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High’s ECHO
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Wins Awards
Jonesboro Senior High
School students can be proud
of the 1966 ECHO and staff.
When judged by the Nation
al School Yearbook Associa
tion, Memphis, Tennessee,
the 1966 annual earned an
“A” rating of excellence. The
yearbook ranked among the
top 15 per cent in competi
tion with 1100 other schools.
Winners of A or A+ scores
receive a gold-bordered cer
tificate, with “Special Merit”
designation.
New and more -creative
ideas were used in the an
nual. It had more color, more
pages, better layouts and
copy, and better coverage of
all sections of school and
school life. NYSA’s criticisms
and suggestions for the 1965
ECHO, which received a “B”
rating, were the bases for
these improvements.
Editors of the 1966 annual
were John Dean and Janet
Rawls. Members of the staff
were Richard Cody, Earnie
Carroll, Susan Weir, Larry
Elwell, Vernice Masoner,
Jimmy Clary, Patty Wil
liams, David Levins, Bobby
Wiggins, Vickie Mitchell,
Pam Reed, Pat Foyle, Eddie
Stallworth, Carlton Plant,
Diane Freeman, Alphia Mc-
Millan and Deborah Bart
lett. Faculty advisors were
Miss Joanne Godwin and
Mr. James K. Driskill.
Members of the 1967 ECHO
are Linda Howe, Janice Ray,
Dan MacLemore, June Shell,
Brenda Murphy, Rita Miller,
Sandra Chastain, Cheryl
Powell, Shelia Sweeney, Pam
Reed, Beth Voyles, Angie
Wynn, Nancy Jackson, and
Toni Hayes. This year’s fac
ulty advisor is Mr. Driskill
with editor John Dean.
A medicinal remedy for
colic and indigestion is made
from sweet flagroots.
MORE PEOPLE EACH DAY
ARE ENJOYING THE GOOD FOOD AT
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S. Expressway - Adjacent so Atlanfa Terrace Motel
Next Door to G.E.X. — Phone Ahead (761-3960),
Lunch With Us and Return to Work With Minutes to Spare.
Luncheon Entrees ¢
With Two Fresh Vegetables,
Plot Bretd. Teci or Cottes. ... .. .. .. .
Fresh vegetables daily to choose from . . . Direct from the
Farmers Market . . . Served at lunch and dinner.
Open 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.
Former All-State Twitler to
Teach in Clayton County
ZIP CODE
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holiday weeks.
Postmaster General
O’Brien announced May 19
that steps were being taken
to make Zip Codes more ac
cessible to the mailing pub
lic. A poll earlier this year
found that about half the
population were using Zip
Codes. Os the remaining half
who were not, 80% said the
reason was that they did not
know the Zip Codes for the
people to whom they wrote.
President Johnson has
proclaimed October 10-15 as
“Zip Code Week” to promote
greater usage of Zip Code.
BAND BOOSTER
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bags or boxes for take out
orders.
We need someone with a
truck who is willing to use
it when necessary in connec
tion with the chickenque. We
also need workers. If you
will donate any of the above
items or will work with us,
please contact Mr. C. L.
Guimarin, phone 366-2098.
Band Booster Club has 57
members. If you would like
to join our club for promot
ing our school band program,
contact Mrs. T. F. Nichol
son, 366-4207, membership
chairman.
—Mrs. Charles R. Ingram
Publicity Chairman
FIRE PREVENTION
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dent of the United States.
The Forest Park Fire De
partment has big plans for
this week; a parade will be
on schedule this year with
the Jaycees in charge. A fire
prevention poster contest
will be held in the elemen
tary schools and the winners
will be presented a hand-
Miss Mary Ann Christian,
former head majorette at
Forest Park Senior High, will
be teaching baton lessons in
Forest Park and Jonesboro
beginning October 11. Miss
Christian, while in high
school, was selected as an
All-State Majorette and per
formed with the Georgia
All-State Marching Band at
the annual North-South All-
Star game in Atlanta. Miss
Christian, now a junior at
Georgia State College, has
been twirling for eight years
and is an experienced baton
instructor.
Group and individual les
sons will be taught on begin
ning and advanced levels.
Lessons will be taught on
weekday afternoons at For
est Park and Jonesboro High
Schools. For further infor
mation call 366-4551.
some trophy by Speir Insur
ance Agency. They will also
be king and queen of fire
prevention for their respec
tive school and will have a
prominent place in the pa
rade.
A Boy Scout training pro
gram on firemanship will be
held also this year with ap
proximately 50 boys expect
ed to attend.
There are a few other
things that are being plan
ned, so watch this paper for
the time and place.
Anyone interested in en
tering a float in the parade,
which will take place on
Saturday, October 8, please
call Phil Spratling, 361-3831.
The pacemaker, a transis
terized device which stimu
lates the normal rhythm of
the heart beat for victims of
heart trouble, was developed
by medical researchers at
the Buffalo, N. Y., Veterans
Administration Hospital.
Veterans
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Reminded
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Os Liability
Georgia veterans who
have received GI loans for
the purchase of homes were
reminded today that they
remain personally liable on
their note and maqrtgage
when they sell their homes
if the new buyer merely
continues the payments on
the GI loan, but defaults
later.
A. W. Tate, Manager of
the Veterans Administration
Georgia Regional Office, ad
vised veterans that liability
continues until the loan is
paid in full or until veterans
are personally released by
the VA on the obligation.
“The VA has guaranteed
and approved many home
loans in the area under our
jurisdiction,” Mr. Tate said.
‘“We have experienced cases
where veterans have sold
their properties and were led
to believe they had no fur
ther responsibility for the
mortgage debt.”
He warned veterans who
may be behind in their pay
ments due on GI loans to be
very careful before agreeing
to offers by strangers to
make up their back pay
ments if the veterans will
sign sales contracts.
Mr. Tate said that if such
a proposition is made, vet
erans should ask the holder
of their mortgages or the
Loan Guaranty Division of
the VA Regional Office for
advice on the validity of the
offer. If the VA clears the
purchaser, the veteran can
be given a written release
from Liability.
HOLD TIMBERLAND
Don’t sell timberland at
the first opportunity, advise
Extension Service foresters.
Even though taxes have in
creased in many cases, more
and better markets for tim
ber can offset higher taxes.
The foresters pointed out,
however, that a more inten
sified management program
is needed in Georgia to meet
the increased market de
mands.
Sensing the N
By THURMAN SENSING
Executive Vice President
Southern States Industrial Council
A TURNING POINT
The defeat of the Johnson administration’s civil
rights bill in the U. S. Senate properly may be re
garded as a turning point in the political life of the
Un_i‘te_(_i- States. Since the 19505, advocates of ‘“civil
rights” have only had to de
mand new legislation open
ing up privileges for a mi
nority and the Congress has
jumped to obey. Only two
years ago, former Sen. Barry
Goldwater said he believed
that the Civil Rights Act of
1964 was unconstitutional.
He found himself in a po
litical position of great lone
liness. His candid, coura
geous stand on this question
unquestionably contributed
to his defeat in the presi
dential race.
But things have changed
in two years. Indeed they
have changed very much in
the last four months. U.S.
Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-IIl),
the minority leader in the
Senate, took an unshakeable
stand against the Civil
Rights Act of 1966. He said
that, in his judgment, the
so-called open housing pro
vision of the bill was un
constitutional. His stand
against open housing proved
decisive in settling the bill’s
fate in the Senate.
What is apparent is that
Sen. Dirksen’s stand was
not only correct in terms of
principle but politically wise
—perhaps even necessary.
The Illinois electorate is in
a very different frame of
mind from two years ago.
Invasion of respectable
white-collar and blue-collar
neighborhoods in Chicago
and other Illinois commu
nities by bands of agitators
calling for open housing has
caused a revulsion in that
state. Illinois citizens are
tired of harassment by ex
ponents of ‘“black power.”
They are sick of political
leaders in clerical collars
who used pious talk to cover
up the building of a political
machine. They have come to
the point where they aren’t
going to take any more from
the professional disturbers
of the peace who incite vio
lence while giving lip service
to idealistic goals.
In other words, there is in
Illinois and other Northern
states what newspapermen
have come to describe as a
“white backlash.” Suddenly,
it has become a tremendous
force in the public arena.
Politicians who long have
toadied to the “civil rights”
leaders are aware of public
resentment. This is why the
Civil Rights Act did not get
through the Senate.
It seems clear that the
professional masterminds of
the “civil rights” campaign
have overplayed their hand.
or more than a decade, they
used divide and conquer
tactics. They managed to
persuade many people in the
Clayton Sets Up
Priority On Bonds
(Atlanta Journal)
Clayton County residents
will vote on a $6 million
school bond issue Oct. 25 to
enable the board of educa
tion to continue its building
program.
County School Supt. Ed
Edmonds said Thursday that
a priority list was compiled
this week.
“Actually, the people will
be voting on two bond is
sues: The first, a sl.l million
commitment from local
funds; the second, $4.9 mil
lion for a junior college.
Supt. Edmonds said that
voters could approve both
issues or accept or reject
them separately.
“It's imperative that we
keep our school building
program going,” he said.
“We already have 2,700 more
students this year than we
did last year. We are up to
23,000 students.”
Supt. Edmonds says that if
voters approve the $4.9 mil
lion junior college, it will
represent tremendous sav
ings for Clayton families.
“Like the DeKalb College,
ours will be a commuter col
lege. Parents will be free
from dormitory fees and
many other expenses in
volved in sending a child off
to school.”
Clayton will get $l.B mil
lion from the state to help
finance its top priority proj
ects if the bond issue is
passed.
Supt. Edmonds said the
top priority list consits of:
—Thirty classrooms for
Lake Harbin Road Elemen
tary; a gymnasium and mus
ic room for G. B. Babb Jun
ior High School; a library for
both Forest Park Senior and
Jonesboro Senior high
schools; and a new stadium
for all Clayton County
schools.
The $l.B million from the
state will probably not cover
all construction costs on
North and West that South
erners who objected to
harassment were uniquely
evil people. Southerners be
came hate objects and were
the target of innumerable
prejudiced analyses on tele
vision.
But the divide and con
quer tactics aren’t working
these days. Northern and
Western cities have had a
big dose of the same medi
cine inflicted on Southern
communities. They have
learned that the marchers
act as though they had a
monopoly on civil rights.
Northern judges have had
sit-ins on their doorstep.
Northern mayors have been
abused by street revolution
aries. Rioters have spilled
into the streets of Northern
and Western cities in a cam
paign of terrorism. There
has been, in short, a shock
of recognition in the North
and West—a great awaken
ing. The full meaning of
civil disobedience—of civil
rights protest—has come to
these regions in the form of
burned stores, attacks on
police and firemen, and in
a general reign of terror. It
is not likely that the people
of these regions will soon
forget what they experi
enced in the long hot sum
mer of 1966.
But an angry reaction
isn’t enough. There should
be a follow-up in terms of a
cool appraisal of the whole
question of “civil rights.”
For example, there should
be a general acknowledge
ment that no minority has
a right to special privileges
above and beyond those en
joyed by the majority. The
country needs a new aware
ness of the danger to tradi
tional freedoms inherent in
a ruthless campaign to con
fer privilege on a few. It
isn’t enough to defeat an
open housing provision.
What is important is that
the whole concept of the
sanctity of private property
be reasserted and buttressed
anew in legislative form. In
the long run, ways and
means must be found to get
onto the federal bench
judges who will uphold the
rights of the majority—not
simply those of a minority—-
and who will recognize that
“civil rights” do not mean a
license to riot and turn the
country upside down to ap
pease a cadre of profes
sional agitators. Defeat of
the Civil Rights Act of 1966
should be viewed chiefly as
an opportunity to begin a
fight to win back lost free
doms.
these projects, according to
Supt. Edmonds. Some funds
from the sl.l million local
bond fund will have to be
used.
On priority list No. 2, the
superintendent listed:
Four classrooms and a
lunchroom for Ash Street
Elementary; six classrooms
and toilets for Lee Street
Elementary; four classrooms
and offices for Riverdale Ele
mentary; installing county
sewage system for Mountain
View Elementary; construct
ing a laboratory on the Suder
campus, to be financed
partly by the University of
Georgia; and the purchase
of equipment for North
Clayton Senior High School,
Lake Harbin Elementary and
all schools receiving addi
tions.
Supt. Edmonds urged all
voters to give their approval
to the bonds, saying:
“The tax increase will be
negligible and the benefits
to the county enormous. We
have got to stay abreast of
our increased enrollment.”
®
Officer
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Training
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Unlimited
For the first time in over
a year, the Air Force can
accept an Officer Training
School application from any
college graduate who wishes
to apply. Up to now, only a
limited number of applica
tions from persons with
specific degrees could be
taken, according to Ser
geant Tom Reese, local Air
Force recruiter.
Applicants must be able to
begin training between now
and January, he said. They
must be between ages 21
and 29%. Both married and
single men are eligible.
“Applying for an Officer
Training School appoint
ment doesn’t obligate a man
to the Air Force,” Sergeant
Reese added. “He is just giv
ing the Air Force a chance
to offer him a career field
and class starting date,
which he may then accept,
if he wants to. If he ac
cepts, he enlists especially
for the 12-week Officer
Training School at Lackland
Air Force Base, San An
tonio, Texas. At the end of
the school, he is commis
sioned a second lieutenant.”
Preparing an application
usually takes several weeks,
Sergeant Reese said. He
urged interested persons to
contact him at 3581 North
Main Street, College Park,
Ga. or phone: 761-6111,
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A gus dryer makes a rainy day so
much easier. No more rushing out
to the line, hauling in soaked
clothes. No more hanging things
around the house, hoping they’ll
dry. No more laundry work piling
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Free Press-News & Farmer, Tues., Oct. 4, 1966
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Soil Conservafion Acfivities
By TOM COLE
Soil Conservationist
Fishing reported good by
P. O. Betsill. When visiting
Mr. Betsill early this month,
I asked,” How is fishing in
your: pond?? He said “I
caught twelve bass recently”.
“How much did they weigh,”
I asked with a big smile. Mr.
Betsill said, “they averaged
from three and one-half to
six pounds.”
Mr. Betsill who has past
85 years, lives north of
Jonesboro on Fayetteville
Highway has a three acre
farm and fish pond close to
his home. The pond is spring
fed with a small pasture in
the watershed. It was con
structed in 1949 and Mr. Bet
sill has cooperated with the
Upper Ocmulgee River Dis
trict Supervisors in stocking,
fertilization and manage
ment of his pond.
Mr. Betsill believes in soil
and water conservation,
takes pride and seems to en
joy his work and accomp
lishments. He maintains a
good grass and clover pas
ture producing beef for
home use and for market.
Growing vegetables, flowers
and shrubs is just second
nature to Mr. Betsill.
He has two Tree Tomato
plants growing in his yard
that are between six and
seven feet tall. You can
reach out without bending
and pick good ripe tomatoes.
For a number of years Mr.
Betsill has grown worms for
fish bait in his numerous
beds, along with other kinds
of bait. Garden tools and
fishing tackle, poles etc., are
kept in good working condi
tion, and close at hand.
Any time Mr. Betsill sees
a wash or soil eroding, He
loses no time in planting
up. And, too—you find that the sun
shine in your dryer is actually better
than a sunny day. Because now
yourclothes are softer,smell sweet
er and look better—in any weather.
Good way to brighten any day.
some kind of vegetation,
building sod breaks or
mulching to bring it under
control.
It is an inspiration to
anyone to visit Mr. Betsill
and talk about any of his in
teresting enterprizes, taking
into consideration his age,
good mental and physical
health with a pleasant dis
position.
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Lake City
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Carnival
October 8
Do you enjoy an old-fash
ioned carnival? Be sure to
come to the Family Fun Fair
at Lake City School on Oc
tober eighth from eleven un
til six.
See the roving clown with
prizes for everyone, visit The
House of Many Mysteries,
test your strength by ringing
the bell, and have fun at ac
tivity booths designed for
the whole family. There will
be a booth for engraving
jewelry. The Country Store
will feature hundreds of
useable items at a bargain.
The Sweet Shop will be full
of good home-baked goods
to eat at the Fun Fair and
to enjoy at home.
Hot dogs will be served
continuously in the school
cafeteria.
The Family Fun Fair is
the annual project of the
Lake City PTA.
ALE!
ALL SUMMER SKIRTS
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Hapeville, Ga.
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