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VOLUME 43 — NUMBER 41
North Clayton Meets Rossville for State A A Title
I POINT OF VIEW
By JACK TROY >
Watching that sophomore-sprinkled terriffic young TEAM of I
DESIRE, North Clayton’s Eagles, fly away with the AA South
Georgia championship against the fighting, determined Wayne
County Jackets at jam-packed College Park Stadium Friday night.
had decided North Clayton was the underdog and gave Wayne
County a two-touchdown edge. I don’t know what those young
prep writers based it on. Wayne County had tied a couple of
games along the way. North Clayton had an unblemished record
and they had shown, in capital fashion, that they were a team of
unquenchable desire. All season long, like Bailey’s Supreme coffee,
they have left no grounds for complaint. They have guts. They
are admirably well coached.
So they weren’t the underdogs, really, unless I missed some
thing along the way in the wide experience of covering great
Tech, Georgia, Notre Dame, Army and Navy teams—and a host
of Rose, Orange, Sugar and Cotton Bowl contests. And I haven’t
forgotten, either, what it was like to be an active participant
in the game of football.
I think North Clayton is great for more than one reason. To
put it bluntly, tWlte "hell-fer-leather” on defense. And to me
thqt altogether sensational last six-second touchdown pass play—
Taylor to Jenkins—covering 55 yards for the game’s first score at
the end of the first half is very typical indeed of the offensive
capability of the Eagles. They do the unexpected on offense, and
they never fail to do the expected on defense. There are not
many standout players; they simply are coordinated as a team
of great desire, a fashionable word for guts. Actually, the team
lacks depth.
They’re going to journey up to the Tennessee line this Friday
night and play a tough Rossville team, winner over Elberton in
the Elbert County Granite Bowl, 21 to 0, last Friday night. This
one coming up is for the AA state championship. Rossville may
be the toughest team they’ve met all year, but I am still thinking
about the body-contact North Clayton dished out to Wayne County,
a team that has been used to wearing out the opposition, and
noting that the Eagles just about had the visitors on the ropes
at game’s end, physically. I believe the Eagles have the desire to
beat Rossville, and the defense to win their case. Let’s all go up
there and give them moral support. Clayton County, in all its
high school hsitory, has never had a team quite like this. You
naturally feel a great pride in their tenacious belief that the game
isn’t over until the last second has ticked on the clock.
Let’s take those good old mountain boys! They’re only human,
and they put on their pants one leg at a time.
T HF FASY WAY
To Drive to Rossville
To the writer, a return to Rossville and neighboring Chatta
nooga is a sort of sentimental journey following several years of
running a weekly paper and dealing with the merchants in the
general area along the Georgia-Tennessee border.
Then, too, having a printer in Summerville, only an hour away
from Rossville, gives us a warm familiarity with the route.
You drive up the north expressway past Cartersville, turn off
right on the Rome expressway, drive on past Rome to highway 27,
turn right, drive through Summerville, Trion, LaFayette, Chicka
mauga, and soon you’re in picituresque Rossville, in the shadow of 1
Tennessee’s Lookout Mountain. It’s about 3 hours drive from ■
Clayton County. And the mountain scenery along the way is '
very pretty after you leave smelly Rome. Anyone who wants to
spend the night will find fine motels on Rossville Boulevard, '
leading into Chattanooga, and fine motels and hotels in that
Tennessee city.
The people are very hospitable, except when you’re trying to
beat their favorite football team. Then they act a lot like Georgia '
Tech people. You’ll see a fine football game, and it takes very
little effort to make this journey, for there’s expressway almost 1
all the way. Barring the stretch between Rome and Summerville,
and that is a good road too.
See you Friday night at the Rossville High School football
stadium! Back those scrapping Eagles!
PROCLAMATION
WHEREAS, the Jonesboro Woman’s Club has designated the
weeks of November 26 through December 10, 1962, as “Christmas
Gift Weeks” for patients at Milledgeville State Hospital and
Gracewood State School and Hospital, and
WHEREAS, this organization of local women is vitally inter
ested in urging the Citizens of the City of Jonesboro and Jones
boro area to please send or bring gifts, Christmasy wrapped' and
marked “Man,” “Woman,” “Boy,” “Girl,” and the name of item
on the outside of the package, to the City Hall in Jonesboro,
Georgia.
THEREFORE, Hugh Dickson, Mayor of the City of Jonesboro,
Georgia, proclaims the last week in November and the first week
in December as “Christmas Gift Weeks” for patients at the Geor
gia State Hospital in Milledgeville and Gracewood State School
and Hospital and asks all Citizens of this are^ to join the Jones
boro Woman’s Club by participating in this program.
HUGH DICKSON, Mayor
Jonesboro, Georgia
I New Texaco Service Station Opens
This Week On Old 41 Highway!
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I kept thinking about one of those Rose
Bowl expeditions of years gone by. I was
Sports Editor of The Constitution at the
time.
Alabama was matched against a giant
U. of Washington team which came on the
field dressed in red. It was duly written
after the Crimson Tide’s triumph that
“Washington was dressed like Devils and
Alabama showed ’em what hell was like.”
You can learn a valuable lesson for
life’s big game watching Max Dowis’ flam
ing-spirited young men in action. They had
won 11 straight games before they faced
Wayne County of Jesup, a mighty fine team
that had just cancelled out a once beaten
Cairo team, 20-0, in a region play-off game
the week before.
Somehow, the big metropolitan press
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Buddy
To Give
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Trophy
Buddy Rubinson, of Buddy’s
Toy and Sporting Store, Forest
Park, will present a trophy to the
most valuable player in North
Clayton’s state championship
game against Rossville this Fri
day night at Rossville.
Buddy arranged early in the
summer with The Free Press to
give trophies to all county high
school teams. This he has done.
Now, he is giving one more.
North Clayton’s most valuable in
the first championship game in
the school’s history will value
the trophy.
Buddy also said he will give a
10 per cent discount on Converse
basketball shoes to high school
players.
Four Run
For Mayor
In Lake City
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Much interest has been mani
fested in the election scheduled
for the second Wednesday in
December (12) in Lake City.
At that time a mayor and two
councilmen will be elected for
a two year term.
Qualifying for the office of
mayor are Floyd M. Blaylock,
W. P. (Bill) Eubanks, W. Ru
dolph Johnson and Grady L.
Lindsey.
Names that will appear on the
ballot for councilmen are Joe
Petriello, T. D. (Dave) Tram
mell, Clifton Vaughn, Johnny R.
Walker and W. A. Whiting.
It is hoped that everyone in
Lake City qualified to vote will
avail themselves of the oppor
tunity and privilege.
Residents of Lake City who
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Forest Park Votes On Council
Candidates Saturday, Dec. 1
Although it’s mighty quiet on the surface, still water runs deep, and so there may
be a better turnout than anticipated when 10 councilmen seek office on the Forest Park
City Council in this Saturday’s city election.
The fact is that the people seem reluctant to turn out unless there are candidates
for Mayor in the race, and yet the City Council is the governing body and the makeup
of the membership is most im
portant, and it is in the interest
of the taxpaying registered
voters to vote for the candidate
of their choice.
Twin ballots are involved in
this election, since a council
vacancy caused by the untimely
death of Councilman Ben Lopez
has to be filled. There are three
candidates for the job—W. W.
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WHILE JUDGE JOHN WATSON was away holding juvenile
court in Hapeville, burglars broke into his home on Brown Road,
near Jonesboro, ransacked the piace—from kitchen to bedroom,
byway of den and living room, and apparently stole largely
guns and ammunition last week. Judge Watson does a lot of
target practice. County police are working on the case, with a
feu clues. The crooks stole his young daughter’s piggy bank,
and her Christmas money she had saved all year. The piggy
bank was recovered in a pasture nearby, with three pennies
in it. Judge and Mrs. Watson survey part of the mess above.
(Photo by Pete Smith Studio)
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1962
RIDE FOR A STAR
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HAPPY FANS give line star Phil Smith a ride off the field after
North Clayton’s exciting victory over Wayne County for the
South Georgia championship in class AA. Smith blocked a
field goal try, and made some key tackles.
CIVITANS SPONSOR PUBLIC AFFAIR
Candidates Speak
At Thursday Rally
Forest Park Civitan Club will
sponsor a “meet the candidate”
program for the 10 candidates
running for four Forest Park
Council positions this Thursday,
Nov. 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Forest
Park Junior High School Audi
torium on College Street.
This meeting is being held in
the public interest, and all citi
zens are urged to be there, meet
the candidates and evaluate
their platforms.
All 10 candidates have been
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Foust, 1201 Cynthia Lane, well
known Kiwanian and Airline
official: W. D. Derickson, owner
of a local studio and Rotarian,
who lives at 641 Pineridge Drive,
and C. H. (Jack) Scarbrough,
141 Georgia Avenue. One will
fill the Ward 4 spot.
In the regular election, Forest
Park citizens who are willing to
make the effort to exercise their
FP High PTA
Serves Turkey
Election Dav
The Forest Park High School
PTA will have a turkey supper
on Saturday, December 1, from
11 a.m. till 8 p.m., in the school
cafeteria. Come on out and
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i God-given right to vote in a
,! Democracy will go to the polls
at Forest Park City Hall and
decide the temporary political
fate of the following:
Councilman, Ward 3—now oc
cupied by Lynn Wells, who is
not running for re-election:
George W. Looney, well known
businessman, civic, fraternal
and church worker, and Eddie
V. Kinard, 135 Mitchell Street.
Mr. Looney lives at 120 S.
Mitchell Street.
Councilman, Ward 6—
Dr. William H. Bateman, the
incumbent, who lives at 1239
Sequoia Drive, is opposed by
Ferman E. McLendon, 103 Bart
lett Drive, and C. Frasier
Whatley, 195 South Avenue.
Both Bateman and McLendon
have been signally active in
civic and other pertinent activi
ties devoted to the welfare of
young people, such as the Music
Club and Miss Forest Park—Mc-
Lendon—and the Forest Park
Athletic Association, Dr. Bate
man. Both are well known for
their good works.
Councilman at Large is held
by V. H. (Vollie) Burks, lifetime
resident and businessman of
Forest Park, who lives on old
Highway 41. He is opposed by a .
relative newcomer, a young
lawyer Oscar W. Kimsey, Jr., 127
Sierra Drive.
Polls will be open from 7 a.m.
until 7 p.m. this Saturday, and
a reasonable turnout of voters
is hoped for by all concerned.
'Bombs Away' TD Pass and Extra
Point Destroy Wayne County, 7-6
North Clayton’s effervescent Eagles dropped a 55-yard scoring bomb on Wayne
County of Jesup with six seconds remaining in the first half and then fought off the
insistent invaders with terrific defensive play to win the South Georgia AA Champion
ship Friday night before a capacity crowd of 4,000 at the College Park football stadium,
n a
7 to 6.
It was a rock-em, sock-em
game the Eagles could have
lost, but wouldn’t, and it was a
game the Jackets might have
won, but didn’t—and the sim
ple answer is that old-fashioned
desire will overcome a lot of
things, including the superior
weight and power of the adver
sary, and some misplays that
might have cost a team of lesser
tenacity the ignominity of de
feat after a brilliant undefeated
season that included still an
other victory in a Region 2-AA
playoff game.
The offensive statistics of the
game were all in favor of the
invading Jackets of Jesup, but
at the end nervy North Clayton
was South Georgia champions
and headed toward a state title
clash with robust Rossville this
Friday night at Rossville, on the
Tennessee border. They only
pay off on superior statistics in
high school football if the game
is a tie. And then it’s on the
basis of penetration.
North Clayton heads for the
North Georgia hills this Friday
with a record of 12 straight vic
tories, the entire squad in peak
physical condition, and the
mental attitude as keen as
you’ll find in high school foot
ball today. Rossville knocked off
Elbert County by 21 to 0, almost
the same score as Wayne Coun
ty achieved against Cairo, 20-0.
But it took Wayne County prac
tically all night to get one
touchdown against North Clay
ton, and when Barbee missed
the extra point attempt that
was the margin of the Eagle
victory. But it wasn’t the end of
the Jackets’ energetic efforts.
They fought on in desperation,
and it was only when a shoeless
lad had a field goal attempt
blocked by a divine Eagle with
30 seconds left to play that the
invaders gave up.
North Clayton all season has
been a team in which the popu
lace of Clayton County’s second
largest voting area put their
supreme trust and confidence,
for it was evident after the early
games that here was a team
of desire that could overcome
shortcomings in some depart
ments of the game, and win.
North Clayton folks and all
Clayton County, in fact, have a
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Kiwanis Sponsors
'Cake Breakfast
Forest Park Kiwanis Club will
be host to a Public Pancake
Breakfast Saturday morning at
the Youth Center. Pancakesand
sausage and hot coffee will be
served from 8 to 10 a.m. Stoke
up for the city election. Prices
SI.OO, adults and 50c, children.
Bring the wife.
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Try This Football
Record On for Size!
North Clayton’s outstanding Eagles, winning 12 in a row in
rugged competition scored a total of 220 points to a combined 55
' for the opposition. Only one team, Campbell, scored two td’s >
, against them.
North Clayton—Forest Park, 2-0.
North Clayton—College Park, 6-0.
North Clayton—Troup County, 19-7.
North Clayton—Sylvan, 7-6.
North Clayton—Newman, 12-0.
North Clayton—Hapeville, 19-0.
North Clayton—Henry County, 31-2.
North Clayton—Douglas, 40-7.
North Clayton—Campbell, 25-14.
North Clayton—Lakeshore, 37-7.
■"North Clayton—Headland, 18-6.
* "North Clayton—Wayne County, 7-6.
■"Class 2-AA title.
■"■"Class AA South Georgia title.
Mountain View Votes
For Mayor Saturday
Mountain View citizens will vote for a mayor this
Saturday, Dec. 1, and, judging from the talk around the
city, it will be one of the keenest contests in many a moon.
Harry J. Lundy resigned from council to make the
race against the incumbent Arnold Yancey and is making
an all-out effort to win the
post, backed by a large segment
of the population, according to
the openly expressed sentiment
of the people.
The man in
the street ap
pears to be dis
satisfied with
some of the
high - handed,
dictorial tactics
of the incum
bent Mayor, and
says it is high
time for a
change to a
solid citizen who “will work for
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VOTE
SATURDAY,
DECEMBER 1
Forest Park and
Mountain 'View
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
Hugh Dickson,
Councilmen
Unopposed
It looked as if Hugh Dickson,
10 times Mayor of Jonesboro,
was going in unopposed for an
other two-year term ... as the
Free Press went to press Mon
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