaw-Jaw is what the boys call him, and he knows how to use his fists." Another clipping, yellowed seriously now, recounts the lowpoint of his life. It concerns a boxing match that took place on July 3rd, 1928. "In the main boxing event, Tommy Oglesby, of Atlanta, gained a technical knockout over Casey Jones, of Atlanta, when the referee stopped the fight in the seventh round after Jones had been floored 14 times for the count of nine." Casey keeps the clippings in a fireproof safe in a closet in his bedroom, A few weeks ago, someone broke into his house and scattered all the things he had in his safe. There was nothing of great worth in there; only the things he had written, had published, had had written about him, and correspondence from his children and friends.

It was easy to break into the safe. He keeps the key on a hook above it He only bought it because it was fireproof. He had $30 in the kitchen in a small, pigeonhole filing bin that he bought at the Goodwill for a dollar. The money was not found. He wished they had found the money and left his personal things alone.

There is nothing in the man's six room house that he ter just the day before. Here is what he had Written: LVE THINS 1 I llM Ill, 11.11 .1 "I noticed a proliferation of Easter items at the YdDHJITdD pharmacy. I asked a young ster, 'When is He said, 'It is "always the first mm WmPT? QmrH lf7nnrnBQ rioc: "According to the latest Government figures. NODUCED AND DIRECTIO II FRANK MILL6TTI omcDmsiomn DAVID WHITE color! Warning: The Surgeon General Has Determined That Cigarette Smoking Is Dangerous to Your Health. 'tat.

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LAST SHOW 11:00 P.M. time a .1 i i ii KV If -Al MS' ing to many Baptist preach- iJii does not need. He has three chairs and a table, his writing tools, his bed, two bookcases, stove, refrigerator, washing 0 0 0 roNCfDElEON ADULT CINEMA 231 PonctdtUonAv. Now Showing- "WEFMilY In Clot Patios Driveways Walks Curb Gutters flail ttt tut hhuvh iv in wmiMi vynriiM iiwi ant; machine, television and a 12.50 radio. He keeps a long window shade over the opening to the upstairs, where he sleeps, and he keeps the shade down in the day, to keep the heat downstairs, and he lets the shade up at night.

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