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VOLUME 42 —NUMBER 51
By JACK TROY
'Criminals and Murderers'
Confession, they said, is good for the, soul
But it isn't often that political figures will confess to
being 'criminals and murderers.”
his advisers, me included, recommended it," McNamara said.
“It is very much on my conscience," McNamara, who re
tires this month to become president of the World Bank,
said. “And it was a serious error.”
A SERIOUS ERROR, indeed. It was cold-blooded murder.
What else?
The Cuban invaders had been PROMISED VITAL AIR
COVER, but no one ORDERED the planes. So they let the
valiant and courageous Cubans die on the beaches and in
the jungles, slaughtered, no less. Murdered by their Amer
ican advisers as surely as if they had pulled the triggers
of the Castro weapons.
It is nice to know that such a grievous matter is on
McNamara's conscience. Murder usually hits hard on a man’s
conscience.
Maybe District Attorney Jim Garrison of New Orleans
will find that the Kennedy assassination could he traced to
Cuban refugees as an aftermath of the Bay of Pigs tragedy
It is worth looking into. It has merit
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From Herman - Straight Talk
When you desire straight talk from Washington you can
get it mainly from U. S. Senator Herman Talmadge of Love
joy. Herman doesn’t pull his punches, and he is often a
lone voice in tha Washington wilderness.
The heading “Talmadge Opposes Lie to Free Ship."
The story:
Sen Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., says this country "should
not crawl on our bellies and lie" in order to win the re
lease of thn captured U. S. intelligence ship Pueblo from
North Korea.
"It is a sad commentary on the overextension of the
United States when a fourth-rate power commits an act
of war against a first-rate power," Talmadge said Monday
m an interview.
The Georgia senator noted United Nations Ambassador
Arthur Goldberg’s assertion that the American ship did
not violate North Korean waters.
The United States should not "lie" in order to obtain the
release of the ship and crew, Talmadge said.
He added that this country should not follow the ex
ample of many Communists countries in extending its limit
on territorial waters but should change the limit in concert
with the rest of the world.
"We are badly overcommitted economically and militar
ily,” he said. "The Pueblo incident points this up.”
Plan Miss Clayton
County Pageant
Dear Mr. Troy,
Please print in your paper that the Jonesboro
Jaycees are now accepting contestants for the Miss
Georgia Pageant preliminary, The Miss Clayton
County Pageant. The winner of the Miss Clayton
County Pageant will repre
sent Clayton County in the
Miss Georgia Pageant.
Contestants must be 18
years old by Labor Day 1968
and not over 28 years old.
Anyone interested should
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The heading in the newspaper
read: "All JFK Advisers OK'd Bay of
Pigs, McNamara Says.”
This is a significant confession.
And here it is—
" Secretary of Defense Robert S.
McNamara wants the American peo
ple to know that he and all of Presi
dent John Kennedy’s advisers were
in favor of undertaking the Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961.
"When President Kennedy as
sumed full responsibility for that ac
tion, he didn't say what he might
have said, that every single one of
contact Perry DuPre or Wen
dell Hammett. Mr. DuPre’s
phone number is 478-8946,
Mr. Hammett’s phone num
ber is 478-2254.
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PANTHERS’ CLAWS SHARP—Forest Park High’s basket
eers are enjoying a highly successful season and are in
the competition for top place in the 3-AAA regional.
They rang up their 17th victory last week against only
four losses. In the recent Flint River Tourney they went
to the finals before yielding to Milner. Left to right, front
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GRADY LINDSEY HENRY J. TANNER
Bank of Forest Park
Gaddy Promoted;
2 Named to Board
M. A. Gaddy has been promoted by the Bank of
Forest Park to Vice President. He is Manager of the
Consumer Loan Department and Secretary of the
Board of Directors. Mr. Gaddy is a graduate of the
Georgia Banking School and is a member of the For-
est Park Rotary Club. He
joined the bank in 1964.
Grady Lindsey and Henry
J. Tanner have been added
to the Board of Directors.
Mr. Lindsey is well known
in the Clayton County Area,
having had an insurance
and real estate office in For
est Park for 19 years. He is a
charter member of the Clay
ton County Chamber of
Commerce and served three
years as president. Mr. Lind
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We Serve HARBIN S DRIVE-IN Try Our
Fresh RESTAURANT BROASTED
VEGETABLES (Georgia and Old Dixie CHICKEN l|
Highway
row: Brent Mazur, Gary Hickerson, Phil Snodgrass, Jeff
King, Bruce Mazur and Danny Durbin; back row: Billy
Craddock, Henry Love, Ricky Cole, Eddie Creech, Bobby
Hines, George Christian, Jerry Stud and Mike Orr.— (Pete
Smith Photo.)
Tara Scooters Are
Silver Beavers
The most coveted award for outstanding leadership in
Scouting was presented to two citizens of Clayton County
F’eb. 3 at the Atlanta Civic Center. This past week was Boy
Scout Week.
David Davios, District Executive of the Tara District,
announced that the 1967 recipients of the Silver Beaver
Award were Marion (Fritz) Hand and James Leon Thomp
son.
Mr. Hand has given of his time and talents to Scouting
in many capacities. He was a Cub and a Scout as a boy. As
J. E. Edmonds PTA and is employed as a Senior Clerk by
Texaco, Inc.
He and his wife, Gloria, and three children, a boy and
two girls, reside on Alpine Way in Forest Park. His son,
Fritz, is a Scout in Troop 903.
Mr. Thompson has been active in Scouting as an adult
since 1949. He has served as Assistant Scoutmaster, Insti-
for Special Children.
Mr. Thompson is Branch Administrator of Standard Air
craft Equipment Company. He is a member of the Mount
Olive Christian Church and has served as chairman of its
Official Board and currently serves as an Elder in the
Church. He is a member of the Tara School PTA and past
president of the Little Red School House PTA. He is Vice-
President of the Clayton County Mentally Retarded Asso
ciation.
He and his wife, Margaret, and three children, a son and
three daughters, reside on San Juan Street in Forest Park.
His son, Phil, is a member of Pack 489.
George Kilpatrick, Tara District Chariman, states, "All
Scouters in Clayton County are proud of these two men, as
well as all the many other men and women who give of
their time and talent to make better men through the
great Boy Scout program.”
an adult, he has served as Institutional
Representative, Committee Chairman.
Assistant Cubmaster, Scoutmaster and
Roundtable Commissioner. He has per
sonally organized three new units in
Clayton County in the last two years,
and has had a real positive influence
on the adult leaders of the Tara dis
trict..
Mr. Hand is an Elder and member
of the Forest Park Presbyterian
Church. He is also a member of the
tutional Representative, Associate Ad
visor, Activities Chairman and Boys’
Life Chairman. While he was Chair
man of the Boys’ Life, Committee, his
district had a 100% record of Boys'
Life subscriptions.
He was instrumental in helping or
ganize and maintaining the first Med
ical Specialty Post in the Council. He
also assisted in organizing a pack and
troop for the Little Red School House
PUBLISHED WEEKLY
All-Star to He Sained
Hall, Glaze, Phillips
Are Star Students
Winners of the STAR Student Award for Clayton
County High Schools were revealed today by the
Clayton County Chamber of Commerce.
The STAR Student at Jonesboro High School is
Danny Hall. He selected as his STAR Teacher. Mr
Marvin King, who is Band
Director at Jonesboro High.
Robert F Phillips was des
ignated STAR Student at
Forest Park Senior High. Mr.
F. D. Huston, Sociology
Teacher, was named by Rob
ert as his STAR Teacher. At
North Clayton Senior High.
Kirby Allen Glaze was
named as winner and he
chose Miss Wylene Rholet
ter, English and Speech
teacher, as his STAR Teach
er.
These announcements
were made as a part of the
Student Teacher Achieve
ment Recognition (STAR*
Program, sponsored state
wide by the Georgia State
Chamber of Commerce and
in the Clayton County
School system area by the
Clayton County Chamber of
Commerce.
STAR Students are chosen
on the basis of scores made
on the November 4. or De
cember 2, 1967, College
Board Scholastic Aptitude
Test (SATi and Scholastic
averages the first semester
of the senior year.
These winners and their
teachers will be honored for
their achievements at the
Clayton County Chamber
STAR Awards Banquet to be
held on Friday evening.
March 1, at the Lakeshore
Country Club. At that time
the system-wide STAR Stu
dent and his Teachers will
represent Clayton County at
the Sixth District Awards
Banquet to be held in Grif
fin on March 26th. In addi
tion school system STAR
Students and STAR Teach
ers from all over the State
will be awarded a trip to At
lanta by their sponsors to be
specially honored at The
Regency Hyatt House, Wed
nesday, April 17, 1968. Con
gressional District STAR
Students and STAR Teach
ers Ist runner-up system
STAR Students in each Dis
trict and the four top-rank
ing SAT scorers from the
State at large will leave im
mediately thereafter for a
week-long educational STAR
Tour of Georgia.
Menery Receives
Commendation Medal
Robert William Menery.
the Forest Park youth who
was a hero in the USS For
restal explosions and fire
that took the lives of 124
men and injured 60-odd last
July in the Gulf of Tonkin,
is the proud possessor today
of a citation and a Navy
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for his heroism in that holo
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Additionally the Forest
Park High graduate, 21 years
old on Feb. 7. has been pro
moted to Petty Officer.
Wounded in the Tonkin
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