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★ Free Press—News & Farmer, Tues., Sept. 24. 1963
JOHNS AND TOMPKINS, from the Atlanta In
ternational Raceway, pose behind trophies with
winning medals spread before them as judges
in Buddy's Toy and Sporting Store annual
Bobby Johns and Joe Tompkins
Judge Buddy's Model Car Contest
Big Winners Are Billy Barnes,
Charles McGarrity and Dannie Holmes
Bobbv Johns of Miami, Fla,, who won the Atlanta International Raceway 500 in 1960
and finished third in the next two years, driving in leadfoot style a widetrack Pontiac,
came out to Buddy’s Toy and Sporting Store, Clayton Plaza Shopping Center, Wednes
day night with Don O’Reilly’s public relations assistant, Joe Tompkins,, to judge the an
nual model car contest participated in by many clever young men of Clayton County and
adjoining counties.
“This ain’t easy,” Johns and
Tompkins observed, as they
viewed model after model in the
three classes. They had just
found out what another AIR
judge had discovered in formerl
years.
But Johns and Tompkins were;
extremely diligent. They spent
more than an hour in their
judging, and finally they came
up with the following winners—
Age 10 and under: Billy
Barnes, 111 Pine Drive, Forest
Park: second, Mike Moore, 400
Gilbert Place, Forest Park.
Age 11-14: Charles McGar
rity, 211 Gilbert Road, Forest
Park: Butch Lewis, 208 Mor
row Road, Morrow.
And the BIG winners, age 15
and over: Dannie Holmes. 482
Penfield Avenue, Atlanta, and
Bobhv Gene Curtis, 102 Mead
owway, Morrow. Ga.
Johns, who attended U. of
Miami — pal Fireball Roberts,
who lives al Daytona Beach, was
a fireball pitcher for the Uni
versity of Florida—also was a
member of the automotive sec
tion. Atlanta Army Depot, during
World War 11. That practically
makes Bobby “home folks!”
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model ear contest. Bobby Johns, a winning race
driver, and Tompkins, assistant in public rela
tions, had their job cut out for them. See story.
(Photo by Hooper)
Johns studied business admin
j istration at Miami, and he has
j been making a business of fin
■ ishing well up the list in the
Nascar - sponsored automobile
! races, which is translated into
' money in Johns’ pocket. That’s
good business administration,
ain’t it?
Buddy Rubinson, proprietor of
Buddy's, expressed his deep ap
preciation for the AIR officials
participation as judges in the
fine model car contest.
Vince McDonald, Public Rela
tions Director and Ticket chief
of the Atlanta International
Raceway, who lives in Forest
Park, judged the contest for the
first two years. Vince, who was
up to his neck in administration
details for last Sunday’s race on
the big track between Hampton
and Clayton County, sent his
। best two men as judges for 1963.
J Thanks, Mr. McDonald! AIR al
-11 ways cooperates in youth events
■ to the fullest extent!
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Forest Park
Jr. High Sets
Open House
Forest Park Junior High
School PTA will hold open
house on Oct. 1. 1963 at 7:30
p.m. All parents are encour
aged to attend. The meeting
will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the
Junior High Auditorium. After
a short business meeting each
parent will be asked to follow
his or her child's daily sched
ule.
Refreshments will be served
by the Hospitality Committee.
—MRS. E. T. HICKERSON
Fountain Rams lake'
Henderson High, 0-0
Fountain High’s Rams butted heads with Henderson
High of Jackson before a crowd of 2,000, battling to a
thrilling deadlock of 0 to 0.
Henderson High entered the game with a record of two
wins and no losses thus far in the season. Fountain High’s
greatly improved' Rams held the
high stepping Jackson boys to a
standstill, and outplayed them
all the way. The Forest Park
i eleven got off to a slow start
■ this season losing the opening
game. But all the teams in the
Georgia Interscholastic Associa
i tion, Region 18, had best take
: notice of these determined
Rams, because they’re here to
stay. Dropping Avondale last
week and stopping Jackson has
put them high on the list or the
most feared team in this region.
Jackson was saved by the bell
twice in the ball game. In the
closing minutes of the first half
the Rams made a terrific drive
sparked by Cornelius (Lenny)
. Gray, and Sammy Adams. The
। half ended as Fountain was on
the one-yard line.
Harold McKibben took to the
air and made an impressive rec
ord of eight completed passes
that kept the Henderson High
boys looking in the air as if a
man from out of space was
dropping sputniks on them.
As the clock was slowly ticking
the final seconds of play Mc-
Kibben dropped one of his mis
siles into the arms of John Hig-
Cross Keys Beat
Cardinals, 25-0
BY JESSE BRADLEY
Jonesboro’s Cardinals were host to the Indians from
Cross Keys here Friday night and suffered a massacre,
when the Indians on the war path all but scalped the Clay
ton County gridsters, 25 to 0.
Coach Amsler could certainly)
have called the U. S. Calvary to ‘
the rescue, when in the opening
minutes of play the Indians'
made a sustained drive from
their own 35-yard line to score
with David Smith sparking the
drive as he tore big holes in
the forward wall of Jonesboro.
Smith and Tommy Griggs alter
natingly carried the pigskin deep
into the Cardinal territory, with
Griggs scoring from the 7-yard
line with a quarterback keep
around end. The try for extra
point failed.
Paul Benefield, the pride of
Jonesboro, was kept in tow most
of the night by the big team
from DeKalb County. Jonesboro
received Cross Keys kickoff
after the T.D. and after several
runs by Benefield and Lamar
Turner (135 lb. halfback) they
carried the ball to Cross Keys
12-yard line. At this point it
looked like it might be a fairly
good game, as Lamar Turner was
stealing the show as his massive
135 lbs. was continuously taking
about 700 lbs. of Indians to stop
him each time. However, Cross
Keys locked the door of Jones
boro’s chance to score, and the
Cardinals lost the ball on
downs.
• * •
Cross Keys moved the ball
to midfield and Jonesboro took
J _
t gins, who scooped it into his
i arms and galloped some 20 yards
c for a total gain of 50 yards on
t the play. Gray took the ball and
T I his race against the time was ■
> ended when he was knocked out
. of bounds on Henderson’s goal
j line. The game was over and
1 what a pandemonium. Most
j people thought Gray had crossed
t the magic marker before going
s out of bounds. When Coach Win
• fray was questioned on this he
. stated, “Those referees are good
] men, I think they called it like
, they saw it, and I wouldn’t want
j to contradict them.”
; Fountain High is the only
> school in the conference that
» doesn’t have a lighted field.
1 Their games must be played
during the daytime, when most
a working-class folks just can’t
' see the ball game. If this fine
s battle had been played here the
1 crowd of 2,000 would have been
j about 300. Also, it was noted I
s that during the half, Fountain’s!
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i over, with their spark still
ignited and the chance for
' seoring still in sight. Faulkner
through the middle for one
yard, a pass to Benefield incom
plete, Benefield off tackle for
two yards failed to do anything
and Jonesboro using good tac
tics decides to punt.
Then it happened—A bad snap
from center over the head of the
intended kicker resulted with
Cross Keys covering the ball
with a gain of about 25 yards on
the play.
The time keeper could have
called the game at this point,
because this fumble, along with
the back breaking tackling of
Cross Keys big, forward wall
lead by William Petterson, had
defeated the spirits of the
Cardinals, and they couldn’t
seem to spread wings again
throughout the night.
Cross Keys in five plays
pounded the bewildered Cardi
nals and Kenneth Shedd, left
halfback, waltzed into the end
zone for the second score. Again
the PAT was no good.
The first half ended with the
score of 12 to 0 with Jonesboro
still looking for its wings that
might bring them a chance to
survive the massacre.
• * *
Ronnie Thorpes’ passes couldn’t
find receivers, Benefield and
Faulkner were stopped con
tinuously and the entire second
half was dominated by the In
dians (Man—let’s send ’em back
to the reservation—somebody’s
done gave ’em fire water and
they’re going crazy out there.)
All was not lost though. From
the press box we witnessed one
of the gamest dying fights that
could be offered by Joel Smith,
marching band got a chance to
entertain. Isn’t it ironic that
such a fine team, excellent coach
and marching band must travel
to another town to get a chance
to play under lights with ade
quate seating facilities?
Cornelius Gray, one of the best
high school fullbacks in Geor
gia, seems to gain more momen
tum each game, which leaves us
with no doubt as to why Coach
Winfrey is so proud of this hard
hitting, hard running big full
taiack. Gray is quite a show on
the gridiron. The first time I saw
him play, was under the impres
sion both legs were badly in
jured. Once seeing him in action
it’d take a plain nut to think
anything was wrong with him.
Each game he tapes his legs
from the ankles to the knees.
After inquiring about this it was
discovered that his football hero
was Lenny Moore of the Balti
more Colts who also has a prac
tice of doing this. The big crowd
'at Jackson last Friday night
) kept calling him “Lenny”.
1 —JESSE BRADLEY
Rev. Wise
In Jonesboro
Baptist Revival
The Rev. Melvin Wise, dynamic
Southern Baptist Evangelist of
Atlanta, Ga., will be at the First
Baptist Church in Jonesboro
September 29, according to an
announcement by Rev. W. W.
Long, pastor. The music will be >
directed by Alec Hopper. Serv
ices will be conducted daily at
7:30 p.m.
Since the beginning of his
ministry, Mr. Wise has been
much in demand as a revivalist.
In 1960, he resigned the pas
torate that he might give his full
time to evangelistic work. In all,
he has led nearly 200 revival
campaigns.
Many of his revivals are re
turn engagements to some of the
largest churches in the South
ern Baptist Convention. He
served as vice president of the
Conference of Southern Baptist
Evangelists, 1961-63.
Evangelist Wise deals Biblically
with present day problems faced
by people in everyday life. His
Scriptural approach appeals to
people of all ages from all walks
of life.
After graduating from college,
Mr. Wise received further train
ing at the Southeastern Baptist
Theological Seminary, Wake
Forest, N. C. He also studied
at the University of Georgia,
Athens. He is conservative, or
thodox, and evangelical in his
theology.
Evangelist Wise served thir
teen years (including his student
pastorates) as a successful pas
tor.
For more than six years, Mr.
Wise wrote a religious column
for the Athens (Ga.) Banner-
Herald newspaper. His column
was widely read and quoted.
Southern Baptist leaders have
described his preaching as
“moving” and “forceful” and
“most effective.” They say that
his messages are “plain, pur
poseful, and practical.”
Lamar Turner and Gary Winn.
The old saying “It’s not
whether you win or lose, but how
you play the game,” can surely
be applied to Joel, whose big
heart and small frame brought
cheers from all who was on
hand as he was mailed, clob
bered, slung in the mud, changed
jerseys and came back for more.
His efforts were the highlights
until the whistle brought relief
to the Jonesboro eleven.
Now where’s that Calvary,
thought they always showed up
when the Indians were on the
rampage.
After the game the writer
approached Coach Amsler for
his comments, but through a
bettered cigar his remarks to
his players and friends gave me
the idea that this just wasn’t
the time for a commentary from
the head mentor.
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Pete Smith is
At Crawford Long
Friends are hoping for a
speedy recovery for Pete
Smith, owner of Pete Smith
Studio, Forest Park, who last
week slipped on a job and suf
fered a break in his lower
back. Mr. Smith is in Craw
ford Long Hospital, where he
is receiving visitors and flow
ers and cards.
The Free Press wishes for
Smith, who shoots high school
football and other high school
pictures, in addition to his
regular business, a rapid re
covery.
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