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VOLUME 42 — NUMBER 50
By JACK TROY
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Great Governor’s
Prayer Breakfast
Somebody said it was a nice meeting. But it was more
than that: It was a great Governor's Prayer Breakfast last
Wednesday morning at the Marriott. The great ballroom
overflowed.
efforts to act in accord with His will. May our gathering to
day for joint prayer sustain us and help us to heed the
admonition of the prophet Isaiah: ‘This is the way; walk
ye in it
Dr. Charles Allen, First Methodist Church, Houston,
Tex., formerly pastor of the Grace Methodist Church, At
lanta, Georgia-born and brother-in-law of Postmaster
Walt Phillips of Forest Park, was the speaker, and it was a
rare privilege to hear him once again.
Dr. Allen, during the course of a speech of great vitality,
said he met layman Maddox for a meeting; they talked to
gether, and they prayed together. “Later on,” said Dr. Allen,
“I received a letter from Lester and I was proud of that,
and he enclosed a check for $50.00. That is the kind of a
man I like!”
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37 Clayton Ministers
In attendance, as guests of Judge E. Alvin Foster of Clay
ton County, was Clayton County’s full complement of min
isters, 37 in all. Also in attendance were county legislators
and city and county officials.
No one could leave the ballroom and say they didn’t
feel uplighted; Dr. Allen was at his best, and at his best
he is the match of Billy Graham or any other ministers
of God.
“We received a color television set as a gift from an in
fluential Texas friend, and the Sunday of the Oakland-
Green Bay Pro Bowl game, we turned on the TV. I wanted
to hear Billy Graham. I wouldn’t watch TV on Sunday
stressing any program of a commercial nature, but I watched
the game for two hours, saying, maybe Dr. Graham would
come on.”
Dr. Allen preached all over Georgia, including a long
and fruitful stay at Grace Methodist, before he turned his
talents to oil-Rich Houston, Tex. Dr. Allen has written 19
books, all best sellers in the religious field, and he writes
a syndicated column for 100 or more newspapers.
“When I retire, we will return to Georgia to live and I'll
run for Governor,” Dr. Allen said in jest.
I sat with Bill Fleming at the breakfast and was de
lighted, for the first time, to meet the former Forest Park
Mayor’s brother.
It also was inspiring to see old friend Graham Jackson,
favorite of Presidents, at the organ. He provided ideally
suited music for the breakfast. Graham and his orchestra
play regularly at Aunt Pitty Pat’s Porch, Cain Street, At
lanta. He is a favorite of Atlantans too.
Fire Rates Reduced
In Lake City, Georgi
n Lake Lity, Georgia
Mayor, Frank Orr, announced this week that
Lake City had been notified by Mr. G. N. Parker from
the Georgia Inspection and Rating Bureau that ef
fective on February 1, 1968, that all property in Lake
City had been re-rated.
The Public Fire Protection
Classification for the City is
class 6 suburban. This will in
effect mean a savings to a
good number of property
owners in Lake City.
Mayor Orr stated that he
was also informed by Mr.
Parker that as soon as pos
sible, the re-rate crew of the
Georgia Inspection and Rat
ing Bureau, will visit in the
vicinity for the purpose of
re-rating all specifically
rated risk.
The City also received
from Mr. Parker a Bulletin
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Governor Lester Maddox stressed
that a country without God is a
doomed country, and a nation with
out God is a doomed nation.
In a *“Call for Rededication” Gov
ernor Maddox said: “It is fitting, as
our nation faces grave challenges at
home and in foreign lands, that we
should pause in the routine of our
daily lives to demonstrate once more
our deep and abiding faith in God
and our acceptance of his moral law,
which is-the foundation of our coun
try. We as laymen, active in many
fields, have an obligation to renew
our dedication and to intensify our
that covered the regulations
for the Insurance Com
panies that have issued pol
icies on property in Lake
City, — noting the effective
date and information on
specifically rated risks.
The Bulletin stated that
rates on specifically rated
risks will be released as soon
as individual inspections can
be made and new rate cards
published. Policies issued on
and after February 1, 1968
on specifically rated risks
should be written at pres
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CHIEF COLE AND CAPT. ROSSER ho'ding
award presented by the National Fire Pro
tection Association. Front row, kneeling
(left to right) Lieut. K. J. Butler, Dennis
Butler, Millard Taylor, Chief L. C. Cole,
Capt. K. M. Rosser, Roy Hart, Bruce Sum
merfield, Lamar Miller. Second row, kneel
ing (left to right) Capt. J. M. Scarborough,
Russe!l Smith, Billy Bartlett, Raymond
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orest Park rire Dept.
Now in First PI
The National Fire Protection Association an
nounced this week that the Fire Division of the De
partment of Public Safety, City of Forest Park was
awarded First Place in the State of Georgia for Fire
Prevention activities during the year 1967.
This achievement was ob
tained by the Fire Division
after placing second for
three (3) consecutive years.
It was also announced that
Albany placed second, with
Valdosta in third place.
These Fire Prevention ac
tivities were judged for the
entire year, with special em
phasis being placed on
Spring Clean-Up Week and
Fire Prevention Week. Dur
ing the year Fire Prevention
contests were held in the
schools in conjunction with
the Junior Fire Marshals’
program. The principals of
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ATLANTA ARMY DEPOT—Gen. Frank S.
Besson, Commanding General, U. S. Army
Materiel Command, left, is greeted on his
arrival at the Atlanta Army Depot by Col.
A. J. McDermott, Jr., Depot Commander.
HARBIN'S DRIVE-IN
RESTAURANT
FOREST PARK, GEORGIA 30050, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1968
Johnson, Fred Leonard, Roland Morgan,
Capt. Hubert Coston, Capt. R. E. Ham
mond. Standing (left to right) Capt. M. S.
Cash, Edward Edge, Lieut. R. D. Biller,
Lieut. R. M. Boyd, R. E. Clark, Safety Di
rector J. F. Picard, Capt. W. D. Speir,
Wayne Pittman, James Fourakre, Lieut.
R. L. Magill, Terry Justiss.
all the schools in the Forest
Park area are to be com
mended for their interest in
the Fire Prevention program.
A Boy Scout training pro
gram was conducted by the
Fire Department, which en
abled these boys to receive
their Merit badge in fire
manship.
One of the highlights of
Fire Prevention Week was
the Little Miss Fire Preven
tion Pageant, followed by
one of the longest parades
in the history of Forest Park.
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Gen, Besson’s command has an annual ex
penditure of well over 14 billion dollars and
retains an inventory of some 21 billion
dollars in materiel.—(U. S. Army Photo.)
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For Morrow
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Recreation
The city Recreation Com
mittee met Thursday, Feb. 1,
with the mayor and council
of Morrow to formulate
plans for the proposed pur
chase and development of
twenty-four acres of land on
Lake Harbin Road for rec
reational purposes.
Although the plan has
been under consideration
since October, no definite
steps had been taken re
garding the preparation of
bonds as no set figures were
obtainable. However at the
meeting Thursday Robert
Mulkey of the bonding firm
of Johnson, Space, Lane, and
Smith presented a break
down of the amount required
to finance such an under
taking, adding his comment
that Morrow’s development
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OUR FRIED
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PUBLISHED WEEKLY
AMONG THE MANY at the Governor’s
Prayer Breakfast last week from Clayton
County—lleft to right, Bill Fleming, Charles
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Os Expressway Store
A Clayton County police sergeant early Thursday routed
four masked men who had bound up a night watchman at the
GEX store on the South Expressway and all but cut away the
dm}r to a walk:in type vault.
When the officer arrived, the
four stampeded through a side
door, breaking the handles of
the double doors that had been
secured in the center by a chain.
Three suspects were picked up
Jater, Chief Howard Smith said.
A fourth was being sought.
Those held were not identified
immediately.
The rout was so quick that
the group left a bowling bag
filled with pistols they had
gathered up, another bag of
expensive walches as well as
walkie - talkie radios, acetylene
torches and other ecquipment
which they had brought to open
the safe.
Sgt. Charles Killingsworth ar
rived at the store on a routine
inspection at about 12:30 a.m.,
Smith said. Killinsworth noticed
a section of a rear door had
been removed. He immediately
called for help.
Two of the men evidently had
been posted as lookouts inside
the building, Smith said. He
said the officer was spotted as
soon as he drove up and the
four promptly stampeded.
However, they had burned a
hole in the vault door large
enough for a man to have
crawled through, Smith related.
“The burned out section was
just hanging there,” he said.
“Another 30 scconds and it
would have been oul.”
Police entere' the store and
found the night watchman taped
hand and foot and fastened to a
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Hapeville, Georgia
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vin Foster.—(Photo by Lawrence Cornett.)
’ chair.
The officers said the four were
believed to have entered the
store Wednesday and purchased,
among other things, two walkie
talkie radios.
One evidently hid in the store
at closing time, Smith said, and
as the night watchman was
making his rounds confronted
him at gunpoint. Smith said the
intruder bound the nightwatch
man, then removed a section
from the back door and allowed
three companions to enter.
Piles of cigaret buftts on the
floor showed where two took up
positions to watch while the
other two went to work. Smith
said they entered the men’s rest
room, tunneled through a wall
into the vault room and thus
avoided setting off an alarm on
the room.
Smith said the two working
al the vault were within seconds
of having completed the job
when the officer arrived.
EOA Door
To Door
Surveys
The Clayton County Eco
nomic Opportunity Author
ity, Inc., has recently been
working with Clayton Coun
ty citizens to establish com
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‘ Ray Bowers
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t Lipscomb
Mr. Philip Ray Bowers, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Paul E. Bow
ers, 1170 Helen Street, For
est Park, Georgia, has been
accepted for admission to
David Lipscomb College,
Nashville, Tennessee, for the
1968 fall quarter.
After graduating fiom
Forest Park High School this
spring, Mr. Bowers plans to
follow a major program in
Business Management at
Lipscomb.
Lipscomb had an enroll
ment of 2068 last fall and
will increase its capacity to
2250 with the opening of two
new buildings in the 1968
summer quarter.
Mary Cowan
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Is On Dean’s
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List
DEAN’'S LIST—The Office
of the Dean, College of Arts
and Sciences at the Univer
sity of Georgia, has an
nounced the names of those
students who made the
Dean’s List at the end of
Fall Quarter, 1967. Among
the 5568 students on the
Dean’s List are Mary Cath
erine Cowan, Ellenwood;
Harold Reuben Banke, Jr.,
Forest Park; John Michael
Coleman, Robert Neal Mc-
Whorter, Mary Susan Weir,
Jacquelyn Lucile Whaley, all
of Jonesboro; Mary Jeanne
Lancaster, Morrow; and Jef
fy Floyd Goodrum, River
dale.
