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VOLUME 45— NO. 12
BANDS PRESENT CONCERT SUNDAY 3:00 P.M.
“The Pride of Forest Park,” the bands of Forest Park Senior High will be no admission charge. Selections will be performed by the 58-piece
School will present a concert this Sunday, May 10 at 3:00 p.m. There “Concert Band” and the 48-piece “Symphonic Band.”
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300 Scouts Enjoy
Annual Camporee
Approximately 300 Scouts—ranging from Tenderfoot through Eagle — gathered at
the Lake Stephens area of the Atlanta Army Depot Friday afternoon for their annual
Camporee. The 24 Troops of Tara District, Clayton County, were accompanied by sixty
adult Scout leaders. Acting as host was the Depot’s Boy Scout Troop No. 297, of which SP
-4 Jim Hines is Scoutmaster. The Morgan Scout Lodge served as Camporee headquarters
and Emereencv First Aid Center.
On Saturday there were many ' ‘ “
contests: a string-burning; a 2-
man cross-cut saw relay, log
hauling, first aid, log raising,
wood chopping, a tug of war.
and a pancake flipping contest.
A special feature of the Sat
urday afternoon program was a
demonstration staged by four
members of the American Arch
ery Association. Following this
there was an impressive retreat,
with lowering of th^ Colors, in
front of the Morgan Scout
Lodge. Each troop made its own
campfire and prepared its own
meals.
Saturday night was high
lighted by awarding of emblems
by Depot Commander, Col. J. P.
Alexander, Jr., songs, games and
stunts around a campfire. The
camporee ended officially at 9:30
p.m. Saturday, most of the
Scouts returning home to attend
their own church services on
Sunday. Those who elected to re-
main overnight, attended a spe
cial religious service conducted
at the Depot by Chaplain (Ma
jor) Wilton E. Sloan at 8:15 a.m.
Sunday.
Major Robert E. Allwine served
as Depot Coordinator for the
Camporee; Duane McGraw of
Forest Park was Camporee
Chief; Ed Hickerson of Morrow
was Chief Inspector; Steve Mc-
Mullan of Atlanta was Campfire
Director; and E. P. (Penny)
Jones of Forest Park helped plan
and carry out the program as
Tara District Scout Executive,
Atlanta Area Boy Scout Council.
More than 300 Tara District Scouts enjoyed an
abbreviated Camporee at the Atlanta Army De
pot this past week-end. The annual affair bad
to be shortened because of an unexpected down
pour which drenched the camping site. Pic-
HENDRIX DRIVE SCHOOL
PRE-SCHOOL ROUND-UP
May 12 has been set aside for pre-school round-up at
Hendrix Drive Elementary School. Registration will begin at
2:15 p.m. Parents are asked to bring their child’s birth cer
tificate. A health card will be given each parent to be com
pleted by your private physician.
Pertinent information concerning you and your child will
be given you at school.
It will not be necessary for your child to accompany you
on the day of registration.
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Edwin S. Kemp Elected
Juvenile Judges President
I
The Georgia Juvenile Judges
Association met in Macon Wed
nesday, April 29, 1964, and
elected Judge Edwin S. Kemp of
Jonesboro, Georgia as its presi
dent. He succeeds Judge John F.
Hardin of Augusta, Georgia.
Judge Wendell O. Horne, Jr. of
Cordell, Georgia was elected
vice-president and Judge Robert
Cooper of Gainesville was elected
Secretary and Treasurer.
Judge Durwood Mercer of Ma
con announced that the Grand
Chapter of the Royal Arch Ma
sons has voted to underwrite the
tured above are members of Troop 136, spon
sored by the Jonesboro Presbyterian Church.
Left to right: Dane MacLetnore, Kenneth
Goodrum, and Jeffry Goodrum.
; cost of the annual seminar held
■ at the University of Georgia
I Center for Continuing Educa
: tion. They have agreed to pay
■ the cost of $1500.00 for the cur
. rent year and SIOOO.OO per year
. for the next nine years.
■ This will insure the continu
-1 ance of the training program of
' all the Juvenile judges of the
1 State and for the Superior Court
Judges exercising Juvenile Court
• Jurisdiction.
I Mr. Hershell Saucier of the
State Department of Youth gave
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FOREST PARK, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1964
Jonesboro Jr. High
PTA Seats Officers
Mrs. E. W. Baker, president of
the Clayton County PTA Coun
cil, installed the 1964-65 officers
of the Jonesboro Junior High
PTA at the April 28th meeting.
The officers installed were:
President—Mrs. B. D. Mitchell.
Vice-President—Mrs. Wells Ri
ley.
Treasurer—Mrs. Fred Lee.
Recording Secretary—Mrs. Ed
Huie.
Corresponding Secty. — Mrs.
Carlton Clem.
Principal Travis Vaughan pre
sented Mrs. W. M. Stevens, re
tiring president, with the Past
President’s Bar and praised the
excellent work the PTA has done
under her leadership. He also ex
pressed appreciation for the
books purchased by the PTA for
the school library.
The charter for the Jonesboro
Junior High PTA was received
from the President of the Geor
gia Congress of Parents and
Teachers, as all qualifications
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Little League
Ticket Sale
Is Extended
Bill Wheeless announces that
the Forest Park Athletic Associa
tion has extended sale of bar
becue tickets until May 9th for
the players to turn in the pro
ceeds and tickets to the man
agers.
Little League season opens on
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Soil Stewardship Week
By TOM COLE
Soil Conservationist
Clayton County Farmers —
Landowners and Others recog
nize “Soil Stewardship Week”—
May 3-10, 1964. This year The
Upper Ocmulgee River District
Supervisors along with the Geor
gia and National Association of
Soil and Water Conservation
Districts are sponsoring this
program.
People — regardless of where
they live — in the city — urban
— rural or country are depen
dent upon these two basic nat
ural resources, Soil and Water,
for their food, clothing, shelter,
also for their source of income.
This year’s Theme “To each
among us—A SHARE — A share
of Responsibility, Talent, Faith,
and expanding horizons — Con
sider Your Share. We turn to
the first verse of the first chap
ter of God’s word and we find,
"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth”.
Man must conserve if succeeding
HARMON BORN SECRETARY
Rev. Hoyt Farr to Serve
Red Cross Board Again
Rev. Hoyt G. Farr, pastor of Forest Park’s First Baptist
Church, has been nominated to succeed himself for a three
year term on the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan At
lanta Red Cross Chapter. The election was held April 29, fol
lowing the organization’s Golden Anniversary at the Pro
gressive Club. — :
In addition to Rev. Farr, Har
mon M. Born, who is a director
of the Clayton County Chamber
of Commerce, has also been
nominated as secretary of the
chapter for a term beginning
July 1, and ending June 30, 1965.
Highlighting the dinner, which
marked 50 years of Red Cross
service to the Atlanta commun
ity, was the presentation of an
award to W. A. Pulver, president
of Lockheed-Georgia Company.
The plaque was given on behalf
of the company’s record-setting
employee blood donor program.
A musical cavalcade, “The First
Fifty”, was presented by mem-
FP Optimist Club
Planning Contest
Forest Park Optimist Club are
completing plans for another
“Junior Miss Forest Park” Con
test. This is one of the main
attractions of the year for our
younger ladies who come from
the elementary schools in the
Forest Park area, must be in the
sth or 6th grades.
Club members are responsible
for finding sponsors for the con
testants. The date this year is
Saturday, May 9 at 8 p.m. at
Mountain View Elementary
School. All contestants are
asked to be there not later than
7 o’clock. Trophies are awarded
to the first, second and third
generations are to receive the
same values. This involves a
natural law of God. We read on,
“The Lord saw that his creation
was good and it behooves man
to keep it that way”.
Faster than any nation in his
tory, we have destroyed our top
soil. Below the six inches which
remain there is desert, dispair
. and death. Population of the
United States now growing at a
rate of 3 million each year will
require double its present pro
duction from its agricultural
lands by 1980. Can we continue
to lose 500 thousand acres an
nually resulting from erosion
and lands taken from agricul
tural production for highways,
' housing, business, industry and
others.
The hunger belt, the illiteracy
belt and the communist threat
coincide.
The next generation might say
“If our children are to eat fruit
tomorrow, trees must be planted
today”.
SINGLE COPY 10c
bers of the High School Red
Cross, featuring outstanding pe
riods in the chapter’s history.
The Clayton County Red Cross
: Chapter had a 44-year history in
1961 when it became part of the
Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter. It
was chartered in 1917, during the
First World War, with A. C. Bla
lock as the first chairman.
In addition to Born, other new
officers nominated to head the
. chapter for the next year in
clude John Wesley Weekes, chair
man; Frank M. Malone, first
. vice chairman; John C. Ager,
, second vice chairman; and Jack
■ Glenn, treasurer.
place winners, along with a
cash award.
Last year’s “Junior Miss Forest
Park”, Miss Jackie Smith, will be
on hand to present the trophies.
The Optimist Club says please
come along and enjoy the event
with all of us, admission is free.
And to the merchants and
friends who have co-operated so
wonderfully, to all who have
given their time and resources to
make the contest possible, go our
sincere thanks.
Following are the names of
contestants and their sponsors
Christy Andrews, Lundy Pro
duce Co.; Tina Ashmore, Sheriff
W. L. Dickson; Helen Bennett,
Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Smith; Judy
Bertsch, The Dwarf House Grill;
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ENJOY CHICK-FIL-A
"The Best Thing That Ever Happened to a Chicken"
—AT—
THE DWARF HOUSE
HAPEVILLE
AND COMING SOON TO FRANCHISED
BETTER EATING ESTABLISHMENTS
Sabin Sunday's
End Successfully
Rainy, blustery weather Sun
day put a damper on the final
effort in the mass immunization
program against polio in the
Greater Atlanta area, but never
theless more than 296,603 per
sons took their Type II Sabin
Oral Vaccine.
This Sunday’s immunization,
combined with the 396.776 who
received the Type II vaccine on
a lump of sugar last Sunday,
brought the overall total to
693,379 for this type vaccine.
In an 18-county area taking
part in the current Sabin Oral
Sunday campaign, sponsored by
the private physicians in the
county medical societies, 796,141
persons received Type I vaccine
in February and 746,706 took
Type 111 in March.
Thus ends the largest mass
immunization project ever un
dertaken in this area—a three
months long campaign involving
an estimated 7500 different peo-
pie who donated 40,000 man-1
hours of time.
The S-O-S campaign was un
dertaken by the physicians in
the county medical societies with
the goal of bringing the level of
total immunization against
dread and crippling polio to a
safe level. Also taking part in
the immunization effort were
representatives of nursing and
the pharmaceutical organiza
tions, the Junior Chamber of
Commerce, Parent-Teachers As
sociation, Boy Scouts and Girl
Scouts, other civic organizations,
the Civil Defense, amateur radio
groups and scores of individuals.
Drs. John Yauger and Albert
Rayle, Jr., members of the Ful
ton County Medical Society who
served as general campaign co
chairmen, assessed the results of
the campaign as “most satisfac
tory and successful.”
“While certain sections of At
lanta and Fulton County and
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CHARLES C. DAVIS, new City Manager of Forest Park, comes
here from Marietta. He sees street repairing and resurfacing
and storm sewers as vital city needs. He plans to meet the needs
I as soon as possible.
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। other parts of the participating
I 18-county area did not take ad
vantage of the program to the
degree we felt they should, the
overall level of immunity against
' all three types of polio virus is
significantly higher than it was
before the Sabin Oral Sunday
campaign was started,” a joint
statement by Dr. Yauger and Dr.
Rayle said.
The statement pointed out
that during the three months of
the campaign over 2,000,000 doses
of Sabin oral vaccine were ad
ministered. The exact dosage
figure was 2,236,226.
The physicians also explained
that an exact estimate of the
relative level of immunization in
Atlanta and Fulton County is
difficult because of the previous
public immunization program
held within the past two years.
‘‘Although there was undoubt
edly some duplication, it is our
hope that the great majority of
I persons who took the Sabin vac
cine during this S-O-S drive
were persons who had not had
the vaccine previously,” the
statement said. “If this is true,
then certainly the Atlanta and
Fulton County area will be ap
proaching a safe overall level of
immunization.”
It was pointed out that many
of the participating counties im
munized between 60 and 90 per
’ cent of their total population.
The S-O-S co-chairmen re
l iterated their praise for “the
, magnificent job of news media
i in carrying news and informa
. tion about the campaign to the
; public.”
They also paid tribute to the
> thousands of volunteers, “who
■ took time out on the Sundays to
f help immunize their friends and
■ neighbors in order to end the
threat of a polio epidemic once
• and for all.”
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