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VOLUME 44 —NUMBER 31
A TRAP PLAY, following a late-game fumble, put Forest Park in the victory
column over old rival, Jonesboro, before an overflow crowd Friday night at Jones
boro’s inadequate stadium. Steve Donahoo is shown flying up the middle on the
trap play, through which the Panthers could have scored riding a Martin Burks
POINT OF VIEW
— ■ By JACK TROY —
"Leaving Korea — Makes Us So
Happy We Want to Cry!"
In the presence of big Depot brass, true friends and other con
scientious co-workers, Jimmy Jones, who stood with the stature of
a proud ex-Marine, received his official retirement separation from
the AAD as Public Information Officer in a quiet ceremony in the
facing way of his, told Jones that he wanted him to stay in touch
always with Depot operations and that he felt sure that Mr. Jones
could lend a hand in giving valuable advice and assistance to his
successor.
He handed Mr. Jones an envelope which contained some sort
of message not revealed; possibly entree to the Officers Club as
“PIO Emeritus.”
Professor Jones, who taught at GMC, was roundly congratu
lated by fellow workers and friends and officers after the reading
of a citation of his noble service.
Jones added that he had received Marine citations, etc., but
he valued this one above all. And he was telling the truth, as al
ways. He has had and always will have a great love and respect
for the Depot and Depot personnel. He remarked that he was
fortunate to have served under so many fine and able CO’s.
♦ ♦ ♦
Jones Knows His Way Around
In the Newspaper Game!
Col. Alexander didn’t learn until later that Jones actually
wasn’t going to be so far away after all. He is coming to work for
the Clayton County newspapers, a field in which Mr. Jones excels.
He is a former sports editor of Macon Telegraph, Louisville Courier-
Journal and Richmond Times-Dispatch, a former assistant in
sports on The Atlanta Constitution, and a former Publicity Offi
cer for the U. of Georgia Bulldogs and Jekyll Island.
Jones knows his way around in newspaper circles, and he is a
fine magazine writer too. Not only that, he is a most able supply
teacher.
And when Jones gets up to introduce somebody and doesn’t
get himself mixed up with William Jennings Bryan, he heeds the
time-honored admonition that “if you can’t be brilliant, you can
be brief!”
Jones well remembers that it took Abe Lincoln only five min
utes to deliver the deathless Gettysburg Address.
We are going to be very happy to be associated with Jones
once again. We had the pleasure for many years on The Consti
tution.
Guy Butler (News) is a former sports editor, Jones is a former
sports editor and so, too, is the writer — all on metropolitan news
papers. Then, too, we have Jesse Bradley, a great former star for
Griffin High School, who is a fine sports writer, and we hope, with
all these assets, to present a fairly colorful picture of Clayton
County high school football this season, as well as a colorful pre
sentation of the county-wide intramural program in which kids
who can’t win varsity letters in major sports will win medals and
trophies for their efforts in a fine physical and character-building
program this year.
Rabies Clinic
Sponsored by
Youth Center
The Mountain View Area
Youth Center, Inc. will hold a
Rabies Inoculation Clinic on
Saturday, September 21, 1963,
from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the
Mountain View Fire House.
The City Council of Mountain
View has voted to pay part of
the inoculation charge for resi
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headquarters office of Commanding Offi
cer Col. Joseph Paul Alexander Jr., Wednes
day morning.
Col. Alexander is a sort of a pixie-type
in injecting humor into a solemn occasion,
claiming “mixed emotions.”
So he told ex-Marine Sergeant Jones:
“This sort of reminds us of leaving Korea;
it makes us so happy we want to cry!” But
Jones wasn’t showing any real happiness
as mixed emotions showed.
Jones, who had served the Depot for
many years in a manner of distinction in
spreading the good name of the vast facil
ity far and wide through intelligent writ
ing and well-selected pictures, told Col. ,
Alexander that he had created a new post
at the Depot: “PIO Emeritus!”
Col. Alexander, grinning in that self-ef-
FP Methodist
Men’s Club
Meets Sept. 24
j On Tuesday night, September
• । 24, the Forest Park Methodist
1 j Men’s Club will hold their
•' monthly meeting at the Forest
‘ Park Methodist Church.
Mrs. Margaret C. Mahan,
chairman of Social Studies De
partment at Sylvan Hills High
School; will be the speaker.
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FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1963
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truck. In the picture at right, Julian Aiken is on the ground after a successful
excursion around right end for the extra point. It was one of the best games
maybe the best —of the Forest Park-Jonesboro football series.
(Photos by Lee Hooper)
“AIN’T STARTED FIGHTING’ YET!”
Perl Miss Informs Jonesboro Folks About What's
* To Come — She Had the Outcome Right On the Nose!
By JACK TROY
A little snip of a girl, with a cocky attitude and a pert face—she was wearing the
colois of Foiest Park—showed up at the stadium gate in Jonesboro at 6 o’clock Friday
night—Friday the 13th—and said, positively: We’re gonna BEAT you-all tonight'”
Someone asked: “Are you a prophet?”
“No, I am a Pantherette, and we ain’t started fightin’ yet!”
AN ACT OF GOD
Barking Dogs Don't Bite,
But This Story Does
Tiny is a young lady six years old and seemingly quite
modest. She never opened her mouth the entire 20 minutes
of the interview.
Neighbors insist, however, by their complaints to the
police, that Tiny, a Chihuahua
that couldn’t weigh over 12
pounds, is quite noisy and is a
nusiance.
The police, according to Mrs.
B. J. Hall and her daughter,
Miss Brenda Hall, of 142 Geor
gia Avenue, Forest Park, have
responded to the pleas of the
neighbors and informed them
that “the dog cannot bark.”
Moreover that “all dogs have to
be tied up or on a leash.”
“How they can tell us that a
dog cannot bark,” said Brenda,
“is beyond me. That, to my
notion, is an act of God. God
created dogs as he did human
beings, and he gave them a bark
to use.
“We haven’t had her on a
leash because she’s so small and
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■ i
WILL THIS leash do, gentleman of the Forest Park police, for
this “terrible barking dog” —a Mexican Chihuahua? Brenda
Hall needs protection — not only from the police but from some
wacky neighbor. A “barking” dog sometimes oughta bite!
— - . IPhoto by Derickson)
A Hound Bays
At FP Moon!
At exactly 4:30 a.m. Satur
day, walking into the office of
The Free Press in Forest Park,
we were stayed by a familiar
sound—the baying of a hound.
The wind was blowing from
the direction of College Street
and obviously the dog was in
that vicinity, and it bayed and
bayed and bayed at the moon.
This is a dog’s freedom of
speech, and no police can do
much about it, even in Forest
Park!
★ ★★★★★
She was so right. It was two
hours before the kickoff.
Then this appealing little kid
toned to her girl friend and
said: “Come on, Judy, let’s go
get a seat!”
* * *
SHORTLY AFTER, a familiar
face showed up under one of
those sporty caps that Grandpa
used to wear driving a Model-T
Ford, or for a quick visit for a
beer at the nearest saloon. Jones
boro used to have about 20 of
them in the city limits—saloons,
that is.
However, this gentleman would
not have been interested. He was
wearing, for about the 11th year,
this same cap. Red Garner, the
highly capable and affable dis
trict manager of the Georgia
Power Company, Jonesboro.
Red emerged from the mob—
and mob of folks it was—and
said, philosopically: “Ain’t war
hell!” Jonesboro had lost, 7 to 0,
on a trap play up the middle,
following a late-in-the-game
fumble recovery by the visiting
Panthers.
* * *
STANDING AT the refresh
ment stand was a disconsolate
girl member of the Rebel march
ing band of Jonesboro, sobbing,
and tears streaming down her
pretty face. She cried as if her
heart were breaking.
A visiting fireman, standing
there, patted her on the shoulder
,and said: “Honey, you can’t win
’em all. It was a great game, and
nobody feels badly about it.”
“But you don’t know the boys,”
she sobbed.
“Oh, sure I do. They played
their hearts out. That’s all you
can ask.”
“Daddy,” she appealed, talk
ing to a former World War II
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Farmer and Short
Sorely Missed!
A great tackle named Farm
er was in the press box at the
North Clayton-College Park
game, his arm in a sling, and
this determined boy who means
so much to offense and defense
in the Eagle line, will not be
available for three more weeks.
He would have made a great
difference in the game Thurs
day night. He would have
taken care of some of those
behemoths of the visiting
Rams. And how he would!
Then, too, the other half of
the Short twins, who is out
with a bad knee, was missed
almost as much. But that’s
the way the ball bounces!
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College Park Drops
Eagles in Thriller
North Clayton Loses Dedication Opener
As Rams Boot 25-Yard Field Goal
By JACK TROY
Editor, The Free Press
The fine people of South Col
lege Park (North Clayton) were
happy to share their enterprise,
good will and good fortune with
the good people of College Park
Thursday night at the dedication
of a handsome new stadium of
community enterprise and al
lowed the visiting Rams to go
home with a 3 to 0 triumph over
the War Eagles. Despite a flag
rant Ram offside on the final
play.
The Rams couldn’t have scored
a touchdown on North Clayton if
the game had lasted three days.
Big as they were, the Rams
couldn’t find effective running
room or any means for effective
passing either.
On the other hand, the Eagles
couldn’t stop the defensive ef
forts of Ram sidebacks, and they
GOING MY WAY?—Free Press girl reporters,
Barbara Starr, thumbing, and Judy Hayes, her
room-mate from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., are back
at LaGrange College for their junior year. This
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couldn’t circle the ends until
Quarterback Thurston Taylor
began running keeper plays. Try
ing the middle was suicide.
It was, on the basis of ail
things considered, one of the
finest high school football games
ever played in Greater Atlanta,
and present were more than 6,-
000 witnesss to testify to this.
The dedication of the com
munity-effort stadium, one of
the very finest community per
formances of all time in Clayton
County for the youth of North
Clayton —the youth, and the
mamas and papas, grandmoth
ers, grandfathers etc., —was a
night to remember.
And no one really is heartsick
over the 3 to 0 loss. North Clay
ton, with 22 men, was outweighed
terrifically, and yet on defense,
and in the closing stages on of
fense, showed a real superiority
over the Rams. And the Eagles
ought to help the school’s morale no end! It
doesn't help ours too much, though. We sure
miss them.
(Photo by Pete Smith)
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play by the rules!
It was not the luckiest night
for the Irish. Especially for a
boy who was playing tackle on
defense and fullback on offense!
Millard Brannen, a fine full
back, had one of THOSE nights.
He missed a sure touchdown
pass, he fumbled to set up the
Ram’s winning field goal effort
and, in general, had the kind
of a night that send the lepre
chauns running to the nearest
bar. But just remember that
tackle Brannen took a pretty
good pounding in the line.
After a scoreless first period,
Newton Wilcox scooped up Bran
nen’s fumble and ran down to
the 14 where he was hauled
down by a desperation tackle.
Ralph Clay and Matt Markey
and QB Ronnie Newton moved
the ball to the 11 yard line, and
on the 4 yard line, on fourth
down, Newton kicked a high and
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